In fact, I think we need a new Department: DERP - Department of Earnings from Role Playing. Then we can finally shut down the other online currencies like WoW Gold that threaten the almighty buck!
My point here?/., we don't need an article every time a new version is released.... frankly very few people honestly care at this point.
Of course very few people actually care: Only Nerds like me care about news like this. Who the hell do you think makes content for these platforms? Web Fairies?!
/me shakes his star tipped wand at you. VortexCortex quit: [Off to make stuff that matters!]
WTF is wrong with these humans? It's like they learn nothing about the Universe at all. I can see this type of technology accenting controller play, but not replacing it. Why? Because you do have hands! Yes, Look, I'm not lying! Many of you are using a direct mind machine interface right now, albeit a bit slower than thought, but clearly more refined than the control these helmets allow. Why, for a proficient typist the words spill right onto the page, and even auto-correct without explicitly thinking to hit the backspace key, or navigate the cursor and selection.
Hundreds of Millions of years of evolution have bought humans highly sensitive dexterous appendages for multiple simultaneous Input and Output channels; Yet their "advancements" in "intuitive" user interface are to just leave the most amazing "controllers" on the planet dangling at your sides while they try to detect brain waves? That's so similar to voluntarily grunting as a mode of communication instead of speaking that it lacks humor.
Don't get me wrong, I love new technology, but no you're not replacing the hand held controller. It's how humans have evolved to manipulate the Universe. Thought input doesn't give you the necessary tactile feedback to modulate your input. This is Elementary Cybernetics folks: Sense, Decide, Act.... SENSE. You need sensory feedback in order to decide to act, and thus converge on the proper input level. A keypress, button, or trigger informs you directly by way of near instantaneous immediate sensory feedback in a way that waving your arms about in front of a camera, or wearing a brain-wave detecting hat just can't.
The place for these things is perhaps to pull up and navigate on screen huds or issue commands to squadmates, or select weapon groups, or reactive-paint colors, Minecraft materials, etc. while you continue to control the game with hands and feet. I have pedals for my steering-wheel controller. The steering-wheel has force feedback -- The wheel fights back (it gives me feedback about the game-world). I was never able to compete in racing games until the day after I got that controller. I purchased it to develop games with, not because I enjoyed racing games or ever expected to be able to play them with skill, and yet I now do. The point is that there is plenty of room left for innovation in tactile response controls too. There's no false dichotomy. Hands-free controls can be used along with hand-held controls to give you more control.
It's really like they're not even observing the same damn species, I swear.
Maybe I can Start loving Windows again
Stop saddling me with your damn phone interface and we'll see.
Yeah, the phone-thing can be a problem... If you do start loving windows again, make sure you get proper protection, or at lest prop it up with a hypervisor box so don't ruin your 'hardware' when it comes crashing down, if you know what I mean...
Protip: The windows that you can crack open using a special tool is the best -- You can adjust for tightness.
The patent isn't on automatic generation of the caricatures, it's on their particular algorithm for doing so.
-jcr
To find out that the mo-cap I've done with standard web cams to create game sprites and do digital lip-syncing since the mid 90s isn't infringing just because I can use a Kinect for an input will cost millions...
3 - I have always hated that one, becasue it's wrong. It's been wrong since the scientific method was put into place.
I can see a floating disk and know it's science and engineering that created it. In fact, we could use that to figure out how it works.
Not understanding something doesn't mean it's magic.
With sufficiently advanced technology I could emulate your brain and this planet within a much larger supercomputer. What if I counfound your scientific method and make the observable universe as crazy as the rules of magic. A being within said simulation could be given access to the voice-activated debugger mode, and when he spoke the 'magic' words, you could suddenly find yourself crawling about as a newt.
So, no, you're wrong. Clark's third law is correct, and always shall be.
I see you're trying to open a document with embedded macros. Would you like to scan this file for malware first, or would you like me to install the malware myself?
On what fact is the assumption that patents are beneficial for society based? Sounds like an untested hypothesis to me, or an opinion that was never tested. So, the fact is, we have no evidence that patents are beneficial to society. I conclude any company utilizing patents is thus irresponsible: If you don't know the gun is loaded or not do you point it at your head and pull the trigger?
Your bullshit "facts" are completely based on a legal assumption that life should be patentable, because patents are beneficial to society. They are not facts. It's a chain of fucking assumptions based on untested unproven hypotheses.
