Comment Re:Renewable fuels? (Score 1) 46
Their battery tech is a years ahead of everyone else, from the basic chemistry to the manufacturing process.
Their battery tech is a years ahead of everyone else, from the basic chemistry to the manufacturing process.
Worked for NASA... *yawn*. Holds 140 patents... yeah, so what?
But this dude also invented the Super Soaker - now THAT's legit guy cred!
Some are, others are adopting Matter which is local only and an open protocol. Vote with your wallet.
Some car manufacturers want to wring more out of their investments in hybrid drivetrains. They are also hoping to delay long enough to catch up to the Chinese on battery tech.
Toyota is a great example. Their solid state battery tech is always a few years away from revolutionising the industry. They tried and abandoned hydrogen.
The movies that draw people into those experience are already high budget and even at smaller budgets 8K cameras and tech are widely accessible. Also as we talk here about Netflix obviously the business model of recouping a films budget at the box office isn't really true anymore. It's not the budget of the films thats at issue, its really just the business model of the theater chains.
Really in the last thread I talked about how we need a Paramount Decree for streaming, a separation between the production and distribution and ironically it's probably true that the opposite for actual theaters is true now. I think Disney now owns a few movie theaters and that's probably how they stay alive, instead of this money split between theaters and studios theaters will be a collaborative event function, the theater really has to make enough to keep itself profitable, not the entire chain of things and the studio isn't really looking at the box office as it's be all end all, it's more an event, the bread and butter is streaming but its a choice for the viewer.
As an example I think we've seen those replays of older films in the theater be popular so there is a demand there for the experience, people still like to go the movies but the value proposition is out of whack and the business model is outmoded.
We have a similar problem in the UK. Courts and juries tend to believe the police, even though they have a reputation for lying.
When I retired (10y) I was a whiz with Perl, had learned enough Python to know I could switch over easily, and was being told by Paul Graham that if people were too dumb to see that LISP was the ultimate language that had made his fortune, that Ruby had the same deep structure allowing the ultimate trick of self-modifying code and true compactness and elegance and all that stuff the Great Programming Languages all had to have for the most-elite work.
Of course, I didn't have to work any more, and I hate writing toy programs, and didn't have a problem that really required it, so at 10y, the O'Reilly Ruby book is dusty, and when I have something too hard for a bash script, it's still perl. Which still works.
But I was feeling guilty about it, and now I can put the Ruby book away with satisfaction that the moment passed. (Giving up on FORTH was the hard one; loved that language.)
That could also be done with a BASH script, but as TFA points out BASH isn't always available or up-to-date.
That seems like a ludicrously specious argument. Bash is pretty much always available on any of these platforms - and exactly how "up-to-date" would it need to be to run a script?
Besides, you know what's not available on pretty much any brand new system? Homebrew.
If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.
It's probably more the case that theaters don't go away but continue to consolidate and move to the IMAX model of fewer theaters but the ones left are higher end. It can better justify the high cost and are really capable of offering an experience beyond what you can get at home.
The variability of the experience despite the prices continue to rise adds to this effect, the AMC with the smaller screens and standard seats and at least around me I think the sound is always too soft (audio is just so subjective too so theaters are probably yoyo-ing the levels all the time) I'll just as soon stay home.
A massive screen with a booming Atmos sound system and nice seating, that's more an experience. Might do it a few times a year instead a couple times a month like the olden days but that's a different business model, one where your theater is 30-60 minutes away instead of always having one nearby.
We can predict everything, except the future.