The collected works of toxygen - Page 1

Oskar45 wrote:
I can only comment on Maya [don't have any experience with the others at all].Sure, it's great to get tips etc. for Maya 6.5 [official IRIX support ended March 14, 2006]. But as an artist [and the forum mentioned above is squarely aimed at such], I couldn't care less for such an outdated version even if it runs on my SGI boxes [yes, I've 6.5 installed, but I'm not a proferssional artist at all]. To stay up-to-date, I'd most certainly be rather interested in tips for utilizing the tons of features added since then - and, currently, Maya for other platforms holds at 8.5...So, in your opinion - what is the benefit of getting hints for Maya 6.5 on IRIX when I can get hints for Maya 8.5 for other boxes somewhere else?

BTW, since you are so keen in defending old software - I still have a few questions regarding Explorer. Would you be willing to help me there?

For example, we used Maya as our main tool, and we started from pre-1.0 release and ended with version 2.5.1.

We developed custom deformation and simulation tools with names like "shapeDriver" and "sqFlex" which were used for many of these tasks, rather than using commercial tools like Maya cloth.

Oskar45 wrote:

fvador59 wrote: Perfect reflection

Would you have argued the same way if I'd have talked about Photoshop instead of Maya?

foetz wrote: the main difference is the speed and the size. cs3 compared to v5 is much bigger and much slower

D-EJ915 wrote: "The place promised us in early days" aka "Beyond the Clouds" is freaking awesome, one of the best things I've ever watched, period. It was really moving.

josehill wrote: By the way, Mac OS X dynamically allocates swap space as swap files. I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro with 2 GB physical RAM under Tiger, while running six Firefox tabs, a full instance of XP Pro via Parallels, a couple of terminal windows, and Lotus Notes. Current swap = 137 MB.

josehill wrote: Hi toxygen,
I used similar methods to what you described. While those are a lot of Opera tabs, my bet for the source of the difference between our systems is Photoshop, which has a lot of memory management tricks that it performs it is launched. It could also be that with 1 GB RAM, your system needs to start paging to swap earlier than a 2 GB system.
-jh

pentium wrote: Entry level for me was a Compaq Proliant 1600 with five 9.1Gb hard drives and two 500Mhz PIII processors.

VenomousPinecone wrote: http://www.ironsystems.com/products.asp

Toxoplasma gondii infects over half the world's population. Each of Toxoplasma's victims carries thousands of the parasites, many residing in the brain.

half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma, a parasite shown to alter the brain function of rats, inducing them into behavior that benefits the parasite but is suicidal for the rat. So what affect does it have on humans? Article comes complete with Heinlein 'Puppet Masters' reference

Toxoplasmosis is considered to be the third leading cause of death attributed to foodborne illness in the United States. More that 60 million men, women, and children in the U.S. carry the Toxoplasma parasite

QuicksilverG4 wrote: No meat? And give up the benefit of being at the top of the food chain?

sybrfreq wrote:
*DING!*

Humans evolved to eat both meat and veggies.

sybrfreq wrote: Not eating a balanced diet will most likely lead to questionable health, maybe not in 5 years but perhaps 20.

sybrfreq wrote: What about the vegetarians that eat fish, are fish not animals?

sybrfreq wrote: We eat beef, chicken, fish, because they taste good, if we were not supposed to eat it it would taste bad.

porter wrote:

toxygen wrote: you do not have teeth, body, or general digestive system adapted to eating meat.

Eh? We have canine teeth.

nvukovlj wrote: Ah, I love it when people with no real knowledge of the subject (e.g. diseases of humans / animals, etc.) find something on the Web and start quoting it to justify whatever their current beliefs may be.

e.g. Toxoplasmosis. Yes, a lot of people have it and many other parasites. Parasites are successful precisely because they rarely cause their host real problems (provided they are reasonably healthy).
Parasites do not come just in meat.

Another couple of scenarios for contracting Toxoplasmosis:

1. You Grow your own vegetables because it is healthier
2. A cat infected with Toxoplasmosis goes bye and takes a crap
3. You don't wash your vegetables too much because hey, they're organic
4. You eat the vegetables -> hello, you're infected

1. You have a cat
2. One day it contracts Toxoplasmosis (it ate something that had it)
3. You clean its litter tray but forget to properly wash your hands.
4. You grab a snack -> hello you're infected

Conclusion. To be safe from this particular disease:
1. Wash your vegetables in bleach
2. Shoot cats on site.
3. Don't eat undercooked meat

The first scenario I mention is of course fairly far fetched. The second one actually isn't although by far the most common way to get this particular parasite infection is from undercooked meat.
After all I don't want anyone going out there to shoot cats. I make some of my living by treating animals (I have a Veterinary degree).
I have also seen first hand how animals are slaughtered for food. It isn't pretty, but these days there are laws that in most cases ensure that it is done quickly.
Vegetarianism and even more so veganism by choice seems to be a lot more prevalent in affluent heavily urbanised societies where people find it hard to reconcile the food they buy in supermarkets (all wrapped nicely) with the reality of how it got there. That leads to the guilt when they think that the cute pig/chicken/cow they usually see only on TV is one day likely to end up as a slab of meat...

Anyway, enough of a rant for one day

It is estimated that between 30% and 65% of all people worldwide are infected with Toxoplasmosis. However, there is large variation countries: in France, for example, around 88% of the population are carriers, probably due to a high consumption of raw and lightly cooked meat.

Gray Fox wrote: What Operating System are you planing to run on it?

foetz wrote:

toxygen wrote: single octane 300mhz w/o cdrom in 1997: 557 257 Czk ($16000)

except there was no r12k in 1997.