VISSIM guys have been doing this for years! SGI calls it Clip-texturing and Multigen-Paradigm calls it Virtual Textures. I'd be very surprised if Carmack didn't know that this technology is already out there (and patented).
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Got to agree here. It seems like a standard formula for anime series that the first half dozen episodes don't really have anything to do with the "real" plot of the story. They are usually filled with introducing the main characters and describing the world inwhich they live. The plot only starts being revealed once the audience has had time to become familiar with the world.
Last Exile, Boogie-Pop Phantom, Witch Hunter Robin, Big O, and GitS are just a few examples of how this formula plays out.
OsgPlanet can stream imagery from any MapServer using WMS protocol. (Check JPL's wms server for one http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/) It builds a 3D model of the world on the fly using SRTM terrain data that you can download from the USGS for most of the globe.
The difference between this and something like Google maps is that osgPlanet and Vplanet let you actually fly around in the terrain, instead of just looking down at it.
Also, the non-shuttle pieces of NASA are taking a huge hit so that the shuttle and mars programs can keep going. I know for a fact that the budget for the Langley Research Center is down by 16% from last year. LaRC is primarily responcible for aviation / aerospace research. (you know... the first "A" in NASA.) Many of the big wind tunnels there are in mothballs and the administration is trying to have major parts of the center torn down.
From here, it looks like they are trying to make the center unusable for future programs. Then they'll be able to justify closing the center down. It will go something like this... "Oh, we'd sure love to run those hypersonic vehicle designs though our windtunnels, but they were torn down last year." Or... "Boy, if that Lunar/Mars lander training requirement had come up before we tore down the LEM trainer gantry we could have use *it*, just like we did for the Apollo program."
It seems to me that you've got to consider the only real reason that programs are broadcast is to get people to watch the commercials. The shows only exist to keep us interested enough to not change the channel before the next commercial.
If a significant number of viewers either don't see the commercials (BitTorrent) or can easily skip them (TiVo) then there is no motivation for advertisers to pay for commercial spots. And without advertisers to pay the bills, the broadcasters have no motivation to buy the content.
I'm not saying outlaw TiVo and P2P. I just think you need to consider how the bills get paid. I usually have AdBlock active on my browser. But, I turn it off once a month and click through on the advertisers that show up on the sites I normally use. I'm hoping that helps play the bills at my favorite sites. I also record my favorite shows and fast-forward through the commercials. That way the cable company can report that my TV was tuned to that station, but I only watch the commercials that interest me.
Actually, there was a brief push toward the consumer card market. Anyone remember the Iris Vision card? My memory of the early 90's is a little foggy:-) but I think it was a single graphics engine for a PCI bus.
I have been locked out of the MyNetscape system for about a week. (I've been using this free portal for more than 5 years.) And attempts to send bug reports because (duh!) it seems you need to be logged in to send a report.
100% agreed! I keep an old copy of Outlook around to use only for the calendar.
The only other thing on my must-have list is syncing with my Palm OS PDA.
Add those two things and I can finally say bye-bye Outlook.
Web Between the Worlds is Charles Sheffield's take on the same concept. (That's where the "beanstalk" reference came from.)
I used to work with Sheffield. The rumor at the office was that Clark was shown a manuscript for WBTW and managed to get his book to print first by some chicanery.
In the case of fact-checking Dubya's case for war... how would you propose that the Congress do that. They have to rely on what they are told by the CIA and other intel agencies. And who do you suppose is running those agencies?
In the 80's and early 90's Iraq *did* have WMDs, or at least chemical weapons. Just ask the Kurds. The difference here is that in the intervening 10 years the UN sanctions had the desired effect of dismantling Iraq's weapons program and removing that threat. There was nothing left by the time Dubya had the chance to finish his daddy's war.
Reminds me of a kid in my high school trig class who thought he had discovered a method of trisecting an angle using only a compass and straight-edge. This after taking as a challenge the teacher's statement that the Greeks decided 3000 years ago it couldn't be done.
