please oh please show me a link to any studio/ect that do 10GB/frame geometry load rendering. The only way you get that much shit in your scene is that you use non-native displacement mapping or have REALLY sucky modelers who are too dumb to use z-brush or subdivision surfaces.
Really, no way. 10GB/frame MIGHT be there with all maps/textures, but only in REALLY large productions. ANd any non-braindead software has a local chache for the maps.
btw: Does MacOSx finally support more than 4GB ram ? I thought they have still the old process limit?
Well, not really. How many render nodes has WETA? 500? 1000? So a 1 or 2 million oneshot, and there are only a few comparable companys around. Rendernodes are no cash-cows. They dont need really high reliability (worst thing happening would be that the frame is commited to another node), they dont have much io-load, they just need to render. There is no way to make with machines like that money like IBM does with its Power4 servers or Sun with its Exxxx.
If it makes sense for pixer? I dont know. With the g5, apple is the first time since the ppc604 compareable to x86 again. If the software is optimized, they could be quite a bit faster (like with any optimisation). But i doubt scrapping the old machines and buying all new ones would be rentable. Hey, they dont have to pay 20K per rendernode, they WROTE the software...
There were also programs that just "deleted" the file and strored the cluster numbers in the "compressed" file. Too bad if you happen to defrag or something else in the meantime. the faq of comp.compression has a lot of really wired stuff...
With my CRT, there is a metal casing around everything between the electron gun and the screen. Electrons have a very limited range in glass, so they cannot penetrate it. With a projector, there is free space between the laser and the projection surface. How do you stop people from accidentially put their hand before the lens? Or looking into the projector to see if its on?
I agree that completely stopping would be a rare case, but at those laser intensities EVERYTHING is awfully dangerous.
The only problem is power consumption is exactly inverse.
CT tested video players for pda, and its sad to see movie running from CF running 3.8h and from Microdrive 1.5h before end of battery So even with an 400MHZ xscale running on full power, the power consuption of the MD dominated the whole system. Well, it seems spinning a disc up to 4000rpm and using electromagnets to pull a metal bar to the right position can't be made as low power as flash....
You NEED at least 5-10 Watt laser power to create a bright image the size of a normal tv. You need a laster spot size smaller than 0.5 mm to avoid pixalation/preserve sharpness. A laser with this properties WILL burn holes in skin, wood, paper, cloth or eyes if he stop for more than a few doutzend ms on one spot.
Those worms pictured in gozilla were based on real reasearch. I also have seen something about a scientist watching mice. It seems that the radiation isnt as harmfull for them as for us, and works mostly as a evolutionary jumpstart.
Its not so illogical. Mice get 10-20 offspring a year, statistically 19 have to die so there isnt a population explosion. Noone cares if they starve, get eaten by predators or have birth defect/cancer. With humans, 5% mortality per year is a cathastrophy, with animals it doesnt matter...
It's really a problem. Those batteries are VERY expensive and currently their lifetime is limited to 2-3 years at most. After that they will be either dead or at least down to half capacity.
I think this is only affordable if they did some R&D to optimize LIon lifetime.
Whould be really cool to have contact lenses that enable local zooms into interesting regions, like the static "high magnification" area many birds of pray have in the center of their vision...
No, the ev6 bus was a miserable failure as far as multiprocessing goes. Beeing point to point, there were a lot of problems with cache coherence (not really problems in the sense of "it doesnt work", but in the sense of "damn. why cant we get faster"). Plus the need for a few hundred pins per cpu on the northbridge made it impossible do to more than 2 cpus anyway (and even with only dual, the 760MP northbridge was a >1000 pin monster).
because people dont understand file extensions. They dont know that.jpg or.gif are pictures and.exe are programs. There is a tab in the explorer where the filetype is shown in plaintext. People who dont understand the meaning of the extensions wouldnt benefit from seeing them, and people who understand them are smart enough to turn them on.
Btw: in space there is no friction, and all other planets are so light compared to the sun (even jupiter), that their gravitational influence for an object in the inner solar system mostly can be neglegted. So mars CANT spiral. It will crash or have an eliptic orbit.
