Sure it does. If Apple releases a new iPhone/iPad/whatever that uses a different processor, it can retarget pretty easily. If there is inline assembly or non-official source languages... not so much.
Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.
I've been working in the visual effects industry since I graduated (~10 years ago). I started for a small studio writing scripts to automate common tasks. Since then I've: - built a distributed render system on top of open source software - written animation tools for artists - written software for animating, simulating, and rendering fur - learned Houdini, Maya, RenderMan and many others - written shaders - written many, many plugins and tools in various languages
I'm now managing a team and have discovered that it's hard to find talented software developers with a solid grounding in mathematics and computer science who have the skills to work in VFX. There are plenty of hackers who can put together a MEL script, but few who actually understand the underpinnings of the systems involved.
If working on VFX for film and TV shows sounds interesting to you, look into developing your skills as a Technical Director (or TD). The skills I look for in a TD are: - understanding of the 3D pipeline (modeling, texturing, rigging, layout, tracking, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing) - technical competency in the software used (Maya, Shake or Nuke, Renderman or Mental Ray) - solid background in programming (scripting, understanding of OO design, C++ desirable, Python especially) - solid understanding of Unix as a technical user - ability to learn and master new technologies quickly - ability to empathize with artists and understand their perspective as a user - strong mathematics background is highly desirable - experience in digital or traditional filmmaking also highly desirable
The people I've worked with in the past usually fall into one of three categories: - have a degree in computer science (or related), minored in fine arts (or just had the interest), and then took a college program in 3D - smart people from a completely different background who taught themselves both 3D software and programming - artists who took a college program in 3D, who then taught themselves programming
I recommend the first option, or if you're persistent enough, teach yourself the software at home and start networking online.
If you have a masters in computer graphics, mathematics, or physics, another job open to you is that of the Shader Writer. Shader writers build either complete shading systems or components that model how light reacts with materials. These models are not usually physically accurate (although that is becoming more of an option now). Things to look into: - BDRFs - ambient occlusion and color bleeding - subsurface scattering - procedural texturing and modeling - shader anti-aliasing - global illumination techniques - shading languages such as RSL, GLSL or Cg
Competent shader writers are HIGHLY sought after and very well compensated.
Check out the job postings at Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic, Sony Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, and Dreamworks Animation for more info. Also check out the forums at cgsociety.com and odforce.net.
It's not just that you have to download the samples separately, or that you can't extract the files on linux or mac without writing your own scripts. Once you finally get them installed and run the damn java app you're presented with a screen requires you to enter a dozen or so parameters before you can even listen to audio. I gave up at this point. I don't have the patience.
Finally, the kicker is in the readme:
After you finish the test, save the results, (7-)ZIP, RAR or ACE them together and mail the file to mail@listening-tests.info.
Who outside of the hydrogen audio forums is going to bother?
My only concern really is what is this doing to my neurons, rods, cones and assorted other presumably sensitive body parts. I don't care about a goofy sound coming from my computer speakers every once in a while.
They came to you. That means you're already in a position of power. Negotiate. Ask for at least 50% more than what they're offering and tell them "no" on the non-compete. If they're serious, they'll come back with a counter-offer.
It's the only time my mind actually shuts off. And it covers all the bases: cardio, strength training, and flexibility. 1.5 hours 3 times a week. And the classes are 75% women.
they really aren't in the business of libraries, they're in the business of applications and operating systems.
They're very much in the business of proprietary libraries. That's how they lock companies into the Windows platform. If they switched to glibc and gtk (or qt) it would be almost trivial for application vendors to recompile for any platform those libraries are available.
people who see UFO's and try to communicate with trees.
Right, and because Shirley MacLaine wrote it, it must be true. For all we know, Kucinich was humouring his kooky friend. Let's not forget that the current president of the USA has conversations with god.
And for the record, I'm not American, so please spare me the partisan accusations.
Most people think of Python as procedural or object-oriented, but it actually has all of the tools required to do functional programming. And, being Python, the syntax is logical and easy to read.
And it's all because evolution is sloppy in the way it selects for survival. Had evolution selected for higher rationality and less fear in humans, we would not be in this situation.
