The "major advantages" you list describe pretty much how UMTS 3G videocalling works (yes, also point 3...it's just like a phonecall, but with video option available), integrated in hundreds of million mobile phones by now. Or, if you really want to, there's Skype video at least for Symbian smartphones, quite a bit off from a "special equipment (a computer with video capabilities)" which would "tie you down while you use them"...
Opera State of the Mobile Web, November 2009, focusing on Africa. And just by glancing at lists of top mobile phones in listed places - there's at least one, sometimes few "pure" smartphone types on most. Where there aren't any, some of "feature phones" are pretty close anyway (many with multitasking BTW, something some of the "smartphones" can't do)
Plus in their case (and especially as far as population is concerned) it's not really "ignoring reality"...it is reality. So what that is is self-manufactured / self-feeding? (almost all societies do that to themselves anyway, just in different directions)
From my point of view (quite close to Nordic areas) - ok, I pay slightly lower taxes, great. Those that are collected are used worse; too much waste around.
If you have only few phycisians per 100k people, but where nonetheless there is huge uptake of mobile phones, such AI could surely help in directing scarce resources?
Aye, some manufacturers do care; this is one of the most striking (almost to the point of being funny) example of that:) Surely in some optimal scenario, of course; but from what I can tell after contact with few Nokia phones meant as long lasting ones (even if only to the half time of the above one), it can be definatelly felt in daily usage. And it seems it can be done even with some smartphones...
I think you didn't get the point. Mandatory blackouts would be a henomena that is most visible to their population, easily presented to it as a means of defense / etc. That population probably largely doesn't know of GPS existence (a thing that would make such defense measures in large part pointless)...which is only convenient, if it can be held in a state of constatnt paranoia about attack by such simple measures as (also/maybe) mandatory blackouts.
Note that I wasn't thinking you made it up; it would be just useful to have some reliable and accesible (easily linked to)...something (some knowledge base / whatever). For some time I have my own share of being fed up with how people percieve statistics, most notably in medical matters; this number sounds useful / would be nice to have it at hand.
But I understand how you don't have a need for such kinds of sources; thanks for pointing out the fact itself.
At the least it can tell you that you should seek medical assistance, "because..." (instead of relying, say, on some shaman). Nvm that having locally a medical kit with some essetianl drugs is probably more likely than easy access to medical stuff - especially if said drugs would have fairly straightforward dosages, were not really harmful if not needed, but it's not a bad idea to know when & which one will be good for you?
At the least, it will ease the strain on handful of medical personnel that's available / direct cases requiring attention more quickly to them. I think you underestimate the problems present when you have only few phisicians per 100k people.
What is a "smartphone" anyway? Latest incarnations of S40 (probably the most popular mobile phone platform on the planet) aren't really that different from the functions, say, iPhone offers; SE "feature phones" even have full multitasking... And Symbian smartphones are geting closer and closer to the $100 mark (without contract, of course) The distinction will get blurred / more and more people will be getting "full" smartphones anyway.
There is greater uptake of mobile phones generally than you think; 3.3 billion mobile users at the end of 2007, 4.6 billion at the end of 2009 - now we're getting close to 5 billion probably. Many of them in "developing" places.
Seriously, you think it's plausbile that would stop people from letting a mobile / etc. monitor their health? Oh, the wonders of corporate medical system?...
What if you or your colleagues aren't available (or at least not in sufficient numbers) at a given place? Isn't it worthwhile to at least try to help part of those remaining 15%? (don't tell me you can help all of them...)
BTW, do you have any solid source at hand for thise 85% stat? Might be useful to me.
PS. Wel, not strictly (heh, yeah;p ) yours - but the starting point / one with which you didn't seem to be in disagreement, being surprised how one DS was even promoted as for "onlookers" (supposedly that's also "to better fulfill existing demand / usage patterns", too)
Hence you agree with me that your initial "It's not like you look from the side while playing a handheld for fucks sake. It's a one-person experience" was not strictly accurate...
