So what I would like is a multi-camera system that uses similar kinds of interpolation to rebuild the image of the person so that they are looking directly at the camera. So if I put one webcam on either side of my screen, they can combine their images to create a shifted image where I am looking directly at the viewer on the other end.
Sounds overly complicated. Why not just put the camera behind the screen, so the user is actually looking directly at the camera, rather than faking it?
It looks like the application for this is chatting when you are drunk, standing up, and swaying about. I don't know anybody who constantly moves their head around when videochatting. They tend to look straight into the camera. And wouldn't you be rather concerned if the person on the other end of your chat did start moving around and looking at you from weird angles?
You think I'm being a "hater"? No, I'm just being realistic. What kind of production are we talking here? You only spent $2000 on equipment, and there were no further costs, not even gas to drive you to the location?
On consoles, where the hardware is all the same one can and should expect things to be pretty bug free.
And yet, the console versions of Fallout 3 were just as bugged as the PC version. As mentioned above, the bugs have nothing to do with drivers or hardware. They are in the game's logic and design. If you've not encountered any of these bugs, then either you haven't noticed them, or not played the game very extensively.
No, they did not. The confusion was created when some geniuses decided to use "kilo" to mean 1024, when everywhere else it means 1000.
To anyone who card about 1024/1000 in calculations, remembering wasn't an issue.
Remembering is not the issue. It's when you get something written down, and it's not clear which unit is being used. Do you just divine which unit is being referred to?
When storage manufacturers decided to lie, there were numerous lawsuits because people were getting less storage than they expected.
Again, such bullshit. Storage manufacturers did not "decide to lie". When IBM made the world's first hard drive, it was measured in decimal units. Did IBM lie to themselves? It's not as if that drive was a consumer product. You don't have any evidence of an intention to deceive, because there is none. And why is it only the fault of the storage manufacturers? Many other measures in computer science are decimal, such as network speed. Is that some sort of plot to deceive you?
When storage manufacturers decided to lie, there were numerous lawsuits because people were getting less storage than they expected.
Any idiot can file a lawsuit, it's not proof of anything. If I sue you for shooting my cat, is that proof of you shooting my cat? None of those cases had a guilty verdict, or any findings of deception.
ibi was introduced afterwards.
That's called progress. The metric system was introduced after the "hogshead". Does that make it invalid or inferior?
Logical and inconsistent? Using 1024 is perfectly logical (more so than 1000). Computer science has been completely consistent about it.
No, it hasn't. As noted above, decimal measures are used in many areas. Are you just pulling stuff from your ass? You appear to have little grasp of the facts, and are basing your stance on nothing but old wives' tales and nostalgia.
Your beef is that your precious letters were reused. Too bad. Happens all the time. Nobody owns them - not you, not the engineers, not the standards bodies.
Having multiple arbitrary definitions for a unit is not a good idea. You can measure things in hogsheads to your heart's content. but engineers and scientists like having clear and well-defined units. I haven't seen any serious and rational objection to this - the only ones are "but we're used to this way" and "those mebi things sound funny." Nothing of substance, just the whining of people opposed to progress.
This seems to be alarmingly biased. It's more about bashing teachers than anything else. Are teachers, as a whole, any less informed about Open Source than the general public? I don't think so.
This is just taking a couple of alleged incidents, with no real proof that they happened, and turning it into a political screed. So why is it that the teachers bear all the responsibility, when it is not even part of their curriculum?
Say what? The "antiglare" display on the MBP 17" looks just the same as a regular matte display. I think Apple just used different terminology. Perhaps "antiglare" sounds sexier than "matte"?
Using a good outdoor antenna, a preamp at the antenna, and modern low loss coax cable makes a huge difference for weak signals.
It can, but one of the most common mistakes people make is using an amplifier and a big antenna in an area that doesn't have a particularly weak signal. This especially applies to digital. An amplifier can easily swamp you with too much signal, or amplify other frequencies so much that they interfere with the frequencies you want. And amplifying a bad signal isn't going to do much for you. Your antenna may be pointed at a reflection, rather than the actual source.
