Your eyes are far better at matching light frequencies between both eyes to get the depth mapping correct. Your standard camera can only distinguish 24 bits of light frequency. At that level you get somewhat of a depth map but not a very good one.
Lasers try to get around that limitation by using a frequency the camera can easily pick up and compare between the two images. If you could use the whole image and any frequency, you'd be a lot better off.
That's ultimately the challenge: getting cameras that are not only incredibly sensitive to light frequency, but also very high resolution. Or they'll need to get the cameras looking around just like your eyeballs.
In a 3D mapped world, all the depth information is 100% accurate.
They'd need to render 48-64 bit color to emulate what might be possible in the real world to get accurate depth information.
There are some people who can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
We don't outlaw walking and chewing bubble gum.
What we need to do is have harsher penalties for people who cause accidents so that if you can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, you are highly motivated to not try just because Bob over there is doing it just fine.
If theaters want people to come back, they need to have 21+ only screenings of PG-13 and R movies on opening weekend.
Obnoxious kids and crying babies in theaters is what drives people away. And since most of the money for a theater is made on opening weekend, that would be the time to not drive paying customers away.
Those people can still come, but those people who don't want to deal with them, need that option.
Back in the 1990's college was affordable enough that you could work part time and pay the bill.
Arizona State used to cost 1200 a semester or 2400 a year. At $5 an hour minimum wage that's 480 hours to pay your tuition. 1/4 of full time.
Arizona State now costs 5000 per semester, 10,000 per year. At 7.50 minimum wage now, that's 1333 hours required to pay your tuition. More than 1/2 time.
That's why total loans are going up significantly.
As someone who rents out their house through Renter's Warehouse, I get to see the personal details of someone before I rent to them. And of course I do. I need to know their credit and criminal history before letting them live in my property.
Just because someone bids the highest doesn't mean they have the credit or history to justify letting them rent your property. They may be renting beyond what they can afford or they may have a history of causing damage. Or a criminal history you don't want to take the risk on.
All new storage technologies start with a significant price premium vs established technology.
$77 and 32GB is not intended for photos and videos (which is all consumers think about), they're intended for servers which need high speed but not a great deal of storage space per drive. $2 per GB is roughly what we saw with SSD when they first came out.
For someone running a home server, these drives are a feasible replacement for their existing database and web storage to get much better performance.
For commercial providers, these are going to start replacing SSDs in RAID arrays as the capacities go up.
That works out great unless the all the companies that supply the product are conspiring together as is the case with farm equipment.
A big part of the issue is that farm equipment has become so expensive and so complicated that to make it affordable they prevent users from servicing the equipment to recoup costs in repairs. It's the printer and ink way of doing business. Farmers don't really own the equipment. They're leasing it. And while you can do your own repairs on a leased vehicle, it's generally a bad idea. And when the vehicle costs millions of dollars, it's a really bad idea.
Sure, you can buy an older tractor. But the cost of food is so low that you won't be able to grow or harvest enough with your fix it yourself tractor to make a living.
If I work as a contractor through a management company and turn down projects, they're going to start paying someone else who actually wants to do the work.
And if I don't have the proper tools for the jobs, I don't get the jobs.
A 2 door car is not sufficient because the passenger is trapped until the driver lets them out.
A beat up junker isn't sufficient because passengers expect a car that will make it to the destination.
There's a very huge difference between not being available during certain hours and selectively saying "nope" to passengers.
All you need is a text editor and a browser. It's a C style syntax so it will make transitioning to other languages easier.
Even crappy locked down computers in public schools generally have enough access rights for students to create Javascript programs.
With Google's advancements in JavaScript compiling it's plenty fast and the Canvas concept gives you the ability to make pretty much whatever interests you whether it's simple card games or more advanced graphical games.
Or if you have an actual problem you want to solve, you may need to research more particular solutions.
If you want to do IoT stuff, then the Arduino is very simple to get started with and just requires basic C knowledge to do plenty of things.
Learning is best when there's an immediate need. Picking a random language to start with is generally not the right approach. Pick a problem, then figure out what tools can solve that problem. Pick the ones that are most accessible to you.
If you think the only education you can get to lift you out of a low paying job is a college degree then your worldview is the first thing that needs a correction through education.
Poor people like to demand that others walk a mile in their shoe because it'd be too much work to walk a mile in the shoes of those who lifted themselves out of poverty.
A $200 laptop and free wifi at McDonald's will give you all the education you need to work your way up to a livable wage.
This obsession with "fake" news is all about one thing: government censorship.
All this study proves is that young kids are gullible (duh) and our public education system is one of the worst in the world (not news).
First liberals complained about Citizens United endlessly. And now that Trump won with far less spending than Hillary, suddenly they're concerned about "fake" news while ignoring the false editorializing of the liberal media and rampant lead burying.
