It's exactly tne type of language China uses to censor everything. Pornography harms the public order... simple documentary articles about Tienanmen harm the public order. In fact, the more provably true a piece of information is, the more likely it is to harm the public order, by triggering protests, indepndant evacuations, or general anger toward and mistrust of the government. Any law that specifies "order" as a goal is doomed to become a tool of tyranny.
Forgive me if I've miscalculated, but I had always reasoned that theaters would -only- be able to make objects closer to the viewer. As you say, the eyes are nearly paralell while watching a normal theater screen, and the screen itself is approaching the limit at which the eye ca use parallax to distinguish depth. In any given display system, the depth resolution is limited to the number of pixels the eye can force to overlap. Objects are made to look farther away by placing them as close as possible to the same distance from each other that the two eyes are from each other, and matching this distance causes the object to look "infinitely distant". The number of pixels that can fit on a theater screen in a space the size of the distance between the eyes is miniscule. Most of the depth resolution in a theater screen exists "outside" the screen, where the eyes are crossed, and depth-cue detail can be spread over a third or more of the screen.
Movie screen are large enough that a viewer can focus on the tip of their own nose, and still have a third or more of the screen overlapping, depending on its size and the viewer's distance. Objects on-screen that overlap correctly when the viewer stares at their nose will be perceived to be at the same distance as the viewer's nose. This will cause the problem the parent mentioned in whch the correct focus for the eye is screen-depth, but the eye will attempt to focus at nose depth.
But as you said, no -good- mvie makes the viewer focus on their own nose. Even with most depth resolution existing "outside" the screen, there is plenty of depth available to make the effect enjoyable, while keeping the difference in eye-focus compared to screen focus negligible.
"Since for 3D to work, the cameras have to be at a fixed distance very close to each other"
Depending on the effect you're going for, you can place the cameras wherever you want. I regularly take landscape photos with tens of feet worth of separation.
I just bothered to Google it. PowerDVD is the broken piece of junk that came with the drive, and WinDVD is the other one I wrestled with in vain. I'll look into Arrrrr..... arrrrrrrrr... sorry... I use ArcSoft software for a few other things, and its hard to say their name without vomiting in my mouth a little. I'll check them out though. They can't possibly be worse than what I've got. Thanks!
Why does it have to cost 60 dollars, for starters? I've got plenty of 1-10 dollar games on my iPad, but I just bought Portal 2 for 40-something dollars because Portal was amazing, and Valve consistently does a bang-up job. He's right that I would absolutely never pay $60 for a Gears of War, because Gears of War is tedious, rehashed, thinly plotted, trendily desaturated garbage, and when I borrowed it, I couldn't even be bothered to play a quarter of it.
I'll probably buy L.A. Noir for 60 dollars, because Rockstar generally does a great job, provides great depth and breadth in their free roaming games. I bought New Vegas for those same reasons, and I'll probably get the next DLC for it.
I don't plan on buying any games that promise "realistic modern combat", no matter which part of the planet they're set on. I don't plan to buy a racing game that computes my coefficient of friction to two more decimal places than the previous version. I don't plan to buy a game based on a movie based on a cartoon that I liked when I was ten.
How do you sell someone a $60 dollar app that's worth it? Put some actual work into the conceptual side, instead of trying to be a billion dollar game-factory that cranks out sequels to the latest incrementally improved rehashes of Marathon. Create some IP that isn't deliberately targeted at the lowest common denominator. Yeah, I know Gears of War has broad appeal, but it's broad and shallow. There's nothing wrong with broad and shallow, but if that's what you're after, you're going to have to launch at 20-30 bucks, and learn to love the shelves by the checkout lane. There's no shame in it, especially if that's the quality of effort you're putting in the begin with.
You can basically stick a DVD drive in a badger and get its best possible picture out the other end.
