I was there baby! Win 3.1 team in 1995 with Softmart in Madison. The only DOS support was there too. They ended up with 95, I did that too. We were good. Sykes and Kean's cust sat numbers sucked compared to ours...
I did phones, for a large software maker's new and legacy operating system. You might be familiar with them..This was back in the heady days of 1995 (get it 95?) I had 8 weeks of traiing on the products, 6 hours on phones, two hours off. Took between 15 and 30 calls per day. I can say that the experience was good. The management was very keen to keep the culture fun and customer statisfaction high.
The people who worked at Softmart Inc. formerly SPC Software's technical support call center, (Office Writer) Softmart purchased SPC's call center to provide helpdesk support for software customers. It soon became one of the leading outsourced partners for technical support.
For a brief time between 1993 and 1997 this organization and it's managers created one of the best call centers in the world and it was a fine organization to work for. We had loads of fun, learned a lot in my two years there I had over 8 weeks of 40 hour per week training.
We had mentors, knowlege exchanges, games, contests, KB's, smorgasboards, happyhours at nearby Babes...mmmm nachos and beer...full bennies and plenty of challenge and rubber band and nerf gun fights. And we helped a lot of people. I owe a lot to the experience I gained there. It was one of the funnest jobs I had.
When a company is run well by smart motivated people good things can happen. Unfortunately the division was sold by the folks back east and as usual the new owners turned the call center into a death march.
Each guitar has it's quirks. Depending on the intonation the "b" string on a guitar needs to be tuned manytimes slightly flat to allow chords to ring true.
The human ear has a problem with "b". Even though the tuner may say it is perfectly in tune a simple "D" chord will sound awful.
Compensating bridges make up for this intonation problem but it is still not exact.
Automatic tuners may look cool but will go the way of locking nuts. Remember those locking nuts and big ass whammy bars forced on us by Eddie VanHalen in the 80's?
Saw a warren miller ski movie at a theatre in Madison a few years ago that used a DVD and projector. They filled a huge screen (Larger than multiplexes). It looked great
You obviously haven't watched many movies on a DLP projector yet....
first: crap in crap out. The print used to do the digital mastering is very important. C
second control the environment: In controlled lighting (like most theatres) DLP projectors produce stunning images with rich blacks and excellent color. The screen used in projection make a huge impact on the contrast and picture sharpness.
Second! Digitally shot movies and animated movies like Finding Nemo, Monster's Inc and Final Fantasy are nothing short of breath taking when viewed on a DLP with a Farjouda Deinterlacing chipset.
How well the digital information is scaled to match the output format is critical.
After you have LOTR Two Towers on a 8' wide screen sitting 8' feet back in your own couch, with popcorn and a beer and a group of friends you will be won over.
CRT's for movies is dead. Large screen projection DLP is the way.
Rather than computer. I did try though...in a quest for superior picture quality. I assumed that the computer would provide a better picture quality than my non-progressive scan DVD using the onboard iDCD Farjuoda de-interlacer chip set in my InFocus X1 projector. I was wrong.
I did hook up my iBook to my MOTU 828 interface I use for music recording this was to get 5.1 audio out of the iBook. The MOTU has 24 bit decoders and optical out which went in nicely to the Sony amp.
Anyway....from studying deinterlacers and how exactly DVD's are played back, mastered and what the aspect ratios and frame rate of film I concluded the quality of the DVD image resides in 1. the mastering technique, i.e. Film to digital transfer method used
2. The quality of the print used in the mastering
3. And the sophistication of the de-interlacing.
Most progressive DVD players have deinterlacing chipsets that take the information from the DVD produce a progressive scan image. The quality and sophistication of these chipset varies greatly. Do some googles on "deinterlacing chipset". In addition they also provide proprietary functions to reduce and eliminate digital artifacts that are the result of image processing.
When I used my iBook to play back the image I did get a higher resolution image but it was harsh and very non-film like. The deinterlacer built into the projector is designed to produce a "film like" quality to the image. Taking great pains to reduce the rainbow effect and other artifacts like pixelation, jaggies and chroma abberations that result form the hardware and convertsion.
So keep in mind watching films on DVD's is a much different activity than watching HDTV. Film is an art is for the most part is still an analog process (barring the increasing number of digitally shot movies like 28 Days Later that was later converted to film)
So having seprately engineered components to produce the appropriate signal is inherently going to be better. A DVD player to watch movies, HDTV tuner to watch HDTV and a monitor capable of producing quality images from a variety of sources is the way to go.
That is if you are really picky about what hits the back of your eyeball.
lol...
your right I have no friends...
As for an opinion I disliked NG watched DSN occationally, saw Enterprise maybe 8 times. I guess I just lost interest in Star Trek...why?
Maybe the wierd times it's on or predictable storylines.
Star Trek lost its appeal when we were forced to endure Wesley Crusher...and Capt. Jayneway (sp):::puke:::
The only good SciFi/Fantasy now is found on DVD. Home Theatre, DLP front projection has helped me rediscover movies I have never seen a a big screen. Classics like Them, The Thing, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Altered States, 2001, Time Bandits and Extended Eds of LOTR...
