though from what I understand this is standard practice
So you're criticising a company for the standard practice of not screwing up their algorithms by running a second set over the first ones? Gotchya. Thanks for clarifying. I thought you had something relevant to say about the topic.
Yes and no. There's only limited amount of eye movement in VR in general thanks mostly to the thin lenses causing large amounts of CA outside of the sweet spot. Render the edges blurry and people will naturally move their heads rather than their eyes.
"Hi, I'm the Chevy Bolt! Apparently we've never met..."
And we won't. You're a piece of crap being produced in piss poor quantities, and you cost $10k more than the baseline we are talking about. In 2017 in Europe the Bolt (called Opel Ampera-e over here) ranks as the 33rd most popular electric car, in America you rank 5th despite all those who are beating you being far more expensive.
On a month by month basis it is failing to crack the top 20 cars in Europe where it has any kind of competition at all. In the USA everyone is more than happy to pick any Tesla model over the Bolt despite the cost.
Personally I think it's biggest problem is that it's a fugly looking car too European for the Americans, too American for the Europeans and now in Europe with a completely uncertain future as the PSA Group who bought GM's EU brand have shown almost no interest in the electric car market at all.
I'm okay with it providing the quality control keeps up. It's one thing to not like to upgrade iPhones for incremental garbage, and quite another to end up spending money on the same unit twice.
Microsoft got taken to town on that by a 13 year old kid in Australia who's XBox red-ringed after the warranty was over. The ACCC ruled that there was a reasonable expectation for a console to last the life of the current generation which led to Australia having the first extended warranties for the problem.
No he was going for exactly what he said. We here speak English, not some historical form of it, and dictionaries are happy to point out the current accepted definition of decimate is to "kill large portions of a population" with your "proper" definition relegated to the historical footnotes at the bottom.
Now tell us what you think about this in ancient greek and other languages no one communicates in?
For all the shit you heap on the Zoe it's also worth mentioning that Renault shipped more Zoe models in Europe than all Tesla models combined with enough change to also add the Volkswagen Golf GTE in there too.
You make it sound like a horrible car. Another way to describe it is: the most popular car.
By the time Tesla manage to make a $35,000 Model 3, other manufacturers may well have beaten them to it.
We've heard this for 10 years. The closest other manufacturers have come is the Renault Zoe which isn't on sale in the USA. Americans are only selling minimum token electric cars to meet their government compliance numbers.
After GM sold Opel, it's uncertain if they'll ever deliver them.
The PSA Group is in a bit of a green crisis and having their lunch eaten by Renault and other European manufactures in a time where their own motherland is putting ever stronger restrictions in place on driving in cities. The group has one electric car. The C-Zero or the iOn depending if the car has a Citroen or Peugeot badge on it. I would be very impressed if they are stupid enough to drop the Ampera line at a time where every other car company in Europe is massively up-scaling their Electric ranges*.
The infrastructure build needed to support EVs is expensive and takes time to build out.
Oh look, that excuse again. In the mean time if you look to Europe where the EV market is quite big you'll see poor infrastructure that is massively underutilised as it is because *shock* one of the biggest selling points of EVs is that the infrastructure is in your garage.
Because there are uses for unboxing videos - checking to see what's in the box, for example.
That stuff is usually written on the outside of the box or on the website. Something which you can look up far faster than watching some teenager crap on about where the box came from and what motivated him to get said box and make a video. Sub question: Why would you need to know what's in the box? Pretty much every product has what it needs in the box, and where the box contents are variable looking on youtube is not at all preferable to actually reading the order page.
Also what does EU law have to do with it or was that directed at someone else?
Except the usefulness of these "unboxing" reviews is lower than a high resolution picture of the product on the website.
I'm not against reviews, but these are not reviews. Hell the few unboxings I've seen never actually use the product but just comment on the nice colour of plastic, and how well it resists the saliver the "reviewer" is droolling on it. Hell I've seen someone comment on the exact plastic material the power plug is made out of, but would he dare plug it into the wall? Hell no.
How many continental scale wars have wiped out a significant percentage of the population of Europe since the formation of the Rolling Stones?
Therefore we must ensure the Rolling Stones never break up.
Also, I have a tiger repelling rock I am prepared to sell if you are interested.
As much as I like to believe the Rolling stones has the same causal relationship as well as economic basis for preventing war that came with the EU I'm going to go with: They are good, but not that good. But yes we should ensure they don't break up for other reasons.
Also does the tiger repelling rock come with your lack of clue or are you selling that one separately?
Correlation does not imply causation. That's what the underlying principles and theories are for. Learn some history.
Nope, backwards. Vorbis is the audio format and Ogg is the container. Sometimes you here the combination of the two referred to incorrectly as Ogg or colloquially but not incorrectly as Ogg Vorbis.
It wasn't Microsoft's fantasy world. It was everyone's fantasy world. Hell Microsoft and computer companies in general were trying to replicate what science fiction writing had been showing us for many years. Apple was doing it to, they did it on a hardware / product interaction level and it worked a treat.
