Are these symptoms actually consistent with glaucoma, and do you have sufficient field knowledge for giving this advice?
If not, it seems like kinda an irresponsible thing to do to say that, because you'd be unnecessarily freaking out/wasting the time of a large number of people who read Slashdot and get vision fatigue, including me. I actually visited an ophthalmologist over my eye strain and eye tiredness from using computers all day, and he said at the time it was fairly normal. If this is seriously something that indicates glaucoma, or impending blindness, I might be inclined to get a second opinion.
"... if there was one positive you could take away from the event, it was that Move is clearly a far more precise implementation than the Wiimote. Some of the games felt clearly more 'tactile' than the Wii equivalents."
It's interesting that their experience is so different from Engadget's.
Engadget's hands-on found: * We hate to say this about "pre-alpha" software, but we're feeling lag. An on-rails shooter we tried out, dubbed The Shoot, was discernibly inferior to shooting experiences we've had on the Wii, both in precision and refresh rate of the aiming cursor. * The system seemed to have a bit of trouble understanding the configuration of our body in a swordfighting stance: even though we selected "left handed," it was putting our sword arm forward instead of our shield. Right-handers didn't seem to have similar problems, and we're sure this will be ironed out in time, but it certainly shows that the controllers aren't magical in their space-detection prowess.
With the huge size of the 1.5 million number, it's all moot anyway, but if we haven't figured out a way out of the solar system by then, it seems like a great way to hitch a ride with the rogue star. Sure, it's much weaker than the sun, but if by then we have the technology to park a couple of space stations or asteroids that much closer to it, seems like a great way to do extra-solar colonization on the cheap.
Heh as we both post here on Slashdot on Saturday night...
But jesting aside, your attack is totally unwarranted.
If the situation is seriously sitting in a room with an internet connection and a computer, and a person cannot make something of it, then that person has seriously wrong with them. Virtually the sum total of humanity's knowledge at your fingertips, you can teach yourself anything.
If self-improvement is not the subject of the ambition, then any number of profit-generating activities can be undertaken with nothing more than a ton of time, a computer and the Internet.
To call that a punishment, to be "forced" to sit in a room, which is essentially an office, a free office, while you amuse yourself, teach yourself or even start a business for yourself, well I just can't empathize with that type of a feeling.
I know how hard I would work, if there were no consequences for not doing so. Sure, there are idealists in the mix who would work hard anyway, but there are also going to be pragmatists, who wouldn't work as hard if there were no consequences.
If the job security situation is such that it takes 10 years pay to fire one teacher, and that is an accurate depiction of the situation, it may very well be that education would be improved by reduced job security. Hunger can be a powerful motivator.
You had me nodding in agreement until I got to the part about the boss. I'm not sure what relevance the boss' pay has to the teacher's pay.
If you're a super star private school and you hire a super star principal and pay him 500k a year, I'm sure you could mitigate teachers desire to unionize by paying performing teachers 200k a year.
The key seems to just be if you compensate better performers better, then they will feel less need to overpay under performers if they feel that it's coming out of their own pocket.
Actually, the video linked in the article did address both world size and more monsters directly. They're going for sand box style battles, with more of the feeling of vastness of stepping out of the ship in Halo 1, with more monsters and allies.
A personal computer, even a netbook, does not have the type of portability and mobility due to its form factor that is required for the uses parent has in mind.
I'm not so sure you're right that they should have put a lot of effort into something WinCE based for a tablet.
Witness the response even the vaunted Apple received to its iPad. It's being widely criticized as being an over-sized iPod Touch. Will it be a huge success? If it were from any other company than Apple, I'd say no way. Even coming from Apple though, even if it succeeds, there's clearly a significant number of people out there looking for a full computer experience that's usable with touch or pen input.
I actually got one not too long after they first came out, and it was a decent computer. It wasn't being hampered by processing power, running XP, but rather just the general quality of their tablet interactions, like the guy said. It really did feel like Office support was shoehorned in, which at the time I couldn't understand, but now makes more sense.
His criticism actually strikes me as very apt, looking at Microsoft's often dysfunctionally bad product launches.
Is there even an argument as to why their much-neglected Windows Home Server line should not be integrated with Windows Media Center? You've already got a box with a gigaton of storage in a box that's supposed to be left on at all times. And you're supposed to get a second PC to run Windows Media Center to DVR television programs? How many servers does Microsoft think each family wants in their house? Hint, the answer is that even one is pushing it. They control all elements of the software chain, yet the integration between WHS and Windows clients still leaves a ton to be desired. It feels like something that a 3rd party hacked together and released, not at all like Apple's all cylinders firing together smoothness.
Or in another area, where is the total lack of integration between their Xbox division and all other divisions? People have been clamoring for some type of connectivity between Windows Mobile and their Xbox for ages, and they're just now getting around to doing it.
