Unfortunately, porting to linux and osx isn't going to be a simple task. In their infinite wisdom, the developers decided to write worldwind in C# and use directx. They do throw out some arguements defending their choice, but its not going to be a mere afternoon's work getting a linux variant going.
I've got an SGI Indigio Control Data 9100 series, and an HP Apollo Series 700 sitting around. Both go through post just fine, but they don't have operating systems installed. If i had an hp hil keyboard i'd try getting linux onto the hp and use it to play nethack or somthing equally asinine. As for the SGI, I'm not sure there is a linux build I could run on it, and I can't easily get a copy of irix. So, it'll probably continue its mission as footrest.
Computers may as well be flat out banned then. Any operating system that allows saving of files is "file sharing software". A user could save to a device, and then connect the device to another computer. OMG, filesharing!!!
Mid to late models of the Luftwaffe's BF-109 (G and onward I believe) had No2 and water injections as well. I believe some of their FW-190s did as well, and those used radial engines, aside from the D9 variant.
Baboons are good, but hyenas are better. Those bastards would bite through a human femur like a pipe stem. Not to mention they'd dispose of the evidence as well...
Just put your drives into some spare static bags, stick those into ziplock bags, stick those into individual tupperware containers, and finally place those into your safe. That should keep the drives protected for a reasonable amount of time.
Nah, considering nobody reads the fine article, this gent is just taking the next logical step, and not reading the fine posts... quite a visionary, actually. Sir, I salute you!
I recall somthing to that effect as well. However, I did find a training simulation that should help prepare us for what to do in case all hell does break loose.
.obj is great for moving meshes between apps, but it has no support for rigs, skinning/weighting, morph targets, clusters, etc. I higly doubt this x3d format will be able to handle all the possible extra stuff that 3d packages can create.
Example, I have a fully setup character (rigged, weighted, morphtargets, control panels) in Maya. I need to get this sucker over to say, Max.
1st the geometry has to come across. Is it nurbs, polys, subdivs? If its nurbs, is it one seamless surface? Probably not, so I have to bring across multiple patches, better hope the destination package has decent surface continuity tools. For polys, that's pretty trivial these days, aside from making sure vertex order is preserved, normals facing the right way, smoothing groups/creases/whatever are preserved.For subdivision surfaces (real ones, heirarchial subdees, not just a polymesh with catmul-clark smoothing ops applied) you need to make sure the destination package has the capability. So (somehow) the mesh comes through.
Now the rig has to come in. Every package has its own ik system, with one or more types of solvers. Some of these are proprietary, so a common format for these has to be agreed upon. By some miracle, the rig comes through, and the mesh/surface model now has to be weighted to it. This is likely the simplest step of the process, but highly dependant on a clean, sane import of the mesh. Each vertex/point/knot has a unique number. A lot of times these numbers get scrambled, making stuff like weighting and morph targets impossible to use, as they rely on the numbers to keep track.
The rest of the character, all the expressions and scripts would be quite difficult. I'd imagine that some sort of translation from Mel to Maxscript would have to be done (a not insignificant project unto itself!). I havn't even touched on stuff like hair or cloth, which I'm sure would be a delight to convert over as well.
Anyhow, this x3d format will likely be, as someone has already posted, VRML redux. Unless they can get Alias, Discreet, Softimage, Side Effects, et all to agree, well then its not going to be useful anywhere but the web.
I'm using a Belkin Nostromo speedpad under winxp for photoshop and softimage|xsi. Its not quite the same as the "button box" that you've described, but it does allow for similar functionality. There are linux drivers available, but I have not gotten around to trying them out.
blah, itchy trigger finger... here's what I meant to say:
For $800 she could have ditched that ancient piece of crap machine, and bought a new one that would smoke her 6 year old clunker. She'd have a clean install of a new os, and tech support for however many months the maker offers.
