My car's frontwindow angle is say 45. This allows me to just put my Android phone on my dashboard which reflects on the window and generates a transparent reflection which shows up in a "virtual distance" in my field of view. It's not as crisp to actually read while driving or being stuck in traffic and it requires low light conditions, though. But you can make up a map easily.
Putin: So.. then... I open my secret caves.. Obama: I didn't know you had a cave right there.. Putin: It's a wet one... for our underwater missile carriers.. Obama: Mmmmm my missile carrier is pretty long. My engineers are making it longer as I speak. Putin: Once we reach the open ocean, all under water.. I launch my missile... Obama: Make it glow, show me the money shot baby... Putin: And it explodes, all over Norway... in mesmorizing blue light... Obama: Oh baby... you almost really tore a new hole there, up in the atmosphere Putin: The explosion was, sadly, premature Obama: That's ok, I understand.
To show their power, just like they have started flying strategic bombers past the Norwegian coast line towards the UK.
Exactly. In Belgian news it was described as a missile which could travel 8000km and drop 9 atomic bombs.
It's "inducing fear", distracting the public from something else (why show off their new "worlddestroying" missiles? And if they've tested 8 times before, like I read somewhere, why was it only now as visible? My family has a strong military history and I've always been told "the [military] official story is always PR, not truth.")
It's poking the USA with a wink to the cold war; the US is weakened after been cannonfood in the middle east, ginormic debts and an economy belly-up, Saudi arabia cannot loan futher "We has to sell dubay, and don't have monnies nemaor because of electric cars:'(". It's the perfect time to fire off awesome fireworks and telling people it might be able to destroy the world in a eyeblink.
Up next: Asia demonstrates military superiority, the middle east continues to develop atom bombs, Europe develops a European united army, India knees USA in the balls, USA drafts robots for duty, whips AI-scientists to be more productive and drafts 12yo fat kids to operate drones while Japans mechs are revealed, taking over control of the teen demography through hentai.`^_^
I better start programming at a post-apocalyptic world. 2012 isn't global warming. (had been debumked, needed new fear; kthx Russia, bring more brides.)
Do you think your co-worker was being paid in-line with the amount of work he was doing?
No, he wasn't under a regular contract, they also didn't know the output he'd have. When he was "hired" (allowed to sit around and have tasks handed to him to "integrate") they thought they were doing charity...
At least that was my impression, I never saw the guys paycheck, but he also wasn't there fulltime:)
He was someone working halftime to "integrate into society", three years ago.
The project was a huge database migration, so we would give the kid excell sheets with thousands of records to compare data consistency, validating scripts and data transformations, while management smiled "that'll keep the kid busy for a few months".
Now, he loved wikipedia, and we'd only see him read franically on wikipedia... at the end of the day, he'd walk up to the IT-manager, each time again:
"I'm sorry sir, I did my best today but I could only manage to go through 70% of the list. I found some errors which I marked. Next time, I'll try harder, I don't want to dissapoint you.", while the same look of disbelief was on his face over and over again.
All the consultants that passed through the project with their programming knowledge, could not match the comparing accuracy of this kid with his massive speed, while he just seemed to be reading wikipedia, apoligizing each evening when he went on his way home in all his quirkyness being very thankful to get the "opportunity to work with pcs".
It's maybe relevant to mention the project was an agressively low priced fixed project, going over schedule so the client being hired for the project kept on dumping starters and benchers to finish the project with the problems you could imagine. It's why I was hired the period of the project to support the other consultants who were stuck in the mess they've been creating trying to get the project done.
If I would have the opportunity again to work with and rely on autistics for tasks needing massive concentration and accuracy, I'll put all my trust in their hands.
Marketing, communication, anything just to get out of that god-forsaken-hellhole called IT.
I'm working as a consultant developer. Been offered to be "Technical lead", but I didn't want to commit to "one company" or end up "jobhopping".
At HQ they offered me to become a "sales & marketting"-guy but it felt it would be too boring, even let a big ass car sit on the driveway of the company which would come with the job.
