Many people think its more powerful in certain areas, especially subdivision surfaces, than Maya.
As someone who uses xsi professionally I can vouch for the sheer speed of the "subdivision surfaces" in xsi. However, it should be clarified that the subdees in xsi are polygons that are rounded with the either the catmull-clark, or the doo-sabin algorithms. Maya has both poly rounding and "real" heirarchial subdees, which are kinda neat. Unfortunately for maya, they're unbelieveably slow when interacting. In xsi I can take a 30k triangle base mesh and increase the subdiv count by 2 steps, which generates roughly 450k highres. Moving points around is quite quick, whereas the same mesh loaded up in maya is quite slow to interact with.
"Does OpenOffice, or any other office suite for that matter, have something as powerful and easy to use as VB For Applications?"
I'm not sure, I mainly use the word processor and spreadsheet, and only in their most basic ways. A good place to start checking out what OpenOffice can do would be
here Also, remember that it is a free download. You could grab a copy, and poke around to see if it does what you want, all without having to resort to warez.
Greedo was no bounty hunter, only a poseur with a gun. However, Han should shoot first, as it helps establish his character. He's supposed to be a sneaky asshole at the start. Someone the audience initially distrusts. With Greedo shooting first, he's just a lucky schmuck.
The "I _NEED_ Office" mentality is quite well hammered into average users. When I used to work at a certain office supply big box store (I was young, and needed the money!), at least four times a week someone would come in and ask for a full out copy of office. They would then freak out at the price and ask things like "why is this so expensive?!". Most of these people honestly didn't need all of office. A basic word processor, spreadsheet and email program were all they'd really need. I'd usually mention openoffice, and scrawl down a url for them to take home. Maybe that's why I didn't last long working in that dive:) MS seems to have done an exceedingly good job at promoting the idea that your pc is useless without having a copy of office running on it.
Don't worry... just in the nick of time Jordi will save the universe from imploding upon itself by directing an inverse tachyon pulse through the main deflector array into the quantum subspace tear.
It will be interesting to see how scientists who have staked their entire careers upon the existence of dark matter would react to the discovery that it does not in fact exist. Ideally an invalid theory is dropped, and a new, more "correct" theory is created. However, I have a feeling that a lot of people have invested too much time and effort into dark matter to let it go without some serious evidence.
This article falls under the "Stuff that matters" column. If the tagline for/. was "News about stuff that matters to nerds" then this article would be unsuitable for this site, as it is not news.
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To quote a great thinker of the 20th century:
"Huh huh. You gotta have stuff that sucks in order to have stuff that's cool." -Butthead
Alright, how about this... Known spammers who have ignored repeated warnings get beaten senseless with a heavy sack full of doorknobs. A video is taken, and posted across the net to serve as a warning to the rest of their kind of scum.
No worries. The v1.0 MS "Google Killer" will be functionally equivalent to google, but randomly bring up links to tubgirl (rip goatse man, you will not soon be forgotten...).
but they say my browser (Camino 0.7) doesn't support cookies so I can't register.
Too bad there isn't a plugin that spoofs your user agent info to say you're using IE or whatever other crap browser they want you to use. I'm running the same browser and get hassled by this crap from time to time.
Ahh that article just warms my heart. Its good to see that the 99.9% of humanity that's good for little more than converting food into shit is holding back the 0.1% that drives us forward. Who knows, maybe we'll start regressing. That way we can all be equal in our misery, squalor, and ignorance.
This person looks like they're just trying to get into the field because "games are where the money's at!". If this is true, do everyone a favor and pike off. The game industry is already headed the same way as other fields that were "where the money's at!". Look at the IT industry, it recieved a crapflood of mass produced wannabes who only saw the salary. Already there's college courses churning out "level designers" and "game artists" and whatever else. Mind you, there are some courses out there that are actually quite good for this. However, the majority of these courses are like the ones that produced so called MCSEs who didn't know shit all. In short, don't bother with this endeavour unless you genuinely have a love for it.
Is X and all that it entails really necessary for the "average joe's grandma's" desktop? I'm betting the people who use their machines for nothing more than websurfing, email and word processing wouldn't miss the added functionality.
For these kinds of people a gui that renders directly to the framebuffer would suffice. Cut out the layers of networking code, and make damn sure the windows redraw nicely. They don't care that they can choose different window managers, or control their box from the other side of the planet. All that's necessary is that it work properly, look good and be easy to use.
Ugh, that was it... hence the current use of copper slugs in the bases of heatsinks. I guess gold or silver slugs would be just slightly too expensive for most of us.
