I haven't seen the film yet, but from all the footage I've garnered (highlights on TV, trailers, etc.) human rendering still has a long way to go. All I can see when I look at the movement of the characters are a bunch of mimes; all the motions are overdone, unrealistic and disjointed.
The human creature is not a simple hollow form; the characters they've rendered look like weightless shells moving underwater. Physics have to come into play before the movement will look more real, not just motion capture. Sure, the movement of this joint matches the movement of the real actors joint - but the kinetics, the subtleties of interconnectedness are loss.
They flex hollow muscles and have pretty well done hair - but even with good muscular tone humans are soft mushy things. There's an amount of "slosh", innertial forces excercising their effect on more than just the skeletal structure. Other features (the tightening of ligaments and tendonds, preset creases in skin, etc) will also have to be taken into account. They've come a long way, but they've still got a long way to go.
"Microsoft Windows has a significantly higher share of the web when one counts by computer, rather than by host, as in the conventional Web Server Survey. The survey shows 49% of the computers running the web are Windows based; a little more than all of the Unix-like operating systems combined. As some of the 3.6% of computers not identified by Netcraft operating system detector will in reality be Windows systems, it would be fair to say about 50% of public Web Servers world-wide are run on Microsoft operating systems. Although Apache running on various Unix systems run more sites than Windows, Apache is heavily deployed at hosting companies and ISPs who strive to run as many sites as possible on a single computer to save costs. Windows is most popular with end-user and self hosted sites, where the host to computer ratio is much smaller."
So it takes a heck of a lot of computers to do a lot less work: 20.38% of the web serving done, as opposed to those poor little unices running around serving 63.02%. Consolidating these ratios together means it takes 3 Win32 machines per 1 *nix box to get the job done. Bravo to the innovators at Microsoft on a truly spectacular job.
I'd consider this to be fine art (well, first two anyway). All the same considerations and effort went into their creation, only the medium is truly different.
Cyc would never survive The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams employed abstract contradictions for specific nuances that would be nearly impossible for Cyc to externally resolve - he'd have to have a separate branch just for HHGTG.
That would be an interesting experiment, though - have Cyc read in the meantime. Currently the program only learns during interaction (i.e., when the learning routines are being run). Thought experiments, in which a person interacts with oneself result in some of the greatest insights; have Cyc run himself, absorb abstract material and question it, etc. Just make a backup before trying.;)
Last I checked, a year still took a year to transpire. There's no (current) way to accelerate the growth of clones, it's still a practice of creating fetuses with implanted genes. They still have to go through a regular growth process, no "instant person" possibilities. That means you're still going to have to wait 18 years (or less, depending on the country) to get your life size Spears.
Holographic storage has been around a long time, and mentioned on/. quite often. However, the substrate life is terrible, and the precision of the lasers involed in writing and reading would be prohibitively expensive to mass produce.
The difference between this and that, is that they store information by writing it onto the same spot from different angles. This is volumetric storage - it's a 3 dimensional grid of points.
Software to do this has been around a long time - even before the patent application was filed back in 1996.
Since the fact that software already performs this function doesn't invalidate the patenting of the function itself, I think I'll patent the action of hitting something with a hammer (since, of course, hammers and such already exist and I can't patent them).
Race has very little to do with the horrific event.
Granted, this happened in a mostly white middle to upper class demographic where the prevailing idea is that "this kind of thing doesn't happen here." The stark contrast of how bad it was when it did happen was echoed within the media, but that only an overtone and was usually lost.
Columbine is now equated with this the same way Einstein is associated with physics, or Santa Claus is with Christmas: they, through their association, embody that which they represent. Columbine was the epitome of schoolyard horrors because of the scale on which it occured.
These statements are not to the exclusion of other tragedies: Columbine and other such places
That's why the thing took 2 weeks to come up with the simple circuit. The point would not be to distribute the mutating setup - which is pretty dedicated to the specific task of the adaptive hardware. The point is to distribute the results, turn all the research into a viable design the same way nature does: we only see what's made it so far in a reasonably successful way.
