> I want to return to programming. I know COBOL/DB2 and some ABAP.
Is that a really obscure Java API?
> Yet I can not even get a phone interview.
The IT markets are very nichie (is that a word?) and recruters only know a subset of acronyms. Get a linux box, submit a few bug fixes to a major open source project(s). Then, "Yes I know c/c++/Java/perl, my code is running on thousands of enterprise datacenter systems."
Contact development managers DIRECTLY. No HeadHunters.
Here may be the perfect vehicle for recreating with cutting edge 3D character techniques an artificial Judy/Dorothy. The scarecrow, lion, not to mention the tin man, should be almost trivial at this point. There are voice actors (of various original gender) that could do excelent renditions of Judy's singing voice for new songs.
Why stop at 15, in a few years we could have The OZ Channel!
I suggested this as a joke and never thought to try it out. I really don't want to know the condition of my keyboard, just shaking it out would be good.
I quickly retracted my suggestion in a later post, not sure if it was ever tried.
Just what I was saying to my cubemate, look at this it holds all my files, wait, it was right on my keychain. Oh no, if I don't find that darned bit of plastic I'm doomed...
And this is the first I've heard of it. As for the harbor they shut it down 2-3 times a week for the scary LNG tankers so that infrastructure is in place. As for shutting down the big dig, well that's pretty common. Wait, The Charles river is frozen over, there are no boats. Did this happen today? Ah, yes, very silly.
Who says Shaye will be there next week? Things could change in an hour. An active lawsuit certainly affects business partners but the studios board just needs to make the tiny conceptual leap that another couple billion dollars is better than Shaye.
Sheesh, anyone believe ANYTHING said in H'wood? Give me a break.
If not a troll then some other variety of lazy cut&paste, I have seen the identical post at least once before.
The theme that Ajax/Web 2.0 (cue violins) have too high glitz to function ratio is not unwarrented, repetitive cut&paste postings does obscure that point.
And loose the concept of a laptop. Do I know what to make of it? Would I be posting here?
There is something that I would carry with me contstantly. But do you need a full Vista? Do you need a useable keyboard? How much 'disk space' do you really need? If it had integrated wifi, cell/w bluetooth, media options, gps? And was LIGHT and COOL and LOW POWER?
Follow the money, how do they expect to make a bundle on this? I'd like to see their plan before jumping in too quickly. Will there be an *upgrade* that all serious blogs need to make (only $99/year/cert)?
Sorry to be cynical (well not sorry on/.) but having not read anything about this my $$ filter was triggered. Sounds really cool, worth investigating, but... pling pling pling...
If you're really worried, get a hex die from a gaming store. Then get 8-16 *different* friends to each buy you a prepaid phone. Number them. When you need to make a call, roll the die, use the phone, toss it in the trash or better, give it to a random teenager to use up the minutes.
Who creates a cutting edge killer game with NO ARTISTS?
How many artists have high expertise developing algorithms?
Artists. Not programmers.
How many tens and hundreds of thousands of great textures have been developed by programmers? Not a couple neato keen demos. High volume, rapid turnaround production?
Sheesh, yes I'm slightly off topic if the only issue worth discussion is the relative performance between FFT's and Wavelet computation. Artmatic looks really great for the creation of alien landscapes, but I'd love it if their tool had some natural environments.
Realtime procedural textures are quite cool, but there is a bunch more *standard* infrastructure that will be needed before the revoloution occurs. It's a another example of probably great technology that will go nowhere due to misunderstanding the user base.
Are there tools to create the texture? It's not going to take the industry by storm if it requires a highly specialized programer to create a proceedural texture. Is there a Photoshop plug-in?
IANAP but I happened to chat with a real string theory theorist recently, he did not seem at all impressed with Hawking.
Anything that sparks the interest of a student or anyone to enter science is a fine thing. I'm looking forward to it even though the artists rendition of 11 dimensions will likely be more psycadelic than mathematically accurate.
>But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: is fundamentally changing who you are just so you are more likely to get laid worth it?
If you really think a porn collection, lack of personal hygine and using venacular like woot and leet define you as a person, then yes, totally redefining yourself is worth a try.
It starts out seeming to be a discussion of goat husbandry, how to feed them, all that good stuff. But there's a kicker. And totally safe for work and kids of all ages. And best: no subtle sarcasm or fake bedroom singing. Much better than youtube.
Actually that's standard on most larger sailboats over about 35 ft in length. Diesel for the auxiliary motor for maneuvering and a small solar panel to keep the batteries charged (radio, nav). Some use a small windmill for electricity.
Commercial calculations need to shift 2-3 orders of magnitude. Ships are beeeg.
Slashdot Mirror
> Driving faster than the current speed limits is not harmful.
True (in some cases), but when there is an accident, leaving is irresponsible and a crime. \
> I want to return to programming. I know COBOL/DB2 and some ABAP.
Is that a really obscure Java API?
> Yet I can not even get a phone interview.
The IT markets are very nichie (is that a word?) and recruters only know
a subset of acronyms. Get a linux box, submit a few bug fixes to a major
open source project(s). Then, "Yes I know c/c++/Java/perl, my code is running
on thousands of enterprise datacenter systems."
Contact development managers DIRECTLY. No HeadHunters.
Here may be the perfect vehicle for recreating with cutting edge 3D character techniques an artificial Judy/Dorothy. The scarecrow, lion, not to mention the tin man, should be almost trivial at this point. There
are voice actors (of various original gender) that could do excelent renditions of Judy's singing voice
for new songs.
