The most important talent they rely on is not skill in computer imagery, but skill in telling a compelling story using all of the tools of the visual idiom.
You took the words out of my mouth. No amount of
increase in rendering speed (and it's only a matter
of time before a home PC can do high quality
rendering in a sensible timeframe) will make
you a movie. To do that you need both sufficient modelling skills to make your generated images
and characters look good, and the ability to
write a decent script. Neither of those are much
affected by Moore's law (although tools to
assist with modelling may make some progress here).
Transgaming looks like the place to be for now, and that bunch seems to publicly work with the community a whole lot closer than Loki ever did.
Errm... Transgaming aren't exactly whiter than
white in that regard, having refused to give back
their Direct X code to the Wine community (for
sound economic reasons, sure, but then so are most
unethical business practices). I understand they're
in a tricky situation, and are contributing back
as much as they feel able, but they're not
exactly model citizens...
KVM is a totally transpearent remote way to access any system operation including GUI graphics (which the Sun-o-phile seems not to have grasped). Serial redriection via terminal servers IS A SUBSET of what you can do with KVM.
Nope.
I can do everything with my Suns
at a remote location that I could do if they were
sitting on my desk. Tell me what you can do with
a KVM that I can't already do now. If a KVM is a
superset of what I have now, what am I missing?
The serial console
gives me complete access to the machine at a low
level, and a network transparent window system
(X11) gives me access to the GUI. What more do
I need? What more would a KVM give me? As far as
I can see, nothing. Note that
these machines don't even have a video card, nor
do they need one. PC hardware only comes with a
video card because Windows is too braindead to
be usable without one, which is one of the
reasons why KVMs exist
in the first place.
...is don't use PC hardware. I have a farm of Suns
at a remote hosting site. Because they're Real
Computers(tm), they're designed with remote admin
in mind. Which means you get a full serial console
access, so you can mess around with the PROM (the
equivalent of a BIOS), and I can even remotely
power them on and off, all via a serial port.
A few PC makers are starting to get the idea, but
not a single one comes close to Sun (or other non
PC hardware like Alphas or Power boxen). Dell and
Compaq both offer remote access options, but they're
a) expensive, b) require drivers, and hence are
geared towards Windows, and c) typically take up
the only available PCI slot on a 1U server. With
a Netra T1, for example, it just works straight
out of the box, no extra purchase needed, all
you need to access it is an ANSI terminal
emulator, and your precious PCI slot is still
free for that extra SCSI card / quad ethernet / whatever.
But given that non-PC hardware is probably not
an option for you, then consider something like
the RealWeasel, although I've heard mixed reports
about it from those that have tried it. The
online demo looks like it should at least be
usable, though.
You can tell my images from the ones created with the app because I used "aa ae ao ea ee eo oa oe oo" as my search string.
Just curious... why use lower case vowels? When I
was doing stuff like this (many, many years ago
now), it was accepted that you use varying
characters for their different densities. Obviously
since you're using Google, you can't use punctuation, but I'd have thought that "MM" or "WW" would
be better choices than "aa", "ae", etc.
thier accent can not be classified as sounding like swedish, hence the "Finnish/swedish" accent.
Maybe it's just a cultural thing, but in the UK,
we interpret that to mean he speaks Finnish with
a Swedish accent, when in reality, he speaks
Swedish with a Finnish accent. Apparently you
knew that, but it came across as exactly
the opposite.
I know regular expressions, but funnily enough I almost never need them.
Utterly bizarre. I use them every
day. Not necessarily in code I write (where
admittedly, I've used them pretty infrequently).
But in everyday tasks -- I couldn't live without
sed and grep, and in particular, how can you write
code in any editor that doesn't support regexp
search and replace? Doesn't that make you hideously
unproductive?
lynx would probably display the euro if you are using a UTF8 terminal
Nope. Lynx converts it to EUR, not because of the
character coding capabilities of the terminal, but
because it doesn't know anything about the font.
You can a use a UTF8 terminal all you like, but
unless you're also using a suitable Unicode font,
you're going to be out of luck. FYI, the Euro
symbol is in ISO-8859-15, if you need to use it
in a non-Unicode environment...
It's *nix only, which makes it useless to the vast majority of users.
Errr, no. DjVu is a compression format, and
hence inherently platform neutral. In fact,
the windows encoder predates the Unix one, IIRC.
Either way, there's a free reference library, so
it's easy to incorporate DjVu encoders into a
Windows art package, for example.
