I'd be curious to see what this would look like if you excluded immigrants
You could find out by doing a study on Indians only, I guess.:-)
But in fact, there seems to be a growing concern about always less students or highly qualified scientists coming to the US, especially since immigration has become increasingly difficult after 9/11, or simply because more people rather stay in their country or continent.
And Google is opening a European R&D center to get closer to European scientists who don't wish to emigrate, and to keep some current employees who want to leave the US.
If you need a multi platform program, this one seems to cover them all. Amiga,
BeOS, VMS, you name it... It looks like it even runs on a plain text terminal,
so I could probably set it up to handle my mail on my 486 Linux firewall. Or
maybe on my coffee machine? I'll have to look whether there
is a pre-compiled version for La Pavoni
(because the Pavoni's don't come with a compiler).
But even though I do like text terminals, shells and command lines, I don't
think that is how I would like to manage my email. Not even to spare my eyes
all the pictures and colors the HTML spam throws at them.
For me, I'm still staying with Eudora, and only occasionally use Thunderbird when I want to send an HTML mail, and it's a bit too complex for Eudora, but not enough to use Dreamweaver and put it on a web site.
Eudora is neither open source nor even free (there is a "sponsored" version with ads), and does not run on Linux. However, on Windows (or Mac), it's still the best I know: plain text mail storage, separation of atachments, regular expression searches, and the most powerful filtering I have seen (on any arbitrary header and/or the body, including with regex'es, and with several "actions" happening sequentially with filtered mails)
better off trying in Spain; it isn't much different from Italy as far as lifestyle goes
I beg to disagree. And would cite one of the major aspects of quality of life: FOOD. Italy is fantastic: unless you only go to the lousy trattorias around the Rome train station, you can pretty much go anywhere and the food will be at least decent, and most probably very good. Hey, it's the only country I know where you can even eat in highway restaurant! Spain is quite different. And even if you take care to only go to the right places, the food quickly gets boring. And that's a pity, because they have great products, like fantastic tomatoes, and an olive oil that can often be better than the italian (and _much_ cheaper too).
Well, that was for the gastronomic point of view...:-)
Does being Canadian make it easier to get employed in Europe?
From an administrative viewpoint, I don't know.
But from a relational viewpoint, it may well ease the first step.
At least, people won't think there is one chance out of 2 that you're a Bush supporter. He's not liked much around here. In fact, he managed to destroy a centuries-long European love for Americans.
Canadians have a much better "image" here. They are supposed to be more politicall correct:-).
It wasn't originally. Even before Avid bought ProTools, the Avid projects could easily be moved to ProTools for sound editing. But it certainly helps if they are now the same company.
a classmate [...] spent a minimal $11,000 [...] and it won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Palme d'or? The exageration is only minimal, I guess?:-)
Just for fun, here they are all, since 1975 when the Palme d'Or was created (was called the Grand Prix before). None of these was a $11'000 student film. (That's just for silly nitpicking. I completely agree with your basic comment).
1975 Chronique des années de braise de Mohammed Lakdhar-Hamina
1976 Taxi Driver de Martin Scorsese
1977 Padre padrone de Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
1978 L'arbre au sabots d'Ermanno Olmi
1979 Apocalypse now de Francis Ford Coppola
1979 Le tambour de Volker Schlondorff
1980 Kagemusha d'Akira Kurosawa
1980 Que le spectacle commence de Bob Fosse
1981 L'homme de fer d'Andrej Wajda
1982 Missing de Costa-Gavras
1982 Yol d'Yilmas Güney
1983 La ballade de Narayama de Shohei Imamura
1984 Paris, Texas de Wim Wenders
1985 Papa est en voyage d'affaires d'Emir Kustrica
By and large, every editor I know of loathes FCP and swears by Avid.
