If Samsung could make only part of the display transparent that would be perfectly sufficient even if it's not as good as the normal display. Basically you'd have a small circle the size of the camera lens that is slightly less contract than the rest of the screen - it might be noticeable under some conditions, but not nearly as bad as a hole cut into the screen.
They already have at least a couple of no-checkout Go stores so I would expect that this is what they would expand, rather than come up with yet another concept, but the article doesn't really clarify.
The creepiness factor of being watched aside, the store I tried in Seattle was one of those "just works" experience that felt like magic. On the downside, it was pretty small with a limited selection of groceries, so I wonder how well it would scale to a much larger store if that's what they're going for.
It's not that hard. I used Fine Reader to OCR stuff more than a decade ago and it worked well enough on printed text to be very useful. Complex layout with tables, multiple columns of text and so on could be a challenge, but knowing it's supposed to be an Excel table, combined with a decade of neural net development, it should've been relatively trivial.
Yeah I think the numbers here are bullshit. Here's a Wired article that mentions that Lime scooters last about 6 months: https://www.wired.com/story/li...
That's still pretty shot of course, but we need to keep in mind that the utilization rate would be much higher than for a privately owned scooter. Like if somebody drove your car 24/7 it'd crap out in a year too.
Having the large screen on the outside is better in that it keeps the bend radius much larger and avoids the need for another small display on the outside, but on the other hand it leaves it unprotected which isn't great since it's not going to be covered with gorilla glass.
Apple will sit out for a generation or two, Tim Cook will say something about how only losers need to fold their tablets, before eventually making their own groundbreaking version.
Whether or not they normally use an actual physical brake instead of brake by wire (which they probably are, never used one), the bug could be just unintentionally turning on motor braking, causing pretty much the same problem.
I don't see what you're complaining about, other than just using this as an opportunity to whine about the damn kids these days. The author identified what was causing them issues and took steps to address it. Oh, look:
[S]ometime last year, I crossed the invisible line into problem territory
Admitted he has a problem.
I've used my phone every time I've had a spare moment in an elevator or a boring meeting. I listen to podcasts and write emails on the subway. I watch YouTube videos while folding laundry. I even use an app to pretend to meditate.
Identified the issue causing it
Catherine encouraged me to set up mental speed bumps so that I would be forced to think for a second before engaging with my phone. I put a rubber band around the device, for example, and changed my lock screen to one that showed three questions to ask myself every time I unlocked my phone: âoeWhat for? Why now? What else?â
And took steps to address it.
It's not a huge conspiracy, but Facebook, twitter and others absolutely try to get you to spend as much time as possible on their platforms, because you're profit to them.
Nobody asked for the breathless yet boring fangirl faggot perspective, sorry. You have no idea what interesting means. Your life is both pointless and worthless.
Unlike you, anonymous troll, whose life is so exiting that you prefer to spend it insulting strangers on the internet.
You're all missing the fact that the unfolded display is entirely different aspect ratio (4.2:3), so at 7.2" is a waaay bigger display than on the regular phones.
It's a bit rough (I'd definitely want a bigger outside display, slightly thinner body and no notch on the inside, cameras be damned) but for a first gen of such a device I think they did a pretty good job, hopefully it sells enough that they continue developing the concept.
Do you also uninstall siri and google now/assistant/whatever? It's unfortunate that the Bixby button can't be (easily) remapped but otherwise Bixby doesn't get in the way at all unless you want to use it.
Really, less wasted screen space isn't a pro, even a minor one that you don't prioritize? And I already mentioned they're less discoverable as the downside. But it takes 10 seconds to explain and then it's trivial to remember forever, so it's a minor one.
How do gestures require more effort? In fact I'd say they require less effort, you just make a small swiping motion right where you're holding the device instead of having to move the hand/finger to the bottom where the buttons are (sometimes, unless you're in a fullscreen app and then they're hidden).
