It almost reminds me of a Babylon 5 Episode where an entire race was wiped out because they believed an illness to be a curse and a cure to be against god's will. Problem is in this case, it's just a section of the population and the results of their ignorance could easily pose a danger to the rest of us.
In this case, I think cultural eradication would be a plus... unless you think there is some redeeming value to the taliban. Short term discomfort -- long term stability. This is not saying I would actually support such an endeavor. It's far too expensive and we don't have the stomach for the brutality required to accomplish the task. The soviets did, and had we not interfered in Afghanistan, they would have exterminated the religious caste and we would all be better off. No 9/11. No Taliban, etc...
The wiki is a lot better than it used to be and probably 95% complete, but you're right. There is still a lot of work to be done and far too many blank sections in the documentation.
Nodes in blender are currently only for shading and compositing. There are no geometry nodes, for example. Maya is a lot more flexible in this regard and all nodes are treated as equal. A float can be plugged into any float. A vector into any vector and so on. As long as it make sense to you and give you the result you want -- go for it.
Depends. If he was a gun control fanatic his end goal might have been to create a tragedy so horrific that society would seriously consider banning guns. Perhaps he felt that end would justify his means. It would certainly explain why he would destroy the hd. Crazier shit has happened.
I had a client like this. Refused to take my advice. So I let everything blow up in his face. Then he started listening. Sometimes you gotta let people learn for themselves that they're wrong.
Plenty of theaters are showing it in 24. Even 24 3d. I saw it that way and quite liked it. I also fee it's a good idea to spread it across three films. He would have had to throw out too much, and it covers more than just the main content of the book (such as the appendix). Lots of people are hating on the film for the 48fps thing, but you can still see it in 24 if you like. It's a great movie, I felt.
When they release it on BluRay, I wouldn't be surprised if they released a 720p 50p version. It wouldn't be full resolution (BluRay does not support 50fps at 1080p), but it would be full frame rate, albeit sped up by 5%. Pal dvds of films are commonly mastered at 25fps (actually encoded at 50i) by speeding up the video by the same rate. It's barely noticeable.
Lots of modern video games, especially on consoles, use a relatively low frame rate (even around 20-30) and motion blur. It's a lot easier to add vector motion blur to a video game than it is to increase the frame rate. Done as a post process on the GPU, it's relatively computationally inexpensive. Even relatively old games (i'm talking 5+ years) use the feature. Example: UT3, the first Mass Effect and the first Crysis. Basically when the image is rendered, a motion vector pass is included and this is passed to a post process which blurs each pixel by a given amount in a given direction. It's very very cheap to do compared to deformation techniques or the brute force of rendering the image multiple times and averaging the result together.
Technology is moving fast. The next generation of games are going to be doing realtime global illumination (UT4, CryEngine 3) and hardware tessellation and displacement -- all on the GPU. 5 years ago that was unthinkable. At this rate, the following generation will probably be doing path tracing -- something that's already doable if you're willing to deal with a low amount of samples per pixel. We'll probably skip the simple raytracing step altogether.
Quite a few games, even dated ones, use motion blur and it's hardly costly computationally. It's generally a post process involving motion vectors. Even the first Mass Effect does it. Lots of games have been doing it for quite some time, even on consoles, because it's a lot cheaper to do vector motion blur than it is to increase the frame rate to compensate for the effect you mention. Even my old laptop with an 8600m nvidia chipset can play the game quite decently at 720p with motion blur.
You must have missed the memo. It's perfectly OK to be anti-Semitic nowadays as long as you replace the word "Jew" with "Zionist". As long as you dress your prejudice up in some thin socio-political bullshit veneer, it's all good.
You may have difficulty unless you've actually read the entire of the Sunnah. There are a lot of hadiths out there saying muhamad did wacky stuff. Some are considered canonical. Some less such, and some not so much at all. It would be a lot of work. For example. I believe I recall a hadith where muhammad saw revelations of god underneath a woman's skirt, but I can't for the life of me remember where, or figure out good keywords to google. On the other hand, muhammad fucking a 9 year old is not so hard to find and Bukhari is considered canonical. If you decide to attempt the project. Shoot me an email and I might have time to help. I've been considered a similar project myself.
The content primarily comes from the hadith and the Qur'an from what I can tell. I'm sure the director made mistakes and even some embellishments, but it is interesting that to my knowledge, nobody has even attempted to critique the accuracy of the video.
