Unfortunately, the vast majority of people's first interaction with "VR" is through Google Cardboard, Gear VR, and other Viewmaster methods of holding your cellphone up to your face. That's about as from from actual, immersive 3D VR as you can get. But it's enough to make people go "Hey, this is kind of interesting but why should I pony up $700 for a Vive? This isn't worth $700." and onto the pile of failed tech it goes.
I truly believe that the future of real VR is bright. The potential is limitless. But we're not quite there yet.
I'm not prepared to give up my (and everyone else's) 4th Amendment Rights on the off-chance that we might maybe catch a dirtbag. The cost of making that collar is just too high.
Given that Google Play only has an estimated 2.6 million apps as of December, "gearing up to remove millions of apps" seems like a bit of a stretch. Could we maybe report stories without making up dramatic numbers?
When did we start calling wireless access points "routers"? Oh, sure, I know lots of consumer routers have access points built in, and maybe I'm just being pedantic, but come on already. We already use the word "router" for something and we already had a perfectly good word for "access point". I had to dig through three articles before I learned what the actual problem was.
If you have access to it and can know who has it and where it is you can probably get an officer to come with you and knock on a door.
I think you would be astonished at how difficult it is to get the police to react or respond to petty theft calls. Even if you hand them everything they need to make an arrest.
She also said that NSID shifted attention to other projects and basically forgot that it had promised to build a canine mind-reader. “We missed a lot of emails, so we’re really sorry about that,” Mazetti says. “We had a restructuring at the company, and we had an absent-minded engineer in charge.”
No, you ignored a lot of e-mails. You had people trying to contact you for two years. "Missing e-mails" is believable when it's less than five. It's really not necessary to continue lying to your backers.
You're lucky. Half the Microsoft services I log into won't render properly on Edge. They may have been fixed recently, but I've already moved on to browsers that work.
Translation: We're doing something slightly different than what someone else has already done, but not really groundbreaking in any meaningful way, and it will still have the same problems that the previous technology had.
"Additional, unnecessary risk" would have been better wording, but the article was pretty scant on details. Some explanation as to why SpaceX feels it's necessary to go against 60 years of risk management recommendations would have been nice.
Data caps are not reasonable. They just started giving you worse service for the same money. If you want your old, uncapped service, your monthly rate just went up by $50.
Which is of great comfort to the owners of medical imagers that are now junk unless someone catches and rolls back the anniversary edition. There is claimed to be a fix in the pipe.
If you're running a medical imager and you're auto-installing patches willy-nilly without thoroughly testing them, then you're doing it wrong. I don't care what OS you're running, that's just negligent.
Is nothing sacred anymore? Are we really nothing more than market research tools and products to be sold to the highest bidder anymore? Look, if you give me something for free, I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to ask for something in return (provided you disclose that you're collecting that data). But if I'm paying for it, then please just stop. I'm the customer, not the product.
Are you suggesting that people with old cars should buy new ones to stop criminals from taking a hammer to the windshield? The problem is not the victim's phone. The problem is the phone company's refusal to address the problem.
It's great as long as you don't have an analog line, like the vast majority of home phone users. If you have a regular POTS then the service isn't available.
Too many producers of consumer electronics completely ignore the software side of things. From bad UI design to security, in their rush to market they skimp on the things that make that sort of thing worthwhile.
Agreed. I have no problem with them showing ads and trailers, but they should be legally obligated to provide the actual starting time of the feature film as well -- so if I don't want to see that stuff, I can come 25 minutes "late" or whatever.
It's pretty easy to estimate when the feature will start, so you can skip the ads if you want, but if you wait to go in you're going to end up sitting in either the front row or the back row. So, your choice is either crappy seats or spoilers. Personally, I've started bringing in headphones. Closing my eyes and drowning out the trailers has vastly improved my movie-going experience. It's nice to see a movie without already knowing every major plot point in advance.
I used to love going to the theater but it sucks now. It's too expensive, too crowded, and I don't want to watch 15 minutes of product endorsements followed by 20 minutes of spoilers for upcoming films before they get around to showing the feature.
Mr. Cameron, you say you want to "preserve the theater experience as something special" but it hasn't been "special" in twenty years. It's the entertainment industry's version of going to the airport. It's only a matter of time before they start adding backscatter body scanners and abusive TSA (Theater Security Agency) officers.
but at the very least [Nintendo] actually recognize that their customers are human beings who play games for fun, they aren't fleshbags with coin purses. Really? You might wanna rethink that. If your decision to chose one technology over the other based on each one's privacy policy, you're always going to lose. You are always the product.
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Maybe she could give her bonus to the people whose accounts got hacked through Yahoo's gross incompetence.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people's first interaction with "VR" is through Google Cardboard, Gear VR, and other Viewmaster methods of holding your cellphone up to your face. That's about as from from actual, immersive 3D VR as you can get. But it's enough to make people go "Hey, this is kind of interesting but why should I pony up $700 for a Vive? This isn't worth $700." and onto the pile of failed tech it goes.
