Well, in 14 years when all the patents expire everyone else will be able to make generic versions and it'll take off. Or did you expect them to do a bunch of research for free?
Which part of won't take off did you not understand? In 14 years how relevant will a niche technology be?
There are other ways to compensate entities for the research. Mandatory royalties WITHOUT control of who may or may not use it for instance. But no, lets continue the decline we're on instead.
How about getting out of your comfort zone. Get your resume up to date. Have people review it for readability. Start looking for a new job.
I think he'd rather come up with a name like bigsexyjoe then publicly pile shit on his employer in an identifiable manner. Because clearly the number one way to get employed as a programmer is to whine about your inability to deal with "manipulative jerks" and tell everyone that you "don't care about the product I create. I don't enjoy coding anymore."
I mean for !#$@ sake, even if people were willing to take the risk that you'd trash them (most employers won't if you are trashing your former employer!) you are making it blatently clear that you have no drive or initiative and aren't a team player. No wonder this guy's stuck in a job where he can't add to his resume. He sounds like the sort of guy you try to work around rather than with. Grow the @#$! up dude!
How did you manage to go through the entire post - commentary included - and not mention it's direct competitor? We discuss apple vs microsoft on a daily basis, but when it comes to games, we won't compare them to their peers? Despite being released 2 weeks apart?
The story was pure slashvertising. Why would they mention the competition?
This is all depressingly familiar. I've made comments very similar to the parent's and received a similar barrage of weirdly hostile, obscenity-laced responses. He happens to be correct. Those who disagree just never learned how to use a computer. LaTeX is great. Word processors suck. And the last time I edited some video, I did it from the command line.
Well you can think what you want, but your words are typical of the arrogance I see all the time. You think it is so, therefore it must be so.
Word processors do not suck - they allow you to focus on both presentation and content at the same time. The LaTeX way of working insists that you separate these two things. To be honest it seems people who prefer it don't know how to multi-task well. There is a reason that word processors have taken off and LaTeX is obscure outside academia. It is awkward and cumbersome to use, requires a complex understanding of the underlying structure of your document, and makes things that are graphically easy to do into a mental challenge.
Likewise, you are in the minority when it comes to video editing. I'm not sure what kind of video editing you were doing that was command line based. MOST high end complex editing for film, TV etc. is done in a visual environment.
Command line manipulation makes almost no sense for visual manipulation. But if you're talking about mathematical transforms or executing a sequence of commands, it shines.
The incredibly stupid thing about this entire argument is that there is no reason you can't have BOTH. You can build a manipulation engine that takes text commands and then build a good graphical interface on top of it, then allow the user to interface with the tools as they choose. Good examples are spreadsheets and graphics software that include macro recorders. A user can do all the grunt work visually, producing a script which he can then manipulate and tweak as text. Additional actions can again be recorded and the scripts combined. One reason Photoshop excels over GIMP is that while both can be scripted, Photoshop has a macro recorder built into it. Despite the MS ties, Excel is extremely powerful if you learn to use it like that. Looking up the commands to move to the end of the spreadsheet when you can just use the visual action is just idiotic.
There are some comments here that say that this is nothing but advertising for Ryanair. Well, it worked: I didn't know about their existence before now. And if the airline ever comes to Australia I'm going to avoid them, because I don't want to be stuck next to a person watching offensive material on their handheld.
Yeah here in Aus we have QANTAS. So much better, isn't it:(
But action movies with violence, blood, heavy drug use and other such things are much more better than watching someone making love?
Most normal people don't masturbate to violence, blood and heavy drug use. Most people use porn (which is about sex not making love) to masturbate. So you suddenly have the possibility of a slightly intoxicated idiot losing some of his inhibitions and pulling out his todger on the flight.
Think about it: When is the last time you watched porn in company? Would you feel comfortable doing that with strangers? In a public place? On transport...that's what we're talking about here!
