Um, not so to sound trite, but yes the characters in Oblivion are in the valley, I was repulsed by them, after having installed a new video card, and hooked up the DVI/HDMI to the big screen, I was let down every time I looked at King Whatsisname.
Are the trees and rocks and other things, no not really, but photorealistic backgrounds have been done for a long time in movies, it just took a while to get pushed down to computer games.
Photorealistic characters don't exist in movies or video games yet.
Um, he's talking stuffed animals as in Taxidermy, not Beany babies.
Actually the comment on painters is they approximate skin color and lighting values and even very realistic masters aren't mistaken for photographs.
Photo realistic 3D is close enough that you are looking for human ticks, and body language that is missing and therefore appears odd.
Also until 3D rendering could do subsurface lighting, light passing through your skin, and reflecting the blood and layers underneath, the blush response, etc. You get Zombies like Tom Hanks in Polar Express.
We could have seen a GTA clone on the Linux front by now, but we don't for two reasons, no one is sponsoring any project and no one really is motivated enough to start one.
Surely you mean KTA, what is it with people and the Gnome bias.
I think you both have points, he isn't missing yours, his is separate and distinct you are either missing or ignoring it.
You point, the machine which cannot self replicate cannot get enough machines built to reach critical mass, and evolve.
Well on the face of it, that is a lie, everyone who wants one can build one right now, from plans and parts. The demonstration of this is that 7+ machines exist, and the none of them are self replicating.
His point, 'I believe' is the machine will not go anywhere until it has a critical mass of users, those users in turn will come because of the 'killer app' i.e. cool stuff to build with the machine.
Altruism about self replication aside, it might be worthwhile to get a few dozen kit machines built by DIY folks to get more people using the thing and writing 'apps'(designs) for it.
If I thought I could build anything more than a turkey baster or wine glass with it, I'd build one over the weekend.
If I thought I could make custom parts for my Gundam models with it, or unpainted miniatures for wargaming from it I'd build one in a heartbeat. Then I'd build a second one to go to a guy I know in Portland that molds and casts his own minis.
If it had the right kind of resolution, and say 4 colors of plastic in separate reservoirs, with as many print heads are needed to produce color work, I know even more people that would be interested.
The 3D desktop printing community could flourish with a 1.0 non-self-replicating model, if there was something to do with it besides build the parts for a machine you already have. Some folks might not even be interested in the eventual 1.1 upgrade that enables self replication. But if the community is big enough, and compelling enough, SOMEONE would have to be interested in a self replicating model, even if only to make model 1.0 parts or DIY kits to sell to other users.
My wife and I went ringless when we got married. Last year she bought a ring she wanted off of the home shopping network for $40 before she went back to school to ward off idiots trying to hit on her. The stone is HUGE and she gets all kinds of compliments on it.
When we bought her a new car last year, even the woman in the finance department couldn't stop looking at it... she knew what I made, but we told her what it really cost, she was kind of surprised.
Sometimes I feel like a cheap bastard and ask my wife if she'd like a real stone (um, natural not that it's imaginary) some year, and she says no, but there are other cheap fakes she'd like to have.
So far the list of things she'd rather have over a real ring is; a car, house, a dog, kids, vacations.
The Series 3 just had an update and lost one of my Cablecards about a week (2 weeks) ago I was only getting 1 HD channel at a time, I could tune the other to SD just fine.
Anyways the fix from Tivo support was to pull the power plug out for 15 seconds and then the problem was fixed.
I haven't had a re-occurance of the issue, and now that multi-room and TivoToGo transfers are enabled I'm thinking of getting one of the cheaper TivoHD boxes to replace my last Series 2.
I am STRONGLY recommending that you consider the following GENERAL advice:
1. Consult with a lawyer who has an established track record dealing with employment issues involving trade secrets; and
2. Don't stress out about the threat too much unless you get served with a summons and a court complaint. Even then, (to borrow a phrase from Doug Adams): DON'T PANIC. However, DO get legal counsel and DON'T ignore any time deadlines set by a court.
3. Don't panic.
Having recently been through this
Talk to a Lawyer specilaizing in Employment and Contract law. Some of them will talk to you for FREE, not for long, but long enough. I got a 20 minute free consult, so look around, talk to a lawyer, it will make you feel better
If your old job is threatening to sue your employer. It happened to me, every lawyer I spoke with brought up 'tortious interference with contracts'. Talk to your future employer, they may already have corporate counsel on retainer. In my case corporate counsel sent a letter to my old company's counsel saying what a pathetic case they had and to start archiving all their corporate and counsel's emails.
