What is happening, is that there is decreasing value in getting the latest model. It makes a lot more sense to wait three years before getting a new phone than it did before... on top of higher prices, people are waiting.
It will be interesting to see what this new slower wave of smart phone replacements as primary market looks like... will phone makers start to not release new models quite so often?
I am now bored by folding phones, how about you also make the folding and non-folding phones interlockable so they act as one giant display of arbitrary shape and size?
That way you and a few friends can combine your displays to watch movies, or play games.
Image recognition tends to be more sensitive to texture than to shape
Not the kind used in autonomous driving which it lots, lot more concerned about the shape of people than textures, since they could be wearing anything.
darker skin results in less contrast, which means less ability to see things like facial features
Facial features are like 1/1000000 as important as just knowing "that is a human" which is looking at a whole body shape. Mostly a car camera would not have enough resolution to perceive facial features very well.
You have to be able to determine a fully masked human just as well as anything, and measure intent purely by large scale gestures and movement.
Similarly, object detection should not be used for verifying that nothing is beside you, behind you, or in front of you. Those additional sanity checks are what RADAR, LIDAR, and SONAR are for.
All sensors should be collecting data on all objects at all times anywhere around you and doing a thing called "sensor fusion" to determine what is actually around them. You CANNOT partition object recognition to just one system. Even simply ultrasonic sensors can verify if something is really as close as cameras say it is.
detecting people near the road is often useful
And that is back to what I am saying, you want to detect people way more than faces, skin color DOES NOT MATTER ONE BIT for that task, especially as the cameras are probably very IR sensitive.
And detecting gestures of police officers or other personnel directing traffic also needs to work regardless of their skin color.
Exactly, so SKIN COLOR DOES NOT MATTER.
So it is important to ensure that training data doesn't show racial bias.
It cannot have a "racial bias" and work at all, because the world is not a nudist colony.
Basically, it's like saying that a new nuclear reactor could seriously screw up the world if you forget to connect it to a water supply. My response is, "Yeah, no kidding."
This part I agree on, because basically nothing can work if the training data is as poor as they suppose, such a system would not even be on the road with a test driver. Any self driving car system to even think about being put on the road is way beyond skin color as an issue, by definition of what it has to do.
This is not true at all, it's based on false assumptions.
First of all, most self driving cars will end up using LIDAR. Skin color, not an issue.
Secondly. even cars with cameras do a lot of image transformations such that color is usually disposed of. You kin color is irrelevant to a recognizer looking for human forms.
In fact you could argue that during the day, darker skin is an advantage because against a blue sky it's more noticeable than really pale skin which could look like clouds... #GingerLivesMatter.
I disagree with the conclusion, they claim Apple does not benefit...
But Apple does, by having a lot of people unveil bugs they might never have found themselves.
Yes it can lead to a few exploits, but in the long run probably fewer than there would have been were Apple successful in never having dev devices stolen.
It sure seems like there are a lot of severe countermeasures Apple could take related to these devices, if they cared seriously about them being taken.
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/outrage-over-verizon-throttling-service-to-firefighters-during-wildfire/1390190474 - Related directly.
Read again. That is related to network neutrality, but the FCC regs would have NOT stopped that.
Note also that without the FCC regulations, that action was stopped. So why did we need the regulations again?
This is exactly what I mean. All of the NN advocates act like we lost anything real at all when the bill was repealed, but it didn't protect anyone but companies, and certainly nothing has happened since then the bill would have actually covered - you just THINK it would have.
Oh sure, THEY will rage quit... but the AI will teach their children, and in generations the "correct" (as defined by the most popular pronunciation AI) definition will prosper as the other withers.
Heck even adults could probably use an app that did this for English - my wife and I both read a lot, and I have to say there are several times we both knew words from reading, that either one or the other (or both) had been mispronouncing for years because I had never heard them spoken. Would be nice to have a quick check of advanced word pronunciations for adults, to help correct any errors that had crept in....
I think things like this are how the GIF pronunciation debate will finally be settled, we'll just have AI correct us all to use one definition until the other is forgotten.
It still seems like even with a gap, nothing in your pocket can rub against the screens since they are protecting each other. In fact I feel a bit better about the screens not touching, as I was wondering if a bit of dust or sand got in there when you closed it if that would cause issues... with the screens physically separated some small amount, and nothing able to exert pressure on them, it does not seem like they could be damaged while in the pocket.
Folding the display on the outside of the phone is going to expose the glass to all the abrasive stuff in your pocket/bag.
Yes, true.
So doesn't the Samsung idea seem good? A simple durable display on the outside, and the more delicate screens folded against each other for protection?
