No. If it uses a parallax barrier then that is stopping light. It would not be superior to the same LCD without one. Modern LCDs boast a viewing angle of almost 180 degrees anyway.
Why would you get eyestrain ? In viewing zone one both eyes see view one, in viewing zone two both eyes see view two, etc. Perhaps if you hover on the boundary between zones then you might get eyestrain but that is not the intended viewing position as it is with a 3D display.
Computer literate is someone who knows how computers work and something about the potential of what you can do with one. You don't need to know the details of how to do it, just some idea of the technologies that exist that would probably let you.
Not computer literate is someone who just types, points and clicks. No idea
how things work internally, only that drag file from here, drop there, it works for me.
I have seen a number of resumes that boast "skills in MS Office" or similar. When I read this I think "Wow, this person learnt how to use something designed to be easy to use. Big deal.
OK, picture this: I have an idea for a music player and submit a patent
application. A larger company launches a product based on a similar idea
4 months later. My company takes 6 months to get the product ready and launch.
Maybe the large company filed their own patent just after mine but it's still
in the patent application process waiting to be assessed like mine.
why wait until now to sue?
Who said they waited ? Sometimes these things take a long time: patent
granted, gather evidence, decide whether you can find enough money to go to
court and if you're going to risk losing, find a suitable lawyer who knows
something about the technology, put together your arguments, etc.
as well as a good dose of stupidity and ignorance, can make security technologies useless
I disagree. It is the job of security technologies to protect ourselves from our own stupid actions. If people write down passwords then switch to a system that doesn't authenticate using passwords.
You can't just keep blaming users. Think, if for every bug you found in my software I said "That damn Microsoft!" or "That damn C++!". Saying my users shouldn't find the bugs is blinkered.
According to my selective memory, Concorde failed because the US, Boeing etc realised that Britain and France had stolen a march on the next generation of aerospace technology. Looking for an excuse to avoid being left behind, they proceeded to campaign bitterly that supersonic flights would be continuously breaking windows in peoples houses everytime they flew overhead and that the environmental damage would be disastrous. This limited the number of routes and carriers that would accept Concorde and in the end only British Airways and Air France ran a token fleet. See here for more neutral reporting.
Granted, Concorde was a noisy beast especially on take off and I believe there was a regulation preventing them from going supersonic over land but it was a superb feat of engineering (the only commercial aircraft to have an afterburner) especially considering that they were designed to fly for 15-20 years and ended up doing almost double that (with extensive maintenance).
At the end of the day, the Airbus A380 is going to carry around 800 people at far greater scales of economy and comfort than any future civilian supersonic aircraft. It would be nice to have one, but haven't airlines already committed to larger and more economic than smaller and faster ?
Also, Japan must partner, otherwise they'll hit the same problems the British and French had, back in the day.
In Philip K. Dick's "The Exit Door Leads In", Bob Bibleman submits a 3 line story idea to a fiction generating machine. The story immediately gets published across the galaxy before he can check the result. He has to publish a correction as a sequel.
As this story was published in 1979, it shows we are slowly catching up.
Who wants to pay $5 per minidisc in order to listen to music when CD-R's are $0.25,
Yeah, right. MDs can be recorded to 100s of times; let's compare like for like.
Even when a 512MB mp3 player cost $299, it was comparable to the high end MD player, in features and size.
No, that was never the case. Have you ever seen an MP3 recorder ? MD lets you record on very small portable devices. And how long does it take you to transfer 512 MB of MP3 to your player, is it as quick as eject-insert-play ? I don't think so.
Did you compare the original iPod size to high end MD players ? iPod is massive in comparison.
They should have LONG AGO made a minidisc MP3 player - the technology existed,
What is your problem with Net MD ? Sure it's not MP3 but Sony offers a way to transfer MP3 to MD directly. Did you really think that they were going to "forget" about DRM, or try to support other companies' equipment ? By the way, Sharp etc also offer NetMD.
They will probably be "download to own but only if you keep the one copy". DRM will be used to stop you keeping backup copies or transferring to other devices. If your hard drive goes belly up then you lose the movie. Isn't that reasonable usage if I generate a low resolution version of a movie I own so I can watch on my PDA or cellphone ? The whole issue of downloadable content needs a rethink.
Sorry, I did miss this. It looks like the kind of adaptor that was marketed by a company called NuVision.
The original article reports that this kind of approach is suitable for 3D movies on the cheap. The problem is that flickery images tend to look flickery. According to TFA: "one projector simply runs twice as fast -- 96 frames per second", actually film is 24 frames per second so double speed is 48. For a digital projector maybe we're talking LCD or DLP but AFAIK neither of those technologies are available at 96 Hz unless you're paying megabucks. You don't want to have flickery 3D. Dual camera systems for stereo are almost always better.
