I agree with you there - if it is ILM, they likely really are doing it that way. ugh - I'll bet there are a lot of pissed CG animation and modeling guys there.
That sounds an awful lot like a cop out that one can hear in art and architecture studios around the world and in any language - not to mention CG labs. "It doesn't look right? uhh.... yeah... uh, it is *supposed* to look like that! It is an homage to... you know... stuff. Can I sleep now?"
If they wanted a surreal look, there are a bunch of ways that I would argue could pull off the look and make it an abvious homage... instead it currently comes off as poorly done and perhaps even rushed in order to come in under budget. Maybe they are doing it as an homage to all those other films that also rushed things to come in under budget?
I haven't looked - what effects house is doing the CGI? Or rather, what houses are doing what parts - it is hardly ever one place that does it all - they farm out shaders to one group, various scenes to another, explosions to yet another, and then they might have two teams of animators - the top team for close ups and the B team for grander movement and initial keyframes (beyond any motion capture that they might have done... or farmed out).
That was probably the most convincing debate I've ever witnessed (I'm not 100% sure I was actually part of it though)... either way I'm sold, I'll take two.
That still doesn't explain those outfits that they wear.
I want to see a superhero that is schizophrenic and fights the mole-people that talk to him from the sewers. Ideally he does this naked and frantically, but only on his lunch break.
Now that is a superhero.
Speaking of superheros, one of the funniest (via sheer power of being so damn offensive) things I've ever read was in the Harvard Lampoon. It was something to the extent of: We Are All Superheros Yes, that's right. There is no superhero that is any better than a soccer mom. Or the crossing guard. Even the truck drivers are superheros in their own way. The grocery clerk, the church minister, our teachers - we are all superheros in what we do, because we are all amazing.
I was getting 500 spam a day. Hot damn, that is a lot. I have a bunch of URLs and I was promiscuous with my e-mail address(es). I had them up in newsgroups, message boards (even slashdot), I subscribed to crap, I bought things online, I registered at countless sites... and never with a condom. I have a paypal account, and I have registered at a few casinos (not to play, but to look for security holes - but that doesn't mean they don't still spam the hell out of me). And then my friends and I go through periods of signing each other up for things when we are asked to fill out forms - so it is hard to say how much of that has happened.
The bulk of what I was getting was from the URLs that I have registered - those URLs were setup to forward all mail at that address that didn't have an actual e-mail address to my address. So I disabled that feature to some extent, and it dropped my daily spam count down to a little over 120 or so a day.
So I then got curious and went through and "unsubscribed" from a bunch of them just to see what happened. My spam went down to about 30 a day. Hot damn, it worked. But then it came back up over time - not sure if the unsubscribing just got my name on other lists, or if it just grew over time.
So I installed spamassassin, at the time 2.5 was in devel, so I used that. Various builds were better than others, and it got me down to about 1 or 2 spam that snuck through everyday.
Since then I have installed 2.6 and haven't kept up with the development builds as often since the changelog wasn't... well, wasn't changing much over the time that I was watching it.
I run it as the perl script, not the faster c daemon. I am on a shared server and scripts have to time out after 30 seconds of cpu time. So if the perl script is doing a lot of stuff, it gets killed, and the mail gets sent through. So that was the bulk of the spam I was getting - not that spamassassin mistagged it - but that it was dying and letting it through that way.
So I went in and changed my settings. I disabled all of the blacklist checks (score RAZOR_CHECK 0 and score RAZOR2_CHECK 0). I raised the autolearning threshold to be higher so that it would do that less frequently. I have my good contacts on a whitelist. I made the required_hits spam score to be 3.5 instead of the default 5. I went in and made the 90% bayes score 3.5 and the 99% score to 4. I skipped the rbl checks and made the max attempts on anything that would try multiple times if there was any failure to be low (1-2).
As a result, it rarely kills the process now unless the server is under a lot of load - and now I get about 1 or 2 spam in a week instead of in a day.
