I did the Star Wars experience which was great (something not known to me beforehand, is that K2-SO would be there - a nice bonus). Supposedly the new Wreck-It Ralph experience is even better, which would make sense as it's the latest version... so you might want to look for that if you are in one of the cities it's offered or are traveling.
I sadly never did Ghostbusters while it was in NYC, now it's only in the UAE which means I won't be seeing it anytime soon...
Like you say, the core of the Void was a shooter, but the whole thing was so well done even my wife loved it, who only ever plays puzzle games and wants nothing to do with FPS shooters. So that says a lot.
I don't know what the Imax experiences were like, but they were probably standard VR headset kinds of things...
The only VR "experience" I've had that I thought was really magically immersive, was at the Void.
They just sue an oculus headset, but what really makes it work is it's totally contained on you - backpack to power and drive the headset, along with a series of walls around you that mesh nearly perfectly with the VR view you see. You see your own arms and hands, you see your partner next to you. You pick up a real weapon that you feel and hold in your hands with a real trigger, and you see it in VR just as you would if you were looking without the headset.
You go through some small rooms and hallways, all the while being able to see the world projected around you (sometimes as vast open areas). They also do some slight effects like wind or scents that you can feel and smell...
If you are ever anywhere that has one of these setups, you really should try it to see what VR can and should be.
Wow, glad you at least protected the computer shipment! I mostly work at home so luckily I get packages before the trail of bandits behind delivery trucks.
I have also once or twice seen things marked as "delivered" that showed up later, once or twice had packages where even with the tracking number the company could not say where the hell the package was days after it was supposed to arrive.
Thanks for reminding me to buy some more with the dividends, if it's really down I am in luck!
Fact is, Apple hardware is based on the designer BYOD market. Everything Apple does is antithetical to Dell. Dell sells real PowerEdge servers, complete with fault tollerence PSUs, ECC RAM,
I thought you were going to say Dell was antithetical to Apple because it was mostly super cheap and crappy. Imagine my surprise when you went the other way arguing Dell has higher quality systems! Ok, you do you I guess!
By the way, Apple uses ECC RAM in a number of pro products... If you didn't even know that why on earth should I, or anyone, take anything you have to say seriously?
Even though I didn't read the rest of it, just what you wrote there sure seems to point to Apple being able to make great use of the people at Dell that do work on higher end systems.
Apple does also design their own chips as well you know, and I'm certain there are a lot of firmware developers at Dell that probably know what they are doing.
This isn't really on Amazon. They are covering their own ass with this.
I'm not so sure. Seems like the publishers could, if they chose, run the same game themselves and complain to amazon about sellers they felt were violating copyright.
But if you read the article, at least one book was a one year old physics textbook. What college is going to be using that anymore? Sure doesn't seem like that book purchase was requested by a publisher, it was Amazon taking the mission of finding counterfeit textbooks to an extreme (and I seriously doubt they could really tell if a ten year old textbook was a counterfeit).
If I were the booksellers I'd be looking at a class action lawsuit for lost revenue from the lot of them that we're banned for simply selling used textbooks.
Except for the victors it leaves, of course. If there were no victors there would be no low end.
Survivors are not victors, but they remain.
Ignoring the vapid, meaningless SuperKendall rhetoric for a moment
Wow there was actually a part you didn't consider vapid, or your post would have ended there! High praise indeed!
it's also interesting to point out that Apple's initial focus in their turnaround was the low end iMac series.
"low end iMac"
BWA HAHAH HA AHA HAH AHAH AHAAHH AHA AH AHHA AAH AH !!!!
At the time iMacs came out *I* sure could not afford them, as much as I thought they looked awesome.
Sorry but I couldn't read any more of your post after that, the tears in my eyes and sheer absurdity of thought made it impossible to take anything further you said seriously.
If you read through the article, one of the books was a used donated book ten years old.
How can anyone say if a ten year old book is counterfeit? That alone seems pretty suspicious.
It sure does end up looking like Amazon is simply shutting down people selling any used textbooks...
If I were an Amazon seller no way would I ship anything to the address and person mentioned in the article, though probably they will just switch to a new name and fake address...
