Um, BCC is handled by the mail program. In fact, all CCing is handled by the mail program. The SMTP protocol itself has nothing for multiple sends; CC is just a standard message-space header which all programs understand as meaning "this message was also sent to the following other parties." The only difference between CC and BCC is that the mail program doesn't put the BCC header into the sent message (or puts in 'undisclosed-recipients').
The delay would still easily apply. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Ah, but they were parenthetical interstitials. Perhaps they would have been better suited inside brackets, as they were basically stage directions. Also, it is perfectly legal to have an entire sentence within a parenthetical interstitial, if not by the book then by de-facto newer standards. Remember, folks, English is a relatively new language, and continues to evolve daily.
Oh, and just because I didn't need that comma doesn't mean it was unnecessary; it was a phrasing comma. Oh, and since when is an equal sign and an unmatched right parenthesis legal at all?
Oh, and it's "one-upped," not "one-up'd.":) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Ah, but the first interview was with one of their top technical guys. He's the one who fed me the hacker-owned hacker-operated crap. But I digress. Again.:)
And I'm in northern Virginia, as I think I said elsewhere. Fairfax. though it looks like I'll be out of here as soon as next Friday. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Part of how easy it was to coerce me into taking that particular job was the fact that on the surface it was exactly the kind of job you describe having. The fact it only took me a couple months to realize how inept everyone was and how much brainwashing was going on shows how shallow it was.
For me, happiness requires an academic setting. It's just the way I am. I meant nothing controversial by my last statement, which was, I believe, originally directed specifically towards academically-minded individuals such as myself.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, the spirit of the IP agreement is so that I don't go in and steal any of their IP and use it for my own gains. Considering I only worked there for three months, and the fact that several college friends and professors can attest to the fact that I developed these algorithms during my college career (and talked at length about them - I was going to write some papers but never got around to it), and, again, the fact I was coerced into signing the contract, I'm not too worried about being able to defend the rights to my own brain.
I'm leaving Virginia, but I already left the company a couple months ago. It was a small company, however, and they're competent - well, enough to be dangerous, anyway. But again, aside from what I put down on my 'prior inventions' page on the contract (which they simply threw out anyway, part of their coersion tactics), I never divulged any information to them on any algorithms I came up with on my own time, and I made a concsious (and successful) effort to not come up with anything new and useful while working for them.
As far as which grad school, I don't feel that I really need to go to a university with an extreme specialization in VR or graphics. The university I'm going back to has enough to make me happy; the department is small, but very diverse, but not so diverse that it's incredibly fragmented and spread thin.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Well, thanks for the words of encouragement, at least.:) I didn't mean to say that money was specifically exclusive of happiness, but in general, IT jobs are. Also, northern Virginia (DC area) is a bit more expensive to live in than one would expect, though yeah, I know it doesn't compare to New England.
Technically I'm under a 1-year noncompete and 2-year IP ownership thing, which is part of how this company controls its employees; they made very strong implications when I was interviewing with them that there wasn't such an agreement, and of course, after spending a few thousand dollars to get my sorry self out here, they give me this very anti-freedom contract to sign - what was I going to do, say "I can't take this job" and be homeless/penniless? It wasn't an option, especially since I had dragged two of my friends out here with me. Fortunately, the contract is phrased in such a way that it's only really valid in Virginia, and if they ever try to take me to court, I'd have a very strong argument that they coerced me into signing it to begin with (which they did; when I was simply dumbfounded by the contract, the company president spent half an hour basically brainwashing me into thinking that the contract was for my good and not the company's - complete bullshit, of course). They also coerced me into taciturnly giving up potential rights to quite a few graphics-related algorithms I developed in college which would have been very useful for them. Fortunately I managed to avoid making it possible for them to claim I'd even thought about any of them at work, which I hadn't.
