Because they are unemployed and have noone to do:)
Based on a glace at sourceforge it's just because people want to be in charge of a project, since 99% of the projects there are all doing the exact same thing as another project. The very concept of working on an existing project is... absurd.
In fact, please fork this comment by modifying it and posting it as your own comment.
But seriously, what else would geeks do? Leave the house? Play a sport? Date?
Common sense is that it's a tool for stealing stuff. That's totally obvious to anyone using it, that's WHY people use it.
The win is that the RIAA needs to now go after the USERS, not the technology.
And they can, and they will, and well... they should. Then the RIAA will die and we can get directly at the artists again - who aren't being helped by P2P either.
See also: the Verison case, that I'm sure will be dup posted any second now.
In all seriousness, in 3 years if things continue... falling prices, endusers not buying into the upgrade cycle, AMD and Intel undercutting each other, video cards outpacing CPU's...
3 years may be about the right time to bail from the PC (meaning intel) market and focus strictly on the exploding embedded markets...
By their meaning, clearly most poeple are not engineers. That's a clear cut one.
7/8 of the people working as "coders", that read "Java for waiters" clearly are not engineers either. Also clear cut.
4 year degree with something on the EE//CS line (I'm right in the middle) and a dozen years in the real world... if you have the degree, and you have the insurance covering your work by yourself or by proxy - which i'm gonna call "licensed" then yea, you're clearly an engineer by THEIR meaning.
But nothing is more insulting then being considered in the same job category and resume pile as waiter-turned-coder-last-weekend.
I'd love to see Texas lay the law down on the clueless, and license those of us that really do this for a living. Then all those waiters and such can go back to doing things they can do well.
"Should Apple move from 32-bit PPC to 64-bit PPC, Mac users should not expect the same kinds of performance gains that x86 software sees from the jump to x86-64. 64-bit PPC gives you larger integers and more memory, and that's about it. There are no extra registers, no cleaned up addressing scheme, etc."
Well yea, they already have more then 0 general purpose registers, and a flat memory space, like every other chip besides x86 has had for the last 20 years now. The embedded chips I've used on projects that cost $7 a piece even have more registers then x86 does.
64bit is about the memory, and using that memory, plain and simple. x86 just happens to be using this as a chance to catch up with the cutting edge concepts of the 1980s.
As for x86 needs to die once and for all, it's hacked, hacked again, and hacked yet again. x86 was and is a 16bit system. And now AMD wants to hack it yet again. Can anyone doubt that 80% of the silicon is for supporting legacy apps at this point? Are people that damn lazy they can't type 'make' on a new system? It's not like anyone uses "int" anymore and assumes it's N bits long.
Well, you are stealing their shit. And it is shit, least-common denominator teenie-bopper crap.
Maybe if people would get off their asses and explore the net for local bands they can go watch live, 99% of which will give you their mp3's online so you'll come see the shows.
No artist has ever made a cent off record sales, they make it from CONCERTS. So stop feeding the beast, and feed the artists. Go see something local, buy the Tshirt and CD at the concert if you must.
Stop all your damn whining about how people get mad when you steal their shit. You have two options, but you have to vote by spending your money. Stealing or bitching about it are both not voting at all.
$10,000 for recompiling with -lipv6 and changing some u32's to u128's in the structs... oh yea.
For high level languages like Python, I imagine all the work has been done for me already.
Every other country has solved this.
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If you want to know what's next just do some traveling. Anyplace but here in the USA you will find debit cards and such everywhere.
So why not here? Because the banks here are making a nice 3-5% on EVERYTHING we do, usually paid by the merchant. It's a 3% tax right into the banks pocket.
Don't expect to see any of these futuristic (meaning 20 years ago everyplace else) technologies in the US anytime soon. Powerful rich people will not give up their $300B yearly drain on our wallets easily.
If you're making 100K and still paying taxes, you need to get a new accountant.
The more you make, the less taxes you have to pay, due to acess to more and more loopholes.
Between all the corporate deductions, and all the personal deductions, you shouldn't be paying more then a couple percent in taxes, and only because getting a net-rebate for more then 3 years in a row raises audit flags you don't want raised.
You try loading up any Windows box with a dozen devel environments/servers (MSVC, coldfusion, ASP, SQL, Python, etc etc), some VPN's, a pile of ODBC drivers, connecting to a bunch of remote machines - and dont forget just all the usual apps that get installed and uninstalled all the time - all with conflicting and warring DLL's and drivers, and just watch every little thing cascade into a meltdown.
Yes, endusers have much less trouble with windows, my windows box was fine before it became a devel box too, but only becasue i could fix all the little things before they grew. So windows is great till you really stress it out.
I do the same with MacOS X, or Linux, and they are both rock solid.
Oh, and all the GNU ports to Win32 can't hold a candle to native apps, DJGPP vs. the MS tools, what a joke.
PC iMac ---- ------ 3 0 Complete rebuilds due to OS taking a shit. 6 hrs N/A[1] Average time between crashes No Yes Mom could use it? 100+ 3 Questions during OS install. $2,499[2] 0 Dev tools cost per user.