You all seem to be missing the real impact of this law. As things stand right now, the government can tell commercial satellite imagery vendors that it wants to buy exclusive rights to any new images over specific areas for defined periods of time. The gov't isn't simply protecting the data that it has purchased, it is saying that the vendors cannot sell imagery for these areas to anyone but the government.
That means that the gov't can create a blank spot on the map for regions where they have "special interests". These interests could be anything from military bases (think, Guantanimo) to war zones (insert obvious choices here) to public utilities (nuclear power plants) to national parks (oil drilling in ANWAR or logging in Yellowstone).
Also, I do not believe that the satellite owners will have the choice of not selling exclusive rights to the gov't. I think that the licenses that allow these companies to operate require them to grant this type of exclusive license to any data that the gov't wants. (I could be wrong on this, but I remember reading it somewhere.)
Why do most people (even NASA management themselves) forget that there is more to NASA than just the Space Program? The first "A" in NASA is for "Aeronautics" and the basic research done in NASA labs is responsible for most of the major advances in aviation.
I haven't switched my house over to 11g, but I thought the problem with firing up an 11b device within an 11g network was that it would force all of the g devices down to the b data rate. So your pda is not going to be doing any large downloads and now neither is your laptop.
is something that the people around you aren't expecting. If there is a traffic signal that says stop, the other drivers are expecting you to stop. If you don't stop, I wouldn't expect them to feel bad about running you over.
Of course, that implies that they are paying attention to the traffic and not jabbering away on their cellphone, stuffing their face with a Big Mac, applying make-up, etc.
However, this sums up the counter-point...
Here lies the body of Old John Jay
He died maintaining his right of way
He was perfectly right as he plodded along
But he's just as dead as if he was wrong!
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Here is how it works! http://www.multigen-paradigm.com/support/dc_files/ Understanding_Virtual_Texture.pdf
VISSIM guys have been doing this for years! SGI calls it Clip-texturing and Multigen-Paradigm calls it Virtual Textures. I'd be very surprised if Carmack didn't know that this technology is already out there (and patented).
Got to agree here. It seems like a standard formula for anime series that the first half dozen episodes don't really have anything to do with the "real" plot of the story. They are usually filled with introducing the main characters and describing the world inwhich they live. The plot only starts being revealed once the audience has had time to become familiar with the world. Last Exile, Boogie-Pop Phantom, Witch Hunter Robin, Big O, and GitS are just a few examples of how this formula plays out.
OsgPlanet can stream imagery from any MapServer using WMS protocol. (Check JPL's wms server for one http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/) It builds a 3D model of the world on the fly using SRTM terrain data that you can download from the USGS for most of the globe.
The difference between this and something like Google maps is that osgPlanet and Vplanet let you actually fly around in the terrain, instead of just looking down at it.
Also, the non-shuttle pieces of NASA are taking a huge hit so that the shuttle and mars programs can keep going. I know for a fact that the budget for the Langley Research Center is down by 16% from last year. LaRC is primarily responcible for aviation / aerospace research. (you know... the first "A" in NASA.) Many of the big wind tunnels there are in mothballs and the administration is trying to have major parts of the center torn down.
From here, it looks like they are trying to make the center unusable for future programs. Then they'll be able to justify closing the center down. It will go something like this... "Oh, we'd sure love to run those hypersonic vehicle designs though our windtunnels, but they were torn down last year." Or... "Boy, if that Lunar/Mars lander training requirement had come up before we tore down the LEM trainer gantry we could have use *it*, just like we did for the Apollo program."
If a significant number of viewers either don't see the commercials (BitTorrent) or can easily skip them (TiVo) then there is no motivation for advertisers to pay for commercial spots. And without advertisers to pay the bills, the broadcasters have no motivation to buy the content.
I'm not saying outlaw TiVo and P2P. I just think you need to consider how the bills get paid. I usually have AdBlock active on my browser. But, I turn it off once a month and click through on the advertisers that show up on the sites I normally use. I'm hoping that helps play the bills at my favorite sites. I also record my favorite shows and fast-forward through the commercials. That way the cable company can report that my TV was tuned to that station, but I only watch the commercials that interest me.
