The uncanny valley is most certainly is involved. It is caused by a great multitude of factors, and a very important single factor that I can point you to is subsurface scattering, which is performed on the mesh. Without this, you have no hope of breaking out of the uncanny valley. Humans simply cannot be fooled when it comes to such detail, unless they have bad vision.
CGI Emily doing something the real Emily did not do is not the point here. Motion capture is about getting past the barrier of having to model a fully realistic muscular and skeletal system, so in that particular area the uncanny valley in the sense of movement and articulation is solved. The kind of advancement that you are referring to accomplish this will not come until a muscular system and skeletal structure are fully modeled. Oh, and you can't forget about skin either.. quite complex.
The end result still relies on texturing and shading a mesh. The results you are referring to are an inside look at the process of phong shading. Notice that in the video it shows the different steps labeled as Diffuse and Specular? Although modeled after a real person, Emily is indeed CGI.. but her articulation is motion capture.
The parent poster is saying that the XP startup sequence, from the 3 bars that marquee to the login/desktop is a lot faster. Even Vista flies unnaturally under VirtualBox with only 512MB of RAM dedicated to it on an AM2 5000+ BE processor without hardware virtualization enabled.
I refuse to run Vista on a real machine--I've seen one too many horrifying installs with quality WHQL certified hardware go horribly wrong. I don't mind running Vista in VirtualBox, it behaves very well. The only snag I ran into was slow network performance caused by the default PCnet-FAST III network interface. I switched over to an Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop virtual NIC and it runs like a champ.
I can't emphasize enough how unbelievably VirtualBox performs. I can even run 2000 SP4, XP SP3, Vista SP1 and variety of Linux guests at the same time, and each one is snappy. Check it out if you haven't with the guest additions installed. I guarantee that you will be greatly surprised.
ActiveState is also sticking to current plans around tools such as Komodo and the Perl Dev Kit and Ascher said there are "significant upgrades" planned for next year.
Anyone else find the article unclear as to whether Komodo will be opensourced?
The parent tells the truth. Who would have voted against it so early after 9/11? You see the mud slinging that occured over Bush and Kerry's service records. Imagine how hard that would hurt a potential candidate on a matter like this. "The encumbant doesn't care about America, and he/she supports terrorism!"... Don't think for a moment that this isn't the case. The truth hurts and does tend to generate flames.
I failed typing my 9th grade year because I didn't use home row. I could type about 180 WPM without mistake, but I guess that didn't matter. I find home row to be very uncomfortable and unnatural also. I'm not consistent with what finger hits what key and I also switch sides depending on what I type. My starting position is ASDC MKL: and I deviate from there.
As far as I can tell HDCP already prevents you from recording a pure digital source. While the broadcast flag could be ignored, HDCP continuously negotiates between the input and output device to decode realtime picture display. Without an HDCP compliant output device using HDMI or DVI the output is not usuable, which effectively makes it a very hard nut to crack. It will be a very effective form of High Definition DRM once component output is done away with.
Questioning the integrity of your democratic process is the most patriotic thing you can do. If you don't (or can't) question it, then your system is fatally broken and bad things will happen.
Perhaps one of the scariest moments imagineable is when paranoia and common sense intersect. That's when you know something obviously isn't right, and there's nothing you can do to reverse the situation since any notion of your dissent will automatically label you paranoid.
The sad thing is that all of this should be redundant, but only a small few realize.
The interesting thing is that it makes even less sense if that is the proper context. It's obvious that Google is leading the way in organizing the world's information because they are capitalizing faster and greater than Microsoft did back in it's 80's boom. We are in the information age so this makes perfect sense. Those who captilize on the theme of the age gain and grow the most.
Why would I every want to buy one of these when I can get an iPod Nano and a cell phone separately and get more bang for the buck?
That's a good question. A really good compromise is the Nano-RAZR. It gives you more bang for your buck, plus it sounds more appealing than the Al-ROKR.
People are tired of paying to see commercials and advertisements. 15 minutes of commercials before a feature length advertisement is not what people wish to see. Perhaps this is why Adsense has taken off so well? Small unobtrusive text ads? That will never take off!! Huge flashing in-your-face graphical banners is where it's all at!
I wonder if there is a mod_slashdot around that will serve a 503 if it detects a few Slashdot referrers in a short period of time. That would be a smart way to save bandwidth. It would be nicer if it would automatically coral cache itself and then serve a redirect though.
Well, there is that MP3 of the Roblimo interview of Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker. In the interview some +5 comments are read and it's kind of obvious that there's some blank canvas lovin' going on. That's pretty close to a Slashdot podcast.
Because podcasts are audio blogs. I don't think it's anything personal about Apple that sparked it, just the usual stereotypical hatred towards blogs in general. The funny thing is that Slashdot is a blog itself. A waste-of-bandwidth-and-time indeed...
The Wikipedia article for Fascism is a really interesting read. If that definition is undisputed*, then it's scary how well it's starting to fit. The discussion page makes for insightful reading as well.
*The discussion page seems to signal an overall agreement, but the neutrality/factual accuracy warning banner has yet to be removed.
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The uncanny valley is most certainly is involved. It is caused by a great multitude of factors, and a very important single factor that I can point you to is subsurface scattering, which is performed on the mesh. Without this, you have no hope of breaking out of the uncanny valley. Humans simply cannot be fooled when it comes to such detail, unless they have bad vision.
