Yep this desk actually has a very poor ergonomic design. The part where the keyboard and mouse should be as thin as possible so they can be as close to your knees as possible. If you have the keyboard and mouse in the idea ergonomic position most monitors do not sit high enough with their built in stands. The back of this desk is too thick for a monitor mount clamp.
There are plenty. I have a Logitech M510 at work and haven't replaced the batteries for 3 years. Logitech also has a wireless gaming mouse that will last 250 hours.
Swiping is better than non-predictive touch screen typing, but it is extremely inefficient when you can accurately predict the entire next word and simply tap once to type it. By the time you finish swiping one word you could have typed an entire sentence with SwiftKey. SwiftKey even supports swiping if you still want to do it.
On the Rift website they recommend a NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater for a video card. That isn't entry level, that is high end, and an adequate system can still be had for under $1500. Entry level gaming PCs are around $500.
Having X feet of roaming room is pointless. You will never have enough room and when you reach your physical boarders in the game it will completely ruin the immersion. It won't be an immersive VR experience, it will be gimmicky just like Wii and Xbox Kinect.
You aren't really getting shafted. If you're in a higher cost of living area you still won't be able to afford it because you're spending all of that money on housing, higher food costs, etc., and can't afford to spend it on a car.
In most "high cost of living" areas the higher wages don't make up for the house prices.
I was in a similar situation. It was cheaper for us to make a new site.
"It's too big an undertaking," or, "it's not worth it." probably means the code for the UI is too coupled with the back end.
We had an old asp.net site that did many things. We made new sites modularizing the functionality with an angular front ends completely separated from the API.
The API was in its own solution but used any of the old code it could. For code that couldn't be used on the new site we just wrote new code or refactored the old code so it could be used on the old and new site.
Any new users we got started using these new sites right away and we slowly moved the old users over to them as we added the features they needed.
I have an encrypted LG G3 and it takes almost 30 seconds to get to the encryption password screen. Then just over a minute to load after entering in my encryption password.
It isn't an "infinite resource" it is limited by bandwidth, which is what they say you are paying for. The network congestion claims from cable companies are a load of bullshit. There is no technical reason for the data caps, they are just extorting more money out of consumers because they have monopolies.
I agree with you mostly, but you can't judge someone simply by X years experience. People learn at different rates and their programming experiences are all different. Some people pick things up quickly and will be great in just a few years and some never be great no matter how long they do it.
They also need to teach the basics of how our economic system works. That you earn money by providing value to others. You don't magically get money simply because you exist or have a degree.
I can, but I have 20-10 vision. But I suspect you could actually tell the difference if you had 20-20 and you set a 28" 4k and 8k side by side. Even if you can't quite discern an individual pixel you would probably still see some aliasing until you get 2x or even higher pixel density than an individual pixel is discernible at.
It makes me wonder what would happen if they actually implemented it at a fixed amount regardless of area. How many people would move from expensive cities into cheap small towns?
I like the idea, but I think the biggest problem is that the amount of a "living wage" is very subjective. I'm sure we could afford enough for everyone to survive just fine, but I doubt we can afford what many people would consider "living wage".
Have there been any studies on if we can actually afford it? I've seen plenty of articles on how great it would be and why we should do it but every single one has ignored how much everyone would get and if we can actually afford to do it.
I do, but when I first started it was a lot like what the parent thinks is ideal. We were basically code monkeys and made whatever our sales team sold, and they basically just let the clients come up with the designs. We knew our products were terrible but the people higher up thought they were fine. We had a very high turnover.
We fought really hard to change that. It wasn't easy at all. We finally convinced them with a prototype we made on our own time that blew away the terrible stuff we had been making. We showed it to the CEO and other higher ups and it impressed them enough to change how we did things.
Now our productivity is exponentially higher, our products are awesome and practically sell themselves, and we have much lower turnover.
Your generalization of liberal arts graduates is almost as bad as your idea of an ideal workplace.
In a productive workplace the workers aren't drones that perform simple tasks as they are ordered from the top down. You end up with a CEO that knows nothing about technology deciding what technology to use on a product that has no value and doesn't work.
In a real productive environment there is open communication between all employees. People higher up explain problems they want to solve to the technical people and the technical people come up with ways to solve for the problem the other people didn't even know existed. Then they collaborate and decide what the best solution is. This way you solve the actual problem and do it in the most efficient way possible.
OnStar is easy to disconnect. On my car I simply opened up the trunk and disconnected 2 exposed cables, no tools required. They may have changed that though, I have a 2009 model.
I remember seeing a forum post from someone asking how to disconnect OnStar when it first came out and people ridiculing the user as a conspiracy theorist nutjob. Later it was revealed that onstar sold data to local police which lead to an influx of people searching how to disconnect it and seeing that as the first result.
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You can already configure PhysX to use a separate card in the NVIDIA control panel.
Yep this desk actually has a very poor ergonomic design. The part where the keyboard and mouse should be as thin as possible so they can be as close to your knees as possible. If you have the keyboard and mouse in the idea ergonomic position most monitors do not sit high enough with their built in stands. The back of this desk is too thick for a monitor mount clamp.
