If all you have to do is render it, try povray It's excedingly easy to do what you describe in it. Also, I think there are povray -> blender converters, not sure though.
I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? There will always be Innovators and there will always be copiers. It really doesn't matter, since the two are in a mutal parasitic relationship.
The innovators make some money when they come out with something new in a market that's flooded with clones, and the copiers make money by driving down the bottom line for their clones...
I'll be graduating in a couple of years with a degree in English, and hope to make a name for myself through writing, but the last thing on my mind is getting a job writing video game stories or working on development.
Perhaps it's because a lot of creative people share the same idea as you seem to state. So, to answer your question in re: to getting more artistic people involved; what would make you consider working on a game?
Or they could just network the neighborhood, have a few people buy services from the evil corporations, then share those connections with the neighborhood.
Surprised no one has mentioned it, but have you talked to the people at Seatle Wireless? They might have some usefull info for you if you plan to go the wifi route.
I stuck some data in the impact effects simulator (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/), took reasonable guess at most of it. Anyone else more knowledgable, please correct.
Distance from Impact: 1000.00 km = 621.00 miles Projectile Diameter: 28280.20 m = 92759.06 ft = 17.56 miles Projectile Density: 3000 kg/m3 Impact Velocity: 30.00 km/s = 18.63 miles/s Impact Angle: 45 degrees Target Density: 3000 kg/m3 Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil
Energy: 1.60 x 1025 Joules = 3.82 x 109 MegaTons TNT The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 2.6 x 109years
Crater Size: Transient Crater Diameter: 173.30 km = 107.62 miles Final Crater Diameter: 340.69 km = 211.57 miles The crater formed is a complex crater.
Thermal Radiation: Time for maximum radiation: 16.79 seconds after impact Visible fireball radius: 425.5 km = 264.2 miles The fireball appears 96.7 times larger than the sun Thermal Exposure: 6.13 x 108 Joules/m2 Duration of Irradiation: 655 seconds Radiant flux (relative to the sun): 936.0
Effects of Thermal Radiation: Clothing ignites Much of the body suffers third degree burns Newspaper ignites Plywood flames Deciduous trees ignite Grass ignites
Seismic Effects: The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 200.0 seconds. Richter Scale Magnitude: 11.0 (This is greater than any earthquake in recorded history) Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 1000 km: VI. Felt by all. Many frightened and run outdoors. Persons walk unsteadily. Windows, dishes, glassware broken. Knickknacks, books, etc., off shelves. Pictures off walls. Furniture moved or overturned. Weak plaster and masonry D cracked. Small bells ring (church, school). Trees, bushes shaken (visibly, or heard to rustle). VII. Difficult to stand. Noticed by drivers of motor cars. Hanging objects quiver. Furniture broken. Damage to masonry D, including cracks. Weak chimneys broken at roof line. Fall of plaster, loose bricks, stones, tiles, cornices (also unbraced parapets and architectural ornaments). Some cracks in masonry C. Waves on ponds; water turbid with mud. Small slides and caving in along sand or gravel banks. Large bells ring. Concrete irrigation ditches damaged. Masonry C. Ordinary workmanship and mortar; no extreme weaknesses like failing to tie in at corners, but neither reinforced nor designed against horizontal forces. Masonry D. Weak materials, such as adobe; poor mortar; low standards of workmanship; weak horizontally.
Ejecta: The ejecta will arrive approximately 494.4 seconds after the impact. Average Ejecta Thickness: 9.4 m = 30.83 ft Mean Fragment Diameter: 5.4 mm = 0.2107 inches
Air Blast: The air blast will arrive at approximately 3333.3 seconds. Peak Overpressure: 920445.5 Pa = 9.2045 bars = 130.7033 psi Max wind velocity: 661.5 m/s = 1479.8 mph Sound Intensity: 119 dB (May cause ear pain)
Damage Description: Multistory wall-bearing buildings will collapse. Wood frame buildings will almost completely collapse. Multistory steel-framed office-type buildings will suffer extreme frame distortion, incipient collapse. Highway truss bridges will collapse. Highway girder bridges will collapse. Glass windows will shatter. Cars and trucks will be largely displaced and grossly distorted and will require rebuilding before use. Up to 90 percent of trees blown down; remainder stripped of branches and leaves.
I really doubt it's anything like that, since they wanted it to be able to steer in case windows went down.
As for where you could get something like that, I'm sure you could put some sort of tracking pattern on the axle of the wheel, then mount a USB optical mouse in a fixed position to track it. Viola.
At least they are giving you the option of NOT having the graphic ads placed on your site. I'm sure a lot of people just like the elegance of the text based ads a lot more since they are less obtrusive.
However, how long do you think it will take them to not give you the option of not displaying banner ads? I'm sure they are going to be charging more for the graphics since they'll be using more bandwidth.
Too lazy to google right now, but does anyone water cool G5s. I mean, if it makes that much noice, I'd think a water block would be a whole lot more quiet.
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If all you have to do is render it, try povray It's excedingly easy to do what you describe in it. Also, I think there are povray -> blender converters, not sure though.
I'm sorry, but am I missing something here? There will always be Innovators and there will always be copiers. It really doesn't matter, since the two are in a mutal parasitic relationship. The innovators make some money when they come out with something new in a market that's flooded with clones, and the copiers make money by driving down the bottom line for their clones...
To be fair, lutheranism is more akin to iTunes than p2p. Luther still believed in tithes, whereas p2p is free.
