It would also mean that anyone without glasses would be able to enjoy the film in 2D as well.
Have you ever seen an alternating stereo display without glasses? Everything is blurry and it hurts your head after a few seconds. You can also see the flicker.
I've spent some time developing CAVE applications (using alternating flicker), and I know of one person who couldn't look at the CAVE screen without getting so dizzy and confused he had to lie down for the rest of the day. Maybe that's just one person, but I bet more people are affected in a similar manner. There's no way they could release movies that affect people like that.
For a format thats so highly tied to the printed page, I'm not sure what the fuss is about online readers for PDF's.
You obviously aren't a student at a major engineering school. Do a quick search for some advanced CS topics (and I don't mean programming, I mean real computer science). Everything is in PDF. When you have lots of math notation and graphs and charts HTML doesn't cut it. People don't want to wait for images to download, layout is difficult and erratic, and even computer science professors/TAs don't want to learn advanced html/css layout just to tell me (for example) the mathematical theorey behind bayesan nets. (And don't tell me that you can't print these, too... theorems aren't going to change any time soon!)
What makes this all the more ludicrous is that these places were relying on Windoze for mission critical functions
I work in a hospital's IT department. Have you seen the healthcare-centric software and applications out there? We have 80 or so Win2000 servers to run our systems. Most of the systems we use are windows only, other applications just won't function. Just try to find _any_ software thats designed for some of our special needs, let alone Free software.
Additionally, we have been 100% free of all the major viruses of the past six months. Why? Diligent virus scanning patching, and firewalling.
The viruses we get are all because of stupid users opening attachments (though we once got a virus from a vendor's system that we lease and couldn't scan)
What's my point? Well, if you are diligent (daily updates to all virus scanners, and no machine without one... McAffe has a very nice system called EPO) you won't get a virus.
This is almost 1/2 a trillion dollars that won't be spent on "smart" bombs
1/2 of one trillion dollars is 500,000,000,000 (500 Billion). The article clearly says 471,000,000 which is 471 Million, not Billion!
Even allowing for your 29 Million dollar round off (if you're going to ignore it, can I have it?), you are still wrong by 499.5 Billion dollars. Can you even fathom that number?
Sheesh, learn some simple grade school math, or slow down and think before you post. Or maybe you meant Billion...
I try to use OpenOffice in the office but everytime I have to open a password protected Excell sheet or a document with images at headers&footers and heavy formatting, I really hate Microsoft.
You hate Microsoft? Why? Because they write to and read from a format they created and they support it well? If OpenOffice doesn't open/save/print it correctly, it's not Microsoft's fault!
Look up the definition of a monopoly. It's not 100% of the market (or all that close to it) I seem to remember the number 3/4 but I haven't actually thought about it since my last (only) economics class three years ago.
U of I CS, Comp E, and EE students get ms Development software (MSDN, XP Pro, Vis Studio, SQL Server, ect) for free... that's quite a discount (Though we still can't get a PC without buying windows with it, so the free XP part is pointless [assuming I even WANT XP] )
This is very likely due to the fact that they have to prove it was YOU driving the car. Without adequate proof, you could probably challenge the ticket, say that it wasn't you driving, and then claim the 5th when they ask you who was driving.
You can't be convicted of a "crime" you commited that was legal at the time but has since been deemed illegal. (I believe this is called ex post facto), so why should it work the other way around? Someone could correct me...
You just violated the DMCA... you gave me a service that I could use to violate copy protection (In so many words, you told me that my DVD player could be modded to play out-of-region disks).
No, its just that no American in a position of power will ever take a train or see any value in them. Hell, no one who is capable of holding a full-time job takes trains here.
Actually a lot of people do... else there wouldn't be trains, now would there? I go to college; most of my friends live hours away. Trains are cheaper and easier and more comfotable than busses or planes when they want to go home.
Granted they don't have full time jobs, but they aren't the ones buying the tickets... and their parents certianally have full time jobs.
The W3C are not the standard, they are the "standard".
The W3C is a fantasy... as long as there is a market leader, all they can do is cry. And the same goes for a lot of/.
Think about this objectivly, if MS can offer cool features and solidify their market share, they will. If they have to redesign the DOM and scripts and not innovate, they're just going to ignore the w3c. (Unless you expect the w3c to become a govenrnment agency that can enforce it's standards).
Am I the only one who pictures a group of guys, dressed in all black, repelling through the skylight? A few are grabbing computers and servers, and another is setting up some C-4 and a detonator. As they leave, they have "Think different" written on their backs. *shudder*
After all, even if they do snoop around on your computer, so long as you have no child porn or anything, what do you have to fear? They'll read your school notes?
It's not that they will see something that I have to hide, but rather something that they have no right to know. For example, if I worked for a major coropration and had buisness secrets on my HDD they could find that data and use it.
What would stop a corrupt cop from taking my million dollar idea under the pretext of "I thought he might be doing something wrong"?
The point is to protect the computer idiots! How many people do you expect to open the case and look at the processor? Especially when they probabally don't know what the processor looks like, how can they know that GFD isn't supposted to be there? How could this help at all?
What if the demographics bit is a coverup? They come right out and say that they want to get past alarms. Could it be that they really want to come up with a new security model? Maybe they really want to see how we (sysadmins) respond and what security we have.
Also, mapping networks could help to strategically (sp?) place some kind of security servers that they might be developing....
...And being secretive about developing security will help keep the script kiddies away until release.
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Thank you admiral* obvious.
* You have just been promoted from captian.
