I didn't say I was getting punished. The link I was thinking about was that both of these cases try to solve the problem by treating everyone as potentially guilty.
I have nothing against cameras. I think it's very important right in America to allow citizens to photograph anything in public places. I do have an issue when people don't trust me.
Way back when I was in kindergarten if a few people talked too loudly when they weren't supposed to, we would all get punished by having our heads put down. I'd like to think I've progressed beyond kindergartener status...
This global warming this is obviously a hoax put together by the major thermometer companies of the world.
1) Slowly adjust new thermometers to read warmer temperatures.
2) Scientists notice the the temperature is going up.
3) Scientists buy more thermometers.
4) Profit!!!
Is ATI going to open up their specs so people can write open source drivers?
ATI (before we were AMD) released CTM http://www.atitech.com/companyinfo/researcher/docu ments.html, which is the hardware specification for the pixel shaders on our graphics cards. The pixel shaders are probably the most complicated part of our chips and we released this because the GPGPU community wanted it. While I don't speak for AMD, I would not be surprised at all if a group serious about writing an open source AMD driver could get the rest of the chip specification released by asking for it. It doesn't hurt to ask especially with this CTM project as proof that ATI/AMD is now serious about releasing specs.
I work for one of the big two discrete graphic card manufacturers and have insight into graphics drivers. I can't speak for other drivers, but I can say that with Vista the d3d graphics drivers are more tested by Microsoft with Vista than on XP. I believe that any Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver on Vista will return from hibernation mode correctly. If this carries over to other drivers we should be golden except in some rare cases of hardware conflicts.
My computer at never wakes up just like you described; however, my machines at work all wake up without any problems. I investigated why and it turns out to be chipset driver related. My hope is that with Vista and the emphasis on more extensive driver qualification that this problem won't exist (or will at least occur much less often).
This is a dupe of the other million PS3 articles I've seen on slashdot. I find it unlikely that there will be any real new information before the PS3 launch in a week (actually I bet there is no new info there either); however, I'm sure there will be more than one PS3 article on slashdot before it is released. I'm not sure whether I should blame the editors or all of us readers for reading the same information again and again.
I used a paper ballet this morning and even with that simpler system I had two problems.
1) There was not nearly enough space to write in my write-in votes. The rules on the ballet said I needed to write the name and address of my write-in candidate. The box was small and they only provided a large felt tipped marker. I'm quite sure it was not physically possible to write in a vote with the writing instrument they provided.
2) Massachusetts has a law that states you have five minutes to fill in your ballet. There were a lot of issues and candidates to vote on. Five minutes was not enough time to finish the ballet (luckily they didn't kick me out as the law allowed). The guys on both sides of me also took over five minutes.
I hope Microsoft and other large corporations are legitimately considering measures like this since I feel something needs to be done. If the Chinese government's repression of its peoples' rights were slowly lessoning over time I'd say let time sort the issue out; however, to me it seems things are just getting worse over there as technology enables the government to assert more control over its people. I do think if the government sees that in order for their country to continue its relatively free world trade they will slowly start giving it's people more rights to keep trade/money flowing. Since big governments don't seem to have the guts to cut off China, I'd hope companies would.
That said my guess is that this article could simply be a sympathy piece put out by Microsoft. Talk is cheap. Corporations need to do something, not talk about it to make people like them more.
I think this will also increase the likelihood of these kids becoming very fat adults.
A large portion of the physically fit people I know are physically fit because we like playing/competing in sports. I wonder how many of these kids who might otherwise get interested in a physical activity will shy away from them because their school tells them they are too dangerous? I wonder how many of these kids "saved from the dangers of physical activity" will end up dying from a heart attack? If there can be lawsuits against McDonalds for making kids fat, I think there can be lawsuits against a school for making kids fat. Maybe if there are enough of these lawsuits then kids will be able to have fun again.
I'd like to let the Irish people decide if their government should enforce a moral code. Where is it our place to decide for them or even judge them? I don't think humanity has necessary found the correct/best answer to any complex system like religion, government, and economics. I believe most people here agree that you shouldn't try and force your religion on other peoples of the world. But when it comes to morals, government, or economic systems they feel that those should be. I'm scared shitless of a world where every nation is modeled after the United States. In diversity is strength.