His criticisms sound pretty plausible to me. For a company with its mitts in as many related fields as Microsoft is, the lack of cohesiveness between product divisions is striking.
Can't address your data card question as I have no experience, but I can address your phone.
Go online, and buy a Sprint SERO plan transferred from one of the fools selling theirs online. Nothing beats it.
Use your old HTC phone, or get a new HTC WinMo phone (unfortunately Palms and Android phones are blocked from SERO since it's too good a deal).
Enjoy your unlimited data, texts, nights and weekends from 7, and 500 voice minutes for 30 a month. All on what is widely perceived to be the fastest 3G network, all while roaming freely onto Verizon's network, which is widely perceived to be the best voice network.
Agreed, I have experienced this as well. Furthermore, you can also see this effect in the cities. If you take your cell phone to the top of the highest skyscraper around, frequently you can see it have little to no reception even while there are full bars at the base.
Yes, they're all considered dystopian in the context of the West, but I think his point is astute, that whether something is a dystopia is contextual. The people living in positions of privilege, i.e. the West, wring their hands over and work hard to prevent these various dystopias from occurring, even while they may be actually working against the interests of the majority of humanity.
What we have now, if it wasn't reality, could be easily portrayed as a dystopia in a novel. Worse, the people with power to change things (the powered and moneyed people who are citizens in the first world) are unwilling to consider a lot of possibilities that may be on the table because they seem worse than their own privileged positions, without considering how badly off the majority of humanity is under their current system.
I agree the race dropping was uncalled for, but he also was giving this response in an interview, where we can't always pick the perfect words for what we're trying to say. If he was just trying to draw a distinction between middle class in the privileged (and largely white) West versus the middle class in, say, India where by US standards you're still desperately poor, I don't think it's entirely illegitimate.
Your post is pretty disingenuous I think but you still managed to get the 5.
As others have noted, you are the one not reading carefully, as there are 3 mentioned in just the article. I don't know that any type of support for claiming "others" exist is even necessary, as I don't doubt that this is not a complete list of developers fleeing the app store.
Furthermore, calling Joe Hewitt the developer of "a facebook app. ONE facebook app" is ridiculous. He is not only the developer of ONE just any facebook app, he was the developer of THE ONE official facebook app. Calling the reporter out in that type of deceptive manner is basically shameless pandering to mods that don't know the backstory.
Also from what I understand somewhat inflated by ridiculous "apps", for example apps that are in fact just a single book built into a single purpose reader, or better yet, select chapters of a book split into multiple apps so you hook a reader on the cheap and then keep on selling to them.
Well, when the first round "respected developers" are leaving because the money is not as good as they thought, due to reasons such as investing a year of their time in development only to show zero for it because Apple rejected their app...
Oops, actually I just re-read my link, and realized that what he's saying is that the D-E didn't drop frames but the C-U did. Both the D-E and the A that you have use dual core Atom 330's. In fact, I can't seem to figure out what the difference is being the A and the D-E from Zotac's horrible website.
Maybe I'll look into getting one of the Atom 330 ones like you have for myself.
Have you tried many of the alternative fancier skins with transparency and title lookup/cover preview? Do those run smoothly on your system?
Have there been improvements since this post? I just headed over to the XBMC forums and looked for relevant posts, and came across this post claiming they had some dropped frames with the Zotac IONITX-C-U and the Zotac IONITX-D-E: http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=411435&postcount=5
This looks incredible if they can pull it off, but until this is out, what is the cheapest XBMC machine I could throw together that would be able to play any content I throw at it?
I'd love to jump on upgrading from my vintage Xbox XBMC, but I'd hate to drop a few hundred on an upgrade only to find out that it plays 99% of videos out there, but chokes on all high bit rate 1080p MKVs with lots of action, or something like that.
I'm really excited to have a GPS (someday, I'm not on Android yet, though hopefully Google will eventually release this to other platforms) that integrates satellite view and street view like Google Maps Navigation does.
Only downside (and it's a big one) is that I doubt Google will ever let you download the whole maps database for caching to your device. I love the freedom of having maps to everywhere I could conceivably ever want to drive already preloaded onto my GPS. Of course, I imagine with the satellite images and street view images that the size of the map database could be a few orders of magnitude larger than with traditional GPS databases.
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Are these symptoms actually consistent with glaucoma, and do you have sufficient field knowledge for giving this advice?
If not, it seems like kinda an irresponsible thing to do to say that, because you'd be unnecessarily freaking out/wasting the time of a large number of people who read Slashdot and get vision fatigue, including me. I actually visited an ophthalmologist over my eye strain and eye tiredness from using computers all day, and he said at the time it was fairly normal. If this is seriously something that indicates glaucoma, or impending blindness, I might be inclined to get a second opinion.
