Pictures of the headset have been leaked months ago, so we already knew it was coming, this announcement just makes it official. And May 2019 is written straight on the website itself.
its an open-ecosystem with Smartcontracts. This can be anything you want it, codeified.
What can you actually do with Smartcontracts in reality? The only plausible use case I have ever heard of was currency exchange, as that is both simple enough to put into a smart contract as well as useful to have in a fully automated form. But everything else seems pretty illusionary, as real world contracts concerning real world stuff are rarely simply enough to codify or robust enough that you would use them fully automated without a human in the loop.
This doesn't really add up. There are around 4500-7500 moderators on Facebook and while there is a lot of terrible stuff on the Internet, most of it could be automatically filtered away by content-id after first identifying it. Furthermore most users wouldn't even be stupid enough to post that stuff on Facebook in the first place, since that gets your account blocked and there are more appropriate places for it on the Internet. I doubt that leaves enough content to damage thousands of moderators.
They aren't bought to be listened to, they are novelty items that just happen to be a dead music format. Buying the Guardians of the Galaxy or Strangers Things soundtrack on cassette is not much different than a Star Wars action figure. Many of them will end up on a shelf as decoration and never get listened too.
Calling it a "home computer" always bothered me a little, as while the Raspberry Pi has it's uses, it really doesn't look or feel anything like the home computer of yesterday. You don't really have much low level hardware access on the thing outside of the GPIOs (which were not even a goal of the initial design), it doesn't instantly boot, it doesn't give you an instant programming environment like BASIC did and it runs painfully slow compared to a regular old PC. So it's really just a regular old Linux running on slow hardware and not a very stable one at that (e.g. hot plugging USB devices crashes the device).
For learning hardware I find Arduino's far more useful and for learning software I much rather have a real PC than using a slow and bugged RaspberryPi. Of course when you already know hardware and software well, you can take a RaspberryPi and build a TV box or a emulator out of it, but as a learning device the RaspberryPi always felt very ill suited to me.
I don't really see how that "fill up the box" with Pantry is a dark pattern, that's just a result of how they handle shipping and you can save $5.99 by filling the box instead of ordering twice. It's not really much different than the "Spend X more to get free shipping" when you don't have Prime. I'd much rather have that shipping price information made explicitly visible than having it only shown at checkout like in some other shops. And yes, it does gamify things, but as long as shipping is paid by the box, that's hard to avoid.
The different units are annoying when comparing items, but that might not be a dark pattern, but a result of how they collect that data. I have never seen an online shop that made compare different items easy, it's always a lot of clicking and back and forth.
When it comes to dark pattern at Amazon I am more annoyed by how they don't allow you to filter Pantry items out of your search, when you don't even have Prime and can't make use of it. It just deliberately clutters up search with garbage. The way they handle discounts is also rather scummy, as the discount price is often the normal one and stays forever, the higher price is just there to make it look cheaper. Having "Promoted" items show up in search is also no fun.
This will continue to get worse until we get transferable licenses. The music industry has it figured out more or less and many music services allow you to import your existing library. For games this only exists in very limited cases (e.g. GOG allows import of a limited number of games from Steam).
Even with LineageOS you'd still be running an outdated kernel and having to use binary blobs, and it all has to be hacked together for the specific phone. This is quite different from a PC where you can just take a Debian release, run a mainline kernel and it will work on pretty much all the PCs.
I feel the situation is overall MUCH better than it used to be in the past.
In the past we had PCs on which you could install an OS of your choice, the hardware was well supported, mostly open and standardized. Now we have phones and tablets which have essentially zero freedom, either they are fully locked down or your are stuck with a single unmaintained outdated Kernel. This is honestly even worse than Windows, as at least with Windows you had the option to upgrade if Microsoft released a new version. With phones however there is no official AndroidOS release from Google that you can install on your phone, you have to use whatever hackjob the hardware manufacturer provided you with, which won't get any updates a few month after the release.
And of course it doesn't stop with hardware, all the software these days forces you into the cloud. Again, worse than the proprietary software in the past, that at least run and your machine and could be cracked, hacked and reverse engineered. Can't really do that with the cloud.