Then I got an offer to be an account manager and fly across Europe and on and off to Canada for networking and representing their product and creating technical requirement documents, but my current commitments and professional strategy would collide and I'd give up something I've build up.
So what's my point here? I'm still in the "god-forsaken-hellhole called IT" and love it. People see potential in me which reflects in the "offers" they throw at me, yet I don't bite just because it's "something else" or "pays more". I believe you love IT or you don't. If you don't, drop the keyboard and stop writing messy code or creating self-"jobsecurity". If things aren't the way you like them, try to fix them, be verbal and communicative or find another place to work (as long you take crap, you'll be given crap. Management will use the same tricks you're teaching them in your behaviour that work; if you get productive after you've been humiliated and shouted at for an hour, compared to an investment of 1,5 hours of "backpadding", you'll be humiliated and shouted at, it's more efficient and it works. In psychology that's simple operand conditioning.).
Its personal attitude and ability which makes the difference between a "sucking job" or a "challenging job". It's not about grabbing money and sitting out 8 hours a day, it's almost half of your waking time in the week. Why not make something of it and put yourself into it?
This kid wants to learn, his attitude will ultimately be noticed and if he's good and delivers doors will open. And they'll stay open as long he's respectful to the people that pay him and he's working with. What he can expect? I could write hours on what he could expect, but the most important thing is to experience it himself and find a way which makes sense and has meaning to himself to manoeuvre himself in that enviromnent. His ability to do so will create his personally defined success or not. There's no static or predetermined way to achieve that and no "add water and stir"-recipe. That's the beauty of the challenge (of life in general), to me; it's a playground. Go play and do whatever has meaning to yourself and you feel or think you have to do in order for it to meaningful for yourself.
I don't want to overly romanticize it, I have my days of misery as well, but it teaches me alot about myself and how to operate in a certain situation or environment. Those "negative emotions" are just red flags and indicators to me to make a change, and a clear choice wherever I'll allow myself to feel as miserable or define a way or plan to get it resolved, by being self-critical, asessing the situation or trying to identify the rootcauses. Even if it's my own idiocy or attitude which becomes resolvable once I'm having enough overview to notice and admit it.
I'm sorry buddy, I'm European. The word "love" was for me to indicated a warmhearted felt appreciation for new information and a decent upgrade in knowledge which I anticipate to start in 4-5 hours. I don't consider that a problem.
I remember reading a 90s published book "3D game design" which walks through (in 2000 pages) the creation of an 3D FPS shooter.
The terrain generator described inthere, is just a grid with random height vertices, smoothed with interpolation and stored in a grayscale bitmap to represent the "height variation". The parser of this bitmap hence could also be fed by a simple image in which you drew your landscape's height variation and overlay a texturemap.
For this you just need to be able to draw vertices and creative use of randomized numbers.
But for todays high-res gamedesign, I think there are more involving techniques needed...
This obsession with self-visibility is a byproduct of "celebrity culture", which itself is a byproduct of XX-century broadcasting. Once current paradigms of information consumption give way to something different and more bidirectional, people will stop obsessing about exposing themselves.
I agree to a certain extend, but it's beneficial in another perspective completely detached from the negative undertone: I love it when there are a few people reviewing their restaurants, adding their fav places, uploading pictures of certain events so I can walk around with my augmented reality enabled browser and seredipityly discover things I otherwise would've been oblivious to. (once I got my Android-phone I went out RAR-driving ("Random Augmented Reality Driving" and had the greatest time stepping out of my personal frame of reference exploring others, like finding random clubs, bars and whatever would turn up having one point the phone to aim for the next discovery.)
Further more, the meticiously blogging (pictures, video, text,...) creates a large socialogical and psychological significant record: say I geotag and datestamp my pictures and video's, in a matter of years I'll be able to track back some events of my life. In a global view, it creates potential for "backward timetravel". Say "play random video x of year xxxx at location y", all fed by "the selfish need for fame", or "selfexpression" or what have you.