I've never used subversion, so I may be wrong.
However, a brief scan of their web site makes
no mention of change sets. If that means it's
file based (like rcs, CVS and SCCS), then it
stands no chance. Change sets are an essential
feature of any modern source control system.
I wasn't convinced until I'd played around with
TrueChange. Since then, I wouldn't consider going
back. BitKeeper is designed from the ground up to
support changesets, and it's not something that
can be easily tagged on at a later date. For that
reason alone, subversion won't succeed. PRCS looks
promising, though...
It looks like a successor to the world's only supersonic passenger jet, Concorde
You seem to be forgetting the
Tupolev TU-144,
dubbed Concordski in the west due to its uncanny
resemblence to Concorde. Although faster than
Corcorde, its crash at the
Paris Air Show effectively put an end to its
challenge to Concorde in the commercial marketplace.
Nonetheless, it was used as a passenger carrying
jet in the Soviet Union in 1977 and early 1978
until another crash put and end to its career.
Concorde is, therefore, the only currently operating
supersonic passenger jet.
During the day it plays very mainstream material, but at nights a load of specialist shows come on including a lot of dance music.
Yep, and including virtually NO rock. In days gone
by, Radio 1 used to play a good cross-section of
music -- mainstream chart stuff during the day,
and then a wide spectrum of everything else in the
specialist shows at night. These days, however, it
plays a wide spectrum of specalist dance oriented
shows. There's no rock, no metal, no goth, no
industrial, in fact, none of the music I like:-(
I'm not expecting a lot. but at the moment, the
Radio One rock show consists of a single 2 hour
show after midnight on a week day, and even that
only really plays mainstream "nu-metal" type
rock...
You think it's easy to hook up a CDRW or a scanner to a Sun?
Yep, trivial. That's the beauty of SCSI. Plug it
in and go. Simple really. Of course, lower end
Sun machines now use IDE, but I've never had any
problems with CDRW or scanners with my SCSI Suns
(or other RISC workstations, such as DG AViiONs).
Never going to happen. Not only that, it's not
even desirable. How is is going to look
the same on my cellphone as it does on my desktop?
How about on my partially sighted aunt's computer
(where she uses huge fonts)? You want the site to
be *usable* to sell your product to the largest
number of people possible. Insisting on strict
visual presentation is not a good way to go about
that...
Running the sawfish window manager alone without all those Gnome/KDE cra^h^h^h niceties (panel, filemanager, desktop icons, whatever) is as fast as fvwm2.
Yes, but it's lacking in other ways, notably menu
configuration and a desktop pager.
Hmmm. Taking a quick look around my desktop, it
looks like they've removed half of what I use on
a daily basis... fvwm2, rxvt, ical, xdaliclock.
I know RH are heading towards a brave new GNOME
world, but removing fvwm2 and rxvt are criminal.
Stranger is the removal of ee -- I haven't seen
them adding anything to replace it. Not that it's
a problem for me, as I still use xv, but it seems
an odd move. I can compile up local versions of
the missing bits, but it's looking like RH are
heading in a direction that I'm not too happy
with... maybe it's time to take a look at Gentoo.
This begs the question... how do they cope with
hardware failures? Even using the wildly
exaggerated MTBF figures published by
manufacturers, that's a significant number
of failures *every* day. Does Google have
dedicated hardware techs running round replacing
broken drives, fried memory and faulty power
supplies?
Besides, unless you're running a datacenter, putting scsi in a PC is just a complete waste of money.
You keep believing that and living in your make
believe world, and I'll live happily with my
high performance SCSI systems. Yes, SCSI is
hugely and disproportionately more expensive
than IDE. In terms of bang for buck, it's way
behind. However, it's worth it for me to pay the
extra. As a trivial real world example, ripping
a CD takes 3 times longer on my 40 speed IDE DVD
and my 48 speed IDE CD than it does on my 40
speed SCSI CD, and uses enough CPU time to make
my machine noticably less responsive. With the
SCSI drive, I don't notice it at all. To me,
that's worth the extra money.
Technically, the world fastest train is at
White Sands
Missile Range, where a top speed just shy of
10,000km/h (that's Mach 8!) was recorded in 1982. Unsurprisingly it was unmanned. It wasn't
maglev, either, being a conventional wheels on
track train (albeit a rocket powered one:-)
Redhat doesn't include fontdrake, or any of their competitor GPL tools.
