I've worked in many a big rave. The computing equipment has to be able to suffer from the dual problems of vibration and condensation.
Theft can be insured against but equipment failure in front of a couple of thousand people is hugely embarassing.
We wanted to shift our video mixing equipment from tape to disk but nothing came close to rugged enough for my liking, (PCI cards in a PC with SCSI-UW disks 20 feet away from a 10kw rig, no way). At least with 4 tape units we had some redundancy.
3dstudio 4 has a plugin to render z buffer depth too to get scenes like the one's with this camera
it's great for doing depth based effects such as artificial depth of field (3ds4 didn't have that)
I'd love to have one of the cameras available for making live video stuff, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one, I hope my local video facilities unit gets one (I'm going to mail them a link).
Coming soon to an MTV near you. Sadly probably not from my studio any more. I gave that up when 3dsMax came out, Seemed like there was no room left for a two man outfit (one gfx, one coder).
For every complex problem there is a brilliant, simple solution which is just plain wrong.
For every good idea there is a trite phrase that sounds clever but fails to address the issues.
Unfortunately I evidence for my assertion. It's called plan9.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
I'd be interested to hear your apraisal of the points of failure in the plan9 operating system and how superior the complicated microsoft & ibm solutions (DCOM & Corba) are to problem domain of distributed computing.
it's also about insulation from change or situations the author couldn't see, test, have predicted, have known about.
I may never READ the source code for 99.9% of my apps but they day something get's changed and Eric's OSS projects fails I can go find o.ut why and fix it. Without the source I'm screwed.
And as it happened I did exactly that yesterday when the plan9 imap file server didn't get along with Courier. By having the soruce code I was able to track down the problem to it being a wrong assumption in the code AND a config problem in Courier.
If I'd had no source code I would have been screwed.
So Mr Henning can't be that clever if he can't even see what the potential is
He's making the classic mistake of saying something is worthless to everybody when he means it's worthless to him
What help is knowing the price in other countries?
because for some of us which countries we can go live in and keep our telecommuting jobs is important.
personally I'm waiting for Spain to get broadband so I can go live there and keep my well paid UK job (I work from home, I can work from anywhere with a 24/7 link)
The Register is nothing more than the IT version of a British tabloid
hardly
I've been reading it since it was on a 64k isdn
it's often thougtful, mostly irreverent, and taps in to the issues of today. It used to ignore the Unix world and concentrated on ISP stuff & Windows. These days it's portfolio is much broader.
As for the corrupt side, they've always maintained that yuo can have any story you like on the front page so long as you pay. You know, even that makes me like them more! Corrupt but not dishonest. Let's face it, all news is biased, it can't be anything else. Don't believe the first thing you read.
I shall continue to wear my Culture Vulture t-shirt with pride because Biting The Hand that feeds I.T. is a noble goal!
I use unix all day every day and I don't use any of those application frameworks.
I wasn't talking about compatibility.
Besides *I* don't know if it's a good idea or not, from personal experience with NT I got fed up of the paradigm shifts. I think it's a BIG decision and one not to be taken lightly or with "wow, that's neat, let's do that". I think it's great that RMS publicly questioned the idea.
What I DO know is that even MS's strategic partners get bitten. The Borg icon is rightfully earned not just some flippancy.
In real companies they employ secretaries to do this stuff. Any documentation I write that goes to clients has someone better at writing than me look over it. It's called professionalism. I guess typing through tear stained eyes from looking at the stock gets a bit much!
Pinning GNOME to.NET sounds like a braindead idea to me anyway. Perpetually playing catch-up and being involved in an arms race with MS. If you have any knowledge of the history of computing then you'll know the sands of.NET will continually shift.
Just look at the lineage :
dde, ole, ole2, com, dcom, dcom + mts, soap,.NET
J++ & Active Directory probably fit in there somewhere too.
Pinning your business model to any of these technological donkeys is an expensive move.
to paraphrase :
The MSDN treadmill moves pretty fast, if you don't look around once in a while, you might just miss out!
Everybody has a duty to question, I'm glad RMS has done it so publicly because if it was me that asked then I doubt we'd see any discussion on/. about it!
I'd rather have one-click shopping for all of my patch needs so that I can spend more time writing code or playing Quake. MS understands this. Apple understands this. Why doesn't the Linux community understand?
is what you said, the Linux/FreeBSD community has addressed this problem.
And you don't even have to press anything ever again once you've started the process, no going to windows update, no clicking anything. I get an email once a week telling me what's been updated!
See the new 0.9.8 mozilla update today? My mozilla will self upgrade to that on the first Friday after it hits the ports. (Friday so I have sat & sun to sort it out if it goes wrong!).
How is windows update less painful than that?
Unless it's on MS' critical update list I won't even know there's an upgrade available without looking manually!
