Marketing no longer has a stranglehold on the zeitgeist. Free/cheap multiplayer games are in at the moment; why pay $60 to play that new game some people are playing, when you can pay $0-$30 to play that game everyone's playing? It's like the WoW network effects, only if it were F2P. There were plenty of comparable F2P MMORPGs but they never rose to the prominence of WoW.
Another interpretation is that gamers are burned out on cinematic FPSes or deathmatch. Remember when Horde Mode was all the rage a few years back? Battle Royale is the same. If anything, this is proof that graphics don't automatically sell games. If this translates into publishers no longer thinking of shooters as a 'safe bet' then I see that as a good thing, as they are a huge portion of AAA action games.
Not going outside without a box over my head with a QR code on it that leads to an app that lets you see a digitally-enhanced version of my face. Take that, reality!
That could trigger different killer applications that you run on phones.
I want my phone to be a thin client that streams 1080p video from a cloud computing cluster whenever I wake it. All my presses can be sent over the network, it's processed, and the video is sent back. It's the future of cell phone privacy and performance!/s
The US could decide to nullify some/all of Huawei's patents. Bonus points if 'first to file' is blamed for allowing stolen tech to be patented out from under the inventors. Other countries would need to follow suit for it to have much market impact though.
I don't understand how this works. Can you make some kind of movie tutorial about it? Then make an IMDB entry about that tutorial movie so I can find it. Or better yet, just make another movie explaining how to find it. I'm sure I'll find a movie on YouTube explaining how to find that one.
Probably since many people have their own number in their contact list, to call voice mail. That makes the phone ring for people who only let it ring for numbers on their contact list.
The answer to both would be "I don't know of these things" or else a guess or vague statement, since the box has no sensors to acquire answers to those questions (and isn't expected to). In any case, the output would imply comprehension of the input despite no actual comprehension.
Indeed. The Chinese Room thought experiment shows why copying text verbatim says nothing about comprehension of said text. Similarly, a photocopier doesn't understand the words and images it makes copies of.
Shouldn't the inverse square law mean that the further the drone is from the power station, the slower it'd charge? The '8 minutes of charging for 30 minutes of airtime' depends completely on battery tech, weight of the drone, and how far it is off the ground. I suspect that recharging faster than it discharges requires the drone to hover a few feet over the power station, in which case it'd be faster to land and plug in. This would hardly enable it to remain high up in the air while recharging at a significant rate. Using beamforming to zap it with microwaves might be more effective.
I know that P.I.s sometimes hire hackers to infiltrate systems to get dirt on their suspects. I have a feeling this bounty hunter simply bribed a low-level worker at whichever phone company to hand over data they have access to but are technically not allowed to look at without good reason, much less give away. This might be less "phone companies selling access" and more "corrupt employee bribed to give away data" which is at least as old of a problem as the Battle of Thermopylae.
The raytracing Nvidia is touting is DXR, or DirectX Raytracing. It's a standard AMD can support, rather than a proprietary Nvidia-only thing. Honestly I don't care about the raytracing that much (in this gen of video cards) because it's too slow and poorly-supported. However, if I were dropping $700 on a new top-end video card, I'd question paying the same money for fewer features. If the Radeon 7 were a couple hundred cheaper, I might decide to skip DXR for a few years.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the second AMD cards DO support DXR, Nvidia will stop giving money to devs to implement DXR support... meaning that DXR support will likely be worse afterward.
I meant that technology planning would be more of a personal choice than a societal choice. The Amish accept or reject technologies based on the question of if it brings them closer together or separates them, thus the automobile and telephone are controversial because they can be argued to do both.
I fully accept that there's no stopping technology in the industrial sector, for competitiveness/productivity reasons, and it's folly to attempt to do so. Thus why I'm talking about personal choices.
The natural state of technology is to advance by becoming more efficient, effective, and to encompass and sometimes replace more of what we do. We're near (perhaps already past) the point where we should ask ourselves: how much DO we want technology to take over our lives? Cyberpunk posits a possible future where technology has degraded the value of humanity, but we should ask ourselves what aspects of technology lead to such degradation, and how can we reap the benefits of technology while avoiding those aspects?
