There is an advantage to getting a 360 with a Hard Drive besides downloadable content and unlimited saves.. game load times are much much quicker as the drive is used to cache data.
Also, themes and icons/avatars can be saved to memory cards.
Do you need an hard drive? No, certainly not. But its nice.
I believe another Blender Foundation movie would definitely draw in just as many, if not more pre-orders and donations than the original Project Orange did. Why? Becuase it was a humongous success among the Blender community, the majority of people who did donate and pre-order.
The movie might not have the best plot, the animation might have it's issues, but this whole project has brought the communities strength to new levels. We love Blender, but we especially love those behind its growth.
If this project has done nothing else, it's extended Blender by leaps and bounds, and offers an extremly unique learning tool to the community. From the technical blogging to all the source material being made available on DVD, the resource gain is monumental.
If Ton offers to make another movie, as a Blender user (and one of many and growing) he has my dollar, thats for sure.
Try the Blender Game Engine. You have all your 3d tools right there in one package. The engine is quite versatile, and now supports GLSL shaders, multi view ports, and physics.
http://www.blender3d.org/
The power supply is also external for temperature reasons. Even without the PSU inside the 360, it still generates quite a bit of heat from the processors and GPU alone, enough to make it feel like a space heater if you put your hand behind it. The PSU gets just as hot if you you touch it.
Here in WA state, refusing to take a brethalyzer test is the same as failing one. Instant DUI pretty much.
How screwed up is that? Note, I don't drink, and definitely don't condone drunk driving. IANAL, but, isn't that self incriminating?
Does the state believe 100% in the accuracy of the test to conclude that one's refusal is admonition of guilt? What do you have go hide if you're not guilty, right?
If there's one thing I didn't complain about the original AIM client, it was the preferences. Maybe they could of been grouped and simplified a bit better, but, I don't see how just obliterating user choice and forcing them to use defaults is a feature.
Just what does this client do that it needs more than a 600mhz computer?
I got the installer, which was annoying as it's not even an installer at all but an install-getter, and it immediately prompted me with the message "Your computer does not meet the minimum system requirements to download and install AIM® Beta."
Given you're just starting out with programming, Game Maker is a fine environment for making games. It has everything right there, from a sprite editor to a room/level editor.
Its very high-level, in that everything is very object oriented, and quite literally drag and drop.
However, it does have a very nice and fairly deep scripting language that resembles C.
At the higher level, it does teach basic programming constructs quite well, and on the lower level it can remain just as simple or go quite a bit further.
Once you understand the basics, its trivial to write a game such as pong, breakout, or pacman. After you've gained experience, you can even write full blown side scrolling jump and runs, and recently, even games like Doom.
Its free to use, and cheap to get the registered version. Its at least worthy of checking out.
I'm from Minnesota, where the dish is rather common. (Though I've never eaten it.. yuck)
From what I've heard, people of nordic decent (of which there are a lot in MN) eat it as a tradition, definately not because of its taste, but as a reminder of harsh times.
As for why they named a rock after it, who knows. Do the rovers have taste sensors? I'm sure it doesnt taste much different.
Its actually a pretty simple illusion thats both a problem to artists as well as a useful tool.
Basically, colors always effect other colors. For example, if a gray square is surrounded by black squares, the gray square will seem much brighter than it would sitting next to other tones of gray.
If you surround the gray square with white squares, the gray square will seem much darker.
I guess you could call it the color theory of relativity.
This works with colors, not just with shades of gray. Surround a medium gray square by orange squares, and the gray square will take on a cool blueish hue (blue is complementary/opposite of orange), even if its rgb is 128,128,128.
In this optical illusion, the shadow cast from the cylinder onto the 'A' squares is affecting the appearance of the 'B' square. Its only the shadow thats causing the illusion.
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I think more than anything, that mostly proves your girlfriend is just better at placing color labels on parts of the spectrum.
When you train to be an artist, one of the first things you learn in color theory is to completely forget the names. They mean nothing, and theres a hundred different names by a 100 different paint companies for the same color!
Color for an artist is broken down to hue, temperature, saturation, and value.
The only names of colors that are important are the names of the primaries (which often in itself gets confusing as to whether your talking about the primary colors of light separated by a prism or the subjective primaries of pigment which when mixed together produce wildly different results depending on manufacturer)
Anyways, are women more sensitive to color than men? Maybe Tetrachromats, but normally, I'd say no. Perhaps more exposed to labels for whatever social reasoning though.
