Maya (possibly the preeminent 3D animation app) is available under Linux. It's just out of your freebie pricerange.
Freebie? You're making an unfair baseless assumption about me. I do buy software, and did support Blender financially.
Maya is outside of mine and most people's pricerange because it costs US$7000 last time I looked. If 7 grand is something you can spend on computer software, good for you. For most of us in the real world, that price is prohibitive.
The free download is crippled, unless you are using a crack. If you are, you have a lot of nerve calling me a freebie.
NaN makes one piece of software - Blender (and varients of Blender). The Code for Blender is very likely the only thing NaN owns that they can sell to pay back it's investors. You can't sell the code and give it away at the same time. So I doubt there will be a GPL version.
Also worrisome - If they find a buyer for Blender, there is no guarantee the new company will continue to build Linux binaries.
Owch. This is a bad day to be a Linux desktop user.
NaN folding will strengthen the argument that there are not enough good desktop applications for Linux. It will also strengthen the claims that Linux users will not pay for software.
I doubt we will see OpenBlender. NaN may not be able to GPL Blender, as the code for that application is the only company assest they can leverage to pay off it's debt. We also don't know if they licensed any code from external contractors.
I have a strong interest in 3D animation, I am a Linux user, and Blender was it for me. There are no other 3d programs under Linux with it's level of sophistication. I hate dual booting to Windows to use Lightwave.
Loki is gone - no games. Blender is gone - no 3d.
This makes the siren's song of OSX go up a couple of decibles.
I wish that solders would stop and think about the environment when there is a tank coming after them. Depleted Uranium makes it hard for the daisies to grow. I know because Oprah told me so.
Scott Draeker was paid $46,504 in salary during the period from January 15 to July 31, 2001
I don't know what Draeker made for the rest of the year, but 46 thousand is not a lot of money, especially for the CEO of a software house. His wife was paid 18 thousand, which is less than my wife makes at Wal-Mart as a cashier.
Now, I think the whole business of these employees getting F'ed out of thier money blows, but after a year without pay I think there's a lot of blind loyalty going on.
What I've read so far doesn't tell me Scott Draeker is evil, just a bad manager.
I could have told you Loki was making dumb decisions just based on bringing games to the Linux market that were already a year old for Windows. I was never excited by a Loki release, and I think that might be the bottom line for it's failure.
The article makes it clear this is a draft of a report rather than a full blown plan. It also is a Pentagon study rather than administration policy.
I think the fact that this has become public is no accident. As Dr. Strangelove once asked "what's the point of a doomsday weapon if you don't tell anyone it exists?". Like it or not, this administration seems to be developing a Mutually Assured Destruction policy towards states that support terrorism. It is important at some point to broadcast this intention. A leaked internal report serves this function while allowing the State Dept. and diplomatic channels deniability.
There is nothing that bans the cultivation of stem cells for medical research in the United States.
The only policy that President Bush has established concerning stem cells said that an existing set of stem cell strains (aprox. 60) would recieve federal funding. That's not the same as outlawing or limiting future stem cell research.
Other stem cell strains may be created, but not at federal expense. Medical Companies would need to use private financing to start future strains.
It's based on BSD. Who gives a damn about trademarks? If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
Actually, OSX is based on the Mach kernel which is a fork off BSD. While it has BSD roots, they are quite old. The Mach kernel was the basis for NextStep, and that was 10 years ago.
What I mean is Flash is not a critical component for any web site right now. It's a gloss layer, and could be replaced on a moment's notice with a simple graphic layer. Until Flash features technologies that with make it a core component of a web site, the technology is not entrenched.
If Macromedia is so serious, they should consider that web developers have a much higher percentage of *nix people in the ranks. Yet no dev tools have been ported. Hmmmmm.... MM is buying the FUD.
Also, I smell the day coming when there will be a "Flash Tax" ala "GIF Tax", but Macromedia needs to become more entrenched before this can happen.
Newsmax is every bit as legitimate as this site, and as a right-winger myself I have no problem with them taking a conservative editorial posture. At least they are open about being conservative, unlike CNN, who has a left bent but claims not to. As long as a news service is coy about leaning left without admiting to it, I guess they are still legit in your book.
I also pointed out that numerous news sources reported this story yesterday, but this was the first I found that put Holling's remarks in full context, an I reprinted the entire article here.
Next time I'll find you a nice Village Voice article and we can pretend they are a news source. OK?
I wish I had mod points to score this up, but I've already posted in this discussion.
I like the idea of harassing Hollywood with bills that resemble those they seek to impose on others. The proble you're going to run into is finding a congressman or senator to sponsor the bill.
