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The last time I seriously upgraded my PC was in 2011, because the PC is over. And in some ways, it truly is – they can slap a ton more CPU cores on a die, for sure, but the overall single core performance increase from a 2011 high end Intel CPU to today's high end Intel CPU is … really quite modest, on the order of maybe 30% to 40%.
In that same timespan, mobile and tablet CPU performance has continued to just about double every year. Which means the forthcoming iPhone 6s will be almost 10 times faster than the iPhone 4 was.
Remember, that's only single core CPU performance – I'm not even factoring in the move from single, to dual, to triple core as well as generally faster memory and storage. This stuff is old hat on desktop, where we've had mainstream dual cores for a decade now, but they are huge improvements for mobile.
When your mobile devices get 10 times faster in the span of four years, it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for a modest 1.3 × or 1.4 × iterative improvement in your PC's performance over the same time.
I've been slogging away at this for a while; my current PC build series spans 7 years:
The fun part of building a PC is that it's relatively easy to swap out the guts when something compelling comes along. CPU performance improvements may be modest these days, but there are still bright spots where performance is increasing more dramatically. Mainly in graphics hardware and, in this case, storage.
The current latest-and-greatest Intel CPU is Skylake. Like Sandy Bridge in 2011, which brought us much faster 6 Gbps SSD-friendly drive connectors (although only two of them), the Skylake platform brings us another key storage improvement – the ability to connect hard drives directly to the PCI Express lanes. Which looks like this:
… and performs like this:
Now there's the 3× performance increase we've been itching for! To be fair, a raw increase of 3× in drive performance doesn't necessarily equate to a computer that boots in one third the time. But here's why disk speed matters:
If the CPU registers are how long it takes you to fetch data from your brain, then going to disk is the equivalent of fetching data from Pluto.
What I've always loved about SSDs is that they attack the PC's worst-case performance scenario, when information has to come off the slowest device inside your computer – the hard drive. SSDs massively reduced the variability of requests for data. Let's compare L1 cache access time to minimum disk access time:
Traditional hard drive
0.9 ns → 10 ms (variability of 11,111,111Ă— )
0.9 ns → 150 µs (variability of 166,667Ă— )
SSDs provide a reduction in overall performance variability of 66Ă—! And when comparing latency:
7200rpm HDD — 1800ms
SATA SSD — 4ms
PCIe SSD — 0.34ms
Even going from a fast SATA SSD to a PCI Express SSD, you're looking at a 10x reduction in drive latency.
Here's what you need:
These are the basics. It's best to use the M.2 connection as a fast boot / system drive, so I scaled it back to the smaller 256 GB version. I also had a lot of trouble getting my hands on the faster i7-6700k CPU, which appears supply constrained and is currently overpriced as a result.
Even though the days of doubling (or even 1.5×-ing) CPU performance are long gone for PCs, there are still some key iterative performance milestones to hit. Like mainstream 4k displays, I believe mainstream PCI express SSDs are another important step in the overall evolution of desktop computing. Or its corpse, anyway.[advertisement] Find a better job the Stack Overflow way - what you need when you need it, no spam, and no scams.
It's been three years since I last upgraded monitors. Those inexpensive Korean 27" IPS panels, with a resolution of 2560×1440 – also known as 1440p – have served me well. You have no idea how many people I've witnessed being Wrong On The Internet on these babies.
I recently got the upgrade itch real bad:
4K monitors have stabilized as a category, from super bleeding edge "I'm probably going to regret buying this" early adopter stuff, and beginning to approach mainstream maturity.
Windows 10, with its promise of better high DPI handling, was released. I know, I know, we've been promised reasonable DPI handling in Windows for the last five years, but hope springs eternal. This time will be different!™
I needed a reason to buy a new high end video card, which I was also itching to upgrade, and simplify from a dual card config back to a (very powerful) single card config.
I wanted to rid myself of the monitor power bricks and USB powered DVI to DisplayPort converters that those Korean monitors required. I covet simple, modern DisplayPort connectors. I was beginning to feel like a bad person because I had never even owned a display that had a DisplayPort connector. First world problems, man.
1440p at 27" is decent, but it's also … sort of an awkward no-man's land. Nowhere near high enough resolution to be retina, but it is high enough that you probably want to scale things a bit. After living with this for a few years, I think it's better to just suck it up and deal with giant pixels (34" at 1440p, say), or go with something much more high resolution and trust that everyone is getting their collective act together by now on software support for high DPI.
Given my great experiences with modern high DPI smartphone and tablet displays (are there any other kind these days?), I want those same beautiful high resolution displays on my desktop, too. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
I was excited, then, to discover some strong recommendations for the Asus PB279Q.
The Asus PB279Q is a 27" panel, same size as my previous cheap Korean IPS monitors, but it is more premium in every regard:
It is also a more premium monitor in price, at around $700, whereas I got my super-cheap no-frills Korean IPS 1440p monitors for roughly half that price. But when I say no-frills, I mean it – these Korean monitors didn't even have on-screen controls!
4K is a surprisingly big bump in resolution over 1440p — we go from 3.7 to 8.3 megapixels.
But, is it … retina?
It depends how you define that term, and from what distance you're viewing the screen. Per Is This Retina:27" 3840×2160 'retina' at a viewing distance of 21" 27" 2560×1440 'retina' at a viewing distance of 32"
With proper computer desk ergonomics you should be sitting with the top of your monitor at eye level, at about an arm's length in front of you. I just measured my arm and, fully extended, it's about 26". Sitting at my desk, I'm probably about that distance from my monitor or a bit closer, but certainly beyond the 21" necessary to call this monitor 'retina' despite being 163 PPI. It definitely looks that way to my eye.
I have more words to write here, but let's cut to the chase for the impatient and the TL;DR crowd. This 4K monitor is totally amazing and you should buy one. It feels exactly like going from the non-retina iPad 2 to the retina iPad 3 did, except on the desktop. It makes all the text on your screen look beautiful. There is almost no downside.
There are a few caveats, though:
You will need a beefy video card to drive a 4K monitor. I personally went all out for the GeForce 980 Ti, because I might want to actually game at this native resolution, and the 980 Ti is the undisputed fastest single video card in the world at the moment. If you're not a gamer, any midrange video card should do fine.
Display scaling is definitely still a problem at times with a 4K monitor. You will run into apps that don't respect DPI settings and end up magnifying-glass tiny. Scott Hanselman provided many examples in January 2014, and although stuff has improved since then with Windows 10, it's far from perfect.
Browsers scale great, and the OS does too, but if you use any desktop apps built by careless developers, you'll run into this. The only good long term solution is to spread the gospel of 4K and shame them into submission with me. Preach it, brothers and sisters!
Enable DisplayPort 1.2 in the monitor settings so you can turn on 60Hz. Trust me, you do not want to experience a 30Hz LCD display. It is unspeakably bad, enough to put one off computer screens forever. For people who tell you they can't see the difference between 30fps and 60fps, just switch their monitors to 30hz and watch them squirm in pain.
Viewing those comparison videos, I begin to understand why gamers want 90Hz, 120Hz or even 144Hz monitors. 60fps / 60 Hz should be the absolute minimum, no matter what resolution you're running. Luckily DisplayPort 1.2 enables 60 Hz at 4K, but only just. You'll need DisplayPort 1.3+ to do better than that.
Disable the crappy built in monitor speakers. Headphones or bust, baby!
Turn down the brightness from the standard factory default of retina scorching 100% to something saner like 50%. Why do manufacturers do this? Is it because they hate eyeballs? While you're there, you might mess around with some basic display calibration, too.
This Asus PB279Q 4K monitor is the best thing I've upgraded on my computer in years. Well, actually, thing(s) I've upgraded, because I am not f**ing around over here.
I'm a long time proponent of the triple monitor lifestyle, and the only thing better than a 4K display is three 4K displays! That's 11,520×2,160 pixels to you, or 6,480×3,840 if rotated.
(Good luck attempting to game on this configuration with all three monitors active, though. You're gonna need it. Some newer games are too demanding to run on "High" settings on a single 4K monitor, even with the mighty Nvidia 980 Ti.)
