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  1. Re:How shit like this starts on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 1

    I think it's clear what I thought of my boss at the time. What you overlook, however, is that you did not always have the luxury of being picky about who your boss was. I mention that now so you understand that despite where you are at now at life, you have younglings that would benefit from your support right now.

  2. Re:We need better legislation on Chinese Tourist's Drone Crashes Into Taipei 101 Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    China is very like to have a more balanced response. The US is likely to go OMG drone hit Tower - declare a war on eveything and divert squidzillions to the war effort!

    Oh quit exaggerating. All Americans want to do is whip out our guns and fire up in the air at any drone without considering the consequences of doing so. Much more reasonable.

  3. Re:3D stereoscopy + 360 != VR on YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos · · Score: 1

    Honestly I'm unaware of stereo panoramic shots done back in the day... which I'm assuming is sometime in the 90's when products for this purpose started appearing on the market. I didn't see an actual stereo viewer until this year. (Although the place I worked at did experimental stuff.)

    I know that video shot these days would involve multiple pairs of cameras, stitched together with stereo in mind. The app that does the stitching, however, needs to be aware that the footage is stereo, otherwise it'll try to 'correct' the seams, not realizing that sometimes it shouldn't.

  4. How shit like this starts on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would wager that what happened was some executive who thinks he or she is too high and mighty to do something like... notify anybody AT ALL that they're bringing important people through... decided to talk up how professional and awesome their employees are and then bring them through, only to catch the overweight bearded guy wearing sandals in the middle of eating a messy burger. Of course the problem is that the guy was wearing sandals!

    I've witnessed this multiple times. One executive told me about how he never knows in advance when investors are coming through. I asked if they just walk up and down our street and randomly poke their head into our place. The answer to that question was a suggestion that I should update my resume.

  5. Re: 3D stereoscopy + 360 != VR on YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't mean that. Eye separation does not change when you look around in a spherical video. I don't know where this myth that stereo spherical video is only stereo looking straight ahead, but it's not even close to true.

  6. Re:3D stereoscopy + 360 != VR on YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos · · Score: 1

    Click that link, it specifically mentions stereo spherical video.

  7. Re:3D stereoscopy + 360 != VR on YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos · · Score: 1

    Turn your head to the right 90 degrees. You now have 2 videos feeds, one from where your left ear is, and one from where your right ear is.

    Again, this is untrue, and I don't know where you're getting this information from. You can generate left-eye/right-eye spherical views that are stereo in *any* direction. This has been done both in CG and with live-video, and does not require interpolation... just more cameras. This is not interpolation, either.

    There are two limitations. The first is that between the two cameras there are areas that one camera can see and the other cannot, this creates a region of occlusion. This creates a bubble around the camera, virtual or real, that won't be viewed properly. The minimum size of that bubble is determined by the separation of the cameras, anything passing into it will get cut off or distorted.

    The second is that the stereo effect doesn't work past the poles because now you're looking at video intended for viewing from the opposite orientation. There is no known solution for this.

    This is not theory, these sorts of videos are already out in the wild.

  8. Re:3D stereoscopy + 360 != VR on YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos · · Score: 1

    If you're saying you cannot do spherical video in stereo... you're wrong.

  9. Re:3D stereoscopy + 360 != VR on YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos · · Score: 1

    You do get head tracking with it.

  10. Re:Genesis! on Four-legged Snake Fossil Stuns Scientists, Ignites Controversy · · Score: 1

    "Look at me! First I'm an asshole, then I'm a victim!"

    I'll never understand that defense.

  11. Re: Second chances on The Lone Gunmen Are Not Dead · · Score: 1

    If the assholish behaviour of east-coasters is enough to turn up on your metric, then you don't really have much to complain about the west coast.

  12. Re: Question about the name on The Lone Gunmen Are Not Dead · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but you're still a moron.

  13. Second chances on The Lone Gunmen Are Not Dead · · Score: 1

    So has Slashdot learned its lesson about spoiling shows for people with DVRs and the entire West Coast?

  14. Re:Am I the only guy here that likes G+? on Google+ Photos To Shut Down August 1 · · Score: 1

    Because I don't want my email and my social media coming from the same place.

  15. Re:More by whom on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    What if a firefighter broke a window out of your car, but not parked in front of a hydrant?

  16. Re:More by whom on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    You do know that these drones will try to avoid being hit, right?

  17. Re:More by whom on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know how great the moderation system is when a post that completely misses the point is at +5.

  18. Re:People use this? on A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android · · Score: 1

    Not once have I ever witnessed a person walking down the street and ask their phone a question.

    I ask Siri questions all the time, "Where's the nearest coffee shop", "What time is this movie playing?", "What time does a particular place close?" , "What's the phone # for this particular business?" I go stand in a vacant doorway while I do it so I'm not blocking foot or bike traffic. If I exist, others do, too.

    Maybe people are a good deal more polite than you give them credit for.

  19. Re: Yawn on A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lol. Shut up you fucking nerd cunt. I can smell your cheetohs breath from here.

    I would just like to point out that this remark was posted late on a Friday night.

  20. Re:Really? on Commodore PET Smartphone Comes Loaded With C64 and Amiga Emulators · · Score: 1

    And of course "it runs a custom version of Android". Sure make yet another smartphone but do we need another fork of Android for it? Why can't they just preload their emulators onto a stock version of Android?

    This "custom version of Android" rubbish is just code for: if it isnt successful it will be abandoned and users wont get updates.

    Isn't this where everyone piles on and insists you'd be happy if you bought a Nexus?

  21. If your factory's productivity doubles do you just pocket the savings or produce twice as much stuff to sell?

    If you chose the latter then congratulations, you now understand how robots didn't take jobs.

  22. Re:You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 1

    Heh. "Respectfully." Right.

  23. Re: You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 0

    If you feel another individual has besmirched your reputation then I recommend unchecking 'post anonymously' in the future.

  24. Re:You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What you originally said and what you said in this post are two different things. Once you figure that out you'll understand the downmod.

  25. Re:Tax dollars at work. on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    By forgetting about the cost you're intentionally avoiding the solution to your problem.