The reasons that the "Josh" usually doesn't get fired is because the company has a small enough Dev Team that makes him the big fish in the little pond. And most of the people don't know that he is actually quite bad. His code may make millions but the truth is someone else can write code that will make the millions too, and make change over that much smoother. So they keep him as they know the mess it would be when he leaves and hopes they can change jobs before it falls on their head.
Um no. Because there are a lot of good people who can do the work and better and be a company player too. You are assuming that Josh's skills are irreplaceable. And that a good employee cannot do what he does. I am sorry, he is replaceable, and you can get a more professional guy to so the same job just as well, if not better because he is not so high on himself. I too have cleaned up messes after people like him. And let me tell you I have never seen any work by these guys that make me go wow this guy is my superior, in programming. Usually after a couple week I figure out the flow and I am just as productive as the guy was before, except people are willing to talk to me. Ask questions and raise problems that the other guy made them to afraid to mention.
When you choose to make your Product FOSS, you should realize you are automatically putting yourself at a disadvantage, by closing off the most direct and profitable revenue stream. So when the industry demands certification and standards if you want to keep going you need to pay for them. I am sorry that is the case.
If you want to be a Medical Doctor you need to pay for enough college for an MD. I am sure there are a lot of people without MD who could be great doctors and have the knowledge and skills to be such. But they can't be a doctor until they get their MD. So they will need to spend a lot of money to get that Certification/degree. In New York State teachers need a teaching certificate so they need to pay for to get this certificate.
By the Article Logic Slashdot, or any website is Anti-Amish because you need to use a computer and electricity to access the site.
If a FOSS group pays the money they will be treated equally. That is not unfair. Giving FOSS a break because they don't have the funds is unfair to the other companies though, because part of the reason for the Certification is to prove that your product isn't a fly-by-night operation. And sorry to say a lot of open source projects are fly-by-night operations which may continue for a while then die in a few months or perhaps a year. So if the FOSS is unable to come up with the money, it means they may not have the overall support that they need to continue.
But also lets realize your primary users are Doctors. And Doctors have money. If your Open Source product is that great and Doctors really love it and find value. And you go to them and say you used this product for free. We want to get it CCHIT certified can you help pay for the certification. I am enough will to get it certified.
If they don't care for your product then then you haven't made a good enough product. And when they need to go CCHIT Certified they will pay for a program that is.
This is Slashdot. WE WANT EVERYTHING FOR FREE! If we do pay for it no matter how little We Want to be treated like KINGS and allowed to abuse the system as long as possible. Then when they finally realize that to many people are abusing the system and change the policy we throw a fit.
They don't understand the cost of inventory especially at the stores as well the opportunity loss if a movie isn't in stock.
I never knew why they didn't put a hold on the movies while you were renting some from the store in the beginning.
When will real time ray tracing happen... Real time will need to be above about 30 frames/second.
Lets say back in the year 2000 it took 1/2 an hour to render a high resolution complex page. So we will apply Mores law With a conservative approach to it. lets say they double speed every 24 months (makes the math easier too)
2002 it would take 15 minutes 2004 it would take 7.5 minutes 2006 it would take 3.75 minutes 2008 it would take 1.875 minutes 2010 it would take 56.25 second 2012 it would take 28.125 seconds 2014 it would take 14.0625 seconds 2016 it would take 7.03 seconds 2018 it would take 3.52 seconds 2020 it would take 1.76 seconds 2022 it would be 1.14 frames/second 2024 it would be 2.27 frames/second 2026 it would be 4.55 frames/second 2028 it would be 9.10 frames/second 2030 it would be 18.20 frames/second 2032 it would be 36.41 frames/second
So expect real time Ray tracing between 2022-2032
That said, in the mean time there are shortcuts to get the quality simulated such as mixing raster and Ray Tracing. Simplifying textures, Pre rendering parts that have less change etc... But if that is the secrete of DN4E I wouldn't expect to see it for a few more decades.
