I don't understand all the excitement about Irrlicht - wile it is surely an OK 3D Engine, it lags just so much behind in terms of what's possible with current 3D Hardware. If you are looking for something more advanced, have a look at OGRE. It does decent stencil shadows, is also independent of the underlying rendering API and it is used in many commercial and open source games.
Oh how things have changed in the last years! I remember Netscape 4.x users being amazed about the speed of IE.. Well, I guess that happens when you decide to stop development on your browser except for security updates...
Too bad this is only a false-color image and has no relation to the colors visible to the human eye. While this is probably nice too look at for scientists in order to do some research, it leaves the rest of us clueless about "What Titan really looks like"..
I would have loved to at least give it a try, but it requires you to log in using Microsoft Passport! Bad idea! I think many people are not willing to sign up for Passport - even for goodies like this...
You will probably have problems using blender.
Even if there is a way to import landscape
heightmaps, you will be severely limited by the
maximum 64K vertices per mesh, which is way to
low to create a high-resolution landscape. If
you have access to windows or use wine, have a
look at TerraGen, it will do the job.
Even for satellite providers, you will need some sort of uplink like an ISDN or analog line. Probably this is not available where you would like to have your net access.
I can't imagine this program to work very well - finding buffer overflows and other possible security vulnerabilities can be an immensely hard task when you actually _do_ have access to the source code. Also, the available compilers produce quite different assembly for the same code. This just all sounds a little bit too good to be true...
I had a look at it and found that this book deals way too much with Perl 6 assembly (somewhat like the IL code from.NET) rather than concentrate on what's interesting: OOP and new syntax.
Seriously, wo is going to use Perl to program bytecode assembly.
I think it's amazing how hardware vendors continuously become more engaged in writing linux drivers. When I think back a couple of years, I could not buy the graphics card I wanted because I was not sure if it would ever be supported...
Not quite. In fact if the available IPv6 addresses get distributed properly, they will last till 2008 easily. The problem is simply that some US organisations have class A networks, which they do not deserve nor require at all.
I have given up on ICQ/AIM a long time ago. I now use Jabber for all IM needs. Seriously, I recommend it to everyone who is currently using ICQ or AIM. There are transports which can connect you to your previous network so that you don't loose connectivity to your friends.
Don't figure that just having a cool firewall/router with stateful packet inspection is a guarantee that you are secure
ACK. Some guy recently broke into my computer and installed a root kit and other messy stuff. I noticed it because "ls" suddenly didn't know the -h parameter anymore. I think he managed to break in because my version of SSH was very outdated. A firewall was of no help here...
How would you want to magically turn it into something better? You are limited by the Windows.Forms API, you do not really have the space for modifications if you want the whole thing to be compatible with applications designed to run on.NET for windows.
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I don't understand all the excitement about Irrlicht - wile it is surely an OK 3D Engine, it lags just so much behind in terms of what's possible with current 3D Hardware. If you are looking for something more advanced, have a look at OGRE. It does decent stencil shadows, is also independent of the underlying rendering API and it is used in many commercial and open source games.
Oh how things have changed in the last years! I remember Netscape 4.x users being amazed about the speed of IE.. Well, I guess that happens when you decide to stop development on your browser except for security updates...
Too bad this is only a false-color image and has no relation to the colors visible to the human eye. While this is probably nice too look at for scientists in order to do some research, it leaves the rest of us clueless about "What Titan really looks like"..
I would have loved to at least give it a try, but it requires you to log in using Microsoft Passport! Bad idea! I think many people are not willing to sign up for Passport - even for goodies like this...
You will probably have problems using blender. Even if there is a way to import landscape heightmaps, you will be severely limited by the maximum 64K vertices per mesh, which is way to low to create a high-resolution landscape. If you have access to windows or use wine, have a look at TerraGen, it will do the job.
Even for satellite providers, you will need some sort of uplink like an ISDN or analog line. Probably this is not available where you would like to have your net access.
Awesome, we'll get even more syscalls! Linus is going to love this..
I'd mirror the images, you know. But then (if it is actually needed) how are people going to get to the mirror's URL...
I can't imagine this program to work very well - finding buffer overflows and other possible security vulnerabilities can be an immensely hard task when you actually _do_ have access to the source code. Also, the available compilers produce quite different assembly for the same code. This just all sounds a little bit too good to be true...
I had a look at it and found that this book deals way too much with Perl 6 assembly (somewhat like the IL code from .NET) rather than concentrate on what's interesting: OOP and new syntax.
Seriously, wo is going to use Perl to program bytecode assembly.
this is mean. really mean.
I think it's amazing how hardware vendors continuously become more engaged in writing linux drivers. When I think back a couple of years, I could not buy the graphics card I wanted because I was not sure if it would ever be supported...
I wonder how he is able to synchronize all of the computers... Is Flight Simulator able to do that or do you need third party software?
Not quite. In fact if the available IPv6 addresses get distributed properly, they will last till 2008 easily. The problem is simply that some US organisations have class A networks, which they do not deserve nor require at all.
Just apply the Host AP patch and your Prism cards will work just fine.
I have given up on ICQ/AIM a long time ago. I now use Jabber for all IM needs. Seriously, I recommend it to everyone who is currently using ICQ or AIM. There are transports which can connect you to your previous network so that you don't loose connectivity to your friends.
Don't figure that just having a cool firewall/router with stateful packet inspection is a guarantee that you are secure
ACK. Some guy recently broke into my computer and installed a root kit and other messy stuff. I noticed it because "ls" suddenly didn't know the -h parameter anymore. I think he managed to break in because my version of SSH was very outdated. A firewall was of no help here...
How would you want to magically turn it into something better? You are limited by the Windows.Forms API, you do not really have the space for modifications if you want the whole thing to be compatible with applications designed to run on .NET for windows.