Since when was it a good idea to limit the customer's expression of moods to 6? Or indeed any number?
I get that many services limit post response buttons (Like most prominently). And I'm well aware that querying such responses is made much easier when the responses are constrained. However I've never considered a Like button a mood indicator. And when it's cast as a mood indicator, it just seems like a terrible idea to limit the user to some set number that makes data analysis easier. You either alienate and drive people who are unhappy with the choices offered. Or you push them to make a selection that's off in some way. Or they become lurkers.
Is that the height of customer profiling technology? Is that customer service?
They're limited for multiple reasons.
Primarily, it simplifies categorisation and logging and reporting, etc.
Also, the more choices you give a user the worse, generally speaking. People don't like making choices, or prefer simpler choices.
6 is plenty to start with in any event - prove the system works before overcomplicating it. They can always revise it at any time (already have, and will again).
I'm actually surprised they went to 6 so quickly, but, from what I recall, they did a lot of testing before rolling it out publically worldwide.
Watch the video again. Almost all sample applications worked by swiping, etc. The only time they show a cursor when not hovering is in the beginning, when explaining the technology.
I'm not saying a cursor is required for all modes of interaction, but unless the gestures are broad and simple, including a cursor is a good idea. Not requiring the user to hover whilst positioning is also a good idea.
Also, I think you forgot to say: "Hey man, thanks for the link explaining what cursors are. My understanding of the word was clearly lacking and in hindsight my slight snarkiness in response to your comment was unwarranted, for which I apologize. I'll try to do a basic web search before I comment, the next time."
Actually, as you just confirmed, they do have cursor support demonstrated in the video, which is why I wrote my smartarse reply to begin with.
So, hey man, thanks for confirming my assertion that it does have cursor support, that correlates with most interface-development standards such as wiki, W3C, etc, specify.
(Not sure why I'm being a little bit nasty on this thread, nothing to do with you I swear, just workplace frustrations working themselves out I assume)
Oh, so you mean the literal dot on the screen showing where the finger was, that switched between blue and green on touch and hover? Then yeah, I saw it had that. So I'm still confused by your original post...
Depends on the size of the surface. Have you watched the video?
Much more problematic are the amount of input lag and the lack of a cursor (besides when hovering, which I imagine to be very tiresome).
Concerning the latter: Making your arm a giant touchpad is awesome, but we generally don't use normal touchpads without cursors (for good reasons) and it seems silly to disregard that.
Cursors?
None of my touchpads have cursors, only my touchscreens, and I usually can't see them on touchscreens cause my fingers aren't transparent for some reason.
However I have to agree, the lag apparent in the video is atrocious. It's a lot worse than I expected.
It's not about child or encryption. It's about compelling the assistance in one's own prosecution. Unfortunately I'm one of those in the tiny minority that believes it should never be allowed. I'm hoping the guy holds out for what it's worth. Maybe it's better for him to remain a suspected 'child porn suspect'.
I'm half way expecting a constitutional convention to come up within a couple of years. We can kiss the bill of rights and other civil rights goodbye when it happens. The general attitude has turned against them.
Actually, my dearest hope is that the judgment is made against him.
He's forced to decrypt his HDDs
There's nothing illegal on them.
(By wich I mean, yeah, it's retarded, but I hope he's really innocent and just helping shine a spotlight on these kind of (legal?) efforts to circumvent encryption)
I imagine in a year or so content creators will start producing VR "Experiences" like this, where a couple of thousand people from all over can spend a few hours/days in VR being "one of the passengers/staff on the Titanic" and have it run as an event, where you're actually in the middle of it.
And from there the possibilities are endless - The moon landing? JFK's assassination (or whoever's version of it) - Sure there'll be tons of fictional worlds and experiences, but a big part of it will be recreating historical experiences for both entertainment and education.
The old "simulation" games like Rome: Total war or even Assassins creed (and Civ, of course) will have a whole new level of immersion to work with. Gonna be exciting.
