You'd have to be living under a rock to not have known all that by now.
Here's another clue. Mother's day, Fathers day, Valentines day, most of what we think of as Christmas are also all department store and card shop fabrications.
So anyway. I was also a little POed that the woman got this great gift and the man gets nothing, so my wife and I agreed to buy each other engagement rings. We got some nice dark opal rings that can be used as dress wear any time. MOST opal production has local benefits to the miners and local opal towns themselves.
How can a single persons decision ever be in the best interest of the people? That's an amazingly elitest and aristocratic view of things. That one man can know what's best for all? Well maybe those TVs will inform the people that they should have more self governance and not continually rely on the whims of one man.
A lot of the posts here talk about TV as being a tool of the govenment controlling the masses. But in this case (as in many other cases) it may be the opposite.
Course this gang of idiots (slashdot) here discussing what may or may not be good for Bhutan without knowing a single thing about it, is the very pinnacle of elitism. It's sickening!
IE and other programs make heavy use of harware video accelleration when doing scrolling and can easily cause a BSOD of a bad video driver.
Of the few BSODs I've seen on my own or other windows machines running 2k and XP here. They have all been caused by #1) Video driver bug. #2) Sound driver bug. #3) Network card driver bug. Using name brand equipment in those areas decreases the chance of a BSOD (Stop) by dozens of times. I've seen 1 or two a year on my various machines over the last two years. And that's from always upgrading my drivers and occasionally wishing I hadn't. Always hardware related.
I also once had a motherboard go "bad" in some exotic way that was causing a daily BSOD on one of my 98 machines years ago for about a week before I replaced it.
A BSOD is the Kernel detecting that a driver running in priveldged space is doing something very bad and is halting to protect the system. Similar to Linux BSOD (BLACK screen of death, or Kernel Panic). The people here that run their Linux boxes who know what they are doing and the people that run the windows machines that know what they are doing see the BSOD on their respective machines about the same frequency. Maybe once or twice a year per machine.
Those that don't know what they are doing and are installing and uninstalling everything they get their hands on have much less stable machines, both Windows and Linux (As well as our Mac people!)
Never let anyone go off and code on some large single task without keeping a good eye on them. Micromanagement is often a dirty word, but to manage multiple coders that are supposed to be all working on the same project, you need clearly defined and intricate goals. There should be meetings and code reviews at least once a week. Integrations should be staged, as you said, "early and often" that means at least weekly, up to daily if applicable.
Any slackers then show up early and they will end up being hounded (maybe by you, or the rest of the team). They either shape up or get replaced. There aught to be plenty of people looking for jobs these days.
One would hope that the idea of remaining an employee would be enough motivation to start pulling their weight. Beyond that, generally a coder works better if they believe in the project and believe in their team mates and bosses and have a generally friendly atmosphere. But I got to say, these days that luxury just isn't as prevelent as it used to be.
Also, even if they are coding. Keeping good track records of performance and code quality is also important. Basically, if you've got lazy programmers they will get away with what ever they can. Just don't let them get away with anything for any length of time. Don't wait until it can even be a problem.
If spouting nonsense on message boards (anywhere and everywhere) could be converted into power, we'd have limitless energy./. is not the only message board in existance, but it is one of the very few with a moderation system. Even if the mod system did not exist, every person here would be posting just as they had before.
But the explaination of why/. exists or how it works is of no use at all for practical application of time twards concrete efforts. Posting here fulfills all kinds of needs from simply taking a break from working on concrete efforts to megalomania. But the fact remains, people need to eat to survive (and shelter and grecreate to feel that life is worth liveing and, and, and...) and the bottom line is there must be an economy based on exchange of work for goods SOMEHOW. Money is the most convienient as I can at a later time choose what I want to eat, rather than having "FOOD[tm]" handed to me at the end of a work week and "SHELTER[tm]" provided for me in the form of a bed under my desk at work.
O.S. exists because a lot of people have a lot of free time on their hands. But it has not taken over the world becuase no one has all day every day free time on their hands.
Been done (like 20 years ago and still in use today) but that does not fulfill either of the specifications.