Regardless, I think going to grad school is right for me, and your response to my post was very helpful in solidifying that notion. Many thanks.:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
A bachelor's is an undergraduate degree. A graduate degree depends on the field, but is generally called a master's or PhD. A polytechnic degree is usually called a technical or associate's degree. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
For the on-topic bit: I was suckered out to Virginia for $50k/year fresh out of college, but I've got lots of skill in realtime 3D which this company wanted, but they didn't know how to treat their employees and so I left after a few months.
For the off-topic bit: I have come to realize that the industry isn't for me. Academia is where I belong. I'm not a mercenary programmer. So of course, after a few months of living relatively large (figuring I'd be gainfully employed for a long time) I'm having my world kinda crash down around me, financially anyway. It doesn't help at all that I incurred some debt in moving out here which I, very stupidly, put off paying back. All in all, I'd have about broken even for the whole experience were it not for the various tech toys I suddenly found myself able to buy... Even though I rationally know that grad school is best for me, and emotionally know it as well, it just doesn't help to have all you mercenary types rubbing my nose in what kinds of salary I'm giving up.:)
I've never been into computing and programming for the money, except for a brief period of time when I was graduating college and I got suckered into putting off my happiness for the promises of getting to keep doing the cool stuff while also making enough money to live very comfortably. Of course, those promises never panned out, and the company I got hired by turned out to be nothing more than a pair of two-bit swindlers doing whatever they could to control spineless employees who didn't know better and weren't at liberty to leave for a variety of reasons.
I need to give some advice to academic types who might be reading this thread: which do you prefer, money or happiness? --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Not to mention that although an SLI V2 setup has a decent fillrate, it completely lacks any sort of rendering quality and has none of the rendering features which have been in OpenGL for ages and are going to start showing up soon, such as stencil effects (VERY useful for shadows and CSG-based modelling, among other things). Do yourself a favor and get a TNT2 or G400 and free up two of your PCI slots and make your 3D less kludgy.:) (Yeah, I know, 3dfx cards are the only ones which can do 'decent' hardware 3D under Linux right now. It's changing quickly, and in the meantime, with a TNT or TNT 2 you can always run nVidia's unstable GLX driver, which really works quite well.) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Unfortunately, DVD doesn't have enough resolution to really necessitate HDTV. Just get a good-quality SVHS-capable TV instead, or something which can accept component video if you're really finicky. My 35" Sony Trinitron has 900 lines of resolution, and DVDs fed to it through the SVHS jack are incredibly sharp. As a test of this, I hooked up both the SVHS and RCA inputs on my TV to my DVD player and put on the Ghostbusters menu screen (with the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man tromping through a rendered New York with the menu items on various buildings). By flipping between RCA and SVHS, I could see how incredible the difference was - SVHS was perfectly sharp, whereas RCA looked like a plain old VHS videotape. But regardless, SVHS can handle 600 lines of resolution (as evidenced by my LeadTek S320 putting out a perfectly-sharp Quake2 at 800x600 on said TV), and I believe DVD has something like 400 lines. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Oil comes from where oil is, and where it's cost-effective to get it. Most of our oil comes from the OPEC nations, but a fair amount comes from Texas. However, other areas just don't have the amounts of oil deposits necessary to make it cost-effective to drill it. As far as your original assertion, most memory comes from Taiwan because that's where most of the manufacturers are. If someone felt that it would be cost-effective to set up a plant in, say, Mexico or Cuba or whatever, they would do it; however, the real world, particularly as it relates to economics, doesn't tend to favor redundancy. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Ah, I know about that, but the poster didn't say "Palm upgraded with the PalmIII upgrade card.":) I wasn't aware that the upgrade card's range was better than the real deal's though. Interesting. Regardless, my PalmIII has 10-12 feet of range even when the batteries are as low as 30% (I've never tested it any lower though). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
That's a neat trick, having an IR beam as strong as the original Pilot, considering the Pilot had no IR port...:) My experience with OmniRemote on my PalmIII's built-in port is that I can control some of my devices from a good 12 feet away, depending on how sensitive the particular device is. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Nope, the one at ALS was an actual single panel, and it looked to me like a plasma display. This is just 3 LCD panels tacked together in a rather cheesy way. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
One thing I couldn't help but notice about this article is that it heavily criminalizes the authors of DeCSS. They wanted a way to view movies, and although DeCSS does theoretically enable someone to pirate a movie, that's not the intent for which it was written.
