I guess the fucked-up standard that our crazy society determines is that its not a problem because woman-on-woman violence somehow can never be "real" violence, or sexually motivated.
Without any actual stats to back them up, I'm far more inclined to believe that this is just more feminazi man-hating bullshit than the result of a real epidemic of rapist Uber drivers.
I definitely agree with your assessment of nuclear, and even maybe about eating meat. But since the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions are all industrial. It actually has remarkably little to do with what car you drive or how well insulated your house is, so buying some metrosexual electric car does nothing other than give you some pretentious feel good factor based on bad science and clever marketing.
of course we can always afford to do something if the alternative is certain death of the entire planet. As an example, the most extreme example I can think of right now is that all world governments could immediately make all human activities that result in man-made greenhouse emissions illegal under penalty of instant death. Obviously that would immediately end all man-made causes of global warming at a very high cost to literally everything we know, (including almost literally going back to the stone age and half the planet dying from starvation and other things) but it would end human causes of global warming, and assuming we haven't gone too far already, hopefully stop runaway global warming itself, so at least a few people would stay alive. My point is that a ridiculously extreme solution to saving the planet does at least exist, so we can start from there and keep toning it down until we get to something we can't afford to implement, then take one step back and implement that, no matter how unpalatable it might be its still better than mass extinction of everything. yes its a very ridiculous illustration of worst case, but its still less ridiculous than any statement that we should not try to save the planet because it might impact the economy.
So we should only do something to save the planet if its affordable? You crazy Americans seem to think literally everything should come down to a dollar consideration, even the survival of the whole planet and all life on it.
Seriously as engineers we need to have enough balls to say no and stand up to requests from employers to design/implement anything who's ultimate use is to do something immoral, such as suppressing individual freedom.
Giiven the indisputable evidence that he actually did circumvent the Chinese firewall, I would love it if the Chinese arrested this joker. If I was Chinese I would have already filed a complaint against him.
I just don't get how even the people that are (rightfully) up in arms about all this will still inevitably go right out and buy another product (even from the same manufacturer that screwed them once already) that blatantly uses proprietary lock-in crap to remove ultimate control/ownership from the customer, and even allows the manufacture to data mine your life and decide what you can do with your own damn property, including disabling the it at any time with no comebacks. Where does this ridiculously naive mindset even come from? Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Tesla I'm looking at you, amongst others.
I remeber that from the kickstarter they had a basic design, but I beleive that since then the've put a LOT of effort into sensor design, latency reduction, screen door effect reduction, lens design, reduction of nausea, etc, etc,
>> What magic is their API supposed to be doing that is worth a $300+ markup?
Its not just their API, its also all the R&D they've done and time savings to you for not having to go down the same road yourself.
Agreed. The OA needs to get over themselves. Google can use whatever voice you want too. In fact think the only one thats stuck on female in the whole list is Microsoft/Cortana. As for their point about gender makeup in IT, we've been over this a million times here already. The results of nearly all unbiased studies show the job opportunities are already equal or even in fact slightly biased towards encouraging women, and the single biggest cause of the disparity is simply free choice; most women don't actually want to work in IT.
I think you're crediting them with complex reasoning and higher level skills that they dont deserve. There are perfectly good sidewalks in my neighborhood but I can't even count the number of dumbasses that regularly walk or run in front of moving cars as if legal laws somehow trump the laws of physics.
Nice idea but it will require someone to implement. I'll bet linux users will get a Window Manager like that quicker than Windows will, so since Oculus put Linux support on the back burner, you're probably better off going for the Vive than the Rift.
Yeah you dont sound like you have a case for it at all. I can't imagine how 2D RPG could be significantly improved with an HMD. I recently got a superwide monitor, I can't recommend superwide enough, and in your use-case I'd be surprised if something like that wouldn't have far more of a noticeable positive impact than a VR HMD. Given its something you don't seem desperate for, I'd say you should at least wait for alternative headsets to come out then re-evaluate rather than blowing significant cash now on an early HMD just to have around because of the current hype. About watching your SO's shows: unlike the Rift, The Vive has a front facing camera so at least in theory you can keep tabs on the outside world too. No idea how good it is in practice though. Meanwhile I can't wait for my Vive to show up, but then I play mostly first person 3D stuff.
Facebook has a long history of blatant user abuse, so I'm not really surprised by this. I keep finding out more and more things about the Rift that makes me very happy I pre ordered the Vive instead. I doubt very much that Valve/HTC would dare or even want to try anything even close to this level of shit, but If my Vive turns up with a bunch of restrictive EULAs like the Rift has, it will be going straight back for a full refund.
I applaud your thought but the reason you pay $600-$800 is far from just the value of the parts. Think of all the research that got the Rift and the Vive this far, that you would have to duplicate yourself. If months of all your time and failed hardware prototypes is worth less than say $500 your (probably highly optimistic) estimate you would save, then go for it. Also don't forget you have to make it work seamlessly with one or other company's VR APIs (i.e. significantly more time investment) otherwise you wont have much to run on it. Also don't forget you probably won't be able to sell it as a commercial product to recoup any of your costs thanks to the fucked-up US copyright system and the probability that Facebook and HTC have both probably already copyrighted the shit out of their products and any tech they use, even the no-brainer stuff.
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I guess the fucked-up standard that our crazy society determines is that its not a problem because woman-on-woman violence somehow can never be "real" violence, or sexually motivated.
Without any actual stats to back them up, I'm far more inclined to believe that this is just more feminazi man-hating bullshit than the result of a real epidemic of rapist Uber drivers.
He needed 27 stitches in his head becuase he wasn't wearing a helmet. That was my point.
