make the bug reporting/documenting process open, so that when we do run into a suspected bug we can do a quick search to find out if you know about it.
Nothing I hate more than doing a google search, not finding anything, then spending time to prepare a tested step by step description to repeat the bug, only to have a 2nd level support guy tell me that it's been in their private bugbase for months.
1) purchase house 2) purchase rats 3) in a spare room build 2 rat cages, one that is also a faraday cage. 4) treat both groups of rats the same. no fair giving extra snuggles to the ones in the faraday cage 5) every year, have a vet check both groups of rats. If there is no difference, then chances are you don't have a problem. If the group NOT in the faraday cage has more health problems, move asap.
From the press release: "As a heavy but non-technical computer user it has been extremely frustrating for me to encounter 404 errors. Naturally, they happen at the busiest times," said Roy S. Lahet, vice president of Planning for Mercy Behavioral Health."
a google search for him came up with this picture as the second result.
out there... somewhere... a Verisign PR guy is limping with a smoking gun and wounded foot
Sorry, but likely because you're a software engineer you're not understanding the mindset of many people, for whom the design of an item counts for more than what's under the hood.
it totally depends on what the scene is like. Also, the same textures may be used in multiple scenes.
Lets say there's 50 megs of textures. On broadband that's not a big deal to download. Each frame may take 4 hours to render. Get a few thousand friends to help out, and now you could be rendering minutes per night vs minutes per month.
On the Animation Master mailing lists I've tried to intrest people in doing this. I voluntered my cpus to try using the AM netrender over the internet. No one wanted to do this.
JKR's point about textures is moot if the scene is only using a few megs of textures. Sure, the entire movie may use gigabytes of textures, but if the shot being rendered only uses 30 megs, then it's quite fesable over the internet.
seriously Mr. AC, you may think you're joking, but Postcript really can do most of what you've described. And you can use Ghostscript to run the programs.
he shoulda stuck with the sugar water. After bonehead moves with Apple, he aquired the program/company Live Picture. Back when RAM would cost you over $6K/gig, it allowed you to do retouching and composites of really big files on a 256meg machine. They also promoted the Flashpix format, which let you zoom into pictures online.
After ignoring many suggestions of how the tech could be used to do some really innovative, useful things, and more bonehead moves, the company dies (assets bought by MGI)
a good page about this can be found at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/resignation.htm l and http://www.goingware.com/tips/misery.html quote: "The bad VC comes up with ideas about what might appeal to Wall Street or to a possible corporate purchaser and orders you to drop what you're doing and pursue his misguided goal.
A specific example of this was when John Scully directed Live Picture, the company, to abandon development of Live Picture 3.0, the program, and instead pursue development of internet technologies involving the very complex and proprietary Flashpix file format.
You could do really cool things with FlashPix, admittedly, but it's not really what users wanted. Very few people use Flashpix these days, even though Kodak, Microsoft and Live Picture went to no end of trouble to develop and promote it. Instead, people who browse the web still get JPEGs, plain and simple.
But the specific reason John Sculley felt it was important to develop and promote Flashpix - he said as much in a company meeting - was because we were preparing for an IPO, and "Wall Street is not interested in tools companies. It is interested in Internet companies".
IANAL, but I think this falls under the "your right to swing your arm stops at my nose" I'd bet that this sort of case has been to court. There is a law that if you are given something unsolicitated, even artwork, you can destroy it.
Might be fun to tag a building, add a few coats of clearcoating as a "technological access device" and sue under the DMCA when the owner tries to clean it.
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I recall reading about him working with a Scitex system in the 80's. It might have been him supervising the production of a book.
I just spent some time googling, but nothing came up. Anyone else remember reading about this?
make the bug reporting/documenting process open, so that when we do run into a suspected bug we can do a quick search to find out if you know about it.
Nothing I hate more than doing a google search, not finding anything, then spending time to prepare a tested step by step description to repeat the bug, only to have a 2nd level support guy tell me that it's been in their private bugbase for months.
here's a second vote for seeing the poem. Also what was the sponsoring organization?
pics are there, you just need to change the slashes
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http://www.steadicopter.com/Pics/newpics/Shor00
http://www.steadicopter.com/Pics/newpics/a2016.
actually, a Kawasaki factory robot deserves that dishonor.
In 1981 it killed its operator, Kenji Urada.
this page has Howard Strauss's email address
Long interview on The Space Show
Also, the story adheres to Slashdot's usual standards of accuracy, as Rocketguy never did have plans for an X-Prize launch.