Hollywood spend alot of money keeping Dashle, Clinton, Waters, Hollings, and Kennedy their pocket.
Fritz Hollings is a Democrat. The Republicans are not the ones pushing this lame ass SSSCA.
Ashcroft is trying to make sure you are not killed by terrorists. That doesn't make him a nazi.
Hollings is trying to make sure you have no rights as a consumer.
Hollings also voted to take away your right to free speech by voting for the Campaign Finance Reform bill. If you don't like SSSCA, and want to run a political ad on TV against Fritz Hollings, you are about to lose the right to do so within 60 days of an election. Because you represent a dirty "Special Interest", and any money that you would want to spend on a campaign ad is considered "Soft Money". So your voice will be silenced during the 60 days that most people begin to pay attention to a political race.
Your only hope is that Bush will veto it. But he might not, because that would make him look partisan, and against reform.
So ultimately bad laws like SSSCA will pass and you have no right to air political ads when it matters most.
This is reprinted from NewsMax but it was also on the Cable networks last night. Hollings is going to be put out to pasture soon. Without Hollings, SSSCA will die. ====================
Hollings Blames Bush Administration for 9/11 Attacks
Apparently frustrated over his inability to gain any political traction on the Enron scandal, Democratic Party loose cannon Sen. Fritz Hollings charged Wednesday that the Bush administration's economic policies actually helped Osama bin Laden finance the Sept. 11 attacks that resulted in the deaths of over 3,000 Americans.
"In came the [Bush] administration with who? [Economic adviser] Larry Lindsey," Hollings told a Washington, D.C., press conference in somewhat slurred speech.
"Larry Lindsey was the $50,000-a-year consultant for Enron who was running around saying it was unconstitutional to try to close down these things [offshore tax shelters]. And so they immediately, this time last year, closed down the Larry Summers effort. And you had 9/11."
Summers was the Clinton administration treasury secretary who Hollings said wanted to close down offshore tax havens.
In fact, the FBI found that offshore tax havens had nothing to do with bin Laden's ability to finance the attacks, reported Fox News Channel, which made Hollings' outburst its lead story Wednesday night.
During the same press conference, the South Carolinia Democrat misidentified Attorney General John Ashcroft as "the secretary of energy" and erroneously charged that Army Secretary Thomas White pushed for deregulation that netted him a $100 million profit from an Enron investment.
"But as Army Secretary, White has never advocated deregulation and denies doing any favors for Enron," reported FNC's Carl Cameron.
Responding to Hollings' charges, the White House said, "It has begun to make him look less than serious, someone who should not be taken seriously."
Republicans on the Hill called Hollings' effort to blame Bush economic policies for the 9/11 attacks "pathetic."
In November New York Sen. Hillary Clinton made a similarly outrageous claim, suggesting that the Bush tax cut was to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
"If we hadn't passed the big tax cut last spring, that I believe undermined our fiscal responsibility and our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today," Clinton told CNN on the two-month anniversary of the attacks.
IANAL, but it seems any manufacturer who does not have the money or will to comply with this law just needs to incorporate some piece of analog technology into a product, and the need to comply with this law disappears.
After all, if a device has some dirty old analog technology, it's not *truely* digital, correct?
Really, this could just fall upon lawyers looking for ways to define how a digital device isn't truely digital. Lots of hair splitting.
As usual, the only people who win are the lawyers.
Money is still a reality for theater owners, and many of them cannot convert over to a digital system for that reason.
I live in Omaha, Nebraska where less than a year ago they tore down one of the last three Cinerama theaters. The Indian Hills Theater was owned by Carmike cinema, who filed chapter 11 last year, they had expanded too quickly and got into trouble. Several interested parties steped forward to take over the theater, but there were problems with asbestos, local traffic, and the bottom line: the new owners would have to pony up $10,000 in rent every month. The local art house movie owner couldn't make that happen.
The Indian Hills had the same problem alot of other independant or small chain theaters have - there are 24 screen Uberplexes that are kicking there asses. People didn't care that the Indian Hills had the world's largest wrapparound Cinerama screen. A Cinerama film projected from three projectors looks a bajillion times more beautiful that George's shitty digital standard.
The theater business makes it's money at the concession stand. For all of the money Studios make from a film, the screen showing it does not get to keep much of the profit. Upgrades do not put more money in the pockets of the theater owner, who is in many cases doing his/her best just to keep the doors open.
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Freebie? You're making an unfair baseless assumption about me. I do buy software, and did support Blender financially.