Apple realized long ago a battle at the low end is one that leaves no victors.
It's a good idea to focus on finding and winning over people who are willing to pay for extra power and features. The other benefit of that approach is you are likely to find more loyal users, if you go chasing after people who ignore specs and value and just chase the cheapest model, they will have zero brand loyalty and may well not purchase your phones again when upgrading.
To win over repeat customers means putting money into design and build that knock you right out of contention at the low end of the market.
The vomit comet doesn't give you near enough of a view to be considered space, and it's weightless periods are much more limited (20-30 seconds at a time), over multiple dips and climbs).
A sustained period of calm, non-screaming-dive weightlessness is probably a lot easier to sell and probably easier on most stomachs.
So if automakers think it goes too far what is the problem? They will just make vehicles according the to the spec they see fit. No issue then making the standards low if automakers plan to exceed them.
The reason the automakers said that, is because they have bought a little too deeply into the kool-aid that emissions in the U.S. must be reduced, while ignoring what the rest of the world is doing. So they are just upset at thought someone MIGHT go lower then they had planned..
In the end, the real collusion is auto-makers trying to hamstring competition by crafting regulations that newer companies cannot follow. too bad for them Tesla figured out a way around that plan.
The Obama administration set way too harsh goals for emissions in the coming decades, Trump is just rolling them back a little bit (not even to what they were before).
In the end it will not matter as electric car adoption will more than make up for any extra emissions from rolling back the rules.
Got home, opened it up and inside was a block of wood, just the right size and weight.
That's why whenever I go shopping, I bring a power drill and only buy items if I drill into the box and no wood shavings end up on the bit.
You might wonder about general viability, but there are some routers I've bought in the past that could only be improved by a drill right through the circuits!
In fact, I don't see any reason why Bitcoin won't go extinct once a better alternative is implemented.
There will indeed probably be some more viable (in terms of technical quality) solution in use eventually.
Bitcoin Cash is supposed to be one of them... we shall see, I think it more likely to be Ethereum.
What Bitcoin itself is supposed to be, is more of a digital currency base on which others can trade around. So even if data to day you might use Ethereum to pay for things, you'd hold a larger amount in Bitcoin you could use to transfer to other currencies.
I think that is a likely scenario, Bitcoin has great widespread support, and as another responder noted "brand recognition" that counts for a lot, even in these early days of digital currency.
It's a 2.5 hour flight, but the free fall portion is only 5 minutes.
That's sad to hear, but at least you'd get quite a view on the way up and down.
It's probably better to start with five minutes and have them judge how long the average person does in free fall. Like is 80% of the ship throwing up? I wonder what the plans are around that.
Even at the altitude of the international space station (408 kilometers), gravity is still around 88% as strong as it is on the ground. You feel weightless in orbit because you're in freefall towards the earth
Ok, that's a great point, but the end effect is again - you see space, you feel weightless. That's close enough to satisfy most people's definitions of "in space" for the purposes of tourism.
Yes but again, I don't care if there technically is a tiny bit of air out there.
Space is like Porn - I know it when I see it. This is what really matters in terms of viable tourism. There will always be some that argue you aren't technically in. space, but they'll be arguing on the ground while I am looking at the Earth as a whole from above, and stars unfiltered by atmosphere...
Now what I am wondering is, if there's still some small bit of atmosphere that implies some effect of gravity. So at that height would you feel weightless (a tiny pull would probably be imperceptible)? Space tourism would necessarily mean that your thirty minute (or however long) visit had you being weightless (and presumably with a lot of vomit bags on hand).
Is the information on your computer worth your life? Your daughters life? Your familys life?
That depends - for me pretty much not, but for other people it may be.
My privacy as an abstract concept is worth enough to being willing to miss flights over though, so that's all I ask of technology - to make it hard enough that someone seizing my phone would have to use more "extreme" measures to convince me to unlock something. Yes as soon as they pull out any kind of physical force I am giving them my password, because I don't have anything truly needing protecting over my health on my devices - but I value my principles enough to at least try.
