Step 1: convince people smartphones were more convenient due to their size, so that all content gets shifted to assuming mobile
Step2: gradually increase screen size while dramatically increasing price, until the size is so big you have to fold it in half to put it in your pocket, and the price is substantially more than a laptop of equal power
Step3: ???
Step4: profit!
I have a fold-able device that works well, it's called a laptop. Has an even bigger screen than this thing! And is much better at content consumption, while being exponentially better at content creation.
FB got as large as it did by disregarding all privacy or reasonable content controls. They weren't stupid, they didn't accidentally get where they are - they designed it that way on purpose. That's where they get their billions. Saying "well, it's too big to do that" is stupid. Yes, doing privacy controls after the fact is more expensive...but that's true for all companies and all scopes of software, it's not unique to large places.
They didn't do that type of content 3 years ago. So, if they can't figure out how to keep live vids of rapes and mass murders off their platform, they should end that entire aspect of their platform. They should NOT profit off such things.
I mean it's been years, but there was this one guy that decided to say fark all to convention, and was just calling things 1080p when it was really just badly upscaled content of a much lower size. It was obvious, because the files he uploaded were half the size an actual 1080p video of that length would be. He just made it harder to find true 1080p 5.1 content because so much was labeled as being it, but wasn't. So like, you guys sure it's really 4k?
Sure, but it still means their methodology is crap. If they put personX as heritageA, and personY as heritageB, and personX and personY are identical twins, then it means they either don't take a large enough sample, or...something...to accurately determine anything. That's the real point of the story.
Lovely theory, and I myself wish I had something available which could turn on my home theatre in an easy way despite it being hidden from view per my wife's demands. The idea though that only doing it from "the cloud" vs doing it local is more secure is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It is substantially less secure to not do it locally. There just aren't any devices as advanced as the ones 5y ago, where you could do it all locally. Like seriously, why the fark would I want to turn on my TV when I'm anywhere other than at my house?
Or a combination. I produce far more than I consume, for instance, despite having 2 cars. Without both HE products, my solar wouldn't be able to keep up. The goal isn't to keep our total energy usage down, it's to not let our usage outpace our ability to scrub and make clean energy.
that is pants-on-head stupid. So, no LEDs, no energy efficient stuff, toss out any concern for insulating a house or business, etc? Really? Just leave all lights on all the time, keep your empty office building at the perfect temp even at night or on holidays, etc...seriously?
There's solutions in search of a problem, and then there's solutions which cause big problems, and didn't solve any original problem. How about we just use gov backed currencies - they're rate limited, and the production of them isn't resource intensive in the slightest.
I know, right? If I ever get murdered, I don't want ANY tech I've bought to be useful to investigators, in finding out who the murderer was. No tech that gets me justice, is a friend of mine!
if you're going to go the route of saying an engine is something that converts power to motion, then it would be dumb to do that without the person in the car. An EV doesn't "idle" - there simply isn't power applied to the/motors/ yet. IE, it's not creating any "motion," even if you want to pretend it has a neutral in the way ICE cars do.
"Assuming the energy cost is 10 cents per kilowatt-hour" why the bloody hell would you think UAE would be paying 10c/kw-hr for energy? That's 5x more than/solar/ costs in the area, and they have oil to spare. https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/...
Do you really not know that github projects can be private? I'm on a couple dozen myself, and every single one is private. It's a code repo, and doesn't care what license you're using. Lots of large companies use github for completely non-FOSS stuff.
"is still far better than the defaults on iOS and Android," especially with the recently-added tracing feature that lets you swipe to write words.
So...like Swype and the thousand other such apps? Yeah yeah, Swype was discontinued a couple months ago - doesn't mean you get to tout it as a unique feature suddenly.
