I've always wondered to what extent it is possible to just get used to the disconnect between your senses (which is something that will never really go away with just optical VR). I'm pretty sure that people who are at sea often don't get seasick (anymore).
Given the plasticity of the brain, it seems that it should be possible to train it to accept the disconnect in general, although you could ask yourself whether you want to go through a month or more of daily sickly training sessions, just to be able to use a(n admittedly pretty cool) piece of technology.
If I understand it correctly, higher temperature (faster movement) of the water molecules raises the amount of molecules (in a volume of air) that need to be present to form water droplets. The amount of molecules in a certain volume of air is the absolute humidity, which can be very high in (Finnish) saunas. Due to the high temperature, however, no water droplets are formed in the air or on objects that are as hot as the air. This means that the relative humidity can be low at the same time. That also means that sweat can still evaporate relatively easily, which in turn allows the body to prevent overheating for a longer time.
Considering how messed up the judicial branch of the USA is, it is hardly surprising. I was not aware of how retarded it has gotten, until I saw this segment on the most recent Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I mean: State Supreme Court Justices with their own fucking (insane) TV ads?? Shaking down lawyers and potential criminals for campaign contributions?? It's a fucking joke. And one that would be funny if it wasn't also reality.
A small part of me died when I saw the headline. Slashdot is definitely (d)evolving into a mindless click-chasing news aggregator like all the others are.
Worst about this is that the (classic) misunderstanding is actually explained in TFA:
"Correlation does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship, so this kind of research is not considered as strong as experiments in which participants are assigned at random to treatments or placebos and then compared. But people cannot ethically be instructed to smoke for a study, so a lot of the data on smoking’s effects on people comes from observational studies."
I thought the same (they'll cost you at least thousands of dollars), but it's the title that is at fault here: 'HD/UHD/4K'.
Although I have no idea why anyone would want to buy a new HD projector nowadays. I've always felt that the resolution of projectors was terrible and that they would benefit most from a push for higher resolutions.
A lot of science involves highly technical information. A bit of nutrition science about weight loss might actually involve biochemistry that is complex to understand for biochemists, let alone someone not holding an advanced degree in biochemistry.
That is such bullshit.
Some scientific matters are complex, but so are a lot of economical and political issues. The difference is that in the latter types, knowledge on the subject is valued: people look up to you at parties if you (seem to) be knowledgeable on the subject. Knowledge on the harder sciences is still 'nerd knowledge', i.e.: it won't get you any pussy;-)
The result of this stance towards the different types of knowledge is that scientific matters are brought as coming from a weird outside group: it is 'their science', but 'our economics' and 'our politics'. This leads to the terrible unnecessary 'need' to explain scientific matters as if explaining something to a five year old, a foreigner or an alien. Slowly, with small words and with lots of colorful pictures.
It also doesn't help that most 'journalists' majored in things as far away from anything science as they could find.
It is the mentality of 'each one is one too many', failing to see that completely eradicating all crime is only possible through the most dystopian police state or human genetic modification program one could imagine.
It is the classic form of guilting the other party into agreeing that no means are too far-reaching to prevent these terrible crimes: "If you don't support all of the 'solutions' I present, you support child abuse!" is very clearly a fallacy.
Yeah, that can't be right. A WebView can be used in pretty much any app. It may or may not be vulnerable, depending on whether certain features of the WebView are used, but a WebView has the potential to be the core of a complete (vulnerable) browser in any app.
My guess (or hope, maybe) is that Google is responding the way they are to strongarm the handset manufacturers into (allowing) properly updating Android on their older products. A sort of 'this shit has been going on long enough: take some fucking responsibility for your products'. Either that or they really see no realistic way to fix this.
I remapped the side tilt clicks of the mouse wheel to the middle mouse button action (exactly because reliably depressing the mouse wheel without side tilting or scrolling is insanely difficult on it [Logitech Marathon Mouse] and it was annoying the fuck out of me).
