Steve Jobs said it at the WWDC keynoe when it was announced in June of last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP37O0horpY#t=6m44s "We're going to the standards bodies starting tomorrow and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
In the larger and and more critical config files usually we'd validate and keep it under revision control. Unless it's writing out an ascii config file, it's hard to diff a gui or work with example configs. It would be a major pain to take a screen shot of every tab if it's as vebose/complex as you described (and even harder validating from a screen shot of an old config).
The gui can have niceties like drop downs for enumerated lists or auto-correct for formatting (such as phone numbers).
Traditionally games render the world and keep it between 0 and 1 (zero being black/completely dark and 1 being white). HDR is computing values above and below and clipping so things that are blown out (like reflections and highlights) are super white. I think it was an update to Half Life 2 that first did this in a commercial game.
In photography, they take multiple exposures and stick them in to an HDR image. Then, they use tone mapping to convert it to an 8-bit visible image. Tone-mapped images are generally called HDR, even though that's a misnomer.
I think there's a couple reasons. The first, and probably most significant, is nostalgia by film makers. They love the motion blur of 24fps. It helps evoke the "feeling" of film. Every film student I know either wants to shoot or convert their footage to 24fps. There is a noticeable difference. When you start increasing the resolution and frame rate, you lose motion blur and it starts to look like home video or video games (when generally don't compute motion blur at all).
Another big issue is the amount of light. When you have more frames in a second, each frame has less light to suck up. It's a big issue with high-speed film. Having sensors that are more light-sensitive is a fairly recent thing (combined with advanced noise reduction) and will continuously get better.
The stuttering is something cinematographers keep in mind when shooting (or at least, they should). I read an article about shooting imax and they said the biggest problem was the stuttering. They're also using 24fps, but the screens are much larger. When you pan, the object could jump 2 to 3 feet per frame. They intentionally had slower pans to compensate. You noticing this is probably a side-effect of larger theatrical screen and larger tvs at home.
I've done work with HFH and I'm pretty sure "almost always" is an exaggeration. But, even if you're right, not all OSS is free labor. Companies like Red Hat pay lots of engineers. In addition, companies like the one I work for have contracts with Red Hat and pay them to implement new features.
Isn't that something a software update could take care of? I know it's not reasonable to expect development resources for a game that's been out awhile, but Bungie seems like a fairly large company that would have the resources to send a few guys to look at that scenario.
I think those problems are because once you have a successful business model, you then try and diversify without undermining the successful business model. I feel it's a totally different ballgame. Although, this doesn't exactly explain Vista, win mobile, and digital music (but other than to compete with Apple, why would they have pioneered digital music?)
I think entrepreneurs are good at working at what they got, usually with a single strong vision of what they want and usually working well with limited resources.
Taking version numbers at face value, I'd look in to both. While usually a higher version software is more established, newer software is more likely written using more modern paradigms (and perhaps more flexible and applicable to my situation).
I would get mighty concerned if a Google search didn't mention previous version. And, like mentioned in the siblings, if version 6 acted like a vers 1 with missing features and huge buglist.
Which is why it should be a user option... give the user advanced controls over this and they'll love you forever. Just find one nice default and leave it at that for the less savvy users - this is simple enough for the developer to do without needing someone in QA to do it.
This sounds like more work (QA with optionX on, QA with optionX off, evaluate if optionX does what it's supposed to do)
Make your app skinnable. You'll never please everyone otherwise. For the "default" skin, just keep it DEAD simple and follow standard practices on your OS for layout (I'm thinking, as an example, Visual Studio's "snap to place" placement stuff)
Now this sounds like a whole lot more work. I agree with a dead simple, standard practices, default skin, but I HATE this obsession that each and every tool needs to be completely skinnable. Why the heck would anyone want each an every app to look and work completely inconsistently? 99% of the themes are junk and most have the same layout of the original app, just different colors. I don't know how or why, but many have backgrounds/text that make the most important parts of the app hard to distinguish from the rest of the app. There are very few skins that are decent out of the many sea of horrible ones. I can't think of any instance where I preferred it over the default (since the default skin is what the whole app was designed around), and I've tried themes for winamp, gtk, kde, windowblinds(xp), wmp, firefox, and probably 20 more applications that don't need it.
