Blender is anything but easy to get into. For the complete neophyte, what are the best sources of documentation in order to learn how to learn it without getting frustrated?
Note, I'm not talking about a series of "this is Button XYZ, and here's what it does by itself", but rather "here is a practical end-goal, and these are the steps you must follow in order to achieve said goal".
Kids don't want for technology when they are in need of things like blood donations, medical attention, and food.
Lose the "geeks only" attitude, and give your hard earned $$ to preserving life for the less fortunate who truly have no choice about the situation they are in.
Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever stolen or missing -- easily and all in one place. It's lightweight, open source software that gives you full and remote control, 24/7.
"Lobbying (USA): Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress."
"Bribery: Bribery is an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient."
Feeding a broken machine the very stuff that makes it broken doesn't make its problems go away.
Pay players, who find serious game flaws, to report them, with in-game credit. If a player can make a cool $1 million dollars by barely lifting a finger (i.e. submitting a bug report, perhaps using an in-game interface), wouldn't that be preferable to grinding said $1 million dollars for hours on-end?
While programming is not necessarily math-heavy, mathematics gives you experience with problem solving, sometimes in unconventional ways. It's really the only technical problem-solving you do in school, and it's an important learning step, for what it teaches indirectly as well as what it teaches directly.
Very few tools integrate HTML, JS, CSS, and a back-end scripting language extremely well (VS is nice, other editors not so much). And Chrome's dev tools are top-notch, and outweigh *any* existing comparable IDE's for what it does. He's very right in choosing the tools he has.
To get philosophical, the best IDE is the one your son uses most efficiently. If that's notepad, vi, emacs, or carrier pigeon, then let him be.
Another reason why Dojo Toolkit is more attractive than jQuery. Clients don't care that the JS executes however many milliseconds faster, and they also don't care that the developers have an easier time not supporting older browsers.
What they do care about is stuff that "just works", and being able to add new features at the speed of *click*. Like any tool, if it hinders you from delivering either of these, it's fit for the trip out behind the woodshed.
I'd like to hear comments from other toolkit devs (Sencha, YUI, etc).
Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the Lawful Access tools in our proposed legislation. I am always happy to respond to the questions and concerns of my constituents.
Our Government is strongly committed to ensuring that Canadians’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are respected.
The new lawful access tools proposed in our legislation will not derogate from existing safeguards and privacy protections. The need to respect a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy, as protected under the Charter, always guides law reform. Such authority will continue to be exercised bearing in mind privacy rights under other legislation, such as the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Police will still be required to obtain judicial authorizations in order to obtain information under our legislation and law enforcement agencies will not be able to intercept private communications or obtain transmission data without being authorized to do so by law. Let me be very clear: the police will not be able to read emails or view web activity unless they obtain a warrant issued by a judge.
While technology has advanced significantly over the past four decades, the legal frameworks and investigative tools available to the police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have not kept pace with this evolution. This proposed legislation would provide law enforcement and CSIS with the modern investigative tools they need to help fight crime and thwart national security threats.
The investigative tools created in this legislation preserve existing safeguards, such as requirements for warrants, court authorizations or other lawful authority to target specified communications. They are time-limited, and nothing put forward in the proposed legislation would reduce the existing safeguards.
Thank you again for taking the time to write regarding this issue. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact my office.
When my (then) 4 year old daughter fell in love with all things Wizard of Oz last year, I decided to rename the devices on my network in honour of her interest. So far, I've got the main characters:
- lion: media server
- tinman - dev server
- scarecrow: my laptop
- dorothy: my daughter's laptop
- toto: the firewall
I'm looking forward to adding more in the months to come (glinda, munchkin, winkie, et al).
The names don't necessarily have to do with rhyme or reason (except perhaps dorothy and scarecrow, hers and my favorite WoO characters, respectively), but the convention is fun. Besides, my old naming scheme (elements from the Ultima game series) was getting stale.
Having used (and seen the demise of) PowerVR hardware in the desktop (remember Kyro/Kyro II?) I'm glad to see them in the news regarding their technology being affluent in the mobile market. But the SGX540 is dated to 2007 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5). Did Intel get an amazing deal on GPU chips at the discount/liquidation bin, or is this a reliable strategy?
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maple syrup vs. diabeetus
Wah wah wee wah!
sting(x);
die();
FTFY
Blender is anything but easy to get into. For the complete neophyte, what are the best sources of documentation in order to learn how to learn it without getting frustrated?
Note, I'm not talking about a series of "this is Button XYZ, and here's what it does by itself", but rather "here is a practical end-goal, and these are the steps you must follow in order to achieve said goal".
Technology shapes social interaction. This brings to mind, the "sex scene" between Spartan and Huxley.
