I am sorry, i didn't mean 10 books, I meant 10 copies per locality. And I am not insensitive, by 'state' i meant area, as for me, my area is 'Bayern'.:p
I can go to my local library and get any CD or book, for a limited time. If google wants to be the online library of the future, I could see them implementing some kind of thing where you are tagged by state, and they have like 10 books that you can check out per state (10 google branches). I mean, if the argument is that 'you could copy the text and have a local copy'.. well christ, any real library book I check out I could photocopy or OCR, it sounds to me like they have a fundamental issue with the entire library system to begin with.
1) has no modeling tools 2) lists 'rotate, translate, and scale with visual feedback' as a fucking 'feature'?! Or 'multiple views' I mean this is 3D SOFTWARE, right?
Here's the shimmy on this product from someone in the business. This guy is giving away free software to pose characters he makes in a real 3d package. He is giving the software out free, and charging for the content. This is not an '3d package'; this is more like poser or some app where you manipulate unoriginal content of others. Akin to a barbie dressup game; you pose the dolls he makes, and to market it, he has people post that is is some kind of 'free 3d animation package'. It is an application that lets you pose dolls you purchase from him.
I am really trying to pull my punches here, as Daz is the creator of some of my fav old school plugins for real 3d apps.
And don't get me wrong; this is a great tool for pervs who want to post a naked 'virtual girl'.
Apple and Nintendo do this a lot. They release the same products over and over again, with identical functionalities, hoping that people will be vain or stylish enough to want something that looks sleeker. I mean look at Nintendo, they have released how many Gameboy Advance systems (3?) all with the same exact functionality. Apple has released how many iPods? A company that claims to innovate, while many, many competitors have been releasing music *and* video players for almost 4 years now *for cheaper than apple's music only players*..
It's the same with entertainment media formats. I like a movie, but to see it at home I need the DVD, to watch it on my PSP I need the UMD, etc..
I think you guys misunderstood. He is talking about procedural bitmap texture generation vs. tiled. Not procedural displacement. Which is a whole different monster. Procedural bitmap generation has issues in realtime, procedural displacement is great.
This is basically a lenticular lens with an LCD back, lenticular tech has been around for years, and even lenticular lenses with LCD backs have been around for years... nothing new to see here.. move along.
These kinds of devices have been around for a while now. Most notably the Lumisight Table at SIGGRAPH last year. Lenticular technologies have been used to create these displays many times before; it is only now, as LCDs get crisper, that you can put them to more use; but I am willing to bet it still looks pretty bad.
As much as I know it is still illegal and considered wrong. I live and work in Germany, and these shows and movies just aren't available here. I don't have the option of going to the local cinema to see a film, and when they do get here, they are always dubbed into another language.
When I do try to play by the rules and order a DVD from the US of a movie I want to see (ie.. incredibles) It won't play on my player because of the region code.
I am not saying that downloading and watching the dailyshow everyday is right, but there is definitely a moral grey area. Even with the most expensive satellite package, I can only get this 'dailyshow weekly update' on CNN.
I mean I can see how shows ripped without commercials would be frowned upon, but they advertise products that aren't available here anyway.
Why don't we also hear about MS Word, Excel, and other office application updates? Oh yeah, because we don't care. Apple is updating their office software.. this is important news?
Does it worry anyone that the guys at NASA grossly miscalculated the life of the bot? Was this done to save face if it screwed up, because this margin of error, and if you look at it as it is, it's pretty embarrassing. I mean great that its still going, but what pencil pusher calculated the battery/recharge time or batt life and came to the conclusion that it will probably last 3 months?
I think the vast majority were malware and spyware. What is the difference between malware and a vius? Nothing really, it's just a trojan virus. So I feel this is understandable.
But, I am fuck1ng sick of the AOL commercials that talk about you losing all of your data and photos due to a virus. I posted about this before, I feel this is just wrong, to my knowledge there hasn't been a widespread virus in years that formatted your HD.
Human flight? don't you mean slowed and directed human falling? It's not like he can leave the ground as soon as he starts flapping his wing suit.
There are a few people that have fallen out of commercial airliners and survived. They didn't have wing suits and fell thousands and thousands of feet.
I mean it's common knowledge that Apple will sue anyone who tries to leak any information about their products, or even mimics them. They themselves are always less than forthcoming, they prefer to 'surprise' people with a flashy new product at MacWorld. Which is one of the only reasons people attend. And if someone maked an OS skin or product that looks anything like theirs, they pounce, because that is their ain selling point: pomp and stylish marketing jazz.
