I don't think initial applications will involve actually flexible displays, but it could easily be used to make curved TVs, phone screens or watch displays. The latter would be especially interesting as it'd allow the watch's screen to be much larger without becoming inconvenient, all while leveraging OLED's low power characteristics when few pixels are lit up.
The next step would then be to develop a flexible surface with a texture similar to glass.
Amusing. This is the first Nexus since the S which has doubled storage capacity across the board, and yet the exact same complaints are being levelled against it.
And before we go overboard, that leak is a draft. There are a few glaringly obvious issues with it, such as listing Bluetooth 3 (instead of 4) and the exact same dimensions as the Nexus 4, as pointed out on here. While I doubt the screen size or the button placement would change, it's plausible that the battery size could.
This works well for unexpected moments, but at parties, weddings, events, whatever, you can actually plan ahead. I know, "planning", gosh.
After reading this one liner, you can go a step further and realize that you can have multiple "best" cameras! Things are not mutually exclusive! If you don't have your camera on you, then your phone's better than nothing. Otherwise, pretty much any other camera is superior.
That's too obvious, though. In order to properly pollute data, you need to provide information which seems legitimate, but isn't. John Doe in Timbuktu one hour and Mexico City the next will likely trip any check they might have, and they'll either strip the data or try to watch you in a different fashion. A believable name with consistent locations which are entirely faked is much, much harder to filter, while still quite easy to generate.
AMD have issues delivering a good drive on Windows (I have two of their cards, I'm very much aware of the situation), so forget doing the same on Linux. I don't know what their driver engineers are doing, but it isn't working; their software is slow, occasionally crashes and their game support usually lags significantly behind Nvidia's, especially if you go multi-GPU. I'm not even going to talk about customization and extra software, where Nvidia is king by a mile.
The greatest advantage AMD has had is solid performance at a cheaper price, just like their CPUs. A few generations ago, they could even outperform Nvidia pretty consistently, but they've lost that position since then while not fixing the bugs that plagued them back then. Now that benchmarks and reviewers are evolving, with more focus put on frame timing instead of just FPS, AMD's issues are coming to light.
Just as a small note: I largely agree with you, but the reductionist argument that they're all just bits in a certain order is fallacious and undermines your claims. By that token, a person is just a specific arrangement of atoms and we're all just a sac of chemicals. If you were to randomly generate the amount of bits of a certain song, the probability of generating that song (or even imperceptible variations with a different number of bits) are so astronomically low that you need to agree that there's more to it than that.
In this debate, you are fighting the recording labels and movie studios and the organizations like the RIAA. The worst you can do is insult the artists, who largely want the same thing as you do, by claiming that all their hard work is just a bunch of bits.
Yeah, I think the only real potential danger here is people not understanding how to deal with a fire of that kind. Outside of that, it's largely just a fire (like fires from gasoline). There's also the potential for some material leaking, but that can be dealt with accordingly once the fire's out and the crash scene has been taken care of.
In a purely philosophical sense, no observation was performed and therefore it is impossible to know what the answer would be without someone actually performing it.
Obviously in practical terms the "observation" would be done by a classical part of the computer, but it's a lot more fun to think about this with a philosophical perspective.
More importantly: have likeable characters. I'm really hard pressed to find a character in the prequel that the audience can actually latch on to in order to get a focus on the movie. The protagonist is either too young to be the centre of attention, making the entire movie feel directionless, or he's an unlikeable jerk who makes many obvious and way too telegraphed mistakes for no good reason other than "DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE".
I'd say that same issue exists everywhere. For a lot of people who had an initial smash hit, reproducing that success is hard because your entourage no longer does the necessary job of pushing back. This happens not just with directors, but also music, books, etc. Just look at how many popular authors have had difficulty reproducing their first great success, even if you ignore the bar they've set for themselves. I'd also point out the numerous singers who get a success and then consider themselves to be always correct even though that one success probably required a lot of work behind the scenes.
Basically, any environment needs discussion and diverging viewpoints.
Usually, because "doing the right thing" is not rewarded by society. You maybe potentially would win something, probably not enough to recoup costs, and for most people you couldn't even go the entire way through before finding your entire life in ruins thanks to the runaway costs of the legal system. I'd be happy doing the right thing, but not if it costs me everything in the process.
Note that there's a reason why trolls like Lodsys only sue small companies or even individuals. You never hear about them so they can't garner support and they don't have enough money to actually fight it out, so they just settle out of court and Lodsys can happily cash in. It's when a troll attacks a large company (or the rare small company with a lot of guts and the ability to kick a fuss and have it be heard) that things heat up.
India and China are both experimenting with new nuclear designs and building a boatload of them. They're spending billions on this. The US is still stuck in the NIMBY mentality.
China and India pollute a whole lot less per capita than the US, which is the truly important figure since it's actually, you know, fair.
Yeah, it's not much of an AI is it? Actual artificial "intelligence" would be detecting a red light and figuring out whether you think you can make it through without crashing and without the cops catching you.
