If you do use the Personal Learning edition, know that you probably won't get to port your projects over to the real thing. Projects made with PLE from what I've heard, do not open in Maya full version. You can pay alias to convert it for you.
Blender is awesome... it may not do everything, but neither does maya. Blender's interface is better than Maya, and it's control over the 3D environment is better too.. middle mouse button drag swivels the 3D axis.
Also, pro animation houses, modify maya using it's scripting language to improve the interface.
This is just a horrid misuse of funds. Bush wants to close military bases distributed around the US that might be a real source of security if say an aircraft were to be commadeered by a terrorist.. but getting that national ID which can be hotswapped out with a person who looks like you, is really safe.
We knew who the terrorists were who hijacked the planes... did it make any difference?
What's unfortunate here is that Forbe's magazine is read by thousands of executives and this propaganda is going to probably affect some people, and worse, some decisions that are made.
What'll the neighbors think?
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If you own a house an somebody does this in your neighborhood, I'd think you'd have an opinion about it. Life in the suburbs kinda sucks, but at the same time it makes sense. Your house is your property and it's affected by surrounding properties. "Hi, prospective home buyer, let me show you the garden..Oh don't mind the neighbor with the billboard in his front yard advertising his church. Oh and across the street is my neighbor Phil. he decided to pave his entire front yard so he could park his two RVs and his boat all year. Gotta love this place!"
that kinda crap doesn't wash. Life is supposed to look normal, well trimmed, green and conforming. If for some reason what they believed was true, if they can't stand their rights being trampled on, they can put sheet metal on the inside of the house, between the brick and insulation.
Most of the time this kind of transgression starts with several written and in person warnings, notices and then you're slapped with the misdemeanor or fine.
As if the FBI isn't monitoring it already anyway. They are not responsible for non-patrons stealing a library card, or finding a lost one and using it. What was the reason for the millions spent on this system? One incident when a 8th grader stole a teachers library card and tried to access porn? The library is already implementing obscenity filters. If anything, you shouldn't require a card to use the computer. It's just as easy to get a card.
I'm about as stirred as I can get today. Missouri just implemented new strip club laws.
Why do I care who's flying if they've done an intense search of people. Years ago, that's how things were. People get on buses all the time with anonymous riders. Elevators too. Why is a plane much different? You can die anywhere. I bet you'll really like national ID's when some slick teenager with a transmittor follows your daughter home by swiping her personal Info.
Great idea!
--The best security is obscurity.
Is this all you need for a design patent, a couple empty white line drawings? Geez, that looks like my wife's cookie sheet. If you're going to patent a design, don't you need some kind of mockup, or at least a 3D model. I could model that thing in about 10 minutes for a design patent.
Asperger's syndrome (AS), is a pervasive developmental disorder commonly referred to as a form of "high-functioning" autism. The term "Asperger's syndrome" was coined by Lorna Wing in a 1981 medical paper; she named it after Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist and pediatrician whose work was not internationally recognized until the 1990s.
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interesting.. well not really but still
One thing that's important here, whether it's private land or not, is that if your fat ass is going hunting, that means your fat ass tracks, aims, kills, and then carries and eats the remains, not letting it rot in the woods, or risking some 15 year old farm hand to scoop it up, skin it and mail it to you. I'm sorry, but my family who are hunters have always told me that if you kill it, you skin it, and you eat it. Can't agree more.
This is just like when the white man used to shoot the buffalo from the railroad cars for sport and leave them for dead.
Also, regarding deer populations, I think we all should make sure we have accurate information. I've read several conflicting statistics on whether hunting them actually makes a positive difference on deer or overall populations.
What are people saying that the disabled hunters rights are at stake? Can American's accept 'no' for an answer or do they feel entitled to everything? You know, sometimes you just can't do something anymore after an accident. Sometimes you have to accept that you don't have the money, the time, the limbs for something, and let the attachment go. Geez, no wonder we're all in debt, lazy and fat.
Actually I know the developer of Wink Satish and he didn't have anything to do with this.. He is happy if you use and like his software, but doesn't go around bragging about it. In fact he encouraged you to donate to the Tsunami relief fund if you want to donate for the software. The person who created this faux award is a fan zealot for wink - who probably got over-excited when he discovered that it meets a lot of his needs and it's free.
