Not sure about the math, but that's one of the reason that human skin looks so lifeless in CG. Skin is translucent (that's why your hand glows red when you hold a flashlight up to it). Currently CG skin is only a surface -- it doesn't show light reflecting from within the skin.
Actually, they have found ways to do this now. For example, there's PovMan which is an add-on to Povray that lets you make shaders that describe how a surface reflects and transmits. There's a skin shader on the website that lets you create more realistic skin.
I've heard of a new technique where they create a new lens in your eye and then fill it with a flexible gel. They than have the muscles of your eye move it, and it acts like a normal lens. That seems like it would work much better than doing something machanically complex (at least for people who still have muscles for their lenses).
You can already dial 911 from any (most?) VoIP phone. This ruling just forces the VoIP services to transmit your location information to the 911 call center, so they can know where you are without your saying it.
Then spammers could just ask users to sign up for an email address and to give them the name and password. Until sites require captchas to log in, of course.
But it takes 37% less time to download the second example as a 7z than as bz2. On my modem, that's 78 seconds less, that I would prefer not to wait. I doubt that decompressing the file takes that much longer.
This was already implemented on the PowerPC 601 and 603 (and possibly others, my book is getting rather old). Additionally, the Alpha 21064 and 21064a processors could optionally guess a branch as taken if it went back(loops), and not taken if it went forward(ifs). Most processors nowadays use dynamic prediction, basing current predictions upon whether earlier branches were taken or not taken. The branch unit on the P4 predicts with an accuracy of about 95%. One more interesting way of doing it is to try executing both paths at the same time, and throwing out the one that is incorrect. This requires a lot more logic (although pentium 4's already include "hyperthreading", and this is somewhat similar), and with such high accuracies probably would actually be much worse than the current way of executing.
But you can't detect steg with encrypted messages, because the encrypted messages seem as random as the normal data, so there's nothing to clue you into the fact that it means anything.
Life has existed on the earth for over 3.5 billion years. If any change is not as bad as the worst of those that occured during that time period, life will live. As for human life, mammals have lived on the earth for around 60 million years, and humans aren't particularly fragile. If mammals could live through the problems of those last years, then humans can probably live through less severe future problems.
Lidar would be where it would help the most, wouldn't it? If you only detect lidar after you've been nailed, then lidar detectors are pointless now. With this system, other people could learn not to speed through the area before they're caught, and the guy who got caught now could be the one receiving the information later; it would be a net gain to him. I'd only be worried about the police creating incorrect signals.
I'd rather see him pay a la King Louis XIV. Don't you mean Louis XVI? IIRC, Louis XIV was the one who had Versailles built for himself. I'd rather Darl not get a palace.
While that is a definition of sci-fi, it's one that can be overly narrow. By that definition, Smith's Lensmen series, Bujold's Vorkosigan series, Herbert's Dune series (this could be fantasy, though), Card's Ender's Game, some of Iain M. Banks's word, Steakley's Armor, and Asimov's various Robot stories (many of which only have positronics and the three laws as their science, with various murder mysteries as their stories) would not be science fiction. Most of these would be described by most people as science fiction, though, and I'm willing to agree with them. That doesn't mean that the other definiton is horribly wrong, but just being in a future setting can cause something to be science fiction
What good is Safari on a non-mac? It is mostly an interface with KHTML. There would be no point in porting it back to Linux or Windows, as the source code is probably almost completely OS X-specific, and the already contribute to the cross-platform KHTML. The only people that would gain from the openning of the source code would be current users of Safari, as then enhancements to the UI could be added by other developers than Apple.
Are these cores nothing? You can download them from CVS, can't you? The only company websites it points to are those of the companies use the cores and have success with it. What more do you want?
Are you saying that both the Earth was created in 6 days (what is usually meant by the term "creationism"), and that the Universe has existed for over 10 billion years, and life took billions of years to evolve to its current form, using evolution? As I see it, those are mutually exclusive concepts, and, as such, are not orthogonal.
Mind explaining how you can do this with one sound card: up to six different MP3's Unless, of course, you can somehow manipulate each channel separately(and you have a 7.1 sound card).
With something like this, you could use highly efficient ion propulsion to boost it back up, rather than needing to launch extra rocket engines and tons of fuel to lift satelites to higher orbits.
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Why? No worse than hydraulic because there still are mechanical linkages. You'll just need to apply the full power, same as when hydraulic goes out.
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A 2010 model car will only be designed to last 8 years; a 2015 model car will only be designed to last 3 years. I'd recommend staying away from cars and the roads every year past 2017.
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Then you would want to count the number of vehicles lost, not the number of people.
Not sure about the math, but that's one of the reason that human skin looks so lifeless in CG. Skin is translucent (that's why your hand glows red when you hold a flashlight up to it). Currently CG skin is only a surface -- it doesn't show light reflecting from within the skin.
