Years ago I posted the source to a neural net implementation that I did while in school. It was a very simple one with just regular back propagation, and the code was documented with examples. Soon after that I started receiving all kinds of email asking for help with the code from people clearly trying to use it to do their Comp Sci homeworks or projects. I started out with courteous and helpful replies, but at some point people ask questions which really have nothing to do with the software (and more to do with whatever that person is working on) -- to the point where they are wasting your time and you have to cut them off. Then they get annoyed and start insulting you.
I'd rather kick back and drink a beer than keep writing software in my free time. Whatever is left of my free time that is, after writing open source code for 80 hours a week. Thanks for insulting me, and I bet that I am a far better programmer than you will ever be.
First, let me preface this by saying that I am writing this reply from my Linux desktop that I exclusively use at home, so I am not a "shill".
I agree with the GP that there is software that is worth paying for simply because there is nothing that comes close in the Free Software world. If the gain in productivity from buying simply outweighs the cost I would pay, it's simple pragmatism to buy it. There is a lot of specialized software that comes in this category including CAD, 3D modeling, and even stuff like Visual Studio, which has no viable equivalent in the free software world.
If you are not sure what you can do with TIFF may be you shouldn't knock it, eh? You can use 16 bits per channel in a TIFF. You can also use 64 bit if you really wanted to and to top it off you could make it floating point.
Not every company can afford to hire programmers to write their internal use software. From a practical standpoint, an architecture firm doesn't necessarily want to hire someone to write a CAD application internally. Why is it not valid for them to pay someone else (like a commercial software company) to do it for them? How is that different than contracting a construction job to someone else? Why should such software come for free?
This is all fine and good. But can you tell me, if I write software for a living -- who will pay me so that I don't starve to death if all software was free? The majority of programmers working on free software also have a day job working on non-free software for said large evil corporations (e.g. IBM) so that they can feed their families.
I use Bell WiMAX in Montreal. I think Bell and Rogers have a joint venture for this service in Canada actually. I subscribed for a 3 Mbit/s service and I have to say even though cable modem and DSL are supposed to be faster in theory, the WiMAX is the fastest home connection I've ever had. It could be that it is not very popular yet so they have lots of free bandwidth floating around, in addition to it being a dedicated frequency. Also, I have had no service outages for the 3 months I've had this connection.
Wouldn't the horizon distance depend on the relative velocity of the two objects, due to relativistic effects? Also, does your integral take into account length contraction due to special relativity? I don't know the math, I'm just asking...
By experience, do you mean that you have actually had an AMD chip fail or are you just guessing?
Personally, I have used AMD chips since the days of the Am386 and have not had a problem with them. Also, my laptop with a 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 runs circles around my 3.4GHz dual core office desktop in terms of performance. Don't ask me why, since my answer would be that the Pentium sucks.
I come from a low level graphics programming background. Having played around with the XNA betas that have been out for a while, I must say that XNA is probably the easiest way to get an amateur started with DirectX programming and game development. It seems almost like Microsoft is trying to get the grass roots hooked onto the platform so that the next generation of game programmers prefer the MS platform.
Oh, and people who compare XNA to game engines like Ogre are missing the point. XNA is not a game engine, it's more of a development tool/platform. It does come with lots of library code, but it's not a full-fledged game engine.
It was because of ignorance, condescension and grandstanding in all of his articles. A rich vocabulary can't fix that, even though it sounds impressive on the face of it.
I don't know about CNN, but the footage they showed on ABC (presumably the same) was definitely old, because I am sure I had seen it several times before. Talk about manipulation.
You mean Direct3D developers. HAL stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer in Windows world.
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Allowable radiation dosage standard is bullshit. Nobody has done research on low level exposure for humans but there is evidence that we can endure much higher radiation that previously thought. It looks like this Dave guy was not exposed to real strong radiation but to low level and he did not inhale or eat the stuff. There is a chance he might get skin cancer in the next 15 years but that's no biggie.
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Years ago I posted the source to a neural net implementation that I did while in school. It was a very simple one with just regular back propagation, and the code was documented with examples. Soon after that I started receiving all kinds of email asking for help with the code from people clearly trying to use it to do their Comp Sci homeworks or projects. I started out with courteous and helpful replies, but at some point people ask questions which really have nothing to do with the software (and more to do with whatever that person is working on) -- to the point where they are wasting your time and you have to cut them off. Then they get annoyed and start insulting you.
