I was talking to my dad about game development a few days ago. The first words out of his mouth were to the effect of, "Of course IT gets screwed, you guys don't have a union." I hadn't really thought about it in that way before, but to him, it was a perfectly black and white issue. I agreed with him 100%. We need an IT union in this country with enough teeth to effect things.
He actually complained about how short the game is, based on the fact that he *thinks* he is almost done, but hasn't finished... Wow. It's almost as good as the reviews written by people looking forward to eventually playing a game.
Sure, in 10 years, I may have to do some extra tweaking to get DOOM3 to run under Windows 2014. It may be a royal pain in the ass. But, whatever I have to do, it'll be legal.
Downloading the crack for HL2 will be illegal.
I, for one, still enjoy games like the original Command and Conquer. It's a royal PITA to get some DOS games running with sound ona modern system, but it's still good fun. Not knowing how long I'll be able to play HL2 puts a serious dent in my cost-benefit analysis. I think it looks like a good game, but I'm certainly going to wait until it gets cheaper before I buy it.
Having seen the atomic wrist watch linked fromthe article about the guy who recently made a chess set... I only consider this technology cool if you can wear it on your wrist!
No, not really. SBC can do whatever they want with their network. For example, suppose that my business model is selling used video games to a "Buy Back Games" typre store. Every day, I come in with a pile of old SNES cartriges, shouting and making a nuissance of myself. The guy who owns that store can kickk me out seven different ways, and still be well within his rights, even though he is "interfering with my business."
It's his store, so he has the right to interfere in my business, but I have no right to interfere in his.
Likewise, if they own the network, they have evry right to route packets however they want, giving priority to their actual customers.
I think if you watch a lot of pornography, then that can distance you from other people and perhaps interfere with forming a healthy relationship with your parter, but who knows - it's just my feeling. I don't think anyone with a brain whichever side of the argument they fall on could see this article being anything other than bollocks.
I once met a woman at a porn party. Natch.
I should really post this anonymously, shouldn't I?
The reason that P2P networks are useful is because the speeds are fast and there is a TON of material out there. I'm sorry but a private network that is invite only just won't cut it.
And, just for the record, Gnutella has always supported semi-private networks. That was part of the problem early on. It doesn't have password authentication, but you aren't obliged to sign onto the main network.
Just remember that "the fittest" is defined as whoever survives in their environment. So, this particular dolphin may have a cuteness adaptation that makes humans want to help her. While that wouldn't be a benefit in a humanless ocean, she doesn't live in a humanless ocean. It doesn't make any sense trying to decide who is the fittest beforehand. That is trying to put a human value judgement on a natural process. You do what you do. They do what they do. No need to worry about evolution. It'll keep on going without us. It's like that.
Actually, it was an accident. They were trying to make a serious horror movie. They believed they were going to make the best horror movie ever. They failed wonderfully.
Who is the official body that decides what is correct? Where do I go to register a new word or phraze if I coin one? There is no such thing as official correct English. If we were talking about French, it makes sense to talk about correctness. There is an official body in France which oversees the preservation and development of the official French language. Even assuming there was such a body in England, would that dictate correct English for the USA or Australia? What if there were official bodies in both the USA and in England? Who's definition of correct would trump the other? When I'm in Canada? When I'm in Germany?
It's popular to believe that there is such a thing as correct English. That doesn't make it so. And, while I agree with most of your points, I do feel that "begs the question" is perfectly valid as it is most commonly used. Pompous and Aweful used to be compliments. Language changes. Deal with it.
As long as I'm being a grammar jerk ATM, I want to introduce the word wherm to you all.
Since "whom" is used to indicate an interrogative object, I think we should regularise all interrogative objects. "To whom are you speaking?" (Because "who" is 'incorrect' !) "To wherm are you going?" (Same logic - regularise by adding an M at the end if it is used as an object instead of a subject!)
You know, i was wondering, earlier today, if anybody was ever going to make an object oriented Brainfuck. Object BF (of B F++ if you prefer) would be a delightfully horrible lanfuage. And, since it is such a compact language (though I make no promises about programs written in it) you should have no problem acquianting yourself fully with the existing compiler in about the length of a coffe break.