I think it's best if people actually get their reception tested by a technician, rather than running out and buying amplifiers and large antennas just because they get poor reception.
There is no published figure regarding the probability of your computer turning into chocolate pudding before it reaches warranty. The probability is still approximately zero despite that.
So, you're saying it's a virtual impossibility. Therefore it must be a finite probability.
'If the probability estimate given by an argument is dwarfed by the chance that the argument itself is flawed, then the estimate is suspect,'
But if the improbability is large enough, and you hook it up to a nice, hot cup of tea; then we'll travel instantaneously through every point of the Universe, and possibly create a worried-looking whale and a bowl of petunias.
Ki, Mi, etc. are bullshit that was made up because the morons in the "standards" bodies couldn't stand up to the fucking storage manufacturers
Why are they bullshit? They solve an important problem, therefore are useful. And what does it have to do with storage manufacturers? They had nothing to do with them becoming SI or IEC units.
These "standard" prefixes will NEVER be adopted outside of the pretentious fucks on wikipedia. No computer scientist worth his silicon will ever adopt them.
Nonsense. Serious computer scientists will. It's only whiny retards who live in their mother's basement who are so emotionally attached to the messy kludge from the past.
Lots of things have two meanings. Lots of things require at least some semblance of knowledge.
Yeah, so what? How does that make ambiguity in science and engineering units a good thing? It's completely stupid - not something that "requires knowledge" - it's something that requires being illogical and inconsistent. Two characteristics that should have no place in computer science.
I forgot number 3: It would open the gateway for third party software to provide those functions rather than Microsoft. When people have paid for the capability already installed with their OS, it is a disincentive to buy 3rd party applications.
I always wondered why they didn't just call it Windows 7 or whatever code name and then distribute it with application packs, which would include application packs such as:
Because:
That would make too much sense.
It would wreck their arguments about how everything must be bundled together and integrated.
Windows 7 Home Basic is compatible with domestic chairs (but not office chairs). Windows 7 Starter is only compatible with stools and high chairs. Windows 7 Pro is compatible with office chairs, including leather executive chairs.
This is why data storage is SUPPOSED to be described using 1024, while data transfer is described using 1000.
So, use a different prefix when you use binary units. Don't use a prefix that is used everywhere else for decimal units. Is that so fucking hard? There are already defined prefixes for this.
Yeah... nevermind units that fit in with what's being measured
Are you really that stupid? Hard drives aren't built on a binary tree (like RAM). Decimal measures do fit what's being measured. That's why hard drives have always been measured in base 10. i think the engineers who designed them knew what they were doing. It had nothing to do with bureaucracy, it was about standards and logic.
My point was that the "robots with human dexterity, controlled by a human" won't work at distances past the Moon.
I don't understand your point about "human dexterity." What's the goal - to play golf on Mars or something? Wouldn't it be better to engineer a robot that has dexterity suited to the environment rather than to make it human-centric?
Even our previous achievements are being questioned and disbelieved (moon landing hoax).
Come on, only a bunch of fringe fanatics seriously believe that.
We are on the sliding slope away from progress.
I don't think so. Open Source is on the rise, and people have greater access to technology than ever before.
A rise in evangelical/extremest religious beliefs who completely dismiss science as evil.
Those people have always been around. We're still making small steps in social progress, and plenty of people don't give a shit about religion.
What I find most ironic about your post is that you decry the "doomed" attitude in the first part (global warming etc) - but then you follow it up with an even more extreme "sky is falling" appeal in the second part.
We need man space flights so we can put a human face on humanity, and give us a goal for the future.
Doesn't global warming also do the same thing? It gives us a goal, and that goal is explicitly about preserving humanity. It also feeds research and science.
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So what I would like is a multi-camera system that uses similar kinds of interpolation to rebuild the image of the person so that they are looking directly at the camera. So if I put one webcam on either side of my screen, they can combine their images to create a shifted image where I am looking directly at the viewer on the other end.
Sounds overly complicated. Why not just put the camera behind the screen, so the user is actually looking directly at the camera, rather than faking it?
