People order sex toys instead of going to retail stores. They prefer discrete packaging. Porn consumption took off when you didn't need to go out to an adult video store but could order at home. Digital cameras offered private erotic photos without taking them out to be developed.
I really doubt many people will want to collect their phallic shaped object from a pimply faced kid at a department store any more than they currently do free from libraries' 3D printers.
This summary just leads to an article that links to a report that they want you to buy which seems to say, "We don't know that people print sex toys." There's no indication consumers were consulted.
They need to look at the phallic shape of most Thingiverse uploads, re-write their white paper, and not charge £1750 to tell us they are ignorant of what they purport to write about.
It was said in the BBC article emulators couldn't load it, and considering GIMP loads IFF, and he had a pre-release Amiga 1000 with unreleased software, it's entirely possible it was from before the Interchange File Format was standardized.
Sure enough, turns out to be the case, paraphrased from the PDF linked above, An older format deprecated by 1990 was called PLBM (PLanar BitMap, compared to the ILBM interleaved bitmaps you might recall as typical IFF). This format is much more poorly (sic) documented. One disk contained an EA slidshow of PLBM files. A pre-release version of Graphicraft, as well as the A-squared framegrabber both produced what they dubbed a "Graphicraft format", essentially an uncompressed PLBM without an IFF header. All the files found in that format contained at most 32 colors.
Per those commenting on robustness, 40 disks, 4 had bad sectors, 9 had file system issues. Half of those impacted files/used space.
Sadly my digital alarm clock from that era just a few months ago started running fast. It was free with the digital watch I purchased back then (or vice-versa, the watch was $9 and the alarm clock was free, I don't remember which).
Longest lasting have been calculators, home stereo, and Amiga computers; but nothing is as long lasting and hard working as automotive electronics and sensors, ranging from sub-zero temperatures to hundreds of degrees (Fahrenheit), and lasting decades.
I'm surprised a Logitech mouse was listed, as any I've had, the buttons died within months.
This. I recently read remembrances from people living in post-Soviet countries after the USSR breakup. It was little like the fantasies most others are envisioning in responses here, and imagining from fiction.
They all talked about economic collapse, anyone who had savings, became destitute.
Muscle ruled, thugs obviously took whatever they wanted from those who could supply, starting with factories and businesses. Obviously thugs wouldn't harm those they needed to the point of those individuals not being able to provide.
However supply lines/travel were problematic. Someone spoke of a store that sold two things: salt, and vinegar.
Some posters are pointing out their wives have skills, completely forgetting that many wives might be taken into sexual slavery. Desirable women became commodities.
Which isn't to say there was complete lawlessness, but what would you do for protection from the gangs/law? They are younger, stronger, well-armed, more numerous, and don't respect intellectual debate. Their "tax" structure won't be logical, or necessarily sustaining.
I'm also amused at those imagining recovering information from libraries. Have you been to one recently? Many libraries won't cull books donated to their collections for fear of offense, but patrons don't check out resource books that many assume they'd find there, stuff that doesn't circulate gets culled. Older titles get culled all the time. Patrons check out DVDs. Particularly new releases. Shelf space has been yielding to computer workstations. There's a growing trend shifting from housing dead trees, to serving as community centers, particularly in more online services.
A lot of people have been suggesting they are capable of producing electricity from car alternators, as if electricity is valuable when there's a dearth of food. Not a single respondent remembering post-Soviet times mentioned electricity. A recurring theme was getting something from elsewhere as being hugely problematic--IE, transport.
On the idea of lawyers becoming irrelevant, who else will we turn to when we want to appeal to get our wife/daughter/son/sister back? Who else will we turn to point out that the amount of food left to us, won't be enough for us to survive and supply their wants? There will be need of objective arbiters who understand the "language" of the gangs/thugs/law, and can translate the needs of the common person to petition for "fair" judgment.
Society will continue to interact, move forward, and all the same existing needs will recur, including less base forms of entertainment. Here we are over a generation after the Soviet collapse, and society has rebounded. The people who came out ahead were the ones with connections, who saw opportunity and capitalized on it, exactly the same as the ones who come out ahead in any form of society.
