Nobody wants the store model, even on OS X where it arguably works better because of no pre-installed malware. The right thing, is a) to never let users run as admin, b) tar and feather apps that do not properly work without admin. Astroturf slashdot with developers who still haven't gotten the message, rather than try to convince us MS isn't evil anymore, which we'll never believe anyway.
There's no reason for 99% of apps out there to actually need administrator privileges, but for some reason, many still do not work properly without it...probably because the devs always run in admin and don't test with anything else (or don't test at all, which seems to be the case sometimes).
No, that is not why they come here. They are brought here, to suppress your wages, by wealthy Americans of every race, gender, religion and orientation that has the means to do so. They are given a temporary license to stay, provided they remain cheap, then they get cast back to where they came from (or get labelled enemy of the state, evidently).
This is what is being lost beneath the racism, the Indians, Mexicans, Chinese, etc. are not your enemies, they're just people trying to make a buck. Your enemies are Americans.
I don't drive like a jackass but other middle aged men do, so I'm already paying for their assholishness. I'm not sure I see an obvious advantage either way on this point, in fact maybe it works out better for middle aged men.
Initially, I do think the price of vehicles will be very high while insurance figures out how safe self-driving cars are. However, it may turn out they end up being cheaper than human driven cars, to the point where those will end up being unaffordable. Unless, as is the case in many places, it becomes easier for the judge to rule for the plaintiff, because the defendant has deep pockets.
Nobody I know in the UK has that much space without seriously rearranging their house.
It's not much better in Texas to be honest. I do have the room if I want to make it in one room of my house, but strong risk of falling down stairs. Then consider the improbability of moving with children and a dog around while being essentially blind, it's not a good feeling. The technology does work though.
I'm not really sold that small scale movement is useful. I think standing in place or approximately in place works great (although I've still managed to whack children & dog) , but I'm not sure there's compelling benefit to walking around with real life limitations.
Space Pirate Trainer and Audio Shield, I think stand out in my mind as examples of how it should be done. I have played both for hours on end.
But Valve does get it, two of the best mini games are in their free package "The Lab": Slingshot and Longbow. Slingshot is just hilarious, although not a great example of how to use VR. Longbow however is an absolutely excellent VR game that utilizes both the capabilities of the headset as well as an inspired use of the controllers to feel as natural to archery as you can get without a 60lb draw weight (and your arms get plenty tired even without it).
It would be nice if we could move out of the little demo game and into some genuine game. Elite is great in VR, but it is still crippled by its bizarre control scheme.
The major flaw in VR as it stands today is large scale movement. You can move around a small room just fine, it works exactly as advertised and couldn't be more natural (assuming you are used to walking). But if you want to move large distances, you need some other mechanic. The best I've used is the point & click scheme such as in The Lab, but it's not terribly natural, nor enjoyable. On the other hand, using the joysticks on the controller to move makes me very sick, very fast. This breaks the current FPS genre entirely, as they are almost exclusively oriented to constant motion. I'm not complaining, FPSes lost their shine to me a long time ago, but AAA game shops only know how to make them.
I think the main issue is that it requires a high end computer that most of us build ourselves, but which joe sixpack has to buy from some systems company and figure out what he needs. In theory one might sell "Oculus Rift/Vive Ready Game Machine", but I don't think the marketing has got there yet.
Your technical issues I agree with, but honestly every time I put the thing on I forget my gripes about all the bugs and issues, everything that was promised in the 90s is being delivered, I really don't see this going away. I suspect Joe Sixpack will see it that way too and the things will fly off the shelves and fund the evolution of design improvements. It's just hard to put them in people's hands if they have to be computer geeks to understand the hardware requirements.
Most of us who got out of school during dot-com, figured it out, quickly, in 2001.
