The best series have some kind of continuity. Anyone have any idea what changed?
This is mostly a guess, but the Farscape people were told that the show was picked up for two more seasons after the third (well, this part's not a guess, that did happen); and since they were more or less done with a lot of their previous plot arcs, the first 1/4 of those two seasons (the last 1/2 of which it looks like we wont see) felt like a lot of setup for the things to come.
I guess normally shows don't plan ahead as much since they expect to be cancelled the next year.
As far as some other differences that made the 4th season not quite as good: the new character juggling - Suzuki Sashimi Shamu just wasn't very "Farscape"; and yeah, there were many completely stand-alone silly episodes that didn't really add anything to the show. That and "John Quixote" should've been one of the funniest episodes ever, and instead just plain sucked (the first Farscape episode I can say that about)
Quick word about the blender docs - there problem there isn't that there is not enough of it, there is too much.
There are tons of tutorials (from NaN but mostly from the community), user and technical docs assmebled over several years of NaN's existence as well as the two books. As far as I remember, not all of this is available at the moment, it's in the process of being organized in some fasion and made available at blender.org; basically it should be coming in a usable form fairly soon.
(btw, I don't think they Blender Foundation got the rights to the second book, which is a shame, but I do believe the person who wrote it (the name escapes me) will be working on new docs.
I used to think so too, in fact you can apparently just flat out charge for the software, it's the sources that you have to provide at cost. Mind you, my info is based on hearing Loic Dachary talk about it recently; I'm guessing he should know.
Hmm... yes, of course for graphic artists (ie the users) this might be the app they use every single day, and for a large portion of that day, for many years to come - might be worth the few weeks effort to learn that gui, if it gives some advantage in productivity. Whether or not the latter is true is a debate onto itself, and I can't really comment since I don't have much experience with 3D modeling; but some people seems to think that is better in that respect.
I was set there in the Theatrum Anatomicum with the site projected on the screen when the whole thing crumbled five minutes after launch. Why? Simple: PHP + MySQL.
To be fair, it was put together by very few people, in a very short period of time (that money just came in so fast!:) ) it just wasn't a slashdot oriented technology choice.
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While very cool, none of Eskil's projects have anything to do with Blender, at the moment. Though it is possible that Verse will be a basis of "NextGen" Blender (whatever shape that might take), note that this is well into the future, certainly not Blender 3.0
His presentations will be available online, at either his site or the foundation's, quite interesting.
Damn, the whole thing was a bunch of fun though! btw, I am writing this from an internet cafe in Amsterdam, and still trying to wake up from yesterday.:)
Just to emphasize again though - the so called "NextGen Blender" is a very cool idea which is, at best, years and years off. I'd be more excited about the plain old Blender (and Blender 3.0) at the moment.
If there's a license attached to it, and it prohibits X, then you shouldn't be able to do X, and if you want to do X, you shouldn't buy the XBox. Deal with it.
So if you can't do X, all you have left is a "box" - what's the point of that?
btw, I thought we haven't given in to the whole "hardware license" thing just yet, and maybe, just maybe, we can still buy something and do whatever with it, without the company telling us what we can and cannot do with something we supposedly own (and owning is something I like to do after I give away money)
first of all, we are talking about genotypes and not phenotypes (phenotypes are impossible to put on CD for obvious reasons). secondly, the human genome is roughly 3 Giga Basepairs, which, if you consider that you need 2 bits to store one basepair, gives you just over 715MB, with some compression that happily lives on a CD.
Of course the vast (vast) majority of that is identical for all people, so you only need to store the differences.
Well, my $75 did, and I am going to be there in Amsterdam for the release party - god I love me!:) (btw, I live in the US, so I'm quite excited about the trip)
I am curious - will they actually give you the source code to Maya for $2K? I thought that was just the price of one seat. Looking at the app doesn't help this guy, he knows how they work, he needs to know how they are built.
which I had always assumed was presenting a viable alternative to M$
That's a very common, and very wrong assumption. We are interested in "viable alternatives" (if by that you mean "better products") to MS, but really only the ones we use and like. While all this "Joe HomeUser can now homeuse Linux" hoopla is great, no one here really gives a hoot. See, Lindows doesn't give me a better product to use.
BTW, "the cause" has in reality nothing to do with MS, it's about software, and changing the way it is produced. In this regard (ie playing nice with the rest of the free software community) Lindows has been failing even more miserably.
uh? A military jet also makes more noise than an HD, but that's hardly a compliment for the HD. For most people reading this the CPU fan is by far the loudest thing in the box.
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meh, that's why I said "technically" - goes right back to that "internally inconsistent" part.
Heh, that's technically legal here in the US too, odd isn't it?
