The plugin isn't released to enable to view Blender 3D models. The plugin is released to enable games in web browsers. VRML has never been intended as a development platform for games.
It's the next step in the strategy of Not a Number to develop Blender as game development platform. I think it has never been discussed an Slashot before but since a while game creation is an integral part of Blender. The "realtime" part of Blender gives the opportunity to add sensors, controllers and actuators to every object in a Blender scene. This way user toobject as well as object to object interaction is possible without the need to do any programming. Even for Blender haters, the realtime part is very simple, and in my opinion very intuitive.
More on gameblender can be found in the onlione gameblender manual [blender.nl]. Gameblender demo files can be found at the blender community website. The skategirl demo for example is very impressive, at least if you have 3D accelerator card (GF2).
Now that game creation is possible the next step is the ability to publish the games. Games can always be published as a blender native file. This requires that the person who wants to play the game, has to install Blender and play the game within the Blender program. He can play the game and he can even modify the game.
The Blender player and Blender plugin are ment for game developers who want to publish their games to people who aren't interested in the Blender program but only in the game. The player makes it possible to publish on CD-ROM, the plugin to publish on the web.
Use good old doskey or the 4nt aliases to create macro's, either to the executable or to the shortcut. Currently my 4nt startup batch consists of more than 100 aliases to programs. I only use the commandline to invoke these programs.
[sysinternals.com] provides some very usefull tools, both CL and GUI. Amongst them is ListDLLs, a tool to examine DLL's in use by a specific processes and to find out which processes use a specific DLL. Output is in clean and formatted text. A script jockey (no, thast's not me) could easily create a script to list the DLL's in use by an Office application. This list can be used this list of dll's to find out whether or not they are preloaded before the invokation of an office application and how office specific this DLL is (I mean: WinWord uses Kernell.dll, but that's not a very specific Office DLL).
You can also use their GUI tool Process Explorer. But becaus of the recursive character of this job and the huge amount of DLL's involved it will be a time consuming and RSI stimulating job to do.
Maybe a lot of Cable/xDSL users run their own private home page on their machines at home. Then MSWindows users can choose between 2 main web servers: personal webserver or one of it's successors (like the webserver from the so called NT4- Workstation Option Pack), which is in fact a derative of IIS, or the win32 port of Apache.
I'm not sure if this advertisement-concept is known to the Linux people out there, but a lot of win32 software that is advertisement supported ships with spyware, profided by advertisement agencies as Radiate.com. This spyware is installed on the win32 machine together with the ad-supported software and it collects data of the user and transmits this data to a radiate server.
This spyware even sits on your computer when you've already deinstalled the sponsored program. You have to use software like Ad-Aware to remove al kinds of installed spyware and registry modifications done by his spyware.
It's not clear to me what kind of data this spyware collects, but it's both a privacy and security violation that a piece of software is able to sit on your machine to collect private data.
As long as it's not clear what kind of ad-software Opera uses for their version 5 browser, I would be very careful. Ad-supported software is more than just a banner on a web page.
For more information on spyware, have a look at:
Spychecker or ZDNet.
There is this Dutch guy who made this drawing program called Drape. It's inspired by Logo and L-Systems. It's completely visual oriented. You "drag and drop" drawing actions (draw line, change direction, change color, go back etc) on a time line. You're able to define subroutines and variables. You can run your drawing in "debug-mode" (step by step). It's freeware, it's very funny and it has a lot of basic concepts regarding programming, without the troubles of typing textual languages. You can find it at this guy's website.
Arleo
BTW, XP-LOGO implementations are still being made by the MIT, called Starlogo
Nice stuff, but very expensive. Just a thougth after last weeks lego CAD discussion: It should be possible to expand Lego CAD to contain the Mindstorm functionalities. So you would be able to construct virtual Lego robots in a virtual environment.
I thought this person, Througton, as a representative of the government would give us an objective comparison of technical security issues between Linux and whatever. But he doesn't. When he says:
"Windows was built for a single computer and then the network was added on as an afterthought. Also it's closed source, and I would never ever trust someone else completely with security."
he's not convincing with technical arguments. What he says is just a matter of trust, because he cannot see the source code. But trust doesn't tell me whether or not an OS is secure. Technical facts do. Is Novell insecure because I cannot see the source code? And what about the commercial Unix-flavours? Banyan Vines? What about all the software embedded in our network hardware?
This article doesn't tell me anything new. I hoped that someone from a government, someone independent, could give me some objective arguments. But this article is just another bash in the pro/contra MS fight.
MS10 didn't run very well on a NT4-sp3 system. it crashed within minutes. I didn't want to try MS11. How is your experience with MS12: will it run for more than one hour without a crash?
MS10 didn't run very well on a NT4-sp3 system. it crashed within minutes. I didn't want to try MS11. How is your experience with MS12: will it run for more than one hour without a crash?
Slashdot Mirror
Or how about removing redundant comments?
It's called Live-eval and it's available as an ISO from every Suse mirror.
The plugin isn't released to enable to view Blender 3D models. The plugin is released to enable games in web browsers. VRML has never been intended as a development platform for games.
