"What is it I'm doing which is so different to what you're doing, and therefore so much faster?"
well, for starters, you are only compressing video. he is rendering 3d scenes. you dont have to compute lighting effects pixel by pixel. What he is doing is rendering. You are just editing.
Pointless and off-topic: Hells yeah! I've never understood the whole Julia Roberts thing. There are so many far morebeautiful women in the world. As far as Selma Hayek is concerned, I don't know anyone (women included) who wouldn't want to sleep with her.
"She'll be back" I never thought that I might not want to go see T3 until I saw that trailer. Very weak looking movie. Course, they have lots of time to CG it up for us. Since we all know that more CG makes for a better movie, right?
...of owning aero/hydrodynamic fluid simulation software. I mean, what could make u cooler than having large scale simulations (and thus the hardware to run them).
The annual Mobot competition at Carnegie Mellon seems a lot like this except the robots need to be able to stay on course that also has downhill slopes along it.
My tank from the 1998 competition woulda worked fine except for endianess problems between my roommates and I.
why did I think they were talking about Han Solo having a system to look at car prototypes. And why should he need a car anyways, he's got a perfectly good YT-1300 Light Freighter.
hmph. Slashdot is so US-centric it's laughable. What about all of us in other parts of the world who've seen maglev come and go? The title of this article is inflamatory and should be changed to reflect to true story here: that the US is always the last to get anything.
that being said, i'd like for y'all to flame me for even posting a wicked stupid reply like this.
thank you for your insightful yet non-reactionary response. next time i feel like being told that i am not a humorous individual, i'll be sure to look you up.
Which internet cafe was this? I used to work in one that had locations in Cambridge, MA and downtown Boston. In my 3 years working there, we never had any sort of filtering software active on our network. In fact, at the end of each day, we'd head over to the computer in the back corner and check out the Netscape Cache just to see what kind of stuff people were looking at.
Now, we did have to monitor children who used the system. However, if an adult wanted to use the system, we had no reason or right to stop them so long as they weren't casuing trouble. (eg. showing kids their monitor or getting a little too carried way with their "surfing"). Only time I had to do anything was to ask someone to not look up pr0n from a computer where to monitor could be seen from half the store. And that was only because I was running a birthday party for a dozen or so 9 year olds at the time.
Didn't want naked ladies keeping them from learning the pleasures of Quake2 CTF.:-)
Shipping a computer is right up there with shipping small children. You should've driven to Florida with your monitor safely belted into your passenger seat. I would never trust my babies to UPS, FexEX or even the Glorious US Postal Service. If you shouldn't make the drive, then you should've given your boxes to someone who could love and care for them.
I think this has more to do with the fact that Tower Records on Newbury Street closed this year.
Perhaps there will be some new Virgin Record Megastore parties for us all to attend soon.
In March I was in DC to get a Brazilian Visa and while I was in the general area decided to take a trip the the NSA's National Cryptological Museum. It's a fascinating place and they have a nice little gift shop. Seeing a tie-dyed shirt sporting the NSA logo on the front, I bought it on the spot and wore it back home to Pittsburgh. My question is whether or not the shirt and whatever evesdropping capabilities it employs were involved in any way with the 75mph spinout on Interstate 270 that nearly killed the three of us. Or was it acting in a beneficial way since we did not hit anyone else on the highway and were able to walk away from an undamaged car. I can only assume that the spinout was meant as a warning since we were discussing rather subversive topics in the car at the time.
I just finished the Hyperion series (Endymion and The Rise of Endymion included). The key to the pervasiveness of the artificial inteligence entities in the novel was their ability to provide humanity with instantaneous interstellar travel.
>>"Who pays, how much, to whom?" The humans pay by letting their brain's spare come "cycles" be used by the AIs
Today we are far from having transporters on hand. Instead we are faced with the prospect of never having to leave our internet connections. We are everywhere we want to be. Are neural jack's that far off?
The current internet is just a shadow of the cyberspace dreamed up by Gibson. Distributed computing is the next step in making it a reality. Of course, letting M$ be the center of this new realm doesn't seem like the best idea to me.
I'm more worried about letting someone take over a possibly beautiful human endeavor through patents or whatnot than i am about seeing the AI Demons of Hyperion evolve.
Slashdot Mirror
"What is it I'm doing which is so different to what you're doing, and therefore so much faster?"
well, for starters, you are only compressing video. he is rendering 3d scenes. you dont have to compute lighting effects pixel by pixel. What he is doing is rendering. You are just editing.
Pointless and off-topic: Hells yeah! I've never understood the whole Julia Roberts thing. There are so many far morebeautiful women in the world.
