I'm in there as well with Kdenlive. It took a while to learn how to use it but now I can hop in and do some nice editing really easily. It's great software and anyone needing to do some video editing that doesn't have a favorite yet might want to give it a look.
Well, be happy because you are wrong. Many businesses don't need VR - like the corner market and such - but many businesses do. Anything design related like engineering companies, architecture firms, all the way to travel and entertainment. Hospitals and medical research, automotive, and so on. All will benefit greatly from being able to see and explore things they never could before. This puts million dollar 3D visualization facilities in reach of just about everyone.
And while there are many lining up to play GTA5 or similar first person mayhem kinds of games, regular people can have the equivalent of million dollar simulators in their own homes both for training and for enjoyment. Flight and driving simulations are transformed when the visuals become what you would actually see from cabs, cabins, and cockpits.
There isn't one killer app. It's a killer view in all sorts of different apps. Until you actually experience it it is hard to describe well enough to convey. What I can tell you is I have flown the real deal commercial and military flight simulators. Full motion, hemispherical projection, etc. They may have real cockpits but the out the window view is a 2D projection and flat. Very cool but not totally immersive. Do that in an Oculus Rift and now everything is 3D. You can use a mouse to aim and click on knobs and switches which isn't so realistic, but whatever plane you want to fly is simply a matter of programming. And it is far more immersive and real feeling than any simulator I've ever been in. That is no exaggeration. It's the same for driving sims. In 3D you can "feel" the car breaking loose just from the slight changes in angles that you can now perceive with the head tracking and 3D view. It is astonishing.
Architecture firms have been going nuts that they can now actually enter their creations and fine tune things as well as show them to customers. It's not just a "this is nice" kind of thing. The reports are that the architects are having "wow" moments and are modifying designs that they thought were fine before but once they can explore them in virtual space, they see that things could be even better.
Plenty of people won't have any use for VR at all. But plenty of others will see it as a game changer for their profession, their training, their hobbies, and possibly even their health. It's something you really need to experience to understand. And for the uses that really will push VR into all aspects of any kind of design and training, the game demonstrations don't cut it either.
VR is very weird. Those that haven't seen what it can do are much more likely to claim it is unimportant and will never catch on. Those that have seen can see the potential in everything from games and sims to real world valuable insight generators in many professions. I would bet you haven't actually experienced VR and therefor suffer from the inability to extrapolate. Trust me on this. When you put on an HMD and look around some environment you could never see otherwise, any environment that a computer can generate and synthesize, you will understand.
In my case it was $9.99 per month for 5 months but my Senator got T-Mobile to refund all of my money back when this happened after I asked his office for help when I discovered the charges and got the runaround from T-Mobile when I demanded a refund.
I started getting text messages on some celebrity quiz game but was just deleting them until I finally got tired of them. I looked the company up online and saw where people were complaining about getting slammed and charges showing up. I checked my bill and sure enough - there were the charges. I hadn't noticed them because they were down a couple of extra layers under something like "miscellaneous charges". I called T-Mobile to stop it and get the charges refunded but they had me contact the charging company to dispute and the charging company would only refund a couple of months. This had been going on for about 5 months. I called T-Mobile and insisted on total refunds and just got a runaround. I called my Senator and told his staff about it. They intervened and T-Mobile contacted me and gave me a full refund. The Senator's staff contacted me again and asked if I minded if my case data was used in their investigation and I told them not at all. Looks like it has all finally bore fruit.
The company - I would have to check my files for the name - said I had visited some web site and signed up for their celibrity quiz game. I had a static IP address at the time and sure as shit, they had it. I had apparently visited a site that was simply harvesting IP addresses, or somehow they associated my IP with my name. I would never sign up for some celebrity quiz. It was a simple slam.
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."
I have a Chase account and since early/mid summer I have been getting fairly well written demands from my "ISP" telling me I need to go online to enable antivirus protection for my e-mail account.
I haven't visited the sites I'm told to visit (not my real ISP addresses but similar) but wouldn't be surprised if that is the first step to compromising my computer to scrape login information to my Chase account, and also being able to intercept any e-mail alerts to fraudulent activity. If they mapped Chase's systems for vulnerabilities in applications, it's safe to assume they could hand out exploits tailored to web site visitor's systems.
I can't say for sure that all the messages I've been getting to fix my e-mail account before it gets suspended are related to the Chase breaking but they did start about the time the break-in supposedly happened and I am a Chase customer so they likely have my e-mail address.
