Make an illegal turn on a blind corner and you might find yourself in a lot more accidents caused by 'another driver's lack of control'.
I'm not disagreeing with your notion that there are better drivers than others. And that these drivers are safer at high speeds than low speeds but something like making a uturn where it is illegal is annoying because as a conscientious driver I like to maximize my energy checking spots where people should be coming from not some cowboy who just made an illegal u-turn when I was looking the other way.
Decades ago I observed that the sky was blue. People to this day people still find evidence I was correct as a child. I imagine in 1,000 years people will still be recognizing the correctness of my observations. I am like a God among men!
What does landmass have to do with anything? I don't need a fiber connection to every square mile of the country, I want it in the middle of a f***ing city. I'm not asking for a fiber connection to every grain elevator in Kansas, I'm expecting it to go to any of the US cities. I got 2mbps internet 8 years ago. I was so excited. That was in the middle of country side surrounded by wheat and asparagus fields. Fastforward 8 years. I still have 2mbps internet, I think it's actually worse, it costs the same and I'm surrounded by millions of people.
Well they can't do worse than Qwest. They took 6 months of talking about permits and digging up roads to fix my internet for the 8th technician to conclude that a cable was unplugged. Meanwhile I was with the local cable company who couldn't deliver a ping to their own switches 400ms.
So now I'm still with Qwest I ditched the cable company and I get 200ms pings to their local switches and my bandwidth wavers between.5mb and 2mb (I pay for '6').
Comcast at work is pretty good but it took us 5 months of begging and they wanted to charge us something like $10k to run cable across the street to our pole. We finally got them to do it for free if we could get 5 people in the building to sign up. So we ended up buying 2 of the 5 ourselves on 2 year contracts. That internet connection goes out about once every other day for a few minutes. Luckily we have a redundant Qwest line as well which our switches fail-over to.
Yep... private free market. It's awesome.
Mind you this isn't in the middle of a field somewhere, this is in a densely populated metropolitan area full of game and media companies.
The US's population density is actually pretty average. Maybe not compared to Africa or Russia but we're far from atypical in population density. It's not how spread out we are that's the problem.
Yeah Open Source doesn't have any sort of image problem with being "Half baked" or "constantly in beta". I'm sure Microsoft wishes it had Linux's desktop market share.
The main stream news STILL does not want to admit that cyber 'terror' (like the attacks on twitter, facebook and in S. Korea) were conducted via WINDOWS zombie computers, as part of a segment of the greater BOTNET.
There is only ONE reason why they may not want to admit Microsoft Windows allows BOTNETS and that is MONEY.
If the mainstream media where to announce that all of Microsoft Windows computers have a major security flaw that can only be fix properly by rewritting the Kernel and File system permission design, would potentially seriously hurt the Economy. Think about all the people that would stop shopping Online... it is actually better 'economically' to just let cyber criminals phish away and get all our credit card numbers and steal some poor souls identity, than to cause mass hysteria.
Let's identify the real culprit. COMPUTERS! There is ONE... No TWO REASONS we have BOTNETS. COMPUTERS! and HIGHSPEED INTERNET! Clearly these two threats need to be removed and we will be safe from BOTNETS. Also ELECTRICITY! We should stop producing ELECTRICITY because it facilitates BOTNETS.
If the mainstream media were to reveal that COMPUTERS and ELECTRICITY were behind BOTNETS we would realize teh only way to stop the BOTNETS was to redesign all the USERS to not be SUSCEPTIBLE to PERSUASION and SOCIAL ENGINEERING. But then we would have an apocalypse on our HANDS. And then if we told them that their FAMILY MEMBERS were the most likely PEOPLE to STEAL THEIR IDENTITIES families would fall APART under paranoia and suspicion. Think of all the PEOPLE who would stop leaving their HOMES because they were too AFRAID that their AUNT would steal their IDENTITY.
Only indeed. You can buy a Sony 4k Projector for less than $50k. Depending on the size of the audience they could have used the new sony 4k projector with 20k lumens for I think around $300k. Someone got overcharged me thinks.
