Don't take this the wrong way, but leagalizing drugs could be a good thing
Legalizing drugs would be a very good thing, for all the reasons you mentioned. Not to mention the fact that it would make drugs safer (less impurities, and you'd know exactly what you were getting) if they were manufactured/grown by the government or private companies. --
The Libertarian candidate, Harry Browne, is much better than any of the other candidates this year. He views things with an open mind and seems to agree almost completely with me and most people I know on the issues. Of course, he is in favor of legalizing drugs, which I'm biased towards, but in general he seems to be a much more worthy candidate. He's obviously not going to win, but I'd rather give him my support than anybody else.
TiVo is random access. Those with VCRs are somewhat inured to the fact that they have to fast forward and rewind. With a TiVo, you have immediate access to the start of a show. Any show. You can delete them in any order.
But since it uses a hard drive, I didn't feel it was necessary to point this out:-)
What if the same episode is shown twice in one week? TiVo knows (having tagged each episode as unique) and records one. We see this with Xena all the time (now that we have TiVo, Rick is watching Xena again).
So could some karma whores post a few links or something?
I'm not a karma whore, but I'll post an explanation anyway (I don't know of any links).
A TiVo is basically a set-top box which downloads TV listings every night (at 3 am by default) and then records shows it thinks you'll like (or that you've told it to record). For example, if you tell it to record the Simpsons every night, it might realize that you like that type of show and start recording Futurama and Family Guy as well. You can give it a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down for each show it records, and it uses your ratings to judge what shows to record in the future.
It's also useful for watching live TV, because it'll tell you a brief explanation of what episode of each show is on, so you can know if you've seen it and not have to wait to find out (and maybe even go out and do something better:-)
I've fallen in love with these things - it's damn nice to be able to be out all evening and get home
and be able to watch 3 episodes of the Simpsons and an episode of X-Files before bed:-)
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I think the *only* reason for this device would be to hack it; after all, there isn't anything decent on TV anymore....and I can watch "Survivor" every Wednesday all by myself.:)
Oh, come on. Surely it's worth $300 to be able to watch every episode of the Simpsons that's on on every channel every day, right?:-)
Ugh. I'm a pretty heavy smoker, and I hate having to go out for a cigarette every hour. I love having a cigarette after dinner or sex, but I hate the manditory mid-afternoon cigarette breaks. That and my stamina now sucks so I can't really excersise a whole lot, which I think would make me feel a whole lot better. Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass - it's 10:30 AM and I've been up all night smoking pot and programming. --
(I know, Unreal papa Tim Sweeny has a Max->Unreal translator inside Unrealed, but I have yet to meet a programmer who can figure out how he did it:)
Are you kidding me?? That's an extremely simple algorithm - at the simplest level, all it takes is subdividing all the polygons until everything is a triangle - problem solved. A triangle can't be concave.
That said, I've never used Unrealed, but I'm guessing this is how it does it (or partially, anyway - it can stop subdividing into triangles if the polygon it's subdividing is now convex). --
People who don't want to pay Microsoft twice for an Operating system that finally doesn't crash (as much) as their other failures.
Pay? Yeah, my ass. No money out of my pocket has *ever* gone to Microsoft. Every computer I've bought with my own money I've built myself (or my uncle put it together for me... he can get parts real cheap:-), hence no Microsoft tax. My copy of Win2k is from my job's site license. And I run Linux most of the time anyway. --
I've tried every open source modeller I could find, and not a single one of them (besides Blender, but that's not open source) even comes close to the point of useability for real projects. Most don't even come close to the point of useability for little tiny projects. An open sourced 3D Studio would be a godsend. --
I think the el-cheapo version (!) doesn't is missing some cool plugins like the cloth thingy...
ClothReyes? Damn, that's a cool plugin. I played with it on somebody else's machine, and it kicks ass. But I didn't know about the full release being $16,000. Damn. --
Actually, Kinetix/AutoDesk have been saying for years that they don't mind you using a warez-copy of 3DSMAX as long as you don't use it commercially (quite a sensible attitude, btw).
Errmm... where did you hear this? AutoDesk/Discreet is extremely tough on pirates, and they offer a reward (some ridiculous amount of money... I want to say $5000 but I'm not sure) for turning in somebody using a pirated version of 3D Studio. --
This is great news... 3D Studio MAX is a great program, and I plan on purchasing the full version as soon as I can afford it.