By the sheer overload of data and lack of ability to represent and order the data it's become such a messy blob usually only people who "actually care about you" (or you spam in your friendses-list with your egocentric self-portrayal and expressionism) will be exposed to it and will decide in what level it's relevant or interesting to them.
For me it's a one point to many, where I don't have to individually need to maintain people, but they can, if interested, get certain information about me and my life but it's mostly limited to people I know or trust to a certain extend to be allowed into my "comfort zone".
In short; I don't care if someone feels the need to feel the need to show every or any aspect of their lives online, or the people who find it interesting enough to watch this or even motivate further such behaviour. I do like the data it generates and the information and knowledge we can generate from that (no I'm not thinking about amateur porn but statistical and historical data).
Try "Freenet", its exactly like the internet of the 90s. Porn, warez, crappy "personal webpages" with nonsensial rants about nothing and an attempt to hacker culture. Also naked babies.
For a moment I thought I wanted it back, until I saw it back and realized we've grown so utterly bored with the old internet we have been trying to find a new internet. Now the new new internet has grown boring and lame too, I'm awaiting the next innovation (while I try to innovate user experience myself.)
How the heck are those astro/cosmo/taikonauts going to find food and drinking water to subsist, let alone colonize?
Evolution.
1. Take one astronaut
2. Attach astronaut to rocket
3. Ignite rocket
4. Add time
5. Stirr gently, let sit for a while (1-2 billion year should be well enough)
There used to be UPC, which offered a very competitive package (Unlimited bandwidth within Acceptable User Policy) once they got their act together. (Just look for forums for UPC - Chello).
They were very local though and are now taken over by Telenet.
Dommel seems to be a new player with a very competitive package, I've signed up for their package recently and am curious at their quality of service:)
We have that in Belgium too. Once you're over your bandwidth "allowance", you pay extra; or in parts of 5/5GB (which you need to readjust before the end of the month or you'll get rebilled as you're "altering your plan") or something as x/x KB.
Once users get through their monthly usage, they are presented to "continue surfing at broadband speed" (most expensive and per KB's), "expand monthly usage" or "continue at 56K".
People overpay alot for it with this system, some plans only have 20G which isn't too much for a month. If you take into account you pay 20 for "1 Mbps | 1GB" up to 60 for "25 Mbps | 60 GB" (current exchange rate between and $ is 1 to 1,4)
Coming in to your office, You'd pull your PC out of your pocket, sit it on your desk and plug in a monitor.
That's a bit what I try to do with PortableApps. Too bad not all applications run well on it, as development environments wont support being run as a standalone application, but the basic usage tools (VLC, Firefox, Gimp, OpenOffice,...) can be run.
The scenario is about the same: I come in at a PC, plug in my micro-thumbdrive from my keychain and have my common applications in the same spot.
Look at the menubar in blue and the startbutton in green...
I don't find the XP interface so superb and renewing it should be kopied. I would rather praise new attempts at intuitive navigation. This and the file navigator thingie has been done over and over again...
It's also a bit against creative innovation; people want opensource, but get them at it and they try to rebuild Microsoft, while they continiously bash Microsoft and never seem to get at such a level?
Build something truely amazing and innovative and I'll hop on and spend some of my spare time contributing.
Right now I'm rather waiting for http://gocosmos.org/ to have rewritten their compiler.
I was thinking the same thing; I have a lazy eye, and have an "overlapping image" because of a lazy eye when I force to focus with my lazy eye. My brain doesn't process the two input images as "one" as well, so I see two image where one is a bit blurry overlapping the world as I'm used seeing it, certainly with up-close 3D viewing.
It doesn't give me a headache, but takes alot of energy focussing and generally makes me feel the image is a bit "dark" and things become blurry if they end up too much to my left...
If we evolve to a world where 3D is very much integrated, I would end up being unable to properly make use of it and end up "disabled", where now my lazy eye isn't an issue in daily life. My lack of depthperception isn't disabling; I make use of depth-estimation... it works.. mostly... after a few tries.
