Pardon me, but do you have 6 fingers?
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But what about handicapped people? What if someone has 4 or even 3 fingers? How would they make up for this lack of digits?
Also, this method would seem to encourage people to use 6 fingers if they have them. That would be an interesting progression for us, as a race eh? Due to the usefulness, we evolved/grafted/added a mechanical 6th finger!
Just watch out for revenge bent young Spaniards tell you their name...
I used to dabble with GW products. I had lots of fun painting them, and some fun fighting battles with them. It was expensive but fun.
Then Warcraft came along and sucked up all my free time. If GW had been on the ball they would have gotten their game out ASAP after that to keep their players interested.
So this nostalgic ex-player has considered checking out recent changes to Warhammer, until I saw this news tidbit. Now I'm joining the expanding ranks of very unhappy GW customers who have forked out hunders or thousands of dollars for products of theirs only to have all creative efforts by very qualified people squashed.
The only possible way they could redeem themselves at this point without fully reversing their position, is to release news of a major hollywood movie with $100s of millions in CGI. If they have lisenced the rights to someone already, they are proctecting rights in that media. If there is nothing coming out anytime soon, they are just shooting themselves in the foot for no good reason. Only time will tell.
I thought competition was good for everyone, no exceptions? Thats why the anti-monopoly laws are there. but I guess a monopoloy on charity is a good thing... right?
wait, I'm sure OLPC got a patent on cheap laptops so they are in the clear with their complaints. --- sarcasm..
If both groups produce decent laptops for $100, wheres the problem? Neither one will have the full market, but so what?
I am a tech writer and deal with GUIs every day. I agree on your points about not working at the bottom of the screen being a big issue. Not only are controls placed so you can see the screen when using them, on a cell phone your thumbs/fingers are easier to use with controls placed closer to the keypad as your hand is holding the center or center-bottom of the phone. I'm surprised that the target can't (at least not yet) flip its targeted zone based on the area of the screen - too close to the left edge? flip it to the right!
That said, this is a move in the right direction. I'm curious if it can change the size of the circle based on the pressure area - ie. if my kid brother is using a pinky finger, or if my fat cousin is using his thumb. The first is near stylus in size, where the latter might cover a quarter of the screen.
normal people who work along that path, say bike couriers will need to know about the outage. Some people depend on cellphones for their jobs, so this is important to them.
I guess terrorists might say that terror is their job, but thats hard to convince me on... (wheres the $$?)
So protect and help lots of average people but warn the terrorists to start working on another type of detonator... hmm...
I'd say that they are doing it the right way.
Not that this will be a poster quality feature, but how about either physical or chemical castration?
Unichs (no not the OS!) live longer, are happier and healthier - just like cats after the operation.
The only side effect is the extra weight that seems to be retained..
If these bots evolve, whats to stop them from ordering new hardware for themselves?
Then they'd set it up and the new machine orders new machines.
The morons on the web might be saturated but stealing their money and buying more bot computers likely has a future.
I'm picturing that episode of X-files that Gibson helped with - the trailer in the middle of nowhere with a whack of T3s going into it.
More likely if they got really intelligent, they'd take over a small carribean island. No wait, thats meatworld speak. They'd go for a wintery climate that never lost power.
Now that would be something!
The first virtual Warcraft player - a robot who sat in front of the screen hour after hour playing the game non stop except for maintenance breaks and possibly some down time to cool down from overheating. That sounds more like real life than you'd first think!
But is there a moral dilemma with us creating artificial lifeforms that already have one of our worst addictions? Would you want a puppy to born into the world with a snausages snack dependency? While it might have its uses in training and controlling a pet, how about the ethics?
Check your mail sometime - the envelopes on as much as 25% of my mail look to have been tampered with. I'm talking on the order of my neighbour started to open my mail reread the address and stopped. Now the percentage of my mail over the border that is opened when its obviously either a birthday card or a T-shirt? 100%. That's right! Opened and taped shut again. WTF for sure. But what happens if I try to persue this?
And by this point you are likely saying Whats his neighbor doing with his mail, thats illegal too? Apparently its not illegal if your stupid postman can't read a letter or family name and deilvers your mail to any of 5 houses in the neighborhood! On the bright side, he does that with packages too - so when someone sends me a 'package' responding to this post it likely will go to my neighbors.
Dwell on the small things that are good, for soon that is all we will have.
This is very much like the Kia ad running in North America now. It has an average guy in a Kia stopped at the side of the road with a blonde woman in the front seat making out with him. Then she gets out puts on her police hat and gets in her police car.
Apparently its setting the women in the police force back by decades! That despite the fact that when they pull someone over they have the gun and the power to put the cuffs on for a jailterm.
Fantasy apparently has no place in reality any more. Except what we are supposed to believe that the government or CNN tells us "Believe us, everyone else is lying."
I can't exactly put my finger on the day and time I decided I didn't need to "move up" any more, but let me tell you, it was a liberating moment.
The funniest part of it is that immediately after the first time I turned down a "promotion" because I felt satisfied with my life as it was, coincided directly with the really good opportunities showing up. Why does this make me think of Office Space? And gutting fish on my cubicle desk?
Honestly, less stress in your life means your more relaxed which generally means you're thinking more clearly. That in turn is perceived as intelligence and/or confidence both of which are main leadership qualities. Also telecommuting should actually increase your inter-personal skills because you have to consciously work to keep in touch with people, where in a cube-farm you communicate without thinking about it a lot of the time.
