That's kind of odd wording for saying that Parker is heavily protected against the intense heat and radiation environment so close to the sun.
The spacecraft has a sun-facing shield made of two panels of superheated carbon-carbon composite sandwiching a lightweight 4.5-inch-thick carbon foam core. The Sun-facing side of the heat shield is also sprayed with a specially formulated white coating to reflect as much of the Sun’s energy away from the spacecraft as possible. All of the spacecraft systems are behind the central part of the shield, where they are kept below 30°C. Unshielded, the spacecraft's systems would fail in tens of seconds.
Power comes from two solar arrays, the larger main array retracts behind the shield during approache closer than 0.25 au, and the smaller array is liquid cooled.
“Unity is committed to the continued adoption of USD standards. AOUSD is an important step forward to delivering a common foundation for content creation, collaboration and interoperability. We are excited to be involved in the alliance and to help shape the future of USD.” - Allan Poore, Senior Vice President, Unity Wētā Tools
"Epic Games recognizes the significance of USD in establishing standards for 3D content, virtual worlds, and the open metaverse. Pixar has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the open source community over the last decade, and we are excited to witness the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD, which will propel the technology to new levels of standardization." - Marc Petit, VP Unreal Engine Ecosystem, Epic Games
It’s so great to see the many places listed here. It compels me to mention The Museum of Arts and Digital Entertainment, based in Oakland CA, in case any Bay Area folks are interested in such places: https://www.themade.org/
I was about to post this, but I see you already did.
I've been there in person. The Google Patent Litigation group used them as a source of prior art, since many technologies were developed first for games, before "regular" users got them. No, I can't give any details.
Are ferroelectric diodes more sensitive to external tampering than a “typical” memory circuit? As in, could a device like this be more easily “jammed” by a strong external electromagnetic source? That’s where my head went when reading about this circuit, but maybe it’s no less sensitive than “typical” circuitry?
Compute-in-memory can increase computation performance by many orders of magnitude.
The fact that most people just immediately try to find ways that these advancements can't work rather than trying to actually make them work is the reason that these things take so long to go from research to product.
And it's also an example of the type of weak cognition that will mean un-augmented humans will be irrelevant within the next quarter century.
Sure when you get to that stage. But instead of trying to make things work, people always try to shut down ideas just because they are new. Actually the bigger the advance, the harder people try to discount the ideas.
It doesn't need to be close because these changes don't happen linearly. Look at for example computing in 1950 vs 1975 or 1975 vs 2000.
With a new computing paradigm we should anticipate at least a 500X increase in compute per dollar over a period of 25 years. We also should anticipate quite a lot of progress in AI and brain-computer interfaces.
Obviously what I suggested is speculation, but sensible speculation in these areas based on historical trends anticipates changes that are just as radical as the ones we have seen.
"Moore's Law" came close to a wall a long time ago and has been braking hard. Compute-in-memory will allow us to speed up again.
> Are ferroelectric diodes more sensitive to external tampering than a “typical” memory circuit?
Possibly? But the solution would be to put a Faraday cage around the memory. Something that effectively already happens when you have a heat sink on your memory. But further, you also have steal case surrounding your memory that helps there.
Although high permeability materials can route field lines around things to a certain extent, you can't get the kind of total magnetic shielding you'd want to say, protect a floppy disk from a strong magnet, without superconductors.
Conductors shield against electric fields and also catch EM radiation because it involves both E and M fields, but magnetic shielding relies on something analogous to electric polarization and consequently is more difficult.
Please don’t click these links or share these videos. As a member of the film/animation industry, hearing about leaks like this absolutely hits me. Please think of the hundreds of artists and programmers who have worked countless hours on this game. They are all heartbroken right now. We can all honor their hard work by not watching this leaked content. Wait til they finish.
no and no. I'm getting mighty sick of this attitude 'pls respect artists! they are all crying right now'.
how come game devs / artists are the only ones that should never have their work seen before they deem it to be 'ready', how many devs in other industries have had to push work to the public before they deem it 'ready'. I personally like having the 'curtain pulled back' so to speak, it's interesting to see the amount of work that goes into making a game / movie / whatever.
If rumors are correct, the leaker has the source code also, but hasn't chosen to release that. I'm pretty sure that releasing the source code would be seen as more of a dick move than just showing a video of some dev tools. I'm pretty sure we've all `stolen` software at some stage in our lives (looking at you Adobe), are we meant to be pearl-clutching over that also?
First and foremost- this content was stolen. You haven’t paid for it. If you saw a stolen car left on the side of the road, would to take it for a joyride?
Secondly, do you think watching these these videos is making anyone at rockstar fired up? Do you think they like this? I believe that almost all of them are deeply saddened by this. Should we celebrate and respect people’s work by making them feel awful?
Lastly I’m not telling anyone what to do. I’m just merely pointing out that this content is not soul-less. It’s built on the backs of people who did not willingly share this material. I think it’s awesome if people are curious, but I think to is incredible disrespectful to execute that curiosity by forcefully stealing something.
The semantics are more important to me, and it affects my thoughts on your analogies too.
Stealing requires moving something from its original place, like the car. This was copied. It is copyright infringement, at best, and an issue for the person copying for others consumption, not the consumer. Its not the consumers responsibility to know who has a license to avoid infringing a copyright, and it isn't their liability to view. Elaborate marketing stunt or actual leak? Not my responsibility to care. But let me know if you come up with a more applicable analogy, I’m fine with analogies comparing dissimilar things that share something in common, I think this one dilutes your point here and fails at providing any introspective possibility.
I can relate to the idea that someone wanted a grand reveal, I don't have the same feelings as you about them being deprived of that goal. I think there would be plenty of artists in the organization that are annoyed at the direction of the development choices and are elated that the public can criticize it now.
> If you saw a stolen car left on the side of the road
Relax, it's just a few videos. Not the actual game. It's publicity and won't hurt sales. May even help pre-order sales.
The irony of your analogy is that stealing cars and crime in general is encouraged and celebrated in the game. Watching a few leaked videos of that action is not a moral dilemma.
Why would they be heartbroken? They’ll still get to finish the game. Millions of people will still enjoy it like they did RDR2, GTAV, etc. Personally, I disagree with hacking of this nature, but these days people want to get a sneak preview, so I’m really not sure why the developers would see this as anything other than good, or why they wouldn’t just release previews occasionally so people can see what’s to come. None of this stuff is cutting edge or some sort of industry secret or whatever. I, personally, am more excited for GTAVI than I ever have been now that I’ve seen the amount of depth they seem to be adding to the previous iteration!
I purchased the fingerworks gesture keyboard insert for my TiBook. It was amazing. I remember thinking it was the future of all laptop input devices. While I'm glad it resurfaced as the iOS input device, I am super bummed I still don't have that keyboard on my MacBook. That thing was incredible.
One argument might be that X11 does not support higher than 8bit display tech AFAIK, so if you wanted to do any sort of HDR display (potentially for something like grading or some other gfx development work) you’d be out of luck.
Agreed! Also I am genuinely interested in finding out: what is the difference between “finishing” the pigs with peanuts and sunflower vs. acorns. That difference could be highlighted as an “American” take in the process. Variety is good!
Agreed. The edge of absurdity is still funny though, the boundaries just shift over time, and new creativity finds it. I would argue that Sean Tejaratchi is one to chart such waters:
It’s sad he’s mostly devolved into pandering to right-wing memes, selling anti-SJW calendars and other stuff that’s really just beneath him, I guess to try and remain relevant or make a buck. His early zines were funny and fantastic.
