[Waaaay OT] 3D rotation matrix, and rant(first).

[r.c.brown@ieee.org (Roger Brown)]

> I cannot belive this crap. I get a job where i do Electromagnetic modeling
> and I have a damn PII on my desk with 128M of ram. I've tried 2x already
> to get a new computer. They want a special highly intensive computer
> program written. and well I have to go SOMEWHERE else other than my desk
> to do it at a GROUP computer. Its kinda like telling a welder who welds
> all day that he needs to take all his jobs across town to the special gas
> welder .. when he needs a plasma, or he can use the propane torch at his
> location. Stupid fscking shit. Anybody need somebody that can do EM
> modeling (FDTD, beowulf style, working on a custom semiconductor simulator
> to get imbedded in it.) in the NE say within 2.5hrs of NYC for the next
> 12mo. or Hell How about Portland OR. and If you do need sombody, my dev
> box isnt required to be that big. just an Alienware (in yellow or purple)
> Dual Athlon as fast as you can get it with as much Ram as you can get, to
> Big a$$ 21" Sony GDM-FD500, sounblaster-platinum -external, some nice bose
> headphones, and a nice cool space to work or equivalent, oh yeah dont
> forget a nice salary. and when i get it running on the dev box, i'll need
> two barebones athlons with about 2G ram, to test. after that is done I'll need about an
> 8-16node cluster to do the work on a switched 100Mb network but 1Gb
> swtiched is preferred. The resultant work will enable your experts to
> develop new and interesting and profitable MMICs etc... with full DC,
> small signal, EMI, EMC, S-parameters, Farfield, etc. But be aware it
> will take a while to develop it, cause i'll have to rewrite from scratch.
> 
> . but here all i can get is a fuc$%@#ing PII 250 w/128M of ram.
> end rant...
> 
>  well,
> 
> anybody know about 3D rotation matrix's in cart coords?

Used to do all that stuff at my former employer.  Nearly 12 years in 3D graphics and the last few building Beowulf clusters.