The camera isn't mounted in front of the projector. It's mounted at the same distance from a double sided mirror as the eye. There's no parallax problems.
Looks like the Cortex-A5 has 50% more performance while using 1/3rd the power of the current generation ARM11 found in the iPhone. As a game developer this makes me hopeful that we'll see cellphones as a gaming platform without sacrificing useful battery life.
I recently ordered a complete Dragon system (case, mobo, 512MB 4870, PSU, x4 940 black 3.0GHz , 4GB RAM, 750GB HD, DVD-RDL optical) on newegg for $781.92 (bundle discounts applied) + tax and shipping.(not including OS of course)
You can always go to MIT for your masters. Or, if you go to MIT as a course 6 undergrad, you can get the MEng with just an additional year. (or two years if you watch too much TV)
It makes no difference. Once you get a job, it's not as if you'll actually do any REAL work. It's mostly just revisions of past designs. A bit jaded are we? Right out of school, at a time when you can afford a lot of employment risk, you have so much opportunity to do REAL work. No mortgage, no wife, can travel; go work for a startup or a small company. There's plenty of work to be done for those with the drive and tenacity.
And, FWIW, my future wife is an engineer and MIT alumna (course 6-2). She buys me video games and drafts M:TG. Find me a happier nerd with a liberal arts SO; nay, I say he doesn't exist.
Id Tech 4 did, in fact, have soft shadow support. This was accomplished by projecting multiple lights (basically faking it). It wasn't turned on in Doom 3 because of performance issues as well as aesthetics. It was in the tech demos, not in the game, for obvious reasons.
The 'sparse voxel octree' he talks about is basically a new data structure that simplifies storage of the polygons. This would require support from hardware manufacturers and provide content producers a new format in which to encode complex geometries. Carmack theorizes that having geometry detail to the level that we now have in texture detail is the next gen graphics paradigm. Basically, sparse voxel octrees would be to polygon meshes what polygon meshes were to billboarded sprites.
In all, Carmack hints towards massive detail for graphics and not much else. This is something he's always done in the past and has really seemed to obsess over. It's one of his greatest weaknesses as a trend-setter and industry leader. He did it before with the idtech 4 and it let HL2 steal the show with more thoughtful physics integration and charater AI. Nicer looking soft shadows, it seems, wasn't enough.
Id is great in that they push the industry forward in terms of graphics, but graphics only go so far. When it comes to realism, people want more nature in 3D. This means better physics, and more intuitive content building tools. Screenshots are great, but after you see it moving, that's when you make your final judgement.
It's in the virus's best interest that the host survive until transmission to a new host. There. Fixed that for you. Leaving the host alive means it has time to adapt and develop antibodies. Dead hosts don't create antibodies, nor do they produce offspring who are born with said antibodies pre-infection.
I can imagine a few scenarios where it's not so simple. Let's say I have 3 patents which describe the functioning of my main product. Can't some corporation just come in and over bid a single patent? If I cave and just sell the one patent then my other two patents are more or less defunct because I can't create a fully functional product without the third. So I either have to increase the price of my product to compensate for taxes or I'm forced to license my own IP from some a-hole corporation that bid ridiculous money for it.
To spin that perspective a little, if I were the mega-corp, I'd just over bid one of my competitors lesser patents. They still can't make a complete product now and they've spent all their money researching and defending the more important patents. If we can bid on a multitude of IP, then we can increase costs for the little guy tremendously just to keep his portfolio intact.
To clarify: This contest isn't about improving TSA procedure. The contest is an effort to improve a 3rd party screener's ability to expedite verification of passengers. Specifically, the throughput of paid "members-only" lanes.
Honestly, if they're not helping all air travelers, then it's really not something I'm interested in. This type of treatment is rife with inequity and is just another step towards a consummate terror state.
If you really want to increase throughput on all lanes, all you have to do is increase parallelism. Have self-service metal detectors and numbered/tagged x-ray bins prior to the checkpoint. Let people screen themselves. Instead of waiting in line, then waiting for the jackass in front of you to go through the metal detector 3 times looking for his belt buckle, you just wait in line. At the supervised checkpoint, everybody has already figured out what metal they need to remove and all their items are in bins already. If you can check your bins into the system way ahead of the line and retrieve them by number after the line, you've cut the wait time even more. If everybody does their own pre-screening simultaneously, every supervised check is reduced from a minute down to a few seconds.
Why not do the opposite? Give the RIAA the entire student roster. Even if they can sue everyone, now they have myriad battles to fight on a somewhat more-united front. This makes it orders of magnitude more expensive to pursue and now they have even less likelihood of correctly associating potential targets with any of their ridiculous evidence.
This might be of great annoyance to all the students, but it will likely save a handful of students much greater misery. Before you say this is wrong, think about how many currently instituted university policies work... (e.g. electronic plagiarism detection)
As it stands, I don't believe that the Iranian people are all too upset at their government. Although their approach to civil rights is a bit backwards from the Western perspective, it's been that way for several generations (and is largely the fault of previous American and European intervention in the region). Likewise, the Iranian government doesn't strike me as being all that secretive.
I hate to defend the current Iranian regime, but I don't believe for a moment that it's remotely as bad as Bush makes it out to be. May I recommend that you go see "Persepolis." It's an animated film about the Iranian revolution. It might change your mind. Certainly, it doesn't agree what you've said here. If doing this is too hard, there's always wikipedia.