Read through the posts before you before posting, please. This way when you say something it's original instead of an idea that's occured to many before you. There just aren't enough redundancy points to go around...
This is starting to resemble the initial dot-com fever as swept corporate America. Anything that had those magical 4 characters in the name was new in an exciting way and so must have been a sure shot. We know what happened there.
The new craze is this IP (two NEW magic characters!) suit stupidity. Any possible patent is sought out and somehow granted, just to say "We were first, so there." It's not even so much about licensing fees as revenews, which most of these attempts have never generated in any significant form. This is about having control, being able to swing a legal club and act big.
Won't it be nice when corporations have a clue again? I'm sure by then there will be another way of feeling all powerful and amazing after this one wears off so I guess that's still wishful thinking. Technology makes things different and on many fronts easier - but no portion of it is miraculous. You still have to work
In other news today, stupidity is rampant on the internet.
This will have adverse effects on the average consumer - a CD being unplayable in high-end (digital out) players, cars, and computers is more than just a drawback. Most of the consumers that will be affected by this won't be interested in ripping he thing anyway. This is a case of burning down a barn to kill a few rats.
The initial read once holographics would be useful for clandestine data transfer, or RIAA "listen once" demo songs, etc. Not perfectly since that initial read could still be used to copy the data off, but it's a thought.
Work has also been done using microbes regularly present in organic matter decay: they use methane as part of their metabolic process. Noting thing, an environmental biologist figured out that by super saturating the intended environment with methane (piping it into the ground) spills of toxic and even radioactive waste could be naturally broken down to become innert microbe crap.
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Microsoft has indeed enabled the use of Visual Basic in IE. Tutorials for its use are available.
I haven't seen the film yet, but from all the footage I've garnered (highlights on TV, trailers, etc.) human rendering still has a long way to go. All I can see when I look at the movement of the characters are a bunch of mimes; all the motions are overdone, unrealistic and disjointed.
The human creature is not a simple hollow form; the characters they've rendered look like weightless shells moving underwater. Physics have to come into play before the movement will look more real, not just motion capture. Sure, the movement of this joint matches the movement of the real actors joint - but the kinetics, the subtleties of interconnectedness are loss.
They flex hollow muscles and have pretty well done hair - but even with good muscular tone humans are soft mushy things. There's an amount of "slosh", innertial forces excercising their effect on more than just the skeletal structure. Other features (the tightening of ligaments and tendonds, preset creases in skin, etc) will also have to be taken into account. They've come a long way, but they've still got a long way to go.
Still definitely going to see it though. ;)
"Microsoft Windows has a significantly higher share of the web when one counts by computer, rather than by host, as in the conventional Web Server Survey. The survey shows 49% of the computers running the web are Windows based; a little more than all of the Unix-like operating systems combined. As some of the 3.6% of computers not identified by Netcraft operating system detector will in reality be Windows systems, it would be fair to say about 50% of public Web Servers world-wide are run on Microsoft operating systems. Although Apache running on various Unix systems run more sites than Windows, Apache is heavily deployed at hosting companies and ISPs who strive to run as many sites as possible on a single computer to save costs. Windows is most popular with end-user and self hosted sites, where the host to computer ratio is much smaller. "
So it takes a heck of a lot of computers to do a lot less work: 20.38% of the web serving done, as opposed to those poor little unices running around serving 63.02%. Consolidating these ratios together means it takes 3 Win32 machines per 1 *nix box to get the job done. Bravo to the innovators at Microsoft on a truly spectacular job.
Mod this up.
http://keigh.port5.com/artgallery1.html
I'd consider this to be fine art (well, first two anyway). All the same considerations and effort went into their creation, only the medium is truly different.
That would be an interesting experiment, though - have Cyc read in the meantime. Currently the program only learns during interaction (i.e., when the learning routines are being run). Thought experiments, in which a person interacts with oneself result in some of the greatest insights; have Cyc run himself, absorb abstract material and question it, etc. Just make a backup before trying. ;)
The mass of our own star is over one million that of the Earth, and it's not that big or dense of a star really.
