I gotta get me a job where I can royally fuck up a company and be given a severance package that includes more money than I could ever hope to spend in a lifetime.
About how much space we've mapped and yet... no life appears to be out there.
In order to find "life" we have to land a craft on a planet/moon and start digging under rocks for some sort of molecular/fossil evidence. The odds of landing precisely in the spot of an exposed fossil is, what, zero? We've only landed on Venus, Mars, the Moon and now one moon of Saturn. Only a few billion more to go before we can conclude we are somehow unique.
The biggest productivity gain comes from more RAM and faster processing power, especially in 3D/2D imaging. Windows 2000/XP and OSX are so similar on the application side (Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/Maya are identical on both platforms) that it really comes down to hardware speed. Hard disk speed also matters - a person slinging files around in Windows with a 15K rpm Seagate SCSI drive is going to be faster at that task than someone on OSX with a standard hard drive setup from Apple - and the GUI is irrelevant for something like that.
This thread seems a little pointless. Every OS has its merits and drawbacks. The continuous praise of OSX over Windows is simply religious in nature. I know so many long time Mac users who can't stand OSX. I'm not sure how Slashdot users can be 100% positive in favor of OSX when many of the Mac users I've met see OSX as a huge problem in terms of fast workflow. The hardware requirements (and cost) to run OSX applications at fast speeds is mindboggling.
I know this is going to get modded -5 Troll but I don't care.
The only thing Apple could do to get me back is announce dual-boot support for their new machines and bring the OS9 Finder up to 128 character filenaming. Until then, I will stick with OS9 on my old hardware and be more productive than doing the same thing on OSX with newer hardware. For my personal work I switched to Windows 2000 and have had more success than OSX - it's faster (by a wide margin) at the tasks I do daily. It's also cheaper, but still not as nice as OS9 when using Photoshop or Illustrator.
OS9 was killed prematurely. Take a look on eBay at the price of fast OS9 bootable machines - they are being bought for more $ than brand new G5's. This is a clue, Apple. It means many Apple users have seen the future (slow-ass OSX with bad driver support and a UI that is stupid looking) and they don't particularly like it. How about focusing on your long time customer base for a change? You know, the people that kept you in business when the "e" was being engraved on your tombstone back in 1996.
The Samsung Spinpoint drives are also designed to be quiet - they call it NoiseGuard and SilentSeek, whatever that means. Basically they are really quiet. Every drive I've had starts out quiet and gets louder as the bearings wear out. My WD and Maxtors developed ear-piercing whines. And the new Seagates are not as quiet as the older models, but they are better than Maxtor or WD.
Okayyy. So the new Mac boots Debian, but Apple is deliberately killing off OS 9 bootablity. Makes perfect sense. Why would we want a Mac that would run the thousands of dollars worth of Mac (pre-Carbon) software we've bought over the past 10 years that has no OS X counterpart? Oh yeah, to run at half the speed of OS 9 with OS X's reduced Finder and postscript printer driver functionality. Brilliant.
Not too technical, but in 3D computer graphics a "normal" is defined as a vector that is perpendicular to the face of a polygon. They are used for texture mapping and determining which side of a polygon needs to be rendered. Referring to people as "normals" just sounds really weird, imo. This is a very commonly used term in 3D graphics.
As far as moving into management goes, never turn down a promotion, even if you don't want it. You are dead at the company if you turn it down. Some people here say to "stick with being a techie". That's fine, but if you are offered a management job (more $) and decline, you will not be offered it again, at least with the same company. That's my experience, anyway. If you are nervous about a promotion like that, just take it when it's offered and forget about trying to preserve an existing positive work situation that is guaranteed to change regardless of your efforts to keep it the same. I've put this into practice and I'm much better off (professionally and financially) going with the flow instead of staying with what's comfortable.
If this guy walked into our office (ad agency), there is no way he would get a decent ad. We would certainly try, but how can you work with the "NOOOOOO....IT'S ONLY $99!!!!" mentality, not to mention a complete lack of any artistic sensibility? If you wonder why Microsoft's products looked like hell for the past 20 years (pre-XP) now you know. Gawd that's awful, even for internal use. Just because something is internal doesn't mean it has to be complete crud.
It has come to our attention that you have been posting confidential, proprietary marketing information in a public forum, for the express purpose of exposing underlying technology and processes held by Apple Computer, Inc. Apple aggressively enforces our company's proprietary rights under the U.S. copyright laws, therefore we ask that you remove all references to "ignorance level of the main user base" and "active brainwashing program", or any grammatical variations thereof. Thank you.
