Yes, that would be a great thing. Unfortunately sociopaths make great managers. They don't give a shit about anyone but themselves, if they could get away with it they'd literally grind people into meat to sell, and that's what the shareholders want: People who have no remorse and would poke kittens' eyes out if it meant more money.
Fix the capitalist system if you want to change this, because nothing short of tossing the whole basis of our economy would possibly accomplish this. Because if you try to "do the right thing" and refuse to hire sociopaths and psychopaths for your management staff, your company will be eaten alive by those companies that do hire them.
I need an interface to another human being to communicate my requirements, report my results and organize the future collaboration collaboration.
I'm here to get work done. If I want to feel good, I can do that on my own time. Yes, it's a great thing to have a job where you feel comfortable and at home, but it's still a secondary concern. If it is not, your job is in peril because the next company over doesn't give a fuck about their workers' feelings and will put yours out of work.
Face it, we're still living in a capitalist world. If you want to change that, great, I'm with you, but until you do, don't try to change the rules you want to play by without consulting the rest of the players.
I was already wondering how long it would take until the "gender studies" majors find out that their bullshit degree at best qualifies them for a job that includes the standard phrase "you want fries with that" and start bullying companies into creating job positions for them.
But I honestly didn't think it would happen this quickly.
Challenging Japanese to a giant robot duel? That's like challenging a Russian to a vodka drinking contest, you don't challenge someone in his national sport!
Creating malware? Guilty as charged. I do that occasionally on behalf of my clients that want to know whether their security is as tight as they think it is. This is of course very specific software, written with rigid restraints when it comes to propagation and what machines the "malware" may affect at all to ensure that nobody outside gets hit by it and of course without any malicious payload, but the whole criteria for malware are fulfilled. Installation without the user's consent (but of course the machine's owner), hiding from detection, informing a controlling server (the customer's own, of course), transfer of information, circumvention of anti-malware measures and so on.
The same applies to "hacking". If that's outlawed, I'm not only out of a job, I belong behind bars because that's what I do all day long. Of course with the written consent of the owner of the machine(s) being hacked and at their own request, but nonetheless it is exactly the same procedure as if a malicious hacker tried to gain access (maybe with a little less brutality when it comes to the question whether the server survives it...).
This is a necessity of security work. How do you plan to test your defenses if you disallow using the same tools, tricks and means that an actual attacker has at his disposal?
In other words, the US is currently pretty much using a Zeiss scope to ensure it hits its own foot perfectly. Because one thing is certain, no security researcher worth his salt will willingly set foot into a country where simply being what he is and doing what he has to do to be good at his job means putting a foot into the slammer. Nope. Sorry. I'd rather visit a SecCon in Moscow at this point because the chance to get back home are higher.
Now why would I want to do that? How does that make me comfortable while driving alone in my air conditioned car for 20 (despite me being single)? That would make me feel guilty, so why would I wanna do that? I want to be comfortable, I want to be told that what I do is right and most of all I don't want to change my lifestyle!
5.1 million tons of feces in Libraries of Congress is hard. Let's just do congress. Let's assume the average Congressman to be about 80kg, this times 535 is 42.8 tons... roughly 120 Congresses. But only if all the members are in.
Yes, I was like that 9 months ago when I bought the Vive. Now it's 9 months later, the new car smell is gone and I notice it's just the same tryingtoohardtoretroindies. Just in VR.
Free speech is a great idea. But too many people confuse the right to speak the truth with the obligation to do so. Just because the media have the right to tell you something doesn't mean that it has to be right.
What you need for this to work out are highly educated people, but why would anyone that has the power to provide this want that?
Just make sure you have enough crackpots to spread bullshit about. The more insane the conspiracy theory, the better. From Chemtrails to Flat Earth, from Reptiloids to Hitler's base on the dark side of the moon, just make sure you flood everything that people could possibly use to get non-approved news with enough bullshit that nobody would want to wade through the pits of steaming shit in the vain search for tangible information.
It is way more efficient than trying to suppress non-approved information. Because if you try to suppress it, every little bit of leaked info can be scrutinized by the people wanting to see for themselves what the world has in store for them and what really happens. But when you make sure that anything that could threaten your narrative is drowned in the noise of utter bullshit, people will not even bother trying.
