Sounds like a bug that it did poorer in areas that should've been unrelated to camera view. Makes me wonder if it was trained on whole-map data, and it was unsure how to act when only given part of the map.
I suspect the bigger issue is that the Siri team hadn't produced any significant results over the past year, and wasn't expected to any time soon. Whatever gimmicks they were tooling around with didn't focus test well, didn't work, or were just obviously lame. Marketable improvements weren't on the horizon so they needed to go back to basic research for an indeterminate amount of time; that meant they might as well reassign all the people who were working on short-term improvements, into long-term research or other areas altogether. Maybe they wanted something like Google Duplex, only via Siri. This could be made awesome for businesses. Instead of telling your secretary to call your dozen employees and e.g. tell them not to come in tomorrow, you can tell Siri to do it and all the calls happen at once, instantly, no secretary required.
I like how the 'cheaper option' linked has 24% 1-star reviews on Amazon. Probably not something you'd want to buy (main complaint is that it doesn't work). I find it unlikely they wouldn't pack in a dock. For one thing, it being a console that can also be used as a portable is the chief gimmick, and not including a dock means it wouldn't be convertible out-of-the-box. Second, those docks are a hunk of molded plastic with a few standard USB ports and wires in it, which probably costs a buck tops to manufacture.
They might release a smaller dock, or not pack in the joycon grip. Making the screen smaller is possible, since it is pretty large to hold, and they've released various sizes of their past few portables. Probably, the 'smaller size' just means the chips will be made with the 7nm process, which will lower energy usage and allow for a smaller battery, which would make it lighter if they went that way rather than improve battery life. I still think the refresh will have a 1080p screen and run at its docked speed while in portable mode, to evade the performance problems that tend to appear when undocked. The marketing rationale behind killing 3d on the 2ds was that it was designed for young children who shouldn't be using the 3d feature anyway, even if that wasn't the real reason for it.
Crooked courts are like a backdoored compiler. However, just because you have an unbackdoored compiler doesn't mean you're not compiling malware (bad laws). And yes, the police/prosecutors are responsible for the selective enforcement, which is what I was warning of.
Their earnings report says they plan to begin tooling for the Model Y this year, and 70% of its parts will be in common with the Model 3, which should lead to a quicker ramp-up than the Model 3 had. They're also still claiming to be working on the Semi, and are going to seriously ramp up solar roof production this year.
The flipside of selective enforcement is that someone with an axe to grind against you specifically, or thinks your downfall will lift them up, can throw the book at you even if your actions were moral and didn't contradict the spirit of the law. Do you want your fate to rest on "I know it when I see it?"
Windows 7 came on a dual-layer DVD, Windows 10 came on a single-layer DVD. Standard Ubuntu is now more than double the size of a CD; remember when 'it fits on a CD!' was its headline feature? App bloat is ubiquitous, it's not just OSes. 64bit binaries are bigger, for one thing.
This is an embedded chip that will be sold wholesale in volume, then soldered onto phone motherboards. There is an external version of UFS but it went nowhere so Samsung doesn't make them anymore AFAIK. The latest SD card standard is faster in comparison so UFS cards are likely permanently dead.
Actually, at least some early Switch cartridges used NAND instead of mask ROM, which is likely why they delayed 64GB cartridges a whole year (since NAND prices were sky-high at the time.) At wholesale high-volume pricing, it amounts to pennies, so you won't see games on the shelf any cheaper.
Doesn't help that most iOS devices use the Lightning connector at USB2 speeds. Copying 4k video over that is a pain; a wireless connection is probably faster.
I should clarify that V-NAND is stacked say 64 layers deep on one die, and that up to 16 dies can be stacked for one chip. So there's stacking on top of stacking. More dies on a chip tends to lower the speed, thus why they don't always use the max of 16 dies. Density improvements have been coming from adding more V-NAND layers, Samsung started making 96 layer dies last July, and Hynix is working on 128.
