It bothers me a lot that stereo photography has been around so long yet isn't ubiquitous yet. Modern digi-cams don't do this. You said it's been around for ages, I hope most people know you mean more than decades. A quick google search tells me 1839 at the latest. What is stopping it?
Putting 2 sensors on a digi cam (photo or video) is not a difficult trick. You store the images in a format that supports 2 channels (left/right) and you can view them on any monitor with a simple pair of USB controlled glasses that flicks back and forth blacking out each eye. Also there are already 3d monitors out there that work without glasses.
Print out one channel for a 2d image or use photoshop filters to create red/blue 3d prints. Or even send images to a printer and get back those wheels used in those orange stereoscope toys.
If I had this ALL my pictures would be 3d. For that matter all movies should be 3D. IMAX has a workable solution but I think every movie should be shown this way. People would even buy their own personal polarized glasses that are more comfortable than the pairs handed out at the show.
I've been eyeing a digital-SLR for quite some time, for the cost of one of those I'd gladly turn my attention to a 3D capable camera with lower quality. And if the grandparent post is right something similar should be possible for SLR cameras without using 2 huge lenses. Although I'd submit that you can't always control the lighting.
Every now and then a red/blue 3D image comes up on APOD or elsewhere and I kick myself for not having a cheap pair red/blue glasses.
Plus us people are a vindictive bunch. We'll even willingly hurt ourselves in a effort to hurt somebody who deserves it.
In this context I would willingly pay $1 if I knew it would cost a spammer $2. Why would I go out of my way to cost the spammer $2? Because I'm vindictive.
Well it (too many cooks...) might not be THE problem with Linux but it's mine. If LSB will allow me to:
Download
Click to install
Enjoy!
I'll be there. I'll pick an LSB distro and I'll hunt for LSB certified packages. It's the 'free' part of Linux that appeals most to me. I don't have the money to waste on XP but I don't have time to learn how to recompile a kernel. So maybe Linux isn't for me.
I've been evaluating linux for a while and the learning has been very slow. Sometimes my hand gets sore from punching my monitor. Dispite picking what I thought would be the Linux for dummies (Redhat).
"high end stuff at 3x what you can buy it for at ANY electronics store"
Granted they seem to be a bit more expensive. But a friend and I went into one (in Canada) on Boxing day and talked them down several hundered on a late model reciever and a fancy schmancy universal remote. I never checked but I figured we were probably a bit below the shelf price at the big electronics outlet. Heck, the big outlet was across the parking lot the prices had to be somewhat similar.
It's also not obvious from the article if XAML is cross browser capable. Does it spit out web standards based HTML/XHTML or whatever or does it use an IE only browser plugin?
They say it only supports IE on windows platforms but they're looking at Mono and Linux. Does this mean the development tool only runs on windows or that XAML will only ever run on IE?
I stood about 100 yards away from the New Jersey when she fired all guns starboard. The heat & energy from those guns was incredible. Image an order of magnitude higher. Those little aluminum FFG's would melt their superstructure with one round.
Without the hot expanding gasses from conventional cannons the heat might not get out of hand. Right?
Anyway, patents suck ass. Any potential they had for encouraging innovation has long since been swept away in a tide of greed and corruption. It's time for patents to go.
There must be a new way of running the system that would work. Or at least work better. The first suggestion that comes to my mind is the PO could put the patent to the public to submit proir art BEFORE it is granted. Then the PO could examine use any submissions against the patent. That would have to be a cheaper way of doing research.
But as one of the parents of this post stated, the big companies like it the way it is. The pessimist in me thinks this, or any process, that might work, has been patented that's why we won't see a change.
The article talks about canceling the sound from 'the' fan. Some people have lots of fans in their case. There's the powersupply fan, a possible GPU fan, a possible north bridge fan, and possible fans on the case for extra air flow. Also there's the HD and optical drive making noise. These noises should all be eliminated muffled, pc drone gets on my nerves now and my next pc will different.
You can already make a dead silent pc without sacrificing performance or resorting to this complicated gadget. Get big passive heatsinks for the cpu and gpu. They look like
this.
It works on regular cps and seems to be a much simpler solution than four sensors four speakers and a signal processing unit.
This guy has lots of hints for reducing noise and that's just the first hit on google.
The fan on my video card died and I didn't notice so I lost the card. It was only a geforceMX but I'm a little bitter.
