I for one think the military is doing a great job!!
It's just all the commies and and terrorists that detract from the great wealth of information that the military is able to bring us through the use of blogs and online posts.... hey does this pay by the word, or by the paragraph??
I just bought one of the linux base ones from newegg, and I looked around a bit. The midrange 4 gig model sells for about $350, and the 4 gig model with the webcam and a better battery goes for $399, with linux.
Now they are trying to say that they are going to sell a windows based version bundled with a bunch of other stuff for only $399?
The only way I see that happening is if Microsoft pays them to do it. If they are selling a smaller bundle with a free operating system for the same price. I call shenanigans.
not just that but, women very often mistake a guy who is just being friendly as a someone who is sexually intersted. I have seen girls often enough try to claim that some guy is interested in them just because of their overactive ego. But then I have to say that I have also met plenty of guys that act that way to.
I mean it is in the way that. Limiting access at this level is akin to harming your competition. Not that it wasn't in the Comcast situation, but this is so blatant.
I mean come on. Rule of law or rule of philosophy, or rule of rule.. whatever. Being an anarchist is not a solution. It's a fashion that was created so ugly people could have a style.
If coding was easy everyone we be an expert C++. But that takes time and patience to learn and so do 3d modeling applications. There is a lot of whining going around about how hard blender is to learn, but the truth is it isn't any harder to learn than any other advanced computer related activty./P.
That's right, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_of_Daggorath baby!. It wasn't really my first gaming experience, that having been asteroids, but it was my first ever full fledged indulgence with a pc game.
I know this is to late to count, but I live in Seattle and have friends that work for the evil empire. One friend of mine is Russian and was brought here with his furniture and cat. He is paid 102k per year and was put up in a very nice place while he was figuring out where he wanted to live.
I will say that he has a strong background in mathematics and had done some prior work that MS was very interested in. I think that is more likely what they are looking for, not cheap labor.
I wouldn't start jumping around about Dell's move to Ubuntu just yet. I'm actually typing this from the one I just bought. It was a good deal for what I got, and I can't complain, but I have been using Linux exclusively for over ten years. The average user having purchased this system would have gotten a very poor impression of Ubuntu. No working Nvidia driver, resolution max set to 1024x768. I am not upset about my purchase but, I would have to say that most high school students would have added more polish to a Linux installation.
Microsoft deals with other businesses. Open source developers are just a loose cannon to them.
The first part of this strategy from my point of view, would be to relegate where developers can release source code, and through whom. That way they can contain any threat (or perceived threat) from the open source community without having to search for someone to sue. Secondly by writing up cross licensing deals with other companies, Microsoft is able to show that there is value, and therefore a recognizable loss when it comes time to collect on thier IP debt.
Microsoft does nothing out of the goodness of it's heart.. it has no heart.
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I use both Blender and Maya and I can't help but laugh about what people like you say. By the time you have actually learned all of the concepts and methods the UI is about the last thing you'll be concerned with. No matter how good a UI is it cannot teach you how to use 3d modeling software.
Besides Blender is built around hot key usage which makes it much faster to model in, IMHO than Maya, but yes you have to learn how to use it.
They are not keeping this all secret. I don't think it's as big of a deal if we have access to and knowledge of what is kept in the database. I already know that I exist and that there are records of my existance. As long as there is no address or name alongside the picture I don't see this as a bad thing.
This kind of open ID database is not nearly as frightening as the ones being made of us without our knowledge or confirmation of facts pertaining to us.
I used to know a guy that lived in Cambodia during the NVA occupation. Yes the "killing fields" were gone to some extent but the NVA did some pretty horrible things themselves. Forcing everyone in his village hide in their huts because as they said "the Americans are going to bomb you". After most of the men in the village had been taken away, his mother decided to run away with him and his brother to Thailand. They waited there for two years in a refugee camp until they were miraculously given an immigration visa to the US.
Iraq is different. If we leave now Sadr will be the most powerful man in that country. Sunni blood will fill the streets and it will not happen hidden in some jungle half a world away. You and everyone else in the world will see it, and they will not forgive us for causing this problem, and then leaving.
I think your libertarian brain is getting the best of you. It's not just the unfathomable cost of installing cross country pipes large enough to handle that amount of data. It's also about who owns the property. Or in some cases who owns the lease to the property. Remember that it was government legislation that forced those companies to lease out the use of thier telephone poles and connections to thier main telecomunication pipes that allowed us to get DSL as early as we did back in the 90's.
Anyone who speaks up about taking the big telcoms to the hoop better think about what they are talking about. There are levels of monopoly that have created the existing dynasty. It would take nothing short of a lot more legislation to bring it down.
That is actually a pretty funny comment. To create ED Ton and company used a render farm of servers to render scenes in excess of 1GB of texture space. If you can find me a graphics card that can handle that much texture space, I'll buy it!
