Hospitality, that is. I spent 18 months working in hotels. With multiple languages you can get those jobs easy, and they are anywhere in the world. And I met some great friends that way.
There are ISPs, and there are enterprises. I really hope that no one is advocating using linux on Xeons in a mission critical enterprise type situation. That's crazy. I think (hope) that linux will make it there someday, but not today.
I don't know. Reading some of the posts here some people really do have a problem. I see enough anecdotal evidence to justify a study of some kind, because a lot of these stories are indicitive of real addictive behavior (failing out of school, neglect of basic needs, etc). So what would be interesting to see is how often this happens, whether this also happens with other forms of entertainment, etc. If some thing MAY be going on I think someone ought to find out if something IS going on. Just my opinion. Anyway, back to UT...
Please tell Mr. Picott that he is a genius. I have NEVER used a software product this well designed. Its as if someone sat down, thought about what the problems were for artists in the real world, solved them and then developed the most efficient interface ever created.
To be fair, maya was written pretty much from scratch about five years ago. It borrowed heavily from PowerAnimator and Wavefront Advanced Visualizer (and whatever that wavefront dynamics software was) but it was still revolutionary. It was also written by a very small team. I think its worth a shot at any rate, I always encourage innovation.
Why anyone thinks they got a deal by spending 2k less on max rather then maya is beyond me, by the way. But the maya vs max thread is a flamewar for another time...
Take the best digital camera in the world. Point it a metal object with a hot highlight.
Is film still dead? I think for pro work film is basically dead, because digital quality is definetly good enough for 95% of situations, and the othe 5% can be faked. The value of the quick turnaround is worth to much in the pro world. In the art world...film is so great as a tool...no way is it going away.
I was always irritated by the feudal values of the book. Aragorn is king by right, everyone owes him there alliegence. People who don't blindly accept this Johnny-Come-Lately king who's only qualification is birthright are just portrayed as jerks.
And poor Sam, the servant. He is such model character because of his loyalty and subservience. I suppose that is the world that Tolkein created, but I don't have to approve. I think we should all be glad that the feudal value system is mostly gone.
But could we pick a book, and leave it a book? Is that too difficult? (comments about the story's birth as a radio show aside) Books are great. I used to think that I would like to see a "Snow Crash" movie. But I am pretty sure I don't. Sure, there is a 1% chance that it will turn out to be pretty good and not ruin the memory of the book (like LOTR). But it could always end up just sucking, (Bicentennial Man) so I think its something to be avoided. Unless Kiwi nerds want to make the film. They seem to not be tainted by the dripping evil of hollywood.
I think watching Starship Troopers would be an effective intelligence test. The film is satire, and rather brilliant in that regard. Forget about the book, watch the movie again and ask yourself: who were the bad guys?
Its pretty crazy, I am a professional 3d artist, so I would consider my hardware demands about as steep as they get, but I have found it pretty hard to justify getting the lastest stuff. Yes, a 2x2ghz Xeon would be nice for rendering on, but maya and the rest run great on a 1ghz athlon with a mediocre 3d card. So if a "content creation" client doesn't need it, no one needs it. Sad but true.
I always thought DS9 was by far the best show. It had interesting stuff going on all the time. The crew wasn't the best and brightest, they were flawed, real people in an exceptional situation. The plot flowed from episode to episode, developing interesting characters and interesting stories. Like the cardassian tailor, Odo...It was a good show.
I hope that Mr. Lucas, like me, couldn't care less. I find it disturbing that anyone that isn't financially involved cares about the box office. If you loved Spider Man, and it made no money at all, would you stop enjoying the film?
Like weezer. I download the whole new CD before it even came out. Where? The OFFICIAL WEB SITE. That is classy. And guess what? I bought the cd and went to two concerts. They got my money.
Its a troll, but he's right on one count. I can't speak for all GSM countries, but in France billing is VERY by the minute. 120 minutes == 50 (==$). That is why people use SMS.
The problem is that there is a demand not being met: people want to download music. The industry does not meet this demand. They are to busy fighting their customers and each other to figure out a way to turn this demand into revenue.