It looks like the application for this is chatting when you are drunk, standing up, and swaying about. I don't know anybody who constantly moves their head around when videochatting. They tend to look straight into the camera. And wouldn't you be rather concerned if the person on the other end of your chat did start moving around and looking at you from weird angles?
It's because "Karen" doesn't exist. She is a fabrication used as the basis for a volatile rant about Open Source and teacher's unions.
You think I'm being a "hater"? No, I'm just being realistic. What kind of production are we talking here? You only spent $2000 on equipment, and there were no further costs, not even gas to drive you to the location?
On consoles, where the hardware is all the same one can and should expect things to be pretty bug free.
And yet, the console versions of Fallout 3 were just as bugged as the PC version. As mentioned above, the bugs have nothing to do with drivers or hardware. They are in the game's logic and design. If you've not encountered any of these bugs, then either you haven't noticed them, or not played the game very extensively.
Storage manufacturers created the confusion.
No, they did not. The confusion was created when some geniuses decided to use "kilo" to mean 1024, when everywhere else it means 1000.
To anyone who card about 1024/1000 in calculations, remembering wasn't an issue.
Remembering is not the issue. It's when you get something written down, and it's not clear which unit is being used. Do you just divine which unit is being referred to?
When storage manufacturers decided to lie, there were numerous lawsuits because people were getting less storage than they expected.
Again, such bullshit. Storage manufacturers did not "decide to lie". When IBM made the world's first hard drive, it was measured in decimal units. Did IBM lie to themselves? It's not as if that drive was a consumer product. You don't have any evidence of an intention to deceive, because there is none. And why is it only the fault of the storage manufacturers? Many other measures in computer science are decimal, such as network speed. Is that some sort of plot to deceive you?
When storage manufacturers decided to lie, there were numerous lawsuits because people were getting less storage than they expected.
Any idiot can file a lawsuit, it's not proof of anything. If I sue you for shooting my cat, is that proof of you shooting my cat? None of those cases had a guilty verdict, or any findings of deception.
ibi was introduced afterwards.
That's called progress. The metric system was introduced after the "hogshead". Does that make it invalid or inferior?
Logical and inconsistent? Using 1024 is perfectly logical (more so than 1000). Computer science has been completely consistent about it.
No, it hasn't. As noted above, decimal measures are used in many areas. Are you just pulling stuff from your ass? You appear to have little grasp of the facts, and are basing your stance on nothing but old wives' tales and nostalgia.
Your beef is that your precious letters were reused. Too bad. Happens all the time. Nobody owns them - not you, not the engineers, not the standards bodies.
Having multiple arbitrary definitions for a unit is not a good idea. You can measure things in hogsheads to your heart's content. but engineers and scientists like having clear and well-defined units. I haven't seen any serious and rational objection to this - the only ones are "but we're used to this way" and "those mebi things sound funny." Nothing of substance, just the whining of people opposed to progress.
If they can't be bothered fixing obvious bugs in the original game, why would I want to add further complications and bugs on top of that?
This seems to be alarmingly biased. It's more about bashing teachers than anything else. Are teachers, as a whole, any less informed about Open Source than the general public? I don't think so.
This is just taking a couple of alleged incidents, with no real proof that they happened, and turning it into a political screed. So why is it that the teachers bear all the responsibility, when it is not even part of their curriculum?
Meanwhile, HP and Dell are shipping laptops with RGB LED-backlit displays with 105% NTSC color gamut.
So, you're saying that the new HP and Dell machines are almost capable of displaying color?
Say what? The "antiglare" display on the MBP 17" looks just the same as a regular matte display. I think Apple just used different terminology. Perhaps "antiglare" sounds sexier than "matte"?
And I can get a camera right now for $1200 that is considered, among idie film makers to be a very good camera.
No. It's not anywhere near a decent camera, even in indie circles.
I can then go get the other equipment I need for the other $800.
So, you've paid for your equipment. Now how are you going to fund all the other costs with your $2000 budget?
and Bolt never gets tired because he's a math function.