While it is largely a moot point to argue the physics of a made up character in a made up similar world - assuming that he is a really big human and doesn't have special muscles... which again, is a silly presumption in a made up world... he is moving to fast in his leaps.
But yes, for the lifting and smashing parts, I like the physics - yay! But the jumping silliness, the plastic looking skin shaders in most scenes, and the movement physics are what annoy me.
Again - I really think I need to just work on suspending disbelief - or they need to have a character that makes it easier to suspend it for.
While you very well might be right about Taco being on crack - the poster wrote his opinion of DD and Spiderman - that wasn't an editor's addition. Meaning it wasn't Taco's written opinion - just because he posted someone's story doesn't mean it is his dogma.
In the outdoor scene in the trailer - where he is standing at the base of a hill of what looks to be a San Fran scene perhaps - has a bunch of cops in front of him, his back is to us and covered in dust... THAT shot of him looks real.
the rest looks like a giant toddler that is a bit too shiny and plastic looking.
I haven't actually read any comic books since 6th grade... which was like 10 years ago. I was more into "Nam" than I was the superhero stuff.
One of my good friends feels that much of bodybuilding came about because of the superhero combic books, especially those like the Hulk. The same friend is gay - no word from him whether or not the comics turned him gay.:) (preemptive reply for the retards: that should obviously be seen a joke)
yeah, I feel so guilty and ashamed that I liked Daredevil. I guess I'm a geek, but not a cool geek like everyone here.
I actually didn't like SpiderMan that much - I still bought the TV and I enjoy watching it - but I always felt he was the gayest of all of the superheros... well, aside from AquaMan - he was outrageously gay.
Daredevil had Jennifer Garner in it, and she is hot enough to make me watch anything that she is in.
The first preview made him look very obviously CG and just like a big goofy toddler. This one is better in that he looks real in the shots that are closer to him - but it still really suffers from the obviousness of being animated (moving too cartoon-like - which is easier to animate than realistic life-like actions). He moves to quickly for his size - which probably doesn't matter much since the whole point is to suspend disbelief... but for whatever reason, he is still human form enough that it just looks poorly done the way it is now.
I'm hoping this isn't the case when it is on the big screen.
This preview made it look better than the last one.
Also, I never followed the comic book - so I guess he was much bigger in the comic book than he was in the TV series - but his comic-like increase in size is silly - I preferred the TV version where he just got really big, but still on the scale of what a human body could tolerate.
In the end - I'm psyched to see it - I like Eric Bana (sp?) too - but the CG Hulk might ruin it if it is so obviously CG.
and again, perhaps it happened all of the time in the comic book, but the silly leaps and bounds that he is taking are... well, silly. It is one thing for a giant human form to lift heavy things - we would expect that by what we know of physics. But we wouldn't expect it to be able to leap that far, and especially not that fast. That is the most annoying part - that it doesn't follow physics.
at first I was thinking I wasn't sure if I needed the 64bit space... but if it is near futuristic looking, then I guess I have to get it. performance is secondary to looks for me when it comes to my CPU.
you really don't want to read any literature or history of the Romans or Greeks then - you will get so tizzied up that you will probably have a heart attack. You are also going to want to avoid learning about cultures where life is harder and people don't live very long. While you are at it, don't even think about the Native Indians - their crazy mixed up ways are going to make you... well, it will likely make you want to give them alcohol and some disease ridden blankets.
I mean, I suppose you could maybe take a step back and look at things from a different viewpoint culturally and throughout time - but it sounds like that sort of things gives you the heebies - and I don't blame you man. seriously - if everyone isn't just like me, then this world will just go to hell in a handbasket. It is all of those different fuckers that make me sick. Fucking this place, they are.
just out of curiosity - remind me why the language that something is programmed in makes it rank higher on the "lameass" scale?