That doesn't mean that the Application couldn't check the hardware, and transmit it at application layer. I'm not saying that's what they are doing, but the fact that no unique ID is transmitted automatically doesn't prevent that ID from being transmitted. (Whether it is a serial# from the HDD, a PROM, or the MAC address...)
None of these is automatically going to indicate how the machine compares to another machine at a certain task. But, the primary difference between guys who work with Big Iron, and the gamers is that the Big Iron guys know that the benchmarks in isolation don't mean anything. By and large, there will be a lot of special custom code that takes up the bulk of compute time on a big system, so your "special purpose" idea holds some water. If this is the case, they just check to see how their custom code runs on the system, what the bottlenecks are, etc.
SPEC is generally considered the best benchmark for general purpose stuff, but it takes a fair amount of digging to understand exactly whether or not it means anything to you. Since it's broken up into many parts, you may find that your own application tracks a certain subset of the benchmarks very closely due to similar code. Other types of code are small, and tight, and don't care about bandwidth, and will track the raw FLOPS number very closely.
Well, this is pretty off-topic, but I am in favor of allowing abortion only pne day a year, but making it mandatory. I think that this is a good compromise. The only people who don't have to have abortions are those over 50 years old. This government sponsored old people procreating program is to promote people who live long lives to pass on their genes. Also, extra tax credits for children bourne past 60.
The gcc optimisation flags can provide a very big boost, but only if you do stupid things with your code. Seriously. If you examine the ASM to see *why* your code is running so much faster, you will often find that gcc noticed you put something where it wasn't supposed to be, and weren't using it. Move stuff that doesn't need to be recalculated every loop out of the loop, and you probably won't see a huge difference. Coming up with a synthetic benchmark to show off the optimisation is useless, especially when you are trying to argue with somebody who has actual time runs from real world code.
About 70 TFLOPS, or a fair bit under double what this thing gets. OTOH, the SETI@Home cluster has substantial latency, and really only does well with very paralleliseable tasks...:)
Yeesh, I put a smily face in the post. I was just ball busting for the sake of it, not to genuinely offend. Certainly, your post could be read as referring to only those platforms you mentioned. I won't argue that. But, being pedantic, you were unspecific, so I decided to make a broader reading of your post. When you wrote, "If you were a true computing enthusiast you would have one of each. I do," it seemed pretty clear that you were belittling the OP, and implying that he didn't count as a "true enthusiast" because he wasn't good enough. So, take a deep breath, and realise that I was just taking a round about means of pointing out to you that your own words may have come across more harshly than was warranted, and possibly more harshly than you intended.
That said, you didn't specifically say that your statement was limited to the afformentioned platforms, so I reader could well take your topic to have been "operating platforms" since you mentioned several, rather than "the specific operating platforms of PC and Mac."
Further, True64 was the 64 bit port. Running it on a VAX is a bit like running OS-X on an old 68k Mac. IMHO, they really do count as separate from their (related) predecessors. But, that it clearly a amtter of opinion and marketing...
Anyhow, good luck with getting all defensive and reactionary because some guy responded to your post. I guess you just aren't happy with the size of your penis. It's okay. Mine is tiny, too, and I used to be very defensive. Relax. Being angry won't make it any bigger.
Then how in the fuck can you get all high and mighty and claim that you have "one of each?" The whole world isn't just PC and not-PC. If you are really a technology enthusiast, you should be careful how you invoke phrases like that when trying to belittle another technology enthusiast.:)
BTW, Vaxen are 32 bit systems. They were the replacement for the 16 bit PDP-11 line, and predated the 64 bit Alpha line. VMS is the most common OS for Vaxen. And no, you can't have mine. I've only got the one, and it isn't fully working yet. Hooray for dumpster diving for technology.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to get back to trying to build a Canadian-Cross compiler on my iBook, for my SGI, to output code for my Dreamcast.
natch.
No, I don't have a girlfriend. No, I haven't had one in a very long time. I haven't had a girlfriend since I went out with the girl who gave me my first SPARC box. God, I miss her.
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I was talking to my dad about game development a few days ago. The first words out of his mouth were to the effect of, "Of course IT gets screwed, you guys don't have a union." I hadn't really thought about it in that way before, but to him, it was a perfectly black and white issue. I agreed with him 100%. We need an IT union in this country with enough teeth to effect things.
