According to Futures wiki article, most 3D films take about 3 hours per frame. The most complex special effects scenes in real movies (like the Superpunch in the Matrix Revolutions) take 20 hours.
An average movie is around 150000 frames. Assuming 3 hours per frame, this means that a full render will cost under half a million dollars. I don't know how many times you need to render the frame on average (taking into account previsualisation, test runs, reedits, etc.), but even if you need to do it 10 times (in full quality - you don't need a cluster to render a rough version), you costs would not exceed 5 millions. Not really that expensive. In reality, I think it would be closer to 1-2 millions. Which is peanuts for a Pixar feature film budget.
Please, stop the FUD, won't you. If it just so happens that your fingerprint is stolen and placed on KaZaA, you can still opt-out of all such pay-by-fingerprint schemes. It's not like credit/debit cards or hard cash go anywhere.
This is just a technology. It's used for buying groceries. If it doesn't work, we can always stop using it. There is no harm in trying.
It was much worse in Middle Ages. Then, if someone got a lock of your hair, they could control not just your account, but your soul through evil witchcraft. They managed to keep sane with just a few precautions. We will manage too.:)
Let me say one thing, MukiMuki, this is not for you to worry about.:-) If this technology is proved safe, you may enjoy cheaper transactions, more convinient payment options and greater safety. If it is not proved safe, the banks, stores and customers will not be interested in using it. Nobody is interested in pushing this even if it doesn't work (except the producers of fingerprint identification systems, but they are not very powerful yet).
And I am not sure, but I would guess the store in TFA is probably using some sort of PIN-code as well.
That is true. But since Finland refused to succumb to reasonable requests, Soviet Union had to invade it. And I see no reason why it would leave if it wasn't attacked by Hitler. So by the end of the WW2 Linus's grandparents would live in a FSSR.
Are you aware that in Soviet Russia programmers were supposed to send their algorithms to central repository so that they can be reused? And I am not making that up.
One of the projects was " " (the collection of software libraries and applications of Academy of Science of the Soviet Union).
So my guess is that Linus would feel rather at ease in Soviet Union and Linux would be better off, since it's communist in nature anyway. May be he would even call it Red Flag Linux...
"Fred Ross, Chairman of the Art Renewal Center, addressed a crowd of over 700 portrait artists, gallery owners and members of the press today at America's premier institution of art, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at the American Society of Portrait Artists (ASOPA) Conference. Mr Ross was interrupted at least 10 times to thunderous applause or peals of laughter, as he blasted Modernism and its chief icons, Picasso, Mattisse and DeKooning, with some of the most biting, yet truthful satire that has ever been heard in those sanctified halls."
It was a really good read and it really fixes in your head the understanding of what is good art...:)
P.S. The artrenewal.org site also has a huge free gallery with high-res scans of thousands of great paintings. Including tasty nudes by Bouguereau for those so inclined.;-)
It's not mrjb that came up with this post, it's his biological parents, or even the genes that comprise his biological parents. I don't see how the root cause of it all is relevant. Art is art, I know it when I see it... Or was it pr0n? Anyway, anyone is free to use the meaningless word "art" as they want, but for me the artness of the object is in the object itself, it doesn't matter who and why created it.
Does anyone stop to think that there may be too many flavours of LCD displays, hard disks, cars, cell phones, webmail providers and everything else? If one distro was better than all the others in all respects, you wouldn't hear about others. Nobody would use them. But because they can steal valuable IP from each other (like BeatrIX does from 3 other distros) they can make sure that each distro is good for something.
Yes, it would be easier to everyone if there was one big Linux and you just had to go to linux.com to get it, but it's pretty simply as it is. Just download any LiveCD distro and try it out. If you are willing to test another OS, you would probably have enough courage to just download something and try it.
You are somewhat wrong about the chances for reoccurrence/occurrence. There are many paedophiles are moral and well-educated enough to realise the risks for the kid and the attitude of the society. They therefore never attempt sexual or romantic relationships with kids.
There is nothing impossible about supressing sexual urges. Monks did it for millenia, and other people also chose abstinence for a variety of reasons. Heck, many slashdotters probably can't get laid, but they don't go off their rocker and rape women. So a paedophile can live without sex just as well, or they can have sex with women (or men), even though it's not what they enjoy most.
Incidentally, child porn and online paedophile forums can be helpful in letting them get some sexual satisfaction and realise better who they are and why they are that way.
Child abuse does not deserve the death penalty. Anyone who think it does, is mentally sick and should be shot (as anti-paedophiles are so quick to say).
