Resolution is the number of pixels expressed as a horizontal and vertical size. So 8K would be twice the resolution, equalling 4 times as many pixels in total.
" If it works, it will be brilliant but given the fact that Tesla has remained adamant that it doesn't need driver monitoring systems for Autopilot,"
Anyone who thinks Tesla cars are capable of self driving is drinking too much kool aid. The car can manage itself in some limited scenarios but even there it requires an attentive driver to hit the brakes or overrule the car if it does something dangerous. As such it should be a legal requirement that every semi-autonomous vehicles MUST enforce driver attention. i.e. they must monitor the driver in some way. For example, requiring them to hold the wheel or perform certain tasks, but more sophisticated monitoring is possible.
Their captcha system probably poses the same challenge to dozens of individuals and learns the answers over time. They results get fed into their traffic and routing databases which in turn might have uses for self driving vehicles.
Those "I am not a robot" links Google provides to websites ask humans to pick out cars, crossings, road signs etc. to prove they're not a computer. If a computer can't even pick out a road sign or other road related things in a still image then why does anyone expect a self driving car to?
It's simply evidence that the hype for this tech is well in excess of reality.
Maybe DropBox should just publish the cloud APIs that their client uses to read/write files from disk. Chances are that the open source community will produce something equivalent to their client relieving them of the effort of doing it themselves.
Magic Leap sold itself to investors using bullshit videos - whales splashing in gym halls and that kind of crap. It was absolutely obvious to anyone versed in the technology that there was no possible way it would come anywhere close to that.
At best it would just be another HoloLens which is damning it with faint praise. Nothing that has been seen of the project (very little) suggests it even reaches even that far. The recent SDK demo was pretty lamentable.
The software people want to run is written for x86. An ARM based device would be DOA. That said, I'm sure Microsoft will still find a way to gimp the device rendering it more or less useless - locking it to their app store for example.
Yeah reasonably asking when the car he promised will eventually materialise is being willfully dumb. Perhaps than makes sense to apologists. It doesn't to anyone rational.
Yeah, how dare anybody take Elon Musk at his word when he got on stage to launch the Model 3 and outright, unambiguously stated with no sliver of doubt, that the car would sell from $35,000. Or that the base model would still be a good car. How dare anyone, despite this claim, despite this price point driving much of the news coverage and preorders, wonder where this version of the car actually is.
And of course anyone who *dares* speak ill of Musk is clearly part of some nebulous and vast conspiracy. Musk is so perfect in every aspect that any criticism regardless of its validity or basis in fact requires his defenders to leap from the woodwork to deny it. That's definitely not cult like or weird. No sirreee.
He tweeted about going private to fuck with people shorting his stock and it instantly blew up in his face. Lawsuits, SEC investigation and more shorting off the back of those things.
Then we got a half assed going private announcement and now the subsequent "nah we're cool the way we are" announcement. It's all damage limitation.
Musk had better learn to keep his mouth shut, or at least run tweets past the corporate lawyer or he'll end up being forced out of his own company.
"Sure go look at some of the comment sections yourself, no one gave him a pass for calling the guy a pedo"
And right on this page:
c6gunner - "Pedo guy was a moron who shit on Elon for no good reason. True, Elon should have been the bigger man and not responded in kind. But even the best of us can't help responding to trolls sometimes.". And so-on in the follow-ups that were somehow scored up.
In summary, stop being this dense. Musk apologists made and continue to make excuses for him even over his pedo remarks.
Sure let me Google that for you. Or rather I won't since it's self evident in every comments section that covered the story. If it's too much effort just search for c6gunner on this very page.
He whines about shorters and decides to stick it then with a half assed tweet about going private. This earns him a class action and SEC investigation. And more short positions predicate on the outcome of both. On top of that he goes into an interview to explain what a fucked up life he's living at present. Talk about self inflicted.