When the power drops, and I need to get across X lanes of traffic to the breakdown lane, I'll be glad to have a mirror.
A driver certainly would want to be encased inside a protective shell if the windshield were replaced with a monitor blocking the view and bringing a whole new meaning to BSOD.
Of course once self-driving cars hit the successive generations/versions, all bets are off.
Due to our own actions, the terrorists won yet another round...not a cry I'd championed previously.
The future, scratch that, the present is looking really bleak now that the average civilian can expect to be spied upon, searches and home invasions are being done without cause, due process is ignored, travel is restricted, "Homeland Security" are targeting civilians for desiring sexual contact with minors, and those declared enemies of the state are outright tortured, everything that was considered "evil" about the opposition when I was a child (be it the Third Reich or the Soviet Union) is currently taking place in the United States.
The only thing left is to disarm the populace to prevent revolt, and institute concentration or labor camps.
I never imagined I'd grow up to be embarrassed by my government and everything it stands for. Is fear next?
Reminded me of Second Life too (game aspects of), where you had many people clueless what to do without specific direction, a lack of cohesion of design, and some outright bad decision making that impacted others.
Personally I don't want to have to pay some guy to come knock at my window every morning so I can go to work.
I would pay for a cute gal to come knock at my window every morning, but not so I can go to work. Where do I look for that in the yellow pages, knock-her-up did you say?
I don't have it personally (lack of compatible devices), but two gals I know both have had it tell them when it's time to head off for appointments; one flies a lot, and it's alerted her with the time to leave for flight #___ that it picked up from her email automatically.
However flying so much, she often changes flights last minute, and also doesn't bother getting to the airport that much ahead of time given pre-screening. She laughed one day having landed, turned on her phone and subsequently got an now erroneous alert for a later flight she'd previously switched from--then it was more Google Yesterday, than Google Now.
Decades ago my father liked to point out studies showed incarceration beyond a few years was meaningless, the first few years had all the impact, longer sentences provided no added deterrence.
So she's operating under a fallacy, longer sentences are not "more odious"--they are no different than short sentences to the recipient.
However the cost of lengthy incarceration IS significant to society, without added benefit. So ironically, if we could inflict seven years in seven months, there would be a cost savings. But how would you accelerate the learning process to turn someone with limited socially acceptable life skills into a contributing member of society?
Penal systems with the lowest rates of criminal recurrence don't just lock people away, but provide growth opportunities, which take time.
Takes longer to consume a page, since normally you don't read each and every word, you glance across a page picking up critical words to glean the meaning.
Running it on their webpage, I got bored waiting for it, meanwhile in less time previously, I'd digested the entire page.
That being said, I passed the link on to a dyslexic friend, we'll see how she feels, presuming she can successfully read my G+ post to her.;-)
Normally I'd agree, except this specifies non-consensual, and there's a societal desire to not produce child porn for the consumption of anyone, child, teen, or adult.
A 16-year old agreeing to such is apparently legal per this law.
Similarly, if it were permissible for children to photograph any age, then adults would simply coerce children to do the dirty work.
The circle you associate in perhaps? I know one person with an ipad, from back when tablets were new novelties and a family member purchased it for her (she's disabled, easier to use than sit at a computer, although ridiculously heavy compared to other tablets). Everyone else I know with a device has an Android. I haven't counted since, who cares? All the families have them for their kids. Plenty of individuals too. I get handed plenty of tablets to see pics or stuff through the course of living.
Want to see a lot of Kindles? Take a flight. People leave them at home unless they expect to spend a lot of time reading. The airports are loaded with them, and tablets for the illiterate move watchers.
Many of my choices covered above, but more important for me is AutoHotKey. Computers are supposed to do the work. (I've had key/mouse recording/scripting utilities back from my Amiga days, then old Macintosh at work, and so on, nothing beats being able to shortcut/automate any repetitive thing.)
There's already a process to handle people trying to surreptitiously record you apparently, throw a bar rag at them, in the future I suppose people will use their jackets or put bags over the heads of others trying to record who are indirectly "assaulting" their perceived privacy.
