A tremendous amount of work clearly went into it, so credit must be given to the creator for the effort. However, for me it's reminiscent of PBJT, in that for me it's kinda funny for 2-3 times, and then I'm all, "eh, cool i guess" and on to the next site.
If the video crashes at some point, a quick recap: it kinda works. You can see at certain points, the images get dropped and it looks like it doesn't totally track perfectly with where the fingers vs. screen are. However, it is an awesome technology and idea... maybe with a couple of remotes you could triangulate more precisely and get that true 'minority report' feel... just what i need for my tri-monitor setup:)
I live in a city like this, where the nearest bus to downtown from where I live requires a 2 mile walk (no sidewalks the whole way, walk includes a freeway overpass, etc) , and the bus itself (either $1.25 or $2 depending on route) takes about an hour from there to get downtown. With a car, it's a 15 minute drive, door to door, including free parking. So if your time is worth money, it's definitely worth driving. The total cost of public transportation in this real world example is $2 plus 3 hours, assuming a 4 mph walk there and back. Or, you can lose a total of 30 minutes making the same trip with a car.
Talk about an iron constitution; there is no way I'd walk into a room and work for hours with a virus that violently kills almost everyone it infects, should "something go wrong".
Why would we do that when it'd be much easier for Pakistan to buy secrets when we already more or less openly trade arms with them? i.e. we just finished a 20 billion dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia... what can't 20 billion dollars worth of arms do that a nuke can do?
won't the paper flip when it starts to hit air, and burn up? How do you get a paper airplane to get to mach anything? I know how to make a very fast paper airplane for hand throwing, but it only goes maybe into the low 100 range... I never clocked it, though. Still, I think it would flip before getting that fast.
The problem in the US is that we stopped teaching how to study/learn, and only teach how to memorize for some SAT and then forget...or rather, that's the emphasis. You can still learn, but you have to want to learn... and since peer pressure in HS says that knowing things is "dumb"(!), you can guess the outcome. Yay!
It's a great joke, but I'm sure everyone else already posted that the graphite shavings get in the equipment, so they actually use a "china marker" (grease pencil).
Whatever else he was, he was probably the best chess player ever. I liked how he would come out of obscurity to beat whomever was the current Grandmaster, then disappear again.
You can do global lighting (the next step from radiosity) with no side effects using interval rendering/raytracing. and since interval math lends itself to parallelization, your only limit would be hardware cost, which should eventually be low enough to have a globally-lit and raytraced real-time game. At first maybe just 3d pacman, but how awesome would that be!
This reminds me of the famous joke about problems taking down what people are saying, when one of the monks translating the Bible decides to go back to the scrolls, and comes running out screaming, "CelebRATE! it says celebRATE!"
Election fraud is already illegal, so what difference does it make how legal electoral college fraud is if you're willing to do anything to win? I'm just saying that rigging a complex popular vote fraud sounds a lot harder than paying off 20-30 people to just vote for your candidate.
It doesn't matter which way the popular vote goes, the electoral college elects the president... if you really wanted to screw with the election in this country, it would be WAY cheaper just to buy some electoral votes than to try to manipulate tons of ballots which won't have any effect on the actual election outcome.
Microsoft built a system without timestamps, where you have to manually enter a date? I dunno whether calling that believable or not believable is more flamebait, but it's sure a wild story.
Good simulations for cheap are inevitable, but they are still just simulations. A studio with a big budget wanting that big-budget look to a movie can still cast a thousand extras and really drive home a crowd scene way better than any computer effect for the foreseeable future. Also, while computer animation of even a single character is now extremely realistic, it's still not a real actor, and we're probably hundreds of generations from having real-life simulated actors (i.e. they "appear" like a hologram on set). Even in the music examples, while you can get cheap good equipment now, it is still really difficult to sound-proof a room without spending some serious cash, thus the master tapes will come out with some room color unless you have an expensive studio. Still, nice to note progress on the simulation channels.
Sounds like it will be just in time for when: 1) I finally upgrade to "regular" HDTV...doh! 2) George Lucas' re-re-release of Star Wars original trilogy in this crazy new format 3) playing some Duke Nukem Forever on my PS9
Another way to look at why flying cars are a bad idea: 50,000+ people per year die crashing non-flying cars. Imagine what that number would be like with flying cars!
The Sun has 80 gazillion tons of Helium in it. All we have to do is fly 93 million miles, overcome unbelievable heat and gravity, and then come right back, what's the problem?
If they can't remember the great events of their life, i.e. memories of being a decorated war hero, it's different. I was lucky to hear my grandfather's stories when he could remember me and them, but it crushed me to know that he couldn't live out his final years reminiscing about his accomplishments, because he simply couldn't remember any of them.
TFA talks about substantial mental improvements, but it doesn't say whether the most disturbing effect of Alzheimer's was reversed: long-term memory malfunctions. If it doesn't help with that, it's worthless. I'd much rather that my grandparents could recognize me and remember the good times, and be bed-ridden, rather than be functional but still not know who anyone is, etc. No disease could be worse than losing one's mind, if you've never had family with Alzheimer's, be thankful.
How do you prevent arcing with wireless power? Seems to me that wireless power pretty much means arcing through the air of some kind for any high-power applications... sounds dangerous in the proximity of the broadcast and receiving antennae.
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A tremendous amount of work clearly went into it, so credit must be given to the creator for the effort. However, for me it's reminiscent of PBJT, in that for me it's kinda funny for 2-3 times, and then I'm all, "eh, cool i guess" and on to the next site.
