The sad thing is: In a few years we'll all have this whether we want it or not, there won't be anything but curved phones in the shops. After that they'll start selling us "classic shape" phones at a premium price. So it goes.
They heard everyone else was doing it so they wanted to make sure everyone thought it was their idea. Like all the other stuff they come up with (and patent).
A curve can make glare worse by focusing the light
Nope, this is just some stupid marketing gimmick. They spend years telling us that flat screen TVs are the way to go, now they're making them curved again.
a coalition of ES-miners [selfish miners] would not be stable, because members of the coalition would have an incentive to cheat on their coalition partners
Sure, if they're all small-time miners. If a really big player gets into the market they could destroy it.
So, proof that Vegans are full of shit and their claims about a healthy diet are so much toilet waste?
If there was such a thing as a miracle diet I think we'd know about it without relying on a bunch of weirdos.
I'm not sure they do it for health reasons though, that's just how they justify it to themselves. They mainly do it because they're weirdos who like to think they're giving the finger to The Man.
Ignorant patients will always find greedy doctors willing to give them antibiotics they don't need for diseases that aren't bacterial.
Why aren't doctors allowed to give people sugar pills instead of antibiotics? Of if they are allowed, why aren't they actively doing it instead of sending people home empty handed (which leaves them unhappy so they go looking for a 'better' doctor)?
There should be organization at a national level to produce nicely packaged placebos in important looking boxes. They could even change the name every few months so people don't figure it out.
If there's anything that's in world/national interest, this is it.
As a former soldier, I don't want them to cut funding for air conditioning. Operating in climates with 120 F for months at a time is pretty hard, and the computers and equipment starts failing.
But I get your point.
Maybe they could stop using tents to store people/computers.
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I think it's time to create some buzzword-bingo cards for these.
We can mark squares off whenever anybody says "more screen area", "fits better in pocket", etc.
No, I think it is to extract more money from wallets.
Yep. It's a "novelty" - a conversation point.
All it has to do is look weird and people will find ways they think it's "better" to justify it to themselves.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/29/samsung-galaxy-round-hands-on/
The sad thing is: In a few years we'll all have this whether we want it or not, there won't be anything but curved phones in the shops. After that they'll start selling us "classic shape" phones at a premium price. So it goes.
Is this for anti glare or something?
You can see in this video, the glare is *much* worse.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/29/samsung-galaxy-round-hands-on/
Now Apple will patent it and sue Samsung for copying them. That's what history will remember.
Are legs really required for EVA?
"Giant steps are what you take. Walking on the moon.
I hope my legs don't break! Walking on, walking on the moon..."
PS: Let's do the math!
What's the cosine of 5 degrees? That's the new size if you bend a screen by 10 degrees (5 degrees each side of the center line)
My calculator says cos(5) = 0.9962 ... so it's less than 0.5% smaller.
Plus it looks awful: http://www.bloomberg.com/image/ibdaG6emCoQY.jpg
They heard everyone else was doing it so they wanted to make sure everyone thought it was their idea. Like all the other stuff they come up with (and patent).
+1 Insightful.
How much more, exactly? Have you calculated that before telling the world?
Not if you wear sarcasm pants.
You've hit the nail on the head.
ie. Nobody has a clue what it's for.
Aside from novelty, the point of a curved display is to squeeze more screen area into the same footprint.
Huh? What are you smoking? I think you should lay off it...
Is this for anti glare or something?
A curve can make glare worse by focusing the light
Nope, this is just some stupid marketing gimmick. They spend years telling us that flat screen TVs are the way to go, now they're making them curved again.
I think this new story is meaningless:
a coalition of ES-miners [selfish miners] would not be stable, because members of the coalition would have an incentive to cheat on their coalition partners
Sure, if they're all small-time miners. If a really big player gets into the market they could destroy it.
In other news: The US spending on war continues unabated...
(Imagine how many actual problems they could have solved by now if they spent all that money on something else....)
So, proof that Vegans are full of shit and their claims about a healthy diet are so much toilet waste?
If there was such a thing as a miracle diet I think we'd know about it without relying on a bunch of weirdos.
I'm not sure they do it for health reasons though, that's just how they justify it to themselves. They mainly do it because they're weirdos who like to think they're giving the finger to The Man.
Ignorant patients will always find greedy doctors willing to give them antibiotics they don't need for diseases that aren't bacterial.
Why aren't doctors allowed to give people sugar pills instead of antibiotics? Of if they are allowed, why aren't they actively doing it instead of sending people home empty handed (which leaves them unhappy so they go looking for a 'better' doctor)?
There should be organization at a national level to produce nicely packaged placebos in important looking boxes. They could even change the name every few months so people don't figure it out.
If there's anything that's in world/national interest, this is it.
As a former soldier, I don't want them to cut funding for air conditioning. Operating in climates with 120 F for months at a time is pretty hard, and the computers and equipment starts failing.
But I get your point.
Maybe they could stop using tents to store people/computers.
Something insulated might cut the power bill....
I thought Brazil was also upset about this:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow
(Government harassment of Brazilian journalists who expose NSA mass surveillance for the non-clickers).
Huh?
How is spying on foreign diplomats the same as mass surveillance of the ordinary citizens of your own country?
...and it was never a "law", it was an observation of a trend in computing power.
Basically, the automatic cutbacks coming up mean all military spending will be cut in half.
All of it.
Yay!
I'm thinking more of a pair of glasses with built-in video projectors. It can project a Guy Fawkes mask onto your face as you walk around town.
You may laugh but it'll probably sound like a good idea a couple of decades from now. I should probably patent it.
So... if I want to know what sort of stuff Jeremy Clarkson buys I can just print his face on some paper and wear it at a gas station.
Yep, that sounds like they've sorted out all the privacy issues.
I especially liked the part where they told him that he did it wrong, that telling the newspapers was bad.
The correct course of action was to call the people in power and let them know they're spying on the population.
Oh, for mod points.