I think you underestimate the number of people that are using Blender. Recently Blender has been getting a very big increase in popularity (helped partially by the Elephants Dream movie) and Blender is also being used in several professional companies as well. Blender is no longer a small and insignificant project by any means.
It is not the game engine that defines the feel of art and play of a game. The artwork and the game logic (which isn't part of the game engine but written on top of the game engine) are what makes a game unique. And you can make many unique games with the same game engine. Saying that one game engine makes all games look alike is like saying that all games using Direct3D look alike.
We actually have two brains. One called 'small brain' (at least in Dutch it is called like that. I hope it translates to english directly) which is responsible for basic primitive operations like breathing and such and then the main part which is responsible for cognitive operations.
I always find it weird how religious people have so much trouble believing that telepathy can exists while at the same time they have no problem believing that God knows everything and knows what we think.
I'm an atheist myself and I tend to *think* that telepathy doesn't exist. But who am I to claim that I know all there is to know already?
Still two problems:
- Charging that battery also takes power. So you get a power consumption increase then.
- If you leave it off for a long time the battery may run out.
The saving of energy may perhaps be caused by not having to do all the cpu and harddisk activities of starting up. i.e. when you start up a computer fresh a lot of activity is happening. I guess the parent poster wants to know if avoiding that activity and having the cost of sleep all night is better then not going to sleep mode at night and then having the power cost of the bootup process.
For video recorders or other equipment that need to keep track of time this is not such a nice idea. I don't want to set the time on my video every time after I put it off.
Why is three-divided so bad according to you? Just curious. I like it a lot personally. I have a lot of folders (more then hundred) due to various mailing lists I'm subscribed too. So this is all very conveniant that I can easily switch between those folders.
Greetings,
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That's absolutely not true! I'm the project manager of Crystal Space and my main computer is a 64-bit AMD on which I run 64-bit Linux. Crystal Space is 100% 64-bit clean (at least the latest CVS, the latest stable 0.98 has problems).
Greetings,
Replacing the Game Engine: CrystalBlend
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Some of you may already know but we are aiming to make a new GameEngine for Blender using the Crystal Space 3D Engine (http://www.crystalspace3d.org/). This project is called CrystalBlend (more information on that project here: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index. php?page=CrystalBlend). The idea is (just like with the current game engine) to be able to make full games from inside Blender without the need to program. The current logic system for the game engine is a bit limited so you often have to resort to Python scripts to make the full game but with CrystalBlend we will make a totally new logic system that still allows for this fallback but makes it less needed.
The reason I post here is that I'm looking for developers who want to help me with this project mainly on the Blender side. As the project manager of Crystal Space I will take on the Crystal Space side of CrystalBlend (i.e. 3D engine specifics). I will also work on the logic system itself but I would like some other people to help me with both the integration of Blender and Crystal Space as the development of the new user interfaces for the new logic system.
Give me a mail (jorrit dot tyberghein at gmail dot com) if you are interested!
My kids didn't have this problem because they started playing Lego with the Lego bricks I had when I was a child. I didn't have the instruction booklets for that anymore and in any case, most of the bricks were missing. So there was nothing else to do but make own creations. And now they love doing exactly that. We now have several new boxes and they do make the creations in them according to the instructions but soon after they simply pour the bricks of those in the general brick boxes and start building their own inventions.
Well lego HAS been going back to the basics lately. The Designer and Technics series are pretty strong and have lots of very interesting bricks (hinges and such) that you can use in many interesting ways. My kids simply love to play with the bricks from the dinosaur and deepsea lego designer boxes.
Perhaps you should take a look at these new series. They really are VERY good and allow for a lot of things you can make on your own. And btw, these new boxes already come with booklets showing schematics for around 9 to 12 models and photographs (without schematics) for several more.
I constantly switch between Windows and Linux (so that I can test the apps that I write on both platforms) and I usually hardly notice what OS I'm using. I'm using all the same tools on both operating systems already (although not the same binaries): - gvim - gcc (on windows from www.mingw.org) - blender - gimp - OpenOffice - xchat - bash (on windows from www.mingw.org) - firefox - thunderbird - and so on...
Greetings,
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Being healthy with a good immune system is actually WORSE in this case. What happens is that this virus causes the immune system to attack your own body (more specifically the lungs). So people with a good and strong immune system will be more likely to die from this. Nearly all deaths in Asia caused by bird-flu were among young and healthy people.
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Re:emacs and vim are too difficult to use
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I use 'vi' (actually 'vim') EXACTLY because of the insert mode versus command mode. Because having such modes allows vi to have very short commands that (most of the time) don't even require a modifier key. i.e. with only two key presses I can delete the current line ('dd'). With one keypress I can paste it elsewhere ('p'). And so on. That's what makes vi so efficient if you are prepared to learn all the keys.