As I said, the e-mails are definitely urgent and fairly well written and will likely fool a lot of people. I reported them to my ISP (Century Link) but they didn't respond and I'm still getting them so at least anecdotal evidence says they haven't done much or anything to block them fr their customers.
I really feel sorry for anyone who "fixes" their e-mail account and possibly hands the keys over to their Chase account while they are at it (if they are connected - I don't know).
Sadly we do have a lot of drooling, anti-science idiots. But I don't think that precludes going to Mars. It just means we'll have a lot of idiots running around misinterpreting photographs and video and claiming it was all a hoax.
Just did a search on dropped calls and iPhone 6 and found this on Verizon's website. Looks like I'm not the only one seeing it. I'll try resetting my network settings to see if that helps, but it doesn't bode well at least for the short term...
I got the iPhone 6 (not the 6 Plus) trading up from a 4S. Still getting used to the 6. For me it is too thin but that's just an opportunity to get a thicker and more protective case.
But if it wasn't for being able to supersize the icons on the display and Apple Pay, I think I would return it. It's really too big at least until I acclimate - if I acclimate. No way in hell I'd get the 6 Plus unless I got the big gold chain to wear it around my neck and make the display a clock face...
As phones go, I really liked the size of the 4S better. And so far, I'm not very impressed by the quality of the phone connections. Dropped calls and lots of garbled speech. My 4S had better call quality so far by far. I may still return the 6 if I can't get that figured out as the main reason I have it is to use it as a phone.
I totally believe in custom hosts files to help block ads, malware, etc. Thankfully they can be implemented on Linux, Mac OS, and even Winders.
I go a step further. I use a Winders box for most surfing just because it's also my gaming box. I use a Linux box for anything financial, e-mail, etc. I know the Windows box is possibly more vulnerable to compromise and putting it out in that environment is probably a worse way to pick up something unwanted, but it beats having a third system for general web browsing running Linux.
But hosts files are a first line of defense and sure make the whole online experience much nicer and undoubtedly safer.
The low persistence and low latency both have apparently done wonders for presence and reduction/elimination of motion sickness. Pretty much everyone who has tried Crystal Cove, DK2-proto, or DK2 itself all say no problems with motion sickness. One person at least so far that I have seen said he did feel it just a bit but much reduced from DK1 and that he has a bad problem with motion sickness anyway.
DK2 is only now showing up in dev offices and homes. There were 100 or so early copies but the production run DK2s only started shipping last Thursday. Only a handful have received them yet. This week is when all the DK2s from the March 19 first day to order will hit their destinations in the USA. Mine arrives tomorrow.
To the guy calling it vaporware, it isn't. A lot of people are treating DK2 as the consumer version and buying it now - which it was going to basically be before they got the cash infusion from Facebook (just became final last week). The CV1 has been pushed out a little since they can now really improve it and there is not the same pressure as there was before to make a profit and push out something not quite ready.
Oculus has assembled a very powerful team and they now have the resources to do this right. CV1 will most likely be very impressive. Hell, DK2 is very impressive.
The progress on this has been amazing. The display is something you either have to have very deep pockets to go custom or you piggyback on the phone industry which is what Oculus has had to do up to now. They now have the resources to build a custom display, optimized for VR goggles, and the team to make it all work. They made it over the hump. It's hardly vaporware and it is very, very cool.
At least for that flight number, it apparently wasn't on a normal flight path. It was around 100 miles further north than that flight flew on previous days.
Check the FlightAware tracking data.
Don't know if that is significant or not but it's easy to verify for yourself. All the other flights on the page of MAL17 flights go over the Sea of Azov or even south of it. This one was well off to the north of it.
Again, don't know why or if that even matters, but at least compared to the other MAL17 flights it did appear to be off course in that region. Not that that is a reason to shoot it down.
The flight that was shot down was fully north of the Sea of Azov. Compared with the other flights, it turns out they were more like 100 miles north of all the other flight tracks I looked at. All the other flights either go over the Sea of Azov or even just at the south edge. I didn't see any that flew as far to the north.
Again, not sure if that matters, but check the tracks for yourselves. I have a hunch it is going to matter and it is probably a contributor to why it got shot down.
Maybe it was weather that caused the flight to go that far north or possibly a mis-keyed waypoint. But it's obvious it was in a different area than those flights normally flew. And it might not be of any importance. Just noting what the tracks reveal...
I think it's too late anyway. With scientists figuring out we need crash programs to change basically everything in just 15 years to avoid major climate disruption, it's pretty much game over. People don't have the motivation and the cause and effect link is too removed for most dullards to understand what's going on. I think it's obvious from the postings here that the API has done their disinformation job very well. There is no way to mobilize the support we need to make this all happen in 15 years.
