It's like when you have a car, but the car is only useful for driving around in, not so much for explaining to people how you got there, and why you're naked and covered in potato peels, and why there are 17 empty cans of beer on the passenger seat, and why an alien baby is breaking out through your stomach and ellen riply is too busy fighting off the terminator from the future so she can't help you, but "new spock" is speaking in some weird irish accent for no apparent reason. We've all been there.
I wonder whether this is really feasible and maybe that's why you're not finding a straight answer to your question. The main effect of head tracking might just be massive eyestrain and headaches for some viewers.
What I suspect is that head tracking, having been used successfully in CAVE environments where "reality" is presented in 1:1 scale, will not map down to an images in which a 60 degree field of view is presented on a monitor only encompassing 30 degrees of your actual view. The real world (the room, the frame of the monitor, on-screen prompts) will track from one perspective and the game or world will track from another.
My best guess is that people who got headaches from watching Avatar in 3D will get similar headaches from head tracking on small screens, while the rest of us will be fine. Possibly, games will have some adjustments to make the game's field of view and magnification match up to the relative positions of the player and the monitor, however this reduced field of view will limit what is visible and possibly make the player less competitive in the game.
you're being too kind. msft has dropped 45% in the last 10 years. goog and aapl (microsofts own self-stated competitors) are up 500% or more over the same time period. ballmer's performance as a ceo is a miserable failure, so to speak.
Only point I'd add is that differences in velocity between enemy ships in nearby (but not identical) orbits may be on the order of thousands of mph.
Targeting such a fast moving object is difficult, and launching any kind of projectile or missile to intercept it will require enormous energy and reaction mass to get to it, assuming even that you launch it at the most efficient instant.
High power lasers are easier to point and shoot, but you'll only have a few seconds with the target in range. I don't think beam divergence will be a problem, but aiming at something hundreds of miles away, moving at thousands of mph, the slightest vibration in the ship will send the beam several feet off course by the time it gets there. You won't be able to steadily drill a hole in the enemy ship, you'll just illuminate different parts of the hull w/o much heating or impacting any specific area.
One of the most melancholy facts about astromony is that that while at this time and for the near future we have a civilization capable of supporting advanced orbital telescopes, the solar system is currently positioned pretty much in the center of glactic plane--safer from intergalactic bombardment by cosmic rays, but also our view is clouded by interference from so many local objects that we cannot see as much, or as far, or as far back, as would be if the solar system happened to be in the part of its phase where its orbit kind of bobs up or down out of the galactic plan for a few hundred thousand years.
The next time we'll have a clear view will be about 17 million years from now. That's for the northern sky. Add another 35 million years to that before we get a clear view to the south. I hope we're still here by then.
That's funny, the only time I've been on board a helicopter was with BH. I was blissfully unaware of their recent unscheduled landings until you mentioned it. But the flight I was on was awesome and we had no problems.
I can't say I've studied helicopter accidents very much, but every one that I've seen video of involved a main rotor or tail rotor failure. The airbag seems like a good idea if the craft can autorotate down to the ground, but if the rotors are compromised you probably aren't going to hit belly first.
Perhaps there is a selection effect? I wouldn't likely see many successful autorotate landings of helicopters since they aren't sensational enough to make it onto the nightly news.
Seems like there is probably a reason we have myostatin and if you disable it, other health problems may result. We're just don't know what they are yet.
Further, it seems like the people most interested in taking this drug would be bodybuilders who already have a low body fat percentage...they have little fat to burn and now this reduces the ability to metabolize their muscle tissue. I could foresee that a small medical problem involving the digestive tract could turn into a complete crisis if they cannot get the energy they need to fight an infection from their own tissues when they need it most.
if it's that bad, you should probably rewire the house for safety reasons. the wire insulation is probably crumbling, you likely have no reliable ground and cannot use GFI outlets where needed. your CFL's are probably blowing because of a loose neutral, which is probably reducing the lifetime of various appliance power supplies and power bricks throughout the house as well.
get an estimate from an electrician or three. you might be able to just do the breaker box and some new dedicated lines to motor loads (fridge, washer/dryer, dishwasher, furnace blower, well pump, garage) and it won't cost an arm and a leg. these tend to be the loads that cause the larger surges and if you're lucky they'll be easily accessible from the basement or crawlspace.