You waited until she was 4? I've done LOTR marathons with my little girl since before she could speak.
Kids don't want for technology when they are in need of things like blood donations, medical attention, and food.
Lose the "geeks only" attitude, and give your hard earned $$ to preserving life for the less fortunate who truly have no choice about the situation they are in.
http://preyproject.com
From the site:
Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever stolen or missing -- easily and all in one place. It's lightweight, open source software that gives you full and remote control, 24/7.
Wikipedia:
"Lobbying (USA): Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress."
"Bribery: Bribery is an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient."
Feeding a broken machine the very stuff that makes it broken doesn't make its problems go away.
iHear you, bro.
Hey Mack, here's a round of appleause for being cryptic.
That's like facepalming with the back of your own hand, turning it into a bitchslap.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
Pay players, who find serious game flaws, to report them, with in-game credit. If a player can make a cool $1 million dollars by barely lifting a finger (i.e. submitting a bug report, perhaps using an in-game interface), wouldn't that be preferable to grinding said $1 million dollars for hours on-end?
Clever of the tech world, to obsolete CRT monitors. Perhaps shaking one's head rapidly from side to side would help solve this mystery.
That should read $400 or $600. :-)
That's Double Jeopardy. Entries start at $200, and are for even-numbered amounts.
While programming is not necessarily math-heavy, mathematics gives you experience with problem solving, sometimes in unconventional ways. It's really the only technical problem-solving you do in school, and it's an important learning step, for what it teaches indirectly as well as what it teaches directly.
Very few tools integrate HTML, JS, CSS, and a back-end scripting language extremely well (VS is nice, other editors not so much). And Chrome's dev tools are top-notch, and outweigh *any* existing comparable IDE's for what it does. He's very right in choosing the tools he has.
To get philosophical, the best IDE is the one your son uses most efficiently. If that's notepad, vi, emacs, or carrier pigeon, then let him be.
Another reason why Dojo Toolkit is more attractive than jQuery. Clients don't care that the JS executes however many milliseconds faster, and they also don't care that the developers have an easier time not supporting older browsers.
What they do care about is stuff that "just works", and being able to add new features at the speed of *click*. Like any tool, if it hinders you from delivering either of these, it's fit for the trip out behind the woodshed.
I'd like to hear comments from other toolkit devs (Sencha, YUI, etc).
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html At $5/user/month, it's decently priced.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the Lawful Access tools in our proposed legislation. I am always happy to respond to the questions and concerns of my constituents.
Our Government is strongly committed to ensuring that Canadians’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are respected.
The new lawful access tools proposed in our legislation will not derogate from existing safeguards and privacy protections. The need to respect a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy, as protected under the Charter, always guides law reform. Such authority will continue to be exercised bearing in mind privacy rights under other legislation, such as the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Police will still be required to obtain judicial authorizations in order to obtain information under our legislation and law enforcement agencies will not be able to intercept private communications or obtain transmission data without being authorized to do so by law. Let me be very clear: the police will not be able to read emails or view web activity unless they obtain a warrant issued by a judge.
While technology has advanced significantly over the past four decades, the legal frameworks and investigative tools available to the police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have not kept pace with this evolution. This proposed legislation would provide law enforcement and CSIS with the modern investigative tools they need to help fight crime and thwart national security threats.
The investigative tools created in this legislation preserve existing safeguards, such as requirements for warrants, court authorizations or other lawful authority to target specified communications. They are time-limited, and nothing put forward in the proposed legislation would reduce the existing safeguards.
Thank you again for taking the time to write regarding this issue. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Yours sincerely,
Hon. Gary Goodyear, P.C., M.P.
Cambridge-North Dumfries
When my (then) 4 year old daughter fell in love with all things Wizard of Oz last year, I decided to rename the devices on my network in honour of her interest. So far, I've got the main characters: - lion: media server - tinman - dev server - scarecrow: my laptop - dorothy: my daughter's laptop - toto: the firewall I'm looking forward to adding more in the months to come (glinda, munchkin, winkie, et al). The names don't necessarily have to do with rhyme or reason (except perhaps dorothy and scarecrow, hers and my favorite WoO characters, respectively), but the convention is fun. Besides, my old naming scheme (elements from the Ultima game series) was getting stale.
Having used (and seen the demise of) PowerVR hardware in the desktop (remember Kyro/Kyro II?) I'm glad to see them in the news regarding their technology being affluent in the mobile market. But the SGX540 is dated to 2007 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5). Did Intel get an amazing deal on GPU chips at the discount/liquidation bin, or is this a reliable strategy?
Ultima died years ago. If brought back with the panache found at its pinnacle (IV-VII), it would far surpass any current-day RPG.