For some of the larger schools, you're looking at 2,000 kids, and you want a minimum of four to six good photos of each kid. 2,000 times 4 is 8,000 photos.
The only way to handle that amount of pictures is to shoot tethered. That is, directly into an attached computer. Most pro-bodies can do this and You can get wireless kits (wifi) to get rid of the cable.
Easy there. A good deal of the fieldbuses in use these days are actually open standards. Especially the successful ones.
Ethernet/IP and BACnet are good examples. I have participated in some of this standards work myself and You don't even need an invite!
That's fairly open IMNSHO.
I do find it puzzling why You would want a null modem cable for CANopen since it runs on EIA-485 (also know as RS-485).
In a studio or other arranged settings it's pretty standard to use multiple lighting sources. So this tool will mainly be usefull for outdoor settings. If it's up-close and personal then it's also very common to use lights or other tools outside. Sooo this tool should be used with moderation.
First of all the announced throughput is a best case figure. You'll never see it in actual use. Inside steel and concrete buildings you're certainly not going to see those figures. It all depends on the radio reception. The speed also depends (at lest with GPRS over UMTS and EDGE/GSM) on the number of active users on a particular cell.
Second, even if the throughput is ok the latency really sucks. It takes a while from you request a web page and until it actually starts flowing in.
I've worked on this tech for a number of years and it's not nearly as good as marketing wants you to believe.
It may not have been obvious in my original post but there are two parties who needs to wise up. The ones who gets punished harshly (and quite visibly) is management. They get into a lot of hot water when cost and schedule spirals out of control due to their dick'ing around. The sourcing partner makes this stuff painfully visible.
That the local developers gets 'inspired' a bit is a secondary effect. It's not like their job is in danger since we're hiring like crazy. It's mostly management who's in hot water now and needs to wise up fast. This is poetic since they were the ones who started this outsourcing business.
I might be pompous but I sure as hell can spot both immature practices (by the organization) and developers who needs to get out of the 80's. I get solid CMMI 5 stuff from the sourcing partner. Some of our own stuff looks pretty pathetic in comparison.
I learned that offshore outsourcing isn't to bad after all. It's actually quite an asset.
It has a disciplining effect on the entire organization since the punishment for immaturity is harsh and tangible.
An additional benefit is that it has a rather sobering effect on local know-it-all's when they see that their work is in fact inferior to what we can get from a third world sourcing partner. After this sort of ego bruising they are more ready to accept modern and mature practices.
So far the biggest problem is with airport disks.
The support is a bit wonky.
In addition Apple have pulled support for time machine on airport disks in the last minute. Big stinker. It's bad enough that Aperture can't use airport disks for vaults...
But then the question becomes: how does one go about making Hydrogen from water? At this point the answer is based soundly in the same thermodynamics that condemns us all to a second stone age: LOTS AND LOTS of energy, my friend, meaning hydrogen solves nothing.
Hydrogen power is the environmentally friendly codeword for nuclear power.
It's a hoax and the greens are eating it up. Face it, it's just a fancy battery.
Personally I think nukes are the way to go so I don't complain... much.
But are there any good ones? Not all encoders are the same, and last I checked libfaac kinda sucked.
And ? The stuff's already encoded. The real question is: Does libfaad suck ? Can we decode the stuff and play around with it afterwards.
Please, just don't suggest transcoding lossy compression schemes. It's just off the table.
Completely with You there. I just can't fathom why anybody would want mp3's over aac's. The only thing better is the raw wav file
but that's not on the table so far...
This is a great first step but I'd still need to convert the music in MP3 before I can do anything with it. The format is still locked to the Ipod, which is entirely the problem!
Hey the 90's called. They want their format (mp3) back.
Seriously, AAC is so much better than mp3 that it isn't even funny. Get with the program. There are several free/open AAC implementations. If you don't like your 256kbit AAC then you can easily transcode to whatever you want since it's DRM free.
I also used to love HP and have done a lot of great work with the guys at TID in Grenoble but things have been going a lot downhill the last five years. I hope something can be salvaged after the witch is gone.
It's a north germanic language and not really a hard one at that. So understanding it isn't that hard.
But their cooking (chief jokes apart) is terrible.
IMHO the way to deal with it is to accept it and make it part of your process.
Since you're talking about in-house development and small to medium sized projects
I'll recommend an agile, itterative method. Make a small incremantal release every
other week and get your requirements from the user feed-back.
At the end of the day, users are unable to express what they what they want. They
only knows that they have a problem situation and that they want a piece of software
that makes all their problems go away.
