You've hit the nail on the head. The problem is, what you think we think we want, is exactly what we want!!!! So Goog needs to make a real HUD with peoples names and big ol tom tom arrows to herd us around. Give me a pop up saying I'm about to get rained on. Tell me when I am approaching the store that I am supposed to buy something for dinner. Ya know, all the stuff my cellphone can already do- just do it on a HUD.
I have to lay the blame squarely on Google. Their marketing people are the ones who've drawn this grand picture of a device that knows and sees everything. If I am underwhelmed once I see a real one, it'll be their fault. Especially for the price. I'm not paying $2k for something I can buy off of Alibaba for $40 (Bluetooth watches that just show incoming calls and little else). They're gonna have to build that stairway that reaches the insanely high pedestal they've put Glass on!
You're 100% correct in only the way us nerds can be. You're arguing a technicality when the general population doesn't give a shit. The muggles want to just tell the "thingy" to take them to the damned library. They don't care if it has a map onboard or if there is an atomic sized dinosaur inside drawing it directly on the screen. They just want to go to the library. The company that takes them to the library with the fewest annoyances and questions will get rich. Citation? Apple. Remember? "It just works" It isn't touring or navigation from their pov. It's just going to the damned library!
I can't imagine a sane human being putting on Google Glass and thinking "hey, I'll watch video or read web pages on this thing!"
You come to THIS SITE and make a statement like that? You can actually say that with out falling out of your chair? Preposterous! Most of us (probably you too) were reading all of this while we're supposed to be "working". Watching porn and reading forums whenever/wherever I want was the first thing I thought would be cool about Glass. Now did you make that statement because you actually don't think people would want to do that activity or are you saying it sarcastically because you know the hardware limitations and just how difficult that would be? Because if it's the latter, don't bet on it. I know nothing about a real Glass. I've only seen the videos and the articles about it. Never touched a real one. As an uniformed consumer (which most all of us actually are) I would think that it could do both of those things well. And if you're a salesman trying to get me to buy it, you'll tell me it will. Thanks for the info. I want a device similar to Glass but it has to be able to watch a movie, play a game, or browse a webpage. If it can't it just won't sell imho.
With the way all of our high tech industries seem to be breaking testing rigs these days, looks like a great opportunity for someone to make a bigger testing machine!
You'll get better performance, quicker acceleration, and less frictional losses if you swap to a 0w30 tire. Even more so if you go with a 0w20. See this is all based in physics. The rubber will thin out to a much less viscous value once you get them warmed up. This reduces the amount of tire windage (the tendency for the tire to attempt to cling to the rim thus increasing its rotational mass) that the rims experience so the engine has to do less work to rotate them. Using this thinner viscosity rubber also allows machinists to design a rim and tire design with much smaller tighter tolerances. This increases the efficiency of the wheel assembly as a whole increasing performance. Now being an owner of many old jalopies I understand your desire to use the thicker tires. You've probably got worn out wheel bearings and axles and need the extra cushioning the 10w30 provides. If you do get around to changing those bearings though, try out the 0w tires. You'll see a fuel mileage increase immediately!
Is it the 10th time he asked? You are referring to Rioki's post right? If so, he posted exactly this one comment. But even if I'm wrong and he has asked multiple times, I haven't seen anyone post any proof that mind control of any kind is real-- yet. All I have seen are some links about zombie roaches and fungus infested ants. If you play with the definition of "mind control" I guess you could prove anything is mind control; advertising being the first method that pops into my mind (OH WOW IT WORKS!). As a nerd I won't claim mind control is real until I can walk into a place and make a woman drop pants and jump on my lap at my whim. As of right now the only way to accomplish such a task is to throw a high speed trail of greenbacks into the target's face such that all they see is money and not my fat hairy ass. That gets expensive!
Not only what you said, but it is also useful for websites that are constantly being taken down and re-hosted such as The Pirate Bay. It has changed names so many times now I couldn't tell you what the addy is. I just throw it in Google and grab the first link.
I measure my enjoyment of a video game by the amount of broken mice and keyboards laying around my desk. Less is better of course. Reminds me, I need to buy a new Naga....
Because this is America, we want the funny looking chickens to use not only if we are too hot, but to sell them to those who end up hot if we don't. You forgot Capitalism:)
Hear! Hear! AC. The basement quote was a little exaggeration on my part. I left the basement long before being a nerd was mainstream, didn't care then, don't care now.
