No/You're/ wrong, idiot. Babylon5 now holds that very title, and indeed broke it with it's pilot episode, with 200 ships on screen,/easily/ beating the previous record for motion controlled elements in a composite shot.
I;ve been working on a tool for our product. The tools it called CTE (an acronym for Component Template Extensions) Now the ironic thing is that the tools was originally called "acronyms"
We had an old Mac running a clock program (full screen) as our wall clock.
We had removed (and subsequently lost) the keyboard and mouse, and it ran quite happily doing nothing else for about 6 month when it mysteriously crashed. Without the keyboard there wasn`t much we could do about it.
using a marker of a known colour (e.g. yellow), then read the raw video stream (scan line at a time) looking for the largest instance of your colour (e.g. the longest instance of yellow on a given scan line), and note where you started from on that scan line and the length of the line. From this you can work out the middle of the marker. This should give you the X, Y coords w.r.t. the camera position.
I work for a software firm that produces safety critical distributed systems. We have close relationships/support with our customers, and will, if the customer finds a safety critical issue, provide a patch.
Non critical issues, however, get fixed in subsequent upgrades/releases, as a rule, we tend not to patch these.
We don't release "broken" software, but real life usage finds thing that we just cannot test for.
I point you to http://www.research.microsoft.com/labs/cam.asp I know, and have worked with, some of these people and they know their systems stuff, and don`t do much else. CJC
erm I think that you'll find that MS does do some research, they've only gone and opened a research lab in Cabridge (UK) which the have stocked with some of the best professors/researchers from the UK who were doing systems work (Cambridge uni/Glasgow uni to name a couple. And I believe that they are planning to give grants to Uni's for research, and I know at least one student personally who is getting M$ money for his research. Onto the core of the subject I have to say that I agree with a lot of what was said, that research does tend towards measuments and tweaking little things. But there was (and presumable will continue to be) long term research projects. I have spent about a year and a half working as part of a 3 year project (funded by the EC) on a multimedia operating system at the core of which was providing QOS for applications. And yes we did have to provide posix, tcpip support and support for other standards. But it did give a cool demo (when it didn`t crash) CJC
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No /You're/ wrong, idiot. Babylon5 now holds that very title, and indeed broke it with it's pilot episode, with 200 ships on screen, /easily/ beating the previous record for motion controlled elements in a composite shot.
Sue the companies that are being advertised.
They are the ones employing the spammers and if they are selling something, should have a contactable address!
Just a thought
CJC
You try claiming insurance with that line...
Slashdot, News for Nerds, that dont read it on The Register first.
Come on peeps, keep up!!
www.daemon-tools.net has tools for copying CDs and copes with safedisk protection
CJC
I;ve been working on a tool for our product. The tools it called CTE (an acronym for Component Template Extensions) Now the ironic thing is that the tools was originally called "acronyms"
Hence we now have a acronym for acronyms
Doh
CJC
We had an old Mac running a clock program (full screen) as our wall clock.
We had removed (and subsequently lost) the keyboard and mouse, and it ran quite happily doing nothing else for about 6 month when it mysteriously crashed. Without the keyboard there wasn`t much we could do about it.
CJC
using a marker of a known colour (e.g. yellow), then read the raw video stream (scan line at a time) looking for the largest instance of your colour (e.g. the longest instance of yellow on a given scan line), and note where you started from on that scan line and the length of the line. From this you can work out the middle of the marker. This should give you the X, Y coords w.r.t. the camera position.
CJC
I work for a software firm that produces safety critical distributed systems. We have close relationships/support with our customers, and will, if the customer finds a safety critical issue, provide a patch.
Non critical issues, however, get fixed in subsequent upgrades/releases, as a rule, we tend not to patch these.
We don't release "broken" software, but real life usage finds thing that we just cannot test for.
instead of one company with 90% market share we have two companies with market share. Is it me or am I missing something? CJC
I point you to
http://www.research.microsoft.com/labs/cam.asp
I know, and have worked with, some of these people and they know their systems stuff, and don`t do much else. CJC
erm I think that you'll find that MS does do some research, they've only gone and opened a research lab in Cabridge (UK) which the have stocked with some of the best professors/researchers from the UK who were doing systems work (Cambridge uni/Glasgow uni to name a couple. And I believe that they are planning to give grants to Uni's for research, and I know at least one student personally who is getting M$ money for his research. Onto the core of the subject I have to say that I agree with a lot of what was said, that research does tend towards measuments and tweaking little things. But there was (and presumable will continue to be) long term research projects. I have spent about a year and a half working as part of a 3 year project (funded by the EC) on a multimedia operating system at the core of which was providing QOS for applications. And yes we did have to provide posix, tcpip support and support for other standards. But it did give a cool demo (when it didn`t crash) CJC