Yep, try not to make it personal if you're pointing out problems I guess. A lot of the time I just don't try to get involved in stuff like that because if I started trying to fix other department's workflows I'd probably be at it for a few years before everything was sorted out, and I don't have the time for that..
"Like it or not, social skills are.. well, skills. If you suck at them, you should try to improve them any way you can."
"Like it or not, social skills are.. well, skills. If you suck at them, you should try to improve them any way you can."
First off - If someone's only interest is programming, why the hell would they care about social skills? Why "should" they try to improve them? Why does everyone in the world have to conform to your ideas?
Besides that - you seem to have exposure to an extremely small set of geeks or socially awkward people. You get friendly and unfriendly geeks, just the same as you do in any group of people. Socially awkward people may just be quiet people with low self esteem. They probably be quite happy to speak to you if you show that you're interested in speaking to them (that's kind of how I am). Then again they may just be misanthropic bastards, but you are taking a few "worst case" people and assuming that hundreds of millions of people are the same. Good job.
I bet that if a few Slashdot posters met up in real life they'd get on pretty damn well compared to how they do here. There would still be disagreements, but they'd be more civil and measured. It's far too easy to be impersonal online, and that's maybe where some of your tripe is stemming from. Have a look at YouTube comments sometime. It's not just geeks that appear to lose the concept of being friendly once they get behind a keyboard.
Well, I guess I must be too relaxed to care these days. The switch is obviously long enough to be noticeable, but I don't think the time is much different to turning a page - only there's less hassle because you are doing a tiny button click instead of moving a couple of fingers or a whole hand around. Either that or you have an earlier Kindle version than I have (bought mine in January).
I read my tablet at home, and my Kindle each day on the bus, so I have experience of both.
It's not software, but it is people. His comment was a parody of the way that they talk, they often have "say what you like.. you can't deny", etc.
I saw a journal a few months ago from someone that actually knew the name of the marketing firm (or one of them at least), but I unfortunately didn't take a note of it:/
I think getting them to "work like the original" is the problem actually. That part covers interfacing all by itself. The brain is very highly interconnected in 3D.. and we don't have great 3D chip fabrication yet.
You seem to have things mixed up. Some games these days have motion blur effects, but that's only a special effect, it's not to make things look "acceptable". If you freeze a TV frame in motion, you will see blurring. If you pause a computer game, you will always get a crisp clear image (unless like I said there's a special motion effect going on - like when you drive quickly in GTA IV for example).
What is the point for you then? The point for me is first not having to have a shelf full of books, and second because I can carry around many books - even massive textbooks - in one small form factor. The page turn times really are fast enough for - probably about three quarters of a second at most on my Kindle keyboard, and maybe 0.1 of a second on my Android phone and tablet.
It's funny - now whenever I read a real book, I want to touch the words on the screen to do a dictionary check.. then realise that it's just a paper book. D'oh!
My comment in relation to it being strange was not about the FPS. It was about the fact that this is an e-ink (reflective) screen, rather than backlit. Even e-ink is novel to most people - we're definitely not used to ink that can animate quickly and in colour.
Indeed.. 30fps from a colour e-ink display. I can hardly imagine how strange it would be watching a video on one of these things.
This is the beginning of the end of printed magazines, now that people can't complain about eye strain from backlights. It will also be damn cool to be able to do real "living photos" without a backlit display.
Modifiable tattoos is another fun use that they're already doing with monochrome e-ink - being able to have them in colour that doesn't fade would be awesome too. The whole reason I haven't got a tattoo so far is that I know I'd probably want to change the design at some point.
Yep, it's primarily a leisure device.. what's your point? Tablets clearly aren't very business oriented, unless your business is stock control or giving presentations, or something else that works decently on a basic touch display.
There are several remote desktop/vpn type clients for iPad and Android devices. You probably will have to pay for a good one, but the fact that you "haven't found it", when you aren't actually interested in the first place.. this doesn't mean very much.
1-1000: godlike 1001-5000: clever cookies 5000-50000: smart, run their own business 50001-100000: like to drink beer, married to beautiful, genius female geeks 100001-900000: generally insightful and interesting. Occasional troll. 900001-1000000: overly opinionated, often wrong 1000001-1500000: can't spell 1500001-2000000: really can't spell. "Lol" a lot. Point out the bleeding obvious in every comment. 2000001+ : work for advertising agencies, contracted out to MS and Facebook.
