TheFogan

Yeah well again though it's about comparing it to say pop in and scare as the initial method. They never really gave a notable difference in say how many screams could be extracted per kidnapped kid per day versus say how many the door scare teams were making etc... So it's difficult to compare the EROI between the 2. (and of course that's ignoring the laughter method, as we can assume that's discovery wasn't made until the end of the movie).

and that's of course before factoring in the issues that simply would arrise from kidnapping sentient humans. IE a significant event of human children vanishing from beds would inevitably lead to a cross dimensional war.

I do have to say with regards to monsters inc... were either resource "non-renewable". I mean in honesty I'm always unsure of the economical value of say the scream extractor within the confines of the movie. I don't think they really did a good job explaining the practicality of kidnapping kids vs the pop in and scare methods.

It kind of strikes me as the matrix battery problem... IE capturing and providing life support for humans would seem to be a resource intensive process. Burning more energy and resources than one would expect to gain.

In other news, self driving cars will be reliable and trustworthy in 1-2 years.

Namely what the features are and the functionality of it. I mean if you are expecting to use it in a closed controlled area, then for the most part the pass through side isn't necessary, the screen showing your eyes to outsiders is completely meaningless. So I guess the point is, there isn't really a defined ideal place to use it. It isn't super useful in one place, it's made to be slightly helpful, everywhere.

Which of course begs the question, where is it intended to be used. when is the ideal time to put it on, and then how long should a session be before you take it off.

I mean did anyone think of the vision pro as more than a very expensive tech demo? It was always too big, too heavy to be viewed as something people were expected to wear all day long.

Marketing, to me, is a non-issue if the technology has evolved enough. We can start with nerds only and iterate upon it until the normies can’t deny the superiority of the platform and move over in droves. We are not there yet on the fediverse

Again though, when we are talking a social network, it's literally worthless until there are enough people to make it worth while, within the required area. Now a twitter etc... can at least have that area as a full demographic of language. But i we are talking a review site, you need probably 10-50 people per city. as obviously not everyone does the same thing.

No matter how superior the platform, you can't show someone a restraunt review site, and expect them to be impressed when the nearest mexican restraunt review is for one 200 miles away.

I don't know he's kind of half in half. I mean obviously in theory he gives presents to everyone, regardless of their class or wealth.

However, in reality as kids open their presents, super wealthy always get far more and better toys from santa.

I mean in some levels though I would say... feet have always been something random in kids comedies as long as I know, and I can't say that's exclusively a nickelodian/snider thing. It was also the logo of Monty Python for starters.

That being said, of course Snider seems like a creep on so many levels

I suspect they’ll become like OpenWRT routers where the stock firmware is total garbage but you can replace it with something open source to super power the device.

Honestly I don't imagine that as likely the case. Bottom line almost every practical use of AR that comes to mind, requires a ton of AI stuff rolling it in the background. Identify what shit is, who people are etc.... Without that you are basically just looking at a hands free camera. Guessing with small form factors etc... not much is going to be processed locally so we aren't looking at much that has value in the independent firmware space.

I guess, but even there... I fail to see the target there. IE truth social and xitter at least have a reason alt right extremists need them... IE facebook and old twitter would occasionally ban people or put fact checks on some nazi rhetoric and blatent false stories. To my knowledge no e-mail provider is going to ban you for sending that FW:FW:FW:FW: My dog was infected by my son's friends covid vaccine, and my hatian neighbor became trans after eating it.

I think something he just plain doesn't get... who on earth is the target demographic. There's no shortage of e-mail services, outlook, yahoo, gmail, as public easy to use ones.

So what I gather, the closest to a major "feature", is to remove formatting and image ability from the e-mail. Which... most likely means existing e-mails formatted for other platforms, will error out or be unreadable unless individuals choose not to use their formatting ability from their mail clients?

Gmail rose to fame, because it actually solved a real problem. IE at the time gmail came out, hotmail was offering like 10 MB of storage. Google offered 1GB. A change so big people thought the anouncement was just an april fools joke (admitted, announcing it on april 1st was probably intentional for that as well).

Well I mean 2 problems.

1. Same problem every social network has... without intense marketing, budget etc... Usage will be low. Same reason why say you don't see, a bunch of lemmy groups for niche or local topics. Because it's mostly nerds etc, and the only topics that are going to have enough people to be useful are ones with national/international appeal because likely there's on average one lemmy user per several cities.

2. Review sites need intense moderation and verification to be useful. Problem is of course going to be either companies themselves posting swarms of reviews to make themselves look great, or competitors or people with personal grudges posting to make them look bad.