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Blender Demo Reel Released
James Cho writes "The Blender demo reel has been released, showcasing some of the best artwork made with what has become the most powerful open source 3d content creation software. It will be later shown at SIGGRAPH 2004, the premier international computer graphics exhibiton and conference."
i agree that you won't be making a mistake with giving them this. when i was a wee one around 5th and 6th grade, there was a copy of InfiniD on the computer lab computers at my school. Messing around with it I made some cool stuff; it was fun. in particial, i can thank that computer lab and that program for the confidence and 'mess-around-until-you-get-it' additude (atitude, attidude...not spelling, thats for sure) that i have now with computers.
Incidently, FWIW, the Slashdot editors have chosen to disallow ed2k links. I've posted about it before on Slashdot, and there have even been filed bugs on it.
Jamie has a point -- that ed2k URLs launch external programs, and that he doesn't want to help trolls -- but man, I wish that we were able to use them, even if we lost the ability to use gopher, mailto, etc. Every time Slashdot links to a large file, we end up with some random reader having to set up a bittorrent entry (which is great for the immediate link, and keeps the server from being killed). However, inevitably that user kills the link after a couple of days, and then all the links to large files in old stories are dead. If we could just embed ed2k links, we could maintain links that would be useful months later. Adding ed2k wouldn't mean having to add any other protocols -- Gnutella and most P2P networks lack an URL format, and the only competitor, Kazaa, has a broken non-unique URL format that shouldn't be included.
It'd be especially nice if users that wanted to allow ed2k links could enable them in their preferences, and then see them (though I guess that wouldn't work well with the pre-generation approach of Slashcode -- sigh).
May we never see th
try ctrl-n... you can recalculate normals to the outside and it normally fixes those kinds of quirks.
This would be a good example to send to your state and federal representitives, showing one of the many LEGAL uses of P2P networks..
---- Booth was a patriot ----