Sounds more like a toy than something revolutionary at this point; but, I can easily see it evolving into something better. I will let overs pay the exorbitant early adopter fees and pick one up when it's only $50 more than a regular pair of glasses.
I'd also like to see the long term safety impact of wearing the glasses before being an adopter. So- I'm not getting them in the next 20 years. After that, maybe... but in 20 years we might be ready for something completely different entirely.
The one place I was at that allowed work from home saw me being much more productive. No cubicle drive-bys. No distractions. No ruckus from the surroundings.
A pox on those short-sighted employers who insist on chaining us to the stupid desks. Seriously. I hate it.
I was more productive working from home when the kids weren't around. Now they (and the wife) are too much of a distraction. In the case of the Mrs. she used to be understanding that I was working when working from home. Now she isn't and doesn't treat me as if I'm at work not to be bothered. My family is also far too messy, and I can't work in a dirty environment. At home, there are no wife and kids to junk up my desk or leave plates and mugs everywhere and empty packets of crisps all over the place. I'm sure there is something psychological there- but if I'm in a cluttered messy room I just can't work.
Family aside. Back in the old days when family wouldn't bother me if working from home, I found that if I were working from home just a few days, my productivity would skyrocket (partially because I was really driven to get extra work done when home so people wouldn't think I was goofing off). One time when our office flooded and I had to work from home for a few months that began to change, in a long stretch it became harder to concentrate and be as focused.
I'd be really interested in what kind of searches are getting bad results for you.
General everyday searches. Software related searches; such as bugs and how-to's. I had it as my main browser for a while, but found that I'd always switch over to google to search.
I hate things like Flash, and Shockwave, and some of those other obsolete technologies that some sites desperately hang on to. I won't use sites that require them.
Fun fact: "Flash" in the Victorian era was slang for "criminal or nefarious". I think "Flash" was a very appropriate name from Adobe.
Users don't care that much about privacy, if they did you would see Facebook and Google Chrome and Google search lose users to DuckDuckGo and Firefox and would dump their Facebook pages. Instead these services and sites are doing very well and while users may say privacy is a concern. Their actions say different. I'm sure DuckDuckGo is desperate to gain some users, but clearly like with Mozilla banging that same privacy drum nobody really cares.
I think it's a matter of with search engines, is a little less privacy worth better results. I tried DuckDuckGo a while ago and it truly was awful for searching the web. It was worse than using Bing. Sadly, I always return to Google because everyone else's web-search engines are crap.
The older you are the harder (no pun intended) it is to find a willing partner... so why not upcharge?
I'm gonna go reach out and extend an idea.... When an imminent disaster is boring down on a community.. its illegal to take advantage of that (i.e. upcharging for plywood, gasoline, bottled water etc. in the path of a hurricane).
So by proxy.. if you're no longer a chick magnet and your prospects (imminent disaster) are being limited by an act of God (Hurricane... Getting Older) a business decides to become predatory and charge more for those that don't have the mojo that their younger folk do.. This is an issue. It is leveraging human hope.. based on the mathematics that your hope of finding a suitable partner decreases as your age increases... and these R-Tards are profiting by the likely degradation of a positive outcome based on your age... means you should be up-charged for your chance to be happy.
Along your line of thinking then...
What if they charged more if you're ugly. Subjective I know, but would it be acceptable if they had a small panel of judges who flipped through and marked the ugly people and charged them more?
There are laws against discriminating against age, religion, sex, race, national origin, etc. There are no laws against discriminating against ugly people. Yet, somehow that sounds even more distasteful.
While were at it lets stop the practice of senior discounts.
Goodness no! I'm over half way there now. That would suck if all my life I've been paying more because I'm not a senior citizen, and then have that discount taken away when I'm just a decade or two away.
I would counter argue that younger people on average earn less. [Insert bell curve]
20 somethings as a group would certainly earn less than 30 somethings as a group. 30 somethings often have additional costs though. Children, alimony, etc. 20 somethings probably have more disposable income than 30 somethings because they have less responsibilities and less past baggage to pay for.
