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Comment People get motion sick. (Score 3, Interesting) 281

Not much else is new. It's happened before the advent of 3D screens. More interesting is the eyestrain issue. It seems less severe when the 3DS is used in the dark, but I wonder if people will adjust to it eventually? Much like how someone has to adjust to their first pair of glasses? I haven't used a 3DS personally yet, but it sounds like a similar sensation people are experiencing..

*disclaimer: The important part of my post has been marked bold

Comment The one Tea Party member I saw was a fraud (Score 1) 695

and it doesn't reflect well on the party. I worked for his company where he didn't pay us for 2 months constantly saying 'next week' without giving any substantial reason for why next week would be different. He would complain about taxes and government regulation of business.

When the company finally got finanial backing, he joked about how he pulled in that sucker. We got paychecks for a while, but he kept no records about where what was going. I believe he moved to Texas from New York to escape a hostile environment for himself.

From what I have seen of Tea Party, it is pulling in scumbags who favor lawlessness. Not people who favor small government and less regulation. Yes, I am sour.

I personally liked Ron Paul. He probably doesn't fall far outside of the Tea Party ideology. But at least he seems to have some values.

Comment to each their own (Score 1) 898

There are a number of slashdotters commenting about how stupid the layout of PC keyboards are. I have tended to find the reverse true of PC keyboards. Particularly ones with media keys.

You like what you are used to.

I find Mac stuff tends to hide complexity and unneeded features, but doesn't treat you like an idiot. The features are usually there and easily discoverable, but you have to want to learn. In particular the command and option keys bring power that Linux/Windows users wouldn't even think of existing. But you have to be smart enough to notice it is there and not only look skin deep.

Comment Re:Screw it, I'm getting a Mac (Score 2) 797

You would also be switching to the OS that traded the zoom to fit button for maximize, added a minimize button on version 10, put back icons on the desktop after users revolted, and now just like MS Windows you can resize the windows from any side of the border.

It might not be a bad change for most people.

The only thing that scares me is the drag to top to maximize. I flick my windows around my desktop, so having them do that when I brink them to the top on a small screen drives me nuts.

Comment Re:NOT CODE COMMENTS!! (Score 1) 263

It's okay. He is Japanese and in many ways the Japanese don't have swear words...at least not in the same way as English has them. Of course, I am making comments about another person who I do not know so take this with a grain of salt ;-p

Comment Re:It's ridiculous. (Score 1) 426

If you want to simplify your life, walk. Turn off the internet, and stop using modern conveniences.

Yes, so he can have all the people shout out of their cars, "Go get a job!" On top of that, if a person sees someone biking from a car, their first thought is that the biker lost their license. Or maybe that they are incapable of driving. This is the American thought process. Americans have no idea how to cut back any more than they know how to not eat at McDonalds, and they impress their ideals on everyone else by using hyperbole. I am not impressed.

Comment Re:It's ridiculous. (Score 2) 426

I think "good enough" is not quite the right word. It is more likely fossil fuels will become bad enough before other options become good enough. It is a bit similar how there are no options that are "good enough" compared to fast food for Americans. Even if you are choking yourself on your way down.

I have a feelling I will be taking a beating for this post...

Comment Why allow disabling LQ? (Score 1) 221

Adobe could also stop letting flash authors disable the quality control on the right click menu. I noticed most commercial flash sites would rather you not be able to see their content at all than see it without antialiasing. My main computer is a netbook. It means I just plain can't use the site and must bring my business elsewhere.

Comment Re:Mostly true, but slightly spun summary. (Score 1) 482

From the number of people who think that a speed limit sign means a minimuim speed and from how when people do get into an accident they comment how the size of their large car saved them instead of how their speeding and the size of their car killed te other driver...

this investigation outcome sounds more reasonable than you would think.

Comment Re:Still problematic (Score 1) 263

From using FF4, it seems that a lot of addon authors will just select the current major version of Firefox

Do you seriously think extension authors all want to to that? When you upload an extension to addons.mozilla.org, it unzips th efile, and checks the manifest to make sure that you don't put in a version beyond what is available.

There is a lot of redonculous crap you have to go through as a Firefox extension developer nowadays.

Submission + - The Lossiness of your Camera (wordpress.com)

pizzach writes: I recently had something occur to me with the growing interest in 3D cameras since the appearance of the Nintendo 3DS. Pictures taken by 2D cameras are lossy. I am not talking about JPEG compression either.

Cameras can be used to apply various blurs and lighting effects to photos on the spot by using the lense and the flash before recording the image data. Most are used such that the subject of the photograph is more visible from the background.

But what if you could switch between these effects on a 'raw' photo after the picture has been taken? All it would take is having a camera that is optimized for photographing with minimuim distance blur and with high darkness sensitivity. It would also reduce the complexity on camera controls since you wouldn't have to switch between modes as often because everything is done in the postprocessing.

On top of this, photoshop filters would be able to do many interesting effects by just using a single slider and minimium tom-foolery. Want the background blurrier? Just pull the 1 slider right. Want the background less saturated? Pull this other slider. Since the photo is 3D, all of the needed data for distance should be able to be able to be automatically extrapulated with no fuss.

It seems that there are more perks to 3D photography than just for sterioscopic displays. So why hasn't this tech appeared yet, Slashdot? Am I missing something? Or are people worried so much about the glasses that they can't see the effect 3D photography will have on 2D photos?

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