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or perhaps, a living computer?
Sure, I'd gladly give my brain to this research, or at least some animal's brain. If I have to give a random animal's life so I can have a cool computer that barks like a dog, then so be it, I'm brave and humble enough to make that sacrifice.
Actually, for purity purposes, let's just kidnap some girl off the streets and use her.
"Oh, no, how dare you say that! These fine people are WAY too moral to do something as disgusting a revolting as that! It's just... Oh, wait. Hold on a sec, my cell phone is meowing."
I wouldn't trust a photographer who couldn't identify the color green. In fact I wouldn't trust anyone at all who looked at the color green and called it black. If something this essential can evade someone in any field of art, then they're in the lowest league of artist there is.
I know they have to keep cheaters out, but they said modified consoles are banned. Whether or not it modded to cheat looks like it couldn't matter less. Sounds like yet another excuse to screw anyone who doesn't leave their console alone like good little kids.
Modified consoles will be banned, and information about those banned machines will be tracked to prevent them from connecting to the service again.
Heh, "Oh, just this once, I'll buy a game system from the world's most psychotic computer company. What's the worst that could happen?"
'Course I'm not one to complain, I actually bought a PS2. It doesn't read disks now. The ONE time I steer away from Nintendo and it bites me in the ass...
Add that to the fact that the electoral college is the entire reason the republican party now has America under siege (and, well, other places), and yeah the chances are naught. Getting a rep-controlled government to go against the system that gave it control won't fly.
So.. it bad because of computing errors, which instead if getting a few wrong votes, will - with the corrupt EC system - give you a few wrong STATES. Nope, doesn't compute. I think this is only good if you're Bush.
Yep. I can't even find that 'grain of truth' Erick was talking about.
The internet collapses because it loses the dumb-ass businesses that ruin it and make life worse for everyone? Sure, and then the computer world itself will collapse when Microsoft longer has a grip on it. I think Dr. Hannu Kari needs to go back to selling placebo pills.
Crap. Just now I realize the subject was more about education. Well, it's good to get the information out anyway. Guess I'll have to go back to making my own program.
Something I think would make some noise in the computer art world is if you came up with a blending method that doesn't have the gray-out flaw.
What I mean is, with the current alpha method Photoshop (and nearly all programs) uses, every time you blend two colors at any transparency level, you lose saturation. The colors average each other, which makes them lean toward gray.
Just as a demonstration: Make a pure blue square (0,0,255), then on a layer above, make a yellow square and put it at 50% opacity. What color do you get? Gray, because 0,0,255 and 255,255,0 averages to 128,128,128, while it should be 0,255,0. You're not only losing saturation, but also luminosity. This doesn't happen in real life. When you mix blue and yellow paint, or put a blue glass in front of a yellow glass, you get green.
I give an example here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/11426654/
And Photoshop has no blending method to fix this. I tried everything. It's really an annoyance that every time I smooth colors out and get averages, I lose saturation and brightness, and have to re-saturate everything afterward. I think that if blending worked by averaging the HSB instead of the RGB, it'd be a bit tricky but the color would blend the way it does in reality and not begin to turn gray.
Ditto. Thinking the grass is greener on the other side is almost as bad as being delusional about one's own country. The only way a government would stop another government is if it gives them the opportunity to kill someone.
This is a hilarious post and I'm not entirely sure if you were being serious, but just in case some kid out there believes putting a blue glass before a yellow one produces black by some means of magic, I'll correct it with an experiment that even you could do.
Go out to the store, buy a blue glass and a yellow glass, put a normal white light on one end and put your face on the other. Does it look
A) black B) gray C) green
If you answered C, then you're not colorblind. If the simplest observation of the spectrum eludes you then I honestly advise that you do this, or at least go back to middle school.
I had hardware in mind way before you mentioned it. The picture I gave provided the RGB value, and if you know anything about hardware - which evidently you don't - the value 46, 70, 42 is green, no matter what displays it. If your monitor displays it as black then there's something seriously wrong with it. The 70, 71, 71 produced by the 3d program seems pretty gray to me. And I'm using an Apple Studio Display.
You go on trying to invoke the possibility of a faulty camera to explain this phenomenon of the color spectrum, in spite the fact that my camera is a precise Fujifilm brand that has never had a slip-up, was set for indoor colors, had an average eyesight-mimicking exposure time and the picture used looked exactly like reality. Look at the yellow. Is it yellow? Eyedrop it. Yes, it's yellow. Look at the blue. Is it blue? Yes. Therefore the resulting green is the fault of the simplest physics which you failed to comprehend, not the hardware you tried to blame it on.
'Betweening' works as long as you don't rely on big tweens, and you can make it look good, but it takes fooooorever. I think it'd be nice if someone sold small mannequins with joint sensors to make life easier.
