Well it runs everything I need, photoshop, maya, shake, Illustrator...I'm going to assume it also runs those apps very, very fast. Which is what I want.
Orbital power! The "500-foot-wide" path of destruction is not a realistic concern regarding microwaves from satellites unless you are playing sim city. From the article, ' "There is a risk element but you can reduce it," said Marzwell. "You can put these small receivers in the desert or in the mountains away from populated areas."'
Or the other option is lasers. Orbital power is the cleanest solution we've come up with yet. The worst damage from an orbital power accident would be nothing compared to chernobal or the clouds of poison coming from coal plants.
I would imagine 90% of slashdotters know this, but if you didn't: There are two sets of primary colors, Additive and subtractive. Subtractive primaries are those used in inks and paints to create colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow). These are taught in grade school as Blue, Red and yellow. The Additive primaries, used to create color with light are Red, Green and Blue. Just like the pixels on your monitor.
against someone you can get a warrant, arrest and charge people, all the while protecting the rights of the innocent. I think the threat of terrorism, although real, is not serious enough to warrant throwing out due process. How many Americans have been killed as a result of foreign terrorism in the last ten years? Or even domestic terrorism (Timothy McVeigh was prosecuted without being designated an enemy combatant or held without a charge)? 4,000 maybe? Less then 5,000 I would guess. With 275 million Americans this is an incredibly small number. September 11th was a terrible tragedy, but not so terrible that we must throw away our most basic civil rights to prevent it happening again.
Automation is not limited by technology, but economics. The technology exists today to completely automate McDonalds...as it stand the humans do very little thinking, they just move things from one place to another based on a set program. The reason robots and machines have not displaced humans in menial jobs is because humans are still quite a bit cheaper than robots. In france I noticed that automation had gone quite a bit further (construction flag wavers, for example, are robot manaquins). This is because the cost of labor is much higher their, making a machine more sensible than a robot. The reason the street sweeping machine has displaced human street sweepers is because it saves money. If you could pay people ten cents an hour street sweeping people with brooms would make a comeback. As the cost of automation falls, automation will only increase.
The gaffer has a union, and can't get laid off. The correct movie would say: "here is the gaffer that worked on the movie, but the studio is producing their next film in the czech republic " The worker bees in the movie biz are really hurt by movie production moving overseas.
Or are the Americans? People seem (especially after this story) to be debate whether its the americans or are the arrogant scourge or the french. It people fail to realize that both countries are actuallty just competing for first prize. The only real difference is that America had a lot of economic and military strength and the will to use it. The french are content to just complain about everyone else. (I lived in Paris for a while, and I really love france, but man, a lot of french people respond to foriegners they way americans do...with utter contempt) Si vous pensez que je n'ai pas raison, envoyez-moi un courriel.
Or better yet, just do whatever you like to do, and ignore the people who think they know what's best for you. And I am sure that you can't spend ALL your time getting frunk and getting laid, leaving plenty of free time to read and hang out in the library.
You are right about everything save one correction. Combustion is not availble for mac os x, it only runs on windows. Shake is the high end compositing package (now owned by apple) for the mac. And it rules. It was used on LoTR, for example.
As much as I agree with you economic analysis, I think you are giving these studio people too much credit. The fact is 90% of them are morons. They got there by kissing the right asses. They get promoted for their ass kissing skills, and then if they make one bad move they get fired. Everyone is so TERRIFIED of being fired they are unwilling to take any risks. Changing the pricing scheme would be taking a risk. Putting out a different kind of movie would be taking a risk.
Or the billionaire terrorist might grow a brain and just stick a hydrogen bomb in a shipping container and dentonate it in the port of long beach. Cheaper, easier and much more likely to succeed. Terrorists don't use ICBMS.
The only way to make cross platform, graphical interactive applications. Sure you could hard code it, but it would take 5 times the peole and time. Flash is an incredibly useful tool. As I mentioned in another post, my company developes training applications in flash. We are convinced its the best way to produce an applications this interactive, and this quickly.