You're right, some diseases are worse than others. Some are terminal. Some are not. They're still diseases and all of them, without exception, eat away at rational thought.
Democracy can mean theocracy. Look at Egypt. The majority of the people want islam? What then, do you do in such a situation? Is democracy the ultimate ideal? I think not. It's fucking dangerous if the majority wishes to oppress the minority.
Science can explain what happens. The electrical impulses we call consciousness stop. Our wetware decomposes. We, as we know ourselves, blink out of existence. People simply refuse to believe it because the implications are so horrific to so many. It means that life is ultimately meaningless and no matter what we do in life, we all end the same way and are neither punished nor rewarded for our deeds. Until we figure out a way to scientifically preserve consciousness, it will always be that way and there will always be people who refuse to face reality.
I think people get the impression wine is slower because they've badly wrapped games, like Cider games for Mac. Personally i've had pretty good experience playing Windows games in linux as long as the games were originally written in GL... but then again it's been a few years since I last tried it. I would not be surprised at all if DX games run a lot better now than they once did. I'm going to build a new box soon and will probably do a lot more testing. My current linux box is a bit dated for gaming. If wine has advanced as far as you say, I seriously hope Valve will be integrating some wrapper into steam so Windows games can be played without much hassle. It would certainly be nice and if suddenly the average user could play the windows library of games on Linux... I can see a lot more people making the switch.
But but... I thought the arab spring was going to bring a pluralistic western democracy with full rights for women and gays and universal health-care for all! What's this you say? The majority of the people want to fundamentalist Islam? That this was predictable from day one? The majority of the people want to impose their religion on the minority? Why -- shouldn't that be forbidden by the constitution? What's this you say, the Salafists and their enablers are writing the constitution? Surely there will be a referendum on this? Oh? Well that's good. Surely the secular majority will vote for a less religious constitution where Sharia is not enshrined in law. Surely they will!
Brutal dictator Assad may be, he's also a predictable brutal dictator who protects minorities. Give Sunni al-Qaeda control and you can all but guarantee a genocide of Alawites, Shiites, Christians, atheists, and basically anybody else who is not a Salafist. It would also guarantee a detrimental effect on regional stability in general. Be careful what you wish for when you support revolutions, especially in the middle east. Well meaning fools such as yourself are the sorts that will one day bathe us all in nuclear fire.
Depends on what you use your laptop for, again. If you're playing games or doing 3d content creation, you do, definitely, still need a powerful chipset. Yes, especially on the road. Intel does not cut it. For most users, I might agree with you, but most is not all so "doing it wrong" hardly applies to everybody. You could just as easily say your average user does not need 8GB or ram, must less 16, so going over 4GB is always "doing it wrong". Different people have different requirements.
So if you're say... sculpting a high-poly character in Blender or using the new Cycles renderer in CUDA mode, you're doing it wrong? Playing a steam game? Doing it wrong?
Idealists are those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for an idea. This would be perfectly fine if they weren't so often willing to take those around them with them for the ride. I'm in no way saying I disagree with the guy or what he said, but in completely contradicting what he knew to be the viewpoint of his employer publicly he used his position to try and spread his own ideal at the expense of those he worked for. He caused embarrassment and possibly even damage to his employer because he thought he was doing what was right. The question is not whether he was right or not in what he said. The question was whether it was his position to say it. I would not want to hire such a person knowing how easily opinions can change.
My own opinions are very different than what they used to be. There was a time when I would consider myself to be an idealist. Such is natural to being young. I had hope, I had causes I cared about, one in particular, and despite working as hard as I could towards that goal, I saw any possibility of what I wanted to attain dashed against the rocks. I became a realist. There is no point, no point whatsoever, in trying to fight a battle you cannot win. It will tire you out and leave you tired, hollow, cynical, and ultimately hateful towards humanity inside. My advice to you as a (most likely younger) slashdot reader is to figure out what is possible to change and what is not before deciding to let your ideals guide you. Sometimes you just can't have everything you want and need to learn to accept things as they are -- making small changes here and there. There is no point in a kamikaze.
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It almost reminds me of a Babylon 5 Episode where an entire race was wiped out because they believed an illness to be a curse and a cure to be against god's will. Problem is in this case, it's just a section of the population and the results of their ignorance could easily pose a danger to the rest of us.
