Or the vast artificial lake built near the main plant (used to provide water coolant for the reactors) dries out.
After the reactor explosion, the lake was showered with radioactive debris which sank to the bottom. Today water has to be pumped constantly from the nearby river Pripyat to stop the lake evaporating in summer and exposing its toxic sediments, which would dry out and be spread by the wind.
It currently looks like the litigious solicitors bringing the claims on behalf of the content owners will be funding it, or at least carry the can on behalf of the plaintiffs.
The infamous 'ACS Law' who sent tens of thousands of letters demanding 'settlement' payments of about £500 from people it accused of illegal downloading were accused of breaching the solicitors code of conduct.
The Judge said that ACS Law was "amateurish and slipshod" and said it had "brought the legal profession into disrepute".
DCMA sect. 512 protects the linker (under safe harbor), until they're aware the link is infringing. At that point the linker has to remove or disable access to the linked material.
I always thought that if Comic Book Guy was ever given a license to have children, he'd find it amusing to give them an SQL injection attack name like Bobby Tables.
And to be honest, the mindset behind this new breed of convoluted scam methods to trick customers out of money (such as the one in TFA) often seem to be dreamt up by someone whose grip on reality is based in the world of the Simpsons et al, rather than by dealing with real human beings.
If the Catholic church can get away with an apology for the rape of countless young boys and girls on behalf of its members, then please your Holiness, accept this apology on behalf of the internet for our "satanic" practices.
This is exactly what the article claims is the proof of their assertation.
The Vatican's chief exorcist claimed last year that the Devil lurked in the Vatican...
...He claimed that the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church......were proof that the anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See.
I don't work for Crysis, but I know several 3-D devs and concept artists who've switched from film VFX to games and work for them.
crytek keeps their workers in "company provided" living spaces
Crytek Germany provide free accommodation to new developers who've relocated to Germany while they find their feet, and provide assistance finding private accommodation for longer term workers.
to make them work longer
Work longer hours, or work longer for the company? Quite a few of these people have to be persuaded to relocate from Crysis UK to Germany. Persuading people to relocate for a significant length of time requires carrots, not sticks.
Not if you're in the UK. Provided you don't disclose the call to a third party, you can record telephone calls without informing the person you are talking to.
Can I record telephone conversations on my home phone?
Yes. The relevant law, RIPA, does not prohibit individuals from recording their own communications provided that the recording is for their own use. Recording or monitoring are only prohibited where some of the contents of the communication - which can be a phone conversation or an e-mail - are made available to a third party, ie someone who was neither the caller or sender nor the intended recipient of the original communication. For further information see the Home Office website where RIPA is posted.
Do I have to let people know that I intend to record their telephone conversations with me?
No, provided you are not intending to make the contents of the communication available to a third party. If you are you will need the consent of the person you are recording.
Well, from Hydraulx's Skyline downwards, really. But most VFX-heavy Hollywood blockbuster movies are put together in this way - and suffer from this problem.
On paper, yes, the director determines the creative direction of the VFX shots. And the post house will revise shots, again and again if necessary, at the director's will.
But this is on a shot-by-shot level. VFX houses bid for jobs based on shot counts. Some VFX houses, e.g. (I work in London) Framestore, Mill FIlm, Molinare, bid on films on the basis that they put up investment funds based on winning the VFX work. These houses have their eye on pitching for future work, based on the current shots they're doing.
So you end up with companies producing work based on the in-house resources and proprietary techniques/technology they've developed. When hair/fur shaders finally became viable to render, furry creature movies popping up everywhere, Realflow/fluid sims = poseidon and a bunch of other fluid related films, massive/crowd-sims = the one meeelion zombies/marauding armies category of VFX shot.
This has always happened throughout film-making - films being realised because of what's technically possible. But the VFX process is so expensive, so labour intensive, so time consuming, that moving things around, at a creative level, is like turning a supertanker around on a sixpence.
