It's called 'revenue'. Small towns, ESPECIALLY in the south, are known for going to extreme measures to collect traffic ticket revenue. A few grand for a camera or two isn't going to bankrupt the town, and it will lead to a lot more tickets being doled out. Ever heard the term 'speed trap'? Quit being paranoid. Nobody cares about you.
All of them, you fucking idiot. If you want privacy, you stay the fuck inside. Lock your tinfoiled ass away in your basement and shout "OMG!!!oneoneone! T3H BLACK HELICHOPPERS!!!!oneone!" while watching X-Files and reading Art Bell's website. I'm sorry dude, but you have no reasonable expectation of privacy outside of a select few places.
What about a guy standing on a corner with a pen and paper? Or someone walking through your street with said items. Or throug a parking lot, or ANY FUCKING PLACE THAT YOUR CAR GOES? News flash, dipshit, license plates are publicly displayed information. There is no guarantee that nobody will write down your plate number, but more importantly who the fuck cares? Don't even bother, I already know. I've heard this parrot talk before. "GRAWWWWK! They can track you. GRAWWWWK!" Dude, nobody cares about you. Get the fuck over yourself.
Like I said, there is very little that cutting discs can't go through. But you have to remember that bike thieves aren't likely to carry around a Dremel tool and take the time to cut through a lock. They'll just steal a bike that isn't locked. Locks are mainly deterrents anyway.
Are you aware how fucking stupid your story is? Exactly how many bike thieves do you know carry around a fucking air compressor to power their tools? Of course the proper tool cut through it like butter, what the hell do you expect? The same applies to diamonds, for fuck's sake. Locks like that aren't to protect against fucking air tools, they're to protect against hacksaws and bolt cutters.
First and foremost is the inability to set your own hotkeys. I understand this is being worked on, but not fast enough. Next on the list would have to be mouse controls. I have been using Blender on and off for several years and I did not know until the LAST RELEASE (keep in mind I got into Blender around.9) that the left mouse button had gestures assigned to it. WHAT THE HELL? There's a reason mouse gestures haven't taken off, they're completely unintuitive. The parameter value boxes also make no sense. You can click and drag to change the value, but the sensitivity is fucked so you end up overshooting your target by about 30,000. You can manually type in the amount you want, but it requires a SHIFT-click to do so. Not once have I ever remembered I have to hold shift. Every damn time, I click on the field expecting it to just let me type the damn number in. Grah. The way most of the modeling tools works is illogical... and not having edge tools is just fucking stupid (same goes for Lightwave). There's more, but I'm tired of typing. A lot of these issues are being addressed, luckily, but most probably will never change.
Suck fuck, dickhole. Not everyone wants to or NEEDS to use Linux. Furthermore, I wouldn't wish the stupid fucking nVidia driver installation on anyone I know. Shut the fuck up.
Typical. Bringing up things that are marginally related to the discussion in order to make yourself look smart.
I never mentioned a fucking thing about XML, dipshit, and in fact I stated that I hate HTML emails so you can very easily guess, unless you're a dumbass, that I don't like XML as it pertains to email or text messages very much either.
We're talking about how many columns to use for plain text. This is a stupid fucking argument. You use as many as are neccesary. Any text editor/display should wrap it (and UNwrap it, something I wish nedit did) automatically. If what your using is so archaic that it can't even handle that, you SERIOUSLY need to invest in new hardware. If you can't change the system for business reasons (legacy hardware), then you probably have internal ways of dealing with it already. If you can't for other reasons (no money. Been there.), you just have to deal with it on your own and not expect the rest of the world to bend over and take it because you can't keep up.
I'd have thought by now that we'd be done with the 'lowest common denominator' in all but specialized areas. I thought programmers hated irrational limitations.
This is fucking stupid. MS has never been a HARDWARE MANUFACTURER. Their software has always run on PC's. A more appropriate analogy would be IBM and Apple, but AFAIK IBM never really put much stock in the PC keeping them alive, they were more concerned with the server side of things.
