And what would it have done with any information it collected, without a network stack? Print it, with a header politely asking you to drop it in an envelope and send it off to Redmond?
I'm actually strongly in favor of using genetic manipulation to improve foods. But as long as the companies developing the technology continue to treat it as something to be concealed from consumers, how do they expect to win hearts and minds?
If you don't have at least 10 cores, how can you expect to run the ads, tracking software and gratuitous animations required to fully participate in the online society of the late 20-teens?
For a while. Mine doesn't any more, and support services were shut down shortly after the acquisition.
You might think a keyboard with no moving parts would work basically forever, but there was apparently a problem with certain driver chips in the keyboard's circuitry. Some members of the FingerWorks Forum isolated the problem, and had posted a how-to for people to replace the chips (easy as pie if you're comfortable with surface-mount rework) -- but Apple eventually took down the forum, and with it, that information. I hope it's still available elsewhere on the Web; for various reasons, I haven't looked.
There was one other issue -- the software FingerWorks provided to configure and customize the keyboard turned out to be incompatible with newer versions of Windows and OS X. We found workarounds, but again, they were documented on the Forum, which went away.
Of course, none of this would have been any better if FingerWorks had simply gone bankrupt and shut down.
When Apple bought FingerWorks back in 2005, all we FingerWorks customers saw was a terse announcement that the company had ceased operations effective immediately, and that no further products would be released or shipped. It was quite some time before we could even be sure it was Apple that bought them, because the deal was wrapped in non-disclosure terms.
The FingerWorks user community was very, very small -- so small that the company probably couldn't have kept going as an independent entity. I suppose having Apple rescue some of their technology was better than losing it all. But the gestures that Apple has implemented are a tiny, tiny fraction of the rich, well-designed vocabulary present on the FingerWorks TouchStream keyboards. I still wish they'd release the rest of it, but that's never going to happen.
Really, it's not that hard. The hard part is convincing developers and managers to remember that barcodes are not stone tablets graven by the Almighty.
What does that single US worker cost, how does that compare to the cost of hiring three Indians, and how profitable is outsourcing in the mid-to-long term? These are the factors that will determine whether this situation will continue to get worse.
I'm sorry, "mid-to-long term"? What does that have to do with the next round of bonuses for the folks making the outsourcing decisions?
Some 1370 physicians are being honored as part of a single $3 million prize for their work confirming the theory of neutrino oscillation, a phenomenon in quantum mechanics.
I meant "position acquisition" in the general sense, which includes head position. As you say, head position is critically important, and we currently don't have any way to manipulate the vestibular feedback system. (And if you ever do develop one, good luck convincing users to let you mess with their inner ear.)
The problem is that increased latency anywhere in the pipe translates to positional inaccuracy during slew operations -- the faster the slew, the bigger the error, and that's what leads to VR sickness. (Well, it's one thing that leads to VR sickness. Deliberately displaying motion that doesn't match what the inner ear perceives is the big nauseator, but that's hardly the fault of the hardware.)
Sure, we need better tracking, with higher temporal and spatial resolution, and lower noise. But to get low-enough latency from position sensing to image display, you need high performance at every stage -- position acquisition, image computation, data transfer to your display, and display refresh rate. If the total of all those latencies exceeds the maximum tolerable delay, you lose. If you're going to get sick with total delays of 10 ms, and your display refreshes at less than 100 Hz, there's nothing you can do -- until you get a higher-refresh-rate display.
In other news, today's problems are different in kind from anything that's ever come before, and we'll surely founder on the reefs of evil if we don't dig in our heels and adhere to The Old, Proven Ways.
Just as has been the case on every other day that's ever been.
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And what would it have done with any information it collected, without a network stack? Print it, with a header politely asking you to drop it in an envelope and send it off to Redmond?
Progress, perhaps?
I'm actually strongly in favor of using genetic manipulation to improve foods. But as long as the companies developing the technology continue to treat it as something to be concealed from consumers, how do they expect to win hearts and minds?
You'll just have to wait a few years and find out for yourself.
Because Google is so terribly helpful when you're searching for the elements of ($l=join("",))=~s/.*\n/index($`,$&)>=$[||print$&/ge;.
