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- From: clueless@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
- Subject: Re: x-specs demos?
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:51:45 GMT
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- James Elkinton (bbs.zio@tsoft.sf-bay.org) wrote:
- : bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Boy Wonder) writes:
- : > In article <1992Nov7.205350.642@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> clueless@bradley.edu (M
- : > >: >That's how it works in NTSC land, I'm assuming it would be every 25th of
- : > >: >a second over in PAL.
- : > >:
- : > >: Well the xspecs you need to watch the "3rd Dimension" is the ones made out
- : > >: cardboard and plastic (red and green)
- : > >:
- : > >: Carsten
- : > >:
- : > >Well, then they're not x-specs.... They're just plain 3d glasses....
- : > >
- : > >
- : > Well, excuse us for being beneath your vast and expansive understanding
- : > of the theory of x-specs. The people who responded to my original posting
- : > all understood what I meant. Is that not the primary function of
- : > communication? I don't correct people every time they end a sentence in
- : > a preposition, because I still understand them. I was aware of the
- : > type of x-specs that you have described, but I also know that the little
- : > "Plain 3-d glasses" of cardboard and plastic that are sitting on my desk
- : > have the words "X-specs" printed on the side.
- : > I am not trying to start a flame war here, I'm just saying that maybe you
- : > should stop and count to ten next time before enthralling us all with your
- : > abundant wisdom.
- : > -Jason
- : Hmm.... Can you say "Shit's gonna hit the fan" ??? Sounds like the
- : company who made the X-Specs system (if they are still around) can slam
- : the company who decided to make those "X-Specs" paper/plastic things with
- : a bit of a lawsuit. He obviously was right in the comment tho, and
- : almost definitely did not mean any arrogance or the like, since he
- : probably knows, as most of us would, that there is no way some company
- : would name their RED/GRN things X-Specs, even if it was an X-Rated film.
- : Obviously, such an assumption was wrong. I wonder if the guys that
- : invented the real X-Specs are watching this newsgroup... :) Welcome to
- : the 1990's - the Litigation Decade... (!)
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