32 bit isn't nearly enough. You're looking at the Falacy of what consumers can see and care about. This is incorrect. This is what led video camera manufacturers to say "8bit video is fine, the eye can't really see more than 8 bits." This is what led the video camera manufacturers to say "4:2:2 color space is fine, the eye can't see blue very well." And what we got were cameras that were incredibly difficult to use, output which was substandard and all around mediocre video.
8bits at ANY ONE TIME is the critical part of that statement that is true. But selecting those 8 bits per channel is the reason people will be storing 32bit per channel images by 2020. Take one picture and don't set your ISO. Don't set your focus. Don't set your aperture. Don't set your exposure length. Just capture a moment. In that moment your 2020 camera just captured the full dynamic range of the scene from the darkest shadows to the brightest highlights and 32bit high dynamic range. It also shot 240 of these frames during that second with a continuous shutter so that you can blend between them to adjust your exposure length in post. More motion blur.... less motion blur... whatever you want. Your sensor is actually now dozens of megapixel microlensed sensors which when interpolated allow you to adjust your depth of field in post or even choose a different lens's bokeh characteristics. And all of this is in a visually lossless codec. Combined it'll be in excess of 100MB per shot. Which will seem huge by our standards today but still fit a hundred or two photos onto a flash card.
Which reminds me, camera flashes have gone the way of the dinosaur. No longer are photos ever underexposed, or over exposed, or too blurry, or out of focus. Every shot is salvageable inside even the most primitive program such as iphoto.
There is X ARM software available There is at least X^Y where Y is >= 2 x86 software available
Seeing as I have no idea what the actual numbers for ARM or x86 software is I decided to express the relationship between the two functions for any definition of X and Y as is accurate to the data.
Why would you buy that when you can get a 10" Dell mini which runs every x86 app in existence through Windows, Ubuntu Preinstalled or Hackintosh?
For almost the same price it has:
Twice as much RAM. Twice as fast of a processor. Exponentially more software available. Twice as much battery life. And weighs exactly the same amount.
Forget video. The real future is in photogammetry. Wander around a space with a small video camera for a few minutes and the computer infers all of the light, texture and surface properties of the entire room. Then if you want to take a picture the camera is saved as meta-data XYZ position,Quaternian rotation and FOV.
All of the problems you pointed out can and are solved by contract law. Authors sign contracts with publishers to print their material. Artists are funded. If they didn't, then those evil greedy printers would never have new material to print. Honestly, you talk like a madman.
And you talk like an idiot. There... insults out of the way.
Contract law can only protect first day copies. In fact contract law can't even protect first day law.
Let's play in your little fantasy land. I'm an author. I sign a contract with Penguin to write them a new book. They pay me $20m because I'm a big name hotshot. I submit my copy to Penguin. Someone in the factory smuggles a handheld scanner into the factory and flips through the book during his lunch break. That employee signs a contract with Random House to sell the new best seller for $500k. Random House now starts printing copies full tilt and puts out a limited run BEFORE penguin hits the street.
Suddenly the Penguin executives start wondering why they ever payed $20m for the trouble of paying the author. Why should they! Random House is selling the same book and payed millions less.
Probably because manufacturing techniques often take at least 10 years to become mainstream. Even if someone invents something faster, smaller and more reliable than magnetic storage... you still have to conceive of a way to produce it in mass quantities to drive the price below that of established spinning disks.
Yes the Ludicrous notion of intellectual property. Ludicrous to people who don't profit personally from intellectual property.
All property is intellectual property. What makes an atom so much more significant than a pattern? If I own an ounce of gold should I be able swap it for a crafted gold ornament of equal weight? Why not? They're both just gold!
What you're saying is that inventors shouldn't be compensated for their inventions. Artists shouldn't be compensated for their art. Authors shouldn't be compensated for their books. If you're an author and you want to make money from your story how do you do that without intellectual property? Let's say an agent runs across your story. They tear out the hand crafted binding and run it through a scanner. It's a NY Times best seller. But the author gets nothing. After all, it's just imaginary property, he who prints it and distributes it is the only person who made "Real" property. Maybe they didn't even put your name on it. Why should they, the author has no claim to it, it's just imaginary property.
