I didn't know they used polarized glasses - I stand corrected. Quite interesting. I was talking about people's fascination with red+blue. With polarized glasses, I might actually be able to see something in those movies as 3D. Guess I'll have to cash something out when the next "ultra mega turbo 3D movie" comes, just for the sake of seeing if the whole fad really is worth anything.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I don't find anything 3D about additive red+blue channel images, and I find any advertisement of a "3D movie" annoying. Unless it's holo -- as seen on Star Trek viewscreens -- then that's not 3D, plain and simple.
And I also don't find anything innovative about this cam. How about "just" pairing two "regular" cams, and writing a virtual webcam driver that would merge the images into one? This Minoru is essentially the same thing, but packed in a £49.95 plastic box, and thus I don't find this truly 'unique'; the box is unique, and Minoru is perhaps first implementation of this silly idea, but unique is a too strong word.
It's Debian, operational for cca 3 years, completely tortured. Changed to Reiserfs because with ext3 it slowed to a crawl. XFCE saves my ass. Reinstall not an option, and definitely not wiping/home.
Still, this tells me Windows devs aren't doing it completely wrong.
Gnome on my Inspiron 1300 (512mb ram variant) isn't satisfying either. Neither is KDE(4). And I'm talking about their apps, too - and you can't avoid GTK and Qt apps and stay sane and productive on a FLOSS OS.
Most surprising is a certain "Fruit OS" sub-version 5.2, which is quite fast considering it was never meant to be ran on this hardware.
XP is ok (but this 2+yr old installation is yelling for attention in form of an MSDNAA-provided install disk).
I'm not using GNU/Linux for performance, definitely, but because of liberties it provides me. Not only philosophical or licensing. It's more about environmental and development liberties; I can do stuff I can't do elsewhere. And Vim works "as it should(tm)" only on GNU/Linux.
Vista is a horrible memory hog and I never installed it on aforementioned junk; still, when I hear that people advocate Linux because of less memory usage... I just go crazy. Come on! Gnome and KDE (esp. KDE4) eat more memory to me than Windows shell, and Iceweasel... well, either bigger or equal amount of RAM.
And yes, it is nice to give credit even when it's not required. What's not legitimate is complaining that someone's not pandering to an emotional need for recognition.
Then we're actually having the same thoughts, since I was not talking about a need for recognition, I was just trying to say that people feel good and better when recognized.
Don't you feel that way when recognized and credited for your contributions?
I see you are completely missing the point of trademarks. That is the point: prevent people from abusing YOUR name and reputation. It is there to prevent other people's undesider association with you: both positive and negative. There should be limits to trademark protection, of course (for example everyone who's not in the same business, e.g. newspapers, bloggers, etc, should be allowed to say anything they want about a product) but this is crossing the line - people are directly associating and advertising a competing product to your product.
That is: I don't want my competitor to attack me directly, possibly with lies, because that's unfair.
Now, whether or not it's Google's problem, that's another thing. They should probably get closer in touch with the community. I waited a few months (!) for my Adsense application approval, and even when I asked question about it, it took a few weeks for a Googler to respond.
And I guess that in the future I should read what I reply to better.
So, now that I did, I have an additional question: where are the "usual copyright and attribution statements"? Where are they on the site? I can't see them. Please help this emo kid.
Then nobody cares that you didn't get the recognition that you didn't ask for, emo kid.
First, that was uncalled for.
Second, ever heard of good manners? Just because license doesn't order to do it, it doesn't mean the user shouldn't be nice by saying Thanks. Just like it might be nice to click on the "Donate" buttons or seek for alternative way to donate to authors; almost nobody would complain if you did, y'know.
If an expensive US federal project can't even afford to put at least the names of unpaid contributors and honor them in that way... Well, the world is really doomed. I almost always have a "About site" page where I say what tools I used. Because I apparently have some manners.
FLOSS coders at least want recognition. Not everyone, but many do. Who has said "thanks" to them, who has said "this would not be possible without works of so-and-so"? That's what coders want, at the very least. Apple acknowledges FreeBSD's work. Did the US Government?
This article contains weasel words, vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information. Such statements should be clarified or removed. (July 2009)
Scientists[which?] have calculated that volcanoes emit...
You understand that it's normal today to be abnormal? Subculture this, subculture that, "alternative" rock, blah blah blah. Popular culture says "Don't be normal, be different from everyone else, you're unique" although there's several million (or at least thousand) other people doing the same (or practically same) thing as you are. Mountain climbing? Yes, there's at least a few thousand shepherds out there doing practically the same thing. Nobody's unique.
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gcc -pedantic $@
I didn't know they used polarized glasses - I stand corrected. Quite interesting. I was talking about people's fascination with red+blue. With polarized glasses, I might actually be able to see something in those movies as 3D. Guess I'll have to cash something out when the next "ultra mega turbo 3D movie" comes, just for the sake of seeing if the whole fad really is worth anything.
Thanks for the info!