Also, the key was only 40 bit. I'm surprised they didn't just brute-force it.
I wouldn't blame the coders of DeCSS. I'd blame DVD for using such an asininely stupid encryption scheme, where every DVD needs to have decryption keys for every registered player. That's just stupid... it means that if some new vendor comes onto the market, they need to use someone else's established decryption key just to play the current installed base of movies. And all it takes is a rogue person with the sacred knowledge releasing (on purpose or accidentally in the case of Xing) one of the decryption keys.
No, I'm not saying I can think of a better scheme.:) Go to the article about DeCSS for stuff like that. I just think it's quite an unfair light this author has put the coders in; he also makes it sound as though DVD->VCD conversion has been a rampant problem now, but didn't DeCSS just come out a few days ago? It seems that they've been confusing 'speculation' and 'fact.' --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Bah, the T-buffer is an overmarketed and underpowered accumulation buffer. Other 3D cards have had this capability for quite some time, but nobody uses it because it's such a killer on your framerate.
You don't need artificially-induced focusing effects. The fact that the only part of your eye in-focus is the fovea is blurring enough.
As far as antialiasing: that's not really necessary either, except along the edges of objects. Within objects, mipmapping and bilinear/trilinear filtering take care of the other bits. (Mipmapping actually does a lot more for aliasing effects than filtering, btw.)
Motion blur is a sucky effect, too. It'd just eyecandy which would only get in the way in the case of a windowing system. THen again, Enlightenment has all that stuff for annoying (and slow) windows-flying-everywhere and the like which just makes your system slow. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
There was an article a few months ago on/. on a holographic LCD display which did that sort of thing. Probably easy enough to find with the search form, but I'm too lazy right now:) --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
In his defense, I'd like to point out that you could use a wavelength of light as a specifier. We perceive an approximation of visible-light wavelengths as combinations of three in particular, but they're actually separate wavelengths. Remember your elementary-school "physics" where your teacher took you outside on a sunny day with a prism...:)
But anyway, I can see where he's coming from. If you have points at, say, 1,1,1,1,1 and 1,1,1,1,2 (assume 1=red, 2=green, 3=blue) then it'd be visible as a yellow point at 1,1,1 (assume it's a holographic display or something). --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
I was on-topic. I was writing my critique as I read the page. Sorry for reading the site. And I'm quite on-topic; I was ruminating about the site linked to. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
An L1011 would be *perfect* for a house... just remove all the seats (duh) and you've got this huge empty space... put a partition, say, 6 feet from one side and then you've got a very wide hallway on one side and HUGE roomspace on teh other. Could also be modular and stuff... want to add another room? move the partitions! Want to make Johnny's bedroom bigger and Kimmy's smaller? move the partitions!
Wonder how much a stripped L1011 would go for...
I've never been in a 747. Those things are multi-story, right? That'd be ubercool. --- "'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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The delay would still easily apply.
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Oh, and just because I didn't need that comma doesn't mean it was unnecessary; it was a phrasing comma. Oh, and since when is an equal sign and an unmatched right parenthesis legal at all?
Oh, and it's "one-upped," not "one-up'd." :)
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LCD screens don't have degauss buttons. It'd be like a power switch on a pair of headphones.
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And I'm in northern Virginia, as I think I said elsewhere. Fairfax. though it looks like I'll be out of here as soon as next Friday.