Might be useful in niche markets such as film & television. Polaroids were often used to ensure continuity between takes and after breaks - take a picture of the actor before stopping and use it as a comparison point when it's time to get going again. Could use digital but this would just be easier.
A nice cheap 42" TV screen is going to be quicker, cheaper and more effective as it will highlight every flaw in the before picture nicely. You can get something suitable for $400 in Australia. I imagine much cheaper in the US.
At present the stuff isn't cheap and either due to limited market or patents on the paper technology, no generic compatibles appear to exist...
Nor are they likely to....
http://www.zink.com/how-zink-works "ZINK was developed over several years and has generated an IP portfolio that includes over 100 patents and patents pending"
There's more on the page about patents and registered trademarks than the tech itself. Tell me again how IP law encourages creativity? This will be tied up for decades, which won't allow it to take off.
I have mod points but I've already posted on this thread. I think you're 100% right and can't believe that the insanity that has been going on for the last decade is still defended.
Case in point: I'm about to throw Firefox out of my frequently used software collection. Just sick of crap changes like awful bar, extensions breaking and things getting hidden that you need glitchy extensions to re-enable. I liked having http:/// at the front of my URLs thanks. I don't like having my history shown to all and sundry. Does my boss need to know I've been to the Sydney Morning Herald site because I type 'S' in a search window? Why remove the option to go back to a sane URL bar. Why does it take 6 months for the Venkeman Javascript Debugger to be restored to working order after a release? Why does printing not work (printing that flows over 1 page is clipped and that bug has been around literally for years!)? Why do we still have memory leaks and other issues while these changes are being made? (Developer's solution: Blame the extensions, even though they designed the extension framework to allow any such problems)
The perfect UI for 90% of all use cases has existed for decades
I love command line tools, use unix utils and vi often and know some emacs, but that is complete horse shit. Command line utils are great for non-visual things. I do not like command line for composing documents (and LaTeX is the perfect example of the kind of SUCK you get trying), nor would I like to create 3D models. It can be done of course, but it's the wrong tool.
What you are saying is akin to a craftsman saying hand tools have existed for millenia and so power tools suck. It's just gibberish, and you need to grow up and learn to use the best tool available for each job.
The Nightwatch were clearly modelled on the Hitler Youth/Gestapo and McCarthyism. It was historical, not prescient, though JMS was aware that history could repeat. The first reference is straight from the mouth of the creator JMS.
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/044.html "jms speaks.... There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies of the people.
The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively is that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just there, and only once, *we* could never fall for that."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwatch_(Babylon_5) "In the Babylon 5 science fiction universe, Nightwatch was an Earth Alliance paramilitary organization set up during the Presidency of Morgan Clark. Like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, Nightwatch became the secret police organization of Clark's New Order."
Similarly the Centauri Empire was obviously modelled upon the Roman Empire. Lots of other parallels with Earth history. Sheridan has been described as Christ like (dying then coming back from the dead)....
Why not? Lasseter (who DID the technical work) credited him with making Pixar what it was. Without Jobs, they'd still be doing contract work and/or shorts. In fact, Jobs was the one who said it was OK to produce shorts. More than likely, they would have been out of business.
It's called blowing smoke up your bosses arse. Telling your boss he's irrelevant is not a good idea. Biting the hand that feeds etc. If he hadn't done it another company would have taken off with computer animation, perhaps even with some of the same employees. At the very worst it would have taken a few years more. People were never going to stop animating because Jobs wasn't around with a pay cheque.
What other influence forced the music industry to make and keep $0.99 songs? They were trying to push individual songs up to $2.99. Jobs put his foot down on the price. It was either that, or the pirates would run loose again.
...which would have forced the price down. Ultimately the threat of piracy is what is keeping the price reasonable...assuming you even agree that $1/song is reasonable.
Exactly. Without Steve Jobs keeping it afloat, Pixar would have gone out of business.
