"The last piece was set at 21:00 CET(Central European Time) by a Backstreet Boy. Jim somebody..."
Instead of being an ignorant asshole, try reading the very article you're posting about. If you can be bothered to submit a write-up to the queue, the least you could do is take a few minutes to read the article yourself.
What do you think this is, Slashd... Errr.
Anyway, from the article:
"Gänsehaut-Feeling schon beim Start des Spektakels: der zehnsekündige Countdown wurde lautstark heruntergezählt. 'Backstreet Boy' Nick Carter hat die Domino-Lawine um Punkt 21.00 Uhr ausgelöst: Der 22-jährige Popsänger setzte den letzten Stein und hat so die rund zwei Meter hohe "Domino"-Waage mit einer Spannweite von fünf Metern aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht."
" Some people will argue that its rendering quality is inferior to, say, Maya, but I beg to differ.
Although I have been using 3D Studio since R2(I'm surprised my old P120 didn't melt.;p~), I used to agree with this assumption until I started using Cebas Final Render. Even Mental Ray was a huge step above the default scanline renderer, although it didn't seem to integrated very well with other 3rd party plugins.
As for my own "elitist opinion", I chose to stick with 3DS Max 4.2 and Cebas Final Render for my professional work. I do a little Maya now and then, but it doesn't feel as comfortable to me.
Be wary, though. If you're thinking of getting into professional modelling, it is not going to be cheap. Heh, if you thought Photoshop cost too much, wait until you get quotes for 3ds Max.;p~
I think it has more to do with copyright violations than anything else.
The majority of sites posted here have ad banners, so naturally, they like it when people visit their site. Whether or not it gets slashdotted is irrelevant. If even the first few thousand people get through, that's change in the webmaster's pocket.
By caching the pages they link to, they not only steal the webmaster's content for profit(no doubt the cached pages will be ON slashdot, and thus have slashdot banners), but they will also be depriving the webmaster of revenue.
I don't think the guys at Slashdot could handle that many lawsuits at once.
"Why does everything in the entertainment industry have to be a get-rich-quick scheme?"
Life in this day and age is about instant gratification. People are used to things coming so fast that they expect *everything* to be that way. No one has any patience anymore.
"Until the artists have a method of promotion that does not require a record label they will always receive the short end of the stick.
It's not just that. Promotion aside, the record company also pays for the studio time, recording equipment, etc. They pay for the tour bus, road crew and accomodations. They pretty much have you by the balls from stem to stern as far as money is concerned.
" Turn the band into your business and it might be successful.
Some of the most successful bands around have realized just this. A big-time band isn't just about music. It becomes such a machine that you need to treat it like one. Learn about business and you're one step ahead of the game.
The problem is, any business requires capital. Something most young bands do NOT have. They see the recording industry as a free ride to fame. Everything is paid for and setup for them. All they have to do is show up and record, right?
Or so they think.
"...a loan of $200,000 from a bank"
The loan idea sounds nice in theory, but what bank in their right mind would fund a band? The recording industry strikes gold with maybe one in every 20 bands they sign. Why would a bank take that kind of risk?
Yeah, and that "someone" will either end up dead in bed with a transvestite hooker, or the bill will slip quietly into oblivion never to see the light of day.
Wah wah wah, I was looking forward to stealing music on a fast connection, but now I can't. Waaaaaah!
Cry me a fucking river.
Believe it or not, people actually use campus bandwidth to get WORK done. And it is a very difficult thing to do with greedy little twats like you saturating the network downloading 80+ gigs a month worth of illegal music.
They may have the stability thing down pat. And ease of use? Can't beat it.
But that's the problem. It's too simplistic. I know they're trying to reach the largest demographic, the user who just wants to log on and go. But I'm still waiting for a version with the little bells and whistles that make Mozilla such a joy to use. Tabbed browsing, for one.
I recently started using Opera. Wonderful browser! It's as stable as IE(to me, anyway), and has everything(and then some) that I loved about Mozilla. Tabbed browsing. Translations, search and dictionary options right from the right-click menu. The ability to turn off images, popups and banner ads. E-mail client integration from within the browser. Refreshing at intervals. Mouse gestures. I could go on.