While I still have some reservations about this new controller, one thing I've always thought could potentially work is using two trackpads to effectively provide two simultaneous modes of input: a fast, imprecise trackpad for broad movements and a slower, much more accurate one for fine movements. Two trackpads would then let you, with some practice and adaptation, emulate a mouse. Sure, it's not as practical because it requires two hands to control, but with good button mapping this might not be an issue.
The strawman is comparing any energy source to an ethereal source which creates no pollution. EVERY energy source causes some pollution; it's a matter of which one causes the least and/or which kinds of pollution you want. Nuclear is clean compared to just about every other source out there.
Actually, the logical candidate is id. Carmack is now working at Oculus Rift, but you can bet he's still influencing id's graphics development, and the Oculus Rift needs games to work with very wide FOVs in order to look good.
Bean-counters can easily compute whether someone has been physically present for N hours from clocking in. Figuring out whether someone has done their job adequately, however, is much harder, and they'd rather not work hard.
Try doing graphics debugging in Linux. Windows has PIX and, more recently, Visual Studio 2012 includes graphics debugging directly. You also have AMD's GPU PerfStudio and NVIDIA's Nsight. As far as I can tell, Nsight has an Eclipse build that runs on Linux/Mac, but I'd honestly never use Eclipse for any serious C++ programming (their Visual Studio build gets a lot more love and promotion, mind).
Games aren't the same as your usual program specifically because of graphics. There are other elements (have fun taking care of your art pipeline in Linux when half the artists will probably stick to Windows!) too, but I'd say graphics is the biggest hurdle right now.
And they're taking measures to deal with it. In some cities, cars are restricted by license plate randomly. They're setting up a LOT of nuclear powerplants. They're doing research in anything that might help them fend off their big pollution problems.
The US, on the other hand, is a developed nation that has had decades to take care of its problems, and instead it's regressing. We need to tell the US to get their act together just as much as we need to for China.
In the case of a real pandemic on such a scale, I think you'd see labs working around the clock for a cure, and many of them. Not only would governments be putting a lot of pressure, the people working there would very likely feel the pain themselves (relatives, friends, etc.). Plus, for all the money grubbers, making a vaccine that needs to be used on millions of people is a surefire way of getting rich.
The point of the GP is that even a simple patent like Amazon's one-click can be obfuscated, given an army of lawyers, into something unintelligible for most people, judges included. Since there doesn't seem to be a clause for lack of clarity being grounds for patent rejection (which would help a lot in situations like this), the judges just accept them instead of trying to learn or, worse, looking foolish for acknowledging that they don't understand the patent (gasp!).
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I don't think initial applications will involve actually flexible displays, but it could easily be used to make curved TVs, phone screens or watch displays. The latter would be especially interesting as it'd allow the watch's screen to be much larger without becoming inconvenient, all while leveraging OLED's low power characteristics when few pixels are lit up.
The next step would then be to develop a flexible surface with a texture similar to glass.
Amusing. This is the first Nexus since the S which has doubled storage capacity across the board, and yet the exact same complaints are being levelled against it.
And before we go overboard, that leak is a draft. There are a few glaringly obvious issues with it, such as listing Bluetooth 3 (instead of 4) and the exact same dimensions as the Nexus 4, as pointed out on here. While I doubt the screen size or the button placement would change, it's plausible that the battery size could.
This works well for unexpected moments, but at parties, weddings, events, whatever, you can actually plan ahead. I know, "planning", gosh.
After reading this one liner, you can go a step further and realize that you can have multiple "best" cameras! Things are not mutually exclusive! If you don't have your camera on you, then your phone's better than nothing. Otherwise, pretty much any other camera is superior.
That's too obvious, though. In order to properly pollute data, you need to provide information which seems legitimate, but isn't. John Doe in Timbuktu one hour and Mexico City the next will likely trip any check they might have, and they'll either strip the data or try to watch you in a different fashion. A believable name with consistent locations which are entirely faked is much, much harder to filter, while still quite easy to generate.
AMD have issues delivering a good drive on Windows (I have two of their cards, I'm very much aware of the situation), so forget doing the same on Linux. I don't know what their driver engineers are doing, but it isn't working; their software is slow, occasionally crashes and their game support usually lags significantly behind Nvidia's, especially if you go multi-GPU. I'm not even going to talk about customization and extra software, where Nvidia is king by a mile.
The greatest advantage AMD has had is solid performance at a cheaper price, just like their CPUs. A few generations ago, they could even outperform Nvidia pretty consistently, but they've lost that position since then while not fixing the bugs that plagued them back then. Now that benchmarks and reviewers are evolving, with more focus put on frame timing instead of just FPS, AMD's issues are coming to light.
Just as a small note: I largely agree with you, but the reductionist argument that they're all just bits in a certain order is fallacious and undermines your claims. By that token, a person is just a specific arrangement of atoms and we're all just a sac of chemicals. If you were to randomly generate the amount of bits of a certain song, the probability of generating that song (or even imperceptible variations with a different number of bits) are so astronomically low that you need to agree that there's more to it than that.
In this debate, you are fighting the recording labels and movie studios and the organizations like the RIAA. The worst you can do is insult the artists, who largely want the same thing as you do, by claiming that all their hard work is just a bunch of bits.
