The predictions were 100% that people would stop having desktops in their homes because their phones and tablets can do everything. That's the whole point of the "death" of PCs.
But that didn't happen, because people still have PCs. They don't replace them as often, but you're insane if you think "saturated market" and "dead market" are anywhere near the same thing, lol.
I guess if anyone has the budget for something like this, it's DARPA, but my mind would be blown if this were anywhere near useful in less than 50-70 years. Predicting markets alone would be an incredibly daunting task to try and handle with AI, let alone something as generic as "schemas".
I think he was commenting on the fact that the video quality is already trash, so making trash video streams slightly trashier isn't really that big of a deal.
I've nearly eliminated ads from my life (through significant effort), so I don't really know what kinds of advertising they do. I just go to stores and read reviews when I want to buy something, so if that's an issue, I can't speak to it. That's lame, though. I agree their quality is generally shoddy. I specifically avoid all other Razer products for exactly this reason. This specific keyboard appears to be a rare exception. I also agree the registration through Synapse is lame as shit, but the shiny lights are nice!
Anyways, I maintain that the click is much quieter than I had on my Cherry MX Blues, but I guess that's not exactly saying much. Maybe I just got used to extreme volume? Anyways, my original point was just that it feels *awesome* to type on it. That's why I bought it, that's why everyone I convinced has bought it, and that's why I'd buy it again if I had to. Once they stop making this, I'll go back to avoiding Razer 100% of the time.
If this were even remotely true, then VR horror games wouldnâ(TM)t be nearly as terrifying as they are. Turns out when youâ(TM)re all wrapped up in something, itâ(TM)s easy to get your mind in a place where it genuinely believes your experience is the true reality.
I know it’s kind of a joke in some circles to avoid using Razer products, and for the most part, I agree with them.
But with that being said, give the Chroma Ornata a try. It has some of the best switches I’ve ever typed on. I’ve gotten two friends to buy one just by having them try mine out for a few sentences.
Go find a micro center or whatever your nearby equivalent is and find one to test out. 10/10 would recommend.
Surprising that someone on a tech-based website would feel confident saying that because some form of tech isn't particularly effective today, it's not worth a second thought.
If you think we won't ever refine the way AI crunches through data sets, or that we won't even refine the hardware it runs on, or that we won't refine the methods used for gathering data that it runs through, you're not really in the right state of mind to even begin talking about AI.
Maybe AI can figure out how to walk a robot across a plane in 6 months, and maybe it really would take another 6 months to compensate for ice (which isn't true, but that's besides the point). In 50 years, that might take 6 minutes and another 6 minutes instead. Humans will still be at a year for that initial solution.
This was nothing more than a study of the mental/emotional effects of being on Mars, as well as a study of how some of the mechanical and procedural systems might work on Mars. They got plenty of data on that.
For a first run, this was about as good as one could hope, but with systems that haven't yet been refined for the unique challenges presented by living on Mars, there's no good reason to let people suffer and potentially die with such an early iteration.
It wouldn't even be that close. It would be like if we had another 500 years to develop our military technology, and these were people who had never even seen electricity harnessed before. We show up with fucking mech walkers and sniper rifles with 2 mile ranges and fighter jets that are naked to the human eye and they're throwing rocks and sticks at us.
Any alien that can come say hello would be so far out of our league we'd be like ants to them - barely smarter than the monkeys and dogs and kangaroos around us as far as they're concerned.
But what bothers me is the fact that ANYONE uses the ones that make you tip *before* the actual food arrives. It'd be like walking into a restaurant and tipping your future waitress. Uber Eats is the only one that doesn't do this in my experience, and once I discovered that, I deleted the other apps and never looked back. What a ridiculous layout. Who puts up with that!?
Agreed. There are a few places I'll specifically go to because the atmosphere is great, or because the employees are awesome, or because it has an awesome view or whatever.
But I'll be honest - I just checked, and there are 12 different indian places on my Uber Eats list. I don't feel like driving 20 minutes across town to buy some food from one of these random places. Not to mention, my average delivery tip is $4, plus an average delivery fee of $3. I typically end up tipping at LEAST that much when I go to an actual restaurant... so why would I ever go to an actual restaurant? More expense for the same food in a less comfortable location predicated by a 20-30 minute drive? (not to mention, I can only have one beer because I still need to drive home). Yeah, aside from a few exceptions, there's no good reason to bother with it.
