Get the kids a copy of Maya 6 Personal Learning Edition, everything in there is SFX. Try doing some lightning effects, they're the easiest Dynamics effects to create, there are even some easy presets.
Just give up and quit spreading misinformation. You don't know what you're talking about. My dermatologist does. Visible light frequencies without UV does NOT give you skin cancer. Sunlight (which includes UV) and direct UV exposure does.
If you don't like being treated in a rude and condescending manner, then I suggest you do not provide reckless, illogical, stupid contradictions to information given to me by qualified medical specialists, something they clearly stated that I must know in order to prevent my own death from skin cancer.
So will prolonged exposure to too much visible light. It is all just radiation, and too much radiation at ANY frequency is harmful. Higher-frequency radiation tends to be worse, but UV and visible light at not that far apart on the frequency scale, at least on the low end where recreational paint targets.
Which, brings up another issue. Commercial UV equipment may be at a higher frequency and intensity than recreational UV equipment. Recreational UV stuff usually targets lower frequencies to reduce risk. Your workplace may use higher UV frequencies for industrial needs, which can be near to X-rays. The range of frequencies from "long-wave" UV to "short-wave" UV is relatively wide.
You are spreading dangerous misinformation. You say that exposure to "regular light" will give you cataracts and skin cancer too. So what IS "regular light?" Stuff that comes out of incandescent bulbs? Nope. Full spectrum sunlight? Yeah, that will give you problems, because it has UV in it too. It's the UV light, not visible spectrum light, that will give you skin cancer and cataracts.
There is no difference whatsoever between the commercial UV rigs I used and the "recreational" UV lamps, except in intensity. The spectra are almost identical. I use an array of 6 "recreational" UV tubes to expose the same narrow-spectrum UV sensitive plates I used in the pro lab, except it takes 15 minutes to expose the plates instead of 2 minutes. I guarantee you that these "recreational" UV tubes are just as dangerous as the high-intensity rigs, in fact, the "recreational" tubes might be MORE dangerous, because idiots like YOU think they're safe and thus they have more cumulative exposure with no precautions whatsoever.
I realize this is slashdot, and every idiot thinks their opinion is correct, but I remind you, UV systems are an area where I have professional expertise and you don't know jack shit about them compared to me. So just SHUT the FUCK up, and quit telling people these lamps are safe, unless you want to be personally responsible for giving people skin cancer and cataracts. YOU are a health risk, if you spread incorrect information that would encourage people to take stupid, unnecessary risks.
I used to work in a prepress lab where we used UV rigs to expose plates and Matchprints. The units are usually closed boxes so no UV leaks out, but we had a huge freestanding unit that had huge UV-opaque curtains around it. And that's because prolonged UV exposure is a health risk.
The manufacturers of these UV systems made it absolutely clear, prolonged exposure to UV light will dramatically increase your likelyhood of geting cataracts and skin cancer. I don't know anything about the cataracts, but I sure wouldn't do anything to endanger my vision since I depend on being able to read a computer screen.
But I do have personal experience with the effects of UV lights on skin. I worked around UV lights for years, and despite my precautions to minimize exposure, I've already developed a 3 precancerous lesions that had to be removed, one was a basal cell carcinoma in an early stage, the two were neoplastic somethingorother that my dermatologist says would have developed into melanoma (skin cancer) if I hadn't had them removed. Now I have to go to my dermatologist every 6 months for a complete body inspection, and have any lesion that is even the slightest bit suspicious surgically removed. I guarantee that these lesions were solely due to UV exposure in the lab, because I'm a night person and I hate going out in the sun.
DO NOT FUCK WITH MELANOMA. It is one of the deadliest cancers around. Most people are dead within 6 months of discovering they have the disease, it metastasizes rapidly into every organ in your body within weeks, and becomes inoperable. Most people are already fatally afflicted by the time they even discover they melanoma.
So if you want to play around with kewl glowing UV lights, just realize you might be inflicting fatal damage on yourself.
Yew are correct, this stuff has been around since the 1960s, when Day-Glo paints were first common. Hasn't anyone seen those old dayglo UV posters before?
