Since it is legal to implement a system that will run LucaArts programs in a virtual machine by just reverse engineering the programs,
Why doesn't Linux just reverse engineer a couple of major MS programs and implement them in Linux (by reprogramming them). With the amount of support Linux has, this shouldn't be excessively hard.
Does anyone find this surprising?
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Microsoft NBC? (MSNBC)
Not only that but the article is written by John Scheon, an MSNBC senior producer, and not a reporter?
I know in some of the newspapers in Canada (Southam papers in particular), that every once and a while an article will appear that supports the viewpoints and opinions of the head of the newspapers. As well, it is well known that many writers have been dismissed or demoted for writing articles contrary to the owner's opinions. (For example, the writer who was dismissed in Ottawa for saying that the current PM's decision to dismiss Paul Martin was bad.)
As well, you can begin to notice that the opinion page has been showing a more severe bias towards the owners opinions.
Now, I am not against the media, I am just annoyed when the owners of the media use it to portray their viewpoints to the public. I know for a fact that at least with the people I work with Linux is becoming more and more popular. As well, even with my less technically articulate friends and family Linux is starting to appear as an alternative. (All they need is a better installation procedure, since they have heard horror stories from other people about installation.)
I think this article belongs in the opinion section, and not the tech and science section. Anything that has lines like these:
"But adopters of Linux still face hurdles living in a Microsoft world."
"He says he doesn't see much point writing Linux applications for individual PC buyers."
"Microsoft and its hardware and software partners are hoping to usher in a whole new platform... "
is either an advertisement or an opinion piece to me.
Just like this comment is an opinion piece and not an attack.:-)
convinced Ghana's government that the satellite would not steal business from the country's national phone company
Obviously the government is more concerned about holding the monopoly on the telecom then providing quality service to its citizens. I hate to admit it, but when a government get involved with an economy, it always seems to go this way. There is really no easy way to control an economy and still have quality service. (This happens in a laissez-faire economy as well, when rock-solid monopolies form.)
Basically, if they want better service, they are going to have to deregulate and let in other telecoms, or really get in gear and start developing better business plans. Otherwise they will continue to have this level of quality in Ghana.
You add a microphone, and at least the vocal part of the notes can be taken almost instantly.
You have the teachers distribute the handouts in a digital form and the written portion of the notes are handled as well.
The only fear that remains are people who don't study or pay attention. Now, they won't have to do anything in class with this set up because all of the vocal part of the class will be recorded and all of the written part will be transmitted. Thus, the only remaining reason to write would be for small details not covered in the written portion.
Interesting idea though. (Albeit, seeing how many of my friends turned their graphic calcs into message sender/receivers(infra-red ports), I wouldn't be surprised if that happened with this as well.)
If its in the receiver, then you get a great shot of your earwax
if its in the mouthpiece, you'll get a free tonsil inspection
if it's on the back... well. you'll get a shot of your hand, if that means anything to anyone.
Too bad the camera doesn't have flash though. I could just imagine it for cell-phone drivers.
"These camera phones are great! Yes, buy the phone company stocks, buy! BUY!" {holds camera in front of face to shout BUY!, accidentally presses take picture button. Flash blinds him and he drives off the road into a ditch.}
"Actually, now that I have had a chance to think about it. Sell the phone stocks."
OS/2 is still widely used in India, and in ATM machines and banks worldwide because it quite stable and works well for those applications (OS/2 was always a business OS.)
Yes Microsoft worked with IBM on OS/2 in the very early stages of development of OS/2. That is why WIN/OS/2 was quite effective. But then when Microsoft began to realize that OS/2 could be a problem with their market share (especially since it was a direct competitor to Win95), they pulled out. Thus, they didn't have to provide any Win95 abilities to OS/2.
Needless to say, IBM was not happy about this, and a scrum happened shortly after. Now, I think IBM is glad that through Linux and these court rulings they might get their vengence on the company that caused the most headaches for them.
The two main changes that could be implemented will have such a strange effect on the industry. I really don't know what will happen.
If Modular Windows is required, then I am guessing the windows kernel will remain the standard used by most people since it supports the most software.
but if like the papers say, she chooses the alternative that the data has to be released. One of two things can happen.
1. MS's lawyers will find a loophole and just release enough code to get away with the ruling, but not enough to do anything significant.