Everyone swallowed the coolaid.
oh man what a stinker, take this nonsense elsewhere
Oh I did. I closed my browser, turned off my computer, opened my phone and kept going typing this message. I'm sorry your nose is so sensitive. It must be hard living in the reality you so despise.
This is one of the most bizarre trends I've seen on Youtube. Why does anyone give a shit what it looks like out of the box? I'd much rather a Youtube video of someone who has used something for 2 months and then tells me about it afterwards. Or even better, not have to watch a youtube video.
BUT if a retailer wants to advertise that they take no returns and I don't get what I expected it's on me. I knew the terms.
And even if you wanted to you can't sign away your rights in countries where you have them.
There is something called reputation.
Yes. It is something that is majorly stacked in favour of any company with critical mass. Jeff Bezos can go on live TV tomorrow and eat a baby and at most it may put a speedbump in Amazon's share price. Just look at Paypal's reputation. It is THE WORST! Yet it still ends up being the largest payments provider in the USA.
No there is none. As I said unions are essential in the USA. You have no other forces protecting the rights of workers.
But wow calm down. No one cares about sweatshops. It's not a local issue so the union won't do anything about it other than make sure their own local members don't get lowered to that standard. Sweatshops need to be killed through the court of public opinion.
In other countries which I am talking about the balance of power isn't tilted due to laws that were formed at the request of the unions. In those places unions should go away, filed in the back of cupboard and brought out again one day when the balance of power appears to tip once again.... Just not in the USA.
Since when does an empire have a monopoly on account of being an "empire". Are people using the Facebook empire? The way I see it Facebook is made up of a variety of platforms and except for the social media platform itself each of them have healthy competition on the continent. If the Belgian MEP wants to know what the alternatives are, why doesn't he ask his daughter who likely uses none of Facebook's "empire".
Mind you the entire question sounds like it was dreamed up in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. What would breaking up achieve? WhatsApp and Instagram were massively popular pre-Facebook. Ownership didn't change anything there, and breaking Facebook's social network out from the rest achieves nothing regards to Facebook's market power, nor does it prevent any of the things that various governments are questioning the Zuck about.
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though from what I understand this is standard practice
So you're criticising a company for the standard practice of not screwing up their algorithms by running a second set over the first ones? Gotchya. Thanks for clarifying. I thought you had something relevant to say about the topic.
I don't think there are any blocking systems in use currently that work on the DNS level.
They will need eye tracking though...
Yes and no. There's only limited amount of eye movement in VR in general thanks mostly to the thin lenses causing large amounts of CA outside of the sweet spot. Render the edges blurry and people will naturally move their heads rather than their eyes.
"Hi, I'm the Chevy Bolt! Apparently we've never met..."
And we won't. You're a piece of crap being produced in piss poor quantities, and you cost $10k more than the baseline we are talking about. In 2017 in Europe the Bolt (called Opel Ampera-e over here) ranks as the 33rd most popular electric car, in America you rank 5th despite all those who are beating you being far more expensive.
On a month by month basis it is failing to crack the top 20 cars in Europe where it has any kind of competition at all. In the USA everyone is more than happy to pick any Tesla model over the Bolt despite the cost.
Personally I think it's biggest problem is that it's a fugly looking car too European for the Americans, too American for the Europeans and now in Europe with a completely uncertain future as the PSA Group who bought GM's EU brand have shown almost no interest in the electric car market at all.
there seem tone a lot of people who have decided vaping is really bad, and are trying to kill it
Ever heard of the cigarette industry?
I started sucking on $100 bills when I quit.
The cocaine and bacteria on those notes probably make it healthier to just keep smoking.
I am okay with longer release cycles.
I'm okay with it providing the quality control keeps up. It's one thing to not like to upgrade iPhones for incremental garbage, and quite another to end up spending money on the same unit twice.
Microsoft got taken to town on that by a 13 year old kid in Australia who's XBox red-ringed after the warranty was over. The ACCC ruled that there was a reasonable expectation for a console to last the life of the current generation which led to Australia having the first extended warranties for the problem.
This ruling seems to require that the recipient listen/read (deal with)
Not at all. Listening and reading have nothing to do with preventing speaking or typing.
No he was going for exactly what he said. We here speak English, not some historical form of it, and dictionaries are happy to point out the current accepted definition of decimate is to "kill large portions of a population" with your "proper" definition relegated to the historical footnotes at the bottom.
Now tell us what you think about this in ancient greek and other languages no one communicates in?
For all the shit you heap on the Zoe it's also worth mentioning that Renault shipped more Zoe models in Europe than all Tesla models combined with enough change to also add the Volkswagen Golf GTE in there too.
You make it sound like a horrible car. Another way to describe it is: the most popular car.
By the time Tesla manage to make a $35,000 Model 3, other manufacturers may well have beaten them to it.
We've heard this for 10 years. The closest other manufacturers have come is the Renault Zoe which isn't on sale in the USA. Americans are only selling minimum token electric cars to meet their government compliance numbers.
After GM sold Opel, it's uncertain if they'll ever deliver them.
