However, as far as I'm concerned, in universal scope one can never have facts, just theories which work in certain fields, until they are replaced by more accurate theories.
It's attitudes like this which are stopping us from being omnipotent.
Just claim it as their own. What's the US going to do? Kick 'em out?
It'd make an awesome weapon platform. They could event rent it out to the Chinese to use as a stop-over on their way to the moon. Maybe even a step toward a Russian-Chinese joint-venture on an eventual moonbase.
The US no longer has any power in space, and Russia, true to its nature, is taking advantage of this.
Just to have it. It'd be my first Apple since I fled to the PC after the//e (started from a used ][ in '80). The Mac was a toy -- real men used command lines, dammit (and they still do.)
Since Apple went to BSD they regained their nerdy "cool" in my books, and this would be a perfect reason to give it a try. If it works out, I may step up to a G5 down the road.
these aren't productions worthy of prestigous critical acclaim.
In the early days of film (say, around the 1910's), most had the same reaction. They had the same reaction to new types of music as well, from the earliest forms of symphonic music to rock.
For the amount of investment (time) in a game engine, you might as well use a proper package such as Maya or Max to do animation. The tools to do character animation are very powerful.
Also, quite a few people know these packages, and IF you have a good story/script, you CAN find people interested in contributing models and helping with animation.
Check out Timothy Albee's book http://timothy.artistnation.com/main/Books/ "CGI Filmmaking" about how he created "Ghost Warrior". Very inspirational, not to mention informative.
Several years ago the big labels came over here and made offers to the largest of the criminal underground who were producing pirate music discs.
Several friends are radio DJs, one of them working for a "pirate" distributor (keep in mind, that to these people these are legitimate businesses -- they still pay taxes and keep their noses clean.)
The Western labels told the "gangsters" that if they shut down the other pirates, they can have a monopoly on distribution. They destroyed a true "free market economy" and replaced it with an American/British system of closed distributorships.
As a result, people have died brutal, senseless deaths in the mad scramble to prove to the Western labels who deserved the right to the monopoly.
The end result has been to kill music sales. Simply nobody buys licensed discs. Not only that, but the selection of discs over here has dropped severely. It used to be that you could walk in to a "pirate" music shop and pick up Coil or Autechre, but all there is now is Britney, Back Street Boys, Eminem -- the lowest common denominator that would sell (since the masses aren't buying music, they're only selling what would be most popular.)
The one shining light is mp3.ru, and other similar sites which allow cheap "licensed" downloads (very popular over here). But also peer-to-peer apps are popular.
Interesting point: Russians don't have pirated software or music. It's either licensed, or it's unlicensed. They buy licensed if they require better quality, a warrantee, or technical support, but if they don't need that they'll just get the unlicensed version.
Most were invented by men who followed their dreams and were hardly concerned with financial gains. More importantly, financial concerns did not dictate whether or IF they pursued that dream.
EVERYONE is concerned about their own well-being and the well-being of their family. Aren't you? Sure, you love your job, but would you do it without a paycheck?
"Following their dreams" just sounds better in their autobiographies.
These people (or groups of people) happened upon a niche that happened to be in demand and also happened to be within their field of experience, and they capitalized on that (pun intended).
You guys. You're so, like, freaking out over this.
By the time this gets really bad -- where it starts affecting humanity -- we'll all be dead! (Hopefully by natural causes, but I suspect a bunch of you will have your grossly overweight carcass found on the toilet with a PDA stuffed with porn.)
What do you care?
Oh wait, let me guess:
"Won't somebody think of the children!"
Let them figure it out -- not our problem! They're going to have domes on the moon and rocket-cars anyway -- why should we spoil them with a perfect environment?
(I know I'll get modded a troll (which I am, and proudly so), but there are people who really think like this who happen to be either in power right now, or influencing those in power.)
If someone mods me down AGAIN for using an "In Soviet Russia" subject I'm going to go Tarantino on your asses. I'm from freakin' Soviet Russia, morons!
Anyway, my sound system consists of Winamp playing mp3's through a Yamaha DS2416 (great converters!) on a massive 70's-era Russian "audiophile" tube amp (sorry, no model number evident). I average about a pair of 3R6S tubes every two years.
The sound from a tube-amp (and this is from years and years of listening under all sorts of illicit drugs -- I know what I'm talking about) is noticably different, even at low volume levels. Pleasantly so. It takes the edge off of digital music, and smooths out any aliasing and mpeg "warbles" so that they sound "musical". I can speak for hours on this topic, but I won't. Not here.
I have friends in Canada who collect tube amps, and pay from 10's to hundreds of dollars for a single tube. Over here tubes are worthless, and can be picked up (NOS -- "New Old Stock") for pennies from a repair shop. Suckers.
I heartily recommend the combination of mp3's with tubes.
Um... I don't know about Mexico, but what makes you think we don't? We burned the Whitehouse to the ground once, and they know we'll do it again if they get a little too cheeky.
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It's attitudes like this which are stopping us from being omnipotent.
Just claim it as their own. What's the US going to do? Kick 'em out?