... but the article is misinformed. "World's most expensive modeller?" Hardly. Retail price is ~$3500, usually sells for $2500-3000. Maya, on the other hand, is in the vicinity of $10,000. Oh well. --
An interface that exists which breaks all the ease of use and natural/ergonomic rules... We already have that.
I use it. It's called emacs.:)
Bah. Vi breaks way more ease of use rules than emacs. At least in emacs you can type like a normal person and you'll be ok until it comes time to save. With vi, if you don't know what you're doing, forget it.
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Because IBMs, like coffee, porn, and enjoying life, are against the Mormon religion. He doesn't want to face the wrath of one of the richest cults in the world. --
I swear to god with 3 programmers and 3 months of time I could come up with a standards compliant browser that kicked the crap out of IE (standard's-wise that is) and was comparable on UI. (IE is pretty nice).
... and I could do it myself in a month... except for the fact that 80% of the web pages out there just use plain old incorrect HTML, so you have to work around those. People aren't going to use your browser if it won't display 80% of the pages on the web, even if it is the page's fault and not your browser's. And dealing with those pages is just a fucking pain in the ass. The Mozilla team has done a great job, all things considered. And since it's available as a GTK+ widget, you can create a small wrapper around it so you get the good HTML rendering engine without the bloat. --
Is the TUX interface (now revealed as the TUX system call) something that can be used and implemented by non-GPLed software?
Of course. It can be used by non-GPL software because it is a part of the operating system and therefore acts more like LGPL than true GPL.
It can be implemented by non-GPL software as well. This should be obvious - licenses can't stop you from reimplementing the software yourself (certain software companies seem to think they can, but they can't) and releasing it under whatever license you see fit.
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So Miguel started the Gnome project because of the licensing problems with KDE/Qt. Good for him. Gnome has some excellent ideas, but they've taken it too far. There's no reason to need a fast machine with 64+ Megs of RAM to support a desktop environment, for crying out loud. Now don't get me wrong, I like Gnome and I use it all the time, but it really is a bloated piece of software. I've even written popular software for Gnome (sorry for the shameless plug:-), but I really think it could have been done much better and require less resources. The only reasons I used Gnome for PowerShell is that I like the look and feel of GTK+ much more than Qt or Motif, and Gnome includes a terminal emulator widget which saved me a lot of work. If there was something else that provided similar functionality (of the stuff people actually use, not all of it) and looked as nice, I'd use that instead. Until then, I'll keep using Gnome, but it looks as though it's heading down the Microsoft path of bloated software with tons of rarely-used features.
And why is it that Miguel is held in such high regard among Slashdot users? He wrote a fairly nice desktop environment. So what? So did the KDE team, but most people can't even name a single person who worked on that project. So he thinks Unix sucks? Good for him. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but that doesn't mean that they are right.
I know a few people who run Caldera, and I have about as much respect for SCO as the typical Slashdot reader (i.e. none) but I think that SCO is (or rather, was) a much more relevant company than Caldera. Before Linux/*BSD hit the mainstream (for the backend, I mean, not the desktop) SCO was the forerunner in x86 UNIX.
'course, I'm not sorry to see them go. They're a bunch of assholes. --
My vote goes to Emo Philips, freaky comedian best known for playing the shop teacher in UHF who cuts off his own thumb with a table saw.
LOL! That guy was hilarious. So was the entire movie. But seriously... if I was a comedian and I was best known for a part in UHF, I'd go find another job. Not many people seem to have ever heard of UHF (that's what they get for releasing it the same summer as some ridiculously huge movie, like E.T. or something.) --
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Don't take this the wrong way, but leagalizing drugs could be a good thing
Legalizing drugs would be a very good thing, for all the reasons you mentioned. Not to mention the fact that it would make drugs safer (less impurities, and you'd know exactly what you were getting) if they were manufactured/grown by the government or private companies.
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While I agree with you about Bush, I can't help but feel that there's something wrong with this...
:-)
Hey, man, it's his website
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The Libertarian candidate, Harry Browne, is much better than any of the other candidates this year. He views things with an open mind and seems to agree almost completely with me and most people I know on the issues. Of course, he is in favor of legalizing drugs, which I'm biased towards, but in general he seems to be a much more worthy candidate. He's obviously not going to win, but I'd rather give him my support than anybody else.
