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stephbgI've just watched the Avatar making-of doc and I am extremely impressed with the real-time render capabilities on set. Any idiot* with a server farm and a few billion hours to spare can render out composited frames, but putting the live action and CG all together on the spot is something else.
*nerdgasm*
It's nice to be impressed by such things again, after a decade or so of ho-hummery at all things 3D. Apparently Sky are going to film sporting events in 3D for special in-pub broadcasts. Sigh. Oops, there I go again.
BTW today I learned that Windows 7 (64 bit) does one thing to the registry settings of 32 bit applications in Local Machine, and something else to the registry settings in Current User. So don't import that reg file people, or Things Will Go Horribly Wrong**. I haven't been this excited since the Great Window Focus issue of WinXP.
And whatever you do, don't try and build a tree in an Access 2003 report if you want the entries to sort properly.
Riveting stuff.
Microsoft: the gift that keeps on giving. Whether you want it or not.
I don't feel well.
(*) Yes, yes, I know.
(**) Maybe.
*nerdgasm*
It's nice to be impressed by such things again, after a decade or so of ho-hummery at all things 3D. Apparently Sky are going to film sporting events in 3D for special in-pub broadcasts. Sigh. Oops, there I go again.
BTW today I learned that Windows 7 (64 bit) does one thing to the registry settings of 32 bit applications in Local Machine, and something else to the registry settings in Current User. So don't import that reg file people, or Things Will Go Horribly Wrong**. I haven't been this excited since the Great Window Focus issue of WinXP.
And whatever you do, don't try and build a tree in an Access 2003 report if you want the entries to sort properly.
Riveting stuff.
Microsoft: the gift that keeps on giving. Whether you want it or not.
I don't feel well.
(*) Yes, yes, I know.
(**) Maybe.
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Date: 2010-02-08 01:51 pm (UTC)*nearly chokes on his dinner trying to laugh and eat at the same time*
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Date: 2010-02-08 01:59 pm (UTC)Or you've worked in tech support way too long.
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Date: 2010-02-08 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-08 08:43 pm (UTC)As I pointed out to a cow orker recently: "When you start dealing with any company more than a thousand times your size, you have to remember that *they don't care, because you are too insignificant to matter*."
Now, when I said this, I was referring to the problems of getting decent support out of the likes of a Certain Large Database Company.
When you are a largish organisation, it is a bit off-putting to find yourself irrelevant*. When you are an individual, this applies almost all the time. Bugger.
On the other hand, it provides such wonderful opportunities for third party support...
*To be fair, almost every major software/hardware company is larger than the business I work for. The only one who is a supplier of ours who is not, is the only one who gives absolutely superb support. Funny that.