Seeing is believing. Especially how that VR part is going to unfold, and whether there is some commitment to it or whether it's tacked on as a gimmick.
What I noticed is that games work best where the restricted room you have works in the game world. For example, there is a submarine sim that works well with the spacial restrictions because, hey, it's a submarine and supposed to be a few small rooms. They solved the transition from room to room by having you step through bulkheads, which they manage to creatively make your character model shift around enough that you hardly notice that you're essentially going "back" instead of forwards, you essentially walk back and forth in your room while you go through the sub.
So yes, that problem can sometimes be solved in a creative way. But in general you're of course right, having at best a three by three meters large room limits the possibility of moving about severely.
No kidding, my personal "WTF???" moment was taking a first look at my VR "hands" in Raw Data. I was looking at my hands. Literally. With the difference that they were very robotic in nature, but behaved absolutely identical to my real ones. Turn your hand, the hand you see turns. Make a first (and press the side buttons on the controller) and so does the hand you see. Freaky!
The problem is that the new car smell wears off quickly.
Yes, I also enjoy games in VR. I also don't really mind that the graphics are dated by about 20 years for the most part, but face it: I'm an old fart and not the kind of guy that drives game development with my maybe 5 hours a week time to play some VR games.
And yes, there are great games with decent graphics. Raw Data alone is a good example of a game that can create tension, mood and a feeling of urgency. But this gem is buried under a metric ton of mediocre or outright bad Flashgame knockoffs. Seriously, sieving through Steam's VR Game list is worse than finding a game worth playing in Google's Play Store.
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Yes, that would be a great thing. Unfortunately sociopaths make great managers. They don't give a shit about anyone but themselves, if they could get away with it they'd literally grind people into meat to sell, and that's what the shareholders want: People who have no remorse and would poke kittens' eyes out if it meant more money.
Fix the capitalist system if you want to change this, because nothing short of tossing the whole basis of our economy would possibly accomplish this. Because if you try to "do the right thing" and refuse to hire sociopaths and psychopaths for your management staff, your company will be eaten alive by those companies that do hire them.
I need an interface to another human being to communicate my requirements, report my results and organize the future collaboration collaboration.
I'm here to get work done. If I want to feel good, I can do that on my own time. Yes, it's a great thing to have a job where you feel comfortable and at home, but it's still a secondary concern. If it is not, your job is in peril because the next company over doesn't give a fuck about their workers' feelings and will put yours out of work.
Face it, we're still living in a capitalist world. If you want to change that, great, I'm with you, but until you do, don't try to change the rules you want to play by without consulting the rest of the players.
Tolerance comes from tolerare, which basically means to endure, to bear or to suffer something.
In that sense, saying that I tolerate this bullshit is right on the money.
Hey, I remember that! Back in the Soviet Union we called them political commissar.
This.
I was already wondering how long it would take until the "gender studies" majors find out that their bullshit degree at best qualifies them for a job that includes the standard phrase "you want fries with that" and start bullying companies into creating job positions for them.
But I honestly didn't think it would happen this quickly.
Challenging Japanese to a giant robot duel? That's like challenging a Russian to a vodka drinking contest, you don't challenge someone in his national sport!
You mean Ishiro Honda stuff, right?
Creating malware? Guilty as charged. I do that occasionally on behalf of my clients that want to know whether their security is as tight as they think it is. This is of course very specific software, written with rigid restraints when it comes to propagation and what machines the "malware" may affect at all to ensure that nobody outside gets hit by it and of course without any malicious payload, but the whole criteria for malware are fulfilled. Installation without the user's consent (but of course the machine's owner), hiding from detection, informing a controlling server (the customer's own, of course), transfer of information, circumvention of anti-malware measures and so on.
The same applies to "hacking". If that's outlawed, I'm not only out of a job, I belong behind bars because that's what I do all day long. Of course with the written consent of the owner of the machine(s) being hacked and at their own request, but nonetheless it is exactly the same procedure as if a malicious hacker tried to gain access (maybe with a little less brutality when it comes to the question whether the server survives it...).
This is a necessity of security work. How do you plan to test your defenses if you disallow using the same tools, tricks and means that an actual attacker has at his disposal?
