I think I might be one of the people who are getting sick from using VR. It's also one reason why I don't drive. What happens is that I have nausea symptoms if I am in a moving car and look at my cellphone screen, for example. I can't look at my cellphone or tablet for more than 30 seconds before I start to get sick and feel like throwing up. My doctor says it's because I am stationary (my body doesn't move), I'm also looking at a stationary object (e.g. cellphone screen) but the environment I'm in moves with high speed. Strangely enough, I don't get sick while travelling by train or plane, only car and bus. I played and watched movies on my tablet for 8 hours straight while in a moving train and haven't had any symptoms.
I think there are more shades of grey than 50, here. The phrase "I want my data to be secure" makes no sense. There's no such thing as "secure data". One can't even define "secure data". Data can only be considered secure within context, e.g. my pictures stored on SpiderOak are secure... as long as someone doesn't beat the username and password out of me with a $5 wrench. My Facebook data isn't secure by definition, anyone could save those pictures or that text. And yes, each company wants their piece of the pie (the bigger, the better) and yes, each person wants to be able to do stuff as easily as possible. The more secure data is, the greater the usability sacrifice.
We're not our worst enemy. We are how we are and it's impossible to change it. Try explaining your mom that she needs to enter an overly complicated password and then receive a code through SMS and then type that code manually in a little text box every time she wants to look at each of her granskid's pictures. Won't work. And it's not because your mom is lazy, but because the perceived need for security for such data is very low.
Yes, a thief only needs to browse his local area citizen Facebook profiles to identify who's going away on vacation. Before that, he needed to physically roam the neighborhood to find out. In both cases, the reward (loot) greatly outweighed the effort, the sole difference being less effort now than then. The advent of Internet and technology brought us great advantages as well as risks. They always go hand-in-hand.
Example: There's one website which streams Senate and Lower Chamber political debates and meetings in my country. It's subscription-only. You gain access to full HD audio-video streaming plus a large archive stretching 10+ years back. No ads, no delays, available 24/7.
Yes. I'm ready to subscribe to a paid website with good content but no ads. As a matter of fact I have subscribed to a couple and didn't regret it a bit.
When you read "design" you think about the shape of a mobile phone or the ratio of a monitor, but that's only a small subset of the word's meaning.
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest inventors of all time, was also a designer. And a prodigal one, to say the least. I could even say he was a designer more than an inventor. Many of his inventions only existed in design format and nothing else.
Yeah but that's gonna be the norm at the time. Think of it this way: when I grew up, everyone was playing ball and running around while I was reading serous books and tinkering with science. I was the weirdo. When my kid will grow up, everyone will live inside their mobile device or VR and my kid will want to play ball and run around. He's gonna be the weirdo. Normal kids are not what we think normal is or should be.
With that being said, my kid thoroughly enjoys playing golf and memory match on his laptop as well as playing ball outside and running around. I'm balancing his life the best I can, trying not to slide towards any of the extremes.
Some questions: 1. How do you plan to decrease that amount? 2. How do you know how long you need to wait to realize you've overdone it? Suppose the temperature rises 0.5 degrees per year, so you spit some substance out. Next year there's no reduction of the trend, so you do what? Wait to see if that goes down next year or spit some more substance? Do you wait a decade? A century?
These global mechanisms are poorly understood and overly complex as it is, the last thing I'd want is meddling with it. It's like a 2 year old shoving both hands into a running car engine to make it sound more like the lullaby his mom's singing to him every night.
I actually liked that movie a lot. The environmental plot was pretty good considering the movie genre's competition (e.g. other environmental plots). The movie ended like shit but that's another discussion.
OK, I'll bite. I could say the same from the other point of view. Each and any average dude uses products invented and designed by someone who was way above average, starting from fire and ending up with that "phat aiphone" in one's pocket. The few rely on the work of the many and the many use the work of the few. Symbiosis at its best.
What else would you expect from someone called Sameer Chaudhry who lives in Dallas? I'm fairly sure he would have gotten plenty of responses on an Indian dating site. (disclaimer: this post isn't racist, I would expect close to no responses if I tried dating on an Indian site)
This has been tried with DRM. I remember those game CDs coming with bad sectors intentionally written to make copying difficult, and software products which came with a specially crafted parallel port dongle to add hardware protection. None worked.
The solution you're proposing makes life more difficult only to regular users who would need to order chips and slam them into a motherboard to upgrade their operating system. Not to mention a bug which would creep into the read-only part of the OS. At least now you can patch it, if it were a chip you would need to physically replace it and in the meantime just pray you don't fall victim to the malware written for that bug.
works both ways. but of course, during interviews, it never really does work both ways;(
It always works both ways, but probably you won't get the job:) Back in the day, I was applying for a job which involved assembling computers (I was 22). The recruiter asked my what kind of socket is a CPU, and the correct answer was "socket 939". I gave him the correct answer, he said "no, the correct answer is socket 754". He was wrong, so I said "oh, I thought you meant the other CPU" (which WAS socket 754). Basically I agreed to his wrong answer, so he felt good about himself and in his mind I still was technical enough. I got that job.
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I think I might be one of the people who are getting sick from using VR. It's also one reason why I don't drive.
What happens is that I have nausea symptoms if I am in a moving car and look at my cellphone screen, for example. I can't look at my cellphone or tablet for more than 30 seconds before I start to get sick and feel like throwing up.
My doctor says it's because I am stationary (my body doesn't move), I'm also looking at a stationary object (e.g. cellphone screen) but the environment I'm in moves with high speed.
Strangely enough, I don't get sick while travelling by train or plane, only car and bus. I played and watched movies on my tablet for 8 hours straight while in a moving train and haven't had any symptoms.
