Most of the hackers are self-taught. As soon as I got computer and learned that I can write my own programs, I've learned myself. Working with teacher would be too slow.
I like reading black on white. With white text on black bg I have afterimages of text lines and this is sometimes rather confusing when trying to read text with another line spacing.
The smarter they can make GoogleBot the better, I long for a day when the only way to do SEO has the side effect of having to make useful information for human visitors too...
It's not obligatory reference, but I think it sums it up very nicely: http://xkcd.com/803/. In one episode of myth busters they were making concrete airplanes. Adam made the strangest wing I've ever seen, but I think it could be inspired by such example like in this xkcd strip. And it didn't fly almost at all.
I have to look up the original post - a response from a pro render wrangler to an announcement by a wannabe-enterpreneur who naively thought that the idea of an online rendering shop with scene transfer over the Internet is technicallty viable, but was beaten by the facts
Yeah, that naive wannabe-enterpreneur was me, funny to see this comment today. Yes, it was hopeless project. Beaten by the facts - not really. Before that question I just didn't have enough informations.
I only wonder what pricing does EC2 have for dozens of terabits of data in total between all the nodes you just hired as a rendering farm...
Inside one availability zone - $0. Inside one region - $0.1/GB. If you don't mind that your farm will be unavailable for about one hour a year, your transfer costs can be $0.
If you need a render farm only for a month, ec2 will be cost effective. If you need render farm all the time - probably your own hardware will be better.
This. There are many kinds of people. Some will like it this way (like me) or the other way. The best thing is to liv with it and just find your niche/best workplace.
I've tried working from home, but I'm much more productive when I'm in office. I live alone, but when I'm not in office I just can't force myself to work as efficiently as in office where I know I have to work or someone will see that I'm procrastinating. Everyone is different, don't assume everyone likes what you like. Also if you don't like your job, change it. I'm changing it tomorrow (setting and working conditions will be similiar, but programming will be closer to hardware, better pay will be nice too;) ).
It is not as if some people in China came to the United States, purchased a pair of Nike sneakers, went back to China with them and tried to copy the design.
Yeah, they didn't need to take the sneakers with them, they payed $100 a random person for buying them in store (because store owners kicked them out after they tried to make detailed photos in store), made detailed photos and sent them to China. I didn't see it myself, but know it from reputable source.
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I don't even have serial ports in my laptop :(
Welcome to space race 2.0. This time around USA will be the one losing economically.
Most of the hackers are self-taught. As soon as I got computer and learned that I can write my own programs, I've learned myself. Working with teacher would be too slow.
In 1987 Amiga could open multiple windows simultaneously with just 0.5meg ram. And it was rather fast with only 7mhz.
In Austria - Bayerische Mist Wagon (Bavarian manure wagon)
Email + Instant messenger
Benefits:
2. People can respond when they have time (doesn't disrupt work)
Only if your boss doesn't ask 5 minutes later why are you not responding to email.
Interesting. Have you seen many such apps? Could you tell me which app it was?
I haven't yet found a program which stopped working with newer java.
Second try of an old system... http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Cracking-your-Fingers.aspx
Top-posting
No, what?
Do you know what is the worst practice on usenet?
I like reading black on white. With white text on black bg I have afterimages of text lines and this is sometimes rather confusing when trying to read text with another line spacing.
I, for one, would like to know how to get my exact position BEFORE I'm teleported to some random corner of galaxy.
So they demand that people have correct informations, not just lies? This can not stand! We demand to have lies in our news!
and if you ever have to deal with spaghetti code, mistakes are easier to spot, because the code is forced to be formatted correctly.
Unless someone switched from tabs to series of spaces halfway through coding... Seen that in my first big project in python which I had to extend.
Hmm, Path of the Beam?
The smarter they can make GoogleBot the better, I long for a day when the only way to do SEO has the side effect of having to make useful information for human visitors too...
If they can pull it off... http://xkcd.com/810/
Yes, this is beautifully described in http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/holehawg.shtml
It's not obligatory reference, but I think it sums it up very nicely: http://xkcd.com/803/. In one episode of myth busters they were making concrete airplanes. Adam made the strangest wing I've ever seen, but I think it could be inspired by such example like in this xkcd strip. And it didn't fly almost at all.
Exactly my thoughts. When something is popular with many people, it's easy for any people to just net of trust.
Silencing guns don't silence people. People silence people.</sarcasm>
It's The Nanocloud. The ultimate buzzword.
I have to look up the original post - a response from a pro render wrangler to an announcement by a wannabe-enterpreneur who naively thought that the idea of an online rendering shop with scene transfer over the Internet is technicallty viable, but was beaten by the facts
Yeah, that naive wannabe-enterpreneur was me, funny to see this comment today. Yes, it was hopeless project. Beaten by the facts - not really. Before that question I just didn't have enough informations.
I only wonder what pricing does EC2 have for dozens of terabits of data in total between all the nodes you just hired as a rendering farm...
Inside one availability zone - $0. Inside one region - $0.1/GB. If you don't mind that your farm will be unavailable for about one hour a year, your transfer costs can be $0.
If you need a render farm only for a month, ec2 will be cost effective. If you need render farm all the time - probably your own hardware will be better.
This. There are many kinds of people. Some will like it this way (like me) or the other way. The best thing is to liv with it and just find your niche/best workplace.
I've tried working from home, but I'm much more productive when I'm in office. I live alone, but when I'm not in office I just can't force myself to work as efficiently as in office where I know I have to work or someone will see that I'm procrastinating. Everyone is different, don't assume everyone likes what you like. ;) ).
Also if you don't like your job, change it. I'm changing it tomorrow (setting and working conditions will be similiar, but programming will be closer to hardware, better pay will be nice too
It is not as if some people in China came to the United States, purchased a pair of Nike sneakers, went back to China with them and tried to copy the design.
Yeah, they didn't need to take the sneakers with them, they payed $100 a random person for buying them in store (because store owners kicked them out after they tried to make detailed photos in store), made detailed photos and sent them to China. I didn't see it myself, but know it from reputable source.