Since I really dislike how the WikipediaSearch works (the one usable with FireFox), I just use google (FireFox) and type 'define:word'
90% it turns up something from wikipedia, which I will read (no need to go to wikipedia, it shows the definition there).
And if I want something else I just type.... 'wikipedia somethingelse'
It's a win-win, no?
It's just a depository of Gadgets, which doesn't mean they made them.
Like the things you can find on the google search engine, they didn't make those pages, they just made them easily accessible.
I've only had the luck to talk to him once, he was a simpatic guy, running an ambicious project even.. Really sad what happened to him. Hopefully he went to a better place
Just noted that when you search for Internet Explorer, it returns as 3rd: Mozilla Firefox Official site of the open-source browser. Includes product downloads, release notes, features overview,... www.mozilla.com/firefox/ - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
Well I started with Blender3D because it was free, and as a hobby I had no way of spending ~3.000 dollars for some software I might never use (30-day-free-trial... did it exist?). I read a few tutorials, watched Beard's videoTutorials... seemed hard, but then when I clicked on the -gallery- at blender3d.org I just HAD to learn blender.. Well after a week I was making my own little wonders(nothing compared to teh masterz). A week ago I finally managed to try out 3dsMAX8. Took me half an hour to install it (compared to blender's ~10second install). Then another 5minutes loading (slow laptop.. but blender goes relatively fast).. well the UI is a lot worse IMHO, the shortcut keys are ~weird (in blender it's easy to remember. B=boxSelect. S=size. x=remove (ctrl-x=cut in everything). E=extrude.... On maya7 it's pretty strange too. IIRC, q=size,w=move,e=somethingelse...
I think Blender is a real good place to start, especially if you are on a low budget. The online tutorials (Blender:Noob to Pro, Blender3D:Go Pro!, video tutorials, and especially with the ongoing Summer Of Documentation) are many, and the community is very friendly. There's not THAT many plugins as in 3ds, but it's really easy to do if you know Python (which is t00-EZ to learn).
Well, after reading all that, it makes me feel in somewhat of an "advanced country" since we choose what kind of high school we go to (instead of choosing classes) so there's a pretty nice difference between the 'not so smart people' and the other 'smarter kids'. Thus we have the many "Dumb schools" and the "hard schools" (to which I,of course, go to). And in those "hard schools" (I'm going to the hardest one in the area, and it's pretty easy), we learn programming! 1st grade (9th grade in USA) to 2nd is Pascal. Then the second "half" is Java for 3 years (High school is 5 years and not 4). And about people not interested in programming... I have to agree, they are really few. But that's HighSchools...
I'm 14 and I consider myself kind of 'stupid' for playing EnemyTerritory now, though I had played Freeciv and Doom3(rarely though) a year before... I pretty much quit playing games since last september... but saw that ET was ported on Linux so I tried it... Most of my friends do play computer games now, but I still consider it 'not so good' to spend much time playing games...
What are you people thinking??
Since when do companies try to do the best for the custumer?
The only thing they are supposed to do is suck out all your money, as much as possible and as fast as possible, of course. And how do they get more money? Theathers get their money when people come, and every person pays the ticket.
DVD's pay the ticket for 10 people, at the price of 1. And yet again, some people would buy both if the DVD came a month late like in old times.
It's a war between two powers. Of course the 3rd wins... guess who
As an artist.. Sometimes working with Blender cheers up life, mostly when it works, and I like to talk a lot on IRC, to get help or help others, or just talk, and most of these people (like 95%) are not Italy-residents. There are like 5 tutorials total that are actually somewhere in Italy, out of a pretty big number, thus -forget about learning-... CGtalk.com and CGartists.com looks to be a USA based website.. how could I live without it?
As a programmer.. I work with many people that are living in USA, Finland and Germany... Python for one is not hosted in Italy, nor is the Free Pascal Compiler, so it would mean no way to update the system (unless people imported it from the netherlands..), most guides are in USA and other European countries. Italy is really poor on the web..
As a person.. I have lived in USA for 3 years, so I have a lot of friends there, also since I'm Russian I like to talk to people in Russia..
As a student.. Physics! What the hell do Italians know about physics...? Programming? Just about nothing.... there are sooo few Italian websites it's a shame. Wikipedia is my best friend, and seems to be a not Italian-Resident (Ok, maybe it.wikipedia.org is, but check how many Articles(then also check how much each article got) it got, and compare to en.wikipedia.org) Slashdot.org is USA based website, and I get all my news from it. Means I would be dis-informed and all that...
All in all... If I was to be restricted to only browse Italian websites, I'd just move to USA for the websites, or/and join a group of hackers to try to break the GreatFireWall... .... WE SHALL FIGHT!! L33TS, TO ARMS!!!!
!!!
If the government wins this one, i'll go around the white house protesting for Privacy Breaking.