In this case, I think cultural eradication would be a plus... unless you think there is some redeeming value to the taliban. Short term discomfort -- long term stability. This is not saying I would actually support such an endeavor. It's far too expensive and we don't have the stomach for the brutality required to accomplish the task. The soviets did, and had we not interfered in Afghanistan, they would have exterminated the religious caste and we would all be better off. No 9/11. No Taliban, etc...
No shit. Seems to me that requiring real names makes it a lot easier for people to find you if they want to hurt you.
The wiki is a lot better than it used to be and probably 95% complete, but you're right. There is still a lot of work to be done and far too many blank sections in the documentation.
Nodes in blender are currently only for shading and compositing. There are no geometry nodes, for example. Maya is a lot more flexible in this regard and all nodes are treated as equal. A float can be plugged into any float. A vector into any vector and so on. As long as it make sense to you and give you the result you want -- go for it.
Depends. If he was a gun control fanatic his end goal might have been to create a tragedy so horrific that society would seriously consider banning guns. Perhaps he felt that end would justify his means. It would certainly explain why he would destroy the hd. Crazier shit has happened.
I had a client like this. Refused to take my advice. So I let everything blow up in his face. Then he started listening. Sometimes you gotta let people learn for themselves that they're wrong.
Plenty of theaters are showing it in 24. Even 24 3d. I saw it that way and quite liked it. I also fee it's a good idea to spread it across three films. He would have had to throw out too much, and it covers more than just the main content of the book (such as the appendix). Lots of people are hating on the film for the 48fps thing, but you can still see it in 24 if you like. It's a great movie, I felt.
Perhaps it's the kind of glasses. Active glasses give me headaches. Passive, polarized lens, glasses i'm perfectly fine with.
When they release it on BluRay, I wouldn't be surprised if they released a 720p 50p version. It wouldn't be full resolution (BluRay does not support 50fps at 1080p), but it would be full frame rate, albeit sped up by 5%. Pal dvds of films are commonly mastered at 25fps (actually encoded at 50i) by speeding up the video by the same rate. It's barely noticeable.
Lots of modern video games, especially on consoles, use a relatively low frame rate (even around 20-30) and motion blur. It's a lot easier to add vector motion blur to a video game than it is to increase the frame rate. Done as a post process on the GPU, it's relatively computationally inexpensive. Even relatively old games (i'm talking 5+ years) use the feature. Example: UT3, the first Mass Effect and the first Crysis. Basically when the image is rendered, a motion vector pass is included and this is passed to a post process which blurs each pixel by a given amount in a given direction. It's very very cheap to do compared to deformation techniques or the brute force of rendering the image multiple times and averaging the result together.
Technology is moving fast. The next generation of games are going to be doing realtime global illumination (UT4, CryEngine 3) and hardware tessellation and displacement -- all on the GPU. 5 years ago that was unthinkable. At this rate, the following generation will probably be doing path tracing -- something that's already doable if you're willing to deal with a low amount of samples per pixel. We'll probably skip the simple raytracing step altogether.
Quite a few games, even dated ones, use motion blur and it's hardly costly computationally. It's generally a post process involving motion vectors. Even the first Mass Effect does it. Lots of games have been doing it for quite some time, even on consoles, because it's a lot cheaper to do vector motion blur than it is to increase the frame rate to compensate for the effect you mention. Even my old laptop with an 8600m nvidia chipset can play the game quite decently at 720p with motion blur.
You must have missed the memo. It's perfectly OK to be anti-Semitic nowadays as long as you replace the word "Jew" with "Zionist". As long as you dress your prejudice up in some thin socio-political bullshit veneer, it's all good.
You may have difficulty unless you've actually read the entire of the Sunnah. There are a lot of hadiths out there saying muhamad did wacky stuff. Some are considered canonical. Some less such, and some not so much at all. It would be a lot of work. For example. I believe I recall a hadith where muhammad saw revelations of god underneath a woman's skirt, but I can't for the life of me remember where, or figure out good keywords to google. On the other hand, muhammad fucking a 9 year old is not so hard to find and Bukhari is considered canonical. If you decide to attempt the project. Shoot me an email and I might have time to help. I've been considered a similar project myself.
