It's been integrated in many software products for some time now. The essential gist of it is that light capture, manipulation and display is littered with all sorts of incredibly complicated, and sometimes proprietary encodings that can make combining them a colossal mess. OCIO was an attempt to sit down and formalize the stew into a process that would convert all those colour spaces and light capture methods into a workable primary for manipulation(linear). I'll be honest, I've been using it for so many years I assumed it was already OS, I guess I was wrong, and now Sony wants to pass control to the community. Cool.
Sony, ILM and others have done things like this for some time, and despite the jokes about embedded hacker code or unreliability, in fact not only is it not true(these are tried and true production tools that tend to be fairly atomic and rigorously tested), but the reasoning behind it are quite pragmatic. The notion of a single FX facility doing an entire movie/show has basically disappeared now - the economic reality is many studios of wildly different sizes will work on a single show, frequently in a panic at the last minute to boot when the workload increases but the delivery won't budge. In the past, every studio had it's own swiss army knife approach to all the countless technical issues in the pipe, so every little thing such as file format(like ILM's venerable EXR - still the major player) or light manipulation that studios can use and not worry about incompatibility is a win/win for everyone. It might seem like a gift, but it's more a hope for striking another obstacle to sharing off the list.
When I saw the article title, I thought it was referencing OpenCue, which Sony and Google have jointly just released to OS. It's a render farm manager, which is limited to the software tools at Sony, but again by OS'ing it, in theory other plugins could be added and released and make it a more general use tool.
I think the idea is that you *don't* have to specifically code it. In the real world you get shortcuts, like going to school or working with an experienced store manager that can explain their strategy based on years of experience, whether theirs or those that came before. The notion of reacting to competitor's prices is insanely easy to explain, much like adding code to an algorithm that explains more clearly the notion of market forces. AI would in theory be able to figure this out on it's own, buoyed by the fast processing time and access to data, without someone "explaining" it via code updates. It's fascinating that while code can be amazing for seeing patterns in data, it appears that we haven't been able to encode seeing the big picture without explaining it first.
For the record, I'm not particularly a believer in true AI, I think it's all a mimicking behaviour, but it goes without saying it can be tremendously useful. Someday I might well be proven wrong.
Yeah, this. Nobody that hangs around Slashdot should be in any way shocked or outraged, this is part of the contract for the conveniences you get with a free service. Good god, if it bothers you then stop using a mainstream supplier of an antiquated communication technology.
There are so many more grievous privacy transgressions that deserve attention.
Almost all FPS games are categorically *not* sims - they don't attempt to model loading characteristics of weapons or the act of actually shooting. We aren't talking flight sims here - which *do* attempt to accurately cover the process of flight and specific aircraft - after all you're fiddling with a keyboard and mouse or a game controller. The sad reality is that if you want to learn how to shoot, in the US at least you go out and buy a gun and start shooting. How anyone can suggest playing an Xbox somehow trains someone to murder is mind boggling.
Keep in mind the original list was "how to think", not necessarily "how it is". It's best to believe nobody gives a shit about your opinion, even though categorically there are those that do. The way those numbers increase is by continuing to think like that.
That can more or less be applied to the whole list.
There are plenty of old people that don't think like this list, however. They lead their comments with "I've been doing this for 25 years and...", they bitch and moan endlessly and they spend the majority of time taking the opportunity to put other people down. AFAICT they're all on Slashdot, though, so easy to avoid...
While I still have a desktop at home and need one at work, I agree this is relevant. It's basically a shrinking island, and with each year the possibility that Windows becomes pointless and Linux takes over increases. Apple, despite the protestations, is clearly uninterested in desktop and is firmly mobile. MS sees it's only hope as an accessory to mobile, despite some common sense in win10 after the idiocy of win8. The idiocy will return as they panic. Desktops will be around a very long time yet, but not as a mass market product, so sure, the only product firmly focused on it has a solid chance...
