How would you render any artificially-produced images? From titles, lower thirds, and picture-in-picture to all out visual effects and compositing, digital computers have a small problem with infinity that would make the above workflow just about impossible. How, for example, could you pull a greenscreen matte if there's no single image to work from?
Also, it sounds suspiciously like MJPEG, which sucks.
When (real, analog, photochemical) film is projected in a theater, the revolving shutter has two cutouts so that each frame is displayed twice. This has always been explained to me as a way to both boost the brightness of the picture and to help with persistence of vision and the illusion of motion - 24fps is about the lowest you can go with a straight face, and was chosen to minimize film stock costs.
I imagine that by shooting and projecting at 48fps, Jackson intends to display the image for only on eye on the screen at one time, displaying 24fps to each eye but staggered by 1/48th of a second - sort of like an interlaced image on an SD television, but in time instead of raster lines. So motion blur and other cues for the "film look" will still be present.
Whether this will work, I have no idea, but I'm willing to believe that he and his cadre of top-of-the-field visual effects artists at Weta have an idea informed by a fair amount of research and testing.
Got any back-of-the-envelope numbers for (total area of unshaded south-exposed residential roofs in the US) * (efficiency of solar shingles)? Along with cost estimates for that approach (as implemented through building codes) versus 40-50 new nuke plants?
The repeal of Glass-Steagall passed the house 343-86 and senate 55-44 post-Monica Lewinski. A veto would have been an empty gesture. Besides, ignoring Reagan and Bush I's deregulation (Silverado Savings and Loan, anyone?) is disingenuous.
What are they going to do then? Connect with their families? Meet their neighbors? Get engaged in local and national politics? This is a nightmare scenario you're talking about!
Given that power generation currently involves handling materials like enriched uranium, plutonium, and fly ash in quantity, I think it could be OK.
The "hydrogen economy" of shipping H2 everywhere for point-of-use consumption is a joke, but as onsite energy storage for a solar array (where you could isolate the tanks with a large empty area of land) I could see it working.
How safe is 12 VDC at, say, 10 Amps vs. 120 VAC if a resident completes a circuit with their body? And what are the differences in required wire gauge? I don't know the answers, it's a genuine question...
indicates it was the Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for the young dancing boys, not the contractors. In fact, as written, it was the contractors who trained the police to take drugs and hire dancing boys.
So you're suggesting that the newspaper's editors misunderstood their own article when giving it the headline
Yes, there is a long-standing tradition of organized child rape in Afghan culture. And we should be having nothing at all to do with it, and we should be arresting and throwing the book at the contractors that are.
For design rather than drafting, more or less everyone I interact with is using SketchUp (Windows & Mac). I even see SketchUp previsualizations on many of those remodeling shows on DIY network. And now that 3ds max can open.SKP directly, and VRay and Maxwell are available for SketchUp, you don't really need the Pro version unless you're taking the SKP into Revit or AutoCAD for drafting.
It's also about the only relevant architectural design/3D software ADSK couldn't buy out with the change in its couch - very insightful/awesome of Google to buy them first.
The $70/month for two lines family plan. Yes, the Individual $50/month has unlimited texting. (For $10/month over the one where you get charged for SMS)
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How would you render any artificially-produced images? From titles, lower thirds, and picture-in-picture to all out visual effects and compositing, digital computers have a small problem with infinity that would make the above workflow just about impossible. How, for example, could you pull a greenscreen matte if there's no single image to work from?
Also, it sounds suspiciously like MJPEG, which sucks.
When (real, analog, photochemical) film is projected in a theater, the revolving shutter has two cutouts so that each frame is displayed twice. This has always been explained to me as a way to both boost the brightness of the picture and to help with persistence of vision and the illusion of motion - 24fps is about the lowest you can go with a straight face, and was chosen to minimize film stock costs.
I imagine that by shooting and projecting at 48fps, Jackson intends to display the image for only on eye on the screen at one time, displaying 24fps to each eye but staggered by 1/48th of a second - sort of like an interlaced image on an SD television, but in time instead of raster lines. So motion blur and other cues for the "film look" will still be present.
Whether this will work, I have no idea, but I'm willing to believe that he and his cadre of top-of-the-field visual effects artists at Weta have an idea informed by a fair amount of research and testing.
Got any back-of-the-envelope numbers for (total area of unshaded south-exposed residential roofs in the US) * (efficiency of solar shingles)? Along with cost estimates for that approach (as implemented through building codes) versus 40-50 new nuke plants?
The repeal of Glass-Steagall passed the house 343-86 and senate 55-44 post-Monica Lewinski. A veto would have been an empty gesture. Besides, ignoring Reagan and Bush I's deregulation (Silverado Savings and Loan, anyone?) is disingenuous.
That's still true? I thought export controls on encryption went away during the Clinton administration.
What are they going to do then? Connect with their families? Meet their neighbors? Get engaged in local and national politics? This is a nightmare scenario you're talking about!
Especially since Jim Blinn was making pretty pictures at JPL from probe data...
That's funny, $12.80 in 1982 dollars is $28.08 in 2009 dollars. Sounds like rates have gone down.
Given that power generation currently involves handling materials like enriched uranium, plutonium, and fly ash in quantity, I think it could be OK. The "hydrogen economy" of shipping H2 everywhere for point-of-use consumption is a joke, but as onsite energy storage for a solar array (where you could isolate the tanks with a large empty area of land) I could see it working.
Fascinating read, anyhow.
It's the reply that's making me think there's something more. Also, I haven't seen many schitzophrenic screeds that short.
Perhaps this is a coded/steganographic communication intended to be lost in the noise?
Then that's a HUGE expense. 12 gauge romex is bad enough.
How safe is 12 VDC at, say, 10 Amps vs. 120 VAC if a resident completes a circuit with their body? And what are the differences in required wire gauge? I don't know the answers, it's a genuine question...
Before Castro, there was the american mafia.
So you're suggesting that the newspaper's editors misunderstood their own article when giving it the headline
"Foreign contractors hired Afghan 'dancing boys', WikiLeaks cable reveals?
This is also not the first time DynCorp employees have been caught engaging in child sex slavery. And these "contractors" are performing functions such as training Afghan police and guarding US embassies that historically have been done by soldiers.
Yes, there is a long-standing tradition of organized child rape in Afghan culture. And we should be having nothing at all to do with it, and we should be arresting and throwing the book at the contractors that are.
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I think the GP is referring to high-velocity lead poisioning, the most prominent symptom of which is hydrostatic shock and organ failure/dispersion.
You mean like how we're all dead because of this one?
Yeah, but out-of-range octets are like making a movie phone number 555-##2B.
It's also about the only relevant architectural design/3D software ADSK couldn't buy out with the change in its couch - very insightful/awesome of Google to buy them first.
To firms accustomed to licking ADSK's boots on command, that probably sounds like software freedom...
...like that arcade game XYbots from the early '90s. Later, after I learned about 3D graphics, I realized the origin of the name.
The $70/month for two lines family plan. Yes, the Individual $50/month has unlimited texting. (For $10/month over the one where you get charged for SMS)
10 or 15? Sprint charges a quarter to send and receive, even within your family plan, so if my wife texts me, and i reply, it costs a buck.