Yup, that's a well-known position, called "Quantum Suicide" or "Quantum Theory of Immortality". You shoot yourself, and in most universes you die, but in a very few the gun jams, the bullet is struck by lightning before it hits, etc. In any case, you always survive in at least a few universes (there are infinitely many), so you never "experience your own death" as it were. The dead ones are dead, the live ones think "wow, I made it!" Unfortunately it's far more likely you survive with terrible pain than you survive by a glorious miracle, so I wouldn't try it.
It's not the math, it's the explanatory power. Read The Fabric Of Reality by Deutsch, for instance. The Copenhagen Interpretation says "... and then a miracle happens" (meaning the faster-than-light collapse of the wavefunction). The MWI says there's nothing faster-than-light about it; there's just no collapse.
No faster-than-light travel, causality, single-valued universe. Pick any two. That'll give you your preferred QM interpretation. (Hint: FTL = CI, backward causality = TI, more or less, and multivalued universe = MWI.)
Oh, not to mention the MWI provides a strong theoretical underpinning for free will, causality, probability, and counterfactuals.
in the MWI there is no collapse. That's what distinguishes it from other interpretations of QM (e.g. the Copenhagen Interpretation). Instead the MWI proposes that any time something happens, a new branch of the multiverse is created (one branch the photon is spin up, the other branch, spin down.) Yes, that's a REAL lot of branches.
well, my 8-year-old thinks U-drive-it is the highlight of the whole game! He spends about 50% of his time driving, the other 50% managing the city. Yup, he goes bankrupt a lot:-).
Our precinct (ward 6, Somerville MA, USA) uses Sequoia tabletop scanners with black arrow paper ballots. Quick, easy, secure, easily hand-recountable. Don't see why everyone shouldn't use these; agree with parent: the black arrow rules!
Oh good - someone who gets the joke. Could you kindly explain it for the rest of us?
Seriously? It's called hyperbole, a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year. Of course 90% of the Internet is not taken up by discussions of software patents; his point is it is a popular topic of discussion on the Internet.
because it begs the listener to accept the conclusion (the "question") in the same way you normally beg them to accept the premises before beginning to discuss the argument.
It's one of my pet peeves because it is a well-understood and not uncommon fallacy; if people start to use "begging the question" to mean "raises the question" then we'll need a new word for the fallacy of begging the question. So that misuse is not just an innocuous misunderstanding, it steps on a perfectly useful concept. I don't want to have to start calling it petitio principii because that sounds snooty.
> Business users will continue to stick with Outlook
Don't be so sure. We're a small mostly-Windows shop (Win/Linux/Mac for developers, Windows for the admin/sales/mktg folks) and we have no M$ servers. Linux-based mail/dns/fileserver infrastructure. Everyone uses Tbird/Ffox, no IE. Outlook doesn't really play well into that kind of environment; so we REALLY need shareable calendars. Right now Chandler & Sunbird aren't far enough along for real business use (at least not a couple of months ago); even event notification was unreliable in Sunbird. iCal is OK but Mac-only. Vista for us is a far-off upgrade.
So at least some of us are very interested in recent Chandler and Sunbird progress.
Won't be modded down by me! I totally agree. I think it's like traveling faster than light. It all looks easy when you're going slow; 200mph is only twice as fast as 100, easy. But as you get close to the "singularity" it becomes really hard to go any faster.
Same with this AI one. Going from a chess machine to a diagnostic assistant is not so hard. But closing the rest of the gap involves solving problems no one has even identified yet (except some by philosophers, and those are intractable). It's not worth even debating with these pollyannas and overheated hypemongers.
And they're working on a new version. Yeah, it may not be just a typical upgrade, but it's not being discontinued. I'm guessing it will be Intel only for the speed.
Listen to Dion's podcast, http://www.fxguide.com/article359.html. Shake as we know it will cease to exist. Support is already ending (note they're not transferring existing support contracts to this "shake replacement"). The new product (rumored to be called "phenomena") will be a "shake replacement" but nobody has any clue how shake-like it will be (node tree? "pull" architecture? scriptable? Command-line renderer?) One can guess that it won't take existing shake scripts or plugins or macros, it will take fxPlug, and it'll look a lot more Mac-like, but beyond that it's pretty much all speculation.