On the other side of things, b2cs will enable you to use what you can hardware graphics render pipeline in the near future (that is when Jorrit can find time to work on it again), but what you see in the window will not be able to handle more than what your card will. Besides the fact that CS's render pipeline will not render the same as the blender internal renderer. So you won't be able to see what your eventual renders will be like.
That said, for game developers, b2cs will be a god send. I just hope someone writes a good UT2007 export script. =)
If you don't already know, DX10 is done. It's been done for a while. It's only the hardware needed to run it that is missing. They've constructed a new system creating "mesh objects" in the render pipeline among other things. MS and nvidia are working on that right now. I'd tell you how I know that but then I'd have to kill you.
Lets face it. Graphics is about art, not software. Artists use the techniques and software that they have been taught to use. I use Gimp because the artist part of my software experience came after my debut in linux. Had I gone through any graphics program, I would undoubtedly be using Photoshop. Why? Because that's what they teach. Why would I want to relearn another peice of software??
If you want people to use your software, you have got to get it used in schools. Just my two cents.
If you don't like this idea, then deal with the fact that your software relies on the creations of millions of other people, basically using what other's decided NOT to patent.
...and don't forget the fact that those patents rely heavily on the work of millions of coders before them. Basically cordoning off the intelectual landscape with legal barbed wire. You can always create a new invention from what you've learned from old inventions, but with this you litterally are not legally allowed to think what someone else has thought of.
I think he's drawing conclusions on bad assumptions and gut reactions, not hard data
It's just funny to me when someone responds to someones unsupported opinion with thier thoughts on the matter. Not that I dissagree with you. Infact, I think you are entirely correct!
For game magazines ask yourself how every fisrt person shooter knockoff can have 4 to 5 stars or an 80% plus rating.
It's simple. Because just about every new big money game that comes out today is using the same level of technology, the same type of graphics, the same amount of work put into it.. etc. We just haven't had that big breakaway development that we had a few times in the 90's. The gaming world has figured out what people will buy and decideded, smartly to put thier money into that. No one is going to risk any huge sum of money and time on making anything over the top unless they can be sure their is going to be an equitable payoff in the end.
I like this article, actually more interesting than the parent. For instance I didn't know that they used Maya. I also didn't know that Sean's favorite color was R: 238, G: 118, B: 246... which happens to be a light-gay-purple.. Not trying to offend gay people of course.. or light, or purple, for that matter
I am a shipwright here in Seattle, and I use a CAD often for presentations or ideas to customers. Very often, people just cannot create a mental image from 2d drawing. For me Blender has become a valuable tool, where doing live mock-ups can take days (for some large projects). The same thing can be accomplished in blender in a matter of hours, and what's more I can get near photoghraphic results!
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I for one think the military is doing a great job!!
It's just all the commies and and terrorists that detract from the great wealth of information that the military is able to bring us through the use of blogs and online posts.... hey does this pay by the word, or by the paragraph??
I just bought one of the linux base ones from newegg, and I looked around a bit. The midrange 4 gig model sells for about $350, and the 4 gig model with the webcam and a better battery goes for $399, with linux.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=eee+pc&x=0&y=0
Now they are trying to say that they are going to sell a windows based version bundled with a bunch of other stuff for only $399?
The only way I see that happening is if Microsoft pays them to do it. If they are selling a smaller bundle with a free operating system for the same price. I call shenanigans.
not just that but, women very often mistake a guy who is just being friendly as a someone who is sexually intersted. I have seen girls often enough try to claim that some guy is interested in them just because of their overactive ego. But then I have to say that I have also met plenty of guys that act that way to.
I mean it is in the way that. Limiting access at this level is akin to harming your competition. Not that it wasn't in the Comcast situation, but this is so blatant.
yes those who are free to chose are not ruled..
As long as they all chose the same thing.
I mean come on. Rule of law or rule of philosophy, or rule of rule.. whatever. Being an anarchist is not a solution. It's a fashion that was created so ugly people could have a style.
If coding was easy everyone we be an expert C++. But that takes time and patience to learn and so do 3d modeling applications. There is a lot of whining going around about how hard blender is to learn, but the truth is it isn't any harder to learn than any other advanced computer related activty./P.
That's right, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_of_Daggorath baby!. It wasn't really my first gaming experience, that having been asteroids, but it was my first ever full fledged indulgence with a pc game.
I know this is to late to count, but I live in Seattle and have friends that work for the evil empire. One friend of mine is Russian and was brought here with his furniture and cat. He is paid 102k per year and was put up in a very nice place while he was figuring out where he wanted to live.
I will say that he has a strong background in mathematics and had done some prior work that MS was very interested in. I think that is more likely what they are looking for, not cheap labor.
I wouldn't start jumping around about Dell's move to Ubuntu just yet. I'm actually typing this from the one I just bought. It was a good deal for what I got, and I can't complain, but I have been using Linux exclusively for over ten years. The average user having purchased this system would have gotten a very poor impression of Ubuntu. No working Nvidia driver, resolution max set to 1024x768. I am not upset about my purchase but, I would have to say that most high school students would have added more polish to a Linux installation.