FYI... yes I know an Orca is a dolphin not a whale
It would never have occurred to me that you didn't know an orca is a dolphin.
Nonetheless, that joke was really terrible...
On the plus side, I now know that there is a Welsh national anthem....
Granted the joke was terrible. / I'm a father, I'm allowed to make bad jokes
Technically the Welsh national anthem is God Save the Queen (same as all countries within the United Kingdom) but the Welsh and the Scottish have their own pseudo-national anthems too. Only the English don't have their own national anthem within the countries of the UK.
Perhaps the researchers would prefer to interpret the communication attempt in captivity as "Amy" rather than "Kill Me", just so they can sleep at night.
I don't know who Amy is, but she sounds hot if even Orcas are asking for her by name.
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English, up to fifty words used in correct context, no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." - Carl Sagan
Whereas a dolphin may have received fish from humans to train them to learn English. No human has ever received a large lump sum bonus from a dolphin for a dolphin teaching him dolphinese.
I am good with this just as long as they don't do a "surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner'"
Surely they wouldn't be whistling the "Star Spangled Banner" they would be singing "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", the national anthem of Wales.
they claim 800K people saw the so called fake news.... that didnt sway the election. And how is it any different from tabloids in the past??? just because "...with a computer!" is there?
Barrier to entry for a website is a lot less than with a tabloid. For a website all you need is a server and some software. To create a misinformation tabloid you need to set up a printing shop, establish resellers, etc.
It's much easier to spring up a fake news website overnight than it is a tabloid. Easier to get people to read your crap too because tabloids generally cost money. When the election is over you can always repurpose the webserver to do something else. With a tabloid you couldn't as easily clean up the shop.
A comment on an internet message board appeared to accuse a local official of corruption. The comment was followed by a ":P" emoticon. The judges on the Michigan Court of Appeals concluded in 2014 that the emoticon "is used to represent a face with its tongue sticking out to denote a joke or sarcasm." The court said the comment couldn't be taken seriously or viewed as defamatory.
Donald Trump paid me $5,000 to pee on him.:P Hillary Clinton showed me her penis at a fund raiser.:P Richard Gere bought a hamster off me for $300 so he could stick in his rectum.:P
I was puzzling over the meaning of \_("/)_/ as shown in my Chrome browser.
A quick search with google finds me this: \_()_/ Which immediately, looks like someone throwing up their hands in an "I don't know" fashion.
Even the humble smiley:) carries a very different face when rendered on different devices. And thus has a different or no meaning sometimes.
It gets worse. The famous pile of poo emoji sometimes gets rendered as a horrible stinky shit with flies buzzing around it. Other times it's a happy smiley piece of shit. A very different meaning is conveyed depending how it is rendered. Perhaps quite a different one that the author meant.
The moral of the story is. Don't use emoji. Use proper language with proper words as found in proper dictionaries. Get your spelling right and be sure the words you are using have the meanings you intend.
Of course slashdot does not render my second example correctly. Which demonstrates my point well.:)
Back talking about your poop. It has been very famously been mistook for chocolate ice cream by numerous people. I, myself remember the first time I saw it wondering if it was poop or ice-cream (it was identical to the strawberry ice cream only brown)- I correctly assumed poop from the context.
The original emoji come from Japan, and some of them are really only used by the Japanese. I think there is one that looks like there is a bit of water coming off the forehead; I forget what it really means, but I recall that most people in the West get it wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds more like a toy than something revolutionary at this point; but, I can easily see it evolving into something better. I will let overs pay the exorbitant early adopter fees and pick one up when it's only $50 more than a regular pair of glasses.
I'd also like to see the long term safety impact of wearing the glasses before being an adopter. So- I'm not getting them in the next 20 years. After that, maybe... but in 20 years we might be ready for something completely different entirely.
The one place I was at that allowed work from home saw me being much more productive. No cubicle drive-bys. No distractions. No ruckus from the surroundings.
A pox on those short-sighted employers who insist on chaining us to the stupid desks. Seriously. I hate it.
