Use Coral http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/. This is exactly the kind of application that it was designed for. Everyone wins, bigger video file sizes, lower bandwidth use. Just link your videos with ".nyud.net:8090" appended.
Hopefully this isn't a redundant post, but don't have time to read through all the comments today.
I had firefox crash the other day while using a wizard to set up bug reporting. I found that particularly ironic, to have the bug reporting system crash... Makes reporting the bug somewhat difficult.
Actually there really is stuff just lying around all over the place in Europe (probably depending on exactly where you are). I know my old landlord in Germany had a museum quality collection (I say this because he loaned it to a museum in Speyer on a couple occasions) of pre-historic artifacts and fossils sitting in the garage. This was all stuff he collected while cutting wood up in the forest. The house I lived in was over 200 years old. He also had a collection of late 19th century farming equipment and a bunch of world war one artifacts which were actually passed down through his family.
You can still find bullets, shell fragments, peices of old weapons, helmets, and various other things on the ground up around the Maginot Line and also in the countryside around Bastogne (where the Battle of the Bulge took place). Other areas, like Normandy, are more "cleaned up" but still show rather evident signs of historical events of note. Hard to take two steps without bumping your head on something historically relevant.
Of course that's without even mentioning all of the other "important" historical periods that took place around Europe. With so much history to so little square footage, it's no surprise you can hop on a motorcycle and find cool stuff all over the place.
I imagine the same amount of history is lying about the americas as well. It's just that there's far more surface area to human history that took place here. So the stuff is all piled up on itself.
BTW, my eagle project was a food and clothing drive for people living in Belarus (current country where Cherbnobyl is located). They still can't drink milk or eat meat from cows in the area or eat certain foods grown in the soil close to the accident. But people do still live there. I remember having passive radiation detectors in our classrooms in the late 80s... Although that might have been more a product of the cold war, since the military base I lived near was actually a short range nuclear(that's an assumption) missle site(this isn't).
I hope this microsoft desktop search is faster than explorer's search. I've got 370gb of diskspace with a fair number of files. Running a search in explorer takes up to 20 minutes. Google's desktop search is almost instantaneous... However, I uninstalled it, as I don't like the idea of a search utility logging my internet and chat use. Hopefully microsoft's search won't be as intrusive, or will at least offer the ability to disable intrusiveness.
I've never quite understood exactly why a distributer is necessary. Well... I get it, but I actually think that they cause enough harm and problems that it offsets any reason for using one. But it seems to be standard practice. Really, making your money selling something someone else worked to produce... and making more money that that person or entity is just unethical.
I think we need a new distribution system... one that operates the same way perhaps that open source does. One that provides clear legal protection for property rights and profit margins while cutting out all the fat-catting and middleman bloat of the current system. Imagine it... a world without the RIAA...
I played halo 2 for about six hours tonight in cooperative mode, completed 9 of 15 missions. It's not highly replayable, but I'm going to finish the game. I thought it was pretty good.
I think the last really good game was "deus ex".
This isn't just a problem at EA. Practices like this are pretty much standard in architectural practice. Add to that lower salaries, and you have to wonder why people do this stuff (I'm an architect). Artistic and creative pursuits require extremely high degrees of competency, training, and inate (and rare) talent. That our society compensates creative professionals so poorly IS criminal. Taking advantage of people's passion for what they do is extremely unethical, and this is exactly what happens to the majority of creative professionals. We endure it because we love what we do. But really, we also deserve to be compensated, just like everyone else, for the work we do.
I'm not saying that any monkey with enough money to buy a suit can get a business degree, but I'm certainly willing to suggest it.
Yeah, just to troll a bit, but I remember people laughing at the end of ROTK in the theater... and not the "har, that was a funny movie" laughter, but the "god, this is painfully embarrassing to be in the same theater as this movie and I can either laugher or cry" laughter.
Jackson would have done best to just stick with the book (Scouring of the Shire). That's what made Fellowship the best movie of the three (and that folks, is entirely my own opinion).
Now... to figure out how to integrate blue into my dvd collection... I was honestly expecting brown, yellowish tan, or some shade of greyish something... Blue?
Keep in mind that good animation is not really much of a technical problem.
Realistic image synthesis is simply a matter of balancing computer power with available time. Images generated today often lack a certain "randomness" that we associate with reality. But don't forget that you aren't random... you're coded in your DNA, which simply happens to be complex enough that the compute time vs. available time equation doesn't work out well.
We'll get there with image synthesis... What's interesting is whether or not the problems with animation will be solved with a human or artificial touch.
I always thought Snowcrash was a good book written in a horribly amateurish fashion. In a sense, the book being so badly written was one of the things I ended up liking best about it. The rough edges it had, set it apart from slick bestseller fiction.
