Okay, how about instead of using a live camera view, you record footage of a fly-by over a city?
And what do you want to bet Google would pee themselves if they were able to use this to, say, replace streetview with 3D city models generated through such technology? Instead of paying someone to drive a car around which takes pictures every so many feet, they'll pay someone to drive a car around which generates a fully-textured 3D model of any city around. Suddenly, streetview graduates from Myst-style clickthroughs to something much much more immersive.
That is to say, which is cheaper: paying some group of people to model (including photographic textures!) all major (and many minor) cities around the world, or just to drive a car around and do it automatically? To use your own argument: if falsifying (painting, modeling, etc.) that data was cheaper or faster or easier than driving a car around, you would see people like Google all over it. But you don't.
Okay, aside from the obvious "nifty" factor, can someone explain in dummy-terms what other cool stuff this might lead to? I realize that research isn't necessarily about making immediately useful things, but surely someone knows of some fantastic avenues this might lead towards?
Not trying to downplay any significance here, just looking for some insight from someone more familiar with what's going on.:)
Yes, you're right because the only 3D models used in games are fantastic monstrous characters. You never see things like chairs, tables, lamps, cars, and refrigerators. There's simply no need for them! And being able to easily create models of such things would be equally useless, especially when anyone in the world would suddenly have the ability to contribute large numbers of everyday objects to some sort of global repository.
Sarcasm aside, at the very least maybe this will spell the end of the infamous Crate. Probably not, though.
They did not build the city next to the gulf and below water. Open a history book, this is a man made disaster, we humans have moved the Gulf to New Orleans and sunk the city. Its what happend when you destroy thousands of square miles of wetlands to allow a couple more ships per day up the Mississippi and ignore why people built New Orleans so far inland (it was to the Gulf originally as Baton Rouge is now.)
I'd mod you up...
For a supposed bunch of intelligent people, most of you readers on Slashdot seem to know nothing of history, nor of engineered malfeasance.
Seriously, the article uses the term several times, the summary uses the term...googling "psycho acoustic simulation" just brings up various regurgitations of the same article.
I realize that it's just some term the guy made up. But if he's going to use it as a defense, and people are going to talk about it, it seems *someone* should define it. Neither of the documents in the linked article have the text "psycho" in them, either, so that's a no go.
I just wanted to find out exactly how crazy the guy is, that's all.:/
In other news: most people can't tell the difference between sweetened and unsweetend substances!
To test this, we gave 16 people two drinks. One, a glass of water to which we added copious amounts of sugar. The other, a glass of pre-made hummingbird food, to which we added no additional sugar. Amazingly, a significant number couldn't tell the difference! Using this data, we drew the logical conclusion that 1/3 of people can't taste sugar.
The reason he bothered to correct the summary so well was because the summary spent so much time screaming "OMG WOOD SCREWZ!!!"
Also, you are correct: claiming that what was pictured is a working board would be a total lie. As such, the article's author really shouldn't be stating that nvidia claimed that item was a working board, since they had another term for it: "mockup."
In short, the author has an axe to grind with nvidia, and is looking for anything he can to make them look bad. In this case, making shit up.:)
P.S. Stolen from another post in this thread: Fudzilla
I don't know, it doesn't sound all that bad...I mean really, at no point in that process was there any mention of form 26-B. What more do you people want?
So when some asks you "How wide is this circle?" do you tell them the circumference? If someone asks you, "How wide is this desk?" do you provide them the length of the perimeter?
I propose that your definition makes less sense than any of this.:)
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By running a server which listens to a port, however, aren't you inviting inbound connections on that port?
Now, if one were to typo an address and try to connect to a port upon which there was no server listening, then you'd be in for it!
Okay, how about instead of using a live camera view, you record footage of a fly-by over a city?
And what do you want to bet Google would pee themselves if they were able to use this to, say, replace streetview with 3D city models generated through such technology? Instead of paying someone to drive a car around which takes pictures every so many feet, they'll pay someone to drive a car around which generates a fully-textured 3D model of any city around. Suddenly, streetview graduates from Myst-style clickthroughs to something much much more immersive.
