For example if youwere a 2 dimensional being... and a 3D sphere passed through your space, you will see a point, growing into a circle and then again into a point.
If you are a 2D being existing in some 2D subspace which a sphere is passing through, you do not have the advantage of an external view of the subspace in which you exist. Its not like you are looking at a sheet of paper - its like you are on the sheet of paper. what you would see is a point growing to a line then shrinking back to a point. If you had stereoscopic 2D vision you would be able to see how far away it is, and perhaps that it has a circular curvature to it - but that would all depend on the information you brain could extract from the lighting and texture on the line.
I thought that by definition, Cg was mean to be a microcode compiler for Nvidia's GPUs. It makes perfect sense that Cg lacks all the features of a robust, general-purpose language because the target harward that will ultimately run the compiled instructions is not a general purpose processor.
NGE is not the kind of anime you want to present as an example in a discussion about bringing anime to a mainstream audience. It is a rambling and aimless series with a venir of meaning constructed from poorly detailed pseudo-religion, pseudo-psychology and pseudo-science. Good Sci-Fi is Good Sci-Fi wether it is hand drawn, filmed, 3d rendered, or written down on paper - and NGE is not Good Sci-Fi.
Note: I did NOT watch the dubbed version I did NOT know anything about the series before watching it I WATCHED IT ALL in its godawful entirety, including the "we ran out of budget" ending to the series, the movie they tried to use to appease the mass uprising of irate fans, and the movie they used to shield themselves from the stones thrown by even more irate fans.
Here is a clue for you: just because there are obfuscated plot details, shallow metaphysical discourse, and characters in emotional anguish does NOT mean that a work of fiction is in any way DEEP or MEANINGFUL.
These people who've now realized that much of their opinions about sexuality have been developed through these authors should really thank him.
It seems to me that many people in this discussion are not realizing that much of their opinions about sexual morality are based in religious dogma. Piers has presented an excellent defense of his portrayals of sexuality that some people are refusing to consider because for some mysterious reason it just does not jive with their morals. What these people need ot realize is that it is Ok to have conservative feelings about sexuality, but that their feelings are not based on universal truths (but that is Ok).
Patented technologies in the OpenGL standard are not in the public domain - their respective owners have simply agreed to not charge for the technology's use in OpenGL. MS is reneging on that agreement.
Actually, MS is claiming patents on vertex shaders - which are part of the OpenGL 2 spec, not the original OpenGL 1.X specs. MS will not be able to kill OpenGL with this move outright - just stunt its growth on next-generation hardware and bleed it to death slowly.
The artform of interactive machinima has interesting enough prospects in the potential for virtual performances to be carried out by tele-present actors from different corners of the globe. Tele-present tecnnicians could operate and modify the virtual set. 3D artists become the set designers and costume designers. Machinima is a logical extension of theater into the virtual realm.
Re:Um... There is a good point here, guys....
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> There are lots of reasons for all this, but in the end they boil down to:
... and don't forget ease of administration. i've been trying out the latest SuSE, and even with great utils like YaST2, its still been neccesary to compile a kernel and add some obscure options to XF86Config to get things running smoothly. its getting there, but its not quite there yet.
linux will never die with LINUX TEAM FIGHTING!!!
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Definitely. I've worked on both Unix and Windows. Windows "knowledge" goes out of date very quickly since every year or two the old API and UI is put in "maintenance mode" or completely dropped. In Unix, things are more stable.
A stable development environment, more than anything else, is why I am moving to OSS. It is easy enough to 'acquire' windows and its development tools for free-as-in-beer. However, after wasting the majority of my formative years playing catch-up to the latest MS APIs, tools, and environments, now I just want a stable development environment so that I can focus my energy on learning to write software instead of relearning the latest macros MS has grafted onto C.
By serving their site to your browser, they are in effect "publishing" their web site. NPR's linking policy is akin to having a EULA for a book that says "You may neither reference specific sections of this book by page number, nor frame sections of this book by quotation."
I can see the future now: no one will "own" books and magazines, they will just "license" them to read. Imagine writing a research paper where your only references looked something like [FOLEY96, page reference restricted by End Reader Licensing Agreement].
it's worth the extra day or two to debug their software under Wine before shipping it
BWAAAAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! Please mod parent up as +1 Funny. Obviously no one would actually believe that properly debugging and testing an application like Photoshop under Wine would only take an "extra day or two". BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAHA!
