In addition to needing some fairly substantial upgrades to a two year old computer (video card, mostly) and having to sink hundreds of dollars on a bulky headset with multiple wires, there is another problem for me.
My eyes are terrible. VR headsets don't fit over my glasses very well. And since I'm farsighted, I can't use it without them.
The VR industry has basically completely ignored people who don't have perfect vision.
I wouldn't call the claims he made "extraordinary," really.
He's making a claim about the properties of a material. Such claims are easily tested and verified. The inventor's refusal to provide samples for more than a handful of demonstrations is problematic and contributed to why the material was never turned into a commercial product.
That said, other people have created similar materials with similar properties since then. (I loved the BBC documentary where his kids were saying "ours is better." That's a nice claim, but you have to prove it.) At the end of the day, this wasn't some miracle material with magical properties. It was a material that had potential to be better than what existed at the time. If it was, the agencies and companies that were interested in it would have been bending over backwards to get their hands on it. At the end of the day, in spite of a few successful TV demonstrations, they all decided that working with this guy was not worth the trouble for what his product offered.
"Mr Brown said the law struck the 'delicate balance' between a person's right to privacy and Customs' law enforcement responsibilities."
Yes. A "delicate balance" wherein customs officials can do whatever they want to your device and slap you with a $5000 fine if you refuse to comply and you have no recourse if you think they're acting in bad faith.
In so far as dropping an anvil on one side of the scale is a "delicate balance," I suppose that's true.
1. Type the name of something on your system, press enter. 2. Mutter a few choice words under your breath and close the control panel or Microsoft Store app listing that opened instead of what you wanted. 3. Type the name of something on your system, use the mouse to click on it because it's actually the third item in the list for some reason.
I didn't like it when Ubuntu integrated Amazon searches into their launcher. One of the things about the new Pixels that drives me insane is that you can't search your app drawer without also pulling up google search suggestions. (Because, you know, there weren't enough ways to get to a google search from the Android home screen.) One of the first things I do on a Windows box is disable Cortana and the integrated web searching.
Why? Because if I wanted a damn internet search, I'd open my browser and search the internet. When I open the search function on my OS, I want it to search my local system. These days, the only way to do that is "find" and "grep."
That's a good point about the right margin. If you're going to tweak the left margin, also make sure to tweak the top and bottom margins. It doesn't buy you much in terms of page count, but having different-sized margins is eye catching.
And even if you have good paper, you have to have the most accurate of measuring devices to catch the 1/144 inch (~0.2 mm) discrepancy by bumping the font by half a point. If you're a teacher grading 30 papers, you're not going to break out the high-accuracy calipers. But it's enough to go from 40 lines per page to 38 lines per page. (Plus possible gains from word wrap adjustments.) That adds up over five or ten pages.
It works both ways, too. Need to page eight pages take up ten? 1.125" or 1.25" on both sides. Need to make a page and a half take up one page? 0.875" or 0.75" on both sides. Most printers don't center themselves well enough that a quarter inch on either side will be noticeable and for the ones that do, just widen the page guide slightly before loading.
I also found that using +/- 0.5pt fonts when a specific font size was mandated worked wonders on larger documents, too.
I had teachers and professors who would swear up and down that they would notice and/or measure that and that you'd get marked down for doing it. Never happened once.
I did see a few people who used 1.5" or 2" margins get caught, but come on. You're just asking for it at that point. That's like hacking into the electronic grade book and changing all your F's to A's.
Not at all. That's just the one I see come up the most.
I actually had Octopath Traveler in mind when I made the post. (And while it is a pixel art game that uses styling that's obviously meant to invoke comparisons to 16-bit JRPGs, it is very obviously NOT a 16-bit JRPG.)
Making a pixel art game today invites comparisons to SNES and Genesis in reviews. Things like "I felt like I could be playing this on my SNES" are (generally) considered compliments.
Making a 3D game today, if anything, invites "look how far we've come since N64 and PS1" in reviews. Things like "I felt like I was playing an N64 game" is not something people generally aspire to.
If all you're doing is shoving binary data at file descriptors, there's no reason to not use syscalls (open/close/read/write/sendfile.) They aren't that far off from their Win32 equivalents, either (CreateFile/CloseHandle/ReadFile/WriteFile/TransmitFile.)
