As a proud registered user of milkshape I'm very happy with it, it can even export models in ASCII format for very simple loading into homebrew apps, the ms3d model format also saves surface specularity, ambient color, diffuse color, etc. And has smoothing groups..
Harmless? Didn't the article say they were pitting the robots against each other in battle and one just wandered off?
I can't help but imagine a confused little robot wandering around a parking lot with circular saws for hands saying "Do you know where my family is?"
*shudders* frightening..
I ran across a couple of these No Doubt mp3s right around the time they released their most recent CD, I grabbed a few of the songs to see how I liked it, considering I liked their first CD, and the crappy radio stations around me play nothing new except for 1 song from each CD.
I thought to myself "hmm, I like how the songs sound except they're really freaking boring how they're so horribly repetitive" and that was the deciding factor in my not purchasing the CD.
Growing up my mom tried to get me to use typing tutor programs and they annoyed the heck out of me, I eventually progressed from hunt-and-peck into a very fast touch typist.
I can type faster than most "proper" typers I know, and I have had absolutely NO problems with my wrists, and I sit at the computer for at least 5 hours a day on average.
Amen to that, noise drives me insane when I'm trying to code, although it depends what KIND of noise..
Here is my formula:
MUSIC: I'll listen to System of a Down, etc at extremely loud volumes while driving, but I simply cannot code with anything but classical, or slow like Enya or something. And even at that, I'll usually only listen to music for the first half hour, then get so into what I'm coding that I don't notice the music is there, THEN, I notice the music, get angry, and turn it off.. and continue coding.
ENVIRONMENT: I'm currently debating if my big leather chair is counter-productive considering its so comfortable it makes me sleepy. I also keep two small fish tanks on my desk near my monitors, my favorite is on the left with my two Dwarf Puffers in it (they're very calming, they swim like hummingbirds, if that makes sense), if I get really frustrated with a problem I just stare at them, they stare back, and I'm instantly calmed down, THEN, back to coding.
My room is also dark (I'm in the basement), and sometimes I bring my laptop up to the kitchen table and work from there, where I can see outside and look at trees, that also calms me down and makes me work better.
TIME: Any time after noon it seems, at night is best because I don't get distracted or have to stop for anything (except sleep eventually).
FUEL: I do amazing things if I go to a book store (B&N or Borders in my case), get a nice latte with vanilla, sip on it, and write down about 4 pages of ideas for my code I'm about to write, then drive home while listening to very loud music, let the ideas cook and settle in, then start coding like a madman..
that thinks this is really frightening? I don't mean the story, or the X-Files, I mean the reaction of the majority of/. readers, I for myself will hide in my basement like I always do, and chrisd better as heck hope that nobody knows what STATE he lives in..
tomorrow on drudgereport...
"SLASHDOT'S CHRISD BEATEN TO DEATH WITH KEYBOARDS AND LIGHTSABERS"
...instead of paying $400 for this huge wristwatch shaped GPS/CarAlarm/Toothbrush, just go buy a $25 one made out of solid plastic without any actual guts to it.. Not following me? Think about this.
(this only applys to the abduction scenario) 1. Weirdo perverts who steal children now know about this GPS/CarAlarm/Toothbrush wrist device.
2. Weirdo perverts who steal children will now to avoid kids wearing oversized wrist watches.
3. Weirdo perverts who steal children, don't know if the device your child is wearing has any actual functionality to it. (maybe put a blinking LED on it somewhere just for looks).
Someone better open a store that sells plastic giant fake wrist bands which only contain a locking mechanizm.
Did the poster of this story even stop to think, for a moment, that this article would probably plunge 50% of the slashdot community, including myself, into a deep deep depression by reminding them how single they are?
I thought of building a tower, but costs start getting into play there:/
There are towers near my house that I can see if I stand on the chimney (yes.. I have climbed up the roof and stood ON TOP of the chimney, one more than one occasion), but none of those towers have fancy internet providing thingies on them. And I doubt they would let me climb up them and put things on the towers.
Klowner
(feel free to e-mail me if you have any more ideas):)
Ah, I forgot to mention I live in a geographical hole. They came out to my house and stuck an antenna up 30 feet in the sky, apparently they got no signal..:(
I live in Iowa, just outside the city of Davenport (part of the Quad Cities, big area).