I don't mind purchasing used goods, there are a lot of things that can be just fine if opened.
But - I do like to know they have been exposed to other humans. Every now and again from Amazon you get a product that has obviously been opened to some extent, that you ordered as new.
So far it's not been anything I cared to return (again), but I think Amazon should try to be extra careful to clamp down on any suppliers shipping anything ever opened as "new"
Yep, and none of this will stop the police from holding your skull in place
Even if they do that as long as your eyes are closed it won't unlock the phone.
Especially if you saw there might be an issue and tapped the power button five times, which makes all iPhones require a passcode to unlock instead of biometrics...
Apple is the only one with a truly secure approach, in public view use biometrics to unlock your device, instead of using your password in public in view of many cameras. Then when entering secure zones with risk of phone examination, switch to passcode only until you are through.
Bitcoin especially, will always have a base of users - because there is no alternative that offers the same features (well other than other digital currencies), not even cash (and cash is in theory less universal, though the dollar comes closest to working everywhere).
Sometimes I wonder if anti-Bitcoin propaganda and manipulation may not be some kind of U.S. intervention, to keep the value of the dollar propped up since it's used around most of the world as a supported currency.
The Mac Pro will be modular, but if you want to replace a module yourself, you'll have to go to an Apple store and beg the "genii" to activate the stinking thing.
Just as you can use standard RAM in Apple hardware today that you can buy from any source, or attach any monitor you like to any Mac, you'll be able to use standard components in the new Mac Pro....
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I did the Star Wars experience which was great (something not known to me beforehand, is that K2-SO would be there - a nice bonus). Supposedly the new Wreck-It Ralph experience is even better, which would make sense as it's the latest version... so you might want to look for that if you are in one of the cities it's offered or are traveling.
I sadly never did Ghostbusters while it was in NYC, now it's only in the UAE which means I won't be seeing it anytime soon...
Like you say, the core of the Void was a shooter, but the whole thing was so well done even my wife loved it, who only ever plays puzzle games and wants nothing to do with FPS shooters. So that says a lot.
I don't know what the Imax experiences were like, but they were probably standard VR headset kinds of things...
The only VR "experience" I've had that I thought was really magically immersive, was at the Void.
They just sue an oculus headset, but what really makes it work is it's totally contained on you - backpack to power and drive the headset, along with a series of walls around you that mesh nearly perfectly with the VR view you see. You see your own arms and hands, you see your partner next to you. You pick up a real weapon that you feel and hold in your hands with a real trigger, and you see it in VR just as you would if you were looking without the headset.
You go through some small rooms and hallways, all the while being able to see the world projected around you (sometimes as vast open areas). They also do some slight effects like wind or scents that you can feel and smell...
If you are ever anywhere that has one of these setups, you really should try it to see what VR can and should be.
Wow, glad you at least protected the computer shipment! I mostly work at home so luckily I get packages before the trail of bandits behind delivery trucks.
I have also once or twice seen things marked as "delivered" that showed up later, once or twice had packages where even with the tracking number the company could not say where the hell the package was days after it was supposed to arrive.
I'm sorry that your Apple stock took a major hit, but that's the risk.
Has it? I wouldn't know, I just buy it every so often and in 20-30 years I may sell some.
The dividends certainly have not taken any hits, they keep increasing...
Thanks for reminding me to buy some more with the dividends, if it's really down I am in luck!
Fact is, Apple hardware is based on the designer BYOD market. Everything Apple does is antithetical to Dell. Dell sells real PowerEdge servers, complete with fault tollerence PSUs, ECC RAM,
I thought you were going to say Dell was antithetical to Apple because it was mostly super cheap and crappy. Imagine my surprise when you went the other way arguing Dell has higher quality systems! Ok, you do you I guess!
By the way, Apple uses ECC RAM in a number of pro products... If you didn't even know that why on earth should I, or anyone, take anything you have to say seriously?
Even though I didn't read the rest of it, just what you wrote there sure seems to point to Apple being able to make great use of the people at Dell that do work on higher end systems.
Apple does also design their own chips as well you know, and I'm certain there are a lot of firmware developers at Dell that probably know what they are doing.
