Given that much more hidden spy cameras are available for far less than the $1500 cost of Glass, what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?
I think ordinary people won't buy spy cameras to take pictures of others, no matter how cheap they are (investigation and voyeurism are not ordinary).
As I noticed with cameras on phones and smartphones, some people took my picture without my consent, just because it was easy and available and inconspicuous (or they tought it was).
This may be the feelings those agressive people had: "Again! A gadget to have one photo taken without one being aware, neither asked." And this gadget is pushing it a bit too far.
Mr Stallman,
Do you have some projects unknown to the public that you would really like to gave birth to ?
We all know about GNU, is there something else you didn't had time to start or to finish that we are unaware of and that would really please you to see completed ?
I first read the comic strip, found it great, I thought I gained a deep understanding, and then I read the informative/. comments here and now I do not find it so great and I'm almost as confused as before....
Sitting at a stop sign with the car in "drive" is a driver error. His foot could slip off the brake and the car would move forwards, wither into traffic or into crossing pedestrians.
This is what we have things like neutral and handbrakes for. [...]
I know probably 90% of American drivers do this, but it's still not sensible or safe behaviour.
Well. Since we changed our car for one with a (for me unwanted) automatic transmission I also have this behavior...
At home I always label AC adapters (chargers and power bricks) with the name of the device.
I use a marker on a piece of paper fully covered by transparent duct tape.
It turns out to be a very good habit, many times I've been glad to have done it.
I also add my name for the cell phone chargers, as they can be brought here and there in other places.
This isn't against thieves but to avoid that someone makes a mistage and tage mine, or just in case I forget it somewhere.
If I were afraid of being robbed by some people I have to be with, I would etch my name on the device and its parts.
Any steel spike do the job. On visible areas as well on concealed or internal spot of the device.
I've read the question 5 and its answers about global menu superiority.
I would like to emphasize this:
- I've been using Macintosh, Unix workstations, MS PC (DOS,Win3.1 up to Win8), Linux PC with various WM/Desktop, etc.
- Global menu was fine for me on Macintosh Classic 9-inch display, for any task.
- Global menu is painful and irritating on 24-inch display, for most of the creative tasks.
I suspect that this is not only a matter of how long the cursor travel though the screen, but also about how much you have to adjust your gaze on the area requiring your attention.
Fitts' law fails to address that point, even if you can do things quicker it might not be as productive if it's uncomfortable and tiring.
Regarding GUI, Apple has failed on several points with nowdays huge displays, for instance it tooks them years to allow window size adjustment on any border (instead of a tiny triangle on bottom right). The feature comes with Lion in 2011... That's a shame.
Since it went on Steam 14 months ago i have 740+ hours on it.
Thank you for the warning !:) At least it isn't online with other users and I guess we can save at any time.
May I ask the expert some questions ?
- How old children should be to enjoy the game ?
- To what other game would you compare this one ?
- What main skill would describe best the successful player ?
Now I mostly play games bought via Humble Bundle and Steam.
Most of the games are 2-3+ years old, I bought them there at discounted price.
Also some games on PS3.
Currently on PC (most recently played first):
- Path of Exile (Diablo like)
- World of Goo (very nice puzzles with a bit of physics simulation)
- Antichamber (your own mind against you, quite unique game)
- The Cave
- Portal 2
- Amnesia
- Starcraft 2
On PS3:
- Terraria (sand box)
- Star Drone (flipper like, good ambiance)
- Journey (mystical feeling)
- Heavy Rain (multiple ends story, immersive)
- Some FPS, Snipper I guess.
- DarkSiders 2
- Uncharted 3Great Game, great memories, highly recommended
- Crisis 2
- Lots of demos
Some relevent comments I'd like to copy/paste here:/p>
The title calls us their "Audience". This is the core of the problem. They think they are running CNN. They do not understand that we are their contributors, their community, not their audience. Their articles are day-late dollar-short shit. We are the authors of the good part of the site, they are the chalkboard.
This is an attitude change that came with Dice
We are not the audience. We are the performers!
Don't appease your readers by saying, "We are listening" and then continuing down your existing path. That's worse than not saying it at all.
I don't think you have understood. We don't want you to slow down. We want you to stop; reverse; appologise for being so out of touch with your user base; and promise to never do anything so stupid again.
The solution is simple: can Beta as a failure. Be grown-up enough to admit that it did not work, and start again from scratch, designing with the contributors in mind. You know, the guys who provide the majority of the content people come here for - the discussions.
It takes courage to admit that you've been wrong. That would be respected. But polishing a turd is not going to win anyone's admiration, or even sympathy.
