They might incorporate LINT and run the program with mprof and thru a replacement malloc() to check leaks. Other than these, stepping into procedures and watching variables, what else is there to do with debuggers?? Theres no understandable direction to go from the debuggers' current state; theyre doing well.
On the other hand people seem to use debuggers less to take out program bugs. They rely more on reliable library functions, and post their problems in newsgroups for the library maintainers to fix. I personally use printf excessively to output the programs variables and state at each moment, then remove them from the final program. Its a more straightforward path than compiling with -g, powering up gdb and watching the variables, but then again gdb has its place.
I have tested many joe CD-ROM drives by just putting in an audio CD-R, power suply and listening thru SPDIF. I havent seen many drives without an SPDIF out and I believe about 90% will play audio off CDRs with no major problems.
Now they should REALLY make CDROM drives with build in MP3 and Ogg decompression. These modular drives could then be inserted into car and home theatre players with no problems. I certainly wouldnt mind paying extra to have mp3 processing off my processor.
Ive used some black n white technical pan films with ISO 50 (RMS 4) at long exposures (~10sec) on my 35mm Minolta SRT201 and ROKKORX multicoated lens. Then I had them (negatives) scanned to 10mb tiff files. The point where the details fail was obvious and makes me wanna Medium Format (which I rent from time to time). but Ive seen some awesome colors on Coolpix and some Canon cameras on photo.net (can they be marketing guys lying there). Their megapixels exceed the details of 35mm and can reach the details of 120mm (moores law means details from 35mm to 120mm will take only 18 months). This completely weakens the special case of the Sigma.
And then again, light passes through ONE filter to reach the detector. The filter doesnt have to be so carefully crafted and can be made of any material. Flexibility there. In Sigma, it has to pass through at least 2 filters to reach the bottom color detector, meaning at least one color will get 1/3 of the light, same as the mosaic type. This is discounting the dimming effects of the detector layers above.
The only good point I see about the Sigma is its ability to capture faster shots (or dimmer). But this can also be achieved with bigger lens and aperture on CCDs.
By the way, you were right about digital camera costs. I MIGHT end up buying this sigma for myself next christmas.
I think this is an extremely stupid law that says dont refer to me. They could extend it to "pointing a finger (any) at anyone is illegal". Suddenly referring to people in text also becomes illegal and so do all newspapers and history books.
"A certain somebody created 3 laws of Physics. A certain somebody else disproved him".
The real concept of illegal links is to enforce the reader to read everything from the home page and navigate to the point of information. They want to push popup ads and not have misconceptions by people who read only part of what the site has to say. But the solution is smarter design of websites..
Another reason why they do it is to have the person download files from their site after reading their text and possibly filling out their forms. Most sites have successfully achieved this by random subdirectories as in fileplanet.com. Companies with highly inept web maintainers are recommended to use laws rather than smart site designs to achieve their results. Since the tech world is economically down and skilled technicians commonly available, such companies are requested to quitely do a seach on dice.com and workopolis for resumes, and replace their System/Network Admins with people who can get the job done.
Too much hype. All they did was stack pixel detectors rather than mosaic them. The mosaic was simpler and now cheaper, this thing costs $1800 in a camera, else I'm sure someone could've come up with it. The real accomplishment is creating those silicon layers precisely, not coming up with lets stack em
They say the resolution is like a 120mm film, and the color lattitude is big. So are CMOS sensors in Canon and Nikon's cameras. Checkout the awesome photos on photo.net. A lot of those have been shot by modern digital cameras with CCDs and they dont look bad. Mead has his own marketing to do to try and take Foveon to Intel and Microsofts level, so he has to push down CCD. Theres a reason why people are buying digital cameras with sensors smaller than fingernails and submitting their pictures on professional photography site. I think Mead has work to do.
..a landmark conclusion!. People have been deteting the gravitational fields of planets for a long time now, but is is just a new way of looking at it. Shows the power of the Theoreticians over Experimentalists.
I think the single biggest news here is that the rane world has been constrained. I wonder if this has any implications on String theory.. with a max of 26 dimensions (currently 10 I think).
I DID read somewhere that the present Standard Model assumes this... speed of gravity is c, which means funds to the LHC arent going to waste, and places this 'experiment' in importance near to the '82 Aspects experiment. So all this means we're doing good in Physics, and possibly should expect great advances this century. Now if only someone solves the EPR paradox for good, or produce an invention that utilizes it for higher speed signalling. I can see ISP bandwidths going higher and global pings lower already:)
So if I make an ELF for an embedded system, will it run on another with the same CPU type? Assuming it doesnt use devices with IRQS and other very hardware-specific progs and sysctls.