I'm pretty sure those employees wouldn't have just all suddenly become manual labourers. That talent would have gone elsewhere. Would it have pooled? Perhaps. Or perhaps a different company would have come along a little later with different ideas as the computing power became available. I don't think there would have been a computer animation vacuum for long at all.
All this news about Steve Jobs is getting rather boring and repetitive.
I turned to the discovery channel today and they had a special on Steve Jobs. They credited him with making Pixar the great success it was even though he did non of the technical work. They credited him with single handedly forcing the music industry to adopt $1/song pricing. They stopped just short of crediting him with inventing the mp3 player. I'm surprised at that restraint - I thought they were going to credit him for inventing oxygen and water! Mikio Kaku, both the Mythbusters, and lots of other guests who may or may not have met jobs crediting him with genius, while all the people that did the actual innovation don't get a mention. It's sickening to anyone with a modicum of respect for the truth and credit where it's due.
To quote or not to quote, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of being corrected by AC Or to lay seige against a sea of quotes and thus opposed to use them.
Interesting. A cusory Google search suggests AC is right and the quote is often misattributed to Shakespeare but was written by Browning. I stand corrected, excise me while I wipe the egg off my face.
Oh, no doubt, I could've learned the lesson of anger and hatred from my parents, the way Hillary seemed to learn from her parents. It would've been almost too easy. But I made a conscious choice to forgive my parents, and to respond to their anger and hatred with love and compassion. My children don't get beat, they get disciplined with appropriate restrictions and stern lectures - both of which, by the way, have been very effective in teaching proper behavior.
I broke the cycle of anger. Hillary didn't.
Assuming you're telling the truth, good for you! You and your family will be the ones to benefit from this.
But Hilary has cerebral palsy to deal with. You do not. I don't know enough about how she is affected to tell you if it has affected her ability to understand and choose her morality.
Gotta agree with the AC - I've been beat before, and while it looked like this man was putting his heart into it, he looked like an out of shape skinny punk compared to the whippings I got as a child. When a beating was finished in my household, the crying didn't stop for 30 minutes, and you'd be lucky if you weren't limping afterwards. If the video had shown her inconsolable for 20 minutes after the beating, hardly able to move because of the pain, I'd be more inclined to feel some sympathy for her.
This is one repeated pattern I see in a lot of people who claim they were beaten as a child and it did them no harm. They are incapable of sympathy/empathy and are far more desensitised to violence than any video game player who gets a bit too far into it. You have been harmed, but you seem to see or admit it.
As it was, she had a dick father, and a dick mother, but as soon as they got out of the room, she was cool as a cucumber, walking around like the beating was nothing to her.
Now be clear, even if you're a wimp with a belt and can't give a 16 year old enough of a smack down to keep them crying for 30 minutes, you shouldn't be beating your kid - it's stupid and unproductive. But this was definitely "gotcha" videography on the part of the kid. The whole family is rotten, and frankly, I'm most appalled by the mother - the fact that she was cool with it as an observer (although I think she got one lick in too) was chilling.
She is the product of that upbringing. With that kind of example set for the child, do you expect her to grow up and being a wonderful person? It takes a remarkable amount of determination and reflection for a person coming out of that sort of home not to be completely messed up, and we are talking about a girl with a mental disability here. Blaming her and calling her rotten too is WAY over the top.
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Well, in 14 years when all the patents expire everyone else will be able to make generic versions and it'll take off. Or did you expect them to do a bunch of research for free?
Which part of won't take off did you not understand? In 14 years how relevant will a niche technology be?
There are other ways to compensate entities for the research. Mandatory royalties WITHOUT control of who may or may not use it for instance. But no, lets continue the decline we're on instead.
How about getting out of your comfort zone. Get your resume up to date. Have people review it for readability. Start looking for a new job.
I think he'd rather come up with a name like bigsexyjoe then publicly pile shit on his employer in an identifiable manner. Because clearly the number one way to get employed as a programmer is to whine about your inability to deal with "manipulative jerks" and tell everyone that you "don't care about the product I create. I don't enjoy coding anymore."