Though I can't count the number of time I've gone to some kind of event (music, theater, anything with a live DJ) and seen an Apple laptop with a strip of gaff tape over the logo.
* For sale at stores in North America * Works on all carriers. * Optional isolation between the two SIM cards.
What it will probably be:
* For "emerging markets" only. (You can import it, though.) * GSM Only. * Paid app for isolation. (Available six months after release, integrated in the next major version of iOS.)
Part of me hopes that Apple does their usual "take something that exists and up the game," but if I keep expectations low I won't be disappointed when it's the same as every other Android dual SIM phone in existence.
I recently picked up an FPGA-based SNES clone. I haven't regretted it.
I don't think it has any value as an archival medium, since it still relies on the original cartridges and once the company that makes goes away, so does their FPGA code. (Probably. They could open source it, but who knows.) For that, we have projects like bsnes/higan. (Technically an emulator, but a cycle-accurate emulator that is fully open source.)
It's the same thing that happened with tablets and desktops.
"I bought this for $800 three years ago. It still mostly does what I need. The new one is $1000 and doesn't have anything I'm willing to spend $1000 to get."
Sounds to me like someone inside Microsoft grabbed the source code for the NT4 version of File Manager and patched it up for his own personal use on internal systems. Then he asked his manager if he could release it on Github so he could use it at home, too.
He was probably completely shocked when he actually got approval.
I'd be shocked if it was part of any particular open source strategy on the part of Microsoft.
1. User buys iPhone. 2. iPhone gets "slow." 3. Users sells iPhone back. 4. Replace battery. 5. Sell "refurbished" iPhone to another user for a tidy profit.
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Oh, I get that too.
It's just *also* exceedingly uncomfortable.
In addition to needing some fairly substantial upgrades to a two year old computer (video card, mostly) and having to sink hundreds of dollars on a bulky headset with multiple wires, there is another problem for me.
My eyes are terrible. VR headsets don't fit over my glasses very well. And since I'm farsighted, I can't use it without them.
The VR industry has basically completely ignored people who don't have perfect vision.
I wouldn't call the claims he made "extraordinary," really.
He's making a claim about the properties of a material. Such claims are easily tested and verified. The inventor's refusal to provide samples for more than a handful of demonstrations is problematic and contributed to why the material was never turned into a commercial product.
That said, other people have created similar materials with similar properties since then. (I loved the BBC documentary where his kids were saying "ours is better." That's a nice claim, but you have to prove it.) At the end of the day, this wasn't some miracle material with magical properties. It was a material that had potential to be better than what existed at the time. If it was, the agencies and companies that were interested in it would have been bending over backwards to get their hands on it. At the end of the day, in spite of a few successful TV demonstrations, they all decided that working with this guy was not worth the trouble for what his product offered.
"Mr Brown said the law struck the 'delicate balance' between a person's right to privacy and Customs' law enforcement responsibilities."
Yes. A "delicate balance" wherein customs officials can do whatever they want to your device and slap you with a $5000 fine if you refuse to comply and you have no recourse if you think they're acting in bad faith.
In so far as dropping an anvil on one side of the scale is a "delicate balance," I suppose that's true.
More like:
1. Type the name of something on your system, press enter.
2. Mutter a few choice words under your breath and close the control panel or Microsoft Store app listing that opened instead of what you wanted.
3. Type the name of something on your system, use the mouse to click on it because it's actually the third item in the list for some reason.
I didn't like it when Ubuntu integrated Amazon searches into their launcher.
One of the things about the new Pixels that drives me insane is that you can't search your app drawer without also pulling up google search suggestions. (Because, you know, there weren't enough ways to get to a google search from the Android home screen.)
One of the first things I do on a Windows box is disable Cortana and the integrated web searching.
Why? Because if I wanted a damn internet search, I'd open my browser and search the internet. When I open the search function on my OS, I want it to search my local system. These days, the only way to do that is "find" and "grep."
That's a good point about the right margin. If you're going to tweak the left margin, also make sure to tweak the top and bottom margins. It doesn't buy you much in terms of page count, but having different-sized margins is eye catching.