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But what about handicapped people? What if someone has 4 or even 3 fingers? How would they make up for this lack of digits?
Also, this method would seem to encourage people to use 6 fingers if they have them. That would be an interesting progression for us, as a race eh? Due to the usefulness, we evolved/grafted/added a mechanical 6th finger!
Just watch out for revenge bent young Spaniards tell you their name...
I used to dabble with GW products. I had lots of fun painting them, and some fun fighting battles with them. It was expensive but fun.
Then Warcraft came along and sucked up all my free time. If GW had been on the ball they would have gotten their game out ASAP after that to keep their players interested.
So this nostalgic ex-player has considered checking out recent changes to Warhammer, until I saw this news tidbit.
Now I'm joining the expanding ranks of very unhappy GW customers who have forked out hunders or thousands of dollars for products of theirs only to have all creative efforts by very qualified people squashed.
The only possible way they could redeem themselves at this point without fully reversing their position, is to release news of a major hollywood movie with $100s of millions in CGI. If they have lisenced the rights to someone already, they are proctecting rights in that media. If there is nothing coming out anytime soon, they are just shooting themselves in the foot for no good reason. Only time will tell.
I thought competition was good for everyone, no exceptions?
Thats why the anti-monopoly laws are there.
but I guess a monopoloy on charity is a good thing... right?
wait, I'm sure OLPC got a patent on cheap laptops so they are in the clear with their complaints. --- sarcasm..
If both groups produce decent laptops for $100, wheres the problem? Neither one will have the full market, but so what?
to dip the end of the spear under water to cancel that refractive difference.
But then what do I know? I've only watched a few seasons of survivor.
... please mash the keyboard with your hand.
I am a tech writer and deal with GUIs every day.
I agree on your points about not working at the bottom of the screen being a big issue. Not only are controls placed so you can see the screen when using them, on a cell phone your thumbs/fingers are easier to use with controls placed closer to the keypad as your hand is holding the center or center-bottom of the phone. I'm surprised that the target can't (at least not yet) flip its targeted zone based on the area of the screen - too close to the left edge? flip it to the right!
That said, this is a move in the right direction. I'm curious if it can change the size of the circle based on the pressure area - ie. if my kid brother is using a pinky finger, or if my fat cousin is using his thumb. The first is near stylus in size, where the latter might cover a quarter of the screen.
Not all digits are created equal!
normal people who work along that path, say bike couriers will need to know about the outage. Some people depend on cellphones for their jobs, so this is important to them. I guess terrorists might say that terror is their job, but thats hard to convince me on... (wheres the $$?) So protect and help lots of average people but warn the terrorists to start working on another type of detonator ... hmm...
I'd say that they are doing it the right way.
Not that this will be a poster quality feature, but how about either physical or chemical castration? Unichs (no not the OS!) live longer, are happier and healthier - just like cats after the operation. The only side effect is the extra weight that seems to be retained..
If these bots evolve, whats to stop them from ordering new hardware for themselves? Then they'd set it up and the new machine orders new machines. The morons on the web might be saturated but stealing their money and buying more bot computers likely has a future. I'm picturing that episode of X-files that Gibson helped with - the trailer in the middle of nowhere with a whack of T3s going into it. More likely if they got really intelligent, they'd take over a small carribean island. No wait, thats meatworld speak. They'd go for a wintery climate that never lost power.
Now that would be something! The first virtual Warcraft player - a robot who sat in front of the screen hour after hour playing the game non stop except for maintenance breaks and possibly some down time to cool down from overheating. That sounds more like real life than you'd first think! But is there a moral dilemma with us creating artificial lifeforms that already have one of our worst addictions? Would you want a puppy to born into the world with a snausages snack dependency? While it might have its uses in training and controlling a pet, how about the ethics?
Check your mail sometime - the envelopes on as much as 25% of my mail look to have been tampered with. I'm talking on the order of my neighbour started to open my mail reread the address and stopped. Now the percentage of my mail over the border that is opened when its obviously either a birthday card or a T-shirt? 100%. That's right! Opened and taped shut again. WTF for sure.
But what happens if I try to persue this?
And by this point you are likely saying Whats his neighbor doing with his mail, thats illegal too? Apparently its not illegal if your stupid postman can't read a letter or family name and deilvers your mail to any of 5 houses in the neighborhood! On the bright side, he does that with packages too - so when someone sends me a 'package' responding to this post it likely will go to my neighbors.
Dwell on the small things that are good, for soon that is all we will have.
This is very much like the Kia ad running in North America now. It has an average guy in a Kia stopped at the side of the road with a blonde woman in the front seat making out with him. Then she gets out puts on her police hat and gets in her police car. Apparently its setting the women in the police force back by decades! That despite the fact that when they pull someone over they have the gun and the power to put the cuffs on for a jailterm. Fantasy apparently has no place in reality any more. Except what we are supposed to believe that the government or CNN tells us "Believe us, everyone else is lying."
anyone with a red stapler muttering to themselves...
or the guy gutting a fish in his cube.
Honestly, less stress in your life means your more relaxed which generally means you're thinking more clearly. That in turn is perceived as intelligence and/or confidence both of which are main leadership qualities. Also telecommuting should actually increase your inter-personal skills because you have to consciously work to keep in touch with people, where in a cube-farm you communicate without thinking about it a lot of the time.