Why this thing has any "user interface" beyond a power switch and possibly a current setting dial is beyond my humble comprehension (hey, you can integrate both of those into a single knob!). OK, you can throw in a timer if you feel really fancy. That and maybe consulting a booklet with plating times / amperages is all the trouble I'm willing to go "configuring" this thing - as far as I'm concerned regarding ANY gadget or tool, if it connects to the cloud I have no use for it, full stop.
Okay, that's it. I'm never boarding a plane again without bringing along a parachute. Maybe I should pack a can opener too, they might not be willing to open the door...
Re: Re: Re: Re: And for making a web-site, Kickstarter rakes off TEN PERCENT!
No, I do not see the contradiction you purport to have found.
See, I could take a long piece of marking tape, wrap it around four trees, declare the land inside a marketplace and start charging for admittance - if I'm yelling loud enough about it and I'm lucky enough, the place may well become a meeting place providing value to sellers and buyers (and more importantly, a steady income to me) without that ever implying I do any kind of honest work to deserve that once that tape is in place and the place has some fame. And if my "marketplace" ever ends up crawling with pick-pockets and thieves, a "middle finger" attitude from me the owner instead of hiring some security would be rather inappropriate and rightly infuriating.
I could go on - and on - and on all day about the piss-poor job KS does (entirely beyond their cavalier attitude towards other people's money), but I have better things to do today than trying to change the mind of someone obviously not arguing in good faith. KS provides value IN SPITE of all their long list of shortcomings, not BECAUSE of it - but it would be so easy to come up with a superior service it's not even funny. That's about all I wish to say here on this - have a nice day...
Re: Re: And for making a web-site, Kickstarter rakes off TEN PERCENT!
Ehh, well, yes and no. On the one hand, there's not much that a disgruntled backer presently can do other that not using the service, and Kickstarter's rather infuriating "all we care about is us getting our cut (for running a bloody webserver - exceedingly poorly) and absolutely nothing else: pay up and shut up or go away" current attitude really doesn't help things.
On the other hand, Kickstarter really is the only place where anything non-mainstream can hope to come into existence, so once one experienced the thrill of assisting to the birth of something that one wants but could otherwise not hope to get, it's rather hard to just turn your back to it on principle. That, however does not mean one is looking to get ripped off - and not every scam is obviously detectable.
Ultimately, it's still early days for crowd-funding, but more accountability in some form is definitely needed. I don't know what the future of crowdfunding is, but I do know one thing with 100% certainty: Kickstarter IN ITS CURRENT FORM ISN'T IT. Perhaps they can ponder that for a while, or see someone else eat their lunch, soon enough.
Well seeing as how 99.99% of ordinary people have NOBODY ELSE interested in their mail, what good any encryption is to them if it can't even keep out the one foe they know is snooping on them - the USG?!?
"The obvious solution on how to deal with france is to simply pull out." Yeah, you wish. Nobody would even notice. France has its very own island off the internet - they don't read and bloody surely don't produce any pages in any other filthy language. You could have the best pro-class freeware app in the world - if you host it on a French site, nobody will ever know about it outside France because it will never get indexed in English. Oh, you think I'm kidding...?
My only regret is that even if I live to see the whole "content industry" well and truly dead and buried some day, there will be no actual grave to spit on...
It has to be Elite:Dangerous, hands down. After explicitly promising a fully offline playable version and announcing they don't feel like making it anymore, right before their official launch, the length those people went to trying to weasel themselves out of the furious refund requests of those not happy with the news is mind-boggling. It can all be read in the Kickstarter comments of the campaign. I had countless other projects go somewhat sideways, but none stooped anywhere close to the viciously malicious level E:D did. Once I even backed a book that kept dragging on to ultimately see the project owner disappear completely for a over a year - but even so, she ultimately resumed contact, apologized, and FULLY REFUNDED my pledge, without me even asking - and she was not some venture-backed mega-LLC. I respect that much more than I ever will E:D again...
One more retard who doesn't understand that respect can never, never, NEVER be "commanded" but only earned (or, in the case of such inanimate things - acquired as appreciation)...
I'm every bit as much a Metal/Rock fan as the next guy, but there's a certain band out there whose name begins with "M" and ends with "etallica" that I refuse to even listen to on the radio because of a little something they did to someone else a long time ago, that I will NEVER forget. As far as I'm concerned, they never existed. So yeah, go right ahead, it's your funeral...
It's fecking amazing how many people find it a good idea to take a perfectly usable tool (like a 3D printer) and invent countless nonexistent problems with it to which they're more than happy to offer a nothing-short-of-revolutionary solution that you absolutely, positively need (and which will bring about world peace, at the very least - but probably end world hunger too). I'm just very, very sick of it at this point. Hey, how about you go find some _actual_ problems to solve, huh?!?
...regardless of the hardware, any VR/AR thingy is only as good as the software that supports it - ie. the question is what can you do with it...? Sadly, with most contestants: not much of anything.
