I'm a bit confused. Isn't the likely / adequate / improved implementation (beyond normal) just: 1) render the scene normally 2) for those items that are transparent or reflective (e.g. not all & usually not many), ray-trace them (e.g. refract, reflect) This give you 'true reflections' on glass/water/shiny/etc. & refraction through water, lenses, etc. A significantly better image than 'shaded' polygons. Limiting the set of pixels limits the cost significantly. You don't need to do the 'whole' scene.
Single source (e.g. camera-eye) Ray-tracing doesn't give you shadows, for that you need to trace from surface back to light source(s).
To be fancier, you really want real-time radiosity.
Was part of panel at SXSW 2007 "Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Reputation and Presence" - Quite an interesting topic. My presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/ted.nadeau/sxsw-2007-rep utation-20... The internet is still more infantile than infinite.
How about all public corporations & all governments should be forced to record their meetings & keep them for a longer time period. It seems obvious to me that there is significantly more malfeasance happening within corporate governence and 'coporate' government than is happening at MySpace.
I'd like to have earlier known about Enron, Cheney's secret energy task force meetings, Halliburton's war profiteering, etc.
Going after MySpace for terrorists & pedophiles is mis-directed force.
How exactly does the ACLU's stand on the 2nd amendment 'cause you much personal grief'? Do you think that any regulation of arms is constitutional? What do the terms 'well regulated' mean to you? What proposed changes to the current status quo do you propose or do you think it is optimal?
I disagree. Why can't you think of the internet as just your hard-drive w/ a local cache on your machine? You're confusing the currently limited 'browser' with an application. Already we're seeing hosted word, excel ecetra. When you're running Photoshop/FlashMx, how much disk access is really going on?
I've always wondered why Linksys & other hardware providers don't just offer a plug-in to enable 'fee'-based services. You could sign up at a location and freely move from one hot spot to another. It would be admined from the machine itself. Individuals could then open their hotspots the same way. They'd get some credit for usage.
Seems obvious to me. Anyone want to form a company to do this?
Make religious institutions give equal time in their communications to alternative (e.g. scientific) explanations. This would be required in order for them to maintain their tax-free status.
I like to write a very complicated gestural input which then buffer-overflows the 'get signature call' and allows me to run arbitrary code on the server. That way everything is free.
The chair of the physics department goes to the provost for the annual budget review. "I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is we have alot of exciting things going on in the department - some potential Noble-prize winning stuff. The bad news is we need a new particle accelerator which will cost $10M." The Provost is shocked. "That is alot of money. It is incredible to me how different departments need different things. Why can't you be more like the math department? They only want Paper, Pencils and wastebaskets. And the philosophy department doesn't even want the wastebaskets..."
Meanwhile in a related story... A model of Speed Racer's Mach 5 was tested for Enterprise usage. It turns out that the jumping pads are helpful for parking but that the car needed to many repairs for typical use.
As a professor Benniger once said - "If you're feeling low energy - blame the plants. They're the ones who are worst at converting one energy form into another."
I think it was because they only convert something like 1% of sunlight to stored energy.
When I saw T2, I thought that a nicer tie-in would have been that it was the special FX companies (in addition to the military) that spawned the AI that attacked the humans.
This way, by watching the film we're causing it to happen.
Shrondinger's cat anyone?
ps - by reading this note, what are you causing to happen?
Why not give me 4 (in 2x2) running at 1600x1200. That's what I want.
Digital Physics, Cellular Automata, CA Labs, etc.
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The article that blew my mind at Princeton as an undergrad in April of 1988 was in the Atlantic "Did the Universe Just Happen" http://digitalphysics.org/Publications/Wr i88a/html/ It unified many things that I had been thinking about and solidified my commitment to computers as an analytical framework (algorithmic). It's weird to me that Wolfram/Article/Comments don't mention: Digital Physics, Fredkin. I hope the book is as enjoyable as Godel, Escher, Bach & the rest.
? Anybody else have a copy of Autodesk's CA Labs. Some links: http://digitalphysics.org/Publications/
I think the answer is heterogeneous & requires some thought.
1 system for on-line mirror backup - perhaps nightly incremental or full day old
Use another drive or multiple for this
Cheapest & fastest
Same machine or over a wire to a second machine where you can verify the stuff is backed up.
Have you tried testing your backups recently? How about backups of the system/OS?
1 other system for multiple versions/checkpoints
Use appropriate media CD-ROM, DVD, etc.
My plan is to never have to use the backup.
Use RAID 1 or RAID 5 on the main file server.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm a bit confused. Isn't the likely / adequate / improved implementation (beyond normal) just:
1) render the scene normally
2) for those items that are transparent or reflective (e.g. not all & usually not many), ray-trace them (e.g. refract, reflect)
This give you 'true reflections' on glass/water/shiny/etc. & refraction through water, lenses, etc. A significantly better image than 'shaded' polygons. Limiting the set of pixels limits the cost significantly. You don't need to do the 'whole' scene.