Cube is great to get started with. I've been playing with it recently.
However, its a very different engine, and as such the mapping is very different from how most modern games do it.
Its actually styled a lot more like how the original Doom worked. It uses height fields, so you cant really construct things like shelves, or bridges.
That said, its still a LOT of fun to play with for its relative ease. Good engine to get started with, to at least get a hang of spacial design. Afterwords, try out some of the more modern engines.
I'm very much in the same boat as the submitter, and while I have found great advice here and elsewhere on basic rules of business, there is little, if any advice on the really scary part about starting a small business: insurance and taxes.
I'd like to know how not to get screwed by the government or insurance agencies, and how to navigate through the legal mazes. Screwing up and learning as you go can have some pretty severe penalties.
The PSX emulation scene is quite mature and has been for some time. Emulators such as EPSXE for the PC and Linux are highly compatible with PSX games, nearing 98% compatible with all games.
PCSX2 is a Playstation2 emulator however, not a Playstation emulator, which is why it only runs a few demos. This is a port of its predecessor, PCSX, which is about on par with EPSXE.
I totally agree with you, and would support you if you have the skills necessary to roll out your own IM protocol with Client/Server. Someone has to do it.
If you think aim is ugly though, check out the relatively new program AIMutation It skins AIM and will soon have many other features such as logging and tabbed IM'ing.
A shot of a sample skin I'm currently working on for it can be found at http://users.mcleodusa.net/w/wtriska/sharpaim_ss3. jpg
If you do feel so inspired (or sick of current IM solutions) to develop your own, note that I'd be more than willing to help out in design, if only for experience.:)
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There is an advantage to getting a 360 with a Hard Drive besides downloadable content and unlimited saves.. game load times are much much quicker as the drive is used to cache data.
Also, themes and icons/avatars can be saved to memory cards.
Do you need an hard drive? No, certainly not. But its nice.
I believe another Blender Foundation movie would definitely draw in just as many, if not more pre-orders and donations than the original Project Orange did. Why? Becuase it was a humongous success among the Blender community, the majority of people who did donate and pre-order.
The movie might not have the best plot, the animation might have it's issues, but this whole project has brought the communities strength to new levels. We love Blender, but we especially love those behind its growth.
If this project has done nothing else, it's extended Blender by leaps and bounds, and offers an extremly unique learning tool to the community. From the technical blogging to all the source material being made available on DVD, the resource gain is monumental.
If Ton offers to make another movie, as a Blender user (and one of many and growing) he has my dollar, thats for sure.
Unfortunately they also have a Hell Mouth.
Try the Blender Game Engine. You have all your 3d tools right there in one package. The engine is quite versatile, and now supports GLSL shaders, multi view ports, and physics. http://www.blender3d.org/
The power supply is also external for temperature reasons. Even without the PSU inside the 360, it still generates quite a bit of heat from the processors and GPU alone, enough to make it feel like a space heater if you put your hand behind it. The PSU gets just as hot if you you touch it.
Here in WA state, refusing to take a brethalyzer test is the same as failing one. Instant DUI pretty much.
How screwed up is that? Note, I don't drink, and definitely don't condone drunk driving. IANAL, but, isn't that self incriminating?
Does the state believe 100% in the accuracy of the test to conclude that one's refusal is admonition of guilt? What do you have go hide if you're not guilty, right?
I had watched a couple of episodes of Buffy, and none of Angel before seeing Firefly. I didn't much care for Buffy at the time.
Firefly is radically different. I enjoyed it immensely.
If there's one thing I didn't complain about the original AIM client, it was the preferences. Maybe they could of been grouped and simplified a bit better, but, I don't see how just obliterating user choice and forcing them to use defaults is a feature.
Nevermind, heh, XP only. Nothing to see here.
Just what does this client do that it needs more than a 600mhz computer?
I got the installer, which was annoying as it's not even an installer at all but an install-getter, and it immediately prompted me with the message "Your computer does not meet the minimum system requirements to download and install AIM® Beta."
Given you're just starting out with programming, Game Maker is a fine environment for making games. It has everything right there, from a sprite editor to a room/level editor.
Its very high-level, in that everything is very object oriented, and quite literally drag and drop.
However, it does have a very nice and fairly deep scripting language that resembles C.
At the higher level, it does teach basic programming constructs quite well, and on the lower level it can remain just as simple or go quite a bit further.
Once you understand the basics, its trivial to write a game such as pong, breakout, or pacman. After you've gained experience, you can even write full blown side scrolling jump and runs, and recently, even games like Doom.
