This one has been going around the net for a bit and may be recognized by some Slashdotters. However, this one has only been showing on the telly for about a month or so.
IMHO, they are trying to copy the XXXX beer ads. Yanno, those funny ones about the mythological fishing trip... I'd be stuffed if I could find a URL of them though.
``That they're going to focus on `Leap Ahead' makes me think about the technology,'' said Freedman. ``Not, `buy me because I'm inside,' but `buy me because I'm doing something unique.'''...like x86 linux?
This, kind readers, is why casual games are actually pretty hardcore. Casual games can be relaxing, but I find puzzles frustrating. I've tried my hand at sudoku and I find that one boring; adding another 16 letters for word-games just doesn't do it for me. I'm sorry, but word/puzzle games are not "hardcore".
I have however been playing this game which you can get here. It's much better than those 60-minute games, and it is far more addicitive. (and free!) All that's its missing is the obligatory blood^H^H^H^H^HTux mascot...
Seriously, 5 billion lost? {snip} This is just more bullshit propaganda spread by the **AA. In other words: every company can and will loose money whenever a new competitor enters the market with a better deal. Why should the R1AA feel that they have a divine right to be different? They are deceiving themselves. They would be better off changing business practices like every other competitive business in the economy. Then profits will return to 'normal'. Change with the market or get lift in its dust.
So Blender is an IDE to a Raytracer, just like Povray ? I think you've used the wrong software. No, I said a compatible raytracer. Obviously POV-Ray can't be used with Blender. DUH.
Oh, and Blender really isn't a raytracer per-say, its rendering pipeline only understands triangles and meshes. On the other hand, POV-Ray can understand solids without cheating.
the tools you mention to rotate objects are integrated, in fact I believe they've been there from the start. I was talking about automating the process. Say I have an object and I want to rotate it, move it, make a copy, rotate the copy, move it, make a copy, etc., and do it 100 times. What if I wanted to later change the spacing/rotation-gap without the sizes (say)? That's hard to do after the fact.
Oh yeah, please tell me where to find this feature and I'll admit that I was wrong.
Untrue. Madagascar was done with in-house proprietary tools.
True, but guess what that code used? Blender. The DVD shows something that looks like Blender open and also a the GIMP in a patched form. The reason why it doesn't look like them is because of all their "in-house proprietary" patches. But if you look at the interfaces, you'll see they look very very familar.
You know what would be nice, the submitter including a sentance on what the software did. Anyone with two brain cells to throw together can tell what is does. Let's look at the submission:
fluid dynamics simulation inverse kinematics system improved boolean tools animation system flive UV unwrapping LSCM Modifier stack system 3d manipulators full undo system Obviously it is the IDE to a 3D Raytracer. (be it Yafray or any other compatible raytracer.)
Actually, it's just like POVRay, except that POVRay is better. Until Blender comes with a 'reveal codes' in Blender where we can freely script and edit our objects, it won't be as powerful even though Blender comes with more features. I've used Blender to make my wallpaper of a semi-transparent metallic puddle with a simple path, (with the ego-pleasing "Mine" in brazenly proud text floating above it,) and the effect is very very nice. My only gripe is that I wish I didn't have to use scripts to make a dozen copies of an object and rotate each one successively by a discrete amount like in this picture.
Blender is a great program. It's so good that they made Madagascar with Blender on a Linux system. (The Penguins in the movie are an inside joke to the different distros of Linux.)
With Blender, you have the power to make movies on your computer. Check it out.
dupedot.org is stealing all our Google stories. AND It looks like they've stolen the Slashdot logo too. The fiends! That's copyright infringement! With such brazen stealing going on, they are making themselves subject to public DOS attack... they NEED to be slashdotted.
Due to a security flaw in your browser, some links on your computer have been damaged and are now pointing to the wrong websites, such as those that install spyware and adware. To correct this problem, Microsoft wishes to inform its customers that the correct link to Windows Update is actually this one. If you are a Windows user, we recommend that you update to the latest version immediately.
