Exactly this. After I got my 65" Samsung I never looked back. My home experience is better in every way compared to the local theaters here. Especially the seating. I don't know about you, but I'm getting on in the years and theater seating gets extremely uncomfortable.
...and that's why I got a 65" high definition television - so I can have all of the "big screen" with none of the dipshits ruining the experience. If you're seeing 10 movies a year in theaters, that's $300+ you could use to invest in a decent home theater experience.
The people who want to be involved in fitness already are, and never needed a tracker to do it. Trackers are mostly for people who want to feel like they made some effort without actually making the effort. It's the same deal with exercise bikes and tread mills in homes. They're often purchased and infrequently used.
It's far easier to release that content than it is to release a VR game which requires substantially more effort and thought. Your comparison may seem logical, but it isn't.
None of these things require any sort of 3rd party developer support, and that's the major difference you're not accounting for. VR success relies on software sales, which is inexorably tied to VR headset sales. This produces a "chicken and the egg" problem.
A TV, Cell phone, GPS, etc - all of these things when they came out didn't require multiple companies to write applications for them so it matters less if adoption is slow.
I think this is exactly right. The problem with VR right now isn't the technology - it's the fact that all the major players are trying to come out with a premium product that nobody can afford. This is why it will ultimately fail.
It's sort of like games on Linux in this respect. Developers need to create the software, and if the sales of the software don't follow they'll feel burned and won't invest effort in to it the next time.
Requiring you identify yourself means producing proof of identity. Seriously, good luck in the back of that squad car. There's nothing like refusal to comply with a simple and ultimately harmless request to make them think you've done something wrong.
Cannons, guns, explosives, and swords vs crude bows, clubs, and spears? You'd have to be a complete idiot not to realize that the technical disparity here is huge.
Actually you are already required by law to produce your ID if a police officer asks for it. Next time you're stopped try refusing, just don't be surprised when the next step is them putting you in the back of a squad car.
Sure, why not? I assume most of us have some form of valid picture ID, and it's not exactly a violation of your civil rights to be asked to produce it.
I'm paying 100% less now for cable than I was 10 years ago. Once the internet became a mainstream thing there was no point in paying absurd amounts of money to cable companies for content that is mostly ad-riddled garbage. I don't mind paying for content, but make it on-demand, and make it things I actually want to watch.
The Dodos didn't go extinct because we were so skilled at killing them, they went extinct because they were so very easy to kill and didn't adapt to the situation by learning to run away. This didn't make us amazing hunters, it makes them incredibly bad survivalists.
Carrier pigeons on the other hand aren't extinct so that part of your statement makes no sense.
There are other theoretical ways to travel that don't involve travelling at or beyond the speed of light. These theories have existed for over a century and have a strong basis mathematically.
At one point flight was not possible, ever. At another point travel to the moon was not possible, ever. Seeing a bit of a trend here? There are many things which were once considered fantasy which are now a reality.
Christopher Columbus was far more advanced than the Native Americans, but that didn't stop him from a mass slaughter.
For all our theorising about the number of available habitable worlds, we're still not really sure exactly how many there are or what their distribution is in the universe. For all we really know planets like earth might be incredibly rare. They may want to take earth simply because it has life sustaining properties. Or maybe slaughtering primitive species predator-style is a national passtime. Who knows. The point is that we can't guess at their disposition or their motives, and we can't count on the idea that their motives will even be similar to ours.
He was the guy who basically married general relativity to quantum mechanics, and catapulted our understanding of stellar phenomenon forward by a substantial amount. Long after your bones are dust, people are going to remember him for his important contributions to science.
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Exactly this. After I got my 65" Samsung I never looked back. My home experience is better in every way compared to the local theaters here. Especially the seating. I don't know about you, but I'm getting on in the years and theater seating gets extremely uncomfortable.
...and that's why I got a 65" high definition television - so I can have all of the "big screen" with none of the dipshits ruining the experience. If you're seeing 10 movies a year in theaters, that's $300+ you could use to invest in a decent home theater experience.