What survived however is the dot-com corporate culture of hype over substance, there were still a lot of winners there for the suite types, and the lesson they learned was somethings you can make more with a flop than with a hit. (Queue the theme song to The Producer)
And we cant just say "fuck it and fuck your bullshit, I'm heads down working"
Actually, you can. In some places just like that. In others possibly "I'm busy, when do you need this by". If you are in a place where you are working hard, and which values your contribution, the message survives the diction. In other places, which talk a lot about technology but really just need glorified MBAs who know how computers work, you probably can't get away with this. Quit.
I think his message is exactly right, and so many companies get lost in the bullshit they are unable to get the job done. Often of course because they have moved into the Wall St. phase of "let the losers of the pyramid game get their money back, if possible".
Any asshole can have an idea, most of technology (or most anything else for that matter) is the hard work. This is also what makes us so hostile towards patents that don't have products behind them.
Huawei should be forbidden from doing business in the western world. If Emperor Nectarine even remotely means a word he has ever said, he'd take his venom out on them in particular. They are scumbags of the highest order.
What should be disconcerting is that while this monitor clearly is a turd, Apple admits to a problem.
Whereas in the rest of the PC industry such turds are on sale everywhere (from this vendor and others), and you will get no support for it, and people will look at you weird if you say you put your router next to it and it stopped working. If I add up the list of all the things my diy PC does "weird" and doesn't quite work at, I will run out of disk space. I suspect this monitor works "good enough" that if Apple wasn't involved in it, we wouldn't even hear about it. Apple deserves a black eye for this, but the lesson should be that they need to build their own monitor, not that what's out there is reasonable.
I would not, if I were Apple, want to support any arbitrary monitor you found in Frys. The support costs would be insurmountable.
Try replacing it with medium rare rib-eye. I find the taste improves significantly, and as a bonus you have all this unused, very expensive, kitty litter that your cat can avoid too.
Most nerds I know given RSUs from their employers, including nerds who work at Apple, sell their company stock pretty much as soon as it vests. The logic, which I don't argue with, is that by being employees they already have far too many eggs in that one basket. Given that most RSUs given to employees in every company vest over a 4 year period, that basket is pretty fucking heavy already.
There's no real narrative to lock on to here, sell it and diversify, if your company tanks and you get laid off, you will have money left. Anything people in the media talk about is nonsense, they don't know shit and most of them have a paid agenda. In fact, as a rule, investors don't know shit, that's why they traded their money for shares in someone else's business, rather than starting their own. They are highly susceptible to this media coverage of nonsense, which creates a market for more nonsense.
The only "news" here is that investment in Apple right now is primarily speculation, it is not about company fundamentals, it's a waste of time to debate this thing. If you speculate that they are going to deliver the next big thing (which isn't a macbook, and isn't even an iPhone, the markets for those products are saturated), then you invest, knowing that when Tim puts it on the stage people will buy it up sight unseen. If you think Microsoft can deliver, you invest there. But if you had money and you wanted to bet on Apple making the product or Microsoft, you're pretty much an idiot to put your money in Microsoft, people avoid their products in droves...even if they aren't as bad as we'd expect from them.
The older I get, and the weaker the hormones are, the happier I am with life in general. Being a young male was hell and honestly getting sex wasn't the cure-all that Mr. Thiel thinks it is... you just get a brief break (the younger you are, the briefer it is) and want back in the saddle again.
I'm not really sure why we seem to worship this ideal, sex is a biological demand that kept us going, but definitely is responsible for more of the worlds troubles than any other single thing.
Innovation is massively dangerous to wall street and investors. Investing in it frequently returns only loss, not investing in it may render your portfolio empty. it's better to collaborate and do away with it.
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I don't want plans or contracts... but that seems to be what the war is over.
Nobody wants the store model, even on OS X where it arguably works better because of no pre-installed malware. The right thing, is a) to never let users run as admin, b) tar and feather apps that do not properly work without admin. Astroturf slashdot with developers who still haven't gotten the message, rather than try to convince us MS isn't evil anymore, which we'll never believe anyway.
There's no reason for 99% of apps out there to actually need administrator privileges, but for some reason, many still do not work properly without it...probably because the devs always run in admin and don't test with anything else (or don't test at all, which seems to be the case sometimes).
