That is part of the reason the releases are so spread out. Gollum is CGI and has many minutes in the next two films. Also there are more extensive battle scenes than in the first film too.
I believe the tree-giants (Ents) are real actors.
Shelob the spider is probably CGI.
And what did they get out of this?
Just a a measely $92 million dollars in gifts
from their founders (with another $60 million
in suspension). Imagine how much money Stanford
would have made if it ran these companies itself.
Maybe about 64 cents.
On the other hand Stanford did invest about $3000 initially in HP, plus some low cost land.
That only got them about $600 million in donations from the founders over the decades.
The U. of Illinois super-computer center really
blew when they were extremely protective of Mosaic- the first really widespread internet browser. So Clark and Andressen just blew them off and became billionaires. If U of I just asked for a small piece of the company, they would have cleaned up.
Puting electronics in clothing makes the combination
expensive and vulnerable to damage.
I suggest a good compromise is in accesories such
as rings, wistbands, waistbands, eye frames, shoes, etc.
If the device has a proper interface, then it will not be perceived as a computer. Then it will be called a communicator, medical monitor,
entertainer, or whatever its function is.
I call the computer on my wrist a watch,
even though it is more powerful than ENIAC.
Single cell organisms pretty much live forever
until they are eaten, starve, or encounter an
enviromental hazard. Multi-cellular bodies,
pre-programmed death, and sex pretty much evolved
together about 700 million years ago.
I see Ice Age (completely computer) and Peter Pan II (mixed computer and art) have been announced.
Pixar and Dreamworks/PDI are taking a rest after immense successes in 2001. Both are working on animal movies for 2003. What else is in the works?
Disney laid off nearly a third of its animators and cut the pay of much of the rest.
Dreamworks/PDI had layoffs.
Didn't FOX/Bluth close down their studio?
Very little recruiting and parties at the 2001 World Animation Convention & SIGGRAPH this year. Forty resumes for every job offer on the SIGGRAPH employment board. Five years ago if you knew how to use SoftImage or Alias you were guaranteed a cushy job.
Hope success turns things around.
Has anyone skipped a BS degree and gone directly into a MS program? A MS program tends to be faster and deeper than a BS, skipping non-major courses. Perhaps if one gets a high score on the grad school tests (GRE). However, GREs tend to test broad knowledge you dont encounter in a work environment.
(Not a band name!) Gould claims in several books that evolution goes in both directions at the same time. Some organizms are getting more complex, while others are getting less complex.
For example viruses and parasites may be remnants of more complicated organisms. We tend to notice only the more complex organisms in life's diversity.
The implcation here is that this pond scum could have been a more developed organization that gave up complexity over the eons.
This has only partially been deduced by relinking
experiments. Split human and monkey DNA into
single strands, allow the strands to recombine,
then see what temperature causes them to split
again. Badly matched DNA splits easily.
In a few years both human and chimp DNA will be
fully sequenced (three of 24 human chromosomes
have been fully deciphered). Then a gene-by-gene comparison can be fully done. It is expected to be about 98% identical.
By definition only the fastest devices are supercomputers.
These days that is about a teraflop.
Thta includes the US DOE ASCI series and the announced installation of the Blue Storm and Blue Gene IBM computers.
Ten gigaflop computers a dime a dozen and a hundred gigaflops not so rare.
The academic consortium and Celera lied when they
announce completion of the genome in 2000. All they had was a rough draft of the ACGT order.
The precise ordering, gene decoding, and followup
work is continuing more slowly. The three shortest of the 24 unique human chromosomes have now been decode, with the rest by 2005 or sooner.
For you people at MIT, there is a mural of
Middle Earth on the sixth floor of Building 24
painted by yours truely some time ago.
MIT used to have lots of wall murals, but they
come and go.
The new coffee house one in the Infinite Corridor
is neat.
Reminded me of wedding where you briefly meet alot
of long lost relatives who become blurred in your
memory. There were the nine in the Fellowship, a couple of Elf Lords, a flaky uncle, two big bad
guys, and a token love interest. Thats 16 main
characters without mentioning the minor ones.
