I dunno what it uses, but I get over 40 e-mails a day usually (about 5-10 are *real* mail, the rest is intriguing offers from diverse companies offering ways for me to extend my growth? or buy 'erbs').
Of them 40 mails, Mail.app get's all the spam, and leaves all my mail alone. Never had a false positive, and after the first week or so, no false negatives either. So why don't everyone use Mail.app? Of course it would mean switching to the worlds best OS, and the worlds nicest computers, but I see no bad side here.
Mind you, I do own some stock in a certain computer company with a propensity for fruit.......:)
If I were Rob Glaser (CEO RealNetworks), I'd be getting very very nervous. His Steveness doesn't like to be irritated in this way, and He may decide top have Rob executed. For those not in the know, do a search on google of "jobism's". His Steveness is a little bit unhinged, and soethng like this could well result in a team of mac zealot ninja types with little translucent blue apples on their black ninja suits visiting Mr Glaser with a message from the Boss.
I tried Blender bout a year ago. I found it very unintuitive, and I've used most of the 3d apps out there. I eventualy settled on Lightwave, being it one of the industry standards. 3DS Max, for all it's populariy is pretty poor in comparison, being mostly used fo games where low poly count is more important than realism. It seems most of the big films requiring cgi are either done on in-house stuff, or Maya or Lightwave. I tried Maya but my hardware doesn't like it. When I upgrade to an e-mac (hopefully) I will give both Maya and Blender a go, since people are saying there's some very tasty work coming from it.
I really can't believe the ethics of the pharmaceutical compnaies out there. They patent drugs as if they own them. Wrong. They might have developed a method of production which they *may* be able to say was a wholly new idea (doubtful). However, even if the chemical did not exist in nature, who can you patent a chemical. How can you claim that matter is yours. Unless you sat down and created each and every particle, making up new elemants and then chemicals, it isn't yours. Neither are bacteria you engineered to make chemicals for you. These mega-corparations the USA is spawning are getting frightening. Surely your government is supposed to do something about it. I mean I know you've got one of the most corrupt systems on earth, with pretty much every major elected politican on someones pay roll (forgive me, recieving campaign contributions from), but surely someone is gett ing spooked by this in the upper echelons of the US Govt.
that would probably be too much to ask for, wouldn't it?
Main point here:
All you need for decent VoIP wireless is a decent ISP, airport capable machine, a decent computer, and a decent Operating System running on said computer.
His failure was probably using windows and having a shitty ISP. Next time, buy mac!
[sarcasm]
To be fair though, Maya is a totally crap application. Lightwave (which I just happen to use) is very very intuitive, easy to use etc. Anyone who can't see that is stupid.
[/sarcasm]
Though lightwave is a little better at modelling.
OK, it's nice that blender has a game engine again, which is something I feel is lacking in Lightwave 7.5 (i know game sdk exists, but it would be nice if it was a little more intergrated). However, the point is, what is Blender trying to be? An open source alternative to the big hollywood rendering soloutions, capable of doing boradcast level animation and compositing? Or is it trying to be an open source alternative to 3d Studio Max, a sorta half-game, half-studio, totally lame program that does neither modelling nor rendering very well? If you look into a lot of production games, modelling these days is done increasingly in Maya or Lightwave. Not 3ds max. Surely basing it's development model a little on max is a road to distaster? At the end of the day, Mx is neither fish nor fowl, nor good red herring. It doesn't really do anything very well. For games development, it's fairly good, but rendering in it is horrible, and modelling in it's a joke. I sincerely hope that Blender, which as someone rightfully said is one of the gems of the OSS world, does not follow Max down that road now it's got it's game engine back.
