I would use projectors not screens. Set up a whole wall of the room (or a large bordered portion) to act as a window.
The goal is to have it close enough to something that people are comfortable with allowing for some suspension of disbelief. Working towards that end have the camera in each room in a similar position to make it as close as possible to acting like a window. Stick a pointless frame/trim on the wall to encourage the illusion. Continuous lines and such when standing and looking into the 'window' from the most common position are important. Similar rooms would help as well. Or common elements... little things like cameras being the same height off the table are important to make it feel continuous.
It would not be the same thing as a window of course because of the lack of 3d. One thing you could do though to partially alleviate this would be to use head tracking to determine how close you are to the camera and as you move closer have it zoom to match the right field of view that you would expect. This would help add some realism. Another thing you could do would involve 3d sound recording + reproduction which is doable. It makes the connection feel more real if they can hear you move across the room.
More expensive the better pretty much. Costly internet connection helps a lot. Good camera and microphones would be good. Good projector would be very important. Fancy business telepresence stuff probably is good and expensive too.
I'm sure a good driven programmer/engineer could set this up and get it working smoothly with under 20k and a month or so...... But it'd be pretty damn cool!
Still biting the hand that feeds them. The choice to charge $500 for it was suicide, simple as that. Charging 10k may have been bad enough that they would sell ZERO copies. Which would have been sort of embarrassing.
Why can't you let it sit as a metaphor for time? Certainly no stranger than lots of metaphors that are out there. Saying its 'miles off still' wouldnt have been too offensive...
We all forgive/rationalize Star Wars for running races in parsecs too remember.
Still completely fucking retarded. I was really excited about this product before it came out. Was a part of the forums. The they decided they would charge HEAVILY for the SDK to regular users. Who is their audience? People that want to toy with the thing. That is their ONLY audience until there are several thousand apps for the thing and when it is integrated into a bunch of games like the star wars mmo. And that will only happen if you have lots of developers. Which emotive is shitting on.
They likely made 20-50 grand selling the dev kits. Where-as the starwars mmo having mind control in it would sell at least 1,000 headsets likely way way more. They would have to try to not sell an additional 500-1000 headsets if they opened the SDK.
Explaining this obvious failure of business on the forums got me tossed then my post deleted. And now the old forums are gone. (When I explained it back then I was much more encouraging).
Seriously, this thing was super hyped at release but if you google them or look their crap up on youtube they almost completely died within weeks of release. The forum has 2-3 active devs.
So sad to see such a cool toy ruined by such a stupid stupid obvious business decision.:( That and proving that Balmer is smarter than you has to be embarrassing. DEVELOPERS!
New image search is a nice improvement. BUT the new links you get aren't as nice. Somehow they seem slower loading for me.
Why not actually load the page they are on and attach a little bit of code to stick the image over-top. if you click the x hide everything instantly. Why reload the whole god damn page?
Why? There are likely 1000s of such star systems. This is just the first we detected as having 7 planets. I'm certain that as telescope tech improves we'll notices that many stars have a large number of planets.
I got turned down for a job recently making e-commerce sites. I know php, mysql, have used netbeans, know how to program using MVC, well informed on sql and xss attacks, know how to use mod_rewrite, have used PEAR packages, know javascript and xml, have run my own WAMP and LAMP servers with different packages and manual setups.
But I know Magento as opposed to osCommerce. And I haven't used the Zend framework for more than a few hours. And was told that I wasn't needed because of the lack of those skills. Yep...
Thank god it isn't just me that thinks that. I know you can specialize within programming. But lets try to break it into ~6 different specializations to cover >95% of programming jobs.
It'd be like looking for someone to work at a TimHortons (coffee shop) and saying that you require 2-3years experience using a Bunn CDBCF15 coffee maker. And a list of 30 other requirements.
I do think as well that lots of people lie through their teeth and if they get a call for an interview they don't sleep till that day and hardcore research whatever the job requires. Faking all the previous job experience sounds tough though.
Scary for a newbie too. Looking at all the jobs you could do given 2-3 weeks of research since they all require weird specific experience. Jobs pop up and then vanish before the 2-3week period. And even if they didn't if you don't get that job then you wasted your time learning a framework or app or coding style or testing suite that you may never ever need to use again.
And it only gets more frustrating from there. "Requires 3-5 years experience." - the most common line you'll see on a programming job posting. means that if you did end up getting pigeonholed into a narrow field like.... making e-commerce websites switching to something like making dynamic game sites is hard. Even though the skills involved are almost the exact same things.
I guarantee that the economic downturn caused tons of coders to take any job they could get and as the economy improves they will find themselves trapped.
Don't get me wrong this is true for all jobs. Especially the huge importance put on what work you've done in the last 4 months. Why the last 4 months are more important than your whole life before than is beyond me. My mother is a teacher, she didn't get a job one term so she decided to do be a nurse on a temporary basis (she was fully qualified already and was a nurse when she was younger). Since then it has been hell for her to get back into a teaching career. They are all so suspicious of her term nursing. As if it took away her ability to teach... when really it'd probably help as she teaches health-care.