They would still need to QA to see if widget and placement were working. In addition to writing this theaming engine.
* Subtitle Placement
Again, should be a user option.
From what I understand that information is usually encoded in the original track. So they're just testing if the video player is positioning properly.
You make it sound like they wouldn't have to write or test the code that does these things. In practice it causes way more testing and limitations when refactoring code.
I haven't read any of the news on this but people I know who are in the USAF involved with the Cyber Command said this was just a temporary delay anyway. Due to the nuclear transport problem a few months ago top people left and things were put on hold while the new guys got caught up to speed.
It's been quite awhile since 6th grade, but they had a similar thing for us. I figured out early on that I can skip the homework and ace the weekly tests and get an 80 or 90% (something that equated to a B). At the end of the year my teacher only let A students take the test to skip the next year of math. I didn't know about the test until the end of the semester when he told us about "his criteria to take the test."
Shhh... Don't tell them how easy it would be for someone like Apple to create an SD dongle for legacy iPods then integrate support for new iPods (glad their Dock Connector doesn't support USB or you could even take advantage of the aforementioned tiny USB sleeve). A small software update for support and you can listen to that music as you're walking out of the store.
Well, it does. The "300% increase in javascript speed" browsers like to advertise with new versions actually means something. It's akin to a site using SVG or CSS3--except it does work with every browser, it's just slow.
Yes, this data may not be served by the site hosting the iframe, but they could have javascript that sends the data right back to them without your intervention. If you do click something, that can also send your private data to them without javscript (after all, isn't that the point of what they're trying to do?).
While I think any *nix admin would benifit from being comfortable with CLI I don't know of an elegant way of setting this up via GUI.
Everything depends on your DE. I've never done administration as anything more than a hobby. All I have in front of me is Gnome (which I wouldn't expect to have it). In googling and poking around this box, it looks like it's built in to certian apps without options for different users.
I'm not sure about any other DEs, but Gnome looks to be missing this. Oh, and just to check, I changed the command for an icon to "sudo -u apache gnome-terminal" which just hung for a few mins then quit.
What I was implying is what you said. Yes, it's one idea, but you have to develop it to see if it works. If time and focus is spent on **new_lighting_effect**, it will reduce prototyping and research in to innovative gameplay.
It's the most realistic possible way of rendering It only provides realistic rendering of reflections, refractions, and shadows. There are still many more properties of light that take different, also intensive algorithms reproduce like; color bleeding, caustics, sub-surface scattering, depth of field.
I'm sure there's some market for these things, but there's so much more involved even after these algorithms are implemented. Now you have to add settings (or additional texture maps), for each object (or light). As soon add something with live reflections, you can't even throw away what's not on screen (or facing away from camera). So your memory requirements jump just because of that. There's many things that have to come in to place for these technologies are adopted widely. A lot of these algorithms have been around for over 25 years already and are just seeing wide adoption in feature films (most would be surprised at how much is faked, even today).
I hope there's a class of games that don't use these things or take 1 or 2 of these things and use them in innovative ways. While I like the WW2 (or futuristic) FPS games, I feel all that dev time is better spent on innovative game play.
Sorry that the brief reply I planned turned in to a rant.
I don't really see why a central proxy is significantly faster than a phone with a well-designed name resolver plus a well-designed browser, and a web server which supports Content-Encoding:gzip.
Never used Opera on a cellphone, but from what I've read, the proxy will scale down the images before sending to the browser. No need to download the full res if you're viewing on a tiny screen. The browser does give you the option to download the full res version if requested, but i'm sure 90% of the time you're just using the images for navigation.
I'm sure it's obvious by now, but scaling down the images will reduce the bandwidth way more than gzipping them. Also, the proxy could add gzip compression even if the web server doesn't use it.