2. or (and this is the best of all three) MS will have to release so much code that other OSs can be constructed that will work with MS programs. This is really nice, because then no OS will really be able to monopolize the market again easily.
when was the last time you heard of a contractor going out of business for that reason?
Actually, I just heard about a contractor in Edmonton that was dismissed by the company he worked for, for just that reason. He apparently was buying really shoddy goods and customers started to complain to the company. He very quickly was removed from the industry (and blacklisted from what I have heard.)
"A contractor is very simply a project manager, and usually not a very good one at that."
Knowing a friend who's father built a quite expensive house. As well as knowing contractors myself. I can attest that this is not always correct. You have to understand that a contractor knows the people to go to, and generally who to trust and who not to trust.
If a contractor can save money he will, but unless he is a bad contractor (in which case he won't be around long), they won't purchase the lowest quality materials just because they are cheap. They try to find a happy medium.
Unfortunately, the biggest problem with hiring a contractor is the fact that you have to pay the contractor on top of everyone else. You have to remember though, that you are paying for the contractors time spent in arranging contracts and getting the right people together at the right time. If you take all of that upon your own shoulders, then you are also taking the stress of finding the right people, controlling them, getting good contracts, etc.
If I had the extra money, and a choice. I would hire a quality contractor (one that had been recommended to me), since I don't have the time or the strength really to handle all of the work necessary for proper contracting.
It is true though, that if you are knowledgable on prices for various products, and services, and are willing to take on the work. It is better for you to do the work then the contractor, since you might be able to find deals that the contractor wouldn't know about due to unforeseen circumstances.
In general though, this sounds like a useful book for people who are willing to put in the effort needed to handle a large project like this. (But for my future $1,000,000+ home that I am planning on buying.:-) I think I will have to go with the professionals to handle the work. )
Just as a curiousity, are these signatures just checksums, or are they a more complex algorithm?
I would be interested to learn how these signatures are generated. Since if they are checksums, it will be reasonably easy to defeat (just change one letter in each e-mail message), but if they are something more complex it might become more difficult.
As well, it might prevent good mail from coming through if these signatures are too simple.
When I code programs that are used by the general public. I find double-blind testing, and black-box testing works best. With software that means life or death or something severe I will also do white-box testing.
double-blind testing is when you give the code to a willing party and just let them work with it like they normally would for business purposes, without letting them know it is a beta testing. You have to also include some type of bug report that people can fill in if they wish, but try to encourage them not to cause bugs, and just work with the program as if it was normal. This allows you to see if any of the normal functions that people use everyday would be buggy.
Black-box testing works great to Just test the programs function calls and modules. When I do BBTesting I usually give it to another party with instructions as to how the functions are called and utilized. This party knows how to test the extremes and the common values and give me the best testing.
White-box testing is testing that involves intricate knowledge of the code. When I do this it is usually in development. At the end, if I feel like I enjoy pain I will do a through white-box testing suite for the program, but that has only happened once or twice.
In expenses, the cheapest form of testing is BB testing, followed by Double Blind, and then WB. Since white box testing takes a long time to design run and analyze the results I find.
I think the new wording is better, and perhaps a bit more accurate for two reasons.
1. It doesn't accidentally promote windows products or even microsoft products. It lets you know that Lindows is a completely new OS, but it "delivers the stability of Linux with the ease of Windows." As well, it now lets you know that instead of having to return to the old Windows products, which were known to be buggy. There are new products made specifically for Lindows that will fit your needs (Which may or may not be buggy, but there is the chance that they aren't). This is the first really good reason for the change, because now a new user will feel that instead of just getting another computer like the rest of the world, he's riding the wave of a "exciting new OS".:-)
2. As well, now it is more accurate. Originally it used a lot of terms making it appear as though Lindows was a UNIX operating system, when it is really a Linux one. This would deter customers since UNIX has a sorta connotation of difficulty to it for newbies (who have just kinda heard of it from users who just touched it and saw commands like egrep, col, ls, and wc;-), but Linux doesn't have as difficult of an aura around it. Thus, it is more accurate, and also more likely to sell to the ordinary computer user.
To be honest, their new wording is considerably better then the old one. IMHO.
If I may have the opportunity to rephrase something in my original message. I will do so here.
I didn't mean for it to come across as my time is worth money. My message meant to be that my is worth more then nothing. Therefore, even if I donate it to a project such as Linux, it is still worth something.