--
UX is exactly like Astrology or Alchemy and nothing like chemistry or astronomy. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is the real science, UX is a pseudo-science.
UX research has given us Gnome 3, Unity, Metro. All universally despised.
And "UX" is a stupid buzzword.
--
The appeal of Slashdot is the pedantry, the technical nature of things, and the overall level of the discussion. If I want to interact with a "wider audience" I can go talk on the Disqus comments that litter CNN, CNBC, etc.
It's not the current site design that's limiting slashdot's appeal to a broader audience. I think slashdot already has the readership of its target audience. Changing the site design is not going to bring new people flocking in, but it is going to drive away the ones that are already here. Seems like a bad plan.
Beta must be abandoned as a failed experiment. It is awful - not due to bugs, but due to the intention behind the redesign. Your existing 'audience' is what makes slashdot. If you want a larger audience I suggest you create a celebrity gossip website. Awful.
But today came a big nag box telling me MOVIN’ ON UP., etc
And when I deliberatly go to beta version, it's completly broken, the page doesn't seem to render, it half-way displayed (html and some pictures, no css).
The part with the Chineese lab is in the middle, search "I decided to get one made myself"
Also:
A single gram of 25i-NBOME contains up to 10,000 doses; it is as potent as a chemical weapon in the wrong hands.
A typical line of a powdered drug might contain around one hundred milligrams—for Bjerk, that was enough for a thousand-fold overdose. He died quickly in the street.
I really don't get it: how people can trust anyone selling such drugs ? Even when the dose is correct, pills can contain so many other unknown substances...
Yes.
And similar behaviors have been successfully "discovered" by genetic algorithms run by computer simulations.
Maybe some/.er will share examples here or even find such an experiment for the V flight.
At least I remember a successful simulation for obstacle avoidance behaviour with V flight, which is even better actually (science French mag about emergence)
I'm not that much disapointed that my own submission didn't made the headlines on/. , but at least someone should have made it to the top with this information.
There are some use cases an everage user may encounter that would make a good demonstration of the command line power.
I don't have many in mind just right now, but the typical case is a long, tedious, error prone task to be done with a mouse and GUI, but it boils down to one or two commands that do the job in five seconds. Think of something about the files (moving, renaming, searching,...)
There are also some examples with pipes:
How do I check if there is the word "myemail" in one of those 4000 text files located in a compressed archive ? (I don't want to unpack all the archive on my disk!)
There are some nice command tools to show:
"I can't open this file f8965446, it has no extension, what is it ?" Try "file f8965446", if it is a video you will also get the container, codecs and so on...
Other variants with unicode problems, binary viewer in hex (no additional GUI tool needed), disk usage on directories, file comparison,.
Finaly end the demo with a few scripts:
First a dumb script made with the output of a long "ls -1" and brutal search-replace on many lines, then execute to do the job (massive rename, whatever).
Then a smarter script with a loop on files for a batch conversion (or download).
Then a script with command line arguments to encode their mp3 or whatever, sort a collection,...
Schedule a script to download the specific web page, process it, and log some info in a journal, then take advantage of the journal. For instance: a script to catch the transcient tweets of someone.
Are you suggesting the Swiss couldn't afford whatever plane they wanted?
No, for Swiss it was political reasons, as explained above by other./ user. But price isn't completly ignored, even for Swiss, they do have a budget, it isn't "no limit".
For Brasil it was 1st price and 2nd political, according to some specialists I trust.
Slashdot Mirror
Given that much more hidden spy cameras are available for far less than the $1500 cost of Glass, what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?
I think ordinary people won't buy spy cameras to take pictures of others, no matter how cheap they are (investigation and voyeurism are not ordinary).
As I noticed with cameras on phones and smartphones, some people took my picture without my consent, just because it was easy and available and inconspicuous (or they tought it was).
This may be the feelings those agressive people had: "Again! A gadget to have one photo taken without one being aware, neither asked." And this gadget is pushing it a bit too far.
Mr Stallman,
Do you have some projects unknown to the public that you would really like to gave birth to ?
We all know about GNU, is there something else you didn't had time to start or to finish that we are unaware of and that would really please you to see completed ?
This is one question, paraphrased.
I first read the comic strip, found it great, I thought I gained a deep understanding, and then I read the informative /. comments here and now I do not find it so great and I'm almost as confused as before....
Sitting at a stop sign with the car in "drive" is a driver error. His foot could slip off the brake and the car would move forwards, wither into traffic or into crossing pedestrians.
This is what we have things like neutral and handbrakes for. [...]
I know probably 90% of American drivers do this, but it's still not sensible or safe behaviour.
