Right click>Select faces>Spacebar>Polygons>Reverse Surface Normals
Once you've done it once it automatically creates a little macro for you and you can just hit 'g' next time.
PS. In New Zealand, to "hotbox" means to smoke cannabis in an enclosed and unventilated space, like a telephone booth or a closet lined with tinfoil and Christmas lights.
That reminds me of some Windows graphics programs which have "refresh", "redraw", or "repaint" menu items. This always seemed like a cop-out; graphics programs should be very good about keeping the displayed image accurate.
I have to disagree with you there, it depends on how heavy that repaint option is, if it takes more than ~5 seconds to repaint, then you definitely need that pause/update button. It's like driving a car, the car can't predict when you're coming up to a hill, or when you're going to stop, so it's nice to have that manual override on the gearbox.
There are tricks though; a 3d painting application I have been working on in my spare time recently stores the paint strokes in an off-screen buffer, and then projects those screen space strokes on to the uv texture map only when the user rotates the mesh. This means that you can still have nice fluid strokes when your painting to an 8k texture on a 3 million polygon mesh in a python application.
You don't understand. If the system is closed enough, the designer never has to worry about these hypothetical audits you suggest. That frees him to make REAL money designing software.
Indeed, but that still means the code is still subject to reverse engineering. We need the "cloud" to take care of elections, with an adobe flex based web-service as the front end, that will protect Diebold's ability to make money even further;).
He is probably more opposed to the presentation of both "sides" as if they stand on equal footing. For example no one will complain if a social studies teacher explains the conflict between religious fundamentalism and science.
Rights are inherent in being a human. They are not granted to you by any outside entity.
Rights are a human construct, the rights you get are the rights you take, and the rights granted to you by others.
Rights are not somehow "built in", they are not instinctual. In fact the enlightenment values that us westerners draw our principle rights from often run contrary to our instincts.
Dude, you know poor people spend a greater proportion of their income than rich people? That makes sales tax effectively regressive. If you want the rich to pay more (and I certainly do), tax income, property, and capital gains, not sales.
That's true, but if the rich want to gain any advantage from their wealth they either have to spend it or invest it.
Milton Friedman advocated a flat tax with a basic income. I think that a decent basic income, combined with resource taxes would be the fairest system. A resource tax would be similar to a sales tax, but it would really only penalise wastefulness.
But I would think the thing you like about 24fps (the motion blur), can be done with 48fps (where the blur is carried out over 2 frames instead of 1 as before, to allow for the same amount of blurring time overall).
How can that be true? 24fps is half the shutter time of 48fps. I suppose they could just optical flow blur all the footage in post, but I sincerely hope they don't.
I didn't think that the suggestion that USA is a liberal democracy would be controversial, the only reason I can see for you having a problem with the term is that you think there is some kind of US "Liberal" (ie the Democrats) connotation. There is not.
There is no Left or Right bent to the term, it has to do with civil liberties, like freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the freedom to vote (hint: the other freedoms aren't subject to this.)
Waaay down the list you might find the liberty to toke, and yes it is a civil liberty to do so, but compared to those others, it is of little consequence.
What liberal democracy? We live in a republic, here in the US of A. Please, don't confuse democracy with a republic, and don't claim that the republic is liberal.
The USA is a liberal democracy.
From Wikipedia:
A liberal democracy may take various constitutional forms: it may be a constitutional republic; as the United States, India, Germany or Brazil, or a constitutional monarchy, such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada or Spain. It may have a presidential system (United States, Brazil), a parliamentary system (Westminster system, UK and Commonwealth countries, Spain), or a hybrid, semi-presidential system (France).
There is no "live and let live" today. Activists march in the streets, they have parades in half the major cities, whining and crying, demanding rights that are ridiculous - but when someone posts their disapproval of that behaviour - he's intolerant.
If you understand this why do you persist?
"Live and let live"?