If I stick a Blu-Ray drive in my mom's computer, her 1080p TV will get 720p, at best, I think. If I stick it in my computer, with HDCP, but plug it into my iz3d monitor, I get 720p, at best ( no HDCP support ). If I plug it into my TV with VGA, because Westinghouse TV's apparently forget how to receive HDMI for weeks at a time, I get 720p, at best. Or if I accidentally leave the iz3D drivers running, thereby breaking the video chain of trust. Or if the wind blows.
People buy DVDs to play on -all- of their devices. Even old people watch DVDs through computers now. Getting Blu-Ray to work doesn't involve buying Blu-Ray discs, it involves upgrading every goddamned component you have, then crossing your fingers.
And the software. JESUS CHRIST.
I get to choose between CyberLink something or other and PowerDVD something or other... the only two options... both cost money. The OEM that came with the drive installs fine, but fails to install an update without it which it can play no Blu-Ray discs. When it finally runs, it's visibly horrible software, littered with stock photos and upsell messages. It enforces every no-skip, no-fast-forward, no-screenshot, no-noting rule to the hilt until you just wish Flanders was dead.
I love the picture, and now that I've got it all working, it's worth having the Netflix Blu-ray option.... but I'm not going to pay money to own discs that do their level best to thwart me at every opportunity, and if fell through a wormhole into the past, I would probably skip the whole thing and pirate my HD content. 720p only? Fuck, that's probably all I get half the time, anyway.
I'm finally considered low! My burning shame has at last been quenched! I was assuming UIDs would be in the ten-millions before anyone thought the 700,000 range was low. *joyful weeping*
In a related thought, I think the tsunami death-toll is up around four 9/11s. I feel like long-term, declaring a War on Tsunamiism and spending one trillion dollars over ten years building ridiculously sturdy buildings in Japan would save more lives, and destroy fewer American freedoms. The south-east Asian tsunami should have been our call to invade the Pacific Ocean with excessive building coders, and investments in materials technology...
Perot was also up against the corrupt two-party election system that explicitly places higher demands on third parties. All it really takes to become President is to be chosen for it by the same group of rich, old white men that chose the last president, and have spent 100 years rigging the game to keep everyone else out.
The first time people started talking about a run by W., I think the nation as a whole thought, "Oh, so they really do just gather in a room every four years and pick someone present, at random..."
He had nothing going for him, other than the fact that you'd expect him to be in the room they pick the next president in. Maybe he's just the World Rock-paper-scissors Champion.
The Russian photos are made entirely of data from red and infrared sensors. The NASA Blue Marble image is a completely, tragically fake rendering, with visible polygon vertices... but mapped with photos from beautiful RGB sensors.
Multi-monitor gaming is pointless, and will remain pointless, until video cards can render separate views, or a single view with cylindrical or spherical projection. When people use three monitors, they arc them, in the hopes of increasing immersion. The actual, correct positioning with current technology is a straight line... and it still looks like garbage. Each additional monitor yields diminishing returns of increaswd viewing angle, when people naturally expect a linear increase in viewing angle.
Peop,e really need to stop pushong multi-monitor gaming until it stops being complete crap.
I'm the other guy. I've been semi-obsessed with 3D since my formative years. I was a cinch at random dot stereograms, and when I doodled in class, it was often in the form of a stereo pair. Now I can watch 3D movies til the cows come home and do all of my gaming on an iz3d monitor. Even the heavy ghosting doesn't upset my brain. I'm thrilled that 3D is catching on. Anything less, to me, feels incomplete and hard the navigate. "Prototype" in particular, I think, benefited enormously, both artistically and in gameplay, from 3D. The game was really forgettable, and I never finished it, but the first time I climbed to the top of a building and peered over the edge of a gargoyle? Man... it -felt- almost exactly like looking over a real ledge... a bit dizzy, a bit dangerous, and oddly tempting. And then I got to jump off, without consequences. It was fun on the bun!
