You are confusing two things. This new paper adds 3D modeling. Now you don't just know the relative pose of pictures, you can also use them to compute the 3-D shape of things in those pictures.
Another problem I have with C++ is that even with all its power you have no way to get to the "left hand" variable of operations. For example, if you have a matrix class you can overload the "+" operator so that you can do things like "matrix3 = matrix1 + matrix2". However, that's not going to be very efficient (assuming that's why you're using C++ in the first place) because there is no way to get to the matrix3 variable from inside the + operator. That forces you to use a temporary variable to add the two matrices then copy by value the whole matrix after adding matrix1 and matrix2. There are tricks around this problem but none are clean.
You might want to check out expression templates. This is an advanced technique that addresses exactly your problem. With this technique, you can do stuff like this:
A = B + C - D * E / J;
... and this will get translated to:
for (i = 0;...) { for (j = 0;...) { A[i,j] = B[i,j] + C[i,j] - D[i,j] * E[i,j] / J[i,j]; } }
The Blitz++ library is the foremost library that uses expression templates. Check it out! There are ways around C++'s shortcomings...
LQT Systems has been selling Chronos, a system I developed when I was working there, to many clients. Numerous enterprises have replaced the calendaring part of Exchange with Chronos successfuly. The tools are out there. You just have to find them.
I too was completely amazed by BitTorrent's speed. I downloaded Red Hat 9 at my university, so I had pretty much unlimited bandwidth. I got it at 400 kB/s, while uploading at 150 kB/s. I consider this very impressive, although I suppose BitTorrent could be improved since my upload speed was limited by my hard drive speed. Very big files can't all be maintained in RAM so BT had to continually lookup parts of the file on my hard drive. I left it running a bit after it had finished downloading and I uploaded at 400 kB/s, with the hard drive scratching madly. Very very impressive technology!
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Some old webservers have fubared/etc/mime-types that associate.rpm with some kind of audio/video thing that could be opened with RealPlayer. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I don't have root access to that server. In doubt, use shift-click.;)
Fact 3: It uses an alternative bytecode "guesser". People may or may not like it, even though it usually improves legibility. This Canadian dude (I have the right to use this term because I am myself a Canadian dude;)) only disabled the bytecode "guesser" because he didn't like it. Fine.
Fact 4: Rather than disabling the bytecode "guesser", enable the patented bytecode interpreter. Remember, this is illegal if you live in the U.S. and haven't licenced the patents from Apple.
Take a look at the people who built your favorite desktop: lots of Ph.D.'s and masters in a lot of different subjects, but not many of them studied computers. Food for thought...
As a reply to the comment on broken TrueType fonts on new Debian versions, I'd like to say that this happens on many other distros. The new RedHat 7.2 exhibited the same lower TrueType rendering quality over 7.1 as the new Debian. This is due to three patents that Apple filed concerning interpretation of TrueType bytecodes that are used for hinting small size characters. The FreeType project introduced in a configuration header a directive to disable/enable the patented bytecode interpreter. It comes disabled by default. Turning it on and recompiling may be considered infringement of Apple's patents if you haven't licensed them.
Anyway, for those who can legally use it (ie. you don't live in the USA or have licensed Apple's patents), I've compiled FreeType with the patented bytecode interpreter enabled and made a RedHat 7.2 RPM which is available right here. This drastically improves the readability of antialiased fonts. Enjoy!
The thing is with Windows XP that it doesn't load ANYTHING at bootup. On my Athlon 800, it takes about 1 minute to log into my user once I've clicked it in the login screen. And I can forget about tweaking or disabling things.
But you might be interested in knowing what is the fastest OS I've ever seen at booting: Linux From Scratch. The BIOS took longer than the booting itself. 10 seconds after I had pressed the power button, I was ready to log in and every daemon was loaded. And the best part was that I knew what was going on.
I think it's not a coincidence that their uptime dropped to less than 1 day without rebooting on april 28, the day 2600 announced Ford was dragging them to court.;)
Although nothing beats doing it by hand, I've had most success with RedHat's kudzu. It is run by default when you boot (it prints "Detecting new hardware...") and if it detects new hardware, you'll get prompted for the configuration. USB, video cards, hard drives, everything gets detected. Once, I changed a video card for another identical one. Kudzu told me that he hadn't been fooled, and asked me if I wanted to change the configuration. Mandrake's tool is based on RedHat's kudzu, and should act pretty much the same.
Even though detection is top-notch, configuration still isn't. Video cards, sound cards, hard drives, mouse & keyboard, network interfaces and other such common peripherals are handled fine, but if you want to do more than that, you'll have to fire up a text editor.
One thing you'll enjoy though: once the configuration is done, you'll never have to fiddle with it until you change hardware.
This is some weird kind of coincidence! I just did this experiment in school today!
What we used was a laser and a small metal sheet which had two very tiny slits in it. I forget the spacing and the width of the slits, but I have it somewhere in my papers if you still want it. Since it was a simple sheet of metal, I suppose you'd be able to make those slits using an exacto. You don't need to be precise, as it will only create a different kind of pattern.
What is also easy to make is to team people in pairs and have them use the laser to determine who has the thickest hair. Don't tell them if the pattern has to be wider or thinner depending on the width of the hair, let them figure it out by themselves. We had some pretty weird theories going.;)
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You are confusing two things. This new paper adds 3D modeling. Now you don't just know the relative pose of pictures, you can also use them to compute the 3-D shape of things in those pictures.
