Apple gets a lot of things right, but it shows pure arrogance when it comes to fix its mistakes. It's obvious the approach of using GPUs to perform some computations is flawed in the long run, but you can bet Apple will *never* move into another direction, even if it's a dead end. They have been stubborn about poor and stupid decisions for a long time, yet fanboys keep transforming pain into features.
I use either the built in display in my brand-new macbook, or an external apple cinema display through DVI. Both show crappy fonts. Just compare with System 9 or Windows.
That's pretty much overrated. Microsoft is a bigger company (6x bigger than Google) that already have a lot of good people working for them. Microsoft doesn't need to grow as fast as Google to survive, and they actually have better compensation plans, corporate life, etc. Besides, it's actually easier to find something interesting to do at Microsoft than in Google, given that Microsoft is in a lot of different markets (from videogames to big iron). Just apply for a job in each company, go to each one, talk with people and see how they work, and you'll figure all that out. I must say that initially I was very inclined to work at Google, but after I interviewed with several different people there it was a big letdown for me. At Microsoft, I interviewed with 2 different teams, and got a very positive impression. As I told before, a lot of people consider working at Google now as an investment, so expect to have a rather high turnover in the next few years, especially if it faces any kind of crisis in its only profitable market (not an issue at Microsoft, that company has been in the market competing and managing to survive for a long time).
There's no liability in sending a dismissal letter. It's cheaper than dealing with candidates calling recruiters, and bad reputation. If they don't answer back after months (as they seem to do systematically, if you research about their practices) it's because they are collecting information about a lot of candidates before making a decision.
The funny thing is that they do actually take months to decide. They seem to interview a lot of candidates, then make a decision. If you are one of the first ones to be interviewed in a batch, you can get to wait for a long time.
In my case, I simply couldn't care less anymore. During these 2 months I've been waiting I managed to be interviewed at another company and get a very good proposal. I won't mention what is its name because I don't want to be hated by the Slashdot community.
I've done about 10 interviews with them, they went OK (although they don't really seem to know what they are doing in their hiring process...) but after the "on-site" interviews 2 months ago they simply forgot to get back to me with feedback. I imagine this happens with a lot of people, they spend several months being interviewed with google and getting this sucky treatment. Google deals with the hiring process as an investment, and as it seems, so do the job applicants. Part of the people that get actually hired will spend some time in the company and get away for a "promotion" in another company just because they've worked for Google, partially motivated by the way the company dealt with them since the beginning.
I couldn't agree more! I think people don't complain about it because of the "Apple religion" where anything Apple does is sacred and cannot be discussed. That, by the way, is one of the worst things in the whole OS X environment: the fanatic community that not only don't see problems in the system, they also bash you if you complain about those problems!
I just want the option to have fonts rendered the way I prefer. And I'm not the only one to ask for that. It just happens Apple is heavy-handed about this and don't give options to some of its users because they think they know what is best for everyone.
Now, if you have some serious eyesight problems you may prefer to disregard a lot of work that typists do on font hinting so that fonts look right on the screen and prefer a stupid approach that anti-alias everything, including vertical and horizontal lines. That's ok for me, you can stare at whatever you want, but please just don't get in the way of sane people that want to have an usable computer.
You could use TinkerTool too. But it won't solve the problem, OS X doesn't allow you to change the default font used everywhere (Lucida Grande) and that font looks terrible in the user interfaces when not aliased. Besides, a lot of applications just seem to think that anti-aliasing is the rule and do whatever they want.
Maybe we should do some kind of lobby to push for no anti-aliasing in Leopard. Nowadays I have to use windows over Parallels just to use Firefox and Eclipse. At least in windows I have the option to turn anti-aliasing off...
I just wish that Apple fixes the stupid font rendering on OS X. An option to disable anti-aliasing for *all* fonts and use font hinting (as in OS 9 and Windows without cleartype) would suffice. I'd prefer that to ANY "improvements" coming in leopard anytime.
You're wrong. Corporations don't have responsibilities as any member of society. A corporation can kill someone because of its practices and it won't be shut down and put into jail. You may argue that someone from that nasty corporation may end up in jail because of such a murder, but in most cases it's simply doesn't (and can't!) happen. I could provide several other examples where corporations don't abide to the same responsibilities of "regular" people, but I'll leave the exercise for the reader.
