Why do we need all these fucking gestures and shit? I guess most people still haven't figured out how to TYPE.
Typing is an unnatural interface that we've just grown accustomed to. After a while, we've become quite good at typing, but it's still an interface that one has to actually learn to use.
A more natural interface would be speech, but speech recognition is still far from the reliability of a keyboard.
On a parallel path, the mouse, while much (MUCH) more natural than a keyboard, can still get better. As soon as 2D displays are really replaced by 3D, mice would have to become 3D also.
The first problem was that 2D display (screen) and 2D gesture recognition (mouse) were easier than speech recognition. And now we are in a similar situation with 3D mice (this) and 3D screens (still crap).
The beauty of it all it that they'll all eventually converge in the same spot. Thought input and though output.
Anonymous is chaos. It's the true consequence of freedom. It's anarchy.
Anonymous is weather and piratebay a butterfly in NY. The comments will have an impact but you won't know what particular impact until after the hurricane has already passed.
Except that for the mass of astronauts + a crew cabin + life support for a year + fuel to get all of the above back to Earth,...
You don't need fuel for the trip back. Just send astronauts with terminal illnesses and less than a year to live. I'm sure many (most?) would be willing to go die in Mars.
You forgot the part where you're forced into the two year agreement for Xbox Live, much like a cell phone contract. You can't have it your way.
How is it 'forced' when you're accepting an agreement? Is there a guy with a gun making people pick this up?
It's just irritating how many people just come to/. to be anti-MS jackoffs anymore. If you don't want it, don't sign up for it, assholes.
It's forced in the situation described by the previous poster, thus making it invalid, as he further crarified with "you can't have it your way". (Think about the reason to put "in your way" in that sentence.)
Let this be a lesson: If you're sued, even if you think the lawsuit is the dumbest thing on Earth, you should still show up to defend yourself. If you don't, things like this happen.
Unless you live beyond the reach of the country with the dumbest lawsuit on Earth.
remember that game? did anyone ever get far in it? I was quite young when playing and didn't have a manual so maybe that's why all the patients tended to die..
It wasn't a game. Your father was an Ender fan and you were being trained to be the world's greatest surgeon.
He stopped after you killed your first three hundred patients.
Any major porn site moves 1% of internet's traffic?
How many major porn sites are there? I hope it's less than 99, otherwise I've spent years in slashdot without figuring how to activate the porn opt-in.
Slashdot Mirror
For comments like that, Slashdot's Scores should be logarithmic.
Why do we need all these fucking gestures and shit? I guess most people still haven't figured out how to TYPE.
Typing is an unnatural interface that we've just grown accustomed to. After a while, we've become quite good at typing, but it's still an interface that one has to actually learn to use.
A more natural interface would be speech, but speech recognition is still far from the reliability of a keyboard.
On a parallel path, the mouse, while much (MUCH) more natural than a keyboard, can still get better. As soon as 2D displays are really replaced by 3D, mice would have to become 3D also.
The first problem was that 2D display (screen) and 2D gesture recognition (mouse) were easier than speech recognition. And now we are in a similar situation with 3D mice (this) and 3D screens (still crap).
The beauty of it all it that they'll all eventually converge in the same spot. Thought input and though output.
"about 200 times more accurate than 'existing touch-free products and technologies,' such as your smartphone's touchscreen"
They sure have a bizarre definition of "touch-free" if it includes a touchscreen.
Russian mafia take control,
"You wanna buy this plane, or do I haveta make you fly in it".
Even better.
"Tovarish Ivchenko, I hear you want to disappear. Buy me a plane, I'll crash it against a mountain and say you were inside."
"Comrade Manof, you are an enlightened member of our society. I shall even give you several corpses to chose from."
You underestimate Anonymous.
Anonymous is chaos. It's the true consequence of freedom. It's anarchy.
Anonymous is weather and piratebay a butterfly in NY. The comments will have an impact but you won't know what particular impact until after the hurricane has already passed.
Except that for the mass of astronauts + a crew cabin + life support for a year + fuel to get all of the above back to Earth, ...
You don't need fuel for the trip back. Just send astronauts with terminal illnesses and less than a year to live. I'm sure many (most?) would be willing to go die in Mars.
an astronaut on Mars with a shovel can do more in 10 minutes than two robotic rovers can do in a year.
Wow. NASA's budget really went to the crapper. Not so long ago, astronauts got entire suits.
If you were to buy this one, you'd've been inside; thus dead.
Do dead clients count as a lost sales?
Only if you can't fake signatures.
and you wonder why the rest of the world hates us?
There's also people who hate him but not you.
And those people don't really like those others who hate you all because of him.
One day every kid will have cheap access to a computer and a 3D printer.
In that environment, a genius will appear and change the world.
And yet, people try to tell me dogs don't have morels. The hell is wrong with people.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morel
Fully off topic but, at this point it should already be [Lord Terry Pratchett]. ...At least.
Who the fuck cares?
Nerds.
P.S.: I thought we had already established that the /. subtitle should always be quoted in full.
You forgot the part where you're forced into the two year agreement for Xbox Live, much like a cell phone contract. You can't have it your way.
How is it 'forced' when you're accepting an agreement? Is there a guy with a gun making people pick this up?
It's just irritating how many people just come to /. to be anti-MS jackoffs anymore. If you don't want it, don't sign up for it, assholes.
It's forced in the situation described by the previous poster, thus making it invalid, as he further crarified with "you can't have it your way". (Think about the reason to put "in your way" in that sentence.)
Steam?
Cool story.
Try it for Internet subscription and computer purchases.
That's like saying a 400$ bike is cheap because it costs much less than a car.
ugly, overpriced abomination that should die, die, die.
Why kill it? It's one more tax on idiocy. Idiots are paying our providers.
I don't want it to stop. I want more idiot taxes! Install blackjack on all mobiles.
Worst mobile standard ever.
Hmm. The "two yogurts and a string" standard is pretty weak too.
... it is unclear when he left." Yeah...
I also interpreted that as "it's unclear where they left the corpse" until I remembered he had thousands of numbers/pins.
It's not so hard to move around when you've got a huge lot of money and know how to use the internet properly.
Let this be a lesson: If you're sued, even if you think the lawsuit is the dumbest thing on Earth, you should still show up to defend yourself. If you don't, things like this happen.
Unless you live beyond the reach of the country with the dumbest lawsuit on Earth.
remember that game? did anyone ever get far in it? I was quite young when playing and didn't have a manual so maybe that's why all the patients tended to die..
It wasn't a game. Your father was an Ender fan and you were being trained to be the world's greatest surgeon.
He stopped after you killed your first three hundred patients.
Still less than any major porn site...
Any major porn site moves 1% of internet's traffic?
How many major porn sites are there? I hope it's less than 99, otherwise I've spent years in slashdot without figuring how to activate the porn opt-in.
Dear Amazon.com customer:
Fred, we noticed from your surfing history that you recently viewed
More likely:
"Dear Amazon.com customer:
Bob, we noticed from your surfing history that you recently viewed porn.
You may also be interested in: more porn.
Sincerely, Jeff B. and Amazon.com"
The advantage of that message is that you don't even really need to check the user's history.
"everyone must take compulsory vaccine to avoid pandemic"
"those refusing will be held in 'quaranteen'"
Everybody else will become autistic.
it is about time we protect our children and others who don't want to see this kind of stuff.
I don't want to read your ideas ever again.
What do you think it's the correct behaviour:
A - I stop reading you.
B - I ask slashdot to block all your posts for everyone unless they opt-in.