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It won't import FCP7 files, but it opens iMovie files. no support for any tape based capture or export, save some Firewire devices. no third-party (playback, output, e.g., Kona) hardware support, no third-party codec support. No third par
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Google style is SGI's old campus - and the rest of that whole office park, essentially. You can walk around the streets, and some of the manhole covers have GOOGLE molded into them.
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Succinctly explains why programming can be rewarding to do. It also describes the playground people of a certain age had: 'READY>' I hear kids these days can do well learning Python - if they can get an adult to install the dev tools. T
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The recruiters are usually contractors, and they have a lot of turnover. Not that you should have gotten silence, but it's possible that's why.
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All North Koreans that are not in the elite inner circle are slaves. China, though annoyed, cannot act, since NK is a fellow Communist nation, though they are the goofy pseudo-Stalinist type. Eventually the regime will collapse, and NK wil
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You can take a bus tour of military boneyard in arizona from the Pima Air Museum close by. The whole northeast section of the property is the tooling and jigs for the B-2, if making more ever gets funded. Sadly, the F-4 Phantom population t
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16y ago
If they're on Windows, I send them to www.ninite.com to get antivirus, anti-malware, and Firefox to browse with. All their selections will be packaged into a single, slick installer by the site. This handles a lot of problems. I often h
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Woz went back once before, and at one point his manager actually gave him a bad review. Good thing it was pre-internet, or the mgr would never live it down.
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The book 'Testing computer software' by Cem Kaner is an excellent introduction to the field. You will make less than a programmer while being expected to possess extensive programming skills. Where developers produce code, therefore product
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ISP's don't enter into it. The goal is to have exclusive tech in movie theaters only.
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Douglas Trumbull's 'Showscan' fprmat shot and projected 70mm film at 60 fps. The huge cost kept it from succeeding, though the visual impact was supposed to be amazing. Cameron's proposal will introduce similar perceptual problems to HD vi
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The demo video has a few screenshots of the UI, and the rest is text. Perhaps they should have shown some 3D animation!
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Using the tilt sensor for flight control? One sneeze and an expensive model is destroyed. If I have experience with traditional RC flight transmitters, I have muscle memory in my thumbs for flying, and I can't use that here. No snark inte
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The NSA are drowning in data. They have a constantly changing target list from the other intelligence agencies, and whatever crisis is, or will soon be in the news is keeping them quite busy. They really have more important things to do tha
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The perks are a lovely set of golden handcuffs designed to keep workers at work as much as possible. Some of the ones I know work so much they use their badge to go in to the bank.
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Winter 2010, taught by Paul Hegarty, is the best introduction I've found. I have some books, I've watched some Apple videos, but I was still confused. Mr. Hegarty really explains things the right way. Highly recommended.