IMO it's also in the usage scenarios, mobile usage is usually bursty as in short period, heavy touch usage and then a long period of nothing which allows for recuperation of energy and which lets the muscles rest.
Office work is usually stretched over multiple hours with a little less usage in average but rarely no usage at all, the absence of pure rest for your muscles for longer periods of times might influence an office worker in very negative ways. Once you get any sort of pain or inflammation, you'll be incapacitated in doing your job. By becoming tired, other factors get influenced as well, you become less cogent, which means that you might not always remember what was under your finger when touching something as you cannot see what your finger covers. Or when your muscles start tiring, your precision could suffer as you try certain arm positions that do not use a certain painful muscle. And this would incapacitate an office worker even further.
Fatigue: it costs more energy to move your whole arm and body to touch a screen than it takes to move a mouse pointer. That's what the article covers.
Obfuscation: Where the mouse pointer does cover 'some' pixels on the screen, a finger, and its attached hand and arm will obfuscate a much larger part of the view, which requires the user to remember what was under his finger before touching it. If this happens too often or a UI changes rapidly (eg a web site), this could lead to frustrations. Especially with subjects like the elderly. Precision: You lose precision, even with a perfectly healthy human being, a fingerprint has a bigger surface than a pixel-perfect pointer, therefor your UI needs to be a lot more spacious to allow for users to "aim" correctly and allow for some correctional margin. If the UI design did not take this into account, this too can lead to frustration (mis-touching).
Windows 8 is a half-assed execution of some good ideas, the signature Microsoft symptom since Ballmer took over.
www.askpatents.com seems to be your best shot at getting Prior Art visible to the shamefully incompetent USPTO.
They pay their employees peanuts in comparison to this thievery and have them stamp away at anything really, creating IP worth millions in lawsuits and fees from almost nothing. And they expect the system to correct their mistakes instead of fool-proofing or advancing their own methods.
Nice trolling, don't know why you're at 2, as you reference the same article twice and when looking at its contents, it brings no meaningful facts to the table, only conjecture and opinion, ergo, they do not support your conclusion that these cars aren't safe.
You might be writing history, joining a certain individual who proclaimed: 'The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.'
The fact that an AI doesn't fatigue, doesn't text, doesn't lean over to grab a water bottle and cause a head-on collision, doesn't fall asleep, doesn't drive drunk, doesn't run red lights on purpose, doesn't forget to signal, doesn't speed and has 360 degrees of vision and laser-radar object detection and processing all this information at once where a human has to rely on his eyes and brain and reaction speed, all of which are affected by his physical condition and which deteriorate when he gets older. The AI will sooner or later replace a human driver. If you will, you could consider the current form a very sophisticated version of cruise control, where a human supervisor is still required.
But I could see driverless taxis in Vegas taking you from your hotel to a casino (and back), by just stating your destination, confirming it and paying with your NFC enabled phone.
Isn't the 'low score' region of Ubuntu (graphics performance) being worked on by the Wayland compositor? While still a release or two down the road, would that be able to improve said tests? Or is the problem broader than that?
I've been out of the modding scene for quite some time, but the one project that made a long lasting impression on me was the Cold War Crisis, mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour. Aside from being a total conversion in the Cold War style (eg everything from game intro, the menus, the unit voices, ingame music, game mechanics were overhauled, they even added in a 'per map' AI which will whoop your ass quite some times before you can outsmart it, heck, they even introduced whole new SinglePlayer modes). That is my gold standard, and there's only a handful that can attain such a level.
Oh I know, there's probably a whole slew of objections against reinstating the tower with all its original functionality. Not being able to meter it would be one of the least worrisome IMO. While it would be uber-cool, it's probably not possible as the location itself is turning into a museum, not a 'bleeding-edge' lab and it therefore can't be doing dangerous experiments. Not to speak of building code violations, possible negative effects on nearby (modern) electric equipment, additional effects on local fauna/flora etc.
I'd be very happy already if they could rebuild the tower in looks only, as it looks so otherworldly and adds some uniqueness to the location. Furthermore it'd be visible from pretty far away, giving Tesla that visibility and validation that he had to miss out on for so long.
Tesla was a crazy genius, in that regard I think it would be more fitting to have (at least part) of the museum have live/interactive and interesting things to do and try, rather than just gazing at collectibles and ooh-and-aah-ing at antiquities (how very awesome those still might be). Perhaps a MAKER lab or something or making a bulb glow with wireless electricity, have a Tesla coil play a song on your $MP3_PLAYER. If you read The Oatmeal's Tesla cartoon, you'd already have quite some nice ideas.
