For me it's mostly a novelty - I put RiscOS on it to try it out, and it seems snappy enough. But it's a mess of cables - I never got around to making it as pretty as some [1]
Not the person you replied to but I have the same setup. The only real issue is getting the adapters so they can be connected (plenty available on a variety of websites, but of questionable quality).
Those all had more to do with BK's ad agency at the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin_Porter_%2B_Bogusky). CP+B is famous for creating highly viral, somewhat weird, vaguely unsettling campaigns.
My friend worked at CP+B for a while (he's now creative director at EVB). I don't think he worked directly on the BK stuff, but I think he did have a hand in some of it. What he did actually work on was most of the Dominos commercials, (the LARPing and exploding car bit), some Best Buy stuff, some viral things. We used to get private youtube links of a lot of their commercials before they aired.
Another -ski here. Sometimes there's room for varying pronunciations of the same name. I grew up pronouncing my last name the way my non-English speaking parents thought it should be pronounced in English. It wasn't until college that I realized there was an easier way to pronounce it.
If it's the same name as your HN username, I don't see any obvious way to mispronounce it, other than whether the first 'o' is long or short. Is that the bit people mispronounce?
My Polish friends tell me that speaking in Polish "ow" is pronounced like the English word "off" (or maybe "of"? I forget) instead of the English word "ow". So "off-ski" or "uv-ski" instead of "ow-ski", at least for some of them.
This is pretty close to what happens. It's generally phonetic, and yet there seems to be a wide variety of first pronunciations, which deviate from the phonetic by several syllables either way.
Same here (Polish names unite!). I usually get embarrassed by the amount of attention mine will get. Using this tool feels like it would just add even more attention to it.
My last name is actually simple to pronounce but I usually ask to "just call me Greg", as Grzegorz is probably the epitome of unpronounceable Polish names.
Still, I'm not sure if I'd ever use this tool. Seems somewhat pretentious, even if useful.
If you're Polish and you see a Polish name, you instantly know how to pronounce it. In the US It's more more hit-or-miss due to ethnical diversity and the English language itself.
Come to think of it, I'd like other people to use this site, but still wouldn't use it myself. Maybe it's because so far I can't see a way to mispronounce my last name and I've essentially given up on my first name.
Will he leave his last will and testament in the form of an Easter egg hidden inside the game, protected by a series of 80s pop culture-fueled puzzles?
Checking the camera is a reflex you develop after the third time you get up and go to the baby's room seconds after hearing them cry, to find them sleeping.
Perhaps it's a cultural thing. When my Northern Irish colleague was raising a family in Hong Kong, he would let his baby cry in her cot for five to ten minutes before going into the room.
Nothing unusual, that's generally what we do here. The baby will often settle back to sleep and learn that crying doesn't always result in attention.
But the neighbours in his apartment were aghast and would immediately knock at his door, panicking because his baby was crying and berating him for 'abandoning' her! And the next day they would continue the chastisement; apparently the local custom was to pick up a crying baby immediately.
I mean, we can understand that, but surely when you hear a strange mans voice, that is going to snap you out of the normal reflex actions? I guess if you are always tired you don't always think straight.
In almost all dangerous situations, the child's safety is conditional on the parent's safety because the child is helpless without the parent. This is why, when the oxygen masks drop in an airplane, you put your mask on before helping you child.
And because people are not typically all that rational when their children's lives are in danger on every flight I've ever been on they re-iterate that parents should first help themselves before helping their children.
My dad is a dentist, and when he updated his equipment in his office, he brought home one of the chairs (without all of the extra attachments). It took 3 moving guys to lift the damn thing, and it sat in our finished basement for half a decade.
It was kind of comfortable, but it was from the 70s (and was a terrible shade of mint green) so it wasn't super ergonomic. It was fun to ride up and down on, though.
I've had Glass since July, and I have found that much of its use in my personal experience comes down to how I feel in any given situation.
I do drive with Glass on, but it is generally sleeping, unless I am asking for directions to a new place. As for restaurants and the like, I feel like there generally is no need for me to wear it, as it just brings up uncomfortable feelings in those around me, and it's easier to just leave it in the car.
Where Glass really shines is in the great outdoors. When I'm taking a walk through my history-filled city, or out playing with my kids, this is where I use Glass the most. Not having to take myself out of the situation to pull my phone out to take a photo, or get a quick snippet of info about a nearby point of interest are the killer features for me.
What happens when a motorcycle company named Foo and a bicycle company named Foo try to secure their domain? Both have an equally legitimate claim over their trademark used in the motorcycle/bicycle sphere, but they cannot coexist in this new namespace.
