that is exactly my world now. I have a manager that doesn't know Java or databases, and he is telling me what he needs and vaguely how it should work with other theoretical products that we don't have and only emulate... so in order to emulate properly, we need to know what they do, and we don't know what they do...
the retarded leading the blind.
I was really hoping it was just this company and that somewhere I out there I could find a job that didn't suck and I could really use my skills - this is disheartening to read:(
hot damn - can't even go and read the article b/c it is the NYT and I refuse to get even more spam than I already do, therefore I am not gonna be signing up there...
is this for a render farm of machines to do toon shading, or are they using them as digital workstations for doing traditional cel painting? I know that many of the cartoon type things are really done on 3d systems these days and then toon shaded - there are usually giveaways when they do very elaborate spin and pullback moves - the tv show Futurama has these types of scenes all the time. I know many of the FX houses have renderfarms of Linux boxen, so I would presume this might be similar... I suppose I could go and read the darn article
I have an 8860 (gave it to my GF b/c I hate AT&T) and an 8890 and the 8890 is AWESOME. it has a problem where the back cover will become loose over time, and then that will allow the LCD to become detached within the case - but if you go to http://www.awswireless.com/ they have the parts for most all phones for very nice prices - I just replaced the back as well for getting tools to fix it. ugly site, but good content.
I'm in Cambridge and it would be just dandy to be considered part of the Boston area, but instead we are in our own "North Boston suburbs" group. While I do feel large and in charge in the suburbs, it seems a bit silly to split us up like that. That said, I doubt I would ever go to one of these things anyways unless there are gonna be some strippers. you give me strippers and I'll go nearly anywhere... wasn't that a famous Bush or Clinton quote? If not, it sure should be.
there were viruses going around that were like "kitty.jpg.vbs"
people would click on it and that would then get executed. of course the icon wouldn't look right, but if you don't have it set to show the file types/extensions (which it defaults to not showing) then you would just see "kitty.jpg"
it sounds retarded for anyone that is halfway decent with computers... but... well, there are a lot that aren't apparently. even in my office.
if you were willing to leave, then leave. now they know that you are willing to leave and you will end up leaving soon enough anyway, and until then they will have this different opinion of you.
I used to work at a consulting place, I got an offer from another place and my company offered me more to stay. so I was there a bit longer.
then relatively soon after I found another one for more money and just left.
once you have it in your head that you can leave, you will.
I saw the "Eph" part and had to look - I went to college with that guy (Williams College - the sports teams are the "Ephs"). hot damn - he made it to slashdot.
another fellow on here - Ross Hammond was in a few of my classes too (he was on here for work on simulating ethics via a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing)
well, the same AT&T labs (or was it Bell) where VNC was started had a thing where people wore nametags. these nametags would then talk to tranceivers around the office, usually part of the ceiling tile grid. then the receivers would talk to the server. you could then finger some user and see where they are in the building, or you could finger a room in the building and see who was in the room. I thought that was pretty damn nifty when I first saw it - some people say it is too Big Brother, I just think it was cool.
1) 22" LCD screen with a fast enough refresh to play games without the motion blur.
2) dual athlon mp 2g or faster ideally. also, these should allow for future upgrades if need be.
3) a full sized ergonomic keyboard
4) full dolby 5.1 surround sound and subs
5) as a base I would want around 80gigs of storage, but again, it would be nice to have the ability to upgrade that or add on.
6) a bare minimum of a half gig of RAM, but ideall a gig or two. and again, this should allow upgrades or additions.
7) that LCD needs to have millions of colors and have something along the lines of a GeForce 4600 driving it. again, when there becomes a faster version, I want that, so I need to be able to swap them.
8) a very rounded case, that is so shiny I can see my face in it. think like the Nokia 8860.
9) it has to be very light. I don't want to notice that I have this thing with me
10) it should be bulletproof. I tend to keep them in my shirt pocket or inside picket of my jacket in the winter and I want this thing to be able to stop any shots taken at me.
11) in regards to #10, I would recommend Titanium
12) money is no object, but it should cost less than $200.
that would be my ideal PDA.
oh, and it should have some sort of integrated pointing device that is also shiny.
eventually, I want it to be able to translate langauges on the fly, download things off of a wireless connection, read my mind, and create a neural net of my life experiences and sayings as time passes and eventually allow me to use it as my brain.
I have a handspring visor somewhere that I never use. when I first got it, someone else in my office at the time also had one. I personally have never had an issue with screen scratches, but this guy was freaking out about them. the visor has a slightly raised edge around the screen, not sure if this is intentional or a default in the manufacture process - either way, this allowed a sheet of plastic (from a transparent overhead sheet) to be cut to size and placed in there. each large sheet would allow about 4 smaller screen sized sheets and were about $1-2 each. so each protector was cheap and it worked. he swore by them and I never felt the need to bother with it since my screen hasn't ever been scratched, or if it has, not to the point that I have noticed/cared.
