It's because we're so intimately familiar with the human form that it takes much more for a human form to be believable. Not only does the rendering have to be more correct, with much more involved lighting techniques, but the movements and expressions would have to be that much better too. Animation technique that gives us a hyper-realistic monster we would only concieve of as ok on humans in a realistic setting.
Actually, there was a recent law passed that automobile makers have to provide that information to the public. They don't have to give you a free code scanner, just like tivo wouldn't have to give you a lan card or larger hard drive, but they are legally required to give out the diagnositc information you speak of. Also, if you have an import car like I do, all you need to do the same thing is a paper clip to short out 2 wires, then count some blinkin lights and look up the result in your manual.
But we LOVE taxes. You pay taxes when you make money, when you spend money, when you don't spend money and your holdings increase in value, and when you die and haven't spent all your money yet. About the only thing you can do with money and not be taxed is to buy food or donate money to charity. Kinda explains why we're all fat and still have sleazy televangelists, eh?;-)
Sun workstations in the past had optical mice that needed a special silver mousepad with lines on it. I used optical mice on them years before I heard of any optical mice for the IBM pc platform.
It will sound better. It will sound MUCH better if they don't compress the heck out if it like they do with most current cd's, but that's too much to ask I think. Otherwise, it may or may not be that much perceptably better.
So then they can wait till it comes out on DVD or vhs and rent it. It's not your job to enforce what you think would be a good business model on the content producers, if they thought they could make money selling tapes for $3, they would do it. The truth is it is their content to do what they want with. If someone started violating the terms of my GPL code because they didn't like my license, I'd be quite pissed. If you don't like their business method, don't do business with them. But don't steal their stuff either. What the heck comes out these days that is so great you can't wait for 6 months to see it on DVD anyway?
I appreciate our point that they tend to inflate the perception of their losses, but that doesn't stop the fact that bootlegging is illegal (and most everyone would agree, immoral.)
There's this thing called "academic licensing" that such software companies have. Can't afford $600 Photoshop license? You're a student? Ok, just give me $100 dollars then. If it's not worth it for you to come up with the $100 dollars it takes to get an academic license, you didn't really need it. Use Wingimp or some other freeware/shareware image editor. No, I don't think that Adobe lost 500 bucks worth of value, but 100 seems reasonable. And the amount of money they aren't getting isn't the point, the point is that software "piracy" is illegal, and most people would agree it's immoral. Perhaps the BSA and such overdramatize their side of the debate, and people such as you definatly do. Neither of those facts make it either more or less wrong.
Actually, it is the output of 4 different ccds which take pictures of overlapping areas that are stitched togeather, often by hand for nicer pictures they put out.
There was an article on the cameras and image processing (focusing on color but also covering this) in a recent sky&telescope, and there's also good information here:
http://hubblesite.org/sci.d.tech/behind_the_pictur es/wacky_shape/index.shtml
storagereview.com Huge database of very indepth reviews on hard drives. Scsi, ide, 5400-15000rpm.. Basically everything, with noise, temperature, and a few different benchmarks for different usage conditions. Definatly the best resource I've found for hard drive tests. I always consult this site before a hard drive purchase.
That would indeed stink, as I've decided that I'm not spending money on a new motherboard/precessor until it's 32/64 bit x86 compatible (AKA hammer.) Perhaps it will be a platform that is finally faster and better then the Alphas in all respects..
If any of the roads here in VA had sidewalks or sholders, I'd do just that... Truth is a lot of the country's roads have not been built with bikes and pedestrians in mind...
Internally, some MP3 players operate in higher then 16 bit mode, and then can play in 24 bit if your sound card allows it, or can dither to 16, which sounds better then operating strait in 16 bit. See http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/mp3decoders/ 24bit.html
- publishing the full Blender sources, including old and new development, under the GNU GPL license ('Free Software'). The NaN mobile technology will not be included in this.
I have a similar laptop, with a p120 and 48 megs of ram, and find web browsing wonderful with either opera or dillo under linux... Old machines require better written software then new ones, that's all;-)
The large swap space is because sorcerer by default uses a tempfs drive for compiling stuff on, so you need to have enough ram+swap to run gcc, make, etc and also to store the source, object files, etc...
Makes it nice and fast, but at the expense of needing some decent swap space and ram....
Everyone knows linux kernels are rather unstable until the mid teens of each major release...
Would you rather them hold off on all the bugfixes?
The kernel releases will taper off when the series really becomes stable, like around.18 or so typically...
Depends on your soundcard drivers.. The SB live I have has drivers that let multiple streams into the card, so you could hear and have your quake audio...
This was a slash clone. Not all of the work was his, a lot was other students and probably a handfull of off campus people too.. Those hadnful of off campus people have never signed an agreement with the school, and have had their work stolen from them and the school claim it as their own.
Correct. If you agree to another licence by distributing your code as part of a project with the other licence, your work is in that distribution under the other licence.
However, your work in patch form or whatever, could also be distributed seperatly at your discression under any old license you choose.
"I don't like the GPL because it tells me what I can and can't do with code I wrote, not just code I found."
Wrong. You own the rights to any code you wrote, and can release it again under any license you choose..
How many processors in that E10K?
And what task it it that you are doing?
Sun machines don't have great processors, but are decently fast for interger work, and have great I/O throuput. They are also easily scalable, and feature redundancy, redundancy, and redundancy.
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It's because we're so intimately familiar with the human form that it takes much more for a human form to be believable. Not only does the rendering have to be more correct, with much more involved lighting techniques, but the movements and expressions would have to be that much better too.