Fans die. Wether I notice in time isn't imortant to me, it's still a pain.
You could use this to index all your songs. Then you hum/whistle/sing/fart a part of the song which gets converted to the same file format and you start comparing it to all the songs in the library looking for a close match.
You could use as a method of searching a p2p network (or ligitimate site) for a song you want but don't know the name/artist of.
Or use it to switch to a song already in your playlist.
I suppose some of the tone-deaf out there wouldn't have much luck with it.
If this utility can make a midi-like (sorry didn't read the article) file from a song
They might allow a little hacking but I'm sure they'll draw a line quickly. Auto manufacturers seem to love the closed-source model, owners are forced to bring their problems back to the dealer $$$
My Dad is one of an earlier breed of hackers: an amatuer auto mechanic. He's better at hacking cars than I'll ever be at hacking electronics.
He converted his jeep to manual trans then back to auto when it failed too. His 55' Thunderbird has a Chevy engine in it. He gave up trying to find the "proper" ford engine to keep the car pure, he's going to make it work. Things like the vacum powered windshield wipers and lack of seatbelts have to go. I have no doubt he'll make a car much better than anything avaliable in 55' (rolls royce aside?).
It seems that's the way things used to be. Manufacturers have locked him out of the game. With a newer car things are more difficult. With a newer car he's lucky if he can diagnose what is causing the problem. It's like an assembly programmer trying to figure out why IE crashed. And If he wanted to put a 04' corvette engine in an 04' T-bird the challenge would be beyond the scope of matching engine mounts and transmission bolts.
I'm suprised somebody hasn't caught on to this one before. Ocean going boats have an anode attached to prevent corrosion:
To prevent the valuable metal on the ship from rusting, a piece of sacrificial metal is attached to the ship, and a current is forced to flow between the sacrificial metal and the ship itself (through the sea water). The current is set so that electrons flow from the sacrificial metal (the anode) into the ship (the cathode). The sacrificial metal will corrode severely (like the nail on the left), but the flow of electrons into the ship will prevent it rusting (like the nail on the right). When the sacrificial anode has corroded away, it can simply be replaced with a new one - a lot cheaper and safer than replacing corroded panels and components on the ship.
Sounds like a similar current generation effect to me.
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It bothers me a lot that stereo photography has been around so long yet isn't ubiquitous yet. Modern digi-cams don't do this. You said it's been around for ages, I hope most people know you mean more than decades. A quick google search tells me 1839 at the latest. What is stopping it?
Putting 2 sensors on a digi cam (photo or video) is not a difficult trick. You store the images in a format that supports 2 channels (left/right) and you can view them on any monitor with a simple pair of USB controlled glasses that flicks back and forth blacking out each eye. Also there are already 3d monitors out there that work without glasses.
Print out one channel for a 2d image or use photoshop filters to create red/blue 3d prints. Or even send images to a printer and get back those wheels used in those orange stereoscope toys.
If I had this ALL my pictures would be 3d. For that matter all movies should be 3D. IMAX has a workable solution but I think every movie should be shown this way. People would even buy their own personal polarized glasses that are more comfortable than the pairs handed out at the show.
I've been eyeing a digital-SLR for quite some time, for the cost of one of those I'd gladly turn my attention to a 3D capable camera with lower quality. And if the grandparent post is right something similar should be possible for SLR cameras without using 2 huge lenses. Although I'd submit that you can't always control the lighting.
Every now and then a red/blue 3D image comes up on APOD or elsewhere and I kick myself for not having a cheap pair red/blue glasses.
Plus us people are a vindictive bunch. We'll even willingly hurt ourselves in a effort to hurt somebody who deserves it.
In this context I would willingly pay $1 if I knew it would cost a spammer $2. Why would I go out of my way to cost the spammer $2? Because I'm vindictive.
I bet I'm not the only one.
- Download
- Click to install
- Enjoy!
I'll be there. I'll pick an LSB distro and I'll hunt for LSB certified packages. It's the 'free' part of Linux that appeals most to me. I don't have the money to waste on XP but I don't have time to learn how to recompile a kernel. So maybe Linux isn't for me.I've been evaluating linux for a while and the learning has been very slow. Sometimes my hand gets sore from punching my monitor. Dispite picking what I thought would be the Linux for dummies (Redhat).
