I used to work on mobile phones at a large company.
SAR rating used to be a big deal to us. One of the major reasons for using extendable antennas was to get the EMF away from the head, hence lowering the SAR.
But the market got quite competitive and external antennas went out of style. Before I left, we only cared about meeting the FCC requirement rather than aiming for a truly low SAR of 0.2-0.4.
I used to use Photoshop to produce $500,000,000 worth of profesionnal-quality documents every months. But then, they introcued some annoying security feature [slashdot.org], and I had to switch to the gimp!
What is your output medium? I find the Gimp lacking in way too many features. Everything from Luminosity Layering to CMYK to the "Healing Brush" to good support for color profiles, etc etc etc.
I use grid computing for simulations. If I were charged for CPU-hours, you can bet I would be more careful about debugging. I've wasted thousands of CPU hours because of bugs, or sloppy configuration, in my simulator generating incorrect results. One bug was an infinite loop that resulted in 100 CPUs spinning for a week before I noticed!
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I used to work on mobile phones at a large company. SAR rating used to be a big deal to us. One of the major reasons for using extendable antennas was to get the EMF away from the head, hence lowering the SAR. But the market got quite competitive and external antennas went out of style. Before I left, we only cared about meeting the FCC requirement rather than aiming for a truly low SAR of 0.2-0.4.
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I used to use Photoshop to produce $500,000,000 worth of profesionnal-quality documents every months. But then, they introcued some annoying security feature [slashdot.org], and I had to switch to the gimp!
What is your output medium? I find the Gimp lacking in way too many features. Everything from Luminosity Layering to CMYK to the "Healing Brush" to good support for color profiles, etc etc etc.
Who cares about which OS they use when they've got the The GoDaddy Girl!
(and she's from Wisconsin I might add)
I use grid computing for simulations. If I were charged for CPU-hours, you can bet I would be more careful about debugging. I've wasted thousands of CPU hours because of bugs, or sloppy configuration, in my simulator generating incorrect results. One bug was an infinite loop that resulted in 100 CPUs spinning for a week before I noticed!
Ben Liblit is now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joins a fantastic Computer Science department. Good luck Ben!