Not my experience in Europe. Both are used, and while FCP has some serious limitations for some projects, many editors like it's interface more than Avid's. I'm not an editor myself, but it seems that many editors (usually completely computer-illiterate) find the FCP interface more intuitive, and tend to just plain like it. Then they get mad when their media files get lost, which seems to happen a lot, or when there are technical problems with sound on DAT/time-code/mixing on ProTools. (don't know the details, but it seems the path from DAT to ProTools is often easier and more straightforward through Avid than through FCP)
the whole industry was moving to Apple's Final Cut Pro
1. The whole industry is not low-budget independent movies cut on the director's personal Mac.
Avid is still the major editing equipment, be it in television or for film. What percentage of major hollywood movies are cut on FCP? My guess would be something between 1 and 10%?
But, more important is
2. The equipment used is irrelevant. Editing is not the skill of pressing the right buttons. They could learn it on an old Steenbeck: no technology at all, absolutely nothing to learn other than how to tell the story, and how to cut it well. Instead, they loose probably more than half the time learning technical details which change anyway as the tools change, and which they could learn in the relevant user manual when they need it.
3. Separate from editing, some basic technology lessons would certainly be useful, and not only for editors. But for the technical aspects, they shouldn't be taught Avid OR FCP. They should be taught some very basic computer stuff (I know young filmmakers who don't really know what a hard disk is! or a directory/folder), and basic non-linear editing principles, and an overview of both Avid AND FCP, because in the real world they will be using both for a while, and then maybe something else.
There are already far too many "editors" who only know pressing the right buttons very quickly, but don't have a clue about how to build a good film out of the material the director brought into the editing room.
I can sure understand that you don't want to bother your correspondents with stuff they wouldn't understand anyway.
But this MS-TNEF shit most probably comes to you through their Exchange server, where I think the problem can be fixed globally.
Try sending a mail to their administrator about it, or to postmaster@their-domain. He probably didn't reall want the users to send out TNEF mails and will be glad to fix it when he hears about the problem. As an admin for a few small businesses, I would definitely like to be notified if my clients start sending out TNEF, and would quickly fix it. It actuall did hapen a couple of times. Unfortunately, I can't remember for sure if I could fix it on the server or had to fix it on the client machine, but I think it was somewhere in Exchange.
-it's the best known solvent in existance (i.e. it dissolves the most stuff).
This reminds me that it is used in homeopathy. The problem is that it seems the active substance is diluted so much that there is probably not a single molecule of it left in the water. Yet, it works. As far as I know, scientists don't have a clue about how it can work, and many tend to doubt it does. Competent homeopats may have theories about how it works, but these theories never seemed to make much sense to me (they actually sound to my layman's ears as just some mystical crap).
How can seemingly plain water sometimes be so incredibly effective as a medicine? Nobody seems to know, but as a father, I was just amazed at the effects. (And please, don't mention "placebo"; that can work too sometimes, but then why don't antibiotics have the same placebo effect? And does the placebo effect work on small children?)
So for me, there certainly is room for new discoveries about water (and matter in general).
What I was thinking of was to display the pictures, not the full web pages. If I want to see the full web pages and be able to click in them, there are plenty of URLs in my email, just waiting for my eagerness to click. But just the pictures, randomly taken from spammers web sites might be fun (at least for a few minutes, before they start boring me).
They say that the screen saver downloads the pages, but that it does not display them. If they take the only potential fun out of it, who do they expect to actually use their silly thing?
I might have had some fun for a while with a screen saver displaying random spammer's pictures, but without it, why bother...
Now that freedom isn't as in anymore, what about "Command lines. Later, they tell us. But we know the time is now!"?
I believe we should have learned about the command line in school, because it is such a simple and basic thing. But since schools don't seem to think so, maybe this is the opportunity to learn it in a minute right here, rather than later:
The basic principle is to type
some_command some_options some_arguments
Then, press the Enter key.
Of course, you are not expected to remember the commands that are available or the exact options they accept. That's why you have a few very basic commands, which are the only ones you need to remember. In Windows, type help. When you found the command you feel may be what you need, type help command_name or command_name/?. The last form will also work with external commands.
In Linux, type apropos something to find commands related to "something". Once you found the command, either type man some_command or some_command --help to get the details you need.
In Windows, you will notice that options are preceded with "/". In Unix, it's "--" or "-" for single-letter options. Also, in Unix options are always right after the command, while in Windows, they can sometimes be after the arguments.
