Well, I'm not an expert, but I believe you would see the images on the display like you see the rest of the world. That is ultimately the goal of 3d technology.
In the cases mentioned, the display sends slightly different perspective views to both eyes. You should still be able to see one or the other, even if you can't see both at once.
In the case of the "walkaround" 3d display mentioned in one of the links, the display should still track your position correctly and send you the right perspective, so that again you would perceive the object imaged as you would an object in the real world.
MOD PARENT DOWN, repost information The parent is a known troll saving up karma for posting gnaa shit in some story to come.
Actually, kunundo (parent), I'm quite offended by your remark.
First off, you attack the person rather than their statement. This is called an Argumentum ad hominum. It's a logical fallacy and carries no weight.
Personally, I think James (parent's parent) raises quite a good point. The loss in energy is quite impressive.
*scribbles on back of envelope*
The heat it deposited in the atmosphere is enough to vaporize more than 200 liters of water previously at room temperature. (In a really really rough calculation). For what's essentially a piece of rock, I thought that's quite cool.
So, to me, the comment was interesting. So, whatever the motives, the comment is a good one and should be rewarded as such
Also, moderators have mod points for a reason: They're good active members of the slashdot community. Don't tell them what to do, let them make up their own mind. That's what they're there for.
While I think that they probably have a point, that site is hilarious!
Check out the demo movie in the feminine hygiene section!;-)
Great quote from the FAQ: "Q: When I have house guests, they might feel uncomfortable or intimidated by this piece of equipment in my bathroom. What should I do?
A: Well, as long as they know they can just use your toilet like any toilet, everything should be fine. If they start asking, just tell them what it is. Suggest trying it. They will leave your house never forgetting your unique bathroom."
Yes. They'll always remember you as the people with the F'ing Weird Toilet.
In the spirit of the parent, Operating System: Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it.
So, MS Dos IS an operating system. Is it crappy? yes it is. But it's still an operating system.;-)
OOS(Only on slashdot) is the phrase "obligatory somethingOrTheOther quote:" used sufficiently for you to be able to abbreviate "Obligatory" as "Ob.", and still have people know what you mean.
Of course caps lock is necessary. It's necessary for whenever you want to type in all-caps without holding shift the whole time. I can think of dozens of examples of this. Hell, where I work, the blank fields on our contracts must be typed in all caps. I wrote a screenplay once, and you need caps all over the place. When I'm coding, I write some macro names in all-caps.
No, the caps lock shouldn't be removed or replaced. It's handy to have a key that allows you to toggle lower to upper caps so you don't have to hold shift.
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To the parent: Overly Critical Guy, the following is not meant as a overly harsh criticism on you, everyone makes these mistakes. That is the problem with logical fallacies, they're tempting to make even when you're aware of them. However, moderators in specific need to watch out for stuff like this, so here goes:
To the slashdot readers:
I think you need to be more critical and think a little more.
The parent's entire comment is based on a logical fallacy, yet you have somehow managed to moderate him as "+5, Insightful."
In the first sentence, he states his conclusion. In the second sentence, he offers a definition and passes it off as a justification for his conclusion. Now, just because something does what it's defined to do doesn't it justify its existence. A slightly more extreme example would be "Of course recreational drugs are necessary. You need them to get high.".
I think this is called a petitio principii fallacy, or a non-sequitur at the very least. (But I may be wrong on the name here)
The entire second paragraph just reiterates.
I would suggest reading up on logical fallacies for everyone that has not yet done so. The Wikipedia article is a probably a good place to start, but google can provide many more sites.
Really? Good. I've got about 30 pounds of energy reserves I need to burn through
hehe
Actually, there was an article on the BBC News website a while ago that mentioned how small amounts of caffeine make the body start using fat rather than carbohydrates as an energy source. Apparently a single cup of coffee before you execise is enough.
Indeed. Most people don't realise it is actually physically addictive.
Adenosine is a chemical messenger that tells cells to slow down. Caffeine, being structurally similar, can block adenosine receptors in the brain, and thus prevent this slowdown.
However, your brain cells compensate to prolonged exposure by creating more and more adenosine receptors... meaning that you'll be really tired unless you block them with caffeine. Repeat ad addictum.
On a more personal note, I always find that drinking something with tons of sugars in it keeps me active far longer than caffeine alone. Caffeine just makes me burn through my energy reserves faster, resulting in me being even more tired after a while.
The original painting, and a bit of information on the phrase "et in arcadia ego" can be found here (bigger version of the painting here. Note that you can't really make out the letters in either)
I first heard the phrase while studying Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in school, and our interpretation was close to one of the two on wikipedia:
"I, Death, am also in Arcadia"
This is a memento mori, a reminder that death is certain even if life seems perfect at the moment.