You might want to cut those cursed millenials a little slack. It's not so much about clicks, although sure, that plays a role everywhere nowadays - it's called economics. I think the reality is that to many of them it's still a potential mystery. I'm not totally ashamed to say that when I was a teen I wondered about all of the "proof" out there, I looked up in wonder after walking out of my first screening of CE3K, and there was a distinct hot summer when I was absolutely convinced of the veracity of Chariots of the Gods.
So sure, with everyone and their mother walking around with cameras in their pockets that would put the best portable camera from the 70s to shame, we still have not one single believable piece of real evidence of ghosts, Bigfoot or alien life amongst us, just claims and easily fake able footage wielded by the usual collection of attention whores, troubled losers and idiots raised on Punked. So perhaps think of this topic as an opportunity to educate rather than another sign that all the things you love are dying.
Bullshit. The constantly updating plugins made it nigh on impossible to maintain in a professional environment. Any given week our entire studio would explode into a morass of "I can't work" complaints with FF suddenly updating and rendering custom plugins unusable. We'd lose half a day. Once we switched to Chrome we might occasionally run into problems with major security updates, but we were warned months ahead of time. We've never looked back, and we won't. On a personal level I'm far to wired into Google to work around FF hassles. It's fine to say you might not find something a problem, but don't dismiss legit complaints as "lame".
Much like Truthers and other conspiracy whackjobs, so many people focus on this notion of hyper intelligent and all-knowing entities which sound suspiciously like god (no coincidence). In the same way that the NSA can barely tie it's shoelaces in the morning, these all knowing aliens would have cut a fart at the wrong time and all life would have winked out of existence by now. There's too much chaos for these ideas to be true. I get it's a thought experiment, but mebbe spend your time inventing a better battery?
While I agree with your succinct evaluation of the man who used to be my hero back in Synclavier days, on a very broad level I agree with him. You can pick apart his specific arguments until the cows come home, but I'm tired of the Chicken Little stories about everyone on welfare while rich people get richer. It belies a complete lack of historical research - people have *always* been losing jobs to technological advancements, the only difference is in the specifics. Just because many of us aren't terribly removed from a period of massive growth (post war expansion), we see that constant growth as some sort of norm. Read more history.
Well, it's gone now, they did the right thing, so the long international nightmare is over. I'm enjoying the phone a lot, I found the extra button easy to accidentally trigger so I don't even care if they ever allow a remap (they will, and I'm sure 3rd party will step in regardless). Screen on the S8 is gorgeous, it allows disabling updates on factory apps I don't want like Facebook, so they just disappear as far as I'm concerned. Hasn't even blown up in my pocket or started a fire or anything. Nice phone.
That was my first thought. There's nothing to admire here - as usual Trump screwed up hiring that toad in the first place. With Kelly he was given an ultimatum - don't bother hiring me unless I can do my job, and Trump did what he always does: cede to the last thing he's heard. I don't see Kelly lasting, though, since next on the list is presidential access from his inner circle and tweet vetting, and I can't see those happening, at least not permanently. Even if Kelly succeeds at all these things and more, he might help crush the image of a White House in complete chaos, but he's still a symbol of isolation from the party Trump ostensibly belongs to.
I'm in the same boat. Had many years of ST enjoyment, so thank you Mr Rodenberry and all you other people that pushed it further, but I feel like I've grown out of the model where humanity has simply "solved" all the problems we currently have so we can focus on aliens. It was designed for a "story of the week", and it's hard to take the characters seriously. The dialog in the trailer feels like lines from Lucas (ok, perhaps too harsh). Enjoy it if it still turns your crank, fans, but I've moved on.
It just seems a slight variant on selling practices in capitalism that's been going on since Jarkal was offering those slightly off figs at half price in Mesopotamia several thousand years ago. Supply and demand, fluctuations in market price and consumer buzz have always resulted in "sale prices" being the highest out there. Sure, being attached to the Internet can leave you more prone to targetted advertising, but it also let's you trivially source competitor's prices. In the end, nothing has changed except things move faster. If you're a bit lazy and don't price check, that's your own lookout. It's not some evil corporate manipulation. Works for me.