As for Intel-only vs. universal, Intel-only's no faster, just smaller. Universal is just two builds (Intel and PPC) packaged up in one file. See the man page for lipo.
4.1 is the end of the line for Shake. The huge price drop to $499 reflects that. All support contracts are being bought out and not renewed. Large customers have a source-escrow option available.
They are rumored to be starting work on a new compositing app which may or may not be shake-like, but which will certainly take some time to develop. Some of the shake support people have been laid off, but AFAIK the developers are moving over to the new shake-replacement project.
Apple and Adobe seem to have had a 'falling out' of sorts in the past few years, namely that Adobe's been relucatant to support Apple's latest and greatest technologies for the sake of preserving platform-compatibility with Windows. Adobe's becoming less and less relevant for mac users every year.
Quite true.
Video editing on the mac is pretty much entirely occupied by users of apple's pro stuff. In its price-range, Final Cut is easily the best video-editing solution out there. Adobe doesn't even support Premiere on the mac anymore.
But what about After Effects? Apple just discontinued Shake (as if it mattered -- the user base for Shake was maybe 1% of AE's), so AE is the only serious effects platform on the Mac for the forseeable future. The other effects products (Fusion, Nuke, Quantel, Discreet, etc.) are Windows-only or Win/Lin.
So effects work on Macs is still quite closely tied to Adobe, like it or not.
> don't think I would like that the latest one is the first
What I want is when the thread is closed, to see the latest, or at least the first unread msg in the thread (maybe that's even better). I can open it and see it all threaded in the proper order, that's as it should be. But why show me an old msg I've already read as the "closed thread" default?
If you ask me (not that anyone did) Tbird's threading view would be a lot more useful if a collapsed thread showed the *latest* message rather than the *earliest*. I'd like to be able to scan my unread mailing list threads quickly to see what's new, not the msgs I already saw! As it is I almost never use thread view.
HD video (1920x1080, rgb, 30fps) is 186 megabytes per second. Processing that with an interpreted or even JIT language is going to be many orders of magnitude slower than hand-coded C, or GPGPU, or whatever the flavor of the month is. Yes python and ruby are super productive. But my time writing the code is only spent once; the poor schmucks out there using it will be using it every day for years.
People doing HD postproduction really care about every cycle per pixel because the factors are so large: if you can turn a overnight render into a lunch-hour one, or lunch hour into a coffee break, or coffee break into near real time, that matters a lot. That time to the video guy is what the edit-compile-debug loop cycle time is to the programmer.
The article doesn't mention either the leakage current (which causes caps to self-discharge) or series resistance (which limits the current you can get out of them). Caps traditionally are much worse than batteries on both of these, but with recent NiMH's sacrificing leakage for capacity, they self-discharge much faster than they used to, so maybe these caps can win by batteries just getting worse enough fast enough!:-)
Maybe you didn't read TFA. The proposed format supports both lossless and lossy compression as well as floating-point HDR. This is far better than RAW (which is not a "standard", give me a break, it's just whatever happens to come out of the camera). Putting a standard wrapper around the camera's raw pixels in a format anyone can read is a fine idea; there are already formats like OpenEXR that can do this.
The real trouble is this is a closed format from M$ and anyone could be screwed at any time for using it -- manufacturers and consumers alike.
As for RAW, who's going to be able to read your RAW files even as little as 10 years from now? Nobody, probably. If you want archival storage, pick a known standard with a serious standards body behind it.
Compositing and effects in FCP are still 8 bit (though the rest of the pipeline is 16 bit IIRC). FFFIS (Flame/Flint/Fire/Inferno/Smoke) is 16-bit end-to-end. But then again so is Avid these days...
But as parent says, 8 bits is plenty good enough for most folks these days, and 16 bits will be here soon (already here in AE 7 as well).
Try MediaMonkey. Way better than iTunes in almost every way, except of course iTMS integration which I don't care about. Drag-and-drop to any folder to change the corresponding tag, totally customizable, looks great, works great. (Yes I tried Foobar2000 and all the others, but MediaMonkey's the one I've stuck with.)
