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  1. If i can get "buy in" on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't have any of the needed skills do you???

  2. Re:Usability on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 1

    part of the problem is that the blender developers have been working on writing the Program and have considered Documentation as SEP.

    so what we have is

    1 Video "tutorials" that don't document %feature% IN DETAIL (hows about starting with a good transcript of the vids BC??)
    2 Outdated and or completely WRONG tutorials (they used an old version and or had a number of nonstandard plugins)
    3 a wiki that has MASSIVE sections that are backlinked to older versions

    So what i would like to do is as part of a Bad Wolf Ballet project host a set of tutorials using Blender 2.66 (win32).
    If anybody would like to step up to help make content (and document how you made whatever) email me directly with the subject Bad Wolf Ballet.

  3. Re:How about no? on Drones Still Face Major Hurdles In US Airspace · · Score: 1

    as an example lets say you have a Pool and an eight year old daughter

    Airplane: Bigger Noisier and can't fly below X00 feet and can't hover in place
    Drone: Smaller nearly silent can get down to near TreeTop height and can Hover

    One way they can't stick around without being noticed

    The other way your Daughter is the Star of a very Nice Video (that Lavendar Bikini looks good on her btw).

    I can see a surge in Shotgun sales if Drones get permitted.

  4. Re:Bad Summary on Wirelessly Charged Buses Being Tested Next Year · · Score: 1

    I could see this working well in those Hybrid Busses since they already are wired for Electric (i think they right now lose charge during stops). My only worry is how these things get triggered (CSI:NY plot device anyone??).

  5. Re:way to get the patent office to go for this on EFF Proposes a Working Code Requirement For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    not "extra" fees as such but separating the existing fees into two parts (one of which can be charged more than once).

    So Jim in his garage can dream up his actually novel idea (and get a patent) but Foo Co which has 100 offices throwing stuff at the patent office to see what sticks (and clocks up 1,000,000 filings) has a nive tidy bill to deal with.

  6. way to get the patent office to go for this on EFF Proposes a Working Code Requirement For Software Patents · · Score: 3, Interesting

    separate the patent fees into a Prelim and a Filing fee. Then if you want to file a prelim patent (to get cover while you do the code) you then pay the Filing Fee to upgrade it to a Full Patent ap. If it gets rejected you can refile but you have to pay the Filing Fee each time (so try 12 times you pay the prelim fee and 12 filing fees).

    This will also cut down on the "shotgun" approach to patents.

    Oh and a Big Reform would be to autodrop patents in the form of X on %new platform% or X And Y Together (unless you bind them in a novel manner)

  7. Re:The result of funding cuts for observatories on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    lemme guess your father was the guy referred to in
    "I know the presidents' chief scientific advisor, we were at MIT together. And, in a situation like this, you-you really don't wanna take the advice from a man who got a C minus in astrophysics. The presidents' advisors are... wrong. I'm right. "

  8. Re:Cognitive science on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 1

    you can get gloves with just enough metal/carbon in the fingertips to trigger a touch screen (or for single finger stuff use a stylus)

  9. Re:71 Percent of U.S. See Humans On Mars By 2033 on 71 Percent of U.S. See Humans On Mars By 2033 · · Score: 1

    "More like "71% of humans wish some other humans could be sent on Mars by 2033." I'm proposing a certain brand of fundies to have the honor of the first shipment. You know, to bring the Word to the savage planet or something. Or maybe the Access."

    So when you check into your room on Mars check the nightstand and you will find a Bible open up the front and you will see a stamp "This Bible Placed at the Mars Hilton by The Gideons"

    http://www.gideons.org/

  10. Techs job is to be invisible on Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology · · Score: 1

    If it takes 5 different logins to cover your course

    YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

    Everything and i mean EVERYTHING should

    1 flow directly from the main school portal to where ever

    2 study materials should always have a way to make offline/hard copy so you can use them without a network connection.

