"As I've said elsewhere, I find it very unlikely that there's any serious conspiracy to send Assange to the US (extradition from the UK would be easier, and in any case, what is Obama more likely to want? A high profile Whistleblower's trial in the US, or Assange convicted of sex crimes in Sweden?) But I don't have any problem believing the FM's statement on this, and I'm surprised you do."
Having Assange convicted of sex crimes before will make him weaker. While I doubt the US government doesn't have any problem to ask a direct extradition and send him to Gitmo, a conviction makes easier the rethoric of a "traitor".
>Can anyone else here weigh in on the technology itself?
Pixar's subidivision surfaces are very efficient in terms of graphic visualization, parametrization, deformation and texturing. Other implementations are significant slower. The Pixar video presentation at SIGGRAPH shows they work great in realtime, something important when you're doing animation. As an example, NewTek Lightwave Catmull-Clarck subdivs have serious implementation problems, something that can be solved with opensubdivs. Luxology Modo had to license this technology a year ago to become competitive.
"Could cloud service providers help the U.S. become a destination for tech outsourcing instead of an exporter of tech jobs?"
My comment is aiming this part. Grupo Posadas hasn't show they can make good business decisions lately, and their move shouldn't mark as a trend for foreign companies moving operation to the US.
"Furthermore, it would not outsource it, say, to India or the Philippines because of language barriers."
I aknowledge only 10% of the Mexico population speaks English, but it's exactly that percentile (IT, management, etc) who is in charge to make decisions to move services abroad. Basicaly I higly doubt a second language is a barrier.
Back in that time, Gates et al discovered the internet and its potential. At that time almost the only way to use the internet was via a web browser inside a PC (remember the AOL disks, trumpet winsock, etc?) Nowadays we have access to the web in many other ways. Now, if you tell me that xbox live usage is going down, then this is something to worry about.
At least when my university (unam.mx) buys a computer and their lifetime ends, technicians come and scrap all the electronics leaving an empty shell. As in the case of software it seems you don't own the computer, you're only leasing the technology, this may vary with technology developed with money from the US goverment.
Ché, the problem of your comment was the generalization. In every city where an important conference takes place there's a chance to have stuff stolen. I usually visit the US every year for SIGGRAPH, and one year a friend of mine was robbed, asaulted and almost killed in his own hotel room in Boston, in a 4 stars hotel. It's clearly that someone randomly saw an opportunity.
This is a passive-agressive approach, and almost everybody in an organization does the same. The human nature is to find a low energy state because the opposite, doing a good work in less time is rewarded with more work, and never less.
As a manager it's hard to make your team being more efficient and at the same time make them say: thanks for all the work!
That's why video professionals and tv stations rely on hardware based transcoding, and this solutions tend to be expensive. There should be many systems than encode H264 videos really fast, something like this: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/teranex/
A guy renamed it Cinepaint. It's a paint program for image sequences now. But he announced the fork unleashing the ire of The GIMP developers, it was an akward situation.
I thought that giving my opinion to change the name of a program that suggests it's crippled was positive enough. How about names like FreePaint, PhotoMagic, CreativeImage, CreativePhoto? (Imagemagick is already taken) None of these names suggest crippled.
I think you have hit the nail. I run an animation studio, and at certain point decided to change some tools for open source options. The first move was from PS to gimp. I certainly can afford and own PS licenses; full and/or Elements versions. Most of my colaborators changed slowly to PS again. They can work with old PS versions, son it's clear the don't need all the bloated features of the Creative Suite bundles.
I want to use gimp, because morally is the best thing to do, even technically not always ideal. From time to time BSA minions send extortion emails to my inbox, or even they call me to make threats. I'm not interested to buy their software if they treat me like a criminal.
The first unnatractive GIMP feature is its name. Please change it to something more appealing while describes what it does. Photoshop, Paintshop, Illustrator,Inkscape, Pencil, etc. are good names for similar programs, please find a more clever name.
There are tons of beautiful illustrated books with excellent stories. Anything from Oliver Jeffers like Lost & Found, or Olivia the Pig by Ian Falconer or any book illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. I love comic books but my children prefer illustrated books.
If you are looking for comic books try looking for Belgian/French authors translated to English. They tend to write stories very different from what you find in America, sometimes with very deep stories and characters.
Almost any country in the world feels the great influence and political pressure of the United States, and tend to change and obey some laws accordingly as America requires. I think you still live in a reasonable free country compared to many others in the same continent. Living in your own country lets you have the option to vote and voice your opinion in any way you can find, while leaving it will make your voice nothing than a noise in the wind.
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A diplomatic bag is a bag of any size. Having work at the UN, they send huge bags of mail in a daily basis, protected by diplomatic inmunity.
"As I've said elsewhere, I find it very unlikely that there's any serious conspiracy to send Assange to the US (extradition from the UK would be easier, and in any case, what is Obama more likely to want? A high profile Whistleblower's trial in the US, or Assange convicted of sex crimes in Sweden?) But I don't have any problem believing the FM's statement on this, and I'm surprised you do."
Having Assange convicted of sex crimes before will make him weaker. While I doubt the US government doesn't have any problem to ask a direct extradition and send him to Gitmo, a conviction makes easier the rethoric of a "traitor".
>Can anyone else here weigh in on the technology itself?