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For me, happiness requires an academic setting. It's just the way I am. I meant nothing controversial by my last statement, which was, I believe, originally directed specifically towards academically-minded individuals such as myself. :)
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I'm leaving Virginia, but I already left the company a couple months ago. It was a small company, however, and they're competent - well, enough to be dangerous, anyway. But again, aside from what I put down on my 'prior inventions' page on the contract (which they simply threw out anyway, part of their coersion tactics), I never divulged any information to them on any algorithms I came up with on my own time, and I made a concsious (and successful) effort to not come up with anything new and useful while working for them.
As far as which grad school, I don't feel that I really need to go to a university with an extreme specialization in VR or graphics. The university I'm going back to has enough to make me happy; the department is small, but very diverse, but not so diverse that it's incredibly fragmented and spread thin. :)
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Technically I'm under a 1-year noncompete and 2-year IP ownership thing, which is part of how this company controls its employees; they made very strong implications when I was interviewing with them that there wasn't such an agreement, and of course, after spending a few thousand dollars to get my sorry self out here, they give me this very anti-freedom contract to sign - what was I going to do, say "I can't take this job" and be homeless/penniless? It wasn't an option, especially since I had dragged two of my friends out here with me. Fortunately, the contract is phrased in such a way that it's only really valid in Virginia, and if they ever try to take me to court, I'd have a very strong argument that they coerced me into signing it to begin with (which they did; when I was simply dumbfounded by the contract, the company president spent half an hour basically brainwashing me into thinking that the contract was for my good and not the company's - complete bullshit, of course). They also coerced me into taciturnly giving up potential rights to quite a few graphics-related algorithms I developed in college which would have been very useful for them. Fortunately I managed to avoid making it possible for them to claim I'd even thought about any of them at work, which I hadn't.
Regardless, I think going to grad school is right for me, and your response to my post was very helpful in solidifying that notion. Many thanks. :)
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A bachelor's is an undergraduate degree. A graduate degree depends on the field, but is generally called a master's or PhD. A polytechnic degree is usually called a technical or associate's degree.
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For the off-topic bit: I have come to realize that the industry isn't for me. Academia is where I belong. I'm not a mercenary programmer. So of course, after a few months of living relatively large (figuring I'd be gainfully employed for a long time) I'm having my world kinda crash down around me, financially anyway. It doesn't help at all that I incurred some debt in moving out here which I, very stupidly, put off paying back. All in all, I'd have about broken even for the whole experience were it not for the various tech toys I suddenly found myself able to buy... Even though I rationally know that grad school is best for me, and emotionally know it as well, it just doesn't help to have all you mercenary types rubbing my nose in what kinds of salary I'm giving up. :)
I've never been into computing and programming for the money, except for a brief period of time when I was graduating college and I got suckered into putting off my happiness for the promises of getting to keep doing the cool stuff while also making enough money to live very comfortably. Of course, those promises never panned out, and the company I got hired by turned out to be nothing more than a pair of two-bit swindlers doing whatever they could to control spineless employees who didn't know better and weren't at liberty to leave for a variety of reasons.
I need to give some advice to academic types who might be reading this thread: which do you prefer, money or happiness?
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Not to mention that although an SLI V2 setup has a decent fillrate, it completely lacks any sort of rendering quality and has none of the rendering features which have been in OpenGL for ages and are going to start showing up soon, such as stencil effects (VERY useful for shadows and CSG-based modelling, among other things). Do yourself a favor and get a TNT2 or G400 and free up two of your PCI slots and make your 3D less kludgy. :) (Yeah, I know, 3dfx cards are the only ones which can do 'decent' hardware 3D under Linux right now. It's changing quickly, and in the meantime, with a TNT or TNT 2 you can always run nVidia's unstable GLX driver, which really works quite well.)
