My first question was "So...what does this do?"
Apparently it is a more efficient way of scheduling threads on multi-core systems
http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_TB_brief_20090903.pdf
apple's site says this: "Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) in Mac OS X Snow Leopard addresses this pressing need. It’s a set of first-of-their-kind technologies that makes it much easier for developers to squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems. With GCD, threads are handled by the operating system, not by individual applications. GCD-enabled programs can automatically distribute their work across all available cores, resulting in the best possible performance whether they’re running on a dual-core Mac mini, an 8-core Mac Pro, or anything in between. Once developers start using GCD for their applications, you’ll start noticing significant improvements in performance. "
So this seems good then.
I use a slightly different system,
I use a letter as the first identifier like W to identify which branch I have it located.
and then the month 08
then the year 09
then the number in that monthly batch 01
so you'd have W080901
You instantly know the branch, and how old it is. (although my branches are like 10ish people, this wouldnt work well for large 50+ branches)
Exactly, there's a lot to be said about playing WITH your friends in the same room, not with someone you've never met, while talking to them on vent/ts/voip.....boring...while on the other hand you could be unleashing unholy death upon your friends who are in the same room as you and laughing in an evil manner. It's more fun in person!:)
LAN PLAY is one of the things that helped make SC1 awesome, either 12 carriers coming down on an in-room opponent's settlement with "...what the...WHAT THE HELL...OH GOD" to early game 'ling rush with "..YOU CHEEP BASTARD THATS NOT FUNNY"....LAN play was amazing. Now if I'm going to have an 8 man LAN in my garage, it's all gotta go through battlenet, sucking up my bandwidth? Screw you blizzard. You've got another 2 quarters now, give us LAN play.
So I decided i'd check it out for my XP box....
"Not available in your country or region
You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable.
This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).
"
So...not Canada?
*sigh*
Well, time for Nod32 or kaspersky I guess...
p>Canada has twice the bandwidth at half the price we suckers in the USA pay for.
I've spotted a crazyperson!...
The USA is the land of the $50 (or less, i mean, cogent's $4) megabit/sec.
Up here, I pay $142/megabit, without any bandwidth factored In. I spend nearly 2 grand a month on a 10 meg line, with 250gigs of transfer.
I'm trying to make a small DC up in BC, and it's brutal, there's no way we can even dream of competing with US prices, not because of the dollar factor, but just because you guys get data for so rediculously cheep.
And then there's cellphones! You guys can get unlimited phone/data lines, for less than a hundred a month, we get 4 gigs of data and 200 minutes for $85 a month. No unlimited anything.
HUGE SUCCESS!!:D
WOOOO EGM's return!
Finally!
I liked them, they tended to not show mercy to the weak, and didnt care as much about kissing the asses of their advertisers to artificially boost the ratings of their games if they were actually crap!
Sorry Friend,
it's laughable at best.:( The problem is that the provincial government of British Columbia has a branch, called WTS: http://www.sharedservicesbc.gov.bc.ca/Workplace_Technology_Services/supplier.htm these people handle all of the computers on the provincial level.
Basically, you've got a lot of hardcore geeks bound by red tape and managers who know nothing about computers in general. (Same old story, right?) Anyway... In the old days, every ministry, say Transport, for example, would have their own admins, their own domain software packages etc. Now it's all under one roof, the problem is that they like old school technology. Ie we have to BEG AND PLEAD to use PHP, ruby etc for interfaces for our databases...prettymuch the problem is, the geeks on hand love open source, but the managers for the whole system have their heads firmly planted up their butts. Thats even the reason why they *just* ramped up to vista instead of waiting for win7 because it'd have "unproven performance".
Good game, bureaucracy.
Ok, when some vendor has a wireless router that can give each one of my workstations 1Gb/s, then we'll talk. But there's something to be said about having an INDIVIDUAL connection to each workstation, so we dont have to divide the total available bandwidth among our workstations. Also, even if we divided our workstations into the available wireless channels, we'd still have problems with bandwidth and interference.
Oh, and interference? Turns out, the workplace I manage has cordless phones, microwaves, steel walls, concrete walls. I'd be really stoked to see a router that could reliably get through all of that for enterprise use.
when i say WHOOOHOOOO!:D
I've been intentionally buying "XP downgrade" systems from lenovo to avoid vista, and I'm glad we'll have it for another 6 months!