1) No pressure sensitivity
2) When 2 fingers are pressed at once you get 2 X values and 2 Y values (X1, X2, Y1, Y2). So if they both happen at the same time are the fingers at (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2)? or are they at (X1, Y2) (X2, Y1)? You can't tell. So multiple touches also doesn't work. (If the fingers come in one at a time then you can tell. But the fact that they MIGHT come in simultaniously and that there is now way to tell means you really can't support it)
#2 is a major obsticle to designing a touch system that can actually handle multiple touches. A touchscreen with hundreds of tiny etched "wires" across the inside of two surfaces that "connect" when you touch can get around this and is also widly in use today (Though the "wires" are usually spaced pretty far apart, giving you no more than 10 points per inch resolution or less). But there is no pressure sensitivity. You might have to combine two different technologies to get both.
And get rid of the damn Karma Krap and rating system. It's like a KKK ralley in here. If someone says something, ANYTHING, that ruffles feathers, mass suppression takes place. There should be a way of removeing truly offtopic posts. But just because someone points out something that is in any way anti-whateverthecrowdlovesandcandonowrong there is no reason to mod the person out of existance because you don't want to hear it. It's like 10,000 people with their hands over their ears yelling "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA".
Thus my sig. You have to wade through a lot of pure crap it's true, but the amount of real, unbiased information (Such as Reiser not really being a journalling file system) that gets moded to -1 is shameful. A tragedy really./.'s one true failing.
Shit, if you got rid of the FDA there would be 10,000 Phen-Fens on the market in a year. Having ONE get through every several years is not a blanket condemnation for getting rid of the system completely. It's great and all to be able to sue pharm companies after they kill thousands of people. But doing something, ANYTHING, to try to prevent those deaths up front is not a useless endevor.
That peice of meat WAS in good condition when it got to the store. Sure they can ruin it for you on premisis, but what condition would that meat be without any inspection at all (or worse "self inspection")?
This is a typical Libertarian posing. And for being the "geek" party they show an enormous lack of thought and practical reality with these sorts of "platforms".
Yes it does if you blindly click on the "Install everything how ever you want" button.
However with a tiny bit of patience during and after the install it can be completely neutered into playing ONLY real media files. You can even get rid of that annoying auto-popup web browser, tray icon, and stealthy "upgrade" demon with only a couple minutes of work.
I have no love of real, but it's no "Gator" yet. It's behavior can be controlled rather easily even if, by default, it does try to take over everything.
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Who the hell needs a DESKTOP system to be 64 bit? How many people's desktops have (and actually use) 2 gig of ram (or more) right now? Or will in the near future? The desktop NEED for 64 bit systems is way WAY off. Servers yes, desperately, now. Desktops... no. Games... no. I even do some fairly heavy photoshop work including posters on our 32, 48 and 60in printers, but I have rarely needed more than 512 meg for even that.
Like uh, Samba? I guess "Linux wouldn't be here today without reverse engineering" too then according to you argument. I guess "The sword cuts three ways".
I'll third that, (Well the best FREE one anyway) But that is actually a rather sad statement. After spending about a year coding with it, wxWindows is actually an abomination of a framwork. A patched and hacked set of code that makes MFC look clean and elegant. They stomp on all kinds of windows library keywords and windows is it's primary platform! It's not really a cross platform framework. It's a generic wrapper for native frameworks so it's full of funky cross platform parity issues. It's plenty useable. But it's not great, it's not even good. It's barely acceptable for small to med sized applications and that's the best it is. And it IS the best (free) there is as you pointed out!
I hope MONO does succeed, though probably MOST of the.NET API is still unwritten or in the process of being written so it'll be a long way off before that can be tested for real. It remains to be seen if they gain actuall funtion parity or if writing to two platforms requires numerous #ifdef workarounds for differing behavior like all other cross platform frameworks do.
When ICANN goes? The COURTS take over. Large corps with plans for domain name grabs are increasingly abandoning ICANN for resolutions because ICANN frequently sides with the current holders. When using the courts however. It's pretty easy to throw money at the problem and get your way. (It's ironic that this is being leveled at ICANN when it's already a known and oftenused practive in the legal system)ICANN at least provided a small hope that the name you registered would reamin yours... (I provide the resent "Easy* vs "Easi*" fiasco as proof)
The only part I agree with (And it's already been talked about) is that the US Gov. should take back control of ICANN (Or a global governmental body). For the reasons listed in the article. But even as it is, there had better be a MUCH BETTER plan in place before even talking about getting rid of ICANN. The alternative will be the ususal situation of being far worse off after the wolves have had their fun.
Probably only one in 10,000 people running apache could have found OR fixed that last root expoit on their own machine. So for 9,999 people open source doesn't matter at all.