This actually works that well that I recently mapped left tilt to 'Media next' and only right tilt to middle button. The lateral movement with either index or middle finger is extremely simple, reliable and a welcome variation to the vertical movements of typing and normal clicking.
These bits from Engadget sum the most important elements up for me.
The negative: "In practice, the resolution is sharp but the field of view is extremely limited. There's a rectangular area in the center of your vision that acts as your "window" into the reality HoloLens presents. It's this limitation that makes HoloLens not a VR headset, and also keeps it from being the Back to the Future 2 glasses we're all waiting for (I'm waiting for that, anyway). "
"The bigger issue for me was that the image was relatively transparent, which often made things look less than real."
The positive: "Tracking -- which is to say, "how the headset interprets where your head is in relation to the world around you" -- felt the most fully-baked of any of the headset's sensors. Though the prototype was a bit finicky to move very quickly in, I had no issue turning around quickly or kneeling, or any other movements I tried."
HDMI cables are (and will be) pretty stiff. Considering that you'll probably need a HDMI->microHDMI-adapter 'on the go' to actually connect to the display at hand, I don't see this being very convenient as a mouse (let alone when attaching an external HDD to the USB-port as well).
Just clicking some standard micro-PC with some plastic hooks onto some standard mouse would be more usable and almost just as portable. In fact, if you buy this product, you'd be best off buying an actual mouse with it and connect it to the Mouse-box (there's an Inception-joke waiting to be made here).
Yeah, no, not really, though. Most consumers are a lot less idealistic than you seem to think. Even most of the guys who scream "this time they've gone too far! fuck 'em" eventually find a rationalization to stay with Windows.
The reasons for buying Windows 10 are pretty much the following: - 'It was bundled with the computer' - 'I needed the newest version of Windows to run x' - 'They told me I should't use XP anymore and this was the Windows they sold.'
And then there's also what seems to be the largest part of consumers: the part that actually likes Windows 8.
If you can settle for just updates, filehippo's update checker works well to get quick links to the original installers (also of older versions) for programs you have already installed: http://filehippo.com/download_... (The newer versions are supposed to be sucky).
Secunia PSI 2.0 is also good: http://secunia.com/vulnerabili... -- 3.0 was more noob-friendly, last time I checked (Yes, I realize the irony of purposefully installing older versions of programs created to update software to their latest version).
They don't help in installing or uninstalling software and only Secunia supports automatic updates for some programs, but keeping programs up to date under Windows using these tools is at least acceptable.
Man, that was the least confusing part of your post. At that point I was still wondering how many Slashdotters own colleges.
After understanding what you wrote, though, it is indeed a solid easy strategy. You don't even need to have drives in the systems of your colleagues or family. Just place a NAS in their network and put BTSync or Syncthing (FKAPulseFKASyncthing) on it. With BTSync there even is a hidden method to create an encrypted key so that the data on the 'untrusted' nodes is only there in encrypted form: http://forum.bittorrent.com/to... Syncthing is actively considering adding this feature: https://github.com/syncthing/s...
I haven't tested the BTSync encryption yet and am not aware of how secure it is, especially considering that BTSync is closed source, but this approach seems to me to be the future of small scale offsite redundancy (and of ad hoc file sharing in general).
OTOH: I think a lot of people see affordable stereoscopic consumer VR as a serious market, at the very least for gamers. This time, '3D' may actually stick.
Considering that most photos aren't shared face to face anymore, there might even be a reason to make '3D' photographs and movies.
Why would someone that has been at the cap for over a decade need to karma whore? Also, funny mods have not increased karma for at least as long.
I'm not sure that improves your position.
The joke here, for people that lack either foresight or humor (and, to be fair, you are right, most xkcd jokes are just not funny);
I never said that.
is that while they intend to merge the standards, they will probably end up either picking one of the two or creating a third one.
Note how the article (did you read it?)
I did.
worded this. "set up an as yet unnamed organization" That sounds like a 3rd standards body to me.
