One of my few serious complaints about Android is a serious lack of BlueTooth support. Except for normal phone calls and streaming music you can all but forget it. My phone came with Qik, which does streaming video, but speaker phone ONLY, not even TRRS headphones. Well, unless I'm at home in a quiet room it's useless. If I'm at home in a quiet room I'll use Skype to video chat.
What's that? Skype is available for Android also?
Guess what? Same boat as Qik! That, and Skype is somewhat lacking in video support on Android next to their lack of BlueTooth support, oh, and a third party enabled Skype to work well so they labeled them as causing their product to do unintended things devaluing it, without actually stating what they did wrong (Fring) so they locked them out.
Unless they actually make BlueTooth, or at minimum TRRS headphones work it's another "almost but not good enough".
I'm with you. In the US removing government power is one of the few ways to remove corporate power. Corporations own the politicians and staff the agencies that regulate the corporations.
I believe in tribal communities in a larger free nation, think along the lines of Scottish Clans or even Native Tribes. Small areas of voluntary socialism (like a Viking meal hall) surrounded by a larger free market. Really, some religious groups almost live this anyways, I want to create an agnostic version.
Yes, I have already designed the central chow hall/party area. Not only would the community thrive financially but the parties would be regular and awesome.
Some expanded Ishihara type test I've taken in the past, plus some various other "which is different" test from schools and other organizations. I get tested with normal Ishihara test yearly, but I've had more strenuous test than that before.
If someone who wanted to tag along with me were a no 3D type for physiological reasons I would probably cut up two pairs of glasses and epoxy a two right eye set.....
I think you and the author are certainly on the same page.
The reason I pointed out the price thing wasn't gloating I got a better deal, I was calling into question the authors real motive, to me it looked like a complete bitch fest instead of a genuine objective review. The movies were shown as a double feature, I don't know of any US theater that would double charge you for glasses because there was a double feature.
If you'll notice I made almost not statement of my own 3D opinion, I was just pointing out holes and obvious give aways of non-object bitching.
To actually give my opinion, I thought Avatar was great in 3D, Tron legacy was also, but I don't think it got the full benefit like Avatar did. Overall kids 3D movies can stay 3D, some Sci Fi flicks can stay 3D, but overall I don't think most movies actually should implement it yet.
Not to mention most theaters have 2D showings of 3D films, all you have to do is watch for show times and pay attention to the descriptions. Or if you want to see it with people who want 3D there's always these things.
1. The colors in Avatar most certainly were NOT muddled by any stretch of the imagination. I saw it in IMAX the first time I saw it, and my color vision is actually better than most mens, it's actually better than most womens. I have on the other hand been to theaters that poorly maintain their equipment (Deer Brook Mall)
2. The Toy Story movies, depending on your interpretaion were indded originally 3D models rendered for 2D viewing. The movies were "enhanced" in a few places, like Buzz's suit glowing in the dark, then RE-RENDERD for 3D use. This is VERY different than the not shot in 3D but shown that way anyways garbage like the less than stellar all all the way around Alice in Wonderland.
3. When I took my daughter to see the Toy Story movies it was a double feature, I didn't have to pay 3x2 like the author said I should, I paid 3x1.
4. The LED TV's the author is referencing are most likely LED back-lit LCD monitors unless they truly were OLED models (or similar) that you can only see at technology demo's and tech conferences because thay aren't for sale in anything bigger than a mobile phone right now.
All of that being said, I agree 3D is a bit gimmicky at times. I think it is an evolution of things that will probably stick around and continue to evolve (LG is now making 3D TV's with polarization instead of shutter glasses), but it's a technology in its infancy. I don't think the companies are pushing it too hard anymore, they were. I think it's going to be like color and LCD's were. At one time a lot of people thought of those as gimmicks, especially before the color standard was finalized (hint there were competing standards), not to mention remote controls, especially the wired ones (like we had for the BetaMax) or the actual audible clickers. Try to buy a brand new black and white TV without a remote control today. Certain gimmicks have a way to becoming permanent. This is one of them even if the current incarnation dies off.
(on a distantly related note I like to shatter the little worlds the WOW 3D VIDEO GAMES people live in by pointing out that nVidia has support the same basic shutter glasses tech on ALL 3D video games since abuot the mid 90's, with CRTs, the only difference was they had a wire)
Now that Gamefly has won they can close up shop because everyone directly downloads their games directly from the Nintendo, Sony, or Steam stores now......
