At the level of complexity expected from Blender, who cares if it's easy to use? The important question is if there's documentation, if it's easy to integrate with other tools (their COLLADA support is lacking), and if it's easy to develop into a pipeline. In the real world, you might not use the "render" action all the time, so who cares if it's right there in front of you?
If you follow trunk then you know Blender does integrate with OpenCollada. Right now Debian support is disabled due to Debian not providing an official [/non-free] version of OpenCollada to incorporate. Read the Cmake Files it explains in the comments.
Release dates count, not when some intern thought of it.
The "AppStore" thing in XP is pathetic, and app store like package management has been around before 1999 in linux land.
Apple did not copy BSD, Mac OS was replaced with NEXT. They then decided to rename NEXT to OSX.
It's NEXTSTEP, NeXTStep, Openstep, or OPENSTEP, but it's never NEXT. It was NeXT Inc., and prior to that it was NeXT Computer Inc.
The more you understand Pure and Applied Mathematics the more your understanding of say Mechanical Engineering becomes. Take Heat Transfer as one example, or Fluid Dynamics. When you know the Mathematics and see the applied theories of each specialty in your undergraduate days you discover the only time you need the Calculator is for saving a few minutes during examinations necessary to solve the reduced equation you derived where you input the boundary conditions. The computer comes in when you're doing your lab research projects and your data capturing tens of thousands to millions of data points for you to later process.
Because writing a fairly complicated program with the described functionality requires all of the skills, and more, involved in the proof of the quadratic formula (which is an especially trivial proof if you already know the formula). It's objectively more useful to learn, because it requires the same skills and other skills as well, not just differently useful (requiring different skills of unrelated application).
No it doesn't. It requires none of the knowledge to understand the actual Proof of the Quadratic Formula. It proves you are capable of referencing the formula and iterating it through technology that required the folks who created the tools you take for granted to learn an actual Proof for the Quadratic Formula. The Quadratic Formula required the prior knowledge of the Pythagorean Algorithm to stand upon before it was discovered and it's negative proof to verify it was sound. It was Descartes who discovered and proved the relationship and the distance in time between Pythagoras and Descartes is vast. You writing a program about it as if you proved it ala it's actual proof is a sad joke.
Perhaps your educator was not historically versed in the history of mathematics and therefore wasn't able to convey the true purpose of truly proving it, as if you were Descartes himself. One purpose was to open that creative spark of imagination to think in a manner to look at Mathematics as a language to describe the Universe and not to be a formulaic mass memorization exercise it appears most people believe it to be. Ironically, most mathematicians are failed Mechanical or Electrical Engineers who were great at proofs but sucked at application. To possess [to open up the ability to juggle both proofs and applications] both and harness them tends to lend oneself into advancing fields of study and the world as we know it.
Any hack can learn to program, just like any person can learn multiple languages. It doesn't mean you know the power of the language(s) as is clearly evident by the cock sure answer you gave, which seemed to impress at least one hack on here who found your answer warranting the karma points to give you a fiver.
I found your comment not only that of a typical person who went to community college to become a Java programmer or an MCSE certified whatever but also someone who barely has the artistry of the English language itself.
Much of what you said is spot on. I agree, today's world of self-absorption and material excess drives learning to become proficient in a skill and not to become a master of learning and many skills. Most of the posters on this board read too much Ayn Rand and have an underdeveloped concept of the world and it's many layers.
However, Universities are not trade schools. You may be thinking of Junior Colleges [Community Colleges] and unfortunately they've stopped becoming trade schools for many trades we shortsightedly think this world no longer needs. It is already biting us in the ass in the form of our dependencies on importing from China and other countries since we decided to become a Services Driven economy.
Yet, a lot of the general university requirements can be taken at the community colleges before leaping to the university level. Overall, it's a complete collapse of targeting the highest common denominator in standards that has created the lack of a broad and deep educational foundations so that when either entering a trade or a university education the average student is a mere shadow of his parents and especially his grand parent's generations.
Also, Biology including evolution, Astronomy, Chemistry; Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus; Computer programming; Print shop, metal shop, and actual knowledge about health.
If you want to see more of that and less "social engineering", then more money should be put into them.
Also it's worth realizing that most places in 1869 didn't even *have* public schools. An eighth-grade education was quite sufficient for an agrarian economy mostly reliant on unskilled or blue-collar labor.
Most kids today really do know a lot more than most kids at the same age back then - at least as far as abstract knowledge. Of course, most "kids" back then were married by 19 because statistically they'd probably be dead at 38.
