a augmented reality headset? What exactly is new about this? With a motion controller headset, the thing is basically strapped to your eyes. The only difference here is that the video output is piped to a computer display somewhere else..which I doubt they are the first to do.
The first person to hack the queen's facebook will receive a royal slap across the cheeks and a jolly telling-off.
Although I agree - this has absolutely fucking nothing to do with news for nerds.'zomg wow the queen has embraced the web and sends emails!!' no shit, you think she wouldn't use email? This kind of journalism is offensive to the queen if anything.
But saying that - why bother having a queen at all? Just keep sending taxes to one family so they can live it up, for no good reason.
this is so amazing. now i can not communicate with anybody else on a train because they would have to pay for the same game & it cant be copied from phone phone to the next, and their operating system is different, and i cant show them how to get the game because their phones GUI is different..
its like.. bluetooth!
stallman just has balls. he has the balls to do this, although i really wish he had more people with him and more effective signs. like LEDs and such. I would happily stand there with stallman if I was aware of this crap going on.
All they have done is overlay a low exposure with a high exposure. The whole point is to see contrast between high brights and low darks. There needs to be logic involved when mixing. For example, for any given area (determined by edge-detection):
* Find light areas which have contrast on low-exposure camera, but no contrast on high-exposure camera, and use low-exposure camera's image.
* Find dark areas which have contrast on high-exposure camera, and no contrast on low-exposure camera. Use high-exposure camera's image.
* All remaining footage be a 50/50 mix.
Now I have described that as a 3-way toggle, however think of it as a scale of low-to-high exposure selection for each area, depending on which one gives the most contrast.
A straight 50/50 mix is just retarded. There NEEDs to be AI here.
Otherwise... has anyone thought of making just really freaking insanely bright monitors? Just have footage which is mostly dark:) Bam, HDR.
As long as it works offline, then nothing is lost.
However Ubuntu has gone from having awesome default programs to rather questionable ones:
Pidgin: Empathy (no features)
GIMP: Replaced with some basic program forgot its name
OpenOffice: Now replaced with some web app thing
Is anyone going to think that Ubuntu is amazing superior if you cant say 'and it comes with a full fledged XYZ for free!'
Im sorry. While we do have the technology to let your child walk properly, we are unable to sell or even give you a device, due to a cease & desist letter from Microsoft.
While I know we invented it, 20 years later this XYZ company registered the patent. Im sorry, but we need to protect the rights of this multinational.
Seriously, is this the scenario we want in 2010? I say we need a reform.
Almost all technology shrinks in size until it is reduced to only the components which interact with the human. E.g. the shape of the cellphone is now 100% dictated by usability. There are no more 'needs to be there to make it work' bits.
This patent is going to be referenced EVERY SINGLE TIME an invention is reduced to the point where it can be inside a human body. This is a prime example of MS trying to be a gatekeeper. 2 gold coins to pass my bridge please!! etc.
Personally, I think that the big companies will find any way they can to charge you 2 cents every time you push 'start'. And then someone will think of the idea to charge you one cent to press 'stop'.
Maybe one day an early game dev was walking down the street, and saw an amateur handyman stacking two beer crates up so he could get on the roof and thought 'hmmm...'
Beer crates...there is an art which is being lost also......Maybe there's something going on here.
Already done. Most of these kinds types of advanced setups are already available in UNIX systems, just no GUI to do it. The 'new' software is just a GUI to configure the system.
Once again: OLD!
Its just a flat-screen computer laid on it side to be horizontal.
And software/hardware that allows multi-touch. This fails to even qualify as an invention. Its like a gigantic iphone sitting on the floor.
Who cares if it's standard? It still doesn't require a command line in Windows.
A good operating system is discoverable and user-centric. At the moment, the desktop environments available for Linux are somewhat discoverable (but the second you drop to the command line, you've thrown discoverability out the window) and process-centric* rather than user-centric. Windows is not perfect at either task (OS X is much better), but Linux is really, really bad at it.
*: Process-centric operations don't focus on what the user wants to do, they focus on what the computer needs to do to accomplish the task. Frame everything around the user or you'll lose them.
Who are you directing that to? People who make Unix desktop environments like KDE?
You do realize that linux is just a kernel, right? And Windows & OSX have kernels too? You know, there are systems out there which aren't intended to be used by users. So there are other types of things to 'frame' an operating system around. Linux is generic, and not an OS. Linux leaves the 'X-centric' up to the operating system.
Nope, the complaint is valid. It's not his responsibility or any user's responsibility to get hardware support under Linux. Why don't the people who provide the various distributions get together and make or obtain drivers?
Linux -is- a kernel. And as for 'killing the CLI once and for all just like Windows'
You're forgetting the CLI isn't killed on either OSX or Windows. In fact, both of those systems work via scripting too. Thats what the CLI is - its for scripting.
