Rhino is primarily for 3D Modeling - especially for product design which requires spline based modeling (NURBS)
Maya (unlimited) does NURBS modeling, polygonal modeling (games and animation) and Subdivision surfaces which has some of the advantages of both.
It also has fur rendering, cloth simulation, particle systems, physics simulation, and a host of animation tools (inverse kinematics, skeletons, keyframes, blend shapes).
Maya is also incredibly extensible, supporting plug-ins (comes with API), custom user interfaces and scripting.
In fact, Maya is a few binaries tied together with scores of scripts.
I've been learning Maya for the last year after work (we have a site licence) and it's a world unto itself.
They made a deal with Atari to bundle a special version of PLE with Unreal Tournament 2003 but I haven't used that.
The grandparent post is the worst kind of misspelling; difficult to understand because of the wrong words being used.
I agree with what the guy said, but it was just painful reading it.
On the other hand, I know what it's like to have a strong emotional response and need to reply in a hush, the words coming faster than I can type them.
That's not really fair to parents. At the urban middle class level, house price can have a direct correlation with physical safety and school quality (via tax base).
I'm just going from personal experiece, but my Mom going to work and my Dad getting a serious career upgrade meant our family moving from South Central LA to Gardena (a suburb) and the several schools I went to over the years were a lot safer and better in general.
On the downside, I was pretty much on my own educationally. If you can come up with some way out of this kind of dilemma, I'd like to hear it.
In my entire school career (70s and early 80s, urban schools in the south and west US), no teacher ever told me the reason they required me to show my work (and many didn't require it anyway). Some implied that it was to screen out homework cheaters.
The way I was taught the multiplication table was very spotty and low level. I only started making real progress when School House Rock came onto saturday morning TV. The catchy songs helped my memorization a lot.
But the thing that really cemented by multiplicaton skills was the songs pointing out some of the special properties of table multiplcators (like how the nines digits reversed 18, 81 27, 72 or how the elevens were just doubles 11, 22, 33, 44 up to 99)
Have you seen songs used inside classes to help with memorization much?
just wait until your population densities get high enough to make narcotics really profitable. Then the handguns will flow like wine. Into wrecked inner cities full of scared, angry, poor people.
I think it's a bad idea to base this kind of lifestyle choice on very broad statistical data.
I would make a gun-owning decision based more on your personal situation.
If you're impulsive, prone to fits of anger, alchoholic, or have had major mental illness, (or live with anyone who has) then you might not want to own a firearm. Guns making killing into a snap decision. Can you live a life with NO major lapses of judgement? To be an ethical gun-owner, you HAVE to.
If you live in an area with high-crime or high homicide rates, then you're probably better off moving to a safer area. Go where the murders aren't if you're that worried about it.
I know some of you gun-owners would say that's a cop-out but to that I would say; You're not going to shoot your way into a safe neighborhood so why even go down that road.
More bullets flying around is not going to make ME safer.
Hogan's Heroes was not about a nazi concentration camp. It was about a German POW camp.
A NCC is meant to round up, degrade and exterminate undesirables and probably could not be made into a funny show.
A GPOWC obstensibly would want the prisoners to survive so they could be traded back for German POWs and/or to assure relatively humane treatment for German POWs. The civilized behavior expected made it easier to make into a funny situation comedy.
kind of a quibble but not everybody has actually seen HH and might get the wrong idea if that sloppy analogy is allowed to stand.
Since there is no way the scientists are going to get this right the first time, is it ethical to create intelligences that are (most probably) doomed to insanity.
A couple of my old friends had the job of bulk erasing studio videotapes from the early 70s. Among the shows they consigned to magnetic oblivion, -- the Starlost --
I think people are hardwired to value (fairness) over (short term advantage in an unfair system) if unfairness doesn't benefit them.
Choosing $2/$2 is obviously an emotional decision (since reason = math dictates $3/$4)
The adaptive advantage is that you are more likely to be treated well in a fair/predictable society than in an unfair/unpredictable society (society = experiment + rulemakers). Provide you don't make the rules.
It seems to me, evolutionary solutions don't converge to the best, most specific answer (take the most money) but to pretty good, global, fuzzy solutions (all things being equal, support fairness most of the time)
That fuzzy rule explains the otherwise unintuitive $2/$2 decision
Cars are potentially dangerous, but they don't cause a physical addiction. Alcohol can be physically addictive, but not to the degree that cigs are. Ask 5 or 10 smoker friends when they started smoking. I'll bet you they were all minors (around 13). Ask them how hard it is to quit now, even though they know smoking can cause cancer and heart disease. That's why the tobacco companies are evil. They hook kids on a deadly substance before they are competent to judge the risks.
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all music is viral.
good or bad they all spread from brain to brain. via ears, radio waves, via audio tape and disc
Their reproduction has been sped up by mass media and recording technology, of course.
Rhino is primarily for 3D Modeling - especially for product design which requires spline based modeling (NURBS)
Maya (unlimited) does NURBS modeling, polygonal modeling (games and animation) and Subdivision surfaces which has some of the advantages of both.
It also has fur rendering, cloth simulation, particle systems, physics simulation, and a host of animation tools (inverse kinematics, skeletons, keyframes, blend shapes).
Maya is also incredibly extensible, supporting plug-ins (comes with API), custom user interfaces and scripting.
In fact, Maya is a few binaries tied together with scores of scripts.
I've been learning Maya for the last year after work (we have a site licence) and it's a world unto itself.
They made a deal with Atari to bundle a special version of PLE with Unreal Tournament 2003 but I haven't used that.
It comes with a version of Maya PLE made to just work with UT2003 and it's dev tools
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Make you own characters and levels.
