...my University has its own Linux distro. While I am not very familiar with Linux, at least half of the workstations are running that. And actually, as I hear from my fellow researchers, the support for Linux workstations is better than for the windows ones. I had to do some work on a Linux server (updating the webpages of the department) and support excellent. I mean, I was asking Root some basic questions by email, and got detailed answer in 30 mins. OTOH, there are some Linux specific problems that I dont have in Win7, so I don't judge which OS is better. They are just different OSes for different people. What I want to say is that Linux support in the campus is great.
I am working as researcher/post-grad student, and computer is the number one research tool. Like is hammer for a blacksmith. No surprises there. When in the same place I work should "forbid" the major research tool in the classrooms, this is an obvious sight that the teaching system I-speak-and-you-listen-and-take-notes is broken. Or at least obsolete. For most of the time I have been good student, and I am writing a doctoral dissertation now. One would expect I like lectures. Still, most of them are boring as hell. I didn't have smart phone/netbook when I was in high school (and I envy the nowadays students so much for having them), and guess what - when I got bored, I always find a way to distract myself. And the others. Chatting with a schoolmate during class is less distracting that launching a paper airplane, IMHO.
Exactly. When I "cup my palm" and start moving it on the table, my nails make the sound of... well, the sound of scratching wood with nails. Uffffff....
I know two programming environments, designed specially for children. One is Stagecast Creator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecast_Creator, which is created in Apple, and was known as Cocoa before Apple reused the name for the Cocoa API. The other is Alice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software), created in Carnegie Mellon, by a group led by the late Randy Pausch (you might have seen "The last lecture" by Randy Pausch). Stagecast creator is a programming tutorial, disguised as a 2D game designer, and Alice is a programming tutorial disguised as 3D scene creator. I, being a keen NES gamer, tend to like Stagecast better.
However, I heavily doubt you can calculate health standards like that. Or, OSHA would not allow you in a quiet library (35db) for more than 2853.88128 years <grin>.
> I'd like to see you recover something that has been overwritten once.
You can't do it at home, but professional data recovery service can. Usually you can guess the previous data by precisely measuring the magnetic levels. The old values will influence the resulting intensity. Roughly (I'm not expert!) works like this:
was -- now -- result 0 -- 1 -- 0.9 1 -- 0 -- 0.1 1 -- 1 -- 1.1 0 -- 0 -- 0
That is why you should have MULTIPLE overwrites with RANDOM data.
"will this draw viewers away to other video sites?"
You mean if other sites provide the same content for free, will I stay on youtube just because it is... pretty?
On contrary, if every second movie I click on leads me to a "not available in your country" text, I will eventually get bored and go to other site even if youtube provides the same content for free.
Even better - upload the video backwards. Someone should make backward youtube plugin for firefox. It even might autodetect backward songs and play them properly.
The human vision has the ability fuse a single image out of different retinal projections in each eye. (Foundations of Cyclopean Vision, Blea Julez, 1971) You don't really see double images behind your point of attention (point of focus != point of attention).
Instead of using "jumping cross-hair" to aim at enemies, do what Chuck Norris would do. Close one eye.
No. The ability to focus at different distances (accommodation depth cue) works only for short distances... maybe max 1 meter (3 feet) if you have 20/20 vision.
Indeed, there is the problem you are referring to. It is called convergence-accommodation rivalry and is caused by the following - your vision uses feedback, and if your eyes converge to certain point the lens of the eye automatically gets focused on that distance. So if the disparity in the eyes suggests an object is being 20cm in front of your nose, your eye lens will auto-focus to that distance. As the object is really projected on the display (1 meter away) it will look out of focus.
This problem can be solved by making the display extra bright. Your pupil contracts, the depth-of-field enlarges, and scene is all in focus regardless of the perceived disparity.
Furthermore, this rivalry will affect only objects that attempt to come "out of the screen". The "depth information stored in the directX buffer" rarely has objects in front of the screen, most of the game scenery will exist at different depths INSIDE of the display. No c-a rivalry there.
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...what else? With a new Cantina scene including Lady Gaga appearing as an alien (or vice versa).
How does he know if "gamers" are losing patience? Did he do any survey, or is he extrapolating from own opinion?
...my University has its own Linux distro. While I am not very familiar with Linux, at least half of the workstations are running that. And actually, as I hear from my fellow researchers, the support for Linux workstations is better than for the windows ones. I had to do some work on a Linux server (updating the webpages of the department) and support excellent. I mean, I was asking Root some basic questions by email, and got detailed answer in 30 mins.
OTOH, there are some Linux specific problems that I dont have in Win7, so I don't judge which OS is better. They are just different OSes for different people. What I want to say is that Linux support in the campus is great.