You forgot the start of that sentence: "They have agreed to merge their two organizations by mid-2015 and set up an as yet unnamed organization..." (remember what I said about your knowledge of the meaning of the word 'merge'? I'll help you. Replace 'and setup' by 'into' and read the sentence again. Remember that it was a reporter who wrote the sentence.)
The key point you're missing is that the XKCD-comic is about a third party creating a standard. This is about two parties already solely responsible for their standards agreeing on a single standard. Whether or not that is a new standard or one of the two existing standards doesn't matter for the resulting count of standards. It's not as if the new standard will be competing with the old ones (as is the case in the XKCD-comic). The old ones will obviously be abandoned, ergo: fewer competing standards.
I have a Google Android wireless charger.
I'm not familiar with the 'Android' wireless charging standard. Is it new?
Yeah, the 'jitter' is almost certainly not caused by CPU interruptions from other processes (on a HTPC).
What you need is a video player that uses a dedicated D3D drawing surface (if you're on Windows) and either a frame blender/interpolator (MadVR smooth motion, SVP, although this is definitely a workaround), or better yet, a video player (MPC-BE / MPC-HE) or renderer (madVR) that matches the refresh rate of the display with the frame rate of the source content.
The latter is the best option, but your display needs to support slightly exotic refresh rates.
Warning: after having experienced perfectly smooth video playback, you will be spoiled for life.
Slashdot Mirror
I've always wondered to what extent it is possible to just get used to the disconnect between your senses (which is something that will never really go away with just optical VR). I'm pretty sure that people who are at sea often don't get seasick (anymore).
Given the plasticity of the brain, it seems that it should be possible to train it to accept the disconnect in general, although you could ask yourself whether you want to go through a month or more of daily sickly training sessions, just to be able to use a(n admittedly pretty cool) piece of technology.
Any no-longer-motion-sick-VR-users in the house?
Apparently it is sort of both.
There is a difference between relative and absolute humidity. The former is related to the the dew point.
If I understand it correctly, higher temperature (faster movement) of the water molecules raises the amount of molecules (in a volume of air) that need to be present to form water droplets. The amount of molecules in a certain volume of air is the absolute humidity, which can be very high in (Finnish) saunas. Due to the high temperature, however, no water droplets are formed in the air or on objects that are as hot as the air. This means that the relative humidity can be low at the same time. That also means that sweat can still evaporate relatively easily, which in turn allows the body to prevent overheating for a longer time.
Considering how messed up the judicial branch of the USA is, it is hardly surprising. I was not aware of how retarded it has gotten, until I saw this segment on the most recent Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I mean: State Supreme Court Justices with their own fucking (insane) TV ads?? Shaking down lawyers and potential criminals for campaign contributions??
It's a fucking joke. And one that would be funny if it wasn't also reality.
Thank you.
A small part of me died when I saw the headline. Slashdot is definitely (d)evolving into a mindless click-chasing news aggregator like all the others are.
Worst about this is that the (classic) misunderstanding is actually explained in TFA:
"Correlation does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship, so this kind of research is not considered as strong as experiments in which participants are assigned at random to treatments or placebos and then compared. But people cannot ethically be instructed to smoke for a study, so a lot of the data on smoking’s effects on people comes from observational studies."
I thought the same (they'll cost you at least thousands of dollars), but it's the title that is at fault here: 'HD/UHD/4K'.
Although I have no idea why anyone would want to buy a new HD projector nowadays. I've always felt that the resolution of projectors was terrible and that they would benefit most from a push for higher resolutions.
Surprisingly, this comment has not a single +1 Funny mod. I know I laughed.
A lot of science involves highly technical information. A bit of nutrition science about weight loss might actually involve biochemistry that is complex to understand for biochemists, let alone someone not holding an advanced degree in biochemistry.
That is such bullshit.
