Did anyone watch the youtube video or read the article?
It does multi-touch quite well. Its advantage is that it's very inexpensive when compared to capacitive touch, which has a cost that scales as a square of the display size, where this one scales linearly. So a 55" multi-touch display, with the actual display device, that works well, will cost you $2,200 instead of the $10k or whatever that they charge for an MS Surface.
Also, nobody is using one with the TV vertically. All configurations are in table configuration, just like every other large multi-touch you've ever seen... so you're not really meant to sit 2' from your living room tv.
The only use of Kinect was to augment the touch sensing.
Maybe, maybe not... but his point was valid. An important bit of the supply & demand equation was absent in the topmost valuation. Not a lot of utility in (and demand for) more Dahmers.
Yeah, and people still use it that way... hence the issues. I'm sure it has everything to do with them trying to grab the kind of activity that was moving off to Twitter. I'm sure they thought they were improving on the twitter experience by narrowing down what you see.
Anyway, they obviously want to be everything to everyone... unsatisfied with the idea of having people use Facebook for most things, and Flikr, Twitter, Twitpic, etc. for everything else. They want you to do everything in their garden.
My bells and whistles go off over that kind of thing... but I'd guess I'm a little more paranoid than their average user.
I think Facebook would say that status updates are not for important, nobody-can-miss-this type messages. For that they'd want you to use the facebook messages, because those always go through to specific people (or whole list, I think). Status updates are more of the, "i have to take a crap right now", "i'm taking a crap right now", "i'm glad I took that crap earlier, now I can go back to watching tv". So... more like twitter, less like email.
Though I do understand your frustration. I've been a little aggravated that I missed a status update about something important.
I don't know that I have ever paid for porn in the last 20+ years, but I think I'd pay to see that.
Not some bs 10 second vomit-comet one, but the very first *actual* space porn. And I'd probably want a copy on VHS too, so I can hide it in a Spaceballs jacket... for old times sake.
I'd say there were quite a few fps games before wolfenstein. But I agree that it's the first huge title I think of when I'm thinking back across Quake, Turok, Duke Nukem 3d, Doom, etc. type games.
Exactly. In my condo (looking now), I can see 16 SSID's just in the quick-connect. I'm sure if I turned up a proper monitor for a minute I'd see at least half-again that number. And of course, nobody knows or cares how to spread the things out , so it's an ongoing battle.
I'd like a paint that blocks wifi, and some plain, less-expensive version of the same for the floor under the carpet.
I'm not involved in the bomber project they're talking about here, but I noticed that it looks almost exactly like the drone Boeing was fiddling with... just scaled up.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is basically a way to salvage (at least on a ledger somewhere) a huge amount of R&D costs sunk on a machine that never got bought up.
Aside from that I've done a few art and electronics related ones. But I think most people see the writing on the wall... soon you'll actually be investing, not making donations with little "thank you" gifts.
I know this is going to sound over-the-top, but there's a scary notion in there.
In a world where warrants are an arcane idea from the distant past, and snatch-and-grab detention of US citizens without justification or trial is entirely legal, words like "resisting" or "taking-a-stand" could have some pretty serious consequences.
I'm not saying you shouldn't, or that you'll necessarily get black-bagged, but do appreciate what you're risking.
Yeah, when it comes to Office my motivation would be workplace related. At home I do always dual-boot on at least one machine for (yes legal) Photoshop use. Gimp just doesn't cut it, for my purposes.
I think you speak for [nearly] all of us. Nobody outside government would actually want this. My only fear, as always, has to do with general public apathy.
I'm not really bothered by marketshare on the desktop either, though it'd be nice if some software makers out there were compelled to make and maintain certain titles for my OS of choice. I figure that'd be more likely if there were more people using that OS.
For instance, it'd be really nice to have native Office, Photoshop, and a few others. I know, it'll never happen, but it'd be pretty great for my purposes.
No. He's probably going to need paging stations and zones. What about echo cancellation boards? Possibly voip integration. What about facility-wide page ducking? Remote sources and destinations over CobraNet. What about interfacing with the (increasingly mandatory) voice evac system? What's going to interface with the wall panels and other misc controls?