But on that note I'd like to point out something: If you're not already familiar with designing characters, then 3d programs will NOT boost your ability much at all. Even with a program as simple as Poser, you'll find that posing a character realistically is half the battle, and waaay more complicated than the average layman notices. I can't even count how many pictures I've seen where the artist (who must have tried very hard in spite) put in a Poser character and it just came out looking like a statue.
I'm afraid that, chances are, if you can't sketch a decent character (a few times, consistently) on paper, then you won't get far using a 3d program. Not to say computers don't help by any means (heck, I do all my drawings with a tablet), but they're a tool just like a pencil and paper; it's easier than chiseling your work into a cave wall, but they're not going to hand you the right skills right up front.
These sorts of programs were never known to make pictures better or even easier because:
- If you can't model, using presets will make your picture look generic. - If you can, it means you have to design the character from every angle anyway. - Even after that, I find that point-and-clicking the pose, facial expression, camera and lights can be a lot more tedious than drawing in Photoshop or on paper. - I was modeling things for a long time, and I find it way easier, faster, more precise and less mechanical to just draw the character myself. - Rendering time. - Getting the colors right and lighting those colors can really suck. - It's also impossible to make it perfect. Why? Because the fundamental coloring system used by 3d programs is flawed. In real life, when you place a yellow glass in front of a blue glass, or mix blue and yellow paints and you get the color green. In a computer, when you place a virtual yellow glass or 50% transparent yellow in front of blue, what color do you get? Gray. The method computers are using to blend colors is incorrect as they blend the RGB, not the HSB, so all colors will be grayed. I delve further into phenomenon here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/11426654/ - Why do you want to use a 3d program nearly capable of photo-realism to make lines?! - if you're doing a comic, you'll have a shitload of post-processing to do to get everything into panels. - You're looking at a bunch of wire-frame (or OpenGL) previews as you go, not the real thing.
As it stands, 3d apps are ideal for animations, but I'll stick with Photoshop any day for comics or one-shot pictures. 3d apps just aren't sophisticated enough yet, and don't have the ease of use that 2d programs or a simple pencil, paper and scanner have.
On the bright side: someone will probably see this while meta-moderating and somebody else will lose their mod privileges. Sorry anonymous troll mod, but you can't expect to get off screwing with the system forever.
Or, better yet, attach the second station to the first flight and send them both off.
Although, I have to wonder if the stations themselves can practically use the method, though I guess I'd have to know more about the scientists' theories. If the plasma beam is its own means of propulsion then this could work (and the trouble would be devising a back-propulsion to keep the station in place), but if the means of propulsion has more to do with the interaction between the beam and the spacecraft (the beam by itself producing no movement), then the second station would have no way to slow down except by rocket fuel, which probably wouldn't bode too well.
We'll find out sooner or later. Nice to see people giving theories instead of standing back and watching.
Yeah, funny how the logic behind that works. "Let's keep kids in a cage, tell them what they can see and regard them as a bunch of animals. That'll make them less violent."
Then they go back home and beat their kids etc. etc. I think the problem with teen violence these days is they're not shooting the right people.
Yeah, it's the path of every government: Scare everyone into obedience, offer 'protection', kill anyone who gets in the way, then crash, blame it on anarchy, and start over. Ours is showing the final signs as it's now recklessly throwing out laws, imprisoning anyone in sight, going on killing sprees it can't cover up, etc. Saddam and Hitler didn't get away with it; I doubt the dumbasses in our office can.
The reps sure called that one, didn't they? Bush said something really bad would happen unless he's reelected. I guess the administration is following through on that promise.
"Congress is pushing to database every thought made by every human by the year 2008. The 0WNED Act seems all too necessary in light of recent terrorist attacks involving trash-can fires, shoe-destroying gum on sidewalks and the shooting of certain forms of wildlife. 'Terrorists,' said President Bush, 'Saddam Hussein, 9/11 Al-Queda Iran terrorists... Kerry terrorists November. Terrorists, Axis of Evil, economy World Trade Center Judgment Day leadership freedom safety America strategery militaration defendation intellectualizationism!' Congress cheered loudly over Bush's speech omitting the usual fluff between keywords. It's said they'll be holding a feast of a thousand human hearts over this occasion the act is on its way to the constitution."
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or perhaps, a living computer?
Sure, I'd gladly give my brain to this research, or at least some animal's brain. If I have to give a random animal's life so I can have a cool computer that barks like a dog, then so be it, I'm brave and humble enough to make that sacrifice.
Actually, for purity purposes, let's just kidnap some girl off the streets and use her.
"Oh, no, how dare you say that! These fine people are WAY too moral to do something as disgusting a revolting as that! It's just... Oh, wait. Hold on a sec, my cell phone is meowing."