Maybe I haven't seen the parts of Iowa that actually have decent technology, but Davenport seems pathetic. The thing that really annoys me, is we've got Cable, DSL, and recently 2.4Ghz Wireless, but they're all IN town.
I don't understand the logic in putting wireless in an area that can currently get cable or DSL, and yet theres large places outside of town (near my house) that only can manage 26.4k dialup.
Then again, satellite is another option but I've never heard one good thing about it (latency and all, ack).
A few months ago Iowa Farm Bureau sent out letters announcing that FB members could get low cost high-speed internet access.. two months later, turns out its 56k dialup for $15/month.
Maybe I'm just ignorant but I'm starting to hate this state, any attempt to advance in technology and everyone tries to fight it because it will cost them an extra $1 a year in taxes.
Seems almost a year ago someone at work ( I work for a local fox news show) was talking about similar technology, except it actually played the show at a slightly higher speed, and lowered the pitch of the sound to compensate. It was enough to make the show significantly shorter, yet people didn't notice the small speed increase.
But since TV only displays at a certain FPS, I suppose this method might actually "drop" a frame here and there.. I'm really not sure.
Although, I wish I could do this with our news show, possibly run it twice the speed so I could go home early... But I can't, live tv sucks.
If you haven't played Half-Life with the new netcode you're missing out. It's excellent, best lag-hiding netcode I've ever seen. I can play with a 300ms ping (26k dialup) and usually enjoy myself on a decent server. Unlike RTCW which is unplayable with 300ms lag.
It just seems strange that us human's have cloned sheep, yet don't even know what's out there yet.
Heck, I'm more interested in octopus/jellyfish/ray animals than duplicated sheep.
And are they going to send the CD-Security-Guard to watch you use their CD and make sure you don't connect your CD player's line-out to your computers line-in?? Or do the CD's only play in bad quality CD players (ones without any sort of line outs, the kind where you have to cut the speaker wires and make you're own homemade line-in, am I saying illigal things right now? AAAH).
I'm quite sure Tolkein wasn't Christian, but C.S. Lewis had read LotR and it drew him to christianity.
Also Tolkein considered his books "sub-creations", just as God created us in his image, we also have the desire to create things like books, and art.
There was a good article in World Magazine (christian mag) about the LotR series, C.S. Lewis, and Tolkein, as well as Christian views of the subject. Which I was quite pleased to discover an open mind on the subject. It was featured in this issue (reg req).
slightly offtopic rant: It really annoys me how so many Christians totally rip on Harry Potter and LotR when they really know nothing about it. I'm a Christian (Open minded too, don't attempt to tell me otherwise) and I really enjoy LotR, and I see no problem with it. It's not like I pray to Gandalf every night.
It just seems theres quite a few Christians that need to educate themselves instead of making snap judgements, and trying to force it upon people, including other Christians.
As a kid I spent countless hours running around outside, dodging imaginary bullets, making gun noises while pointing my little plastic toy guns at friends or imaginary bad guys.
And now I go deer hunting with my dad and I don't even get a kick out of shooting deer, I've actually never killed one for that matter.
The point is, just because kids play with so-called violent toys at children doesn't make them psychos. I think its their enviroment, or some sort of predisposition, chemical imbalance? I've seen so many insane kids that hit eachother with hammers that look so wired and disconnected because their parents feed them candy and french fries for every meal:) Nobody ever thinks about that possibility do they?
I live in the middle of stinking nowhere, I get 26k dialup.. my only other "option" is 64k ISDN from Qwest for some crazy $115 a month..
If you can GET DSL/Cable, darnit, GET IT.. if you don't trade houses with me.. It just angers me beyond the point of understanding.
I feel like a little kid at the Zoo watching the monkeys in the cages play with their new playstation2's while I play with my socks I got for christmas..
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As a proud registered user of milkshape I'm very happy with it, it can even export models in ASCII format for very simple loading into homebrew apps, the ms3d model format also saves surface specularity, ambient color, diffuse color, etc. And has smoothing groups..
Klowner
Harmless? Didn't the article say they were pitting the robots against each other in battle and one just wandered off?
I can't help but imagine a confused little robot wandering around a parking lot with circular saws for hands saying "Do you know where my family is?" *shudders* frightening..