Some scientific matters are complex, but so are a lot of economical and political issues. The difference is that in the latter types, knowledge on the subject is valued: people look up to you at parties if you (seem to) be knowledgeable on the subject. Knowledge on the harder sciences is still 'nerd knowledge', i.e.: it won't get you any pussy ;-)
The result of this stance towards the different types of knowledge is that scientific matters are brought as coming from a weird outside group: it is 'their science', but 'our economics' and 'our politics'. This leads to the terrible unnecessary 'need' to explain scientific matters as if explaining something to a five year old, a foreigner or an alien. Slowly, with small words and with lots of colorful pictures.
It also doesn't help that most 'journalists' majored in things as far away from anything science as they could find.
This AC is exemplary of the problem.
It is the mentality of 'each one is one too many', failing to see that completely eradicating all crime is only possible through the most dystopian police state or human genetic modification program one could imagine.
It is the classic form of guilting the other party into agreeing that no means are too far-reaching to prevent these terrible crimes: "If you don't support all of the 'solutions' I present, you support child abuse!" is very clearly a fallacy.
Indeed I did.
'Oven baked' is by and large a pleonasm and in that sense, you were right.
Regular chips are fried, not baked.
Yeah, that can't be right.
A WebView can be used in pretty much any app. It may or may not be vulnerable, depending on whether certain features of the WebView are used, but a WebView has the potential to be the core of a complete (vulnerable) browser in any app.
More info on this matter here: https://community.rapid7.com/c...
My guess (or hope, maybe) is that Google is responding the way they are to strongarm the handset manufacturers into (allowing) properly updating Android on their older products. A sort of 'this shit has been going on long enough: take some fucking responsibility for your products'. Either that or they really see no realistic way to fix this.
when justice systematically fails to protect the weak
Does it, though?
Or do people just want to think it does so they can satisfy their innate bloodlust and apply some good old medieval uncivilized mob justice?
I remapped the side tilt clicks of the mouse wheel to the middle mouse button action (exactly because reliably depressing the mouse wheel without side tilting or scrolling is insanely difficult on it [Logitech Marathon Mouse] and it was annoying the fuck out of me).
This actually works that well that I recently mapped left tilt to 'Media next' and only right tilt to middle button. The lateral movement with either index or middle finger is extremely simple, reliable and a welcome variation to the vertical movements of typing and normal clicking.
These bits from Engadget sum the most important elements up for me.
The negative:
"In practice, the resolution is sharp but the field of view is extremely limited. There's a rectangular area in the center of your vision that acts as your "window" into the reality HoloLens presents. It's this limitation that makes HoloLens not a VR headset, and also keeps it from being the Back to the Future 2 glasses we're all waiting for (I'm waiting for that, anyway). "
"The bigger issue for me was that the image was relatively transparent, which often made things look less than real."
The positive:
"Tracking -- which is to say, "how the headset interprets where your head is in relation to the world around you" -- felt the most fully-baked of any of the headset's sensors. Though the prototype was a bit finicky to move very quickly in, I had no issue turning around quickly or kneeling, or any other movements I tried."
( http://www.engadget.com/2015/0... )
HDMI cables are (and will be) pretty stiff.
Considering that you'll probably need a HDMI->microHDMI-adapter 'on the go' to actually connect to the display at hand, I don't see this being very convenient as a mouse (let alone when attaching an external HDD to the USB-port as well).
Just clicking some standard micro-PC with some plastic hooks onto some standard mouse would be more usable and almost just as portable. In fact, if you buy this product, you'd be best off buying an actual mouse with it and connect it to the Mouse-box (there's an Inception-joke waiting to be made here).
Fuck, no.
Yeah, no, not really, though. Most consumers are a lot less idealistic than you seem to think. Even most of the guys who scream "this time they've gone too far! fuck 'em" eventually find a rationalization to stay with Windows.
The reasons for buying Windows 10 are pretty much the following:
- 'It was bundled with the computer'
- 'I needed the newest version of Windows to run x'
- 'They told me I should't use XP anymore and this was the Windows they sold.'
