Even in the US, automated "enforcement" results in fines for the owner of the car unless the owner can prove someone else is responsible -- this would be things like red-light cameras.
Yet that doesn't excuse the fact that it is (or was, anyway -- as I said, it's been years since I've looked at Blender) valid criticism of it, either.
And yes, there IS something wrong with learning a clunky UI, IF there's a better solution available. In my case there was, and I would have been stupid to use the worse solution simply because it was open source. Then again, I try to use the best tool for the job, instead of being blinded by any ideology; if that best tool is open source, great. If not, that's fine with me too.
Oh, I know, although at the time Maya was much more usable *for me*. The fact they had a free (beer) version (watermarked images) was good enough since I was just doing some concept art. Now that Autodesk got their hands on it, I have no doubt they've ruined both the UI and the free version as well.
Finding fault with Blender is* easy, and for much the same reason people find fault with GIMP -- the UI is something you either love, or absolutely despise, with very little in between.
*Referring to Blender circa 2003, so this may need to be changed to "was". The UI was bad enough at the time to make me not look back.
Go ahead, mod me troll because I don't kiss Obama's ass. I don't kiss any politicians asses since they're ALL lying bastards. Every last one of them should be limited to one term and barred for life from any other public office - limit the damage they can do, and limit the pandering since they're not trying to save their job or line themselves up for a different one.
Find me ONE politician that really believes they are there to serve the public, and isn't serving themselves first. Just one. I won't hold my breath.
On the other hand, this country is getting exactly the leadership it deserves. When people vote for slogans and red/blue instead of forcing people to take a position and voting on those positions, they deserve to be bent over and fucked. Unfortunately, it screws the rest of us as well.
I got the exact opposite -- it's supposed to be attached to things yet to go up, so that when they die, they can be hauled down quicker. Or it's supposed to help as a form of propulsion. They don't seem to know what they want to use their new toy for.
Obama has shown over and over than he has no concern for what the people want. In his mind, he was elected king, and will do anything he wants, the people and the constitution be damned. He may not be as stupid as Bush was to call the constitution "just a god-damned piece of paper" around cameras but he certainly doesn't have any more respect for it.
Is this sail really big enough to do any good? Sure, it can drag itself around, and maybe some of the smaller cube-sat type things made by colleges, but is a 25 sq m sail really going to matter much to a full-sized satellite?
Yes, I read the question. Scroll to the bottom of the NeHe tutorial pages and see that most of them have Linux, Linux/GLX, and/or Linux/SDL code downloads.
Use those. The OpenGL stuff is the same as it's cross platform. The Windows-specific stuff will have been replaced with Linux-specific stuff, and after a quick glance, is explained about as well as the windows-specific stuff (which is to say, mostly glossed over, since NeHe does OpenGL tutorials, not Windows/Linux/whatever tutorials).
If you're having problems with the linux-specific stuff, you should probably look for an X tutorial first, as most of the NeHe tutorials assume you already know how to do things like create a window.
No, it's not. So it was on the disk, but that's irrelevant. You're not entitled to everything on the disk when you bought the license for the game. It's called an add-on, or an optional component, or "DLC", and it costs extra.
No, it's more like selling a car, and then directing you to the performance parts department where you can purchase add-on parts that were developed prior-to and available at the time of purchase.
My truck didn't come with a supercharger, but the manufacturer had a factory-produced, dealer-installed, covered-by-the-standard-100k-warranty option available as an extra. Is the supercharger necessary? No. Is it desirable? Depends on the buyer.
I don't carry my cellphone all the time, or even most of the time. Half the time I want to have it around, I don't, because I'm not in the habit of carrying it with me. So they pull the records, and see that my phone was somewhere in an area that happens to contain my house, for days at a time -- was I sick, was I working from home, did I leave my phone behind while on vacation, or was I just being me?
What about little johnny -- based on his demographics, his phone should be glued to his thumbs, but had it taken away by his parents or was grounded for a couple weeks for bad grades? Is the location data accurate enough to say he was or was not somewhere?