And how is a hoverboard not a hovercraft?
I think you'll find they're related quite a lot...
Regardless, hovering is hovering, and there're multiple ways to achieve it:) (Hint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
If getting in the car to drive 3 minutes to McDonalds - as one does - is getting boring, then why not just fuel up the hoverboard and hover to the store to buy your bread. Forget about saving money by spending a few minutes now and then baking your own bread. The store-bought bread also has all the HFCS and chemical additives you need.
What's next, paying other people to actually bring your breakfast to the door for you?
next?
Been around for ages, mate:) (But yeah, mostly only in the cities)
(I was going to provide a link, but realised that in the google app store in Australia alone there's over half a dozen different options)
(p.s. save me editing this later possibly: Am I just low on caffeine and anon above was just being sarcastic?)
I don't think so. Look at my/. ID and then take this: The only time I have ever been below "excellent" karma (not for long) was when I clashed with some religious fuckups. I believe that you should at least attach your pseudonym or shut up. Sniping from the shadows is for cowards and trolls.
Incidentally: Read my sig. That makes my stance pretty clear, I would think.
I'd let you know my ID used to be lower than yours, but I can't easily prove it, and regardless: I know that having a low ID doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Again, citing something (this is slashdot, it can be anything, you can even make it up - but if so yeah, do it anonymously) to support your (otherwise wild) claims.
I mean, you did pick a very subjective stance, and one ripe for discussion, and it shouldn't be toooo hard to cite a reference or give some detail as to why you're claiming such, but posting opinion as fact without research is older than slashdot itself, and of absolutely no use or contribution to the thread. (and if your ranting and blather isn't contributing anything, the suggestion to leave your sig off was for your own good. Believe me, I'm glad you keep it there:P)
(Karma? you're going on about your slashdot karma?)
And that is just the point: Generating content that does not make people sick is very hard and basically unsolved at this time.
I'm glad you didn't post anonymously, but if you're not going to cite any references or reasoning for statements like that, you're probably better off not attaching your username.
Those who compare VR to 3D TV aren't too far off.
I have had a 3D computer screen, have a 3D wall projector, of my friends and relatives, perhaps 10% have a 3D capable TV. Of the 90% who don't, about half of them say they'll be happy to get it when it becomes standard, but aren't planning to go out of their way for it, and the other half range from simple 'I don't need that' to 'I hate it'.
So far as I'm concerned, however, most movies that come out now that can benefit from 3D are available in that format at retail, and so is the method of viewing them. It is mainstream. All the general stores - Walmart in the USA, K-Mart or whoever in Australia - sell both 3D content and viewing devices at less that twice the price of the 'less capable' 2D devices and content. You could argue it's 'niche', I guess, but it'd be a decent debate.
VR is already out there too. It can be had very cheaply - google cardboard through samsung Gear VR, and high end now/soon - Oculus, Steam, PS4.5, etc...
The content is also there.
And just as when games like Doom came out - breaking the mould, enhancing realism, etc, this first retail generation of VR tech will blow a lot of people's minds, and just like the original Doom, have a lot of room for improvement.
I played the hell out of Doom, and still remember it fondly, but it's crap as compared to today's games. These first VR games - playing some of them reminds me of how I felt playing doom (and ROTT, Hexen, etc, etc) and I'm looking forward to what's to come.
That's kind of the point....
It's been in Development for years - and that has led to a half a dozen retail offerings, that are becoming available this year.
Like my uncle worked for the phone company, and had a 'development kit' of a car phone for a while before they become available at retail.
Everyone thought it was a wildly extravagant luxury, hideously expensive, and not that useful - who wants to talk on the phone while driving?!? It was ridiculous!
This is long after the 'first mobile phone' - that was before I was born, back in the early 70's. This was in the 80's, when they become available to the public, and they actually ended up being not so niche.