That can mean protection for the folding area as well.
People who can afford their own personal transportation, will afford it, even if it's slightly a financial burden to them, because the benefits outweigh everything else
Some of the larger metro areas, like SF or NYC, I find it way more beneficial to not have a car in than to have a car. In MYC I can often beat most traffic on foot for just a few blocks, for longer it might be even using the subway...
Or at least that way true, every visit the subway in NYC gets more unreliable and worse.
Anyway, point is that if you are living somewhere in the middle of a few places it still may be more desirable not to own a car, and just rent something really nice when you do need one.
Now me, I do need a person car for what I do. But I would dearly love to have it be autonomous so I could do other things on long drives. My dream would be a kind of small camper van that I could sleep and work in while it drove me overnight to various destinations. That would be amazing.
Clearly it was more than as simple as a rounding error, as they shut down the consumer service due to the abuses.
Or maybe they only wanted larger customers and not have to deal with so many smaller customers that could each generate support requests.
As I said, if cost was an issue they could have just implemented tiered pricing.
In a way they did - they just have only the upper level tier now, and provided free migration to the small business plan. As it is, that plan is still only $10 / device / month, not that unreasonable!
It wasn't the 98% of the people using the service but the small minority of folks that backed up terabytes of data
It sure seems like 1-3% of customers storing many terabytes of data would come off as a rounding error in how much storage you would actually need to store hundreds of thousands of customers worth of data anyway...
They would also be doing you a bit of a service by stress-testing everything for extreme cases.
If that much more data is seriously a problem, then why not offer tiers like 0-2 TB (normal people), 0-20 TB (digital hoarders or serious photographers), and "unlimited" which reflects the true cost of storing a petabyte of data on average? You could migrate from unlimited plans to that structure, affecting almost no-one and shedding the customers you didn't like anyway (or making them pay reasonable costs).
That's always a good idea, but do you have any complaints right now, are you just insinuating?
Of course I have no complaints now, there is not yet a bill to read.
I am extrapolating, not insinuating. History has shown us almost no-one who wanted network neutrality read the original 30 page FCC regulations. Especially in the age of the hot take, is it so unreasonable to expect many people will complain about, or support the bill based merely on a summary they read on Buzzfeed? No, that's about par for the course.
So I'm just trying to plant the thought, lets at least some of us read it, then we can talk about what it actually does rather than pretending the bill we get is actually "network neutrality" the abstract concept, which means different things to different people.
She did; I posted a link to it. Anyone is free to dispute what she is saying, only she doesn't hide behind academic paywalls that limit who can write what she says.
But yes, EVERY Subaru wagon I have seen is slow as molasses and generally not a very competent driver (like very hesitant to change lanes, or really do anything).
Personally for rallying my preference is a MINI still though...
maybe the temperature has an effect on critters & plants living near the top.
I think you missed the part where I was originally saying, and the link I provides also said in great detail, that atmospheric warming has nearly zero effect on water temperature even near the top beyond a very shallow region.
Again, this is not complex, it is simple physics... you are operating on some kind of faith and fear based framework, never healthy.
So maybe it is you need to turn on the brain, and actually read and learn something? No? OK then, you can have the last response.
I don't ride close to any car, I keep 3-4 car lengths (or lots more) depending on condition and speed.
I simply wait until I can pass, even if that takes a while. Not very hard to do.
One word of advice though, there are a lot of people who do not drive carefully so maybe stop driving your Slowbaru in the left lane when you are not passing anyone? After all, like the speed limit, that too is generally the law...
Over a long period of time, I have noticed that Volvo and Subaru (except for WRX) drivers are the most inattentive and slow drivers around, to the point where they present a mild danger and should be moved around as soon as possibly so as not to be pulled into the inevitable road drama they create through their blunderings.
Maybe it will be random braking, maybe it will be suddenly abandoning the exit lane to veer dangerously back on the highway. Hey, they are in an invulnerable box; like the honey badger, Volvo Driver Don't Care.
So I don't think they will ever notice or care about the cap. They could probably set it at 80MPH.... and it wouldn't affect anyone thinking of buying a Volvo.
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It's not like fewer people want smartphones...
What is happening, is that there is decreasing value in getting the latest model. It makes a lot more sense to wait three years before getting a new phone than it did before... on top of higher prices, people are waiting.
It will be interesting to see what this new slower wave of smart phone replacements as primary market looks like... will phone makers start to not release new models quite so often?
Robots Built a House That Generates More Energy Than It Needs
*Robot stares you straight in the eye*
"Maybe more than YOU need HUMAN"
*Robot sucks on power cord, eyes glow brighter and brighter as it leans back and shudders with delight*
I am now bored by folding phones, how about you also make the folding and non-folding phones interlockable so they act as one giant display of arbitrary shape and size?
