Blackberry, Microsoft, Ebay, Tivo, Google... so when does it stop encouraging innovation, and start stifling it? Is anybody in the US government, or the patent office actually paying attention to these suits, or do they see this as everything working fine? I now that in the past, patents were not considered quite so important, just need to look at the big patent sharing agreements between the large computer companies like IBM, AMD, Intel. Maybe the view has shifted, and it has become acceptable to shut a business down over patents? (or at least try to)
The first thought about this is: What happened to imagination?
The whole idea of creating movies is about transferring imagination into a concrete represenation of that story. This is just adding an extra step, to ensure that the process is proceding correctly.
I don't think this guy is so much of a problem, you see/meet people like that all the time. It is only when people like these are given positions of power, that the trouble starts. The people who trust people like this, know very little themselves - making it some sort of morons club. I am convinved that morons deliberatly hire other morons, because they don't know the correct questions to ask.
My experience at the mobile maker starting with M. You would think that the people in the web department would have some IT experience, or be willing to learn. But no, these people maybe great managers, but making important decisions about IT related stuff should be left to someone with some knowledge. Without it, they all stand around asking themselves why the new CMT is double the cost and twice as long in development.
Oh well, I guess they can afford to lose the money, so who cares??
Not so sure about that one. The more cars people you have, what extra are you going to do, drive your cars more often? The faster engine in a car, what extra are you going to do, become a race driver? What are people going to do with faster computers? the same thing they did 5 years ago, check email, write letters, browse the internet. What do you think, everyone will become cad designers, or start doing 3d modelling?
It is inevitable because that is the way hardware companies want it. They aren't going to stop producing faster computers. I can remember a time when I wished my computer was faster, 10 years ago... no more, and I do more with my machine that most people.
If you want to talk about human nature, it is more like: We want more and more, not necessarily because we are going to use it. What do most people do with the 4x4? Nothing different than they did with the sedans.
So is the problem that they are diverting too many resources to other projects - obviously not just programmers, but real leaders in the company, people who get things done. Or are they simply having trouble coming up with enough changes to justify a launch.
I can't imagine it being the second point, as if they only release it with a few changes people will stay buy it, surely?
The risk of an extinction event happening on Earth is pretty significant. The risk of it happening in the next 100 years is pretty damned slim.
While this is true, and most would agree with you, you have to also consider the consequence. The chance of it happening is slim x something we really want to avoid. This makes it a lot more important. If we are elmininated - that is, the end for man. All the progress we have made, the sacrifices, the research, the sex has all been for nothing! (OK, maybe the sex was good)
It is not just files that are less than 4k. It is almost all small files. Think about a 5k file, that now uses 8k. - almost 40% waste. A 9k file uses 12k - about 25% waste. So the more small files you get, the more waste. The larger files you get, the less waste.
Which is good, you don't really want lots of small files anyway.
If you are using windows, you can see how much is space is wasted at the moment, just right click on a directory, and it will tell how much data is in the files, and how much disk space is actually used. It never really gets much.
I have difficulty focusing on one thing when I am only reading a webpage like that one. With hundreds of links on the page, nice big flash adds, and the text taking up a quarter width of the page, and split aroung an add, how can I help it. What a joke. Please don't link to that site again. What were they thinking. Can't I just read an article, without a thousand distractions on the page.
I agree with the original poster. Firstly, if it didn't use bluray, it would use DVDs, not CDs. Secondly 200MB for 3d models is a lot of really detailed models. And 50MB for executalbs isn't that unheard of. You are so very wrong.
Th reason for blu-ray is to encourage blu-ray update over hd-dvd. Sony thought they could kill 2 birds with one stone here. Stopping the Microsofts Xbox 360, and Toshiba HD-DVD. This has been a common theme with Sony, being such a huge company with its finger in so many pies, it isn't the first time it got burnt. This may happen with the PS3 (but probably not, it will still be really popular because of the software - at least they haven't lost sight of that aspect!)
Except that it takes time and money to dub the movie into foreign languages. Even subtitles take time, and if a movie tanks in the US you probably don't want to bother.
That is true, but it isn't true that you need to wait until the film is released before you can start doing any of this. For a lot of the big releases these days, the work on dubbing and subtitles is finished in time for a world wide release.
To be fair, a number of those shots for Xbox games are pre-rendered. NHL 06 and Project Gotham Racing. To be completely honest, they should have stuck to ingame shots.