I wouldn't trust a photographer who couldn't identify the color green. In fact I wouldn't trust anyone at all who looked at the color green and called it black. If something this essential can evade someone in any field of art, then they're in the lowest league of artist there is.
I know they have to keep cheaters out, but they said modified consoles are banned. Whether or not it modded to cheat looks like it couldn't matter less. Sounds like yet another excuse to screw anyone who doesn't leave their console alone like good little kids.
Modified consoles will be banned, and information about those banned machines will be tracked to prevent them from connecting to the service again.
Heh, "Oh, just this once, I'll buy a game system from the world's most psychotic computer company. What's the worst that could happen?"
'Course I'm not one to complain, I actually bought a PS2. It doesn't read disks now. The ONE time I steer away from Nintendo and it bites me in the ass...
It proves the necessity to have a good method of casting and counting ballots
Then throws that idea out the window and gives half the population (and rigged votes) huge priority over the others.
Right. The people in California would get equal votes. If you don't like the state they're in then it's your own problem.
I just explained why the system is broken, in fact you quoted it.
Not related at all. That was the whole point. Testosterone doesn't have much of anything to do with anything here.
Yep. While a rational system not bent on screwing the publi would mean a few votes are rigged, the EC allows a few STATES to be rigged.
Add that to the fact that the electoral college is the entire reason the republican party now has America under siege (and, well, other places), and yeah the chances are naught. Getting a rep-controlled government to go against the system that gave it control won't fly.
The current system has served corrupt politicians well for 230 years
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So.. it bad because of computing errors, which instead if getting a few wrong votes, will - with the corrupt EC system - give you a few wrong STATES. Nope, doesn't compute. I think this is only good if you're Bush.
Yep. I can't even find that 'grain of truth' Erick was talking about.
The internet collapses because it loses the dumb-ass businesses that ruin it and make life worse for everyone? Sure, and then the computer world itself will collapse when Microsoft longer has a grip on it. I think Dr. Hannu Kari needs to go back to selling placebo pills.
They play video games, AND they have vaginas! If that's not worth starting a special interest group over then I don't know what is.
Crap. Just now I realize the subject was more about education. Well, it's good to get the information out anyway. Guess I'll have to go back to making my own program.
Something I think would make some noise in the computer art world is if you came up with a blending method that doesn't have the gray-out flaw.
What I mean is, with the current alpha method Photoshop (and nearly all programs) uses, every time you blend two colors at any transparency level, you lose saturation. The colors average each other, which makes them lean toward gray.
Just as a demonstration: Make a pure blue square (0,0,255), then on a layer above, make a yellow square and put it at 50% opacity. What color do you get? Gray, because 0,0,255 and 255,255,0 averages to 128,128,128, while it should be 0,255,0. You're not only losing saturation, but also luminosity. This doesn't happen in real life. When you mix blue and yellow paint, or put a blue glass in front of a yellow glass, you get green.
I give an example here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/11426654/
And Photoshop has no blending method to fix this. I tried everything. It's really an annoyance that every time I smooth colors out and get averages, I lose saturation and brightness, and have to re-saturate everything afterward. I think that if blending worked by averaging the HSB instead of the RGB, it'd be a bit tricky but the color would blend the way it does in reality and not begin to turn gray.
ot Act, war protesting Euro-trash aren't more free than blah blah blah...
Nice to see the people supporting the Patriot Act aren't a bunch of flaming racist Nazis.
Ditto. Thinking the grass is greener on the other side is almost as bad as being delusional about one's own country. The only way a government would stop another government is if it gives them the opportunity to kill someone.
The latter of course.
This is a hilarious post and I'm not entirely sure if you were being serious, but just in case some kid out there believes putting a blue glass before a yellow one produces black by some means of magic, I'll correct it with an experiment that even you could do.
Go out to the store, buy a blue glass and a yellow glass, put a normal white light on one end and put your face on the other. Does it look
A) black
B) gray
C) green
If you answered C, then you're not colorblind. If the simplest observation of the spectrum eludes you then I honestly advise that you do this, or at least go back to middle school.
I had hardware in mind way before you mentioned it. The picture I gave provided the RGB value, and if you know anything about hardware - which evidently you don't - the value 46, 70, 42 is green, no matter what displays it. If your monitor displays it as black then there's something seriously wrong with it. The 70, 71, 71 produced by the 3d program seems pretty gray to me. And I'm using an Apple Studio Display.
You go on trying to invoke the possibility of a faulty camera to explain this phenomenon of the color spectrum, in spite the fact that my camera is a precise Fujifilm brand that has never had a slip-up, was set for indoor colors, had an average eyesight-mimicking exposure time and the picture used looked exactly like reality. Look at the yellow. Is it yellow? Eyedrop it. Yes, it's yellow. Look at the blue. Is it blue? Yes. Therefore the resulting green is the fault of the simplest physics which you failed to comprehend, not the hardware you tried to blame it on.