What it will take is these deniers finally realizing that in spite of setting new heat records every year and many months for the last decade, it really is getting hotter. It's going to take more major floods, more tornado swarms, more hurricanes, more droughts, and more weather disasters of scales never seen before these folks finally figure out they have been duped and used to enrich the few living out their last hurrahs.
But really, it's been to late for a decade. There is also too much infrastructure, too many IC cars, too much totally dependent on fossil fuels to roll things back in just 15 years. A lot of newly-installed infrastructure is designed to last 30 years and is amortized out over those time periods. These people make fun of him, but the time we should have really been working hard to fix this was when Al Gore popularized the alarm.
The term "dead man walking" comes to mind here. We're now just along for the ride. I am glad I am the age I am and have had a chance to live my life and won't be seeing when the real climate issues hit. When people can't feed themselves is when things will get really nasty and it's sad that kids today will likely get to see it. The earth is quickly headed to a time when it can't support anywhere near the life on it now. That means die offs. Big ones. Humans won't take that laying down though. They start wars. They steal. They kill. They basically go insane.
It will take a while but it's coming. These unthinking drones can deny it all they want. Make Al Gore jokes. Hockey stick jokes. Whatever. It's all simple physics and chemistry. Anyone with an undergraduate degree and any knowledge of infrared spectroscopy can understand the concept of greenhouse gases, trapping heat, and temperature increases. Throw in a bit of decaying formerly-frozen peat bogs, methane clathrates melting on the ocean floors, and the atmosphere's ability to hold more water vapor as it heats up, and we are making a mighty fine thermal blanket for this planet.
We just can't get out of this kitchen. We're stuck here.
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I'm in there as well with Kdenlive. It took a while to learn how to use it but now I can hop in and do some nice editing really easily. It's great software and anyone needing to do some video editing that doesn't have a favorite yet might want to give it a look.
Well, be happy because you are wrong. Many businesses don't need VR - like the corner market and such - but many businesses do. Anything design related like engineering companies, architecture firms, all the way to travel and entertainment. Hospitals and medical research, automotive, and so on. All will benefit greatly from being able to see and explore things they never could before. This puts million dollar 3D visualization facilities in reach of just about everyone.
And while there are many lining up to play GTA5 or similar first person mayhem kinds of games, regular people can have the equivalent of million dollar simulators in their own homes both for training and for enjoyment. Flight and driving simulations are transformed when the visuals become what you would actually see from cabs, cabins, and cockpits.
There isn't one killer app. It's a killer view in all sorts of different apps. Until you actually experience it it is hard to describe well enough to convey. What I can tell you is I have flown the real deal commercial and military flight simulators. Full motion, hemispherical projection, etc. They may have real cockpits but the out the window view is a 2D projection and flat. Very cool but not totally immersive. Do that in an Oculus Rift and now everything is 3D. You can use a mouse to aim and click on knobs and switches which isn't so realistic, but whatever plane you want to fly is simply a matter of programming. And it is far more immersive and real feeling than any simulator I've ever been in. That is no exaggeration. It's the same for driving sims. In 3D you can "feel" the car breaking loose just from the slight changes in angles that you can now perceive with the head tracking and 3D view. It is astonishing.
Architecture firms have been going nuts that they can now actually enter their creations and fine tune things as well as show them to customers. It's not just a "this is nice" kind of thing. The reports are that the architects are having "wow" moments and are modifying designs that they thought were fine before but once they can explore them in virtual space, they see that things could be even better.
Plenty of people won't have any use for VR at all. But plenty of others will see it as a game changer for their profession, their training, their hobbies, and possibly even their health. It's something you really need to experience to understand. And for the uses that really will push VR into all aspects of any kind of design and training, the game demonstrations don't cut it either.
VR is very weird. Those that haven't seen what it can do are much more likely to claim it is unimportant and will never catch on. Those that have seen can see the potential in everything from games and sims to real world valuable insight generators in many professions. I would bet you haven't actually experienced VR and therefor suffer from the inability to extrapolate. Trust me on this. When you put on an HMD and look around some environment you could never see otherwise, any environment that a computer can generate and synthesize, you will understand.
I thank everyone involved in making these guys pay for this stuff. It was a scam top to bottom. I changed carriers as soon as I got my refund.
In my case it was $9.99 per month for 5 months but my Senator got T-Mobile to refund all of my money back when this happened after I asked his office for help when I discovered the charges and got the runaround from T-Mobile when I demanded a refund.
