They can't even get themselves to put this on a fresh domain, because then they'd miss out on all the search engine user cookies. How surprising.
Google Glass
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Re: Google Glass
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It must be a shame to have such little will power.
Downvote me all you want. This luddite "all smartphone owners suck at communicating" is a tired annoying meme in and of itself.
I'm not saying they all suck. I'm saying that they change how people communicate and in an decreasingly meaningful way.
So much context and depth and therefore meaning is lost the moment you remove physical emotion from communication. People slowly get used to this shallow existence until one day they are left without their smartphone for one reason or another. Then they realise that they need it to remain socially adequate. They end up burned out emotional retards with compulsive behaviour issues.
they have the same characteristics as some drugs and you merely sound like an addict defending his or her addiction.
Re: Google Glass
#553Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downvote me all you want. This luddite "all smartphone owners suck at communicating" is a tired annoying meme in and of itself.
I'm not saying they all suck. I'm saying that they change how people communicate and in an decreasingly meaningful way. So much context and depth and therefore meaning is lost the moment you remove physical emotion from communication. People slowly get used to this shallow existence until one day they are left without their smartphone for one reason or another. Then they realise that they need it to remain socially a…
I guess I don't understand. In many ways, I consider myself addicted to the Internet. That having been said, I don't text my friends. I hate calling them. I'd love to go get a beer. I seriously, rarely ever text more than "Meet me at X" or "Want to do lunch?".
It's frustrating that you make a huge set of presumptions about me based on me... pointing out that your all-or-nothing stance is needlessly reductionist. And almost diminutive or offensive.
It's not hard to own a smartphone and not keep your nose glued to it. I love having it when I'm waiting in line. I love having it when I need directions (I'm directionaly challenged to put it nicely). I love having it when I need to look up someone's number on FB to text or call them about a project. I love having it meet other single people interested in a date in my area. I love having it to find the ISS overhead to point out to my dad.
And, yet, I don't like texting. I don't like away-facebook messages, (IMs are okay, nice for when I've just graduated and moved across the country from most people I know).
Calling me a drug addict would be much more apt than trying to use it for a boring allusion. I mean, drugs are great.
Re: Google Glass
#554Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not saying they all suck. I'm saying that they change how people communicate and in an decreasingly meaningful way. So much context and depth and therefore meaning is lost the moment you remove physical emotion from communication. People slowly get used to this shallow existence until one day they are left without their smartphone for one reason or another. Then they realise that they need it to remain socially a…
I guess I don't understand. In many ways, I consider myself addicted to the Internet. That having been said, I don't text my friends. I hate calling them. I'd love to go get a beer. I seriously, rarely ever text more than "Meet me at X" or "Want to do lunch?". It's frustrating that you make a huge set of presumptions about me based on me... pointing out that your all-or-nothing stance is needlessly reductionist. And…
I make no assumption. It's only because I've been there.
I was you based on how you describe yourself about 2 years ago. It did some serious damage to my life and I don't wish other people to go through it.
Re: Google Glass
#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Small talk was always pointless. I used to have this view. I like talking about interesting subjects, comparing understandings of complex issues, understanding different viewpoints. However, I realized that small talk is an important part of that. It's a system that lets you and the other party feel each other out without committing social transgressions. It's what lets you guess that someone would say "Hitler was r…
Has anyone else become hyper-specialized in their interests because of pervasive connectivity? I've gotten to the point where on some topics there are zero people I know personally that I could have a conversation with about these topics unless I did all of the talking. I find people to talk intelligently about these topics through online niche forums. It's so weird sometimes because I've got a small talk personae fo…
I find that's true for a few of my interests, but not to the degree that I'm disinterested in talking about those subjects on a more basic level.
Re: Google Glass
#556Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess I don't understand. In many ways, I consider myself addicted to the Internet. That having been said, I don't text my friends. I hate calling them. I'd love to go get a beer. I seriously, rarely ever text more than "Meet me at X" or "Want to do lunch?". It's frustrating that you make a huge set of presumptions about me based on me... pointing out that your all-or-nothing stance is needlessly reductionist. And…
I make no assumption. It's only because I've been there. I was you based on how you describe yourself about 2 years ago. It did some serious damage to my life and I don't wish other people to go through it.
Hm, well, for what it's worth, I don't know if you were, but I'm trying to be very conscious about figuring out what's important to me and focusing on it. I've been through some existential-crisis/depression stuff lately and prioritizing and maximizing life has been critical to me. On one hand, I think I'm addicted to being over-stimulated, but I also am focusing on maximizing the (real) social interactions to keep me grounded in a sense. I'm trying to be conscious of it, we'll see in a few years. (I've always detested texting though. Honestly, right now I'm really struggling because one of my closest friend demands attention and I can't give it hundreds of miles away other than texts or phonecalls which I dread. Hangouts are better, really infinitely so).
Re: Google Glass
#557Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not as bad as you think. I saw someone walking around with it the other day and at first I thought they just had designer glasses on. Someone had to point out that they were wearing Google Glass for me to even notice.
Was it in NYC?
No, Los Gatos at the Netflix Open Source meetup. I'm pretty sure he was a Googler.
Re: Google Glass
#558Earlier quoted context omitted.
I completely agree. I think this is the reason why bluetooth headsets haven't really had overwhelming appeal (except with certain marked segments, such as businessmen). If a product isn't sexy, people won't use it – and that's especially true with wearable technology. For me, it's not the asymmetry of the projector but the massive back-end. You can tell even Google knows this is unattractive because their model is we…
Was that just in the early prototype? The bulk at the back of present design looks OK to me: http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/ (3rd image from the bottom). Just going by appearance, there are ordinary sunglasses with a similar bulk. And the compute unit will only get smaller year by year. I'm actually kinda amazed they've managed to make it that small - OTOH, I see the key point of the project is a way…
Didn't mean to sound unimpressed - it's absolutely amazing how compact they have managed to make it (although I'd like to dive deeper into specs before I make a full judgement).
It's really hard to tell from those photos because they don't provide a great reference. The best I saw was the "strong and light" photo, so I'm going to go ahead and say it's about the same size as my thumb.
That's pretty small, but I'm not sure its small enough to have an iPod-like takeoff (yet!).
Re: Google Glass
#559Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand what you're articulating as the vision, but I'm not seeing it in the promo video. I mostly see people recording a lot of activities. What specifically in the video excites you?
Off the top of my head, instant sharing of anything without futzing around with a discrete device. How many moments are missed because a camera wasn't ready or the app took to long to load? "Ok glass, record a video" Bam. If it works in real life at the same speed as in the video, I don't think this effect can be overstated. It allows you to share while still being a participant in the experience (as opposed to the g…
You're at the urinal and some guy yells out "Ok glass, share video".
There will be problems.
Re: Google Glass
#560So where do I buy a chinese knockoff version of this that I can run Debian on? It's a very exciting hardware notion, and I'd love to hack around with some software on it.
Not a Chinese knockoff, but Vuzix are trying to get a similar product to market: http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_m100.html