What's happened to the horseshoe market? I hate to incur the wrath of wooosh, but are horses on the decline? Is it not still a big a market as ever? Are horses wearing something other than horseshoes now?
Yeah, he's in Russia, possibly in an embassy somewhere. Good luck invading. There's still the possibility of dead-man information still unreleased. And his testimony will likely be public record, so the need to snoop it will be wasted effort. Even better, if they make it private, and the US reacts to something they should not have been privy to, well wouldn't that be the proof they've been looking for?
Yes, that too is something that doesn't happen in a computer game, and something that only a very brave person might try in a movie. Movie makers use focus as a way of keeping your attention on what they want you to watch. Perhaps there is a limitation on using a camera to record movies. Perhaps they could make an animated movie (Pixar or similar) where everything is always in focus, and you chose yourself where to look.
I've watched 10+ movies in the cinema in 3D, including Avatar, The Hobbit, Star Trek Into Darkness and Gravity in IMAX and a range of others in regular 3D. As many other people will tell you Gravity and Avatar are a different class of 3D movie to everything else. As for the rest, I can easily tell they used 3D as a gimmick. You got the odd spear/bee/shrapnel flying out at you from the screen to remind you that the movie was 3D, because frankly for all else, you can easily forget it/not notice it.
However, I have also played computer games in 3D. The difference between a game and a movie is that the movie chooses specific things to show you in 3D. In a game, they simply render EVERYTHING from 2 viewpoints and transmit that to each eye. I played Crysis 2 on the XBOX360 and was blown away by how it (I really dread to say) added a new dimension to the game. The HUD was rendered to be right up in your face and everything was at not just varying, but the RIGHT depth behind it. Far away monsters were far away, close up were close up and everything in between had it's own natural place. If you had water splash it felt real. It didn't feel like your vision had simply been blurred, it felt like something had actually blocked you, it was there, real.
I also have an account from a guild mate who played WoW in 3D and wonders how he ever managed to play it flat before, all the players now seemed like they were actually standing in places in relation to eachother, and he wonders what would happen if WoW had player collision seen in other games, because when viewed in 3D it looked so horrendously wrong for one player to be standing in the sprite of another, shattering the complex illusion of realness by the 3D effect.
There is so much other than simple games that the Rift could be used for. I paraphrase Palmer Luckey when I say "The reason [Palmer] had chosen to make the rift the way I have, is to make a device that doesn't strive for perfection in one area, and falls down in others. I wanted to make something that was good enough in as many areas as possible, and be affordable, so that we can get it out to people. It is not until people have it, and start using it, that we'll know what it can be used for". He may have mentioned the Kinect as an example of something made for one use, being put to many unforeseen other uses.
You could use a HD version of google streetview to record famous places and locations. Then people could explore them without having to make the trip there. You could use them for 3D conference calls (imagine using a future version of FaceRig to make the Rift Headset disappear). The problem is that there's not enough of these out there for inventors to invent with just now.
What people are thinking this could be used for is only the tip of the iceberg. The reality might turn out to be so much more than first though.
I don't know about that. While I do realise this is an anecdote, and I can't rule out physiological changes, I do recall suffering a lot from motion sickness as a child (travelling in the back seat and messing with my brothers limited my view of the outside of the vehicle, causing the motion sickness) but after a lifetime of playing games, reading books (with breaks whenever I felt sickness coming on) I've found that the length of time i can go before any motion sickness kicks in gets longer and longer. I can easily now watch a full movie hunkered down in the back seat without feeling sick.
I can't say whether it's a natural thing for you to be dulled to this as you get older, or whether I've trained myself not to get motion sick, but I feel like it is something you can get used to.
Hell, we've all heard about people "getting their sea legs" when their body just gives up trying to coordinate what it sees to what the inner ear tells it and after time you stop feeling sea sick. I have not tried the Rift (or any VR headset) but I hope that when I do I should be able to use it fine. I think I'd make a good test case, as someone who is prone to motion sickness, but who has 'overcome' it to see if the VR headset will require retraining or not.
I imagine some kind of safe with a time lock on it, set to automatically open if a button "Add One Day/Week/Month/Year" is not pressed for the time interval. Of course, it can also be opened by inputting the pass code at any time. If you forget the pass code, and need access to the contents, all you have to do is wait for it to automatically unlock when the time runs out.
