I had to go thru Google to find this-- it may not even be linked via his homepage-- but here'sa big ol' page of docs.
I haven't looked at them yet but I also tracked down an older demo at Info-Mac that includes algorithm info for an earlier wireframe version. (Skip the useless 2Mb mov promo.)
The Mac demo of the new version downloads as 14k but unstuffs to 4Mb (!), and it includes an interactive terrain generator, which impresses me.
His writings explain that he started this as (what I call) a 'philosophy lab' where modelling 'mind' based on Bertrand Russell's ideas (!?????) was his main goal.
The Info-Mac demo is wireframe but includes a bunch of little monkey-dots whose eyes you can look thru, zipping around too fast and too tiny-ly for me to have fun with (yet).
And imagine what webmasters will pay for a database that converts your shiny new IP number into an email address they can spam, as soon as they see you visiting their site...
(I've been asking about this since last December, actually.)
All of the replies to my post have been on the order of "there are much worse mutagens already in the environment, so adding a tiny bit more isn't any big deal."
But every little bit raises the rate of birth defects (or cancer, etc etc etc), so I stand by my question-- are YOU willing to have a child with a birth defect (or cancer) in order to save a few million on whatever tech project is under question?
1) How many babies with birth defects are you willing to risk? How many birth defects in YOUR OWN babies would you find acceptable?
2) If the Cassini rocket had blown up on takeoff like the very next Titan launched did, would you have taken your pregnant wife to the beach in South Florida?
The replies here are just techno-macho insanity. It makes me very sad for the hacker community.
I picked it. And I even did an AltaVista search and a DejaNews search to see how often it was used in the other sense, which was not much at all in 1997.
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I haven't looked at them yet but I also tracked down an older demo at Info-Mac that includes algorithm info for an earlier wireframe version. (Skip the useless 2Mb mov promo.)
The Mac demo of the new version downloads as 14k but unstuffs to 4Mb (!), and it includes an interactive terrain generator, which impresses me.
His writings explain that he started this as (what I call) a 'philosophy lab' where modelling 'mind' based on Bertrand Russell's ideas (!?????) was his main goal.
The Info-Mac demo is wireframe but includes a bunch of little monkey-dots whose eyes you can look thru, zipping around too fast and too tiny-ly for me to have fun with (yet).
(I've been asking about this since last December, actually.)
All of the replies to my post have been on the order of "there are much worse mutagens already in the environment, so adding a tiny bit more isn't any big deal."
But every little bit raises the rate of birth defects (or cancer, etc etc etc), so I stand by my question-- are YOU willing to have a child with a birth defect (or cancer) in order to save a few million on whatever tech project is under question?
I don't believe any sane person would be.
2) If the Cassini rocket had blown up on takeoff like the very next Titan launched did, would you have taken your pregnant wife to the beach in South Florida?
The replies here are just techno-macho insanity. It makes me very sad for the hacker community.
I just recently started doublechecking those old numbers using FAST's 200M-page index... so far the rankings are still pretty comparable.
Every html.log on the Net will know when I stopped by...
ME! ME!! ME!!!
;^/
Guilty! Guilty!! Guilty!!!
I picked it. And I even did an AltaVista search and a DejaNews search to see how often it was used in the other sense, which was not much at all in 1997.
So bugger off...
In lite mode, JenniCam could display at 320*240...