"I've talked to several people who have taken their kids & regretted it."
There's a scene with the skeletal remains of a dead superhero. It bothered the little girl in front of me. Other than that, I have a difficult time imagining kids wouldn't enjoy it. Although, I would wonder if they'd try to imitate the kids in the movie. That'd get old.;)
"I would rather get a list of top secret fatest computers in the world."
I'm surprised somebody didn't make a stale joke about any machine running Windows being the 'fatest' computer. Come to think of it, where are the Beowulf, Longhorn, or Doom 3 jokes?
"Well, I'm confused, how can they figure out the speed so easily, when it's so hard to test the difference in speed between x86 AMDs & Intels? The other computers aren't faster at some things? Is it some special bench?"
I think you answered your own question. Notice your use of the phrase 'benchmark' is singular? These aren't general purpose machines. I'll put it another way: If you bought a PC for the sole purpose of playing Quake 3, then the Quake 3 demo would be the definitive and ONLY benchmark you'd need.
Of course, I could be talking out of my rear. I don't know much about these types of computers. So if I'm wrong about the 'single purpose' implication I made, I'm happy to recieve corrective info.
B.) Because of point A, hiring somebody like Tom Hanks is a huge win. It wouldn't be so exciting for motion capture.
" The primary thing in mind being facial expressions. There are methods for this, but does anybody know if they used them in development of this flick?"
Yes. Sadly I don't know a lot about it, but I did catch a blurb on some entertainment show where they had Tom Hanks with markers all over his face. "Summary: Motion capture cant do it by itself. It needs the animators to fill in the many gaps it leaves./ramble off"
More or less true, however do not discount Tom Hanks's role in the performance here.
"congratulations america! you've completely alienated yourselves from all of your former allies and friends and earned the distrust and emnity of the rest of the planet."
"So the question is WHY didn't it make it out of the lab? Did it cost too much to produce? That's the only real possibility I can think of -"
I read about this once ages ago. The reason it didn't get out the gate was that it would still have taken time to produce. By the time it was done, it wouldn't be 3x faster anymore, it'd actually be slower than whatever was out at the time.
Take with a grain of salt, I'm not claiming to have a strong grasp of this particular topic.
"Well...That depends what you mean by $$$ and what your webserver does or is supposed to do."
I mean, it costs money to get bandwidth to a server. A friend of mine started a forum site that grew to over 5,000 active users. Now he's paying $150 a month out of the kindness of his heart. Maybe he could do better, or maybe he's splurging a bit, I couldn't tell ya. But I can tell you that popularity breeds expenses, thus making an endeavour like this eventually seek the need for revenue to support it. Not sure how long you've been around, but Slashdot hasn't always been ad supported. Nor was it a full-time job for anybody originally.
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"I've talked to several people who have taken their kids & regretted it."
;)
There's a scene with the skeletal remains of a dead superhero. It bothered the little girl in front of me. Other than that, I have a difficult time imagining kids wouldn't enjoy it. Although, I would wonder if they'd try to imitate the kids in the movie. That'd get old.
"I would rather get a list of top secret fatest computers in the world."
I'm surprised somebody didn't make a stale joke about any machine running Windows being the 'fatest' computer. Come to think of it, where are the Beowulf, Longhorn, or Doom 3 jokes?
"Well, I'm confused, how can they figure out the speed so easily, when it's so hard to test the difference in speed between x86 AMDs & Intels? The other computers aren't faster at some things? Is it some special bench?"
I think you answered your own question. Notice your use of the phrase 'benchmark' is singular? These aren't general purpose machines. I'll put it another way: If you bought a PC for the sole purpose of playing Quake 3, then the Quake 3 demo would be the definitive and ONLY benchmark you'd need.
Of course, I could be talking out of my rear. I don't know much about these types of computers. So if I'm wrong about the 'single purpose' implication I made, I'm happy to recieve corrective info.
"Their sales of Linux."
Error: Division by 0.
" I can't wait to throw out my girlfriend 1.0...that doesn't put up a inpenetrable firewall in bed."
Impenetrable firewall, or are her available sessions in use?