I mean for !#$@ sake, even if people were willing to take the risk that you'd trash them (most employers won't if you are trashing your former employer!) you are making it blatently clear that you have no drive or initiative and aren't a team player. No wonder this guy's stuck in a job where he can't add to his resume. He sounds like the sort of guy you try to work around rather than with. Grow the @#$! up dude!
A well educated citizen should know at least a little about Impressionist paintings, and at least a little about Fourier transforms.
Most arts students I've met wouldn't know a fourier transform from an aardvark!
How did you manage to go through the entire post - commentary included - and not mention it's direct competitor? We discuss apple vs microsoft on a daily basis, but when it comes to games, we won't compare them to their peers? Despite being released 2 weeks apart?
The story was pure slashvertising. Why would they mention the competition?
This is all depressingly familiar. I've made comments very similar to the parent's and received a similar barrage of weirdly hostile, obscenity-laced responses. He happens to be correct. Those who disagree just never learned how to use a computer. LaTeX is great. Word processors suck. And the last time I edited some video, I did it from the command line.
Well you can think what you want, but your words are typical of the arrogance I see all the time. You think it is so, therefore it must be so.
Word processors do not suck - they allow you to focus on both presentation and content at the same time. The LaTeX way of working insists that you separate these two things. To be honest it seems people who prefer it don't know how to multi-task well. There is a reason that word processors have taken off and LaTeX is obscure outside academia. It is awkward and cumbersome to use, requires a complex understanding of the underlying structure of your document, and makes things that are graphically easy to do into a mental challenge.
Likewise, you are in the minority when it comes to video editing. I'm not sure what kind of video editing you were doing that was command line based. MOST high end complex editing for film, TV etc. is done in a visual environment.
Command line manipulation makes almost no sense for visual manipulation. But if you're talking about mathematical transforms or executing a sequence of commands, it shines.
The incredibly stupid thing about this entire argument is that there is no reason you can't have BOTH. You can build a manipulation engine that takes text commands and then build a good graphical interface on top of it, then allow the user to interface with the tools as they choose. Good examples are spreadsheets and graphics software that include macro recorders. A user can do all the grunt work visually, producing a script which he can then manipulate and tweak as text. Additional actions can again be recorded and the scripts combined. One reason Photoshop excels over GIMP is that while both can be scripted, Photoshop has a macro recorder built into it. Despite the MS ties, Excel is extremely powerful if you learn to use it like that. Looking up the commands to move to the end of the spreadsheet when you can just use the visual action is just idiotic.
There are some comments here that say that this is nothing but advertising for Ryanair. Well, it worked: I didn't know about their existence before now. And if the airline ever comes to Australia I'm going to avoid them, because I don't want to be stuck next to a person watching offensive material on their handheld.
Yeah here in Aus we have QANTAS. So much better, isn't it:(
But action movies with violence, blood, heavy drug use and other such things are much more better than watching someone making love?
Most normal people don't masturbate to violence, blood and heavy drug use. Most people use porn (which is about sex not making love) to masturbate. So you suddenly have the possibility of a slightly intoxicated idiot losing some of his inhibitions and pulling out his todger on the flight.
Think about it: When is the last time you watched porn in company? Would you feel comfortable doing that with strangers? In a public place? On transport...that's what we're talking about here!
Firefox 4.04
I don't care what it's called.
It has AWFUL Bar, which requires extensions to (partially) turn it off.
It still can't print a long page without truncating unless you hack it.
I'm sick of Mozilla's bullshit and very close to ditching the browser.
Guachi...
I hate people from Guachi, Costa Rica. Every single one of them I've met are racists! :P~~~
2 people agree the another is an ass. What is the news?
It is when those people represent hundreds of millions.
Heck it's news when a film star or rock star is caught backstabbing another, why wouldn't it be news when it is world leaders???
