I too often face customers pissed off with the fact that their retail-bought laptops with (in the past) XP Home and (more recently) Vista Home Premium can't be connected to SBS domains without very expensive upgrades, and the added insult that equivalent "business" laptops cost $300 for the same features as "personal" laptops. This is causing some of them to buy other systems (mostly Mac laptops, by the way).
But I'm also pissed off that my cell phone provider offers me three "alternative plans" that all have some kind of "gotcha" that results in some unreasonable excess charge, and that my satellite TV provider somehow can't give me the channel mix I want for a reasonable price, because I can only get channels A, E and Q if I get B, C, D and P as well.
It is, plain and simple, gouging -- a.k.a. "charging what the market will bear".
The version numbers have been very consistent through the years, as has always been reported by ver at the command prompt.
The line of Windows that ran on top of MS-DOS was a different product with different version numbering (3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME). Windows NT uses the following version numbering:
1.0: initial release (useless) 2.0: second release (nearly useless -- competitor to IBM's OS/2) 3.0: first useful release 3.5: beginning to be pretty useful, actually 4.0: NT4 5.0: Windows 2000 6.0: XP 6.1: Vista 7.0: Windows 7
At least I think that's all correct....
PS: note that Vista wasn't even considered a major release!
I know everyone here thinks they should offer Windows free -- or just disappear from the universe -- but if you were them, how would you structure your pricing?
We all know the same code base can run anything from a simple (i.e. "starter") PC running Wordpad, Outlook Express and Firefox to an enterprise server running AD on 32 cores managing thousands of workstations.
Would you (as a "for-profit" company) price the former at $1,000? Or the latter at $100?
What other alternatives do they have for a pricing structure?
*&^*(%(&*)!!!!! -- pressed "submit" before making my point...
Hello World is not getting simpler over time, it's getting more complicated.
Compare it in Fortran vs. PHP or BASIC vs. Java at http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm/ (hello world in 421 languages).
Headers? In COBOL? You're dreaming in Technicolor...
Now listen: you got your DIVISIONS, you see, and you got your SECTIONS. Inside those you've got your mostly totally arcane stuff that need to be parsed completely differently depending on where you are, the compiler version, the day of the week and the phase of the moon.
And if you get excited and leave out the period following 'DATA DIVISION', does the compiler assume a period? Of course not! It goes right on trying to interpret everything thereafter as a valid 'ENVIRONMENT DIVISION" statement, thus generating (on huge 15,000LPM line printers) endless useless pages for the kids to draw on.
And then it reaches 'PROCEDURE DIVISION.", prints a final error saying "MISSING DATA DIVISION", and stops.
Fucking COBOL....
PS: where do I apply for the job of fixing more broken COBOL programs?
We at the StereoLab in the National Film Board of Canada have an infrastructure set up specifically to manage a number of simultaneous 3D productions, several in "Large Format" (i.e. Imax) resolutions and the rest in various HD and 35mm formats. It's been to make over a dozen 3D digital films in the last few years or so.
In practice we use about an equal mix of internal data server drives, SAN, NAS, and a pool of bare drives with a stack of empty shells. Often people drop a drive in a shell and attach it (via eSATA, FW800 or USB in that order of preference) to whatever machine they need it on, because it reduces network load. This technique works especially well for intermediate data that is output, reinput, and then discarded.
The reference you quote does make it clear, but you've drawn the wrong conclusion:
> 5.6K: 5616x4096; A full 5.6K was actually...
> 8K: 8192x6144; approximately....
Thus 8K is 8192 pixels wide (not lines per frame) and 6144 pixels high. We commonly also use 2K's (2048 x 1501), 4K's (4096 x 3002), etc.
Also note that the digital professional cinema (not HDTV) industry (the world of DCI) also always uses image width rather than height to define resolutions (2K = 2048 x 1080, 4K = 4096 x 2160).
