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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: crabby. Got lied to about what kind of ZIP file I was supposed to read, they didn't know it was a 7-Zip compressed file so of COURSE none of my code worked.  Converted it to a standard ZIP and lo and fricking behold, my code works fine.  The only source code for reading a 7-Zip format was developed by a third party and hasn't been updated since 2015.  Told the boss, no response yet.  i guess he's in meetings.

    Deom Friday afternoon at 3PM.  I'm ready but not outrageously happy.  It's also in a meeting room, and I'm not on a laptop I'm on a bloody huge desktop machine.  Let's see how the boss works THIS one!

    The honeymoon is already over.  I'm not impressed with the level of communations here, and the lack of information that people seem to have.  But it's only the second week, let's see what next week brings...

    Meh.

     

    The best thing about standards is there is so many of them :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    edited February 2016

    ...I just loathe the double ones.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited February 2016
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: crabby. Got lied to about what kind of ZIP file I was supposed to read, they didn't know it was a 7-Zip compressed file so of COURSE none of my code worked.  Converted it to a standard ZIP and lo and fricking behold, my code works fine.  The only source code for reading a 7-Zip format was developed by a third party and hasn't been updated since 2015.  Told the boss, no response yet.  i guess he's in meetings.

    Deom Friday afternoon at 3PM.  I'm ready but not outrageously happy.  It's also in a meeting room, and I'm not on a laptop I'm on a bloody huge desktop machine.  Let's see how the boss works THIS one!

    The honeymoon is already over.  I'm not impressed with the level of communations here, and the lack of information that people seem to have.  But it's only the second week, let's see what next week brings...

    Meh.

    It's always tough when one's perceived skills and technical needs overreach those of the people calling the shots and paying the bills. 

    "Um, yes sir, it can be done!  All I need is a crew of 4 as brilliant as I am, a blank check, three times as much time as you've allotted, and you out of my hair until then."

     

    Yep, that's spot on... indecision

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Yellow-gold shinies on every cupola, cornice and cranny from a fierce sun rising in a vast and empty eggshell blue sky :)

    Sounds far too bright for me... indecisionenlightened

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,437

    Why am I watching Power rangers?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    edited February 2016

    ...looks like spring will be a month and a half early this year here.

    ...meanwhile in Stevens Point WI where I first went to college...

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,188
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Why am I watching Power rangers?

    Absolutely nothing better to do?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,586
    kyoto kid said:

    ...looks like spring will be a month and a half early this year here

    we had spring in December

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    morning commute mess 1-3 inches snow

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited February 2016

    tee hee

     

    luv the aspect ratio

    Post edited by Mistara on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    hexacore drool  http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/sales-landing/hp-envy-phoenix-desktop-pc-m0k57av-aba-1?jumpid=Desktops_Finder_PDP

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    hexacore drool  http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/sales-landing/hp-envy-phoenix-desktop-pc-m0k57av-aba-1?jumpid=Desktops_Finder_PDP

     

    Looks real good, it haz the shinning hey :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited February 2016
    MistyMist said:

    tee hee

     

    luv the aspect ratio

    2:1 academy and 2.39:1 

    Post edited by ps1borg on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited February 2016

    well that post really screwed up :)

    and I completely forgot what I was going to say about that. If you're gonna go with cinema formats you need to take the 24 frames a second pain as well, I'm calling shenanigans on down-interpolating from faster frame rates :p

    Post edited by ps1borg on
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Tjohn said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    Why am I watching Power rangers?

    Absolutely nothing better to do?

    Sit in the sun sounds good :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...looks like spring will be a month and a half early this year here.

    ...meanwhile in Stevens Point WI where I first went to college...

    Was early spring here as well we were eating home grown tomatoes at the end of november :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    TGIF and near perfect warm and sunny here right now, can't believe it is February already waaah summer iz melting.... But I guess is gonna be hot for a few weeks yet and we'll be melting :)

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    TroutFace said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: crabby. Got lied to about what kind of ZIP file I was supposed to read, they didn't know it was a 7-Zip compressed file so of COURSE none of my code worked.  Converted it to a standard ZIP and lo and fricking behold, my code works fine.  The only source code for reading a 7-Zip format was developed by a third party and hasn't been updated since 2015.  Told the boss, no response yet.  i guess he's in meetings.

    Deom Friday afternoon at 3PM.  I'm ready but not outrageously happy.  It's also in a meeting room, and I'm not on a laptop I'm on a bloody huge desktop machine.  Let's see how the boss works THIS one!

    The honeymoon is already over.  I'm not impressed with the level of communations here, and the lack of information that people seem to have.  But it's only the second week, let's see what next week brings...

    Meh.

    It's always tough when one's perceived skills and technical needs overreach those of the people calling the shots and paying the bills. 

    "Um, yes sir, it can be done!  All I need is a crew of 4 as brilliant as I am, a blank check, three times as much time as you've allotted, and you out of my hair until then."

     

    Yep, that's spot on... indecision

    Aw, get rid of the pullups and put on your big boy drawers. It was a mistake, that's all. Never mind that they didn't know there was more than one kind of zip. Watch out, they may expect you to demo using Power Point. The level of communication and lack of information should make you feel like you're still at home. In case of emergency, grab a Shiner from the fridge and go to bed. lol {{{{Ed}}}}
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    TroutFace said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Yellow-gold shinies on every cupola, cornice and cranny from a fierce sun rising in a vast and empty eggshell blue sky :)

    Sounds far too bright for me... indecisionenlightened

    Had the zinc cream out this morning as well the sun iz pretty bitey :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I just loathe the double ones.

