Look, the UI _is usable_. Just because you don't know how to use it, and you didn't get it after spending some time randomly clicking around and looking for the "make nice 3D model" button, doesn't mean the interface is bad. It just requires training. And also, just because it doesn't look like anything you know, doesn't mean it's bad either. Perhaps if the first program you came across had been blender, you wouldn't get 3DSMAX's UI either.
> Every amateur 3D programmer can whip up a toy raytracer in 2 days
OK, so you think programming a raytracer is no big deal, but blender's UI is hard? I must be getting old, 'cause most of the UIs I know for programming are text based, and there are few more enigmatic UIs than an empty text file waiting for your code (not saying _that_ UI is bad, but I don't remember any pull down menu with "whip up raytracer" as an option... but than I use emacs, perhaps vi has that...).
Screw the uninitiated, good tools are made for people who know how to use them. Blender's role is not to bring 3D modeling to all the world, but to be a professional quality 3D modeling tool. It should be easy to use, yes, IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO LEARN IT. Making it easy for the guy who just downloaded it and doesn't want to go through the docs, that's secondary.
I think people that compare the Zaurus to the Palm or other PDAs are missing the point. The Zaurus is more of a mini computer than a "digital assistant" (even if Sharp insists in marketing it as a PDA). I say that as an engineer: I would look at the Zaurus to replace my HP48G, not to replace my palm pilot (which has been replaced by my cell phone a long time ago). PDAs like the palm are on their way to extinction, there's nothing they can do a good phone won't do better.
From that perspective, the Zaurus doesn't even have to be too small, I won't carry it around everywhere, just to work or meetings or things like that. It's much more convenient than a laptop, and this model (if it ever really comes out) actually has good connectivity.
I was browsing the forum at halflife2.net, and all I could think of was a bunch of kids scouring the forums and irc channels following up on every single pathetic lead they can put their hands on. And at virtually any little piece of info they're emailing Valve with it (in fact, the halflife2.net forum is down right now probably for that very reason). Any real leads will just be lost in the noise. And any tracks are now probably overrun by a stampede of kids full of good intentions. If I were Valve, I'd ask them NOT to help...
Unless Valve really needs those guys' help. Which could be the case, considering the level of amateurism of this whole thing.
geez, do you use any linux distro at all? I'm a SuSE user, I think it's a pretty friendly distro -- at least I thought so, until I read your post. It fails in pretty much all items you listed (it does have a very good admin book, maybe even as complete as you seem to want it).
I'm familiar with RH, slackware and SuSE. But I risk to say that what you described is not available anywhere, for under US$100. Of course, you're not saying it is.
RH is a good distro, stability wise. It's very bare bones (I never understood why people call it bloated, it has as many cds as slackware). In fact is way too barebones for me, which is why I removed it from my workstation and replaced it with SuSE.
And maybe you should better not comment on anything when you only have half a brain.
If you weren't a half-witted troll, you'd have noticed that I never said anything about buying a linux version, but rather linux users buying (or not buying) the game...
From the client download page (get the link from head post): You will need to get the Neverwinter Nights game resouces from an existing Windows installation of the 1.29 build of Neverwinter Nights. Why must it be this way, you ask? It is because there is no feasable way to get the game resources from the InstallShield cabinet files on the Windows version CDs.
What a bunch of idiots... These retards take almost a full year after the release to come up with the Linux client (that they told everyone would be ready for shipping with the cds), and then this. Why should anyone put money in such a half-assed effort like this? Guess what, in the end few Linux users will buy this crap, and those morons will go: "told ya, shouldn't have invested time in the Linux market, Linux is not there yet."
I'm still quite disappointed on the casting. I just can't accept Dune with so many blond actors! And they all look so plain, too. If there was one thing that Lynch's Dune got right was that all the actors had very powerful distinctive looks (and were great actors too). Much better than the team of teen bimbos on the miniseries... Disgusting...