The Zombear is born.
I wanted to click on your signature link but the fucked up "new" Slashdot layout puts "reply to this" link directly over your own signature link.
Nope. "We" didn't use it. A few select people used it.
That's a big difference.
Yes, a company can keep the servers to themselves, and thus give up other advantages. Again, balancin one with the other is held true.
I think there are more shades of grey than 50, here.
The phrase "I want my data to be secure" makes no sense. There's no such thing as "secure data". One can't even define "secure data". Data can only be considered secure within context, e.g. my pictures stored on SpiderOak are secure... as long as someone doesn't beat the username and password out of me with a $5 wrench. My Facebook data isn't secure by definition, anyone could save those pictures or that text. And yes, each company wants their piece of the pie (the bigger, the better) and yes, each person wants to be able to do stuff as easily as possible. The more secure data is, the greater the usability sacrifice.
We're not our worst enemy. We are how we are and it's impossible to change it. Try explaining your mom that she needs to enter an overly complicated password and then receive a code through SMS and then type that code manually in a little text box every time she wants to look at each of her granskid's pictures. Won't work. And it's not because your mom is lazy, but because the perceived need for security for such data is very low.
Yes, a thief only needs to browse his local area citizen Facebook profiles to identify who's going away on vacation. Before that, he needed to physically roam the neighborhood to find out. In both cases, the reward (loot) greatly outweighed the effort, the sole difference being less effort now than then.
The advent of Internet and technology brought us great advantages as well as risks. They always go hand-in-hand.
Example: There's one website which streams Senate and Lower Chamber political debates and meetings in my country. It's subscription-only. You gain access to full HD audio-video streaming plus a large archive stretching 10+ years back. No ads, no delays, available 24/7.
Yes. I'm ready to subscribe to a paid website with good content but no ads. As a matter of fact I have subscribed to a couple and didn't regret it a bit.
Was it less effective when mixed with shit?
Urine was also widely used during WWII to soften the hard leather boots that would otherwise hurt soldiers' feet.
"le parfum".
I disagree.
When you read "design" you think about the shape of a mobile phone or the ratio of a monitor, but that's only a small subset of the word's meaning.
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest inventors of all time, was also a designer. And a prodigal one, to say the least. I could even say he was a designer more than an inventor. Many of his inventions only existed in design format and nothing else.
Yeah but that's gonna be the norm at the time.
Think of it this way: when I grew up, everyone was playing ball and running around while I was reading serous books and tinkering with science. I was the weirdo. When my kid will grow up, everyone will live inside their mobile device or VR and my kid will want to play ball and run around. He's gonna be the weirdo.
Normal kids are not what we think normal is or should be.
With that being said, my kid thoroughly enjoys playing golf and memory match on his laptop as well as playing ball outside and running around. I'm balancing his life the best I can, trying not to slide towards any of the extremes.
This, so much of this.
Erm, plant trees. Lots o' them. And I mean LOTS o' them.
Some questions:
1. How do you plan to decrease that amount?
2. How do you know how long you need to wait to realize you've overdone it? Suppose the temperature rises 0.5 degrees per year, so you spit some substance out. Next year there's no reduction of the trend, so you do what? Wait to see if that goes down next year or spit some more substance? Do you wait a decade? A century?
These global mechanisms are poorly understood and overly complex as it is, the last thing I'd want is meddling with it. It's like a 2 year old shoving both hands into a running car engine to make it sound more like the lullaby his mom's singing to him every night.
I actually liked that movie a lot.
The environmental plot was pretty good considering the movie genre's competition (e.g. other environmental plots).
The movie ended like shit but that's another discussion.
OK, I'll bite.
I could say the same from the other point of view.
Each and any average dude uses products invented and designed by someone who was way above average, starting from fire and ending up with that "phat aiphone" in one's pocket.
The few rely on the work of the many and the many use the work of the few. Symbiosis at its best.
What else would you expect from someone called Sameer Chaudhry who lives in Dallas?
I'm fairly sure he would have gotten plenty of responses on an Indian dating site.
(disclaimer: this post isn't racist, I would expect close to no responses if I tried dating on an Indian site)
This has been tried with DRM. I remember those game CDs coming with bad sectors intentionally written to make copying difficult, and software products which came with a specially crafted parallel port dongle to add hardware protection.
None worked.
The solution you're proposing makes life more difficult only to regular users who would need to order chips and slam them into a motherboard to upgrade their operating system. Not to mention a bug which would creep into the read-only part of the OS. At least now you can patch it, if it were a chip you would need to physically replace it and in the meantime just pray you don't fall victim to the malware written for that bug.
You wanna be pedantic? I'll bite.
The Moon is made of both Earth and Theia protoplanet that slammed into it. Not an asteroid, it was Mars-sized.
I have noticed a lot of websites don't work well if the browser window is small enough. That's why websites do have "recommended resolution".
By the same logic, there's also a room of moneys with typewriters somewhere turning out all the great books
Thanks to the Internet, we now know that's not true.
Your post is too long, let me summarize it for you:
Fuck Sony and their overpriced shit.
And that is my genuine opinion, it's not sarcasm.
I absolutely hate my S4 Mini. With a passion.
works both ways. but of course, during interviews, it never really does work both ways ;(
It always works both ways, but probably you won't get the job :)
Back in the day, I was applying for a job which involved assembling computers (I was 22). The recruiter asked my what kind of socket is a CPU, and the correct answer was "socket 939". I gave him the correct answer, he said "no, the correct answer is socket 754". He was wrong, so I said "oh, I thought you meant the other CPU" (which WAS socket 754).
Basically I agreed to his wrong answer, so he felt good about himself and in his mind I still was technical enough.
I got that job.