This would be a good example, I was thinking of something kinda similar, what protocol would be suitable for this? I think the advancement of Firefox would be a step in the right direction as well, if general consumer pc's were setup as more of thin clients, and major software moved to browser based applications through Firefox, you might give users access to a music library, process documents, or whatever via this route. Of course this would be for general audiences that read emails and type papers, workstations would still be a must for graphics or whatever else, but this would be a reasonable way. Maybe the service would cost something like $10 a month, unlimited access to music, movies and some apps, this would be genius and make a killing.
This is exactly what I'm talking about though, I myself am in noway an expert or even close, but as a community we need to address these types of issues. I may sound like a pussy or something, but I want to have the position that we are a community moving towards a goal, ending the monopoly that runs most of our lives. It would be better to inform the young minds of proper ways and tecniques of using Linux then to slam them, putting them in their place is one thing, but with the other type of mentality, we drive away the very people that will help us in the future of the software revolution. Another thing, these kids will ultimately move their parents and friends who are less skillfull at using a computer to other platforms, that's why I emphasize the necessity to train them properly, build in security systems that are logical (if I'm speaking nonsense let me know, I'm not an admin!) to "most" and by most I mean your parents and friends who buy dell pc's becuase they come with "the latest windows thing." We are trying to overturn an oppressive movement and resistance through negativity will only come back to byte us in the ass.
It seems to me that most people using any version of Linux will not fall victim to these sorts of things. I would expect something like this to work for the majority of windows users, but as the audience of Linux is mostly tech-savy, I can't see this becoming a problem. The problem is going to be when larger groups of desktop users make the jump to Linux. What can be done to prevent this from happening in the future? What failsafes can be built into Linux to prevent people with less than average pc skills from destroying their systems?
I don't know how much this would help, but I am customizing this software (dotProject) for use as an order acquisition tool (webbased). I found it on http://www.opensourcecms.com/ They have some other stuff on there as well. Good luck.
I remember the Final Fantasy series used to be more interactive and involved more gameplay, but it seems that many game companies doing 3d rpg games at this point have made a shift in the direction of "interactive movies" I know the article is about interactive story telling, but the youth today are for some reason not interested in anything unless it is spoon fed to them. I know this from personal experience, my younger brothers and sister operate along this paradigm. When asked why they don't read something instead of watch TV or video games, their response (as well as their friends) usually reply because its boring. Kids are growing up with no imagination these days and hence we have flourashing markets which deaden their senses in an unprecedented way. How about the next wave of ideas? Interactive life(tm)? It will be this awesome concept where you do stuff in the real world like reading and making things with your hands, maybe as you get older you can encounter some "adult" activities and "interact" with it. Note to people developing dumb concepts: STOP. (J/K about the (tm), it'll be OS!)
Isn't most of the way they pick up what people are downloading done through the blind shot in the dark anyway? This type of action needs some legislation to protect the public, next they'll start hitting Cnet downloads because there is no one paying any sort of attention to what is being downloaded.
Phase 1: Create autopilot search worm that does blind keyword searches on people's pc's
Phase 2:????
Phase 3: Profit!
I know flash has the capability to receive input from webcams, will there be another round of worms/javascript virii that can exploit this? I know how to develop stuff in flash, but these types of net hacking are way beyond me.
The Spoon is too big.
This is simply awesome, I look at some of these peices and they resemble 3d models in the sense of polygon modeling. My hats off to those who can do this, because doing it even in the computer is quite a difficult task.
The company is called CYBERDYNE INC, hello people, it's 2004. Just 25 years till judgement day. If you saw Terminator 3 you know its innevitable also. Lets all move to a bunker!
I was about 12 and we had a 386sx. I had a small computer store around the corner with an incredibly smart pc tech who showed me some things. My friend and I decided we were going to try to overclock the pc by crystal replacement as we had been told by our friendly tech. Sadly we were inexperienced with working with electronics at that point and upon turning the machine on watched in horror as a bright flash emanated from the box. He next moment of horror was when my dad got home to find his pc as a pile of useless silicon and metal.
I've used a webhost called Dreamhost.com for a few websites, due to the problem with processing mail for catch all boxes, they stopped automatically setting up accounts with them. I believe that on their server the mail is just bouced if the recipient is not an available account.