Its been three months and we haven't heard anything back from them, except that the associate that had been sending us letters no longer worked for the firm representing my old company.
I had a non-compete clause in my employment agreement, but the laws of your state, AND case law may determine how well their clause holds up.
In Virgina, and with the clause I had, it wouldn't have, there have been a lot of changes in case law in the last 5 years, and my employment agreement as probably at least that old.
Not shilling for them, but for my own piece of mind I bought an info package from "break your non compete dot com". The documnets included cases where folks broke non competes, case law that was used in various states, a listing of lawyers in many states that work in this arena and will give you a free consult, and a package for your employer on what they can do to defend themselves.
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VideoRedo has gotten me back nearly 25% of the hard drive space on my media server.
The 500 GB drives I use now run me about $250 each, so getting back 1/4 of them ought to be worth $63 per drive. I have more than one drive, and VideoRedo can do batch processing, so the opportunity cost of me telling it to cut the commercials is pretty low.
I really like the interface, and its only ever failed to detect commercials properly on sci-fi and astronomy programs that have lots of CGI shots with black backgrounds. The time spent checking the cuts between those is about a minute per show.
Was the screen resolutions shot, and colors wacked out?
There is a known problem with MS Virtual PC (I know you said server) in Millions of Colors mode because they don't do 24 bit graphics at all, however if you setup the box in 16 bit mode or Thousands of Colors the box should be fine.
I've tried FC6 RC3 but it dies very early on in the graphical install, probably due to the same issue, I haven't found a boot option for color depth just resolution so I'm waiting for FC6 Final to try again.
Similarly in VMServer (the free one) I couldn't get FC5 to work after the partition gets written, no problem doing the same install on VMWare Workstation though.
Please stop perpetuating the myth that corporations are inherently amoral because their shareholders demand nothing less. This is a cop-out that some corporations would like you to believe because it gives them cart blanche to do whatever they want. But it is a dichotomy with no basis in reality.
I completely agree that some use this rhetoric to defend their decisions.
I challenge you to provide an example where shareholders have sued a corporation because the corporation made a [positive] ethical choice.
Its not a myth
The earliest example of this was Dodge vs Ford where Henry Ford and his Board were sued by the Dodge brothers because Ford wanted to withold 'special dividends' to the shareholders and instead reinvest the money to buy iron ore mines, build more plants, employ more workers and cut prices on autos.
Some scientists were very concerned the first atomic bomb would produce so much heat it would ignite the atmosphere and burn the entire surface of the earth.
If by very concerned you mean they had an office pool betting on the yield of the first atom bomb, then you would be correct, 'ignite the atmosphere' was a longshot, nothing to be seriously concerned about.
"Over time," suggests the application, "if a particular user consistently recommends interesting content before other users, then they will emerge as a kind of expert recommender."
> I think the only way that I would consider this feature a good thing is if it had no "identity,"
But then how would you know Expert Recommender actually works for Sony, which is how he 'consistently... [gets] interesting content before other users' sounds like a perfect setup for astroturfing to me.
I should be posting this AC, oh well, I didn't think that would carry the same weight.
I work in IT and back in 2000 despite the dot-com, I wasn't starving or illiterate.
Parexel was testing a monoclonal antibody that was supposed to have an effect on a condition I have. So I signed up for the trial. (and got really freaked reading the article summary)
We received $4,000 for our time, health checkups, all kinds of vaccines, and a 4 day stay in a clinical research facility. A one time 250ml IV drip cleared all my symptoms for 3 months.
My father calls me up a few weeks after the study and tells me about another study going on, I told him I'd look into it.
I read that the other study, by a different pharma, that they're trying a med for a different but related arthritic condition for application to my condition. They're injecting 125ml twice a week, and 4 people died during their trial. Apparently they could have been screened better for people pre-disposed to illness.
So four people dying in one clinical trial though regrettable, won't stop human testing.
Anyhow, so long as their are people with illnesses looking to live a more normal life, there will be no shortage of candidates for clinical drug research.
Two more datapoints if you will
When I applied for the study it only paid $2,000 they raised it later because they needed to find more willing participants. The half hour checkups were nothing, but a lot of folks didn't want to take 4 days off work for $2,000.
They initially told me I was on the borderline of not bad off enough to be able to tell if the drug was working on me.
You aren't getting the IBM strategy, its the same reason as IBM got behind Java a few years back. They support Java all the way up to the S/360 Mainframes.
Free to developers means they are more likely to use it on paying gigs.
BUT free to commercial use means.
