yes I know what demo guys have done, and it's done by hand, tweaked to produce something that looks nice, and by that I mean the procedural algorithms are written by hand to make something that looks nice - not something arbitrary they have in their mind.
it can look magical but really it is not. none of the demoscene demos break logical rules.
and yes, something like elite frontier fitted on a floppy and had a billion stars to explore with planets. but that is not an argument for this video encoding scheme at all - it's not like that on some planet in there you might find a tv playing jaws - it cannot have that and you can know it cannot have that.
however sloot claimed his video encoding to be so good that you could have on a floppy all the movies in the world- because recursion, if his scheme worked you could encode the next movie in the images in the credits scene of the previous movie - THIS SHOULD clue people in that it was just all bullshit, but for some reason doesn't? how hard is it for people to grasp this recursion problem of arbitrary information? it has nothing to do with if the compression scheme is procedural or not, it's just about if you can point to so much arbitrary data with so little data.
he was claiming benefits wayyy beyond of an automated mod/tracker creator.
look even if it was seeded with aqua teen hunger force episodes it still wouldn't be able to do the compression he claimed.
like come on dude, he was basically claiming that he could do better video encoding than what the best image encoding could do. if he had something that worked he would just have patented it and made a bank.
and if you're thinking of fractals - that too works only if you don't grasp bits and data, the pointers to the data in the fractal would have to have such a precision that it wouldn't be able to perform so well as he said. simply put, if you had kilobytes to represent a movie then that batch of kilobytes would have to represent multiple movies and that simply cannot work.
uh... simple video codec understanding shows why such claims about simple mathematics relative to assumptions about every second of video being stored in its entirety, are ignorant.
the decoder for his scheme was MASSIVE. you aren't storing everything for every second, just multiple hash indexes for possible changes to multiple sprites or masks or shaders or whatever new techniques he may have used.
you're stupid or what? his scheme would have allowed encoding 30 OTHER MOVIES into that 8 kbytes. each one of which could have 30 other movies, each one of which could have 30 other movies...
look, it doesn't matter if the decoder is 360 megs or 2 gigabytes or 100 terabytes. it just doesn't work and never could work..
he just chose 360 megs as it was way more than what desktops had ram normally at the time and it was big enough to hide a sample decoded video inside it.
I guess the easiest way to explain it is that at some point, very quickly, your lookup index becomes as big as the thing it is indexing into, making the whole thing pointless on it's own.
maybe your blocks are 16 bits. so you have all the different 16 bit blocks in a lookup table.....but you will have to index into it with 16 bits. if you have only half of the possible space represented then you can index to them with 15 bits. or maybe you have only 256 different kind of blocks and you can use 8 bits to index. this would do a very good compression but the data that can be compressed this way would be limited.
making some hard limits on feasible lossless compression. it puts some limits on "it kind of resembles the original" lossy compression as well. there's a reason why you can't just zip a file over and over and over again you see.
like, if you can live with the results you would get from that by carefully choosing your algos, like kkrieger guys, then it doesn't matter that much, but if you would ask them to add an arbitrary model into the game thats totally different then.
demoscene demos work because they work within the limits of the machines - the machine is part of the creation. it's limits dictate the creation. it's not for reproducing arbitrary input and that would lead to a logic loop.
you can agree that a video can have 140 characters? or 100x140 characters? basically the slooth claimed algorithm was so good that you could make a little logic play and include an infinite amount of hollywood movies(not just noise) in a chain of compressed links(any full lenght movie would have enough of sidechannel extra data visually in the video stream to include 2+ other compressed movies).
the claims were just too good. and it is strange anyone would have thought of giving him the money without running the idea through some mathematician or two which would have claimed bullshit on it.
like your scheme would work only if the movies were made for dwitter or some old pc or whatever. you can have pretty nice 64kbyte demos with music but that doesn't mean that you can reproduce any music video in 64kbytes, which was basically what slooth was claiming.
