Although I am excited to see all these VR technologies, there is a certain irony in taking VR realism to the level in which it reproduces all the annoyances of actual reality, such as having to get up of the couch and physically moving through space in order to get somewhere you want to go.
Will the first VR video game blockbuster be a virtual gym that you can go to after spending the day at a virtual desk at a virtual workplace?
I hope this brings down the cost of LEDs in general, and in particular SmartBulbs. I recently replaced most of my bulbs with white EasyBulbs (which are RF enabled, dimable and color temperature adjustable), and they are awesome, but I really want the RGBW bulbs to come down in price so that I can use those instead. Being able to dim and adjust the color temperature is cool, but being able to adjust the hue throughout my home would be spectacular.
The problem with current mainstream LED bulbs is that they are expensive and do absolutely nothing more that the bulbs they replace. There is little incentive to switch. But SmartBulbs could change all that. I'm very surprised they haven't caught on. Adding a RF chip can't cost much more than the LED chips themselves, so it should almost come by default.
The article states that traffic "hitting a website" is generated more by bots than by actual "humans in chairs". Not that the Internet traffic is 61% bots. Geesh slashdot...
The Slashdot headline writing bots are in early beta, give them a break.
Only if you only drive for fun. Stop and go traffic is tedious and dull in every car that I have driven. I imagine it is pretty dull and even more tedious in a Ferrari or Lamborghini.
An self-driving car will make it even more dull and tedious, unless the car allows the driver to simply sit back and read a book. But every announcement I've read so far seems to indicate that the driver needs to stay alert in case they need to take over the driving, which sort of defeats the purpose.
Either give me a totally self-driving car so I can tune out, or a car that has manual transmission so I have something to occupy my brain while I drive.
most people would expect dominant hand index or thumb, just out of ease of use
For added security, you should use your big toe to unlock your phone. And triple tie your shoelaces to make it harder for the bad guys to get your shoes off.
I think having that machine draw my blood would make me nervous. They need to combine this with an Oculus Rift. The patient wears the goggles and gets to choose from a selection of sexy male or female virtual nurses, so that while the procedure is going on it feels and looks like there is an attractive person drawing their blood.
Without more context that is the most useless metric I've ever seen.
Did they find/replace 10,000 typos?
Yup, and all of them were in the comments. The one developer who cares about spelling and grammar in the comments leads in productivity, as measured in code checkins.
As a system admin, I tend to use WHOIS to figure out who is hitting my firewall, or to investigate if traffic is flowing to suspicious domains. Would really suck if WHOIS became a pay service, making it easier for the bad guys to hide.
Make the interface for the dangerous function easy to use, but make the user have to go through some sort of difficult/obscure process to enable that functionality, such as having to check a checkbox in the preferences and acknowledging a dialog box warning them of the dangers.
Or, make a dialog box pop up every time they attempt to do a dangerous function, but provide them with a "Don't show this warning" checkbox if efficiency is important to the user.
To maximize my effectiveness, I could turn on all the lights in my home the day before, so when Earth hour comes, I can turn them all off at once, for greater savings.
I think I could agree that hitting refresh over and over again on a website would be a valid form of protest. But wouldn't having a program do it for you be like using mannequins to occupy wallstreet?
Well, since most DDoS attacks use a botnet, it would actually be a lot like using a subliminal radio broadcast to hypnotize millions of people into showing up at a protest without their knowledge.
Slashdot Mirror
I forsee this breaking websites in weird ways, because what they thought was an invariant change was not for the entirely of browsers out there.
Point in case, the people surfing the web using telnet to port 80 are going to be very pissed.
...to make the NSA's job even harder.
Although I am excited to see all these VR technologies, there is a certain irony in taking VR realism to the level in which it reproduces all the annoyances of actual reality, such as having to get up of the couch and physically moving through space in order to get somewhere you want to go.
Will the first VR video game blockbuster be a virtual gym that you can go to after spending the day at a virtual desk at a virtual workplace?