[/me = Technical Director on several digital 3D Imax films back through the late '90's -- these Hollywood guys are just now discovering stuff the rest of us have known for ages]
FWIW, IMAX has had a proprietary system like this for creating 3D stereoscopic animation since the mid-90's. It's called SANDDE (Stereo ANimation Drawing DEvice and has been used in various 3D animated films including Paint Misbehavin', Cyberworld, Falling In Love Again and Moonman. Sandde can draw individual still images but, as a tool for creating animation, is even better at creating long sequences of similar drawings using either onion-skinning or sophisticated in-betweening techniques. It is also currently used extensively in the Stereo Lab of the National Film Board of Canada and is licenced to other IMAX film production companies for projects they are working on.
Fair disclosure: I have been the project manager on SANDDE since 1993, so I am hardly impartial.
The court order (linked to previously as a.pdf) specifically notes that the parties agreed to hear this particular case in French. Therefore it seems reasonable all subsequent documentation is in French.
The incandescent bulb's "wasted" 70-80% of energy is only truly wasted in seasons when (and places where) you aren't heating your house. In heating seasons, they are 100% efficient: 20-30% light output, 70-80% heat, thus reducing the use of your heating system.
Think of them as small space heaters with the added feature of lighting your house.
Paul Hellyer was born in 1923 and has a history of jumping parties and even forming breakaway splinter parties when the mood took him.
The "article" -- which as others have pointed out, is really a press release -- seems to deliberately muddle some mainstream speechs about the weaponization of space and the ballistic missile defense shield with some cockamamy stuff about aliens and moonbases.
I bet the UFO nuts are delighted that the mainstream media bit on this one.
Looking for aliens is only one of the 20 or so projects that are currently running under the management of BOINC. You can proportion your cycles in any mix you choose, and, as BOINC is open source, create your own public or private research projects to the mix.
According to a reply following TFA, they put the credit card number on the card so that you can use the card in the hotel stores. That way they don't have to go to the trouble of integrating the hotel and retail billing systems, but they can appear to be a sophisticated and integrated operation.
The lightweight polarized glasses are used in theaters that use two projectors, each with a polarizing filter over the lens.
The article is talking about a different approach, usually called "alternate-eye" or "active stereo" where the movie is shown on a single projector at 96 frames/sec, and the glasses black out to prevent one eye seeing frames intended for the other. These glasses contain electronics and LCD filters; they are quite a bit bulkier and heavier than the polarized glasses, which are basically similar to sunglasses.
Unfortunately even that approach (using a seconds counter) isn't sufficient as a completely rigorous solution.
Specifically, whatever function would convert absolute seconds to a date will not be reliable for dates in the far future. This is because leap seconds are inserted somewhat unpredictably, and thus there will wind up being a small offset between the computed second on which the date changes (i.e. midnight) and the actual one.
The result -- that some second->date conversions will be wrong by one day -- will be unimportant in most applications, but perhaps fatal in others.
The Stereoscopic Player (at http://mitglied.lycos.de/stereo3d/) and the StereoMovie Player (at http://www3.zero.ad.jp/esuto/stvply/indexe.htm) both support lots of 3D output formats, including most (if not all of the autostereoscopic ones this article is about).
Now interesting content is another question altogether...
It went down several days ago when the Baystar news came out.
It's going up today (perhaps) because Baystar has just clarified their position to say they might leave the money in if SCO gave up any pretense of being in the software business and replaced their top management with people who are better in legal fights./me thinks Baystar knew all along what SCO was planning to do.
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I too often face customers pissed off with the fact that their retail-bought laptops with (in the past) XP Home and (more recently) Vista Home Premium can't be connected to SBS domains without very expensive upgrades, and the added insult that equivalent "business" laptops cost $300 for the same features as "personal" laptops. This is causing some of them to buy other systems (mostly Mac laptops, by the way).
But I'm also pissed off that my cell phone provider offers me three "alternative plans" that all have some kind of "gotcha" that results in some unreasonable excess charge, and that my satellite TV provider somehow can't give me the channel mix I want for a reasonable price, because I can only get channels A, E and Q if I get B, C, D and P as well.
It is, plain and simple, gouging -- a.k.a. "charging what the market will bear".
Shall we start a revolution?
