I'm am in no way objecting to open competition, quite the opposite. For a new ISP to run cables to every home even in 1 city is a HUGE hurdle to overcome, if existing ISP's are required to lease their lines at reasonable rates, it PROMOTES competition.
Remember, the original ISP's were given *TONS* of money from the government to overcome that initial hurdle, none of them would have survived otherwise, so how could a new ISP possible overcome that hurdle with existing competition to make that hurdle even higher.
The *only* reason it took so long is because few people *bothered* to crack it until sony disabled the "otherOS" feature. Until then hackers had very little reason to crack it since they had 95% of what they wanted out of the system.
For a fair comparison, compare the time between the *release* of another platform and the when sony pulled the "otherOS" feature.
How can you not see the problem with having to lay 10 times the cable to each house when all the networking corporations COMBINED can't even afford to properly connect all of their customers to start with. There are still MANY communities that have nothing but spotty dial-up and now you are suggesting that instead of trying to link those communities to proper pipes we should be adding completely redundant connections to houses that have had broadband or better for years?
As for people not complaining about companies not making money, they sure complained a LOT when the US government had to bail out hundreds of companies (and dozens of HUGE ones) because their CEO's made stupid business decisions that wouldn't even come close to trying to run a cable to each home from each ISP in the country.
Maybe things have changed in the last few years, but I spent a while in France a few years ago and for 2 weeks didn't see a SINGLE suv or pickup truck. Neither in the city, nor elsewhere in the entire country. In fact, the only thing larger than the luxury BMW's (cars) were all commercial trucks, and I never saw those in the city.
Because each company needs cables to every house whether they have a customer there or not (because they might in the future). So the price of the physical cable is fixed at say $1M. If you split the customers between 2 companies, then each company needs $1M worth of cables but has half the customers, resulting in each customer paying (indirectly) for twice as much cable. Just imagine if there were 100 power companies (2 hydro, 3 few solar and 5 wind). That would be $10M worth of cable with no extra income into the system.
If they share (or lease off each other) the cables, then there is still $1M worth of cables and nobody pays extra to cover the cost of cables running to houses of non-customers since the company supplying power to those other houses pay YOUR company (if your company layed the cable) to cover that cost.
Now throw maintenance, extra power poles (those would be separate by your logic as well right?) and transfer boxes and you can probably see where your idea starts to fall apart.
By that logic we may as well have multiple power companies each running their own power lines down our roads. As it is (in Canada anyways) the power companies (BC Hydro), the phone company (Telus) and the cable company (Shaw) all share the same poles. There are very strict policies between the 3 companies.
What we need is for any company that pays to install cable to be *required* to lease the lines to any company at a *regulated* rate. The rates should be such that there is an advantage to installing and leasing out cables (to give incentive for companies to actually do so) but at the same time fair enough that a small ISP can start up without being crushed by the "big boys".
Dimensions cannot be simply calculated by simple addition or multiplication of dimention values (2D+2D=4D or 2D*2D=4D). You obviously have a very loose concept of space reasoning as 4D is is 3D with TIME added, which if the cameras were taking such a thing into account, then they would be 3D (x, y, time) cameras to start with!
Are you implying that if I altered the depth of some of the cameras (thus having them in a 3D grid) we would have 5D or 6D (depending on if you are using addition or multiplication for your imaginary 4D concept)? Oh wait, the cameras are ALREADY in a 3D configuration since they exist on a SPHERE!!!
Would you care to LIST these 4 dimensions of which you speak? The only way I can see getting 4 dimensions is x (left/right), y (up/down), z (depth), time. If you are counting time then the cameras would be 3D to start with (not 2D cameras).
Yes, a stereoscopic image is not going to let you see around corners (much) but that makes NO difference unless you want to be able to have the perspective change as you move your head.
BTW, simply restating your previous comment with different grammar and adding a picture that I have already seen (in the article!) does not make your original comment any more valid.
Stereoscopic images are not acquired with a 2D array of 2D cameras, they are aquired with a 1D array (single line, one next to the other) of 2D cameras.
A 2D array would be a GRID. The camera in TFA could be described as a 2D array of 2D cameras (with the array bend in the 3rd dimension to create a semi-sphere.
