Canadian here, that’s just not true, you only have to wait if you want to see a specific specialist and they are fully booked, then you have to decide if you would rather wait or see someone else.
Something most people don't know about HoloLens: the holograms stay where you put them indefinitely. So if you put a browser window on a wall in your bedroom and come back after a week, it will be exactly where you left it.
Yes, the holograms are literally objects made of light so at low brightness they are transparent, but if you crank up they will appear solid but you still won't confuse it for a real object because they are so bright.
I haven't watched a whole movie on it yet, but it wouldn't be a problem, the device is reasonably comfortable so you can wear it for hours
Yes it does work outside if the space has enough objects around so it can generate a model of the location. When model generation fails, it falls back to a "limited mode" where holograms follow you around instead of staying where you put them.
Oddly enough, the tracking system does not work in the dark, so you need some light to use it.
HoloLens user here, based on this video alone, the experience appears to be equivalent, although holograms appear to be a bit more stable on HoloLens, which also has no trouble tracking fast head movements
The problem isn't when you get banned, it is the fact that Google refuses to clearly communicate the reasons when there is real money at stake.
Google: "you delivered 30k worth of ads but I don't owe you anything because you broke the rules. I will not tell you which rules you broke or the URLs of the offending pages though, you will have to trust me"
Apple page on ergonomics? How ironic considering that most of their input devices are more like torture devices. Beautiful for sure but suitable for human use.
You are correct, their QC is more of a hardware solver for a very specific problem than a general purpose computer. On scaling, I was a D-Wave a few weeks ago, they seem to be prepared to scale-up the chip aggressively in 2012.
That is not how it works Viscanti, gate-based QCs are still toys and it remains to be proved if they will become useful anytime soon. On the other hand D-Wave's adiabatic chip is very promising but it requires you to fit a "square peg in a round hole" - expressing problems into a format their hardware can handle is tricky.
To clarify: you express your problem as an Ising model, load the model into the D-Wave One QC and it will solve it for you. The interesting thing is that solving Ising models is a NP-hard problem.
D-Wave's current chip has only 128 qubits and it is somewhat limited. As they scale it up (and they are prepared to do so) you will be able to use their computer to solve larger and larger models that could not be solved with standard silicon in a reasonable amount of time.
D-Wave's computer is basically a hardware solver for Ising/QUBO models. It is not programable in the traditional sense and you need to find a way to express the problem you want to solve in a way that maps well over the hardware.