Because their algorithm misfired and put me under a shadowban for a while. It's hard to detect, but after a while I really felt as if I was talking into a void. So I loaded up a proxy server and connected to FARK through it, and surely enough, my posts weren't visible.
I give the admins a profanity-laden piece of my mind and they apologized, seems their spam detector was a bit over-eager. I still go there from time to time.
Explain to a John Doe in what regard Windows 8 RT differs from Windows 8.
What's a Surface now? The multitouch tabletop hardware + software? Not anymore, now it's the tablet-netbook hybrid.
Even if they come up with a new name after the sleek marketing speak emanating from "Windows 8-style UI", it'll still cause confusion and introduce clutter for people looking up "Metro". Easily avoidable if only they had done their homework.
To those claiming it was just a codename and was never meant to be used publicly: A certain S.B. disagrees.
The mobile markets are predominanty OpenGL based, while hw acceleration is not at the PC level yet, it won't take that long for a GPU to become a commonplace part in a smartphone. Add to that the fact that Steam will do positive things for OpenGL on Linux (and even on Windows) and we might get to see a turning point in game programming, at the very least a fighting chance for OpenGL.
Go team OpenGL!
I think the Ouya (or any of its clones that recently sprung up) would actually offer what these people were after: a platform on which they can run their own software, and even distribute it. Sure, the fact that they no longer need to break into their intended platform through a vulnerability might not make it as "edgy" as it used to be, but one could state they now should "go legit" and not fear crippling firmware updates but rather applaud modifications that enable extra possibilities.
IMO homebrewers want to develop and share. As more open-minded hardware configurations become available and are somewhat standardized, to me it would seem to be the ideal growing ground for the homebrew community. Any actual homebrewer that wants to address this assessment?
It ameliorates the chicken-egg problem Linux suffers from:
#1 Missing out on users because there are no games
#2 No games are being made because there are no users
GOTO #1
So seeing Gabe trying to break this cycle by making sure Intel and NVIDIA are on board with his idea is a good first step, this could lead to more and better games, which then could attract more users, developers and publishers to the platform. These events could on their turn entice hardware vendors to upgrade their drivers even more etc. I hope Canonical is working very closely with them, as this surely is no easy feat to pull off
Mayhem abound when it is discovered someone ate through the whole Cheetos supply for the week. Meanwhile, Bob faces eviction after being caught on the toilet trying to install Open Source software. Luke and Igor get into an argument over Igor's B.O., Igor says it's a skin disease while Luke claims it's caused by avoiding contact with water and soap. Jim and Lucy get into a fight when Jim ragequits and stomps out of the room after she uttered a slur doubting his sexual preference in his direction. Problems escalate when Jim won't come out. Hours later, Jim's mom gets called over the PA system and she can finally persuade him to come out, promising to have his favorite Star Wars pillow delivered to the house. Shocking revelations by the nightcam: Bob gets caught with Lucy in an attempt to use SQL injection. The next morning, the contestants face off in a artisan challenge, they are handed polishers and copies of Windows 8. Ultimately, it's quite a photo-finish, as all contestants agree that these polishers have little effect on the product, except for making it shiny but still utterly unusable. Lucy wins the challenge and receives the Floating Chair token, allowing her to duck one future challenge. Check in for more next Tuesday!
That might very well be the case. Publicly point to Apple and towards more innovation, but then instead do their dirty litigation through Nokia, MOSAID and Rockstar.
IMO MSFT always was quite happy with being #2 in popularity, splitting the cake with only Apple. The whole Apple-vs-Microsoft was more playful than serious and consisted of nothing more than some soft air-punches thrown back and forth between their rabid fans, earning them both more money.
But I guess being bested by Android probably caused a whole office furniture set to become airborne.
Good to know the author contacted you with all the necessary information about the infringing patents and details concerning exactly how (and if) the Nexus 7 infringed them, why not share your superior knowledge with us poor peons? There's no need for an M$ rant. They're far behind any other player in the mobile market and they have a lot of polishing to do with the turd that is Windows 8. So it's only logical that they compensate their inability to innovate with an increased drive to litigate. Nokia is their zombie, a sockpuppet if you will, which abides by Microsoft orders. The big phone powerhouse is no more. I would call it stating the abundantly obvious that they would not sue each other, but at least you got that right.
