Very cool, but your inner ear is going to break the illusion
Palmer (the guy behind Oculus Rift) hinted at working on a solution to this problem on the MTBS forums just before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. Apparently you can fool these sensors with some magnetic fields. The concept is nowhere near commercialization yet, of course.
For example you can notice that Qt draws the focus border around buttons differently than Cocoa does. The biggest difference being that Qt buttons are focusable but Cocoa buttons are not.
Actually, that's a user preferences setting (I keep it turned on all of the time, since I want to use the keyboard as much as possible). Unfortunately, this setting is ignored by Qt.
That's why you have been winning this poll, EA. You're the supplier, and we're the junkies, and since there is a cohort of "addict" customers that will continue to purchase your product regardless of how you treat them, you maintain the status quo.
Yes, the problem with this line of thinking is that as soon as there's a cheaper supplier or one with better material, your customers are gone (also see: Blackberry).
Yes, I don't know what they've done with it, but in Jedi Outcast, saber-on-saber fights needed actual skill, while in Jedi Academy it was just flailing around randomly until one of the involved parties hit.
Google says they're forking for technical reasons -- Google uses a different thread model and security model than Apple and making a hard break makes for easier maintenance.
That's only half of the story - they're using a different thread model because they wrote it themselves and didn't allow Apple to merge it into the original code base. So the fork is not really based on a technical reason.
Healing the scars that the Bush administration left will take a lot longer than a few years. Meanwhile, enjoy your invasive security screening on airports and attempts like the constitution-free zone on "borders" that include half of the population.
(Note that I'm not saying that only Bush did all of that, but the people in charge apparently noticed with how much they can get away with, with only insignificant uprisings like OWS that can easily be removed by the military.)
The problem is, everybody has to start at some point. Right now I'm earning all of my money from programming or teaching programming. I got lucky, because my parents happened to show me a BASIC programmable computer at the age of eight, and helped me write the first programs when I wasn't even able to read English (I soon surpassed them, though). I didn't know that I'd like it before that. Others aren't so lucky, and have their first exposure to computers in school, and then it's on programming-hostile environments like smartphones and Windows (which doesn't ship with any programming language environment, unlike DOS did).
What I was taught was extremely rigid, canned moves that might work if you were extremely lucky enough for an attacker to come at you in precisely the manner they trained you for, but if they deviated at all, if all you had to rely on were the moves you were taught (and you couldn't improvise on your own), you'd be toast.
I'm training in a school with a similar upbringing. It has deviated a lot from that in the last years, and so there was a lot of discussion about that issue.
The philosophy behind what you're criticizing is that you're learning thousands of techniques, every one for a different situation (opponent properties such as stance, weight distribution, movement, inertia, total weight, height, agitation, etc.). Then you repeat them so often that you just know which one to use when, without thinking (aka moving the information to the cerebellum).
The problem with it is that it takes a looong time to get that far, maybe 20-40 years, depending on the person's talent. This clashes with western philosophy, where something that takes longer than a week isn't considered to be viable. Thus, many western schools move more towards teaching principles instead of techniques, which allows you to react to a random situation much earlier in training, but your responses aren't as elaborate (which isn't that important in self defense, since the first attack usually strikes down an untrained/inattentive opponent anyways).
Recently found that bluetooth support is pretty poor too. Good luck find games/apps (outside the ones on Cydia) that work with a PS3/Wii/generic wireless controller.
Yes, only keyboard type devices are supported of the HID protocol. For everything else, you have to use a special chip for bluetooth that you only get with a special license issues by Apple called "MFI", which is very hard to get (and the app has to implement it specifically).
However, there are some bluetooth controllers that act like they are keyboards. There's a pseudo-standard implemented that defines which keyboard keys match what controller input. One of those is the iCade, another is DRONE.
We are trying to stay below 2C to avoid hitting some of the more worrisome tipping points and impacts.
You use "the tipping points" and "the impacts" as if they were scientific certainty. In fact, they are just speculation at this point.
Yes, additionally Celsius/Kelvin is an arbitrary scale (even when it's based around water properties at some specific pressure), so there's no physical meaning to a 2.000000000000000K difference as opposed to 1.999999999998K or any other value in that general area. It's just more convenient to quote a short number, since it's not that exact anyways.
