While it could have something to do with character 'job hopping' usually has more to do with hiring budgets. When you take on a contract there is often a small chance that you'll get hired full time, but more often than not when the contract completes there is no hiring budget -- so off you go. I would be nice to think that a performance would get a phone call when a hiring budget opens up, but it doesn't work that way.
This is of course region by region. On the West coast contacting is the norm. It's a crappy unpredictable life, but it's almost excessively common. In the Midwest I'd suspect the practice is less common, but I haven't worked there in 10 years so I have no idea.
For jobs like the ones in this article perhaps screening on 'character' as you suggest might be useful since these are fairly entry level jobs. However even for entry level 'job hopping' does not denote character...
A friend of mine finished law school with no less than 3 internships over one summer. I think one of them only lasted a few weeks. It had nothing to do with her skills or character. In fact when she graduated she moved to a small town as the count seat DA for a few years. I visited her it it was a pretty miserable town, but it got her some experience. She stayed with it 2 years. Her friends stayed in the city and continued to contract for those 2 years never gaining much experience they may still be doing that for all I know. She has now moved back into the city and is a successful trial lawyer. This has little to do with character. If my friend stayed in the city she would have accumulated numerous short term contracts despite having an immense character. Even the small town job was a bit of luck. The pattern for those towns in one slot every 2 years and you'd better hope you aren't tied to a lease/family/other responsibilities.
Just bear this in mind before you go applying blanket judgements of character over people. Get some context and think about your location, before you judge.
More of a time/budget issue than anything. Pixar has an enormous staff of tool coders to make stuff like footsteps in the snow work just right. This project had 2-3 coders helping out, but they split their time between various thing like rendering, simulation, etc. There was certainly no time to have one person tweak snow deformation (you can read the Sintel blog to learn about what went into making cloth simulation work for the dragon wings). So yeah they used tricks, but that is common to all lower budget movies. Also note that this had a 6-8 month time line -- which included script writing. Pixar has a 3-4 year time line for such things. They have separate crews working on various projects so they can knock one out every 2 years or so.
So yeah with only so much budget you can shake the camera and probably should if needed. Unless you like unfinished projects.
It's not the number of fingers that makes playing piano hard. It's the combinations. The chords are the hard part. Also the independent use of each finger. An interface like this and most other multi-touch interfaces use simple clenching or releasing motions. These are movements that anyone with fully functional hands will have already mastered. They are baby movements.
As for FPS games I don't see the issues I'd say my finger tip is roughly the size of a baddies head. Panning would be a breeze. Group selection in RTS games would be much nicer. If you combined this with a pen for drawing then I could easily see a mouse becoming obsolete.
As for palm interference I doubt that is a hard thing to treat as noise in the input.
The biggest problem is replacing a keyboard. That wont happen any time soon. Though for many tasks (like Gimp/Photoshop, or 3D animation) you could replace the small key combos with larger key areas. Replace 3D mice with circular panning areas and such. I would prefer that the touch screen to display an abstraction of the interface -- window outlines, key areas. Nothing too detailed and distracting -- maybe an e-ink level display.
It will feel hot at first when you drink something hot, but then your body turns down your metabolism a bit since you have now added an external ammount of heat for your digestive enzimes to use. When your metabolism goes down you'll cool off and the effect will last a pretty good ammount of time. If you drink something cold the effect is the oposite. Of course it depends on the temperature. Room temp might be best or only slightly above. You only need to make it easy for your body to be at standard body temp which is where your metabolism work most efficiently.
I don't know about you, but most of the languages I'm familiar with pronouce 'x' with a 'SH' sound when it's part of a word.
Which of course makes the name in-shite.