I've also been experimenting with better LCD monitor arms that properly support my preferred triple monitor configurations. Here's a picture from the back, where all the action is:
These are the Flo Monitor Supports, and they free up a ton of desk space in a triple monitor configuration while also looking quite snazzy. I'm fond of putting my keyboard just under the center monitor, which isn't possible with any monitor stand.
With these Flo arms you can "scale up" your configuration from dual to triple or even quad (!) monitor later.
4K monitors are here, they're not that expensive, the desktop operating systems and video hardware are in place to properly support them, and in the appropriate size (27") we can finally have an amazing retina display experience at typical desktop viewing distances. Choose the Asus PB279Q 4K monitor, or whatever 4K monitor you prefer, but take the plunge.
In 2007, I asked Where Are The High Resolution Displays, and now, 8 years later, they've finally, finally arrived on my desktop. Praise the lord and pass the pixels!
Oh, and gird your loins for 8K one day. It, too, is coming.[advertisement] Building out your tech team? Stack Overflow Careers helps you hire from the largest community for programmers on the planet. We built our site with developers like you in mind.
This post is a bit of a public service announcement, so I'll get right to the point:
Every time you use WiFi, ask yourself: could I be connecting to the Internet through a compromised router with malware?
It's becoming more and more common to see malware installed not at the server, desktop, laptop, or smartphone level, but at the router level. Routers have become quite capable, powerful little computers in their own right over the last 5 years, and that means they can, unfortunately, be harnessed to work against you.
I write about this because it recently happened to two people I know.
.@jchris A friend got hit by this on newly paved win8.1 computer. Downloaded Chrome, instantly infected with malware. Very spooky.— not THE Damien Katz (@damienkatz) May 20, 2015
@codinghorror *no* idea and there's almost ZERO info out there. Essentially malicious JS adware embedded in every in-app browser— John O'Nolan (@JohnONolan) August 7, 2015
In both cases, they eventually determined the source of the problem was that the router they were connecting to the Internet through had been compromised.
This is way more evil genius than infecting a mere computer. If you can manage to systematically infect common home and business routers, you can potentially compromise every computer connected to them.
Hilarious meme images I am contractually obligated to add to each blog post aside, this is scary stuff and you should be scared.
Router malware is the ultimate man-in-the-middle attack. For all meaningful traffic sent through a compromised router that isn't HTTPS encrypted, it is 100% game over. The attacker will certainly be sending all that traffic somewhere they can sniff it for anything important: logins, passwords, credit card info, other personal or financial information. And they can direct you to phishing websites at will – if you think you're on the "real" login page for the banking site you use, think again.
Heck, even if you completely trust the person whose router you are using, they could be technically be doing this to you. But they probably aren't.
In John's case, the attackers inserted annoying ads in all unencrypted web traffic, which is an obvious tell to a sophisticated user. But how exactly would the average user figure out where this junk is coming from (or worse, assume the regular web is just full of ad junk all the time), when even a technical guy like John – founder of the open source Ghost blogging software used on this very blog – was flummoxed?
But that's OK, we're smart users who would only access public WiFi using HTTPS websites, right? Sadly, even if the traffic is HTTPS encrypted, it can still be subverted! There's an extremely technical blow-by-blow analysis at Cryptostorm, but the TL;DR is this:
Compromised router answers DNS req for *.google.com to 3rd party with faked HTTPS cert, you download malware Chrome. Game over.
HTTPS certificate shenanigans. DNS and BGP manipulation. Very hairy stuff.
How is this possible? Let's start with the weakest link, your router. Or more specifically, the programmers responsible for coding the admin interface to your router.
They must be terribly incompetent coders to let your router get compromised over the Internet, since one of the major selling points of a router is to act as a basic firewall layer between the Internet and you… right?
In their defense, that part of a router generally works as advertised. More commonly, you aren't being attacked from the hardened outside. You're being attacked from the soft, creamy inside.
That's right, the calls are coming from inside your house!
By that I mean you'll visit a malicious website that scripts your own browser to access the web-based admin pages of your router, and reset (or use the default) admin passwords to reconfigure it.
Nasty, isn't it? They attack from the inside using your own browser. But that's not the only way.
Maybe you accidentally turned on remote administration, so your router can be modified from the outside.
Maybe you left your router's admin passwords at default.
Maybe there is a legitimate external exploit for your router and you're running a very old version of firmware.
Maybe your ISP provided your router and made a security error in the configuration of the device.
In addition to being kind of terrifying, this does not bode well for the Internet of Things.
Internet of Compromised Things, more like.
OK, so what can we do about this? There's no perfect answer; I think it has to be a defense in depth strategy.Inside Your Home
Buy a new, quality router. You don't want a router that's years old and hasn't been updated. But on the other hand you also don't want something too new that hasn't been vetted for firmware and/or security issues in the real world.
Also, any router your ISP provides is going to be about as crappy and "recent" as the awful stereo system you get in a new car. So I say stick with well known consumer brands. There are some hardcore folks who think all consumer routers are trash, so YMMV.
I can recommend the Asus RT-AC87U – it did very well in the SmallNetBuilder tests, Asus is a respectable brand, it's been out a year, and for most people, this is probably an upgrade over what you currently have without being totally bleeding edge overkill. I know it is an upgrade for me.
(I am also eagerly awaiting Eero as a domestic best of breed device with amazing custom firmware, and have one pre-ordered, but it hasn't shipped yet.)
Download and install the latest firmware. Ideally, do this before connecting the device to the Internet. But if you connect and then immediately use the firmware auto-update feature, who am I to judge you.
Change the default admin passwords. Don't leave it at the documented defaults, because then it could be potentially scripted and accessed.
Turn off WPS. Turns out the Wi-Fi Protected Setup feature intended to make it "easy" to connect to a router by pressing a button or entering a PIN made it … a bit too easy. This is always on by default, so be sure to disable it.
Turn off uPNP. Since we're talking about attacks that come from "inside your house", uPNP offers zero protection as it has no method of authentication. If you need it for specific apps, you'll find out, and you can forward those ports manually as needed.
Make sure remote administration is turned off. I've never owned a router that had this on by default, but check just to be double plus sure.
For Wifi, turn on WPA2+AES and use a long, strong password. Again, I feel most modern routers get the defaults right these days, but just check. The password is your responsibility, and password strength matters tremendously for wireless security, so be sure to make it a long one – at least 20 characters with all the variability you can muster.
Pick a unique SSID. Default SSIDs just scream hack me, for I have all defaults and a clueless owner. And no, don't bother "hiding" your SSID, it's a waste of time.
Optional: use less congested channels for WiFi. The default is "auto", but you can sometimes get better performance by picking less used frequencies at the ends of the spectrum. As summarized by official ASUS support reps:
Set 2.4 GHz channel bandwidth to 40 MHz, and change the control channel to 1, 6 or 11.
Set 5 GHz channel bandwidth to 80 MHz, and change the control channel to 165 or 161.
Experts only: install an open source firmware. I discussed this a fair bit in Everyone Needs a Router, but you have to be very careful which router model you buy, and you'll probably need to stick with older models. There are several which are specifically sold to be friendly to open source firmware.Outside Your Home
Well, this one is simple. Assume everything you do outside your home, on a remote network or over WiFi is being monitored by IBGs: Internet Bad Guys.
I know, kind of an oppressive way to voyage out into the world, but it's better to start out with a defensive mindset, because you could be connecting to anyone's compromised router or network out there.
But, good news. There are only two key things you need to remember once you're outside, facing down that fiery ball of hell in the sky and armies of IBGs.
Never access anything but HTTPS websites.
If it isn't available over HTTPS, don't go there!
You might be OK with HTTP if you are not logging in to the website, just browsing it, but even then IBGs could inject malware in the page and potentially compromise your device. And never, ever enter anything over HTTP you aren't 100% comfortable with bad guys seeing and using against you somehow.
We've made tremendous progress in HTTPS Everywhere over the last 5 years, and these days most major websites offer (or even better, force) HTTPS access. So if you just want to quickly check your GMail or Facebook or Twitter, you will be fine, because those services all force HTTPS.
If you must access non-HTTPS websites, or you are not sure, always use a VPN.
A VPN encrypts all your traffic, so you no longer have to worry about using HTTPS. You do have to worry about whether or not you trust your VPN provider, but that's a much longer discussion than I want to get into right now.