The content primarily comes from the hadith and the Qur'an from what I can tell. I'm sure the director made mistakes and even some embellishments, but it is interesting that to my knowledge, nobody has even attempted to critique the accuracy of the video.
How do you treat 1.5 billion people. And that's just one religion. It's like a zombie outbreak. You can't save them all.
You're right, some diseases are worse than others. Some are terminal. Some are not. They're still diseases and all of them, without exception, eat away at rational thought.
Democracy can mean theocracy. Look at Egypt. The majority of the people want islam? What then, do you do in such a situation? Is democracy the ultimate ideal? I think not. It's fucking dangerous if the majority wishes to oppress the minority.
Science can explain what happens. The electrical impulses we call consciousness stop. Our wetware decomposes. We, as we know ourselves, blink out of existence. People simply refuse to believe it because the implications are so horrific to so many. It means that life is ultimately meaningless and no matter what we do in life, we all end the same way and are neither punished nor rewarded for our deeds. Until we figure out a way to scientifically preserve consciousness, it will always be that way and there will always be people who refuse to face reality.
I think people get the impression wine is slower because they've badly wrapped games, like Cider games for Mac. Personally i've had pretty good experience playing Windows games in linux as long as the games were originally written in GL... but then again it's been a few years since I last tried it. I would not be surprised at all if DX games run a lot better now than they once did. I'm going to build a new box soon and will probably do a lot more testing. My current linux box is a bit dated for gaming. If wine has advanced as far as you say, I seriously hope Valve will be integrating some wrapper into steam so Windows games can be played without much hassle. It would certainly be nice and if suddenly the average user could play the windows library of games on Linux... I can see a lot more people making the switch.
But but... I thought the arab spring was going to bring a pluralistic western democracy with full rights for women and gays and universal health-care for all! What's this you say? The majority of the people want to fundamentalist Islam? That this was predictable from day one? The majority of the people want to impose their religion on the minority? Why -- shouldn't that be forbidden by the constitution? What's this you say, the Salafists and their enablers are writing the constitution? Surely there will be a referendum on this? Oh? Well that's good. Surely the secular majority will vote for a less religious constitution where Sharia is not enshrined in law. Surely they will!
Brutal dictator Assad may be, he's also a predictable brutal dictator who protects minorities. Give Sunni al-Qaeda control and you can all but guarantee a genocide of Alawites, Shiites, Christians, atheists, and basically anybody else who is not a Salafist. It would also guarantee a detrimental effect on regional stability in general. Be careful what you wish for when you support revolutions, especially in the middle east. Well meaning fools such as yourself are the sorts that will one day bathe us all in nuclear fire.
Depends on what you use your laptop for, again. If you're playing games or doing 3d content creation, you do, definitely, still need a powerful chipset. Yes, especially on the road. Intel does not cut it. For most users, I might agree with you, but most is not all so "doing it wrong" hardly applies to everybody. You could just as easily say your average user does not need 8GB or ram, must less 16, so going over 4GB is always "doing it wrong". Different people have different requirements.
So if you're say... sculpting a high-poly character in Blender or using the new Cycles renderer in CUDA mode, you're doing it wrong? Playing a steam game? Doing it wrong?
Idealists are those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for an idea. This would be perfectly fine if they weren't so often willing to take those around them with them for the ride. I'm in no way saying I disagree with the guy or what he said, but in completely contradicting what he knew to be the viewpoint of his employer publicly he used his position to try and spread his own ideal at the expense of those he worked for. He caused embarrassment and possibly even damage to his employer because he thought he was doing what was right. The question is not whether he was right or not in what he said. The question was whether it was his position to say it. I would not want to hire such a person knowing how easily opinions can change.
My own opinions are very different than what they used to be. There was a time when I would consider myself to be an idealist. Such is natural to being young. I had hope, I had causes I cared about, one in particular, and despite working as hard as I could towards that goal, I saw any possibility of what I wanted to attain dashed against the rocks. I became a realist. There is no point, no point whatsoever, in trying to fight a battle you cannot win. It will tire you out and leave you tired, hollow, cynical, and ultimately hateful towards humanity inside. My advice to you as a (most likely younger) slashdot reader is to figure out what is possible to change and what is not before deciding to let your ideals guide you. Sometimes you just can't have everything you want and need to learn to accept things as they are -- making small changes here and there. There is no point in a kamikaze.