>> he wasn't wearing a helmet,
What a moron.
What do you mean? Thats how cattle class get their return flight.
Only 1/10th of the time? Dude you need to listen harder. Everything she says is bullshit.
Siemens and Airbus just formed a partnership to develop a 4000 mile long power cord.
I definitely agree with your assessment of nuclear, and even maybe about eating meat. But since the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions are all industrial. It actually has remarkably little to do with what car you drive or how well insulated your house is, so buying some metrosexual electric car does nothing other than give you some pretentious feel good factor based on bad science and clever marketing.
of course we can always afford to do something if the alternative is certain death of the entire planet.
As an example, the most extreme example I can think of right now is that all world governments could immediately make all human activities that result in man-made greenhouse emissions illegal under penalty of instant death.
Obviously that would immediately end all man-made causes of global warming at a very high cost to literally everything we know, (including almost literally going back to the stone age and half the planet dying from starvation and other things) but it would end human causes of global warming, and assuming we haven't gone too far already, hopefully stop runaway global warming itself, so at least a few people would stay alive.
My point is that a ridiculously extreme solution to saving the planet does at least exist, so we can start from there and keep toning it down until we get to something we can't afford to implement, then take one step back and implement that, no matter how unpalatable it might be its still better than mass extinction of everything.
yes its a very ridiculous illustration of worst case, but its still less ridiculous than any statement that we should not try to save the planet because it might impact the economy.
No I actually don't think that money ever trumps the need to do something to prevent our planets and therefore our extinction.
OK sorry I made a stupid assumption there....
>> c) doesn't cost the (non-literal) Earth
So we should only do something to save the planet if its affordable?
You crazy Americans seem to think literally everything should come down to a dollar consideration, even the survival of the whole planet and all life on it.
Seriously as engineers we need to have enough balls to say no and stand up to requests from employers to design/implement anything who's ultimate use is to do something immoral, such as suppressing individual freedom.
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Giiven the indisputable evidence that he actually did circumvent the Chinese firewall, I would love it if the Chinese arrested this joker. If I was Chinese I would have already filed a complaint against him.
I just don't get how even the people that are (rightfully) up in arms about all this will still inevitably go right out and buy another product (even from the same manufacturer that screwed them once already) that blatantly uses proprietary lock-in crap to remove ultimate control/ownership from the customer, and even allows the manufacture to data mine your life and decide what you can do with your own damn property, including disabling the it at any time with no comebacks.
Where does this ridiculously naive mindset even come from?
Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Tesla I'm looking at you, amongst others.
I remeber that from the kickstarter they had a basic design, but I beleive that since then the've put a LOT of effort into sensor design, latency reduction, screen door effect reduction, lens design, reduction of nausea, etc, etc,
>> What magic is their API supposed to be doing that is worth a $300+ markup?
Its not just their API, its also all the R&D they've done and time savings to you for not having to go down the same road yourself.
Google is your friend.
Agreed. The OA needs to get over themselves.
Google can use whatever voice you want too. In fact think the only one thats stuck on female in the whole list is Microsoft/Cortana.
As for their point about gender makeup in IT, we've been over this a million times here already. The results of nearly all unbiased studies show the job opportunities are already equal or even in fact slightly biased towards encouraging women, and the single biggest cause of the disparity is simply free choice; most women don't actually want to work in IT.
Damn. I guess I won't be buying another Toyota then.
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I think you're crediting them with complex reasoning and higher level skills that they dont deserve.
There are perfectly good sidewalks in my neighborhood but I can't even count the number of dumbasses that regularly walk or run in front of moving cars as if legal laws somehow trump the laws of physics.
Nice idea but it will require someone to implement.
I'll bet linux users will get a Window Manager like that quicker than Windows will, so since Oculus put Linux support on the back burner, you're probably better off going for the Vive than the Rift.
Yeah you dont sound like you have a case for it at all. I can't imagine how 2D RPG could be significantly improved with an HMD.
I recently got a superwide monitor, I can't recommend superwide enough, and in your use-case I'd be surprised if something like that wouldn't have far more of a noticeable positive impact than a VR HMD.
Given its something you don't seem desperate for, I'd say you should at least wait for alternative headsets to come out then re-evaluate rather than blowing significant cash now on an early HMD just to have around because of the current hype. About watching your SO's shows: unlike the Rift, The Vive has a front facing camera so at least in theory you can keep tabs on the outside world too. No idea how good it is in practice though.
Meanwhile I can't wait for my Vive to show up, but then I play mostly first person 3D stuff.
Facebook has a long history of blatant user abuse, so I'm not really surprised by this.
I keep finding out more and more things about the Rift that makes me very happy I pre ordered the Vive instead.
I doubt very much that Valve/HTC would dare or even want to try anything even close to this level of shit, but If my Vive turns up with a bunch of restrictive EULAs like the Rift has, it will be going straight back for a full refund.
I applaud your thought but the reason you pay $600-$800 is far from just the value of the parts.
Think of all the research that got the Rift and the Vive this far, that you would have to duplicate yourself.
If months of all your time and failed hardware prototypes is worth less than say $500 your (probably highly optimistic) estimate you would save, then go for it.
Also don't forget you have to make it work seamlessly with one or other company's VR APIs (i.e. significantly more time investment) otherwise you wont have much to run on it.
Also don't forget you probably won't be able to sell it as a commercial product to recoup any of your costs thanks to the fucked-up US copyright system and the probability that Facebook and HTC have both probably already copyrighted the shit out of their products and any tech they use, even the no-brainer stuff.
Why?
If want to run a professional-grade OS, why would you want the fuckup that is Windows running under it?