So it's all about the AMD compiler choking on your kernel? And this is the reason why it works on Apple hardware with Apple's compiler? Understandable. I don't think anybody was automatically assuming the Blender developers were to blame. Nothing but respect for all of them.
Supposedly they're working on it. I've had similar issues when trying experiment with OpenCL mode. Sorry to hear you're problems with your 460. I have three and they all work fine. Great for Cycles. You might try Luxrender or smallluxgpu for your GPU (both work well with blender). Have you tried either?
Blender isn't perfect but Maya has it's own bag of very frustrating issues. Almost nobody uses Maya straight out of the box anyway. Most major studios do a serious amount of custom development to get Maya into a workable state and while Mental Ray is a very good renderer, Maya's internal is not at all. FWIW, there is a Blender exporter for MR as well, but i'm not sure how developed it is. If you don't like the look of Cycles, which is understandable since it's still in it's infancy and needs a lot of work (it doesn't even support true motion blur yet, although it can output motion vectors), there are any number of external renderers. The advantage to Cycles is that it's a path tracer that runs on the GPU and can give you realtime feedback in the viewport that is identical to a render (WYSIWYG). It's very very fast, but still needs a lot of work to bring up the level of accuracy and usability. Absolutely it's not ready for Hollywood out of the box, but if studios, collectively, all put the same amount of work into Blender as they did into developing scripts, plugins, and so on for commercial projects, it would be ready. It would be nice if studies could learn to cooperate like that. If they did, not only could they shatter the Autodesk monopoly, they could take the software out of the equation and focus more on things like artist talent and so on.
The renderer they used is a GPU based path tracer called Cycles (there is a CPU fallback as well but in comparison it's very, very, very slow). The renderer supports both OpenCL and NVIDIA's CUDA but is a lot faster more mature with CUDA... and yes, to take advantage to CUDA in Linux you do need to use the NVIDIA binaries so far as I know. I'm not familiar with the details but if NVIDIA has supplied hardware to the blender foundation it could explain CUDA being more mature.
Bukhari:: Book 7:: Volume 62:: Hadith 88:: Narrated 'Ursa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
If there is no objective right or wrong, no objective morality, then how is projecting our morality on to them wrong? If there is no right or wrong why not conquer their countries, slaughter their religious casts, and drag them screaming into the modern era (as the soviets successfully did in Azerbaijan Tajikistan and attempted to do in Afghanistan). In my view your demand that Arab Muslims be coddled and carefully tiptoed around for lack of self control is far more racist and bigoted than to demand they be held to the same standards as everybody else.
Not according to the left. They're nothing more than wild animals to them. To demand they act with the same ability to control themselves as everybody else is met with accusations of "Bigotry" and "Racism" on the other hand. It's a "soft bigotry of low expectations".
Further evidence: it comes just one day after Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, and others all went to the UN and demanded anti-blasphemy laws and that the filmmaker be punished. It's absolutely a capitulation to savages. Even in the off chance that the the order to arrest Nakoula did not come from the top, that's the way it's going to be perceived on the arab street. Its going to tell all the savage rioters that they can get their way through violence and as a result there is going to be more of it.
I wasn't even trying to say necessarily that the problem is that it's dangerous for me or could cause social troubles. The problem is nobody will listen. What would you have me say that would get people to listen? I'd love to know. I'd love to know how to get Muslims to reconsider the violent aspects of their religion -- convince them to ignore the ugly bits. I'd love to know how to convince my government that apologizing all day long is only going to make us look weak. I'd love to be able to convince some on the left that Islam is not necessarily a "Religion of Peace". I'd love to convince those in power that some alliances come at too great a cost. How do I do that? I know it's dangerous for you, but at least people might listen more. People would assume I was a bigot, a racist, an atheist, a christian, a jew, or whatever... It's like if I, being gay, were to say gay men were on the average probably a little more horny and often a little less careful than their heterosexual counterparts, that would be ok -- while if Paris Hilton says it she spends the rest of the week apologizing.
There is a reasonable reading of the Islamic text that does mean, you need to spread the Islamic state and when in a position of power to enforce blasphemy laws. This is simply a rather orthodox Islamic position.
