Hmmm. I wonder if it prints these dots on a blank pages, and if it's smart enough to handle multiple sets of dots from different printers on the same page...
I don't know if that's a fair comparison. Gollum was intentionally unhuman, so the strangeness of the character I think covered up a lot of the flaws in the technique. That being said, there were still some scenes with Gollum where something didn't look natural outside of the character. See the previous poster on the "Uncanny Valley"; I wouldn't take my kids to see this if I had any because it looks too creepy.
Completely off-topic, but when we went backpacking in Yellowstone last year we had to watch an informational video on what to do if you see a bear. Halfway through the video they demonstrate that if you see one, speak in a soft, non-threatening voice as you back away slowly. I'll be damned if the guy wasn't saying "Hear Bear, Hear Bear"!
I went to Case from 94-98 and in my whole dorm (Taft, 140+ people) there were two people without computers. Pretty much everyone had computers. The med school there even ran video conferencing to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit over the ATM backbone.
I don't know if it will ever be shown again, but our local PBS showed "Extreme":
http://www.extreme70mmfilm.com/surfing.html
Part of it is a big-wave riding set. I believe it plays in some IMAX theaters, still. There's one scene where they're filming the surfers from a helicopter, and there's a shot from the beach of the helicopter actually dipping so far down into the troughs that you can see the rotor. Apparently the pilot was ex-military:)
I use CVS over ssh and I have the CVS url in the project config file set up that way. When I run the document/report generation it prompts me for my SSH password. I think that it handles other types of CVS authentication, but I'm not positive.
We have started using Maven for in-house development and it really simplifies things. Being able to declare dependencies on libraries, etc, and have Maven go and grab the correct versions during build is cool enough, but all of the reporting and site building tools are really incredible. The PHBs were very impressed with the code analysis reports that it generates, and the CVS annotation of code is very nice for our internal sites. It takes a little getting used to, but if you've used Ant, you're halfway there.
Speaking of Comcast scams, I went out with my wife and friends to a pizza place last night and when we came out there was a guy with a Comcast baseball cap, neon orange Comcast work vest and a clipboard. He was asking everyone who came out of the restaurant if they would like to sign up for a free month of cable. That in and of itself wasn't outrageously weird, but then when my wife and I were getting into our car the guy came up and asked if we could spare some change for a gallon of gas...
Even though I think that film still has a lot of potential, a good manual (not necessarily SLR) digital camera gives a newbie a lot of flexibility to experiment without taking a lot of time for processing and lot of money for supplies. I think that SLRs have been associated with learning photography because in the film world there are very few non-SLR 35mm cameras that give you all the aperture/shutter flexibility. A lot of point-and-shoot Digital cameras have these options at a comparable price point.
ATM to the desktop never worked as well as it could have, but I wouldn't call it a disaster. A lot of the issues we had were with FORE's equipment not being able to handle the size of our network. Over Christmas break '99 I was in charge of upgrading the ATM network from FORE's proprietary ATM routing protocols to the industry-standard PNNI and things broke in very, very strange ways. We ended up having to completely back out of the upgrade and wait several months for FORE to fix its firmware.
As for the whole flat/subnetted topology, I'm sure someone like Dave or Jeff could explain this better, but my understanding was that in the early days (up to the mid-late 90s) router performance would have been a large bottleneck on the network. That's why they waited until high-performance L3 switches were commonly available before undertaking the project.
Derek
Re:Over-wired? and tooo far ahead of the curve
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Well, I went to Case from 94-98 and worked in the network engineering group in 99. The fiber was put in a long time ago. It wasn't an upgrade, it was just how they wired everything. Every dorm room has two faceplates. Each faceplate has 2 SM fiber pairs, 2 MM fiber pairs, 1 Coax and 1 Cat3 cable for phone. It's unfortunate that they didn't install Cat5, but that's the way it is. Retrofitting with Cat5 was going to be a tremendous cost, so we just avoided doing it.
I don't know what you looked at at USGS, but they do provide vector data in SDTS format (It's called TVP, or Topographic Vector Proile). I'm actually writing a python program to read and manipulate these maps for the purpose of route finding and downloading maps to my GPS unit. An early screenshot is here:
I have mixed feelings on this comment. I don't think that standards stifle innovation so much as they slow its development. In my opinion this isn't a bad thing because spending more time coming to a concensus on how things should work has tended to improve the quality of the standards. I think the W3C has done a tremendous job evolving the standards to cover an enourmous breadth of applications.