[1] My iMac has NEVER crashed [2] Direct MS price as of Jan 13, 2002
I would but another Mac in a nanosecond - coincidently the same amount of time that passes between thoughts of using an axe on my PC.
I'm using something similar to post to slashdot right now, traffic isn't really moving so well and F B::FD%#S$%D XC&%^: H^** 89-j0qwrqwrbnipq23rb6jhji24aqe5
2. 99%+ of corporate theft is from insiders and ex-employees, not outsiders.
So yea, the conclusions of the article are rather obvious. Alot of things, like say a firewall are also useless in almost all cases since the damage is from INSIDE the organization.
But hey, we all make money selling all that useless stuff in the meantime;)
I do _lots_ of development for 30+ platforms and the time spent porting the GUI is at most about 1-2% of the development time.
DO NOT use a cross platform GUI toolkit, they all end up looking like crap, and pissing users of all the platforms off because the look and feel is all wrong.
"Oh but that's so much work, all my code is platform specific" you say? Well, guess what, someone tought you do code GUIs the wrong way. When someone hits a button you dont put the code in the button call, you call your do_XYZ() function, and you're done.
In fact, Windows, OSX, and a few of the UNIX toolkits will even generate all the code for you when you're done drag/droping the GUI elements on screen! All you have to do is put in the function calls, and you're done.
In fact in the time you've spent working up the post for/. and all the googling, you could have done the port to windows and OSX, giving you 99.5%++ of the _desktop_ systems on the planet. And your OpenGL is already portable except for the openWindow(), but that's not hard.
OpenGL is not for widgets, that's what the windowing system is for.
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Yea, i'm worried :)
The ones that they knew enough about already to even get a tap on are the stupid criminals - so not much crypto in use.
If you can't tap them, you just bug them. Bugging is quite a bit easier anyway - so the crypto is not preventing them from getting the data.
MySQL - not a database
+ Java - *laughter*
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My god, someone actually BUILT a cluster-f***.
... dont forget the XML!
Because they are unemployed and have noone to do :)
Based on a glace at sourceforge it's just because people want to be in charge of a project, since 99% of the projects there are all doing the exact same thing as another project. The very concept of working on an existing project is... absurd.
In fact, please fork this comment by modifying it and posting it as your own comment.
But seriously, what else would geeks do? Leave the house? Play a sport? Date?
Um, no.
Common sense is that it's a tool for stealing stuff. That's totally obvious to anyone using it, that's WHY people use it.
The win is that the RIAA needs to now go after the USERS, not the technology.
And they can, and they will, and well... they should. Then the RIAA will die and we can get directly at the artists again - who aren't being helped by P2P either.
See also: the Verison case, that I'm sure will be dup posted any second now.
In all seriousness, in 3 years if things continue... falling prices, endusers not buying into the upgrade cycle, AMD and Intel undercutting each other, video cards outpacing CPU's...
3 years may be about the right time to bail from the PC (meaning intel) market and focus strictly on the exploding embedded markets...
No no, the one where hardware companies release the code because they make 100% of their money selling hardware...
Like when software companies give away their software because they... oh wait...
So, what percentage of coders actually do design level work and even approach "complex".
The tiny fraction that we call engineers. But not all of them, maybe 10%, if that.
By their meaning, clearly most poeple are not engineers. That's a clear cut one.
7/8 of the people working as "coders", that read "Java for waiters" clearly are not engineers either. Also clear cut.
4 year degree with something on the EE//CS line (I'm right in the middle) and a dozen years in the real world... if you have the degree, and you have the insurance covering your work by yourself or by proxy - which i'm gonna call "licensed" then yea, you're clearly an engineer by THEIR meaning.
But nothing is more insulting then being considered in the same job category and resume pile as waiter-turned-coder-last-weekend.
I'd love to see Texas lay the law down on the clueless, and license those of us that really do this for a living. Then all those waiters and such can go back to doing things they can do well.
Redhat Linux will cost $0 but Red Flag Linux will be taxed and cost $0...
We're saved!
Get over it, software jobs are leaving, start retraining yourself now so you still have a job in a year.
"Should Apple move from 32-bit PPC to 64-bit PPC, Mac users should not expect the same kinds of performance gains that x86 software sees from the jump to x86-64. 64-bit PPC gives you larger integers and more memory, and that's about it. There are no extra registers, no cleaned up addressing scheme, etc."
Well yea, they already have more then 0 general purpose registers, and a flat memory space, like every other chip besides x86 has had for the last 20 years now. The embedded chips I've used on projects that cost $7 a piece even have more registers then x86 does.
64bit is about the memory, and using that memory, plain and simple. x86 just happens to be using this as a chance to catch up with the cutting edge concepts of the 1980s.
As for x86 needs to die once and for all, it's hacked, hacked again, and hacked yet again. x86 was and is a 16bit system. And now AMD wants to hack it yet again. Can anyone doubt that 80% of the silicon is for supporting legacy apps at this point? Are people that damn lazy they can't type 'make' on a new system? It's not like anyone uses "int" anymore and assumes it's N bits long.