When the only thing setting you apart from the competittion, and the only thing allowing you to sell over-priced merchandice is the look of the product and the jazz of your PR, these kind of leaks are a big deal.
Steve Jobs has been known to throw tantrums about these things. They have very strict rules for anyone working with Apple. Many of you might remember back at MacWorld NY (2000) ATI released some Radeon specs a few days before the conference, and Steve Jobs threw a tantrum! He pulled the ATI tech demo from the keynote and all the Radeon cards were pulled from the Apple machines on the show floor!
I dont have the time to go into it, but before you get your Mac friends to mod this down, google it for yourself, or even look on slashdot.. there have been stories about this, and things like Apple yanking media passes to MacWorld from anyone who speculates what they will be showing off that year.
Do these figures take into account used games and game rentals?
Almost every game store is pushing very, very hard to sell used merchandise. They offer 'lifetime warranties' on CDs and DVDs (but not against scratching or damage!) and they purposefully steer parents to used titles, if you have been in a game store you have seen it. This income is not shared with the game publisher, or anyone else but the game store itself.
These greedy sons of bitches now sell used games for the same price as new games, and pocket all the money. At EB Games Far Cry sells for 35 dollars used, the same price it sells for new! this is 10 months after it was released. There is no excuse for ripping the allowance out of their hands like this.
This doesn't take responsibility for anything really, and it doesn't solve the problem. Sure, they can classify a 'few' positions for overtime between now and when they owe all their employees that and back OT thanks to the class action.
Whatever it takes to help them churn out the next ShaqFu.
A lot of studios and production houses shop around for render servers. Distributed rendering would be a great benchmark.. There are free renderman compliant renderes that people could benchmark with, not to mention many open source renderers out there.
First of this is not a cabinet kit, this doesn't even include buttons or a stick! You would have to buy them from Happ Control. And this is nothing new, Ultimarc has been making these boards for years, they have some really great plug and play PCBs. Ultimarc's 28 input PCB is only $40, for years X-Arcade has been known for ripping off people that just didn't know better, nothing has changed. They didn't really used to hurt companies like Ultimarc, though now they will be edging into the PCB-only market, not to mention getting a sh1tload of hits from posts like this.
A while ago I built a pretty cheap JAMMA/Xbox/PS1/PS2/Dreamcast [link]. It was pretty cheap, but not $60.
I was a Mac User for ages, and this sure is a sour topic. Here is the answer to a majority of the Macintosh problems:
Not enough people own Macs. When you are only 2% of the global computer userbase, nothing gets ported to your platform, and when it does, it is buggy and you are ALWAYS the last to get updates/patches.
Don't take my word for it, the high and mighty Adobe even launched a "PC Preferred" campaign, and refused to port Photoshop to OSX at a time when EVERY mac was shipping with OSX. Apple users had to wait for the next whole release.
These aren't games I am talking, I am talking about Graphic software. Mac zealots love to talk about how the Mac is for artists.. pfft!
Alias Maya (industry standard 3D software) was FINALLY ported to OSX, and it was a joke! It was so buggy and lacked so many options, it wasn't even SMP capable!! heh..
If you are concerned with reliability, don't store everything in one device that can get taken out by fire/electricity/anything. Parity also isn't very reliable, I had two drives go bad in my RAID 5 and I was screwed. Also, Maxtor drives arent reliable, not like SCSI drives.
And as far as IDE drives, Seagate makes 200GB drives with 8mb cache, 5 year warranties, and they were at Frys last week for 50 bucks.. (rebate)
I love Apple and I love the spirit of competittion, I have been a Mac user much of my life. But why are Macs always treated like the retarded child of the computer industry? Look at the guy pictured in the article; he's smiling, he's so proud 'THEY DID IT!'
It seems like any time the Mac platform does something that is remotely interesting people rejoice and it is plastered everywhere. Would this story be on the front page if PCs were used? I doubt it, even if they were running Linux.
It's just like this weird thing where anything, even commonplace events get blown out of porportion just because Macs were used, as if the entire platform blows and it's amazing anything gets done, which is not the case. Maybe it is just the Mac user hubris as pictured above, but it comes across as this weird feeling I mentioned earlier. Touting that the macs 'can do!' things PCs do all the time makes them seem inferior and retarded, like they need the positive reinforcement.
