Is this like a bluetooth that works on the energy coming from a radio dish? I thought the FBI was using this to bug buildings.. I usually just tickle them with feathers..
Anyhow, given that your radio dishes whirl around and are able to determine the precise angle a correlating ID is from multiple radio beacons, as with GPS, if your have about 4 points of reference and a unique ID, you can determine a 3D coordinate of the particular item.. So to say they might with RFID's over a period of time be able to track the location and possibly the orientation, depending on how many RFID's are on the snickers bar and the precise amount of time it takes for the signal to return to the radio dishes.. So if someone really wanted to, they probably could use these RFID tags and radar atenaes to do motion capture for a IK chain.. Hey cheap 3D data collection!!
Anyhow.. I always say, what the net and the world needs is more accountability.. And more forgiveness.. Less of both of these is a bad thing.. Less forgiveness and more accountability produces clique cultures (" we don't want you in our clique because you promote all these products we don't, you wierdo"). More forgiveness and less accountability produces (" nobody will know I'm over here building a bomb.. And will spring it thus forth on these unsuspecting people.. ") or (" Nobody will know I'm a sex crazed nazi eskimo who is turned on by teh same stuff ed wood is.. ") . Who really cares about your personal fetishes, come on.. But if you like sleeping with nuclear warheads, I really would like to know about that..
When I was in new york, I had attended conferences on the subject of tracking people's cellphone, and the issue that came up with the businessmen was, would they be able to keep their secret life with their lovers seperate from their wives in the case of the wifes curiousity.. Hey if your wife is curious enough, that just bypasses the whole trust part of marriage, right? And if you are concerned about it, you shouldn't be cheating.. I think some people forget why they got married int he first place.. To keep up with the joneses!! Yes.. Ha! Well there was some discussion in the conferences about systems to control the amount of accountability at every level, where the beacons should be required by law to only allow certain kinds of information to be collected and transponded.. I'm wondering how this is being handled.. And if your researchers are wondering baout the correlation of the ids and if they can be distributed, hey go check out the PIDS healthcare id specification on the OMG website, disregard the CORBA implementation, its a good spec.. And can be modified to protect those being tracked, can unify the ids across domains without trrusting relationships, and is vendor independent and enforceable by the government and standards committees.. Makes me wonder why our healthcare ids are not currently being managed with this system..
It basically works like this, you have at every beacon a database of ids, and when any database comes to know of a new id, it sends the id to everyone about it, along with the source information about the id.. Then the other sites can associate an additional local id, so as to keep the precise id away from lesser priviledged machines.. If so needed.. And the ids can be given extra attributes, like this id has this eye color, skin color, blood type, address.. But it doesn't have to have any of these.. Hey it may save your life one day.. Lets say you went into a store, you bought a sniker bar and you went to the counter, paid for the snicker bar, the RFID is correlated to the credit card you use, then you get into a car crash, all your id is destroyed by the gasoline fire, your face is mostly burned or difigured.. No form of id, if the car was demolished and nothing can be salvaged, lets say for instance you might have been on a bus, or for whatever reason the only form of id on you is that danged snicker bar with the RFID, well if using a pids system they can query ba
I use about 20 NiMH batteries, and
the best ones I've found are the
Energizer ones.. Have you bothered to
hold them in your hand, they are heavy!!
There is a new charger from Rayovac
that charges special batteries in 15 minutes,
they are costly. but I wouldn't mind having some..
If you haven't heard about them, its probably something to do with the fact that I'm living
next door to two major national laboratories,
Sandia and LANL.. Its harder to pull wool over
scientists eyes here.. I don't buy anything but rechangeables.. Buying storbought brand of batteries are like buying brands of toothpaste..
You know there can't be that much that has changed, they are still changing the package sizes, changing charge amount, changing the packaging materials to see if people really do buy stuff based on looks and not on function..
Anyhow, back to batteries.. If you could sell
a battery like a laptop or cellphone for anything else, say digital cameras.. I'd be all for that..
A major difference, and the primary reason I use blender outside of it being a good and dependable 3D application.. You will never lose anything, you never lose features in old versions of blender, you can always get access to every version of blender, from the beginning..
Go ask Alias/Wavefront if you can obtain a copy of Wavefront TAV 4.5 with Kinemation. This is the application I trained myself on for 3 years, A/W no longer offers it.. How do they enforce this? License servers.. You don't buy an application, you buy a license to use the application. If they decide an older application might compete with their current application, they only have to not sell licenses for the old package..
And licenses are non-transferrable, so even if I wanted it I could not obtain a copy of Wavefront TAV.. This is why I feel eventually the software industry will be replaced by open source developments.. Including the 3D software industry.. And Blender is a good start toward having tools that never fail you when you need them.. But I can side with some of the professionals, blender is not there yet, but its realizing features that would not have been developed in commercial application development, because some ideas are soo simple that anyoen could implement them, had they had the source.. In the business of software development the aim is to make money and this often gets in the way of making the software useful..