Technology constantly evolves. The number of retail offerings, content production, software development and consumer interest in VR isn't like when 'VR came out' 20 years ago - your comments would be appropriate then - this is something that clearly has a market and an audience, and is unarguably a more immersive and enhanced method of interfacing with today's computer software (not in all instances, obviously, but in situations simulating 3D environments, which still covers quite a lot).
Fixed keyboards can detract if you want to sit and spin in a swivel chair.
Wireless keyboard mounted on the chair can largely negate this issue - good enough for me anyway.
There's like a dozen companies, including some big names, working on various forms of 'controller free' hand detection which (when accurate enough) will make handheld controllers obsolete (however hand/body covering haptic feedback type gear will probably have it's place).
I don't think controllers (or x% of field of vision, or y resolution) will prevent VR from succeeding, however we're clearly continuing down the path of better and better input and output interfaces with computers, and any of the upcoming range of devices seem to be a great evolution of the tech, even if it's still at early adopter price (and to some degree, tech) levels.
As with everything in this industry, the longer you wait the better and cheaper it gets, but I'm the type who would rather be ahead of the curve, when I can afford it.
(ordered a VR ready PC (well the parts to build it), but no headset yet - hoping if I wait a little while, I can get a second hand one cheap from someone who doesn't like it)
I like your sig.;-) I write novellas on a very regular basis. (See comment history if curious.)
However, I'll spare you - this once.
My current position of a year hired me as a LAMP stack programmer, then revealed they effectively have 0 server access, and need all this junk developed in javascript
Umm... How the hell does that even happen? A bit more specifically, the "0 server" access part is also intriguing.
I work for a small government department on one of their websites currently. Please don't expect me to be able to explain any of the business practices here, they make my head hurt. As for server access, apparently the hosting (and original development) was contracted out, and any server changes require about a month of communication and meetings. And my boss loves javascript.
Your sig isn't bad too; I love how casual dolphins are:)
I should update my sig however. At least half the time I manage to keep my posts short now. Well, nearly half the time. Some of the time.
Go one better, implement a php interpreter in JS, then have your page load a JS script containing the interpreter which loads the PHP scripts and runs them client-side and finally renders the html output (which, of course, can contain lots of JS again - so you can even have your php output JS which contains the interpreter and go full inception mode).
Then market it to companies as having all the power of PHP but client side so they don't need such powerful servers to host pages.
Oh dear, I actually almost like this....
(almost)
My current position of a year hired me as a LAMP stack programmer, then revealed they effectively have 0 server access, and need all this junk developed in javascript - Including saving and recovering settings, etc, etc... So for the last year I've been developing in javascript, which I now totally loathe. But the benefit of having PHP (or whatever server side language) is that it.... runs on the server, and (for most websites of appreciable size) work with a centralised database, which can become a trove of business-actionable data, etc, etc... so as fun as a client side PHP interpreter might be, it doesn't really solve anything.
(I can see someone selling it to a ton of project managers however)
Entertainment is always an option, even if nothing else comes out of it. Just imagine playing something like Battlefield YOURSELF, like in paintball style, but wearing VR glasses instead of a protective mask. All of the needed ingredients seem to be maturing, like VR displays and cameras, motion control, etc. I can almost see myself moving to Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat's Al Nas or Lost Village... I could finally get off the damn chair!
This.
The headset merely replaces the real boring visuals with CG, so instead of seeing your green paintball explode on your mate's pokemon tshirt instead you see a bullet explode through their high tech chest armour, emblazoned with their team's emblem, and if they get up again afterwards and try to shoot you, it won't matter so much, aside for the paintball impact, they'll still appear dead to you and you can continue playing. They've already got a few places experimenting with this sort of thing (One in Melbourne, Australia, that I might go check out this christmas)
You'd probably have too many crashes. Even without a life-loss incident you'd have a lot of expensive machinery wrecked. Granted, you could not no longer design cars with the occupant's safety in mind, but even without having to spend the money on that aspect the cars are still very expensive to build. Losing them due to operators pushing the cars past the point of stability would be pricey.