Per the summary:...what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?"
What will it take for acceptance to never take hold? It's just like bluetooth headsets, which were far more innocuous, but societal norms are set by the average, not the outliers. There are even laws mandating behavior match others. It goes back to tribal times, identifying "us" versus "them" and is core to our nature as humans.
If things better than Google Glass are made so innocuous it's imperceptible, then society won't accept it, but be ignorant of it. The wielder will still be acting in a socially unacceptable way. (And others will whisper behind their back to avoid them, due to the expectation of recording/streaming.)
If people are objecting to one's use of Glass, the obvious answer is to respond, "no problem, sure thing, want to check it out yourself?" The answer is not an aggressive, "I will tell my mommy and the police and harass you with it {insert previously unknown subjects name here}". People react to how you treat them, so if you treat them like crap, exploiting a power trip, they will respond accordingly. Treat them with respect and humility, and voilà.
Start pointing a gun around a bar and see how receptive the patrons are. Don't flaunt a threatening object (whether unloaded/not recording, or not) in an environment that's inappropriate for such.
No, this does not mean you have to conform to societal expectations, but if you don't, then don't expect to be treated as a member of society and stay in your basement!;-)
Hear, hear, video is a slower way of getting info, but let's you see/feel for yourself. TheDarkMod videos won't necessarily pop up searching for Thief, but I've been having a blast with it, a true remake of the original...and free!
Lasts much longer than permanent marker, is weather proof too. On my time-lapse camera, I also applied clear tape over it (years ago) and it's as fresh as day one, despite seeing handling rock climbing, rain, UV sun, etc.
Depending on item size, I put "Reward, phone number" and if room, email.
It leads to humor on my cellphone, as the background image (flip phone) is typically girlfriend's cleavage or topless shot, with "reward if found" displayed across...
PS: In many states, if you can't find the proper owner, items shall be turned over to police, who store them for a year if they can't find the proper owner, to ultimately auction off if unclaimed by owner/finder. So for those who want to keep found stuff, there is a legal/ethical procedure for that.
Speaking of stealth games, Slashdot recently had an article on, The Dark Mod, which has totally sucked me in, as much to play, as create thieving missions (of which there are over 70 already, averaging a couple released monthly), which is kind of like a puzzle in itself, figuring out the best way to implement your desired game-play elements.
I had a similar issue with my phone (top of the line back in 2005), battery lasting less than fourteen hours some days (more roaming searching) and bulging. Got a brand new battery on eBay for a few dollars with free shipping, hopefully good for another decade or so.
If you provide a service and lead people to believe they'll be able to use it, then yes, they'll be upset if you pull it out from under them (free or not, the free is irrelevant). That's not entitlement, that's having been deceived.
If you provide a service and indicate at some point of time it'll be discontinued/rates raised, informed folks will expect it and be fine. Ignorant folks will be upset initially.
If I'm a paying customer, who is aware you have treated users of your free service to no notice, I expect you'll treat me the same way at some point, and will invest in finding another supplier, because a contract limiting your bad behavior requires going after you when you breach it.
Past behavior is the best indicator of future actions and values.
Hear, hear. Although I'd not have said it was imaginary as much as a label for a measuring system. Saying "time travel" is as nonsensical as saying "metric travel" or "quantity travel".
Interestingly, there is a culture/language without time. No words for year or yesterday, grandparents were "respected". The people were able to understand the premise if taught the concept of time measurements, but had functioned (and may well still function) quite well never using the system or even being aware of it.
They used to offer the core functionality, without all the extra clutter and crap the regular version had. Mobile websites were quicker to load. Then mobile exploded in the marketplace, more companies started paying more attention to their mobile presence, and now often the mobile sites are no better than the web versions.
Either are improved by focusing on functionality first.
Slashdot Mirror
People order sex toys instead of going to retail stores. They prefer discrete packaging. Porn consumption took off when you didn't need to go out to an adult video store but could order at home. Digital cameras offered private erotic photos without taking them out to be developed.
