Footlong Oven Roasted Chicken = 6.75. This is big enough for two meals.
Chick Fil A Grilled chicken Sandwich only - $4.25. This uses real meat, but you'd need to buy two to last you the two meals the sub lasts you, so $8.50.
So no, you're not paying more. The sub will fill you up exactly the same for 20% less cash. You also get vastly more veggie options than "just" lettuce tomato abd pickles.
Also, people complain about "no flavor," but that's why they have a dozen different sauces.
These days, thatbarely keeps the lights on at a small company.
The average price for a VR game on Steam is around $25, so these games are selling less than 10k units. So the top 30 games have sold maybe 400-500k units total.
That's a pretty pathetic attach rate, which means either (1) the games are terrible, or (2) the hardcore Adrenalin junkies are buying it for their simulation game of choice (cars, space combat, or sports), and nothing else.
If those estimates ae correct, the it looks like the attach rate for paid games on Steam VR is between 2-3. Those are Wii-level numbers! Don't expect any serious effort from anyone besides Valve with sell-through that bda.
Cause really, the hardcore simulation lovers assume the rest of the world loved a hardcore simulation, no matter the discomfort, or cost. These are the type of people who will drop a five hundred easy dollars on custom pedals or controllers for their favorite simulated distraction:
Multi-stream transport over Thunderbolt. Basicallly split the screen in half, so each stream is under the maximum bandwidth.
Each stream = 1 display.
But I'm having trouble believing this thing can do TWO 5k displays simultaneously at 60Hz. According to the review on Ars Technica, the first Thunderbolt controller has four lanes of PCIe, while the second Thunderbolt controller only has 2 lanes of PCIE 3.0 = 16Gbps max bandwidth.
4k @ 60Hz requires 14Gbps, and 5k at 60Hz is 80% more pixels, so around 25Gbps. That will be closer to 30Hz on the slower controller, unless you know something I don't?
They supplied phone service to farmers, and it benefited every aspect of the business. It also was on the scope of tens to hundreds of miles between major cities, which wasn't really that expensive.
What we're talking about here is running cables over thousands of miles of empty territory just to connect a few hundred people at the next tiny town. We're talking desolate shitholes like Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
These places have about ONE TENTH the population density of Alaska, so excuse these poor Provincial Canadians if they don't want to run a fibre line out in the woods for thousands of miles for your pet bear to chew on,
I thought the USB 2 portion of the USB C cable was dedicated, while the four high-speed lanes are capable of carrying anything?
It's been awhile since I went into USB C all hot-and-heavy, but I thought this was how it works:
Standard mode: the 4 high speed lanes can carry 5Gbps each to carry USB 3.1 at 10Gbps r/t.
The alternate split mode could run with 2 lanes of USB 3.0 (2 lanes of 5Gbps r/t) and 2 lanes of whatever else it's carrying (2 lanes of UP TO 10Gbps each).
I thought the USB-2 only mode was when alternate mode took over all four high-speed lanes, which means you can still run Thunderbolt 40Gbps and get USB 2 accessories on the same cable.
Nvidia will probably soon put out a new GPU that fits in the 750ti price and thermal range, and it will probably be the fastest card that does not require an external power connector. (Much like the 750ti is now)
It's already out. Better revisions of the GTX 950 have been able to get the power down to 75w. For that you get 40% higher performance than the GTX 750 Ti, and for just a five dollar premium over other GTX 950 cards!
There is no such thing as the Google Play Store in China (yet). So Xiaomi has filled the void with their own Mi Store.
So now's a perfect time for Microsoft to catch a ride on the hottest smartphone train outside iOS. Google Play will be joining the fight later this year, so this is a move by Xiaomi to strengthen their position before that.
Pebble watch uses a Sharp Memory LCD, which is a regular trans reflective LCD with storage so it only updates the pixels that change between frames. This gets rid of the constant full-screen refresh you get from a standard LCD, which means that if you're not watching video, it uses a whole helluva lot less power. But it has the same fast response as LCD, which makes it more capable as an interactive device than eink.
It's still miles more power consumption than e-ink when nothing is happening (it requires standby power AND switching power, whereas e-ink just requires switching power), but it manages to find a happy midddle in battery power between normal backlit LCD (1-2 days battery life) and e-ink.
But that's why it costs nothing. It's LCD with memory.
They pay for a night at a hotel and domestic airfare for maybe 100-200 people. Let's say an average airfare of $300, and the room costs $300, that puts your total schmoozing cost at 60-120k, plus the smaller cost of renting a big room for the presentation.
For that small cost, you get guaranteed coverage that will fire up social media, and even reach less interested sites like Slashdot, and it all happens SIMULTANEOUSLY from all those who attended, because they want to be first to report back from the exclusive event.
So Nvidia paper-launches a product with no actual reviews, and nobody can stop talking about it! That's a shitload more effective than a boring old press release., which may get buried.
I think they realized how dangerous that would be. That or else they were just posturing for the sake of getting a higher rate from Amazon. It's now an Amazon Prime exclusive.
And how do they pay for the optical line they run to your front door? Just do it for charity?
