a dedicated wiki will always have better chances of attracting people with knowledge on a certain very specific subject, so yeah, it's a good idea. however, i'd like to see all such sites heavily integrated with and indexed by wikipedia itself, so that finding the information is easier.
sorry to burst your bubble, but there are many poly-time approaches to solving NP-hard/complete problems that are "good enough" for many purposes. and vice versa - many (most? all?) problems that are poly-time, humans solve using heuristics that lead to often sub-optimal solutions. so what exactly is new here?
nope, i don't. in both cases you're mapping from complex [to varying degrees] digital data to a bunch of pixel values. conceptually, there is no difference. of course, you can draw an arbitrary line on some difficulty scale, and say that beyond that line every image is computer "generated", which is what happens often. to me, being computer generated means that the data from which the image was constructed was created by a human on a computer, e.g. using Maya or Photoshop.
i don't understand your negative reaction. i for one would love to be able to get natural sunlight in a room with no windows. and even if the room has windows, sometimes their placement means that the direction from which the light comes isn't convenient (think horrible shadow on book while studying with your back to a window). sometimes it's too bright. sometimes it's too hot, and you want to close the shades. sometimes you want to do the same for privacy. there are many potential reasons why this could be an improvement over a conventional window.
he-he, you said you wear thongs... but on a more serious note, i doubt that someone who regularly drives automatics would have a problem like yours. if you're used to never using your left foot while driving, you wouldn't suddenly have the urge to do so. though accidentally pressing the wrong pedal i'm sure happens quite frequently, i'm more and more convinced that this whole toyota ordeal is nothing more than mass hysteria.
there is a large body or research providing evidence that mental imagery can develop in the absence of sight. [i know, i know, citation needed. well, i don't have any.]
did you know that a cop isn't allowed to investigate a case in which he's personally involved? did you know that judges have similar restrictions? so yeah, maybe if someone close to me was the [potential] victim in this case, i'd want to see the guy tortured to death. but i wouldn't have any say over what the appropriate punishment is. the [very common] thought exercise people like you propose of imagining oneself or a loved one in the victim's position to make judgments about fair punishments is simply irrelevant.
why stop there? an abacus is a computer. heck, your fingers are computers - you used to do addition on them when you were a kid, remember? so, they should cut off his fingers and put 'em on ice for 20 years.
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a dedicated wiki will always have better chances of attracting people with knowledge on a certain very specific subject, so yeah, it's a good idea. however, i'd like to see all such sites heavily integrated with and indexed by wikipedia itself, so that finding the information is easier.
please don't feed the trolls
me, i prefer TLA's
sorry to burst your bubble, but there are many poly-time approaches to solving NP-hard/complete problems that are "good enough" for many purposes. and vice versa - many (most? all?) problems that are poly-time, humans solve using heuristics that lead to often sub-optimal solutions. so what exactly is new here?
hm, good point... that seems like a good way to define it.
nope, i don't. in both cases you're mapping from complex [to varying degrees] digital data to a bunch of pixel values. conceptually, there is no difference. of course, you can draw an arbitrary line on some difficulty scale, and say that beyond that line every image is computer "generated", which is what happens often. to me, being computer generated means that the data from which the image was constructed was created by a human on a computer, e.g. using Maya or Photoshop.
agreed. EA used to do this with FIFA, though recently they seem to be making a slight effort to make more PC tailored version.
what about a webcam photo? is that computer generated? or any image file you view on your monitor, for that matter?
your sacrifice will not go unremarked.
it almost did, though
you call that borderline NSFW? dude, where do you work and how do I apply??
i don't understand your negative reaction. i for one would love to be able to get natural sunlight in a room with no windows. and even if the room has windows, sometimes their placement means that the direction from which the light comes isn't convenient (think horrible shadow on book while studying with your back to a window). sometimes it's too bright. sometimes it's too hot, and you want to close the shades. sometimes you want to do the same for privacy. there are many potential reasons why this could be an improvement over a conventional window.
lol, how do you even come up with this stuff? you should write scripts for stoner movies, or something...
he-he, you said you wear thongs... but on a more serious note, i doubt that someone who regularly drives automatics would have a problem like yours. if you're used to never using your left foot while driving, you wouldn't suddenly have the urge to do so. though accidentally pressing the wrong pedal i'm sure happens quite frequently, i'm more and more convinced that this whole toyota ordeal is nothing more than mass hysteria.
no. no you didn't.
there is a large body or research providing evidence that mental imagery can develop in the absence of sight. [i know, i know, citation needed. well, i don't have any.]
did you know that a cop isn't allowed to investigate a case in which he's personally involved? did you know that judges have similar restrictions? so yeah, maybe if someone close to me was the [potential] victim in this case, i'd want to see the guy tortured to death. but i wouldn't have any say over what the appropriate punishment is. the [very common] thought exercise people like you propose of imagining oneself or a loved one in the victim's position to make judgments about fair punishments is simply irrelevant.
there's a slight difference - a gun is for killing. a bat isn't.
similarly, computers aren't for molesting.
why stop there? an abacus is a computer. heck, your fingers are computers - you used to do addition on them when you were a kid, remember? so, they should cut off his fingers and put 'em on ice for 20 years.
Why?
our genetic identity is something that defines us
that's simply not true.
it's late, and i'm too tired to list all the reasons why. see if you can guess a few.
fall back on Xorg's default driver?
which one's the second one?
holy crap.
good job, guys.
ok, how about this: it's more expensive than blurring, and blurring is good enough.
it's expensive (human+computing time).