Islamophobe! Seriously, though. I really appreciate you being honest enough to acknowledge your religion has some serious problems and I empathize with your frustration, but you do realize that if I were to say the exact same thing you just did in public, I would be marginalized as an Islamophobe. See. There are organizations like CAIR who raise a stink every time somebody like me says something like you just did. You, on the other hand, could simply reply "but i'm a Muslim", and that would be the end of that. That's why people expect Muslims like yourself to stand up against the extremism. You're the only ones who can. Otherwise, things are going to get so bad that the backlash is going to take moderates like yourself with the extremists. I was very very happy to see what happened in Libya recently (the people rising up against Ansar Al Shariah and others). That sort of thing needs to happen more and people such as yourself can help "at home" by publicly telling the truth about Islam and urging more Muslims to chill out.
I'm reading Sura 9 here and I don't seem to see any indication that it applies only towards those living in an Islamic state. If as you claim Sura 9 only refers to those who live in an Islamic state and not violent expansionism, how then did Muhammad manage to occupy such a large portion of the Middle East? Did he go door to door like the mormons? Did he do personality tests like the Scientologists? Did he pass out tracts and get on TV and proclaim you're going to hell unless you convert like the Christians? What a peaceful. progressive guy Muhammad was. I'm sure he never spread his religion by the sword. That would be barbaric! I mean it's not like mosque translates into "house of war" or anything!
Actually. the problem with Islam is the followers cannot pick and choose.
2:106:
None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that Allah Hath power over all things?
What that passage, and other similar passages in the Quran. have been interpreted to mean is that if two verses contradict each other, the latter verse abrogates (cancels) the previous. As the verse implies. Allah can do all things, including change his mind (or as believers would argue, change his commands to better suit changing times). Now the Quran is not arranged chronologically but i'll give you a hint what the last written chapter is. Sura 9. This means that all that peaceful stuff earlier in the Quran, written when Muslims were a minority in Mecca and it was convenient to preach tolerance towards religion were all cancelled by verses like 9:5. There shall be no compulsion in religion? Gone. Thankfully not all Muslims know about abrogation and of those who do, only a minority take seriously.
But it's an Islamic guy's channel who copied his video in the first place. A pretty famous Islamic guy who makes a living arguing against evolution and in favor of a version of the Islamic story of creation. It would be obvious it wasn't him,
I don't think the guy put the video up. He has his own video section on his website and doesn't use YouTube. I think this was done by one of his "fans".
It was Muslims who re-dubbed the video in the first place in case you missed all the praise be to Allah in the video description and all the Muslim links.
Totally agree. I had to go almost 200 miles away to get my Mac's motherboard replaced (and had to pick it up at the store too), but they did it. Even out of warranty (8600m issue). On the other hand, a week later they screwed my out of all my iTunes purchases (long story) and told me I would have to repurchase all my apps, movies, and music, so it really can be a mixed bag with Apple. Needless to say I won't be buying another mac or any apple device after my experience.
I seem to recall a blind test a while back where audiophiles were unable to tell vinyl from a CD recorded from vinyl. Audiophiles also claim gold plated cables sound better (when double blind test show they don't) and that SACD sounds better than CD when in reality double blind tests show that's impossible. And FLAC supports 24 or even 32 bit floating point audio as well as ridiculous sample rates.
I said 128 because the guy is old and probably doesn't have great hearing. At 128, I totally agree and I can tell the difference but I'd be willing to bet money an audiophile would be unable to tell a uncompressed 24/96 from a 192 kbps LAME encode of the same source (even on his best setup). There have already been double blind tests to show people cannot tell SACD from CD (virtually identical to 24/26) but that won't stop legions of nostalgic idiots such as dirty hippie from swearing up and down it sounds so much "better". If people can't tell 192kbps LAME from the CD original, logically they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 192kbps LAME and SACD or 24/96 PCM.
Yeah, but the computer doesn't lock up. It comes back up, but just the mouse cursor shows up as moving as described in the OP. Nothing else refreshes so I end up having to restart X. After that it's fine for a little while, then it does it again. As for windows doing that, it's par for the course. Only on Mac OS have I never had any suspend issues, not that I'm a huge Mac fan.
