ACtually, povray and its newsgroup is the very last place to look for good looking fluid simulation, as all those available are bad hacks by using blobs and particle simulaton (and look like crap, if you dont live in the 1980s, CG-wise). There are quite a few companies that make fluiddynamic plugins for maya or 3ds, and _those_ produce really good results.
That easily takes 15 minutes per cd (burning and ripping), and results in quality loss (as 128kbit AAC is good enough, but re-ripping to another format is a bit much). The time aspect alone makes this route prohibitive...
>This isn't some apologetic green technology that is decades or more from delivering affordable massive power, like solar, wind, etc. No, this is the real thing: a geothermal plant puts out power at nuclear reactor levels. And these things are clean.
Cut your bullshit. Seriously. Just because you are uneducated and just happen to have experienced GT in person, thats still no reason to spread bullshit about other energies (seeing that over here more energy is produced by wind than in the US by geothermal)
They just bought keyhole and put their own nametag on the keyhole viewer. I know another software company that happened to drown in money and used it to just buy everybody and everything they might find usefull...
Seriously, think about it. As long as it doesnt break down, the machine can still get search/indexing/crawling jobs, or take over part of the distributed storage network. Its already installed, its working, and even if its slower than the others, the system google is using doesnt really depend on individual machine speed.
And after it broke down, they are going to dispose them, i guess.
Dont missunderstand me, i thing magnetic storage has quite some time left. But those kind of disks (very low capacity, high price, low access time) are going the way of the dodo very soon. This may well be the only generation ever to be created.
Because solid state/flash disks will rape its ass very soon, and are rapitely dropping into the same pricerange. 2.8 ms wont look nearly as nice if you can get the same capacity for a few bucks more with 0.1-0.3ms.
(and please dont start arguing about write cycle count. If you want to, then properly inform yourself about the current state of affair in the area. Hint: its really no issue, especially in the market those drives are targeting)
You obviously dont have any idea how electricity works. Please dont pollute./ anymore with your stupidity.
Or try "catching" the energy of your toaster after it has finished toasting. You know, all the electricity in the heating coils doesnt get away just because the toast has been ejected....
A) Why would the successful candiate get to write the rejections for the others? B) Ever thought of the possibility that he just quickly cut-n-pasted a text together, as you were clearly not worth the time of any effort?
Generally, more stages== more efficient. If you can manage to keep them reliable, and keep the additional mass because of the seperate engines/ect small.
Still, the night has TONS of black. And even considering the general noise level, the high dynamic range of the images will mean that outside of actuall stars, nearly all of the bits will be zero.
Im sure a lossless reduction of one order of magnitude is entirely in the realm of the possible.
Well, to counter your example (hint: its the same and only example that is ever used. its so old now that it has already rotten away for the most part):
When you divide in carpentry, you also get a cut loss. Whats easier to calculate: cutting a feet in x parts, with 3/32 inch loss as each cut. Or cutting a meter in x parts, with 1mm loss at each cut?
The father of a colleque of mine bought a castle a decade ago. For 1 DM at that time.
Its a lot smaller than this particular one, but after a decade of rebuilding and fixing stuff, its still only maybe 25% finished. They ARE a bitch to keep warm (and to keep water out). But they make an impressive party-place.
Liquid helium, under reduced pressure. If you want to go even lower, than you can use adiabatic demagnetisation (put stuff into magnetic field->Spin orientation reduces entropy->remove heat->shut off magnetic field->the new degree of freedom reduces temperture). Alternatively, you can try laser cooling (the closesed thing to a maxwell daemon we have), or diffusion cooling (with helium 3 and 4).
The current theories also explain the slow pulsars. By the simple way of energy loss. Take the crab nebular pulsar as example. Currently spinning about 30 times per second, it will be down to 20 in a few thousand years. Those thing have huge magnetic fields, and they can couple out energy amounts into the planetary nebular even OB stars usually can only dream of.
So no, its not like everybody was totally stupid before this theory.
Seriously. Whatever you buy, you are free to to what you want with it, as long as you dont violate rights of others. Its MY decision if i lock up the PS3 in a cabinet, burn it in a bonfire or put it on ebay.
Same with concert cards. If people are that desperade to consume a shitty performance, maybe they should sell the cards for more money to begin with, or use a bigger place. Or more events.
But i guess people dont have real problems, so they have the push those non-issues.
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ACtually, povray and its newsgroup is the very last place to look for good looking fluid simulation, as all those available are bad hacks by using blobs and particle simulaton (and look like crap, if you dont live in the 1980s, CG-wise).
There are quite a few companies that make fluiddynamic plugins for maya or 3ds, and _those_ produce really good results.
No, you still got it 3$ to cheap, because you were willing to pay 20$. Your argument is a logical fallacy.
Just take a look at richard stallman and then tell me that you really want to see open source porn...