Maybe you ought to read that H1B employment contract a little closer. At the end of your contract, you must leave the USA. That is how H1B works, and it leaves little room for career advancement. Face it, Mr. Anonymous coward, you are a slave. And in a free market economy, slave labor is always cheaper than someone like me, an IT pro with a 30 year career, who can't get a job in IT because he's undercut by foreign laborers willing to do the job for less than the job is worth.
Yes, there is always a severe shortage of people who will work for substandard wages, locked into contract work with no prospect for advancement. Like H1B visa workers.
As I commented the first time this story was posted, never misunderestimate Microsoft's ability to fuck up. The story alleged that MS invested $20billion in this IPTV arena. And what have they got to show for it? Absolutely nothing. MS has already run pilot projects that were an abject failure. The TV industry does NOT want MS in their arena, why would they want MS to horn in on their profits? Even those TV stations that were bribed to let MS play in their backyard have learned a hard lesson: MS is full of promises but can't deliver.
Profits are hard to assess, at least the Buzz Lightyear contribution, since that attraction has been open only a few months. Mindshare is also hard to figure, but on more than one occasion, I saw schoolgirls with cel phone cameras, taking their friends' pictures next to the big posters of Buzz Lightyear. You can't buy that kind of mindshare.
You're missing the point. Disney isn't just a film company. They use film properties to drive ticket sales at theme parks. For example, Tokyo Disneyland just opened a new attraction, "Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters." I was in Tokyo when it opened and it was all over the media. Disney will do everything possible to keep this brand alive and in the public's mind, and wring every cent out of it, whether at theme parks or on video. They don't care if Toy Story 3 sucks, as long as it keeps reminding people of how great TS1 and 2 were, and that translates into Disneyland ticket sales.
It never ceases to amaze me when undeducated, non-artist assholes feel qualified to tell artists what it takes to be an artist.
There is a long-established art history term for the works an artist makes during his lengthy learning period, before he "finds his voice" and figures out what the hell he is doing. The term is "juvenalia," with the clear implication that those works are juvenile and immature. Most artists take years to get through their juvenile stage, even working full time.
If there are so many starving, poor artists, it is either because they are poor at art and should either work harder or give up; or else because idiots (like YOU) don't recognize the value in what they are doing.
That saying is attributed to Hippocrates, it means "life is short, but art is long [enduring]." There is a more modern version I heard in art school (which, incidentally, had that motto carved in marble over the entrance). It goes, "life is short, art is long, and success is very far off." And there's the point. It takes long, persistent study to develop your artistic skills. And there is no other way than to do it the same way it has been done for centuries: by studying the works of other talented artists, and trying to figure out how they made those works, studying their techniques and tools, and emulating them. I have always asserted that it takes much more effort and talent to become a great artist than to become a great programmer. Almost anyone with a logical mind can develop the skills to become a programmer. But an artist needs a spark of imagination and talent, and the ability to think a BIT differently than anyone else, that is one of the rarest commodities on earth. There are a lot more talented programmers than talented artists, which should give you some idea of the rarity of those respective talents. In short, you do not have the time to develop artistic skills and still be a programmer. Find a real artist and hire them.
Yep, stability is not to be underestimated. I'll tell you the coolest holographic interferometry experiment I saw in our laser lab, something that could not be achieved without extremely stable optical tables. Neurosurgeons at our local hospital noted a series of inexplicable cases, the patients had all been in minor car crashes, and hit their cheekbones on the steering wheel (this was before the days of air bags). They got minor fractures of their cheekbones, which generally heals with time, so they'd get discharged from the hospital, and then they'd go blind a few days later. So the neurosurgeons gave a human skull to the laser lab, and asked them to do holographic interferometry. They would take a hologram of the skull, develop it, and put the hologram back in the plate holder, so it was put back in exactly the same position it was when the skull was imaged. Then you could look through the hologram, and the holographic image was superimposed on the real skull. Then you could press on the skull with your finger, and you could see dark lines of interference patterns move across the skull, showing the mechanical stress on the structure. The lab tech showed it to me, and said "watch this!" as he pressed on the cheekbone, you could see a little point in the back of the eye socket where all the broad interference patterns came to thin, highly compressed bands right across the tip of the protrusion of bone. Eureka. Neurosurgeons discovered that if the overall structure of the eye's orbit was imbalanced by a fracture, the stresses built up in this little point of bone, which then pressed on the optic nerve, causing blindness. All they had to do was operate, shave off the tip of the little bone, and everything would be back to normal. Brilliant.