Good point, but considering the nightmares of OS9, and the flexibility people want with changing icons, it's nice to be somewhat certain which application is going to open the file you're clicking on. Plus you can have the same name file with different extensions and the the extension IS the label. Icons at a small size sometimes tell the story, sometimes not. For me, the extension tells the story and I can search by wildcard *.extension
It's pretty sad when you have to license a goddamn tiger name to somebody when a company is bitching about search results. I think there is enough prior art running around africa and south america is enough to call this complaint off.
as far as I'm concerned, this fake award has as much weight to it as any other award given by a foundation, hollywood, or some other society. I think it's a cool idea. Somebody decided to recognize the achievements of someone else and tried to spread it like wildfire. I'm not sure how many are in the academy whom vote for the academy awards, but I'd bet many people would vote for Wink when given the chance to see it. It really is excellent software.
In the area of tutorials, Wink is like Firefox and Openoffice are to their respective categories. those programs have gotten plenty of awards and recognition. Wink and Satish should too. it's more of a niche program, but so is the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox, but we'd award that one in a second wouldn't we?
I'm not sure what happened, but there was this open source program called camstudio, which was a decent windows screen apturing program. It was open source, then just disappeared. After some time, all the sourcecode mirrors links starting linking back to the original site, which then started jumping to RoboDemo. Then Macromedia bought Robodemo. Now Adobe is buying Macromedia. who knows where it is now, but it was a really cool little utility.
I'd love to have it right now. It was like Camtasia studio. It must have got bought, and now, good luck finding it.
I'm constantly breaking social contracts. When I see advertisements, I don't believe them.. I have a pre-disbelief of marketing hype and a strong BS meter. I also encourage others to think critically.
So by doing that I've violated a social contract by assuming untruths by the advertisers who care so much about my attention and gullibility.
He wasn't dissing going to college, and he certainly wasn't bragging about things he had done. As most interviews happen, this website contacted HIM and ASKED HIM about himself. So he's not bragging at all about how talented he is, nothing of the sort.
He's devoted thousands of hours trying to make the exchange of information more free.
My good friend chose not to go to college and has spent time working at a bike shop and watching every single movie he can, studying them, learning how the stories are told. Many people think that a lack of college degree is a wasted life. Actually if you have something you feel passionate about, and you do it well, it doesn't matter if you've had 3 years of schooling. Ever hear of Thomas Edison?
College was a good time, and thought provoking, but you can equal and surpass the value of college with a free library card, self-discipline, a DSL line, some good friends, and perhaps volunteering with a few organizations, or joining the toastmasters.
interesting point, however, having a magazine, you CAN fast forward through ads, you can also rip the magazine of all of its ads and give it to somebody else so they can read it without ads. So you have that control there, that the DVD does not allow.
If you were to try to scratch the DVD in spots you were certain the commercials were etched into, you'd kill the DVD all together.
Well Said, and if you go to any drivers class they will tell you that driving is a privilege not a right. You do not have the right to operate a vehicle that can harm others. you earn the privilege by gaining the knowledge, practice and paying the money to do so.
that privilege can be taken away. nobody should be telling us that it's a privilege to play a DVD in our own home the way we want to.
Unless RFID monitors bodily functions from the inside, I can't possibly see the advantage from this that he couldn't just have by wearing a tag on his ring finger. Or if he's not married, on the opposite side.
If he wants to never take it off, then never take it off. Implanting it, would only be good for animals or if you couldn't take it out.
A friend of mine is a business lawyer and he needed some way to easily create a PDF. I set him up with primoPDF. http://www.primopdf.com. It's a derivative of Ghostscript and even though it looks like a commercial site, the software is LGPL.
So when he wants to make a PDF of some papers, he'll use it.
I won't release his name, but hope that information helps a little.
I forgot to mention the OpenOffice.org has been creating PDFs for a few years now. The new 2.0 beta has a lot more options for image compression and a bit better MSWord import too, so your table formatting is more likely to look good upon import.
exports right to PDF. Of course you always have to worry that one day OpenOffice.org just might not be there anymore. Cause you know that "open source" software isn't reliable, stable, or in the end secure. right.
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If you do use the Personal Learning edition, know that you probably won't get to port your projects over to the real thing. Projects made with PLE from what I've heard, do not open in Maya full version. You can pay alias to convert it for you.