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Unfortunately, DVD doesn't have enough resolution to really necessitate HDTV. Just get a good-quality SVHS-capable TV instead, or something which can accept component video if you're really finicky. My 35" Sony Trinitron has 900 lines of resolution, and DVDs fed to it through the SVHS jack are incredibly sharp. As a test of this, I hooked up both the SVHS and RCA inputs on my TV to my DVD player and put on the Ghostbusters menu screen (with the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man tromping through a rendered New York with the menu items on various buildings). By flipping between RCA and SVHS, I could see how incredible the difference was - SVHS was perfectly sharp, whereas RCA looked like a plain old VHS videotape. But regardless, SVHS can handle 600 lines of resolution (as evidenced by my LeadTek S320 putting out a perfectly-sharp Quake2 at 800x600 on said TV), and I believe DVD has something like 400 lines.
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Oil comes from where oil is, and where it's cost-effective to get it. Most of our oil comes from the OPEC nations, but a fair amount comes from Texas. However, other areas just don't have the amounts of oil deposits necessary to make it cost-effective to drill it. As far as your original assertion, most memory comes from Taiwan because that's where most of the manufacturers are. If someone felt that it would be cost-effective to set up a plant in, say, Mexico or Cuba or whatever, they would do it; however, the real world, particularly as it relates to economics, doesn't tend to favor redundancy.
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Ah, I know about that, but the poster didn't say "Palm upgraded with the PalmIII upgrade card." :) I wasn't aware that the upgrade card's range was better than the real deal's though. Interesting. Regardless, my PalmIII has 10-12 feet of range even when the batteries are as low as 30% (I've never tested it any lower though).
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(Just being silly.)
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That's a neat trick, having an IR beam as strong as the original Pilot, considering the Pilot had no IR port... :) My experience with OmniRemote on my PalmIII's built-in port is that I can control some of my devices from a good 12 feet away, depending on how sensitive the particular device is.
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It's kinda hard to do that when you spend maybe 6 hours total in the hack room. ;)
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Nope, the one at ALS was an actual single panel, and it looked to me like a plasma display. This is just 3 LCD panels tacked together in a rather cheesy way.
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Also, the key was only 40 bit. I'm surprised they didn't just brute-force it.
I wouldn't blame the coders of DeCSS. I'd blame DVD for using such an asininely stupid encryption scheme, where every DVD needs to have decryption keys for every registered player. That's just stupid... it means that if some new vendor comes onto the market, they need to use someone else's established decryption key just to play the current installed base of movies. And all it takes is a rogue person with the sacred knowledge releasing (on purpose or accidentally in the case of Xing) one of the decryption keys.
No, I'm not saying I can think of a better scheme. :) Go to the article about DeCSS for stuff like that. I just think it's quite an unfair light this author has put the coders in; he also makes it sound as though DVD->VCD conversion has been a rampant problem now, but didn't DeCSS just come out a few days ago? It seems that they've been confusing 'speculation' and 'fact.'
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God, I already see *enough* of Netscape wherever I turn... ;)
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You don't need artificially-induced focusing effects. The fact that the only part of your eye in-focus is the fovea is blurring enough.
As far as antialiasing: that's not really necessary either, except along the edges of objects. Within objects, mipmapping and bilinear/trilinear filtering take care of the other bits. (Mipmapping actually does a lot more for aliasing effects than filtering, btw.)
Motion blur is a sucky effect, too. It'd just eyecandy which would only get in the way in the case of a windowing system. THen again, Enlightenment has all that stuff for annoying (and slow) windows-flying-everywhere and the like which just makes your system slow.
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There was an article a few months ago on /. on a holographic LCD display which did that sort of thing. Probably easy enough to find with the search form, but I'm too lazy right now :)
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But anyway, I can see where he's coming from. If you have points at, say, 1,1,1,1,1 and 1,1,1,1,2 (assume 1=red, 2=green, 3=blue) then it'd be visible as a yellow point at 1,1,1 (assume it's a holographic display or something).
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I should know better than to feed the trolls, I really should.
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I was on-topic. I was writing my critique as I read the page. Sorry for reading the site. And I'm quite on-topic; I was ruminating about the site linked to.
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Wonder how much a stripped L1011 would go for...
I've never been in a 747. Those things are multi-story, right? That'd be ubercool.
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