Hear, hear!
Molecular dynamics of large molecules like proteins is complete voodoo, but the emperor isn't listening, nobody wants to believe this. Given the difficulty modeling water any attempt to model a protein (likely surrounded by water) is like trying to fly a jet before you can crawl.
I spent a couple of years working with computational chemists. It was astonishing how many tweakable parameters simulations had. There is only one set of laws of physics - there should be nothing to tweak. But computational 'chemists' would tweak and tweak all day. And after the x-ray crystallography results came in they'd say "see, the modeling worked, on the 23rd of last month the sim I ran at 3pm used these parameters and they came out just like these results." The whole area is a joke.
fluid dynamics has a hard time making water behave in a way that looks realistic
That's a different issue. The properties of water in bulk are very well understood. Fluid dynamics sims are pretty damn accurate and deviations from simulations can largely be explained by measurement error or limits of available compute power.
Eh? Gimp isn't a drawing program. There are plenty of drawing programs but not packages that do what Photoshop and Gimp do. And I'm talking about graphics professionals. These are people who use Windows, Macs and in many cases came from a Unix background years ago (eg. SGIs). I don't think I've ever complained about Gimp online before and I really don't know what you are talking about and what is the matter with you.
There's a difference between doing occasional jobs in Gimp and trying to use it professionally i.e. for 10 hours a day. I pity anyone who works for a company that refuses to pay for Photoshop and makes their employees use Gimp. The underlying engine in Gimp is probably good enough for a lot of work but the user interface is just plain horrible when compared to Photoshop.
srm? Hmmm...I hope the MacOS X has been ported correctly so that it wipes the metadata as well as the file itself. HFS files can contain a lot of interesting metadata.
All of that! Luckily where I work now it's a lot easier. Unfortunately it's very hard to let a movie deadline slip after there's been a year long ad campaign for a particular date. And nobody wants to pay for effects up front so there's usually a hellish crunch.
In my last place (a visual effects company) people worked at least 9am-10pm 7 days a week for long periods, and some frequently worked into the small hours. Maybe a 30 minute lunch break.
Don't work in visual effects. It's a crap business.
Just walked into Circuit City in San Raphael. Looks like they have plenty on the shelves. And next door there's a high tech company full of geeks with plenty of disposable income. Anyway, I just bought one. What they didn't have was games. Just Spiderman 2 and Urbz.
...Tolkien is God's gift to writing you realize that the Scouring of the Shire is one of the worst bits of writing in the fantasy genre and Jackson & Co.'s removal of it was just about the best change they could have made.
But I did enjoy Tom Bombadil (maybe I'm the only one) and was sad to see that cut.
...are really dumb. There are plenty of ways to store messages in such a way that if its cut up into little itty bitty pieces that are rearranged and half lost to the wind it is still readable. Hell, spread spectrum radio transmissions more or less do this already.
Er...Pixar aren't the worst...but they don't pay well compared to related companies, even with bonuses. They do have a nice environment though and they look after their staff.
Here's what I imagine some lawyer saying: By browsing to this web page you are sending a message to the serving company that you have looked at their page. By redirecting the domains of the ad servers you are falsely representing to the first company that you have looked at the ads when you haven't. Therefore you are defrauding them.
You're making false statements about the IP address of a domain name. That might seem logical to people who think it's logical to give copyright holders the right to force you to watch ads.
Constant velocity => time for trip is proportional to distance
Constant acceleration => time for trip is proportional to square root of distance
The ion drive provides constant acceleration. As you rack up distance the ion drive becomes many orders of magnitude faster than constant velocity drives.
Constant velocity => time taken is proportional to distance
Constant acceleration => time taken is proportional to square root of distance (taking into account deceleration)
For long journeys constant acceleration will generally win, even for small accelerations.
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I'd better burn down my house so I can get value for money.
Hear, hear! Molecular dynamics of large molecules like proteins is complete voodoo, but the emperor isn't listening, nobody wants to believe this. Given the difficulty modeling water any attempt to model a protein (likely surrounded by water) is like trying to fly a jet before you can crawl. I spent a couple of years working with computational chemists. It was astonishing how many tweakable parameters simulations had. There is only one set of laws of physics - there should be nothing to tweak. But computational 'chemists' would tweak and tweak all day. And after the x-ray crystallography results came in they'd say "see, the modeling worked, on the 23rd of last month the sim I ran at 3pm used these parameters and they came out just like these results." The whole area is a joke.
That way the people who don't use WiFi still have to pay for it through taxes but I get to use it. Ain't government great!
A friend of mine did that many years ago (just for the hell of it) and said it was a life-changing experience.
Eh? Gimp isn't a drawing program. There are plenty of drawing programs but not packages that do what Photoshop and Gimp do. And I'm talking about graphics professionals. These are people who use Windows, Macs and in many cases came from a Unix background years ago (eg. SGIs). I don't think I've ever complained about Gimp online before and I really don't know what you are talking about and what is the matter with you.
There's a difference between doing occasional jobs in Gimp and trying to use it professionally i.e. for 10 hours a day. I pity anyone who works for a company that refuses to pay for Photoshop and makes their employees use Gimp. The underlying engine in Gimp is probably good enough for a lot of work but the user interface is just plain horrible when compared to Photoshop.
srm? Hmmm...I hope the MacOS X has been ported correctly so that it wipes the metadata as well as the file itself. HFS files can contain a lot of interesting metadata.
All of that! Luckily where I work now it's a lot easier. Unfortunately it's very hard to let a movie deadline slip after there's been a year long ad campaign for a particular date. And nobody wants to pay for effects up front so there's usually a hellish crunch.
Don't work in visual effects. It's a crap business.
...and I'm offering to be first in line to help propagate them.
Just walked into Circuit City in San Raphael. Looks like they have plenty on the shelves. And next door there's a high tech company full of geeks with plenty of disposable income. Anyway, I just bought one. What they didn't have was games. Just Spiderman 2 and Urbz.
But I did enjoy Tom Bombadil (maybe I'm the only one) and was sad to see that cut.
...are really dumb. There are plenty of ways to store messages in such a way that if its cut up into little itty bitty pieces that are rearranged and half lost to the wind it is still readable. Hell, spread spectrum radio transmissions more or less do this already.
If water didn't have this property we'd live somewhere where water didn't freeze - silly.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, you're dumb.
When I was a lad we couldn't afford chess sets. You had to play on imaginary chess boards and remember where the pieces were. Kids today!
Er...Pixar aren't the worst...but they don't pay well compared to related companies, even with bonuses. They do have a nice environment though and they look after their staff.
Here's what I imagine some lawyer saying: By browsing to this web page you are sending a message to the serving company that you have looked at their page. By redirecting the domains of the ad servers you are falsely representing to the first company that you have looked at the ads when you haven't. Therefore you are defrauding them.
You're making false statements about the IP address of a domain name. That might seem logical to people who think it's logical to give copyright holders the right to force you to watch ads.
How long before what you've done is considered fraud in a court of law?
I get zero.
What a good computer language.
Constant acceleration => time for trip is proportional to square root of distance
The ion drive provides constant acceleration. As you rack up distance the ion drive becomes many orders of magnitude faster than constant velocity drives.
Constant velocity => time taken is proportional to distance Constant acceleration => time taken is proportional to square root of distance (taking into account deceleration) For long journeys constant acceleration will generally win, even for small accelerations.