Also, for which use are they flawed? If you want to render a scene from any direction, then yes, you most likely need more than a 1D array of 2D cameras, however if the scene is intended to be viewed from 1 perspective only (like a movie scene) then a 1D array of 2D cameras is sufficient since that's all we HUMANS use to interpret the final images.
Actually, what I've found VERY useful in labs is power bars hanging from the ceiling (about 2-3 feet above table height). You can then plug anything on the table into it without the cables making a mess of your working area. Add some network plugs to the power bars and you should be good to go.
Change the window manager? Seriously? I am not reconfiguring my entire window manager (of which almost all my meta keys are bound to shortcuts of some kind) just so ONE application can work properly. Blender (which is mostly used in linux anyways) needs to seriously look at what the default and most common hotkey configurations are before blindly overriding the most well known and trusted window manager hotkeys in the linux world (aside the basic alt+F# keys of course).
They are also absolutely pointless in some cars. Sure SUV's and large trucks with low rear visibility would benefit greatly from this, but a small nissan/civic hatchback is going to give you better visibility by looking out the rear window than some dinky camera mounted under the bumber. The other REALLY stupid thing is that the video will be mounted in the dash, which means you are looking the WRONG WAY when backing up.
Never did understand having the backup camera's video mounted in front of you instead of on the ceiling behind you so you can see the camera and back window at the same time...
Well, any ground clutter over a certain height is pretty much important by default. Then you only have to worry about things less than say 3" high. Anything that small isn't too much of a problem (as long as it isn't sharp or your kid's hamster).
A) Companies will NOT knowingly ship stuff to places it can't go. You may notice a lot of Canadian retailers will post "cannot ship to Quebec" on many of their products, that's because those products (without further language law adherence) are not permitted to be sold in Quebec.
B) They can and WILL go after the shipper for contraband (especially if the sending is a corporation that can be easily tracked).
C) They regularly intercept postal-pot-transports and then have an undercover make the delivery, if the person accepts the package, they can be charged.
D) The reason you "buddy" probably didn't hear anything about it was because it was probably a small enough amount that it wasn't worth their while (sent for destruction). The packages they intercept are normally about the size of a microwave.
Pretty simple trick. He took an image (static) of the empty scene, then he just overlays that over any part that the kinect detects is more than certain distance closer than it used to be (radar like). You can tell it's a static image because when we walks in front of the self-playing piano, the keys you see "through" him are stopped (in up position).
Really don't see *any* use to this what-so-ever. The only difference between it and a live feed is that anything "not" covered up is live (as long as it doesn't move too much).
In fact, you could achieve this EXACT same effect with a single regular webcam and dressing in all green.
If the Chinese company is selling to people in California, then yes, they DO need to abide by the law. If they aren't selling to California then I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't have a leg (stem?) to stand on.
I'm confused. Canada does not allow software patents. Did the Canadian company get American patents? That would explain it going to the "US" Supreme Court.
I have no problem with that but the kid would probably have more fun in inkscape. The GIMP is mostly for manipulating existing things. While you can start from scratch in GIMP, it is just easier and more fun in inkscape since you get rectangle, circle, etc tools.
I was thinking the exact same thing. If you are lost you wouldn't send "Help I'm Lost". You would send "Lost 2 hours north of foobar. low on water. near cliff face.". That would give SAR a *MUCH* better search grid to work with than your spouse telling them which park you were in and them only finding your car in the parking lot.
We did a camping trip on a local mountain known for people getting lost when we got woken up at 2am by SAR asking for a family of 4 or 5. Fromt their description we realised we had seen them decending earlier that day but not nearly fast enough to make it off. There were still searching the next day when we left (afternoon). Had that family SMS'd SAR they probably could have given a brief description of their location and been found MUCH faster.
Sorry, I had the black on white and white on black backwards. The x-rays cause a blackening of the film. There are still 2 types of x-rays that cause inverted results.
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I'm am in no way objecting to open competition, quite the opposite. For a new ISP to run cables to every home even in 1 city is a HUGE hurdle to overcome, if existing ISP's are required to lease their lines at reasonable rates, it PROMOTES competition.
