There is something to what you say. In my case, however, if I'm kept up at night and I'm thinking about 88 million objects, they probably happen to be all those blasted sheep I've been counting. =/
They have miniature iPods now, that are quite a bit smaller than the big ones. I don't think it's the storage medium on the iPods that's the limiting factor, a lot of it seems to be the interface - there's a minimum amount of control surface, screen, etc. that people need to comfortably use the things.
At its most distant, Sedna is 130 billion km (84 billion miles) from the Sun, which is 900 times Earth's solar distance (149 million km or 93 million miles).
They were just quoting the wrong part of the article in the wrong place.
This should be interesting, but the article doesn't say anything about special effects. A lot of LOTR involves character, dialogue, fighting, etc and those can be fairly well adapted to a theatre, but there's also a lot of magic, which has to be a lot harder to represent.
Frodo puts on the ring several times, some in some very awkward places to vanish from - the table-top in the Bree inn, for example. This is what brings Frodo and Strider together, so I can't imagine them leaving it out, but it's gotta be awkward to do in a live performance.
Does anyone here have any idea how they can do these things on stage?
"We extract 3D information out of the image," said Mr Criminisi. "We work out what's behind an object and how we can automatically fill in what's not seen by cameras or painted."
Would this technique work, for, say, objects hidden or obscured by some sort of flimsy semi-transparent thin fibrous material? Or only hard, rock-like substances? ^^
I'm not sure how useful this is going to be in locating habitable planets; getting to them long before the intense bombardment phase has stopped isn't going to make for good colonization prospects.
They're just planning ahead for when they think they'll have a working interstellar space program. By then, it will be easier to meet the non-earthlings halfway, too.:)
I'm betting on the nuclear bomb, because, you know, if it was anything *else*, there wouldn't be this huge coverup going on and we'd know by now what it was!
Yes, because bacteria and other life forms that develop in extreme conditions can offer interesting information on how life develops. (As well as more practical uses in medicine, as they probably have some unique and hopefully applicable properties.)
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Cheaper, too. Besides, you wouldn't believe the figures the cable for his connection starts making when he gets linked to from /. ^^
There is something to what you say. In my case, however, if I'm kept up at night and I'm thinking about 88 million objects, they probably happen to be all those blasted sheep I've been counting. =/
Sure there is! Haven't you seen Uplink? :)
They have miniature iPods now, that are quite a bit smaller than the big ones. I don't think it's the storage medium on the iPods that's the limiting factor, a lot of it seems to be the interface - there's a minimum amount of control surface, screen, etc. that people need to comfortably use the things.
Finally! I meet someone who agrees with my plan to make a beowulf cluster of TI-85s!
:)
How's the processing speed on it?
They were just quoting the wrong part of the article in the wrong place.
Coffee - and coasters to put the mugs on, too! It just doesn't get better than that... :)
You mean like this one? :)
This should be interesting, but the article doesn't say anything about special effects. A lot of LOTR involves character, dialogue, fighting, etc and those can be fairly well adapted to a theatre, but there's also a lot of magic, which has to be a lot harder to represent.
Frodo puts on the ring several times, some in some very awkward places to vanish from - the table-top in the Bree inn, for example. This is what brings Frodo and Strider together, so I can't imagine them leaving it out, but it's gotta be awkward to do in a live performance.
Does anyone here have any idea how they can do these things on stage?
Yes, but how much of that is diamond?
I recommend Mike. He sounds authoritative. ^^
Would this technique work, for, say, objects hidden or obscured by some sort of flimsy semi-transparent thin fibrous material? Or only hard, rock-like substances? ^^
Boomboxes: check.
:P
Car speaker volume on high: check.
Subwoofers installed: check.
Subwooofers operational: check.
Earthquake recording: check.
Target in sight....
Turning on....
*RUMBLE*
No more cheap rap stuff like those guys at school have. And they thought what they had was cool...
I'm betting on the nuclear bomb, because, you know, if it was anything *else*, there wouldn't be this huge coverup going on and we'd know by now what it was!
Finally! I always wanted to measure the patterns on my processor! Oh, wait... damn. Anyone know somewhere I can buy a microscope?...
Yes, because bacteria and other life forms that develop in extreme conditions can offer interesting information on how life develops. (As well as more practical uses in medicine, as they probably have some unique and hopefully applicable properties.)