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Sorry but that reasoning is nonsense. I agree that you should know what a function does and how to use it but that doesn't mean that I should have to type the full name over and over again. Some libraries and API's have pretty long names for functions and they are not always easy to remember. Also some API's have a lot of functions. Some of which are not very intuitive. Since I have no control over those API's I have to use them and that's when IntelliSense is VERY handy indeed. I use IntelliJ at work for Java and in addition to IntelliSense IntellJ also shows you a short summary of the JavaDoc and all possible variants (overloads) of a function with all parameters and exceptions that are thrown.
And it is not only for remembering. IntelliSense is also very useful so you don't have to actually type the long names everytime.
How do you define 'real value'? This person was able to get real money for these imaginary items. So when you look at it that way these items have real value indeed. This is pretty common actually. Virtual items from MMORPG games have been auctioned for real money a lot already. So I would say these items really have value.
My oldest daughter is 7 and she loves using the computer for things other then games too. For example, at school she is learning to read and write and she likes to practice typing sentences in a text editor. Also I made a small boulderdash game for my kids and they are more busy with the level editor (the 'creative' part) then actually playing the levels. So I think young kids are more then capable of doing non-game stuff on computers too. You just have to give them a chance.
That's very true indeed and it reminds me of something funny I noticed with my kids. I made a small boulderdash game for them with its own built-in level editor. I soon noticed that they spend a LOT more time in the level editor then actually playing the level. Apparently the creativity factor is still important for them (my oldest daughter is 7 and my son is 5. My youngest daughter can only slam the keyboard, she is 2:-)
It depends on what the kids are doing. In my case I have young kids and they play simple games that don't require a strict timing to finish. So I can easily say to stop in one hour (or whatever). Of course I always allow them to finish the part of the game they are doing. In my case this is more needed then not because I have two kids (one 5 and one 7, the third one is only 2 years old) that want to play both on the computer so I have to divide in discreet time units.
We have national ID cards in Belgium and I never ever felt they were a threat to my freedom at all. I'm 35 and so far I think I needed that card about 5 times. Other then those 5 times it is just a card that sits in your wallet and doesn't bother me in the slightest bit. I really don't see what freedom has to do with that.
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I think you underestimate the number of people that are using Blender. Recently Blender has been getting a very big increase in popularity (helped partially by the Elephants Dream movie) and Blender is also being used in several professional companies as well. Blender is no longer a small and insignificant project by any means.
Greetings,
It is not the game engine that defines the feel of art and play of a game. The artwork and the game logic (which isn't part of the game engine but written on top of the game engine) are what makes a game unique. And you can make many unique games with the same game engine. Saying that one game engine makes all games look alike is like saying that all games using Direct3D look alike.
Greetings,
We actually have two brains. One called 'small brain' (at least in Dutch it is called like that. I hope it translates to english directly) which is responsible for basic primitive operations like breathing and such and then the main part which is responsible for cognitive operations.
Greetings,
I always find it weird how religious people have so much trouble believing that telepathy can exists while at the same time they have no problem believing that God knows everything and knows what we think.
I'm an atheist myself and I tend to *think* that telepathy doesn't exist. But who am I to claim that I know all there is to know already?
Greetings,
Still two problems:
- Charging that battery also takes power. So you get a power consumption increase then.
- If you leave it off for a long time the battery may run out.
The saving of energy may perhaps be caused by not having to do all the cpu and harddisk activities of starting up. i.e. when you start up a computer fresh a lot of activity is happening. I guess the parent poster wants to know if avoiding that activity and having the cost of sleep all night is better then not going to sleep mode at night and then having the power cost of the bootup process.
Greetings,
For video recorders or other equipment that need to keep track of time this is not such a nice idea. I don't want to set the time on my video every time after I put it off.
Greetings,
Why is three-divided so bad according to you? Just curious. I like it a lot personally. I have a lot of folders (more then hundred) due to various mailing lists I'm subscribed too. So this is all very conveniant that I can easily switch between those folders.
Greetings,
That's absolutely not true! I'm the project manager of Crystal Space and my main computer is a 64-bit AMD on which I run 64-bit Linux. Crystal Space is 100% 64-bit clean (at least the latest CVS, the latest stable 0.98 has problems).
Greetings,
Some of you may already know but we are aiming to make a new GameEngine for Blender using the Crystal Space 3D Engine (http://www.crystalspace3d.org/). This project is called CrystalBlend (more information on that project here: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index. php?page=CrystalBlend). The idea is (just like with the current game engine) to be able to make full games from inside Blender without the need to program. The current logic system for the game engine is a bit limited so you often have to resort to Python scripts to make the full game but with CrystalBlend we will make a totally new logic system that still allows for this fallback but makes it less needed.
The reason I post here is that I'm looking for developers who want to help me with this project mainly on the Blender side. As the project manager of Crystal Space I will take on the Crystal Space side of CrystalBlend (i.e. 3D engine specifics). I will also work on the logic system itself but I would like some other people to help me with both the integration of Blender and Crystal Space as the development of the new user interfaces for the new logic system.