Maybe because Windows 2000/XP is not crap. I was productive for years on Mac OS 8/9 and now use Windows 2000 Pro, which is more stable than OS 8/9 or OSX (which is slow as hell, has more application crashes, and awful driver support compared to Windows).
Peripheral support matters a lot, and I would guess that most of the highend custom multimedia hardware requires Win2000 or XP and runs just fine.
I just don't get why people can't stabilize their Windows install. I love Win2000, more than any OS I've used. Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. work really well on it.
The problem with this is that evil companies or fly-by-night outfits are in a perpetual cycle of startup->profit->shutdown anyway. Forcing them to shut down means they just start another company somewhere else. Good companies like Toyota, for example, aren't going to do anything illegal anyway since they are too busy improving their products. So this simply forces good companies to spend that much more money on lawyers making sure they can't be found guilty of anything even remotely bad.
Also consider that for every law written, someone figures out how to get around it. In this case, companies could simply set up chains of companies ready to fly as soon as the Feds force a shutdown. They could even structure it so that assets are held by a separate company that is not legally tied to the "Evil, L.L.C.". As soon as "Evil, LLC" is shut down, "Evil2, L.L.C." starts up and assets are in the possession of the 3rd company ("Untouchable, Inc.") the entire time.
Google doesn't index as thoroughly or as often as Yahoo, a search engine that's trying very hard to increase their search capabilities and that includes image searching.
I have one small personal site and administer my company's (very basic) site, and Google doesn't index my personal site at all, versus Yahoo which has about 75 pages indexed (and some page come in on the top of a keyword search). Our company site receives search hits because we pay Google. If we didn't, nothing would be indexed. Image search for this site is also way, way behind (as in 6-12 months).
Google is great but Yahoo is catching up fast. The logs of my personal site show Yahoo's spider crawling it on a daily basis. Google is never there. I've complained to Google about not even being indexed on Google when Yahoo has me in several top 10 search results, but nothing has changed.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail"
Someone circle the word "abridge" in the dictionary and mail it to Congress.
A $200 card is a lowend piece of crap. Highend is the nVidia Quadro FX 4400, which costs $1500 (at least), has 30 GB/sec of memory bandwidth, and has 512MB of RAM. It can render 130 million triangles per second and can guarantee you will never see real sunlight.
I hate to support what this person is saying but I've had a hard time with my Athlon XP (2000+) recording audio. I am using a low end setup (Santa Cruz card), and I've had several recordings that were no good due to crackles and static which were fine when done with a low end Mac (running at only 466mHz) and a similar recording setup.
I love it for everything else though. Unless you must buy Intel, I have no idea why you wouldn't get an AMD and pay a lot less for the same performance.
I would recommend that the submitter take down the zips and images and reoptimize them as smaller size JPGs. A 650k file is just crazy for the actual image - which is only 512 pixels wide and blurry (due to depth of field effects). Just go into Photoshop, hit "Save for web", and you can resize and change the JPG settings to your hearts content. I got one of the files down to 12k and it looks fine. These are not highly detailed images to start with..PNG may be the format of choice for geeks worldwide, but I've always thought it was worthless.
The earliest releases of Apple's G3 233/266 motherboard had one component that would cause the motherboard to fail when faster processors were added (the Royal Technology brand voltage regulator module). I don't believe Apple ever issued a recall for this. There are also tons of reports of iBook motherboard failures, which Apple is recalling. They even have a link to this problem on the main page of their website.
There is practically no reason for the average (or above average) user to use PPC architecture when AMD is readily available, cheap, and fast.
All the talk of Firefox/Mozilla has finally caused me to look into trying some new browsers. Mozilla seems more feature-rich than Firefox, but Firefox is pretty cool, too. The Firefox devs should make tabbed browsing a default, however, as it's one of the nicest features of the browser. The overall appearance of Firefox seems much cleaner than Mozilla, which looks a little clunky.
Look's like there really is no reason to use IE anymore. Mozilla's download manager and popup blockers are a Godsend.
What else are you guys holding back? (And please don't say - "Have you tried Linux?!")
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I gotta get me a job where I can royally fuck up a company and be given a severance package that includes more money than I could ever hope to spend in a lifetime.
I hear that HP is hiring....
About how much space we've mapped and yet... no life appears to be out there.