"One Indie filmmaker even went so far as to build his own homebrew stereolens attachment enabling him to film in 3D."
If you RTFA there is no mention of this.
In-Three's "prototype" liquid crystal shutter glasses are not new. There is nothing to suggest that they are any different to those available from Stereographics or VRex, for example. This is just re-reporting of old news.
Companies such as DDD have been doing semi-automatic 2D->3D conversion for years; it's difficult to do well, time consuming and expensive. Don't get excited just yet.
Wales is a principality not a country or nation. Even Americans may have heard of the Princess of Wales (or the Prince).
Devolution and the concept of the EU may add to the confusion but Wales is a part of England; Scotland is joined to England in the United Kingdom (it was the Scots that did the joining).
Don't get me started on the differences between Great Britain and the United Kingdom...
Are you suggesting there might be a law against you starting your CD from any position other than track 1, at the start ?! Or watching a DVD having skipped past the credits ?
The poor Russians (bankrupt as they are) are pulling more than their share and might get fed up soon
Right, so the Russians have never been late in their delivery of sections of the ISS or sending Soyuz resupply modules.
NASA never had to prod them to make important contracted ISS deliveries instead of trying to make "side money" with space tourism.
Right.
I recall the major issues concerning the Airbus A320 in the late eighties. There were a number of unexplained crashes and accidents
That's simply not true.
Yes, there were a few crashes and of course they were unexplained until someone had done the investigation.
However, it didn't take a very long time to establish that the pilots were confused with setting the Final altitude control and Rate of descent. This resulted in the plane literally dropping from the sky. The pilots, realising something was wrong were pulling back on the yoke and ended up fighting the flight computer. Observers saw the plane pull up but stall - something supposedly impossible with fly by wire.
One of those crashes was at the Paris air show where the test pilot decided to prove the anti stalling capability over a forest. I think he made the same mistake.
Another crash was an Air India plane whose pilot failed the simulator training but was sent to work (by Air India) anyway, allegedly.
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No. If it uses a parallax barrier then that is stopping light. It would not be superior to the same LCD without one. Modern LCDs boast a viewing angle of almost 180 degrees anyway.
Why would you get eyestrain ? In viewing zone one both eyes see view one, in viewing zone two both eyes see view two, etc. Perhaps if you hover on the boundary between zones then you might get eyestrain but that is not the intended viewing position as it is with a 3D display.
In fact helmet cams were worn by at least some riders.
Computer literate
Not computer literate
Computer literate is someone who knows how computers work and something about the potential of what you can do with one. You don't need to know the details of how to do it, just some idea of the technologies that exist that would probably let you.
Not computer literate is someone who just types, points and clicks. No idea how things work internally, only that drag file from here, drop there, it works for me.
I have seen a number of resumes that boast "skills in MS Office" or similar. When I read this I think "Wow, this person learnt how to use something designed to be easy to use. Big deal.
Didn't the iPod come out before the Zen player?
OK, picture this: I have an idea for a music player and submit a patent application. A larger company launches a product based on a similar idea 4 months later. My company takes 6 months to get the product ready and launch. Maybe the large company filed their own patent just after mine but it's still in the patent application process waiting to be assessed like mine.
why wait until now to sue?
Who said they waited ? Sometimes these things take a long time: patent granted, gather evidence, decide whether you can find enough money to go to court and if you're going to risk losing, find a suitable lawyer who knows something about the technology, put together your arguments, etc.
as well as a good dose of stupidity and ignorance, can make security technologies useless
I disagree. It is the job of security technologies to protect ourselves from our own stupid actions. If people write down passwords then switch to a system that doesn't authenticate using passwords.
You can't just keep blaming users. Think, if for every bug you found in my software I said "That damn Microsoft!" or "That damn C++!". Saying my users shouldn't find the bugs is blinkered.
According to my selective memory, Concorde failed because the US, Boeing etc realised that Britain and France had stolen a march on the next generation of aerospace technology. Looking for an excuse to avoid being left behind, they proceeded to campaign bitterly that supersonic flights would be continuously breaking windows in peoples houses everytime they flew overhead and that the environmental damage would be disastrous. This limited the number of routes and carriers that would accept Concorde and in the end only British Airways and Air France ran a token fleet. See here for more neutral reporting.
Granted, Concorde was a noisy beast especially on take off and I believe there was a regulation preventing them from going supersonic over land but it was a superb feat of engineering (the only commercial aircraft to have an afterburner) especially considering that they were designed to fly for 15-20 years and ended up doing almost double that (with extensive maintenance).