Recently I was interviewing for a SRE position at Google and everything was going allright, until an interviewer asked me how to implement a singleton in Java. Then I explained the standard pattern using a static initializer and told him the so-called "double check" pattern a lot of developers use doesn't work in Java (this is well documented here). Since the interviewer didn't have a clue about that problem, he spent some 15 minutes fighting my point, and in the end of the interview he even said the correct way of implementing it is to use a double check, although I have explained him 10 times the Java memory model makes that construct break. I even told him to search for "java singleton problem" in Google to understand what I told him, but maybe this was a bad idea, he seemed to be already in a bad mood in the beggining of the interview, this made him even more poignant. Guess what? They sent me the "raw dismiss letter" after that interview...
Then here goes my advice for you if you're going to apply for google: pray for luck! If you get a *single* dumb interviewer in your way, you'll be out. It's not a fair process, they don't care about giving feedback for you promptly (expect at least 1 week to have feedback after any iteration with them), and sometimes the interviewers don't know exactly what they are talking about. Be warned.
I don't mean to be a troll, but what's the relevance of this? Nintendo of America is pretty irrelevant as a business. From the post count you can figure out this is absolutely of no interest for everyone...
This same exact rumor has been spread several times before. And it always ends up with the same thing: it's a basic part of Sun's strategy to keep full control over Java, therefore it won't be open sourced. Now stop daydreaming.
This contest was so year 2000... Reminds me of companies with lack of substance, lots of money and overrated employees, and a 1,2,3 business plan. Time will tell if history is repeating itself.
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How is that "Informative"? Didn't you read the article? It says that apperture is SLOWER because it uses the GPU instructions.
Apple gets a lot of things right, but it shows pure arrogance when it comes to fix its mistakes. It's obvious the approach of using GPUs to perform some computations is flawed in the long run, but you can bet Apple will *never* move into another direction, even if it's a dead end. They have been stubborn about poor and stupid decisions for a long time, yet fanboys keep transforming pain into features.
I use either the built in display in my brand-new macbook, or an external apple cinema display through DVI. Both show crappy fonts. Just compare with System 9 or Windows.
I prefer the inverse of that:
"Find a job that you don't love and you'll work a day in your life."
That's pretty much overrated. Microsoft is a bigger company (6x bigger than Google) that already have a lot of good people working for them. Microsoft doesn't need to grow as fast as Google to survive, and they actually have better compensation plans, corporate life, etc. Besides, it's actually easier to find something interesting to do at Microsoft than in Google, given that Microsoft is in a lot of different markets (from videogames to big iron). Just apply for a job in each company, go to each one, talk with people and see how they work, and you'll figure all that out. I must say that initially I was very inclined to work at Google, but after I interviewed with several different people there it was a big letdown for me. At Microsoft, I interviewed with 2 different teams, and got a very positive impression. As I told before, a lot of people consider working at Google now as an investment, so expect to have a rather high turnover in the next few years, especially if it faces any kind of crisis in its only profitable market (not an issue at Microsoft, that company has been in the market competing and managing to survive for a long time).
There's no liability in sending a dismissal letter. It's cheaper than dealing with candidates calling recruiters, and bad reputation. If they don't answer back after months (as they seem to do systematically, if you research about their practices) it's because they are collecting information about a lot of candidates before making a decision.
The funny thing is that they do actually take months to decide. They seem to interview a lot of candidates, then make a decision. If you are one of the first ones to be interviewed in a batch, you can get to wait for a long time.
In my case, I simply couldn't care less anymore. During these 2 months I've been waiting I managed to be interviewed at another company and get a very good proposal. I won't mention what is its name because I don't want to be hated by the Slashdot community.
I've done about 10 interviews with them, they went OK (although they don't really seem to know what they are doing in their hiring process...) but after the "on-site" interviews 2 months ago they simply forgot to get back to me with feedback. I imagine this happens with a lot of people, they spend several months being interviewed with google and getting this sucky treatment. Google deals with the hiring process as an investment, and as it seems, so do the job applicants. Part of the people that get actually hired will spend some time in the company and get away for a "promotion" in another company just because they've worked for Google, partially motivated by the way the company dealt with them since the beginning.
