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Buf did the trash can and the kitchen fly thrus..... I don't remember who did the apartment pan - but it wasn't CGI. They did multiple motion control pans thru the apartment, adding furniture and other bits and pieces on each pass. Very low tech:)
>>What could be better than a command line >>driven office suite.
Umm - a sharp stick in the eye?
Command line driven word processor? Command line driven spreadsheet? Is this 1978?
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>>actually it was almost assuredly Digital Domain >>which are some of the best in the industry.
Actually, I'd bet you my next pay check that the flying camera stuff was done by Buf. They did the same work in Fight Club --- kitchen flythru and explosion, flying camera shots thru the parking garages, the slow mo 'sex scene'.
Pound per pound, I'd rate Buf as probably the best effects house in the business.
http://www.buf.fr
(argumentative of course. Places like SPIW, DD and ILM do killer work, but they are huge companies, while Buf is usually less than a dozen people and do really innovative stuff.)
I'd love an OLED display like everybody else, but until they can come up with a blue OLED that can survive more than a couple of hundred hours, you ain't gonna be able to buy one.......
Unless you feel like replacing your screen on a monthly basis:)
>>Buying a Palm just for games is...rather silly, >>IMO, where there are far superior dedicated >>systems for that purpose.
(apologies to Norm Macdonald).
"This and other groundbreaking ideas in this months issue of the scientific journal 'DUH!'"
of course buying a palm just for the games at this point is silly....... but if you haven't checked, LOTS of people ALREADY own a palm. Maybe they'd like to buy a game or two?
From any economics 101 textbook that sounds like an 'untapped market'.
The performance diff between a GBA and some of the lastest PocketPC's really isn't all that much. Don't expect having dedicated portable gaming devices will exist too many years from now....
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin."
-John Von Neumann
This latest 'unbreakable encryption' and 'generated one type pad' crap is the same as all the rest. Please don't try to defend it. I predict it will be featured in the 'Snake Oil' segment of Bruce Schniers (sic?) next monthly mailing.
>>Interesting. I joined Netflix about two months >>ago and noticed a dramatic increase in spam >>since then. Are you sure about this?
Misunderstanding. I'm not saying that Netflix is selling my email address to spammers. (but i wouldn't put it past them)
I'm saying that Netflix is hiring spammers to spam whoever is in their lists (ME) to JOIN netflix.
I get probably one Netflix spam every day, or at least every 2 days.
Therefore I will NEVER join Netflix. Any business that thinks this asshole behaviour is acceptable can burn. And i'll discourage anybody who'll listen to doing business with them.
Yup - i'm drowning in spam like the rest of us.... a 'typical' day is somewhere around 80 mails. Weekends are much worse....
BUT.......
There are MANY big name commercial companies that are spamming. They aren't stupid enough to spam themselves, they subcontract it to some other weasel who gets click-thru fees for the referrals that their spam generates.
My two biggest offenders are NetFlix and 1-800-Flowers.
Every piece of spam i get associated with a 'legit' company i make sure to forward to every address I can find on their web site, and make it very clear that I will NEVER do business with them as long as they maintain the practice.... and will discourage anybody who will listen to me to do the same.
It won't stop everything. I still get tons of 'Cum Guzzling Co-Ed's', 'Increase your Penis Size', 'Viagra without a prescription', and 'REPAIR YOUR CREDIT NOW' mail, but every little bit helps....
It has nothing to do with money exchanging hands....... it's more about 'implied fitness'.
If I win a Ford Pinto on a game show (I paid nothing) and it explodes when I turn it on, is Ford except from liability? Hell no.
It's the same reason most restaurants WILL NOT give away leftover food anymore. Even though it's free, if somebody gets food poisoning they can/will sue.
This whole arguement is a strawman. If you want commercial vendors to be bound by the rules, expect the free producers to as well. And Mandrake is ALREADY begging for cash....
Do NOT use cutesy names. (Homer, Marge, etc etc etc). That works fine when you've got a lab of a dozen machines. When you've got thousands it's silly and unmangeable. I know I don't expect I'll be able to remember where one our of 5000 hosts is just because the name is "mickeymouse". Imagine just how functional that is for somebody who's new to your NOC?
Personally I'd encode them using one or two characters to denote the platform ( i = intel, s = sun, h = hp, blah blah). Then use the additional characters to denote room, rack, etc etc. If you're allowed to use sub domains that makes your life much easier.