I started getting text messages on some celebrity quiz game but was just deleting them until I finally got tired of them. I looked the company up online and saw where people were complaining about getting slammed and charges showing up. I checked my bill and sure enough - there were the charges. I hadn't noticed them because they were down a couple of extra layers under something like "miscellaneous charges". I called T-Mobile to stop it and get the charges refunded but they had me contact the charging company to dispute and the charging company would only refund a couple of months. This had been going on for about 5 months. I called T-Mobile and insisted on total refunds and just got a runaround. I called my Senator and told his staff about it. They intervened and T-Mobile contacted me and gave me a full refund. The Senator's staff contacted me again and asked if I minded if my case data was used in their investigation and I told them not at all. Looks like it has all finally bore fruit.
The company - I would have to check my files for the name - said I had visited some web site and signed up for their celibrity quiz game. I had a static IP address at the time and sure as shit, they had it. I had apparently visited a site that was simply harvesting IP addresses, or somehow they associated my IP with my name. I would never sign up for some celebrity quiz. It was a simple slam.
Glad they all got nailed!
I wish I had mod points... This is so true and also so funny.
But 7:06 is possible and almost the same thing...
Dude, it's "CDO" - in alphabetical order as it should be...
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."
I have a Chase account and since early/mid summer I have been getting fairly well written demands from my "ISP" telling me I need to go online to enable antivirus protection for my e-mail account.
I haven't visited the sites I'm told to visit (not my real ISP addresses but similar) but wouldn't be surprised if that is the first step to compromising my computer to scrape login information to my Chase account, and also being able to intercept any e-mail alerts to fraudulent activity. If they mapped Chase's systems for vulnerabilities in applications, it's safe to assume they could hand out exploits tailored to web site visitor's systems.
I can't say for sure that all the messages I've been getting to fix my e-mail account before it gets suspended are related to the Chase breaking but they did start about the time the break-in supposedly happened and I am a Chase customer so they likely have my e-mail address.
As I said, the e-mails are definitely urgent and fairly well written and will likely fool a lot of people. I reported them to my ISP (Century Link) but they didn't respond and I'm still getting them so at least anecdotal evidence says they haven't done much or anything to block them fr their customers.
I really feel sorry for anyone who "fixes" their e-mail account and possibly hands the keys over to their Chase account while they are at it (if they are connected - I don't know).
Sadly we do have a lot of drooling, anti-science idiots. But I don't think that precludes going to Mars. It just means we'll have a lot of idiots running around misinterpreting photographs and video and claiming it was all a hoax.
Wonder if there are bears up there he can wrestle?
Just did a search on dropped calls and iPhone 6 and found this on Verizon's website. Looks like I'm not the only one seeing it. I'll try resetting my network settings to see if that helps, but it doesn't bode well at least for the short term...
https://community.verizonwirel...
I got the iPhone 6 (not the 6 Plus) trading up from a 4S. Still getting used to the 6. For me it is too thin but that's just an opportunity to get a thicker and more protective case.
But if it wasn't for being able to supersize the icons on the display and Apple Pay, I think I would return it. It's really too big at least until I acclimate - if I acclimate. No way in hell I'd get the 6 Plus unless I got the big gold chain to wear it around my neck and make the display a clock face...
As phones go, I really liked the size of the 4S better. And so far, I'm not very impressed by the quality of the phone connections. Dropped calls and lots of garbled speech. My 4S had better call quality so far by far. I may still return the 6 if I can't get that figured out as the main reason I have it is to use it as a phone.
I totally believe in custom hosts files to help block ads, malware, etc. Thankfully they can be implemented on Linux, Mac OS, and even Winders.
I go a step further. I use a Winders box for most surfing just because it's also my gaming box. I use a Linux box for anything financial, e-mail, etc. I know the Windows box is possibly more vulnerable to compromise and putting it out in that environment is probably a worse way to pick up something unwanted, but it beats having a third system for general web browsing running Linux.
But hosts files are a first line of defense and sure make the whole online experience much nicer and undoubtedly safer.
The low persistence and low latency both have apparently done wonders for presence and reduction/elimination of motion sickness. Pretty much everyone who has tried Crystal Cove, DK2-proto, or DK2 itself all say no problems with motion sickness. One person at least so far that I have seen said he did feel it just a bit but much reduced from DK1 and that he has a bad problem with motion sickness anyway.
Others are glad you did too.