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My car's frontwindow angle is say 45.
This allows me to just put my Android phone on my dashboard which reflects on the window and generates a transparent reflection which shows up in a "virtual distance" in my field of view.
It's not as crisp to actually read while driving or being stuck in traffic and it requires low light conditions, though. But you can make up a map easily.
She's gone man, cherish the memory of that chick at the pool. No quantum computer will bring her back so you can "facebook" her :P
Putin: So.. then... I open my secret caves..
Obama: I didn't know you had a cave right there..
Putin: It's a wet one... for our underwater missile carriers..
Obama: Mmmmm my missile carrier is pretty long. My engineers are making it longer as I speak.
Putin: Once we reach the open ocean, all under water.. I launch my missile...
Obama: Make it glow, show me the money shot baby...
Putin: And it explodes, all over Norway... in mesmorizing blue light...
Obama: Oh baby... you almost really tore a new hole there, up in the atmosphere
Putin: The explosion was, sadly, premature
Obama: That's ok, I understand.
Exactly. In Belgian news it was described as a missile which could travel 8000km and drop 9 atomic bombs.
It's "inducing fear", distracting the public from something else (why show off their new "worlddestroying" missiles? And if they've tested 8 times before, like I read somewhere, why was it only now as visible? My family has a strong military history and I've always been told "the [military] official story is always PR, not truth.")
It's poking the USA with a wink to the cold war; the US is weakened after been cannonfood in the middle east, ginormic debts and an economy belly-up, Saudi arabia cannot loan futher "We has to sell dubay, and don't have monnies nemaor because of electric cars :'(".
It's the perfect time to fire off awesome fireworks and telling people it might be able to destroy the world in a eyeblink.
Up next: Asia demonstrates military superiority, the middle east continues to develop atom bombs, Europe develops a European united army, India knees USA in the balls, USA drafts robots for duty, whips AI-scientists to be more productive and drafts 12yo fat kids to operate drones while Japans mechs are revealed, taking over control of the teen demography through hentai.`^_^
I better start programming at a post-apocalyptic world. 2012 isn't global warming. (had been debumked, needed new fear; kthx Russia, bring more brides.)
No, he wasn't under a regular contract, they also didn't know the output he'd have. When he was "hired" (allowed to sit around and have tasks handed to him to "integrate") they thought they were doing charity...
At least that was my impression, I never saw the guys paycheck, but he also wasn't there fulltime :)
The project was a huge database migration, so we would give the kid excell sheets with thousands of records to compare data consistency, validating scripts and data transformations, while management smiled "that'll keep the kid busy for a few months".
Now, he loved wikipedia, and we'd only see him read franically on wikipedia... at the end of the day, he'd walk up to the IT-manager, each time again:
"I'm sorry sir, I did my best today but I could only manage to go through 70% of the list. I found some errors which I marked. Next time, I'll try harder, I don't want to dissapoint you.", while the same look of disbelief was on his face over and over again.
All the consultants that passed through the project with their programming knowledge, could not match the comparing accuracy of this kid with his massive speed, while he just seemed to be reading wikipedia, apoligizing each evening when he went on his way home in all his quirkyness being very thankful to get the "opportunity to work with pcs".
It's maybe relevant to mention the project was an agressively low priced fixed project, going over schedule so the client being hired for the project kept on dumping starters and benchers to finish the project with the problems you could imagine. It's why I was hired the period of the project to support the other consultants who were stuck in the mess they've been creating trying to get the project done.
If I would have the opportunity again to work with and rely on autistics for tasks needing massive concentration and accuracy, I'll put all my trust in their hands.
I'm working as a consultant developer. Been offered to be "Technical lead", but I didn't want to commit to "one company" or end up "jobhopping".
At HQ they offered me to become a "sales & marketting"-guy but it felt it would be too boring, even let a big ass car sit on the driveway of the company which would come with the job.
