Okay, but what makes you think the BR consortium is going to suddenly start dishing out licences to the Chinese knockoff shops? I don't know what they charge, but even if they do loosen their exclusivity, I don't see the price of a licence being practical for cheap manufacturing to make a difference. They're really that paranoid about losing control.
This format (I'm not going to call it a standard) is much more tightly controlled than DVD or the CD.
Unfortunately Raytracing only does half the job when it comes to accurate reflections.
By shooting rays from the observer we get nice reflections of surfaces on other surfaces, but we completely miss the other end; rays from light sources reflecting off surfaces, thereby illuminating other surfaces.
This is rather important feature, since pretty much every environment is lit by not only direct line-of-sight with a light source, but so-called ambient light scattered from nearby surfaces. Raytracers typically get around this by specifying an ambient value for each surface, but it often leads to bland areas where there is no light source interaction.
Packages like POV-Ray now have features like Radiosity to help deal with this, but (IIRC) that requires a departure from ray tracing.
You do realise that if your kid is throwing a tantrum in a store through want of some appealing item, the ABSOLUTE WORST thing you can do is give in and buy the item.
Stuck your head in a microwave oven lately? Are you telling me that having a good portion of your flesh cooked is not going to increase the risk of cancer?
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Hmm good point.
A once prestigious journal is looking at reversing a move that moved it close to irrelevancy in the 21st century.
Good for them.
git
Let me explain:
Can code in assembly: +10 skillz
Has used Visual Basic: -10 skillz
It all balances out nicely
Okay, but what makes you think the BR consortium is going to suddenly start dishing out licences to the Chinese knockoff shops? I don't know what they charge, but even if they do loosen their exclusivity, I don't see the price of a licence being practical for cheap manufacturing to make a difference. They're really that paranoid about losing control.
This format (I'm not going to call it a standard) is much more tightly controlled than DVD or the CD.
Unfortunately Raytracing only does half the job when it comes to accurate reflections.
By shooting rays from the observer we get nice reflections of surfaces on other surfaces, but we completely miss the other end; rays from light sources reflecting off surfaces, thereby illuminating other surfaces.
This is rather important feature, since pretty much every environment is lit by not only direct line-of-sight with a light source, but so-called ambient light scattered from nearby surfaces. Raytracers typically get around this by specifying an ambient value for each surface, but it often leads to bland areas where there is no light source interaction.
Packages like POV-Ray now have features like Radiosity to help deal with this, but (IIRC) that requires a departure from ray tracing.
What custard square modded this down?
Parent is right.
Uhh, you might want to think twice about putting your banking password on /.
Now I'm off to check your balance:
Let's see... 't'.. then an 'o', then another 'o'...
You do realise that if your kid is throwing a tantrum in a store through want of some appealing item, the ABSOLUTE WORST thing you can do is give in and buy the item.
I know this from experience.
Crap.
Oh good, after months of waiting I finally have mod points that I can use on posts I disagree with, like this one.
So, Hektor_Troy's post, I hope you enjoyed your brief moment at Score:2 - prepare to be modded down to oblivion, right after I post this comment.
How come you're making a distinction between art (media files) and code? Why is one an asset and not the other?
Now now. We can't go calling it stealing can we? This is infringement or probably fraud. But nothing was actually stolen.
/. for too long?)
(Can you tell I've been following the P2P arguments on
So has anyone tried this in OpenOffice?
Stuck your head in a microwave oven lately? Are you telling me that having a good portion of your flesh cooked is not going to increase the risk of cancer?
How exactly do you vote with your money if there isn't a single apt candidate out there?
I guess the GP is accustomed to US-style elections.
How do they test these Acid tests to know they're working properly?
Really? So one day he clearly didn't have Aspergers, went and got an injection and woke up the next day with it?
I haven't heard him for a while, but does he still sound like he needs a cocoa and a blankie?
But then it wouldn't be DST at all then would it? It would be a timezone shift of +1 hour.
Which I support, BTW.
Why?
Well as a member of the Internet, I call for a replacement FBI
...in addition, I thought the first word was Gates.
Well okay, but I think David Eddings might be already taken.
Bah, I knew the patent scene wasn't really a scene.