Will also believes in the one-buck, one-vote system... excuse me... he believes in no limits on campaign contributions or campaign spending, since any limits would be limits on the candidate's (or contributer's) First Amendment rights. I don't think he's right, but he has some good points: most of the campaign finance rules either eliminate anonymous speech, or can be interpreted as censoring speech (ie: after you've spent your limit, you're not allowed to say anything else). I don't have any good answers to these issues... anyone else got any bright ideas?
As far as money-as-speech goes, it isn't a completely protected right. You can't bribe a politician in office, even though you could argue that you were simply expressing speech and he was persuaded by your "argument".
Limiting contributions is not censoring speech, as the message is not suppressed, merely the repetitions (quantity) of a certain means restricted. If I want a man elected, and I've contributed my limit, I can still "speak" in an equally or even more public and persuasive way.
-La'Choppe
It's actually a relatively simple idea. Since the cameras are not moving, orientation-recording sensors can be placed on the tripod and camera. Thus, you can always get a geometric/mathematical depiction of the camera's current field of view, in relation to the field. Then, a laptop uses a tried and true video/film method called chroma-keying, in which a certain color or color range is replaced with another image, to place a yellow line which was computed on one or several laptops using the orientation info from the cameras. It is done in realtime. You won't see it on a replay unless the replay is of the recorded (broadcast) video and not straight off of the camera (as it usually is).
The $20K cost, I'd posit, is in keeping the equipment calibrated, transported, and maintained, and paying the expert staff required.
-La'Choppe [X] - Drive nail here for a new monitor
Actually, as a DC games programmer, I can tell you that WinCE DC games use DirectX6, although the SDK only came out in a usable state a few months ago. WinCE may be inferior to the Sega OS, but it's draw is easy porting from Win32. That's why you see developers using it, not because of some technical advantage. I agree fully about a gaming machine not needing all the "(dis)comforts" of a desktop box.;) -La'Choppe
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Will also believes in the one-buck, one-vote system ... excuse me ... he believes in no limits on campaign contributions or campaign spending, since any limits would be limits on the candidate's (or contributer's) First Amendment rights. I don't think he's right, but he has some good points: most of the campaign finance rules either eliminate anonymous speech, or can be interpreted as censoring speech (ie: after you've spent your limit, you're not allowed to say anything else). I don't have any good answers to these issues ... anyone else got any bright ideas?
As far as money-as-speech goes, it isn't a completely protected right. You can't bribe a politician in office, even though you could argue that you were simply expressing speech and he was persuaded by your "argument".
Limiting contributions is not censoring speech, as the message is not suppressed, merely the repetitions (quantity) of a certain means restricted. If I want a man elected, and I've contributed my limit, I can still "speak" in an equally or even more public and persuasive way.
-La'Choppe
It's actually a relatively simple idea. Since the cameras are not moving, orientation-recording sensors can be placed on the tripod and camera. Thus, you can always get a geometric/mathematical depiction of the camera's current field of view, in relation to the field. Then, a laptop uses a tried and true video/film method called chroma-keying, in which a certain color or color range is replaced with another image, to place a yellow line which was computed on one or several laptops using the orientation info from the cameras. It is done in realtime. You won't see it on a replay unless the replay is of the recorded (broadcast) video and not straight off of the camera (as it usually is).
The $20K cost, I'd posit, is in keeping the equipment calibrated, transported, and maintained, and paying the expert staff required.
-La'Choppe
[X] - Drive nail here for a new monitor
Actually, as a DC games programmer, I can tell you that WinCE DC games use DirectX6, although the SDK only came out in a usable state a few months ago. WinCE may be inferior to the Sega OS, but it's draw is easy porting from Win32. That's why you see developers using it, not because of some technical advantage. I agree fully about a gaming machine not needing all the "(dis)comforts" of a desktop box. ;) -La'Choppe