Well don't expect a Site who is so dead against adds to have adds on their own page to be smart or well plan things out. There is just bunch of Hippocrates, who is just whining because other people fond a way to make money.
Lets face it. Today of the Net we get a lot of services and information which cost a lot of money to create and maintain for no additional charge except for your own internet connection. Adds fund these sites and keeps them running, employees paid etc...
Is Google worth $10.00 a month... Yes I think it is. But would you pay for it if they stopped all adds and charged people to use it. Probably not because I could use Yahoo or any of their competitors instead without the cost.
Off Balance sometimes gives you a better edge. For the people who were really into improving their Game would actually choose the weaker players and actually use their brain more to win. I remember a while back when I was big in Star Craft, and I am in No way a big gamer, I was working with a friend on Protoss Probe warfare against other people one line sending all they got to us. I found that we could be quite competitive (and annoying a lot of people greatly) when we got it right. Enough distraction and misdirection for us to put a cannon infrastructure around key areas, to starve them out and keep them from building and expanding. Probe on Probe fighting to keep them from getting resources. And make a Zealot or 2 and a little bit of air support just to get rid of the long range fighters. Yea we lost sometimes but we won more then you would think.
I think the modern controller has more buttons and features then most keyboards now. Yea I am kinda old school. I tried playing XBox against a 5 year old, and he was like oh to do that press A,B then X, Y, Z spin the controller three spins left and two right and hit the trigger twice. And that was just to make me stand up. I remember the old Sierra games when I had to type "stand up" to do the same thing.
Boo Yea! I Just got the Republican Power Up! It gives me +10 to Strength, Charisma, and Intelligence Immunity from LiBeRaLs, and Worped to the Level where Bill Clinton is the cause of all our problems, and McCain is now president.
It could be anything really. Perhaps They are using it to replace the keys on the keyboard (Apple doesn't like buttons you know) with a touch display and have a big monitor outside. Or perhaps a cool gadget for the guys at the apple store as a portable POS system. Just to make them look that much cooler. Who knows they may be putting it as tiles in Steve Jobs bathroom just so they can track to see if he is still moving or not.
Suboptimal SQL procedures can be slow on any system.
Once I wrote a stored procedure in my first draft (Quick and easy to code) It took 45 minutes to run...
The DBA optimized using server tools brought it down to about 30 minutes.
Then I went back checked for all the bottle necks and fixed them from longest to shortest. It was able to run in 20 seconds. Yea to took more lines and by no way as an elegant SQL call. But for a 13,500% speed improvement lets put elegance to the wast side.
That should work for some cases however if you still have dial-up users say the 3 AOL users who are left. who dial in then gets their analog gets routed on a wan to their ISP in California then back to your site who would block it. Or if they have satellite internet, or even cell phone connection. I just checked my iPhone over Edge and it says I am from DC Let me tell you that I am not in DC or even near it.
Or People with Proxys, VPNs, people who are actually from the areas but just isn't there quite yet.
I am fairly sure faster boot times wont cause most people to switch. For most people it comes down to being able to run their apps, and not the sometimes poor GNU replacements of their apps.
There is no point in arguing. Guys like the parent just think everything should be given to him for free, at the same time he expects his boss at work to pay his paycheck on time and get annual raises no matter what his performance is like. He will only accept B2B business models were the customer is not directly effected by this. Advertising is pure evil and attempts to make it better for him is just more evil. His view of the world is based on the Dot Com error economics of yea we are selling at a loss but we will make it up in volume. Combined with very basic knowledge of how things really costs and misunderstanding numbers cause products to be more expensive then people think.
There is no changing his mind. He probably lives in his moms basement where everything is given for free anyways and cash that he makes goes straight to toys.
What is the point of giving you Apple or Best Buy adds... It sounds like you are already a fan. Trailer to the movies that you might like may work. Why don't you mail the MPPA your taste in movies and they will email you a newsletter weekly for all the movies that fit your demographics.
You got me thinking... A dangerous pastime, I know.