Nice cheap jab at the judicial process btw, why not become a lawyer and do something about it? But then again, it nicely ties together your theme of aggressive, yet devoid of information type of posts, adorned with one or more per rectum theories.
Microsoft missed the boat, remember how a certain Microsoft exec laughed at Apple's attempt at creating a mobile phone and how much more features Microsoft packed in theirs? Remember what happened to Courier? Have you any recollection of how the mobile landscape evolved since then? Do you see much influence by Microsoft?
That's what I would dare to call "missed the boat".
Now they (Microsoft) have to play catch-up, but instead of accelerating their own R&D, they're falling back on harassing the competition. And they're (ab)using Nokia to do their dirty work for them. Nokia is a mere husk of what it used to be, it has been relagated to being Microsoft's IP bulldog. It was a formidable company, but it has been plucked of anything valuable and has someone at the helm with more allegiance to that other company than to Nokia itself. It's a sinking ship, but it might be able to broadside some others before the waves pull it under completely.
The rest of your reaction does not merit further explanation and is a pretty baseless ad hominem.
Even their legal strategies are taking a chapter or two from the Apple playbook... They sat on their asses and missed the mobile boat, but instead of pursuing original ideas and providing competition, they'll just try to slow Android down with frivolous patent lawsuits with the ultimate target to create a void where their outdated and locked-down toy OS can compete on a tilted playing field. I'm pretty sure they'll move in to try and land some free punches once Apple starts going after Android again. Evidently Apple won't even peep about Microsofts' tablet products, as they both want to split up the market among themselves, after eliminating Google by using every dirty trick in the book.
Such cowardice of Microsoft, having a once deeply-respected company like Nokia do its dirty work. But it's not surprising in the current climate.
Enjoy your walled gardens, as an unlimited stream of frivolous software patent suits (and the USPTO will make sure there are enough to go around) will make sure only those survive.
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I agree with him on this, the way he expressed it is unfortunate but his point stands.
IMO it's also in the usage scenarios, mobile usage is usually bursty as in short period, heavy touch usage and then a long period of nothing which allows for recuperation of energy and which lets the muscles rest.
Office work is usually stretched over multiple hours with a little less usage in average but rarely no usage at all, the absence of pure rest for your muscles for longer periods of times might influence an office worker in very negative ways. Once you get any sort of pain or inflammation, you'll be incapacitated in doing your job. By becoming tired, other factors get influenced as well, you become less cogent, which means that you might not always remember what was under your finger when touching something as you cannot see what your finger covers. Or when your muscles start tiring, your precision could suffer as you try certain arm positions that do not use a certain painful muscle. And this would incapacitate an office worker even further.
Fatigue: it costs more energy to move your whole arm and body to touch a screen than it takes to move a mouse pointer. That's what the article covers.
Obfuscation: Where the mouse pointer does cover 'some' pixels on the screen, a finger, and its attached hand and arm will obfuscate a much larger part of the view, which requires the user to remember what was under his finger before touching it. If this happens too often or a UI changes rapidly (eg a web site), this could lead to frustrations. Especially with subjects like the elderly.
Precision: You lose precision, even with a perfectly healthy human being, a fingerprint has a bigger surface than a pixel-perfect pointer, therefor your UI needs to be a lot more spacious to allow for users to "aim" correctly and allow for some correctional margin. If the UI design did not take this into account, this too can lead to frustration (mis-touching).
Windows 8 is a half-assed execution of some good ideas, the signature Microsoft symptom since Ballmer took over.
Target still foot.
www.askpatents.com seems to be your best shot at getting Prior Art visible to the shamefully incompetent USPTO. They pay their employees peanuts in comparison to this thievery and have them stamp away at anything really, creating IP worth millions in lawsuits and fees from almost nothing. And they expect the system to correct their mistakes instead of fool-proofing or advancing their own methods.
...we say hardware-enabled Instagram filter.
Nice trolling, don't know why you're at 2, as you reference the same article twice and when looking at its contents, it brings no meaningful facts to the table, only conjecture and opinion, ergo, they do not support your conclusion that these cars aren't safe.
You might be writing history, joining a certain individual who proclaimed: 'The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad.'