What the hell do you think source is anyway. Have YOU ever looked at it? That any person can just "look" at it and go "Oh, here it is, I'll just fix it here. There done."
Apache had to fix that bug. And it wasn't in a day either, it took neary a week. Other people hacked at it. DIDN'T FIX IT, but SAID they did and tried distributing a broken patch. HORRAY OPEN SOURCE!
We had to wait for the vendor to patch. Just like closed source. Code is generally FAR too complicated for anyone not familiar with it to just start hacking away at a "fix". Especially a "Security fix", which would require full regression testing to make sure the product still works as advertised and that the fix actually worked.
Only a slashdotter could think of something like that and say it with a straight face. Is everyone here a criminal? Is ripping off everything that isn't tied down really now universally acceptable behavior?
Yes.
Well then I'll be over to your house later to claim everything that is mine by right of "I want it". Don't try to get in my way, I'll scream oppression and get 500 of my good buddies to come over and help out.
How do you optimize 4 gig of already compressed video/audio/texture files? Make everything out of one texture, one sound?
Games are getting to be more realistic and more immursive through increased use of the available hardware. Larger worlds, more complex models, larger more detailed textures and sounds.
Though I too have nostalgia for some of the old DOS games, having been a hard core gamer since long before even then. I can honestly say that not one of them can stand up to the audio/visual excitement or gameplay of todays high requirement games.
If money is an opbject, todays consoles are still pretty cheap and have equally good graphics (though lower res) and gameplay as the best PCs... So spend 2 grand on a new computer or 200 on a new console. Either way, gaming has never been more exciting than now.
As a matter of fact, when Ford put defective Firestone tires on their Explorers, that's EXACTLY what happened. The person making the mistake IS the one to blame. It's become all to common to blame who you WANT to blame rather than who SHOULD be blamed tese days:(
Oh yeah! Wait till they call Adobe and claim that they installed Photoshop on a "Lindows" PC. How much tech support do you think adobe will give? Some thing along the lines of "I'm sorry sir, our products only work on Macintosh or Windows computers. I cannot give you any help. Please call your computer manufacturer."
And it's not a matter of one or two days to get something working on a 1/10 API/Library subset of windows. Many MANY programs will simply never work. And a lot of these are the types of programs that people buying these Lindows machines use. I.e. GAMES.
The only TINY bit of hope is that maybe after walmart sells 10,000,000 of these machines that there may be enough of a Linux base that more game programmers will port to native Linux. But that's a big if, if people can't run their apps they HAVE or can BUY now on the machine like Walmart says they can. (And as most people her point out. THat is simply not the case.)
Not completely true as I just did this very thing. The way that the computer manufacturers are doing this is by always including several smal items that they charge 2-3x cost for that you CANNOT remove from the configuration. I saved $600 on building a PC 2 weeks ago over Dell, Gateway and a couple of smaller local places because I wanted something specific and I bought only what I wanted to go in the machine.
It saves hastle to buy it in one shot, but unless you happen to want exactly what they are offering, you are going to pay more that doing it yourself.
What a strange grouping of words. Lots of rage, lots of bigotry.
I have a tremendous thirst and drive for knowledge. I'm all over cutting edge tech. I am learning something new all the time. New programs, new coding practices, new languages, new hardware, new OSes. All the time. Always have and always will.
Yet this is just a waste of time. Time better spent on kepping up with what's current. Working on what's next. Producing something new.
All this and yes, I earn a large salary doing it. Guess I don't fit into your little peg holes you've defined for everyone. I'd bet that though maybe some people do, most don't fit your narrow, bigoted, hateful view of the world. And that's a good thing!
It is pretty funny. For The Matrix 2 they built a life-sized replica of a secion of freeway, including a bridge on a unused runway at an airport to get a realistic, precisely timed car chase scene.
CGI still looks fake after all these years and it's tiring to look at. It's still in it's infancy both in terms of realistic lighing and in terms of directors not knowing what to do with it or how to use it right.
Maybe by The Matrix XXV we'll have a movie about virtual space actually made in it and have it look REAL.:)
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You'd have to be living under a rock to not have known all that by now.
Here's another clue. Mother's day, Fathers day, Valentines day, most of what we think of as Christmas are also all department store and card shop fabrications.
