I mixed up motion capture and camera tracking. Sorry.
Although... it seems that if the Tomato branch system captures points on a subject from two angles it could reconstruct motion data since that is sort of what it does.
nVidia and AMD are currently looking at real-time ray tracing, because that's where intel is going and they have to compete. There is also CUDA and OpenCL, and the next stepping for GPUs is almost half of the current. (meaning performance/cost ~doubles) Anandtech says AMD promises a 22nm card this year still. GPUs are no longer toys; they are a form-factor for supercomputers.
I don't think for example caustics would work very well with voxels, but a hybrid solution would perhaps be ideal, where you could have voxels alongside normal polygons. This does however mean that these guys would have to sell their software as an addition to some Id/cry/UDK etc. engine which is much less glamorous than revolutionizing computer game graphics. They appear to enjoy the attention a little too much for their own good.
The ISS was conceived as a symbol for international cooperation in space. With war being what has tightened the budget so, I hate to think what smothering this baby in its crib means for mankind.
"As of February 2010, a 2011/2012 launch of an Ad Astra VF-200 200 kW VASIMR electromagnetic thruster is planned for placement and testing on the International Space Station. The VF-200 is a flight version of the VX-200.[33] though it may be later.[34][35] Since the available power from the ISS is less than 200 kW, the ISS VASIMR will include a trickle-charged battery system allowing for 15 min pulses of thrust. Testing of the engine on ISS is valuable because ISS orbits at a relatively low altitude and experiences fairly high levels of atmospheric drag, making periodic boosts of altitude necessary. Currently, altitude reboosting by chemical rockets fulfills this requirement. If the tests of VASIMR reboosting of the ISS goes according to plan, the increase in specific impulse could mean that the cost of fuel for altitude reboosting will be one-twentieth of the current $210 million annual cost.[34] Hydrogen is generated by the ISS as a by-product, which is currently vented into space." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
Seriously, what the hell? Does the ISS really have no use beyond 2020, who are these unnamed 'partners', and do they really think they have the final say as to what happens to the billions worth of international moneys that have been invested in the ISS?
Naturally I'm paranoid about what AVG and Comodo have not detected since then. NOD32 didn't say anything either about my normal use, but I'm actually glad the technique is becoming a threat that AV suppliers must address.
The only way to accelerate a particle past the speed of light is to supply it with greater-than-infinity energy, or for the mass of the particle to decrease below zero.
I'm not going to claim otherwise, but I think the requirement can be 're-factored' as demanding a particle smaller than planck length. Such a particle could perhaps contain more energy than we observe in this universe. - Perhaps this universe was born out of the decay of such a particle. - Regardless, I seem to remember that the Standard Model had little opinion about the furthest edge of this extreme.
The article has its obvious flaws, detailed in many other posts. My personal experience of games in education comes from 1994, when I was in 5th grade. It was a side-scrolling platform jumper that taught us to spell English words, not our native tongue. A few years later there was a 3D FPS called "Spelling of the Dead" or somesuch which had you spell the words on the screen to fire the gun you used to kill zombies that were attacking.
IMO these games don't just make you "more intelligent" but rather train you in a few specific types of tasks. They don't teach you common sense or how to make fewer expensive mistakes. They don't provide you with a library of information on which to draw upon when planning for future events, and they don't teach you people skills. I do however think that games that aide in this process can be made, improved upon, and tailored to the specific needs of different children. However, the contents needed for them to be general enough would lead to expenses that dwarf the budget of "AAA" titles. I think that they would have to be part of a nation's annual budget.
The scary part is that this subject was even up for debate.
It is an essential part of democracy to debate issues even when they seem obvious. You have the right to be heard even when no one wants to listen, not because of haughty idealism but because people turn obnoxious or even violent when they are ignored.
IMO patience and tolerance should not be considered an indulgence but rather a way of life.
The Bastard Operator From Hell would like a word with you.
I assume you mean in a mobile application, and I think that the physics involved would require so much force for the air cushion to be compressed that the rest of the computer might be a goner.