Cause it is fucking cool. Why the fuck do people think that we need some boring reason for going to space like minerals or w/e excuse we come up with. Going to space isn't really about backing up society off planet and it sure as fuck isn't about resources. Those are rationalizing doing something because its awesome.
I just watched a movie. It wasn't very educational. I probably could have been more productive doing something else. But I did it anyways. Why can't society do this together?
Think of it on a more personal level. What makes Aristotle, Gandhi Darwin or Caesar important to us as a society? They left a mark and changed history. Why shouldn't we then as a society strive for the same levels of greatness?
The measure was CHANGE IN STANDARDIZED TEST RESULTS. As in how the children changed after they got a particular teacher. So your whole analogy is flawed.
Change in test scores not simply what the kids get but their change from the year before. Controlled by school nvm district should really help make the metric valuable as a measurement.
That is mortifying hilarious depressing and completely un-shocking all at once. I was simply addressing the idea that the parents or general public having access could be short sighted.
If you wrote an exam all the time and never got marks back over a 16year period. Then you got one back that said you sucked wouldn't you be genuinely concerned about it and want to fix it? I don't think it is that he hasn't figured out what was wrong as opposed to he never knew he was doing wrong.
Plus the whole system of education for teachers doesn't teach what works since they have no fucking clue either. Hard to blame the individual when the whole industry is fucked.
With high quality Mp3s many people will fail a blind comparing it to a better codec. Better TV tech is fairly obvious and I'm sure less people would fail a blind test where screens jump in resolution 100%.
You can still frame it if you wish... Why is the option bad? One awesome thing about no bezel means you could line up two screens and tada you now have and even bigger screen! I'd love that for a regular 3 monitor setup.
Point 2 is probably not that common though I'm sure it occurs.
Point 3 though has nothing to do with disclosing the data. They already said that it is not a great indicator but it is better than nothing. Maybe you don't like standardized testing but that is your problem.
What metric btw would you suggest would be best at determining whether or not teachers suck. It has to be something measurable (as in with a number) and not crazy expensive.
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I would use projectors not screens. Set up a whole wall of the room (or a large bordered portion) to act as a window.
... little things like cameras being the same height off the table are important to make it feel continuous.
...... But it'd be pretty damn cool!
The goal is to have it close enough to something that people are comfortable with allowing for some suspension of disbelief. Working towards that end have the camera in each room in a similar position to make it as close as possible to acting like a window. Stick a pointless frame/trim on the wall to encourage the illusion. Continuous lines and such when standing and looking into the 'window' from the most common position are important. Similar rooms would help as well. Or common elements
It would not be the same thing as a window of course because of the lack of 3d. One thing you could do though to partially alleviate this would be to use head tracking to determine how close you are to the camera and as you move closer have it zoom to match the right field of view that you would expect. This would help add some realism. Another thing you could do would involve 3d sound recording + reproduction which is doable. It makes the connection feel more real if they can hear you move across the room.
More expensive the better pretty much. Costly internet connection helps a lot. Good camera and microphones would be good. Good projector would be very important. Fancy business telepresence stuff probably is good and expensive too.
I'm sure a good driven programmer/engineer could set this up and get it working smoothly with under 20k and a month or so
He's hoping to get an asian one to go with her.
Still biting the hand that feeds them. The choice to charge $500 for it was suicide, simple as that. Charging 10k may have been bad enough that they would sell ZERO copies. Which would have been sort of embarrassing.
That one isn't so sad.... http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/ being perfectly accurate was pretty depressing though.
Why can't you let it sit as a metaphor for time? Certainly no stranger than lots of metaphors that are out there. Saying its 'miles off still' wouldnt have been too offensive...
We all forgive/rationalize Star Wars for running races in parsecs too remember.
Still completely fucking retarded. I was really excited about this product before it came out. Was a part of the forums. The they decided they would charge HEAVILY for the SDK to regular users. Who is their audience? People that want to toy with the thing. That is their ONLY audience until there are several thousand apps for the thing and when it is integrated into a bunch of games like the star wars mmo. And that will only happen if you have lots of developers. Which emotive is shitting on.
:( That and proving that Balmer is smarter than you has to be embarrassing. DEVELOPERS!
They likely made 20-50 grand selling the dev kits. Where-as the starwars mmo having mind control in it would sell at least 1,000 headsets likely way way more. They would have to try to not sell an additional 500-1000 headsets if they opened the SDK.
Explaining this obvious failure of business on the forums got me tossed then my post deleted. And now the old forums are gone. (When I explained it back then I was much more encouraging).
Seriously, this thing was super hyped at release but if you google them or look their crap up on youtube they almost completely died within weeks of release. The forum has 2-3 active devs.
So sad to see such a cool toy ruined by such a stupid stupid obvious business decision.