Klowner
I ran across a couple of these No Doubt mp3s right around the time they released their most recent CD, I grabbed a few of the songs to see how I liked it, considering I liked their first CD, and the crappy radio stations around me play nothing new except for 1 song from each CD.
I thought to myself "hmm, I like how the songs sound except they're really freaking boring how they're so horribly repetitive" and that was the deciding factor in my not purchasing the CD.
Klowner
Growing up my mom tried to get me to use typing tutor programs and they annoyed the heck out of me, I eventually progressed from hunt-and-peck into a very fast touch typist.
I can type faster than most "proper" typers I know, and I have had absolutely NO problems with my wrists, and I sit at the computer for at least 5 hours a day on average.
Amen to that, noise drives me insane when I'm trying to code, although it depends what KIND of noise..
:)
Here is my formula:
MUSIC: I'll listen to System of a Down, etc at extremely loud volumes while driving, but I simply cannot code with anything but classical, or slow like Enya or something. And even at that, I'll usually only listen to music for the first half hour, then get so into what I'm coding that I don't notice the music is there, THEN, I notice the music, get angry, and turn it off.. and continue coding.
ENVIRONMENT:
I'm currently debating if my big leather chair is counter-productive considering its so comfortable it makes me sleepy. I also keep two small fish tanks on my desk near my monitors, my favorite is on the left with my two Dwarf Puffers in it (they're very calming, they swim like hummingbirds, if that makes sense), if I get really frustrated with a problem I just stare at them, they stare back, and I'm instantly calmed down, THEN, back to coding.
My room is also dark (I'm in the basement), and sometimes I bring my laptop up to the kitchen table and work from there, where I can see outside and look at trees, that also calms me down and makes me work better.
TIME:
Any time after noon it seems, at night is best because I don't get distracted or have to stop for anything (except sleep eventually).
FUEL:
I do amazing things if I go to a book store (B&N or Borders in my case), get a nice latte with vanilla, sip on it, and write down about 4 pages of ideas for my code I'm about to write, then drive home while listening to very loud music, let the ideas cook and settle in, then start coding like a madman..
Thats how I do it
Klowner
that thinks this is really frightening? I don't mean the story, or the X-Files, I mean the reaction of the majority of /. readers, I for myself will hide in my basement like I always do, and chrisd better as heck hope that nobody knows what STATE he lives in..
tomorrow on drudgereport...
"SLASHDOT'S CHRISD BEATEN TO DEATH WITH KEYBOARDS AND LIGHTSABERS"
I can see it now, oh wait, it is tomorrow.. uh oh
...instead of paying $400 for this huge wristwatch shaped GPS/CarAlarm/Toothbrush, just go buy a $25 one made out of solid plastic without any actual guts to it.. Not following me? Think about this.
(this only applys to the abduction scenario)
1. Weirdo perverts who steal children now know about this GPS/CarAlarm/Toothbrush wrist device.
2. Weirdo perverts who steal children will now to avoid kids wearing oversized wrist watches.
3. Weirdo perverts who steal children, don't know if the device your child is wearing has any actual functionality to it. (maybe put a blinking LED on it somewhere just for looks).
Someone better open a store that sells plastic giant fake wrist bands which only contain a locking mechanizm.
Klowner
MY question is, what kind of girl goes around making out with gnomes? The kind that have mono, thats the kind..
Klowner
Are you sure? My dog has been castrated for a year now and I always refer to him as "Genetic Mutant McDog".
:)
People really need to learn how to read, tisk tisk tisk, nice post Shivetya
Klowner
Did the poster of this story even stop to think, for a moment, that this article would probably plunge 50% of the slashdot community, including myself, into a deep deep depression by reminding them how single they are?
..At least my grandma sends me valentines cards
*runs off crying*
Klowner
That fiber optic network goes through my front yard, not kidding, they put it in a few years ago and dug up my driveway.
Klowner
Then how would I telnet to my firewall from school?
*dodges flying shoes*
;)
Klowner
I thought of building a tower, but costs start getting into play there :/
:)
There are towers near my house that I can see if I stand on the chimney (yes.. I have climbed up the roof and stood ON TOP of the chimney, one more than one occasion), but none of those towers have fancy internet providing thingies on them. And I doubt they would let me climb up them and put things on the towers.