Honestly, I'm not the greatest. I haven't wrote pages in quite a while, that was mostly a learning exercise that I did it all in Vim using W3C. I edit a little source from time to time, but when I have to bust out a static page for whatever reason, which isn't often, I usually download SeaMonkey and use the editor in that. (Last time I used it there was beautiful compliant code)
I said Mozilla, as in the suite, so I wasn't referring to "in this day and age".
Also, I was writing my website in VIM, and I was using Cascading Style Sheets, I had the W3 site up and was referencing it constantly to make sure I was writing my HTML properly. It's probably been 8 years since the time I was talking about, doesn't mean I don't still hold a grudge against IE for that and other reasons.
You are accurate. At the time I chose to fix them because so many people were on IE. Now IE users can just suck it. Of course newer versions of IE actually work better, so whatever, if I write something I'm not testing it in IE but it will probably work now.
What do you think of the idea of sending "progress" type payloads up? One or two in orbit, possibly ahead of the astronauts, one or two on a slow course they could catch up to, possibly even adding to the size of the vessel, and maybe even some already making a return trip before they leave they can catch on the way out? Sure the math to do the mid journey intercepts is difficult at best, but we've proven ourselves rather capable thus far. (launching on time on the other hand.....)
Not tested and proven with human on-board anyways. Ion propulsion, solar sails and nuke ships are all possibilities of course.
The big argument against the nuke ship is the radiation left behind when it launches. I'm more of a fan of building the thing in space with chemical rocket or projectile launch methods and then assembling it in orbit, escaping earth with chemicals rockets, THEN dropping nukes to go forward.
We've been able to do that since at least the early 80's.
The question is can we make it worth the trip and comfortable? Probably not, but we need to make the trip, at least once, just so we can say we did and we can better prepare for the later real trip.
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Possibly the headphones, I used my leftover iPhone ones, hadn't actually tried talking on them in a long time.
it's nearly useless.
One of my few serious complaints about Android is a serious lack of BlueTooth support. Except for normal phone calls and streaming music you can all but forget it. My phone came with Qik, which does streaming video, but speaker phone ONLY, not even TRRS headphones. Well, unless I'm at home in a quiet room it's useless. If I'm at home in a quiet room I'll use Skype to video chat.
What's that? Skype is available for Android also?
Guess what? Same boat as Qik! That, and Skype is somewhat lacking in video support on Android next to their lack of BlueTooth support, oh, and a third party enabled Skype to work well so they labeled them as causing their product to do unintended things devaluing it, without actually stating what they did wrong (Fring) so they locked them out.
Unless they actually make BlueTooth, or at minimum TRRS headphones work it's another "almost but not good enough".
Speak Yodese I do.
I'm with you. In the US removing government power is one of the few ways to remove corporate power. Corporations own the politicians and staff the agencies that regulate the corporations.
And how!
My beliefs are so complex......
I believe in tribal communities in a larger free nation, think along the lines of Scottish Clans or even Native Tribes. Small areas of voluntary socialism (like a Viking meal hall) surrounded by a larger free market. Really, some religious groups almost live this anyways, I want to create an agnostic version.
Yes, I have already designed the central chow hall/party area. Not only would the community thrive financially but the parties would be regular and awesome.
As far as I know FDR never described himself that way.
But only under the old fashioned proper definition of the word, not the modern one.
Since the term was high-jacked the term "Libertarian" has come up to replace the good version of Liberal.
Some expanded Ishihara type test I've taken in the past, plus some various other "which is different" test from schools and other organizations. I get tested with normal Ishihara test yearly, but I've had more strenuous test than that before.
If someone who wanted to tag along with me were a no 3D type for physiological reasons I would probably cut up two pairs of glasses and epoxy a two right eye set.....
Of course I'm just that type of geek.
I think you and the author are certainly on the same page.
The reason I pointed out the price thing wasn't gloating I got a better deal, I was calling into question the authors real motive, to me it looked like a complete bitch fest instead of a genuine objective review. The movies were shown as a double feature, I don't know of any US theater that would double charge you for glasses because there was a double feature.
If you'll notice I made almost not statement of my own 3D opinion, I was just pointing out holes and obvious give aways of non-object bitching.
To actually give my opinion, I thought Avatar was great in 3D, Tron legacy was also, but I don't think it got the full benefit like Avatar did. Overall kids 3D movies can stay 3D, some Sci Fi flicks can stay 3D, but overall I don't think most movies actually should implement it yet.