Computing today has pretty much turned into a nightmare, one that you can't really escape from, as most of the proprietary services and hardware do not even have a practical open alternative.
That the companies release some code as Open Source doesn't really help much, as it's never the code that actually matters.
Indicating that Germans take the time to learn how to configure their router correctly.
That's however not because Germans are so tech savvy, but because they are liable for what goes over their open WiFi. So everybody closes things down to avoid lawsuits and fines.
I believe it when I see it. Sure, companies do collect a whole truckload of data all the time and AI has made some huge progress in the last 10 years, but in terms of end user features I have seen pretty much zero of that ever being used to create something useful.
If they wanted to they could run face detection and AI on every movie out there and tell you exactly how long each character is on screen, with which characters they share a scene, what they are doing in the scene and so on. But they don't. We are still stuck with recommendation algorithms that are complete junk and provide no explorability.
In their store they can't even manage to group related items together. Want to buy a book or movie from a series? Better know what you are looking for already, since they down show you which are part of the series or in what order they go. A trip to Wikipedia is often needed to figure things out.
For most of the items they sell they can't even bother to scan the backside.
There is a lot of cool stuff one could do with all that collected data, but I have yet to see somebody actually do something with it.
What has the Raspberry Pi actually contributed to learning about computers? As a development machine it's quite a bit underpowered and for learning low-level computer stuff it's also quite useless as you have a whole Linux between you and the hardware. It's useful as a small and cheap computer, but for learning I find it much less useful than a regular old PC.
How much adversarial attacks have those cars been exposed to? Just because a car can safely drive down a standard road while supervised, doesn't mean it can't fail in catastrophic ways when exposed to non-standard situations. You don't want to have some jocksters paint stripes down a cliff and the cars blindly driving to their doom Wile E. Coyote style.
I wouldn't trust those cars one bit until they have been shown to be able to handle freak situations in a reasonable way.
The problem with a password isn't just that you have to remember it, but that you give your secret away every time you try to log in to a service. So if there is a man-in-the-middle or you just accidentally entered the password into the wrong server, your password is now compromised. There are plenty of better ways to do authentication that don't require exposing your secret.
The issue with the VR products out today is that they missed putting out a good product when people were still hyped about it, they came to late and took to long to get good. Oculus Rift was launched at $600 without controller and focused an seated experiences, not a great deal. Now at $400 ($350 on sale) with controllers and some games included and roomscale it's actually a decent product, but everybody lost interest in VR quite a while before that happened. Similar issue with Oculus Go at $200, it would have been a great product if it had come out in 2015, but it only came to the market in 2018, at a point when nobody cared about 3DOF anymore. Meanwhile HTC has completely lost interest in consumers and build an even more expensive VR headset for business users.
Oculus had a good start, they went from Kickstarter in 2012 to delivering their dev kits extremely fast and build a ton of hype, but turning those devkits into consumer products has been a disaster.
Cheap chinese LEDs tend to fail quite frequently, often not making it past a single year. The power supplies that are build into the LED bulbs also like to blow up a lot. That said, cheap chinese Halogen bulbs aren't exactly long lasting either. There is plenty of cheap garbage out there that will go nowhere near the theoretical lifetime.
It's not very impressive because Microsoft has done all the same with Hololens already two years ago and Microsoft had far more polished content to show. For the billions that MagicLeap had in funding, everything they had to show for so far as been really underwhelming. It's not like people expected the elephant/whale stuff to be real, but what MagicLeap has shown doesn't even remotely get anywhere near that, it doesn't even try.
The problem with reddit is that they use shadow blocking and banning all the time. Post something that triggers their overzealous filter and your post gets disappeared. No explanation, no notification. Doesn't even matter if your account is years old with thousands of karma. You basically have to use Incognito Mode or Tor and check everything you submit to ensure that it goes through. I am not even sure if it's helping against spam and trolls, as those can just check if their stuff goes through, it's the average user that gets hurt by this as they generally don't expect to run into issues all the time.
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Play with the page zoom, if you are too much zoomed in the date will get clipped away.
Pictures of the headset have been leaked months ago, so we already knew it was coming, this announcement just makes it official. And May 2019 is written straight on the website itself.
