Is you daughter growing up in isolation? If not then your conclusions don't really amount to much. Parents normally don't want to hear it, but the influence you have on your kids relative to their own age group is minimal. Perhaps if all of the girls she plays with, and all of the stuff she sees on TV or on the street were different she would be too. But it's *very* difficult to go against "the grain" and their own social group (which they innately detect from a very young age, we are social animals after all) is extremely important.

I always have this story (scientifically totally irrelevant of course) where my neighbours had a young girl of 5 with 3 older brothers who were always playing football and playing catch and such. She'd play with them and she was really good at it! She could throw a really mean ball for such a little girl. Then at 6 she went to primary school and in _months_ she lost all ability to throw or kick a proper ball! When confronted ("what's wrong with you? you used to be good at this!") she answered "but if I throw like this at school the other girls won't play with me!". As a teenager it impacted me at that time, for me it was the first time I saw such an obvious example of how your environment affects you.

So perhaps your daughter would always have preferred the dolls over the train set, who knows, but unless you lock her up and don't let her see the outside world I'm afraid we'll never truly know ;)

I (foreigner living 10+ years in Madrid) don't know many people here that take 3 hour lunches. One, one and a half hours seems much more common. The times we have a lunch that takes more than 2 hours people normally start looking nervously at their watches.

And they definitely don't get to lunch as hungry as you might think, because normally at 11:30 or so people tend to have an "almuerzo", like a light brunch, which is _additional_ to the lunch you eat. So light breakfast, "almuerzo", lunch (which is the biggest meal of the day), then "merienda" for the kids in the late afternoon and (not a big) dinner at 10pm.

Ehm, no it's not. You mustn't have been to Spain but I can tell you the hottest time of day is definitely around 2-5pm and in summer you shouldn't be doing any strenuous exercise outside in the sun until let's say 8pm, which is still hours before sundown, when temperatures will have gone done a lot. There are parts of Spain where just walking outside mid-day is an effort and people are most active early in the morning and in the afternoon.

Virtual Reality might be a reason. Although we'd need 8K90, not 8K60 and what we'd really want is 8K90 per eye, which comes to 16K90. So expect HDM2.1 to be outdated before it becomes available ;)

Don't agree. You'd lose any idea of what a certain time of day actually means to others. It's 2 am where you are? Why are you still up? Aren't you tired? No, now I need to know where you live and figure out what time of day... oops, can't do that anymore... figure out where the sun is positioned in your part of the world. Wtf? Wasn't that what sundials and later clocks were for in the first place? Like you say, animals live by the sun, and so do we. I don't care what the *actual* time is where you live, I only care about what part of the day it is so I can adjust my communication with you accordingly.

The only thing I want is that when people *publish* times, like for international events, they (also) use UTC. It just happens too often that people will say : the live stream will start at 7PM PST and then I have to go look up what the heck that is in my local time zone. With UTC that would be solved, you'd only need to remember your offset to UTC and that's it. (Btw, they could even just mention *their* offset to UTC, eg: 7PM PST (UTC-8), because really Americans' we here in Europe have no idea what all those abbreviations mean ;) )

> It would be sweet if we could directly extract the energy

Supposedly these guys are trying for a more direct way to generate electricity from the plasma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Indeed, besides, with what money? It's not as if you can buy a lot of equipment with a $12 per month average salary.

Don't agree, when the iPod came I didn't understood the hype until I actually *tried* one: it completely blew the competition out of the water! This was a product made by people that understood that usability was everything. Most players at that time has an interface that sucked: slow and barely usable, best to just turn it on and let it play and maybe press "skip" when you didn't like a song. Maybe there were others that were just as good (or even better), but if they existed they certainly didn't have the marketing Apple had.

The same is true for the first iPhone, it basically showed the rest what was possible and where the bar to entry was, you are either able to deliver what Apple does or you just don't count. Oh and besides the fact of course that they forced telcos to provide flat-fee internet, something nobody had been able to do.

A mouse that won't break after a couple of month of intense gaming, meaning I might press button much more forcefully than actually needed but that's just what happens when in the middle of a kill streak, I get all excited and the mouse suffers. And it's even worse when I'm losing ;)

Seriously though, I've thrown away so many mice whose micro-switches just gave out on me. Sometimes they'll last a while, others only a couple of months. Not one seems to last much more than a year. Some other time it's not the switch itself but the plastic bits that press on it. In any case something always breaks.

Now I really wouldn't mind paying more for a sturdy mouse, but none of the tests/reviews ever seem to care about that aspect. (Some manufacturers tell you about millions of clicks, but of course they only test normal light clicks)

Well I say "read carefull" but it turns out that http://htcvr.com/ now only says "coming soon", yesterday it showed a lot more.

If you read carefully you'll see it's more a competitor to the Rift than to GearVR. Meaning it's a stand-alone unit (no need for a mobile phone), tethered (although the controllers, whatever they will be seem to be wireless. Also, no batteries.) and need a powerful PC to get the most out of it.
The refresh rate on the displays (plural, one for each eye) is 90Hz so latency for that part at least should be really good.
Head tracking seems to use kinect-like lasers, cameras and other sensors, not much detail there yet.
But they mention something like a total of over 70 sensors.
They also mention that you can freely walk around in an area of 15x15ft (4.5x4.5m) when using something called Valve's Base Stations.

Michael Abrash relegated to "one guy blogging" ;)

And he now works for Oculus!

And seeing the reactions so far not much is going to change about this shit. Disappointingly few people are even willing to entertain the possibility that the story might actually be true. Only coming up with excuses, bogus counter-examples ("I'm a guy who knows some women and I've never seen this happen") or just outright hatred and scorn. Way to go guys!

I don't know, should we find it *what* exactly, you didn't really state that. Surprising? No, it's not, that's indeed the survival instinct taking over. In general your breathing is not conscious, although we have conscious control unlike for example your heart. But in general it's not possible for example to hold your breath until you are dead. There are some ways to hold your breath until you pass out, but the moment you do you start breathing again. (All this AFAIK)

Ehm no, giving a vaccine to a sick person is going to do fuck all, except maybe making them even sicker.