CGI Emily doing something the real Emily did not do is not the point here. Motion capture is about getting past the barrier of having to model a fully realistic muscular and skeletal system, so in that particular area the uncanny valley in the sense of movement and articulation is solved. The kind of advancement that you are referring to accomplish this will not come until a muscular system and skeletal structure are fully modeled. Oh, and you can't forget about skin either.. quite complex.
The end result still relies on texturing and shading a mesh. The results you are referring to are an inside look at the process of phong shading. Notice that in the video it shows the different steps labeled as Diffuse and Specular? Although modeled after a real person, Emily is indeed CGI.. but her articulation is motion capture.
That's what I thought as well until I saw it in higher quality.
A higher quality version of the video can be found here.
It's not perfect, but it certainly is climbing high up out of the uncanny valley to say the least.
The parent poster is saying that the XP startup sequence, from the 3 bars that marquee to the login/desktop is a lot faster. Even Vista flies unnaturally under VirtualBox with only 512MB of RAM dedicated to it on an AM2 5000+ BE processor without hardware virtualization enabled.
I refuse to run Vista on a real machine--I've seen one too many horrifying installs with quality WHQL certified hardware go horribly wrong. I don't mind running Vista in VirtualBox, it behaves very well. The only snag I ran into was slow network performance caused by the default PCnet-FAST III network interface. I switched over to an Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop virtual NIC and it runs like a champ.
I can't emphasize enough how unbelievably VirtualBox performs. I can even run 2000 SP4, XP SP3, Vista SP1 and variety of Linux guests at the same time, and each one is snappy. Check it out if you haven't with the guest additions installed. I guarantee that you will be greatly surprised.
Horrible loading times.
Are there any plans to provide a XUL compatibility layer so Opera can make use of Firefox extensions, XUL applications, etc?
The parent tells the truth. Who would have voted against it so early after 9/11? You see the mud slinging that occured over Bush and Kerry's service records. Imagine how hard that would hurt a potential candidate on a matter like this. "The encumbant doesn't care about America, and he/she supports terrorism!" ... Don't think for a moment that this isn't the case. The truth hurts and does tend to generate flames.
I failed typing my 9th grade year because I didn't use home row. I could type about 180 WPM without mistake, but I guess that didn't matter. I find home row to be very uncomfortable and unnatural also. I'm not consistent with what finger hits what key and I also switch sides depending on what I type. My starting position is ASDC MKL: and I deviate from there.
As far as I can tell HDCP already prevents you from recording a pure digital source. While the broadcast flag could be ignored, HDCP continuously negotiates between the input and output device to decode realtime picture display. Without an HDCP compliant output device using HDMI or DVI the output is not usuable, which effectively makes it a very hard nut to crack. It will be a very effective form of High Definition DRM once component output is done away with.
Questioning the integrity of your democratic process is the most patriotic thing you can do. If you don't (or can't) question it, then your system is fatally broken and bad things will happen.
Perhaps one of the scariest moments imagineable is when paranoia and common sense intersect. That's when you know something obviously isn't right, and there's nothing you can do to reverse the situation since any notion of your dissent will automatically label you paranoid.
The sad thing is that all of this should be redundant, but only a small few realize.
The interesting thing is that it makes even less sense if that is the proper context. It's obvious that Google is leading the way in organizing the world's information because they are capitalizing faster and greater than Microsoft did back in it's 80's boom. We are in the information age so this makes perfect sense. Those who captilize on the theme of the age gain and grow the most.
Is Google known for any other slogan? I think that statement says a lot, either on purpose or otherwise.
I'll wait for the iPod Emacs myself. I want no less than a bottle opener and shoe shiner included.
People are tired of paying to see commercials and advertisements. 15 minutes of commercials before a feature length advertisement is not what people wish to see. Perhaps this is why Adsense has taken off so well? Small unobtrusive text ads? That will never take off!! Huge flashing in-your-face graphical banners is where it's all at!
This describes just about every single politician out there.
digg.com has been taking down quite a few sites recently as well.. perhaps an adaptive mod_coralize would be better.
I wonder if there is a mod_slashdot around that will serve a 503 if it detects a few Slashdot referrers in a short period of time. That would be a smart way to save bandwidth. It would be nicer if it would automatically coral cache itself and then serve a redirect though.
Well, there is that MP3 of the Roblimo interview of Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker. In the interview some +5 comments are read and it's kind of obvious that there's some blank canvas lovin' going on. That's pretty close to a Slashdot podcast.
Because podcasts are audio blogs. I don't think it's anything personal about Apple that sparked it, just the usual stereotypical hatred towards blogs in general. The funny thing is that Slashdot is a blog itself. A waste-of-bandwidth-and-time indeed...
The Wikipedia article for Fascism is a really interesting read. If that definition is undisputed*, then it's scary how well it's starting to fit. The discussion page makes for insightful reading as well.
* The discussion page seems to signal an overall agreement, but the neutrality/factual accuracy warning banner has yet to be removed.
That would be true if the RIAA and MPAA stayed away from the political game. Unfortunately this isn't the case.
For now at least. It's just a breath away to say that P2P gives terrorists their wares to sell for money that funds the terrorism.
It's already been done.
http://kharkoma.homelinux.com/gmaps/gmaptc.html