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VR might explode once the hardware can convey our actual facial expressions.

Once that happens, there will be strong forces could tip:

* Offices/meetings

* Learning institutions

* Socializing with friends who aren't close by

* ...
Pale Moon does not completely ignore these though as you seem to be suggesting, they indeed do at least try to patch these.

And I'm betting most of the time they succeed. There may be a few weird ones with edge cases that they've screwed up though and some subset of the vulnerability is still possible.
I tried running a startup in 2010 before the ACA took effect. What ultimately made me give up? My only health care option was Cobra, and I ran out of time.

At the time, I had sleep apnea and had to pay almost $500 a month for health insurance. That was more then I spent on food, almost as much as I paid for rent. (It was more than my car payment, which I paid off two years prior.)

18 months is a very short time period when you're trying different things to see what sticks.

If the ACA was an option, I'd probably had another 4-6 months to go. Would I have found something that "stuck?" I'll never know.
That's what I was thinking -- which is why I'm guessing there's no extra battery.

Also, it presents a conundrum when flying. Would the TSA consider it to be two batteries or one when it comes to the 100Wh limit?
WhatsApp is used by over a billion people. I'm sure some activists in Egypt use WhatsApp, too. That said, I think WhatsApp was blocked in Egypt, too, at least for a while. I don't know if they later "fixed" that or not, and how they did it.
"Part of the suit has to do with the initial pitch video, watched by millions of people, showing off what appeared to be a Lily drone following users and shooting video. The drone responsible for all that fancy aerial work and video was not in fact a Lily, but a DJI Inspire, something the creators failed to mention."

Very interesting. Assuming I'll get my refund soon -- I'll be applying it to buy a DJI Inspire. There's a certain justice that Lily's lying will lead to a boon for DJI.

Also: "One, the FTC’s Mail Order Rule, required that, if a pre-ordered product is seriously delayed, the company must issue refunds unless customers indicate they don’t mind the wait. Lily certainly must qualify as having encountered long delays — from February 2016 to “later in 2017” — but refunds were not issued at large."

I hope that the district attorney also confronts Lily on how, up until mid-December 2016, they were still promising shipments "soon". An obvious lie now.
Intel also usually releases a beta every year with all the new features bunched together. They don't tend to push features out in frequent incremental updates instead opting for yearly releases with bugfixes in point releases in between.

I love the work being done by the clang and gcc teams, but I still stick with Intel's C++ compiler for many things due to its far better support for automatic vectorization among other things.
“We believe that we live in the ‘age of information'. That there has been an information ‘explosion,’ an information ‘revolution.’ While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.” -- Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information, 1992

McKibben's book, just like Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, is even more relevant to the internet age than the television age.

There is something insidious about "information" that's doled out like slot tokens at a casino. Something dangerous about "facts" that are carefully designed to fit with what we want to believe. Something manipulative about "teaching" that is designed to fit through the gaps in our mental defenses for the benefit of the "teacher".

This week I've met otherwise "normal" people who are flat-earthers, anti-vaccers, and who believe Hillary is a Satanist and Trump is the "Bringer of Light".

But ultimately who cares if your hairdresser is an anti-vaccer, or your tennis partner is a flat-earther? Does it really matter if that cute girl at the check-out is an anti-Semite? Does it harm anyone if the guy building your deck believes in zero-point energy?

So long as people fulfill their economic roles quietly and efficiently, does it really matter what's in their hearts and minds? It's all relative isn't it?
I think the chance that Trumpcare will protect people with pre-existing conditions is close to zero. Maybe there will be a lip-service clause which prohibits outright refusals to cover, but allows the coverage to be offered at any rate. There's no financial incentive to do so from the perspective of an individual corporation, and I find it impossible to imagine a law engineered by the current legislature will put the public good above corporate bottom lines in any way.
Nice to see some other people pointing out the positive effects here.

As a (room-scale only) VR developer, I've been writing about the upsides of VR and VR gaming for some time - example, http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/05/three-un... . There's a lot of skepticism around this area, particularly the claim that games will actually make people fitter - but you only have to play a few rounds of Holopoint or Space Pirate Simulator to realise it's also true.

(As a side note, I'm increasingly dividing VR into "pseudo-VR" (anything where you can't walk around) and "real VR" (room-scale experiences: the Vive, in short, and some Oculus Touch setups). Harsh, possibly, but it really does feel like a different medium once you can get up and interact with your hands.

To my mind, the only interesting VR experiences are those which engage the whole body. That's something I've been trying very hard to do with Left-Hand Path (http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760) the VR game I developed - at various points, you have to crouch, dodge, crawl, duck, and draw magical symbols in a variety of ways.

I'm doing that because quite apart from the health benefits, engaging my players in actual movement creates a whole new level of immersion. Proprioception is a thing - the sense of the body's place and movement in space.