I think even average Joe user would do well to try out a browser like this. It's an all-in-one solution. Actually, I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't caught onto these ideas and "embraced" them like they do everything else.
Either way, say what you will. But I'll likely never use IE again. Heh, and that's quite a statement coming from a staunch ass like me.;p~
On the bright side, it caused quite an uproar and brought Scientology more publicity than it would have had they ignored the post. As it seems to be everytime they try to silence a critic.
Not only that, but the comments section was riddled with OT3 posts for weeks afterward.
Come on, where are the OT3 crapflooders when you need them?;)
I used to say the same thing until I tried Mozilla and became addicted to tabbed browsing. Afterall, who wants to deal with a bunch of open windows cluttering their taskbar, right?
Problem is, Mozilla was too slow and crashed a lot. So, I went back to IE.
Stable as a rock, it was. And it never crashed once. Life was good.
But then, I started to miss my tabbed browsing again. So, I tried Opera.
My prayers were answered. It boasts the same stability as IE, with the nifty features of Mozilla(and then some, actually).
It's the little things that make life easier. Multiple search, dictionary and translation options enabled from the right-click menu, tabbed browsing and mouse gestures make my browsing life a hell of a lot easier. I see no compelling reason to go back anymore. {=)
Add to that my ad-blocker of choice, Webwasher, and I haven't seen a single ad in almost a year.
I've been on a broadband connection (1.5mbit) for about four years now, and it was always great to have. Always connected, fast downloads, etc. But recently, my provider has decided to cap users at five gigs per month, with a charge of $7.99CDN for every gig after that. I just lost all compelling reason to own broadband, and I'm thinking of going back to dialup. For all the demos, trailers, ISOs and whatnot that I download, it's easy to use up 5 gigs in a week.
I'm no MP3 d00d. I wouldn't download anymore than 10 gigs of data in a month, so it's not like I'm saturating their network with over 80 gigs of illegal software trafficking like one guy I know. But with the internet becoming more multimedia-oriented, it's not hard to understand that even average Joe gamer needs more bandwidth than ever.
But he's not going to pay an arm and a leg for it. It's as simple as that.
I can live without demos, new Linux ISOs and multimedia content online if it means not having to pay through the nose for bandwidth. I know what bandwidth costs around here, and it sure as hell isn't eight bucks a gig(try under 30 cents).
The only thing holding broadband back are the companies who run it. They have a pretty sweet cash cow, and they don't want to lose it.
"Please refrain from posting poorly researched flames like this just so you can get a 5 second high by "slamming" others who you think are foolish/stupid/over- zealous/won't-buy-anyting-but- books-and-hardware linux users."
I was going along with your story until I hit this part, which pretty much sums it all up for you.
You're pretty much fucked. Living in Canada, you should know by now that the only people guaranteed any rights are criminals and lawyers.
So unless you're one of the two, you're up shit creek, friend.
Actually, you do have a point. A newbie is still a newbie.
Unless you know the timings of casting various spells, and know about macros, then you're going to get your ass kicked on the battlefield. Having a more powerful character only means that it's going to take the good players 10 more seconds to take you down.
If anything, this is going to make the newbie players targets, as the old-school vets will make a point of ruining their playing experience for being able to buy their way into having high stats.
...took an A+ Cert class a few years ago, and related a rather interesting story to me.
It seems a girl in his class wasn't too bright(Big shocker!), and during a disassembly/reassembly assignment, she decided to lay her motherboard on top of the tower, solder points pressed firmly against the metal casing. Well, being the smart girl she is, she left the thing plugged into the main power supply, ide cables, drives and all. What does she do? Yup, you guessed it. She turned the machine on.
What I would have given to have been able to witness that end-result.
If that wasn't funny enough, my friend who told me this story displayed his own brand of genius one morning when he forgot that PCI video cards are not hot-swappable. Oi.