And gestures absolutely do work with fullscreen apps exactly as I say they do. I know this because I just tried it. In Android, in some NFS game: swiping from top opens the drawer, swiping from the right shows the navigation menu. It never ever gets in the way because you don't swipe like that during normal use. On Win10, in KSP: does exactly what I said before, although also minimizes the window but that has more to do with the window mode than anything else.
I read the article a few days ago on Ars and couldn't really agree with the author either. Google may or may not fail, but I just don't see many parallels with Xerox.
There is also a lot of talk about building a minimum viable product, with the implication that what Waymo is doing isn't it. But I think it's absolutely one (of many possible MVPs): operating in a limited geofenced area with pre-scanned environments that are very simple in the first place, and don't suffer from various weather events the way other places do. Compare this to driving in downtown Paris or Rome at night in winter.
This is the better starting point than making a delivery cart that crawls on the pavement IMO. Yeah they're behind schedule because it's a really difficult problem that 10 years ago everyone thought was struggling to make work at all. Remember the DARPA challenge where the vehicles couldn't drive in the middle of the desert?
I don't think that's correct. You can prefer the virtual buttons of course but there are some pros and cons for the gestures too. I actually use a Windows 10 tablet so I might be the only one in this discussion who has actual experience with gestures.
A swipe from the left opens the task switcher thing, and a swipe from the right opens the notification/option panel (much like the androd drawer). Swiping from the top lets you tile multiple windows automatically. Bottom is for showing the navigation bar (the one with win/back buttons) if it's hidden.
I don't use the device that often but I still miss it on my Note9 sometimes (though it seems like the latest update introduced the back/forward swipe from left/right) gestures.
Pros for gestures: * Don't take up screen space * Can work in fullscreen apps * Work along the entire screen/edge (this can be very significant depending on the size of the device and how you hold it)
Cons *Less discoverable (but takes like a minute to learn) *???
Maybe there's some other downside I'm missing but I honestly don't see it based on my experience with Win10, so at the very least I'd be happy to try a gesture-based Android.
... Anything which doesn't increase productivity is just a shell game of moving stuff around. Joe consumes less, and the reduction in his consumption is transferred to Frank so he can consume more. It's zero-sum, maybe even negative sum if you factor in the cost of moving stuff around.
That's all a UBI does - move stuff around. Worse yet, it moves consumption away from productive people, and towards unproductive people (jobless). If that results in a net reduction in productivity, then the UBI will result in lowering the average standard of living. Doesn't matter how the money works out - the value of money can change due to inflation or deflation so everyone's income might actually go up. But because productivity is conserved, the money amounts don't matter. If something causes a net reduction in productivity, it results in a decrease in the average standard of living.
That's a lot of effort to be completely wrong. You're assuming Joe and Frank consume the same amount, but that's almost certainly not true if money is moved from one to the other as a result. People with lower income spend a higher proportion (often all) of it, while those with higher incomes save and invest more, which is fine but not as good for the economy. E.g. if you gave me $100/month, I wouldn't change my habits at all, it'd probably end up in the savings account and then in some ETF, but give $100 to the janitor and he'd immediately buy more food or cloths.
Also great job dismissing reduced crime rates as if that's not important and isn't something people are freaking out over and try to fight with expensive and dangerous militarized police.
Yeah this is hardly unique, public transport is free or significantly discounted for children in many places. Not sure why this made it here. In Prague I think under 6 is free and until 16 it's half price. Anyway I used to ride for free as a teenager because what are they gonna do.
We also need to keep in mind that the current payment model isn't some sort of universal law of nature, and the streaming services can switch top paying per hour listed if people start making tons of 20 second songs.
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If Samsung could make only part of the display transparent that would be perfectly sufficient even if it's not as good as the normal display. Basically you'd have a small circle the size of the camera lens that is slightly less contract than the rest of the screen - it might be noticeable under some conditions, but not nearly as bad as a hole cut into the screen.
The real question is, when will I get support for trig functions?