Maya is outside of mine and most people's pricerange because it costs US$7000 last time I looked. If 7 grand is something you can spend on computer software, good for you. For most of us in the real world, that price is prohibitive.
The free download is crippled, unless you are using a crack. If you are, you have a lot of nerve calling me a freebie.
NaN makes one piece of software - Blender (and varients of Blender). The Code for Blender is very likely the only thing NaN owns that they can sell to pay back it's investors. You can't sell the code and give it away at the same time. So I doubt there will be a GPL version.
Also worrisome - If they find a buyer for Blender, there is no guarantee the new company will continue to build Linux binaries.
Owch. This is a bad day to be a Linux desktop user.
NaN folding will strengthen the argument that there are not enough good desktop applications for Linux. It will also strengthen the claims that Linux users will not pay for software.
I doubt we will see OpenBlender. NaN may not be able to GPL Blender, as the code for that application is the only company assest they can leverage to pay off it's debt. We also don't know if they licensed any code from external contractors.
I have a strong interest in 3D animation, I am a Linux user, and Blender was it for me. There are no other 3d programs under Linux with it's level of sophistication. I hate dual booting to Windows to use Lightwave.
Loki is gone - no games. Blender is gone - no 3d.
This makes the siren's song of OSX go up a couple of decibles.
When was the first celebrity fake jpeg and when was it posted to usenet?
I wish that solders would stop and think about the environment when there is a tank coming after them. Depleted Uranium makes it hard for the daisies to grow. I know because Oprah told me so.
I don't know what Draeker made for the rest of the year, but 46 thousand is not a lot of money, especially for the CEO of a software house. His wife was paid 18 thousand, which is less than my wife makes at Wal-Mart as a cashier.
Now, I think the whole business of these employees getting F'ed out of thier money blows, but after a year without pay I think there's a lot of blind loyalty going on.
What I've read so far doesn't tell me Scott Draeker is evil, just a bad manager.
I could have told you Loki was making dumb decisions just based on bringing games to the Linux market that were already a year old for Windows. I was never excited by a Loki release, and I think that might be the bottom line for it's failure.
Before we have all out GWB bashing:
The article makes it clear this is a draft of a report rather than a full blown plan. It also is a Pentagon study rather than administration policy.
I think the fact that this has become public is no accident. As Dr. Strangelove once asked "what's the point of a doomsday weapon if you don't tell anyone it exists?". Like it or not, this administration seems to be developing a Mutually Assured Destruction policy towards states that support terrorism. It is important at some point to broadcast this intention. A leaked internal report serves this function while allowing the State Dept. and diplomatic channels deniability.
Or you could use the FSV browser for other unixes.
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There is nothing that bans the cultivation of stem cells for medical research in the United States.
The only policy that President Bush has established concerning stem cells said that an existing set of stem cell strains (aprox. 60) would recieve federal funding. That's not the same as outlawing or limiting future stem cell research.
Other stem cell strains may be created, but not at federal expense. Medical Companies would need to use private financing to start future strains.
Red Wizard needs food badly.
Actually, OSX is based on the Mach kernel which is a fork off BSD. While it has BSD roots, they are quite old. The Mach kernel was the basis for NextStep, and that was 10 years ago.
Now we can call it "Been".
What I mean is Flash is not a critical component for any web site right now. It's a gloss layer, and could be replaced on a moment's notice with a simple graphic layer. Until Flash features technologies that with make it a core component of a web site, the technology is not entrenched.
But that's just my opinion.
If Macromedia is so serious, they should consider that web developers have a much higher percentage of *nix people in the ranks. Yet no dev tools have been ported. Hmmmmm.... MM is buying the FUD.
Also, I smell the day coming when there will be a "Flash Tax" ala "GIF Tax", but Macromedia needs to become more entrenched before this can happen.
You don't get any ads in you use the plam version of the site, and you don't pay 5 bucks.
Ask for it by name!
http://slashdot.org/palm/
Newsmax is every bit as legitimate as this site, and as a right-winger myself I have no problem with them taking a conservative editorial posture. At least they are open about being conservative, unlike CNN, who has a left bent but claims not to. As long as a news service is coy about leaning left without admiting to it, I guess they are still legit in your book.
I also pointed out that numerous news sources reported this story yesterday, but this was the first I found that put Holling's remarks in full context, an I reprinted the entire article here.
Next time I'll find you a nice Village Voice article and we can pretend they are a news source. OK?
I wish I had mod points to score this up, but I've already posted in this discussion.
I like the idea of harassing Hollywood with bills that resemble those they seek to impose on others. The proble you're going to run into is finding a congressman or senator to sponsor the bill.