Part of the problem is that the market in the US is so screwed up that people think they have to buy a phone from their provider. They fail to realize that all that matters is the kind of network you're in -- the t610 is a GSM phone, so it should work for any provider using GSM (say, t-mobile).
So, to be able to sell their phones, manufacturers have to think of providers first (the main outlet), and then users.
And, of course, the fact that sony has evil inclincations towards DRM by default doesn't help either.
Yeah... I was also disapointed (and I'm also a WineX subscriber). Problem is, WineX performance varies WILDLY from one setup to another. Difficult to trust anything running on it as 'out of the box'.
Wake me up when they actually have a linux port (which, according to some FAQ, is never).
Exactly! A group of players could get together and share the costs of a militia that would protect them. So freaking cool! Where's my Linux client??!!!
There's another side to it. If you have to pay for your living/things you own, etc. that means playing like a jerk (trying to kill PCs to get their stuff, etc.) you may face real consequeces, namely, you may loose money.
Maybe the fact that real money is involved could actually improve game-play, instead of worsening it.
You know, I think a another (cheaper) idea would be to take one of the "what can i do about it?" tips from Fat Chuck's web site to a MASSIVE scale.
You take 100+ people to a big cd store (say best buy or any other), buy one of those protected cds WITH NO WARNINGS on the cover (each person gets one), and, the following day, return the cd as defective.
Than do it again for another album. And another store. Etc.
I found Taco's posting a little depressing myself. Now I feel I must defend my favorite distribution:)
Actually, the most interesting aspect that I find in Slackware is how easy it is to create your own packages.
I usually have to do this when I want to install brand new software (when XF86 4.0 came out, my friends with Debian in their machines wouldn't touch it because they couldn't do aptget on it!) I like the independence.
I guess that's the spirit with Slackware. Do it yourself, I think. The distro doesn't get in the way. The package management system will probably be improved some of this days, I just hope they keep it as easy to interact with as it is now.
This is soooo sily.... so you don't think PDAs are useful? Then just don't buy them! You want to use a PDA to send a memo to the hospital in case of an accident?? That's quite ridiculous, to say the least!
A PDA will give you access to any information you store on it! If all you can think is to put your boss' address on it, so you can contact him/her, may be you shouldn't take your PDA on to your vacations. As far as I know the titanium chain to your neck is still an optional, these days...
PDAs are pervasive? Only if it gives information away to someone else, without your control. I don't think that's quite the case, yet. Just be careful on what model you buy.
P.S.: I don't endorse any particular model of PDA. I just feel people shouldn't be blindly bashing on a whole class of products based solely on technophobia.
To collect snapshots of the internet reminds me of the Wim Wenders' movie Lisbon Story. It's about a director that decides to videotape everything he can, leaving operating cameras in parks, walking around with a camera all the time, etc. He would afterwards destroy the tapes (or lock them somewhere, I don't quite remember) to avoid people to see those particular images. Some idealistic freedom for images, not to be ever seen.
I don't think a huge unfiltered database with everybody's day-to-day life has a lot of historical meaning. And I think that's what a snapshot of internet is like.
Who knows, maybe these guys are just planning to burn everything, afterwards...
I don't need DeCSS to copy DVD discs... All I need is my vcr. Pirating DVDs into DVDs is just not really feasible for 90% (+-5%) of computer users. The DVD blank media is more expensive than the the videos one may want to copy, not to mention the burners.
The real problem seems to be the ability of accessing different releases of the same title (why would I want to buy an american edited copy of my favorite movie if I can get a complete one released in some other country? Or a cheaper copy sold in somewhere else?). A good solution may be just not to support this media. I don't think that/. readers (or linux users, for that matter) have the kind of power to influence this kind of market, though. Not yet. Except by cracking stupid encryption keys designed by incompetent id*ots:-)
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Look, the UI _is usable_. Just because you don't know how to use it, and you didn't get it after spending some time randomly clicking around and looking for the "make nice 3D model" button, doesn't mean the interface is bad. It just requires training. And also, just because it doesn't look like anything you know, doesn't mean it's bad either. Perhaps if the first program you came across had been blender, you wouldn't get 3DSMAX's UI either.