Actually, that's the dipole approximation of the Earth's magnetic pole as seen from above the Article Circle. The link said: Although almost 90% of the observed magnetic field can be approximated by a dipole, the 10% left over, called the non-dipole field cannot be ignored. In places it can be large relative to the dipole field, thus altering noticeably the shape of the observed field. Hence I was referring to this image of the total field intensity.
From the link I posted: The strength of the magnetic field is no longer a maximum at the North Magnetic Pole. In fact, there are now two maxima, one over central Canada, the other over Siberia. So if we were to plot 'magnetic field strength magnitude' over 'Earth surface', it would have two local maxima. (in other words, see the picture.) At the moment, the one over Canada is stronger. The North Pole appears to 'move' when you are at a distance because the field strength of the Siberian maxima is getting stronger relative to the Canadian maxima. It is a simple average of two magnetic fields.
It looks like there are two magnetic norths on the planet. Our current one looks like it is just the additive of the major and minor magnetic fields of the earth with their collective strengths oscillating over time... hence the apparent movement.
Hmm, this might be my first post that gets snipped. I wonder if I should add more.;-)
The government, on the other hand, can't be fired. Sure, the government can change leadership every four years, and new Congresspeople can be elected every so many years, but you still can't fire the government.
Oh, okay. I'm not sure how you work Over There, so thanks for the info. I was going from how we work in Australia.
IANAL and IANAP (I Am Not A Politician) but the head honchos of the Queensland Transport are appointed by the State Transportation Minister. When the balance of power swaps side, we get a new Transport Minister who naturally wants the dept run by people who won't stab him in the back, i.e. that won't bludge through the workday and overall make the govt look bad because they "voted for the other guy". It is really good because the people maintaining the roads want to keep a good image which means good roads.
Our roads are separated into different divisions of power: Local, State and Federal. If a road isn't repaired, (especially if the Local Council has decided to levy ratepayers the classic "one-off road toll" every year and not do anything,) we vote somebody else in until somebody listens to us and actually repairs the roads instead of pocketing the cash. Even an independent. Oh yeah, we've got a lot of people to choose from too, and that's just on the local level.
If the maintainers of those private roads rest on their laurels, then commuters and travelers will switch to other forms of transportation that don't require those roads, which means that the roads will lose money until they improve their conditions.
But when all the roads are privatised and are subsequently shot to pieces, how will I get to the train station? I can't, especially when it's 20kms away. My point is that there are rarely alternatives. Especially for the average citizen who doesn't live in a city. Privatising roads that I regularly use simply to get from A to B when there are no other forms of transport into town is not a Good Thing.
Sadly, the other alternatives that you refer to (bus or train) have had a history of being privatized long before the roads are. When the choice is commercial or commercial, there is no choice. It's like asking people what the difference is in oil price between the likes of Shell or Caltex or BP: nothing if any at all.
Roads at the moment are bad enough without them being privatised.
If the road is congested and needs to be widened, the government now has to deal with lengthy bureaucratic processes of getting the funding, securing right of way, dealing with NIMBYs and environmentalists, and it may take many years to widen that road. And even then, the tax dollars quickly add up. If a private road wanted to be widened and if profits are going strong, then they would widen it, one way or another (even if they had to double deck it or build underground; whatever's good for their customers and their wallets).
The Law Is The Same For Business And Government. Private Companies would have to go through the same amount of hoops if not more than the government would: the government can keep things 'in house' which makes for speedy decisions, while Private Companies have to hire lawyers and lobbyists to get the same decision. Let's not ignore the fact that the Government does NOT have to pay shareholders: all the money goes where it has to and isn't wasted on some tycoon living it up in the Bahamas or Caribbean. Answer me this: which way do you think would keep costs down and better use the sources of income?
Privatization isn't good. If you take a look, all of the other Evil Stuff discussed on Slashdot (Spyware, Software Patents, Digital Rights Management, etc.) isn't coming from the government: it is coming from private companies. Do you really want your public roads in the hands of someone like Sony? I sure don't.
If the state and federal governments are going to put tracking devices in our cars in order to have us pay up for our roads, we might as well privatize them. But if the private company decides to keep charging motorists tolls and let road maintenence slide in the name of Bigger Return To Our Shareholders, I can't stop them since to them I am only Mr Private "Scapegoat" Citizen. Where's the accountability?
in two player mode, or with a rearview mirror, etc.