In the end, producers and financiers play safe, pre-viz first, go for the tried and tested, the post-house's recommendation. Then reassure the director by giving him/her the illusion of control over these shots. They're such a significant portion of the budget, the director has no more true control over them than they do casting.
It's the problem of the tail wagging the dog. The VFX department is so large, and builds such a momentum, only the strongest-willed directors have the force to keep them in check.
And often it's the technically minded directors (like David Fincher, an ex-VFX cameraman) understanding what they're asking people to do, who get the best out of these sorts of crews.
Much of the VFX is sorted out in advance of the shoot, with storyboard, animatics, previz, and sometimes working up whole sequences. After principal photography's finished, when things don't work in the edit or don't tell the story, the sheer amount of time and money invested in these sequences can be hard to throw away.
You need a powerful creative brain at the helm to make a good case that overturns the logical arguments of VFX supervisors and the other members of what is largely a technical team.
There are other IMDB criteria that seem to immediately apply to this film, without requiring film festival submission. IMDB's own eligibility rules state that the film:
must be of general public interest, and
should be available to the public or have been available in the past.
Under 'what constituts general public interest', the rules include:
has been downloaded in 'large' numbers from some website(s), or
has become famous for some reason and is widely talked about/referenced in non local media or the 'film community' or is now of general historic interest for some reason.
Speaking as someone with intimate experience of the 2D to 3D conversion process...
The reality is that, with a finite number of people who can do the conversion, and lots of execs wanting movies converted, the talent pool is too small and too expensive at the moment to put the man-hours into a conversion to do it well.
It all boils down to money. The conversion process needs rotoscoping. Lots and lots of highly labour-intensive rotoscoping. That costs money. And it needs skilled compositers to put the chopped-up images together in a 3D environment projected onto animated geometry. That's also highly labour-intensive.
In fact, I was talking to Escape Studios, a large VFX recruitment agency, a couple of weeks ago, and they said 50% of all Nuke compositors in London are currently working on Prime Focus's Vue-D 3-D conversion process.
Also, the compositors who've worked on 2D to 3D conversion get burned-out by the mindless drudgery of it all. They're effectively creative guys doing beyond-mindless crap. The CafeFX lead for the 2D-3D conversion of Tim Burton's 'Alice' said it was an horrendous experience, and he never wanted to repeat it again. And that was shot greenscreen, which makes the process a thousand time easier. In movies like Star Wars, EVERYTHING has to be roto'd. There's nothing keyable. It's a mind-numbing thought.
We need physical libraries with physical books as a 'checksum' to make sure things aren't being changed behind our backs.
When hard-copy of 'absolutes' like paper encyclopedias and dictionaries begin to disappear, I can't help but think of the principles of the Ministry of Information in Orwell's 1984.
When the fundamentals of our only available in remote databases that can be changed at any time means knowledge becomes empirical. And your source must be absolutely trustworthy.
Absolute knowledge is heading in the same direction as money - an invisible reserve that's sometime subject to 'bank errors'.
(from TFA) Widgery plans to release the T73 Turbine by the end of the year; it's a $200,000 model that will burn jet fuel, allowing it to stay airborne for 19 minutes.
First of all, the police can tie your Slashdot account to your name in less than 24 hours if they really need. Slashdot will provide your IP and your ISP will provide your name and address.
The first principle of news-ish nerd-ish moronicity is 'stand by your beliefs, no matter how wrong-headed, in the face of adversity, critisism, flaming, facts, or the law'.
Slashdot Mirror
Or the vast artificial lake built near the main plant (used to provide water coolant for the reactors) dries out.
After the reactor explosion, the lake was showered with radioactive debris which sank to the bottom. Today water has to be pumped constantly from the nearby river Pripyat to stop the lake evaporating in summer and exposing its toxic sediments, which would dry out and be spread by the wind.
It currently looks like the litigious solicitors bringing the claims on behalf of the content owners will be funding it, or at least carry the can on behalf of the plaintiffs.
The infamous 'ACS Law' who sent tens of thousands of letters demanding 'settlement' payments of about £500 from people it accused of illegal downloading were accused of breaching the solicitors code of conduct.
