After all, it's easy to take ugly photos. All the images I saw for Ice Age just looked ugly, too much white, and bland colors. I also remember Antz photo image quality wasn't as good as Bug's Life. Shrek OTOH seemed to visualy as good as the pixar stuff.
Regardless of whether the G5 is the fastest CPU for RenderMan, it is not per-CPU performance that matters. If you're setting up a rendering farm, you're buying n computers to render m frames per hour. At the end of the day, what matters is minimising $$$$$$ per m, not n, and I'll bet dollars to doughtnuts that commondity Intel/AMD whips a G5 mac in terms of rendered frames per dollar. Remember, Apple's CEO == Pixar's CEO.
Not if apple gives them to you below cost as a 'marketing expense'
May show some 'rendering skills' but it shows zero artistic merit. The page seriously has the esthetic merit of some Geocities page who's proprietor just learned about the 'lenses flair' function in Photoshop...
Just about everyone in every industry says stuff like "We are going to be the next [industry leader". It hardly ever happens. If these guys actually want to take on Pixar, they are going to need some real artists.
Btw, has anyone noticed how much poorly done cg is out there in the movies now? I mean, when CG was all new and novel it was always so well done, Jurassic park looked real to me, but the CG in League of Exceptional Gentlemen (not a movie that I had really planned on seeing) was horrible. Even the CG in spider-man was pretty hokey (but there the movie was rescued by a good plot)
95/98 died constantly for me, Once a day with my old generic k6 board and once a week or so on my duron with a nice abit kt7-raid. 2k on the other hand, I think has crashed maybe a handfull of times in a few years.
You can make the argument that computer programs are the most complex thing created by people, but that does not mean that writing them is the 'hardest thing' we can do, that's just rediculous. It's much harder to work through a difficult math problem then %99.999 of the programming challanges out there. Feh. And bugs are screwups. They are just more tolerable in the computer world because they are easier to recover from, then say in the physical world where it could take much more time to set things back up again.
You have two years from when you 'announce' before you have to file a patent. So if PKware announced encrypted zip, and then WinZip also implemented encrypted zip, PKware can still file a patent.
I say we all put $1 in a paypal account and then use the total to buy a report saying that slashcode should be extended into a viable app platform and used to deliver ALL web content.
UGH! Slashcode is the suckiest CMS EVAR. I mean, Hello, embedded perl?
Calculate the risk factor that SCO will succeed in their Quest, X, and calculate the cost of a UnixWare license, Y. If X*Y is less then the money saved by using Linux, then don't change your plans. If it is, then maybe you should.
Since X is probably somewhere around zero, I don't think many people need to worry...
According to the article, the physics engine is good enough to test new aircraft design, and use for traning. What exactly was so bad about the physics engine?
Why does the article reference interfaces then talk about a new way of storing the bits on the disk surface?
They are both big changes in the way hard drives work that will lead to improved performance. They also talked about drive sizes changes (3.5in -> 2.5in)
If they take that away from us, then whats the point of having that much space?
RAID. As soon as I get enough cash to upgrade my system I plan on getting a RAID array so I don't have to worry about one of these drives failing. My old C: drive is like, 6 years old or something crazy like that.
The BC guy even said that once the subpoena was filed 'correctly' they would comply (not they have a choice, of course). But this is more of a procedural issue then anything else. Of course, it shows that they are not interested in simply handing over names and IP address without actually needing too.
I wish my school was more interested in protecting student rights. The University "Police" gladly assisted in a 'raid' on a couple student's dorm rooms, after checking their class schedule to see when they had class, and thus out of the room (which is a pretty big assumption, given the propensity to skip class around here... but it turned out to be true)
This digital copy, OTOH, will have no such protection. Oh sure, it will be encrypted and scrambled and blah blah blah, but anyone with half a brain and a propensity to scan the tech headlines of the past decade can tell you it's a matter of when, not if, it is defeated (e.g. CSS, Windows Media, "Enhanced CD" copy protection, half a dozen others).
There's a difference between being able to hack something with access to the hardware and software needed to make it work (DeCSS,Copyprotected CDs) and those that you don't. You'll never be able to get past this unless you can physically get your hands on the private keys. That means having access to a passport making machine.
DeCSS used weak keys, and someone left their keys unencrypted. It was because of that that DeCSS could have been made. DeCSS would not have been possible with a proper encryption. Protected CDs are a joke.
There are a lot of crypto systems that have not been hacked, such as RSA, etc PGP, RSA has been around for decades and is secure. These guys will probably be using RSA or something similar with a reasonable key length. There's no need for anything more complicated then RSA for this.
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After all, it's easy to take ugly photos. All the images I saw for Ice Age just looked ugly, too much white, and bland colors. I also remember Antz photo image quality wasn't as good as Bug's Life. Shrek OTOH seemed to visualy as good as the pixar stuff.
Regardless of whether the G5 is the fastest CPU for RenderMan, it is not per-CPU performance that matters. If you're setting up a rendering farm, you're buying n computers to render m frames per hour. At the end of the day, what matters is minimising $$$$$$ per m, not n, and I'll bet dollars to doughtnuts that commondity Intel/AMD whips a G5 mac in terms of rendered frames per dollar. Remember, Apple's CEO == Pixar's CEO.
