Why disguise it? They pretty much got greenlit by congress to steal any information they want and sell it to the highest bidder, what could they possibly gain that way?
Knowing Delta's mastery of established technology lets me look forward into a bright future with them embracing the spearhead of bleeding edge technology.
First, developer support. Unless Facebook is REALLY putting a LOT of money behind it and develop a fair amount of good applications themselves, nobody else will. You'd have to train your staff to program for a platform that will likely have very few users in the beginning and is vastly different from any other platform you developed for so far. This alone will almost certainly guarantee that no AAA studio will jump onto it, they are VERY risk-averse. So what you'll probably get is smaller studios and indies that can take a risk.
Then there's the hardware. If the hardware is as powerful as last-gen console hardware, anything you produce will invariably suck if it has to stand against other VR titles on Occulus Rift and Vive that can tap the power of high-end PC gaming hardware. If you want to avoid motion sickness, at least to the best of your ability, you need to be able to produce a smooth simulation. Anything under 30 fps, more likely 50fps, will make people feel queasy. That means the poly count needs to go down. WAY down. In other words, the graphics you'll get will by no means be close to PS3. Playstation, maybe PS2, is more what you could expect.
A more sensibly comparison would be pitting it against mobile consoles. Comparing this VR set against other VR sets or making people expect playing current console titles in VR will lead to VERY disappointed customers.
Actually, I use "Bullshit" as a short version of "this is wrong in a way I didn't even remotely expect anyone to be able to be wrong". Whether this is because it is so far away from reality that it is hard to imagine someone actually thinking it could be true (it's mostly religious arguments that fall into this category) or because I disagree with it strongly enough that I consider it impossible to be true (mostly connected with arguments including invisible hands and other rape instruments being actually beneficial for the general public) is another issue.
If your main concern when working is the gender, sexual orientation, race or pretty ANYTHING but a person's qualification for a job, I don't want to work with you. What I ask for is whether someone can do his job. As far as I'm concern it can be a green-yellow striped tri-gendered alien from plant Zrbt, provided said alien has the legal permission to work here and the qualification for the job, I'll hire him/her/it/them/xrbt.
No, it's not whether you like the tone, it's whether it's constructive. If it's constructive, you need it. If it's not, you don't. It's not about feelings, it's about content.
I've seen plenty of the US. If you like it, awesome, at least one country we won't get refugees from, I guess. But bluntly, it's a bit like an oversized Disneyworld. Really awesome for a vacation and if you have money, you can basically get whatever you want and have a blast. But I wouldn't want to work there, ever. Or have to live there for more than maybe a month or so.
It's less the amount of time spent with computers and other electronic devices, it's more how they are used. I can of course only offer my own experience, but I had my first computer when I was 10. I learned programming, and I did learn building periphery for it, simply because that was a necessity back then. Before I was 20, I was already pretty good at both of those things, developing hardware and programs to disable certain routines in software that aren't too useful for the user and sometimes even detrimental to his plans concerning the application of the hard- or software he wanted to use.
Both of these things kinda let me reach the position I'm in now. Back then there was no college courses for IT security and certainly none for malware analysis. But the skills you develop when redesigning code other people wrote to facilitate the use of aforementioned code translates pretty well into those fields.
Of course if all you do with your screen time is to tap the screen to rack up some points in a clicker game, the net benefit of such an activity is quite negligible. And it also isn't quite stimulating for your higher brain functions to watch some clips or exchange emojis instead of actually talking to people.
The problem isn't so much that our kids use electronic devices, the problem is in what they do with them. And an even bigger problem is that them being mindless, consuming drones without any incentive to actually create something themselves is pretty much what pretty much every corporation out there wants them to be. You're fighting an uphill battle there.
Do you care whether the kernel developer working with you who sits a few thousand miles away is male, female something in between or completely different, black, white, brown, green-orange polka dotted, gay, bi, straight, fucking his pet goat...?
And if so, WHY?
How the fuck is any of this relevant to their work?
You can criticize them 'til you're blue in the face, they're fully resistant against reason and logic. It's like the religious right wing nutjobs found their pendant on the other side of the spectrum. Same rhetoric, different agenda.
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That was quick. Wait ... I have a strange deja-vu... right, I just recently said that already.
Well, cut Trump some slack, old people take a bit longer to catch on.
Why disguise it? They pretty much got greenlit by congress to steal any information they want and sell it to the highest bidder, what could they possibly gain that way?
I believe them. If everyone could get any info they want for free, why bother paying FB for it?
Bug. Definitely.
FB can't have people steal private information from their users. It's pretty much like stealing their source of income.
Aka "screw you, I got mine".
Can't you trash the whole thing?
Effin amateurs...
They also don't have money to buy crap from Amazon, so why should Jeff give a fuck about them?
Knowing Delta's mastery of established technology lets me look forward into a bright future with them embracing the spearhead of bleeding edge technology.
