And in the case of Life of Pi, even if the lead human actor touches the lead non-human character, it's still CG. (http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/512d2f986bb3f76e44000006-650-834/vfx.jpg)
I presume from your comment that you were capable of extracting some meaning from his comment. Personally, when I come across a sentence containing "developments in computer graphics have meant Lucasfilm has been able to transfer its techniques to film-making" I'm inclined to say "but LucasFilm has always traditionally revolved around film-making, and in particular the use of computer graphics", and then dismiss the whole thing as being devoid of much sense at all.
In particular, films will always be the higher quality medium, as you state, so quite where the games->films flow is I'm really not sure. Apart from the idea creation stage, where they need a film to hook the kids into buying the tie-in game.
A religious person is foolish for believing in something they can't see that doesn't help them consistently and accurately predict things they can observe more accurately than would be possible without believing in that thing.
I'm not going to let a religious nut claim that the big man up in the sky helps him consistently and accurately predict that flipped coins almost never land on their edge.
If medical experimentation freedom, just bring back Nazi Germany. I'm sure there are dozens of countries will to let the US set up equivalent labs, to perform extraordinary rendering of flesh. Absolutely no need to send people into space.
It will be an important statement if it is joined by many others doing likewise. In order for things to get better, sometimes they have to get a lot lot worse.
Most commercial providers of linux virtual servers offer less than 2 nines in their SLA.
And most of them *fail* to provide that many months in the year. They just rely on the fact that nobody's going to sue them for failure to provide their contractual obligation.
Your satelite anecdote data sounds similar to what I look after. However, 6 hours would be a luxury most of the time. (I'm trying to work out how to schedule replacing several vital servers currently, we don't have the budget for full redundancy, and I'm targetting 30m as the downtime. It's gonna be a stressful evening.)
> A failed CPU on a VMWARE box would cause the machines to migrate over to a standby, and be up and running before anyone even knew.
Is that a feature? Personally, if a CPU's potentially gone haywire, I don't want to just resume a potentially corrupted system state on another CPU. Imagine if all TLB loads caused the line they read from to be blanked. (I've seen worse from dodgy CPUs.) The safest behaviour on such a failure is to do nothing.
Why did they patent it? To protect their commercial exploitation of it.
Why did they not commercially exploit it? Because there was widespread outcry before it got to market, and moratoria (and laws) were imposed forbidding same.
Crazily enough, I was in Poland the other week, and needed to buy some new luggage. I bought one of those wheeled things that everyone has. One of its *features* was that it had a lock that could be easily opened by the TSA without them needing to know the combination.
As a non-American in non-America - fuck you America if you think this is a good thing!
But one *isn't* cracking 400GB of data with a 4096-bit RSA key.
Are you talking about a known plaintext attack? Rijndael was accepted as AES because it's immune to such attacks. Of course, protocols using AES can have weaknesses, such as to padding oracle attacks, but that's not really a known plaintext attack, and we don't even know they're using CBC, for example.
> Assange faces rape-after-the-fact charges in one of the most misandrous countries on the planet. Where the fuck does a drone strike against the latter even become a topic open for discussion?
You should compare the various methods in the alt.suicide.holiday "Methods" file.
Another internet (albeit usenet, rather than web, originally) resource that was famously censored - repeatedly. And, true to form, the internet viewed censorship as damage, and routed around it.
I've made a dear friend promise that she will help me get what I need for the last hobby I take up when I feel I'm getting old - heroin-and-handgliding. Gonna go out with a splat!
Suicide and euthenasia are ancient taboos, with a strong religious influence propping that view up in the supposedly modern day. A truly enlightened populace would be able to maturely address, and deal with, such issues as simple life choices.
"Checking out today sir?" "Yes, thanks; I've enjoyed my stay".
He explicitly says that his reasons are not health related. He also explicitly claims to be plenty wealthy. He explicitly says that he wished to have command over the time and manner of his death, that's all. It was an empowering move, nothing else, and in my opinion a successful one at that.
It seems as if you're commenting without having read the pages this article is about.
Ah, you have to go to the site map for that. And then you're also greeted with "Barack Obama: Supernigger". I can't say that I feel any temptation to read even a paragraph of his writings, I suspect my brain might implode.
> Because it's not censorship. [SNIP 5 paragraphs that say nothing to support that assertion] > But it's not censorship. Your misunderstanding of words doesn't mean that's what they mean.
Let's take the definition of censorship from wikipedia: """ Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet or other controlling body. """ Yahoo are the controlling body and the media outlet in this case. They have suppressed public communication which they think "promote[s] or provide[s] instructional information about illegal activities, promote[s] physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote[s] any act of cruelty to animals." I.e. material which they consider objectionable, harmful, or sensitive.
It's bang on censorship. It couldn't be more censorship. Just because thier T&C effectively say you agree to them censoring you doesn't mean it's not censorship.
Bollocks - I was clearly drunk and disorderly this evening, even though no fuzz was around to see me. Reading the GPP, I was hoping that my mortgage would be cancelled because of that, and I'd not need to pay back the loan.
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And in the case of Life of Pi, even if the lead human actor touches the lead non-human character, it's still CG. (http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/512d2f986bb3f76e44000006-650-834/vfx.jpg)
I presume from your comment that you were capable of extracting some meaning from his comment. Personally, when I come across a sentence containing "developments in computer graphics have meant Lucasfilm has been able to transfer its techniques to film-making" I'm inclined to say "but LucasFilm has always traditionally revolved around film-making, and in particular the use of computer graphics", and then dismiss the whole thing as being devoid of much sense at all.