Maybe I'm over pragmatic:) But with that many machines, the biggest problem you have is FINDING the machine when something goes wrong. My company here has a policy that we name machines after beaches --- "pismo" "waikiki" etc etc. Thats all fine and dandy..... until the someone starts screaming "WHO IS RUNNING HOST *LONGBEACH*??? YOU'RE SPEWING OUT CRAZY MULTICAST AND TRASHING THE NETWORK." Our host count is only in the low hundreds, but actually FINDING the offending machine is a big fat waste of time.
If you absolutely have/want to use 'friendly' names. Give your machines multiple names..... the pretty one, and the ugly sensible one so you can easily map between the two when you have to.
I hate to use it as an example --- but look at Hotmail when you log in. They are using subdomains and strict naming conventions for there servers. It's the only sensible thing to do..... unless you're trying to guarantee youself job security (and if thats the case and I was your boss and I found out i'd fire your ass for being a moron).
they're not in trouble. They're dead. Please give an example of any company that has had to resort to laying off *90%* of their staff and has survived the calendar year.
>>Why buy a PhotoShop educational license when >>you can use GIMP for free and with no >>obligations? Why lock-in to properiatary apps?
Oh my sides......... stop it. stop it!
Anybody who thinks GIMP is a substitute for Photoshop hasn't used Photoshop. GIMP is good for what it does, but Photoshop it isn't --- not by a mile.
(I'm not gonna go into this rant about features.... Whats Photoshop worth - 5-$600? Big freaking deal. When you're paying a graphic artist 50,000-100,000 a year that minimal expense pays for itself in a week. It's not about *free*, it's about having the best tool for the job. If you think GIMP is, I suggest you try to do a 200MB poster layout on it, or try to do CMYK color separations, or etc etc etc).
People are learning it because it's a viable skill - and thats what the professionals use. It's like saying you want to become a musician, why not make yourself a guitar out of an old milk carton and some dental floss --- it's FREE!! No need to buy yourself the real tool.
you're reaching the numeric precision of the hardware. Most fractal viewiers out there have this problem. They may do things in 64 bit math or 128 bit math or use their own custom routines, but eventually you zoom in so far the math falls apart.
hate to correct your math, but not counting ToyStoryII (because Pixar/Disney have had a pissing match about whether sequels 'count'), Pixar needs to deliver 2 more.
1)Toy Story 2)Bugs Life 3)Monsters Inc 4)Toy Story 2 - doesn't count
>>Income from Open Source means Consulting >>and Services.
in other words, make your software so shitty and unreliable that people need to pay you so they can keep it functioning? And people bitch and moan about MSFT's subscription policies.... this is the same thing.
Here's a real world example:
The last company I worked for, we produced a very high end, specialized application with a limited user base (it is used for doing movie special effects). When we launched a new product recently, it was the work of about 40 developers, working full time for almost 4 years. That doesn't count people writing documentation, QA testers, support staff, the people that clean the toilets, etc etc etc. All told, probably between 150-200 people. So lets *conservatively* estimate the development costs at $15 million (and that is VERY conservative).
Now this work took FOUR YEARS. So when it comes time to release it, we should just give it away and expect and there will 'magically' be money to pay the rent and food for all these people? Cmon already. Should they survive on happy thoughts and good wishes?
This shows the mindset why Eazel was such a beautiful failure. They were paying these developers to produce work and had NO way to generate money.... they didn't even sell t-shirts. Yes it's very altruistic and benefits the community, but sooner or later it's going to flame out because it can't last forever - the money will run out.
If people want to give away their work for free -- more power to them. I write code for a living 9-5. And i also produce open source code after hours that I give away. And that works fine. I don't see any differentiation between giving away code you write and going down and volunteering at your local community center. People can definitely benefit from it, but don't expect that it's going to pay your rent. And don't declare that there is no right/future in charging for your work.
Software costs money to produce - you can't debate that. If you don't want to pay for your software, you're free to use the stuff that people give away and thats good. Same thought process that you don't have to pay for your groceries - you can go to a soup kitchen. Thats all well and good, but you lose the right to complain if you don't like whats provided.
I'll give you an example. We PAY to use Qt for our development. Why? It's an excellent toolkit. Sure we could use gtk for free --- but for the headache that Qt saves me $2000/year is a BARGAIN. Same with compilers --- the open source crowd loves gcc. Hate to step on any toes but gcc is pretty sucky. Yes it is good for retargeting code, but the performance is terrible. To build the latest release of Qt on Win32 took about 45 minutes. On linux (exact same hardware) took 3-1/2 hours with gcc. Over the course of a year, the $200 we spend on Visual C will more than pay for itself. GCC will be going into the crapper as soon as somebody produces a good fast compiler for linux.
