I'm not a fan of Java, and will probably get flamed for saying that, but I am a fan of C#. It would be totally awesome to be able to write multi-platform compatable applications in C# without even thinking about it. So that's my vote. Start there!
This work is very similar to some work that was presented at last years siggraph using graph cut optimization titled Interactive Digital Photomontage by some researchers at the University of Washington. This stuff is really cool and has applications outside of just re-coloring black and white. For example, compositors in the film industry adjust the color composition of scenes that were filmed during the day to look like they were filmed at night. Sometimes they just need to tweak the color because the art director isnt happy with it. Other times it's because they introduced CG elements into live action scenes and they dont quite match. If they can tweak those colors interactively, without authoring masks, it is faster than re-rendering the scene and that saves money.
Not really true. You can throttle (through the web based account access) the bandwidth usage all the way down to 30Kbps. So 15-20 users with their bandwidth throttled to 30Kbps would require 450-300Kbps of bandwidth.
Perhaps inspired by ea_spouse Joe Straitiff weaves a personal story of what happened around him and his project prior to his dismissal. If this stuff doesnt make you cringe I dont know what will. And trust me folks, I work for EA, stuff like this does happen.
My guess is that the GPS system will have some sort of drummed up fee attached to it. Just like they do with everything else. You have to shell out $500 for the device, $50 a month, and $3.99 every time you need to find out where you are.:P
...that stole my credit card info and my paypal account. My checking account was cleared out, and my credit card was maxed out. I was hosed. Luckily PayPal refunded me the money. It may not be FDIC insured but they got me my cash back within the span of 2 days.
I hope you guys become Bubba's bitch! Dont drop the soap!
Take a look at the Blu-Ray website. I think the only company that's missing in the industry partner list is Toshiba. Plus after reading some documentation internal to my company regarding manufacturing costs of Blu-Ray discs they are cheaper to make than HD-DVD's in both cost per disc and cost per gigabyte.
In the past we've seen products like the Beta format for example that have a small industry following just go by the wayside. It seems such that HD-DVD is progressing along the same path. Time will tell I guess.
You'd think after being slashdotted the last time that they would figure out that they were going to be slashdotted on parts 2 and 3 and get a bigger server....
They are 0 for 2 right now. What are the odds that they'll get their problems resolved for part 3?
...and I'll switch from Windows. I've wanted to for some time. Oh yeah, and make the games that I want to play for OSX too. I figure while I'm wishing upon a shooting star I might as well ask for the whole ball of wax.:P
I also agree. I have a 7506-12 running a RAID 5 array with 6 SAMSUNG SP1614N 160.04GB drives. This produces an array of approximately 800.20gb with a size of 734GB after GB to real GB conversion.
Seems like a prime opportunity for a nuclear powered rover! I mean seriously, couldnt we have a nice little home base nuclear reactor for the thing to plug into? Perhaps it's or even housed within itself?
That might actually make it more worth the $400m pricetag.
Programmers deserve much credit, but artists do as well. It takes an effort from both sides of the fence to make a game successful; programmers & artists. In my opinion the company in question is being protective of their employees, and that is not the big issue. The big is that credit is not being given where credit is due. That is the underlying issue.
I also agree that if a company did this to me, I would brush off the old resume, call a head hunter, and find myself a new place to work.
I would not ever, ever rely on the better job to find me.
I'm new here at Slashdot. I didnt know we had a search engine that will search all of our previous stories. If I did I would have known that if I searched "corel sell linux" that I would have noticed that this story has been posted three times before."
Well if you consider that IBM was the one pushing the CrossPad a couple years ago (which was a joint effort between A.T. Cross & IBM technology) it comes as no suprise that they would integrate the two technologies. Here at Purdue we used the CrossPad in our drawing classes primarily to skip scanning the image.
Two of the biggest complaints from the students were that the recognition was not good and you couldn't see the end result of your sketches in realtime. Many of the problems were due to converting the users pen strokes into a vector based image. I believe this user feedback is more of what influenced IBM's design of this new laptop. I highly doubt IBM "stole" this technology from Apple.
For more information on IBM's handwriting research visit IBM Pen Technologies research page.
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Agreed... What a waste...
I'm not a fan of Java, and will probably get flamed for saying that, but I am a fan of C#. It would be totally awesome to be able to write multi-platform compatable applications in C# without even thinking about it. So that's my vote. Start there!
This work is very similar to some work that was presented at last years siggraph using graph cut optimization titled Interactive Digital Photomontage by some researchers at the University of Washington. This stuff is really cool and has applications outside of just re-coloring black and white. For example, compositors in the film industry adjust the color composition of scenes that were filmed during the day to look like they were filmed at night. Sometimes they just need to tweak the color because the art director isnt happy with it. Other times it's because they introduced CG elements into live action scenes and they dont quite match. If they can tweak those colors interactively, without authoring masks, it is faster than re-rendering the scene and that saves money.