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As someone who uses xsi professionally I can vouch for the sheer speed of the "subdivision surfaces" in xsi. However, it should be clarified that the subdees in xsi are polygons that are rounded with the either the catmull-clark, or the doo-sabin algorithms. Maya has both poly rounding and "real" heirarchial subdees, which are kinda neat. Unfortunately for maya, they're unbelieveably slow when interacting. In xsi I can take a 30k triangle base mesh and increase the subdiv count by 2 steps, which generates roughly 450k highres. Moving points around is quite quick, whereas the same mesh loaded up in maya is quite slow to interact with.
Of course not! Do you really expect two cans and a string to be compatible? ;)
I'm not sure, I mainly use the word processor and spreadsheet, and only in their most basic ways. A good place to start checking out what OpenOffice can do would be here Also, remember that it is a free download. You could grab a copy, and poke around to see if it does what you want, all without having to resort to warez.
Greedo was no bounty hunter, only a poseur with a gun. However, Han should shoot first, as it helps establish his character. He's supposed to be a sneaky asshole at the start. Someone the audience initially distrusts. With Greedo shooting first, he's just a lucky schmuck.
The "I _NEED_ Office" mentality is quite well hammered into average users. When I used to work at a certain office supply big box store (I was young, and needed the money!), at least four times a week someone would come in and ask for a full out copy of office. They would then freak out at the price and ask things like "why is this so expensive?!". Most of these people honestly didn't need all of office. A basic word processor, spreadsheet and email program were all they'd really need. I'd usually mention openoffice, and scrawl down a url for them to take home. Maybe that's why I didn't last long working in that dive :) MS seems to have done an exceedingly good job at promoting the idea that your pc is useless without having a copy of office running on it.
Don't worry... just in the nick of time Jordi will save the universe from imploding upon itself by directing an inverse tachyon pulse through the main deflector array into the quantum subspace tear.
It will be interesting to see how scientists who have staked their entire careers upon the existence of dark matter would react to the discovery that it does not in fact exist. Ideally an invalid theory is dropped, and a new, more "correct" theory is created. However, I have a feeling that a lot of people have invested too much time and effort into dark matter to let it go without some serious evidence.
This article falls under the "Stuff that matters" column. If the tagline for /. was "News about stuff that matters to nerds" then this article would be unsuitable for this site, as it is not news.
"Huh huh. You gotta have stuff that sucks in order to have stuff that's cool."
-Butthead
All your children are belong to us!
Alright, how about this... Known spammers who have ignored repeated warnings get beaten senseless with a heavy sack full of doorknobs. A video is taken, and posted across the net to serve as a warning to the rest of their kind of scum.
Question already answered, shit happens :)
Always two there must be, a master and an apprentice...
--Yoda
No worries. The v1.0 MS "Google Killer" will be functionally equivalent to google, but randomly bring up links to tubgirl (rip goatse man, you will not soon be forgotten...).
Except that in a police sting op they don't put cyanide in the cocaine and then leave the it out for the cokeheads to find.
Too bad there isn't a plugin that spoofs your user agent info to say you're using IE or whatever other crap browser they want you to use. I'm running the same browser and get hassled by this crap from time to time.
If I had a sword that close to Bill's neck I'd be tempted to let it err... "slip" ;)
Ahh that article just warms my heart. Its good to see that the 99.9% of humanity that's good for little more than converting food into shit is holding back the 0.1% that drives us forward. Who knows, maybe we'll start regressing. That way we can all be equal in our misery, squalor, and ignorance.
This person looks like they're just trying to get into the field because "games are where the money's at!". If this is true, do everyone a favor and pike off. The game industry is already headed the same way as other fields that were "where the money's at!". Look at the IT industry, it recieved a crapflood of mass produced wannabes who only saw the salary. Already there's college courses churning out "level designers" and "game artists" and whatever else. Mind you, there are some courses out there that are actually quite good for this. However, the majority of these courses are like the ones that produced so called MCSEs who didn't know shit all. In short, don't bother with this endeavour unless you genuinely have a love for it.
/me weeps quietly...
When they find large deposits of hydrocarbons under the surface I recommend forwarding the article to dubya@whitehouse.gov ;)
For these kinds of people a gui that renders directly to the framebuffer would suffice. Cut out the layers of networking code, and make damn sure the windows redraw nicely. They don't care that they can choose different window managers, or control their box from the other side of the planet. All that's necessary is that it work properly, look good and be easy to use.
Ugh, that was it... hence the current use of copper slugs in the bases of heatsinks. I guess gold or silver slugs would be just slightly too expensive for most of us.
Roughly where is aluminium ranked? Is aluminium used because its a good conductor, or because its cheap and gets the job more or less done?
1 gigabit... wtf is that? So if it uses 8 bit bytes... that means 1024/8= 128k... Pardon me while I stifle a yawn in that case.