Is this what it will take for the US to enact stringent privacy rules?
I think it's likely to get the country added to the Axis of Evil and atomic-bombed.
'Betweening' works as long as you don't rely on big tweens, and you can make it look good, but it takes fooooorever. I think it'd be nice if someone sold small mannequins with joint sensors to make life easier.
But on that note I'd like to point out something: If you're not already familiar with designing characters, then 3d programs will NOT boost your ability much at all. Even with a program as simple as Poser, you'll find that posing a character realistically is half the battle, and waaay more complicated than the average layman notices. I can't even count how many pictures I've seen where the artist (who must have tried very hard in spite) put in a Poser character and it just came out looking like a statue.
I'm afraid that, chances are, if you can't sketch a decent character (a few times, consistently) on paper, then you won't get far using a 3d program. Not to say computers don't help by any means (heck, I do all my drawings with a tablet), but they're a tool just like a pencil and paper; it's easier than chiseling your work into a cave wall, but they're not going to hand you the right skills right up front.
These sorts of programs were never known to make pictures better or even easier because:
- If you can't model, using presets will make your picture look generic.
- If you can, it means you have to design the character from every angle anyway.
- Even after that, I find that point-and-clicking the pose, facial expression, camera and lights can be a lot more tedious than drawing in Photoshop or on paper.
- I was modeling things for a long time, and I find it way easier, faster, more precise and less mechanical to just draw the character myself.
- Rendering time.
- Getting the colors right and lighting those colors can really suck.
- It's also impossible to make it perfect. Why? Because the fundamental coloring system used by 3d programs is flawed. In real life, when you place a yellow glass in front of a blue glass, or mix blue and yellow paints and you get the color green. In a computer, when you place a virtual yellow glass or 50% transparent yellow in front of blue, what color do you get? Gray. The method computers are using to blend colors is incorrect as they blend the RGB, not the HSB, so all colors will be grayed. I delve further into phenomenon here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/11426654/
- Why do you want to use a 3d program nearly capable of photo-realism to make lines?!
- if you're doing a comic, you'll have a shitload of post-processing to do to get everything into panels.
- You're looking at a bunch of wire-frame (or OpenGL) previews as you go, not the real thing.
As it stands, 3d apps are ideal for animations, but I'll stick with Photoshop any day for comics or one-shot pictures. 3d apps just aren't sophisticated enough yet, and don't have the ease of use that 2d programs or a simple pencil, paper and scanner have.
On the bright side: someone will probably see this while meta-moderating and somebody else will lose their mod privileges. Sorry anonymous troll mod, but you can't expect to get off screwing with the system forever.
Or, better yet, attach the second station to the first flight and send them both off.
Although, I have to wonder if the stations themselves can practically use the method, though I guess I'd have to know more about the scientists' theories. If the plasma beam is its own means of propulsion then this could work (and the trouble would be devising a back-propulsion to keep the station in place), but if the means of propulsion has more to do with the interaction between the beam and the spacecraft (the beam by itself producing no movement), then the second station would have no way to slow down except by rocket fuel, which probably wouldn't bode too well.
We'll find out sooner or later. Nice to see people giving theories instead of standing back and watching.
-video games causing violence
Yeah, funny how the logic behind that works. "Let's keep kids in a cage, tell them what they can see and regard them as a bunch of animals. That'll make them less violent."
Then they go back home and beat their kids etc. etc. I think the problem with teen violence these days is they're not shooting the right people.
Yeah, it's the path of every government: Scare everyone into obedience, offer 'protection', kill anyone who gets in the way, then crash, blame it on anarchy, and start over. Ours is showing the final signs as it's now recklessly throwing out laws, imprisoning anyone in sight, going on killing sprees it can't cover up, etc. Saddam and Hitler didn't get away with it; I doubt the dumbasses in our office can.
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On an interesting note, the government is anticipating a 9/11ish terrorist attack to take place just around - oh gee - election time http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/12/law_enforcem
The reps sure called that one, didn't they? Bush said something really bad would happen unless he's reelected. I guess the administration is following through on that promise.
"Congress is pushing to database every thought made by every human by the year 2008. The 0WNED Act seems all too necessary in light of recent terrorist attacks involving trash-can fires, shoe-destroying gum on sidewalks and the shooting of certain forms of wildlife. 'Terrorists,' said President Bush, 'Saddam Hussein, 9/11 Al-Queda Iran terrorists... Kerry terrorists November. Terrorists, Axis of Evil, economy World Trade Center Judgment Day leadership freedom safety America strategery militaration defendation intellectualizationism!' Congress cheered loudly over Bush's speech omitting the usual fluff between keywords. It's said they'll be holding a feast of a thousand human hearts over this occasion the act is on its way to the constitution."
Well at least typing will be easier.