Which is surprisingly worse than a company I worked for once called digital-freq pronounced 'digital-freak' Are there too many names copyrighted right now or something. Anything that makes you want to mumble your companies name when telling it to your friends should never have made it that far.
if i recall RH9 has wine issues which you need to change a config file for. crossover seems liek it would involve wine in some way or another. RH's page might have info
I like mplayer. I love that is seems to take nearly every thing I throw at it codecwise. I don't really like there themse so much, but I've gotten to forgiving themes in general. jwz is fully right about the jumping mouse curser and the overlapping windows. numerous time have I needed to kill X just to stop meplayer when it freezes up on me in fullscreen mode. The funnything was... I was able to open windows and alt-tab to the few terminals I had open. ONLY they were covered by the full screen window. So I just got the little alt-tab lister window at the centre of the screen. I would select the terminal but I could not see them to interact with them. so down went X after a few minutes of trying to use gnome blindly.
I'm not a super proponent of windows, but at east I know taht when my aopp freezes and I hit ctrl-alt-del I will.......eventually get my process list so I can kill thinsg and it will be at the very top of all windows and take precidece like it should. I had the gnome process list open from the terminals, but I couldn't see it to interact with it. that was all just wrong. the mouse jumping didn't help... well at least until I lost the mouse, then I didn't care about that bug.
the running mplayer from a console is worse. it's pretty cool taht it works at all, but there is no way to stop it sometimes. esc works on small movies, but seems to not work on 2hr ones. so either I wait for the end ot I power off my machine.
otherwise now that I have the laitency hack inthe kernel work I have to say desktop linux is pretty cool =)
oh yeah... video playback suck in OSX too, I needed to install the OSX version of mplayer to get subtitles working in divX movies... ok sure not everyone uses that feature, but I do infact almost all the movies I watch use this feature. for me Widnows is thebvest experince. everything works, if is stops working you can kill it and generally the video is really fast.
too bad since mplayer is sooooo close to being perfect. maybe it's gnome and window handling. I have no idea. but one of them or both is not quite right.
Ohhh next can we have seizure robots =)
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Ohhh next can we have seizure robots =)
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Not so sure he knows what he is talking about...
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While Linus is nice it seems that most of the voting was done in terms of popularity. If I recall quite a few saints were fairly unpopular in thier times or rather eccentric. Quite a few only reciving recognition well after thier deaths. I would definitly say that RMS fits the bill much more than some others. I'd have to say that popularity is probabaly the least likely reason a saint would be picked. A good thought though. Certainly saints can and shold be picked outside of purely religious contexts.
Actually the Real Time tools in Soft XSI are very nice. Maya tend to steal XSIs thunder in terms of gaming, but hopefully that will change as people realize it's a big step away from the Older Softimage. Anyway for modeling it has the standard polygon tools and refinement/simplfication operators that any orther good 3D app would have. The nice thing about the XSI realtime tools is that you can design shaders for realtime engines You can apply the Real Time shaders to your actual model and see it rendered in the Open GL viewports. Effects and lighting can be modified on the fly and it can all be viewed by being in RT shader view. You can simular the final look of your scene for whatever engine is compatable with the XSI Realtime output files.. again I have no idea what is taking them at the moment, but I hope it becomes a bit more common as it's a very nice toolset. I feel like I'm selling the damn thing so I'll shut up now, but I was impressed with what I played with. I just happen to like XSI's workflow so anything that makes it more popular help my investment of time in it;)
hysterical environmentalists -- Uh, yeah OK
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That is the absolute most amazingly one one-sided point I have ever read. Any time someone brings up Nazis to support an unrelated point it can only be an example of 'mass emotional resentment and fear to justify senseless political goal'. Anyway, on the more important subject of GM you have to take into account the fact that most GM research is NOT done for the sake of a stronger crop, or a more versatile crop, or a better tasting or more nutritious crop. In fact more of the GM advances are done for one reason only market dominance. the very idea that corn1.2 looks alot better on paper than corn1.1 . This sort ideal will never bring about any form of evolutionary change of lasting value only minor tangents following short term goals. In many cases the GM modifications have no other purpose than to make the plant more resistant to pesticides so that the levels can be brought up, and make no mistakes IT DOESN"T JUST WASH OUT! Now is the point when I would love to throw out a proper historical reference... but I don't have a source handy. The gist though is that that have we are losing *blah* amounts of seed diversity every year due simply to hybrid plants. In many cases these hybrids have done exactly what they were selected for and did their job well However there have been a few instances where a dramatic environmental change of some sort has rendered these plants useless and entire crops have been wiped out. Had these crops been a bit less streamlined they would have had the facilities to survive their growing season. The sickens thing in my opinion is that we are actually LOSING genetic diversity.... the GM producers are modifying genetic codes without proper backup... leaving hobbyist organizations to preserve the genetic diversity by planting every variety they can get ahold of to keep the seedbank up.
