There's an old saying -- "It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation -- start with a large one.". Aircraft are very expensive to keep operating -- more expensive than most people realize.
for more bits per color channel. 8 bits is clearly not enough. 12 bits (linear) is almost, but not quite enough to represent what film can, or what the human eye can see. 16 bits is enough. But not for everything...
A seond use for more bits is various image based rendering techniques. For these, 16 bits is often not enough, unless you go floating point -- and even then, 32 bit floats will produce better results. These techniques often use "blacker than black" (negative values) and "whiter than white" (values > 1.0) as intermediate results of calculations.
As a side note lamenting the demise/withering into obscurity of a once great company, starting around 1992 with the reality engine, SGI made graphics pipelines with 12 bit/channel RGBA support from end to end. It is only recently that we see support for more than 8 bits/channel in the pc world.
I don't know about your world, but in mine, you need to know about fourier transforms and sampling theory (in addition to a good helping of linear algebra). So while I may not be doing starry backgrounds, I am making significantly more complex images than that. (No string theory, though.) And C, C++ and sometimes assembler are very good at that sort of thing.
Just because your world is uncool, don't assume everyone else's is equally so:-)
I was looking at the subject line... MS is rarely (if ever) exciting, and has arguably been on the wrong side of the law at times, so I was wondering which one you meant:-)
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If you don't immediately stop producing these compounds, we will pursue further legal remedies. These may involve tripe damages now that you are knowingly infringing on our client's IP rights.
Please have your executor or next of kin inform us in writing once you are in compliance with the intellectual property laws of this great nation.
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Having developed software for Windows and OSX, I can say that the way OSX does it with seperate text files containing XML is definitely nicer than the windows registry.
It's a little shallow to imply that because I quoted lenin or Stalin that I'm a pinko commie.
I'm a bit right of center myself, but no system is perfect -- pure capitalism works about as well as pure communism -- which is to say, not all that well in the real world, becuase people aren't perfect, nor are their governments. However, imperfect capitalism works much better than imperfect communism. The failure modes of capitalism and democracy are much more benign than those of comunism or other systems which easily and quickly degerate into totalitarian systems.
The only perfection to be found is in His Noodlyness.
This story certainly reminds me of what V.I. Lenin said -- "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them."
(Quote attributed to Lenin, but there's no real documented evidence to support his saying it. Stalin, on the other hand, definitely paraphrased it on at least one occasion.)
So it seems that for you, as it was for me, compensation is a significant reason for leaving. Do it. IBM feels comfortable and safe, I know, but you should get out now if they aren't paying you what youre worth.
I worked at IBM in Toronto for 8 years. And I agree with some of your sentiments, but it's not always as you portray. At the time, promotions were few and far between -- in my observation, you were either on the fast-track, and got promoted, or you weren't. Alias has been much better to me in this regard (and in many other regards as well).
I was never a really great fit for IBMs culture (or to be specific, the culture at the Toronto Lab at the time) -- I'm too much of a loose cannon for their tastes. (Although at my present employer, I probably don't qualify for that description, as there are some looser ones around here -- Yes, Duncan, I'm thinking about you:-) But I do believe that having some smart and talented people who are not always doing what they're told is a very good thing.
At least one person I worked with there (shared an office with for a time) is now an IBM Fellow. (Deservedly so, I should add -- he (Kevin Stoodley) is one of the sharpest people I've ever met or have the privilege of working with -- I could count the others in his league I've worked with on the fingers of 1 hand.)
In hindsight, overall I found IBM to be a good place to work -- they treated people with respect, and didn't jerk anyone around so far as I could see. Now, being older, and perhaps a bit more grown up (ok not that much:-), I would work there again if circumstances were appropriate, and the right opportunity arose. (That said, I'm not looking to leave Alias unless the Autodesk merger competly butchers the culture here -- have to wait and see what happens.)
>> Ok the fucking idiot who modded this informative should have his own neuticles forces up his asshole
I agree, it's a severe case of bad moderation -- I was trying to be funny -- not informative, or insightful. With any luck the meta-moderation system will take care of it.
The municipality is whining that they have unfunded pension liabilities - sounds like they are not competent to manage their financial affairs, and they're whining and trying to shift the blame. NASA is making it clear that google is paying them for for services that the minicipality would otherwise provide. Why should google pay twice, once to NASA and once to the municipality?
Perhaps you might to think for a moment... (I'm sorry, but idiotic statements like yours really annoy me)
They can use their own computerized equipment because it has gone through a lengthy test cycle with that airplane and been proven not to interfere with the *very* sensitive analog instrument landing system equipment still in use at most airports (and which is also often used on takeoff).
There have been reports of interference with ILS recievers from various electronic equipment. When the downside of screwing up is that hundreds of people die and millions of dollars worth of airplane turn into scrap metal, you tend to be a bit conservative in safety issues.