At least they gave you a favorable writeup. They could have put something ambiguos, like, "Was involved with the software update problem." :)
He actually complained about how short the game is, based on the fact that he *thinks* he is almost done, but hasn't finished... Wow. It's almost as good as the reviews written by people looking forward to eventually playing a game.
Sure, in 10 years, I may have to do some extra tweaking to get DOOM3 to run under Windows 2014. It may be a royal pain in the ass. But, whatever I have to do, it'll be legal.
Downloading the crack for HL2 will be illegal.
I, for one, still enjoy games like the original Command and Conquer. It's a royal PITA to get some DOS games running with sound ona modern system, but it's still good fun. Not knowing how long I'll be able to play HL2 puts a serious dent in my cost-benefit analysis. I think it looks like a good game, but I'm certainly going to wait until it gets cheaper before I buy it.
That isn't a thorough refutation.
If a VOIP company chooses to use SBC's network, what obliges SBC to provide perfect service to the VOIP company, unless their is a contract?
Having seen the atomic wrist watch linked fromthe article about the guy who recently made a chess set... I only consider this technology cool if you can wear it on your wrist!
No, not really. SBC can do whatever they want with their network. For example, suppose that my business model is selling used video games to a "Buy Back Games" typre store. Every day, I come in with a pile of old SNES cartriges, shouting and making a nuissance of myself. The guy who owns that store can kickk me out seven different ways, and still be well within his rights, even though he is "interfering with my business."
It's his store, so he has the right to interfere in my business, but I have no right to interfere in his.
Likewise, if they own the network, they have evry right to route packets however they want, giving priority to their actual customers.
I once met a woman at a porn party. Natch. I should really post this anonymously, shouldn't I?
And, just for the record, Gnutella has always supported semi-private networks. That was part of the problem early on. It doesn't have password authentication, but you aren't obliged to sign onto the main network.
Just remember that "the fittest" is defined as whoever survives in their environment. So, this particular dolphin may have a cuteness adaptation that makes humans want to help her. While that wouldn't be a benefit in a humanless ocean, she doesn't live in a humanless ocean. It doesn't make any sense trying to decide who is the fittest beforehand. That is trying to put a human value judgement on a natural process. You do what you do. They do what they do. No need to worry about evolution. It'll keep on going without us. It's like that.
Actually, it was an accident. They were trying to make a serious horror movie. They believed they were going to make the best horror movie ever. They failed wonderfully.
In response, I can only say that thy hoozimapharb is at for undoing in most uctiously cromulent bray. Unctiously cromulent, indeed!
Methinks that should get my point anderfoolmish.
So, you are saying that us communists are wife beaters? I take offense at that! I'm not married.
Who is the official body that decides what is correct? Where do I go to register a new word or phraze if I coin one? There is no such thing as official correct English. If we were talking about French, it makes sense to talk about correctness. There is an official body in France which oversees the preservation and development of the official French language. Even assuming there was such a body in England, would that dictate correct English for the USA or Australia? What if there were official bodies in both the USA and in England? Who's definition of correct would trump the other? When I'm in Canada? When I'm in Germany?
It's popular to believe that there is such a thing as correct English. That doesn't make it so. And, while I agree with most of your points, I do feel that "begs the question" is perfectly valid as it is most commonly used. Pompous and Aweful used to be compliments. Language changes. Deal with it.
As long as I'm being a grammar jerk ATM, I want to introduce the word wherm to you all.
Since "whom" is used to indicate an interrogative object, I think we should regularise all interrogative objects. "To whom are you speaking?" (Because "who" is 'incorrect' !) "To wherm are you going?" (Same logic - regularise by adding an M at the end if it is used as an object instead of a subject!)
You know, i was wondering, earlier today, if anybody was ever going to make an object oriented Brainfuck. Object BF (of B F++ if you prefer) would be a delightfully horrible lanfuage. And, since it is such a compact language (though I make no promises about programs written in it) you should have no problem acquianting yourself fully with the existing compiler in about the length of a coffe break.
That doesn't mean that the Application couldn't check the hardware, and transmit it at application layer. I'm not saying that's what they are doing, but the fact that no unique ID is transmitted automatically doesn't prevent that ID from being transmitted. (Whether it is a serial# from the HDD, a PROM, or the MAC address...)