That way you and a few friends can combine your displays to watch movies, or play games.
Image recognition tends to be more sensitive to texture than to shape
Not the kind used in autonomous driving which it lots, lot more concerned about the shape of people than textures, since they could be wearing anything.
darker skin results in less contrast, which means less ability to see things like facial features
Facial features are like 1/1000000 as important as just knowing "that is a human" which is looking at a whole body shape. Mostly a car camera would not have enough resolution to perceive facial features very well.
You have to be able to determine a fully masked human just as well as anything, and measure intent purely by large scale gestures and movement.
Similarly, object detection should not be used for verifying that nothing is beside you, behind you, or in front of you. Those additional sanity checks are what RADAR, LIDAR, and SONAR are for.
All sensors should be collecting data on all objects at all times anywhere around you and doing a thing called "sensor fusion" to determine what is actually around them. You CANNOT partition object recognition to just one system. Even simply ultrasonic sensors can verify if something is really as close as cameras say it is.
detecting people near the road is often useful
And that is back to what I am saying, you want to detect people way more than faces, skin color DOES NOT MATTER ONE BIT for that task, especially as the cameras are probably very IR sensitive.
And detecting gestures of police officers or other personnel directing traffic also needs to work regardless of their skin color.
Exactly, so SKIN COLOR DOES NOT MATTER.
So it is important to ensure that training data doesn't show racial bias.
It cannot have a "racial bias" and work at all, because the world is not a nudist colony.
Basically, it's like saying that a new nuclear reactor could seriously screw up the world if you forget to connect it to a water supply. My response is, "Yeah, no kidding."
This part I agree on, because basically nothing can work if the training data is as poor as they suppose, such a system would not even be on the road with a test driver. Any self driving car system to even think about being put on the road is way beyond skin color as an issue, by definition of what it has to do.
This is not true at all, it's based on false assumptions.
First of all, most self driving cars will end up using LIDAR. Skin color, not an issue.
Secondly. even cars with cameras do a lot of image transformations such that color is usually disposed of. You kin color is irrelevant to a recognizer looking for human forms.
In fact you could argue that during the day, darker skin is an advantage because against a blue sky it's more noticeable than really pale skin which could look like clouds... #GingerLivesMatter.
I disagree with the conclusion, they claim Apple does not benefit...
But Apple does, by having a lot of people unveil bugs they might never have found themselves.
Yes it can lead to a few exploits, but in the long run probably fewer than there would have been were Apple successful in never having dev devices stolen.
It sure seems like there are a lot of severe countermeasures Apple could take related to these devices, if they cared seriously about them being taken.
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/outrage-over-verizon-throttling-service-to-firefighters-during-wildfire/1390190474 - Related directly.
Read again. That is related to network neutrality, but the FCC regs would have NOT stopped that.
Note also that without the FCC regulations, that action was stopped. So why did we need the regulations again?
This is exactly what I mean. All of the NN advocates act like we lost anything real at all when the bill was repealed, but it didn't protect anyone but companies, and certainly nothing has happened since then the bill would have actually covered - you just THINK it would have.
All this bill does is restore the corporate written FCC regulations that existed previously, that did NOTHING to support real network neutrality.
Give us one example of a problem since that was repealed. One.
That was certainly how the pronunciation of "data" was settled!
Yes! Great example.
Oh sure, THEY will rage quit... but the AI will teach their children, and in generations the "correct" (as defined by the most popular pronunciation AI) definition will prosper as the other withers.
He who controls the AI, shall control the future.
Heck even adults could probably use an app that did this for English - my wife and I both read a lot, and I have to say there are several times we both knew words from reading, that either one or the other (or both) had been mispronouncing for years because I had never heard them spoken. Would be nice to have a quick check of advanced word pronunciations for adults, to help correct any errors that had crept in....
I think things like this are how the GIF pronunciation debate will finally be settled, we'll just have AI correct us all to use one definition until the other is forgotten.
It still seems like even with a gap, nothing in your pocket can rub against the screens since they are protecting each other. In fact I feel a bit better about the screens not touching, as I was wondering if a bit of dust or sand got in there when you closed it if that would cause issues... with the screens physically separated some small amount, and nothing able to exert pressure on them, it does not seem like they could be damaged while in the pocket.
Folding the display on the outside of the phone is going to expose the glass to all the abrasive stuff in your pocket/bag.
Yes, true.
So doesn't the Samsung idea seem good? A simple durable display on the outside, and the more delicate screens folded against each other for protection?
