o 1 part Cylinder,
o 1 part Sphere,
o Various Cubes,
o 1 part Chees-O(tM) blue and white random splotch texture map
Instructions -
1. Place Sphere on Cylinder.
2. Place Cylinder and sphere on Rectangles
3. Place Chees-O(tM) blue and white random splotch texture map on everything.
4. Hit Frapee!
Real life Version
o 1 part trashcan
o 1 part dome-thingy
o Various size shoeboxes
o VerySmallMan(tM) (note that midgets don't work in this recipe)
o Silver and light blue spray paint.
o Duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape.
Instructions:
1. Place VerySmallMan(tM) in trashcan and place dome on top of trashcan. Seal with duct tape. Ignore ear shattering screams from VerySmallMan. Yes, he can breath, you did punch holes in the trashcan, right? RIGHT?
2. Duct tape shoe boxes to trashcan.
3. Spray paint.
4. Frapee!
I know that this is offtopic as hell, but just humor me, moderators.
Ostriches don't actually stick their heads in the sand when they are scared. Where this falsity comes from is that the original researchers that went to Africa saw the Ostriches with their heads in the sand and came to the conclusion that the birds were afraid of the humans and were trying to hide. In reality, the birds had most likely seen a man before and so had nothing to base it's fear on. Additionally (and this is the important bit), it is now known that when Ostriches stick their heads in the ground, they are digging for worms and grubs that lie just under the hotter surface.
Sorry for that little disturbance.. on with your lives.
I'm not sure if this is a troll of not, so I'll bite and just pray that it isn't.
For those of us in the graphic design and A/V fields, every meg of RAM and every little (or in this case, giant) speed boost counts.
I'm running on a p600 o/c'ed to 733 with 384 megs of RAM. It takes Adobe Illustrator 9 a full 3 minutes to load with my vast font archive and don't even get me started on how it crawls when I open one of my 150 meg image projects.
All this running on top of Windows 2000.
Man, I just realised just how funny that is. Seriously, either these software start spitting out better code (ya right, like THAT's gonna fit into their business model) or give me more UMPH.
Perhaps you are right and I missed the point. But, I already knew that the mainstream press has its pockets stuffed by the highest bidders: it wasn't news to me. What was news to me was that there were admins out there that didn't even bother to check that there was a password to change.
I guess we all take the daily news in a different light; parse accordingly.
You are, of course, right. My mistake and to any out there in TV land that were offended: My most sincere apologies.
But, lets face it: there is such a great saturation of windows users that there are so many bad NT admins out there that it is absolutly sickening. One of the reasons that the vast majority of *UNIX admins, that I have met, are factors more competant on the whole than NT admins is simply that there is a certain level of experience (and dare I say it, intelligence) to gain entrance. That is something that is not there with NT simply because any nitwit with a do-it-yourself itch can install a warezed copy of NT. On successful (more or less) installation, they think that they know enough to get a job as an admin.. THAT'S where the trouble begins.
On passwords, how many people do you think look at the root password dialogue box on a Unix install and say 'I can't think of a good one, I'll just make it "password" for now, and change it later'? I'd guess it's a hell of a lot. That's why the whole MSSQL thing was blown out of proportion - a weak password is just as bad as not having one at all, and perhaps worse.
This is bad. VERY VERY bad. While I do not necessarily condone a required level of education to run a computer (some days I do.. just not today.:), I do think that the setup should disallow certain types of passwords (or at least give warning that such pass words are insecure. Some passwords are:
Made up of one letter repeated.
$name == $password
I might also go so far as to require these additional measures:
Must have >7 letters/number
! all one case.
mixd letters and number
and to the extreme:random password, 16digits.
Maybe not realistic for a home user, but even NT5 won't let me install with less than 6 characters; why does linux (or Corel and RedHat, havn't reinstalled SuSE or Slack recently: didn't need to.:).