It'd make an awesome weapon platform. They could event rent it out to the Chinese to use as a stop-over on their way to the moon. Maybe even a step toward a Russian-Chinese joint-venture on an eventual moonbase.
The US no longer has any power in space, and Russia, true to its nature, is taking advantage of this.
Not surprising.
Just to have it. It'd be my first Apple since I fled to the PC after the //e (started from a used ][ in '80). The Mac was a toy -- real men used command lines, dammit (and they still do.)
Since Apple went to BSD they regained their nerdy "cool" in my books, and this would be a perfect reason to give it a try. If it works out, I may step up to a G5 down the road.
Anyone who thinks that hacking a bike isn't cool for "ethical reasons" isn't a true nerd.
Please gather your things and hand-in your Slashdot # on the way out.
Thank you,
The Management
Sounds GNU/Linuxy.
This will prove very useful for Europes war against America.
Doesn't sound very Gnu/Linuxy.
For the amount of investment (time) in a game engine, you might as well use a proper package such as Maya or Max to do animation. The tools to do character animation are very powerful.
Also, quite a few people know these packages, and IF you have a good story/script, you CAN find people interested in contributing models and helping with animation.
Check out Timothy Albee's book http://timothy.artistnation.com/main/Books/ "CGI Filmmaking" about how he created "Ghost Warrior". Very inspirational, not to mention informative.
I live next door to Russia.
Several years ago the big labels came over here and made offers to the largest of the criminal underground who were producing pirate music discs.
Several friends are radio DJs, one of them working for a "pirate" distributor (keep in mind, that to these people these are legitimate businesses -- they still pay taxes and keep their noses clean.)
The Western labels told the "gangsters" that if they shut down the other pirates, they can have a monopoly on distribution. They destroyed a true "free market economy" and replaced it with an American/British system of closed distributorships.
As a result, people have died brutal, senseless deaths in the mad scramble to prove to the Western labels who deserved the right to the monopoly.
The end result has been to kill music sales. Simply nobody buys licensed discs. Not only that, but the selection of discs over here has dropped severely. It used to be that you could walk in to a "pirate" music shop and pick up Coil or Autechre, but all there is now is Britney, Back Street Boys, Eminem -- the lowest common denominator that would sell (since the masses aren't buying music, they're only selling what would be most popular.)
The one shining light is mp3.ru, and other similar sites which allow cheap "licensed" downloads (very popular over here). But also peer-to-peer apps are popular.
Interesting point: Russians don't have pirated software or music. It's either licensed, or it's unlicensed. They buy licensed if they require better quality, a warrantee, or technical support, but if they don't need that they'll just get the unlicensed version.
**grin**
Yeah, that's what we all said.
EVERYONE is concerned about their own well-being and the well-being of their family. Aren't you? Sure, you love your job, but would you do it without a paycheck?
"Following their dreams" just sounds better in their autobiographies.
These people (or groups of people) happened upon a niche that happened to be in demand and also happened to be within their field of experience, and they capitalized on that (pun intended).
You guys. You're so, like, freaking out over this.
By the time this gets really bad -- where it starts affecting humanity -- we'll all be dead! (Hopefully by natural causes, but I suspect a bunch of you will have your grossly overweight carcass found on the toilet with a PDA stuffed with porn.)
What do you care?
Oh wait, let me guess:
"Won't somebody think of the children!"
Let them figure it out -- not our problem! They're going to have domes on the moon and rocket-cars anyway -- why should we spoil them with a perfect environment?
(I know I'll get modded a troll (which I am, and proudly so), but there are people who really think like this who happen to be either in power right now, or influencing those in power.)
McBSD
If someone mods me down AGAIN for using an "In Soviet Russia" subject I'm going to go Tarantino on your asses. I'm from freakin' Soviet Russia, morons!
Anyway, my sound system consists of Winamp playing mp3's through a Yamaha DS2416 (great converters!) on a massive 70's-era Russian "audiophile" tube amp (sorry, no model number evident). I average about a pair of 3R6S tubes every two years.
The sound from a tube-amp (and this is from years and years of listening under all sorts of illicit drugs -- I know what I'm talking about) is noticably different, even at low volume levels. Pleasantly so. It takes the edge off of digital music, and smooths out any aliasing and mpeg "warbles" so that they sound "musical". I can speak for hours on this topic, but I won't. Not here.
I have friends in Canada who collect tube amps, and pay from 10's to hundreds of dollars for a single tube. Over here tubes are worthless, and can be picked up (NOS -- "New Old Stock") for pennies from a repair shop. Suckers.
I heartily recommend the combination of mp3's with tubes.
What episode is this from? I quickly went through a bunch of TNG episodes, but couldn't find this mentioned anywhere.
Okay, post-Soviet. And it wasn't Russia, it was Kazakhstan.
At a former "secret city" (Stepnogorsk), out in the steppe, between a gold mine, uranium processing plant, and a biochemical warfare laboratory.
To get some solitude, I wandered into the middle of the grassy nowhere with a Thinkpad and a portable Inmarsat terminal (2400bps!). Ahhhh!