Liberal Fascists just can't stand that they no longer control the narrative. And it's really a thumb in their eye whenever Trump tweets out something they don't like. Historically, if the President wanted to say something, they had to go through the filter of the press.
"Michael also believes that Trump has been singled out by God to be president of the United States, a conspiracy theory popular with 4chan users who believe that Pepe the Frog is a reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian deity."
This is your story? Do people also seriously believe in the flying spaghetti monster?
Liberals are really digging deep for their Gulf of Tonkin to establish their Ministry of Information to "protect" us from contrary information.
Slashdot Mirror
https://cias.rit.edu/media/upl...
Luminescence can be used to create a depth map using two stereoscopic images.
3D movies and VR headsets don't work for everyone and create headaches for a variety of reasons, one probably being the lack of bit depth.
Your eyes are far better at matching light frequencies between both eyes to get the depth mapping correct. Your standard camera can only distinguish 24 bits of light frequency. At that level you get somewhat of a depth map but not a very good one.
Lasers try to get around that limitation by using a frequency the camera can easily pick up and compare between the two images. If you could use the whole image and any frequency, you'd be a lot better off.
That's ultimately the challenge: getting cameras that are not only incredibly sensitive to light frequency, but also very high resolution. Or they'll need to get the cameras looking around just like your eyeballs.
In a 3D mapped world, all the depth information is 100% accurate.
They'd need to render 48-64 bit color to emulate what might be possible in the real world to get accurate depth information.
We pay 12.5% of our income to SS and Medicare. If those are pulling funds from income tax to pay for them then that's an issue.
What people what reduced is income tax.
You can't conflate SS, Medicare taxes with income tax.
There are very distinct things. And as such you have to talk about the programs they fund separately.
There are some people who can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
We don't outlaw walking and chewing bubble gum.
What we need to do is have harsher penalties for people who cause accidents so that if you can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, you are highly motivated to not try just because Bob over there is doing it just fine.
If theaters want people to come back, they need to have 21+ only screenings of PG-13 and R movies on opening weekend.
Obnoxious kids and crying babies in theaters is what drives people away. And since most of the money for a theater is made on opening weekend, that would be the time to not drive paying customers away.
Those people can still come, but those people who don't want to deal with them, need that option.
Back in the 1990's college was affordable enough that you could work part time and pay the bill.
Arizona State used to cost 1200 a semester or 2400 a year. At $5 an hour minimum wage that's 480 hours to pay your tuition. 1/4 of full time.
Arizona State now costs 5000 per semester, 10,000 per year. At 7.50 minimum wage now, that's 1333 hours required to pay your tuition. More than 1/2 time.
That's why total loans are going up significantly.
As someone who rents out their house through Renter's Warehouse, I get to see the personal details of someone before I rent to them. And of course I do. I need to know their credit and criminal history before letting them live in my property.
Just because someone bids the highest doesn't mean they have the credit or history to justify letting them rent your property. They may be renting beyond what they can afford or they may have a history of causing damage. Or a criminal history you don't want to take the risk on.
All new storage technologies start with a significant price premium vs established technology.
$77 and 32GB is not intended for photos and videos (which is all consumers think about), they're intended for servers which need high speed but not a great deal of storage space per drive. $2 per GB is roughly what we saw with SSD when they first came out.
For someone running a home server, these drives are a feasible replacement for their existing database and web storage to get much better performance.
For commercial providers, these are going to start replacing SSDs in RAID arrays as the capacities go up.
They may not know what the term "commercial" is but they're endlessly exposed to commercials. The entire basis of kids programming is to sell toys.
That works out great unless the all the companies that supply the product are conspiring together as is the case with farm equipment.
A big part of the issue is that farm equipment has become so expensive and so complicated that to make it affordable they prevent users from servicing the equipment to recoup costs in repairs. It's the printer and ink way of doing business. Farmers don't really own the equipment. They're leasing it. And while you can do your own repairs on a leased vehicle, it's generally a bad idea. And when the vehicle costs millions of dollars, it's a really bad idea.
Sure, you can buy an older tractor. But the cost of food is so low that you won't be able to grow or harvest enough with your fix it yourself tractor to make a living.
If I work as a contractor through a management company and turn down projects, they're going to start paying someone else who actually wants to do the work.
And if I don't have the proper tools for the jobs, I don't get the jobs.
A 2 door car is not sufficient because the passenger is trapped until the driver lets them out.
A beat up junker isn't sufficient because passengers expect a car that will make it to the destination.
There's a very huge difference between not being available during certain hours and selectively saying "nope" to passengers.
The whole point is that taxis operate at excessive costs and poor quality precisely because of a playing field that is stupid.
Uber is playing on an entirely different field.
And if you don't want to play on it, you can go be a taxi driver.
