Don't pressure them!
Spring begins with the equinox ;)
That buys them some time to finalise the shipping agreements, I guess. Because everything else is, of course, done....
Virtual reality clown Magic Leap did not try to reverse engineer Microsoft's HoloLens technology, the upstart stated in its lawsuit against Todd Keil, its former head of security. In fact, Magic Leap doesn't even know why it had five HoloLenses in the first place. It certainly didn't open their boxes. Well, maybe it opened one …
The IBM PC was created at Boca Raton...
And was an immediate, blazing success - so much so that it's still with us today! And wasn't overtaken immediately by people like Compaq..
(I refuse to bow to the convention of putting a /s to indicate sarcasm - such things are only needed for those poor unfortunates who are incapable of detecting sarcasm. Such as small children and Americans..)
ncidentally, Thursday was the first day of spring. That means we have a maximum of three months from now to wait until Magic Leap proves the world wrong and produces a revolutionary new piece of technology. How exciting.
almost too good to be true :oP
can't wait for the finale to this thread
'sets alarm clock for three months' :o)
Templecloud has the measure of you people, you're clearly not in love with magic leap
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicleap/comments/81clrb/whats_going_on_here_then/
It's like Nessie, you have to believe to see it. I mean, it's got magic in the title, you need to look with different eyes, like, every-time you doubt it's existence a fairy dies.
Well dûh.
The Reg seems to have a dislike to being nice to any corporation, let alone one that has so far shown they are very good at peddling bullshit. Their patents seem to hint at some actual product development happening, but their timelines and what they've shown so far point to it being either a steaming pile or not ready for release by a long shot.
Their patents seem to hint at some actual product development happening, but their timelines and what they've shown so far point to it being either a steaming pile or not ready for release by a long shot.
And now we see what is probably their REAL business plan. Gather up a boatload of bullshit patents, then wait for someone to release a product that has some vague but insignificant resemblance to it ("Hey! It's designed for people with TWO eyes!") so they can sue them for patent infringement.
generally regarded by his supervisors and co-workers as unsatisfactory
I have no doubt this is actually true. And probably just goes to show that he, Mr Keil, is actually a highly competent professional. It's just another symptom of Peter's principle and arsehole's ruling.
I've been on the receiving end of this myself. And left for good. Not to boast about having been a highly competent person in that situation but rather in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Kieren, I'm not sure you're being fair. After all, it is going to be the most amazing thing ever (and that takes time). Of course they looked at hololens (otherwise how would they know exactly HOW MUCH better their product was going to be than the competition?!)
I'm so glad that we are all going to be here to witness this product's release. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! (Sorry, I get so excited thinking about "the product" sometimes).
So I've been saving my money and I hope you have been too, because it's going to simply be amazing... all the amazing things it can and will do, it's just, well, incredible. (oh my gosh, oh my gosh)
Hey remember how many people were completely blown away by Zombo.com? This is going to be like Zombo.com x 1000 !!! (omg, omg - see? I got so excited there I couldn't even type the whole interjection)!
Well, Kieren, just hang in there a little longer. We know it's going to be worth the wait. I can't wait to read the next amazing article about this incredible "product". Their videos are simply, mind blowing. I heard from a friend, that his cousin's roomate's sister's boyfriend knew a guy that saw "the product" operating at their facility and he couldn't really talk about it (NDAs and such) but I'm gathering he was pretty impressed!
OH MY GOD!!! I CAN'T WAIT!
It makes sense that some people want a nice neat calendar that lines up arbitrary human relatable ideas with or sometimes despite observable/astronomical phenomena. It's happened many, many times over the centuries.
But some things still don't line up neatly, no matter how much we might like them to.
The equinoxes are one of those things (well, two technically).
Better tell the TV weather forecasters. They routinely quote 1st March as "start of meteorological spring", completely correctly, in my view.
This is the small hill I have been dying on for the past 20 years, and will continue to do so. "Spring", as referenced by the vast majority of people, is a meteorological, not astronomical concept, as are the other seasons. It makes absolutely no sense to say that summer *starts* on the longest day, or, for instance, winter starts just 4 days before Christmas.
If we're going to divide the calendar up into four seasons, then this correspondent is going to continue insist that they start on 1st March, 1st June, 1st September and 1st December.
<deep breath>