For an example, I'm reminded of a virtual reality conference in Las Vegas a few years ago, where a local brothel encouraged conference-goers to have sex in reality rather than in virtual reality. It's easy to snicker at that now, but imagine when the difference becomes blurrier, that might not be such a preposterous plea. If sex in virtual reality becomes more convenient, safe, and pleasurable than real-world sex; what kind of side-effects could that have to society, or to gender relations? Such VR sex (with NPCs) would arguably degrade the value of human sexual relationships.
I'm not saying society can (or should) stop technological development, just that people may want to go through 'technology planning' (a la family planning) at some point in their lives, to decide how much they want it to pervade their personal lives. Banning usage of degrading technology will become increasingly futile over time, as deployment becomes easier; it's more plausible that society will change to accept what they must and avoid what they can and want to.
Some additional googling turned up an experiment that found no effect on sperm, while studies conflicted on them being good or bad for sperm. I was recalling effects on testosterone in men (found conflicting info), and male breast growth, in particular.
Because 1) the X60 cards have cost $200-$250 the past several generations, and 2) the bump in performance/dollar is low, compared to what we got last generation.
The most recent rumors I've heard are that Navi will only cover the mid-range, i.e. where the 2060 lives, but for lower cost than the Vega cards. This may lead to a price drop for the 2060 (or more likely, an 1160 reveal), but the 2070+ would remain unopposed.
The killer feature is supposed to be realtime raytracing, which is what ~half of the chip is more or less dedicated to. You're right that Nvidia had essentially been pushing new monitor tech the past several years, and few people were biting, which is probably why they decided to go in this direction. That, and they're trying to sell their raytracing hardware to Microsoft/Sony to put in their next consoles. If one console supported realtime raytracing and the other didn't, that could be turned into a decisive victory. Funny, years ago I predicted that realtime raytracing would become feasible shortly before the PS5 would come out.
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Marketing no longer has a stranglehold on the zeitgeist. Free/cheap multiplayer games are in at the moment; why pay $60 to play that new game some people are playing, when you can pay $0-$30 to play that game everyone's playing? It's like the WoW network effects, only if it were F2P. There were plenty of comparable F2P MMORPGs but they never rose to the prominence of WoW.
Another interpretation is that gamers are burned out on cinematic FPSes or deathmatch. Remember when Horde Mode was all the rage a few years back? Battle Royale is the same. If anything, this is proof that graphics don't automatically sell games. If this translates into publishers no longer thinking of shooters as a 'safe bet' then I see that as a good thing, as they are a huge portion of AAA action games.
Just turn on the beautification filter for your AR headset, and bam, everyone now looks like that.
Not going outside without a box over my head with a QR code on it that leads to an app that lets you see a digitally-enhanced version of my face. Take that, reality!
That could trigger different killer applications that you run on phones.
I want my phone to be a thin client that streams 1080p video from a cloud computing cluster whenever I wake it. All my presses can be sent over the network, it's processed, and the video is sent back. It's the future of cell phone privacy and performance! /s
The US could decide to nullify some/all of Huawei's patents. Bonus points if 'first to file' is blamed for allowing stolen tech to be patented out from under the inventors.
Other countries would need to follow suit for it to have much market impact though.
I don't understand how this works. Can you make some kind of movie tutorial about it? Then make an IMDB entry about that tutorial movie so I can find it. Or better yet, just make another movie explaining how to find it. I'm sure I'll find a movie on YouTube explaining how to find that one.
This'll be revolutionary for Hollywood makeup artists. Now they can make Data the exact shade of bubblegum pink, consistently.
a technical standard known as STIR/SHAKEN
I bet spies just LOVE that.
Probably since many people have their own number in their contact list, to call voice mail. That makes the phone ring for people who only let it ring for numbers on their contact list.
"I'm not gonna get into it tit for tat that's just not my style."
Lisa Su being the bigger man. Bigger woman? Whatever.
The answer to both would be "I don't know of these things" or else a guess or vague statement, since the box has no sensors to acquire answers to those questions (and isn't expected to). In any case, the output would imply comprehension of the input despite no actual comprehension.
Indeed. The Chinese Room thought experiment shows why copying text verbatim says nothing about comprehension of said text. Similarly, a photocopier doesn't understand the words and images it makes copies of.
