I want to know if it has or can be upgraded to have a Wacom digitizer. Fingerpainting is fine, and reading books with your fingers has an intuitiveness to it, but I've been waiting ages for a nice thin pen-enabled tablet.
Yes it will. By going via a VPN or proxy, the IP address they collect on the other side will not be your own but that of the remote agent through which you're doing the dastardly deed.
So long as that agent keeps no usable logs or traceable info, there really isn't anything they can do.
Nonsense. There was a tool years ago called "WOWMapView" which allowed you to, completely offline, fly through the map without any clipping. It was an awesome way to see how it was built as well as see things which were not part of world proper(GM Island, the skeleton from the boss in WC3, a developer map that had the words "Chow is my Love Monkey" written in the grass and even a prototype for a map that would later be in the Burning Crusade. No PCs or NPCs, but the entire world geometry was laid bare.
Actually, there was a story where antimatter evaporated the hull. It involved an awkward moment where they(him and an Earthling) were effectively just floating in space.
Being pedantic here, "Carte Blanche" actually means "white card" which was used to indicate a card with a royal seal but nothing else on it; allowing the bearer to get what he/she wanted from the royalty(sort of like a blank cheque on crack).
I want one further: to enable print from email, you would have to push a little button(may have an envelope or something on it), and the print feature would only work for any new email for the next 10 mins before the feature disables again.
Apple picked PNG because Microsoft didn't. And screencap image formats were hardly going to be an industry deal breaker. BMP files are so obvious as to really not give any leverage to Microsoft. Any patent on the silly thing would be overturned("Method for displaying a picture by lining up the colored pixels in order?").
Apple is pro-open-formats only if there's no way to get a lock-in. Apple is a patent holder with MPEG-LA, hence their preference for H.264.
Remember that there's nothing preventing you from installing Theora and Matroska codecs on your Windows box, same as with your Mac. Sure, media player will push you towards wma, but Apple will push you towards Apple Lossless.
"Microsoft has a history of always creating their own formats even when a multitude of alternatives already exist"
- iPad USB dongle - iPhone/Pod connector - Their old practice(no longer the case) of locking their RAM so only their RAM would work on their hardware - The stupid one button mouse(yes, it's no longer the case, but it was).
Not saying MS is good. They're not. But neither of them are. Trying to say "At least Apple..." these days is a tricky game.
Also, MS has stated that IE8+ will handle WebM just fine as it can be installed via Media Player. Opera stated support. Mozilla breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said the same. Apple(or at least Turtleneck Prime) is the only one that seemingly indicated they wouldn't support it by throwing some lawsuit FUD around. They may yet, but the response wasn't exactly positive.
Producing something for free as a service has never been a "business". Ever.
Apparently, the only thing you hold dear is your stock portfolio, up on your own personal "high horse"(you did start with "Linux dweebies and Microsoft apologists"). So any further discussion involving anything other then dollar signs would be as fruitless as describing Pythagorean theory to a gnat.
So, while I still have karma to burn, I feel absolutely entitled and justified in saying that people like you are everything that is wrong with humanity. Get off my fucking lawn.
There is no difference if the threat is expressed as an opinion.
Those are two different things. An opinion is something like "I think they may get sued." A threat is "I will probably sue you."
An opinion is based on what your personal feelings at the time are. A threat is when you factually confront someone with the aim of informing them you will or may do bad things to them.
For example, me saying "I think you will get killed if you keep running into traffic like that." is my opinion. Me saying, "I will kill you." is a threat and is, in fact, illegal.
Stop me if I'm going to fast for you.
Dealing with your competitors FUD is the price of doing business
Excuse me, Glen Beck, but at what point is Theora trying to make money?
There used to be a course given at business schools called "business ethics". At some point, yes, they appear to have gone to the wayside more and more lately. They did that in the past too. Interesting you used the word "firing line".
Get over it guys he can have opinions just like you and me.
You don't quite understand the difference between "opinion" and "veiled threat"? Really? He's producing FUD while possibly trying to launch an abusive lawsuit based on software patents(which are patently evil themselves) on Theora basically because he sits on the license board for H.264.
This isn't an opinion. It's an open declaration of war on an NGO. If your brain weren't so apparently dependent on Apple's marketing trolls, I wouldn't understand how you could possibly be fine with that.