I was more productive working from home when the kids weren't around. Now they (and the wife) are too much of a distraction. In the case of the Mrs. she used to be understanding that I was working when working from home. Now she isn't and doesn't treat me as if I'm at work not to be bothered. My family is also far too messy, and I can't work in a dirty environment. At home, there are no wife and kids to junk up my desk or leave plates and mugs everywhere and empty packets of crisps all over the place. I'm sure there is something psychological there- but if I'm in a cluttered messy room I just can't work.
Family aside. Back in the old days when family wouldn't bother me if working from home, I found that if I were working from home just a few days, my productivity would skyrocket (partially because I was really driven to get extra work done when home so people wouldn't think I was goofing off). One time when our office flooded and I had to work from home for a few months that began to change, in a long stretch it became harder to concentrate and be as focused.
I'd be really interested in what kind of searches are getting bad results for you.
General everyday searches. Software related searches; such as bugs and how-to's. I had it as my main browser for a while, but found that I'd always switch over to google to search.
By then your typical computer will be fully AI and blockchain enabled and will be able to defend itself against virus and malware.
By then, your computer will consider you to be the virus/malware.
Buy High and sell Low!
I think a lot of bitcoin investors probably bought whilst high.
I hate things like Flash, and Shockwave, and some of those other obsolete technologies that some sites desperately hang on to. I won't use sites that require them.
Fun fact: "Flash" in the Victorian era was slang for "criminal or nefarious". I think "Flash" was a very appropriate name from Adobe.
Users don't care that much about privacy, if they did you would see Facebook and Google Chrome and Google search lose users to DuckDuckGo and Firefox and would dump their Facebook pages. Instead these services and sites are doing very well and while users may say privacy is a concern. Their actions say different. I'm sure DuckDuckGo is desperate to gain some users, but clearly like with Mozilla banging that same privacy drum nobody really cares.
I think it's a matter of with search engines, is a little less privacy worth better results. I tried DuckDuckGo a while ago and it truly was awful for searching the web. It was worse than using Bing. Sadly, I always return to Google because everyone else's web-search engines are crap.
That's not a nation, that's a district of the UK that has stupid rules about road signs.
It's a country within the United Kingdom. UK is made up of three countries England, Scotland and Wales and numerous other territories.
The older you are the harder (no pun intended) it is to find a willing partner... so why not upcharge?
I'm gonna go reach out and extend an idea.... When an imminent disaster is boring down on a community.. its illegal to take advantage of that (i.e. upcharging for plywood, gasoline, bottled water etc. in the path of a hurricane).
So by proxy.. if you're no longer a chick magnet and your prospects (imminent disaster) are being limited by an act of God (Hurricane... Getting Older) a business decides to become predatory and charge more for those that don't have the mojo that their younger folk do.. This is an issue. It is leveraging human hope.. based on the mathematics that your hope of finding a suitable partner decreases as your age increases... and these R-Tards are profiting by the likely degradation of a positive outcome based on your age... means you should be up-charged for your chance to be happy.
Along your line of thinking then...
What if they charged more if you're ugly. Subjective I know, but would it be acceptable if they had a small panel of judges who flipped through and marked the ugly people and charged them more?
There are laws against discriminating against age, religion, sex, race, national origin, etc. There are no laws against discriminating against ugly people. Yet, somehow that sounds even more distasteful.
While were at it lets stop the practice of senior discounts.
Goodness no! I'm over half way there now. That would suck if all my life I've been paying more because I'm not a senior citizen, and then have that discount taken away when I'm just a decade or two away.
I would counter argue that younger people on average earn less. [Insert bell curve]
20 somethings as a group would certainly earn less than 30 somethings as a group. 30 somethings often have additional costs though. Children, alimony, etc. 20 somethings probably have more disposable income than 30 somethings because they have less responsibilities and less past baggage to pay for.
No human has ever received a large lump sum bonus from a dolphin for a dolphin teaching him dolphinese.
Because dolphins have a saying; "Never try to teach a human to speak Dolphin. It only wastes your time and annoys the human."
Strat
Dolphins are bastards!
It would never have occurred to me that you didn't know an orca is a dolphin.
Nonetheless, that joke was really terrible...