No oath when I graduated in Denmark. They just set us lose on a defenseless world. Now I wish there had been an oath. Instead I support the IEEE code of conduct.
Latecomers like you don't understand how good it used to be. My first Linux distro was Yggdrasil, 1994'ish. It installed fine, it autodetected video, audio, etc. It was clean and easy, no silly questions, no technical knowledge was needed, and the machine restarted with graphics and sound. I was shocked and horrified when I tried other Linux distros a year or two later. Only recently have we returned to this point.
As far as I remember X11 was totally out of the question at the time UNLESS
you happened to have an ET4000 graphics card. As for auto detection, I want
some of what you're smoking mate. It was the pits...
For any semi-pro work in this space, You'll have a dedicated development host (read PC)
that runs EXACTLY the Linux distro that was supplied for (and together with) the SDK. Time
is just to short to dick around and customize for 17 different linux distro's.
Case in point: I recently picked up an ARM5 development kit from Arcom.
http://www.arcom.com/entry-level-devkit-linux-vipe r.htm and it came with a
Fedora Core 5 DVD and an SDK for core 5. So I slapped the whole thing on an empty PC
and was ready to rumble in an hour or two. I didn't even update the core 5 install
(behind firewall etc.) in order make certain that the SDK was an exact fit.
That's (unfortunately) how You do it on a linux host. Otherwise You can take Your chances
with the hell of CygWin and Windoze.
My point is: Chose one distro, ship it together with Your kit and make absolutely sure
that it works 100%.
For what it's worth, I think Linux blows chunks as an embedded RTOS. It's too damn big
and the real-time performance just isn't there. Go with http://ecos.sourceware.org/
(free), VxWorks or QNX.
It makes me wonder what the heck they were thinking. It was an incredible risk to assume that the source of his illness would never be found. Polonium in that quantity is nearly impossible to get ahold of, and absolutely screams "spies did it!" They couldn't have left a louder calling card if they had tried.
Perhaps they wanted to be found out. Spread the word that if You fsck with us then we'll get You and it's going to be unplesant... FUD on an entirely different level than we are used to.
Power politics at it's best.
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Accenture is sufficient for a major fuckup. Been there done that and have the scars to prove it.
So I basically gave up and don't care any more if they lose data or get fucked by the prosecutor.
This works for the short term but in the end it eats you up. You'll be labeled a constant complainer, become bitter, isolated and stuck in a dead end job. Just get out of there.
If people are willing to listen to you, or respect your technical expertise (our Linux system) it's relatively easy going. If they don't, don't waste your time. Let them have a very bad awakening one day (after all, you tried to explain...)
This goes for more than just Linux expertise. It's a fundamental requirement for a decent job. I just ditched a comfy telco developer job for a senior consultant position. I'm going to be working more than twice as hard but it won't be for a bunch of retards.
Wake up and smell the coffee. The grass is greener elsewhere.
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For some of the larger schools, you're looking at 2,000 kids, and you want a minimum of four to six good photos of each kid. 2,000 times 4 is 8,000 photos.
The only way to handle that amount of pictures is to shoot tethered. That is, directly into an attached computer. Most pro-bodies can do this and You can get wireless kits (wifi) to get rid of the cable.
Happy shooting
I do find it puzzling why You would want a null modem cable for CANopen since it runs on EIA-485 (also know as RS-485).
Everyone and his dog does Java these days. Including 100.000 guys in India.
Be smart and find something new, cool and on the rise.
Informative mod if I ever saw one ;-)
In a studio or other arranged settings it's pretty standard to use multiple lighting sources. So this tool will mainly be usefull for outdoor settings. If it's up-close and personal then it's also very common to use lights or other tools outside. Sooo this tool should be used with moderation.
First of all the announced throughput is a best case figure. You'll never see it in actual use. Inside steel and concrete buildings you're certainly not going to see those figures. It all depends on the radio reception. The speed also depends (at lest with GPRS over UMTS and EDGE/GSM) on the number of active users on a particular cell.
Second, even if the throughput is ok the latency really sucks. It takes a while from you request a web page and until it actually starts flowing in. I've worked on this tech for a number of years and it's not nearly as good as marketing wants you to believe.
That the local developers gets 'inspired' a bit is a secondary effect. It's not like their job is in danger since we're hiring like crazy. It's mostly management who's in hot water now and needs to wise up fast. This is poetic since they were the ones who started this outsourcing business.
