To me, the only thing having a cert says is the person had too much money to waste on a 6wk class. It does indicate they have some knowledge of basic and intermediate features and concepts, but with those types of rush em thru classes, how much do they really retain a year down the road?
It's really the intelligence level of the person that matters. I've seen people with certs up the wazoo that can barely add a user to a unix system. I've argued with a Director of IT (and his subordinate manager) that collisions were not propagating all over our net because they stop at the switch port... by definition. I've seen people with college degrees from impressive and not so impressive schools that barely know what they're doing. I've seen people with no more than a high school degree that know their stuff inside and out. And I've also seen degree'd people that really know their stuff as well as a high school grad that didn't know much.
A slip of paper with a stamp of approval means nothing. And it really tells a prospective employer nothign other than you took a course. It doesn't tell you if they learned anything or can apply any of that to the REAL world.
I can tell you this. If I interview several people and all do reasonably well and their experience level is: lots of certs, college degree, college and certs, no certs or degree, but 4 years experience in the industry, that I'm going to most likely hire the last one.
Nothing beats real world experience. Of course, that's not to say i couldn't make the wrong decision. The 4yr exp. guy could have got a gig thru nepotism and skated for 4 years, but hopefully the interview would have weeded him out if that was the case.
so at 1100 ft away, I doubt I can get 200mbps, but maybe 100?
However, I'm sure I'll still only be able to get 128kbps upstream without having to sell my left nut for enough bandwidth to run my own servers at home.
Technophiles need to unite against discriminatory practices against upstream bandwidth!
Long ago, when operating systems were primitive, it was all about applications. And in many ways, that is still important. But it's more than that in the modern technological world we live in.
You can put all the applications in the world you want on Linux and it will still suck the sweat off rhinocerious testicles as a desktop system because the GUI is still very primitive. Sure, you have have a lot of flash with Gnome and KDE, but they still lack the detail of Windows, OS X or the old Mac OS.
Linux HAS come a long way with Plug and Play, but it still has a long way to go. I'd love to play with Linux on a laptop, but I know I just can't go buy any laptop and have a hope of it actually working. And then wireless would be problemative, not to mention the inferior power management. A good part of this is Catch 22. There are often no drivers, or inferior ones, for a product because little attention is given to Linux drivers. That is slowly changing, but not fast enough.
When Linux can handle a USB memory card reader with ease, multiple types of digital cameras, desktop integration of CD and DVD burning (which I don't use, but many ppl like this), effortless setup of audio cards (which is still a nightmare) and similar modern ease of use features, it will be close to being a desktop competitor. But for now, it sits as a workstation and server OS with limited appeal.
I got introduced to BASIC by a teletype in my 7th grade math class in the mid 70s. Our teacher did a week on probability and statistics and we capped off that phase by playing blackjack on the computer which was hooked up to the HP2000C/F mainframe at the local Junior College via a leased line (I'm guessing 300 baud).
At the tender age of 12, I was completely enthralled with the technology. I asked the teacher if he had any books on programming, but all he had were the HP BASIC syntax manuals. I happily borrowed those and memorized the lion's share of the commands and started coding. BASIC was so straightforward that you need only program in a logical manner and you were churning out working code in no time.
I spent many hours at the computer lab in that local Junior College, churning through reams of paper at the disdain of the scuffy bearded sysadmins. I wrote simple games, I wrote complex games.
The game de jeur at the time was Star Trek, where you traversed your ASCII Enterprise through a matrix of sectors and saved the galaxy from the evil Klingons. I managed to snag the source code to it and despite all my BASIC coding for the last few years, most of how they coded it made no sense to me. Curious as to what the difference would be, I dove into writing my own version of Star Trek, a nearly identical work alike. The code was about 1/4 the number of lines, although it wasn't quite as fast. Still, I was pretty proud of the achievement as it was by far the largest program I'd ever written.
Those early days of BASIC slinging taught me alot about logic flow and how programs operate and pass data. Much of what I learned way back when still applies to my daily work. I don't sling code anymore, I turned away from that path 20 years ago. These days I do QA work and I work with Engineers and code all the time.
