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From: Sidney Lambe on 8 May 2010 22:51 On comp.os.linux.misc, steppenvalve <steppenvalve(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I saw the movie "Avatar" in 3D and was wondering when 3D TVs would > turn up in the local store. Well, I just got the latest issue of B & H > (bhphotovideo.com, or if you want the link : > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=2500&N=4289362937+4289364140) > and started thinking about hooking one of these TVs to a computer. > Dunno what for yet, other than [1]gaming, [2]a really cool screen > saver, [3]video processing and maybe [4]putting one window a few > centimeters "above" another, making them go in and out/ through each > other as you click on them. But I've never heard of this functionality > in Windows or Mac OS. Is it available in linux yet? This is the kind of airhead couch pototato that KDE and the like have allowed to infest the Linux world. They don't give a tinker's damn about Linux or learning Linux, they just want to waste their lives using their computer as a new form of Boob Tube. An audio-visual drug: movies and videos and games and music.... Sid
From: B Sellers on 8 May 2010 23:56 On 05/08/2010 07:51 PM, Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, steppenvalve<steppenvalve(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> I saw the movie "Avatar" in 3D and was wondering when 3D TVs would >> turn up in the local store. Well, I just got the latest issue of B& H >> (bhphotovideo.com, or if you want the link : >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=2500&N=4289362937+4289364140) >> and started thinking about hooking one of these TVs to a computer. >> Dunno what for yet, other than [1]gaming, [2]a really cool screen >> saver, [3]video processing and maybe [4]putting one window a few >> centimeters "above" another, making them go in and out/ through each >> other as you click on them. But I've never heard of this functionality >> in Windows or Mac OS. Is it available in linux yet? > > > This is the kind of airhead couch pototato that KDE and the like have > allowed to infest the Linux world. They don't give a tinker's damn > about Linux or learning Linux, they just want to waste their lives > using their computer as a new form of Boob Tube. An audio-visual > drug: movies and videos and games and music.... > > Sid > Thanks for posting Sidney. I lost all my killfiles with the recent change to a new Usenet Newsgroup provider and your post helps me rebuild them.
From: The Natural Philosopher on 9 May 2010 06:08 B Sellers wrote: > On 05/08/2010 07:51 PM, Sidney Lambe wrote: >> On comp.os.linux.misc, steppenvalve<steppenvalve(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I saw the movie "Avatar" in 3D and was wondering when 3D TVs would >>> turn up in the local store. Well, I just got the latest issue of B& H >>> (bhphotovideo.com, or if you want the link : >>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=2500&N=4289362937+4289364140) >>> and started thinking about hooking one of these TVs to a computer. >>> Dunno what for yet, other than [1]gaming, [2]a really cool screen >>> saver, [3]video processing and maybe [4]putting one window a few >>> centimeters "above" another, making them go in and out/ through each >>> other as you click on them. But I've never heard of this functionality >>> in Windows or Mac OS. Is it available in linux yet? >> >> >> This is the kind of airhead couch pototato that KDE and the like have >> allowed to infest the Linux world. They don't give a tinker's damn >> about Linux or learning Linux, they just want to waste their lives >> using their computer as a new form of Boob Tube. An audio-visual >> drug: movies and videos and games and music.... >> >> Sid >> > > Thanks for posting Sidney. I lost all my killfiles with the recent > change > to a new Usenet Newsgroup provider and your post helps me rebuild them. > > seconded.
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 9 May 2010 12:35 On May 8, 10:51 pm, Sidney Lambe <sidneyla...(a)somewhere.invalid> wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, steppenvalve <steppenva...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I saw the movie "Avatar" in 3D and was wondering when 3D TVs would > > turn up in the local store. Well, I just got the latest issue of B & H > > (bhphotovideo.com, or if you want the link : > >http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=2500&N=4289362937+4289364140) > > and started thinking about hooking one of these TVs to a computer. > > Dunno what for yet, other than [1]gaming, [2]a really cool screen > > saver, [3]video processing and maybe [4]putting one window a few > > centimeters "above" another, making them go in and out/ through each > > other as you click on them. But I've never heard of this functionality > > in Windows or Mac OS. Is it available in linux yet? [ Sidney ranting snipped ]. Can we get this guy's email address to get him directly in the conversation? Hooking up mongo monitors of doom to a computer these days is straightforward: most have HDMI connections that will work well with any modern video card, and will operate just fine for video display or gaming. It mostly doesn't *matter* what display you connect, the standards are well published and supported by even modest video cards. Performance is very sensitive to the video card and the drivers. Linux has lagged somewhat, because of vendors refusing to publish specifications for their more powerful features and forcing Linux engineers to reverse engineer them. (Yes, I mean you, NVidia!) They aldo don't devote the engineering time to providing good drivers. In general, though, a card even a few months old will work well with a current Linux release. It's unclear what you mean by "going in and out through each other". Are you referring to having the application windows displayed in 3D, one suspended over another, and "physically" relocating as you change focus? Ow-ow-ow! It makes my eyes bleed just to think about it.
From: Sidney Lambe on 9 May 2010 14:26
On comp.os.linux.misc, Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe(a)somewhere.invalid> wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, steppenvalve <steppenvalve(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> I saw the movie "Avatar" in 3D and was wondering when 3D TVs would >> turn up in the local store. Well, I just got the latest issue of B & H >> (bhphotovideo.com, or if you want the link : >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=2500&N=4289362937+4289364140) >> and started thinking about hooking one of these TVs to a computer. >> Dunno what for yet, other than [1]gaming, [2]a really cool screen >> saver, [3]video processing and maybe [4]putting one window a few >> centimeters "above" another, making them go in and out/ through each >> other as you click on them. But I've never heard of this functionality >> in Windows or Mac OS. Is it available in linux yet? > > > This is the kind of airhead couch pototato that KDE and the like have > allowed to infest the Linux world. They don't give a tinker's damn > about Linux or learning Linux, they just want to waste their lives > using their computer as a new form of Boob Tube. An audio-visual > drug: movies and videos and games and music.... > > Sid > From my kill-log: Score -800 killed article <089dae17-1304-4df6-9c5a-bc4567084e48(a)i10g2000yqh.goog legroups.com> Score 200: Reply to Me Score -1000: From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: 3D linux? Score -800 killed article <089dae17-1304-4df6-9c5a-bc4567084e48(a)i10g2000yqh.goog legroups.com> Score 200: Reply to Me Score -1000: From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.setup From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: 3D linux? Wow! 2 replies to the same post. Ol' Nico must be real upset. Of course he is. He's a technocrat. He loves ignorant appliance operators that are dependent on people like he is. He doesn't want newbies to learn Linux, that would put them on a level footing with him. He wants them to learn KDE or Gnome or Xfce, one of the Window's clone interfaces that allow ignorant couch potatoes to run Linux with the help of technocrats like Nico. It's people like Nico, most of them at the distros', that have sold out to the corporate allies of M$ who finance those user interfaces. A pox on them. KDE is 3 times the size of my Linux OS, for Merlin's sake! And I can do anything it can do. Including run any of the KDE apps I feel like. All you need is the kdelibs for that, not KDE. I wonder why the hell Nico uses googlegroups. That's for ignorant appliance operators who don't understand the Usenet or how to operate a real newsreader. It is a crappy interface to the Usenet. No one who has used a real newsreader would put up with it. Nico is obviously not as good as he wants the newbies to believe... Sid |