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Yup, that's a well-known position, called "Quantum Suicide" or "Quantum Theory of Immortality". You shoot yourself, and in most universes you die, but in a very few the gun jams, the bullet is struck by lightning before it hits, etc. In any case, you always survive in at least a few universes (there are infinitely many), so you never "experience your own death" as it were. The dead ones are dead, the live ones think "wow, I made it!" Unfortunately it's far more likely you survive with terrible pain than you survive by a glorious miracle, so I wouldn't try it.
It's not the math, it's the explanatory power. Read The Fabric Of Reality by Deutsch, for instance. The Copenhagen Interpretation says "... and then a miracle happens" (meaning the faster-than-light collapse of the wavefunction). The MWI says there's nothing faster-than-light about it; there's just no collapse.
No faster-than-light travel, causality, single-valued universe. Pick any two. That'll give you your preferred QM interpretation. (Hint: FTL = CI, backward causality = TI, more or less, and multivalued universe = MWI.)
Oh, not to mention the MWI provides a strong theoretical underpinning for free will, causality, probability, and counterfactuals.
in the MWI there is no collapse. That's what distinguishes it from other interpretations of QM (e.g. the Copenhagen Interpretation). Instead the MWI proposes that any time something happens, a new branch of the multiverse is created (one branch the photon is spin up, the other branch, spin down.) Yes, that's a REAL lot of branches.
well, my 8-year-old thinks U-drive-it is the highlight of the whole game! He spends about 50% of his time driving, the other 50% managing the city. Yup, he goes bankrupt a lot :-).
Just a note, Emacs22 has been antialiased on Windows for a long time now, as long as you enable cleartype.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Our precinct (ward 6, Somerville MA, USA) uses Sequoia tabletop scanners with black arrow paper ballots. Quick, easy, secure, easily hand-recountable. Don't see why everyone shouldn't use these; agree with parent: the black arrow rules!
Seriously? It's called hyperbole, a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year. Of course 90% of the Internet is not taken up by discussions of software patents; his point is it is a popular topic of discussion on the Internet.
Or did I just feed the troll?
Whoosh, n. The sound of a joke going right over your head.
Finally! Of course they have the most bass-ackward possible syntax, but at least they're there.
Um, Maureen Govern is not a "guy." See (e.g.) here.
It's one of my pet peeves because it is a well-understood and not uncommon fallacy; if people start to use "begging the question" to mean "raises the question" then we'll need a new word for the fallacy of begging the question. So that misuse is not just an innocuous misunderstanding, it steps on a perfectly useful concept. I don't want to have to start calling it petitio principii because that sounds snooty.
> Business users will continue to stick with Outlook
Don't be so sure. We're a small mostly-Windows shop (Win/Linux/Mac for developers, Windows for the admin/sales/mktg folks) and we have no M$ servers. Linux-based mail/dns/fileserver infrastructure. Everyone uses Tbird/Ffox, no IE. Outlook doesn't really play well into that kind of environment; so we REALLY need shareable calendars. Right now Chandler & Sunbird aren't far enough along for real business use (at least not a couple of months ago); even event notification was unreliable in Sunbird. iCal is OK but Mac-only. Vista for us is a far-off upgrade.
So at least some of us are very interested in recent Chandler and Sunbird progress.
Won't be modded down by me! I totally agree. I think it's like traveling faster than light. It all looks easy when you're going slow; 200mph is only twice as fast as 100, easy. But as you get close to the "singularity" it becomes really hard to go any faster.
Same with this AI one. Going from a chess machine to a diagnostic assistant is not so hard. But closing the rest of the gap involves solving problems no one has even identified yet (except some by philosophers, and those are intractable). It's not worth even debating with these pollyannas and overheated hypemongers.
Move along, nothing to see here.
And they're working on a new version. Yeah, it may not be just a typical upgrade, but it's not being discontinued. I'm guessing it will be Intel only for the speed.
Listen to Dion's podcast, http://www.fxguide.com/article359.html. Shake as we know it will cease to exist. Support is already ending (note they're not transferring existing support contracts to this "shake replacement"). The new product (rumored to be called "phenomena") will be a "shake replacement" but nobody has any clue how shake-like it will be (node tree? "pull" architecture? scriptable? Command-line renderer?) One can guess that it won't take existing shake scripts or plugins or macros, it will take fxPlug, and it'll look a lot more Mac-like, but beyond that it's pretty much all speculation.
