In areas where the phone systems are starting from scratch they skip the copper and go straight for the fiber-optic. Fiber costs the same as copper to lay, but since the US is already covered in copper you'd have to rip up the old before laying the new which is very costly.
VoIP would be slaughtering cell and landline if high speed internet and wifi was as ubiquitous as it could be. The only problem is the companies put out of business by this.
Imagine what would happen if Progree Energy (Southeast US) rolled out broadband over powerlines and started offering wireless broadband and VoIP service to their customers. The market would be furious.
That is the third time an article on Slashdot has described something I had hoped I could do my masters thesis on.
First was the decentralized bittorrent network. Then was the method by which angle changes in camera shots can be deduced by comparing the images (the jigsaw puzzle solver). That was probably an infantile persuit anyway. And now this.
I will go ahead and spill the next idea along the same lines as the last two projects:
What if you were to put a light collector that could detect angle and intensity of light on top of a camera. Then, when your camera is filming your scene you are also recording the manner in which ambient light is reaching your scene. Later, using you 3D scene reconstruction, you can throw in new objects such as creatures and whatnot and use the data from you light collector to apply correct lighting to the new objects you introduce.
I would imagine someone is about to release this technology and we will see an article about it on Slashdot in a couple weeks. Look forward to it.
3D Home Architect is indeed a fun program and does exactly what the poster wants, except there are the words "Open" and "Source" with the question.
Such as strong statement against level editors. What's wrong with them?
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From the posted question: I'd like to create a detailed map of the apartment to study alternatives without much pencil and paper, possibly with appropriate furniture and 3D rendering.
If you want realistic lighting then go with something like POVRay or Yafray (yafray blows my mind with its realism). Radiant will give him some 2D plans to work with as well as letting him walk around in the rooms with some idea of flow. Perhaps a level written to run in the HL2 engine or Doom 3 engine would give you better lighting effects.
Widely supported, runs in Windows and Linux, has a huge community behind it, and I'm sure a little digging will turn up plenty of furniture for your lev^B^B^Bhome.
In light of this article for post-reelection U.S. citizens who want a country to deport themselves to.
To quote this article: Costa Rica: This little country has been overrun by Blue Staters, all of whom are fervently stroking their crystals while holding the lotus position meditating upon their auras. Costa Rica is the Starbucks of Central America. Costa Ricans are nice, polite people, who dislike conflict (they have no military even), and who are generally well educated but who are becoming, well, a bit bemused and perhaps alarmed about all these gringos pouring into their country.
<tongue in=cheek> It sounds like a good portion of their economy is based around long distance phone calls from the gringos to their families and friends back home. VoIP would devastate them. </tongue>
The Macintosh system received three attacks. Two of the Linux systems received eight attacks each, though Red Hat's version of Linux received no attacks at all. But in the end, none of the attacks were successful. [...] Windows Service Pack 1, or SP 1, however, was another story.
followed by...
Microsoft responded that the tests prove that any operating system is vulnerable when not patched.
Is this not the most blatant lie/doublespeak/misrepresentation-of-truth ever? Who in the world could stand behind a statement like that?
9 <- this is the number nine. Can you tell it's not the number six? Did you license the capability to tell it's not the number six? I write software. According to United States Patent #20040230959 I am not allowed to determine using my computer that a nine is not a six unless I license that capability from the patent holder.
I don't have to pay money to think, sir/madam, and I don't see why my computer should. Please assure me that something is being done to stop such abuse of the patent system.
From what I've heard about XAML, they'll be using it as a general UI descriptor for all programs compiled in Visual Studio. The Avalon graphics system would be using XAML to draw forms and whatnot in each program on the computer, if XAML can be extended to the web then it only makes sense for MS to want to use it. It's about like XUL as far as I can tell, except XUL isn't the basis for any OS's graphical environment.
I glanced through the lists of software that is broken or belittled by SP2. For the most part it's stuff that MS already has functionality for built into the OS (firewalls, their upcoming anti-virus software).
Either MS is pushing a program out of its market (which shouldn't have been a market if Windows was safe to use in the first place) or it's killing a program that people spend hundreds of dollars on and so obviously really want to use (Autocad 2004/2005, Pinnacle Studio, Photoshop CS, OmniPage Pro, Wordperfect, ColdFusion MX). If only those high-end apps worked on other operating systems...
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In areas where the phone systems are starting from scratch they skip the copper and go straight for the fiber-optic. Fiber costs the same as copper to lay, but since the US is already covered in copper you'd have to rip up the old before laying the new which is very costly.
VoIP would be slaughtering cell and landline if high speed internet and wifi was as ubiquitous as it could be. The only problem is the companies put out of business by this.
Imagine what would happen if Progree Energy (Southeast US) rolled out broadband over powerlines and started offering wireless broadband and VoIP service to their customers. The market would be furious.
Dammit, that was the idea. I was thinking of a disco-ball of solar cells sitting on top of the camera, but that idea is certainly more graceful.
That is the third time an article on Slashdot has described something I had hoped I could do my masters thesis on.
First was the decentralized bittorrent network.
Then was the method by which angle changes in camera shots can be deduced by comparing the images (the jigsaw puzzle solver). That was probably an infantile persuit anyway.
