It's rather silly to proclaim the death of meta tags just because they can be manipulated. The content of web pages are also being manipulated to obtain a better rating in search enginges. Should we stop using content as well? Blank web pages everywhere, because that is the only way to be sure that they actually contain what search engines promise us?
It would probably be far more useful to begin black listing sites who try to divert traffic their ways by means of "lies". Something along the line the anti-spam lists that are in use for email.
It took only a couple of hours to read (though I'm assuredly not the target audience)
Which is exactly the reason why someone else should have reviewed it! Books should be reviewed by someone with the appropriate skill set, that's got about the same amount of knowledge that the books intended audience have. If that isn't the case the review is pretty much useless.
Free as the shit stains in my underwear. If Gnu wants Blender, why don't they pay for it? Let some of their money go to other things than RMS the software popa!
And you know what, if you want to diffrentiate between free, as in cost, and free, as in freedom - start calling it Freedom software. It will make it sooo much easier and less ambigous.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize we where talking Free software, rather than open source. If the purpose is to make it Free software, there shouldn't be any problem. Let Gnu pay for it. It's about time they actually pay project to get them into their fold, rather than coercing them with dogma.
With Maya seats costing 3k, and the massive amount of money in the Effects Industry, a Free Software solution could gain significant momentum.
But, isBlender really on par with Maya? Probably not. Does it have the potential to go that way? Probably not, at least if you are to count on effect houses bettering it and releasing their improvments as Free software. Why should they do that? There is no incentive for them to do so! Effect houses are damned protective about their IP, that's their only livelyhood!
Buying up failed software to convert it into OSS or Free Software sets a dangerous precedent! Every little bit player will try to get someone to pay for their failed efforts. You will probably get companies taking the risk of releasing stuff commercially - since they can always make some money even if it fails, just sellout to the Free/OSS community.
People should get rewarded for success - not failure!!!
OK, then please educate me! What's so great with Blender? Why is it better for the OSS community to invest money and time in getting it opened, instead of investing in an already opened project?
Go feed the camel.
I hope your referring to the Perl book and not making a racial slur, just because I'm an arabian!
the software itself isn't inferior by default because it was closed source.
Well, I admit it was a long time since I tried Blender out, back then it certainly sucked. Then again, I'm not much of a graphics artist. Those of my friends who are, have been less then impressed by Blender.
And blender definitely is a cool app.
What about other, similar, already OSS:ed apps? Why not put money into them instead? What makes Blender so great? Does it incorporate some new, amazing stuff? Or, is it just that they've gotten further along in their development than equivialent OSS efforts?
By opening up blender they're encourging the use of open source in software engineering
Software engineering? What has that got to do with Blender?
Why not use all the money to pay and help out those that already give to the OSS community? Give some money to KDE/Gnome or whom ever made your desktop. Larry and the other Perl makers are running out o cash, why not give them more?
Don't encourage those who make crappy commercial stuff!!!!
Are you implying that authors of source-control apps should be sad because you don't use their product? Why?
You haven't even bothered to look around at what's available in the OSS community, before spouting off. There are plenty of great GUIs for CVS and so on. In my opinion they're far superior to Source-safe.
And just how does your comment apply to this sub-thread?
There are several other sub-threads on the subject of "unnatural" sexuality in Piers' books. I think your comment would apply much more in those threads.
When I'd met her, she had already had an abortion, and had gotten genital warts (HPV) at the age of 15. Genital warts are incurable, you know. Needless to say, I broke off the relationship after this came to light.
Are you sure she didn't make this up to get rid off you? It seems to have worked, and I'm sure she didn't think it was such a big loss...
Most of the world's conflicts are caused by sexual frustration in some shape or form, practically as far back as the history books go. Thank you Dr Freud.
All world conflicts spawn from religion. Especially from various incarnations of christianity.
As long as people care more about outdated, occult, nonsense there will be problems in the world. Americans being among the worst offenders. It's horrible to see a supposedly modern country, being run by moronic church goers! Then again, you also believe you invented democracy, that there isn't freedom anywhere else in the world. And so on, and so on...
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Linux-QT-KDE mess,
Why is this a mess?
That even included writing Qt2.x wrappers around the AtheOS GUI (Not easy, as Qt is not thread safe, while AtheOS is inherently multi threaded).
Why shouldn't it be easy? Going from thread safe->unsafe might be hard, but the other way around...
On the other hand, you really end up with an extra browser for a while, since DOM 2 is not backwards compatible.
"...for a while", yeah right. I've got some swamp land you might wanna buy from me...
Why didn't you search there before asking Slashdot?
Oh, I didn't? Thank's for telling me! I thought I did and I'd probably have had to Ask Slashdot to tell me that I didn't...
It's rather silly to proclaim the death of meta tags just because they can be manipulated. The content of web pages are also being manipulated to obtain a better rating in search enginges. Should we stop using content as well? Blank web pages everywhere, because that is the only way to be sure that they actually contain what search engines promise us?
It would probably be far more useful to begin black listing sites who try to divert traffic their ways by means of "lies". Something along the line the anti-spam lists that are in use for email.
