Comment Time is a circle (Score 1) 103
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame"
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame"
Here is an algorithm that will identify AI generated material with 0% false negatives:
return True
I mean, unless the API is really shitty it has to be more efficient for them, or at least as efficient as having people just use a web browser. Is Apollo stripping out adds? If not, I don't see a logical leg to stand on for Reddit to be charging, because at that point it's just a fancy browser.
Anybody with two digits?
Amazon should be broken up.
There are lots of things that would probably work but you won't know except by the absence of a $1000 charge on your credit card. If they do charge you, they will have a video of your ceiling fan to prove that you violated their TOS. I'd love to have that screen that is for the ads but for other uses, but you can't use it for other things if you are also tenuously using physical countermeasures to circumvent the company's TOS.
Every statement from them that I have seen so far has been the typical puffery about how good the TV is but with no actual measurable details so my bet is that it is a crap TV.
You have to agree to use it as your primary TV set, and to not modify it in any way. It has sensors (which can probably be defeated, but you won't know for sure) to detect if you put a cover over the ad display. If they think you violate any of their terms, they can charge your credit card $1000.
They say the TV has a value of $1000. I question that, but even taking that at face value, would you let a company put a screen that will play ads in your house 24x7 for just $1000? Also, I can't find any documentation on power draw for that ad screen. How much will that cost per year in electricity? I think this enterprise will land with a dull thud once the device is actually released. Maybe they will end up liquidating the devices for cheap, and free and clear of contract terms in about six months to a year. I think that is the best case scenario. That bottom screen would make a cool project display.
"Good enough" is probably the best you can get because the assumptions behind many of the constraints are uncertain and fuzzy. They are probably treating the fuzzy assumptions as non-fuzzy in their model. If there were a perfect schedule it would just be the same every year and that would be pretty boring. "Good enough" also leaves room for exciting surprises to happen that you don't anticipate ahead of time, but I'm pretty sure that kind of thinking is anathema to the NFL.
I mean, if I were the CIA and I were operating a VPN for the purpose of surveillance (and it would almost be intelligence malpractice if they were not) I would probably stage a raid like that to try instill confidence that there was no user information being collected. In that situation, they would probably only be exfiltrating the data of certain users anyway, so there wouldn't even have to be very many employees who know what was happening.
I miss Byte and Computer Shopper.
There will be a point where the percentage of EVs on the road reaches a critical level where operating gas stations will become less profitable than other uses for the land that gas stations currently occupy. This will result in a vicious cycle (from the point of view of gas hogs I guess) where people on the margin will be more likely to choose an EV for their next vehicle purchase because finding gas stations will become less and less convenient, and the product mix that auto makers offer to the public will trend more to EVs because that is what people will be wanting to buy, and filling stations will become more expensive and less and less convenient to find. "Rural America" will have to figure it the fuck out because you can't run your F150 on Copium. The role of government here is nudging the market to that tipping point.
Some problems are unsolvable.
They are planning to make an app store. They may hope it will rival Apple and Google, but hopes are not plans.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro