The standard package at uni. is 3DsMax. This is nice because the UI is well designed and the learning curve is not THAT steep (compared to Blender or Maya) but I also have heard of student begging letters to Discreet have returned free educational licences. (I used WareZ at uni - DOH!)
Also - beware the dodgy version floating around with a useless crack and a virus in uninstall.exe
Now i have left uni, and costed up the software to start up as freelancer - I nearly shat. £10000 + (for all software covered) so I looked to open source. (cos feature limited 'free' versions just wont cut it)
So, I am left wishing that when I was where you are now - I had learned Blender.
But on the other hand 3DsMax looks better on a CV. So if you happen to be in London or LA and may actually get employed by someone (rather than freelance) and not have to buy your own software... schwings and roundabouts.
Dont judge blender on its performance under Win32. Try it in Linux/OGL - or even the old version on BeOS... hmmmlmm nostalgia.
I could be wrong, mabe its just some games, but doesnt the gamecube have a 3D Gui? - sure you dont have to Quake your way around some envirinment to configure the game but the Interface is real time 3D rather than bitmap.
If you drop the controller too many times, one of the analogue stix can rotate the interface on screen.
unless u have too much information for the screen at any one time there is no point in using a non-standard interface - but real-time 3Dgfx on good hardware will look better than bitmaps, be more scalable and lower overhead.
From the article: "Needless to say, Black and White installed just fine under WineX 2.2, and 3.0 is no exception. Once the installation is complete, the Point2Play interface..."
This beats the shit out of buying a copy of win2K or (retches) XP when you find that it wont work on win98.
According to this; under the old version under certain circumstances had better compatability than an official win32 API.
Interesting this should come up, a few muso friends were talking about P2P distribution and how it can be best used.
If you are not in london a muso has no chance of getting a deal so selling CDs in HMV isnt realy an option.
We concluded that there needs to be a P2P friendly licence for underground musos to distribute under.
I explained the viral nature of GPL and they had some useful insights.
There is obviously no point in GPLing (for want of a better word) a medium that is not meant to be altered, so it would not be logical for end user files.
A viral licence could be more useful for samples, loops, wierd acid noises and midi files that could be free and non commercial on P2P networks. Tracks including these elements need to be released under a P2P friendly licence.
This could become something real as we have hours of music,
I like the idea facilitating a backlash against the RIAA fatcats and the syrupy shit they flood our airways with.
What do you think? Will it work? Is it happening elsewhere?
At uni (UK) we use win98% for open areas and 2K for hardcore stuff (gfx/MM etc). Its a nightmare.
1 in 5 98 boxes in the library are down at any one time, the others are full of crap downloads, dodgy wares and the inevitable virus or two. not to mention M$OUTLOOK!! doh
Unless you have root you cant trash a linux installation with a few keystrokes.
This Virus hoax caused havok
http://forum.channel4.com/forums/forum.cgi?forum=c 4news&action=article&topic=1023273859a19320&articl e=1023273859a19320&offset=0
as did registry access via the old-style Morpheus client. A UNIs bandwith is like a hacker magnet.
surely Linux is better siuted to this unpredictable environment than 98.
As for compatability. What is to stop a uni burning CDs with openOffice, gimp etc for Win32 to distribute at enrolment.
Better than the bizzarre mix of pirate or old versions of MSoffice or whatever else students may have and hoping for compatability.
and avoiding the macro virus issue.
the Linux UI is 100% confugurable, but if its not configured its a nightmare.
It would require some time and testing but its not hard to beat a GUI that makes you press the START button to turn the computer off - thus the unevitable problems from users hitting the power button, then the next user skipping scandisk
Another consideration is wether your hardware will run post 2000 versions of windows? If not, when 98/ME stops shipping you will have to live without updates, security fixes, drivers and support from whoever you pay to install the machines. If the machine wont run XP, the boxes in your lab are scrap or Linux boxes.
As for other examples of large scale linux implimentation you may wish to look to Brazil, Germany or Peru for established state research - or Mexico as how not to do it.
http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/
I have been recently and despite many plants being small (in comparison to those a Kew) its still impressive whith a few WTF? moments, especially in the tropical biome. But it is HUGE! and there is 2 of them.
As for the name, I think someones been playing CivCTP. Perhaps someone in R&D is working on a prototype Eco Ranger.
MCs denial of any security -however embarrassing denial may not be as synical as it seems.
As I understand it, the hole was part of te spyware - not the morpheus client. Spyware by its very nature is the most commece driven and secretive section of the software industry.
It is within reason to suggest that FastTrack left musiccity in the dark.
I tried Gnuttella when napster died -It was lame on my Shitish Telecom 56k line - but frankly so was napster and morpheus.
As networks and software advances, things can only get better - A decentralised GPL client is the only way to go, that was apparant after napster its the only model tha wont crack under legal pressure.
PS -I think it was the RIAA
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The standard package at uni. is 3DsMax. This is nice because the UI is well designed and the learning curve is not THAT steep (compared to Blender or Maya) but I also have heard of student begging letters to Discreet have returned free educational licences. (I used WareZ at uni - DOH!)
Also - beware the dodgy version floating around with a useless crack and a virus in uninstall.exe
Now i have left uni, and costed up the software to start up as freelancer - I nearly shat. £10000 + (for all software covered) so I looked to open source. (cos feature limited 'free' versions just wont cut it)
So, I am left wishing that when I was where you are now - I had learned Blender.
But on the other hand 3DsMax looks better on a CV. So if you happen to be in London or LA and may actually get employed by someone (rather than freelance) and not have to buy your own software... schwings and roundabouts.
Dont judge blender on its performance under Win32. Try it in Linux/OGL - or even the old version on BeOS... hmmmlmm nostalgia.
err - Gamecube?
I could be wrong, mabe its just some games, but doesnt the gamecube have a 3D Gui? - sure you dont have to Quake your way around some envirinment to configure the game but the Interface is real time 3D rather than bitmap.
If you drop the controller too many times, one of the analogue stix can rotate the interface on screen.
unless u have too much information for the screen at any one time there is no point in using a non-standard interface - but real-time 3Dgfx on good hardware will look better than bitmaps, be more scalable and lower overhead.
From the article:
"Needless to say, Black and White installed just fine under WineX 2.2, and 3.0 is no exception. Once the installation is complete, the Point2Play interface..."
This beats the shit out of buying a copy of win2K or (retches) XP when you find that it wont work on win98.
According to this; under the old version under certain circumstances had better compatability than an official win32 API.
Does this platform use the BeIA code bought up by Palm last year?
Interesting this should come up, a few muso friends were talking about P2P distribution and how it can be best used.
If you are not in london a muso has no chance of getting a deal so selling CDs in HMV isnt realy an option.
We concluded that there needs to be a P2P friendly licence for underground musos to distribute under.
I explained the viral nature of GPL and they had some useful insights.
There is obviously no point in GPLing (for want of a better word) a medium that is not meant to be altered, so it would not be logical for end user files.
A viral licence could be more useful for samples, loops, wierd acid noises and midi files that could be free and non commercial on P2P networks. Tracks including these elements need to be released under a P2P friendly licence.
This could become something real as we have hours of music,
I like the idea facilitating a backlash against the RIAA fatcats and the syrupy shit they flood our airways with.
What do you think? Will it work? Is it happening elsewhere?
At uni (UK) we use win98% for open areas and 2K for hardcore stuff (gfx/MM etc). Its a nightmare. 1 in 5 98 boxes in the library are down at any one time, the others are full of crap downloads, dodgy wares and the inevitable virus or two. not to mention M$OUTLOOK!! doh Unless you have root you cant trash a linux installation with a few keystrokes. This Virus hoax caused havok http://forum.channel4.com/forums/forum.cgi?forum=c 4news&action=article&topic=1023273859a19320&articl e=1023273859a19320&offset=0
as did registry access via the old-style Morpheus client. A UNIs bandwith is like a hacker magnet.
surely Linux is better siuted to this unpredictable environment than 98.
As for compatability. What is to stop a uni burning CDs with openOffice, gimp etc for Win32 to distribute at enrolment.
Better than the bizzarre mix of pirate or old versions of MSoffice or whatever else students may have and hoping for compatability.
and avoiding the macro virus issue.
the Linux UI is 100% confugurable, but if its not configured its a nightmare.
It would require some time and testing but its not hard to beat a GUI that makes you press the START button to turn the computer off - thus the unevitable problems from users hitting the power button, then the next user skipping scandisk
Another consideration is wether your hardware will run post 2000 versions of windows? If not, when 98/ME stops shipping you will have to live without updates, security fixes, drivers and support from whoever you pay to install the machines. If the machine wont run XP, the boxes in your lab are scrap or Linux boxes.
As for other examples of large scale linux implimentation you may wish to look to Brazil, Germany or Peru for established state research - or Mexico as how not to do it.
http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/
I have been recently and despite many plants being small (in comparison to those a Kew) its still impressive whith a few WTF? moments, especially in the tropical biome. But it is HUGE! and there is 2 of them. As for the name, I think someones been playing CivCTP. Perhaps someone in R&D is working on a prototype Eco Ranger.
MCs denial of any security -however embarrassing denial may not be as synical as it seems. As I understand it, the hole was part of te spyware - not the morpheus client. Spyware by its very nature is the most commece driven and secretive section of the software industry. It is within reason to suggest that FastTrack left musiccity in the dark. I tried Gnuttella when napster died -It was lame on my Shitish Telecom 56k line - but frankly so was napster and morpheus. As networks and software advances, things can only get better - A decentralised GPL client is the only way to go, that was apparant after napster its the only model tha wont crack under legal pressure. PS -I think it was the RIAA