So they haven't just included Debian's alternatives
system in RH7.3, then? Red Hat (and in fact *all*
distributions) include GPLed works written by or
worked on by employees of other distributions.
The developers just were awful programmers.
The reason why is that they've been working with assembly language for most of their careers, while everyone else was learning advanced techniques like object-oriented design and development, and working on multiple languages (C++, Java, C#, etc).
Working with assembly all your life does not a bad
programmer make. In fact, quite the opposite. Given the choice between a developer with assembly
experience, and one without, I'll take the former,
all other things being equal. Of course, an
assembly background doesn't automatically make
you a good programmer, either, but I think it
certainly helps. From observation, I'd be more
inclined to say that exposure to C++ and Java
makes you a bad programmer, but I doubt that's
really true either. I suspect it's just that
they're the new sexy languages, and so they're
the ones to which newbie and unskilled programmers
are drawn, in the hopes of making money...
You are supposed to use the remote system to
open a new window when mozilla exists.
Yes, but that only works on the same X display.
If you have one Mozilla open on, say:0.0, there's
no way to open a new browser window on:0.1, which
I need to do for my monitoring...
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You took the words out of my mouth. No amount of increase in rendering speed (and it's only a matter of time before a home PC can do high quality rendering in a sensible timeframe) will make you a movie. To do that you need both sufficient modelling skills to make your generated images and characters look good, and the ability to write a decent script. Neither of those are much affected by Moore's law (although tools to assist with modelling may make some progress here).
Errm... Transgaming aren't exactly whiter than white in that regard, having refused to give back their Direct X code to the Wine community (for sound economic reasons, sure, but then so are most unethical business practices). I understand they're in a tricky situation, and are contributing back as much as they feel able, but they're not exactly model citizens...
Nope. I can do everything with my Suns at a remote location that I could do if they were sitting on my desk. Tell me what you can do with a KVM that I can't already do now. If a KVM is a superset of what I have now, what am I missing? The serial console gives me complete access to the machine at a low level, and a network transparent window system (X11) gives me access to the GUI. What more do I need? What more would a KVM give me? As far as I can see, nothing. Note that these machines don't even have a video card, nor do they need one. PC hardware only comes with a video card because Windows is too braindead to be usable without one, which is one of the reasons why KVMs exist in the first place.
But given that non-PC hardware is probably not an option for you, then consider something like the RealWeasel, although I've heard mixed reports about it from those that have tried it. The online demo looks like it should at least be usable, though.
Just curious... why use lower case vowels? When I was doing stuff like this (many, many years ago now), it was accepted that you use varying characters for their different densities. Obviously since you're using Google, you can't use punctuation, but I'd have thought that "MM" or "WW" would be better choices than "aa", "ae", etc.
Maybe it's just a cultural thing, but in the UK, we interpret that to mean he speaks Finnish with a Swedish accent, when in reality, he speaks Swedish with a Finnish accent. Apparently you knew that, but it came across as exactly the opposite.
did you even know what a finlandsvensk was?
Yes, I did :-)
No. As even the slightest bit of research would have told you, Linus is Finnish, but his native tongue is Swedish. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/linus/
Utterly bizarre. I use them every day. Not necessarily in code I write (where admittedly, I've used them pretty infrequently). But in everyday tasks -- I couldn't live without sed and grep, and in particular, how can you write code in any editor that doesn't support regexp search and replace? Doesn't that make you hideously unproductive?
Nope. Lynx converts it to EUR, not because of the character coding capabilities of the terminal, but because it doesn't know anything about the font. You can a use a UTF8 terminal all you like, but unless you're also using a suitable Unicode font, you're going to be out of luck. FYI, the Euro symbol is in ISO-8859-15, if you need to use it in a non-Unicode environment...
Errr, no. DjVu is a compression format, and hence inherently platform neutral. In fact, the windows encoder predates the Unix one, IIRC. Either way, there's a free reference library, so it's easy to incorporate DjVu encoders into a Windows art package, for example.
I've never used subversion, so I may be wrong. However, a brief scan of their web site makes no mention of change sets. If that means it's file based (like rcs, CVS and SCCS), then it stands no chance. Change sets are an essential feature of any modern source control system. I wasn't convinced until I'd played around with TrueChange. Since then, I wouldn't consider going back. BitKeeper is designed from the ground up to support changesets, and it's not something that can be easily tagged on at a later date. For that reason alone, subversion won't succeed. PRCS looks promising, though...