I think you are confusing recordings with artists. Artists have been making a good living for thousands of years, but copyright law is (I think, correct me) less than 200 years old. You see, people could videotape a play and give that tape away for free. But people will still go to see the show and the stage crew will still get paid. The theater is a compeling and better product than the tape, so I pay a premium for it, but the price is in line with the demand
I think most people are not upset with the idea of copyright law, but the pigheaded refusal of the industry to get with the times. They refuse to see the internet as the collosal oppurtunity it is. (who else has a product they can actually DELIVER over the internet? The internet is the greatest enabler of the recording industry since the phonograph) Instead they just see it as a threat to the old way of doing business. Instead of adapting they litigate and legislate the future away.
Interesting thing about the platform temperature. My cousin's husband is an engineer at Alsthom, who makes the trains that run in the new lines in New York. I was pretty bothered by the temp in those stations myself and I asked about it. He said the problem with any subway system is friction. Huge trains stopping every five minutes, and then using large electric motors, which also give off a lot of heat under acceleration. This is a problem in any subway, and why the stations are always hotter than you would expect an underground room to be.
But New York is way hotter than most, the reason for that is the A/C in the trains. The are nice and cool, which already makes the stations seem hot. But the other problem with air conditioning is the fact that all that hot air coming out of the trains is getting dumped into the stations, along with all the heat from friction.
To be fair to the USPS, they cannot be responable for the speed of international shipping. As soon as the package is in another country it is no longer their problem. In this case HM royal mail takes over when hits the uk. They don't claim to offer international overnight (the teller was either just wrong or saying overnight to mean express). Check their website, they don't imply, claim or garuntee overnight service internationally. (neither does fedex, by the way)
I hate you apple. These computers are just too cool. I was just about to start building a new desktop...but somehow apple lust has taken over. I feel almost morally obligated to buy a system this good. Sadly, I just don't have the $3k I need to buy the system I want...
You make a very good point, but the revolutionary war is just a bad example. (see Rich White Men Tired of Paying Taxes in Essentially Free Society: or How Economics, not Ideology, Caused the Revolutionary War)
A better example is say, Nazi germany. The Soviet Union. Pol Pot's Cambodia. Myanmar and half of Africa today. That is your rights being infringed, not high taxes on luxury goods, like tea.
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Hospitality, that is. I spent 18 months working in hotels. With multiple languages you can get those jobs easy, and they are anywhere in the world. And I met some great friends that way.
There are ISPs, and there are enterprises. I really hope that no one is advocating using linux on Xeons in a mission critical enterprise type situation. That's crazy. I think (hope) that linux will make it there someday, but not today.
I don't know. Reading some of the posts here some people really do have a problem. I see enough anecdotal evidence to justify a study of some kind, because a lot of these stories are indicitive of real addictive behavior (failing out of school, neglect of basic needs, etc). So what would be interesting to see is how often this happens, whether this also happens with other forms of entertainment, etc. If some thing MAY be going on I think someone ought to find out if something IS going on. Just my opinion. Anyway, back to UT...
Please tell Mr. Picott that he is a genius. I have NEVER used a software product this well designed. Its as if someone sat down, thought about what the problems were for artists in the real world, solved them and then developed the most efficient interface ever created.
To be fair, maya was written pretty much from scratch about five years ago. It borrowed heavily from PowerAnimator and Wavefront Advanced Visualizer (and whatever that wavefront dynamics software was) but it was still revolutionary. It was also written by a very small team. I think its worth a shot at any rate, I always encourage innovation.
Why anyone thinks they got a deal by spending 2k less on max rather then maya is beyond me, by the way. But the maya vs max thread is a flamewar for another time...
Take the best digital camera in the world. Point it a metal object with a hot highlight.
Is film still dead? I think for pro work film is basically dead, because digital quality is definetly good enough for 95% of situations, and the othe 5% can be faked. The value of the quick turnaround is worth to much in the pro world. In the art world...film is so great as a tool...no way is it going away.
I was always irritated by the feudal values of the book. Aragorn is king by right, everyone owes him there alliegence. People who don't blindly accept this Johnny-Come-Lately king who's only qualification is birthright are just portrayed as jerks.
And poor Sam, the servant. He is such model character because of his loyalty and subservience. I suppose that is the world that Tolkein created, but I don't have to approve. I think we should all be glad that the feudal value system is mostly gone.
mpeg-4....sorenson 3....mmmm.