Arghhhh.... wrong again:
It's XP that was the .1 release, not Vista. Thus:
5.0 Windows 2000
5.1 XP
6.0 Vista
Mea culpa...
Not true.
The version numbers have been very consistent through the years, as has always been reported by ver at the command prompt.
The line of Windows that ran on top of MS-DOS was a different product with different version numbering (3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME). Windows NT uses the following version numbering:
1.0: initial release (useless)
2.0: second release (nearly useless -- competitor to IBM's OS/2)
3.0: first useful release
3.5: beginning to be pretty useful, actually
4.0: NT4
5.0: Windows 2000
6.0: XP
6.1: Vista
7.0: Windows 7
At least I think that's all correct....
PS: note that Vista wasn't even considered a major release!
I know everyone here thinks they should offer Windows free -- or just disappear from the universe -- but if you were them, how would you structure your pricing?
We all know the same code base can run anything from a simple (i.e. "starter") PC running Wordpad, Outlook Express and Firefox to an enterprise server running AD on 32 cores managing thousands of workstations.
Would you (as a "for-profit" company) price the former at $1,000? Or the latter at $100?
What other alternatives do they have for a pricing structure?
*&^*(%(&*)!!!!! -- pressed "submit" before making my point... Hello World is not getting simpler over time, it's getting more complicated. Compare it in Fortran vs. PHP or BASIC vs. Java at http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm/ (hello world in 421 languages).
"Much better to give them code samples of your hello_world.c so they can laugh about how stuff was hard in the past."
From the desktop BASIC processor in my 1974 Math lab:
>10 print "Hello World"
>run
Hello World
>
>this is soooo fucking homosexual...
>cmdrdildo is a bitch
Sounds like you could be in for a good time tonight.
(I know, I shouldn't fall for these trolls, but I couldn't resist.)
Headers? In COBOL? You're dreaming in Technicolor...
Now listen: you got your DIVISIONS, you see, and you got your SECTIONS. Inside those you've got your mostly totally arcane stuff that need to be parsed completely differently depending on where you are, the compiler version, the day of the week and the phase of the moon.
And if you get excited and leave out the period following 'DATA DIVISION', does the compiler assume a period? Of course not! It goes right on trying to interpret everything thereafter as a valid 'ENVIRONMENT DIVISION" statement, thus generating (on huge 15,000LPM line printers) endless useless pages for the kids to draw on.
And then it reaches 'PROCEDURE DIVISION.", prints a final error saying "MISSING DATA DIVISION", and stops.
Fucking COBOL....
PS: where do I apply for the job of fixing more broken COBOL programs?
We at the StereoLab in the National Film Board of Canada have an infrastructure set up specifically to manage a number of simultaneous 3D productions, several in "Large Format" (i.e. Imax) resolutions and the rest in various HD and 35mm formats. It's been to make over a dozen 3D digital films in the last few years or so.
In practice we use about an equal mix of internal data server drives, SAN, NAS, and a pool of bare drives with a stack of empty shells. Often people drop a drive in a shell and attach it (via eSATA, FW800 or USB in that order of preference) to whatever machine they need it on, because it reduces network load. This technique works especially well for intermediate data that is output, reinput, and then discarded.
Ack!
Cancel that...
It's a 2D movie, not 3D. So it's just 24fps x running time in seconds, the rest being outtakes, redos, pre-compositing layers, etc.
Actually, 24fps x 2 eyes (i.e. one left eye image, one right) x running time in seconds. The remainder will be outtakes, redos, etc.
The reference you quote does make it clear, but you've drawn the wrong conclusion:
> 5.6K: 5616x4096; A full 5.6K was actually...
> 8K: 8192x6144; approximately ....
Thus 8K is 8192 pixels wide (not lines per frame) and 6144 pixels high. We commonly also use 2K's (2048 x 1501), 4K's (4096 x 3002), etc.
Also note that the digital professional cinema (not HDTV) industry (the world of DCI) also always uses image width rather than height to define resolutions (2K = 2048 x 1080, 4K = 4096 x 2160).