Not to be pedantic, but subsurface scattering is the physical phenomenon. Just because he found a fast approximation for it doesn't mean that it's a different technique.
Right, when I saw this article I was thinking: "What, something beyond subsurface scattering?" This has been out for a couple of years. That doesn't make it any less cool, but I'd like to see more Slashdot stuff on newer graphics techniques, like General Purpose GPU stuff (www.gpgpu.org) or new illumination models. It doesn't have to be front page, but I'd like for the graphics topic to be a little less "lite".
Well, they were actually smaller machines, both fit on a cart. I remember the story and they weren't big iron in the sense that they took up a whole room, more in the software they run (I think they were smaller AS/400s or something similar).
Well, racoons are native to North America but not to Hawaii or Death Valley. Australia is a huge country/continent. Kangaroo Island is a small island off the South coast, near Adelaide. They really aren't native on the island and they *are* forcing other animals out. I was there last year and it didn't seem that bad (we only saw a handful of Koalas in the Koala sanctuary on the West end of the island), but on an island it can be fairly easy to disturb the natural balance.
If you can't afford the digital back (or even the camera that takes it), Leica makes a very nice digital camera (albeit not SLR) called the Digilux (1 and 2). You can find it here.
It's pretty much everything you would expect from Leica in a point-and-shoot type. It reminds me very much of their MP-series film cameras, which are also incredible.
When I started at Case a lot of the course materials were on gopher. Of course, mozilla, etc. came out very soon after (I remember running it my freshman year), so it was a very brief time spent with gopher.
When I took assembly programming it was taught in AT&T syntax. I think it's a cleaner syntax than the Intel 3-letter ops. It's the default syntax for most Unix assemblers, and it's what you use for inline assembly with gcc.
The syntactic sugar is nice, but the changes to the Networking classes and additions like java.util.concurrency (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/package-summary.html) are going to make it much easier to write robust, high-performance software.
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Hmmm. I wonder if it prints these dots on a blank pages, and if it's smart enough to handle multiple sets of dots from different printers on the same page...
Derek
I don't know if that's a fair comparison. Gollum was intentionally unhuman, so the strangeness of the character I think covered up a lot of the flaws in the technique. That being said, there were still some scenes with Gollum where something didn't look natural outside of the character. See the previous poster on the "Uncanny Valley"; I wouldn't take my kids to see this if I had any because it looks too creepy.
Derek
What do you have against Geddy Lee?
Derek
Completely off-topic, but when we went backpacking in Yellowstone last year we had to watch an informational video on what to do if you see a bear. Halfway through the video they demonstrate that if you see one, speak in a soft, non-threatening voice as you back away slowly. I'll be damned if the guy wasn't saying "Hear Bear, Hear Bear"!
Derek
I went to Case from 94-98 and in my whole dorm (Taft, 140+ people) there were two people without computers. Pretty much everyone had computers. The med school there even ran video conferencing to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit over the ATM backbone.
Derek
I don't know if it will ever be shown again, but our local PBS showed "Extreme":
:)
http://www.extreme70mmfilm.com/surfing.html
Part of it is a big-wave riding set. I believe it plays in some IMAX theaters, still. There's one scene where they're filming the surfers from a helicopter, and there's a shot from the beach of the helicopter actually dipping so far down into the troughs that you can see the rotor. Apparently the pilot was ex-military
Derek
I use CVS over ssh and I have the CVS url in the project config file set up that way. When I run the document/report generation it prompts me for my SSH password. I think that it handles other types of CVS authentication, but I'm not positive.
Derek
My understanding is that it's built on top of/around Ant. One of the Maven tasks is to spit out an equivalent Ant build file for the project.
Derek
We have started using Maven for in-house development and it really simplifies things. Being able to declare dependencies on libraries, etc, and have Maven go and grab the correct versions during build is cool enough, but all of the reporting and site building tools are really incredible. The PHBs were very impressed with the code analysis reports that it generates, and the CVS annotation of code is very nice for our internal sites. It takes a little getting used to, but if you've used Ant, you're halfway there.
Derek
Usually terminal emulators like Konsole and gnome-terminal have a menu option to "reset" or "reset and clear"
Derek
Speaking of Comcast scams, I went out with my wife and friends to a pizza place last night and when we came out there was a guy with a Comcast baseball cap, neon orange Comcast work vest and a clipboard. He was asking everyone who came out of the restaurant if they would like to sign up for a free month of cable. That in and of itself wasn't outrageously weird, but then when my wife and I were getting into our car the guy came up and asked if we could spare some change for a gallon of gas...