That being said, it's been fascinating to read Stephenson because you can really see his evolution as a writer.
I actually have really enjoyed Quicksilver and The Confusion as they deal with historical fiction in a way that I like (James Michener and Umberto Eco are some of my favorite writers). If you need clarification, that just means that the books are probably either 1000 pages long and/or incredibly difficult and rewarding to finish.
I am simple delighted that I have found an author (stephenson) who changes. That way i can enjoy the expression that that author has, but not be bored to death by the same type of story all the time.
I have to agree with this sentiment whole heartedly. One of the things that makes Stephenson such a great writer is his versatility. (Orson Scott Card is a good example of the same in a sci-fi writer I think). But I can understand the opposing viewpoint. If you really enjoyed something why wouldn't you want more of the same. (without this philosophy where would our geek staples Trek And Wars be?)
Well, I know what I'll be doing tomorrow at least!
That's the whole allure to the series! It takes two things that have been done many times, (who wants to watch "another" western or sci-fi series?) and puts them together to make something that's cross genre and can utilize plot devices and character types that bridge the two genres. What you get is something that marries two things we're all used to and you begin to see stereotype (gunshooter, space pilot) turn into something a bit different. It might still be stereotype but it ISN'T the same old thing.
This is hard to explain. The whole point is that most any story can be adapted to most any time period. Some of the coolest storys and storylines are about what happens when different times or different stereotypes meet (Herbert's Dune shares many similaritys with the story of sheikh el-jabl the "man of the mountian" Fedayin is a term often used to describe that historical figure's followers, as apposed to fedaykin in Dune).
You might enjoy just knowing what's going to happen next because it's just another action/drama/adam sandler/teen/slasher/western/romance/fantasy/etc show/movie but sometimes it's really fun to get a remix on the same old same-old.
For this reason Firefly was a great show (in addition to fantastic visual effects, great acting and characters, and enticing hidden storylines). I'm really looking forward to the next season of enterprise for this same reason... but if this is a predominant attitude (cliche = good) then I guess we should expect enterprise to be cancelled pretty soon as well.
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QUOTE: ..because DNA doesn't come with an EULA. This kind of reverse-engineering is allowed!
Until someone patents it.
You mean like in "Gattaca"?
Use Coral http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/. This is exactly the kind of application that it was designed for. Everyone wins, bigger video file sizes, lower bandwidth use. Just link your videos with ".nyud.net:8090" appended.
Hopefully this isn't a redundant post, but don't have time to read through all the comments today.
I had firefox crash the other day while using a wizard to set up bug reporting. I found that particularly ironic, to have the bug reporting system crash... Makes reporting the bug somewhat difficult.
True, although the plant was on the border. Next time I'll check my facts better before posting ancient memories :)
Actually there really is stuff just lying around all over the place in Europe (probably depending on exactly where you are). I know my old landlord in Germany had a museum quality collection (I say this because he loaned it to a museum in Speyer on a couple occasions) of pre-historic artifacts and fossils sitting in the garage. This was all stuff he collected while cutting wood up in the forest. The house I lived in was over 200 years old. He also had a collection of late 19th century farming equipment and a bunch of world war one artifacts which were actually passed down through his family.
You can still find bullets, shell fragments, peices of old weapons, helmets, and various other things on the ground up around the Maginot Line and also in the countryside around Bastogne (where the Battle of the Bulge took place). Other areas, like Normandy, are more "cleaned up" but still show rather evident signs of historical events of note. Hard to take two steps without bumping your head on something historically relevant.
Of course that's without even mentioning all of the other "important" historical periods that took place around Europe. With so much history to so little square footage, it's no surprise you can hop on a motorcycle and find cool stuff all over the place.
I imagine the same amount of history is lying about the americas as well. It's just that there's far more surface area to human history that took place here. So the stuff is all piled up on itself.
BTW, my eagle project was a food and clothing drive for people living in Belarus (current country where Cherbnobyl is located). They still can't drink milk or eat meat from cows in the area or eat certain foods grown in the soil close to the accident. But people do still live there. I remember having passive radiation detectors in our classrooms in the late 80s... Although that might have been more a product of the cold war, since the military base I lived near was actually a short range nuclear(that's an assumption) missle site(this isn't).
I hope this microsoft desktop search is faster than explorer's search. I've got 370gb of diskspace with a fair number of files. Running a search in explorer takes up to 20 minutes. Google's desktop search is almost instantaneous... However, I uninstalled it, as I don't like the idea of a search utility logging my internet and chat use. Hopefully microsoft's search won't be as intrusive, or will at least offer the ability to disable intrusiveness.