I don't see cost being a prohibitive factor. Look at battle bots...... What is being described is very similar - and while the primary purpose might not be destruction, having more of it won't scare the viewers (or sponsors) away, and with enough sponsors, you can burn the stadium to the ground as a finale and still cover costs.
Well, a simpler example: Imagine me writing as someone using PNG format. For me using English is like being forced to convert to JPEG format, you lost information in the process. Or maybe you are simply being sarcastic in a very stupid and arrogant way as is common among north-americans, who knows.
Actually, I'm Australian, although I did live in America for a while.
American English/Aussie English both have their differences to the Queens english (And even though us Aussies generally could care less about the queen, all she is to us is a public holiday once a year, really) Us Aussies still know we don't speak "Proper" English, and we're OK with that.
It's strange to me however that I find Australians seem to have very little problem with accents and "dialects" - american, english, irish, south american, whatever, it's all "english" enough that we don't need subtitles or translations 99% of the time.
It was weird as hell in America, however, how often they subtitle other english speakers on TV.
In any case, I've also lived in Finland, where while almost everyone under the age of, well, about 40 now I guess, can converse in english, however it's usually a bit of a struggle, as Suomi (Finnish) is so very different from English (At the same time many many Finns have better english than I do).
Most Finns speak Finnish, Swedish and English, and many add Russian, German, and other languages.
I've found in general, people who speak multiple languages (who speak them well, so this doesn't include me) tend to have an advantage when communicating in any of those languages.
rambling aside....
English is like transferring a png into an open source image format that people can hack to do whatever they want, transparency, localised scaling, whatever you think of, just hack it in, borrow some png code, some SVG concepts, and plug them in. English is flexible. Most other languages are far more rigid, which makes them easier to learn completely, but will hit the limits of that language. English speakers hit limits, and they just borrow/co-opt something from a language that has it, and make it work. English is more of a sandpit, and yeah, dig around you'll find plenty of crap in it, but it works.
p.s. sarcasm is a great tool, but explicitly identifying it as such would take the fun out of it.
It doesn't matter what software is running their system.
They have enough control over it to have pseudonyms replaced with real names. Whoever is doing this change should be able to easily manage this issue through dozens of options, many of which are a single line of code or a single query modification.
It seems clear, for them to have this response that they:
1) Are not doing the updates in-house
2) Forgot to do proper planning didn't address this when requesting the changes
3) (and this is the BS one) Aren't willing to pay the extra $5 it would cost to address the issue (I know, after factoring in meetings, organisation, etc, etc, that's closer to $5000 or possibly $50000, but it's still cheaper than the loss rolling it out as is is likely to cost them)
tldr:
If it's "impossible" to maintain the pre-existing behaviour, then how was it not impossible for them to change it in the first place?
Sorry for ruining your bubble but English is like AC said, a sloppy language that is only spoken in most of the internet because it is the language of the country that dominates the world. Right now I'm having trouble expressing this idea to you in English, because my native language is so much more logical and structured, to a point that any conversion is difficult to do without losing most of the meaning.
^ Nailed it.
(as in, I couldn't find any meaning in that).
Curious as to what your mother tongue is, and how many languages you speak, that it makes English so difficult, as it is (as mentioned above) a very forgiving language.
English reminds me of HTML - even half mangled, most web browsers can manage to deliver the message.
This is my belief also. put 2 people who struggle with social interaction together and you won't get aq great result, However when one is socially comfortable and accepting of the other aspie, things can work out.
Not to say that aspies can't form relationships between themselves, but the society we live in generates social situations that are more conducive to... the majority (not so strange).
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Since when was it a good idea to limit the customer's expression of moods to 6? Or indeed any number?