On the plus side, I now know that there is a Welsh national anthem....
Granted the joke was terrible.
/ I'm a father, I'm allowed to make bad jokes
Technically the Welsh national anthem is God Save the Queen (same as all countries within the United Kingdom) but the Welsh and the Scottish have their own pseudo-national anthems too. Only the English don't have their own national anthem within the countries of the UK.
Perhaps the researchers would prefer to interpret the communication attempt in captivity as "Amy" rather than "Kill Me", just so they can sleep at night.
I don't know who Amy is, but she sounds hot if even Orcas are asking for her by name.
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English, up to fifty words used in correct context, no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." - Carl Sagan
Whereas a dolphin may have received fish from humans to train them to learn English. No human has ever received a large lump sum bonus from a dolphin for a dolphin teaching him dolphinese.
"Fart" is the word you're looking for.
I was going to say, I have a Raspberry Pi Zero, and it doesn't have an apparatus to blow.
FYI... yes I know an Orca is a dolphin not a whale (before the Linneaus Nazis arrive)
I am good with this just as long as they don't do a "surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner'"
Surely they wouldn't be whistling the "Star Spangled Banner" they would be singing "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", the national anthem of Wales.
Wait...are we talking about FB or /.? I can't tell anymore
FB is about Drama Queens and Attention Whores. /. is merely about Drama Whores and Attention Queens... very different.
Both. Chartreuse is both yellow and green. It sits on the border with one leg in either state.
/ HTML Chartreuse is not Chartreuses; it is a mistake made by someone naming the colours.
they claim 800K people saw the so called fake news.... that didnt sway the election. And how is it any different from tabloids in the past??? just because "...with a computer!" is there?
Barrier to entry for a website is a lot less than with a tabloid. For a website all you need is a server and some software. To create a misinformation tabloid you need to set up a printing shop, establish resellers, etc.
It's much easier to spring up a fake news website overnight than it is a tabloid. Easier to get people to read your crap too because tabloids generally cost money. When the election is over you can always repurpose the webserver to do something else. With a tabloid you couldn't as easily clean up the shop.
Will the room-service robot also have big fake breasts and pee on my bed? Asking for a friend.
No Mr. Weinstein, it will not.
A comment on an internet message board appeared to accuse a local official of corruption. The comment was followed by a ":P" emoticon. The judges on the Michigan Court of Appeals concluded in 2014 that the emoticon "is used to represent a face with its tongue sticking out to denote a joke or sarcasm." The court said the comment couldn't be taken seriously or viewed as defamatory.
Donald Trump paid me $5,000 to pee on him. :P :P :P
Hillary Clinton showed me her penis at a fund raiser.
Richard Gere bought a hamster off me for $300 so he could stick in his rectum.
I was puzzling over the meaning of \_("/)_/ as shown in my Chrome browser.
A quick search with google finds me this: \_()_/ Which immediately, looks like someone throwing up their hands in an "I don't know" fashion.
Even the humble smiley :) carries a very different face when rendered on different devices. And thus has a different or no meaning sometimes.
It gets worse. The famous pile of poo emoji sometimes gets rendered as a horrible stinky shit with flies buzzing around it. Other times it's a happy smiley piece of shit. A very different meaning is conveyed depending how it is rendered. Perhaps quite a different one that the author meant.
The moral of the story is. Don't use emoji. Use proper language with proper words as found in proper dictionaries. Get your spelling right and be sure the words you are using have the meanings you intend.
Of course slashdot does not render my second example correctly. Which demonstrates my point well. :)
Back talking about your poop. It has been very famously been mistook for chocolate ice cream by numerous people. I, myself remember the first time I saw it wondering if it was poop or ice-cream (it was identical to the strawberry ice cream only brown)- I correctly assumed poop from the context.
The original emoji come from Japan, and some of them are really only used by the Japanese. I think there is one that looks like there is a bit of water coming off the forehead; I forget what it really means, but I recall that most people in the West get it wrong.
And how many of us have named our penis Lord Aubergine?
I named my penis after my college roommate to piss him off. I succeeded.