From what I've seen most companies get a qualified, experienced, and smart person who really wants to do a great job to secure these things. Then they demand it's done in a week. Then they demand that for each day in that week that person must attend 6 hours of meetings. Then they make it very clear that security must never affect functionality.
Well, that still does the job it's supposed to: If something happens, the manager is not to blame, because he's the one who hired the security guy.
The name alone is hysterical! The people have nothing to do with the government of China. The name really should be the Communist Party's Republic of Oppression of the Chinese People. That would fall much more squarely on the truth side of things.
It's always this way. The DDR (the former name for East Germany) is short for "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", which means "German Democratic Republic". It was anything but democratic.
The plain fact is, the only way to lose weight is to consume less calories than you burn. No magic hocus pocus, no "starvation mode", no nothing. The more you consume, the more you need to burn.
It doesn't have to be that simple. The body might need multiple components to be able to store the energy in permanent storage. That could be a reason for the low carbs diets supposedly working better.
Of course, it's really hard to tell, since there's a huge financial incentive here for snakeoil, and people "researching" the topic mostly aren't more sophisticated than homeopaths (or are one themselves). A diet working for one person might not work with another, just because there was a separate factor they didn't think about. For example, the trophology approach works for some, even though it's been proven to be absolute bullsh*t on a scientific level. I suspect that the reason is that people who do that start to actively track all the sh*t they're eating, and thus simply eat less.
However, my personal experience is that when I do less exercise (due to health-related issues), my weight goes down. When I start again, it bounces back to the previous level. When I permanently increase the amount of exercise, my weight goes up permanently. People tell me that's because my muscle mass changes without the fat adjusting, but does anyone really know?
Yes, but only by the developers of PSYC. Who would have thought.
I tried that protocol a few years ago. Unlike the XMPP transports, their implementation of other protocols (like XMPP) were really really awful. Only the IRC interface was usable, and IRC clients aren't really designed for instant messaging. Clients talking that protocol were non-existing.
I'm very experienced with XMPP. It does have the XML framing issue they mention, but it also has a lot of good parts to it as well. That comparison you linked is also outdated, nowadays there are XMPP extensions for some of the issues they list (One-To-Many Distribution, Network Reliability, Profile Exchange).
On Amazon, I always read only the onestar-reviews, because I've made the experience that they reveal much more details about the product (both good and bad). The reviews are much longer there anyways, it seems to be a different mindset there.
The fivestar-reviews are mostly shills (that happens a lot on Apple's App Store as well) or people that seem to have had too many happy pills.
The reviews in Apple's App Store are horrible. There's no way for developers to respond to anything or even know who wrote that review, and people don't realize that (asking questions in reviews and giving one star because they don't get a reaction). Most reviews seem to be written by people who have an axe to grind or don't get the product at all. People who use the app regularly usually don't write reviews (why bother?). If the developer throws up an alert asking nicely for reviews, the result is that a lot of people who are fine with the app itself leave negative ratings because they're bothered with this nag screen.
So, basically you're a fool if you bother with the reviews on Apple's App Store.
(Maybe you can tell that I'm an app developer who has software on there)
I had a similar issue. My installation of Windows Vista was quite old, so I wanted to start Windows 8 I bought as the cheap upgrade with a clean slate. The installation went fine, but then it said that the key wasn't ok since it's not supported for clean installs (first wtf-moment a few mins into trying the system, a great start).
Anyways, there's a trick I found in some forum online where you just have to make a small change in the registry (change a 0 to a 1) and reboot, and now it's working fine. No need to call Microsoft (couldn't have done that anyways, since it was around 3am my time zone when I finally came to that point after trying for hours to get my BIOS to boot a USB stick).
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very soon we'll be pushing a LOT more power through these tiny LEDs, and we'll need the local cooling to compensate.
Are you sure? Better efficiency also means that you need less cooling, as more power is emitted via visible light rather than heat.
I imagine that it's way less, though.
Very cool, but your inner ear is going to break the illusion
Palmer (the guy behind Oculus Rift) hinted at working on a solution to this problem on the MTBS forums just before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. Apparently you can fool these sensors with some magnetic fields. The concept is nowhere near commercialization yet, of course.
I read the headline like some anonymous oligarch pledged the money out of its own pocket...