I could totally see saying the interface for it sucks, or that it is too slow, or that it won't let you put Hello Kitty skins on it... but I'm currently not getting why the language choice makes it "lameass"
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it is because you really want to run it on linux and it isn't that you have a typical kneejerk reaction like the rest of/. that anything MS sucks and anything else is far superior.
personally, unless it is done in Forth, I find all programming to be lameass.
while launch is great (although has gone through tough times), it requires human interaction.
this thing in the article seems to "work" without human interaction (although it seems to be on a binary level of like, or not like, or at least not as fine grained as launch allows - which is still not all that fine grained).
you are still listening to certain types of music though. so it should still work to help classify it. for instance, if you really hate country - the fact that you are randomly iterating over your own playlist doesn't mean that country will then be on the playlist. you are just randomly moving over songs that you like - even though you perhaps like some songs more than others - you are not likely to have many songs in there that you really dislike. so it sees what you like and then recommends from there.
that would be funny to have a website like this saying that your plugin would help them find music that they really like. and then no matter what they listen to, it just always recommends Kenny Loggins songs.
If I had more free time and didn't already have a backlog of projects that I want to work on, I'd totally do that.
I have no clue what their software does "behind the scenes" - but I personally would use a Markov Matrix/Chain and Bayesian classification.
I haven't used their system - but if it generally sucks if not many people have used it, and then gets much "smarter" over time and as more users (and usage) increases - then I would suspect that is what they are using as well.
Essentially you have song A, and then that points to a list of songs (after listening to song A, people then tended to listen to song Z, Y, and F). Songs that are more frequently occurring in that list are ranked higher. You could then follow that (basically just a hash) and say that if you listen to song A, the most frequently listened to song after A is Z, then you go to the Z spot in the hash and see what it is most frequently followed by.
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no YOU are!!!
damn I got you good on that one. seriously - you gotta admit it.
heh heh, you are... yeah.
Isn't "piles" also a name for hemorrhoids?
If so, it is damn well about time a GUI had that feature.
I agree with you there - if it is ILM, they likely really are doing it that way.
ugh - I'll bet there are a lot of pissed CG animation and modeling guys there.
That sounds an awful lot like a cop out that one can hear in art and architecture studios around the world and in any language - not to mention CG labs.
"It doesn't look right? uhh.... yeah... uh, it is *supposed* to look like that! It is an homage to... you know... stuff. Can I sleep now?"
If they wanted a surreal look, there are a bunch of ways that I would argue could pull off the look and make it an abvious homage... instead it currently comes off as poorly done and perhaps even rushed in order to come in under budget.
Maybe they are doing it as an homage to all those other films that also rushed things to come in under budget?
I haven't looked - what effects house is doing the CGI? Or rather, what houses are doing what parts - it is hardly ever one place that does it all - they farm out shaders to one group, various scenes to another, explosions to yet another, and then they might have two teams of animators - the top team for close ups and the B team for grander movement and initial keyframes (beyond any motion capture that they might have done... or farmed out).
My gay?
That was probably the most convincing debate I've ever witnessed (I'm not 100% sure I was actually part of it though)... either way I'm sold, I'll take two.
I am a newbie. I just recently downloaded the internet off of AOL and I find it all amazing.
I'm a sponge yearning for knowledge.
Now hold me and we can drive each other's nuts off into the sunset.
Oh wait - you said... nevermind.
That still doesn't explain those outfits that they wear.
I want to see a superhero that is schizophrenic and fights the mole-people that talk to him from the sewers. Ideally he does this naked and frantically, but only on his lunch break.
Now that is a superhero.
Speaking of superheros, one of the funniest (via sheer power of being so damn offensive) things I've ever read was in the Harvard Lampoon.
It was something to the extent of:
We Are All Superheros
Yes, that's right. There is no superhero that is any better than a soccer mom. Or the crossing guard. Even the truck drivers are superheros in their own way. The grocery clerk, the church minister, our teachers - we are all superheros in what we do, because we are all amazing.
Except for the blind. Those fuckers make me sick.
(it might have been the deaf - either way, bravo)
don't get me wrong - I love hot man ass just as much as the next guy.
I just hate musicals and Cher.
