This is somewhat off-topic, but I have a good friend here in Seattle that recently walked away from the Real-Mac dev team. After years of frustration, she simply told me "sorry, Real will never be stable on OS X. They simply don't care." Unfortunately, she now works for that company in Redmond, but at least it's within the MacBU walls...
Some enterprising souls have already jammed this thing into After Effects and applied their own lightsabre effects and lava-planet backgrounds. Pretty cool. There are some great discussions of this over at www.theforce.net.
Holy crap this is a big deal. This dude was the figurehead up here in Redmond. I have no idea what this means or what the details are, but wow, now what?
That comes down to economics and the marketing savvy of the people in charge at Cornice. They can either make an exclusive deal for X-millions of units for Apple only at $70/unit, or they can say yeah, you'll get the first 2 million at $50/unit but after that we can sell them to anybody (i.e. your competitors). Either way they win, but we'll find out in 2 months just what kind of deal was made.
"If we get good enough at these, I'd love to have a rover to drive all over just to find all the missing missions.
"
In 50 years, we'll have the grand "failed missions" tour with a roundabout hovercraft (so's not to disturb the soil) hussling tourists to each site to show the debris of our early attempts at invading this planet. If I were rich, I'd secure this niche and make a pretty penny, maybe even use the proceeds to work on that terraforming plant I've always dreamed of...
If you've ever been to Cerritos, you'd know just how bad that warm smell is. All the smog and reek of L.A. blows east to Cerritos, Azusa, Glendora, stankville et al. I shudder at the memories...
hmm. smells like re-election politics to me. "keep me in office, and I will return us to the moon within my second regime... er, term as your president..."
...not only will it probably come preloaded with spyware...
Okay, I RTFA, and I still have to ask, what spyware is preloaded with Dell systems? Was this part added for emphasis? FUD? I hate Dell more than Diablo (I'm a Mac user), but let's keep things honest here.
I think this is a great idea. I hadn't seriously considered it before, and I'm suffering the consequences of giving my clients my home number. There's nothing like an idiot roomate answering the phone whilst stoned out of his gourd when you're expecting that huge conference call that can make or break the job. Yeah, I'm doing it for monetary reasons right now, but thanks for reminding me that I'd probably get, and keep, more clients by zoning the communications a bit.
I'm doing this same thing, but from the graphic design perspective. It's hard, and it leads to bad situations if you've got roomates (especially if they have normal jobs). The hermit lifestyle will conflict with others who are used to leaving the house every morning.
Here's what I do:
First of all, always normalize your sleep schedule as if you still had an office job. Get up at 6 or 7, make your coffee, and fill up your non-working hours with little productive chores. DON'T TAKE NAPS! You don't nap at the office, so even if you have zero clients for the week and you're zoning off by 3pm, don't succumb to the sleep sickness. It'll really mess you up when you need to suddenly shift to a busy schedule. Fill that time with some self-promotion, or artistic endeavors, or just cleaning the apartment. Hell, I've been reading a lot of books lately just to fill the day.
Try to find a balance between home hours and on-site hours. Hard to do, and this is all dependent on your clientelle, but once in a while you'll land that client that really wants you around their office for instant changes or quick feedback. This can be a lifesaver for human contact; it forces you out of the house, and you actually have to remember what it's like to look other humans in the eye and play their game.
And finally, consider grabbing a small office away from the home. This is once again dependent on your steady flow of income, and can hurt you if you take an entire month without any incoming cash-flow. Try to sub-lease from a company that is somewhat within your field. Rent could be cheaper, and you can land free internet and phone as part of the deal. One potential advantage is that company will probably come to you first for quick jobs since you're right there, so this really helps out for both parties.
Good luck, this kind of situation can really challenge one's psychology. But I enjoy freelancing so much that it'll be a long while before I consider another fulltime job.
Here's the best part: The green text near the end (Longhorn) was all done on a Mac (AfterEffects), and all of the compositing was done with Unix (SGI Onyx/Inferno). Sorry, no Linux was used.
Every conference/keynote/partner meeting, MS does some kind of spoof like this. Whatever movie (or even commercial) is popular at the time usually gets spoofed. This is a cheerleading video, usually for internal eyes only, so it's not like MS is using this in their next ad campaign. We've seen Gates and Balmer dressed up as Jedi, as Austin Powers, you name it. Even Billie Mays, that corny Oxi-Clean dude, was hired for a spoof spot. It's really not that big of deal, unless of course it gets leaked to the public and we all get to make fun of it. Laugh, it's (albeit bad) satire.
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"Which rhymes with Catch 22"
Anybody want a peanut?
This is somewhat off-topic, but I have a good friend here in Seattle that recently walked away from the Real-Mac dev team. After years of frustration, she simply told me "sorry, Real will never be stable on OS X. They simply don't care." Unfortunately, she now works for that company in Redmond, but at least it's within the MacBU walls...
Yes, Cantwell blows the big one.
Some enterprising souls have already jammed this thing into After Effects and applied their own lightsabre effects and lava-planet backgrounds. Pretty cool. There are some great discussions of this over at www.theforce.net.
Ween - LMLYP live, back in 96 or 97. It took me two weeks to find an MP3 player that worked on my old Mac 7100 running system 7.6.