At the end of the day, the Airbus A380 is going to carry around 800 people at far greater scales of economy and comfort than any future civilian supersonic aircraft. It would be nice to have one, but haven't airlines already committed to larger and more economic than smaller and faster ?
Also, Japan must partner, otherwise they'll hit the same problems the British and French had, back in the day.
In Philip K. Dick's "The Exit Door Leads In", Bob Bibleman submits a 3 line story idea to a fiction generating machine. The story immediately gets published across the galaxy before he can check the result. He has to publish a correction as a sequel.
As this story was published in 1979, it shows we are slowly catching up.
Yeah, right. MDs can be recorded to 100s of times; let's compare like for like.
Even when a 512MB mp3 player cost $299, it was comparable to the high end MD player, in features and size.No, that was never the case. Have you ever seen an MP3 recorder ? MD lets you record on very small portable devices. And how long does it take you to transfer 512 MB of MP3 to your player, is it as quick as eject-insert-play ? I don't think so. Did you compare the original iPod size to high end MD players ? iPod is massive in comparison.
They should have LONG AGO made a minidisc MP3 player - the technology existed,What is your problem with Net MD ? Sure it's not MP3 but Sony offers a way to transfer MP3 to MD directly. Did you really think that they were going to "forget" about DRM, or try to support other companies' equipment ? By the way, Sharp etc also offer NetMD.
They will probably be "download to own but only if you keep the one copy". DRM will be used to stop you keeping backup copies or transferring to other devices. If your hard drive goes belly up then you lose the movie. Isn't that reasonable usage if I generate a low resolution version of a movie I own so I can watch on my PDA or cellphone ? The whole issue of downloadable content needs a rethink.
Where's a Oric Atmos when you need one, eh ?
But can it run....
AmigaOS 4 ?!!
So actually no, the original article is incorrect.
The original article reports that this kind of approach is suitable for 3D movies on the cheap. The problem is that flickery images tend to look flickery. According to TFA: "one projector simply runs twice as fast -- 96 frames per second", actually film is 24 frames per second so double speed is 48. For a digital projector maybe we're talking LCD or DLP but AFAIK neither of those technologies are available at 96 Hz unless you're paying megabucks. You don't want to have flickery 3D. Dual camera systems for stereo are almost always better.
If you RTFA there is no mention of this.
In-Three's "prototype" liquid crystal shutter glasses are not new. There is nothing to suggest that they are any different to those available from Stereographics or VRex, for example. This is just re-reporting of old news.
Companies such as DDD have been doing semi-automatic 2D->3D conversion for years; it's difficult to do well, time consuming and expensive. Don't get excited just yet.
They got it wrong. Autostereo LCDs have been around for years.
Try Sharp's 3D products web site, they have a 15" XGA monitor or laptops that have been available for a while now. Other companies have been selling autostereo LCDs for much longer.
Come on, it's not all that bad. Enterprise brought the babes back!
I would much rather watch Trek XI than Episode 7. The babe count would surely be superior, if nothing else.
Wales is a principality not a country or nation. Even Americans may have heard of the Princess of Wales (or the Prince).
Devolution and the concept of the EU may add to the confusion but Wales is a part of England; Scotland is joined to England in the United Kingdom (it was the Scots that did the joining).
Don't get me started on the differences between Great Britain and the United Kingdom...
Are you suggesting there might be a law against you starting your CD from any position other than track 1, at the start ?! Or watching a DVD having skipped past the credits ?
Very unlikely IMHO
The poor Russians (bankrupt as they are) are pulling more than their share and might get fed up soon
Right, so the Russians have never been late in their delivery of sections of the ISS or sending Soyuz resupply modules. NASA never had to prod them to make important contracted ISS deliveries instead of trying to make "side money" with space tourism. Right.
That's simply not true.
Yes, there were a few crashes and of course they were unexplained until someone had done the investigation.
However, it didn't take a very long time to establish that the pilots were confused with setting the Final altitude control and Rate of descent. This resulted in the plane literally dropping from the sky. The pilots, realising something was wrong were pulling back on the yoke and ended up fighting the flight computer. Observers saw the plane pull up but stall - something supposedly impossible with fly by wire.
One of those crashes was at the Paris air show where the test pilot decided to prove the anti stalling capability over a forest. I think he made the same mistake.
Another crash was an Air India plane whose pilot failed the simulator training but was sent to work (by Air India) anyway, allegedly.
the entire C: drive was shared and i just doubleclicked the wintv shortcut in program files and VIOLA
Don't you mean CELLO ?