Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On 2024-08-05 16:19:41 +0000, Paul S Person said:

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 09:02:17 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2024-08-04 15:54:51 +0000, Paul S Person said:

On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 18:14:35 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

On 2024-08-04 03:14:42 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

<snip>

 Much of the blame also should go to the moron Elon Muskrat, who keeps>telling everyone it is "self-driving" when it is definitely NOT! Even>his own Tesla emplyees tell him it's crap. He also insists that the>Tesla cars only use cameras while every other company is using things>like lidar too (not that it makes their self-driving any better either).

 The same could be said of using "3D" for "stereoscopy" when they are
clearly distinguishable.
I realize that the terminology here is very confused: I am using "3D"
here to refer to what we (well, most of us) see with our own eyes when
we look around as opposed to stereoscopy and also to 3D animation
which produces some fine effects but is not stereoscopy. My favorite
illustration of the difference is this:
 if you watch a stereoscopic film in which, say, a paddle-ball ball is
sent directly into your face "out of the screen", it will be aimed at
your face no matter where you are sitting
 if a /real/ paddle-ball ball were sent out to the audience, some would
see it coming at them, others along side them, and some above (or,
when balconies existed, below) them -- you would see different things
depending on where you are sitting

That is partly done on purpose to make *you* feel you're in the film, rather than the cinema, but of course technical limitations play the biggest part ... currently.
No doubt some cinema will use AR/VR-style headsets to give the audience different viewpoints depending on where they are sitting. Could be good for those watching something like a sports event or music concert, but it doesn't really work for a normal movie since it is irrelevant where you are in relation to others watching.

Another difference, of course, is that just seeing the world in 3D
doesn't make most people throw up. Sterescopic films are known the do
that. Although, to be some Cinerama/Cinemiracle films did as well, at
least when projected so that all you saw was the film (no screen
boundaries visible).

I can only play 3D computer games for a few minutes before I start getting motion sick. If I continue to play, I end up with an extremely bad headache and bad nausea. Even just watching gameplay trailers starts making me feeling sick too.
Same if I try to read books or maps (as a passenger of course) in a moving car.
I've never bothered trying to watch a 3D movie.