Well, that's about it. The huge adavantage, is that these commands can become quite complex, but can be simply copy-paste'd from web pages, emails, whatever, instead of going for a hunt through zillions of menus and options with constantly changing names and layouts. And you can send the resulting screen to your favorite geek if sommething is unclear.
Try the simple
ping debian.org.
Isn't it easier for checking your network than starting IE and then getting absolutely no useful information out of it if it doesn't work?
as a person stuck with XP because I just don't have time to know everything about Linux to install it and keep it running
Do you feel that with XP, you just install it and that's it?
Even though I'm quite experienced with Windows systems and with XP, it seems to always need at least about a day of clicking around to get something usable out of it. In fact, when setting up XP for clients, I do bill about a day to set up all the needed applications and do all the required configuration.
I'm not saying Desktop Linux systems are any better. I don't know, I only use Linux on servers, and have no real experience with desktop Linux systems.
For servers, I do feel them to be much easier to set up and configure than Windows servers. If I forget where some option is, I just grep the files in/etc with some relevant word. In Windows, I have to Google for much longer until I find the correct checkbox in some obscure sub-menu of one of the numerous control panels.
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I'd be curious to see what this would look like if you excluded immigrants
:-)
You could find out by doing a study on Indians only, I guess.
But in fact, there seems to be a growing concern about always less students or highly qualified scientists coming to the US, especially since immigration has become increasingly difficult after 9/11, or simply because more people rather stay in their country or continent.
And Google is opening a European R&D center to get closer to European scientists who don't wish to emigrate, and to keep some current employees who want to leave the US.
There was a nice article by Frank Rich in the NYTimes on this, but unfortunately, you would have to pay to read it now.
Just in case you have a subscription or don't mind the price: The Great Indecency Hoax
Oh, wait! There's a free copy here.
better off trying in Spain; it isn't much different from Italy as far as lifestyle goes
:-)
I beg to disagree. And would cite one of the major aspects of quality of life: FOOD. Italy is fantastic: unless you only go to the lousy trattorias around the Rome train station, you can pretty much go anywhere and the food will be at least decent, and most probably very good. Hey, it's the only country I know where you can even eat in highway restaurant! Spain is quite different. And even if you take care to only go to the right places, the food quickly gets boring. And that's a pity, because they have great products, like fantastic tomatoes, and an olive oil that can often be better than the italian (and _much_ cheaper too).
Well, that was for the gastronomic point of view...
Does being Canadian make it easier to get employed in Europe?
:-).
From an administrative viewpoint, I don't know.
But from a relational viewpoint, it may well ease the first step.
At least, people won't think there is one chance out of 2 that you're a Bush supporter. He's not liked much around here. In fact, he managed to destroy a centuries-long European love for Americans.
Canadians have a much better "image" here. They are supposed to be more politicall correct
On the subjec (partly at least) this is definitely an interesting read for a point of view the public seldom gets to hear: Courtney Love does the math, By Courtney Love
Avoiding mail from the military sounds defiinitely like a Good Thing!
It does seem to support Unicode on Windows now.
It wasn't originally. Even before Avid bought ProTools, the Avid projects could easily be moved to ProTools for sound editing. But it certainly helps if they are now the same company.
OK, sorry. Indeed, there is a short film award which is also called "Palme d'or" (du court métrage). Didn't know that.
a classmate [...] spent a minimal $11,000 [...] and it won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Palme d'or? The exageration is only minimal, I guess? :-)
Just for fun, here they are all, since 1975 when the Palme d'Or was created (was called the Grand Prix before). None of these was a $11'000 student film. (That's just for silly nitpicking. I completely agree with your basic comment).
