How does 512(d) apply to Google's Images? Surely most of the graphics out there are copyrighted / trademarked by someone and Google indexes and links to illegal copies of those images.
That seems fairly infringing to me. Perhaps someone can set me straight on this...
Users forgot about PC audio when it became ubiquitous and as good enough to fool the user into thinking they were hearing real sounds. Other than adding conveniences like drive-rail mounted ports, what major improvements have been added to sound cards in the last 8-10 years? The industry has basically stopped true innovation since greater technology is no longer demanded by the consumer.
I think the more interesting question to examine is the video card side of this. At what point will video cards exceed the specifications required to make grahpics truely look like real life?
For example, people can actually pick out about 1,000,000 colors or so (IIRC). We got 24/32 bit color and that was the end of innovation in the length of color codes.
What is the resolution of standard human vision? Some quick researching brings us this information:
Consider a 20 x 13.3-inch print viewed at 20 inches. The Print subtends an angle of 53 x 35.3 degrees, thus requiring 53*60/.3 = 10600 x 35*60/.3 = 7000 pixels, for a total of ~74 megapixels to show detail at the limits of human visual acuity.
Will we see the same languishing of the video card industry when the new offering can crank out 100fps at 10,600 x 7,000? We've already got the colors part down, resolution and poly counts will come soon enough. The monitors will have to follow suit of course but even current technology is giving some people a hard time:
At a picture size of 7,680 by 4,320 pixels - that works out to 32 million pixels... The realism creates other complications. The NHK is studying the physical and psychological effects of UHDV on audiences. One concern is a kind of motion sickness, which researchers attribute to a combination of the wide viewing angle, the massive image and the on-screen motion.
This stuff is so exciting! If I didn't spend all my time focusing on my escort service business, I'd have to becoming a video-card-engineer-person-of-interest.
FEBRUARY 3--A Tennessee man has sued NaturalPoint, a manufacturer of control systems for computers, on the basis that their product caused him physical injury and mental distress during its use. In his suit, the 26-year-old college student alledges that while playing computer games such as Far Cry, Half-Life 2, and Singles: Threesomes, his neck was injured while attempting to use NaturalPoint's head-based controller.
"I was clearing a corner on the new Dust map for HL2 and I heard a loud pop in my neck. I knew something had happened."
The plaintiff claims that since the injury he has not been able to fully enjoy his previous quality-of-life.
"Yeah, I tried to play Threesomes the other day and I totally missed out on the 6' redhead knockin' boots with the Japanese chick that I just got to move into the apartment. My life has truly went downhill since this injury."
The plaintiff has asked for an unspecified amount of damamges. Story developing...
Folks in my office were constantly giving me the eye because of various portable storage devices I brought into work. They had this nagging feeling that I was borrowing proprietary code for use at home.
I finally settled on bringing in my Sony digital camera. They hook up through USB and mount under windows as just another drive. Easy to move files on and you can still take pictures of top-secret stuff in the office! Capacity is limited only by what you're willing to spend on memory cards.
Why a USB keydrive raised eyebrows and a fully-functional camera didn't, I'll never know...
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How does 512(d) apply to Google's Images? Surely most of the graphics out there are copyrighted / trademarked by someone and Google indexes and links to illegal copies of those images.
That seems fairly infringing to me. Perhaps someone can set me straight on this...
I think the more interesting question to examine is the video card side of this. At what point will video cards exceed the specifications required to make grahpics truely look like real life?
For example, people can actually pick out about 1,000,000 colors or so (IIRC). We got 24/32 bit color and that was the end of innovation in the length of color codes.
What is the resolution of standard human vision? Some quick researching brings us this information: Will we see the same languishing of the video card industry when the new offering can crank out 100fps at 10,600 x 7,000? We've already got the colors part down, resolution and poly counts will come soon enough. The monitors will have to follow suit of course but even current technology is giving some people a hard time: This stuff is so exciting! If I didn't spend all my time focusing on my escort service business, I'd have to becoming a video-card-engineer-person-of-interest.
Bullshit.
I can already see it now...
FEBRUARY 3--A Tennessee man has sued NaturalPoint, a manufacturer of control systems for computers, on the basis that their product caused him physical injury and mental distress during its use. In his suit, the 26-year-old college student alledges that while playing computer games such as Far Cry, Half-Life 2, and Singles: Threesomes, his neck was injured while attempting to use NaturalPoint's head-based controller.
"I was clearing a corner on the new Dust map for HL2 and I heard a loud pop in my neck. I knew something had happened."
The plaintiff claims that since the injury he has not been able to fully enjoy his previous quality-of-life.
"Yeah, I tried to play Threesomes the other day and I totally missed out on the 6' redhead knockin' boots with the Japanese chick that I just got to move into the apartment. My life has truly went downhill since this injury."
The plaintiff has asked for an unspecified amount of damamges. Story developing...
Folks in my office were constantly giving me the eye because of various portable storage devices I brought into work. They had this nagging feeling that I was borrowing proprietary code for use at home.
I finally settled on bringing in my Sony digital camera. They hook up through USB and mount under windows as just another drive. Easy to move files on and you can still take pictures of top-secret stuff in the office! Capacity is limited only by what you're willing to spend on memory cards.
Why a USB keydrive raised eyebrows and a fully-functional camera didn't, I'll never know...
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."