It's completely ignorant to demand companies play on the "same playing field" when the whole point is to escape the existing one.
You're not an employee of Uber. You're a contractor. You set your own hours. If you don't like the terms, find another job.
If you like the terms of being a taxi driver better, be a taxi driver.
Film at 11.
The only people who support this garbage are people who envision themselves as the beneficiaries.
How nice that someone else is working hard so that you don't have to.
Socialist fantasies are being rejected all over the place because the working class is who has to pay for that nonsense.
There is a huge difference between helping people get ahead in life (education and healthcare) and making their life easier at the expense of others.
It's bad enough we have to fund the leisure class we call government.
All you need is a text editor and a browser. It's a C style syntax so it will make transitioning to other languages easier.
Even crappy locked down computers in public schools generally have enough access rights for students to create Javascript programs.
With Google's advancements in JavaScript compiling it's plenty fast and the Canvas concept gives you the ability to make pretty much whatever interests you whether it's simple card games or more advanced graphical games.
Or if you have an actual problem you want to solve, you may need to research more particular solutions.
If you want to do IoT stuff, then the Arduino is very simple to get started with and just requires basic C knowledge to do plenty of things.
Learning is best when there's an immediate need. Picking a random language to start with is generally not the right approach. Pick a problem, then figure out what tools can solve that problem. Pick the ones that are most accessible to you.
People learned BASIC because it was free.
Now everything is free. So that's not an issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He lost his law license over his stupidity.
Wu doesn't have anything of value to revoke she's so worthless.
The FBI probably looked at what was sent to Jack Thompson and what was sent to Wu, had a good laugh and then went home to play Call of Duty.
The poor get poorer for the same reason the rich get richer.
They keep doing what they're doing.
If you think the only education you can get to lift you out of a low paying job is a college degree then your worldview is the first thing that needs a correction through education.
Poor people like to demand that others walk a mile in their shoe because it'd be too much work to walk a mile in the shoes of those who lifted themselves out of poverty.
A $200 laptop and free wifi at McDonald's will give you all the education you need to work your way up to a livable wage.
A business is not obligated to subsidize your choice to work a low paying job.
Uber is for college students who want to make extra money running people around.
If you're sinking all your time into a low paying job instead of an education then that's your problem.
This is why Uber is very interested in autonomous vehicles.
Those people working 40 hours a week being silly are going to find Uber force them to work only 20 hours a week or put them out of work completely.
Your pay is based on productivity per hour. Not simply showing up per hour.
Do we get to push our laws into foreign countries?
If so, can foreign countries start enforcing their laws in our country?
Their house, their business. Our house, our business.
Push products they do want and maybe they'll change the mind on products they don't.
And seriously, would you want your private information stored on a server in a foreign country? Seems like a no brainer for Russia.
Every current game on the market includes sliders to set the graphics quality so that it can be played on a wide variety of systems.
It is a non-issue to have 2 settings: docked, undocked.
Sure, yeah, you could take a few weekend courses and bang out some stuff and possibly even find a job paying decent money.
But if you want to move up in the world you need to turn your hack and slash techniques into a refined art.
The kind of crap commodity programmers write is the stuff that skilled developers get paid a lot of money cleaning up or just re-implementing.
It the difference between dime store trashy romance novels and real actual novels. The different between the the Divergent movies and Hunger Games.
If you're content being a direct to DVD wholesaler of crap sure, just get to work.
If you want to work in the big leagues on important things, you need to be open to learning some things and respect the craft.
This obsession with "fake" news is all about one thing: government censorship.
All this study proves is that young kids are gullible (duh) and our public education system is one of the worst in the world (not news).
First liberals complained about Citizens United endlessly. And now that Trump won with far less spending than Hillary, suddenly they're concerned about "fake" news while ignoring the false editorializing of the liberal media and rampant lead burying.
Liberal Fascists just can't stand that they no longer control the narrative. And it's really a thumb in their eye whenever Trump tweets out something they don't like. Historically, if the President wanted to say something, they had to go through the filter of the press.
Not anymore.
And good riddance.
"Michael also believes that Trump has been singled out by God to be president of the United States, a conspiracy theory popular with 4chan users who believe that Pepe the Frog is a reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian deity."
This is your story? Do people also seriously believe in the flying spaghetti monster?
Liberals are really digging deep for their Gulf of Tonkin to establish their Ministry of Information to "protect" us from contrary information.
First they came for Pepe the Frog...
How does one go about gerrymandering an entire state?
The only way that can happen is if you give proportionate electoral votes based on districts within the state.
Which is why sensible states are all or nothing for the electoral votes.
New York and California do not get to dictate who is president of the entire country.
We are the United States.
A republic. And as such, the votes need to be weighted to protect the rights of the states and the people in them.
Mob rule is the worst form of government.