..would this story have been posted had the software running on these machines been open source?
You people are really grasping at straws, aren't you? What's next, a story about how last year's attacks could have been avoided if the planes were running the latest stable build of Lunix instead of that crappy closed-source stuff they're using now?
Get a fucking grip, people.
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Is it just me, or do you get the sense that the pr0n industry could benefit greatly from this idea?
Instead of being an ignorant asshole, try reading the very article you're posting about.
If you can be bothered to submit a write-up to the queue, the least you could do is take a few minutes to read the article yourself.
What do you think this is, Slashd... Errr.
Anyway, from the article:
"Gänsehaut-Feeling schon beim Start des Spektakels: der zehnsekündige Countdown wurde lautstark heruntergezählt. 'Backstreet Boy' Nick Carter hat die Domino-Lawine um Punkt 21.00 Uhr ausgelöst: Der 22-jährige Popsänger setzte den letzten Stein und hat so die rund zwei Meter hohe "Domino"-Waage mit einer Spannweite von fünf Metern aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht."
Although I have been using 3D Studio since R2(I'm surprised my old P120 didn't melt. ;p~), I used to agree with this assumption until I started using Cebas Final Render. Even Mental Ray was a huge step above the default scanline renderer, although it didn't seem to integrated very well with other 3rd party plugins.
As for my own "elitist opinion", I chose to stick with 3DS Max 4.2 and Cebas Final Render for my professional work. I do a little Maya now and then, but it doesn't feel as comfortable to me.
Be wary, though. If you're thinking of getting into professional modelling, it is not going to be cheap. Heh, if you thought Photoshop cost too much, wait until you get quotes for 3ds Max. ;p~
I think it has more to do with copyright violations than anything else.
The majority of sites posted here have ad banners, so naturally, they like it when people visit their site. Whether or not it gets slashdotted is irrelevant. If even the first few thousand people get through, that's change in the webmaster's pocket.
By caching the pages they link to, they not only steal the webmaster's content for profit(no doubt the cached pages will be ON slashdot, and thus have slashdot banners), but they will also be depriving the webmaster of revenue.
I don't think the guys at Slashdot could handle that many lawsuits at once.
You must be a real joy to strike up a conversation with. ;p~
Wow, I wish I could get my blatant flamebait posted to the frontpage.
What the hell were you people thinking?
Where the fuck have you been for the past three years?
Life in this day and age is about instant gratification. People are used to things coming so fast that they expect *everything* to be that way. No one has any patience anymore.
It's not just that. Promotion aside, the record company also pays for the studio time, recording equipment, etc. They pay for the tour bus, road crew and accomodations. They pretty much have you by the balls from stem to stern as far as money is concerned.
" Turn the band into your business and it might be successful.
Some of the most successful bands around have realized just this. A big-time band isn't just about music. It becomes such a machine that you need to treat it like one. Learn about business and you're one step ahead of the game.
The problem is, any business requires capital. Something most young bands do NOT have. They see the recording industry as a free ride to fame. Everything is paid for and setup for them. All they have to do is show up and record, right?
Or so they think.
"...a loan of $200,000 from a bank"
The loan idea sounds nice in theory, but what bank in their right mind would fund a band? The recording industry strikes gold with maybe one in every 20 bands they sign. Why would a bank take that kind of risk?
Yeah, and that "someone" will either end up dead in bed with a transvestite hooker, or the bill will slip quietly into oblivion never to see the light of day.
Probable cause: http://www.slashdot.org
Try again in a few seconds...
-xian@idsoftware.com"
Cry me a fucking river.
Believe it or not, people actually use campus bandwidth to get WORK done. And it is a very difficult thing to do with greedy little twats like you saturating the network downloading 80+ gigs a month worth of illegal music.
...I use Kazaa Lite. =)
But that's the problem. It's too simplistic. I know they're trying to reach the largest demographic, the user who just wants to log on and go. But I'm still waiting for a version with the little bells and whistles that make Mozilla such a joy to use. Tabbed browsing, for one.
