Exactly. Something that always holds true- the better somebody gets at any part of CG- modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, the less they talk about software. It's the newbies and the cg equivelant of script kiddies constantly talking about what software does what.
The software (and of course hardware) is a tool. Master painters don't have "my paintbrush is better than your paintbrush" arguements. If joe sixpack had Michaelangelo's paintbrush he wouldn't be able to produce works that good. I don't understand why people think that if Joe Sixpack had Pixar's software suddenly he would become a master animator.
It occurs to me that it's absolutely impossible to ask someone to do something in English.
Could you X, Can you X, are just asking if the person is able to.
Will you X, is asking if a person will do something, not asking them to do something.
Would you X, is asking if a person would do something if a condition were met.
None of them are actually asking a person to do something.
And about that teacher everyone had that made you way "May I", I think that's wrong too. The answer to it would be "Yes, you may go to the bathroom, but you also may not, I have no crystal ball so I can't really tell". "Will you allow me to" is probably be correct.
"Consider movies like Toy Story, where they have animated humans that they've tried to make look real... "
Um, no. Those characters, and the humans in finding nemo, were meant to look like cartoons, and not real. When people made photorealistic (almost) humans, in final fantasy, nobody really liked it and everyone kinda wondered what the point was.
In my day we didn't have monkeys. We had to filter spam by hand. And we liked it!
You kids and your infinite monkeys... Shakespear wouldn't have used monkeys were he alive today. He would have rolled up his sleaves and written hamlet the right way!
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Sorry for responding to my own post, I have something to add:
How can we know the plant will survive? Most areas of the word already have whatever vegetation they can support, so a random plant introduced there probably not survive:
The solution is simple: Just modify whatever naturally grows there. If you only add/change one gene, that changes the plant's color, you can also be sure the plant won't disrupt the ecosystem, it'll just be exactly the same plant that already grows there in a different color.
Use something like a crop duster at a highish altitude to drop the seeds all over large areas of land in third world countries. This will make demining so much easier.
If the environmentalists oppose this, if they can engineer the seeds so that the plants can't have offspring (I forget what the term is), they could drop a ton of seeds over a tract of land they plan to demine, and a few months later finding the mines will be very easy.
You know, people like Newton, Pasteur, Faraday, Boyle, Larry Wall...
Yes, maybe they were religious, but Newton's theory wasn't that things accelerate toward the ground because god said so. Boyle didn't say that pressure goes up when when volume goes down because lower volumes anger God. They didn't do thier work because they thought God said so, and they didn't make thier contributions to human knowledge by asking or trusting God to do it for them.
Science has made more progress in a few hundred years than religion has made in a few thousand. Religion has no place telling science what to do. You're sitting at a computer, which is culmination of tons and tons of science. We didn't pray for it, we researched and we built it. Life expectancies have almost doubled thanks to science, you will live twice as long as you would if you had been born a few hundred years ago. There is no religious equivelant, there are no measurable results.
and then we will not need to worry as much about diseases, etc. If God is pleased to do so, He can give us cures for any diseases from whatever pleases Him.
Buh-wha? Wait for god to cure diseases? Are you crazy?
That worked really well for things like the black plague. Or smallpox.
When you get sick, you'll be at the doctors office like everyone else, and after you're cured, you'll be back on here complaining about how bad progess is, you ungrateful bastard.
life is re-created by an act of God through the union of man and woman, and not by a scientist in a lab.
Oh no, the invisible man in the sky said no. Listen, the portion of the population that isn't completely insane is trying to solve real problems that praying wont fix. So stop using superstition as a reason to halt progress.
Of course he realizes women have breasts. Thats all boys his age ever talk about, thier own various misconceptions regarding women. Do you remember being 13? Maybe if he were 9 I'd agree with you.
And yeah, I agree it's just his parents' opinion.
What, exactly, is the problem with encasing it in a block of concrete and burrying it somewhere? Am I missing something?
It seems to me you could even drop the blocks of concrete into the ocean and let them settle at the bottom, with some sort of parachute device to make sure they don't crack on impact.
Could somebody explain to me the actual unix/sco connection? Do they actually own it or have steak in it?
If so, how did this happen? Didn't AT&T develop it?
You keep using that word. I do not think you know what it means.
You don't trust your kids, at all. With good reason. The fact is that kids going through puberty are sexually immature, and do stupid things like you described above. You can't stop this.
Your kid is looking at porn. If you have it locked down well enough that he can't do it at home, he's doing it somewhere else. You can't control him all the time.
Oh, and since that little stunt your son has learned a lesson. He's learned not to trust you, and not to trust the home network. He will take steps to insure something like this doesn't happen again, but not the ones you'd like. It was a stupid thing to do, you probably weirded him out to the point where he won't really talk to you for a long time, just answer your questions so that you'll go away. You fucked it up.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? What do they own?
So here's a simple guide to some basic grammar, you illiterate morons.
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Exactly. Something that always holds true- the better somebody gets at any part of CG- modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, the less they talk about software. It's the newbies and the cg equivelant of script kiddies constantly talking about what software does what.
The software (and of course hardware) is a tool. Master painters don't have "my paintbrush is better than your paintbrush" arguements. If joe sixpack had Michaelangelo's paintbrush he wouldn't be able to produce works that good. I don't understand why people think that if Joe Sixpack had Pixar's software suddenly he would become a master animator.
