Space.com has an update on the progress of the book. Apparenly NASA has stopped the funding and Jim is looking for commercial sponsorship.
http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html
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Very true. Once you overlook the sales persons, booth babes, and mo-cap girls, you were left with lots of enthusiastic geeks (mostly the best of the best).
After that, it is hard to come back to work with a bunch of 9-to-5ers.
The new version (6) of Caligari's trueSpace has "texture baking". It can translate procedural textures into mapped UV surfaces. Pretty nifty set of tools too. Windows only.
I have no quams with most of your comments, but the Photoshop point is a joke.
Photoshop is the "Industry Standard" for 2D graphics production. Print, web, and film/video production houses are flooded with users. It was never ment to be a tool for home users (get Photoshop Elements), it is the Ginsu knife of graphics apps.
Are you suggestin that GIMP or Corel are the big graphics apps?
Your statment "Not on pc's but mainly macs" cannot be true. With less than a 10% market share, the Mac users are an isolated bunch (as always). If you were speaking in 1994, perhaps the comment would hold water.
We've seen Palm OS loaded on other (cheaper) PDAs. The Palm-based PDA seems on it's way out. People want more power and "multimedia", so they are turning to more robust systems.
So, if Palm's OS gets bought less, and Palm's PDAs get bought less...
Then maybe they can make money sueing M$, using Be as leverage.
Gee, the boxed sets are nice (if I wanted the "entire series"), but what if I want a few choice epicodes? I trust there is a single disk option, like TOS DVDs.
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Space.com has an update on the progress of the book. Apparenly NASA has stopped the funding and Jim is looking for commercial sponsorship.
http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html
Very true. Once you overlook the sales persons, booth babes, and mo-cap girls, you were left with lots of enthusiastic geeks (mostly the best of the best).
After that, it is hard to come back to work with a bunch of 9-to-5ers.
Intel's Glow-cube
Intel's Suctioncup Clock
3DLab's Fan/Lite
The new version (6) of Caligari's trueSpace has "texture baking". It can translate procedural textures into mapped UV surfaces. Pretty nifty set of tools too. Windows only.
Sales and rental!
I liked them every once in a while. The attempt at a spin-off series was awful. The jokes were forced.
Killed in an attempt to "do the right thing" is the best thing for them. The Klingons would be proud.
Don't worry about the spoiler, I haven't watched in years.
"Psychic" is a little strong. They had direct neural interface without plugs/wires, but not really what I would call psychic.
My bad.
I don't like Lossy compression
What's up with PNG? It seems that could blow JP2 away. PNG has 8bit alpha channel for cleaner transparency than GIF and smaller files than JPG.
I didn't know you could get Beowolf for the GBA!
LOL
I have no quams with most of your comments, but the Photoshop point is a joke.
Photoshop is the "Industry Standard" for 2D graphics production. Print, web, and film/video production houses are flooded with users. It was never ment to be a tool for home users (get Photoshop Elements), it is the Ginsu knife of graphics apps.
Are you suggestin that GIMP or Corel are the big graphics apps?
Your statment "Not on pc's but mainly macs" cannot be true. With less than a 10% market share, the Mac users are an isolated bunch (as always). If you were speaking in 1994, perhaps the comment would hold water.
Glad it works now, but in a couple hundred years Klingons will blow it up for target practice. See "Star Trek V: the Final Frontier".
Isn't Be owned by Palm now?
We've seen Palm OS loaded on other (cheaper) PDAs. The Palm-based PDA seems on it's way out. People want more power and "multimedia", so they are turning to more robust systems.
So, if Palm's OS gets bought less, and Palm's PDAs get bought less...
Then maybe they can make money sueing M$, using Be as leverage.
This is for intense graphic creation. It is overkill for current games. It doesn't even fully support DX8!
If someone is just surfing and typing letters, well 4M video RAM should be enough.
Most of the titles (region 1) are released by A&E. I wonder if HHGTTG will be an A&E or BBC release.
...buy 'em. It's the M$ way.
Agreed, the movie was essentialy an add for the video games. If only they had been so kewl.
Lets see about Tron 2.0...
They are already on the shelves. I wonder if anyone will care, or if they will be in the bargin bins by summer?
Gee, the boxed sets are nice (if I wanted the "entire series"), but what if I want a few choice epicodes? I trust there is a single disk option, like TOS DVDs.
Anyone know?
At $100 per season (22 episodes I believe), that's $4.50 an episode (not counting any extras). Sounds like a good deal.
The first B5 disk was released back in November! The two-sided disk contained:
The Gathering (Pilot)
In the Beginning (1993)
No great extras, they are testing out the waters. If this disk sells well (read: buy one), they will release the entire series.
Mission endourance tests
Reduced gravity habitats
Alternate farming techniques
etc...
Some of the knowlege gained will help us go further from our home, still others will contribute to our lives here.
Astronauts are "test pilots".
I can jsut see an AIBO with a "Mr. Fusion" (shades of "Back to The Future") engine in it.
Holy Neon Batman!
I'm in the same boat. I guess I'll have to wait for it to be mirrored.