So anyway. I was also a little POed that the woman got this great gift and the man gets nothing, so my wife and I agreed to buy each other engagement rings. We got some nice dark opal rings that can be used as dress wear any time. MOST opal production has local benefits to the miners and local opal towns themselves.
How can a single persons decision ever be in the best interest of the people? That's an amazingly elitest and aristocratic view of things. That one man can know what's best for all? Well maybe those TVs will inform the people that they should have more self governance and not continually rely on the whims of one man.
A lot of the posts here talk about TV as being a tool of the govenment controlling the masses. But in this case (as in many other cases) it may be the opposite.
Course this gang of idiots (slashdot) here discussing what may or may not be good for Bhutan without knowing a single thing about it, is the very pinnacle of elitism. It's sickening!
IE and other programs make heavy use of harware video accelleration when doing scrolling and can easily cause a BSOD of a bad video driver.
Of the few BSODs I've seen on my own or other windows machines running 2k and XP here. They have all been caused by #1) Video driver bug. #2) Sound driver bug. #3) Network card driver bug. Using name brand equipment in those areas decreases the chance of a BSOD (Stop) by dozens of times. I've seen 1 or two a year on my various machines over the last two years. And that's from always upgrading my drivers and occasionally wishing I hadn't. Always hardware related.
I also once had a motherboard go "bad" in some exotic way that was causing a daily BSOD on one of my 98 machines years ago for about a week before I replaced it.
A BSOD is the Kernel detecting that a driver running in priveldged space is doing something very bad and is halting to protect the system. Similar to Linux BSOD (BLACK screen of death, or Kernel Panic). The people here that run their Linux boxes who know what they are doing and the people that run the windows machines that know what they are doing see the BSOD on their respective machines about the same frequency. Maybe once or twice a year per machine.
Those that don't know what they are doing and are installing and uninstalling everything they get their hands on have much less stable machines, both Windows and Linux (As well as our Mac people!)
Never let anyone go off and code on some large single task without keeping a good eye on them. Micromanagement is often a dirty word, but to manage multiple coders that are supposed to be all working on the same project, you need clearly defined and intricate goals. There should be meetings and code reviews at least once a week. Integrations should be staged, as you said, "early and often" that means at least weekly, up to daily if applicable.
Any slackers then show up early and they will end up being hounded (maybe by you, or the rest of the team). They either shape up or get replaced. There aught to be plenty of people looking for jobs these days.
One would hope that the idea of remaining an employee would be enough motivation to start pulling their weight. Beyond that, generally a coder works better if they believe in the project and believe in their team mates and bosses and have a generally friendly atmosphere. But I got to say, these days that luxury just isn't as prevelent as it used to be.
Also, even if they are coding. Keeping good track records of performance and code quality is also important. Basically, if you've got lazy programmers they will get away with what ever they can. Just don't let them get away with anything for any length of time. Don't wait until it can even be a problem.
If spouting nonsense on message boards (anywhere and everywhere) could be converted into power, we'd have limitless energy. /. is not the only message board in existance, but it is one of the very few with a moderation system. Even if the mod system did not exist, every person here would be posting just as they had before.
/. exists or how it works is of no use at all for practical application of time twards concrete efforts. Posting here fulfills all kinds of needs from simply taking a break from working on concrete efforts to megalomania. But the fact remains, people need to eat to survive (and shelter and grecreate to feel that life is worth liveing and, and, and...) and the bottom line is there must be an economy based on exchange of work for goods SOMEHOW. Money is the most convienient as I can at a later time choose what I want to eat, rather than having "FOOD[tm]" handed to me at the end of a work week and "SHELTER[tm]" provided for me in the form of a bed under my desk at work.
But the explaination of why
O.S. exists because a lot of people have a lot of free time on their hands. But it has not taken over the world becuase no one has all day every day free time on their hands.
Been done (like 20 years ago and still in use today) but that does not fulfill either of the specifications.
1) No pressure sensitivity
2) When 2 fingers are pressed at once you get 2 X values and 2 Y values (X1, X2, Y1, Y2). So if they both happen at the same time are the fingers at (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2)? or are they at (X1, Y2) (X2, Y1)? You can't tell. So multiple touches also doesn't work. (If the fingers come in one at a time then you can tell. But the fact that they MIGHT come in simultaniously and that there is now way to tell means you really can't support it)
#2 is a major obsticle to designing a touch system that can actually handle multiple touches. A touchscreen with hundreds of tiny etched "wires" across the inside of two surfaces that "connect" when you touch can get around this and is also widly in use today (Though the "wires" are usually spaced pretty far apart, giving you no more than 10 points per inch resolution or less). But there is no pressure sensitivity. You might have to combine two different technologies to get both.
