Well, the real television industry standard has been Betacam, not Betamax. There are two HUGE difference between the two: Betacam records in component format, while Betamax is composite, and Betacam records at a much higher tape speed. Although Betacam grew from Betamax, it's not fair to say that Betamax ruled television. That's like saying PS/2's have ruled computing for 20 years.
Believe me, most HP employees couldn't be happier about this. Take it from my Uncle Gary, an engineer:
I am extremely happy to announce my departure from HP. My last day is September 15, next Thursday. It will be a day of celebration!!
In their effort to get rid of employees, an "enhanced early retirement" package (EER) was offered to those who met age and length-of-employment criteria (age 50 or higher, employed 15 years or more). I squeaked in. I looked at the "enhancement" incentive, which for me amounted to 10 months salary, tax defered. Deal. I'm outta there, and not a minute too soon.
About 100 people at the Vancouver site were eligible; all but a half dozen or so took the offer. We're all walking around with ear-to-ear grins. Everyone else is saying "you lucky dogs". In the business group I work in (Imaging and Printing) 449 people took EER. The company is saying they will boot another 800 real soon. Then there will be another round of booting next year.
This is the best thing that could have happened and it came unexpectedly. I doubt this generosity will happen again, and the employees left behind are extremely bummed.
First of all, the effect is purported only to be incorporated in certain high-quality laser devices. The typical ink-jet printer and even your standard SOHO/business-class color printer/copier can't get even close to the quality of reproducing currency, not to mention the ridiculously difficult process of implementing color management. So why would they bother? We are talking about high-quality, high-speed professional output devices.
Secondly, you attack the grandparent, yet ignore evidence (the Doc12) presented in the article.
And third, much of what you write is simply innacurate. There's been some discussion here about rewriting the drivers. Believe me, this has nothing to do with drivers or even printer firmware. This is all happening in-RIP. What is a RIP? It's a Raster Image Processor, and it's a dedicated box that specifically translates printer files, be it PCL 5, 6, or PostScript, into the raster image that will be printed on the page. Guess what? Nobody buys a $6,000-$40,000 RIP or a $20,000 high-speed printer without getting a service contract to go with it. And what do you need when you have a service contract? A serial number, of course.
Also, your statement that 1200 dpi output produces visible jaggies, is patently false. Pick up a book and look at it. The paper in that book was inked by an impression cylinder, which was inked by a plate, which was probably made from film, which was produced by an imagesetter, which received a file from a RIP that was -- wait, let's take a guess, how much? -- about 1200 dpi! 1200 dpi was specifically chosen because the human eye cannot see the corners of the dots. Every printed piece you look at was RIPped at about 1200dpi.
And yes, microdots are real. Microdots, sometimes called spots, are what make up dots. The 600/300 lpi (lines per inch, not dots per inch) quality limit has everything to do with a) the ability of the RIP software to rasterize an image into line screens, and b) the reality that dot gain ('bleed', as you call it) makes printing 4-color process impossible at much higher of a line screen. But is it possible to lay down one microdot/spot, all by itself, and for it to stay just fine without interference from any other nearby dots? Of course! Even your ink jet can do this, by simply spraying out a bit of ink as the nozzle closes. Believe me, they do this at HP.
Give the poster a break. Obviously, he works for a small company. Xerox, on the other hand, happens to have an exclusive contract with Kinko's, so there's about 5,000 Doc12's out there with bored college kids messing around with them on the night shift. Are you telling me you think nobody's ever even tried to counterfeit currency?
Your stubbornness amazes me viewed in context with your absolute ignorance to the subject.
Sincerely,
Ryan Kirk
Did you read the article? If they're using ACL's, they probably also thought about who can access web resources. Really, blocking IP blocks does no good when attacks are spoofed anyway, PLUS they are probably originating from zombie US machines in the first place.
EVERY product should turn a profit after a certain amount of time, be it one or five years. It sounds to me like you're confusing products that have already hit the market and products still under R&D. You'd be hard-pressed to find a product that sat on the market for two years, unchanged, and then suddenly took off. On the other hand, automobiles take years to develop before they hit the market. Having a research group (HP still has a pretty good one, actually) unfettered by these rules is a good thing, so that creativity isn't stifled and technology can mature, but it sounds like you don't know the difference between an R&D group and a product you can buy off the shelf.
Then you don't know much, since you have absolutely no way to know how much each product line makes. But if you used just a little bit of logic, you'd probably realize that Microsoft is probably doing pretty good on those $130 bluetooth keyboards. Not to mention they have a virtual monopoly on split keyboards.
