100% automatic? ok. so what you are saying is, you have no idea if photosynth works for real or not. You say that it works by intelligently looking at photos and constructing a 3D model out of the photos, but that is not what the demo does!. I have downloaded the demo, and it does not look at photos, nor does it construct anything! The demo is a static walkthrough that at most shows off what the interface to the front end ov some potentially awesome software might someday look like.
In other news, I have a demo ov 100% intelligent AI software - Just log into #xhrit on freenode and you can have a conversation with me^H^H it.
Is anyone else a little underwhelmed by their so called 'demo'? It seems like the program does not contain any ov the technologies that are being 'developed' at microsoft, and is instead a hard coded 'interactive movie' showing how this 'new technology' is supposed to look, if they ever get it working.
Most likely this barley interactive photosynth demo will be used to secure patents on '3D Virtual Reconstruction', and the final product will ship with no such features, instead being marketed as an alternative to adobe lightroom.
Am i wrong? Well, can anyone tell me that photosynth is really a working 3d-photo-viewer? and if the technology is there, why cant i open my own photos in it instead ov just viewing the sample photos? Does photosynth really do anything that can't be faked in flash? And if it cant, they who is to say that it is not being faked in photosynth?
This is the government that has admitted to doing such things as conspiring to engage in activities ranging from non-consensual human experimentation to killing its own citizens in mock terror attacks using drone aircraft for the purpose ov blaming it on non-existant foreign terrorists to drum up support for an illegal invasion ov a sovereign nation?
Should we really trust a security organization that was founded by a nazi double agent who was fond ov smuggeling war criminals out ov post war germany and hiding them in the USA?
These example are well documented facts. Do you really expect people to ignore them!? Do you seriously denounce people who take facts into consideration while formulating an opinion?
irrlicht can open a lot ov model formats. One tutorial is a simple model viewer (pan, zoom rotate). If you know c++, you program a button into the tutorial that dumps model data to a Collada file in about 10 min.
Games Workshop uses rapid prototyping with 3d printers to design all its plastic kits. GW's model kits are pretty simplistic - I can put a basic infantry model togeather in about 10 minutes. Ov course it takes 3 hours to paint one, and you need about 100 to play a game ov Warhammer 40k. As such, I play a lot ov Star Wars Miniatures.
Anyways, I could see this useful to get a large amount ov scenery and terrain - design a few modular 'gothic' building elements in blender, email the file to the printers and cast the masters in resin. I bet you could get enough terrain to fill a 8*4 cityfight table, with plenty leftovers to cover the costs ov doing so in ebay sales alone.
How is this insightful? You seem to be missing the point. envy doesn't even make graphics cards, only the GPU chips. There are no standards for laptop form factors or motherboard layouts. Laptops are always a vendor specific proprietary design. In a laptop form factor all the internal parts including GPU, fan, and bios, will be chosen and assembled by the laptop manufacturer before being shipped to the vender.
So if you haven't groked it yet, let me clue you in on the way it is.
NV makes graphics chips. PNY makes graphics cards using NV chips. Quanta and Compal manufacture notebooks that use NV chips. Dell sells laptops made by Quanta and Compal.
OK, do we have this part down. Go read it again if you don't, because you really need to understand this before you continue, as the next part is the kicker. ready? here goes...
Nvidia provides the reference. Other people implement it.
Now lets take things like the examples given in reply to this post :
"I was shocked to find that the fan didn't even sit completely atop the core, and that there was a LOT of excess thermal paste and stupidly thick thermal pads."
"a 8800GT... overheated in normal play, while keeping the fan stuck at 30% speed... The original Foxconn thermal paste spilled out all over the area around the GPU."
If you understand the above text, you will now realize that NVIDIA did not make the graphics cards in question. They did not make the fans. They did not decide what fans to use. They did not decide how much thermal paste to apply to the fans. And they did not apply the fans to the chip. They made the chip.
Tell me, how is it 100% eNVy's fault that things eNVy did not make are overheating?
Maybe NVIDIA does get some blame for under-reporting the required cooling, but don't hardware manufactures like Foxconn, PNY, Quanta and Compal deserve some blame for not quality testing the parts? And what about laptop venders liek Dell and HP, don't they do any quality testing on the hardware that they brand with their logos? Do they get any blame?
IMO it is 100% dells fault for pushing shitty consumer grade product that I would never use.
Falun Gong is to Bhudisim as Scientology is to Christianity.
They are not "evil fake religions"; Evil is subjective and the phrase "fake religion" is redundant, much like 'made up mythology', or 'pretend fiction'.
from a desktop perspective I started with slackware, much like you. But I stayed with slackware. Maybe i am just too lazy to change, but really.. Why bother with anything else?
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and that is why i am still waiting to play ut3 on linux.
I finally got a ps3, as I am looking forward to both wipEout HD and Soul Calibur 4 later this month.
It was quite a trek. I did not want a 40gig as I have a large collection ov ps2 games that are not finished yet.
