This is a pretty good idea. There've been products like that for flight/combat simulation for years. What you are talking about is almost a flash for 3d games. The hard part coding-wise is done for you. All you need is scripters and artists (and a good story and design). That could really open up game design to a lot more people.
I didn't laugh at how stupid it sounded. This is the classic slashdot fallacy, the people who thought that the summit was stupid are not necessarily the same people that are laying blame now. Slashdot does not operate by consensus.
People seem to be quick to disparage the sounds of this product or that product. Can anyone recommend a good soft synth or sampler that produces realistic real world instruments? Preferably a VST one that you could use with garageBand?
Second that, its very fun and there is so much to do that even a newbie can enjoy it. If you keep getting killed as infantry try manning the anti aircraft or the artillery or whatever. When you get bored you can move on to DC.
hmmmm. Maybe you could tell me which sun box I should be looking at. Their workstations look mighty familiar to me. Or maybe you were just refering to exhausting hot air inside the box.
I want a GUI scripting language for macos (or even windows) that works like MEL for maya. You can record EVERYTHING. You can write a script that creates a completely new gui if you want to. With a script language like that, that in my perfect world would also be controlable via perl, shell script and even the php module of apache. (a moron like me could write a web interface for itunes in five minutes). Wouldn't that be great...
This is not the best story ever but it brings up the issue of the de-localization of local radio. A large number of radio djs and/or morning shows (esp the clear channel bunch) are not local at all, but they IMPLY that they are. Which just doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
Speaking of which, I REALLY want to know if I'll people to play in real time with that 3rd party midi keyboard hooked up to my 400mhz gen1 tibook. Sure its asking a lot. But wouldn't it be cool if I could?
"Instead of thinking that a cup of coffie will fix the problem, remember that it is the source of the problem"
Because for a lot of us it makes our lives crappy. I couldn't control my addiction. Before I quit I had a cup of instant at home, a grande latte in the car on the way to work, a cup of work coffee when I got in, another at about 10, one at 11, a diet coke with lunch, an espresso after lunch, a cup at 2:30 a coke at 4 a coffee at 5 and tea after dinner. If I was without for a couple of hours I started to feel sleepy and irritable. In the mornings I felt awful, I got depressed and very irritable before coffee. If I was in a place without coffee my day was ruined. I always felt a little queasy because of all the coffee I drank. Now I feel awesome, have no trouble waking up and I sleep so damn well its amazing. I can't recommend quitting enough. And that's why I villify caffeine.
I did it when I had to have a horrible day long blood test after fasting for 12 hours...I wasn't allowed to have my morning coffee and I was going to feel like shit anyway so I managed to blend it all in to one awful day.
I third that, there can be no cutting back. Its not possible. You have to quit completely. I had one shitty week when I quit...the first day was unbelievable, I almost killed my SO. I've dealt with the mental (which still hits me with a coffee craving from time to time) with decaf coffee. It really helps me and doesn't send me back down the 6+ cups a day road.
Holy crap what a nightmare. HELLO, PEOPLE, PUT YOUR TEXTURES ON THE SERVER!! Sorry, just a little rant. If I see one more 500 frame render with lovely black nothing mapped to the objects...I will hurt people. Seriously though, rendering does not lend itself very well to non-dedicated distibuted computing. The work units would be huge...but maybe some suckers would do it.
Hmmm....Maybe if you wrote some sort of encrypted mental ray or renderman client, in that it does the render from encrypted source files, decrypts them in chunks as they are read into the render, and then re-encrypts the pixels on the fly as they are rendered... A shame each work unit it for feature work would be like 100mb+, but give people who do a lot of units a prize or something. Of course, if it was film res frames...well each frame would be like 50mb of upload. And then their's the fact that people would need to make sure their pcs had enough ram to handle it so they didn't crash. Oh, and convincing Pixar or Mental Images to license you to run on an unlimited number of cpus all over the place would be a problem. I don't know if its worth it yet, not many people would sign up for something that would require huge piles of disk and bandwidth in addition to your idle cycles, assuming you could solve all the other problems. Maybe someday it will be possible though, I wouldn't rule it out completely.
Databases are what require that kind of power. How about core banking systems, payment processing...databeses. Online, can't fail ever, fast as possible databases.
The problem with your rant is that you assumed a lot about the previous poster. You have no idea how the poster felt about McCain-Feingold,--they didn't mention it. They were talking about John Ashcroft. Therefore they were tying to bring up things that the DoJ has done. The poster also never mentioned how they felt about gun control. They certainly did not bring up the rather specific case you mentioned about one school objecting to christian content in a graduation speech. You did not respond to the poster's points, instead you created a liberal straw man.
As to your point about judicial activism. I personal believe that another important part of the constitution was the division of powers. We have three seperate branches of goverment, intended to prevent any one branch becoming a tyrant. The courts are not perfect, but they are effective in preventing a tyranny of the majority.