If that's the sort of crap I was missing with the microsoft phone, then no - no regrets:P/P
I'm sorry, but if you're still doing the same level work after 30+ years, there is something wrong with you. At some point, you should have gone in to management, consulting,/something/ other than just being a rank and file engineer still. It's not a poor reflection on a 30year old that they intuitively know this fact.
when in the world did I claim that either my cars, or my solar panels, were supposed to be an investment upon which I expected some sort of return? And if you're not part of your community, shaping it and reflecting it, then I pity you. No, you don't have to move. AND the whole point is that EVs aren't sold in coal-places, they're sold in places what that use lots of renewables, so their marketing claim is BS.
Texas is the highest user of coal for electricity generation, yes, though that's mostly because of having a large population. According to https://www.nei.org/Knowledge-... they get 26.6% from coal, whereas West Virginia does 94.4%. California does 0.2%, but I'm not personally in one of those 0.2% areas that do. Point is you have to compare apples to apples - CA accounts for half the EV sales, and our electric isn't dirty. Trying to take from EV sales from where EV sales actually occur, Mazda's claim would be very strongly false.
The places where electric cars are actually bought in large numbers, also are aggressively updating their electric grid with renewables. I have 2 electric cars, and solar on my house that generates enough that I have no electric bill. Beyond whatever bill, between my solar and the local grid being 43% (and improving) renewables, and 0% coal, this claim from Mazda is utter BS here. So in places like Texas where coal is still very heavily used for energy, then yeah...a myopic view may hold to this. But then you just have to decide if you want to be part of the problem, or part of the solution:P
Also, I wanted to address this: "First, it's not just which tower. There's a signal strength too" - I think it's cute that you think they're tracking my phone's signal strength, and that THAT is what allows them to guess distance. First, the cell tower isn't changing power or otherwise even caring what my signal strength is; that's just my phone. Second, the signal strength for the vast majority of people has little to do with distance, and more to do with obstructions; in SoCal, it's mountains in the suburbs and then the mesh that covers every house here (there's a wire mesh holding the stucco which covers every house top to bottom here). Then there's various materials used in commercial buildings, etc; signal "strength" comes and goes based not just on distance, but environment. Round trip time is better; a cell tower can send a signal for which it expects a response, and given the round trip time it can judge distance...but even that is suspect, because your signal might be bouncing off a building down the street and coming back to you, who knows (the path of a cell signal is extremely indirect in places with lots of skyscrapers). But even still, this method is WAY better than somehow knowing your signal strength and using that to determine...anything. And neither method can pinpoint you well. For that, you do in fact need more than 1 signal.
I feel like you're saying words, without realizing they're supposed to have meaning. If I am running a network, and I want to find out info about that network, it's easier for me than if I am simply asking Amazon (or some other external group) how the network is working. Also, you may not realize this, but FISA is a court action, and it's also for *FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE* (thus the F). Domestic intelligence is a dramatically different ball of wax and yes, does require a warrant. But even the current telco companies only know a 20mile radius circle - they don't have 5 years of info that at 8:15a you go to starbucks for 15-20 minutes, then you stop by the newspaper stand for 3-5 minutes during your walk to work down a particular road, every mon-fri. Real life isn't the movies. And don't presume to know about what I am afraid.
or 3) making something even easier might cross a threshold for some people
They may have been storing info about what cell tower you're linked to, but they do not try to pinpoint your location. That takes active effort. If the gov owned all the towers, and the standard itself, then they could do a few things - they could embed the GPS info into the cell signal back to the tower, they could try and get you to bounce a few signals from other towers to try and triangulate your position sans GPS, etc. There is a dramatic difference between having all the info immediately w/o warrant, and needing a warrant to get info that isn't/that/ helpful. Knowing my tower lets you know a circle with a radius of 20 miles or so. That's not great info to constantly know, but it's certainly not knowing exactly what locations I'm at at exact times all through the day.
It's really sad that there were so many comments before yours what that didn't point this basic, obvious thing out and instead talked about how great an idea it would be.