It occurs to me that it's absolutely impossible to ask someone to do something in English.
Could you X, Can you X, are just asking if the person is able to.
Will you X, is asking if a person will do something, not asking them to do something.
Would you X, is asking if a person would do something if a condition were met.
None of them are actually asking a person to do something.
And about that teacher everyone had that made you way "May I", I think that's wrong too. The answer to it would be "Yes, you may go to the bathroom, but you also may not, I have no crystal ball so I can't really tell". "Will you allow me to" is probably be correct.
"Consider movies like Toy Story, where they have animated humans that they've tried to make look real... "
Um, no. Those characters, and the humans in finding nemo, were meant to look like cartoons, and not real. When people made photorealistic (almost) humans, in final fantasy, nobody really liked it and everyone kinda wondered what the point was.
Who knows, hopefully "infinite monkeys" will be next in line.
Like: "Damn infinite monkeys doing the job for half the price, undercutting us average Joes."
Or: "You don't have to do all that work of debugging the code, just have the infinite monkeys do it"
Not really. Microsoft has always sucked, Macs have always been the best alternative for the desktop, so no, not really.
It being "pronounced dead" doesn't mean a whole lot, just that people are wrong, which really isn't all that suprising.
You kids and your monkeys
In my day we didn't have monkeys. We had to filter spam by hand. And we liked it!
You kids and your infinite monkeys... Shakespear wouldn't have used monkeys were he alive today. He would have rolled up his sleaves and written hamlet the right way!
Damn kids..
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RTFB
Sorry for responding to my own post, I have something to add:
How can we know the plant will survive? Most areas of the word already have whatever vegetation they can support, so a random plant introduced there probably not survive:
The solution is simple: Just modify whatever naturally grows there. If you only add/change one gene, that changes the plant's color, you can also be sure the plant won't disrupt the ecosystem, it'll just be exactly the same plant that already grows there in a different color.
Use something like a crop duster at a highish altitude to drop the seeds all over large areas of land in third world countries. This will make demining so much easier.
If the environmentalists oppose this, if they can engineer the seeds so that the plants can't have offspring (I forget what the term is), they could drop a ton of seeds over a tract of land they plan to demine, and a few months later finding the mines will be very easy.
The prices went up by 1.015. That definately doesn't beat inflation, so they have gotten cheaper.
they are going to get pissed off eventually and launch a WAR ON TERROR
And promptly attack venus.
Yes, maybe they were religious, but Newton's theory wasn't that things accelerate toward the ground because god said so. Boyle didn't say that pressure goes up when when volume goes down because lower volumes anger God. They didn't do thier work because they thought God said so, and they didn't make thier contributions to human knowledge by asking or trusting God to do it for them.
Science has made more progress in a few hundred years than religion has made in a few thousand. Religion has no place telling science what to do. You're sitting at a computer, which is culmination of tons and tons of science. We didn't pray for it, we researched and we built it. Life expectancies have almost doubled thanks to science, you will live twice as long as you would if you had been born a few hundred years ago. There is no religious equivelant, there are no measurable results.
Buh-wha? Wait for god to cure diseases? Are you crazy?
That worked really well for things like the black plague. Or smallpox.
When you get sick, you'll be at the doctors office like everyone else, and after you're cured, you'll be back on here complaining about how bad progess is, you ungrateful bastard.
life is re-created by an act of God through the union of man and woman, and not by a scientist in a lab.
Oh no, the invisible man in the sky said no. Listen, the portion of the population that isn't completely insane is trying to solve real problems that praying wont fix. So stop using superstition as a reason to halt progress.
A scientific explaintion involving an invisible man in the sky.
Brilliant.
Of course he realizes women have breasts. Thats all boys his age ever talk about, thier own various misconceptions regarding women. Do you remember being 13? Maybe if he were 9 I'd agree with you. And yeah, I agree it's just his parents' opinion.
What, exactly, is the problem with encasing it in a block of concrete and burrying it somewhere? Am I missing something?
It seems to me you could even drop the blocks of concrete into the ocean and let them settle at the bottom, with some sort of parachute device to make sure they don't crack on impact.
Buy a futurama DVD!
Oh wait we all already have them.
you're.
Except I fucked that up too. Bad, bad day.
"Being a bad speller on Slashdot is like being a sexual deviant anywhere else" is what I meant.
Yes. They have a prime rib in it.
Being a bad speller is to slashdot as being a sexual deviant is to anywhere else.
(Before someone calls me on it, adapted from something similar on everything2).
Could somebody explain to me the actual unix/sco connection? Do they actually own it or have steak in it? If so, how did this happen? Didn't AT&T develop it?
You keep using that word. I do not think you know what it means.
You don't trust your kids, at all. With good reason. The fact is that kids going through puberty are sexually immature, and do stupid things like you described above. You can't stop this.
Your kid is looking at porn. If you have it locked down well enough that he can't do it at home, he's doing it somewhere else. You can't control him all the time.
Oh, and since that little stunt your son has learned a lesson. He's learned not to trust you, and not to trust the home network. He will take steps to insure something like this doesn't happen again, but not the ones you'd like. It was a stupid thing to do, you probably weirded him out to the point where he won't really talk to you for a long time, just answer your questions so that you'll go away. You fucked it up.