I read/heard somewhere about a clip where the Ghost Hunters review some footage taken by a secondary film crew and notice some spooky lights on the stairs of a distant building. They chalk it up to "something". The timestamp on the footage matches the timestamp on another segment of film... from the primary camera crew... when they were on the stairs of the building.
Malware of all kinds is offered to people on the web, and deliberately installed. The fact that they've distributed the malware in the form of a source code fragment instead of a complete binary is no reason to exempt them from laws governing such things. Not that I think anyone would ever get in trouble for it... but in -principle- I think it's illegal.
This is how I felt throughout Fable 3. The game is shockingly short, the bulk of the side-quests are... bulk side quests ( A ruffian named needs capturing. There's a reward in it for you! ) The King portion, which should be half of the game, takes an hour, and I've yet to see a noticeable change ( apart from the interiors of two buildings ) in the environment. The main bad guys don't even show up until you've only got an hour or two left to play, and are defeated suddenly, with no sense of accomplishment. And throughout, you come across gaping holes in the story that are clearly hangers for DLC. It's painful, and makes the rest of it seem all the cheaper. The whole thing feels like a shoddy framework built for the sole purpose of selling premium content.
Really. It's shocking how much better Fable 2 is than Fable 3, in absolutely every way. I pine for menus.
That sounds great! You also spare yourself the pain of incomplete series that way, and the pain of reading series that are dragged out indefinitely for profit. When my friends were raving about the Wheel of Time, it was on book nine, I think... "Fuck that," I said, "There's no good god damned reason for a series -that long- of books -that thick-. When you reach that volume, you are no longer telling a single, coherent story, and can't possibly have planned the whole mass out from the beginning."
Much of that was undoubtedly sour grapes, because I was too lazy to read that much just to enjoy a story with my friends, but I think there's a kernel of truth in there somewhere. And then he DIED. He dragged the series out so long that he DIED. Granted, he died far too young, but when you stretch it over eleven books and twenty yeas, you're just begging to be hit by a bus, or struck by lightning. The book he had planned to be the last in the series has been cut up into three books, for a total of 22 years.
Harry Potter could have lasted 22 years. It could have gotten progressively worse (not a shot at Wheel of Time, just a possibility of any long series), with a long tail of fans dropping off the series at different stages as they became unable to make excuses for it (I officially declare this to be a shot at The Simpsons), until the actual conclusion became pointless, anyway. J.K. Rowling could have died at any point.
I'm glad I read Timothy Zahn's first Star Wars trilogy, but I foolishly read several books beyond. If you want to know the current state of the Star Wars universe, you'll have to have read 67 books, many of which are utter drivel. The evil empire that drove the plot is no more, your favorite characters are now dead, and their apartment's have been sold to rowdy college students, and little old ladies, who have completely redecorated the place. There's nothing left to go back to, but some tortured souls still go back, again and again.
Take a hand-powered drill, and replace the drill bit with a screwdriver bit. Fit the bit into a screw which has been screwed halfway through a board. Bolt the board and the drill to a platform with wheels on it so that the screw points backward, and gear the wheels of the platform to the hand-crank. When you push the platform, the wheels will turn the crank, the crank will turn the screw in the board, and the screw will slowly extend outward behind the whole contraption. Now, instead of pushing on the platform, push on the tip of the screw itself. The screw remains motionless relative to your pushing finger, but the rest ofthe contraption is cranked slowly away from your finger and the screw. The screw represents the wind, which the contraption is now moving faster than, as long as the screw drills through your finger more slowly than it drills through the board it's mounted in.
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It's exactly tne type of language China uses to censor everything. Pornography harms the public order... simple documentary articles about Tienanmen harm the public order. In fact, the more provably true a piece of information is, the more likely it is to harm the public order, by triggering protests, indepndant evacuations, or general anger toward and mistrust of the government. Any law that specifies "order" as a goal is doomed to become a tool of tyranny.