You're forgetting that it's 8kB... plus the 370MB of data preloaded in the de/compression engine.
look. it doesn't MATTER if it's 370mb of data or if it is 1000 terabytes of data. given a random movie file it would have to be able to tell apart the same movie but lets say a 10 seconds of it is just blacked out in the other version or replaced with a random text(this is to take out possibility of having the whole movie already in the 1000 terabytes of data). you cannot index chunks with such a little data to go match there. IT CANNOT BE DONE. if it could be DONE THEN THIS WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE HARDDRIVES AND ALL DATA TRANSFER - not just videos.
besides 8000 bytes / 120 min is about 66 bytes per minute. thats like a byte per second.
so basically, at least the claims are an order of magnitude more ludicrous than is possible at all.
also a few years ago I ran into some startup guys who were claiming that (among other things) they had a new compression algorithm that could do 1gig to 100kb or some such... I tried to explain them the theoretical maximum they could attain is way worse what they were claiming (due to simple logic)... they never did anything with it or showed it of course - even if it would have been 1000000x more valuable than what their current company was doing. kind of lost faith in that then.
furthermore you could embed 50 megs of data easily visually on a normal vcd movie of 650 megs. what this is suggesting is that you could embed any random data of 100 megs into 8 kilobytes. it doesnt add up. it cannot add up.
yeah apple just didn't bother yet with soldering the components yet since they don't have market data about demand so it's easier for now.. and you have to break the glue anyways, making it a no no for most users.
they might start doing that for cost cutting without telling anyone though once the new line is up to speed in production.
I'm not so sure, I might have just quit university much earlier if I had read that book before that.
Because sw production in university level was and still seemingly is pretty much just made up shit that goes in cycles - which is anything but something like physics.
I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it had been geared more in the same way and had more problem solving instead of learning sw development methods that were in flux - which actually were management methods more than anything else.
As an analogy, at that time software development in university level was more like if it was about how to try to cheat the world about the mythical man month than anything else. They would cycle the methods which would magically do that every few years and they still do. Very little of it was about actual programming, programs, why someone had programmed something in a way that it was programmed into and generally just couple of professors stroking their dicks and selling books they wrote.
Sure, the thesis might need sources - but the book you were taught from, fuck that, just a 50 euro per course per student revenue generating machine of pretty much completely made up stuff (sw is completely made up so I guess it fits so eh..) - beauty of that is that you have to buy the book to pass the exam because the book is the only place where you can find the right information to pass the exam because it exists only in the book.
oh and on the list of books I would have rather read earlier.. even for programming, surely you're joking would be the one.
direct screenshot and webcam access this is.. well, kinda fine if asked from user on case by case basis.
webworkers and web push however.. that's just stupid. it's like the stupidest feature ever to be put into the browser. just make the fucking webgl or some other webgl like thing work well first, come on.
for those who don't understand what I'm talking about, I'm talking about features that let the web page run javascript on your machine even when you're not connected to said web page - and push notifications.
like come on, we wanted webworkers or SOME multithreading capability yes - but not this! for the record webworkers are still kind of bullshit for multithreading requiring you to pass objects/data to them and back making them kinda shitty for speeding up stuff actually. better than nothing but still crap.
it's not just USA... do you have any, ANY idea how much some buddhist monks are making bank selling spells, lottery tips and such? I mean _literally_ selling lottery numbers looked from pieces of wood or whatever. blessing motorcycles, houses, whatever.
everywhere where you find people really, really believing that they can buy lucky/happy you will find some people taking their money - in some countries it is more than others. in finland not so much though there are some christian sects and movements which.. well, often fail after some scandal or another and money is most of the time involved.
compare Finland to Thailand though and Thailand is on whole another level - you see, some countries still believe there are these people who know more about "unknown" than they do.. they believe in magic in some way or another and paying for holy spirit is just the same.
and rich is relative. in context of south east asia having 3 cars, two of which are relatively new(yes,2006 is relatively new) is rich. in context of southeast asia 7k is stinkin rich middle class living (doesn't touch the small upper class rich people grades of course).
