Just got back from work where I took off the first part of the day to visit Siggraph. There are two places where they are running the real time rendering of Final Fantasy the Movie. One is at Squaresoft's booth, which I didn't have time to check out unfortunately, and the other at Nvidia's booth, which I did check out. Among the FF movie they were giving out free passes for In and Out food which they served today and will serve again on Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 PM (in case anyone else is there and is hungry) and the best bag for your haul of swag (visit there first!). Of course they had the assorted booklets and brochures there as well.
About Final Fantasy the movie, it was definitely in real time (I saw someone moving around light sources), didn't try it personally to see if you could change the perspective) and included footage of Aki Ross and Dr. Cid talking to each other, I'd say about 3 minutes of footage. 2.4 FPS is way off the mark (were they rendering it at a higher resolution or with more lights?) for the speed when I saw it, I'd say it was running at somewhere between 5-7 FPS. It appeared that they were doing it at about 800x600 resolution (couldn't get really terribly close, too big of a crowd when
The texture maps appeared a bit simplified compared to the movie, but never the less blew everything else I saw away. It's a hell of a new chip they made.
What really worries me about this profiling is that sites might get information back from DoubleClick. I can just see it, my Grandmother types in www.whitehouse.com, and since she accidentally checked a box off on Yahoo stating "Please send me spam from anyone who gave us money" she is automatically signed up for the Big Bone of the Day.
Well, I'm sure that going a little far, she probably will only be getting free samples of KY jelly in the mail and a free issue of Jonny Leatherpants and his Magic Nipple Clamps.
But in all seriousness, I thought the FTC was tring to cut down or make on this kind of thing illegal, *and* with the whole Pentium 3 serial code fiasco, it is painfully clear that people value their privacy on the web.
Anyone know of a site or utility to clear out certain cookies like these, but leave the nice ones in like Slashdot?
I really have to raise my eyebrows at any company that releases a rather shoddy product, makes a lot of noise (read hype), and offers support, which they charge an arm and a leg for; and I'm not talking about MS.
But seriously, after reading the previous poor reviews. of LinuxOne and this mans story I have to wonder if its just a bunch of MBAs, and their MSCE friend who "saw that Leenux thing" and the RedHat IPO, who thought "Linux=Money".
This is a sad state of affairs, but I'm reminded of other fly by night companies that I have run across, such as one company who wanted to get content from a magazine that my company publishes. After finding out that they use a redundant array of iMACs as their web servers (no, I'm not kidding) we turned them down.
The best way to kill these companies is just to ignore them, they only live on hype and MBAs who want to IPO real quick to make money. If no one buys their stock, they shrivel up and die after their initial investment dries up.
Well, appearently it's perfectly legal to put deCSS code on a website within California (at least for now, hopefully perminantally), but it's illegal to post deCSS within the Federal Judicial Circuit where New York resides. Gotta love these wacky States Rights issues!
Now I have a question for all you legal folks out there, if the Federal injuction in New York goes through, but it gets dismissed in California, will it make it legal for a server in California to have deCSS on it, while illegal for a server in New York to have it or post information on it? Isn't that illegally preventing interstate commerce?
Until either MP3.COM releases a Linux/*BSD/etc port for beam-it, or some interprising individual reverse engineers the thing, you cannot add songs to your playlist.
But this does not mean that you cannot play songs in your playlist under Linux. MP3.com just streams your music to you in the MP3 format. Fire up your favorite browser, make sure you have it set up to load XMMS or other favorite MP3 player and listen away. Unfortunatally you will still have to authenticate your CDs off of a Windows or Mac box; on that note, know if you can run beam-it under wine or VMware?
I have to agree with CmdrTaco on the fact that the chance of abuse is huge though! Whats stopping people from just reverse enineering the CD codes or borrowing their friends CDs for a few seconds to add it to their available tracks?
