Mech Warrior took my breath away. The flyby scenes of the two clans headquarters when you started up? Oh my goodness. I forget what year this game was released, probably '96. I might just go home and fire this up after work. Sure it's always a little bit of a letdown to play the old games that looked awesome back then. But remeniscing keeps my interest long enough for a few games. Hell, the original Pool of Radiance (not 3d) still hold my interest with it's crude graphics.
Also, staying up until 3 or 4am playing heretic over a 14.4... turning my friend into a chicken then blowing him to peices. hilarious.
maybe, but i want 4 prosthetic arms and my 2 real arms so i can be one freak of a machine. not to mention, i want to be thought-linked to a monkey that does everything for me I think of, like swipe my subway pass and buy my 6 cups of coffee for each hand.
hmm, but then would i need a subway pass for my monkey?
well, you can use Moray for modelling in windows. Moray also has a great interface to the texturing system. Blender has python scripts that you can use to export as meshes to render in povray. Or, you can hand code povrays scene description language using a text editor. the scene description language is very powerfull, and pretty intuitive if you have some programming background.
hundrends of people have made "include files" and "macros" for doing things like creating grass and fur, or placing such objects on other objects, to generating beautiful outer space scenes.
hamapatch is also a povray compatible modeller, good for organic type shapes (moray is easier for composition of shapes generated from other programs like hamapatch, or very good for creating scenes based on primitive shapes.
here is a good place to start: http://www.povray.org/resources/links/
also the povray newsgroups: http://www.povray.org/resources/newsgroups/
there are also terrain editors/generators which output povray usable files. The newsgroup community is very helpfull and polite to curious newcommers. i'd recommend the newusers newsgroup at http://news.povray.org/povray.newusers/
there are also linux tools for povray (besides blender) if thats your flavor. i can't recall the names of them.
check out the povray.binaries.images or povray.binaries.animations newsgroups on the povray server. good good stuff.
you are blind. for gods sake, open you eyes, fanboy.
from the article: "Don't get me wrong; it's still our favorite overall MP3 player. Although everyone can think of reasons why they want an iPod, I've decided to use this column to list a few reasons why not to buy one."
"Before you send me rants for putting down the iPod, please read the list, realize that we still love the iPod"
"While not ideal for some niche activities, it's still hands down the best-designed MP3 player in the world."
jeebus friggin christ in a handbasket. just because you don't agree with his points, doesn't mean he's wrong. the fact that he expresses these points, doesn't make him right, either. They are just points to ponder.
"oh no, some guy is making potentially valid statements about our beloved apple products that I don't agree with! waaaa!"
fanboys. can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em.
agreed. it seems people who submit articles to slashdot feel they need to overglorify whatever topid it is, in order for the editors to choose it. but not only do I blame the submitters, I also blame the editors for not editing. this is getting to be as bad as FOX news.
"Another solar flare, could this be the end of our sun?"
"MS plans new vaporware campaign for X software package to compete with Y competitor. Could this be the end for Y's software Z?"
Longhorn is vaporware still. In the 3 years until it is released, MS could develop several candidates for what will end up not being known as Longhorn after its official release.
I swear I thought this said "What the Canadians are Running From" at first glance.
I thought the article would actually be interesting instead of this stuff. Like a candidate actually decides what software to use. That would be like letting the government decide what kind of software I can use... oh wait. nevermind (deCSS?).
I like blender, but POV-rays texturing system is just so good it's silly. i need more practice exporting to pov with blender, then using pov textures and raytracer.
Pov-ray is also a crown jewel of OSS. It's not GPL, but it's still free (more restrictive than GPL though). www.povray.org
until you realize that you can tear all the pictures and ads out of a magazine and just read the text. As long as you don't redistribute this modified version without permission of the copyright holder.
I'll consider that phrase to be some fancy dancy marketing mumbo jumbo you picked up while talking around the water cooler until you post some hard facts with references to back it up.
what happens if i'm using this software, and slashdot has a separate server dedicated to serving up all their images? then all the beautiful slashdot artwork goes away.