The funny part is it's not hard finding people defending him. Like that time when he calls a cave diver a pedo for ridiculing his submersible we saw people leaping to justify it. His support base is practically cult like in their support regardless of the stupidity of his actions. They perceive criticism of him as an attack on them.
More likely theyre in fear of their jobs either by speaking out about this bs or from lost business if they do. There is virtually no situation that I can think of where it wouldn't be easier and far less invasive to just use an rfid card or a fingerprint reader. Any company which even offered as an option to embed something in your skin should be told to go fuck itself.
Netflix is a flawed analogy for the simple reason that they can provide their own exclusive content and negotiate what content they license from others.
MoviePass has no such option. A cinema chain can easily produce their own subscription service that replicates it and it could also cover a lot more than just movies. It could cover preferential parking, better seats, food discounts, discounts for the subscriber's guests, exclusive events, preview invites etc.
It doesn't even have to be a binary choice like that. Chains could give discount coupons out on movies on the receipts of the current admission. They could do airline-style surge pricing, discounted reservations, loyalty cards, food comps, even their own subscription or multi-pass system. They have the flexibility to do things MoviePass couldn't possibly do. I also suspect that MoviePass subscribers are generally freeloaders and wouldn't spend much on concessions which is something a chain would have more power to have control over, e.g. offering subscribers cheaper food for "loyalty".
That said, cinema chains are way too greedy for their own good. Just because they could do something doesn't mean they will. Even so I doubt they have any reason to tolerate MoviePass.
The stupidest thing about the business model is that cinema chains can do their own subscription service or some other model of admission and keep all the money to themselves. There is no incentive for chains or studios to support MoviePass.
It doesn't seem reasonable to me. Originally you could choose to watch any movie you liked. Now you can't. Now you get to watch all the dreck and not popular movies. Suddenly the service is far less attractive to people who might be inclined to watch movies.
Secondly, why would people who are already disinclined to watch movies going to be interested in a subscription that compells them to watch movies to derive value from it? Especially now that the subscription only covers predominantly bad and/or unpopular movies?
Thirdly, if the goal is get people to watch movies then why can't the studios and theatre chain do it for themselves? i.e. drop the price of admission, or have some kind of tiered admission rate like an airline. That way they get to keep all the money instead of whatever rate some subscription service negotiates with them.
"Enhancing discovery" is a great weasel way of saying their subscribers just got fucked over and can't watch mainstream movies during the release window any more.
I should think that fraud is a major part of their income. Seller sells a bunch of counterfeit goods, only a % of buyers open a dispute, eBay seizes the sellers funds and after resolving disputes keeps the rest as well as all the transaction / listing fees. Rinse and repeat.
I've never thought that any middle man service, be it AliExpress, eBay, Amazon, Kickstarter et al really takes fraud that seriously. They'll pay lip service to combatting it, but at the end of the day they still profit from both ends from it happening.
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Resolution is the number of pixels expressed as a horizontal and vertical size. So 8K would be twice the resolution, equalling 4 times as many pixels in total.
Anyone who thinks Tesla cars are capable of self driving is drinking too much kool aid. The car can manage itself in some limited scenarios but even there it requires an attentive driver to hit the brakes or overrule the car if it does something dangerous. As such it should be a legal requirement that every semi-autonomous vehicles MUST enforce driver attention. i.e. they must monitor the driver in some way. For example, requiring them to hold the wheel or perform certain tasks, but more sophisticated monitoring is possible.
Their captcha system probably poses the same challenge to dozens of individuals and learns the answers over time. They results get fed into their traffic and routing databases which in turn might have uses for self driving vehicles.
It's simply evidence that the hype for this tech is well in excess of reality.
Maybe DropBox should just publish the cloud APIs that their client uses to read/write files from disk. Chances are that the open source community will produce something equivalent to their client relieving them of the effort of doing it themselves.
At best it would just be another HoloLens which is damning it with faint praise. Nothing that has been seen of the project (very little) suggests it even reaches even that far. The recent SDK demo was pretty lamentable.