My company makes e-learning applications in flash. It is really, by far, the best tool for this task. We can create (and code) highly interactive and complex simulations, from scratch, in weeks rather than months. Our clients can distribute the content to all of their staff without making people install software or printing cds. We can interact with databases for results tracking. We can store all the back end data in xml, or in an oracle database. There is simply nothing else capable of what flash is. Sure the actual application sucks, but the results have no competition.
xp home does it. Boy, that's a scary moment the first time it happens...I thought I'd kicked the power cord out or something. Its really absurd and scary though, I really think the BSOD is better...at least you know it crashed.
Open terminal. cd/Volumes/[ipod name] cd to the folder that holds the music (forget the name...) and then cd to the sub folders, which have sort of obscure numbers. You can either cp from there or you can type open [dirname] and that will open the files in a finder window. Its not EASY to copy songs from the ipod, but its possible without any hackery.
Saddam Hussein is a BAD PERSON?! What? You're kidding? I didn't realize. Now that I know this I will change my opinion, the US has an obligation to invade and remove him. Followed by invading Zimbabwe. And then North Korea. The Ivory Coast maybe? I think the french need help there. And what about Sudan? And both congos? There are bad people everywhere. The United Nations is supposed to be the authority through which the international community deals with these threats, rather than allowing powerful nations to decide that certain dictators or nations are a threat and arbitrarily invade them. I think few people that are against this war are trying to argue that Mr. Hussein is anything other than a horrible monster. But we are trying to say that the US should NOT be allowed to decide the fate of other nations. And we are also trying to say that war is horrible, and kills people, and should be avoided at all costs.
What is the point of jumping straight into adulthood? People don't experiment to check off some list of things you're "supposed" to do. People experiment because you are looking for some kind of blanket social acceptance, that you are loveable, fuckable, whatever. Your life can change in twenty four hours, regardless of your history. And you know what? No one cares about your history anyway.
Hear hear! I was #1 whiner/complainer in high school. The popular kids do this and that blah blah blah. And I was right, it does suck to be a geek or a nerd in high school. But high school is tough for everyone. My girlfriend was a popular kid in high school...and her stories make me really glad I wasn't. The fact is that when you are 16 your hormones make you crazy...everything is the end of the world. Every insult is a life ending moment. Every crush is the one true love that could change the earth.
The great thing about being a geek/nerd in high school is that you end up being protected from all that. Thankfully the emotional rollercoaster took place for me in my head, and my only real response was to listen to Pinkerton real loud. I could have instead been popular and given the oppurtunity to drink my problems away, to get some random girl pregnant because my chemical addled brain thought I was in love. I could have had the choice to turn a low self esteem compensation into a fatal drunk driving accident instead of just playing the cymbals louder.
I think that nerdiness protected me from myself by keeping me locked in a reletivley pointless and banal experience, that still managed to feel earthshattering at the time. High school is tough. Its is going to be awful for everyone (basically). If you are still in high school I would make your goal to get out alive, don't take things too seriously and try not caring about the popular kids. They are just as stupid as you are. Some of them will end up not growing up and going nowhere. Other might end up actually growing up and being just normal people...or maybe even your friends.
I lived in Vail last season. I "only" rode 50 days, but many of my friends did 80-100 days. So we were basically working and snowboarding. And when the day was over and we were just hanging out in someone's apt? We were probably playing SSX. Reality is fun, games are fun. Not mutually exclusive.
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I have to disgree. I am a 3d artist, and in my business there has been a revolution in the last three years or so. About ten years ago several papers on implimenting Radiosity or Global Illumination were presented at siggraph. But back then even the SGI desktops everyone was using were much too slow...render times would be in weeks per frame. But now everyone is using it. Finally our computers are fast enough to the better simulation in a reasonable amount of time. And I really see no reason why an even faster processor wouldn't improve things.
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Well it runs everything I need, photoshop, maya, shake, Illustrator...I'm going to assume it also runs those apps very, very fast. Which is what I want.