Have you heard of the Gyach Enhanced client? The guy developing won't take help, and is a total mong, but he's managed to get webcam support for Yahoo in it. Certainly recieving anyway. Don't know about transmit, since my webcam no worky worky in linux. He also claimed to have voice, although he seemed to be using some really shitty python based audio driver that I never heard of and won't compile properly, and he said he on't go to ALSA because he likes this udio plugin. But nonetheless, it's not too shabby as a first attemp, and best of all it's GPL, so you can take some of the code as a framework to move on from. Gyach-Enanched is on sourcefourge; do a google as it's on a sub-project page for some paint program the mong is writing. Goog luck, e-mail me if yo think I can help (I can't program at all though) at wizard_drongo@yahoo.co.uk
Whilst this will probably get me goodness knows how many negative karma hits from the english people here, here's some little fact's about how the english government (if it's based in england, speaks english, is composed of over 75 english people, and spends 80% of 'its' money in england, it's an english government) treats the welsh and scots, not even going onto the irish, in recent centuries, using the powers it already has to abuse and attempt to destroy the native culture of the british isles.
No1) Language
Until 1967, welsh, the language of Wales, one of the oldest spoken languages in europe, had no official standing in Wales, where a majority of the population spoke it. In 1967, the Welsh Language Act guaranteed the right of welsh people to be arrested in welsh, go to school and learn welsh without being physically attacked for it (i'll get on to that in a second) and obtain official forms in Welsh. It went nowhere near far enough to outdo centuries of brutal oppression from our germanic overlords. Before this point, in welsh schools, children caught speaking welsh would be beaten, with a "Welsh Knot", a large lump of wood used to subdue our people into not speaking our language. In 1993, a new Welsh Language Act was finally introduced that gave some marginal concessions to welsh as a real language. It is still only spoken by 528,000 people (about 25% of the population) compared to the almost 100% populairty the language enjoyed not 100 years ago. In scotland, the situation is even worse, scots gaelic being illegal for a great deal of time (i believe punishment was death, although it may just have been inprisonment). Scot's dialect (another form of the english language, dating back to at least the 1500's) is not recognised, nay even heard of by most english people. It is still spoken by most scots, even though schools teach english, not scots.
2) Nationality,
Attrocities have been committed gainst the welsh, and to a lesser degree, the scots, in recent decades. These tales are not the tales of woe of centuries past, but tales of things that occurred in my lifetime (and I'm not that old). In north Wales, there was once a village called Tryweryn. Lovely place, from all accounts, although I've never been there. Very rural community, peoples livelyhoods mostly being farming and farming related industry. Across the border, in england is a dilapidated shit hole city called Liverpool. In the 60's, they were having a water problem, not having enough of their own, having polluted all the local supplies. So, they decided to flood Tryweryn (village and farms entire) and create a large resevoir for english water. For some reason, the other 12 sites, 9 of whom were in england, 8 of which were unpopulated, did not seem suitable (despite Tryweryn being the second smalled site, offering quite a small water storage ability). The local MP's did not want it to go ahead. The locals DEFINATELY did not want it to go ahead. Liverpool did. THe goverment in London decided, screw the welsh, let's flood Tryweryn. Several terrorist attacks later, they still flooded the valley, and sent most of the inhabitant's to Liverpool, to live in tower flats (for americans, really bad, cheap, nasty high-rise appartments filled with drug dealers), their livelyhoods destroyed, their lands stolen, and their 'conpensation' an estimated 1/10th that of the value of the land taken. This sad story is repeated in several other places accross Wales, and Scotland. Funnily enough, all that lovely welsh water (being some of the purest and unpolluted in the world) get's pumped to england and sold to the english, and all profits go to the english. Also funnily enough, when welsh areas start lacking water (not a lot of welsh resvoirs IN wales), they have to pay the english water companies for the water, some of which almost certainly came from welsh resevoirs. More nationality crisis' abate, with (not a lot of americans will get this, but bear with me) the common british/english thing. If something amazing/great/brilliant acheivement etc, happe
One thing I would like to see would be voice chat for Yahoo chat. Currently there doesn't seemt o be a single yahoo compatible voice chat client out there for linux. I heard rumours of Gyach Enhanced, but it turns out to be written in some really obscure audio plugin that just doesn't work. Yahoo webcams did work though (although I don't know if transmit works, since my Intel webcam doesn't work with linux yet). Mybe the guys and gals working on this should look into that guys source code for how he got it working, then improve from there.