I'd rather kick back and drink a beer than keep writing software in my free time. Whatever is left of my free time that is, after writing open source code for 80 hours a week. Thanks for insulting me, and I bet that I am a far better programmer than you will ever be.
First, let me preface this by saying that I am writing this reply from my Linux desktop that I exclusively use at home, so I am not a "shill".
I agree with the GP that there is software that is worth paying for simply because there is nothing that comes close in the Free Software world. If the gain in productivity from buying simply outweighs the cost I would pay, it's simple pragmatism to buy it. There is a lot of specialized software that comes in this category including CAD, 3D modeling, and even stuff like Visual Studio, which has no viable equivalent in the free software world.
If you are not sure what you can do with TIFF may be you shouldn't knock it, eh? You can use 16 bits per channel in a TIFF. You can also use 64 bit if you really wanted to and to top it off you could make it floating point.
Not every company can afford to hire programmers to write their internal use software. From a practical standpoint, an architecture firm doesn't necessarily want to hire someone to write a CAD application internally. Why is it not valid for them to pay someone else (like a commercial software company) to do it for them? How is that different than contracting a construction job to someone else? Why should such software come for free?
This is all fine and good. But can you tell me, if I write software for a living -- who will pay me so that I don't starve to death if all software was free? The majority of programmers working on free software also have a day job working on non-free software for said large evil corporations (e.g. IBM) so that they can feed their families.
I use Bell WiMAX in Montreal. I think Bell and Rogers have a joint venture for this service in Canada actually. I subscribed for a 3 Mbit/s service and I have to say even though cable modem and DSL are supposed to be faster in theory, the WiMAX is the fastest home connection I've ever had. It could be that it is not very popular yet so they have lots of free bandwidth floating around, in addition to it being a dedicated frequency. Also, I have had no service outages for the 3 months I've had this connection.
Wouldn't the horizon distance depend on the relative velocity of the two objects, due to relativistic effects?
Also, does your integral take into account length contraction due to special relativity?
I don't know the math, I'm just asking...
How do you send electrical signals to its brain without harming the shark? My guess is they drilled electrodes into the sharks' brains.
By experience, do you mean that you have actually had an AMD chip fail or are you just guessing?
Personally, I have used AMD chips since the days of the Am386 and have not had a problem with them. Also, my laptop with a 2.2 GHz Athlon 64 runs circles around my 3.4GHz dual core office desktop in terms of performance. Don't ask me why, since my answer would be that the Pentium sucks.
Don't judge IBM too harshly. It's hard to get people excited about working for the most boring company in the world.
I come from a low level graphics programming background. Having played around with the XNA betas that have been out for a while, I must say that XNA is probably the easiest way to get an amateur started with DirectX programming and game development. It seems almost like Microsoft is trying to get the grass roots hooked onto the platform so that the next generation of game programmers prefer the MS platform.
Oh, and people who compare XNA to game engines like Ogre are missing the point. XNA is not a game engine, it's more of a development tool/platform. It does come with lots of library code, but it's not a full-fledged game engine.
It was because of ignorance, condescension and grandstanding in all of his articles. A rich vocabulary can't fix that, even though it sounds impressive on the face of it.
Ever heard of geosynchronous and geostationary orbits?
I don't know about CNN, but the footage they showed on ABC (presumably the same) was definitely old, because I am sure I had seen it several times before. Talk about manipulation.
I lived in Mauritius for 3 years. I went to St. Joseph's College there. Hence my user name. My dad still works there.
Well, that is why I'd pay the 5 bucks extra and rent Hertz instead. You can do anything with their cars.
Have you been to vwvortex.com? The biggest VW forum. Some cool stuff there.
It's even more EMBARRASSING that there is a double R in the word EMBARRASSING.
I can't drive with both hands on the wheel. Who would shift my gears if I did?
Yeah, but chicks dig the Jetta. That's why I got my Wolfie.
The 1.8T engine is a real machine. The 2.slow is a bunch of metal pieces slapped together. I have a 1.8T and man, that thing rules!
Looks like you know your VWs. Have you been to vwvortex.com? The biggest VW forum.
You mean Direct3D developers. HAL stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer in Windows world.
Allowable radiation dosage standard is bullshit. Nobody has done research on low level exposure for humans but there is evidence that we can endure much higher radiation that previously thought. It looks like this Dave guy was not exposed to real strong radiation but to low level and he did not inhale or eat the stuff. There is a chance he might get skin cancer in the next 15 years but that's no biggie.