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I expect these will be probably hard mounted to moving surfaces during sporting events.

The event that comes to mind is obviously motor racing, specifically Nascar. I think being able to experience crashes in 3D stereoscopic would be a big selling point for people.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. This is simply an example of this in effect.

If people want full internet access.. pay for it. There is no story here.

This is exactly why my girlfriend and I always use our PFD's with harnesses when passagemaking and alternating watches. It's a simple thing to strap into the jacklines and all but eliminates our fears about this sort of thing happening.

I don't know what the original author is talking about to be honest. When I use Facebook, my feed is filled with friends & family posts and the very occasional ad.

To really put it into perspective, I just opened my Facebook now, first ad is in position 5 in my feed. The next ad popped in at the 52nd item in my feed. I went looking for a third ad.. I decided to stop after the 200th item in my feed and I generally don't scroll down that far in a single sitting.

Sure, there are ads on the side, but I'm more or less blind to those ads because they're always there.

That's not to say it was always like this. Candy Crush ads and whatnot used to pop up all the time from certain people. That's why you can hide those. They quickly disappear.

I guess it must just be cool to dump on Facebook now.

If they really wanted to go after the note-taking market hard, they should have created a way to have the "eraser" in the opposite end of the stylus rather than have to go through a menu system to modify notes.

For me then, it would go from "yeah, its kinda neat" to "I really ought to consider giving them my money for this"

Back in the day it was a very promising game.

I distinctly remember sitting in a computer lab at Uni watching the dev demo for Halo on a Mac and daydreaming about buying one, specifically to play this game in 1999-ish

Sony announces Project Morpheus 6 days ago. Oculus sells to Facebook today and deal started 5 days ago (apparently).

This is either

a) Founders saw writing on the wall and decided to get paid early rather than have to compete with a company with much deeper pockets and a preexisting fanbase.

b) Facebook saw that Sony's announcement validated the space and decided to buy the company with most mindshare at the moment as it is an asset.

People have wondered why Microsoft didn't buy the company? Well, Oculus have seen what, $90M in funding so far? The investors would have wanted what.. 5X 10X ROI?

At 5X.. $450M is a metric fuckton (excuse the language) of money that they could throw at in-house development of something similar. I imagine having a VR kit that integrates heavily with Kinect has the potential to be huge, so they at least have to be thinking about it.

> I can't see a single positive thing coming out from a non gaming company buying a game focused company (and an extremely promising one at that).

You mean like Microsoft acquiring Bungie in 2000? Gaming (at the time) wasn't one of Microsofts core competencies.

It is really astonishing the amount of anti-Facebook hate in this thread.

Yes, this isn't part of Facebook's core competency. They still bought it. Could it mean Facebook is attempting to diversify?

How about lets wait and see what happens before we vilify the Oculus founders.

> Oculus is not a service, just a technology; one that has no relation (nor clear route to one) to any Facebook-held product.

Exactly. This is what diversification is all about.

At it's core, Facebook is now a public technology company, which means that creating value for its shareholders is it's primary focus.

Buying something that looks like it might be a big deal before it becomes a big deal is doing that. Killing it before it has a chance to become big, especially since it has no "relation to any Facebook-held product" (thus it's not competing) is definitely not in their best interest.

This would be extra great if we could integrate it with Evernote.

I already do similar stuff with the Evernote Clipper for saving content, but if I could also share on social networks and do the Evernote clipping in the same workflow it would probably remain installed.

Wearing regular day clothes. I dont drink. No, my current girlfriend (who identifies as a feminist) thinks the idea of yelling at someone for adhering to the social niceties is strange after I told her about the incident.

> I hold the door for everyone, because it's polite, not because someone is whatever gender.

Exactly why I do it.

I've resigned myself to the fact that some people are just assholes. It's a trait that's not gender specific.

Try getting sternly lectured for 10 minutes because because you held the door open for a stranger to be polite. That's when you know shit gotten real.

For the record, I routinely hold open doors for people that I know are behind me and are leaving/entering a building. It surprised me to know end to get yelled at for it.

I read the original article and was quite intrigued at the premise (a game about document inspecting, how novel), so I shelled out the $10 and bought the game.

Gotta say, after only playing the game for about 20 minutes your review was entirely accurate and I can't wait to make my girlfriend play the game...

High Tech LARPing in 3...2.....1....

> the "war" on native, especially in the mobile space.

I actually think its the complete opposite. eg, Facebook, Linkedin

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/17/linkedin-mobile-web-breaku...

They tried web-based apps. They said the experience isn't what people expect as with native.

My favourite Disney book is "The Illusion of Life" which is written by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson, 2 of Disney's "nine old men"

The first chapters deal with the creation of the Snow White film, and the startup culture within the Disney studios at that time.

Co-incidentally, both authors are referenced in the film The Incredibles (the original subject of the OP's post)

gradualunderpants.com was among the first I saw on the frontpage...

  > so small as "free" 2-day shipping

The speed is not something that can be underestimated. I recently ordered from an online store here in Australia and it's been over a week since I made the order. They haven't even processed the order yet (not the first time this has happened to me).

This article actually gives me a little faith in humanity. Despite the fact that SO MANY people had access to launch a nuke nobody actually did... presumably they knew what the resulting shitstorm would be.

  s3cmd ls s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/

That should get you about 90% on your way.

Same, virtual assistant.

I could conceivably see someone utilising OpenCV to "try" to measure attractiveness. I could also see someone trying sentiment analysis with NLTK... but farming it out to a low paid worker is just insane.

I've been unable to track it down in major supermarkets/grocers here in Australia, but the occasional Asian supermarket sells it (and sometimes knockoffs)

You can easily tell which are the knockoffs - http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/01/17/how-spot-fake-srirach...

I experience the same crashing issues. Usually with Safari.

It's ok though. It's a 4 year old device I've used literally every day since launch day. I'm pretty ok with how far its gotten me and am surprised it has survived given how much abuse I throw at it.

I was disappointed I couldn't find DownThemAll for Chrome but a quick check on the store found an equivalent plugin called DownloadAll.

>I'd think creating a somewhat dishonest alternate or augmented reality is a recipe for disaster.

In some ways, they already are by recreating his previous experiences.

AR could in effect just enhance the carefully crafted reality and help out this person.

I'm curious if things like Google Glass or any kind of AR device will help with people like this in the future.

For example, if the store is a Dixon's.. modifying the signage before he walks in as to make him believe it's the HMV?

They couldn't create tech that was TOO forward thinking, IE creating tech that might be seen around the time of TNG - given that as a franchise they could still mine a reboot of TNG if the well for Kirk-era Star Trek runs dry.

I wasn't disappointed by the tech. To be frank, I think that they're simply giving themselves room to continue making money with rebooting other Star Trek franchises in the future

My girlfriend just told me that "this looks like something my cousin did" ... it turns out the guy is her cousin. Small world.