The value of things like gold, silver, gems etc don't come around purely from their scarcity though. They're just beautiful in their own right, which combined with being scarce, makes them valuable in our psyche.
I guess the point I'm trying to rationalise is that the currency needs to be desirable (which isn't a particularly rational quality). BitCoin is not desirable. The desirability can also come from rational factors like being able to use the currency, but it's a chicken and egg situation. BitCoin would need some kind of foothold to gain traction as a desirable currency among anyone but jobless geeks who want to get rich quick, and it's just never had that.
the general hate towards Microsoft and their success with Windows.
Um. The hate has never been about success. The hate has been due to the monopoly position of an inferior product. Now I know you're just a marketing droid and therefore probably have no idea nor experience of the technical history during the 80s and 90s, and maybe even the 00s, but there are logical reasons for all the hate.
Windows has been getting better over the years, but those of us who experienced some of the alternatives tend to feel like MS's monopoly has held the advancement of desktop software back by about 10 years. I used to wish that Apple would gain more marketshare. They have done so now, and they do produce technically superior software to MS - it's just a shame that they have even worse policies in some cases, alongside the same "destroy your competition" ethos that MS have. Geeks (and anyone else who wants to see technology advancing as efficiently and beneficially as possible) prefer competition, not all out war.
I'm aware of that, but the dollar has evolved such that it does hold the promise of value, because it's already accepted all over. You can't just get BitCoin accepted by saying it "should" be accepted. I'd rather have something like Zynga credits or WoW than a bitcoin, despite not wanting to play WoW or any Zynga games. At least those currencies have some kind of possible use for millions of people.
The PS Move is clearly a knockoff of the Wiimote, and there's no way you can say it isn't.
I wouldn't try to say that it isn't. It's a knockoff that improves a lot on the original though. I haven't tried Wii motion plus though so I can't say how that compares. I only used my Move with the demos it came with though - I haven't seen any games come out that I'd actually want to play with it. If a good game came out for Kinect or any other future control system, then I'd buy it of course. But they're all just gimmicky garbage so far. It's a shame that Rock Band and Guitar Hero were so overdone, I'd rather see a steady stream of improvements with specialised controllers for certain game types.
Not sure what planet you're living on.. Apple has become a second evil empire which may make MS seem slightly more reasonable in some cases - but MS is still obviously an evil empire in itself. As soon as their anti-trust oversight was up earlier this year, it was straight back to the BS. I feel dirty even thinking about looking at an MS product like.NET.
I got bored of the Wii gimmick and PS Move pretty quick. So I didn't even bother buying Kinect for my 360. How is it any better? I'm not interested in dancing games, and while I used to fantasize about full body motion fighting games as a teenager, I know now that doing that doing that type of violent motion without any resistance (ie a punching bag or opponent) is pretty bad for your joints in the long run.
MS do manage to hit on good ideas every now and then, and it's good that they have a research lab. They're definitely not the only computer research lab out there. What about Bell labs? And Google Labs and 20% or whatever projects? The original poster claiming MS are the only guys that do research is pure BS.
As someone said before, Bitcoin would be a lot more valuable if your currency held the promise of something. For example selling your computer time makes much more sense than doing calculations designed to waste computing power. I've wondered before if there was anything to Bitcoin, but I really can't think of it as a currency. I think of it more like the stock market, and how I can abuse it to make a profit. In the end I'm better off just making money doing real work.
Haven't used an iPad, only my Xoom. The new Slashcode does have annoying lag on text entry such that I switched to the old comment system just to be able to write comments. So outside of the apparent inability to handle large amounts of Javascript, it is decent. I really like the menus on my Xoom, you just slide your finger on from the side and the menu pops up. The mechanism for switching between tabs using that menu is quite fluid too.
I have a netbook which I used to use all the time. I hardly use it since I got my tablet. It's handy if you need to write lots. If you just want to browse the web, post a few small comments, watch some videos or read a book, the tablet is far more "handy".
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Yep, try not to make it personal if you're pointing out problems I guess. A lot of the time I just don't try to get involved in stuff like that because if I started trying to fix other department's workflows I'd probably be at it for a few years before everything was sorted out, and I don't have the time for that..