I truly believe that the future of real VR is bright. The potential is limitless. But we're not quite there yet.
I'm not prepared to give up my (and everyone else's) 4th Amendment Rights on the off-chance that we might maybe catch a dirtbag. The cost of making that collar is just too high.
Unnecessary ad hominem is all you have to contribute?
Given that Google Play only has an estimated 2.6 million apps as of December, "gearing up to remove millions of apps" seems like a bit of a stretch. Could we maybe report stories without making up dramatic numbers?
When did we start calling wireless access points "routers"? Oh, sure, I know lots of consumer routers have access points built in, and maybe I'm just being pedantic, but come on already. We already use the word "router" for something and we already had a perfectly good word for "access point". I had to dig through three articles before I learned what the actual problem was.
If you have access to it and can know who has it and where it is you can probably get an officer to come with you and knock on a door.
I think you would be astonished at how difficult it is to get the police to react or respond to petty theft calls. Even if you hand them everything they need to make an arrest.
She also said that NSID shifted attention to other projects and basically forgot that it had promised to build a canine mind-reader. “We missed a lot of emails, so we’re really sorry about that,” Mazetti says. “We had a restructuring at the company, and we had an absent-minded engineer in charge.”
No, you ignored a lot of e-mails. You had people trying to contact you for two years. "Missing e-mails" is believable when it's less than five. It's really not necessary to continue lying to your backers.
Ok, I've made a note in your permanent file.
I only use Edge to log into Microsoft services
You're lucky. Half the Microsoft services I log into won't render properly on Edge. They may have been fixed recently, but I've already moved on to browsers that work.
Seriously, those are pretty big non-answers to be giving to your investors.
Let's all just change to Swatch Internet Time while we're at it. It's equally idiotic, but it's also metric!
"We're doing something really, really different."
Translation: We're doing something slightly different than what someone else has already done, but not really groundbreaking in any meaningful way, and it will still have the same problems that the previous technology had.
"Additional, unnecessary risk" would have been better wording, but the article was pretty scant on details. Some explanation as to why SpaceX feels it's necessary to go against 60 years of risk management recommendations would have been nice.
Data caps are not reasonable. They just started giving you worse service for the same money. If you want your old, uncapped service, your monthly rate just went up by $50.
Open house at HAARP planned for end of August, 2016
It would be ludicrous to focus on getting young engineers for a project like this.
Not to mention that it's an offensively age-ist thing to do.
Which is of great comfort to the owners of medical imagers that are now junk unless someone catches and rolls back the anniversary edition. There is claimed to be a fix in the pipe.
If you're running a medical imager and you're auto-installing patches willy-nilly without thoroughly testing them, then you're doing it wrong. I don't care what OS you're running, that's just negligent.
Is nothing sacred anymore? Are we really nothing more than market research tools and products to be sold to the highest bidder anymore? Look, if you give me something for free, I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to ask for something in return (provided you disclose that you're collecting that data). But if I'm paying for it, then please just stop. I'm the customer, not the product.
Are you suggesting that people with old cars should buy new ones to stop criminals from taking a hammer to the windshield? The problem is not the victim's phone. The problem is the phone company's refusal to address the problem.
It's great as long as you don't have an analog line, like the vast majority of home phone users. If you have a regular POTS then the service isn't available.
Too many producers of consumer electronics completely ignore the software side of things. From bad UI design to security, in their rush to market they skimp on the things that make that sort of thing worthwhile.
Agreed. I have no problem with them showing ads and trailers, but they should be legally obligated to provide the actual starting time of the feature film as well -- so if I don't want to see that stuff, I can come 25 minutes "late" or whatever.
It's pretty easy to estimate when the feature will start, so you can skip the ads if you want, but if you wait to go in you're going to end up sitting in either the front row or the back row. So, your choice is either crappy seats or spoilers. Personally, I've started bringing in headphones. Closing my eyes and drowning out the trailers has vastly improved my movie-going experience. It's nice to see a movie without already knowing every major plot point in advance.
I used to love going to the theater but it sucks now. It's too expensive, too crowded, and I don't want to watch 15 minutes of product endorsements followed by 20 minutes of spoilers for upcoming films before they get around to showing the feature.
Mr. Cameron, you say you want to "preserve the theater experience as something special" but it hasn't been "special" in twenty years. It's the entertainment industry's version of going to the airport. It's only a matter of time before they start adding backscatter body scanners and abusive TSA (Theater Security Agency) officers.
but at the very least [Nintendo] actually recognize that their customers are human beings who play games for fun, they aren't fleshbags with coin purses.
Really? You might wanna rethink that. If your decision to chose one technology over the other based on each one's privacy policy, you're always going to lose. You are always the product.