Child abuse is bad, but it's not "foaming-at-the-mouth" bad. Yeah, kids may have problems later, but then again, they may not. And it's not like "child traders" generally take well-adjusted educated kids from rich families (I guess), they probably prefer to deal with kids who were already messed up to begin with by poverty, drugs, parental abuse, etc.
So a child abuser may deserve a few years in jail, but taking human life because some girl or boy lost their virginity too early and may be had to suck some dick, is just plain wrong and barbarous.
In fact the opposite may be true. There were news reports (can't find a link, msn it yourself) about Japanese having stronger and more developed thumbs because of constant training.
The solution for the delays is to install motion detectors in each room and have a smart home system (there are many good ones, one is made by the producers of the infamous X10 cam). Then you just program it to cut off the music in each room, when there is noone there and turn it on when someone enters. Then there is no synching problem at all, because only one set of speakers is active at each moment.
Oh, that's nice. Now I finally can justify reading Slashdot all day.:) The material you quoted and the references in it will fit nicely into my Ph.D. thesis on capital structure and project valuation.
This is not a technological problem, this is a conscious decision of the marketing specialists. You can easily fit several films on a DVD. In fac,t I have just bought some "4 in 1" DVDs from pirates. All disks are double-sided and have 4 films in high quality there. Of course, the pirates usually remove everything - extras, other languages, etc., but it's still nice to get 4 films for 4$ as opposed to buying one film for 20$.
Pirates are always thinking about giving your the most value for your money. And the real reason is that there are no pirate cartels that limit competition.
I guess, I need to apologize too. Sorry for starting my original post with an ambiguous sentence.:) I didn't mean to say that the parents don't care about the child, I mean that the "purpose" of the child is not related to them. To paraphrase, "the child does not exist in order to satisfy any goals of the parents", although parents do have responsibilities towards the child. Hope it's clearer now.
Second society caring for anything that isn't under the respective nose of the individual members that compose society is a joke. It isn't. I guess you were raised in the USA and I am sorry for you. My childhood was in the Soviet Union, where the Constitution said "The free development of each is the condition of the free development of all". And it was true. While I appreciate what my parents and grandparents did for me (including teaching me to read and love reading at 3), I am much more grateful to the Soviet state that provided 1st class learning facilities to every child, caring teachers, good books, study and hobby groups, sport facilities, great libraries and museums and all that basically for free. I am forever grateful for schools were being smart was something to be proud of, schools where life was not centered about who sleeps with whom, schools where noone even had an idea what drugs are. A good society is much more capable than two parents to take care of the child and raise him.
Where in the hell did you get the concept of an "advanced" child? I'm telling you straight out with no exceptions, the public school system is incapable of producing the level of education that is expected of individuals of society.
You just haven't seen good public school systems. Schools in the Soviet Union, schools in modern Finland, Denmark and many other countries are perfectly capable of providing necessary education and they do it every year. Meanwhile most parents (admit it, people like your and my parents and like yourself are the exception) can only turn their children in the pigs that they themselves are.
Society will not provide what is required no matter who is at the helm, and no matter what government actions are taken.
Again, this may be true for the USA, but this certainly wasn't true in my country.
Will "society" step in and help you teach your son how to do the right thing even when there is no one around to observe him?
It was once called "the moral code of the communism builder". And for kids it was the "pioneer's pledge". And yes, society did step in, through the actions of class leaders, mentors in pioneer camps, etc., etc. Yes, the society did teach children how to behave ethically and morally, with at least as much success as leaving it all to parents would have (and probably more).
Public schools are incapable of teaching basic human skills such as honour, courage, integrity, honesty and humility.
In the United States may be they are incapable. In my country they were perfectly capable of doing that.
Society is not responsibile for anything!
The Constitution usually outlines what the society is responsible for. I know that many people in the US have a strange aversion to such rights as the right to good education, to food, etc. (going as far as oppose the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for having several such articles). But other societies, and first of all, the Soviet society, are concerned about something (from Chapter 3: Social Development and Culture of the Constitution of the Soviet Union):
the state pursues the aim of giving citizens more and more real opportunities to apply their creative energies, abilities, and talents, and to develop their personalities in every way.
...reducing and ultimately eliminating all arduous physical labour through comprehensive mechanization and automation... ..
With language consensus is precisely what determines what is correct. If people don't call the interactions "parts", then this is how it should be.