Only because those damn environmentalists won't let us build a pipeline to mars.
There are plenty. I have a Logitech M510 at work and haven't replaced the batteries for 3 years. Logitech also has a wireless gaming mouse that will last 250 hours.
Swiping is better than non-predictive touch screen typing, but it is extremely inefficient when you can accurately predict the entire next word and simply tap once to type it. By the time you finish swiping one word you could have typed an entire sentence with SwiftKey. SwiftKey even supports swiping if you still want to do it.
On the Rift website they recommend a NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater for a video card. That isn't entry level, that is high end, and an adequate system can still be had for under $1500. Entry level gaming PCs are around $500.
I just use a browser plugin for it.
Having X feet of roaming room is pointless. You will never have enough room and when you reach your physical boarders in the game it will completely ruin the immersion. It won't be an immersive VR experience, it will be gimmicky just like Wii and Xbox Kinect.
You aren't really getting shafted. If you're in a higher cost of living area you still won't be able to afford it because you're spending all of that money on housing, higher food costs, etc., and can't afford to spend it on a car.
In most "high cost of living" areas the higher wages don't make up for the house prices.
I was in a similar situation. It was cheaper for us to make a new site.
"It's too big an undertaking," or, "it's not worth it." probably means the code for the UI is too coupled with the back end.
We had an old asp.net site that did many things. We made new sites modularizing the functionality with an angular front ends completely separated from the API.
The API was in its own solution but used any of the old code it could. For code that couldn't be used on the new site we just wrote new code or refactored the old code so it could be used on the old and new site.
Any new users we got started using these new sites right away and we slowly moved the old users over to them as we added the features they needed.
I have an encrypted LG G3 and it takes almost 30 seconds to get to the encryption password screen. Then just over a minute to load after entering in my encryption password.
The leading time needs improvement.
It isn't an "infinite resource" it is limited by bandwidth, which is what they say you are paying for. The network congestion claims from cable companies are a load of bullshit. There is no technical reason for the data caps, they are just extorting more money out of consumers because they have monopolies.
I don't it considered a nuclear war if only one side uses nukes.
I wouldn't worry about those. Amazon has embraced them and even shared a list of funny reviews before.
I agree with you mostly, but you can't judge someone simply by X years experience. People learn at different rates and their programming experiences are all different. Some people pick things up quickly and will be great in just a few years and some never be great no matter how long they do it.
This doesn't compare, just like many of the other bad VR sets it doesn't tackle the two biggest and hardest problems, motion blur, and input lag.
Motion blur will give you a headache and the input lag completely ruins immersion.
They also need to teach the basics of how our economic system works. That you earn money by providing value to others. You don't magically get money simply because you exist or have a degree.
I can, but I have 20-10 vision. But I suspect you could actually tell the difference if you had 20-20 and you set a 28" 4k and 8k side by side. Even if you can't quite discern an individual pixel you would probably still see some aliasing until you get 2x or even higher pixel density than an individual pixel is discernible at.
Then don't select 1 hour delivery...
It makes me wonder what would happen if they actually implemented it at a fixed amount regardless of area. How many people would move from expensive cities into cheap small towns?
I like the idea, but I think the biggest problem is that the amount of a "living wage" is very subjective. I'm sure we could afford enough for everyone to survive just fine, but I doubt we can afford what many people would consider "living wage".
Have there been any studies on if we can actually afford it? I've seen plenty of articles on how great it would be and why we should do it but every single one has ignored how much everyone would get and if we can actually afford to do it.
I do, but when I first started it was a lot like what the parent thinks is ideal. We were basically code monkeys and made whatever our sales team sold, and they basically just let the clients come up with the designs. We knew our products were terrible but the people higher up thought they were fine. We had a very high turnover.
We fought really hard to change that. It wasn't easy at all. We finally convinced them with a prototype we made on our own time that blew away the terrible stuff we had been making. We showed it to the CEO and other higher ups and it impressed them enough to change how we did things.
Now our productivity is exponentially higher, our products are awesome and practically sell themselves, and we have much lower turnover.
Your generalization of liberal arts graduates is almost as bad as your idea of an ideal workplace.
In a productive workplace the workers aren't drones that perform simple tasks as they are ordered from the top down. You end up with a CEO that knows nothing about technology deciding what technology to use on a product that has no value and doesn't work.
In a real productive environment there is open communication between all employees. People higher up explain problems they want to solve to the technical people and the technical people come up with ways to solve for the problem the other people didn't even know existed. Then they collaborate and decide what the best solution is. This way you solve the actual problem and do it in the most efficient way possible.
OnStar is easy to disconnect. On my car I simply opened up the trunk and disconnected 2 exposed cables, no tools required. They may have changed that though, I have a 2009 model.
I remember seeing a forum post from someone asking how to disconnect OnStar when it first came out and people ridiculing the user as a conspiracy theorist nutjob. Later it was revealed that onstar sold data to local police which lead to an influx of people searching how to disconnect it and seeing that as the first result.
Why is it that a rifle with a wood stock == good, but a fold out black stock on an "assault rifle" == scary evil murder weapon?