``It has long been an artist's dream to render CG animation in real-time,'' stated Kazuyuki Hashimoto, CTO at Square USA.
We've been able to render CG animation in real time since Ivan Sutherland was a grad student. What makes it hard is a classic Parkinson's law: your needs expand to fill existing processor power. When the movie companies and animation houses have more horsepower, they will go to the next level and push the state of the art in CG back from what's capable of being done in real-time.
The FF render times sound about the same as numbers I heard from Pixar about Toy Story. What was that post a couple weeks ago, about the machine you want always costing $5000? Well, the frame you want to render will always take 90 minutes.
According to a recent study by Steve Lawrence of the NEC Research Institute in New Jersey and Lee Giles of Pennsylvania State University, the Web contains nearly a billion documents. The documents represent the nodes of this complex network and they are connected by locators, known as URLs, that allow us to navigate from one Web page to another.
The Lawrence and Giles study was published in 1999, so stop picking on the 1 billion number... it's quite out of date. Web researchers know this already.
The important thing from that paper is on the growth of the web; and from Kumar's bowtie-theory paper, we also think that most of the web is growing in places where we can't see.
You can get Debian for PPC as well, and it works great. So, don't go got YDL if what you want is apt! IIRC, despite YUP, YellowDog and LinuxPPC are still RPM-based.
Neat stuff, a very nice example of something that couldn't be done in the pre-Net era.
It can certainly be done without the Net, and I've done it. My wife and I had a quilt made for our wedding, where each square in the quilt was assigned to different family members and friends. We assembled the final quilt once all the squares were back.
Pen-based gestures were the one part of the NewtonOS that worked well even on the first machines. To erase something, you scribbled up and down over it. To select something, you circled it. To move something that was selected, you tapped and dragged.
The one thing Sunstein seems to miss is that people have always filtered information. How many newspaper readers just go straight to the sports page? Whenever I go into a bookstore, I don't browse all the books, and even walk right past the new releases and bestsellers since I know what I'm likely to want to buy.
The fact of the matter is that there is too much information; there certainly is now, there always has been, and will continue to be. As the 'net allows much greater freedom and ability to make ideas public, the issue will only become more pronounced.
How will the Sunsteins decide what information will be mandatory? I don't even mean this question at the Orwellian level: there is just simply too much information to choose from for any possibly democratic organization to make the decision. TV decides what you can watch, and they can do this because (a) it's expensive and complicated to make a TV show, and (b) they control the stream and can thus make whatever programming decisions they want. But the 'net can't be like this, since neither is true.
I think filtering (collaborative or otherwise) is crucial in this day and age, but even if you don't use a computer to help you filter, you do it anyway yourself. The key is to be wary of the ethics and indeed tractability of filtering for someone else!
"If you haven't yet read Ender's Shadow, I suggest you read it before you read this book. Like
most of Card's work, this book can stand on its own, but it works better as a sequel since the
book expects you to be familiar with the several main characters and their backgrounds. "
This is definitely true, and I liked "Ender's Shadow", but I definitely wouldn't hand it to someone who hadn't read Ender's Game. EG was really powerfully written; ES feels much more like a documentary.
Notice that at the beginning of the article, the tool (Media Enforcer) is called "freeware", but at the bottom, what's free is really a crippled version? Ah, well.
Well, here we are, the second Sun release of StarOffice, and still no source code. All you can download sourcewise is a ZIP archive (good grief) containing a modified Expat parser, pilot-link, and some Netscape plugin code.
If you're looney enough to run a file of unknown origin with a.vbs extension, that would be referred to as Darwinism
Well, frankly, at least with VBS you can export the file and read it with a text editor to see what it does. What should scare folks more is all the closed-source shareware binaries out there that you have _no idea_ what they might do until you run them.
To my mind, the whole question of Napster is, where is the line between fair use and copyright violation? I hoped Lars would give his opinion on the question:
If I buy a Metallica CD, what is it that I own? What do I have a right to do with that piece of plastic?
Can I play it for all my friends? Can I blast it from my car in the mall parking lot? What if someone there had a tape recorder and recorded my noise? So there, Metallica doesn't care because the quality is so degraded. Where is that quality line drawn? Could Napster insert random noise into some tiny fraction of the bitstream, such that you download the equivalent of an audio dub of an MP3?
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There certainly was never anything technically wrong with Motif; although I'd argue with the assertion that there's nothing new in Qt or GTK (theming, Qt's very nice and simple notification model). But certainly for its time Motif was excellent from a technical standpoint. AND it was extremely well-documented, which isn't what you'd call GTK.
The fatal flaw was and is that it's expensive in a brand-new world of good and freely available UI toolkits. Tk, then Java started to break down the wall (pretty interesting considering how awfully designed the Java AWT is), Qt and GTK have put the nails in the coffin.
actually, i just took a quick peek at both ftp.linuxppc.com and the linuxppc.org sites, and the 2000 version doesn't seem to be out there for download.
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The FF render times sound about the same as numbers I heard from Pixar about Toy Story. What was that post a couple weeks ago, about the machine you want always costing $5000? Well, the frame you want to render will always take 90 minutes.
www.xiph.org
The important thing from that paper is on the growth of the web; and from Kumar's bowtie-theory paper, we also think that most of the web is growing in places where we can't see.
When I first read the headline, I thought it said "The Internet Is Less Repressing", and I thought it was Yet Another DMCA article.
No, because the PageRank algorithm was published before any patent was awarded.
You can get Debian for PPC as well, and it works great. So, don't go got YDL if what you want is apt! IIRC, despite YUP, YellowDog and LinuxPPC are still RPM-based.
Thank heavens 'rm' is there for necessary radiation therapy, but I still have these 'dpkg --purge' situations.
Pen-based gestures were the one part of the NewtonOS that worked well even on the first machines. To erase something, you scribbled up and down over it. To select something, you circled it. To move something that was selected, you tapped and dragged.
The fact of the matter is that there is too much information; there certainly is now, there always has been, and will continue to be. As the 'net allows much greater freedom and ability to make ideas public, the issue will only become more pronounced.
How will the Sunsteins decide what information will be mandatory? I don't even mean this question at the Orwellian level: there is just simply too much information to choose from for any possibly democratic organization to make the decision. TV decides what you can watch, and they can do this because (a) it's expensive and complicated to make a TV show, and (b) they control the stream and can thus make whatever programming decisions they want. But the 'net can't be like this, since neither is true.
I think filtering (collaborative or otherwise) is crucial in this day and age, but even if you don't use a computer to help you filter, you do it anyway yourself. The key is to be wary of the ethics and indeed tractability of filtering for someone else!
why, woody-shaped, of course.
Now what's needed, short of a cryptographically-secure file sharing protocol, is an anonymous Gnutella repeater, a la the USENET anonymizer services.
Message to Sun: Show Me The Code!
The fatal flaw was and is that it's expensive in a brand-new world of good and freely available UI toolkits. Tk, then Java started to break down the wall (pretty interesting considering how awfully designed the Java AWT is), Qt and GTK have put the nails in the coffin.
maybe tomorrow?
And you actually believe everything you see on TV? Reminds me of a Dudley Do-Right quote: "If it's in the paper it must be true!"