Well, yeah, he's whining, and maybe his film is a piece of shit, *but*... I actually do think RT is not a power for good, in the same way as other aggregate sites like Metacritic. The question comes down to what a review is supposed to be. It's perfectly understandable that what"everybody" thinks about a movie or game can inform you about this weekend's plans, but let's be clear - these sites are sampling the Internet, which is, as we all know, 99% bullshit. I happen to like the older model of someone who is paid to review media and acquires a history and knowledge about the medium. Sure, they are susceptible to bribery subtle or otherwise, but the vast majority of the web reviews that skew the samples are by a bunch of high functioning idiots with as much insight into film as that noisy twat at Starbucks playing Final Cut Pro tutorials at full volume on his airbook. I learn who to trust through their history of reviews, but when RT tells me 52% and that is tainted with reviews by those wankers, well it's about as trustworthy as political polls predicting Hilary by a landslide.
I think there's an increasing number of movie fans fed up with movie theatres - I know I am. Talkers, texters, belchers, fidgeters - the sense of entitlement sweeping the culture have turned a lot of theatres into Medieval Times. That may sound like a lot of money, but it's significantly less than a "night out" for two surrounded by assholes. Would I drop that much to see it early? Naw, I'd struggle to think of any movie nowadays that justifies it. It's just a question of how many would. I can see why they're exploring the notion.
I played d&d many years ago, more or less when it started, and since lurking on Twitch recently started watching some sessions to see how the old girl's been getting on. It rather bummed me out, tbh. It feels exactly like I remember, except for endlessly elaborate rule addendums. *Exactly*.
I realize the DM drives the experience but I've watched quite a few different sessions, many of which are clearly popular, and I can't imagine wanting to consume my already limited free time like that. The instant that combat starts, that's 30+ minutes of your life you've lost forever. One of the reasons I've enjoyed licensed rpg computer games is that the tedious rolling and chart lookups is managed automatically. Relying on wetware for this simply escapes me. Useful software for this would literally auto-manage the process apart from quick input from the player, but this seems more like a database reference, replacing a book. Basically, you get to do a search. Call of Cthulhu seems âless about stats and charts, more about story, and seems more appealing.
I mean, whatever turns your crank. Grognards still exist, too, and while not for me, that's cool. It just seems like what the game needs is to manage the tedious crap.
I saw A Simple Plan when it came out and thought he was amazing in it - sort of a dark Fargo-esque morality tale. He never seemed to get leading roles like that, I guess because he was perceived as making top dollar movie stars look better since every movie he's been in, he's improved it tremendously. Anyway, from what I've read he seemed like a decent guy and I loved his work. His poor family must be devastated. RIP
Anything designed for "war" can be hacked, or can accidentally go off. I'm happy with a reasonable level of security and a realistic understanding of the risks. Most phones provide the first and most users completely fail to get the second. Just give me a padlock that will keep out the vast majority of casual identity thieves.
The sleazy money game that is the drug corporations and their focus on lucrative, often dangerous drugs for aging boomers in denial over aging, and the endless studies that reek of ambiguity and questionable data capture? Everybody has something to gain here (market share and more research grants).
Nope. VR, before it even gets started. Smart TVs are too easy to embed, and end users use them or not. Unlike 3D or VR, Smart TVs aren't the reason you buy the device, it's a nice extra. Well, not nice, of course. VR as a mass market device will be gone before Smart TVs.
Yep, basically we're talking communication and language, and one can use them for deceit if they wished. Sure, someone that cusses might be more direct, but it's a short line from that to being part of a performance. Man, I'm so sick of these bullshit studies that are one part"duh" and two parts grotesque oversimplifications.
Hard to say what this means, just a jump in deaths over a certain segment could be behind it, to say nothing of the fact that data capture must be a bitch. My wife's family is dealing with this right now and just getting all of them to acknowledge it's actually happening seems impossible, let alone the person with the affliction. Everyone's in denial, and we are told this happens in almost every case. Saliva samples aside, how do you get solid data?
