Puts me in mind of a breaking-glass detector my rather naive (in electronics terms) boss came up with in the early 1980s as a security device. Technology wasn't really up to FFTs or anything in those days, so it had two filters, one to detect the low frequency 'thump' of whatever hit the glass, followed by the high frequency 'tinkle' of when the pieces hit the ground, after a short delay which was also considered. It did work given ideal conditions, but in practice was extremely unreliable. I wonder why?
I don't understand why the objects need to be limited to 5.5 inches in 3 dimensions. A better design would be to have a moving base plate that allows the length to be much larger and limit the motion of the print head to two dimensions, more like a standard inkjet where the paper moves under the print head. The need to fit your object into such a small cube is a serious limitation - even letting one dimension become substantially larger would be a huge improvement in versatility and hence, likelihood of purchase.
Here's an optimisation they missed, which could have sped render time up dramatically. Take the script, and get some people, dressed up as the characters, to read it out in rooms designed to look exactly like the rendered backgrounds. Of course, the people would need to just go beyond just 'reading' the script, they'd have to sort of pretend they were those characters, like it was some sort of act. Then film it.
If you're using Linux, it already works there (albeit not terribly stably, from what you've said), and I would doubt that the OSX/Windows version would have much effect on that as that'll only add UI layers and probably not change the core much.
If you're using OSX or Windows already, there are decent editors available for low cost. Open source is fine, but sometimes a commercial product is finer, if it does the job and isn't overly expensive.
I marched in London, and it was incredible - it virtually brought the city - one of the largest in the world - to a standstill. Unlike in the US, we did get reasonable media coverage, of the distinctly British, unbiased, non-partisan sort. Yes it made not one iota of difference. The government barely acknowledged the march, and certainly didn't change its mind. We still have no idea what the fuck Blair was thinking, unless it was one of his divine revelations.
I believe that event was a major reason why people became extremely disengaged from politics and still are. That's why we have such a crap government in power in the UK, because nobody can be bothered to vote, as they know that democracy is a sham, thanks to Iraq.
Some people these days blame the German people for the Second World War, despite the fact that Hitler never had anywhere close to a majority of popular support. It's because he ran roughshod over the democratic process, just as Blair and Bush did, and people were not roused enough to care until it was far too late. We need to be very careful that history doesn't repeat itself.
What I wouldn't give just to put my hand on such a piece of history and now I might be able to
It's not that difficult - there are hundreds of artefacts from the Apollo and other space programs in museums around the world that you can touch. Even if there isn't such a museum in your country, all that's needed is a flight ticket to one that has one, so all you'd have to give is the price of that ticket. Simples!
"The disastrous launch of SimCity took it's first major toll
Look, I'm getting sick of this. Just leave out the fucking unnecessary apostrophes OK? What are you, 7? How hard is it to learn the bloody rule and use it? Not hard at all - I've known it since I was seven!
I do not expect to see this happen ever again. Thankyou.
If only hangups really were on the decline. Seems to me people have more and more of them these days. The day when nobody has any hangups at all will be a great one for the human race.
So, the car manufacturers are resorting to a bunch of measly tricks to squeeze out the last bit of fuel economy. But they have the solution already - all they need to do is unearth all those patents and inventions they've bought up over the years that they're sitting on and suppressing, and start putting them on their cars! The magic carburettors I've heard so much about ought to do the trick, and wham! instant improvement. They'll outsell immediately any competitor who didn't have the foresight to buy up and bury all those 'free' energy devices over the years, the fools.
Yes, an awful lot of discussion about the porn angle, etc, etc but no-one really having a go at this, which is at least as big an issue. Those Euro MPs are OUR servants and representatives, thankyou very much, or in trying hopelessly to "modernise" the west have they actually taken it back to serfdom?
And as far as I know, that's the way it's always been
Actually, no. Top Gear has actually been going since the late 1970s, Clarkson started on the show in maybe about 1990. Back then, it was a factual motoring show, and was filled with utterly fair reviews of cars, road safety advice, some motorsports. And it was as dull as ditchwater, with crusty old presenters like Chris Goffey droning on about how things were so much better when everyone drove a Morris Minor, and Tony Mason boring everyone rigid with Roger Clarke-era rallying stories.