It's a good idea to pick a go-to VPN provider so you have one ready and get used to how it works over time. Initially it will feel like a bunch of extra work, and it kinda is, but if you care about your security an encrypt-everything VPN is bedrock. And if you don't care about your security, well, why are you even reading this?
If it feels like these are both variants of the same rule, always strongly encrypt everything, you aren't wrong. That's the way things are headed. The math is as sound as it ever was – but unfortunately the people and devices, less so.Be Safe Out There
Until I heard Damien's story and John's story, I had no idea router hardware could be such a huge point of compromise. I didn't realize that you could be innocently visiting a friend's house, and because he happens to be the parent of three teenage boys and the owner of an old, unsecured router that you connect to via WiFi … your life will suddenly get a lot more complicated.
As the amount of stuff we connect to the Internet grows, we have to understand that the Internet of Things is a bunch of tiny, powerful computers, too – and they need the same strong attention to security that our smartphones, laptops, and servers already enjoy.[advertisement] At Stack Overflow, we help developers learn, share, and grow. Whether you're looking for your next dream job or looking to build out your team, we've got your back.
It's been about a year and a half since I wrote The Road to VR, and a … few … things have happened since then.
Facebook bought Oculus for a skadillion dollars
I have to continually read thinkpieces describing how the mere act of strapping a VR headset on your face is such a transformative, disruptive, rapturous experience that you'll never look at the world the same way again.
I am somewhat OK with the former, although the idea of my heroes John Carmack and Michael Abrash as Facebook employees still raises my hackles. But the latter is more difficult to stomach. And it just doesn't stop.
For example, this recent WSJ piece. (I can't link directly to it, you have to click through from Google search results to get past the paywall).
I'll spare you the rapturous account of the time I sculpted in three dimensions with light, fire, leaves and rainbows inside what felt like a real-life version of a holodeck from "Star Trek." Writing about VR is like fiction about sex—seldom believable and never up to the task.
If you really want to understand how compelling VR is, you just have to try it. And I guarantee you will. At some point in the next couple of years, one of your already-converted friends will insist you experience it, the same way someone gave you your first turn at a keyboard or with a touch screen. And it will be no less a transformative experience.
I don't mean to call out the author here. There are a dozen other similarly breathless VR articles I could cite, where an amazing VR wonderland is looming right around the corner for all of us, any day now. And if you haven't tried it, boy, you just don't know! It can't be explained, it must be experienced! There are people who honestly believe that in 5 years nobody will make non-VR games any more. The hype levels are off the charts.
Well, I have experienced modern VR. A lot. I've tried both the Oculus DK1, the Oculus DK2, and a 360° backpack-and-controllers Survios rig, which looks something like this:
Based on those experiences, I can't reconcile these hype levels with what I felt. At all. Right now, VR is not something I'd unconditionally recommend to a fellow avid gamer, much less a casual gamer.
To be honest, when I tried the DK1 and DK2, after a few hours of demos and exploration, I couldn't wait to get the headset off. Not because I was motion sick – I don't get motion sick, and never have – but because I was bored. And a little frustrated by control limitations. Not exactly the stuff transformative world-changing disruption is made of.
Here's what that experience looks like, by the way. You can practically taste the gaming excitement dripping off me.
And if you don't find watching me experience my virtual world fascinating (although I can't imagine why) I suppose you can enjoy what's on my screen:
Chroma-shifted, stereographic, fisheye VR gibberish.
I've always been the first kid on my block to recommend an awesome, transformative gaming experience, from the Atari 2600 to the Kinect. I mean, that's kind of who I am, isn't it? The alpha geek, the guy who owned a Vectrex and thought vector graphics were the cat's pajamas, the guy who bought one of the first copies of Guitar Hero in 2005 and would not shut up about it. For that matter I dragged my buddies to a VR storefront in Boulder, Colorado circa 1993 so we could play Dactyl Nightmare. And I have to say, in my alpha geek opinion, modern VR has a long way to go before it'll be ready for the rapturous smartphone levels of adoption that media pundits imply is a few months away.
I apologize if this comes off as negative, and no, I haven't tried the magical new VR headset models that are Just Around The Corner and Will Change Everything. I'll absolutely try them when they are available. Let me be clear that I think the technical challenges around VR are deep, hard, and fascinating, and I could not be happier that some of the best programmers of our generation are working on this stuff. But from what I've seen and experienced to date, there is just no way that VR is going to be remotely mainstream in 5 years. I'm doubtful that can happen in a decade or even two decades, to be honest, but a smart person always hedges their bets when trying to predict the future.
I think the current state of VR, or at least the "strap a nice smartphone or two on your face" version of it, has quite a few fundamental physical problems to deal with before it has any chance of being mainstream.It should be as convenient as a pair of glasses
Nobody "enjoys" strapping two pounds of stuff on their face unless they are in a hazardous materials situation. We can barely get people to wear bicycle helmets, and yet they are going to be lining up around the block to slap this awkward, gangly VR contraption on their head? Existing VR headsets get awfully sweaty after 30 minutes of use, and they're also difficult to fit over glasses. The idea of gaming with a heavy, sweaty, uncomfortable headset on for hours at a time isn't too appealing – and that's coming from a guy who thinks nothing of spending 6 hours in a gaming jag with headphones on.
For VR to be quick and easy and pervasive, the headset would need to be so miniaturized as to be basically invisible – akin to putting on a cool pair of sunglasses.
Maybe current VR headsets are like the old brick cellphones from the 90's. The question is, how quickly can they get from 1990 to 2007?It should be wireless
The world has been inexorably moving towards wireless everything, but in this regard VR headsets are a glorious throwback to science fiction movies from the 1970s. Your VR headset and everything else on it will be physically wired, in multiple ways, to a powerful computer. Wires, wires, everywhere, as far as your eyes … can't see.
Even the cheaper VR headsets that let you drop a high end smartphone in for a limited VR experience have to be wired to power, as phone batteries are not built for the continuous heavy-duty CPU and GPU rendering that VR requires. Overheating is a very real problem, too.
Wireless video is hard to do well, particularly at the 1440p resolutions that are the absolute minimum for practical VR. On top of that, good VR requires much higher framerates, ideally 120fps. That kind of ultra low latency, super high resolution video delivered wirelessly, is quite far off.It should have 4k resolution
Since the VR device you're looking at is inches from your eyes – and the resolution is effectively divided in half for each eye (there are a few emerging VR headsets that use two smartphones here instead of one) – an extremely high resolution screen is needed to achieve effective visual resolutions that are ancient by modern computer standards.
The Oculus DK1 at 720p was so low resolution that I consider it borderline unusable even as a demo unit. I'd estimate that it felt roughly DOOM resolution, or 320×240.
The DK2 at 1080p was marginally better, but the pixelation and shimmer was quite bad, a serious distraction from immersion. It felt roughly Quake resolution, or 640×480.
I know many upcoming VR devices are 1440p or 2560×1440. I strongly suspect that, in practice, is going to feel like yet another mild bump to effective 1024×768 resolution.
I'm used to modern games and modern graphics resolutions. Putting on a VR headset shouldn't be a one-way ticket to jarring, grainy, pixelated graphics the like of which I haven't seen since 1999. There are definitely 4k smartphones out there on the horizon which could solve this problem, but the power required to drive them, by that I mean the CPU, GPU, and literal battery power – is far from trivial.
(And did I mention it needs to be a minimum of 60fps, ideally 120fps for the best VR experience? I'm pretty sure I mentioned that.)
Still, the 4k resolution problem is probably the closest to being reasonably solved on current hardware trajectories in about five years or so, albeit driven by very high end hardware, not a typical smartphone, which brings me to …It should not require a high end gaming PC or future gen console
VR has massive CPU and GPU system requirements, somewhat beyond what you'd need for the latest videogames running at 4k resolutions. Which means by definition cutting edge VR is developed with, and best experienced on, a high end Windows PC.
Imagine the venture capitalists who invested in Oculus, who have probably been Mac-only since the early aughts, trying to scrounge together a gaming PC so they can try this crazy new VR thing they just invested in. That's some culture shock.
Current generation consoles such as the Xbox One and PS4 may be fine with (most) games running at 1080p, on the PS4 at least, but they are both woefully under-specced to do VR in both GPU and CPU power. That's bad news if you expect VR to be mainstream in the lifetime of these new consoles over the next 5-8 years, and were counting on the console market to get there.