Well. Since we changed our car for one with a (for me unwanted) automatic transmission I also have this behavior...
Thanks to your post I'll try to change !
At home I always label AC adapters (chargers and power bricks) with the name of the device.
I use a marker on a piece of paper fully covered by transparent duct tape.
It turns out to be a very good habit, many times I've been glad to have done it.
I also add my name for the cell phone chargers, as they can be brought here and there in other places.
This isn't against thieves but to avoid that someone makes a mistage and tage mine, or just in case I forget it somewhere.
If I were afraid of being robbed by some people I have to be with, I would etch my name on the device and its parts.
Any steel spike do the job. On visible areas as well on concealed or internal spot of the device.
this is the title the parent post should read
Mac OS has been like this since System 1. And it makes sense; whatever you're doing, its menu is going to be in the same place. Fitts' law indicates that the most quickly accessed targets on any computer display are the four corners of the screen.
I've read the question 5 and its answers about global menu superiority.
I would like to emphasize this:
- I've been using Macintosh, Unix workstations, MS PC (DOS,Win3.1 up to Win8), Linux PC with various WM/Desktop, etc.
- Global menu was fine for me on Macintosh Classic 9-inch display, for any task.
- Global menu is painful and irritating on 24-inch display, for most of the creative tasks.
I suspect that this is not only a matter of how long the cursor travel though the screen, but also about how much you have to adjust your gaze on the area requiring your attention.
Fitts' law fails to address that point, even if you can do things quicker it might not be as productive if it's uncomfortable and tiring.
Regarding GUI, Apple has failed on several points with nowdays huge displays, for instance it tooks them years to allow window size adjustment on any border (instead of a tiny triangle on bottom right). The feature comes with Lion in 2011... That's a shame.
I've watched this video, it answers pretty well my questions, thank you. Other up to date videos have nice effects (eye candy).
As I have many unfinished games right now I'll add it to my steam list and stay on the lookout for sales :)
Thanks for sharing this.
Since it went on Steam 14 months ago i have 740+ hours on it.
Thank you for the warning ! :)
At least it isn't online with other users and I guess we can save at any time.
May I ask the expert some questions ?
- How old children should be to enjoy the game ?
- To what other game would you compare this one ?
- What main skill would describe best the successful player ?
Regarding Linux kernel...
Is there a fear of some kind of fragmentation after Linus leadership ends ?
I'm not saying Linus will stop leading anytime soon, but this will happen one day for sure.
Maybe not a fear, but concerns, ..., call it.
Another /.er mentioned Kerbal Space Program, I think I'll try if it's cheap enough.
1) Would you advise someone who enjoyed CivNet to go for Civilization 4 ?
2) Wold of Tanks: do you mean that you're playing it much more than a few days ? (and other MMO much less)
Other games I forgot to mention:
- Rayman, all games.
- Braid (puzzle plateform with time/dual ghost tricks
/.ers advice I quote:
- StarBound - It's like Terraria, but much better and available on all three platforms
Other games I look forward playing once discounted:
- X-Com
- Contrast
Games that would suit me:
- Some Civ Net good replacement and with standards up to date
Old games I remember, looking forward playing again :
- Ascendency - I didn't finished it, some saved games are on floppy I think. DOS based.
Starcraft 3
You mean StarCraft 2 ?
Now I mostly play games bought via Humble Bundle and Steam.
Most of the games are 2-3+ years old, I bought them there at discounted price.
Also some games on PS3.
Currently on PC (most recently played first) :
- Path of Exile (Diablo like)
- World of Goo (very nice puzzles with a bit of physics simulation)
- Antichamber (your own mind against you, quite unique game)
- The Cave
- Portal 2
- Amnesia
- Starcraft 2
On PS3 :
- Terraria (sand box)
- Star Drone (flipper like, good ambiance)
- Journey (mystical feeling)
- Heavy Rain (multiple ends story, immersive)
- Some FPS, Snipper I guess.
- DarkSiders 2
- Uncharted 3 Great Game, great memories, highly recommended
- Crisis 2
- Lots of demos
I see a wonderful spaceship crashing on a planet in slow motion...
This is Slashdot, poisoned by the silly beta that brings buck feta comments in every story
All stories are contaminated, even if there is a main topic for complaining and suggesting improvements or "abandon the beta" advice.
We need to stop this.
Stop redirecting to the beta.
Stop filling stories with buck feta comments.
Some relevent comments I'd like to copy/paste here:/p>
The title calls us their "Audience". This is the core of the problem. They think they are running CNN. They do not understand that we are their contributors, their community, not their audience. Their articles are day-late dollar-short shit. We are the authors of the good part of the site, they are the chalkboard.