The thing that the original poster didn't *see* is that offloading TnL onto the GPU does not neccesarily improve the *visual* quality of the game. Rather it frees up system resources for the important parts of a game that unfortunatly don't go into making good *screenshots*.
Taking a computer-assisted calculus course in college was one of the worst academic mistakes I ever made. Sure I learned some Mathematica, but it set me back a few semesters in my Calc knowledge. I was able to lean so heavily on the software to do calculations that I forgot stuff I had known previously! In the followup multivariate class I kept reaching to the right side of my notebook to hit SHIFT-RETURN.
... then I damned well better get discounts for making uploads/downloads at off-peak times. I don't want to be paying for hogging all the bandwidth when there is actually plenty of bandwidth to spare at 3AM.
Jon Katz: "It's also one of the best books ever written about the Net, an unsparing, even brutal indictment not only of hubris, but of media and, of course, the corporate-spawned hype that shapes so much of American life."
Publisher's Weekly (off the B&N site): "Still, his incessant flippancy blocks real insight. At the end, when an imaginary e-mail to CEO Jeff Bezos turns unexpectedly vicious, readers may wonder how a man so aware of and so glib about his employer's flaws comes to play the role of the exploited proletarian."
"Incessant flippancy" and "unsparing, even brutal indictment" of [media/corporate-hype/ameracin-life]... sounds like this is the perfect read for all the slashdot readers who want need more ammo for their flippant indictments of corporate america for their next heated debate at the coffe shop.
And when did Jon Katz become a book reviewer anyways? Speaking of which, why is this article not filed under "book reviews"?
Is it just me or is this article just another insubstantive blurb about a news article about a press release that is otherwise only useful as an opportunity for a CmdrTaco Star Wars troll?
We aren't at the point where Mars makes any kind of sense.
Well where the hell else are we going to try out terraforming? It will take centuries to ruin the earth's atmosphere so that we can terraform it back into an earth-like atmosphere. Or maybe that experiment is already in effect.... mwahahahaha!
... that the music industry is willing to cut off a hand in order to maintain control over music ditribution channels. A world where artists distribute free recordings of their music and use the Internet as a basis for self-promotion to launch a successful nation-wide tour scares them sh-tless. In such a situation, the music middle-industry is cut out of the picture entirely and the artists get all the success they had before (considering tours get them more profits than record sales). It only makes sense that the music industry will do increasingly more and more desperate things, such as selling crippled CDs, in order to avoid such a future.
If the Internet remains free, then eventually a band will come along that sidesteps the music industry entirely, self-promoting the whole way and launching a successful national tour.
Re:7/10? POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS
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i agree that it was not really all that gory. my problem with it was that _absolutely_everything_ happened suddenly - such that it was an assault on one's eyes and ears. it was like watching a two-hour long commercial or music video with too many quick cuts in rapid succession. it just wears down the attention span after a while when absolutely everything is emphesized as attention grabbing. there is something to be said for the nagging growth of a pit in the stomach of the viewer due to a horrific realization that comes slowly.
over the course of watching "event horizon", i found myself scared - but the fear had nothing to do with the plot or characters. there was no empathy for the characters, no dramatic tension in the plot. it could have been a blank screen for all i cared. my fear stemmed from knowing that there would be a sudden, disturbing visual or auditory stimulus arriving at an unknown random interval - probably some kind of poisson ditribution for expected sudden horror.
it would be interesting to study the frequency and distribution of sudden loud noises and sudden flashes of disturbing imagery in this film to see just how formulaic its horror content was.
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Who directed this flick: Hey pal, load noises and sudden appearances on screen only work if you use them SPARINGLY. No audience is going to jump every five minutes at that shit.
Apparently you never saw "Event Horizon" - it is also directed by Paul Anderson. Absolutely everything happens suddenly in that movie. At times it seems like sudden loud noises and sudden flashes of gore are the only horror devices that director Paul Anderson knows how to use. And "Soldier" was such an honest effort - oh well.
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For example if youwere a 2 dimensional being ... and a 3D sphere passed through your space, you will see a point, growing into a circle and then again into a point.