VR on current generation consoles will be a slow, crippled, low resolution affair, about on the level of the Oculus DK2 at best. You'll be waiting quite a while for the next generation of consoles beyond these to deliver decent VR.Hands (Gloves?) must be supported
I was extremely frustrated by the lack of control options in the Oculus DK1 and DK2. Here I was looking around and exploring this nifty VR world, but to do anything I had to tap a key on my keyboard, or move and click my mouse. Talk about breaking immersion. They bundle an Xbox controller with the upcoming Rift, which is no better. Experiencing VR with a mouse is like playing Guitar Hero with a controller.
The most striking thing about the Survios demo rig I tried was the way I could use my hands to manipulate things in the VR world. Adding hands to VR was revelatory, the one bit of VR I've experienced to date that I can honestly say I was blown away by. I could reach out and grab objects, rotate things in my hands and move them close to my face to look at them, hold a shotgun and cock it with two hands, and so forth. With my hands, it was amazing. The primary controllers you should need in VR are the ones you were born with: your hands.
A virtual world experienced with just your head is quite disappointing and passive, like a movie or an on-rails ride. But add hands, and suddenly you are there because you can now interact with that VR world in a profoundly human way: by touching it. I could see myself playing story exploration games like Gone Home in VR, if I can use my hands – to manipulate things, to look at them and open them and turn them in my hands and check them out. It was incredible. Manipulating that world with my hands made it infinitely more real.
The good news is that there are solutions like Oculus Touch. The bad news is that's it's not bundled by default, but should be. This device tracks hand position, plus rotation, and adds some buttons for interaction. Even better would be simple gloves you could wear that visually tracked each finger – but sometimes you do need a button, because if you are holding a gun (or a flashlight) you need to indicate that you fired a gun (or turned on the flashlight) which would be quite hairy to track via finger movement alone.
I'm optimistic that VR and hand control will hopefully become synonymous, otherwise we're locking ourselves into a "just look around you" mindset, which leads to crappy, passive VR that's little more than a different kind of IMAX 3D movie.It must compete with mature 2D entertainment
I get frustrated talking to people who act like VR exists in a vacuum, that there are suddenly no other experiences worth having unless they happen in glorious stereo 3D.
I've experimented with stereo 3D on computers since the days of junky battery powered LCD shutter glasses. And we all know the world has experienced the glory of 3D television … and collectively turned its head and said meh.
Experiencing something in 3D, in and of itself, is just not that compelling. If it was, people would have scarfed up 3D TVs, see only 3D movies, and play only 3D video games on their PCs and consoles regularly. The technology to do it is there, battle tested, and completely mature. I know because I saw Captain EO at Epcot Center in 3D way back in 1985, and it was amazing thirty years ago!
I recently saw Gravity in IMAX 3D and I liked it, but it didn't transform my moviegoing experience such that I could never imagine seeing another boring flat 2D movie ever again.
People have so many wonderful social experiences gathered around common 2D screens. Watching a movie, watching a TV show, watching someone play a game. These are fundamentally joyous, shared human experiences. For this to work with VR is kinda-sorta possible, but difficult, because:
You need a proper flat 2D representation of what the VR user is seeing
That 2D representation must be broadcast on the primary display device
VR is ultra resource intensive already, so rendering yet another copy of the scene at reasonable framerates (say, constant 60fps) isn't going to be easy. Or free.
On top of that, the VR user is probably wearing headphones, holding a pair of hand controllers, and can't see anything, so they can't interact with anyone who is physically there very well.
I've had incredible gaming experiences on 2D screens. I recently played Alien: Isolation, or as I like to call it, Pants Crapping Simulator 3000, and I thought it was one of the most beautiful, immersive, and downright goddamn terrifying gameplay experiences I've had in years. I was starring in a survival horror movie – it felt like I was there in every sense of the word.
At no point did I think to myself "this would be better in 3D". In many ways, it would have been worse.Good God man, do you ever shut up?
Sorry. I had some things to get off my chest with regards to VR. I'll wrap it up.
I apologize, again, if this post seems negative. Writing this, I actually got a little more excited about VR. I can see how far it has to come to match its potential, because the technical problems it presents are quite hard – and those are the most fun problems to attack.
I guess I might be the only person left on Earth who said, hey, I tried VR and it was just OK. I think VR ought to be a hell of a lot better, and has to be if it wants to be truly pervasive.[advertisement] At Stack Overflow, we put developers first. We already help you find answers to your tough coding questions; now let us help you find your next job.
In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder, Colorado working in small business jobs where I was lucky to even hear about other programmers much less meet them.
I eventually fell in with a guy named Bill O'Neil, who hired me to do contract programming. He formed a company with the regrettably generic name of Computer Research & Technologies, and we proceeded to work on various gigs together, building line of business CRUD apps in Visual Basic or FoxPro running on Windows 3.1 (and sometimes DOS, though we had a sense by then that this new-fangled GUI thing was here to stay).
Bill was the first professional programmer I had ever worked with. Heck, for that matter, he was the first programmer I ever worked with. He'd spec out some work with me, I'd build it in Visual Basic, and then I'd hand it over to him for review. He'd then calmly proceed to utterly demolish my code:
One thing that surprised me was that the code itself was rarely the problem. He occasionally had some comments about the way I wrote or structured the code, but what I clearly had no idea about is testing my code.
I dreaded handing my work over to him for inspection. I slowly, painfully learned that the truly difficult part of coding is dealing with the thousands of ways things can go wrong with your application at any given time – most of them user related.
That was my first experience with the buddy system, and thanks to Bill, I came out of that relationship with a deep respect for software craftsmanship. I have no idea what Bill is up to these days, but I tip my hat to him, wherever he is. I didn't always enjoy it, but learning to develop discipline around testing (and breaking) my own stuff unquestionably made me a better programmer.
It's tempting to lay all this responsibility at the feet of the mythical QA engineer.
QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv.— Bill Sempf (@sempf) September 23, 2014
If you are ever lucky enough to work with one, you should have a very, very healthy fear of professional testers. They are terrifying. Just scan this "Did I remember to test" list and you'll be having the worst kind of flashbacks in no time. And that's the abbreviated version of his list.
I believe a key turning point in every professional programmer's working life is when you realize you are your own worst enemy, and the only way to mitigate that threat is to embrace it. Act like your own worst enemy. Break your UI. Break your code. Do terrible things to your software.
This means programmers need a good working knowledge of at least the common mistakes, the frequent cases that average programmers tend to miss, to work against. You are tester zero. This is your responsibility.
Let's start with Patrick McKenzie's classic Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names:
That's just the first 10. There are thirty more. Plus a lot in the comments if you're in the mood for extra credit. Or, how does Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time grab you?
Are there more? Of course there are! There's even a whole additional list of stuff he forgot when he put that giant list together.
I think you can see where this is going. This is programming. We do this stuff for fun, remember?
But in true made-for-TV fashion, wait, there's more! Seriously, guys, where are you going? Get back here. We have more awesome failure states to learn about:
At this point I wouldn't blame you if you decided to quit programming altogether. But I think it's better if we learn to do for each other what Bill did for me, twenty years ago — teach less experienced developers that a good programmer knows they have to do terrible things to their code. Do it because if you don't, I guarantee you other people will, and when they do, they will either walk away or create a support ticket. I'm not sure which is worse.[advertisement] Find a better job the Stack Overflow way - what you need when you need it, no spam, and no scams.


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Name: Howard Davis Jr
Born: 1956-02-14
Birthplace: Glen Cove, New York, USA
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 5′ 8″ / 173cm
Reach: 72½″ / 184cm
Boxing Record: click
Amateur Achievements
- Record: 125 wins, 5 losses
- 1973 National AAU Champion (125 lbs) - Defeated Leroy Veasley of Detroit, MI in the final.
- 1973 North American Champion (125 lbs) - Defeated Dale Anderson of Canada in the final.
- 1974 National AAU Champion (125 lbs) - Defeated Mike Hess of Albany, OR in the final.
- 1974 World Champion (125 lbs) Competition in Havana, Cuba.