--signed, Oscar Muñoz, CEO United Airlines.
First, developer support. Unless Facebook is REALLY putting a LOT of money behind it and develop a fair amount of good applications themselves, nobody else will. You'd have to train your staff to program for a platform that will likely have very few users in the beginning and is vastly different from any other platform you developed for so far. This alone will almost certainly guarantee that no AAA studio will jump onto it, they are VERY risk-averse. So what you'll probably get is smaller studios and indies that can take a risk.
Then there's the hardware. If the hardware is as powerful as last-gen console hardware, anything you produce will invariably suck if it has to stand against other VR titles on Occulus Rift and Vive that can tap the power of high-end PC gaming hardware. If you want to avoid motion sickness, at least to the best of your ability, you need to be able to produce a smooth simulation. Anything under 30 fps, more likely 50fps, will make people feel queasy. That means the poly count needs to go down. WAY down. In other words, the graphics you'll get will by no means be close to PS3. Playstation, maybe PS2, is more what you could expect.
A more sensibly comparison would be pitting it against mobile consoles. Comparing this VR set against other VR sets or making people expect playing current console titles in VR will lead to VERY disappointed customers.
C'mon, how can you waste such a good joke?
This was begging for a perfectly good "your mummy is SO fat..." joke and you ruined it. Thanks for nothing.
Actually, I use "Bullshit" as a short version of "this is wrong in a way I didn't even remotely expect anyone to be able to be wrong". Whether this is because it is so far away from reality that it is hard to imagine someone actually thinking it could be true (it's mostly religious arguments that fall into this category) or because I disagree with it strongly enough that I consider it impossible to be true (mostly connected with arguments including invisible hands and other rape instruments being actually beneficial for the general public) is another issue.
The economy growing means jack shit if it doesn't increase purchasing power of the consumers.
Because the story is about the Sony Playstation and I try to stay on topic?
If your main concern when working is the gender, sexual orientation, race or pretty ANYTHING but a person's qualification for a job, I don't want to work with you. What I ask for is whether someone can do his job. As far as I'm concern it can be a green-yellow striped tri-gendered alien from plant Zrbt, provided said alien has the legal permission to work here and the qualification for the job, I'll hire him/her/it/them/xrbt.
My attention identifies as anvils. Shower away.
No, it's not whether you like the tone, it's whether it's constructive. If it's constructive, you need it. If it's not, you don't. It's not about feelings, it's about content.
Whether it's a good idea or not depends mostly on whether you're the server...
I've seen plenty of the US. If you like it, awesome, at least one country we won't get refugees from, I guess. But bluntly, it's a bit like an oversized Disneyworld. Really awesome for a vacation and if you have money, you can basically get whatever you want and have a blast. But I wouldn't want to work there, ever. Or have to live there for more than maybe a month or so.
It's less the amount of time spent with computers and other electronic devices, it's more how they are used. I can of course only offer my own experience, but I had my first computer when I was 10. I learned programming, and I did learn building periphery for it, simply because that was a necessity back then. Before I was 20, I was already pretty good at both of those things, developing hardware and programs to disable certain routines in software that aren't too useful for the user and sometimes even detrimental to his plans concerning the application of the hard- or software he wanted to use.
Both of these things kinda let me reach the position I'm in now. Back then there was no college courses for IT security and certainly none for malware analysis. But the skills you develop when redesigning code other people wrote to facilitate the use of aforementioned code translates pretty well into those fields.
Of course if all you do with your screen time is to tap the screen to rack up some points in a clicker game, the net benefit of such an activity is quite negligible. And it also isn't quite stimulating for your higher brain functions to watch some clips or exchange emojis instead of actually talking to people.
The problem isn't so much that our kids use electronic devices, the problem is in what they do with them. And an even bigger problem is that them being mindless, consuming drones without any incentive to actually create something themselves is pretty much what pretty much every corporation out there wants them to be. You're fighting an uphill battle there.
I've tried all the things you mention.
They're overrated.
In reality, they just don't want people to know that their consoles are aging pretty badly.
Do you care whether the kernel developer working with you who sits a few thousand miles away is male, female something in between or completely different, black, white, brown, green-orange polka dotted, gay, bi, straight, fucking his pet goat...?
And if so, WHY?
How the fuck is any of this relevant to their work?
You can criticize them 'til you're blue in the face, they're fully resistant against reason and logic. It's like the religious right wing nutjobs found their pendant on the other side of the spectrum. Same rhetoric, different agenda.
There's usually no reason for foul language. Except when it comes to flat earthers. Being uneducated bears no shame. Not wanting to learn does.
If they scream something constructive, I am glad they do because then I can hear them.
If they scream something destructive, I'm glad there's a mute button right next to their name.
Yes, it actually IS that easy on the internet to get rid of someone obnoxious. It has never been easier to ignore someone you can't stand.