I was getting 500 spam a day. Hot damn, that is a lot. I have a bunch of URLs and I was promiscuous with my e-mail address(es). I had them up in newsgroups, message boards (even slashdot), I subscribed to crap, I bought things online, I registered at countless sites... and never with a condom. I have a paypal account, and I have registered at a few casinos (not to play, but to look for security holes - but that doesn't mean they don't still spam the hell out of me). And then my friends and I go through periods of signing each other up for things when we are asked to fill out forms - so it is hard to say how much of that has happened.
The bulk of what I was getting was from the URLs that I have registered - those URLs were setup to forward all mail at that address that didn't have an actual e-mail address to my address. So I disabled that feature to some extent, and it dropped my daily spam count down to a little over 120 or so a day.
So I then got curious and went through and "unsubscribed" from a bunch of them just to see what happened. My spam went down to about 30 a day. Hot damn, it worked.
But then it came back up over time - not sure if the unsubscribing just got my name on other lists, or if it just grew over time.
So I installed spamassassin, at the time 2.5 was in devel, so I used that. Various builds were better than others, and it got me down to about 1 or 2 spam that snuck through everyday.
Since then I have installed 2.6 and haven't kept up with the development builds as often since the changelog wasn't... well, wasn't changing much over the time that I was watching it.
I run it as the perl script, not the faster c daemon. I am on a shared server and scripts have to time out after 30 seconds of cpu time. So if the perl script is doing a lot of stuff, it gets killed, and the mail gets sent through.
So that was the bulk of the spam I was getting - not that spamassassin mistagged it - but that it was dying and letting it through that way.
So I went in and changed my settings. I disabled all of the blacklist checks (score RAZOR_CHECK 0 and score RAZOR2_CHECK 0). I raised the autolearning threshold to be higher so that it would do that less frequently. I have my good contacts on a whitelist. I made the required_hits spam score to be 3.5 instead of the default 5. I went in and made the 90% bayes score 3.5 and the 99% score to 4. I skipped the rbl checks and made the max attempts on anything that would try multiple times if there was any failure to be low (1-2).
As a result, it rarely kills the process now unless the server is under a lot of load - and now I get about 1 or 2 spam in a week instead of in a day.
I am a very big fan of spamassassin.
While it is largely a moot point to argue the physics of a made up character in a made up similar world - assuming that he is a really big human and doesn't have special muscles... which again, is a silly presumption in a made up world... he is moving to fast in his leaps.
But yes, for the lifting and smashing parts, I like the physics - yay! But the jumping silliness, the plastic looking skin shaders in most scenes, and the movement physics are what annoy me.
Again - I really think I need to just work on suspending disbelief - or they need to have a character that makes it easier to suspend it for.
While you very well might be right about Taco being on crack - the poster wrote his opinion of DD and Spiderman - that wasn't an editor's addition.
Meaning it wasn't Taco's written opinion - just because he posted someone's story doesn't mean it is his dogma.
uhh - I bought DVD... don't get me wrong, I bought a TV too - but it had nothing to do with the Spiderman movie.
In the outdoor scene in the trailer - where he is standing at the base of a hill of what looks to be a San Fran scene perhaps - has a bunch of cops in front of him, his back is to us and covered in dust...
THAT shot of him looks real.
the rest looks like a giant toddler that is a bit too shiny and plastic looking.
I haven't actually read any comic books since 6th grade... which was like 10 years ago.
:)
I was more into "Nam" than I was the superhero stuff.
One of my good friends feels that much of bodybuilding came about because of the superhero combic books, especially those like the Hulk.
The same friend is gay - no word from him whether or not the comics turned him gay.
(preemptive reply for the retards: that should obviously be seen a joke)
yeah, I feel so guilty and ashamed that I liked Daredevil.
I guess I'm a geek, but not a cool geek like everyone here.
I actually didn't like SpiderMan that much - I still bought the TV and I enjoy watching it - but I always felt he was the gayest of all of the superheros... well, aside from AquaMan - he was outrageously gay.
Daredevil had Jennifer Garner in it, and she is hot enough to make me watch anything that she is in.
The first preview made him look very obviously CG and just like a big goofy toddler.
