Demo displays at Plano, TX fry's messed up
Just FYI, I'm in Dallas for Christmas vacation and swung by the Fry's there. I noticed there was a DLP demo up with 3d vision ... I was very excited! Until I tried it out and realized the TV was displaying in red/blue anaglyph with the LCD shutter glasses. Meaning there was no 3D effect whatsoever and it just looked weird. The emitter was nowhere to be seen so I assume that was the problem.

On the other side of the store was the kiosk with a viewsonic monitor. The only thing that worked in 3d was the game burnout revenge that was on. For some reason the video player was playing videos incorrectly (images offset at 45 degree angles to each other ... wtf, headache inducing) and there certainly was no constantly running demo.

In short, these demos are really kind of junky and obviously need to actually work to sell anyone on the product. It's quite disappointing to see them so regularly broken.
Just FYI, I'm in Dallas for Christmas vacation and swung by the Fry's there. I noticed there was a DLP demo up with 3d vision ... I was very excited! Until I tried it out and realized the TV was displaying in red/blue anaglyph with the LCD shutter glasses. Meaning there was no 3D effect whatsoever and it just looked weird. The emitter was nowhere to be seen so I assume that was the problem.



On the other side of the store was the kiosk with a viewsonic monitor. The only thing that worked in 3d was the game burnout revenge that was on. For some reason the video player was playing videos incorrectly (images offset at 45 degree angles to each other ... wtf, headache inducing) and there certainly was no constantly running demo.



In short, these demos are really kind of junky and obviously need to actually work to sell anyone on the product. It's quite disappointing to see them so regularly broken.

#1
Posted 12/27/2009 09:42 AM   
hi, ye i fully agree with your statement even i have noticed all the things and thanks i must say that keep on sharing this kind of knowledgable information
hi,
ye i fully agree with your statement even i have noticed all the things and thanks i must say that keep on sharing this kind of knowledgable information
#2
Posted 06/17/2014 07:54 AM   
... Necro-Spam-in-the-Sig?
... Necro-Spam-in-the-Sig?
#3
Posted 06/17/2014 11:02 AM   
Signed up, June 2014. Posts 1. Freakin' losers.
Signed up, June 2014. Posts 1.

Freakin' losers.

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#4
Posted 06/17/2014 12:19 PM   
Replying to these posts lets them know we're reading them. Might be better to just report them.
Replying to these posts lets them know we're reading them. Might be better to just report them.

#5
Posted 06/17/2014 02:33 PM   
Nah, these are just drive bys. These people never come back to read them or do anything with them. There is a theory that replying to spam email would let them know you were a live account, and thus the recommendation everywhere was to never reply or unsubscribe. I have a bit of a scientific bent, and I wanted to know if that were true, or just some bullshit somebody thought sounded good, and then was repeated ad-infinitum. Pretty sure you know where this is going. I did the actual experiment. For 6 months, I replied to every spam I got as 'unsubscribe', and for the 6 months after that, I did the alternate test of not replying ever to any emails. And plotted the number of spam emails per day for the year. The answer was that spam increased in a linear fashion, with no perceptible drop when 'unsubscribe' and none at 'no response'. The take-away lesson is that people who are spammers are lazy as f*, and they don't respond either way.
Nah, these are just drive bys. These people never come back to read them or do anything with them.


There is a theory that replying to spam email would let them know you were a live account, and thus the recommendation everywhere was to never reply or unsubscribe.

I have a bit of a scientific bent, and I wanted to know if that were true, or just some bullshit somebody thought sounded good, and then was repeated ad-infinitum. Pretty sure you know where this is going.

I did the actual experiment. For 6 months, I replied to every spam I got as 'unsubscribe', and for the 6 months after that, I did the alternate test of not replying ever to any emails. And plotted the number of spam emails per day for the year.

The answer was that spam increased in a linear fashion, with no perceptible drop when 'unsubscribe' and none at 'no response'.

The take-away lesson is that people who are spammers are lazy as f*, and they don't respond either way.

Acer H5360 (1280x720@120Hz) - ASUS VG248QE with GSync mod - 3D Vision 1&2 - Driver 372.54
GTX 970 - i5-4670K@4.2GHz - 12GB RAM - Win7x64+evilKB2670838 - 4 Disk X25 RAID
SAGER NP9870-S - GTX 980 - i7-6700K - Win10 Pro 1607
Latest 3Dmigoto Release
Bo3b's School for ShaderHackers

#6
Posted 06/17/2014 11:29 PM   
Huh, that's really interesting to know. Would have been quite an effort to unsubscribe from every spam email for 6 months.
Huh, that's really interesting to know. Would have been quite an effort to unsubscribe from every spam email for 6 months.

#7
Posted 06/18/2014 01:34 AM   
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