I thought that the "scientific thing" to do when the experiment does not confirm the theory is to change the theory
1) purchase house
2) purchase rats
3) in a spare room build 2 rat cages, one that is also a faraday cage.
4) treat both groups of rats the same. no fair giving extra snuggles to the ones in the faraday cage
5) every year, have a vet check both groups of rats. If there is no difference, then chances are you don't have a problem. If the group NOT in the faraday cage has more health problems, move asap.
Do you have a friend (or trusted FOAF) that could potentially be purchasing the software?
Talk with him about what sort of questions to ask the salesman, and possible resposnses to weasel replies. Do NOT divulge any trade secrets.
Then have him call up to get a sales pitch.
A salesman bitching to management about a lost sale because of lousy security may be listened to more than a tech.
Redirection.net
.nu, and can't recommend them anymore
about $15/year with email fowarding, subdomains, etc. I've only used customer service via email, and got responses in 2 to 8 hours
I used to use
I think you missed his point:
"Hey, when you handle DNS and registration for a chunk of people,"
it's probably not his money, but does become his miles
or liberal application of duct tape
From the press release:
"As a heavy but non-technical computer user it has been extremely frustrating for me to encounter 404 errors. Naturally, they happen at the busiest times," said Roy S. Lahet, vice president of Planning for Mercy Behavioral Health."
a google search for him came up with this picture as the second result.
out there... somewhere... a Verisign PR guy is limping with a smoking gun and wounded foot
You couldn't match the focal lengths and focus with off the shelf cameras, so the images would'nt align.
There is a good attatchment for a standard video camera, the Nu-view
I bought 2, it works great, good quality product.
We should be reading this article with the same degree of skepticism that we would read an article written by Jason Blair.
Has the slashdot community forgotten how Markoff reported Kevin Mitnick's case?
example from 2600 and another
cold you please supply some url's documenting the problems with Chenbro?
Sorry, but likely because you're a software engineer you're not understanding the mindset of many people, for whom the design of an item counts for more than what's under the hood.
it totally depends on what the scene is like. Also, the same textures may be used in multiple scenes.
Lets say there's 50 megs of textures. On broadband that's not a big deal to download. Each frame may take 4 hours to render.
Get a few thousand friends to help out, and now you could be rendering minutes per night vs minutes per month.
On the Animation Master mailing lists I've tried to intrest people in doing this. I voluntered my cpus to try using the AM netrender over the internet.
No one wanted to do this.
JKR's point about textures is moot if the scene is only using a few megs of textures. Sure, the entire movie may use gigabytes of textures, but if the shot being rendered only uses 30 megs, then it's quite fesable over the internet.
Don Lancaster, is that you?
seriously Mr. AC, you may think you're joking, but Postcript really can do most of what you've described. And you can use Ghostscript to run the programs.
he shoulda stuck with the sugar water.
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After bonehead moves with Apple, he aquired the program/company Live Picture.
Back when RAM would cost you over $6K/gig, it allowed you to do retouching and composites of really big files on a 256meg machine. They also promoted the Flashpix format, which let you zoom into pictures online.
After ignoring many suggestions of how the tech could be used to do some really innovative, useful things, and more bonehead moves, the company dies (assets bought by MGI)
a good page about this can be found at:
http://www.goingware.com/tips/resignation.ht
and
http://www.goingware.com/tips/misery.html
quote:
"The bad VC comes up with ideas about what might appeal to Wall Street or to a possible corporate purchaser and orders you to drop what you're doing and pursue his misguided goal.
A specific example of this was when John Scully directed Live Picture, the company, to abandon development of Live Picture 3.0, the program, and instead pursue development of internet technologies involving the very complex and proprietary Flashpix file format.
You could do really cool things with FlashPix, admittedly, but it's not really what users wanted. Very few people use Flashpix these days, even though Kodak, Microsoft and Live Picture went to no end of trouble to develop and promote it. Instead, people who browse the web still get JPEGs, plain and simple.
But the specific reason John Sculley felt it was important to develop and promote Flashpix - he said as much in a company meeting - was because we were preparing for an IPO, and "Wall Street is not interested in tools companies. It is interested in Internet companies".
I remember seeing a mouse with crosshairs advertised. Yes, at the time I owned a kurta tablet, so i knew the difference {g}
IANAL, but I think this falls under the "your right to swing your arm stops at my nose"
I'd bet that this sort of case has been to court.
There is a law that if you are given something unsolicitated, even artwork, you can destroy it.
Might be fun to tag a building, add a few coats of clearcoating as a "technological access device" and sue under the DMCA when the owner tries to clean it.
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