More than that, how is she not in jail for criminal negligence?
The people who want to be involved in fitness already are, and never needed a tracker to do it. Trackers are mostly for people who want to feel like they made some effort without actually making the effort. It's the same deal with exercise bikes and tread mills in homes. They're often purchased and infrequently used.
It's far easier to release that content than it is to release a VR game which requires substantially more effort and thought. Your comparison may seem logical, but it isn't.
None of these things require any sort of 3rd party developer support, and that's the major difference you're not accounting for. VR success relies on software sales, which is inexorably tied to VR headset sales. This produces a "chicken and the egg" problem.
A TV, Cell phone, GPS, etc - all of these things when they came out didn't require multiple companies to write applications for them so it matters less if adoption is slow.
I think this is exactly right. The problem with VR right now isn't the technology - it's the fact that all the major players are trying to come out with a premium product that nobody can afford. This is why it will ultimately fail.
It's sort of like games on Linux in this respect. Developers need to create the software, and if the sales of the software don't follow they'll feel burned and won't invest effort in to it the next time.
"Building your own" in this case amounts to installing the operating system. Quit trying to make it sound like some epic endeavor.
If a business wants to block facebook they don't need a facebook app. They need a competent admin.
Requiring you identify yourself means producing proof of identity. Seriously, good luck in the back of that squad car. There's nothing like refusal to comply with a simple and ultimately harmless request to make them think you've done something wrong.
Of course he does. They were the only ones to survive the franchise wars.
Cannons, guns, explosives, and swords vs crude bows, clubs, and spears? You'd have to be a complete idiot not to realize that the technical disparity here is huge.
Actually you are already required by law to produce your ID if a police officer asks for it. Next time you're stopped try refusing, just don't be surprised when the next step is them putting you in the back of a squad car.
Sure, why not? I assume most of us have some form of valid picture ID, and it's not exactly a violation of your civil rights to be asked to produce it.
....apple is about to introduce some absurdly overpriced thing with a market that has absurdly overpriced content.
What you're really telling me is that Apple is getting ready to set sail for fail.
I'm paying 100% less now for cable than I was 10 years ago. Once the internet became a mainstream thing there was no point in paying absurd amounts of money to cable companies for content that is mostly ad-riddled garbage. I don't mind paying for content, but make it on-demand, and make it things I actually want to watch.
Produce your citizenship papers, or leave?
I guess you missed the first line that says:
"There are other theoretical ways to travel that don't involve travelling at or beyond the speed of light. "
Take particular notice of "don't involve".
The Dodos didn't go extinct because we were so skilled at killing them, they went extinct because they were so very easy to kill and didn't adapt to the situation by learning to run away. This didn't make us amazing hunters, it makes them incredibly bad survivalists.
Carrier pigeons on the other hand aren't extinct so that part of your statement makes no sense.
There are other theoretical ways to travel that don't involve travelling at or beyond the speed of light. These theories have existed for over a century and have a strong basis mathematically.
At one point flight was not possible, ever. At another point travel to the moon was not possible, ever. Seeing a bit of a trend here? There are many things which were once considered fantasy which are now a reality.
Christopher Columbus was far more advanced than the Native Americans, but that didn't stop him from a mass slaughter.
For all our theorising about the number of available habitable worlds, we're still not really sure exactly how many there are or what their distribution is in the universe. For all we really know planets like earth might be incredibly rare. They may want to take earth simply because it has life sustaining properties. Or maybe slaughtering primitive species predator-style is a national passtime. Who knows. The point is that we can't guess at their disposition or their motives, and we can't count on the idea that their motives will even be similar to ours.
He was the guy who basically married general relativity to quantum mechanics, and catapulted our understanding of stellar phenomenon forward by a substantial amount. Long after your bones are dust, people are going to remember him for his important contributions to science.
...since the speed of google fiber in my area is zero due to no availability.
It's a lot more than you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Much of Netflix's original content is excellent. If they want to do more they can shut up and take my money!