Florin Herinean wrote:
Well, I don't know why Mr. Flavin is so furious. Was it a former employee of Yumetech which got fired ???
Nope. Never even met the guy. He's never shown up to anything involving VRML like conferences, exhibition days or anything. As far as myself and all my friends in the VRML community are concerned, nobody even knows what he looks like. For all we know, it's just a bot that's gone nuts.
Unfortunately the guy lost the plot a long time ago. When he first joined www-vrml in late 98 he was mildly amusing and somewhat helpful (his posting style hasn't changed let me guarantee you that!). Then one day he just flipped. Suddenly everyone was involved in a conspiracy theory of one form or another. I just happen to be the current fixation. It used to be ParallelGraphics (a Russian company) out to subvert the world and were Microsoft lackeys, and then it was Blaxxun, and then something else, which I can't remember the details of. After the 3rd one, that's when he got evicted from all the Web3d.org maintained lists. Apart from being completely annoying he was falsifying stuff, quoting it out of context and in general making extremely derogatory comments about the various companies. Things obviously haven't changed as you can see by the emails that waft through here every so often. Unfortunately, the guy has lost the plot mentally from what I can tell. He's turned into a pathalogical liar to support his course, and obviouslly is not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination. For example, here's a few things that he's stated that have no grounding in reality: - That I wrote or am somehow responsible for Aaron's Core Web3D book. I put together an outline of a chapter on VRML (not Java3D) for him that never got used. That is far as my involvement went, yet somehow I've turned into a co-author or something. To set the record straight - Sun's Doug Twilleager was the person doing the tech editing of the book and ensured the accuracy of the technical content. But, having a Sun employee and the architect of Java3D being the tech edit of the supposedly misleading sections obviously doesn't suit his purposes so he changes the fact. - Sun loader support for various nodes. Let's start with the obvious one: MovieTexture. Haaaaaaahhhaaahaahahahahaha. Yeah right. MovieTexture support requires that there be code written (and in particular JMF to do the decoding of the raw streams). The mere existance of an otherwise empty file does not mean it supports movie textures. If his code does support it, it's because he's written it himself and is not in the previously downloadable form - it's certainly not in the CVS version of the code. Given his other completely inept comments like quoting the header of a file for something that he claims support for without actually managing to read the file, I certainly doubt he's got the ability to do so. - Unacknowledged use of copyrighted works. I believe one of the reasons why he's pissed at Matt Beittler is that Matt's prof has considered copyright infringment proceedings against Flavin due to the use of some of their images from their site, without any acknowledgements. If you look closely at some of the images on his site, particularly ones where it is supposedly running in a Java application, you'll notice the same images reproduced there - hence the Photoshop remark in one of my other replies. - In ability to comprehend English. Obviously that goes without saying as cliche's, sarcasm and actual understanding of the words as written seem to be beyond his ability to understand. Just looking at the archives recently and noticed that he obviously can't tell the difference between us helping someone who doesn't have their environment set up correctly and an actual bug in the software. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