8th grade? Try 6th Grade. I grabbed a 6th grade Math book from 1942 and it included Probability and Statistics, Areas, Volumes, Annuities, Present Value, Future Value, Pre-Calculus, Geometry and Trigonometry. It's not hard to grasp that the more the average person was demanded to learn the more they were able to move from career to career. Specialization exploded in the 1980s but doesn't compare to the absurd level it occupies in today's world.
Ok, could you pass the math part? I have several degrees in engineering and I don't think I could. But then, upon reaching grad school I always felt I was woefully under-prepared compared to the 98% of my class that wasn't from the US. Looking at this exam just reminds me of that. And it doesn't look like the inclusion of general relativity would have slowed these guys down much.
As a Mechanical Engineer with enough credits for Pure and Applied Mathematics and nearly enough for EE and CS you have to be kidding me if you cannot solve the math. Did you not take the EIT examination, let alone the P.E. examination? The only part that will take a refresher is the Euclidean Plane Geometry. Give yourself a few weeks and you'll get it. No one taking the exam, back then, would be expected to be anything less than prepared like one is for the GRE or the GMAT or other examinations. You would prepare. However, if you bought yourself The Elements, Books I-XIII, Euclid from Barne's and Noble you would feel a whole lot better about the Geometry section, which was expected by anyone entering Harvard, back then, to have studied.
BTW I got my "job positive results" by completelly ignoring "the industry wisdom" (or I would have teached GCOS MOD400 and/or PL1 and/or RPG and other "magic recepies to get some work", and gradually moved to.net & java)..
Teached, eh? Another fine example of disseminating knowledge wrought with errors. Speaking and writing the English language, let alone using it to educate others should not be like a program where you constantly debug your own language.
For Wozniak never to have received his B.S. let alone his Ph.D after his days at Apple has often made me question his true value to the world of computing, other than that early hit with a hobby kit that became the first personal computer. If you brought Isaac Newton forward through time, his actual knowledge of diverse scientific fields with theoretical and applied mathematics would position him to stand on his own shoulders and push the world far further all because his classical education made it possible.
I could teach all their Physics, higher Mathematics and much more as a Mechanical Engineer, but I can't do it for free and I won't do it for free. None of the teachers are qualified like they were just 2 decades prior, in the applied sciences.
I fondly recall returning to my High School in the Spring of '88 to my favorite Biology/Chemistry teacher [MS in Chemistry] who showed me the horror of his former rigid show your work examinations that were on the level of Chemistry for Engineering, Physics and Chemistry majors at the University, now being replaced with Multiple Guess Examinations. This was 1988 and that's when it started in the State of Washington.
He introduced me to his class as one of his former favorite assistants now studying Mechanical Engineering and I told them they were being screwed out of taking his examinations [hard as they were] because when they get to the next level it only gets more challenging, as it should.
Thank you for this erudite and concise summation that even the highest amongst the Faith Followers, by rejecting this summation, only diminishes their credibility to new lows. Save this for later use. You'll probably have use it more than one would expect but then again you could even have the totality of the Universe as proof and the most hardened ones will never embrace its subtle and clear position for it shatters their own fragile view of Existence. More importantly, it diminishes their importance in the grand scheme of Existence.
Well I sure as hell don't see a short for 'elite' leaping to mind. I agree about gullible not being in there is long overdue and this chicken scratch with numerals being short-hand for another formal word doesn't even have a place in slang.
Unfortunately, GNUStep's clone of the NeXTStep UI was a hack and not remotely as integrated. It was a poor step child of the real thing. Working at NeXT was a joy. Working with GNUStep makes one want to hang themselves. You either get it all right or you don't waste your time with some of this or some of that, but hey we got the Shelf sort of like the old Shelf.
I'm seriously looking forward to Debian getting all of GNOME 3 Proper into it's Experimental branch. What I've seen I like much more than KDE 4.6. There is definitely speed improvements to 4.6.1 in Debian experimental via Qt/KDE debian.net but the more I see this Plasma crap the more I try to get it out of the way. I'm looking forward to testing GNOME 3.
OS X did it before all of them because the entire Windowing Environment is Display PDF. Adding Previewer Service within Safari was just borrowing some of the Display PDF that is the entire Drawing System.
Twitter is such a shit social tool I actually started unfollowing all my friends; it's still great for following news feeds, though.
