I used to hit up all the BBS's to get the latest CGI demos. My friends and I would look at a great ray-trace of a chrome ball and remark "how realistic", "graphics are really getting cool", etc. That one movie about the kid and the video game and the spaceships was all about cgi, and we wondered at the time and effort it took to do it. Etc.
Roll forward 20-30 years and it all looks pretty dated. Especially when it's done to a movie made today. I definitely support the trend. When I can't tell is when I think it's done best.
Mad Max astounded me with the real-action stuntwork. I can still see some of the scenes in my mind's eye...live action, beautifully done.
People can always tell (lookup "uncanny valley")(nvrmnd, preaching to the choir here). F'rinstance, I've yet to see *any* movie replicate a scene of a person walking on the moon realistically. I have seen excellent reproductions of free fall, though, through a combo of good editing and rides in the Vomit Comet.
On the first Christmas of WW1, troops came out of the trenches en masse on both sides and shared an observance. The following Christmases, most of them just kept on shooting.
Some people are sickened; some are hardened.
And in this case, all were generals that gave specific orders that banned the practice. In their nice, warm chateaus, miles from the front.
Agree that a proper implementation of Agile - meaning a balanced approach where the product owner and business plan the backlog (thus supporting all user requests), and the dev team agrees on how much work they will do in a given sprint. Both sides must be empowered: the biz to prioritize items and developers to decide which of those will be completed in the next few weeks.
Like an architect and a general contractor. This is a solved problem in other fields.
If you have more than 4 hours of meetings per week on average then you are wasting valuable time on meetings. In most cases you can actually decline a meeting call without ill effects. Another trick is to schedule work time as meetings so that in your calendar you look busy with other meetings when people try to book you into a meeting.
Wisdom. I've used the 2nd trick for awhile, just started using the first one (unless boss says that I must be there). Boss is not the type to hold useless meetings, thank goodness. I've had bosses who were constant droning talking heads at constant meetings. I apply the appropriate part of my brain for those: the stem.
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It's a rare medium that's done well.
I used to hit up all the BBS's to get the latest CGI demos. My friends and I would look at a great ray-trace of a chrome ball and remark "how realistic", "graphics are really getting cool", etc. That one movie about the kid and the video game and the spaceships was all about cgi, and we wondered at the time and effort it took to do it. Etc.
Roll forward 20-30 years and it all looks pretty dated. Especially when it's done to a movie made today. I definitely support the trend. When I can't tell is when I think it's done best.
Mad Max astounded me with the real-action stuntwork. I can still see some of the scenes in my mind's eye...live action, beautifully done.
People can always tell (lookup "uncanny valley")(nvrmnd, preaching to the choir here). F'rinstance, I've yet to see *any* movie replicate a scene of a person walking on the moon realistically. I have seen excellent reproductions of free fall, though, through a combo of good editing and rides in the Vomit Comet.
Warning: link sends you to goatse. Not a problem for me, of course, as I use systemd with a hosts file.
On the first Christmas of WW1, troops came out of the trenches en masse on both sides and shared an observance. The following Christmases, most of them just kept on shooting.
Some people are sickened; some are hardened.
And in this case, all were generals that gave specific orders that banned the practice. In their nice, warm chateaus, miles from the front.
You know, it's just like how Apollo 1 was partially successful because no one in Mission Control got killed in the fire...
No. Not like that. Not like that at all.
Why not land into a giant spider web??!!
...or a Cat's Cradle...
Look for a 1953 Oldsmobile powered by a Hellfire rocket motor on the next episode of Cuban Chrome.
With the guidance fins welded to the rear-end. Sweet!
Surely you can't be serious.
Where is your god now?
In a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
"reading, puzzle solving, posting intelligently"
So, a lot like reading /. Reading, of course; puzzle solving such as "what does TFS have to do with the article?"; posting intellige...
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Hah! I didn't catch this the first time. Kudos to the OP.
It will plateau when the software is obsolete and on the decline.
Agree that a proper implementation of Agile - meaning a balanced approach where the product owner and business plan the backlog (thus supporting all user requests), and the dev team agrees on how much work they will do in a given sprint. Both sides must be empowered: the biz to prioritize items and developers to decide which of those will be completed in the next few weeks.
Like an architect and a general contractor. This is a solved problem in other fields.
No worries. As a wise man writing a different article summary today, "This is might sound wonders".
Woof. One thing that's needed on the entertubz is a thick skin, huh?
A variation of "It's always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission."
If you have more than 4 hours of meetings per week on average then you are wasting valuable time on meetings. In most cases you can actually decline a meeting call without ill effects. Another trick is to schedule work time as meetings so that in your calendar you look busy with other meetings when people try to book you into a meeting.
Wisdom. I've used the 2nd trick for awhile, just started using the first one (unless boss says that I must be there). Boss is not the type to hold useless meetings, thank goodness. I've had bosses who were constant droning talking heads at constant meetings. I apply the appropriate part of my brain for those: the stem.
Things would go so much better if people would quit whining and tow the line. Else we all loose.
TL;DR: Kids these days.
'Nuff said.
well played
1 no sentence caps
2 use 3 dots instead of any other punctuation
3 drop your pronouns
and 4 spelling of coarse
u win teh inet 2day.
Sorry, didn't have time to read your post, but I did want to say "nice sig".
Yah. It's like Yoda wrote TFS. "This is might sound wonders" indeed.
Now Disney can make an animated movie of it.
"SPRINGtime... for HITler... and GEEeeermanyyyyyyyyyy! WINter, for POLand... and FraaAAAaaance!"
I can just see a singing goat. Goering will be the hog, Himmler the weasel...hey, wait a minute! Haven't I seen this one before?
...all running their own little software ecosystems full of "exclusive" titles?
Yes. Until VR sets are more of a commodity. Pretty much like any other new genre of product, I expect.