"Did Sony leave CeBit like Slashdot reported? Nope, they packed up their offending machines and left."
Damn. I wrote that badly. What I meant was Sony was still at a show, it was the machines they had on the floor that violated the TOS that they shipped out.
I hope you read this before responding to the parent post.
"I imagine increasing the spatial resolution for a frame of footage decreases the temporal resolution of the set of frames."
Not necessarily, though it'd require two passes.
In the first pass, you generate a high res image by using motion tracking to figure out how far the camera turned. Then, using that motion, it can read the sub-pixel data. That's semi easy to do, it's been done before. Before long, you have a high-resolution image.
Then, you do the second pass where you take that high resolution image and paste it on top of the low resolution footage using the motion tracking data to move the new pixels around in the right position. As long as the motion tracking data is reasonably accurate, then you could theoretically create a higher resolution video without losing temporal resolution. It's not clear to me, though, that there wouldn't be situations where that would break down.
Man I hope I expressed that fairly clearly. I've got a little experience with digitally painting video to change the details of a scene.
"The charge is attempting to have Sony thrown out of a tradeshow, not violating tradeshow rules... In a court of law your argument would be thrown out before it even began."
I'm having difficulty making sense of that argument. MS was well within their right to notify the CeBit management that Sony was breaking the rules. There's no way anybody could make a 'charge' about that.
"Microsoft complained because they saw Sony as a threat, and like anything Microsoft sees as a threat, it wants it terminated immediately."
Actually they complained because Sony was being allowed to do something that MS wasn't allowed to do. Sony was entirely in the wrong. There's absolutely no way that a court case about that would find that MS was gulty of any wrong-doing. As a matter of fact, the article was pretty clear that MS tried negotiate a settlement. Sony wouldn't hear of it, though, and just packed up their PS2 stations and left. Did Sony leave CeBit like Slashdot reported? Nope, they packed up their offending machines and left.
And you're right, Sony is no angel. The first run of Playstations they sold were defective. I got to sell potentially broken machines to kids and tell them that replacements wouldn't be in until well after Xmas.
"Slashdot reported an article located somewhere, slashdot doesn't have articles. If the article was not accurate that is the responsiblity of whoever DID have the article."
A Slashdot editor approved and published the article/story whatever it's called. Slashdot was at fault.
"And your actually saying that Microsoft getting pissy and snitching out Sony is a story that makes Microsoft LESS guilty? Is it better that they only TRIED and failed? "
Uh right. The guilty party here is Sony for trying to break tradeshow rules. Anybody could have complained and they would have been right. Microsoft 'snitching' on them makes 0 difference.
I can see why nobody successfully disputed your point. You refuse to see it. Try listening and broadening your understanding.
"ok wait a second, you actually consider the headlines????... It's the articles (which admittedly, most don't read) that have to be completely wrong"
Oh give me a break. It would have been redundant to say "The headline said Microsoft threw Sony out of CeBit, then the article said that Microsoft threw Sony out of CeBit".
Honestly, when somebody disagrees with what I say, it's like arguing with Commander Data.
"Provacative, it catches the reader... nice headline."
It's incorrect. Microsoft didn't throw anybody out of anything. Sony didn't get thrown out, they left on their own. The only factual statement in the headline is that it was at CeBit.
"Uh, yeah. Did you just come here for the headlines?"
I'm not sure how that's a response to the line you quoted. People often go by what Slashdot says. Sometimes because they're uninterested in reading the article, and sometimes the site is Slashdotted. On this particular story, lots of people went off about how rotten MS was. Before long, there were a number of "RTFA, that's not what happened!" posts.
Yeah, I just read the headline, that's why I know the story and what the ignorant masses were saying about it. "This is proof that MS is an abusive monopoly!"
" I've followed Slashdot for a while now, and the basic conclusion that I've come to is that if it says MS, then the information's in error. "
A couple of years ago, Slashdot had a story titled "Microsoft throws Sony out of CeBit". Sounds awful, doesn't it? Afterall, Sony's Playstation 2 is the XBOX's hottest competition. Damn them and their monopoly!
But wait, a few people read the story. It turns out that what happened was that Sony was breaking tradeshow rules and Microsoft compmlained/tattled about it to the people who run the show. Sony didn't pack up and leave. They packed up the offending machines took them out. In other words, Sony complied with the rules they should have been following in the first place.
So yeah, I agree, Slashdot stories about MS are almost always FUD filled. One of these days, a story submission is going to win a pulitzer.
"I think browser spoofing is a very bad thing. Yes it lets you load your page correctly, but it will never let the "powers that be" know that people use something other than IE."
Truth be told, it shouldn't matter. We don't want different browsers that all have different ideas how to render pages. We want to write once view anywhere. If there are differences between IE and Mozilla, then shouldn't Mozilla learn to be more like IE when it comes to rendering HTML?