- 1975 Chronique des années de braise de Mohammed Lakdhar-Hamina
- 1976 Taxi Driver de Martin Scorsese
- 1977 Padre padrone de Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
- 1978 L'arbre au sabots d'Ermanno Olmi
- 1979 Apocalypse now de Francis Ford Coppola
- 1979 Le tambour de Volker Schlondorff
- 1980 Kagemusha d'Akira Kurosawa
- 1980 Que le spectacle commence de Bob Fosse
- 1981 L'homme de fer d'Andrej Wajda
- 1982 Missing de Costa-Gavras
- 1982 Yol d'Yilmas Güney
- 1983 La ballade de Narayama de Shohei Imamura
- 1984 Paris, Texas de Wim Wenders
- 1985 Papa est en voyage d'affaires d'Emir Kustrica
- 1986 Mission de Roland Joffé
- 1987 Sous le soleil de Satan de Maurice Pialat
- 1988 Pelle le conquérant de Bille August
- 1989 Sexe, mensonge et vidéo de Steven Soderbergh
- 1990 Sailor et Lula de David Lynch
- 1991 Barton Fink de Joël & Ethan Coen
- 1992 Les meilleurs intentions de Bille August
- 1993 Adieu ma concubine de Chen Kaige
- 1993 La leçon de piano de Jane Campion
- 1994 Pulp fiction de Quentin Tarantino
- 1995 Underground d'Emir Kusturica
- 1996 Secrets et mensonges de Mike Leigh
- 1997 L'anguille de Shohei Imamura
- 1997 Le goût de la cerise d'Abbas Kiarostami
- 1998 L'éternité et un jour de Théo Angelopoulos
- 1999 Rosetta de Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- 2000 Dancer in the dark de Lars Von Trier
- 2001 La chambre du fils de Nanni Moretti
- 2002 Le pianiste de Roman Polanski
- 2003 Elephant de Gus Van Sant
- 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 de Michael Moore
(source: http://www.ifrance.com/cinemaetcie/CANNES.htm)By and large, every editor I know of loathes FCP and swears by Avid.
Not my experience in Europe. Both are used, and while FCP has some serious limitations for some projects, many editors like it's interface more than Avid's. I'm not an editor myself, but it seems that many editors (usually completely computer-illiterate) find the FCP interface more intuitive, and tend to just plain like it. Then they get mad when their media files get lost, which seems to happen a lot, or when there are technical problems with sound on DAT/time-code/mixing on ProTools. (don't know the details, but it seems the path from DAT to ProTools is often easier and more straightforward through Avid than through FCP)
the whole industry was moving to Apple's Final Cut Pro
1. The whole industry is not low-budget independent movies cut on the director's personal Mac.
Avid is still the major editing equipment, be it in television or for film. What percentage of major hollywood movies are cut on FCP? My guess would be something between 1 and 10%?
But, more important is
2. The equipment used is irrelevant. Editing is not the skill of pressing the right buttons. They could learn it on an old Steenbeck: no technology at all, absolutely nothing to learn other than how to tell the story, and how to cut it well. Instead, they loose probably more than half the time learning technical details which change anyway as the tools change, and which they could learn in the relevant user manual when they need it.
3. Separate from editing, some basic technology lessons would certainly be useful, and not only for editors. But for the technical aspects, they shouldn't be taught Avid OR FCP. They should be taught some very basic computer stuff (I know young filmmakers who don't really know what a hard disk is! or a directory/folder), and basic non-linear editing principles, and an overview of both Avid AND FCP, because in the real world they will be using both for a while, and then maybe something else.
There are already far too many "editors" who only know pressing the right buttons very quickly, but don't have a clue about how to build a good film out of the material the director brought into the editing room.
I can sure understand that you don't want to bother your correspondents with stuff they wouldn't understand anyway.
But this MS-TNEF shit most probably comes to you through their Exchange server, where I think the problem can be fixed globally.
Try sending a mail to their administrator about it, or to postmaster@their-domain. He probably didn't reall want the users to send out TNEF mails and will be glad to fix it when he hears about the problem. As an admin for a few small businesses, I would definitely like to be notified if my clients start sending out TNEF, and would quickly fix it. It actuall did hapen a couple of times. Unfortunately, I can't remember for sure if I could fix it on the server or had to fix it on the client machine, but I think it was somewhere in Exchange.
Allegedly they sent the editor of Nature and James Randi to debunk him.
On Sunday, October 3, 2004 ?
Shit!...
Seriously, interesting link.