Then I got an offer to be an account manager and fly across Europe and on and off to Canada for networking and representing their product and creating technical requirement documents, but my current commitments and professional strategy would collide and I'd give up something I've build up.
So what's my point here? I'm still in the "god-forsaken-hellhole called IT" and love it. People see potential in me which reflects in the "offers" they throw at me, yet I don't bite just because it's "something else" or "pays more". I believe you love IT or you don't. If you don't, drop the keyboard and stop writing messy code or creating self-"jobsecurity". If things aren't the way you like them, try to fix them, be verbal and communicative or find another place to work (as long you take crap, you'll be given crap. Management will use the same tricks you're teaching them in your behaviour that work; if you get productive after you've been humiliated and shouted at for an hour, compared to an investment of 1,5 hours of "backpadding", you'll be humiliated and shouted at, it's more efficient and it works. In psychology that's simple operand conditioning.).
Its personal attitude and ability which makes the difference between a "sucking job" or a "challenging job". It's not about grabbing money and sitting out 8 hours a day, it's almost half of your waking time in the week. Why not make something of it and put yourself into it?
This kid wants to learn, his attitude will ultimately be noticed and if he's good and delivers doors will open. And they'll stay open as long he's respectful to the people that pay him and he's working with. What he can expect? I could write hours on what he could expect, but the most important thing is to experience it himself and find a way which makes sense and has meaning to himself to manoeuvre himself in that enviromnent. His ability to do so will create his personally defined success or not. There's no static or predetermined way to achieve that and no "add water and stir"-recipe. That's the beauty of the challenge (of life in general), to me; it's a playground. Go play and do whatever has meaning to yourself and you feel or think you have to do in order for it to meaningful for yourself.
I don't want to overly romanticize it, I have my days of misery as well, but it teaches me alot about myself and how to operate in a certain situation or environment. Those "negative emotions" are just red flags and indicators to me to make a change, and a clear choice wherever I'll allow myself to feel as miserable or define a way or plan to get it resolved, by being self-critical, asessing the situation or trying to identify the rootcauses. Even if it's my own idiocy or attitude which becomes resolvable once I'm having enough overview to notice and admit it.
Oh no, it takes another 4-5 hours to finish work :)
If you want me to, I can forward my ED-spam to you. "forward (to IndustrialComplex)" is just one button away from "mark as spam".
I'm sorry buddy, I'm European. The word "love" was for me to indicated a warmhearted felt appreciation for new information and a decent upgrade in knowledge which I anticipate to start in 4-5 hours. I don't consider that a problem.
Thijsh I love you. You have given me something new to play with this weekend! yay!
I remember reading a 90s published book "3D game design" which walks through (in 2000 pages) the creation of an 3D FPS shooter.
The terrain generator described inthere, is just a grid with random height vertices, smoothed with interpolation and stored in a grayscale bitmap to represent the "height variation". The parser of this bitmap hence could also be fed by a simple image in which you drew your landscape's height variation and overlay a texturemap.
For this you just need to be able to draw vertices and creative use of randomized numbers.
But for todays high-res gamedesign, I think there are more involving techniques needed...
thanks :)
I agree to a certain extend, but it's beneficial in another perspective completely detached from the negative undertone: I love it when there are a few people reviewing their restaurants, adding their fav places, uploading pictures of certain events so I can walk around with my augmented reality enabled browser and seredipityly discover things I otherwise would've been oblivious to. (once I got my Android-phone I went out RAR-driving ("Random Augmented Reality Driving" and had the greatest time stepping out of my personal frame of reference exploring others, like finding random clubs, bars and whatever would turn up having one point the phone to aim for the next discovery.)
Further more, the meticiously blogging (pictures, video, text, ...) creates a large socialogical and psychological significant record: say I geotag and datestamp my pictures and video's, in a matter of years I'll be able to track back some events of my life. In a global view, it creates potential for "backward timetravel". Say "play random video x of year xxxx at location y", all fed by "the selfish need for fame", or "selfexpression" or what have you.