So, after going to different stores for a few weeks and coming back empty handed i eventully saw someone in best buy holding a box; pointed to a pallet in the corner sorrounded by geeks. I was so excited as I stood in line - in front ov AND behind people buying ps3s! When I went back later for HD cables, the entire pallet was gone!
Since I got the ps3 tho, I have only played msg4 once. my gf has hijacked it. Ironic, because for weeks she complained about me going around looking, saying things like 'i dont know why you want one, there are no games for it anyway'. So now she spends her time playing echochrome, flow and nucleus; making the ps3 her #1 most played game system, as in the 10 years that i have known her, the only video games she has ever played are ZPC on the PC (because she likes brute! and kmfdm) and Full Metal Alchimest 1&2 on the ps2 (because she likes fma).
That alone is worth 500$.
more after i put it to work upconverting my old 'ps2.5' games like Shining Force Exa that suffer from slowdowns on the ps2.
wow, that means the wii will have SIX AXIS ov motion?! That would make the wii the first next gen console to have SIX AXIS motion control! Revolutionary.
You could do that with nethack's bones files since 1987. When you die in nethack it is permadeath; the game drops your corpse, loot, and whatever killed you in a bones file. In this way a player using a publicly-hosted copy of the game can encounter the remains (and loot) of many other players. The only thing new is a central server to distribute the bones.
MMOs are about as much a continuation of MUD as madden 07 is a continuation ov nethack. The first "real" MMO was SubSpace, a two-dimensional space shooter - lead programmer Jeff Petersen coined the term massively multiplayer online game to describe the huge player counts supported by the SubSpace servers.
SubSpace was a team based PvP game, but you could solo just by creating a new team. It's successor, Continuum, is free but for windows only. It is the only thing I regret about switching to linux.
ODE is a physics engine; it uses Opcode for limited collision detection. Bullet is a collision detection engine; it uses a native dynamics engine for limited physics simulation. Bullet Collision Detection can work with ODE physics; the best thing to do is to use both.
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100% automatic? ok. so what you are saying is, you have no idea if photosynth works for real or not. You say that it works by intelligently looking at photos and constructing a 3D model out of the photos, but that is not what the demo does!. I have downloaded the demo, and it does not look at photos, nor does it construct anything! The demo is a static walkthrough that at most shows off what the interface to the front end ov some potentially awesome software might someday look like.
In other news, I have a demo ov 100% intelligent AI software - Just log into #xhrit on freenode and you can have a conversation with me^H^H it.
Is anyone else a little underwhelmed by their so called 'demo'? It seems like the program does not contain any ov the technologies that are being 'developed' at microsoft, and is instead a hard coded 'interactive movie' showing how this 'new technology' is supposed to look, if they ever get it working.
Most likely this barley interactive photosynth demo will be used to secure patents on '3D Virtual Reconstruction', and the final product will ship with no such features, instead being marketed as an alternative to adobe lightroom.
Am i wrong? Well, can anyone tell me that photosynth is really a working 3d-photo-viewer? and if the technology is there, why cant i open my own photos in it instead ov just viewing the sample photos? Does photosynth really do anything that can't be faked in flash? And if it cant, they who is to say that it is not being faked in photosynth?
I didn't know you like anime. Gankutsuou is awesome.
>only a true believer would term [Tibetan] attempts to get their country back "terrorism".
no, the correct term is "insurgency".
>For gaming Windows rules the universe
45 million wii and ps3 players disagree.
openmoko's on screen keyboard depends on what distro you are using : om2007.2 sucks; the OSK in om2008.8 or FSO is much better.
there is a bug in nvidia's ogl. you have to define a compiler flag to get around it - just open up COpenGLDriver.h and read the comments.
look up the project known as acoustic kitty and tell me again about your expections ov sophistication.
>Why hasn't ABC outed the people who lied to them?
The in-house pentagon liaison would never allow it.
This is the government that has admitted to doing such things as conspiring to engage in activities ranging from non-consensual human experimentation to killing its own citizens in mock terror attacks using drone aircraft for the purpose ov blaming it on non-existant foreign terrorists to drum up support for an illegal invasion ov a sovereign nation?
Should we really trust a security organization that was founded by a nazi double agent who was fond ov smuggeling war criminals out ov post war germany and hiding them in the USA?
These example are well documented facts. Do you really expect people to ignore them!? Do you seriously denounce people who take facts into consideration while formulating an opinion?
irrlicht can open a lot ov model formats. One tutorial is a simple model viewer (pan, zoom rotate). If you know c++, you program a button into the tutorial that dumps model data to a Collada file in about 10 min.
games workshop does all their plastic kits using rapid protyping.
Games Workshop uses rapid prototyping with 3d printers to design all its plastic kits. GW's model kits are pretty simplistic - I can put a basic infantry model togeather in about 10 minutes. Ov course it takes 3 hours to paint one, and you need about 100 to play a game ov Warhammer 40k. As such, I play a lot ov Star Wars Miniatures.