7k dollars would get over 10 unversity graduates in Thailand, or 20 7-11 clerks, as to give some context.
it gives them possibilities and power to play on the stock market for example, gaining huge financial benefits. it gives them the possibilities to spy on those who are supposed to keep them in limit, giving them the ability to dodge charges. it gives them the ability to blackmail those in power.
look, you only need to look at Russia if you want to see the typical bad kind of end result from giving some guys the rights to spy on everyone - those guys end up with all the possible power in the country.
also to note is that a bunch of guys given such power can be doing it forever while thinking that they are the "good" guys. I got no doubt that Putin thinks he is doing what is good for the country(but also that Putin can no longer step down too, because of the methods used to get power).
look, if you want emissions down in USA it is rather simple, start co2 taxing like many places in the world.
do you know why Musk put his pants in a knot because trump announced getting out of the paris deal? because he needs that. tesla badly needs same kind of taxing as Finland etc have to go in effect in USA.
a small example is that for the same price of the cheapest tesla you can get a maserati in the usa. in Finland the maserati is 50 000 euros more expensive than the cheapest tesla. mind you that the cheapest tesla is still a _very fucking expensive car_ by any normal finnish persons scale.
the joke about american autos is that they agreed for lowering emissions on cars.. by making complex agreements on how much of the sold fleet should use how and how much and....proceeded straight to selling trucks instead that are not counted.
also elsewhere.. attaching a hybrid system to a car is practically free because it lowers the emission tax, due to how even a small phev range can mess up the emissions calculations.
Had it not been for us "pussies" taking a stand, chickens and sheep like you would still be suffering from Flash.
this is stupid. the webrtc features are stupidly made. it's even worse than flash. good luck disabling it.
also, an important thing to note is that.. yeah.. you were forced to install plugins for some stuff before.. but wait why the fuck was there then installing a plugin for google hangouts on chrome and shit?
4) trump campaign staff was lobbying russians because they're lobbyists and don't know what should have been done or what even matters or if even talking with the russians made any sense at all - and his aides don't understand that russia doesn't matter all that much - and his aides were also trying to push some personal businesses with their newfound high level connections.
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like, I don't think they understood what would constitute as a treason when trying to make pre-deals with a foreign government. I don't think they expected putin to help with them fake news etc - besides the fucking trump campaign believed the fake news themselves. it's just amateurs making amateur mistakes at not understanding the game or the rules of the game.
it's infeasible because they're trying to collect everything from everyone.
but sometimes they get twice from the same guy, so they can't say how many americans they are targeting - because they tried to do the number at it came up as 100 million more than there are americans. it is infeasible to come up with an exact number which is why he was asked for an estimate but he refuses to even take a guess(estimate).
like, come on, everyone knows it's bullshit. he refuses to give even a ballpark estimate because that estimate would be "everyone".
like.. surely he could be asked... "do you think it is under 1 million?" "do you think it is more than 50 million?". followed by.. "just who the fuck do you survey, everyone??".
What about the power sockets? Lots of planes have actual plugs by your seat. Are those weaker than a battery?
shh you don't want to tell tsa about those. it literally is very fucking stupid.
anyways, it's not the battery or 9v thats the real thing. the real thing is that you cannot tell apart a bomb and the battery of the laptop in xray. stowing them doesn't help.
it helps the airlines though. pay per view on infotainment is already a thing.
some companies require a number to get an authentication code to start using something, like a trial of sw or whatever...then you get a sales call. then you get another sales call. thanks to skypeout you'll get them no matter what country.
also, maybe news for you, but I have had more cases to help where they have LOST access to a sim/phonenumber and cannot retrieve account because of that.
