I've been making 3D models for quite a while now. When this whole sharp thing came up I noticed something. After building a piece of my model, I rotate the model around in the 3d view to see it at various angles. I think the reason I'm doing this is to get a clear idea of what the shape looks like in 3D. If I had stereo view, there's a very good chance I'd find it would speed up my development time. I'd have a clearer idea of what the model looks like.
As you can see, I'm not being very commital about it here. I haven't seen this display so I cannot tell you that it works or not. However, that's more of a technology problem than an application problem. I don't know how other artists would feel about it, though. If it's headache inducing, it won't fly in this market.
"This new format of disk could still hold an mpg-2 file, but have enough capacity to hold 2-hours worth of video at HD resolutions.
It's capacity, not format."
Too bad it's not just a case of compression. A recently released Terminator 2 DVD came with a Windows Media file at HD resolution. I know you all fear that watching this MS compressed movie will shackle your content, but it's still proof that DVD's today are still versatile.
"But when you rent DVDs they are often scratched by inconsiderate people that watched before you."
Some of us have developed the habit of looking at the disc before leaving the store.
You know, Gigabyte flash cards are available now. they're not cheap, but I do look forward to using solid-state storage for movies. Smaller, more rugged, no errors. Ah I can dream.
Troll?! Yeah, I know DivX is automatically evil, but as an additional service, it's great for exactly the reasons the parent poster mentioned. Some movies just aren't worth paying $15-$20 for, but they're well worth $4-$5 to view once.
Lighten up folks. DivX would have sucked if it was used in a "Disney only publishes to this format" kind of way, but simply as an alternative it's great.
I haven't had enough sleep today. I read that as "Indiana Jones and the Galileo Consortium." I just had this image of Harrison Ford saying with that ever so famous smile on his face "The old fool was right, the Earth does orbit the sun."
"Seriously, the entire Nintendo not believing in online play... wtf?"
Nintendo has stated before that they don't feel the on-line world is quite ready yet. What they want to do is avoid a re-occuring cost for the players. If on-line pay means a subscription, and the service isn't like top-notch (lag?), it's not interesting to Nintendo.
I want on-line play too, but at least Nintendo's thinking about their gamers here.
"get a girlfriend. When I work at home, my girlfriend is there with me and we have a blast. She's in nursing school so I get to spend most of the day with her."
'Get a girlfriend'? I'm a geek man, I don't just go out and say "I choose that one." It's more like being a weiner dog at a pet store.
"This isn't so far fetched... Remember that Microsoft made a sizeable investment in SCO a little while back."
Microsoft also has potentially infringing code in Windows. It's more likely that Microsoft was covering their own ass in case SCO wins than trying to blow away Google.
Off-topic my ass. The original story said "IIS", not "ISS'. The Editors can go back in time and change what was originally written, but I cannot. Don't penalize me for something I cannot change.
"They could have easily said, Win 3.1 is not supported on any DOS other than MS-DOS and that would have been it. They didn't have to actively go after DR DOS."
So yes, it was a legitimate message. Whoopee they focused on DrDos. Maybe Bill Gates wanted to rule the world starting with DrDos. Maybe that message was put in specifically to discredit them. So what? They still have a legitimate reason to notify the user that running Win3.1 on DrDos might cause problems. At this point, it doesn't matter what Microsoft's true intentions were, they didn't go out of bounds.
"I don't get why Slashdot advocates the piracy of music while in general decrying, say, software piracy."
It's because you're missing the point. Slashdot isn't advocating piracy of music. They're not even advocating free music. What they want is compressed music in digital form. The Record Industry has fought that kicking and screaming instead of making a business of it like a company that responds to supply & demand would do. Your first hint about the Slashdot Community's motives here should have been iTunes. Slashdot's advocating piracy, but thinks iTunes is great? You should have caught that.
"[T]o produce 500 megawatts of fusion power for 500 seconds or longer during each individual fusion experiment and in doing so demonstrate essential technologies for a commercial reactor"
500 megawatts? Wow, that's almost in the gigawatt range. If anybody's curious, I found a mockup of what the commercial product will look like.
Slashdot Mirror
"You can guarantee that the Mozilla or Konqueror communities would have in the same circumstances..."
Guarantee? Are they under some kind of commitment to do so?
I've been making 3D models for quite a while now. When this whole sharp thing came up I noticed something. After building a piece of my model, I rotate the model around in the 3d view to see it at various angles. I think the reason I'm doing this is to get a clear idea of what the shape looks like in 3D. If I had stereo view, there's a very good chance I'd find it would speed up my development time. I'd have a clearer idea of what the model looks like.
As you can see, I'm not being very commital about it here. I haven't seen this display so I cannot tell you that it works or not. However, that's more of a technology problem than an application problem. I don't know how other artists would feel about it, though. If it's headache inducing, it won't fly in this market.
"Do you really want to be responsible for all the code you write for all time?"
Not if I didn't write the virus.
