The manager at Microvision came to where I worked last summer to do a deomostration. Our company was investigating wearable computers for some time critical missions. The estimation is, if the engineerers can save 10 minutes per job with the wearable computer, then in 10 jobs we will get our money's worth.
The thing wasn't too big as compare to a Xybernaut.(Which I played with for a while as shown here. Please show this to your female friends and see if I can impress any of them. I thought it was more impressive than a Corvette, but so far I have no luck.)
It only displays in red because the other types of colored laser needs humongous sized equipment. And yes, this thing does shoot a laser in the eyes and when we questioned the safty thier manager told me they can show a great deal of proof of saftely machanism. If you have ever wondered about how it was possible to shoot laser precisely into your retina, well, they actually use an array of rays, not just one set.
I have actually used the demo retina display for about 15 minutes. It works great under any type of light surroundings and image was razor sharp. They grey scale also worked like wonders.
Microvision claimed last summer that they will acheive 600x800 resolution in production, while they showed us the 640x480 model. Frankly it was good enough. But that is not the most important thing. What really seperates the retina display from LCD based display like what's used in Sony Glasstron and Xybernaut and other dozens of displays at last years' wearable computing expo is that retina display is the only method that TRUELY display information as a completely transparent display, so our engineerers can actually see what they are doing while reading information at the same time. How? The displayed image is actually focused on something like 3 feet (I forgot the exact number, and whether or not it is adjustable.) in front of you, so by changing your eye's focus point, You can swtich between the real world background and the retina display.
So how much was the damage? well I think they were saying that their projected price was something short of 20k. Makes your $500 glasstron looks like a gameboy's toy which it is. I personally would definitely throw in that money if I had it:)
For the sake of variety and the small artist, you definitely should be against the RIAA side.
RIAA wants to make sure that no alternative channel will possibily get any efficiency. Napster is very effective in spreading non-RIAA music.
Sure, your musician friend might lost some original sales they generate from thier fixed number of audience. But they will gain more audience in brand new ground because people accidentally download thier music. This is free advertizing for them, sorta like putting thier songs on radio for the masses. How do you know that some Japanese won't like thier scottish music? Napster expands the market beyond normal means of advertisement. It should be more rewarding to an artist that more people are listening to thier music. How to survive? Be creative. sell stuffs. do concerts. or...
As a visual artist, I tend to think that the most important thing is to spread the music. I mean, what good does it do if you keep your music in your house and let no one listen to it? I know of a few small record labels and artists that give away thier MP3's at will. This is not to say that all musicians should do the same, but under current circumstances, it's the best optimization - sure beats whinning.
If I were a musician, I'd do music to give it away on Napster or whatever channel, and find a real job like librarian or programming or something. In fact, I am an visual artist and programming is what I do. When you decided to become an artist, you have decided to choose a tough life. You must prepare for yourself. I remember Robin William's Oscar acceptance speech: "When I told my father that I wanted to by an actor, he said to me, 'that's ok, son, you can be whatever you want to be. Just make sure you learn something to make a living, like welding or something." Most artists are quite prepared to be poor. They have other means of making a living - barely, but that's the price they pay for choosing it.
Keep in mind, not all of us Napster users are cheap bastards. Some people are well-to-do but simply are unwilling to buy CDs that they havn't tried. Eventually they will buy.
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Commercials don't have to be implemented the way it is. If you check out a soccer game TV broadcast, you'd see the programming and commercials going on at the same time. So is your NBA, NFL games.
The only reason commercials are the way they are today is because of its effectiveness. Let's assume that everyone has a Tivo at home today and all are skipping commercials. The TV exec only need to find a way to insert commercials during program. There are a million ways to do that.
One nifty way: last summer I talked to someone who was working in MIT Media lab. She described a project they were working on. The TV has a mouse-like pointing device. Let's say when I watch the "Frasier" show today and saw this real cool sofa during the show. I can pause it; use my pointing device to point at the sofa and click! there is the vendor information along with a price, the order page link and so on.
Of course this Dvorak guy isn't sharp at technologies; I'm sure no important people takes him seriously. After all, he is a tad late to discover Tivo, wouldn't you say?
The Open Source article badly misquote SuSE's claim.
This whole article is more like a high school report paper, stealing stuffs from here and there and add flashy graphics.