Finally, I think that you are wrong about the MCSE competency thing: awhile back, my company was interviewing for NT admins and a quite a few of the interviewees that we had com in turned out to be kids straight out of some two week MCSE cram course. No exp, nothing.
I'm also seeing more and more NT admins out there that are completly foregoing the MCSEs and just doing their jobs. They know full well that the MCSE exams are a load of crap and marketing hype.
While on the whole, I don't agree with MS' practices (coding, design, law, etc.), I have to agree with them on the judgment they made the other day (or week, who am I to remember all this crazy tech news) with regard to the default password on SQLServer 7.0.
There is a certain level of aquired knowledge and experience that I believe is necessary to work at the professional level; especially when it comes to the Internet and public software applications. One of the things that any admin knows (or at least should know!) is that you have a hard password and you change it often (I change mine on my server at home on a weekly basis).
My point is this: while an NT admin (or MCSE brat; whatever is at hand) might be able to get away with using a software with a default password, and then blame it on MS, a REAL admin knows his/her system and knows better than to not change a password. BSD is not only more secure because the default install is smart, it is more secure because the user is too.
BSD is secure because it is developed by security freaks that audit (and reaudit) the code looking for possible exploits and programming errors that could compromise a system. They have a zero tolerance stance when it comes to security, and I can do no more than commend them on this. Good job guys and gals, all of us BSDers are thankful and appreciative for all you hard work.
The Desktop as Desk Top
In 2010, a "desktop" will be a desk top...in other words, by plugging our computer into an office desk, its top becomes a gigantic computer screen--an interactive photonic display. You won't need a keyboard because files can be opened and closed simply by touching and dragging with your finger. And for those throwbacks who must have a keyboard, we've supplied that as well.
A virtual keyboard can be momentarily created on the tabletop, only to disappear when no longer needed. Now you see it, now you don't.
This has got to be the most idiotic thing that I have ever heard of in my entire friggin' life. Think about this: you sit down and plug your comp into your desk and you proceed to work for 8 hours bent of your desk.. I don't know about you people, but I have three monitors hooked up to my machine and at the end of the day..12-14 hour days at that.. I have a bastard of a crick in my neck. If I had to hunch over all day, not only would my neck hurt, but so would my back.. and as a added incentive, my woman could call me quasimodo from then on.
I think that perhaps our underinformed friend was referring to the fact that there is nowhere to place the proxy settings and therefore it is utterly useless to him.
While this is not exactly a 'standard compliant' required feature, it is a feature that I would expect in any modern browser -- even a trimmed down one like this is.
While the mozilla project does support projects, this is NOT the mozilla project; it is only using the Gecko rendering engine that was made by the Mozilla team for use in, among other things, the Mozilla project.
Exactly what color are farts? Does methane turn green in this thing's viewfinder(orwhatever)? Will it be some color for the methane and millions of specks of another color so that I'll have a jet of sparkly gas shoot outta my butt hours after I have a giant bowl of beans?
I mean, come on! The scientific community want to know, right? Right?
The setting is deep space, just beyond the range of Earth's best telescopes. The leader of the Fifth Explorer Force is speaking to the Commander in Chief...
They're made out of spam.
spam?
spam. They're made out of spam.
[spam spam spam spam spam...]
Just spam?
There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely spam.
That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars.
They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines.
So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact.
They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Spam made the machines.
[SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM radio signals and SPAM]
That's ridiculous. How can spam make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient spam.
I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in this sector and they're made out of spam.
Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a spam stage.
Nope. They're born spam and they die spam. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of spam?
[SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!]
God dammit! Will someone please shut those bloody Vikings up!? Oh, erm, hmm, where were we?
Man, remember the G-Funk dancing people in clean suits? Can you imagine what they'd do with a marketing phrase like.. V-Groove?
I can just see it now:
"A hush falls over the crowd as the lights dim. In awed quiet, the sound of the spotlight being turned on is like a gunshot in the night. Piercing the air, the light flies about through the stuffy atmosphere of the club and finally falls upon a small door in the back of the room.