This isn't really on Amazon. They are covering their own ass with this.
I'm not so sure. Seems like the publishers could, if they chose, run the same game themselves and complain to amazon about sellers they felt were violating copyright.
But if you read the article, at least one book was a one year old physics textbook. What college is going to be using that anymore? Sure doesn't seem like that book purchase was requested by a publisher, it was Amazon taking the mission of finding counterfeit textbooks to an extreme (and I seriously doubt they could really tell if a ten year old textbook was a counterfeit).
If I were the booksellers I'd be looking at a class action lawsuit for lost revenue from the lot of them that we're banned for simply selling used textbooks.
Except for the victors it leaves, of course. If there were no victors there would be no low end.
Survivors are not victors, but they remain.
Ignoring the vapid, meaningless SuperKendall rhetoric for a moment
Wow there was actually a part you didn't consider vapid, or your post would have ended there! High praise indeed!
it's also interesting to point out that Apple's initial focus in their turnaround was the low end iMac series.
"low end iMac"
BWA HAHAH HA AHA HAH AHAH AHAAHH AHA AH AHHA AAH AH !!!!
At the time iMacs came out *I* sure could not afford them, as much as I thought they looked awesome.
Sorry but I couldn't read any more of your post after that, the tears in my eyes and sheer absurdity of thought made it impossible to take anything further you said seriously.
If you read through the article, one of the books was a used donated book ten years old.
How can anyone say if a ten year old book is counterfeit? That alone seems pretty suspicious.
It sure does end up looking like Amazon is simply shutting down people selling any used textbooks...
If I were an Amazon seller no way would I ship anything to the address and person mentioned in the article, though probably they will just switch to a new name and fake address...
Asus is going after higher end mobile users, I am expelling why so people like you might understand why.
Quantum Network Joins Four People Together
That headline summary sounds like a bad SyFy reboot of The Fly.
With Stan Winston gone I'm not sure it could be done properly.
Apple realized long ago a battle at the low end is one that leaves no victors.
It's a good idea to focus on finding and winning over people who are willing to pay for extra power and features. The other benefit of that approach is you are likely to find more loyal users, if you go chasing after people who ignore specs and value and just chase the cheapest model, they will have zero brand loyalty and may well not purchase your phones again when upgrading.
To win over repeat customers means putting money into design and build that knock you right out of contention at the low end of the market.
The vomit comet doesn't give you near enough of a view to be considered space, and it's weightless periods are much more limited (20-30 seconds at a time), over multiple dips and climbs).
A sustained period of calm, non-screaming-dive weightlessness is probably a lot easier to sell and probably easier on most stomachs.
So if automakers think it goes too far what is the problem? They will just make vehicles according the to the spec they see fit. No issue then making the standards low if automakers plan to exceed them.
The reason the automakers said that, is because they have bought a little too deeply into the kool-aid that emissions in the U.S. must be reduced, while ignoring what the rest of the world is doing. So they are just upset at thought someone MIGHT go lower then they had planned..
In the end, the real collusion is auto-makers trying to hamstring competition by crafting regulations that newer companies cannot follow. too bad for them Tesla figured out a way around that plan.
The Obama administration set way too harsh goals for emissions in the coming decades, Trump is just rolling them back a little bit (not even to what they were before).
In the end it will not matter as electric car adoption will more than make up for any extra emissions from rolling back the rules.
Got home, opened it up and inside was a block of wood, just the right size and weight.
That's why whenever I go shopping, I bring a power drill and only buy items if I drill into the box and no wood shavings end up on the bit.
You might wonder about general viability, but there are some routers I've bought in the past that could only be improved by a drill right through the circuits!
In fact, I don't see any reason why Bitcoin won't go extinct once a better alternative is implemented.
There will indeed probably be some more viable (in terms of technical quality) solution in use eventually.
Bitcoin Cash is supposed to be one of them... we shall see, I think it more likely to be Ethereum.
What Bitcoin itself is supposed to be, is more of a digital currency base on which others can trade around. So even if data to day you might use Ethereum to pay for things, you'd hold a larger amount in Bitcoin you could use to transfer to other currencies.