> Every amateur 3D programmer can whip up a toy raytracer in 2 days
OK, so you think programming a raytracer is no big deal, but blender's UI is hard? I must be getting old, 'cause most of the UIs I know for programming are text based, and there are few more enigmatic UIs than an empty text file waiting for your code (not saying _that_ UI is bad, but I don't remember any pull down menu with "whip up raytracer" as an option... but than I use emacs, perhaps vi has that...).
Screw the uninitiated, good tools are made for people who know how to use them. Blender's role is not to bring 3D modeling to all the world, but to be a professional quality 3D modeling tool. It should be easy to use, yes, IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO LEARN IT. Making it easy for the guy who just downloaded it and doesn't want to go through the docs, that's secondary.
My sentiments exactly. At least 60% of the show was about distracting irrelevant special effects.
Most documentaries nowadays seem much more interested in gathering audience points than in improving understanding of a topic.
I hope it doesn't, and this idiot keeps his/her job. All we don't need is efficient fascism...
A p800. But mostly any cell phones nowadays come with some sort of pim sw.
I think people that compare the Zaurus to the Palm or other PDAs are missing the point. The Zaurus is more of a mini computer than a "digital assistant" (even if Sharp insists in marketing it as a PDA). I say that as an engineer: I would look at the Zaurus to replace my HP48G, not to replace my palm pilot (which has been replaced by my cell phone a long time ago). PDAs like the palm are on their way to extinction, there's nothing they can do a good phone won't do better.
From that perspective, the Zaurus doesn't even have to be too small, I won't carry it around everywhere, just to work or meetings or things like that. It's much more convenient than a laptop, and this model (if it ever really comes out) actually has good connectivity.
I was browsing the forum at halflife2.net, and all I could think of was a bunch of kids scouring the forums and irc channels following up on every single pathetic lead they can put their hands on. And at virtually any little piece of info they're emailing Valve with it (in fact, the halflife2.net forum is down right now probably for that very reason). Any real leads will just be lost in the noise. And any tracks are now probably overrun by a stampede of kids full of good intentions. If I were Valve, I'd ask them NOT to help...
Unless Valve really needs those guys' help. Which could be the case, considering the level of amateurism of this whole thing.
That's NWN. A nethack module should be really interesting...
geez, do you use any linux distro at all? I'm a SuSE user, I think it's a pretty friendly distro -- at least I thought so, until I read your post. It fails in pretty much all items you listed (it does have a very good admin book, maybe even as complete as you seem to want it).
I'm familiar with RH, slackware and SuSE. But I risk to say that what you described is not available anywhere, for under US$100. Of course, you're not saying it is.
RH is a good distro, stability wise. It's very bare bones (I never understood why people call it bloated, it has as many cds as slackware). In fact is way too barebones for me, which is why I removed it from my workstation and replaced it with SuSE.
Cheers.
And maybe you should better not comment on anything when you only have half a brain.
If you weren't a half-witted troll, you'd have noticed that I never said anything about buying a linux version, but rather linux users buying (or not buying) the game...
From the client download page (get the link from head post): You will need to get the Neverwinter Nights game resouces from an existing Windows installation of the 1.29 build of Neverwinter Nights. Why must it be this way, you ask? It is because there is no feasable way to get the game resources from the InstallShield cabinet files on the Windows version CDs.
What a bunch of idiots... These retards take almost a full year after the release to come up with the Linux client (that they told everyone would be ready for shipping with the cds), and then this. Why should anyone put money in such a half-assed effort like this? Guess what, in the end few Linux users will buy this crap, and those morons will go: "told ya, shouldn't have invested time in the Linux market, Linux is not there yet."
*sigh* bastards....