Because Google. They'll keep around multiple solutions for the same thing and then flip a coin to kill one of them off.
An indie game can give you a reasonable amount of actual fun, but often they're actually just garbage, exactly like the AAA games.
Sure, RD2 can be boring (no idea, as it's not on the PC) but then there are other games that aren't. Metro Exodus is pretty damn good for example!
They already have at least a couple of no-checkout Go stores so I would expect that this is what they would expand, rather than come up with yet another concept, but the article doesn't really clarify.
The creepiness factor of being watched aside, the store I tried in Seattle was one of those "just works" experience that felt like magic. On the downside, it was pretty small with a limited selection of groceries, so I wonder how well it would scale to a much larger store if that's what they're going for.
It's not that hard. I used Fine Reader to OCR stuff more than a decade ago and it worked well enough on printed text to be very useful. Complex layout with tables, multiple columns of text and so on could be a challenge, but knowing it's supposed to be an Excel table, combined with a decade of neural net development, it should've been relatively trivial.
Yeah I think the numbers here are bullshit. Here's a Wired article that mentions that Lime scooters last about 6 months: https://www.wired.com/story/li...
That's still pretty shot of course, but we need to keep in mind that the utilization rate would be much higher than for a privately owned scooter. Like if somebody drove your car 24/7 it'd crap out in a year too.
This comment is worse than most YouTube comments.
That's correct!
Having the large screen on the outside is better in that it keeps the bend radius much larger and avoids the need for another small display on the outside, but on the other hand it leaves it unprotected which isn't great since it's not going to be covered with gorilla glass.
Apple will sit out for a generation or two, Tim Cook will say something about how only losers need to fold their tablets, before eventually making their own groundbreaking version.
Whether or not they normally use an actual physical brake instead of brake by wire (which they probably are, never used one), the bug could be just unintentionally turning on motor braking, causing pretty much the same problem.
I don't see what you're complaining about, other than just using this as an opportunity to whine about the damn kids these days. The author identified what was causing them issues and took steps to address it. Oh, look:
[S]ometime last year, I crossed the invisible line into problem territory
Admitted he has a problem.
I've used my phone every time I've had a spare moment in an elevator or a boring meeting. I listen to podcasts and write emails on the subway. I watch YouTube videos while folding laundry. I even use an app to pretend to meditate.
Identified the issue causing it
Catherine encouraged me to set up mental speed bumps so that I would be forced to think for a second before engaging with my phone. I put a rubber band around the device, for example, and changed my lock screen to one that showed three questions to ask myself every time I unlocked my phone: âoeWhat for? Why now? What else?â
And took steps to address it.
It's not a huge conspiracy, but Facebook, twitter and others absolutely try to get you to spend as much time as possible on their platforms, because you're profit to them.
They got sued already, Epic isn't fucking around with their cash cow.
Nobody asked for the breathless yet boring fangirl faggot perspective, sorry. You have no idea what interesting means. Your life is both pointless and worthless.
Unlike you, anonymous troll, whose life is so exiting that you prefer to spend it insulting strangers on the internet.
You're all missing the fact that the unfolded display is entirely different aspect ratio (4.2:3), so at 7.2" is a waaay bigger display than on the regular phones.
It's a bit rough (I'd definitely want a bigger outside display, slightly thinner body and no notch on the inside, cameras be damned) but for a first gen of such a device I think they did a pretty good job, hopefully it sells enough that they continue developing the concept.
Do you also uninstall siri and google now/assistant/whatever? It's unfortunate that the Bixby button can't be (easily) remapped but otherwise Bixby doesn't get in the way at all unless you want to use it.
Really, less wasted screen space isn't a pro, even a minor one that you don't prioritize? And I already mentioned they're less discoverable as the downside. But it takes 10 seconds to explain and then it's trivial to remember forever, so it's a minor one.
How do gestures require more effort? In fact I'd say they require less effort, you just make a small swiping motion right where you're holding the device instead of having to move the hand/finger to the bottom where the buttons are (sometimes, unless you're in a fullscreen app and then they're hidden).