Well, you are mostly right. BUT: If an anti-particle enters the black hole, it LOSES mass. So its a process in which energy is emitted outside of the event horizon and the mass inside the event horizon is decreased. That no mass actually transfered out of the black hole is only a semantic problem (like tunneling, ect).
I cant really speak about the asymetry that enables this process, because its a few years about my quantum physics level, but it could be possible.
Btw: There are theories that the resulting radiation isnt REALLY blackbody radiation, but only "shaped" like BR, but with an "overlayed" information contend.
Well, enders game may be quite realistic, but the whole series becomes more and more fantasy like towards the end. (with things like thought inducted teleportation, ect)
The problem is that even if the 9vs are 6 1.5v in serial, be adds them to 2 other 1.5Vs with a MUCH higher capacity.
The 9V blocks will be drained after a very short time. I REALLY doubt you can get more then 2-3h music out of that pack
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Plutonium ISNT the most toxic substance on earth. Its the most toxic base element, but e.g. butolinotoxin has more than 50000times stronger toxic effect. In fact, the TD50 of Pu236 is compareable to nicotin.
Its not healthy, yes, but it isnt that bad.
Hey, where are the conspirency theorists...
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In order to work correctly, those tags do some kind of handshake with the base station and demand a timeslot for communication. There is work on jammers that just simulate a really high number of different recievers, thus preventing any timeslot from actual use.
leave it away. Or do you know a cluster that isnt parallel? 12Nodes is as small as clusters can be, so "a small cluster" would be a better description than "a massivly parallel cluster".
(But it really looks cool, and 12v dc via lab psu is cool,too.)
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please oh please show me a link to any studio/ect that do 10GB/frame geometry load rendering. The only way you get that much shit in your scene is that you use non-native displacement mapping or have REALLY sucky modelers who are too dumb to use z-brush or subdivision surfaces.
/frame MIGHT be there with all maps/textures, but only in REALLY large productions. ANd any non-braindead software has a local chache for the maps.
Really, no way. 10GB
btw: Does MacOSx finally support more than 4GB ram ? I thought they have still the old process limit?
Well, not really.
How many render nodes has WETA? 500? 1000? So a 1 or 2 million oneshot, and there are only a few comparable companys around. Rendernodes are no cash-cows. They dont need really high reliability (worst thing happening would be that the frame is commited to another node), they dont have much io-load, they just need to render. There is no way to make with machines like that money like IBM does with its Power4 servers or Sun with its Exxxx.
If it makes sense for pixer? I dont know. With the g5, apple is the first time since the ppc604 compareable to x86 again. If the software is optimized, they could be quite a bit faster (like with any optimisation). But i doubt scrapping the old machines and buying all new ones would be rentable. Hey, they dont have to pay 20K per rendernode, they WROTE the software...
There were also programs that just "deleted" the file and strored the cluster numbers in the "compressed" file. Too bad if you happen to defrag or something else in the meantime.
the faq of comp.compression has a lot of really wired stuff...
With my CRT, there is a metal casing around everything between the electron gun and the screen. Electrons have a very limited range in glass, so they cannot penetrate it.
With a projector, there is free space between the laser and the projection surface.
How do you stop people from accidentially put their hand before the lens? Or looking into the projector to see if its on?
I agree that completely stopping would be a rare case, but at those laser intensities EVERYTHING is awfully dangerous.
The only problem is power consumption is exactly inverse.
CT tested video players for pda, and its sad to see movie running from CF running 3.8h and from Microdrive 1.5h before end of battery
So even with an 400MHZ xscale running on full power, the power consuption of the MD dominated the whole system.
Well, it seems spinning a disc up to 4000rpm and using electromagnets to pull a metal bar to the right position can't be made as low power as flash....
Well, my raid array is 3.5 MILLION times as large as the floppy of my first computer (cpc6128).
RIDICULOUS!!!!!!1111
And YOUR OS is FOUR HUNDERED TIMES BIGGER then cpm 2.1
Dont you think a security hole that is VERY OLD and still there is a lot worse than one that just slipped in with the last revision?