The painting features 4 shepherds in "Arcadia" (a pastoral paradise), puzzling over those words engraved in a small monument.
The artist of the Shugborough version may very well have intended for us to puzzle over his version like the shepherds in the original... and if the act of us puzzling over the carving was the artist's goal, there may well be no solution like there would be in normal puzzles. (Or there might only an arbitrary solution that cannot be attained without further data.)
Perhaps some poets should look at it in addition to code breakers.
Fake security - real control. This is to keep people IN - not out.
Damn straight. Some of the stupider government officials might think that they are tracking "terrorists", but the smart boys know they are building exit detectors at the national gates that will provide seamless information integration about their own citizens. We're being locked in.
But ARE you really being locked in? As it is at the moment, you need a passport anyway to move between countries. It seems to me that the only thing that changes with these new passports is that they get harder to fake. Don't forget that your current passport already has biometric data on it... a picture of your face. This is just supplementing the document with more data to identify someone as the rightful owner.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, as far as I'm aware anyway, your data is already being tracked, when you buy tickets and in customs. No one seems to object to customs officials writing down your passport number, but as soon as a certain degree of technology is reached, people get a big-brother-is-watching scare.
I'm not commenting on whether the government should track people or not, all I am saying is that nothing is really changing, except that the life of custums officials probably gets a little easier when they dont have to type data into the computer manually any more, and the life of forgers gets a bit harder.
Whether they can make the chips themselves secure enough to be entrusted with releasing details of a person's identity via radio is another thing.
Re:This is why...
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...we need to stop relying on thrid-party worms, we need Micro-Soft certified worms to ensure our securtity....
You mean like IE? I've certainly had enough programs try to get me to install that on my computer..
Wouldn't that be a trojan horse rather than a worm? Worms are more like those automatic updates, burrowing into your system... Although that program that downloads them would be more like a trojan horse, and the downloading of updates the payload...
Yes, that's it! Windows is a trojan horse designed to sneek windows updates onto your computer!
[localhost:/usr/bin] % isopaper 4A0 = 1682 mm x 2378 mm 2A0 = 1189 mm x 1682 mm A0 = 841 mm x 1189 mm A1 = 594 mm x 841 mm A2 = 420 mm x 594 mm A3 = 297 mm x 420 mm A4 = 210 mm x 297 mm A5 = 148 mm x 210 mm A6 = 105 mm x 148 mm A7 = 74 mm x 105 mm A8 = 52 mm x 74 mm A9 = 37 mm x 52 mm A10 = 26 mm x 37 mm
B0 = 1000 mm x 1414 mm B1 = 707 mm x 1000 mm B2 = 500 mm x 707 mm B3 = 353 mm x 500 mm B4 = 250 mm x 353 mm B5 = 176 mm x 250 mm B6 = 125 mm x 176 mm B7 = 88 mm x 125 mm B8 = 62 mm x 88 mm B9 = 44 mm x 62 mm B10 = 31 mm x 44 mm
C0 = 917 mm x 1297 mm C1 = 648 mm x 917 mm C2 = 458 mm x 648 mm C3 = 324 mm x 458 mm C4 = 229 mm x 324 mm C5 = 162 mm x 229 mm C6 = 114 mm x 162 mm C7 = 81 mm x 114 mm C8 = 57 mm x 81 mm C9 = 40 mm x 57 mm C10 = 28 mm x 40 mm
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No, because you might put the pilots to sleep by solving complex differential equations at them with your weapon.
Do not underestimate the soporific power of indiscriminate maths!
There isn't. He died on Generations.
Well, I'm not an expert, but I believe you would see the images on the display like you see the rest of the world. That is ultimately the goal of 3d technology.
In the cases mentioned, the display sends slightly different perspective views to both eyes. You should still be able to see one or the other, even if you can't see both at once.
In the case of the "walkaround" 3d display mentioned in one of the links, the display should still track your position correctly and send you the right perspective, so that again you would perceive the object imaged as you would an object in the real world.
First off, you attack the person rather than their statement. This is called an Argumentum ad hominum. It's a logical fallacy and carries no weight. Personally, I think James (parent's parent) raises quite a good point. The loss in energy is quite impressive.
*scribbles on back of envelope*
The heat it deposited in the atmosphere is enough to vaporize more than 200 liters of water previously at room temperature. (In a really really rough calculation). For what's essentially a piece of rock, I thought that's quite cool.
