Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 295
There is also amazing vfx in this movie. Long cuts and vfx are just tools - both are capable of being abused.
Comment Re:Seems like the bandwidth has already been paid (Score 2, Interesting) 449
If they aren't dumb pipes does that mean the ISP's will pay Google as part of the settlement if someone successfully sues youtube? If they want to play that game it has to work both ways.
Comment Re:A Clockwork Orange (Score 1) 721
Plus who would volunteer to work with children with all the stories in the news? You'd be automatically labelled as weird.
Comment Re:1.5km/ Imi out? not so good... (Score 1) 32
It might be nice if, discreetly placed around locations of interest (tourist signs, shop signs), there were some of the 3d barcodes that Android phones use. This would make it much easier for the phone to locate itself, and also give you an id for database lookup.
Comment Re:Coding in your spare time shows an interest.. (Score 1) 619
As they get older you become the taxi driver / audience / financial backer / personal shopper for all the activities they want to do.
Comment Re:Yes, use experts as scrum masters (Score 1) 434
The film industry has an adminstrative position called Line Producer. They deal with managing team schedules, the project budget, making sure resources are available for the team, booking / chairing meetings, and dealing with paperwork, clients and upper management. This sounds like an equivalent position but without the (less professional sounding in my opinion) buzzword compliant "Scrum Master" moniker.
The actual task of getting the project done falls to a Supervisor (ie a project manager) who deals with technical and creative decisions, assigning tasks to the team, and critiquing work in progress.
A female Line Producer often work very well when dealing with a mainly male team. This could be to do with fewer ego clashes and women generally being more organised (again my personal opinion).
Comment Re:talk about not understanding the industry! (Score 1) 745
The G1 (HTC Dream) and the G2 (HTC Magic) already have very good capacitive touch screens. I think the HTC Hero does too.
Comment Re:I think I'm in the minority here... (Score 1) 688
You don't need to be familiar with the names - it is just an identifier. It doesn't matter if people recognise it or not - it's just easier to remember - especially if you are not sitting in front of it when someone asks what your machine is called.Namespace exhaustion just means you aren't being creative enough - just have different themes for different departments or for new batches of workstations. eg you know all the Simpsons characters are the same spec / warranty period.Or have really broad categories - eg space, or mammals, or movies. Using asset numbers only helps IT - it confuses the user.
Submission + - AMD's OpenCL Allows GPU Code to Run on x86 CPUs (arstechnica.com)
eldavojohn writes: Two blog posts from AMD are causing a stir in the GPU community. AMD has created and released the industry's first OpenCL which allows developers to code against AMD's graphics API (normally only used for their GPUs) and run it on any x86 CPU. Now, as a developer, you can divide the workload between the two as you see fit instead of having to commit to either GPU or CPU. Ars has more details.
Submission + - Sony Imageworks Open Sources VFX tools (variety.com)
Submission + - Google anounces Chrome OS 1
MasterOfGoingFaster writes: And so it begins... Google announces a new OS based on their Chrome browser. Aimed at netbooks, Google aims to have the OS boot and have you on the net in "seconds". This will be an open source product, shipping with netbooks in 2010. Can you hear the blood vessels popping in Redmond?
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
Submission + - Digital Domain discuss cracking the CG-Eye (denofgeek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Digital Domain's chief VFX supervisor Ed Ulbrich has talked, in an interview with Den Of Geek, about the landmark work done by the company in creating believable human eyes for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, and about how the 1970s Facial Action Coding System devised by psychologist Paul Ekman was as crucial as any technological breakthroughs. Ulbrich also discusses the attempts in the early 1990s to see if the ground-breaking VFX work necessary could conceivably have been created with the technology of the day, back when Ron Howard was heading up Benjamin Button.
Submission + - Hot Off The Press - Google OS announced today
Submission + - Google to launch OS (bbc.co.uk)
Spider writes: Google is to launch an OS by the middle of 2010 to go head to head with Microsoft.
Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at netbooks, the low-cost portable computers that have turned the PC world upside down. Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010. "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," said the company in a blog. The news could also be a blow to the open source Linux operating system, which had taken an early lead on netbooks, but then lost out to Microsoft's elderly Windows XP. For Microsoft the news comes just months before it launches the latest version of its operating system, called Windows 7.
Source: BBC
Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at netbooks, the low-cost portable computers that have turned the PC world upside down. Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010. "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," said the company in a blog. The news could also be a blow to the open source Linux operating system, which had taken an early lead on netbooks, but then lost out to Microsoft's elderly Windows XP. For Microsoft the news comes just months before it launches the latest version of its operating system, called Windows 7.
Source: BBC
Submission + - Do your company provide private home-folders? 2
fluor2 writes: Most companies provide a home dir which is pretty much private for the user. Here, the user can store documents only intended for private storage. E.g. internal job applications, personal letters to the boss and other similar data. The boss tells us, the IT department, to get rid of the home directory for our users.
Arguments are that we do no longer want to store any "private data", thus we can open up most of the data at all levels in our company. Private data should be stored on the local disk (a separate C:\Private or similar), or on private USB equipment or similar. In conclusion: out of sight from the company. I personally fear that people will bring private equipment into work and thus increase the chances of 3rd party driver crashes and similar. And I do not want people to spend time on backing up private data. After all, it's only a few gigs at average per user.
What is Your company's policy on home-folders?
Arguments are that we do no longer want to store any "private data", thus we can open up most of the data at all levels in our company. Private data should be stored on the local disk (a separate C:\Private or similar), or on private USB equipment or similar. In conclusion: out of sight from the company. I personally fear that people will bring private equipment into work and thus increase the chances of 3rd party driver crashes and similar. And I do not want people to spend time on backing up private data. After all, it's only a few gigs at average per user.
What is Your company's policy on home-folders?