If BASIC hadn't provided those opportunities for me way back then, I wouldnt' be doing what I do now (which in some cases might be a good thing) and I sure as hell wouldn't know NEAR as much about computing as I do now, be it programming logic, networking or any related technology.
Sure, people laugh at BASIC now days. It's practically just a scripting language compared to modern languages. From it's very name it was never meant to be the king, but, at least for me, it served a very important foundational role in my technical development.
I look back upon the spilled paper tape hole bin days with a nostalgic fondness and smile.
I've met many degreed peoplel that didn't know squat and many without degrees that really knew their stuff. And conversely as well.
What that means to me is what the person has done and their potential for learning is more important than whether some school gave them a gold star or not. You can apply yourself and learn a great deal in or out of school.
Sure, you can't judge recent grads too well by this measure, but they have little experience anyways.
A degree is more valuable in computing now than it was 15 or 20 years ago, mainly because coursework has caught up. But even so, 4 years in school doesn't beat 6 to 8 years real world experience if the person is sharp.
Do shows ever really recover from cancellation? Sure, there's some convulsions before rigamortis sets in, but rarely is there a rebirth, if ever.
Now, if it WERE to happen, I'd be immensely happy. I'm a big fan of Farscape. The humor is priceless ("Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, what makes you think you can guarantee my safety?").
I look forward to the miniseries eagerly and I must admit I wonder how they'll write themselves out of the series finale where Crighton and Sun were literally vaporized.
Gambling is illegal in most US states with a few exceptions (Atlantic City, Nevada, Indian reservations). I don't see an issue with the US not wanting to permit online gambling.
Certain types of business are prone to infiltration and control by criminal elements. Gambling is notorioius for this, hence the restrictions we have in the US.
I'm all for free trade, it makes for a stronger world economy all around, but if some organization demands we permit trade of a commodity or service which is illegal in our country, they're out of line.
If they are reporting it as spam, then it's email they don't wish to receive. That means you should stop sending it, even if they previously agreed to receive email from you.
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You let your woman experience pleasure from another man's TiVo?
I don't really consider myself old fashioned by any means, but I would certainly have my limits. There's no way I could stand for letting my wife tenderly run her fingers over another man's remote.
You have been fooled by that tricky name. (Eddie Rickenbacker was an American Ace in WW1, btw).
Ricks are American Made. You see them used by quite a few classic icons. Lennon played one, Tom Petty, The Byrds, The Bangles, REM and loads more.
While known for their very distinct, jangly sound (own 2 myself, love em), one distinctive characteristic of most Rick's is the dual truss rods in the neck.
You can be quite versatile with the western 12 semitone scale. The I, IV and V chords for any given key harmonize with every note in the scale, so you can harmonize any melody just using...
you got it... THREE CHORDS.
Using anything but those three is color and style. Which I am personally very fond of. But I can appreciate mastery of the form in using only I, IV and V or mostly that. Beethoven often used those primary chords, although never exclusively. The 5th Symphony is a good example of that. God, if Beethoven had only had a Rickenbacher and a Marshall Stack.... His style is clearly an early ancestor of Hard Rock.
I'm not a big fan of sampling tunes. Sounds, yes. Tunes, no. Learn from your colleagues, by all means, but don't rip em off. Make your art completely your own. And if you really must include someone's work, license it!
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I know that about 6 months ago Pixar was migrating to OS X in house and were hiring techs to install and admin the new gear.
I'm assuming (yeah, I know) from comments here, that the mass migration to OS X didn't include the render farm, but just development boxes, artists computers, secretary's solitaire box, etc...
I'm sure that in a year when it's time to upgrade their farm, they'll be installing 4GHz Dual G5 XServes or whatever similar configuration Apple is shipping then.
While cost per box is a factor, time is a factor in CGI movie development as well. Virginia Univ. proved that 1100 G5s can make an exceptionally cost effective super computer that is #3 in the world. The #1 and #2 systems cost far more and neither of them use Intel processors (NEC and I think HP PA/RISC).