If there is a chance you need the contents at short notice, you lower the time, if you can afford to wait a month, then do so.
If it can be shown that the NSA lied outright to congress, then Snowden becomes even more right in his decision not to take his cache to a superior and instead to go to the press and flee the country. If his superiors will lie to congress, then how can he assume any protection as a whistle blower (him being a contractor and not covered by whistle blower protections anyway aside). Congress can then push to have Edward exonerated and rewarded for his actions instead of hiding out fearing prosecution or worse from his own government.
They didn't know it originated from the wireless network. They knew it came from Tor. I could have sent it, for all they know. What they did know was the time it arrived. They played a hunch that it came locally (someone who planted/discovered the bomb on campus) and checked to see who had used Tor on their network at around that time, it's plain old fashioned detective work.
Put the suspect in a room with an interrogator and extract a confession ("We have you on the Tor network the exact same time the email for the bomb hoax came through", "You were the only person using it at the time (whether that is true or not) so we know you did it", "This will go a lot easier on you if you confess now"). Will the confession stand? Did they read Miranda rights? Was he offered legal council?
There a link in this webpage (I didn't link it directly as there's also some interesting information on the first page too) saying that while they are not working together on a VR headset, they aren't enemies either, and Palmer doesn't mind if there is competition as he understands that it would be better for VR in general in the long run, to breed innovation.
My wife and I may eat a similar standard of food, but by no means would we have the same meals. Working in different places, we eat different lunches. She likes mushrooms while I do not. If we eat out we don't order the same dishes.
She also does not eat the same quantities of food as I do, so there may be a greater risk that she misses out on certain vitamin thresholds. That said, I'm not a big eater of salad, while she loves green leafy dishes.
No, you can by no means assume that mom and dad have the same diet.
But also, old dads produce longer living offspring due to the fact that the sperm's telomeres lengthen with age. This is compounded when father and grandfather both have children later in life.
The risk of mutation may be higher, but the reward of a healthy offspring is longer lifespan.
user interfaces have gotton very shitty since a lot of it is outsourced and foreign designers have a 'grid' mentality (to save cost as the ONLY thing they care about).
Wait, you reply to the OP stating that "dem furigners" are the problem, Yes the OP post distinctly mentioned Toyota and Peugeot as examples of intuitive location of controls. Being Japanese and French respectively, one or both of them have to be foreign. There are good and bad examples of UI design from everywhere, no one country or region has the monopoly on it.
And there's nothing wrong with a grid, we've been using it in scientific calculators for years. Even the good old fashioned keyboard is a grid, and most of us here can use that without looking at it, and it typically only has 2 tactile aids. Why has there been no successfully adopted improvement over this design? On my smartphone, I can quickly find and activate apps from the screen that are laid out in a grid pattern. Sure, perhaps a concentric circle pattern, with the most commonly used items in the middle might be a better option, but how would a human react to it?
Imagine you created a dynamic system whereby the most commonly used apps automatically arranged themselves on the home screen? The more they are used, the more prominently they are displayed, shuffling around so that lesser used apps are pushed to the corner, or the next screen. How long before a user gets frustrated at their device for constantly shifting everything about and never knowing where a certain button is going to be?
You might try to say that this method is smarter and more efficient, but I would be very dubious that such a thing would take off. It is much easier for them to be arranged in a fixed grid and have the user learn and remember their locations.
Humans are very good at recognising a pattern and remembering where things fit in a grid. By examining the OPs post all I can think of is that he was happy with his 2 previous cars, once he got to know the layout of items on the dash. Now he has a newer car and is not used to the layout. The worst example was of a rental car that he only drove for a short while, and knowing he wouldn't be driving it long, didn't even bother trying to learn the layout. In 2 years time, will he have the same opinion of his Volvo?
The CTO (who is responsible to shareholders for turning a profit) of a semiconductor producer is laying down the foundations for why they won't be making processors cheaper?
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What's happened to the horseshoe market? I hate to incur the wrath of wooosh, but are horses on the decline? Is it not still a big a market as ever? Are horses wearing something other than horseshoes now?
The important point is that he's only accused. He has not been convicted of anything. Is this the way you should treat, as yet, innocent people?
Yeah, he's in Russia, possibly in an embassy somewhere. Good luck invading. There's still the possibility of dead-man information still unreleased. And his testimony will likely be public record, so the need to snoop it will be wasted effort. Even better, if they make it private, and the US reacts to something they should not have been privy to, well wouldn't that be the proof they've been looking for?