Of course. And then there are people who discover how bad french fries are. How many people chooses to ear junk food all thier lives? My suspision is, after adolescent, people starts to develop better taste for food.
If one chooses to be brainwashed, there isn't much we can do about it, right? If one wishes to be influenced by RIAA's massive promotion, why shouldn't he pay for the music? MTV takes money. Cute dancers take money. Special effects takes money. Why do you think RIAA will make them for free? When you listen to music that is promoted by RIAA, you are buying into their whole scheme. RIAA provide "entertainment", not music. If the only music you are willing to hear is the music that you have heard somewhere else before, well, maybe RIAA is what you deserve.
You are right, advertizing is about convincing you something is better than it actually is, in order to make you buy it. Smarter buyers don't buy into advertizing. Smarter buyers use thier own judgement. If you lack a judgement of your own, your money goes to the advertizers. in this case, the RIAA.
Assuming that people want to hear what they have already heard is pretty much stating that everybody is dumb. I refuse to think so. I think most people have thier own judgement, simply not awaken.
My point is, if you hate RIAA's tactics, maybe you should stop pirating thier music. If you are too damn lazy to explore new music, then you are paying RIAA's "service fee" for putting thier music in the cafe, the radio, the elevator, and everywhere else you go.
FYI, The clubs I go to rarely play any songs from RIAA. If your club plays Madonna and Destiny Child all day, you are in the wrong place.
When I was in Chicago, the underground use this thing called DJ to promote music. The story goes like this:
Each week, the DJs will go to record stores to listen to whatever new record that comes in. Then they decide which one they will play and play them to us, evaluate the reaction from the crowd and decide whether to play it in the future.
So that means ther DJs replace the power of RIAA? Not really. Remember that the key to monopoly is that high cost of entrance. It costs a lot of money to start a huge record label and shoot MTVs, build studios. But it takes only a man with a pair of ears to be a DJ. The consumer decides which DJ they will follow by thier own opinion. If they don't like this DJ, they go to another club. If they like the songs, they will ask the DJs where the song come from and buy them. (This is how I am introduced to music from Wubble-U, Suicide commando, etc.)
One may argue that the record shops control what the DJ listens to. Well. not really. the DJs usually goes to stores with one thing in mind - get better quality music to keep thier own job. The bazzaar style evolution again works in this case.
Also I'd like to mention that, on Napster, the ability to browse other people's entire collection also helps promote music. For example, when I searched for "Cuban" "Latin" music and accidentally ran into some flamenco music. i liked it much so I searched for the word "flamenco." What returned was some guy who had quite a few flamenco music. So I took a look at his entire collection, all of which are classical guitar and flamenco music. So that is how I found Christopher Parkening's guitar work.
The key is, as long as there is an easy entrance to music promotion, RIAA will no longer control what we hear.
These physics questions are rather useless. As a pool player, I think the most important question that no one has explained clearly in physical terms is "How to draw a ball."
I have talked to pros and semi-pros and read lots of books about drawing the ball on the pool table. Contradicting suggestions: lift the queue butt . don't lift the butt. And then, the one suggestion from professional player: just practice every shot as a draw until you get it.
There is a certain "stroke" that is required to make a draw shot. no one can explain the "stroke."
I don't like the idea that every newbie must go through the painful process of discovering the "stroke" of a draw. it would be interesting to see if any good physical explanation can help. For many years, I have wondered about it. Now that I know how to make a draw shot, I still cannot explain it.
I talked to a physics PhD student about it. he seems to be contempt with my theory of the cue tip accelerating after the initial compact and get stuck on the cue for a little bit, but frankly i am not happy with this analysis.
What you imply is that if the speech is not popular, than it isn't protected?
You know it isn't a good idea. After all, who's to decide what's "not popular?" I'll tell you that more than half of the countries in the world would allow a 15 year old to get married. In America, it's a crime.
If child porn groups are prosecuted successfully, than the next will be warez groups, and then the mp3's. Just because something is unpopular doesn't mean it's supposed to be ruled against. I don't see much difference between carrying illegal copies of mp3's and child porn, they are all illegal.
I personally think sticking your feet inside a wheel running at 22mph is pretty dangerous. As a skater, I feel that powered skate must give us a good way to get off it in an instant.