Pixar has migrated machines and OS use a few times in the past and I'm sure they'll continue to use what works best for thier business as the computing market evolves. Right now OS X and G5s are excellent choices for them and if Steve has his way, I'm sure it'll stay that way for a while.
IBM has tried to force a market change before... and failed dismally. OS/2 was more like SLO-S/2. The only GUI that I've ever used that was even more of a dog was opening folders on an O2 box running IRIX. (Double click...wait 10 seconds, wait 10 seconds for fancy 3D animation, wait 10 seconds for new window to draw).
And let's not get into the stunning desktop capabilities of AIX.... Now THERE is an oxymoron... Desktop AIX system.
But who knows, maybe IBM can learn from their mistakes this time. At least any failure on their part probably won't take down Linux with it. It'll just leave a bad taste in people's mouths that will be forgotten in a couple years.
It would be business suicide for IBM to ditch Windows on it's desktop systems in 2005.
While I'm far from an MS fanboi, Linux isn't ready to take the place of Windows on the desktop. It's not ready technically or graphically or from a design perspective, that is, the fluidity of the GUI. It's also not ready from a market perspective. Windows is the juggernaut. For IBM to ditch the market leader would be consigning their desktop division to massive losses.
I'd like to see a world where companies were free from market pressure to ship Windows or Linux or OS X and that all three could live equally in the computing world, sold to areas where they could leverage each OS's strengths.
But then I long for a world with ethical politicians and businessmen, where there will be peace in the middle east and that upper management will always make good decisions, so I don't think it's likely to happen.
I don't think the Norse tie in is irrelevant when viewed in conjunction with the name. Alone it's irrelevant, but WITH it, it adds fuel to Mythic's fire.
"The stole our name AND it's based on the same mythologies AND it's an MMORPG AND..."
I rented the disks from Netflix because I'm a big Buffy and Angel fan after having got into both series years after they debuted. I never even heard of Firefly until after it was cancelled.
So I rented it just to see what all the hub bub was about. As I watched the first two parter, I was thinking, no wonder this got cancelled, it's kinda boring. But I forced myself to finish watching the rest of the disk.
I'm glad I did. I found that I started to care what happened to each character as I watched more episodes. While I was indifferent at first, by the time I wrapped up Disk 4, I was almost solemnly putting the disk back in its sleeve to mail back to Netflix.
It's a good show and worth giving it the time to win you over. Too bad Fox didn't do that. I don't think it'll come back as a series again, certainly not on Fox, but they are working on a movie (probably TV movie).
So what's the deal about good SciFi shows getting cancelled? Farscape was a fantastic show, certainly worthy of more seasons. I think Firefly had some longevity to it, too. Just think, if they hadn't given Buffy more than 13 episodes... There'd be no Witchblade, no Dark Angel, no Bird of Prey, no ActionSciFi Show with buttkicking chicks!
Asd they say, it takes money to make money. Be willing to give these shows a chance!
If I read the details correctly, you could create a gigapixel image by scanning an 8x10 at a very high resolution. It would require about 5000ppi for an 8x10, but you could simply scan an 11x17 at 3200ppi as well. Both of these would result in a gigapixel image, digitally created.
Of course, it would need to be TRUE resolution, non-interpolated, but I think there may be high end scanning devices that can do this these days.
Such an image would fit the requirements stated and be far easier to produce...no stitching!
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To me, the only thing having a cert says is the person had too much money to waste on a 6wk class. It does indicate they have some knowledge of basic and intermediate features and concepts, but with those types of rush em thru classes, how much do they really retain a year down the road?
It's really the intelligence level of the person that matters. I've seen people with certs up the wazoo that can barely add a user to a unix system. I've argued with a Director of IT (and his subordinate manager) that collisions were not propagating all over our net because they stop at the switch port... by definition. I've seen people with college degrees from impressive and not so impressive schools that barely know what they're doing. I've seen people with no more than a high school degree that know their stuff inside and out. And I've also seen degree'd people that really know their stuff as well as a high school grad that didn't know much.
