TACO Tuesday

NuffsedGPT

...be very pissed!

doing all the other stuff mentioned. Without experience, one is not going to make a very good domain analyst, for example.

Can I come visit you? I promise I won't snore.

Maybe Ukraine hackers can frame bunches of Russian military commanders. Put gay S&M Putin AI porn on all their desktops.

Yip, the Project 2025 people are looking at Putin's ban list and salivating. Their local libraries already cover some.

and "How do I avoid having a window office in a high-rise?"

Russia slipping back towards the USSR days

More like Soviets marry Christian Taliban. Putin is like an evangelical.

at least it is in my neck of the IP woods.

and be iHacked.

I've heard they sometimes hold people on the suspicion of "planning to spread foreign propaganda" if they have a lot of such material, which is a step up from merely having one Xi Pooh Bear meme in "favorites".

How is it "bigoted", may I ask? It's about the Chinese gov't, and not Chinese people in general. USA's current gov't leadership is also defective.

It smells like the 3D fad in that high res is interesting the first few times you see it, but loses its wow-factor after a while, and not worth the discomfort.

It would also make production costs go up as movies will have to be designed, rendered, and vetted at higher resolution.

And I don't want to see pores, zits, and moles close in enough resolution for dermatologists to write prescriptions in the theatre. Movies are to be escapism, not science class. I don't want to see Keanu Reeves' pores for 2 hours. Most humans are ugly close up.

That being said, frames and pixels for storing movies is obsolete. Make it one big 3D block of 3D polygons, where one dimension is time. We have the computing power to convert pixels-and-frames into 3D polygons already. If a system needs a "frame" for some reason, then digitally slice the polygon-cheese-block at the right spot. Scaling up or down then would be smoother.

This would also get rid of the "frame interpolation fights" between producers and screen makers' "smoothing tech", since there would no longer be frames; just slice the cheese-block in the right spot for the theatre's system frame rate. (Future projectors may not even need frames, being merely photon sprayers, but that's a different topic.)

The cheese-block-model is how Vulcans would do it, assuming enough computing power.

I pointed this model out in a movie tech forum, and a professional movie editor got all bent out of shape, worrying about losing their job and/or having to buy new software. They didn't dismiss the concept itself, only fussed about buying or learning new stuff. Maybe they had already gone thru a tough time in the conversion from analog-to-digital, and worried the cheese-block transition would be similarly personally disruptive.

Almost everyone's been invaded and whacked. History is brutality. Get over it!