Does the standard ensure such portability? I am making a bunch of ARM7 binaries. Will this standard help me port my progs to the plethora of PDAs, GBA and other stuff?? Will porting be even needed.
The apps access a database on the same system and output to a framebuffer.
They have to setup nice TTFs and AA fonts. This responsibility has been dumped onto the users by the distros who couldnt care what text looks like.
So web developers shouldnt bend and break to be Linux compatible, Linux has been far more standards based than other OSes, and should too in font display. Web developers already are trying to be flexible to allow IE weirdocities, lets not let Linux do the same to them.
With certain very high temp materials, they could make robots that swim in the magma, hey, a new form of transportation. We'll have japanese rising from underground here and there.
Interesting to think what would happen if they try nuke tests near the core. Hmmmmmm...
How about using ISO 25 speed film in a camera with an EXTREMELY tiny aperture so that the whole exposure takes 1 year?? How about using a field camera maybe 6x7" kodak pan film?
The result will be the sun painting the sky strip by strip. Now that should be a first.. with the trees superimposed throughout the year.
Come to think of it, we can aim the camera at a mall or busy street area. With the blurs, you could see where people stand most and what color clothes they wear. You can definitely make out the dots where homeless people sit. Sounds like a feasable project... hmmm..
What about something along the lines of citrix/terminal services + voice over IP + multicasting, and having the students sit back and look at your screen, then changing modes so they get back their screen control, and YOU get a view of THEIR screen, while everyones linked up with voice.
Much better is a dark slide room with a computer+projector. I have never thought of online tutoring as a success unless it is self-reading.
IT claims securiy. I thought OpenBSD did fine. It claims small footprint. I though NetBSD did that job. It claims best features of Freebsd+Net+Open but I didnt find the token ring driver in it...
FreeBSD unifying with NetBSD and OpenBSD would be news, but this really isnt.
Look Ma! I glued this to that, and have a new OS. At the risk of sounding like a troll, I'll say this isnt a useful OS and its goals arent convincing at least to me. These developers can better spend their time enhancing the existing BSD's and moving features from one BSD to another. That wouldnt make news but would be more useful.
I actually remember the time I was learning to walk. I remember the feeder, even its color, and the frequent crying. I remember massacring insects, and kindergarten friends.
However theres a large patch of time spanning 3 years (12 yr old) that I dont remember much. Theres no language difference involved here, I can speak 4 and still actively use them.
So you can claim intellectual property on the 256 color trick on ALL QVGA games made for the 8086-80386. I can help you sue microsoft, for a commission of course.
We're a group of four developers working in SDL+Opengl1.4 + DirectX + QT... trying to produce an industrial-strength multi-platform FPS game, and there are a few obstacles along the way that seperates us from the bigger companies:
(1) Artists. We can only go so far with our limited time and budgets with blender, (to a limited extent, with demo versions of truspace, 3dsmax..)
(2) Programming man-hours. I spent a month building a truspace object importer, that also optimises the polygons and faces. We tried Polytrans, but we still have to use our little (will be GPL) prog for optimisation and correction purposes. We now need importing filters for several other file types but dont have the time to program it.
(3) SDKs. Playstation, gamecube, Xbox development kits are out-of-reach for us, unless we've already sold a couple of games. These kits are priced for companies that can pay.
(4) Investment. We'll need to feed ourselves for a few months while we develop. This hasnt been possible and the development work has taken a back-seat to our jobs/studies. I'm sure many cottage-industry developers can relate to this, despite the open possibilities and chances in the market for ideas.
I'm sure people can come up with more problems but we've discovered these to be the biggest ones ensuring the market belongs to the relatively few larger companies. Theres sure is skill out there, and so are ideas. I can just hope the opensource spirit enters the game-developer circles, and sourceforge gets packed with high-quality competing games that has revolutionised servers and operating systems.
I thought the Judicial system sought people without emotional attachments. You know, people who make decisions purely by reasoning with laws and not by how he feels about the defendant or prosecutor.
After all emotional people's decisions might be tainted by: (1) Actor prosecutor/defendant (2) How good they look (3) Religion (4) Ethnicity (5) Age (6) Gender (7) Political Opinion (8)... (9) Profit!
well you get the point. I cant believe they admittingly seek emotional people. Techies SHOULD be in demand for Jury Duty.
I dont think a big momentum will develop in the opensource community to develop for MacOSX. Its just too proprietary. Most developers aiming for MacOSX will use portable API like BSD sockets and QT GUI. The only testing done on MacOSX will be done by people actualy owning iMacs. Would be nice if darwin was released in a more open way to court more developers here. Hear that apple? Give us MacOSX sources and we'll give you the world:)
Since a dog is more trainable, dogbrains may be used with such robots, and a lot more sensory devices added.
