All of my spare time has been going into getting a college degree
Dude, considering what this sector's been like for the past few years - if you're working and own a freaking house, all without any college degree... then you're doing pretty dang well in my opinion.
I did a one minute video for school (not posting the link, sorry), 30fps, with 3-6 frame oversampling for some motion blur, and it took like 3 days on between modern 4-7 PCs.
It was using radiosity, and there was about 70,000 objects in the scene.
So, along freaking time basically. But the results are great, as good as many commercial apps. So it does have "professional power", IMHO. But it's a renderer and script editor, not a modeller - so it's not Maya or Max if that's what you're getting at.
It's basically a more efficient method of what I used to do when I was a kid, i.e. keep a cassette handy and hit record stuff when I hear it playing on the radio.
Frankly, I got got *real* tired of struggling trying to find the stuff I wanted to listen to (mostly older stuff), only to end up buying some crap redone version or a bad mix.
Yeah I tried this there yesterday, and while it looks very cool/creepy to see the tile you stepped off of automatically move in front of you, the feeling itself it quite awkward, and not a natural pace.
There's also a guy sitting partially obscured by a curtain who looks like he's controlling everything, so I'm unsure how automatic this is.
Still cool all-in-all, but needs some work it seems.
I was at SIGGRAPH yesterday, and there were a number of exhibits that used these technologies. The internal projected sphere you mentioned was in the art gallery exhibit, and you could choose between a number of video/art projects (only one worth watching was a cool animation of plate tectonics). A commercial exhibit had setup using like 5 or 6 projectors to produce one *big* panorama animation of a 3d fish tank (or undersea, not sure), and it looked flawless.
Much as I'd love to see GNOME succeed (with all the industry support it has)... I can't use it. Frankly, it drives me nuts at times, the way that, say, Windows 95 did.
I dif XML and all, but things like replacing tags with stuff like:
<p src="map.png"><span src="map.gif">Exit from station...</span></p>
seems a bit too... anal? or purist/academic at best.
I suppose it's a moot point if MS/Macromedia/Adobe comes out with a great XHTML2.0 WYSIWYG editor, then 95% of the developers out there wouldn't even care...
The web is a visual medium. Either accept this or STFU
Uh, yeah, I'm aware of that and agree that a visually appealing site is doubleplusgood.
My point is that, as in the case of Ray-Ban's site, it gets in the freaking way.
You could have had a site that looked almost identical, and I could have navigated it easier and faster if it had just been HTML.
The tiresome Loading |-------80%----|--| shit to retrieve simple information is ridiculous
Honestly, I read Slashdot daily, but I'll never understand the peculiar Flash-Is-Evil bias. Yes, there are annoying ads that use it. There are also annoying ads that use animated GIF, and even HTML
It's not the ads I bitch about, that's actually an appropriate application IMHO. It's lame ass sites like Ray-Ban's where Flash is used as a replacement for HTML. Especially when there's very little here that needed Flash, as in this case. Site-as-snazzy applet-thing should die a painful death.
Personally, I think a good part of the feelings of "Down with American imperialists!" around parts of the world would be better translated as "Down with the Modern World!". I.e. people get pissed off when they see they traditional ways being wiped out by exposure to media and technology, and increased urbanization. And it's easy to finger the United States for this.
Best I could say to these people is... sorry? We went throught this too.
As much as I'd like to have some sort of cultural connection with my rural European ancestors... I don't.
Yeah, one thing I noticed is that apps such as Mozilla, with it's pre-shaded, pseudo-3d theme looks sort of out of place in this manager.
It would be interesting instead to have windows that were almost flat, but have some relief (like a bas-relief), and were shaded correctly. (which would require a lighting system of some sort)
I prefer to keep my desktop a clean slate. The taskbar and a single row of icons. The second I need more than one row I have to clean up. This would make my desktop a disaster area.
Geez, dream a little... While I agree it's probably of marginal usefulness a current desktop computer, I think it's a nice mix of 3D and 2D interfaces, that may be really useful in the future. We'll have to move on sometime, for some tasks. WIMP interfaces won't reign king forever.
Oh and, before anyone fusses, I've grabbed source and looked into making the change myself, but frankly I couldn't even figure out how to even build the darn thing. The build is not exactly staightforward, IMO.
"The "anchoring" of widgets so that you don't have to write window resizing code it great. I love Java, but getting GUI stuff to come out exactly the way you want, even with a GUI editor, can be a pain."
The various layout managers that Swing has offered since like, 1998, do this quite nicely. And, amazingly, you can understand the code GUI designers produce, unlike Windows GUIs (Though I haven't done Windows GUIs in a few years, things might have changed since then).
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All of my spare time has been going into getting a college degree
Dude, considering what this sector's been like for the past few years - if you're working and own a freaking house, all without any college degree... then you're doing pretty dang well in my opinion.
The best bet is to get a group of people together and create their own open source version of it.
Pixie,
Aqsis,
jrman,
et al.
I did a one minute video for school (not posting the link, sorry), 30fps, with 3-6 frame oversampling for some motion blur, and it took like 3 days on between modern 4-7 PCs.
It was using radiosity, and there was about 70,000 objects in the scene.
So, along freaking time basically. But the results are great, as good as many commercial apps. So it does have "professional power", IMHO. But it's a renderer and script editor, not a modeller - so it's not Maya or Max if that's what you're getting at.
Sorry, I still do not look at this as stealing.
