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COM155-112 Fall 2010: October 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010. FINISH DISCUSSION OF INTERNET DEBATES - QUESTIONS DUE TUES - vector v bitmap. Debate: The Internet and Democracy. Is democracy threatened by the unchecked nature of the internet. Jimmy wales- co founded wikipedia (with ex partner and larry sanger). Micah Sifry COFOUNDER OF http:/ personaldemocracy.com/. Farhad Manjoo - journalist from slate.com. Farhad Manjoo's page on the Internet. Do you feel this is an important issue that needs to be addressed further? Why or Why not? Why do...
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What I'm Reading | politics is the theme but my interests vary. posted to chronicle the times! | Page 2
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What I'm Reading. October 22, 2009. 8212; ajdoesdc @ 6:39 pm. October 22, 2009. One Ultrarunning Problem, Solved for Good. By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS. GETTING serious about a sport can mean doing the previously unthinkable. Swimmers shave their bodies sleek. Cyclists take blood-boosters. And ultramarathoners have their battered toenails surgically removed for good. Ultramarathoners, who number more than 17,000 nationwide, according to UltraRunning magazine. Appear crazy sometimes, but they are great strate...
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Manjoo vs advertising | Public Affairs Reporting
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TV vs Reality (not to be confused with reality tv). Next Post →. April 15, 2011 · 3:58 am. In our society today, it seems as if the line between propaganda and truth becomes blurred. When truth becomes difficult to identify within the minds of individuals, propaganda seeps in and corrupts. As the Oxford American Dictionary defines it, propaganda is “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.”. It is the man that will come into your life b...
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October | 2009 | What I'm Reading
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What I'm Reading. October 29, 2009. 8212; ajdoesdc @ 9:53 pm. November 1, 2009. Another Washington dusk, another motorcade, another intimate evening played out in public view. On Oct. 3, just a day after their failed Olympics bid in Copenhagen, Barack and Michelle Obama. I would say the one time during our stay here in the White House so far that has. . . . He paused so long in choosing his words that Michelle Obama, sitting alongside him, prompted him. Has what? Annoyed me, the president answered. Was w...
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June | 2009 | What I'm Reading
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What I'm Reading. June 29, 2009. 8212; ajdoesdc @ 9:16 pm. Anti-Jaywalking Cop Retires After 34 Years. June 29, 2009. Officer Garland Thompson was in the middle of writing a ticket on Sept. 11, 2001, when a passerby told him and the man he was ticketing that a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center. When the man heard that, he said, ‘That makes me sick,’ Thompson recalled recently. And I said, ‘Don’t get too sick. I’m gonna write you this ticket.’. We just became friends after that, he said....
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Ray Tracer: Reflection and Transparency « Joe Doliner
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Let’s Build a Ray Tracer. Ray Tracer: Reflection and Transparency. Now we have the data in the Ray Paths, we need to write some shaders that use them:. Red depth rp ). Ref rp ). Shader glass depth rp. Grey depth rp ). Ref rp ). Thru rp ). And here’s an image of a reflective red plane with a glass sphere (which really doesn’t look much like glass) on it:. A reflective transparent sphere sitting on a reflective plane. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0. From your own site.
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Opinions « Joe Doliner
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Let’s Build a Ray Tracer. Mdash; 5 Comments. The Netflix Zen Master. In the interest of making this post about Internet business, I’d like to suggest that Netflix actually implement this competition as part of its service. Keeping a running scoreboard of the most efficient users, this would add an entirely new dimension to the service and would yield a great deal of publicity along the way. Now this really wouldn’t be too hard, in fact it already exists here. Mdash; 5 Comments. Is Google Voice Sweet?
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Eryan Cobham
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Thinker-tinker. Web Developer. Try a Little Tenderness…. People on the web like to criticize and insult others. That’s a pretty obvious statement, but I might not mean who you. I mean. I’m not referring to the usual anonymous discussion thread or bulletin board trolls. I mean that the people who go to work every day actually building the web like to criticize and insult each other. I’m also not referring to legitimate. And using the New York Times. Basically (in not so many words) you can disagree withou...
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Ray Tracer: Lighting (Part 1) « Joe Doliner
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Let’s Build a Ray Tracer. Ray Tracer: Lighting (Part 1). Up until now I’ve been cheating in creating images (although cheating is really the point of graphics). As we all know there can be no images without light so let’s add some. First off we need a few structures to represent our lights:. A point light is the simplest light, it simply shines light in every direction from a single point. A spot light is a little more complicated: it shines light in a cone (like a spotlight). Where castbacks come from.
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Ray Tracing: Shadows « Joe Doliner
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Let’s Build a Ray Tracer. Shadows are the first place where ray tracing has an advantage pipelined graphics (OpenGL). Not that shadows in pipelined graphics are impossible, but they can be a bit of a struggle (or at least they have been for me.) But as we’ll see: with ray tracing they’re actually quite pleasant. Castback scene (. Loc color intensity ). Color intensity ). Scene scene ray ). Intersection with the scene. Parameter at which we hit the light. Something is very wrong. Ray nudge ray =.