Why stop at 15, in a few years we could have The OZ Channel!
I suggested this as a joke and never thought to try it out. I really don't
want to know the condition of my keyboard, just shaking it out would
be good.
I quickly retracted my suggestion in a later post, not sure if
it was ever tried.
Just what I was saying to my cubemate, look at this it holds all
my files, wait, it was right on my keychain. Oh no, if I don't
find that darned bit of plastic I'm doomed...
> Am I the only one who thinks these guys are total idiots for pulling a stunt like that??? We live in a time ... (yadda yadda)
On slashdot? YES. Switch to Oprah or Dr Phil message board.
And this is the first I've heard of it. As for the harbor
they shut it down 2-3 times a week for the scary LNG tankers
so that infrastructure is in place. As for shutting down
the big dig, well that's pretty common. Wait, The Charles
river is frozen over, there are no boats. Did this happen today?
Ah, yes, very silly.
Who says Shaye will be there next week? Things could change in
an hour. An active lawsuit certainly affects business partners
but the studios board just needs to make the tiny conceptual
leap that another couple billion dollars is better than Shaye.
Sheesh, anyone believe ANYTHING said in H'wood? Give me a break.
If not a troll then some other variety of lazy cut&paste, I have seen the identical post at least once before.
The theme that Ajax/Web 2.0 (cue violins) have too high glitz to function ratio is not unwarrented, repetitive cut&paste postings does obscure that point.
The trick is *GETTING AROUND* to breaking the hard stuff up into lots of little tasks that collectively take care of the hard stuff.
And loose the concept of a laptop. Do I know what to make of it? Would I be posting here?
There is something that I would carry with me contstantly. But do you
need a full Vista? Do you need a useable keyboard? How much 'disk space' do you really need?
If it had integrated wifi, cell/w bluetooth, media options, gps? And was LIGHT and COOL and
LOW POWER?
Maxi-Ipod-Mark-VI
Noblesse Oblige? Yeah sure.
/.) but having not read anything
Follow the money, how do they expect to make a bundle on this? I'd
like to see their plan before jumping in too quickly. Will there be
an *upgrade* that all serious blogs need to make (only $99/year/cert)?
Sorry to be cynical (well not sorry on
about this my $$ filter was triggered. Sounds really cool, worth investigating,
but... pling pling pling...
If you're really worried, get a hex die from a gaming store. Then get
8-16 *different* friends to each buy you a prepaid phone. Number them.
When you need to make a call, roll the die, use the phone, toss it in
the trash or better, give it to a random teenager to use up the minutes.
>Has anyone considered writing an MMO where scripting up the client and making bots is part of the game.
Second Life?
Yes, we understand what a proceedural texture is. You are not listening, that is not what we are talking about.
How many *Artists* have used your 'Perlin code sitting around on my hard drive' ?
How long would it take you to develop an intuitive UI? Intuitive for an artist, that is.
I don't get it... Well actually I do.
Ok, who uses the tools?
Who creates images/textures?
Who creates a cutting edge killer game with NO ARTISTS?
How many artists have high expertise developing algorithms?
Artists. Not programmers.
How many tens and hundreds of thousands of great textures have been developed by programmers? Not
a couple neato keen demos. High volume, rapid turnaround production?
Sheesh, yes I'm slightly off topic if the only issue worth discussion is the relative performance
between FFT's and Wavelet computation. Artmatic looks really great for the creation of
alien landscapes, but I'd love it if their tool had some natural environments.
Realtime procedural textures are quite cool, but there is a bunch more *standard* infrastructure
that will be needed before the revoloution occurs. It's a another example of probably great
technology that will go nowhere due to misunderstanding the user base.
Are there tools to create the texture? It's not going to take
the industry by storm if it requires a highly specialized programer
to create a proceedural texture. Is there a Photoshop plug-in?
Great images though!
Second Life?
Please please please tell me this does a server round trip
n .html
transaction for each letter increment! Totally 'two dot O'
http://www.flapjax-lang.org/demos/letter-count/ru
IANAP but I happened to chat with a real string theory
theorist recently, he did not seem at all impressed with
Hawking.
Anything that sparks the interest of a student or anyone
to enter science is a fine thing. I'm looking forward to
it even though the artists rendition of 11 dimensions will
likely be more psycadelic than mathematically accurate.
>But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: is fundamentally changing who you are just so you are more likely to get laid worth it?
If you really think a porn collection, lack of personal hygine and using venacular like woot and leet
define you as a person, then yes, totally redefining yourself is worth a try.
Really! Don't miss it.
It starts out seeming to be a discussion of goat husbandry, how to feed
them, all that good stuff. But there's a kicker. And totally safe for
work and kids of all ages. And best: no subtle sarcasm or fake bedroom singing.
Much better than youtube.
Yes, exactly.
Don't get tired. Don't miss a step. Don't loose patience.
I missed a step... so it was dig through network details, restart from
the beginning, or, take a beat, be up with ubuntu in another
20 minutes.
Another happy ubuntite.
ps. I'll dig in to gentoo on another project that is more
performance oriented (and where I'll have a gentooguru on call)
Actually that's standard on most larger sailboats over about 35 ft in length.
Diesel for the auxiliary motor for maneuvering and a small solar panel
to keep the batteries charged (radio, nav). Some use a small windmill for
electricity.
Commercial calculations need to shift 2-3 orders of magnitude. Ships are beeeg.
Just that.
The new gold standard for success.
I want my embedded google interface, loose the damned keyboard I
wanna be online 24/7 direct to brain.