(following applies to if phone number is used as a trusted, required, thing in the chain)
instead of having one thing to lose you now have two things and another one of those is a physical tangible item you need to carry around with you everywhere. plenty of times(3rd world) you cannot get another sim with your old number. so if you lose that it's bye bye account...
of course musk keeps saying that somehow hyperloop would be cheaper
yes, that paper and other stuff from hyperloop is what i was referring to but they are failing to make a 10 km track. if it is cheaper than rail, they have already a business.
but it isn't and their test tube and the test chariots were laughable.
that bloody paper IS what I referred to, it kind of makes sense(reason for them publishing it) but their actions and the fact that nobody has ever managed to do something like that(themselves included!) is what is against it. the bloody paper doesn't add up. their plans don't add up. strength of steel, the energy required to pump to the "mild" vacuum and all that(elonists like to stick to that it isn't actually an vacuum so it's simple to make.. then the proposed vacuum to have the benefits is anything but what people would consider low).
it would forever and ever be cheaper to put in normal train tunnel and that is too expensive for the proposed route to make profit and this is very, very very unlikely to be cheaper. which is why they are fishing for money from europe and which is why he isn't doing his original plan for it.
just build the damn test track and not toy tracks. and then start mixing the idea up with underwater tunnels that make it even harder to make and add even more pressure to hold.
look, its something that doesnt even need a paper. you can explain the concept in 1 sentence so that a programmer knows that it can be done(But is stupid).
...except for the visas UK citizens will need to get into the EU after day one of leaving, because they can't negotiate with any of the member countries for visa-free travel until after they have left.
they are supposed to negotiate those treaties before they leave.
however, any country might block those treaties - and thanks to schengen while uk can negotiate treaties to let people into uk, they cannot negotiate with individual countries to let brits into schengen, so guess what the result of those negotiations is going to be? exact same as it is now.
Slashdot Mirror
no its not.
the precision(data size) of the coordinates into the mandelbrot set quickly become larger than the data you are pointing into.
Anyone have a link explaining why most parliamentary system governments don't have a fixed election cycle?
oh but most have, usually like 4 years.
britain isnt strictly democratic parliamentary system though, with fixed seats and shit.
yes I know what demo guys have done, and it's done by hand, tweaked to produce something that looks nice, and by that I mean the procedural algorithms are written by hand to make something that looks nice - not something arbitrary they have in their mind.
it can look magical but really it is not. none of the demoscene demos break logical rules.
and yes, something like elite frontier fitted on a floppy and had a billion stars to explore with planets. but that is not an argument for this video encoding scheme at all - it's not like that on some planet in there you might find a tv playing jaws - it cannot have that and you can know it cannot have that.
however sloot claimed his video encoding to be so good that you could have on a floppy all the movies in the world- because recursion, if his scheme worked you could encode the next movie in the images in the credits scene of the previous movie - THIS SHOULD clue people in that it was just all bullshit, but for some reason doesn't? how hard is it for people to grasp this recursion problem of arbitrary information? it has nothing to do with if the compression scheme is procedural or not, it's just about if you can point to so much arbitrary data with so little data.
he was claiming benefits wayyy beyond of an automated mod/tracker creator.
look even if it was seeded with aqua teen hunger force episodes it still wouldn't be able to do the compression he claimed.
like come on dude, he was basically claiming that he could do better video encoding than what the best image encoding could do. if he had something that worked he would just have patented it and made a bank.
and if you're thinking of fractals - that too works only if you don't grasp bits and data, the pointers to the data in the fractal would have to have such a precision that it wouldn't be able to perform so well as he said. simply put, if you had kilobytes to represent a movie then that batch of kilobytes would have to represent multiple movies and that simply cannot work.
uh... simple video codec understanding shows why such claims about simple mathematics relative to assumptions about every second of video being stored in its entirety, are ignorant.
the decoder for his scheme was MASSIVE. you aren't storing everything for every second, just multiple hash indexes for possible changes to multiple sprites or masks or shaders or whatever new techniques he may have used.
you're stupid or what? his scheme would have allowed encoding 30 OTHER MOVIES into that 8 kbytes. each one of which could have 30 other movies, each one of which could have 30 other movies...
look, it doesn't matter if the decoder is 360 megs or 2 gigabytes or 100 terabytes. it just doesn't work and never could work..
he just chose 360 megs as it was way more than what desktops had ram normally at the time and it was big enough to hide a sample decoded video inside it.