There was a big writeup about him on Smokedot a few weeks back: http://smokedot.org/article.pl? sid=00/07/26/0014226.
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TiVo is random access. Those with VCRs are somewhat inured to the fact that they have to fast forward and rewind. With a TiVo, you have immediate access to the start of a show. Any show. You can delete them in any order.
:-)
But since it uses a hard drive, I didn't feel it was necessary to point this out
What if the same episode is shown twice in one week? TiVo knows (having tagged each episode as unique) and records one. We see this with Xena all the time (now that we have TiVo, Rick is watching Xena again).
This I didn't know. That's phat.
ObDisclaimer: I work for TiVo.
LOL.
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So could some karma whores post a few links or something?
:-)
:-)
I'm not a karma whore, but I'll post an explanation anyway (I don't know of any links).
A TiVo is basically a set-top box which downloads TV listings every night (at 3 am by default) and then records shows it thinks you'll like (or that you've told it to record). For example, if you tell it to record the Simpsons every night, it might realize that you like that type of show and start recording Futurama and Family Guy as well. You can give it a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down for each show it records, and it uses your ratings to judge what shows to record in the future.
It's also useful for watching live TV, because it'll tell you a brief explanation of what episode of each show is on, so you can know if you've seen it and not have to wait to find out (and maybe even go out and do something better
I've fallen in love with these things - it's damn nice to be able to be out all evening and get home and be able to watch 3 episodes of the Simpsons and an episode of X-Files before bed
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I think the *only* reason for this device would be to hack it; after all, there isn't anything decent on TV anymore. ...and I can watch "Survivor" every Wednesday all by myself. :)
:-)
Oh, come on. Surely it's worth $300 to be able to watch every episode of the Simpsons that's on on every channel every day, right?
I'm not kidding, either. It is worth it.
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I feel refreshed when I get back to my desk!
Ugh. I'm a pretty heavy smoker, and I hate having to go out for a cigarette every hour. I love having a cigarette after dinner or sex, but I hate the manditory mid-afternoon cigarette breaks. That and my stamina now sucks so I can't really excersise a whole lot, which I think would make me feel a whole lot better. Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass - it's 10:30 AM and I've been up all night smoking pot and programming.
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No, he is not kidding. He is speaking of convex polyhedra, you are speaking about convex polygons
Oh, sorry. My bad.
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(I know, Unreal papa Tim Sweeny has a Max->Unreal translator inside Unrealed, but I have yet to meet a programmer who can figure out how he did it :)
Are you kidding me?? That's an extremely simple algorithm - at the simplest level, all it takes is subdividing all the polygons until everything is a triangle - problem solved. A triangle can't be concave.
That said, I've never used Unrealed, but I'm guessing this is how it does it (or partially, anyway - it can stop subdividing into triangles if the polygon it's subdividing is now convex).
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People who don't want to pay Microsoft twice for an Operating system that finally doesn't crash (as much) as their other failures.
:-), hence no Microsoft tax. My copy of Win2k is from my job's site license. And I run Linux most of the time anyway.
Pay? Yeah, my ass. No money out of my pocket has *ever* gone to Microsoft. Every computer I've bought with my own money I've built myself (or my uncle put it together for me... he can get parts real cheap
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I've tried every open source modeller I could find, and not a single one of them (besides Blender, but that's not open source) even comes close to the point of useability for real projects. Most don't even come close to the point of useability for little tiny projects. An open sourced 3D Studio would be a godsend.
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or at least dont use Multitasking under Win95/98.
No, just plain don't run MAX under 95/98. It's just asking for trouble - the OS tends to buckle under the strain.
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But I didn't know about the full release being $16,000. Damn.
Jesus, I'm a retard. You were talking about Maya, not 3DS. *slap*
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I think the el-cheapo version (!) doesn't is missing some cool plugins like the cloth thingy...
ClothReyes? Damn, that's a cool plugin. I played with it on somebody else's machine, and it kicks ass. But I didn't know about the full release being $16,000. Damn.
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Actually, Kinetix/AutoDesk have been saying for years that they don't mind you using a warez-copy of 3DSMAX as long as you don't use it commercially (quite a sensible attitude, btw).
Errmm... where did you hear this? AutoDesk/Discreet is extremely tough on pirates, and they offer a reward (some ridiculous amount of money... I want to say $5000 but I'm not sure) for turning in somebody using a pirated version of 3D Studio.