Which is why they come here to steal your job
No, that is not why they come here. They are brought here, to suppress your wages, by wealthy Americans of every race, gender, religion and orientation that has the means to do so. They are given a temporary license to stay, provided they remain cheap, then they get cast back to where they came from (or get labelled enemy of the state, evidently).
This is what is being lost beneath the racism, the Indians, Mexicans, Chinese, etc. are not your enemies, they're just people trying to make a buck. Your enemies are Americans.
a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
So WoW players, cat fanciers and gun enthusiasts are races now? Not sure that will fly with the UNHRC...
Well, there are furries...
I don't drive like a jackass but other middle aged men do, so I'm already paying for their assholishness. I'm not sure I see an obvious advantage either way on this point, in fact maybe it works out better for middle aged men.
Initially, I do think the price of vehicles will be very high while insurance figures out how safe self-driving cars are. However, it may turn out they end up being cheaper than human driven cars, to the point where those will end up being unaffordable. Unless, as is the case in many places, it becomes easier for the judge to rule for the plaintiff, because the defendant has deep pockets.
I think you mean this will be passed on to consumers, but perhaps only large incumbents will have the deep pockets required to get it off the ground.
As such, the *laws* need fixing, not the technology.
Yes, true, but given that it won't happen soon, technology that renders those laws useless is the only step forward we can make now.
Nobody I know in the UK has that much space without seriously rearranging their house.
It's not much better in Texas to be honest. I do have the room if I want to make it in one room of my house, but strong risk of falling down stairs. Then consider the improbability of moving with children and a dog around while being essentially blind, it's not a good feeling. The technology does work though.
I'm not really sold that small scale movement is useful. I think standing in place or approximately in place works great (although I've still managed to whack children & dog) , but I'm not sure there's compelling benefit to walking around with real life limitations.
Space Pirate Trainer and Audio Shield, I think stand out in my mind as examples of how it should be done. I have played both for hours on end.
But Valve does get it, two of the best mini games are in their free package "The Lab": Slingshot and Longbow. Slingshot is just hilarious, although not a great example of how to use VR. Longbow however is an absolutely excellent VR game that utilizes both the capabilities of the headset as well as an inspired use of the controllers to feel as natural to archery as you can get without a 60lb draw weight (and your arms get plenty tired even without it).
It would be nice if we could move out of the little demo game and into some genuine game. Elite is great in VR, but it is still crippled by its bizarre control scheme.
The major flaw in VR as it stands today is large scale movement. You can move around a small room just fine, it works exactly as advertised and couldn't be more natural (assuming you are used to walking). But if you want to move large distances, you need some other mechanic. The best I've used is the point & click scheme such as in The Lab, but it's not terribly natural, nor enjoyable. On the other hand, using the joysticks on the controller to move makes me very sick, very fast. This breaks the current FPS genre entirely, as they are almost exclusively oriented to constant motion. I'm not complaining, FPSes lost their shine to me a long time ago, but AAA game shops only know how to make them.
I think the main issue is that it requires a high end computer that most of us build ourselves, but which joe sixpack has to buy from some systems company and figure out what he needs. In theory one might sell "Oculus Rift/Vive Ready Game Machine", but I don't think the marketing has got there yet.
Your technical issues I agree with, but honestly every time I put the thing on I forget my gripes about all the bugs and issues, everything that was promised in the 90s is being delivered, I really don't see this going away. I suspect Joe Sixpack will see it that way too and the things will fly off the shelves and fund the evolution of design improvements. It's just hard to put them in people's hands if they have to be computer geeks to understand the hardware requirements.
Because someone got money from broadcasters and he's trying to figure out how not to do something ridiculous but also make sure they keep funding him.
Most of us who got out of school during dot-com, figured it out, quickly, in 2001.
What survived however is the dot-com corporate culture of hype over substance, there were still a lot of winners there for the suite types, and the lesson they learned was somethings you can make more with a flop than with a hit. (Queue the theme song to The Producer)
If you've ever used one, you wouldn't say this. The only issue is that it's not exactly ready for the masses.
