One problem I forsee with trying to make 3D movies is that devices similar to this crystal ball display objects to the user as an Outside In perspective, rather than a conventional display or flat 3D display.
What I mean is that currently the viewers of a movie are usually, INSIDE the scene looking OUT, whereas the crystal ball is a scene where the viewer is OUTSIDE looking IN.
Only objects directly in the field of view are modelled; it is impossible to show backgrounds in the crystal ball. In other words, Lucas wouldn't be able to create impressive pod racing scenes because all we would see is whichever pod is directly in the sphere of display, and MAYBE some ground speeding by when they get within feet of the surface and the soil enters the sphere that is modelled.
Until a 3D background can somehow be displayed behind the objects modelled, the crystal sphere is only good for scenes with actors conversing or fighting within the confines of the spherical scene.
The crystall ball builds up 3D models using true point sources of light that are in FRONT of the screen, whereas 3D panels trick the human eye into seeing virtual points of light somewhere behind the screen.
It's just like real and virtual images created by lenses and mirrors: you can project real images into 3D space, but you can't see the background, whereas you can see the background of virtual images but you cant project the image of the object in focus into real space.
It seems to me that all the look-alikes had a silver exterior. So I guess he designed a translating mechanism out of industry standard parts, painted it gold and called it unique. Sounds like many large coprs.
What about in the first scene of A New Hope in the rebel ship, where there is a C3PO look-alike walking the halls...or was that in Lando's flying city in The Empire Strikes Back (havent seen them in a long time...more than a year)? Seems to me I recall other droids very similar to C3PO in the custody of the Jawas in ep4. I'm not intending to prove you worng, I'm just wondering if it was his speech processing skills that make him unique, or if it was never intended for look-alikes to show up in the first movies...
If you're referring to Canada's geographic centre, that would be Boumfouque, Saskatchewan. Moron.
How did this get moderated to +1 Informative? For one thing the geographical center of Canada is Brandon, Manitoba. For another, don't be sarcastic when moderating...there's not much evidence for people to see your sarcasm...for I am assuming the moderator was being sarcastic with that moderation of +1 Informative. + FUNNY, yes I can see that.
Seems to be (I may be very wrong), but in the UK and other places they have something like TV and radio police or something...where you have to have licenses to own radio and TV sets. That's like telling you what you can't plug in. OF course it's not the power provider telling you that, but still.
Ahh well. In the case of screen size, one doesn't make loads of money trying to sell screens based on what a unique minority are like. Likewise, one doesn't make large purchases based on the fact that there are some people who differ from the average. One makes decisions based on what will profit the company overall. So, if it is true that on average women and men become more equal in productivity using large screens, why would someone complain about sexism? After all, the larger screens give women more of a chance to be understood as equal in productivity. Often our society shrouds the truth in political mishmash, but often pride shrouds the truth even more.
By and pigeonholing women into tasks that take advantage of their supposed "intuition" and "social skills", like day-care center workers and elementary school teachers, while discouraging them from taking jobs, like science and programming, that require male rationality? Can you propose any method of "using those differences" other than this type of blatant sexual profiling? Following your train of thought to its logical conclusion leads to disgusting conclusions.
How about this not-so-revolutionary idea, that's been touted by gender and race activists for decades: accept that differences, if any, exist only in the average case and that there is huge overlap in the spectrum of individuals. That is, many women are much more "manly" than the average man, and vice versa. Automatically assigning the average properties of a group to an individual is called stereotyping, and it is repellent and wrong. But this is what you imply by your suggestion of "using those differences".
By and pigeonholing men into tasks that take advantage of their supposed "strength" and "mechanical skills", like factory workers and trade school teachers, while discouraging them from working at home, like cooking and babysitting, that require female practicality? Can you propose any method of "using those differences" other than this type of blatant sexual profiling? Following your train of thought to its logical conclusion leads to disgusting conclusions.
How about this not-so-revolutionary idea, that's been touted by gender and race activists for decades: accept that differences, if any, exist only in the average case and that there is huge overlap in the spectrum of individuals. That is, many men are much more "womanly" than the average man, and vice versa. Automatically assigning the average properties of a group to an individual is called stereotyping, and it is repellent and wrong. But this is what you imply by your suggestion of "using those differences".