How often do you go your software vendor's homepage to see if there's a new version? That could be upwards of 20 web sites a week and most of the time it will be pointless.
I use software that isn't handily announced in News For Nerds (such as Xchat) and I can't be arsed to wade through freshmeat every week!
How much easier will it need to be to get your "ease of use" approval?
in fact both of those also upgrade third party software that's not part of the OS
windows update will never upgrade mozilla for you or KDE whereas apt-update & cvsup-portsupgrade upgrade EVERYTHING you've installed (if installed via apt-get or/usr/ports)
[my understanding of the debian process is through the grapevine so if I'm off the mark, be cool; not a fool]
I very much doubt it, we might influence it a bit but control is so far from our grasp and yet you arrogantly think that a few monkeys burning some old trees and the like will have an effect on a geological timescale?
Just sit down for a minute and try and imagine what 60,000,000 years looks like. Then subtract the amount of time since the industrial revolution : (and I'll add a few for good luck & the future)
59,999,700
Yes I can see how influencial it all is.
Our existence is influencial in the short term and even has affect on the evolutionary pressure of our fellow creatures (many of whom outnumber us in headcount or combined weight!).
In the long term the net effect of our existence will be 0.0, nil, zero, zip, fuck all.
Every child that is born is an evolution of our species, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE THINKS OR SAYS ABOUT IT. Evolution takes place at the genetic level, not with the individual or the species or memetic (how ridiculous to even think that memes are important).
To suggest for one moment that we have reached an evolutionary stasis is (at the risk of repeating myself) :
Utter biological arrogance and complete evolutionary ignorance.
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I've worked in many a big rave. The computing equipment has to be able to suffer from the dual problems of vibration and condensation.
Theft can be insured against but equipment failure in front of a couple of thousand people is hugely embarassing.
We wanted to shift our video mixing equipment from tape to disk but nothing came close to rugged enough for my liking, (PCI cards in a PC with SCSI-UW disks 20 feet away from a 10kw rig, no way). At least with 4 tape units we had some redundancy.
3dstudio 4 has a plugin to render z buffer depth too to get scenes like the one's with this camera
it's great for doing depth based effects such as artificial depth of field (3ds4 didn't have that)
I'd love to have one of the cameras available for making live video stuff, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one, I hope my local video facilities unit gets one (I'm going to mail them a link).
Coming soon to an MTV near you. Sadly probably not from my studio any more. I gave that up when 3dsMax came out, Seemed like there was no room left for a two man outfit (one gfx, one coder).
For every complex problem there is a brilliant, simple solution which is just plain wrong.
For every good idea there is a trite phrase that sounds clever but fails to address the issues.
Unfortunately I evidence for my assertion. It's called plan9.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
I'd be interested to hear your apraisal of the points of failure in the plan9 operating system and how superior the complicated microsoft & ibm solutions (DCOM & Corba) are to problem domain of distributed computing.
lol I know, my typing was terrible on that one
I really should start caring more
*sigh*
source code isn't necessarily about bugs
it's also about insulation from change or situations the author couldn't see, test, have predicted, have known about.
I may never READ the source code for 99.9% of my apps but they day something get's changed and Eric's OSS projects fails I can go find o.ut why and fix it. Without the source I'm screwed.
And as it happened I did exactly that yesterday when the plan9 imap file server didn't get along with Courier. By having the soruce code I was able to track down the problem to it being a wrong assumption in the code AND a config problem in Courier.
If I'd had no source code I would have been screwed.
So Mr Henning can't be that clever if he can't even see what the potential is
He's making the classic mistake of saying something is worthless to everybody when he means it's worthless to him
ah sorry,
not really the price but the availability full stop
was kind of justifying why the thread would be interesting at all
IIRC, there's a sequel to S&M currently under development. Coming out on Xbox.
Guess that's that sketch knackered then.
cos you can be sure I won't ever buy an Xbox
Day of the TentAcle, or dare I say it, Sam & Max?
both great, I don't think I finished S&M
Installing DOTT from floppies was a pain & no dialog!
I'm sure they're in the house somewhere. I was going to try and hunt down the CD versions for mah kids now I'm gone growned up
What am I going to do for my family . . .
move to India?
What help is knowing the price in other countries?
because for some of us which countries we can go live in and keep our telecommuting jobs is important.
personally I'm waiting for Spain to get broadband so I can go live there and keep my well paid UK job (I work from home, I can work from anywhere with a 24/7 link)
free your mind, and your ass will follow!!
the winner's name is Ole
I ask if there is any conenction with the name of Ole the OOP component framework from MS and TWO people mark me as offtopic!
crack
python has Gadfly, an in memory sql server
works great
also as an excuse to stay home :
"the server's gone down at work and I'm on call"
I also use a few mylar splitters and run a 12v lights from the PSU!
the early evolution of animals.
animals are the expressions of genes
gene's evolve, animals don't
Object Linking and Embedding
MS technology
is it a coincidence or deliberate, anyone know?
the winning program will be written in C - not Java.
no no no
in Haskell targetted to GNU/.Net
The Register is nothing more than the IT version of a British tabloid
hardly
I've been reading it since it was on a 64k isdn
it's often thougtful, mostly irreverent, and taps in to the issues of today. It used to ignore the Unix world and concentrated on ISP stuff & Windows. These days it's portfolio is much broader.