There's a reason these things got popular, and it's because going out to most restaurants isn't a great experience.
There are a huge number of benefits once we finally cross the threshold of 100% autonomous drivers. There will be a day, far in the future, when a car crashes and causes a traffic jam and it makes national headlines. You'll see posts on reddit's successor about how kids these days don't understand the past horrors of having to be awake for a 35 minute commute to work BOTH WAYS. You can train people as much as you want - you'll never reach that level if you don't just get their hands off the wheel altogether.
There are way more benefits, but you get the idea.
People are too easily distracted to ever be trusted with a 4000 pound block of metal and flammable liquids capable of going over 100 mph easily.
Resolution will continue to increase every few years, just like its done since the first TV came out. The only time that's not the case is when some new and different technology is made commercially viable (like CRT -> Projection -> LCD/Plasma -> LED -> OLED for instance).
It's not like the TV manufacturers can just stop selling TVs for the next 10 years until they come up with a new way to innovate, and they sure as shit can't keep selling the exact same TVs for that amount of time. As useless as 8K is, if your competitor has one for sale and you don't, you're now viewed as a lower-quality alternative.
Eventually, the TV you have now will die. And even though it was 1080p or 4K or whatever and it worked just fine for you, the new TV has some new resolution that you'll have to pay extra for because they don't make the old resolution anymore. Manufacturers know this; it'll never change.
How are we going to get a movie/video game into a home? I live in a major US city with one ISP choice and I have a 1TB/mo data cap, so streaming is out of the question. The most data-dense blu-ray discs are holding 300GB, so that won't work. You can get a cheap-ish 400GB SD card for something like $150, so let's assume that in huge bulk, you get them at an unreal 50% off - $75 in data storage for a movie? Most people wanna pay like $8 for a movie. Even if you can get it at a super cheap price by going with some larger storage format, I can only assume physical media is dying off anyways as the convenience of streaming directly to your TV or whatever rises in popularity, and "inconvenient" doesn't exactly drive sales.
A 4K movie runs at something like 100GB for a 90 minute movie, so we can probably expect an 8K to run at around 400GB. That's a fuckton of data to try and send someone. I'd be interested in hearing about potential methods of distribution if anyone has any ideas, because all the traditional ones seem to be too limited to work for everybody. Aside from some extremely efficient compression algo (nothing I'm aware of would suffice here), I'm genuinely stumped.
Seriously, paid parental leave should be obvious to society. Countless studies have shown benefits across the whole family when BOTH parents get time off to raise the child at birth.
If this is the case, one can only assume that the price of these contracts will go up, which means that MS is willing to accept an additional cost in order to do the right thing. Good on them.
Have any studies been done comparing the effects of edibles vs. smoked cannabis to double-check and ensure there are no negative effects? I use edibles myself, but I realize upon reading your comment that I just assumed it was safer because I wasn't inhaling anything. I wonder if they're metabolized differently, resulting in different effects on the body.
I always see this comment from people who've never had kids. "hurr durr why don't you watch your child 24/7/365 for 18 years straight". This is also typically the kind of person that says "helicopter parents are an issue - let your kid get scratched up every once in a while!"
It's almost like raising a human being is difficult and fraught with potential dangers even under the most watchful eye.
The only time I pirate is when I either can't find something legally at all, or if getting it legally is obnoxiously difficult or expensive (like when I wanted to watch Game of Thrones back in Season 1 and my only option at the time was to get a cable subscription so I could get an HBO subscription so I could watch this episode).
It's a pain in the ass to do in and of itself; I'd much rather just pay another $5 a month or whatever to get access to another large library of content that I can stream whenever.
Is there even a point to stealing that much money? Like, a quarter bitcoin or whatever might be too small-time to be investigated, but stealing $5M? Wouldn't it be trackable to him pretty much the moment he purchased something with that money? (or, at the very least, after the purchase of anything that would need to be shipped to him?) I've never looked at cryptos, so I might be off in my understanding here.
I love notepad. Opens in an absolute flash, I can type something super quick, and save it for later. No stupid modules to load, never had an error or crash, it just does *exactly* what it's supposed to - it's a quick place to jot down a note.
I love the program. I use it all the time.
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The predictions were 100% that people would stop having desktops in their homes because their phones and tablets can do everything. That's the whole point of the "death" of PCs.
But that didn't happen, because people still have PCs. They don't replace them as often, but you're insane if you think "saturated market" and "dead market" are anywhere near the same thing, lol.