Orbital power! The "500-foot-wide" path of destruction is not a realistic concern regarding microwaves from satellites unless you are playing sim city. From the article, ' "There is a risk element but you can reduce it," said Marzwell. "You can put these small receivers in the desert or in the mountains away from populated areas."'
Or the other option is lasers. Orbital power is the cleanest solution we've come up with yet. The worst damage from an orbital power accident would be nothing compared to chernobal or the clouds of poison coming from coal plants.
I would imagine 90% of slashdotters know this, but if you didn't: There are two sets of primary colors, Additive and subtractive. Subtractive primaries are those used in inks and paints to create colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow). These are taught in grade school as Blue, Red and yellow. The Additive primaries, used to create color with light are Red, Green and Blue. Just like the pixels on your monitor.
against someone you can get a warrant, arrest and charge people, all the while protecting the rights of the innocent. I think the threat of terrorism, although real, is not serious enough to warrant throwing out due process. How many Americans have been killed as a result of foreign terrorism in the last ten years? Or even domestic terrorism (Timothy McVeigh was prosecuted without being designated an enemy combatant or held without a charge)? 4,000 maybe? Less then 5,000 I would guess. With 275 million Americans this is an incredibly small number. September 11th was a terrible tragedy, but not so terrible that we must throw away our most basic civil rights to prevent it happening again.
Where are the code or binaries of their wine for photoshop? I want this and need this.
When was the last time you hired someone to paste up a brochure?
Automation is not limited by technology, but economics. The technology exists today to completely automate McDonalds...as it stand the humans do very little thinking, they just move things from one place to another based on a set program. The reason robots and machines have not displaced humans in menial jobs is because humans are still quite a bit cheaper than robots. In france I noticed that automation had gone quite a bit further (construction flag wavers, for example, are robot manaquins). This is because the cost of labor is much higher their, making a machine more sensible than a robot. The reason the street sweeping machine has displaced human street sweepers is because it saves money. If you could pay people ten cents an hour street sweeping people with brooms would make a comeback. As the cost of automation falls, automation will only increase.
The gaffer has a union, and can't get laid off. The correct movie would say: "here is the gaffer that worked on the movie, but the studio is producing their next film in the czech republic " The worker bees in the movie biz are really hurt by movie production moving overseas.
Or are the Americans? People seem (especially after this story) to be debate whether its the americans or are the arrogant scourge or the french. It people fail to realize that both countries are actuallty just competing for first prize. The only real difference is that America had a lot of economic and military strength and the will to use it. The french are content to just complain about everyone else. (I lived in Paris for a while, and I really love france, but man, a lot of french people respond to foriegners they way americans do...with utter contempt) Si vous pensez que je n'ai pas raison, envoyez-moi un courriel.
Or better yet, just do whatever you like to do, and ignore the people who think they know what's best for you. And I am sure that you can't spend ALL your time getting frunk and getting laid, leaving plenty of free time to read and hang out in the library.
I stand corrected. I recommend both! (although I suspect shake is better optimized for the mac)
You are right about everything save one correction. Combustion is not availble for mac os x, it only runs on windows. Shake is the high end compositing package (now owned by apple) for the mac. And it rules. It was used on LoTR, for example.
As much as I agree with you economic analysis, I think you are giving these studio people too much credit. The fact is 90% of them are morons. They got there by kissing the right asses. They get promoted for their ass kissing skills, and then if they make one bad move they get fired. Everyone is so TERRIFIED of being fired they are unwilling to take any risks. Changing the pricing scheme would be taking a risk. Putting out a different kind of movie would be taking a risk.
So its Pro Tools' FAULT that there a people that there are bad recording engineers?
Or the billionaire terrorist might grow a brain and just stick a hydrogen bomb in a shipping container and dentonate it in the port of long beach. Cheaper, easier and much more likely to succeed. Terrorists don't use ICBMS.
The only way to make cross platform, graphical interactive applications. Sure you could hard code it, but it would take 5 times the peole and time. Flash is an incredibly useful tool. As I mentioned in another post, my company developes training applications in flash. We are convinced its the best way to produce an applications this interactive, and this quickly.