This one is better in that he looks real in the shots that are closer to him - but it still really suffers from the obviousness of being animated (moving too cartoon-like - which is easier to animate than realistic life-like actions).
He moves to quickly for his size - which probably doesn't matter much since the whole point is to suspend disbelief... but for whatever reason, he is still human form enough that it just looks poorly done the way it is now.
I'm hoping this isn't the case when it is on the big screen.
This preview made it look better than the last one.
Also, I never followed the comic book - so I guess he was much bigger in the comic book than he was in the TV series - but his comic-like increase in size is silly - I preferred the TV version where he just got really big, but still on the scale of what a human body could tolerate.
In the end - I'm psyched to see it - I like Eric Bana (sp?) too - but the CG Hulk might ruin it if it is so obviously CG.
and again, perhaps it happened all of the time in the comic book, but the silly leaps and bounds that he is taking are... well, silly. It is one thing for a giant human form to lift heavy things - we would expect that by what we know of physics.
But we wouldn't expect it to be able to leap that far, and especially not that fast. That is the most annoying part - that it doesn't follow physics.
well then, I'm sold.
at first I was thinking I wasn't sure if I needed the 64bit space... but if it is near futuristic looking, then I guess I have to get it. performance is secondary to looks for me when it comes to my CPU.
I figure that we could set this up on the epileptics of the world and pretty much solve that whole energy crisis thing.
you really don't want to read any literature or history of the Romans or Greeks then - you will get so tizzied up that you will probably have a heart attack.
You are also going to want to avoid learning about cultures where life is harder and people don't live very long.
While you are at it, don't even think about the Native Indians - their crazy mixed up ways are going to make you... well, it will likely make you want to give them alcohol and some disease ridden blankets.
I mean, I suppose you could maybe take a step back and look at things from a different viewpoint culturally and throughout time - but it sounds like that sort of things gives you the heebies - and I don't blame you man. seriously - if everyone isn't just like me, then this world will just go to hell in a handbasket. It is all of those different fuckers that make me sick. Fucking this place, they are.
you know Williams?! yay! I'm class of '99. Keepin' it real.
just out of curiosity - remind me why the language that something is programmed in makes it rank higher on the "lameass" scale?
/. that anything MS sucks and anything else is far superior.
I could totally see saying the interface for it sucks, or that it is too slow, or that it won't let you put Hello Kitty skins on it... but I'm currently not getting why the language choice makes it "lameass"
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it is because you really want to run it on linux and it isn't that you have a typical kneejerk reaction like the rest of
personally, unless it is done in Forth, I find all programming to be lameass.
while launch is great (although has gone through tough times), it requires human interaction.
this thing in the article seems to "work" without human interaction (although it seems to be on a binary level of like, or not like, or at least not as fine grained as launch allows - which is still not all that fine grained).
you are still listening to certain types of music though. so it should still work to help classify it. for instance, if you really hate country - the fact that you are randomly iterating over your own playlist doesn't mean that country will then be on the playlist.
you are just randomly moving over songs that you like - even though you perhaps like some songs more than others - you are not likely to have many songs in there that you really dislike.
so it sees what you like and then recommends from there.
that would be funny to have a website like this saying that your plugin would help them find music that they really like.
and then no matter what they listen to, it just always recommends Kenny Loggins songs.
If I had more free time and didn't already have a backlog of projects that I want to work on, I'd totally do that.
I have no clue what their software does "behind the scenes" - but I personally would use a Markov Matrix/Chain and Bayesian classification.
I haven't used their system - but if it generally sucks if not many people have used it, and then gets much "smarter" over time and as more users (and usage) increases - then I would suspect that is what they are using as well.
Essentially you have song A, and then that points to a list of songs (after listening to song A, people then tended to listen to song Z, Y, and F).
Songs that are more frequently occurring in that list are ranked higher.
You could then follow that (basically just a hash) and say that if you listen to song A, the most frequently listened to song after A is Z, then you go to the Z spot in the hash and see what it is most frequently followed by.