If the video crashes at some point, a quick recap: it kinda works. You can see at certain points, the images get dropped and it looks like it doesn't totally track perfectly with where the fingers vs. screen are. However, it is an awesome technology and idea... maybe with a couple of remotes you could triangulate more precisely and get that true 'minority report' feel... just what i need for my tri-monitor setup :)
I live in a city like this, where the nearest bus to downtown from where I live requires a 2 mile walk (no sidewalks the whole way, walk includes a freeway overpass, etc) , and the bus itself (either $1.25 or $2 depending on route) takes about an hour from there to get downtown. With a car, it's a 15 minute drive, door to door, including free parking. So if your time is worth money, it's definitely worth driving. The total cost of public transportation in this real world example is $2 plus 3 hours, assuming a 4 mph walk there and back. Or, you can lose a total of 30 minutes making the same trip with a car.
Talk about an iron constitution; there is no way I'd walk into a room and work for hours with a virus that violently kills almost everyone it infects, should "something go wrong".
*more* attractive to meet in the flesh? You must be new around here...
Why would we do that when it'd be much easier for Pakistan to buy secrets when we already more or less openly trade arms with them? i.e. we just finished a 20 billion dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia... what can't 20 billion dollars worth of arms do that a nuke can do?
won't the paper flip when it starts to hit air, and burn up? How do you get a paper airplane to get to mach anything? I know how to make a very fast paper airplane for hand throwing, but it only goes maybe into the low 100 range... I never clocked it, though. Still, I think it would flip before getting that fast.
The problem in the US is that we stopped teaching how to study/learn, and only teach how to memorize for some SAT and then forget...or rather, that's the emphasis. You can still learn, but you have to want to learn... and since peer pressure in HS says that knowing things is "dumb"(!), you can guess the outcome. Yay!
sky daddy... that's awesome. Who's your sky daddy!
It's a great joke, but I'm sure everyone else already posted that the graphite shavings get in the equipment, so they actually use a "china marker" (grease pencil).
Whatever else he was, he was probably the best chess player ever. I liked how he would come out of obscurity to beat whomever was the current Grandmaster, then disappear again.
You can do global lighting (the next step from radiosity) with no side effects using interval rendering/raytracing. and since interval math lends itself to parallelization, your only limit would be hardware cost, which should eventually be low enough to have a globally-lit and raytraced real-time game. At first maybe just 3d pacman, but how awesome would that be!
This reminds me of the famous joke about problems taking down what people are saying, when one of the monks translating the Bible decides to go back to the scrolls, and comes running out screaming, "CelebRATE! it says celebRATE!"
Election fraud is already illegal, so what difference does it make how legal electoral college fraud is if you're willing to do anything to win? I'm just saying that rigging a complex popular vote fraud sounds a lot harder than paying off 20-30 people to just vote for your candidate.
It doesn't matter which way the popular vote goes, the electoral college elects the president... if you really wanted to screw with the election in this country, it would be WAY cheaper just to buy some electoral votes than to try to manipulate tons of ballots which won't have any effect on the actual election outcome.
Microsoft built a system without timestamps, where you have to manually enter a date? I dunno whether calling that believable or not believable is more flamebait, but it's sure a wild story.
To HD-DVD: I'll have a blu Christmas without you...
Good simulations for cheap are inevitable, but they are still just simulations. A studio with a big budget wanting that big-budget look to a movie can still cast a thousand extras and really drive home a crowd scene way better than any computer effect for the foreseeable future. Also, while computer animation of even a single character is now extremely realistic, it's still not a real actor, and we're probably hundreds of generations from having real-life simulated actors (i.e. they "appear" like a hologram on set). Even in the music examples, while you can get cheap good equipment now, it is still really difficult to sound-proof a room without spending some serious cash, thus the master tapes will come out with some room color unless you have an expensive studio. Still, nice to note progress on the simulation channels.
0) get in a time machine because you have to be at least 35 years old to be president.
Sounds like it will be just in time for when:
1) I finally upgrade to "regular" HDTV...doh!
2) George Lucas' re-re-release of Star Wars original trilogy in this crazy new format
3) playing some Duke Nukem Forever on my PS9
Another way to look at why flying cars are a bad idea: 50,000+ people per year die crashing non-flying cars. Imagine what that number would be like with flying cars!
The Sun has 80 gazillion tons of Helium in it. All we have to do is fly 93 million miles, overcome unbelievable heat and gravity, and then come right back, what's the problem?
If they can't remember the great events of their life, i.e. memories of being a decorated war hero, it's different. I was lucky to hear my grandfather's stories when he could remember me and them, but it crushed me to know that he couldn't live out his final years reminiscing about his accomplishments, because he simply couldn't remember any of them.
TFA talks about substantial mental improvements, but it doesn't say whether the most disturbing effect of Alzheimer's was reversed: long-term memory malfunctions. If it doesn't help with that, it's worthless. I'd much rather that my grandparents could recognize me and remember the good times, and be bed-ridden, rather than be functional but still not know who anyone is, etc. No disease could be worse than losing one's mind, if you've never had family with Alzheimer's, be thankful.
How do you prevent arcing with wireless power? Seems to me that wireless power pretty much means arcing through the air of some kind for any high-power applications... sounds dangerous in the proximity of the broadcast and receiving antennae.