What I'm more concerned with is if this fan always has to be mounted horizontally, and if I'll need to lay my ATX tower flat or manually set the fan spinning to make it overcome friction.
Some of the things you think are good others think are bad. That's why there are many programming languages. Take a look at node.js if you want to know about some of the things JS is really good at.
Blender 3D isn't the ugly duckling it used to be. It seems to have really picked up some good winds with its UI revamp, and there's a new internal rendering engine on the way. There are also nice tools for soft body deformation and other physics, a community render grid, and integrated teamware. But more importantly the user community produces a lot of video tutorials and they're friendly to newbies. With all the money to be saved through all of this, a small studio can buy beefy workstations and do GPU rendering instead.
IANAM, but AFAIK GÃdel's incompleteness theorems apply to almost everything except axiomatic set theories specifically designed to avoid it. Likely what the OP referred to was that the sought isolation is highly improbable since in order to interact with its environment and therefore be a "living organism" it needs to be subject to death and disease and permeable to such currents of life. GITs sort of says that all systems fail when they get complex enough, which might not be a reason for solipsism since that would assume that the universe is fundamentally a logical place.
What I think is that these researchers are imagining is an island of stability and perfection, or an ultimate immune system, but I think life is more about having the right tool for the job and finding your niche.
If my calculations are correct, 1 exaflop with today's best hardware translates to roughly 2000 m^2 worth of CPU area. Reportedly a little less than half an American football field.
Still I'm not sure if it's enough for what I want, namely to create new lifeforms, artificially evolved to say live on a partially terraformed Mars. - That or give teens genetic upgrades for irises which change colour with their mood. The latter of these seems more likely to be met with commercial success.
Well there's yer problem! But seriously, it's well-known that GPU acceleration isn't very useful for database applications. However, compared to desktop computers your field is a bit of a niche.
People who are very happy with existing GPU acceleration is 3D artists. Most implementations right now are in CUDA, but OpenCL is getting more common. Witness its power here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bDaRXvXG0E Another niche, it is true, but that rendering engine could soon be powering games in realtime. Then there's WebGL, which is still waiting for a killer app.
It's HTML5. It supports geolocation, but it asks if you want to share that information. If you answer yes on a PC, the server is sent the location of your ISP and that is nothing new or dramatic. HTML5 also mentions the accuracy of this information, which could be something like a 20km radius.
If however you share it on a smartphone with built-in GPS, the information can be just as accurate as normal GPS. This can be used for the old Big Brother is Watching You schemes, or it can be used for annotated reality.
Unless your web browser or user isn't trustworthy, there's no problem in the short term. However, most users default to saying "yes" to anything to make the bloody thing work, so there will be a big enough market for corruption here too.
"The four armed contractors, Scott Helvenston, Jerko Zovko, Wesley Batalona and Mike Teague, were killed, dragged from their cars, beaten, and set ablaze. Their burned corpses were then dragged through the streets before being hanged over a bridge crossing the Euphrates."
They do however want to be like movie stars, athletes, or millionaires. Twitter's "Follow" button is probably correctly labelled even if there's the S/N issue.
People have a need for leaders, and IMO there's nothing wrong with that when it reduces duplication of effort, but recently a lot of assholes have been leading the pack to everybody's disgrace.
Slashdot Mirror
Besides which, how do "industrial applications" provide more of a "real" value than the jewelry industry?
Used in ICs, which mine BTC. Use BTC to buy bling! That, or fold proteins, cure cancer, and live forever.
I mixed up motion capture and camera tracking. Sorry.
Although... it seems that if the Tomato branch system captures points on a subject from two angles it could reconstruct motion data since that is sort of what it does.
Woops! Copypasted the wrong video.