Where he talks about some of the Acme:: modules: Perl 2003 Advent Calendar: Acme::Code::FreedomFighter.
Then, you can go explore the rest of the Acme namespace.
-it's the best known solvent in existance (i.e. it dissolves the most stuff).
This reminds me that it is used in homeopathy. The problem is that it seems the active substance is diluted so much that there is probably not a single molecule of it left in the water. Yet, it works. As far as I know, scientists don't have a clue about how it can work, and many tend to doubt it does. Competent homeopats may have theories about how it works, but these theories never seemed to make much sense to me (they actually sound to my layman's ears as just some mystical crap).
How can seemingly plain water sometimes be so incredibly effective as a medicine? Nobody seems to know, but as a father, I was just amazed at the effects. (And please, don't mention "placebo"; that can work too sometimes, but then why don't antibiotics have the same placebo effect? And does the placebo effect work on small children?)
So for me, there certainly is room for new discoveries about water (and matter in general).
What I was thinking of was to display the pictures, not the full web pages. If I want to see the full web pages and be able to click in them, there are plenty of URLs in my email, just waiting for my eagerness to click. But just the pictures, randomly taken from spammers web sites might be fun (at least for a few minutes, before they start boring me).
They say that the screen saver downloads the pages, but that it does not display them. If they take the only potential fun out of it, who do they expect to actually use their silly thing?
I might have had some fun for a while with a screen saver displaying random spammer's pictures, but without it, why bother...
Too bad, but I cannot expect my share of these attractive $10.2 billion.
For our European friends who don't understand miles per gallon, here is Googles conversion: 67 mpg in liters per kilometer:
67 miles per gallon = 3.51066544 liters per 100 kilometers
(can I have split and join in Java, please?)
What? There is no split or join in Java?? I know there isn't in Visual Basic or VBA, but then, what do you expect from VB* anyway...
But Java, and even javascript, I would have thought to be a little more programmer-friendly.
Well, I see there are still many good reasons to stay with Perl...
After that, they can see in what else they already have at their fingertips.
And of course, even non-cheap non-beginners will continue using the rest of perldoc.
"Freedom. Later, they tell us. But we know the time is now!".
Now that freedom isn't as in anymore, what about "Command lines. Later, they tell us. But we know the time is now!"?
I believe we should have learned about the command line in school, because it is such a simple and basic thing. But since schools don't seem to think so, maybe this is the opportunity to learn it in a minute right here, rather than later:
The basic principle is to type Then, press the Enter key.
Of course, you are not expected to remember the commands that are available or the exact options they accept. That's why you have a few very basic commands, which are the only ones you need to remember. In Windows, type help . When you found the command you feel may be what you need, type help command_name or command_name
In Linux, type apropos something to find commands related to "something". Once you found the command, either type man some_command or some_command --help to get the details you need.
In Windows, you will notice that options are preceded with "/". In Unix, it's "--" or "-" for single-letter options. Also, in Unix options are always right after the command, while in Windows, they can sometimes be after the arguments.
Well, that's about it. The huge adavantage, is that these commands can become quite complex, but can be simply copy-paste'd from web pages, emails, whatever, instead of going for a hunt through zillions of menus and options with constantly changing names and layouts. And you can send the resulting screen to your favorite geek if sommething is unclear.
Try the simple
ping debian.org.
Isn't it easier for checking your network than starting IE and then getting absolutely no useful information out of it if it doesn't work?
as a person stuck with XP because I just don't have time to know everything about Linux to install it and keep it running
/etc with some relevant word. In Windows, I have to Google for much longer until I find the correct checkbox in some obscure sub-menu of one of the numerous control panels.
Do you feel that with XP, you just install it and that's it?
Even though I'm quite experienced with Windows systems and with XP, it seems to always need at least about a day of clicking around to get something usable out of it. In fact, when setting up XP for clients, I do bill about a day to set up all the needed applications and do all the required configuration.
I'm not saying Desktop Linux systems are any better. I don't know, I only use Linux on servers, and have no real experience with desktop Linux systems.
For servers, I do feel them to be much easier to set up and configure than Windows servers. If I forget where some option is, I just grep the files in