DK2 is only now showing up in dev offices and homes. There were 100 or so early copies but the production run DK2s only started shipping last Thursday. Only a handful have received them yet. This week is when all the DK2s from the March 19 first day to order will hit their destinations in the USA. Mine arrives tomorrow.
To the guy calling it vaporware, it isn't. A lot of people are treating DK2 as the consumer version and buying it now - which it was going to basically be before they got the cash infusion from Facebook (just became final last week). The CV1 has been pushed out a little since they can now really improve it and there is not the same pressure as there was before to make a profit and push out something not quite ready.
Oculus has assembled a very powerful team and they now have the resources to do this right. CV1 will most likely be very impressive. Hell, DK2 is very impressive.
The progress on this has been amazing. The display is something you either have to have very deep pockets to go custom or you piggyback on the phone industry which is what Oculus has had to do up to now. They now have the resources to build a custom display, optimized for VR goggles, and the team to make it all work. They made it over the hump. It's hardly vaporware and it is very, very cool.
At least for that flight number, it apparently wasn't on a normal flight path. It was around 100 miles further north than that flight flew on previous days.
Check the FlightAware tracking data.
Don't know if that is significant or not but it's easy to verify for yourself. All the other flights on the page of MAL17 flights go over the Sea of Azov or even south of it. This one was well off to the north of it.
Again, don't know why or if that even matters, but at least compared to the other MAL17 flights it did appear to be off course in that region. Not that that is a reason to shoot it down.
The flight that was shot down was fully north of the Sea of Azov. Compared with the other flights, it turns out they were more like 100 miles north of all the other flight tracks I looked at. All the other flights either go over the Sea of Azov or even just at the south edge. I didn't see any that flew as far to the north.
Again, not sure if that matters, but check the tracks for yourselves. I have a hunch it is going to matter and it is probably a contributor to why it got shot down.
Maybe it was weather that caused the flight to go that far north or possibly a mis-keyed waypoint. But it's obvious it was in a different area than those flights normally flew. And it might not be of any importance. Just noting what the tracks reveal...
Actually, that FlightAware tracking tells the tale on this I believe.
If you look at the other flights for that route, they travel further south by about 40-60 miles than the one that got shot down.
This plane was off course at least compared to the other flights. Whether that has anything to do with it, hard to tell....
I think it's too late anyway. With scientists figuring out we need crash programs to change basically everything in just 15 years to avoid major climate disruption, it's pretty much game over. People don't have the motivation and the cause and effect link is too removed for most dullards to understand what's going on. I think it's obvious from the postings here that the API has done their disinformation job very well. There is no way to mobilize the support we need to make this all happen in 15 years.
What it will take is these deniers finally realizing that in spite of setting new heat records every year and many months for the last decade, it really is getting hotter. It's going to take more major floods, more tornado swarms, more hurricanes, more droughts, and more weather disasters of scales never seen before these folks finally figure out they have been duped and used to enrich the few living out their last hurrahs.
But really, it's been to late for a decade. There is also too much infrastructure, too many IC cars, too much totally dependent on fossil fuels to roll things back in just 15 years. A lot of newly-installed infrastructure is designed to last 30 years and is amortized out over those time periods. These people make fun of him, but the time we should have really been working hard to fix this was when Al Gore popularized the alarm.
The term "dead man walking" comes to mind here. We're now just along for the ride. I am glad I am the age I am and have had a chance to live my life and won't be seeing when the real climate issues hit. When people can't feed themselves is when things will get really nasty and it's sad that kids today will likely get to see it. The earth is quickly headed to a time when it can't support anywhere near the life on it now. That means die offs. Big ones. Humans won't take that laying down though. They start wars. They steal. They kill. They basically go insane.
It will take a while but it's coming. These unthinking drones can deny it all they want. Make Al Gore jokes. Hockey stick jokes. Whatever. It's all simple physics and chemistry. Anyone with an undergraduate degree and any knowledge of infrared spectroscopy can understand the concept of greenhouse gases, trapping heat, and temperature increases. Throw in a bit of decaying formerly-frozen peat bogs, methane clathrates melting on the ocean floors, and the atmosphere's ability to hold more water vapor as it heats up, and we are making a mighty fine thermal blanket for this planet.
We just can't get out of this kitchen. We're stuck here.
And Russia. And the Ukraine.
Cartman figured it out in South Park as well... It became a fad as I recall...
It actually doesn't meet the criteria. With sterilization he certainly couldn't contribute to the gene pool, but it wouldn't delete him.
Either way, though, it's typical of the stand your ground mentality.