In particular, films will always be the higher quality medium, as you state, so quite where the games->films flow is I'm really not sure. Apart from the idea creation stage, where they need a film to hook the kids into buying the tie-in game.
Let's go all the way... If the parameters are not independent, at least one of them is no longer a parameter.
I'd just like to throw the term "degree of freedom" into the thread, as nobody seems to have mentioned it yet. Here goes...
I got kicked out of university in the middle of my physics course. You could say I got a degree of freedom.
A religious person is foolish for believing in something they can't see that doesn't help them consistently and accurately predict things they can observe more accurately than would be possible without believing in that thing.
I'm not going to let a religious nut claim that the big man up in the sky helps him consistently and accurately predict that flipped coins almost never land on their edge.
Or a railroad. And an efficient postal system.
If medical experimentation freedom, just bring back Nazi Germany. I'm sure there are dozens of countries will to let the US set up equivalent labs, to perform extraordinary rendering of flesh. Absolutely no need to send people into space.
> You did not have a VAX cluster so much as you had a DEC cluster
Bullshit.
I had access to a "VAXCluster". That was DEC's name for it, what right do you have say that it was called something else? Sheesh.
It will be an important statement if it is joined by many others doing likewise.
In order for things to get better, sometimes they have to get a lot lot worse.
Most commercial providers of linux virtual servers offer less than 2 nines in their SLA.
And most of them *fail* to provide that many months in the year. They just rely on the fact that nobody's going to sue them for failure to provide their contractual obligation.
Your satelite anecdote data sounds similar to what I look after. However, 6 hours would be a luxury most of the time. (I'm trying to work out how to schedule replacing several vital servers currently, we don't have the budget for full redundancy, and I'm targetting 30m as the downtime. It's gonna be a stressful evening.)
In the 80s, I was using "the VAX cluster". In what way is a "cluster" new?
I'm no IBM fanboi, but I fully understand it when the system z-heads laugh at linux re-inventing things they were doing 2-3 decades earlier.
> A failed CPU on a VMWARE box would cause the machines to migrate over to a standby, and be up and running before anyone even knew.
Is that a feature? Personally, if a CPU's potentially gone haywire, I don't want to just resume a potentially corrupted system state on another CPU. Imagine if all TLB loads caused the line they read from to be blanked. (I've seen worse from dodgy CPUs.) The safest behaviour on such a failure is to do nothing.
Why did they patent it? To protect their commercial exploitation of it.
Why did they not commercially exploit it? Because there was widespread outcry before it got to market, and moratoria (and laws) were imposed forbidding same.
Ockham's razor helps in such situations.
Good plan! If I don't manage to get to Iceland before I die, maybe I should plan to get to iceland as I die!
Crazily enough, I was in Poland the other week, and needed to buy some new luggage. I bought one of those wheeled things that everyone has. One of its *features* was that it had a lock that could be easily opened by the TSA without them needing to know the combination.
As a non-American in non-America - fuck you America if you think this is a good thing!
But one *isn't* cracking 400GB of data with a 4096-bit RSA key.
Are you talking about a known plaintext attack? Rijndael was accepted as AES because it's immune to such attacks. Of course, protocols using AES can have weaknesses, such as to padding oracle attacks, but that's not really a known plaintext attack, and we don't even know they're using CBC, for example.
Are you confusing Assange for a US citizen? Or the UK for the US?
We're not all as medieval as you yanks, you know.
> Assange faces rape-after-the-fact charges in one of the most misandrous countries on the planet. Where the fuck does a drone strike against the latter even become a topic open for discussion?
'Murrca, Fuck Yeah!!
You should compare the various methods in the alt.suicide.holiday "Methods" file.
Another internet (albeit usenet, rather than web, originally) resource that was famously censored - repeatedly. And, true to form, the internet viewed censorship as damage, and routed around it.
I've made a dear friend promise that she will help me get what I need for the last hobby I take up when I feel I'm getting old - heroin-and-handgliding. Gonna go out with a splat!
Suicide and euthenasia are ancient taboos, with a strong religious influence propping that view up in the supposedly modern day. A truly enlightened populace would be able to maturely address, and deal with, such issues as simple life choices.
"Checking out today sir?"
"Yes, thanks; I've enjoyed my stay".
He explicitly says that his reasons are not health related.
He also explicitly claims to be plenty wealthy.
He explicitly says that he wished to have command over the time and manner of his death, that's all. It was an empowering move, nothing else, and in my opinion a successful one at that.
It seems as if you're commenting without having read the pages this article is about.
Ah, you have to go to the site map for that. And then you're also greeted with "Barack Obama: Supernigger". I can't say that I feel any temptation to read even a paragraph of his writings, I suspect my brain might implode.
> Because it's not censorship.
[SNIP 5 paragraphs that say nothing to support that assertion]
> But it's not censorship. Your misunderstanding of words doesn't mean that's what they mean.
Let's take the definition of censorship from wikipedia:
"""
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet or other controlling body.
"""
Yahoo are the controlling body and the media outlet in this case. They have suppressed public communication which they think "promote[s] or provide[s] instructional information about illegal activities, promote[s] physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote[s] any act of cruelty to animals." I.e. material which they consider objectionable, harmful, or sensitive.
It's bang on censorship. It couldn't be more censorship. Just because thier T&C effectively say you agree to them censoring you doesn't mean it's not censorship.
Sounds as if it's quite formally censored, at least by yahoo.
My problem with suicide is that it's the *wrong* people who are committing it.
Bollocks - I was clearly drunk and disorderly this evening, even though no fuzz was around to see me. Reading the GPP, I was hoping that my mortgage would be cancelled because of that, and I'd not need to pay back the loan.
Were Chris Brown and Rihanna in their dataset?