Well, he's not anonymous, but Putin rules Russia like it's his own anyways, so you're pretty much right on the second part.
For example you can notice that Qt draws the focus border around buttons differently than Cocoa does. The biggest difference being that Qt buttons are focusable but Cocoa buttons are not.
Actually, that's a user preferences setting (I keep it turned on all of the time, since I want to use the keyboard as much as possible). Unfortunately, this setting is ignored by Qt.
That's why you have been winning this poll, EA. You're the supplier, and we're the junkies, and since there is a cohort of "addict" customers that will continue to purchase your product regardless of how you treat them, you maintain the status quo.
Yes, the problem with this line of thinking is that as soon as there's a cheaper supplier or one with better material, your customers are gone (also see: Blackberry).
Yes, I don't know what they've done with it, but in Jedi Outcast, saber-on-saber fights needed actual skill, while in Jedi Academy it was just flailing around randomly until one of the involved parties hit.
Google says they're forking for technical reasons -- Google uses a different thread model and security model than Apple and making a hard break makes for easier maintenance.
That's only half of the story - they're using a different thread model because they wrote it themselves and didn't allow Apple to merge it into the original code base. So the fork is not really based on a technical reason.
Healing the scars that the Bush administration left will take a lot longer than a few years. Meanwhile, enjoy your invasive security screening on airports and attempts like the constitution-free zone on "borders" that include half of the population.
(Note that I'm not saying that only Bush did all of that, but the people in charge apparently noticed with how much they can get away with, with only insignificant uprisings like OWS that can easily be removed by the military.)
Apple anyone? Rumor was Apple was going with Nvidia. Nvidia announced that had a deal with Apple and then Apple (well Jobs) killed the deal.
Major breach of an NDA is a pretty good reason to go with another supplier, not only for Apple.
The problem is, everybody has to start at some point. Right now I'm earning all of my money from programming or teaching programming. I got lucky, because my parents happened to show me a BASIC programmable computer at the age of eight, and helped me write the first programs when I wasn't even able to read English (I soon surpassed them, though). I didn't know that I'd like it before that. Others aren't so lucky, and have their first exposure to computers in school, and then it's on programming-hostile environments like smartphones and Windows (which doesn't ship with any programming language environment, unlike DOS did).
What I was taught was extremely rigid, canned moves that might work if you were extremely lucky enough for an attacker to come at you in precisely the manner they trained you for, but if they deviated at all, if all you had to rely on were the moves you were taught (and you couldn't improvise on your own), you'd be toast.
I'm training in a school with a similar upbringing. It has deviated a lot from that in the last years, and so there was a lot of discussion about that issue.
The philosophy behind what you're criticizing is that you're learning thousands of techniques, every one for a different situation (opponent properties such as stance, weight distribution, movement, inertia, total weight, height, agitation, etc.). Then you repeat them so often that you just know which one to use when, without thinking (aka moving the information to the cerebellum).
The problem with it is that it takes a looong time to get that far, maybe 20-40 years, depending on the person's talent. This clashes with western philosophy, where something that takes longer than a week isn't considered to be viable. Thus, many western schools move more towards teaching principles instead of techniques, which allows you to react to a random situation much earlier in training, but your responses aren't as elaborate (which isn't that important in self defense, since the first attack usually strikes down an untrained/inattentive opponent anyways).
Recently found that bluetooth support is pretty poor too. Good luck find games/apps (outside the ones on Cydia) that work with a PS3/Wii/generic wireless controller.
Yes, only keyboard type devices are supported of the HID protocol. For everything else, you have to use a special chip for bluetooth that you only get with a special license issues by Apple called "MFI", which is very hard to get (and the app has to implement it specifically).
However, there are some bluetooth controllers that act like they are keyboards. There's a pseudo-standard implemented that defines which keyboard keys match what controller input. One of those is the iCade, another is DRONE.
Not even talk about the lack of a file manager
The file concept doesn't exist on iOS.
and gimped WebKit
What is that supposed to do?
You use "the tipping points" and "the impacts" as if they were scientific certainty. In fact, they are just speculation at this point.
Yes, additionally Celsius/Kelvin is an arbitrary scale (even when it's based around water properties at some specific pressure), so there's no physical meaning to a 2.000000000000000K difference as opposed to 1.999999999998K or any other value in that general area. It's just more convenient to quote a short number, since it's not that exact anyways.