Blender is awesome... it may not do everything, but neither does maya. Blender's interface is better than Maya, and it's control over the 3D environment is better too.. middle mouse button drag swivels the 3D axis.
Also, pro animation houses, modify maya using it's scripting language to improve the interface.
This is just a horrid misuse of funds. Bush wants to close military bases distributed around the US that might be a real source of security if say an aircraft were to be commadeered by a terrorist.. but getting that national ID which can be hotswapped out with a person who looks like you, is really safe.
We knew who the terrorists were who hijacked the planes... did it make any difference?
What's unfortunate here is that Forbe's magazine is read by thousands of executives and this propaganda is going to probably affect some people, and worse, some decisions that are made.
If you own a house an somebody does this in your neighborhood, I'd think you'd have an opinion about it. Life in the suburbs kinda sucks, but at the same time it makes sense. Your house is your property and it's affected by surrounding properties. "Hi, prospective home buyer, let me show you the garden..Oh don't mind the neighbor with the billboard in his front yard advertising his church. Oh and across the street is my neighbor Phil. he decided to pave his entire front yard so he could park his two RVs and his boat all year. Gotta love this place!"
that kinda crap doesn't wash. Life is supposed to look normal, well trimmed, green and conforming. If for some reason what they believed was true, if they can't stand their rights being trampled on, they can put sheet metal on the inside of the house, between the brick and insulation.
Most of the time this kind of transgression starts with several written and in person warnings, notices and then you're slapped with the misdemeanor or fine.
As if the FBI isn't monitoring it already anyway. They are not responsible for non-patrons stealing a library card, or finding a lost one and using it. What was the reason for the millions spent on this system? One incident when a 8th grader stole a teachers library card and tried to access porn? The library is already implementing obscenity filters. If anything, you shouldn't require a card to use the computer. It's just as easy to get a card.
I'm about as stirred as I can get today. Missouri just implemented new strip club laws.
Why do I care who's flying if they've done an intense search of people. Years ago, that's how things were. People get on buses all the time with anonymous riders. Elevators too. Why is a plane much different? You can die anywhere. I bet you'll really like national ID's when some slick teenager with a transmittor follows your daughter home by swiping her personal Info. Great idea! --The best security is obscurity.
Is this all you need for a design patent, a couple empty white line drawings? Geez, that looks like my wife's cookie sheet. If you're going to patent a design, don't you need some kind of mockup, or at least a 3D model. I could model that thing in about 10 minutes for a design patent.
Asperger's syndrome (AS), is a pervasive developmental disorder commonly referred to as a form of "high-functioning" autism. The term "Asperger's syndrome" was coined by Lorna Wing in a 1981 medical paper; she named it after Hans Asperger, an Austrian psychiatrist and pediatrician whose work was not internationally recognized until the 1990s. -------------- interesting.. well not really but still
Yes the IN thing now is to use a wild name name so when Apple eventually uses it, you sue them for killing your search engine rankings.
One thing that's important here, whether it's private land or not, is that if your fat ass is going hunting, that means your fat ass tracks, aims, kills, and then carries and eats the remains, not letting it rot in the woods, or risking some 15 year old farm hand to scoop it up, skin it and mail it to you. I'm sorry, but my family who are hunters have always told me that if you kill it, you skin it, and you eat it. Can't agree more.
This is just like when the white man used to shoot the buffalo from the railroad cars for sport and leave them for dead.
Also, regarding deer populations, I think we all should make sure we have accurate information. I've read several conflicting statistics on whether hunting them actually makes a positive difference on deer or overall populations.
What are people saying that the disabled hunters rights are at stake? Can American's accept 'no' for an answer or do they feel entitled to everything? You know, sometimes you just can't do something anymore after an accident. Sometimes you have to accept that you don't have the money, the time, the limbs for something, and let the attachment go. Geez, no wonder we're all in debt, lazy and fat.
Actually I know the developer of Wink Satish and he didn't have anything to do with this.. He is happy if you use and like his software, but doesn't go around bragging about it. In fact he encouraged you to donate to the Tsunami relief fund if you want to donate for the software. The person who created this faux award is a fan zealot for wink - who probably got over-excited when he discovered that it meets a lot of his needs and it's free.