I think that is a likely scenario, Bitcoin has great widespread support, and as another responder noted "brand recognition" that counts for a lot, even in these early days of digital currency.
It's a 2.5 hour flight, but the free fall portion is only 5 minutes.
That's sad to hear, but at least you'd get quite a view on the way up and down.
It's probably better to start with five minutes and have them judge how long the average person does in free fall. Like is 80% of the ship throwing up? I wonder what the plans are around that.
Even at the altitude of the international space station (408 kilometers), gravity is still around 88% as strong as it is on the ground. You feel weightless in orbit because you're in freefall towards the earth
Ok, that's a great point, but the end effect is again - you see space, you feel weightless. That's close enough to satisfy most people's definitions of "in space" for the purposes of tourism.
Yes but again, I don't care if there technically is a tiny bit of air out there.
Space is like Porn - I know it when I see it. This is what really matters in terms of viable tourism. There will always be some that argue you aren't technically in. space, but they'll be arguing on the ground while I am looking at the Earth as a whole from above, and stars unfiltered by atmosphere...
Now what I am wondering is, if there's still some small bit of atmosphere that implies some effect of gravity. So at that height would you feel weightless (a tiny pull would probably be imperceptible)? Space tourism would necessarily mean that your thirty minute (or however long) visit had you being weightless (and presumably with a lot of vomit bags on hand).
Is the information on your computer worth your life? Your daughters life? Your familys life?
That depends - for me pretty much not, but for other people it may be.
My privacy as an abstract concept is worth enough to being willing to miss flights over though, so that's all I ask of technology - to make it hard enough that someone seizing my phone would have to use more "extreme" measures to convince me to unlock something. Yes as soon as they pull out any kind of physical force I am giving them my password, because I don't have anything truly needing protecting over my health on my devices - but I value my principles enough to at least try.
I don't mind purchasing used goods, there are a lot of things that can be just fine if opened.
But - I do like to know they have been exposed to other humans. Every now and again from Amazon you get a product that has obviously been opened to some extent, that you ordered as new.
So far it's not been anything I cared to return (again), but I think Amazon should try to be extra careful to clamp down on any suppliers shipping anything ever opened as "new"
Some may argue about where the line for space is.
But what really matters is, what do you *see* when you are up there? That unquestionably looks like you are in space.
Well, probably that and weightlessness. So two things, two things that make for authentic "space tourism".
Stuff like this makes it seem pretty likely I'll be able to afford a visit to space in my lifetime, something I would love...
Yep, and none of this will stop the police from holding your skull in place
Even if they do that as long as your eyes are closed it won't unlock the phone.
Especially if you saw there might be an issue and tapped the power button five times, which makes all iPhones require a passcode to unlock instead of biometrics...
Apple is the only one with a truly secure approach, in public view use biometrics to unlock your device, instead of using your password in public in view of many cameras. Then when entering secure zones with risk of phone examination, switch to passcode only until you are through.
Bitcoin especially, will always have a base of users - because there is no alternative that offers the same features (well other than other digital currencies), not even cash (and cash is in theory less universal, though the dollar comes closest to working everywhere).
Sometimes I wonder if anti-Bitcoin propaganda and manipulation may not be some kind of U.S. intervention, to keep the value of the dollar propped up since it's used around most of the world as a supported currency.
5) Having to carve out each block from various types of stone to examine performance.
4) Around Christmas, all of your co-workers see you with working the chains and start calling you "Ghost of Christmas Past".
3) Every four minutes having to explain what Blockchain is, usually to the same people.
2) Satoshi constantly sliding into your DM's.
1) Everyone can verify with absolutely distributed certainly your love life is dead.
The Mac Pro will be modular, but if you want to replace a module yourself, you'll have to go to an Apple store and beg the "genii" to activate the stinking thing.
Just as you can use standard RAM in Apple hardware today that you can buy from any source, or attach any monitor you like to any Mac, you'll be able to use standard components in the new Mac Pro....
So you are wrong. Again.
Like I said, start with learning about cars.