I really doubt many people will want to collect their phallic shaped object from a pimply faced kid at a department store any more than they currently do free from libraries' 3D printers.
This summary just leads to an article that links to a report that they want you to buy which seems to say, "We don't know that people print sex toys." There's no indication consumers were consulted.
They need to look at the phallic shape of most Thingiverse uploads, re-write their white paper, and not charge £1750 to tell us they are ignorant of what they purport to write about.
It was said in the BBC article emulators couldn't load it, and considering GIMP loads IFF, and he had a pre-release Amiga 1000 with unreleased software, it's entirely possible it was from before the Interchange File Format was standardized.
Sure enough, turns out to be the case, paraphrased from the PDF linked above, An older format deprecated by 1990 was called PLBM (PLanar BitMap, compared to the ILBM interleaved bitmaps you might recall as typical IFF). This format is much more poorly (sic) documented. One disk contained an EA slidshow of PLBM files. A pre-release version of Graphicraft, as well as the A-squared framegrabber both produced what they dubbed a "Graphicraft format", essentially an uncompressed PLBM without an IFF header. All the files found in that format contained at most 32 colors.
Per those commenting on robustness, 40 disks, 4 had bad sectors, 9 had file system issues. Half of those impacted files/used space.
Sadly my digital alarm clock from that era just a few months ago started running fast. It was free with the digital watch I purchased back then (or vice-versa, the watch was $9 and the alarm clock was free, I don't remember which).
Longest lasting have been calculators, home stereo, and Amiga computers; but nothing is as long lasting and hard working as automotive electronics and sensors, ranging from sub-zero temperatures to hundreds of degrees (Fahrenheit), and lasting decades.
I'm surprised a Logitech mouse was listed, as any I've had, the buttons died within months.
Sounds like they undershot.
This. I recently read remembrances from people living in post-Soviet countries after the USSR breakup. It was little like the fantasies most others are envisioning in responses here, and imagining from fiction.
They all talked about economic collapse, anyone who had savings, became destitute.
Muscle ruled, thugs obviously took whatever they wanted from those who could supply, starting with factories and businesses. Obviously thugs wouldn't harm those they needed to the point of those individuals not being able to provide.
However supply lines/travel were problematic. Someone spoke of a store that sold two things: salt, and vinegar.
Some posters are pointing out their wives have skills, completely forgetting that many wives might be taken into sexual slavery. Desirable women became commodities.
Which isn't to say there was complete lawlessness, but what would you do for protection from the gangs/law? They are younger, stronger, well-armed, more numerous, and don't respect intellectual debate. Their "tax" structure won't be logical, or necessarily sustaining.
I'm also amused at those imagining recovering information from libraries. Have you been to one recently? Many libraries won't cull books donated to their collections for fear of offense, but patrons don't check out resource books that many assume they'd find there, stuff that doesn't circulate gets culled. Older titles get culled all the time. Patrons check out DVDs. Particularly new releases. Shelf space has been yielding to computer workstations. There's a growing trend shifting from housing dead trees, to serving as community centers, particularly in more online services.
A lot of people have been suggesting they are capable of producing electricity from car alternators, as if electricity is valuable when there's a dearth of food. Not a single respondent remembering post-Soviet times mentioned electricity. A recurring theme was getting something from elsewhere as being hugely problematic--IE, transport.
On the idea of lawyers becoming irrelevant, who else will we turn to when we want to appeal to get our wife/daughter/son/sister back? Who else will we turn to point out that the amount of food left to us, won't be enough for us to survive and supply their wants? There will be need of objective arbiters who understand the "language" of the gangs/thugs/law, and can translate the needs of the common person to petition for "fair" judgment.
Society will continue to interact, move forward, and all the same existing needs will recur, including less base forms of entertainment. Here we are over a generation after the Soviet collapse, and society has rebounded. The people who came out ahead were the ones with connections, who saw opportunity and capitalized on it, exactly the same as the ones who come out ahead in any form of society.
When the power drops, and I need to get across X lanes of traffic to the breakdown lane, I'll be glad to have a mirror.