The fact that an AI doesn't fatigue, doesn't text, doesn't lean over to grab a water bottle and cause a head-on collision, doesn't fall asleep, doesn't drive drunk, doesn't run red lights on purpose, doesn't forget to signal, doesn't speed and has 360 degrees of vision and laser-radar object detection and processing all this information at once where a human has to rely on his eyes and brain and reaction speed, all of which are affected by his physical condition and which deteriorate when he gets older. The AI will sooner or later replace a human driver. If you will, you could consider the current form a very sophisticated version of cruise control, where a human supervisor is still required.
But I could see driverless taxis in Vegas taking you from your hotel to a casino (and back), by just stating your destination, confirming it and paying with your NFC enabled phone.
Isn't the 'low score' region of Ubuntu (graphics performance) being worked on by the Wayland compositor? While still a release or two down the road, would that be able to improve said tests? Or is the problem broader than that?
I've been out of the modding scene for quite some time, but the one project that made a long lasting impression on me was the Cold War Crisis, mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour. Aside from being a total conversion in the Cold War style (eg everything from game intro, the menus, the unit voices, ingame music, game mechanics were overhauled, they even added in a 'per map' AI which will whoop your ass quite some times before you can outsmart it, heck, they even introduced whole new SinglePlayer modes). That is my gold standard, and there's only a handful that can attain such a level.
Oh I know, there's probably a whole slew of objections against reinstating the tower with all its original functionality. Not being able to meter it would be one of the least worrisome IMO. While it would be uber-cool, it's probably not possible as the location itself is turning into a museum, not a 'bleeding-edge' lab and it therefore can't be doing dangerous experiments. Not to speak of building code violations, possible negative effects on nearby (modern) electric equipment, additional effects on local fauna/flora etc.
I'd be very happy already if they could rebuild the tower in looks only, as it looks so otherworldly and adds some uniqueness to the location. Furthermore it'd be visible from pretty far away, giving Tesla that visibility and validation that he had to miss out on for so long.
Tesla was a crazy genius, in that regard I think it would be more fitting to have (at least part) of the museum have live/interactive and interesting things to do and try, rather than just gazing at collectibles and ooh-and-aah-ing at antiquities (how very awesome those still might be). Perhaps a MAKER lab or something or making a bulb glow with wireless electricity, have a Tesla coil play a song on your $MP3_PLAYER. If you read The Oatmeal's Tesla cartoon, you'd already have quite some nice ideas.
While I'm aware that'll probably be the last of their worries, it would complete the location and make it more 'monumental'.
Because their algorithm misfired and put me under a shadowban for a while. It's hard to detect, but after a while I really felt as if I was talking into a void. So I loaded up a proxy server and connected to FARK through it, and surely enough, my posts weren't visible.
I give the admins a profanity-laden piece of my mind and they apologized, seems their spam detector was a bit over-eager. I still go there from time to time.
Explain to a John Doe in what regard Windows 8 RT differs from Windows 8.
What's a Surface now? The multitouch tabletop hardware + software? Not anymore, now it's the tablet-netbook hybrid.
Even if they come up with a new name after the sleek marketing speak emanating from "Windows 8-style UI", it'll still cause confusion and introduce clutter for people looking up "Metro". Easily avoidable if only they had done their homework.
To those claiming it was just a codename and was never meant to be used publicly: A certain S.B. disagrees.
The mobile markets are predominanty OpenGL based, while hw acceleration is not at the PC level yet, it won't take that long for a GPU to become a commonplace part in a smartphone. Add to that the fact that Steam will do positive things for OpenGL on Linux (and even on Windows) and we might get to see a turning point in game programming, at the very least a fighting chance for OpenGL. Go team OpenGL!
I think the Ouya (or any of its clones that recently sprung up) would actually offer what these people were after: a platform on which they can run their own software, and even distribute it. Sure, the fact that they no longer need to break into their intended platform through a vulnerability might not make it as "edgy" as it used to be, but one could state they now should "go legit" and not fear crippling firmware updates but rather applaud modifications that enable extra possibilities.
IMO homebrewers want to develop and share. As more open-minded hardware configurations become available and are somewhat standardized, to me it would seem to be the ideal growing ground for the homebrew community. Any actual homebrewer that wants to address this assessment?