I know that's not what you all want to hear, but one of the main reasons places standardize on IE is because it's such a pain in the ass to test across different browsers and fix the page to work with them. It's not worth the effort when the vast majority of machines out there have IE ready to go.
You have to catch up to the parade before you can lead it.
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"It is quite rare to find anyone who is not anti-Microsoft who hasn't recieved payments from Microsoft, I think."
If people are being paid to not be "anti-MS", then there are also people being paid to say "Linux is a great desktop OS."
Yo mama's so fat, when she walks down Route 1 people slow down and say "that's no moon..."
(Note: Before modding me off-topic, RTFA.)
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"If MS were to use such strategies, would anyone be surprised?"
It's funny hearing this from the same place that thinks BSOD jokes are always +5, Funny. The Slashdot Community is nauseatingly evangelistic about Linux to the point of modding down people who don't join in with their pitchforks.
Best Buy is a huge chain here and they have a pretty good return policy, but they don't back down on CDs,DVDs, or Games. I agree with you that it's in a store's best interests to satisfy the customer. Unfortunately, these places don't agree. I remember somebody at Electronics Boutique telling us that was the law, but I'm not really sure if that's true these days. During Christmas time, games can be returned even if they're opened.
It's stupid. Customer satisfaction should be the #1 priority here. Sadly, they'd rather screw us. They think we should buy the CD for keeps before finding out what's on it, then they have the nerve to be shocked that Mp3s became a big thing.
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"Wow, you mean I wasn't the only one?! :)"
I was wondering when you two would finally meet!
"Did Sony leave CeBit like Slashdot reported? Nope, they packed up their offending machines and left."
Damn. I wrote that badly. What I meant was Sony was still at a show, it was the machines they had on the floor that violated the TOS that they shipped out.
I hope you read this before responding to the parent post.
"HR did not make the policy, she was just the mouth piece of the companies. "
More like a sphincter.
"I imagine increasing the spatial resolution for a frame of footage decreases the temporal resolution of the set of frames."
Not necessarily, though it'd require two passes.
In the first pass, you generate a high res image by using motion tracking to figure out how far the camera turned. Then, using that motion, it can read the sub-pixel data. That's semi easy to do, it's been done before. Before long, you have a high-resolution image.
Then, you do the second pass where you take that high resolution image and paste it on top of the low resolution footage using the motion tracking data to move the new pixels around in the right position. As long as the motion tracking data is reasonably accurate, then you could theoretically create a higher resolution video without losing temporal resolution. It's not clear to me, though, that there wouldn't be situations where that would break down.
Man I hope I expressed that fairly clearly. I've got a little experience with digitally painting video to change the details of a scene.
"The charge is attempting to have Sony thrown out of a tradeshow, not violating tradeshow rules... In a court of law your argument would be thrown out before it even began."
I'm having difficulty making sense of that argument. MS was well within their right to notify the CeBit management that Sony was breaking the rules. There's no way anybody could make a 'charge' about that.
"Microsoft complained because they saw Sony as a threat, and like anything Microsoft sees as a threat, it wants it terminated immediately."
Actually they complained because Sony was being allowed to do something that MS wasn't allowed to do. Sony was entirely in the wrong. There's absolutely no way that a court case about that would find that MS was gulty of any wrong-doing. As a matter of fact, the article was pretty clear that MS tried negotiate a settlement. Sony wouldn't hear of it, though, and just packed up their PS2 stations and left. Did Sony leave CeBit like Slashdot reported? Nope, they packed up their offending machines and left.
And you're right, Sony is no angel. The first run of Playstations they sold were defective. I got to sell potentially broken machines to kids and tell them that replacements wouldn't be in until well after Xmas.
"Slashdot reported an article located somewhere, slashdot doesn't have articles. If the article was not accurate that is the responsiblity of whoever DID have the article."
A Slashdot editor approved and published the article/story whatever it's called. Slashdot was at fault.
"And your actually saying that Microsoft getting pissy and snitching out Sony is a story that makes Microsoft LESS guilty? Is it better that they only TRIED and failed? "
Uh right. The guilty party here is Sony for trying to break tradeshow rules. Anybody could have complained and they would have been right. Microsoft 'snitching' on them makes 0 difference.
I can see why nobody successfully disputed your point. You refuse to see it. Try listening and broadening your understanding.
"Microsoft has yet to turn out to be innocent."
Microsoft is not guilty of 'throwing Sony out of CeBit', as Slashdot reported back in 2001.
"Your not the only one btw who has failed to answer this question."
Guess that record has ended.
"I think the problem is that North American companies feel the need to manufacture controllers larger than the average car in Japan... "
They made a smaller one for the Japanese market. The real problem at this point is the games.
... I thought Turkeys could fly!
"Qba'g gel gb oernx guvf ryvgr rapelcgvba fpurzr rvgure, be bs gb wnvy sbe lbh."
Damn Klingons. Learn English!