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So it's all about the AMD compiler choking on your kernel? And this is the reason why it works on Apple hardware with Apple's compiler? Understandable. I don't think anybody was automatically assuming the Blender developers were to blame. Nothing but respect for all of them.
Supposedly they're working on it. I've had similar issues when trying experiment with OpenCL mode. Sorry to hear you're problems with your 460. I have three and they all work fine. Great for Cycles. You might try Luxrender or smallluxgpu for your GPU (both work well with blender). Have you tried either?
Yeah. My portfolio could use work but anything I said inaccurate?
Blender isn't perfect but Maya has it's own bag of very frustrating issues. Almost nobody uses Maya straight out of the box anyway. Most major studios do a serious amount of custom development to get Maya into a workable state and while Mental Ray is a very good renderer, Maya's internal is not at all. FWIW, there is a Blender exporter for MR as well, but i'm not sure how developed it is. If you don't like the look of Cycles, which is understandable since it's still in it's infancy and needs a lot of work (it doesn't even support true motion blur yet, although it can output motion vectors), there are any number of external renderers. The advantage to Cycles is that it's a path tracer that runs on the GPU and can give you realtime feedback in the viewport that is identical to a render (WYSIWYG). It's very very fast, but still needs a lot of work to bring up the level of accuracy and usability. Absolutely it's not ready for Hollywood out of the box, but if studios, collectively, all put the same amount of work into Blender as they did into developing scripts, plugins, and so on for commercial projects, it would be ready. It would be nice if studies could learn to cooperate like that. If they did, not only could they shatter the Autodesk monopoly, they could take the software out of the equation and focus more on things like artist talent and so on.
The renderer they used is a GPU based path tracer called Cycles (there is a CPU fallback as well but in comparison it's very, very, very slow). The renderer supports both OpenCL and NVIDIA's CUDA but is a lot faster more mature with CUDA... and yes, to take advantage to CUDA in Linux you do need to use the NVIDIA binaries so far as I know. I'm not familiar with the details but if NVIDIA has supplied hardware to the blender foundation it could explain CUDA being more mature.
Bukhari :: Book 7 :: Volume 62 :: Hadith 88 :: Narrated 'Ursa: The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Nevemind. Dind't read the full post before commenting. Doh.
If there is no objective right or wrong, no objective morality, then how is projecting our morality on to them wrong? If there is no right or wrong why not conquer their countries, slaughter their religious casts, and drag them screaming into the modern era (as the soviets successfully did in Azerbaijan Tajikistan and attempted to do in Afghanistan). In my view your demand that Arab Muslims be coddled and carefully tiptoed around for lack of self control is far more racist and bigoted than to demand they be held to the same standards as everybody else.
Not according to the left. They're nothing more than wild animals to them. To demand they act with the same ability to control themselves as everybody else is met with accusations of "Bigotry" and "Racism" on the other hand. It's a "soft bigotry of low expectations".
Further evidence: it comes just one day after Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, and others all went to the UN and demanded anti-blasphemy laws and that the filmmaker be punished. It's absolutely a capitulation to savages. Even in the off chance that the the order to arrest Nakoula did not come from the top, that's the way it's going to be perceived on the arab street. Its going to tell all the savage rioters that they can get their way through violence and as a result there is going to be more of it.
Also, if we can't "fix" the loonies. What exactly can we do?
I wasn't even trying to say necessarily that the problem is that it's dangerous for me or could cause social troubles. The problem is nobody will listen. What would you have me say that would get people to listen? I'd love to know. I'd love to know how to get Muslims to reconsider the violent aspects of their religion -- convince them to ignore the ugly bits. I'd love to know how to convince my government that apologizing all day long is only going to make us look weak. I'd love to be able to convince some on the left that Islam is not necessarily a "Religion of Peace". I'd love to convince those in power that some alliances come at too great a cost. How do I do that? I know it's dangerous for you, but at least people might listen more. People would assume I was a bigot, a racist, an atheist, a christian, a jew, or whatever... It's like if I, being gay, were to say gay men were on the average probably a little more horny and often a little less careful than their heterosexual counterparts, that would be ok -- while if Paris Hilton says it she spends the rest of the week apologizing.