As for the corrupt side, they've always maintained that yuo can have any story you like on the front page so long as you pay. You know, even that makes me like them more! Corrupt but not dishonest. Let's face it, all news is biased, it can't be anything else. Don't believe the first thing you read.
I shall continue to wear my Culture Vulture t-shirt with pride because Biting The Hand that feeds I.T. is a noble goal!
that's not a lineage
I use unix all day every day and I don't use any of those application frameworks.
I wasn't talking about compatibility.
Besides *I* don't know if it's a good idea or not, from personal experience with NT I got fed up of the paradigm shifts. I think it's a BIG decision and one not to be taken lightly or with "wow, that's neat, let's do that". I think it's great that RMS publicly questioned the idea.
What I DO know is that even MS's strategic partners get bitten. The Borg icon is rightfully earned not just some flippancy.
/me remembers the days of "Incorrect DOS version"
Cliff, the word you're looking for is "empathize"
In real companies they employ secretaries to do this stuff. Any documentation I write that goes to clients has someone better at writing than me look over it. It's called professionalism. I guess typing through tear stained eyes from looking at the stock gets a bit much!
Pinning GNOME to .NET sounds like a braindead idea to me anyway. Perpetually playing catch-up and being involved in an arms race with MS. If you have any knowledge of the history of computing then you'll know the sands of .NET will continually shift.
.NET
/. about it!
Just look at the lineage :
dde, ole, ole2, com, dcom, dcom + mts, soap,
J++ & Active Directory probably fit in there somewhere too.
Pinning your business model to any of these technological donkeys is an expensive move.
to paraphrase :
The MSDN treadmill moves pretty fast, if you don't look around once in a while, you might just miss out!
Everybody has a duty to question, I'm glad RMS has done it so publicly because if it was me that asked then I doubt we'd see any discussion on
now you're changing the subject :
I'd rather have one-click shopping for all of my patch needs so that I can spend more time writing code or playing Quake. MS understands this. Apple understands this. Why doesn't the Linux community understand?
is what you said, the Linux/FreeBSD community has addressed this problem.
And you don't even have to press anything ever again once you've started the process, no going to windows update, no clicking anything. I get an email once a week telling me what's been updated!
See the new 0.9.8 mozilla update today? My mozilla will self upgrade to that on the first Friday after it hits the ports. (Friday so I have sat & sun to sort it out if it goes wrong!).
How is windows update less painful than that?
Unless it's on MS' critical update list I won't even know there's an upgrade available without looking manually!
How often do you go your software vendor's homepage to see if there's a new version? That could be upwards of 20 web sites a week and most of the time it will be pointless.
I use software that isn't handily announced in News For Nerds (such as Xchat) and I can't be arsed to wade through freshmeat every week!
How much easier will it need to be to get your "ease of use" approval?
debian has it
/usr/ports)
freebsd has it
in fact both of those also upgrade third party software that's not part of the OS
windows update will never upgrade mozilla for you or KDE whereas apt-update & cvsup-portsupgrade upgrade EVERYTHING you've installed (if installed via apt-get or
[my understanding of the debian process is through the grapevine so if I'm off the mark, be cool; not a fool]
oh I see,
We control our environment now
I very much doubt it, we might influence it a bit but control is so far from our grasp and yet you arrogantly think that a few monkeys burning some old trees and the like will have an effect on a geological timescale?
Just sit down for a minute and try and imagine what 60,000,000 years looks like. Then subtract the amount of time since the industrial revolution : (and I'll add a few for good luck & the future)
59,999,700
Yes I can see how influencial it all is.
Our existence is influencial in the short term and even has affect on the evolutionary pressure of our fellow creatures (many of whom outnumber us in headcount or combined weight!).
In the long term the net effect of our existence will be 0.0, nil, zero, zip, fuck all.
Every child that is born is an evolution of our species, NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE THINKS OR SAYS ABOUT IT. Evolution takes place at the genetic level, not with the individual or the species or memetic (how ridiculous to even think that memes are important).
To suggest for one moment that we have reached an evolutionary stasis is (at the risk of repeating myself) :
Utter biological arrogance and complete evolutionary ignorance.
i've decided that the kernel just doesn;t do what I want so I'm forking the broadcast.
/jk
Mind? I positively encourage it so long as it's in good humour :) thanks
Will I get away with early morningly challenged ?