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qirex posted:I just had a "wow I haven't read snow crash in like forever" moment but then I realized there's a good reason for that snow crash had a bunch of neat, new ideas but they don't get any better if you read them again, in fact they start to get worse.
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qirex posted:also a smoke alarm that doesn't work
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Space-Pope posted:wait nest doesnt even work as a smoke alarm? they made a smoke alarm but it doesn't detect smoke or smth
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rotor posted:snow crash had a bunch of neat, new ideas but they don't get any better if you read them again, in fact they start to get worse. the repeated heavy-handed foreshadowing of the "dentata" device that the girl wears really get irritating when you figured out what it was 5 seconds after the first time it was mentioned
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I genuinely enjoyed the baroque cycle but it takes like 3 months to read so I don't get to it often also lol at stephenson's vr sword game that got $500k in funding and went nowhere qirex fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Jan 16, 2015 01:21
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Citizen Tayne posted:absolutely nothing on that list even remotely happened. its almost as if the person who wrote it has no understanding whatsoever of how anything on that list actually works
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rotor posted:snow crash had a bunch of neat, new ideas but they don't get any better if you read them again, in fact they start to get worse. i want that super rad pizza car irl
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As you burn up in the flames, trapped under a beam, you wave your arms. The nest smoke alarm understands, and turns off. You've merely burnt some toast again, and the fire department heads back home.
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that was the only genuinely useful feature of the nest smoke detector but they got rid of it
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Jan 16, 2015 02:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBum40uRTxc
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maniacdevnull posted:i want that super rad pizza car irl one of the main benefits of having a mid-engine car is that when i put a pizza in the trunk and take it home, it is warm when i take it out because it is sitting next to the engine for the whole drive.
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so you can buy a grocery store pizza and its ready when you get home 
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kwinkles posted:one of the main benefits of having a mid-engine car is that when i put a pizza in the trunk and take it home, it is warm when i take it out because it is sitting next to the engine for the whole drive. the other main benefit is rad car
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:welcome to the glasshole club Dur 
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echinopsis posted:dude you could hire people to live in your house and personally let you know if it caught on fire for less might go for thsi
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Kirk posted:as a youth i fantasized about having something like google glass so that i could always be browsing pornography even when i was dragged to bullshit chuch (atheist now...). but as i grow older i realize that i dont really need that anymore and i dont care if people see whats on my tablet. to be in public you need to be an adult, sorry if you cant handle reality
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Google just announced a number of changes to the Google Glass project and team: 1) The project is “graduating” from Google[x], the company’s research division, to a full-blown Google division. 2) Tony Fadell, the creator of the iPod and Nest thermostat, will oversee the division. 3) The consumer-centric Explorer program is ending; the general public will not be able to purchase Glass anymore (though Glass at Work certified partners like Pristine and Augmedix still have unrestricted access to all the Glass we need) So what does all of this mean? The short version is that this is a great sign for the future of Glass. Here’s the long version: As an independent division at Google (and not part of the experimental lab Google[x]), Larry Page will keep a closer eye on Glass. The Glass team will receive its own unique office space and resources, and will be allowed to interact with the public more than in the past. All of these are great indicators of Google’s serious investment in the future of Glass. New leadership also bodes well! Tony Fadell is widely regarded as one of the best consumer hardware executives of the modern era; he’s built two multi-billion dollar consumer technologies (iPod and Nest). Google CEO Larry Page would not ask Fadell to step in unless Google was committed to the future of Glass. In other words, Page wants to see Glass succeed and is pulling in the most senior talent he has to ensure success. And although it may seem counterintuitive, the end of the Explorer Program is a harbinger of the next phase of Glass’s growth. Ending the public beta program (which Explorer essentially was) is a prerequisite of any future release of new Glass hardware. With the experimentation phase of the Glass project complete, Google is now able to bring new Glass devices to market. As Glass Certified Partners, we’ve been fortunate to partner with Google and witness the rapid investment of resources into the Glass at Work program. The Glass at Work team is growing and helping shape the future, not just of Glass, but of the wearable worker more broadly. All in all, we’re thrilled to celebrate Glass on its graduation day, and we’re very excited about what’s coming next. Stay tuned for more, and feel free to reach out with questions, comments, and thoughts!
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did you know they made over 13000 episodes of days of our lives so far? still a more noble human endeavour than glass
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google's gonna realize that just cause someone was successful at apple doesn't mean they'll be successful elsewhere
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this would be so cool if it would be bright enough to work outside and have battery to work for more than 5 minutes also somehow work on long sleeve shirts and jackets so it would be cool if it was an entirely different product
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reminder that tony fadell is the guy who lobbied so hard to put the clickwheel ipod os on the iphone that he got fired over it
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poty posted:reminder that tony fadell is the guy who lobbied so hard to put the clickwheel ipod os on the iphone that he got fired over it i actually kinda miss the clickwheel every time i have to navigate my iphone's music library, the swipe speed increase works pretty well but if you have a lot of music on there then you can still spend a lot of time navigating so i end up just telling siri what music to play at me but that doesn't always work well either. clickwheel ruled for navigating a directory tree or menus or scrolling through photos but for basically everything else you do on the iphone it's way worse.
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oh wait you said clickwheel OS, not just the clickwheel itself. yeah i might actually kinda like a clickwheel in place of a home button if it were possible to keep the screen pretty huge but not the whole ipod os no way.
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poty posted:reminder that tony fadell is the guy who lobbied so hard to put the clickwheel ipod os on the iphone that he got fired over it  praise be to stebe
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:
Stebe owned for poo poo like this
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the guy who happened to be around when stebe invented the ipod and phil schiller came up with the clickwheel: a genius
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:
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Syncopated posted:was this how he fired the dude? then the lights came up and security men descended on tony and dragged him out of the building then phil collins nodded at steve in approval
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i bet al gore was pumped i loving love al gore
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Linguica posted:yes. he fired him unannounced, on stage, during the unveiling of the iphone that would have owned so loving hard
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Chris Knight posted:Stebe owned for poo poo like this its a fuckin mega rear end in a top hat thing to do. ony a sociopath with no feelings would do this
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poty posted:reminder that tony fadell is the guy who lobbied so hard to put the clickwheel ipod os on the iphone that he got fired over it 
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the world waits with bated breath as the crack team of engineers at nest struggle to find a way to improve upon the 1500 earth dollar small camcorder with a 30 minute battery
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