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> I think the big difference with time-tables is just that in the business
> world, delaying the release can cost a company dearly.
In the case of Poser 5, it was even worse than that. From what I gathered,
they were desperate for cash, if only to keep the employees on the payroll,
so the product was rushed out the door. Since then, they've been through
reorganisation and I just received an announcement about them having a new
parent company for a new one, the 4th in 7 years : after Fractal Design,
Metacreations and Egisys it's now E-frontier, a Japanese company that makes
a famous (in Japan)3D app called Shade.
G.
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It is the difference between Love and Money, I think. If Pov-Ray were to go
commercial (heaven forbid) I don't think it would survive in its present
excellence.
BTW I tried Poser 5 and was under whelmed I will stick to Poser 4 until I can
afford a Cray.
Regards
Stephen
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"Stephen McAvoy" <mcavoys[at]AOLdotCOM> wrote in message
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> It is the difference between Love and Money, I think. If Pov-Ray were to
go
> commercial (heaven forbid) I don't think it would survive in its present
> excellence.
Yes, Heaven forbid! It's nice knowing when something doesn't work, the
problem came from me. That I can fix.
>
> BTW I tried Poser 5 and was under whelmed I will stick to Poser 4 until I
can
> afford a Cray.
>
Not sure that would be fast enough for P5. Will a Cray even (Crash!!) do
(BSD) windoze?
Greybeard ;^))
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:45:56 -0600, "GreyBeard" <r.b### [at] sbcglobal net> wrote:
>Yes, Heaven forbid! It's nice knowing when something doesn't work, the
>problem came from me. That I can fix.
Another thing, I don't think a commercial programme could provide the level of
support we get with Pov-Ray. More power to our collective elbows :-}
Regards
Stephen
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"Stephen McAvoy" <mcavoys[at]AOLdotCOM> wrote in message
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> Another thing, I don't think a commercial programme could provide the
level of
> support we get with Pov-Ray. More power to our collective elbows :-}
>
Yes, Yes, and absolutely Yes! Being a mathematic dummy, and I mean almost
no math, I lean pretty heavily on what others have posted and otherwise made
available. What I have downloaded from the web, and from these groups would
have cost thousands of dollars for any other program. The list of people I
would have to thank is longer than I would be allowed to post in a
non-binary group.
Greybeard
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:20:42 -0600, "GreyBeard" <r.b### [at] sbcglobalnet> wrote:
>What I have downloaded from the web, and from these groups would
>have cost thousands of dollars for any other program. The list of people I
>would have to thank is longer than I would be allowed to post in a
>non-binary group.
Goes for me too. And if I had a beard it would be grey also :-}
Regards
Stephen
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In article <3fdee556$1@news.povray.org>,
"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> > Is simple curiosity. Because PovRay 3.5 have a date of 2002 and i dont know
> > if the "project" stay alive, or 3.5 was the last pov.
>
> Didn't someone do a faq for this?
Back in 2000. :-/
It hasn't been updated since, but is still mostly valid:
http://news.povray.org/povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions/16712/
> Pov 4 will be a major rewrite of Pov (one of the main reasons for this is to
> allow, iirc, the code to be brought under one of the GPL licences, which is
> impossible with the current code).
Not necessarily the GPL. Quoting from that status report:
> First, we have been discussing using a new license for 4. Various
> open-source licenses are under consideration. We might instead use an
> updated version of POVLEGAL. No conclusions have been reached so far, but
> the topic is under discussion within the POV-Team.
> There will be an update to 3.5 soon (iirc) - a bugfix release.
Yes.
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http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
> In the case of Poser 5, it was even worse than that. From what I gathered,
> they were desperate for cash, if only to keep the employees on the
payroll,
> so the product was rushed out the door. Since then, they've been through
> reorganisation and I just received an announcement about them having a new
> parent company for a new one, the 4th in 7 years : after Fractal Design,
> Metacreations and Egisys it's now E-frontier, a Japanese company that
makes
> a famous (in Japan)3D app called Shade.
>
CHeck the poser group on Renderosity, Curious labs has seen fit to post a
bit there through one of their people. Not horribly informative, and
there's been a thread the last day or so, SR-4 (Yet another box of bandaids)
is coming out in the first part of next year. I'm not holding my breath
waiting.
Had to laugh though, I posted a Povray pic there, got comments, very
favorable on the shapes, (primitives, nothing else) and textures (From
stones.inc) lighting, (one area light). Had Blobgirl giving a salute. No
more comments after I revealed it as not a poser picture. Reference to your
site, however. Nice stuff Giles.
Greybeard.
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"Stephen McAvoy" <mcavoys[at]AOLdotCOM> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:20:42 -0600, "GreyBeard" <r.b### [at] sbcglobalnet>
wrote:
>
> >What I have downloaded from the web, and from these groups would
> >have cost thousands of dollars for any other program. The list of people
I
> >would have to thank is longer than I would be allowed to post in a
> >non-binary group.
>
> Goes for me too. And if I had a beard it would be grey also :-}
>
The grey comes with age, the insanity is inherited,
It comes from my kid.
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:29:24 -0600, "GreyBeard" <r.b### [at] sbcglobalnet> wrote:
>the insanity is inherited,
>
>It comes from my kid.
LOL :-}
Regards
Stephen
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