Sitting in your own couch in comfort with a 7 foot wide screen, a beer, bowl of popcorn with your friends and family for a moive night what could be better....
Screw Television....and plasma or big screen TVs for that matter...
Software companies just call the forks alphas or betas or in Microsoft's case Windows 3.0, 3.1 Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, WIndows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000 etc...etc...etc...
SCO annouced SCO-L will be SCO legal representation. later that day SCO filed suit against SCO-L for software licsence violations.
Both SCO and SCO-L filed for Chapter 11 bankrupcy.
The legal firm of Dewey Cheatum and Howe are representing both SCO and SCO-L in banckrupcy proceedings.
from the legal team representing SCO. As long as he keeps getting his scratch he could care less as he bankrupts SCO with "manage via litigation" strategy.
I don't think I will move just yet. I would like too but $$ holding me back right now.
I have iBook 400 MHZ and have been stuck at 10.1.5 because I can't afford to pop the 129 bucks. My wife has a Ti G4 notebook and daughter has a iMac 350 Mhz. Both still on OS 9.
I have been happily using OS X to record music with a MOTU 828 interface, remotly administer Oracle dbs at work (HP and solaris hosts) from home using VNC, ssh and rdesktop after a VPN connection is established....AND
I have been publishing a skateboarding zine with digital photos using iPhoto with Photoshop and Quark running in classic mode. Plug into the network at work and print to the copier, scanner, laser printer combo to create copies of my zine.
I close the iBook it sleeps. I open it it wakes up. I think I rebooted it a few weeks ago.
I have a hard time justifying spending more money when I already have everything I need. (except a external 30 gig firewire drive)
Both seem pretty comfy. I can do what I need to at from home with OS X and I can also do all kinds of cool design, music recording and digital photography that I can't do on Linux.
OS X rocks. Linux Rocks.
I like them both equally. lets face it too. The coolest commerical apps are on Mac OS X right now.
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I was there baby! Win 3.1 team in 1995 with Softmart in Madison. The only DOS support was there too. They ended up with 95, I did that too. We were good. Sykes and Kean's cust sat numbers sucked compared to ours...
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I did phones, for a large software maker's new and legacy operating system. You might be familiar with them..This was back in the heady days of 1995 (get it 95?) I had 8 weeks of traiing on the products, 6 hours on phones, two hours off. Took between 15 and 30 calls per day. I can say that the experience was good. The management was very keen to keep the culture fun and customer statisfaction high.
The people who worked at Softmart Inc. formerly SPC Software's technical support call center, (Office Writer) Softmart purchased SPC's call center to provide helpdesk support for software customers. It soon became one of the leading outsourced partners for technical support.
For a brief time between 1993 and 1997 this organization and it's managers created one of the best call centers in the world and it was a fine organization to work for. We had loads of fun, learned a lot in my two years there I had over 8 weeks of 40 hour per week training.
We had mentors, knowlege exchanges, games, contests, KB's, smorgasboards, happyhours at nearby Babes...mmmm nachos and beer...full bennies and plenty of challenge and rubber band and nerf gun fights. And we helped a lot of people. I owe a lot to the experience I gained there. It was one of the funnest jobs I had.
When a company is run well by smart motivated people good things can happen. Unfortunately the division was sold by the folks back east and as usual the new owners turned the call center into a death march.
Typical.
Each guitar has it's quirks. Depending on the intonation the "b" string on a guitar needs to be tuned manytimes slightly flat to allow chords to ring true.
The human ear has a problem with "b". Even though the tuner may say it is perfectly in tune a simple "D" chord will sound awful.
Compensating bridges make up for this intonation problem but it is still not exact.
Automatic tuners may look cool but will go the way of locking nuts. Remember those locking nuts and big ass whammy bars forced on us by Eddie VanHalen in the 80's?
Saw a warren miller ski movie at a theatre in Madison a few years ago that used a DVD and projector. They filled a huge screen (Larger than multiplexes). It looked great
You obviously haven't watched many movies on a DLP projector yet.... first: crap in crap out. The print used to do the digital mastering is very important. C second control the environment: In controlled lighting (like most theatres) DLP projectors produce stunning images with rich blacks and excellent color. The screen used in projection make a huge impact on the contrast and picture sharpness. Second! Digitally shot movies and animated movies like Finding Nemo, Monster's Inc and Final Fantasy are nothing short of breath taking when viewed on a DLP with a Farjouda Deinterlacing chipset. How well the digital information is scaled to match the output format is critical. After you have LOTR Two Towers on a 8' wide screen sitting 8' feet back in your own couch, with popcorn and a beer and a group of friends you will be won over. CRT's for movies is dead. Large screen projection DLP is the way.