Then in essence this software is rewritting a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright holder, is it not?
The address bar is quickly going obsolete because of Google.
i've been on the computer all day. i have used google 3 times. i used the address bar probably close to 40 times. in using google those 3 times, i never once typed in a URL.
more than 2/3 of my address bar URLS have been to sites behind our corporate firewall. google can't do squat for those.
instead of having forms, results, data from X amount of different machines? standardized output and accountability might have been a better choice of words.
a robust, fully secure, fully anonymous, standardized (across states, counties, whateveer your contry might have) would be a great step towards a true democracy instead of a, oh damnit my mind went blank and lost the word... a democracy that uses such machinations as an electoral college, as the U.S. uses. I would assume that the electoral college is in place simply because it would have been too hard to count millions of votes by hand. computers can count and sort easily. get rid of the middleman who may or may not (though historically does as the votes say) elect the correct person.
That's one reason credit cards are good. Call your credit card company and they will help I'm sure. American Express always seems to do really well in customer complaints in all my and my family's dealings.
The information resident on the computer, including information regarding the computer and the user's preferences, are downloaded to a remote storage medium through the World Wide Web. Once downloaded...
Technically.. one cannot download files from a local computer to a remote computer. You can upload the files from local->remote. You can download from remote->local. I think their terminology is wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
Mech Warrior took my breath away. The flyby scenes of the two clans headquarters when you started up? Oh my goodness. I forget what year this game was released, probably '96. I might just go home and fire this up after work. Sure it's always a little bit of a letdown to play the old games that looked awesome back then. But remeniscing keeps my interest long enough for a few games. Hell, the original Pool of Radiance (not 3d) still hold my interest with it's crude graphics.
Also, staying up until 3 or 4am playing heretic over a 14.4... turning my friend into a chicken then blowing him to peices. hilarious.
maybe, but i want 4 prosthetic arms and my 2 real arms so i can be one freak of a machine. not to mention, i want to be thought-linked to a monkey that does everything for me I think of, like swipe my subway pass and buy my 6 cups of coffee for each hand.
hmm, but then would i need a subway pass for my monkey?
well, you can use Moray for modelling in windows. Moray also has a great interface to the texturing system. Blender has python scripts that you can use to export as meshes to render in povray. Or, you can hand code povrays scene description language using a text editor. the scene description language is very powerfull, and pretty intuitive if you have some programming background.
hundrends of people have made "include files" and "macros" for doing things like creating grass and fur, or placing such objects on other objects, to generating beautiful outer space scenes.
hamapatch is also a povray compatible modeller, good for organic type shapes (moray is easier for composition of shapes generated from other programs like hamapatch, or very good for creating scenes based on primitive shapes.
here is a good place to start: http://www.povray.org/resources/links/
also the povray newsgroups: http://www.povray.org/resources/newsgroups/
there are also terrain editors/generators which output povray usable files. The newsgroup community is very helpfull and polite to curious newcommers. i'd recommend the newusers newsgroup at http://news.povray.org/povray.newusers/
there are also linux tools for povray (besides blender) if thats your flavor. i can't recall the names of them.
check out the povray.binaries.images or povray.binaries.animations newsgroups on the povray server. good good stuff.
you are blind. for gods sake, open you eyes, fanboy.
from the article:
"Don't get me wrong; it's still our favorite overall MP3 player. Although everyone can think of reasons why they want an iPod, I've decided to use this column to list a few reasons why not to buy one."
"Before you send me rants for putting down the iPod, please read the list, realize that we still love the iPod"
"While not ideal for some niche activities, it's still hands down the best-designed MP3 player in the world."
Not from the article:
WTF, RTFA then STFU.
jeebus friggin christ in a handbasket. just because you don't agree with his points, doesn't mean he's wrong. the fact that he expresses these points, doesn't make him right, either. They are just points to ponder.
