"I think it will be our biggest emerging lever point," Tennison says. It also can help differentiate UP's IT unit in the talent recruitment arena. If what's developed turns out to be a technology UP can market, there's potential for royalty income. The advantages to designing, developing and engineering hardware and software in-house? It can reduce IT unit costs. "It just makes sense for us to do some of it ourselves." "There are only maybe 35 to 40 railroads in the world that are in the space we're in, and not a lot of venture money is going to be directed toward it," he says. One reason: the rail industry's relatively small number of big players. But at UP, the in-house engineering group also "builds stuff from the ground up," Tennison says. Not that the IT group doesn't purchase off-the-shelf software and other technology it does. "About half of them are doing design and development," Tennison says. Meanwhile, an applications development team of about 1,000 is responsible for all of UP's software systems, from writing code to fixing bugs to managing an SAP system. A dozen employees handle administrative functions and project management. A research and development unit includes 55 electrical, mechanical and computer science engineers. The systems engineering unit - "We call them the 'plumbing' group they keep all the 'plumbing' wired up," Tennison says - comprises between 150 and 200. About 200 employees serve in the UP data center, in positions ranging from computer console operators to "help desk" staffers. UP's IT department comprises about 2,000 people, including more than 1,300 employees and more than 600 contractors.Ībout 400 work in the telecommunications unit, which is responsible for maintenance and support of towers, radio repair, the private branch exchange system, all local area and wide area networks, and PC configuration and installations. The information technology department at a glance "Our entire spend for IT is roughly $300 million a year, plus or minus 10 percent," he says. We've changed that."Īs SVP/CIO, Tennison is responsible for organizing and managing the development, implementation and operation of the Class I's information and telecommunications technology. "We weren't aggressively pursuing the edge any longer. "When I came onboard, I observed that UP was a market leader in many ways, and had been a technology leader, but that had sort of stagnated," Tennison says. In 2001, he was named UP's VP of IT and chief technology officer. It's a view Tennison has championed since he came to UP in 1992 from American Airlines Inc., where he'd been responsible for the Knowledge Systems organization.īy 1998, Tennison had risen to the position of president/CEO of Nexterna, a UP technology subsidiary that develops applications and hardware solutions for the mobile asset marketplace. "From the top of the Union Pacific organization on down, we have a consistent view of what it means to drive increasingly better and better performance." "A lot of what we're working on is related to operational improvement, safety and asset efficiency," Tennison says. They know they have a role to play in helping to connect the strategic dots, and improve the bottom line, at UP. They also demonstrated what they believe it takes to straddle that leading edge. In interviews and PowerPoint presentations, IT teamers traced the evolutionary path they're mapping. Key projects include implementing a new transportation management system, pushing the detection and derailment prevention envelopes, and employing video-game simulation technology to train and retain today's workers - and possibly pique the interest of tomorrow's. In late April, I visited with Tennison and several members of his growing IT team at UP headquarters in Omaha, Neb., to discuss current initiatives and challenges. But it's what Tennison and his team are trying to do with that technology - and how other railroad departments and customers ultimately use and benefit from it - that makes IT the driver of "next" at UP. Accordingly, there's "technology in every corner, every curve" of North America's largest freight railroad, another phrase that's part of the information technology (IT) vernacular at UP. The information technology aim at Union Pacific Railroad is to be leading edge, not bleeding edge, as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Lynden Tennison often says.
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Super Mario 64 DS is not one of the games which supports the RenderScale value-the hachihachi.rpx (Nintendo DS emulator) build used by SM64DS ignores that setting. Re: RenderScale, that's not currently possible with the patcher. Give it all a go, I think this really makes it a definitive way to play not just Mario 64 DS, but perhaps even Mario 64 in general (depending on if you enjoy the additions to the title or not, I do, and you know before you start considering modded versions of the games, or things done with the decompiled build like Render96).Įdit: Finally, follow Vague Rant's guide down here to give Mario 64 DS proper (non stretched) widescreen. You do lose anything mapping as ZL, but that's because ZL did nothing for DS VC games.įeel free to edit the config file as you desire if any of those buttons aren't how you'd prefer to play the game. And X still functions as your camera-mode change. I know you essentially have two A buttons, but I think many may still want to naturally hit the real A button for confirming things within the game and playing the minigames. The rest of the controls feel natural and stay as they were. BUT, you can run in place with the run button to build up speed before moving, not needed for the game necessarily, but it's there if you want it. You no longer really need a run button since your analogue stick naturally makes you run as you push the stick harder, like in the original N64 experience. R registers as Y, this let's R function as your run button. Y registers as A, this let's Y be another button to punch and dive, this feels much more true to Mario 64 than using A up to the right of B to punch and dive L registers as ZR, this let's the little used L be the button that brings up the DS VC menu ZR registers as L, this let's ZR pull the focus of the camera behind you ZL registers as R, this let's ZL be your crouch/ground pound So if you download my included config file, and place it in \wiiu\controller on your SD card, launch HIDtoVPAD, hit + on the GamePad and you'll boot back to the Wii U menu with the controls remapped as such: The controls of the VC game are otherwise the same after patching, but if you're like me, parts of how the DS VC games' buttons are mapped do not feel intuitive to Mario 64 DS, especially when compared to the original Mario 64, and unlike other VC menus on the Wii U, DS games do not offer a built-in button remapping feature. Furthermore, it makes the right analogue stick rotate the camera left or right instead of having to touch the screen to move the camera, and removes the camera rotation images from the touch screen. The patcher gives the left stick full analogue control of Mario/the others, including naturally building up speed instead of having to hold the run button. PLEASE, make sure you read the info at the bottom of the page there, if you used Mario 64 DS to install Haxchi/CBHC, DO NOT use the homebrew patcher on your copy of Mario 64 DS, or you will brick.Īll Credit for the patcher goes to (if you see this, I hope you don't mind that I'm posting this topic for your program here, it's so great, and it seems a shame to limit it's reach to Discord). Like now that this exists, it might become my definitive way to play Mario 64.ĭownload the homebrew patcher in the Github here: Use it in conjunction with HIDtoVPAD's ability to remap the GamePad's controls and you can get the best functioning version of Mario 64 DS you can imagine. I found this on Discord and noted it wasn't being talked about here. After he formally retired in 1988, he remained active in research and training students until shortly before his death. Louis, the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and Michigan State University in East Lansing, he took up a joint appointment in 1956 in the EE and astronomy departments at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he remained for the rest of his life. He went on to get a PhD in EE from the University of Wisconsin in 1951, with a thesis involving the development of an analog computer to solve a class of multidimensional partial differential equations, entitled "A Direct Current Network Analyzer for Solving Wave-Equation Boundary-Value Problems." After stints on the faculties of Washington University in St. He left the Army a second lieutenant and enrolled at MIT, where he received an MS in EE. In 1942, he joined active military service in the Signal Core of the US Army but managed to finish his BS in EE from Michigan Tech in a correspondence program in 1944. George enrolled in Michigan Tech in 1940 after winning a full scholarship in the national RCA talent search. His father was a major influence on his life, and George decided early on to follow in his footsteps after he watched him solve practical problems with large power generators and also after developing an interest in amateur radio (call sign W9HTD). 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