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Step 1: convince people smartphones were more convenient due to their size, so that all content gets shifted to assuming mobile
Step2: gradually increase screen size while dramatically increasing price, until the size is so big you have to fold it in half to put it in your pocket, and the price is substantially more than a laptop of equal power
Step3: ???
Step4: profit!
I have a fold-able device that works well, it's called a laptop. Has an even bigger screen than this thing! And is much better at content consumption, while being exponentially better at content creation.
FB got as large as it did by disregarding all privacy or reasonable content controls. They weren't stupid, they didn't accidentally get where they are - they designed it that way on purpose. That's where they get their billions. Saying "well, it's too big to do that" is stupid. Yes, doing privacy controls after the fact is more expensive...but that's true for all companies and all scopes of software, it's not unique to large places. They didn't do that type of content 3 years ago. So, if they can't figure out how to keep live vids of rapes and mass murders off their platform, they should end that entire aspect of their platform. They should NOT profit off such things.
I mean it's been years, but there was this one guy that decided to say fark all to convention, and was just calling things 1080p when it was really just badly upscaled content of a much lower size. It was obvious, because the files he uploaded were half the size an actual 1080p video of that length would be. He just made it harder to find true 1080p 5.1 content because so much was labeled as being it, but wasn't. So like, you guys sure it's really 4k?
Sure, but it still means their methodology is crap. If they put personX as heritageA, and personY as heritageB, and personX and personY are identical twins, then it means they either don't take a large enough sample, or...something...to accurately determine anything. That's the real point of the story.
Lovely theory, and I myself wish I had something available which could turn on my home theatre in an easy way despite it being hidden from view per my wife's demands. The idea though that only doing it from "the cloud" vs doing it local is more secure is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It is substantially less secure to not do it locally. There just aren't any devices as advanced as the ones 5y ago, where you could do it all locally. Like seriously, why the fark would I want to turn on my TV when I'm anywhere other than at my house?
"how to make it not profitable" - we could yell at them in restaurants, I hear that is terrifying and is as bad as being sent a bomb.
Or a combination. I produce far more than I consume, for instance, despite having 2 cars. Without both HE products, my solar wouldn't be able to keep up. The goal isn't to keep our total energy usage down, it's to not let our usage outpace our ability to scrub and make clean energy.
that is pants-on-head stupid. So, no LEDs, no energy efficient stuff, toss out any concern for insulating a house or business, etc? Really? Just leave all lights on all the time, keep your empty office building at the perfect temp even at night or on holidays, etc...seriously?
There's solutions in search of a problem, and then there's solutions which cause big problems, and didn't solve any original problem. How about we just use gov backed currencies - they're rate limited, and the production of them isn't resource intensive in the slightest.
I know, right? If I ever get murdered, I don't want ANY tech I've bought to be useful to investigators, in finding out who the murderer was. No tech that gets me justice, is a friend of mine!
if you're going to go the route of saying an engine is something that converts power to motion, then it would be dumb to do that without the person in the car. An EV doesn't "idle" - there simply isn't power applied to the /motors/ yet. IE, it's not creating any "motion," even if you want to pretend it has a neutral in the way ICE cars do.
"Assuming the energy cost is 10 cents per kilowatt-hour" why the bloody hell would you think UAE would be paying 10c/kw-hr for energy? That's 5x more than /solar/ costs in the area, and they have oil to spare. https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/...
No, it's not. It also had years of warning, so I have zero pity for companies of any size that waited until the last few weeks to even think about it.
My post was to Daemonik, not you.
Do you really not know that github projects can be private? I'm on a couple dozen myself, and every single one is private. It's a code repo, and doesn't care what license you're using. Lots of large companies use github for completely non-FOSS stuff.
So...like Swype and the thousand other such apps? Yeah yeah, Swype was discontinued a couple months ago - doesn't mean you get to tout it as a unique feature suddenly.
If that's the sort of crap I was missing with the microsoft phone, then no - no regrets :P /P
I'm sorry, but if you're still doing the same level work after 30+ years, there is something wrong with you. At some point, you should have gone in to management, consulting, /something/ other than just being a rank and file engineer still. It's not a poor reflection on a 30year old that they intuitively know this fact.