I'm still quite disappointed on the casting. I just can't accept Dune with so many blond actors! And they all look so plain, too. If there was one thing that Lynch's Dune got right was that all the actors had very powerful distinctive looks (and were great actors too). Much better than the team of teen bimbos on the miniseries... Disgusting...
Part of the problem is that the market in the US is so screwed up that people think they have to buy a phone from their provider. They fail to realize that all that matters is the kind of network you're in -- the t610 is a GSM phone, so it should work for any provider using GSM (say, t-mobile).
So, to be able to sell their phones, manufacturers have to think of providers first (the main outlet), and then users.
And, of course, the fact that sony has evil inclincations towards DRM by default doesn't help either.
Wake me up when they actually have a linux port (which, according to some FAQ, is never).
Exactly! A group of players could get together and share the costs of a militia that would protect them. So freaking cool! Where's my Linux client??!!!
There's another side to it. If you have to pay for your living/things you own, etc. that means playing like a jerk (trying to kill PCs to get their stuff, etc.) you may face real consequeces, namely, you may loose money.
Maybe the fact that real money is involved could actually improve game-play, instead of worsening it.
You know, I think a another (cheaper) idea would be to take one of the "what can i do about it?" tips from Fat Chuck's web site to a MASSIVE scale.
You take 100+ people to a big cd store (say best buy or any other), buy one of those protected cds WITH NO WARNINGS on the cover (each person gets one), and, the following day, return the cd as defective.
Than do it again for another album. And another store. Etc.
I found Taco's posting a little depressing myself. Now I feel I must defend my favorite distribution :)
Actually, the most interesting aspect that I find in Slackware is how easy it is to create your own packages.
I usually have to do this when I want to install brand new software (when XF86 4.0 came out, my friends with Debian in their machines wouldn't touch it because they couldn't do aptget on it!) I like the independence.
I guess that's the spirit with Slackware. Do it yourself, I think. The distro doesn't get in the way. The package management system will probably be improved some of this days, I just hope they keep it as easy to interact with as it is now.
Oh, well...
This is soooo sily.... so you don't think PDAs are useful? Then just don't buy them! You want to use a PDA to send a memo to the hospital in case of an accident?? That's quite ridiculous, to say the least!
A PDA will give you access to any information you store on it! If all you can think is to put your boss' address on it, so you can contact him/her, may be you shouldn't take your PDA on to your vacations. As far as I know the titanium chain to your neck is still an optional, these days...
PDAs are pervasive? Only if it gives information away to someone else, without your control. I don't think that's quite the case, yet. Just be careful on what model you buy.
P.S.: I don't endorse any particular model of PDA. I just feel people shouldn't be blindly bashing on a whole class of products based solely on technophobia.
To collect snapshots of the internet reminds me of the Wim Wenders' movie Lisbon Story. It's about a director that decides to videotape everything he can, leaving operating cameras in parks, walking around with a camera all the time, etc. He would afterwards destroy the tapes (or lock them somewhere, I don't quite remember) to avoid people to see those particular images. Some idealistic freedom for images, not to be ever seen.
I don't think a huge unfiltered database with everybody's day-to-day life has a lot of historical meaning. And I think that's what a snapshot of internet is like.
Who knows, maybe these guys are just planning to burn everything, afterwards...
-- Aber
I don't need DeCSS to copy DVD discs... All I need is my vcr. Pirating DVDs into DVDs is just not really feasible for 90% (+-5%) of computer users. The DVD blank media is more expensive than the the videos one may want to copy, not to mention the burners.
/. readers (or linux users, for that matter) have the kind of power to influence this kind of market, though. Not yet. Except by cracking stupid encryption keys designed by incompetent id*ots :-)
The real problem seems to be the ability of accessing different releases of the same title (why would I want to buy an american edited copy of my favorite movie if I can get a complete one released in some other country? Or a cheaper copy sold in somewhere else?). A good solution may be just not to support this media. I don't think that