Yes, that too is something that doesn't happen in a computer game, and something that only a very brave person might try in a movie. Movie makers use focus as a way of keeping your attention on what they want you to watch. Perhaps there is a limitation on using a camera to record movies. Perhaps they could make an animated movie (Pixar or similar) where everything is always in focus, and you chose yourself where to look.
I've watched 10+ movies in the cinema in 3D, including Avatar, The Hobbit, Star Trek Into Darkness and Gravity in IMAX and a range of others in regular 3D. As many other people will tell you Gravity and Avatar are a different class of 3D movie to everything else. As for the rest, I can easily tell they used 3D as a gimmick. You got the odd spear/bee/shrapnel flying out at you from the screen to remind you that the movie was 3D, because frankly for all else, you can easily forget it/not notice it.
However, I have also played computer games in 3D. The difference between a game and a movie is that the movie chooses specific things to show you in 3D. In a game, they simply render EVERYTHING from 2 viewpoints and transmit that to each eye. I played Crysis 2 on the XBOX360 and was blown away by how it (I really dread to say) added a new dimension to the game. The HUD was rendered to be right up in your face and everything was at not just varying, but the RIGHT depth behind it. Far away monsters were far away, close up were close up and everything in between had it's own natural place. If you had water splash it felt real. It didn't feel like your vision had simply been blurred, it felt like something had actually blocked you, it was there, real.
I also have an account from a guild mate who played WoW in 3D and wonders how he ever managed to play it flat before, all the players now seemed like they were actually standing in places in relation to eachother, and he wonders what would happen if WoW had player collision seen in other games, because when viewed in 3D it looked so horrendously wrong for one player to be standing in the sprite of another, shattering the complex illusion of realness by the 3D effect.
There is so much other than simple games that the Rift could be used for. I paraphrase Palmer Luckey when I say "The reason [Palmer] had chosen to make the rift the way I have, is to make a device that doesn't strive for perfection in one area, and falls down in others. I wanted to make something that was good enough in as many areas as possible, and be affordable, so that we can get it out to people. It is not until people have it, and start using it, that we'll know what it can be used for". He may have mentioned the Kinect as an example of something made for one use, being put to many unforeseen other uses.
You could use a HD version of google streetview to record famous places and locations. Then people could explore them without having to make the trip there. You could use them for 3D conference calls (imagine using a future version of FaceRig to make the Rift Headset disappear). The problem is that there's not enough of these out there for inventors to invent with just now.
What people are thinking this could be used for is only the tip of the iceberg. The reality might turn out to be so much more than first though.
I don't know about that. While I do realise this is an anecdote, and I can't rule out physiological changes, I do recall suffering a lot from motion sickness as a child (travelling in the back seat and messing with my brothers limited my view of the outside of the vehicle, causing the motion sickness) but after a lifetime of playing games, reading books (with breaks whenever I felt sickness coming on) I've found that the length of time i can go before any motion sickness kicks in gets longer and longer. I can easily now watch a full movie hunkered down in the back seat without feeling sick.
I can't say whether it's a natural thing for you to be dulled to this as you get older, or whether I've trained myself not to get motion sick, but I feel like it is something you can get used to.
Hell, we've all heard about people "getting their sea legs" when their body just gives up trying to coordinate what it sees to what the inner ear tells it and after time you stop feeling sea sick. I have not tried the Rift (or any VR headset) but I hope that when I do I should be able to use it fine. I think I'd make a good test case, as someone who is prone to motion sickness, but who has 'overcome' it to see if the VR headset will require retraining or not.
I imagine some kind of safe with a time lock on it, set to automatically open if a button "Add One Day/Week/Month/Year" is not pressed for the time interval. Of course, it can also be opened by inputting the pass code at any time. If you forget the pass code, and need access to the contents, all you have to do is wait for it to automatically unlock when the time runs out.
If there is a chance you need the contents at short notice, you lower the time, if you can afford to wait a month, then do so.
If it can be shown that the NSA lied outright to congress, then Snowden becomes even more right in his decision not to take his cache to a superior and instead to go to the press and flee the country. If his superiors will lie to congress, then how can he assume any protection as a whistle blower (him being a contractor and not covered by whistle blower protections anyway aside). Congress can then push to have Edward exonerated and rewarded for his actions instead of hiding out fearing prosecution or worse from his own government.
