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Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
Sonny: [With genuine interest] Can you?
Yah - like the new language from Apple - Swift. Except, if you think about it, Apple has been working on it for 4 years... You should be able to potentially find people with up to 4 years experience with it. That formerly worked at Apple.
Just because a product or a technology has only been on the market for 3 months, doesn't mean that there aren't people with years of experience with it.
I've actually got a Surface Pro (1st edition - Core i5, 4 gig of ram, 128gig SSD) that I bought to run photoshop on. It, like the Surface pro 2, has a Wacom supplied digitizer in it. I only get 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity, compared to 2048 for the current Cintiq tablets, but it's more than enough for me. I actually use a Wacom stylus (Bamboo Feel Carbon) with it.
This new one, while having more generic horsepower, and a bigger screen, does NOT come with a Wacom digitizer - but some other one, that only has 256 levels of pressure sensitivity, and only works with their pen.
I think that this was a HUGE mistake on their part, since the size is perfect for art, but losing the detail capability is bad.
well, for adding video/pictures to your device, this works just fine for me: http://store.apple.com/ca/prod... Not as nice as having it all on the inside, but it does let my ipad 1 have access to more movies...
As well as a wacom supplied digitizer. I picked up a surface pro (first gen - 128 gig model) for 499 when staples had them on sale. Tossed Photoshop, Illustrator, visual studio, 3ds Max and Unity on there. Added my bluetooth Mac mouse, and I've got a fully functional mobile dev studio. That I can draw on. With pressure sensitivity. Asus has a really nice 8" form factor as well - can't recall the model off the top of my head.
Engineers should think of managers like gardeners: they plant seeds (hire talent), provide sun & water (get their team the resources they need), & sell the crops once they've been harvested (promote team deliverables & make sure they're marketed). They don't actually grow or have intrinsic value, but they make good engineering possible.
You forgot "and supply an endless supply of bullshit that they think will result in nourishment"
I'm certainly hoping that you've not pirated any apps that have a server side component. I pay for my servers, and for the bandwidth and drive space associated with it.
Paying customers give me the ability to pay for that. Pirate users of my apps ARE a direct cost to me. If you're one of them, you ARE harming me. If you post anything on a feedback page, or click on my support link, or email me to complain - you're costing me time and money that should be spent on my actual, paying customers.
Overall though, if you never would have paid for it anyways, then why not just do without it? If it's not good enough to pay $0.99 for, then why are you even bothering to download and install it - especially in the knowledge that the cracked version might be carrying something truly nasty along with it?
Consider the tourist who doesn't speak your language, and is getting on the fly translation of street signs, etc. Or the dyslexic who is getting the menu he's never been able to cope with before read to him. Or the blind guy who's using it like a seeing eye dog he doesn't need to feed?
Are you going to punch all of them in the face too?
Just because you're being a glassless-hole, doesn't mean they're interested in recording you.
I've considered getting a pair, but haven't - because they're ugly as hell. As another poster indicated - I too want "Terminator vision". When they are integrated invisibly into the glasses I currently have to wear, I'll go for it, but it will probably be running my own software, with me deciding how much of the feed I want to let out to external translation services etc. (and to be honest, it will probably be talking to the phone in my pocket)
I've got no interest in using a piece of crap quality camera with a lens the size of a sesame seed to record humanity. I have a real camera for that, and you'll know I'm using it because, well, it's a real camera, and if I'm holding it up and pointing it at you, well...
If you can't tell that I'm reading email, or surfing the web while interacting with others, that's a good thing. I don't want things intruding into my presence unless I ask for them though.
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/I... Detective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece? Sonny: [With genuine interest] Can you?
I read it as that will be able to build 30,000 different devices
Yah - like the new language from Apple - Swift. Except, if you think about it, Apple has been working on it for 4 years... You should be able to potentially find people with up to 4 years experience with it. That formerly worked at Apple.
Just because a product or a technology has only been on the market for 3 months, doesn't mean that there aren't people with years of experience with it.
I've actually got a Surface Pro (1st edition - Core i5, 4 gig of ram, 128gig SSD) that I bought to run photoshop on. It, like the Surface pro 2, has a Wacom supplied digitizer in it. I only get 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity, compared to 2048 for the current Cintiq tablets, but it's more than enough for me. I actually use a Wacom stylus (Bamboo Feel Carbon) with it.