That is to say, which is cheaper: paying some group of people to model (including photographic textures!) all major (and many minor) cities around the world, or just to drive a car around and do it automatically? To use your own argument: if falsifying (painting, modeling, etc.) that data was cheaper or faster or easier than driving a car around, you would see people like Google all over it. But you don't.
You're just not thinking big enough. :)
(Optical computing was the answer.)
Nevermind, I just managed to RTFA. :D
Okay, aside from the obvious "nifty" factor, can someone explain in dummy-terms what other cool stuff this might lead to? I realize that research isn't necessarily about making immediately useful things, but surely someone knows of some fantastic avenues this might lead towards?
Not trying to downplay any significance here, just looking for some insight from someone more familiar with what's going on. :)
Yes, you're right because the only 3D models used in games are fantastic monstrous characters. You never see things like chairs, tables, lamps, cars, and refrigerators. There's simply no need for them! And being able to easily create models of such things would be equally useless, especially when anyone in the world would suddenly have the ability to contribute large numbers of everyday objects to some sort of global repository.
Sarcasm aside, at the very least maybe this will spell the end of the infamous Crate. Probably not, though.
They did not build the city next to the gulf and below water. Open a history book, this is a man made disaster, we humans have moved the Gulf to New Orleans and sunk the city. Its what happend when you destroy thousands of square miles of wetlands to allow a couple more ships per day up the Mississippi and ignore why people built New Orleans so far inland (it was to the Gulf originally as Baton Rouge is now.)
I'd mod you up...
For a supposed bunch of intelligent people, most of you readers on Slashdot seem to know nothing of history, nor of engineered malfeasance.
But you're a douche.
Seriously, the article uses the term several times, the summary uses the term...googling "psycho acoustic simulation" just brings up various regurgitations of the same article.
I realize that it's just some term the guy made up. But if he's going to use it as a defense, and people are going to talk about it, it seems *someone* should define it. Neither of the documents in the linked article have the text "psycho" in them, either, so that's a no go.
I just wanted to find out exactly how crazy the guy is, that's all. :/
Ugh, I'm getting so tired of these silly discussions.
Fortunately, there's a nap for that.
He's actually a dermatologist, and the correct phrase is, "Zits clobberin' time!"
In other news: most people can't tell the difference between sweetened and unsweetend substances!
To test this, we gave 16 people two drinks. One, a glass of water to which we added copious amounts of sugar. The other, a glass of pre-made hummingbird food, to which we added no additional sugar. Amazingly, a significant number couldn't tell the difference! Using this data, we drew the logical conclusion that 1/3 of people can't taste sugar.
The reason he bothered to correct the summary so well was because the summary spent so much time screaming "OMG WOOD SCREWZ!!!"
Also, you are correct: claiming that what was pictured is a working board would be a total lie. As such, the article's author really shouldn't be stating that nvidia claimed that item was a working board, since they had another term for it: "mockup."
In short, the author has an axe to grind with nvidia, and is looking for anything he can to make them look bad. In this case, making shit up. :)
P.S. Stolen from another post in this thread: Fudzilla
No way. These turkeys got caught, I say throw them to the gutter!
Wow, I think there was actually a sonic boom as thousands of geek fingers rushed to their keyboard to correct you. Well done! :D
For the same reason console players can't play against PC players.
If they allowed a direct comparison between different platforms, people would realize more rapidly which is better and which is worse.
I'd love to see a match of TF2 between a bunch of console players vs. PC players. It'd be such a joke. :)
cwd
I don't know, it doesn't sound all that bad...I mean really, at no point in that process was there any mention of form 26-B. What more do you people want?
its kind've irrelivant too this discusion, dont' you think.
You dam grammer/spelling/e.t.c. nazzies.
This will surely make for some highly-entertaining tax return forms in the near future.
Put it in an iphone, maybe then I'll buy it.
I was glad I got out before things became any more passive-aggressive.
That's not passive-aggressive, that's just passive. :/
Reading is HARD. :(
So when some asks you "How wide is this circle?" do you tell them the circumference? If someone asks you, "How wide is this desk?" do you provide them the length of the perimeter?
I propose that your definition makes less sense than any of this. :)
It's not a subscription, though, because you don't have to pay it every month.
If you want to listen for more than 40 hours a month you sure as heck do. :)