It is not sexist to say that women suffer sexism more than men? Thats as much a gender-based generalization as any other.
Kind of a backwords hick attitude you have there. We live in the 21st century here bub.
Yes, it is the 21st century and unfortunately there are people who don't realize that 99% of the world's population is what you generalize as a hick ("homophobic"). It is mostly in our western Christian and athiest culture (the minority of the world population) that some (and far from all) people aren't homophobic.
I am simply stating a fact.
Yes, Microsoft provides no drivers for the original sidewinder line in any OS besides 9x(ME). I have a perfectly good Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro sitting here next to me and Microsoft won't let me use it in 2000/XP. I tried the typical workarounds such as installing the software under the Windows 98 compatibility layer etc etc, but it seems they really went out of their way for it not to work.
The whole reason is because Microsoft does not support non-USB controllers anymore. Their official stance is that they won't write drivers for their new OS's if the controllers don't use USB. Even their OWN controllers. Talk about reverse-compatibility...
you are correct.
I have been told that the individual electrons in a wire carrying 115 V ac @ 60 Hz move at a rate as slow as 4 cm/second. In contrast, I have also been told that the molecules in air are moving at around 65,000 km/h.
The reason the energy wave does not even move at the speed of light is because of friction (as a result of electrons colliding with - and attracting to - the positive nuclei of the atoms in the wire).
I know it is spam in principle, but Hotmail "staff" sends out an average of one email per month per user. Hardly enough to choke their servers or your account. As well, mail from "Hotmail Staff" is most likely just a pointer to a central file, reducing diskspace and bandwidth as well since savvy users delete the pointer (?) without loading the actual message. I personally don't find those messages all that hypocritical since they are advertising their own services. After all, why look the gift horse in the mouth? It's FREE as in beer.
As well, the reason spam is illegal is because it is unsolicited by the email provider or user. Although not solicited by the user, *who* owns the darn servers? Microsoft shouldn't be barred from sending internal messages. I'll bet the messages don't even take up allocated account space (back to that pointer issue again).
I didn't have to.
Every action is balances with an equal and opposite reaction, in short. Which entirely explains my explanation.
Centrifugal force is the apparent force caused by an equal and opposite action on the center of rotation through tension in the cable. "Centrifugal force" is simply the equal and opposite reaction to the real force acting on the rotating object, through tension.
There is NO SUCH THING as "centrifugal force". "Centrifugal force" is the effect of tension in a cable against the center of rotation caused by CENTRIPETAL force accelerating the swung object towards the center. It's like this...a car pulls a trailer. The car is pulling the trailer! There is a force acting backwards on the trailer hitch on the car, but it is actually the car pulling the trailer, not the other way around. The anchor is not pulled by the swung object, the anchor PULLS the swung object. If the string is cut, the object does not accelerate away from the anchor because of some centrifugal force; the object will STOP accelerating and continue along in a straight tangential line. Centripetal force is real, centrifugal force is apparent.
IE6 does NOT render the page correctly on a WinXP box. The "no-repeat" value in the stylesheet is ignored for all objects but the page background. All buttons and the blue main area have backgrounds aligned not with the screen but with their own boundaries.
...there is a leader. People clapping in unison only do so in the presence of a rythmic audio source, namely music.
This is the equivalent of a central timing server. When people start to go by their neighbours (ie people looking around with excited looks on their faces ["aren't we cool, clapping to this music!"]) and stop listening to the source of music, one half of the auditorium gets waaay off beat.
My apologies if you were referring to people beginning to clap after a performance, because you have a point there.
As I understand it, The Bends occur when the body of a diver is subject to the pressures exterted by water at depths. Breathing air is regulated by SCUBA gear such that the pressure increases to offset water pressure on the lungs. This increases the pressure of nitrogen gas in the blood, which expands when the pressure is released.
I have a feeling The Bends would not be a problem in a submersible, depending on one condition - internal air pressure is not raised to reduce pressure stress on the hull. At any great depth, water pressure is so great as to make the benefit of any reasonable air pressure increase negligable.
I think that the hull would simply be made strong enough to withstand the water pressure with internal air pressure remaining at sea level air pressure or thereabouts. In this case, the human body would not be subjected to pressure increases/decreases as the sub dives and ascends. IIRC, military submarines do not change internal pressure when changing depth. Therefore the Bends are not the limiting factor of dive rate - what limits the rate for military subs is that the steel pressure hull cannot withstand rapid pressure changes without contorting dangerously.
