Oh my gosh, Disney owns Miramax which produces edgy-indie flicks! Therefore Disney is Satan! Oh wait, I forgot, they're a business. It wasn't Walt Disney Pictures Presents Kids, so you can't claim they should be held to a higher standard, but of course a lot of 5 year olds go to R rated movies.
And how about tetrachromats as mentioned here? How would it be affected to take them into account.
For those too lazy to click the link, tetrachromats are woman who see in RYGB(instead of RGB like most of us). They have a fourth type of sensor in their retina that has a peak sensitivity to wavelengths of light that are in-between red and green(aka yellow). This means while we can't tell the difference between a piece of paper lit by a light that has a yellow filter in front of it and light that is a combo of a red light and green light, they can tell the difference.
I did work on this in college for a physics of light and color class. His experiment worked best when he used cyan and red filters for the projectors/cameras. Cyan is the light equivalent of combining blue and green. So in effect, you get RGB, with only taking two black and white samples of a scene.
This is also how 2-chip DLP works. 1-chip DLP uses a color wheel containing RGB, and alterately projects an image of each color, the chip is, in essence, the black and white sample. 2-chip DLP uses a cyan filter on one of the projector's chips, and a red filter on the other, in effect, reproducing Land's experiment! 3-chip DLP uses a chip for each of RGB.
For those interested in keeping in touch with any other developments with this "scandal" of BestBuy not honoring their advertised price of $129 for the Visiontek GeForce4 4600, I started the Yahoo group bb_geforce4.
I ordered it in good faith that they would honor their advertised price. If this was mispriced in a brick&morter store, they would have to sell it to me at that price, so why, legally, should they be able to get away with it just because I ordered it online?
The benefits of photon maps is that they are NOT computationally expensive compared to other methods. Say you have a scene with a crystal vase on a table. You generate the photon map of 'light' passing through the vase once. You then use this to generate a light map, or texture, of the caustic pattern to 'paint' on to the table. Now its just a matter of rendering the table with a texture. Now in a scene like you described, where the glass is moving, that's a different story because a new photon map needs to be generated for each frame in the scene. To find out more about photon maps check out Henrik Wann Jensen's homepage
I can only speak of the PostScript language and not PDF directly since I only know the former's format from experience. You can most definitely embed the bits of a bitmap image into PostScript. It does not have to be converted to a vector format. I'm assuming PDF can do the same since they share much of the same origins.
You're right that's its Vector based, but its not a disadvantage. You can embed a JPEG in a PDF without losing quality. Of course it won't be as good as if you had a vector source for the image but you're not LOSING quality from the source so how is it a disadvantage? All I see are pluses.
This is the kind of question I'd expect to see while browsing through comp.mac.beginner or similar. You really need to learn how to search for your answers or you aren't going to be help to anyone. If you had gone to any Mac-related site or even done a Google search on a term you used, "virtual pc" you would have found that Connectix makes an x86 emulator for Mac OS X called (drumroll please) "Virtual PC"!
With Cat 5e you can hook up Gigabit over Twisted Pair. IMHO, in 10 years, most homes still won't be wired with FastEthernet(100Mbps), let alone Gigabit, so you'll definitely be set. Plus fiber is still way to expensive(cable and hardware-wise) to be worth it. It would be a better idea to spend the money on access tubes to easily replace the Cat 5e when it becomes necessary. Good houses last a lot longer than 10 years.
Only about 35% of the 47 square miles owned by The Walt Disney Company in Central Florida is developed. I highly doubt they went through the expense of creating a WLAN cloud that covers marshland. I doubt that even the hotel resort properties are covered either. It probably only the 4 theme parks, the 3 water parks, Downtown Disney and maybe Fort Wilderness near Pioneer Hall. That drops the square mileage significantly. Even with the hotel areas its only a fraction of 47 square miles. I really hate bad reporting.
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one to notice how biased and and misrepresentative this review was. How can they declare the KT266A "beat the stuffing" out of the nForce boards when there was less than a 0.5% difference AND the nForce was the best in some of the benchmarks!? I've lost a lot of respect for Tom's Hardware with this review.
Get the HDTV tuner card that was mentioned a little while back. That will give you HDTV on your computer and allow you to post some phat-diggity screenshots for us!!
I swear by it! It truely rocks, of all the IDEs I've tried. I used to use Kawa. Forte 3.0 has amazing support for VSS so there is no reason now for me to use anything else. The only feature its missing is a "References..." feature like in Visual C++.
The only program I ever found to use your laptop IRDa port as a remote was RemoconCon, which I never got to work on my laptop. Also the other problem I've read is that the IRDa LEDs are tuned to a different IR frequency than remote LEDs so an IRDa port has a very poor working distance of only a couple feet. You'd have to stand in front of the tv holding your laptop to use this. Kinda defeats the point! Another program to check out is OmniRemote for the Palm. While the Palm has the same IRDa/distance issues as a laptop, PacificNeoTek sells an attachment that "boosts" the signal and gives it decent coverage. It turns your Palm into a Pronto!
That was the most ridiculous part!!! 2000 years!!! Homo sapiens have been on this planet for over 15,000 years and Homo erectus was around for over a million!! If Spielberg had come back to David after 1 million years I would have believed human were extinct, but 2000? C'mon this was a pointless, boring, poorly-written movie!
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Oh my gosh, Disney owns Miramax which produces edgy-indie flicks! Therefore Disney is Satan! Oh wait, I forgot, they're a business. It wasn't Walt Disney Pictures Presents Kids, so you can't claim they should be held to a higher standard, but of course a lot of 5 year olds go to R rated movies.
And how about tetrachromats as mentioned here? How would it be affected to take them into account.
