I've always thought the ideal solution would be to have 3d glasses that can sense the position of your head. That way, as you move and turn your head the view could realistically shift in real time. combine that with a "gun" input device (for fps games, other peripheral for other types of games) that could sense its orientation in 3d space and you would have an excellent 3d experience.
Why have the computer render things that you are not looking at?
You need a better LCD screen. The screen on my Toshiba notebook absolutely kicks ass. I see no blur playing Q3 at 1024x768 and I move around pretty fast. Now the LCD screen on my desktop is a different story. I can see a little blur, not too much but enough to be annoying. I guess that's the difference between a $500 LCD screen and a $1300 one.
I tried this. I got a new laptop with GeForce4go (horrible name) based video. I set it up for 640x480x16, hooked it up to my 32" tv via an S-video cable and... it looked like crap compared to the laptop screen or any monitor I have ever used. Even sitting on a couch 8' away, I had to give up on the idea of using the tv to play quake. Although it sounded great, I cranked up the volume and scared the hell out of my dog.
Nothing. But you still would be able to sell the modified movies that came out of your device. If I buy a movie and make changes to it, that's my business and no one can interfere with it. But When I mass produce this "new" movie and sell the copies then I am committing piracy. The fact that I purchased a copy of the original for every copy I sold is completely irrelevant.
Wasn't there a story a few months back about how a scientist slowed the speed of light down to 39mph by passing it though some medium. So, I have no problem exceeding the speed of light in my bmw.;)
Too bad experimental data seems to consistently confirm Einstein's theories. Except for a few loonies here and there, nobody has taken flat earth theories seriously for the last few millenia.
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That's true, but it still is a *LOT* of information to store and, like you said, it's not attached to any particular person.
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Does anyone seriously believe that that Google can somehow fit 36 years worth of search terms in a single cookie. Since cookies can contain, at most, about 4K of data, this would mean that they have some incredible compression technology. Perhaps what they meant was that the expiration date on Google's cookie is set to 36 years. As far as "forcing" Google to change their policy, I have just one thing to say:
You can turn the gravity down (or off altogether) in Q3. It's a totally different game when you can move in all directions and your inertia carries you a lot further.
Why would they need a re-write. The NT kernel already supports this kind of ability. I haven't seen any software that uses it though. I think the problem is software vendors still have the win9x mentality and don't take security into account. I just installed dragon naturally speaking on a system. After installing it, I discovered that you cannot run it without admin privileges. It's not documented anywhere. It doesn't complain, but if you don't have admin privileges, the UI never comes up. A few weeks ago I had the same problem with HP deskjet drivers. Anyone who wants to print has to have write access to the C:\WINNT directory. This is insane!
my toshiba satelltie has almost all that. 3 usb ports, firewire, bluetooth (I use a pc card for 802.11b) 10/100 + 56K DVD/CDRW, 1.1Ghz Pentium III, 15" screen, gforce4go, 40G drive, 512M RAM. It also has a SD drive, but I have no use for it. Total cost: (including pc card) $2100.
Unfortunately, Visual C++ doesn't take advantage of multiple processors. (Assuming that's what they're using). I built a simple tool that took a VC++ 6.0 project file, analyzed the dependencies and then did a distributed build on a 2-processor box. It cut the build time neatly in half (1 hour to 30 minutes). Then they changed the format of project files with VC.NET and I never bothered to update the tool.
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I've always thought the ideal solution would be to have 3d glasses that can sense the position of your head. That way, as you move and turn your head the view could realistically shift in real time. combine that with a "gun" input device (for fps games, other peripheral for other types of games) that could sense its orientation in 3d space and you would have an excellent 3d experience.
Why have the computer render things that you are not looking at?
You need a better LCD screen. The screen on my Toshiba notebook absolutely kicks ass. I see no blur playing Q3 at 1024x768 and I move around pretty fast. Now the LCD screen on my desktop is a different story. I can see a little blur, not too much but enough to be annoying. I guess that's the difference between a $500 LCD screen and a $1300 one.
I tried this. I got a new laptop with GeForce4go (horrible name) based video. I set it up for 640x480x16, hooked it up to my 32" tv via an S-video cable and... it looked like crap compared to the laptop screen or any monitor I have ever used. Even sitting on a couch 8' away, I had to give up on the idea of using the tv to play quake. Although it sounded great, I cranked up the volume and scared the hell out of my dog.
Nothing. But you still would be able to sell the modified movies that came out of your device. If I buy a movie and make changes to it, that's my business and no one can interfere with it. But When I mass produce this "new" movie and sell the copies then I am committing piracy. The fact that I purchased a copy of the original for every copy I sold is completely irrelevant.
I would definitely pay money to have sex, violence and profanity *added* to some movies. It will actually make them watchable.
what about the inevitable "Imagine a beowolf cluster of these"?
Especially when they walked across the floor... now THAT was something to see!
@stake is the security company... but @steak sounds delicious ;)
Wasn't there a story a few months back about how a scientist slowed the speed of light down to 39mph by passing it though some medium. So, I have no problem exceeding the speed of light in my bmw. ;)
Too bad experimental data seems to consistently confirm Einstein's theories. Except for a few loonies here and there, nobody has taken flat earth theories seriously for the last few millenia.
That's true, but it still is a *LOT* of information to store and, like you said, it's not attached to any particular person.
Does anyone seriously believe that that Google can somehow fit 36 years worth of search terms in a single cookie. Since cookies can contain, at most, about 4K of data, this would mean that they have some incredible compression technology. Perhaps what they meant was that the expiration date on Google's cookie is set to 36 years. As far as "forcing" Google to change their policy, I have just one thing to say:
You toucha my Google, I breaka you face!
faster hardware has rendered the software obsolete.
That should read "faster hardware has rendered the software tolerable."
You can turn the gravity down (or off altogether) in Q3. It's a totally different game when you can move in all directions and your inertia carries you a lot further.
If an interviewee bursts out laughing at this one you may someone who is both technically strong and has a good sense of humor.
Windows has no interoperability issues with Windows networks.
That is the funniest thing I have read in a long time.
try again... its mosquito
I worked for ZD a long time ago. They were a good company to work for. And, BTW, FIRST REAL POST!
...it might be fake.
I know what hackers will be doing in the future. :-)
Does that dress come with a firewall?
Why would they need a re-write. The NT kernel already supports this kind of ability. I haven't seen any software that uses it though. I think the problem is software vendors still have the win9x mentality and don't take security into account. I just installed dragon naturally speaking on a system. After installing it, I discovered that you cannot run it without admin privileges. It's not documented anywhere. It doesn't complain, but if you don't have admin privileges, the UI never comes up. A few weeks ago I had the same problem with HP deskjet drivers. Anyone who wants to print has to have write access to the C:\WINNT directory. This is insane!
my toshiba satelltie has almost all that. 3 usb ports, firewire, bluetooth (I use a pc card for 802.11b) 10/100 + 56K DVD/CDRW, 1.1Ghz Pentium III, 15" screen, gforce4go, 40G drive, 512M RAM. It also has a SD drive, but I have no use for it. Total cost: (including pc card) $2100.
Unfortunately, Visual C++ doesn't take advantage of multiple processors. (Assuming that's what they're using). I built a simple tool that took a VC++ 6.0 project file, analyzed the dependencies and then did a distributed build on a 2-processor box. It cut the build time neatly in half (1 hour to 30 minutes). Then they changed the format of project files with VC.NET and I never bothered to update the tool.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read it that way.
Actually, I kind of like "remarm". It has a certain charm. ;)