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> "Don't be the fool who tries to personally take on the collective action problem"

That's exactly what Kickstarter solves. My $10 probably wouldn't help much, but the $10 of thousands of backers will actually do something.
I don't particularly think the politics of an executive defines the corporate culture of a company, so I'm not boycotting Mozilla just because the CEO has made some questionable political contributions.

However this post sends the wrong message for one reason - It is left unsigned by the CEO or anybody else in the organization. The omission of any sort of statement on his behalf speaks more than had Mozilla not addressed the concerns at all. At the very least, some high-level executive could have signed the post. The fact it isn't signed by anybody makes it seem like what could be a hollow promise.
Thanks for that, I'm not sure this particular post is a compelling public statement though, but I guess there's no way a singular statement could ameliorate everyone.
I think it's a good way from photorealism and have no especial desire to look at friends' weird avatars. But things I would find it compellingly interesting for including examining architecture and 3d models in general (where it would mesh nicely with the Leap controller if they sort out the problems with that - a it doesn't work well with monitors); space exploration, because I loooove me some astronomy; and staring at fractals, preferably while listening to loud techno music.
A better analogy - fans pays artist up front to record album. Band records album and delivers it to fans.

Then band signs deal with record company. Fans hate band for "selling out".
I agree. This statement seems very dispassionate, but as stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7471718 it sounds like it was done at the request of the org, which might explain why it is not signed by an individual.

That said, from my personal experience, I disagree about the politics of individual executives, but that seems much more like a subjective statement, so I wouldn't enter a knife fight based on that assertion :)
Well, Carmack has always wanted to create the metaverse. And the Oculus founder has wanted that too. It seems this acquisition might be the best for their plans, if Zuck is on board with it.
What kind of credentials do you need other than "large data centers" the scale of Facebook? IM doesn't count - so what does?
A number of us have tried a variety of tools to produce e-reader formats, but none of them handle this book at all well. :-(

A number of people have reported good results with the single-column format on higher-end ebook readers. The single colume version of the first electronic edition may be found here: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/p...
Microsoft would buy it for the Xbox and desktop PC. They have been very good about making other peripherals for XBox work really well with Windows. I think this would have been the best outcome.
RubyConf India – Hospitality was anything but pleasant at The Lalit Goa
Carmack is the CTO. He's in charge of the technical direction of the company as a whole. A company whose mission is pretty clearly defined.

This is very, very different from what Kurzweil is doing at Google.
Here you go! http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/p...

Each release is typeset both single-column and double-column. Single column works well for the larger-format ebook readers, and double-column works well for laptop/desktop use and for hardcopy.
A lot of industries have had "protect the middleman" laws, so it's not really a car only thing.

Gov. Perry sees the way the wind is blowing and probably believes (at least from the last couple of interviews) that the model will change so he might as well get the factories. The auto folks will still have some local people.
I'm interested in how they pitch it to their staff/investors as a guide to where Zuckerberg intends to take the company. I agree investor conference calls are tedious to listen to but then SEC filings and annual reports are also boring unless you are interested in analyzing a firm.
How is that a yo-yo? It went from free to Pricing level #1, which dropped to Pricing level #2. No one was ever charged at Pricing level 1.
Yeah, we are far from what was refered to in my answer :

> What about when the device is $20 instead of $400? When it doesn't make you nauseous? When it's so close to face-to-face contact that you can replace 10 or 20 percent of your business travel?

We are FAR from having a very cheap VR solution. The VR gear is likely to be 300 or 400+ USD for a while and that will prevent mainstream adoption because it's a peripheral.

We are far from having solved all the problems related to discomfort, nausea, eye strain and stuff that goes with VR systems. Have you had a rift on your heard for 5 hours in a row ? If you had, you'd know what I am talking about.

So close to simulating real human contact? We are not even there YET in terms of 3D technology, we are far from photo realistic human representations on screen, let alone VR.

So yes, we are far from these objectives.

EDIT: and your comment regarding mobile phones to drive VR is senseless. mobile phones are too limited to drive any kind of complex 3d environment, they are limited by battery size, by watts and how temperature they can cope with, and by the size of their processors. The past few years should clearly indicate the pace in mobile phone processing power is slowing down rather than accelerating. You don't get 2x performance every 6 months anymore on a new mobile phone.
I don't share your opinion, but have some colleagues who do. I love VR and own the dev kit. I love playing with it.

I like to watch movies and TV shows with friends and family, not alone.

I cannot see VR as advantageous for the work I do: design, programming, painting, writing. I enjoy working outside or in cafes, where there are people and noises and things to eat and drink. Places to walk.

