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Comment First Person Shooters (Score 5, Interesting) 245

This will be awesome for 3d games (first person shooters).
One image per eye, producing a 3d scene.

I imagine generation 1 will look weird with all the images being in focus, even though the Z distance varies.
With a little more work, generation 2 could detect what you are trying to focus on - like those eye test machines do - and produce a more realistic scene - blurry in the background, sharp foreground.

It would be cool to hit a key and have the scene zoom on what you're looking at.

Comment He's mostly right (Score 4, Insightful) 562

He's mostly right, except for the bit about free.

Honestly, I'd pay somewhere between $1.00 and $2.50 for a movie, if it were HQ-5.1 and instant play, like youtube.

Because it's more convenient to download a movie, and play it on my media player than aquire and load a DVD, so I choose that medium.

The movie producers leave me little option than to download illegally.

Yes, I've seen the stores, their selection sucks.

Comment startup (Score 2, Insightful) 429

another good idea is reduce the number of "run on startup" lists to one. theres a billion options for running your stuff on startup. should be just one place.

while im ranting, i hate that i've got two processes in task manager called rundll32.exe that i havent a clue what they do

Comment release date around jun/jul/aug (Score 2, Interesting) 321

estimate 1: nt4 (900 days), 2000 (1200 days) and xp (600 days), at around 1000 days of development. windows 7 started around oct 2006. that puts rtm at jun-09. (vista was about 2000 days, but lets overlook that)

estimate 2: xp and vista both had about 2-3 months from rc to rtm. that puts rtm at jul/aug.

Comment Customer Experience (Score 5, Insightful) 111

I once dined at a restaurant that took my order, but minutes later realised they couldnt make it due to stock shortage. I got a different meal, and they told me mine was for free!

The way a company recovers from a problem can actually turn into a net positive experience for the customer.

In my case, I'm turned from an unsatisfied customer, to an advocate. For sure, I've recommended friends dine there since then.

Every interaction is an opportunity to delight the customer. Even those events that at first feel like a disaster unrolling.

Comment Re:Feh to the new UI (Score 1) 785

I cannot use Windows out of the box. I must also install TextPad, and set up the quick tray, and install Firefox, and FlashGet/Flashgot, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
If you're new to Windows (yes, you are - maybe not new to computer, but new to Windows) then it's going to be an irritating experience until you settle on your "way of doing stuff". Especially frustrating for the experienced other-os user, since they already have their "way of doing stuff" and it's just so slow doing it in Windows.

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