"... if there was one positive you could take away from the event, it was that Move is clearly a far more precise implementation than the Wiimote. Some of the games felt clearly more 'tactile' than the Wii equivalents."
It's interesting that their experience is so different from Engadget's.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/playstation-move-first-hands-on/
Engadget's hands-on found:
* We hate to say this about "pre-alpha" software, but we're feeling lag. An on-rails shooter we tried out, dubbed The Shoot, was discernibly inferior to shooting experiences we've had on the Wii, both in precision and refresh rate of the aiming cursor.
* The system seemed to have a bit of trouble understanding the configuration of our body in a swordfighting stance: even though we selected "left handed," it was putting our sword arm forward instead of our shield. Right-handers didn't seem to have similar problems, and we're sure this will be ironed out in time, but it certainly shows that the controllers aren't magical in their space-detection prowess.
With the huge size of the 1.5 million number, it's all moot anyway, but if we haven't figured out a way out of the solar system by then, it seems like a great way to hitch a ride with the rogue star. Sure, it's much weaker than the sun, but if by then we have the technology to park a couple of space stations or asteroids that much closer to it, seems like a great way to do extra-solar colonization on the cheap.
Heh as we both post here on Slashdot on Saturday night...
But jesting aside, your attack is totally unwarranted.
If the situation is seriously sitting in a room with an internet connection and a computer, and a person cannot make something of it, then that person has seriously wrong with them. Virtually the sum total of humanity's knowledge at your fingertips, you can teach yourself anything.
If self-improvement is not the subject of the ambition, then any number of profit-generating activities can be undertaken with nothing more than a ton of time, a computer and the Internet.
To call that a punishment, to be "forced" to sit in a room, which is essentially an office, a free office, while you amuse yourself, teach yourself or even start a business for yourself, well I just can't empathize with that type of a feeling.
Doesn't sound impossible.
I know how hard I would work, if there were no consequences for not doing so. Sure, there are idealists in the mix who would work hard anyway, but there are also going to be pragmatists, who wouldn't work as hard if there were no consequences.
If the job security situation is such that it takes 10 years pay to fire one teacher, and that is an accurate depiction of the situation, it may very well be that education would be improved by reduced job security. Hunger can be a powerful motivator.
Haha are you kidding me? I and half the people on Slashdot do that for free everyday!
With a laptop and the Internet I can entertain myself for pretty much an unlimited amount of time.
Sounds like this is not just a low level janitor like you say.
He's writing checks to employees.
Incidentally, NY public school teachers are pretty well compensated, among the top in the nation, with tenure after only a few years and pensions.
You had me nodding in agreement until I got to the part about the boss. I'm not sure what relevance the boss' pay has to the teacher's pay.
If you're a super star private school and you hire a super star principal and pay him 500k a year, I'm sure you could mitigate teachers desire to unionize by paying performing teachers 200k a year.
The key seems to just be if you compensate better performers better, then they will feel less need to overpay under performers if they feel that it's coming out of their own pocket.
Actually, the video linked in the article did address both world size and more monsters directly. They're going for sand box style battles, with more of the feeling of vastness of stepping out of the ship in Halo 1, with more monsters and allies.
You're just being contrary, and you know it.
A personal computer, even a netbook, does not have the type of portability and mobility due to its form factor that is required for the uses parent has in mind.
I'm not so sure you're right that they should have put a lot of effort into something WinCE based for a tablet.
Witness the response even the vaunted Apple received to its iPad. It's being widely criticized as being an over-sized iPod Touch. Will it be a huge success? If it were from any other company than Apple, I'd say no way. Even coming from Apple though, even if it succeeds, there's clearly a significant number of people out there looking for a full computer experience that's usable with touch or pen input.
I actually got one not too long after they first came out, and it was a decent computer. It wasn't being hampered by processing power, running XP, but rather just the general quality of their tablet interactions, like the guy said. It really did feel like Office support was shoehorned in, which at the time I couldn't understand, but now makes more sense.
His criticism actually strikes me as very apt, looking at Microsoft's often dysfunctionally bad product launches.
Is there even an argument as to why their much-neglected Windows Home Server line should not be integrated with Windows Media Center? You've already got a box with a gigaton of storage in a box that's supposed to be left on at all times. And you're supposed to get a second PC to run Windows Media Center to DVR television programs? How many servers does Microsoft think each family wants in their house? Hint, the answer is that even one is pushing it. They control all elements of the software chain, yet the integration between WHS and Windows clients still leaves a ton to be desired. It feels like something that a 3rd party hacked together and released, not at all like Apple's all cylinders firing together smoothness.
Or in another area, where is the total lack of integration between their Xbox division and all other divisions? People have been clamoring for some type of connectivity between Windows Mobile and their Xbox for ages, and they're just now getting around to doing it.