Most of my programming happens when I step away from computers. When I'm at a computer all I am doing is transcribing code and design, not being creative.
There are few reasons, Microsoft is not bad in gaming. They have Xbox/Kinect and they understand gaming. They are also not making money from user's data by tracking them by whatever means necessary. I also respect Microsoft Research that does some cool tech research that does not necessary get into their products. Social network companies are simply creepy because they make money off of your behaviors and Facebook is doing it as their primary business.
Yup. I had the beta source of win 2k when it was refered to as NT 5.
Google Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Tegra 4 has a MIPI-CSI interface for image sensors and I would assume K1 is similar. Supposedly you can combine the ISP and GPU for image/video processing.
What's wrong with double NAT?
I find this particular form of cynicism entertaining. But this is not about the particular number of users lost.

It's about Facebook's brand.

There are many things Facebook might want to do, but it can't, because people don't trust them, and their every movie is a potential cause for outrage.

No company wants to be left with the only alternative of buying their way into success, and as you see this doesn't work quite smooth, either.
It's a CLI, command line interface. I assumed you were talking about their NodeJS application, which is code downloaded to your computer which you can verify at any time you like.
It's good for artists and small projects that need some capital but might not have very high ROI or might be beyond an innovator's personal means. I can think of quite a few electronic and music-oriented technology projects that I wouldn't have heard about and which would have struggled to find funding in its absence.
What's wrong with it being a deeply-held belief? Hell, for that matter, what exactly is this position everyone keeps ascribing to him?

Other than the donation, what do we know?
Growing a GNU with Guix
My point is that meteor.js is attracting a lot of attention as does security and encryption, github.com is just natural place to show work done and start dialog. Also remember that notable https://xkcd.com/664/
Aresti Catalog
I'm curious why they never make CRTs and floppies anymore. Let's write an article about it.
Disney picked up pixar and didn't screw it up (too) much.
All anyone else gets are promises from said CEO.
If you paid for a license to something and they provide the source with purchase, but don't want the source shared or modifications to it shared either.

In reality, if redistribution of source is forbidden, restricting unreleased modifications of source is hard to enforce.
> Why do you think it would look anything like what we currently consider social networking? Why are people so painfully short-sighted?

Why do you think the fact that "next-gen" social networking will look different excuses three massive friction points of VR (buying the VR gear, buying a decent computer, and strapping on an ungainly headset)?

It's not short-sighted to see problems, it's short-sighted to ignore them. Unless you have a reason to think you can. Do you?

> I have said many times that facebook won the social network wars long before google even released google+.

I don't see how that's remotely relevant.

> Anything that comes along to kill facebook will look nothing like what we consider social networking today.

You're wandering in circles, still not addressing the friction problem. VR has huge friction points and dubious value-add outside gaming. Either argue that the friction isn't as bad as we think or argue that the value-add is larger.

"The sensation of 'being there' is so powerful that it will make 'virtual family gatherings' possible in a way that video conferencing and facebook haven't"

That's an argument (albeit not one I'm convinced by). See the difference?
> and it doesn't have the future career impact.

If notch cares about "future career" (see parent posts concerning how much money he's got), donating to cool gaming projects and helping them get off the ground will actually probably earn him money in the long run. Positioning yourself as a benevolent benefactor earns not only good will, but influence. Certainly the 10k wouldn't have hurt when it came time to negotiate for Minecraft for the Oculus.
Is surveillance always bad? From the reactions here, you'd think it is. But that attitude will keep forcing surveillance underground. Any policy discussions are going to be:

"We need to watch people."

"They will hate that."

"Let's not tell them we're doing it then."

It would be far better to have it out in the open, transparent. That's only going to happen if we are willing to talk about it constructively.

And although I'd rather not have my metadata collected by the NSA, I also don't want to be knifed while I walk home, and it sounds like that second scenario is what this surveillance system is trying to prevent.

*edit: formatting
Actually, in all of this anger, there is great news. This is validation of the crowdfunding format in a big big way. I hope this is just the start (well, the start of getting actual ROI for your crowdfunding investment. Enough of this Donation silliness..)
how/why? Facebook is how I connect with my friends and make plans to hang out with them in person later. Without it I wouldn't talk to a lot of people, online or offline.
As a backer (investor) of Oculus VR, I am looking forward to my share of the pie. Oh wait... my stake is 0%! No pie for me!
>FB has experience with stuffing LOLCat pics in your FB feed

Seriously? Are you really saying that it's FB's evil plan to stuff cat pictures in your pictures? And not the fualt of those with whom you connect on FB?