Hey, hows about adding birdbrains to RC airplanes. You know, the ones with the jet engines.
Or adding bullbrains to power-steered SUVs, and letting em loose in a colliseum for a real bash.
Or simply building a huge brain-farm, with their pleasure-centres multiplexed and connected to an IO processor that feeds input calculation data to the brains, and rewards pleasure to trios of brians that do their calculations right (trios, for parity). If they can do interbrain commnuication, they might come up with optimum ways of fixing problems in due time. Wouldnt mind playing Quake on the thing at all!!
All these ideas are patented under 6000001, 6000002,6000003.
Governments with high stakes of information on their computers are moving to OSS OSes. Signs of people realizing the stability and reliability of Opensource(tm) code. News like this just hammer the point home.
Sure there were news about that SSL problemo mainly on Apache-SSL, but they fixed it and fixed it good. Did they fix it in IE6 on win32? Could this be used to steal nuclear weapon documents from a scientists laptop online?? If the SSL vulerability and this SSH exploit isnt used, some other security problem will prop up.
(1) Competition. This is OSS versus a compiler from the largest CPU-maker, both designed to work on this CPU. I think quality will go high.
(2) Standards. Now that we have at least 2 worthy compilers, developers from both sides will try harder to stick to standards to be able to bite each others' markets. Intel's compiler will try to compile the linux kernel and glibc2 while GCC should make attempts at Borland and VC++ IDEs, possibly building on their MingW32.
If only AMD came out now with an open-source compiler for AthlonXP and Athlon64
The fact that you CAN find a six figure job there is a hint you should stay.
I'm not in your shoes but: 5 years exp, no college degree but MCSE, LCA, CCNA, LPI and now RHCE, and the market in Toronto sucks. I am working in a small company helping with the database, and the IT guys are practically fighting over the position. My 6-month long search in various sectors has received abysmal replies. (maybe its just the lack of degree)
Slashdot Mirror
John Carmack
Alan Cox
Bill Joy
They might incorporate LINT and run the program with mprof and thru a replacement malloc() to check leaks. Other than these, stepping into procedures and watching variables, what else is there to do with debuggers?? Theres no understandable direction to go from the debuggers' current state; theyre doing well.
On the other hand people seem to use debuggers less to take out program bugs. They rely more on reliable library functions, and post their problems in newsgroups for the library maintainers to fix. I personally use printf excessively to output the programs variables and state at each moment, then remove them from the final program. Its a more straightforward path than compiling with -g, powering up gdb and watching the variables, but then again gdb has its place.
I have tested many joe CD-ROM drives by just putting in an audio CD-R, power suply and listening thru SPDIF. I havent seen many drives without an SPDIF out and I believe about 90% will play audio off CDRs with no major problems.
Now they should REALLY make CDROM drives with build in MP3 and Ogg decompression. These modular drives could then be inserted into car and home theatre players with no problems. I certainly wouldnt mind paying extra to have mp3 processing off my processor.
Ive used some black n white technical pan films with ISO 50 (RMS 4) at long exposures (~10sec) on my 35mm Minolta SRT201 and ROKKORX multicoated lens. Then I had them (negatives) scanned to 10mb tiff files. The point where the details fail was obvious and makes me wanna Medium Format (which I rent from time to time). but Ive seen some awesome colors on Coolpix and some Canon cameras on photo.net (can they be marketing guys lying there). Their megapixels exceed the details of 35mm and can reach the details of 120mm (moores law means details from 35mm to 120mm will take only 18 months). This completely weakens the special case of the Sigma.
And then again, light passes through ONE filter to reach the detector. The filter doesnt have to be so carefully crafted and can be made of any material. Flexibility there. In Sigma, it has to pass through at least 2 filters to reach the bottom color detector, meaning at least one color will get 1/3 of the light, same as the mosaic type. This is discounting the dimming effects of the detector layers above.
The only good point I see about the Sigma is its ability to capture faster shots (or dimmer). But this can also be achieved with bigger lens and aperture on CCDs.
By the way, you were right about digital camera costs. I MIGHT end up buying this sigma for myself next christmas.
Cheers.
I think this is an extremely stupid law that says dont refer to me. They could extend it to "pointing a finger (any) at anyone is illegal". Suddenly referring to people in text also becomes illegal and so do all newspapers and history books.
"A certain somebody created 3 laws of Physics. A certain somebody else disproved him".