Getting tired and even "gassed" also helps immersion. I've been playing the VR boxing sim Thrill Of The Fight recently, and it's remarkable how well it simulates real-life sparring in some ways - including getting gassed, and having to spend a while just keeping your guard up whilst you recover the ability to breathe without wheezing. That's an element of immersion I'm never going to get from a PC game.

I play a lot of Dark Souls, but the phrase "in-game stamina management" means something completely different when it's your stamina you're managing.
> with HTC expected to sell additional LightBox sensors

You can buy additional base stations right now[1], mostly for replacement purposes, but the biggest limitation to using more than 2 has been in the software simply not supporting them.

[1] https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/
> That's my poor understanding of U.S. Federal vs State government that fails me here: what exactly would be illegal,

Mandating coverage, which is basically a requirement of affordable universal healthcare.

"What happens if I don't pay the fee?

The IRS will hold back the amount of the fee from any future tax refunds. There are no liens, levies, or criminal penalties for failing to pay the fee."

https://www.healthcare.gov/fees/fee-for-not-being-covered/
The best I have found so far* is a PVC 5 way side outlet with some short legs for stability and a tall sections based on how high you want to go. I wanted added stability to I made two per lighthouse, and a cross beam on top. Using some old go-pro accessories to attach. *You are right, you want it to be super stable, moving it while its plugged in can seriously damage it.
Maybe they couldn't get a job with one of those big businesses, due to lack of credentials, or maybe the disease prevented it.

There are thousands of people whose lives were saved by this. Nitpicking over on example seems rather unproductive.
I do find that more convincing. Curious why FoxNews National didn't run with that more.
The panel gaps on the sides look about the same size as a tray-load DVD/Blu-ray drive would be. So I wonder if the new SD card slot & USB ports are modules that could be swapped for optical drives, additional SSD storage, batteries, etc.
Perhaps if the mechanisms by which these goals would be achieved were made clear to us, people would be for it. The fact that any details can't be shared(because they don't exist) is illustrative of the fact that there is no real plan to fix these issues while maintaining coverage of pre-existing conditions.
> It basically reverses what Apple is trying to do by exporting everything out into separate devices which makes the machine look pretty in store shelves but a headache to use in the real world

95% of people in the "real world" don't plug anything into their laptops except the power cord.
On the other hand, there's some very significant portion of the population that is very viscerally offended (at the least) by the President-elect.

And some subset of that sub-population that has no sense of humor left.
So do you just have some huge empty room/garage in your house then? Are you ever afraid of smashing into stuff around you that you can't see because of the goggles?
It's not just you, but AR is harder than VR, and has a longer "basic" feature list. Transparent screens, world tracking, world occlusion, object recognition / classification - plus the mobile VR issues of portable computing power and battery life.

VR will pave the way for a lot of the authoring technologies, and then those techs will (I mean, they already are) get adjusted for AR.
How much weight it adds to the laptop? Does it increase battery life? It obviously not gonna increase RAM, likely increase SSDs because OWC sell them... It looks terrible tbh. How is this better than using dongles?

I saw the MBP 2016. I was very happy and went and bought a old MBP 2015 with retina at a discounted rate... I'm a happy camper and lousy early adopter.
So there's a lot of talk about how encryption algorithms relying on the difficulty of factoring primes could be weakened by quantum computers in the near future.

Are there any technological advances or scenarios where the security of hash algorithms could be weakened (other than computers just getting fasters via ~Moore's Law).
"iPhone app purchasers may sue Apple Inc over allegations that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps by not allowing users to purchase them outside the App Store, leading to higher prices, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday."

If this is deemed illegal then its going to get quite interesting on both the phones and game consoles. Welcome back Atari 2600.
I think this presents an unnecessarily complicated view of things. The simple answer here is that California absolutely could develop its own healthcare system.
Yup, the protocol might be secure, but the implementation might not be. Without the source code, you can only guess and hope for the best.
How is VR "physical" when you are tethered to a computer?
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> I won't ever use mental health services. Personal choice. The old plan didn't offer that. I could get another plan to cover that. Why should I be forced to purchase something I have no intention of using?

You are ignorant and heartless.

In the worst and most expensive cases, patients do not even have a choice.

And your subtext is completely clear here.

No, you should not get to pick and choose what conditions are worthy of treatment because you don't have them and don't think they are legitimate, and therefore make coverage more expensive or unobtainable for others.
Our application largely predated QML, so none.
Not that I'm aware of, but I believe HPX is mostly standards compliant: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx
Neanderthals were actually more technologically advanced than humans

I understand why this choice of words, but I think it is important to remember that Neanderthals were humans too. And, as we now know, not just "technically" human, but in many ways.
I run a 3 camera setup and it works fine for my 10 foot by 10 foot play space. I have a fourth, but I have been too lazy to set it up.