How about a kindle sleeve disguising it as a (non e) book?:)
I am working as researcher/post-grad student, and computer is the number one research tool. Like is hammer for a blacksmith. No surprises there.
When in the same place I work should "forbid" the major research tool in the classrooms, this is an obvious sight that the teaching system I-speak-and-you-listen-and-take-notes is broken. Or at least obsolete.
For most of the time I have been good student, and I am writing a doctoral dissertation now. One would expect I like lectures. Still, most of them are boring as hell. I didn't have smart phone/netbook when I was in high school (and I envy the nowadays students so much for having them), and guess what - when I got bored, I always find a way to distract myself. And the others. Chatting with a schoolmate during class is less distracting that launching a paper airplane, IMHO.
What? No obligatory jokes about 2012, Mayan calendars, end of the world and stuff? Come on Slashdot, you can do better!
Exactly. When I "cup my palm" and start moving it on the table, my nails make the sound of... well, the sound of scratching wood with nails. Uffffff....
Hello US, welcome to Bulgaria. Prepaid phones are registered, criminals still avoid being caught. http://sofiaecho.com/2010/04/29/894210_bulgarian-criminals-beating-the-system-of-pre-paid-sim-card-registration
I know two programming environments, designed specially for children. One is Stagecast Creator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecast_Creator, which is created in Apple, and was known as Cocoa before Apple reused the name for the Cocoa API. The other is Alice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software), created in Carnegie Mellon, by a group led by the late Randy Pausch (you might have seen "The last lecture" by Randy Pausch).
Stagecast creator is a programming tutorial, disguised as a 2D game designer, and Alice is a programming tutorial disguised as 3D scene creator. I, being a keen NES gamer, tend to like Stagecast better.
0.284604989 seconds, as you can see here
http://www.google.com/search?q=900*10%5E11.5%2F10%5E15
However, I heavily doubt you can calculate health standards like that. Or, OSHA would not allow you in a quiet library (35db) for more than 2853.88128 years <grin>.
who doesn't see anything good having come from mammals.
all bets are off too. A lighting storm is all it takes to send cmdrtaco off to buy power generator.
> I'd like to see you recover something that has been overwritten once.
You can't do it at home, but professional data recovery service can. Usually you can guess the previous data by precisely measuring the magnetic levels. The old values will influence the resulting intensity. Roughly (I'm not expert!) works like this:
was -- now -- result
0 -- 1 -- 0.9
1 -- 0 -- 0.1
1 -- 1 -- 1.1
0 -- 0 -- 0
That is why you should have MULTIPLE overwrites with RANDOM data.
"will this draw viewers away to other video sites?"
You mean if other sites provide the same content for free, will I stay on youtube just because it is... pretty?
On contrary, if every second movie I click on leads me to a "not available in your country" text, I will eventually get bored and go to other site even if youtube provides the same content for free.
You should try a website called 3d6.org (clever name). I have tried the images there with sharp AL3DU stereoscopic laptop. They look quite nice.
Even better - upload the video backwards.
Someone should make backward youtube plugin for firefox. It even might autodetect backward songs and play them properly.
...interface where user points "behind" the display.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=ELsKAAAAEBAJ&dq=behind+nokia+user
...on the lid.
shortest Slashdot article:
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...17 year old with a gun in his hand.
Or, did he kill his parents with the DVD of the game?
Just think of the embarrassment to be caught wanking with wearing some weird glasses connected to your computer.
Simply turn on the 3D effect, put on a pair of stylish shades with mismatched lenses, and BAMMO! Instant 3D.
...and BAMMO!, loose half the resolution in each eye.
The human vision has the ability fuse a single image out of different retinal projections in each eye. (Foundations of Cyclopean Vision, Blea Julez, 1971) You don't really see double images behind your point of attention (point of focus != point of attention).
Instead of using "jumping cross-hair" to aim at enemies, do what Chuck Norris would do. Close one eye.
No. The ability to focus at different distances (accommodation depth cue) works only for short distances... maybe max 1 meter (3 feet) if you have 20/20 vision.
Indeed, there is the problem you are referring to. It is called convergence-accommodation rivalry and is caused by the following - your vision uses feedback, and if your eyes converge to certain point the lens of the eye automatically gets focused on that distance. So if the disparity in the eyes suggests an object is being 20cm in front of your nose, your eye lens will auto-focus to that distance. As the object is really projected on the display (1 meter away) it will look out of focus.
This problem can be solved by making the display extra bright. Your pupil contracts, the depth-of-field enlarges, and scene is all in focus regardless of the perceived disparity.
Furthermore, this rivalry will affect only objects that attempt to come "out of the screen". The "depth information stored in the directX buffer" rarely has objects in front of the screen, most of the game scenery will exist at different depths INSIDE of the display. No c-a rivalry there.