I guess the easiest way to explain it is that at some point, very quickly, your lookup index becomes as big as the thing it is indexing into, making the whole thing pointless on it's own.
maybe your blocks are 16 bits. so you have all the different 16 bit blocks in a lookup table.. ...but you will have to index into it with 16 bits. if you have only half of the possible space represented then you can index to them with 15 bits. or maybe you have only 256 different kind of blocks and you can use 8 bits to index. this would do a very good compression but the data that can be compressed this way would be limited.
making some hard limits on feasible lossless compression. it puts some limits on "it kind of resembles the original" lossy compression as well. there's a reason why you can't just zip a file over and over and over again you see.
like, if you can live with the results you would get from that by carefully choosing your algos, like kkrieger guys, then it doesn't matter that much, but if you would ask them to add an arbitrary model into the game thats totally different then.
..you're basically describing some of the schemes already used in video compression.
it's still like.. slooth was claiming 100x over that.
no no no..
demoscene demos work because they work within the limits of the machines - the machine is part of the creation. it's limits dictate the creation. it's not for reproducing arbitrary input and that would lead to a logic loop.
you can agree that a video can have 140 characters? or 100x140 characters? basically the slooth claimed algorithm was so good that you could make a little logic play and include an infinite amount of hollywood movies(not just noise) in a chain of compressed links(any full lenght movie would have enough of sidechannel extra data visually in the video stream to include 2+ other compressed movies).
the claims were just too good. and it is strange anyone would have thought of giving him the money without running the idea through some mathematician or two which would have claimed bullshit on it.
like your scheme would work only if the movies were made for dwitter or some old pc or whatever. you can have pretty nice 64kbyte demos with music but that doesn't mean that you can reproduce any music video in 64kbytes, which was basically what slooth was claiming.
You're forgetting that it's 8kB ... plus the 370MB of data preloaded in the de/compression engine.
look. it doesn't MATTER if it's 370mb of data or if it is 1000 terabytes of data. given a random movie file it would have to be able to tell apart the same movie but lets say a 10 seconds of it is just blacked out in the other version or replaced with a random text(this is to take out possibility of having the whole movie already in the 1000 terabytes of data). you cannot index chunks with such a little data to go match there. IT CANNOT BE DONE. if it could be DONE THEN THIS WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE HARDDRIVES AND ALL DATA TRANSFER - not just videos.
besides 8000 bytes / 120 min is about 66 bytes per minute. thats like a byte per second.
so basically, at least the claims are an order of magnitude more ludicrous than is possible at all.
also a few years ago I ran into some startup guys who were claiming that (among other things) they had a new compression algorithm that could do 1gig to 100kb or some such... I tried to explain them the theoretical maximum they could attain is way worse what they were claiming (due to simple logic)... they never did anything with it or showed it of course - even if it would have been 1000000x more valuable than what their current company was doing. kind of lost faith in that then.
furthermore you could embed 50 megs of data easily visually on a normal vcd movie of 650 megs. what this is suggesting is that you could embed any random data of 100 megs into 8 kilobytes. it doesnt add up. it cannot add up.
yeah apple just didn't bother yet with soldering the components yet since they don't have market data about demand so it's easier for now.. and you have to break the glue anyways, making it a no no for most users.
they might start doing that for cost cutting without telling anyone though once the new line is up to speed in production.
W10 S.
not windows 10.. the whole point is that it can only run sw from the appstore.
unless you jailbreak it or whatever. or just write malware for the browser.
I'm not so sure, I might have just quit university much earlier if I had read that book before that.
Because sw production in university level was and still seemingly is pretty much just made up shit that goes in cycles - which is anything but something like physics.
I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it had been geared more in the same way and had more problem solving instead of learning sw development methods that were in flux - which actually were management methods more than anything else.