I recently started using Opera. Wonderful browser! It's as stable as IE(to me, anyway), and has everything(and then some) that I loved about Mozilla. Tabbed browsing. Translations, search and dictionary options right from the right-click menu. The ability to turn off images, popups and banner ads. E-mail client integration from within the browser. Refreshing at intervals. Mouse gestures. I could go on.
I think even average Joe user would do well to try out a browser like this. It's an all-in-one solution.
Actually, I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't caught onto these ideas and "embraced" them like they do everything else.
Either way, say what you will. But I'll likely never use IE again. Heh, and that's quite a statement coming from a staunch ass like me. ;p~
Not only that, but the comments section was riddled with OT3 posts for weeks afterward.
Come on, where are the OT3 crapflooders when you need them? ;)
Problem is, Mozilla was too slow and crashed a lot. So, I went back to IE.
Stable as a rock, it was. And it never crashed once. Life was good.
But then, I started to miss my tabbed browsing again. So, I tried Opera.
My prayers were answered. It boasts the same stability as IE, with the nifty features of Mozilla(and then some, actually).
It's the little things that make life easier. Multiple search, dictionary and translation options enabled from the right-click menu, tabbed browsing and mouse gestures make my browsing life a hell of a lot easier. I see no compelling reason to go back anymore. {=)
Add to that my ad-blocker of choice, Webwasher, and I haven't seen a single ad in almost a year.
I've been on a broadband connection (1.5mbit) for about four years now, and it was always great to have. Always connected, fast downloads, etc. But recently, my provider has decided to cap users at five gigs per month, with a charge of $7.99CDN for every gig after that. I just lost all compelling reason to own broadband, and I'm thinking of going back to dialup. For all the demos, trailers, ISOs and whatnot that I download, it's easy to use up 5 gigs in a week.
I'm no MP3 d00d. I wouldn't download anymore than 10 gigs of data in a month, so it's not like I'm saturating their network with over 80 gigs of illegal software trafficking like one guy I know. But with the internet becoming more multimedia-oriented, it's not hard to understand that even average Joe gamer needs more bandwidth than ever.
But he's not going to pay an arm and a leg for it. It's as simple as that.
I can live without demos, new Linux ISOs and multimedia content online if it means not having to pay through the nose for bandwidth. I know what bandwidth costs around here, and it sure as hell isn't eight bucks a gig(try under 30 cents).
The only thing holding broadband back are the companies who run it. They have a pretty sweet cash cow, and they don't want to lose it.
Please take your own advice.
Thank you.
They're not all they're cracked up to be, that's for sure.
I was going along with your story until I hit this part, which pretty much sums it all up for you.
You're pretty much fucked. Living in Canada, you should know by now that the only people guaranteed any rights are criminals and lawyers.
So unless you're one of the two, you're up shit creek, friend.
Unless you know the timings of casting various spells, and know about macros, then you're going to get your ass kicked on the battlefield. Having a more powerful character only means that it's going to take the good players 10 more seconds to take you down.
If anything, this is going to make the newbie players targets, as the old-school vets will make a point of ruining their playing experience for being able to buy their way into having high stats.
We're still waiting for him to lose enough weight so we can fit him in a wide shot. Jeez.
It seems a girl in his class wasn't too bright(Big shocker!), and during a disassembly/reassembly assignment, she decided to lay her motherboard on top of the tower, solder points pressed firmly against the metal casing. Well, being the smart girl she is, she left the thing plugged into the main power supply, ide cables, drives and all. What does she do? Yup, you guessed it. She turned the machine on.
What I would have given to have been able to witness that end-result.
If that wasn't funny enough, my friend who told me this story displayed his own brand of genius one morning when he forgot that PCI video cards are not hot-swappable. Oi.
..would this story have been posted had the software running on these machines been open source?
You people are really grasping at straws, aren't you? What's next, a story about how last year's attacks could have been avoided if the planes were running the latest stable build of Lunix instead of that crappy closed-source stuff they're using now?
Get a fucking grip, people.