If you exit from your text editor with the proper command (ZZ for vi users) the file's timestamp won't be changed. Even if it did change, it shouldn't take that long to recompile one or two that you touched but didn't change. If you make a habit of stomping on timestamps all day long, the problem is not with make or gcc.
Personally, I've had more grief the other direction--a file that needed to be recompiled but wasn't. When this happens in the middle of a session of bug hunting, it's easy to chase a bug for 20 minutes that you've already fixed. Very annoying.
Yes, they do not care. So I'm at a loss. Am I supposed to browbeat/guilt trip/verbally harass them until they comply?
I am troubled by our family's energy use and I'm taking baby steps to reduce it, but I don't feel hugely guilty. Commercial, industrial, and transportation use is absolutely staggering. Placing the moral/financial burden on homeowners is perhaps politically convenient but not what I would call equitable.
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It's so sad that you don't know any people with a bagel setting.
Microsoft is, was, and always will be about profit for shareholders
well, then, it has failed.
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/chartingbasics.aspx?intraday=off&timeframe=10y&charttype=ohlc&splits=off&earnings=off&movingaverage=None&lowerstudy=volume&comparison=on&index=&drilldown=off&symbol=GOOG&symbol=AAPL&symbol=MSFT&selected=MSFT
2.4Ghz raises the temperature of dihydrogen monoxide molecules, so it's also contributing to global warming!
It's like when you have a car, but the car is only useful for driving around in, not so much for explaining to people how you got there, and why you're naked and covered in potato peels, and why there are 17 empty cans of beer on the passenger seat, and why an alien baby is breaking out through your stomach and ellen riply is too busy fighting off the terminator from the future so she can't help you, but "new spock" is speaking in some weird irish accent for no apparent reason. We've all been there.
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I wonder whether this is really feasible and maybe that's why you're not finding a straight answer to your question. The main effect of head tracking might just be massive eyestrain and headaches for some viewers.
What I suspect is that head tracking, having been used successfully in CAVE environments where "reality" is presented in 1:1 scale, will not map down to an images in which a 60 degree field of view is presented on a monitor only encompassing 30 degrees of your actual view. The real world (the room, the frame of the monitor, on-screen prompts) will track from one perspective and the game or world will track from another.
My best guess is that people who got headaches from watching Avatar in 3D will get similar headaches from head tracking on small screens, while the rest of us will be fine. Possibly, games will have some adjustments to make the game's field of view and magnification match up to the relative positions of the player and the monitor, however this reduced field of view will limit what is visible and possibly make the player less competitive in the game.
you're being too kind.
msft has dropped 45% in the last 10 years.
goog and aapl (microsofts own self-stated competitors) are up 500% or more over the same time period.
ballmer's performance as a ceo is a miserable failure, so to speak.
mi ne povas aud vi, la rotoroj estas tro lauta!
We only call it Soccer in the US. Everywhere else they call it Foccer.
when i get tired of typing i'll do a command line like
vi +100 program.c ; make; ./program arg1 arg2 etc
and then use command history (up arrow+return) to repeat it
it ends up being as fast as an IDE and it's much more flexible.
most importantly to me it works inside an ssh or telnet session with any old unix box.
maybe don't link to the comments section of the article next time...
i'm looking forward to the part in the game where you put on adult diapers and drive 900 miles to shoot at your romantic rival with a BB gun.
It's not a wrench, it's a sonic screwdriver!
Only point I'd add is that differences in velocity between enemy ships in nearby (but not identical) orbits may be on the order of thousands of mph.
Targeting such a fast moving object is difficult, and launching any kind of projectile or missile to intercept it will require enormous energy and reaction mass to get to it, assuming even that you launch it at the most efficient instant.