As for Intel-only vs. universal, Intel-only's no faster, just smaller. Universal is just two builds (Intel and PPC) packaged up in one file. See the man page for lipo.
4.1 is the end of the line for Shake. The huge price drop to $499 reflects that. All support contracts are being bought out and not renewed. Large customers have a source-escrow option available.
u m=19, or http://www.outside-hollywood.com/2006/06/the-uncer tain-future-of-shake/, and so on.
They are rumored to be starting work on a new compositing app which may or may not be shake-like, but which will certainly take some time to develop. Some of the shake support people have been laid off, but AFAIK the developers are moving over to the new shake-replacement project.
See http://www.fxguide.com/article359.html (podcast with Dion Scoppettuolo of Apple), http://www.highend3d.com/boards/index.php?showfor
Quite true.
Video editing on the mac is pretty much entirely occupied by users of apple's pro stuff. In its price-range, Final Cut is easily the best video-editing solution out there. Adobe doesn't even support Premiere on the mac anymore.
But what about After Effects? Apple just discontinued Shake (as if it mattered -- the user base for Shake was maybe 1% of AE's), so AE is the only serious effects platform on the Mac for the forseeable future. The other effects products (Fusion, Nuke, Quantel, Discreet, etc.) are Windows-only or Win/Lin.
So effects work on Macs is still quite closely tied to Adobe, like it or not.
--ST
> don't think I would like that the latest one is the first
What I want is when the thread is closed, to see the latest, or at least the first unread msg in the thread (maybe that's even better). I can open it and see it all threaded in the proper order, that's as it should be. But why show me an old msg I've already read as the "closed thread" default?
But hey, it's a minor thing really.
If you ask me (not that anyone did) Tbird's threading view would be a lot more useful if a collapsed thread showed the *latest* message rather than the *earliest*. I'd like to be able to scan my unread mailing list threads quickly to see what's new, not the msgs I already saw! As it is I almost never use thread view.
HD video (1920x1080, rgb, 30fps) is 186 megabytes per second. Processing that with an interpreted or even JIT language is going to be many orders of magnitude slower than hand-coded C, or GPGPU, or whatever the flavor of the month is. Yes python and ruby are super productive. But my time writing the code is only spent once; the poor schmucks out there using it will be using it every day for years.
People doing HD postproduction really care about every cycle per pixel because the factors are so large: if you can turn a overnight render into a lunch-hour one, or lunch hour into a coffee break, or coffee break into near real time, that matters a lot. That time to the video guy is what the edit-compile-debug loop cycle time is to the programmer.
--ST
The article doesn't mention either the leakage current (which causes caps to self-discharge) or series resistance (which limits the current you can get out of them). Caps traditionally are much worse than batteries on both of these, but with recent NiMH's sacrificing leakage for capacity, they self-discharge much faster than they used to, so maybe these caps can win by batteries just getting worse enough fast enough! :-)
- ST
Maybe you didn't read TFA. The proposed format supports both lossless and lossy compression as well as floating-point HDR. This is far better than RAW (which is not a "standard", give me a break, it's just whatever happens to come out of the camera). Putting a standard wrapper around the camera's raw pixels in a format anyone can read is a fine idea; there are already formats like OpenEXR that can do this.
The real trouble is this is a closed format from M$ and anyone could be screwed at any time for using it -- manufacturers and consumers alike.
As for RAW, who's going to be able to read your RAW files even as little as 10 years from now? Nobody, probably. If you want archival storage, pick a known standard with a serious standards body behind it.
Compositing and effects in FCP are still 8 bit (though the rest of the pipeline is 16 bit IIRC). FFFIS (Flame/Flint/Fire/Inferno/Smoke) is 16-bit end-to-end. But then again so is Avid these days...
But as parent says, 8 bits is plenty good enough for most folks these days, and 16 bits will be here soon (already here in AE 7 as well).
Try MediaMonkey. Way better than iTunes in almost every way, except of course iTMS integration which I don't care about. Drag-and-drop to any folder to change the corresponding tag, totally customizable, looks great, works great. (Yes I tried Foobar2000 and all the others, but MediaMonkey's the one I've stuck with.)
Yes, that's what GPGPU programming is all about (General Purpose GPU programming). See here for lots of info.
-- ST