People with lazy eye have trouble seeing 3d the way it is presented in media and movies because it relies on stereoscopic vision, or, stereopsis.
wikipedia explains it better than I can: Stereopsis is commonly referred to as depth perception. This is inaccurate, as depth perception relies on many more monocular cues than stereoptical ones, and individuals with only one functional eye still have full depth perception except in artificial cases (such as stereoscopic images) where only binocular cues are present.
So I'm not completely screwed in my day to day life since depth perception relies on other monocular visual cues that are normally present such as size, perspective, and motion parallax.
This is all fine and dandy, however, when you are considered the world's worst director and you largely finance films through your own holding company.
Didn't Roland Emmerich already demonstrate in the 1996 US documentary Independence Day that UFO's can successfully be hacked by introducing a computer virus into the mothership?
Homer: Uh, I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am.
Marge: Do you see towels? If you see towels, you're probably in the linen closet again.
Homer: Just a second...no, it's a place I've never been before.
Selma: Hmm. The shower. [laughs]
I can see Lisa Simpson in the 2012 Olympics logo (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/533084139_223aa08fb6.jpg). I can sort of see Boba Fett in the N in the ESPN logo (http://blogbeckett.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/espn.jpg), but I think a doink in OGC is kind of a stretch:)
So (at least in my area) if you get residential, you're pretty much a sucker.
I dunno. I had Comcast residential for six months and had to call them twice. Yes, it was a painful experience, but I don't think I would have paid a $120 premium to avoid it. I also got the month free on both occasions (for a 30 minute outage in each case). Additionally, for a homeowner a contract might be attractive. For a renter, not so much.
What I would like to have is (the option, of course) Firefox UI elements somehow run vertically along the left side of the screen. Horizontal screen space is cheap these days with the ubiquity of wide screen displays. Vertical resolution, not so much anymore. However, the left to right text of the address bar, bookmarks, tabs, etc seems like an insurmountable barrier unless someone can come up with a good idea for representing that vertically.
You reject Buzz as a social network (quite reasonably) because it's not popular enough and then solicit suggestions for an even more obscure social network?
Did you check who the editor was before reading the submission? I made the same mistake and didn't. When I remember, I usually skip right over kdawson's posts, unless it's a slow work day.
The ISS remains an enormous cash sink to maintain with relatively little scientific value compared to other endeavors. If you want something to complain about, look towards the people who made the decision to build it to begin with. At this point, I think it's about cutting losses.
I can't find the article in question at the moment, but the Economist ran an article a few months ago reporting that something along the lines of 50% of NASA's budget is devoted to the ISS alone.
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People with lazy eye have trouble seeing 3d the way it is presented in media and movies because it relies on stereoscopic vision, or, stereopsis.
wikipedia explains it better than I can: Stereopsis is commonly referred to as depth perception. This is inaccurate, as depth perception relies on many more monocular cues than stereoptical ones, and individuals with only one functional eye still have full depth perception except in artificial cases (such as stereoscopic images) where only binocular cues are present.
So I'm not completely screwed in my day to day life since depth perception relies on other monocular visual cues that are normally present such as size, perspective, and motion parallax.
I have a lazy eye you insensitive clod!
This is all fine and dandy, however, when you are considered the world's worst director and you largely finance films through your own holding company.
And people said I was dumb, but I proved them!
"Reader [of slashdot] freddled" is the implied meaning, I imagine.
Anyone can advertise on iAds but since it takes a minimum of $500K and programming.
And people said I was stupid, but I proved them!
Nobody was reported to have been killed by the sinkhole. Though the other floods and landslides are a different matter..
Didn't Roland Emmerich already demonstrate in the 1996 US documentary Independence Day that UFO's can successfully be hacked by introducing a computer virus into the mothership?
But we already knew about the data retention. Is the news that they used software to accomplish that? Shocking!
And my car has four Goodyear tires and a couple gallons of Shell gasoline in it. So what?
Homer: Uh, I'm somewhere where I don't know where I am.
Marge: Do you see towels? If you see towels, you're probably in the linen closet again.
Homer: Just a second...no, it's a place I've never been before.
Selma: Hmm. The shower. [laughs]
A portmanteau of has and had?
I can see Lisa Simpson in the 2012 Olympics logo (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/533084139_223aa08fb6.jpg). I can sort of see Boba Fett in the N in the ESPN logo (http://blogbeckett.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/espn.jpg), but I think a doink in OGC is kind of a stretch :)
So (at least in my area) if you get residential, you're pretty much a sucker.
I dunno. I had Comcast residential for six months and had to call them twice. Yes, it was a painful experience, but I don't think I would have paid a $120 premium to avoid it. I also got the month free on both occasions (for a 30 minute outage in each case). Additionally, for a homeowner a contract might be attractive. For a renter, not so much.
That's nothing new. I saw an entire robot orchestra at House on the Rock 18 years ago!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/decibelle/375548979/
What? You mean they weren't really playing those instruments?
What I would like to have is (the option, of course) Firefox UI elements somehow run vertically along the left side of the screen. Horizontal screen space is cheap these days with the ubiquity of wide screen displays. Vertical resolution, not so much anymore. However, the left to right text of the address bar, bookmarks, tabs, etc seems like an insurmountable barrier unless someone can come up with a good idea for representing that vertically.
Is it April 1st in kdawson land?
You reject Buzz as a social network (quite reasonably) because it's not popular enough and then solicit suggestions for an even more obscure social network?
What is this RUBBISH that you write?
Dare you question the irresponsiby edited melodramatic flame bait that is the unyielding word of kdawson? Futile heathen.
Wayner's long piece is an extended analogy comparing Apple to the worst of Soviet-era bureaucracy.
Ah, classic kdawson. Your hyperbole is truly without peer.
Did you check who the editor was before reading the submission? I made the same mistake and didn't. When I remember, I usually skip right over kdawson's posts, unless it's a slow work day.
The ISS remains an enormous cash sink to maintain with relatively little scientific value compared to other endeavors. If you want something to complain about, look towards the people who made the decision to build it to begin with. At this point, I think it's about cutting losses.
I can't find the article in question at the moment, but the Economist ran an article a few months ago reporting that something along the lines of 50% of NASA's budget is devoted to the ISS alone.
In any case it is common sense to watch what you post online.
I have a webcam pointed at my monitor just for this purpose.
You're not that important. And if you are, then you have the resources to deal with the inquiries you might attract.