Animation technique that gives us a hyper-realistic monster we would only concieve of as ok on humans in a realistic setting.
Actually, there was a recent law passed that automobile makers have to provide that information to the public. They don't have to give you a free code scanner, just like tivo wouldn't have to give you a lan card or larger hard drive, but they are legally required to give out the diagnositc information you speak of.
Also, if you have an import car like I do, all you need to do the same thing is a paper clip to short out 2 wires, then count some blinkin lights and look up the result in your manual.
But we LOVE taxes. You pay taxes when you make money, when you spend money, when you don't spend money and your holdings increase in value, and when you die and haven't spent all your money yet. ;-)
About the only thing you can do with money and not be taxed is to buy food or donate money to charity.
Kinda explains why we're all fat and still have sleazy televangelists, eh?
Yes.
Sun workstations in the past had optical mice that needed a special silver mousepad with lines on it. I used optical mice on them years before I heard of any optical mice for the IBM pc platform.
It will sound better. It will sound MUCH better if they don't compress the heck out if it like they do with most current cd's, but that's too much to ask I think. Otherwise, it may or may not be that much perceptably better.
So then they can wait till it comes out on DVD or vhs and rent it.
It's not your job to enforce what you think would be a good business model on the content producers, if they thought they could make money selling tapes for $3, they would do it. The truth is it is their content to do what they want with.
If someone started violating the terms of my GPL code because they didn't like my license, I'd be quite pissed.
If you don't like their business method, don't do business with them. But don't steal their stuff either.
What the heck comes out these days that is so great you can't wait for 6 months to see it on DVD anyway?
I appreciate our point that they tend to inflate the perception of their losses, but that doesn't stop the fact that bootlegging is illegal (and most everyone would agree, immoral.)
There's this thing called "academic licensing" that such software companies have. Can't afford $600 Photoshop license? You're a student? Ok, just give me $100 dollars then.
If it's not worth it for you to come up with the $100 dollars it takes to get an academic license, you didn't really need it. Use Wingimp or some other freeware/shareware image editor.
No, I don't think that Adobe lost 500 bucks worth of value, but 100 seems reasonable. And the amount of money they aren't getting isn't the point, the point is that software "piracy" is illegal, and most people would agree it's immoral.
Perhaps the BSA and such overdramatize their side of the debate, and people such as you definatly do. Neither of those facts make it either more or less wrong.
Actually, it is the output of 4 different ccds which take pictures of overlapping areas that are stitched togeather, often by hand for nicer pictures they put out. There was an article on the cameras and image processing (focusing on color but also covering this) in a recent sky&telescope, and there's also good information here: http://hubblesite.org/sci.d.tech/behind_the_pictur es/wacky_shape/index.shtml
storagereview.com
Huge database of very indepth reviews on hard drives. Scsi, ide, 5400-15000rpm.. Basically everything, with noise, temperature, and a few different benchmarks for different usage conditions.
Definatly the best resource I've found for hard drive tests. I always consult this site before a hard drive purchase.
That would indeed stink, as I've decided that I'm not spending money on a new motherboard/precessor until it's 32/64 bit x86 compatible (AKA hammer.)
Perhaps it will be a platform that is finally faster and better then the Alphas in all respects..
What you are talking about is called in common terms, the web. The internet is indeed a bunch of bits on wires.
If any of the roads here in VA had sidewalks or sholders, I'd do just that... Truth is a lot of the country's roads have not been built with bikes and pedestrians in mind...
Internally, some MP3 players operate in higher then 16 bit mode, and then can play in 24 bit if your sound card allows it, or can dither to 16, which sounds better then operating strait in 16 bit./ 24bit.html
See http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~djmrob/mp3decoders
BTW, don't expect to make much money even IF you do sell your soul to the record companies.
- publishing the full Blender sources, including old and new development, under the GNU GPL license ('Free Software'). The NaN mobile technology will not be included in this.
Sounds like the GPL to me...
I have a similar laptop, with a p120 and 48 megs of ram, and find web browsing wonderful with either opera or dillo under linux... ;-)
Old machines require better written software then new ones, that's all
The large swap space is because sorcerer by default uses a tempfs drive for compiling stuff on, so you need to have enough ram+swap to run gcc, make, etc and also to store the source, object files, etc...
Makes it nice and fast, but at the expense of needing some decent swap space and ram....
Everyone knows linux kernels are rather unstable until the mid teens of each major release... .18 or so typically...
Would you rather them hold off on all the bugfixes?
The kernel releases will taper off when the series really becomes stable, like around
Mod this one up ;-)
Not only is this a cool project, they have good comparisons of open source implementations of telephony codecs..
Depends on your soundcard drivers.. The SB live I have has drivers that let multiple streams into the card, so you could hear and have your quake audio...
This was a slash clone. Not all of the work was his, a lot was other students and probably a handfull of off campus people too.. Those hadnful of off campus people have never signed an agreement with the school, and have had their work stolen from them and the school claim it as their own.
Correct. If you agree to another licence by distributing your code as part of a project with the other licence, your work is in that distribution under the other licence.
However, your work in patch form or whatever, could also be distributed seperatly at your discression under any old license you choose.
"I don't like the GPL because it tells me what I can and can't do with code I wrote, not just code I found."
Wrong. You own the rights to any code you wrote, and can release it again under any license you choose..
How many processors in that E10K?
And what task it it that you are doing?
Sun machines don't have great processors, but are decently fast for interger work, and have great I/O throuput. They are also easily scalable, and feature redundancy, redundancy, and redundancy.