That's why we have the supreme court. It would be nice like, in France, the equivalent of the supreme court went over legislation before it became law, but the system still works here. A bad law gets torn apart until it's good. The communications decency act being a good one. Section 530 is a good thing.
Like what exceptions? In Europe just the other day, a guy was sentenced to jail for tearing up a Qur'an. Let me know when that happens in the US. Short of intellectual property and direct, imminent, incitement to violence, there are no significant restrictions. Even defamation is a tort, while in many countries, it's a criminal act.
Thankfully, in our system of government, while the president is free to hold such a belief, he does not actually have the power to enforce it, and either does congress short of amending the constitution.
And would AT&T do anything about it? What about the next security hole? Public embarrassment does a lot more to cause the necessary heads to roll than trying to do AT&T's jobs for them. They were incompetent and irresponsible with customer data and as far as i'm concerned, handing the data to the press was the absolute right call. How else to punish and teach?
Not to mention stuff tends to move around with every single version so a tutorial for version 2.55 may not be applicable to 2.66. It wouldn't be so bad if they documented things, but this is sadly not always the case. Just take the bevel took for example. I don't think that's stayed in one place for any of the past 10 or so releases. Sometimes it's a tool. Sometimes it's a modifier. Sometimes it's under the "w" menu. It can be frustrating as all hell if you don't keep up with every release. Skip a few and it's like learning the program from scratch again.
I have nothing against Sketchup, though I suspect it would be easier to create something like this in Wings rather than Sketchup. I could be wrong but most of what I see on Google Images created with sketchup tend to be things like houses. Nothing very complex. Does Sketchup create closed / print ready meshes?
True that. It's surface tools are almost non-existent. There has been talk of integrating a better nurbs library (Nurbana) into Blender, but I don't think much has come of it. There just isn't much demand. Blender targets artists, not engineers. If you're going to be creating an object for rendering, there are very few reasons to ever use nurbs over subdivision surfaces. Subdivs, while lacking the precision, do not have the same topological constraints.
I've never used Sketchup, but based on what i've seen it seems to be more of a cad program than an object modeler. Wings can be very very powerful, if you enable the more advanced modes.
I agree it has some limitations but personally i've never missed boolean operations. I've never seen a plugin or tool that could create decent geometry. Blender has non-destructive boolean modifiers that can create decent results, but there are serious issues at the intersection with smooth shading. It would be nice if the modifier automatically set the edges created from the intersection to be marked for the cut modifier, but so far as I know it doesn't at the moment. You have to manually apply the modifier and select and set the edges manually. It does transfer UVs, however, which is nice.
You're right, but he didn't specify he was going to be doing industrial design. He also said he was a beginner. I wouldn't recommend beginners start with nurbs. They're anything but user-friendly.
He already said Blender was too complicated for him, and I agree. It allows greater flexibility than a strict box modeler like Wings3d, but at the same time unless you know what you're doing it's very easy to create bad geometry. With Blender he would have to learn about normals, open and closed meshes, etc. WIth simpler programs such things are done automatically. For example, in Wings, unless you really intend to make a hole in a mesh (and you do this by applying a non-destructive "hole" material), the exported mesh is going to be closed -- perfect for 3d Printing. You'd also have to try very hard to flip the face normals and if you did it would be very clear in the view-port that something is wrong. Blender, on the other hand, defaults to solid shading mode and the editor will happily let you create two faces next to each other with normals pointing in complete opposite directions. You have to know what's wrong and recalculate normals. I love Blender, don't get me wrong, but it's not the tool for this job.
Nurbs are a lot less flexible than meshes. A simple subdivision modeler for beginners would probably be better such as Wings3d. I suppose it depends on what he wants to do, but if he's not printing parts for stuff, he'l be much better off with the greater flexibility.
It'll always create closed meshes and is simple enough for beginners to use with more advanced modes available as you learn more. It can also export to a wide variety of formats.
I think that there is a sort of chicken and egg problem. Anybody who wants to do 3d anything in Linux will build an Nvidia box. I did. If AMD invested in drivers, perhaps they could gain a larger market share.