A driver certainly would want to be encased inside a protective shell if the windshield were replaced with a monitor blocking the view and bringing a whole new meaning to BSOD.
Of course once self-driving cars hit the successive generations/versions, all bets are off.
Due to our own actions, the terrorists won yet another round...not a cry I'd championed previously.
The future, scratch that, the present is looking really bleak now that the average civilian can expect to be spied upon, searches and home invasions are being done without cause, due process is ignored, travel is restricted, "Homeland Security" are targeting civilians for desiring sexual contact with minors, and those declared enemies of the state are outright tortured, everything that was considered "evil" about the opposition when I was a child (be it the Third Reich or the Soviet Union) is currently taking place in the United States.
The only thing left is to disarm the populace to prevent revolt, and institute concentration or labor camps.
I never imagined I'd grow up to be embarrassed by my government and everything it stands for. Is fear next?
Reminded me of Second Life too (game aspects of), where you had many people clueless what to do without specific direction, a lack of cohesion of design, and some outright bad decision making that impacted others.
That's why I go pay for a cheap haircut from a cute girl instead of ebaying a Flowbie.
Personally I don't want to have to pay some guy to come knock at my window every morning so I can go to work.
I would pay for a cute gal to come knock at my window every morning, but not so I can go to work. Where do I look for that in the yellow pages, knock-her-up did you say?
I don't have it personally (lack of compatible devices), but two gals I know both have had it tell them when it's time to head off for appointments; one flies a lot, and it's alerted her with the time to leave for flight #___ that it picked up from her email automatically.
However flying so much, she often changes flights last minute, and also doesn't bother getting to the airport that much ahead of time given pre-screening. She laughed one day having landed, turned on her phone and subsequently got an now erroneous alert for a later flight she'd previously switched from--then it was more Google Yesterday, than Google Now.
Decades ago my father liked to point out studies showed incarceration beyond a few years was meaningless, the first few years had all the impact, longer sentences provided no added deterrence.
So she's operating under a fallacy, longer sentences are not "more odious"--they are no different than short sentences to the recipient.
However the cost of lengthy incarceration IS significant to society, without added benefit. So ironically, if we could inflict seven years in seven months, there would be a cost savings. But how would you accelerate the learning process to turn someone with limited socially acceptable life skills into a contributing member of society?
Penal systems with the lowest rates of criminal recurrence don't just lock people away, but provide growth opportunities, which take time.
Takes longer to consume a page, since normally you don't read each and every word, you glance across a page picking up critical words to glean the meaning.
Running it on their webpage, I got bored waiting for it, meanwhile in less time previously, I'd digested the entire page.
That being said, I passed the link on to a dyslexic friend, we'll see how she feels, presuming she can successfully read my G+ post to her. ;-)
Normally I'd agree, except this specifies non-consensual, and there's a societal desire to not produce child porn for the consumption of anyone, child, teen, or adult.
A 16-year old agreeing to such is apparently legal per this law.
Similarly, if it were permissible for children to photograph any age, then adults would simply coerce children to do the dirty work.
Interestingly, leaves the determination of legality up to the subject, rather than the overt act: wear panties, no crime; go bare, gotcha'!
The circle you associate in perhaps? I know one person with an ipad, from back when tablets were new novelties and a family member purchased it for her (she's disabled, easier to use than sit at a computer, although ridiculously heavy compared to other tablets). Everyone else I know with a device has an Android. I haven't counted since, who cares? All the families have them for their kids. Plenty of individuals too. I get handed plenty of tablets to see pics or stuff through the course of living.
Want to see a lot of Kindles? Take a flight. People leave them at home unless they expect to spend a lot of time reading. The airports are loaded with them, and tablets for the illiterate move watchers.
Anecdotes.
Data.
Case in point.
Many of my choices covered above, but more important for me is AutoHotKey. Computers are supposed to do the work. (I've had key/mouse recording/scripting utilities back from my Amiga days, then old Macintosh at work, and so on, nothing beats being able to shortcut/automate any repetitive thing.)
