Open-source biology will never appear to the outsider to be outpacing 'closed-source' ones, because the closed-source ones will quickly absorb any information presented to them and create a derivative product. After which they will market the hell out of it.
I hate it how this article tells you how people can only see to a limited degree, but it doesn't go on to tell you how limited. Like what is the resolution behind these puppies? Refresh rate? Even better why don't they actually tell us about the technology behind them. How they work. That would be way more useful than the knowledge that somebody just got one. I want to know how it interfaces with the brain so I can supplement my vision damnit!
Oh yeah and imagine a beowulf cluster of these, j/k.
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If god is a software engineer, then lets hope he is a responsible one and never checks his email with lookout express. I would hate existence to get written over by a virus.
This is a cross-platform RAD development tool. Not just a cross-platform compiler. The fact that it can compile the same code developed in half the time on the two most popular platforms around is what they are trying to get at. And this is what I would assume they do quite well considering the success of the whole Delphi line.
Just think about how quickly that $999 disolves away when you double your productivity. That is their goal. To make a highly productive x-platform development environment, something that Linux really needs.
In order to see in 3D we would have to be able to see through things. We can see the depth of what would otherwise look like a continuous surface image in 3d space by interpolating 2 2D images, or by noticing the changes in lighting and shadowing of an object. We are still only looking at that same 2D image it just has depth information also. It may exist in a 3D space, but we are not seeing a 3d space as we are only seeing a surface not a volume.
You know what. Its human readable as in for the common man. I don't see many users writing their own SQL queries. You have to know how a relational database system works first, and that brings the effective user count to around 0.
OK, first of all. We don't see in 3D. We are not exposing any new visible dimensions by using a "3D" OS. I mean think about it. How useful would depth information be in most common applications. About the only thing we use our depth perception for now is just discovery of an optimal method of traversal through a 3D world. And if a computer can't figure this out with the software being written for it, then the program is seriously flawed. Albeit some of the additional visible real estate will be useful to an extent, the peripheral vision extension will not be very useful since you can't exactly recognize much in that area.
Maybe we should be working on making the querying language more human readable/writable first before going to a more manual method of looking around a virtual environment, hunting and picking for a trend.
I'm with you buddy. Whats limiting modern interfaces today is not the way it is conveyed on the screen, but the input methods that are slowing us down. You can operate a mouse with one finger. Doesn't that seem like a damn waste. Why aren't we looking into virtual input methods, tracking of all the finger tips in a 3 dimensional space. The use of a little monochrome lcd display to use as virtual keyboard, slide controls, buttons, whatever. The possibilities are endless we are kicking ourselves in the ass by sticking with these old archaic input methods.
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Why don't people ever think about the fact that you could easily pipe in data from another source without the system knowing where the data is coming from. So instead of piping in the data of them in their virtual world they would pipe in a perfect solution in its place? Just a thought.
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Open-source biology will never appear to the outsider to be outpacing 'closed-source' ones, because the closed-source ones will quickly absorb any information presented to them and create a derivative product. After which they will market the hell out of it.
I hate it how this article tells you how people can only see to a limited degree, but it doesn't go on to tell you how limited. Like what is the resolution behind these puppies? Refresh rate? Even better why don't they actually tell us about the technology behind them. How they work. That would be way more useful than the knowledge that somebody just got one. I want to know how it interfaces with the brain so I can supplement my vision damnit!
Oh yeah and imagine a beowulf cluster of these, j/k.
If god is a software engineer, then lets hope he is a responsible one and never checks his email with lookout express. I would hate existence to get written over by a virus.
This is a cross-platform RAD development tool. Not just a cross-platform compiler. The fact that it can compile the same code developed in half the time on the two most popular platforms around is what they are trying to get at. And this is what I would assume they do quite well considering the success of the whole Delphi line.
Just think about how quickly that $999 disolves away when you double your productivity. That is their goal. To make a highly productive x-platform development environment, something that Linux really needs.
By the time this issue is resolved the resolution we'll be running at will make this not an issue any more.
In order to see in 3D we would have to be able to see through things. We can see the depth of what would otherwise look like a continuous surface image in 3d space by interpolating 2 2D images, or by noticing the changes in lighting and shadowing of an object. We are still only looking at that same 2D image it just has depth information also. It may exist in a 3D space, but we are not seeing a 3d space as we are only seeing a surface not a volume.
You know what. Its human readable as in for the common man. I don't see many users writing their own SQL queries. You have to know how a relational database system works first, and that brings the effective user count to around 0.
OK, first of all. We don't see in 3D. We are not exposing any new visible dimensions by using a "3D" OS. I mean think about it. How useful would depth information be in most common applications. About the only thing we use our depth perception for now is just discovery of an optimal method of traversal through a 3D world. And if a computer can't figure this out with the software being written for it, then the program is seriously flawed. Albeit some of the additional visible real estate will be useful to an extent, the peripheral vision extension will not be very useful since you can't exactly recognize much in that area.
Maybe we should be working on making the querying language more human readable/writable first before going to a more manual method of looking around a virtual environment, hunting and picking for a trend.
I'm with you buddy. Whats limiting modern interfaces today is not the way it is conveyed on the screen, but the input methods that are slowing us down. You can operate a mouse with one finger. Doesn't that seem like a damn waste. Why aren't we looking into virtual input methods, tracking of all the finger tips in a 3 dimensional space. The use of a little monochrome lcd display to use as virtual keyboard, slide controls, buttons, whatever. The possibilities are endless we are kicking ourselves in the ass by sticking with these old archaic input methods.
The fact you have to erase the medium before use is because the UDF file system requires that. It has nothing to do with the medium itself.
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2903846698
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Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
9319393561
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Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
9599350199
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Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
5499011901
Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
Why don't people ever think about the fact that you could easily pipe in data from another source without the system knowing where the data is coming from. So instead of piping in the data of them in their virtual world they would pipe in a perfect solution in its place? Just a thought.