Very cool stuff.
Pete
I used to be on that team and I wish them the best!
GO BOILERS!
Sorry, typo, that would be 450-600Kbps.
Damn, I wish Slashdot supported editing posts...
--P
Not really true. You can throttle (through the web based account access) the bandwidth usage all the way down to 30Kbps. So 15-20 users with their bandwidth throttled to 30Kbps would require 450-300Kbps of bandwidth.
--P
Perhaps inspired by ea_spouse Joe Straitiff weaves a personal story of what happened around him and his project prior to his dismissal. If this stuff doesnt make you cringe I dont know what will. And trust me folks, I work for EA, stuff like this does happen.
My guess is that the GPS system will have some sort of drummed up fee attached to it. Just like they do with everything else. You have to shell out $500 for the device, $50 a month, and $3.99 every time you need to find out where you are. :P
...that stole my credit card info and my paypal account. My checking account was cleared out, and my credit card was maxed out. I was hosed. Luckily PayPal refunded me the money. It may not be FDIC insured but they got me my cash back within the span of 2 days.
I hope you guys become Bubba's bitch! Dont drop the soap!
Take a look at the Blu-Ray website. I think the only company that's missing in the industry partner list is Toshiba. Plus after reading some documentation internal to my company regarding manufacturing costs of Blu-Ray discs they are cheaper to make than HD-DVD's in both cost per disc and cost per gigabyte.
In the past we've seen products like the Beta format for example that have a small industry following just go by the wayside. It seems such that HD-DVD is progressing along the same path. Time will tell I guess.
You'd think after being slashdotted the last time that they would figure out that they were going to be slashdotted on parts 2 and 3 and get a bigger server....
They are 0 for 2 right now. What are the odds that they'll get their problems resolved for part 3?
My money is going on 0 for 3.
Good cuz I was wondering what valves were! :)
...and I'll switch from Windows. I've wanted to for some time. Oh yeah, and make the games that I want to play for OSX too. I figure while I'm wishing upon a shooting star I might as well ask for the whole ball of wax. :P
I agree. However since it's BSD based couldnt Apple re-compile the kernel for a PC chip?
Why wouldnt they? I know a bunch of people that would love to run OSX on a PC. Hell I'd love to dual boot it.
--P
You mean "Duke Nukem Whenever"? Or perhaps "Duke Nukem Never"?
I've given up.
Get over it.
I also agree. I have a 7506-12 running a RAID 5 array with 6 SAMSUNG SP1614N 160.04GB drives. This produces an array of approximately 800.20gb with a size of 734GB after GB to real GB conversion.
/dev/hda2 6.7G 2.0G 4.4G 31% / /dev/hda1 99M 14M 80M 15% /boot /dev/shm /dev/sda1 734G 186G 511G 27% /home
[user@XXXXXX user]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
none 251M 0 251M 0%
I also have the data stored here mirrored in several other locations for even further redudnacy.
I have been extremely pleased with the 3ware drivers and hardware. The web monitor stuff is a novelty; I hardly ever use it.
--Pete
Seems like a prime opportunity for a nuclear powered rover! I mean seriously, couldnt we have a nice little home base nuclear reactor for the thing to plug into? Perhaps it's or even housed within itself?
That might actually make it more worth the $400m pricetag.
I submitted this story yesterday, as it was run on CNN...
.....you insensitive clod!!!
GO AOL!
I work for LucasArts, and we do video games. The article should say that LucasFilm is....
--P
Programmers deserve much credit, but artists do as well. It takes an effort from both sides of the fence to make a game successful; programmers & artists. In my opinion the company in question is being protective of their employees, and that is not the big issue. The big is that credit is not being given where credit is due. That is the underlying issue.
I also agree that if a company did this to me, I would brush off the old resume, call a head hunter, and find myself a new place to work.
I would not ever, ever rely on the better job to find me.
Just my two cents.
Pete
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Come on guys. Really, how hard is it to search and read your own site?
PeteWell if you consider that IBM was the one pushing the CrossPad a couple years ago (which was a joint effort between A.T. Cross & IBM technology) it comes as no suprise that they would integrate the two technologies. Here at Purdue we used the CrossPad in our drawing classes primarily to skip scanning the image.
Two of the biggest complaints from the students were that the recognition was not good and you couldn't see the end result of your sketches in realtime. Many of the problems were due to converting the users pen strokes into a vector based image. I believe this user feedback is more of what influenced IBM's design of this new laptop. I highly doubt IBM "stole" this technology from Apple.
For more information on IBM's handwriting research visit IBM Pen Technologies research page.
Pete