Supposedly the SteamBox will run Linux. Why would Valve go with AMD when the drivers are shit. Plus. They have even worked with Nvidia on the drivers to get TF2 running better than on windows. I've heard of no similar doings with AMD which sure makes it seem like they're targeting Nvidia.
The camera games, so far as I know, still require a background plate to be taken as calibration before the game starts so it can generate a difference mask. Apple's photo booth software on mac also does this, though it only works if your clothing differs enough from the background (otherwise you become transparent). If your background or lighting doesn't change, it works great. This seems to be much advanced than diff mask. shift map or simple optical flow techniques in that they're regenerating occluded bits of people as well as just the background (see gizmag article picture, midway down the page, where the dude's arm was fixed). It also seems to work with a free-moving camera, meaning you don't have to have a fancy camera rig to shoot the footage twice in order to get a clean background. You still have to manually mask the foreground elements, however.
It doesn't know, but if this works like Photoshop's content aware fill, it can convincingly fake the rest of the wall. That being said, it's my experience that older, manual methods, usually work better.
I may not agree with everything Geert Wilders has to say (i'm no fan of Islam, however), but at least we in the US don't prosecute our politicians for telling inconvenient truths or expressing unpopular opinions. You have a point about the press in the US but I think the lack of real journalism in "main stream media" is more out of laziness and a desire of the public to be entertained rather than informed. The problem is not at the top, rather the bottom. The public is apathetic. Perhaps the reason is simply because the majority are satisfied. That being said, I'd rather the public have the ability to affect change if it's desired, than to be unable because of a top-down restriction on what can be said.
What if you don't like or agree with the BBC's state produced content and don't feel like supporting them? Do you still have to pay if you don't watch BBC and just use your TV as a PC monitor or for sat/cable?
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That's why we have the supreme court. It would be nice like, in France, the equivalent of the supreme court went over legislation before it became law, but the system still works here. A bad law gets torn apart until it's good. The communications decency act being a good one. Section 530 is a good thing.
Like what exceptions? In Europe just the other day, a guy was sentenced to jail for tearing up a Qur'an. Let me know when that happens in the US. Short of intellectual property and direct, imminent, incitement to violence, there are no significant restrictions. Even defamation is a tort, while in many countries, it's a criminal act.
Thankfully, in our system of government, while the president is free to hold such a belief, he does not actually have the power to enforce it, and either does congress short of amending the constitution.
And would AT&T do anything about it? What about the next security hole? Public embarrassment does a lot more to cause the necessary heads to roll than trying to do AT&T's jobs for them. They were incompetent and irresponsible with customer data and as far as i'm concerned, handing the data to the press was the absolute right call. How else to punish and teach?
The aliens of V were reptilian.
Still doesn't mean he wants to print/mill parts. Those tools have many artistic uses. Printing parts would be a terrible waste.
Not to mention stuff tends to move around with every single version so a tutorial for version 2.55 may not be applicable to 2.66. It wouldn't be so bad if they documented things, but this is sadly not always the case. Just take the bevel took for example. I don't think that's stayed in one place for any of the past 10 or so releases. Sometimes it's a tool. Sometimes it's a modifier. Sometimes it's under the "w" menu. It can be frustrating as all hell if you don't keep up with every release. Skip a few and it's like learning the program from scratch again.
I have nothing against Sketchup, though I suspect it would be easier to create something like this in Wings rather than Sketchup. I could be wrong but most of what I see on Google Images created with sketchup tend to be things like houses. Nothing very complex. Does Sketchup create closed / print ready meshes?
True, but he never said he was printing parts.
True that. It's surface tools are almost non-existent. There has been talk of integrating a better nurbs library (Nurbana) into Blender, but I don't think much has come of it. There just isn't much demand. Blender targets artists, not engineers. If you're going to be creating an object for rendering, there are very few reasons to ever use nurbs over subdivision surfaces. Subdivs, while lacking the precision, do not have the same topological constraints.