You can play for free with DB2 on small hardware, run a small business database on it, and when you need to expand your business, you buy real DB2 no recoding required, and they will be happy to sell you Enterprise Servers, or Big Iron to run it on like an RS 6000, or IBM S/360. And Services, and Support.
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Um, not so to sound trite, but yes the characters in Oblivion are in the valley, I was repulsed by them, after having installed a new video card, and hooked up the DVI/HDMI to the big screen, I was let down every time I looked at King Whatsisname. Are the trees and rocks and other things, no not really, but photorealistic backgrounds have been done for a long time in movies, it just took a while to get pushed down to computer games. Photorealistic characters don't exist in movies or video games yet.
Um, he's talking stuffed animals as in Taxidermy, not Beany babies. Actually the comment on painters is they approximate skin color and lighting values and even very realistic masters aren't mistaken for photographs. Photo realistic 3D is close enough that you are looking for human ticks, and body language that is missing and therefore appears odd. Also until 3D rendering could do subsurface lighting, light passing through your skin, and reflecting the blood and layers underneath, the blush response, etc. You get Zombies like Tom Hanks in Polar Express.
We could have seen a GTA clone on the Linux front by now, but we don't for two reasons, no one is sponsoring any project and no one really is motivated enough to start one.
Surely you mean KTA, what is it with people and the Gnome bias.
I think you both have points, he isn't missing yours, his is separate and distinct you are either missing or ignoring it.
You point, the machine which cannot self replicate cannot get enough machines built to reach critical mass, and evolve.
Well on the face of it, that is a lie, everyone who wants one can build one right now, from plans and parts. The demonstration of this is that 7+ machines exist, and the none of them are self replicating.
His point, 'I believe' is the machine will not go anywhere until it has a critical mass of users, those users in turn will come because of the 'killer app' i.e. cool stuff to build with the machine.
Altruism about self replication aside, it might be worthwhile to get a few dozen kit machines built by DIY folks to get more people using the thing and writing 'apps'(designs) for it.
If I thought I could build anything more than a turkey baster or wine glass with it, I'd build one over the weekend.
If I thought I could make custom parts for my Gundam models with it, or unpainted miniatures for wargaming from it I'd build one in a heartbeat. Then I'd build a second one to go to a guy I know in Portland that molds and casts his own minis.
If it had the right kind of resolution, and say 4 colors of plastic in separate reservoirs, with as many print heads are needed to produce color work, I know even more people that would be interested.
The 3D desktop printing community could flourish with a 1.0 non-self-replicating model, if there was something to do with it besides build the parts for a machine you already have. Some folks might not even be interested in the eventual 1.1 upgrade that enables self replication. But if the community is big enough, and compelling enough, SOMEONE would have to be interested in a self replicating model, even if only to make model 1.0 parts or DIY kits to sell to other users.
Those come with the dog
My wife and I went ringless when we got married. Last year she bought a ring she wanted off of the home shopping network for $40 before she went back to school to ward off idiots trying to hit on her. The stone is HUGE and she gets all kinds of compliments on it.
When we bought her a new car last year, even the woman in the finance department couldn't stop looking at it... she knew what I made, but we told her what it really cost, she was kind of surprised.
Sometimes I feel like a cheap bastard and ask my wife if she'd like a real stone (um, natural not that it's imaginary) some year, and she says no, but there are other cheap fakes she'd like to have.
So far the list of things she'd rather have over a real ring is; a car, house, a dog, kids, vacations.
The Series 3 just had an update and lost one of my Cablecards about a week (2 weeks) ago I was only getting 1 HD channel at a time, I could tune the other to SD just fine.
Anyways the fix from Tivo support was to pull the power plug out for 15 seconds and then the problem was fixed.
I haven't had a re-occurance of the issue, and now that multi-room and TivoToGo transfers are enabled I'm thinking of getting one of the cheaper TivoHD boxes to replace my last Series 2.
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Talk to a Lawyer specilaizing in Employment and Contract law.
Some of them will talk to you for FREE, not for long, but long enough. I got a 20 minute free consult, so look around, talk to a lawyer, it will make you feel better
If your old job is threatening to sue your employer. It happened to me, every lawyer I spoke with brought up 'tortious interference with contracts'.
Talk to your future employer, they may already have corporate counsel on retainer.
In my case corporate counsel sent a letter to my old company's counsel saying what a pathetic case they had and to start archiving all their corporate and counsel's emails.
Its been three months and we haven't heard anything back from them, except that the associate that had been sending us letters no longer worked for the firm representing my old company.