Might be useful in niche markets such as film & television. Polaroids were often used to ensure continuity between takes and after breaks - take a picture of the actor before stopping and use it as a comparison point when it's time to get going again. Could use digital but this would just be easier.
A nice cheap 42" TV screen is going to be quicker, cheaper and more effective as it will highlight every flaw in the before picture nicely. You can get something suitable for $400 in Australia. I imagine much cheaper in the US.
At present the stuff isn't cheap and either due to limited market or patents on the paper technology, no generic compatibles appear to exist...
Nor are they likely to....
http://www.zink.com/how-zink-works
"ZINK was developed over several years and has generated an IP portfolio that includes over 100 patents and patents pending"
There's more on the page about patents and registered trademarks than the tech itself. Tell me again how IP law encourages creativity? This will be tied up for decades, which won't allow it to take off.
I have mod points but I've already posted on this thread. I think you're 100% right and can't believe that the insanity that has been going on for the last decade is still defended.
Case in point: I'm about to throw Firefox out of my frequently used software collection. Just sick of crap changes like awful bar, extensions breaking and things getting hidden that you need glitchy extensions to re-enable. I liked having http:/// at the front of my URLs thanks. I don't like having my history shown to all and sundry. Does my boss need to know I've been to the Sydney Morning Herald site because I type 'S' in a search window? Why remove the option to go back to a sane URL bar. Why does it take 6 months for the Venkeman Javascript Debugger to be restored to working order after a release? Why does printing not work (printing that flows over 1 page is clipped and that bug has been around literally for years!)? Why do we still have memory leaks and other issues while these changes are being made? (Developer's solution: Blame the extensions, even though they designed the extension framework to allow any such problems)
The perfect UI for 90% of all use cases has existed for decades
I love command line tools, use unix utils and vi often and know some emacs, but that is complete horse shit. Command line utils are great for non-visual things. I do not like command line for composing documents (and LaTeX is the perfect example of the kind of SUCK you get trying), nor would I like to create 3D models. It can be done of course, but it's the wrong tool.
What you are saying is akin to a craftsman saying hand tools have existed for millenia and so power tools suck. It's just gibberish, and you need to grow up and learn to use the best tool available for each job.
The Nightwatch were clearly modelled on the Hitler Youth/Gestapo and McCarthyism. It was historical, not prescient, though JMS was aware that history could repeat. The first reference is straight from the mouth of the creator JMS.
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/044.html ....
"jms speaks
There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies of the people.
The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively is that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just there, and only once, *we* could never fall for that."
Wrong.
http://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/babylon-5-in-the-shadow-of-zhadum-1995/
"Series creator J. Michael Straczynski conceived of the series in the late 1980s and got it on air in the 1990s. He drew on history–in this case, from the Third Reich–think of Night Watch as similar to the Hitler Youth."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwatch_(Babylon_5)
"In the Babylon 5 science fiction universe, Nightwatch was an Earth Alliance paramilitary organization set up during the Presidency of Morgan Clark. Like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, Nightwatch became the secret police organization of Clark's New Order."
Similarly the Centauri Empire was obviously modelled upon the Roman Empire. Lots of other parallels with Earth history. Sheridan has been described as Christ like (dying then coming back from the dead)....
Why not? Lasseter (who DID the technical work) credited him with making Pixar what it was. Without Jobs, they'd still be doing contract work and/or shorts. In fact, Jobs was the one who said it was OK to produce shorts. More than likely, they would have been out of business.
It's called blowing smoke up your bosses arse. Telling your boss he's irrelevant is not a good idea. Biting the hand that feeds etc. If he hadn't done it another company would have taken off with computer animation, perhaps even with some of the same employees. At the very worst it would have taken a few years more. People were never going to stop animating because Jobs wasn't around with a pay cheque.
What other influence forced the music industry to make and keep $0.99 songs? They were trying to push individual songs up to $2.99. Jobs put his foot down on the price. It was either that, or the pirates would run loose again.