The only thing that throwing out the ludicrous notion of intellectual property would accomplish is completely cement the power into the hands of the corporations who have the capital and infrastructure to out compete other corporations. The individual would have no ownership. The individual would have no control. This is the "Free market" that most non-interventionists advocate. A world where corporations are free to rob the public blind. I'm sure the CEO of the printing company which does nothing but sell pirated books would be payed handsomely for producing so much real product. I hope the CEO would feel charity for the authors he prints and give them a check out of good will. But that's all anyone who doesn't deal in tangible products would ever get. Charity. Maybe fans of the author would donate on their webpage, like a beggar on the street. Maybe they could sell some merchandise through their webpage, and maybe some people would buy the overpriced 'official' merchandise off the author's webpage instead of all the higher quality, less expensive similar merchandise available at any other store. But who knows.
Because that's what 'free market' is all about. It's about looking out for the freedom to do as you please, regardless of the consequences for anyone else. It's the freedom from government so that corporations of unchecked and unaccountable institutions can use their power and control to enslave and rob the population blind.
Step 1) Lay waste to the competition and establish a monopoly. Step 2) Impose absurd demands on the workers that they must accept since they have no other choice of employment. Step 3) Profit.
These aren't paranoid fantasies... this is history.
Having access to credit is an incredibly powerful tool. I couldn't have gotten through school without credit. I got a loan online to pay for college. If I was starting a business, opening a line of credit would be a very high priority in my business plan. Microlending is being recognized as a significant opportunity to fight poverty.
While we often use the internet for youtube and forums there is an incredible wealth of knowledge on the internet. I learned more about my profession from the internet than in college. I found the internet more educational than college, while in college.
Ways I can keep you out of the market just off the top of my head:
Sell at a loss my product until you go away. Steal your idea and sell it for less thanks to my huge existing manufacturing infrastructure. Tell all my partners that working with you will result in millions in lost business. Spend millions spreading false research that your product is dangerous. It gives you cancer!
Usually the easiest way to keep a competitor from entering the market is to kill you while there's little to no profit in helping the little guy survive.
If they aren't greedy they at the very least ignore the fact that everyone looking out for themselves results in nobody looking after the commons.
Libertarianism breaks down as quickly as communism on number of people.
The classic Tragedy of the Commons is overfishing. When everybody fishes the most they can possibly fish then everyone gets less fish. But there if even one person doesn't agree to fishing limits then they gain an unfair advantage.
The libertarian fallacy is that because it's overall profitable for everybody agree to not be selfish then everybody will do what's best for the greatest good, when in truth without regulation each entity will look out for its own good even to its own detriment. So in that regard they aren't greedy so much as idealistic in their assumptions that people will evaluate the long term sensibility of their greed and not attempt to game the system for personal gain... and to take it further that everybody won't attempt to game the system for personal gain to everyone's detriment.
With multiple teams and multiple projects you tend to just increase the frequency of the spikes in demand not even them out. Yesterday our farm was at capacity and queued up for an excess of 5 hours. Right now there is no wait to start rendering. Yesterday we needed a farm 4x our size. Today we need a farm a quarter. But even that isn't really the way it works either. Yesterday we would prefer to have had a farm 100x our size for 30 minutes. Today we would want to have a farm 100x our size for 1 minute. It's always going to be a balance when you own your farm between potential speed and idle time. The faster your farm is the more your machines will sit idle. So if you invest in a huge farm you'll get your sequences back instantly but then your farm sits idle most of the time. If you have a really small farm you might have to wait a day but they'll always be working.
I take it you don't have a render farm. If you're closer to delivery your render farm is probably completely occupied rendering final frames. If you are in the middle of a project it's probably running at quarter or half capacity. A render farm is often either over burdened or under burdened. That's a situation that's perfect for cloud computing. Instead of wasting thousands and thousands of dollars in idle machines you simply pay for the time when you need processing power. And since most of the world won't be rendering simultaneously a shared farm better distributes the investment. The only challenge now will be asset management and synchronizing a couple of GBs of scene data back and forth.
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Make an illegal turn on a blind corner and you might find yourself in a lot more accidents caused by 'another driver's lack of control'.