If you keep a full log of everything you do and what your likes and dislikes are then copyright the journal. So when ever someone uses your personal information you can sue them under the DMCA for copyright violations.
Polls are often influence by way the questions are worded. So the numbers could be way off.
Lets say you an atheist who doesn't respect the fact that people follow religions. Your questions could cause this effect by Marking as Creationist when people say They believe that Evolution is guided somehow by God, even if the idea that God taped one particle in the beginning of time to create a cause and effect relationship of his planning.
Or say on the other hand you are Right Wing against Evolution and want to prove that most people are against evolution so you question in the ways that make evolution seem to be against their faith so people are intimated to answer weight in the responders direction.
Even if you are in the middle of the road timing and the people around could get effected. Say you it right after church.
Well it depends on how you define SUN Our Sun is a star called Sol We call it the Sun because it is what we are in orbit around. If we were in orbit around an other star we would call that Star the Sun.
The more formal defination of a Planet is the following.
1. It Orbits around a Sun. 2. Its shape is Spherical 3. It is large enough to have or can attract and clear up other objects in its orbit.
#3 is the problem with Pluto with its orbit crossing Neptune once the time gets right and Neptune gets to close it will just Suck up Pluto and not the other way around. So even it Pluto was the size of the earth if it was where Pluto is now it wouldn't be considered a planet.
Open Source doesn't imply Open Specification. Source Code is not a Specification. Source Code can be Officiated and written for such a Platform Particular Level that it is useless to anyone else without the Spec or the original programmer.
Hey if you have a Binary File and the Intel Assembly Manual you could disassemble any program in assembly and follow that code to see what it does and then do changes and make it better.
20 Megs of source to sift threw without specs is a hassle and potentially quite dangerous.
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The reasons that the "Josh" usually doesn't get fired is because the company has a small enough Dev Team that makes him the big fish in the little pond. And most of the people don't know that he is actually quite bad. His code may make millions but the truth is someone else can write code that will make the millions too, and make change over that much smoother. So they keep him as they know the mess it would be when he leaves and hopes they can change jobs before it falls on their head.
Um no.
Because there are a lot of good people who can do the work and better and be a company player too. You are assuming that Josh's skills are irreplaceable. And that a good employee cannot do what he does. I am sorry, he is replaceable, and you can get a more professional guy to so the same job just as well, if not better because he is not so high on himself. I too have cleaned up messes after people like him. And let me tell you I have never seen any work by these guys that make me go wow this guy is my superior, in programming. Usually after a couple week I figure out the flow and I am just as productive as the guy was before, except people are willing to talk to me. Ask questions and raise problems that the other guy made them to afraid to mention.
When you choose to make your Product FOSS, you should realize you are automatically putting yourself at a disadvantage, by closing off the most direct and profitable revenue stream. So when the industry demands certification and standards if you want to keep going you need to pay for them. I am sorry that is the case.
If you want to be a Medical Doctor you need to pay for enough college for an MD. I am sure there are a lot of people without MD who could be great doctors and have the knowledge and skills to be such. But they can't be a doctor until they get their MD. So they will need to spend a lot of money to get that Certification/degree. In New York State teachers need a teaching certificate so they need to pay for to get this certificate.
By the Article Logic Slashdot, or any website is Anti-Amish because you need to use a computer and electricity to access the site.
If a FOSS group pays the money they will be treated equally. That is not unfair. Giving FOSS a break because they don't have the funds is unfair to the other companies though, because part of the reason for the Certification is to prove that your product isn't a fly-by-night operation. And sorry to say a lot of open source projects are fly-by-night operations which may continue for a while then die in a few months or perhaps a year. So if the FOSS is unable to come up with the money, it means they may not have the overall support that they need to continue.
But also lets realize your primary users are Doctors. And Doctors have money. If your Open Source product is that great and Doctors really love it and find value. And you go to them and say you used this product for free. We want to get it CCHIT certified can you help pay for the certification. I am enough will to get it certified.
If they don't care for your product then then you haven't made a good enough product. And when they need to go CCHIT Certified they will pay for a program that is.
