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Miss Digital World 2005
dnix writes "With the slogan: "Don't hate me because I'm digital" this year we have a nice new Top Digital Model, called Mi, from Shinichi Yoshimoto. She is a nice cybernetic geisha who was chosen from 15 finalists from Italy, Germany, Spain, Pakistan, Iran, Usa, Chile, India, Australia, Brasil and Mexico."
This is about the only way most /.ians will ever get a girl. Now we just need half way decent VR and a "touch suit" (I should TM that name) and were well away.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
The one time I actually want to SEE what the deal is, and it's already long gone...
(the article does NOT count)
This might be interesting news, though I remember reading this article the first time, in December 2004. Is anyone ambitious enough to search and see if this is indeed a dupe too?
All you do is hit delete.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
That's a shame, because I usually start examining females from the neck down.
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Look at well the pubic bulge was modeled... I bet the modeler had to actually construct the vulva, and then put clothes on it, to generate this effect.
I personally feel that Mamegal has an eating disorder and we should not be helping her illness.
in this case the slashdot effect is like a psycho boyfriend... "IF I CANT VIEW HER, NO ONE WILL !"
Any CNC that works in latex?
This website includes the winners of the 2005 website which were announced on December 10. Unless slashdot posted a dupe within the last four days then I'd seriously doubt it. Then again Digg probably had it first (sarcasm).
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
1) Issue competition of best looking virtual girls
2) Post full finalists roundup including pictures on server
3) Post meta article on slashdot with link to said server
4) Retreat to safe distance as server gets warm and shows cracks
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Someone should give these models a virtual toilet where they can kneel down over the virtual lid and virtually snort virtual cocaine.
Brasil is absolutely correct.
...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
Here's a cached version of the page. Link
I do believe Brazil is properly: "República Federativa do Brasil".
The government website is at http://www.brasil.gov.br/
'Nuff said.
Brazil is just a hack on the name that English speakers gave it. Like Germany being Bundesrepublik Deutschland. You do not yell at people for referring to it as Deutschland, so why rant when someone says Brasil?
I can see it now. The human race slowly becoming extinct because everyone would rather hump a perfect digital partner in VR than interact with a real person. Perhaps we will have developed technology to the point where we can make babies in a tank though.
Funny thing is though, I know several guys that are probably never going to get a partner let alone have children simply because they have set their sights way to high. They want a perfect woman or nothing. In two cases it is perfect looks that they require and in another it's the perfect little obedient house wife (that last guy makes me cringe everytime we talk). I can't help feeling that there are a lot of guys out there that have lost touch with reality due to constantly having "beautiful" women displayed to them.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Wow, amazing....you seem to enjoy bashing American's ignorance while exposing your own:read the first sentence here, it tells you the official name of Bra(s/z)il in Portugese is...........drumroll please.....
República Federativa do Brasil!
And guess what, I'm an American! I've also had tech jobs on 3 continents before my 25th birthday! Go back and learn something about the world, then we can talk
Monstar L
Looks like the site is slashdotted pretty badly.
. . . I hope the gals are okay!
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
Than a chick with a high poly count.
The appropriate phrase would be: "I'd hit it"
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
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5) Profit!
-- thinkyhead software and media
.... Do they come with some sort of EULA?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
We're speaking English.
Shh.
I tried getting kinky with a digital girl once - but she core-dumped on me.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
I like chicks alot. Been married, lived with a few others, like long term relationships. The thing is I don't get the uber smooth, cyber skinned, tricked out, fantasy girls, or, the equally poreless, celluloid supermodels. The first time I seriously came undone in the face of transcendent physical beauty was the first time I saw my first real girlfriend fresh out of the shower sans makeup.
I guess I'm just a regular guy that likes real regular chicks with attractive little flaws.
I'll take the time I've here and now cause obviously I'm not suited to the tailored, gene spliced and diced perfect world to come.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
{splurt} oh, crap.
http://www.missdigitalworld.com.nyud.net:8090/MDWC ontest/showpage/177
http://www.missdigitalworld.com.nyud.net:8090/MDWC ontest/showpage/179
http://www.missdigitalworld.com.nyud.net:8090/MDWC ontest/showpage/181
You're on your own with the videos
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girls look so fake nowadays!
using anti-bacterial hand soap is like drying your feet in the middle of a shower.
Go!
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I don't quite how to say this, but in a world of retouched, airbrushed, p0rn enhanced body mods, this seems a natural progression.
I think I shall change careers to be an undertaker. drug-lord or psychologist; I see an increase in suicide and despair as people try to conform to an unrealistic/unobtainable model of perfection.
All three should continue to be major growth industies, and are lucrative investments for the future
This is progress?
And you never have to worry about her snorting coke to stay slim!
Kaya was proportedly created to be a virtual newscaster, or some such. She was designed to have big teeth, pudgy nose, blemished skin -- all traits humans find unattractive, so as to appear non-threatening. In some ways she is the antithesis of this contest, and your complaint. Just a little FYI. They don't HAVE to be virtual sex toys, they could be giving you updated information at a mall kisok, for example.