For those too lazy to click the link, tetrachromats are woman who see in RYGB(instead of RGB like most of us). They have a fourth type of sensor in their retina that has a peak sensitivity to wavelengths of light that are in-between red and green(aka yellow). This means while we can't tell the difference between a piece of paper lit by a light that has a yellow filter in front of it and light that is a combo of a red light and green light, they can tell the difference.
I did work on this in college for a physics of light and color class. His experiment worked best when he used cyan and red filters for the projectors/cameras. Cyan is the light equivalent of combining blue and green. So in effect, you get RGB, with only taking two black and white samples of a scene.
This is also how 2-chip DLP works. 1-chip DLP uses a color wheel containing RGB, and alterately projects an image of each color, the chip is, in essence, the black and white sample. 2-chip DLP uses a cyan filter on one of the projector's chips, and a red filter on the other, in effect, reproducing Land's experiment! 3-chip DLP uses a chip for each of RGB.
I was amazed when they reported that they found bacteria on equipment that was on the Moon's surface for months.!! BTW, First Post!
Yes in good faith I expected them to honor their pricing error.
For those interested in keeping in touch with any other developments with this "scandal" of BestBuy not honoring their advertised price of $129 for the Visiontek GeForce4 4600, I started the Yahoo group bb_geforce4.
I ordered it in good faith that they would honor their advertised price. If this was mispriced in a brick&morter store, they would have to sell it to me at that price, so why, legally, should they be able to get away with it just because I ordered it online?
The benefits of photon maps is that they are NOT computationally expensive compared to other methods. Say you have a scene with a crystal vase on a table. You generate the photon map of 'light' passing through the vase once. You then use this to generate a light map, or texture, of the caustic pattern to 'paint' on to the table. Now its just a matter of rendering the table with a texture. Now in a scene like you described, where the glass is moving, that's a different story because a new photon map needs to be generated for each frame in the scene. To find out more about photon maps check out Henrik Wann Jensen's homepage
I just order one too! If they honor it, it will be the best deal I've ever gotten ;-)
It only been out 2.5 months! It's allowed to have a warm up period.
The article says its transparent, sounds like isocrystals to me.
Not to be picky but its Cat 5e that is rated to handle Gigabit. Cat 5(no e) is rated to handle 100Mb and slower.
I can only speak of the PostScript language and not PDF directly since I only know the former's format from experience. You can most definitely embed the bits of a bitmap image into PostScript. It does not have to be converted to a vector format. I'm assuming PDF can do the same since they share much of the same origins.
You're right that's its Vector based, but its not a disadvantage. You can embed a JPEG in a PDF without losing quality. Of course it won't be as good as if you had a vector source for the image but you're not LOSING quality from the source so how is it a disadvantage? All I see are pluses.
This is the kind of question I'd expect to see while browsing through comp.mac.beginner or similar. You really need to learn how to search for your answers or you aren't going to be help to anyone. If you had gone to any Mac-related site or even done a Google search on a term you used, "virtual pc" you would have found that Connectix makes an x86 emulator for Mac OS X called (drumroll please) "Virtual PC"!
With Cat 5e you can hook up Gigabit over Twisted Pair. IMHO, in 10 years, most homes still won't be wired with FastEthernet(100Mbps), let alone Gigabit, so you'll definitely be set. Plus fiber is still way to expensive(cable and hardware-wise) to be worth it. It would be a better idea to spend the money on access tubes to easily replace the Cat 5e when it becomes necessary. Good houses last a lot longer than 10 years.
Only about 35% of the 47 square miles owned by The Walt Disney Company in Central Florida is developed. I highly doubt they went through the expense of creating a WLAN cloud that covers marshland. I doubt that even the hotel resort properties are covered either. It probably only the 4 theme parks, the 3 water parks, Downtown Disney and maybe Fort Wilderness near Pioneer Hall. That drops the square mileage significantly. Even with the hotel areas its only a fraction of 47 square miles. I really hate bad reporting.
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one to notice how biased and and misrepresentative this review was. How can they declare the KT266A "beat the stuffing" out of the nForce boards when there was less than a 0.5% difference AND the nForce was the best in some of the benchmarks!? I've lost a lot of respect for Tom's Hardware with this review.
Get the HDTV tuner card that was mentioned a little while back. That will give you HDTV on your computer and allow you to post some phat-diggity screenshots for us!!
I swear by it! It truely rocks, of all the IDEs I've tried. I used to use Kawa. Forte 3.0 has amazing support for VSS so there is no reason now for me to use anything else. The only feature its missing is a "References..." feature like in Visual C++.
Only when you are doing GUI editing.
Not every PPC can run OSX. I have an older 604 PPC that won't run OSX so this is the type of solution that will give me a *nix flavor on my computer.
The only program I ever found to use your laptop IRDa port as a remote was RemoconCon, which I never got to work on my laptop. Also the other problem I've read is that the IRDa LEDs are tuned to a different IR frequency than remote LEDs so an IRDa port has a very poor working distance of only a couple feet. You'd have to stand in front of the tv holding your laptop to use this. Kinda defeats the point! Another program to check out is OmniRemote for the Palm. While the Palm has the same IRDa/distance issues as a laptop, PacificNeoTek sells an attachment that "boosts" the signal and gives it decent coverage. It turns your Palm into a Pronto!
That was the most ridiculous part!!! 2000 years!!! Homo sapiens have been on this planet for over 15,000 years and Homo erectus was around for over a million!! If Spielberg had come back to David after 1 million years I would have believed human were extinct, but 2000? C'mon this was a pointless, boring, poorly-written movie!
Exactly! FreeNet rocks! I hope a better UI comes out for FreeNet because the whole keys thing is a little unuseful except to store personal data.