Everyone gets 15 seconds of fame and recedes into the background. If I hadn't read the book six times I would have been lost. Another recent movie- Oceans 11- has about the same number of major characters, yet I felt I knew them better.
Tolkien's puts his "Land of Terror" Mordor in
the same geographic location as is the Middle East
and Central Asian is to England.
Traditionally these areas have been a source of invasion: the Huns, the Jihads, the Mongols, the Crusades (in reverse), the Turks, and the new Jihads.
I've seen some newspapers refer to bin Lauden as the "Lord of Terror" and Sauron analogies spring to my mind, especially this month.
Angels, Devils, and Genies come from Zorasterism.
Zorasterism has two supreme beings- one good and
one bad- each with a legion of servants of various
powers.
Judaism picks up the concept of a strong devil
about the time of the Persian exile.
Other mideast cults such as Essenes and Manicheans
pick up these ideas too and both feed into Christianity.
The principle of emergence is that interestingly
complex behaviors results from simple underlying
phenomena. For example Mandlebrot fractals are a
six line program in FORTRAN. Human mental activity
arises out a trillion elementary nerve cells, etc.
The problem is, this is unpredictable.
By definition science is repeatable experimentals
and observations.
So emergencent phenomena are not predictable until
that happen, and therefore non-scientific.
nuclear power is free!
on
Lunar Lasers
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As they were saying in the 1950s. Was going to
put oil, gas and hydro out of business.
However the complex plants and environmental costs
made it as expensive as anything else.
Those of us reading sci.reasearch.careers in 1990
were shocked when a disgruntled engineer
name Fabrikant complained about fellow faculty
stealing his ideas and blocking promotions.
A few weeks later he shot a couple of them to
death. Fabrikant wrote long rants in that newsgroup
before the murder and managed have someone post
additional ones from jail.
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That is part of the reason the releases are so spread out. Gollum is CGI and has many minutes in the next two films. Also there are more extensive battle scenes than in the first film too. I believe the tree-giants (Ents) are real actors. Shelob the spider is probably CGI.
And what did they get out of this? Just a a measely $92 million dollars in gifts from their founders (with another $60 million in suspension). Imagine how much money Stanford would have made if it ran these companies itself. Maybe about 64 cents.
On the other hand Stanford did invest about $3000 initially in HP, plus some low cost land. That only got them about $600 million in donations from the founders over the decades.
The U. of Illinois super-computer center really blew when they were extremely protective of Mosaic- the first really widespread internet browser. So Clark and Andressen just blew them off and became billionaires. If U of I just asked for a small piece of the company, they would have cleaned up.
Puting electronics in clothing makes the combination expensive and vulnerable to damage. I suggest a good compromise is in accesories such as rings, wistbands, waistbands, eye frames, shoes, etc.
If the device has a proper interface, then it will not be perceived as a computer. Then it will be called a communicator, medical monitor,
entertainer, or whatever its function is.
I call the computer on my wrist a watch,
even though it is more powerful than ENIAC.
Single cell organisms pretty much live forever
until they are eaten, starve, or encounter an
enviromental hazard. Multi-cellular bodies,
pre-programmed death, and sex pretty much evolved
together about 700 million years ago.
The earlier report has been discounted.
Shark cancer, however, is uncommon.
The last part of CGI that depends strongly on humans are the voices. When will they be computer generated?
And Beauty and the Beast has been re-rendered for IMAX resolution. Just came out.
I see Ice Age (completely computer) and Peter Pan II (mixed computer and art) have been announced.
Pixar and Dreamworks/PDI are taking a rest after immense successes in 2001. Both are working on animal movies for 2003. What else is in the works?
Disney laid off nearly a third of its animators and cut the pay of much of the rest. Dreamworks/PDI had layoffs. Didn't FOX/Bluth close down their studio? Very little recruiting and parties at the 2001 World Animation Convention & SIGGRAPH this year. Forty resumes for every job offer on the SIGGRAPH employment board. Five years ago if you knew how to use SoftImage or Alias you were guaranteed a cushy job. Hope success turns things around.