Which for some reason, most american's, particulaly in regard to maths, fail to grasp. Mathematics is a plural word. If you abbreviate a pluralised word, it becomes a plural abbreviation. In other words, it isn't math (which just so happens to be a very old welsh name, and also, by dint of fate, my name), it is maths. As seen in many, many textbooks, like "Maths For A-Level And Above" Why Americans seem to get this wrong, I have no idea, unless when the war of independance was on, all the english people in the usa sat down and said "Hmmm, we have to make ourselves look different. Tricky. We look the same, we act the same....I know, we'll stop sounding the same. Let's bastardise the language a bit. Add a few z's here, and lose a few u's there, and we'll be sounding different in no time. We can even start mispronouncing words like tomato, and say Zee instead of Zed. Perfect." And "American" English was born.
I live in Scotland (although I'm actually welsh).
A while back I heard of a curious lawsuit.
A certain fast-food joint (they're not a restaurant) tried to have a high-court injunction on a Mr John Mcdonald exercising his buisness in the highlands (I forget where)...
He is a (fairly) succesfull mechanic, owner of McDonald's Garage.
The aforementioned junk-food chain tried to say that Mr McDonald was infringing 'their' trademark of his name. The court eventually threw out the issue, ordering them to pay full costs to Mr Mcdonald, after it was revealed that whilst Mr Mcdonald can trace his 'right' to his name back though lineage to the mid 1300's (where the clan records stop), the fjunk food chain
a) was a foreign company.
b) wasn't authorised by the Clan Chief of the McDonald clan to use the name, and
c) wasn't even founded, owned or ran by a McDonald........
It was also mentioned by the judge that should he see any other similar cases by them in the high court, he would advise the judge in such a case to suspend preceedings, and he would re-open this case, and order the company to pay all undue infractions costs to Mr McDonald and the Clan Chief of the McDonalds, and relinquish the name throughout the UK. He added he was reluctant to do this due to economic considerations, but would do so if the company did not cease in "frivolous and arrogant suits".
Pity you don't have our judges out in the states.......I'd imagine with the kind of arrogance that Micro---t displays, Bill Gates would be paying Steve Jobs one hell of a lot of money for stealing their ideas...
Not to mention the hundreds, if not thousands of companies he's forced out of buisness due to unfair buisness practice.
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I dunno what it uses, but I get over 40 e-mails a day usually (about 5-10 are *real* mail, the rest is intriguing offers from diverse companies offering ways for me to extend my growth? or buy 'erbs'). Of them 40 mails, Mail.app get's all the spam, and leaves all my mail alone. Never had a false positive, and after the first week or so, no false negatives either. So why don't everyone use Mail.app? Of course it would mean switching to the worlds best OS, and the worlds nicest computers, but I see no bad side here. Mind you, I do own some stock in a certain computer company with a propensity for fruit....... :)
If I were Rob Glaser (CEO RealNetworks), I'd be getting very very nervous. His Steveness doesn't like to be irritated in this way, and He may decide top have Rob executed. For those not in the know, do a search on google of "jobism's". His Steveness is a little bit unhinged, and soethng like this could well result in a team of mac zealot ninja types with little translucent blue apples on their black ninja suits visiting Mr Glaser with a message from the Boss.
I tried Blender bout a year ago. I found it very unintuitive, and I've used most of the 3d apps out there. I eventualy settled on Lightwave, being it one of the industry standards. 3DS Max, for all it's populariy is pretty poor in comparison, being mostly used fo games where low poly count is more important than realism. It seems most of the big films requiring cgi are either done on in-house stuff, or Maya or Lightwave. I tried Maya but my hardware doesn't like it. When I upgrade to an e-mac (hopefully) I will give both Maya and Blender a go, since people are saying there's some very tasty work coming from it.
I really can't believe the ethics of the pharmaceutical compnaies out there. They patent drugs as if they own them. Wrong. They might have developed a method of production which they *may* be able to say was a wholly new idea (doubtful). However, even if the chemical did not exist in nature, who can you patent a chemical. How can you claim that matter is yours. Unless you sat down and created each and every particle, making up new elemants and then chemicals, it isn't yours. Neither are bacteria you engineered to make chemicals for you. These mega-corparations the USA is spawning are getting frightening. Surely your government is supposed to do something about it. I mean I know you've got one of the most corrupt systems on earth, with pretty much every major elected politican on someones pay roll (forgive me, recieving campaign contributions from), but surely someone is gett ing spooked by this in the upper echelons of the US Govt. that would probably be too much to ask for, wouldn't it?