I guess if anyone has the budget for something like this, it's DARPA, but my mind would be blown if this were anywhere near useful in less than 50-70 years. Predicting markets alone would be an incredibly daunting task to try and handle with AI, let alone something as generic as "schemas".
Typical M$
Careful on that 1995-era edge
I think he was commenting on the fact that the video quality is already trash, so making trash video streams slightly trashier isn't really that big of a deal.
I've nearly eliminated ads from my life (through significant effort), so I don't really know what kinds of advertising they do. I just go to stores and read reviews when I want to buy something, so if that's an issue, I can't speak to it. That's lame, though. I agree their quality is generally shoddy. I specifically avoid all other Razer products for exactly this reason. This specific keyboard appears to be a rare exception. I also agree the registration through Synapse is lame as shit, but the shiny lights are nice!
Anyways, I maintain that the click is much quieter than I had on my Cherry MX Blues, but I guess that's not exactly saying much. Maybe I just got used to extreme volume? Anyways, my original point was just that it feels *awesome* to type on it. That's why I bought it, that's why everyone I convinced has bought it, and that's why I'd buy it again if I had to. Once they stop making this, I'll go back to avoiding Razer 100% of the time.
If this were even remotely true, then VR horror games wouldnâ(TM)t be nearly as terrifying as they are. Turns out when youâ(TM)re all wrapped up in something, itâ(TM)s easy to get your mind in a place where it genuinely believes your experience is the true reality.
I know it’s kind of a joke in some circles to avoid using Razer products, and for the most part, I agree with them.
But with that being said, give the Chroma Ornata a try. It has some of the best switches I’ve ever typed on. I’ve gotten two friends to buy one just by having them try mine out for a few sentences.
Go find a micro center or whatever your nearby equivalent is and find one to test out. 10/10 would recommend.
Surprising that someone on a tech-based website would feel confident saying that because some form of tech isn't particularly effective today, it's not worth a second thought.
If you think we won't ever refine the way AI crunches through data sets, or that we won't even refine the hardware it runs on, or that we won't refine the methods used for gathering data that it runs through, you're not really in the right state of mind to even begin talking about AI.
Maybe AI can figure out how to walk a robot across a plane in 6 months, and maybe it really would take another 6 months to compensate for ice (which isn't true, but that's besides the point). In 50 years, that might take 6 minutes and another 6 minutes instead. Humans will still be at a year for that initial solution.
This was nothing more than a study of the mental/emotional effects of being on Mars, as well as a study of how some of the mechanical and procedural systems might work on Mars. They got plenty of data on that.
For a first run, this was about as good as one could hope, but with systems that haven't yet been refined for the unique challenges presented by living on Mars, there's no good reason to let people suffer and potentially die with such an early iteration.
Well I didn't have my coffee. I meant fighter jets that are *invisible* to the *naked* eye.
Though jets with giant dongs would be similarly terrifying I suppose.
It wouldn't even be that close. It would be like if we had another 500 years to develop our military technology, and these were people who had never even seen electricity harnessed before. We show up with fucking mech walkers and sniper rifles with 2 mile ranges and fighter jets that are naked to the human eye and they're throwing rocks and sticks at us.
Any alien that can come say hello would be so far out of our league we'd be like ants to them - barely smarter than the monkeys and dogs and kangaroos around us as far as they're concerned.
But what bothers me is the fact that ANYONE uses the ones that make you tip *before* the actual food arrives. It'd be like walking into a restaurant and tipping your future waitress. Uber Eats is the only one that doesn't do this in my experience, and once I discovered that, I deleted the other apps and never looked back. What a ridiculous layout. Who puts up with that!?
Agreed. There are a few places I'll specifically go to because the atmosphere is great, or because the employees are awesome, or because it has an awesome view or whatever.
But I'll be honest - I just checked, and there are 12 different indian places on my Uber Eats list. I don't feel like driving 20 minutes across town to buy some food from one of these random places. Not to mention, my average delivery tip is $4, plus an average delivery fee of $3. I typically end up tipping at LEAST that much when I go to an actual restaurant... so why would I ever go to an actual restaurant? More expense for the same food in a less comfortable location predicated by a 20-30 minute drive? (not to mention, I can only have one beer because I still need to drive home). Yeah, aside from a few exceptions, there's no good reason to bother with it.
