Do you have adaptive brightness enabled? For the longest time I did not realize that the screen doesn't achieve max brightness despite the brightness slider manually set to the max unless it's enabled.
My previous monitor, even at minimum brightness with flux enabled, was still uncomfortable to view at night. I finally invested in a monitor with low minimum brightness (~0.5 nits) and couldn't be happier.
It was 1998, and it wasn't that common, but in tech it wasn't impossible. For Pixar it was hard because of the size of the files, but otherwise wasn't all that hard.
I occasionally worked from home in 1998. The biggest impediment was network speed -- at work we had 10mbps and sometimes even 100mpbs. But at home all we had was dail up or if you were really lucky, DSL, which was 0.384mbps, so 30 times slower, and also latency was a lot higher.
So you were very limited in what you could do. Mostly it was just email and remote access ssh with tmux, where you sometimes had to deal with really high latency.
I worked remote in 98. Depending on your location it wasn't quite that bad. I had SDSL at 1.54 mbit in those years and it was workable. You could get ADSL here then too for a bit more download at the cost of upload and overall connection stability. Granted, I was doing gamedev which had smaller assets than a film, but you could manage a bit more than just a terminal a lot of places.
My employer paid for ISDN in 1999 and I thought I’d reached nirvana. It wasn’t dramatically faster than modem, but an always-on connection directly to the corporate network was quite handy when getting paged at 3am.
In this case, if you were an animator, you could still create models/animations, but you wouldn't be able to sync up with the rest of team on a daily basis. Perhaps a little frustrating, but with decent communication it would have been manageable.
Unless you were an independent entity that could do most of your work over the phone with only occasional in-person meetings (e.g. certain kinds of salespeople and some artists), it was very rare.
It only happened in this instance because the person in question had a newborn baby and I guess maternal leave wasn't a thing at Pixar back then.
(Author) Probably is, but hopefully not far from the sweet spot in efficiency for the power supply. I didn't mention it, but my preferred GPU would be a 6800XT, which this should easily cover too. Also, it doesn't run the fan at low loads, so even quieter for light desktop usage.
World of Warcraft Classic was resisted as the CEO infamously said "You think you want it, but you don't."
When that turned out to be completely wrong and WoW Classic turned out to be a smash success, chances are Blizzard shifted development priority toward more nostalgia.
People are still playing it, but its certainly no longer a smash success. WoW classic really exposed the weakness of easily min maxed old games like vanilla WoW. I hope they learned their lesson and "update" D2. Otherwise yeah it'll be a trip down memory lane and then after the 5th Baal run I'm out.
I fear that would be a cynical but possibly accurate take on it. However I must note I've seen people begging for this ever since D3 released.
I think Blizzard are well aware that there's plenty of us who have grown up with their core franchises, and are now at the age where nostalgia is an easy sell.
(Also interesting to note they have Future, Mobile and Nostalgia releases of the same franchise all on the near-future map. They're not going backwards, but they're certainly spreading out.)
"LITTLE MIX claim record bosses ordered them to flirt with men to get ahead in the music industy.
The accusations from the quartet come after Simon Cowell confirmed the group have switched to RCA Records.
Now the women have alleged they were advised how to behave to carve out chart success following their victory on The X Factor in 2011.
Jade Thirlwall claimed: ‘We went to a radio event in America, full of VIPs. Someone from the label said, “Go and flirt with all those important men.” I was like, “F** off. Why have I got to go in and flirt to get my song on the radio?”’
The 25-year-old also alleged the singers were given no input into their own songs because they are women.
‘In the beginning, we were told we shouldn’t be involved in our music videos,’ she said. ‘One producer told us we shouldn’t be writing, we should just be given songs."
Depends on your keyboard, mouse and overall desk setup. Myself and a coworker use Ergodox keyboards to combat arthritis and carpal tunnel, but if you're using a standard keyboard and terrible posture it might be worse.
That's interesting. My setup is pretty standard, but with the millions I'll do with the book (ahah) I think I'll try an ergonomic keyboard. I put Ergodox in the "stuff I need to check". If you have any other recommendation, please don't hesitate to share :)
Before you get an ergodox, make sure your desk height, chair position, monitor height, etc. are as good as you can make them. I've resorted to using stacks of books when necessary :)
I did not realize the MIT License had so many variants [1]. Compare that to Apache License 2.0, which has one canonical form [2]. For this reason alone, Apache seems like a plainly better choice (IANAL).