I get that many services limit post response buttons (Like most prominently). And I'm well aware that querying such responses is made much easier when the responses are constrained. However I've never considered a Like button a mood indicator. And when it's cast as a mood indicator, it just seems like a terrible idea to limit the user to some set number that makes data analysis easier. You either alienate and drive people who are unhappy with the choices offered. Or you push them to make a selection that's off in some way. Or they become lurkers.
Is that the height of customer profiling technology? Is that customer service?
They're limited for multiple reasons.
Primarily, it simplifies categorisation and logging and reporting, etc.
Also, the more choices you give a user the worse, generally speaking. People don't like making choices, or prefer simpler choices.
6 is plenty to start with in any event - prove the system works before overcomplicating it. They can always revise it at any time (already have, and will again).
I'm actually surprised they went to 6 so quickly, but, from what I recall, they did a lot of testing before rolling it out publically worldwide.
Really? This is news? For nerds?
Watch the video again. Almost all sample applications worked by swiping, etc. The only time they show a cursor when not hovering is in the beginning, when explaining the technology.
I'm not saying a cursor is required for all modes of interaction, but unless the gestures are broad and simple, including a cursor is a good idea. Not requiring the user to hover whilst positioning is also a good idea.
Also, I think you forgot to say: "Hey man, thanks for the link explaining what cursors are. My understanding of the word was clearly lacking and in hindsight my slight snarkiness in response to your comment was unwarranted, for which I apologize. I'll try to do a basic web search before I comment, the next time."
Actually, as you just confirmed, they do have cursor support demonstrated in the video, which is why I wrote my smartarse reply to begin with.
So, hey man, thanks for confirming my assertion that it does have cursor support, that correlates with most interface-development standards such as wiki, W3C, etc, specify.
(Not sure why I'm being a little bit nasty on this thread, nothing to do with you I swear, just workplace frustrations working themselves out I assume)
Oh, so you mean the literal dot on the screen showing where the finger was, that switched between blue and green on touch and hover? Then yeah, I saw it had that. So I'm still confused by your original post...
Depends on the size of the surface. Have you watched the video?
Much more problematic are the amount of input lag and the lack of a cursor (besides when hovering, which I imagine to be very tiresome). Concerning the latter: Making your arm a giant touchpad is awesome, but we generally don't use normal touchpads without cursors (for good reasons) and it seems silly to disregard that.
Cursors?
None of my touchpads have cursors, only my touchscreens, and I usually can't see them on touchscreens cause my fingers aren't transparent for some reason.
However I have to agree, the lag apparent in the video is atrocious. It's a lot worse than I expected.
It's not about child or encryption. It's about compelling the assistance in one's own prosecution. Unfortunately I'm one of those in the tiny minority that believes it should never be allowed. I'm hoping the guy holds out for what it's worth. Maybe it's better for him to remain a suspected 'child porn suspect'.
I'm half way expecting a constitutional convention to come up within a couple of years. We can kiss the bill of rights and other civil rights goodbye when it happens. The general attitude has turned against them.
Actually, my dearest hope is that the judgment is made against him.
He's forced to decrypt his HDDs
There's nothing illegal on them.
(By wich I mean, yeah, it's retarded, but I hope he's really innocent and just helping shine a spotlight on these kind of (legal?) efforts to circumvent encryption)
It's 2016, where's my holodeck?!
right here
I imagine in a year or so content creators will start producing VR "Experiences" like this, where a couple of thousand people from all over can spend a few hours/days in VR being "one of the passengers/staff on the Titanic" and have it run as an event, where you're actually in the middle of it.
And from there the possibilities are endless - The moon landing? JFK's assassination (or whoever's version of it) - Sure there'll be tons of fictional worlds and experiences, but a big part of it will be recreating historical experiences for both entertainment and education.
The old "simulation" games like Rome: Total war or even Assassins creed (and Civ, of course) will have a whole new level of immersion to work with. Gonna be exciting.
He said "Hoverboard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... not "Hovercraft", they are not related devices.
And how is a hoverboard not a hovercraft?