Or one habitation module can be just surrounded by fuel tanks. Also, growing plants will be a bit less straighforward than what you descibe, with probably very high levels of salts in martian water.
Oh well, we'll see. Improving AI will be of course part of it, but it might be still useful to directly teleoperate a robot from time to time (and with better AI that can really mean whole fleet of robots + only very few humans; also, I don't think 50 robots basically around one tow truck is a good model - better to disperse them around the planet, perhaps in teams of "few ordinary ones + one sample return vehicle")
You don't get how such stereoscopy works for bystanders - onlookers will already get 2D image usually (seeing only image meant for one eye), no need to play with any sliders, on which you base your...what, exactly?
But that's not the issue; suddenly two DS experiences are becoming less reconcillable with each other a very short time after touting the first announced one (and when games will actually use 3D effect for inherent mechanics of gameplay...); which while itself not a big deal of course (different kinds of gameplay for different games, et al; in many games not that big of a difference between "2D" and "3D"), is somewhat at odds with what you said in so very definitve terms / makes it not such strong of a point, that's all.
Sure, my point wasn't that we don't work on quite...workable definitions; just that there is still some ambiguity to work around, and will be more the more we discover. What about sub-brown dwarfs that coalesced from molecular cloud like any ordinary star and then were captured? What about very giant planets (also in origin, from protoplanetary disc) that were ejected? (nvm the difficulty of distinguishing the two). Yeah, a moon is totally dominated by influence of its planet - doesn't stop some people (Pluto is quite a bit dominated by Neptune after all)
Hell, what about Jupiter? The center of mass of Jupiter - Sun system lies slightly outside the Sun.
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When was the last such event not involving mostly people who want to be impressed pretty much by anything?
The "major advantages" you list describe pretty much how UMTS 3G videocalling works (yes, also point 3...it's just like a phonecall, but with video option available), integrated in hundreds of million mobile phones by now. Or, if you really want to, there's Skype video at least for Symbian smartphones, quite a bit off from a "special equipment (a computer with video capabilities)" which would "tie you down while you use them"...
...or only a small part of given community.
Opera State of the Mobile Web, November 2009, focusing on Africa. And just by glancing at lists of top mobile phones in listed places - there's at least one, sometimes few "pure" smartphone types on most. Where there aren't any, some of "feature phones" are pretty close anyway (many with multitasking BTW, something some of the "smartphones" can't do)
Similarly in Southeast Asia, or Latin America
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uganda_mobile_phone_charging_service.jpg
One of quite a few possibilities...
Plus in their case (and especially as far as population is concerned) it's not really "ignoring reality"...it is reality. So what that is is self-manufactured / self-feeding? (almost all societies do that to themselves anyway, just in different directions)
From my point of view (quite close to Nordic areas) - ok, I pay slightly lower taxes, great. Those that are collected are used worse; too much waste around.
Well...unfortuntelly, reality has a socialist bias.
If you have only few phycisians per 100k people, but where nonetheless there is huge uptake of mobile phones, such AI could surely help in directing scarce resources?
This isn't about country in which AT&T operates; there are more. You seem to have some weird image of those, too.
Aye, some manufacturers do care; this is one of the most striking (almost to the point of being funny) example of that :)
Surely in some optimal scenario, of course; but from what I can tell after contact with few Nokia phones meant as long lasting ones (even if only to the half time of the above one), it can be definatelly felt in daily usage. And it seems it can be done even with some smartphones...
As soon as you talk specifically about "consumers", I'm not sure "making their lives better" is of any importance...
I think you didn't get the point. Mandatory blackouts would be a henomena that is most visible to their population, easily presented to it as a means of defense / etc. That population probably largely doesn't know of GPS existence (a thing that would make such defense measures in large part pointless)...which is only convenient, if it can be held in a state of constatnt paranoia about attack by such simple measures as (also/maybe) mandatory blackouts.