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- Roberto Andino (Puerto Rico) on points 5-0
- Rumen Peshev (Bulgaria) on points 5-0
- Eddie Ndukwu (Nigeria) on points 5-0
- Mariano Alvarez (Cuba) on points 3-2
- Boris Kuznetsov (Soviet Union) on points 3-2
- 1976 National AAU Champion (132 lbs) - defeated Thomas Hearns of Detroit, MI in the final.
- 1976 Olympic Trials & Box-Offs (132 lbs) - defeated Aaron Pryor of Cincinnati, OH twice to qualify.
- 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist (132 lbs) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Awarded the Val Barker Trophy as the outstanding boxer of the Olympics.
Davis dedicated his gold medal to his mother, who passed away from a heart attack three days before his first Olympic bout.
Olympic Results:
- 1st round bye
- Yukio Segawa (Japan) won on points 5-0
- Leonidas Asprilla (Colombia) won by RSC 2
- Tzvetan Tzvetkov (Bulgaria) won by RSC 3
- Ace Rusevski (Yugoslavia) won on points 5-0
- Simion Cutov (Romania) won on points 5-0
- Named the Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year for 1976, along with his fellow U.S. Olympic Gold Medalists in boxing (Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and Leo Randolph).
Professional Career
- Record: 36 wins, 6 losses, 1 draw, 14 knockouts
- After winning the Olympics, Davis signed a $1.5 million contract with CBS television.
- Davis fought for a world title three times. All three title shots were in Olympic years.
- Lost a fifteen-round unanimous decision to Jim Watt for the WBC Lightweight Title on June 7, 1980.
- Lost a twelve-round split decision to Edwin Rosario for the WBC Lightweight Title on June 23, 1984.
- Knocked out in the first round by James (Buddy) McGirt for the IBF Junior Welterweight Title on July 31, 1988.
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It's befuddling my dumb cracker mind!
Seriously. Why is Charles Manson dealing precious stones in this podunk town?
The writing in this movie makes me want to punch everyone responsible. I can see the exact kind of 'engaging cast of eccentrics banters' thing it's going for, and how HORRIFICALLY IT'S FAILING.
Humor of the 1840s!
"Packer fans...the horrible truth."
I find it hard to believe they didn't make a Star Trek joke with regards to the lush. She played in the TOS episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
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In this movie I feel like there is a subplot of the lush having an affair with Dutch that we don't really get to see. Relevant? No but a conversation piece anyway.
05:25 Jack Black!
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The original posted is in 9 parts.
"Get out of here, all of you! There's a man from NASA and he knows what he's doing!"
"An airstrike has already been called in, but it you want to go on and run about in the target area, then fine!"
This is possibly my favorite episode. The Packers jokes, the talking spider puppets, and the Invasion of the Body Snatchers host segments.
To this day I still refer to throw pillows as zucchini pillows.
Honestly, I pity the poor tarantulas that had to be in this awful movie.
i think that woman Doctor and the dude(....who looks like a lady) Doctor from LASERBLAST are either the same OR related...
Steve Brodie, the "star" of this gem, as Dr. Vance, had some pretty impressive credits earlier in his career. He's the guy Jane Greer shoots while Robert Mitchum and him are fighting in noir classic "Out of the Past." Too bad he ended up in this kind of dreck.
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I swear Kevin Murphy must've just *loved* to do this show. He's all over the place and is easily my favorite on the show. Servo, Bobo, the Nanites, the voices, etc.
This one was awful and ripe for riffing
Oh gods this movie is one of my favourites .. scared the shit out of me watching this when I was young .. and made me laugh myself into a fuzz now I'm an adult. Some my my fave riffs in this episode. Possibly one of my fave MST3K episodes ever .. runner up being Season 8 Ep 20 "Space Mutiny" .. "Look out .. we'll be reaching speeds of 3!!"
the carnival/fair scene is the BEST part of the whole movie!!!
and the score is 78 to 5 at the bottom of the 3rd inning
just swing us till we die...
ride the vomit rainbow!!!
...and it sucks everything up, and throws everything out...
"You hittin' the booze again?"
i wanna go pet the wounded goat
i love caffeinated Crow!
i love Servo humming/whistling the Gilligan's Island music in the diner at 34:11
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So I've been going through every episode in order, and this is the one I'm currently watching immediately after the Packers won to get into the playoffs. Irony.
7 Banana Warmers.....ouch!!!!
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"This isn't hunting season"...maybe the best riff in the movie and it isn't even a riff. LWFOL!!!!
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I love how much that scientist lady fails to sound intelligent. It starts with that very odd remark about how a teaspoon of super-dense matter "could only be lifted with a giant crane". Who talks like that? Are theoretical giant cranes a superlative scientific benchmark? She might as well be saying "In technical terms, a neutron star could beat up Superman."
"We can't go hunting yet....we're not drunk enough!"
Remember how Alan Hale would look into the camera in Gilligan's Island? He does it here at 13:54. He also broke the forth wall in The Crawling Hand. Awww...
Well, I think I laughed the hardest when the giant spider changed gears as it crossed the field, followed by the people tumbling over each other down the hill.
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I think the most underappreciated riff is tom saying "This can't Wisconsin there's no signs for the Tommy Barrett watershow" because anyone outside the midwest wouldn't understand. It still makes me laugh every time.
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im sure someone else noticed this but horrifying blonde guy who owns the farm the spiders land on is also a witch burner in Touch Of Satan. Im actually impressed by how nauseating his portayal of this character is. Its hard to drum up that much hate/disgust/twitchtiness without pure talent. Maybe Phillip Seymore Hoffman or Crispin Glover . I mean he is just oozing with spousal abuse, lechery and incest. But, aside of that, this is one of my all time faves. The super sexist scientist guy with Barbara Hale has a lot of D bag competition.
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Added link to the Director's Cut(!) of unriffed version
Sir, you offend me!
Worst misreading of Dr. Velikovsky EVER! Shame on you, Della!!!! (Of course, she'd already called quasars 'kwaizers').
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At around 27:30 I must admit I laughed so hard the food fell out of my mouth. Also, "MOSES MOVE THE BIKE" will always be one of my favorite riffs.
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How did these guys manage to watch every tv show and movie, listen to every album, and read every book ever made?
15:38 Trying to get artsy with a shot suggesting a spider's point of view, get it? GET IT? *breaks down sobbing.
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The giant spider was a volkswagen covered in fur with legs controlled by crew inside, and they drove it backwards so the break lights would be its red eyes. Haha. Thank you wikipedia and the people who don't have lives who find that information.
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I love how the "Packers!!!!" joke is carried on not only through this series's run, but also into the Rifftrax of today. Bless this episode.
"I love tick infested hounds, slaughtering a deer, and beer"
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Believe it or not, the guy that owns the farm is even more disgusting in the full version of the movie.
Cousin Bill-eh.
Ron Jeremy: Astronomer.
This is one of my favorite episodes. The hilarity when you find it out wasn't finished being written when they started filming, and suddenly everything makes sense.
I love the giant spiders. They look more like giant plush fair prizes than scary alien monsters.
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What writer, director, stage hand, film critic, best boy, viewer or anyone else for that matter thinks that there needs to be a scene about a back brace? What does that add to the film?
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Seems like some of the cast members from Gilligan's Island were cast into some really bad movies - the Professor, Mr. Howell, Ginger and especially the Skipper!
00:49:23- Obviously fake spider, suspended on easily-visible rope.
I love how Mike distracts the 'bot doppelgangers (sorry, not gonna bother with umlauts) in the final segment.
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I love how the skipper refers to a pair of rocks as "Gizmos".
"How can you have a guest-star in a movie?" I've often wondered the same thing.
Beer. Fireworks, cheese, and BEER!
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Hmmm thinking Dr vance was the head of the Ajax company in The Wild Wild World of Batwomen?
Cow tipping gone horribly wrong!
I just noticed the banjo that plays as back brace guy chases his 16-year-old sister-in-law around the kitchen table. It's the best. (about minute 15)
39:30, Crow is on one !
According to his Wikipedia page, Bill Rebane, the director of this awful movie, is the "the producer, director, writer, and cinematographer on 12 independent feature films, all of which have enjoyed successful international theatrical release." He clearly edited the page himself.
I will never hear the name Vance normally again.
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Am I the only one surprised not one Ron Jeremy reference was made regarding Dr Vance?