I think you'll find they're related quite a lot...
Regardless, hovering is hovering, and there're multiple ways to achieve it:) (Hint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
A jet-powered hoverboard != a true hoverboard. There, I said it.
How are most traditional "hovercraft" powered?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why do jets void the description?
If getting in the car to drive 3 minutes to McDonalds - as one does - is getting boring, then why not just fuel up the hoverboard and hover to the store to buy your bread. Forget about saving money by spending a few minutes now and then baking your own bread. The store-bought bread also has all the HFCS and chemical additives you need.
What's next, paying other people to actually bring your breakfast to the door for you?
next ? :) (But yeah, mostly only in the cities)
Been around for ages, mate
(I was going to provide a link, but realised that in the google app store in Australia alone there's over half a dozen different options)
(p.s. save me editing this later possibly: Am I just low on caffeine and anon above was just being sarcastic?)
I don't think so. Look at my /. ID and then take this: The only time I have ever been below "excellent" karma (not for long) was when I clashed with some religious fuckups. I believe that you should at least attach your pseudonym or shut up. Sniping from the shadows is for cowards and trolls.
Incidentally: Read my sig. That makes my stance pretty clear, I would think.
I'd let you know my ID used to be lower than yours, but I can't easily prove it, and regardless: I know that having a low ID doesn't necessarily mean anything. :P)
Again, citing something (this is slashdot, it can be anything, you can even make it up - but if so yeah, do it anonymously) to support your (otherwise wild) claims.
I mean, you did pick a very subjective stance, and one ripe for discussion, and it shouldn't be toooo hard to cite a reference or give some detail as to why you're claiming such, but posting opinion as fact without research is older than slashdot itself, and of absolutely no use or contribution to the thread. (and if your ranting and blather isn't contributing anything, the suggestion to leave your sig off was for your own good. Believe me, I'm glad you keep it there
(Karma? you're going on about your slashdot karma?)
And that is just the point: Generating content that does not make people sick is very hard and basically unsolved at this time.
I'm glad you didn't post anonymously, but if you're not going to cite any references or reasoning for statements like that, you're probably better off not attaching your username.
Those who compare VR to 3D TV aren't too far off.
I have had a 3D computer screen, have a 3D wall projector, of my friends and relatives, perhaps 10% have a 3D capable TV. Of the 90% who don't, about half of them say they'll be happy to get it when it becomes standard, but aren't planning to go out of their way for it, and the other half range from simple 'I don't need that' to 'I hate it'.
So far as I'm concerned, however, most movies that come out now that can benefit from 3D are available in that format at retail, and so is the method of viewing them. It is mainstream. All the general stores - Walmart in the USA, K-Mart or whoever in Australia - sell both 3D content and viewing devices at less that twice the price of the 'less capable' 2D devices and content. You could argue it's 'niche', I guess, but it'd be a decent debate.
VR is already out there too. It can be had very cheaply - google cardboard through samsung Gear VR, and high end now/soon - Oculus, Steam, PS4.5, etc...
The content is also there.
And just as when games like Doom came out - breaking the mould, enhancing realism, etc, this first retail generation of VR tech will blow a lot of people's minds, and just like the original Doom, have a lot of room for improvement.
I played the hell out of Doom, and still remember it fondly, but it's crap as compared to today's games. These first VR games - playing some of them reminds me of how I felt playing doom (and ROTT, Hexen, etc, etc) and I'm looking forward to what's to come.
That's kind of the point....
It's been in Development for years - and that has led to a half a dozen retail offerings, that are becoming available this year.
Like my uncle worked for the phone company, and had a 'development kit' of a car phone for a while before they become available at retail.
Everyone thought it was a wildly extravagant luxury, hideously expensive, and not that useful - who wants to talk on the phone while driving?!? It was ridiculous!
This is long after the 'first mobile phone' - that was before I was born, back in the early 70's. This was in the 80's, when they become available to the public, and they actually ended up being not so niche.