His criticisms sound pretty plausible to me. For a company with its mitts in as many related fields as Microsoft is, the lack of cohesiveness between product divisions is striking.
Can't address your data card question as I have no experience, but I can address your phone.
Go online, and buy a Sprint SERO plan transferred from one of the fools selling theirs online. Nothing beats it.
Use your old HTC phone, or get a new HTC WinMo phone (unfortunately Palms and Android phones are blocked from SERO since it's too good a deal).
Enjoy your unlimited data, texts, nights and weekends from 7, and 500 voice minutes for 30 a month. All on what is widely perceived to be the fastest 3G network, all while roaming freely onto Verizon's network, which is widely perceived to be the best voice network.
Agreed, I have experienced this as well. Furthermore, you can also see this effect in the cities. If you take your cell phone to the top of the highest skyscraper around, frequently you can see it have little to no reception even while there are full bars at the base.
Yes, they're all considered dystopian in the context of the West, but I think his point is astute, that whether something is a dystopia is contextual. The people living in positions of privilege, i.e. the West, wring their hands over and work hard to prevent these various dystopias from occurring, even while they may be actually working against the interests of the majority of humanity.
What we have now, if it wasn't reality, could be easily portrayed as a dystopia in a novel. Worse, the people with power to change things (the powered and moneyed people who are citizens in the first world) are unwilling to consider a lot of possibilities that may be on the table because they seem worse than their own privileged positions, without considering how badly off the majority of humanity is under their current system.
I agree the race dropping was uncalled for, but he also was giving this response in an interview, where we can't always pick the perfect words for what we're trying to say. If he was just trying to draw a distinction between middle class in the privileged (and largely white) West versus the middle class in, say, India where by US standards you're still desperately poor, I don't think it's entirely illegitimate.
The thing I thought funniest about that commercial (here for those of you that don't know what we're talking about: http://movies.apple.com/media/us/mac/getamac/2009/apple-mvp-broken_promises-us-20091022_480x272.mov) is that as the Mac Guy goes back in time with the Windows Guy, no matter how far back you go he's still wearing hipster doofus skinny jeans.
Your post is pretty disingenuous I think but you still managed to get the 5.
As others have noted, you are the one not reading carefully, as there are 3 mentioned in just the article. I don't know that any type of support for claiming "others" exist is even necessary, as I don't doubt that this is not a complete list of developers fleeing the app store.
Furthermore, calling Joe Hewitt the developer of "a facebook app. ONE facebook app" is ridiculous. He is not only the developer of ONE just any facebook app, he was the developer of THE ONE official facebook app. Calling the reporter out in that type of deceptive manner is basically shameless pandering to mods that don't know the backstory.
Also from what I understand somewhat inflated by ridiculous "apps", for example apps that are in fact just a single book built into a single purpose reader, or better yet, select chapters of a book split into multiple apps so you hook a reader on the cheap and then keep on selling to them.
Well, when the first round "respected developers" are leaving because the money is not as good as they thought, due to reasons such as investing a year of their time in development only to show zero for it because Apple rejected their app...
Oops, actually I just re-read my link, and realized that what he's saying is that the D-E didn't drop frames but the C-U did. Both the D-E and the A that you have use dual core Atom 330's. In fact, I can't seem to figure out what the difference is being the A and the D-E from Zotac's horrible website.
Maybe I'll look into getting one of the Atom 330 ones like you have for myself.
Have you tried many of the alternative fancier skins with transparency and title lookup/cover preview? Do those run smoothly on your system?
Thanks for the help!
Have there been improvements since this post? I just headed over to the XBMC forums and looked for relevant posts, and came across this post claiming they had some dropped frames with the Zotac IONITX-C-U and the Zotac IONITX-D-E:
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=411435&postcount=5
Thanks!
This looks incredible if they can pull it off, but until this is out, what is the cheapest XBMC machine I could throw together that would be able to play any content I throw at it?
I'd love to jump on upgrading from my vintage Xbox XBMC, but I'd hate to drop a few hundred on an upgrade only to find out that it plays 99% of videos out there, but chokes on all high bit rate 1080p MKVs with lots of action, or something like that.
I'm really excited to have a GPS (someday, I'm not on Android yet, though hopefully Google will eventually release this to other platforms) that integrates satellite view and street view like Google Maps Navigation does.
Only downside (and it's a big one) is that I doubt Google will ever let you download the whole maps database for caching to your device. I love the freedom of having maps to everywhere I could conceivably ever want to drive already preloaded onto my GPS. Of course, I imagine with the satellite images and street view images that the size of the map database could be a few orders of magnitude larger than with traditional GPS databases.
As someone without access to Spotify, what's the benefit of Spotify versus the all-you-can-eat style music subscriptions like Rhapsody or Napster?
Yes, but libraries don't attempt to autoload a tray application without the plugin and player.