Sorry I didn't read your whole comment... but it brought up something that really bugs me. People spending $30k+ on an oversized car they only use once or twice when it would be obviously more environmentally/fiscally/whatever conscious to buy a smaller car and rent a large one when needed. Everyone suggests doing that for road trips anyway.
sorry for being off topic... back to your scheduled program.
Yeah, you can certainly do some stabilization. It would still look funny because your would still get motion blur but without the camera movements to motivate it. Unless you decreased the shutter time to reduce that in the first place.
As with most camera things changed in post (like correcting the exposure), it's a heck of a lot easier to just do it right when you shoot it. That's why we shoot test footage.
This could indeed happen on any system. I saw a Perl script in Linux just today that said ${directory}/file. The directory variable was empty and it tried to write to/file. Fortunately, it didn't have permissions to do anything damaging. Hopefully it would have been better written if it did run with those permissions.
Didn't Quake have an autoexec.bat file as a startup script?
Apple did some research years ago regarding using the mouse vs using keyboard shortcuts. As it turned out, people always tended to *think* using the keyboard was faster, but the clock showed that using the mouse was faster. The conclusion was that using the keyboard required active thinking... That cannot be true. I'm not saying the commandline is always faster, but it is for many things. The keyboard does not always require "active thinking." Most keyboard shortcuts are muscle memory for me. I'm about intermediately skilled in vi and when people ask me what key sequence I type for something I have to look at the keys because I dunno the name, just where they where.
However, just yesterday I needed to delete all but a few files (all similarly named). I'm immediately went to a GUI becuase my other option would have been to delete each one line by line or come up with some weird regex to match them.
They each have their benefits and I'm sure Apple's study showed the mouse was more advantageous for their goals and audience.
Odd thing is that I had canceled my service about a month earlier. I called to opt out because I saw "releasing my personal information to third parties to help improve my service" mentioned in the update.
My guess is, since I have could opt out, my contract wouldn't have been altered--so I may not be able to get out of contract. What also sucks is even though my service was canceled, they still have my information, and their contract and terms are likely still applicable.
I called the number and they said I had some "special circumstance" and had to do something else to opt out (write a letter or call some call center during a designated time). It's not even easy to opt out =(
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Steve Jobs said it at the WWDC keynoe when it was announced in June of last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP37O0horpY#t=6m44s
"We're going to the standards bodies starting tomorrow and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
Sorry for the YouTube link, I couldn't load Quicktime streaming here.
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/wwdc-2010/
In the larger and and more critical config files usually we'd validate and keep it under revision control. Unless it's writing out an ascii config file, it's hard to diff a gui or work with example configs. It would be a major pain to take a screen shot of every tab if it's as vebose/complex as you described (and even harder validating from a screen shot of an old config).
The gui can have niceties like drop downs for enumerated lists or auto-correct for formatting (such as phone numbers).
I find it kind of funny that HDR means the opposite thing in photography versus video games
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7391/1244894383293.jpg (pulled from some old digg post)
Traditionally games render the world and keep it between 0 and 1 (zero being black/completely dark and 1 being white). HDR is computing values above and below and clipping so things that are blown out (like reflections and highlights) are super white. I think it was an update to Half Life 2 that first did this in a commercial game.
In photography, they take multiple exposures and stick them in to an HDR image. Then, they use tone mapping to convert it to an 8-bit visible image. Tone-mapped images are generally called HDR, even though that's a misnomer.
Roger Ebert asked the same thing (on page 4)
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/30/why-i-hate-3-d-and-you-should-too.html
I think there's a couple reasons. The first, and probably most significant, is nostalgia by film makers. They love the motion blur of 24fps. It helps evoke the "feeling" of film. Every film student I know either wants to shoot or convert their footage to 24fps. There is a noticeable difference. When you start increasing the resolution and frame rate, you lose motion blur and it starts to look like home video or video games (when generally don't compute motion blur at all).
Another big issue is the amount of light. When you have more frames in a second, each frame has less light to suck up. It's a big issue with high-speed film. Having sensors that are more light-sensitive is a fairly recent thing (combined with advanced noise reduction) and will continuously get better.