A game I bought last week uses about 60%-70% of half a screen per viewport in two player mode. I imagine that multiple viewport environments would benefit greatly from extra cores. IANAGD (I Am Not A Game Developer), but ratios like that tell me that dedicating seperate cores to seperate players would result in a significant improvement.
Some games I've played split the screen down the middle and don't sort their verticies: they just calculate everything in the battle arena and just draw throw them at the graphics engine with two different viewpoints. When you've got big moving objects (that hide smaller objects)) to jump over to get to the other team, the slowdown from not sorting your verticies is quite noticeable. (It was only at 30fps to begin with in 1P mode. 2P was almost unplayable.) With extra cores there is no reason why you can't have your graphics engine in another process/core and assign it the lower half (or side) of the screen.
There's no reason why you need to use a GPU anyway. I've seen Tomb Raider (DOS demo ver.) run a 486DX2/66 without hardware acceleration and keep up a decent frame rate. Software renderers would be very quick to port to SMP environments if you do it right.
I'll wait ...until they come out with holographic-RW From this pdf:
InPhase is developing a rewritable material and system to expand the technology into more traditional data storage markets.
but this and this is. Why did the summary only link to the press release and not the info? I had to browse the site a little get some interesting stuff.
And for my fellow PDF viewing overlords, read thisthis and this.
Slashdot Mirror
Right. And I suppose that's because "char *array2d[]" is exactly the same as "char **array2d".
If you actually did your stuff right, you'll use [] for arrays, and a list of pointers to index into each extra dimension.
what's really laughable are the Carlton Beer Ads.
This one has been going around the net for a bit and may be recognized by some Slashdotters. However, this one has only been showing on the telly for about a month or so.
IMHO, they are trying to copy the XXXX beer ads. Yanno, those funny ones about the mythological fishing trip... I'd be stuffed if I could find a URL of them though.
Hmm, so hard to crack jokes at Leap Ahead. Maybe they made that with slashdot crowd in mind... In Korea, only old people crack jokes at Leap Ahead.
5. All Your Transistor Base Are Belong To Us.
I think you are referring to the inbuilt features of this device.
``That they're going to focus on `Leap Ahead' makes me think about the technology,'' said Freedman. ``Not, `buy me because I'm inside,' but `buy me because I'm doing something unique.''' ...like x86 linux?
wait...
This, kind readers, is why casual games are actually pretty hardcore.
Casual games can be relaxing, but I find puzzles frustrating. I've tried my hand at sudoku and I find that one boring; adding another 16 letters for word-games just doesn't do it for me. I'm sorry, but word/puzzle games are not "hardcore".
I have however been playing this game which you can get here. It's much better than those 60-minute games, and it is far more addicitive. (and free!) All that's its missing is the obligatory blood^H^H^H^H^HTux mascot...
The SlashdotInsideJoke(tm) filter forgot to work today. Here, I'll correct it for you:
Procrastination is like masturbation; you're only fscking yourself.
Seriously, 5 billion lost? {snip} This is just more bullshit propaganda spread by the **AA.
In other words: every company can and will loose money whenever a new competitor enters the market with a better deal. Why should the R1AA feel that they have a divine right to be different? They are deceiving themselves. They would be better off changing business practices like every other competitive business in the economy. Then profits will return to 'normal'. Change with the market or get lift in its dust.
So Blender is an IDE to a Raytracer, just like Povray ? I think you've used the wrong software.
No, I said a compatible raytracer. Obviously POV-Ray can't be used with Blender. DUH.
Oh, and Blender really isn't a raytracer per-say, its rendering pipeline only understands triangles and meshes. On the other hand, POV-Ray can understand solids without cheating.
the tools you mention to rotate objects are integrated, in fact I believe they've been there from the start.
I was talking about automating the process. Say I have an object and I want to rotate it, move it, make a copy, rotate the copy, move it, make a copy, etc., and do it 100 times. What if I wanted to later change the spacing/rotation-gap without the sizes (say)? That's hard to do after the fact.