The show was finally killed off either in the late 90s or early 2000s and then resurrected with Clarkson at the helm in 2002 or so. That first 'new' series is interesting to watch (check on YouTube) because they still weren't sure whether to continue with the old way or become more like they are now.
TG is like a glossy lads mag, full of cars we can't afford, laddish humour and fantastical stories. Pure escapist entertainment. It's a far cry from the original Top Gear, and far, far more successful, so it's clear what people would rather watch.If TG is like Loaded, then the original TG is like What Car? Hmmmm.
I believe that Apple are not working on a watch, and there will never be an iWatch (or equivalent). I could be wrong. But it a) just doesn't sound like it's anywhere near awesome enough or cutting-edge enough for them to give it the time of day (heh), b) the functionality is covered thoroughly by other things, c) anything that needs to be recharged frequently is not going to work.
Smart watches are probably going to come along, but I see them more as 3rd-party accessories than as an actual mainstream Apple product.
Programmers need to be resourceful and good at solving problems. If you can't see that this simply requires a stack of books in the first instance (TODO: optimise this later), then you've failed at an extremely low hurdle my friend. Perhaps you'd be more suited to burger flipping?
The obvious solution is that we need research into finding a glass-like material that can be switched between shiny ("sales mode") and matte ("use mode'").
Get over yourself. Your life is just not that interesting. The only person who would think so is you, and I bet even you would find rewatching long tracts of it would make you realise how boring you really are. We all are.
And what about the filming of the parts where you are rewatching stuff you filmed earlier? It's all just going to disappear up its own butthole.
The fundamental question here is really "do you want to stop him, or do you want revenge?". If you are satisfied with stopping him, seems there are plenty of simple things you can do. It's the revenge angle that's a lot more interesting, and may be your real motivation. I think all further comments should be directed at the revenge angle only.
I strongly believe there is no god. I also believe that the evidence for evolution is a very strong argument for the non-existence of god, and that is why I think so many believers have a problem with it.
However, those who are believers and think evolution is real too, well, that's just an example of cognitive dissonance.
But I mainly take issue with your last paragraph (after all, you can believe whatever you like, I don't care). "Faith used correctly". What on earth does that mean? People can do good things, and people can do bad things. These acts may be driven by their beliefs, but invariably the belief is used to justify the act, not the other way around. I see many people of faith committing atrocities in the name of that faith, in fact I would say on balance they are the majority. People do good for many reasons, and faith does not need to come into it, but a truly bad act is usually aided and abetted by faith. Yes, it's a perversion of what "faith" means to the majority of believers, but that's the reality of it: suicide bombers would almost certainly not commit those acts just because they felt like it.
I see next to no good in zealotry of any kind. Do good if you want to - it's easy to see that doing good has benefits that have nothing to do with religion - but don't do bad because your holy book tells you it's OK. That's just using a very shaky belief system to justify and reinforce a decision you alone took.
Why is this naive? It's a step backwards. Apart from some commercial games I only use free (at least as in beer, mostly also as in speech) software on my other computers. Why should I have to go backwards with iOS?
Because developers just can't sustain a business based on a sales price of zero? Perhaps you don't get this, but we developers have to eat, pay off our mortgages and feed our families too.
And I condemned iOS LONG before I tried finding any software for it
That's just being an arse. A prejudiced arse at that. In practice, the system, imperfect as it undoubtedly is, finds a balance between users, developers and Apple themselves. Ultimately you have to balance those forces, or there will just be no software for the platform at all - the user cannot have it 100% their own way, just as you can't eat for free - somewhere along the line, the growers have to get paid.
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Puts me in mind of a breaking-glass detector my rather naive (in electronics terms) boss came up with in the early 1980s as a security device. Technology wasn't really up to FFTs or anything in those days, so it had two filters, one to detect the low frequency 'thump' of whatever hit the glass, followed by the high frequency 'tinkle' of when the pieces hit the ground, after a short delay which was also considered. It did work given ideal conditions, but in practice was extremely unreliable. I wonder why?
Yeah, that's someone you want to have around on the regular.