The stuttering is something cinematographers keep in mind when shooting (or at least, they should). I read an article about shooting imax and they said the biggest problem was the stuttering. They're also using 24fps, but the screens are much larger. When you pan, the object could jump 2 to 3 feet per frame. They intentionally had slower pans to compensate. You noticing this is probably a side-effect of larger theatrical screen and larger tvs at home.
I've done work with HFH and I'm pretty sure "almost always" is an exaggeration. But, even if you're right, not all OSS is free labor. Companies like Red Hat pay lots of engineers. In addition, companies like the one I work for have contracts with Red Hat and pay them to implement new features.
Isn't that something a software update could take care of? I know it's not reasonable to expect development resources for a game that's been out awhile, but Bungie seems like a fairly large company that would have the resources to send a few guys to look at that scenario.
I think those problems are because once you have a successful business model, you then try and diversify without undermining the successful business model. I feel it's a totally different ballgame. Although, this doesn't exactly explain Vista, win mobile, and digital music (but other than to compete with Apple, why would they have pioneered digital music?)
I think entrepreneurs are good at working at what they got, usually with a single strong vision of what they want and usually working well with limited resources.
Taking version numbers at face value, I'd look in to both. While usually a higher version software is more established, newer software is more likely written using more modern paradigms (and perhaps more flexible and applicable to my situation).
I would get mighty concerned if a Google search didn't mention previous version. And, like mentioned in the siblings, if version 6 acted like a vers 1 with missing features and huge buglist.
Which is why it should be a user option... give the user advanced controls over this and they'll love you forever. Just find one nice default and leave it at that for the less savvy users - this is simple enough for the developer to do without needing someone in QA to do it.
This sounds like more work (QA with optionX on, QA with optionX off, evaluate if optionX does what it's supposed to do)
Make your app skinnable. You'll never please everyone otherwise. For the "default" skin, just keep it DEAD simple and follow standard practices on your OS for layout (I'm thinking, as an example, Visual Studio's "snap to place" placement stuff)
Now this sounds like a whole lot more work. I agree with a dead simple, standard practices, default skin, but I HATE this obsession that each and every tool needs to be completely skinnable. Why the heck would anyone want each an every app to look and work completely inconsistently? 99% of the themes are junk and most have the same layout of the original app, just different colors. I don't know how or why, but many have backgrounds/text that make the most important parts of the app hard to distinguish from the rest of the app. There are very few skins that are decent out of the many sea of horrible ones. I can't think of any instance where I preferred it over the default (since the default skin is what the whole app was designed around), and I've tried themes for winamp, gtk, kde, windowblinds(xp), wmp, firefox, and probably 20 more applications that don't need it.
They would still need to QA to see if widget and placement were working. In addition to writing this theaming engine.
* Subtitle Placement
Again, should be a user option.
From what I understand that information is usually encoded in the original track. So they're just testing if the video player is positioning properly.
You make it sound like they wouldn't have to write or test the code that does these things. In practice it causes way more testing and limitations when refactoring code.
I haven't read any of the news on this but people I know who are in the USAF involved with the Cyber Command said this was just a temporary delay anyway. Due to the nuclear transport problem a few months ago top people left and things were put on hold while the new guys got caught up to speed.
It's been quite awhile since 6th grade, but they had a similar thing for us. I figured out early on that I can skip the homework and ace the weekly tests and get an 80 or 90% (something that equated to a B). At the end of the year my teacher only let A students take the test to skip the next year of math. I didn't know about the test until the end of the semester when he told us about "his criteria to take the test."
Shhh... Don't tell them how easy it would be for someone like Apple to create an SD dongle for legacy iPods then integrate support for new iPods (glad their Dock Connector doesn't support USB or you could even take advantage of the aforementioned tiny USB sleeve). A small software update for support and you can listen to that music as you're walking out of the store.
What browser I'm using shouldn't be relevant.
Well, it does. The "300% increase in javascript speed" browsers like to advertise with new versions actually means something. It's akin to a site using SVG or CSS3--except it does work with every browser, it's just slow.