Forgive me if I've miscalculated, but I had always reasoned that theaters would -only- be able to make objects closer to the viewer. As you say, the eyes are nearly paralell while watching a normal theater screen, and the screen itself is approaching the limit at which the eye ca use parallax to distinguish depth. In any given display system, the depth resolution is limited to the number of pixels the eye can force to overlap. Objects are made to look farther away by placing them as close as possible to the same distance from each other that the two eyes are from each other, and matching this distance causes the object to look "infinitely distant". The number of pixels that can fit on a theater screen in a space the size of the distance between the eyes is miniscule. Most of the depth resolution in a theater screen exists "outside" the screen, where the eyes are crossed, and depth-cue detail can be spread over a third or more of the screen.
Movie screen are large enough that a viewer can focus on the tip of their own nose, and still have a third or more of the screen overlapping, depending on its size and the viewer's distance. Objects on-screen that overlap correctly when the viewer stares at their nose will be perceived to be at the same distance as the viewer's nose. This will cause the problem the parent mentioned in whch the correct focus for the eye is screen-depth, but the eye will attempt to focus at nose depth.
But as you said, no -good- mvie makes the viewer focus on their own nose. Even with most depth resolution existing "outside" the screen, there is plenty of depth available to make the effect enjoyable, while keeping the difference in eye-focus compared to screen focus negligible.
"Since for 3D to work, the cameras have to be at a fixed distance very close to each other"
Depending on the effect you're going for, you can place the cameras wherever you want. I regularly take landscape photos with tens of feet worth of separation.
Also...
I have to be running Steam, Games for Windows LIVE, and Rockstar Games Social Club if I want to play GTA4 online.
If there is one thing I DO NOT NEED MORE OF it is
SUITES
OF
FUCKING
SERVICES.
I didn't mean to imply that DVDs weren't hell, just they they aren't hell now, compared to Blu-Ray.
I just bothered to Google it. PowerDVD is the broken piece of junk that came with the drive, and WinDVD is the other one I wrestled with in vain. I'll look into Arrrrr..... arrrrrrrrr... sorry... I use ArcSoft software for a few other things, and its hard to say their name without vomiting in my mouth a little. I'll check them out though. They can't possibly be worse than what I've got. Thanks!
Why does it have to cost 60 dollars, for starters? I've got plenty of 1-10 dollar games on my iPad, but I just bought Portal 2 for 40-something dollars because Portal was amazing, and Valve consistently does a bang-up job. He's right that I would absolutely never pay $60 for a Gears of War, because Gears of War is tedious, rehashed, thinly plotted, trendily desaturated garbage, and when I borrowed it, I couldn't even be bothered to play a quarter of it.
I'll probably buy L.A. Noir for 60 dollars, because Rockstar generally does a great job, provides great depth and breadth in their free roaming games. I bought New Vegas for those same reasons, and I'll probably get the next DLC for it.
I don't plan on buying any games that promise "realistic modern combat", no matter which part of the planet they're set on. I don't plan to buy a racing game that computes my coefficient of friction to two more decimal places than the previous version. I don't plan to buy a game based on a movie based on a cartoon that I liked when I was ten.
How do you sell someone a $60 dollar app that's worth it? Put some actual work into the conceptual side, instead of trying to be a billion dollar game-factory that cranks out sequels to the latest incrementally improved rehashes of Marathon. Create some IP that isn't deliberately targeted at the lowest common denominator. Yeah, I know Gears of War has broad appeal, but it's broad and shallow. There's nothing wrong with broad and shallow, but if that's what you're after, you're going to have to launch at 20-30 bucks, and learn to love the shelves by the checkout lane. There's no shame in it, especially if that's the quality of effort you're putting in the begin with.
Gears of Fucking War.
Shut the fuck up.
No, I just get more time to make box art, write manuals, test, submit, and make trailers...
You can basically stick a DVD drive in a badger and get its best possible picture out the other end.