Not if apple gives them to you below cost as a 'marketing expense'
They've shown they can rip off the matrix so, I mean, what can't they do!?
May show some 'rendering skills' but it shows zero artistic merit. The page seriously has the esthetic merit of some Geocities page who's proprietor just learned about the 'lenses flair' function in Photoshop...
Just about everyone in every industry says stuff like "We are going to be the next [industry leader". It hardly ever happens. If these guys actually want to take on Pixar, they are going to need some real artists.
Btw, has anyone noticed how much poorly done cg is out there in the movies now? I mean, when CG was all new and novel it was always so well done, Jurassic park looked real to me, but the CG in League of Exceptional Gentlemen (not a movie that I had really planned on seeing) was horrible. Even the CG in spider-man was pretty hokey (but there the movie was rescued by a good plot)
95/98 died constantly for me, Once a day with my old generic k6 board and once a week or so on my duron with a nice abit kt7-raid. 2k on the other hand, I think has crashed maybe a handfull of times in a few years.
You can make the argument that computer programs are the most complex thing created by people, but that does not mean that writing them is the 'hardest thing' we can do, that's just rediculous. It's much harder to work through a difficult math problem then %99.999 of the programming challanges out there. Feh. And bugs are screwups. They are just more tolerable in the computer world because they are easier to recover from, then say in the physical world where it could take much more time to set things back up again.
You have two years from when you 'announce' before you have to file a patent. So if PKware announced encrypted zip, and then WinZip also implemented encrypted zip, PKware can still file a patent.
I say we all put $1 in a paypal account and then use the total to buy a report saying that slashcode should be extended into a viable app platform and used to deliver ALL web content.
UGH! Slashcode is the suckiest CMS EVAR. I mean, Hello, embedded perl?
Calculate the risk factor that SCO will succeed in their Quest, X, and calculate the cost of a UnixWare license, Y. If X*Y is less then the money saved by using Linux, then don't change your plans. If it is, then maybe you should. Since X is probably somewhere around zero, I don't think many people need to worry...
Delete? Hell, I'd low level format zero-write destroy that drive continously until someone comes to confiscate it.
Actualy, you should overwrite with noise, not all ones or all zeros.
According to the article, the physics engine is good enough to test new aircraft design, and use for traning. What exactly was so bad about the physics engine?
Why these guys are frowning :)
This isn't going to stop microsoft. They'll pay this company off and contine on unabated.
Check out this add on ARnet.com.au. for a netgear 802.11g hub. They are calling it the "G-Spot".
We call 'fscking' fucking, mate.
You know there's more to nigera then scammers and spammers!? Sheesh.
You can get ATA->SATA adaptors. You can also get Seral ATA drives and interface cards today.
Why does the article reference interfaces then talk about a new way of storing the bits on the disk surface?
They are both big changes in the way hard drives work that will lead to improved performance. They also talked about drive sizes changes (3.5in -> 2.5in)
If they take that away from us, then whats the point of having that much space?
RAID. As soon as I get enough cash to upgrade my system I plan on getting a RAID array so I don't have to worry about one of these drives failing. My old C: drive is like, 6 years old or something crazy like that.
Student goes to class only to come back to find his computer, some financial documents, and their booze replaced with a copy of a warrant.
I am wondering, however, if a magnet effects EEPROM as adversely as it effects normal magnetic storage (Is EEPROM magnetic?).
No. An EEPROM is a hardwired electrical circuit
The BC guy even said that once the subpoena was filed 'correctly' they would comply (not they have a choice, of course). But this is more of a procedural issue then anything else. Of course, it shows that they are not interested in simply handing over names and IP address without actually needing too.
I wish my school was more interested in protecting student rights. The University "Police" gladly assisted in a 'raid' on a couple student's dorm rooms, after checking their class schedule to see when they had class, and thus out of the room (which is a pretty big assumption, given the propensity to skip class around here... but it turned out to be true)
And you can spec that comments must be written in English. Given the pitiful nature of most comments anyway, who cares?
You mean to tell me that International Business Machines might employ people in other countries!!!?!?!!112@
That's just so wrong!
This digital copy, OTOH, will have no such protection. Oh sure, it will be encrypted and scrambled and blah blah blah, but anyone with half a brain and a propensity to scan the tech headlines of the past decade can tell you it's a matter of when, not if, it is defeated (e.g. CSS, Windows Media, "Enhanced CD" copy protection, half a dozen others).
There's a difference between being able to hack something with access to the hardware and software needed to make it work (DeCSS,Copyprotected CDs) and those that you don't. You'll never be able to get past this unless you can physically get your hands on the private keys. That means having access to a passport making machine.
DeCSS used weak keys, and someone left their keys unencrypted. It was because of that that DeCSS could have been made. DeCSS would not have been possible with a proper encryption. Protected CDs are a joke.
There are a lot of crypto systems that have not been hacked, such as RSA, etc PGP, RSA has been around for decades and is secure. These guys will probably be using RSA or something similar with a reasonable key length. There's no need for anything more complicated then RSA for this.