"oh no, some guy is making potentially valid statements about our beloved apple products that I don't agree with! waaaa!"
fanboys. can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em.
agreed. it seems people who submit articles to slashdot feel they need to overglorify whatever topid it is, in order for the editors to choose it. but not only do I blame the submitters, I also blame the editors for not editing. this is getting to be as bad as FOX news.
"Another solar flare, could this be the end of our sun?"
"MS plans new vaporware campaign for X software package to compete with Y competitor. Could this be the end for Y's software Z?"
Longhorn is vaporware still. In the 3 years until it is released, MS could develop several candidates for what will end up not being known as Longhorn after its official release.
I swear I thought this said "What the Canadians are Running From" at first glance.
I thought the article would actually be interesting instead of this stuff. Like a candidate actually decides what software to use. That would be like letting the government decide what kind of software I can use... oh wait. nevermind (deCSS?).
I like blender, but POV-rays texturing system is just so good it's silly. i need more practice exporting to pov with blender, then using pov textures and raytracer.
Pov-ray is also a crown jewel of OSS. It's not GPL, but it's still free (more restrictive than GPL though). www.povray.org
until you realize that you can tear all the pictures and ads out of a magazine and just read the text. As long as you don't redistribute this modified version without permission of the copyright holder.
atleast thats one argument.
nevermind that last line. that was dumb since person has some right do do some things to a copyrighted work for their own use.
The global click through ratio
I'll consider that phrase to be some fancy dancy marketing mumbo jumbo you picked up while talking around the water cooler until you post some hard facts with references to back it up.
what happens if i'm using this software, and slashdot has a separate server dedicated to serving up all their images? then all the beautiful slashdot artwork goes away.
Then in essence this software is rewritting a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright holder, is it not?
who cares, BSD.. er, I mean, Redhat is Dead(c)(TM)(U.S.patent pending)
The address bar is quickly going obsolete because of Google.
i've been on the computer all day. i have used google 3 times. i used the address bar probably close to 40 times. in using google those 3 times, i never once typed in a URL.
more than 2/3 of my address bar URLS have been to sites behind our corporate firewall. google can't do squat for those.
Whatever his methods, he only made me want to contribute to Free software projects more. I still just don't know what would scratch my itch.
It's a funny thing, but I'd say that as long as you are paying or paid by a University, you should be considered a "student."
I'll be a student for 23 more years with these loans!
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lousy houseplants!
now we can get back to making viruses that destroy life.
1. more solar flares
2. a tan Natalie Portman
3. ???
4. hot grits in your pants!! (if that's not profit, i don't know what is!)
instead of having forms, results, data from X amount of different machines? standardized output and accountability might have been a better choice of words.
a robust, fully secure, fully anonymous, standardized (across states, counties, whateveer your contry might have) would be a great step towards a true democracy instead of a, oh damnit my mind went blank and lost the word... a democracy that uses such machinations as an electoral college, as the U.S. uses. I would assume that the electoral college is in place simply because it would have been too hard to count millions of votes by hand. computers can count and sort easily. get rid of the middleman who may or may not (though historically does as the votes say) elect the correct person.
You can go ahead and create a disto based on the packages in RHEL, just remove all the RH copyrighted stuff.
shouldn't this read "RH non-GPL stuff" since even their GPL liscensed stuff would be copyrighted by RH?
I think this news story is really a non-issue for end users who don't do anything except have redhat installed.
The source is open. The packages are free. The distribution is popular.
roll your own update system
That's one reason credit cards are good. Call your credit card company and they will help I'm sure. American Express always seems to do really well in customer complaints in all my and my family's dealings.
exactly. import/export is a great example of similar terms. i think i'll use that with my family whenever they confuse download/upload.
The information resident on the computer, including information regarding the computer and the user's preferences, are downloaded to a remote storage medium through the World Wide Web. Once downloaded...
Technically.. one cannot download files from a local computer to a remote computer. You can upload the files from local->remote. You can download from remote->local. I think their terminology is wrong.