This is a job for a real, actual DAP, just like every other amusement facility, conference space, etc. in the entire world. They're purpose-built to do all of these things. And they're going to need someone that knows what they're doing to set it up correctly.
Trying to cram a square peg into a round hole, just so you can say you used "open source", just doesn't make sense here.
Agreed. Even in our small business (two small locations), I couldn't get away with anything other than Microsoft Office.
People flip every time I roll out a newer office where a few button locations changed, or Microsoft removed some obscure feature. The employees are so accustomed to it (they really do know the suite inside and out) that they feel like you've tied their hands when anything changes. This is especially true with Outlook.
Beyond that there's also Creative Suite, but not everyone gets that, so it's less of an issue.
I'd agree, but you've still got to deal with the chicken-egg situation of ownership and infrastructure, I suppose. And there's another one with price of the cars / volume.
No doubt it's coming... it's just a question of how long.
I hadn't heard about those other nations and bomb building.
I do know collaboration on rocket technology between Iran and North Korea hasn't been much of a secret since the 90's. They issue press statements about it, including one last week. I also seem to remember reading that Iran's medium [Israel] range rocket tech originally came from North Korea.
But given Iran's precarious position, I'd think that nuclear tech sharing between the two would be kept pretty well hushed.
Sure, parking lots, parking garages, in your employer's lot (maybe 3rd party operated, like your vending machines)...
Just a problem of getting people to roll it all out. You couldn't get me to invest in that right now because nobody drives electric vehicles. And I don't want an electric vehicle because I'd have nowhere to charge it (I live in a condo).
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Did anyone watch the youtube video or read the article?
It does multi-touch quite well. Its advantage is that it's very inexpensive when compared to capacitive touch, which has a cost that scales as a square of the display size, where this one scales linearly. So a 55" multi-touch display, with the actual display device, that works well, will cost you $2,200 instead of the $10k or whatever that they charge for an MS Surface.
Also, nobody is using one with the TV vertically. All configurations are in table configuration, just like every other large multi-touch you've ever seen... so you're not really meant to sit 2' from your living room tv.
The only use of Kinect was to augment the touch sensing.
Maybe, maybe not... but his point was valid. An important bit of the supply & demand equation was absent in the topmost valuation. Not a lot of utility in (and demand for) more Dahmers.
Yeah, and people still use it that way... hence the issues. I'm sure it has everything to do with them trying to grab the kind of activity that was moving off to Twitter. I'm sure they thought they were improving on the twitter experience by narrowing down what you see.
Anyway, they obviously want to be everything to everyone... unsatisfied with the idea of having people use Facebook for most things, and Flikr, Twitter, Twitpic, etc. for everything else. They want you to do everything in their garden.
My bells and whistles go off over that kind of thing... but I'd guess I'm a little more paranoid than their average user.
I think Facebook would say that status updates are not for important, nobody-can-miss-this type messages. For that they'd want you to use the facebook messages, because those always go through to specific people (or whole list, I think). Status updates are more of the, "i have to take a crap right now", "i'm taking a crap right now", "i'm glad I took that crap earlier, now I can go back to watching tv". So... more like twitter, less like email.
Though I do understand your frustration. I've been a little aggravated that I missed a status update about something important.
I don't know that I have ever paid for porn in the last 20+ years, but I think I'd pay to see that.
Not some bs 10 second vomit-comet one, but the very first *actual* space porn. And I'd probably want a copy on VHS too, so I can hide it in a Spaceballs jacket... for old times sake.
I'd say there were quite a few fps games before wolfenstein. But I agree that it's the first huge title I think of when I'm thinking back across Quake, Turok, Duke Nukem 3d, Doom, etc. type games.
My friends and I did play the hell out of this old battletech-style mess over direct dial-up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7WoHGYIDUY
That was probably an early mail order shareware or Egghead Software purchase. Not nearly as awesome as wolfenstein.
Exactly. In my condo (looking now), I can see 16 SSID's just in the quick-connect. I'm sure if I turned up a proper monitor for a minute I'd see at least half-again that number. And of course, nobody knows or cares how to spread the things out , so it's an ongoing battle.