And then there's also what seems to be the largest part of consumers: the part that actually likes Windows 8.
Metaphorically speaking: yes. People should be prosecuted.
But let's not become barbarians ourselves.
If you can settle for just updates, filehippo's update checker works well to get quick links to the original installers (also of older versions) for programs you have already installed:
http://filehippo.com/download_... (The newer versions are supposed to be sucky).
Secunia PSI 2.0 is also good: http://secunia.com/vulnerabili... -- 3.0 was more noob-friendly, last time I checked (Yes, I realize the irony of purposefully installing older versions of programs created to update software to their latest version).
They don't help in installing or uninstalling software and only Secunia supports automatic updates for some programs, but keeping programs up to date under Windows using these tools is at least acceptable.
Yeah, the coin doesn't seem to be doing well: http://coinmarketcap.com/asset...
It's not on any exchange, either.
Man, that was the least confusing part of your post. At that point I was still wondering how many Slashdotters own colleges.
After understanding what you wrote, though, it is indeed a solid easy strategy. You don't even need to have drives in the systems of your colleagues or family. Just place a NAS in their network and put BTSync or Syncthing (FKAPulseFKASyncthing) on it. With BTSync there even is a hidden method to create an encrypted key so that the data on the 'untrusted' nodes is only there in encrypted form: http://forum.bittorrent.com/to...
Syncthing is actively considering adding this feature: https://github.com/syncthing/s...
I haven't tested the BTSync encryption yet and am not aware of how secure it is, especially considering that BTSync is closed source, but this approach seems to me to be the future of small scale offsite redundancy (and of ad hoc file sharing in general).
OTOH: I think a lot of people see affordable stereoscopic consumer VR as a serious market, at the very least for gamers. This time, '3D' may actually stick.
Considering that most photos aren't shared face to face anymore, there might even be a reason to make '3D' photographs and movies.
Why would someone that has been at the cap for over a decade need to karma whore? Also, funny mods have not increased karma for at least as long.
I'm not sure that improves your position.
The joke here, for people that lack either foresight or humor (and, to be fair, you are right, most xkcd jokes are just not funny);
I never said that.
is that while they intend to merge the standards, they will probably end up either picking one of the two or creating a third one.
Note how the article (did you read it?)
I did.
worded this. "set up an as yet unnamed organization" That sounds like a 3rd standards body to me.
You forgot the start of that sentence: "They have agreed to merge their two organizations by mid-2015 and set up an as yet unnamed organization ..." (remember what I said about your knowledge of the meaning of the word 'merge'? I'll help you. Replace 'and setup' by 'into' and read the sentence again. Remember that it was a reporter who wrote the sentence.)
The key point you're missing is that the XKCD-comic is about a third party creating a standard. This is about two parties already solely responsible for their standards agreeing on a single standard. Whether or not that is a new standard or one of the two existing standards doesn't matter for the resulting count of standards. It's not as if the new standard will be competing with the old ones (as is the case in the XKCD-comic). The old ones will obviously be abandoned, ergo: fewer competing standards.
I have a Google Android wireless charger.
I'm not familiar with the 'Android' wireless charging standard. Is it new?
Yeah, the 'jitter' is almost certainly not caused by CPU interruptions from other processes (on a HTPC).
What you need is a video player that uses a dedicated D3D drawing surface (if you're on Windows) and either a frame blender/interpolator (MadVR smooth motion, SVP, although this is definitely a workaround), or better yet, a video player (MPC-BE / MPC-HE) or renderer (madVR) that matches the refresh rate of the display with the frame rate of the source content.
The latter is the best option, but your display needs to support slightly exotic refresh rates.
Warning: after having experienced perfectly smooth video playback, you will be spoiled for life.
science centered channels
I'm pretty sure those don't exist.
Maybe 'warning-may-contain-occasional-science' channels. But 'science centered'? No.