"Like it or not, social skills are.. well, skills. If you suck at them, you should try to improve them any way you can."
"Like it or not, social skills are.. well, skills. If you suck at them, you should try to improve them any way you can."
First off - If someone's only interest is programming, why the hell would they care about social skills? Why "should" they try to improve them? Why does everyone in the world have to conform to your ideas?
Besides that - you seem to have exposure to an extremely small set of geeks or socially awkward people. You get friendly and unfriendly geeks, just the same as you do in any group of people. Socially awkward people may just be quiet people with low self esteem. They probably be quite happy to speak to you if you show that you're interested in speaking to them (that's kind of how I am). Then again they may just be misanthropic bastards, but you are taking a few "worst case" people and assuming that hundreds of millions of people are the same. Good job.
I bet that if a few Slashdot posters met up in real life they'd get on pretty damn well compared to how they do here. There would still be disagreements, but they'd be more civil and measured. It's far too easy to be impersonal online, and that's maybe where some of your tripe is stemming from. Have a look at YouTube comments sometime. It's not just geeks that appear to lose the concept of being friendly once they get behind a keyboard.
"It it took on 1 hour" was pretty good too.
Well, I guess I must be too relaxed to care these days. The switch is obviously long enough to be noticeable, but I don't think the time is much different to turning a page - only there's less hassle because you are doing a tiny button click instead of moving a couple of fingers or a whole hand around. Either that or you have an earlier Kindle version than I have (bought mine in January).
I read my tablet at home, and my Kindle each day on the bus, so I have experience of both.
It's not software, but it is people. His comment was a parody of the way that they talk, they often have "say what you like.. you can't deny", etc.
I saw a journal a few months ago from someone that actually knew the name of the marketing firm (or one of them at least), but I unfortunately didn't take a note of it :/
I think getting them to "work like the original" is the problem actually. That part covers interfacing all by itself. The brain is very highly interconnected in 3D.. and we don't have great 3D chip fabrication yet.
With MIT's brain chip, the simulation is faster than the biological system itself.
Uh-oh.
You seem to have things mixed up. Some games these days have motion blur effects, but that's only a special effect, it's not to make things look "acceptable". If you freeze a TV frame in motion, you will see blurring. If you pause a computer game, you will always get a crisp clear image (unless like I said there's a special motion effect going on - like when you drive quickly in GTA IV for example).
What is the point for you then? The point for me is first not having to have a shelf full of books, and second because I can carry around many books - even massive textbooks - in one small form factor. The page turn times really are fast enough for - probably about three quarters of a second at most on my Kindle keyboard, and maybe 0.1 of a second on my Android phone and tablet.
It's funny - now whenever I read a real book, I want to touch the words on the screen to do a dictionary check.. then realise that it's just a paper book. D'oh!
My comment in relation to it being strange was not about the FPS. It was about the fact that this is an e-ink (reflective) screen, rather than backlit. Even e-ink is novel to most people - we're definitely not used to ink that can animate quickly and in colour.
Indeed.. 30fps from a colour e-ink display. I can hardly imagine how strange it would be watching a video on one of these things.
This is the beginning of the end of printed magazines, now that people can't complain about eye strain from backlights. It will also be damn cool to be able to do real "living photos" without a backlit display.
Modifiable tattoos is another fun use that they're already doing with monochrome e-ink - being able to have them in colour that doesn't fade would be awesome too. The whole reason I haven't got a tattoo so far is that I know I'd probably want to change the design at some point.
Indeed :p Here's the comment I was referring to
Yep, it's primarily a leisure device.. what's your point? Tablets clearly aren't very business oriented, unless your business is stock control or giving presentations, or something else that works decently on a basic touch display.
There are several remote desktop/vpn type clients for iPad and Android devices. You probably will have to pay for a good one, but the fact that you "haven't found it", when you aren't actually interested in the first place.. this doesn't mean very much.
Just telling it how I see it.
1-1000: godlike
1001-5000: clever cookies
5000-50000: smart, run their own business
50001-100000: like to drink beer, married to beautiful, genius female geeks
100001-900000: generally insightful and interesting. Occasional troll.
900001-1000000: overly opinionated, often wrong
1000001-1500000: can't spell
1500001-2000000: really can't spell. "Lol" a lot. Point out the bleeding obvious in every comment.