    Try hard not to take it personally, personally. Hey there's that Roland chorus again :0 

    I do think tho that the endless tinkering that goes on around software protocols like zip inevitably causes pain but is/will be hopefully leaving us in a better position than if, say, a ubiquitous Evil Corp controlled every single software protocol with ruthless but inhuman efficiency, which is what we were all looking at only 30 (?) years ago  :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I just loathe the double ones.

    Try hard not to take it personally, personally. Hey there's that Roland chorus again :0 

    I do think tho that the endless tinkering that goes on around software protocols like zip inevitably causes pain but is/will be hopefully leaving us in a better position than if, say, a ubiquitous Evil Corp controlled every single software protocol with ruthless but inhuman efficiency, which is what we were all looking at only 30 (?) years ago  :)

     

    was born in a world of rotary phones and b&w tv.  6 tv stations that went snowy in the early am-s. am radio, mono record players. sleep in ouchie rollers for hair curls;  That Girl marlo thomas was the modern woman

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,603
    edited February 2016

    Yep, I remember friends homes without electricity and kitchens with hand pumps for water.  I used to have to chop wood and throw wood or shovel coal into our furnace.  Before we had a furnace we had a pot-bellied iron stove in the living room that was intended to heat the six rooms downstairs of the house.  But the four rooms upstairs (including the only bathroom) were shut off by a door so no heat was "wasted" upstairs.  Used to have to shovel snow around outside of the house and bank it up against the stone basement walls to insulate it from the cold.  Pipes froze at least once every winter.  We used the coal/wood ashes to throw on the driveway for traction on the ice.  We cooked steaks in the furnace.  surprise

    And I used to have to walk to school 2 miles up hill both ways. wink

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:

    Vicky 7 for free?  I smell a seven foot long mutant sewer rat here.. cheekydevil

    Doesn't show free for me!  Maybe it's a PC+ promotion?

    Dana

     

    I got an email saying she was free, I deleted it so it's gone.. didn't even click the link.

    Wish I'd kept it now... sad

    *edit* Click the big red bar at the top of the page that says "Try Genesis 3 for FREE"! devil

     

    No red bar for me.  And Genesis 3 <> Victoria 7.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Yellow-gold shinies on every cupola, cornice and cranny from a fierce sun rising in a vast and empty eggshell blue sky :)

    Sounds like your Friday morning is much better than ours will be...we're expecting snow again.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    kyoto kid said:

    ...looks like spring will be a month and a half early this year here.

    ...meanwhile in Stevens Point WI where I first went to college...

    I was helping out my sister in Fall River today, and I looked at the thermometer in my car, and it was 60 degrees F!  This is February, right?

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    MistyMist said:

    hexacore drool  http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/sales-landing/hp-envy-phoenix-desktop-pc-m0k57av-aba-1?jumpid=Desktops_Finder_PDP

     

    ...I take it you are still looking for a "Carrara" system.

    I'd opt for at least the 16 GB version (2 x 8 GB or 4 x 4GB).  Something just doesn't' sit well with me regarding mismatched memory sticks.

    The 3.5 GHz heaxacore i7 would be the best value for rendering speed. As Carrara does not have GPU based rendering, the Nvidia GTX745 (which I think is the base GPU that comes with the system) would probably be fine. I'd definitely opt for the Win7 Pro OS over the Win10 Home edition.

    I'd dump the bloatware trial rubbish, especially McAfee. I still cannot get rid of one of it's files on my notebook which occasionally pops up as a conflict with my current AV. Most likely I will have to mess with the registry to eliminate it (something I don't look forward to doing).

    Also overclocking is really not necessary unless you plan to do gaming.  Personally I wouldn't bother with it as it will shorten the lifespan of the CPU.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I just loathe the double ones.

    Try hard not to take it personally, personally. Hey there's that Roland chorus again :0 

    I do think tho that the endless tinkering that goes on around software protocols like zip inevitably causes pain but is/will be hopefully leaving us in a better position than if, say, a ubiquitous Evil Corp controlled every single software protocol with ruthless but inhuman efficiency, which is what we were all looking at only 30 (?) years ago  :)

     

    was born in a world of rotary phones and b&w tv.  6 tv stations that went snowy in the early am-s. am radio, mono record players. sleep in ouchie rollers for hair curls;  That Girl marlo thomas was the modern woman

    ...only had four stations when I grew up, the three main networks and a UHF channel.  Otherwise, save for the rollers, pretty much was the same for me though my idea of the mod woman was Lady Emma Peel (played by Dame Dianna Rigg).

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,188

    When I was a lad, we lived in a hole in the ground and ate cold gravel for breakfast.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Tjohn said:

    When I was a lad, we lived in a hole in the ground and ate cold gravel for breakfast.

     

    Those guys really could complain...

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:

    hexacore drool  http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/sales-landing/hp-envy-phoenix-desktop-pc-m0k57av-aba-1?jumpid=Desktops_Finder_PDP

     

    ...I take it you are still looking for a "Carrara" system.

    I'd opt for at least the 16 GB version (2 x 8 GB or 4 x 4GB).  Something just doesn't' sit well with me regarding mismatched memory sticks.

    The 3.5 GHz heaxacore i7 would be the best value for rendering speed. As Carrara does not have GPU based rendering, the Nvidia GTX745 (which I think is the base GPU that comes with the system) would probably be fine. I'd definitely opt for the Win7 Pro OS over the Win10 Home edition.

    I'd dump the bloatware trial rubbish, especially McAfee. I still cannot get rid of one of it's files on my notebook which occasionally pops up as a conflict with my current AV. Most likely I will have to mess with the registry to eliminate it (something I don't look forward to doing).

    Also overclocking is really not necessary unless you plan to do gaming.  Personally I wouldn't bother with it as it will shorten the lifespan of the CPU.

    I run Carrara on a four core i7 for years it has been very reliable :)

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