If you ask the maker of your 3D software, why they don't sell you a copy of software.. They will use the obvious "pirating complaint".. But then you might ask them what proof they have of loss of sales to pirating.. Its a hard issue to dispute, but I believe its being used as an excuse to leverage consumers into software leasing arrangements.. With blender in open source, there may be less leveraging practices practiced in order to regain lost market share to blender.. Either way because of blender you are getting better quality products, and isn't that improving the economy anyhow?
I think its important whether you like blender or not to support it, because its the tool you have to fall back on when you have no other options..
Blender was influenced by Lightwave
for sure, recognize the layer buttons from some
place? Also notice that the hotbox uses the space bar, where did this come from (Maya?).
And the tiled interface, well Lightwave, Maya and 3dsMax.. But the things that weren't
stollen are things like the concept of linking objects, materials, textures.. This is one of the strongest things blender has brought to the table. Also there is an amazing amount of modelling simplicity in it, that has a lot in common with the old amiga applications for doing 3D. I've used Sculpt 3D, Imagine, Alias 8, Wavefront TAV 4.5, etc.. The new version of Blender is much better than it was, I agree, but its got a long way to go internally.
What is tremendously wrong with blender, and why there is all these mixed feelings, is that blender is coded entirely in C by a number of programmers without a formal education in software development.. Its like designing websites with PHP, your interface design is embedded with the code, so if you want to add a interface element, you have to copy/paste the code across the source, this creates more bugs and things break..
But then again isn't that the case for all open source development.. Ton said to me if you want to do something useful, write code.. But for hacked source, blender is incredibly tight and focused, from years of refinement.. I bet some of you didn't know the software was originally written in the late 80s on amigas, then was rewritten in int he mid-90s for the SGI platform.. So technically speaking it wasn't born yesterday..
What makes it unique from any other 3D package on the market, it was designed in-house first,
rather than being designed to be used inhouse or off the shelf.. So its been used to make real stuff with, its not a bloated app with hundreds of features that will get deprecated tommorow.. Every feature in blender exists for a reason..
And otehr thigns are possible from the combinations of tools that exist.. If that wasn't enough its the only 3D app to use a common freeware programming language for scripting (python)..
Now as for speed, if you want fast renders, don't use alpha-blending in your surfaces, and try to reduce the use of OSA.. Blender only anti-aliases the edges of the object anyhow, not the textures.. Blender is not a ray-tracer.. A virtue of blender is if you can do it in blender, you can do it in a realtime game emgine.. Which makes me wonder, what ever happened to GameBlender in the source development? You can still get GameBlender,
and make games with it, that's what I'm doing now.. But what is the wait for?
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Is this like a bluetooth that works on
the energy coming from a radio dish?
I thought the FBI was using this to
bug buildings.. I usually just tickle
them with feathers..
Anyhow, given that your radio dishes whirl around and are able to determine the precise
angle a correlating ID is from multiple radio
beacons, as with GPS, if your have about 4 points of reference and a unique ID, you can determine a 3D coordinate of the particular item.. So to say they might with RFID's over a period of time be able to track the location
and possibly the orientation, depending on how many RFID's are on the snickers bar and the precise amount of time it takes for the signal to return to the radio dishes.. So if someone really wanted to, they probably could use these
RFID tags and radar atenaes to do motion capture
for a IK chain.. Hey cheap 3D data collection!!
Anyhow.. I always say, what the net and the world needs is more accountability.. And more forgiveness.. Less of both of these is a bad thing.. Less forgiveness and more accountability
produces clique cultures (" we don't want you in our clique because you promote all these products we don't, you wierdo"). More forgiveness and less accountability produces (" nobody will know I'm over here building a bomb.. And will spring it thus forth on these unsuspecting people.. ") or (" Nobody will know I'm a sex crazed nazi eskimo who is turned on by teh same stuff ed wood is.. ") . Who really cares about your personal fetishes, come on.. But if you like sleeping with nuclear warheads, I really would like to know about that..
When I was in new york, I had attended conferences on the subject of tracking people's cellphone, and the issue that came up with the businessmen was, would they be able to keep their secret life with their lovers seperate from their wives in the case of the wifes curiousity.. Hey if your wife is curious enough,
that just bypasses the whole trust part of marriage, right? And if you are concerned about it, you shouldn't be cheating.. I think some people forget why they got married int he first place.. To keep up with the joneses!! Yes..
Ha! Well there was some discussion in the conferences about systems to control the amount of accountability at every level, where the beacons should be required by law to only allow certain kinds of information to be collected and transponded.. I'm wondering how this is being handled.. And if your researchers are wondering baout the correlation of the ids and if they can be distributed, hey go check out the PIDS healthcare id specification on the OMG website, disregard the CORBA implementation, its a good spec.. And can be modified to protect those being tracked, can unify the ids across domains without trrusting relationships, and is vendor independent and enforceable by the government and standards committees.. Makes me wonder why our healthcare ids are not currently being managed with this system..