It's the next step in the strategy of Not a Number to develop Blender as game development platform. I think it has never been discussed an Slashot before but since a while game creation is an integral part of Blender. The "realtime" part of Blender gives the opportunity to add sensors, controllers and actuators to every object in a Blender scene. This way user toobject as well as object to object interaction is possible without the need to do any programming. Even for Blender haters, the realtime part is very simple, and in my opinion very intuitive.
More on gameblender can be found in the onlione gameblender manual [blender.nl]. Gameblender demo files can be found at the blender community website. The skategirl demo for example is very impressive, at least if you have 3D accelerator card (GF2).
Now that game creation is possible the next step is the ability to publish the games. Games can always be published as a blender native file. This requires that the person who wants to play the game, has to install Blender and play the game within the Blender program. He can play the game and he can even modify the game.
The Blender player and Blender plugin are ment for game developers who want to publish their games to people who aren't interested in the Blender program but only in the game. The player makes it possible to publish on CD-ROM, the plugin to publish on the web.
Use good old doskey or the 4nt aliases to create macro's, either to the executable or to the shortcut. Currently my 4nt startup batch consists of more than 100 aliases to programs. I only use the commandline to invoke these programs.
arleo
[sysinternals.com] provides some very usefull tools, both CL and GUI. Amongst them is ListDLLs, a tool to examine DLL's in use by a specific processes and to find out which processes use a specific DLL. Output is in clean and formatted text. A script jockey (no, thast's not me) could easily create a script to list the DLL's in use by an Office application. This list can be used this list of dll's to find out whether or not they are preloaded before the invokation of an office application and how office specific this DLL is (I mean: WinWord uses Kernell.dll, but that's not a very specific Office DLL).
You can also use their GUI tool Process Explorer. But becaus of the recursive character of this job and the huge amount of DLL's involved it will be a time consuming and RSI stimulating job to do.
Arleo
Maybe a lot of Cable/xDSL users run their own private home page on their machines at home. Then MSWindows users can choose between 2 main web servers: personal webserver or one of it's successors (like the webserver from the so called NT4- Workstation Option Pack), which is in fact a derative of IIS, or the win32 port of Apache.
ArleoDear mrs. Hacker,
If you are able to enter my hotmail-inbox, would you be please so kind to delete those 300 spam messages after you've read them?
Thank you so kind
Arleo
Just wondering: does it support Banyan Vines Streettalk as well?
Arleo
A German company produces Airships for cargo transport. Their website is here.
Arleo
I'm not sure if this advertisement-concept is known to the Linux people out there, but a lot of win32 software that is advertisement supported ships with spyware, profided by advertisement agencies as Radiate.com. This spyware is installed on the win32 machine together with the ad-supported software and it collects data of the user and transmits this data to a radiate server.
This spyware even sits on your computer when you've already deinstalled the sponsored program. You have to use software like Ad-Aware to remove al kinds of installed spyware and registry modifications done by his spyware.
It's not clear to me what kind of data this spyware collects, but it's both a privacy and security violation that a piece of software is able to sit on your machine to collect private data.
As long as it's not clear what kind of ad-software Opera uses for their version 5 browser, I would be very careful. Ad-supported software is more than just a banner on a web page.
For more information on spyware, have a look at: Spychecker or ZDNet.
Arleo
"Alternatively, users can remove the keys, and vacuum, blow or shake off the dirt beneath."
I dun't mnuw whara tu qot thak becm;
Eriau;
There is this Dutch guy who made this drawing program called Drape. It's inspired by Logo and L-Systems. It's completely visual oriented. You "drag and drop" drawing actions (draw line, change direction, change color, go back etc) on a time line. You're able to define subroutines and variables. You can run your drawing in "debug-mode" (step by step).
It's freeware, it's very funny and it has a lot of basic concepts regarding programming, without the troubles of typing textual languages. You can find it at this guy's website.
Arleo
BTW, XP-LOGO implementations are still being made by the MIT, called Starlogo
Nice stuff, but very expensive. Just a thougth after last weeks lego CAD discussion: It should be possible to expand Lego CAD to contain the Mindstorm functionalities. So you would be able to construct virtual Lego robots in a virtual environment.
Arleo
I thought this person, Througton, as a representative of the government would give us an objective comparison of technical security issues between Linux and whatever. But he doesn't. When he says:
he's not convincing with technical arguments. What he says is just a matter of trust, because he cannot see the source code. But trust doesn't tell me whether or not an OS is secure. Technical facts do. Is Novell insecure because I cannot see the source code? And what about the commercial Unix-flavours? Banyan Vines? What about all the software embedded in our network hardware?This article doesn't tell me anything new. I hoped that someone from a government, someone independent, could give me some objective arguments. But this article is just another bash in the pro/contra MS fight.
ArleoMS10 didn't run very well on a NT4-sp3 system. it crashed within minutes. I didn't want to try MS11. How is your experience with MS12: will it run for more than one hour without a crash?
MS10 didn't run very well on a NT4-sp3 system. it crashed within minutes. I didn't want to try MS11. How is your experience with MS12: will it run for more than one hour without a crash?