Not to mention most theaters have 2D showings of 3D films, all you have to do is watch for show times and pay attention to the descriptions. Or if you want to see it with people who want 3D there's always these things.
why is it even if I re-read what I wrote I don't find the spelling errors until after "submit", indeed originally 3D models, bleh
1. The colors in Avatar most certainly were NOT muddled by any stretch of the imagination. I saw it in IMAX the first time I saw it, and my color vision is actually better than most mens, it's actually better than most womens. I have on the other hand been to theaters that poorly maintain their equipment (Deer Brook Mall)
2. The Toy Story movies, depending on your interpretaion were indded originally 3D models rendered for 2D viewing. The movies were "enhanced" in a few places, like Buzz's suit glowing in the dark, then RE-RENDERD for 3D use. This is VERY different than the not shot in 3D but shown that way anyways garbage like the less than stellar all all the way around Alice in Wonderland.
3. When I took my daughter to see the Toy Story movies it was a double feature, I didn't have to pay 3x2 like the author said I should, I paid 3x1.
4. The LED TV's the author is referencing are most likely LED back-lit LCD monitors unless they truly were OLED models (or similar) that you can only see at technology demo's and tech conferences because thay aren't for sale in anything bigger than a mobile phone right now.
All of that being said, I agree 3D is a bit gimmicky at times. I think it is an evolution of things that will probably stick around and continue to evolve (LG is now making 3D TV's with polarization instead of shutter glasses), but it's a technology in its infancy. I don't think the companies are pushing it too hard anymore, they were. I think it's going to be like color and LCD's were. At one time a lot of people thought of those as gimmicks, especially before the color standard was finalized (hint there were competing standards), not to mention remote controls, especially the wired ones (like we had for the BetaMax) or the actual audible clickers. Try to buy a brand new black and white TV without a remote control today. Certain gimmicks have a way to becoming permanent. This is one of them even if the current incarnation dies off.
(on a distantly related note I like to shatter the little worlds the WOW 3D VIDEO GAMES people live in by pointing out that nVidia has support the same basic shutter glasses tech on ALL 3D video games since abuot the mid 90's, with CRTs, the only difference was they had a wire)
is there any other kind of whore? Perhaps as opposed to a limited whore that only sucks or gives hand pleasure?
Now that Gamefly has won they can close up shop because everyone directly downloads their games directly from the Nintendo, Sony, or Steam stores now......
Honestly, I'm not the greatest. I haven't wrote pages in quite a while, that was mostly a learning exercise that I did it all in Vim using W3C. I edit a little source from time to time, but when I have to bust out a static page for whatever reason, which isn't often, I usually download SeaMonkey and use the editor in that. (Last time I used it there was beautiful compliant code)
Would it blow your limited mind less if I would have wrote "rewrote tags and lines on pages" instead of "rewrote pages"?
Counter attack.
I said Mozilla, as in the suite, so I wasn't referring to "in this day and age".
Also, I was writing my website in VIM, and I was using Cascading Style Sheets, I had the W3 site up and was referencing it constantly to make sure I was writing my HTML properly. It's probably been 8 years since the time I was talking about, doesn't mean I don't still hold a grudge against IE for that and other reasons.
You are accurate. At the time I chose to fix them because so many people were on IE. Now IE users can just suck it. Of course newer versions of IE actually work better, so whatever, if I write something I'm not testing it in IE but it will probably work now.
Still grumbling about pages that passed the w3c validater, looked beautiful in Mozilla, Opera, and Konqueror and I had to redo them because of IE.
Not on my workstation, but I still support OS/2 and Win 3.1 machines. Also some ancient DEC systems.
What do you think of the idea of sending "progress" type payloads up? One or two in orbit, possibly ahead of the astronauts, one or two on a slow course they could catch up to, possibly even adding to the size of the vessel, and maybe even some already making a return trip before they leave they can catch on the way out? Sure the math to do the mid journey intercepts is difficult at best, but we've proven ourselves rather capable thus far. (launching on time on the other hand.....)
Not tested and proven with human on-board anyways. Ion propulsion, solar sails and nuke ships are all possibilities of course.
The big argument against the nuke ship is the radiation left behind when it launches. I'm more of a fan of building the thing in space with chemical rocket or projectile launch methods and then assembling it in orbit, escaping earth with chemicals rockets, THEN dropping nukes to go forward.
We've been able to do that since at least the early 80's.
The question is can we make it worth the trip and comfortable?
Probably not, but we need to make the trip, at least once, just so we can say we did and we can better prepare for the later real trip.
Beyond that? We don't have the tech. Not yet.
Fail!
It's Georgia! They have Confederate flags on their Yugos.