It still makes you laugh though. If only there was as easy a way to measure game playability as these is to measure graphic differences.
Sure this is optimistic hope for the future of companies working hand in hand with OSS development projects but we have to believe it's going to happen or it won't!
Sure, we can all believe that it will happen, but not with Microsoft. This has never been a part of Microsofts attitude, as much as you want it to be. If you see some signs of Microsoft changing there behavious, then please point it out to the rest of us. And I would not count them hiring some Linux guy and a small team as evidence that they are now willing to work with Linux, and not actively try to remove it from the computing scene.
The cold hard truth is that you're just as closed minded as they are about working together
ahhh... so you are not so optimistict after all. As much as well all want microsoft to work nicely with other companies and OSes, the fact is that they haven't in the past, and it doesn't look like they will in the future.
Give them a call before you send you CV, and get some more details about the job. If there is no phone number listed in the add, simple ring the company, and ask the receptionist who you could talk to about this position (most are helpful). When you have some more details, tailor your cv more. Make sure your CV looks good, compare it to over people you know. Borrow a book from the library about making CVs, and use some (not all, just the sensible ones) of there suggestions.
And importantly, be a little humbler. Don't accuse them of anthing, don't correct them. Put down Mac OSx skills seperately (why should they know that it is based on Unix?) Don't be rude to them (Maybe they advertised in several places, the other places had more details?)
But there's always that "bachelor's degree required" barrier for those jobs. It's pathetic.
Over here in the UK, they require an honours degree... can you believe it? For a simple web monkey job. But then again, after seeing the state of education over here, and working with some of these degree educated people, I start to see why. (Heh, a little bit harsh maybe, but at the bottom of the ladder jobs I have been doing, you see some shocking people - these are the people who got into IT because it pays well, and don't really like computers)
Reminds me of a job opening that stated -- literally -- "requires 10 or more years experience administering a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain.". This was back in late 2002, mind you. I actually called and asked about the position just to ask if it was a mistake, but they said the position had been filled. I still wonder who they found.... brAh... this is just the little games that need to be played in order to secure a job. They make ridiculous demands, we agree to them. It all comes down to bullshitting the bullshitters. Most people I have been to interviews with haven't been very technical. Just act enthusiastic, drop a few keywords. If you now a little but about the technologies, you can bluff pretty easily. Once you get in, you find the job isn't so demanding, and that you have plenty of time to get up to speed.
Ha... good point, and I had pretty much started to think the same thing. But if you look at it in another light, would you recognise the vacuum cleaner that you had built up from bits in your spare time, and then many years later come across repeatedly just when things start to go wrong?
Of course, darth might just be so pre-occupied with his current position that things like this don't even register for him anymore. Or perhaps he has squashed his early memories, in an effort to complete his transition to the dark side. Or maybe, just maybe, this was a stupid oversight on the behalf of George.
Agreed. The same goes for telephone polls and street surveys. Who ever bothers taking any of these? Not normal people, we are all to busy. So it makes you wonder who does take these surveys - old people and soccer moms looking for someone to talk to. No wonder the world is so messed up!
Nah, it looks ok to me. It doesn't have thousans of links on one page - which immediately turns me of. The colours are a bit dark, but not too bad. It isn't overload with adds. What more could you want?
As long as you can do the job you get paid to do, there isn't a whole lot else that concerns me.
Good, most people would agree with that. The problem is, how can you tell that the person sitting before you in an interview will actually do the job? This is the tricky bit, and if you know an easy way to answer this, or even a complicated but sure-fire way then please enlighten us. There is no easy way, so employers use all the information available to them to make a guess. And the more information they have, the better a guess they can make. So googling for someone elses name gives them another bit of information - how useful is debatable, and I don't see that many people who really do this. I certainly wouldn't waste my time - and if someone did, I hope they realise the relative unimportance of this.
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Win NT was a failure? Since when? (I mean, more than an other windows OS)
Win NT was for businesses, so it wasn't seen so much in the average persons home. Maybe this is why you consider it a failure?