And even if you have good paper, you have to have the most accurate of measuring devices to catch the 1/144 inch (~0.2 mm) discrepancy by bumping the font by half a point. If you're a teacher grading 30 papers, you're not going to break out the high-accuracy calipers. But it's enough to go from 40 lines per page to 38 lines per page. (Plus possible gains from word wrap adjustments.) That adds up over five or ten pages.
Oh, I loved margin tweaking when I was in school.
It works both ways, too. Need to page eight pages take up ten? 1.125" or 1.25" on both sides. Need to make a page and a half take up one page? 0.875" or 0.75" on both sides. Most printers don't center themselves well enough that a quarter inch on either side will be noticeable and for the ones that do, just widen the page guide slightly before loading.
I also found that using +/- 0.5pt fonts when a specific font size was mandated worked wonders on larger documents, too.
I had teachers and professors who would swear up and down that they would notice and/or measure that and that you'd get marked down for doing it. Never happened once.
I did see a few people who used 1.5" or 2" margins get caught, but come on. You're just asking for it at that point. That's like hacking into the electronic grade book and changing all your F's to A's.
Not at all. That's just the one I see come up the most.
I actually had Octopath Traveler in mind when I made the post. (And while it is a pixel art game that uses styling that's obviously meant to invoke comparisons to 16-bit JRPGs, it is very obviously NOT a 16-bit JRPG.)
This.
Making a pixel art game today invites comparisons to SNES and Genesis in reviews. Things like "I felt like I could be playing this on my SNES" are (generally) considered compliments.
Making a 3D game today, if anything, invites "look how far we've come since N64 and PS1" in reviews. Things like "I felt like I was playing an N64 game" is not something people generally aspire to.
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If all you're doing is shoving binary data at file descriptors, there's no reason to not use syscalls (open/close/read/write/sendfile.) They aren't that far off from their Win32 equivalents, either (CreateFile/CloseHandle/ReadFile/WriteFile/TransmitFile.)
Though I can't count the number of time I've gone to some kind of event (music, theater, anything with a live DJ) and seen an Apple laptop with a strip of gaff tape over the logo.
It still has wetness, but it's feature-locked until you add some energy.
What I'd want to see:
* For sale at stores in North America
* Works on all carriers.
* Optional isolation between the two SIM cards.
What it will probably be:
* For "emerging markets" only. (You can import it, though.)
* GSM Only.
* Paid app for isolation. (Available six months after release, integrated in the next major version of iOS.)
Part of me hopes that Apple does their usual "take something that exists and up the game," but if I keep expectations low I won't be disappointed when it's the same as every other Android dual SIM phone in existence.
Yup. That's the one. And I did.
I'm still waiting for CopySNES to support wring SaveRAM files. There are a lot SaveRAM hacks I'd like to experiment with.
I recently picked up an FPGA-based SNES clone. I haven't regretted it.
I don't think it has any value as an archival medium, since it still relies on the original cartridges and once the company that makes goes away, so does their FPGA code. (Probably. They could open source it, but who knows.) For that, we have projects like bsnes/higan. (Technically an emulator, but a cycle-accurate emulator that is fully open source.)
True, but by then the window to invoke the Congressional Review Act will be closed.
This. Wish I had mod points.
It's the same thing that happened with tablets and desktops.
"I bought this for $800 three years ago. It still mostly does what I need. The new one is $1000 and doesn't have anything I'm willing to spend $1000 to get."
I guarantee you it's a non-starter among us millennials, too.
Privacy concerns aside, the potential liability associated with using Eventbrite just went into the stratosphere.
Certainly. Especially if their $150 discrete GPU outperforms their competitor's $200 GPU.
(Not saying it will, but if it did it would be interesting if it did.)
Sounds to me like someone inside Microsoft grabbed the source code for the NT4 version of File Manager and patched it up for his own personal use on internal systems. Then he asked his manager if he could release it on Github so he could use it at home, too.
He was probably completely shocked when he actually got approval.
I'd be shocked if it was part of any particular open source strategy on the part of Microsoft.
If my mod points hadn't expired yesterday, I would have used them on this.
I've had Wine cause kernel panics before.
It's not particularly common, though. No more common than a blue screen and it's usually related to video drivers.
1. User buys iPhone.
2. iPhone gets "slow."
3. Users sells iPhone back.
4. Replace battery.
5. Sell "refurbished" iPhone to another user for a tidy profit.