When I finished school in 2000 (while working full time) we already had two children. And a house. No, I didn't make mega-bucks (still don't and we have 4 children and a much nicer home) but we were very careful with our money and still are. I don't have gadgets (unless you count the XBox, which doubles as our DVD player), my computer is older than my first born (and cobbled together with parts I bought from a wholesaler) and I drive an old car with a lot of miles on it. I bring my lunch from home and we don't eat out much, maybe once every 8 weeks. We rent movies instead of going to the movie theatre. I don't have a lot of spending money, about $15 every two weeks. And yet, I wouldn't trade any amount of money or so-called social freedom for my family. Oh, and by the way, no one I have ever met or heard of was ready for children before they came. They kind of grow on you and you cannot get that kind of practice any other way. Some responsibilities cannot be prepared for until after the weight of them has already settled onto your shoulders and having children is one of those responsibilities.
Poverty is not a poor financial statement. It is a state of mind. I remember an old Appalachian woman being asked what she would do if she got some money. This was in the last few years that she was interviewed. She lived in a one room shack without indoor plumbing, out in the sticks. She said, "Well, I suppose I would give it to the poor." If you must have loads of spending money and lots of cool stuff in order for you to think of yourself as not poverty stricken, well, you don't really want children, do you? It's about your priorities.
Well, I do carry on, don't I? Point is, if you want to take on the responsibilities of children, don't wait until you are ready, because you never will be until you have them in your life.
What I want to do is offer an explanation why this happens. In most cases, the bachelors has nothing to do with the job you turn out to perform. Even in technical fields, you only use a tiny fraction of your college knowledge. So why do they require it?
Fundamental mis-use of statistics really. COORELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION! People see that on average college graduates earn some big amount more in their lifetime than non-college grads. So what do they think? If everyone goes to college, then everyone will make more money!
BZZZZT! Try again! The reason college grads make more money isn't simply the piece of sheep skin. More than likely they are smarter/harder workers, and have a real passion for their work(the later is probably much more important than the former). Therefore they are driven to succeed. Forcing someone who doesn't want to go to college into college does not somehow magically bestow those traits upon them, and costs the individual and society at large a lot of money that could have been invested elsewhere. Furthermore, it might stop them from doing something amazing with their life(such as start their own business etc) instead of sitting in a class where they are bored. I think the "feel gooders" who think that everyone is entitled to a degree so they can feel great about themselves really need to come back to reality. Not everyone needs a college education, not everyone wants one, not having one does not condemn you to failure.
Monstar L
[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
I thought you might want to know that both English and German should be capitalized. You're very welcome.
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Do cyber models also appeal for world peace in their winning speech?
No, they ask people not to play Medal Of Honour quite so much.
And appeal for help defragging HDDs of those living in less technically literate parts of the world.
'No rational religion claims "supernatural" exists, that's an atheist slander.' - seen on slashdot.
Each of these digital "people" suffers from the same problem most movies full of digital actors suffer from: they look like animated dead people. We humans are pretty good at accepting cartoon characters as "real" when they don't look like humans, but once they start looking too real we start looking for those details indescribable that show they are alive. When they don't move/look 100% natural, they tend to just register in our minds as dead bodies moved by puppet strings...
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I do a fair bit of CGI profesionally, and I have to say a lot of these images and the work people have done in general on rendering humans is really amazing. There is also a lot more to creating a convincing looking human than to creating a photorealistic city, car, office building, etc.
I've seen better images than what were in the wired article (the other site was slashdotted unfortunately), but they were still highly impressive.
A lot of the problem is that skin is one of the most difficult materials to accurately render. Aside from minor imperfections and blemishes that lend realism to an image, it's difficult to manage proper material attributes that look "real". Such as multiple layers, subsurface refraction, bump mapping, reflectivity, etc.
If I weren't afraid of slashdotting my own server I would post some of my own renders, but I am, so I won't.
Anyone got a cached link of the main site? I'd like to have a look at some of the other entries.
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From TFA:
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Kaya is ravishing. She has full lips, long lashes, and a slightly upturned nose. Her expression radiates confidence and power, and her smooth skin is well scrubbed and dotted with freckles. But she doesn't have much of a body. At all.
Kaya
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 121 pounds
So what we have here folks is a 5'5" tall, 121 lb head.
What did the blonde say when she heard that 10 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq?
"I didn't know there were that many soldiers in the whole world!"
"I have as much authority as the pope, I just
don't have as many people who believe it" - George Carlin
From the website:
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 121 pounds
POLYGON COUNT: 48,200
Never ask a lady her polygon count!
-- Cheers!
But they are! The English have London, and the German have Berlin (and used to have Bonn, to boot). Also, I don't see how that's any of GP's business.
That or there's the symptothermal method where the female checks their body temperature upon waking which is also highly accurate. However, using non-artifical methods shouldn't be seen as a carte blanche. A good Catholic should consider whether they're actually delaying kids for a good reason (can't support them yet, conditions currently make childbirth an iffy proposition) or if it's for more selfish reasons (want to buy that new sportscar first, can't stand the possibility of losing free time to tending children, don't want to risk ruining their figure). *shrug* And not everyone follows that, but that's what's suggested.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
I just checked the site and they're still only showing faces.
The joke originally cited the rhythm method, which did have a fair amount of "failure" to it. Many people either haven't noticed that the method has improved, or don't want to acknowledge it. *shrug* NFP is in the 99.999% range when done properly and is statistically correlated with happy and long marriages. I'm not sure why they're so afraid to consider it.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
Some fashion photographers strive for more dynamism in their shots. That's hard to do. Most photographers can't bring it off consistently. A few can. Look at Richard Avedon's work. That's why he's one of the greats.
Looks to me as if the eyes were taken straight from the top National Geographic magazine cover (http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/afghangir l/).
You can't help but stare at those eyes for a few seconds... very captivating.