Your second paragraph simply doesn't make any sense (or I can't see it). Pardon the bad joke, but it looks like you managed to make the whole "less than the sum of the parts".:)
Anyway, may be a small analogy will help clarify what I meant for you. When you are making tea, you put the tea leaves into a pot and add boiling water. Now, what makes the resulting drink useful? Clearly, to most people it's better than just drinking boiling water and eating tea leaves.:) In that sense they say it's "more than the sum of the parts". You may argue that the interaction between tea leaves and water, as well as between water and the air around are also "parts" of the tea drink. But no matter how much you may like this idea, most people would disagree with your use of words. In English language (and probably most other languages) it's correct to call 1) pot 2) tea leaves and 3) boiling water parts, while everything else is called "synergy", or "emergent behaviour", or something similar.
Actually this is stupid. A Dell/HP/IBM is not better if you are talking about a desktop computer (notebooks are different). You can take a tested configuration from ibm.com, buy the components in bulk and put the all together. You are nearly guaranteed that all computers will work just as fine as if you bought them from IBM.
I really don't see any value in buying brand-name beige boxes.
Even if a company doesn't want to build all computers at the premises, they can at least buy it from a cheaper manufacturer. If you are talking about mass-produced computers for office use, you don't need IBM support, you don't need IBM quality (especially since all parts are made by other companies) and you don't need IBM testing or anything else.
I don't know about Ferraris, but I talked with a director of a Porsche dealership and he told that most repairs are cosmetic (scratched paint, a handle or something breaking off, etc.). They alsmost never need to fix anything under the hood. Expensive cars are built very well.
Of course, I don't think you need to spend 500000$ on a car to make it reliable. It's just that you can't justify 100% reliability for a 20000$ car, so the manufacturers purposefully use slightly less reliable and much cheaper parts. If someone wanted that, a reliable version of a cheap car could be probably built for only 20-50% more.
When something like this comes up, I rarely hear the most important point. It's as if we already agreed that violent games are bad and are only haggling with the government about how much of our rights they should take away.
There is no evidence whatsoever that videogames lead to crime. The only "evidence" we have is 3 well-publicised cases - Doom caused Columbine, GTA caused two kids shoot trucks with a rifle and Manhunt caused one guy to kill a friend. Needless to say, all three stories are more or less bogus (95%, 90% and 100% bogus, to be precise).
I would be very understanding if DC leaders would show us a study demonstrating that 35% of minors playing video games commit crimes as opposed to 5% of minors who do not play video games. As long as there is no such study, the DC leaders are "mistaken" to limit the sale of video games.
I would even dare suggest that minors who play video games may be less likely to commit crimes (the correlation may be negative). The "criminal" kids probably have less money to spend on games, consoles, computers and Internet.
1) We can call them "three design principles" and be done with your quibbles. 2) The three laws were designed for robots with positronic brains, not for robotic vacuum cleaners or computer-controlled cruise missiles. Once we have intelligent robots, they will be able to understand the three laws.
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Forget IBM, I wonder how Google will price their version of this service...
According to Futures wiki article, most 3D films take about 3 hours per frame. The most complex special effects scenes in real movies (like the Superpunch in the Matrix Revolutions) take 20 hours.
An average movie is around 150000 frames. Assuming 3 hours per frame, this means that a full render will cost under half a million dollars. I don't know how many times you need to render the frame on average (taking into account previsualisation, test runs, reedits, etc.), but even if you need to do it 10 times (in full quality - you don't need a cluster to render a rough version), you costs would not exceed 5 millions. Not really that expensive. In reality, I think it would be closer to 1-2 millions. Which is peanuts for a Pixar feature film budget.
Please, stop the FUD, won't you. If it just so happens that your fingerprint is stolen and placed on KaZaA, you can still opt-out of all such pay-by-fingerprint schemes. It's not like credit/debit cards or hard cash go anywhere.
This is just a technology. It's used for buying groceries. If it doesn't work, we can always stop using it. There is no harm in trying.
It was much worse in Middle Ages. Then, if someone got a lock of your hair, they could control not just your account, but your soul through evil witchcraft. They managed to keep sane with just a few precautions. We will manage too. :)
Let me say one thing, MukiMuki, this is not for you to worry about. :-) If this technology is proved safe, you may enjoy cheaper transactions, more convinient payment options and greater safety. If it is not proved safe, the banks, stores and customers will not be interested in using it. Nobody is interested in pushing this even if it doesn't work (except the producers of fingerprint identification systems, but they are not very powerful yet).
And I am not sure, but I would guess the store in TFA is probably using some sort of PIN-code as well.
That is true. But since Finland refused to succumb to reasonable requests, Soviet Union had to invade it. And I see no reason why it would leave if it wasn't attacked by Hitler. So by the end of the WW2 Linus's grandparents would live in a FSSR.
Are you aware that in Soviet Russia programmers were supposed to send their algorithms to central repository so that they can be reused? And I am not making that up.