Oh yeah, please tell me where to find this feature and I'll admit that I was wrong.
I think a true nerd would know what the paragraph is talking about when they see "UV" and "3d" in the same paragraph. You must be new here.
http://www.avast.com/ Just one more reason to stick with the free (as in beer) stuff.
Untrue. Madagascar was done with in-house proprietary tools.
True, but guess what that code used? Blender. The DVD shows something that looks like Blender open and also a the GIMP in a patched form. The reason why it doesn't look like them is because of all their "in-house proprietary" patches. But if you look at the interfaces, you'll see they look very very familar.
You know what would be nice, the submitter including a sentance on what the software did.
Anyone with two brain cells to throw together can tell what is does. Let's look at the submission:
fluid dynamics simulation
inverse kinematics system
improved boolean tools
animation system
flive UV unwrapping LSCM
Modifier stack system
3d manipulators
full undo system
Obviously it is the IDE to a 3D Raytracer. (be it Yafray or any other compatible raytracer.)
Actually, it's just like POVRay, except that POVRay is better. Until Blender comes with a 'reveal codes' in Blender where we can freely script and edit our objects, it won't be as powerful even though Blender comes with more features. I've used Blender to make my wallpaper of a semi-transparent metallic puddle with a simple path, (with the ego-pleasing "Mine" in brazenly proud text floating above it,) and the effect is very very nice. My only gripe is that I wish I didn't have to use scripts to make a dozen copies of an object and rotate each one successively by a discrete amount like in this picture.
Blender is a great program. It's so good that they made Madagascar with Blender on a Linux system. (The Penguins in the movie are an inside joke to the different distros of Linux.)
With Blender, you have the power to make movies on your computer. Check it out.
The Slashdot effect has blended the blender homepage.
You should've used Coral Cache, you insensitive clods!
dupedot.org is stealing all our Google stories. AND It looks like they've stolen the Slashdot logo too.
The fiends! That's copyright infringement! With such brazen stealing going on, they are making themselves subject to public DOS attack... they NEED to be slashdotted.
wait...
Due to a security flaw in your browser, some links on your computer have been damaged and are now pointing to the wrong websites, such as those that install spyware and adware. To correct this problem, Microsoft wishes to inform its customers that the correct link to Windows Update is actually this one. If you are a Windows user, we recommend that you update to the latest version immediately.
Actually, that's the dipole approximation of the Earth's magnetic pole as seen from above the Article Circle. The link said:
Although almost 90% of the observed magnetic field can be approximated by a dipole, the 10% left over, called the non-dipole field cannot be ignored. In places it can be large relative to the dipole field, thus altering noticeably the shape of the observed field.
Hence I was referring to this image of the total field intensity.
From the link I posted:
The strength of the magnetic field is no longer a maximum at the North Magnetic Pole. In fact, there are now two maxima, one over central Canada, the other over Siberia.
So if we were to plot 'magnetic field strength magnitude' over 'Earth surface', it would have two local maxima. (in other words, see the picture.) At the moment, the one over Canada is stronger. The North Pole appears to 'move' when you are at a distance because the field strength of the Siberian maxima is getting stronger relative to the Canadian maxima. It is a simple average of two magnetic fields.
But this site sure has them and this site has some too.
Read them. They are worth it.
It looks like there are two magnetic norths on the planet. Our current one looks like it is just the additive of the major and minor magnetic fields of the earth with their collective strengths oscillating over time... hence the apparent movement.
Oh, okay. I'm not sure how you work Over There, so thanks for the info. I was going from how we work in Australia.
If the maintainers of those private roads rest on their laurels, then commuters and travelers will switch to other forms of transportation that don't require those roads, which means that the roads will lose money until they improve their conditions.IANAL and IANAP (I Am Not A Politician) but the head honchos of the Queensland Transport are appointed by the State Transportation Minister. When the balance of power swaps side, we get a new Transport Minister who naturally wants the dept run by people who won't stab him in the back, i.e. that won't bludge through the workday and overall make the govt look bad because they "voted for the other guy". It is really good because the people maintaining the roads want to keep a good image which means good roads.