I'll help:
for( int i=0; i<100; ++i ) cout << "X oxide is not X" << endl;
She's a witch!
"It's not like the door charges your credit card, after all."
New trend in hotel management! $100/night plus only $5 each time you open your door!
We'll tell them the planet is about to be eaten by a space goat.
It would also mean that anyone without glasses would be able to enjoy the film in 2D as well.
Have you ever seen an alternating stereo display without glasses? Everything is blurry and it hurts your head after a few seconds. You can also see the flicker.
I've spent some time developing CAVE applications (using alternating flicker), and I know of one person who couldn't look at the CAVE screen without getting so dizzy and confused he had to lie down for the rest of the day. Maybe that's just one person, but I bet more people are affected in a similar manner. There's no way they could release movies that affect people like that.
You landed on boardwalk... I'll take all your intelectual property now.
What makes this all the more ludicrous is that these places were relying on Windoze for mission critical functions
I work in a hospital's IT department. Have you seen the healthcare-centric software and applications out there? We have 80 or so Win2000 servers to run our systems. Most of the systems we use are windows only, other applications just won't function. Just try to find _any_ software thats designed for some of our special needs, let alone Free software.
Additionally, we have been 100% free of all the major viruses of the past six months. Why? Diligent virus scanning patching, and firewalling.
The viruses we get are all because of stupid users opening attachments (though we once got a virus from a vendor's system that we lease and couldn't scan)
What's my point? Well, if you are diligent (daily updates to all virus scanners, and no machine without one... McAffe has a very nice system called EPO) you won't get a virus.
Exclusive sale of bundled goods is forbidden in Europe, and DivX ;-) don't look that good on a 42" plasma display.
Ok, I bite. If you have a 42" plasma display... why care about a few extra dollars for a DVD?
This is almost 1/2 a trillion dollars that won't be spent on "smart" bombs
1/2 of one trillion dollars is 500,000,000,000 (500 Billion). The article clearly says 471,000,000 which is 471 Million, not Billion!
Even allowing for your 29 Million dollar round off (if you're going to ignore it, can I have it?), you are still wrong by 499.5 Billion dollars. Can you even fathom that number?
Sheesh, learn some simple grade school math, or slow down and think before you post. Or maybe you meant Billion...
You hate Microsoft? Why? Because they write to and read from a format they created and they support it well? If OpenOffice doesn't open/save/print it correctly, it's not Microsoft's fault!
Look up the definition of a monopoly. It's not 100% of the market (or all that close to it) I seem to remember the number 3/4 but I haven't actually thought about it since my last (only) economics class three years ago.
U of I CS, Comp E, and EE students get ms Development software (MSDN, XP Pro, Vis Studio, SQL Server, ect) for free... that's quite a discount (Though we still can't get a PC without buying windows with it, so the free XP part is pointless [assuming I even WANT XP] )
This is very likely due to the fact that they have to prove it was YOU driving the car. Without adequate proof, you could probably challenge the ticket, say that it wasn't you driving, and then claim the 5th when they ask you who was driving.
camera?
Actually, in this news.com Article, the fifth dentist finally caved!! Guess the stalkers finally got to him.
And if you're going to move from good old Europe to colonial America, don't dump tea into the harbor; you should have expected those taxes....
You can't be convicted of a "crime" you commited that was legal at the time but has since been deemed illegal. (I believe this is called ex post facto), so why should it work the other way around? Someone could correct me...
You just violated the DMCA... you gave me a service that I could use to violate copy protection (In so many words, you told me that my DVD player could be modded to play out-of-region disks).
That's not streatching the law any further.
No, its just that no American in a position of power will ever take a train or see any value in them. Hell, no one who is capable of holding a full-time job takes trains here.
Actually a lot of people do... else there wouldn't be trains, now would there? I go to college; most of my friends live hours away. Trains are cheaper and easier and more comfotable than busses or planes when they want to go home.
Granted they don't have full time jobs, but they aren't the ones buying the tickets... and their parents certianally have full time jobs.
The W3C are not the standard, they are the "standard".
/.
The W3C is a fantasy... as long as there is a market leader, all they can do is cry. And the same goes for a lot of
Think about this objectivly, if MS can offer cool features and solidify their market share, they will. If they have to redesign the DOM and scripts and not innovate, they're just going to ignore the w3c. (Unless you expect the w3c to become a govenrnment agency that can enforce it's standards).
Am I the only one who pictures a group of guys, dressed in all black, repelling through the skylight? A few are grabbing computers and servers, and another is setting up some C-4 and a detonator. As they leave, they have "Think different" written on their backs. *shudder*
After all, even if they do snoop around on your computer, so long as you have no child porn or anything, what do you have to fear? They'll read your school notes? It's not that they will see something that I have to hide, but rather something that they have no right to know. For example, if I worked for a major coropration and had buisness secrets on my HDD they could find that data and use it.
What would stop a corrupt cop from taking my million dollar idea under the pretext of "I thought he might be doing something wrong"?
Wait a minute...
The point is to protect the computer idiots! How many people do you expect to open the case and look at the processor? Especially when they probabally don't know what the processor looks like, how can they know that GFD isn't supposted to be there?
How could this help at all?
What if the demographics bit is a coverup?
They come right out and say that they want to get past alarms. Could it be that they really want to come up with a new security model? Maybe they really want to see how we (sysadmins) respond and what security we have.
Also, mapping networks could help to strategically (sp?) place some kind of security servers that they might be developing....
...And being secretive about developing security will help keep the script kiddies away until release.