One of the projects was " " (the collection of software libraries and applications of Academy of Science of the Soviet Union).
So my guess is that Linus would feel rather at ease in Soviet Union and Linux would be better off, since it's communist in nature anyway. May be he would even call it Red Flag Linux...
P.S. The artrenewal.org site also has a huge free gallery with high-res scans of thousands of great paintings. Including tasty nudes by Bouguereau for those so inclined.
It's not mrjb that came up with this post, it's his biological parents, or even the genes that comprise his biological parents. I don't see how the root cause of it all is relevant. Art is art, I know it when I see it... Or was it pr0n? Anyway, anyone is free to use the meaningless word "art" as they want, but for me the artness of the object is in the object itself, it doesn't matter who and why created it.
Does anyone stop to think that there may be too many flavours of LCD displays, hard disks, cars, cell phones, webmail providers and everything else? If one distro was better than all the others in all respects, you wouldn't hear about others. Nobody would use them. But because they can steal valuable IP from each other (like BeatrIX does from 3 other distros) they can make sure that each distro is good for something.
Yes, it would be easier to everyone if there was one big Linux and you just had to go to linux.com to get it, but it's pretty simply as it is. Just download any LiveCD distro and try it out. If you are willing to test another OS, you would probably have enough courage to just download something and try it.
You are somewhat wrong about the chances for reoccurrence/occurrence. There are many paedophiles are moral and well-educated enough to realise the risks for the kid and the attitude of the society. They therefore never attempt sexual or romantic relationships with kids.
There is nothing impossible about supressing sexual urges. Monks did it for millenia, and other people also chose abstinence for a variety of reasons. Heck, many slashdotters probably can't get laid, but they don't go off their rocker and rape women. So a paedophile can live without sex just as well, or they can have sex with women (or men), even though it's not what they enjoy most.
Incidentally, child porn and online paedophile forums can be helpful in letting them get some sexual satisfaction and realise better who they are and why they are that way.
Child abuse does not deserve the death penalty. Anyone who think it does, is mentally sick and should be shot (as anti-paedophiles are so quick to say).
Child abuse is bad, but it's not "foaming-at-the-mouth" bad. Yeah, kids may have problems later, but then again, they may not. And it's not like "child traders" generally take well-adjusted educated kids from rich families (I guess), they probably prefer to deal with kids who were already messed up to begin with by poverty, drugs, parental abuse, etc.
So a child abuser may deserve a few years in jail, but taking human life because some girl or boy lost their virginity too early and may be had to suck some dick, is just plain wrong and barbarous.
Yes, I am sure HP would love you returning the cartriges instead of refilling them. :)))
In fact the opposite may be true. There were news reports (can't find a link, msn it yourself) about Japanese having stronger and more developed thumbs because of constant training.
The solution for the delays is to install motion detectors in each room and have a smart home system (there are many good ones, one is made by the producers of the infamous X10 cam). Then you just program it to cut off the music in each room, when there is noone there and turn it on when someone enters. Then there is no synching problem at all, because only one set of speakers is active at each moment.
Seconded! You need gold (or better platinum) wires for better sound and you can't get gold wireless wires, can you?
I mean, everyone has heard those horror tales about digital audio quality degradation, hasn't everyone?
Oh, that's nice. Now I finally can justify reading Slashdot all day. :) The material you quoted and the references in it will fit nicely into my Ph.D. thesis on capital structure and project valuation.
Who would have known... Thank a lot!
According to what I've read, this technology would finally allow projection of realistic images that actually look like reality, not a recording.
This is not a technological problem, this is a conscious decision of the marketing specialists. You can easily fit several films on a DVD. In fac,t I have just bought some "4 in 1" DVDs from pirates. All disks are double-sided and have 4 films in high quality there. Of course, the pirates usually remove everything - extras, other languages, etc., but it's still nice to get 4 films for 4$ as opposed to buying one film for 20$.
Pirates are always thinking about giving your the most value for your money. And the real reason is that there are no pirate cartels that limit competition.
Second society caring for anything that isn't under the respective nose of the individual members that compose society is a joke.
It isn't. I guess you were raised in the USA and I am sorry for you. My childhood was in the Soviet Union, where the Constitution said "The free development of each is the condition of the free development of all". And it was true. While I appreciate what my parents and grandparents did for me (including teaching me to read and love reading at 3), I am much more grateful to the Soviet state that provided 1st class learning facilities to every child, caring teachers, good books, study and hobby groups, sport facilities, great libraries and museums and all that basically for free. I am forever grateful for schools were being smart was something to be proud of, schools where life was not centered about who sleeps with whom, schools where noone even had an idea what drugs are. A good society is much more capable than two parents to take care of the child and raise him.