Not all stars create black holes when they collapse. Ours won't.
I'm not a astrophysicist but as I understand it:
Black holes are formed when the gravity of the collapsing star is large enough to collapse its matter and information into a singularity. The star doesn't gain gravity in the process(unless other matter or other stars collapses in with it). The black hole has as much sucking power as the star did, except now there's a definitive "event horizon" where, if you get stuck, no amount of energy in the universe will pull you out(previously, the area where the event horizon is currently located, there would have been star).
Many stars are not big enough to have that much gravity. And I seriously doubt a tiny spec being shot at by a superlaser has enough pulling power to suck up a grain of rice, let alone collapse into a singularity. And, even if it did, the singularity would die pretty damn quickly.
The grammar in this review caused me to reread certain sentences and paragraphs...
I bought the ebook version and that is what I am using to base this review on, this caused me a slight problem because the ebook mentioned some resources and graphics that were available to download from the Packt site, however on going to site the resources are not available for download (yet).
The book tries to present the production of the various objects in a way that is similar to how it would be done in a real production studio. While this may help give a glimpse to Blender newbies about how things are done in a real studio, to be honest those that know more than the basics will know that a lot of steps are missing that would be in a real studio setup.
Now it is important to point out that I am not blaming Mr Brito for the grammar issue, the editors of the book however should have a serious talking to.
Seriously, for spending so much time hammering on a book's grammar, a good proofread could have been performed for credibility's sake.
Don't get me wrong. I hardly ever act as grammar Nazi("Me fail English? Unpossible!"). But Mr terrywallwork should have a look at this fine article:
Except that the concept of hyperspace as this shared hallucination whereupon we fly amidst streams of light is outmoded and proven to be highly impractical(why 'fly' to some corporate area when we can simply click a link to it...far less dramatic, yes, but most definitely more practical and responsive).
It works in anime because, well it's anime. We're used to seeing crazy shit in anime. Maybe a Neuromancer anime.
We tried it a couple times on film: Johnny Mnemonic(that one with Gibson's own hand in the pot) and Virtuosity.
Both are fairly goofy by today's standards. And we can't make it look any more 'real' because doing so would effectively remove the VR element they were striving for in the first place(it would be like rendering Reboot photorealistically).
In the sense that the closest you're going to get is Ghost in the Shell(or the S.A.C. derivatives).
The cyberspace reality that Neuromancer relies on is simply outmoded in this day and age. Trying to pass it as modern will simply look silly. The only alternative is to modify it greatly so that it is modern, but then you have Ghost In The Shell again.
Don't get me wrong, I still hold Neuromancer in extremely high regard, it is truly a fantastic book. It just won't translate to film very well without coming across as either a comedy, a confusing mash or as close to the source material as Will Smith's "I,Robot".
However, Android being an open source Linux based OS, they'll just take it, change it and call it "Red Robot" or something with different PIMs then default(though, being China, likely direct ripoffs with the G logo changed to a Chinese flag). This won't affect its ability to be marketed in China at all.
Where I work at they get around this by installing differing versions of each module into it's own directory and having a core installed module load up the appropriate paths in @INC at compile time. All it requires is the scripter specify which modules they need and what versions of those via the 'use' statement.
It prevents newer versions from breaking older distros until such a time as when it's properly tested and vetted.
I wonder how much of that is due to the massive migration away from original stories and properties towards those horrifically unoriginal and mass produced licensed works.
Seriously, more and more I see people buying the newest Halo, Star Wars, Star Trek or Warcraft book then trying out new, original fiction. Readers tend to gravitate to the comfortable rather then the possibly mind-blowing.
This will only get worse if borrowing books is made tedious by ebook DRM.
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I was thinking more along the lines of the ultra thin, ultra light form factor variety...4.5pds doesn't quite cut it:) I've got my old m200 for now.
I want to know if it has or can be upgraded to have a Wacom digitizer. Fingerpainting is fine, and reading books with your fingers has an intuitiveness to it, but I've been waiting ages for a nice thin pen-enabled tablet.
Yes it will. By going via a VPN or proxy, the IP address they collect on the other side will not be your own but that of the remote agent through which you're doing the dastardly deed.