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Hey, you wanna make some crop circles while we're here ?
Always let your car settle for a minute.
Here's your steak and eggs and deep fried butter.
Another Walmart famiLy.
Go Spiders!! Go Spiders!! Go Go Spiders!!!!
I don't know how, but I just became sterile...
His arm looks like it's carved out of lard.
Grumpy old losers!
Ignore the blood here...
"Will I look good in short shorts?"
Just honk at it, honey.
I'm heading over to Taco John's 'til this blows over.
Cow tipping gone horribly wrong.
The Shroud of Debbie.
Eeew, the spider needs a zantac.
Free Bobby Sands! Free Mumia! Free beer!
What was that waiter's name in Paris? JEAN LUKE!
"Not that one. The big one." -- Stanley.
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These are NOT a lovely bunch of coconuts.
"Booo-WAAAOONN" 🎶 Oh, what a lucky man he wa-as 🎶 "Booo-WAAAOONN"
Hi, Hud.
R. Crumb is leading them!
It's befuddlin' my dumb cracker mind...
Ride the Vomit Rainbow! Swirling fans of technicolor yawn splayed across the sky!
Why is he cawing?
Thoughtful or hungry? You decide!
What about the black U.N. helicopters, ma'am?
Soon, Hitler's giant mechanical spiders had pushed past the Maginot Line.
Here comes a Duke Of Hazard.
Honey, M.I.T. called.
These two have every 'Married With Children' on tape.
Mr. Kester, ALL your tests are positive.
Hooterville was decimated by Scud missiles that day.
ahh, Brett Favre at home.
I hope Earth has its diaphragm on.
"you look like you could use a drink" ..and a shower and a job.
This guy blows up his neck waddles to attract women.
Hour three of the invasion: we took the refridgerator!
You know, I just don't look at that table that often, you know, just occasionally. Really it's just kind of a periodic table.
So you're a woman....
Must be like a homecoming for you, eh, Mike?
"I've called for the National Guard." But he's not in.
It's Johnny Crappleseed!
He's doin' kind of a grunge amish look.
He's a freelance pooper scooper!!
Ah, the Wal Mart family.
"Horton." Where they hear Who's.
And the movie ramps up the repulsion! This movie hates us, doesn't it?
Don't turn on the light! --NOO!!
Movie? Come on, movie! Here boy!
*Pee Wee Herman voice* I like you, Dotty, Like!
well. happy arbor day.
Well, it was executive produced, at least there's that...
Does it matter that the Spider ate him with its butt?
"A showered person, thank god!"
REAL stories of the FAKE highway patrol.
No! That's the bed!
Take your pantsuit from your back...
"Uhhff" Did you beef?
Gypsy: "close your eyes, Go to sleep, be absorbed by the collective...fade away, lose your soul, be replaced by a drone...let evil super-consciousness swallow you whole...surrender all, give it up..."
"Dark? It's not dark," Rebane declared.
Young Bill and Hilary struggle to make it.
Jog-walk out of danger!
Oh, he's a handsome, handsome man.
Maybe he's Amish and doesn't believe buttons.
Charles Manson. Jeweler.
Alan Hale literally phoned in his role....
Action Phone Scene!
50 Ft. Spider!?! "actually it's a Furry Dune Buggy"
Are we dead, Mike?
The movie takes the brave step of not including the audience...
Packers win the superbowl! WOOOO!!!
Hopefully we'll work up enough speed to launch us into Minnesota so we can eventually start a real life...
Packers Fans - The Horrible truth!
I'm starting to wish the South would rise again and crush the North.
Normally i stuff people up my butt, but in your case I'll let you come in the front way.
I'm gunna put on a dashiki and blow your mind
I'm gonna squash your shoe under me!
Petrified Tribbles!
(Spider in blender) Weee!!
"NASA, Houston." Where they have a problem.
Just looking for a clean glass here.
Kinda wish the South would rise again and crush the North.
Bra snap, toke, bra snap, bra snap, toke...Petting, toke, kiss, grope, bra snap, snooze, spit ball!
Are we still on for the Richard Feynman lecture?
How was your day at the WHORE?!
Good thing he's not a moyl.
"Well, maybe we didn't plant corn."
Take your time, movie. . .
"Don't act with your tongue, Alan."
"I made a 'R'."
Ooo, he stood up! He's got to get hazard pay for this!
It's Milling Around Days!
The Diamond Anniversary Ring. Tell her you'd marry her right out of high school all over again.
Well, got to get up early to start drinking.
Don Juan DeStinko!
Honey, I need changin' again.
I've got to go drain the little buddy, I'll be right back.
"The JOY that you are feelin' RIGHT NOW is JUST the BEGINNING!"
It *better* be.
I wanna go pet the wounded goat
Pork Vacuum! I mean, uh, Sheriff..
See city managers deal with traffic issues!
"Quit pickin' tobacco! We're makin' a movie here! Damn migrant workers!"
"Wait a minute! We can't hunt! We're not drunk enough yet!"
"Tonight, on a very special Waltons, Mary-Ellen runs around in her underwear!"
"Well, Bessie'd been depressed, but I didn't think she'd do this."
"So... McRib™ Sandwich with McFlies™."
"Divide by ten in minutes! Add up to three columns in an hour!"
"The Philodendron Story!"
"Hello...? Movie? C'mon, Movie! C'mere, Boy!" [whistle]
"America Online tries to keep up."
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Remember, don't put your spider in the microwave if you wrap it in tin-foil.
Remember, I mate, THEN I kill!
Too many Jello-shots...
Robert McNamara escalates the war in Gleason!
[...and black holes, like collapsing stars] Like Robert Downy!
[I wonder why she hung up on me] Maybe your bodily funk travels over the phone line!
♫Helter Skelter... der der der-der... ♫ Have you seen the little piggies...♫
Ed Wood's Lolita.
I'm fine! I'm fine, Mike! I've had french roast, Vivarin, diet pills, uh uh, Mountain Dew, Jolt, Water Joes, Su-su-su-surge! Uh, chocolate covered espresso beans, M&Ms and I'm listening to Nitzer Ebb!! And and and I'm fine Mike! Really, I'm fine!
Aryan... Nation... rules...
Let's play William Burroughs and Joan.
Professor made a toaster out of coconuts?
Ah, the bright promise of a disgusting new character.
"Get down!" - Get funky!
We got giant Prairie Dogs!
And the blast was felt yards away.
"A human body." It was walking along the street and I killed it.
Cow tipping gone HORRIBLY wrong.
"I've gotta keep up my strength." "What for?" Tearin' food stamps is hard.
Actually filmed inside the finger hole of a bowling ball.
"Hey looking for a new GILLIGAN, are you interested?"
"I suppose you're wondering What's Eating Gilbert Grape."
"WALKING TALL 3... The High Cholesterol Years."
"Use the yellow pages, and let your fingers do the walking."
This movie hates us, doesn't it?
Spider, cut it out, honey. I'm tired.
There's a big yellow stain on mah back brace.
I am Death, destroyer of lawns.
I'm gonna pre-bury myself to save time after I die.
♫The hills are aliiive♫with the smell of thaaat guuuy♫
"Yer so dumb you wouldn't know rabbit turds from rice crispies" Crow: snap, crackle, poop
I feel shaky, oh so trembly! I've had whiskey and vodka and gin!
I'd like to say a few words - this guy's dead, the end.
30 lashes with a wet noodle.
"Your car won't start?" Then you might be a redneck.
This isn't a very good remake of "Sabrina."
Hooterville was invaded by Scud missiles that day...
Earth has its diaphragm on.
Alan Hale digests a kilbasa.
If you see only 10,000 movies this year make sure this ISN'T one of them.
Ah, music budget ran out.
Repeat what you say to provide exposition?
Mork of Orc was brought to St. Mary's hospital but pronounced dead on arrival.
"Frankly speaking, Doctor..." - I wanna see that pantsuit hit the floor!
I think I had a hot dog in here once.
This is where you find a crocheted beer can hat.
They saved a lot of money buying the old Gein place.
Uh he's lactating.
UH! I wanna kill the guy that invented stairs!
Audiences won't soon forget when the thing we didn't know what it was, was put in a helicopter by the guy we didn't know!
You rolled on me!