Once they start using that data to convict people, then they're saying it's accurate enough. Which means that leaving your phone somewhere else helps (but only helps) establish an alibi.
It'd still make a great vacation -- getting the 10k out of it just makes the vacation a bit cheaper. But I'd only do it if I already had or was buying the boat anyway.
That's the way I'd do it. Get service from a company like http://www.inmarsat.com/ and a decent sized sailboat full of food, water, fuel, and books, and I'll be happy floating around the Pacific for a month.
It is kind of hard when you realize that you just saw seven people die in front of your eyes.
Just being pedantic, but there's pretty good evidence that some, if not all, survived until impact with the ocean. Vehicle breakup was somewhere around 12Gs, which was survivable. On board oxygen was used, and switches that required pulling out against a spring had been changed to positions indicating an attempt to restore electrical power. Impact with the ocean was estimated to be somewhere around 200Gs. More here: http://history.nasa.gov/kerwin.html and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster#Cause_and_time_of_death
So unless you witnessed the remains of the cabin hitting the water, you didn't see (all) seven people die.
As long as the cable survives a mine fire, or a mine collapse, then running a cable is fine. If you can't guarantee the cable's survival, then wireless is probably the way to go.
I said nothing about navigation. Just remove the radios and you remove almost all of the abilities of the helicopter as it pertains to police usage, because they can't tell the ground units where they're at, and where the person they're chasing is.
You'd still have brakes and steering ability, but you'd lose the power-assist when the engine quit. Loss of control is more likely from a spike strip and resulting blowouts & flat tires.
Still think this is a bad idea though -- what happens when they trigger it at the "bad guy" and the guy in the next lane also gets his car's electronics fried? Yup. Lawsuit. Paid for by the taxpayers.
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Even in the US, automated "enforcement" results in fines for the owner of the car unless the owner can prove someone else is responsible -- this would be things like red-light cameras.
I like the way you think. How many people are going to be driving cars with a cardboard version of Gordon Brown's tag taped over theirs?
Or even worse -- the MegaBlocks fanbois.
Yet that doesn't excuse the fact that it is (or was, anyway -- as I said, it's been years since I've looked at Blender) valid criticism of it, either.
And yes, there IS something wrong with learning a clunky UI, IF there's a better solution available. In my case there was, and I would have been stupid to use the worse solution simply because it was open source. Then again, I try to use the best tool for the job, instead of being blinded by any ideology; if that best tool is open source, great. If not, that's fine with me too.
Oh, I know, although at the time Maya was much more usable *for me*. The fact they had a free (beer) version (watermarked images) was good enough since I was just doing some concept art. Now that Autodesk got their hands on it, I have no doubt they've ruined both the UI and the free version as well.
Finding fault with Blender is* easy, and for much the same reason people find fault with GIMP -- the UI is something you either love, or absolutely despise, with very little in between.
*Referring to Blender circa 2003, so this may need to be changed to "was". The UI was bad enough at the time to make me not look back.
Insert traveling salesman problem here. Assume salesman uses a car.
I doubt they're updating the firmware on those machines, and I doubt they're using the same branch of firmware in the first place.
Go ahead, mod me troll because I don't kiss Obama's ass. I don't kiss any politicians asses since they're ALL lying bastards. Every last one of them should be limited to one term and barred for life from any other public office - limit the damage they can do, and limit the pandering since they're not trying to save their job or line themselves up for a different one.
Find me ONE politician that really believes they are there to serve the public, and isn't serving themselves first. Just one. I won't hold my breath.
On the other hand, this country is getting exactly the leadership it deserves. When people vote for slogans and red/blue instead of forcing people to take a position and voting on those positions, they deserve to be bent over and fucked. Unfortunately, it screws the rest of us as well.
I got the exact opposite -- it's supposed to be attached to things yet to go up, so that when they die, they can be hauled down quicker. Or it's supposed to help as a form of propulsion. They don't seem to know what they want to use their new toy for.
Seriously. What. Else. Did. You. Expect.