Rather than computer. I did try though...in a quest for superior picture quality. I assumed that the computer would provide a better picture quality than my non-progressive scan DVD using the onboard iDCD Farjuoda de-interlacer chip set in my InFocus X1 projector. I was wrong. I did hook up my iBook to my MOTU 828 interface I use for music recording this was to get 5.1 audio out of the iBook. The MOTU has 24 bit decoders and optical out which went in nicely to the Sony amp. Anyway....from studying deinterlacers and how exactly DVD's are played back, mastered and what the aspect ratios and frame rate of film I concluded the quality of the DVD image resides in 1. the mastering technique, i.e. Film to digital transfer method used 2. The quality of the print used in the mastering 3. And the sophistication of the de-interlacing. Most progressive DVD players have deinterlacing chipsets that take the information from the DVD produce a progressive scan image. The quality and sophistication of these chipset varies greatly. Do some googles on "deinterlacing chipset". In addition they also provide proprietary functions to reduce and eliminate digital artifacts that are the result of image processing. When I used my iBook to play back the image I did get a higher resolution image but it was harsh and very non-film like. The deinterlacer built into the projector is designed to produce a "film like" quality to the image. Taking great pains to reduce the rainbow effect and other artifacts like pixelation, jaggies and chroma abberations that result form the hardware and convertsion. So keep in mind watching films on DVD's is a much different activity than watching HDTV. Film is an art is for the most part is still an analog process (barring the increasing number of digitally shot movies like 28 Days Later that was later converted to film) So having seprately engineered components to produce the appropriate signal is inherently going to be better. A DVD player to watch movies, HDTV tuner to watch HDTV and a monitor capable of producing quality images from a variety of sources is the way to go. That is if you are really picky about what hits the back of your eyeball.
Rover photos and exlploding fruit...
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After all the RIAA, Patriot Act, SCO, Microsoft, Linux legal articles it is nice to relish in why we keep coming back to
Not since the highspeed CD-ROM spinning has there been something as geeky neat as this...
lol... your right I have no friends... As for an opinion I disliked NG watched DSN occationally, saw Enterprise maybe 8 times. I guess I just lost interest in Star Trek...why? Maybe the wierd times it's on or predictable storylines.
There are 70 people who have had this address in the last year....all are guilty....
color me stupid
in a muddy pen, in the rain.... Now that would be the worst....
Wallpaper has never been the same since the Hubble...
Star Trek lost its appeal when we were forced to endure Wesley Crusher...and Capt. Jayneway (sp) :::puke:::
The only good SciFi/Fantasy now is found on DVD. Home Theatre, DLP front projection has helped me rediscover movies I have never seen a a big screen. Classics like Them, The Thing, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Altered States, 2001, Time Bandits and Extended Eds of LOTR...
Sitting in your own couch in comfort with a 7 foot wide screen, a beer, bowl of popcorn with your friends and family for a moive night what could be better....
Screw Television....and plasma or big screen TVs for that matter...
YahYahYahYAH...yes It is about time for us mentally gifted in flaven to be in the zoibenar.
Software companies just call the forks alphas or betas or in Microsoft's case Windows 3.0, 3.1 Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, WIndows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000 etc...etc...etc...
Buffer overruns and a few lines of vb script and you've got a couple million cars emailing each other until they just freeze up. Cool.
SCO annouced SCO-L will be SCO legal representation. later that day SCO filed suit against SCO-L for software licsence violations. Both SCO and SCO-L filed for Chapter 11 bankrupcy. The legal firm of Dewey Cheatum and Howe are representing both SCO and SCO-L in banckrupcy proceedings.
Hey....I detect some stealth marketing going on here.... Knock it off!
Fills up with bubbles then sinks....fills up with bubbles then sinks... I ordered one of those subs from Haunted Tank comic book... "Negative Jeb..."
from the legal team representing SCO. As long as he keeps getting his scratch he could care less as he bankrupts SCO with "manage via litigation" strategy.
I don't think I will move just yet. I would like too but $$ holding me back right now. I have iBook 400 MHZ and have been stuck at 10.1.5 because I can't afford to pop the 129 bucks. My wife has a Ti G4 notebook and daughter has a iMac 350 Mhz. Both still on OS 9. I have been happily using OS X to record music with a MOTU 828 interface, remotly administer Oracle dbs at work (HP and solaris hosts) from home using VNC, ssh and rdesktop after a VPN connection is established....AND I have been publishing a skateboarding zine with digital photos using iPhoto with Photoshop and Quark running in classic mode. Plug into the network at work and print to the copier, scanner, laser printer combo to create copies of my zine. I close the iBook it sleeps. I open it it wakes up. I think I rebooted it a few weeks ago. I have a hard time justifying spending more money when I already have everything I need. (except a external 30 gig firewire drive)
You need to close your tag with Sheesh....nothing worse than sarcastic syntax errors
Both seem pretty comfy. I can do what I need to at from home with OS X and I can also do all kinds of cool design, music recording and digital photography that I can't do on Linux. OS X rocks. Linux Rocks. I like them both equally. lets face it too. The coolest commerical apps are on Mac OS X right now.
face wreck ignition
They're Grrrrrrrrrreat! FREE RIAA lawsuit inside!