Blackberry, Microsoft, Ebay, Tivo, Google... so when does it stop encouraging innovation, and start stifling it? Is anybody in the US government, or the patent office actually paying attention to these suits, or do they see this as everything working fine? I now that in the past, patents were not considered quite so important, just need to look at the big patent sharing agreements between the large computer companies like IBM, AMD, Intel. Maybe the view has shifted, and it has become acceptable to shut a business down over patents? (or at least try to)
The first thought about this is: What happened to imagination?
The whole idea of creating movies is about transferring imagination into a concrete represenation of that story. This is just adding an extra step, to ensure that the process is proceding correctly.
Sounds interesting. The html didn't work, so i am reading the pdf http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pd f
thanks
I don't think this guy is so much of a problem, you see/meet people like that all the time. It is only when people like these are given positions of power, that the trouble starts. The people who trust people like this, know very little themselves - making it some sort of morons club. I am convinved that morons deliberatly hire other morons, because they don't know the correct questions to ask.
My experience at the mobile maker starting with M. You would think that the people in the web department would have some IT experience, or be willing to learn. But no, these people maybe great managers, but making important decisions about IT related stuff should be left to someone with some knowledge. Without it, they all stand around asking themselves why the new CMT is double the cost and twice as long in development.
Oh well, I guess they can afford to lose the money, so who cares??
In SOVIET BRITAIN, Britannia waives the rules! -- Philip K. Dickhead
What the hell is that supposed to mean??
Not so sure about that one. The more cars people you have, what extra are you going to do, drive your cars more often? The faster engine in a car, what extra are you going to do, become a race driver? What are people going to do with faster computers? the same thing they did 5 years ago, check email, write letters, browse the internet. What do you think, everyone will become cad designers, or start doing 3d modelling?
It is inevitable because that is the way hardware companies want it. They aren't going to stop producing faster computers. I can remember a time when I wished my computer was faster, 10 years ago... no more, and I do more with my machine that most people.
If you want to talk about human nature, it is more like: We want more and more, not necessarily because we are going to use it. What do most people do with the 4x4? Nothing different than they did with the sedans.
Yes, that is true.
So is the problem that they are diverting too many resources to other projects - obviously not just programmers, but real leaders in the company, people who get things done. Or are they simply having trouble coming up with enough changes to justify a launch.
I can't imagine it being the second point, as if they only release it with a few changes people will stay buy it, surely?
The risk of an extinction event happening on Earth is pretty significant. The risk of it happening in the next 100 years is pretty damned slim.
While this is true, and most would agree with you, you have to also consider the consequence. The chance of it happening is slim x something we really want to avoid. This makes it a lot more important. If we are elmininated - that is, the end for man. All the progress we have made, the sacrifices, the research, the sex has all been for nothing! (OK, maybe the sex was good)
It is not just files that are less than 4k. It is almost all small files. Think about a 5k file, that now uses 8k. - almost 40% waste. A 9k file uses 12k - about 25% waste. So the more small files you get, the more waste. The larger files you get, the less waste.
Which is good, you don't really want lots of small files anyway.
If you are using windows, you can see how much is space is wasted at the moment, just right click on a directory, and it will tell how much data is in the files, and how much disk space is actually used. It never really gets much.
I have difficulty focusing on one thing when I am only reading a webpage like that one. With hundreds of links on the page, nice big flash adds, and the text taking up a quarter width of the page, and split aroung an add, how can I help it. What a joke. Please don't link to that site again. What were they thinking. Can't I just read an article, without a thousand distractions on the page.
I agree with the original poster. Firstly, if it didn't use bluray, it would use DVDs, not CDs. Secondly 200MB for 3d models is a lot of really detailed models. And 50MB for executalbs isn't that unheard of. You are so very wrong.
Th reason for blu-ray is to encourage blu-ray update over hd-dvd. Sony thought they could kill 2 birds with one stone here. Stopping the Microsofts Xbox 360, and Toshiba HD-DVD. This has been a common theme with Sony, being such a huge company with its finger in so many pies, it isn't the first time it got burnt. This may happen with the PS3 (but probably not, it will still be really popular because of the software - at least they haven't lost sight of that aspect!)
Except that it takes time and money to dub the movie into foreign languages. Even subtitles take time, and if a movie tanks in the US you probably don't want to bother.
That is true, but it isn't true that you need to wait until the film is released before you can start doing any of this. For a lot of the big releases these days, the work on dubbing and subtitles is finished in time for a world wide release.
To be fair, a number of those shots for Xbox games are pre-rendered. NHL 06 and Project Gotham Racing. To be completely honest, they should have stuck to ingame shots.