Don't use it as a tool to discuss all your thoughts for all the world to read. That's what a Journal is for and if you haven't figured out that rambling publicly wouldn't be any better than reliving high school then you really are a slow learner. Treat is as a tool for connecting yourself with various industries, news, ideas and more that can be a means to new interests, added skills, etc. You either learn to discern between value and gossip or you don't. Blaming a tool for your shortcomings is like blaming the mirror for what the world sees instead of what you expect them to see.
Write law that overturns the 1934 Supreme Court ruling that a Corporation is a Single Individual Entity with the right to "lobby" for grievances and not take responsibilities like a human being and you'll see corporations shitting their pants. Corporations deserver NO RIGHTS that are those of the Individual. They are a synthetic construct created by Man to get human beings working. That's it.
We've got a country full of citizens who will gladly vote away their freedoms, their privacy, their financial well-being, and their health
Im sorry, but youre implying here that these things are caused by republicans.
But if memory serves, we have a Democrat in office, and he has been in office for 2 years now; and before the previous prez, we had another 8 years of dem. The TSA "privacy breaches" we are so worried about were instituded by a dem agency, in a dem department, under a dem executive; The financial crisis is largely attributed to fannie mae regulations passed under... a dem executive; and IIRC the much maligned antics of the RIAA are being reinforced by ICE (again, under a dem executive).
It boggles the mind that people on slashdot and the internet at large would blame republicans for anything and everything even if the party itself were to cease to exist. Its like some kind of bogeyman; I rather remember seeing someone remark 1.5 years ago-- when Dems controlled a full 2 branches of the gov't by an overwhelming amount-- that it was "the republican's fault" that Obama couldnt fulfill some promise or other (think it was closing gitmo). Never mind that republicans had no power to block anything at that point.
Grow up. These tax loop-hole structures were put in place around 2004 and activated after 2008. Start reading Legislation instead of mentally jacking off thinking a law was suddenly passed to screw all but large corporations. Corporations started off-shoring massive amounts of profits once Clinton left office.
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At the level of complexity expected from Blender, who cares if it's easy to use? The important question is if there's documentation, if it's easy to integrate with other tools (their COLLADA support is lacking), and if it's easy to develop into a pipeline. In the real world, you might not use the "render" action all the time, so who cares if it's right there in front of you?
If you follow trunk then you know Blender does integrate with OpenCollada. Right now Debian support is disabled due to Debian not providing an official [/non-free] version of OpenCollada to incorporate. Read the Cmake Files it explains in the comments.
Seriously, Ubuntu has had an 'app store' for ages. Was a brilliant idea. Now apple's getting into the game, and Microsoft might step in.
Why now? Seriously? Given how popular 'one stop get everything' services are... why hasn't someone had this idea a few years earlier?
2011 the year of the app store.
You write of Ubuntu as if DEBIAN never existed. Sorry, but DEBIAN has had a Software Repository Service since 1999, not an App Store.
Release dates count, not when some intern thought of it. The "AppStore" thing in XP is pathetic, and app store like package management has been around before 1999 in linux land.
Apple did not copy BSD, Mac OS was replaced with NEXT. They then decided to rename NEXT to OSX.
It's NEXTSTEP, NeXTStep, Openstep, or OPENSTEP, but it's never NEXT. It was NeXT Inc., and prior to that it was NeXT Computer Inc.
The more you understand Pure and Applied Mathematics the more your understanding of say Mechanical Engineering becomes. Take Heat Transfer as one example, or Fluid Dynamics. When you know the Mathematics and see the applied theories of each specialty in your undergraduate days you discover the only time you need the Calculator is for saving a few minutes during examinations necessary to solve the reduced equation you derived where you input the boundary conditions. The computer comes in when you're doing your lab research projects and your data capturing tens of thousands to millions of data points for you to later process.
Because writing a fairly complicated program with the described functionality requires all of the skills, and more, involved in the proof of the quadratic formula (which is an especially trivial proof if you already know the formula). It's objectively more useful to learn, because it requires the same skills and other skills as well, not just differently useful (requiring different skills of unrelated application).
No it doesn't. It requires none of the knowledge to understand the actual Proof of the Quadratic Formula. It proves you are capable of referencing the formula and iterating it through technology that required the folks who created the tools you take for granted to learn an actual Proof for the Quadratic Formula. The Quadratic Formula required the prior knowledge of the Pythagorean Algorithm to stand upon before it was discovered and it's negative proof to verify it was sound. It was Descartes who discovered and proved the relationship and the distance in time between Pythagoras and Descartes is vast. You writing a program about it as if you proved it ala it's actual proof is a sad joke.