As an analogy, at that time software development in university level was more like if it was about how to try to cheat the world about the mythical man month than anything else. They would cycle the methods which would magically do that every few years and they still do. Very little of it was about actual programming, programs, why someone had programmed something in a way that it was programmed into and generally just couple of professors stroking their dicks and selling books they wrote.
Sure, the thesis might need sources - but the book you were taught from, fuck that, just a 50 euro per course per student revenue generating machine of pretty much completely made up stuff (sw is completely made up so I guess it fits so eh..) - beauty of that is that you have to buy the book to pass the exam because the book is the only place where you can find the right information to pass the exam because it exists only in the book.
oh and on the list of books I would have rather read earlier.. even for programming, surely you're joking would be the one.
direct screenshot and webcam access this is .. well, kinda fine if asked from user on case by case basis.
webworkers and web push however.. that's just stupid. it's like the stupidest feature ever to be put into the browser. just make the fucking webgl or some other webgl like thing work well first, come on.
for those who don't understand what I'm talking about, I'm talking about features that let the web page run javascript on your machine even when you're not connected to said web page - and push notifications.
like come on, we wanted webworkers or SOME multithreading capability yes - but not this! for the record webworkers are still kind of bullshit for multithreading requiring you to pass objects/data to them and back making them kinda shitty for speeding up stuff actually. better than nothing but still crap.
it's not just USA... do you have any, ANY idea how much some buddhist monks are making bank selling spells, lottery tips and such? I mean _literally_ selling lottery numbers looked from pieces of wood or whatever. blessing motorcycles, houses, whatever.
everywhere where you find people really, really believing that they can buy lucky/happy you will find some people taking their money - in some countries it is more than others. in finland not so much though there are some christian sects and movements which .. well, often fail after some scandal or another and money is most of the time involved.
compare Finland to Thailand though and Thailand is on whole another level - you see, some countries still believe there are these people who know more about "unknown" than they do.. they believe in magic in some way or another and paying for holy spirit is just the same.
and rich is relative. in context of south east asia having 3 cars, two of which are relatively new(yes,2006 is relatively new) is rich. in context of southeast asia 7k is stinkin rich middle class living (doesn't touch the small upper class rich people grades of course).
7k dollars would get over 10 unversity graduates in Thailand, or 20 7-11 clerks, as to give some context.
look man it's not just that.
it gives them possibilities and power to play on the stock market for example, gaining huge financial benefits. it gives them the possibilities to spy on those who are supposed to keep them in limit, giving them the ability to dodge charges. it gives them the ability to blackmail those in power.
look, you only need to look at Russia if you want to see the typical bad kind of end result from giving some guys the rights to spy on everyone - those guys end up with all the possible power in the country.
also to note is that a bunch of guys given such power can be doing it forever while thinking that they are the "good" guys. I got no doubt that Putin thinks he is doing what is good for the country(but also that Putin can no longer step down too, because of the methods used to get power).
look, if you want emissions down in USA it is rather simple, start co2 taxing like many places in the world.
do you know why Musk put his pants in a knot because trump announced getting out of the paris deal? because he needs that. tesla badly needs same kind of taxing as Finland etc have to go in effect in USA.
a small example is that for the same price of the cheapest tesla you can get a maserati in the usa. in Finland the maserati is 50 000 euros more expensive than the cheapest tesla. mind you that the cheapest tesla is still a _very fucking expensive car_ by any normal finnish persons scale.
the joke about american autos is that they agreed for lowering emissions on cars.. by making complex agreements on how much of the sold fleet should use how and how much and.. ..proceeded straight to selling trucks instead that are not counted.
also elsewhere.. attaching a hybrid system to a car is practically free because it lowers the emission tax, due to how even a small phev range can mess up the emissions calculations.
yeah this one, pretty much.
gives some perspective.
aaand.. well. gives some perspective to how inventions are made and come about..