The Judge said that ACS Law was "amateurish and slipshod" and said it had "brought the legal profession into disrepute".
Ha! The UK government has a less-than-impressive record with IT. They've spent billions on IT projects that have collapsed without any usable results
Fund the project with Nimrod Subhunter savings?
DCMA sect. 512 protects the linker (under safe harbor), until they're aware the link is infringing. At that point the linker has to remove or disable access to the linked material.
I always thought that if Comic Book Guy was ever given a license to have children, he'd find it amusing to give them an SQL injection attack name like Bobby Tables.
And to be honest, the mindset behind this new breed of convoluted scam methods to trick customers out of money (such as the one in TFA) often seem to be dreamt up by someone whose grip on reality is based in the world of the Simpsons et al, rather than by dealing with real human beings.
If the Catholic church can get away with an apology for the rape of countless young boys and girls on behalf of its members, then please your Holiness, accept this apology on behalf of the internet for our "satanic" practices.
This is exactly what the article claims is the proof of their assertation.
The Vatican's chief exorcist claimed last year that the Devil lurked in the Vatican...
...He claimed that the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church... ...were proof that the anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See.
If anyone is reading this, and hasn't seen the 2010 film 'Into Eternity', they should seek it out, and watch it.
The film documents the nuclear waste storage facility under Finland that needs to last 100,000 years.
It seems easier to explain the perils of long term nuclear storage to children than adults.
Recently bought an HPz800 visual workstation, £7k + vat
No Win7 installer disk supplied by default - took a month for HP to 'custom order' the OS disk.
HP didn't charge... but what the hell? A £0.25 piece of plastic.
What exactly is the point of withholding an OS disk on a £7k machine? HP support couldn't answer this one by the way.
Although with seconds to go, an entire SSD could be destroyed more easily than the thermite-wrapped HD method.
Where are my snarky points when I need them?
crytek keeps their workers in "company provided" living spaces
Crytek Germany provide free accommodation to new developers who've relocated to Germany while they find their feet, and provide assistance finding private accommodation for longer term workers.
to make them work longer
Work longer hours, or work longer for the company? Quite a few of these people have to be persuaded to relocate from Crysis UK to Germany. Persuading people to relocate for a significant length of time requires carrots, not sticks.
Not if you're in the UK. Provided you don't disclose the call to a third party, you can record telephone calls without informing the person you are talking to.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/oftel/consumer/advice/faqs/prvfaq3.htm
Can I record telephone conversations on my home phone?
Yes. The relevant law, RIPA, does not prohibit individuals from recording their own communications provided that the recording is for their own use. Recording or monitoring are only prohibited where some of the contents of the communication - which can be a phone conversation or an e-mail - are made available to a third party, ie someone who was neither the caller or sender nor the intended recipient of the original communication. For further information see the Home Office website where RIPA is posted.
Do I have to let people know that I intend to record their telephone conversations with me?
No, provided you are not intending to make the contents of the communication available to a third party. If you are you will need the consent of the person you are recording.
Well, from Hydraulx's Skyline downwards, really. But most VFX-heavy Hollywood blockbuster movies are put together in this way - and suffer from this problem. On paper, yes, the director determines the creative direction of the VFX shots. And the post house will revise shots, again and again if necessary, at the director's will.
But this is on a shot-by-shot level. VFX houses bid for jobs based on shot counts. Some VFX houses, e.g. (I work in London) Framestore, Mill FIlm, Molinare, bid on films on the basis that they put up investment funds based on winning the VFX work. These houses have their eye on pitching for future work, based on the current shots they're doing.
So you end up with companies producing work based on the in-house resources and proprietary techniques/technology they've developed. When hair/fur shaders finally became viable to render, furry creature movies popping up everywhere, Realflow/fluid sims = poseidon and a bunch of other fluid related films, massive/crowd-sims = the one meeelion zombies/marauding armies category of VFX shot.