Shouldn't the inverse square law mean that the further the drone is from the power station, the slower it'd charge? The '8 minutes of charging for 30 minutes of airtime' depends completely on battery tech, weight of the drone, and how far it is off the ground. I suspect that recharging faster than it discharges requires the drone to hover a few feet over the power station, in which case it'd be faster to land and plug in. This would hardly enable it to remain high up in the air while recharging at a significant rate. Using beamforming to zap it with microwaves might be more effective.
I know that P.I.s sometimes hire hackers to infiltrate systems to get dirt on their suspects. I have a feeling this bounty hunter simply bribed a low-level worker at whichever phone company to hand over data they have access to but are technically not allowed to look at without good reason, much less give away. This might be less "phone companies selling access" and more "corrupt employee bribed to give away data" which is at least as old of a problem as the Battle of Thermopylae.
The raytracing Nvidia is touting is DXR, or DirectX Raytracing. It's a standard AMD can support, rather than a proprietary Nvidia-only thing. Honestly I don't care about the raytracing that much (in this gen of video cards) because it's too slow and poorly-supported. However, if I were dropping $700 on a new top-end video card, I'd question paying the same money for fewer features. If the Radeon 7 were a couple hundred cheaper, I might decide to skip DXR for a few years.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the second AMD cards DO support DXR, Nvidia will stop giving money to devs to implement DXR support... meaning that DXR support will likely be worse afterward.
I meant that technology planning would be more of a personal choice than a societal choice. The Amish accept or reject technologies based on the question of if it brings them closer together or separates them, thus the automobile and telephone are controversial because they can be argued to do both.
I fully accept that there's no stopping technology in the industrial sector, for competitiveness/productivity reasons, and it's folly to attempt to do so. Thus why I'm talking about personal choices.
The natural state of technology is to advance by becoming more efficient, effective, and to encompass and sometimes replace more of what we do.
We're near (perhaps already past) the point where we should ask ourselves: how much DO we want technology to take over our lives? Cyberpunk posits a possible future where technology has degraded the value of humanity, but we should ask ourselves what aspects of technology lead to such degradation, and how can we reap the benefits of technology while avoiding those aspects?
For an example, I'm reminded of a virtual reality conference in Las Vegas a few years ago, where a local brothel encouraged conference-goers to have sex in reality rather than in virtual reality. It's easy to snicker at that now, but imagine when the difference becomes blurrier, that might not be such a preposterous plea. If sex in virtual reality becomes more convenient, safe, and pleasurable than real-world sex; what kind of side-effects could that have to society, or to gender relations? Such VR sex (with NPCs) would arguably degrade the value of human sexual relationships.
I'm not saying society can (or should) stop technological development, just that people may want to go through 'technology planning' (a la family planning) at some point in their lives, to decide how much they want it to pervade their personal lives. Banning usage of degrading technology will become increasingly futile over time, as deployment becomes easier; it's more plausible that society will change to accept what they must and avoid what they can and want to.
One would have to be quite the scholar to be prepubescent AND in a fraternity. Don't think they'd have the time to wander down tampon aisles.
Some additional googling turned up an experiment that found no effect on sperm, while studies conflicted on them being good or bad for sperm. I was recalling effects on testosterone in men (found conflicting info), and male breast growth, in particular.
During a press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Impossible Foods showed off its new plant-based ground beef replacement
Artificial beef = electronics? I guess it's an all-purpose tech show now.
That's the 1.0 version made with wheat.
An experiment found isoflavones have no detrimental estrogen-like effects on men, for some reason. Possibly they only affect women.
Because 1) the X60 cards have cost $200-$250 the past several generations, and 2) the bump in performance/dollar is low, compared to what we got last generation.
The most recent rumors I've heard are that Navi will only cover the mid-range, i.e. where the 2060 lives, but for lower cost than the Vega cards. This may lead to a price drop for the 2060 (or more likely, an 1160 reveal), but the 2070+ would remain unopposed.
The last Crysis game came out 6 years ago, and Crytek has one foot in the grave.
The killer feature is supposed to be realtime raytracing, which is what ~half of the chip is more or less dedicated to. You're right that Nvidia had essentially been pushing new monitor tech the past several years, and few people were biting, which is probably why they decided to go in this direction. That, and they're trying to sell their raytracing hardware to Microsoft/Sony to put in their next consoles. If one console supported realtime raytracing and the other didn't, that could be turned into a decisive victory. Funny, years ago I predicted that realtime raytracing would become feasible shortly before the PS5 would come out.