And get rid of the damn Karma Krap and rating system. It's like a KKK ralley in here. If someone says something, ANYTHING, that ruffles feathers, mass suppression takes place. There should be a way of removeing truly offtopic posts. But just because someone points out something that is in any way anti-whateverthecrowdlovesandcandonowrong there is no reason to mod the person out of existance because you don't want to hear it. It's like 10,000 people with their hands over their ears yelling "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA".
/.'s one true failing.
Thus my sig. You have to wade through a lot of pure crap it's true, but the amount of real, unbiased information (Such as Reiser not really being a journalling file system) that gets moded to -1 is shameful. A tragedy really.
Shit, if you got rid of the FDA there would be 10,000 Phen-Fens on the market in a year. Having ONE get through every several years is not a blanket condemnation for getting rid of the system completely. It's great and all to be able to sue pharm companies after they kill thousands of people. But doing something, ANYTHING, to try to prevent those deaths up front is not a useless endevor.
That peice of meat WAS in good condition when it got to the store. Sure they can ruin it for you on premisis, but what condition would that meat be without any inspection at all (or worse "self inspection")?
This is a typical Libertarian posing. And for being the "geek" party they show an enormous lack of thought and practical reality with these sorts of "platforms".
Yes it does if you blindly click on the "Install everything how ever you want" button.
However with a tiny bit of patience during and after the install it can be completely neutered into playing ONLY real media files. You can even get rid of that annoying auto-popup web browser, tray icon, and stealthy "upgrade" demon with only a couple minutes of work.
I have no love of real, but it's no "Gator" yet. It's behavior can be controlled rather easily even if, by default, it does try to take over everything.
Who the hell needs a DESKTOP system to be 64 bit? How many people's desktops have (and actually use) 2 gig of ram (or more) right now? Or will in the near future? The desktop NEED for 64 bit systems is way WAY off. Servers yes, desperately, now. Desktops... no. Games... no. I even do some fairly heavy photoshop work including posters on our 32, 48 and 60in printers, but I have rarely needed more than 512 meg for even that.
Like uh, Samba? I guess "Linux wouldn't be here today without reverse engineering" too then according to you argument. I guess "The sword cuts three ways".
I'll third that, (Well the best FREE one anyway) But that is actually a rather sad statement. After spending about a year coding with it, wxWindows is actually an abomination of a framwork. A patched and hacked set of code that makes MFC look clean and elegant. They stomp on all kinds of windows library keywords and windows is it's primary platform! It's not really a cross platform framework. It's a generic wrapper for native frameworks so it's full of funky cross platform parity issues. It's plenty useable. But it's not great, it's not even good. It's barely acceptable for small to med sized applications and that's the best it is. And it IS the best (free) there is as you pointed out!
.NET API is still unwritten or in the process of being written so it'll be a long way off before that can be tested for real. It remains to be seen if they gain actuall funtion parity or if writing to two platforms requires numerous #ifdef workarounds for differing behavior like all other cross platform frameworks do.
I hope MONO does succeed, though probably MOST of the
I don't know did they mention if they would have the swimsuit costume patch installed?
When ICANN goes? The COURTS take over. Large corps with plans for domain name grabs are increasingly abandoning ICANN for resolutions because ICANN frequently sides with the current holders. When using the courts however. It's pretty easy to throw money at the problem and get your way. (It's ironic that this is being leveled at ICANN when it's already a known and oftenused practive in the legal system)ICANN at least provided a small hope that the name you registered would reamin yours... (I provide the resent "Easy* vs "Easi*" fiasco as proof)
The only part I agree with (And it's already been talked about) is that the US Gov. should take back control of ICANN (Or a global governmental body). For the reasons listed in the article. But even as it is, there had better be a MUCH BETTER plan in place before even talking about getting rid of ICANN. The alternative will be the ususal situation of being far worse off after the wolves have had their fun.
Probably only one in 10,000 people running apache could have found OR fixed that last root expoit on their own machine. So for 9,999 people open source doesn't matter at all.
What the hell do you think source is anyway. Have YOU ever looked at it? That any person can just "look" at it and go "Oh, here it is, I'll just fix it here. There done."