Tongue, meet cheek.
I don't understand why the objects need to be limited to 5.5 inches in 3 dimensions. A better design would be to have a moving base plate that allows the length to be much larger and limit the motion of the print head to two dimensions, more like a standard inkjet where the paper moves under the print head. The need to fit your object into such a small cube is a serious limitation - even letting one dimension become substantially larger would be a huge improvement in versatility and hence, likelihood of purchase.
Here's an optimisation they missed, which could have sped render time up dramatically. Take the script, and get some people, dressed up as the characters, to read it out in rooms designed to look exactly like the rendered backgrounds. Of course, the people would need to just go beyond just 'reading' the script, they'd have to sort of pretend they were those characters, like it was some sort of act. Then film it.
settling for a Volkswagen instead of a Ferrari.
Have you looked at a Volkswagen recently? They are actually quite high-end cars, and vastly, immeasurably, more practical than a Ferrari.
By this analogy, a Ferrari is the oxygen-free amorphous copper $500/metre speaker cable of the auto world.
If you're using Linux, it already works there (albeit not terribly stably, from what you've said), and I would doubt that the OSX/Windows version would have much effect on that as that'll only add UI layers and probably not change the core much.
If you're using OSX or Windows already, there are decent editors available for low cost. Open source is fine, but sometimes a commercial product is finer, if it does the job and isn't overly expensive.
I marched in London, and it was incredible - it virtually brought the city - one of the largest in the world - to a standstill. Unlike in the US, we did get reasonable media coverage, of the distinctly British, unbiased, non-partisan sort. Yes it made not one iota of difference. The government barely acknowledged the march, and certainly didn't change its mind. We still have no idea what the fuck Blair was thinking, unless it was one of his divine revelations.
I believe that event was a major reason why people became extremely disengaged from politics and still are. That's why we have such a crap government in power in the UK, because nobody can be bothered to vote, as they know that democracy is a sham, thanks to Iraq.
Some people these days blame the German people for the Second World War, despite the fact that Hitler never had anywhere close to a majority of popular support. It's because he ran roughshod over the democratic process, just as Blair and Bush did, and people were not roused enough to care until it was far too late. We need to be very careful that history doesn't repeat itself.
But they can't be military wrecks, NASA is (ostensibly) a civilian organisation.
What I wouldn't give just to put my hand on such a piece of history and now I might be able to
It's not that difficult - there are hundreds of artefacts from the Apollo and other space programs in museums around the world that you can touch. Even if there isn't such a museum in your country, all that's needed is a flight ticket to one that has one, so all you'd have to give is the price of that ticket. Simples!
You're wrong.
Do whatever you want - it's you who looks like an ignoramus, not me.
"The disastrous launch of SimCity took it's first major toll
Look, I'm getting sick of this. Just leave out the fucking unnecessary apostrophes OK? What are you, 7? How hard is it to learn the bloody rule and use it? Not hard at all - I've known it since I was seven!
I do not expect to see this happen ever again. Thankyou.
If only hangups really were on the decline. Seems to me people have more and more of them these days. The day when nobody has any hangups at all will be a great one for the human race.
Not a single mention of Solid Edge? I'm wondering why... is it no longer considered a viable package these days?
So, the car manufacturers are resorting to a bunch of measly tricks to squeeze out the last bit of fuel economy. But they have the solution already - all they need to do is unearth all those patents and inventions they've bought up over the years that they're sitting on and suppressing, and start putting them on their cars! The magic carburettors I've heard so much about ought to do the trick, and wham! instant improvement. They'll outsell immediately any competitor who didn't have the foresight to buy up and bury all those 'free' energy devices over the years, the fools.
Yes, an awful lot of discussion about the porn angle, etc, etc but no-one really having a go at this, which is at least as big an issue. Those Euro MPs are OUR servants and representatives, thankyou very much, or in trying hopelessly to "modernise" the west have they actually taken it back to serfdom?
