Sorry to disagree, but this "pig" had the smallest footprint of any decent modeling/rendering application out there. Until quite recently, it fit on a single floppy, was available for a bunch of platforms (even IPaq!), and had a growing grassroots community that extended its capabilities and supported the product in a way superior to even the most high-end graphics applications. Unfortunately, their business model wasn't the most solid, and I genuinely believe they over-extended themselves when they decided to get into game engines and web applications. Keep it lean and mean, fellas.
I doubt it. Not only was the Maya release limited in its tools and output formats, but Blender has been distributed as a free application for quite some time. While free versions of very high-end software might have lured a few people into other camps, Blender has always been dedicated toward a low-end business/graphics hacker mentality. Their business model of giving the jewels away, but selling the mounts was interesting, but not very successful. And the strain of developing the application into a gaming engine/web application tool in addition to a sweet modeling/rendering environment is probably most responsible for the collapse. They over-extended themselves.
Hey Snarfer, have you looked at Bush's latest budget proposals? It sure looks like our Republican president wants a bigger government to me! And the only difference with the Democrats is where they want to spend the money.
Republican? Democrat? It makes no difference, they have no desire to see the size of government reduced and their power curtailed.
Gee, isn't it possible that some of these people are interested in CATO because the conclusions it supports are ideologically attractive to large corporations? That is, you seem to assume that because CATO receives money and attention from Big Business, that Big Business is responsible for the content of CATO's messages. It is also possible that Big Business supports CATO because CATO says things it agress with.
Correlation does not equal causation.
The problem is, if you don't know exactly whats going on, your best, well-intentioned efforts to correct a possible problem might cause worse problems. Suppose, for example, that the fears in the 70s that we were about to enter into a new Ice Age were accurate, but anthropogenic global warming (assuming there is such a thing) is preventing that from happening.
Or suppose the cost of preventing global warming with efforts like the Kyoto Protocol (which is admitted to be only a first step) severely outweighs the cost of simply adapting?
You're advocating an action for the simple sake of doing something, without an understanding of the costs or consequences of that action.
Well, just make sure you pay attention to the same propaganda-laden vocabulary as it frames and shifts a discussion when it comes from groups like Greenpeace.
But why do you make such an effort to deflect biased vocabulary and then turn around and admit that lots of Environmentalists and yourself could rightly be considered Radical?
A backup for personal use is neither rude nor wrong. It is only when one attempts to use the backup for personal profit at the expense of the IP owner that someone has been harmed.
May I make a wee suggestion here? Instead of voting for a republicrat, try voting for a libertarian. You won't get any more protection from excessive government and special-interest legislation care of the democrats than you will from the republicans.
I rather suspect the last thing Hussein would want would be an army of thugs who behave exactly the same way he does. Oh, that and wait a couple decades for the army of clones to grow up. And the conditioning necessary to get them to think the way he wants them to...
I don't know...videophiles have been annoyed about this for years. It reduces the quality of the program being viewed, and in many cases actually obstructs information...try watching some of the documentaries that air on Discovery or TLC. And Animal Planet has gotten ridiculous with their animated "bugs" filling the bottom of the frame.
When it first started, I tried to vote with my remote and switched to stations that didn't use the annoying, distracting practice. That didn't last long as every one of them picked up on it.
"In the past, the networks needed to provide a way for the viewer to know what station they were watching."
I've heard that argument repeated so many times since the networks started doing it about ten years ago. It almost makes sense until you realize that they don't do it over the commercials.
Yes, but now the tank walls only need to be one centimeter thick.
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Okay, that's weird. I would have sworn that post was uncredited. I even went on a hunt to find where I had read it. Clearly, I was mistaken about that and offer my apology to the AC who made the post in the first place.
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I'm not sure what the AC who posted the above was trying to prove, but that work certainly wasn't original. It's from a column in yesterday's Washington Post by a man named Michael Kelly.
Roche claims that they already made discounts "close to those that the ministry is requesting" and has even donated medicine. They are hardly price gouging. PharmaCorps have bent over backwards to appease third world needs, stopping short only of bankrupting themselves. Yes the bottom line is important...but without it the companys go belly-up.
Where would the Health Minister be today if Roche went out of business five years ago?
The simple fact is that Jose Serra's actions were politically motivated -- just in time for elections next month!