The main essence of my original post, and my fathers comments is that as long as we are mortal (not living forever) our time is worth something. Just like as long as people believe paper with pictures of Laurier (in Canada) or Washington (in the US) or someone else is worth something, then they are. Even though they are just pieces of paper in reality.
Now, I am not saying that I wouldn't decide to donate my time to worthy causes. As I do spend a lot of time programming and retouching my search engine, as well as other projects. And if I ever felt that I could help with Linux I definitely would be willing to. I am just saying that even though it doesn't cost me anything in dollars and cents, it does cost me time. Time which I do not have an endless supply of.
As well, if I decide to have sex with my g/f or do anything else recreational. It isn't time that is worth nothing. It is time that I have decided to spend on romance, and entertainment.
I think the gist of my father's message is a good one for people, and perhaps a happier one then originally came across.
You only have so much time on this planet, spend it wisely, as your time is worth something to you. Not in dollars and cents, but in experiences, freedom and your life. If you decide to donate your time, remember that you are doing just that donating your time to what you believe is a worthy cause.
I think that's a good morale for people today, and it definitely isn't just greed.
I know that they are going to say that they do mark the CDs (the really small print on the back) which are copyprotected, but I am getting really annoyed with having to look through a pile of CDs' small prints just to find the one that will work on my only CD player, my laptop.
Here's hoping that at the very least it'll become obvious which CDs are copy protected (maybe a sticker like the "Warning: Mature Content") sticker. Then I will be able to at least be guaranteed a functioning product that does what it claims to do.
This is very true, but I what I am trying to say is that even though you are volunteering time. That time can still be used for other means. Therefore you are giving away time and the product is no longer totally free.
I am not saying that my time is worth money, but I am saying that my time is worth more then nothing. If I claim that something I do is totally free, then I am claiming the time I spent on it is worth nothing.
When I was young, I used to do a lot of programming that I never sold (usually gave away). I thought it was great though because I was producing these neat products that people would download and use. (or like my search engine which I will not list for fear of/.ing)
Then my father said to me one day "why don't you charge for it"
I responded "because it's free, it doesn't cost me anything to program it"
Father - "well, how much time do you put into it?" Me -"a couple of hours a day" (back in HS)
Then he said, "so are you saying those two hours of your time is not worth any money?"
I then just stared and realized what he was trying to get across to me. I can work for free, I can do a lot of things for free, but the my time becomes worth $0 by those calculations. When in reality it should be worth far more.
Open Source software is free for some, but for all of the programmers and all of the companies behind the scenes it's very costly.
Something to think about (I still love Linux, though.:-)
But, I still find it confusing as to why this would be more difficult then interpreting one image.
Since the algorithms would be the same algorithms used to render 3d images. You just have to compensate for the angle differences between the two overlapped images. Then you should be able to easy obtain a distance using simple trig formulae.
Well, I think this might finally answer the question I have been wondering about my love of google for a long time.
Do I love google because it's so simple and easy to use with very quick download times and simple graphic interfaces, and good search algorithms that more often then not give me the sites that I am looking for in one page.
or Do I love google because it has a ton of useful sites logged in its database including all copies, half sites, under construction sites, etc.?
I am willing to say that's it's likely the first one, and I think that it might be that for most other people.
But either way, it'll be neat to see what AllTheWeb.com does well.
If so, then why is taking a picture with two cameras and then displaying them to people so they have stereoscopic vision so "computationally intensive". It seems not to difficult for me. (What's really computationally intensive though would be rendering the two pics, but even then it only requires the "camera" to be shifted and two images to be rendered for each frame. So therefore requires O(f(x)) (f(x) = big O for time to render one picture) computation time and I am guessing it's roughly double the computation time.
Slashdot Mirror
Will the slashdot effect be officially illegal in Britian.
:-) I guess that'll change.
I remember one person telling me that the Slashdot effect is the only legal DoS attack.
I am saying, why not just reverse engineer the more major ones like Office. Not the entire OS, but the programs MS needs to sell the OS.
... and so on.
For example, MS Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint,
Wouldn't these be easier to reverse engineer and implement in a Linux structure, then the entire OS?
Since it is legal to implement a system that will run LucaArts programs in a virtual machine by just reverse engineering the programs,
Why doesn't Linux just reverse engineer a couple of major MS programs and implement them in Linux (by reprogramming them). With the amount of support Linux has, this shouldn't be excessively hard.
That this article is written, published, and distributed by
:-)
Microsoft NBC? (MSNBC)
Not only that but the article is written by John Scheon, an MSNBC senior producer, and not a reporter?