Microsoft deals with other businesses. Open source developers are just a loose cannon to them.
The first part of this strategy from my point of view, would be to relegate where developers can release source code, and through whom. That way they can contain any threat (or perceived threat) from the open source community without having to search for someone to sue. Secondly by writing up cross licensing deals with other companies, Microsoft is able to show that there is value , and therefore a recognizable loss when it comes time to collect on thier IP debt.
Microsoft does nothing out of the goodness of it's heart.. it has no heart.
I use both Blender and Maya and I can't help but laugh about what people like you say. By the time you have actually learned all of the concepts and methods the UI is about the last thing you'll be concerned with. No matter how good a UI is it cannot teach you how to use 3d modeling software.
Besides Blender is built around hot key usage which makes it much faster to model in, IMHO than Maya, but yes you have to learn how to use it.They are not keeping this all secret. I don't think it's as big of a deal if we have access to and knowledge of what is kept in the database. I already know that I exist and that there are records of my existance. As long as there is no address or name alongside the picture I don't see this as a bad thing.
This kind of open ID database is not nearly as frightening as the ones being made of us without our knowledge or confirmation of facts pertaining to us.
I used to know a guy that lived in Cambodia during the NVA occupation. Yes the "killing fields" were gone to some extent but the NVA did some pretty horrible things themselves. Forcing everyone in his village hide in their huts because as they said "the Americans are going to bomb you". After most of the men in the village had been taken away, his mother decided to run away with him and his brother to Thailand. They waited there for two years in a refugee camp until they were miraculously given an immigration visa to the US.
Iraq is different. If we leave now Sadr will be the most powerful man in that country. Sunni blood will fill the streets and it will not happen hidden in some jungle half a world away. You and everyone else in the world will see it, and they will not forgive us for causing this problem, and then leaving.
I thought this guy did a great job of summing up the Zunes features.,
I think your libertarian brain is getting the best of you. It's not just the unfathomable cost of installing cross country pipes large enough to handle that amount of data. It's also about who owns the property. Or in some cases who owns the lease to the property. Remember that it was government legislation that forced those companies to lease out the use of thier telephone poles and connections to thier main telecomunication pipes that allowed us to get DSL as early as we did back in the 90's.
Anyone who speaks up about taking the big telcoms to the hoop better think about what they are talking about. There are levels of monopoly that have created the existing dynasty. It would take nothing short of a lot more legislation to bring it down.
That is actually a pretty funny comment. To create ED Ton and company used a render farm of servers to render scenes in excess of 1GB of texture space. If you can find me a graphics card that can handle that much texture space, I'll buy it!
On the other side of things, b2cs will enable you to use what you can hardware graphics render pipeline in the near future (that is when Jorrit can find time to work on it again), but what you see in the window will not be able to handle more than what your card will. Besides the fact that CS's render pipeline will not render the same as the blender internal renderer. So you won't be able to see what your eventual renders will be like.
That said, for game developers, b2cs will be a god send. I just hope someone writes a good UT2007 export script. =)
If you don't already know, DX10 is done. It's been done for a while. It's only the hardware needed to run it that is missing. They've constructed a new system creating "mesh objects" in the render pipeline among other things. MS and nvidia are working on that right now. I'd tell you how I know that but then I'd have to kill you.
I didn't actually know who she was.. then I found pictures.. man she has a big nose :0)
Lets face it. Graphics is about art, not software. Artists use the techniques and software that they have been taught to use. I use Gimp because the artist part of my software experience came after my debut in linux. Had I gone through any graphics program, I would undoubtedly be using Photoshop. Why?
Because that's what they teach. Why would I want to relearn another peice of software??
If you want people to use your software, you have got to get it used in schools. Just my two cents.
It's just funny to me when someone responds to someones unsupported opinion with thier thoughts on the matter. Not that I dissagree with you. Infact, I think you are entirely correct!
It's simple. Because just about every new big money game that comes out today is using the same level of technology, the same type of graphics, the same amount of work put into it.. etc. We just haven't had that big breakaway development that we had a few times in the 90's. The gaming world has figured out what people will buy and decideded, smartly to put thier money into that. No one is going to risk any huge sum of money and time on making anything over the top unless they can be sure their is going to be an equitable payoff in the end.
make it 4:20 and your on!
I like this article, actually more interesting than the parent. For instance I didn't know that they used Maya. I also didn't know that Sean's favorite color was R: 238, G: 118, B: 246 ... which happens to be a light-gay-purple.. Not trying to offend gay people of course.. or light, or purple, for that matter
I am a shipwright here in Seattle, and I use a CAD often for presentations or ideas to customers. Very often, people just cannot create a mental image from 2d drawing. For me Blender has become a valuable tool, where doing live mock-ups can take days (for some large projects). The same thing can be accomplished in blender in a matter of hours, and what's more I can get near photoghraphic results!