What will happen to drug research then if you get what you want? The pharmaceutical industry funds its research with patents on new medicines. Take away the patents, and the companies won't have any money to research new drugs. Drug companies will be forced to stop R&D and instead churn out old products. That would mean no cure for AIDS, cancer, etc. This tactic might be politically sound right now for the handful of Brazillians who have AIDS today, but to gain that, it runs the risk of sacrificing orders of magnitude more people in the future.
It's really easy to fall into the trap of justifying this theft as necessary to save lives, but the pharmaceuticals that worked on these products are now being deprived of money from these countries that would pay for the research that went into the product. Look, the expense of the research and regulatory compliance to create a new drug doesn't go away when the drug comes to market...it sometimes takes years for a pharmaceutical company to actually make a profit. With the actions of countries like Brazil, that payback will now take longer.
I wonder how the looters will get other life-saving wonder-drugs when they've driven the big research companies out of business?
Hunter...take a look at some old FASA Star Trek:RPG materials. The Federation Ship Recognition handbooks had a ship design called the Derf Class that has very similar lines. This one appears to be an Akira-ized version.
I also love the movie Enterprise the most, particularly with the paint scheme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the pearlescent finish was repainted to shades of white for subsequent films). But the same fellow who designed that ship also designed the ship seen in Next Generation. His name is Andy Probert and his website is at:
http://members.tripod.com/~DesignR/
Check it out...he also did work for Battlestar Galactica and Airwolf.
Yep, that's been my worry too. Fortunately, the creators of this show have given themselves a really cool "out" in the form of this "temporal cold war" that is occurring in the distant future. Not only can they use this as an explanation as to why they aren't completely in synch with established Trek history (or perceived Trek history, in the case of some imagined fans), but they can actually use it to deliberately alter the course of events that lead to Kirk and Spock and completely change everything. Done properly, this could be a very exciting update for the Franchise. If they don't screw it up like Voyager...
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Sorry to disagree, but this "pig" had the smallest footprint of any decent modeling/rendering application out there. Until quite recently, it fit on a single floppy, was available for a bunch of platforms (even IPaq!), and had a growing grassroots community that extended its capabilities and supported the product in a way superior to even the most high-end graphics applications. Unfortunately, their business model wasn't the most solid, and I genuinely believe they over-extended themselves when they decided to get into game engines and web applications. Keep it lean and mean, fellas.
I doubt it. Not only was the Maya release limited in its tools and output formats, but Blender has been distributed as a free application for quite some time. While free versions of very high-end software might have lured a few people into other camps, Blender has always been dedicated toward a low-end business/graphics hacker mentality. Their business model of giving the jewels away, but selling the mounts was interesting, but not very successful. And the strain of developing the application into a gaming engine/web application tool in addition to a sweet modeling/rendering environment is probably most responsible for the collapse. They over-extended themselves.
Hey Snarfer, have you looked at Bush's latest budget proposals? It sure looks like our Republican president wants a bigger government to me! And the only difference with the Democrats is where they want to spend the money.
Republican? Democrat? It makes no difference, they have no desire to see the size of government reduced and their power curtailed.
Gee, isn't it possible that some of these people are interested in CATO because the conclusions it supports are ideologically attractive to large corporations? That is, you seem to assume that because CATO receives money and attention from Big Business, that Big Business is responsible for the content of CATO's messages. It is also possible that Big Business supports CATO because CATO says things it agress with. Correlation does not equal causation.
The problem is, if you don't know exactly whats going on, your best, well-intentioned efforts to correct a possible problem might cause worse problems. Suppose, for example, that the fears in the 70s that we were about to enter into a new Ice Age were accurate, but anthropogenic global warming (assuming there is such a thing) is preventing that from happening.
Or suppose the cost of preventing global warming with efforts like the Kyoto Protocol (which is admitted to be only a first step) severely outweighs the cost of simply adapting?
You're advocating an action for the simple sake of doing something, without an understanding of the costs or consequences of that action.
Yep, and Lomborg, who was denied an opportunity to respond has addressed this hatchet job on one of his sites:
Lomborg's Responses
Well, just make sure you pay attention to the same propaganda-laden vocabulary as it frames and shifts a discussion when it comes from groups like Greenpeace.