Here we go again:
http://xkcd.com/927
I hope this brings down the cost of LEDs in general, and in particular SmartBulbs. I recently replaced most of my bulbs with white EasyBulbs (which are RF enabled, dimable and color temperature adjustable), and they are awesome, but I really want the RGBW bulbs to come down in price so that I can use those instead. Being able to dim and adjust the color temperature is cool, but being able to adjust the hue throughout my home would be spectacular.
The problem with current mainstream LED bulbs is that they are expensive and do absolutely nothing more that the bulbs they replace. There is little incentive to switch. But SmartBulbs could change all that. I'm very surprised they haven't caught on. Adding a RF chip can't cost much more than the LED chips themselves, so it should almost come by default.
The article states that traffic "hitting a website" is generated more by bots than by actual "humans in chairs". Not that the Internet traffic is 61% bots. Geesh slashdot...
The Slashdot headline writing bots are in early beta, give them a break.
Nice, reminds me of the anti-action driving game, Desert Bus
http://desertbus-game.org/
If they add support for the Oculus Rift, I'll totally be in line to buy this and a Rift!
The people who were outraged were rounded up and put on plane to Guantanamo Bay.
Only if you only drive for fun. Stop and go traffic is tedious and dull in every car that I have driven. I imagine it is pretty dull and even more tedious in a Ferrari or Lamborghini.
An self-driving car will make it even more dull and tedious, unless the car allows the driver to simply sit back and read a book. But every announcement I've read so far seems to indicate that the driver needs to stay alert in case they need to take over the driving, which sort of defeats the purpose.
Either give me a totally self-driving car so I can tune out, or a car that has manual transmission so I have something to occupy my brain while I drive.
most people would expect dominant hand index or thumb, just out of ease of use
For added security, you should use your big toe to unlock your phone. And triple tie your shoelaces to make it harder for the bad guys to get your shoes off.
Seems like an obvious point was missed... this laptop charges wirelessly. Wireless power is here! Woot!
They could go with the highly successful WindowsRT campaign and call it "DriveRT"
I think having that machine draw my blood would make me nervous. They need to combine this with an Oculus Rift. The patient wears the goggles and gets to choose from a selection of sexy male or female virtual nurses, so that while the procedure is going on it feels and looks like there is an attractive person drawing their blood.
Without more context that is the most useless metric I've ever seen.
Did they find/replace 10,000 typos?
Yup, and all of them were in the comments. The one developer who cares about spelling and grammar in the comments leads in productivity, as measured in code checkins.
I think you mean: Gamers, gamers, gamers!
As a system admin, I tend to use WHOIS to figure out who is hitting my firewall, or to investigate if traffic is flowing to suspicious domains. Would really suck if WHOIS became a pay service, making it easier for the bad guys to hide.
Make the interface for the dangerous function easy to use, but make the user have to go through some sort of difficult/obscure process to enable that functionality, such as having to check a checkbox in the preferences and acknowledging a dialog box warning them of the dangers.
Or, make a dialog box pop up every time they attempt to do a dangerous function, but provide them with a "Don't show this warning" checkbox if efficiency is important to the user.
If you tell me it's freshwater I won't believe you.
To maximize my effectiveness, I could turn on all the lights in my home the day before, so when Earth hour comes, I can turn them all off at once, for greater savings.
...that you can't ask a software developer when the code will ship.
The honest ones will say "when I done with it." Others will make up a date and then miss the deadline anyway, because unexpected shit happens.
Seriously, computers can't magically solve problems that humans themselves haven't any hope of solving.
I would like to try this on my Android phone. Does anyone know of a good Windows emulator I can use to run this software?
I think I could agree that hitting refresh over and over again on a website would be a valid form of protest.
But wouldn't having a program do it for you be like using mannequins to occupy wallstreet?
Well, since most DDoS attacks use a botnet, it would actually be a lot like using a subliminal radio broadcast to hypnotize millions of people into showing up at a protest without their knowledge.
Yeah, this ought to be legal...
Why five houses for two hours? Does it not power one house for ten hours? I would prefer the latter...
That does it, I'm switching to Windows 8...
Oh, wait. FUUUUU!!!