Cool, this coincides perfectly with my purchase of Starry Night a few days ago. I never knew much about astronomy, but I've learned tons in the last few days of playing with it, and I totally understand, technically, what this guy did re: Hipparchus, whereas I'm sure I wouldn't have really understood it just last week. (i.e., how the ecliptic precesses relative to the celestial equator.)
Starry Night is definitely the coolest program I've purchased in a long time. (I swear I'm not a shill!) Great for planning photo shoots, too.
I get to respond to Craig himself in a thread on/.
I feel honored!
Craig, your list rocks. Please keep up the great work, and leave the site just the way it is. (Tiny gradual improvements welcome over time, as you've been doing, but that's it.) That is all I have to say.
-CL user for 4+ years
I tend to think the idea is to use their muscle to scare the sites into shutting down, regardless of who has the law on their side.
Who's actually behind these sites? I always pictured suprnova as being run by a teenager in Norway or something. In any case, probably not people with enough capital to defend a case like this, no?
Expect to see another drawn-out international court case ala Sharman Networks.
Wait, huh? I'm really confused. And I even read his statement. Why on earth wasn't he allowed to testify? Anyone have a layman's summary of the legal reason?
The pic in the article reminds me of Traffic, that awesomely addicting old Palm game (based on a real-world sliding block puzzle).
I wish there was a PocketPC version!
Not only does the parallel method give less of a headache, it gives no headache. (To me in any case.) I can't hold cross-eyed stereograms for more than 10-20 seconds without going mad, but once you get a lock in parallel mode you can basically look at a stereogram forever until you get bored of it.
Yeah, I always thought that too! The interesting thing about this set of images and that once you can see the parallel images in 3D you can look over a bit and see the cross-eyed images as well, and they're inverted 3D. (furthest point closest.) Seeing that made me realize the difference between the two techniques: the ordering of the images. In the parallel technique I think the proper image is going to each eye (right to right, left to left), but in the cross-eyed approach it's reversed. (I think, anyway, and I might have that backwards.)
... that you can see the extent to which the airbags are still inflated, and get a sense of which egress route is better than others. At least one of those airbags is still quite puffed up.
I prefer the parallel images to the cross-eyed ones. Crossing your eyes just hurts, but relaxing them and focusing them offscreen doesn't at all, you can do it forever practically if you can get a lock on the right amount to relax.
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If so ... d'oh!
Guess it's time for me to replace my external hard drive before it dies on me without recourse.
poor usage of an ellipsis in the submission ... I read it as ".no" format, thinking ".no" was some kind of new file extension.
If you worked in a commercial projection booth, you would know that anamorphic lenses shoot 2.35, not 1.85.
Cool, this coincides perfectly with my purchase of Starry Night a few days ago. I never knew much about astronomy, but I've learned tons in the last few days of playing with it, and I totally understand, technically, what this guy did re: Hipparchus, whereas I'm sure I wouldn't have really understood it just last week. (i.e., how the ecliptic precesses relative to the celestial equator.)
Starry Night is definitely the coolest program I've purchased in a long time. (I swear I'm not a shill!) Great for planning photo shoots, too.
I get to respond to Craig himself in a thread on /.
I feel honored!
Craig, your list rocks. Please keep up the great work, and leave the site just the way it is. (Tiny gradual improvements welcome over time, as you've been doing, but that's it.) That is all I have to say.
-CL user for 4+ years
I tend to think the idea is to use their muscle to scare the sites into shutting down, regardless of who has the law on their side. Who's actually behind these sites? I always pictured suprnova as being run by a teenager in Norway or something. In any case, probably not people with enough capital to defend a case like this, no? Expect to see another drawn-out international court case ala Sharman Networks.
Wait, huh? I'm really confused. And I even read his statement. Why on earth wasn't he allowed to testify? Anyone have a layman's summary of the legal reason?
Sweet! Thanks for the tip!
The pic in the article reminds me of Traffic, that awesomely addicting old Palm game (based on a real-world sliding block puzzle). I wish there was a PocketPC version!
... "Red State Outsourcing"
That's not the trailer. That's the 5-second preview of the trailer from Entertainment Tonight.
Too funny, I was about to say the same thing about the ID. And I feel thankful for having one under 800k. Sheesh. :)
a biased source? yes. but a fair analysis? yes, IMO, including full bias disclosure at the end of the article.
Not only does the parallel method give less of a headache, it gives no headache. (To me in any case.) I can't hold cross-eyed stereograms for more than 10-20 seconds without going mad, but once you get a lock in parallel mode you can basically look at a stereogram forever until you get bored of it.
Yeah, I always thought that too! The interesting thing about this set of images and that once you can see the parallel images in 3D you can look over a bit and see the cross-eyed images as well, and they're inverted 3D. (furthest point closest.) Seeing that made me realize the difference between the two techniques: the ordering of the images. In the parallel technique I think the proper image is going to each eye (right to right, left to left), but in the cross-eyed approach it's reversed. (I think, anyway, and I might have that backwards.)
I prefer the parallel images to the cross-eyed ones. Crossing your eyes just hurts, but relaxing them and focusing them offscreen doesn't at all, you can do it forever practically if you can get a lock on the right amount to relax.