Yay!:)
I cannot agree more, especially when NASA ENGINEERS are behind the idea, using existing technology that already sends people into space, I mean the ares5 is a big mean nasty awesome rocket (dont get me wrong, it's groin grabbingly good in idea), but it seems to me that the JUPITER project would be so much better, less technological hurdles and could get us back "up there" more quickly!
I'm the I.T. guy for a company that has 20 staff in the office, and 200 employees, and also owns 3 other smallish companies.
Good luck with virtualizing...we run tons of proprietary apps that the devs cant even figure out how to turn them into a service, let alone make them portable to use from a datacenter in god-knows-where-istan (or california, whichever has more crazies:P )
Then, there's our connection, which, lets face it, is business cable, and goes down on occasion...so we need an in-house server at all times.
But the real problem is the PEBKAC problems that i run through every day, and those require in-house I.T...Every-Ten-Minutes...
Downsize the I.T. dept? Good-Fracking-Luck.:P
So you need a Space Based MMO?
What a coincidence! I think I can tackle this problem!
I just found source code to something just like it on Pirate Bay! I'll just call it EVE-online..Err, I mean NASA-Online.
It'll be awesome, now all I need to do is get google-ads running ingame and I can finally get my infinium phantom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment
I go to UVIC (www.uvic.ca) and study groups are enouraged, each one of my classes has one, each one of my lab sections has one, heck we organize our pubcrawls on there, even our lab TA's are the one's who started the group, it's a wonderful collaboration tool for asking questions or getting help, we dont copy eachother but we certainly try to help our whole group, I think it's crazy for that university not to embrace facebook, it's new technology, and its here to stay. It's progress, it's evolution. What's next? Ban access to the internet aswell so they cant get access to google or wikipedia?
People need to understand that these are bring used as learning tools aswell, not just a place to tag pictures of your drunken friends.
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Or, if you're on the pacific side of north america, I've got 24 that I'll happily get rid of. :)
My first question was "So...what does this do?" Apparently it is a more efficient way of scheduling threads on multi-core systems http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_TB_brief_20090903.pdf apple's site says this: "Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) in Mac OS X Snow Leopard addresses this pressing need. It’s a set of first-of-their-kind technologies that makes it much easier for developers to squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems. With GCD, threads are handled by the operating system, not by individual applications. GCD-enabled programs can automatically distribute their work across all available cores, resulting in the best possible performance whether they’re running on a dual-core Mac mini, an 8-core Mac Pro, or anything in between. Once developers start using GCD for their applications, you’ll start noticing significant improvements in performance. " So this seems good then.
I use a slightly different system, I use a letter as the first identifier like W to identify which branch I have it located. and then the month 08 then the year 09 then the number in that monthly batch 01 so you'd have W080901 You instantly know the branch, and how old it is. (although my branches are like 10ish people, this wouldnt work well for large 50+ branches)
Exactly, there's a lot to be said about playing WITH your friends in the same room, not with someone you've never met, while talking to them on vent/ts/voip.....boring...while on the other hand you could be unleashing unholy death upon your friends who are in the same room as you and laughing in an evil manner. It's more fun in person! :)
LAN PLAY is one of the things that helped make SC1 awesome, either 12 carriers coming down on an in-room opponent's settlement with "...what the...WHAT THE HELL...OH GOD" to early game 'ling rush with "..YOU CHEEP BASTARD THATS NOT FUNNY"....LAN play was amazing. Now if I'm going to have an 8 man LAN in my garage, it's all gotta go through battlenet, sucking up my bandwidth? Screw you blizzard. You've got another 2 quarters now, give us LAN play.
BEST MOVIE EVER, Aliens really made me love that series.
Daikatana!
So I decided i'd check it out for my XP box.... "Not available in your country or region You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable. This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only). " So...not Canada? *sigh* Well, time for Nod32 or kaspersky I guess...
Good call, on both fronts. :)
Forgot about telus.
FODRIZZLE! haha, been wanting to drop that one for a while! :D
p>Canada has twice the bandwidth at half the price we suckers in the USA pay for.
I've spotted a crazyperson!... The USA is the land of the $50 (or less, i mean, cogent's $4) megabit/sec. Up here, I pay $142/megabit, without any bandwidth factored In. I spend nearly 2 grand a month on a 10 meg line, with 250gigs of transfer. I'm trying to make a small DC up in BC, and it's brutal, there's no way we can even dream of competing with US prices, not because of the dollar factor, but just because you guys get data for so rediculously cheep. And then there's cellphones! You guys can get unlimited phone/data lines, for less than a hundred a month, we get 4 gigs of data and 200 minutes for $85 a month. No unlimited anything.
if you're spending hours on the can, the next person who walks in after you is truly DOOMed. hah, sorry, had to. I'll go punch myself for that one.