It still makes you laugh though. If only there was as easy a way to measure game playability as these is to measure graphic differences.
Notice that the PS3 was officially delayed last week as well.
Coincidence... I think not!
Clearly via some nefarious, diabolical scheme the PS3 and Windows Vista are linked... not sure how yet, but I am working on it!
Sure this is optimistic hope for the future of companies working hand in hand with OSS development projects but we have to believe it's going to happen or it won't!
Sure, we can all believe that it will happen, but not with Microsoft. This has never been a part of Microsofts attitude, as much as you want it to be. If you see some signs of Microsoft changing there behavious, then please point it out to the rest of us. And I would not count them hiring some Linux guy and a small team as evidence that they are now willing to work with Linux, and not actively try to remove it from the computing scene.
The cold hard truth is that you're just as closed minded as they are about working together
ahhh... so you are not so optimistict after all. As much as well all want microsoft to work nicely with other companies and OSes, the fact is that they haven't in the past, and it doesn't look like they will in the future.
Give them a call before you send you CV, and get some more details about the job. If there is no phone number listed in the add, simple ring the company, and ask the receptionist who you could talk to about this position (most are helpful). When you have some more details, tailor your cv more. Make sure your CV looks good, compare it to over people you know. Borrow a book from the library about making CVs, and use some (not all, just the sensible ones) of there suggestions.
And importantly, be a little humbler. Don't accuse them of anthing, don't correct them. Put down Mac OSx skills seperately (why should they know that it is based on Unix?) Don't be rude to them (Maybe they advertised in several places, the other places had more details?)
But there's always that "bachelor's degree required" barrier for those jobs. It's pathetic.
Over here in the UK, they require an honours degree... can you believe it? For a simple web monkey job. But then again, after seeing the state of education over here, and working with some of these degree educated people, I start to see why. (Heh, a little bit harsh maybe, but at the bottom of the ladder jobs I have been doing, you see some shocking people - these are the people who got into IT because it pays well, and don't really like computers)
Reminds me of a job opening that stated -- literally -- "requires 10 or more years experience administering a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain.". This was back in late 2002, mind you. I actually called and asked about the position just to ask if it was a mistake, but they said the position had been filled. I still wonder who they found....
brAh... this is just the little games that need to be played in order to secure a job. They make ridiculous demands, we agree to them. It all comes down to bullshitting the bullshitters. Most people I have been to interviews with haven't been very technical. Just act enthusiastic, drop a few keywords. If you now a little but about the technologies, you can bluff pretty easily. Once you get in, you find the job isn't so demanding, and that you have plenty of time to get up to speed.
Ha... good point, and I had pretty much started to think the same thing. But if you look at it in another light, would you recognise the vacuum cleaner that you had built up from bits in your spare time, and then many years later come across repeatedly just when things start to go wrong?
Of course, darth might just be so pre-occupied with his current position that things like this don't even register for him anymore. Or perhaps he has squashed his early memories, in an effort to complete his transition to the dark side. Or maybe, just maybe, this was a stupid oversight on the behalf of George.
Hence the trial over the da vinci code. Becareful what you mock, what may seem ridiculous today, is the law tomorrow.
Of course this trial hasn't ended yet, and the decision may go against the so-called infringed, but it seems to be taking a while for judgement.
Agreed. The same goes for telephone polls and street surveys. Who ever bothers taking any of these? Not normal people, we are all to busy. So it makes you wonder who does take these surveys - old people and soccer moms looking for someone to talk to. No wonder the world is so messed up!
Nah, it looks ok to me. It doesn't have thousans of links on one page - which immediately turns me of. The colours are a bit dark, but not too bad. It isn't overload with adds. What more could you want?
As long as you can do the job you get paid to do, there isn't a whole lot else that concerns me.
Good, most people would agree with that. The problem is, how can you tell that the person sitting before you in an interview will actually do the job? This is the tricky bit, and if you know an easy way to answer this, or even a complicated but sure-fire way then please enlighten us. There is no easy way, so employers use all the information available to them to make a guess. And the more information they have, the better a guess they can make. So googling for someone elses name gives them another bit of information - how useful is debatable, and I don't see that many people who really do this. I certainly wouldn't waste my time - and if someone did, I hope they realise the relative unimportance of this.