This is Slashdot. WE WANT EVERYTHING FOR FREE! If we do pay for it no matter how little We Want to be treated like KINGS and allowed to abuse the system as long as possible. Then when they finally realize that to many people are abusing the system and change the policy we throw a fit.
They don't understand the cost of inventory especially at the stores as well the opportunity loss if a movie isn't in stock.
I never knew why they didn't put a hold on the movies while you were renting some from the store in the beginning.
When will real time ray tracing happen... Real time will need to be above about 30 frames/second.
Lets say back in the year 2000 it took 1/2 an hour to render a high resolution complex page.
So we will apply Mores law With a conservative approach to it. lets say they double speed every 24 months (makes the math easier too)
2002 it would take 15 minutes
2004 it would take 7.5 minutes
2006 it would take 3.75 minutes
2008 it would take 1.875 minutes
2010 it would take 56.25 second
2012 it would take 28.125 seconds
2014 it would take 14.0625 seconds
2016 it would take 7.03 seconds
2018 it would take 3.52 seconds
2020 it would take 1.76 seconds
2022 it would be 1.14 frames/second
2024 it would be 2.27 frames/second
2026 it would be 4.55 frames/second
2028 it would be 9.10 frames/second
2030 it would be 18.20 frames/second
2032 it would be 36.41 frames/second
So expect real time Ray tracing between 2022-2032
That said, in the mean time there are shortcuts to get the quality simulated such as mixing raster and Ray Tracing. Simplifying textures, Pre rendering parts that have less change etc... But if that is the secrete of DN4E I wouldn't expect to see it for a few more decades.
They still won't know love. If movies have taught us anything. That is the only weakness they need.
I bet it will even work on the O'Rily Factor even though he says it wont.
Well don't expect a Site who is so dead against adds to have adds on their own page to be smart or well plan things out. There is just bunch of Hippocrates, who is just whining because other people fond a way to make money.
Lets face it. Today of the Net we get a lot of services and information which cost a lot of money to create and maintain for no additional charge except for your own internet connection. Adds fund these sites and keeps them running, employees paid etc...
Is Google worth $10.00 a month... Yes I think it is. But would you pay for it if they stopped all adds and charged people to use it. Probably not because I could use Yahoo or any of their competitors instead without the cost.
I would say IE is faster too if I had a fully loaded chair pointed at my head.
Off Balance sometimes gives you a better edge. For the people who were really into improving their Game would actually choose the weaker players and actually use their brain more to win. I remember a while back when I was big in Star Craft, and I am in No way a big gamer, I was working with a friend on Protoss Probe warfare against other people one line sending all they got to us. I found that we could be quite competitive (and annoying a lot of people greatly) when we got it right. Enough distraction and misdirection for us to put a cannon infrastructure around key areas, to starve them out and keep them from building and expanding. Probe on Probe fighting to keep them from getting resources. And make a Zealot or 2 and a little bit of air support just to get rid of the long range fighters. Yea we lost sometimes but we won more then you would think.
I think the modern controller has more buttons and features then most keyboards now. Yea I am kinda old school. I tried playing XBox against a 5 year old, and he was like oh to do that press A,B then X, Y, Z spin the controller three spins left and two right and hit the trigger twice. And that was just to make me stand up. I remember the old Sierra games when I had to type "stand up" to do the same thing.
Boo Yea! I Just got the Republican Power Up! It gives me +10 to Strength, Charisma, and Intelligence Immunity from LiBeRaLs, and Worped to the Level where Bill Clinton is the cause of all our problems, and McCain is now president.
It could be anything really. Perhaps They are using it to replace the keys on the keyboard (Apple doesn't like buttons you know) with a touch display and have a big monitor outside. Or perhaps a cool gadget for the guys at the apple store as a portable POS system. Just to make them look that much cooler. Who knows they may be putting it as tiles in Steve Jobs bathroom just so they can track to see if he is still moving or not.
Suboptimal SQL procedures can be slow on any system.