An innocent person died. An innocent life is only worth a few thousand dollars in your mind?
when in the world did I claim that either my cars, or my solar panels, were supposed to be an investment upon which I expected some sort of return? And if you're not part of your community, shaping it and reflecting it, then I pity you. No, you don't have to move. AND the whole point is that EVs aren't sold in coal-places, they're sold in places what that use lots of renewables, so their marketing claim is BS.
Texas is the highest user of coal for electricity generation, yes, though that's mostly because of having a large population. According to https://www.nei.org/Knowledge-... they get 26.6% from coal, whereas West Virginia does 94.4%. California does 0.2%, but I'm not personally in one of those 0.2% areas that do. Point is you have to compare apples to apples - CA accounts for half the EV sales, and our electric isn't dirty. Trying to take from EV sales from where EV sales actually occur, Mazda's claim would be very strongly false.
The places where electric cars are actually bought in large numbers, also are aggressively updating their electric grid with renewables. I have 2 electric cars, and solar on my house that generates enough that I have no electric bill. Beyond whatever bill, between my solar and the local grid being 43% (and improving) renewables, and 0% coal, this claim from Mazda is utter BS here. So in places like Texas where coal is still very heavily used for energy, then yeah...a myopic view may hold to this. But then you just have to decide if you want to be part of the problem, or part of the solution :P
Also, I wanted to address this: "First, it's not just which tower. There's a signal strength too" - I think it's cute that you think they're tracking my phone's signal strength, and that THAT is what allows them to guess distance. First, the cell tower isn't changing power or otherwise even caring what my signal strength is; that's just my phone. Second, the signal strength for the vast majority of people has little to do with distance, and more to do with obstructions; in SoCal, it's mountains in the suburbs and then the mesh that covers every house here (there's a wire mesh holding the stucco which covers every house top to bottom here). Then there's various materials used in commercial buildings, etc; signal "strength" comes and goes based not just on distance, but environment. Round trip time is better; a cell tower can send a signal for which it expects a response, and given the round trip time it can judge distance...but even that is suspect, because your signal might be bouncing off a building down the street and coming back to you, who knows (the path of a cell signal is extremely indirect in places with lots of skyscrapers). But even still, this method is WAY better than somehow knowing your signal strength and using that to determine...anything. And neither method can pinpoint you well. For that, you do in fact need more than 1 signal.
I feel like you're saying words, without realizing they're supposed to have meaning. If I am running a network, and I want to find out info about that network, it's easier for me than if I am simply asking Amazon (or some other external group) how the network is working. Also, you may not realize this, but FISA is a court action, and it's also for *FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE* (thus the F). Domestic intelligence is a dramatically different ball of wax and yes, does require a warrant. But even the current telco companies only know a 20mile radius circle - they don't have 5 years of info that at 8:15a you go to starbucks for 15-20 minutes, then you stop by the newspaper stand for 3-5 minutes during your walk to work down a particular road, every mon-fri. Real life isn't the movies. And don't presume to know about what I am afraid.
or 3) making something even easier might cross a threshold for some people
They may have been storing info about what cell tower you're linked to, but they do not try to pinpoint your location. That takes active effort. If the gov owned all the towers, and the standard itself, then they could do a few things - they could embed the GPS info into the cell signal back to the tower, they could try and get you to bounce a few signals from other towers to try and triangulate your position sans GPS, etc. There is a dramatic difference between having all the info immediately w/o warrant, and needing a warrant to get info that isn't /that/ helpful. Knowing my tower lets you know a circle with a radius of 20 miles or so. That's not great info to constantly know, but it's certainly not knowing exactly what locations I'm at at exact times all through the day.
It's really sad that there were so many comments before yours what that didn't point this basic, obvious thing out and instead talked about how great an idea it would be.