Closed source isn't dying - it's doing very well. Don't be a hypocrite/bigot. There's room (and NEED) for both commercial and free software in this world.
>>That's when the 32-bit integer number of >>seconds since epoch 1970 used for time- >>processing on almost all UNIX-like systems hits >>the limit [deepsky.com].
Funny. 32 bits talks about the addressing space that the processor can adress, not a particular variable type that was picked 30 years ago to store time.
On my P4 i'm happily using __int64 data types which are (wait for it) 64 BIT INTEGERS. WEEEEEEE!! I must be magical.
>>If this is true, then how did Java get into the >>mix after starting from scratch only five years >>ago? As you may have guessed, many people see >>things a little differently to the way >>Microsoft does.
5 years ago? Strange...... i must have been halucinating when i was running Sun's HotJava web browser on my Sparc10 back in '94.
And before it was branded 'java' it existed as 'oak'.
Not to slag Sun since i think java is pretty sweet, but you'd think in the EIGHT damn years since it first came out they'd have sorted out some of these same platform incompatibilies that plague java developers. "Write once - debug EVERYWHERE".
Well, at least they admitted AWT was a piece of shite and moved on to Swing (which is nice, but a reasource hog).
Now color me stupid, but why would i care/want symmetric compression?
For the most part, this tech is used for broadcast or playback. In that case, make it non-symmetric and put all the power at the head end.
The only time symmetric makes sense is for interactive applications (video conferencing, telephony) -- and it doesn't sound like the target audience for this.
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Buf did the trash can and the kitchen fly thrus..... I don't remember who did the apartment pan - but it wasn't CGI. They did multiple motion control pans thru the apartment, adding furniture and other bits and pieces on each pass. Very low tech :)
>>What could be better than a command line
>>driven office suite.
Umm - a sharp stick in the eye?
Command line driven word processor? Command line driven spreadsheet? Is this 1978?
>>actually it was almost assuredly Digital Domain
>>which are some of the best in the industry.
Actually, I'd bet you my next pay check that the flying camera stuff was done by Buf. They did the same work in Fight Club --- kitchen flythru and explosion, flying camera shots thru the parking garages, the slow mo 'sex scene'.
Pound per pound, I'd rate Buf as probably the best effects house in the business.
http://www.buf.fr
(argumentative of course. Places like SPIW, DD and ILM do killer work, but they are huge companies, while Buf is usually less than a dozen people and do really innovative stuff.)
I'd love an OLED display like everybody else, but until they can come up with a blue OLED that can survive more than a couple of hundred hours, you ain't gonna be able to buy one.......
:)
Unless you feel like replacing your screen on a monthly basis
>>Buying a Palm just for games is...rather silly,
>>IMO, where there are far superior dedicated
>>systems for that purpose.
(apologies to Norm Macdonald).
"This and other groundbreaking ideas in this months issue of the scientific journal 'DUH!'"
of course buying a palm just for the games at this point is silly....... but if you haven't checked, LOTS of people ALREADY own a palm. Maybe they'd like to buy a game or two?
From any economics 101 textbook that sounds like an 'untapped market'.
The performance diff between a GBA and some of the lastest PocketPC's really isn't all that much. Don't expect having dedicated portable gaming devices will exist too many years from now....
>> generating a sequence that is random enough to >>provide a secure one-time pad on a computer is
>>not a non-trivial task in itself.
If you've generated it on a computer using algorithmic means then BY DEFINITION it is not a one time pad.
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin."
-John Von Neumann
This latest 'unbreakable encryption' and 'generated one type pad' crap is the same as all the rest. Please don't try to defend it. I predict it will be featured in the 'Snake Oil' segment of Bruce Schniers (sic?) next monthly mailing.
oh boohooo............. go make your own Java. Come up with your own ideas and quit bitching about what somebody else does with theirs.
oh yeah......nevermind. not a single freaking original thing has ever come out of the open source whiners brigade...
your wife is quite a DISH...........
>>Interesting. I joined Netflix about two months
>>ago and noticed a dramatic increase in spam
>>since then. Are you sure about this?
Misunderstanding. I'm not saying that Netflix is selling my email address to spammers. (but i wouldn't put it past them)
I'm saying that Netflix is hiring spammers to spam whoever is in their lists (ME) to JOIN netflix.
I get probably one Netflix spam every day, or at least every 2 days.
Therefore I will NEVER join Netflix. Any business that thinks this asshole behaviour is acceptable can burn. And i'll discourage anybody who'll listen to doing business with them.