Funny - there isn't a lot of that "live and let live" for those of us who think there might be a god, or a God.
You're allowed to live, but you aren't allowed to turn a liberal democracy into a theocracy. If you can't handle the thought of love without the blessing of your God, then you are truly selfish.
I think that the GPL is too restrictive in cases where the software components are highly reusable and might be handy for a proprietary project; but that's where the LGPL comes into play. To me the BSD licence seems like a wasted effort when you're coding in your free time, as there's simply not enough "encouragement" for proprietary developers to contribute to the project, at least with the LGPL if they fix or modify something in your code then they are compelled to submit those changes before redistributing your code.
The BSD has it's place though, and you're point is valid, it is more open than GPL, and in some ways BSD'ers are even more generous with their time than GPL'ers, perhaps they're just a little too generous at times:).
I like the European date format. dd/mm/yy makes sense, since it goes from the smallest time frame (days), to the largest. The American format seems silly.
- PS: I'm American.
Agreed, but it would also make even more sense to do it big endian, that way it's in line with how we notate time ie; YYYY/MM/DD/hh/mm/ss.
According to the TEPCO Press Release of 4 April, approximately 10 000 T of water from the radioactive waste treatment plant and 1 500 T of subsurface waters stored in the sub drain pits of Unit 5 and 6 are being discharged to the sea to provide room to store water with higher levels of radioactivity in a safer manner. The discharges started at 10:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC respectively on 4 April. TEPCO has estimated that these discharges would increase the effective dose to a member of the public by 0.6 mSv, if he/she were to eat seaweed and seafood from the discharge area every day for a year.
A person's average yearly background dose is around 3.65 mSv, according to xkcd.
It also says that the "lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk" is 100mSv, so that's pretty safe right?
Salvia isn't by any means a weak hallucinogen, but that doesn't mean that it's worth taking. It's in the dissociative class of hallucinogen (with DXM and fly agarics), as opposed to the psychedelic hallucinogens, like LSD, psylocybes and DMT.
In Hollywood blockbusters the visual effects are usually the most artistic, original and inventive part of the film. Usually that means the making of is far more interesting than the final product.
Of course there is. There are plenty of men who aren't bald. What's their secret?
Low testosterone levels, something that kind of sucks if you want to be a man.
Think of the other implications of low testosterone levels. You'll have less muscle mass, have less sex drive, a short stature, a weak jaw, and a lower bone density, and probably be a bit of a pussy. Sign me up for the bald option please.
"Piracy is a market failure - not a legal one" Who is the author trying to rebut? Are people on the "other side" really saying "Piracy is a legal failure, not a market one."?
The DMCA exists doesn't it?
I've never heard anyone make the claim that piracy exists because the laws are inadequate. Seems like he's searching for an opponent that doesn't exist. Many of us here would agree that using/abusing the legal system to respond to the problem of piracy doesn't seem like an effective solution. But that's hardly making the case in finding the source of piracy.
We've found the source of piracy, you can share data with your mates for free. Why would you ever buy it?
I think this ill-conceived narrative of the piracy debate comes from we consumers being unable to accept that there are people among us who are the problem -- "it's not people like us, it's the system". Perhaps it is neither "the market" nor the "legal system" that is at fault in the continued proliferation of piracy (they're piecemeal responses) -- perhaps piracy stems from a moral failure of the individual who chooses to pirate. Can we ever accept that?
Not at all, it's neither a moral or legal problem, it's a business problem. With current technology as it is, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sell data, so get with the times, sell services.
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About that question from the link: "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
If you have never beaten your wife, then you have never stopped have you? So answer no.
It's all about the "Hotbox" in Maya:
Right click>Select faces>Spacebar>Polygons>Reverse Surface Normals
Once you've done it once it automatically creates a little macro for you and you can just hit 'g' next time.
PS. In New Zealand, to "hotbox" means to smoke cannabis in an enclosed and unventilated space, like a telephone booth or a closet lined with tinfoil and Christmas lights.