Myself, and 2 roommates have been living off campus in a 3 bedroom townhouse for the past 2 years... We get our fast bandwidth VIA a DSL connection to our local ISP. I don't know what the big deal with living on campus, unless you are transfering a lot of data between computers on campus, I've found my DSL to give me speeds that are sometimes faster then the T-1 I used to enjoy in my dorm room. And when you split a 60 dollar a month DSL bill three ways, its really affordable. For about the same price as my on-campus houseing(except I have to cook and clean) I get to enjoy my own spacious room and a fast internet pipe.
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Just got back from work where I took off the first part of the day to visit Siggraph. There are two places where they are running the real time rendering of Final Fantasy the Movie. One is at Squaresoft's booth, which I didn't have time to check out unfortunately, and the other at Nvidia's booth, which I did check out. Among the FF movie they were giving out free passes for In and Out food which they served today and will serve again on Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 PM (in case anyone else is there and is hungry) and the best bag for your haul of swag (visit there first!). Of course they had the assorted booklets and brochures there as well.
About Final Fantasy the movie, it was definitely in real time (I saw someone moving around light sources), didn't try it personally to see if you could change the perspective) and included footage of Aki Ross and Dr. Cid talking to each other, I'd say about 3 minutes of footage. 2.4 FPS is way off the mark (were they rendering it at a higher resolution or with more lights?) for the speed when I saw it, I'd say it was running at somewhere between 5-7 FPS. It appeared that they were doing it at about 800x600 resolution (couldn't get really terribly close, too big of a crowd when
The texture maps appeared a bit simplified compared to the movie, but never the less blew everything else I saw away. It's a hell of a new chip they made.
There may be hope for the French after all!
Well, I'm sure that going a little far, she probably will only be getting free samples of KY jelly in the mail and a free issue of Jonny Leatherpants and his Magic Nipple Clamps.
But in all seriousness, I thought the FTC was tring to cut down or make on this kind of thing illegal, *and* with the whole Pentium 3 serial code fiasco, it is painfully clear that people value their privacy on the web.
Anyone know of a site or utility to clear out certain cookies like these, but leave the nice ones in like Slashdot?
But seriously, after reading the previous poor reviews. of LinuxOne and this mans story I have to wonder if its just a bunch of MBAs, and their MSCE friend who "saw that Leenux thing" and the RedHat IPO, who thought "Linux=Money".
This is a sad state of affairs, but I'm reminded of other fly by night companies that I have run across, such as one company who wanted to get content from a magazine that my company publishes. After finding out that they use a redundant array of iMACs as their web servers (no, I'm not kidding) we turned them down.
The best way to kill these companies is just to ignore them, they only live on hype and MBAs who want to IPO real quick to make money. If no one buys their stock, they shrivel up and die after their initial investment dries up.
Now I have a question for all you legal folks out there, if the Federal injuction in New York goes through, but it gets dismissed in California, will it make it legal for a server in California to have deCSS on it, while illegal for a server in New York to have it or post information on it? Isn't that illegally preventing interstate commerce?
But this does not mean that you cannot play songs in your playlist under Linux. MP3.com just streams your music to you in the MP3 format. Fire up your favorite browser, make sure you have it set up to load XMMS or other favorite MP3 player and listen away. Unfortunatally you will still have to authenticate your CDs off of a Windows or Mac box; on that note, know if you can run beam-it under wine or VMware?
I have to agree with CmdrTaco on the fact that the chance of abuse is huge though! Whats stopping people from just reverse enineering the CD codes or borrowing their friends CDs for a few seconds to add it to their available tracks?
Myself, and 2 roommates have been living off campus in a 3 bedroom townhouse for the past 2 years... We get our fast bandwidth VIA a DSL connection to our local ISP. I don't know what the big deal with living on campus, unless you are transfering a lot of data between computers on campus, I've found my DSL to give me speeds that are sometimes faster then the T-1 I used to enjoy in my dorm room. And when you split a 60 dollar a month DSL bill three ways, its really affordable. For about the same price as my on-campus houseing(except I have to cook and clean) I get to enjoy my own spacious room and a fast internet pipe.