OSX/Windows are just less intuitive when used via CLI. What you're complaining about is a lack of operating-system options so you need to interact with the kernel directly via some CLI shell.
This is a failure of your operating system / linux distro, not Linux.
Seriously, quit blaming Linux for not doing things it doesn't actually mean to do.
Hi. I'm a bit of software that was installed by the company that assembled your computer. I was installed because Windows doesn't have an option to configure the XYZ function of your monitor.
For only $19.99 I will be able to not only remember your selections after rebooting, but I will also do it without this reminder notice.
Please do not type my name into google followed by 'torrent' to find a version of me that doesnt nag, yet comes with a trojan. Its how my business model works. I hope that for a long time my inner-workings stay a secret, that way nobody can make a free tool that does what I do. I want to remain special so people have to buy me.
Sounds like you need to complain to whoever writes the drivers for your video card. Thats who you should be blaming - not 'Linux'. If you will kindly notice - Linux isn't an operating system. Its just a kernel. If you want to complain about GUI options - complain about the OPERATING SYSTEM, not the KERNEL.
And as far as Firefox goes - how about you delve a little deeper before making comparisons. You basically just said Firefox running on Win32 wrapped to native Linux APIs is faster than Firefox running on native APIs, and implying this means Windows is faster for some mystical reason. Yes we KNOW its faster - but why? You don't know. I don't know either.
Compile your own Firefox and do a benchmark that makes sense. You've got the source code available to you for free for petes sake. Maybe you could fix it for all of us.
Are you smart enough to write software? Or do you just complain about XYZ thing that you cant do?
windows users laugh at you when you release a work in progress, or something that is simply a peice of shit, as they're used to commercial grade game releases. that can be very hard to compete with, considering the development time that goes into even a passable 3d game.
so if your game sucks (or is in "permanent alpha"), guess where your largest audience is going to be
Its platform neutral you dumbass. And a game's platform is not simply 'Windows' or 'Linux'.
A game's platform is decided at the API layer. The operating system really has sweet fuck all to do with it. Windows is just a collection of APIs as is a GNU/Linux system.
EG the WINE project is simply Windows APIs on Unix.
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what on earth is different about this from say..
a augmented reality headset? What exactly is new about this? With a motion controller headset, the thing is basically strapped to your eyes. The only difference here is that the video output is piped to a computer display somewhere else..which I doubt they are the first to do.
zing!! :)
this isnt troll. its a legitimate query: why does this belong on slashdot? and secondly, who here cares about the queen of england?
The first person to hack the queen's facebook will receive a royal slap across the cheeks and a jolly telling-off.
Although I agree - this has absolutely fucking nothing to do with news for nerds.'zomg wow the queen has embraced the web and sends emails!!' no shit, you think she wouldn't use email? This kind of journalism is offensive to the queen if anything.
But saying that - why bother having a queen at all? Just keep sending taxes to one family so they can live it up, for no good reason.
this is so amazing. now i can not communicate with anybody else on a train because they would have to pay for the same game & it cant be copied from phone phone to the next, and their operating system is different, and i cant show them how to get the game because their phones GUI is different.. its like.. bluetooth!
stallman just has balls. he has the balls to do this, although i really wish he had more people with him and more effective signs. like LEDs and such. I would happily stand there with stallman if I was aware of this crap going on.
or the magnitudes ordered at a magnitude restaurant
and the oatmeal's cover of this topic
All they have done is overlay a low exposure with a high exposure. The whole point is to see contrast between high brights and low darks. There needs to be logic involved when mixing. For example, for any given area (determined by edge-detection): * Find light areas which have contrast on low-exposure camera, but no contrast on high-exposure camera, and use low-exposure camera's image. * Find dark areas which have contrast on high-exposure camera, and no contrast on low-exposure camera. Use high-exposure camera's image. * All remaining footage be a 50/50 mix. Now I have described that as a 3-way toggle, however think of it as a scale of low-to-high exposure selection for each area, depending on which one gives the most contrast. A straight 50/50 mix is just retarded. There NEEDs to be AI here. Otherwise... has anyone thought of making just really freaking insanely bright monitors? Just have footage which is mostly dark :) Bam, HDR.
shit
first!!
As long as it works offline, then nothing is lost. However Ubuntu has gone from having awesome default programs to rather questionable ones: Pidgin: Empathy (no features) GIMP: Replaced with some basic program forgot its name OpenOffice: Now replaced with some web app thing Is anyone going to think that Ubuntu is amazing superior if you cant say 'and it comes with a full fledged XYZ for free!'
Im sorry. While we do have the technology to let your child walk properly, we are unable to sell or even give you a device, due to a cease & desist letter from Microsoft. While I know we invented it, 20 years later this XYZ company registered the patent. Im sorry, but we need to protect the rights of this multinational. Seriously, is this the scenario we want in 2010? I say we need a reform.