Here is the Exkate Powerboard that has been out for a long time. It uses remote control and you can jump off it quickly. It's been around forever.
But then again. We can always use the imports.
Seriously, though. My dad has the same speaker set for the past 20 years. I don't see MPAA coming to the house and destroy it.
I have checked "exclude author" on Katz and it doesn't work! I still see his disgusting comments all the time. Fellas, I need help. How do i kill all his posts?
I checked, again and again, that Katz to be filtered out in my preference. basically, I went to "preference" and then click on the button that says Jon Katz under exclude author and hit save button but his posts still shows up AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.
Please! help me from the excruciating pain of seeing something like this. "Part 10" of Hellmouth. Save me! Please! Someone!
It's not just an issue with IRC servers. Just about every important server on the net has been DoS'ed one time or another. Today, you can say that all IRC servers deserve to go away, but tomorrow the same script kiddie will attack your favorate news site. We must admit that DoS is a global problem, a problem that every single one of us must take action to help solve.
If we think about how much labor and equipment is wasted on Dos attacks, it's clear that we need to take pains to find a permanent solution.
It's time to migrate to another networking protocol. Not just IRC protocols, but the entire internetworking protocol. We know it means pain. it costs a lot. it means old admins have to learn new tricks. But it's the only way to permanently solve the problem. (along the way, we can solve the problem with IP address shortages, too.)
... At least you can proudly say that it's not named "Gates Building" or something equally stupid. Our Computer Science building is actually kinda cool, it says "Gymnasium Building" in front. Apparently they built a new gym and left the beautiful all wood floor building for CS department.
I find this true in academic environment. Especially when it comes to gender discrimination. I am a student in a top 20 Computer science program in the nation. The department can hardly keep 10% of females. Near zero African American. All the departmental scholarship flows to female students.
But the school had very little choice. The industry is being condemned for it's gender makeup, and the industry blames the school for not graduating enough minorities. (This is being discussed out in the open when I sat with my scholarship sponsor and department faculty during award ceromony.)
With top schools like CMU leeching all the small supply of females, the department would do just about anything to keep the mix.
Of course, the CS department blames high schools for not encouraging minority students to do science/engineering... and the whole whoopla.
The true problem is accessibility. kids from poor neighborhoods have little access to hardware. You and I know that Computer Science, unlike Math, is something that requires a hardware investment. There is no way you can learn anything on paper, with the exception of the useless MCSE. If the industry wants to escape from the blame, it should support inner city computer education. Clinton did have plan for this, but G.W. Bush just wanna screw public school education and get voucher for prep schools.
Funny how a few voting machines in Florida costs the industry yet another blame for racial discrimination.
I know plenty of people who got it working with one G400 dual heads. You will find them if you did search the newsgroups and, gee, do a bit of research before you say something.
there are plenty of web sites to search for, so i don't know why you asked.
I worked on this briefly last summer. the most interesting of all are all not out in the market. The retina scan is very good. it has only one color (red, with grey scale) but very sharp. it's the only display that can let you actually look at the background while performing other tasks. unfrotunately it is way expensive (15k).
Most others are based on little LCDs. the latest xybernaut ( here's me wearing a older version ) uses basically a small LCD and a semi- reflective lens.
The current smart card technology is limited by the size of the chip implented into the card. Reason is, in europe, the smart cards must pass a certain "bend test" and survive. If transisters c an bend, it "may" help smart cards technology to store more memory or process faster.
This is very true. Programmers are also known as "lazy bastards." We don't like to spend much time dealing with compilation. However, programmers will get really pissed off if the source isn't there.
The only programs that I submit patches to are the programs I use everyday. So I'd say that software quality is number one importance; availability of binaries will get people starting to use it. Availability/readability of source code will eventually build the support base.
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The manager at Microvision came to where I worked last summer to do a deomostration. Our company was investigating wearable computers for some time critical missions. The estimation is, if the engineerers can save 10 minutes per job with the wearable computer, then in 10 jobs we will get our money's worth.
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The thing wasn't too big as compare to a Xybernaut.(Which I played with for a while as shown here. Please show this to your female friends and see if I can impress any of them. I thought it was more impressive than a Corvette, but so far I have no luck.)