I know in some of the newspapers in Canada (Southam papers in particular), that every once and a while an article will appear that supports the viewpoints and opinions of the head of the newspapers. As well, it is well known that many writers have been dismissed or demoted for writing articles contrary to the owner's opinions. (For example, the writer who was dismissed in Ottawa for saying that the current PM's decision to dismiss Paul Martin was bad.)
As well, you can begin to notice that the opinion page has been showing a more severe bias towards the owners opinions.
Now, I am not against the media, I am just annoyed when the owners of the media use it to portray their viewpoints to the public. I know for a fact that at least with the people I work with Linux is becoming more and more popular. As well, even with my less technically articulate friends and family Linux is starting to appear as an alternative. (All they need is a better installation procedure, since they have heard horror stories from other people about installation.)
I think this article belongs in the opinion section, and not the tech and science section. Anything that has lines like these:
"But adopters of Linux still face hurdles living in a Microsoft world."
"He says he doesn't see much point writing Linux applications for individual PC buyers."
"Microsoft and its hardware and software partners are hoping to usher in a whole new platform... "
is either an advertisement or an opinion piece to me.
Just like this comment is an opinion piece and not an attack.
convinced Ghana's government that the satellite would not steal business from the country's national phone company
:-)
Obviously the government is more concerned about holding the monopoly on the telecom then providing quality service to its citizens. I hate to admit it, but when a government get involved with an economy, it always seems to go this way. There is really no easy way to control an economy and still have quality service. (This happens in a laissez-faire economy as well, when rock-solid monopolies form.)
Basically, if they want better service, they are going to have to deregulate and let in other telecoms, or really get in gear and start developing better business plans. Otherwise they will continue to have this level of quality in Ghana.
Just my opinion of course.
You add a microphone, and at least the vocal part of the notes can be taken almost instantly.
You have the teachers distribute the handouts in a digital form and the written portion of the notes are handled as well.
The only fear that remains are people who don't study or pay attention. Now, they won't have to do anything in class with this set up because all of the vocal part of the class will be recorded and all of the written part will be transmitted. Thus, the only remaining reason to write would be for small details not covered in the written portion.
Interesting idea though. (Albeit, seeing how many of my friends turned their graphic calcs into message sender/receivers(infra-red ports), I wouldn't be surprised if that happened with this as well.)
Oops. I forgot to run on Plain Old Text:
:-P
So my joke doesn't work anymore.
Here's the full one:
If its in the receiver, then you get a great shot of your earwax
if its in the mouthpiece, you'll get a free tonsil inspection
if it's on the back... well. you'll get a shot of your hand, if that means anything to anyone.
Too bad the camera doesn't have flash though. I could just imagine it for cell-phone drivers.
"These camera phones are great! Yes, buy the phone company stocks, buy! BUY!" {holds camera in front of face to shout BUY!, accidentally presses take picture button. Flash blinds him and he drives off the road into a ditch.}
"Actually, now that I have had a chance to think about it. Sell the phone stocks."
{jk}:-)
If its in the receiver, then you get a great shot of your earwax
:-)
if its in the mouthpiece, you'll get a free tonsil inspection
if it's on the back... well. you'll get a shot of your hand.
Too bad the camera doesn't have flash though. I could just imagine it for cell-phone drivers.
"These camera phones are great! Yes, buy the phone company stocks, buy! BUY!"
"Actually, now that I have had a chance to think about it. Sell the phone stocks."
True..
Of a related interesting note.
OS/2 is still widely used in India, and in ATM machines and banks worldwide because it quite stable and works well for those applications (OS/2 was always a business OS.)
Just some trivia for ya.
Yes Microsoft worked with IBM on OS/2 in the very early stages of development of OS/2. That is why WIN/OS/2 was quite effective. But then when Microsoft began to realize that OS/2 could be a problem with their market share (especially since it was a direct competitor to Win95), they pulled out. Thus, they didn't have to provide any Win95 abilities to OS/2.
Needless to say, IBM was not happy about this, and a scrum happened shortly after. Now, I think IBM is glad that through Linux and these court rulings they might get their vengence on the company that caused the most headaches for them.
The two main changes that could be implemented will have such a strange effect on the industry. I really don't know what will happen.
If Modular Windows is required, then I am guessing the windows kernel will remain the standard used by most people since it supports the most software.
but if like the papers say, she chooses the alternative that the data has to be released. One of two things can happen.