[/me = Technical Director on several digital 3D Imax films back through the late '90's -- these Hollywood guys are just now discovering stuff the rest of us have known for ages]
was just made public, ... The House vote is tomorrow, June 20.
How come you guys keep touting what a wonderful country you live in if the government can get away with this kind of stuff?
This kind of crap is more reminiscent of the old East Germany or Romania than anything the founding fathers had in mind.
FWIW, IMAX has had a proprietary system like this for creating 3D stereoscopic animation since the mid-90's. It's called SANDDE (Stereo ANimation Drawing DEvice and has been used in various 3D animated films including Paint Misbehavin', Cyberworld, Falling In Love Again and Moonman. Sandde can draw individual still images but, as a tool for creating animation, is even better at creating long sequences of similar drawings using either onion-skinning or sophisticated in-betweening techniques. It is also currently used extensively in the Stereo Lab of the National Film Board of Canada and is licenced to other IMAX film production companies for projects they are working on.
Fair disclosure: I have been the project manager on SANDDE since 1993, so I am hardly impartial.
The court order (linked to previously as a .pdf) specifically notes that the parties agreed to hear this particular case in French. Therefore it seems reasonable all subsequent documentation is in French.
You leave out one other point:
The incandescent bulb's "wasted" 70-80% of energy is only truly wasted in seasons when (and places where) you aren't heating your house. In heating seasons, they are 100% efficient: 20-30% light output, 70-80% heat, thus reducing the use of your heating system.
Think of them as small space heaters with the added feature of lighting your house.
Paul Hellyer was born in 1923 and has a history of jumping parties and even forming breakaway splinter parties when the mood took him.
The "article" -- which as others have pointed out, is really a press release -- seems to deliberately muddle some mainstream speechs about the weaponization of space and the ballistic missile defense shield with some cockamamy stuff about aliens and moonbases.
I bet the UFO nuts are delighted that the mainstream media bit on this one.
Looking for aliens is only one of the 20 or so projects that are currently running under the management of BOINC. You can proportion your cycles in any mix you choose, and, as BOINC is open source, create your own public or private research projects to the mix.
According to a reply following TFA, they put the credit card number on the card so that you can use the card in the hotel stores. That way they don't have to go to the trouble of integrating the hotel and retail billing systems, but they can appear to be a sophisticated and integrated operation.
Yes, apparently you did.
Today they announced on Montreal radio that an emergency response team of 30 Red Cross members is leaving tomorrow for New Orleans.
Of course, whether or not Montreal is a part of Canada depends on your political persuasion.
The lightweight polarized glasses are used in theaters that use two projectors, each with a polarizing filter over the lens.
The article is talking about a different approach, usually called "alternate-eye" or "active stereo" where the movie is shown on a single projector at 96 frames/sec, and the glasses black out to prevent one eye seeing frames intended for the other. These glasses contain electronics and LCD filters; they are quite a bit bulkier and heavier than the polarized glasses, which are basically similar to sunglasses.
Unfortunately even that approach (using a seconds counter) isn't sufficient as a completely rigorous solution.
Specifically, whatever function would convert absolute seconds to a date will not be reliable for dates in the far future. This is because leap seconds are inserted somewhat unpredictably, and thus there will wind up being a small offset between the computed second on which the date changes (i.e. midnight) and the actual one.
The result -- that some second->date conversions will be wrong by one day -- will be unimportant in most applications, but perhaps fatal in others.
or tigerdirect.ca
The Stereoscopic Player (at http://mitglied.lycos.de/stereo3d/) and the StereoMovie Player (at http://www3.zero.ad.jp/esuto/stvply/indexe.htm) both support lots of 3D output formats, including most (if not all of the autostereoscopic ones this article is about).
Now interesting content is another question altogether...
It went down several days ago when the Baystar news came out.
/me thinks Baystar knew all along what SCO was planning to do.
It's going up today (perhaps) because Baystar has just clarified their position to say they might leave the money in if SCO gave up any pretense of being in the software business and replaced their top management with people who are better in legal fights.