[Groovy music starts up in the background, quiet at first and slowly getting louder.]
The door swings open and.. THE CLEANSUITS ARE BACK!
[The music is going full blast with George Clinton singing some funky tune.]
Ba je bank bank buhdank nank kedank!
[Fades to white and the Intel Logo fades in. An announcer with a deep, sauve voice sounds off;]
"Intel present the new line of chip, the Funktaniums, using the new V-Groove process. Get one today and get laid tonight."
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Man, I have to lay off of the Saturday Night Fever.
I don't know, man. If I were designing this box, I would only mount the HD when I had to. After I had finished writing my save game or whatever to the HD, i would hope that the machine would umount.
God forbid this would crash during a save. Who know what havoc that would cause (besides the obvious fact that I would go ballistic on the machine for losing 5 hours of my life..).
The thing that worries me is this: I can still play my sega genesis even after owning it for 8-9 years. My nintendo is kind of flaky, but it was pretty flaky when I bought it.. we all remember having to blow into the cartridges to get them to work, right? Now, the X-Box is using a hard disk. How many people here would like to bet that the HD of the XBox will still be working 8-9 years from when I buy it. Please raise your hands..
I'm not sure about the motives behind Iowa's postion, but it should be pretty obvious what Washington's are. Just how many jobs do you think are tied up in Washington (Seattle, come one people!) because MS has their HQ there?
Not just people that are on salaries; temp workers, contracter, and then food and lodging for all of them.
MS supports a large part of the economy and were MS to shut down or even have to lay off large parts of the workforce, you can damned well bet that there will be a (substantiated or otherwise) large bit of economic turmoil in Washington.
This is not real and true support on WA states part, this is them watching their backs.
Tell me: what feature do you really need for developing models for video games?
polygon and vertex manipulation
basic animation controls
texture mapping controls
that's it. As far as I can tell, there is no immediate application for NURBS (non-uniform rational b-slines; see Rhino3d for more info). I think that the PS2 is the only gaming platform that supports them, and even there it is too slow for much.
I think that if Kinetix can make a really nice, STABLE version of MAX for free, more power to them: I'm gonna stick with Rhino3d (export > 3ds) and using MAX for it's great material making abilities and the video post.
Actually, the sociological implications of people renaming themselves with handles is very interesting.
In a few other non-judeo-christian [note: I may be far off of the mark as to the starting of naming individuals at birth. Please correct me if I am wring here. Thanks.] cultures (Native american tribes come to mind), the children are either given the opportunity to aquire names for themselves or are named by the tribe describing a prominent feature (he who rides with big shlong), life occurance (he who stands tall in cold water), etc.
What makes the Internet (BBS' and all other places where handles are used) is that the people in our culture remake themselves in an image that more suits them. Effectivly rebirthing ourselves as new individuals, online. We can create entire fantasy universes (in our monds or otherwise) to interact in with other people that we would never have met otherwise.
Back on topic: I think that your comment:
Perhaps I'm ready too much into this, but I find it sad that many people that knew him knew him via handle, and not name. Maybe I'm "old fashioned," but I don't think that handles are as personal as a name.
You name is at the core of your identity. Your handle is a front, a persona we put out to shield ourselves. I would like to think that I people that know me get to know the real me, instead of a convenient front.
is way off of the mark. My handle has personal meaning for me; it was not chosen idly and has stayed with me throughout my Internet existance (about 4 or 5 years.. 8 or 9 if you count the local BBS's). I find that I am very comfortable with my handle and it is in no way a sign of disrespect to be called by it.
As for them: "..not knowing the Individual behind the curtain..", since when does anyone? This may be a naive perspective on my part (probably is, I don't care for socialising all that much), but what are you but what other people see you as. The online tech community saw Espy as a bright, young and technically gifted individual. I'm pretty sure that this is exactly what he was. Would you care to comment otherwise?