Knowing what an outright bastard Jobs is (and I mean that in a good way), you may be right. He seems the kind to piss off an entire country at the cost of his bottom line, and I respect that.
It is *NOT* logical. It doesn't even have an internal logic that sort of makes sense if you forget everything you know about other programs (see Lightwave). The improvements that have been made are still a long way away from making Blender usable for anything but people that are new to 3d. The actual UI has improved dramatically, so much so that at least visually it's my absolute favorite of any package I've used (and I've used a lot). It's the way that the UI is layed out, and the way the things within the UI function, that keeps Blender down.
You idiots are fucking retarded if you think Slashdot had a goddamned thing to do with this. You don't fucking matter, nobody gives a fuck about you. You're a bunch of goddamned geek-ass bastards. Shut the fuck up and quit pretending you matter.
MOST games are strictly memory games, platformers especially. Games that introduce a random element are typically less so, but games in general can be boiled down to a memorized sequence of joystick twiddles.
Gimp and Cinepaint are the exact same damn thing, save for about two features. My issue with Blender is less about the interface (now. They're made major improvements) and more with how everything works completely different from every other app ever made, for no good reason whatsoever. Yes, I've seen some of the stuff made with Blender but I've also seen FAR better stuff made with Truespace, which is an even bigger POS. Good artists are good artists, regardless of software.
I've detailed my displeasure with Ardour and JACK in one of my journals. Check it out sometime.
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More importantly, it's the same large group of people that doesn't really give a shit about TV stations in other countries.
It's called 'revenue'. Small towns, ESPECIALLY in the south, are known for going to extreme measures to collect traffic ticket revenue. A few grand for a camera or two isn't going to bankrupt the town, and it will lead to a lot more tickets being doled out. Ever heard the term 'speed trap'? Quit being paranoid. Nobody cares about you.
All of them, you fucking idiot. If you want privacy, you stay the fuck inside. Lock your tinfoiled ass away in your basement and shout "OMG!!!oneoneone! T3H BLACK HELICHOPPERS!!!!oneone!" while watching X-Files and reading Art Bell's website. I'm sorry dude, but you have no reasonable expectation of privacy outside of a select few places.
What about a guy standing on a corner with a pen and paper? Or someone walking through your street with said items. Or throug a parking lot, or ANY FUCKING PLACE THAT YOUR CAR GOES? News flash, dipshit, license plates are publicly displayed information. There is no guarantee that nobody will write down your plate number, but more importantly who the fuck cares? Don't even bother, I already know. I've heard this parrot talk before. "GRAWWWWK! They can track you. GRAWWWWK!" Dude, nobody cares about you. Get the fuck over yourself.
And if you can't see that 'not private' and 'constant surveillance' are esentially the same thing, you're a fucking dumbass.
Yeah, that'll protect you from the dead person's family. I seriously hope to high holy fuck you weren't being serious.
Could you just be a bit more of a dumbass fanboy? I don't think you're doing your fair share of OSS cock sucking. Mix in an M$ or two next time.
Idiot.
It's quite simple, really. The majority of Slashdot readers are delusional. Why else would they think any of this shit matters?
Like I said, there is very little that cutting discs can't go through. But you have to remember that bike thieves aren't likely to carry around a Dremel tool and take the time to cut through a lock. They'll just steal a bike that isn't locked. Locks are mainly deterrents anyway.
Are you aware how fucking stupid your story is? Exactly how many bike thieves do you know carry around a fucking air compressor to power their tools? Of course the proper tool cut through it like butter, what the hell do you expect? The same applies to diamonds, for fuck's sake. Locks like that aren't to protect against fucking air tools, they're to protect against hacksaws and bolt cutters.
Which isn't surprising at all since Id isn't doing a boxed Linux version.