In order to find "life" we have to land a craft on a planet/moon and start digging under rocks for some sort of molecular/fossil evidence. The odds of landing precisely in the spot of an exposed fossil is, what, zero? We've only landed on Venus, Mars, the Moon and now one moon of Saturn. Only a few billion more to go before we can conclude we are somehow unique.
The biggest productivity gain comes from more RAM and faster processing power, especially in 3D/2D imaging. Windows 2000/XP and OSX are so similar on the application side (Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/Maya are identical on both platforms) that it really comes down to hardware speed. Hard disk speed also matters - a person slinging files around in Windows with a 15K rpm Seagate SCSI drive is going to be faster at that task than someone on OSX with a standard hard drive setup from Apple - and the GUI is irrelevant for something like that.
This thread seems a little pointless. Every OS has its merits and drawbacks. The continuous praise of OSX over Windows is simply religious in nature. I know so many long time Mac users who can't stand OSX. I'm not sure how Slashdot users can be 100% positive in favor of OSX when many of the Mac users I've met see OSX as a huge problem in terms of fast workflow. The hardware requirements (and cost) to run OSX applications at fast speeds is mindboggling.
I know this is going to get modded -5 Troll but I don't care.
The only thing Apple could do to get me back is announce dual-boot support for their new machines and bring the OS9 Finder up to 128 character filenaming. Until then, I will stick with OS9 on my old hardware and be more productive than doing the same thing on OSX with newer hardware. For my personal work I switched to Windows 2000 and have had more success than OSX - it's faster (by a wide margin) at the tasks I do daily. It's also cheaper, but still not as nice as OS9 when using Photoshop or Illustrator.
OS9 was killed prematurely. Take a look on eBay at the price of fast OS9 bootable machines - they are being bought for more $ than brand new G5's. This is a clue, Apple. It means many Apple users have seen the future (slow-ass OSX with bad driver support and a UI that is stupid looking) and they don't particularly like it. How about focusing on your long time customer base for a change? You know, the people that kept you in business when the "e" was being engraved on your tombstone back in 1996.
The Samsung Spinpoint drives are also designed to be quiet - they call it NoiseGuard and SilentSeek, whatever that means. Basically they are really quiet. Every drive I've had starts out quiet and gets louder as the bearings wear out. My WD and Maxtors developed ear-piercing whines. And the new Seagates are not as quiet as the older models, but they are better than Maxtor or WD.
Okayyy. So the new Mac boots Debian, but Apple is deliberately killing off OS 9 bootablity. Makes perfect sense. Why would we want a Mac that would run the thousands of dollars worth of Mac (pre-Carbon) software we've bought over the past 10 years that has no OS X counterpart? Oh yeah, to run at half the speed of OS 9 with OS X's reduced Finder and postscript printer driver functionality. Brilliant.
Not too technical, but in 3D computer graphics a "normal" is defined as a vector that is perpendicular to the face of a polygon. They are used for texture mapping and determining which side of a polygon needs to be rendered. Referring to people as "normals" just sounds really weird, imo. This is a very commonly used term in 3D graphics.
As far as moving into management goes, never turn down a promotion, even if you don't want it. You are dead at the company if you turn it down. Some people here say to "stick with being a techie". That's fine, but if you are offered a management job (more $) and decline, you will not be offered it again, at least with the same company. That's my experience, anyway. If you are nervous about a promotion like that, just take it when it's offered and forget about trying to preserve an existing positive work situation that is guaranteed to change regardless of your efforts to keep it the same. I've put this into practice and I'm much better off (professionally and financially) going with the flow instead of staying with what's comfortable.
If this guy walked into our office (ad agency), there is no way he would get a decent ad. We would certainly try, but how can you work with the "NOOOOOO....IT'S ONLY $99!!!!" mentality, not to mention a complete lack of any artistic sensibility? If you wonder why Microsoft's products looked like hell for the past 20 years (pre-XP) now you know. Gawd that's awful, even for internal use. Just because something is internal doesn't mean it has to be complete crud.
or do they have an active brainwashing program?
Dear Sir,
It has come to our attention that you have been posting confidential, proprietary marketing information in a public forum, for the express purpose of exposing underlying technology and processes held by Apple Computer, Inc. Apple aggressively enforces our company's proprietary rights under the U.S. copyright laws, therefore we ask that you remove all references to "ignorance level of the main user base" and "active brainwashing program", or any grammatical variations thereof. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Apple Legal Dept.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Maybe because Windows 2000/XP is not crap. I was productive for years on Mac OS 8/9 and now use Windows 2000 Pro, which is more stable than OS 8/9 or OSX (which is slow as hell, has more application crashes, and awful driver support compared to Windows).