I'd like a paint that blocks wifi, and some plain, less-expensive version of the same for the floor under the carpet.
I'm not involved in the bomber project they're talking about here, but I noticed that it looks almost exactly like the drone Boeing was fiddling with... just scaled up.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is basically a way to salvage (at least on a ledger somewhere) a huge amount of R&D costs sunk on a machine that never got bought up.
I've backed a number of projects, all funded projects went to completion. Only one was software related...
http://darkskyapp.com/
Aside from that I've done a few art and electronics related ones. But I think most people see the writing on the wall... soon you'll actually be investing, not making donations with little "thank you" gifts.
Maybe a battlestar pilot with a habit of rubbing-one-out on the hangar deck after a successful run against the toasters.
I know this is going to sound over-the-top, but there's a scary notion in there.
In a world where warrants are an arcane idea from the distant past, and snatch-and-grab detention of US citizens without justification or trial is entirely legal, words like "resisting" or "taking-a-stand" could have some pretty serious consequences.
I'm not saying you shouldn't, or that you'll necessarily get black-bagged, but do appreciate what you're risking.
Yeah, when it comes to Office my motivation would be workplace related. At home I do always dual-boot on at least one machine for (yes legal) Photoshop use. Gimp just doesn't cut it, for my purposes.
I think you speak for [nearly] all of us. Nobody outside government would actually want this. My only fear, as always, has to do with general public apathy.
I'm not really bothered by marketshare on the desktop either, though it'd be nice if some software makers out there were compelled to make and maintain certain titles for my OS of choice. I figure that'd be more likely if there were more people using that OS.
For instance, it'd be really nice to have native Office, Photoshop, and a few others. I know, it'll never happen, but it'd be pretty great for my purposes.
No. He's probably going to need paging stations and zones. What about echo cancellation boards? Possibly voip integration. What about facility-wide page ducking? Remote sources and destinations over CobraNet. What about interfacing with the (increasingly mandatory) voice evac system? What's going to interface with the wall panels and other misc controls?
This is a job for a real, actual DAP, just like every other amusement facility, conference space, etc. in the entire world. They're purpose-built to do all of these things. And they're going to need someone that knows what they're doing to set it up correctly.
Trying to cram a square peg into a round hole, just so you can say you used "open source", just doesn't make sense here.
That's pretty slick. Nice work.
Agreed. Even in our small business (two small locations), I couldn't get away with anything other than Microsoft Office.
People flip every time I roll out a newer office where a few button locations changed, or Microsoft removed some obscure feature. The employees are so accustomed to it (they really do know the suite inside and out) that they feel like you've tied their hands when anything changes. This is especially true with Outlook.
Beyond that there's also Creative Suite, but not everyone gets that, so it's less of an issue.
I assumed the same. And they're not new to this. If they were going to lose big money on it, they wouldn't have done it.
I'd agree, but you've still got to deal with the chicken-egg situation of ownership and infrastructure, I suppose. And there's another one with price of the cars / volume.
No doubt it's coming... it's just a question of how long.
I hadn't heard about those other nations and bomb building.
I do know collaboration on rocket technology between Iran and North Korea hasn't been much of a secret since the 90's. They issue press statements about it, including one last week. I also seem to remember reading that Iran's medium [Israel] range rocket tech originally came from North Korea.
But given Iran's precarious position, I'd think that nuclear tech sharing between the two would be kept pretty well hushed.
I'm picturing a brutally honest landing page, explaining why.
The unfortunate part is that they can't afford to do that here in the US.
Sure, parking lots, parking garages, in your employer's lot (maybe 3rd party operated, like your vending machines)...
Just a problem of getting people to roll it all out. You couldn't get me to invest in that right now because nobody drives electric vehicles. And I don't want an electric vehicle because I'd have nowhere to charge it (I live in a condo).
Yeah, can we have that thrown together by next week? You know, we're gunna have to do this on a budget, too... so... you know, make it cheap.
I'm practicing for a job in management. :)
I think you just secured a few hundred million in venture capital.
I think he was suggesting them as more recent examples of each, for purposes of contrast... not that Clinton was the product of revolution.