We have limited limiteds, things that are limited, and limited unlimiteds, things that seem unlimited yet are still limited, but we also have things that are also unlimited unlimiteds, that is to say things that are truly unlimited (until you read the small print).
You expect the lock maker to be liable if you leave your door open?
I expect to be able to remove the housebuilder's lock (so the housebuilder can't wander into my house whenever they want) and put my own lock on the front door.
In England, dissolving the corpse with acid to destroy evidence is generally synonymous with John George Haigh (AKA the 'acid bath' killer), who predated the Snowtown murders. We see Breaking Bad as derivative!
Actually I was hoping the joke was removed because it was The Funniest Joke in the World in the Monty Python sense, and that it had to be removed since it caused danger to life.
The patent does specifically say that it covers accessing a bank account (34. the user's account provided by... a bank).
The available credit of a bank account would be your bank balance plus overdraft facility, not your credit card's lending limit.
[0031] In one embodiment of the invention, the delivery element 32 of the advertisement management system 14 is arranged to analyze the user's available credit in order to assess the likelihood of a user being able to purchase advertised goods and/or services. The available credit may be provided by the billing system 26, i.e., from the user's account maintained by the billing system, 26, or from a credit extending system or facility 34, from the user's account provided by the credit extending facility 34. the credit extending facility 34 may be a bank or credit card company . Alternatively, the available credit can be provided to the delivery element 32 in a batch type of database action, i.e., delivered periodically and stored in a database of the advertisement management system 14.
Whatever you're rendering, you probably aren't benefiting from PRMan's really distinguishing features if you're using blender.
For the average Blender-user, that's probably true, but certainly not because
PRman has historically been incredibly slow in comparison to other production renderers for almost a decade
... since most Blender-users are not going to be rendering multi-billion polygon scenes with massive displacement, instancing, complex shader networks, complex AOV output and custom-written Renderman shaders.
Sorry, but your statement is just completely wrong!
You mean the VFX companies who made Avengers: Age of Ultron, Cinderella, Ex Machina, Fast and Furious 7, Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, Seventh Son, Ted 2 and Tomorrowland thought they'd chose an "incredibly slow" production renderer, rather than Arnold?
Most people think of the REYES rendering approach as being at the core of RenderMan when thinking of imagery produced by Pixar's RenderMan, and although this has been historically true, RenderMan has been a hybrid renderer for some time now.
For the record, Renderman now uses RIS: Arnold-style path-tracing as well as bidirectional path tracing.
The real pioneer in CG (at least in terms of rendering) is Ed Catmull.
In case you didn't realise he was one of the original team who developed Renderman, and is still instrumental to keeping it a viable production renderer.
Need a shave? Toss out your Bics and grab the Gillette Fusion, which single-handedly represents Consumer Product Event Horizon by combining "the comfort of five blades" (on the front) with "the precision of one" (on the back). The main cutting surface is about the size of a sheet of A4; so large you can't get it under your nose without shearing off your top lip, which is why you need the blade on the back - it's the only bit you can enjoy a reasonable shave with.
There's also a battery-operated "Power Handle" option that makes the whole thing buzz like a wasp in an envelope - not to help you shave, but to offer yet more fleeting distraction from the UNREMITTING MISERY OF LIFE.
The Fusion Mk2, out next year, features 190 blades, a 30GB hard drive, a pine nut dispenser and a synthesized voice telling you everything's OK, even though the mere existence of such a razor proves otherwise. I've pre-ordered mine already.
Except it's less likely the authorities can hack into your dumb phone's operating system and download secret utilities to activate the microphone and camera without your knowledge.
TFA doesn't make this clear, but there's some more information in this one.
Musical floppy drives are made by manipulating the internal motor that moves the read/write heads over the floppy disk. Each floppy disk is divided into 80 tracks radially from the centre, which the notoriously noisy floppy drive motor can send the read/write head to. By pulsing the motor at any of those 80 positions, representing different frequencies, you can create a particular musical note. And, because floppy drives don't contain their own controller, they're far easier to manipulate with third-party boards and tools like the Arduino.
Therefore I think each drive has to be chosen individually because with only 80 total positions the chances of any given drive playing consecutive semitone-spaced correct pitches would be small. So it would seem they've gone through a bunch of drives selecting the ones that have a track position that's nearest to each desired pitch to make up 49 semitone-spaced notes.
This is the exact opposite of what my optician tells me. He says it's why he recommends staring into the distance every half hour if you use computer screens (give the muscles a rest).
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Yes, and this will break everyone's shitty push notification apps like Facebook and OKCupid so they won't use it.
Disabling Facebook extends battery life by about 75%.
Freezing research... what would you expect, except "glacial progress"?
Cyclists will use a $60 kit so they appear to be a big, scary articulated lorry to the automated cars.
Not to mention the fact that Bhutan doesn't even practice Zen buddhism. It follows Vajrayana Buddhism.
As Mr Rumsfeld nearly says...
We have limited limiteds, things that are limited, and limited unlimiteds, things that seem unlimited yet are still limited, but we also have things that are also unlimited unlimiteds, that is to say things that are truly unlimited (until you read the small print).
No, just play tetris.
You expect the lock maker to be liable if you leave your door open?