Where in the hell did you get the concept of an "advanced" child? I'm telling you straight out with no exceptions, the public school system is incapable of producing the level of education that is expected of individuals of society.
You just haven't seen good public school systems. Schools in the Soviet Union, schools in modern Finland, Denmark and many other countries are perfectly capable of providing necessary education and they do it every year. Meanwhile most parents (admit it, people like your and my parents and like yourself are the exception) can only turn their children in the pigs that they themselves are.
Society will not provide what is required no matter who is at the helm, and no matter what government actions are taken.
Again, this may be true for the USA, but this certainly wasn't true in my country.
Will "society" step in and help you teach your son how to do the right thing even when there is no one around to observe him?
It was once called "the moral code of the communism builder". And for kids it was the "pioneer's pledge". And yes, society did step in, through the actions of class leaders, mentors in pioneer camps, etc., etc. Yes, the society did teach children how to behave ethically and morally, with at least as much success as leaving it all to parents would have (and probably more).
Public schools are incapable of teaching basic human skills such as honour, courage, integrity, honesty and humility.
In the United States may be they are incapable. In my country they were perfectly capable of doing that.
Society is not responsibile for anything!
The Constitution usually outlines what the society is responsible for. I know that many people in the US have a strange aversion to such rights as the right to good education, to food, etc. (going as far as oppose the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for having several such articles). But other societies, and first of all, the Soviet society, are concerned about something (from Chapter 3: Social Development and Culture of the Constitution of the Soviet Union):
With language consensus is precisely what determines what is correct. If people don't call the interactions "parts", then this is how it should be.
:)
:) In that sense they say it's "more than the sum of the parts". You may argue that the interaction between tea leaves and water, as well as between water and the air around are also "parts" of the tea drink. But no matter how much you may like this idea, most people would disagree with your use of words. In English language (and probably most other languages) it's correct to call 1) pot 2) tea leaves and 3) boiling water parts, while everything else is called "synergy", or "emergent behaviour", or something similar.
Your second paragraph simply doesn't make any sense (or I can't see it). Pardon the bad joke, but it looks like you managed to make the whole "less than the sum of the parts".
Anyway, may be a small analogy will help clarify what I meant for you. When you are making tea, you put the tea leaves into a pot and add boiling water. Now, what makes the resulting drink useful? Clearly, to most people it's better than just drinking boiling water and eating tea leaves.
Actually this is stupid. A Dell/HP/IBM is not better if you are talking about a desktop computer (notebooks are different). You can take a tested configuration from ibm.com, buy the components in bulk and put the all together. You are nearly guaranteed that all computers will work just as fine as if you bought them from IBM.
I really don't see any value in buying brand-name beige boxes.
Even if a company doesn't want to build all computers at the premises, they can at least buy it from a cheaper manufacturer. If you are talking about mass-produced computers for office use, you don't need IBM support, you don't need IBM quality (especially since all parts are made by other companies) and you don't need IBM testing or anything else.
I don't know about Ferraris, but I talked with a director of a Porsche dealership and he told that most repairs are cosmetic (scratched paint, a handle or something breaking off, etc.). They alsmost never need to fix anything under the hood. Expensive cars are built very well.
Of course, I don't think you need to spend 500000$ on a car to make it reliable. It's just that you can't justify 100% reliability for a 20000$ car, so the manufacturers purposefully use slightly less reliable and much cheaper parts. If someone wanted that, a reliable version of a cheap car could be probably built for only 20-50% more.
When something like this comes up, I rarely hear the most important point. It's as if we already agreed that violent games are bad and are only haggling with the government about how much of our rights they should take away.
There is no evidence whatsoever that videogames lead to crime. The only "evidence" we have is 3 well-publicised cases - Doom caused Columbine, GTA caused two kids shoot trucks with a rifle and Manhunt caused one guy to kill a friend. Needless to say, all three stories are more or less bogus (95%, 90% and 100% bogus, to be precise).
I would be very understanding if DC leaders would show us a study demonstrating that 35% of minors playing video games commit crimes as opposed to 5% of minors who do not play video games. As long as there is no such study, the DC leaders are "mistaken" to limit the sale of video games.
I would even dare suggest that minors who play video games may be less likely to commit crimes (the correlation may be negative). The "criminal" kids probably have less money to spend on games, consoles, computers and Internet.
1) We can call them "three design principles" and be done with your quibbles.
2) The three laws were designed for robots with positronic brains, not for robotic vacuum cleaners or computer-controlled cruise missiles. Once we have intelligent robots, they will be able to understand the three laws.