"I hereby copyright this post. I expressly forbid these words from being read anywhere inside of Sweden."
Hmmm... I wonder if there's a way to bait the MPAA or some affliated body using this law. I might be on to something!
"ok wait a second, you actually consider the headlines???? ... It's the articles (which admittedly, most don't read) that have to be completely wrong"
Oh give me a break. It would have been redundant to say "The headline said Microsoft threw Sony out of CeBit, then the article said that Microsoft threw Sony out of CeBit".
Honestly, when somebody disagrees with what I say, it's like arguing with Commander Data.
I hereby copyright this post. I expressly forbid these words from being read anywhere inside of Sweden.
Man I can't wait to see how many people end up in jail now.
That's it? No more rebuttals from Will? Pity.
"Provacative, it catches the reader... nice headline."
It's incorrect. Microsoft didn't throw anybody out of anything. Sony didn't get thrown out, they left on their own. The only factual statement in the headline is that it was at CeBit.
"Uh, yeah. Did you just come here for the headlines?"
I'm not sure how that's a response to the line you quoted. People often go by what Slashdot says. Sometimes because they're uninterested in reading the article, and sometimes the site is Slashdotted. On this particular story, lots of people went off about how rotten MS was. Before long, there were a number of "RTFA, that's not what happened!" posts.
Yeah, I just read the headline, that's why I know the story and what the ignorant masses were saying about it. "This is proof that MS is an abusive monopoly!"
Heh.
"Wow, i wonder if Duke Nukem Forever will be shareware?"
There's no ware to share.
"I am just fine with the games that come with KDE. Not only can they entertain you, they may also build some intelligence. "
Secretly, he regrets switching from Windows...
" I've followed Slashdot for a while now, and the basic conclusion that I've come to is that if it says MS, then the information's in error. "
A couple of years ago, Slashdot had a story titled "Microsoft throws Sony out of CeBit". Sounds awful, doesn't it? Afterall, Sony's Playstation 2 is the XBOX's hottest competition. Damn them and their monopoly!
But wait, a few people read the story. It turns out that what happened was that Sony was breaking tradeshow rules and Microsoft compmlained/tattled about it to the people who run the show. Sony didn't pack up and leave. They packed up the offending machines took them out. In other words, Sony complied with the rules they should have been following in the first place.
So yeah, I agree, Slashdot stories about MS are almost always FUD filled. One of these days, a story submission is going to win a pulitzer.
"Interesting that the last great, stable RH is considered too "old" for mozilla...
Or am I just overreacting? I like my 7.3 boxes, dammit."
Yeah, forced upgrades suck, don't they? Kinda amusing tho, usually MS is the butt of that comment.
"I think browser spoofing is a very bad thing. Yes it lets you load your page correctly, but it will never let the "powers that be" know that people use something other than IE."
Truth be told, it shouldn't matter. We don't want different browsers that all have different ideas how to render pages. We want to write once view anywhere. If there are differences between IE and Mozilla, then shouldn't Mozilla learn to be more like IE when it comes to rendering HTML?
I know that's not what you all want to hear, but one of the main reasons places standardize on IE is because it's such a pain in the ass to test across different browsers and fix the page to work with them. It's not worth the effort when the vast majority of machines out there have IE ready to go.
You have to catch up to the parade before you can lead it.
"It is quite rare to find anyone who is not anti-Microsoft who hasn't recieved payments from Microsoft, I think."
If people are being paid to not be "anti-MS", then there are also people being paid to say "Linux is a great desktop OS."
Yo mama's so fat, when she walks down Route 1 people slow down and say "that's no moon..."
(Note: Before modding me off-topic, RTFA.)
"If MS were to use such strategies, would anyone be surprised?"
It's funny hearing this from the same place that thinks BSOD jokes are always +5, Funny. The Slashdot Community is nauseatingly evangelistic about Linux to the point of modding down people who don't join in with their pitchforks.
Mozilla Blows-illa!
The troll community must have fair representation too.
"This must be an American thing? No? Seen it said so many times on here."
s .asp
Well, it definitely happens in America. I can't tell you how it works elsewhere, so I don't know if it's an 'American thing' or not.
Check out Best Buy's return policy here, notice the exceptions made for copyrighted stuff.
http://www.bestbuy.com/infoCenter/Policies/Return
Best Buy is a huge chain here and they have a pretty good return policy, but they don't back down on CDs,DVDs, or Games. I agree with you that it's in a store's best interests to satisfy the customer. Unfortunately, these places don't agree. I remember somebody at Electronics Boutique telling us that was the law, but I'm not really sure if that's true these days. During Christmas time, games can be returned even if they're opened.
It's stupid. Customer satisfaction should be the #1 priority here. Sadly, they'd rather screw us. They think we should buy the CD for keeps before finding out what's on it, then they have the nerve to be shocked that Mp3s became a big thing.
There's a reason Dilbert is so popular over here.