This is mostly a guess, but the Farscape people were told that the show was picked up for two more seasons after the third (well, this part's not a guess, that did happen); and since they were more or less done with a lot of their previous plot arcs, the first 1/4 of those two seasons (the last 1/2 of which it looks like we wont see) felt like a lot of setup for the things to come.
I guess normally shows don't plan ahead as much since they expect to be cancelled the next year.
As far as some other differences that made the 4th season not quite as good: the new character juggling - Suzuki Sashimi Shamu just wasn't very "Farscape"; and yeah, there were many completely stand-alone silly episodes that didn't really add anything to the show. That and "John Quixote" should've been one of the funniest episodes ever, and instead just plain sucked (the first Farscape episode I can say that about)
Anyway, the only news here that offers any hope was the Jim Henson people (I believe Brian himself) saying they may/will be doing Farscape movies.
(btw, just so you know where I'm coming from - Farscape was the only tv show I watched, sci-fi or otherwise)
So glad someone finally explained this; I always thought that "PRMan" was some suit from Pixar whose job it is to put good spin on things.
There are tons of tutorials (from NaN but mostly from the community), user and technical docs assmebled over several years of NaN's existence as well as the two books. As far as I remember, not all of this is available at the moment, it's in the process of being organized in some fasion and made available at blender.org; basically it should be coming in a usable form fairly soon.
(btw, I don't think they Blender Foundation got the rights to the second book, which is a shame, but I do believe the person who wrote it (the name escapes me) will be working on new docs.
btw, if you think this is -1, Redundant, consider that the effect is cumulative.
I used to think so too, in fact you can apparently just flat out charge for the software, it's the sources that you have to provide at cost. Mind you, my info is based on hearing Loic Dachary talk about it recently; I'm guessing he should know.
And RMS is expressing his opinions on Linux development. :)
Hmm... yes, of course for graphic artists (ie the users) this might be the app they use every single day, and for a large portion of that day, for many years to come - might be worth the few weeks effort to learn that gui, if it gives some advantage in productivity. Whether or not the latter is true is a debate onto itself, and I can't really comment since I don't have much experience with 3D modeling; but some people seems to think that is better in that respect.
To be fair, it was put together by very few people, in a very short period of time (that money just came in so fast! :) ) it just wasn't a slashdot oriented technology choice.
His presentations will be available online, at either his site or the foundation's, quite interesting.
Damn, the whole thing was a bunch of fun though! btw, I am writing this from an internet cafe in Amsterdam, and still trying to wake up from yesterday. :)
Just to emphasize again though - the so called "NextGen Blender" is a very cool idea which is, at best, years and years off. I'd be more excited about the plain old Blender (and Blender 3.0) at the moment.
So if you can't do X, all you have left is a "box" - what's the point of that?
btw, I thought we haven't given in to the whole "hardware license" thing just yet, and maybe, just maybe, we can still buy something and do whatever with it, without the company telling us what we can and cannot do with something we supposedly own (and owning is something I like to do after I give away money)
Beyond food and shelter, nothing is "indisposable"
oh and begging for money for more or less technical projects is a significant part of what /. does - and why not?
Actually, it's around $16 per gene... still not too bad.
first of all, we are talking about genotypes and not phenotypes (phenotypes are impossible to put on CD for obvious reasons). secondly, the human genome is roughly 3 Giga Basepairs, which, if you consider that you need 2 bits to store one basepair, gives you just over 715MB, with some compression that happily lives on a CD.
Of course the vast (vast) majority of that is identical for all people, so you only need to store the differences.
Well, my $75 did, and I am going to be there in Amsterdam for the release party - god I love me! :) (btw, I live in the US, so I'm quite excited about the trip)
odd, most people who like Blender rave about the UI being its best feature...
I am curious - will they actually give you the source code to Maya for $2K? I thought that was just the price of one seat. Looking at the app doesn't help this guy, he knows how they work, he needs to know how they are built.
Hell, I'm spinning in my grave, and I am not even RMS (or dead).
That's a very common, and very wrong assumption. We are interested in "viable alternatives" (if by that you mean "better products") to MS, but really only the ones we use and like. While all this "Joe HomeUser can now homeuse Linux" hoopla is great, no one here really gives a hoot. See, Lindows doesn't give me a better product to use.
BTW, "the cause" has in reality nothing to do with MS, it's about software, and changing the way it is produced. In this regard (ie playing nice with the rest of the free software community) Lindows has been failing even more miserably.
uh? A military jet also makes more noise than an HD, but that's hardly a compliment for the HD. For most people reading this the CPU fan is by far the loudest thing in the box.
notice how almost every message moderated above 3 in this thread is "Funny" - that probably says something... I'm too lazy to figure out what, though.
Or you can do what I do and just not watch the silly piece of crap.