Human bifocal vision for 3D only works out to about 200 feet, farther than that it makes no difference.
True, and this unfortunately leads directors of 3D films to use hyperstereo shots, where the left/right separation is increased to enhance the 3D effect. It's as if your head were made much bigger, and as a consequence the objects in the scene look small. I saw Rogue One in 3D and some of the "massive" starships looked like wee models.
The standard rule is 1/30 - separate your left/right cameras by no more than1/30th the distance to the nearest object in the scene.
That's because professionals see computers as a tool, not a religion. The rule hasn't changed in 3 decades, you figure out which software you need to do the work, then buy the system that runs it.
Apple has been pushing the religion hard lately (read brand loyalty) and no longer care about the choir of professionals who have been their loyal customers through thick and thin.
Well, not to burst your iBubble but OSX today looks like KDE in 2003.
Wait, whut?
Do you really mean to say that Sierra looks like this to you?
Okay... They both have windows with title bars at the top. And some icons that stick to the bottom of the screen. Other than that, not much resemblance.
Please tell me you don't design GUIs as part of your job!
Not as great at bringing technology to market as you assume.
He doesn't even get credit for bringing the GUI to Apple - Jef Raskin did that. He had to twist Steve's arm to get him to visit Xerox and see it.
Even then, the Lisa was a failure and Jobs went
I really enjoyed Eric Drexler's seminal work, "Engines of Creation," even if he was off the mark about timelines and how nanotech would evolve.
Philip Ball's "Designing the Molecular World" is enlightening too.
Physical computers are not necessary for Computer Science.
Superficially true, but without them CS theory would be largely pointless. It would just be a set of otherwise unrelated subfields of mathematics with no common application.
The original Mac system allowed you to eject a floppy but leave it mounted. It left a grayed-out "ghost" floppy on the desktop and would request that you re-insert the floppy if you tried to access it. "Put away" (meaning unmount) was a separate action from "eject."
They did it that way because there was only one floppy drive and no hard drive, and sometimes you had to change floppies while running an app from another floppy.
It's not obvious, though - you copy, and then hold down "option" when you right-click or ctrl-click in the destination folder, "paste"will change to "move."
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Thin 80s ties, constant rain in L.A., video payphones, "Cityspeak" lingua franca, advertising blimps...
Some other stuff BR got right: Atari still in business, guns with LEDs, giant animated billboards, and revival of analog synthesizers. ^_^
LeVar Burton did Reading Rainbow long before TNG.
"Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport" :)
True, and this unfortunately leads directors of 3D films to use hyperstereo shots, where the left/right separation is increased to enhance the 3D effect. It's as if your head were made much bigger, and as a consequence the objects in the scene look small. I saw Rogue One in 3D and some of the "massive" starships looked like wee models.
The standard rule is 1/30 - separate your left/right cameras by no more than1/30th the distance to the nearest object in the scene.
I would be happy with a 3D TV that offered head tracking, kind of like what Johnny Lee did with a Wiimote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Pay special attention to the "window" on the stadium at 3:34.
Of course it would only work for one person at a time, but it would still be pretty cool.
I cut my teeth on BASIC and 68k assembly language. Fat lot of good that will do me now, unless I'm working on emulators.
I also enjoyed playing around with a KIM-1, and was pleased to see there's an emulator for it that runs on an Arduino!
There's a reason for that.
You don't need a lawyer, it's a pretty simple rule: GPL is designed to keep code free and open.
If you plan to share your code, consider using/linking GPL. If not, don't use any GPL code in your project/product.
We're safe unless the raptors have figured out how to operate spinlocks...
FileNotFound LOL!
He also wrote the nonfiction treatise Take Back Your Government (original title: How to Be a Politician).
Look at his usrname.
Unix usrs nvr type more chars than they have to. :)
That's because professionals see computers as a tool, not a religion. The rule hasn't changed in 3 decades, you figure out which software you need to do the work, then buy the system that runs it.
Apple has been pushing the religion hard lately (read brand loyalty) and no longer care about the choir of professionals who have been their loyal customers through thick and thin.
No, it really isn't. Doesn't look like it, doesn't act like it, except in the very coarsest details.
Wait, whut?
Do you really mean to say that Sierra looks like this to you?
Okay... They both have windows with title bars at the top. And some icons that stick to the bottom of the screen. Other than that, not much resemblance.
Please tell me you don't design GUIs as part of your job!
I would have thought they'd call it "Blade Runner 2: Electric Sheep Boogaloo."
Not as great at bringing technology to market as you assume. He doesn't even get credit for bringing the GUI to Apple - Jef Raskin did that. He had to twist Steve's arm to get him to visit Xerox and see it. Even then, the Lisa was a failure and Jobs went
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask if I can open a door."
I really enjoyed Eric Drexler's seminal work, "Engines of Creation," even if he was off the mark about timelines and how nanotech would evolve. Philip Ball's "Designing the Molecular World" is enlightening too.
But I thought Uhura was a blonde!
Not that I doubt you, but I'm curious to put this to the test. Can you suggest some sample code and an old C compiler to use?
Ask a Japanese native to say "squirrel." You'll probably hear something like "skuah-do" or "skuah-ru." :)
Superficially true, but without them CS theory would be largely pointless. It would just be a set of otherwise unrelated subfields of mathematics with no common application.
The original Mac system allowed you to eject a floppy but leave it mounted. It left a grayed-out "ghost" floppy on the desktop and would request that you re-insert the floppy if you tried to access it. "Put away" (meaning unmount) was a separate action from "eject."
They did it that way because there was only one floppy drive and no hard drive, and sometimes you had to change floppies while running an app from another floppy.
Yes, you have been able to for a long time.
It's not obvious, though - you copy, and then hold down "option" when you right-click or ctrl-click in the destination folder, "paste"will change to "move."
Well, yeah, that's part of the definition, but the connotation is that you've dedicated yourself to the role.
Maybe you're a professional programmer who's out of work, and you just dug your neighbor some fence post holes yesterday for $100.
If someone asks you what you do, do you say, "I'm a professional fence post hole digger"?