So, to me, the comment was interesting. So, whatever the motives, the comment is a good one and should be rewarded as such
Also, moderators have mod points for a reason: They're good active members of the slashdot community. Don't tell them what to do, let them make up their own mind. That's what they're there for.
While I think that they probably have a point, that site is hilarious!
;-)
Check out the demo movie in the feminine hygiene section!
Great quote from the FAQ:
"Q: When I have house guests, they might feel uncomfortable or intimidated by this piece of equipment in my bathroom. What should I do?
A: Well, as long as they know they can just use your toilet like any toilet, everything should be fine. If they start asking, just tell them what it is. Suggest trying it. They will leave your house never forgetting your unique bathroom."
Yes. They'll always remember you as the people with the F'ing Weird Toilet.
In the spirit of the parent,
;-)
Operating System: Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to make use of it.
So, MS Dos IS an operating system. Is it crappy? yes it is. But it's still an operating system.
To the parent: Overly Critical Guy, the following is not meant as a overly harsh criticism on you, everyone makes these mistakes. That is the problem with logical fallacies, they're tempting to make even when you're aware of them. However, moderators in specific need to watch out for stuff like this, so here goes:
To the slashdot readers:
I think you need to be more critical and think a little more.
The parent's entire comment is based on a logical fallacy, yet you have somehow managed to moderate him as "+5, Insightful."
In the first sentence, he states his conclusion. In the second sentence, he offers a definition and passes it off as a justification for his conclusion.
Now, just because something does what it's defined to do doesn't it justify its existence. A slightly more extreme example would be "Of course recreational drugs are necessary. You need them to get high.".
I think this is called a petitio principii fallacy, or a non-sequitur at the very least. (But I may be wrong on the name here)
The entire second paragraph just reiterates.
I would suggest reading up on logical fallacies for everyone that has not yet done so. The Wikipedia article is a probably a good place to start, but google can provide many more sites.
Actually, there was an article on the BBC News website a while ago that mentioned how small amounts of caffeine make the body start using fat rather than carbohydrates as an energy source. Apparently a single cup of coffee before you execise is enough.
You can read the original article here
Indeed. Most people don't realise it is actually physically addictive.
Adenosine is a chemical messenger that tells cells to slow down. Caffeine, being structurally similar, can block adenosine receptors in the brain, and thus prevent this slowdown.
However, your brain cells compensate to prolonged exposure by creating more and more adenosine receptors... meaning that you'll be really tired unless you block them with caffeine. Repeat ad addictum.
Check here and here for more info.
On a more personal note, I always find that drinking something with tons of sugars in it keeps me active far longer than caffeine alone. Caffeine just makes me burn through my energy reserves faster, resulting in me being even more tired after a while.
The original painting, and a bit of information on the phrase "et in arcadia ego" can be found here (bigger version of the painting here. Note that you can't really make out the letters in either)
I first heard the phrase while studying Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in school, and our interpretation was close to one of the two on wikipedia:
"I, Death, am also in Arcadia"
This is a memento mori, a reminder that death is certain even if life seems perfect at the moment.
The painting features 4 shepherds in "Arcadia" (a pastoral paradise), puzzling over those words engraved in a small monument.
The artist of the Shugborough version may very well have intended for us to puzzle over his version like the shepherds in the original... and if the act of us puzzling over the carving was the artist's goal, there may well be no solution like there would be in normal puzzles. (Or there might only an arbitrary solution that cannot be attained without further data.)
Perhaps some poets should look at it in addition to code breakers.
http://www.acronymfinder.com can't find it... but it does recommend buying books on "douosvavvm" from amazon.
What, you wanna buy some wires?
But ARE you really being locked in? As it is at the moment, you need a passport anyway to move between countries. It seems to me that the only thing that changes with these new passports is that they get harder to fake. Don't forget that your current passport already has biometric data on it... a picture of your face. This is just supplementing the document with more data to identify someone as the rightful owner.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, as far as I'm aware anyway, your data is already being tracked, when you buy tickets and in customs. No one seems to object to customs officials writing down your passport number, but as soon as a certain degree of technology is reached, people get a big-brother-is-watching scare.
I'm not commenting on whether the government should track people or not, all I am saying is that nothing is really changing, except that the life of custums officials probably gets a little easier when they dont have to type data into the computer manually any more, and the life of forgers gets a bit harder.
Whether they can make the chips themselves secure enough to be entrusted with releasing details of a person's identity via radio is another thing.
... glossy plastic ass!
Yes, that's it! Windows is a trojan horse designed to sneek windows updates onto your computer!
Tremble before my mighty logic!
Yay!