New image search is a nice improvement. BUT the new links you get aren't as nice. Somehow they seem slower loading for me.
Why not actually load the page they are on and attach a little bit of code to stick the image over-top. if you click the x hide everything instantly. Why reload the whole god damn page?
Why? There are likely 1000s of such star systems. This is just the first we detected as having 7 planets. I'm certain that as telescope tech improves we'll notices that many stars have a large number of planets.
I got turned down for a job recently making e-commerce sites. I know php, mysql, have used netbeans, know how to program using MVC, well informed on sql and xss attacks, know how to use mod_rewrite, have used PEAR packages, know javascript and xml, have run my own WAMP and LAMP servers with different packages and manual setups.
But I know Magento as opposed to osCommerce. And I haven't used the Zend framework for more than a few hours. And was told that I wasn't needed because of the lack of those skills. Yep...
Thank god it isn't just me that thinks that. I know you can specialize within programming. But lets try to break it into ~6 different specializations to cover >95% of programming jobs.
It'd be like looking for someone to work at a TimHortons (coffee shop) and saying that you require 2-3years experience using a Bunn CDBCF15 coffee maker. And a list of 30 other requirements.
I do think as well that lots of people lie through their teeth and if they get a call for an interview they don't sleep till that day and hardcore research whatever the job requires. Faking all the previous job experience sounds tough though.
Scary for a newbie too. Looking at all the jobs you could do given 2-3 weeks of research since they all require weird specific experience. Jobs pop up and then vanish before the 2-3week period. And even if they didn't if you don't get that job then you wasted your time learning a framework or app or coding style or testing suite that you may never ever need to use again.
And it only gets more frustrating from there. "Requires 3-5 years experience." - the most common line you'll see on a programming job posting. means that if you did end up getting pigeonholed into a narrow field like.... making e-commerce websites switching to something like making dynamic game sites is hard. Even though the skills involved are almost the exact same things.
I guarantee that the economic downturn caused tons of coders to take any job they could get and as the economy improves they will find themselves trapped.
Don't get me wrong this is true for all jobs. Especially the huge importance put on what work you've done in the last 4 months. Why the last 4 months are more important than your whole life before than is beyond me. My mother is a teacher, she didn't get a job one term so she decided to do be a nurse on a temporary basis (she was fully qualified already and was a nurse when she was younger). Since then it has been hell for her to get back into a teaching career. They are all so suspicious of her term nursing. As if it took away her ability to teach... when really it'd probably help as she teaches health-care.
Thats cause the US sucks.
He means that earth is really 4.54 billion years old not 4.7... 4.6 is our upper limit estimate (oldest meteorites found).
Thats so true, my head literally exploded from the truthiness.
Cause it is fucking cool. Why the fuck do people think that we need some boring reason for going to space like minerals or w/e excuse we come up with. Going to space isn't really about backing up society off planet and it sure as fuck isn't about resources. Those are rationalizing doing something because its awesome.
I just watched a movie. It wasn't very educational. I probably could have been more productive doing something else. But I did it anyways. Why can't society do this together?
Think of it on a more personal level. What makes Aristotle, Gandhi Darwin or Caesar important to us as a society? They left a mark and changed history. Why shouldn't we then as a society strive for the same levels of greatness?
Tons of wars were because of Religion...
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The measure was CHANGE IN STANDARDIZED TEST RESULTS. As in how the children changed after they got a particular teacher. So your whole analogy is flawed.
Change in test scores not simply what the kids get but their change from the year before. Controlled by school nvm district should really help make the metric valuable as a measurement.
That is mortifying hilarious depressing and completely un-shocking all at once. I was simply addressing the idea that the parents or general public having access could be short sighted.
If you wrote an exam all the time and never got marks back over a 16year period. Then you got one back that said you sucked wouldn't you be genuinely concerned about it and want to fix it? I don't think it is that he hasn't figured out what was wrong as opposed to he never knew he was doing wrong.
Plus the whole system of education for teachers doesn't teach what works since they have no fucking clue either. Hard to blame the individual when the whole industry is fucked.
With high quality Mp3s many people will fail a blind comparing it to a better codec. Better TV tech is fairly obvious and I'm sure less people would fail a blind test where screens jump in resolution 100%.
You can still frame it if you wish... Why is the option bad? One awesome thing about no bezel means you could line up two screens and tada you now have and even bigger screen! I'd love that for a regular 3 monitor setup.
"On average, his students started the year in the 34th percentile in math compared with all other district fifth-graders. They finished in the 61st. "
Didn't catch this quote earlier but it invalidates point 1,2.
Point 2 is probably not that common though I'm sure it occurs.
Point 3 though has nothing to do with disclosing the data. They already said that it is not a great indicator but it is better than nothing. Maybe you don't like standardized testing but that is your problem.
What metric btw would you suggest would be best at determining whether or not teachers suck. It has to be something measurable (as in with a number) and not crazy expensive.