It only displays in red because the other types of colored laser needs humongous sized equipment. And yes, this thing does shoot a laser in the eyes and when we questioned the safty thier manager told me they can show a great deal of proof of saftely machanism. If you have ever wondered about how it was possible to shoot laser precisely into your retina, well, they actually use an array of rays, not just one set.
I have actually used the demo retina display for about 15 minutes. It works great under any type of light surroundings and image was razor sharp. They grey scale also worked like wonders.
Microvision claimed last summer that they will acheive 600x800 resolution in production, while they showed us the 640x480 model. Frankly it was good enough. But that is not the most important thing. What really seperates the retina display from LCD based display like what's used in Sony Glasstron and Xybernaut and other dozens of displays at last years' wearable computing expo is that retina display is the only method that TRUELY display information as a completely transparent display, so our engineerers can actually see what they are doing while reading information at the same time. How? The displayed image is actually focused on something like 3 feet (I forgot the exact number, and whether or not it is adjustable.) in front of you, so by changing your eye's focus point, You can swtich between the real world background and the retina display.
So how much was the damage? well I think they were saying that their projected price was something short of 20k. Makes your $500 glasstron looks like a gameboy's toy which it is. I personally would definitely throw in that money if I had it
For the sake of variety and the small artist, you definitely should be against the RIAA side.
RIAA wants to make sure that no alternative channel will possibily get any efficiency. Napster is very effective in spreading non-RIAA music.
Sure, your musician friend might lost some original sales they generate from thier fixed number of audience. But they will gain more audience in brand new ground because people accidentally download thier music. This is free advertizing for them, sorta like putting thier songs on radio for the masses. How do you know that some Japanese won't like thier scottish music? Napster expands the market beyond normal means of advertisement. It should be more rewarding to an artist that more people are listening to thier music. How to survive? Be creative. sell stuffs. do concerts. or...
As a visual artist, I tend to think that the most important thing is to spread the music. I mean, what good does it do if you keep your music in your house and let no one listen to it? I know of a few small record labels and artists that give away thier MP3's at will. This is not to say that all musicians should do the same, but under current circumstances, it's the best optimization - sure beats whinning.
If I were a musician, I'd do music to give it away on Napster or whatever channel, and find a real job like librarian or programming or something. In fact, I am an visual artist and programming is what I do. When you decided to become an artist, you have decided to choose a tough life. You must prepare for yourself. I remember Robin William's Oscar acceptance speech: "When I told my father that I wanted to by an actor, he said to me, 'that's ok, son, you can be whatever you want to be. Just make sure you learn something to make a living, like welding or something." Most artists are quite prepared to be poor. They have other means of making a living - barely, but that's the price they pay for choosing it.
Keep in mind, not all of us Napster users are cheap bastards. Some people are well-to-do but simply are unwilling to buy CDs that they havn't tried. Eventually they will buy.
Commercials don't have to be implemented the way it is. If you check out a soccer game TV broadcast, you'd see the programming and commercials going on at the same time. So is your NBA, NFL games.
The only reason commercials are the way they are today is because of its effectiveness. Let's assume that everyone has a Tivo at home today and all are skipping commercials. The TV exec only need to find a way to insert commercials during program. There are a million ways to do that.
One nifty way: last summer I talked to someone who was working in MIT Media lab. She described a project they were working on. The TV has a mouse-like pointing device. Let's say when I watch the "Frasier" show today and saw this real cool sofa during the show. I can pause it; use my pointing device to point at the sofa and click! there is the vendor information along with a price, the order page link and so on.
Of course this Dvorak guy isn't sharp at technologies; I'm sure no important people takes him seriously. After all, he is a tad late to discover Tivo, wouldn't you say?
The Open Source article badly misquote SuSE's claim. This whole article is more like a high school report paper, stealing stuffs from here and there and add flashy graphics.
Of course. And then there are people who discover how bad french fries are. How many people chooses to ear junk food all thier lives? My suspision is, after adolescent, people starts to develop better taste for food.
If one chooses to be brainwashed, there isn't much we can do about it, right? If one wishes to be influenced by RIAA's massive promotion, why shouldn't he pay for the music? MTV takes money. Cute dancers take money. Special effects takes money. Why do you think RIAA will make them for free? When you listen to music that is promoted by RIAA, you are buying into their whole scheme. RIAA provide "entertainment", not music. If the only music you are willing to hear is the music that you have heard somewhere else before, well, maybe RIAA is what you deserve.