Nobody's going to be making holograms in their kitchen for $99. There are obviously only a few people in this thread who have actually made holograms (people like me). You can tell them because they're all talking about elaborate antivibration systems. You have to kill vibrations down to below the wavelength of light in order to make holograms. I took a class in holography at my university. We used the research lab in the physics building's basement, using serious research-quality lasers and optics, and an optical table that weighed 2500 pounds sitting on a vibration-dampening cushion, atop a steel and concrete pillar buried deeply into the ground til it hit bedrock. And even THEN, we had to use the lab at about 2AM when the street traffic died down, because even a car driving down the street could induce enough vibration to ruin the hologram. Eventually the Physics department built a new laser lab next to a riverbank, on a rarely used cul-de-sac on the edge of the campus. That reduced a lot of the vibration from street traffic. Unfortunately, their new multimillion-dollar frequency-tunable laser, the centerpiece of the lab, caught on fire the first time it was turned on, and that was kind of the end of the laser lab.
I vaguely recall that the old 2D RPG "Empire" on the PLATO IV system had a god's eye view, and that was back in the early 1970s. Don't remember if it had replay though. That surely must have been the first god's eye view, it was probably the first online gaming system ever. We used to call it the PLAY-TO system because of all the great games.
I have a vague recollection of some early Apple ][ sidescroller game that had a replay, also some early Amiga game. Maybe someone else will remember..
You have obviously never met Dave Winer. He's only nice when he wants something (like public adulation). When you expect him to engage in productive dialogue, he's an asshole.
Blogger con is just Dave Winer's latest lame attempt to be relevant and hijack internet hipsters into endorsing him for High Priest of blogging. We don't need any idiots like Winer telling us what we've already been doing.
Why the hell should I have any interest in uniting the country when Bush's clear goal is to divide us and keep us at each other's throats, and win through fear and intimidation? The next four years are going to be a barely-suppressed civil war.
Kerry did not lose fair and square. Was it fair for Swift Vet Liars to hijack the political dialog? Was it fair for Sinclair Broadcast Group to go after Kerry? Was it fair for the Ohio GOP to suppress the vote through legal challenges?
If you really think this country is a 1-party system, then I already know all I need to know about you: you voted for Nader. Don't foist that bullshit on me. You are so blinded by Nader's idiocy that you actually think this administration's ties to Haliburton and Enron are equivalent to the Democrats' ties to... who exactly are the Dems supposed to be beholden to?
You obviously haven't been paying attention to anything but GOP propaganda. Bush is the best thing that ever happened to Bin Laden. Thanks to Bush's idiotic war in Iraq, Bin Laden has more support than ever, the October Bin Laden tape was an attempt to manipulate the US public to elect Bush.
The one thing this nation needs is another drawn out court battle to decide the presidency. The GOP dirty tricks can't be exposed any other way. But it's too late now. Bush is intent on establishing a one-party system, Rove has explicitly said his goal is the complete destruction of the Democratic Party.
Bin Laden says he intends to bankrupt the USA, just like he bankrupted the USSR with their protracted misadventure in Afghanistan. He's succeeding again. We can't afford 4 more years of Bush, but that's what we've got. And Bush is just stupid enough to fall into every trap Bin Laden sets. America is dead.
Your band buddies aren't going to be happy to learn you've deliberately made their music hard to get, so you can advocate an obscure, disused format.
Go with the flow, use the new AAC/mp4 format. Everyone can play it, Mac/Win/Unix. You can stream with QuickTime Streaming Server, which runs on Mac/Win/Unix. I've streamed with AAC/mp4 and the sound quality is much better than mp3 or ogg, especially at low bitrates.