This one is more informative.
http://www.blendercookie.com/2011/07/14/gsoc-tomato-branch-camera-tracking/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blendercookiecom+(Blender+Cookie)
Bottoms-up on the info:
http://graphicall.org/271
Blender Tomato Branch
http://www.vimeo.com/26420002
Latest build
http://graphicall.org/?keywords=tomato
You can find the devs on #blendercoders @ freenode.
nVidia and AMD are currently looking at real-time ray tracing, because that's where intel is going and they have to compete. There is also CUDA and OpenCL, and the next stepping for GPUs is almost half of the current. (meaning performance/cost ~doubles) Anandtech says AMD promises a 22nm card this year still. GPUs are no longer toys; they are a form-factor for supercomputers.
I don't think for example caustics would work very well with voxels, but a hybrid solution would perhaps be ideal, where you could have voxels alongside normal polygons. This does however mean that these guys would have to sell their software as an addition to some Id/cry/UDK etc. engine which is much less glamorous than revolutionizing computer game graphics. They appear to enjoy the attention a little too much for their own good.
The ISS was conceived as a symbol for international cooperation in space. With war being what has tightened the budget so, I hate to think what smothering this baby in its crib means for mankind.
"As of February 2010, a 2011/2012 launch of an Ad Astra VF-200 200 kW VASIMR electromagnetic thruster is planned for placement and testing on the International Space Station. The VF-200 is a flight version of the VX-200.[33] though it may be later.[34][35] Since the available power from the ISS is less than 200 kW, the ISS VASIMR will include a trickle-charged battery system allowing for 15 min pulses of thrust. Testing of the engine on ISS is valuable because ISS orbits at a relatively low altitude and experiences fairly high levels of atmospheric drag, making periodic boosts of altitude necessary. Currently, altitude reboosting by chemical rockets fulfills this requirement. If the tests of VASIMR reboosting of the ISS goes according to plan, the increase in specific impulse could mean that the cost of fuel for altitude reboosting will be one-twentieth of the current $210 million annual cost.[34] Hydrogen is generated by the ISS as a by-product, which is currently vented into space."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
Seriously, what the hell? Does the ISS really have no use beyond 2020, who are these unnamed 'partners', and do they really think they have the final say as to what happens to the billions worth of international moneys that have been invested in the ISS?
Polymorphic Shellcode Engine Using Spectrum Analysis
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=61&id=9
Release date : 13/08/2003
Naturally I'm paranoid about what AVG and Comodo have not detected since then. NOD32 didn't say anything either about my normal use, but I'm actually glad the technique is becoming a threat that AV suppliers must address.
The only way to accelerate a particle past the speed of light is to supply it with greater-than-infinity energy, or for the mass of the particle to decrease below zero.
I'm not going to claim otherwise, but I think the requirement can be 're-factored' as demanding a particle smaller than planck length. Such a particle could perhaps contain more energy than we observe in this universe. - Perhaps this universe was born out of the decay of such a particle. - Regardless, I seem to remember that the Standard Model had little opinion about the furthest edge of this extreme.
You do realize those aren't documentaries, right?
Someone called what the tsunami did to the reactor in Japan a "catastrophic failure of imagination".
Have you read Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven? - Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIX_6TBeph0
Yeah, I thought it was fiction too. =)
The article has its obvious flaws, detailed in many other posts. My personal experience of games in education comes from 1994, when I was in 5th grade. It was a side-scrolling platform jumper that taught us to spell English words, not our native tongue. A few years later there was a 3D FPS called "Spelling of the Dead" or somesuch which had you spell the words on the screen to fire the gun you used to kill zombies that were attacking.
IMO these games don't just make you "more intelligent" but rather train you in a few specific types of tasks. They don't teach you common sense or how to make fewer expensive mistakes. They don't provide you with a library of information on which to draw upon when planning for future events, and they don't teach you people skills. I do however think that games that aide in this process can be made, improved upon, and tailored to the specific needs of different children. However, the contents needed for them to be general enough would lead to expenses that dwarf the budget of "AAA" titles. I think that they would have to be part of a nation's annual budget.
The scary part is that this subject was even up for debate.
It is an essential part of democracy to debate issues even when they seem obvious. You have the right to be heard even when no one wants to listen, not because of haughty idealism but because people turn obnoxious or even violent when they are ignored.