It's rather sad how so many people just think of FB as a "website" and not realize the truly innovative efforts they must go through to keep it running as such a massive scale. Not to mention, they built their own servers and pushed initiatives to help the whole industry set up proper infrastructures to achieve massive scale
DVD players.
Because those of us salivating over the prospect of Oculus for gaming never wanted it to be subject to Facebook's "vision." Quote from Zuck:

"We're clearly not a hardware company. We're not gonna try to make a profit off of the devices long term. We view this as a software and services thing, where if we can make it so that this becomes a network where people can be communicating and buying things and virtual goods, and there might be advertising in the world, but we need to figure that out down the line."

That's fine and all, that's what FB does, I just don't want them to do it to Rift.
Texas makes tesla direct sales illegal. Tesla bribes Texas governor with factory in Texas. Texas governor decides to change law. Perry runs for president in 2016 as a "job creator".

Good old American corruption
Google Glass's proposition is fundamentally "wearable Facebook". I don't think this is a defensive move; it's a "Oh, it's obvious in hindsight; why aren't we doing that, too?" response. Oculus Rift wasn't competing against it, but a Facebook-owned Oculus Rift is a lot more likely to.

In effect, Facebook is asking for the second mover position. There's an old saw about how the first mover in a new market actually fails because he runs into all the problems, but the second mover succeeds because he learns from the first mover's mistakes. That could easily be happening here.
It's still important to feel your stomach churn when you hear Zuckerberg talk about his "mission"
> Even cabs/auto-rickshaws have great difficulties to bring from a point A to a point B if you do not know yourself the exact path.

Cabs and auto-rickshaws in Bangalore are notorious for swindling huge sums of money by pretending that they know nothing about the city where in reality they know every nook and corner. They do this so that they can take you all over the place and on top of that bill you exorbitant amounts. And if you are a westerner then just don't go anywhere near them unless you know the exact route to take!

>The public transportation was really bad and covered only certain parts of the city.

This is definitely not the case as the public transport cover just about every part of the city, even where autos hesitate to take. It's just that you need at least a month to figure out the routes, buses, transits etc., which gives the perception of non-existent public transport. I lived in Bangalore for 7 years before I started using public transport and despite being a local, Kannada being my mother tongue, it took me about a month to get it right.

From my personal limited experience of visiting various metros in India I'm fairly confident that Bangalore has the largest public bus transportation in India.

>The indications in the street were hard to find and see.

That's probably because there aren't any :). There are very few on arterial roads but even they aren't reliable as the one-way traffic rules change very so often!
Brazil's anti-spy Internet bill clears lower house vote
Yeah, that's actually why I think it's important to point out who made the insight. Every time I've heard the anecdote, it's been presented as some sort of clever observation that we should all be expected to produce.

But, really, it's a clever observation that was made by a historically great statistician. And the anecdote leaves out the fact that he had probably been thinking about this problem before --- he was working as part of the war effort. So it was probably harder than it looks.
"Social Networking" is really about shared social experiences.

Instagram became popular because photos are a richer way of saying some things than Twitter.

Your point about text messaging misses that this isn't an "either/or" thing.

I can imagine a VR app that lets you share your experience of standing in the Grand Canyon or jumping from a plane or being at a concert.

The hardware is a big problem though. I can see Google Glass growing quicker because of that.
I think they could solve all their problems by just hiring a handful of geeks and OSS enthusiast's like myself to lay down some ban hammers.

While thinking about it a little more deeply let's give them the benefit of doubt for five minutes and assume they did hire a bunch of geeks to do this. Is there any possibility the problem simply can't be solved easily? What seems complex and patentable today may in fact seem completely obvious and novel in ten years when it actually shows up in court or even just 5 years from now once it finally gets reviewed and accepted.

In searching for prior art, is it actually possible to go back in time on the wayback machine and check for these types of obvious issues with the claim?

Something to think about anyway. Disclosure: kiwi here. We did some form of reform already, havtn t noticed anything adverse thus far.

Would be interested to hear if anyone has come across problems yet.
I think they were more concerned with losing users (and future users) and being unable to raise more funding than with actually being sued.
Rick Perry: Revist rules that prohibit Tesla sales in Texas
Anyone who successfully used brainfuck in production would be an ubergenius in my book.
I'm not much a fan of Facebook, but it's only fair to give them credit where credit is due - things like Cassandra, HHVM/Hack, and React are all pretty important technologies, and their datacenter needs mean they've built an internal competency for hardware, too.

I don't think this move makes obvious sense, but Facebook The Company (as opposed to Facebook The Product) is more than just an RSS feed of lolcats.
Thank you, that was informative :)
I had faith in Will Wright and Spore.

You know what happen? EA happened.
An Open Source Version of the Famous Enigma Machine
The section on OAuth needs to be made better.
> I bet the two hour limit is not an arbitrary number . . .

