Currently your best bet is Unigine. Currently it has better engine but worse tooling than Unity and a 12 month license is in the same ballpark as a Unity Pro License. You probably want at least one programmer in your team if you go this route though. I will say that Linux is absolutely a first class citizen as an Authoring platform for games. I have about 5 years experience Authoring using Unigine on Linux.
If you don't have a coder or the cash and you can hang in there for about a month LeadWorks is in the process of porting. As far as I can tell they are aiming for something similar to Unity. I put money into the kickstarter and am waiting for my copy before I can say more about it.
solid body, good keyboard and touchpad. low latency audio capable. toolless access to battery, 2 ram slots, (single screw for two hdd slots, wireless card). graphics card, processor and other 2 ram slots can be upgraded with some effort. optical drive can be replaced with 3rd hdd. will connect to second battery if you are going to be away from mains for a while. This also angles the keyboard and keeps your lap from burning. certified to run SuSE linux if linux is your thing.
It's quite a bit heavier than the macbook pro - the w series are portable workstations. The 14 and 15 inch versions are smaller and lighter.
Seriously? I would be quite happy to challenge Cool Edit Pro on Windows XP vs Ardour 3 on KXStudio.
1) what limits? 2) I can pipe the output of almost any Linux Audio app into the input of almost any other Linux Audio app. Feed a drum machine into a Guitar FX rack - no problem. I can use a fairly wide selection of Virtual Instruments include Windows ones. Same for audio FX. What other types of extension do you want? 3) Most of the applications Have pretty straight forward configuration options - I don't know what to tell you here - not significantly different to any Windows application I have used. 4) I don't even know which interface you are responding to. 5) Good point - not all hardware is supported. If you plan to do Linux audio then you will need to find one that is before you start.
Yeah there is more software available on MacOS or Windows in this field but you are way way way overstating your case.
I do audio on linux with both free and commercial software and admittedly I do a lot more in the recording session and less on the computer afterwards but I don't feel that what I am is particularly slower or inferior in quality to what my windows and macOS friends are using.
The current development build is fully 16bpc - About a decade later than I would have liked but still - that leap has been made.
Also I think it always was the case that internally where it was needed image data is sampled up to floating point space internally to do such calculations.
Personally I think there is a bit of pissing and whining going on with both the FOSS enthusiasts and the Professionals over this. The gimp is neither as good as the former point out or as lousy as the later claim. I use the GIMP in a professional environment. I am not going to pretend that it is as good as Photoshop but given the amount of time it would save for the things I actually need to do I would take a long time for me to break even (I am in Australia so the Australia tax is a significant contributor to that).
If you are doing motion graphics, texture art or digital painting, I would say look at the Krita project (www.krita.org). They are interested in producing a tool for professionals and it has a healthy amount of development going on behind it.
I don't think so - I think that using something like google image search must be part of a diligent search. In which case image would show up at site X would show up with the relevant copyright information.
Actually being scientifically literate more or less the exact opposite of this. In science we know that all knowledge is probabilistic. We know that nothing can be known with 100% certainty. The laws of physics are useful abstractions of nature derived from observation that allow us to make accurate preditictions.
The main difference in belief I can see is seeing careful research and observation as being a more important indicator of truth than opinion or emotional sentiment.
I would add that the degree to which a person is considered ethical with regards to scientific literacy varies through time as the scientific understanding of the world changes.
These are currently modular but enabled by default. I think Nepomuk is the main offender here. Akonadi is just a front end agnostic backend for PIM software in much the same way that telepathy is for instant messaging
the x and delete keys do exactly the same thing in blender. x is also available because delete is a common operation and x is in the part of the keyboard where the left hand normally sits
How do you use Nvidia Settings to reconfigure your screen layout automatically when you plug in a new screen? I have a laptop that gets a second screen when I am in the office and this would save me a few clicks.
It's more the case that CUDA has supported the features necessary for hardware accelerated pathtracing for a lot longer than OpenCL. Also there are driver bugs on the AMD side that cause problems. This may not be the same going on into the future...
A version control system is just something that lets multiple people on multiple computers work on a single project consisting of many files at the same time and be reasonably sure that they have the same versions of everything as everybody else.
Furthermore it is usally easy to get a copy of earlier versions of any of the files in the project.
At the moment I am looking I am looking at sparkleshare (http://www.sparkleshare.org) as a way of making it as easy as possible for a non technical user to interface with a version control system.
I actually don't mind unity. The Caveat here is that I for various reasons I run KDE most of the time myself... It just so happens that my unity works quite similarly to my KDE setup. I have however been happier putting non expert users in front of unity than anything else (after I set up the tools they want to use)
I think it an as well not an instead of.... Right now there are a number of people who use PCs who are better suited to other form factors so I expect the trend to go that way in the future. But there are lots and lots of people who want to do things that work better in a pc form factor or people who really need both.
From the description of the work you are doing you are probably better off using a vector graphics tool such as Inkscape. Or using both GIMP and Inkscape (you can drag and drop layers or images from the GIMP directly into Inkscape). Inkscape has the advantages that your lines and shape remain editable. I might be wrong here.
However kudos for explaining the short comings in a way that a software designer could actually use.
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Currently your best bet is Unigine. Currently it has better engine but worse tooling than Unity and a 12 month license is in the same ballpark as a Unity Pro License. You probably want at least one programmer in your team if you go this route though. I will say that Linux is absolutely a first class citizen as an Authoring platform for games. I have about 5 years experience Authoring using Unigine on Linux.