And gestures absolutely do work with fullscreen apps exactly as I say they do. I know this because I just tried it. In Android, in some NFS game: swiping from top opens the drawer, swiping from the right shows the navigation menu. It never ever gets in the way because you don't swipe like that during normal use. On Win10, in KSP: does exactly what I said before, although also minimizes the window but that has more to do with the window mode than anything else.
I read the article a few days ago on Ars and couldn't really agree with the author either. Google may or may not fail, but I just don't see many parallels with Xerox.
There is also a lot of talk about building a minimum viable product, with the implication that what Waymo is doing isn't it. But I think it's absolutely one (of many possible MVPs): operating in a limited geofenced area with pre-scanned environments that are very simple in the first place, and don't suffer from various weather events the way other places do. Compare this to driving in downtown Paris or Rome at night in winter.
This is the better starting point than making a delivery cart that crawls on the pavement IMO. Yeah they're behind schedule because it's a really difficult problem that 10 years ago everyone thought was struggling to make work at all. Remember the DARPA challenge where the vehicles couldn't drive in the middle of the desert?
I don't think that's correct. You can prefer the virtual buttons of course but there are some pros and cons for the gestures too. I actually use a Windows 10 tablet so I might be the only one in this discussion who has actual experience with gestures.
A swipe from the left opens the task switcher thing, and a swipe from the right opens the notification/option panel (much like the androd drawer). Swiping from the top lets you tile multiple windows automatically. Bottom is for showing the navigation bar (the one with win/back buttons) if it's hidden.
I don't use the device that often but I still miss it on my Note9 sometimes (though it seems like the latest update introduced the back/forward swipe from left/right) gestures.
Pros for gestures:
* Don't take up screen space
* Can work in fullscreen apps
* Work along the entire screen/edge (this can be very significant depending on the size of the device and how you hold it)
Cons
*Less discoverable (but takes like a minute to learn)
*???
Maybe there's some other downside I'm missing but I honestly don't see it based on my experience with Win10, so at the very least I'd be happy to try a gesture-based Android.
Just use C++
Anything which doesn't increase productivity is just a shell game of moving stuff around. Joe consumes less, and the reduction in his consumption is transferred to Frank so he can consume more. It's zero-sum, maybe even negative sum if you factor in the cost of moving stuff around.
That's all a UBI does - move stuff around. Worse yet, it moves consumption away from productive people, and towards unproductive people (jobless). If that results in a net reduction in productivity, then the UBI will result in lowering the average standard of living. Doesn't matter how the money works out - the value of money can change due to inflation or deflation so everyone's income might actually go up. But because productivity is conserved, the money amounts don't matter. If something causes a net reduction in productivity, it results in a decrease in the average standard of living.
That's a lot of effort to be completely wrong. You're assuming Joe and Frank consume the same amount, but that's almost certainly not true if money is moved from one to the other as a result. People with lower income spend a higher proportion (often all) of it, while those with higher incomes save and invest more, which is fine but not as good for the economy. E.g. if you gave me $100/month, I wouldn't change my habits at all, it'd probably end up in the savings account and then in some ETF, but give $100 to the janitor and he'd immediately buy more food or cloths.
Also great job dismissing reduced crime rates as if that's not important and isn't something people are freaking out over and try to fight with expensive and dangerous militarized police.
What makes you think the smartest ones marry men??
So now you're suddenly against genocide? :D
Did you know that it takes fuel to grow vegetables!? Better stop eating entirely to boycott ExxonMobil.
Yeah this is hardly unique, public transport is free or significantly discounted for children in many places. Not sure why this made it here. In Prague I think under 6 is free and until 16 it's half price. Anyway I used to ride for free as a teenager because what are they gonna do.
We also need to keep in mind that the current payment model isn't some sort of universal law of nature, and the streaming services can switch top paying per hour listed if people start making tons of 20 second songs.