There's already a process to handle people trying to surreptitiously record you apparently, throw a bar rag at them, in the future I suppose people will use their jackets or put bags over the heads of others trying to record who are indirectly "assaulting" their perceived privacy.
Per the summary: ...what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?"
What will it take for acceptance to never take hold? It's just like bluetooth headsets, which were far more innocuous, but societal norms are set by the average, not the outliers. There are even laws mandating behavior match others. It goes back to tribal times, identifying "us" versus "them" and is core to our nature as humans.
If things better than Google Glass are made so innocuous it's imperceptible, then society won't accept it, but be ignorant of it. The wielder will still be acting in a socially unacceptable way. (And others will whisper behind their back to avoid them, due to the expectation of recording/streaming.)
If people are objecting to one's use of Glass, the obvious answer is to respond, "no problem, sure thing, want to check it out yourself?" The answer is not an aggressive, "I will tell my mommy and the police and harass you with it {insert previously unknown subjects name here}". People react to how you treat them, so if you treat them like crap, exploiting a power trip, they will respond accordingly. Treat them with respect and humility, and voilà.
Start pointing a gun around a bar and see how receptive the patrons are. Don't flaunt a threatening object (whether unloaded/not recording, or not) in an environment that's inappropriate for such.
No, this does not mean you have to conform to societal expectations, but if you don't, then don't expect to be treated as a member of society and stay in your basement! ;-)
Come on, we learned this in kindergarten people.
Hear, hear, video is a slower way of getting info, but let's you see/feel for yourself. TheDarkMod videos won't necessarily pop up searching for Thief, but I've been having a blast with it, a true remake of the original...and free!
Paint marker.
Lasts much longer than permanent marker, is weather proof too. On my time-lapse camera, I also applied clear tape over it (years ago) and it's as fresh as day one, despite seeing handling rock climbing, rain, UV sun, etc.
Depending on item size, I put "Reward, phone number" and if room, email.
It leads to humor on my cellphone, as the background image (flip phone) is typically girlfriend's cleavage or topless shot, with "reward if found" displayed across...
PS: In many states, if you can't find the proper owner, items shall be turned over to police, who store them for a year if they can't find the proper owner, to ultimately auction off if unclaimed by owner/finder. So for those who want to keep found stuff, there is a legal/ethical procedure for that.
Speaking of stealth games, Slashdot recently had an article on, The Dark Mod, which has totally sucked me in, as much to play, as create thieving missions (of which there are over 70 already, averaging a couple released monthly), which is kind of like a puzzle in itself, figuring out the best way to implement your desired game-play elements.
I had a similar issue with my phone (top of the line back in 2005), battery lasting less than fourteen hours some days (more roaming searching) and bulging. Got a brand new battery on eBay for a few dollars with free shipping, hopefully good for another decade or so.
Expectations, not entitlement.
If you provide a service and lead people to believe they'll be able to use it, then yes, they'll be upset if you pull it out from under them (free or not, the free is irrelevant). That's not entitlement, that's having been deceived.
If you provide a service and indicate at some point of time it'll be discontinued/rates raised, informed folks will expect it and be fine. Ignorant folks will be upset initially.
If I'm a paying customer, who is aware you have treated users of your free service to no notice, I expect you'll treat me the same way at some point, and will invest in finding another supplier, because a contract limiting your bad behavior requires going after you when you breach it.
Past behavior is the best indicator of future actions and values.
Hear, hear. Although I'd not have said it was imaginary as much as a label for a measuring system. Saying "time travel" is as nonsensical as saying "metric travel" or "quantity travel".
Interestingly, there is a culture/language without time. No words for year or yesterday, grandparents were "respected". The people were able to understand the premise if taught the concept of time measurements, but had functioned (and may well still function) quite well never using the system or even being aware of it.
They used to offer the core functionality, without all the extra clutter and crap the regular version had. Mobile websites were quicker to load. Then mobile exploded in the marketplace, more companies started paying more attention to their mobile presence, and now often the mobile sites are no better than the web versions.
Either are improved by focusing on functionality first.