Note that I wasn't thinking you made it up; it would be just useful to have some reliable and accesible (easily linked to)...something (some knowledge base / whatever). For some time I have my own share of being fed up with how people percieve statistics, most notably in medical matters; this number sounds useful / would be nice to have it at hand.
But I understand how you don't have a need for such kinds of sources; thanks for pointing out the fact itself.
At the least it can tell you that you should seek medical assistance, "because..." (instead of relying, say, on some shaman). Nvm that having locally a medical kit with some essetianl drugs is probably more likely than easy access to medical stuff - especially if said drugs would have fairly straightforward dosages, were not really harmful if not needed, but it's not a bad idea to know when & which one will be good for you?
At the least, it will ease the strain on handful of medical personnel that's available / direct cases requiring attention more quickly to them. I think you underestimate the problems present when you have only few phisicians per 100k people.
What is a "smartphone" anyway? Latest incarnations of S40 (probably the most popular mobile phone platform on the planet) aren't really that different from the functions, say, iPhone offers; SE "feature phones" even have full multitasking...
And Symbian smartphones are geting closer and closer to the $100 mark (without contract, of course)
The distinction will get blurred / more and more people will be getting "full" smartphones anyway.
There is greater uptake of mobile phones generally than you think; 3.3 billion mobile users at the end of 2007, 4.6 billion at the end of 2009 - now we're getting close to 5 billion probably. Many of them in "developing" places.
Seriously, you think it's plausbile that would stop people from letting a mobile / etc. monitor their health?
Oh, the wonders of corporate medical system?...
What if you or your colleagues aren't available (or at least not in sufficient numbers) at a given place? Isn't it worthwhile to at least try to help part of those remaining 15%? (don't tell me you can help all of them...)
BTW, do you have any solid source at hand for thise 85% stat? Might be useful to me.
Not available medical personel can't perform a physical exam, either (but a phone can connect one with existing personel, if that's required)
PS. Wel, not strictly (heh, yeah ;p ) yours - but the starting point / one with which you didn't seem to be in disagreement, being surprised how one DS was even promoted as for "onlookers" (supposedly that's also "to better fulfill existing demand / usage patterns", too)
Hence you agree with me that your initial "It's not like you look from the side while playing a handheld for fucks sake. It's a one-person experience" was not strictly accurate...
Or one habitation module can be just surrounded by fuel tanks. Also, growing plants will be a bit less straighforward than what you descibe, with probably very high levels of salts in martian water.
Oh well, we'll see. Improving AI will be of course part of it, but it might be still useful to directly teleoperate a robot from time to time (and with better AI that can really mean whole fleet of robots + only very few humans; also, I don't think 50 robots basically around one tow truck is a good model - better to disperse them around the planet, perhaps in teams of "few ordinary ones + one sample return vehicle")
OK, you don't get that it's already "disabled" at all times for any bystanders...
Slider most likely controls only separation of "virtual" cameras in the game engine, anyway.
You don't get how such stereoscopy works for bystanders - onlookers will already get 2D image usually (seeing only image meant for one eye), no need to play with any sliders, on which you base your...what, exactly?
But that's not the issue; suddenly two DS experiences are becoming less reconcillable with each other a very short time after touting the first announced one (and when games will actually use 3D effect for inherent mechanics of gameplay...); which while itself not a big deal of course (different kinds of gameplay for different games, et al; in many games not that big of a difference between "2D" and "3D"), is somewhat at odds with what you said in so very definitve terms / makes it not such strong of a point, that's all.
Sure, my point wasn't that we don't work on quite...workable definitions; just that there is still some ambiguity to work around, and will be more the more we discover. What about sub-brown dwarfs that coalesced from molecular cloud like any ordinary star and then were captured? What about very giant planets (also in origin, from protoplanetary disc) that were ejected? (nvm the difficulty of distinguishing the two). Yeah, a moon is totally dominated by influence of its planet - doesn't stop some people (Pluto is quite a bit dominated by Neptune after all)
Hell, what about Jupiter? The center of mass of Jupiter - Sun system lies slightly outside the Sun.