You mean they created that Unity abortion just because they wanted to? I was cutting them some slack because I thought it was supposed to be compatible with a mobile touch interface or something. I mean, I thought that was a little batty, but Holy shit, they're completely insane!
Yeah, let's see, I want my phone UI to get cocked up just for the fuck of it at any future point at some moronic UI designer's whim... No, sorry Canonical. Screw me once, shame on me; Screw me twice...
I'd rather use Firefox OS. It may be built out of some horribly slow scripting language, but at least if the platform tanks I can still run the apps in a web browser instead.
For a moment I read "can be made using a hobbit-level 3D printer".
Well, hobbit bodies have a different refractive index than the pex material used here, It might get a bit gruesome, but you can use the same basic principal in TFA with hobbits.
Call me a nitpicker, but to me "invisible" is the opposite of "visible", which is the defining characteristic of what we call visible light. Being being undetectable to 10GHz frequencies, while impressive in its own light (haha), is most certainly not invisibility.
I DON'T see what you did there! "Being partially invisible by being undetectable..." Haha, Good One!
You're right, full EM spectrum cloaking is out of our grasp at present, and the fact that you can print a sub-light frequency invisibility cloak with a hobby grade 3D printer pales in comparison to making multiple words disappear at broadband speeds with a high tech computing device. My hat's off to you good sir!
I wonder other are in there? I , but can't tell am doing right.
But most of the fish we eat do the same thing.
I don't see why we can't make protein powder from insects. Then you just need some celebs to endorse it and make it cool.
Hell, why not just cut out the middle (mer)man and just eat our own shit!
We can make chocolate flavored protein powder from poo!
Silly human. When your mind is the Internet, you don't have to worry about bandwidth anymore. This message was brought to you at the cost of only a few Yottobits of autonomous SPAM relays.
Personally I prefer the unlimited bandwidth quantum computing provides -- when you make each atom in the universe part of the calculation. What's this "technology" of yours that is "in development"?
... should be illegal. They need to make a law against those horrible things so they don't let people walk away scott-free. We already have such a law against doing horrible things in my state. Why doesn't California have it already?
We were going to outlaw horrible things, man, but instead we ate all the honey-nut cheerios straight from the box and fell asleep watching golf because no one could reach the remote from the couch.
Hmmm. Well, it's the lawmakers that pass the reactionary laws after a terrorist attack. So, they're the instrument used by terrorists to steal our freedom. Yep, I think we should make a law to outlaw lawmakers... wait, what?
Well the government runs law enforcement, public education, welfare, and infrastructure maintenance, I like having those things and can't pay for them all by myself...
You don't have to be the only one paying. We don't need taxes to publicly fund this stuff. We can just run a Kickstarter.
Simmons, you can't write it up in the incident report as an "ammonia leak" when you miss the evacuation pipe. If you can't hold it in use the gelatin, man. We've all got to breathe this air dammit. You just bought a replacement scrubber cartridge.
"Protection" is a disease. The government is not obliged to protect you. Congress has upheld that police are not required to protect you. Protecting yourself and your family is your responsibility. Life is dangerous. Be prepared. More folks die in car crashes, we don't ban cars or streets. Zip-Guns made of junk can kill you, hell, a plastic knife can kill you if sharpened properly, a broken window tied to a stick is a lethal weapon of opportunity. Limiting freedom should never be the answer to fear. The answer is to simply be aware of the danger you face in every day life, and protect yourself. Regulations like these are cancerous leaches of tax-payer money.
We really need to change the 2nd amendment, or create a new one clarifying that we have the right to bear technology, cryptography, photography, computers, and firearms included.
Slashdot Mirror
How does it feel being treated like a imp.
Shaka, when the walls fell...
In fact, I think we need a new Department: DERP - Department of Earnings from Role Playing. Then we can finally shut down the other online currencies like WoW Gold that threaten the almighty buck!
My point here? /., we don't need an article every time a new version is released. ... frankly very few people honestly care at this point.
Of course very few people actually care: Only Nerds like me care about news like this. Who the hell do you think makes content for these platforms? Web Fairies?!
VortexCortex quit: [Off to make stuff that matters!]