So long as that agent keeps no usable logs or traceable info, there really isn't anything they can do.
Nonsense. There was a tool years ago called "WOWMapView" which allowed you to, completely offline, fly through the map without any clipping. It was an awesome way to see how it was built as well as see things which were not part of world proper(GM Island, the skeleton from the boss in WC3, a developer map that had the words "Chow is my Love Monkey" written in the grass and even a prototype for a map that would later be in the Burning Crusade. No PCs or NPCs, but the entire world geometry was laid bare.
Actually, there was a story where antimatter evaporated the hull. It involved an awkward moment where they(him and an Earthling) were effectively just floating in space.
Doc Bruce Banner,
Belted by gamma rays,
Turned into the Hulk.
Ain’t he unglamo-rays!
Wreckin’ the town
With the power of a bull,
Ain’t no monster clown
Who is as lovable.
As ever-lovin’ Hulk! HULK!! HULK!!"
Being pedantic here, "Carte Blanche" actually means "white card" which was used to indicate a card with a royal seal but nothing else on it; allowing the bearer to get what he/she wanted from the royalty(sort of like a blank cheque on crack).
I want one further: to enable print from email, you would have to push a little button(may have an envelope or something on it), and the print feature would only work for any new email for the next 10 mins before the feature disables again.
Could it be that they only pulled it down from the US market due to DMCA pressure? Can't you file one of those counter-notice thingies?
Apple picked PNG because Microsoft didn't. And screencap image formats were hardly going to be an industry deal breaker. BMP files are so obvious as to really not give any leverage to Microsoft. Any patent on the silly thing would be overturned("Method for displaying a picture by lining up the colored pixels in order?").
Apple is pro-open-formats only if there's no way to get a lock-in. Apple is a patent holder with MPEG-LA, hence their preference for H.264.
Remember that there's nothing preventing you from installing Theora and Matroska codecs on your Windows box, same as with your Mac. Sure, media player will push you towards wma, but Apple will push you towards Apple Lossless.
"Microsoft has a history of always creating their own formats even when a multitude of alternatives already exist"
- iPad USB dongle
- iPhone/Pod connector
- Their old practice(no longer the case) of locking their RAM so only their RAM would work on their hardware
- The stupid one button mouse(yes, it's no longer the case, but it was).
Not saying MS is good. They're not. But neither of them are. Trying to say "At least Apple..." these days is a tricky game.
Also, MS has stated that IE8+ will handle WebM just fine as it can be installed via Media Player. Opera stated support. Mozilla breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said the same. Apple(or at least Turtleneck Prime) is the only one that seemingly indicated they wouldn't support it by throwing some lawsuit FUD around. They may yet, but the response wasn't exactly positive.
It would be like a whole fraction of a millimeter across! Careful! You'll step on the datacenter!
Well, I picked up Aquaria last year, and so far as I knew it was Windows and(later) Mac only. I'm sort of impressed they have a Linux version period :P
But yeah, welcome to the world of Linux, so many standards to choose from ;)
Producing something for free as a service has never been a "business". Ever.
Apparently, the only thing you hold dear is your stock portfolio, up on your own personal "high horse"(you did start with "Linux dweebies and Microsoft apologists"). So any further discussion involving anything other then dollar signs would be as fruitless as describing Pythagorean theory to a gnat.
So, while I still have karma to burn, I feel absolutely entitled and justified in saying that people like you are everything that is wrong with humanity. Get off my fucking lawn.
There is no difference if the threat is expressed as an opinion.
Those are two different things. An opinion is something like "I think they may get sued." A threat is "I will probably sue you."
An opinion is based on what your personal feelings at the time are. A threat is when you factually confront someone with the aim of informing them you will or may do bad things to them.
For example, me saying "I think you will get killed if you keep running into traffic like that." is my opinion. Me saying, "I will kill you." is a threat and is, in fact, illegal.
Stop me if I'm going to fast for you.
Dealing with your competitors FUD is the price of doing business
Excuse me, Glen Beck, but at what point is Theora trying to make money?
There used to be a course given at business schools called "business ethics". At some point, yes, they appear to have gone to the wayside more and more lately. They did that in the past too. Interesting you used the word "firing line".
I'll feed the troll....sorry.
Get over it guys he can have opinions just like you and me.