Personally I don't want censorship of porn where I live. Not because I think porn is good for society, but because once you start censoring some things it's easy to start censoring more things that might matter. But if these people think censoring some things should be done for moral reasons I think that's a valid choice, and very well could result in a happier society.
Of course! I bet the GPU is at least 40x faster at simulating DNA-sequencing machines than a CPU is. Plus the GPU would be way faster at the image processing needed to take the camera input and convert that image to a DNA sequence. Hot damn, were onto a breakthrough here.
My prediction is that someone creates a client similar to a folding@home client. They might offer a chance to get paid for your work if they happen to win. Seems to make sense to me.
I'm not sure what you mean by the "loss of resolution"? When viewing things from an angle there is no loss of resolution (ie the number of pixels are the same). If you're referring to perspective viewing which makes it difficult for the eyes to pick out details on far away objects, the exact same problem exists when a person views a monitor from too far away even if no angles are involved. I really don't think this is an issue here. As for distortion I view things from an angle all the time and don't have an issue. The human mind is very good at this.
My computer doesn't have an ISA slot so that means I have zero bang divided by zero bucks. So if we're assuming the this division is done following IEEE floating point standards I've got a NaN. I freaking hate handling NaNs in my code so I think I'll pass on this ISA suggestion.
Your assumption on how track files works is correct. This app linearly interpolates between the two nearest points (or if it is outside an end point then it just picks the nearest point). One of the command line arguments is the number of seconds you want to allow interpolation between. This prevents the problem of taking pictures on three days, but only taking a gps out the first and last days. You probability don't want to assume all your picture on the middle day were somewhere in the middle. Instead I just don't update the exif information on the middle day. However you could just set the max interpolation time to a very high value if you do want to that middle day photos updated.
This was written for windows, but it should be easy for someone to port to Linux if they want.
I wrote a command line application for windows that reads track information off of Garmin and Megellan GPSs (or it can read.gpx files) and then uses that information to update the exif information in the image files based on timestamp information. I'm using it with flickr and it works great. You do need to allow flickr to use exif data here: www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif. Since it updates exif information in jpg files it should work with any photo sharing tools.
This was meant to be a free simple application that you can just run on all your photos and I think it is just that. No bells, no whistles. It just gets exif data added to all the photos you just took in a quick easy manor.
"Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Just don't forget that statistically speaking there are many students who don't download copyrighted material. Do you think they are concerned about IP rights? I think some of them are. Beyond being weak I think this IP augment is irrelevant. However, I do see a stronger argument that could be made over legal use issues. One could say that entering these articles into a database is similar to what search engines do with web pages. There is an important difference. Websites are designed with the understanding that everyone will be able to view them; however, papers aren't. My believe is that this plagiarism data base is a good intention, but crosses the fine line of fair use.
I don't understand why most people assume these legacy games are free to make. They are cheaper, but there are costs involved. At the very least I'm sure it requires qualification from nintendo which probably runs about $20K-$50K. Most likely many of the games will require more work than that. I think the $5-$10 price is fair.
I agree this is completely unfair, but this sort of crap starts happening when you're young. Reminds me of grade school when the whole class would loose half of their recess because a few kids were talking when they shouldn't have been. Right now I get punished every time I go to the airport. I'm sure there will be injustice when I get older too. I'm not saying we shouldn't fight them; just that I'm not supprised by this story.
My favorite football game of all time was Techno Bowl for the NES. I think the reason I liked it was because it was less like football than any other football game I ever played. In single player mode the AI was a little lacking (ok a lot lacking), but it was a great two player game. In these modern football games I seem to do best when I just let the AI play the game for me because it's better than I am...
I mostly agree with you; however, your statement that ray tracing results in hard/sharp shadows is wrong. Ray tracing can easily make realistic soft shadows. As you mentioned ray tracing costs a ton of extra processing power to result in approximately equivalent images to raster graphics. Ray tracing more or less simulates how light works in the real world, and there is the real problem. Ask anyone in the graphics industry and they'll tell you their job is to fudge things until they look good because realistically modeling the real world is too expensive.
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I didn't say I was getting punished. The link I was thinking about was that both of these cases try to solve the problem by treating everyone as potentially guilty.
I have nothing against cameras. I think it's very important right in America to allow citizens to photograph anything in public places. I do have an issue when people don't trust me.