As far as Selma Hayek is concerned, I don't know anyone (women included) who wouldn't want to sleep with her.
"She'll be back"
I never thought that I might not want to go see T3 until I saw that trailer. Very weak looking movie. Course, they have lots of time to CG it up for us. Since we all know that more CG makes for a better movie, right?
...of owning aero/hydrodynamic fluid simulation software. I mean, what could make u cooler than having large scale simulations (and thus the hardware to run them).
Don't they have their own tests for stressing their network? Or did they run all those and the only one left was the dreaded Slashdot one?
The annual Mobot competition at Carnegie Mellon seems a lot like this except the robots need to be able to stay on course that also has downhill slopes along it.
My tank from the 1998 competition woulda worked fine except for endianess problems between my roommates and I.
hey, get your facts stright buddy!
its was our glorious leader's brother that controlled the election process in Florida.
not to mention the ruling from a court with people appointed by Bush senior.
hooray for democracy. bleh
why did I think they were talking about Han Solo having a system to look at car prototypes. And why should he need a car anyways, he's got a perfectly good YT-1300 Light Freighter.
hmph. Slashdot is so US-centric it's laughable. What about all of us in other parts of the world who've seen maglev come and go? The title of this article is inflamatory and should be changed to reflect to true story here: that the US is always the last to get anything.
that being said, i'd like for y'all to flame me for even posting a wicked stupid reply like this.
thank you for your insightful yet non-reactionary response. next time i feel like being told that i am not a humorous individual, i'll be sure to look you up.
>ATC typical instructions, even with hills very nearby (1nm) usually consist of a destination landmark or vector, and an altitude.
my god. how can anyone fly with nanometer precision? what happens when the pilot sneezes?
get yourself the new improved Slashdot Effect
could the /. editors be getting payolla from a certain publication?
Which internet cafe was this? I used to work in one that had locations in Cambridge, MA and downtown Boston. In my 3 years working there, we never had any sort of filtering software active on our network. In fact, at the end of each day, we'd head over to the computer in the back corner and check out the Netscape Cache just to see what kind of stuff people were looking at.
:-)
Now, we did have to monitor children who used the system. However, if an adult wanted to use the system, we had no reason or right to stop them so long as they weren't casuing trouble. (eg. showing kids their monitor or getting a little too carried way with their "surfing"). Only time I had to do anything was to ask someone to not look up pr0n from a computer where to monitor could be seen from half the store. And that was only because I was running a birthday party for a dozen or so 9 year olds at the time.
Didn't want naked ladies keeping them from learning the pleasures of Quake2 CTF.
Shipping a computer is right up there with shipping small children. You should've driven to Florida with your monitor safely belted into your passenger seat. I would never trust my babies to UPS, FexEX or even the Glorious US Postal Service. If you shouldn't make the drive, then you should've given your boxes to someone who could love and care for them.
Gross negligence on your part.
I think this has more to do with the fact that Tower Records on Newbury Street closed this year.
Perhaps there will be some new Virgin Record Megastore parties for us all to attend soon.
Dumbass's shoulda renewed their lease on time...
In March I was in DC to get a Brazilian Visa and while I was in the general area decided to take a trip the the NSA's National Cryptological Museum. It's a fascinating place and they have a nice little gift shop. Seeing a tie-dyed shirt sporting the NSA logo on the front, I bought it on the spot and wore it back home to Pittsburgh. My question is whether or not the shirt and whatever evesdropping capabilities it employs were involved in any way with the 75mph spinout on Interstate 270 that nearly killed the three of us. Or was it acting in a beneficial way since we did not hit anyone else on the highway and were able to walk away from an undamaged car. I can only assume that the spinout was meant as a warning since we were discussing rather subversive topics in the car at the time.
Terrance and Phillip had it right. More fart jokes and less violence.
I just finished the Hyperion series (Endymion and The Rise of Endymion included). The key to the pervasiveness of the artificial inteligence entities in the novel was their ability to provide humanity with instantaneous interstellar travel.
>>"Who pays, how much, to whom?" The humans pay by letting their brain's spare come "cycles" be used by the AIs
Today we are far from having transporters on hand. Instead we are faced with the prospect of never having to leave our internet connections. We are everywhere we want to be. Are neural jack's that far off?
The current internet is just a shadow of the cyberspace dreamed up by Gibson. Distributed computing is the next step in making it a reality. Of course, letting M$ be the center of this new realm doesn't seem like the best idea to me.
I'm more worried about letting someone take over a possibly beautiful human endeavor through patents or whatnot than i am about seeing the AI Demons of Hyperion evolve.