By the sheer overload of data and lack of ability to represent and order the data it's become such a messy blob usually only people who "actually care about you" (or you spam in your friendses-list with your egocentric self-portrayal and expressionism) will be exposed to it and will decide in what level it's relevant or interesting to them.
For me it's a one point to many, where I don't have to individually need to maintain people, but they can, if interested, get certain information about me and my life but it's mostly limited to people I know or trust to a certain extend to be allowed into my "comfort zone".
In short; I don't care if someone feels the need to feel the need to show every or any aspect of their lives online, or the people who find it interesting enough to watch this or even motivate further such behaviour. I do like the data it generates and the information and knowledge we can generate from that (no I'm not thinking about amateur porn but statistical and historical data).
Try "Freenet", its exactly like the internet of the 90s. Porn, warez, crappy "personal webpages" with nonsensial rants about nothing and an attempt to hacker culture. Also naked babies.
For a moment I thought I wanted it back, until I saw it back and realized we've grown so utterly bored with the old internet we have been trying to find a new internet. Now the new new internet has grown boring and lame too, I'm awaiting the next innovation (while I try to innovate user experience myself.)
I wonder why the Americans tried to steal the show in the ceremony?
Evolution.
1. Take one astronaut
2. Attach astronaut to rocket
3. Ignite rocket
4. Add time
5. Stirr gently, let sit for a while (1-2 billion year should be well enough)
There used to be UPC, which offered a very competitive package (Unlimited bandwidth within Acceptable User Policy) once they got their act together. (Just look for forums for UPC - Chello).
:)
They were very local though and are now taken over by Telenet.
Dommel seems to be a new player with a very competitive package, I've signed up for their package recently and am curious at their quality of service
Please hand over your geekbadge...
We have that in Belgium too. Once you're over your bandwidth "allowance", you pay extra; or in parts of 5/5GB (which you need to readjust before the end of the month or you'll get rebilled as you're "altering your plan") or something as x /x KB.
Once users get through their monthly usage, they are presented to "continue surfing at broadband speed" (most expensive and per KB's), "expand monthly usage" or "continue at 56K".
People overpay alot for it with this system, some plans only have 20G which isn't too much for a month. If you take into account you pay 20 for "1 Mbps | 1GB" up to 60 for "25 Mbps | 60 GB" (current exchange rate between and $ is 1 to 1,4)
That's a bit what I try to do with PortableApps. Too bad not all applications run well on it, as development environments wont support being run as a standalone application, but the basic usage tools (VLC, Firefox, Gimp, OpenOffice, ...) can be run.
The scenario is about the same: I come in at a PC, plug in my micro-thumbdrive from my keychain and have my common applications in the same spot.
You were thinking how your personal thoughts are still private, thinking you could prove that point.
Look at the menubar in blue and the startbutton in green...
I don't find the XP interface so superb and renewing it should be kopied. I would rather praise new attempts at intuitive navigation. This and the file navigator thingie has been done over and over again...
It's also a bit against creative innovation; people want opensource, but get them at it and they try to rebuild Microsoft, while they continiously bash Microsoft and never seem to get at such a level?
Build something truely amazing and innovative and I'll hop on and spend some of my spare time contributing.
Right now I'm rather waiting for http://gocosmos.org/ to have rewritten their compiler.
I have a headache now! Without 3D things!
I was thinking the same thing; I have a lazy eye, and have an "overlapping image" because of a lazy eye when I force to focus with my lazy eye. My brain doesn't process the two input images as "one" as well, so I see two image where one is a bit blurry overlapping the world as I'm used seeing it, certainly with up-close 3D viewing.
It doesn't give me a headache, but takes alot of energy focussing and generally makes me feel the image is a bit "dark" and things become blurry if they end up too much to my left...
If we evolve to a world where 3D is very much integrated, I would end up being unable to properly make use of it and end up "disabled", where now my lazy eye isn't an issue in daily life. My lack of depthperception isn't disabling; I make use of depth-estimation... it works.. mostly... after a few tries.
I have modpoints, I'll mod this up!