Remember, the original ISP's were given *TONS* of money from the government to overcome that initial hurdle, none of them would have survived otherwise, so how could a new ISP possible overcome that hurdle with existing competition to make that hurdle even higher.
The *only* reason it took so long is because few people *bothered* to crack it until sony disabled the "otherOS" feature. Until then hackers had very little reason to crack it since they had 95% of what they wanted out of the system.
For a fair comparison, compare the time between the *release* of another platform and the when sony pulled the "otherOS" feature.
How can you not see the problem with having to lay 10 times the cable to each house when all the networking corporations COMBINED can't even afford to properly connect all of their customers to start with. There are still MANY communities that have nothing but spotty dial-up and now you are suggesting that instead of trying to link those communities to proper pipes we should be adding completely redundant connections to houses that have had broadband or better for years?
As for people not complaining about companies not making money, they sure complained a LOT when the US government had to bail out hundreds of companies (and dozens of HUGE ones) because their CEO's made stupid business decisions that wouldn't even come close to trying to run a cable to each home from each ISP in the country.
Maybe things have changed in the last few years, but I spent a while in France a few years ago and for 2 weeks didn't see a SINGLE suv or pickup truck. Neither in the city, nor elsewhere in the entire country. In fact, the only thing larger than the luxury BMW's (cars) were all commercial trucks, and I never saw those in the city.
Because each company needs cables to every house whether they have a customer there or not (because they might in the future). So the price of the physical cable is fixed at say $1M. If you split the customers between 2 companies, then each company needs $1M worth of cables but has half the customers, resulting in each customer paying (indirectly) for twice as much cable. Just imagine if there were 100 power companies (2 hydro, 3 few solar and 5 wind). That would be $10M worth of cable with no extra income into the system.
If they share (or lease off each other) the cables, then there is still $1M worth of cables and nobody pays extra to cover the cost of cables running to houses of non-customers since the company supplying power to those other houses pay YOUR company (if your company layed the cable) to cover that cost.
Now throw maintenance, extra power poles (those would be separate by your logic as well right?) and transfer boxes and you can probably see where your idea starts to fall apart.
By that logic we may as well have multiple power companies each running their own power lines down our roads. As it is (in Canada anyways) the power companies (BC Hydro), the phone company (Telus) and the cable company (Shaw) all share the same poles. There are very strict policies between the 3 companies.
What we need is for any company that pays to install cable to be *required* to lease the lines to any company at a *regulated* rate. The rates should be such that there is an advantage to installing and leasing out cables (to give incentive for companies to actually do so) but at the same time fair enough that a small ISP can start up without being crushed by the "big boys".
You mean like a patriot-wall?
Dimensions cannot be simply calculated by simple addition or multiplication of dimention values (2D+2D=4D or 2D*2D=4D). You obviously have a very loose concept of space reasoning as 4D is is 3D with TIME added, which if the cameras were taking such a thing into account, then they would be 3D (x, y, time) cameras to start with!
Are you implying that if I altered the depth of some of the cameras (thus having them in a 3D grid) we would have 5D or 6D (depending on if you are using addition or multiplication for your imaginary 4D concept)? Oh wait, the cameras are ALREADY in a 3D configuration since they exist on a SPHERE!!!
Would you care to LIST these 4 dimensions of which you speak? The only way I can see getting 4 dimensions is x (left/right), y (up/down), z (depth), time. If you are counting time then the cameras would be 3D to start with (not 2D cameras).
Yes, a stereoscopic image is not going to let you see around corners (much) but that makes NO difference unless you want to be able to have the perspective change as you move your head.
BTW, simply restating your previous comment with different grammar and adding a picture that I have already seen (in the article!) does not make your original comment any more valid.
Stereoscopic images are not acquired with a 2D array of 2D cameras, they are aquired with a 1D array (single line, one next to the other) of 2D cameras. A 2D array would be a GRID. The camera in TFA could be described as a 2D array of 2D cameras (with the array bend in the 3rd dimension to create a semi-sphere.