HUGE SUCCESS!! :D
WOOOO EGM's return!
Finally!
I liked them, they tended to not show mercy to the weak, and didnt care as much about kissing the asses of their advertisers to artificially boost the ratings of their games if they were actually crap!
Seconded!! :)
It's a great place for you to start.
Sorry Friend, it's laughable at best. :( The problem is that the provincial government of British Columbia has a branch, called WTS: http://www.sharedservicesbc.gov.bc.ca/Workplace_Technology_Services/supplier.htm these people handle all of the computers on the provincial level.
Basically, you've got a lot of hardcore geeks bound by red tape and managers who know nothing about computers in general. (Same old story, right?) Anyway... In the old days, every ministry, say Transport, for example, would have their own admins, their own domain software packages etc. Now it's all under one roof, the problem is that they like old school technology. Ie we have to BEG AND PLEAD to use PHP, ruby etc for interfaces for our databases...prettymuch the problem is, the geeks on hand love open source, but the managers for the whole system have their heads firmly planted up their butts. Thats even the reason why they *just* ramped up to vista instead of waiting for win7 because it'd have "unproven performance".
Good game, bureaucracy.
Yeah, but they're no DEWALT. http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail_listing.asp?categoryID=350 "Good for Wood, Concrete, thin metal, and SKULLS"
"Bones, how are their shields?..."
Ok, when some vendor has a wireless router that can give each one of my workstations 1Gb/s, then we'll talk. But there's something to be said about having an INDIVIDUAL connection to each workstation, so we dont have to divide the total available bandwidth among our workstations. Also, even if we divided our workstations into the available wireless channels, we'd still have problems with bandwidth and interference. Oh, and interference? Turns out, the workplace I manage has cordless phones, microwaves, steel walls, concrete walls. I'd be really stoked to see a router that could reliably get through all of that for enterprise use.
when i say WHOOOHOOOO! :D
I've been intentionally buying "XP downgrade" systems from lenovo to avoid vista, and I'm glad we'll have it for another 6 months!
Yay! :)
"A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Public" .....And then he ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE THING
I cannot agree more, especially when NASA ENGINEERS are behind the idea, using existing technology that already sends people into space, I mean the ares5 is a big mean nasty awesome rocket (dont get me wrong, it's groin grabbingly good in idea), but it seems to me that the JUPITER project would be so much better, less technological hurdles and could get us back "up there" more quickly!
No, I'm the I.T. guy. One. Singular. :P
20 in the office, 200 in the field = 220 employees.
1/220 ;)
I keep quite busy! :P
I'm the I.T. guy for a company that has 20 staff in the office, and 200 employees, and also owns 3 other smallish companies. Good luck with virtualizing...we run tons of proprietary apps that the devs cant even figure out how to turn them into a service, let alone make them portable to use from a datacenter in god-knows-where-istan (or california, whichever has more crazies :P )
Then, there's our connection, which, lets face it, is business cable, and goes down on occasion...so we need an in-house server at all times.
But the real problem is the PEBKAC problems that i run through every day, and those require in-house I.T...Every-Ten-Minutes...
Downsize the I.T. dept? Good-Fracking-Luck. :P
So you need a Space Based MMO? What a coincidence! I think I can tackle this problem! I just found source code to something just like it on Pirate Bay! I'll just call it EVE-online..Err, I mean NASA-Online. It'll be awesome, now all I need to do is get google-ads running ingame and I can finally get my infinium phantom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment
I go to UVIC (www.uvic.ca) and study groups are enouraged, each one of my classes has one, each one of my lab sections has one, heck we organize our pubcrawls on there, even our lab TA's are the one's who started the group, it's a wonderful collaboration tool for asking questions or getting help, we dont copy eachother but we certainly try to help our whole group, I think it's crazy for that university not to embrace facebook, it's new technology, and its here to stay. It's progress, it's evolution. What's next? Ban access to the internet aswell so they cant get access to google or wikipedia? People need to understand that these are bring used as learning tools aswell, not just a place to tag pictures of your drunken friends.