Technology constantly evolves. The number of retail offerings, content production, software development and consumer interest in VR isn't like when 'VR came out' 20 years ago - your comments would be appropriate then - this is something that clearly has a market and an audience, and is unarguably a more immersive and enhanced method of interfacing with today's computer software (not in all instances, obviously, but in situations simulating 3D environments, which still covers quite a lot).
Fixed keyboards can detract if you want to sit and spin in a swivel chair.
Wireless keyboard mounted on the chair can largely negate this issue - good enough for me anyway.
There's like a dozen companies, including some big names, working on various forms of 'controller free' hand detection which (when accurate enough) will make handheld controllers obsolete (however hand/body covering haptic feedback type gear will probably have it's place).
I don't think controllers (or x% of field of vision, or y resolution) will prevent VR from succeeding, however we're clearly continuing down the path of better and better input and output interfaces with computers, and any of the upcoming range of devices seem to be a great evolution of the tech, even if it's still at early adopter price (and to some degree, tech) levels.
As with everything in this industry, the longer you wait the better and cheaper it gets, but I'm the type who would rather be ahead of the curve, when I can afford it.
(ordered a VR ready PC (well the parts to build it), but no headset yet - hoping if I wait a little while, I can get a second hand one cheap from someone who doesn't like it)
I like your sig. ;-) I write novellas on a very regular basis. (See comment history if curious.)
However, I'll spare you - this once.
My current position of a year hired me as a LAMP stack programmer, then revealed they effectively have 0 server access, and need all this junk developed in javascript
Umm... How the hell does that even happen? A bit more specifically, the "0 server" access part is also intriguing.
I work for a small government department on one of their websites currently. Please don't expect me to be able to explain any of the business practices here, they make my head hurt. :)
As for server access, apparently the hosting (and original development) was contracted out, and any server changes require about a month of communication and meetings. And my boss loves javascript.
Your sig isn't bad too; I love how casual dolphins are
I should update my sig however. At least half the time I manage to keep my posts short now. Well, nearly half the time. Some of the time.
Go one better, implement a php interpreter in JS, then have your page load a JS script containing the interpreter which loads the PHP scripts and runs them client-side and finally renders the html output (which, of course, can contain lots of JS again - so you can even have your php output JS which contains the interpreter and go full inception mode).
Then market it to companies as having all the power of PHP but client side so they don't need such powerful servers to host pages.
Oh dear, I actually almost like this....
(almost)
My current position of a year hired me as a LAMP stack programmer, then revealed they effectively have 0 server access, and need all this junk developed in javascript - Including saving and recovering settings, etc, etc... So for the last year I've been developing in javascript, which I now totally loathe. But the benefit of having PHP (or whatever server side language) is that it.... runs on the server, and (for most websites of appreciable size) work with a centralised database, which can become a trove of business-actionable data, etc, etc... so as fun as a client side PHP interpreter might be, it doesn't really solve anything.
(I can see someone selling it to a ton of project managers however)
I still wonder what it's actually for...
Entertainment is always an option, even if nothing else comes out of it. Just imagine playing something like Battlefield YOURSELF, like in paintball style, but wearing VR glasses instead of a protective mask. All of the needed ingredients seem to be maturing, like VR displays and cameras, motion control, etc. I can almost see myself moving to Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat's Al Nas or Lost Village... I could finally get off the damn chair!
This.
The headset merely replaces the real boring visuals with CG, so instead of seeing your green paintball explode on your mate's pokemon tshirt instead you see a bullet explode through their high tech chest armour, emblazoned with their team's emblem, and if they get up again afterwards and try to shoot you, it won't matter so much, aside for the paintball impact, they'll still appear dead to you and you can continue playing. They've already got a few places experimenting with this sort of thing (One in Melbourne, Australia, that I might go check out this christmas)
You'd probably have too many crashes. Even without a life-loss incident you'd have a lot of expensive machinery wrecked. Granted, you could not no longer design cars with the occupant's safety in mind, but even without having to spend the money on that aspect the cars are still very expensive to build. Losing them due to operators pushing the cars past the point of stability would be pricey.