A slip of paper with a stamp of approval means nothing. And it really tells a prospective employer nothign other than you took a course. It doesn't tell you if they learned anything or can apply any of that to the REAL world.
I can tell you this. If I interview several people and all do reasonably well and their experience level is: lots of certs, college degree, college and certs, no certs or degree, but 4 years experience in the industry, that I'm going to most likely hire the last one.
Nothing beats real world experience. Of course, that's not to say i couldn't make the wrong decision. The 4yr exp. guy could have got a gig thru nepotism and skated for 4 years, but hopefully the interview would have weeded him out if that was the case.
so at 1100 ft away, I doubt I can get 200mbps, but maybe 100?
However, I'm sure I'll still only be able to get 128kbps upstream without having to sell my left nut for enough bandwidth to run my own servers at home.
Technophiles need to unite against discriminatory practices against upstream bandwidth!
Long ago, when operating systems were primitive, it was all about applications. And in many ways, that is still important. But it's more than that in the modern technological world we live in.
You can put all the applications in the world you want on Linux and it will still suck the sweat off rhinocerious testicles as a desktop system because the GUI is still very primitive. Sure, you have have a lot of flash with Gnome and KDE, but they still lack the detail of Windows, OS X or the old Mac OS.
Linux HAS come a long way with Plug and Play, but it still has a long way to go. I'd love to play with Linux on a laptop, but I know I just can't go buy any laptop and have a hope of it actually working. And then wireless would be problemative, not to mention the inferior power management. A good part of this is Catch 22. There are often no drivers, or inferior ones, for a product because little attention is given to Linux drivers. That is slowly changing, but not fast enough.
When Linux can handle a USB memory card reader with ease, multiple types of digital cameras, desktop integration of CD and DVD burning (which I don't use, but many ppl like this), effortless setup of audio cards (which is still a nightmare) and similar modern ease of use features, it will be close to being a desktop competitor. But for now, it sits as a workstation and server OS with limited appeal.
I got introduced to BASIC by a teletype in my 7th grade math class in the mid 70s. Our teacher did a week on probability and statistics and we capped off that phase by playing blackjack on the computer which was hooked up to the HP2000C/F mainframe at the local Junior College via a leased line (I'm guessing 300 baud).
At the tender age of 12, I was completely enthralled with the technology. I asked the teacher if he had any books on programming, but all he had were the HP BASIC syntax manuals. I happily borrowed those and memorized the lion's share of the commands and started coding. BASIC was so straightforward that you need only program in a logical manner and you were churning out working code in no time.
I spent many hours at the computer lab in that local Junior College, churning through reams of paper at the disdain of the scuffy bearded sysadmins. I wrote simple games, I wrote complex games.
The game de jeur at the time was Star Trek, where you traversed your ASCII Enterprise through a matrix of sectors and saved the galaxy from the evil Klingons. I managed to snag the source code to it and despite all my BASIC coding for the last few years, most of how they coded it made no sense to me. Curious as to what the difference would be, I dove into writing my own version of Star Trek, a nearly identical work alike. The code was about 1/4 the number of lines, although it wasn't quite as fast. Still, I was pretty proud of the achievement as it was by far the largest program I'd ever written.
Those early days of BASIC slinging taught me alot about logic flow and how programs operate and pass data. Much of what I learned way back when still applies to my daily work. I don't sling code anymore, I turned away from that path 20 years ago. These days I do QA work and I work with Engineers and code all the time.
If BASIC hadn't provided those opportunities for me way back then, I wouldnt' be doing what I do now (which in some cases might be a good thing) and I sure as hell wouldn't know NEAR as much about computing as I do now, be it programming logic, networking or any related technology.
Sure, people laugh at BASIC now days. It's practically just a scripting language compared to modern languages. From it's very name it was never meant to be the king, but, at least for me, it served a very important foundational role in my technical development.
I look back upon the spilled paper tape hole bin days with a nostalgic fondness and smile.
I've met many degreed peoplel that didn't know squat and many without degrees that really knew their stuff. And conversely as well.
