Roger
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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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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.
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That's a bit nuts. Seems like if the goal is immersive gaming, it would benefit from being a bit taller to take up more of your field of view.
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Did we do robots already? Robots could be cool.
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Yeah I'm waiting to see what the prices for these and the Epyc cpus will be. But yeah that is one bigass chip.
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Sad news.
I wish everyone could have the experience I had of seeing my first "Wallace and Grommit" cartoon in a theater in the 90s with a thousand other fans and sensing that animation could be wonderful again.
I remember the first Wallace and Grommit I saw was a double feature of Wrong Trousers and Close Shave in one of my animation classes and they were amazing.
He will definitely be missed.
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Looking very good Rob. Nice work.
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Something I'm not clear on... when you mine a bitcoin you are basically being rewarded for doing the work of verifying or clearing bitcoin transactions.
But is some extra busy-work added to slow down the addition of new bitcoins to the supply?
I figure there must be if they've announced that are going to decrease the reward for mining.
To the best of my knowledge, they increase the difficulty of the hashing algorithm so that over time, as more bitcoins are mined, it becomes exponentially harder to mine the things. There are only ever meant to be 21 million bitcoins in circulation, some of these have been lost forever. Originally way back when bitcoin was in its infancy there were people mining them with CPU based systems, then GPU based systems. The only way anybody is mining them now is with custom ASIC miners or farms of the darn things. I don't think there are any individual miners (or not many, anyway) still in the game. I had contemplated setting up a Litecoin mining rig at one point (alternative cryptocurrency) but never got around to it and it wouldn't be worthwhile now. Plus I didn't feel like spending the better part of 2 days setting the damn thing up.
The whole thing just seems shady to me but not for the same reasons Rodney is worried about it.
However, if you live in a country with currency controls or hyperinflation, Bitcoin can be a valuable way to hang onto your money.
For most normal people, it is too volatile. The extreme deflationary nature of Bitcoin also makes it difficult to use as a currency,
since it encourages hoarding.
I think eventually we are going to see some sort of cryptocurrency take off as a standard that is backed by a major bank, I just don't know that Bitcoin will be it.
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Makes you want to find a use for "Turdly", doesn't it?
Two words: powder room.
Public Domain Implementation of Renderman
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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.