I'm sure APL makes an even poorer showing in Google search statistics.
...but I suppose 640 kilocores should be enough for anybody.
If you don't have at least 10 cores, how can you expect to run the ads, tracking software and gratuitous animations required to fully participate in the online society of the late 20-teens?
For a while. Mine doesn't any more, and support services were shut down shortly after the acquisition.
You might think a keyboard with no moving parts would work basically forever, but there was apparently a problem with certain driver chips in the keyboard's circuitry. Some members of the FingerWorks Forum isolated the problem, and had posted a how-to for people to replace the chips (easy as pie if you're comfortable with surface-mount rework) -- but Apple eventually took down the forum, and with it, that information. I hope it's still available elsewhere on the Web; for various reasons, I haven't looked.
There was one other issue -- the software FingerWorks provided to configure and customize the keyboard turned out to be incompatible with newer versions of Windows and OS X. We found workarounds, but again, they were documented on the Forum, which went away.
Of course, none of this would have been any better if FingerWorks had simply gone bankrupt and shut down.
When Apple bought FingerWorks back in 2005, all we FingerWorks customers saw was a terse announcement that the company had ceased operations effective immediately, and that no further products would be released or shipped. It was quite some time before we could even be sure it was Apple that bought them, because the deal was wrapped in non-disclosure terms.
The FingerWorks user community was very, very small -- so small that the company probably couldn't have kept going as an independent entity. I suppose having Apple rescue some of their technology was better than losing it all. But the gestures that Apple has implemented are a tiny, tiny fraction of the rich, well-designed vocabulary present on the FingerWorks TouchStream keyboards. I still wish they'd release the rest of it, but that's never going to happen.
Of course they don't. The stone tablets say so.
Oh, and to whomever modded this "off-topic" -- don't you have some barcode input logic you're supposed to be working on?
Really, it's not that hard. The hard part is convincing developers and managers to remember that barcodes are not stone tablets graven by the Almighty.
What does that single US worker cost, how does that compare to the cost of hiring three Indians, and how profitable is outsourcing in the mid-to-long term? These are the factors that will determine whether this situation will continue to get worse.
I'm sorry, "mid-to-long term"? What does that have to do with the next round of bonuses for the folks making the outsourcing decisions?
...judging from this line:
Some 1370 physicians are being honored as part of a single $3 million prize for their work confirming the theory of neutrino oscillation, a phenomenon in quantum mechanics.
They aren't proposing to build in just A California, but THE California!
Pounds or kilograms? Don't leave us hanging!
If only Moore's Law described the cost and performance of competent editing.
So that's what they're calling the campaign Twitter feeds these days...
Depends. Were they explicitly mentioned in the requirements?
I meant "position acquisition" in the general sense, which includes head position. As you say, head position is critically important, and we currently don't have any way to manipulate the vestibular feedback system. (And if you ever do develop one, good luck convincing users to let you mess with their inner ear.)
The problem is that increased latency anywhere in the pipe translates to positional inaccuracy during slew operations -- the faster the slew, the bigger the error, and that's what leads to VR sickness. (Well, it's one thing that leads to VR sickness. Deliberately displaying motion that doesn't match what the inner ear perceives is the big nauseator, but that's hardly the fault of the hardware.)
Sure, we need better tracking, with higher temporal and spatial resolution, and lower noise. But to get low-enough latency from position sensing to image display, you need high performance at every stage -- position acquisition, image computation, data transfer to your display, and display refresh rate. If the total of all those latencies exceeds the maximum tolerable delay, you lose. If you're going to get sick with total delays of 10 ms, and your display refreshes at less than 100 Hz, there's nothing you can do -- until you get a higher-refresh-rate display.
In other news, today's problems are different in kind from anything that's ever come before, and we'll surely founder on the reefs of evil if we don't dig in our heels and adhere to The Old, Proven Ways.
Just as has been the case on every other day that's ever been.
Did him really?
Cripes, Dice, spring for an editor.
Dr. Velikovsky, you really should sign up for a named account.
We heard you like fines so we fined your fine so you can... oh, never mind.
Sound a little... (puts on sunglasses)... half-baked.