Broadcast Yourself: Podcast, Videocast & Screencast
Event on 2013-07-13 16:00:00
Learn how to use video cameras to record, send messages and communicate around the world using Skype and other technological products. Join us for a class provided from Newton Public Library. (60 minutes)
at The Wichita Central Library
223 South Main
Wichita, United States
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 1, 2007
The Big Nerd Ranch, Inc. announced today the return of Rocco Bowling’s OpenGL Bootcamp for April 30 – May 4, 2007. This unique and innovative five-day course offers a new twist on the standard OpenGL training class, by focusing on advanced level visualization techniques and elevating the materials beyond simply video game development instruction. OpenGL has become the standard-bearer in the visualization of 2D and 3D images in a spectrum of fields, from the military and government agencies, to medical research and pharmaceuticals, in addition to video gaming. Through the vision and dedication of the OpenGL community and the OpenGL ARB, OpenGL excels in cross-platform portability and scalability, adaptable to a variety of hardware environments from individual workstations to supercomputers.
OpenGL Bootcamp provides the level of in-depth training needed to take full advantage of hardware acceleration, shaders and blending, integrating video and optimization methods for static and dynamic data. The class is segmented into 20-25 sections where brief lectures are augmented by anywhere from 30-90 minutes of hands-on exercises, allowing students to immediately put their newfound knowledge into practical use. Key topics include:
Overview of OpenGL architecture and using GLUT, NSOpenGL and other APIs to add OpenGL to Mac OS X applications
Frame-based versus time-based animation
Viewing, modeling and projection transformations
Hidden surface removal, load, display and animate textures and display video
Colors, lighting and blending
Techniques to develop user interaction
Vertex and fragment programs and vertex and fragment shaders
In a recent review of the class and Rocco Bowling’s energetic and informative instruction, Mark Dalrymple (co-author of Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming) wrote, “A huge amount of OpenGL API is covered. Along the way we met most everything in between, such as textures, colors, materials, normals, loading model files, optimization of static and dynamic data, mouse clicking on objects, fonts and text, and on and on. One of the big strengths of a course like this, being with an expert, is learning what you don’t need to know. There’s a lot of stuff in the Red Book that’s there for historical reasons, but are not terribly relevant for modern OpenGL programming.”
Students attending the class receive a copy of “OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL,” Version 2 (commonly referred to as the Red Book) as the primary text for the class. No previous experience in OpenGL is required for the class, but students should be knowledgeable in a procedural programming language like C and have a basic understanding of trigonometry and vector mathematics.
Rocco Bowling has been developing OpenGL software since the Classic Mac OS era. His OpenGL applications have received numerous awards and accolades, including two Apple Design Awards for Best Mac OS X Product and Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption. He has partnered with game publishing powerhouse Freeverse Software to release two commercial entertainment titles and is a regular participant in the annual uDevGame Mac Game Programming contest. Rocco has spent the past few years performing advanced OpenGL visualization research for the National Security Agency. From networks to news, Rocco has applied his ingenuity and programming prowess to solving some of the world’s most unique visualization problems.
The Big Nerd Ranch incorporates intensive training classes for Unix and Mac OS X programmers in a retreat setting outside Atlanta, GA. Class price of $ 3500 includes lodging, all meals, original instruction materials, 24-hour lab access, and ground transportation to and from the Atlanta airport. Students are encouraged to bring independent projects to class, allowing for input from classmates and individual instructor attention. For more information, call 678-595-6773 or visit http://www.bignerdranch.com.
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Question by Cellar Door: In Mac OS X, how to hear yourself talk through your mic in your headphones?
I can find an option for this in Windows really easily. It’s right next to all the rest of the volume options, but in Mac OS X, I cannot.
Best answer:
Answer by rob u
To use your external microphone, go to the Monitors and Sound control panel, and click the “Sound” button at the top of the window, and in the Sound Monitoring Source pop-up menu, choose the “Sound In” option.
Step by Step with pictures.
http://www.zisman.ca/Recording/Part2_Mac.html
To create a feed back, click the play sound though output device.
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I hope you enjoy my tutorial on how to dissapear. Here it is in words. Step 1: Create a still backround video with no one in it. Step 2: Make sure ur backround is the same and video urself doing something. step3: open WMM Step 4: add ur first film of you in the timeline. Step 5: Then add ur backround in the timeline after the first one. Step 5: drag your still backround clip onto the first clip of you and u’ll see a blue thing appear. Step 6: Drag back until it wont go any further, in other words, dont make it dissapear. Step 7: Check out ur disappearing film Step 8: Upload to youtube. Step 9: SUb me PLZ comment and rate. Thanks fer watching this tutorial
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Question by Dr.™: R&S: Would you download yourself onto a computer for true eternal life?
“Playstation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain.” By the year 2050, it is quite possible that we will have the choice to download our brain onto supercomputers. Would you take part in this and become immortal(ish)?
Fundies, try not to get the splattered remains of your head on my question – thanks.
——— Article on this! ——–
London, England — By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.
Ian Pearson, head of British Telecom’s futurology unit, told the UK’s Observer newspaper that the rapid advances in computing power would make cyber-immortality a reality within 50 years.
Pearson said the launch last week of Sony’s PlayStation 3, a machine 35 times more powerful than the model it replaced, was a sign of things to come.
“The new PlayStation is one percent as powerful as the human brain,” Pearson told the Observer. “It is into supercomputer status compared to 10 years ago. PlayStation 5 will probably be as powerful as the human brain.”
Pearson said that brain-downloading technology would initially be the preserve of the rich, but would become more available over subsequent decades.
“If you’re rich enough then by 2050 it’s feasible. If you’re poor you’ll probably have to wait until 2075 or 2080 when it’s routine,” he said.
“We are very serious about it. That’s how fast this technology is moving: 45 years is a hell of a long time in IT.”
Pearson also predicted that it would be possible to build a fully conscious computer with superhuman levels of intelligence as early as 2020.
IBM’s BlueGene computer can already perform 70.72 trillion calculations a second and Pearson said the next computing goal was to replicate consciousness.
“We’re already looking at how you might structure a computer that could become conscious. Consciousness is just another sense, effectively, and that’s what we’re trying to design in computer.”
Pearson said that computer consciousness would make feasible a whole new sphere of emotional machines, such as airplanes that are afraid of crashing.
By 2020 Pearson also predicted the creation of a “virtual world” of immersive computer-generated environments in which we will spend increasing amounts of time, socializing and doing business.
He said: “When technology gives you a life-size 3D image and the links to your nervous system allow you to shake hands, it’s like being in the other person’s office. It’s impossible to believe that won’t be the normal way of communicating.”
But Pearson admitted that the consequences of advancing technologies needed to be considered carefully.
“You need a complete global debate,” he said. “Whether we should be building machines as smart as people is a really big one.”
Shini, by 2050 it will be only for the rish – however us poor folk can get it around 2075-2080!
Dead fundie, that’s why I added the “ish.” 
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