In other words, the US is currently pretty much using a Zeiss scope to ensure it hits its own foot perfectly. Because one thing is certain, no security researcher worth his salt will willingly set foot into a country where simply being what he is and doing what he has to do to be good at his job means putting a foot into the slammer. Nope. Sorry. I'd rather visit a SecCon in Moscow at this point because the chance to get back home are higher.
So? It's not like anything changing in there would have ever yielded any kind of measurable result.
So THAT's what these things are for! Friend of mine still has two, I always wondered why he kept those noisemakers around.
Isn't even a sonic one more agreeable for your ears? In volume AND pitch?
Putting the service into a country with sensible laws might help.
Now why would I want to do that? How does that make me comfortable while driving alone in my air conditioned car for 20 (despite me being single)? That would make me feel guilty, so why would I wanna do that? I want to be comfortable, I want to be told that what I do is right and most of all I don't want to change my lifestyle!
It's less the CO2 production, it's more the fact that he contributes to global warming with all the hot air.
5.1 million tons of feces in Libraries of Congress is hard. Let's just do congress. Let's assume the average Congressman to be about 80kg, this times 535 is 42.8 tons... roughly 120 Congresses. But only if all the members are in.
Yes, I was like that 9 months ago when I bought the Vive. Now it's 9 months later, the new car smell is gone and I notice it's just the same tryingtoohardtoretroindies. Just in VR.
When you mine gold and forge a ring out of it, you can still take that ring, melt it and make something else out of it.
Once fuel is burned, it's kinda hard to put it back into the tank.
Whether he makes it to 21st depends mostly on whether there are MMORPG players in the audience.
Free speech is a great idea. But too many people confuse the right to speak the truth with the obligation to do so. Just because the media have the right to tell you something doesn't mean that it has to be right.
What you need for this to work out are highly educated people, but why would anyone that has the power to provide this want that?
OMG, a tiny dot moves across the screen. UFOs confirmed!
Ok, what the fuck has one to do with the other?
And insidious, too.
Just make sure you have enough crackpots to spread bullshit about. The more insane the conspiracy theory, the better. From Chemtrails to Flat Earth, from Reptiloids to Hitler's base on the dark side of the moon, just make sure you flood everything that people could possibly use to get non-approved news with enough bullshit that nobody would want to wade through the pits of steaming shit in the vain search for tangible information.
It is way more efficient than trying to suppress non-approved information. Because if you try to suppress it, every little bit of leaked info can be scrutinized by the people wanting to see for themselves what the world has in store for them and what really happens. But when you make sure that anything that could threaten your narrative is drowned in the noise of utter bullshit, people will not even bother trying.
Seeing is believing. Especially how that VR part is going to unfold, and whether there is some commitment to it or whether it's tacked on as a gimmick.
What I noticed is that games work best where the restricted room you have works in the game world. For example, there is a submarine sim that works well with the spacial restrictions because, hey, it's a submarine and supposed to be a few small rooms. They solved the transition from room to room by having you step through bulkheads, which they manage to creatively make your character model shift around enough that you hardly notice that you're essentially going "back" instead of forwards, you essentially walk back and forth in your room while you go through the sub.
So yes, that problem can sometimes be solved in a creative way. But in general you're of course right, having at best a three by three meters large room limits the possibility of moving about severely.
No kidding, my personal "WTF???" moment was taking a first look at my VR "hands" in Raw Data. I was looking at my hands. Literally. With the difference that they were very robotic in nature, but behaved absolutely identical to my real ones. Turn your hand, the hand you see turns. Make a first (and press the side buttons on the controller) and so does the hand you see. Freaky!
The problem is that the new car smell wears off quickly.
Yes, I also enjoy games in VR. I also don't really mind that the graphics are dated by about 20 years for the most part, but face it: I'm an old fart and not the kind of guy that drives game development with my maybe 5 hours a week time to play some VR games.
And yes, there are great games with decent graphics. Raw Data alone is a good example of a game that can create tension, mood and a feeling of urgency. But this gem is buried under a metric ton of mediocre or outright bad Flashgame knockoffs. Seriously, sieving through Steam's VR Game list is worse than finding a game worth playing in Google's Play Store.