If someone made a deep-sea diving sub with a pressure hull made of a material very resistant to rapid change in pressure, there would be no theoretical limit to dive rate, even with a human inside. *As long as the hull is strong enough to allow constant internal pressure*
I may be very very wrong, but this is my observation.
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I thought it was "Request For Change." ? I guess not...
They didn't hack the site okay? Geocities gave them control.
Sorry, I was unclear...longitudinal center of Canada
One problem I forsee with trying to make 3D movies is that devices similar to this crystal ball display objects to the user as an Outside In perspective, rather than a conventional display or flat 3D display. What I mean is that currently the viewers of a movie are usually, INSIDE the scene looking OUT, whereas the crystal ball is a scene where the viewer is OUTSIDE looking IN. Only objects directly in the field of view are modelled; it is impossible to show backgrounds in the crystal ball. In other words, Lucas wouldn't be able to create impressive pod racing scenes because all we would see is whichever pod is directly in the sphere of display, and MAYBE some ground speeding by when they get within feet of the surface and the soil enters the sphere that is modelled. Until a 3D background can somehow be displayed behind the objects modelled, the crystal sphere is only good for scenes with actors conversing or fighting within the confines of the spherical scene. The crystall ball builds up 3D models using true point sources of light that are in FRONT of the screen, whereas 3D panels trick the human eye into seeing virtual points of light somewhere behind the screen. It's just like real and virtual images created by lenses and mirrors: you can project real images into 3D space, but you can't see the background, whereas you can see the background of virtual images but you cant project the image of the object in focus into real space.
It seems to me that all the look-alikes had a silver exterior. So I guess he designed a translating mechanism out of industry standard parts, painted it gold and called it unique. Sounds like many large coprs.
... C3PO is a custom job by his protege...
What about in the first scene of A New Hope in the rebel ship, where there is a C3PO look-alike walking the halls...or was that in Lando's flying city in The Empire Strikes Back (havent seen them in a long time...more than a year)? Seems to me I recall other droids very similar to C3PO in the custody of the Jawas in ep4. I'm not intending to prove you worng, I'm just wondering if it was his speech processing skills that make him unique, or if it was never intended for look-alikes to show up in the first movies...
If you're referring to Canada's geographic centre, that would be Boumfouque, Saskatchewan. Moron.
How did this get moderated to +1 Informative? For one thing the geographical center of Canada is Brandon, Manitoba. For another, don't be sarcastic when moderating...there's not much evidence for people to see your sarcasm...for I am assuming the moderator was being sarcastic with that moderation of +1 Informative. + FUNNY, yes I can see that.
Seems to be (I may be very wrong), but in the UK and other places they have something like TV and radio police or something...where you have to have licenses to own radio and TV sets. That's like telling you what you can't plug in. OF course it's not the power provider telling you that, but still.
There is a whole section in the FAQ about filtering, and how glycerin clogs the filters.
Ahh well. In the case of screen size, one doesn't make loads of money trying to sell screens based on what a unique minority are like. Likewise, one doesn't make large purchases based on the fact that there are some people who differ from the average. One makes decisions based on what will profit the company overall. So, if it is true that on average women and men become more equal in productivity using large screens, why would someone complain about sexism? After all, the larger screens give women more of a chance to be understood as equal in productivity. Often our society shrouds the truth in political mishmash, but often pride shrouds the truth even more.
Nothing...I was commenting solely on the reply to your post.
Kind of a backwords hick attitude you have there. We live in the 21st century here bub.
Yes, it is the 21st century and unfortunately there are people who don't realize that 99% of the world's population is what you generalize as a hick ("homophobic"). It is mostly in our western Christian and athiest culture (the minority of the world population) that some (and far from all) people aren't homophobic.
I am simply stating a fact.
Yes, Microsoft provides no drivers for the original sidewinder line in any OS besides 9x(ME). I have a perfectly good Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro sitting here next to me and Microsoft won't let me use it in 2000/XP. I tried the typical workarounds such as installing the software under the Windows 98 compatibility layer etc etc, but it seems they really went out of their way for it not to work.