What that means to me is what the person has done and their potential for learning is more important than whether some school gave them a gold star or not. You can apply yourself and learn a great deal in or out of school.
Sure, you can't judge recent grads too well by this measure, but they have little experience anyways.
A degree is more valuable in computing now than it was 15 or 20 years ago, mainly because coursework has caught up. But even so, 4 years in school doesn't beat 6 to 8 years real world experience if the person is sharp.
Batteries that recharge in 30 seconds!
Good news, they cost the same as current rechargeables.
Bad news, that 30 second charge is only good for 5 minutes of use.
For the discerning viewer, I'd like to point out some key words in my original post...
"unlikely" and "rarely"
Those do not equate with words and phrases such as:
"never" or "when hell freezes over"
Yes, some shows have recovered to some extent. Such cases are "rare" and occurance of such is "unlikely."
Do shows ever really recover from cancellation? Sure, there's some convulsions before rigamortis sets in, but rarely is there a rebirth, if ever.
Now, if it WERE to happen, I'd be immensely happy. I'm a big fan of Farscape. The humor is priceless ("Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, what makes you think you can guarantee my safety?").
I look forward to the miniseries eagerly and I must admit I wonder how they'll write themselves out of the series finale where Crighton and Sun were literally vaporized.
(grabs popcorn)
Gambling is illegal in most US states with a few exceptions (Atlantic City, Nevada, Indian reservations). I don't see an issue with the US not wanting to permit online gambling.
Certain types of business are prone to infiltration and control by criminal elements. Gambling is notorioius for this, hence the restrictions we have in the US.
I'm all for free trade, it makes for a stronger world economy all around, but if some organization demands we permit trade of a commodity or service which is illegal in our country, they're out of line.
If they are reporting it as spam, then it's email they don't wish to receive. That means you should stop sending it, even if they previously agreed to receive email from you.
You let your woman experience pleasure from another man's TiVo?
I don't really consider myself old fashioned by any means, but I would certainly have my limits. There's no way I could stand for letting my wife tenderly run her fingers over another man's remote.
At least tell me she didn't get the Season Pass?
You have been fooled by that tricky name. (Eddie Rickenbacker was an American Ace in WW1, btw).
Ricks are American Made. You see them used by quite a few classic icons. Lennon played one, Tom Petty, The Byrds, The Bangles, REM and loads more.
While known for their very distinct, jangly sound (own 2 myself, love em), one distinctive characteristic of most Rick's is the dual truss rods in the neck.
You can be quite versatile with the western 12 semitone scale. The I, IV and V chords for any given key harmonize with every note in the scale, so you can harmonize any melody just using...
you got it... THREE CHORDS.
Using anything but those three is color and style. Which I am personally very fond of. But I can appreciate mastery of the form in using only I, IV and V or mostly that. Beethoven often used those primary chords, although never exclusively. The 5th Symphony is a good example of that. God, if Beethoven had only had a Rickenbacher and a Marshall Stack.... His style is clearly an early ancestor of Hard Rock.
I'm not a big fan of sampling tunes. Sounds, yes. Tunes, no. Learn from your colleagues, by all means, but don't rip em off. Make your art completely your own. And if you really must include someone's work, license it!
What if it resulted in a 35% marketshare?
Can you say iPod?
I know that about 6 months ago Pixar was migrating to OS X in house and were hiring techs to install and admin the new gear.
I'm assuming (yeah, I know) from comments here, that the mass migration to OS X didn't include the render farm, but just development boxes, artists computers, secretary's solitaire box, etc...
I'm sure that in a year when it's time to upgrade their farm, they'll be installing 4GHz Dual G5 XServes or whatever similar configuration Apple is shipping then.
While cost per box is a factor, time is a factor in CGI movie development as well. Virginia Univ. proved that 1100 G5s can make an exceptionally cost effective super computer that is #3 in the world. The #1 and #2 systems cost far more and neither of them use Intel processors (NEC and I think HP PA/RISC).
Pixar has migrated machines and OS use a few times in the past and I'm sure they'll continue to use what works best for thier business as the computing market evolves. Right now OS X and G5s are excellent choices for them and if Steve has his way, I'm sure it'll stay that way for a while.