I do run two Inateck PCI-E USB cards so I don't run into capacity issues. There are many reports of issues running > 2 sensors and difficulty getting the Inateck cards working correctly due to driver version issues, USB power management etc.
You can look at the published court documents:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3120046-Open-Whisper...

The page I linked was the full data they disclosed.
Don't see why not? In Jason scotts talk The Mysterious Mr Hokum [0] he talks about an owner of an early ISP who not long after selling it was found dead. Iirc During his time as owner he would often have regular meetings with FBI agents to basically discuss what was going on the net.

Problem was after he died his Was actually on the run on fruad charges. I think Jason presumes he set up the ISP as another scam but he started it at the perfect time and started actually making legit money instead. So (again trying to recall the talk from memory, I must actually watch it again as I enjoyed it) this isp owner was having meetings with the FBI about his ISP all the while the FBI also wanted him on fraud charges. So yeah if the FBI don't mind having chats with ISP's just to see what's going on, I wouldn't be at all surprised if China had meetings with their ISP's too. From what I have read I about the GFW it seems that it's infrastructure differs from isp to isp. Dunno if that's cause it's left to the ISP to implement or if The Gov issue "black boxes" to do the firewall work and it's just different versions of hardware / software depending on when the boxes were issued.

But yeah I do like the idea of a secret defcon but kinda in reverse that discuses the tricks and infrastructure and the bypasses they discovered in the past year but in order to better run the GFW. In my imaginary con they are all still getting drunk and hacking into the hotel signage for the shits and giggles of it though.

[0] https://youtu.be/UTzQmhmgLC0
Perhaps. But to ignore them is to be tone-deaf for the sake of a marketing gimmick.
I use to use Audioshield for the workout but I find Space Pirate and Holopoint to be more intense.

I haven't seen Holoball, sounds awesome thanks!
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The London Underground bombers came from Leeds...they were not immigrants at all!
Faced with a similar decision pre-ACA, the fact is that CA already had guaranteed issue small business health insurance. ACA roughly tripled the cost of the same plan, but made it more accessible to people by putting a web front-end on top of what was otherwise a fairly opaque process.

But it's untrue to claim ACA provided benefits to any CA startup in terms of coverage, guaranteed issue or pre-existing conditions.

If you wanted to start a company in CA pre-ACA and you had prior credible coverage, you could get a great plan at a competitive price (the so-called "rating adjustment factor" was capped for the guarantee issue plans) with immediate coverage for pre-existing conditions.
I don't see why it's ironic. Call out culture has been a staple of the right for decades now, which is not to say it doesn't happen on the left as well. RINO dates back to the 90s, and that's just the most recent version.
>Selling my Vive tomorrow, before it's too late (unsellable due to something better on the market).

The Vive came out like 8 months ago. I would hardly say even the craziest company (cough Apple) would rush out a new version that quickly.

>Glare, very blurry except for a narrow center, the rings of the fresnel lenses are very noticeable.

You are probably wearing it wrong. There are two adjustments you can make. There is a small knob at the right-bottom edge, turn it and it changes the lenses width (how far apart your eyes are), this is not likely the issue. The second adjustment is focal length (how far away the screen is), if you click out the left circle that attaches the strap to your headseat, you can turn it to adjust focal length.

The third adjustment is wearing it right. I know this sounds really dumb but you have to wear it much lower than you expect. I was wearing it very high up, like glasses, when the better position is like wearing goggles.

But overall, yeah, the resolution isn't great but things like blurriness can be fixed.
The shelter one may be hit and miss, but it's a lot better than healthcare support (even under, but much moreso prior to, the ACA.)
The challenges for VR today can be summed up in a few points:

- The price point (a high-end VR experience costs around $2800 ($800 HTC Vive + a $2000 PC)

- Resolution (even the best VR is too low-res today)

- Inside-out tracking (explained below)

- Content – there are great games and other immersive content today, but it's just scratching the surface

Apart from content, all of these challenges will be handily solved by Moore's Law in the next 24 months. We will have inside-out, high-end, high-resolution virtual reality that will cost a consumer less than $500-$1000 all-in.

The chicken-and-egg problem of content vs. consumer adoption is already being solved. Enough new headsets shipped last year for the market to support substantial investment in VR content over these next 24 months, and newer, better content + cheaper hardware will lead to increase in consumer adoption, which will lead to even more investment in content, and so on.

The only question then is: will everyday people want to use VR regularly? I have yet to meet someone who has spent a decent amount of time (more than a quick demo) in a high-end VR experience and still doubts this. Certain activities (gaming) will be adopted more easily, while others (watching a movie with your family) might feel a bit strange – but that will feel more natural when VR and AR converge on a 5-10 year timeline.

It's exciting!