Honestly, only an idiot would pay that kind of money to have their drive wiped and os reloaded. Get the neighbourhood teenage nerd to do it for $100, a pizza, and some coke (thats how I earned my money back in the day:) )
For $800 she could have ditched that ancient piece of crap machine, and bought a new one that would smoke her 6 year old clunker. She's have a clean install of a new os, and tech support for however many months the maker offers. Honestly, only an idiot would pay that kind of money to have their drive wiped and os reloaded.
I have 2 Creative Labs geforce 256 based boards that are still working flawlessly,and an msi gf4 ti4200 that's never given me trouble either.
Conversely, I bought an XFX GFFX 5950 ultra and its been a bloody nightmare from the start. 1st board was doa, 2nd one crapped out after a week, 3rd one decided ti go nuts after 2 months of operation, and got RMA'd on monday... never again will I buy one of their products.
The only satellite retrieval mission that immediately comes to my mind was the LDEF recovery. This was no ordinary satellite, it was basically a long term expirement to see what happens to different materials when they are left out in orbit for a long time.
Interesting... I have 4 machines with various athlon cpus, ranging from a slot A 700 to a dual mp2800 rig, and none of them have had any problems, ever.
3 of the four I built myself, the other is a Compaq (now owned by hp). Perhaps the problem lies in HP's craptacular components?
Indeed they are, but considering they were The naval power of their time, and just threw it away on a whim is tragic. The same could very easily happen here, which would be equally tragic.
This article here draws an interesting comparison between ancient China and the current views toward space travel being held a good number of americans. It would appear that the average person is content with their idiotic tv, fattening foods, gas guzzling road yachts, and other such pointless pursuits.
"We don't expect a major outbreak," said Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus Research at Kaspersky Labs. "Duts is unable to spread independently, only infects a limited number of files, and signals its presence in the system when attempting to propagate."
Duts may not be able to spread, but take out the bits that make it "benign" and you've got the makings of a real annoyance. Even if the source for this particular virus is kept safely out of the hands of malicious individuals, the fact that its now been proven do-able means others will try.
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Unfortunately, porting to linux and osx isn't going to be a simple task. In their infinite wisdom, the developers decided to write worldwind in C# and use directx. They do throw out some arguements defending their choice, but its not going to be a mere afternoon's work getting a linux variant going.
I've got an SGI Indigio Control Data 9100 series, and an HP Apollo Series 700 sitting around. Both go through post just fine, but they don't have operating systems installed. If i had an hp hil keyboard i'd try getting linux onto the hp and use it to play nethack or somthing equally asinine. As for the SGI, I'm not sure there is a linux build I could run on it, and I can't easily get a copy of irix. So, it'll probably continue its mission as footrest.
I'm also glad I'm a Canuckistanian :)
Computers may as well be flat out banned then. Any operating system that allows saving of files is "file sharing software". A user could save to a device, and then connect the device to another computer. OMG, filesharing!!!
Better tell the fine chaps at KDE to lay off putting K in front of everything too then...
There's an easy solution to that: Everyone in the house must henceforth wear an eyepatch!
Mid to late models of the Luftwaffe's BF-109 (G and onward I believe) had No2 and water injections as well. I believe some of their FW-190s did as well, and those used radial engines, aside from the D9 variant.
What does this counter-example teach you?
Round eyed devils are crazy?
Baboons are good, but hyenas are better. Those bastards would bite through a human femur like a pipe stem. Not to mention they'd dispose of the evidence as well...
Softimage|XSI supports opengl, d3d, and cg realtime shader modes on win32. Under linux it has support for opengl and cg shaders.
Just put your drives into some spare static bags, stick those into ziplock bags, stick those into individual tupperware containers, and finally place those into your safe. That should keep the drives protected for a reasonable amount of time.
Nah, considering nobody reads the fine article, this gent is just taking the next logical step, and not reading the fine posts... quite a visionary, actually. Sir, I salute you!