There's a reason these things got popular, and it's because going out to most restaurants isn't a great experience.
Combine that with some better VR and maybe a fleshlight and you've got yourself a multi-million dollar industry, methinks.
Nah, we need autonomous driving.
There are a huge number of benefits once we finally cross the threshold of 100% autonomous drivers. There will be a day, far in the future, when a car crashes and causes a traffic jam and it makes national headlines. You'll see posts on reddit's successor about how kids these days don't understand the past horrors of having to be awake for a 35 minute commute to work BOTH WAYS. You can train people as much as you want - you'll never reach that level if you don't just get their hands off the wheel altogether.
There are way more benefits, but you get the idea.
People are too easily distracted to ever be trusted with a 4000 pound block of metal and flammable liquids capable of going over 100 mph easily.
I feel as though customers would hate this enough to avoid buying 8K products.
Resolution will continue to increase every few years, just like its done since the first TV came out. The only time that's not the case is when some new and different technology is made commercially viable (like CRT -> Projection -> LCD/Plasma -> LED -> OLED for instance).
It's not like the TV manufacturers can just stop selling TVs for the next 10 years until they come up with a new way to innovate, and they sure as shit can't keep selling the exact same TVs for that amount of time. As useless as 8K is, if your competitor has one for sale and you don't, you're now viewed as a lower-quality alternative.
Eventually, the TV you have now will die. And even though it was 1080p or 4K or whatever and it worked just fine for you, the new TV has some new resolution that you'll have to pay extra for because they don't make the old resolution anymore. Manufacturers know this; it'll never change.
How are we going to get a movie/video game into a home? I live in a major US city with one ISP choice and I have a 1TB/mo data cap, so streaming is out of the question. The most data-dense blu-ray discs are holding 300GB, so that won't work. You can get a cheap-ish 400GB SD card for something like $150, so let's assume that in huge bulk, you get them at an unreal 50% off - $75 in data storage for a movie? Most people wanna pay like $8 for a movie. Even if you can get it at a super cheap price by going with some larger storage format, I can only assume physical media is dying off anyways as the convenience of streaming directly to your TV or whatever rises in popularity, and "inconvenient" doesn't exactly drive sales.
A 4K movie runs at something like 100GB for a 90 minute movie, so we can probably expect an 8K to run at around 400GB. That's a fuckton of data to try and send someone. I'd be interested in hearing about potential methods of distribution if anyone has any ideas, because all the traditional ones seem to be too limited to work for everybody. Aside from some extremely efficient compression algo (nothing I'm aware of would suffice here), I'm genuinely stumped.
Seriously, paid parental leave should be obvious to society. Countless studies have shown benefits across the whole family when BOTH parents get time off to raise the child at birth. If this is the case, one can only assume that the price of these contracts will go up, which means that MS is willing to accept an additional cost in order to do the right thing. Good on them.
Have any studies been done comparing the effects of edibles vs. smoked cannabis to double-check and ensure there are no negative effects? I use edibles myself, but I realize upon reading your comment that I just assumed it was safer because I wasn't inhaling anything. I wonder if they're metabolized differently, resulting in different effects on the body.
I always see this comment from people who've never had kids. "hurr durr why don't you watch your child 24/7/365 for 18 years straight". This is also typically the kind of person that says "helicopter parents are an issue - let your kid get scratched up every once in a while!"
It's almost like raising a human being is difficult and fraught with potential dangers even under the most watchful eye.
Who pissed in your cheerios?
The only time I pirate is when I either can't find something legally at all, or if getting it legally is obnoxiously difficult or expensive (like when I wanted to watch Game of Thrones back in Season 1 and my only option at the time was to get a cable subscription so I could get an HBO subscription so I could watch this episode).
It's a pain in the ass to do in and of itself; I'd much rather just pay another $5 a month or whatever to get access to another large library of content that I can stream whenever.
Is there even a point to stealing that much money? Like, a quarter bitcoin or whatever might be too small-time to be investigated, but stealing $5M? Wouldn't it be trackable to him pretty much the moment he purchased something with that money? (or, at the very least, after the purchase of anything that would need to be shipped to him?) I've never looked at cryptos, so I might be off in my understanding here.
I love notepad. Opens in an absolute flash, I can type something super quick, and save it for later. No stupid modules to load, never had an error or crash, it just does *exactly* what it's supposed to - it's a quick place to jot down a note. I love the program. I use it all the time.