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silence_kit posted:Do you know a lot about this? What was the major technical obstacle to the idea? Even if it weren't technically hard, the idea is a little dumb in that people don't really care about customizing the functionality of their cell phones. we got a live one folks
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im the incredible amount of crud that would have built up between the blocks
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silence_kit posted:What was the major technical obstacle to the idea? proper connections and stability of the device, both electronically and physically
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silence_kit posted:Do you know a lot about this? What was the major technical obstacle to the idea? Even if it weren't technically hard, the idea is a little dumb in that people don't really care about customizing the functionality of their cell phones. 1) impossible to build a phone as compact as a consumer wants, because you are purposely designing in a bunch of redundant structural and connective elements and encapsulating every individual piece instead of jigsawing them together down to the micrometer 2) purposely spreading out all the technology throughout the phone and connecting them via pogo pins or whatever makes everything slow as gently caress 3) impossible to make it sturdy enough to drop without exploding into confetti while also making the bits and bobs on it easily removable 4) the concept is loving stupid and no one would give a poo poo about swapping out phone components Linguica fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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oh yeahquote:An app on the phone will let you toggle the magnets on and off, and the 30 newtons of force in the on state should keep the modules from flying off when you drop the phone.
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does anyone have a charger??? i'm a few percent away from having my phone literally disintegrate
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they were supposed to be electropermanent magnets, so at least they realized the 90 seconds of battery life you'd get otherwise i think electropermanent magnets need a tremendously powerful initial field though to set up the magnetization so dunno where they were planning on putting those coils
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you have to store your credit cards inside your phone because your phone erases the physical ones it's great for change though
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Linguica posted:the major technical obstacles, in approximate order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c Sagebrush posted:they were supposed to be electropermanent magnets, so at least they realized the 90 seconds of battery life you'd get otherwise anthonypants fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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anthonypants posted:the original idea was you could rearrange the blocks in any shape or order and get them in whatever size you wanted which was hilarious I bet we could get a jump on google press releases by just keeping tabs on official twitter accoutns that account hadn't been updated in 3.5 months no poo poo it was dead in the water
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the video says the phone that's been in my pocket 4 years without getting a scratch isn't designed to last.Krakox posted:I bet we could get a jump on google press releases by just keeping tabs on official twitter accoutns why does an unreleased product even have a Twitter account? cause they were hedging their bets it would fail and this way at least it's a PR boost
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the verge finally asks why google is just poo poo and what i could have told you years ago (and did) http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/2/12764558/google-alphabet-cancelled-products-project-ara-summer-2016 cremnob posted:fuzzy mammal the sooner u let go of any loyalty u have to google and start treating it as a job u do at a lovely company the happier u will be. google x and the like are jedi mind tricks from management designed to brainwash the drones working for them. they want u to think u work at an innovative tech company, but really ur working at an internet utility that makes its money selling search ads. just ask ur self why the "innovation" never materializes into anything real. i tried to save fuzzy mammal years ago but he wanted to believe so badly. he could have started the next mini microsoft blog for google and it would have been a cult hit for everyone in silicon valley and the press covering it. it would have been more meaningful than the years of work he's put into hangouts, only to see it flounder because of managerial incompetence. there is no 20 year vision at google, there's just larry and sergei who checked out years ago from google and then formalized it with creating alphabet because they had delusions of being the 21st century GE. these punks are academics from stanford that just happened to stumble onto a goldmine by accident. they hire people like them with the same elite pedigrees thinking this is the key to success and have nothing to show for it meanwhile apple, the company started by a college drop out and whose executives all come from state schools (the only exception being scott forstall who went to stanford and coincidentally? no longer works there and makes broadway plays), continues to dominate. google is good at doing computer science and other science projects that they will never turn into business or product success. they won't be around in 50 years
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in 50 years i hope the worker is elevated to their proper place in society
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in 50 days i hope google will have offered me a job
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Does google offer sexual release clinics? They have everything else
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On the google campus i mean
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BONGHITZ posted:Does google offer sexual release clinics? They have everything else let's just say "ball pit" has multiple layers of meaning also stay out of the ball pit
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BONGHITZ posted:i think cream knob is right and his posts are correct mostly yep
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has anyone ever seen annotations on yourtube that they didn't want to turn off? i want to turn off annotations forever forever off ...........................................................,,,,,,........
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true peace
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ur holding the "Show annotations and in-video notifications " checkbox wrong
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DrPossum posted:has anyone ever seen annotations on yourtube that they didn't want to turn off? sometimes i turn on annotations when someone says that the translations or the explanation or something is as annotations but i turn them off immediately after my youtube settings have actually worked as expected for a really long time now, which shouldn't be surprising, but is. at some point it kep resetting my annotation settings and later my autoplay settings.
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Wheany posted:my youtube settings have actually worked as expected for a really long time now, which shouldn't be surprising, but is. same
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they change it back but i want them to not change it back loving balls
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Progressive JPEG posted:theyve got room for like 5 more desks where that rug is don't poo poo on them for the one thing they're doing right in that picture.
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no really i question any google office photo where each employee isnt seated within slapping range of at least 3 other people though thats more of a mountain view thing to be fair
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Progressive JPEG posted:no really i question any google office photo where each employee isnt seated within slapping range of at least 3 other people yeah sounds like the sort of thing you can get away with your silicon valley/sf area offices because everyone buy sin there, but if you're in more civilized areas the workers won't stand for it
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fishmech posted:yeah sounds like the sort of thing you can get away with your silicon valley/sf area offices because everyone buy sin there, but if you're in more civilized areas the workers won't stand for it the offices on the main part of the mountain view campus are now so crowded that they break sanitation laws, so a bunch of them have trailers set up outside with portapotties on em
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Progressive JPEG posted:the offices on the main part of the mountain view campus are now so crowded that they break sanitation laws, so a bunch of them have trailers set up outside with portapotties on em lol. and then everyone wonders why i "hamper my career" by staying at the place that gives me a private office and, say, human dignity
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Progressive JPEG posted:the offices on the main part of the mountain view campus are now so crowded that they break sanitation laws, so a bunch of them have trailers set up outside with portapotties on em i think this must vary greatly by team. or, alternatively they have separate buildings that are "normal" density to show interviewees
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:lol. and then everyone wonders why i "hamper my career" by staying at the place that gives me a private office and, say, human dignity I love having private office
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