This has always happened throughout film-making - films being realised because of what's technically possible. But the VFX process is so expensive, so labour intensive, so time consuming, that moving things around, at a creative level, is like turning a supertanker around on a sixpence.
In the end, producers and financiers play safe, pre-viz first, go for the tried and tested, the post-house's recommendation. Then reassure the director by giving him/her the illusion of control over these shots. They're such a significant portion of the budget, the director has no more true control over them than they do casting.
It's the problem of the tail wagging the dog. The VFX department is so large, and builds such a momentum, only the strongest-willed directors have the force to keep them in check.
And often it's the technically minded directors (like David Fincher, an ex-VFX cameraman) understanding what they're asking people to do, who get the best out of these sorts of crews.
Much of the VFX is sorted out in advance of the shoot, with storyboard, animatics, previz, and sometimes working up whole sequences. After principal photography's finished, when things don't work in the edit or don't tell the story, the sheer amount of time and money invested in these sequences can be hard to throw away.
You need a powerful creative brain at the helm to make a good case that overturns the logical arguments of VFX supervisors and the other members of what is largely a technical team.
Pierre Bézier
Under 'what constituts general public interest', the rules include:
Sounds like a good candidate for crowdsourcing.
Well, it's a good candidate for China. Although, strangely, a lot of this grunt-type work is still being done in London & LA (plus a little in India).
Speaking as someone with intimate experience of the 2D to 3D conversion process...
The reality is that, with a finite number of people who can do the conversion, and lots of execs wanting movies converted, the talent pool is too small and too expensive at the moment to put the man-hours into a conversion to do it well.
It all boils down to money. The conversion process needs rotoscoping. Lots and lots of highly labour-intensive rotoscoping. That costs money. And it needs skilled compositers to put the chopped-up images together in a 3D environment projected onto animated geometry. That's also highly labour-intensive.
In fact, I was talking to Escape Studios, a large VFX recruitment agency, a couple of weeks ago, and they said 50% of all Nuke compositors in London are currently working on Prime Focus's Vue-D 3-D conversion process.
Also, the compositors who've worked on 2D to 3D conversion get burned-out by the mindless drudgery of it all. They're effectively creative guys doing beyond-mindless crap. The CafeFX lead for the 2D-3D conversion of Tim Burton's 'Alice' said it was an horrendous experience, and he never wanted to repeat it again. And that was shot greenscreen, which makes the process a thousand time easier. In movies like Star Wars, EVERYTHING has to be roto'd. There's nothing keyable. It's a mind-numbing thought.
Not to sound too dystopic, but...
We need physical libraries with physical books as a 'checksum' to make sure things aren't being changed behind our backs. When hard-copy of 'absolutes' like paper encyclopedias and dictionaries begin to disappear, I can't help but think of the principles of the Ministry of Information in Orwell's 1984.
When the fundamentals of our only available in remote databases that can be changed at any time means knowledge becomes empirical. And your source must be absolutely trustworthy. Absolute knowledge is heading in the same direction as money - an invisible reserve that's sometime subject to 'bank errors'.
(from TFA) Widgery plans to release the T73 Turbine by the end of the year; it's a $200,000 model that will burn jet fuel, allowing it to stay airborne for 19 minutes.
Reducing my information intake is precisely why I never RTFA.
First of all, the police can tie your Slashdot account to your name in less than 24 hours if they really need. Slashdot will provide your IP and your ISP will provide your name and address.
Not if you only post from internet cafes.
I prefer the John Wallis version
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2 x ( 2/1 . 2/3 . 4/3 . 4/5 . 6/5 . 6/7 . 8/7 . 8/9
It certainly is possible to override CTRL-ALT-DELETE.
Even something as basic as an Adobe 'Macromedia' Director projector can trap it using something like Meliorasoft's Keyboard Control Xtra"
Don't back down so easily!
The first principle of news-ish nerd-ish moronicity is 'stand by your beliefs, no matter how wrong-headed, in the face of adversity, critisism, flaming, facts, or the law'.