Derek
Even though I think that film still has a lot of potential, a good manual (not necessarily SLR) digital camera gives a newbie a lot of flexibility to experiment without taking a lot of time for processing and lot of money for supplies. I think that SLRs have been associated with learning photography because in the film world there are very few non-SLR 35mm cameras that give you all the aperture/shutter flexibility. A lot of point-and-shoot Digital cameras have these options at a comparable price point.
Derek
ATM to the desktop never worked as well as it could have, but I wouldn't call it a disaster. A lot of the issues we had were with FORE's equipment not being able to handle the size of our network. Over Christmas break '99 I was in charge of upgrading the ATM network from FORE's proprietary ATM routing protocols to the industry-standard PNNI and things broke in very, very strange ways. We ended up having to completely back out of the upgrade and wait several months for FORE to fix its firmware.
As for the whole flat/subnetted topology, I'm sure someone like Dave or Jeff could explain this better, but my understanding was that in the early days (up to the mid-late 90s) router performance would have been a large bottleneck on the network. That's why they waited until high-performance L3 switches were commonly available before undertaking the project.
Derek
Well, I went to Case from 94-98 and worked in the network engineering group in 99. The fiber was put in a long time ago. It wasn't an upgrade, it was just how they wired everything. Every dorm room has two faceplates. Each faceplate has 2 SM fiber pairs, 2 MM fiber pairs, 1 Coax and 1 Cat3 cable for phone. It's unfortunate that they didn't install Cat5, but that's the way it is. Retrofitting with Cat5 was going to be a tremendous cost, so we just avoided doing it.
Derek
I don't know what you looked at at USGS, but they do provide vector data in SDTS format (It's called TVP, or Topographic Vector Proile). I'm actually writing a python program to read and manipulate these maps for the purpose of route finding and downloading maps to my GPS unit. An early screenshot is here:
Screenshot of hypsography (contour line) data from East Denver
From what I can gather you have to correlate entities with TIGER data for addresses and such, but the data is all there.
Derek
I have mixed feelings on this comment. I don't think that standards stifle innovation so much as they slow its development. In my opinion this isn't a bad thing because spending more time coming to a concensus on how things should work has tended to improve the quality of the standards. I think the W3C has done a tremendous job evolving the standards to cover an enourmous breadth of applications.
Derek
Actually, that could break C++ code that uses templates. There's a difference between
:)
vector <pair <int, float> > myVector
and
vector<pair<int,float>>myVector
It's only subtle until you try to compile it
Derek
Not to be pedantic, but subsurface scattering is the physical phenomenon. Just because he found a fast approximation for it doesn't mean that it's a different technique.
Derek
Right, when I saw this article I was thinking: "What, something beyond subsurface scattering?" This has been out for a couple of years. That doesn't make it any less cool, but I'd like to see more Slashdot stuff on newer graphics techniques, like General Purpose GPU stuff (www.gpgpu.org) or new illumination models. It doesn't have to be front page, but I'd like for the graphics topic to be a little less "lite".
Derek
Well, they were actually smaller machines, both fit on a cart. I remember the story and they weren't big iron in the sense that they took up a whole room, more in the software they run (I think they were smaller AS/400s or something similar).
Derek
Well, racoons are native to North America but not to Hawaii or Death Valley. Australia is a huge country/continent. Kangaroo Island is a small island off the South coast, near Adelaide. They really aren't native on the island and they *are* forcing other animals out. I was there last year and it didn't seem that bad (we only saw a handful of Koalas in the Koala sanctuary on the West end of the island), but on an island it can be fairly easy to disturb the natural balance.
Derek
If you can't afford the digital back (or even the camera that takes it), Leica makes a very nice digital camera (albeit not SLR) called the Digilux (1 and 2). You can find it here.
It's pretty much everything you would expect from Leica in a point-and-shoot type. It reminds me very much of their MP-series film cameras, which are also incredible.
Derek
When I started at Case a lot of the course materials were on gopher. Of course, mozilla, etc. came out very soon after (I remember running it my freshman year), so it was a very brief time spent with gopher.
Derek
When I took assembly programming it was taught in AT&T syntax. I think it's a cleaner syntax than the Intel 3-letter ops. It's the default syntax for most Unix assemblers, and it's what you use for inline assembly with gcc.
Derek
The syntactic sugar is nice, but the changes to the Networking classes and additions like java.util.concurrency (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util /concurrent/package-summary.html) are going to make it much easier to write robust, high-performance software.
Derek