Actually, there was a brief push toward the consumer card market. Anyone remember the Iris Vision card? My memory of the early 90's is a little foggy :-) but I think it was a single graphics engine for a PCI bus.
I have been locked out of the MyNetscape system for about a week. (I've been using this free portal for more than 5 years.) And attempts to send bug reports because (duh!) it seems you need to be logged in to send a report.
100% agreed! I keep an old copy of Outlook around to use only for the calendar. The only other thing on my must-have list is syncing with my Palm OS PDA. Add those two things and I can finally say bye-bye Outlook.
Web Between the Worlds is Charles Sheffield's take on the same concept. (That's where the "beanstalk" reference came from.)
I used to work with Sheffield. The rumor at the office was that Clark was shown a manuscript for WBTW and managed to get his book to print first by some chicanery.
to fit under a motorcycle helmet.
This would be great if I could disconnect the ear- (bone?) phones from their player. Maybe hook them up to an iRiver iFP-899 with a gig of music.
Try these guys...
http://www.clearercom.com/index.htm
It's well known that he doesn't read.
In the case of fact-checking Dubya's case for war... how would you propose that the Congress do that. They have to rely on what they are told by the CIA and other intel agencies. And who do you suppose is running those agencies? In the 80's and early 90's Iraq *did* have WMDs, or at least chemical weapons. Just ask the Kurds. The difference here is that in the intervening 10 years the UN sanctions had the desired effect of dismantling Iraq's weapons program and removing that threat. There was nothing left by the time Dubya had the chance to finish his daddy's war.
Reminds me of a kid in my high school trig class who thought he had discovered a method of trisecting an angle using only a compass and straight-edge. This after taking as a challenge the teacher's statement that the Greeks decided 3000 years ago it couldn't be done.
That means that the gov't can create a blank spot on the map for regions where they have "special interests". These interests could be anything from military bases (think, Guantanimo) to war zones (insert obvious choices here) to public utilities (nuclear power plants) to national parks (oil drilling in ANWAR or logging in Yellowstone).
Also, I do not believe that the satellite owners will have the choice of not selling exclusive rights to the gov't. I think that the licenses that allow these companies to operate require them to grant this type of exclusive license to any data that the gov't wants. (I could be wrong on this, but I remember reading it somewhere.)
Hmmm... the "greater than" symbol disappears when posting messages... didn't know that.
Why do most people (even NASA management themselves) forget that there is more to NASA than just the Space Program? The first "A" in NASA is for "Aeronautics" and the basic research done in NASA labs is responsible for most of the major advances in aviation.
Well, I'm not sure that this TabletPC is waterproof, but it is ruggized to MIL-STD standards... http://www.itronix.com/products/tablet/Gobooktable t.asp
Geez people! Stop spouting this BS and check your facts! http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm (yeah, right. I forgot... this is /.)
Then you want to look at this: http://www.eveningshow.com/the_fourth_day.htm
It's funny that this topic came up on the heels of a paper at SIGGRAPH that looked at generating Papercraft models from 3D meshes. http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mitani/docs/si ggraph04_mitani.pdf
(Sorry, I can't seem to make the whole URL disappear into a description.)
I haven't switched my house over to 11g, but I thought the problem with firing up an 11b device within an 11g network was that it would force all of the g devices down to the b data rate. So your pda is not going to be doing any large downloads and now neither is your laptop.
Ah, the ad hominum attack. That's right, ignore the issue and attack the person.
is something that the people around you aren't expecting. If there is a traffic signal that says stop, the other drivers are expecting you to stop. If you don't stop, I wouldn't expect them to feel bad about running you over. Of course, that implies that they are paying attention to the traffic and not jabbering away on their cellphone, stuffing their face with a Big Mac, applying make-up, etc. However, this sums up the counter-point... Here lies the body of Old John Jay He died maintaining his right of way He was perfectly right as he plodded along But he's just as dead as if he was wrong!