Good point, but considering the nightmares of OS9, and the flexibility people want with changing icons, it's nice to be somewhat certain which application is going to open the file you're clicking on. Plus you can have the same name file with different extensions and the the extension IS the label. Icons at a small size sometimes tell the story, sometimes not. For me, the extension tells the story and I can search by wildcard *.extension
It's pretty sad when you have to license a goddamn tiger name to somebody when a company is bitching about search results. I think there is enough prior art running around africa and south america is enough to call this complaint off.
as far as I'm concerned, this fake award has as much weight to it as any other award given by a foundation, hollywood, or some other society. I think it's a cool idea. Somebody decided to recognize the achievements of someone else and tried to spread it like wildfire. I'm not sure how many are in the academy whom vote for the academy awards, but I'd bet many people would vote for Wink when given the chance to see it. It really is excellent software.
In the area of tutorials, Wink is like Firefox and Openoffice are to their respective categories. those programs have gotten plenty of awards and recognition. Wink and Satish should too. it's more of a niche program, but so is the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox, but we'd award that one in a second wouldn't we?
I'm not sure what happened, but there was this open source program called camstudio, which was a decent windows screen apturing program. It was open source, then just disappeared. After some time, all the sourcecode mirrors links starting linking back to the original site, which then started jumping to RoboDemo. Then Macromedia bought Robodemo. Now Adobe is buying Macromedia. who knows where it is now, but it was a really cool little utility.
I'd love to have it right now. It was like Camtasia studio. It must have got bought, and now, good luck finding it.
I'm constantly breaking social contracts. When I see advertisements, I don't believe them.. I have a pre-disbelief of marketing hype and a strong BS meter. I also encourage others to think critically.
So by doing that I've violated a social contract by assuming untruths by the advertisers who care so much about my attention and gullibility.
He wasn't dissing going to college, and he certainly wasn't bragging about things he had done. As most interviews happen, this website contacted HIM and ASKED HIM about himself. So he's not bragging at all about how talented he is, nothing of the sort.
He's devoted thousands of hours trying to make the exchange of information more free.
My good friend chose not to go to college and has spent time working at a bike shop and watching every single movie he can, studying them, learning how the stories are told. Many people think that a lack of college degree is a wasted life. Actually if you have something you feel passionate about, and you do it well, it doesn't matter if you've had 3 years of schooling. Ever hear of Thomas Edison?
College was a good time, and thought provoking, but you can equal and surpass the value of college with a free library card, self-discipline, a DSL line, some good friends, and perhaps volunteering with a few organizations, or joining the toastmasters.
interesting point, however, having a magazine, you CAN fast forward through ads, you can also rip the magazine of all of its ads and give it to somebody else so they can read it without ads. So you have that control there, that the DVD does not allow.
If you were to try to scratch the DVD in spots you were certain the commercials were etched into, you'd kill the DVD all together.
Well Said, and if you go to any drivers class they will tell you that driving is a privilege not a right. You do not have the right to operate a vehicle that can harm others. you earn the privilege by gaining the knowledge, practice and paying the money to do so. that privilege can be taken away. nobody should be telling us that it's a privilege to play a DVD in our own home the way we want to.
If you have a PDF, why are you taking a picture of it for negative? PDF - DTP. Direct to Plate. You're going even further back.
If you want to be a fashionable hacker, get a mac and brag to friends about how you can slow down expose' animations by holding down the shift key.
Unless RFID monitors bodily functions from the inside, I can't possibly see the advantage from this that he couldn't just have by wearing a tag on his ring finger. Or if he's not married, on the opposite side. If he wants to never take it off, then never take it off. Implanting it, would only be good for animals or if you couldn't take it out.
A friend of mine is a business lawyer and he needed some way to easily create a PDF. I set him up with primoPDF. http://www.primopdf.com. It's a derivative of Ghostscript and even though it looks like a commercial site, the software is LGPL.
So when he wants to make a PDF of some papers, he'll use it.
I won't release his name, but hope that information helps a little.
This software is similar to my previous post:
a sp
another free replacement for your toolbar.
http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.
I forgot to mention the OpenOffice.org has been creating PDFs for a few years now. The new 2.0 beta has a lot more options for image compression and a bit better MSWord import too, so your table formatting is more likely to look good upon import.
exports right to PDF. Of course you always have to worry that one day OpenOffice.org just might not be there anymore. Cause you know that "open source" software isn't reliable, stable, or in the end secure. right.