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It's been integrated in many software products for some time now. The essential gist of it is that light capture, manipulation and display is littered with all sorts of incredibly complicated, and sometimes proprietary encodings that can make combining them a colossal mess. OCIO was an attempt to sit down and formalize the stew into a process that would convert all those colour spaces and light capture methods into a workable primary for manipulation(linear).
I'll be honest, I've been using it for so many years I assumed it was already OS, I guess I was wrong, and now Sony wants to pass control to the community. Cool.
Sony, ILM and others have done things like this for some time, and despite the jokes about embedded hacker code or unreliability, in fact not only is it not true(these are tried and true production tools that tend to be fairly atomic and rigorously tested), but the reasoning behind it are quite pragmatic. The notion of a single FX facility doing an entire movie/show has basically disappeared now - the economic reality is many studios of wildly different sizes will work on a single show, frequently in a panic at the last minute to boot when the workload increases but the delivery won't budge. In the past, every studio had it's own swiss army knife approach to all the countless technical issues in the pipe, so every little thing such as file format(like ILM's venerable EXR - still the major player) or light manipulation that studios can use and not worry about incompatibility is a win/win for everyone. It might seem like a gift, but it's more a hope for striking another obstacle to sharing off the list.
When I saw the article title, I thought it was referencing OpenCue, which Sony and Google have jointly just released to OS. It's a render farm manager, which is limited to the software tools at Sony, but again by OS'ing it, in theory other plugins could be added and released and make it a more general use tool.
I think the idea is that you *don't* have to specifically code it. In the real world you get shortcuts, like going to school or working with an experienced store manager that can explain their strategy based on years of experience, whether theirs or those that came before. The notion of reacting to competitor's prices is insanely easy to explain, much like adding code to an algorithm that explains more clearly the notion of market forces. AI would in theory be able to figure this out on it's own, buoyed by the fast processing time and access to data, without someone "explaining" it via code updates. It's fascinating that while code can be amazing for seeing patterns in data, it appears that we haven't been able to encode seeing the big picture without explaining it first.
For the record, I'm not particularly a believer in true AI, I think it's all a mimicking behaviour, but it goes without saying it can be tremendously useful. Someday I might well be proven wrong.
Yeah, this. Nobody that hangs around Slashdot should be in any way shocked or outraged, this is part of the contract for the conveniences you get with a free service. Good god, if it bothers you then stop using a mainstream supplier of an antiquated communication technology.
There are so many more grievous privacy transgressions that deserve attention.
Almost all FPS games are categorically *not* sims - they don't attempt to model loading characteristics of weapons or the act of actually shooting. We aren't talking flight sims here - which *do* attempt to accurately cover the process of flight and specific aircraft - after all you're fiddling with a keyboard and mouse or a game controller. The sad reality is that if you want to learn how to shoot, in the US at least you go out and buy a gun and start shooting. How anyone can suggest playing an Xbox somehow trains someone to murder is mind boggling.
Keep in mind the original list was "how to think", not necessarily "how it is". It's best to believe nobody gives a shit about your opinion, even though categorically there are those that do. The way those numbers increase is by continuing to think like that.
That can more or less be applied to the whole list.
There are plenty of old people that don't think like this list, however. They lead their comments with "I've been doing this for 25 years and...", they bitch and moan endlessly and they spend the majority of time taking the opportunity to put other people down. AFAICT they're all on Slashdot, though, so easy to avoid...
While I still have a desktop at home and need one at work, I agree this is relevant. It's basically a shrinking island, and with each year the possibility that Windows becomes pointless and Linux takes over increases. Apple, despite the protestations, is clearly uninterested in desktop and is firmly mobile. MS sees it's only hope as an accessory to mobile, despite some common sense in win10 after the idiocy of win8. The idiocy will return as they panic.
Desktops will be around a very long time yet, but not as a mass market product, so sure, the only product firmly focused on it has a solid chance...
You might want to cut those cursed millenials a little slack. It's not so much about clicks, although sure, that plays a role everywhere nowadays - it's called economics. I think the reality is that to many of them it's still a potential mystery. I'm not totally ashamed to say that when I was a teen I wondered about all of the "proof" out there, I looked up in wonder after walking out of my first screening of CE3K, and there was a distinct hot summer when I was absolutely convinced of the veracity of Chariots of the Gods.