Microsoft is not stupid. When I was in college, one of my professors was the former VP of Worldwide Sales. His boss was Ballmer, and as much as I didn't like him or MS, he was one of the most intelligent professors I had in my four years at school. He required every product to turn a profit within a certain number of quarters, I think it was four. This is pretty typical in the business world (refer to the post about NT).
Do you really think a multibillion dollar company is stupid enough to sell everything at a loss except for its two cash cows? MS doesn't have any loss leaders; they consider themselves a premium provider.
Unless you have some facts to back up your argument...??
The long battery life has less to do with Linux and more to do with its internal power management chip. This is an analog (yes, non-digital) chip produced by National Semiconductor.
I know. My uncle designed it.:)
Ah, exactly. Isn't that what politics is all about? Style? Image? Perception?
Don't get me wrong, that's not my opinion, but it's how they're perceived by the public.
It's easy to trust a smile.
Just to play devil's advocate, Bush isn't the only recent president to have committed treason, but he got reelected because the American people could not see Kerry as a replacement. If the Democratic Party could get it together, find a nominee that doesn't disagree with him/herself on a weekly basis, and actually has an opinion about something, maybe the Bushes could be overthrown. Take Hilary, for example. Even midwestern soccer moms like her because she's "strong." The phrase "Anybody but Bush" brought a nobody to the table. Who do you think the people will vote for--the wrong but predictable slightly-crooked guy with the smile, or the block of lead that turns orange every time he visits the east coast?
While that may have been an attempt to sound smart and sophisticated, may I remind you that any attempt to haughtily correct a 'humorous' post will usually result in a backlash, such as this.
No, you may not remind me of what I already know! Take a joke!
I've had this idea for a while now too. The best part is, pr0n sites would voluntarily go to.xxx, because pr0n sites want to be found. They would want to be on the.xxx domain, because search engines could filter out everything except.xxx domain. Or, vice versa, if you don't want to see any.xxx search results, you don't have to see them.
Back in the DOS/Win days, my favorite trick was to insert an echo line into autoexec.bat such as "You have contracted the Piglet virus. Your hard drive will soon be erased." followed by the 'pause' command. Ha, you should have seen them, nobody wanted to be the first person to press the any key... wait, where's the 'any key'??!!
Productivity is measured in dollars, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the function of a company. As I said, many see it as their function to make money. The best ones realize, however, that their function is to provide value to a customer. Make the customer happy, and the money will follow. Be a penny-pinching grinch, and the customer will have a bad experience and walk away. Take a minute and think about which companies you like doing business with. It's the ones that treat you right, not hassle you.
doing things the Right Way has long-term benefits that overshadow the "quick fix."
The other half of the problem is, technical people have a difficult time relating things in a way that makes sense to a manager. You can't just say, "This is the right way, I'm technical, listen to me cause I'm right." You have to say, "It will only take two days to patch this code here, but the product will be XX% more unreliable / it will only last for a year, at which point we'll have to do xx% more work, which will cost $XX. As you can see, it's less expensive in the long run to rework it right now, etc.
Most companies see it as their function to make money. That's a neanderthal way of looking at things now days, but it's true. If you can't relate what you're doing into dollars, you may as well give up before you've even started.
Obviously you don't know anything about applied color and calibration. Calibration is one of the biggest issues in any segment of the communication industry, most notably printing. Even the same monitor (CRT of course) can display color noticably different after warming up for an hour, and especially from day to day, week to week, and so on. If you're designing anything for print that involve a corporate logo, spot colors, or product matching, you have to calibrate your monitor *every single day*. And that's no good unless all your input and output devices (scanners, printers, filmsetters) are calibrated as well. Basically, color is about the most difficult thing to control across the entire workflow, from the minute the photographer opens the shutter until days after the piece is printed and the ink is dry.
Not to mention the fact that different monitor manufactures use different white points and temperatures. X-Rite, GretagMacBeth, and Pantone are three of the most popular providers of color management systems, and believe me, they're not cheap.
I understand that SF can be meant to stand for "Science Fiction," though I don't think I've ever heard anybody say "I like to read a lot of SF." However, when we have virtually unlimited screen real estate, is it really necessary to shorten 'SciFi' to 'SF'? It's just a difference of three letters. Living in the Bay Area, I immediately thought this was an electic group of liberal-minded San Francisco writers publishing something scandalous under a "traditional" publisher. Guess the joke's on me.
My wife's aunt is a recruiter at Google. There is only one basic requirement: PhD. In almost anything. If you don't have one of those, don't even bother going through the 14 interviews, you won't get the job.
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What is this goatse? Is there a picture or something you can show me so I can get an idea of what you're talking about?