* Regarding "inside out" tracking above: Today, the most advanced consumer headset (HTC Vive) gives a glimpse of this potential with "room-scale" VR that allows a user 6 degrees of freedom – meaning the ability to walk around in an environment. But, the Vive requires sensors on the walls that draw lines around a playspace – this is "outside-in" tracking. Inside out tracking requires a headset that can draw a volumetric map of its environment in real-time – so you could walk from room to room in VR and see walls and obstacles before you crash into them. (the closest thing we have to this today is the Microsoft Hololens) This is important because it reduces the need for a large physical space, a complex rig, a constrained environment area. It might not be necessary for mainstream adoption, but it is a challenge that needs to be faced.
I don't trust them
What's so weird about it? There's a massive business of external batteries in the mobile space that do effectively the same thing. What does Mophie know that OWC doesn't?
I think the AI safety debate is about not starting an AI Manhatten project, sponsored by the unlimited resources of the government, before we understand AI safety better. This is contributing to AI safety because it's right sized. Skynet is not going to fall out of a single PC running a virtual machine on commodity hardware.
I'm skeptical that AMD would implement the API and driver for a console. That's sounds like platform work, and I think that would make it the console manufacturer's job. AMD might say "here's the chip's specs and we support API X and Y for it", and if Sony or MS don't like it, they can change it themselves.
I spent the afternoon with friends playing on a vive in a dedicated room. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't leave the experience wanting to own my own setup.

Partly the newness of the tech is to blame, and the games were retrofits of things that existed. I think as a new generation of games come around that are conceived for the hardware it'll come around.

Let's not forget the zen-like simplicity of (Google) Cardboard VR apps. They are a lot of fun and use your phone plus a 15-20 dollar holder. I think these apps will be quicker to innovate as all of the hardware is so cheap and plentiful for developer and consumers.
I bought a Vive back in August. I loved the shit out of it for months, but gradually stopped using it, although I still think it's an amazing piece of hardware and a big piece of the future.

But, when I play games, I frequently want a very relaxing activity, and the Vive doesn't do that. So, interesting.

But! As a (former?) AR professional, holy shit the non-gaming applications for AR/VR. There's overlap and synergy for applications in both mediums, and then there's the overlap on the technologies (particularly authoring tech - I'm looking at you, Unity) that go into them.

Basically, if I wanted to be a "real" AR developer when AR is ready, I'd start by becoming a real VR developer now.
I'm not getting into VR until Linux support is there. Every major vendor promised it. It's been long enough. More than long enough.
So if I just say that whatever I believe is the 'reality of _", the conversation should switch to the potential ramifications of the ideas I believe? It seems like you are just saying that we should discuss the issues you (or some arbitrarily selected group of your choice) believe to be contentious issues.

If you have some non-viewpoint-based standard for what is a legitimate topic of debate, I would be happy to see it.
Sure. That's very true. CBT can be done and has shown some success with lay practitioners in non-american countries. However that's not as widely available. Awareness meditation is also looking hopeful for ADHD, but more evidence needs to come up for it to be definitively conclusive.

I'm not saying don't use the tools you talked about. I'm not saying don't take breaks from consumption. Just next time you do choose to consume try to maintain awareness of what you're doing. You might find some small success in guiding what you choose to do.
Seperate comment because it's a separate topic: if I was looking to make money from VR as a primary consideration (as opposed to my current cascade of story first, money second) I'd be ignoring games altogether and looking at creativity / design / conferencing apps, probably for enterprise.

VR is incredible for creation and design, and can easily be collaborative too.
StumpWM is so awesome! And I'm really happy to see this release!!!

I love StumpWM because it does not force a workflow on me! I have configured it to work the way I want it to! And as far as I know I cannot have this workflow in any other tiling window manager!

If I want to open firefox I press `F9` and then `f`.

Let's start a terminal window... `F9` `t`

Let's open emacs... `F9` `e`

Now I want to go back to firefox... `F9` `f`

Press `F8` if you want to switch between last 2 windows (emacs & firefox)...

F8 ... and I'm back at my emacs window...

Neat ha?

Oh, and I forgot to mention that everything is in full screen! 29" of real estate for every app! No tiling or stacking windows.

There are no numbers, tags or anything to remember. Too bad this will never work on a mac... everything starts with an i... just kidding! :)

If you are interested in my stumpwmrc file:

https://github.com/seyedip/my-stumpwmrc
Hm, I think it's the opposite. VR big in the short term; AR big in the long term. I do agree that when talking about smartphone applications, as in the blog post, those will need to be AR not VR.

Google Glass was squashed right? And Hololens is focused on business use cases first. I don't see it becoming consumer focused for some time. VR is amazing _today_ and has a massive gaming audience. The business applications of AR, while high impact/potential, are a much smaller audience.