I'm not disagreeing with your notion that there are better drivers than others. And that these drivers are safer at high speeds than low speeds but something like making a uturn where it is illegal is annoying because as a conscientious driver I like to maximize my energy checking spots where people should be coming from not some cowboy who just made an illegal u-turn when I was looking the other way.
Decades ago I observed that the sky was blue. People to this day people still find evidence I was correct as a child. I imagine in 1,000 years people will still be recognizing the correctness of my observations. I am like a God among men!
What does landmass have to do with anything? I don't need a fiber connection to every square mile of the country, I want it in the middle of a f***ing city. I'm not asking for a fiber connection to every grain elevator in Kansas, I'm expecting it to go to any of the US cities. I got 2mbps internet 8 years ago. I was so excited. That was in the middle of country side surrounded by wheat and asparagus fields. Fastforward 8 years. I still have 2mbps internet, I think it's actually worse, it costs the same and I'm surrounded by millions of people.
Well they can't do worse than Qwest. They took 6 months of talking about permits and digging up roads to fix my internet for the 8th technician to conclude that a cable was unplugged. Meanwhile I was with the local cable company who couldn't deliver a ping to their own switches 400ms.
So now I'm still with Qwest I ditched the cable company and I get 200ms pings to their local switches and my bandwidth wavers between .5mb and 2mb (I pay for '6').
Comcast at work is pretty good but it took us 5 months of begging and they wanted to charge us something like $10k to run cable across the street to our pole. We finally got them to do it for free if we could get 5 people in the building to sign up. So we ended up buying 2 of the 5 ourselves on 2 year contracts. That internet connection goes out about once every other day for a few minutes. Luckily we have a redundant Qwest line as well which our switches fail-over to.
Yep... private free market. It's awesome.
Mind you this isn't in the middle of a field somewhere, this is in a densely populated metropolitan area full of game and media companies.
The US's population density is actually pretty average. Maybe not compared to Africa or Russia but we're far from atypical in population density. It's not how spread out we are that's the problem.
Also electricity. I don't need a full blown computer running 24/7 just to provide wifi for my laptop.
Summary is misleading. It wasn't a live presentation. They recorded 4k for presentation at a medical conference. And yes it used RED.
Yeah Open Source doesn't have any sort of image problem with being "Half baked" or "constantly in beta". I'm sure Microsoft wishes it had Linux's desktop market share.
The main stream news STILL does not want to admit that cyber 'terror' (like the attacks on twitter, facebook and in S. Korea) were conducted via WINDOWS zombie computers, as part of a segment of the greater BOTNET.
There is only ONE reason why they may not want to admit Microsoft Windows allows BOTNETS and that is MONEY.
If the mainstream media where to announce that all of Microsoft Windows computers have a major security flaw that can only be fix properly by rewritting the Kernel and File system permission design, would potentially seriously hurt the Economy. Think about all the people that would stop shopping Online... it is actually better 'economically' to just let cyber criminals phish away and get all our credit card numbers and steal some poor souls identity, than to cause mass hysteria.
Let's identify the real culprit. COMPUTERS! There is ONE... No TWO REASONS we have BOTNETS. COMPUTERS! and HIGHSPEED INTERNET! Clearly these two threats need to be removed and we will be safe from BOTNETS. Also ELECTRICITY! We should stop producing ELECTRICITY because it facilitates BOTNETS.
If the mainstream media were to reveal that COMPUTERS and ELECTRICITY were behind BOTNETS we would realize teh only way to stop the BOTNETS was to redesign all the USERS to not be SUSCEPTIBLE to PERSUASION and SOCIAL ENGINEERING. But then we would have an apocalypse on our HANDS. And then if we told them that their FAMILY MEMBERS were the most likely PEOPLE to STEAL THEIR IDENTITIES families would fall APART under paranoia and suspicion. Think of all the PEOPLE who would stop leaving their HOMES because they were too AFRAID that their AUNT would steal their IDENTITY.
Only indeed. You can buy a Sony 4k Projector for less than $50k. Depending on the size of the audience they could have used the new sony 4k projector with 20k lumens for I think around $300k. Someone got overcharged me thinks.