The whole reason is because Microsoft does not support non-USB controllers anymore. Their official stance is that they won't write drivers for their new OS's if the controllers don't use USB. Even their OWN controllers. Talk about reverse-compatibility...
you are correct. I have been told that the individual electrons in a wire carrying 115 V ac @ 60 Hz move at a rate as slow as 4 cm/second. In contrast, I have also been told that the molecules in air are moving at around 65,000 km/h. The reason the energy wave does not even move at the speed of light is because of friction (as a result of electrons colliding with - and attracting to - the positive nuclei of the atoms in the wire).
Yes, 8 channels bidirectional (yes, 16 channels total!) of 192 kHz 32 bit audio per cable.
...but what happened to XML? I'm sure secured DRM Office 11 documents are PLAIN-TEXT STANDARD XML documents...so suuure...
I know it is spam in principle, but Hotmail "staff" sends out an average of one email per month per user. Hardly enough to choke their servers or your account. As well, mail from "Hotmail Staff" is most likely just a pointer to a central file, reducing diskspace and bandwidth as well since savvy users delete the pointer (?) without loading the actual message. I personally don't find those messages all that hypocritical since they are advertising their own services. After all, why look the gift horse in the mouth? It's FREE as in beer.
As well, the reason spam is illegal is because it is unsolicited by the email provider or user. Although not solicited by the user, *who* owns the darn servers? Microsoft shouldn't be barred from sending internal messages. I'll bet the messages don't even take up allocated account space (back to that pointer issue again).
...brotha! Simple high school physics.
I didn't have to. Every action is balances with an equal and opposite reaction, in short. Which entirely explains my explanation. Centrifugal force is the apparent force caused by an equal and opposite action on the center of rotation through tension in the cable. "Centrifugal force" is simply the equal and opposite reaction to the real force acting on the rotating object, through tension.
There is NO SUCH THING as "centrifugal force". "Centrifugal force" is the effect of tension in a cable against the center of rotation caused by CENTRIPETAL force accelerating the swung object towards the center.
It's like this...a car pulls a trailer. The car is pulling the trailer! There is a force acting backwards on the trailer hitch on the car, but it is actually the car pulling the trailer, not the other way around. The anchor is not pulled by the swung object, the anchor PULLS the swung object.
If the string is cut, the object does not accelerate away from the anchor because of some centrifugal force; the object will STOP accelerating and continue along in a straight tangential line.
Centripetal force is real, centrifugal force is apparent.
IE6 does NOT render the page correctly on a WinXP box. The "no-repeat" value in the stylesheet is ignored for all objects but the page background. All buttons and the blue main area have backgrounds aligned not with the screen but with their own boundaries.
...there is a leader. People clapping in unison only do so in the presence of a rythmic audio source, namely music.
This is the equivalent of a central timing server. When people start to go by their neighbours (ie people looking around with excited looks on their faces ["aren't we cool, clapping to this music!"]) and stop listening to the source of music, one half of the auditorium gets waaay off beat.
My apologies if you were referring to people beginning to clap after a performance, because you have a point there.
My $0.02 CDN...just like Simon Cowell! :)
*IANAEngineer*
As I understand it, The Bends occur when the body of a diver is subject to the pressures exterted by water at depths. Breathing air is regulated by SCUBA gear such that the pressure increases to offset water pressure on the lungs. This increases the pressure of nitrogen gas in the blood, which expands when the pressure is released.
I have a feeling The Bends would not be a problem in a submersible, depending on one condition - internal air pressure is not raised to reduce pressure stress on the hull. At any great depth, water pressure is so great as to make the benefit of any reasonable air pressure increase negligable.
I think that the hull would simply be made strong enough to withstand the water pressure with internal air pressure remaining at sea level air pressure or thereabouts. In this case, the human body would not be subjected to pressure increases/decreases as the sub dives and ascends.
IIRC, military submarines do not change internal pressure when changing depth. Therefore the Bends are not the limiting factor of dive rate - what limits the rate for military subs is that the steel pressure hull cannot withstand rapid pressure changes without contorting dangerously.
If someone made a deep-sea diving sub with a pressure hull made of a material very resistant to rapid change in pressure, there would be no theoretical limit to dive rate, even with a human inside. *As long as the hull is strong enough to allow constant internal pressure*
I may be very very wrong, but this is my observation.