Lightwave is more likely the product I would name for bringing 3D to the masses - or maybe PovRay for the extremely budget conscious. SoftImage was a good product, not one I could ever afford mind you, but 3DS Max was already extremely well entrenched in the i386 market by the time MS even thought about SoftImage. I'll be reserving my thanks to MS on this point until they make it affordable for people who just want to fiddle about with 3D.
I mean, I see the point you're trying to make, Unix workstations were expensive, but then so was/is CAD and 3D software.
News flash! weapons_of_mass_destruction.mp3 found on hard drive of Sadaam Hussein. The government wants to execute him, but not before the RIAA sues him for copyright infringment.
How cool, now, not only do I get to dress up in a crazy Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Carribean, style outfit for beign a pirate I can also wear a natty suit and say stuff like "You want maybe the don leaves a horses head in your bed" because now I'm also an organised crime figure. Piracy still caries the death penalty on the seas IIRC so don't download any N*Sync whilst sailing!
A binary file can be converted into an array of char in C and compiled again. It's not really in the spirit of the licence but it is providing the source. e.g.
Debian doesn't want to be RedHat, and Debian users are far more likely to be in favour of this change than RedHat users. People don't switch to Debian because it's the easiest or most popular distro to use. They switch because they like the ideals (or maybe because apt-get is so damn terrific) of the Debian group. I suspect Debian users are more accustomed than other Linux users at having to put a little effort into getting some of their gear working.
That's how I was thinking the day before I decided to bundle up my shit and sell it on e-bay instead of heaving it into the bin. I made 160 from listing my old CPU/motherboard/etc, money that went straight into purchasing a really cool synth. It took maybe 3 hours of my spare time to package up the stuff, and a short trip to the post office. Easily worth the price.
Bah, language nazis are the worst kind of bores. If new words weren't able to be added to the english language then we would be missing nearly every word in the farking dictionary. Here's how it works. Somebody starts to use a cool sounding term e.g. grok, other people grok the term (see what I did there?) and it becomes a part of slang. After being slang for a while it becomes common enough to warrant adding to the official dictionaries. They just added a bunch of new words last year IIRC, and they will add more in the future.
I can only pray that wild gangs of wolfbaggers come and drag these language nazis off to their lairs for some serious donkey punching.
Are they SCSI? I could do with at least one or two of those. Perhaps selling them on ebay might be a better option. And for the record, it would be for my Kurzweil synth that can only address drives up to 2GB.
Not before Gredo claims that Han has stolen his Linux code IP and released it as open source. Gredo hires some lawyers and the rest of the movie plays out as a court room drama, with a seague into a hospital drama when the our of court settlement doesn't go in Han's favour.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but laserdiscs aren't actually digital. They are a weird hybrid of digital and analog technology. IIRC they work like a CD, but the pits are of variable depth, making them more like a record where the needle moves up and down rather than sideways.
You can find the real defintion of the words hackers and crackers at the jargon dictionary. Here's an excerpt for those who need to brush up on the meanin g of this word:
hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
It can be, but none of these need be single person exercises. Playing music, think band. Write code, think open source. Read SlashDot, well, I'm hoping some of you guys are humans and not just bots getting a Turing test workout on the two real humans who still post here:-)
As a recreational drug user, non TV watcher and persistent SlashDot offender I guess I'm one of the guys this remark is directed at. I don't feel the need to help anyone else with their TV addiction. If they want to spend an average of 25 hours a week in front of the passive TV watching bulk ads, station breaks and low grade shows that's their life they're wasting. I am however completely happy to was lyrical about how much more enjoyable my life is now I control my viewing habits.
I can say this about giving up TV, I have more free time, a better relationship with my wife and friends, have taken up learning music and two instruments, read a lot more, and relax more. I'm a huge movie fan so I still watch DVD's but now I control when and what.
Finally, I'm not addicted to drugs, I have simple made a choice to regularly enjoy them on a lifelong basis;->
Heh, I don't know why this got a 'funny' since this is exactly what I do for the couple of shows I really do enjoy on TV. That's basically Futurama (got it all on DVD now), Simpsons (frankly pretty tired of this one now), Invader Zim (thankfully a DVD out soon so I can dump the Divx's), and SATC for my wife (also now all owned on DVD):-)
Hmmm, kinda also proves the point that piracy can lead to sales since I have purchased every released DVD of these shows.
I switched off the TV broadcasts three years ago and now only watch DVDs. I can honestly say I don't miss it a bit and now have vastly more time to do more interactive stuff...like play music, write code, read SlashDot. I also now have a huge DVD collection with plenty on Anime and classic films to enjoy when I want. Since I can pause when I want I can have a toke or grab a beer in the middle of a flick without missing any action. Also, since there's no fricking ads I watch a film in 30 minutes less time than the TV guys. That adds up to 3.5 hours more time to myself each week...just by not having to see the shitty commercials...let alone all the other crap.
I'm not saying watching heaps of TV is wrong, just that it's wrong for me.
MTV dooos not damage yur brian. Randum shufill make bains damageed. Me go lizten to iPaq songs agen now. iMac play good songs, resurcher is brain demaeged.