If I stick a Blu-Ray drive in my mom's computer, her 1080p TV will get 720p, at best, I think. If I stick it in my computer, with HDCP, but plug it into my iz3d monitor, I get 720p, at best ( no HDCP support ). If I plug it into my TV with VGA, because Westinghouse TV's apparently forget how to receive HDMI for weeks at a time, I get 720p, at best. Or if I accidentally leave the iz3D drivers running, thereby breaking the video chain of trust. Or if the wind blows.
People buy DVDs to play on -all- of their devices. Even old people watch DVDs through computers now. Getting Blu-Ray to work doesn't involve buying Blu-Ray discs, it involves upgrading every goddamned component you have, then crossing your fingers.
And the software. JESUS CHRIST.
I get to choose between CyberLink something or other and PowerDVD something or other... the only two options... both cost money. The OEM that came with the drive installs fine, but fails to install an update without it which it can play no Blu-Ray discs. When it finally runs, it's visibly horrible software, littered with stock photos and upsell messages. It enforces every no-skip, no-fast-forward, no-screenshot, no-noting rule to the hilt until you just wish Flanders was dead.
I love the picture, and now that I've got it all working, it's worth having the Netflix Blu-ray option.... but I'm not going to pay money to own discs that do their level best to thwart me at every opportunity, and if fell through a wormhole into the past, I would probably skip the whole thing and pirate my HD content. 720p only? Fuck, that's probably all I get half the time, anyway.
What about everything within the radius of the Earh's path around the galactic center?
I'm finally considered low! My burning shame has at last been quenched! I was assuming UIDs would be in the ten-millions before anyone thought the 700,000 range was low. *joyful weeping*
In a related thought, I think the tsunami death-toll is up around four 9/11s. I feel like long-term, declaring a War on Tsunamiism and spending one trillion dollars over ten years building ridiculously sturdy buildings in Japan would save more lives, and destroy fewer American freedoms. The south-east Asian tsunami should have been our call to invade the Pacific Ocean with excessive building coders, and investments in materials technology...
Perot was also up against the corrupt two-party election system that explicitly places higher demands on third parties. All it really takes to become President is to be chosen for it by the same group of rich, old white men that chose the last president, and have spent 100 years rigging the game to keep everyone else out.
The first time people started talking about a run by W., I think the nation as a whole thought, "Oh, so they really do just gather in a room every four years and pick someone present, at random..."
He had nothing going for him, other than the fact that you'd expect him to be in the room they pick the next president in. Maybe he's just the World Rock-paper-scissors Champion.
I thnk you meant to say: Sir, I would consider it a favor! Hufufufufufufufuf!
Trololololololol
The Russian photos are made entirely of data from red and infrared sensors. The NASA Blue Marble image is a completely, tragically fake rendering, with visible polygon vertices... but mapped with photos from beautiful RGB sensors.
Don't forget trusty old: "songname" mp3 +"index of" -inurl:html|htm|php
Multi-monitor gaming is pointless, and will remain pointless, until video cards can render separate views, or a single view with cylindrical or spherical projection. When people use three monitors, they arc them, in the hopes of increasing immersion. The actual, correct positioning with current technology is a straight line... and it still looks like garbage. Each additional monitor yields diminishing returns of increaswd viewing angle, when people naturally expect a linear increase in viewing angle.
Peop,e really need to stop pushong multi-monitor gaming until it stops being complete crap.
I'm the other guy. I've been semi-obsessed with 3D since my formative years. I was a cinch at random dot stereograms, and when I doodled in class, it was often in the form of a stereo pair. Now I can watch 3D movies til the cows come home and do all of my gaming on an iz3d monitor. Even the heavy ghosting doesn't upset my brain. I'm thrilled that 3D is catching on. Anything less, to me, feels incomplete and hard the navigate. "Prototype" in particular, I think, benefited enormously, both artistically and in gameplay, from 3D. The game was really forgettable, and I never finished it, but the first time I climbed to the top of a building and peered over the edge of a gargoyle? Man... it -felt- almost exactly like looking over a real ledge... a bit dizzy, a bit dangerous, and oddly tempting. And then I got to jump off, without consequences. It was fun on the bun!