Its free to use, and cheap to get the registered version. Its at least worthy of checking out.
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/
I'm from Minnesota, where the dish is rather common. (Though I've never eaten it.. yuck)
From what I've heard, people of nordic decent (of which there are a lot in MN) eat it as a tradition, definately not because of its taste, but as a reminder of harsh times.
As for why they named a rock after it, who knows. Do the rovers have taste sensors? I'm sure it doesnt taste much different.
And its FAST.
Plus, its still backwards compatible with the standard/original vnc, so you can connnect to it even without the optimized windows UltraVNC client.
Its actually a pretty simple illusion thats both a problem to artists as well as a useful tool.
Basically, colors always effect other colors. For example, if a gray square is surrounded by black squares, the gray square will seem much brighter than it would sitting next to other tones of gray.
If you surround the gray square with white squares, the gray square will seem much darker.
I guess you could call it the color theory of relativity.
This works with colors, not just with shades of gray. Surround a medium gray square by orange squares, and the gray square will take on a cool blueish hue (blue is complementary/opposite of orange), even if its rgb is 128,128,128.
In this optical illusion, the shadow cast from the cylinder onto the 'A' squares is affecting the appearance of the 'B' square. Its only the shadow thats causing the illusion.
I think more than anything, that mostly proves your girlfriend is just better at placing color labels on parts of the spectrum.
When you train to be an artist, one of the first things you learn in color theory is to completely forget the names. They mean nothing, and theres a hundred different names by a 100 different paint companies for the same color!
Color for an artist is broken down to hue, temperature, saturation, and value.
The only names of colors that are important are the names of the primaries (which often in itself gets confusing as to whether your talking about the primary colors of light separated by a prism or the subjective primaries of pigment which when mixed together produce wildly different results depending on manufacturer)
Anyways, are women more sensitive to color than men? Maybe Tetrachromats, but normally, I'd say no. Perhaps more exposed to labels for whatever social reasoning though.
I just beat it. It was challenging, but not so challenging that it wasn't fun.
I'd be really interested in learning if there's a tool or simple way to make levels for it though.
It'd probably end up with a contributing community pretty quickly if the word got around.
This is an original plate photograph that is handed to the Matte Painter.
And this is what he's done with it.
Matte Painters are extremely good at this, and have an amazing amount of knowledge about light and how it works on various surfaces.
I really wonder how far such a painting would go in fooling an "expert" given its painted by an expert in the first place.
Cube is great to get started with. I've been playing with it recently.
However, its a very different engine, and as such the mapping is very different from how most modern games do it.
Its actually styled a lot more like how the original Doom worked. It uses height fields, so you cant really construct things like shelves, or bridges.
That said, its still a LOT of fun to play with for its relative ease. Good engine to get started with, to at least get a hang of spacial design. Afterwords, try out some of the more modern engines.
We dont live in a democracy though. The vote of the people is only considered by the electoral college.
The electoral college votes are really the only ones that matter. They dont necessarily have to "agree" with the peoples choice.
A true democracy elects its officials by the people. We, do not do that.
I'm very much in the same boat as the submitter, and while I have found great advice here and elsewhere on basic rules of business, there is little, if any advice on the really scary part about starting a small business: insurance and taxes.
I'd like to know how not to get screwed by the government or insurance agencies, and how to navigate through the legal mazes. Screwing up and learning as you go can have some pretty severe penalties.
Well, I can prove you wrong. ;)
The PSX emulation scene is quite mature and has been for some time. Emulators such as EPSXE for the PC and Linux are highly compatible with PSX games, nearing 98% compatible with all games.
PCSX2 is a Playstation2 emulator however, not a Playstation emulator, which is why it only runs a few demos. This is a port of its predecessor, PCSX, which is about on par with EPSXE.
I totally agree with you, and would support you if you have the skills necessary to roll out your own IM protocol with Client/Server. Someone has to do it.
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jtriska @ mcleodusa.net
If you think aim is ugly though, check out the relatively new program AIMutation It skins AIM and will soon have many other features such as logging and tabbed IM'ing.
A shot of a sample skin I'm currently working on for it can be found at http://users.mcleodusa.net/w/wtriska/sharpaim_ss3
If you do feel so inspired (or sick of current IM solutions) to develop your own, note that I'd be more than willing to help out in design, if only for experience.
That was manifold: Space, not manifold: Time. All very fascinating books though. :)