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Comment Re:I've been mocked for saying it for years (Score 1) 245

> Not sure how well geofences work in a GNSS denied environment.

If you shield your GPS antenna to only see signals from above, it will make spoofing rather difficult, unless the spoofer can afford constant aerial missions in just the right places.
If you want to get really fancy, use phased-array antennas that can "aim" at the known satellites and ignore other sources.

Comment 1000 is not 1 million (Score 1) 18

> processing speeds in the petahertz range — over 1,000 times faster than modern computer chips

I'm not aware of any computer chips that operate in the terahertz range.

In the first line, it mentions a factor of 1 million, which makes sense, since current chips operate in the gigahertz range.

Comment Re:Just A Concept (Score 1) 23

I guess you're too young to remember full-page displays? They were designed to show you how your text would appear on a letter-size page, at scale.
Eventually, we got two-page displays, which were closer to today's aspect ratios. However, a 16" 16x9 display isn't great for even a full page
unless you scale things down a lot. For older users with presbyopia, this just doesn't work so well.

Also, the other use cases shown looked interesting: 2 virtual displays on 1, or extra space for special widgets.

Just because something doesn't fit the use case you have in mind doesn't mean it isn't useful.

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