However, when a treatment for life extension becomes available, it seems very likely that religious leaders will call it an aberration and unnatural. Those who refuse to take the treatment will die off in a generation. Those who shun technological advances quickly become a minority, e.g. the amish.
Both states were Democrat-controlled and rife with allegations of fraud.
Are you saying it doesn't matter if the Republicans committed electoral fraud in 2004 because the Democrats might have in 1960?
Can you even see how fucked up that argument is?
And please don't accuse me of just being a Democrat trying to advance my own agenda. I'm not even American. To the rest of the world, the US has no left wing. The Democrats are centrist, if anything, and the Republicans are just nutty.
Hey, thanks for the info. This was with v23 SP1 (both the mini and standard builds) just a week ago. The problem only appeared when I ran bittorrent, so I'm guessing it's something to do with the number of concurrent connections. Either way, HyperWRT works for me.
The CPU in the v1.x just isn't fast enough to run the dd-wrt firmware. It's hard to find any mention of this on the dd-wrt site, other than people complaining and getting replies to the effect of "buy a v4, it works great!".
For those of us who don't want to drop cash just to install some turbo-charged firmware, check out HyperWRT Thibor. It's a branch of the original GPL source released by LinkSys that has had many features added to it by a long line of developers. It doesn't quite have all the bling that dd-wrt has, but it runs great on my v1.1 with no CPU overload.
BTW, the symptoms of this problem are the wrt54g web interface not responding (or taking forever), DNS timeouts, and all internet access either slowing to a crawl or timing out completely. When the web interface finally responds, the system load average shows as *way* over 1.0.
Put your little red book down and come back to reality.
What's your point? George W. Bush jumped the queue to get into Yale. A completely private system is no better than a completely socialist system in this respect. The only difference is the currency used as a pay-off. In the USSR it was influence and power. In the USA it's money and power.
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Relevant to your argument: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Bob Altemeyer has spent his life studying this phenomenon: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
He has a book called "The Authoritarians" (PDF here: http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf). It's a fascinating read.
Driving drunk is already against the law. If someone decides to drive drunk, bypassing a sensor is the least of their concerns.
which does not make any sense whatsoever either.
Sure it does. If Apple releases a new iPhone/iPad/whatever that uses a different processor, it can retarget pretty easily. If there is inline assembly or non-official source languages... not so much.
It works fine in Safari.
Monkey banana raffle!
Dear KDE devs,
Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.
Thanks.
Maybe they are turning the corner with Bing and Windows 7.
Windows 7 is just Vista with better marketing.
I've been working in the visual effects industry since I graduated (~10 years ago). I started for a small studio writing scripts to automate common tasks. Since then I've:
- built a distributed render system on top of open source software
- written animation tools for artists
- written software for animating, simulating, and rendering fur
- learned Houdini, Maya, RenderMan and many others
- written shaders
- written many, many plugins and tools in various languages
I'm now managing a team and have discovered that it's hard to find talented software developers with a solid grounding in mathematics and computer science who have the skills to work in VFX. There are plenty of hackers who can put together a MEL script, but few who actually understand the underpinnings of the systems involved.
If working on VFX for film and TV shows sounds interesting to you, look into developing your skills as a Technical Director (or TD). The skills I look for in a TD are:
- understanding of the 3D pipeline (modeling, texturing, rigging, layout, tracking, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing)
- technical competency in the software used (Maya, Shake or Nuke, Renderman or Mental Ray)
- solid background in programming (scripting, understanding of OO design, C++ desirable, Python especially)
- solid understanding of Unix as a technical user
- ability to learn and master new technologies quickly
- ability to empathize with artists and understand their perspective as a user
- strong mathematics background is highly desirable
- experience in digital or traditional filmmaking also highly desirable
The people I've worked with in the past usually fall into one of three categories:
- have a degree in computer science (or related), minored in fine arts (or just had the interest), and then took a college program in 3D
- smart people from a completely different background who taught themselves both 3D software and programming
- artists who took a college program in 3D, who then taught themselves programming
I recommend the first option, or if you're persistent enough, teach yourself the software at home and start networking online.