Pixar's subidivision surfaces are very efficient in terms of graphic visualization, parametrization, deformation and texturing. Other implementations are significant slower. The Pixar video presentation at SIGGRAPH shows they work great in realtime, something important when you're doing animation. As an example, NewTek Lightwave Catmull-Clarck subdivs have serious implementation problems, something that can be solved with opensubdivs. Luxology Modo had to license this technology a year ago to become competitive.
"Could cloud service providers help the U.S. become a destination for tech outsourcing instead of an exporter of tech jobs?"
My comment is aiming this part. Grupo Posadas hasn't show they can make good business decisions lately, and their move shouldn't mark as a trend for foreign companies moving operation to the US.
"Furthermore, it would not outsource it, say, to India or the Philippines because of language barriers."
I aknowledge only 10% of the Mexico population speaks English, but it's exactly that percentile (IT, management, etc) who is in charge to make decisions to move services abroad. Basicaly I higly doubt a second language is a barrier.
First, He led Mexicana (one of the national airlines) to bankrupcy:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/04/business/la-fi-mexicana-bankruptcy-20100804
Then he suggested that the word "Mexico" to be dropped as a brand for tourism. And finally, Grupo Posas is in serious financial problems.
I say don't take anything from this guy as an example of good business practice.
Everybody has a computer nowadays, but no everyone writes a Linux. Not everyone will be creating stuff in 30 years with a printer.
Back in that time, Gates et al discovered the internet and its potential. At that time almost the only way to use the internet was via a web browser inside a PC (remember the AOL disks, trumpet winsock, etc?) Nowadays we have access to the web in many other ways. Now, if you tell me that xbox live usage is going down, then this is something to worry about.
If the game is based on the graphic novel and not the tv series, the story will develop very fast.
At least when my university (unam.mx) buys a computer and their lifetime ends, technicians come and scrap all the electronics leaving an empty shell. As in the case of software it seems you don't own the computer, you're only leasing the technology, this may vary with technology developed with money from the US goverment.
Ché, the problem of your comment was the generalization. In every city where an important conference takes place there's a chance to have stuff stolen. I usually visit the US every year for SIGGRAPH, and one year a friend of mine was robbed, asaulted and almost killed in his own hotel room in Boston, in a 4 stars hotel. It's clearly that someone randomly saw an opportunity.
This is a passive-agressive approach, and almost everybody in an organization does the same. The human nature is to find a low energy state because the opposite, doing a good work in less time is rewarded with more work, and never less.
As a manager it's hard to make your team being more efficient and at the same time make them say: thanks for all the work!
The $ sign may come from the Hercules Columns:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png?uselang=es
Part of the Spanish heraldics.
So you think doing transcoding using a GPU preceded dedicated encoding systems? or what are you talking about?
That's why video professionals and tv stations rely on hardware based transcoding, and this solutions tend to be expensive. There should be many systems than encode H264 videos really fast, something like this: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/teranex/
A guy renamed it Cinepaint. It's a paint program for image sequences now. But he announced the fork unleashing the ire of The GIMP developers, it was an akward situation.
http://www.cinepaint.org/
I thought that giving my opinion to change the name of a program that suggests it's crippled was positive enough. How about names like FreePaint, PhotoMagic, CreativeImage, CreativePhoto? (Imagemagick is already taken) None of these names suggest crippled.
The windows port usually takes some time, maybe in a couple of months will be ready. Be patient.
I think you have hit the nail. I run an animation studio, and at certain point decided to change some tools for open source options. The first move was from PS to gimp. I certainly can afford and own PS licenses; full and/or Elements versions. Most of my colaborators changed slowly to PS again. They can work with old PS versions, son it's clear the don't need all the bloated features of the Creative Suite bundles.
I want to use gimp, because morally is the best thing to do, even technically not always ideal. From time to time BSA minions send extortion emails to my inbox, or even they call me to make threats. I'm not interested to buy their software if they treat me like a criminal.
So you're part of the gimp team?
>GNU image Manipulation Program isn't descriptive?
Yes, but appealing or even funny. Calling a creative tool like ths one gimp, dork, dick, etc is not very smart or creative.
>Wait, do you want it to be clever, or descriptive?
How about both, is it possible? we're all here smart people, I'm sure we can end with a clever name.
>Here's an idea: write your own image manipulation program, then you can name it whatever you want.
So I can't contribute with a positive opinion to make The GIMP (sigh!) more appealing to the masses?
The first unnatractive GIMP feature is its name. Please change it to something more appealing while describes what it does. Photoshop, Paintshop, Illustrator,Inkscape, Pencil, etc. are good names for similar programs, please find a more clever name.
There are tons of beautiful illustrated books with excellent stories. Anything from Oliver Jeffers like Lost & Found, or Olivia the Pig by Ian Falconer or any book illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. I love comic books but my children prefer illustrated books.
If you are looking for comic books try looking for Belgian/French authors translated to English. They tend to write stories very different from what you find in America, sometimes with very deep stories and characters.
SlashBI, really? at least please reconsider the name.
Almost any country in the world feels the great influence and political pressure of the United States, and tend to change and obey some laws accordingly as America requires. I think you still live in a reasonable free country compared to many others in the same continent. Living in your own country lets you have the option to vote and voice your opinion in any way you can find, while leaving it will make your voice nothing than a noise in the wind.
His KS page show the project is starting the animation process, hardly the final stage of production.