Perhaps your educator was not historically versed in the history of mathematics and therefore wasn't able to convey the true purpose of truly proving it, as if you were Descartes himself. One purpose was to open that creative spark of imagination to think in a manner to look at Mathematics as a language to describe the Universe and not to be a formulaic mass memorization exercise it appears most people believe it to be. Ironically, most mathematicians are failed Mechanical or Electrical Engineers who were great at proofs but sucked at application. To possess [to open up the ability to juggle both proofs and applications] both and harness them tends to lend oneself into advancing fields of study and the world as we know it.
Any hack can learn to program, just like any person can learn multiple languages. It doesn't mean you know the power of the language(s) as is clearly evident by the cock sure answer you gave, which seemed to impress at least one hack on here who found your answer warranting the karma points to give you a fiver.
I found your comment not only that of a typical person who went to community college to become a Java programmer or an MCSE certified whatever but also someone who barely has the artistry of the English language itself.
Much of what you said is spot on. I agree, today's world of self-absorption and material excess drives learning to become proficient in a skill and not to become a master of learning and many skills. Most of the posters on this board read too much Ayn Rand and have an underdeveloped concept of the world and it's many layers.
However, Universities are not trade schools. You may be thinking of Junior Colleges [Community Colleges] and unfortunately they've stopped becoming trade schools for many trades we shortsightedly think this world no longer needs. It is already biting us in the ass in the form of our dependencies on importing from China and other countries since we decided to become a Services Driven economy.
Yet, a lot of the general university requirements can be taken at the community colleges before leaping to the university level. Overall, it's a complete collapse of targeting the highest common denominator in standards that has created the lack of a broad and deep educational foundations so that when either entering a trade or a university education the average student is a mere shadow of his parents and especially his grand parent's generations.
Also, Biology including evolution, Astronomy, Chemistry; Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus; Computer programming; Print shop, metal shop, and actual knowledge about health.
If you want to see more of that and less "social engineering", then more money should be put into them.
Also it's worth realizing that most places in 1869 didn't even *have* public schools. An eighth-grade education was quite sufficient for an agrarian economy mostly reliant on unskilled or blue-collar labor.
Most kids today really do know a lot more than most kids at the same age back then - at least as far as abstract knowledge. Of course, most "kids" back then were married by 19 because statistically they'd probably be dead at 38.
8th grade? Try 6th Grade. I grabbed a 6th grade Math book from 1942 and it included Probability and Statistics, Areas, Volumes, Annuities, Present Value, Future Value, Pre-Calculus, Geometry and Trigonometry. It's not hard to grasp that the more the average person was demanded to learn the more they were able to move from career to career. Specialization exploded in the 1980s but doesn't compare to the absurd level it occupies in today's world.
Ok, could you pass the math part? I have several degrees in engineering and I don't think I could. But then, upon reaching grad school I always felt I was woefully under-prepared compared to the 98% of my class that wasn't from the US. Looking at this exam just reminds me of that. And it doesn't look like the inclusion of general relativity would have slowed these guys down much.
As a Mechanical Engineer with enough credits for Pure and Applied Mathematics and nearly enough for EE and CS you have to be kidding me if you cannot solve the math. Did you not take the EIT examination, let alone the P.E. examination? The only part that will take a refresher is the Euclidean Plane Geometry. Give yourself a few weeks and you'll get it. No one taking the exam, back then, would be expected to be anything less than prepared like one is for the GRE or the GMAT or other examinations. You would prepare. However, if you bought yourself The Elements, Books I-XIII, Euclid from Barne's and Noble you would feel a whole lot better about the Geometry section, which was expected by anyone entering Harvard, back then, to have studied.
Well that was an uninformative article.
How does the laser work? What is its power? Efficiency? Frequency? Hell it doesn't even say what happened when they tested it.
What? You think the US Navy is going to detail the specifics of a top-secret project? You can't be serious.
Teached, eh? Another fine example of disseminating knowledge wrought with errors. Speaking and writing the English language, let alone using it to educate others should not be like a program where you constantly debug your own language.
For Wozniak never to have received his B.S. let alone his Ph.D after his days at Apple has often made me question his true value to the world of computing, other than that early hit with a hobby kit that became the first personal computer. If you brought Isaac Newton forward through time, his actual knowledge of diverse scientific fields with theoretical and applied mathematics would position him to stand on his own shoulders and push the world far further all because his classical education made it possible.
Not magical thinking. He's displaying mystical thinking.
I could teach all their Physics, higher Mathematics and much more as a Mechanical Engineer, but I can't do it for free and I won't do it for free. None of the teachers are qualified like they were just 2 decades prior, in the applied sciences.
