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Submission + - RIP, pioneering computer animation company PDI (fastcompany.com)

harrymcc writes: After a string of flops, DreamWorks Animation is shuttering its PDI/DreamWorks studio. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, PDI, along with Pixar, made short cartoons that were part demo, part entertainment--and helped pave the way for today's computer-animated features. Over at Fast Company, I assembled a mini-festival of the company's vintage work, originally seen at venues such as SIGGRAPH.

Comment Re: StartsWithABang (Score 1) 76

Gee, why did Feynman call it "Cargo Cult Science"

Or Max Planck say "Science advances one funeral at a time."

I'm not delusional about:

"You can take the People out of Politics,
But you can't take the Politics out of People
"

But then you if had read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" you wouldn't have this fallacy that the progress of science is linear.

Comment Re:What is a cuda core? (Score 1) 114

A CUDA core is basically an active hardware thread [pool.]

For example my GTX Titan has 2,688 CUDA Cores.

This number is derived from:

Streaming Multiprocessors: 14
  * 192 Cores/SM
====
2,688 Cores

In practice that means you have 2,688 threads doing "real work" at any one time.

See this SO question/answer
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

Submission + - The camera that changed the Universe

StartsWithABang writes: As the Hubble Space Telescope gets set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of opening its eyes to the Universe, it's important to realize that the first four years of operations were kind of a disaster. It wasn't until they corrected the flawed primary mirror and installed an upgraded camera — the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) — that the Universe truly came into focus. From 1993 to 2009, this workhorse camera literally changed our view of the Universe, and we're pushing even past those limits today.

Submission + - Should Disney Require its Employees to Be Vaccinated? 1

HughPickens.com writes: According to Joanna Rothkopf Disneyland is already a huge petri dish of disease with tired children wiping their snot faces on Goofy and then riding log flumes through mechanized rivers filled with the backwash of thousands of other sweaty, unwashed, weeping toddlers. Now John Tozzi reports at Businessweek that five workers at Disneyland have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak that California officials trace to visitors at the theme park in mid-December. The measles outbreak is a publicity nightmare for Disney and the company is urging its 27,000 workers at the park to verify that they're inoculated against the virus, and the company is offering tests and shots on site for workers who are unvaccinated. One thing Disney won't do, however, is require workers to get routine vaccinations as a condition of employment. Almost no companies outside the health-care industry do. "To make things mandatory just raises a lot of legal concerns and legal issues," says Rob Niccolini. Disney has been working with public health officials, and Disney has already put some employees on paid leave until medically cleared. "They recognized that they were just a meeting place for measles," says Gilberto Chávez. "And they are quite concerned about doing what they can to help control the outbreak."

Comment Re:Useful changes (Score 2) 55

> The supply of money has nothing to do with inflation;

That's not quite true.

In virtual gaming currencies, which are monotonically increasing, games such as Ultima Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, PoE, etc. which have infinite supply (for all practical purposes),have the cost of items goes down as more and more people become wealthier.

This is most evident in Path of Exile's temp leagues, where every new "season" the cost is exuberantly high and comes down from the stratosphere as the season progresses.

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