I'm not a 3D junkie or anything, but can someone provide a quick summary (or a link to one) describing what the difference between Renderman, Maya, 3DS, Blender, and Pov-ray is? I thought they were all just rendering tools in their own right... Which ones of these are modellers and which ones are renderers? Oh, and if ya mention google in your reply, i'll smack ya.:)
I've had my m100 for over a year now, and I've had no problems with it.... I routinely abuse it my backpack, but it's still kicking. Maybe mine was made on a Monday or something....
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Did anyone else notice the similarity between Radlight's "eye" logo, and the "lidless eye" of Sauron? Coincidence? I think not.
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Pure lameness? I guess being a beginner at something doesn't measure up to your level of "nerdiness"... that's sad. The guy said he had done a bit of research, but it seeemed like everything he found was geared to people who already knew what they were doing.... it's like telling a newbie "read the man page"... with experience, this is perfectly acceptable, but when you're just starting out, terse documentation doesn't make sense.
I guess I won't debate whether it's nerd news or not... but it obviously matters to all those companies who are willing to pay big $$ for a database programmer. I still maintain my point... if you don't have anything productive to say, don't bother with posting... if you think the question was lame, tell CowboyNeal or somebody/. they picked a lame question... Geek snobbery isn't nice, and it isn't very useful... and you certainly won't stop "lusers" from being "lusers" by being mean to them.
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Enough already with the "use a search engine" comment. I think it's safe to assume that almost any "Ask Slashdot" question could be answered to some degree by typing the question into google... what you won't get from google is a decent, "peer reviewed" answer... just because some tutorial or site is on the 10th page of a google search doesn't mean it's not the best. Likewise, the first ten results might not be the most relelvant. People ask things of slashdot because they are looking for answers from people who have opinions and experience, not from bots who have been tricked by judicious usage of meta tags. I guess the next "First Post" will be "First Use Google Answer to Ask Slasdot".... geeze.
That being said, fair enough on the rest of the comment.
I'm a Hawaii resident, and Senator Inouye is on the committe. I just sent him my comments.... I suggest that everybody who is a constituent of a committee member do the same... perhaps we can kill this thing or make it sensible before it even gets to the floor.
I don't know what exactly they've patented regarding "Variable Pixel Scale" technology, but it sounds like "binning" to me. We've been doing that in astronomy with CCDs for years. I can envision it now, a cease-and-desist next time I'm on Mauna Kea.
Basically, what you're talking about is dynamic range... I'm not sure what the standard bits per pixel is in photographic cameras is, but in astronomical cameras, you can get up to 32 bits per pixel. Though, when you're looking at stars and the like, the dynamic range necessary is much, much larger than normalish light conditions for photograph.
Again we run into this problem... trying to make
HTML documents *look* the way we want.... people try and get around this sort of problem by doing silly things like putting invisible images in web pages to get things to line up right...It seems MathML is some kind of bastard stepchild between the original beginnings of HTML and the LaTeX philosophy.... I guess XML was supposed to solve all of that, but I think that needing special programs to generate a document because the tags are so complex is a little much... I know it's been said before, but maybe some LaTeXish thing would be better... relatively simple to code, yet robust enough to remain flexible... I mean
$\frac{x^{2}}{y_{3}}$ just seems alot nicer than the junk you'd have to write to get the same result in the current specs for MathML. But then again, I guess it won't matter if I write latex2mathml.pl anyway.:)
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I'm not a 3D junkie or anything, but can someone provide a quick summary (or a link to one) describing what the difference between Renderman, Maya, 3DS, Blender, and Pov-ray is? I thought they were all just rendering tools in their own right... Which ones of these are modellers and which ones are renderers? Oh, and if ya mention google in your reply, i'll smack ya. :)
Why in God's name did GNU wait to write the kernel until last? I mean, if Hurd worked sometime in the early 90's , wouldn't this all be moot?
so then the cosumers say "to hell with you all"
and run linux on their old, crusty machines.
i mean how much computing power does a spreadsheet
really need anyway?
excuse me while I compute a few more digits of pi...
Only four laptops? What about the fifth person? ;)
i think this whole story should be modded to
"flamebait".... geeze.
I've had my m100 for over a year now, and
I've had no problems with it.... I routinely abuse it my backpack, but it's still kicking. Maybe
mine was made on a Monday or something....
Did anyone else notice the similarity between Radlight's "eye" logo, and the "lidless eye" of Sauron? Coincidence? I think not.
Pure lameness? I guess being a beginner at something doesn't measure up to your level of "nerdiness"... that's sad. The guy said he had done a bit of research, but it seeemed like everything he found was geared to people who already knew what they were doing.... it's like telling a newbie "read the man page"... with experience, this is perfectly acceptable, but when you're just starting out, terse documentation doesn't make sense.
/. they picked a lame question... Geek snobbery isn't nice, and it isn't very useful... and you certainly won't stop "lusers" from being "lusers" by being mean to them.
I guess I won't debate whether it's nerd news or not... but it obviously matters to all those companies who are willing to pay big $$ for a database programmer.
I still maintain my point... if you don't have anything productive to say, don't bother with posting... if you think the question was lame, tell CowboyNeal or somebody
Enough already with the "use a search engine" comment. I think it's safe to assume that almost any "Ask Slashdot" question could be answered to some degree by typing the question into google...
what you won't get from google is a decent, "peer reviewed" answer... just because some tutorial or site is on the 10th page of a google search doesn't mean it's not the best. Likewise, the first ten results might not be the most relelvant. People ask things of slashdot because they are looking for answers from people who have opinions and experience, not from bots who have been tricked by judicious usage of meta tags. I guess the next "First Post" will be "First Use Google Answer to Ask Slasdot".... geeze.
That being said, fair enough on the rest of the comment.
Hi all,
I'm a Hawaii resident, and Senator Inouye is on the
committe. I just sent him my comments.... I suggest
that everybody who is a constituent of a committee member do the same...
perhaps we can kill this thing or make it sensible before it even gets to the floor.
cheers!
I don't know what exactly they've patented regarding "Variable Pixel Scale" technology, but it sounds like "binning" to me. We've been doing that in astronomy with CCDs for years. I can envision it now, a cease-and-desist next time I'm on Mauna Kea.
Basically, what you're talking about is dynamic range... I'm not sure what the standard bits per pixel is in photographic cameras is, but in astronomical cameras, you can get up to 32 bits per pixel. Though, when you're looking at stars and the like, the dynamic range necessary is much, much larger than normalish light conditions for photograph.
is don't talk about McAffee.
The second rule of McAffee is
don't talk about McAffee.
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I say, while we're bringing out our modems, let's :)
get back on those BBSs!
Again we run into this problem... trying to make HTML documents *look* the way we want.... people try and get around this sort of problem by doing silly things like putting invisible images in web pages to get things to line up right...It seems MathML is some kind of bastard stepchild between the original beginnings of HTML and the LaTeX philosophy.... I guess XML was supposed to solve all of that, but I think that needing special programs to generate a document because the tags are so complex is a little much... I know it's been said before, but maybe some LaTeXish thing would be better... relatively simple to code, yet robust enough to remain flexible... I mean $\frac{x^{2}}{y_{3}}$ just seems alot nicer than the junk you'd have to write to get the same result in the current specs for MathML. But then again, I guess it won't matter if I write latex2mathml.pl anyway. :)
Oh come on.. the ewoks ruled!!! Just because you're old and jaded don't rain on the parades of the young at heart!!