Another thing.... when I lived in Iowa I used to pick up the occasional farmers journal. Regularly the headline was about how difficult it was to get GM foods into Europe. followed by the agriculture secretary mentioning his plans to stop this and how keeping GM foods out of Europe without scientific evidence to back such an act was "Bad science" Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't such a statement 'bad science' isn't the path of science constant diligence in skepticism. If a country has a concern regardless of it's resigns it is in fact very 'good science' to hold back conduct research and cover your grounds. the only possible example of 'bad science' that I can think of is haste.
On a similar note, I hear that the US govt. is going planning tariffs to support the acceptance of GM foods into Europe. Why? they obviously don't want them and it's not an issue of excluding US good for Euro goods the fact is the product is very different. if the US wants to sell food to Europe they can simply sell something that is competitive --lose the GM foods. It seems slightly sick that the US thinks it can bully other countries into accepting something that they simply and resonably don't want.
I wouldn't think twice about paying extra cash for a purdy case. It would have to be better than the one I have though It has a lot of space inside though and doesn't have screws anywhere, except for the brackets which hold the drives in -which pop in and out of the case nice and easy like. All the designer cases I see either have little space or cramp your components in strange hard to reach places It would be great to find a designer case that had a bit of inteligence/flexability behind it.
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While it could have something to do with character 'job hopping' usually has more to do with hiring budgets. When you take on a contract there is often a small chance that you'll get hired full time, but more often than not when the contract completes there is no hiring budget -- so off you go. I would be nice to think that a performance would get a phone call when a hiring budget opens up, but it doesn't work that way.
This is of course region by region. On the West coast contacting is the norm. It's a crappy unpredictable life, but it's almost excessively common. In the Midwest I'd suspect the practice is less common, but I haven't worked there in 10 years so I have no idea.
For jobs like the ones in this article perhaps screening on 'character' as you suggest might be useful since these are fairly entry level jobs. However even for entry level 'job hopping' does not denote character...
A friend of mine finished law school with no less than 3 internships over one summer. I think one of them only lasted a few weeks. It had nothing to do with her skills or character. In fact when she graduated she moved to a small town as the count seat DA for a few years. I visited her it it was a pretty miserable town, but it got her some experience. She stayed with it 2 years. Her friends stayed in the city and continued to contract for those 2 years never gaining much experience they may still be doing that for all I know. She has now moved back into the city and is a successful trial lawyer. This has little to do with character. If my friend stayed in the city she would have accumulated numerous short term contracts despite having an immense character. Even the small town job was a bit of luck. The pattern for those towns in one slot every 2 years and you'd better hope you aren't tied to a lease/family/other responsibilities.
Just bear this in mind before you go applying blanket judgements of character over people. Get some context and think about your location, before you judge.
More of a time/budget issue than anything. Pixar has an enormous staff of tool coders to make stuff like footsteps in the snow work just right. This project had 2-3 coders helping out, but they split their time between various thing like rendering, simulation, etc. There was certainly no time to have one person tweak snow deformation (you can read the Sintel blog to learn about what went into making cloth simulation work for the dragon wings). So yeah they used tricks, but that is common to all lower budget movies. Also note that this had a 6-8 month time line -- which included script writing. Pixar has a 3-4 year time line for such things. They have separate crews working on various projects so they can knock one out every 2 years or so.