This new one, while having more generic horsepower, and a bigger screen, does NOT come with a Wacom digitizer - but some other one, that only has 256 levels of pressure sensitivity, and only works with their pen.
I think that this was a HUGE mistake on their part, since the size is perfect for art, but losing the detail capability is bad.
How am I going to charge my Tesla with only 100 watts of power capacity? This sucks.
Indeed, they need to realize just how much greenhouse gas interstellar spaceships create.
A lot
Pigs in Space?
well, for adding video/pictures to your device, this works just fine for me: http://store.apple.com/ca/prod... Not as nice as having it all on the inside, but it does let my ipad 1 have access to more movies...
As well as a wacom supplied digitizer. I picked up a surface pro (first gen - 128 gig model) for 499 when staples had them on sale. Tossed Photoshop, Illustrator, visual studio, 3ds Max and Unity on there. Added my bluetooth Mac mouse, and I've got a fully functional mobile dev studio. That I can draw on. With pressure sensitivity. Asus has a really nice 8" form factor as well - can't recall the model off the top of my head.
This book by John Ringo does a pretty decent take on it.
What - you don't have your lasers attached to your parking distance sensors?
Nope. You need to train your minions to run the grinder FOR you.
I get up. "Brrraaaaiiinnns". "Quick - start getting coffee ready - zombie daddy is coming..."
When a bit older, I'll see if they can be trusted to use the aeropress...
So the army bought all the remaining stocks of Twinkies and converted them into pizza?
Engineers should think of managers like gardeners: they plant seeds (hire talent), provide sun & water (get their team the resources they need), & sell the crops once they've been harvested (promote team deliverables & make sure they're marketed). They don't actually grow or have intrinsic value, but they make good engineering possible.
You forgot "and supply an endless supply of bullshit that they think will result in nourishment"
Our ultrasonic powered grey goo overlords.
If you've got touchy feelly HR people, they're probably ripe for a sexual harassment suit soon.
I'm certainly hoping that you've not pirated any apps that have a server side component. I pay for my servers, and for the bandwidth and drive space associated with it.
Paying customers give me the ability to pay for that. Pirate users of my apps ARE a direct cost to me. If you're one of them, you ARE harming me. If you post anything on a feedback page, or click on my support link, or email me to complain - you're costing me time and money that should be spent on my actual, paying customers.
Overall though, if you never would have paid for it anyways, then why not just do without it? If it's not good enough to pay $0.99 for, then why are you even bothering to download and install it - especially in the knowledge that the cracked version might be carrying something truly nasty along with it?
It's called that, because trying to spell Speculative Fiction would make the brains of the masses explode.
Unless it's about Hockey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot
What's really hard to understand are life forms that have a civilization occur in a millisecond, or a synapse that takes a million years...
Well, with respect to that last one, don't you have politicians where you live?
Go out. Bah. RealWorld (tm) sucks. Game is locked in hardcore mode, NPC AI is abysmal. Graphics are good though - most realistic skyboxes ever.
No, this is what you get if you sacrifice the wrong colour of goat. Forgetting the entire goat earns you a free visit from Balmer.
Consider the tourist who doesn't speak your language, and is getting on the fly translation of street signs, etc.
Or the dyslexic who is getting the menu he's never been able to cope with before read to him.
Or the blind guy who's using it like a seeing eye dog he doesn't need to feed?
Are you going to punch all of them in the face too?
Just because you're being a glassless-hole, doesn't mean they're interested in recording you.
I've considered getting a pair, but haven't - because they're ugly as hell. As another poster indicated - I too want "Terminator vision". When they are integrated invisibly into the glasses I currently have to wear, I'll go for it, but it will probably be running my own software, with me deciding how much of the feed I want to let out to external translation services etc. (and to be honest, it will probably be talking to the phone in my pocket)
I've got no interest in using a piece of crap quality camera with a lens the size of a sesame seed to record humanity. I have a real camera for that, and you'll know I'm using it because, well, it's a real camera, and if I'm holding it up and pointing it at you, well...
Go check out Vinge's "Rainbows End"
If you can't tell that I'm reading email, or surfing the web while interacting with others, that's a good thing. I don't want things intruding into my presence unless I ask for them though.
Perhaps it's not a weapon in the deadly sense
Not deadly? Tell that to this guy. http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/man-decapitated-by-remote-controlled-toy-helicopter/