Did anyone else make the connection that these things are a lot like the personal shield things in Dune? They stop energy blasts and whatnot, but bullets and knives are still able to penetrate.
Kinda similar except for the fact that in Dune, the fields stopped anything that was moving quickly too, so you had to slowly slip the knife into the field to kill someone.
A pale shadow compared to the first one. This is something that I really was expecting. Disney has been more interested in making quick, mainstream, sellable things lately and I really didn't expect Fantasia 2000 to be much different.
It was still an order of magnitude (or more) better than that POS Dinosaur movie.
Slashdot Mirror
CGI Version:
o 1 part Cylinder,
o 1 part Sphere,
o Various Cubes,
o 1 part Chees-O(tM) blue and white random splotch texture map
Instructions -
1. Place Sphere on Cylinder.
2. Place Cylinder and sphere on Rectangles
3. Place Chees-O(tM) blue and white random splotch texture map on everything.
4. Hit Frapee!
Real life Version
o 1 part trashcan
o 1 part dome-thingy
o Various size shoeboxes
o VerySmallMan(tM) (note that midgets don't work in this recipe)
o Silver and light blue spray paint.
o Duct tape. Lots and lots of duct tape.
Instructions:
1. Place VerySmallMan(tM) in trashcan and place dome on top of trashcan. Seal with duct tape. Ignore ear shattering screams from VerySmallMan. Yes, he can breath, you did punch holes in the trashcan, right? RIGHT?
2. Duct tape shoe boxes to trashcan.
3. Spray paint.
4. Frapee!
Rami
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Horatory:
"Marked by exhortation or strong urging: a hortatory speech."
That's funny, for a second there, I thought that I had a new word to use in my second job: High-Jammy-Pimpmaster Supreme.
Shucks.
Rami
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I know that this is offtopic as hell, but just humor me, moderators.
Ostriches don't actually stick their heads in the sand when they are scared. Where this falsity comes from is that the original researchers that went to Africa saw the Ostriches with their heads in the sand and came to the conclusion that the birds were afraid of the humans and were trying to hide. In reality, the birds had most likely seen a man before and so had nothing to base it's fear on. Additionally (and this is the important bit), it is now known that when Ostriches stick their heads in the ground, they are digging for worms and grubs that lie just under the hotter surface.
Sorry for that little disturbance.. on with your lives.
Rami
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I'm not sure if this is a troll of not, so I'll bite and just pray that it isn't.
For those of us in the graphic design and A/V fields, every meg of RAM and every little (or in this case, giant) speed boost counts.
I'm running on a p600 o/c'ed to 733 with 384 megs of RAM. It takes Adobe Illustrator 9 a full 3 minutes to load with my vast font archive and don't even get me started on how it crawls when I open one of my 150 meg image projects.
All this running on top of Windows 2000.
Man, I just realised just how funny that is. Seriously, either these software start spitting out better code (ya right, like THAT's gonna fit into their business model) or give me more UMPH.
UMPH is good. This P4 is no different.
Rami
--
Perhaps you are right and I missed the point. But, I already knew that the mainstream press has its pockets stuffed by the highest bidders: it wasn't news to me. What was news to me was that there were admins out there that didn't even bother to check that there was a password to change.
I guess we all take the daily news in a different light; parse accordingly.
Rami
--
But, lets face it: there is such a great saturation of windows users that there are so many bad NT admins out there that it is absolutly sickening. One of the reasons that the vast majority of *UNIX admins, that I have met, are factors more competant on the whole than NT admins is simply that there is a certain level of experience (and dare I say it, intelligence) to gain entrance. That is something that is not there with NT simply because any nitwit with a do-it-yourself itch can install a warezed copy of NT. On successful (more or less) installation, they think that they know enough to get a job as an admin.. THAT'S where the trouble begins.
This is bad. VERY VERY bad. While I do not necessarily condone a required level of education to run a computer (some days I do.. just not today.
