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NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do
darkwing_bmf writes "The NFL broadcast a live game to theaters in 3-D for the first time on Thursday night. The technology demonstration was mostly successful but they still have some issues to work out. 'Some scenes clearly captured the benefits of 3-D broadcasts, however, such as an interception by Chargers linebacker Stephen Cooper as players crisscrossed the field, and a long touchdown catch by San Diego's Vincent Jackson with the arc of the ball caught on camera all the way. Viewers were encouraged to text in their reaction to the viewing. One of the first comments, according to the commentators: "More cheerleaders."'"
There are two types of people in the world, those who are comfortable with their sexuality, whatever it may be, and those who feel the need to denigrate others because they're afraid of their own feelings. Can you guess which group your post puts you in?
This.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Now all we need are cameras in the players' helmets and then we can all feel like we're really part of the game. Which might not be such a good thing when you see a 300-lb lineman with a full head of steam barreling towards "you". Might make for sloppy beer management...
Sure, I can explain polarization this way:
See the post by fynqyrz http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1052969&cid=26008363
entitled Sure! up above. It's the first post can not miss it.
That is polarization and fynqyrz is the material doing the polarizing.
Science is fun.
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The third consists of those who want to watch beautiful cheerleaders perform routines that emphasize their feminine, athletic and desirable traits, while wearing the skimpiest possible outfits
Hey, come on, quit trolling! They could be a LOT skimpier!
Three kinds of people watch football:
1) Dumb kids
2) Closet homosexuals
3) Leering perverts
I'm not dumb and I'm not a homosexual, so I'm a leering perv.
See how easy it was to summarize your wordy post?
I'm guessing this AC feels your description of category 2 was insulting to him and his frat brothers.
(no offense, I just couldn't resist)
C'mon...screw doing it for football and cheerleaders....lets get into 3-D pr0n!!
Heck...skip that...just get VR pr0n, on demand....
But, then again...if that happened...mankind would likely cease to exist. I mean, once ever guy could have realistic sex with any woman he wanted, that wouldn't talk back, fake a headache, be on the rag, or threaten to take half his belongings if he switches models...no man would ever go back to the "real" thing ever again.
ON the other hand...this would allow more time to watch football in between VR sex romps.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
HD and technology like this can only help hockey, next to impossible to see the game on standard definition - you can't see the puck!
3-D puck to the face FTW.
Imagine that two people hold on to opposite ends of a rope. One moves the rope to send waves down the rope to the other end. That person could shake the rope horizontally to generate horizontally polarised waves, or vertically to generate vertically polarised waves.
If you pass the rope through a slot in a wall the slot will only allow waves which align with the slot. That is how polaroid sun glasses work. They literally have slots in them aligned a certain way.
You can use polarisation to split two signals from a single stream of photons. Horizontal in the left eye, vertical in the right eye for example.
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You forgot two groups:
1. People who actually watch football and care about it.
2. People who watch football as a 2-3 hour escape. "Ooh, sorry, honey. The game is on. How about in a few hours?"
Personally, I don't watch or follow any pro sports. I think they're all a waste of time and money, and I simply don't get it.
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As well as a 3D Cheerleader channel, there really needs to be a 3D women's beach volleyball channel. A 2D channel would be a start. The World needs this. Urgently.
VARIETY, Lack Of - Steven Soderbergh's new musical version of Cleopatra - in 3-D! - proves an incredible box-office same-old same-old. Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as the fishnet-clad vaudeville jazz empress and Hugh Jackman as the mutant self-healing Roman general - in 3-D! - the film carries the Ocean's Eleven franchise somewhere beyond its ultimate extent.
"I've always wanted to do a musical," Soderbergh said. "All the ones that were coming along just weren't for me. This one, however, involved dumptrucks full of money backed up to my house."
Soderbergh pooh-poohed suggestions that the film would be some sort of low-rent exploitation quickie that would insult the intelligence of any creature smarter than a flatworm. "I can assure you this will be the most artistically satisfying creation in my entire career as a director," he said, lighting a cigar off a hundred-dollar bill before laying back on a great big bed made of money.
"DUMPTRUCKS!" Soderbergh emphasised. "FULL OF MONEY! BACKED UP TO MY HOUSE!"
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I see what you did there.
Anyway, to answer the the OPs question here's a simplified example (real physicists, don't hate on me, I'm not going to get into the gory details here).
First, lets think of a wave in the water. It's traveling in one direction (towards the shore) and vibrating in another (up and down from the plane of the water). Light is the same. It travels in one direction (from the theatre screen to your eye), but it can vibrate in two directions: up and down, or left and right (and technically any combination of that like diagonal and such). This is called the polarization: vertical or horizontal.
So what these 3D theaters do is have a special theater screen that preserves polarization (most just randomize it) and they have one image for one eye sent out in vertical polarization and the other sent out in horizontal polarization. Then by using special glasses they can show only one polarization to each eye.
Think of polarized glasses as having little bars in them, if they're aligned up and down only vertical light can squeeze through the bars, the horizontal gets stuck. Likewise the bars can go horizontally and the vertical light gets stuck.