Disclaimer:Now, you are right if you assume that I am a left wing liberal. As such I respectfully disagree with some of your statements please note that when I make any arguements I do not speak for everyone in America that calls themselvers "liberal" or "progressive". My opinions are my own.
Why, oh why do we have an MPEG-4 standard if no one wants to use it? Mpeg-4 works under most movie players (including the DivX player). And quicktime comes with an ecoder. What's not to like?
Would you die to bring a "beacon of democracy" to the middle east? If you are not prepared to die for the cause for which you advocate war I think you are on extremely shaky moral ground. If those arguing for war are not ready to die for the cause no one should have to. Most soldiers, and many Americans, say they are ready to die to protect our nation and our freedom. How many would gladly give their lives to "[create a] beacon of Western style democracy" that "would probably influence the nations around Iraq pretty strongly" This is hardly a cause worth dieing for.
Back to less emotional arguments I understand what you just said is the basic Wolfowitz neo-conservative argument for war. They believe that the only effective way to bring peace and democracy to world is by force. Their argument for invading Iraq, no matter how well elucidated, does not work for me. It seems to forget that "acceptable casualties" are all actual human beings. It also makes the assumption that some how might makes right.
Because America is the most powerful nation our brand of democracy is desirable enough to kill people in order to spread. No matter how certain we are that our government is the best government we cannot assume (imho) that this gives us any right to enforce this government on others. Yes the former Iraqi regime was as close to indisputably awful as they come. But when we start advocating unilateral regime change we weaken the already tenuous international institutions designed to fairly adjudicate international action to protect the rights of all people on earth. It is very difficult for us to criticize other nations for their unilateral actions when we find no fault in our own.
Ok, that was rambling. My conclusions: (1)war kills people and I think it should be approached as the last, last option, not one chosen by finding weak opponents to spread our ideology. (2) Unilateral action strengthens the existing international view of America as fundamentally hypocritical, making future diplomacy even more difficult.
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This is a pretty good idea. There've been products like that for flight/combat simulation for years. What you are talking about is almost a flash for 3d games. The hard part coding-wise is done for you. All you need is scripters and artists (and a good story and design). That could really open up game design to a lot more people.
"but soon in the future, laws will be passed, and that problem will be gone"
Fantastic! And we can celibrate this new era of equality in our flying cars.
"Which would you prefer? "WinXP 2: Electric Boogaloo?" "
Yes. Yes I would.
I didn't laugh at how stupid it sounded. This is the classic slashdot fallacy, the people who thought that the summit was stupid are not necessarily the same people that are laying blame now. Slashdot does not operate by consensus.
"I really have to wonder what THEY are toting around that is so much better."
Short answer: Powerbooks.
umm...no. I don't believe it was tounge in cheek. This guy also wrote a few "linux users are terrorists" articles.
People seem to be quick to disparage the sounds of this product or that product. Can anyone recommend a good soft synth or sampler that produces realistic real world instruments? Preferably a VST one that you could use with garageBand?
Second that, its very fun and there is so much to do that even a newbie can enjoy it. If you keep getting killed as infantry try manning the anti aircraft or the artillery or whatever. When you get bored you can move on to DC.
hmmmm. Maybe you could tell me which sun box I should be looking at. Their workstations look mighty familiar to me. Or maybe you were just refering to exhausting hot air inside the box.
I want a GUI scripting language for macos (or even windows) that works like MEL for maya. You can record EVERYTHING. You can write a script that creates a completely new gui if you want to. With a script language like that, that in my perfect world would also be controlable via perl, shell script and even the php module of apache. (a moron like me could write a web interface for itunes in five minutes). Wouldn't that be great...
This is not the best story ever but it brings up the issue of the de-localization of local radio. A large number of radio djs and/or morning shows (esp the clear channel bunch) are not local at all, but they IMPLY that they are. Which just doesn't sit well with a lot of people.
Speaking of which, I REALLY want to know if I'll people to play in real time with that 3rd party midi keyboard hooked up to my 400mhz gen1 tibook. Sure its asking a lot. But wouldn't it be cool if I could?
"Instead of thinking that a cup of coffie will fix the problem, remember that it is the source of the problem"
Because for a lot of us it makes our lives crappy. I couldn't control my addiction. Before I quit I had a cup of instant at home, a grande latte in the car on the way to work, a cup of work coffee when I got in, another at about 10, one at 11, a diet coke with lunch, an espresso after lunch, a cup at 2:30 a coke at 4 a coffee at 5 and tea after dinner. If I was without for a couple of hours I started to feel sleepy and irritable. In the mornings I felt awful, I got depressed and very irritable before coffee. If I was in a place without coffee my day was ruined. I always felt a little queasy because of all the coffee I drank. Now I feel awesome, have no trouble waking up and I sleep so damn well its amazing. I can't recommend quitting enough. And that's why I villify caffeine.