And as far as I know, that's the way it's always been
Actually, no. Top Gear has actually been going since the late 1970s, Clarkson started on the show in maybe about 1990. Back then, it was a factual motoring show, and was filled with utterly fair reviews of cars, road safety advice, some motorsports. And it was as dull as ditchwater, with crusty old presenters like Chris Goffey droning on about how things were so much better when everyone drove a Morris Minor, and Tony Mason boring everyone rigid with Roger Clarke-era rallying stories.
The show was finally killed off either in the late 90s or early 2000s and then resurrected with Clarkson at the helm in 2002 or so. That first 'new' series is interesting to watch (check on YouTube) because they still weren't sure whether to continue with the old way or become more like they are now.
TG is like a glossy lads mag, full of cars we can't afford, laddish humour and fantastical stories. Pure escapist entertainment. It's a far cry from the original Top Gear, and far, far more successful, so it's clear what people would rather watch.If TG is like Loaded, then the original TG is like What Car? Hmmmm.
I believe that Apple are not working on a watch, and there will never be an iWatch (or equivalent). I could be wrong. But it a) just doesn't sound like it's anywhere near awesome enough or cutting-edge enough for them to give it the time of day (heh), b) the functionality is covered thoroughly by other things, c) anything that needs to be recharged frequently is not going to work.
Smart watches are probably going to come along, but I see them more as 3rd-party accessories than as an actual mainstream Apple product.
Programmers need to be resourceful and good at solving problems. If you can't see that this simply requires a stack of books in the first instance (TODO: optimise this later), then you've failed at an extremely low hurdle my friend. Perhaps you'd be more suited to burger flipping?
Thunderbolt and Lightning... very, very frightening indeed!
The obvious solution is that we need research into finding a glass-like material that can be switched between shiny ("sales mode") and matte ("use mode'").
Get over yourself. Your life is just not that interesting. The only person who would think so is you, and I bet even you would find rewatching long tracts of it would make you realise how boring you really are. We all are.
And what about the filming of the parts where you are rewatching stuff you filmed earlier? It's all just going to disappear up its own butthole.
The fundamental question here is really "do you want to stop him, or do you want revenge?". If you are satisfied with stopping him, seems there are plenty of simple things you can do. It's the revenge angle that's a lot more interesting, and may be your real motivation. I think all further comments should be directed at the revenge angle only.
I strongly believe there is no god. I also believe that the evidence for evolution is a very strong argument for the non-existence of god, and that is why I think so many believers have a problem with it.
However, those who are believers and think evolution is real too, well, that's just an example of cognitive dissonance.
But I mainly take issue with your last paragraph (after all, you can believe whatever you like, I don't care). "Faith used correctly". What on earth does that mean? People can do good things, and people can do bad things. These acts may be driven by their beliefs, but invariably the belief is used to justify the act, not the other way around. I see many people of faith committing atrocities in the name of that faith, in fact I would say on balance they are the majority. People do good for many reasons, and faith does not need to come into it, but a truly bad act is usually aided and abetted by faith. Yes, it's a perversion of what "faith" means to the majority of believers, but that's the reality of it: suicide bombers would almost certainly not commit those acts just because they felt like it.
I see next to no good in zealotry of any kind. Do good if you want to - it's easy to see that doing good has benefits that have nothing to do with religion - but don't do bad because your holy book tells you it's OK. That's just using a very shaky belief system to justify and reinforce a decision you alone took.
Apple already had a watch out years ago, during the "Think different[sic]" era. I have one. It's much like an ordinary watch, but it goes backwards.
The annoying thing is that it's no longer compatible with iOS 6, or in fact anything. Battery life is good though.
Why is this naive? It's a step backwards. Apart from some commercial games I only use free (at least as in beer, mostly also as in speech) software on my other computers. Why should I have to go backwards with iOS?
Because developers just can't sustain a business based on a sales price of zero? Perhaps you don't get this, but we developers have to eat, pay off our mortgages and feed our families too.
And I condemned iOS LONG before I tried finding any software for it
That's just being an arse. A prejudiced arse at that. In practice, the system, imperfect as it undoubtedly is, finds a balance between users, developers and Apple themselves. Ultimately you have to balance those forces, or there will just be no software for the platform at all - the user cannot have it 100% their own way, just as you can't eat for free - somewhere along the line, the growers have to get paid.