They basically use three benchmarks:
-Raw peak performance
-Linpack
-SPEC
None of these is automatically going to indicate how the machine compares to another machine at a certain task. But, the primary difference between guys who work with Big Iron, and the gamers is that the Big Iron guys know that the benchmarks in isolation don't mean anything. By and large, there will be a lot of special custom code that takes up the bulk of compute time on a big system, so your "special purpose" idea holds some water. If this is the case, they just check to see how their custom code runs on the system, what the bottlenecks are, etc.
SPEC is generally considered the best benchmark for general purpose stuff, but it takes a fair amount of digging to understand exactly whether or not it means anything to you. Since it's broken up into many parts, you may find that your own application tracks a certain subset of the benchmarks very closely due to similar code. Other types of code are small, and tight, and don't care about bandwidth, and will track the raw FLOPS number very closely.
I think you mean it's seldom the second one. :)
Seriously, sometimes massaging your C files into better code can also mean more readable code.
It's sort of a blue-green, nearby "seafoam." 5kr1p7 k1ddi35 are extremely fashion conscious, after all.
Well, this is pretty off-topic, but I am in favor of allowing abortion only pne day a year, but making it mandatory. I think that this is a good compromise. The only people who don't have to have abortions are those over 50 years old. This government sponsored old people procreating program is to promote people who live long lives to pass on their genes. Also, extra tax credits for children bourne past 60.
The gcc optimisation flags can provide a very big boost, but only if you do stupid things with your code. Seriously. If you examine the ASM to see *why* your code is running so much faster, you will often find that gcc noticed you put something where it wasn't supposed to be, and weren't using it. Move stuff that doesn't need to be recalculated every loop out of the loop, and you probably won't see a huge difference. Coming up with a synthetic benchmark to show off the optimisation is useless, especially when you are trying to argue with somebody who has actual time runs from real world code.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/totals.html
:)
About 70 TFLOPS, or a fair bit under double what this thing gets. OTOH, the SETI@Home cluster has substantial latency, and really only does well with very paralleliseable tasks...
Yeesh, I put a smily face in the post. I was just ball busting for the sake of it, not to genuinely offend. Certainly, your post could be read as referring to only those platforms you mentioned. I won't argue that. But, being pedantic, you were unspecific, so I decided to make a broader reading of your post. When you wrote, "If you were a true computing enthusiast you would have one of each. I do," it seemed pretty clear that you were belittling the OP, and implying that he didn't count as a "true enthusiast" because he wasn't good enough. So, take a deep breath, and realise that I was just taking a round about means of pointing out to you that your own words may have come across more harshly than was warranted, and possibly more harshly than you intended.
That said, you didn't specifically say that your statement was limited to the afformentioned platforms, so I reader could well take your topic to have been "operating platforms" since you mentioned several, rather than "the specific operating platforms of PC and Mac."
Further, True64 was the 64 bit port. Running it on a VAX is a bit like running OS-X on an old 68k Mac. IMHO, they really do count as separate from their (related) predecessors. But, that it clearly a amtter of opinion and marketing...
Anyhow, good luck with getting all defensive and reactionary because some guy responded to your post. I guess you just aren't happy with the size of your penis. It's okay. Mine is tiny, too, and I used to be very defensive. Relax. Being angry won't make it any bigger.
Then how in the fuck can you get all high and mighty and claim that you have "one of each?" The whole world isn't just PC and not-PC. If you are really a technology enthusiast, you should be careful how you invoke phrases like that when trying to belittle another technology enthusiast. :)
BTW, Vaxen are 32 bit systems. They were the replacement for the 16 bit PDP-11 line, and predated the 64 bit Alpha line. VMS is the most common OS for Vaxen. And no, you can't have mine. I've only got the one, and it isn't fully working yet. Hooray for dumpster diving for technology.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to get back to trying to build a Canadian-Cross compiler on my iBook, for my SGI, to output code for my Dreamcast.
natch.
No, I don't have a girlfriend. No, I haven't had one in a very long time. I haven't had a girlfriend since I went out with the girl who gave me my first SPARC box. God, I miss her.
What operating systems do you run on your VAX?