This looks to be based on on the iBot wheelchair, which is capable of climbing stairs.
its an open-ecosystem with Smartcontracts. This can be anything you want it, codeified.
What can you actually do with Smartcontracts in reality? The only plausible use case I have ever heard of was currency exchange, as that is both simple enough to put into a smart contract as well as useful to have in a fully automated form. But everything else seems pretty illusionary, as real world contracts concerning real world stuff are rarely simply enough to codify or robust enough that you would use them fully automated without a human in the loop.
This doesn't really add up. There are around 4500-7500 moderators on Facebook and while there is a lot of terrible stuff on the Internet, most of it could be automatically filtered away by content-id after first identifying it. Furthermore most users wouldn't even be stupid enough to post that stuff on Facebook in the first place, since that gets your account blocked and there are more appropriate places for it on the Internet. I doubt that leaves enough content to damage thousands of moderators.
They aren't bought to be listened to, they are novelty items that just happen to be a dead music format. Buying the Guardians of the Galaxy or Strangers Things soundtrack on cassette is not much different than a Star Wars action figure. Many of them will end up on a shelf as decoration and never get listened too.
Calling it a "home computer" always bothered me a little, as while the Raspberry Pi has it's uses, it really doesn't look or feel anything like the home computer of yesterday. You don't really have much low level hardware access on the thing outside of the GPIOs (which were not even a goal of the initial design), it doesn't instantly boot, it doesn't give you an instant programming environment like BASIC did and it runs painfully slow compared to a regular old PC. So it's really just a regular old Linux running on slow hardware and not a very stable one at that (e.g. hot plugging USB devices crashes the device).
For learning hardware I find Arduino's far more useful and for learning software I much rather have a real PC than using a slow and bugged RaspberryPi. Of course when you already know hardware and software well, you can take a RaspberryPi and build a TV box or a emulator out of it, but as a learning device the RaspberryPi always felt very ill suited to me.
I don't really see how that "fill up the box" with Pantry is a dark pattern, that's just a result of how they handle shipping and you can save $5.99 by filling the box instead of ordering twice. It's not really much different than the "Spend X more to get free shipping" when you don't have Prime. I'd much rather have that shipping price information made explicitly visible than having it only shown at checkout like in some other shops. And yes, it does gamify things, but as long as shipping is paid by the box, that's hard to avoid.
The different units are annoying when comparing items, but that might not be a dark pattern, but a result of how they collect that data. I have never seen an online shop that made compare different items easy, it's always a lot of clicking and back and forth.
When it comes to dark pattern at Amazon I am more annoyed by how they don't allow you to filter Pantry items out of your search, when you don't even have Prime and can't make use of it. It just deliberately clutters up search with garbage. The way they handle discounts is also rather scummy, as the discount price is often the normal one and stays forever, the higher price is just there to make it look cheaper. Having "Promoted" items show up in search is also no fun.
You can buy a nice tablet for $50, but you can't buy one that runs GNU/Linux properly.
This will continue to get worse until we get transferable licenses. The music industry has it figured out more or less and many music services allow you to import your existing library. For games this only exists in very limited cases (e.g. GOG allows import of a limited number of games from Steam).
Even with LineageOS you'd still be running an outdated kernel and having to use binary blobs, and it all has to be hacked together for the specific phone. This is quite different from a PC where you can just take a Debian release, run a mainline kernel and it will work on pretty much all the PCs.
I feel the situation is overall MUCH better than it used to be in the past.
In the past we had PCs on which you could install an OS of your choice, the hardware was well supported, mostly open and standardized. Now we have phones and tablets which have essentially zero freedom, either they are fully locked down or your are stuck with a single unmaintained outdated Kernel. This is honestly even worse than Windows, as at least with Windows you had the option to upgrade if Microsoft released a new version. With phones however there is no official AndroidOS release from Google that you can install on your phone, you have to use whatever hackjob the hardware manufacturer provided you with, which won't get any updates a few month after the release.
And of course it doesn't stop with hardware, all the software these days forces you into the cloud. Again, worse than the proprietary software in the past, that at least run and your machine and could be cracked, hacked and reverse engineered. Can't really do that with the cloud.
Computing today has pretty much turned into a nightmare, one that you can't really escape from, as most of the proprietary services and hardware do not even have a practical open alternative.