So after I posted the original reply last night, my coworker heard me laughing my ass off at all of the responses. Being the curious sort, he wanted to know what was so funny and I told him about what was going on in the thread. That set off an HOUR long narrative of why Amish Mafia is the greatest reality show evar! I've never seen it. I do indeed judge books by their cover and I have no interest in the Amish so never bothered. Once he told me about this horrid show the first thing out of my mouth was how stupid does someone have to be to film and televise all of the illegal and downright immoral things these "enlightened" people seem hell bent on doing, for God of course. I guess America really does want to bring back good old fashioned vigilante justice. I don't want to live on this planet anymore...
I don't laugh at them for any of those reasons (well the robot hand incident was outrageous!). I laugh because I know people, myself included, who have done exactly the same things those guys have done. "I can't believe their so stupid" I laugh because I did the same stupid shit. "I'm so glad I'm not like that" I laugh because I am exactly like that and now it's cool- I can come out of the basement. "Ha! He deserved that!" He deserved it, I deserved it, and pretty much anyone who did something like it, would deserve it as well. We did "it" and survived. That always makes me laugh. Oh and I hated 3's company so can't comment on any air of superiority there, sorry.
We weren't supposed to be laughing at the nerdy Radar or the obviously gay Klinger (I know he was only pretending but it was the fact that he was trying to be gay that was funny)? Was Hot Lips Hulahan not supposed to be the dumbass blonde? That show was rife with laughable stereotypes!
I would like to take a moment to apologize to my fellow nerds for littering the pages of/. with a sports reference. I don't actually know anything about sports and only learned of Sterling while listening to my coworkers bitch about it at work. It seemed appropriate at the time and I am truly sorry for my indiscretion. I shall now give this thread back to the ACs, APK, and Ethanol-fueled so they can return your programming to its usual GNNA/goatse/Grammar Nazi goodness. Don't forget to keep your HOSTS file updated!!!!!
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I have to lay the blame squarely on Google. Their marketing people are the ones who've drawn this grand picture of a device that knows and sees everything. If I am underwhelmed once I see a real one, it'll be their fault. Especially for the price. I'm not paying $2k for something I can buy off of Alibaba for $40 (Bluetooth watches that just show incoming calls and little else). They're gonna have to build that stairway that reaches the insanely high pedestal they've put Glass on!
You're 100% correct in only the way us nerds can be. You're arguing a technicality when the general population doesn't give a shit. The muggles want to just tell the "thingy" to take them to the damned library. They don't care if it has a map onboard or if there is an atomic sized dinosaur inside drawing it directly on the screen. They just want to go to the library. The company that takes them to the library with the fewest annoyances and questions will get rich. Citation? Apple. Remember? "It just works" It isn't touring or navigation from their pov. It's just going to the damned library!
Dude! Do you know where I can get a motorized pocket protector????? That would be rad!
You come to THIS SITE and make a statement like that? You can actually say that with out falling out of your chair? Preposterous! Most of us (probably you too) were reading all of this while we're supposed to be "working". Watching porn and reading forums whenever/wherever I want was the first thing I thought would be cool about Glass. Now did you make that statement because you actually don't think people would want to do that activity or are you saying it sarcastically because you know the hardware limitations and just how difficult that would be? Because if it's the latter, don't bet on it. I know nothing about a real Glass. I've only seen the videos and the articles about it. Never touched a real one. As an uniformed consumer (which most all of us actually are) I would think that it could do both of those things well. And if you're a salesman trying to get me to buy it, you'll tell me it will. Thanks for the info. I want a device similar to Glass but it has to be able to watch a movie, play a game, or browse a webpage. If it can't it just won't sell imho.
Excuse me AC, but would your name happen to be Wile E Coyote?
A KABOOM! There's supposed be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!
Great Scott!
With the way all of our high tech industries seem to be breaking testing rigs these days, looks like a great opportunity for someone to make a bigger testing machine!
