It's the embedded computers actually operating things like the motors for the rods, the valves for cooling fluids, vents, things like that.
Yes...but why would a computer that controls the location of a motor care what time or day it is? All it should care about is the position of the motor - is it up, 10% up, etc...
The last time I mentioned something about Berlin and its strong linux ties, I was told that all the commercial Unicies are gonna fall by the wayside and only Linux mattered.
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Sorry, it was the only piece of SGI Adobe software that came to mind...I guess I should have said Premiere...I think that's already on SGI.
I prefer GIMP - just wish I could get it running again on my HPUX machine:(
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Okay...almost any movie now seems to be made on SGI's running Alias|Wavefront, Maya, or Softimage. And usually on the behind the scenes shows there is an animator talking about this and that sitting in front of an SGI.
Does this now mean that all these ubercool apps are going to be moved to Linux?
It's not like I could afford any of them, but this could be a big boon for the commercial Linux software arena. I wonder if it would help pull Photoshop over, or some NLE's?
Compuserve created the GIF format and put the specs out for it. The problem is that they did not know that UniSys had the patent on LZW compression. UniSys then waited a LONG time before saying people must pay.
One point in the essay was that their should be a consistent UI so that moving a file is always done the same way, or other tasks.
If you teach the users what the task is, and the idea behind it, then the interface becomes less important.
As tech support, I don't know how many times I've asked someone to do something like minimize a window, or open a file - the answer is always "huh?". What really gets them past this is when I say "click the box with the line at the bottom" or "double clicky on the pretty picture".
I don't know the legal end of it, but it seems to me that when they are in court and they say "In 2001, we came out with the foobar product, and this person is trying to get money from us by owning the foobar.com domain name" and the other persons lawyer says "but my client has had foobar.com for 2 years, well before this product"
To make what I'm thinking of possible, you'd need to have a standard indexing format. I'm sure Microsoft has one we can use, as long as half the links point back to them:)
Anyway, Altavista, Yahoo, Infoseek, etc... could make deals with the big ISP's/web host services such as Mindspring, Netcom, Earthlink, Geocities, Tripod, etc... Those sites would then index their own sites, which would save your spider/crawler a lot of time.
The indexes could then be merged back at Altavista, Infoseek, etc... Or the search of those sites could hit all the distributed indexes.
There is still the issue of other sites not located on these big ISP's, like.edu's and ibm.com's.
Yes, I want all the web pages, so if I'm trying to track down my friend JimBob I can find him.
I also want them to ignore meta tags, or any text in a tag - or at least have that be one of the search options, which'll cut down on an 31337 P0rn site popping up on EVERY search.
I agree with the sidebar problem. The other problem is half the stuff they seem to have indexed has moved on by the time I search and a lot of "That member's page can't be found" or just 404 errors pop up.
Just don't let Lucas direct. I don't care if Leo plays Anakin as long as he does a good job. I don't care if JarJar is back, as long as they make him a bit more serious.
Just bring back Ivan Rietman (I'm probably spelling that very wrong) and put some darkness into it.
1) You can't contact them via e-mail 2) You can't contact them via phone 3) Why in this day do you have to use their template e-mail form? I should be able to make domain changes instantly via the web.
And they are scared cause they know if there is competition they are in deep crap. All the competition has to do is answer a telephone and they are already better off than NSI. I'd rather pay more money to a company that seemed to care than less money to NSI to register a domain.
Also, if everything is so automated via their crappy templates, what does my $35 a year go to pay for? Yes, they need machines to run things, but I figure with the money they save on support personell, they should have plenty.
When I first read the heading I though "COOL". Then I thought more about it.
Why bother? It will probably appeal to the people on the comp.games groups and the *.3d.* groups who buy a book on programming/modelling and expect to instantly know how to do it all. It isn't that simple. It takes skill and talent (and luck).
I think it'd be a much better course if it had no computer component to it, other than a final project or something like that. If you are in the course, you had best already know how to make a rendering engine for a game and through textures up there. The courses should concentrate on playability issues, supporting a game, how to reach a target audience, design issues, etc...
The final project should be no more than a running game (perhaps something to prove academic honesty as well). The grade should be based on the merits of the game, not how good the code was behind it.
Also, anyone who turns in a first-person 3D shooter with nothing else to it (quake, heretic, doom, etc...) gets an instant F.
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You're pretty optimistic that the Dell would hold its value for that long!!!
2KB -> 16KB? Must have been a ZX81/TimexSinclair 1000.
Still have mine somewhere - even found the 16KB addon at a sidewalk sale in 1988!
Still have mine handy - though not currently installed.
:)
I had a friend walk away shaking his head in disbelief after showing him my X windows setup of the VGA X and Herc Mono X both going at once.
(The disbelief wasn't that it couldn't be done, but that anyone would want to
It's the embedded computers actually operating things like the motors for the rods, the valves for cooling fluids, vents, things like that.
Yes...but why would a computer that controls the location of a motor care what time or day it is? All it should care about is the position of the motor - is it up, 10% up, etc...