I read/heard somewhere about a clip where the Ghost Hunters review some footage taken by a secondary film crew and notice some spooky lights on the stairs of a distant building. They chalk it up to "something". The timestamp on the footage matches the timestamp on another segment of film... from the primary camera crew... when they were on the stairs of the building.
Malware of all kinds is offered to people on the web, and deliberately installed. The fact that they've distributed the malware in the form of a source code fragment instead of a complete binary is no reason to exempt them from laws governing such things. Not that I think anyone would ever get in trouble for it... but in -principle- I think it's illegal.
"Why hasn't anyone solved my one-time pad encrypted puzzle?"
This is how I felt throughout Fable 3. The game is shockingly short, the bulk of the side-quests are... bulk side quests ( A ruffian named needs capturing. There's a reward in it for you! ) The King portion, which should be half of the game, takes an hour, and I've yet to see a noticeable change ( apart from the interiors of two buildings ) in the environment. The main bad guys don't even show up until you've only got an hour or two left to play, and are defeated suddenly, with no sense of accomplishment. And throughout, you come across gaping holes in the story that are clearly hangers for DLC. It's painful, and makes the rest of it seem all the cheaper. The whole thing feels like a shoddy framework built for the sole purpose of selling premium content.
Really. It's shocking how much better Fable 2 is than Fable 3, in absolutely every way. I pine for menus.
That sounds great! You also spare yourself the pain of incomplete series that way, and the pain of reading series that are dragged out indefinitely for profit. When my friends were raving about the Wheel of Time, it was on book nine, I think... "Fuck that," I said, "There's no good god damned reason for a series -that long- of books -that thick-. When you reach that volume, you are no longer telling a single, coherent story, and can't possibly have planned the whole mass out from the beginning."
Much of that was undoubtedly sour grapes, because I was too lazy to read that much just to enjoy a story with my friends, but I think there's a kernel of truth in there somewhere. And then he DIED. He dragged the series out so long that he DIED. Granted, he died far too young, but when you stretch it over eleven books and twenty yeas, you're just begging to be hit by a bus, or struck by lightning. The book he had planned to be the last in the series has been cut up into three books, for a total of 22 years.
Harry Potter could have lasted 22 years. It could have gotten progressively worse (not a shot at Wheel of Time, just a possibility of any long series), with a long tail of fans dropping off the series at different stages as they became unable to make excuses for it (I officially declare this to be a shot at The Simpsons), until the actual conclusion became pointless, anyway. J.K. Rowling could have died at any point.
I'm glad I read Timothy Zahn's first Star Wars trilogy, but I foolishly read several books beyond. If you want to know the current state of the Star Wars universe, you'll have to have read 67 books, many of which are utter drivel. The evil empire that drove the plot is no more, your favorite characters are now dead, and their apartment's have been sold to rowdy college students, and little old ladies, who have completely redecorated the place. There's nothing left to go back to, but some tortured souls still go back, again and again.
Take a hand-powered drill, and replace the drill bit with a screwdriver bit. Fit the bit into a screw which has been screwed halfway through a board. Bolt the board and the drill to a platform with wheels on it so that the screw points backward, and gear the wheels of the platform to the hand-crank. When you push the platform, the wheels will turn the crank, the crank will turn the screw in the board, and the screw will slowly extend outward behind the whole contraption. Now, instead of pushing on the platform, push on the tip of the screw itself. The screw remains motionless relative to your pushing finger, but the rest ofthe contraption is cranked slowly away from your finger and the screw. The screw represents the wind, which the contraption is now moving faster than, as long as the screw drills through your finger more slowly than it drills through the board it's mounted in.