You are obviously a troll. Despite the fact that the "director" may have made decisions different than you would have made, you don't have a clue as to how complex it is to pull off visual effects like the ones in this movie, especially from a small house. I go to see certain movies such as this not with the expectation that they will blow me away, but as an animator, to experience new effects and visuals. Be more open minded and less childish.
It would be great for someone to bring a truck load of Linux distros, maybe even just Knoppix cds and pass them out to the crowd. If someone were to actually do this and maybe setup a paypal donation page I would chip in a few bucks to see that happen.
While html could be a good place to begin, I would make the suggestion of Flash and action scripting. In Flash MX, there are some good tutorials to teach some basic concepts and you could also supplement it with the visual quickstart giude. I've tuaght my younger brother (16) and sister (13) how to use it to make simple games and they love it.
As Maya works on Linux, I beleive that Weta Digital (company responsible for vfx i LOTR etc) uses a massive Linux based render farm. At my school we use 3dsmax 4, but will now be switching to Maya 5 and supposedly running it on Mac hardware. I have put together a proposal for the IT dept for building Linux boxes to run Maya instead for a fraction of the cost of the Mac hardware which they seemed to like, but unfortunately the ignorent upper level execs did not favor a decision to move to Linux regardless of a pretty competent IT staff. They felt that students would not want to adopt a new os and teachers would be unable to solve technical issues on Linux boxes. I think that universities should start making a jump to using Linux based solutions, but realize there is a large gap in the administration because most of the teachers (not all) are not comfortable with a new os.
I have used Maya on Linux Mac and PC and found that it performed equally if not better than Mac and far better than PC, mainly because it was originally authored for IRIX. I look forward to the possibility of using hardware in combination with powerful software to doing complex rendering that usually takes several minutes per frame. Hopefully the onset of this technology will bring more users as well as other publishers (please Adobe please!) to Linux.
I agree, I have tried using different variants of Linux, but for me it's critical to have flash and photoshop. I use 3d Max pretty heavily also, but I'd gladly trade up for Irix/Linux based Maya.
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This would be a good example, I was thinking of something kinda similar, what protocol would be suitable for this? I think the advancement of Firefox would be a step in the right direction as well, if general consumer pc's were setup as more of thin clients, and major software moved to browser based applications through Firefox, you might give users access to a music library, process documents, or whatever via this route. Of course this would be for general audiences that read emails and type papers, workstations would still be a must for graphics or whatever else, but this would be a reasonable way. Maybe the service would cost something like $10 a month, unlimited access to music, movies and some apps, this would be genius and make a killing.
This is exactly what I'm talking about though, I myself am in noway an expert or even close, but as a community we need to address these types of issues. I may sound like a pussy or something, but I want to have the position that we are a community moving towards a goal, ending the monopoly that runs most of our lives. It would be better to inform the young minds of proper ways and tecniques of using Linux then to slam them, putting them in their place is one thing, but with the other type of mentality, we drive away the very people that will help us in the future of the software revolution. Another thing, these kids will ultimately move their parents and friends who are less skillfull at using a computer to other platforms, that's why I emphasize the necessity to train them properly, build in security systems that are logical (if I'm speaking nonsense let me know, I'm not an admin!) to "most" and by most I mean your parents and friends who buy dell pc's becuase they come with "the latest windows thing." We are trying to overturn an oppressive movement and resistance through negativity will only come back to byte us in the ass.
It seems to me that most people using any version of Linux will not fall victim to these sorts of things. I would expect something like this to work for the majority of windows users, but as the audience of Linux is mostly tech-savy, I can't see this becoming a problem. The problem is going to be when larger groups of desktop users make the jump to Linux. What can be done to prevent this from happening in the future? What failsafes can be built into Linux to prevent people with less than average pc skills from destroying their systems?
I don't know how much this would help, but I am customizing this software (dotProject) for use as an order acquisition tool (webbased). I found it on http://www.opensourcecms.com/ They have some other stuff on there as well. Good luck.