Klowner
(feel free to e-mail me if you have any more ideas)
Ah, I forgot to mention I live in a geographical hole. They came out to my house and stuck an antenna up 30 feet in the sky, apparently they got no signal.. :(
Klowner
I live in Iowa, just outside the city of Davenport (part of the Quad Cities, big area).
Maybe I haven't seen the parts of Iowa that actually have decent technology, but Davenport seems pathetic. The thing that really annoys me, is we've got Cable, DSL, and recently 2.4Ghz Wireless, but they're all IN town.
I don't understand the logic in putting wireless in an area that can currently get cable or DSL, and yet theres large places outside of town (near my house) that only can manage 26.4k dialup.
Then again, satellite is another option but I've never heard one good thing about it (latency and all, ack).
A few months ago Iowa Farm Bureau sent out letters announcing that FB members could get low cost high-speed internet access.. two months later, turns out its 56k dialup for $15/month.
Maybe I'm just ignorant but I'm starting to hate this state, any attempt to advance in technology and everyone tries to fight it because it will cost them an extra $1 a year in taxes.
Seems almost a year ago someone at work ( I work for a local fox news show) was talking about similar technology, except it actually played the show at a slightly higher speed, and lowered the pitch of the sound to compensate. It was enough to make the show significantly shorter, yet people didn't notice the small speed increase.
But since TV only displays at a certain FPS, I suppose this method might actually "drop" a frame here and there.. I'm really not sure.
Although, I wish I could do this with our news show, possibly run it twice the speed so I could go home early... But I can't, live tv sucks.
Klowner
If you haven't played Half-Life with the new netcode you're missing out. It's excellent, best lag-hiding netcode I've ever seen. I can play with a 300ms ping (26k dialup) and usually enjoy myself on a decent server. Unlike RTCW which is unplayable with 300ms lag.
It just seems strange that us human's have cloned sheep, yet don't even know what's out there yet.
:)
Heck, I'm more interested in octopus/jellyfish/ray animals than duplicated sheep.
I'm still waiting for them to find a nessie
And are they going to send the CD-Security-Guard to watch you use their CD and make sure you don't connect your CD player's line-out to your computers line-in?? Or do the CD's only play in bad quality CD players (ones without any sort of line outs, the kind where you have to cut the speaker wires and make you're own homemade line-in, am I saying illigal things right now? AAAH).
I better go hide,
Klowner
I'm quite sure Tolkein wasn't Christian, but C.S. Lewis had read LotR and it drew him to christianity.
Also Tolkein considered his books "sub-creations", just as God created us in his image, we also have the desire to create things like books, and art.
There was a good article in World Magazine (christian mag) about the LotR series, C.S. Lewis, and Tolkein, as well as Christian views of the subject. Which I was quite pleased to discover an open mind on the subject. It was featured in this issue (reg req).
slightly offtopic rant: It really annoys me how so many Christians totally rip on Harry Potter and LotR when they really know nothing about it. I'm a Christian (Open minded too, don't attempt to tell me otherwise) and I really enjoy LotR, and I see no problem with it. It's not like I pray to Gandalf every night.
It just seems theres quite a few Christians that need to educate themselves instead of making snap judgements, and trying to force it upon people, including other Christians.
I'm exactly the same way.
:) Nobody ever thinks about that possibility do they?
As a kid I spent countless hours running around outside, dodging imaginary bullets, making gun noises while pointing my little plastic toy guns at friends or imaginary bad guys.
And now I go deer hunting with my dad and I don't even get a kick out of shooting deer, I've actually never killed one for that matter.
The point is, just because kids play with so-called violent toys at children doesn't make them psychos. I think its their enviroment, or some sort of predisposition, chemical imbalance? I've seen so many insane kids that hit eachother with hammers that look so wired and disconnected because their parents feed them candy and french fries for every meal
Maaaark
I live in the middle of stinking nowhere, I get 26k dialup.. my only other "option" is 64k ISDN from Qwest for some crazy $115 a month..
If you can GET DSL/Cable, darnit, GET IT.. if you don't trade houses with me.. It just angers me beyond the point of understanding.
I feel like a little kid at the Zoo watching the monkeys in the cages play with their new playstation2's while I play with my socks I got for christmas..
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I can't wait.
I don't see anything about "Added Storyline" :)
Unless I heard incorrectly, the number to call (Red Cross) to find out where you can give blood is 1-800-GIVE-LIFE
this whole thing is not good..
Mark