Someone works for sun...(this is a sun joke, every one I've met that works there loves to repeat this joke as much as possible)
But could we pick a book, and leave it a book? Is that too difficult? (comments about the story's birth as a radio show aside) Books are great. I used to think that I would like to see a "Snow Crash" movie. But I am pretty sure I don't. Sure, there is a 1% chance that it will turn out to be pretty good and not ruin the memory of the book (like LOTR). But it could always end up just sucking, (Bicentennial Man) so I think its something to be avoided. Unless Kiwi nerds want to make the film. They seem to not be tainted by the dripping evil of hollywood.
I think watching Starship Troopers would be an effective intelligence test. The film is satire, and rather brilliant in that regard. Forget about the book, watch the movie again and ask yourself: who were the bad guys?
Its pretty crazy, I am a professional 3d artist, so I would consider my hardware demands about as steep as they get, but I have found it pretty hard to justify getting the lastest stuff. Yes, a 2x2ghz Xeon would be nice for rendering on, but maya and the rest run great on a 1ghz athlon with a mediocre 3d card. So if a "content creation" client doesn't need it, no one needs it. Sad but true.
Most snowboarding jackets already have them.
Of course it does. Its because they actualy included characters in DS9.
I always thought DS9 was by far the best show. It had interesting stuff going on all the time. The crew wasn't the best and brightest, they were flawed, real people in an exceptional situation. The plot flowed from episode to episode, developing interesting characters and interesting stories. Like the cardassian tailor, Odo...It was a good show.
I hope that Mr. Lucas, like me, couldn't care less. I find it disturbing that anyone that isn't financially involved cares about the box office. If you loved Spider Man, and it made no money at all, would you stop enjoying the film?
Like weezer. I download the whole new CD before it even came out. Where? The OFFICIAL WEB SITE. That is classy. And guess what? I bought the cd and went to two concerts. They got my money.
Its a troll, but he's right on one count. I can't speak for all GSM countries, but in France billing is VERY by the minute. 120 minutes == 50 (==$). That is why people use SMS.
The problem is that there is a demand not being met: people want to download music. The industry does not meet this demand. They are to busy fighting their customers and each other to figure out a way to turn this demand into revenue.
I think you are confusing recordings with artists. Artists have been making a good living for thousands of years, but copyright law is (I think, correct me) less than 200 years old. You see, people could videotape a play and give that tape away for free. But people will still go to see the show and the stage crew will still get paid. The theater is a compeling and better product than the tape, so I pay a premium for it, but the price is in line with the demand
I think most people are not upset with the idea of copyright law, but the pigheaded refusal of the industry to get with the times. They refuse to see the internet as the collosal oppurtunity it is. (who else has a product they can actually DELIVER over the internet? The internet is the greatest enabler of the recording industry since the phonograph) Instead they just see it as a threat to the old way of doing business. Instead of adapting they litigate and legislate the future away.
Interesting thing about the platform temperature. My cousin's husband is an engineer at Alsthom, who makes the trains that run in the new lines in New York. I was pretty bothered by the temp in those stations myself and I asked about it. He said the problem with any subway system is friction. Huge trains stopping every five minutes, and then using large electric motors, which also give off a lot of heat under acceleration. This is a problem in any subway, and why the stations are always hotter than you would expect an underground room to be.
But New York is way hotter than most, the reason for that is the A/C in the trains. The are nice and cool, which already makes the stations seem hot. But the other problem with air conditioning is the fact that all that hot air coming out of the trains is getting dumped into the stations, along with all the heat from friction.
To be fair to the USPS, they cannot be responable for the speed of international shipping. As soon as the package is in another country it is no longer their problem. In this case HM royal mail takes over when hits the uk. They don't claim to offer international overnight (the teller was either just wrong or saying overnight to mean express). Check their website, they don't imply, claim or garuntee overnight service internationally. (neither does fedex, by the way)
I hate you apple. These computers are just too cool. I was just about to start building a new desktop...but somehow apple lust has taken over. I feel almost morally obligated to buy a system this good. Sadly, I just don't have the $3k I need to buy the system I want...
You make a very good point, but the revolutionary war is just a bad example. (see Rich White Men Tired of Paying Taxes in Essentially Free Society: or How Economics, not Ideology, Caused the Revolutionary War)
A better example is say, Nazi germany. The Soviet Union. Pol Pot's Cambodia. Myanmar and half of Africa today. That is your rights being infringed, not high taxes on luxury goods, like tea.