So sure, with everyone and their mother walking around with cameras in their pockets that would put the best portable camera from the 70s to shame, we still have not one single believable piece of real evidence of ghosts, Bigfoot or alien life amongst us, just claims and easily fake able footage wielded by the usual collection of attention whores, troubled losers and idiots raised on Punked.
So perhaps think of this topic as an opportunity to educate rather than another sign that all the things you love are dying.
Bullshit. The constantly updating plugins made it nigh on impossible to maintain in a professional environment. Any given week our entire studio would explode into a morass of "I can't work" complaints with FF suddenly updating and rendering custom plugins unusable. We'd lose half a day. Once we switched to Chrome we might occasionally run into problems with major security updates, but we were warned months ahead of time. We've never looked back, and we won't. On a personal level I'm far to wired into Google to work around FF hassles.
It's fine to say you might not find something a problem, but don't dismiss legit complaints as "lame".
Much like Truthers and other conspiracy whackjobs, so many people focus on this notion of hyper intelligent and all-knowing entities which sound suspiciously like god (no coincidence). In the same way that the NSA can barely tie it's shoelaces in the morning, these all knowing aliens would have cut a fart at the wrong time and all life would have winked out of existence by now. There's too much chaos for these ideas to be true. I get it's a thought experiment, but mebbe spend your time inventing a better battery?
While I agree with your succinct evaluation of the man who used to be my hero back in Synclavier days, on a very broad level I agree with him. You can pick apart his specific arguments until the cows come home, but I'm tired of the Chicken Little stories about everyone on welfare while rich people get richer. It belies a complete lack of historical research - people have *always* been losing jobs to technological advancements, the only difference is in the specifics. Just because many of us aren't terribly removed from a period of massive growth (post war expansion), we see that constant growth as some sort of norm. Read more history.
Well, it's gone now, they did the right thing, so the long international nightmare is over. I'm enjoying the phone a lot, I found the extra button easy to accidentally trigger so I don't even care if they ever allow a remap (they will, and I'm sure 3rd party will step in regardless). Screen on the S8 is gorgeous, it allows disabling updates on factory apps I don't want like Facebook, so they just disappear as far as I'm concerned. Hasn't even blown up in my pocket or started a fire or anything. Nice phone.
That was my first thought. There's nothing to admire here - as usual Trump screwed up hiring that toad in the first place. With Kelly he was given an ultimatum - don't bother hiring me unless I can do my job, and Trump did what he always does: cede to the last thing he's heard. I don't see Kelly lasting, though, since next on the list is presidential access from his inner circle and tweet vetting, and I can't see those happening, at least not permanently. Even if Kelly succeeds at all these things and more, he might help crush the image of a White House in complete chaos, but he's still a symbol of isolation from the party Trump ostensibly belongs to.
I'm in the same boat. Had many years of ST enjoyment, so thank you Mr Rodenberry and all you other people that pushed it further, but I feel like I've grown out of the model where humanity has simply "solved" all the problems we currently have so we can focus on aliens. It was designed for a "story of the week", and it's hard to take the characters seriously. The dialog in the trailer feels like lines from Lucas (ok, perhaps too harsh). Enjoy it if it still turns your crank, fans, but I've moved on.
It just seems a slight variant on selling practices in capitalism that's been going on since Jarkal was offering those slightly off figs at half price in Mesopotamia several thousand years ago. Supply and demand, fluctuations in market price and consumer buzz have always resulted in "sale prices" being the highest out there. Sure, being attached to the Internet can leave you more prone to targetted advertising, but it also let's you trivially source competitor's prices. In the end, nothing has changed except things move faster. If you're a bit lazy and don't price check, that's your own lookout. It's not some evil corporate manipulation. Works for me.
https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-Watfor-Prentice-Hall-automatic-computation/dp/0133294331
My copy of that book looks pretty much like that picture.