I don't see cost being a prohibitive factor. Look at battle bots...... What is being described is very similar - and while the primary purpose might not be destruction, having more of it won't scare the viewers (or sponsors) away, and with enough sponsors, you can burn the stadium to the ground as a finale and still cover costs.
Well, a simpler example: Imagine me writing as someone using PNG format. For me using English is like being forced to convert to JPEG format, you lost information in the process. Or maybe you are simply being sarcastic in a very stupid and arrogant way as is common among north-americans, who knows.
Actually, I'm Australian, although I did live in America for a while.
American English/Aussie English both have their differences to the Queens english (And even though us Aussies generally could care less about the queen, all she is to us is a public holiday once a year, really) Us Aussies still know we don't speak "Proper" English, and we're OK with that.
It's strange to me however that I find Australians seem to have very little problem with accents and "dialects" - american, english, irish, south american, whatever, it's all "english" enough that we don't need subtitles or translations 99% of the time.
It was weird as hell in America, however, how often they subtitle other english speakers on TV.
In any case, I've also lived in Finland, where while almost everyone under the age of, well, about 40 now I guess, can converse in english, however it's usually a bit of a struggle, as Suomi (Finnish) is so very different from English (At the same time many many Finns have better english than I do).
Most Finns speak Finnish, Swedish and English, and many add Russian, German, and other languages.
I've found in general, people who speak multiple languages (who speak them well, so this doesn't include me) tend to have an advantage when communicating in any of those languages.
rambling aside....
English is like transferring a png into an open source image format that people can hack to do whatever they want, transparency, localised scaling, whatever you think of, just hack it in, borrow some png code, some SVG concepts, and plug them in. English is flexible. Most other languages are far more rigid, which makes them easier to learn completely, but will hit the limits of that language. English speakers hit limits, and they just borrow/co-opt something from a language that has it, and make it work. English is more of a sandpit, and yeah, dig around you'll find plenty of crap in it, but it works.
p.s. sarcasm is a great tool, but explicitly identifying it as such would take the fun out of it.
It doesn't matter what software is running their system.
They have enough control over it to have pseudonyms replaced with real names. Whoever is doing this change should be able to easily manage this issue through dozens of options, many of which are a single line of code or a single query modification.
It seems clear, for them to have this response that they:
1) Are not doing the updates in-house
2) Forgot to do proper planning didn't address this when requesting the changes
3) (and this is the BS one) Aren't willing to pay the extra $5 it would cost to address the issue (I know, after factoring in meetings, organisation, etc, etc, that's closer to $5000 or possibly $50000, but it's still cheaper than the loss rolling it out as is is likely to cost them)
tldr:
If it's "impossible" to maintain the pre-existing behaviour, then how was it not impossible for them to change it in the first place?
Impossible is always code for "I'm too dumb to do it". I hear impossible all the time. And never once has it been true.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Sorry for ruining your bubble but English is like AC said, a sloppy language that is only spoken in most of the internet because it is the language of the country that dominates the world. Right now I'm having trouble expressing this idea to you in English, because my native language is so much more logical and structured, to a point that any conversion is difficult to do without losing most of the meaning.
^ Nailed it.
(as in, I couldn't find any meaning in that).
Curious as to what your mother tongue is, and how many languages you speak, that it makes English so difficult, as it is (as mentioned above) a very forgiving language.
English reminds me of HTML - even half mangled, most web browsers can manage to deliver the message.
This is my belief also. put 2 people who struggle with social interaction together and you won't get aq great result, However when one is socially comfortable and accepting of the other aspie, things can work out.
Not to say that aspies can't form relationships between themselves, but the society we live in generates social situations that are more conducive to... the majority (not so strange).