1. MS's lawyers will find a loophole and just release enough code to get away with the ruling, but not enough to do anything significant.
2. or (and this is the best of all three) MS will have to release so much code that other OSs can be constructed that will work with MS programs. This is really nice, because then no OS will really be able to monopolize the market again easily.
Just some thoughts.
when was the last time you heard of a contractor going out of business for that reason?
Actually, I just heard about a contractor in Edmonton that was dismissed by the company he worked for, for just that reason. He apparently was buying really shoddy goods and customers started to complain to the company. He very quickly was removed from the industry (and blacklisted from what I have heard.)
"A contractor is very simply a project manager, and usually not a very good one at that."
:-) I think I will have to go with the professionals to handle the work. )
Knowing a friend who's father built a quite expensive house. As well as knowing contractors myself. I can attest that this is not always correct. You have to understand that a contractor knows the people to go to, and generally who to trust and who not to trust.
If a contractor can save money he will, but unless he is a bad contractor (in which case he won't be around long), they won't purchase the lowest quality materials just because they are cheap. They try to find a happy medium.
Unfortunately, the biggest problem with hiring a contractor is the fact that you have to pay the contractor on top of everyone else. You have to remember though, that you are paying for the contractors time spent in arranging contracts and getting the right people together at the right time. If you take all of that upon your own shoulders, then you are also taking the stress of finding the right people, controlling them, getting good contracts, etc.
If I had the extra money, and a choice. I would hire a quality contractor (one that had been recommended to me), since I don't have the time or the strength really to handle all of the work necessary for proper contracting.
It is true though, that if you are knowledgable on prices for various products, and services, and are willing to take on the work. It is better for you to do the work then the contractor, since you might be able to find deals that the contractor wouldn't know about due to unforeseen circumstances.
In general though, this sounds like a useful book for people who are willing to put in the effort needed to handle a large project like this. (But for my future $1,000,000+ home that I am planning on buying.
Just as a curiousity, are these signatures just checksums, or are they a more complex algorithm?
I would be interested to learn how these signatures are generated. Since if they are checksums, it will be reasonably easy to defeat (just change one letter in each e-mail message), but if they are something more complex it might become more difficult.
As well, it might prevent good mail from coming through if these signatures are too simple.
Anyone know details at all?
Yes and there's the movies that show UNIX as this amazing three dimensional futuristic operating system. :-P That doesn't help either.
When I code programs that are used by the general public. I find double-blind testing, and black-box testing works best. With software that means life or death or something severe I will also do white-box testing.
double-blind testing is when you give the code to a willing party and just let them work with it like they normally would for business purposes, without letting them know it is a beta testing. You have to also include some type of bug report that people can fill in if they wish, but try to encourage them not to cause bugs, and just work with the program as if it was normal. This allows you to see if any of the normal functions that people use everyday would be buggy.
Black-box testing works great to Just test the programs function calls and modules. When I do BBTesting I usually give it to another party with instructions as to how the functions are called and utilized. This party knows how to test the extremes and the common values and give me the best testing.
White-box testing is testing that involves intricate knowledge of the code. When I do this it is usually in development. At the end, if I feel like I enjoy pain I will do a through white-box testing suite for the program, but that has only happened once or twice.
In expenses, the cheapest form of testing is BB testing, followed by Double Blind, and then WB. Since white box testing takes a long time to design run and analyze the results I find.
There's some thoughts for you though.
I think the new wording is better, and perhaps a bit more accurate for two reasons.
:-)
;-), but Linux doesn't have as difficult of an aura around it. Thus, it is more accurate, and also more likely to sell to the ordinary computer user.
1. It doesn't accidentally promote windows products or even microsoft products. It lets you know that Lindows is a completely new OS, but it "delivers the stability of Linux with the ease of Windows." As well, it now lets you know that instead of having to return to the old Windows products, which were known to be buggy. There are new products made specifically for Lindows that will fit your needs (Which may or may not be buggy, but there is the chance that they aren't). This is the first really good reason for the change, because now a new user will feel that instead of just getting another computer like the rest of the world, he's riding the wave of a "exciting new OS".
2. As well, now it is more accurate. Originally it used a lot of terms making it appear as though Lindows was a UNIX operating system, when it is really a Linux one. This would deter customers since UNIX has a sorta connotation of difficulty to it for newbies (who have just kinda heard of it from users who just touched it and saw commands like egrep, col, ls, and wc
To be honest, their new wording is considerably better then the old one. IMHO.
