I think the other post above is referring to the version of a Toy Story sequel that was in production down in Burbank at Disney in the early 2000's (after TS2 came out). That production was shut down when Disney and Pixar merged in the mid 2000's.
scrapped - after we got this version of the film back, we decided to rewrite the story. that meant that we substantially rebuild the film in the next year, even after we had recovered the version from Galyn's machine.
That’s certainly possible. But if folks on this site don’t know how ToyStory or JurassicPark were rendered back in the day, let alone like almost every movie with CG in it since, that would be a little surprising. But maybe?
I developed the curriculum for and then taught the first Pixar University course for newly hired Technical Directors (10 weeks, full time, from day 1 when you started). That was probably around the Summer of 1996 as the studio was growing rapidly to staff up for A Bugs Life. Randy joined some short time after to help grow PU from the 2 new-hire courses (technical and animation) into the much broader curriculum that it has grown into over the subsequent 20 years.
I was a close friend of Randy’s then, and still consider him one. He is an amazing person in many ways.
And when my wife and I got married in 2001, he was the master of ceremonies at our wedding.
:-)
I had been a beekeeper for several years, my daughter manifested an anaphylactic reaction to a sting a year ago, and sadly our bees are now in the Central Valley, but...
Yes, the work you mention is significant. But harvesting honey from 4 supers takes several hours even with a heated knife and centrifuge. And the cleanup takes several more.
We did it with my family, and enjoyed it, but if things work as they are shown to in the video, that would be a pretty big win. And, given the cost of an uncapping knife, centrifuge, separating screens, and other paraphernalia, seems like a good price point too.
For those interested, Beekeeping For Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470430656) is actually quite a good way to start.
We've had our queen replaced by our swarm and it was quite an amazing thing to witness.
Our hive/swarm gave more than 40 pounds of honey a year and we kept our whole street well fed with local honey for a few years.
And my garden almost doubled in productivity once the bees were in place.
A win all around.
Sadly a family member developed an allergy so we have to discontinue keeping bees, but it was amazing while we had them and I strongly keeping bees to anyone interested.
Has anyone calculated the energy usage of sending a 1kg package 10km alongside 100s of other packages on a diesel powered UPS truck vs sending it by itself, hanging below a battery powered octacopter? How much more/less energy does the octacopter consume per package?
Has anyone calculated the energy usage of sending a 1kg package 10km alongside 100s of other packages on a diesel powered UPS truck vs sending it by itself, hanging below a battery powered octacopter? How much more/less energy does the octacopter consume per package?
I believe Microsoft took one round of venture financing, and that VC (Dave Marquardt) is both still quite an active investor (as founder of August Capital) and is also still on Microsoft's Board. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marquardt for details.
The other responders are correct, in a public place you do not have an expectation of privacy, so a photographer can capture you image and you can't stop them. However, should that photographer chose to publish the image, things get more complicated.
Take the example of an ad agency snapping a picture of you on a public sidewalk and later broadcasting that image in a $10M CocaCola Superbowl commercial. You own your own image, and are owed compensation for that advertisement. And it is fully within your rights to not accept an agency's offer to compensate you at all, thereby preventing them from legally using the image you have been capture in for commercial purposes.
Now, if you are in a picture, but nearly impossible to identify (ie: a crowd shot taken at a baseball game, or a marathon finish) then the image can probably be used without your permission and without compensation.
Newsworthy events, of which this clearly qualifies, also change the rules. Press have expanded rights when it comes to publication of images. But is reddit a news site? When it comes to UGC relating to a news worthy event, do the individuals publishing enjoy similar rights to the press? To what extent? And assuming that there aren't 6 murderers all wearing backpacks, can the innocent ones successfully sue for defamation if/when their names get published?
Answers to these questions aren't clear, so I expect that one of these internet-witch-hunts-that-identify-the-wrong-person will end up in court sometime soon. Maybe one already has? Anyone know?
There can be a very real issue if HN accounts have an age or birthdate associated with them which indicate that the user is under 13. In that situation where knowledge of age is in the hands of the website operator, the FTC has taken notice, and action. See Path's recent FTC COPPA ruling as an example.
So, if HN internally keeps a reference from votes in the under-10 category of this poll to the accounts they came from, and if any of those people are under 13, there may be cause for real concern re: COPPA.
There are sort of 3 ways to approach this safely...
1. don't ask, don't tell (eg: Google's main search page)
2. ask, and reject (eg: Facebook account signup)
3. ask, accept, and get consent (eg: some child focused sites)
HN is pretty clearly not a child-oriented website, but if there is concrete knowledge of age, COPPA can apply.
As this gets rolled out to the whole district, has anyone looked into how this plan meshes with COPPA? Seems like a very significant amount of PII will be collected for under-13 year olds on internet connected servers. At the same time, parents are legally compelled to send their kids to school and students are legally compelled to attend. Therefore, how can there be informed consent when there is no choice being offered, since one cannot opt out?
In the past, Pixar chose to hold certain patents close to its chest, and then when 3rd party application developers chose to implement similar features, they had to avoid the patents. This meant that industry standard 3rd party software sometimes had inferior and/or broken implementaions of certain, fundamental technologies. Which caused much frustration when we (Pixar.. I used to work there) started to use those same 3rd party packages ourselves in-house.
Instead of that, how about ... do the research, do the engineering, patent the correct approach, open source a reference implementation, license it properly, and thereby force the industry's hand to "do it the right way" so that Pixar can take advantage of 3rd party tools that implement those particular technologies correctly.
+1 to Manuel, who's been working on this stuff for a while. Cool to see this happen.