""What are our odds of hitting the protein jackpot?"
100%."
What are the odds of our ship exploding? It's got saftey devices and so on. I mean, the odds of it blowing are 1 to.. *BOOM*... one.
Smeg.
"Does this mean that IBM leapfrogged SGI or does this mean that the SGI machine (to be built for NASA) wasn't all that exciting?"
That depends: Are we talking today or yesterday?
"Slashdot's Previous story"
I agree. On another note, it really bugs me when they hold the Olympics every four years when the record was set a long time ago. Old news.
" market trend is very much based on butterfly effect + herd instinct + stochastic resonance with a whole lot of chaos effects thrown in."
Suddenly, a bunch of monkeys find work...
"If people want your key so bad they will build a supercomputer this big to crack it, you have plenty other things to worry about."
If somebody actually gained access to one of these machines for that specific purpose, I'd just hand them the key and say "You win!"
"I guess it is obvious, but it drives home the point that the "phone" part of a cell phone really isn't the selling point anymore."
Der. It's called 'diminishing returns'.
"Why do they call it "Performance Capture" when "Motion Capture" is the industry accepted term?"
/ramble off"
A.) Motion Capture doesn't traditionally capture facil movement. Performance capture does.
B.) Because of point A, hiring somebody like Tom Hanks is a huge win. It wouldn't be so exciting for motion capture.
" The primary thing in mind being facial expressions. There are methods for this, but does anybody know if they used them in development of this flick?"
Yes. Sadly I don't know a lot about it, but I did catch a blurb on some entertainment show where they had Tom Hanks with markers all over his face.
"Summary: Motion capture cant do it by itself. It needs the animators to fill in the many gaps it leaves.
More or less true, however do not discount Tom Hanks's role in the performance here.
"And still, the meaning of DS isn't clear at all. Down's Syndrome? Desert Storm? Dalkon Shield?"
Dumb Shit?
"Now what kind of idiot specifies a system where you can only store 10000 ballots?"
An idiot who wants to limit potential damage to only 10,000 votes?
Oo oo, how about this: An idiot who was only paid to make a machine that supports 10,000 votes?
"So what happens when the computer gets hot?"
Corny jokes will get modded +5, Funny.
"When I was younger and unmarried I'd carry a condom in my wallet. You never know!"
OT question: Does rubber petrify?
"congratulations america! you've completely alienated yourselves from all of your former allies and friends and earned the distrust and emnity of the rest of the planet."
Bit of a broad statement there.
"Oh come on! It looks like an anus! You know it, and I know it!" ...and my partner knows it!
"How about it has not effected me one bit. Just like how it has not effected 99.9% of Americans."
.1%. Bitching about it shot my karma way up!
Guess I'm in the
"You do alot more than piss off the non-smokers, you kill them. Please stop."
How do you know that he doesn't step outside to smoke?
Some smokers are actually polite about that.
"So the question is WHY didn't it make it out of the lab? Did it cost too much to produce? That's the only real possibility I can think of -"
I read about this once ages ago. The reason it didn't get out the gate was that it would still have taken time to produce. By the time it was done, it wouldn't be 3x faster anymore, it'd actually be slower than whatever was out at the time.
Take with a grain of salt, I'm not claiming to have a strong grasp of this particular topic.
I plead the fifth!
What's your service?
;)
I ask because:
a.) I'm interested in a service like that.
b.) Sounds like I'm misinformed, dun want that to be a permenant state of being.
"You weren't here for the dot com era, were you?"
I was, and I was part of it, and that's why I'm asking the question.
"Well...That depends what you mean by $$$ and what your webserver does or is supposed to do."
I mean, it costs money to get bandwidth to a server. A friend of mine started a forum site that grew to over 5,000 active users. Now he's paying $150 a month out of the kindness of his heart. Maybe he could do better, or maybe he's splurging a bit, I couldn't tell ya. But I can tell you that popularity breeds expenses, thus making an endeavour like this eventually seek the need for revenue to support it. Not sure how long you've been around, but Slashdot hasn't always been ad supported. Nor was it a full-time job for anybody originally.