Main point here: All you need for decent VoIP wireless is a decent ISP, airport capable machine, a decent computer, and a decent Operating System running on said computer. His failure was probably using windows and having a shitty ISP. Next time, buy mac!
Nah..
In Soviet Russia, the tunnels investigate you!
[sarcasm] To be fair though, Maya is a totally crap application. Lightwave (which I just happen to use) is very very intuitive, easy to use etc. Anyone who can't see that is stupid. [/sarcasm] Though lightwave is a little better at modelling.
OK, it's nice that blender has a game engine again, which is something I feel is lacking in Lightwave 7.5 (i know game sdk exists, but it would be nice if it was a little more intergrated). However, the point is, what is Blender trying to be? An open source alternative to the big hollywood rendering soloutions, capable of doing boradcast level animation and compositing? Or is it trying to be an open source alternative to 3d Studio Max, a sorta half-game, half-studio, totally lame program that does neither modelling nor rendering very well? If you look into a lot of production games, modelling these days is done increasingly in Maya or Lightwave. Not 3ds max. Surely basing it's development model a little on max is a road to distaster? At the end of the day, Mx is neither fish nor fowl, nor good red herring. It doesn't really do anything very well. For games development, it's fairly good, but rendering in it is horrible, and modelling in it's a joke. I sincerely hope that Blender, which as someone rightfully said is one of the gems of the OSS world, does not follow Max down that road now it's got it's game engine back.
Have you heard of the Gyach Enhanced client? The guy developing won't take help, and is a total mong, but he's managed to get webcam support for Yahoo in it. Certainly recieving anyway. Don't know about transmit, since my webcam no worky worky in linux. He also claimed to have voice, although he seemed to be using some really shitty python based audio driver that I never heard of and won't compile properly, and he said he on't go to ALSA because he likes this udio plugin. But nonetheless, it's not too shabby as a first attemp, and best of all it's GPL, so you can take some of the code as a framework to move on from. Gyach-Enanched is on sourcefourge; do a google as it's on a sub-project page for some paint program the mong is writing. Goog luck, e-mail me if yo think I can help (I can't program at all though) at wizard_drongo@yahoo.co.uk
Whilst this will probably get me goodness knows how many negative karma hits from the english people here, here's some little fact's about how the english government (if it's based in england, speaks english, is composed of over 75 english people, and spends 80% of 'its' money in england, it's an english government) treats the welsh and scots, not even going onto the irish, in recent centuries, using the powers it already has to abuse and attempt to destroy the native culture of the british isles. No1) Language Until 1967, welsh, the language of Wales, one of the oldest spoken languages in europe, had no official standing in Wales, where a majority of the population spoke it. In 1967, the Welsh Language Act guaranteed the right of welsh people to be arrested in welsh, go to school and learn welsh without being physically attacked for it (i'll get on to that in a second) and obtain official forms in Welsh. It went nowhere near far enough to outdo centuries of brutal oppression from our germanic overlords. Before this point, in welsh schools, children caught speaking welsh would be beaten, with a "Welsh Knot", a large lump of wood used to subdue our people into not speaking our language. In 1993, a new Welsh Language Act was finally introduced that gave some marginal concessions to welsh as a real language. It is still only spoken by 528,000 people (about 25% of the population) compared to the almost 100% populairty the language enjoyed not 100 years ago. In scotland, the situation is even worse, scots gaelic being illegal for a great deal of time (i believe punishment was death, although it may just have been inprisonment). Scot's dialect (another form of the english language, dating back to at least the 1500's) is not recognised, nay even heard of by most english people. It is still spoken by most scots, even though schools teach english, not scots. 