Well, considering some larger AEC firms have written their own CAD systems in-house, a few of which are still in use today in the odd nook and cranny, and how incredibly pissed off almost everybody is at Autodesk (Bentley's promotional rhetoric wouldn't be remotely acceptable in most other fields), I could see an industry consortium getting together to do exactly that.
Half the top 100 firms might pony up to sponsor a single coder for a few years with the promise of getting out from under ADSK's thumb at the end of the rainbow.
oh..but heretic! that was fun singleplayer, so this must make a good multiplayer game. tourney time!
Heretic 1 (Doom engine) is the most tightly balanced multiplayer game I have ever played. Not appropriate for competition in this day and age, but don't knock it.
I don't know anybody who's public school 'gifted program' gave them what they really needed, self expression.
Mine did, but inadvertently. I was tracked into an experimental program where instead of taking math in high school, I was bussed to the local State University once a week the first two years to take a 2-hour math class that proceeded at double the pace of the regular math progression, the idea being to have us graduate with 2 years of calculus under our belts.
The trouble was that I didn't really care much about math, and the course was fairly easy to coast through.
The really great part about it for me was opening up that extra period of high school for 4 years (I never did take calculus). I took 8 semesters of art, and most of the 'vocational' electives my school offered as well, like wood shop, drafting, and indoor/outdoor gardening (didn't get to take auto shop, unfortunately). Not only did those classes give me avenues for self-expression, they mixed me with kids from all kinds of backgrounds and ability.
Are you aware how close the pentagon, and indeed, all of downtown DC is to two major civilian airports? Or how the only reason it was the pentagon and not the white house is that the old executive office building made it hard to pick out the white house on approach?
Or, he's in an unrelated job where they use computers regularly to accomplish some task, and happens to be the guy in the office who can fix the computers/install the new PCI card/get Quake running after hours.
Also, given the model of Hollywood compensation, that stunt double made the same no matter how well or poorly the movie did, unless he is literally the only person who can do what he does.
If he's worried about a more general downturn in paying gigs, then while he's blaming pirates, he should blame CGI as well. Except that cheap CGI leads to more effects-heavy movies, which employ stuntmen too no matter how many computers are involved, so basically he has his head up his ass.
I took the original comment to mean lack of funds/interest in researching a cure/vaccine when a profitable suppressive therapy is available.
Actually suppressing a known cure would be so unethical that I find it hard to believe at least some of the researchers involved would make it known. Furthermore, the fact that the cure wouldn't be 'known' without extensive clinical trials makes it more or less impossible to sit on a working drug.
What people are missing though is that Linux is useful because of 1000s of people
Movies are possible because of the efforts of hundreds or thousands as well, but most people don't sit through the credits, no matter how much they like the few well-known actors in a film.
It's cheaper than it was, but you still need a lot of talented, well-paid artists driving the tools to make anything terribly realistic, especially realistic humans. The example Dave gave in that interview sounds like a 2D compositing gag in any event.
CGI and the ability to make radical 2D changes to the image in post-production has completely changed the film grammar. Completely impossible camera moves and time distortions are now routine, and even expected.
No control over content is what eventually sank the Atari 2600 and almost brought the whole industry down with it. No console manufacturer since has willingly given up control of what gets released for their platform.
But, looking at what happened at the superdome a few weeks ago, I'd think that you wouldn't have to outright kill off that much of a population in order to disrupt the services we depend on for modern life and cause a lot of deaths. Especially if the survivors are too terrified to enter the hot zone for food, water, etc. to get through.
I'm saying that this monitor, when receiving a truecolor RGB white signal, won't make a pixel as bright as it possibly can. It's strange territory, because I imagine you need a custom display card and driver at this point, but would expect that to change as the technology gets rolled out to studios.
I very much doubt that. It's not that the 8 bpc "true color" gamut is expanded to a wider dynamic range by the monitor, it's that the monitor has a wider gamut of which the 8-bit gamut is a subset. In other words, #FFFFFF would look about the same, but isn't as bright as the monitor can go.
Otherwise, artists would have to switch monitors to work on LDR/8-bpc images.
Each farm node is a dual processor machine with a crap video card and 2G of RAM, and your 3D app either has unlimited netrendering (no license cost) or you've got a rendernode license on it for your current renderer ($800-$5000 per machine)
Scenario 2:
Each farm node is a dual processor machine with a horribly expensive Quadro FX video card and 2G of RAM, and you have to buy a new Gelato license for each node ($1500, or $3000 for interactive seats with Sorbetto), and the old renderer license is sittign there unused ($800-$5000 per machine).