Yeah, I think the only real potential danger here is people not understanding how to deal with a fire of that kind. Outside of that, it's largely just a fire (like fires from gasoline). There's also the potential for some material leaking, but that can be dealt with accordingly once the fire's out and the crash scene has been taken care of.
In a purely philosophical sense, no observation was performed and therefore it is impossible to know what the answer would be without someone actually performing it.
Obviously in practical terms the "observation" would be done by a classical part of the computer, but it's a lot more fun to think about this with a philosophical perspective.
More importantly: have likeable characters. I'm really hard pressed to find a character in the prequel that the audience can actually latch on to in order to get a focus on the movie. The protagonist is either too young to be the centre of attention, making the entire movie feel directionless, or he's an unlikeable jerk who makes many obvious and way too telegraphed mistakes for no good reason other than "DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE".
I'd say that same issue exists everywhere. For a lot of people who had an initial smash hit, reproducing that success is hard because your entourage no longer does the necessary job of pushing back. This happens not just with directors, but also music, books, etc. Just look at how many popular authors have had difficulty reproducing their first great success, even if you ignore the bar they've set for themselves. I'd also point out the numerous singers who get a success and then consider themselves to be always correct even though that one success probably required a lot of work behind the scenes.
Basically, any environment needs discussion and diverging viewpoints.
Usually, because "doing the right thing" is not rewarded by society. You maybe potentially would win something, probably not enough to recoup costs, and for most people you couldn't even go the entire way through before finding your entire life in ruins thanks to the runaway costs of the legal system. I'd be happy doing the right thing, but not if it costs me everything in the process.
Note that there's a reason why trolls like Lodsys only sue small companies or even individuals. You never hear about them so they can't garner support and they don't have enough money to actually fight it out, so they just settle out of court and Lodsys can happily cash in. It's when a troll attacks a large company (or the rare small company with a lot of guts and the ability to kick a fuss and have it be heard) that things heat up.
India and China are both experimenting with new nuclear designs and building a boatload of them. They're spending billions on this. The US is still stuck in the NIMBY mentality.
China and India pollute a whole lot less per capita than the US, which is the truly important figure since it's actually, you know, fair.
Yeah, it's not much of an AI is it? Actual artificial "intelligence" would be detecting a red light and figuring out whether you think you can make it through without crashing and without the cops catching you.
While I still have some reservations about this new controller, one thing I've always thought could potentially work is using two trackpads to effectively provide two simultaneous modes of input: a fast, imprecise trackpad for broad movements and a slower, much more accurate one for fine movements. Two trackpads would then let you, with some practice and adaptation, emulate a mouse. Sure, it's not as practical because it requires two hands to control, but with good button mapping this might not be an issue.
So basically what you're saying is that goto should require a ten key combo operation?
On US keyboards used internationally the right Alt is effectively AltGr.
Interfaces in a few dozen lines of C? Hahahaha.
The strawman is comparing any energy source to an ethereal source which creates no pollution. EVERY energy source causes some pollution; it's a matter of which one causes the least and/or which kinds of pollution you want. Nuclear is clean compared to just about every other source out there.
Actually, the logical candidate is id. Carmack is now working at Oculus Rift, but you can bet he's still influencing id's graphics development, and the Oculus Rift needs games to work with very wide FOVs in order to look good.
Bean-counters can easily compute whether someone has been physically present for N hours from clocking in. Figuring out whether someone has done their job adequately, however, is much harder, and they'd rather not work hard.
Try doing graphics debugging in Linux. Windows has PIX and, more recently, Visual Studio 2012 includes graphics debugging directly. You also have AMD's GPU PerfStudio and NVIDIA's Nsight. As far as I can tell, Nsight has an Eclipse build that runs on Linux/Mac, but I'd honestly never use Eclipse for any serious C++ programming (their Visual Studio build gets a lot more love and promotion, mind).
Games aren't the same as your usual program specifically because of graphics. There are other elements (have fun taking care of your art pipeline in Linux when half the artists will probably stick to Windows!) too, but I'd say graphics is the biggest hurdle right now.
And they're taking measures to deal with it. In some cities, cars are restricted by license plate randomly. They're setting up a LOT of nuclear powerplants. They're doing research in anything that might help them fend off their big pollution problems.
The US, on the other hand, is a developed nation that has had decades to take care of its problems, and instead it's regressing. We need to tell the US to get their act together just as much as we need to for China.
In the case of a real pandemic on such a scale, I think you'd see labs working around the clock for a cure, and many of them. Not only would governments be putting a lot of pressure, the people working there would very likely feel the pain themselves (relatives, friends, etc.). Plus, for all the money grubbers, making a vaccine that needs to be used on millions of people is a surefire way of getting rich.
The point of the GP is that even a simple patent like Amazon's one-click can be obfuscated, given an army of lawyers, into something unintelligible for most people, judges included. Since there doesn't seem to be a clause for lack of clarity being grounds for patent rejection (which would help a lot in situations like this), the judges just accept them instead of trying to learn or, worse, looking foolish for acknowledging that they don't understand the patent (gasp!).