My company makes e-learning applications in flash. It is really, by far, the best tool for this task. We can create (and code) highly interactive and complex simulations, from scratch, in weeks rather than months. Our clients can distribute the content to all of their staff without making people install software or printing cds. We can interact with databases for results tracking. We can store all the back end data in xml, or in an oracle database. There is simply nothing else capable of what flash is. Sure the actual application sucks, but the results have no competition.
xp home does it. Boy, that's a scary moment the first time it happens...I thought I'd kicked the power cord out or something. Its really absurd and scary though, I really think the BSOD is better...at least you know it crashed.
Open terminal. cd /Volumes/[ipod name] cd to the folder that holds the music (forget the name...) and then cd to the sub folders, which have sort of obscure numbers. You can either cp from there or you can type open [dirname] and that will open the files in a finder window. Its not EASY to copy songs from the ipod, but its possible without any hackery.
Saddam Hussein is a BAD PERSON?! What? You're kidding? I didn't realize. Now that I know this I will change my opinion, the US has an obligation to invade and remove him. Followed by invading Zimbabwe. And then North Korea. The Ivory Coast maybe? I think the french need help there. And what about Sudan? And both congos? There are bad people everywhere. The United Nations is supposed to be the authority through which the international community deals with these threats, rather than allowing powerful nations to decide that certain dictators or nations are a threat and arbitrarily invade them. I think few people that are against this war are trying to argue that Mr. Hussein is anything other than a horrible monster. But we are trying to say that the US should NOT be allowed to decide the fate of other nations. And we are also trying to say that war is horrible, and kills people, and should be avoided at all costs.
What is the point of jumping straight into adulthood? People don't experiment to check off some list of things you're "supposed" to do. People experiment because you are looking for some kind of blanket social acceptance, that you are loveable, fuckable, whatever. Your life can change in twenty four hours, regardless of your history. And you know what? No one cares about your history anyway.
Hear hear! I was #1 whiner/complainer in high school. The popular kids do this and that blah blah blah. And I was right, it does suck to be a geek or a nerd in high school. But high school is tough for everyone. My girlfriend was a popular kid in high school...and her stories make me really glad I wasn't. The fact is that when you are 16 your hormones make you crazy...everything is the end of the world. Every insult is a life ending moment. Every crush is the one true love that could change the earth.
The great thing about being a geek/nerd in high school is that you end up being protected from all that. Thankfully the emotional rollercoaster took place for me in my head, and my only real response was to listen to Pinkerton real loud. I could have instead been popular and given the oppurtunity to drink my problems away, to get some random girl pregnant because my chemical addled brain thought I was in love. I could have had the choice to turn a low self esteem compensation into a fatal drunk driving accident instead of just playing the cymbals louder.
I think that nerdiness protected me from myself by keeping me locked in a reletivley pointless and banal experience, that still managed to feel earthshattering at the time. High school is tough. Its is going to be awful for everyone (basically). If you are still in high school I would make your goal to get out alive, don't take things too seriously and try not caring about the popular kids. They are just as stupid as you are. Some of them will end up not growing up and going nowhere. Other might end up actually growing up and being just normal people...or maybe even your friends.
I lived in Vail last season. I "only" rode 50 days, but many of my friends did 80-100 days. So we were basically working and snowboarding. And when the day was over and we were just hanging out in someone's apt? We were probably playing SSX. Reality is fun, games are fun. Not mutually exclusive.
I have to disgree. I am a 3d artist, and in my business there has been a revolution in the last three years or so. About ten years ago several papers on implimenting Radiosity or Global Illumination were presented at siggraph. But back then even the SGI desktops everyone was using were much too slow...render times would be in weeks per frame. But now everyone is using it. Finally our computers are fast enough to the better simulation in a reasonable amount of time. And I really see no reason why an even faster processor wouldn't improve things.
Dammit people, is it that difficult? Spelt like it sounds...