Obama has shown over and over than he has no concern for what the people want. In his mind, he was elected king, and will do anything he wants, the people and the constitution be damned. He may not be as stupid as Bush was to call the constitution "just a god-damned piece of paper" around cameras but he certainly doesn't have any more respect for it.
Is this sail really big enough to do any good? Sure, it can drag itself around, and maybe some of the smaller cube-sat type things made by colleges, but is a 25 sq m sail really going to matter much to a full-sized satellite?
Yes, I read the question. Scroll to the bottom of the NeHe tutorial pages and see that most of them have Linux, Linux/GLX, and/or Linux/SDL code downloads.
Use those. The OpenGL stuff is the same as it's cross platform. The Windows-specific stuff will have been replaced with Linux-specific stuff, and after a quick glance, is explained about as well as the windows-specific stuff (which is to say, mostly glossed over, since NeHe does OpenGL tutorials, not Windows/Linux/whatever tutorials).
If you're having problems with the linux-specific stuff, you should probably look for an X tutorial first, as most of the NeHe tutorials assume you already know how to do things like create a window.
No, it's not. So it was on the disk, but that's irrelevant. You're not entitled to everything on the disk when you bought the license for the game. It's called an add-on, or an optional component, or "DLC", and it costs extra.
No, it's more like selling a car, and then directing you to the performance parts department where you can purchase add-on parts that were developed prior-to and available at the time of purchase.
My truck didn't come with a supercharger, but the manufacturer had a factory-produced, dealer-installed, covered-by-the-standard-100k-warranty option available as an extra. Is the supercharger necessary? No. Is it desirable? Depends on the buyer.
Not from a technological standpoint, though.
I don't carry my cellphone all the time, or even most of the time. Half the time I want to have it around, I don't, because I'm not in the habit of carrying it with me. So they pull the records, and see that my phone was somewhere in an area that happens to contain my house, for days at a time -- was I sick, was I working from home, did I leave my phone behind while on vacation, or was I just being me?
What about little johnny -- based on his demographics, his phone should be glued to his thumbs, but had it taken away by his parents or was grounded for a couple weeks for bad grades? Is the location data accurate enough to say he was or was not somewhere?
Once they start using that data to convict people, then they're saying it's accurate enough. Which means that leaving your phone somewhere else helps (but only helps) establish an alibi.
It'd still make a great vacation -- getting the 10k out of it just makes the vacation a bit cheaper. But I'd only do it if I already had or was buying the boat anyway.
That's the way I'd do it. Get service from a company like http://www.inmarsat.com/ and a decent sized sailboat full of food, water, fuel, and books, and I'll be happy floating around the Pacific for a month.
Gamma or Alpha?
And then there's always the oddballs that refuse to stay addicted to the white.
Why is that a bad thing? Multiplayer isn't everything. For some people, it isn't anything.
I stand corrected then -- I was assuming you were referring to just watching on TV like most of us.
It is kind of hard when you realize that you just saw seven people die in front of your eyes.
Just being pedantic, but there's pretty good evidence that some, if not all, survived until impact with the ocean. Vehicle breakup was somewhere around 12Gs, which was survivable. On board oxygen was used, and switches that required pulling out against a spring had been changed to positions indicating an attempt to restore electrical power. Impact with the ocean was estimated to be somewhere around 200Gs. More here: http://history.nasa.gov/kerwin.html and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster#Cause_and_time_of_death
So unless you witnessed the remains of the cabin hitting the water, you didn't see (all) seven people die.
As long as the cable survives a mine fire, or a mine collapse, then running a cable is fine. If you can't guarantee the cable's survival, then wireless is probably the way to go.
I said nothing about navigation. Just remove the radios and you remove almost all of the abilities of the helicopter as it pertains to police usage, because they can't tell the ground units where they're at, and where the person they're chasing is.
You'd still have brakes and steering ability, but you'd lose the power-assist when the engine quit. Loss of control is more likely from a spike strip and resulting blowouts & flat tires.
Still think this is a bad idea though -- what happens when they trigger it at the "bad guy" and the guy in the next lane also gets his car's electronics fried? Yup. Lawsuit. Paid for by the taxpayers.