Way back when I was in kindergarten if a few people talked too loudly when they weren't supposed to, we would all get punished by having our heads put down. I'd like to think I've progressed beyond kindergartener status...
This global warming this is obviously a hoax put together by the major thermometer companies of the world. 1) Slowly adjust new thermometers to read warmer temperatures. 2) Scientists notice the the temperature is going up. 3) Scientists buy more thermometers. 4) Profit!!!
The Nintendo Wii Remote one-ups the Sony controller by including an infrared camera.
I think they meant to say: The Sony controller dumbed down the Wii Remote by excluding the infrared camera.
Is ATI going to open up their specs so people can write open source drivers?
u ments.html, which is the hardware specification for the pixel shaders on our graphics cards. The pixel shaders are probably the most complicated part of our chips and we released this because the GPGPU community wanted it. While I don't speak for AMD, I would not be surprised at all if a group serious about writing an open source AMD driver could get the rest of the chip specification released by asking for it. It doesn't hurt to ask especially with this CTM project as proof that ATI/AMD is now serious about releasing specs.
ATI (before we were AMD) released CTM http://www.atitech.com/companyinfo/researcher/doc
I work for one of the big two discrete graphic card manufacturers and have insight into graphics drivers. I can't speak for other drivers, but I can say that with Vista the d3d graphics drivers are more tested by Microsoft with Vista than on XP. I believe that any Microsoft WHQL certified graphics driver on Vista will return from hibernation mode correctly. If this carries over to other drivers we should be golden except in some rare cases of hardware conflicts.
My computer at never wakes up just like you described; however, my machines at work all wake up without any problems. I investigated why and it turns out to be chipset driver related. My hope is that with Vista and the emphasis on more extensive driver qualification that this problem won't exist (or will at least occur much less often).
Sony finds yet another way to screw us!
This is a dupe of the other million PS3 articles I've seen on slashdot. I find it unlikely that there will be any real new information before the PS3 launch in a week (actually I bet there is no new info there either); however, I'm sure there will be more than one PS3 article on slashdot before it is released. I'm not sure whether I should blame the editors or all of us readers for reading the same information again and again.
I used a paper ballet this morning and even with that simpler system I had two problems.
1) There was not nearly enough space to write in my write-in votes. The rules on the ballet said I needed to write the name and address of my write-in candidate. The box was small and they only provided a large felt tipped marker. I'm quite sure it was not physically possible to write in a vote with the writing instrument they provided.
2) Massachusetts has a law that states you have five minutes to fill in your ballet. There were a lot of issues and candidates to vote on. Five minutes was not enough time to finish the ballet (luckily they didn't kick me out as the law allowed). The guys on both sides of me also took over five minutes.
I hope Microsoft and other large corporations are legitimately considering measures like this since I feel something needs to be done. If the Chinese government's repression of its peoples' rights were slowly lessoning over time I'd say let time sort the issue out; however, to me it seems things are just getting worse over there as technology enables the government to assert more control over its people. I do think if the government sees that in order for their country to continue its relatively free world trade they will slowly start giving it's people more rights to keep trade/money flowing. Since big governments don't seem to have the guts to cut off China, I'd hope companies would.
That said my guess is that this article could simply be a sympathy piece put out by Microsoft. Talk is cheap. Corporations need to do something, not talk about it to make people like them more.
Big bang. Life. Death. Big squash.
I think this will also increase the likelihood of these kids becoming very fat adults.
A large portion of the physically fit people I know are physically fit because we like playing/competing in sports. I wonder how many of these kids who might otherwise get interested in a physical activity will shy away from them because their school tells them they are too dangerous? I wonder how many of these kids "saved from the dangers of physical activity" will end up dying from a heart attack? If there can be lawsuits against McDonalds for making kids fat, I think there can be lawsuits against a school for making kids fat. Maybe if there are enough of these lawsuits then kids will be able to have fun again.
I'd like to let the Irish people decide if their government should enforce a moral code. Where is it our place to decide for them or even judge them? I don't think humanity has necessary found the correct/best answer to any complex system like religion, government, and economics. I believe most people here agree that you shouldn't try and force your religion on other peoples of the world. But when it comes to morals, government, or economic systems they feel that those should be. I'm scared shitless of a world where every nation is modeled after the United States. In diversity is strength.