If you have a masters in computer graphics, mathematics, or physics, another job open to you is that of the Shader Writer. Shader writers build either complete shading systems or components that model how light reacts with materials. These models are not usually physically accurate (although that is becoming more of an option now). Things to look into:
- BDRFs
- ambient occlusion and color bleeding
- subsurface scattering
- procedural texturing and modeling
- shader anti-aliasing
- global illumination techniques
- shading languages such as RSL, GLSL or Cg
Competent shader writers are HIGHLY sought after and very well compensated.
Check out the job postings at Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic, Sony Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, and Dreamworks Animation for more info. Also check out the forums at cgsociety.com and odforce.net.
It's not just that you have to download the samples separately, or that you can't extract the files on linux or mac without writing your own scripts. Once you finally get them installed and run the damn java app you're presented with a screen requires you to enter a dozen or so parameters before you can even listen to audio. I gave up at this point. I don't have the patience.
Finally, the kicker is in the readme:
After you finish the test, save the results, (7-)ZIP, RAR or ACE them together and mail the file to mail@listening-tests.info.
Who outside of the hydrogen audio forums is going to bother?
FAIL.
My only concern really is what is this doing to my neurons, rods, cones and assorted other presumably sensitive body parts. I don't care about a goofy sound coming from my computer speakers every once in a while.
That's why I keep my phone in my pocket!
Wait a sec...
Here in Canada two of our three providers started charging 15 cents for every message received. Hooray for deregulation and the open market!
They came to you. That means you're already in a position of power. Negotiate. Ask for at least 50% more than what they're offering and tell them "no" on the non-compete. If they're serious, they'll come back with a counter-offer.
It's the only time my mind actually shuts off. And it covers all the bases: cardio, strength training, and flexibility. 1.5 hours 3 times a week. And the classes are 75% women.
they really aren't in the business of libraries, they're in the business of applications and operating systems.
They're very much in the business of proprietary libraries. That's how they lock companies into the Windows platform. If they switched to glibc and gtk (or qt) it would be almost trivial for application vendors to recompile for any platform those libraries are available.
Right, and because Shirley MacLaine wrote it, it must be true. For all we know, Kucinich was humouring his kooky friend. Let's not forget that the current president of the USA has conversations with god.
And for the record, I'm not American, so please spare me the partisan accusations.
Most people think of Python as procedural or object-oriented, but it actually has all of the tools required to do functional programming. And, being Python, the syntax is logical and easy to read.
Check out this series of articles for more info: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html
System Preferences | Keyboard and Mouse | Trackpad | Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click
Or, plug in ANY 3 button mouse. Come on, even apple sells a 4 button mouse now.
Don't forget their other ace in the hole: Exchange Server/Outlook. And that's about to get hammered as well.
In other words, Canada.
Don't believe the FUD. Socialized health care is more efficient and cheaper per capita than your broken free market system:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/204163
And it's all because evolution is sloppy in the way it selects for survival. Had evolution selected for higher rationality and less fear in humans, we would not be in this situation.
However, when a treatment for life extension becomes available, it seems very likely that religious leaders will call it an aberration and unnatural. Those who refuse to take the treatment will die off in a generation. Those who shun technological advances quickly become a minority, e.g. the amish.
Both states were Democrat-controlled and rife with allegations of fraud.
Are you saying it doesn't matter if the Republicans committed electoral fraud in 2004 because the Democrats might have in 1960?
Can you even see how fucked up that argument is?
And please don't accuse me of just being a Democrat trying to advance my own agenda. I'm not even American. To the rest of the world, the US has no left wing. The Democrats are centrist, if anything, and the Republicans are just nutty.
cheers!
For those of us who don't want to drop cash just to install some turbo-charged firmware, check out HyperWRT Thibor. It's a branch of the original GPL source released by LinkSys that has had many features added to it by a long line of developers. It doesn't quite have all the bling that dd-wrt has, but it runs great on my v1.1 with no CPU overload.
BTW, the symptoms of this problem are the wrt54g web interface not responding (or taking forever), DNS timeouts, and all internet access either slowing to a crawl or timing out completely. When the web interface finally responds, the system load average shows as *way* over 1.0.
Kudos to the developers of both projects!
What's your point? George W. Bush jumped the queue to get into Yale. A completely private system is no better than a completely socialist system in this respect. The only difference is the currency used as a pay-off. In the USSR it was influence and power. In the USA it's money and power.