Oh, I hate it when a movie kills off a beloved character...this is great though!
Giant Puppet Invasion!
Is a Japanese tea ceremony taking place next door??
"Want a piece of milk?"
Charles Manson, Jeweler.
"What the hell was that?" ...It's befuddlin' my dumb cracker mind.
Ya know, they're poor only in money... and spirit, and dignity, and moral fiber, and hygiene.
The Joe Don Baker Museum
ehh, i'm gonna call off the invasion, it's just not worth it!
I love tick infested hounds,slaughtering a deer,and beer...
Paul INFECTED Bunyun..... Old McDonald had ah Cyst
Wanna piece ah milk?
Disturbing the peace? We can do that.
Repeat everything you say to provide exposition?
Go Packers.
Sir, you o-fend me.
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Gotta nip it in the bud!
Our proud Viking heritage.
This movie tested well with sexual predators.
A showered person, thank God!
The movie that takes the bold step by not including the audience.
I don't know how, but I just became sterile.
She's drinking fermented Yoo-hoo.
How can you have a guest star in a movie?
I will grow into my beauty
It's a Giant Spider Invasion of savings at MENARDS!
It's a Giant Spider Invasion of savings at MENARDS!
If your stomach can handle it, I'd like to show you my vasectomy scar
It came from planet grossout...
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Sony Alpha 7Rii - switched in Sept 2015 from Canon 5D Mark II; Sony/Zeiss 24-70mm f/4; Canon 24-105mm f/4 L IS; 70-200 f/4 IS; 17-40mm f/4 L; 24mm TSE II; 420EX; 580 EX II; Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro; Sigma 15mm f/2.8 fisheye. Epson 3880 printer. Sony NEX 6. Started with a Balda 35mm rangefinder in 1956.
Jeff Keller: Just added the schedule of events (subject to change, of course). The show will loop after we're done for the day, and you will be able to stream each segment a few days later.
Yes, thanks. Very helpful.
It would be very helpful for dPreview to publish an approximate schedule/agenda. I don't have time to listen to all of the company reps, but I could make time to listen to the two or three I'm most interested in...if only you'd let us know when they'll be "on." Same with the photographers you're speaking with. Thanks.
If it's a camera, I'm rooting for a mirrorless with something extra. Foveon sensor; no AA filter, FF... we'll see in 13 hours.
But whatever it is, you have to give Canon's ad agency credit -- they elicited 444 comments thus far, including this one, and people are still posting. And all of us will be watching - and hoping for more than a new photocopier.
mpgxsvcd: PR 101:
1. Don't ever point out what your competitor's product has that yours doesn't.
2. Don't ever admit that you made a mistake and you might keep making that mistake in the future.
3. Don't ever say that you need to listen to your customers more. It is something that every company could do more of. Mentioning it just makes you sound like you know you should do it but you choose not to.
Well, he didn't pretend, that's true. He didn't pretend to acknowledge that Nikon screwed up in responding to the D600 oil problem, and he missed or deliberately ignored the chance to apologize and say Nikon would be more responsive in the future. It's hard for a corporate spokesperson to say "Sorry". It probably has to come from the top of the company first.
There's also a more serious problem here (for Nikon). Product breakthroughs are usually developed by the incumbents in an industry, but they're often brought to market by an outsider (like Sony & Panasonic with the MILC.) Fuji is an exception to the rule. In contrast Nikon seems to have accepted that others will lead the industry in innovations, and it will then follow, if it has to. That's not a winning strategy. Just ask Kodak... Digital Equipment Corp.... Underwood Typewriter
ManuelVilardeMacedo: Hmm, what have we got here? A manufacturer that makes the best lenses south of Leica and Zeiss, with a wonderful tradition of quality throughout its history. They make no less than six full-frame models, all of them highly respected by their image quality; they are at the forefront of their industry in terms of effective, useful innovation and, despite relying almost exclusively on their cameras and lenses, they are still the second largest photography manufacturer. Professionals all over the world use Nikon for the most demanding jobs. I'd say they deserve some respect for all this, but how do people react to a simple interview?
- We want 4K;
- We want cropped sensors;
- We want crappy mirrorless;
- We don't care for wonderfully bright viewfinders, we just want dumb electronic ones;
- We want E-mount;
- And X- mount;
- We want useless features that add nothing to image quality.
The photography community has gone insane.
It's true that Nikon has a glorious history in photography... just like Kodak.
OK Metabones, now please get to work on an EF to Fuji X-mount.
I spent several days in Berlin earlier this year, so these old photos are particularly interesting. The massive buildings on Strausenberger Platz were built by the East German government and are mostly apartments, built to show that the Communist system could provide good housing for the masses. They're part of a massive, half-mile long complex along what is still called Karl-Marx Allee in what used to be east Berlin.
A very odd "updated" list, and a very odd time to publish it given that Photokina is around the corner and both the Fuji X-Pro and XE-2 and likely to be updated, plus who-knows-what else from Canon. And why include the NEX-6 when the A6000 is here?
dPreview editors, can you enlighten us as to why you posted this now, and what the thought process was in developing the list?
Only a few occupations have persisted for much of humankind's existence, and soldiering is one of them. (Other examples are agriculture, fishing, metalworking and pottery-making.) Setting aside one's aversion for war, it's a fascinating look at the pace of change in technology, and the increased complexity of one's possessions as technology advances. Nicely done.
Thanks for the images and for the explanation. One doesn't think of focus stacking with a super-wide angle lens, but this is clearly a situation that called for it.
Nice summary. Thank you.
For those of us in the Canon world, it will be interesting to see how soon Canon follows suit with an update to the 5D Mark III.
What these wonderful images need is an explanation of what we're looking at. The control panel, is pretty clearly a control panel, but the beautiful arched hall in the second frame is photographed with exquisite precision, but what was or is its function? It's not obvious to me, and I've actually been in a hydroelectric power plant.
Please, if you can, add captions that tell us what we're looking at -- what the function is of the bigs halls, in particular.
Not news, but I for one was thoroughly entertained. Now please try a washing machine.
Sure, the change is nice, but let's focus on whats' really important.
Where's the Nikon D4 review?
Many of the comments seem to miss the point. What's interesting is that it's possible to take such detailed images of an object that's the size of a human head, plus or minus an order of magnitude. The technique and the robotic tool will certainly be put to use for purposes other than making this mildly repulsive yet intriguing demonstration.
A challenge: What do you think the technique & tool could be used for, either for art or for science?
Too bad to lose a store where there were some knowledgeable people, but the handwriting has been on the wall in Boston (Cambridge). There's been a declining amount of stock on the shelves and a lack of enthusiasm when customers enquired about goods the store would have to order in. Perhaps that was because suppliers were getting nervous about Calumet's ability to pay the bills - a typical precursor to the failure of a business. So... sad but not surprised.
OK,executives want to know what dPreview users want... Canon, Nikon, listen up!
I have a Canon 5D Mark II and Canon lenses. I live in the US and I'm unhappy to read what Canon said about not introducing a mirrorless camera aimed at prosumers. I bought a Sony NEX-6 as a walk-around camera, and an adapter for Canon lenses. Canon could have had the money I paid for that gear. And when it comes time to upgrade the 5D Mark II, the inevitable successor to the Fuji X-T1 will be a refined, capable tool that's compatible with a line of very good X mount lenses.
Canon and Nikon can ignore the mirrorless market and hope US/European photographers will as well, but over the long run, mirrorless cameras have intrinsic advantages. The two big guys worry that if they made mirrorless cameras, they'd cannibalize their DSLR market. But there's a question they need to answer: Shouldn't they eat their own lunch rather than let someone else eat it?
Nice review - thank you. I have an NEX-6 and am thinking about switching. After this review, still thinking... One thing the review may have covered but which I missed -- how do you change the shooting mode (Aperture preferred, speed preferred, etc).? There doesn't seem to be a dial for this.
Frank C.: I wish DPR would spend more time reviewing cameras and lenses rather than worry about satisfying/plugging their sponsors, I miss the DPR of old with Phil Askey running the site... oh well I
Certainly true that there's room on dPreview for articles on workflow and on specific devices like the Air. After all, no one forces me to read articles in which I have no interest. My only criticism is that the praise for the Air seemed a bit over the top. But I still read it, and as a Windows user about to migrate to Apple, I found it useful despite its giddiness.