I had a regular keyboard and mouse and quickly developed excruciating pain in my forarms and wrist with the hours that I kept (pretty much all waking hours on the computer). then I switched to an ergonomic type and a trackball and I never had problems again, not changing my routine at all. now I have trouble typing on my laptop since the keys are so close together.
that was what the Matrix press release said in regards to how many users it could have... from what I recall of other systems as well as working on these sorts of things on my own... that really isn't that many? if they said hundreds of thousands... perhaps they meant on one server - that is more impressive.
I can recall a group of managers reviewing my code and one of the comments I got back was "too many comments" not sure what they were getting at. but in their honor I now make an effort to write more unreadable code and I never comment anything.
I recall studying that when the origin of planetary motion that we saw in the sky was first questioned, they assumed that the earth was stationary and all revolved around it. but the motion they saw in the sky was strange were that actually the case (the earth being the center and not moving) - so they claimed that the other planents were moving in multiple figure eights and there were sub loops at points and such. they "proved" it all with complicated formulas and diagrams and it was considered to be what was good and true. then it was shown that what they were looking at was an epiphenomena of the underlying truth - and that truth was far simpler. which seems to be a theme in science, the simple rule is usually the right one. so to me, I am certainly curious if he is onto something in that there are simpler rules out there that govern it all. it is similar to the planetary motion concept in that it doesn't give us as much self importance in it all. it also reminds me of Rodeny Barnes' (sp?) work that was covered in "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" - where he designed small robots to effectively have ractive nervous systems like those of an insect and he showed that they could then react much in the way of something having conscious thought - but they were just reacting to stimulus in a rule based fashion. same with large neural nets - there are simple logic rules that are the base and then over time the connections and outcomes of those interactions become more complex.
anyway - this book is on my wishlist at amazon - I look forward to reading it.
my girlfriend just asked why I was laughing and what I was reading. I explained your post and the context and her response was "as long as it is funny to you" and walked away.
in reference to that stupid "facts" email that has been passed around via email for years now that says a duck's quack doesn't echo and nobody knows why... people are so gullible.
Slashdot Mirror
that is exactly my world now. I have a manager that doesn't know Java or databases, and he is telling me what he needs and vaguely how it should work with other theoretical products that we don't have and only emulate... so in order to emulate properly, we need to know what they do, and we don't know what they do...
:(
the retarded leading the blind.
I was really hoping it was just this company and that somewhere I out there I could find a job that didn't suck and I could really use my skills - this is disheartening to read
hot damn - can't even go and read the article b/c it is the NYT and I refuse to get even more spam than I already do, therefore I am not gonna be signing up there...
is this for a render farm of machines to do toon shading, or are they using them as digital workstations for doing traditional cel painting? I know that many of the cartoon type things are really done on 3d systems these days and then toon shaded - there are usually giveaways when they do very elaborate spin and pullback moves - the tv show Futurama has these types of scenes all the time.
I know many of the FX houses have renderfarms of Linux boxen, so I would presume this might be similar... I suppose I could go and read the darn article
I have an 8860 (gave it to my GF b/c I hate AT&T) and an 8890 and the 8890 is AWESOME. it has a problem where the back cover will become loose over time, and then that will allow the LCD to become detached within the case - but if you go to http://www.awswireless.com/ they have the parts for most all phones for very nice prices - I just replaced the back as well for getting tools to fix it. ugly site, but good content.
I'm in Cambridge and it would be just dandy to be considered part of the Boston area, but instead we are in our own "North Boston suburbs" group. While I do feel large and in charge in the suburbs, it seems a bit silly to split us up like that.
That said, I doubt I would ever go to one of these things anyways unless there are gonna be some strippers. you give me strippers and I'll go nearly anywhere... wasn't that a famous Bush or Clinton quote? If not, it sure should be.
there were viruses going around that were like "kitty.jpg.vbs"
people would click on it and that would then get executed. of course the icon wouldn't look right, but if you don't have it set to show the file types/extensions (which it defaults to not showing) then you would just see "kitty.jpg"
it sounds retarded for anyone that is halfway decent with computers... but... well, there are a lot that aren't apparently. even in my office.
if you were willing to leave, then leave.
now they know that you are willing to leave and you will end up leaving soon enough anyway, and until then they will have this different opinion of you.
I used to work at a consulting place, I got an offer from another place and my company offered me more to stay. so I was there a bit longer.
then relatively soon after I found another one for more money and just left.
once you have it in your head that you can leave, you will.
I saw the "Eph" part and had to look - I went to college with that guy (Williams College - the sports teams are the "Ephs").
hot damn - he made it to slashdot.
another fellow on here - Ross Hammond was in a few of my classes too (he was on here for work on simulating ethics via a prisoner's dilemma sort of thing)
damn, I feel so inadequate
well, the same AT&T labs (or was it Bell) where VNC was started had a thing where people wore nametags. these nametags would then talk to tranceivers around the office, usually part of the ceiling tile grid. then the receivers would talk to the server.
you could then finger some user and see where they are in the building, or you could finger a room in the building and see who was in the room.