Once I wrote a stored procedure in my first draft (Quick and easy to code) It took 45 minutes to run...
The DBA optimized using server tools brought it down to about 30 minutes.
Then I went back checked for all the bottle necks and fixed them from longest to shortest. It was able to run in 20 seconds. Yea to took more lines and by no way as an elegant SQL call. But for a 13,500% speed improvement lets put elegance to the wast side.
That should work for some cases however if you still have dial-up users say the 3 AOL users who are left. who dial in then gets their analog gets routed on a wan to their ISP in California then back to your site who would block it. Or if they have satellite internet, or even cell phone connection. I just checked my iPhone over Edge and it says I am from DC Let me tell you that I am not in DC or even near it.
Or People with Proxys, VPNs, people who are actually from the areas but just isn't there quite yet.
I am fairly sure faster boot times wont cause most people to switch. For most people it comes down to being able to run their apps, and not the sometimes poor GNU replacements of their apps.
There is no point in arguing. Guys like the parent just think everything should be given to him for free, at the same time he expects his boss at work to pay his paycheck on time and get annual raises no matter what his performance is like. He will only accept B2B business models were the customer is not directly effected by this. Advertising is pure evil and attempts to make it better for him is just more evil. His view of the world is based on the Dot Com error economics of yea we are selling at a loss but we will make it up in volume. Combined with very basic knowledge of how things really costs and misunderstanding numbers cause products to be more expensive then people think.
There is no changing his mind. He probably lives in his moms basement where everything is given for free anyways and cash that he makes goes straight to toys.
What is the point of giving you Apple or Best Buy adds... It sounds like you are already a fan. Trailer to the movies that you might like may work. Why don't you mail the MPPA your taste in movies and they will email you a newsletter weekly for all the movies that fit your demographics.
You got me thinking... A dangerous pastime, I know.
If you keep a full log of everything you do and what your likes and dislikes are then copyright the journal. So when ever someone uses your personal information you can sue them under the DMCA for copyright violations.
50 is a odd (as in weird) number to do so. I would say 40 for those people with the old CGA monitors who are stuck with 40x25 displays.
It doesn't matter to me because it's still there either way, but Illinois can declare cats and dogs the same thing and it won't change a thing.
No it will take NY, California and Texas to do that.
Polls are often influence by way the questions are worded.
So the numbers could be way off.
Lets say you an atheist who doesn't respect the fact that people follow religions. Your questions could cause this effect by Marking as Creationist when people say They believe that Evolution is guided somehow by God, even if the idea that God taped one particle in the beginning of time to create a cause and effect relationship of his planning.
Or say on the other hand you are Right Wing against Evolution and want to prove that most people are against evolution so you question in the ways that make evolution seem to be against their faith so people are intimated to answer weight in the responders direction.
Even if you are in the middle of the road timing and the people around could get effected. Say you it right after church.
So in the manual what is the 30th word on the 3 paragraph on page 21?
Or please insert your original disk before and press any key to continue
Old games had DRM too. Just different.
Well it depends on how you define SUN
Our Sun is a star called Sol We call it the Sun because it is what we are in orbit around. If we were in orbit around an other star we would call that Star the Sun.
The more formal defination of a Planet is the following.
1. It Orbits around a Sun.
2. Its shape is Spherical
3. It is large enough to have or can attract and clear up other objects in its orbit.
#3 is the problem with Pluto with its orbit crossing Neptune once the time gets right and Neptune gets to close it will just Suck up Pluto and not the other way around. So even it Pluto was the size of the earth if it was where Pluto is now it wouldn't be considered a planet.
Open Source doesn't imply Open Specification.
Source Code is not a Specification.
Source Code can be Officiated and written for such a Platform Particular Level that it is useless to anyone else without the Spec or the original programmer.
Hey if you have a Binary File and the Intel Assembly Manual you could disassemble any program in assembly and follow that code to see what it does and then do changes and make it better.
20 Megs of source to sift threw without specs is a hassle and potentially quite dangerous.
Open Source doesn't mean Open Specification