You're all barking up the wrong tree. A high-speed RAID isn't going to be much good as a file server, the bottleneck is in the networking. Are you going to use gigabit fiber to connect to the server?
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Get the kids a copy of Maya 6 Personal Learning Edition, everything in there is SFX. Try doing some lightning effects, they're the easiest Dynamics effects to create, there are even some easy presets.
Just give up and quit spreading misinformation. You don't know what you're talking about. My dermatologist does. Visible light frequencies without UV does NOT give you skin cancer. Sunlight (which includes UV) and direct UV exposure does.
If you don't like being treated in a rude and condescending manner, then I suggest you do not provide reckless, illogical, stupid contradictions to information given to me by qualified medical specialists, something they clearly stated that I must know in order to prevent my own death from skin cancer.
You are spreading dangerous misinformation. You say that exposure to "regular light" will give you cataracts and skin cancer too. So what IS "regular light?" Stuff that comes out of incandescent bulbs? Nope. Full spectrum sunlight? Yeah, that will give you problems, because it has UV in it too. It's the UV light, not visible spectrum light, that will give you skin cancer and cataracts.
There is no difference whatsoever between the commercial UV rigs I used and the "recreational" UV lamps, except in intensity. The spectra are almost identical. I use an array of 6 "recreational" UV tubes to expose the same narrow-spectrum UV sensitive plates I used in the pro lab, except it takes 15 minutes to expose the plates instead of 2 minutes. I guarantee you that these "recreational" UV tubes are just as dangerous as the high-intensity rigs, in fact, the "recreational" tubes might be MORE dangerous, because idiots like YOU think they're safe and thus they have more cumulative exposure with no precautions whatsoever.
I realize this is slashdot, and every idiot thinks their opinion is correct, but I remind you, UV systems are an area where I have professional expertise and you don't know jack shit about them compared to me. So just SHUT the FUCK up, and quit telling people these lamps are safe, unless you want to be personally responsible for giving people skin cancer and cataracts. YOU are a health risk, if you spread incorrect information that would encourage people to take stupid, unnecessary risks.
I used to work in a prepress lab where we used UV rigs to expose plates and Matchprints. The units are usually closed boxes so no UV leaks out, but we had a huge freestanding unit that had huge UV-opaque curtains around it. And that's because prolonged UV exposure is a health risk.
The manufacturers of these UV systems made it absolutely clear, prolonged exposure to UV light will dramatically increase your likelyhood of geting cataracts and skin cancer. I don't know anything about the cataracts, but I sure wouldn't do anything to endanger my vision since I depend on being able to read a computer screen.
But I do have personal experience with the effects of UV lights on skin. I worked around UV lights for years, and despite my precautions to minimize exposure, I've already developed a 3 precancerous lesions that had to be removed, one was a basal cell carcinoma in an early stage, the two were neoplastic somethingorother that my dermatologist says would have developed into melanoma (skin cancer) if I hadn't had them removed. Now I have to go to my dermatologist every 6 months for a complete body inspection, and have any lesion that is even the slightest bit suspicious surgically removed. I guarantee that these lesions were solely due to UV exposure in the lab, because I'm a night person and I hate going out in the sun.
DO NOT FUCK WITH MELANOMA. It is one of the deadliest cancers around. Most people are dead within 6 months of discovering they have the disease, it metastasizes rapidly into every organ in your body within weeks, and becomes inoperable. Most people are already fatally afflicted by the time they even discover they melanoma.
So if you want to play around with kewl glowing UV lights, just realize you might be inflicting fatal damage on yourself.
Yew are correct, this stuff has been around since the 1960s, when Day-Glo paints were first common. Hasn't anyone seen those old dayglo UV posters before?
Maybe you ought to read that H1B employment contract a little closer. At the end of your contract, you must leave the USA. That is how H1B works, and it leaves little room for career advancement.
Face it, Mr. Anonymous coward, you are a slave. And in a free market economy, slave labor is always cheaper than someone like me, an IT pro with a 30 year career, who can't get a job in IT because he's undercut by foreign laborers willing to do the job for less than the job is worth.