That can mean protection for the folding area as well.
People who can afford their own personal transportation, will afford it, even if it's slightly a financial burden to them, because the benefits outweigh everything else
Some of the larger metro areas, like SF or NYC, I find it way more beneficial to not have a car in than to have a car. In MYC I can often beat most traffic on foot for just a few blocks, for longer it might be even using the subway...
Or at least that way true, every visit the subway in NYC gets more unreliable and worse.
Anyway, point is that if you are living somewhere in the middle of a few places it still may be more desirable not to own a car, and just rent something really nice when you do need one.
Now me, I do need a person car for what I do. But I would dearly love to have it be autonomous so I could do other things on long drives. My dream would be a kind of small camper van that I could sleep and work in while it drove me overnight to various destinations. That would be amazing.
Clearly it was more than as simple as a rounding error, as they shut down the consumer service due to the abuses.
Or maybe they only wanted larger customers and not have to deal with so many smaller customers that could each generate support requests.
As I said, if cost was an issue they could have just implemented tiered pricing.
In a way they did - they just have only the upper level tier now, and provided free migration to the small business plan. As it is, that plan is still only $10 / device / month, not that unreasonable!
It wasn't the 98% of the people using the service but the small minority of folks that backed up terabytes of data
It sure seems like 1-3% of customers storing many terabytes of data would come off as a rounding error in how much storage you would actually need to store hundreds of thousands of customers worth of data anyway...
They would also be doing you a bit of a service by stress-testing everything for extreme cases.
If that much more data is seriously a problem, then why not offer tiers like 0-2 TB (normal people), 0-20 TB (digital hoarders or serious photographers), and "unlimited" which reflects the true cost of storing a petabyte of data on average? You could migrate from unlimited plans to that structure, affecting almost no-one and shedding the customers you didn't like anyway (or making them pay reasonable costs).
That's always a good idea, but do you have any complaints right now, are you just insinuating?
Of course I have no complaints now, there is not yet a bill to read.
I am extrapolating, not insinuating. History has shown us almost no-one who wanted network neutrality read the original 30 page FCC regulations. Especially in the age of the hot take, is it so unreasonable to expect many people will complain about, or support the bill based merely on a summary they read on Buzzfeed? No, that's about par for the course.
So I'm just trying to plant the thought, lets at least some of us read it, then we can talk about what it actually does rather than pretending the bill we get is actually "network neutrality" the abstract concept, which means different things to different people.
She did; I posted a link to it. Anyone is free to dispute what she is saying, only she doesn't hide behind academic paywalls that limit who can write what she says.
I do hope everyone here will read what the bill ACTUALLY SAYS, rather than merely the claims that are going to be made about the bill...
I don't even have a a 4K projector myself either (someday), but project it pretty large and it looks really good.
I did exclude the WRX.
But yes, EVERY Subaru wagon I have seen is slow as molasses and generally not a very competent driver (like very hesitant to change lanes, or really do anything).
Personally for rallying my preference is a MINI still though...
There must not be any Prius owners in your neck of the woods.
Honestly, they have not been nearly as bad as Subaru and Volvo drivers I have driven near.
Although maybe that is because you don't see that many Prius drivers around these days... seems like that has been supplanted by other cars.
maybe the temperature has an effect on critters & plants living near the top.
I think you missed the part where I was originally saying, and the link I provides also said in great detail, that atmospheric warming has nearly zero effect on water temperature even near the top beyond a very shallow region.
Again, this is not complex, it is simple physics... you are operating on some kind of faith and fear based framework, never healthy.
So maybe it is you need to turn on the brain, and actually read and learn something? No? OK then, you can have the last response.
I don't ride close to any car, I keep 3-4 car lengths (or lots more) depending on condition and speed.
I simply wait until I can pass, even if that takes a while. Not very hard to do.
One word of advice though, there are a lot of people who do not drive carefully so maybe stop driving your Slowbaru in the left lane when you are not passing anyone? After all, like the speed limit, that too is generally the law...
Over a long period of time, I have noticed that Volvo and Subaru (except for WRX) drivers are the most inattentive and slow drivers around, to the point where they present a mild danger and should be moved around as soon as possibly so as not to be pulled into the inevitable road drama they create through their blunderings.
Maybe it will be random braking, maybe it will be suddenly abandoning the exit lane to veer dangerously back on the highway. Hey, they are in an invulnerable box; like the honey badger, Volvo Driver Don't Care.
So I don't think they will ever notice or care about the cap. They could probably set it at 80MPH.... and it wouldn't affect anyone thinking of buying a Volvo.