I couldn't agree more! I think people don't complain about it because of the "Apple religion" where anything Apple does is sacred and cannot be discussed. That, by the way, is one of the worst things in the whole OS X environment: the fanatic community that not only don't see problems in the system, they also bash you if you complain about those problems!
I just want the option to have fonts rendered the way I prefer. And I'm not the only one to ask for that. It just happens Apple is heavy-handed about this and don't give options to some of its users because they think they know what is best for everyone.
Now, if you have some serious eyesight problems you may prefer to disregard a lot of work that typists do on font hinting so that fonts look right on the screen and prefer a stupid approach that anti-alias everything, including vertical and horizontal lines. That's ok for me, you can stare at whatever you want, but please just don't get in the way of sane people that want to have an usable computer.
Comments in this post until someone mentions "Google"?
Probably less than what it would take to mention "Nazis" I'd say.
TinkerTool supposedly allows it too. It's just that OS X doesn't respect settings for the "core" fonts as it should.
You could use TinkerTool too. But it won't solve the problem, OS X doesn't allow you to change the default font used everywhere (Lucida Grande) and that font looks terrible in the user interfaces when not aliased. Besides, a lot of applications just seem to think that anti-aliasing is the rule and do whatever they want.
Maybe we should do some kind of lobby to push for no anti-aliasing in Leopard. Nowadays I have to use windows over Parallels just to use Firefox and Eclipse. At least in windows I have the option to turn anti-aliasing off...
The stupid anti-aliased font rendering in OS X?
I just wish that Apple fixes the stupid font rendering on OS X. An option to disable anti-aliasing for *all* fonts and use font hinting (as in OS 9 and Windows without cleartype) would suffice. I'd prefer that to ANY "improvements" coming in leopard anytime.
That would make a much better 2007 for me.
You're wrong. Corporations don't have responsibilities as any member of society. A corporation can kill someone because of its practices and it won't be shut down and put into jail. You may argue that someone from that nasty corporation may end up in jail because of such a murder, but in most cases it's simply doesn't (and can't!) happen. I could provide several other examples where corporations don't abide to the same responsibilities of "regular" people, but I'll leave the exercise for the reader.
Besides getting scratched easily, your nice white apple cell phone will be dirty with all that oil your face produces. How good is that going to be?
You will be exterminated.
How can I get rid of those annoying ads?
Recently I was interviewing for a SRE position at Google and everything was going allright, until an interviewer asked me how to implement a singleton in Java. Then I explained the standard pattern using a static initializer and told him the so-called "double check" pattern a lot of developers use doesn't work in Java (this is well documented here). Since the interviewer didn't have a clue about that problem, he spent some 15 minutes fighting my point, and in the end of the interview he even said the correct way of implementing it is to use a double check, although I have explained him 10 times the Java memory model makes that construct break. I even told him to search for "java singleton problem" in Google to understand what I told him, but maybe this was a bad idea, he seemed to be already in a bad mood in the beggining of the interview, this made him even more poignant. Guess what? They sent me the "raw dismiss letter" after that interview...
Then here goes my advice for you if you're going to apply for google: pray for luck! If you get a *single* dumb interviewer in your way, you'll be out. It's not a fair process, they don't care about giving feedback for you promptly (expect at least 1 week to have feedback after any iteration with them), and sometimes the interviewers don't know exactly what they are talking about. Be warned.
I don't mean to be a troll, but what's the relevance of this? Nintendo of America is pretty irrelevant as a business. From the post count you can figure out this is absolutely of no interest for everyone...
is its power cord?
This same exact rumor has been spread several times before. And it always ends up with the same thing: it's a basic part of Sun's strategy to keep full control over Java, therefore it won't be open sourced. Now stop daydreaming.
This contest was so year 2000... Reminds me of companies with lack of substance, lots of money and overrated employees, and a 1,2,3 business plan. Time will tell if history is repeating itself.