That the companies release some code as Open Source doesn't really help much, as it's never the code that actually matters.
Indicating that Germans take the time to learn how to configure their router correctly.
That's however not because Germans are so tech savvy, but because they are liable for what goes over their open WiFi. So everybody closes things down to avoid lawsuits and fines.
I believe it when I see it. Sure, companies do collect a whole truckload of data all the time and AI has made some huge progress in the last 10 years, but in terms of end user features I have seen pretty much zero of that ever being used to create something useful.
If they wanted to they could run face detection and AI on every movie out there and tell you exactly how long each character is on screen, with which characters they share a scene, what they are doing in the scene and so on. But they don't. We are still stuck with recommendation algorithms that are complete junk and provide no explorability.
In their store they can't even manage to group related items together. Want to buy a book or movie from a series? Better know what you are looking for already, since they down show you which are part of the series or in what order they go. A trip to Wikipedia is often needed to figure things out.
For most of the items they sell they can't even bother to scan the backside.
There is a lot of cool stuff one could do with all that collected data, but I have yet to see somebody actually do something with it.
What has the Raspberry Pi actually contributed to learning about computers? As a development machine it's quite a bit underpowered and for learning low-level computer stuff it's also quite useless as you have a whole Linux between you and the hardware. It's useful as a small and cheap computer, but for learning I find it much less useful than a regular old PC.
Soyuz launch aborts.
His previous work of inserting Elon Musk as Bond is even better.
It's easy to log millions of miles of road when you are the one choosing which roads to drive and when to drive.
Proper independent testing needs to test out when those cars will fail, not just that they will work well under expected conditions.
How much adversarial attacks have those cars been exposed to? Just because a car can safely drive down a standard road while supervised, doesn't mean it can't fail in catastrophic ways when exposed to non-standard situations. You don't want to have some jocksters paint stripes down a cliff and the cars blindly driving to their doom Wile E. Coyote style.
I wouldn't trust those cars one bit until they have been shown to be able to handle freak situations in a reasonable way.
The problem with a password isn't just that you have to remember it, but that you give your secret away every time you try to log in to a service. So if there is a man-in-the-middle or you just accidentally entered the password into the wrong server, your password is now compromised. There are plenty of better ways to do authentication that don't require exposing your secret.
The issue with the VR products out today is that they missed putting out a good product when people were still hyped about it, they came to late and took to long to get good. Oculus Rift was launched at $600 without controller and focused an seated experiences, not a great deal. Now at $400 ($350 on sale) with controllers and some games included and roomscale it's actually a decent product, but everybody lost interest in VR quite a while before that happened. Similar issue with Oculus Go at $200, it would have been a great product if it had come out in 2015, but it only came to the market in 2018, at a point when nobody cared about 3DOF anymore. Meanwhile HTC has completely lost interest in consumers and build an even more expensive VR headset for business users.
Oculus had a good start, they went from Kickstarter in 2012 to delivering their dev kits extremely fast and build a ton of hype, but turning those devkits into consumer products has been a disaster.
Cheap chinese LEDs tend to fail quite frequently, often not making it past a single year. The power supplies that are build into the LED bulbs also like to blow up a lot. That said, cheap chinese Halogen bulbs aren't exactly long lasting either. There is plenty of cheap garbage out there that will go nowhere near the theoretical lifetime.
The family of the dead girl?
Yes, similar case from a few years ago.
It's not very impressive because Microsoft has done all the same with Hololens already two years ago and Microsoft had far more polished content to show. For the billions that MagicLeap had in funding, everything they had to show for so far as been really underwhelming. It's not like people expected the elephant/whale stuff to be real, but what MagicLeap has shown doesn't even remotely get anywhere near that, it doesn't even try.
The problem with reddit is that they use shadow blocking and banning all the time. Post something that triggers their overzealous filter and your post gets disappeared. No explanation, no notification. Doesn't even matter if your account is years old with thousands of karma. You basically have to use Incognito Mode or Tor and check everything you submit to ensure that it goes through. I am not even sure if it's helping against spam and trolls, as those can just check if their stuff goes through, it's the average user that gets hurt by this as they generally don't expect to run into issues all the time.