The China case has been somewhat silent, no details.
I'm hoping google wins this, else next thing you see is WhiteHouse shutting down GoogleEarth because it provides too good pictures of possible terrorist-strike-places.
To hell em! (Feds)
(get me a Flamer icon)
If they will truly open theri ssource code on the streets, we might soon see some 'WindowFixer' websites, sellin windows security patches.
That's not the worst of ideas. Actually would somewhat help us, and more people would not-stop using windows, or probably many would use the 'FixedWindows' version...
or something.
Disney is the true killer of humanity. We might see the Revenge of Nemo soon or something, with little murmaid being drawn with 3D graphics, and good-bye to old sketches...
Pixar was doing fine by itself. It should have been the opposite, Pixar buying Disney....
You think?
A small hole in a spacecraft can cause incalculable damage. Check Columbia Shuttle. Why it burned? It had some minor scratches on its hull. Temperature got high, and in some 10secs it burned.
Yes times are slow, and the material is expensive. But in the long run it would be better (for planetarian trip) as it would have enough time to 'heal' what damage it had during the trip. As for the price, it might get cheaper in the end...
of them to test it on us Humans who would 'probably die'.. 90% on pigs, that could be 80% on humans, maybe not. but still, 90% is not the very best... I think they should first work a little more on it then ask us humans.
The strange thing is that its actually Bush who proposes this... I think they just want to find the best pr0n sites themselves..
anyway why don't they just try to make it so that kid's cant call from telephones too? How would they know who is surfing.. the kid or the dad? neither of them is going to admit it... (well someone will in the end, but thats a court case..).
anything that is encriptable is decriptable. it might take two years to figure how the encription works, but in the end somebody will do it if they really want to, although by that time a smart company would change encryption...
also if you noticed computers are getting powerful, which would enable a home computer with some 5Ghz processor to decrypt the code in some 2 weeks..
It's really painful to see that apple, a modern company with good technologies and a really good architecture, has turned to another ugly x86 architecture company...
Slashdot Mirror
neat, my connection is 1Mb/s , and it's going to stay like that for a loooong time. :(
Yeah, Italy sucks
In reply to others, few 'advances' got widespread if they require too much resources.
Will it work on those too? Or it's another "5Gb Internet connection needed" ?
Since I really dislike how the WikipediaSearch works (the one usable with FireFox), I just use google (FireFox) and type 'define:word' 90% it turns up something from wikipedia, which I will read (no need to go to wikipedia, it shows the definition there). And if I want something else I just type.... 'wikipedia somethingelse' It's a win-win, no?
Leave us gamers alone! We've done nothin to you!!
And wtf.. they tax us for... what?!
and what will end up with that money?
How do you think will they put ads in THAT and make it feel more realistic??
It's just a depository of Gadgets, which doesn't mean they made them. Like the things you can find on the google search engine, they didn't make those pages, they just made them easily accessible.
Google r0xx0rz!
I've only had the luck to talk to him once, he was a simpatic guy, running an ambicious project even..
Really sad what happened to him.
Hopefully he went to a better place
Just noted that when you search for Internet Explorer, it returns as 3rd:
Mozilla Firefox
Official site of the open-source browser. Includes product downloads, release notes, features overview,...
www.mozilla.com/firefox/ - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
unlike normal google.. ?
Well I started with Blender3D because it was free, and as a hobby I had no way of spending ~3.000 dollars for some software I might never use (30-day-free-trial... did it exist?).
I read a few tutorials, watched Beard's videoTutorials... seemed hard, but then when I clicked on the -gallery- at blender3d.org I just HAD to learn blender..
Well after a week I was making my own little wonders(nothing compared to teh masterz).
A week ago I finally managed to try out 3dsMAX8. Took me half an hour to install it (compared to blender's ~10second install). Then another 5minutes loading (slow laptop.. but blender goes relatively fast).. well the UI is a lot worse IMHO, the shortcut keys are ~weird (in blender it's easy to remember. B=boxSelect. S=size. x=remove (ctrl-x=cut in everything). E=extrude....
On maya7 it's pretty strange too. IIRC, q=size,w=move,e=somethingelse...
I think Blender is a real good place to start, especially if you are on a low budget. The online tutorials (Blender:Noob to Pro, Blender3D:Go Pro!, video tutorials, and especially with the ongoing Summer Of Documentation) are many, and the community is very friendly. There's not THAT many plugins as in 3ds, but it's really easy to do if you know Python (which is t00-EZ to learn).
Well, after reading all that, it makes me feel in somewhat of an "advanced country" since we choose what kind of high school we go to (instead of choosing classes) so there's a pretty nice difference between the 'not so smart people' and the other 'smarter kids'.
Thus we have the many "Dumb schools" and the "hard schools" (to which I,of course, go to).