The MSVC compiler generates code as bad as gcc does. Both suck.
Use the Intel compilers, your code will be 50-300% faster.
And yes, Intel has both Win32, Win64, and Linux compilers, which is why I can state the above becasue I've used them.
GCC or MSVC are fine for development, due to fast compiling, but dont even think of releasing enduser versions with them.
Well, you are stealing their shit. And it is shit, least-common denominator teenie-bopper crap.
Maybe if people would get off their asses and explore the net for local bands they can go watch live, 99% of which will give you their mp3's online so you'll come see the shows.
No artist has ever made a cent off record sales, they make it from CONCERTS. So stop feeding the beast, and feed the artists. Go see something local, buy the Tshirt and CD at the concert if you must.
Stop all your damn whining about how people get mad when you steal their shit. You have two options, but you have to vote by spending your money. Stealing or bitching about it are both not voting at all.
Re: case sensitivity. This is trivial to enable, just google for it. I turned it on on my iMac ages ago so i've lost the link.
$10,000 for recompiling with -lipv6 and changing some u32's to u128's in the structs... oh yea.
For high level languages like Python, I imagine all the work has been done for me already.
If you want to know what's next just do some traveling. Anyplace but here in the USA you will find debit cards and such everywhere.
So why not here? Because the banks here are making a nice 3-5% on EVERYTHING we do, usually paid by the merchant. It's a 3% tax right into the banks pocket.
Don't expect to see any of these futuristic (meaning 20 years ago everyplace else) technologies in the US anytime soon. Powerful rich people will not give up their $300B yearly drain on our wallets easily.
*walks by table while geek is getting caffeene*
*ZOINK*
This is more secure how exactly? It's even external so you don't hurt you back carrying it out the door.
If you're making 100K and still paying taxes, you need to get a new accountant.
The more you make, the less taxes you have to pay, due to acess to more and more loopholes.
Between all the corporate deductions, and all the personal deductions, you shouldn't be paying more then a couple percent in taxes, and only because getting a net-rebate for more then 3 years in a row raises audit flags you don't want raised.
You try loading up any Windows box with a dozen devel environments/servers (MSVC, coldfusion, ASP, SQL, Python, etc etc), some VPN's, a pile of ODBC drivers, connecting to a bunch of remote machines - and dont forget just all the usual apps that get installed and uninstalled all the time - all with conflicting and warring DLL's and drivers, and just watch every little thing cascade into a meltdown.
Yes, endusers have much less trouble with windows, my windows box was fine before it became a devel box too, but only becasue i could fix all the little things before they grew. So windows is great till you really stress it out.
I do the same with MacOS X, or Linux, and they are both rock solid.
Oh, and all the GNU ports to Win32 can't hold a candle to native apps, DJGPP vs. the MS tools, what a joke.
I ment Dec 2000 of course, it's late
Lets see, since December 2001 (2 years)
PC iMac
---- ------
3 0 Complete rebuilds due to OS taking a shit.
6 hrs N/A[1] Average time between crashes
No Yes Mom could use it?
100+ 3 Questions during OS install.
$2,499[2] 0 Dev tools cost per user.
[1] My iMac has NEVER crashed
[2] Direct MS price as of Jan 13, 2002
I would but another Mac in a nanosecond - coincidently the same amount of time that passes between thoughts of using an axe on my PC.
Lets see...
Perl came with a religion - "do it any way you want, as long as noone else can read your code"
Java came with a corporation - "do it, just pay us"
C++ comes with with a paternity test because it's a bastard of C and something, and ended up in need of therapy.
Of course, every language I know of, and all the sourcecode on the net is written in C, so... as long as I can go Touring with it, I dont care.
I'm using something similar to post to slashdot right now, traffic isn't really moving so well and F B::FD%#S$%D XC&%^: H^** 89-j0qwrqwrbnipq23rb6jhji24aqe5
1. Home users have nothing worth stealing...
;)
2. 99%+ of corporate theft is from insiders and ex-employees, not outsiders.
So yea, the conclusions of the article are rather obvious. Alot of things, like say a firewall are also useless in almost all cases since the damage is from INSIDE the organization.
But hey, we all make money selling all that useless stuff in the meantime
I do _lots_ of development for 30+ platforms and the time spent porting the GUI is at most about 1-2% of the development time.
/. and all the googling, you could have done the port to windows and OSX, giving you 99.5%++ of the _desktop_ systems on the planet. And your OpenGL is already portable except for the openWindow(), but that's not hard.
DO NOT use a cross platform GUI toolkit, they all end up looking like crap, and pissing users of all the platforms off because the look and feel is all wrong.
"Oh but that's so much work, all my code is platform specific" you say? Well, guess what, someone tought you do code GUIs the wrong way. When someone hits a button you dont put the code in the button call, you call your do_XYZ() function, and you're done.
In fact, Windows, OSX, and a few of the UNIX toolkits will even generate all the code for you when you're done drag/droping the GUI elements on screen! All you have to do is put in the function calls, and you're done.
In fact in the time you've spent working up the post for
OpenGL is not for widgets, that's what the windowing system is for.