Sadly, it is an arbitrary limit insofar that the pilots union opposes increasing it beyond 2 hours:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2008-03-07/pdf/E8-3949.pdf
> they should pull across a marquis commercial AWS IaaS customer [...] a marquis AWS IaaS customer [...] how about just a marquis* Google customer

I don't understand this, or at least cannot re-parse 'marquis' into something relevant. Can you explain?
Google is about 2 years too late. Many startups switched to AWS in droves and never looked back. The failure is that Google would have to give away GAE, GCE and friends in order for folks to switch because the work to change stack tooling would be very costly.
But VR's potential isn't limited to gamers. That is what Facebook recognised and is capitalising on with this acquisition. Oculus, as a (perhaps the) leader in the consumer VR space, is well positioned to shape the future of VR and with it consumer computing. They had a choice between a niche and the market, and they are reaching for the moon.

Of course!

I'm surprised no one realises this is move to protect Facebook against Google's move into devices, specifically Google Glass.

Facebook doesn't want to be a sharecropper on a platform owned by Google.

I'd expect them to be looking at other companies in the "connected device" space too: Pebble, FitBit etc.
Yeah, I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of that here, though obviously the slow nature of the rulemaking process causes people's interest to wane. Considering the fact that large acquisitions will continue in the future (even if we are in a bubble or unusually inflated period right now), and that even a micro-investment at the right time can lead to huge multiples, it'll be very interesting to see how this changes the landscape. Not being a game or graphics developer I was very interested in Oculus but decided to wait for the consumer version of the technology. However, if I could have bought a tiny equity position for $100 I would probably have done so, since I'm pretty confident on my judgment about which technology is 'hot or not,' and I would likely be celebrating a nice little uptick in my net worth right now.
Simple: it provides a hyper-compelling experience that is completely unavailable through any other means, and does so for merely the price of a peripheral. Doubters will visit a friend's house and use it and be instantly sold. VR is a Big Deal.
Hi, there is a very good interview here which will give you some background:

http://memex.org/meme4-01.html
Plus switching stacks would be risky and costly. Google would have to give away an enormous amount of credits for shops to consider it.
I really enjoy that it's so open and honest, and because of that, nobody knows it's happening!
Not always. Sometimes that's against the rules, depending on exactly how the stock is awarded.
Australian Builders shout positive abuse at women
There should be easier procedure to file cases at consumer courts. To prevent such things from happening again.
Another example of Google building whatever they want today instead of building what customers need right now. Same thing happens on Googles other product lines, so it's no shock.
Just like they denied they had no knowledge of PRISM or any other NSA programs? They got awful quiet about that when the NSA started saying that Google and other companies knew what the NSA was doing. So, Google has already demonstrated that they will do or say anything so that people continue sharing and storing personal information on Google servers.
I'm convinced that Oculus could have gotten much more, from Facebook or elsewhere.
The Imagewriter ][ was a stellar dot matrix printer. I wish I had an excuse to have one set up.
Sorry, I forgot that the actual CLI was written in node. I thought they also had a browser based CLI; I was referring to that.
Musings on the Oculus Sale
Facebook Telecom in India?
Shit so it just hit me what the end game is with this (I know should have been obvious.) Was kinda confused before thanks.

Caprica holobands here we come...

http://caprica.wikia.com/wiki/Holoband
Yes. Interestingly, I just found your comment downvoted on the bottom of the page. I wonder why, because I think your point is really important. Im experimenting with the speed of updates and will have it explained on the page as soon as I have it settled.
I've run events like this for over 10 years now, a couple pointers;

* Negotiate payment terms that require a deposit, but for which the balance is paid after the event.

* Always have a meeting with hotel management pre-event, review the contract, make sure everything is correct.

* Double Check your BEO's as part of the setup process - again, verify to contract.

* In the event of a dispute, have a copy of your countersigned written contract at hand, and hold them to it, with all the yelling, screaming and waiving of arms required - and by all means, escalate, escalate, escalate (to the most senior person the hotel can muster).

Make them stick to the contract terms, I've had hotels many times try to change the game before it was done being played, I've had 10k plus credits to us before.
Hey I like how they've blurred this DKJX3-7KBW5-237BT-K22TX-6XG7J key here in Chapter 5:

https://zapier.cachefly.net/static/CplbOk/images/learn/apis/...

... beyond any recognition!
Somehow I'm not convinced.
I like that distinction. Elon Musk is commonly thought of as a founder of Tesla, but he didn't actually join the team until he led their Series A round and became part of the board of directors.

Ref: http://www.quora.com/Tesla-Motors-2/How-did-Elon-Musk-build-...
I was pretty sure the point of barter was that both sides realized a gain. That's the concept of "gains from trade".

I mention this because you specifically call out "equivalent value to the traders".
Printers are an obvious dead end. So much so that this Onion article can presuppose it to be funny:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-t...
Will they buy SecondLife next?