The problem, as I understand it, is that the iPhone only has room for one flash chip, not two... The iPod touch, on the other hand, has room for two chips. Which just seems counter-intuitive, seeing as how the iPod touch is over 30% thinner. 8mm vs. 11.6mm. Are GSM and a camera really that big?
There will be no real reason for stop signs, traffic lights, speed limits, yield signs and such, all of this can be avoided once cars are driving themselves. Yeah. Because, pedestrian bridges at every single intersection are way cheaper than traffic lights.
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The camera isn't mounted in front of the projector. It's mounted at the same distance from a double sided mirror as the eye. There's no parallax problems.
Looks like the Cortex-A5 has 50% more performance while using 1/3rd the power of the current generation ARM11 found in the iPhone. As a game developer this makes me hopeful that we'll see cellphones as a gaming platform without sacrificing useful battery life.
PCM is interesting stuff. Here's some info:
Unlikely. GeSbTe has a crystallization point of 400C. Well above typical soldering temperatures (230C-350C depending on process)
Clicking randomly is not fun.
Attention: Lucas Arts, Sierra Entertainment, et al.
What do you mean you only have 1 wife?
You've obviously never been near a Yorkshire Terrier or a Shetland Sheepdog. I can differentiate those breeds with my eyes closed at 5 meters.
I recently ordered a complete Dragon system (case, mobo, 512MB 4870, PSU, x4 940 black 3.0GHz , 4GB RAM, 750GB HD, DVD-RDL optical) on newegg for $781.92 (bundle discounts applied) + tax and shipping.(not including OS of course)
Total shipped came in under $900.
And Bunnies!
What's a "Magneto"?
And, FWIW, my future wife is an engineer and MIT alumna (course 6-2). She buys me video games and drafts M:TG. Find me a happier nerd with a liberal arts SO; nay, I say he doesn't exist.
Any breeding program that creates more land bound giant carcasses to blow up is fine by me. ^_^d
Id Tech 4 did, in fact, have soft shadow support. This was accomplished by projecting multiple lights (basically faking it). It wasn't turned on in Doom 3 because of performance issues as well as aesthetics. It was in the tech demos, not in the game, for obvious reasons.
The 'sparse voxel octree' he talks about is basically a new data structure that simplifies storage of the polygons. This would require support from hardware manufacturers and provide content producers a new format in which to encode complex geometries. Carmack theorizes that having geometry detail to the level that we now have in texture detail is the next gen graphics paradigm. Basically, sparse voxel octrees would be to polygon meshes what polygon meshes were to billboarded sprites.
In all, Carmack hints towards massive detail for graphics and not much else. This is something he's always done in the past and has really seemed to obsess over. It's one of his greatest weaknesses as a trend-setter and industry leader. He did it before with the idtech 4 and it let HL2 steal the show with more thoughtful physics integration and charater AI. Nicer looking soft shadows, it seems, wasn't enough.
Id is great in that they push the industry forward in terms of graphics, but graphics only go so far. When it comes to realism, people want more nature in 3D. This means better physics, and more intuitive content building tools. Screenshots are great, but after you see it moving, that's when you make your final judgement.
I can imagine a few scenarios where it's not so simple. Let's say I have 3 patents which describe the functioning of my main product. Can't some corporation just come in and over bid a single patent? If I cave and just sell the one patent then my other two patents are more or less defunct because I can't create a fully functional product without the third. So I either have to increase the price of my product to compensate for taxes or I'm forced to license my own IP from some a-hole corporation that bid ridiculous money for it.
To spin that perspective a little, if I were the mega-corp, I'd just over bid one of my competitors lesser patents. They still can't make a complete product now and they've spent all their money researching and defending the more important patents. If we can bid on a multitude of IP, then we can increase costs for the little guy tremendously just to keep his portfolio intact.
To clarify: This contest isn't about improving TSA procedure. The contest is an effort to improve a 3rd party screener's ability to expedite verification of passengers. Specifically, the throughput of paid "members-only" lanes.
Honestly, if they're not helping all air travelers, then it's really not something I'm interested in. This type of treatment is rife with inequity and is just another step towards a consummate terror state.
If you really want to increase throughput on all lanes, all you have to do is increase parallelism. Have self-service metal detectors and numbered/tagged x-ray bins prior to the checkpoint. Let people screen themselves. Instead of waiting in line, then waiting for the jackass in front of you to go through the metal detector 3 times looking for his belt buckle, you just wait in line. At the supervised checkpoint, everybody has already figured out what metal they need to remove and all their items are in bins already. If you can check your bins into the system way ahead of the line and retrieve them by number after the line, you've cut the wait time even more. If everybody does their own pre-screening simultaneously, every supervised check is reduced from a minute down to a few seconds.
Why not do the opposite? Give the RIAA the entire student roster. Even if they can sue everyone, now they have myriad battles to fight on a somewhat more-united front. This makes it orders of magnitude more expensive to pursue and now they have even less likelihood of correctly associating potential targets with any of their ridiculous evidence.
This might be of great annoyance to all the students, but it will likely save a handful of students much greater misery. Before you say this is wrong, think about how many currently instituted university policies work... (e.g. electronic plagiarism detection)
That is certainly debatable. Though, as an AC, I don't suppose you're going to come back to this post anyway.
I hate to defend the current Iranian regime, but I don't believe for a moment that it's remotely as bad as Bush makes it out to be. May I recommend that you go see "Persepolis." It's an animated film about the Iranian revolution. It might change your mind. Certainly, it doesn't agree what you've said here. If doing this is too hard, there's always wikipedia.
There, they're correct in their their's.
Feel better now?