schipelblorp

Wait...so we... w-w-w-won?

What is the point of writing better software when the entire ecosystem is built around Microsoft? Though certainly Zoom ate Skype's lunch, and Slack is better than Teams... but maybe e-mail is too core a functionality, and, let's face it, there's old guys at the top that will fire their entire IT department before they get rid of their precious outlook. All my PST files for the last 20 years are on there! I have 200 inboxes and 400 rules!

Interesting thoughts on Word. I just know for what most people use it for--documents--it's perfectly fine. It drives me up the wall that people pay for 365 subscriptions just so they can do that.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook

Of those four, only Outlook really could have used some changes. The other three were perfected 20 years ago. And how do you improve perfection? You can only make it worse.

Nope. Headset has a motions sensors and gyros and orients to the environment using its built-in cameras. The wands have lights tracked by the headset cameras as well as their own gyros. Works pretty well. I think the wands can lose tracking from the camera if they're down by your waist, but the gyros take over at that point and you're probably just pointing them around down there.

The original Rift and Vive both had external doodads you had to deal with, but the Quest is completely self contained.

Dear Mr. Huang,

I have a proposal that will make your company a lot of money. In fact, I guarantee this deal will will increase NVIDIA's revenue by 19 billion USD.

All you have to do is invest 20 billion in my company, Al Is Awesome, LLC, and I will purchase 19 billion worth of NVIDIA cards to get my project off the ground.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Schipelborp
CEO, Founder, Al Is Awesome, LLC

Probably not immediately, but they're both on Snapdragon ARM chips, so very possibly in the future.

Like much neurochemistry, this information is practically useless--as pointed out in the article. Increasing Orexin does not increase motivation, though removing does decrease motivation.

The hope is that by learning what chemicals are associated with what brain states, we can chemically influence the brain into these states. But that's not how any of it works. The brain responds to the totality of the situation, and adapts in response to the environment. The neurotoxins are the result, not the cause.

Adding a chemical to the brain has the same logic as adding smoke to logs in the hope you get heat.

Yes. I played Half Life Alex via my wifi, even.

Came for technology news, stayed for the Mesopotamian undergods.

Yeah, there's reading the bill of rights, understanding what it means and how it was intended, and it's another thing to understand how it's been thoroughly chipped away at, year by year, state by state, decision by decision. You would legitimately be shocked and horrified at how many exceptions there are, and this MAY fall within one of them the--the border exception.

Yeah, and in a very cold room and for a very long time. But legally they have to let you in at some point.

Yes! Or even better, make it 1234 or your birthdate and let them guess it on their own.