Is 25,000:1 with 3000 cd/m2 brightness on an ANSI checkerboard worht talking about? It's not the monitor in question, but the tech is real enough to have been shown at SIGGRAPH this year.
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Half the top 100 firms might pony up to sponsor a single coder for a few years with the promise of getting out from under ADSK's thumb at the end of the rainbow.
Is it me, or do the last 2 main page stories look they they came out of the Slashdot Story Generator?
oh..but heretic! that was fun singleplayer, so this must make a good multiplayer game. tourney time! Heretic 1 (Doom engine) is the most tightly balanced multiplayer game I have ever played. Not appropriate for competition in this day and age, but don't knock it.
Not out of the box. And in a nonsmoking, pet-free, toddler-free house, not for years afterwards.
Mine did, but inadvertently. I was tracked into an experimental program where instead of taking math in high school, I was bussed to the local State University once a week the first two years to take a 2-hour math class that proceeded at double the pace of the regular math progression, the idea being to have us graduate with 2 years of calculus under our belts.
The trouble was that I didn't really care much about math, and the course was fairly easy to coast through.
The really great part about it for me was opening up that extra period of high school for 4 years (I never did take calculus). I took 8 semesters of art, and most of the 'vocational' electives my school offered as well, like wood shop, drafting, and indoor/outdoor gardening (didn't get to take auto shop, unfortunately). Not only did those classes give me avenues for self-expression, they mixed me with kids from all kinds of backgrounds and ability.
Obviously it's not racist in a real-world sense, but the worldview the game mechanics endorse is.
Almost every RPG ever made, where your character's 'race' and sometimes 'gender' affects their traits like 'strength' and 'intelligence'?
Are you aware how close the pentagon, and indeed, all of downtown DC is to two major civilian airports? Or how the only reason it was the pentagon and not the white house is that the old executive office building made it hard to pick out the white house on approach?
NO, I advocate pissing in their beer. Won't harm them, either.
Or, he's in an unrelated job where they use computers regularly to accomplish some task, and happens to be the guy in the office who can fix the computers/install the new PCI card/get Quake running after hours.
By that logic, if I break into someone's house, and leave payment for everything I stole, then it's not theft.
If he's worried about a more general downturn in paying gigs, then while he's blaming pirates, he should blame CGI as well. Except that cheap CGI leads to more effects-heavy movies, which employ stuntmen too no matter how many computers are involved, so basically he has his head up his ass.
Actually suppressing a known cure would be so unethical that I find it hard to believe at least some of the researchers involved would make it known. Furthermore, the fact that the cure wouldn't be 'known' without extensive clinical trials makes it more or less impossible to sit on a working drug.
Malaria?
Movies are possible because of the efforts of hundreds or thousands as well, but most people don't sit through the credits, no matter how much they like the few well-known actors in a film.
That gag predates Monkey Island by quite a few years. Not that Monkey Island didn't kick ass.
It's cheaper than it was, but you still need a lot of talented, well-paid artists driving the tools to make anything terribly realistic, especially realistic humans. The example Dave gave in that interview sounds like a 2D compositing gag in any event.
CGI and the ability to make radical 2D changes to the image in post-production has completely changed the film grammar. Completely impossible camera moves and time distortions are now routine, and even expected.
All of which were general-purpose computers and not game consoles.
No control over content is what eventually sank the Atari 2600 and almost brought the whole industry down with it. No console manufacturer since has willingly given up control of what gets released for their platform.
But, looking at what happened at the superdome a few weeks ago, I'd think that you wouldn't have to outright kill off that much of a population in order to disrupt the services we depend on for modern life and cause a lot of deaths. Especially if the survivors are too terrified to enter the hot zone for food, water, etc. to get through.
I'm saying that this monitor, when receiving a truecolor RGB white signal, won't make a pixel as bright as it possibly can. It's strange territory, because I imagine you need a custom display card and driver at this point, but would expect that to change as the technology gets rolled out to studios.
Otherwise, artists would have to switch monitors to work on LDR/8-bpc images.
Eh?
Scenario 1:
Each farm node is a dual processor machine with a crap video card and 2G of RAM, and your 3D app either has unlimited netrendering (no license cost) or you've got a rendernode license on it for your current renderer ($800-$5000 per machine)
Scenario 2:
Each farm node is a dual processor machine with a horribly expensive Quadro FX video card and 2G of RAM, and you have to buy a new Gelato license for each node ($1500, or $3000 for interactive seats with Sorbetto), and the old renderer license is sittign there unused ($800-$5000 per machine).
I'm just not seeing the savings.
Is 25,000:1 with 3000 cd/m2 brightness on an ANSI checkerboard worht talking about? It's not the monitor in question, but the tech is real enough to have been shown at SIGGRAPH this year.