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Photosynth Demo
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Unlike the first set of posters I managed to get over my self importance and watched a couple of seconds of BMW ads to see the actual video.
I liked the initial viewing of large quantity of hi-res images and the smooth zoom. The aggregation of many thousand flickr images of the Notre Dame (including one of a poster on a wall) into a 3-D image was fantastic.
One guy I worked with wrote a three page letter detailing the company and all senior management's flaws. Depending on how big the pond you live in is, this is not a good idea...
I'm not so sure of your glib statement of corporate dependence on ActiveX. I've worked for a large US corporation (top 20? top 10?) and I know the security boys would smack you upside the head if you even thought of emebedding an Active X control in their intranet infrastructure.
Except in this case the inventor is a New Zealand and the company is also bankrolled by a New Zealander. That's the country that invented the Jet Boat (and split the atom but that's another story)
Actally the metric system has pretty much been adopted world wide apart from one ol' stick in the mud - that would be the USA. Ask the boys from NASA who are still wondering where the Mars probe went to if they think the cost of not completely adopting metric was worth it...
Patent was filed on Oct. 6, 1997. Looking at the patent (http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd /US05951643__) it's a fairly bizarre collection of browser applets (3!) to server applet communication over a proprietiary socket connection. Wonder if they ever got it going in production?
>Abstract >Described is a mechanism for dependably >organizing and managing information for web >synchronization and tracking among multiple >consumer browsers. A session is created for each >of one of the consumer browsers This is crap, We wrote a session manager in February of 1997. And we got most of the logic out of a O'Rielly Nutshell book that was written in 1996. What are those losers at NCR doing? Maybe they get compensated by the number of patents they get.
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Unlike the first set of posters I managed to get over my self importance and watched a couple of seconds of BMW ads to see the actual video.
I liked the initial viewing of large quantity of hi-res images and the smooth zoom. The aggregation of many thousand flickr images of the Notre Dame (including one of a poster on a wall) into a 3-D image was fantastic.
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One guy I worked with wrote a three page letter detailing the company and all senior management's flaws. Depending on how big the pond you live in is, this is not a good idea ...
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I'm not so sure of your glib statement of corporate dependence on ActiveX. I've worked for a large US corporation (top 20? top 10?) and I know the security boys would smack you upside the head if you even thought of emebedding an Active X control in their intranet infrastructure.
Except in this case the inventor is a New Zealand and the company is also bankrolled by a New Zealander. That's the country that invented the Jet Boat (and split the atom but that's another story)
Actally the metric system has pretty much been adopted world wide apart from one ol' stick in the mud - that would be the USA. Ask the boys from NASA who are still wondering where the Mars probe went to if they think the cost of not completely adopting metric was worth it...
Patent was filed on Oct. 6, 1997. Looking at the patent (http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd /US05951643__) it's a fairly bizarre collection of browser applets (3!) to server applet communication over a proprietiary socket connection. Wonder if they ever got it going in production?
>Abstract >Described is a mechanism for dependably >organizing and managing information for web >synchronization and tracking among multiple >consumer browsers. A session is created for each >of one of the consumer browsers This is crap, We wrote a session manager in February of 1997. And we got most of the logic out of a O'Rielly Nutshell book that was written in 1996. What are those losers at NCR doing? Maybe they get compensated by the number of patents they get.