Granted they seem to be a bit more expensive. But a friend and I went into one (in Canada) on Boxing day and talked them down several hundered on a late model reciever and a fancy schmancy universal remote. I never checked but I figured we were probably a bit below the shelf price at the big electronics outlet.
Heck, the big outlet was across the parking lot the prices had to be somewhat similar.
"Isn't it time you treated yourself to a Lexus, John Anderton?"
It's also not obvious from the article if XAML is cross browser capable. Does it spit out web standards based HTML/XHTML or whatever or does it use an IE only browser plugin? They say it only supports IE on windows platforms but they're looking at Mono and Linux. Does this mean the development tool only runs on windows or that XAML will only ever run on IE?
Does this mean you can teach photoshop (or whichever app) how to clean up noise from your digital camera? Is this being done already?
My XP SP1 already has a value of 3
One better, if the office is big enough nobody's cube/office should own the windows. Make a walkway along them for all to enjoy.
Without the hot expanding gasses from conventional cannons the heat might not get out of hand. Right?
There must be a new way of running the system that would work. Or at least work better. The first suggestion that comes to my mind is the PO could put the patent to the public to submit proir art BEFORE it is granted. Then the PO could examine use any submissions against the patent. That would have to be a cheaper way of doing research.
But as one of the parents of this post stated, the big companies like it the way it is. The pessimist in me thinks this, or any process, that might work, has been patented that's why we won't see a change.
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Did you read the interview? It's being directed by brits and has Mrs. Adam's blessing.
The article talks about canceling the sound from 'the' fan. Some people have lots of fans in their case. There's the powersupply fan, a possible GPU fan, a possible north bridge fan, and possible fans on the case for extra air flow. Also there's the HD and optical drive making noise. These noises should all be eliminated muffled, pc drone gets on my nerves now and my next pc will different.
You can already make a dead silent pc without sacrificing performance or resorting to this complicated gadget. Get big passive heatsinks for the cpu and gpu. They look like this. It works on regular cps and seems to be a much simpler solution than four sensors four speakers and a signal processing unit.
This guy has lots of hints for reducing noise and that's just the first hit on google.
The fan on my video card died and I didn't notice so I lost the card. It was only a geforceMX but I'm a little bitter.
Fans die. Wether I notice in time isn't imortant to me, it's still a pain.
You could use this to index all your songs. Then you hum/whistle/sing/fart a part of the song which gets converted to the same file format and you start comparing it to all the songs in the library looking for a close match. You could use as a method of searching a p2p network (or ligitimate site) for a song you want but don't know the name/artist of. Or use it to switch to a song already in your playlist. I suppose some of the tone-deaf out there wouldn't have much luck with it. If this utility can make a midi-like (sorry didn't read the article) file from a song
Except for alcohol which we still measure (unofficially) by pints, quarts, ounces.
In the endless editions of identical books. Hardy brothers? Start Trek, Star Wars, Robotech?
Does this make god corrupt or is it exempt?
They might allow a little hacking but I'm sure they'll draw a line quickly. Auto manufacturers seem to love the closed-source model, owners are forced to bring their problems back to the dealer $$$
My Dad is one of an earlier breed of hackers: an amatuer auto mechanic. He's better at hacking cars than I'll ever be at hacking electronics.
He converted his jeep to manual trans then back to auto when it failed too. His 55' Thunderbird has a Chevy engine in it. He gave up trying to find the "proper" ford engine to keep the car pure, he's going to make it work. Things like the vacum powered windshield wipers and lack of seatbelts have to go. I have no doubt he'll make a car much better than anything avaliable in 55' (rolls royce aside?).
It seems that's the way things used to be. Manufacturers have locked him out of the game. With a newer car things are more difficult. With a newer car he's lucky if he can diagnose what is causing the problem. It's like an assembly programmer trying to figure out why IE crashed. And If he wanted to put a 04' corvette engine in an 04' T-bird the challenge would be beyond the scope of matching engine mounts and transmission bolts.
No want wait. Want kill bill 2 NOW.
Maybe it's the %0.16 of people who are responding to spam.
There seems to be some argument over what is ray tracing and photon mapping. But what does Blender do?
Maybe it can be done with a blimp.
I made pop-unders all the time when application programming. We called it a bug. Is that prior art?
Besides tides there's probably no energy in seawater anyway.