If I may have the opportunity to rephrase something in my original message. I will do so here.
I didn't mean for it to come across as my time is worth money. My message meant to be that my is worth more then nothing. Therefore, even if I donate it to a project such as Linux, it is still worth something.
The main essence of my original post, and my fathers comments is that as long as we are mortal (not living forever) our time is worth something. Just like as long as people believe paper with pictures of Laurier (in Canada) or Washington (in the US) or someone else is worth something, then they are. Even though they are just pieces of paper in reality.
Now, I am not saying that I wouldn't decide to donate my time to worthy causes. As I do spend a lot of time programming and retouching my search engine, as well as other projects. And if I ever felt that I could help with Linux I definitely would be willing to. I am just saying that even though it doesn't cost me anything in dollars and cents, it does cost me time. Time which I do not have an endless supply of.
As well, if I decide to have sex with my g/f or do anything else recreational. It isn't time that is worth nothing. It is time that I have decided to spend on romance, and entertainment.
I think the gist of my father's message is a good one for people, and perhaps a happier one then originally came across.
You only have so much time on this planet, spend it wisely, as your time is worth something to you. Not in dollars and cents, but in experiences, freedom and your life. If you decide to donate your time, remember that you are doing just that donating your time to what you believe is a worthy cause.
I think that's a good morale for people today, and it definitely isn't just greed.
I know that they are going to say that they do mark the CDs (the really small print on the back) which are copyprotected, but I am getting really annoyed with having to look through a pile of CDs' small prints just to find the one that will work on my only CD player, my laptop.
Here's hoping that at the very least it'll become obvious which CDs are copy protected (maybe a sticker like the "Warning: Mature Content") sticker. Then I will be able to at least be guaranteed a functioning product that does what it claims to do.
This is very true, but I what I am trying to say is that even though you are volunteering time. That time can still be used for other means. Therefore you are giving away time and the product is no longer totally free.
I am not saying that my time is worth money, but I am saying that my time is worth more then nothing. If I claim that something I do is totally free, then I am claiming the time I spent on it is worth nothing.
When I was young, I used to do a lot of programming that I never sold (usually gave away). I thought it was great though because I was producing these neat products that people would download and use. (or like my search engine which I will not list for fear of /.ing)
:-)
Then my father said to me one day "why don't you charge for it"
I responded "because it's free, it doesn't cost me anything to program it"
Father - "well, how much time do you put into it?"
Me -"a couple of hours a day" (back in HS)
Then he said, "so are you saying those two hours of your time is not worth any money?"
I then just stared and realized what he was trying to get across to me. I can work for free, I can do a lot of things for free, but the my time becomes worth $0 by those calculations. When in reality it should be worth far more.
Open Source software is free for some, but for all of the programmers and all of the companies behind the scenes it's very costly.
Something to think about (I still love Linux, though.
Ah, okay. That clarifies things a bit.
But, I still find it confusing as to why this would be more difficult then interpreting one image.
Since the algorithms would be the same algorithms used to render 3d images. You just have to compensate for the angle differences between the two overlapped images. Then you should be able to easy obtain a distance using simple trig formulae.
Well, I think this might finally answer the question I have been wondering about my love of google for a long time.
Do I love google because it's so simple and easy to use with very quick download times and simple graphic interfaces, and good search algorithms that more often then not give me the sites that I am looking for in one page.
or Do I love google because it has a ton of useful sites logged in its database including all copies, half sites, under construction sites, etc.?
I am willing to say that's it's likely the first one, and I think that it might be that for most other people.
But either way, it'll be neat to see what AllTheWeb.com does well.
Not meaning to offend anyone here.
but, wasn't this all invented in the early 1900s?
History of Cameras
If so, then why is taking a picture with two cameras and then displaying them to people so they have stereoscopic vision so "computationally intensive". It seems not to difficult for me. (What's really computationally intensive though would be rendering the two pics, but even then it only requires the "camera" to be shifted and two images to be rendered for each frame. So therefore requires O(f(x)) (f(x) = big O for time to render one picture) computation time and I am guessing it's roughly double the computation time.
Maybe, I am missing something though.
Gee, and I thought they might have a shot of one of those VAX assembler code manuals with all 340+ instruction codes. :-> Now, that's fun programming.