Islamophobe! Seriously, though. I really appreciate you being honest enough to acknowledge your religion has some serious problems and I empathize with your frustration, but you do realize that if I were to say the exact same thing you just did in public, I would be marginalized as an Islamophobe. See. There are organizations like CAIR who raise a stink every time somebody like me says something like you just did. You, on the other hand, could simply reply "but i'm a Muslim", and that would be the end of that. That's why people expect Muslims like yourself to stand up against the extremism. You're the only ones who can. Otherwise, things are going to get so bad that the backlash is going to take moderates like yourself with the extremists. I was very very happy to see what happened in Libya recently (the people rising up against Ansar Al Shariah and others). That sort of thing needs to happen more and people such as yourself can help "at home" by publicly telling the truth about Islam and urging more Muslims to chill out.
I'm reading Sura 9 here and I don't seem to see any indication that it applies only towards those living in an Islamic state. If as you claim Sura 9 only refers to those who live in an Islamic state and not violent expansionism, how then did Muhammad manage to occupy such a large portion of the Middle East? Did he go door to door like the mormons? Did he do personality tests like the Scientologists? Did he pass out tracts and get on TV and proclaim you're going to hell unless you convert like the Christians? What a peaceful. progressive guy Muhammad was. I'm sure he never spread his religion by the sword. That would be barbaric! I mean it's not like mosque translates into "house of war" or anything!
What that passage, and other similar passages in the Quran. have been interpreted to mean is that if two verses contradict each other, the latter verse abrogates (cancels) the previous. As the verse implies. Allah can do all things, including change his mind (or as believers would argue, change his commands to better suit changing times). Now the Quran is not arranged chronologically but i'll give you a hint what the last written chapter is. Sura 9. This means that all that peaceful stuff earlier in the Quran, written when Muslims were a minority in Mecca and it was convenient to preach tolerance towards religion were all cancelled by verses like 9:5. There shall be no compulsion in religion? Gone. Thankfully not all Muslims know about abrogation and of those who do, only a minority take seriously.
Ignore my comment. I didn't look hard enough. It's probably the same guy.
But it's an Islamic guy's channel who copied his video in the first place. A pretty famous Islamic guy who makes a living arguing against evolution and in favor of a version of the Islamic story of creation. It would be obvious it wasn't him,
I don't think the guy put the video up. He has his own video section on his website and doesn't use YouTube. I think this was done by one of his "fans".
It's a Muslim religious organization. He should be perfectly safe. It's the religion of peace after all.
It was Muslims who re-dubbed the video in the first place in case you missed all the praise be to Allah in the video description and all the Muslim links.
You might consider reading his link. You might change your mind.
Totally agree. I had to go almost 200 miles away to get my Mac's motherboard replaced (and had to pick it up at the store too), but they did it. Even out of warranty (8600m issue). On the other hand, a week later they screwed my out of all my iTunes purchases (long story) and told me I would have to repurchase all my apps, movies, and music, so it really can be a mixed bag with Apple. Needless to say I won't be buying another mac or any apple device after my experience.
I seem to recall a blind test a while back where audiophiles were unable to tell vinyl from a CD recorded from vinyl. Audiophiles also claim gold plated cables sound better (when double blind test show they don't) and that SACD sounds better than CD when in reality double blind tests show that's impossible. And FLAC supports 24 or even 32 bit floating point audio as well as ridiculous sample rates.
I said 128 because the guy is old and probably doesn't have great hearing. At 128, I totally agree and I can tell the difference but I'd be willing to bet money an audiophile would be unable to tell a uncompressed 24/96 from a 192 kbps LAME encode of the same source (even on his best setup). There have already been double blind tests to show people cannot tell SACD from CD (virtually identical to 24/26) but that won't stop legions of nostalgic idiots such as dirty hippie from swearing up and down it sounds so much "better". If people can't tell 192kbps LAME from the CD original, logically they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 192kbps LAME and SACD or 24/96 PCM.
Yeah, but the computer doesn't lock up. It comes back up, but just the mouse cursor shows up as moving as described in the OP. Nothing else refreshes so I end up having to restart X. After that it's fine for a little while, then it does it again. As for windows doing that, it's par for the course. Only on Mac OS have I never had any suspend issues, not that I'm a huge Mac fan.