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I am sorry, i didn't mean 10 books, I meant 10 copies per locality. And I am not insensitive, by 'state' i meant area, as for me, my area is 'Bayern'. :p
I can go to my local library and get any CD or book, for a limited time. If google wants to be the online library of the future, I could see them implementing some kind of thing where you are tagged by state, and they have like 10 books that you can check out per state (10 google branches). I mean, if the argument is that 'you could copy the text and have a local copy'.. well christ, any real library book I check out I could photocopy or OCR, it sounds to me like they have a fundamental issue with the entire library system to begin with.
What kind of 3d software:
1) has no modeling tools
2) lists 'rotate, translate, and scale with visual feedback' as a fucking 'feature'?! Or 'multiple views' I mean this is 3D SOFTWARE, right?
Here's the shimmy on this product from someone in the business. This guy is giving away free software to pose characters he makes in a real 3d package. He is giving the software out free, and charging for the content. This is not an '3d package'; this is more like poser or some app where you manipulate unoriginal content of others. Akin to a barbie dressup game; you pose the dolls he makes, and to market it, he has people post that is is some kind of 'free 3d animation package'. It is an application that lets you pose dolls you purchase from him.
I am really trying to pull my punches here, as Daz is the creator of some of my fav old school plugins for real 3d apps.
And don't get me wrong; this is a great tool for pervs who want to post a naked 'virtual girl'.
Apple and Nintendo do this a lot. They release the same products over and over again, with identical functionalities, hoping that people will be vain or stylish enough to want something that looks sleeker. I mean look at Nintendo, they have released how many Gameboy Advance systems (3?) all with the same exact functionality. Apple has released how many iPods? A company that claims to innovate, while many, many competitors have been releasing music *and* video players for almost 4 years now *for cheaper than apple's music only players*..
It's the same with entertainment media formats. I like a movie, but to see it at home I need the DVD, to watch it on my PSP I need the UMD, etc..
I think you guys misunderstood. He is talking about procedural bitmap texture generation vs. tiled. Not procedural displacement. Which is a whole different monster. Procedural bitmap generation has issues in realtime, procedural displacement is great.
Actually, it is a dupe, thanks for asking..
This is basically a lenticular lens with an LCD back, lenticular tech has been around for years, and even lenticular lenses with LCD backs have been around for years... nothing new to see here.. move along.
These kinds of devices have been around for a while now. Most notably the Lumisight Table at SIGGRAPH last year. Lenticular technologies have been used to create these displays many times before; it is only now, as LCDs get crisper, that you can put them to more use; but I am willing to bet it still looks pretty bad.
As much as I know it is still illegal and considered wrong. I live and work in Germany, and these shows and movies just aren't available here. I don't have the option of going to the local cinema to see a film, and when they do get here, they are always dubbed into another language.
When I do try to play by the rules and order a DVD from the US of a movie I want to see (ie.. incredibles) It won't play on my player because of the region code.
I am not saying that downloading and watching the dailyshow everyday is right, but there is definitely a moral grey area. Even with the most expensive satellite package, I can only get this 'dailyshow weekly update' on CNN.
I mean I can see how shows ripped without commercials would be frowned upon, but they advertise products that aren't available here anyway.
Why don't we also hear about MS Word, Excel, and other office application updates? Oh yeah, because we don't care. Apple is updating their office software.. this is important news?
It outsold and shattered all records in a rather new game genre..?
Does it worry anyone that the guys at NASA grossly miscalculated the life of the bot? Was this done to save face if it screwed up, because this margin of error, and if you look at it as it is, it's pretty embarrassing. I mean great that its still going, but what pencil pusher calculated the battery/recharge time or batt life and came to the conclusion that it will probably last 3 months?
I think the vast majority were malware and spyware. What is the difference between malware and a vius? Nothing really, it's just a trojan virus. So I feel this is understandable.
But, I am fuck1ng sick of the AOL commercials that talk about you losing all of your data and photos due to a virus. I posted about this before, I feel this is just wrong, to my knowledge there hasn't been a widespread virus in years that formatted your HD.
Human flight? don't you mean slowed and directed human falling? It's not like he can leave the ground as soon as he starts flapping his wing suit.
There are a few people that have fallen out of commercial airliners and survived. They didn't have wing suits and fell thousands and thousands of feet.
I mean it's common knowledge that Apple will sue anyone who tries to leak any information about their products, or even mimics them. They themselves are always less than forthcoming, they prefer to 'surprise' people with a flashy new product at MacWorld. Which is one of the only reasons people attend. And if someone maked an OS skin or product that looks anything like theirs, they pounce, because that is their ain selling point: pomp and stylish marketing jazz.