Well, yeah, he's whining, and maybe his film is a piece of shit, *but*... I actually do think RT is not a power for good, in the same way as other aggregate sites like Metacritic. The question comes down to what a review is supposed to be. It's perfectly understandable that what"everybody" thinks about a movie or game can inform you about this weekend's plans, but let's be clear - these sites are sampling the Internet, which is, as we all know, 99% bullshit. I happen to like the older model of someone who is paid to review media and acquires a history and knowledge about the medium. Sure, they are susceptible to bribery subtle or otherwise, but the vast majority of the web reviews that skew the samples are by a bunch of high functioning idiots with as much insight into film as that noisy twat at Starbucks playing Final Cut Pro tutorials at full volume on his airbook. I learn who to trust through their history of reviews, but when RT tells me 52% and that is tainted with reviews by those wankers, well it's about as trustworthy as political polls predicting Hilary by a landslide.
I think there's an increasing number of movie fans fed up with movie theatres - I know I am. Talkers, texters, belchers, fidgeters - the sense of entitlement sweeping the culture have turned a lot of theatres into Medieval Times. That may sound like a lot of money, but it's significantly less than a "night out" for two surrounded by assholes. Would I drop that much to see it early? Naw, I'd struggle to think of any movie nowadays that justifies it. It's just a question of how many would. I can see why they're exploring the notion.
Of course he'll absolve all connection with them before they open apart from the complimentary Art of the Deal vidcom breakfasts.
I played d&d many years ago, more or less when it started, and since lurking on Twitch recently started watching some sessions to see how the old girl's been getting on. It rather bummed me out, tbh. It feels exactly like I remember, except for endlessly elaborate rule addendums. *Exactly*.
I realize the DM drives the experience but I've watched quite a few different sessions, many of which are clearly popular, and I can't imagine wanting to consume my already limited free time like that. The instant that combat starts, that's 30+ minutes of your life you've lost forever. One of the reasons I've enjoyed licensed rpg computer games is that the tedious rolling and chart lookups is managed automatically. Relying on wetware for this simply escapes me. Useful software for this would literally auto-manage the process apart from quick input from the player, but this seems more like a database reference, replacing a book. Basically, you get to do a search. Call of Cthulhu seems âless about stats and charts, more about story, and seems more appealing.
I mean, whatever turns your crank. Grognards still exist, too, and while not for me, that's cool. It just seems like what the game needs is to manage the tedious crap.
I saw A Simple Plan when it came out and thought he was amazing in it - sort of a dark Fargo-esque morality tale. He never seemed to get leading roles like that, I guess because he was perceived as making top dollar movie stars look better since every movie he's been in, he's improved it tremendously. Anyway, from what I've read he seemed like a decent guy and I loved his work. His poor family must be devastated. RIP
Anything designed for "war" can be hacked, or can accidentally go off. I'm happy with a reasonable level of security and a realistic understanding of the risks. Most phones provide the first and most users completely fail to get the second. Just give me a padlock that will keep out the vast majority of casual identity thieves.
The sleazy money game that is the drug corporations and their focus on lucrative, often dangerous drugs for aging boomers in denial over aging, and the endless studies that reek of ambiguity and questionable data capture? Everybody has something to gain here (market share and more research grants).
Nope. VR, before it even gets started. Smart TVs are too easy to embed, and end users use them or not. Unlike 3D or VR, Smart TVs aren't the reason you buy the device, it's a nice extra. Well, not nice, of course. VR as a mass market device will be gone before Smart TVs.
Yep, basically we're talking communication and language, and one can use them for deceit if they wished. Sure, someone that cusses might be more direct, but it's a short line from that to being part of a performance. Man, I'm so sick of these bullshit studies that are one part"duh" and two parts grotesque oversimplifications.
Hard to say what this means, just a jump in deaths over a certain segment could be behind it, to say nothing of the fact that data capture must be a bitch. My wife's family is dealing with this right now and just getting all of them to acknowledge it's actually happening seems impossible, let alone the person with the affliction. Everyone's in denial, and we are told this happens in almost every case. Saliva samples aside, how do you get solid data?