I recall somthing to that effect as well. However, I did find a training simulation that should help prepare us for what to do in case all hell does break loose.
Example, I have a fully setup character (rigged, weighted, morphtargets, control panels) in Maya. I need to get this sucker over to say, Max.
1st the geometry has to come across. Is it nurbs, polys, subdivs? If its nurbs, is it one seamless surface? Probably not, so I have to bring across multiple patches, better hope the destination package has decent surface continuity tools. For polys, that's pretty trivial these days, aside from making sure vertex order is preserved, normals facing the right way, smoothing groups/creases/whatever are preserved.For subdivision surfaces (real ones, heirarchial subdees, not just a polymesh with catmul-clark smoothing ops applied) you need to make sure the destination package has the capability. So (somehow) the mesh comes through.
Now the rig has to come in. Every package has its own ik system, with one or more types of solvers. Some of these are proprietary, so a common format for these has to be agreed upon. By some miracle, the rig comes through, and the mesh/surface model now has to be weighted to it. This is likely the simplest step of the process, but highly dependant on a clean, sane import of the mesh. Each vertex/point/knot has a unique number. A lot of times these numbers get scrambled, making stuff like weighting and morph targets impossible to use, as they rely on the numbers to keep track.
The rest of the character, all the expressions and scripts would be quite difficult. I'd imagine that some sort of translation from Mel to Maxscript would have to be done (a not insignificant project unto itself!). I havn't even touched on stuff like hair or cloth, which I'm sure would be a delight to convert over as well.
Anyhow, this x3d format will likely be, as someone has already posted, VRML redux. Unless they can get Alias, Discreet, Softimage, Side Effects, et all to agree, well then its not going to be useful anywhere but the web.
I'm using a Belkin Nostromo speedpad under winxp for photoshop and softimage|xsi. Its not quite the same as the "button box" that you've described, but it does allow for similar functionality. There are linux drivers available, but I have not gotten around to trying them out.
For $800 she could have ditched that ancient piece of crap machine, and bought a new one that would smoke her 6 year old clunker. She'd have a clean install of a new os, and tech support for however many months the maker offers.
Honestly, only an idiot would pay that kind of money to have their drive wiped and os reloaded. Get the neighbourhood teenage nerd to do it for $100, a pizza, and some coke (thats how I earned my money back in the day :) )
For $800 she could have ditched that ancient piece of crap machine, and bought a new one that would smoke her 6 year old clunker. She's have a clean install of a new os, and tech support for however many months the maker offers. Honestly, only an idiot would pay that kind of money to have their drive wiped and os reloaded.
Conversely, I bought an XFX GFFX 5950 ultra and its been a bloody nightmare from the start. 1st board was doa, 2nd one crapped out after a week, 3rd one decided ti go nuts after 2 months of operation, and got RMA'd on monday... never again will I buy one of their products.
The only satellite retrieval mission that immediately comes to my mind was the LDEF recovery. This was no ordinary satellite, it was basically a long term expirement to see what happens to different materials when they are left out in orbit for a long time.
3 of the four I built myself, the other is a Compaq (now owned by hp). Perhaps the problem lies in HP's craptacular components?
So... eventually I could build a powerful machine by throwing a bunch of chips into my pockets.... mmm I can see it now:
Hey there, is that a beowulf cluster in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
Indeed they are, but considering they were The naval power of their time, and just threw it away on a whim is tragic. The same could very easily happen here, which would be equally tragic.
This article here draws an interesting comparison between ancient China and the current views toward space travel being held a good number of americans.
It would appear that the average person is content with their idiotic tv, fattening foods, gas guzzling road yachts, and other such pointless pursuits.
Duts may not be able to spread, but take out the bits that make it "benign" and you've got the makings of a real annoyance. Even if the source for this particular virus is kept safely out of the hands of malicious individuals, the fact that its now been proven do-able means others will try.
They outsourced their coffee supply... to india.