The real concept of illegal links is to enforce the reader to read everything from the home page and navigate to the point of information. They want to push popup ads and not have misconceptions by people who read only part of what the site has to say. But the solution is smarter design of websites..
Another reason why they do it is to have the person download files from their site after reading their text and possibly filling out their forms. Most sites have successfully achieved this by random subdirectories as in fileplanet.com. Companies with highly inept web maintainers are recommended to use laws rather than smart site designs to achieve their results. Since the tech world is economically down and skilled technicians commonly available, such companies are requested to quitely do a seach on dice.com and workopolis for resumes, and replace their System/Network Admins with people who can get the job done.
Too much hype. All they did was stack pixel detectors rather than mosaic them. The mosaic was simpler and now cheaper, this thing costs $1800 in a camera, else I'm sure someone could've come up with it. The real accomplishment is creating those silicon layers precisely, not coming up with lets stack em
They say the resolution is like a 120mm film, and the color lattitude is big. So are CMOS sensors in Canon and Nikon's cameras. Checkout the awesome photos on photo.net. A lot of those have been shot by modern digital cameras with CCDs and they dont look bad. Mead has his own marketing to do to try and take Foveon to Intel and Microsofts level, so he has to push down CCD. Theres a reason why people are buying digital cameras with sensors smaller than fingernails and submitting their pictures on professional photography site. I think Mead has work to do.
..a landmark conclusion!. People have been deteting the gravitational fields of planets for a long time now, but is is just a new way of looking at it. Shows the power of the Theoreticians over Experimentalists.
:)
I think the single biggest news here is that the rane world has been constrained. I wonder if this has any implications on String theory.. with a max of 26 dimensions (currently 10 I think).
I DID read somewhere that the present Standard Model assumes this... speed of gravity is c, which means funds to the LHC arent going to waste, and places this 'experiment' in importance near to the '82 Aspects experiment.
So all this means we're doing good in Physics, and possibly should expect great advances this century. Now if only someone solves the EPR paradox for good, or produce an invention that utilizes it for higher speed signalling. I can see ISP bandwidths going higher and global pings lower already
Proud to be in a country that does this. Now if only Canada:
(1) Ignores all copyrights on MS Windows
(2) Leaves the ranks of GWB's warmonger party..
So if I make an ELF for an embedded system, will it run on another with the same CPU type? Assuming it doesnt use devices with IRQS and other very hardware-specific progs and sysctls.
Does the standard ensure such portability? I am making a bunch of ARM7 binaries. Will this standard help me port my progs to the plethora of PDAs, GBA and other stuff?? Will porting be even needed.
The apps access a database on the same system and output to a framebuffer.
Gee thanks. You saved me a year.
They have to setup nice TTFs and AA fonts. This responsibility has been dumped onto the users by the distros who couldnt care what text looks like.
So web developers shouldnt bend and break to be Linux compatible, Linux has been far more standards based than other OSes, and should too in font display. Web developers already are trying to be flexible to allow IE weirdocities, lets not let Linux do the same to them.
With certain very high temp materials, they could make robots that swim in the magma, hey, a new form of transportation. We'll have japanese rising from underground here and there.
Interesting to think what would happen if they try nuke tests near the core. Hmmmmmm...
How about using ISO 25 speed film in a camera with an EXTREMELY tiny aperture so that the whole exposure takes 1 year?? How about using a field camera maybe 6x7" kodak pan film?
The result will be the sun painting the sky strip by strip. Now that should be a first.. with the trees superimposed throughout the year.
Come to think of it, we can aim the camera at a mall or busy street area. With the blurs, you could see where people stand most and what color clothes they wear. You can definitely make out the dots where homeless people sit. Sounds like a feasable project... hmmm..
What about something along the lines of citrix/terminal services + voice over IP + multicasting, and having the students sit back and look at your screen, then changing modes so they get back their screen control, and YOU get a view of THEIR screen, while everyones linked up with voice.
Much better is a dark slide room with a computer+projector. I have never thought of online tutoring as a success unless it is self-reading.
Yet Another BSD??
IT claims securiy. I thought OpenBSD did fine. It claims small footprint. I though NetBSD did that job. It claims best features of Freebsd+Net+Open but I didnt find the token ring driver in it...
FreeBSD unifying with NetBSD and OpenBSD would be news, but this really isnt.
Look Ma! I glued this to that, and have a new OS. At the risk of sounding like a troll, I'll say this isnt a useful OS and its goals arent convincing at least to me. These developers can better spend their time enhancing the existing BSD's and moving features from one BSD to another. That wouldnt make news but would be more useful.
