1. Port your code to a platform with 1/20 the piracy rate of windows.
2. PEOPLE PAY YOU
3. Profit!
The Mac world doesnt suffer from the rabid "screw the developer" mentality of the Windows world (or worse the linux world). I personally know many people that make a nice living with OSX apps.
You'd be right if the goal were just to find a folded state, but well, it's not:) In this case it's to simulate the actual folding process, matching the models (which they are working on) with experimental results.
I write code that works perfectly on Win32, UNIX, OSX, and everything else every day.
Just stick to C, and you will have no issues at all. The SECOND you touch C++, you will have problems.
It really
The problem Yahoo is that 0.5B/day of that is on the 3 servers they have for instant messaging, profiles, and chat. All of which barely work, and discard messages all the time.
The other 1B/day are on the worlds largest porn collection known as Yahoo Groups.
It's real simple, ribbon cables SUCK, they cost more to make then serial so PC makers hate them.
So, here's how it is...
Fibre Channel - 2Mb/s(10Mb coming very soon), 126 drives, 10+ mile range, better then SCSI.
S-ATA - 1.2Mb/s(2.4Mb in 2004), 18" range?, IDE protocols for all your write-only data needs.
S-ATA is the Ghetto FibreChannel, just like IDE is crappy SCSI, expect similar suckiness and low quality to go with the low price and cheaper cables (to make, to buy they will cost more I'm sure).
But again, this is all about the creaper cables, since lets face it 95%+ of the machines out there only have one drive anyway.
Folding@home out of Stanford and a couple other NON-commercial projects are doing very fundamental research, and will never "generate money" but do generate plenty of published research. But you're right that you do have to do your homework when picking what projects to do - you may just need to do a little more homework;)
Considering the geek pay is 5x+ of what a rent-a-cop pays, and there is NO WAY IN HELL you can get your geeks to lay off the junk food and caffeene long enough to get in shape to chase down the mouse on their own desks... guess which one is the one amangement wants to get rid of... Hint: it's not the one who can move from his chair unassisted and can go read Security for Dumbies.
Come on, if you could pass the physical fitness course and all their security questions would you really have spent your life behind antisocial behind a keyboard being a geek? No, you'd be out having a life and getting laid like all the guys that can run farther then to the fridge without passing out.
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1. Port your code to a platform with 1/20 the piracy rate of windows. 2. PEOPLE PAY YOU 3. Profit! The Mac world doesnt suffer from the rabid "screw the developer" mentality of the Windows world (or worse the linux world). I personally know many people that make a nice living with OSX apps.
You'd be right if the goal were just to find a folded state, but well, it's not :) In this case it's to simulate the actual folding process, matching the models (which they are working on) with experimental results.
I can crack it in 7 notes....
IBM gets ancient client-server systems to work, news at 11...
Slap "P2P" on something old and watch people drool...
I write code that works perfectly on Win32, UNIX, OSX, and everything else every day. Just stick to C, and you will have no issues at all. The SECOND you touch C++, you will have problems. It really
Yes, these guys are completely screwed if they do anything interesting at all while in college.
This is the main reason that when you do something valueable you dropout of college BEFORE you announce it to the world.
15.B/4500 = 333K/day isnt even medium load.
The problem Yahoo is that 0.5B/day of that is on the 3 servers they have for instant messaging, profiles, and chat. All of which barely work, and discard messages all the time.
The other 1B/day are on the worlds largest porn collection known as Yahoo Groups.
yea yea, s/M/G/g, it's late.
It's real simple, ribbon cables SUCK, they cost more to make then serial so PC makers hate them.
So, here's how it is...
Fibre Channel - 2Mb/s(10Mb coming very soon), 126 drives, 10+ mile range, better then SCSI.
S-ATA - 1.2Mb/s(2.4Mb in 2004), 18" range?, IDE protocols for all your write-only data needs.
S-ATA is the Ghetto FibreChannel, just like IDE is crappy SCSI, expect similar suckiness and low quality to go with the low price and cheaper cables (to make, to buy they will cost more I'm sure).
But again, this is all about the creaper cables, since lets face it 95%+ of the machines out there only have one drive anyway.
glibc 2.3.1 killed a ALOT of things.
And we're working on post-2.3.1 clients already.
Well, there is the API that Folding@home used. That might work.
Unlike other projects, everyone who works on a given protein works on it since it's a continuous process not a "you may be a winner" one.
Actually RC5 was about getting the export restrictions removed. But what would I know ;)
On tonights news... Linux lacks features real human beings need to make it work, so they choose Windows and OSX instead.
Linux: by geeks, for geeks, and only the geeks.
Is not carrying around a 1m firewire cable really worth giving up a ton of space, almost all the speeeeeeeed, and the battery life too?
Bluetooth is nice for SMS, but anything bigger you're better off with an old fashioned serial cable cerca 1970.
Game testing is a really really really boring, repetative, shitty job with low pay and many risks like carpletunnel and SLD (social life destruction).
Maybe women are just to smart to do such a job when they have so many other options.
So how long till they uncover the massive accounting fraud all dot-com companies have to use to make money... :)
Folding@home out of Stanford and a couple other NON-commercial projects are doing very fundamental research, and will never "generate money" but do generate plenty of published research. But you're right that you do have to do your homework when picking what projects to do - you may just need to do a little more homework ;)
Me use 3.0.0 Yea right! Tell us when 3.0.10 comes out, until then, noone cares.
P2P A.K.A client-server has been around since the dawn of time, and is doing just fine. I dont think it needs saving.
Now companys that encourge and enable piracy definately need saving, and probably a lot of money to make bail for that matter.
There are lots of versions of just what you describe, many dont even cost $250/CPU.
Considering the geek pay is 5x+ of what a rent-a-cop pays, and there is NO WAY IN HELL you can get your geeks to lay off the junk food and caffeene long enough to get in shape to chase down the mouse on their own desks... guess which one is the one amangement wants to get rid of... Hint: it's not the one who can move from his chair unassisted and can go read Security for Dumbies.
Come on, if you could pass the physical fitness course and all their security questions would you really have spent your life behind antisocial behind a keyboard being a geek? No, you'd be out having a life and getting laid like all the guys that can run farther then to the fridge without passing out.
So, yea, it's all about Darwin.
All service-based things are generally subscribtion based... from the pool guy to the Cable TV. Enterprise software has always been sold this way.
So redhat making their free software available for free-per-year makes perfect sense.
Who else would be dumb... er, crazy... um, smart enought to pay twice as much money for the 4600 that's only 20% faster then the 4200...
:)
Definately noone that didnt get their parents to buy it for them anyway...