I don't ever expect to pick up a laser, find a thin enough slit and see the quantum effects on the wall, not the real simulated deal anyway.
I'm assuming you mean within a simulated 'reality'.
On the one hand, quantum interference can easily be exempted from the potential ray-tracing future, should it prove hard to model. On the other, what's so hard about it?
As a counter-counterpoint, the article has quite misleading pictures-
The Ray-Tracing images are super slick, but are non real-time, highly processed work.
Whereas the comparison Rasterized images are real-time, game-generated examples. If you were to allow the pro-rasterization side the same time to produce a single picture, it would be super fancy.
but I really don't think that Nvidia is the right person to ask either, (just as Intel isn't).
True. I believed Intel, when they explained the superiority of Ray-Tracing, and now I believe Nvidia, when they say the opposite.
From what I can tell, Ray-Tracing is closer to 'reality', and so you'd expect the technology eventually to tend in that direction. But the explanation from the Nvidia dude makes it seem like that point is many years away, owing to the excellent results available now with rasterization, and the extreme resolution currently used by the reality.
A pathetic decision, especially considering the relatively tiny cost of maintaining the facility.
I live an hour or so away, and in addition to the excellent science conducted, it is a magnet for school kids for a hundred miles around, who are pretty much guaranteed a trip to its brilliant, inspirational visitors' center.
If this closure goes ahead, they are giving up so much to save so little.
All those who happily denounce the (despicable) proposed actions of Iran in censoring the 'net during their elections take note- The world takes its lead from the US, and the US is not currently living up to this responsibility (though many of its citizens kick ass in many ways).
Please Americans, I love lots of what you stand for, now kill off the right-wing cancer that eats at your nation's heart.
For sure, movies will be harder to extract from the grip of these parasites than music/books/etc. But this is peculiar to the medium, and less so every day. Many great films are already made independently of the blockbuster machine-
The last good film I saw, No Country For Old Men, could easily have been made on a budget. Only the hangover effects of the insidious status quo (essentially, distribution and credibility) prevented the Coens from doing this entirely independently.
I was under the impression that discovery rules only pertained to criminal cases, not civil cases?
Surely the well documented RIAA deceit in relation to evidence in other cases should be enough to compel the Judge to grant this request, regardless of whether disclosure is mandatory?
How far does judicial credulousness stretch these days?
Agreed, utopias were always an ideal, rather than a realistic goal.
... it's far more dystopian than we've hoped.
Disagree- look around you. We (those with access to slashdot) life in paradise. Actual, here-right-now paradise. We live a life undreamed of by, as far as we know, every instance of sentience that ever existed. Not perfect, but, when viewed without the encumbrances our healthy cynicism generates, shockingly beautiful.
Sadly, so is the ability to lobby for copyright extension, have that written into international trade agreements, and argue that police should use the pretense of stopping piracy to combat terrorism when they don't have enough real evidence for a warrant.
All true, but everything you say is a short term, political-climate oriented problem; here at the moment, but not necessarily in the future.
Our killer new technology is going to persist, becoming ever more accessible and advanced. We will win, we're only discussing how long the corporations' treasure will last in forestalling the inevitable.
Of course, it should be noted that the media companies who will be giving us content on these things are not going to participate in "open, collaborative standards" -- it's just not done.
And up until now they'd have gotten away with it. But computer and internet technology is proving to be a great leveler. As humanity find its feet in this brave new digital age, we will find that these middle men are as anachronistic and obsolete as the proverbial buggy-whip makers of a hundred years ago.
The lesson I draw is that content providers are wholly opposed to consumers interests, and that open, collaborative standards are the only healthy way forward.
Slashdot Mirror
That's the age of the Earth. So, yes.
I RTFA, it was hilarious. A Pleiosaur was spotted by a zoologist on a ship, but then the mean old Cap'n made the guy throw it back....
The best evidence I ever done saw.
On the one hand, quantum interference can easily be exempted from the potential ray-tracing future, should it prove hard to model. On the other, what's so hard about it?
Dinosaurs.
As a counter-counterpoint, the article has quite misleading pictures-
The Ray-Tracing images are super slick, but are non real-time, highly processed work.
Whereas the comparison Rasterized images are real-time, game-generated examples. If you were to allow the pro-rasterization side the same time to produce a single picture, it would be super fancy.
From what I can tell, Ray-Tracing is closer to 'reality', and so you'd expect the technology eventually to tend in that direction. But the explanation from the Nvidia dude makes it seem like that point is many years away, owing to the excellent results available now with rasterization, and the extreme resolution currently used by the reality.
Perhaps astronomers could happen across a suspected terrorist or two, out in the void...
A pathetic decision, especially considering the relatively tiny cost of maintaining the facility.
I live an hour or so away, and in addition to the excellent science conducted, it is a magnet for school kids for a hundred miles around, who are pretty much guaranteed a trip to its brilliant, inspirational visitors' center.
If this closure goes ahead, they are giving up so much to save so little.
(cough)PS2 controller?
Acid 2 showed the same picture with firefox, though I thought it was a rabbit.
When these Acid tests are 'testing', is anyone else reminded of Fry playing the holophonor, without worms?
We will now use technology to ensure that only the content producers are rewarded.
That which passes for 'left wing' in the US is to the far right by the rest of humanity's standards. Try again, this time with perspective.
All those who happily denounce the (despicable) proposed actions of Iran in censoring the 'net during their elections take note- The world takes its lead from the US, and the US is not currently living up to this responsibility (though many of its citizens kick ass in many ways).
Please Americans, I love lots of what you stand for, now kill off the right-wing cancer that eats at your nation's heart.
For sure, movies will be harder to extract from the grip of these parasites than music/books/etc. But this is peculiar to the medium, and less so every day. Many great films are already made independently of the blockbuster machine-
The last good film I saw, No Country For Old Men, could easily have been made on a budget. Only the hangover effects of the insidious status quo (essentially, distribution and credibility) prevented the Coens from doing this entirely independently.
On the contrary, this is the beginning of a well rehearsed plan...
How far does judicial credulousness stretch these days?
Not to mention the famous 'Batman's belt' case.
Thanks, that means something coming from the exalted likes of our pet lawyer.
Agreed, utopias were always an ideal, rather than a realistic goal.
Disagree- look around you. We (those with access to slashdot) life in paradise. Actual, here-right-now paradise. We live a life undreamed of by, as far as we know, every instance of sentience that ever existed. Not perfect, but, when viewed without the encumbrances our healthy cynicism generates, shockingly beautiful.
Our killer new technology is going to persist, becoming ever more accessible and advanced. We will win, we're only discussing how long the corporations' treasure will last in forestalling the inevitable.
Unite, comrades! (sorry, carried away...)
The lesson I draw is that content providers are wholly opposed to consumers interests, and that open, collaborative standards are the only healthy way forward.
I only had to look at my teachers to see that they contradicted evolution.
It sounds like those companies really have a handle on how to get the youth on-side.