I fondly recall returning to my High School in the Spring of '88 to my favorite Biology/Chemistry teacher [MS in Chemistry] who showed me the horror of his former rigid show your work examinations that were on the level of Chemistry for Engineering, Physics and Chemistry majors at the University, now being replaced with Multiple Guess Examinations. This was 1988 and that's when it started in the State of Washington.
He introduced me to his class as one of his former favorite assistants now studying Mechanical Engineering and I told them they were being screwed out of taking his examinations [hard as they were] because when they get to the next level it only gets more challenging, as it should.
Thank you for this erudite and concise summation that even the highest amongst the Faith Followers, by rejecting this summation, only diminishes their credibility to new lows. Save this for later use. You'll probably have use it more than one would expect but then again you could even have the totality of the Universe as proof and the most hardened ones will never embrace its subtle and clear position for it shatters their own fragile view of Existence. More importantly, it diminishes their importance in the grand scheme of Existence.
Well I sure as hell don't see a short for 'elite' leaping to mind. I agree about gullible not being in there is long overdue and this chicken scratch with numerals being short-hand for another formal word doesn't even have a place in slang.
Unfortunately, GNUStep's clone of the NeXTStep UI was a hack and not remotely as integrated. It was a poor step child of the real thing. Working at NeXT was a joy. Working with GNUStep makes one want to hang themselves. You either get it all right or you don't waste your time with some of this or some of that, but hey we got the Shelf sort of like the old Shelf.
I'm seriously looking forward to Debian getting all of GNOME 3 Proper into it's Experimental branch. What I've seen I like much more than KDE 4.6. There is definitely speed improvements to 4.6.1 in Debian experimental via Qt/KDE debian.net but the more I see this Plasma crap the more I try to get it out of the way. I'm looking forward to testing GNOME 3.
I'm still waiting for you to cite someone actually doing graphics, not doodling on a screen.
It's not unique. That is US Bank's direct form response.
OS X did it before all of them because the entire Windowing Environment is Display PDF. Adding Previewer Service within Safari was just borrowing some of the Display PDF that is the entire Drawing System.
Twitter is such a shit social tool I actually started unfollowing all my friends; it's still great for following news feeds, though.
Don't use it as a tool to discuss all your thoughts for all the world to read. That's what a Journal is for and if you haven't figured out that rambling publicly wouldn't be any better than reliving high school then you really are a slow learner. Treat is as a tool for connecting yourself with various industries, news, ideas and more that can be a means to new interests, added skills, etc. You either learn to discern between value and gossip or you don't. Blaming a tool for your shortcomings is like blaming the mirror for what the world sees instead of what you expect them to see.
Don't forget to pray to your Teabagging lunatics. 99% of the shit you just wrote is baseless dribble. Cite statutes you moron or stfu.
Write law that overturns the 1934 Supreme Court ruling that a Corporation is a Single Individual Entity with the right to "lobby" for grievances and not take responsibilities like a human being and you'll see corporations shitting their pants. Corporations deserver NO RIGHTS that are those of the Individual. They are a synthetic construct created by Man to get human beings working. That's it.
We've got a country full of citizens who will gladly vote away their freedoms, their privacy, their financial well-being, and their health
Im sorry, but youre implying here that these things are caused by republicans.
But if memory serves, we have a Democrat in office, and he has been in office for 2 years now; and before the previous prez, we had another 8 years of dem. The TSA "privacy breaches" we are so worried about were instituded by a dem agency, in a dem department, under a dem executive; The financial crisis is largely attributed to fannie mae regulations passed under... a dem executive; and IIRC the much maligned antics of the RIAA are being reinforced by ICE (again, under a dem executive).
It boggles the mind that people on slashdot and the internet at large would blame republicans for anything and everything even if the party itself were to cease to exist. Its like some kind of bogeyman; I rather remember seeing someone remark 1.5 years ago-- when Dems controlled a full 2 branches of the gov't by an overwhelming amount-- that it was "the republican's fault" that Obama couldnt fulfill some promise or other (think it was closing gitmo). Never mind that republicans had no power to block anything at that point.
Grow up. These tax loop-hole structures were put in place around 2004 and activated after 2008. Start reading Legislation instead of mentally jacking off thinking a law was suddenly passed to screw all but large corporations. Corporations started off-shoring massive amounts of profits once Clinton left office.
Someone who does C and OpenGL will naturally adapt to OpenCL and Objective-C.