Personally I don't want censorship of porn where I live. Not because I think porn is good for society, but because once you start censoring some things it's easy to start censoring more things that might matter. But if these people think censoring some things should be done for moral reasons I think that's a valid choice, and very well could result in a happier society.
Of course! I bet the GPU is at least 40x faster at simulating DNA-sequencing machines than a CPU is. Plus the GPU would be way faster at the image processing needed to take the camera input and convert that image to a DNA sequence. Hot damn, were onto a breakthrough here.
My prediction is that someone creates a client similar to a folding@home client. They might offer a chance to get paid for your work if they happen to win. Seems to make sense to me.
I'm not sure what you mean by the "loss of resolution"? When viewing things from an angle there is no loss of resolution (ie the number of pixels are the same). If you're referring to perspective viewing which makes it difficult for the eyes to pick out details on far away objects, the exact same problem exists when a person views a monitor from too far away even if no angles are involved. I really don't think this is an issue here. As for distortion I view things from an angle all the time and don't have an issue. The human mind is very good at this.
My computer doesn't have an ISA slot so that means I have zero bang divided by zero bucks. So if we're assuming the this division is done following IEEE floating point standards I've got a NaN. I freaking hate handling NaNs in my code so I think I'll pass on this ISA suggestion.
Your assumption on how track files works is correct. This app linearly interpolates between the two nearest points (or if it is outside an end point then it just picks the nearest point). One of the command line arguments is the number of seconds you want to allow interpolation between. This prevents the problem of taking pictures on three days, but only taking a gps out the first and last days. You probability don't want to assume all your picture on the middle day were somewhere in the middle. Instead I just don't update the exif information on the middle day. However you could just set the max interpolation time to a very high value if you do want to that middle day photos updated. This was written for windows, but it should be easy for someone to port to Linux if they want.
I wrote a command line application for windows that reads track information off of Garmin and Megellan GPSs (or it can read .gpx files) and then uses that information to update the exif information in the image files based on timestamp information. I'm using it with flickr and it works great. You do need to allow flickr to use exif data here: www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif. Since it updates exif information in jpg files it should work with any photo sharing tools.
This was meant to be a free simple application that you can just run on all your photos and I think it is just that. No bells, no whistles. It just gets exif data added to all the photos you just took in a quick easy manor.
You can download GeoPhoto Batcher with source code from: http://moesphoto.glacialwanderer.com/
"Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Just don't forget that statistically speaking there are many students who don't download copyrighted material. Do you think they are concerned about IP rights? I think some of them are. Beyond being weak I think this IP augment is irrelevant. However, I do see a stronger argument that could be made over legal use issues. One could say that entering these articles into a database is similar to what search engines do with web pages. There is an important difference. Websites are designed with the understanding that everyone will be able to view them; however, papers aren't. My believe is that this plagiarism data base is a good intention, but crosses the fine line of fair use.
I don't understand why most people assume these legacy games are free to make. They are cheaper, but there are costs involved. At the very least I'm sure it requires qualification from nintendo which probably runs about $20K-$50K. Most likely many of the games will require more work than that. I think the $5-$10 price is fair.
I agree this is completely unfair, but this sort of crap starts happening when you're young. Reminds me of grade school when the whole class would loose half of their recess because a few kids were talking when they shouldn't have been. Right now I get punished every time I go to the airport. I'm sure there will be injustice when I get older too. I'm not saying we shouldn't fight them; just that I'm not supprised by this story.
My favorite football game of all time was Techno Bowl for the NES. I think the reason I liked it was because it was less like football than any other football game I ever played. In single player mode the AI was a little lacking (ok a lot lacking), but it was a great two player game. In these modern football games I seem to do best when I just let the AI play the game for me because it's better than I am...
I mostly agree with you; however, your statement that ray tracing results in hard/sharp shadows is wrong. Ray tracing can easily make realistic soft shadows. As you mentioned ray tracing costs a ton of extra processing power to result in approximately equivalent images to raster graphics. Ray tracing more or less simulates how light works in the real world, and there is the real problem. Ask anyone in the graphics industry and they'll tell you their job is to fudge things until they look good because realistically modeling the real world is too expensive.