You'll get better performance, quicker acceleration, and less frictional losses if you swap to a 0w30 tire. Even more so if you go with a 0w20. See this is all based in physics. The rubber will thin out to a much less viscous value once you get them warmed up. This reduces the amount of tire windage (the tendency for the tire to attempt to cling to the rim thus increasing its rotational mass) that the rims experience so the engine has to do less work to rotate them. Using this thinner viscosity rubber also allows machinists to design a rim and tire design with much smaller tighter tolerances. This increases the efficiency of the wheel assembly as a whole increasing performance. Now being an owner of many old jalopies I understand your desire to use the thicker tires. You've probably got worn out wheel bearings and axles and need the extra cushioning the 10w30 provides. If you do get around to changing those bearings though, try out the 0w tires. You'll see a fuel mileage increase immediately!
Pics or it didn't happen bro.
Is it the 10th time he asked? You are referring to Rioki's post right? If so, he posted exactly this one comment. But even if I'm wrong and he has asked multiple times, I haven't seen anyone post any proof that mind control of any kind is real-- yet. All I have seen are some links about zombie roaches and fungus infested ants. If you play with the definition of "mind control" I guess you could prove anything is mind control; advertising being the first method that pops into my mind (OH WOW IT WORKS!). As a nerd I won't claim mind control is real until I can walk into a place and make a woman drop pants and jump on my lap at my whim. As of right now the only way to accomplish such a task is to throw a high speed trail of greenbacks into the target's face such that all they see is money and not my fat hairy ass. That gets expensive!
Well please Mr AC, get us back on track. What are all of these "serious real covert uses" you speak of?
Not only what you said, but it is also useful for websites that are constantly being taken down and re-hosted such as The Pirate Bay. It has changed names so many times now I couldn't tell you what the addy is. I just throw it in Google and grab the first link.
But how do you knoooow it's a strawman?
I measure my enjoyment of a video game by the amount of broken mice and keyboards laying around my desk. Less is better of course. Reminds me, I need to buy a new Naga....
So you mean like the way they grow alfalfa and rice in the desert. We're on the same page :)
Because this is America, we want the funny looking chickens to use not only if we are too hot, but to sell them to those who end up hot if we don't. You forgot Capitalism :)
If we can have rice paddies and alfalfa farms in a desert, you can bet your ass we could grow bananas in Minnesota.
Hear! Hear! AC. The basement quote was a little exaggeration on my part. I left the basement long before being a nerd was mainstream, didn't care then, don't care now.
So after I posted the original reply last night, my coworker heard me laughing my ass off at all of the responses. Being the curious sort, he wanted to know what was so funny and I told him about what was going on in the thread. That set off an HOUR long narrative of why Amish Mafia is the greatest reality show evar! I've never seen it. I do indeed judge books by their cover and I have no interest in the Amish so never bothered. Once he told me about this horrid show the first thing out of my mouth was how stupid does someone have to be to film and televise all of the illegal and downright immoral things these "enlightened" people seem hell bent on doing, for God of course. I guess America really does want to bring back good old fashioned vigilante justice. I don't want to live on this planet anymore...
I don't disagree. I just bolded comedy to point out to the OP that these shows were comedy and therefore laughing at them is fair game.
I don't laugh at them for any of those reasons (well the robot hand incident was outrageous!). I laugh because I know people, myself included, who have done exactly the same things those guys have done. "I can't believe their so stupid" I laugh because I did the same stupid shit. "I'm so glad I'm not like that" I laugh because I am exactly like that and now it's cool- I can come out of the basement. "Ha! He deserved that!" He deserved it, I deserved it, and pretty much anyone who did something like it, would deserve it as well. We did "it" and survived. That always makes me laugh. Oh and I hated 3's company so can't comment on any air of superiority there, sorry.
I'm gen X thank you very much. And you're still hatin' son!
We weren't supposed to be laughing at the nerdy Radar or the obviously gay Klinger (I know he was only pretending but it was the fact that he was trying to be gay that was funny)? Was Hot Lips Hulahan not supposed to be the dumbass blonde? That show was rife with laughable stereotypes!
I would like to take a moment to apologize to my fellow nerds for littering the pages of /. with a sports reference. I don't actually know anything about sports and only learned of Sterling while listening to my coworkers bitch about it at work. It seemed appropriate at the time and I am truly sorry for my indiscretion. I shall now give this thread back to the ACs, APK, and Ethanol-fueled so they can return your programming to its usual GNNA/goatse/Grammar Nazi goodness. Don't forget to keep your HOSTS file updated!!!!!