>>I'm not a chip designer, but from what I can >>tell by looking at these specs, the P2 might be >>able to do rendering-on-the-fly that is hard to >>distinguish from FMV.
only if your standard for FMV isn't very high (or your neurologically impaired). Something like Toy Story II averages HOURS of rendering time per frame, with required geometry and texture databases in the GIGABYTES per frame (no, this isn't exaggeration. This is reality).
The PSII is a sweet piece of HW, but lets be realistic and not lay on the superlatives too thick........
Once u get to higher levels of education, exams aren't testing your 'knowledge' as much as your ability to solve problems. For all my senior finals for aerospace engineering (and this was 5 years ago) you were allowed to bring in ANYTHING u wanted, as long as it didn't have to be plugged in. We were being tested on your problem solving ability, not being able to remember poissons ratio for aluminium-2120.
If you didn't know what you were doing, you were sunk. Extra resources weren't going to help u.
>>I take it you have never tried to stream >>audio over a modem before.
I have, but i don't. I don't have to. Not trying to state the painfully obvious, but bandwith is increasing. All my net connections are full speed (T3, DSL at home, etc) and my.mp3 works great.
The world is going broadband. Sure modems suck to stream, but this isn't meant for modems.
you're (still) missing the point. You're wasting your harddrive space - potentially in multiple locations (home, work, etc).
I've beamed almost my whole CD collection in. 1400 songs so far. I can listen to this at home (DSL), at work (T3), or wherever. I no longer have to haul around stacks of disks, nor switch disks, nor waste my own harddrive space.
No swapping disks, custom playlists, etc etc etc. I'm in heaven....:)
>>supposing you've got the bandwidth to >>upload from home to Beam IT
try to follow closer - BeamIT DOES NOT upload your CD. All it does is verify that you actually own it. It takes seconds.
>>They made a law saying that you can't have a >>minute flash of an image in a video stream in >>order to make you crave hamburgers at the movie >>theatre. no they haven't. please check your case law. subliminal inserts are perfectly legal. They have also never been demonstrated to have any actual impact. They are considered poor taste, but there's nothing against them.
>>I am now an expert on genetics but is seems >>impossible to me to combine animal and >>vegetable genes. IMHO the differ too much.
In the future you may consider having some knowledge of the topic before posting nonsense. Animal and vegetable genes are just strings of nucleotides. THe don't differ at all. No 'opinion' involved.
At that res it might as well be VHS.... DVD is totally wasted. Though if they ever get these up to 1600x1200 I'll be pitching my monitor out the window.... j jason.bright@softimage.com #23: the nuns made me dress this way
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>>I'm not a chip designer, but from what I can
>>tell by looking at these specs, the P2 might be >>able to do rendering-on-the-fly that is hard to
>>distinguish from FMV.
only if your standard for FMV isn't very high (or your neurologically impaired). Something like Toy Story II averages HOURS of rendering time per frame, with required geometry and texture databases in the GIGABYTES per frame (no, this isn't exaggeration. This is reality).
The PSII is a sweet piece of HW, but lets be realistic and not lay on the superlatives too thick........
Once u get to higher levels of education, exams aren't testing your 'knowledge' as much as your ability to solve problems. For all my senior finals for aerospace engineering (and this was 5 years ago) you were allowed to bring in ANYTHING u wanted, as long as it didn't have to be plugged in. We were being tested on your problem solving ability, not being able to remember poissons ratio for aluminium-2120.
If you didn't know what you were doing, you were sunk. Extra resources weren't going to help u.
For those geeks that are interested, this is the short story that Kubrick was using as the starting off point for A.I.
t oys.html?topic=robots_ai&topic_set=newtech nology
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffsuper
(it's of course only an embryo of an idea).
the unfortunate quote of the day goes to:
"The other big advantage is energy consumption. Electronic chips use up energy during operation, whereas a magnet does not."
Processing information but not using energy. I don't think so.
>>I take it you have never tried to stream
>>audio over a modem before.
I have, but i don't. I don't have to.
Not trying to state the painfully obvious, but bandwith is increasing. All my net connections are full speed (T3, DSL at home, etc) and my.mp3 works great.
The world is going broadband. Sure modems suck to stream, but this isn't meant for modems.
you're (still) missing the point. You're wasting your harddrive space - potentially in multiple locations (home, work, etc).
:)
I've beamed almost my whole CD collection in. 1400 songs so far. I can listen to this at home (DSL), at work (T3), or wherever. I no longer have to haul around stacks of disks, nor switch disks, nor waste my own harddrive space.
No swapping disks, custom playlists, etc etc etc. I'm in heaven....
>>supposing you've got the bandwidth to
>>upload from home to Beam IT
try to follow closer - BeamIT DOES NOT upload your CD. All it does is verify that you actually own it. It takes seconds.
>>By your naive argument, cable operators
>>should be able to rebroadcast anything
>>from the airwaves that we normally get >>on "free" tv
This isn't 'naive' - it's the law in canada and perfectly legal. If it's freely available over the air you can rebroadcast it. Tee hee.
>>They made a law saying that you can't have a >>minute flash of an image in a video stream in >>order to make you crave hamburgers at the movie >>theatre. no they haven't. please check your case law. subliminal inserts are perfectly legal. They have also never been demonstrated to have any actual impact. They are considered poor taste, but there's nothing against them.
>>I am now an expert on genetics but is seems >>impossible to me to combine animal and >>vegetable genes. IMHO the differ too much.
In the future you may consider having some knowledge of the topic before posting nonsense. Animal and vegetable genes are just strings of nucleotides. THe don't differ at all. No 'opinion' involved.
There is already a Hard Hat distribution. Try again. http://www.linux.sgi.com/mips/software.html
At that res it might as well be VHS.... DVD is totally wasted. Though if they ever get these up to 1600x1200 I'll be pitching my monitor out the window.... j jason.bright@softimage.com #23: the nuns made me dress this way