From what I've seen most companies get a qualified, experienced, and smart person who really wants to do a great job to secure these things. Then they demand it's done in a week. Then they demand that for each day in that week that person must attend 6 hours of meetings. Then they make it very clear that security must never affect functionality.
Well, that still does the job it's supposed to: If something happens, the manager is not to blame, because he's the one who hired the security guy.
The name alone is hysterical! The people have nothing to do with the government of China. The name really should be the Communist Party's Republic of Oppression of the Chinese People. That would fall much more squarely on the truth side of things.
It's always this way. The DDR (the former name for East Germany) is short for "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", which means "German Democratic Republic". It was anything but democratic.
Unity has JS like language too and people are dead set on using it.
In my experience, everyone who's serious about game programming in Unity3D uses C# anyways.
Wow, I haven't read so much focused hate in a single post in a while on Slashdot. Did a netbook run over your kitten or something?
The plain fact is, the only way to lose weight is to consume less calories than you burn. No magic hocus pocus, no "starvation mode", no nothing. The more you consume, the more you need to burn.
It doesn't have to be that simple. The body might need multiple components to be able to store the energy in permanent storage. That could be a reason for the low carbs diets supposedly working better.
Of course, it's really hard to tell, since there's a huge financial incentive here for snakeoil, and people "researching" the topic mostly aren't more sophisticated than homeopaths (or are one themselves). A diet working for one person might not work with another, just because there was a separate factor they didn't think about. For example, the trophology approach works for some, even though it's been proven to be absolute bullsh*t on a scientific level. I suspect that the reason is that people who do that start to actively track all the sh*t they're eating, and thus simply eat less.
However, my personal experience is that when I do less exercise (due to health-related issues), my weight goes down. When I start again, it bounces back to the previous level. When I permanently increase the amount of exercise, my weight goes up permanently. People tell me that's because my muscle mass changes without the fat adjusting, but does anyone really know?
They'll make up rules and laws that don't exist if you are doing something they don't like because there are no repercussions when they lie to you.
Yes, in my city there was a case where peaceful protesters were charged by the police with walking the wrong way in a one-way street.
I'm told that PSYC is much better than XMPP
Yes, but only by the developers of PSYC. Who would have thought.
I tried that protocol a few years ago. Unlike the XMPP transports, their implementation of other protocols (like XMPP) were really really awful. Only the IRC interface was usable, and IRC clients aren't really designed for instant messaging. Clients talking that protocol were non-existing.
I'm very experienced with XMPP. It does have the XML framing issue they mention, but it also has a lot of good parts to it as well. That comparison you linked is also outdated, nowadays there are XMPP extensions for some of the issues they list (One-To-Many Distribution, Network Reliability, Profile Exchange).
On Amazon, I always read only the onestar-reviews, because I've made the experience that they reveal much more details about the product (both good and bad). The reviews are much longer there anyways, it seems to be a different mindset there.
The fivestar-reviews are mostly shills (that happens a lot on Apple's App Store as well) or people that seem to have had too many happy pills.
Have you seen the Uselss mug? That doesn't come from nowhere.
The reviews in Apple's App Store are horrible. There's no way for developers to respond to anything or even know who wrote that review, and people don't realize that (asking questions in reviews and giving one star because they don't get a reaction). Most reviews seem to be written by people who have an axe to grind or don't get the product at all. People who use the app regularly usually don't write reviews (why bother?). If the developer throws up an alert asking nicely for reviews, the result is that a lot of people who are fine with the app itself leave negative ratings because they're bothered with this nag screen.
So, basically you're a fool if you bother with the reviews on Apple's App Store.
(Maybe you can tell that I'm an app developer who has software on there)
I had a similar issue. My installation of Windows Vista was quite old, so I wanted to start Windows 8 I bought as the cheap upgrade with a clean slate. The installation went fine, but then it said that the key wasn't ok since it's not supported for clean installs (first wtf-moment a few mins into trying the system, a great start).
Anyways, there's a trick I found in some forum online where you just have to make a small change in the registry (change a 0 to a 1) and reboot, and now it's working fine. No need to call Microsoft (couldn't have done that anyways, since it was around 3am my time zone when I finally came to that point after trying for hours to get my BIOS to boot a USB stick).