I third the motion. Let's get an "Ask JPL" article going.
Your translation refers to a third of the MS mid-management that has left from year two (after IPO). What would you do?
see: Oki, Simonyi, three hundred others...
Holy crap this is a big deal. This dude was the figurehead up here in Redmond. I have no idea what this means or what the details are, but wow, now what?
One cheerleader down...
Small rocks?
That comes down to economics and the marketing savvy of the people in charge at Cornice. They can either make an exclusive deal for X-millions of units for Apple only at $70/unit, or they can say yeah, you'll get the first 2 million at $50/unit but after that we can sell them to anybody (i.e. your competitors). Either way they win, but we'll find out in 2 months just what kind of deal was made.
What the fuck does that mean?
"If we get good enough at these, I'd love to have a rover to drive all over just to find all the missing missions. "
In 50 years, we'll have the grand "failed missions" tour with a roundabout hovercraft (so's not to disturb the soil) hussling tourists to each site to show the debris of our early attempts at invading this planet. If I were rich, I'd secure this niche and make a pretty penny, maybe even use the proceeds to work on that terraforming plant I've always dreamed of...
I think we just /.ed Mars...
"...that we know of."
dum dum dahhhhh!
Sorry, I pictured the music cueing and a quick snap-zoom to your concerned face as we fade to commercial... gave me the chills there.
heh heh. oh come on, why aren't the good ones ever modded up? dry witty humor, Wheaty's post has it all. Thanks for the chuckle.
Warm smell of Cerritos,
If you've ever been to Cerritos, you'd know just how bad that warm smell is. All the smog and reek of L.A. blows east to Cerritos, Azusa, Glendora, stankville et al. I shudder at the memories...
que?
"...put nuclear engines on the moon"
It's "nukular". And you must pronounce "to" as "t..." or "tah" for short. God bless 'merican powers of enunciation...
hmm. smells like re-election politics to me. "keep me in office, and I will return us to the moon within my second regime... er, term as your president..."
...not only will it probably come preloaded with spyware...
Okay, I RTFA, and I still have to ask, what spyware is preloaded with Dell systems? Was this part added for emphasis? FUD? I hate Dell more than Diablo (I'm a Mac user), but let's keep things honest here.
Also, have three (yes, THREE) phone lines:
I think this is a great idea. I hadn't seriously considered it before, and I'm suffering the consequences of giving my clients my home number. There's nothing like an idiot roomate answering the phone whilst stoned out of his gourd when you're expecting that huge conference call that can make or break the job. Yeah, I'm doing it for monetary reasons right now, but thanks for reminding me that I'd probably get, and keep, more clients by zoning the communications a bit.
I'm doing this same thing, but from the graphic design perspective. It's hard, and it leads to bad situations if you've got roomates (especially if they have normal jobs). The hermit lifestyle will conflict with others who are used to leaving the house every morning.
Here's what I do:
First of all, always normalize your sleep schedule as if you still had an office job. Get up at 6 or 7, make your coffee, and fill up your non-working hours with little productive chores. DON'T TAKE NAPS! You don't nap at the office, so even if you have zero clients for the week and you're zoning off by 3pm, don't succumb to the sleep sickness. It'll really mess you up when you need to suddenly shift to a busy schedule. Fill that time with some self-promotion, or artistic endeavors, or just cleaning the apartment. Hell, I've been reading a lot of books lately just to fill the day.
Try to find a balance between home hours and on-site hours. Hard to do, and this is all dependent on your clientelle, but once in a while you'll land that client that really wants you around their office for instant changes or quick feedback. This can be a lifesaver for human contact; it forces you out of the house, and you actually have to remember what it's like to look other humans in the eye and play their game.
And finally, consider grabbing a small office away from the home. This is once again dependent on your steady flow of income, and can hurt you if you take an entire month without any incoming cash-flow. Try to sub-lease from a company that is somewhat within your field. Rent could be cheaper, and you can land free internet and phone as part of the deal. One potential advantage is that company will probably come to you first for quick jobs since you're right there, so this really helps out for both parties.
Good luck, this kind of situation can really challenge one's psychology. But I enjoy freelancing so much that it'll be a long while before I consider another fulltime job.
Here's the best part: The green text near the end (Longhorn) was all done on a Mac (AfterEffects), and all of the compositing was done with Unix (SGI Onyx/Inferno). Sorry, no Linux was used.
Every conference/keynote/partner meeting, MS does some kind of spoof like this. Whatever movie (or even commercial) is popular at the time usually gets spoofed. This is a cheerleading video, usually for internal eyes only, so it's not like MS is using this in their next ad campaign.
We've seen Gates and Balmer dressed up as Jedi, as Austin Powers, you name it. Even Billie Mays, that corny Oxi-Clean dude, was hired for a spoof spot. It's really not that big of deal, unless of course it gets leaked to the public and we all get to make fun of it. Laugh, it's (albeit bad) satire.
Hey! Those photos were meant for my physician's eyes only! Give them back!
um, nevermind, move along.
Muhammed, shoot me an email at brian at liverpops dot net, regarding Discovery stuff. Thanks, sorry about the off-topic communique.