Give me a mail (jorrit dot tyberghein at gmail dot com) if you are interested!
Greetings,
My kids didn't have this problem because they started playing Lego with the Lego bricks I had when I was a child. I didn't have the instruction booklets for that anymore and in any case, most of the bricks were missing. So there was nothing else to do but make own creations. And now they love doing exactly that. We now have several new boxes and they do make the creations in them according to the instructions but soon after they simply pour the bricks of those in the general brick boxes and start building their own inventions.
Greetings,
You apparently didn't look hard. There are still plenty of very good and big technical and designer sets around. For example, check out http://www.lego.com/eng/create/technic/productPage .aspx?family=technic&productNumber=8421 and http://www.lego.com/eng/create/productPage.aspx?fa mily=designer&productNumber=4507
Both very good boxes with lots of very interesting pieces that CAN be used in many interesting ways (like the hinges and other bricks).
Greetings,
Well lego HAS been going back to the basics lately. The Designer and Technics series are pretty strong and have lots of very interesting bricks (hinges and such) that you can use in many interesting ways. My kids simply love to play with the bricks from the dinosaur and deepsea lego designer boxes.
Perhaps you should take a look at these new series. They really are VERY good and allow for a lot of things you can make on your own. And btw, these new boxes already come with booklets showing schematics for around 9 to 12 models and photographs (without schematics) for several more.
Greetings,
I constantly switch between Windows and Linux (so that I can test the apps that I write on both platforms) and I usually hardly notice what OS I'm using. I'm using all the same tools on both operating systems already (although not the same binaries):
- gvim
- gcc (on windows from www.mingw.org)
- blender
- gimp
- OpenOffice
- xchat
- bash (on windows from www.mingw.org)
- firefox
- thunderbird
- and so on...
Greetings,
Being healthy with a good immune system is actually WORSE in this case. What happens is that this virus causes the immune system to attack your own body (more specifically the lungs). So people with a good and strong immune system will be more likely to die from this. Nearly all deaths in Asia caused by bird-flu were among young and healthy people.
Greetings,
I use 'vi' (actually 'vim') EXACTLY because of the insert mode versus command mode. Because having such modes allows vi to have very short commands that (most of the time) don't even require a modifier key. i.e. with only two key presses I can delete the current line ('dd'). With one keypress I can paste it elsewhere ('p'). And so on. That's what makes vi so efficient if you are prepared to learn all the keys.
Greetings,
Sorry but that reasoning is nonsense. I agree that you should know what a function does and how to use it but that doesn't mean that I should have to type the full name over and over again. Some libraries and API's have pretty long names for functions and they are not always easy to remember. Also some API's have a lot of functions. Some of which are not very intuitive. Since I have no control over those API's I have to use them and that's when IntelliSense is VERY handy indeed. I use IntelliJ at work for Java and in addition to IntelliSense IntellJ also shows you a short summary of the JavaDoc and all possible variants (overloads) of a function with all parameters and exceptions that are thrown.
And it is not only for remembering. IntelliSense is also very useful so you don't have to actually type the long names everytime.
Greetings,
How do you define 'real value'? This person was able to get real money for these imaginary items. So when you look at it that way these items have real value indeed. This is pretty common actually. Virtual items from MMORPG games have been auctioned for real money a lot already. So I would say these items really have value.
Greetings,
Well if several people submit the same story, only one can be accepted. That's probably why yours got rejected.
Why Google? It is not google that is breaking the contract with MS. It is the former MS employee.
Greetings,
My oldest daughter is 7 and she loves using the computer for things other then games too. For example, at school she is learning to read and write and she likes to practice typing sentences in a text editor. Also I made a small boulderdash game for my kids and they are more busy with the level editor (the 'creative' part) then actually playing the levels. So I think young kids are more then capable of doing non-game stuff on computers too. You just have to give them a chance.
Greetings,
That's very true indeed and it reminds me of something funny I noticed with my kids. I made a small boulderdash game for them with its own built-in level editor. I soon noticed that they spend a LOT more time in the level editor then actually playing the level. Apparently the creativity factor is still important for them (my oldest daughter is 7 and my son is 5. My youngest daughter can only slam the keyboard, she is 2 :-)
Greetings,
It depends on what the kids are doing. In my case I have young kids and they play simple games that don't require a strict timing to finish. So I can easily say to stop in one hour (or whatever). Of course I always allow them to finish the part of the game they are doing. In my case this is more needed then not because I have two kids (one 5 and one 7, the third one is only 2 years old) that want to play both on the computer so I have to divide in discreet time units.
Greetings,
Why do you assume there can be no interruption in conciousness?
Greetings,
We have national ID cards in Belgium and I never ever felt they were a threat to my freedom at all. I'm 35 and so far I think I needed that card about 5 times. Other then those 5 times it is just a card that sits in your wallet and doesn't bother me in the slightest bit. I really don't see what freedom has to do with that.
Greetings,