Why would I want to switch to Kroupware when evolution already does
Because you can get a leaner system by removing all gnome libraries once you use only KDE stuff.
Klu Klux Klan Komputer Kraze
It took only a couple of hours to read (though I'm assuredly not the target audience)
Which is exactly the reason why someone else should have reviewed it! Books should be reviewed by someone with the appropriate skill set, that's got about the same amount of knowledge that the books intended audience have. If that isn't the case the review is pretty much useless.
I don't generally run spell check until I am finishing up a document and starting to profread.
And sometimes you don't run a spellcheck at all...
Save LWN by giving them the Blender money! They're a far more valuable resource than Blender...
said that it was too late to change the official name because it would cause even more confusion than already exists.
Why don't you tell him that it's too late to rename Linux as Gnu/linux, because it will only cause more confusion?
though if you have to ask, this will probably mean little to you:
My, my, aren't we condecending!
No, no other free 3D editor has these features. Yes, I have used many.
The way you mix "3D editor" and "radiosity" makes me think that you are the one who is a bit confused about the meaning of terms you listed...
Free as in freedom, i.e. GPL. Freedom isn't free.
Free as the shit stains in my underwear. If Gnu wants Blender, why don't they pay for it? Let some of their money go to other things than RMS the software popa!
And you know what, if you want to diffrentiate between free, as in cost, and free, as in freedom - start calling it Freedom software. It will make it sooo much easier and less ambigous.
Strategy. Free Software needs a 3d modeler.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize we where talking Free software, rather than open source. If the purpose is to make it Free software, there shouldn't be any problem. Let Gnu pay for it. It's about time they actually pay project to get them into their fold, rather than coercing them with dogma.
With Maya seats costing 3k, and the massive amount of money in the Effects Industry, a Free Software solution could gain significant momentum.
But, isBlender really on par with Maya? Probably not. Does it have the potential to go that way? Probably not, at least if you are to count on effect houses bettering it and releasing their improvments as Free software. Why should they do that? There is no incentive for them to do so! Effect houses are damned protective about their IP, that's their only livelyhood!
Buying up failed software to convert it into OSS or Free Software sets a dangerous precedent! Every little bit player will try to get someone to pay for their failed efforts. You will probably get companies taking the risk of releasing stuff commercially - since they can always make some money even if it fails, just sellout to the Free/OSS community.
People should get rewarded for success - not failure!!!
It is probably the most capable free 3D modeller out there.
:-)
Free as in EUR 100,000
but I'd hardly call Blender crap.
OK, then please educate me! What's so great with Blender? Why is it better for the OSS community to invest money and time in getting it opened, instead of investing in an already opened project?
Go feed the camel.
I hope your referring to the Perl book and not making a racial slur, just because I'm an arabian!
the software itself isn't inferior by default because it was closed source.
Well, I admit it was a long time since I tried Blender out, back then it certainly sucked. Then again, I'm not much of a graphics artist. Those of my friends who are, have been less then impressed by Blender.
And blender definitely is a cool app.
What about other, similar, already OSS:ed apps? Why not put money into them instead? What makes Blender so great? Does it incorporate some new, amazing stuff? Or, is it just that they've gotten further along in their development than equivialent OSS efforts?
By opening up blender they're encourging the use of open source in software engineering
Software engineering? What has that got to do with Blender?
Why not use all the money to pay and help out those that already give to the OSS community? Give some money to KDE/Gnome or whom ever made your desktop. Larry and the other Perl makers are running out o cash, why not give them more?
Don't encourage those who make crappy commercial stuff!!!!
cat
Unnecessary use of cat - shame on you!!!
Its the ones they win you got to watch for. Edison failed over a thousand times before he got the light bulb right.
Edison stole all his inventions. Either from employees or from outside sources. He was the Bill Gates of his time...
Sorry Guys.
Are you implying that authors of source-control apps should be sad because you don't use their product? Why?
You haven't even bothered to look around at what's available in the OSS community, before spouting off. There are plenty of great GUIs for CVS and so on. In my opinion they're far superior to Source-safe.
And just how does your comment apply to this sub-thread?
There are several other sub-threads on the subject of "unnatural" sexuality in Piers' books. I think your comment would apply much more in those threads.
When I'd met her, she had already had an abortion, and had gotten genital warts (HPV) at the age of 15. Genital warts are incurable, you know. Needless to say, I broke off the relationship after this came to light.
Are you sure she didn't make this up to get rid off you? It seems to have worked, and I'm sure she didn't think it was such a big loss...
Most of the world's conflicts are caused by sexual frustration in some shape or form, practically as far back as the history books go.
Are you saying that religion comes from sexual frustration? 'Cause as you know almost all wars, terrorism, and so on, come from religious reasons.
Most of the world's conflicts are caused by sexual frustration in some shape or form, practically as far back as the history books go. Thank you Dr Freud.
All world conflicts spawn from religion. Especially from various incarnations of christianity.
As long as people care more about outdated, occult, nonsense there will be problems in the world. Americans being among the worst offenders. It's horrible to see a supposedly modern country, being run by moronic church goers! Then again, you also believe you invented democracy, that there isn't freedom anywhere else in the world. And so on, and so on...