I remember the Final Fantasy series used to be more interactive and involved more gameplay, but it seems that many game companies doing 3d rpg games at this point have made a shift in the direction of "interactive movies" I know the article is about interactive story telling, but the youth today are for some reason not interested in anything unless it is spoon fed to them. I know this from personal experience, my younger brothers and sister operate along this paradigm. When asked why they don't read something instead of watch TV or video games, their response (as well as their friends) usually reply because its boring. Kids are growing up with no imagination these days and hence we have flourashing markets which deaden their senses in an unprecedented way. How about the next wave of ideas? Interactive life(tm)? It will be this awesome concept where you do stuff in the real world like reading and making things with your hands, maybe as you get older you can encounter some "adult" activities and "interact" with it. Note to people developing dumb concepts: STOP. (J/K about the (tm), it'll be OS!)
Isn't most of the way they pick up what people are downloading done through the blind shot in the dark anyway? This type of action needs some legislation to protect the public, next they'll start hitting Cnet downloads because there is no one paying any sort of attention to what is being downloaded. Phase 1: Create autopilot search worm that does blind keyword searches on people's pc's Phase 2:???? Phase 3: Profit!
I know flash has the capability to receive input from webcams, will there be another round of worms/javascript virii that can exploit this? I know how to develop stuff in flash, but these types of net hacking are way beyond me. The Spoon is too big.
This is simply awesome, I look at some of these peices and they resemble 3d models in the sense of polygon modeling. My hats off to those who can do this, because doing it even in the computer is quite a difficult task.
The company is called CYBERDYNE INC, hello people, it's 2004. Just 25 years till judgement day. If you saw Terminator 3 you know its innevitable also. Lets all move to a bunker!
I was about 12 and we had a 386sx. I had a small computer store around the corner with an incredibly smart pc tech who showed me some things. My friend and I decided we were going to try to overclock the pc by crystal replacement as we had been told by our friendly tech. Sadly we were inexperienced with working with electronics at that point and upon turning the machine on watched in horror as a bright flash emanated from the box. He next moment of horror was when my dad got home to find his pc as a pile of useless silicon and metal.
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I've used a webhost called Dreamhost.com for a few websites, due to the problem with processing mail for catch all boxes, they stopped automatically setting up accounts with them. I believe that on their server the mail is just bouced if the recipient is not an available account.
Some one is getting the picture, remove the software of shame, attach the software of triumph!
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You are obviously a troll. Despite the fact that the "director" may have made decisions different than you would have made, you don't have a clue as to how complex it is to pull off visual effects like the ones in this movie, especially from a small house. I go to see certain movies such as this not with the expectation that they will blow me away, but as an animator, to experience new effects and visuals. Be more open minded and less childish.
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It would be great for someone to bring a truck load of Linux distros, maybe even just Knoppix cds and pass them out to the crowd. If someone were to actually do this and maybe setup a paypal donation page I would chip in a few bucks to see that happen.
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While html could be a good place to begin, I would make the suggestion of Flash and action scripting. In Flash MX, there are some good tutorials to teach some basic concepts and you could also supplement it with the visual quickstart giude. I've tuaght my younger brother (16) and sister (13) how to use it to make simple games and they love it.
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As Maya works on Linux, I beleive that Weta Digital (company responsible for vfx i LOTR etc) uses a massive Linux based render farm. At my school we use 3dsmax 4, but will now be switching to Maya 5 and supposedly running it on Mac hardware. I have put together a proposal for the IT dept for building Linux boxes to run Maya instead for a fraction of the cost of the Mac hardware which they seemed to like, but unfortunately the ignorent upper level execs did not favor a decision to move to Linux regardless of a pretty competent IT staff. They felt that students would not want to adopt a new os and teachers would be unable to solve technical issues on Linux boxes. I think that universities should start making a jump to using Linux based solutions, but realize there is a large gap in the administration because most of the teachers (not all) are not comfortable with a new os. I have used Maya on Linux Mac and PC and found that it performed equally if not better than Mac and far better than PC, mainly because it was originally authored for IRIX. I look forward to the possibility of using hardware in combination with powerful software to doing complex rendering that usually takes several minutes per frame. Hopefully the onset of this technology will bring more users as well as other publishers (please Adobe please!) to Linux.
I agree, I have tried using different variants of Linux, but for me it's critical to have flash and photoshop. I use 3d Max pretty heavily also, but I'd gladly trade up for Irix/Linux based Maya.
I do some of my best manual reading while dominating the throne, its somehow relaxing and contemplative. :)