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Should the same happen to your family home?
> Should the same happen to your family home? In China land use rights can only be bought for a limited time - after this time it goes back to the government: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_property_... In this sense other countries than the US indeed give quite different answers to your rhetorical question.
I as really hoping all the projects would be named after Disney characters, because it would be fun to say, "I think we should run Mickey, but we may need to fork Donald to make it work in our environment".
I work there, and am on the Disney Open Source Committee! We also just open sourced a hybrid public/private blockchain platform "Dragonchain" with some interesting features. https://github.com/dragonchain/dragonchain Architecture document: https://dragonchain.github.io/doc/DragonchainArchitecture.pd... Code is newly released, and rough around the edges. We're working to get the docs up to par and some Docker containe…
What do you actually use Dragonchain for within Disney? Why does Disney need a blockchain platform?
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> Should the same happen to your family home? In China land use rights can only be bought for a limited time - after this time it goes back to the government: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_property_... In this sense other countries than the US indeed give quite different answers to your rhetorical question.
Same in UK. You just take a leasehold for 100 years from queen, you don't own it.
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"fundamental" seems to imply a magnitude shift. 100x seems the minimum bar IMHO. Otherwise its just decimate..
In this case the frame rate went from 0.25 fps to 40 fps, a 160x improvement, so "fundamental" it is.
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Why? Disney has invested countless dollars into Mickey Mouse over the past 89 years. It's not like the Happy Birthday song, being hoarded without innovation purely for profit; they're actively expanding/investing/improving and making billions of people happy. Why should random companies get to legally print knockoff Mickey t-shirts just because enough time has passed?
The purpose of copyright law is only to "promote the arts and sciences". Note that it doesn't say anything about the individual creator. There are two factors determining how much value a society can derive from the body of art created within: the amount and the distribution. (ignoring "quality" because it's unaffected by the following). The quantity created and the distribution it gets are somewhat conflicting goals…
I work there, and am on the Disney Open Source Committee! We also just open sourced a hybrid public/private blockchain platform "Dragonchain" with some interesting features. https://github.com/dragonchain/dragonchain Architecture document: https://dragonchain.github.io/doc/DragonchainArchitecture.pd... Code is newly released, and rough around the edges. We're working to get the docs up to par and some Docker containe…
What do you actually use Dragonchain for within Disney? Why does Disney need a blockchain platform?
Can't wait for the Mickey Mouse repo in 2024.
Why? Disney has invested countless dollars into Mickey Mouse over the past 89 years. It's not like the Happy Birthday song, being hoarded without innovation purely for profit; they're actively expanding/investing/improving and making billions of people happy. Why should random companies get to legally print knockoff Mickey t-shirts just because enough time has passed?
Because that was the deal on copyright. Protection in exchange for release into the public domain. Extending copyright is a really shitty way for them not to stick to their end of the deal.
OpenSubdiv is a game changer in FOSS 3d software. Blender is already using it: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.7... Demo: https://youtu.be/dzIl_S-qHIQ?t=115