No, that's a false dichotomy, but that certainly is one of the choices.
Wouldn't the NZ equiv of the RIAA count it as at least one strike per track?
Actually, you're free to "pirate "as much as you want until you get your letter, then if you continue you get another letter, and so on.
That reminds me of some Windows graphics programs which have "refresh", "redraw", or "repaint" menu items. This always seemed like a cop-out; graphics programs should be very good about keeping the displayed image accurate.
I have to disagree with you there, it depends on how heavy that repaint option is, if it takes more than ~5 seconds to repaint, then you definitely need that pause/update button.
It's like driving a car, the car can't predict when you're coming up to a hill, or when you're going to stop, so it's nice to have that manual override on the gearbox.
There are tricks though; a 3d painting application I have been working on in my spare time recently stores the paint strokes in an off-screen buffer, and then projects those screen space strokes on to the uv texture map only when the user rotates the mesh. This means that you can still have nice fluid strokes when your painting to an 8k texture on a 3 million polygon mesh in a python application.
GPL, but it depends on Matlab. I wonder if anyone has got it working under Octave.
You don't understand. If the system is closed enough, the designer never has to worry about these hypothetical audits you suggest. That frees him to make REAL money designing software.
Indeed, but that still means the code is still subject to reverse engineering. We need the "cloud" to take care of elections, with an adobe flex based web-service as the front end, that will protect Diebold's ability to make money even further ;).
He is probably more opposed to the presentation of both "sides" as if they stand on equal footing. For example no one will complain if a social studies teacher explains the conflict between religious fundamentalism and science.
Rights are inherent in being a human. They are not granted to you by any outside entity.
Rights are a human construct, the rights you get are the rights you take, and the rights granted to you by others.
Rights are not somehow "built in", they are not instinctual. In fact the enlightenment values that us westerners draw our principle rights from often run contrary to our instincts.
Dude, you know poor people spend a greater proportion of their income than rich people? That makes sales tax effectively regressive. If you want the rich to pay more (and I certainly do), tax income, property, and capital gains, not sales.
That's true, but if the rich want to gain any advantage from their wealth they either have to spend it or invest it.
Milton Friedman advocated a flat tax with a basic income. I think that a decent basic income, combined with resource taxes would be the fairest system. A resource tax would be similar to a sales tax, but it would really only penalise wastefulness.
But I would think the thing you like about 24fps (the motion blur), can be done with 48fps (where the blur is carried out over 2 frames instead of 1 as before, to allow for the same amount of blurring time overall).
How can that be true? 24fps is half the shutter time of 48fps. I suppose they could just optical flow blur all the footage in post, but I sincerely hope they don't.
I didn't think that the suggestion that USA is a liberal democracy would be controversial, the only reason I can see for you having a problem with the term is that you think there is some kind of US "Liberal" (ie the Democrats) connotation. There is not.
There is no Left or Right bent to the term, it has to do with civil liberties, like freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the freedom to vote (hint: the other freedoms aren't subject to this.)
Waaay down the list you might find the liberty to toke, and yes it is a civil liberty to do so, but compared to those others, it is of little consequence.
What liberal democracy? We live in a republic, here in the US of A. Please, don't confuse democracy with a republic, and don't claim that the republic is liberal.
The USA is a liberal democracy.
From Wikipedia:
A liberal democracy may take various constitutional forms: it may be a constitutional republic; as the United States, India, Germany or Brazil, or a constitutional monarchy, such as the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada or Spain. It may have a presidential system (United States, Brazil), a parliamentary system (Westminster system, UK and Commonwealth countries, Spain), or a hybrid, semi-presidential system (France).
There is no "live and let live" today. Activists march in the streets, they have parades in half the major cities, whining and crying, demanding rights that are ridiculous - but when someone posts their disapproval of that behaviour - he's intolerant.
If you understand this why do you persist?