Oh, and when the flight crew tells you to do something, do it. Their instructions have the force of law. Interfereing with the safe completeion of a flight will wind up with your spending some serious time in PMITA federal prison.
(I'm sure your next question is why don't they upgrade their equipment to something less prone to interference -- they are in the process of doing that -- it takes many years of testing to assure safety (see paragraph above concerning downsides of screwups). These very long dev and test cycles assure extremely high prices (cheapest avaition GPS is about 10 times more expensive than a regular civillian one, and that unit is marked "Not for instrument flight", Instrument rated GPS recievers are even more expensive). And these high prices therefore assure very slow adoption of the new technology.)
To clarify my point -- I'm not necessarily suggesting that they ditch balmer -- he runs that place about as well as could be expected -- but the recently reported behaviour (true or not) really tarnishes their image, and is definitely not in their interest. They need a bit of a make-over in this regard. And that's certainly not going to be all that easy.
Blasphemy!
Everyone knows that the number of Vikings has nothing to do with global temperature averages.
It's clearly the declining number of PIRATES that is the direct and sole cause of global warming.
Ramen
up and down, yes -- but there is a problem when the number of ups don't match the number of downs.
(Yes, technically all the shuttles have come back to earth -- I'm just saying that if it comes down in a couple thousand peices, that doesn't count.)
I once knew a guy (who is Korean) who wrapped his remotes in plastic wrap. I thoughtfully took out the batteries and similarly protected them (being careful to cover the terminals too:-), and put them back in the remotes.
I wish I could have seen his face when he found it. (He probably didn't think it was funny.)
Charles? Are you reading this? It was me -- I did it.
Back on topic -- The one thing I don't like about my ipod is its propensity to collect scratches. Could they not have used a more scratch resisant material? I guess not.
Close,
but I think much is explained by the following two axioms;
1: Thinking is hard
2: People are lazy
So people are stupid and uninformed *because* they are lazy.
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Yeah -- buying a 767 seems a bit stupid.
There's an old saying -- "It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation -- start with a large one.". Aircraft are very expensive to keep operating -- more expensive than most people realize.
Really? Through the entire GL pipeline, including textures? And 4 channels throughout? I'm surprised.
for more bits per color channel. 8 bits is clearly not enough. 12 bits (linear) is almost, but not quite enough to represent what film can, or what the human eye can see. 16 bits is enough. But not for everything...
A seond use for more bits is various image based rendering techniques. For these, 16 bits is often not enough, unless you go floating point -- and even then, 32 bit floats will produce better results. These techniques often use "blacker than black" (negative values) and "whiter than white" (values > 1.0) as intermediate results of calculations.
As a side note lamenting the demise/withering into obscurity of a once great company, starting around 1992 with the reality engine, SGI made graphics pipelines with 12 bit/channel RGBA support from end to end. It is only recently that we see support for more than 8 bits/channel in the pc world.
I don't know about your world, but in mine, you need to know about fourier transforms and sampling theory (in addition to a good helping of linear algebra). So while I may not be doing starry backgrounds, I am making significantly more complex images than that. (No string theory, though.) And C, C++ and sometimes assembler are very good at that sort of thing.
:-)
Just because your world is uncool, don't assume everyone else's is equally so
I was looking at the subject line... MS is rarely (if ever) exciting, and has arguably been on the wrong side of the law at times, so I was wondering which one you meant :-)
Which one do you mean? "Legitimate", or "excited"?
Dear Human being,
It has recently come to our attention that you are, merely by existing as a live human, infringing on several of our client's patents. Specifically, the production in your body, of human growth hormone, adrenaline, testosterone or estrogen, adenosine triphosphate, and insulin are all in violation of one or more patents and other intellectual property owned by our clients.
If you don't immediately stop producing these compounds, we will pursue further legal remedies.
These may involve tripe damages now that you are knowingly infringing on our client's IP rights.
Please have your executor or next of kin inform us in writing once you are in compliance with the intellectual property laws of this great nation.
Regards
Robert Dewey,
Sr. Partner,
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe,
Attourneys at Law.
Having developed software for Windows and OSX, I can say that the way OSX does it with seperate text files containing XML is definitely nicer than the windows registry.
It's a little shallow to imply that because I quoted lenin or Stalin that I'm a pinko commie.
I'm a bit right of center myself, but no system is perfect -- pure capitalism works about as well as pure communism -- which is to say, not all that well in the real world, becuase people aren't perfect, nor are their governments. However, imperfect capitalism works much better than imperfect communism. The failure modes of capitalism and democracy are much more benign than those of comunism or other systems which easily and quickly degerate into totalitarian systems.
The only perfection to be found is in His Noodlyness.
Ramen.
This story certainly reminds me of what V.I. Lenin said -- "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them."
(Quote attributed to Lenin, but there's no real documented evidence to support his saying it. Stalin, on the other hand, definitely paraphrased it on at least one occasion.)