When the only thing setting you apart from the competittion, and the only thing allowing you to sell over-priced merchandice is the look of the product and the jazz of your PR, these kind of leaks are a big deal.
Steve Jobs has been known to throw tantrums about these things. They have very strict rules for anyone working with Apple. Many of you might remember back at MacWorld NY (2000) ATI released some Radeon specs a few days before the conference, and Steve Jobs threw a tantrum! He pulled the ATI tech demo from the keynote and all the Radeon cards were pulled from the Apple machines on the show floor!
I dont have the time to go into it, but before you get your Mac friends to mod this down, google it for yourself, or even look on slashdot.. there have been stories about this, and things like Apple yanking media passes to MacWorld from anyone who speculates what they will be showing off that year.
Do these figures take into account used games and game rentals?
Almost every game store is pushing very, very hard to sell used merchandise. They offer 'lifetime warranties' on CDs and DVDs (but not against scratching or damage!) and they purposefully steer parents to used titles, if you have been in a game store you have seen it. This income is not shared with the game publisher, or anyone else but the game store itself.
These greedy sons of bitches now sell used games for the same price as new games, and pocket all the money. At EB Games Far Cry sells for 35 dollars used, the same price it sells for new! this is 10 months after it was released. There is no excuse for ripping the allowance out of their hands like this.
Lufthansa has about 80 planes with wifi already, they fly to destinations in the US and Germany..
You search for democracy,
and engine finds you.
Sounds like we will have some new Darwin Award entries this year!
This doesn't take responsibility for anything really, and it doesn't solve the problem. Sure, they can classify a 'few' positions for overtime between now and when they owe all their employees that and back OT thanks to the class action.
Whatever it takes to help them churn out the next ShaqFu.
A lot of studios and production houses shop around for render servers. Distributed rendering would be a great benchmark.. There are free renderman compliant renderes that people could benchmark with, not to mention many open source renderers out there.
First of this is not a cabinet kit, this doesn't even include buttons or a stick! You would have to buy them from Happ Control. And this is nothing new, Ultimarc has been making these boards for years, they have some really great plug and play PCBs. Ultimarc's 28 input PCB is only $40, for years X-Arcade has been known for ripping off people that just didn't know better, nothing has changed. They didn't really used to hurt companies like Ultimarc, though now they will be edging into the PCB-only market, not to mention getting a sh1tload of hits from posts like this.
A while ago I built a pretty cheap JAMMA/Xbox/PS1/PS2/Dreamcast [link]. It was pretty cheap, but not $60.
I was a Mac User for ages, and this sure is a sour topic. Here is the answer to a majority of the Macintosh problems:
Not enough people own Macs. When you are only 2% of the global computer userbase, nothing gets ported to your platform, and when it does, it is buggy and you are ALWAYS the last to get updates/patches.
Don't take my word for it, the high and mighty Adobe even launched a "PC Preferred" campaign, and refused to port Photoshop to OSX at a time when EVERY mac was shipping with OSX. Apple users had to wait for the next whole release.
These aren't games I am talking, I am talking about Graphic software. Mac zealots love to talk about how the Mac is for artists.. pfft!
Alias Maya (industry standard 3D software) was FINALLY ported to OSX, and it was a joke! It was so buggy and lacked so many options, it wasn't even SMP capable!! heh..
If you are concerned with reliability, don't store everything in one device that can get taken out by fire/electricity/anything. Parity also isn't very reliable, I had two drives go bad in my RAID 5 and I was screwed. Also, Maxtor drives arent reliable, not like SCSI drives.
And as far as IDE drives, Seagate makes 200GB drives with 8mb cache, 5 year warranties, and they were at Frys last week for 50 bucks.. (rebate)
I love Apple and I love the spirit of competittion, I have been a Mac user much of my life. But why are Macs always treated like the retarded child of the computer industry? Look at the guy pictured in the article; he's smiling, he's so proud 'THEY DID IT!'
It seems like any time the Mac platform does something that is remotely interesting people rejoice and it is plastered everywhere. Would this story be on the front page if PCs were used? I doubt it, even if they were running Linux.
It's just like this weird thing where anything, even commonplace events get blown out of porportion just because Macs were used, as if the entire platform blows and it's amazing anything gets done, which is not the case. Maybe it is just the Mac user hubris as pictured above, but it comes across as this weird feeling I mentioned earlier. Touting that the macs 'can do!' things PCs do all the time makes them seem inferior and retarded, like they need the positive reinforcement.