And now this.
I will go ahead and spill the next idea along the same lines as the last two projects:
What if you were to put a light collector that could detect angle and intensity of light on top of a camera. Then, when your camera is filming your scene you are also recording the manner in which ambient light is reaching your scene. Later, using you 3D scene reconstruction, you can throw in new objects such as creatures and whatnot and use the data from you light collector to apply correct lighting to the new objects you introduce.
I would imagine someone is about to release this technology and we will see an article about it on Slashdot in a couple weeks. Look forward to it.
Go outside.
Lets see how long that lasts when people start playing GTA: Real World.
Congratulations to all involved!
That would be... uh... all of us.
So, er, thanks.
3D Home Architect is indeed a fun program and does exactly what the poster wants, except there are the words "Open" and "Source" with the question.
Such as strong statement against level editors. What's wrong with them?
From the posted question:
I'd like to create a detailed map of the apartment to study alternatives without much pencil and paper, possibly with appropriate furniture and 3D rendering.
If you want realistic lighting then go with something like POVRay or Yafray (yafray blows my mind with its realism). Radiant will give him some 2D plans to work with as well as letting him walk around in the rooms with some idea of flow. Perhaps a level written to run in the HL2 engine or Doom 3 engine would give you better lighting effects.
Yes, but only with Radiant will you ever be able to test the defensibility of your new home design.
Radiant.
Widely supported, runs in Windows and Linux, has a huge community behind it, and I'm sure a little digging will turn up plenty of furniture for your lev^B^B^Bhome.
NASA failed to be bureaucratic!?
Did they suddenly switch to an achievement based payroll?
In light of this article for post-reelection U.S. citizens who want a country to deport themselves to.
To quote this article:
Costa Rica: This little country has been overrun by Blue Staters, all of whom are fervently stroking their crystals while holding the lotus position meditating upon their auras. Costa Rica is the Starbucks of Central America. Costa Ricans are nice, polite people, who dislike conflict (they have no military even), and who are generally well educated but who are becoming, well, a bit bemused and perhaps alarmed about all these gringos pouring into their country.
<tongue in=cheek>
It sounds like a good portion of their economy is based around long distance phone calls from the gringos to their families and friends back home. VoIP would devastate them.
</tongue>
Warning: We have not conducted a felony-conviction search or FBI search on this individual.
I have candy. Who wants some?
The Macintosh system received three attacks. Two of the Linux systems received eight attacks each, though Red Hat's version of Linux received no attacks at all.
But in the end, none of the attacks were successful.
[...]
Windows Service Pack 1, or SP 1, however, was another story.
followed by...
Microsoft responded that the tests prove that any operating system is vulnerable when not patched.
Is this not the most blatant lie/doublespeak/misrepresentation-of-truth ever? Who in the world could stand behind a statement like that?
...but then, on slashdot we're probably all just hopeless libertarians anyway ;)
/.ers seem to dislike libertarians just as much as they dislike corporate lobbies.
Most
What they really want is the public getting mod points they can apply to Congress. Now *that* would be much more fun.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that someone somewhere is trying to keep language barriers fully intact?
Monoculture indeed. How can a culture be anything but mono if it has an exclusive language?
Funny you mention them. Don't they store *all* of their database in RAM? That'd probably be a good company to ask.
Dear Mr./Mrs. $my_senator_or_representative,
9 <- this is the number nine. Can you tell it's not the number six? Did you license the capability to tell it's not the number six? I write software. According to United States Patent #20040230959 I am not allowed to determine using my computer that a nine is not a six unless I license that capability from the patent holder.
I don't have to pay money to think, sir/madam, and I don't see why my computer should. Please assure me that something is being done to stop such abuse of the patent system.
-- Matthew Townsend
Because computers don't have two sides of their brains to use. Chess only uses the left side of your brain, go uses both.
If this were comparable computers would be critiquing art and robots would never run into walls.
Obviously I'm not posting enough.
The sig says it all.
Check out this for a decent comparison between chess and go for those of you who have been missing out.
Also, dig my sig biotches.
In the second link it shows the guys apparently doing this.
Why in the world is Agent Smith wearing a helmet?
From what I've heard about XAML, they'll be using it as a general UI descriptor for all programs compiled in Visual Studio. The Avalon graphics system would be using XAML to draw forms and whatnot in each program on the computer, if XAML can be extended to the web then it only makes sense for MS to want to use it. It's about like XUL as far as I can tell, except XUL isn't the basis for any OS's graphical environment.
I glanced through the lists of software that is broken or belittled by SP2. For the most part it's stuff that MS already has functionality for built into the OS (firewalls, their upcoming anti-virus software).
Either MS is pushing a program out of its market (which shouldn't have been a market if Windows was safe to use in the first place) or it's killing a program that people spend hundreds of dollars on and so obviously really want to use (Autocad 2004/2005, Pinnacle Studio, Photoshop CS, OmniPage Pro, Wordperfect, ColdFusion MX). If only those high-end apps worked on other operating systems...
The solution is easy, buy a woman. They're so much better at telling colours than guys.
That's hardly productive once you remember the fire alarms.