32 bit isn't nearly enough. You're looking at the Falacy of what consumers can see and care about. This is incorrect. This is what led video camera manufacturers to say "8bit video is fine, the eye can't really see more than 8 bits." This is what led the video camera manufacturers to say "4:2:2 color space is fine, the eye can't see blue very well." And what we got were cameras that were incredibly difficult to use, output which was substandard and all around mediocre video.
8bits at ANY ONE TIME is the critical part of that statement that is true. But selecting those 8 bits per channel is the reason people will be storing 32bit per channel images by 2020. Take one picture and don't set your ISO. Don't set your focus. Don't set your aperture. Don't set your exposure length. Just capture a moment. In that moment your 2020 camera just captured the full dynamic range of the scene from the darkest shadows to the brightest highlights and 32bit high dynamic range. It also shot 240 of these frames during that second with a continuous shutter so that you can blend between them to adjust your exposure length in post. More motion blur.... less motion blur... whatever you want. Your sensor is actually now dozens of megapixel microlensed sensors which when interpolated allow you to adjust your depth of field in post or even choose a different lens's bokeh characteristics. And all of this is in a visually lossless codec. Combined it'll be in excess of 100MB per shot. Which will seem huge by our standards today but still fit a hundred or two photos onto a flash card.
Which reminds me, camera flashes have gone the way of the dinosaur. No longer are photos ever underexposed, or over exposed, or too blurry, or out of focus. Every shot is salvageable inside even the most primitive program such as iphoto.
How about this.
Let's define a constant as X.
There is X ARM software available
There is at least X^Y where Y is >= 2 x86 software available
Seeing as I have no idea what the actual numbers for ARM or x86 software is I decided to express the relationship between the two functions for any definition of X and Y as is accurate to the data.
Why would you buy that when you can get a 10" Dell mini which runs every x86 app in existence through Windows, Ubuntu Preinstalled or Hackintosh?
For almost the same price it has:
Twice as much RAM.
Twice as fast of a processor.
Exponentially more software available.
Twice as much battery life.
And weighs exactly the same amount.
Forget video. The real future is in photogammetry. Wander around a space with a small video camera for a few minutes and the computer infers all of the light, texture and surface properties of the entire room. Then if you want to take a picture the camera is saved as meta-data XYZ position,Quaternian rotation and FOV.
I suppose that explains the death of LTO to hard drives. Wait...
All of the problems you pointed out can and are solved by contract law. Authors sign contracts with publishers to print their material. Artists are funded. If they didn't, then those evil greedy printers would never have new material to print. Honestly, you talk like a madman.
And you talk like an idiot. There... insults out of the way.
Contract law can only protect first day copies. In fact contract law can't even protect first day law.
Let's play in your little fantasy land. I'm an author. I sign a contract with Penguin to write them a new book. They pay me $20m because I'm a big name hotshot. I submit my copy to Penguin. Someone in the factory smuggles a handheld scanner into the factory and flips through the book during his lunch break. That employee signs a contract with Random House to sell the new best seller for $500k. Random House now starts printing copies full tilt and puts out a limited run BEFORE penguin hits the street.
Suddenly the Penguin executives start wondering why they ever payed $20m for the trouble of paying the author. Why should they! Random House is selling the same book and payed millions less.
Probably because manufacturing techniques often take at least 10 years to become mainstream. Even if someone invents something faster, smaller and more reliable than magnetic storage... you still have to conceive of a way to produce it in mass quantities to drive the price below that of established spinning disks.
Yes the Ludicrous notion of intellectual property. Ludicrous to people who don't profit personally from intellectual property.
All property is intellectual property. What makes an atom so much more significant than a pattern? If I own an ounce of gold should I be able swap it for a crafted gold ornament of equal weight? Why not? They're both just gold!
What you're saying is that inventors shouldn't be compensated for their inventions. Artists shouldn't be compensated for their art. Authors shouldn't be compensated for their books. If you're an author and you want to make money from your story how do you do that without intellectual property? Let's say an agent runs across your story. They tear out the hand crafted binding and run it through a scanner. It's a NY Times best seller. But the author gets nothing. After all, it's just imaginary property, he who prints it and distributes it is the only person who made "Real" property. Maybe they didn't even put your name on it. Why should they, the author has no claim to it, it's just imaginary property.
