Actually, Sony's console business is doing pretty well, making money on both hardware and software especially the latter. Sony's losses are due mainly to getting completely hammered in the tv market. (Koreans set took it upon themselves to drive Japan out of the TV market and by all appearances are now just mopping up.) What Sony can't afford is another disastrous specs war with Microsoft. I expect, next generation neither will be foolish enough to try to cram state of the art hardware into a space that just can't dissipate the heat. Next generation will be about leveraging bespoke game properties like Little Big Planet and Playstation at Home and not trying to take over the world. Basically, Big Console had its last hurrah and the torch is now passed to mobile and indie gaming.

Worse than the flag, that's an achievement.

More whining, it's getting old. Transcode it on an Apple computer if you must. Feh, what kind of geek are you.

Eh, no they don't. This is an autograph score.

It's lossless, duh. Transcode it.

Not bad post, especially considering the nonsense you responded to, however... you're not right about the definition of urtext. Perhaps you have not heard of Wiener Urtext Edition? And by the way, I always play from urtext when I can get it. It is very definitely an edition.

Well I have a music degree and I just read through a good chunk of the Goldberg variations and I am pleased with the quality of it. I will print it out and enjoy playing it. As for your Slashdot post, I would respectfully ask you to refrain from further damaging your own credibility with respect to this subject, of which you are by all appearances completely ignorant.

I will email Eben with a request to update the commentary with respect to GPL v3. I'm not sure why you won't, even though you are willing to comment publicly on the question.

That's your opinion, or is it legal advice? And are you seriously suggesting that the FSF does not pay careful attention to the accuracy of information it posts on its license information page? Why don't you email Eben Moglen and ask?

I didn't, and I will thank you not to put words in my mouth, troll. Microsoft's reasons for design the MS-PL as it did are transparently obvious, apparently to all but you. Unlike MS-PL, the GPL v3 is a major success, clearly an improvement on v2.

It depends who you ask. The FSF states clearly that Ms-PL is incompatible with GPL, period, no version specified.

MS-PL.. a free software license; it has a copyleft that is not strong, but incompatible with the GNU GPL. We urge you not to use the Ms-PL for this reason.

The GPL v3 accomplished the important goal of extending GPL compatibility to the Apache license among others. Losing compatibility with GPL v2 has been at most a minor annoyance while bringing Apache into the fold has proved to be of major importance.

As you say, a Youtube comment means nothing. Let's see what the resolution with Blender is, and let's see just what the patent grant is. The truth could range anywhere from cynical manipulation to awesome gift to humanity. Frankly I've seen too much cynical manipulation to be awfully hopeful about the latter though.

Pixar compatibility is not a feature I intend to code myself, however anybody who wants to take it on is welcome. The World Welder meshing API is clean, powerful, efficient and nice to work with. Currently, there is no UV interpolation in the subdivision algorithms at all, that work is upcoming. Any acceptable interpolation must produce identical UV at matching borders, anything else is a bug.

To tell the truth, Catmull-Clark was the first and worst of the crop of modern subdivision algorithms. It has terrible behavior when valence varies, and valence does vary a lot in many practical situations. On the whole, Root3 kicks Catmull-Clark to the far side of the moon in terms of predictable behavior, tolerance of a wide variety of mesh topologies, and unlumpy, uncrinkled results. Root3 actually has a pretty carefully considered mathematical basis whereas Catmull-Clark is more like mathematical goulash, with its blending constants basically pulled out of thin air. Its main redeeming quality is, it has been implemented a lot, a lot of artists have learned to work around its nasty bugs, and as you allude to, you can **sometimes** port meshes between different tools. I don't care about it a whole lot, but anybody who does is welcome to send patches.

Points noted. I will not do this particular work myself but I will place it in a respectable position on the todo list for potential contributors. I'm actually more interested in pushing forward with the kind of modeling that will make you not want to bother with the proprietary tools you mentioned. Do be sure to check out the demo pictures and ask yourself whether Maya can even do some of those things in any reasonable way.

Oh, and let add this: if Pixar is actually genuine they will additionally dual license this code base under LGPL (v3), and I will be impressed. If not... well, each person can interpret that for themselves.