Hollywood spend alot of money keeping Dashle, Clinton, Waters, Hollings, and Kennedy their pocket.
Um, Dude -
Fritz Hollings is a Democrat. The Republicans are not the ones pushing this lame ass SSSCA.
Ashcroft is trying to make sure you are not killed by terrorists. That doesn't make him a nazi.
Hollings is trying to make sure you have no rights as a consumer.
Hollings also voted to take away your right to free speech by voting for the Campaign Finance Reform bill. If you don't like SSSCA, and want to run a political ad on TV against Fritz Hollings, you are about to lose the right to do so within 60 days of an election. Because you represent a dirty "Special Interest", and any money that you would want to spend on a campaign ad is considered "Soft Money". So your voice will be silenced during the 60 days that most people begin to pay attention to a political race.
Your only hope is that Bush will veto it. But he might not, because that would make him look partisan, and against reform.
So ultimately bad laws like SSSCA will pass and you have no right to air political ads when it matters most.
Blame the Democrats for this one.
This is reprinted from NewsMax but it was also on the Cable networks last night. Hollings is going to be put out to pasture soon. Without Hollings, SSSCA will die.
====================
Hollings Blames Bush Administration for 9/11 Attacks
Apparently frustrated over his inability to gain any political traction on the Enron scandal, Democratic Party loose cannon Sen. Fritz Hollings charged Wednesday that the Bush administration's economic policies actually helped Osama bin Laden finance the Sept. 11 attacks that resulted in the deaths of over 3,000 Americans.
"In came the [Bush] administration with who? [Economic adviser] Larry Lindsey," Hollings told a Washington, D.C., press conference in somewhat slurred speech.
"Larry Lindsey was the $50,000-a-year consultant for Enron who was running around saying it was unconstitutional to try to close down these things [offshore tax shelters]. And so they immediately, this time last year, closed down the Larry Summers effort. And you had 9/11."
Summers was the Clinton administration treasury secretary who Hollings said wanted to close down offshore tax havens.
In fact, the FBI found that offshore tax havens had nothing to do with bin Laden's ability to finance the attacks, reported Fox News Channel, which made Hollings' outburst its lead story Wednesday night.
During the same press conference, the South Carolinia Democrat misidentified Attorney General John Ashcroft as "the secretary of energy" and erroneously charged that Army Secretary Thomas White pushed for deregulation that netted him a $100 million profit from an Enron investment.
"But as Army Secretary, White has never advocated deregulation and denies doing any favors for Enron," reported FNC's Carl Cameron.
Responding to Hollings' charges, the White House said, "It has begun to make him look less than serious, someone who should not be taken seriously."
Republicans on the Hill called Hollings' effort to blame Bush economic policies for the 9/11 attacks "pathetic."
In November New York Sen. Hillary Clinton made a similarly outrageous claim, suggesting that the Bush tax cut was to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
"If we hadn't passed the big tax cut last spring, that I believe undermined our fiscal responsibility and our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in today," Clinton told CNN on the two-month anniversary of the attacks.
IANAL, but it seems any manufacturer who does not have the money or will to comply with this law just needs to incorporate some piece of analog technology into a product, and the need to comply with this law disappears.
After all, if a device has some dirty old analog technology, it's not *truely* digital, correct?
Really, this could just fall upon lawyers looking for ways to define how a digital device isn't truely digital. Lots of hair splitting.
As usual, the only people who win are the lawyers.
Money is still a reality for theater owners, and many of them cannot convert over to a digital system for that reason.
I live in Omaha, Nebraska where less than a year ago they tore down one of the last three Cinerama theaters. The Indian Hills Theater was owned by Carmike cinema, who filed chapter 11 last year, they had expanded too quickly and got into trouble. Several interested parties steped forward to take over the theater, but there were problems with asbestos, local traffic, and the bottom line: the new owners would have to pony up $10,000 in rent every month. The local art house movie owner couldn't make that happen.
The Indian Hills had the same problem alot of other independant or small chain theaters have - there are 24 screen Uberplexes that are kicking there asses. People didn't care that the Indian Hills had the world's largest wrapparound Cinerama screen. A Cinerama film projected from three projectors looks a bajillion times more beautiful that George's shitty digital standard.
The theater business makes it's money at the concession stand. For all of the money Studios make from a film, the screen showing it does not get to keep much of the profit. Upgrades do not put more money in the pockets of the theater owner, who is in many cases doing his/her best just to keep the doors open.
Remember to compliment the size of his CVS tree occasionally!
But will he be "Free" as in able to drink Beer all night with the boys?
So, will it be an "Open" marrage?