I had a non-compete clause in my employment agreement, but the laws of your state, AND case law may determine how well their clause holds up.
In Virgina, and with the clause I had, it wouldn't have, there have been a lot of changes in case law in the last 5 years, and my employment agreement as probably at least that old.
Not shilling for them, but for my own piece of mind I bought an info package from "break your non compete dot com". The documnets included cases where folks broke non competes, case law that was used in various states, a listing of lawyers in many states that work in this arena and will give you a free consult, and a package for your employer on what they can do to defend themselves.
This True non-AC story brought to you by the kaptcha keyword: illusion
VideoRedo has gotten me back nearly 25% of the hard drive space on my media server.
The 500 GB drives I use now run me about $250 each, so getting back 1/4 of them ought to be worth $63 per drive. I have more than one drive, and VideoRedo can do batch processing, so the opportunity cost of me telling it to cut the commercials is pretty low.
I really like the interface, and its only ever failed to detect commercials properly on sci-fi and astronomy programs that have lots of CGI shots with black backgrounds. The time spent checking the cuts between those is about a minute per show.
Could you define Death?
Was the screen resolutions shot, and colors wacked out?
There is a known problem with MS Virtual PC (I know you said server) in Millions of Colors mode because they don't do 24 bit graphics at all, however if you setup the box in 16 bit mode or Thousands of Colors the box should be fine.
I mention it here in my FC5 install guide Step 26
http://www.plainenglishsecurity.com/Fedora5.html
I've tried FC6 RC3 but it dies very early on in the graphical install, probably due to the same issue, I haven't found a boot option for color depth just resolution so I'm waiting for FC6 Final to try again.
Similarly in VMServer (the free one) I couldn't get FC5 to work after the partition gets written, no problem doing the same install on VMWare Workstation though.
I completely agree that some use this rhetoric to defend their decisions.
Its not a myth
The earliest example of this was Dodge vs Ford where Henry Ford and his Board were sued by the Dodge brothers because Ford wanted to withold 'special dividends' to the shareholders and instead reinvest the money to buy iron ore mines, build more plants, employ more workers and cut prices on autos.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=17681
There's some interesting stuff toward the bottom of the page on Ford's beliefs and modern ideas about corporate responsibility.
If by very concerned you mean they had an office pool betting on the yield of the first atom bomb, then you would be correct, 'ignite the atmosphere' was a longshot, nothing to be seriously concerned about.
They wrote a paper on it in 1942
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00
A very short narrative about the events in question
http://www.sciencemusings.com/2005/10/what-didnt-
But then how would you know Expert Recommender actually works for Sony, which is how he 'consistently... [gets] interesting content before other users' sounds like a perfect setup for astroturfing to me.
I should be posting this AC, oh well, I didn't think that would carry the same weight.
I work in IT and back in 2000 despite the dot-com, I wasn't starving or illiterate.
Parexel was testing a monoclonal antibody that was supposed to have an effect on a condition I have. So I signed up for the trial. (and got really freaked reading the article summary)
We received $4,000 for our time, health checkups, all kinds of vaccines, and a 4 day stay in a clinical research facility. A one time 250ml IV drip cleared all my symptoms for 3 months.
My father calls me up a few weeks after the study and tells me about another study going on, I told him I'd look into it.
I read that the other study, by a different pharma, that they're trying a med for a different but related arthritic condition for application to my condition. They're injecting 125ml twice a week, and 4 people died during their trial. Apparently they could have been screened better for people pre-disposed to illness.
So four people dying in one clinical trial though regrettable, won't stop human testing.
Anyhow, so long as their are people with illnesses looking to live a more normal life, there will be no shortage of candidates for clinical drug research.
Two more datapoints if you will
When I applied for the study it only paid $2,000 they raised it later because they needed to find more willing participants. The half hour checkups were nothing, but a lot of folks didn't want to take 4 days off work for $2,000.
They initially told me I was on the borderline of not bad off enough to be able to tell if the drug was working on me.
Response: "So you won't mind me taking half your old crap."
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You do realise that Stargate SG-1 was a Showtime original series... before it was a SciFi original series...
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You aren't getting the IBM strategy, its the same reason as IBM got behind Java a few years back. They support Java all the way up to the S/360 Mainframes.
Free to developers means they are more likely to use it on paying gigs.
BUT free to commercial use means.
You can play for free with DB2 on small hardware, run a small business database on it, and when you need to expand your business, you buy real DB2 no recoding required, and they will be happy to sell you Enterprise Servers, or Big Iron to run it on like an RS 6000, or IBM S/360. And Services, and Support.