War and civilization collapse were desirable things, just because everyone starts dirt poor and has a chance to start anew.
What a load of BS. The developed world is different now precisely because we have had an unprecedented chance to build instead of rebuild, resulting in an increase in relative disparities, but also, in overall quality of life for everyone.
But if you value equality at all cost, even if that is in abject poverty, suffering and death, so be it. Have a portion of your own ideological cake.
Yep. This was noticeable since there were no live demos showing the gear itself, just what the user was supposed to see.
And that was just fx, something anyone can do nowadays just with the right motivation and equipment.
On this, the only "real deal" AR technology with positional awareness and overlaying virtual 3D images over the real world out there is Microsoft's, and a few upcoming others soon to be released. Which are not as impressive as the Magic Leap "demos", but way more real and existing.
But only if it's processed correctly. The lack of critical nutrients like niacin results in nutritious deficiencies, like pellagra, a nasty and potentially lethal disease.
Mesoamerican peoples discovered all they needed to do is to pre-cook corn by boiling it in water and some lime, in order to have a product that didn't made people sick.
That's the reason why people that adopted corn later (e.g. people in Africa), but that didn't adopt this simple method still suffer pellagra nowadays.
Simple. IT and computer technologies jobs tend to be major time suckers, where sacrificing your personal time for staying late and delivering on ever reducing timelines is valued.
Women simply don't fall for that trap, while men do. Mostly because we men are dumber and because we do it for "honor" (being a team player, a good engineer, whatever).
But the ideologues believe (which is good for furthering their cause) it's because men in IT are mysoginist a*holes.
In my personal experience, these boneheaded metrics and goals are the sign of an manager, organization or company seriously lacking in competency and even self-awareness of their intended goals.
And software development, alas, isn't free of managers and companies pushing such boneheaded stupid goals that get the contrary of what they intend to.
My default response to a manager pushing you to pursue a stupid/easily gamed goal is to leave ASAP.
The players are simply realizing the game is a scam that forces them to buy expensive virtual objects the more they are hooked to it.
A young family member is into this (I suffer from having to pony up an advanced allowance and having accompanying him to wherever these things lurk), and it has become increasingly difficult for him to cope with the unsatiable thirst of the game for "pokeballs" the higher his level gets.
The virtual critters become higher in level the higher in level you are, and they need more tries for being trapped (which requires one pokeball each), or require more virtual goodies for increasing their chance of remaining in your poke-inventory.
Also there are no shortages of pokemon, it's actually a barrage of the critters akin to a roach infestation. You can exchange the caught critters for "sweets" and "star dust" that allow you to improve the ones you have or "evolve" them. The idea is to entice you to go looking for pokeballs to catch the suckers that practically assault you everywhere, or buy more.
Ergo, the game is rigged to make any high level user run out of pokeballs very soon and to always want them, and has to go to wherever these things are replenished like a junkie, or buy them.
Niantic got themselves a pretty good money printing machine with that one.
Why stop at highschoolers? Kids love manufacturing things with their little hands too, it's like a game they can play 16 hours a day, 365 days per year.
They also love to be screamed at, fed bread and water and a being (gently) bonded to a stake and whipped from time to time. It's how they feel appreciated.
They like it so much that they don't even need to be paid! ain't free enterprise wonderful?
Because the obvious response of these OS providers, if forced to do it, will be shoving even more DRM (and worse, hardware-assisted DRM) down our throats.
That's basically the main way they have to force that a "non approved/digitally signed" program or OS is simply unable to run.
That and ratting you out to the NSA, if you are doing something the OS thinks may be "Wrongcomputing".
My personal metric if some technology is too complex is if it can be used or not by my grandma.
And she definitely can't setup and exploit the many bells and whistles of a SmartTV, no matter if she wants to do it.
But she has gotten pretty good at using her cell phone. Probably because she's more motivated by talking/chatting with the family and friends, but she could learn the most common social apps in a short while.
Whatsapp, Twitter, Pinterest are no problem for her. But getting Netflix started and watching a series she wants to see in the Smart TV is like an unsolvable problem.
I had to use Smartphone analogies for getting her to start getting how the damn remote control works. But it seems the many buttons on the evil black box are too intimidating, compared to swiping your fingers over pictures in a sleek glass screen.
Given the abundance of mosquitoes where I live, I'm completely certain I prefer my AC to the "creativity" of sitting on the porch feeding the bloodsucking bastards.
Also, sleeping (or trying) while soaked in sweat isn't particularly good for my creativity afterwards. So IMO thanks god for AC.
First check if the user is running any DirectX application, preferable a popular game on full screen mode for a couple of hours, then force-kill the top process and send this big 'love meeee!' message from Windows 10.
Yes, you people desperately need audio that only plays in approved devices, and from approved audio sources only.
What is the rabble thinking when they dare to simply plug their thieving audio jacks to any unapproved speaker, allowing others to hear the music we rightfully own?
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War and civilization collapse were desirable things, just because everyone starts dirt poor and has a chance to start anew.
What a load of BS. The developed world is different now precisely because we have had an unprecedented chance to build instead of rebuild, resulting in an increase in relative disparities, but also, in overall quality of life for everyone.
But if you value equality at all cost, even if that is in abject poverty, suffering and death, so be it. Have a portion of your own ideological cake.
I want to do what Keanu Reeves did in Johnny Mnemonic, and there's no amount of facts and reality taking me away from that dream!
/s
Of courrse it's
Yep. This was noticeable since there were no live demos showing the gear itself, just what the user was supposed to see.