It basically works like this, you have at every beacon a database of ids, and when any database comes to know of a new id, it sends the id to everyone about it, along with the source information about the id.. Then the other sites can associate an additional local id, so as to keep the precise id away from lesser priviledged machines.. If so needed.. And the ids can be
given extra attributes, like this id has this eye color, skin color, blood type, address.. But it doesn't have to have any of these.. Hey it may save your life one day.. Lets say you went into a store, you bought a sniker bar and you
went to the counter, paid for the snicker bar, the RFID is correlated to the credit card you use, then you get into a car crash, all your id is destroyed by the gasoline fire, your face is mostly burned or difigured.. No form of id, if the car was demolished and nothing can be salvaged, lets say for instance you might have been on a bus, or for whatever reason the only form of id on you is that danged snicker bar with the RFID, well if using a pids system they can query ba
I use about 20 NiMH batteries, and the best ones I've found are the Energizer ones.. Have you bothered to hold them in your hand, they are heavy!! There is a new charger from Rayovac that charges special batteries in 15 minutes, they are costly. but I wouldn't mind having some.. If you haven't heard about them, its probably something to do with the fact that I'm living next door to two major national laboratories, Sandia and LANL.. Its harder to pull wool over scientists eyes here.. I don't buy anything but rechangeables.. Buying storbought brand of batteries are like buying brands of toothpaste.. You know there can't be that much that has changed, they are still changing the package sizes, changing charge amount, changing the packaging materials to see if people really do buy stuff based on looks and not on function.. Anyhow, back to batteries.. If you could sell a battery like a laptop or cellphone for anything else, say digital cameras.. I'd be all for that..
A major difference, and the primary reason I use blender outside of it being a good and dependable 3D application.. You will never lose anything, you never lose features in old versions of blender, you can always get access to every version of blender, from the beginning..
Go ask Alias/Wavefront if you can obtain a copy of Wavefront TAV 4.5 with Kinemation. This is the application I trained myself on for 3 years, A/W no longer offers it.. How do they enforce this? License servers.. You don't buy an application, you buy a license to use the application. If they decide an older application might compete with their current application, they only have to not sell licenses for the old package..
And licenses are non-transferrable, so
even if I wanted it I could not obtain a copy of Wavefront TAV.. This is why I feel eventually the software industry will be replaced by open source developments.. Including the 3D software industry.. And Blender is a good start toward having tools that never fail you when you need them.. But I can side with some of the professionals, blender is not there yet, but
its realizing features that would not have been developed in commercial application development, because some ideas are soo simple that anyoen could implement them, had they had the source.. In the business of software development the aim is to make money and this often gets in the way of making the software useful..
If you ask the maker of your 3D software, why they don't sell you a copy of software.. They will use the obvious "pirating complaint".. But then you might ask them what proof they have of loss of sales to pirating.. Its a hard issue to dispute, but I believe its being used as an excuse to leverage consumers into software leasing arrangements.. With blender in
open source, there may be less leveraging practices practiced in order to regain lost market share to blender.. Either way because of blender you are getting better quality products, and isn't that improving the economy anyhow?
I think its important whether you like blender or not to support it, because its the tool you have to fall back on when you have no other options..
Blender was influenced by Lightwave for sure, recognize the layer buttons from some place? Also notice that the hotbox uses the space bar, where did this come from (Maya?). And the tiled interface, well Lightwave, Maya and 3dsMax.. But the things that weren't stollen are things like the concept of linking objects, materials, textures.. This is one of the strongest things blender has brought to the table. Also there is an amazing amount of modelling simplicity in it, that has a lot in common with the old amiga applications for doing 3D. I've used Sculpt 3D, Imagine, Alias 8, Wavefront TAV 4.5, etc.. The new version of Blender is much better than it was, I agree, but its got a long way to go internally. What is tremendously wrong with blender, and why there is all these mixed feelings, is that blender is coded entirely in C by a number of programmers without a formal education in software development.. Its like designing websites with PHP, your interface design is embedded with the code, so if you want to add a interface element, you have to copy/paste the code across the source, this creates more bugs and things break.. But then again isn't that the case for all open source development.. Ton said to me if you want to do something useful, write code.. But for hacked source, blender is incredibly tight and focused, from years of refinement.. I bet some of you didn't know the software was originally written in the late 80s on amigas, then was rewritten in int he mid-90s for the SGI platform.. So technically speaking it wasn't born yesterday.. What makes it unique from any other 3D package on the market, it was designed in-house first, rather than being designed to be used inhouse or off the shelf.. So its been used to make real stuff with, its not a bloated app with hundreds of features that will get deprecated tommorow.. Every feature in blender exists for a reason.. And otehr thigns are possible from the combinations of tools that exist.. If that wasn't enough its the only 3D app to use a common freeware programming language for scripting (python).. Now as for speed, if you want fast renders, don't use alpha-blending in your surfaces, and try to reduce the use of OSA.. Blender only anti-aliases the edges of the object anyhow, not the textures.. Blender is not a ray-tracer.. A virtue of blender is if you can do it in blender, you can do it in a realtime game emgine.. Which makes me wonder, what ever happened to GameBlender in the source development? You can still get GameBlender, and make games with it, that's what I'm doing now.. But what is the wait for?