They didn't know it originated from the wireless network. They knew it came from Tor. I could have sent it, for all they know. What they did know was the time it arrived. They played a hunch that it came locally (someone who planted/discovered the bomb on campus) and checked to see who had used Tor on their network at around that time, it's plain old fashioned detective work.
Put the suspect in a room with an interrogator and extract a confession ("We have you on the Tor network the exact same time the email for the bomb hoax came through", "You were the only person using it at the time (whether that is true or not) so we know you did it", "This will go a lot easier on you if you confess now"). Will the confession stand? Did they read Miranda rights? Was he offered legal council?
I see you've never fired a laser at a black hole!
Don't bring Chimps into this!
There a link in this webpage (I didn't link it directly as there's also some interesting information on the first page too) saying that while they are not working together on a VR headset, they aren't enemies either, and Palmer doesn't mind if there is competition as he understands that it would be better for VR in general in the long run, to breed innovation.
Link: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/valve-to-follow-oculus-rift-s-lead-and-demo-its-own-vr-headset-1200642
Oh well, I guess that just leaves the PC master race to take advantage of it!
A closer analogy would be long distance bus journeys. Why are they not worried about quiet time when you are on a bus for 3 hours?
I don't think so, but given a speed of 60mph It will be able to tell you if it's alive or dead in about 2.27 seconds.
This is clearly indicative of the presence of whales under the ice.
My wife and I may eat a similar standard of food, but by no means would we have the same meals. Working in different places, we eat different lunches. She likes mushrooms while I do not. If we eat out we don't order the same dishes.
She also does not eat the same quantities of food as I do, so there may be a greater risk that she misses out on certain vitamin thresholds. That said, I'm not a big eater of salad, while she loves green leafy dishes.
No, you can by no means assume that mom and dad have the same diet.
But also, old dads produce longer living offspring due to the fact that the sperm's telomeres lengthen with age. This is compounded when father and grandfather both have children later in life.
The risk of mutation may be higher, but the reward of a healthy offspring is longer lifespan.
This way, when an employee's car stops being productive, you can replace him/her!
Shoo with the flamebait, I'm a cyclist myself and meant it as a joke.
Exactly! Lets build our own city with blackjack and hookers (but no pole-dancers)!
Then perhaps we should use tow cables?
Until a HUD can put a cross-hairs on cyclists, I'm not interested.
user interfaces have gotton very shitty since a lot of it is outsourced and foreign designers have a 'grid' mentality (to save cost as the ONLY thing they care about).
Wait, you reply to the OP stating that "dem furigners" are the problem, Yes the OP post distinctly mentioned Toyota and Peugeot as examples of intuitive location of controls. Being Japanese and French respectively, one or both of them have to be foreign. There are good and bad examples of UI design from everywhere, no one country or region has the monopoly on it.
And there's nothing wrong with a grid, we've been using it in scientific calculators for years. Even the good old fashioned keyboard is a grid, and most of us here can use that without looking at it, and it typically only has 2 tactile aids. Why has there been no successfully adopted improvement over this design? On my smartphone, I can quickly find and activate apps from the screen that are laid out in a grid pattern. Sure, perhaps a concentric circle pattern, with the most commonly used items in the middle might be a better option, but how would a human react to it?
Imagine you created a dynamic system whereby the most commonly used apps automatically arranged themselves on the home screen? The more they are used, the more prominently they are displayed, shuffling around so that lesser used apps are pushed to the corner, or the next screen. How long before a user gets frustrated at their device for constantly shifting everything about and never knowing where a certain button is going to be?
You might try to say that this method is smarter and more efficient, but I would be very dubious that such a thing would take off. It is much easier for them to be arranged in a fixed grid and have the user learn and remember their locations.
Humans are very good at recognising a pattern and remembering where things fit in a grid. By examining the OPs post all I can think of is that he was happy with his 2 previous cars, once he got to know the layout of items on the dash. Now he has a newer car and is not used to the layout. The worst example was of a rental car that he only drove for a short while, and knowing he wouldn't be driving it long, didn't even bother trying to learn the layout. In 2 years time, will he have the same opinion of his Volvo?
The CTO (who is responsible to shareholders for turning a profit) of a semiconductor producer is laying down the foundations for why they won't be making processors cheaper?