I've never used Sketchup, but based on what i've seen it seems to be more of a cad program than an object modeler. Wings can be very very powerful, if you enable the more advanced modes.
I agree it has some limitations but personally i've never missed boolean operations. I've never seen a plugin or tool that could create decent geometry. Blender has non-destructive boolean modifiers that can create decent results, but there are serious issues at the intersection with smooth shading. It would be nice if the modifier automatically set the edges created from the intersection to be marked for the cut modifier, but so far as I know it doesn't at the moment. You have to manually apply the modifier and select and set the edges manually. It does transfer UVs, however, which is nice.
You're right, but he didn't specify he was going to be doing industrial design. He also said he was a beginner. I wouldn't recommend beginners start with nurbs. They're anything but user-friendly.
He already said Blender was too complicated for him, and I agree. It allows greater flexibility than a strict box modeler like Wings3d, but at the same time unless you know what you're doing it's very easy to create bad geometry. With Blender he would have to learn about normals, open and closed meshes, etc. WIth simpler programs such things are done automatically. For example, in Wings, unless you really intend to make a hole in a mesh (and you do this by applying a non-destructive "hole" material), the exported mesh is going to be closed -- perfect for 3d Printing. You'd also have to try very hard to flip the face normals and if you did it would be very clear in the view-port that something is wrong. Blender, on the other hand, defaults to solid shading mode and the editor will happily let you create two faces next to each other with normals pointing in complete opposite directions. You have to know what's wrong and recalculate normals. I love Blender, don't get me wrong, but it's not the tool for this job.
Nurbs are a lot less flexible than meshes. A simple subdivision modeler for beginners would probably be better such as Wings3d. I suppose it depends on what he wants to do, but if he's not printing parts for stuff, he'l be much better off with the greater flexibility.
It'll always create closed meshes and is simple enough for beginners to use with more advanced modes available as you learn more. It can also export to a wide variety of formats.
I think that there is a sort of chicken and egg problem. Anybody who wants to do 3d anything in Linux will build an Nvidia box. I did. If AMD invested in drivers, perhaps they could gain a larger market share.
Supposedly the SteamBox will run Linux. Why would Valve go with AMD when the drivers are shit. Plus. They have even worked with Nvidia on the drivers to get TF2 running better than on windows. I've heard of no similar doings with AMD which sure makes it seem like they're targeting Nvidia.
I think you're filtering is a little too strong in your example. Noisy camera? You use a median filter?
Absolutely false. Check the Pax Planck page.
The camera games, so far as I know, still require a background plate to be taken as calibration before the game starts so it can generate a difference mask. Apple's photo booth software on mac also does this, though it only works if your clothing differs enough from the background (otherwise you become transparent). If your background or lighting doesn't change, it works great. This seems to be much advanced than diff mask. shift map or simple optical flow techniques in that they're regenerating occluded bits of people as well as just the background (see gizmag article picture, midway down the page, where the dude's arm was fixed). It also seems to work with a free-moving camera, meaning you don't have to have a fancy camera rig to shoot the footage twice in order to get a clean background. You still have to manually mask the foreground elements, however.
It doesn't know, but if this works like Photoshop's content aware fill, it can convincingly fake the rest of the wall. That being said, it's my experience that older, manual methods, usually work better.
I may not agree with everything Geert Wilders has to say (i'm no fan of Islam, however), but at least we in the US don't prosecute our politicians for telling inconvenient truths or expressing unpopular opinions. You have a point about the press in the US but I think the lack of real journalism in "main stream media" is more out of laziness and a desire of the public to be entertained rather than informed. The problem is not at the top, rather the bottom. The public is apathetic. Perhaps the reason is simply because the majority are satisfied. That being said, I'd rather the public have the ability to affect change if it's desired, than to be unable because of a top-down restriction on what can be said.
They could put it in a sealed cargo container and ship and detonate by gps when it gets close enough to it's destination. Lots of ways they could.
What if you don't like or agree with the BBC's state produced content and don't feel like supporting them? Do you still have to pay if you don't watch BBC and just use your TV as a PC monitor or for sat/cable?