The PSA Group is in a bit of a green crisis and having their lunch eaten by Renault and other European manufactures in a time where their own motherland is putting ever stronger restrictions in place on driving in cities. The group has one electric car. The C-Zero or the iOn depending if the car has a Citroen or Peugeot badge on it. I would be very impressed if they are stupid enough to drop the Ampera line at a time where every other car company in Europe is massively up-scaling their Electric ranges*.
*pun intended.
The infrastructure build needed to support EVs is expensive and takes time to build out.
Oh look, that excuse again. In the mean time if you look to Europe where the EV market is quite big you'll see poor infrastructure that is massively underutilised as it is because *shock* one of the biggest selling points of EVs is that the infrastructure is in your garage.
Because there are uses for unboxing videos - checking to see what's in the box, for example.
That stuff is usually written on the outside of the box or on the website. Something which you can look up far faster than watching some teenager crap on about where the box came from and what motivated him to get said box and make a video.
Sub question: Why would you need to know what's in the box? Pretty much every product has what it needs in the box, and where the box contents are variable looking on youtube is not at all preferable to actually reading the order page.
Also what does EU law have to do with it or was that directed at someone else?
Except the usefulness of these "unboxing" reviews is lower than a high resolution picture of the product on the website.
I'm not against reviews, but these are not reviews. Hell the few unboxings I've seen never actually use the product but just comment on the nice colour of plastic, and how well it resists the saliver the "reviewer" is droolling on it. Hell I've seen someone comment on the exact plastic material the power plug is made out of, but would he dare plug it into the wall? Hell no.
How many continental scale wars have wiped out a significant percentage of the population of Europe since the formation of the Rolling Stones?
Therefore we must ensure the Rolling Stones never break up.
Also, I have a tiger repelling rock I am prepared to sell if you are interested.
As much as I like to believe the Rolling stones has the same causal relationship as well as economic basis for preventing war that came with the EU I'm going to go with: They are good, but not that good. But yes we should ensure they don't break up for other reasons.
Also does the tiger repelling rock come with your lack of clue or are you selling that one separately?
Correlation does not imply causation. That's what the underlying principles and theories are for. Learn some history.
When you can scarcely fart on the Internet without one, single company hearing about it in 3 different ways, then that company looks like a monopoly.
Yes I'm sure it would if you have no idea what the word monopoly means or how anti-trust laws relate to it.
Nope, backwards. Vorbis is the audio format and Ogg is the container. Sometimes you here the combination of the two referred to incorrectly as Ogg or colloquially but not incorrectly as Ogg Vorbis.
Only if you're silly enough to actually enable said patches on a computer where the risk they are mitigating is so incredibly low.
you lived in microsoft's fantasy world
It wasn't Microsoft's fantasy world. It was everyone's fantasy world. Hell Microsoft and computer companies in general were trying to replicate what science fiction writing had been showing us for many years. Apple was doing it to, they did it on a hardware / product interaction level and it worked a treat.
Everyone swallowed the coolaid.
oh man what a stinker, take this nonsense elsewhere
Oh I did. I closed my browser, turned off my computer, opened my phone and kept going typing this message. I'm sorry your nose is so sensitive. It must be hard living in the reality you so despise.
This is one of the most bizarre trends I've seen on Youtube. Why does anyone give a shit what it looks like out of the box? I'd much rather a Youtube video of someone who has used something for 2 months and then tells me about it afterwards. Or even better, not have to watch a youtube video.
BUT if a retailer wants to advertise that they take no returns and I don't get what I expected it's on me. I knew the terms.
And even if you wanted to you can't sign away your rights in countries where you have them.
There is something called reputation.
Yes. It is something that is majorly stacked in favour of any company with critical mass. Jeff Bezos can go on live TV tomorrow and eat a baby and at most it may put a speedbump in Amazon's share price. Just look at Paypal's reputation. It is THE WORST! Yet it still ends up being the largest payments provider in the USA.
You think the Giant Gippsland Earthworm is bad you should check out the Sandworms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No there is none. As I said unions are essential in the USA. You have no other forces protecting the rights of workers.
But wow calm down. No one cares about sweatshops. It's not a local issue so the union won't do anything about it other than make sure their own local members don't get lowered to that standard. Sweatshops need to be killed through the court of public opinion.
In other countries which I am talking about the balance of power isn't tilted due to laws that were formed at the request of the unions. In those places unions should go away, filed in the back of cupboard and brought out again one day when the balance of power appears to tip once again. ... Just not in the USA.
Since when does an empire have a monopoly on account of being an "empire". Are people using the Facebook empire? The way I see it Facebook is made up of a variety of platforms and except for the social media platform itself each of them have healthy competition on the continent. If the Belgian MEP wants to know what the alternatives are, why doesn't he ask his daughter who likely uses none of Facebook's "empire".
Mind you the entire question sounds like it was dreamed up in a coffee shop in Amsterdam. What would breaking up achieve? WhatsApp and Instagram were massively popular pre-Facebook. Ownership didn't change anything there, and breaking Facebook's social network out from the rest achieves nothing regards to Facebook's market power, nor does it prevent any of the things that various governments are questioning the Zuck about.