You NEED at least 5-10 Watt laser power to create a bright image the size of a normal tv. You need a laster spot size smaller than 0.5 mm to avoid pixalation/preserve sharpness.
A laser with this properties WILL burn holes in skin, wood, paper, cloth or eyes if he stop for more than a few doutzend ms on one spot.
Those worms pictured in gozilla were based on real reasearch.
I also have seen something about a scientist watching mice. It seems that the radiation isnt as harmfull for them as for us, and works mostly as a evolutionary jumpstart.
Its not so illogical. Mice get 10-20 offspring a year, statistically 19 have to die so there isnt a population explosion. Noone cares if they starve, get eaten by predators or have birth defect/cancer. With humans, 5% mortality per year is a cathastrophy, with animals it doesnt matter...
It's really a problem. Those batteries are VERY expensive and currently their lifetime is limited to 2-3 years at most. After that they will be either dead or at least down to half capacity.
I think this is only affordable if they did some R&D to optimize LIon lifetime.
Whould be really cool to have contact lenses that enable local zooms into interesting regions, like the static "high magnification" area many birds of pray have in the center of their vision...
No, the ev6 bus was a miserable failure as far as multiprocessing goes. Beeing point to point, there were a lot of problems with cache coherence (not really problems in the sense of "it doesnt work", but in the sense of "damn. why cant we get faster").
Plus the need for a few hundred pins per cpu on the northbridge made it impossible do to more than 2 cpus anyway (and even with only dual, the 760MP northbridge was a >1000 pin monster).
The 4MB Xeons MP are MUCH more expensive than the normal dual Xeons.
One 3Ghz XEON MP cost about 3500$
because people dont understand file extensions. .jpg or .gif are pictures and .exe are programs.
They dont know that
There is a tab in the explorer where the filetype is shown in plaintext.
People who dont understand the meaning of the extensions wouldnt benefit from seeing them, and people who understand them are smart enough to turn them on.
Well, with our luck, it will hit earth first :)
Btw: in space there is no friction, and all other planets are so light compared to the sun (even jupiter), that their gravitational influence for an object in the inner solar system mostly can be neglegted. So mars CANT spiral. It will crash or have an eliptic orbit.
We all know that the second impact was in antarctica, while trying to revive ADAM.....
Well, you are mostly right.
BUT:
If an anti-particle enters the black hole, it LOSES mass. So its a process in which energy is emitted outside of the event horizon and the mass inside the event horizon is decreased. That no mass actually transfered out of the black hole is only a semantic problem (like tunneling, ect).
I cant really speak about the asymetry that enables this process, because its a few years about my quantum physics level, but it could be possible.
Btw: There are theories that the resulting radiation isnt REALLY blackbody radiation, but only "shaped" like BR, but with an "overlayed" information contend.
Well, enders game may be quite realistic, but the whole series becomes more and more fantasy like towards the end.
(with things like thought inducted teleportation, ect)
The problem is that even if the 9vs are 6 1.5v in serial, be adds them to 2 other 1.5Vs with a MUCH higher capacity.
The 9V blocks will be drained after a very short time. I REALLY doubt you can get more then 2-3h music out of that pack
Plutonium ISNT the most toxic substance on earth. Its the most toxic base element, but e.g. butolinotoxin has more than 50000times stronger toxic effect.
In fact, the TD50 of Pu236 is compareable to nicotin.
Its not healthy, yes, but it isnt that bad.
Was the sunset REALLY blue?
In order to work correctly, those tags do some kind of handshake with the base station and demand a timeslot for communication.
There is work on jammers that just simulate a really high number of different recievers, thus preventing any timeslot from actual use.
leave it away. Or do you know a cluster that isnt parallel?
12Nodes is as small as clusters can be, so "a small cluster" would be a better description than "a massivly parallel cluster".
(But it really looks cool, and 12v dc via lab psu is cool,too.)
he doesnt know jack about math or algorithms.
btw: tell me just HOW you would compress a huge file with this cluster? distributed BWT and huffman? over 100mbit?
Then they came to get me,but
Fist the anarchists killed me,
then the Necophiliacs fucked me,
then the Cannibals eat me,
and there was no one left for them to get...