If you are a 2D being existing in some 2D subspace which a sphere is passing through, you do not have the advantage of an external view of the subspace in which you exist. Its not like you are looking at a sheet of paper - its like you are on the sheet of paper. what you would see is a point growing to a line then shrinking back to a point. If you had stereoscopic 2D vision you would be able to see how far away it is, and perhaps that it has a circular curvature to it - but that would all depend on the information you brain could extract from the lighting and texture on the line.
I thought that by definition, Cg was mean to be a microcode compiler for Nvidia's GPUs. It makes perfect sense that Cg lacks all the features of a robust, general-purpose language because the target harward that will ultimately run the compiled instructions is not a general purpose processor.
NGE is not the kind of anime you want to present as an example in a discussion about bringing anime to a mainstream audience. It is a rambling and aimless series with a venir of meaning constructed from poorly detailed pseudo-religion, pseudo-psychology and pseudo-science. Good Sci-Fi is Good Sci-Fi wether it is hand drawn, filmed, 3d rendered, or written down on paper - and NGE is not Good Sci-Fi.
Note:
I did NOT watch the dubbed version
I did NOT know anything about the series before watching it
I WATCHED IT ALL in its godawful entirety, including the "we ran out of budget" ending to the series, the movie they tried to use to appease the mass uprising of irate fans, and the movie they used to shield themselves from the stones thrown by even more irate fans.
Here is a clue for you: just because there are obfuscated plot details, shallow metaphysical discourse, and characters in emotional anguish does NOT mean that a work of fiction is in any way DEEP or MEANINGFUL.
These people who've now realized that much of their opinions about sexuality have been developed through these authors should really thank him.
It seems to me that many people in this discussion are not realizing that much of their opinions about sexual morality are based in religious dogma. Piers has presented an excellent defense of his portrayals of sexuality that some people are refusing to consider because for some mysterious reason it just does not jive with their morals. What these people need ot realize is that it is Ok to have conservative feelings about sexuality, but that their feelings are not based on universal truths (but that is Ok).
orbital
aphex twin
KLF (no two albums are alike!)
fluke
orb
(ok, so the first two are redundant with other posts - maybe that will tell you something)
Patented technologies in the OpenGL standard are not in the public domain - their respective owners have simply agreed to not charge for the technology's use in OpenGL. MS is reneging on that agreement.
Actually, MS is claiming patents on vertex shaders - which are part of the OpenGL 2 spec, not the original OpenGL 1.X specs. MS will not be able to kill OpenGL with this move outright - just stunt its growth on next-generation hardware and bleed it to death slowly.
The artform of interactive machinima has interesting enough prospects in the potential for virtual performances to be carried out by tele-present actors from different corners of the globe. Tele-present tecnnicians could operate and modify the virtual set. 3D artists become the set designers and costume designers. Machinima is a logical extension of theater into the virtual realm.
> There are lots of reasons for all this, but in the end they boil down to:
... and don't forget ease of administration. i've been trying out the latest SuSE, and even with great utils like YaST2, its still been neccesary to compile a kernel and add some obscure options to XF86Config to get things running smoothly. its getting there, but its not quite there yet.
linux team fighting!!!
Definitely. I've worked on both Unix and Windows. Windows "knowledge" goes out of date very quickly since every year or two the old API and UI is put in "maintenance mode" or completely dropped. In Unix, things are more stable.
A stable development environment, more than anything else, is why I am moving to OSS. It is easy enough to 'acquire' windows and its development tools for free-as-in-beer. However, after wasting the majority of my formative years playing catch-up to the latest MS APIs, tools, and environments, now I just want a stable development environment so that I can focus my energy on learning to write software instead of relearning the latest macros MS has grafted onto C.
By serving their site to your browser, they are in effect "publishing" their web site. NPR's linking policy is akin to having a EULA for a book that says "You may neither reference specific sections of this book by page number, nor frame sections of this book by quotation."
I can see the future now: no one will "own" books and magazines, they will just "license" them to read. Imagine writing a research paper where your only references looked something like [FOLEY96, page reference restricted by End Reader Licensing Agreement].
your immune system will flip out and demonstrate Real Ultimate Power.
dammit, where is the (+1 Totally Sweet) moderation when you need it. I'd even settle for (+1 Wailing Guitar).
it's worth the extra day or two to debug their software under Wine before shipping it
BWAAAAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! Please mod parent up as +1 Funny. Obviously no one would actually believe that properly debugging and testing an application like Photoshop under Wine would only take an "extra day or two". BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAHA!