Damnit. Algorithms get all the best sex.
ls: was not was
Using a good outdoor antenna, a preamp at the antenna, and modern low loss coax cable makes a huge difference for weak signals.
It can, but one of the most common mistakes people make is using an amplifier and a big antenna in an area that doesn't have a particularly weak signal. This especially applies to digital. An amplifier can easily swamp you with too much signal, or amplify other frequencies so much that they interfere with the frequencies you want. And amplifying a bad signal isn't going to do much for you. Your antenna may be pointed at a reflection, rather than the actual source.
I think it's best if people actually get their reception tested by a technician, rather than running out and buying amplifiers and large antennas just because they get poor reception.
There is no published figure regarding the probability of your computer turning into chocolate pudding before it reaches warranty. The probability is still approximately zero despite that.
So, you're saying it's a virtual impossibility. Therefore it must be a finite probability.
'If the probability estimate given by an argument is dwarfed by the chance that the argument itself is flawed, then the estimate is suspect,'
But if the improbability is large enough, and you hook it up to a nice, hot cup of tea; then we'll travel instantaneously through every point of the Universe, and possibly create a worried-looking whale and a bowl of petunias.
Ki, Mi, etc. are bullshit that was made up because the morons in the "standards" bodies couldn't stand up to the fucking storage manufacturers
Why are they bullshit? They solve an important problem, therefore are useful. And what does it have to do with storage manufacturers? They had nothing to do with them becoming SI or IEC units.
These "standard" prefixes will NEVER be adopted outside of the pretentious fucks on wikipedia. No computer scientist worth his silicon will ever adopt them.
Nonsense. Serious computer scientists will. It's only whiny retards who live in their mother's basement who are so emotionally attached to the messy kludge from the past.
Lots of things have two meanings. Lots of things require at least some semblance of knowledge.
Yeah, so what? How does that make ambiguity in science and engineering units a good thing? It's completely stupid - not something that "requires knowledge" - it's something that requires being illogical and inconsistent. Two characteristics that should have no place in computer science.
I forgot number 3: It would open the gateway for third party software to provide those functions rather than Microsoft. When people have paid for the capability already installed with their OS, it is a disincentive to buy 3rd party applications.
I always wondered why they didn't just call it Windows 7 or whatever code name and then distribute it with application packs, which would include application packs such as:
Because:
Windows 7 Home Basic is compatible with domestic chairs (but not office chairs). Windows 7 Starter is only compatible with stools and high chairs. Windows 7 Pro is compatible with office chairs, including leather executive chairs.
This is why data storage is SUPPOSED to be described using 1024, while data transfer is described using 1000.
So, use a different prefix when you use binary units. Don't use a prefix that is used everywhere else for decimal units. Is that so fucking hard? There are already defined prefixes for this.
Yeah... nevermind units that fit in with what's being measured
Are you really that stupid? Hard drives aren't built on a binary tree (like RAM). Decimal measures do fit what's being measured. That's why hard drives have always been measured in base 10. i think the engineers who designed them knew what they were doing. It had nothing to do with bureaucracy, it was about standards and logic.
It's called a joke.
My point was that the "robots with human dexterity, controlled by a human" won't work at distances past the Moon.
I don't understand your point about "human dexterity." What's the goal - to play golf on Mars or something? Wouldn't it be better to engineer a robot that has dexterity suited to the environment rather than to make it human-centric?
Even our previous achievements are being questioned and disbelieved (moon landing hoax).
Come on, only a bunch of fringe fanatics seriously believe that.
We are on the sliding slope away from progress.
I don't think so. Open Source is on the rise, and people have greater access to technology than ever before.
A rise in evangelical/extremest religious beliefs who completely dismiss science as evil.
Those people have always been around. We're still making small steps in social progress, and plenty of people don't give a shit about religion.
What I find most ironic about your post is that you decry the "doomed" attitude in the first part (global warming etc) - but then you follow it up with an even more extreme "sky is falling" appeal in the second part.
We need man space flights so we can put a human face on humanity, and give us a goal for the future.
Doesn't global warming also do the same thing? It gives us a goal, and that goal is explicitly about preserving humanity. It also feeds research and science.