2000001+ : work for advertising agencies, contracted out to MS and Facebook.
666: strangely erratic
The value of things like gold, silver, gems etc don't come around purely from their scarcity though. They're just beautiful in their own right, which combined with being scarce, makes them valuable in our psyche.
I guess the point I'm trying to rationalise is that the currency needs to be desirable (which isn't a particularly rational quality). BitCoin is not desirable. The desirability can also come from rational factors like being able to use the currency, but it's a chicken and egg situation. BitCoin would need some kind of foothold to gain traction as a desirable currency among anyone but jobless geeks who want to get rich quick, and it's just never had that.
the general hate towards Microsoft and their success with Windows.
Um. The hate has never been about success. The hate has been due to the monopoly position of an inferior product. Now I know you're just a marketing droid and therefore probably have no idea nor experience of the technical history during the 80s and 90s, and maybe even the 00s, but there are logical reasons for all the hate.
Windows has been getting better over the years, but those of us who experienced some of the alternatives tend to feel like MS's monopoly has held the advancement of desktop software back by about 10 years. I used to wish that Apple would gain more marketshare. They have done so now, and they do produce technically superior software to MS - it's just a shame that they have even worse policies in some cases, alongside the same "destroy your competition" ethos that MS have. Geeks (and anyone else who wants to see technology advancing as efficiently and beneficially as possible) prefer competition, not all out war.
I'm aware of that, but the dollar has evolved such that it does hold the promise of value, because it's already accepted all over. You can't just get BitCoin accepted by saying it "should" be accepted. I'd rather have something like Zynga credits or WoW than a bitcoin, despite not wanting to play WoW or any Zynga games. At least those currencies have some kind of possible use for millions of people.
The PS Move is clearly a knockoff of the Wiimote, and there's no way you can say it isn't.
I wouldn't try to say that it isn't. It's a knockoff that improves a lot on the original though. I haven't tried Wii motion plus though so I can't say how that compares. I only used my Move with the demos it came with though - I haven't seen any games come out that I'd actually want to play with it. If a good game came out for Kinect or any other future control system, then I'd buy it of course. But they're all just gimmicky garbage so far. It's a shame that Rock Band and Guitar Hero were so overdone, I'd rather see a steady stream of improvements with specialised controllers for certain game types.
Not sure what planet you're living on.. Apple has become a second evil empire which may make MS seem slightly more reasonable in some cases - but MS is still obviously an evil empire in itself. As soon as their anti-trust oversight was up earlier this year, it was straight back to the BS. I feel dirty even thinking about looking at an MS product like .NET.
I got bored of the Wii gimmick and PS Move pretty quick. So I didn't even bother buying Kinect for my 360. How is it any better? I'm not interested in dancing games, and while I used to fantasize about full body motion fighting games as a teenager, I know now that doing that doing that type of violent motion without any resistance (ie a punching bag or opponent) is pretty bad for your joints in the long run.
MS do manage to hit on good ideas every now and then, and it's good that they have a research lab. They're definitely not the only computer research lab out there. What about Bell labs? And Google Labs and 20% or whatever projects? The original poster claiming MS are the only guys that do research is pure BS.
As someone said before, Bitcoin would be a lot more valuable if your currency held the promise of something. For example selling your computer time makes much more sense than doing calculations designed to waste computing power. I've wondered before if there was anything to Bitcoin, but I really can't think of it as a currency. I think of it more like the stock market, and how I can abuse it to make a profit. In the end I'm better off just making money doing real work.
You're the guy that said he worked in marketing yesterday. Why is it that all UIDs over 2,000,000 seem to do marketing for MS?
Haven't used an iPad, only my Xoom. The new Slashcode does have annoying lag on text entry such that I switched to the old comment system just to be able to write comments. So outside of the apparent inability to handle large amounts of Javascript, it is decent. I really like the menus on my Xoom, you just slide your finger on from the side and the menu pops up. The mechanism for switching between tabs using that menu is quite fluid too.
I have a netbook which I used to use all the time. I hardly use it since I got my tablet. It's handy if you need to write lots. If you just want to browse the web, post a few small comments, watch some videos or read a book, the tablet is far more "handy".
It's a contraceptive in its own right. Just skoosh in some of that before you go, and nothing is going to stick :p