How much longer until turbine pulls the plug on this one? It will always be my favorite, but it's not able to bring new people in or keep existing players around anymore.
I think I came off the wrong way. I actually agree with the purpose of the bill and what you are saying. I was (poorly) implying that departments will do their best to say it's infeasible due to the price tag. I think careful wording and grandfathering of applications could be used to get around this.
We were able to complete our system for 1/4 of the price of at least one state off the top of my head by building the system ourselves all onsite only using consultants as a boost to our dev team during the primary development phase. We own the software and have no maintenance contract because the in house staff is able to maintain the system. So guess you can say we saved money by just being fiscally responsible and forward looking.
We have about 20 or so apps in production at the moment. The last one cost the tax payers approx 15 million (considered a steal for what other states are spending on the same federally mandated application). When I said fiscally impossible, I wasn't kidding. I work for one of many offices that would fall under this bill.
Add fiscally impossible as well. I work for an IT dept in the exec branch of the MN government. We have proprietary solutions up the wazoo whither it be MS or our imaging backbone which is proprietary to Unisys. The truth is, unless they are going to throw the $ at us to rewrite 10 years of code and pay for us to run new open backends while it takes us years to migrate it ain't gonna happen.
I'd do what it takes to make sure your grade doesn't suffer, but I will stress that this is your opportunity to learn some mentoring skills which are sorely needed by most programmers.
I always liked D.C. . I thougth that Legend Sucked until I saw it again at age 28. I agree, Labyrinth is the best of the 3 by far. I hope to god there isn't a remake or sequel for that in my lifetime.
Sigh... It sounds like it will be on par with my latest experience installing Fedora Core 4. I did a slightly tweaked dev workstation install. After doing a yum -y update I was presented with over 300 package updates weighing in at 809 megs!
It's been about 8 months since I last looked into upscaling DVD players, but all of the sub $300 ones had issues. All of them. Granted, these dvd players can have their ROMs updated via a cd so maybe things it's a different game now. I actually purchased a LG and a Samsung and ended up returning them and opting to build a HTPC
The other downside to these players is that IMHO when it comes to upscaling, one size does not fit all. Certain upscaling methods have problems with certain types of content. With a HTPC I can swap between ffdshow, PureVideo, etc...
All that being said, I'm sure my parents would be happy with a $150 upscaling dvd player.
I have my win HTPC hooked up to LCD projection HDTV. Under windows I can use either nVidia's PureVideo technology or FFDSHOW to do the whole upscaling routine of resize, denoise, yadda yadda yadda. Anyone who has used either of the above can attest to how much better the video quality is compared to straight upscaling.
Are there any alternative in Linux that produce an image of FFDSHOW quality?
I think I work with a few of those Lords of Cobol. They have gray hair and can sometimes be heard muttering about how the program won't work unless statements are started at the proper indentation point.
I'm sure you wouldn't want to use.NET for a site that gets 20,000 hits a minute
Monster.com and Match.com both use ASP.NET. I'm not sure how many hits they get a minute, but I bet you it's several thousand. Both sites are usually very peppy.
We have a monthly training budget at work and I've been tempted but reluctant to request it. Is this pure entertainment, or is it worthwhile for maturing dev groups to watch?
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How much longer until turbine pulls the plug on this one? It will always be my favorite, but it's not able to bring new people in or keep existing players around anymore.
We were able to complete our system for 1/4 of the price of at least one state off the top of my head by building the system ourselves all onsite only using consultants as a boost to our dev team during the primary development phase. We own the software and have no maintenance contract because the in house staff is able to maintain the system. So guess you can say we saved money by just being fiscally responsible and forward looking.
We have about 20 or so apps in production at the moment. The last one cost the tax payers approx 15 million (considered a steal for what other states are spending on the same federally mandated application). When I said fiscally impossible, I wasn't kidding. I work for one of many offices that would fall under this bill.
Add fiscally impossible as well. I work for an IT dept in the exec branch of the MN government. We have proprietary solutions up the wazoo whither it be MS or our imaging backbone which is proprietary to Unisys. The truth is, unless they are going to throw the $ at us to rewrite 10 years of code and pay for us to run new open backends while it takes us years to migrate it ain't gonna happen.
True, but MN was for the first time in my lifetime considered to be a swing state in the last election.
SACD is freaking the best digital sound format on the market AND it's 1 bit (DSD). How cool is that?
Is this some arcane correct use of ";"?
I'd do what it takes to make sure your grade doesn't suffer, but I will stress that this is your opportunity to learn some mentoring skills which are sorely needed by most programmers.
Michael Moore's portrayal of how patriot act v1 went down is starting to stink like the excrement it was. Wake up.
I'm lovin' it!
I always liked D.C. . I thougth that Legend Sucked until I saw it again at age 28. I agree, Labyrinth is the best of the 3 by far. I hope to god there isn't a remake or sequel for that in my lifetime.
They'll still be better off than those yahoos doing gentoo over 56k. OUCH!
Sigh... It sounds like it will be on par with my latest experience installing Fedora Core 4. I did a slightly tweaked dev workstation install. After doing a yum -y update I was presented with over 300 package updates weighing in at 809 megs!
The other downside to these players is that IMHO when it comes to upscaling, one size does not fit all. Certain upscaling methods have problems with certain types of content. With a HTPC I can swap between ffdshow, PureVideo, etc...
All that being said, I'm sure my parents would be happy with a $150 upscaling dvd player.
Are there any alternative in Linux that produce an image of FFDSHOW quality?
M.U.L.E. needs a sequel/remake. They'd have to keep the theme song tho.
I think I work with a few of those Lords of Cobol. They have gray hair and can sometimes be heard muttering about how the program won't work unless statements are started at the proper indentation point.
I am a Cylon!
A fortune if you mean a one year free trial version that has a $50 price tag at the end of one year.
Or worse, they will slowly change it pixel by pixel until one day it resembles a small goatse.
ok.. Comparitively speaking... monster.com is peppy compared to techies.com (java). I know, I know.. jsp can be hella fast... just not in this case.
Page extensions at Monster are aspx. Granted, they may have just renamed their .asp pages to aspx
I'm sure you wouldn't want to use .NET for a site that gets 20,000 hits a minute
Monster.com and Match.com both use ASP.NET. I'm not sure how many hits they get a minute, but I bet you it's several thousand. Both sites are usually very peppy.
We have a monthly training budget at work and I've been tempted but reluctant to request it. Is this pure entertainment, or is it worthwhile for maturing dev groups to watch?
Too bad that my mod points expired just this evening. I never thought about this angle.