Yes, there is always a severe shortage of people who will work for substandard wages, locked into contract work with no prospect for advancement. Like H1B visa workers.
As I commented the first time this story was posted, never misunderestimate Microsoft's ability to fuck up. The story alleged that MS invested $20billion in this IPTV arena. And what have they got to show for it? Absolutely nothing. MS has already run pilot projects that were an abject failure. The TV industry does NOT want MS in their arena, why would they want MS to horn in on their profits? Even those TV stations that were bribed to let MS play in their backyard have learned a hard lesson: MS is full of promises but can't deliver.
This story was already posted, almost a month ago on Oct 20.
Profits are hard to assess, at least the Buzz Lightyear contribution, since that attraction has been open only a few months.
Mindshare is also hard to figure, but on more than one occasion, I saw schoolgirls with cel phone cameras, taking their friends' pictures next to the big posters of Buzz Lightyear. You can't buy that kind of mindshare.
You're missing the point. Disney isn't just a film company. They use film properties to drive ticket sales at theme parks. For example, Tokyo Disneyland just opened a new attraction, "Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters." I was in Tokyo when it opened and it was all over the media.
Disney will do everything possible to keep this brand alive and in the public's mind, and wring every cent out of it, whether at theme parks or on video. They don't care if Toy Story 3 sucks, as long as it keeps reminding people of how great TS1 and 2 were, and that translates into Disneyland ticket sales.
It never ceases to amaze me when undeducated, non-artist assholes feel qualified to tell artists what it takes to be an artist.
There is a long-established art history term for the works an artist makes during his lengthy learning period, before he "finds his voice" and figures out what the hell he is doing. The term is "juvenalia," with the clear implication that those works are juvenile and immature. Most artists take years to get through their juvenile stage, even working full time.
If there are so many starving, poor artists, it is either because they are poor at art and should either work harder or give up; or else because idiots (like YOU) don't recognize the value in what they are doing.
That saying is attributed to Hippocrates, it means "life is short, but art is long [enduring]." There is a more modern version I heard in art school (which, incidentally, had that motto carved in marble over the entrance). It goes, "life is short, art is long, and success is very far off."
And there's the point. It takes long, persistent study to develop your artistic skills. And there is no other way than to do it the same way it has been done for centuries: by studying the works of other talented artists, and trying to figure out how they made those works, studying their techniques and tools, and emulating them.
I have always asserted that it takes much more effort and talent to become a great artist than to become a great programmer. Almost anyone with a logical mind can develop the skills to become a programmer. But an artist needs a spark of imagination and talent, and the ability to think a BIT differently than anyone else, that is one of the rarest commodities on earth. There are a lot more talented programmers than talented artists, which should give you some idea of the rarity of those respective talents.
In short, you do not have the time to develop artistic skills and still be a programmer. Find a real artist and hire them.
Yep, stability is not to be underestimated. I'll tell you the coolest holographic interferometry experiment I saw in our laser lab, something that could not be achieved without extremely stable optical tables.
Neurosurgeons at our local hospital noted a series of inexplicable cases, the patients had all been in minor car crashes, and hit their cheekbones on the steering wheel (this was before the days of air bags). They got minor fractures of their cheekbones, which generally heals with time, so they'd get discharged from the hospital, and then they'd go blind a few days later.
So the neurosurgeons gave a human skull to the laser lab, and asked them to do holographic interferometry. They would take a hologram of the skull, develop it, and put the hologram back in the plate holder, so it was put back in exactly the same position it was when the skull was imaged. Then you could look through the hologram, and the holographic image was superimposed on the real skull. Then you could press on the skull with your finger, and you could see dark lines of interference patterns move across the skull, showing the mechanical stress on the structure. The lab tech showed it to me, and said "watch this!" as he pressed on the cheekbone, you could see a little point in the back of the eye socket where all the broad interference patterns came to thin, highly compressed bands right across the tip of the protrusion of bone. Eureka.
Neurosurgeons discovered that if the overall structure of the eye's orbit was imbalanced by a fracture, the stresses built up in this little point of bone, which then pressed on the optic nerve, causing blindness. All they had to do was operate, shave off the tip of the little bone, and everything would be back to normal. Brilliant.