Almost all technology shrinks in size until it is reduced to only the components which interact with the human. E.g. the shape of the cellphone is now 100% dictated by usability. There are no more 'needs to be there to make it work' bits. This patent is going to be referenced EVERY SINGLE TIME an invention is reduced to the point where it can be inside a human body. This is a prime example of MS trying to be a gatekeeper. 2 gold coins to pass my bridge please!! etc.
Personally, I think that the big companies will find any way they can to charge you 2 cents every time you push 'start'. And then someone will think of the idea to charge you one cent to press 'stop'.
Maybe one day an early game dev was walking down the street, and saw an amateur handyman stacking two beer crates up so he could get on the roof and thought 'hmmm...' Beer crates...there is an art which is being lost also......Maybe there's something going on here.
Already done. Most of these kinds types of advanced setups are already available in UNIX systems, just no GUI to do it. The 'new' software is just a GUI to configure the system. Once again: OLD!
Its just a flat-screen computer laid on it side to be horizontal. And software/hardware that allows multi-touch. This fails to even qualify as an invention. Its like a gigantic iphone sitting on the floor.
Who cares if it's standard? It still doesn't require a command line in Windows.
A good operating system is discoverable and user-centric. At the moment, the desktop environments available for Linux are somewhat discoverable (but the second you drop to the command line, you've thrown discoverability out the window) and process-centric* rather than user-centric. Windows is not perfect at either task (OS X is much better), but Linux is really, really bad at it.
*: Process-centric operations don't focus on what the user wants to do, they focus on what the computer needs to do to accomplish the task. Frame everything around the user or you'll lose them.
Who are you directing that to? People who make Unix desktop environments like KDE?
You do realize that linux is just a kernel, right? And Windows & OSX have kernels too? You know, there are systems out there which aren't intended to be used by users. So there are other types of things to 'frame' an operating system around. Linux is generic, and not an OS. Linux leaves the 'X-centric' up to the operating system.
Nope, the complaint is valid. It's not his responsibility or any user's responsibility to get hardware support under Linux. Why don't the people who provide the various distributions get together and make or obtain drivers?
What planet do you live on?
Linux -is- a kernel. And as for 'killing the CLI once and for all just like Windows'
You're forgetting the CLI isn't killed on either OSX or Windows. In fact, both of those systems work via scripting too. Thats what the CLI is - its for scripting.
OSX/Windows are just less intuitive when used via CLI. What you're complaining about is a lack of operating-system options so you need to interact with the kernel directly via some CLI shell.
This is a failure of your operating system / linux distro, not Linux.
Seriously, quit blaming Linux for not doing things it doesn't actually mean to do.
Hi. I'm a bit of software that was installed by the company that assembled your computer. I was installed because Windows doesn't have an option to configure the XYZ function of your monitor.
For only $19.99 I will be able to not only remember your selections after rebooting, but I will also do it without this reminder notice.
Please do not type my name into google followed by 'torrent' to find a version of me that doesnt nag, yet comes with a trojan. Its how my business model works. I hope that for a long time my inner-workings stay a secret, that way nobody can make a free tool that does what I do. I want to remain special so people have to buy me.
Sounds like you need to complain to whoever writes the drivers for your video card. Thats who you should be blaming - not 'Linux'.
If you will kindly notice - Linux isn't an operating system. Its just a kernel. If you want to complain about GUI options - complain about the OPERATING SYSTEM, not the KERNEL.
And as far as Firefox goes - how about you delve a little deeper before making comparisons. You basically just said Firefox running on Win32 wrapped to native Linux APIs is faster than Firefox running on native APIs, and implying this means Windows is faster for some mystical reason. Yes we KNOW its faster - but why? You don't know. I don't know either.
Compile your own Firefox and do a benchmark that makes sense. You've got the source code available to you for free for petes sake. Maybe you could fix it for all of us.
Are you smart enough to write software? Or do you just complain about XYZ thing that you cant do?
Zomg they have discovered a vulnerability in EARTH! My infastructure runs on earth! Oh noes!! F1 key! F1!!!
windows users laugh at you when you release a work in progress, or something that is simply a peice of shit, as they're used to commercial grade game releases. that can be very hard to compete with, considering the development time that goes into even a passable 3d game. so if your game sucks (or is in "permanent alpha"), guess where your largest audience is going to be
Its platform neutral you dumbass. And a game's platform is not simply 'Windows' or 'Linux'.
A game's platform is decided at the API layer. The operating system really has sweet fuck all to do with it. Windows is just a collection of APIs as is a GNU/Linux system.
EG the WINE project is simply Windows APIs on Unix.
Your post makes screw all sense and is fanboy.