And that was just fx, something anyone can do nowadays just with the right motivation and equipment.
On this, the only "real deal" AR technology with positional awareness and overlaying virtual 3D images over the real world out there is Microsoft's, and a few upcoming others soon to be released. Which are not as impressive as the Magic Leap "demos", but way more real and existing.
But only if it's processed correctly. The lack of critical nutrients like niacin results in nutritious deficiencies, like pellagra, a nasty and potentially lethal disease.
Mesoamerican peoples discovered all they needed to do is to pre-cook corn by boiling it in water and some lime, in order to have a product that didn't made people sick.
That's the reason why people that adopted corn later (e.g. people in Africa), but that didn't adopt this simple method still suffer pellagra nowadays.
This comes to mind: http://www.theonion.com/blogpo...
What legit racists in power look like.
Simple. IT and computer technologies jobs tend to be major time suckers, where sacrificing your personal time for staying late and delivering on ever reducing timelines is valued.
Women simply don't fall for that trap, while men do. Mostly because we men are dumber and because we do it for "honor" (being a team player, a good engineer, whatever).
But the ideologues believe (which is good for furthering their cause) it's because men in IT are mysoginist a*holes.
In a furry suit, trolling us. Next topic, please.
In my personal experience, these boneheaded metrics and goals are the sign of an manager, organization or company seriously lacking in competency and even self-awareness of their intended goals.
And software development, alas, isn't free of managers and companies pushing such boneheaded stupid goals that get the contrary of what they intend to.
My default response to a manager pushing you to pursue a stupid/easily gamed goal is to leave ASAP.
Yep, that's pretty good tabloid headline material.
I doesn't seem that weird to me.
People can vote for people or for parties. You can choose not to vote for someone just because of the clique they hang with too.
I'm utterly shocked about this completely unexpected development.
The players are simply realizing the game is a scam that forces them to buy expensive virtual objects the more they are hooked to it.
A young family member is into this (I suffer from having to pony up an advanced allowance and having accompanying him to wherever these things lurk), and it has become increasingly difficult for him to cope with the unsatiable thirst of the game for "pokeballs" the higher his level gets.
The virtual critters become higher in level the higher in level you are, and they need more tries for being trapped (which requires one pokeball each), or require more virtual goodies for increasing their chance of remaining in your poke-inventory.
Also there are no shortages of pokemon, it's actually a barrage of the critters akin to a roach infestation. You can exchange the caught critters for "sweets" and "star dust" that allow you to improve the ones you have or "evolve" them. The idea is to entice you to go looking for pokeballs to catch the suckers that practically assault you everywhere, or buy more.
Ergo, the game is rigged to make any high level user run out of pokeballs very soon and to always want them, and has to go to wherever these things are replenished like a junkie, or buy them.
Niantic got themselves a pretty good money printing machine with that one.
So, does this mean there is no Axis of Evil in the CMB radiation?
This seemed to be a thorny problem that wasn't going away as per many expert opinions not long ago, but now everything's fine again?
I fully agree. Seems like I forgot that /s tag :-)
We should program all humans to be equal by design. Therefore, all babies since now on should be clones. We just need to find the perfect template.
Why stop at highschoolers? Kids love manufacturing things with their little hands too, it's like a game they can play 16 hours a day, 365 days per year.
They also love to be screamed at, fed bread and water and a being (gently) bonded to a stake and whipped from time to time. It's how they feel appreciated.
They like it so much that they don't even need to be paid! ain't free enterprise wonderful?
Because the obvious response of these OS providers, if forced to do it, will be shoving even more DRM (and worse, hardware-assisted DRM) down our throats.
That's basically the main way they have to force that a "non approved/digitally signed" program or OS is simply unable to run.
That and ratting you out to the NSA, if you are doing something the OS thinks may be "Wrongcomputing".
My personal metric if some technology is too complex is if it can be used or not by my grandma.
And she definitely can't setup and exploit the many bells and whistles of a SmartTV, no matter if she wants to do it.
But she has gotten pretty good at using her cell phone. Probably because she's more motivated by talking/chatting with the family and friends, but she could learn the most common social apps in a short while.
Whatsapp, Twitter, Pinterest are no problem for her. But getting Netflix started and watching a series she wants to see in the Smart TV is like an unsolvable problem.
I had to use Smartphone analogies for getting her to start getting how the damn remote control works. But it seems the many buttons on the evil black box are too intimidating, compared to swiping your fingers over pictures in a sleek glass screen.
It's indeed expensive. As a regular user I would expect for it to be around $1500 USD in order to be interested.
That's if you already have the beefy PC required for VR with the Vive.
Getting a good PC besides the Vive headset can put the price around $1800-2000 USD.
Still less than 3000 bucks for the Hololens, though.
Given the abundance of mosquitoes where I live, I'm completely certain I prefer my AC to the "creativity" of sitting on the porch feeding the bloodsucking bastards.
Also, sleeping (or trying) while soaked in sweat isn't particularly good for my creativity afterwards. So IMO thanks god for AC.
First check if the user is running any DirectX application, preferable a popular game on full screen mode for a couple of hours, then force-kill the top process and send this big 'love meeee!' message from Windows 10.
I'm sure users will appreciate.
They assume I want to buy a crippled phone that can be disabled remotely by someone that isn't me.
This is a "just stick, no carrot" kind of deal. Thanks but no thanks.
Yes, you people desperately need audio that only plays in approved devices, and from approved audio sources only.
What is the rabble thinking when they dare to simply plug their thieving audio jacks to any unapproved speaker, allowing others to hear the music we rightfully own?
Love, RIAA