On my book, (unsolicited) proselytizing would disqualify you from being perfectly pleasant. You can hold any religious belief you want, but I sure don't want to hear about them.
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Actually, you can print on the volume diagonal, so the correct formula is sqrt(3*50^2), or about 87cm (34 in). Ouch indeed.
Well, given that car electronics are powered by a battery (i.e. a DC source), it would actually require extra electronics to make the light blink. My best guess is that you saw a car with a short in one of the wires of the electric system.
Note that in some LED applications, dimming is achieved by frequency modulation (i.e "blinking"). However, this is usually done at MUCH higher frequencies (several kHz), and I don't see why one would like to dim a car tail light.
Light fixtures in homes are slightly more tricky, because the power source is AC. You need an inverter and a small capacitator to suppress flicker, but that is pretty straightforward and inexpensive stuff, so there is really no reason why an LED bub should not contain these.
While I agree that telemarketing has come to be quite annoying (I am in Canada), there is one big difference here: telemarketing is pretty much only free if you are calling from the same area code. That puts a fairly natural cap on the amount of telemarketing: once a marketing call costs even just a few cents, it mostly isn't going to be worth it, since the hit rate is just too low. Countries where you have to pay for local phone calls do not tend to have telemarketing at all.
Contrast this with SPIT, where calls are essentially free from around the world, which also allows the sender(s) to avoid local legislation. So now you can get viagra and penis enlargement phone calls 24/7. Even if you don't pick up, they'll just leave voice mail because, you know, they can.
If they find a way to bridge the VOIP calls into the regular phone network without paying for it, I predict the End of Civilization As We Know It (TM).
HDSDI supports up to 12 bit per channel, i.e. the equivalent of roughly 36 bit RGB ("roughly" because they use another color space, YPbPr, so you'd loose a bit in the conversion).
Well, first they are talking about movies here, so I'd think "print" means a film print for a theater release in this context.
The problem you have with printing and especially film printing is that the color gamuts of various printing methods are different from and only partially overlapping with the gamuts of regular monitors. That is, the monitor can show colors that the print can't show, and vice versa.
What they did with this displays is build a device that has a very wide gamut, so it can cover the full gamut of the output medium. What that means is that you can now calibrate your display to show exactly the same colors as the print. It is still going to be a bitch to keep the device calibrated, but at least it is possible now.
Yeah, but with this display they get both more contrast AND a better coverage of the XYZ horseshoe diagram (i.e. more saturated primaries). So they actually do increase the gamut, not just the bit depth. But you are right, the factor 64 was obviously computed using just bit depth.
Close, but not really. The original highres image is stitched together from a bunch of normal magapixel photographs. Then they layered a nice UI on top to zoom to various levels of detail.
Last year, Microsoft Research and their collaborators from University of Konstanz had a technical paper at Siggraph on this topic:
How the hell did you get modded insightful? You must be new here. On/., freedom means that others are allowed to do what YOU want.
You know, like, copyright is "imaginary property" when it comes to ripping music and movies, but of course it is a valid concept when it comes to shoving the GPL down other people's throats.
Or: government regulation is bad. Unless of course, it prevents IT jobs (and only IT jobs!) from moving abroad.
Well, not the only one according to the mods;-) The thing is, government is very much an overloaded term. Most people when they talk about the government think of the high level executive branch, not the legislative and certainly not the judiciary.
Even more to the point on regarding the GGP: while I can buy the argument that you want a slow, deliberate, and thorough legislature, a primary purpose of the executive is to quickly react to emergency situations and other external factors. So the executive needs to be snappy and efficient.
Once they reach the stage of being able to compete with a low-end Nvidia/ATI on features and price... That is just the thing, though: they are very unlikely to ever be able to compete on both price and performance with an FPGA approach. FPGAs are great if you need flexible hardware, but for the same gate count/price they are a lot slower than custom ASICs. So you need a larger, more expensive FPGA to reach the same performance as a GPU.
Actually, all Microsoft bashing aside, they are doing exactly the right thing in this instance. They are not interested in getting involved with the development of blender itself - that is not their business, nor their expertise. They ARE interested in satisfying their customers by offering help to third party developers, in this case the FOSS blender community, help with the system integration. So, if blender developers experienced that certain system calls are not as fast on Windows as they ought to be, or that they had to work around certain idiosyncrasies of the OS, then this is a good mechanism for blender folks to provide input. Let's hope they are farsighted enough to make use of it.
...starting paying just for the actual R&D and letting the marketing and production be handled by the free market. See, this is just the kind of bullshit that comes up in all IP related discussions on/.: you want "freedom" and "competition", but raise a stink is somebody wants to use their freedom to do things you don't approve of, like advertising. In that case, of course we need to have the government step in (of course if they actually DID step in, then they'd be EVIL for manipulating the free market).
Either you have freedom or you don't. If you want freedom, then you'll have to live with other people making use of THEIR freedom in ways that you don't approve of. Deal with it.
Personally, if I ever intentionally go missing and do take my phone (unlikely), it'll be without a battery except in the unlikely event I decide to use it. And why would you take your old phone at all, if your intention was to get lost? You can get a new prepaid, instant activate phone at your local convenience store for something like $19. It ain't an iPhone or a Blackberry, but surely you'd have other priorities if you just decided to escape your old life and start over?
Wow, so all criminals have to do is make sure their victims are never found, thus making it illegal for police and others to even start searching? Brilliant!
The consequences of finding somebody who doesn't want to be found are much, much less severe than the consequences of not finding somebody who needs help, or who has already been murdered.
And by the way: if you REALLY want to get lost, and don't dump your cellphone, credit cards, etc. then you are a moron, and deserve to be found.