I might be pompous but I sure as hell can spot both immature practices (by the organization) and developers who needs to get out of the 80's. I get solid CMMI 5 stuff from the sourcing partner. Some of our own stuff looks pretty pathetic in comparison.
It has a disciplining effect on the entire organization since the punishment for immaturity is harsh and tangible.
An additional benefit is that it has a rather sobering effect on local know-it-all's when they see that their work is in fact inferior to what we can get from a third world sourcing partner. After this sort of ego bruising they are more ready to accept modern and mature practices.
Who the fuck thinks that's off topic? It's Leopards support for airport disks that sux ...
In addition Apple have pulled support for time machine on airport disks in the last minute. Big stinker. It's bad enough that Aperture can't use airport disks for vaults...
Hydrogen power is the environmentally friendly codeword for nuclear power. It's a hoax and the greens are eating it up. Face it, it's just a fancy battery.
Personally I think nukes are the way to go so I don't complain ... much.
Quite a few of us have been wondering when we'll be 'liberated'. I guess the hour is close now ;-)
(Disclaimer: Dane is in Denmark)
And ? The stuff's already encoded. The real question is: Does libfaad suck ? Can we decode the stuff and play around with it afterwards.
Please, just don't suggest transcoding lossy compression schemes. It's just off the table.
Completely with You there. I just can't fathom why anybody would want mp3's over aac's. The only thing better is the raw wav file but that's not on the table so far...
Hey the 90's called. They want their format (mp3) back.
Seriously, AAC is so much better than mp3 that it isn't even funny. Get with the program. There are several free/open AAC implementations. If you don't like your 256kbit AAC then you can easily transcode to whatever you want since it's DRM free.
It's a north germanic language and not really a hard one at that. So understanding it isn't that hard. But their cooking (chief jokes apart) is terrible.
IMHO the way to deal with it is to accept it and make it part of your process. Since you're talking about in-house development and small to medium sized projects I'll recommend an agile, itterative method. Make a small incremantal release every other week and get your requirements from the user feed-back.
At the end of the day, users are unable to express what they what they want. They only knows that they have a problem situation and that they want a piece of software that makes all their problems go away.
No oath when I graduated in Denmark. They just set us lose on a defenseless world. Now I wish there had been an oath. Instead I support the IEEE code of conduct.
As far as I remember X11 was totally out of the question at the time UNLESS you happened to have an ET4000 graphics card. As for auto detection, I want some of what you're smoking mate. It was the pits ...
For any semi-pro work in this space, You'll have a dedicated development host (read PC) that runs EXACTLY the Linux distro that was supplied for (and together with) the SDK. Time is just to short to dick around and customize for 17 different linux distro's.
Case in point: I recently picked up an ARM5 development kit from Arcom. http://www.arcom.com/entry-level-devkit-linux-vipe r.htm and it came with a
Fedora Core 5 DVD and an SDK for core 5. So I slapped the whole thing on an empty PC
and was ready to rumble in an hour or two. I didn't even update the core 5 install
(behind firewall etc.) in order make certain that the SDK was an exact fit.
That's (unfortunately) how You do it on a linux host. Otherwise You can take Your chances with the hell of CygWin and Windoze.
My point is: Chose one distro, ship it together with Your kit and make absolutely sure that it works 100%.
For what it's worth, I think Linux blows chunks as an embedded RTOS. It's too damn big and the real-time performance just isn't there. Go with http://ecos.sourceware.org/ (free), VxWorks or QNX.
Perhaps they wanted to be found out. Spread the word that if You fsck with us then we'll get You and it's going to be unplesant ... FUD on an entirely different level than we are used to.
Power politics at it's best.
Accenture is sufficient for a major fuckup. Been there done that and have the scars to prove it.
For extra credit, have the biggest moron define requirements (mutually exclusive) and scope (for fixed resources and deadline).
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So I basically gave up and don't care any more if they lose data or get fucked by the prosecutor.
This works for the short term but in the end it eats you up. You'll be labeled a constant complainer, become bitter, isolated and stuck in a dead end job. Just get out of there.
If people are willing to listen to you, or respect your technical expertise (our Linux system) it's relatively easy going. If they don't, don't waste your time. Let them have a very bad awakening one day (after all, you tried to explain ...)
This goes for more than just Linux expertise. It's a fundamental requirement for a decent job. I just ditched a comfy telco developer job for a senior consultant position. I'm going to be working more than twice as hard but it won't be for a bunch of retards.
Wake up and smell the coffee. The grass is greener elsewhere.