Actually, they have found ways to do this now. For example, there's PovMan which is an add-on to Povray that lets you make shaders that describe how a surface reflects and transmits. There's a skin shader on the website that lets you create more realistic skin.
You just need to wait untill the pit starts to fill up.
I've heard of a new technique where they create a new lens in your eye and then fill it with a flexible gel. They than have the muscles of your eye move it, and it acts like a normal lens. That seems like it would work much better than doing something machanically complex (at least for people who still have muscles for their lenses).
You can already dial 911 from any (most?) VoIP phone. This ruling just forces the VoIP services to transmit your location information to the 911 call center, so they can know where you are without your saying it.
Then spammers could just ask users to sign up for an email address and to give them the name and password. Until sites require captchas to log in, of course.
But it takes 37% less time to download the second example as a 7z than as bz2. On my modem, that's 78 seconds less, that I would prefer not to wait. I doubt that decompressing the file takes that much longer.
This was already implemented on the PowerPC 601 and 603 (and possibly others, my book is getting rather old). Additionally, the Alpha 21064 and 21064a processors could optionally guess a branch as taken if it went back(loops), and not taken if it went forward(ifs).
Most processors nowadays use dynamic prediction, basing current predictions upon whether earlier branches were taken or not taken. The branch unit on the P4 predicts with an accuracy of about 95%.
One more interesting way of doing it is to try executing both paths at the same time, and throwing out the one that is incorrect. This requires a lot more logic (although pentium 4's already include "hyperthreading", and this is somewhat similar), and with such high accuracies probably would actually be much worse than the current way of executing.
But you can't detect steg with encrypted messages, because the encrypted messages seem as random as the normal data, so there's nothing to clue you into the fact that it means anything.
Life has existed on the earth for over 3.5 billion years. If any change is not as bad as the worst of those that occured during that time period, life will live. As for human life, mammals have lived on the earth for around 60 million years, and humans aren't particularly fragile. If mammals could live through the problems of those last years, then humans can probably live through less severe future problems.
Lidar would be where it would help the most, wouldn't it? If you only detect lidar after you've been nailed, then lidar detectors are pointless now. With this system, other people could learn not to speed through the area before they're caught, and the guy who got caught now could be the one receiving the information later; it would be a net gain to him. I'd only be worried about the police creating incorrect signals.
I'd rather see him pay a la King Louis XIV.
Don't you mean Louis XVI? IIRC, Louis XIV was the one who had Versailles built for himself. I'd rather Darl not get a palace.
Eventually, they may see more "functionality" with DRM, as programs and files will start requiring it.
Surprisingly this, too, has been done , albeit in a slightly more complex form.
It's been done.
While that is a definition of sci-fi, it's one that can be overly narrow. By that definition, Smith's Lensmen series, Bujold's Vorkosigan series, Herbert's Dune series (this could be fantasy, though), Card's Ender's Game, some of Iain M. Banks's word, Steakley's Armor, and Asimov's various Robot stories (many of which only have positronics and the three laws as their science, with various murder mysteries as their stories) would not be science fiction.
Most of these would be described by most people as science fiction, though, and I'm willing to agree with them. That doesn't mean that the other definiton is horribly wrong, but just being in a future setting can cause something to be science fiction
What good is Safari on a non-mac? It is mostly an interface with KHTML. There would be no point in porting it back to Linux or Windows, as the source code is probably almost completely OS X-specific, and the already contribute to the cross-platform KHTML.
The only people that would gain from the openning of the source code would be current users of Safari, as then enhancements to the UI could be added by other developers than Apple.
Are these cores nothing? You can download them from CVS, can't you? The only company websites it points to are those of the companies use the cores and have success with it. What more do you want?
Are you saying that both the Earth was created in 6 days (what is usually meant by the term "creationism"), and that the Universe has existed for over 10 billion years, and life took billions of years to evolve to its current form, using evolution? As I see it, those are mutually exclusive concepts, and, as such, are not orthogonal.
Mind explaining how you can do this with one sound card:
up to six different MP3's
Unless, of course, you can somehow manipulate each channel separately(and you have a 7.1 sound card).
Maybe he overestimated the gullibility of the average person. Seems hard to believe, though.
The alpha channel support is nonexistant in GIFs, but no one cares about that. Transparency in indexed mode works just fine for both.
With something like this, you could use highly efficient ion propulsion to boost it back up, rather than needing to launch extra rocket engines and tons of fuel to lift satelites to higher orbits.
Why? No worse than hydraulic because there still are mechanical linkages. You'll just need to apply the full power, same as when hydraulic goes out.
A 2010 model car will only be designed to last 8 years; a 2015 model car will only be designed to last 3 years. I'd recommend staying away from cars and the roads every year past 2017.