There needs to be a partner organization, perhaps named:
Fraternity of Artists of Digitally Downloaded Electronic Recordings
aka FADDER. Then in a joing assembly with both groups, the MC could start off by saying:
Hello MUDDER, Hello FADDER
You don't get it, do you?
IBM has tried to force a market change before... and failed dismally. OS/2 was more like SLO-S/2. The only GUI that I've ever used that was even more of a dog was opening folders on an O2 box running IRIX. (Double click...wait 10 seconds, wait 10 seconds for fancy 3D animation, wait 10 seconds for new window to draw).
And let's not get into the stunning desktop capabilities of AIX.... Now THERE is an oxymoron... Desktop AIX system.
But who knows, maybe IBM can learn from their mistakes this time. At least any failure on their part probably won't take down Linux with it. It'll just leave a bad taste in people's mouths that will be forgotten in a couple years.
Doesn't make a whole lot of difference whether it's internal or external. The only difference really is in quantity and IBM is a pretty big company.
By tossing it 100% internally, they just relegate themselves to ignorance of what their customers use.
It would be business suicide for IBM to ditch Windows on it's desktop systems in 2005.
While I'm far from an MS fanboi, Linux isn't ready to take the place of Windows on the desktop. It's not ready technically or graphically or from a design perspective, that is, the fluidity of the GUI. It's also not ready from a market perspective. Windows is the juggernaut. For IBM to ditch the market leader would be consigning their desktop division to massive losses.
I'd like to see a world where companies were free from market pressure to ship Windows or Linux or OS X and that all three could live equally in the computing world, sold to areas where they could leverage each OS's strengths.
But then I long for a world with ethical politicians and businessmen, where there will be peace in the middle east and that upper management will always make good decisions, so I don't think it's likely to happen.
Don't block SMTP or POP thank you. Block my mail and I won't be a happy wi fi customer.
Seeing as I can't load the site and the google cache that's been posted shows no images, I'd say that their site not only blows, but sucks as well...
I don't think the Norse tie in is irrelevant when viewed in conjunction with the name. Alone it's irrelevant, but WITH it, it adds fuel to Mythic's fire.
"The stole our name AND it's based on the same mythologies AND it's an MMORPG AND..."
I rented the disks from Netflix because I'm a big Buffy and Angel fan after having got into both series years after they debuted. I never even heard of Firefly until after it was cancelled.
So I rented it just to see what all the hub bub was about. As I watched the first two parter, I was thinking, no wonder this got cancelled, it's kinda boring. But I forced myself to finish watching the rest of the disk.
I'm glad I did. I found that I started to care what happened to each character as I watched more episodes. While I was indifferent at first, by the time I wrapped up Disk 4, I was almost solemnly putting the disk back in its sleeve to mail back to Netflix.
It's a good show and worth giving it the time to win you over. Too bad Fox didn't do that. I don't think it'll come back as a series again, certainly not on Fox, but they are working on a movie (probably TV movie).
So what's the deal about good SciFi shows getting cancelled? Farscape was a fantastic show, certainly worthy of more seasons. I think Firefly had some longevity to it, too. Just think, if they hadn't given Buffy more than 13 episodes... There'd be no Witchblade, no Dark Angel, no Bird of Prey, no ActionSciFi Show with buttkicking chicks!
Asd they say, it takes money to make money. Be willing to give these shows a chance!
HFS or HFS+?
HFS is deprecated since about 1998. Although I did discover that RH9, which says it supports HFS volumes, would mount an HFS+ volume.
If I read the details correctly, you could create a gigapixel image by scanning an 8x10 at a very high resolution. It would require about 5000ppi for an 8x10, but you could simply scan an 11x17 at 3200ppi as well. Both of these would result in a gigapixel image, digitally created.
Of course, it would need to be TRUE resolution, non-interpolated, but I think there may be high end scanning devices that can do this these days.
Such an image would fit the requirements stated and be far easier to produce...no stitching!