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On my book, (unsolicited) proselytizing would disqualify you from being perfectly pleasant. You can hold any religious belief you want, but I sure don't want to hear about them.
Actually, you can print on the volume diagonal, so the correct formula is sqrt(3*50^2), or about 87cm (34 in). Ouch indeed.
Well, given that car electronics are powered by a battery (i.e. a DC source), it would actually require extra electronics to make the light blink. My best guess is that you saw a car with a short in one of the wires of the electric system.
Note that in some LED applications, dimming is achieved by frequency modulation (i.e "blinking"). However, this is usually done at MUCH higher frequencies (several kHz), and I don't see why one would like to dim a car tail light.
Light fixtures in homes are slightly more tricky, because the power source is AC. You need an inverter and a small capacitator to suppress flicker, but that is pretty straightforward and inexpensive stuff, so there is really no reason why an LED bub should not contain these.
While I agree that telemarketing has come to be quite annoying (I am in Canada), there is one big difference here: telemarketing is pretty much only free if you are calling from the same area code. That puts a fairly natural cap on the amount of telemarketing: once a marketing call costs even just a few cents, it mostly isn't going to be worth it, since the hit rate is just too low. Countries where you have to pay for local phone calls do not tend to have telemarketing at all.
Contrast this with SPIT, where calls are essentially free from around the world, which also allows the sender(s) to avoid local legislation. So now you can get viagra and penis enlargement phone calls 24/7. Even if you don't pick up, they'll just leave voice mail because, you know, they can.
If they find a way to bridge the VOIP calls into the regular phone network without paying for it, I predict the End of Civilization As We Know It (TM).
Why is the parent a troll, but all the other posts making the same joke are +5 funny?
HDSDI supports up to 12 bit per channel, i.e. the equivalent of roughly 36 bit RGB ("roughly" because they use another color space, YPbPr, so you'd loose a bit in the conversion).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Digital_Interface
Well, first they are talking about movies here, so I'd think "print" means a film print for a theater release in this context.
The problem you have with printing and especially film printing is that the color gamuts of various printing methods are different from and only partially overlapping with the gamuts of regular monitors. That is, the monitor can show colors that the print can't show, and vice versa.
What they did with this displays is build a device that has a very wide gamut, so it can cover the full gamut of the output medium. What that means is that you can now calibrate your display to show exactly the same colors as the print. It is still going to be a bitch to keep the device calibrated, but at least it is possible now.
Yeah, but with this display they get both more contrast AND a better coverage of the XYZ horseshoe diagram (i.e. more saturated primaries). So they actually do increase the gamut, not just the bit depth. But you are right, the factor 64 was obviously computed using just bit depth.
France and Germany are definitely NOT part of echelon, yet they are listed as members of the U5 (whatever that is).
Close, but not really. The original highres image is stitched together from a bunch of normal magapixel photographs. Then they layered a nice UI on top to zoom to various levels of detail.
Last year, Microsoft Research and their collaborators from University of Konstanz had a technical paper at Siggraph on this topic:
http://johanneskopf.de/publications/gigapixel/index.html
You know, like, copyright is "imaginary property" when it comes to ripping music and movies, but of course it is a valid concept when it comes to shoving the GPL down other people's throats.
Or: government regulation is bad. Unless of course, it prevents IT jobs (and only IT jobs!) from moving abroad.
Not if they act privately without consulting their superiors.
Sorry for having to reply to myself. The previous link was to some reader's digest style annotation. This is the real deal:
http://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211860011&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.com/Max-Notes-1984-George-Orwells/dp/0878919961/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211860011&sr=8-1
WTF? Quite a few 25 year old college students do a lot of stupid stuff, including drunk driving. By your logic, should drunk driving now be legal?
Well, not the only one according to the mods ;-) The thing is, government is very much an overloaded term. Most people when they talk about the government think of the high level executive branch, not the legislative and certainly not the judiciary.
Even more to the point on regarding the GGP: while I can buy the argument that you want a slow, deliberate, and thorough legislature, a primary purpose of the executive is to quickly react to emergency situations and other external factors. So the executive needs to be snappy and efficient.
So, at $1500, what market IS it aimed at? Please do tell!
Congress (legislative) != Government (executive)
Actually, all Microsoft bashing aside, they are doing exactly the right thing in this instance. They are not interested in getting involved with the development of blender itself - that is not their business, nor their expertise. They ARE interested in satisfying their customers by offering help to third party developers, in this case the FOSS blender community, help with the system integration. So, if blender developers experienced that certain system calls are not as fast on Windows as they ought to be, or that they had to work around certain idiosyncrasies of the OS, then this is a good mechanism for blender folks to provide input. Let's hope they are farsighted enough to make use of it.
Mod parent up!
Well, Sunnybrook later renamed itself "Brightside Technologies", and was acquired by Dolby last year.
http://www.dolby.com/promo/hdr/
Could be that we are seeing the first commercial product spun out of Dolby's licensing efforts.
...starting paying just for the actual R&D and letting the marketing and production be handled by the free market. See, this is just the kind of bullshit that comes up in all IP related discussions onEither you have freedom or you don't. If you want freedom, then you'll have to live with other people making use of THEIR freedom in ways that you don't approve of. Deal with it.
Wow, so all criminals have to do is make sure their victims are never found, thus making it illegal for police and others to even start searching? Brilliant!
The consequences of finding somebody who doesn't want to be found are much, much less severe than the consequences of not finding somebody who needs help, or who has already been murdered.
And by the way: if you REALLY want to get lost, and don't dump your cellphone, credit cards, etc. then you are a moron, and deserve to be found.