2) Nationality, Attrocities have been committed gainst the welsh, and to a lesser degree, the scots, in recent decades. These tales are not the tales of woe of centuries past, but tales of things that occurred in my lifetime (and I'm not that old). In north Wales, there was once a village called Tryweryn. Lovely place, from all accounts, although I've never been there. Very rural community, peoples livelyhoods mostly being farming and farming related industry. Across the border, in england is a dilapidated shit hole city called Liverpool. In the 60's, they were having a water problem, not having enough of their own, having polluted all the local supplies. So, they decided to flood Tryweryn (village and farms entire) and create a large resevoir for english water. For some reason, the other 12 sites, 9 of whom were in england, 8 of which were unpopulated, did not seem suitable (despite Tryweryn being the second smalled site, offering quite a small water storage ability). The local MP's did not want it to go ahead. The locals DEFINATELY did not want it to go ahead. Liverpool did. THe goverment in London decided, screw the welsh, let's flood Tryweryn. Several terrorist attacks later, they still flooded the valley, and sent most of the inhabitant's to Liverpool, to live in tower flats (for americans, really bad, cheap, nasty high-rise appartments filled with drug dealers), their livelyhoods destroyed, their lands stolen, and their 'conpensation' an estimated 1/10th that of the value of the land taken. This sad story is repeated in several other places accross Wales, and Scotland. Funnily enough, all that lovely welsh water (being some of the purest and unpolluted in the world) get's pumped to england and sold to the english, and all profits go to the english. Also funnily enough, when welsh areas start lacking water (not a lot of welsh resvoirs IN wales), they have to pay the english water companies for the water, some of which almost certainly came from welsh resevoirs. More nationality crisis' abate, with (not a lot of americans will get this, but bear with me) the common british/english thing. If something amazing/great/brilliant acheivement etc, happe
One thing I would like to see would be voice chat for Yahoo chat. Currently there doesn't seemt o be a single yahoo compatible voice chat client out there for linux. I heard rumours of Gyach Enhanced, but it turns out to be written in some really obscure audio plugin that just doesn't work. Yahoo webcams did work though (although I don't know if transmit works, since my Intel webcam doesn't work with linux yet). Mybe the guys and gals working on this should look into that guys source code for how he got it working, then improve from there.
Which for some reason, most american's, particulaly in regard to maths, fail to grasp. Mathematics is a plural word. If you abbreviate a pluralised word, it becomes a plural abbreviation.
In other words, it isn't math (which just so happens to be a very old welsh name, and also, by dint of fate, my name), it is maths. As seen in many, many textbooks, like "Maths For A-Level And Above"
Why Americans seem to get this wrong, I have no idea, unless when the war of independance was on, all the english people in the usa sat down and said "Hmmm, we have to make ourselves look different. Tricky. We look the same, we act the same....I know, we'll stop sounding the same. Let's bastardise the language a bit. Add a few z's here, and lose a few u's there, and we'll be sounding different in no time. We can even start mispronouncing words like tomato, and say Zee instead of Zed. Perfect."
And "American" English was born.
I live in Scotland (although I'm actually welsh). A while back I heard of a curious lawsuit. A certain fast-food joint (they're not a restaurant) tried to have a high-court injunction on a Mr John Mcdonald exercising his buisness in the highlands (I forget where)... He is a (fairly) succesfull mechanic, owner of McDonald's Garage. The aforementioned junk-food chain tried to say that Mr McDonald was infringing 'their' trademark of his name. The court eventually threw out the issue, ordering them to pay full costs to Mr Mcdonald, after it was revealed that whilst Mr Mcdonald can trace his 'right' to his name back though lineage to the mid 1300's (where the clan records stop), the fjunk food chain a) was a foreign company. b) wasn't authorised by the Clan Chief of the McDonald clan to use the name, and c) wasn't even founded, owned or ran by a McDonald........ It was also mentioned by the judge that should he see any other similar cases by them in the high court, he would advise the judge in such a case to suspend preceedings, and he would re-open this case, and order the company to pay all undue infractions costs to Mr McDonald and the Clan Chief of the McDonalds, and relinquish the name throughout the UK. He added he was reluctant to do this due to economic considerations, but would do so if the company did not cease in "frivolous and arrogant suits". Pity you don't have our judges out in the states.......I'd imagine with the kind of arrogance that Micro---t displays, Bill Gates would be paying Steve Jobs one hell of a lot of money for stealing their ideas... Not to mention the hundreds, if not thousands of companies he's forced out of buisness due to unfair buisness practice.