High power lasers are easier to point and shoot, but you'll only have a few seconds with the target in range. I don't think beam divergence will be a problem, but aiming at something hundreds of miles away, moving at thousands of mph, the slightest vibration in the ship will send the beam several feet off course by the time it gets there. You won't be able to steadily drill a hole in the enemy ship, you'll just illuminate different parts of the hull w/o much heating or impacting any specific area.
One of the most melancholy facts about astromony is that that while at this time and for the near future we have a civilization capable of supporting advanced orbital telescopes, the solar system is currently positioned pretty much in the center of glactic plane--safer from intergalactic bombardment by cosmic rays, but also our view is clouded by interference from so many local objects that we cannot see as much, or as far, or as far back, as would be if the solar system happened to be in the part of its phase where its orbit kind of bobs up or down out of the galactic plan for a few hundred thousand years.
The next time we'll have a clear view will be about 17 million years from now. That's for the northern sky. Add another 35 million years to that before we get a clear view to the south. I hope we're still here by then.
I thought the lines had emergency releases.
That's funny, the only time I've been on board a helicopter was with BH. I was blissfully unaware of their recent unscheduled landings until you mentioned it. But the flight I was on was awesome and we had no problems.
I can't say I've studied helicopter accidents very much, but every one that I've seen video of involved a main rotor or tail rotor failure. The airbag seems like a good idea if the craft can autorotate down to the ground, but if the rotors are compromised you probably aren't going to hit belly first.
Perhaps there is a selection effect? I wouldn't likely see many successful autorotate landings of helicopters since they aren't sensational enough to make it onto the nightly news.
Seems like there is probably a reason we have myostatin and if you disable it, other health problems may result. We're just don't know what they are yet.
Further, it seems like the people most interested in taking this drug would be bodybuilders who already have a low body fat percentage...they have little fat to burn and now this reduces the ability to metabolize their muscle tissue. I could foresee that a small medical problem involving the digestive tract could turn into a complete crisis if they cannot get the energy they need to fight an infection from their own tissues when they need it most.
say yes and that you are looking forward to the 50% increase in pay + 30% bonuses + 100k stock options with 2 year vesting.
if they blink, you know they aren't serious about having you in management.
if it's that bad, you should probably rewire the house for safety reasons. the wire insulation is probably crumbling, you likely have no reliable ground and cannot use GFI outlets where needed. your CFL's are probably blowing because of a loose neutral, which is probably reducing the lifetime of various appliance power supplies and power bricks throughout the house as well.
get an estimate from an electrician or three. you might be able to just do the breaker box and some new dedicated lines to motor loads (fridge, washer/dryer, dishwasher, furnace blower, well pump, garage) and it won't cost an arm and a leg. these tend to be the loads that cause the larger surges and if you're lucky they'll be easily accessible from the basement or crawlspace.
you could assume he might be talking about coefficient of performance but he doesn't remember the exact right phrase.
more troubling, even if he used the correct phrase, his intended audience probably wouldn't understand him.
If you exit from your text editor with the proper command (ZZ for vi users) the file's timestamp won't be changed. Even if it did change, it shouldn't take that long to recompile one or two that you touched but didn't change. If you make a habit of stomping on timestamps all day long, the problem is not with make or gcc.
Personally, I've had more grief the other direction--a file that needed to be recompiled but wasn't. When this happens in the middle of a session of bug hunting, it's easy to chase a bug for 20 minutes that you've already fixed. Very annoying.
Try this: http://www.dilbert.com/fast
Yes, they do not care. So I'm at a loss. Am I supposed to browbeat/guilt trip/verbally harass them until they comply?
I am troubled by our family's energy use and I'm taking baby steps to reduce it, but I don't feel hugely guilty. Commercial, industrial, and transportation use is absolutely staggering. Placing the moral/financial burden on homeowners is perhaps politically convenient but not what I would call equitable.