Yup - i'm drowning in spam like the rest of us.... a 'typical' day is somewhere around 80 mails. Weekends are much worse....
BUT.......
There are MANY big name commercial companies that are spamming. They aren't stupid enough to spam themselves, they subcontract it to some other weasel who gets click-thru fees for the referrals that their spam generates.
My two biggest offenders are NetFlix and 1-800-Flowers.
Every piece of spam i get associated with a 'legit' company i make sure to forward to every address I can find on their web site, and make it very clear that I will NEVER do business with them as long as they maintain the practice.... and will discourage anybody who will listen to me to do the same.
It won't stop everything. I still get tons of 'Cum Guzzling Co-Ed's', 'Increase your Penis Size', 'Viagra without a prescription', and 'REPAIR YOUR CREDIT NOW' mail, but every little bit helps....
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It has nothing to do with money exchanging hands....... it's more about 'implied fitness'.
If I win a Ford Pinto on a game show (I paid nothing) and it explodes when I turn it on, is Ford except from liability? Hell no.
It's the same reason most restaurants WILL NOT give away leftover food anymore. Even though it's free, if somebody gets food poisoning they can/will sue.
This whole arguement is a strawman. If you want commercial vendors to be bound by the rules, expect the free producers to as well. And Mandrake is ALREADY begging for cash....
Do NOT use cutesy names. (Homer, Marge, etc etc etc). That works fine when you've got a lab of a dozen machines. When you've got thousands it's silly and unmangeable. I know I don't expect I'll be able to remember where one our of 5000 hosts is just because the name is "mickeymouse". Imagine just how functional that is for somebody who's new to your NOC?
:) But with that many machines, the biggest problem you have is FINDING the machine when something goes wrong. My company here has a policy that we name machines after beaches --- "pismo" "waikiki" etc etc. Thats all fine and dandy..... until the someone starts screaming "WHO IS RUNNING HOST *LONGBEACH*??? YOU'RE SPEWING OUT CRAZY MULTICAST AND TRASHING THE NETWORK." Our host count is only in the low hundreds, but actually FINDING the offending machine is a big fat waste of time.
Personally I'd encode them using one or two characters to denote the platform ( i = intel, s = sun, h = hp, blah blah). Then use the additional characters to denote room, rack, etc etc. If you're allowed to use sub domains that makes your life much easier.
Maybe I'm over pragmatic
If you absolutely have/want to use 'friendly' names. Give your machines multiple names..... the pretty one, and the ugly sensible one so you can easily map between the two when you have to.
I hate to use it as an example --- but look at Hotmail when you log in. They are using subdomains and strict naming conventions for there servers. It's the only sensible thing to do..... unless you're trying to guarantee youself job security (and if thats the case and I was your boss and I found out i'd fire your ass for being a moron).
>>pedantic bastard
:)
isn't that redundant?
>>Mission Critical Linux in Trouble
they're not in trouble. They're dead. Please give an example of any company that has had to resort to laying off *90%* of their staff and has survived the calendar year.
>>Why buy a PhotoShop educational license when
>>you can use GIMP for free and with no
>>obligations? Why lock-in to properiatary apps?
Oh my sides......... stop it. stop it!
Anybody who thinks GIMP is a substitute for Photoshop hasn't used Photoshop. GIMP is good for what it does, but Photoshop it isn't --- not by a mile.
(I'm not gonna go into this rant about features.... Whats Photoshop worth - 5-$600? Big freaking deal. When you're paying a graphic artist 50,000-100,000 a year that minimal expense pays for itself in a week. It's not about *free*, it's about having the best tool for the job. If you think GIMP is, I suggest you try to do a 200MB poster layout on it, or try to do CMYK color separations, or etc etc etc).
People are learning it because it's a viable skill - and thats what the professionals use. It's like saying you want to become a musician, why not make yourself a guitar out of an old milk carton and some dental floss --- it's FREE!! No need to buy yourself the real tool.
>>Eventually it gets all pixellated
you're reaching the numeric precision of the hardware. Most fractal viewiers out there have this problem. They may do things in 64 bit math or 128 bit math or use their own custom routines, but eventually you zoom in so far the math falls apart.
hate to correct your math, but not counting ToyStoryII (because Pixar/Disney have had a pissing match about whether sequels 'count'), Pixar needs to deliver 2 more.
1)Toy Story
2)Bugs Life
3)Monsters Inc
4)Toy Story 2 - doesn't count
5 - 3 = 2
Good thing you're not a lawyer, because all your clients would go to jail.