Would it be wrong of someone to write a worm which exploits this this vulnerability in order to install the patch that fixes it?
Last I checked, a year still took a year to transpire. There's no (current) way to accelerate the growth of clones, it's still a practice of creating fetuses with implanted genes. They still have to go through a regular growth process, no "instant person" possibilities. That means you're still going to have to wait 18 years (or less, depending on the country) to get your life size Spears.
Since when are maternal twins more rare? From personal experience, I've known many more identical than fraternal (two separate eggs) twins.
No, this is a direct take off of the fortune output: "If marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws."
I thought it was an odd green-red receptor?
Holographic storage has been around a long time, and mentioned on /. quite often. However, the substrate life is terrible, and the precision of the lasers involed in writing and reading would be prohibitively expensive to mass produce.
The difference between this and that, is that they store information by writing it onto the same spot from different angles. This is volumetric storage - it's a 3 dimensional grid of points.
Yes, something can be bigger than the space between it and the next something. Observe: 0.0
See? The '.' is smaller than both the '0's.
OnLive Traveller was doing more before that.
The stupidity of this hurts!
Software to do this has been around a long time - even before the patent application was filed back in 1996.
Since the fact that software already performs this function doesn't invalidate the patenting of the function itself, I think I'll patent the action of hitting something with a hammer (since, of course, hammers and such already exist and I can't patent them).
Race has very little to do with the horrific event.
Granted, this happened in a mostly white middle to upper class demographic where the prevailing idea is that "this kind of thing doesn't happen here." The stark contrast of how bad it was when it did happen was echoed within the media, but that only an overtone and was usually lost.
Columbine is now equated with this the same way Einstein is associated with physics, or Santa Claus is with Christmas: they, through their association, embody that which they represent. Columbine was the epitome of schoolyard horrors because of the scale on which it occured.
These statements are not to the exclusion of other tragedies:
Columbine and other such places
Pull your head out of your preconceptions.
Kei
That's why the thing took 2 weeks to come up with the simple circuit. The point would not be to distribute the mutating setup - which is pretty dedicated to the specific task of the adaptive hardware. The point is to distribute the results, turn all the research into a viable design the same way nature does: we only see what's made it so far in a reasonably successful way.
http://www.free-ed.net still has such classes for free. As for perl, try http://www.cgi101.com and cgi.resourceindex.com.
Read through the posts before you before posting, please. This way when you say something it's original instead of an idea that's occured to many before you. There just aren't enough redundancy points to go around...
This is starting to resemble the initial dot-com fever as swept corporate America. Anything that had those magical 4 characters in the name was new in an exciting way and so must have been a sure shot. We know what happened there.
The new craze is this IP (two NEW magic characters!) suit stupidity. Any possible patent is sought out and somehow granted, just to say "We were first, so there." It's not even so much about licensing fees as revenews, which most of these attempts have never generated in any significant form. This is about having control, being able to swing a legal club and act big.
Won't it be nice when corporations have a clue again? I'm sure by then there will be another way of feeling all powerful and amazing after this one wears off so I guess that's still wishful thinking. Technology makes things different and on many fronts easier - but no portion of it is miraculous. You still have to work
In other news today, stupidity is rampant on the internet.
This will have adverse effects on the average consumer - a CD being unplayable in high-end (digital out) players, cars, and computers is more than just a drawback. Most of the consumers that will be affected by this won't be interested in ripping he thing anyway. This is a case of burning down a barn to kill a few rats.
The initial read once holographics would be useful for clandestine data transfer, or RIAA "listen once" demo songs, etc. Not perfectly since that initial read could still be used to copy the data off, but it's a thought.
Liquid HELIUM.
Work has also been done using microbes regularly present in organic matter decay: they use methane as part of their metabolic process. Noting thing, an environmental biologist figured out that by super saturating the intended environment with methane (piping it into the ground) spills of toxic and even radioactive waste could be naturally broken down to become innert microbe crap.