I might also go so far as to require these additional measures:
Maybe not realistic for a home user, but even NT5 won't let me install with less than 6 characters; why does linux (or Corel and RedHat, havn't reinstalled SuSE or Slack recently: didn't need to.
Finally, I think that you are wrong about the MCSE competency thing: awhile back, my company was interviewing for NT admins and a quite a few of the interviewees that we had com in turned out to be kids straight out of some two week MCSE cram course. No exp, nothing.
I'm also seeing more and more NT admins out there that are completly foregoing the MCSEs and just doing their jobs. They know full well that the MCSE exams are a load of crap and marketing hype.
Yours,
Rami
--
While on the whole, I don't agree with MS' practices (coding, design, law, etc.), I have to agree with them on the judgment they made the other day (or week, who am I to remember all this crazy tech news) with regard to the default password on SQLServer 7.0.
There is a certain level of aquired knowledge and experience that I believe is necessary to work at the professional level; especially when it comes to the Internet and public software applications. One of the things that any admin knows (or at least should know!) is that you have a hard password and you change it often (I change mine on my server at home on a weekly basis).
My point is this: while an NT admin (or MCSE brat; whatever is at hand) might be able to get away with using a software with a default password, and then blame it on MS, a REAL admin knows his/her system and knows better than to not change a password. BSD is not only more secure because the default install is smart, it is more secure because the user is too.
BSD is secure because it is developed by security freaks that audit (and reaudit) the code looking for possible exploits and programming errors that could compromise a system. They have a zero tolerance stance when it comes to security, and I can do no more than commend them on this. Good job guys and gals, all of us BSDers are thankful and appreciative for all you hard work.
Rami
--
This has got to be the most idiotic thing that I have ever heard of in my entire friggin' life. Think about this: you sit down and plug your comp into your desk and you proceed to work for 8 hours bent of your desk.. I don't know about you people, but I have three monitors hooked up to my machine and at the end of the day..12-14 hour days at that.. I have a bastard of a crick in my neck. If I had to hunch over all day, not only would my neck hurt, but so would my back.. and as a added incentive, my woman could call me quasimodo from then on.
No thanks.
Rami
--
I think that perhaps our underinformed friend was referring to the fact that there is nowhere to place the proxy settings and therefore it is utterly useless to him.
While this is not exactly a 'standard compliant' required feature, it is a feature that I would expect in any modern browser -- even a trimmed down one like this is.
While the mozilla project does support projects, this is NOT the mozilla project; it is only using the Gecko rendering engine that was made by the Mozilla team for use in, among other things, the Mozilla project.
Rami
--
I'd like to really know how exactly that was a troll? Maybe it wasn't all that funny, but certainly not a troll.
Rami
--
Exactly what color are farts? Does methane turn green in this thing's viewfinder(orwhatever)? Will it be some color for the methane and millions of specks of another color so that I'll have a jet of sparkly gas shoot outta my butt hours after I have a giant bowl of beans?
I mean, come on! The scientific community want to know, right? Right?
Rami
--
Rami
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LM: Have you spent much time with Linux developers? For example, have you met Linus Torvalds?
Dell: Yes.
So, Mike, which is it? Did you spend time with some Linux dev guys or did you meet The Man himself?
Hmm.
Rami
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I can just see it now:
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Man, I have to lay off of the Saturday Night Fever.
Rami
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I don't know, man. If I were designing this box, I would only mount the HD when I had to. After I had finished writing my save game or whatever to the HD, i would hope that the machine would umount.
God forbid this would crash during a save. Who know what havoc that would cause (besides the obvious fact that I would go ballistic on the machine for losing 5 hours of my life..).
The thing that worries me is this: I can still play my sega genesis even after owning it for 8-9 years. My nintendo is kind of flaky, but it was pretty flaky when I bought it.. we all remember having to blow into the cartridges to get them to work, right? Now, the X-Box is using a hard disk. How many people here would like to bet that the HD of the XBox will still be working 8-9 years from when I buy it. Please raise your hands..