Thats why i have my email at my domain. The domain is MINE, and even if i change my internet host, there will still be me@myname.com...
Dont they every year?
I hope you are sarcastic...
That easily takes 15 minutes per cd (burning and ripping), and results in quality loss (as 128kbit AAC is good enough, but re-ripping to another format is a bit much).
The time aspect alone makes this route prohibitive...
>This isn't some apologetic green technology that is decades or more from delivering affordable massive power, like solar, wind, etc. No, this is the real thing: a geothermal plant puts out power at nuclear reactor levels. And these things are clean.
Cut your bullshit. Seriously. Just because you are uneducated and just happen to have experienced GT in person, thats still no reason to spread bullshit about other energies (seeing that over here more energy is produced by wind than in the US by geothermal)
The concept of DSPs hasnt really reached your cave, right?
Hint: there are even ARM cpus with DSP coprocessors used in pdas and the like.
They just bought keyhole and put their own nametag on the keyhole viewer.
I know another software company that happened to drown in money and used it to just buy everybody and everything they might find usefull...
Seriously, think about it. As long as it doesnt break down, the machine can still get search/indexing/crawling jobs, or take over part of the distributed storage network. Its already installed, its working, and even if its slower than the others, the system google is using doesnt really depend on individual machine speed.
And after it broke down, they are going to dispose them, i guess.
Dont missunderstand me, i thing magnetic storage has quite some time left.
But those kind of disks (very low capacity, high price, low access time) are going the way of the dodo very soon. This may well be the only generation ever to be created.
Because solid state/flash disks will rape its ass very soon, and are rapitely dropping into the same pricerange.
2.8 ms wont look nearly as nice if you can get the same capacity for a few bucks more with 0.1-0.3ms.
(and please dont start arguing about write cycle count. If you want to, then properly inform yourself about the current state of affair in the area. Hint: its really no issue, especially in the market those drives are targeting)
You obviously dont have any idea how electricity works. ./ anymore with your stupidity.
Please dont pollute
Or try "catching" the energy of your toaster after it has finished toasting. You know, all the electricity in the heating coils doesnt get away just because the toast has been ejected....
Well, THIS version has a better quality. While the "old" 1080i was a rip of a tv transport stream with 16Mbit MPEG2, this on has >18Mbit H.264
2 Years of contract leach, after which the non-replaceable batterie will be dead: truely priceless
A) Why would the successful candiate get to write the rejections for the others?
B) Ever thought of the possibility that he just quickly cut-n-pasted a text together, as you were clearly not worth the time of any effort?
Generally, more stages== more efficient.
If you can manage to keep them reliable, and keep the additional mass because of the seperate engines/ect small.
Dont they use anamorphic lenses?
Still, the night has TONS of black.
And even considering the general noise level, the high dynamic range of the images will mean that outside of actuall stars, nearly all of the bits will be zero.
Im sure a lossless reduction of one order of magnitude is entirely in the realm of the possible.
Er, reading comprehension?
Slow spinning pulsar== fast spinning pulsar - energy lost over a 1000s of years of synchrotron radiation.
Well, to counter your example (hint: its the same and only example that is ever used. its so old now that it has already rotten away for the most part):
When you divide in carpentry, you also get a cut loss.
Whats easier to calculate:
cutting a feet in x parts, with 3/32 inch loss as each cut.
Or cutting a meter in x parts, with 1mm loss at each cut?
Just try it out...
The father of a colleque of mine bought a castle a decade ago. For 1 DM at that time.
Its a lot smaller than this particular one, but after a decade of rebuilding and fixing stuff, its still only maybe 25% finished. They ARE a bitch to keep warm (and to keep water out). But they make an impressive party-place.
Liquid helium, under reduced pressure.
If you want to go even lower, than you can use adiabatic demagnetisation (put stuff into magnetic field->Spin orientation reduces entropy->remove heat->shut off magnetic field->the new degree of freedom reduces temperture).
Alternatively, you can try laser cooling (the closesed thing to a maxwell daemon we have), or diffusion cooling (with helium 3 and 4).
Suicide bombers dont consist of repeated offenders...
The current theories also explain the slow pulsars.
By the simple way of energy loss.
Take the crab nebular pulsar as example. Currently spinning about 30 times per second, it will be down to 20 in a few thousand years. Those thing have huge magnetic fields, and they can couple out energy amounts into the planetary nebular even OB stars usually can only dream of.
So no, its not like everybody was totally stupid before this theory.
Seriously.
Whatever you buy, you are free to to what you want with it, as long as you dont violate rights of others.
Its MY decision if i lock up the PS3 in a cabinet, burn it in a bonfire or put it on ebay.
Same with concert cards.
If people are that desperade to consume a shitty performance, maybe they should sell the cards for more money to begin with, or use a bigger place. Or more events.
But i guess people dont have real problems, so they have the push those non-issues.