Roger
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This does look cool. Thanks for the heads-up, Mark.
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Any luck finding those renders? We are officially in October now.
Anyhow, looking forward to seeing everyone's stuff.
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If you use CCleaner, it has been infected with malware for about a month:
I would suggest removing it and scanning your system with Windows Defender, at the bare minimum, if not taking even more aggressive measures.
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Only bad thing about a credit freeze is if you're trying to buy a house or car or other major purchase you can't pay cash for, this is really going to put a wrench in the works. But this may be worth the inconvenience.
How did these companies get to be such a big deal? It's too bad you can't opt out.
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This project is GPL-licensed, meaning very definitely not public domain. So it's just another open-source RenderMan, of which there have been a few (BMRT, Aqsis, Pixie and others). They are all dead, but none as long dead as this one.
Sorry guess I should have dug a little deeper. I had remembered BMRT which was free for hobbyist use but BMRT has been dead for ages too.
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This came up in one of the last Live Answer Times, it turns out there is actually a public domain implementation of the Renderman standard:
http://gman-toolkit.sourceforge.net/
I would imagine that some fiddling would be needed to get it going.
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So apparently Equifax had personal data for something like 143 million accounts stolen recently. Which is probably about 60% of the working US population, if you remove minors and the unemployed:
You may want to monitor your credit cards for a while.
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It's all about the jacket.
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African Grey is a type of parrot. I think that may be what the color is referring to.
And one of the Hash people was a parrot keeper, i recall.
Jeff Paries, I think. I remember the parrot featured in one or more Martin's Minutes posts.
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African Grey is a type of parrot. I think that may be what the color is referring to.
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Well I guess now is the time to get those eclipse glasses for next time.
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Interesting. The article has an update saying that AMC is trying to back out
Yeah, I imagine they would, they would lose money on me for sure.
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I don't know about you guys, but I intend to make use of this:
http://lifehacker.com/moviepass-now-offers-unlimited-movies-in-theaters-for-1797865400
I imagine Imax and 3D movies are excluded and it is 1 person per pass per day but that's probably more movies than you'd ever want to see so....maybe give it a look.
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Yep, that's something I will never un-see LOL.
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Some interesting footage from the 1960s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhApaJSjHZI
Fast forward to 5:50 for the Thom look-alike.
At least we don't have to use punch-tape.
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That seems like that would be impossible to do without some very expensive engineering, or materials that we don't currently have.
Also....there are trombone forums?
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Poor vacation choices...
Is it Weasel Stomping Day already?
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I couldn't find a good way to grab the address for just this video, so it is the 3rd video in the Lifehacker link below:
http://lifehacker.com/you-too-could-have-a-self-cleaning-home-if-you-give-up-1797070156
Something tells me AM could have done a much better job with both the fluid simulation and the collision detection. What's in the video is pretty bad.
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Yeah I became way less fond of deer when they started running into my car every other year.
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For those of us in the US, Happy 4th of July! Don't blow off any limbs.
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Clever. I always like seeing the "behind the scenes" stuff.
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They charge by the weight?
Ha! I don't claim to understand Intel's pricing methods beyond "put the screws to the customer until he screams", that seems to be how they price their products.
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Well Intel's top end xeons start at $1000 and go up to around $3000, so if AMD releases their 32 core cpu for anything less than $1500 they will crush the datacenter market and steal their lunch. I will be sorely tempted to buy one but will probably have to wait until they hit the used market, I imagine a new system based around a 32 core system would be at least $2500. And I just can't spend that kind of money on something that is a "want". But damn...if money were no object.
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There is supposedly some software that can "learn" the voice of a celebrity and use it to generate speech. So you could have your GPS read you directions in the voice of Mr. Sallis or Jimmy Stewart, for that matter.
Freaky particle animation
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This is a really bizarre particle animation I ran across:
https://vimeo.com/236316402