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The way new movies have used 3D is much more organic than older films that used it as a gimmick. Now it is just a depth of field thing rather than "Woah! that Yo-yo came right at me!" or the spear from a spear gun flying at the viewer in Friday the 13th part 3D.
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Mostly I get dizzy, so I avoid them -- I have a very strong optical prescription.
One I saw in IMAX 3D was ok, one I saw in a dedicated theatre was better.
But one in a normal theatre was awful.
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Can't see them at all - I don't have stereoscopic vision - so I'm kind of glad that they're going out of fashion.
I love that scene in The Simpsons where Bart and Homer are sat in a cinema watching a 3D movie and Bart says something to the effect of "Wow! This is awesome! Why can't real life be in 3D, too?"
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The people in the movies I watch are all in 3D, and I have no problem with it. Mind you, I had also no problem with 2D cartoons.
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I am still waiting for movies to make the leap into a full 360° VR experience. I cannot wait to be able to watch the movie from inside the movie. That will be awesome.
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My problem is that they are dimmer, and my eyes don't handle low light levels as well as they used to. Then again, even my gf, 17 years younger, complains about 3D movies being hard to see because they're darker.
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I can "watch them", but that doesn't mean I like what I'm seeing.
With very few exceptions with 3D movies, I've always felt like I was watching an image being projected on a flat pane of glass. Then further behind, there's another image being projected on another pane of glass, with nothing occupying the volume of empty space between them. Then add a few more layers like this to compose the entire scene. It all comes across to me as very artificial.
What I find to be exceptionally bad with 3D movies is when focus is set on a person in the middle of a scene, with another person closer to you from your perspective, as if you're watching over their shoulder, and the person that's the closest to you is blurred/out of focus. It's a great effect for 2D movies and directors use it to draw your eye to what you should be paying attention to, but this is completely unnatural for 3D ones.
These days--if I can buy a movie on Blu-ray, and the 3D version is also included in the same package for a few extra bucks (say, less than $10 in difference), I'll splurge for it - but if I have to choose between the two, I'll always pick the 2D version.
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Works fine until they overdo it.
But I've actually had two different classmates in school that didn't have stereoscopic viewing.
One of them had some kind of bad connection in his brain. He could see either on his left side, OR his right side, unless he closed one eye. Then he could see both sides at the same time. He could switch mentally and instantly.
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No, not a programming question, it's a question (observation) about programming.
Noticed so many newbies within hours of deciding to "learn c#" are out on the board asking "how do I do X in linq." Why is that?
Deciding to learn C# is useful, be it a first or second programming language and one can map a lot of that same skill onto other languages, even auto convert it. But they want to jump straight into linq which is too unique, doesn't convert well, doesn't map well, and if overused [at the expense of fully learning c#] can even limit application design choices.
Perhaps authors of c# books/tutorials should highlight the fact that although linq is useful:
it probably should be learned later, after one has some mastery of c#,
it should be used [as intended] to supplement c#, not replace it,
just because one line of linq can replace a few lines of c#, that doesn't always make it better, faster or smarter and can even reduce maintainability.
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Quote: "My friend told me I should use LINQ."
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I agree.
That's why beginners need to learn the basics of how to think like a computer on a simple teaching language first.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: a simple teaching language first.
So you recommend VB in other words? 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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I think they should learn GWBasic or BasicA first, then spend the next 10 years learning assembler, c, c++, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol. Maybe then they can ask a proper question in Q&A rather than "CODZ PLZ".
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Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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That's pretty close to how I did it... Except for the time frame which is more like 30 years 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yup, same here. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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My first exposure to code was Basic on an Apple II.
10?"Hello
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50 goto 10
Then when I found a C tutorial on a shareware CD, I couldn't figure out why GOTO was all the way in chapter 12! After all, I had no idea what a function was, and had it stuck in my mind that goto was needed for everything... Instead of reading from chapters 1-12, I just searched for Goto, and went from there.
(Small remote town, no internet at the time, as it wasn't much of a thing outside of universities yet)
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"basics of how to think like a computer"
The language that most closely matches "how computers think" is Assembly language and even that is an abstraction to allow us mortals to approximate thinking like a computer without having to program in machine code.
Back when computers had console switches & lights on them (to read out registers, and various other things internal to the computer) you could arguably say you could think like a computer if you could use these things fluently. Yes, there were actually people who could stand at the front console and program the darn things.
All of the higher level languages are further abstractions of machine code to bring it into a form that we can more easily express our thoughts in.
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A very astute observation and summary of the problem.
I agree 100%. Get strong in the foundations and then later you can learn the syntactic sugar of the different languages.
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Why is it? I think it is very much a matter fashion (I hesitate to use the word hype).
Is it bad? Well if X already knows a language or two I don't think it that bad. linq is a part of the C# ecosystem. The declarative parts WPF, WCF are other HUGE parts (I've seen mind-boggling stuff done in WPF). If you already grok programming, curiosity about those extensions is not necessarily that bad I think.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Like SQL, LINQ is an intention revealing/implementation hiding mechanism and as such has a valuable role to play in making C# development better.
However there is still a need to know how to do the implementation as you will need to use that when it comes down to it.
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It's human nature to want to run before you can walk. Is that a bad thing? Not if it's the desire to run that makes you learn to walk but you still have to learn the two in the right order.
LINQ is definitely for one of the later chapters of the tutorial.
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how do I do that in VB6 ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I think when Linq is best introduced/presented will depend on the student/trainee/audience background. Someone with depth SQL scripting and/or other language experience may get into it quickly.
For most folks, I think presenting iterative code examples together with Linq examples that do the same thing ... in increasing order of complexity ... is valuable.
I observe some students have difficulty with the "deferred evaluation" aspect of Linq. I like to use the metaphor of "creating a map," compared to actually following the map and bringing something back.
What's your favorite metaphor/mnemonic ?
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I hate linq.
There. I said it.
I come across a bit of linq and I haven't got a clue what the heck it's doing. Even if it's code that I wrote.
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