Not really. He'll sign away all of his rights by agreeing to the mandatory license agreement before installing the game. The not-so-fine print will be that they can shut off access to the game at any time for any reason, and he can't do anything about it (except download the inevitable crack).
ESR ir right, but I think he sent his letter to the wrong Senator. It should have gone to the 100 corrupt Senators who actually legislate, rather than former corrupt Senators.
Makes sense. Apple makes a HUGE margin on their devices and has $80B+ in the bank. They could certainly afford to build them right here in America, and still make a nice profit, but they choose not to.
They've already done it, by locking the cabin door. The cheapest and most effective fix to the problem possible.
At my home city airport, we still have the normal meta detectors and non-mandatory pat-downs. Why? Couldn't a terrorist just drive to my city and fly from there? This whole premise makes the entire current system worthless.
I write post-production software used to do this (and it runs on Linux!). The best results I've seen involve manually breaking each shot into dozens of layers, using rotoscoping. Each set of layers is exported as masks and imported into a compositing application where the images for the layers are projected onto the masks in 3D space. In some cases they build rough 3D models and project the layers onto the respective models. Now they can add a virtual camera and render the scene from both views. Then they bring the footage into a paint system and manually paint in the "missing" parts that now show up because of the change in camera angle. This has to be done for both the left and the right eye.
They have a room of 300 guys in India doing this for Titanic. But the results are INCREDIBLE.
Some automatic techniques involve rotoscoping a depth map by hand (or with a combination of some automated depth map generation, but this almost always has to be tweaked for good results), then using that to synthesize two new views from the 2D footage. Then to fill in the gaps they can use either an automated warping (which looks almost, but not quite, entirely not all right) or hand-painting again.
The upshot is it is a very very manual, labor-intensive process, with somewhat specialized tools. But when done well it looks amazing.
Then don't buy one of the 3D sets that is overly expensive, requires glasses, or induces headaches.
It's not like there aren't a ton of options out there.
I recently bought a 60" Panasonic plasma to replace my 5 year old 42" LCD. 3D added nothing to the price. The glasses are extremely lightweight and comfortable. And Tron Legacy (paid $25 for the version with DVD, Blu-Ray, 3D Blu-Ray and "digital copy") looks almost as good at home in 3D as it did in the theater.
Maybe you should try it before you claim you (or anyone else) isn't interested.
If they would open source video drivers too NVIDIA would be clear card of choice in *nix systems.
It already is. At least in the post production industry. You don't see any of us wining about lack of open-source drivers. We just want to get stuff done with the most reliable drivers available.
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Key parties yo!
Surely diverting power from the deflector dish would be the better choice.
Kudos to Cameron for that.
On the other hand, he left Jack in.
Not really. He'll sign away all of his rights by agreeing to the mandatory license agreement before installing the game. The not-so-fine print will be that they can shut off access to the game at any time for any reason, and he can't do anything about it (except download the inevitable crack).
I don't think they included Wine support since it's a native Qt app or something....
You're doing it wrong. You need to put your mug in the cup holder.
A meta cop once bit my sister...
Oh ugh even with proof-reading I still managed a lovely typo.
ESR ir right, but I think he sent his letter to the wrong Senator. It should have gone to the 100 corrupt Senators who actually legislate, rather than former corrupt Senators.
Don't you you mean corrupt format Senators?
A myth once bit my sisther....
Makes sense. Apple makes a HUGE margin on their devices and has $80B+ in the bank. They could certainly afford to build them right here in America, and still make a nice profit, but they choose not to.
They've already done it, by locking the cabin door. The cheapest and most effective fix to the problem possible.
At my home city airport, we still have the normal meta detectors and non-mandatory pat-downs. Why? Couldn't a terrorist just drive to my city and fly from there? This whole premise makes the entire current system worthless.
I write post-production software used to do this (and it runs on Linux!). The best results I've seen involve manually breaking each shot into dozens of layers, using rotoscoping. Each set of layers is exported as masks and imported into a compositing application where the images for the layers are projected onto the masks in 3D space. In some cases they build rough 3D models and project the layers onto the respective models. Now they can add a virtual camera and render the scene from both views. Then they bring the footage into a paint system and manually paint in the "missing" parts that now show up because of the change in camera angle. This has to be done for both the left and the right eye.
They have a room of 300 guys in India doing this for Titanic. But the results are INCREDIBLE.
Some automatic techniques involve rotoscoping a depth map by hand (or with a combination of some automated depth map generation, but this almost always has to be tweaked for good results), then using that to synthesize two new views from the 2D footage. Then to fill in the gaps they can use either an automated warping (which looks almost, but not quite, entirely not all right) or hand-painting again.
The upshot is it is a very very manual, labor-intensive process, with somewhat specialized tools. But when done well it looks amazing.
Then don't buy one of the 3D sets that is overly expensive, requires glasses, or induces headaches.
It's not like there aren't a ton of options out there.
I recently bought a 60" Panasonic plasma to replace my 5 year old 42" LCD. 3D added nothing to the price. The glasses are extremely lightweight and comfortable. And Tron Legacy (paid $25 for the version with DVD, Blu-Ray, 3D Blu-Ray and "digital copy") looks almost as good at home in 3D as it did in the theater.
Maybe you should try it before you claim you (or anyone else) isn't interested.
You must be thinking of police boxes.
If they would open source video drivers too NVIDIA would be clear card of choice in *nix systems.
It already is. At least in the post production industry. You don't see any of us wining about lack of open-source drivers. We just want to get stuff done with the most reliable drivers available.
I'd be more concerned about those Japanese tentacles. Much more.
I have an iPod Touch 1G and 3G that can't run the latest OS. And guess which OS everyone (including myself0 is re-targeting their apps to?
Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
Hmm - I think you're "eating" them wrong.
The ability to have pictures uploaded to the cloud immediately is useful. I'm sure there are Android apps which give this, but don't know any offhand.
The Google+ client for Android integrates with the camera and does this automatically.
And nothing of value was lost.
UW Stout != UW Madison
You sound pretty bitter. Did one of your professors try to touch you in your naughty place?
I didn't think drones had stingers. Did he choke on it or something?
Shit! It's 56 today so I'm safe but tomorrow it's supposed to hit 58 and 60 on Saturday! I wish the pieces were landing today - could be a close call.