I'm glad to hear that.
The last time I mentioned something about Berlin and its strong linux ties, I was told that all the commercial Unicies are gonna fall by the wayside and only Linux mattered.
Sorry, it was the only piece of SGI Adobe software that came to mind...I guess I should have said Premiere...I think that's already on SGI.
:(
I prefer GIMP - just wish I could get it running again on my HPUX machine
Okay...almost any movie now seems to be made on SGI's running Alias|Wavefront, Maya, or Softimage. And usually on the behind the scenes shows there is an animator talking about this and that sitting in front of an SGI.
Does this now mean that all these ubercool apps are going to be moved to Linux?
It's not like I could afford any of them, but this could be a big boon for the commercial Linux software arena. I wonder if it would help pull Photoshop over, or some NLE's?
No. It doesn't. NT runs pretty well on them
Because it makes them look bad - problem or no problem.
Compuserve created the GIF format and put the specs out for it. The problem is that they did not know that UniSys had the patent on LZW compression. UniSys then waited a LONG time before saying people must pay.
One point in the essay was that their should be a consistent UI so that moving a file is always done the same way, or other tasks.
If you teach the users what the task is, and the idea behind it, then the interface becomes less important.
As tech support, I don't know how many times I've asked someone to do something like minimize a window, or open a file - the answer is always "huh?". What really gets them past this is when I say "click the box with the line at the bottom" or "double clicky on the pretty picture".
I was okay with thinking that way about it as well, until the moron spammed me telling me why I should pay him $5 to use it.
I don't know the legal end of it, but it seems to me that when they are in court and they say "In 2001, we came out with the foobar product, and this person is trying to get money from us by owning the foobar.com domain name" and the other persons lawyer says "but my client has had foobar.com for 2 years, well before this product"
I would hope that would be the end of it.
To make what I'm thinking of possible, you'd need to have a standard indexing format. I'm sure Microsoft has one we can use, as long as half the links point back to them :)
.edu's and ibm.com's.
Anyway, Altavista, Yahoo, Infoseek, etc... could make deals with the big ISP's/web host services such as Mindspring, Netcom, Earthlink, Geocities, Tripod, etc... Those sites would then index their own sites, which would save your spider/crawler a lot of time.
The indexes could then be merged back at Altavista, Infoseek, etc... Or the search of those sites could hit all the distributed indexes.
There is still the issue of other sites not located on these big ISP's, like
Yes, I want all the web pages, so if I'm trying to track down my friend JimBob I can find him.
I also want them to ignore meta tags, or any text in a tag - or at least have that be one of the search options, which'll cut down on an 31337 P0rn site popping up on EVERY search.
I agree with the sidebar problem. The other problem is half the stuff they seem to have indexed has moved on by the time I search and a lot of "That member's page can't be found" or just 404 errors pop up.
Funny thing is - That's how I read it :)
Or they could sell the product and make money off that and make money off selling support contracts.
On my HPUX machine, the kernel file is 7M. However, that is a risc architecture which does tend to produce larger code files, but still!!!
Just don't let Lucas direct. I don't care if Leo plays Anakin as long as he does a good job. I don't care if JarJar is back, as long as they make him a bit more serious.
Just bring back Ivan Rietman (I'm probably spelling that very wrong) and put some darkness into it.
1) You can't contact them via e-mail
2) You can't contact them via phone
3) Why in this day do you have to use their template e-mail form? I should be able to make domain changes instantly via the web.
And they are scared cause they know if there is competition they are in deep crap. All the competition has to do is answer a telephone and they are already better off than NSI. I'd rather pay more money to a company that seemed to care than less money to NSI to register a domain.
Also, if everything is so automated via their crappy templates, what does my $35 a year go to pay for? Yes, they need machines to run things, but I figure with the money they save on support personell, they should have plenty.
When I first read the heading I though "COOL". Then I thought more about it.
Why bother? It will probably appeal to the people on the comp.games groups and the *.3d.* groups who buy a book on programming/modelling and expect to instantly know how to do it all. It isn't that simple. It takes skill and talent (and luck).
I think it'd be a much better course if it had no computer component to it, other than a final project or something like that. If you are in the course, you had best already know how to make a rendering engine for a game and through textures up there. The courses should concentrate on playability issues, supporting a game, how to reach a target audience, design issues, etc...
The final project should be no more than a running game (perhaps something to prove academic honesty as well). The grade should be based on the merits of the game, not how good the code was behind it.
Also, anyone who turns in a first-person 3D shooter with nothing else to it (quake, heretic, doom, etc...) gets an instant F.
Yup...everyone's an asshole, except me :)
A month to prepare a closing statement?
No wonder courts are clogged.
Most likely people who believed the circuit city salespeople, or who REALLY wanted to see a movie that only came on DIVX format.
I think on my lunch break I'll go down to circuit city and point and laugh!
As long as it worked okay, I'd be glad to dump that piece of junk netscape for it.