First and foremost is the inability to set your own hotkeys. I understand this is being worked on, but not fast enough. Next on the list would have to be mouse controls. I have been using Blender on and off for several years and I did not know until the LAST RELEASE (keep in mind I got into Blender around .9) that the left mouse button had gestures assigned to it. WHAT THE HELL? There's a reason mouse gestures haven't taken off, they're completely unintuitive. The parameter value boxes also make no sense. You can click and drag to change the value, but the sensitivity is fucked so you end up overshooting your target by about 30,000. You can manually type in the amount you want, but it requires a SHIFT-click to do so. Not once have I ever remembered I have to hold shift. Every damn time, I click on the field expecting it to just let me type the damn number in. Grah. The way most of the modeling tools works is illogical... and not having edge tools is just fucking stupid (same goes for Lightwave). There's more, but I'm tired of typing. A lot of these issues are being addressed, luckily, but most probably will never change.
Suck fuck, dickhole. Not everyone wants to or NEEDS to use Linux. Furthermore, I wouldn't wish the stupid fucking nVidia driver installation on anyone I know. Shut the fuck up.
Typical. Bringing up things that are marginally related to the discussion in order to make yourself look smart.
I never mentioned a fucking thing about XML, dipshit, and in fact I stated that I hate HTML emails so you can very easily guess, unless you're a dumbass, that I don't like XML as it pertains to email or text messages very much either.
We're talking about how many columns to use for plain text. This is a stupid fucking argument. You use as many as are neccesary. Any text editor/display should wrap it (and UNwrap it, something I wish nedit did) automatically. If what your using is so archaic that it can't even handle that, you SERIOUSLY need to invest in new hardware. If you can't change the system for business reasons (legacy hardware), then you probably have internal ways of dealing with it already. If you can't for other reasons (no money. Been there.), you just have to deal with it on your own and not expect the rest of the world to bend over and take it because you can't keep up.
I'd have thought by now that we'd be done with the 'lowest common denominator' in all but specialized areas. I thought programmers hated irrational limitations.
Suck my balls, asstard.
It should be resoundingly fucking obvious that if I don't answer a question, then I have no fucking clue what the answer is. Google is your friend.
This is fucking stupid. MS has never been a HARDWARE MANUFACTURER. Their software has always run on PC's. A more appropriate analogy would be IBM and Apple, but AFAIK IBM never really put much stock in the PC keeping them alive, they were more concerned with the server side of things.
Knowing what an outright bastard Jobs is (and I mean that in a good way), you may be right. He seems the kind to piss off an entire country at the cost of his bottom line, and I respect that.
It is *NOT* logical. It doesn't even have an internal logic that sort of makes sense if you forget everything you know about other programs (see Lightwave). The improvements that have been made are still a long way away from making Blender usable for anything but people that are new to 3d. The actual UI has improved dramatically, so much so that at least visually it's my absolute favorite of any package I've used (and I've used a lot). It's the way that the UI is layed out, and the way the things within the UI function, that keeps Blender down.
You idiots are fucking retarded if you think Slashdot had a goddamned thing to do with this. You don't fucking matter, nobody gives a fuck about you. You're a bunch of goddamned geek-ass bastards. Shut the fuck up and quit pretending you matter.
Bullshit. Everyone would switch to Macs.
MOST games are strictly memory games, platformers especially. Games that introduce a random element are typically less so, but games in general can be boiled down to a memorized sequence of joystick twiddles.
Yes. Most everything on Linux that reads or writes PNG's uses it.
Gimp and Cinepaint are the exact same damn thing, save for about two features. My issue with Blender is less about the interface (now. They're made major improvements) and more with how everything works completely different from every other app ever made, for no good reason whatsoever. Yes, I've seen some of the stuff made with Blender but I've also seen FAR better stuff made with Truespace, which is an even bigger POS. Good artists are good artists, regardless of software.
I've detailed my displeasure with Ardour and JACK in one of my journals. Check it out sometime.