Well, to be fair, luteranism would be more like iTunes or something similar. He still wanted money from the congregation, it wasn't free.
Yeah, but it wasn't really necessary of Turing to thinking about about general computing machines when they didn't exist when he was around, was it?
People that don't know what you claim to.
Yeah, just look at the way Redhat is going. *shrug*
Or they could just network the neighborhood, have a few people buy services from the evil corporations, then share those connections with the neighborhood.
Surprised no one has mentioned it, but have you talked to the people at Seatle Wireless? They might have some usefull info for you if you plan to go the wifi route.
All I can say to that really is that it serves them right for being sheep.
Yeah, I can totaly see Pixar doing Fritz the Cat
I stuck some data in the impact effects simulator (http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/), took reasonable guess at most of it. Anyone else more knowledgable, please correct.
Distance from Impact: 1000.00 km = 621.00 miles
Projectile Diameter: 28280.20 m = 92759.06 ft = 17.56 miles
Projectile Density: 3000 kg/m3
Impact Velocity: 30.00 km/s = 18.63 miles/s
Impact Angle: 45 degrees
Target Density: 3000 kg/m3
Target Type: Competent Rock or saturated soil
Energy:
1.60 x 1025 Joules = 3.82 x 109 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 2.6 x 109years
Crater Size:
Transient Crater Diameter: 173.30 km = 107.62 miles
Final Crater Diameter: 340.69 km = 211.57 miles
The crater formed is a complex crater.
Thermal Radiation:
Time for maximum radiation: 16.79 seconds after impact
Visible fireball radius: 425.5 km = 264.2 miles
The fireball appears 96.7 times larger than the sun
Thermal Exposure: 6.13 x 108 Joules/m2
Duration of Irradiation: 655 seconds
Radiant flux (relative to the sun): 936.0
Effects of Thermal Radiation:
Clothing ignites
Much of the body suffers third degree burns
Newspaper ignites
Plywood flames
Deciduous trees ignite
Grass ignites
Seismic Effects:
The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 200.0 seconds.
Richter Scale Magnitude: 11.0 (This is greater than any earthquake in recorded history)
Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 1000 km:
VI. Felt by all. Many frightened and run outdoors. Persons walk unsteadily. Windows, dishes, glassware broken. Knickknacks, books, etc., off shelves. Pictures off walls. Furniture moved or overturned. Weak plaster and masonry D cracked. Small bells ring (church, school). Trees, bushes shaken (visibly, or heard to rustle).
VII. Difficult to stand. Noticed by drivers of motor cars. Hanging objects quiver. Furniture broken. Damage to masonry D, including cracks. Weak chimneys broken at roof line. Fall of plaster, loose bricks, stones, tiles, cornices (also unbraced parapets and architectural ornaments). Some cracks in masonry C. Waves on ponds; water turbid with mud. Small slides and caving in along sand or gravel banks. Large bells ring. Concrete irrigation ditches damaged.
Masonry C. Ordinary workmanship and mortar; no extreme weaknesses like failing to tie in at corners, but neither reinforced nor designed against horizontal forces.
Masonry D. Weak materials, such as adobe; poor mortar; low standards of workmanship; weak horizontally.
Ejecta:
The ejecta will arrive approximately 494.4 seconds after the impact.
Average Ejecta Thickness: 9.4 m = 30.83 ft
Mean Fragment Diameter: 5.4 mm = 0.2107 inches
Air Blast:
The air blast will arrive at approximately 3333.3 seconds.
Peak Overpressure: 920445.5 Pa = 9.2045 bars = 130.7033 psi
Max wind velocity: 661.5 m/s = 1479.8 mph
Sound Intensity: 119 dB (May cause ear pain)
Damage Description:
Multistory wall-bearing buildings will collapse.
Wood frame buildings will almost completely collapse.
Multistory steel-framed office-type buildings will suffer extreme frame distortion, incipient collapse.
Highway truss bridges will collapse.
Highway girder bridges will collapse.
Glass windows will shatter.
Cars and trucks will be largely displaced and grossly distorted and will require rebuilding before use.
Up to 90 percent of trees blown down; remainder stripped of branches and leaves.
It's all about pumuping those damn SAVAGES full of lead. Cause you know, it's the third world that all the EvIl people come from.
Sounds like a really large, flexible Peilter to me. *shrug* You need neither the flexibility nor the largeness in a hardware application.
Sounds like Manson territory to me.
Photons are WMDs! Ever heard of a thing called a photon torpedo?!?
This would be cool if the forcast wasn't calling for it to be completely overcast tonight where I live. Thanks a lot, damn sky!
I really doubt it's anything like that, since they wanted it to be able to steer in case windows went down. As for where you could get something like that, I'm sure you could put some sort of tracking pattern on the axle of the wheel, then mount a USB optical mouse in a fixed position to track it. Viola.
Watch out for the winnuke...
Google is not placing the ads on THEIR page, only on sites that use the AdSense service.
At least they are giving you the option of NOT having the graphic ads placed on your site. I'm sure a lot of people just like the elegance of the text based ads a lot more since they are less obtrusive. However, how long do you think it will take them to not give you the option of not displaying banner ads? I'm sure they are going to be charging more for the graphics since they'll be using more bandwidth.
Too lazy to google right now, but does anyone water cool G5s. I mean, if it makes that much noice, I'd think a water block would be a whole lot more quiet.
Yeah, like a hardware keylogger inside your keyboard.
Florescent fixtures cause packet drops sometimes when cabling nears too close to them in ceilings.
Not to mention the most fun!