Leaning on the teachings of the robot devil "A word expressing a meaning other than it's literal interpretation, now that's irony" (IIRC). Nothing in the Alanis song could have been considered ironic, and there's nothing ironic about that fact either i.e. it's not ironic that the song Ironic isn't actually ironic.
Interesting post. Wouldn't it be more sensible to ditch the huge power storage and use a distributed model instead. Maybe an extension of the Tesla principle of transmitting electricity through the air? Imagine a road system (city only, not practical for country) with embedded electrical emitters that charge your car *as* you drive. You keep a small store on board and grab what you need as you drive the streets or park in a carpark. A micropayment system could be used to charge your consumption based on RFID technology built into the energy pickups. You have the cost of distributing the power to the grid now, but the advantage of smaller batteries and thus a reduction in the wasted energy used to move the battery itself.
I suspect it's more to do with keeping in good with the oil companies. Car companies and oil companies have a symbiotic relationship. When the oil reserves of the world are close to depleted is when we will see this technology getting marketed - and not before. What happened to the fuel cell cars that were meant to be getting released this year?
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I mean, I see the point you're trying to make, Unix workstations were expensive, but then so was/is CAD and 3D software.
News flash! weapons_of_mass_destruction.mp3 found on hard drive of Sadaam Hussein. The government wants to execute him, but not before the RIAA sues him for copyright infringment.
How cool, now, not only do I get to dress up in a crazy Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Carribean, style outfit for beign a pirate I can also wear a natty suit and say stuff like "You want maybe the don leaves a horses head in your bed" because now I'm also an organised crime figure. Piracy still caries the death penalty on the seas IIRC so don't download any N*Sync whilst sailing!
A binary file can be converted into an array of char in C and compiled again. It's not really in the spirit of the licence but it is providing the source. e.g.
Debian doesn't want to be RedHat, and Debian users are far more likely to be in favour of this change than RedHat users. People don't switch to Debian because it's the easiest or most popular distro to use. They switch because they like the ideals (or maybe because apt-get is so damn terrific) of the Debian group. I suspect Debian users are more accustomed than other Linux users at having to put a little effort into getting some of their gear working.
Don' they own SoftImage or some other high end renderer?
That's how I was thinking the day before I decided to bundle up my shit and sell it on e-bay instead of heaving it into the bin. I made 160 from listing my old CPU/motherboard/etc, money that went straight into purchasing a really cool synth. It took maybe 3 hours of my spare time to package up the stuff, and a short trip to the post office. Easily worth the price.
I can only pray that wild gangs of wolfbaggers come and drag these language nazis off to their lairs for some serious donkey punching.
Are they SCSI? I could do with at least one or two of those. Perhaps selling them on ebay might be a better option. And for the record, it would be for my Kurzweil synth that can only address drives up to 2GB.
Not before Gredo claims that Han has stolen his Linux code IP and released it as open source. Gredo hires some lawyers and the rest of the movie plays out as a court room drama, with a seague into a hospital drama when the our of court settlement doesn't go in Han's favour.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but laserdiscs aren't actually digital. They are a weird hybrid of digital and analog technology. IIRC they work like a CD, but the pits are of variable depth, making them more like a record where the needle moves up and down rather than sideways.
hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.
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I sure hope Bush gets elected to be X.Org president. Oh well, I guess he can always just rig the election if it's not going his way ;->
How many handfuls of that errh...genetic material...are you able to "produce" a day ;->
I definitely socialise more these days too.
News flash! Heroin found to be a gateway drug for Robitussen abuse! In Soviet Russia heroin injects you.
I can say this about giving up TV, I have more free time, a better relationship with my wife and friends, have taken up learning music and two instruments, read a lot more, and relax more. I'm a huge movie fan so I still watch DVD's but now I control when and what.
Finally, I'm not addicted to drugs, I have simple made a choice to regularly enjoy them on a lifelong basis ;->
Hmmm, kinda also proves the point that piracy can lead to sales since I have purchased every released DVD of these shows.
I'm not saying watching heaps of TV is wrong, just that it's wrong for me.
MTV dooos not damage yur brian. Randum shufill make bains damageed. Me go lizten to iPaq songs agen now. iMac play good songs, resurcher is brain demaeged.
Leaning on the teachings of the robot devil "A word expressing a meaning other than it's literal interpretation, now that's irony" (IIRC). Nothing in the Alanis song could have been considered ironic, and there's nothing ironic about that fact either i.e. it's not ironic that the song Ironic isn't actually ironic.
Interesting post. Wouldn't it be more sensible to ditch the huge power storage and use a distributed model instead. Maybe an extension of the Tesla principle of transmitting electricity through the air? Imagine a road system (city only, not practical for country) with embedded electrical emitters that charge your car *as* you drive. You keep a small store on board and grab what you need as you drive the streets or park in a carpark. A micropayment system could be used to charge your consumption based on RFID technology built into the energy pickups. You have the cost of distributing the power to the grid now, but the advantage of smaller batteries and thus a reduction in the wasted energy used to move the battery itself.
I suspect it's more to do with keeping in good with the oil companies. Car companies and oil companies have a symbiotic relationship. When the oil reserves of the world are close to depleted is when we will see this technology getting marketed - and not before. What happened to the fuel cell cars that were meant to be getting released this year?
Sounds like you're in the market to purchase a fibre channel SAN or similar. I suspect you're not going to like the price tag on them though.