Our roads are separated into different divisions of power: Local, State and Federal. If a road isn't repaired, (especially if the Local Council has decided to levy ratepayers the classic "one-off road toll" every year and not do anything,) we vote somebody else in until somebody listens to us and actually repairs the roads instead of pocketing the cash. Even an independent. Oh yeah, we've got a lot of people to choose from too, and that's just on the local level.
But when all the roads are privatised and are subsequently shot to pieces, how will I get to the train station? I can't, especially when it's 20kms away. My point is that there are rarely alternatives. Especially for the average citizen who doesn't live in a city. Privatising roads that I regularly use simply to get from A to B when there are no other forms of transport into town is not a Good Thing.
If the road is congested and needs to be widened, the government now has to deal with lengthy bureaucratic processes of getting the funding, securing right of way, dealing with NIMBYs and environmentalists, and it may take many years to widen that road. And even then, the tax dollars quickly add up. If a private road wanted to be widened and if profits are going strong, then they would widen it, one way or another (even if they had to double deck it or build underground; whatever's good for their customers and their wallets).Sadly, the other alternatives that you refer to (bus or train) have had a history of being privatized long before the roads are. When the choice is commercial or commercial, there is no choice. It's like asking people what the difference is in oil price between the likes of Shell or Caltex or BP: nothing if any at all.
Roads at the moment are bad enough without them being privatised.
The Law Is The Same For Business And Government. Private Companies would have to go through the same amount of hoops if not more than the government would: the government can keep things 'in house' which makes for speedy decisions, while Private Companies have to hire lawyers and lobbyists to get the same decision. Let's not ignore the fact that the Government does NOT have to pay shareholders: all the money goes where it has to and isn't wasted on some tycoon living it up in the Bahamas or Caribbean. Answer me this: which way do you think would keep costs down and better use the sources of income?
Privatization isn't good. If you take a look, all of the other Evil Stuff discussed on Slashdot (Spyware, Software Patents, Digital Rights Management, etc.) isn't coming from the government: it is coming from private companies. Do you really want your public roads in the hands of someone like Sony? I sure don't.
If the state and federal governments are going to put tracking devices in our cars in order to have us pay up for our roads, we might as well privatize them.
But if the private company decides to keep charging motorists tolls and let road maintenence slide in the name of Bigger Return To Our Shareholders, I can't stop them since to them I am only Mr Private "Scapegoat" Citizen. Where's the accountability?
On the other hand, I can fire the government.
in two player mode, or with a rearview mirror, etc.
A game I bought last week uses about 60%-70% of half a screen per viewport in two player mode. I imagine that multiple viewport environments would benefit greatly from extra cores. IANAGD (I Am Not A Game Developer), but ratios like that tell me that dedicating seperate cores to seperate players would result in a significant improvement.
Some games I've played split the screen down the middle and don't sort their verticies: they just calculate everything in the battle arena and just draw throw them at the graphics engine with two different viewpoints. When you've got big moving objects (that hide smaller objects)) to jump over to get to the other team, the slowdown from not sorting your verticies is quite noticeable. (It was only at 30fps to begin with in 1P mode. 2P was almost unplayable.) With extra cores there is no reason why you can't have your graphics engine in another process/core and assign it the lower half (or side) of the screen.
There's no reason why you need to use a GPU anyway. I've seen Tomb Raider (DOS demo ver.) run a 486DX2/66 without hardware acceleration and keep up a decent frame rate. Software renderers would be very quick to port to SMP environments if you do it right.
I'll wait
...until they come out with holographic-RW
From this pdf:
InPhase is developing a rewritable material and
system to expand the technology into more
traditional data storage markets.
but this and this is. Why did the summary only link to the press release and not the info? I had to browse the site a little get some interesting stuff.
And for my fellow PDF viewing overlords, read this this and this.
Now I can't convert my images into seperate wavestreams and encode them as a 3-channel MPE^H^H^H ogg-vorbis file.
/dev/hat /mnt/head
It looks like the days of listening to our images are over. I wonder what the RIAA has to say about this?
mount -t tinfoil