Had it not been for us "pussies" taking a stand, chickens and sheep like you would still be suffering from Flash.
this is stupid. the webrtc features are stupidly made. it's even worse than flash. good luck disabling it.
also, an important thing to note is that .. yeah.. you were forced to install plugins for some stuff before.. but wait why the fuck was there then installing a plugin for google hangouts on chrome and shit?
4) trump campaign staff was lobbying russians because they're lobbyists and don't know what should have been done or what even matters or if even talking with the russians made any sense at all - and his aides don't understand that russia doesn't matter all that much - and his aides were also trying to push some personal businesses with their newfound high level connections.
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like, I don't think they understood what would constitute as a treason when trying to make pre-deals with a foreign government. I don't think they expected putin to help with them fake news etc - besides the fucking trump campaign believed the fake news themselves. it's just amateurs making amateur mistakes at not understanding the game or the rules of the game.
it's infeasible because they're trying to collect everything from everyone.
but sometimes they get twice from the same guy, so they can't say how many americans they are targeting - because they tried to do the number at it came up as 100 million more than there are americans. it is infeasible to come up with an exact number which is why he was asked for an estimate but he refuses to even take a guess(estimate).
like, come on, everyone knows it's bullshit. he refuses to give even a ballpark estimate because that estimate would be "everyone".
like .. surely he could be asked... "do you think it is under 1 million?" "do you think it is more than 50 million?". followed by.. "just who the fuck do you survey, everyone??".
What about the power sockets? Lots of planes have actual plugs by your seat. Are those weaker than a battery?
shh you don't want to tell tsa about those. it literally is very fucking stupid.
anyways, it's not the battery or 9v thats the real thing. the real thing is that you cannot tell apart a bomb and the battery of the laptop in xray. stowing them doesn't help.
it helps the airlines though. pay per view on infotainment is already a thing.
hehe.. big?
it's not only big companies that do this now.
some companies require a number to get an authentication code to start using something, like a trial of sw or whatever. ..then you get a sales call. then you get another sales call. thanks to skypeout you'll get them no matter what country.
also, maybe news for you, but I have had more cases to help where they have LOST access to a sim/phonenumber and cannot retrieve account because of that.
(following applies to if phone number is used as a trusted, required, thing in the chain)
instead of having one thing to lose you now have two things and another one of those is a physical tangible item you need to carry around with you everywhere. plenty of times(3rd world) you cannot get another sim with your old number. so if you lose that it's bye bye account...
of course musk keeps saying that somehow hyperloop would be cheaper
yes, that paper and other stuff from hyperloop is what i was referring to but they are failing to make a 10 km track. if it is cheaper than rail, they have already a business.
but it isn't and their test tube and the test chariots were laughable.
that bloody paper IS what I referred to, it kind of makes sense(reason for them publishing it) but their actions and the fact that nobody has ever managed to do something like that(themselves included!) is what is against it. the bloody paper doesn't add up. their plans don't add up. strength of steel, the energy required to pump to the "mild" vacuum and all that(elonists like to stick to that it isn't actually an vacuum so it's simple to make.. then the proposed vacuum to have the benefits is anything but what people would consider low).
it would forever and ever be cheaper to put in normal train tunnel and that is too expensive for the proposed route to make profit and this is very, very very unlikely to be cheaper. which is why they are fishing for money from europe and which is why he isn't doing his original plan for it.
just build the damn test track and not toy tracks. and then start mixing the idea up with underwater tunnels that make it even harder to make and add even more pressure to hold.
look, its something that doesnt even need a paper. you can explain the concept in 1 sentence so that a programmer knows that it can be done(But is stupid).
they reversed already
besides, it could just revert back to asking the code onscreen. or letting you reset the device.
...except for the visas UK citizens will need to get into the EU after day one of leaving, because they can't negotiate with any of the member countries for visa-free travel until after they have left.
they are supposed to negotiate those treaties before they leave.
however, any country might block those treaties - and thanks to schengen while uk can negotiate treaties to let people into uk, they cannot negotiate with individual countries to let brits into schengen, so guess what the result of those negotiations is going to be? exact same as it is now.