Someone at Walmart has ALOT of pr0n!
I've never quite understood exactly why a distributer is necessary. Well... I get it, but I actually think that they cause enough harm and problems that it offsets any reason for using one. But it seems to be standard practice. Really, making your money selling something someone else worked to produce... and making more money that that person or entity is just unethical. I think we need a new distribution system... one that operates the same way perhaps that open source does. One that provides clear legal protection for property rights and profit margins while cutting out all the fat-catting and middleman bloat of the current system. Imagine it... a world without the RIAA...
I played halo 2 for about six hours tonight in cooperative mode, completed 9 of 15 missions. It's not highly replayable, but I'm going to finish the game. I thought it was pretty good. I think the last really good game was "deus ex".
This isn't just a problem at EA. Practices like this are pretty much standard in architectural practice. Add to that lower salaries, and you have to wonder why people do this stuff (I'm an architect). Artistic and creative pursuits require extremely high degrees of competency, training, and inate (and rare) talent. That our society compensates creative professionals so poorly IS criminal. Taking advantage of people's passion for what they do is extremely unethical, and this is exactly what happens to the majority of creative professionals. We endure it because we love what we do. But really, we also deserve to be compensated, just like everyone else, for the work we do.
I'm not saying that any monkey with enough money to buy a suit can get a business degree, but I'm certainly willing to suggest it.
I submitted POP access as a suggestion today on their feedback page. Look for filters with more than one parameter in the future!
Yeah, just to troll a bit, but I remember people laughing at the end of ROTK in the theater... and not the "har, that was a funny movie" laughter, but the "god, this is painfully embarrassing to be in the same theater as this movie and I can either laugher or cry" laughter. Jackson would have done best to just stick with the book (Scouring of the Shire). That's what made Fellowship the best movie of the three (and that folks, is entirely my own opinion).
Now... to figure out how to integrate blue into my dvd collection... I was honestly expecting brown, yellowish tan, or some shade of greyish something... Blue?
Hayden Christensen isn't at the end of the extended version is he?
Keep in mind that good animation is not really much of a technical problem.
Realistic image synthesis is simply a matter of balancing computer power with available time. Images generated today often lack a certain "randomness" that we associate with reality. But don't forget that you aren't random... you're coded in your DNA, which simply happens to be complex enough that the compute time vs. available time equation doesn't work out well.
We'll get there with image synthesis... What's interesting is whether or not the problems with animation will be solved with a human or artificial touch.
I always thought Snowcrash was a good book written in a horribly amateurish fashion. In a sense, the book being so badly written was one of the things I ended up liking best about it. The rough edges it had, set it apart from slick bestseller fiction.
That being said, it's been fascinating to read Stephenson because you can really see his evolution as a writer.
I actually have really enjoyed Quicksilver and The Confusion as they deal with historical fiction in a way that I like (James Michener and Umberto Eco are some of my favorite writers). If you need clarification, that just means that the books are probably either 1000 pages long and/or incredibly difficult and rewarding to finish.
I am simple delighted that I have found an author (stephenson) who changes. That way i can enjoy the expression that that author has, but not be bored to death by the same type of story all the time.
I have to agree with this sentiment whole heartedly. One of the things that makes Stephenson such a great writer is his versatility. (Orson Scott Card is a good example of the same in a sci-fi writer I think). But I can understand the opposing viewpoint. If you really enjoyed something why wouldn't you want more of the same. (without this philosophy where would our geek staples Trek And Wars be?)
Well, I know what I'll be doing tomorrow at least!
That's the whole allure to the series! It takes two things that have been done many times, (who wants to watch "another" western or sci-fi series?) and puts them together to make something that's cross genre and can utilize plot devices and character types that bridge the two genres. What you get is something that marries two things we're all used to and you begin to see stereotype (gunshooter, space pilot) turn into something a bit different. It might still be stereotype but it ISN'T the same old thing.
This is hard to explain. The whole point is that most any story can be adapted to most any time period. Some of the coolest storys and storylines are about what happens when different times or different stereotypes meet (Herbert's Dune shares many similaritys with the story of sheikh el-jabl the "man of the mountian" Fedayin is a term often used to describe that historical figure's followers, as apposed to fedaykin in Dune).
You might enjoy just knowing what's going to happen next because it's just another action/drama/adam sandler/teen/slasher/western/romance/fantasy/etc show/movie but sometimes it's really fun to get a remix on the same old same-old.
For this reason Firefly was a great show (in addition to fantastic visual effects, great acting and characters, and enticing hidden storylines). I'm really looking forward to the next season of enterprise for this same reason... but if this is a predominant attitude (cliche = good) then I guess we should expect enterprise to be cancelled pretty soon as well.