"This new format of disk could still hold an mpg-2 file, but have enough capacity to hold 2-hours worth of video at HD resolutions.
It's capacity, not format."
Too bad it's not just a case of compression. A recently released Terminator 2 DVD came with a Windows Media file at HD resolution. I know you all fear that watching this MS compressed movie will shackle your content, but it's still proof that DVD's today are still versatile.
"But when you rent DVDs they are often scratched by inconsiderate people that watched before you."
Some of us have developed the habit of looking at the disc before leaving the store.
You know, Gigabyte flash cards are available now. they're not cheap, but I do look forward to using solid-state storage for movies. Smaller, more rugged, no errors. Ah I can dream.
Troll?! Yeah, I know DivX is automatically evil, but as an additional service, it's great for exactly the reasons the parent poster mentioned. Some movies just aren't worth paying $15-$20 for, but they're well worth $4-$5 to view once.
Lighten up folks. DivX would have sucked if it was used in a "Disney only publishes to this format" kind of way, but simply as an alternative it's great.
"So you decide to watch a movie after spending almost 4 hours taking a dump?"
He watched Episodes 1 and 2 in the can, then decided to watch a good movie afterwards.
"India Joins Galileo Consortium"
I haven't had enough sleep today. I read that as "Indiana Jones and the Galileo Consortium." I just had this image of Harrison Ford saying with that ever so famous smile on his face "The old fool was right, the Earth does orbit the sun."
"Wrong. You do go choose one"
Then how come Natalie Portman isn't community property?
"Well, the most logical timezone to apply in space, I believe, would be GMT, kind of standard."
What's wrong with stardate?
"Seriously, the entire Nintendo not believing in online play... wtf?"
Nintendo has stated before that they don't feel the on-line world is quite ready yet. What they want to do is avoid a re-occuring cost for the players. If on-line pay means a subscription, and the service isn't like top-notch (lag?), it's not interesting to Nintendo.
I want on-line play too, but at least Nintendo's thinking about their gamers here.
"get a girlfriend. When I work at home, my girlfriend is there with me and we have a blast. She's in nursing school so I get to spend most of the day with her."
'Get a girlfriend'? I'm a geek man, I don't just go out and say "I choose that one." It's more like being a weiner dog at a pet store.
"He he. Sure, the cliche quantities are limited, but the combinations of applications are virtually unlimited. What was that Trek saying again?...."
Double dumb ass on you?
"I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'boot of their network'"
He was making a joke about your choice of words here:
"In a lot of locations they have wireless for pretty reasonable rates to boot"
Frankly, I'm surprised there isn't a +5, Funny lame joke already about Microsoft implementing Pay Per Boot(tm).
"Given the Google is a defacto Linux knowledgebase, is that statement supposed to be sarcasm?"
Linux would very easily survive Google's demise.
"This isn't so far fetched... Remember that Microsoft made a sizeable investment in SCO a little while back."
Microsoft also has potentially infringing code in Windows. It's more likely that Microsoft was covering their own ass in case SCO wins than trying to blow away Google.
Off-topic my ass. The original story said "IIS", not "ISS'. The Editors can go back in time and change what was originally written, but I cannot. Don't penalize me for something I cannot change.
"They could have easily said, Win 3.1 is not supported on any DOS other than MS-DOS and that would have been it. They didn't have to actively go after DR DOS."
So yes, it was a legitimate message. Whoopee they focused on DrDos. Maybe Bill Gates wanted to rule the world starting with DrDos. Maybe that message was put in specifically to discredit them. So what? They still have a legitimate reason to notify the user that running Win3.1 on DrDos might cause problems. At this point, it doesn't matter what Microsoft's true intentions were, they didn't go out of bounds.
"I don't get why Slashdot advocates the piracy of music while in general decrying, say, software piracy."
It's because you're missing the point. Slashdot isn't advocating piracy of music. They're not even advocating free music. What they want is compressed music in digital form. The Record Industry has fought that kicking and screaming instead of making a business of it like a company that responds to supply & demand would do. Your first hint about the Slashdot Community's motives here should have been iTunes. Slashdot's advocating piracy, but thinks iTunes is great? You should have caught that.
"Not really. "I'm feeling lucky" that I, unlike the gentleman in the picture, do not have a 6" diameter asshole."
That's too bad, you could have been a celebrity!
"I guess we are seeing how MS intends to compete with google . . ."
Yeah because Google is a much bigger threat to Microsoft than Apple.
"[T]o produce 500 megawatts of fusion power for 500 seconds or longer during each individual fusion experiment and in doing so demonstrate essential technologies for a commercial reactor"
500 megawatts? Wow, that's almost in the gigawatt range. If anybody's curious, I found a mockup of what the commercial product will look like.
"Fusion Reactor Project Largest After IIS"
I'd say the odds are pretty good that somebody's going to make a Microsoft joke here.
"Isn't that in space somewhere? "
It's somewhere in the Ford Galaxy.
Thank you. I found that very interesting. :)