So yeah with only so much budget you can shake the camera and probably should if needed. Unless you like unfinished projects.
It's not the number of fingers that makes playing piano hard. It's the combinations. The chords are the hard part. Also the independent use of each finger. An interface like this and most other multi-touch interfaces use simple clenching or releasing motions. These are movements that anyone with fully functional hands will have already mastered. They are baby movements.
As for FPS games I don't see the issues I'd say my finger tip is roughly the size of a baddies head. Panning would be a breeze. Group selection in RTS games would be much nicer. If you combined this with a pen for drawing then I could easily see a mouse becoming obsolete.
As for palm interference I doubt that is a hard thing to treat as noise in the input.
The biggest problem is replacing a keyboard. That wont happen any time soon. Though for many tasks (like Gimp/Photoshop, or 3D animation) you could replace the small key combos with larger key areas. Replace 3D mice with circular panning areas and such. I would prefer that the touch screen to display an abstraction of the interface -- window outlines, key areas. Nothing too detailed and distracting -- maybe an e-ink level display.
It will feel hot at first when you drink something hot, but then your body turns down your metabolism a bit since you have now added an external ammount of heat for your digestive enzimes to use. When your metabolism goes down you'll cool off and the effect will last a pretty good ammount of time. If you drink something cold the effect is the oposite. Of course it depends on the temperature. Room temp might be best or only slightly above. You only need to make it easy for your body to be at standard body temp which is where your metabolism work most efficiently.
I don't know about you, but most of the languages I'm familiar with pronouce 'x' with a 'SH' sound when it's part of a word.
Which of course makes the name in-shite.
Which is surprisingly worse than a company I worked for once called digital-freq pronounced 'digital-freak' Are there too many names copyrighted right now or something. Anything that makes you want to mumble your companies name when telling it to your friends should never have made it that far.
if i recall RH9 has wine issues which you need to change a config file for. crossover seems liek it would involve wine in some way or another. RH's page might have info
I like mplayer. I love that is seems to take nearly every thing I throw at it codecwise. I don't really like there themse so much, but I've gotten to forgiving themes in general. jwz is fully right about the jumping mouse curser and the overlapping windows. numerous time have I needed to kill X just to stop meplayer when it freezes up on me in fullscreen mode. The funnything was... I was able to open windows and alt-tab to the few terminals I had open. ONLY they were covered by the full screen window. So I just got the little alt-tab lister window at the centre of the screen. I would select the terminal but I could not see them to interact with them. so down went X after a few minutes of trying to use gnome blindly.
.......eventually get my process list so I can kill thinsg and it will be at the very top of all windows and take precidece like it should. I had the gnome process list open from the terminals, but I couldn't see it to interact with it. that was all just wrong. the mouse jumping didn't help... well at least until I lost the mouse, then I didn't care about that bug.
I'm not a super proponent of windows, but at east I know taht when my aopp freezes and I hit ctrl-alt-del I will
the running mplayer from a console is worse. it's pretty cool taht it works at all, but there is no way to stop it sometimes. esc works on small movies, but seems to not work on 2hr ones. so either I wait for the end ot I power off my machine.
otherwise now that I have the laitency hack inthe kernel work I have to say desktop linux is pretty cool =)
oh yeah... video playback suck in OSX too, I needed to install the OSX version of mplayer to get subtitles working in divX movies... ok sure not everyone uses that feature, but I do infact almost all the movies I watch use this feature. for me Widnows is thebvest experince. everything works, if is stops working you can kill it and generally the video is really fast.
too bad since mplayer is sooooo close to being perfect. maybe it's gnome and window handling. I have no idea. but one of them or both is not quite right.
Ohhh next can we have seizure robots =)
YAY!!