Not entirely free but you get the full game as well.
http://www.us.atari.com/games/unreal_tournament_2
If you breed a super-intelligent being, you won't LET it do anything.
It will do what it wants to.
Didn't you see Colossus: The Forbin Project?
I know it's cruel, but it had to be said.
The grandparent post is the worst kind of misspelling; difficult to understand because of the wrong words being used.
I agree with what the guy said, but it was just painful reading it.
On the other hand, I know what it's like to have a strong emotional response and need to reply in a hush, the words coming faster than I can type them.
ahh, what are you gonna do?
That's not really fair to parents. At the urban middle class level, house price can have a direct correlation with physical safety and school quality (via tax base).
I'm just going from personal experiece, but my Mom going to work and my Dad getting a serious career upgrade meant our family moving from South Central LA to Gardena (a suburb) and the several schools I went to over the years were a lot safer and better in general.
On the downside, I was pretty much on my own educationally. If you can come up with some way out of this kind of dilemma, I'd like to hear it.
You sound like an exceptional teacher to me.
In my entire school career (70s and early 80s, urban schools in the south and west US), no teacher ever told me the reason they required me to show my work (and many didn't require it anyway). Some implied that it was to screen out homework cheaters.
The way I was taught the multiplication table was very spotty and low level. I only started making real progress when School House Rock came onto saturday morning TV. The catchy songs helped my memorization a lot.
But the thing that really cemented by multiplicaton skills was the songs pointing out some of the special properties of table multiplcators (like how the nines digits reversed 18, 81 27, 72 or how the elevens were just doubles 11, 22, 33, 44 up to 99)
Have you seen songs used inside classes to help with memorization much?
just wait until your population densities get high enough to make narcotics really profitable. Then the handguns will flow like wine. Into wrecked inner cities full of scared, angry, poor people.
which, if my crappy american education serves, was a time when access to lethal weapons was restricted to the aristocracy.
can anyone clarify this?
the reason is the US went over there are TOOK their guns.
We reset their personal armament clock in a way that is never going to happen here.
I think it's a bad idea to base this kind of lifestyle choice on very broad statistical data.
I would make a gun-owning decision based more on your personal situation.
If you're impulsive, prone to fits of anger, alchoholic, or have had major mental illness, (or live with anyone who has) then you might not want to own a firearm. Guns making killing into a snap decision. Can you live a life with NO major lapses of judgement? To be an ethical gun-owner, you HAVE to.
If you live in an area with high-crime or high homicide rates, then you're probably better off moving to a safer area. Go where the murders aren't if you're that worried about it.
I know some of you gun-owners would say that's a cop-out but to that I would say; You're not going to shoot your way into a safe neighborhood so why even go down that road.
More bullets flying around is not going to make ME safer.
I shoot for sport, but not an owner
Hogan's Heroes was not about a nazi concentration camp. It was about a German POW camp.
A NCC is meant to round up, degrade and exterminate undesirables and probably could not be made into a funny show.
A GPOWC obstensibly would want the prisoners to survive so they could be traded back for German POWs and/or to assure relatively humane treatment for German POWs. The civilized behavior expected made it easier to make into a funny situation comedy.
kind of a quibble but not everybody has actually seen HH and might get the wrong idea if that sloppy analogy is allowed to stand.
That page hard crashes IE (5.2 and 5.1) under MacOS 9. tried 3 quicksilvers
go back! it's a BJ!
Since there is no way the scientists are going to get this right the first time, is it ethical to create intelligences that are (most probably) doomed to insanity.
In OS9, in the Computer about box, control clicking the OS name hyperlinks you to Apple's MacOS X site.
geek_mode
in the Marvel Universe, there is a company called Damage Inc. that goes around repairing superhero/villain damage.
They're paid by insurance companies who of course have SuperHero Damage Insurance Policies for sale in all major cities.
/geek_mode
nice use of incentive as a verb, first time I've seen that. I'm not being sarcastic, that was cool.
A couple of my old friends had the job of bulk erasing studio videotapes from the early 70s. Among the shows they consigned to magnetic oblivion, -- the Starlost --
So I guess no DVD box set of that one.
Any halfway smart(lazy) mac user that needed to rename 1,000 files would use DropRename or some other util.
Just bought a 80GB this weekend
though I did have to play whack-a-mole until I turned off my Javascript.
In any case this seems more like a bug.
disclaimer:
MacOS 9.1
IE 5.1.3
If the buddhas are inumerable, then how do you know there are 10,000?
I think people are hardwired to value (fairness) over (short term advantage in an unfair system) if unfairness doesn't benefit them.
Choosing $2/$2 is obviously an emotional decision (since reason = math dictates $3/$4)
The adaptive advantage is that you are more likely to be treated well in a fair/predictable society than in an unfair/unpredictable society (society = experiment + rulemakers). Provide you don't make the rules.
It seems to me, evolutionary solutions don't converge to the best, most specific answer (take the most money) but to pretty good, global, fuzzy solutions (all things being equal, support fairness most of the time)
That fuzzy rule explains the otherwise unintuitive $2/$2 decision
If you're REALLY cheap, you can give said kid a mirror of ripped cds. This assumes you have similar tastes.
Cars are potentially dangerous, but they don't cause a physical addiction. Alcohol can be physically addictive, but not to the degree that cigs are. Ask 5 or 10 smoker friends when they started smoking. I'll bet you they were all minors (around 13). Ask them how hard it is to quit now, even though they know smoking can cause cancer and heart disease. That's why the tobacco companies are evil. They hook kids on a deadly substance before they are competent to judge the risks.