Until some goon started to look at your balls when you board a plane
Many of these people don't have a problem with cameras as they go to the beach in a speedo.
They should just wear a tight speedo while boarding a plane if they are worried about definition.
But I wonder how much the people of London are worried about actual privacy/tracking vs. seeing your weenie on a tiny screenie. The UK has one camera for every 14 people.
http://comics.com/pc_and_pixel/2010-01-27
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Would you be prepared if gravity reversed itself?
Now in a self admitted state of grogginess you are expected to be able to operate a firearm with decent accuracy and efficiency that you are able to disable a fully alert assailant before they are able to react.
Maybe somepeople wake up groggy, lazily aiming for the alarm clock when it rings, then stumbling to the kitchen, turning on the coffee machine whilst your eyes are still glazed over... going on your Daily routine.
Would you be accurate with a firearm?
Maybe not.
But imagine that you have an important business meeting at 7:00 and your job depends on it. You wake up and are shocked as you see it's 6:45 and you know it takes you 10 minutes to get to work. Your heart beats at 150 bps, your adrenaline rises, you get dressed faster than ever before. You're decisive, do only what's necessary, and you have a far higher state of awareness than the day before.
Would you be accurate with a firearm?
That depends, some people are never accurate.
Myself?
Absolutely.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in?
Why do you think that the state of mind/accuracy that you have(or think most people have), applies to everyone?
With a regular firearm, in your scenario you are already screwed. An assailant will have attacked and disabled you long before you are able to grasp the firearm, let alone use it.
Again, you are making assumptions that while they may be applicable to some, will not be applicable to everyone.
Lets ignore the fact that at your state of grogginess in near darkness you aren't capable of telling the difference between an assailant and your own wife.
The assailant would be the one on the floor.
My wife would be the one holding the gun.
I keep asking this question: Why can't we detect ET's transmissions?
Now I know. They do digital as well.
Not just that.
They've realized what we will also eventually realize.
They use cat6 cable.
Especially after we started sending all those damn microwaves into space and their wifi stopped responding.
Why can't they just use source forge like everybody else?
I think this is great news, but what happens if inadvertently some of this software infringes on a patent or two?
You started with a question and finished with the answer. Pressure sensitivity is handy for lots of things, some of which have not even been invented.
My question is whether this will find any widespread use here. The post focuses on writing in Asia. The article mentions pressure, but is it sensitive enough for a strand of hair(from a brush)?
I'm not in Asia and digital art is something that is cool, but a 'niche market' that I doubt this technology is aimed at. So will we see any devices deploying this tech here?
My saying that something would be cool to do is not an answer to my question of what we will see here.
What would we use it for, here?
Cursive writing programs are being eliminated from elementary school.
The quality of printing is also going downhill.
Everything here is being replaced by a keyboard (real and virtual).
Is this a technology that will see a major uptake only in a limited part of the world, amongst those who have trouble writing Pinyin(or similar)?
(But it would be great to have this sensitive enough to use a real brush to paint in digital ink.)
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