borgchick

That's what I've always thought, haven't tried it with my parents. Idea is, set up a vm, snap shot it, have their save folder somewhere outside of the VM, and then if they manage to mess up the VM, just restore the snapshot.

Honestly, it is when I am trying to teach my parents how to use computers do I realize how annoying computers are. I mean, some of the simplest things we take for granted are pretty dumb if you have to explain it to someone.

exactly, having been in the industry for more than 10 years, promotion is really hard to come by

When I was growing up, this is the sort of stuff I dreamed we, humanity, would be doing in this day and age. This is the stuff Star Trek is made of (probably inspired by). Despite all the madness in the world today, I am glad some others share my childhood dream.

I'm honestly a little surprised at some of the comments here. I thought most people on here would agree that many of us do suffer from this. I mean, how many of you actually read through the entire article, WITHOUT checking your email, or flipping to twitter/fb to tell the world about this good article you just found? I had to really force myself to read the entire article first, and not give in to that urge to get a hit of dopamine. But of course, YMMV.

I think the ability to concentrate and focus on a single task is going to become more and more useful, because it is so easy to give in to that temptation to flip away, just for a quick moment. I've been working on practicing mindfulness through meditation, and have thought of reading a book as a form of meditation (nice to see the author allude to that a little).

So your TL;DR: good article, read more books, re-learn how to focus on single tasking.

It's good for light gaming, I play driving games all the time on it, but I would never bother with driving games on my PC.

It's good for light computing, I see my husband on the couch with his iPad air all the time writing emails, reading the news, browsing Youtube etc. Yes he can do that in front of his computer, but the couch is much more comfy.

yup

this is absolutely amazing!

When I first investigated these personal fitness monitors, Fitbit was a standout (I have the Flex). It made the Jawbone look old and clumbsy. The automatic syncing was really nice. Then, my Indiegogo funded Misfit Shine came, and initially it was still behind Fitbit in terms of the app, and sleep tracking.

Then, Misfit kept updating their firmware and app, so month after month, it got better. Although not as detailed as Fitbit, when they added automatic sleep tracking, the war was over, and Misfit shine had won.

Why in the world do you tell Fitbit that you are a) going to sleep, and then b) you are now getting up?

Also, initially I thought the prospect of a USB charged device great. But then, I realized the drawbacks.

With my Shine, I can replace the standard 2032 battery every three months. So I replace it, and forget it. With Fitbit, I'd have to take it off every 4 days or so (depending on usage). The "lasts a week" thing is a lie. And if I was travelling, I'd have to think if I need to take the USB charger or not. With the Shine, no worries, unless I am going somewhere for more than 3 months!

Another thing that really sucks about the Fitbit are the bands. Yeh you got lots of colours, but they break! And then you'll have to spend $30 for 3 bands. Whether you like all three colours or not, you'll have to buy 3 at a time. I guess you'll use them all, because they all will eventually break.

The wrist band Shine comes with isn't super either. It is a cheap rubber band, but it didn't break. I bought a nice leather one about a year after because I wanted to, not because the original one broke.

I have the Aria too, that product I still like, and I still use the Fitbit app just for that. I wish that could integrate with Healthkit.

I think the only thing Fitbit is still ahead of the Shine is with the online app. But in terms of functionality and long term durability, the Shine for me, is a clear winner.

Perhaps this explains the ebb and flow of the market?

Consider for a (rat) trader:

- success

- get treat

- eat treat

- loop

... passage of time...

- get fat

- judgement clouded by excess fat (perhaps inhibiting movement)

- less successful

- less treats

- loses weight

- become more successful again

...and so on...

LOL, you under estimate the cost of the cheese... and the dropping removal service... but yes, for the most part, I think you are right!

Not sure how much that would help even.

Look at the Misfit Shine (http://store.misfit.com/), great product, beautiful device. Then a few weeks ago I get this in the email from DX: http://www.dx.com/p/otium-shine-1-1-ipx7-bluetooth-v4-0-smar...

It is obviously the same product, they are even using the same marketing photos.

Now here is the twist, they sort of did their own hacked version of the Shine App, and even released it to the AppStore.

I am Jack's 3D hatred.

I loved the idea of the Zeo, but as comfortable as the headband was, I never did manage to fall asleep with it on. I guess I am just super sensitive to things on my head while in bed. I ended up using the Zeo as a toy to do interesting BCI hacks with.

Ah, the classics, love THHGTTG. Served me well growing up as an angry teenager. And still serves me well today making me laugh at how ridiculous this entire life, universe and everything really is.

Anyone else felt like the presentation was done by the Shamwow guy?

Playing around with making projects with Arduino + sensors, it's fun because there is so much you can do with the Arduino platform these days. The hardware course in university was a rush through, and I never really had time to experiment on my own with it (the real learning). So now, I get to do it with the Arduino, which makes it SO much easier (and cheaper) than it use to be.

so many kids will become unemployed in China... those poor poor item farmers... won't someone think of the children!

So basically since 1976, the US is only on the positive side of the budget for 4 years (1998-2001). For all other (34) years, there has been a deficit. Yicks. If the US was a person, that person would be considered a financial disaster.

So we've come around full circle. Back to plain old text. NCSA Mosaic anyone? I just hope we don't all go back to <marquee> and <blink>...

Perhaps the drug dealers got smart, "hey, if we hand over the video showing Ford smoking the crack we sold him, doesn't that prove we are drug dealers? damn mo-fo, we outta here!"

I also miss the days when you could just start up a BF2 server on your LAN and have your family and friends join the game for some fun.

security theatre much? face palm

you know the first thing I did upon loading this page is to go buy a bag of Doritos... thanks HN! It was very tasty!

The ones that use the iPhone's camera can get heart rate, but I have not seen one that can get blood oxygen level.

1. I am feeling rather smug that I read through the entire thing, and despite understanding less than 1% of it, feel that it has in some way, opened my eyes.

2. I marvel at the world Sal and Simp live in. To understand all the details they are going on about must make the world truly an amazing place to exist in.

3. Why can't all things in this world be worked out like these two? You know, politics, war, religion, etc? Ah, I can dream...

I dream of the day we can do this in javascript... it'd be the coolest graphing library, in the world!

primary where? at work? linux, at home? windows, on the road? osx