There's a reason even Google charges $300 for the "free" line install: because people rarely keep the "cheap" service plans long enough for the company to break-even.
Let's try $40 for 50 Mbit, and you're getting warmer!
That's a great logo, sort of like the Paul Rand IBM logo brought up to date.
Of course, great logo != great company. But it beats having a boring or shitty logo.
Are you high? The Rand 1972 IBM logo has 8 lines of resolution FOR EACH LETTER. You can clearly make the details out.
This stupid HP logo has TWO lines of resolution for each letter. That's no-longer distinctive, it's just overly clever bullshit that will piss-off your average idiot user.
Note that your average idiot user also includes every PHB who fills out the IT order sheets. A pretentious logo like this will be an automatic turnoff and result in cancellation of the order.
But without clear details in the signal, you can't determine if it's friend or foe. And in the land of "friendly fire is not so friendly," that means you need a visual confirmation.
If you have enough unique detail to identify the platform, then you feel a lot more confident hurling a HARM at it.
Radars have a pattern called Staggered PRF Frame, which is a repeating pattern. and this, along with frequency, pulse width and PRI is used to identify a radar.
We already have frequency agile radars. We can identify them because the other characteristics are still constant.
If you make the frame look like random noise then it just looks like clutter. VERY hard to spot.
This is important because you don't just waste HARMs firing at random clutter, and you certainly don't want to accidentally fire on an unexpected friendly.
Slashdot Mirror
Just like accessing a file or a website, every tim you say something Google will have to filter against millions of crap words uttered in the AI Wars.
So just get used to asking your Google device a question, and it getting back to you in an hour or so.
And there's nothing stopping people from printing their own ticket. This is what I already do with e-tickets, since I don't always trust my phone.
I'm sorry, but they don't.
Footlong Oven Roasted Chicken = 6.75. This is big enough for two meals.
Chick Fil A Grilled chicken Sandwich only - $4.25. This uses real meat, but you'd need to buy two to last you the two meals the sub lasts you, so $8.50.
So no, you're not paying more. The sub will fill you up exactly the same for 20% less cash. You also get vastly more veggie options than "just" lettuce tomato abd pickles.
Also, people complain about "no flavor," but that's why they have a dozen different sauces.
These days, thatbarely keeps the lights on at a small company.
The average price for a VR game on Steam is around $25, so these games are selling less than 10k units. So the top 30 games have sold maybe 400-500k units total.
Considering well under half-million headsets have have been sold (was 150k back in September, just after supply issues had been resolved) Let's say during the holiday rush they doubled that to 300k Vive units shipped.
That's a pretty pathetic attach rate, which means either (1) the games are terrible, or (2) the hardcore Adrenalin junkies are buying it for their simulation game of choice (cars, space combat, or sports), and nothing else.
If those estimates ae correct, the it looks like the attach rate for paid games on Steam VR is between 2-3. Those are Wii-level numbers! Don't expect any serious effort from anyone besides Valve with sell-through that bda.
Cause really, the hardcore simulation lovers assume the rest of the world loved a hardcore simulation, no matter the discomfort, or cost. These are the type of people who will drop a five hundred easy dollars on custom pedals or controllers for their favorite simulated distraction:
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
http://www.thrustmaster.com/pr...
Specifically, this
The Bat Incendiary
Correct AC.
The Walkman killed LP slowly, and the CD finished both off rather quickly.
But the Walkman had enough power to make tape sales higher than LP by 1983
Multi-stream transport over Thunderbolt. Basicallly split the screen in half, so each stream is under the maximum bandwidth.
Each stream = 1 display.
But I'm having trouble believing this thing can do TWO 5k displays simultaneously at 60Hz. According to the review on Ars Technica, the first Thunderbolt controller has four lanes of PCIe, while the second Thunderbolt controller only has 2 lanes of PCIE 3.0 = 16Gbps max bandwidth.
4k @ 60Hz requires 14Gbps, and 5k at 60Hz is 80% more pixels, so around 25Gbps. That will be closer to 30Hz on the slower controller, unless you know something I don't?
They supplied phone service to farmers, and it benefited every aspect of the business. It also was on the scope of tens to hundreds of miles between major cities, which wasn't really that expensive.
What we're talking about here is running cables over thousands of miles of empty territory just to connect a few hundred people at the next tiny town. We're talking desolate shitholes like Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
These places have about ONE TENTH the population density of Alaska, so excuse these poor Provincial Canadians if they don't want to run a fibre line out in the woods for thousands of miles for your pet bear to chew on,
But from what I'm reading., these are month-to-month, so both you or Verizon have the option to terminate service at the end of each month.
I thought the USB 2 portion of the USB C cable was dedicated, while the four high-speed lanes are capable of carrying anything?
It's been awhile since I went into USB C all hot-and-heavy, but I thought this was how it works:
Standard mode: the 4 high speed lanes can carry 5Gbps each to carry USB 3.1 at 10Gbps r/t.
The alternate split mode could run with 2 lanes of USB 3.0 (2 lanes of 5Gbps r/t) and 2 lanes of whatever else it's carrying (2 lanes of UP TO 10Gbps each).