Yes, this data may not be served by the site hosting the iframe, but they could have javascript that sends the data right back to them without your intervention. If you do click something, that can also send your private data to them without javscript (after all, isn't that the point of what they're trying to do?).
It still looks like your data is at risk.
While I think any *nix admin would benifit from being comfortable with CLI I don't know of an elegant way of setting this up via GUI.
Everything depends on your DE. I've never done administration as anything more than a hobby. All I have in front of me is Gnome (which I wouldn't expect to have it). In googling and poking around this box, it looks like it's built in to certian apps without options for different users.
This page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePanelEnhancementsIdeas under "GNOME menus and sudo" looks to be struggling with something related to this in Gnome.
I'm not sure about any other DEs, but Gnome looks to be missing this. Oh, and just to check, I changed the command for an icon to "sudo -u apache gnome-terminal" which just hung for a few mins then quit.
sudo -u
The -u (user) option causes sudo to run the specified command as a user other than root. To specify a uid instead of a username, use #uid.
What I was implying is what you said. Yes, it's one idea, but you have to develop it to see if it works. If time and focus is spent on **new_lighting_effect**, it will reduce prototyping and research in to innovative gameplay.
I'm sure there's some market for these things, but there's so much more involved even after these algorithms are implemented. Now you have to add settings (or additional texture maps), for each object (or light). As soon add something with live reflections, you can't even throw away what's not on screen (or facing away from camera). So your memory requirements jump just because of that. There's many things that have to come in to place for these technologies are adopted widely. A lot of these algorithms have been around for over 25 years already and are just seeing wide adoption in feature films (most would be surprised at how much is faked, even today).
I hope there's a class of games that don't use these things or take 1 or 2 of these things and use them in innovative ways. While I like the WW2 (or futuristic) FPS games, I feel all that dev time is better spent on innovative game play.
Sorry that the brief reply I planned turned in to a rant.
I don't really see why a central proxy is significantly faster than a phone with a well-designed name resolver plus a well-designed browser, and a web server which supports Content-Encoding:gzip.
Never used Opera on a cellphone, but from what I've read, the proxy will scale down the images before sending to the browser. No need to download the full res if you're viewing on a tiny screen. The browser does give you the option to download the full res version if requested, but i'm sure 90% of the time you're just using the images for navigation.I'm sure it's obvious by now, but scaling down the images will reduce the bandwidth way more than gzipping them. Also, the proxy could add gzip compression even if the web server doesn't use it.
Sorry I didn't read your whole comment... but it brought up something that really bugs me. People spending $30k+ on an oversized car they only use once or twice when it would be obviously more environmentally/fiscally/whatever conscious to buy a smaller car and rent a large one when needed. Everyone suggests doing that for road trips anyway.
sorry for being off topic... back to your scheduled program.
Yeah, you can certainly do some stabilization. It would still look funny because your would still get motion blur but without the camera movements to motivate it. Unless you decreased the shutter time to reduce that in the first place.
As with most camera things changed in post (like correcting the exposure), it's a heck of a lot easier to just do it right when you shoot it. That's why we shoot test footage.
This could indeed happen on any system. I saw a Perl script in Linux just today that said ${directory}/file. The directory variable was empty and it tried to write to /file. Fortunately, it didn't have permissions to do anything damaging. Hopefully it would have been better written if it did run with those permissions.
Didn't Quake have an autoexec.bat file as a startup script?
However, just yesterday I needed to delete all but a few files (all similarly named). I'm immediately went to a GUI becuase my other option would have been to delete each one line by line or come up with some weird regex to match them.
They each have their benefits and I'm sure Apple's study showed the mouse was more advantageous for their goals and audience.
Odd thing is that I had canceled my service about a month earlier. I called to opt out because I saw "releasing my personal information to third parties to help improve my service" mentioned in the update.
My guess is, since I have could opt out, my contract wouldn't have been altered--so I may not be able to get out of contract. What also sucks is even though my service was canceled, they still have my information, and their contract and terms are likely still applicable.
I called the number and they said I had some "special circumstance" and had to do something else to opt out (write a letter or call some call center during a designated time). It's not even easy to opt out =(