I'm glad to see some competent technology used in a complicated and potentially dangerous situation. After seeing the Volvo & Windows98 topic, I was afraid this one could've been Surgery & AOL. The one thing someone dosn't want to here during surgery is "You've got mail!!!", or pop-up add might not be good either. I've been wondering for years when we would get to see these amazing network infrastructures around the world put to some advanced use. What the future holds?... we will see.
Information on Blender's current situation can be found at the blender3d website, or at elysiun. As for the money needed to free the sources, this dosn't have to come solely from user donations. Ton has quite a few ideas in mind, and Siggraph is coming up here soon.
As for it's realtime and gaming capabilities, they are extremely promising. What will be interesting though, is to see how the developement of the gaming engine is handled upon open sourcing. There seems to be a definite split between those who are into gaming, and those of just modeling/animation.
Also, another interesting point is, they had blender running on an iPaq before NaN went under. This opens up the future for blender and mobile type applications.
That's not the point. With the state of the broadband industry today, your comments would be like telling people if they don't like their power service, to just go get another. If there was a resonable level of competition, then I don't really think this would be an issue. The problem is however, that people don't really have much of a choice.
Look at some of the annoyances with AOL, now imagine if they were the only isp you could choose. People tolerate if they have a choice, but in this case, you don't have a resonable alternative.
I think Russia may very well have a wonderful future ahead of her in the space industry. They explore the idea of 'space tourists' instead of smuggly rejecting it, thus opening up channels that never exsisted before. Even in economical troubles, they still work to keep it going. I look forward to watching our neighbor on the other side of world progress and see how far they can reach.
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I though I seen this on a movie once, and didn't the human end up getting bit in the ass for it? Oh well, I guess if we don't innovate, we as a society are doomed, so we must roll with the punches. But technology today is getting about to where you could build an application that couldn't be killed. I've seen some linux based clusters that have fallback nodes and data integrity measures, that make me glad they didn't have arms and legs!
I am glad to see things advancing to this. For too long we have been dependant solely on drugs, and even though they have done good, it has come with consequence. But I think as experience meets science in the world of treatments other than just mainstream drugs, things in the medical field will begin to advance substantially. We have such amazing resources at our disposal, but in medicine, one of the most amazing tools is our own bodies. Our healing mechanisms and our immune systems are not to reckon with. Once we learn how to stimulate and properly understand our own medical mechanism, we will have definitely come a long way.
Although to control the knowledge is an extreme source of power, we must remember there is a plethera of unfound, hidden talents and ideas out there. Corporate research is bound by the limits of their budgets, organization, internal abilities, etc... Where open research has many advantages, such as being able to slip into research projects with universities, possibly coming across some great innovations that would have otherwise remained hidden. I would equate it to mining and processing. When your mining, you may get lucky and strike it rich. When your processing, your rather constant and steady.
It does have interesting aspects though!
Criminal behavior? Is it that something is wrong when deemed wrong by the opposing side, or is it wrong morally? It seems each situation would have different ramifications as each side justifies their actions to their own cause. I would venture to say that the level of criminal acitivty, by legit hackers, amounts to nothing more than political or corporate propaganda. Much like the case against Dmitri Sklyarov.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm very interested to see if this will go anywhere, or if it will just sort've dissapear. The first thing I thought of was the movie "AntiTrust"!
It really depends, it seems a certain company sees this industry as a way to hold on to and control a market, just incase Linux become too much of an active threat. But either way, game AI and interaction could very well become the basis of virtual interactive worlds in the future. Where will you go on vaction?
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This currently is my biggest problem in building Linux systems for home users. Although I believe Linux has an excellent outlook for business and server type applications, the home market is a very big challenge. I'm interested in seeing what is going to happen with Xwine with this OpenGL situation. But only time will tell I guess.
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I'm glad to see some competent technology used in a complicated and potentially dangerous situation. After seeing the Volvo & Windows98 topic, I was afraid this one could've been Surgery & AOL. The one thing someone dosn't want to here during surgery is "You've got mail!!!", or pop-up add might not be good either. I've been wondering for years when we would get to see these amazing network infrastructures around the world put to some advanced use. What the future holds?... we will see.
Information on Blender's current situation can be found at the blender3d website, or at elysiun. As for the money needed to free the sources, this dosn't have to come solely from user donations. Ton has quite a few ideas in mind, and Siggraph is coming up here soon. As for it's realtime and gaming capabilities, they are extremely promising. What will be interesting though, is to see how the developement of the gaming engine is handled upon open sourcing. There seems to be a definite split between those who are into gaming, and those of just modeling/animation. Also, another interesting point is, they had blender running on an iPaq before NaN went under. This opens up the future for blender and mobile type applications.
That's not the point. With the state of the broadband industry today, your comments would be like telling people if they don't like their power service, to just go get another. If there was a resonable level of competition, then I don't really think this would be an issue. The problem is however, that people don't really have much of a choice. Look at some of the annoyances with AOL, now imagine if they were the only isp you could choose. People tolerate if they have a choice, but in this case, you don't have a resonable alternative.
I think Russia may very well have a wonderful future ahead of her in the space industry. They explore the idea of 'space tourists' instead of smuggly rejecting it, thus opening up channels that never exsisted before. Even in economical troubles, they still work to keep it going. I look forward to watching our neighbor on the other side of world progress and see how far they can reach.
I though I seen this on a movie once, and didn't the human end up getting bit in the ass for it? Oh well, I guess if we don't innovate, we as a society are doomed, so we must roll with the punches. But technology today is getting about to where you could build an application that couldn't be killed. I've seen some linux based clusters that have fallback nodes and data integrity measures, that make me glad they didn't have arms and legs!
Exactly, it seems something is going on here! What's the deal?
The fun thing to do, is watch the movie, while you are working. But I must not, it dose not help productivity!!!
I am glad to see things advancing to this. For too long we have been dependant solely on drugs, and even though they have done good, it has come with consequence. But I think as experience meets science in the world of treatments other than just mainstream drugs, things in the medical field will begin to advance substantially. We have such amazing resources at our disposal, but in medicine, one of the most amazing tools is our own bodies. Our healing mechanisms and our immune systems are not to reckon with. Once we learn how to stimulate and properly understand our own medical mechanism, we will have definitely come a long way.
Although to control the knowledge is an extreme source of power, we must remember there is a plethera of unfound, hidden talents and ideas out there. Corporate research is bound by the limits of their budgets, organization, internal abilities, etc... Where open research has many advantages, such as being able to slip into research projects with universities, possibly coming across some great innovations that would have otherwise remained hidden. I would equate it to mining and processing. When your mining, you may get lucky and strike it rich. When your processing, your rather constant and steady. It does have interesting aspects though!
Criminal behavior? Is it that something is wrong when deemed wrong by the opposing side, or is it wrong morally? It seems each situation would have different ramifications as each side justifies their actions to their own cause. I would venture to say that the level of criminal acitivty, by legit hackers, amounts to nothing more than political or corporate propaganda. Much like the case against Dmitri Sklyarov.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm very interested to see if this will go anywhere, or if it will just sort've dissapear. The first thing I thought of was the movie "AntiTrust"!
It really depends, it seems a certain company sees this industry as a way to hold on to and control a market, just incase Linux become too much of an active threat. But either way, game AI and interaction could very well become the basis of virtual interactive worlds in the future. Where will you go on vaction?
This currently is my biggest problem in building Linux systems for home users. Although I believe Linux has an excellent outlook for business and server type applications, the home market is a very big challenge. I'm interested in seeing what is going to happen with Xwine with this OpenGL situation. But only time will tell I guess.