And we cant just say "fuck it and fuck your bullshit, I'm heads down working"
Actually, you can. In some places just like that. In others possibly "I'm busy, when do you need this by". If you are in a place where you are working hard, and which values your contribution, the message survives the diction. In other places, which talk a lot about technology but really just need glorified MBAs who know how computers work, you probably can't get away with this. Quit.
I think his message is exactly right, and so many companies get lost in the bullshit they are unable to get the job done. Often of course because they have moved into the Wall St. phase of "let the losers of the pyramid game get their money back, if possible".
Any asshole can have an idea, most of technology (or most anything else for that matter) is the hard work. This is also what makes us so hostile towards patents that don't have products behind them.
And "borrowed" technology.
Huawei should be forbidden from doing business in the western world. If Emperor Nectarine even remotely means a word he has ever said, he'd take his venom out on them in particular. They are scumbags of the highest order.
In my day we wrote algorithms down on paper, and labelled the steps with numbers or letters!
1. Take a slice of bread out of the bag.
2. Place it in toaster
3. Set to light brown
4. Push down lever
We judged algorithms by taste.
And to combat this vile slander from WashPo, he bravely stood up to them, and resigned.
What should be disconcerting is that while this monitor clearly is a turd, Apple admits to a problem.
Whereas in the rest of the PC industry such turds are on sale everywhere (from this vendor and others), and you will get no support for it, and people will look at you weird if you say you put your router next to it and it stopped working. If I add up the list of all the things my diy PC does "weird" and doesn't quite work at, I will run out of disk space. I suspect this monitor works "good enough" that if Apple wasn't involved in it, we wouldn't even hear about it. Apple deserves a black eye for this, but the lesson should be that they need to build their own monitor, not that what's out there is reasonable.
I would not, if I were Apple, want to support any arbitrary monitor you found in Frys. The support costs would be insurmountable.
Try replacing it with medium rare rib-eye. I find the taste improves significantly, and as a bonus you have all this unused, very expensive, kitty litter that your cat can avoid too.
I print all of Trumps tweets
Should I be worried about these "trolls"
You have much, much bigger things to be worried about.
Most nerds I know given RSUs from their employers, including nerds who work at Apple, sell their company stock pretty much as soon as it vests. The logic, which I don't argue with, is that by being employees they already have far too many eggs in that one basket. Given that most RSUs given to employees in every company vest over a 4 year period, that basket is pretty fucking heavy already.
There's no real narrative to lock on to here, sell it and diversify, if your company tanks and you get laid off, you will have money left. Anything people in the media talk about is nonsense, they don't know shit and most of them have a paid agenda. In fact, as a rule, investors don't know shit, that's why they traded their money for shares in someone else's business, rather than starting their own. They are highly susceptible to this media coverage of nonsense, which creates a market for more nonsense.
The only "news" here is that investment in Apple right now is primarily speculation, it is not about company fundamentals, it's a waste of time to debate this thing. If you speculate that they are going to deliver the next big thing (which isn't a macbook, and isn't even an iPhone, the markets for those products are saturated), then you invest, knowing that when Tim puts it on the stage people will buy it up sight unseen. If you think Microsoft can deliver, you invest there. But if you had money and you wanted to bet on Apple making the product or Microsoft, you're pretty much an idiot to put your money in Microsoft, people avoid their products in droves...even if they aren't as bad as we'd expect from them.
The older I get, and the weaker the hormones are, the happier I am with life in general. Being a young male was hell and honestly getting sex wasn't the cure-all that Mr. Thiel thinks it is... you just get a brief break (the younger you are, the briefer it is) and want back in the saddle again.
I'm not really sure why we seem to worship this ideal, sex is a biological demand that kept us going, but definitely is responsible for more of the worlds troubles than any other single thing.
We definitely need more fiber around here. I guess thank you.
Innovation is massively dangerous to wall street and investors. Investing in it frequently returns only loss, not investing in it may render your portfolio empty. it's better to collaborate and do away with it.