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I don't use VR nor claim to know anything about it.
Again, watch the Apple presentation and base your opinions on it.
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I am basing my opinions one watching the previous marketing videos of other VR set ups. I don't need to watch yet another one (again a marketing video) to understand that market acceptance just is not happening especially in the business space. Nor is it needed to draw my conclusions as to why it is not happening.
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fgs1963 wrote: Most devs I know would love more displays... no?
Not sure about most. Certainly not me. I have two and the second is just ancillary for all work.
It isn't like more screens are not possible now. And it has been possible for a long time. So why is there no gradual increase in the number of screens?
I have only ever seen one developer who had 5. No idea what use he got out of it. But certainly I have been places where more would have been possible yet no one used more than 2.
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jschell wrote: Email causes enough interruptions to coding without requiring me to put on a headset just so I can read a marketing blurb
I'm sure their thinking is that you'll already be wearing the headset (doing your coding) when that email comes in...
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if you need to wear anything like this to do anything you have a problem
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I knew people who said “if you have to sit in front of a damn screen and keyboard you have a problem”. It’s all relative and times change.
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Nothing against change if it's for the better
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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fgs1963 wrote: I knew people who said “if you have to sit in front of a damn screen and keyboard you have a problem”
Who? A farmer? A real estate speaker who is trying to convince you that you should start investing in real estate after buying his extra videos?
fgs1963 wrote: It’s all relative and times change.
But not overnight. Change, despite claims otherwise, is always gradual.
Cars? Gradual
Cell phones? Gradual.
OO programming? Gradual.
And VR claims of business productivity increases are not new.
So where is your evidence of programmers that are switching to using VR for programming (and not programming for VR spaces.)
Or any substantive use in business spaces? For example VR games, porn and real estate online walk throughs have existed for years but none are over taking their business domain space. Do you have an example where it is?
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jschell wrote: Who? A farmer? A real estate speaker who is trying to convince you that you should start investing in real estate after buying his extra videos?
jschell wrote: Do you have an example where it is?
I just watched the bloody presentation and thought it was interesting... I commented that the TechCrunch author was wrong that Apple was promoting it mostly as business tool. Take your argument to Apple - not me.
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When you said "It’s all relative and times change" that certainly seemed like that was your opinion and that you were suggesting that in the future that it was possible.
That is what I responded to.
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My comment was meant more generally.
Times do change. People that use and program computers should know this better than anyone. Sometimes change occurs very gradually, sometimes in fits and jumps.
Again, I have no idea if Apples AR thingy will be a success or a failure OR if will get any traction at all in business. Probably depends on how Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc... react to it.
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pkfox wrote: if you need to wear anything like this to do anything you have a problem
Apple's the one trying to sell that product, not me.
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Hi,
Anyone here used RFID, 13.56 band to be precise? I think the project I'm on is not using it correctly. I was an RFID guru but the company I was in got screwed by a customers non-payment and the skills weren't kept upto date... 
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You might want to search in PLC / SPS Forums, we usually work with RFID a lot too, sadly I am more like you, I haven't touch it for years and I forgot a big lot of information.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"I've forgotten more than you youngsters know.
The trouble is I've forgotten."
by someone famous, but I can't remember who.
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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I don't think it was me, but I'm not sure anymore...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I actually answered so to a newbie I started to train back then. He got me with a question I could not answer on the moment and he started "lecturing" me. A while later (had to check something first), I answered him (dismounting some of the arguments he had previously said) and when he was about to say something I added "And for the record, I have already forgotten more than what you have learned so far". His face was priceless 
On a side note... I don't actually envy photographic memory, but I could use a bit more of retentive in my brain  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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years ago I started actively not remembering details but remembering where to FIND the detail.
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That has been my way of doing things for most part of my life. In College, I always asked the teachers for allowance for doing a piece of paper with the most difficult formulas (that they would check before I start my exam), when he asked why, I answered because I have problems remembering them, my way of learning concentrates in the how not always in the what, I know how the processes work, I do recognise the correct formula when I see it, I know how to use it, I know what happens if you change the one or the other parameter, but I will probably write it wrong if I have to do it by heart, and that will make me lose a lot of points, just because I wrote a "+" where a "-" goes and in the real world 99% of the people won't remember it anyways after a couple of weeks after the exam, but I will be able to re-use it within 5 minutes looking a book years after the exam.
I not only got allowance in many cases, some teachers started to do such a formulae attachment for the exams themselves.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I've touched HF RFID a few times. I do pressure sensitive labeling and had a customer a few years ago that needed a label printer that did HF. Most brands do UHF for for EPC applications. Walmart is pushing for item level tagging so general RFID interest has picked up again.
Another one of our customers uses HF for uniforms for laundry sorting. Those are more permanent tags.
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My dog (Bacchus, an aging greyhound) is implanted with one. He works cheap (mainly treats), and would be more than willing to help.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't think he could do much worse!
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Cars car phone point (11)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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AUTOMOBILES
AUTO car
MOBILE phone
S (compass) point
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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