You are right, advertizing is about convincing you something is better than it actually is, in order to make you buy it. Smarter buyers don't buy into advertizing. Smarter buyers use thier own judgement. If you lack a judgement of your own, your money goes to the advertizers. in this case, the RIAA.
Assuming that people want to hear what they have already heard is pretty much stating that everybody is dumb. I refuse to think so. I think most people have thier own judgement, simply not awaken.
My point is, if you hate RIAA's tactics, maybe you should stop pirating thier music. If you are too damn lazy to explore new music, then you are paying RIAA's "service fee" for putting thier music in the cafe, the radio, the elevator, and everywhere else you go.
FYI, The clubs I go to rarely play any songs from RIAA. If your club plays Madonna and Destiny Child all day, you are in the wrong place.
Here's a reference to my point.
When I was in Chicago, the underground use this thing called DJ to promote music. The story goes like this:
Each week, the DJs will go to record stores to listen to whatever new record that comes in. Then they decide which one they will play and play them to us, evaluate the reaction from the crowd and decide whether to play it in the future.
So that means ther DJs replace the power of RIAA? Not really. Remember that the key to monopoly is that high cost of entrance. It costs a lot of money to start a huge record label and shoot MTVs, build studios. But it takes only a man with a pair of ears to be a DJ. The consumer decides which DJ they will follow by thier own opinion. If they don't like this DJ, they go to another club. If they like the songs, they will ask the DJs where the song come from and buy them. (This is how I am introduced to music from Wubble-U, Suicide commando, etc.)
One may argue that the record shops control what the DJ listens to. Well. not really. the DJs usually goes to stores with one thing in mind - get better quality music to keep thier own job. The bazzaar style evolution again works in this case.
Also I'd like to mention that, on Napster, the ability to browse other people's entire collection also helps promote music. For example, when I searched for "Cuban" "Latin" music and accidentally ran into some flamenco music. i liked it much so I searched for the word "flamenco." What returned was some guy who had quite a few flamenco music. So I took a look at his entire collection, all of which are classical guitar and flamenco music. So that is how I found Christopher Parkening's guitar work.
The key is, as long as there is an easy entrance to music promotion, RIAA will no longer control what we hear.
These physics questions are rather useless. As a pool player, I think the most important question that no one has explained clearly in physical terms is "How to draw a ball."
I have talked to pros and semi-pros and read lots of books about drawing the ball on the pool table. Contradicting suggestions: lift the queue butt . don't lift the butt. And then, the one suggestion from professional player: just practice every shot as a draw until you get it.
There is a certain "stroke" that is required to make a draw shot. no one can explain the "stroke."
I don't like the idea that every newbie must go through the painful process of discovering the "stroke" of a draw. it would be interesting to see if any good physical explanation can help. For many years, I have wondered about it. Now that I know how to make a draw shot, I still cannot explain it.
I talked to a physics PhD student about it. he seems to be contempt with my theory of the cue tip accelerating after the initial compact and get stuck on the cue for a little bit, but frankly i am not happy with this analysis.
What you imply is that if the speech is not popular, than it isn't protected?
You know it isn't a good idea. After all, who's to decide what's "not popular?" I'll tell you that more than half of the countries in the world would allow a 15 year old to get married. In America, it's a crime.
If child porn groups are prosecuted successfully, than the next will be warez groups, and then the mp3's. Just because something is unpopular doesn't mean it's supposed to be ruled against. I don't see much difference between carrying illegal copies of mp3's and child porn, they are all illegal.
Think Micheal Jordan. A black man who forgets what slavery is. American dream.
I personally think sticking your feet inside a wheel running at 22mph is pretty dangerous. As a skater, I feel that powered skate must give us a good way to get off it in an instant.
Here is the Exkate Powerboard that has been out for a long time. It uses remote control and you can jump off it quickly. It's been around forever.
As much as I dislike e, that I don't think the CPU usage was a problem. People used to complain about the slowness and memory footprint of Emacs, too.
Better stock up the earphones and speakers now.
But then again. We can always use the imports.
Seriously, though. My dad has the same speaker set for the past 20 years. I don't see MPAA coming to the house and destroy it.