If it's VR, by definition you need something to generate that reality for you - like a game that's capable outputting in whatever format your goggles use, and can react to your head-movements. The problem is, aside of the Oculus Rift, there aren't really any games supporting any of the other goggles (sorry, I can't really get excited about Fruit Ninja & co.).
And if it's AR, the key is you need your software to be capable of recognizing your surroundings so it can meaningfully "augment" it - that assumes a camera on the goggles and some seriously capable "machine vision" software (beside the actual software you want to run); otherwise your "AR" goggles only react to your generic position and orientation which your phone can sense - just about enough for a satnav or a sky map, but not much else. Oh, and I wouldn't want to be in your shoes if you ever so much as ding any other car while you drive with the SEER on, as suggested - I reckon they'd eat you alive...
Fuck them with a red hot poker. I'd sooner give up driving altogether than have every minute detail of my driving recorded and subject to anybody's approval - be it the government, the insurance company, or anybody else. Thankfully, being rather far for California (Balkans), I expect nothing of that sort within my lifetime here...
So, umm, looking past the mind-numbingly retarded stance that inciting to violence should be allowed as "free speech", should that extend in your opinion to what we currently consider libel and slander...? Should I just be able to tell everyone I know (and everyone I don't, too) that you're a child molester, and get away with it untouched, because if I'd have to answer for any of it my speech wouldn't be free anymore...? SERIOUSLY?!?
...I'm sure you won't mind spending the rest of your life perpetually out of a job and never getting anyone quite convinced that you've been baselessly and falsely accused. In the mean time, I'll be perfectly happy to watch anyone advocating bodily harm to anyone else in any form getting locked up for quite a while.
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The what now...?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: And for making a web-site, Kickstarter rakes off TEN PERCENT!
See, I could take a long piece of marking tape, wrap it around four trees, declare the land inside a marketplace and start charging for admittance - if I'm yelling loud enough about it and I'm lucky enough, the place may well become a meeting place providing value to sellers and buyers (and more importantly, a steady income to me) without that ever implying I do any kind of honest work to deserve that once that tape is in place and the place has some fame. And if my "marketplace" ever ends up crawling with pick-pockets and thieves, a "middle finger" attitude from me the owner instead of hiring some security would be rather inappropriate and rightly infuriating.
I could go on - and on - and on all day about the piss-poor job KS does (entirely beyond their cavalier attitude towards other people's money), but I have better things to do today than trying to change the mind of someone obviously not arguing in good faith. KS provides value IN SPITE of all their long list of shortcomings, not BECAUSE of it - but it would be so easy to come up with a superior service it's not even funny. That's about all I wish to say here on this - have a nice day...
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Re: Re: And for making a web-site, Kickstarter rakes off TEN PERCENT!
On the other hand, Kickstarter really is the only place where anything non-mainstream can hope to come into existence, so once one experienced the thrill of assisting to the birth of something that one wants but could otherwise not hope to get, it's rather hard to just turn your back to it on principle. That, however does not mean one is looking to get ripped off - and not every scam is obviously detectable.
Ultimately, it's still early days for crowd-funding, but more accountability in some form is definitely needed. I don't know what the future of crowdfunding is, but I do know one thing with 100% certainty: Kickstarter IN ITS CURRENT FORM ISN'T IT. Perhaps they can ponder that for a while, or see someone else eat their lunch, soon enough.
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Re: The obvious solution to this issue
Yeah, you wish. Nobody would even notice. France has its very own island off the internet - they don't read and bloody surely don't produce any pages in any other filthy language. You could have the best pro-class freeware app in the world - if you host it on a French site, nobody will ever know about it outside France because it will never get indexed in English. Oh, you think I'm kidding...?
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Same old, same old...
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Worst experience?
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Hugs and kisses,
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Yeah, well...
If it's VR, by definition you need something to generate that reality for you - like a game that's capable outputting in whatever format your goggles use, and can react to your head-movements. The problem is, aside of the Oculus Rift, there aren't really any games supporting any of the other goggles (sorry, I can't really get excited about Fruit Ninja & co.).
And if it's AR, the key is you need your software to be capable of recognizing your surroundings so it can meaningfully "augment" it - that assumes a camera on the goggles and some seriously capable "machine vision" software (beside the actual software you want to run); otherwise your "AR" goggles only react to your generic position and orientation which your phone can sense - just about enough for a satnav or a sky map, but not much else. Oh, and I wouldn't want to be in your shoes if you ever so much as ding any other car while you drive with the SEER on, as suggested - I reckon they'd eat you alive...
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BWAHAHAHA...
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...I'm sure you won't mind spending the rest of your life perpetually out of a job and never getting anyone quite convinced that you've been baselessly and falsely accused. In the mean time, I'll be perfectly happy to watch anyone advocating bodily harm to anyone else in any form getting locked up for quite a while.
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