I thought the USB-2 only mode was when alternate mode took over all four high-speed lanes, which means you can still run Thunderbolt 40Gbps and get USB 2 accessories on the same cable.
Which is why it's a placeholder until GP107 arrives, like I said in my fucking post.
What is it wih ACs, you allergic to reading?
It's already out. Better revisions of the GTX 950 have been able to get the power down to 75w. For that you get 40% higher performance than the GTX 750 Ti, and for just a five dollar premium over other GTX 950 cards!
The Asus card review
The Newegg page.
The pictures on the Newegg site still show a power connector, but on the Asus product page it's clearly removed:
https://www.asus.com/us/Graphi...
And a recet review also confirms no power connector!
So yeah, Nvidia pushed this out unofficially because they will be waiting a few months for GP107, and thye wanted to stop making GTX 750 Ti silicon.
From what I've heard it's still only 1080p.
But that's mountains better than the 720p you get from the web client!
There is no such thing as the Google Play Store in China (yet). So Xiaomi has filled the void with their own Mi Store.
So now's a perfect time for Microsoft to catch a ride on the hottest smartphone train outside iOS. Google Play will be joining the fight later this year, so this is a move by Xiaomi to strengthen their position before that.
Pebble watch uses a Sharp Memory LCD, which is a regular trans reflective LCD with storage so it only updates the pixels that change between frames. This gets rid of the constant full-screen refresh you get from a standard LCD, which means that if you're not watching video, it uses a whole helluva lot less power. But it has the same fast response as LCD, which makes it more capable as an interactive device than eink.
It's still miles more power consumption than e-ink when nothing is happening (it requires standby power AND switching power, whereas e-ink just requires switching power), but it manages to find a happy midddle in battery power between normal backlit LCD (1-2 days battery life) and e-ink.
But that's why it costs nothing. It's LCD with memory.
They pay for a night at a hotel and domestic airfare for maybe 100-200 people. Let's say an average airfare of $300, and the room costs $300, that puts your total schmoozing cost at 60-120k, plus the smaller cost of renting a big room for the presentation.
For that small cost, you get guaranteed coverage that will fire up social media, and even reach less interested sites like Slashdot, and it all happens SIMULTANEOUSLY from all those who attended, because they want to be first to report back from the exclusive event.
So Nvidia paper-launches a product with no actual reviews, and nobody can stop talking about it! That's a shitload more effective than a boring old press release., which may get buried.
Hulu offers commercial free for just a couple bucks more than Netflix. Good if you like current shows.
http://www.hulu.com/nocommerci...
For Amazon, it's really fucking easy to turn off the mixed melange of content:
1. Go to Amazon homepage.
2. Click Departments->Amazon Video->Included with Prime
NOW YOU HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS WITHOUT FIGHTING THROUGH ANYTHING ELSE! Add shows to your watch list from here.
You can even select by movie or tv genre, and all the results are prime!
I think they realized how dangerous that would be. That or else they were just posturing for the sake of getting a higher rate from Amazon. It's now an Amazon Prime exclusive.
And how do they pay for the optical line they run to your front door? Just do it for charity?
There's a reason even Google charges $300 for the "free" line install: because people rarely keep the "cheap" service plans long enough for the company to break-even.
Let's try $40 for 50 Mbit, and you're getting warmer!
You had free, 70 dollar nirvana, and nothing in-between.
About time they start listening to people like me. I choose to use my FIOS 50/50 instead of 75 or 100 because I don't need it, and it costs $20 extra.
Are you high? The Rand 1972 IBM logo has 8 lines of resolution FOR EACH LETTER. You can clearly make the details out.
This stupid HP logo has TWO lines of resolution for each letter. That's no-longer distinctive, it's just overly clever bullshit that will piss-off your average idiot user.
Note that your average idiot user also includes every PHB who fills out the IT order sheets. A pretentious logo like this will be an automatic turnoff and result in cancellation of the order.
And 3 million went to Japan alone!
People aren't kidding when they say the Wii U is Big In Japan! It's likely higher than their US sales.
Not this generation.
At launch, it was losing money
A year later it was still losing money.
Only in 2014 did they stop losing money.
They sold 2/3 of the consoles before they stopped losing money. Therefore, the console lost money over it's lifetime (before you count game sales).
Oh no doubt, you can get a fix on anything.
But without clear details in the signal, you can't determine if it's friend or foe. And in the land of "friendly fire is not so friendly," that means you need a visual confirmation.
If you have enough unique detail to identify the platform, then you feel a lot more confident hurling a HARM at it.
It's not just frequency hopping.
Radars have a pattern called Staggered PRF Frame, which is a repeating pattern. and this, along with frequency, pulse width and PRI is used to identify a radar.
We already have frequency agile radars. We can identify them because the other characteristics are still constant.
If you make the frame look like random noise then it just looks like clutter. VERY hard to spot.
This is important because you don't just waste HARMs firing at random clutter, and you certainly don't want to accidentally fire on an unexpected friendly.