The only thing that throwing out the ludicrous notion of intellectual property would accomplish is completely cement the power into the hands of the corporations who have the capital and infrastructure to out compete other corporations. The individual would have no ownership. The individual would have no control. This is the "Free market" that most non-interventionists advocate. A world where corporations are free to rob the public blind. I'm sure the CEO of the printing company which does nothing but sell pirated books would be payed handsomely for producing so much real product. I hope the CEO would feel charity for the authors he prints and give them a check out of good will. But that's all anyone who doesn't deal in tangible products would ever get. Charity. Maybe fans of the author would donate on their webpage, like a beggar on the street. Maybe they could sell some merchandise through their webpage, and maybe some people would buy the overpriced 'official' merchandise off the author's webpage instead of all the higher quality, less expensive similar merchandise available at any other store. But who knows.
Because that's what 'free market' is all about. It's about looking out for the freedom to do as you please, regardless of the consequences for anyone else. It's the freedom from government so that corporations of unchecked and unaccountable institutions can use their power and control to enslave and rob the population blind.
Step 1) Lay waste to the competition and establish a monopoly.
Step 2) Impose absurd demands on the workers that they must accept since they have no other choice of employment.
Step 3) Profit.
These aren't paranoid fantasies... this is history.
Having access to credit is an incredibly powerful tool. I couldn't have gotten through school without credit. I got a loan online to pay for college. If I was starting a business, opening a line of credit would be a very high priority in my business plan. Microlending is being recognized as a significant opportunity to fight poverty.
While we often use the internet for youtube and forums there is an incredible wealth of knowledge on the internet. I learned more about my profession from the internet than in college. I found the internet more educational than college, while in college.
At the end of a gun barrel/tip of a sword is how most legitimate governments have established themselves. That's how we did it.
Ways I can keep you out of the market just off the top of my head:
Sell at a loss my product until you go away.
Steal your idea and sell it for less thanks to my huge existing manufacturing infrastructure.
Tell all my partners that working with you will result in millions in lost business.
Spend millions spreading false research that your product is dangerous. It gives you cancer!
Usually the easiest way to keep a competitor from entering the market is to kill you while there's little to no profit in helping the little guy survive.
If they aren't greedy they at the very least ignore the fact that everyone looking out for themselves results in nobody looking after the commons.
Libertarianism breaks down as quickly as communism on number of people.
The classic Tragedy of the Commons is overfishing. When everybody fishes the most they can possibly fish then everyone gets less fish. But there if even one person doesn't agree to fishing limits then they gain an unfair advantage.
The libertarian fallacy is that because it's overall profitable for everybody agree to not be selfish then everybody will do what's best for the greatest good, when in truth without regulation each entity will look out for its own good even to its own detriment. So in that regard they aren't greedy so much as idealistic in their assumptions that people will evaluate the long term sensibility of their greed and not attempt to game the system for personal gain... and to take it further that everybody won't attempt to game the system for personal gain to everyone's detriment.
So what you're saying is that past research has found that Russians shouldn't go to Mars?
With multiple teams and multiple projects you tend to just increase the frequency of the spikes in demand not even them out. Yesterday our farm was at capacity and queued up for an excess of 5 hours. Right now there is no wait to start rendering. Yesterday we needed a farm 4x our size. Today we need a farm a quarter. But even that isn't really the way it works either. Yesterday we would prefer to have had a farm 100x our size for 30 minutes. Today we would want to have a farm 100x our size for 1 minute. It's always going to be a balance when you own your farm between potential speed and idle time. The faster your farm is the more your machines will sit idle. So if you invest in a huge farm you'll get your sequences back instantly but then your farm sits idle most of the time. If you have a really small farm you might have to wait a day but they'll always be working.
I take it you don't have a render farm. If you're closer to delivery your render farm is probably completely occupied rendering final frames. If you are in the middle of a project it's probably running at quarter or half capacity. A render farm is often either over burdened or under burdened. That's a situation that's perfect for cloud computing. Instead of wasting thousands and thousands of dollars in idle machines you simply pay for the time when you need processing power. And since most of the world won't be rendering simultaneously a shared farm better distributes the investment. The only challenge now will be asset management and synchronizing a couple of GBs of scene data back and forth.