If you don't have a coder or the cash and you can hang in there for about a month LeadWorks is in the process of porting. As far as I can tell they are aiming for something similar to Unity. I put money into the kickstarter and am waiting for my copy before I can say more about it.
solid body, good keyboard and touchpad.
low latency audio capable.
toolless access to battery, 2 ram slots, (single screw for two hdd slots, wireless card).
graphics card, processor and other 2 ram slots can be upgraded with some effort.
optical drive can be replaced with 3rd hdd.
will connect to second battery if you are going to be away from mains for a while. This also angles the keyboard and keeps your lap from burning.
certified to run SuSE linux if linux is your thing.
It's quite a bit heavier than the macbook pro - the w series are portable workstations. The 14 and 15 inch versions are smaller and lighter.
Seriously?
I would be quite happy to challenge Cool Edit Pro on Windows XP vs Ardour 3 on KXStudio.
1) what limits?
2) I can pipe the output of almost any Linux Audio app into the input of almost any other Linux Audio app. Feed a drum machine into a Guitar FX rack - no problem. I can use a fairly wide selection of Virtual Instruments include Windows ones. Same for audio FX. What other types of extension do you want?
3) Most of the applications Have pretty straight forward configuration options - I don't know what to tell you here - not significantly different to any Windows application I have used.
4) I don't even know which interface you are responding to.
5) Good point - not all hardware is supported. If you plan to do Linux audio then you will need to find one that is before you start.
Yeah there is more software available on MacOS or Windows in this field but you are way way way overstating your case.
I do audio on linux with both free and commercial software and admittedly I do a lot more in the recording session and less on the computer afterwards but I don't feel that what I am is particularly slower or inferior in quality to what my windows and macOS friends are using.
I guess that way at least they sell three copies.
The current development build is fully 16bpc - About a decade later than I would have liked but still - that leap has been made.
Also I think it always was the case that internally where it was needed image data is sampled up to floating point space internally to do such calculations.
Personally I think there is a bit of pissing and whining going on with both the FOSS enthusiasts and the Professionals over this. The gimp is neither as good as the former point out or as lousy as the later claim. I use the GIMP in a professional environment. I am not going to pretend that it is as good as Photoshop but given the amount of time it would save for the things I actually need to do I would take a long time for me to break even (I am in Australia so the Australia tax is a significant contributor to that).
If you are doing motion graphics, texture art or digital painting, I would say look at the Krita project (www.krita.org). They are interested in producing a tool for professionals and it has a healthy amount of development going on behind it.
I don't think so - I think that using something like google image search must be part of a diligent search. In which case image would show up at site X would show up with the relevant copyright information.
How would you try solving the problem then?
That's so 90's - now-a-days we use fudge dice
Actually being scientifically literate more or less the exact opposite of this.
In science we know that all knowledge is probabilistic. We know that nothing can be known with 100% certainty. The laws of physics are useful abstractions of nature derived from observation that allow us to make accurate preditictions.
The main difference in belief I can see is seeing careful research and observation as being a more important indicator of truth than opinion or emotional sentiment.
I would add that the degree to which a person is considered ethical with regards to scientific literacy varies through time as the scientific understanding of the world changes.
I really like the keyboard on my elitebook
If you want duplicate image search functionality, then you can move up to the heavyweight of the KDE image viewer world - digikam
These are currently modular but enabled by default. I think Nepomuk is the main offender here. Akonadi is just a front end agnostic backend for PIM software in much the same way that telepathy is for instant messaging
yeah kuickshow has been a dead project for many years now - I am surprised you could find a copy... This kind of dates your reply
or Leisure Suit Lazarus
My take home from your post - you think Apple is God... And possibly you want protection from yourself.
Is that pretty much it?
the x and delete keys do exactly the same thing in blender. x is also available because delete is a common operation and x is in the part of the keyboard where the left hand normally sits
How do you use Nvidia Settings to reconfigure your screen layout automatically when you plug in a new screen? I have a laptop that gets a second screen when I am in the office and this would save me a few clicks.
That happened exactly once in recently times in the transition between 2.4->2.5 what on earth are you talking about.
It's more the case that CUDA has supported the features necessary for hardware accelerated pathtracing for a lot longer than OpenCL. Also there are driver bugs on the AMD side that cause problems. This may not be the same going on into the future...
A version control system is just something that lets multiple people on multiple computers work on a single project consisting of many files at the same time and be reasonably sure that they have the same versions of everything as everybody else.
Furthermore it is usally easy to get a copy of earlier versions of any of the files in the project.
At the moment I am looking I am looking at sparkleshare (http://www.sparkleshare.org) as a way of making it as easy as possible for a non technical user to interface with a version control system.
I actually don't mind unity. The Caveat here is that I for various reasons I run KDE most of the time myself... It just so happens that my unity works quite similarly to my KDE setup. I have however been happier putting non expert users in front of unity than anything else (after I set up the tools they want to use)
I think it an as well not an instead of....
Right now there are a number of people who use PCs who are better suited to other form factors so I expect the trend to go that way in the future. But there are lots and lots of people who want to do things that work better in a pc form factor or people who really need both.
You do realise that this is an optional feature and not even on by default.
From the description of the work you are doing you are probably better off using a vector graphics tool such as Inkscape. Or using both GIMP and Inkscape (you can drag and drop layers or images from the GIMP directly into Inkscape). Inkscape has the advantages that your lines and shape remain editable. I might be wrong here.
However kudos for explaining the short comings in a way that a software designer could actually use.