I thought that was pretty damn nifty when I first saw it - some people say it is too Big Brother, I just think it was cool.
why not a mom in the inner city?
or a mexican?
you are obviously just racist.
mexicans can post songs just as well as crackers.
1) 22" LCD screen with a fast enough refresh to play games without the motion blur.
2) dual athlon mp 2g or faster ideally. also, these should allow for future upgrades if need be.
3) a full sized ergonomic keyboard
4) full dolby 5.1 surround sound and subs
5) as a base I would want around 80gigs of storage, but again, it would be nice to have the ability to upgrade that or add on.
6) a bare minimum of a half gig of RAM, but ideall a gig or two. and again, this should allow upgrades or additions.
7) that LCD needs to have millions of colors and have something along the lines of a GeForce 4600 driving it. again, when there becomes a faster version, I want that, so I need to be able to swap them.
8) a very rounded case, that is so shiny I can see my face in it. think like the Nokia 8860.
9) it has to be very light. I don't want to notice that I have this thing with me
10) it should be bulletproof. I tend to keep them in my shirt pocket or inside picket of my jacket in the winter and I want this thing to be able to stop any shots taken at me.
11) in regards to #10, I would recommend Titanium
12) money is no object, but it should cost less than $200.
that would be my ideal PDA.
oh, and it should have some sort of integrated pointing device that is also shiny.
eventually, I want it to be able to translate langauges on the fly, download things off of a wireless connection, read my mind, and create a neural net of my life experiences and sayings as time passes and eventually allow me to use it as my brain.
ideally.
I have a handspring visor somewhere that I never use.
when I first got it, someone else in my office at the time also had one.
I personally have never had an issue with screen scratches, but this guy was freaking out about them.
the visor has a slightly raised edge around the screen, not sure if this is intentional or a default in the manufacture process - either way, this allowed a sheet of plastic (from a transparent overhead sheet) to be cut to size and placed in there. each large sheet would allow about 4 smaller screen sized sheets and were about $1-2 each. so each protector was cheap and it worked.
he swore by them and I never felt the need to bother with it since my screen hasn't ever been scratched, or if it has, not to the point that I have noticed/cared.
...written all over it.
(as does my forehead)
I had a regular keyboard and mouse and quickly developed excruciating pain in my forarms and wrist with the hours that I kept (pretty much all waking hours on the computer).
then I switched to an ergonomic type and a trackball and I never had problems again, not changing my routine at all.
now I have trouble typing on my laptop since the keys are so close together.
that was what the Matrix press release said in regards to how many users it could have... from what I recall of other systems as well as working on these sorts of things on my own... that really isn't that many? if they said hundreds of thousands... perhaps they meant on one server - that is more impressive.
crackwhore doesn't make the list.
a real tragedy I tell you.
I can recall a group of managers reviewing my code and one of the comments I got back was "too many comments"
:)
not sure what they were getting at. but in their honor I now make an effort to write more unreadable code and I never comment anything.
job security
I recall studying that when the origin of planetary motion that we saw in the sky was first questioned, they assumed that the earth was stationary and all revolved around it. but the motion they saw in the sky was strange were that actually the case (the earth being the center and not moving) - so they claimed that the other planents were moving in multiple figure eights and there were sub loops at points and such.
they "proved" it all with complicated formulas and diagrams and it was considered to be what was good and true.
then it was shown that what they were looking at was an epiphenomena of the underlying truth - and that truth was far simpler. which seems to be a theme in science, the simple rule is usually the right one.
so to me, I am certainly curious if he is onto something in that there are simpler rules out there that govern it all.
it is similar to the planetary motion concept in that it doesn't give us as much self importance in it all.
it also reminds me of Rodeny Barnes' (sp?) work that was covered in "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" - where he designed small robots to effectively have ractive nervous systems like those of an insect and he showed that they could then react much in the way of something having conscious thought - but they were just reacting to stimulus in a rule based fashion.
same with large neural nets - there are simple logic rules that are the base and then over time the connections and outcomes of those interactions become more complex.
anyway - this book is on my wishlist at amazon - I look forward to reading it.
right now I'm leaning towards basic - as is my piss
is piss acidic? it is mostly ammonia due to the nitrates in the urea... if only my brain worked enough to recall if that was basic or not...
... that I take massive dumps on my keyboard... and piss too - on EVYERTHING
my girlfriend just asked why I was laughing and what I was reading. I explained your post and the context and her response was "as long as it is funny to you" and walked away.
oh well...
in reference to that stupid "facts" email that has been passed around via email for years now that says a duck's quack doesn't echo and nobody knows why...
people are so gullible.
that sounds very much like my strategy for my workday
LOL - you can reprogram so much on it and you say "the really neat thing is... you can make it meow" - too funny.
I guess that is all a pretty personal thing as to what you think is neat.
I would just teach mine to hump legs and swear.