No mention in the press release if this is QLC (quad-level cell) or TLC. It's said that next-gen v-nand tech is responsible for doubling the density, although they generally increase the number of layers by 30% or so each generation, and the chip size is the same. Could be that the 16 layers is double the number their 512GB chip used, although 16 has been the upper limit for years.
QLC would actually be fine for most smartphone users, who only use a tiny portion of the storage anyway, and wouldn't even get close to the ~1,000 rewrite limit (1 petabyte of writes, here). That'll help bring NAND prices down for the enthusiasts who could utilize the higher speed/endurance of TLC.
What Youtube competitors? The only one I know of not dedicated to 15-second clips is the Japanese site Niconico, and that comes from the typical Japanese 'Yahoo home page' school of crowded UX design.
Instead of mowing your lawn every week or so to cut it to a preferred length, why not use a GM grass seed that only grows to your preferred height, and then stays there? It can be modified to require less water, as well. Imagine how much money that'd save golfing institutions. It could even be made Roundup-ready to make it easier to kill weeds. Seems Scotts DID test a Roundup-ready grass for golf courses, but the USDA refused to allow its sale; European/Asian customers scoffed at the idea and they decided to kill it. A discovery suggests that set-height grass is possible, but apparently noone has gone forward with making it.
We know it's a parasite because it feeds off us. Note that being a parasite doesn't automatically mean it's harmful to us; if it were beneficial, it'd be called a symbiont.
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Obviously the solution here is automatic fuel injection. And by fuel, I mean caffeine; and by injection, I mean hypodermic.
Sounds like a bug that it did poorer in areas that should've been unrelated to camera view. Makes me wonder if it was trained on whole-map data, and it was unsure how to act when only given part of the map.
If the plebeians can't afford it, it must be superior! Just like I am! Oh, ho ho ho ho! /s
The first hit is free, at least.
The problem is, Facebook won't stop hitting you, even if you cry or ask nicely.
Battered wife syndrome is the only reason people still use it.
I suspect the bigger issue is that the Siri team hadn't produced any significant results over the past year, and wasn't expected to any time soon. Whatever gimmicks they were tooling around with didn't focus test well, didn't work, or were just obviously lame. Marketable improvements weren't on the horizon so they needed to go back to basic research for an indeterminate amount of time; that meant they might as well reassign all the people who were working on short-term improvements, into long-term research or other areas altogether.
Maybe they wanted something like Google Duplex, only via Siri. This could be made awesome for businesses. Instead of telling your secretary to call your dozen employees and e.g. tell them not to come in tomorrow, you can tell Siri to do it and all the calls happen at once, instantly, no secretary required.
If some people can argue that a zygote counts as a person, why can't a single transistor also be?
There are real benefits to modifying skin melanin content/production. Don't be too quick to dismiss that.
You say 'line', I say 'goalpost'. In either case it'll keep being moved, and no legion of pearl-clutchers will stop that, for better or worse.
Once they can read minds they can figure out who the narcs are.
translating thought into speed
Apparently, the parent needed more thought and less speed in order to avoid that typo.
I like how the 'cheaper option' linked has 24% 1-star reviews on Amazon. Probably not something you'd want to buy (main complaint is that it doesn't work).
I find it unlikely they wouldn't pack in a dock. For one thing, it being a console that can also be used as a portable is the chief gimmick, and not including a dock means it wouldn't be convertible out-of-the-box. Second, those docks are a hunk of molded plastic with a few standard USB ports and wires in it, which probably costs a buck tops to manufacture.
They might release a smaller dock, or not pack in the joycon grip. Making the screen smaller is possible, since it is pretty large to hold, and they've released various sizes of their past few portables. Probably, the 'smaller size' just means the chips will be made with the 7nm process, which will lower energy usage and allow for a smaller battery, which would make it lighter if they went that way rather than improve battery life. I still think the refresh will have a 1080p screen and run at its docked speed while in portable mode, to evade the performance problems that tend to appear when undocked. The marketing rationale behind killing 3d on the 2ds was that it was designed for young children who shouldn't be using the 3d feature anyway, even if that wasn't the real reason for it.