This is an attitude change that came with Dice
We are not the audience. We are the performers!
Don't appease your readers by saying, "We are listening" and then continuing down your existing path. That's worse than not saying it at all.
I don't think you have understood. We don't want you to slow down. We want you to stop; reverse; appologise for being so out of touch with your user base; and promise to never do anything so stupid again.
The solution is simple: can Beta as a failure. Be grown-up enough to admit that it did not work, and start again from scratch, designing with the contributors in mind. You know, the guys who provide the majority of the content people come here for - the discussions.
It takes courage to admit that you've been wrong. That would be respected. But polishing a turd is not going to win anyone's admiration, or even sympathy.
--
UX is exactly like Astrology or Alchemy and nothing like chemistry or astronomy. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is the real science, UX is a pseudo-science.
UX research has given us Gnome 3, Unity, Metro. All universally despised.
And "UX" is a stupid buzzword.
--
The appeal of Slashdot is the pedantry, the technical nature of things, and the overall level of the discussion. If I want to interact with a "wider audience" I can go talk on the Disqus comments that litter CNN, CNBC, etc.
It's not the current site design that's limiting slashdot's appeal to a broader audience. I think slashdot already has the readership of its target audience. Changing the site design is not going to bring new people flocking in, but it is going to drive away the ones that are already here. Seems like a bad plan.
Beta must be abandoned as a failed experiment. It is awful - not due to bugs, but due to the intention behind the redesign. Your existing 'audience' is what makes slashdot. If you want a larger audience I suggest you create a celebrity gossip website. Awful.
No me too.
But today came a big nag box telling me MOVIN’ ON UP., etc
And when I deliberatly go to beta version, it's completly broken, the page doesn't seem to render, it half-way displayed (html and some pictures, no css).
1- Document every bug encountered, corrected or not.
2- Put emphasis on this project property: terrible cascading effects when anything is changed.
Whatever decision you make later, this won't hurt you and will likely help you.
TFA is worth reading.
The part with the Chineese lab is in the middle, search "I decided to get one made myself"
Also:
A single gram of 25i-NBOME contains up to 10,000 doses; it is as potent as a chemical weapon in the wrong hands.
A typical line of a powdered drug might contain around one hundred milligrams—for Bjerk, that was enough for a thousand-fold overdose. He died quickly in the street.
I really don't get it: how people can trust anyone selling such drugs ?
Even when the dose is correct, pills can contain so many other unknown substances...
Its evolution.
Yes.
And similar behaviors have been successfully "discovered" by genetic algorithms run by computer simulations.
Maybe some /.er will share examples here or even find such an experiment for the V flight.
At least I remember a successful simulation for obstacle avoidance behaviour with V flight, which is even better actually (science French mag about emergence)
Allow me to remind that a few days ago we had ...
Wold First In-Man Total Artificial Heart Implantation
I'm not that much disapointed that my own submission didn't made the headlines on /. , but at least someone should have made it to the top with this information.
There are some use cases an everage user may encounter that would make a good demonstration of the command line power.
I don't have many in mind just right now, but the typical case is a long, tedious, error prone task to be done with a mouse and GUI, but it boils down to one or two commands that do the job in five seconds. Think of something about the files (moving, renaming, searching, ...)
There are also some examples with pipes:
How do I check if there is the word "myemail" in one of those 4000 text files located in a compressed archive ? (I don't want to unpack all the archive on my disk!)
There are some nice command tools to show:
"I can't open this file f8965446, it has no extension, what is it ?" Try "file f8965446", if it is a video you will also get the container, codecs and so on...
Other variants with unicode problems, binary viewer in hex (no additional GUI tool needed), disk usage on directories, file comparison,.
Finaly end the demo with a few scripts: ...
First a dumb script made with the output of a long "ls -1" and brutal search-replace on many lines, then execute to do the job (massive rename, whatever).
Then a smarter script with a loop on files for a batch conversion (or download).
Then a script with command line arguments to encode their mp3 or whatever, sort a collection,
Schedule a script to download the specific web page, process it, and log some info in a journal, then take advantage of the journal. For instance: a script to catch the transcient tweets of someone.
Forget the gun, how about 3d printing bullets ?
Customized bullets with the name of the victim ? Or the reason the victim was shot at ?
That's not for me, I'll stick with jewelry and fitness accessories printing... :-)
Are you suggesting the Swiss couldn't afford whatever plane they wanted?
No, for Swiss it was political reasons, as explained above by other ./ user. But price isn't completly ignored, even for Swiss, they do have a budget, it isn't "no limit".
For Brasil it was 1st price and 2nd political, according to some specialists I trust.