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But don't forget that with the Momentus, the SSD acts only as a read cache, ie all writes must still go directly to the HDD. With Apple's innovation, files that are heavily used profit from being fully on SSD for both read and write.
This is not the experience I had. Walked into a Tesla store, said I want to test drive a Roadster. Salesman went into that profiling mode that all car salesmen do constantly and no customer likes, asking me all kinds of questions to find out how much I earn. Since my answers didn't please him, he told me I could test drive it for $300 for half a day - essentially renting it.
I won't be going back.
Not mentioning this fact to an audience that might be oblivious to it is inexcusable.
I wonder how the just released movie handles this fact?
You know, you can get increased contrast in several ways. Switching to plasma (or some other high contrast tech) is one, adding more pixels is another one.
I guess the plasma switch is easier in the short run, but in the long run you still need the additional resolution.
Cynic people might say that the reason 4K gets promoted now is that the studios want to sell their movies all over again :-)
I would go ever further, and say that 4K is still not yet good enough. It looks great, but still not like reality. My guess is that this would need somewhere between 8K and 16K. Contrast and framerates could also be higher.
Sources: my own experience with 4K TVs at IBC 2007 and a recent trip to Japan.
In the trailer, they mention "experimenting" as being a big part of the game. As a programmer, I would love to have a tree of save points, like in git. So I try out something, change a second thing, revert the second thing, try a third thing, revert it as well, revert everything back to the start. Wouldn't that be fun for ordinary people as well?
The Google Earth iOS app has this feature and I hate the fact that every time I zoom in or out, I move slightly away from the up=north orientation. After a few minutes, my map view is upside down and I can't orient myself anymore.
I hope they make it optional and turn it off by default.
Also, as said in the article, "broadband in the US is fickle". I wanted to use it in central europe, as surely did many other, around the world, in south korea etc - but this is another company that focused in very few locations (the us and uk), instead of going global early.
Another issue was lack of support for very fast connections, and the bad quality of the current compression. Even if you had a big pipe (say, 100mbit), the picture only looked so-so. Use a local xbox or ps3 and you get a much better - and more fun - experience.
Very sad - but not unsurprising if you look at Perlman's temper.
Keep in mind that people from certain countries prefer additional solutions. Talk to your customers and they will tell you which payment options besides credit cards they wish to use.
In contrast to others, we've got a good relationship with Paypal as well, but we don't use them for normal credit cards because they ask too much.
Expect to interface with more than one payment platform down the road, because there is not one platform that does everything.
But starting with credit cards only and Saferpay is a good first choice.
- USB plugs are not double sided, leading to confusion when plugging them in, and often resulting in material fatigue because people force to plug them in the wrong way (iPhones are plugged in much more often than - say - a USB mouse that stays connected most of the time).
- USB plugs are either a host or slave, not both. On an iPhone, the dock connector needs be both: slave (when connected to a PC) or host (when a USB camera is connected through the camera connection kit).
- expected functionality through form factor: this plug will provide audio in + out, video in + out, playback controls etc. Normal USB plugs don't guarantee that functionality. Some cars have a generic USB plug to connect to generic USB storage devices to play MP3s from - now those owners might expect the next iPhone to be compatible with them - but these cars with the generic USB plugs might not understand audio over USB. Other cars in the future might contain your proposed next generation iPhone USB plug, leading people to expect that they can connect any USB device and transfer audio over it.
Could somebody re-post the article here with all the blackened out text replaced by a best guess? Would make it much more informative.
It took eBay something like 4 years to go to Germany, by which time there was a local clone there that proved to be uncatchable. The expensive result was that eBay had to buy the clone (Alando) for 43 million dollars to become relevant.
Kickstarter is still US-only. Stripe as well. So are countless others.
We're not talking about products that you need an huge infrastructure in the country. This is mostly about translation, and not explicitly prohibiting things.
The expenses seem miniscule to the possible upside. So why do all those fancy startups hold themselves back?
I feel like the biggest issues might be missing ambient spatial awareness for the user - with that non-wideangle lens and mono microphone you can't see the whole environment at once, you have no idea where somebody is talking from, and you cannot turn quickly enough to always track what's happening in a room, if people are leaving/entering etc.. How do you plan to make the user feel more "there"?
Also, micro-managing the movement of the bot would take up a lot of time that I don't have to spend when I'm present locally. E.g. when I'm present myself, I just look somewhere, then think "I want to go there" and it all happens automatically. With the bot, I have to manually navigate around plants and desks. It would be great if we could do the same thing with the bot: just touch on the screen where you want to go, and the bot figures out the rest. Or show a floor plan, touch where I want to go and the bot does it. Do you have plans in this direction?
So... why does it have to be self-balancing? Just add a third wheel and it's always stable - no need for gyros and complicated electronics. And as a by-product, you have immediately lowered the price massively: it's just a few motors then instead of that balancing magic. My price lowering guess would be between 50% and 80% lower. That would be really "the lean startup way" in my book.
(Idea courtesy of http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segway_more_complicated_t...)
But since the larger sensor can work with much more light, it therefore has a much higher S/N-ratio. If you switch that camera to a higher aperture, you get less light, leading to a lower ratio again.
So the lower S/N-ratio of the smaller sensor could be estimated as a higher aperture. Whether the numbers calculated by wisty are correct, I don't know, though.
Unfortunately, the sound mix is atrocious. Music is way too loud, one can barely hear the narration. It was so bad that I stopped viewing the video.
But it's a wholesale retailer, e.g. it's targeted towards registered professional customers rather than end consumers. My point still stands, the large majority of the public does not interact with them.
This is also not the first time Metro AG pressed other brands that are interacting with the public into a name change. It did the same thing with the free european commuter's newspaper "Metro", resulting in a name change in at least one country (Switzerland). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2008/sep/22/europ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_International