I did it when I had to have a horrible day long blood test after fasting for 12 hours...I wasn't allowed to have my morning coffee and I was going to feel like shit anyway so I managed to blend it all in to one awful day.
I third that, there can be no cutting back. Its not possible. You have to quit completely. I had one shitty week when I quit...the first day was unbelievable, I almost killed my SO. I've dealt with the mental (which still hits me with a coffee craving from time to time) with decaf coffee. It really helps me and doesn't send me back down the 6+ cups a day road.
Holy crap what a nightmare. HELLO, PEOPLE, PUT YOUR TEXTURES ON THE SERVER!! Sorry, just a little rant. If I see one more 500 frame render with lovely black nothing mapped to the objects...I will hurt people. Seriously though, rendering does not lend itself very well to non-dedicated distibuted computing. The work units would be huge...but maybe some suckers would do it.
Hmmm....Maybe if you wrote some sort of encrypted mental ray or renderman client, in that it does the render from encrypted source files, decrypts them in chunks as they are read into the render, and then re-encrypts the pixels on the fly as they are rendered... A shame each work unit it for feature work would be like 100mb+, but give people who do a lot of units a prize or something. Of course, if it was film res frames...well each frame would be like 50mb of upload. And then their's the fact that people would need to make sure their pcs had enough ram to handle it so they didn't crash. Oh, and convincing Pixar or Mental Images to license you to run on an unlimited number of cpus all over the place would be a problem. I don't know if its worth it yet, not many people would sign up for something that would require huge piles of disk and bandwidth in addition to your idle cycles, assuming you could solve all the other problems. Maybe someday it will be possible though, I wouldn't rule it out completely.
What's a partial-birth abortion? I can't seem to find it in any of the medical literature...
Databases are what require that kind of power. How about core banking systems, payment processing...databeses. Online, can't fail ever, fast as possible databases.
Minor quibble: I suppose IBM sees this as the perfect solution for 64bit blades.
The problem with your rant is that you assumed a lot about the previous poster. You have no idea how the poster felt about McCain-Feingold,--they didn't mention it. They were talking about John Ashcroft. Therefore they were tying to bring up things that the DoJ has done. The poster also never mentioned how they felt about gun control. They certainly did not bring up the rather specific case you mentioned about one school objecting to christian content in a graduation speech. You did not respond to the poster's points, instead you created a liberal straw man.
As to your point about judicial activism. I personal believe that another important part of the constitution was the division of powers. We have three seperate branches of goverment, intended to prevent any one branch becoming a tyrant. The courts are not perfect, but they are effective in preventing a tyranny of the majority.
Disclaimer:Now, you are right if you assume that I am a left wing liberal. As such I respectfully disagree with some of your statements please note that when I make any arguements I do not speak for everyone in America that calls themselvers "liberal" or "progressive". My opinions are my own.
Why, oh why do we have an MPEG-4 standard if no one wants to use it? Mpeg-4 works under most movie players (including the DivX player). And quicktime comes with an ecoder. What's not to like?
Would you die to bring a "beacon of democracy" to the middle east? If you are not prepared to die for the cause for which you advocate war I think you are on extremely shaky moral ground. If those arguing for war are not ready to die for the cause no one should have to. Most soldiers, and many Americans, say they are ready to die to protect our nation and our freedom. How many would gladly give their lives to "[create a] beacon of Western style democracy" that "would probably influence the nations around Iraq pretty strongly" This is hardly a cause worth dieing for.
Back to less emotional arguments I understand what you just said is the basic Wolfowitz neo-conservative argument for war. They believe that the only effective way to bring peace and democracy to world is by force. Their argument for invading Iraq, no matter how well elucidated, does not work for me. It seems to forget that "acceptable casualties" are all actual human beings. It also makes the assumption that some how might makes right.
Because America is the most powerful nation our brand of democracy is desirable enough to kill people in order to spread. No matter how certain we are that our government is the best government we cannot assume (imho) that this gives us any right to enforce this government on others. Yes the former Iraqi regime was as close to indisputably awful as they come. But when we start advocating unilateral regime change we weaken the already tenuous international institutions designed to fairly adjudicate international action to protect the rights of all people on earth. It is very difficult for us to criticize other nations for their unilateral actions when we find no fault in our own.
Ok, that was rambling. My conclusions: (1)war kills people and I think it should be approached as the last, last option, not one chosen by finding weak opponents to spread our ideology. (2) Unilateral action strengthens the existing international view of America as fundamentally hypocritical, making future diplomacy even more difficult.
"the battle is over. the liberals have won. "
We have? When did that happen? Man, if this winning, I'd hate to see losing.
Or you could buy a tivo, which also has the same functionality out of the box. Plus its a PVR.
I hate those. In 2001 I saw an ad that asked for 5 years + experience with Alias|wavefront maya, which was released in 1998.