I didn't think so.
Rami
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I'm not sure about the motives behind Iowa's postion, but it should be pretty obvious what Washington's are. Just how many jobs do you think are tied up in Washington (Seattle, come one people!) because MS has their HQ there?
Not just people that are on salaries; temp workers, contracter, and then food and lodging for all of them.
MS supports a large part of the economy and were MS to shut down or even have to lay off large parts of the workforce, you can damned well bet that there will be a (substantiated or otherwise) large bit of economic turmoil in Washington.
This is not real and true support on WA states part, this is them watching their backs.
(I wonder what is in Iowa...)
Rami
Guy not fooled by little green men.
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polygon and vertex manipulation
basic animation controls
texture mapping controls
that's it. As far as I can tell, there is no immediate application for NURBS (non-uniform rational b-slines; see Rhino3d for more info). I think that the PS2 is the only gaming platform that supports them, and even there it is too slow for much.
I think that if Kinetix can make a really nice, STABLE version of MAX for free, more power to them: I'm gonna stick with Rhino3d (export > 3ds) and using MAX for it's great material making abilities and the video post.
Rami
--
Never in my entire Slashdot user existance have I had to sit down after reading a post.
My friend, that was the most eloquently written post that I have ever read. Thank you.
Rami James
--
In a few other non-judeo-christian [note: I may be far off of the mark as to the starting of naming individuals at birth. Please correct me if I am wring here. Thanks.] cultures (Native american tribes come to mind), the children are either given the opportunity to aquire names for themselves or are named by the tribe describing a prominent feature (he who rides with big shlong), life occurance (he who stands tall in cold water), etc.
What makes the Internet (BBS' and all other places where handles are used) is that the people in our culture remake themselves in an image that more suits them. Effectivly rebirthing ourselves as new individuals, online. We can create entire fantasy universes (in our monds or otherwise) to interact in with other people that we would never have met otherwise.
Back on topic: I think that your comment:
is way off of the mark. My handle has personal meaning for me; it was not chosen idly and has stayed with me throughout my Internet existance (about 4 or 5 years.. 8 or 9 if you count the local BBS's). I find that I am very comfortable with my handle and it is in no way a sign of disrespect to be called by it.
As for them: "..not knowing the Individual behind the curtain..", since when does anyone? This may be a naive perspective on my part (probably is, I don't care for socialising all that much), but what are you but what other people see you as. The online tech community saw Espy as a bright, young and technically gifted individual. I'm pretty sure that this is exactly what he was. Would you care to comment otherwise?
Rami James / Lonesmurf
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I don't think that rule applies to nicknames on the Internet because capitalization in the name is an integral part.
Rami
--
Did anyone else make the connection that these things are a lot like the personal shield things in Dune? They stop energy blasts and whatnot, but bullets and knives are still able to penetrate.
Kinda similar except for the fact that in Dune, the fields stopped anything that was moving quickly too, so you had to slowly slip the knife into the field to kill someone.
Yum!
Rami James
Guy with sand in his pants.
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Gee Ess Cube?
Gee Scoob Eee?
Hey! Scooby snacks for everybody!
Rami James
Guy who fried his brain today. (Must.. go.. home!)
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NOW it's all so clear to me as to why iD would want to sell off it's SGI PowerHaus(tm).
The new models are on the way!
Rami James
Guy with Duh.
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Absolutely nothing: It's running SunOs :)
Somehow I don't think that this is even all that relevant, you ALREADY have root access. You can delete/modify anything you want.
Rami
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I went to it: It sucked.
A pale shadow compared to the first one. This is something that I really was expecting. Disney has been more interested in making quick, mainstream, sellable things lately and I really didn't expect Fantasia 2000 to be much different.
It was still an order of magnitude (or more) better than that POS Dinosaur movie.
Rami
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