It ameliorates the chicken-egg problem Linux suffers from:
#1 Missing out on users because there are no games
#2 No games are being made because there are no users
GOTO #1
So seeing Gabe trying to break this cycle by making sure Intel and NVIDIA are on board with his idea is a good first step, this could lead to more and better games, which then could attract more users, developers and publishers to the platform. These events could on their turn entice hardware vendors to upgrade their drivers even more etc. I hope Canonical is working very closely with them, as this surely is no easy feat to pull off
Mayhem abound when it is discovered someone ate through the whole Cheetos supply for the week. Meanwhile, Bob faces eviction after being caught on the toilet trying to install Open Source software. Luke and Igor get into an argument over Igor's B.O., Igor says it's a skin disease while Luke claims it's caused by avoiding contact with water and soap. Jim and Lucy get into a fight when Jim ragequits and stomps out of the room after she uttered a slur doubting his sexual preference in his direction. Problems escalate when Jim won't come out. Hours later, Jim's mom gets called over the PA system and she can finally persuade him to come out, promising to have his favorite Star Wars pillow delivered to the house. Shocking revelations by the nightcam: Bob gets caught with Lucy in an attempt to use SQL injection. The next morning, the contestants face off in a artisan challenge, they are handed polishers and copies of Windows 8. Ultimately, it's quite a photo-finish, as all contestants agree that these polishers have little effect on the product, except for making it shiny but still utterly unusable. Lucy wins the challenge and receives the Floating Chair token, allowing her to duck one future challenge. Check in for more next Tuesday!
...consisting of people who still want to grab a copy of Windows 7 before it's too late.
If rumors are an indication, the last Windows 7 license will be sold on December 21, 2012.
“@BlackBerry: Fill in the blank: BlackBerry helps me ________.” realize how thankful I am for my #iPhone
Ouch.
Probably looks like the Black Angry Bird, and probably behaves like one, too...
That might very well be the case. Publicly point to Apple and towards more innovation, but then instead do their dirty litigation through Nokia, MOSAID and Rockstar.
IMO MSFT always was quite happy with being #2 in popularity, splitting the cake with only Apple. The whole Apple-vs-Microsoft was more playful than serious and consisted of nothing more than some soft air-punches thrown back and forth between their rabid fans, earning them both more money.
But I guess being bested by Android probably caused a whole office furniture set to become airborne.
Good to know the author contacted you with all the necessary information about the infringing patents and details concerning exactly how (and if) the Nexus 7 infringed them, why not share your superior knowledge with us poor peons? There's no need for an M$ rant. They're far behind any other player in the mobile market and they have a lot of polishing to do with the turd that is Windows 8. So it's only logical that they compensate their inability to innovate with an increased drive to litigate. Nokia is their zombie, a sockpuppet if you will, which abides by Microsoft orders. The big phone powerhouse is no more. I would call it stating the abundantly obvious that they would not sue each other, but at least you got that right.
Nice cheap jab at the judicial process btw, why not become a lawyer and do something about it? But then again, it nicely ties together your theme of aggressive, yet devoid of information type of posts, adorned with one or more per rectum theories.
Microsoft missed the boat, remember how a certain Microsoft exec laughed at Apple's attempt at creating a mobile phone and how much more features Microsoft packed in theirs? Remember what happened to Courier? Have you any recollection of how the mobile landscape evolved since then? Do you see much influence by Microsoft?
That's what I would dare to call "missed the boat".
Now they (Microsoft) have to play catch-up, but instead of accelerating their own R&D, they're falling back on harassing the competition. And they're (ab)using Nokia to do their dirty work for them. Nokia is a mere husk of what it used to be, it has been relagated to being Microsoft's IP bulldog. It was a formidable company, but it has been plucked of anything valuable and has someone at the helm with more allegiance to that other company than to Nokia itself. It's a sinking ship, but it might be able to broadside some others before the waves pull it under completely.
The rest of your reaction does not merit further explanation and is a pretty baseless ad hominem.
Even their legal strategies are taking a chapter or two from the Apple playbook... They sat on their asses and missed the mobile boat, but instead of pursuing original ideas and providing competition, they'll just try to slow Android down with frivolous patent lawsuits with the ultimate target to create a void where their outdated and locked-down toy OS can compete on a tilted playing field. I'm pretty sure they'll move in to try and land some free punches once Apple starts going after Android again. Evidently Apple won't even peep about Microsofts' tablet products, as they both want to split up the market among themselves, after eliminating Google by using every dirty trick in the book.
Such cowardice of Microsoft, having a once deeply-respected company like Nokia do its dirty work. But it's not surprising in the current climate.
Enjoy your walled gardens, as an unlimited stream of frivolous software patent suits (and the USPTO will make sure there are enough to go around) will make sure only those survive.