Up here in the arse end of Finland, they're having a fireworks display - at 9pm, ostensibly so the kids can see it without having to stay up too late. (Actually so the adults can get them tucked away and get well and truly plastered before midnight.)
To be honest, I don't know why they don't make it even earlier. It'll be dark by 3 anyway...
One eye is definitely dominant, but both work. They just don't work together; I'm reasonably sure that the right eye is being suppressed when both are open. I can see the difference between my left and right eye by closing each in turn, but I can't merge the two images into a 3D picture of the world. I rely entirely on knowing the size and shape of objects (the monitor is rectangular, and how trapezoidal it looks tells me how far off straight it is), and on occlusion of one object by another (I'll sometimes catch myself moving my head slightly, or more than slightly, to make that happen). Friends have commented that I have a habit of bumping into things when walking - but I'm fine at driving. No, really!
I only discovered that I had no proper 3D when I was specifically tested for it as part of a pre-employment medical. Of course, this came as something of a surprise to me, given that I'd been landing planes quite happily for ten years (which came as something of a surprise to the doctor), although thinking back to my training, I can see how it wouldn't be an issue. I was taught to look for the runway to be a certain 2D shape on approach, symmetrical with a given height:width ratio, and for the flare and touchdown all I had to do was look at the far end.
So yes, I have ways to cope, but I don't have 3D vision in the conventional sense, and a doctor can prove it.
Except in the cinema... which I find intriguing. And I do see the subtle 3D, not just the in-your-face 3D (which I really hate, because it completely destroys my immersion in the story just to make me feel like the extra two bucks were worth it....grrrr....). Clearly I can still do it, and all the relevant hardware and software does work. Just not in the real world.
Close one eye. It isn't a horrible view of the world but it isn't what things look like.
It's what they look like to me: I have two functioning eyes but 3D vision just doesn't happen in the real world. (It did a few times in my teens, when I was really tired, but at that point I didn't know I wasn't seeing 3D the rest of the time, so it was just "something weird".)
3D movies are the *only* time I see in 3D. 2D movies just look like the world does anyway.
Last year, my employer spent half a million euros on a new X-ray source for protein crystallography. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that there was a 3.5" floppy drive in the middle of it, holding some critical piece of code that needed updating. The service engineer's laptop didn't have a floppy drive; fortunately, we have some ancient kit elsewhere that does...
Steve Jobs, is that you?
One more thing, surely...
What's worse, when the plane finally arrived, it was packed in a giant welded plastic clamshell. It took two weeks for a crew at the airline to extract the aircraft without damaging it.
Unfortunately for them, they soon discovered that the giant welded plastic clamshell was the aircraft....
While that does save some screen real estate, I prefer the Seamonkey approach that leaves some more controls in plain sight.
Firefox user here, but I have to agree with this. If I want more space, that's what F11 is for.
SOMEbody's gonna be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog sh!t out of Hong Kong....
Performance-enhancing drugs in the fuel! Genius!
I have a full-color (4 cartridge) laser printer that I virtually never need to change the toner on
I have one like that! So annoying when the secretary goes on holiday and I have to change the toner myself...
turning tools into cash overnight
Ah yes, the "reality TV" business model...
I think I'm going to submit feedback on feedback, pointing out that feedback needs feedback.
Yo dawg...
...and I'll kill everyone who has a problem with that!
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