...which would have forced the price down. Ultimately the threat of piracy is what is keeping the price reasonable...assuming you even agree that $1/song is reasonable.
Exactly. Without Steve Jobs keeping it afloat, Pixar would have gone out of business.
I'm pretty sure those employees wouldn't have just all suddenly become manual labourers. That talent would have gone elsewhere. Would it have pooled? Perhaps. Or perhaps a different company would have come along a little later with different ideas as the computing power became available. I don't think there would have been a computer animation vacuum for long at all.
Apple stores show it in solo booths with tissue dispensers
The tissues have rounded corners and cost $2 each.
All this news about Steve Jobs is getting rather boring and repetitive.
I turned to the discovery channel today and they had a special on Steve Jobs. They credited him with making Pixar the great success it was even though he did non of the technical work. They credited him with single handedly forcing the music industry to adopt $1/song pricing. They stopped just short of crediting him with inventing the mp3 player. I'm surprised at that restraint - I thought they were going to credit him for inventing oxygen and water! Mikio Kaku, both the Mythbusters, and lots of other guests who may or may not have met jobs crediting him with genius, while all the people that did the actual innovation don't get a mention. It's sickening to anyone with a modicum of respect for the truth and credit where it's due.
Alas, poor Syousef! I knew him, AC.
To quote or not to quote, that is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of being corrected by AC
Or to lay seige against a sea of quotes and thus opposed to use them.
I'll try a different quote....Twain this time...
Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/368850.html
Interesting. A cusory Google search suggests AC is right and the quote is often misattributed to Shakespeare but was written by Browning. I stand corrected, excise me while I wipe the egg off my face.
Look at it this way, this is physical abuse, and imo sexual molestation of a young woman.
What he did wasn't sexual as far as I could tell, but it was still reprehensible and harmful.
Oh, no doubt, I could've learned the lesson of anger and hatred from my parents, the way Hillary seemed to learn from her parents. It would've been almost too easy. But I made a conscious choice to forgive my parents, and to respond to their anger and hatred with love and compassion. My children don't get beat, they get disciplined with appropriate restrictions and stern lectures - both of which, by the way, have been very effective in teaching proper behavior.
I broke the cycle of anger. Hillary didn't.
Assuming you're telling the truth, good for you! You and your family will be the ones to benefit from this.
But Hilary has cerebral palsy to deal with. You do not. I don't know enough about how she is affected to tell you if it has affected her ability to understand and choose her morality.
Gotta agree with the AC - I've been beat before, and while it looked like this man was putting his heart into it, he looked like an out of shape skinny punk compared to the whippings I got as a child. When a beating was finished in my household, the crying didn't stop for 30 minutes, and you'd be lucky if you weren't limping afterwards. If the video had shown her inconsolable for 20 minutes after the beating, hardly able to move because of the pain, I'd be more inclined to feel some sympathy for her.
This is one repeated pattern I see in a lot of people who claim they were beaten as a child and it did them no harm. They are incapable of sympathy/empathy and are far more desensitised to violence than any video game player who gets a bit too far into it. You have been harmed, but you seem to see or admit it.
As it was, she had a dick father, and a dick mother, but as soon as they got out of the room, she was cool as a cucumber, walking around like the beating was nothing to her.
Now be clear, even if you're a wimp with a belt and can't give a 16 year old enough of a smack down to keep them crying for 30 minutes, you shouldn't be beating your kid - it's stupid and unproductive. But this was definitely "gotcha" videography on the part of the kid. The whole family is rotten, and frankly, I'm most appalled by the mother - the fact that she was cool with it as an observer (although I think she got one lick in too) was chilling.
She is the product of that upbringing. With that kind of example set for the child, do you expect her to grow up and being a wonderful person? It takes a remarkable amount of determination and reflection for a person coming out of that sort of home not to be completely messed up, and we are talking about a girl with a mental disability here. Blaming her and calling her rotten too is WAY over the top.