Frank C.: I wish DPR would spend more time reviewing cameras and lenses rather than worry about satisfying/plugging their sponsors, I miss the DPR of old with Phil Askey running the site... oh well I
But Simon, with all due respect, someone on staff presumably took time to look at the article. The Air's attributes aren't news, and the article is over-the-top giddy with praise. Seems a bit silly for dPreview.


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Diagnosis: Measuring IgG Immunity Can Create Challenges
This deep but brief review by Camille F. J. Lieners PhD, Luxembourg, regarding the IgG controversy [ Evomed Diagnostics ] helps answer many questions about food testing. As you know from these CorePsych Blog pages this food immunity controversy rumbles around in both laboratory and office settings, and may impact your evolved care with ADHD, indeed any psychiatric medical treatment. A brief review is worth your time as a patient, and this review provides even more help for those using IgG testing to evaluate and treat brain challenges.
One of the key topics covered in this review is the controversy over IgG vs IgG4 testing which arises when talking to various labs regarding predictability and clinically useful testing outcomes. Food allergies matter with treatment for ADHD: Remember our frequently seen New Jersey Trifecta: Milk, Eggs, and Wheat.
ADHD Relevance
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In practice, a significant improvement of ADHD in children and adults equally could be observed, by adjusting their diet according to IgG findings. [45 references]
In practice, a significant improvement of ADHD in children and adults equally could be observed, by adjusting their diet according to IgG findings. [45 references]
IgG Useful for ADHD?
Another helpful posting regarding ADHD and IgG by Emily Deans MD a psychiatrist in MA, reviews a number of relevant papers at Evolutionary Psychiatry.
In our offices we often see significant improvements if IgG findings point to specific food antigens. Food testing and dietary restrictions don't work with every situation, as immunity is mediated by far more than simply the foods, but we do see improvements about 80% of the time, and have reduced, even eliminated meds when offending antigens were removed. 80% is a significant improvement over no response.
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Bell Helicopter: New Customer Service Facility
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:19:00 -0400
Bell Helicopter is adding Agrarflug Helilift, located in Ahren, Germany, to its Bell Helicopter Authorized Customer Service Facility network.
Singapore Civilian Helicopter Show Announced
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:06:00 -0400
Flightglobal - Experia Events has launched an air show in Singapore specialising in the civilian helicopter market. The show will be called Rotorcraft Asia and the first iteration will be held from 18-20 April 2017, says Experia.
Industry Hopes Future Vertical Lift Program Takes Off
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:49:00 -0400
defensenews.com - Helicopter manufacturing giants are deep in the midst of assembling parts, testing, simulating, and heavily investing in a program meant to drive the U.S. Army's effort to buy a new state-of-the-art family of helicopters in the 2030s.
Five Killed in Afghanistan Copter Crash
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:35:00 -0400
NBC - A British RAF Puma helicopter has crashed in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Two American servicemembers, two British servicemembers, and one French civilian contractor died in the crash.
Women in Aviation: Welcomes Newest Staff Member
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:21:00 -0400
Cassandra Bosco has joined the Women in Aviation International staff as Education and Industry Relations Director. The position was created as part of the organization's strategic plan to grow WAI's education offerings and outreach to youth and college and university students.
Show Your Heritage Aircraft to Thousands!
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:07:00 -0400
Alexandria, Va. - The Helicopter Foundation International (HFI) Heritage of Helicopters display at HAI HELI-EXPO 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky, March 1-3, will feature an array of vintage vertical-aviation aircraft. Participate and show your historic aircraft to 20,000 aviation fans!
Frasca: Central Oregon College Orders Simulator
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:50:00 -0400
Urbana, Ill. - Frasca International, Inc. has received a contract for an Level 5 R44 Helicopter Flight Training Device from Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon.


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A clear future for COCA
4:32 PM COCA to reopen February 2016
Weight Watchers leader finds feet
3:16 PM Weight Watchers counts her steps in a bid to overcome the hurdles of the last year.
Quilters stitch to new tune
Christchurch group shows quilting no longer limited to bed spreads and "little old ladies".
Ballantynes fashion week Q&A
Paula Ryan, Kylie Bax and Dame Trelise Cooper discuss Cantabrians' fashion.
A work that changed the landscape
The Karamea Venus revealed
A brine to get your pork tender
Brining could bring an end to the despair of the dried out pork chop.
$25,000 dinner at art centre gym
Nine celebrity chefs will create a $25,000 dinner in a 'gym' in Christchurch.
A clear future for COCA
COCA to reopen February 2016
A work that changed the landscape
The Karamea Venus revealed
A triumph of musical co-ordination
CSO meet all the challenges of Britten's War Requiem
When a home becomes a museum
Jim and Susan Wakefield are working with Canterbury Museum to turn their home into a musuem. She explains why.
CoCA reopening delayed
The Centre of Contemporary Art has delayed its reopening by four months after discovering more work is needed on its Christchurch building.
Weight Watchers leader finds feet
Weight Watchers counts her steps in a bid to overcome the hurdles of the last year.
Charity helps family find their feet
Life has been on hold for the Leonard family over the last 18 months.
Schools out for Summer Starter party
Year 8 leaders at Redcliffs School are rallying their school together for the Summer Starter.
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Whether a novice or an expert, get yourself ready for the running season with Sam Bluemel's advice series.
Dad finds solace in exercise
Regular gym and running sessions are helping a father get through his young son's cancer treatment.
Remand for alleged Winz threat
2025 target set for rural broadband
Anonymous threat made to University of Otago
GP finds colleague dead at crash
Police name fatal crash victims
$40,000 scam victim 'cleaned out'
Police swarm second Work and Income office
Drink driving rates still falling
Weight Watchers leader finds feet
Dad's screams alert neighbour to fatal accident near Tirau
No increased medicine costs under TPPA
British babysitter who had sex with boy avoids jail after his father defends her
Out-of-control youths party for two days in 'rubbish dump' home
Another shooting shocks America as 11-year-old boy kills 8-year-old neighbour
Custody remand after alleged Winz threat
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Whether you are visiting Lopez Island for the first time, or you have come here many times, or you live here full-time, this website has something for you. Our Community Calendar shows events that are happening, our Business Directory lists all of our member businesses with location and how to contact them. Stop by our office in the heart of Lopez Village on Lopez Road across from the Village Park. We provide the Lopez Island Map & Guide amd the Lopez Services Guide as well as brochures, ferry schedules, merchandise, and much more. Our hlepful staff can answer any questions you have or help you contact someone. The Lopez Island Chamber sponsors the annual Tour De Lopez bicyle ride and various other community events throughout the year. We also support the facilities in the Village Park .
Read Lopez Island by Bike from the May 2015 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine.
Riding along Fisherman Bay
A Month-long Medley of Food, Farms & Art through the islands. From wineries to galleries, farmers' markets to farm tours and harvest dinners to cozy lodgings, the San Juan Islands set the table for a delectable, month-long feast. See Details and all events.
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Lopez Island Farm Tours are offered Saturday and Sunday October 10th and 11th as part of the 8th Annual 'Savor the San Juans'. This movable feast for the senses pulls together all of the elements of a memorable post-summer vacation getaway, including wine tastings, harvest festivals, farm tours and events. Join us to learn about our local farms, what they produce, and the values that inform their practices. Participate in workshops and feasts of local foods, enter a pie contest and support the LIFE farm to cafeteria program. Farm tour maps are available at the Chamber office.
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Farm Tours and events are also being offered on Orcas Island on October 4th, and on San Juan Island on October 11th, as well as The Bite of San Juan, celebrating food produced in all the islands, in Friday Harbor on October 25th.
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|attached to Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection
|Re:An analogy.
|attached to Ask Slashdot: How Best To Synchronize Projects Between Shared Drive and PCs?
|Re:Bruce Schneier
|attached to Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet
|Re:Not malware
|attached to OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine For Viewing, Distributing Porn
|Re:Threat from r/c planes
|attached to RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities
|Re:HFT is organized theft
|Re:The profits have been competed away
|attached to Have We Hit Peak HFT?
|Re:Poll taker
|attached to Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism
|Re:because desktop linux is a toy and novelty
|attached to What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013?
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.