The software people want to run is written for x86. An ARM based device would be DOA. That said, I'm sure Microsoft will still find a way to gimp the device rendering it more or less useless - locking it to their app store for example.
Yeah reasonably asking when the car he promised will eventually materialise is being willfully dumb. Perhaps than makes sense to apologists. It doesn't to anyone rational.
And of course anyone who *dares* speak ill of Musk is clearly part of some nebulous and vast conspiracy. Musk is so perfect in every aspect that any criticism regardless of its validity or basis in fact requires his defenders to leap from the woodwork to deny it. That's definitely not cult like or weird. No sirreee.
Then we got a half assed going private announcement and now the subsequent "nah we're cool the way we are" announcement. It's all damage limitation.
Musk had better learn to keep his mouth shut, or at least run tweets past the corporate lawyer or he'll end up being forced out of his own company.
And right on this page:
c6gunner - "Pedo guy was a moron who shit on Elon for no good reason. True, Elon should have been the bigger man and not responded in kind. But even the best of us can't help responding to trolls sometimes.". And so-on in the follow-ups that were somehow scored up.
In summary, stop being this dense. Musk apologists made and continue to make excuses for him even over his pedo remarks.
I just cited one example on this very page. A very unambiguous example. You must be thick if you can't follow it up.
Sure let me Google that for you. Or rather I won't since it's self evident in every comments section that covered the story. If it's too much effort just search for c6gunner on this very page.
He whines about shorters and decides to stick it then with a half assed tweet about going private. This earns him a class action and SEC investigation. And more short positions predicate on the outcome of both. On top of that he goes into an interview to explain what a fucked up life he's living at present. Talk about self inflicted. The funny part is it's not hard finding people defending him. Like that time when he calls a cave diver a pedo for ridiculing his submersible we saw people leaping to justify it. His support base is practically cult like in their support regardless of the stupidity of his actions. They perceive criticism of him as an attack on them.
More likely theyre in fear of their jobs either by speaking out about this bs or from lost business if they do. There is virtually no situation that I can think of where it wouldn't be easier and far less invasive to just use an rfid card or a fingerprint reader. Any company which even offered as an option to embed something in your skin should be told to go fuck itself.
MoviePass has no such option. A cinema chain can easily produce their own subscription service that replicates it and it could also cover a lot more than just movies. It could cover preferential parking, better seats, food discounts, discounts for the subscriber's guests, exclusive events, preview invites etc.
That said, cinema chains are way too greedy for their own good. Just because they could do something doesn't mean they will. Even so I doubt they have any reason to tolerate MoviePass.
The stupidest thing about the business model is that cinema chains can do their own subscription service or some other model of admission and keep all the money to themselves. There is no incentive for chains or studios to support MoviePass.
Secondly, why would people who are already disinclined to watch movies going to be interested in a subscription that compells them to watch movies to derive value from it? Especially now that the subscription only covers predominantly bad and/or unpopular movies?
Thirdly, if the goal is get people to watch movies then why can't the studios and theatre chain do it for themselves? i.e. drop the price of admission, or have some kind of tiered admission rate like an airline. That way they get to keep all the money instead of whatever rate some subscription service negotiates with them.
"Enhancing discovery" is a great weasel way of saying their subscribers just got fucked over and can't watch mainstream movies during the release window any more.
Yes and it was obvious then how much the concept sucked. I don't see any reason to think it doesn't suck this time around either.
Not only incomprehensible, but straight in the middle of your field of view. After all, you didn't want to see where you were going did you?
And AliExpress. People are buying all their tat direct from Chinese sellers. Who needs eBay and its expensive listing fees?
I've never thought that any middle man service, be it AliExpress, eBay, Amazon, Kickstarter et al really takes fraud that seriously. They'll pay lip service to combatting it, but at the end of the day they still profit from both ends from it happening.
Not all of the providers fill phones with crapware or bootloaders that cannot be unlocked. Research first and there are lots of choices.