Crooked courts are like a backdoored compiler. However, just because you have an unbackdoored compiler doesn't mean you're not compiling malware (bad laws).
And yes, the police/prosecutors are responsible for the selective enforcement, which is what I was warning of.
Their earnings report says they plan to begin tooling for the Model Y this year, and 70% of its parts will be in common with the Model 3, which should lead to a quicker ramp-up than the Model 3 had. They're also still claiming to be working on the Semi, and are going to seriously ramp up solar roof production this year.
The flipside of selective enforcement is that someone with an axe to grind against you specifically, or thinks your downfall will lift them up, can throw the book at you even if your actions were moral and didn't contradict the spirit of the law. Do you want your fate to rest on "I know it when I see it?"
Windows 7 came on a dual-layer DVD, Windows 10 came on a single-layer DVD. Standard Ubuntu is now more than double the size of a CD; remember when 'it fits on a CD!' was its headline feature? App bloat is ubiquitous, it's not just OSes. 64bit binaries are bigger, for one thing.
I agree, 640,000 of these chips ought to store all my data.
This is an embedded chip that will be sold wholesale in volume, then soldered onto phone motherboards. There is an external version of UFS but it went nowhere so Samsung doesn't make them anymore AFAIK. The latest SD card standard is faster in comparison so UFS cards are likely permanently dead.
Actually, at least some early Switch cartridges used NAND instead of mask ROM, which is likely why they delayed 64GB cartridges a whole year (since NAND prices were sky-high at the time.) At wholesale high-volume pricing, it amounts to pennies, so you won't see games on the shelf any cheaper.
Rarely, nand chips will come with thin aluminum heatsinks. In general, no. This is because each chip uses about 1watt of power.
Doesn't help that most iOS devices use the Lightning connector at USB2 speeds. Copying 4k video over that is a pain; a wireless connection is probably faster.
I should clarify that V-NAND is stacked say 64 layers deep on one die, and that up to 16 dies can be stacked for one chip. So there's stacking on top of stacking. More dies on a chip tends to lower the speed, thus why they don't always use the max of 16 dies. Density improvements have been coming from adding more V-NAND layers, Samsung started making 96 layer dies last July, and Hynix is working on 128.
No mention in the press release if this is QLC (quad-level cell) or TLC. It's said that next-gen v-nand tech is responsible for doubling the density, although they generally increase the number of layers by 30% or so each generation, and the chip size is the same. Could be that the 16 layers is double the number their 512GB chip used, although 16 has been the upper limit for years.
QLC would actually be fine for most smartphone users, who only use a tiny portion of the storage anyway, and wouldn't even get close to the ~1,000 rewrite limit (1 petabyte of writes, here). That'll help bring NAND prices down for the enthusiasts who could utilize the higher speed/endurance of TLC.
What Youtube competitors? The only one I know of not dedicated to 15-second clips is the Japanese site Niconico, and that comes from the typical Japanese 'Yahoo home page' school of crowded UX design.
Instead of mowing your lawn every week or so to cut it to a preferred length, why not use a GM grass seed that only grows to your preferred height, and then stays there? It can be modified to require less water, as well. Imagine how much money that'd save golfing institutions. It could even be made Roundup-ready to make it easier to kill weeds. Seems Scotts DID test a Roundup-ready grass for golf courses, but the USDA refused to allow its sale; European/Asian customers scoffed at the idea and they decided to kill it. A discovery suggests that set-height grass is possible, but apparently noone has gone forward with making it.
We know it's a parasite because it feeds off us. Note that being a parasite doesn't automatically mean it's harmful to us; if it were beneficial, it'd be called a symbiont.