WTF is wrong with these humans? It's like they learn nothing about the Universe at all. I can see this type of technology accenting controller play, but not replacing it. Why? Because you do have hands! Yes, Look, I'm not lying! Many of you are using a direct mind machine interface right now, albeit a bit slower than thought, but clearly more refined than the control these helmets allow. Why, for a proficient typist the words spill right onto the page, and even auto-correct without explicitly thinking to hit the backspace key, or navigate the cursor and selection.
Hundreds of Millions of years of evolution have bought humans highly sensitive dexterous appendages for multiple simultaneous Input and Output channels; Yet their "advancements" in "intuitive" user interface are to just leave the most amazing "controllers" on the planet dangling at your sides while they try to detect brain waves? That's so similar to voluntarily grunting as a mode of communication instead of speaking that it lacks humor.
Don't get me wrong, I love new technology, but no you're not replacing the hand held controller. It's how humans have evolved to manipulate the Universe. Thought input doesn't give you the necessary tactile feedback to modulate your input. This is Elementary Cybernetics folks: Sense, Decide, Act.... SENSE. You need sensory feedback in order to decide to act, and thus converge on the proper input level. A keypress, button, or trigger informs you directly by way of near instantaneous immediate sensory feedback in a way that waving your arms about in front of a camera, or wearing a brain-wave detecting hat just can't.
The place for these things is perhaps to pull up and navigate on screen huds or issue commands to squadmates, or select weapon groups, or reactive-paint colors, Minecraft materials, etc. while you continue to control the game with hands and feet. I have pedals for my steering-wheel controller. The steering-wheel has force feedback -- The wheel fights back (it gives me feedback about the game-world). I was never able to compete in racing games until the day after I got that controller. I purchased it to develop games with, not because I enjoyed racing games or ever expected to be able to play them with skill, and yet I now do. The point is that there is plenty of room left for innovation in tactile response controls too. There's no false dichotomy. Hands-free controls can be used along with hand-held controls to give you more control.
It's really like they're not even observing the same damn species, I swear.
Maybe I can Start loving Windows again
Stop saddling me with your damn phone interface and we'll see.
Yeah, the phone-thing can be a problem... If you do start loving windows again, make sure you get proper protection, or at lest prop it up with a hypervisor box so don't ruin your 'hardware' when it comes crashing down, if you know what I mean...
Protip: The windows that you can crack open using a special tool is the best -- You can adjust for tightness.
I don't pirate porn, largely because the majority of it is fake
You mean he wasn't a real plumber?
Though that explains why he did such a poor job fixing things I suppose.
"Oh No! That's not what happens in the Last Castle! Stay away from Princess Peach you filthy poo plunger!"
Childhood. In. Ruins.
The patent isn't on automatic generation of the caricatures, it's on their particular algorithm for doing so.
-jcr
To find out that the mo-cap I've done with standard web cams to create game sprites and do digital lip-syncing since the mid 90s isn't infringing just because I can use a Kinect for an input will cost millions...
And the individual borg minds are essentially ASIC...
3 - I have always hated that one, becasue it's wrong. It's been wrong since the scientific method was put into place.
I can see a floating disk and know it's science and engineering that created it. In fact, we could use that to figure out how it works.
Not understanding something doesn't mean it's magic.
With sufficiently advanced technology I could emulate your brain and this planet within a much larger supercomputer. What if I counfound your scientific method and make the observable universe as crazy as the rules of magic. A being within said simulation could be given access to the voice-activated debugger mode, and when he spoke the 'magic' words, you could suddenly find yourself crawling about as a newt.
So, no, you're wrong. Clark's third law is correct, and always shall be.
Stop Son!
I see you're trying to open a document with embedded macros. Would you like to scan this file for malware first, or would you like me to install the malware myself?
On what fact is the assumption that patents are beneficial for society based? Sounds like an untested hypothesis to me, or an opinion that was never tested. So, the fact is, we have no evidence that patents are beneficial to society. I conclude any company utilizing patents is thus irresponsible: If you don't know the gun is loaded or not do you point it at your head and pull the trigger?
Your bullshit "facts" are completely based on a legal assumption that life should be patentable, because patents are beneficial to society. They are not facts. It's a chain of fucking assumptions based on untested unproven hypotheses.
Music doesn't make copies of itself if let alone. Life does.
That's for the idea!