But why do you make such an effort to deflect biased vocabulary and then turn around and admit that lots of Environmentalists and yourself could rightly be considered Radical?
A backup for personal use is neither rude nor wrong. It is only when one attempts to use the backup for personal profit at the expense of the IP owner that someone has been harmed.
So...are you claiming that no environmentalists are radical? Sounds to me like the propaganda goes both ways here.
May I make a wee suggestion here? Instead of voting for a republicrat, try voting for a libertarian. You won't get any more protection from excessive government and special-interest legislation care of the democrats than you will from the republicans.
I rather suspect the last thing Hussein would want would be an army of thugs who behave exactly the same way he does. Oh, that and wait a couple decades for the army of clones to grow up. And the conditioning necessary to get them to think the way he wants them to...
You're right, but as lazy as I am, that was the most I could hope for.
By the way, shouldn't that be 'Apatosaurus Jim'?
Ooooo! Stunning retort. No, really! I'm sitting here, weeping -- WEEPING -- I'm so wounded! Boo-hoo! You're such a cut-up, you big meany!
This from someone who wastes time posting on Slashdot.
As an Anonymous Coward, no less!
I don't know...videophiles have been annoyed about this for years. It reduces the quality of the program being viewed, and in many cases actually obstructs information...try watching some of the documentaries that air on Discovery or TLC. And Animal Planet has gotten ridiculous with their animated "bugs" filling the bottom of the frame.
When it first started, I tried to vote with my remote and switched to stations that didn't use the annoying, distracting practice. That didn't last long as every one of them picked up on it.
"In the past, the networks needed to provide a way for the viewer to know what station they were watching."
I've heard that argument repeated so many times since the networks started doing it about ten years ago. It almost makes sense until you realize that they don't do it over the commercials.
Yes, but now the tank walls only need to be one centimeter thick.
Okay, that's weird. I would have sworn that post was uncredited. I even went on a hunt to find where I had read it. Clearly, I was mistaken about that and offer my apology to the AC who made the post in the first place.
I'm not sure what the AC who posted the above was trying to prove, but that work certainly wasn't original. It's from a column in yesterday's Washington Post by a man named Michael Kelly.
Here's a link to the original: Pacifist Claptrap
Get real, Sir_Real!
Roche claims that they already made discounts "close to those that the ministry is requesting" and has even donated medicine. They are hardly price gouging. PharmaCorps have bent over backwards to appease third world needs, stopping short only of bankrupting themselves. Yes the bottom line is important...but without it the companys go belly-up.
Where would the Health Minister be today if Roche went out of business five years ago?
The simple fact is that Jose Serra's actions were politically motivated -- just in time for elections next month!
jlemmerer,
What will happen to drug research then if you get what you want? The pharmaceutical industry funds its research with patents on new medicines. Take away the patents, and the companies won't have any money to research new drugs. Drug companies will be forced to stop R&D and instead churn out old products. That would mean no cure for AIDS, cancer, etc. This tactic might be politically sound right now for the handful of Brazillians who have AIDS today, but to gain that, it runs the risk of sacrificing orders of magnitude more people in the future.
Is that what you want?
It's really easy to fall into the trap of justifying this theft as necessary to save lives, but the pharmaceuticals that worked on these products are now being deprived of money from these countries that would pay for the research that went into the product. Look, the expense of the research and regulatory compliance to create a new drug doesn't go away when the drug comes to market...it sometimes takes years for a pharmaceutical company to actually make a profit. With the actions of countries like Brazil, that payback will now take longer.
I wonder how the looters will get other life-saving wonder-drugs when they've driven the big research companies out of business?
Hunter...take a look at some old FASA Star Trek:RPG materials. The Federation Ship Recognition handbooks had a ship design called the Derf Class that has very similar lines. This one appears to be an Akira-ized version.
Check it out...he also did work for Battlestar Galactica and Airwolf.
Yep, that's been my worry too. Fortunately, the creators of this show have given themselves a really cool "out" in the form of this "temporal cold war" that is occurring in the distant future. Not only can they use this as an explanation as to why they aren't completely in synch with established Trek history (or perceived Trek history, in the case of some imagined fans), but they can actually use it to deliberately alter the course of events that lead to Kirk and Spock and completely change everything. Done properly, this could be a very exciting update for the Franchise. If they don't screw it up like Voyager...