You don't quite understand the difference between "opinion" and "veiled threat"? Really? He's producing FUD while possibly trying to launch an abusive lawsuit based on software patents(which are patently evil themselves) on Theora basically because he sits on the license board for H.264.
This isn't an opinion. It's an open declaration of war on an NGO. If your brain weren't so apparently dependent on Apple's marketing trolls, I wouldn't understand how you could possibly be fine with that.
Not all stars create black holes when they collapse. Ours won't.
I'm not a astrophysicist but as I understand it:
Black holes are formed when the gravity of the collapsing star is large enough to collapse its matter and information into a singularity. The star doesn't gain gravity in the process(unless other matter or other stars collapses in with it). The black hole has as much sucking power as the star did, except now there's a definitive "event horizon" where, if you get stuck, no amount of energy in the universe will pull you out(previously, the area where the event horizon is currently located, there would have been star).
Many stars are not big enough to have that much gravity. And I seriously doubt a tiny spec being shot at by a superlaser has enough pulling power to suck up a grain of rice, let alone collapse into a singularity. And, even if it did, the singularity would die pretty damn quickly.
The grammar in this review caused me to reread certain sentences and paragraphs...
I bought the ebook version and that is what I am using to base this review on, this caused me a slight problem because the ebook mentioned some resources and graphics that were available to download from the Packt site, however on going to site the resources are not available for download (yet).
The book tries to present the production of the various objects in a way that is similar to how it would be done in a real production studio. While this may help give a glimpse to Blender newbies about how things are done in a real studio, to be honest those that know more than the basics will know that a lot of steps are missing that would be in a real studio setup.
Now it is important to point out that I am not blaming Mr Brito for the grammar issue, the editors of the book however should have a serious talking to.
Seriously, for spending so much time hammering on a book's grammar, a good proofread could have been performed for credibility's sake.
Don't get me wrong. I hardly ever act as grammar Nazi("Me fail English? Unpossible!"). But Mr terrywallwork should have a look at this fine article:
http://www.waylink-english.co.uk/?page=61070
Pfft, I've been using "decahectometers" ever since I saw the term "megagig" on Smallville.
Except that the concept of hyperspace as this shared hallucination whereupon we fly amidst streams of light is outmoded and proven to be highly impractical(why 'fly' to some corporate area when we can simply click a link to it...far less dramatic, yes, but most definitely more practical and responsive).
It works in anime because, well it's anime. We're used to seeing crazy shit in anime. Maybe a Neuromancer anime.
We tried it a couple times on film: Johnny Mnemonic(that one with Gibson's own hand in the pot) and Virtuosity.
Both are fairly goofy by today's standards. And we can't make it look any more 'real' because doing so would effectively remove the VR element they were striving for in the first place(it would be like rendering Reboot photorealistically).
In the sense that the closest you're going to get is Ghost in the Shell(or the S.A.C. derivatives).
The cyberspace reality that Neuromancer relies on is simply outmoded in this day and age. Trying to pass it as modern will simply look silly. The only alternative is to modify it greatly so that it is modern, but then you have Ghost In The Shell again.
Don't get me wrong, I still hold Neuromancer in extremely high regard, it is truly a fantastic book. It just won't translate to film very well without coming across as either a comedy, a confusing mash or as close to the source material as Will Smith's "I,Robot".
Just for context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
However, Android being an open source Linux based OS, they'll just take it, change it and call it "Red Robot" or something with different PIMs then default(though, being China, likely direct ripoffs with the G logo changed to a Chinese flag). This won't affect its ability to be marketed in China at all.
Where I work at they get around this by installing differing versions of each module into it's own directory and having a core installed module load up the appropriate paths in @INC at compile time. All it requires is the scripter specify which modules they need and what versions of those via the 'use' statement.
It prevents newer versions from breaking older distros until such a time as when it's properly tested and vetted.
I wonder how much of that is due to the massive migration away from original stories and properties towards those horrifically unoriginal and mass produced licensed works.
Seriously, more and more I see people buying the newest Halo, Star Wars, Star Trek or Warcraft book then trying out new, original fiction. Readers tend to gravitate to the comfortable rather then the possibly mind-blowing.
This will only get worse if borrowing books is made tedious by ebook DRM.
Well, typos notwithstanding...