Also, for which use are they flawed? If you want to render a scene from any direction, then yes, you most likely need more than a 1D array of 2D cameras, however if the scene is intended to be viewed from 1 perspective only (like a movie scene) then a 1D array of 2D cameras is sufficient since that's all we HUMANS use to interpret the final images.
I don't think the video he was looking at was even rendering the red/blue stereoscopic effect when he put them on...
Actually, what I've found VERY useful in labs is power bars hanging from the ceiling (about 2-3 feet above table height). You can then plug anything on the table into it without the cables making a mess of your working area. Add some network plugs to the power bars and you should be good to go.
Already done, though largely dis-proven at this point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome
Change the window manager? Seriously? I am not reconfiguring my entire window manager (of which almost all my meta keys are bound to shortcuts of some kind) just so ONE application can work properly. Blender (which is mostly used in linux anyways) needs to seriously look at what the default and most common hotkey configurations are before blindly overriding the most well known and trusted window manager hotkeys in the linux world (aside the basic alt+F# keys of course).
They are also absolutely pointless in some cars. Sure SUV's and large trucks with low rear visibility would benefit greatly from this, but a small nissan/civic hatchback is going to give you better visibility by looking out the rear window than some dinky camera mounted under the bumber. The other REALLY stupid thing is that the video will be mounted in the dash, which means you are looking the WRONG WAY when backing up.
Never did understand having the backup camera's video mounted in front of you instead of on the ceiling behind you so you can see the camera and back window at the same time...
In Canada I don't think even seatbelts are required if your car is old enough (VERY old).
Well, any ground clutter over a certain height is pretty much important by default. Then you only have to worry about things less than say 3" high. Anything that small isn't too much of a problem (as long as it isn't sharp or your kid's hamster).
Ok, a few errors in your post.
A) Companies will NOT knowingly ship stuff to places it can't go. You may notice a lot of Canadian retailers will post "cannot ship to Quebec" on many of their products, that's because those products (without further language law adherence) are not permitted to be sold in Quebec.
B) They can and WILL go after the shipper for contraband (especially if the sending is a corporation that can be easily tracked).
C) They regularly intercept postal-pot-transports and then have an undercover make the delivery, if the person accepts the package, they can be charged.
D) The reason you "buddy" probably didn't hear anything about it was because it was probably a small enough amount that it wasn't worth their while (sent for destruction). The packages they intercept are normally about the size of a microwave.
Pretty simple trick. He took an image (static) of the empty scene, then he just overlays that over any part that the kinect detects is more than certain distance closer than it used to be (radar like). You can tell it's a static image because when we walks in front of the self-playing piano, the keys you see "through" him are stopped (in up position).
Really don't see *any* use to this what-so-ever. The only difference between it and a live feed is that anything "not" covered up is live (as long as it doesn't move too much).
In fact, you could achieve this EXACT same effect with a single regular webcam and dressing in all green.
If the Chinese company is selling to people in California, then yes, they DO need to abide by the law. If they aren't selling to California then I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't have a leg (stem?) to stand on.
Actually yes, though in a year or two he (she?) will probably quickly bore of tuxpaint.
I'm confused. Canada does not allow software patents. Did the Canadian company get American patents? That would explain it going to the "US" Supreme Court.
I think you are confusing "patents" with "copyrights".
I have no problem with that but the kid would probably have more fun in inkscape. The GIMP is mostly for manipulating existing things. While you can start from scratch in GIMP, it is just easier and more fun in inkscape since you get rectangle, circle, etc tools.
I was thinking the exact same thing. If you are lost you wouldn't send "Help I'm Lost". You would send "Lost 2 hours north of foobar. low on water. near cliff face.". That would give SAR a *MUCH* better search grid to work with than your spouse telling them which park you were in and them only finding your car in the parking lot.
We did a camping trip on a local mountain known for people getting lost when we got woken up at 2am by SAR asking for a family of 4 or 5. Fromt their description we realised we had seen them decending earlier that day but not nearly fast enough to make it off. There were still searching the next day when we left (afternoon). Had that family SMS'd SAR they probably could have given a brief description of their location and been found MUCH faster.
Sorry, I had the black on white and white on black backwards. The x-rays cause a blackening of the film. There are still 2 types of x-rays that cause inverted results.