Anyways, I could see this useful to get a large amount ov scenery and terrain - design a few modular 'gothic' building elements in blender, email the file to the printers and cast the masters in resin. I bet you could get enough terrain to fill a 8*4 cityfight table, with plenty leftovers to cover the costs ov doing so in ebay sales alone.
How is this insightful? You seem to be missing the point. envy doesn't even make graphics cards, only the GPU chips. There are no standards for laptop form factors or motherboard layouts. Laptops are always a vendor specific proprietary design. In a laptop form factor all the internal parts including GPU, fan, and bios, will be chosen and assembled by the laptop manufacturer before being shipped to the vender.
... overheated in normal play, while keeping the fan stuck at 30% speed... The original Foxconn thermal paste spilled out all over the area around the GPU."
So if you haven't groked it yet, let me clue you in on the way it is.
NV makes graphics chips. PNY makes graphics cards using NV chips. Quanta and Compal manufacture notebooks that use NV chips. Dell sells laptops made by Quanta and Compal.
OK, do we have this part down. Go read it again if you don't, because you really need to understand this before you continue, as the next part is the kicker. ready? here goes...
Nvidia provides the reference. Other people implement it.
Now lets take things like the examples given in reply to this post :
"I was shocked to find that the fan didn't even sit completely atop the core, and that there was a LOT of excess thermal paste and stupidly thick thermal pads."
"a 8800GT
If you understand the above text, you will now realize that NVIDIA did not make the graphics cards in question. They did not make the fans. They did not decide what fans to use. They did not decide how much thermal paste to apply to the fans. And they did not apply the fans to the chip. They made the chip.
Tell me, how is it 100% eNVy's fault that things eNVy did not make are overheating?
Maybe NVIDIA does get some blame for under-reporting the required cooling, but don't hardware manufactures like Foxconn, PNY, Quanta and Compal deserve some blame for not quality testing the parts? And what about laptop venders liek Dell and HP, don't they do any quality testing on the hardware that they brand with their logos? Do they get any blame?
IMO it is 100% dells fault for pushing shitty consumer grade product that I would never use.
Falun Gong is to Bhudisim as Scientology is to Christianity.
They are not "evil fake religions"; Evil is subjective and the phrase "fake religion" is redundant, much like 'made up mythology', or 'pretend fiction'.
from a desktop perspective I started with slackware, much like you. But I stayed with slackware. Maybe i am just too lazy to change, but really.. Why bother with anything else?
and that is why i am still waiting to play ut3 on linux.
We have the Cell.
Long live Transmeta.
xbox live arcade has a 150 meg filesize limit.
As such, xbox live arcade will never have anything as good as Tekken Online or wipEout HD.
psn > live
I finally got a ps3, as I am looking forward to both wipEout HD and Soul Calibur 4 later this month.
It was quite a trek. I did not want a 40gig as I have a large collection ov ps2 games that are not finished yet.
So, after going to different stores for a few weeks and coming back empty handed i eventully saw someone in best buy holding a box; pointed to a pallet in the corner sorrounded by geeks. I was so excited as I stood in line - in front ov AND behind people buying ps3s! When I went back later for HD cables, the entire pallet was gone!
Since I got the ps3 tho, I have only played msg4 once. my gf has hijacked it. Ironic, because for weeks she complained about me going around looking, saying things like 'i dont know why you want one, there are no games for it anyway'. So now she spends her time playing echochrome, flow and nucleus; making the ps3 her #1 most played game system, as in the 10 years that i have known her, the only video games she has ever played are ZPC on the PC (because she likes brute! and kmfdm) and Full Metal Alchimest 1&2 on the ps2 (because she likes fma).
That alone is worth 500$.
more after i put it to work upconverting my old 'ps2.5' games like Shining Force Exa that suffer from slowdowns on the ps2.
wow, that means the wii will have SIX AXIS ov motion?! That would make the wii the first next gen console to have SIX AXIS motion control! Revolutionary.
You could do that with nethack's bones files since 1987. When you die in nethack it is permadeath; the game drops your corpse, loot, and whatever killed you in a bones file. In this way a player using a publicly-hosted copy of the game can encounter the remains (and loot) of many other players. The only thing new is a central server to distribute the bones.
:)
MMOs are about as much a continuation of MUD as madden 07 is a continuation ov nethack. The first "real" MMO was SubSpace, a two-dimensional space shooter - lead programmer Jeff Petersen coined the term massively multiplayer online game to describe the huge player counts supported by the SubSpace servers.
SubSpace was a team based PvP game, but you could solo just by creating a new team. It's successor, Continuum, is free but for windows only. It is the only thing I regret about switching to linux.
You told a hiding the body joke without mentioning hans reiser.
ODE is a physics engine; it uses Opcode for limited collision detection. Bullet is a collision detection engine; it uses a native dynamics engine for limited physics simulation. Bullet Collision Detection can work with ODE physics; the best thing to do is to use both.