    3 have a way to connect while not on the school network

    4 have full support for NOT MSIE browsers and small screens

  11. Thats What Amazon is for on Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology · · Score: 1

    i think you could get most of everything YOU PERSONALLY need from Amazon (or your localish supply store)

  12. Re:Here Endeth The Lesson. on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 1

    No NO NO you have to do it right

    [play sound: THX Big Note.wav] THUS ENDETH THE LESSON

    but anywho if i was one of those sites i would have my legal staff have a chat with Facebook about not having this happen again EVER.

  13. how to disable "metro" from boot on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    okay a question for the group

    How can you without installing a utility disable "Metro" (and restore the Start Menu) and have it come up ON BOOT that way??

    please note for the JFGI crowd I have tried but i can only see

    1 OLD articles (preRTM)
    2 articles selling utilities
    3 Fluff articles that don't apply at all (or are on Win7)

    Either list the steps or give a direct link please.

  14. Re:Science time. on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    "If you want to have no unhealthy behaviour you actually need to extingush all unhealthy behaviour or what you define it as.

    And when it comes to death penalty, most pro-lifers become very con-life."

    its very simple

    1 Existing is not a Capital Crime
    2 And Shepherds We Shall Be: for some things you do you do not need to continue existing

    (see The BoonDock Saints Courtroom speech for a discussion on this matter)

  15. Re:Always on = !on on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    Steam can't help if the Publisher of a Given Game is a JackA3. Yes there are games with "extra" DRM and those might not be able to be played offline. Any idea as to what percent DON"T have extra DRM??

  16. Re:What are we going to miss out on? on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    mind giving us the Chapter and Verse for the Finnish version??

  17. Re:What are we going to miss out on? on Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography Censorship · · Score: 1

    well the problem is what happens if you decide to make a semipolitical comic blog featuring a family of Vulpine Anthromorphs??

    Would you land up on the block list if a comic featured a pool scene (with the young daughter in the pool) and the Father had a shovel/rake/bat in his hand??

    but anywho

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_amendment

    the text in question is

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

    and says NOTHING about political speech

  18. Re:Always on = !on on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    1 for steam you don't need the disc

    2 if you wanted to you could put your steam cache on a portable hard drive and play your games on another computer

    3 Some Games if you Purchase them for One Platform you have also purchased them for the Other Platform(s)

    4 Steam will allow you to give your "extra" codes to friends (you buy a game pack and since you already have game X you send that code to a friend)

    5 STEAM IS NOT ALWAYS ON (you can after getting online play some single player games to "offline" and play them without a net connection)

    6 Steam provides an update service

  19. Re:Uhhh... on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    error: Violation of Order of Operations Rules

    actually its 15 not 8 due to it being (2^4)-1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

  20. Re:He DOESN'T need a lawyer on Piriform Asks BleachBit To Remove Winapp2.ini Importer · · Score: 1

    Or how about "As my product is similar and not claiming to be your product i would refer you to the response in the Arkell V Pressdram case"

  21. SecondLife with Post Crysis graphics?? on OnLive's Epic Plan For a New Type of Video Game · · Score: 1

    of course that would post likely bring half the Internet to its knees but hey a guy can dream.

    (challenge for an animator create a tummy rub animation that can be used with the WereHouse Dire Wolf)

  22. Re:Trade-offs on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    i think if you save your steam cache that will work for installers (and they would already be installed!)

    and i think a good number of steam games have cracks done by err "third parties" already.

  23. The next Volta Watt Tesla ect on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 1

    the problem is the lack of NEW fields where you can land up having your name used for the Units of that field. That and getting into a new ar3ea (even if its related to an existing one) is a good way to be sued/criminally charged/shot by somebody.

  24. Re:Shady? Really? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 2

    or even "better" pay us $MBucks and we won't have your guns used by the Bad Guys or portrayed as being defective/dangerous to the user.

  25. How much of your biz is customer facing?? on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    it would be great for SALES to have FirstdotLast but you might not want your IT or Security folks to have an easy to guess name.

    If you insist in doing FirstdotLast then use FirstdotMidotlast format (and hope you don't get somebody with a long first and or last name)