"Live and let live"?
Funny - there isn't a lot of that "live and let live" for those of us who think there might be a god, or a God.
You're allowed to live, but you aren't allowed to turn a liberal democracy into a theocracy. If you can't handle the thought of love without the blessing of your God, then you are truly selfish.
I think that the GPL is too restrictive in cases where the software components are highly reusable and might be handy for a proprietary project; but that's where the LGPL comes into play. To me the BSD licence seems like a wasted effort when you're coding in your free time, as there's simply not enough "encouragement" for proprietary developers to contribute to the project, at least with the LGPL if they fix or modify something in your code then they are compelled to submit those changes before redistributing your code.
The BSD has it's place though, and you're point is valid, it is more open than GPL, and in some ways BSD'ers are even more generous with their time than GPL'ers, perhaps they're just a little too generous at times :).
I know you're joking but....
I like the European date format. dd/mm/yy makes sense, since it goes from the smallest time frame (days), to the largest. The American format seems silly.
- PS: I'm American.
Agreed, but it would also make even more sense to do it big endian, that way it's in line with how we notate time ie; YYYY/MM/DD/hh/mm/ss.
Good link. The relevant passage:
According to the TEPCO Press Release of 4 April, approximately 10 000 T of water from the radioactive waste treatment plant and 1 500 T of subsurface waters stored in the sub drain pits of Unit 5 and 6 are being discharged to the sea to provide room to store water with higher levels of radioactivity in a safer manner. The discharges started at 10:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC respectively on 4 April. TEPCO has estimated that these discharges would increase the effective dose to a member of the public by 0.6 mSv, if he/she were to eat seaweed and seafood from the discharge area every day for a year.
A person's average yearly background dose is around 3.65 mSv, according to xkcd.
It also says that the "lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk" is 100mSv, so that's pretty safe right?
You know what allows you to experience death by smoking it? Carbon monoxide, for example!
Carbon monoxide ain't flammable.
Salvia isn't by any means a weak hallucinogen, but that doesn't mean that it's worth taking. It's in the dissociative class of hallucinogen (with DXM and fly agarics), as opposed to the psychedelic hallucinogens, like LSD, psylocybes and DMT.
In Hollywood blockbusters the visual effects are usually the most artistic, original and inventive part of the film. Usually that means the making of is far more interesting than the final product.
Of course there is. There are plenty of men who aren't bald. What's their secret?
Low testosterone levels, something that kind of sucks if you want to be a man.
Think of the other implications of low testosterone levels. You'll have less muscle mass, have less sex drive, a short stature, a weak jaw, and a lower bone density, and probably be a bit of a pussy. Sign me up for the bald option please.
Agreed, my only problem is finding a new motherboard that supports the Phenom X4, nvidia SLi, ddr3 and usb3.
"Piracy is a market failure - not a legal one" Who is the author trying to rebut? Are people on the "other side" really saying "Piracy is a legal failure, not a market one."?
The DMCA exists doesn't it?
I've never heard anyone make the claim that piracy exists because the laws are inadequate. Seems like he's searching for an opponent that doesn't exist. Many of us here would agree that using/abusing the legal system to respond to the problem of piracy doesn't seem like an effective solution. But that's hardly making the case in finding the source of piracy.
We've found the source of piracy, you can share data with your mates for free. Why would you ever buy it?
I think this ill-conceived narrative of the piracy debate comes from we consumers being unable to accept that there are people among us who are the problem -- "it's not people like us, it's the system". Perhaps it is neither "the market" nor the "legal system" that is at fault in the continued proliferation of piracy (they're piecemeal responses) -- perhaps piracy stems from a moral failure of the individual who chooses to pirate. Can we ever accept that?
Not at all, it's neither a moral or legal problem, it's a business problem. With current technology as it is, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sell data, so get with the times, sell services.
Yes it does, the universe is an uncaring place, rights as with morality are a human construct.