Peripheral support matters a lot, and I would guess that most of the highend custom multimedia hardware requires Win2000 or XP and runs just fine.
I just don't get why people can't stabilize their Windows install. I love Win2000, more than any OS I've used. Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. work really well on it.
The problem with this is that evil companies or fly-by-night outfits are in a perpetual cycle of startup->profit->shutdown anyway. Forcing them to shut down means they just start another company somewhere else. Good companies like Toyota, for example, aren't going to do anything illegal anyway since they are too busy improving their products. So this simply forces good companies to spend that much more money on lawyers making sure they can't be found guilty of anything even remotely bad.
Also consider that for every law written, someone figures out how to get around it. In this case, companies could simply set up chains of companies ready to fly as soon as the Feds force a shutdown. They could even structure it so that assets are held by a separate company that is not legally tied to the "Evil, L.L.C.". As soon as "Evil, LLC" is shut down, "Evil2, L.L.C." starts up and assets are in the possession of the 3rd company ("Untouchable, Inc.") the entire time.
I agree, my GeForce Ti4200 plays Half-Life2 extremely well.
Google doesn't index as thoroughly or as often as Yahoo, a search engine that's trying very hard to increase their search capabilities and that includes image searching.
I have one small personal site and administer my company's (very basic) site, and Google doesn't index my personal site at all, versus Yahoo which has about 75 pages indexed (and some page come in on the top of a keyword search). Our company site receives search hits because we pay Google. If we didn't, nothing would be indexed. Image search for this site is also way, way behind (as in 6-12 months).
Google is great but Yahoo is catching up fast. The logs of my personal site show Yahoo's spider crawling it on a daily basis. Google is never there. I've complained to Google about not even being indexed on Google when Yahoo has me in several top 10 search results, but nothing has changed.
There was a crack for the Paris.wmv that circumvented the copy protection, or maybe you should have just bought it.
The reason why people use WMV is because the compression and quality are a lot better than Quicktime and many other older formats.
Also known as "Taxpayers Guide to the U.S. Government"
The night was moist.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail"
Someone circle the word "abridge" in the dictionary and mail it to Congress.
A $200 card is a lowend piece of crap. Highend is the nVidia Quadro FX 4400, which costs $1500 (at least), has 30 GB/sec of memory bandwidth, and has 512MB of RAM. It can render 130 million triangles per second and can guarantee you will never see real sunlight.
Link to the card family:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/qfx_uhe.html
I hate to support what this person is saying but I've had a hard time with my Athlon XP (2000+) recording audio. I am using a low end setup (Santa Cruz card), and I've had several recordings that were no good due to crackles and static which were fine when done with a low end Mac (running at only 466mHz) and a similar recording setup.
I love it for everything else though. Unless you must buy Intel, I have no idea why you wouldn't get an AMD and pay a lot less for the same performance.
Now I remember why I failed Chemistry.
I would recommend that the submitter take down the zips and images and reoptimize them as smaller size JPGs. A 650k file is just crazy for the actual image - which is only 512 pixels wide and blurry (due to depth of field effects). Just go into Photoshop, hit "Save for web", and you can resize and change the JPG settings to your hearts content. I got one of the files down to 12k and it looks fine. These are not highly detailed images to start with. .PNG may be the format of choice for geeks worldwide, but I've always thought it was worthless.
The earliest releases of Apple's G3 233/266 motherboard had one component that would cause the motherboard to fail when faster processors were added (the Royal Technology brand voltage regulator module). I don't believe Apple ever issued a recall for this. There are also tons of reports of iBook motherboard failures, which Apple is recalling. They even have a link to this problem on the main page of their website.
There is practically no reason for the average (or above average) user to use PPC architecture when AMD is readily available, cheap, and fast.
The middle-click to open a new tab is great. Thanks.
All the talk of Firefox/Mozilla has finally caused me to look into trying some new browsers. Mozilla seems more feature-rich than Firefox, but Firefox is pretty cool, too. The Firefox devs should make tabbed browsing a default, however, as it's one of the nicest features of the browser. The overall appearance of Firefox seems much cleaner than Mozilla, which looks a little clunky. Look's like there really is no reason to use IE anymore. Mozilla's download manager and popup blockers are a Godsend. What else are you guys holding back? (And please don't say - "Have you tried Linux?!")