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  1. Re:What I've been suggesting on Magic Leap Raises $794 Million To Accelerate Adoption of Secretive AR Tech (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    The mass spectrometer is to determine precisely what all the things in the room will do when various things like electrons and light at various frequencies are lobbed at them. I don't know if more than one projector will be necessary to get light to bend in such a way that an arbitrary image will come into focus onto the retina. There are plenty of "Mirascopes" or "3D Mirror Scope Illusion Creators" that use this effect.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Read a few of the links on the Wikipedia entry and you might be able to grasp how you can change where the focal point of the light is. The links I followed were a little light on math, though. Then there's Pepper's Ghost.

  2. What I've been suggesting on Magic Leap Raises $794 Million To Accelerate Adoption of Secretive AR Tech (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Combine a mass spectrometer and a projector that can bounce an image off objects in the room that puts the focal point of the light in front of or possibly behind the object, (my math isn't all that good, but I think I know enough that indicates part of what I'm saying is possible) and you may have something better than what we have now, without glasses and more than one person at a time can see it.

  3. Re: Well isn't that lovely on Severe and Unpatched eBay Vulnerability Allows Attackers To Distribute Malware · · Score: 1

    I like it for buying not quite the newest but still contains useful information programming books. A lot of times they can beat Amazon on price and one vendor had/has a buy three get one free deal. I can't look the vendor up at the moment because I'm on my phone and Chrome has a nasty habit of dumping buffers when you switch to another tab and Slashdot's preview function is oddly missing. But anyways, it's rare I have to spend more than $5 for any book. Sometimes I don't get an item matching the description but sellers are generally good about either refunding the money outright without sending the item back, or at least an offer that is better than going through the process of sending the item back. Oh, and ink, can't forget ink. Sometimes people sell lots at good prices, but stay away from the onea that offer around 50 assorted DVDs that are chosen at random, because the DVDs are low quality. I say this while acknowledging that many people might say my standards for entertainment are low.

  4. Re: TIMMAY!!!!!! on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you like black on white? It can be like looking into a light bulb sometimes.

  5. Re: Nobody is buying email software anymore on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    However Outlook isn't Microsoft's only email product. I go to Outlook.com for my Hotmail address, but I also have a Gmail account.

  6. Re: I guess it's easier... on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if you've taken one biology course, you've taken them all.
    And have you taken them all?
    I've taken one.

    So tell me mister one class biology class expert, how can the people who grow the animals "fatten" meaning in this case producing meat instead of fat, do so while keeping them confined.

  7. Re: 3D Printed Drones on Developing 3D-Printing Tech for Cars (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I dont think it was supposed to make sense. It appeared like it meant the post above it didn't make sense and was attempting to illustrate why.

  8. The customizations available in 98 were quite advanced allowing you to customize scripts that altered how viewing a given folder appeared and also floating toolbars, and a channels feature that a lot of vocal people insisted were a bad idea. Too bad it crashed too much and so I upgraded the laptop I had with 98 on it to XP which didn't have as many crashing problems but took out most of the customization options. Stability issues aside, I never thought of a Windows release as not finished until 10. "Recently used files" in File Explorer? Just a placeholder. Searching without Cortana? Non-functional when I first installed it and never really bothered to check on the status in part because it would mean figuring out how to turn Cortana off. Speaking of Cortana, she can tell you when a package ordered through eBay has shipped, but nothing about what's in the order itself. I think it may be able to cough up weather info search for applications but not files, that's still a File Explorer only function, not counting third-party search programs, of which I recommend Agent Ransack, which has a tamer named version for the squeamish. A file comparison tool isn't provided, of which I recommend WinMerge for some tasks and Meld for others. It really wants you to divide your collection of media files into Music and TV & Movies, ignoring eBooks, lumping audio books in with Music and Music Videos in with TV & Movies. The Edge browser is missing a lot of control elements. Okay, now I'm tired and so for now I guess that means I am done.

  9. Re: Normally I side with the EFF, BUT on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Which one? I think maybe part of the reason that Slashdot is known for not reading the articles is that they get a bunch of links thrown at them in a summary.

  10. Re: Normally I side with the EFF, BUT on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    At least we'd have the proper venue. Ithink some sort of corrective action should be taken with Cisco, but suing in a U.S. jurisdiction is not the proper venue nor is it the way to achieve a positive result.

  11. Reading laws on Sony Attempts To Trademark "Let's Play" · · Score: 2

    Laws are often written in such a way as to be open to a number of different interpretations. My Dad's a lawyer, though it's been quite awhile since he's been one by trade, and the things he's described to me... (shudder).

  12. Re: Summary insufficient, click through the link. on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    The sort of things that are being hilighted in the tech field have cropped up in other industries and the solutions implemented have not always been the best and their legacy is still felt today and the justifications have grown. For example, separate men's and women's restroom was implemented to protect women from men's boorishness, but now the justfication has become that having sparate bathrooms magically protect women from violence by men somehow.

  13. You were free to find your own counterexample, but failed to do so.

  14. According to Wikipedia, living constitution means that the constituton's meaning changes according to how meanings change in the United States.

  15. Re:Erickson actually created on Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads (cio.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Where have you been?
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  16. Re: Barbie on Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time (ucl.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that guy from "Under the Dome"?

  17. Re:I smell a wumpus on NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait (nethack.org) · · Score: 1

    I have a wumpus repository for a BASIC implementation that can be compiled with QB64 here: https://github.com/hackwrench/...

  18. Re:Oh, for cryin' out loud.... on Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    About as strange as how some people think the First Amendment is monolithic. The people who want Second Amendment protections only want the Congress shall not make any law regarding the establishment of religion part curtailed. There may be some spillover to the freedom of speech clause and other elements, but they aren't directly targeting those.

  19. I like to do a little poking around before registering for a site, so I went to the top level and there's a link for joining a waitlist?

  20. Re:Doing it Wrong on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? · · Score: 1

    Performance issues can prevent me from opening sites I use everyday all at once. Trying to do so not only makes the computer run slower but is harder to navigate as well. Besides I frequently have autocomplete find them for me, or they show up under the most frequntly used list on the new bookmarks tab. I have categories off the bookmarks toolbar. I have YouTube, Programming|Games Games DeviantArt, email, philosophy, portal, physics Printer, P2P, Indie Bundle sites, Books, so on and so forth.

  21. There are different classes of people who think 'd on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't usually think in terms of shallow or deep. Data only becomes information in an intellectual processing environment.
    However I think that there are two classes of person who thinks something is deep: people who think that almost everything they don't understand is deep and those who decide to imbue something they don't understand with meaning. I sometimes think, "why would I use a given set of words together" and that is an intellectual exercise. I have heard of people talk negatively about people doing "intellectual gymnastics" to be able to believe two contradictory positions. However, when you are doing something similar without holding both contradictory must be true it can be a healthy undertaking I think.

  22. Re: I.e. versus e.g. on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been interacting with the poster of https://youtu.be/Gux4Ldy8cN8 who doesn't get it either.

  23. Re: Why is prostitution illegal in the first place on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because among the entire English speaking population there is nowhere that prefers to use the word infection as opposed to disease?

  24. Re: hypocrisy on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the reasoning goes something like, "all life is sacred until a person does something wrong to ruin their own life's sacredness."

  25. So what's so bad about it, in your opinion. Someone broke down the post for another user who complained and the complainer did a better job than you at expressing what he felt was wrong with it?