I'm off to add Conway's Game of Life to the payload of a Windows Rootkit Virus. It'll be unstoppable!
Everybody hates it and everybody uses it? That doesn't make any sense.
Mind = Blown @ how much you must think everyone loves the shitter...
Can it automatically split transactions among 50 accounts to account for state sales tax?
Space hasn't ratified the Berne Convention.
That's because it's pre-empted by the Bene Gesserit Convention: The Space Must Flow
(otherwise, how can the spice?)
These are both special cases of the Tao of the Cybernetician: Everything Flows
It's a Universal Truth even at a quantum level: Information that does not flow is useless.
Ergo: Copyrights are retarding and wrong.
You mean they created that Unity abortion just because they wanted to? I was cutting them some slack because I thought it was supposed to be compatible with a mobile touch interface or something. I mean, I thought that was a little batty, but Holy shit, they're completely insane!
Yeah, let's see, I want my phone UI to get cocked up just for the fuck of it at any future point at some moronic UI designer's whim... No, sorry Canonical. Screw me once, shame on me; Screw me twice...
I'd rather use Firefox OS. It may be built out of some horribly slow scripting language, but at least if the platform tanks I can still run the apps in a web browser instead.
For a moment I read "can be made using a hobbit-level 3D printer".
Well, hobbit bodies have a different refractive index than the pex material used here, It might get a bit gruesome, but you can use the same basic principal in TFA with hobbits.
Off to craft a new one-ring, I take it?
Call me a nitpicker, but to me "invisible" is the opposite of "visible", which is the defining characteristic of what we call visible light. Being being undetectable to 10GHz frequencies, while impressive in its own light (haha), is most certainly not invisibility.
I DON'T see what you did there! "Being partially invisible by being undetectable..."
Haha, Good One!
You're right, full EM spectrum cloaking is out of our grasp at present, and the fact that you can print a sub-light frequency invisibility cloak with a hobby grade 3D printer pales in comparison to making multiple words disappear at broadband speeds with a high tech computing device. My hat's off to you good sir!
I wonder other are in there?
I , but can't tell am doing right.
But most of the fish we eat do the same thing. I don't see why we can't make protein powder from insects. Then you just need some celebs to endorse it and make it cool.
Hell, why not just cut out the middle (mer)man and just eat our own shit!
We can make chocolate flavored protein powder from poo!
Silly human. When your mind is the Internet, you don't have to worry about bandwidth anymore. This message was brought to you at the cost of only a few Yottobits of autonomous SPAM relays.
Personally I prefer the unlimited bandwidth quantum computing provides -- when you make each atom in the universe part of the calculation. What's this "technology" of yours that is "in development"?
... should be illegal. They need to make a law against those horrible things so they don't let people walk away scott-free. We already have such a law against doing horrible things in my state. Why doesn't California have it already?
We were going to outlaw horrible things, man, but instead we ate all the honey-nut cheerios straight from the box and fell asleep watching golf because no one could reach the remote from the couch.
Hmmm. Well, it's the lawmakers that pass the reactionary laws after a terrorist attack. So, they're the instrument used by terrorists to steal our freedom. Yep, I think we should make a law to outlaw lawmakers... wait, what?
Well the government runs law enforcement, public education, welfare, and infrastructure maintenance, I like having those things and can't pay for them all by myself...
You don't have to be the only one paying. We don't need taxes to publicly fund this stuff. We can just run a Kickstarter.
Simmons, you can't write it up in the incident report as an "ammonia leak" when you miss the evacuation pipe. If you can't hold it in use the gelatin, man. We've all got to breathe this air dammit. You just bought a replacement scrubber cartridge.
"Protection" is a disease. The government is not obliged to protect you. Congress has upheld that police are not required to protect you. Protecting yourself and your family is your responsibility. Life is dangerous. Be prepared. More folks die in car crashes, we don't ban cars or streets. Zip-Guns made of junk can kill you, hell, a plastic knife can kill you if sharpened properly, a broken window tied to a stick is a lethal weapon of opportunity. Limiting freedom should never be the answer to fear. The answer is to simply be aware of the danger you face in every day life, and protect yourself. Regulations like these are cancerous leaches of tax-payer money.
We really need to change the 2nd amendment, or create a new one clarifying that we have the right to bear technology, cryptography, photography, computers, and firearms included.