And in those "hard schools" (I'm going to the hardest one in the area, and it's pretty easy), we learn programming! 1st grade (9th grade in USA) to 2nd is Pascal. Then the second "half" is Java for 3 years (High school is 5 years and not 4).
And about people not interested in programming... I have to agree, they are really few.
But that's HighSchools...
I'm 14 and I consider myself kind of 'stupid' for playing EnemyTerritory now, though I had played Freeciv and Doom3(rarely though) a year before... I pretty much quit playing games since last september... but saw that ET was ported on Linux so I tried it...
Most of my friends do play computer games now, but I still consider it 'not so good' to spend much time playing games...
*(NaeRey hides from the angry-looking crowd)*
Democracy... = Corruption!!
Go with Despotism, I tell ya!! Despotism!
Or wait..
I mean, Communism!
What are you people thinking?? Since when do companies try to do the best for the custumer? The only thing they are supposed to do is suck out all your money, as much as possible and as fast as possible, of course. And how do they get more money? Theathers get their money when people come, and every person pays the ticket. DVD's pay the ticket for 10 people, at the price of 1. And yet again, some people would buy both if the DVD came a month late like in old times. It's a war between two powers. Of course the 3rd wins... guess who
As an artist..
Sometimes working with Blender cheers up life, mostly when it works, and I like to talk a lot on IRC, to get help or help others, or just talk, and most of these people (like 95%) are not Italy-residents. There are like 5 tutorials total that are actually somewhere in Italy, out of a pretty big number, thus -forget about learning-...
CGtalk.com and CGartists.com looks to be a USA based website.. how could I live without it?
As a programmer..
I work with many people that are living in USA, Finland and Germany... Python for one is not hosted in Italy, nor is the Free Pascal Compiler, so it would mean no way to update the system (unless people imported it from the netherlands..), most guides are in USA and other European countries. Italy is really poor on the web..
As a person..
I have lived in USA for 3 years, so I have a lot of friends there, also since I'm Russian I like to talk to people in Russia..
As a student..
Physics! What the hell do Italians know about physics...? Programming? Just about nothing.... there are sooo few Italian websites it's a shame.
Wikipedia is my best friend, and seems to be a not Italian-Resident (Ok, maybe it.wikipedia.org is, but check how many Articles(then also check how much each article got) it got, and compare to en.wikipedia.org)
Slashdot.org is USA based website, and I get all my news from it. Means I would be dis-informed and all that...
All in all...
If I was to be restricted to only browse Italian websites, I'd just move to USA for the websites, or/and join a group of hackers to try to break the GreatFireWall...
.... WE SHALL FIGHT!! L33TS, TO ARMS!!!!
!!! If the government wins this one, i'll go around the white house protesting for Privacy Breaking. The China case has been somewhat silent, no details. I'm hoping google wins this, else next thing you see is WhiteHouse shutting down GoogleEarth because it provides too good pictures of possible terrorist-strike-places. To hell em! (Feds) (get me a Flamer icon)
If they will truly open theri ssource code on the streets, we might soon see some 'WindowFixer' websites, sellin windows security patches. That's not the worst of ideas. Actually would somewhat help us, and more people would not-stop using windows, or probably many would use the 'FixedWindows' version... or something.
Special? The site's not working... it just displays a blank page. Full white. Is that my IP description? That it's totally white?
Disney is the true killer of humanity. We might see the Revenge of Nemo soon or something, with little murmaid being drawn with 3D graphics, and good-bye to old sketches... Pixar was doing fine by itself. It should have been the opposite, Pixar buying Disney....
You think? A small hole in a spacecraft can cause incalculable damage. Check Columbia Shuttle. Why it burned? It had some minor scratches on its hull. Temperature got high, and in some 10secs it burned. Yes times are slow, and the material is expensive. But in the long run it would be better (for planetarian trip) as it would have enough time to 'heal' what damage it had during the trip. As for the price, it might get cheaper in the end...
Not a bad idea but then I have some doubts on the machine being able to read people's mind...
of them to test it on us Humans who would 'probably die'..
90% on pigs, that could be 80% on humans, maybe not. but still, 90% is not the very best...
I think they should first work a little more on it then ask us humans.
The strange thing is that its actually Bush who proposes this... I think they just want to find the best pr0n sites themselves..
anyway why don't they just try to make it so that kid's cant call from telephones too? How would they know who is surfing.. the kid or the dad? neither of them is going to admit it... (well someone will in the end, but thats a court case..).
anything that is encriptable is decriptable. it might take two years to figure how the encription works, but in the end somebody will do it if they really want to, although by that time a smart company would change encryption... also if you noticed computers are getting powerful, which would enable a home computer with some 5Ghz processor to decrypt the code in some 2 weeks..
It's really painful to see that apple, a modern company with good technologies and a really good architecture, has turned to another ugly x86 architecture company...