The thing that the original poster didn't *see* is that offloading TnL onto the GPU does not neccesarily improve the *visual* quality of the game. Rather it frees up system resources for the important parts of a game that unfortunatly don't go into making good *screenshots*.
Taking a computer-assisted calculus course in college was one of the worst academic mistakes I ever made. Sure I learned some Mathematica, but it set me back a few semesters in my Calc knowledge. I was able to lean so heavily on the software to do calculations that I forgot stuff I had known previously! In the followup multivariate class I kept reaching to the right side of my notebook to hit SHIFT-RETURN.
... then I damned well better get discounts for making uploads/downloads at off-peak times. I don't want to be paying for hogging all the bandwidth when there is actually plenty of bandwidth to spare at 3AM.
OGRE + SDL = sounds close to a "full game engine" to me
Jon Katz: "It's also one of the best books ever written about the Net, an unsparing, even brutal indictment not only of hubris, but of media and, of course, the corporate-spawned hype that shapes so much of American life."
... sounds like this is the perfect read for all the slashdot readers who want need more ammo for their flippant indictments of corporate america for their next heated debate at the coffe shop.
Publisher's Weekly (off the B&N site): "Still, his incessant flippancy blocks real insight. At the end, when an imaginary e-mail to CEO Jeff Bezos turns unexpectedly vicious, readers may wonder how a man so aware of and so glib about his employer's flaws comes to play the role of the exploited proletarian."
"Incessant flippancy" and "unsparing, even brutal indictment" of [media/corporate-hype/ameracin-life]
And when did Jon Katz become a book reviewer anyways? Speaking of which, why is this article not filed under "book reviews"?
... cmdrtaco-gets-to-plug-star-wars-on-any-mildly-rela ted-article-dept
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Is it just me or is this article just another insubstantive blurb about a news article about a press release that is otherwise only useful as an opportunity for a CmdrTaco Star Wars troll?
But its probably just me
We aren't at the point where Mars makes any kind of sense.
.... mwahahahaha!
Well where the hell else are we going to try out terraforming? It will take centuries to ruin the earth's atmosphere so that we can terraform it back into an earth-like atmosphere. Or maybe that experiment is already in effect
... that the music industry is willing to cut off a hand in order to maintain control over music ditribution channels. A world where artists distribute free recordings of their music and use the Internet as a basis for self-promotion to launch a successful nation-wide tour scares them sh-tless. In such a situation, the music middle-industry is cut out of the picture entirely and the artists get all the success they had before (considering tours get them more profits than record sales). It only makes sense that the music industry will do increasingly more and more desperate things, such as selling crippled CDs, in order to avoid such a future.
If the Internet remains free, then eventually a band will come along that sidesteps the music industry entirely, self-promoting the whole way and launching a successful national tour.
i agree that it was not really all that gory. my problem with it was that _absolutely_everything_ happened suddenly - such that it was an assault on one's eyes and ears. it was like watching a two-hour long commercial or music video with too many quick cuts in rapid succession. it just wears down the attention span after a while when absolutely everything is emphesized as attention grabbing. there is something to be said for the nagging growth of a pit in the stomach of the viewer due to a horrific realization that comes slowly.
over the course of watching "event horizon", i found myself scared - but the fear had nothing to do with the plot or characters. there was no empathy for the characters, no dramatic tension in the plot. it could have been a blank screen for all i cared. my fear stemmed from knowing that there would be a sudden, disturbing visual or auditory stimulus arriving at an unknown random interval - probably some kind of poisson ditribution for expected sudden horror.
it would be interesting to study the frequency and distribution of sudden loud noises and sudden flashes of disturbing imagery in this film to see just how formulaic its horror content was.
Who directed this flick: Hey pal, load noises and sudden appearances on screen only work if you use them SPARINGLY. No audience is going to jump every five minutes at that shit.
Apparently you never saw "Event Horizon" - it is also directed by Paul Anderson. Absolutely everything happens suddenly in that movie. At times it seems like sudden loud noises and sudden flashes of gore are the only horror devices that director Paul Anderson knows how to use. And "Soldier" was such an honest effort - oh well.