Well, the real television industry standard has been Betacam, not Betamax. There are two HUGE difference between the two: Betacam records in component format, while Betamax is composite, and Betacam records at a much higher tape speed. Although Betacam grew from Betamax, it's not fair to say that Betamax ruled television. That's like saying PS/2's have ruled computing for 20 years.
Believe me, most HP employees couldn't be happier about this. Take it from my Uncle Gary, an engineer:
I am extremely happy to announce my departure from HP. My last day is September 15, next Thursday. It will be a day of celebration!!
In their effort to get rid of employees, an "enhanced early retirement" package (EER) was offered to those who met age and length-of-employment criteria (age 50 or higher, employed 15 years or more). I squeaked in. I looked at the "enhancement" incentive, which for me amounted to 10 months salary, tax defered. Deal. I'm outta there, and not a minute too soon.
About 100 people at the Vancouver site were eligible; all but a half dozen or so took the offer. We're all walking around with ear-to-ear grins. Everyone else is saying "you lucky dogs". In the business group I work in (Imaging and Printing) 449 people took EER. The company is saying they will boot another 800 real soon. Then there will be another round of booting next year.
This is the best thing that could have happened and it came unexpectedly. I doubt this generosity will happen again, and the employees left behind
are extremely bummed.
First of all, the effect is purported only to be incorporated in certain high-quality laser devices. The typical ink-jet printer and even your standard SOHO/business-class color printer/copier can't get even close to the quality of reproducing currency, not to mention the ridiculously difficult process of implementing color management. So why would they bother? We are talking about high-quality, high-speed professional output devices. Secondly, you attack the grandparent, yet ignore evidence (the Doc12) presented in the article. And third, much of what you write is simply innacurate. There's been some discussion here about rewriting the drivers. Believe me, this has nothing to do with drivers or even printer firmware. This is all happening in-RIP. What is a RIP? It's a Raster Image Processor, and it's a dedicated box that specifically translates printer files, be it PCL 5, 6, or PostScript, into the raster image that will be printed on the page. Guess what? Nobody buys a $6,000-$40,000 RIP or a $20,000 high-speed printer without getting a service contract to go with it. And what do you need when you have a service contract? A serial number, of course. Also, your statement that 1200 dpi output produces visible jaggies, is patently false. Pick up a book and look at it. The paper in that book was inked by an impression cylinder, which was inked by a plate, which was probably made from film, which was produced by an imagesetter, which received a file from a RIP that was -- wait, let's take a guess, how much? -- about 1200 dpi! 1200 dpi was specifically chosen because the human eye cannot see the corners of the dots. Every printed piece you look at was RIPped at about 1200dpi. And yes, microdots are real. Microdots, sometimes called spots, are what make up dots. The 600/300 lpi (lines per inch, not dots per inch) quality limit has everything to do with a) the ability of the RIP software to rasterize an image into line screens, and b) the reality that dot gain ('bleed', as you call it) makes printing 4-color process impossible at much higher of a line screen. But is it possible to lay down one microdot/spot, all by itself, and for it to stay just fine without interference from any other nearby dots? Of course! Even your ink jet can do this, by simply spraying out a bit of ink as the nozzle closes. Believe me, they do this at HP. Give the poster a break. Obviously, he works for a small company. Xerox, on the other hand, happens to have an exclusive contract with Kinko's, so there's about 5,000 Doc12's out there with bored college kids messing around with them on the night shift. Are you telling me you think nobody's ever even tried to counterfeit currency? Your stubbornness amazes me viewed in context with your absolute ignorance to the subject. Sincerely, Ryan Kirk
And it's in Comic Sans, nonetheless!!!
Stop using "quotes" whenever you want to "emphasize" something! Seriously, was it a note or a "note?"
Did you read the article? If they're using ACL's, they probably also thought about who can access web resources. Really, blocking IP blocks does no good when attacks are spoofed anyway, PLUS they are probably originating from zombie US machines in the first place.
EVERY product should turn a profit after a certain amount of time, be it one or five years. It sounds to me like you're confusing products that have already hit the market and products still under R&D. You'd be hard-pressed to find a product that sat on the market for two years, unchanged, and then suddenly took off. On the other hand, automobiles take years to develop before they hit the market. Having a research group (HP still has a pretty good one, actually) unfettered by these rules is a good thing, so that creativity isn't stifled and technology can mature, but it sounds like you don't know the difference between an R&D group and a product you can buy off the shelf.
Then you don't know much, since you have absolutely no way to know how much each product line makes. But if you used just a little bit of logic, you'd probably realize that Microsoft is probably doing pretty good on those $130 bluetooth keyboards. Not to mention they have a virtual monopoly on split keyboards.