"numerous"... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
cuz it will EAT YOUR BRANE!
DOH!
How was this report generated? I would have a few uses for this kind of program...
"ouvert" means "open" in French.
You might want to check out expression templates. This is an advanced technique that addresses exactly your problem. With this technique, you can do stuff like this:
... and this will get translated to:
The Blitz++ library is the foremost library that uses expression templates. Check it out! There are ways around C++'s shortcomings...
LQT Systems has been selling Chronos, a system I developed when I was working there, to many clients. Numerous enterprises have replaced the calendaring part of Exchange with Chronos successfuly. The tools are out there. You just have to find them.
I too was completely amazed by BitTorrent's speed. I downloaded Red Hat 9 at my university, so I had pretty much unlimited bandwidth. I got it at 400 kB/s, while uploading at 150 kB/s. I consider this very impressive, although I suppose BitTorrent could be improved since my upload speed was limited by my hard drive speed. Very big files can't all be maintained in RAM so BT had to continually lookup parts of the file on my hard drive. I left it running a bit after it had finished downloading and I uploaded at 400 kB/s, with the hard drive scratching madly. Very very impressive technology!
No.
It's because I'm way too smart... te hee hee hee...
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with a heat gun
...which is much easier than with scissors anyway.
Some old webservers have fubared /etc/mime-types that associate .rpm with some kind of audio/video thing that could be opened with RealPlayer. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I don't have root access to that server. In doubt, use shift-click. ;)
Yes, Freetype does it, but not by default. This is why I provided my RPMs with this option enabled.
Yes.
Fact 1: Hinting improves font legibility at smaller sizes.
Fact 2: Freetype doesn't interpret the bytecodes in the fonts that are needed for proper hinting because of patents detained by Apple.
Fact 3: It uses an alternative bytecode "guesser". People may or may not like it, even though it usually improves legibility. This Canadian dude (I have the right to use this term because I am myself a Canadian dude ;)) only disabled the bytecode "guesser" because he didn't like it. Fine.
Fact 4: Rather than disabling the bytecode "guesser", enable the patented bytecode interpreter. Remember, this is illegal if you live in the U.S. and haven't licenced the patents from Apple.
For your enjoyment, I've made RPMs for Mandrake 8.1 and Redhat 7.2 of the Freetype library with the patented bytecode interpreter enabled.
Take a look at the people who built your favorite desktop: lots of Ph.D.'s and masters in a lot of different subjects, but not many of them studied computers. Food for thought...
The bandwidth sucks.
The latency sucks.
The support sucks.
They encourage NAT and show you how to do it in their manual.
Thank you Bell!
As a reply to the comment on broken TrueType fonts on new Debian versions, I'd like to say that this happens on many other distros. The new RedHat 7.2 exhibited the same lower TrueType rendering quality over 7.1 as the new Debian. This is due to three patents that Apple filed concerning interpretation of TrueType bytecodes that are used for hinting small size characters. The FreeType project introduced in a configuration header a directive to disable/enable the patented bytecode interpreter. It comes disabled by default. Turning it on and recompiling may be considered infringement of Apple's patents if you haven't licensed them.
Anyway, for those who can legally use it (ie. you don't live in the USA or have licensed Apple's patents), I've compiled FreeType with the patented bytecode interpreter enabled and made a RedHat 7.2 RPM which is available right here. This drastically improves the readability of antialiased fonts. Enjoy!
The thing is with Windows XP that it doesn't load ANYTHING at bootup. On my Athlon 800, it takes about 1 minute to log into my user once I've clicked it in the login screen. And I can forget about tweaking or disabling things.
But you might be interested in knowing what is the fastest OS I've ever seen at booting: Linux From Scratch. The BIOS took longer than the booting itself. 10 seconds after I had pressed the power button, I was ready to log in and every daemon was loaded. And the best part was that I knew what was going on.
I think it's not a coincidence that their uptime dropped to less than 1 day without rebooting on april 28, the day 2600 announced Ford was dragging them to court. ;)
Although nothing beats doing it by hand, I've had most success with RedHat's kudzu. It is run by default when you boot (it prints "Detecting new hardware...") and if it detects new hardware, you'll get prompted for the configuration. USB, video cards, hard drives, everything gets detected. Once, I changed a video card for another identical one. Kudzu told me that he hadn't been fooled, and asked me if I wanted to change the configuration. Mandrake's tool is based on RedHat's kudzu, and should act pretty much the same.
Even though detection is top-notch, configuration still isn't. Video cards, sound cards, hard drives, mouse & keyboard, network interfaces and other such common peripherals are handled fine, but if you want to do more than that, you'll have to fire up a text editor.
One thing you'll enjoy though: once the configuration is done, you'll never have to fiddle with it until you change hardware.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CDs.
This is some weird kind of coincidence! I just did this experiment in school today!
;)
What we used was a laser and a small metal sheet which had two very tiny slits in it. I forget the spacing and the width of the slits, but I have it somewhere in my papers if you still want it. Since it was a simple sheet of metal, I suppose you'd be able to make those slits using an exacto. You don't need to be precise, as it will only create a different kind of pattern.
What is also easy to make is to team people in pairs and have them use the laser to determine who has the thickest hair. Don't tell them if the pattern has to be wider or thinner depending on the width of the hair, let them figure it out by themselves. We had some pretty weird theories going.