IMO patience and tolerance should not be considered an indulgence but rather a way of life.
jostling of the PC case
The Bastard Operator From Hell would like a word with you.
I assume you mean in a mobile application, and I think that the physics involved would require so much force for the air cushion to be compressed that the rest of the computer might be a goner.
What I'm more concerned with is if this fan always has to be mounted horizontally, and if I'll need to lay my ATX tower flat or manually set the fan spinning to make it overcome friction.
Some of the things you think are good others think are bad. That's why there are many programming languages. Take a look at node.js if you want to know about some of the things JS is really good at.
Blender 3D isn't the ugly duckling it used to be. It seems to have really picked up some good winds with its UI revamp, and there's a new internal rendering engine on the way. There are also nice tools for soft body deformation and other physics, a community render grid, and integrated teamware. But more importantly the user community produces a lot of video tutorials and they're friendly to newbies. With all the money to be saved through all of this, a small studio can buy beefy workstations and do GPU rendering instead.
tl;dr 10 years? More like 2.
IANAM, but AFAIK GÃdel's incompleteness theorems apply to almost everything except axiomatic set theories specifically designed to avoid it. Likely what the OP referred to was that the sought isolation is highly improbable since in order to interact with its environment and therefore be a "living organism" it needs to be subject to death and disease and permeable to such currents of life. GITs sort of says that all systems fail when they get complex enough, which might not be a reason for solipsism since that would assume that the universe is fundamentally a logical place.
What I think is that these researchers are imagining is an island of stability and perfection, or an ultimate immune system, but I think life is more about having the right tool for the job and finding your niche.
If my calculations are correct, 1 exaflop with today's best hardware translates to roughly 2000 m^2 worth of CPU area. Reportedly a little less than half an American football field.
Still I'm not sure if it's enough for what I want, namely to create new lifeforms, artificially evolved to say live on a partially terraformed Mars. - That or give teens genetic upgrades for irises which change colour with their mood. The latter of these seems more likely to be met with commercial success.
I work with databases all day,
Well there's yer problem!
But seriously, it's well-known that GPU acceleration isn't very useful for database applications. However, compared to desktop computers your field is a bit of a niche.
People who are very happy with existing GPU acceleration is 3D artists. Most implementations right now are in CUDA, but OpenCL is getting more common. Witness its power here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bDaRXvXG0E
Another niche, it is true, but that rendering engine could soon be powering games in realtime. Then there's WebGL, which is still waiting for a killer app.
Hey guise, I found a picture! It runs Debian Linux!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Nokia_N900-1.jpg/788px-Nokia_N900-1.jpg
And, faster than a van driven by a certain woman.
It's HTML5. It supports geolocation, but it asks if you want to share that information. If you answer yes on a PC, the server is sent the location of your ISP and that is nothing new or dramatic. HTML5 also mentions the accuracy of this information, which could be something like a 20km radius.
If however you share it on a smartphone with built-in GPS, the information can be just as accurate as normal GPS. This can be used for the old Big Brother is Watching You schemes, or it can be used for annotated reality.
Unless your web browser or user isn't trustworthy, there's no problem in the short term. However, most users default to saying "yes" to anything to make the bloody thing work, so there will be a big enough market for corruption here too.
"The four armed contractors, Scott Helvenston, Jerko Zovko, Wesley Batalona and Mike Teague, were killed, dragged from their cars, beaten, and set ablaze. Their burned corpses were then dragged through the streets before being hanged over a bridge crossing the Euphrates."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_March_2004_Fallujah_ambush
Tell me, how does this make you feel?
People don't want to be improved.
They do however want to be like movie stars, athletes, or millionaires. Twitter's "Follow" button is probably correctly labelled even if there's the S/N issue.
People have a need for leaders, and IMO there's nothing wrong with that when it reduces duplication of effort, but recently a lot of assholes have been leading the pack to everybody's disgrace.
Defcon 2010 - Your ISP and the Government Best Friends Forever - Christopher Soghoian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDCxzKmROY
Sit back, relax, be freaked out and go make a tinfoil hat out of desperation.