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Dale's Glasses
Carl-E:
Here's the problem with racist/sexist/any "-ist" store owners - they lose business, either way. If you're not welcoming to groups you don't like, they won't patronize you, and you lose their business. If you don't hire clerks who look like the neighborhood, the neighborhood will view you poorly and you lose their business.
I know one shopkeeper here in town who's racist as fuck - hates blacks, hispanics, dagos, the whole nine yards. Anyone not lily-white. But he smiles as broadly as ever when he takes their money, and has a black clerk who puts up with him for the paycheck (that's a whole other dynamic, the old wage slavery...).
I only know of his attitudes because I've met him socially a few times. In his shop, he's so cool about it that butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
The racist customers you're afraid of losing if you hire an [insert group here] clerk or waiter? They'll keep coming - the despised person is in a position of servitude, after all.
The dynamics are not what you expect at first.
Kugai:
Global Moderator Comment OK, I think this Topic is beginning to deviate into a circular argument that has nothing to do with it's stated intention. Either get back on subject or move the discussion to a new Thread.
jwhouk:
I think that Jeph basically decided to base Dale's glasses off of what was known at the time (Google Glass) and go from there, based on the tech he knew existed in the QC-verse at the time.
Something like Oculus Rift and Microsoft's fancy stuff weren't even on the radar.
Omega Entity:
I don't think the Oculus Rift is even comparable, honestly. The Rift doesn't overlay the current environment, but is essentially an advanced virtual reality system. Google Glass, as I understood it, was pretty much having a tiny computer screen in front of your face.
Now, the 3DS's AR (Augmented Reality) function actually overlays a digital image onto a physical surface, and as such seems like a much better reference for what the new MS thing does - which makes the MS device a way, way more advanced form of that technology and on a larger scale, more than it would be relatable to the Rift or Glass. Seriously, check out some videos on it.
Oilman:
HoloLens is a piece of genuine genius. Microsoft has still got it.
Microsoft understood, at a time when it was not obvious and by no means generally accepted, that "a PC on every desk" performing functiins that were genuinely useful, operated by ordinary people and using a standardised operating format, was the future.
They understood Windows and more to the point, turned it into something universal.
Looks like they've done it again. I've seen most components of HoloLens in various top-dollar professional applications, but the whole concept is going to be a game-changer
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