Don't know about the rest of you, but I don't find anything 3D about additive red+blue channel images, and I find any advertisement of a "3D movie" annoying. Unless it's holo -- as seen on Star Trek viewscreens -- then that's not 3D, plain and simple.
And I also don't find anything innovative about this cam. How about "just" pairing two "regular" cams, and writing a virtual webcam driver that would merge the images into one? This Minoru is essentially the same thing, but packed in a £49.95 plastic box, and thus I don't find this truly 'unique'; the box is unique, and Minoru is perhaps first implementation of this silly idea, but unique is a too strong word.
PS Slashdot, give us UTF-8.
You missed a step.
Step 3.5: ???
It's Debian, operational for cca 3 years, completely tortured. Changed to Reiserfs because with ext3 it slowed to a crawl. XFCE saves my ass. Reinstall not an option, and definitely not wiping /home.
Still, this tells me Windows devs aren't doing it completely wrong.
Ubuntu-9.04 $
Fixed that for ya. Never run as root.
Gnome on my Inspiron 1300 (512mb ram variant) isn't satisfying either. Neither is KDE(4). And I'm talking about their apps, too - and you can't avoid GTK and Qt apps and stay sane and productive on a FLOSS OS.
Most surprising is a certain "Fruit OS" sub-version 5.2, which is quite fast considering it was never meant to be ran on this hardware.
XP is ok (but this 2+yr old installation is yelling for attention in form of an MSDNAA-provided install disk).
I'm not using GNU/Linux for performance, definitely, but because of liberties it provides me. Not only philosophical or licensing. It's more about environmental and development liberties; I can do stuff I can't do elsewhere. And Vim works "as it should(tm)" only on GNU/Linux.
Vista is a horrible memory hog and I never installed it on aforementioned junk; still, when I hear that people advocate Linux because of less memory usage... I just go crazy. Come on! Gnome and KDE (esp. KDE4) eat more memory to me than Windows shell, and Iceweasel... well, either bigger or equal amount of RAM.
Works only in the US.
Your local community's representative sample is not the world's representative sample.
Signed.
The Berne convention might :)
And yes, it is nice to give credit even when it's not required. What's not legitimate is complaining that someone's not pandering to an emotional need for recognition.
Then we're actually having the same thoughts, since I was not talking about a need for recognition, I was just trying to say that people feel good and better when recognized.
Don't you feel that way when recognized and credited for your contributions?
I see you are completely missing the point of trademarks. That is the point: prevent people from abusing YOUR name and reputation. It is there to prevent other people's undesider association with you: both positive and negative. There should be limits to trademark protection, of course (for example everyone who's not in the same business, e.g. newspapers, bloggers, etc, should be allowed to say anything they want about a product) but this is crossing the line - people are directly associating and advertising a competing product to your product.
That is: I don't want my competitor to attack me directly, possibly with lies, because that's unfair.
Now, whether or not it's Google's problem, that's another thing. They should probably get closer in touch with the community. I waited a few months (!) for my Adsense application approval, and even when I asked question about it, it took a few weeks for a Googler to respond.
So, you say people have to force you in order for you to acknowledge their free contribution?
And I guess that in the future I should read what I reply to better.
So, now that I did, I have an additional question: where are the "usual copyright and attribution statements"? Where are they on the site? I can't see them. Please help this emo kid.
Then nobody cares that you didn't get the recognition that you didn't ask for, emo kid.
First, that was uncalled for.
Second, ever heard of good manners? Just because license doesn't order to do it, it doesn't mean the user shouldn't be nice by saying Thanks. Just like it might be nice to click on the "Donate" buttons or seek for alternative way to donate to authors; almost nobody would complain if you did, y'know.
If an expensive US federal project can't even afford to put at least the names of unpaid contributors and honor them in that way... Well, the world is really doomed. I almost always have a "About site" page where I say what tools I used. Because I apparently have some manners.
Rise of IQ (aka Flynn effect) may have ended in developed world in mid-90s. See Wikipedia article on Flynn effect
FLOSS coders at least want recognition. Not everyone, but many do. Who has said "thanks" to them, who has said "this would not be possible without works of so-and-so"? That's what coders want, at the very least. Apple acknowledges FreeBSD's work. Did the US Government?
A certain "flashlight", misspelled?
Extrapolating
we'd better reduce the population of the planet by quite a bit. Feel free to start.
Well, I'm doing my part. I'm passively helping the Great Cause. Are you?
This article contains weasel words, vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information. Such statements should be clarified or removed. (July 2009)
Scientists[which?] have calculated that volcanoes emit...
(just kidding)
You understand that it's normal today to be abnormal? Subculture this, subculture that, "alternative" rock, blah blah blah. Popular culture says "Don't be normal, be different from everyone else, you're unique" although there's several million (or at least thousand) other people doing the same (or practically same) thing as you are. Mountain climbing? Yes, there's at least a few thousand shepherds out there doing practically the same thing. Nobody's unique.
So today, be abnormal by -- being normal.
But FB is not in your country, so you can't force them to give you your data.
Nor in Icahn :-)