A CGI creature, or one skilfully comped into the shot at least. The guy is a VFX type.

I don't remember it ever sounding like this, and I installed it off of 8 or so diskettes when it first came out -- a Comp USA purchase, I believe.

*Fake!

Yeah, this was completely debunked.

Good comp/CGI work, but if you hold it next to a pic of the real B-ham the differences are obvious.

i believe the original title said that it was the first release by aphex twin in 13 years. and if you're going to get super anal about it, aphex twin is credited on 26 mixes for cash circa 2003 and the chosen lords comp circa 2006 (and we all know that AFX and aphex twin are essentially indistinguishable by any metric other than title and are generally use interchangeably).

You will need insurance, but because the risk is so, so much lower the insurance will be almost nothing.

I'm in the UK and for my wife and I to insure our new VW Golf fully comp it costs £118 a year. That's very cheap for the UK. But it costs my apprentice at work about £1700 to insure a piece of shit old banger. The difference clearly isn't the value of the vehicle, mine is worth for than ten times his and his insurance is more than ten times mine.

The difference is that he's only just past his test and is young whereas I'm in my mid thirties and I've been driving for 17 years. The difference is in the likelihood of us having a crash and hurting someone.

Self driving cars will have the ability to react to a situation way, way faster than I ever could, and to be able to react together if there are lots of them on the road, meaning even if there is an accident the consequences will be massively reduced.

A self driving car will never be tired. It will never be distracted by a phone, or a passenger or anything. It will never be drunk.

All of these things mean that the risk from a self driving car will be way less than for a human driver. And by way less I mean a tiny fraction. The more self driving cars there are around the less risk there will be. Humans are an unpredictable element, remove them from the situation and you'll remove the risk massively. So, my risky apprentice is now a lower risk than I am, and as such his insurance will be lower than mine. All of a sudden the insurance company's income is slashed to a fraction of what it was.

Insurance companies make money out of risk. When everyone on the road becomes low risk they will make less money.

Nowhere do they claim it can do cats or your parents and only a joker would even write that.

Comp Sci Grad's seem to need everything spelled out for them. Go take a course on it.

Wasting no more time on this. bye bye.

I'm a Comp Sci grad who spent a great deal of time doing 3D coding so yes, I've got some idea what is involved here.

Best case scenario here is you have to track down an existing 3-D model that matches the object you want to manipulate close enough to do well. You also need that model's texturing to match close enough to look good. They don't clearly show how you map that model to a portion of your 2d image, but if they have made that relatively simple it is the 'big deal' portion they are showing off because that is very hard, and most likely has some finicky bits to it.

Also, the first bit of finding a good matching 3-d model is the killer. Armed with a well matched 3-D model, something like Blender already let you do this relatively easily. Finding that model is the hard part and for anything living it's simply not going to exist in 90% of cases, so your gonna just not do it, or do what the movie guys are already doing and build your own model.

I'm not saying there's not good work here, but I am sceptical of the fact that the real nuts and bolts of what would make this a 'big deal'(the UI mapping) isn't being shown. Furthermore, the animated origami clinches my skepticism. Sorry, but 3-D animation of 'some object' in your 2d image has NOT been made easy or IMHO been changed at all by their product. 100% of the effort there is the 3-D animation of the object, which you still have to get somebody to do artistically, full stop.

Great, now I need to upgrade my comp...

I dunno man, you listen to some of those insane compositions by Nancarrow and a few of them kinna suck you in-It helps to get into the mind of composer a bit, the guy might have been reclusive and maybe a touch autistic and you can maybe perform some interpretive dance (seizure) to his comps but I regard most music as novelty anyhow....

Check this one found recently along the same lines of attack-Impossible for one person to play alone, but I'll betcha two people side-by-side on the same piano could do it...

Betcha those low db's send kitty into that realm-He probably digs the warmth of whatever that amp or comp hardware he's chillin' on as well...That cats' snoozin'!

It won the audience award, best online short. If the comp page goes dead, look for Outland Pictures.

What are you talking about, both the penis' behind the wheels of these vehicles are probably American. Someone just fucking hates America(n).
Outmatched vehicles:
553 ft.-lbs. of torque at 2000 rpm and 310 HP (18:1 comp ratio w/dual-turbo chargers) with the Toureg

520 lb-ft @ 1,800 RPM- 6.6 liter w/300 hp @ 3100 rpm with bouncy there-

While both seem matched, the VW's the real piece of work.
Engineering be damned, the Germans pretty much extended their penises farther than any country with their fucking master -race shit.
Got to hand it to the insect-like attention to details, though....after WW2, a shitload of their engineers came to the U.S.

So, buy a Mercedes Benz and enjoy it....great car, until you need repairs...Ka-Chiniig!!

sifty has you in it's matrix
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I dunno, I was asleep - is someone hijacking my comp? LOL

I dunno, I was asleep - is someone hijacking my comp? LOL

They are building a new plant near me. And honestly I think the people wanting to get hired there would probably take a six year pay freeze as part of their employment agreement. It's them using the out of work people in the area from GM closure and other closures to put the squeeze on their current employees, and their employees if they've been unemployed at all HAVE to know that they could be replaced.

My hope is that in 5 and 10 years time, people remember what was done by Caterpillar and choose to not buy their products and work for competitors when the same wage is offered. If people actually remembered and took historical decisions (not in the past year, but 5 or 10 years and more) in their context of the time and use that in their decision making....I just don't see how a company could withstand doing that kind of shit for long.

Unfortunately, people have very short memories and what happened last week, last hour, last minute, last second mentality in all things involving money now. Corporations have fostered that, but people have bowed to it.


I really doubt they get 6 years agreement, but I bet they get at least 3 years on a wage freeze. I also bet their products go up in price more than if the wages had not been frozen, and they end up blaming the workers/unions for those price increases. Insurance will be my first guess on what they blame specifically for costs. And they will secretly question all of those worker comp claims, because those frozen wages probably lead to a lot of disgruntled employees that they now have to monitor more closely and hire extra managers to watch.