Apple's success that threatens/bothers us.
... Or you can return to Amish lifestyle.
Aren't you missing the whole point?
I understand that you are very proud of your effort stopping good christian children from corruption of the modern world, but.
Has it ever occured to you that the reason it's never worked around is because they are Mac users?
Excuse me? John Ashcroft? Billions of dollars of "Faith" based money?
He argueably won by less than 600 votes, so what makes him think the ultra conservatives can do whatever they want and have a field day?
I have checked "exclude author" on Katz and it doesn't work! I still see his disgusting comments all the time. Fellas, I need help. How do i kill all his posts?
I checked, again and again, that Katz to be filtered out in my preference. basically, I went to "preference" and then click on the button that says Jon Katz under exclude author and hit save button but his posts still shows up AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.
Please! help me from the excruciating pain of seeing something like this. "Part 10" of Hellmouth. Save me! Please! Someone!
It's not just an issue with IRC servers. Just about every important server on the net has been DoS'ed one time or another. Today, you can say that all IRC servers deserve to go away, but tomorrow the same script kiddie will attack your favorate news site. We must admit that DoS is a global problem, a problem that every single one of us must take action to help solve.
If we think about how much labor and equipment is wasted on Dos attacks, it's clear that we need to take pains to find a permanent solution.
It's time to migrate to another networking protocol. Not just IRC protocols, but the entire internetworking protocol. We know it means pain. it costs a lot. it means old admins have to learn new tricks. But it's the only way to permanently solve the problem. (along the way, we can solve the problem with IP address shortages, too.)
... At least you can proudly say that it's not named "Gates Building" or something equally stupid. Our Computer Science building is actually kinda cool, it says "Gymnasium Building" in front. Apparently they built a new gym and left the beautiful all wood floor building for CS department.
I find this true in academic environment. Especially when it comes to gender discrimination. I am a student in a top 20 Computer science program in the nation. The department can hardly keep 10% of females. Near zero African American. All the departmental scholarship flows to female students.
But the school had very little choice. The industry is being condemned for it's gender makeup, and the industry blames the school for not graduating enough minorities. (This is being discussed out in the open when I sat with my scholarship sponsor and department faculty during award ceromony.)
With top schools like CMU leeching all the small supply of females, the department would do just about anything to keep the mix.
Of course, the CS department blames high schools for not encouraging minority students to do science/engineering... and the whole whoopla.
The true problem is accessibility. kids from poor neighborhoods have little access to hardware. You and I know that Computer Science, unlike Math, is something that requires a hardware investment. There is no way you can learn anything on paper, with the exception of the useless MCSE. If the industry wants to escape from the blame, it should support inner city computer education. Clinton did have plan for this, but G.W. Bush just wanna screw public school education and get voucher for prep schools.
Funny how a few voting machines in Florida costs the industry yet another blame for racial discrimination.
I know plenty of people who got it working with one G400 dual heads. You will find them if you did search the newsgroups and, gee, do a bit of research before you say something.
It's better to reward the whole community, besides the person who wrote the thing. After all, the community raised these kids.
So, fdisk the NT machine and install a free OS on it, and put a sticker that says, "thanks to xyz..."
Or just throw 100 bucks at GNU with a thank you note.
there are plenty of web sites to search for, so i don't know why you asked.
I worked on this briefly last summer. the most interesting of all are all not out in the market. The retina scan is very good. it has only one color (red, with grey scale) but very sharp. it's the only display that can let you actually look at the background while performing other tasks. unfrotunately it is way expensive (15k).
Most others are based on little LCDs. the latest xybernaut ( here's me wearing a older version ) uses basically a small LCD and a semi- reflective lens.
The current smart card technology is limited by the size of the chip implented into the card. Reason is, in europe, the smart cards must pass a certain "bend test" and survive. If transisters c an bend, it "may" help smart cards technology to store more memory or process faster.
that's a little computer in your wallet, man.
This is very true. Programmers are also known as "lazy bastards." We don't like to spend much time dealing with compilation. However, programmers will get really pissed off if the source isn't there.
The only programs that I submit patches to are the programs I use everyday. So I'd say that software quality is number one importance; availability of binaries will get people starting to use it. Availability/readability of source code will eventually build the support base.