It's basically a more efficient method of what I used to do when I was a kid, i.e. keep a cassette handy and hit record stuff when I hear it playing on the radio.
Frankly, I got got *real* tired of struggling trying to find the stuff I wanted to listen to (mostly older stuff), only to end up buying some crap redone version or a bad mix.
Amen, I personally feel that 10 to 25 cents a song is about what I'd pay for DRMed music.
Sounds too cheap? Well, that's a heck of a lot more than I'm paying for music now (hint: $0)
Yeah I tried this there yesterday, and while it looks very cool/creepy to see the tile you stepped off of automatically move in front of you, the feeling itself it quite awkward, and not a natural pace.
There's also a guy sitting partially obscured by a curtain who looks like he's controlling everything, so I'm unsure how automatic this is.
Still cool all-in-all, but needs some work it seems.
I was at SIGGRAPH yesterday, and there were a number of exhibits that used these technologies.
The internal projected sphere you mentioned was in the art gallery exhibit, and you could choose between a number of video/art projects (only one worth watching was a cool animation of plate tectonics).
A commercial exhibit had setup using like 5 or 6 projectors to produce one *big* panorama animation of a 3d fish tank (or undersea, not sure), and it looked flawless.
Ahem, it's Released To Fucking Manufacturers (RTFM), thank you.
Much as I'd love to see GNOME succeed (with all the industry support it has)... I can't use it. Frankly, it drives me nuts at times, the way that, say, Windows 95 did.
I dif XML and all, but things like replacing tags with stuff like:
<p src="map.png"><span src="map.gif">Exit from station...</span></p>
seems a bit too... anal? or purist/academic at best.
I suppose it's a moot point if MS/Macromedia/Adobe comes out with a great XHTML2.0 WYSIWYG editor, then 95% of the developers out there wouldn't even care...
...and of(I believe, hard to judge from the one photo I've seen of him) of African decent, so stop trolling.
Ah, um, yes - so that explains why he's named after an American Indian from Longfellow's poem Hiawatha
Forgiveth me for being such a racist troll..
ummmmmmm... is that your real name?
The web is a visual medium. Either accept this or STFU
Uh, yeah, I'm aware of that and agree that a visually appealing site is doubleplusgood.
My point is that, as in the case of Ray-Ban's site, it gets in the freaking way.
You could have had a site that looked almost identical, and I could have navigated it easier and faster if it had just been HTML.
The tiresome
Loading |-------80%----|--|
shit to retrieve simple information is ridiculous
Honestly, I read Slashdot daily, but I'll never understand the peculiar Flash-Is-Evil bias. Yes, there are annoying ads that use it. There are also annoying ads that use animated GIF, and even HTML
It's not the ads I bitch about, that's actually an appropriate application IMHO. It's lame ass sites like Ray-Ban's where Flash is used as a replacement for HTML.
Especially when there's very little here that needed Flash, as in this case. Site-as-snazzy applet-thing should die a painful death.
Personally, I think a good part of the feelings of "Down with American imperialists!" around parts of the world would be better translated as "Down with the Modern World!". I.e. people get pissed off when they see they traditional ways being wiped out by exposure to media and technology, and increased urbanization. And it's easy to finger the United States for this.
Best I could say to these people is... sorry? We went throught this too.
As much as I'd like to have some sort of cultural connection with my rural European ancestors... I don't.
That was actually a funny use of this joke, bravo :)
Yeah, one thing I noticed is that apps such as Mozilla, with it's pre-shaded, pseudo-3d theme looks sort of out of place in this manager.
It would be interesting instead to have windows that were almost flat, but have some relief (like a bas-relief), and were shaded correctly. (which would require a lighting system of some sort)
Hmm, maybe time to bust out POV-Ray...
Here you go, hot off the presses:
Polar Base Prototype
Arrggg. I actually liked the 0.9 theme, especially the triangular nav icons....
Only change I like in this is the Home icon....
Yay, design by commitee. Time to break out Photoshop.
"Here's one that'll make you howl: "sorting is a presentation-tier concern"
Yeah, well when you have to sort String values using oddball locale-specific methods it sure the heck is.
I prefer to keep my desktop a clean slate. The taskbar and a single row of icons. The second I need more than one row I have to clean up. This would make my desktop a disaster area.
Geez, dream a little... While I agree it's probably of marginal usefulness a current desktop computer, I think it's a nice mix of 3D and 2D interfaces, that may be really useful in the future.
We'll have to move on sometime, for some tasks. WIMP interfaces won't reign king forever.
Oh and, before anyone fusses, I've grabbed source and looked into making the change myself, but frankly I couldn't even figure out how to even build the darn thing.
The build is not exactly staightforward, IMO.
Is that the stupid address autocollect feature would lowercase everything before checking if the cotact exists.
I'm tired of having multiple:
Fred.Mertz@Lucy.Com
Fred.Mertz@lucy.com
fred.mertz@lucy.com
etc...
"The "anchoring" of widgets so that you don't have to write window resizing code it great. I love Java, but getting GUI stuff to come out exactly the way you want, even with a GUI editor, can be a pain."
The various layout managers that Swing has offered since like, 1998, do this quite nicely.
And, amazingly, you can understand the code GUI designers produce, unlike Windows GUIs (Though I haven't done Windows GUIs in a few years, things might have changed since then).
"How do you deal with terabytes of data (50+ TB), all in a single directory tree, all must be accessible to every node?"
Easy! Just use Gnome 2.6 - it has super-duper spatial browser behavior. All your troubles will be solved.