I expect to be able to remove the housebuilder's lock (so the housebuilder can't wander into my house whenever they want) and put my own lock on the front door.
I thought all hackers hacked to AC/DC's Thunderstruck? Are you saying hollywood is wrong?
The shooter says he did not know if the drone was being operated by a paedophile, criminal or ISIS terrorist before he opened fire.
Why is this an either/or situation? Has the shooter never heard of the legendary Criminally Paedophilic ISIS Terrorist?
In England, dissolving the corpse with acid to destroy evidence is generally synonymous with John George Haigh (AKA the 'acid bath' killer), who predated the Snowtown murders. We see Breaking Bad as derivative!
They're smoking the competition.
arf arf
Don't you feel stupid wearing that tinfoil hat?
Not if you cock it at a jaunty angle.
Then you leave the critical 'side' of your head vulnerable to a well-aimed 'jaunty' attack while your defences are down.
Ensure your tinfoil covers down to neck level at *all* times.
Actually I was hoping the joke was removed because it was The Funniest Joke in the World in the Monty Python sense, and that it had to be removed since it caused danger to life.
Regrettably that is not the case.
Speaking of 'low tech', Scott Wade elevated the 'Clean Me' written on a dirty car to a whole new art form.
The available credit of a bank account would be your bank balance plus overdraft facility, not your credit card's lending limit.
[0031] In one embodiment of the invention, the delivery element 32 of the advertisement management system 14 is arranged to analyze the user's available credit in order to assess the likelihood of a user being able to purchase advertised goods and/or services. The available credit may be provided by the billing system 26, i.e., from the user's account maintained by the billing system, 26, or from a credit extending system or facility 34, from the user's account provided by the credit extending facility 34. the credit extending facility 34 may be a bank or credit card company . Alternatively, the available credit can be provided to the delivery element 32 in a batch type of database action, i.e., delivered periodically and stored in a database of the advertisement management system 14.
Whatever you're rendering, you probably aren't benefiting from PRMan's really distinguishing features if you're using blender.
For the average Blender-user, that's probably true, but certainly not because
PRman has historically been incredibly slow in comparison to other production renderers for almost a decade
... since most Blender-users are not going to be rendering multi-billion polygon scenes with massive displacement, instancing, complex shader networks, complex AOV output and custom-written Renderman shaders.
Sorry, but your statement is just completely wrong!
You mean the VFX companies who made Avengers: Age of Ultron, Cinderella, Ex Machina, Fast and Furious 7, Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, Seventh Son, Ted 2 and Tomorrowland thought they'd chose an "incredibly slow" production renderer, rather than Arnold? Most people think of the REYES rendering approach as being at the core of RenderMan when thinking of imagery produced by Pixar's RenderMan, and although this has been historically true, RenderMan has been a hybrid renderer for some time now.
For the record, Renderman now uses RIS: Arnold-style path-tracing as well as bidirectional path tracing.
The real pioneer in CG (at least in terms of rendering) is Ed Catmull.
In case you didn't realise he was one of the original team who developed Renderman, and is still instrumental to keeping it a viable production renderer.
Need a shave? Toss out your Bics and grab the Gillette Fusion, which single-handedly represents Consumer Product Event Horizon by combining "the comfort of five blades" (on the front) with "the precision of one" (on the back). The main cutting surface is about the size of a sheet of A4; so large you can't get it under your nose without shearing off your top lip, which is why you need the blade on the back - it's the only bit you can enjoy a reasonable shave with.
There's also a battery-operated "Power Handle" option that makes the whole thing buzz like a wasp in an envelope - not to help you shave, but to offer yet more fleeting distraction from the UNREMITTING MISERY OF LIFE.
The Fusion Mk2, out next year, features 190 blades, a 30GB hard drive, a pine nut dispenser and a synthesized voice telling you everything's OK, even though the mere existence of such a razor proves otherwise. I've pre-ordered mine already.
spam and eggs? Is this an extension of the monty python joke?
Except it's less likely the authorities can hack into your dumb phone's operating system and download secret utilities to activate the microphone and camera without your knowledge.
In the old days, he'd have posted it in 2600 and we'd ALL've got some free coffee.
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No free lunches anymore
Musical floppy drives are made by manipulating the internal motor that moves the read/write heads over the floppy disk. Each floppy disk is divided into 80 tracks radially from the centre, which the notoriously noisy floppy drive motor can send the read/write head to. By pulsing the motor at any of those 80 positions, representing different frequencies, you can create a particular musical note. And, because floppy drives don't contain their own controller, they're far easier to manipulate with third-party boards and tools like the Arduino.
Therefore I think each drive has to be chosen individually because with only 80 total positions the chances of any given drive playing consecutive semitone-spaced correct pitches would be small. So it would seem they've gone through a bunch of drives selecting the ones that have a track position that's nearest to each desired pitch to make up 49 semitone-spaced notes.
This is the exact opposite of what my optician tells me. He says it's why he recommends staring into the distance every half hour if you use computer screens (give the muscles a rest).
I pull out the ethernet cable.
Or disable the wifi.
Hurts, but really works.
Wiping the contents of your laptop, or refusing to give a password in the US, is generally met with unfavourable consequences
Better than in the UK, where it's a criminal offence punishable by two years imprisonment. (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Part III)
And people are really locked up for that here.