What you're suggested is certainly NOT legal. How many lawsuits have there been over the years due to unauthorized sampling?
By your argument, I should be able to take somebody else's song, sing it myself, and sell it because i'm 'adding value'.
true. but if you're not located next door to said company, the main trunk routing tables become ridiculous.
Remember --- M.I.T. has more assigned IP addresses than ALL OF CHINA.
It's not north america thats going to drive IPv6, it's Europe and Asia where they're already starting to feel the address squeeze.
>>Income from Open Source means Consulting
>>and Services.
in other words, make your software so shitty and unreliable that people need to pay you so they can keep it functioning? And people bitch and moan about MSFT's subscription policies.... this is the same thing.
Here's a real world example:
The last company I worked for, we produced a very high end, specialized application with a limited user base (it is used for doing movie special effects). When we launched a new product recently, it was the work of about 40 developers, working full time for almost 4 years. That doesn't count people writing documentation, QA testers, support staff, the people that clean the toilets, etc etc etc. All told, probably between 150-200 people. So lets *conservatively* estimate the development costs at $15 million (and that is VERY conservative).
Now this work took FOUR YEARS. So when it comes time to release it, we should just give it away and expect and there will 'magically' be money to pay the rent and food for all these people? Cmon already. Should they survive on happy thoughts and good wishes?
This shows the mindset why Eazel was such a beautiful failure. They were paying these developers to produce work and had NO way to generate money.... they didn't even sell t-shirts. Yes it's very altruistic and benefits the community, but sooner or later it's going to flame out because it can't last forever - the money will run out.
If people want to give away their work for free -- more power to them. I write code for a living 9-5. And i also produce open source code after hours that I give away. And that works fine. I don't see any differentiation between giving away code you write and going down and volunteering at your local community center. People can definitely benefit from it, but don't expect that it's going to pay your rent. And don't declare that there is no right/future in charging for your work.
Software costs money to produce - you can't debate that. If you don't want to pay for your software, you're free to use the stuff that people give away and thats good. Same thought process that you don't have to pay for your groceries - you can go to a soup kitchen. Thats all well and good, but you lose the right to complain if you don't like whats provided.
I'll give you an example. We PAY to use Qt for our development. Why? It's an excellent toolkit. Sure we could use gtk for free --- but for the headache that Qt saves me $2000/year is a BARGAIN.
Same with compilers --- the open source crowd loves gcc. Hate to step on any toes but gcc is pretty sucky. Yes it is good for retargeting code, but the performance is terrible. To build the latest release of Qt on Win32 took about 45 minutes. On linux (exact same hardware) took 3-1/2 hours with gcc. Over the course of a year, the $200 we spend on Visual C will more than pay for itself. GCC will be going into the crapper as soon as somebody produces a good fast compiler for linux.
Closed source isn't dying - it's doing very well. Don't be a hypocrite/bigot. There's room (and NEED) for both commercial and free software in this world.
>>Don't believe the FUD, my friends. There is
>>absolutely NO need for ANY proprietary
>>software in this world.
wow. I wished I lived in your world. It probably rains lollypops and kittens too.
>>That's when the 32-bit integer number of >>seconds since epoch 1970 used for time-
>>processing on almost all UNIX-like systems hits
>>the limit [deepsky.com].
Funny. 32 bits talks about the addressing space that the processor can adress, not a particular variable type that was picked 30 years ago to store time.
On my P4 i'm happily using __int64 data types which are (wait for it) 64 BIT INTEGERS. WEEEEEEE!! I must be magical.
dumbass.
>>If this is true, then how did Java get into the >>mix after starting from scratch only five years >>ago? As you may have guessed, many people see >>things a little differently to the way
>>Microsoft does.
5 years ago? Strange...... i must have been halucinating when i was running Sun's HotJava web browser on my Sparc10 back in '94.
And before it was branded 'java' it existed as 'oak'.
Not to slag Sun since i think java is pretty sweet, but you'd think in the EIGHT damn years since it first came out they'd have sorted out some of these same platform incompatibilies that plague java developers. "Write once - debug EVERYWHERE".
Well, at least they admitted AWT was a piece of shite and moved on to Swing (which is nice, but a reasource hog).
Now color me stupid, but why would i care/want symmetric compression?
For the most part, this tech is used for broadcast or playback. In that case, make it non-symmetric and put all the power at the head end.
The only time symmetric makes sense is for interactive applications (video conferencing, telephony) -- and it doesn't sound like the target audience for this.