Apache had to fix that bug. And it wasn't in a day either, it took neary a week. Other people hacked at it. DIDN'T FIX IT, but SAID they did and tried distributing a broken patch. HORRAY OPEN SOURCE!
We had to wait for the vendor to patch. Just like closed source. Code is generally FAR too complicated for anyone not familiar with it to just start hacking away at a "fix". Especially a "Security fix", which would require full regression testing to make sure the product still works as advertised and that the fix actually worked.
Only a slashdotter could think of something like that and say it with a straight face. Is everyone here a criminal? Is ripping off everything that isn't tied down really now universally acceptable behavior?
Yes.
Well then I'll be over to your house later to claim everything that is mine by right of "I want it". Don't try to get in my way, I'll scream oppression and get 500 of my good buddies to come over and help out.
Then let it suck no more!
M-Audio Delta 44/66 or M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 coupled with a set of Project Studio 8 or 10 pro monitors. (Or any other decent monitor)
Actually there are a lot of alternatves, but as usual. Stuff that doesn't suck usually costs a little bit more and isn't sold at CompUSA.
How do you optimize 4 gig of already compressed video/audio/texture files? Make everything out of one texture, one sound?
Games are getting to be more realistic and more immursive through increased use of the available hardware. Larger worlds, more complex models, larger more detailed textures and sounds.
Though I too have nostalgia for some of the old DOS games, having been a hard core gamer since long before even then. I can honestly say that not one of them can stand up to the audio/visual excitement or gameplay of todays high requirement games.
If money is an opbject, todays consoles are still pretty cheap and have equally good graphics (though lower res) and gameplay as the best PCs... So spend 2 grand on a new computer or 200 on a new console. Either way, gaming has never been more exciting than now.
As a matter of fact, when Ford put defective Firestone tires on their Explorers, that's EXACTLY what happened. The person making the mistake IS the one to blame. It's become all to common to blame who you WANT to blame rather than who SHOULD be blamed tese days :(
Sorry, your third wish cannot be for more wishes... (Or in this case, your first)
Redundant? There are only 4 posts, and this is a legitimate concern. Moderators on crack again.
Oh yeah! Wait till they call Adobe and claim that they installed Photoshop on a "Lindows" PC. How much tech support do you think adobe will give? Some thing along the lines of "I'm sorry sir, our products only work on Macintosh or Windows computers. I cannot give you any help. Please call your computer manufacturer."
And it's not a matter of one or two days to get something working on a 1/10 API/Library subset of windows. Many MANY programs will simply never work. And a lot of these are the types of programs that people buying these Lindows machines use. I.e. GAMES.
The only TINY bit of hope is that maybe after walmart sells 10,000,000 of these machines that there may be enough of a Linux base that more game programmers will port to native Linux. But that's a big if, if people can't run their apps they HAVE or can BUY now on the machine like Walmart says they can. (And as most people her point out. THat is simply not the case.)
Not completely true as I just did this very thing. The way that the computer manufacturers are doing this is by always including several smal items that they charge 2-3x cost for that you CANNOT remove from the configuration. I saved $600 on building a PC 2 weeks ago over Dell, Gateway and a couple of smaller local places because I wanted something specific and I bought only what I wanted to go in the machine.
It saves hastle to buy it in one shot, but unless you happen to want exactly what they are offering, you are going to pay more that doing it yourself.
What a strange grouping of words. Lots of rage, lots of bigotry.
I have a tremendous thirst and drive for knowledge. I'm all over cutting edge tech. I am learning something new all the time. New programs, new coding practices, new languages, new hardware, new OSes. All the time. Always have and always will.
Yet this is just a waste of time. Time better spent on kepping up with what's current. Working on what's next. Producing something new.
All this and yes, I earn a large salary doing it. Guess I don't fit into your little peg holes you've defined for everyone. I'd bet that though maybe some people do, most don't fit your narrow, bigoted, hateful view of the world. And that's a good thing!
It is pretty funny. For The Matrix 2 they built a life-sized replica of a secion of freeway, including a bridge on a unused runway at an airport to get a realistic, precisely timed car chase scene.
:)
CGI still looks fake after all these years and it's tiring to look at. It's still in it's infancy both in terms of realistic lighing and in terms of directors not knowing what to do with it or how to use it right.
Maybe by The Matrix XXV we'll have a movie about virtual space actually made in it and have it look REAL.