I actually remember the time I was learning to walk. I remember the feeder, even its color, and the frequent crying. I remember massacring insects, and kindergarten friends.
However theres a large patch of time spanning 3 years (12 yr old) that I dont remember much. Theres no language difference involved here, I can speak 4 and still actively use them.
So you can claim intellectual property on the 256 color trick on ALL QVGA games made for the 8086-80386. I can help you sue microsoft, for a commission of course.
We're a group of four developers working in SDL+Opengl1.4 + DirectX + QT ... trying to produce an industrial-strength multi-platform FPS game, and there are a few obstacles along the way that seperates us from the bigger companies:
(1) Artists. We can only go so far with our limited time and budgets with blender, (to a limited extent, with demo versions of truspace, 3dsmax..)
(2) Programming man-hours. I spent a month building a truspace object importer, that also optimises the polygons and faces. We tried Polytrans, but we still have to use our little (will be GPL) prog for optimisation and correction purposes. We now need importing filters for several other file types but dont have the time to program it.
(3) SDKs. Playstation, gamecube, Xbox development kits are out-of-reach for us, unless we've already sold a couple of games. These kits are priced for companies that can pay.
(4) Investment. We'll need to feed ourselves for a few months while we develop. This hasnt been possible and the development work has taken a back-seat to our jobs/studies. I'm sure many cottage-industry developers can relate to this, despite the open possibilities and chances in the market for ideas.
I'm sure people can come up with more problems but we've discovered these to be the biggest ones ensuring the market belongs to the relatively few larger companies. Theres sure is skill out there, and so are ideas. I can just hope the opensource spirit enters the game-developer circles, and sourceforge gets packed with high-quality competing games that has revolutionised servers and operating systems.
I thought the Judicial system sought people without emotional attachments. You know, people who make decisions purely by reasoning with laws and not by how he feels about the defendant or prosecutor.
After all emotional people's decisions might be tainted by:
(1) Actor prosecutor/defendant
(2) How good they look
(3) Religion
(4) Ethnicity
(5) Age
(6) Gender
(7) Political Opinion
(8)
(9) Profit!
well you get the point. I cant believe they admittingly seek emotional people. Techies SHOULD be in demand for Jury Duty.
I meant OSX. sorry.
I dont think a big momentum will develop in the opensource community to develop for MacOSX. Its just too proprietary. Most developers aiming for MacOSX will use portable API like BSD sockets and QT GUI. The only testing done on MacOSX will be done by people actualy owning iMacs. Would be nice if darwin was released in a more open way to court more developers here. Hear that apple? Give us MacOSX sources and we'll give you the world :)
Profit!
Since a dog is more trainable, dogbrains may be used with such robots, and a lot more sensory devices added.
Hey, hows about adding birdbrains to RC airplanes. You know, the ones with the jet engines.
Or adding bullbrains to power-steered SUVs, and letting em loose in a colliseum for a real bash.
Or simply building a huge brain-farm, with their pleasure-centres multiplexed and connected to an IO processor that feeds input calculation data to the brains, and rewards pleasure to trios of brians that do their calculations right (trios, for parity). If they can do interbrain commnuication, they might come up with optimum ways of fixing problems in due time. Wouldnt mind playing Quake on the thing at all!!
All these ideas are patented under 6000001, 6000002,6000003.
Governments with high stakes of information on their computers are moving to OSS OSes. Signs of people realizing the stability and reliability of Opensource(tm) code. News like this just hammer the point home.
Sure there were news about that SSL problemo mainly on Apache-SSL, but they fixed it and fixed it good. Did they fix it in IE6 on win32? Could this be used to steal nuclear weapon documents from a scientists laptop online?? If the SSL vulerability and this SSH exploit isnt used, some other security problem will prop up.
about the arrival of Intel compiler are:
(1) Competition. This is OSS versus a compiler from the largest CPU-maker, both designed to work on this CPU. I think quality will go high.
(2) Standards. Now that we have at least 2 worthy compilers, developers from both sides will try harder to stick to standards to be able to bite each others' markets. Intel's compiler will try to compile the linux kernel and glibc2 while GCC should make attempts at Borland and VC++ IDEs, possibly building on their MingW32.
If only AMD came out now with an open-source compiler for AthlonXP and Athlon64
The fact that you CAN find a six figure job there is a hint you should stay.
I'm not in your shoes but: 5 years exp, no college degree but MCSE, LCA, CCNA, LPI and now RHCE, and the market in Toronto sucks. I am working in a small company helping with the database, and the IT guys are practically fighting over the position. My 6-month long search in various sectors has received abysmal replies. (maybe its just the lack of degree)
I'm looking for an excuse to move to California.