So it seems that for you, as it was for me, compensation is a significant reason for leaving. Do it. IBM feels comfortable and safe, I know, but you should get out now if they aren't paying you what youre worth.
I worked at IBM in Toronto for 8 years. And I agree with some of your sentiments, but it's not always as you portray. At the time, promotions were few and far between -- in my observation, you were either on the fast-track, and got promoted, or you weren't. Alias has been much better to me in this regard (and in many other regards as well).
:-) But I do believe that having some smart and talented people who are not always doing what they're told is a very good thing.
:-), I would work there again if circumstances were appropriate, and the right opportunity arose. (That said, I'm not looking to leave Alias unless the Autodesk merger competly butchers the culture here -- have to wait and see what happens.)
I was never a really great fit for IBMs culture (or to be specific, the culture at the Toronto Lab at the time) -- I'm too much of a loose cannon for their tastes. (Although at my present employer, I probably don't qualify for that description, as there are some looser ones around here -- Yes, Duncan, I'm thinking about you
At least one person I worked with there (shared an office with for a time) is now an IBM Fellow. (Deservedly so, I should add -- he (Kevin Stoodley) is one of the sharpest people I've ever met or have the privilege of working with -- I could count the others in his league I've worked with on the fingers of 1 hand.)
In hindsight, overall I found IBM to be a good place to work -- they treated people with respect, and didn't jerk anyone around so far as I could see. Now, being older, and perhaps a bit more grown up (ok not that much
> (By the way, I am just joking.)
Of course, if you were really out to get him, that's what you'd want him to think eh?
>> Ok the fucking idiot who modded this informative should have his own neuticles forces up his asshole
I agree, it's a severe case of bad moderation -- I was trying to be funny -- not informative, or insightful. With any luck the meta-moderation system will take care of it.
My dog has neuticles, and while he thinks they feel the same, he doesn't think they taste the same as the real thing. :-)
The municipality is whining that they have unfunded pension liabilities - sounds like they are not competent to manage their financial affairs, and they're whining and trying to shift the blame. NASA is making it clear that google is paying them for for services that the minicipality would otherwise provide. Why should google pay twice, once to NASA and once to the municipality?
Perhaps you might to think for a moment... (I'm sorry, but idiotic statements like yours really annoy me)
They can use their own computerized equipment because it has gone through a lengthy test cycle with that airplane and been proven not to interfere with the *very* sensitive analog instrument landing system equipment still in use at most airports (and which is also often used on takeoff).
There have been reports of interference with ILS recievers from various electronic equipment. When the downside of screwing up is that hundreds of people die and millions of dollars worth of airplane turn into scrap metal, you tend to be a bit conservative in safety issues.
Oh, and when the flight crew tells you to do something, do it. Their instructions have the force of law. Interfereing with the safe completeion of a flight will wind up with your spending some serious time in PMITA federal prison.
(I'm sure your next question is why don't they upgrade their equipment to something less prone to interference -- they are in the process of doing that -- it takes many years of testing to assure safety (see paragraph above concerning downsides of screwups). These very long dev and test cycles assure extremely high prices (cheapest avaition GPS is about 10 times more expensive than a regular civillian one, and that unit is marked "Not for instrument flight", Instrument rated GPS recievers are even more expensive). And these high prices therefore assure very slow adoption of the new technology.)
Well, yes, but not apparently today.
I read that at first as a METHANE powered fuel cell If my laptop or MP3 player dies, I'd just pull my finger...
To clarify my point -- I'm not necessarily suggesting that they ditch balmer -- he runs that place about as well as could be expected -- but the recently reported behaviour (true or not) really tarnishes their image, and is definitely not in their interest. They need a bit of a make-over in this regard. And that's certainly not going to be all that easy.
They need to loose, not several, but about 280 pounds of chair throwing, swearing, monkey dancing flab.
Blasphemy! Everyone knows that the number of Vikings has nothing to do with global temperature averages. It's clearly the declining number of PIRATES that is the direct and sole cause of global warming. Ramen
up and down, yes -- but there is a problem when the number of ups don't match the number of downs. (Yes, technically all the shuttles have come back to earth -- I'm just saying that if it comes down in a couple thousand peices, that doesn't count.)
It's true
:-), and put them back in the remotes.
I once knew a guy (who is Korean) who wrapped his remotes in plastic wrap. I thoughtfully took out the batteries and similarly protected them (being careful to cover the terminals too
I wish I could have seen his face when he found it. (He probably didn't think it was funny.)
Charles? Are you reading this? It was me -- I did it.
Back on topic -- The one thing I don't like about my ipod is its propensity to collect scratches. Could they not have used a more scratch resisant material? I guess not.
Close, but I think much is explained by the following two axioms; 1: Thinking is hard 2: People are lazy So people are stupid and uninformed *because* they are lazy.