Actually it's the other way, but that's more complicated. If the bars (i.e. molecules aligned such that they conduct electricity) are vertical, the vertical polarized light resonates with the bars and gets dissipated and the horizontal makes it through. But that's just technical matters.
This is also why polarized sun glasses are great for boating and driving. Since most of the time you're looking out at a big horizontal reflector (the water or your car hood or the road), most of the light that's reflected (glare) is horizontally polarized (I won't go into the details why), so the polarized sunglasses are set up to filter out horizontally polarized light which removes glare and you only get the vertical light which is just about everything else.
No, that doesn't follow. Being enthusiastically hetero is not at all the same as being homophobic
No, but describing that everything you don't like as a vivid representation of homoeroticism kind of is. Football isn't suppose to get a sexual rise out of men. It's a game of simulated warfare and athletic strategy. It's attraction to a typical man's adrenal gland falls under the star of Ares rather than Venus. If your worldview is absorbed by the binary distribution of "Does it turn me on sexually or is it for teh gays?" then your condition is considered a disorder and downright creepy by the opposite sex. It is admittedly healthier than an obsession with violence, and easier to cure as you probably just need to get laid or lay off the porn for a while. Go camping or something.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
He seemed comfortable with it.
There was no denigration.
Guess what that makes you.
My answer when guys at school asked why I don't play rugby.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
If you don't care about sports, then they have no meaning for you.
If you do, then they do.
And vice versa.
Life's like that. Only for some things your caring is built-in.
On a podcast I listen to, the host made a really good point: The more you defend how straight you are the more you secretly want some dong.
How much do you love pussy, fyngyrz?
I'm not disagreeing with the NHL's lack of popularity but I can't say the NHL is full of whiny bullies...for the same reason that they have what you call a 'punch the guy out' subtext.
Think about it -- the NBA is full of whining millionaire prima donnas who leave a game with a hangnail. NFL has its share of whiners too, just look at the league's wide receivers. Players get hit but are much more well padded, and the offense usually doesn't dish out as much punishment as the defense does. And egos are much much larger. MLB -- if you want to discuss whiny, it's a grown man arguing with an umpire about a called strike three. Also, especially in the AL where a pitcher can throw at someone's head and not have to face retribution since they don't come up to bat.
In hockey, if the referee doesn't call it, someone usually takes care of the "problem" -- you don't get that in those other sports. Hockey has a set of unwritten rules -- stuff like always hit clean, don't bump the goaltender, and don't take shots after the whistle. When those unwritten rules get violated, hockey players don't whine, they show their displeasure in a more cathartic way.
I'd hate to actually go to a theatre for once, and have it overrun by retards...
You have not been to the movies lately, have you?
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
My eyes look in slightly different directions, so I've never had depth perception. Can't catch a ball, can't do melee combat effectively. I'm told I have a disadvantage only from about six feet away on in, but that's probably far enough out that a 3D TV would be useless at best, and probably an annoyance from seeing double.
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This just in: Athletes should wear baggy pants otherwise insecure career nerds will feel threatened by alleged homo-eroticism.
You don't like football. Stop posting in a thread about football.
If by 'neatly topples over' you mean 'experiences cranial acceleration sufficient to go from 5 m/s to -2 m/s in something under a 15cm distance', perhaps. Physics doesn't lie, and the pros are going a metric fuckload faster than high school football players do.
Elastic collision or not, his brain was playing ping-pong at 50+ Gs, and that ain't no good for nobody's neural tissue.
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You clearly haven't realized the potential this technology has for C-Span. Those politicians will almost seem like real human beings!
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I might be going out on a limb here, but my first guess would be to chalk it up to delivery and attitude. I play videogames daily, watch football every Sunday, read classical literature at night, and see Avril Lavigne when she's on tour. There are literally 0 people who give a shit about the things I do, and yet I've never been told to shut up about it. Is there any chance you have a hateful or smug tone when you tell them their hobby doesn't interest you? I'm dead serious here, I get asked on daily basis if I've seen X Show and never once has someone been offended that I don't share their favorites.
Wait... I've been watching hockey all these years on my smallscreen set...
and now you tell me there's a PUCK?!
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I wonder how the glasses distinguish between the two?
You know how a drill bit or a corkscrew spirals from front to back? That spiral can twist clockwise as you go from front to back, or it can twist counterclockwise.
Imagine the front surface of one lens - a sheet one molecule thick - is a vertically polarized filter. The light then passes deeper into the lens, and again you have a one-molecule-thick sheet of polarizing material, except this layer is tilted 5 degrees to the left (or tilted 5 degrees to the right). As you pass deeper through the lens you keep hitting a series of layers each twisted slightly to the left (or twisted to the right). The light has to twist like a drill bit does, as it passes from front to back. A left twist or a right twist.
Some materials naturally corkscrew the arrangement of their atoms. It is random whether the second layer it will twist left or right compared to the first layer, but after that the material will keep twisting left or keep twisting right as it forms.
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I want a huge dong to play with!
Perfect proof that I'm straight, ...right?
I rest my case. :P
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