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Since it's open source, it had better not crash as much as MAX R3 does, which barely runs on my system with 128M of ram.
What OS? It hasn't crashed once for me under Win2k (384mb of RAM), and I use it a lot.
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This is great news... 3D Studio MAX is a great program, and I plan on purchasing the full version as soon as I can afford it.
... but the article is misinformed. "World's most expensive modeller?" Hardly. Retail price is ~$3500, usually sells for $2500-3000. Maya, on the other hand, is in the vicinity of $10,000. Oh well.
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I agree with all of this except the comments about fluffy grue and spiralx. They were both very good members of the K5 community.
And spiralx was a very good member of Smokedot as well, until the DSL connection died for about three weeks. I haven't seen him back there since.
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An interface that exists which breaks all the ease of use and natural/ergonomic rules... We already have that.
:)
:-)
I use it. It's called emacs.
Bah. Vi breaks way more ease of use rules than emacs. At least in emacs you can type like a normal person and you'll be ok until it comes time to save. With vi, if you don't know what you're doing, forget it.
And yes, I use vi, and in my spare time I like to go "emacs-user shooting"
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Offer not valid in UT,
Aw... come on, why not?
Because IBMs, like coffee, porn, and enjoying life, are against the Mormon religion. He doesn't want to face the wrath of one of the richest cults in the world.
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I swear to god with 3 programmers and 3 months of time I could come up with a standards compliant browser that kicked the crap out of IE (standard's-wise that is) and was comparable on UI. (IE is pretty nice).
... and I could do it myself in a month... except for the fact that 80% of the web pages out there just use plain old incorrect HTML, so you have to work around those. People aren't going to use your browser if it won't display 80% of the pages on the web, even if it is the page's fault and not your browser's. And dealing with those pages is just a fucking pain in the ass. The Mozilla team has done a great job, all things considered. And since it's available as a GTK+ widget, you can create a small wrapper around it so you get the good HTML rendering engine without the bloat.
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Is the TUX interface (now revealed as the TUX system call) something that can be used and implemented by non-GPLed software?
Of course. It can be used by non-GPL software because it is a part of the operating system and therefore acts more like LGPL than true GPL.
It can be implemented by non-GPL software as well. This should be obvious - licenses can't stop you from reimplementing the software yourself (certain software companies seem to think they can, but they can't) and releasing it under whatever license you see fit.
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So Miguel started the Gnome project because of the licensing problems with KDE/Qt. Good for him. Gnome has some excellent ideas, but they've taken it too far. There's no reason to need a fast machine with 64+ Megs of RAM to support a desktop environment, for crying out loud. Now don't get me wrong, I like Gnome and I use it all the time, but it really is a bloated piece of software. I've even written popular software for Gnome (sorry for the shameless plug :-), but I really think it could have been done much better and require less resources. The only reasons I used Gnome for PowerShell is that I like the look and feel of GTK+ much more than Qt or Motif, and Gnome includes a terminal emulator widget which saved me a lot of work. If there was something else that provided similar functionality (of the stuff people actually use, not all of it) and looked as nice, I'd use that instead. Until then, I'll keep using Gnome, but it looks as though it's heading down the Microsoft path of bloated software with tons of rarely-used features.
And why is it that Miguel is held in such high regard among Slashdot users? He wrote a fairly nice desktop environment. So what? So did the KDE team, but most people can't even name a single person who worked on that project. So he thinks Unix sucks? Good for him. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but that doesn't mean that they are right.
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I know a few people who run Caldera, and I have about as much respect for SCO as the typical Slashdot reader (i.e. none) but I think that SCO is (or rather, was) a much more relevant company than Caldera. Before Linux/*BSD hit the mainstream (for the backend, I mean, not the desktop) SCO was the forerunner in x86 UNIX.
'course, I'm not sorry to see them go. They're a bunch of assholes.
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My vote goes to Emo Philips, freaky comedian best known for playing the shop teacher in UHF who cuts off his own thumb with a table saw.
LOL! That guy was hilarious. So was the entire movie. But seriously... if I was a comedian and I was best known for a part in UHF, I'd go find another job. Not many people seem to have ever heard of UHF (that's what they get for releasing it the same summer as some ridiculously huge movie, like E.T. or something.)
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