Microsoft is not stupid. When I was in college, one of my professors was the former VP of Worldwide Sales. His boss was Ballmer, and as much as I didn't like him or MS, he was one of the most intelligent professors I had in my four years at school. He required every product to turn a profit within a certain number of quarters, I think it was four. This is pretty typical in the business world (refer to the post about NT).
Do you really think a multibillion dollar company is stupid enough to sell everything at a loss except for its two cash cows? MS doesn't have any loss leaders; they consider themselves a premium provider.
Unless you have some facts to back up your argument...??
The long battery life has less to do with Linux and more to do with its internal power management chip. This is an analog (yes, non-digital) chip produced by National Semiconductor. I know. My uncle designed it. :)
Ah, exactly. Isn't that what politics is all about? Style? Image? Perception? Don't get me wrong, that's not my opinion, but it's how they're perceived by the public. It's easy to trust a smile.
Lying under oath = perjury = treason.
Just to play devil's advocate, Bush isn't the only recent president to have committed treason, but he got reelected because the American people could not see Kerry as a replacement. If the Democratic Party could get it together, find a nominee that doesn't disagree with him/herself on a weekly basis, and actually has an opinion about something, maybe the Bushes could be overthrown. Take Hilary, for example. Even midwestern soccer moms like her because she's "strong." The phrase "Anybody but Bush" brought a nobody to the table. Who do you think the people will vote for--the wrong but predictable slightly-crooked guy with the smile, or the block of lead that turns orange every time he visits the east coast?
With somebody else (NOT Dean), we could've won...
While that may have been an attempt to sound smart and sophisticated, may I remind you that any attempt to haughtily correct a 'humorous' post will usually result in a backlash, such as this. No, you may not remind me of what I already know! Take a joke!
Okay, here we go, trying it right now. rm -Rf / , Okay, nothing happening, nosiree, everything here seems to be just fi
I've had this idea for a while now too. The best part is, pr0n sites would voluntarily go to .xxx, because pr0n sites want to be found. They would want to be on the .xxx domain, because search engines could filter out everything except .xxx domain. Or, vice versa, if you don't want to see any .xxx search results, you don't have to see them.
Not so sure about the yacht thing... Gasoline is a commodity. There's simply no room in any commodity market to charge above market value.
Why is it that some people have problems with a good old-fashioned profitable business? Google has to make money somehow...
Cannot find intelligence. http://www.somethingawful.com/nointelligence/index .htm
Back in the DOS/Win days, my favorite trick was to insert an echo line into autoexec.bat such as "You have contracted the Piglet virus. Your hard drive will soon be erased." followed by the 'pause' command. Ha, you should have seen them, nobody wanted to be the first person to press the any key... wait, where's the 'any key'??!!
The other half of the problem is, technical people have a difficult time relating things in a way that makes sense to a manager. You can't just say, "This is the right way, I'm technical, listen to me cause I'm right." You have to say, "It will only take two days to patch this code here, but the product will be XX% more unreliable / it will only last for a year, at which point we'll have to do xx% more work, which will cost $XX. As you can see, it's less expensive in the long run to rework it right now, etc.
Most companies see it as their function to make money. That's a neanderthal way of looking at things now days, but it's true. If you can't relate what you're doing into dollars, you may as well give up before you've even started.
Obviously you don't know anything about applied color and calibration. Calibration is one of the biggest issues in any segment of the communication industry, most notably printing. Even the same monitor (CRT of course) can display color noticably different after warming up for an hour, and especially from day to day, week to week, and so on. If you're designing anything for print that involve a corporate logo, spot colors, or product matching, you have to calibrate your monitor *every single day*. And that's no good unless all your input and output devices (scanners, printers, filmsetters) are calibrated as well. Basically, color is about the most difficult thing to control across the entire workflow, from the minute the photographer opens the shutter until days after the piece is printed and the ink is dry.
Not to mention the fact that different monitor manufactures use different white points and temperatures. X-Rite, GretagMacBeth, and Pantone are three of the most popular providers of color management systems, and believe me, they're not cheap.
I understand that SF can be meant to stand for "Science Fiction," though I don't think I've ever heard anybody say "I like to read a lot of SF." However, when we have virtually unlimited screen real estate, is it really necessary to shorten 'SciFi' to 'SF'? It's just a difference of three letters. Living in the Bay Area, I immediately thought this was an electic group of liberal-minded San Francisco writers publishing something scandalous under a "traditional" publisher. Guess the joke's on me.
Okay. How about a lawyer that writes for Linux Insider?
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/35193.html
My wife's aunt is a recruiter at Google. There is only one basic requirement: PhD. In almost anything. If you don't have one of those, don't even bother going through the 14 interviews, you won't get the job.
Unless you want to be a recruiter.