Has anyone skipped a BS degree and gone directly into a MS program? A MS program tends to be faster and deeper than a BS, skipping non-major courses. Perhaps if one gets a high score on the grad school tests (GRE). However, GREs tend to test broad knowledge you dont encounter in a work environment.
(Not a band name!) Gould claims in several books that evolution goes in both directions at the same time. Some organizms are getting more complex, while others are getting less complex. For example viruses and parasites may be remnants of more complicated organisms. We tend to notice only the more complex organisms in life's diversity.
The implcation here is that this pond scum could have been a more developed organization that gave up complexity over the eons.
This has only partially been deduced by relinking experiments. Split human and monkey DNA into single strands, allow the strands to recombine, then see what temperature causes them to split again. Badly matched DNA splits easily.
In a few years both human and chimp DNA will be fully sequenced (three of 24 human chromosomes have been fully deciphered). Then a gene-by-gene comparison can be fully done. It is expected to be about 98% identical.
By definition only the fastest devices are supercomputers. These days that is about a teraflop. Thta includes the US DOE ASCI series and the announced installation of the Blue Storm and Blue Gene IBM computers. Ten gigaflop computers a dime a dozen and a hundred gigaflops not so rare.
The academic consortium and Celera lied when they announce completion of the genome in 2000. All they had was a rough draft of the ACGT order. The precise ordering, gene decoding, and followup work is continuing more slowly. The three shortest of the 24 unique human chromosomes have now been decode, with the rest by 2005 or sooner.
For you people at MIT, there is a mural of
Middle Earth on the sixth floor of Building 24
painted by yours truely some time ago.
MIT used to have lots of wall murals, but they
come and go.
The new coffee house one in the Infinite Corridor
is neat.
Sounds like an answer in Jepoardy.
New Zealand was beautiful, though many of the
scenes in the movie reminded of other movies.
Reminded me of wedding where you briefly meet alot of long lost relatives who become blurred in your memory. There were the nine in the Fellowship, a couple of Elf Lords, a flaky uncle, two big bad guys, and a token love interest. Thats 16 main characters without mentioning the minor ones. Everyone gets 15 seconds of fame and recedes into the background. If I hadn't read the book six times I would have been lost. Another recent movie- Oceans 11- has about the same number of major characters, yet I felt I knew them better.
Tolkien's puts his "Land of Terror" Mordor in the same geographic location as is the Middle East and Central Asian is to England. Traditionally these areas have been a source of invasion: the Huns, the Jihads, the Mongols, the Crusades (in reverse), the Turks, and the new Jihads. I've seen some newspapers refer to bin Lauden as the "Lord of Terror" and Sauron analogies spring to my mind, especially this month.
Angels, Devils, and Genies come from Zorasterism. Zorasterism has two supreme beings- one good and one bad- each with a legion of servants of various powers. Judaism picks up the concept of a strong devil about the time of the Persian exile. Other mideast cults such as Essenes and Manicheans pick up these ideas too and both feed into Christianity.
Discounting chairty and reviewer previews,
Tuesday midnight is the first show.
The principle of emergence is that interestingly
complex behaviors results from simple underlying
phenomena. For example Mandlebrot fractals are a
six line program in FORTRAN. Human mental activity
arises out a trillion elementary nerve cells, etc.
The problem is, this is unpredictable.
By definition science is repeatable experimentals
and observations.
So emergencent phenomena are not predictable until
that happen, and therefore non-scientific.
As they were saying in the 1950s. Was going to
put oil, gas and hydro out of business.
However the complex plants and environmental costs
made it as expensive as anything else.
Those of us reading sci.reasearch.careers in 1990
were shocked when a disgruntled engineer
name Fabrikant complained about fellow faculty
stealing his ideas and blocking promotions.
A few weeks later he shot a couple of them to
death. Fabrikant wrote long rants in that newsgroup
before the murder and managed have someone post
additional ones from jail.