Nobody's going to be making holograms in their kitchen for $99. There are obviously only a few people in this thread who have actually made holograms (people like me). You can tell them because they're all talking about elaborate antivibration systems. You have to kill vibrations down to below the wavelength of light in order to make holograms.
I took a class in holography at my university. We used the research lab in the physics building's basement, using serious research-quality lasers and optics, and an optical table that weighed 2500 pounds sitting on a vibration-dampening cushion, atop a steel and concrete pillar buried deeply into the ground til it hit bedrock. And even THEN, we had to use the lab at about 2AM when the street traffic died down, because even a car driving down the street could induce enough vibration to ruin the hologram.
Eventually the Physics department built a new laser lab next to a riverbank, on a rarely used cul-de-sac on the edge of the campus. That reduced a lot of the vibration from street traffic. Unfortunately, their new multimillion-dollar frequency-tunable laser, the centerpiece of the lab, caught on fire the first time it was turned on, and that was kind of the end of the laser lab.
I look forward to the Military exhibit wing, sponsored by the Veterans of Future Wars.
I vaguely recall that the old 2D RPG "Empire" on the PLATO IV system had a god's eye view, and that was back in the early 1970s. Don't remember if it had replay though. That surely must have been the first god's eye view, it was probably the first online gaming system ever. We used to call it the PLAY-TO system because of all the great games.
I have a vague recollection of some early Apple ][ sidescroller game that had a replay, also some early Amiga game. Maybe someone else will remember..
You have obviously never met Dave Winer. He's only nice when he wants something (like public adulation). When you expect him to engage in productive dialogue, he's an asshole.
Blogger con is just Dave Winer's latest lame attempt to be relevant and hijack internet hipsters into endorsing him for High Priest of blogging. We don't need any idiots like Winer telling us what we've already been doing.
Someone at Duke reads Judge Dredd comics.
Why the hell should I have any interest in uniting the country when Bush's clear goal is to divide us and keep us at each other's throats, and win through fear and intimidation? The next four years are going to be a barely-suppressed civil war.
Kerry did not lose fair and square. Was it fair for Swift Vet Liars to hijack the political dialog? Was it fair for Sinclair Broadcast Group to go after Kerry? Was it fair for the Ohio GOP to suppress the vote through legal challenges?
If you really think this country is a 1-party system, then I already know all I need to know about you: you voted for Nader. Don't foist that bullshit on me. You are so blinded by Nader's idiocy that you actually think this administration's ties to Haliburton and Enron are equivalent to the Democrats' ties to... who exactly are the Dems supposed to be beholden to?
You obviously haven't been paying attention to anything but GOP propaganda. Bush is the best thing that ever happened to Bin Laden. Thanks to Bush's idiotic war in Iraq, Bin Laden has more support than ever, the October Bin Laden tape was an attempt to manipulate the US public to elect Bush.
The one thing this nation needs is another drawn out court battle to decide the presidency. The GOP dirty tricks can't be exposed any other way. But it's too late now. Bush is intent on establishing a one-party system, Rove has explicitly said his goal is the complete destruction of the Democratic Party.
Bin Laden says he intends to bankrupt the USA, just like he bankrupted the USSR with their protracted misadventure in Afghanistan. He's succeeding again. We can't afford 4 more years of Bush, but that's what we've got. And Bush is just stupid enough to fall into every trap Bin Laden sets. America is dead.
Your band buddies aren't going to be happy to learn you've deliberately made their music hard to get, so you can advocate an obscure, disused format.
Go with the flow, use the new AAC/mp4 format. Everyone can play it, Mac/Win/Unix. You can stream with QuickTime Streaming Server, which runs on Mac/Win/Unix. I've streamed with AAC/mp4 and the sound quality is much better than mp3 or ogg, especially at low bitrates.
You're all barking up the wrong tree. A high-speed RAID isn't going to be much good as a file server, the bottleneck is in the networking. Are you going to use gigabit fiber to connect to the server?