Single source (e.g. camera-eye) Ray-tracing doesn't give you shadows, for that you need to trace from surface back to light source(s).
To be fancier, you really want real-time radiosity.
The public already establishes reputation. It is not based on 'points'. Points is part of a game. Reputation is not a game.
Was part of panel at SXSW 2007 "Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Reputation and Presence" - Quite an interesting topic.p utation-20 ... The internet is still more infantile than infinite.
My presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/ted.nadeau/sxsw-2007-re
How about all public corporations & all governments should be forced to record their meetings & keep them for a longer time period.
It seems obvious to me that there is significantly more malfeasance happening within corporate governence and 'coporate' government than is happening at MySpace.
I'd like to have earlier known about Enron, Cheney's secret energy task force meetings, Halliburton's war profiteering, etc.
Going after MySpace for terrorists & pedophiles is mis-directed force.
Amen. (in a non-religous way)
How exactly does the ACLU's stand on the 2nd amendment 'cause you much personal grief'?
Do you think that any regulation of arms is constitutional?
What do the terms 'well regulated' mean to you?
What proposed changes to the current status quo do you propose or do you think it is optimal?
I disagree. Why can't you think of the internet as just your hard-drive w/ a local cache on your machine? You're confusing the currently limited 'browser' with an application. Already we're seeing hosted word, excel ecetra. When you're running Photoshop/FlashMx, how much disk access is really going on?
I've always wondered why Linksys & other hardware providers don't just offer a plug-in to enable 'fee'-based services. You could sign up at a location and freely move from one hot spot to another. It would be admined from the machine itself. Individuals could then open their hotspots the same way. They'd get some credit for usage.
Seems obvious to me. Anyone want to form a company to do this?
Make religious institutions give equal time in their communications to alternative (e.g. scientific) explanations. This would be required in order for them to maintain their tax-free status.
Just have the gamma burst be at the point in the sky behind the sun. Then we'll be safe.
I like to write a very complicated gestural input which then buffer-overflows the 'get signature call' and allows me to run arbitrary code on the server. That way everything is free.
Unlike whitehouse press reporters who can pretend to be anyone they want to be.
And now that Americans are fatter than we've ever been, Bush won the most pounds of any American in history!
A friend once told me: "Never say 'never see Never Say Never Again' again."
I propose a very tiny version of English: just 2 words that can be used to say anything. "On" and "Off".
The chair of the physics department goes to the provost for the annual budget review.
"I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is we have alot of exciting things going on in the department - some potential Noble-prize winning stuff. The bad news is we need a new particle accelerator which will cost $10M."
The Provost is shocked. "That is alot of money. It is incredible to me how different departments need different things. Why can't you be more like the math department? They only want Paper, Pencils and wastebaskets. And the philosophy department doesn't even want the wastebaskets..."
Meanwhile in a related story... A model of Speed Racer's Mach 5 was tested for Enterprise usage. It turns out that the jumping pads are helpful for parking but that the car needed to many repairs for typical use.
As a professor Benniger once said - "If you're feeling low energy - blame the plants. They're the ones who are worst at converting one energy form into another."
I think it was because they only convert something like 1% of sunlight to stored energy.
Better plants - problem solved.
Ted
Here's my novel suggestion.
Security through obscurity.
Give every person plane controls but only one pair is live. That way when the terrorists attack, they won't know who the real pilots are!
Also you have to dress the pilots like regular travellers
Monty python. i forget the movie.
When I saw T2, I thought that a nicer tie-in would have been that it was the special FX companies (in addition to the military) that spawned the AI that attacked the humans. This way, by watching the film we're causing it to happen. Shrondinger's cat anyone? ps - by reading this note, what are you causing to happen?
When the Black Lite lasers finally come out we'll finally be able to store trillions of Elvis and sad dog pictures.
I absolutely agree.
If they can make it stable enough for a laptop...
Why not give me 4 (in 2x2) running at 1600x1200.
That's what I want.
(first posting - sorry for any errors)
r i88a/html /
The article that blew my mind at Princeton as an undergrad in April of 1988 was in the Atlantic "Did the Universe Just Happen"
http://digitalphysics.org/Publications/W
It unified many things that I had been thinking about and solidified my commitment to computers as an analytical framework (algorithmic).
It's weird to me that Wolfram/Article/Comments don't mention: Digital Physics, Fredkin.
I hope the book is as enjoyable as Godel, Escher, Bach & the rest.
? Anybody else have a copy of Autodesk's CA Labs.
Some links:
http://digitalphysics.org/Publications/
Embrace all dualities. Ted
I think the answer is heterogeneous & requires some thought.
1 system for on-line mirror backup - perhaps nightly incremental or full day old
Use another drive or multiple for this
Cheapest & fastest
Same machine or over a wire to a second machine where you can verify the stuff is backed up.
Have you tried testing your backups recently? How about backups of the system/OS?
1 other system for multiple versions/checkpoints
Use appropriate media CD-ROM, DVD, etc.
My plan is to never have to use the backup.
Use RAID 1 or RAID 5 on the main file server.
Do what I say, not what I do.