You seem to be forgetting the Tupolev TU-144, dubbed Concordski in the west due to its uncanny resemblence to Concorde. Although faster than Corcorde, its crash at the Paris Air Show effectively put an end to its challenge to Concorde in the commercial marketplace. Nonetheless, it was used as a passenger carrying jet in the Soviet Union in 1977 and early 1978 until another crash put and end to its career. Concorde is, therefore, the only currently operating supersonic passenger jet.
Yep, and including virtually NO rock. In days gone by, Radio 1 used to play a good cross-section of music -- mainstream chart stuff during the day, and then a wide spectrum of everything else in the specialist shows at night. These days, however, it plays a wide spectrum of specalist dance oriented shows. There's no rock, no metal, no goth, no industrial, in fact, none of the music I like :-(
I'm not expecting a lot. but at the moment, the
Radio One rock show consists of a single 2 hour
show after midnight on a week day, and even that
only really plays mainstream "nu-metal" type
rock...
Yep, trivial. That's the beauty of SCSI. Plug it in and go. Simple really. Of course, lower end Sun machines now use IDE, but I've never had any problems with CDRW or scanners with my SCSI Suns (or other RISC workstations, such as DG AViiONs).
-Must look the same in all browsers
Never going to happen. Not only that, it's not even desirable. How is is going to look the same on my cellphone as it does on my desktop? How about on my partially sighted aunt's computer (where she uses huge fonts)? You want the site to be *usable* to sell your product to the largest number of people possible. Insisting on strict visual presentation is not a good way to go about that...
- run FVWM2 alone as your "desktop"
Yes, I am. In fact, that's what I do now. The complaint, though, was that Red Hat are removing fvwm2 from future distributions...
Yes, but it's lacking in other ways, notably menu configuration and a desktop pager.
alien blt dip fvwm2 ee elm extace gnomeicu gnome-pim gnorpm ical jikes kaffe metamailmi cq netscape playmidi rxvt sliplogin taper xbill xdaliclock xlockmore xmailbox xpilot
Hmmm. Taking a quick look around my desktop, it looks like they've removed half of what I use on a daily basis... fvwm2, rxvt, ical, xdaliclock. I know RH are heading towards a brave new GNOME world, but removing fvwm2 and rxvt are criminal. Stranger is the removal of ee -- I haven't seen them adding anything to replace it. Not that it's a problem for me, as I still use xv, but it seems an odd move. I can compile up local versions of the missing bits, but it's looking like RH are heading in a direction that I'm not too happy with... maybe it's time to take a look at Gentoo.
You mean men like David Miller, Alan Cox, Al Viro, etc... :-)
This begs the question... how do they cope with hardware failures? Even using the wildly exaggerated MTBF figures published by manufacturers, that's a significant number of failures *every* day. Does Google have dedicated hardware techs running round replacing broken drives, fried memory and faulty power supplies?
You keep believing that and living in your make believe world, and I'll live happily with my high performance SCSI systems. Yes, SCSI is hugely and disproportionately more expensive than IDE. In terms of bang for buck, it's way behind. However, it's worth it for me to pay the extra. As a trivial real world example, ripping a CD takes 3 times longer on my 40 speed IDE DVD and my 48 speed IDE CD than it does on my 40 speed SCSI CD, and uses enough CPU time to make my machine noticably less responsive. With the SCSI drive, I don't notice it at all. To me, that's worth the extra money.
Technically, the world fastest train is at White Sands Missile Range, where a top speed just shy of 10,000km/h (that's Mach 8!) was recorded in 1982. Unsurprisingly it was unmanned. It wasn't maglev, either, being a conventional wheels on track train (albeit a rocket powered one :-)
So they haven't just included Debian's alternatives system in RH7.3, then? Red Hat (and in fact *all* distributions) include GPLed works written by or worked on by employees of other distributions.
Working with assembly all your life does not a bad programmer make. In fact, quite the opposite. Given the choice between a developer with assembly experience, and one without, I'll take the former, all other things being equal. Of course, an assembly background doesn't automatically make you a good programmer, either, but I think it certainly helps. From observation, I'd be more inclined to say that exposure to C++ and Java makes you a bad programmer, but I doubt that's really true either. I suspect it's just that they're the new sexy languages, and so they're the ones to which newbie and unskilled programmers are drawn, in the hopes of making money...
Yes, but that only works on the same X display. If you have one Mozilla open on, say :0.0, there's
no way to open a new browser window on :0.1, which
I need to do for my monitoring...