While Linus is nice it seems that most of the voting was done in terms of popularity. If I recall quite a few saints were fairly unpopular in thier times or rather eccentric. Quite a few only reciving recognition well after thier deaths. I would definitly say that RMS fits the bill much more than some others. I'd have to say that popularity is probabaly the least likely reason a saint would be picked. A good thought though. Certainly saints can and shold be picked outside of purely religious contexts.
Actually the Real Time tools in Soft XSI are very nice. Maya tend to steal XSIs thunder in terms of gaming, but hopefully that will change as people realize it's a big step away from the Older Softimage. Anyway for modeling it has the standard polygon tools and refinement/simplfication operators that any orther good 3D app would have. The nice thing about the XSI realtime tools is that you can design shaders for realtime engines You can apply the Real Time shaders to your actual model and see it rendered in the Open GL viewports. Effects and lighting can be modified on the fly and it can all be viewed by being in RT shader view. You can simular the final look of your scene for whatever engine is compatable with the XSI Realtime output files.. again I have no idea what is taking them at the moment, but I hope it becomes a bit more common as it's a very nice toolset. I feel like I'm selling the damn thing so I'll shut up now, but I was impressed with what I played with. I just happen to like XSI's workflow so anything that makes it more popular help my investment of time in it ;)
That is the absolute most amazingly one one-sided point I have ever read. Any time someone brings up Nazis to support an unrelated point it can only be an example of 'mass emotional resentment and fear to justify senseless political goal'.
Anyway, on the more important subject of GM you have to take into account the fact that most GM research is NOT done for the sake of a stronger crop, or a more versatile crop, or a better tasting or more nutritious crop. In fact more of the GM advances are done for one reason only market dominance. the very idea that corn1.2 looks alot better on paper than corn1.1 . This sort ideal will never bring about any form of evolutionary change of lasting value only minor tangents following short term goals. In many cases the GM modifications have no other purpose than to make the plant more resistant to pesticides so that the levels can be brought up, and make no mistakes IT DOESN"T JUST WASH OUT! Now is the point when I would love to throw out a proper historical reference... but I don't have a source handy. The gist though is that that have we are losing *blah* amounts of seed diversity every year due simply to hybrid plants. In many cases these hybrids have done exactly what they were selected for and did their job well However there have been a few instances where a dramatic environmental change of some sort has rendered these plants useless and entire crops have been wiped out. Had these crops been a bit less streamlined they would have had the facilities to survive their growing season. The sickens thing in my opinion is that we are actually LOSING genetic diversity.... the GM producers are modifying genetic codes without proper backup... leaving hobbyist organizations to preserve the genetic diversity by planting every variety they can get ahold of to keep the seedbank up.
Another thing.... when I lived in Iowa I used to pick up the occasional farmers journal. Regularly the headline was about how difficult it was to get GM foods into Europe. followed by the agriculture secretary mentioning his plans to stop this and how keeping GM foods out of Europe without scientific evidence to back such an act was "Bad science" Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't such a statement 'bad science' isn't the path of science constant diligence in skepticism. If a country has a concern regardless of it's resigns it is in fact very 'good science' to hold back conduct research and cover your grounds. the only possible example of 'bad science' that I can think of is haste.
On a similar note, I hear that the US govt. is going planning tariffs to support the acceptance of GM foods into Europe. Why? they obviously don't want them and it's not an issue of excluding US good for Euro goods the fact is the product is very different. if the US wants to sell food to Europe they can simply sell something that is competitive --lose the GM foods. It seems slightly sick that the US thinks it can bully other countries into accepting something that they simply and resonably don't want.
*blink*
I wouldn't think twice about paying extra cash for a purdy case. It would have to be better than the one I have though It has a lot of space inside though and doesn't have screws anywhere, except for the brackets which hold the drives in -which pop in and out of the case nice and easy like. All the designer cases I see either have little space or cramp your components in strange hard to reach places It would be great to find a designer case that had a bit of inteligence/flexability behind it.