First off, Microsoft never claimed.net was portable, just the CLR. And, for the record, the first reference implementation of the CLR -- Rotor -- was cross platform to BSD. Mono came along of its own volition and works independently of MS, and MS has never made any claims on their behalf. Mono has had very good 2.0 compliance for going on three now. Library support is excellent but not perfect, which makes sense given that the.Net library is a massive all encompassing + the kitchen sink beast and there will always be pieces no one has ported. That wont prevent 99.99% of apps from working.
Rather than FUD'ing around, I suggest downloading the Moma tool and which will check whether an application is compatible with Mono.
Mono supported the DLR by day five after release or something. C# 3.0 support is on the way, and, to my understanding, most of the pending work is still in LINQ re-implementation world. Given that it was released November 19, 2007 and that it requires implementing a huge AST, I wouldnt complain.
At its base, the CLR is a wonderful VM to implement and write to. The libraries built on CLR are give or take. For the most part, I prefer the non MS ones anyways.
Apologies for the poor link, I will make sure to lash my fact checkers harshly.
I am delighted to see the DDK/WDK available gain. I'd known it'd become availabe again, but I have not inspected the new all important terms of service / eula. Wish me luck signing up for a WDK!
The most important issue, regarding drivers: my understanding is that developers need a certified key from microsoft to sign their own drivers. For example, Microsoft decided Atsiv was not authorized software and terminated the Atsiv developer key. To the best of my limited understanding, this has made it no longer possible to install the driver. Whether its Microsoft that signs the driver or Microsoft that signs the key that the developer uses to sign the driver makes only a modicrum of difference, my imperfect understanding is that MS now holds the key to what we can and cannot develop and install on system.
And my mistake on not clearly citing that my post was in regards to Vista 64.
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF MICROSOFT RAPING POOCHES FOR THEIR OWN PERCIEVED GAIN. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE AVERSE TO GRAPHIC CONTENT OR EASILY ANGERED BY MICROSOFTS WANTON COCKMONGERING STUPIDITY.
The biggest issue is Vista drivers. And its not simply hardware people that need drivers, theres a huge base of software that relies on installing system level devices that perform various things Windows is simply unable to do itself.
MS really fucked the pooch particularly gruesomely in this department 1. Device driver development kits got shipped only at the 25th hour 2. DDK availability was low then and is low now. You have to like red tape and receiving anal sex to play this game anymore. 3. Oh yeah, DDK is now useless.
#3 is really where things get EXTRA DOUBLE Microsoft pooch screwing special. See, because Microsoft wanted a DRM safe platform the only way to secure the OS was to make only certified secure drivers able to run on the OS. Whereas before MS certification just a big roadblock most people just went around (see: not fans of pooch screwing), now its totally mandatory with no exceptions.
My favorite example of how badly customers get fucked by MS's great love of pooch rear ends is the RBC9 SpaceNavigator driver. Some enthusiast saw that the badass 6 degree of freedom controller from 3dconnexion was a) basically useless for anything these jerk offs didnt write a driver for yet b) is/nearly/ just a straight usb joystick device. Likely using the old DDK and making by his own confession very few changes he turned this sweet piece of hardware from something that can only be used with the handful of apps the jerk offs built the controller to support, to a universally accessible wonder controler you can use to stomp the crap out of people in gears of war and freespace 2 with.
Theres just one problem. Theres not a snowballs chance in hell there will ever be a not-totally-fucking trash 64 bit driver for this awesome controller. 3dconnexion thinks their business is selling shitty proprietary software when in fact all we want is a hardware company, they're to freaking drunk on software sales to write something actually useful for their hardware and have no interest in doing so. On the other hand, RBC9, who wrote this sweet driver, has no way of a) getting a new DDK for Vista 64, and b) distributing the driver in usable form if he DID get a DDK.
I largely suspect Adobe's similar pooch abuse related activities regarding availability of 64 bit flash relates to the above circle jerks. Its been nearly 3 years and they still dont have a Flash that runs on 10% of the world's Windows IE.
MS bent hte customer and developer and the pooch over backwards to produce Vista. I really hope it takes them a while to clean all the gore off their dicks when they're done.
> One of the major barriers getting into embedded programming is finding a cheap > programmer that doesn't require RS232 standard 18 Volt serial ports (or > similarly high-voltage parallel ports).
Thankfully a major barrier to becoming an embedded programmer is people who dont realize USB RS232 adapters are $8.
Fun is a pretty goddamned fucking huge category. WoW has trumped the mmorpg category for totally safe character advancement, but that and the (absolutely rediculous) 10M subscriber number still doesnt make it more fun, only more addicting. We can clearly determine that it has people enguaged, as for why they are enguaged the jury is still out, and in truth there is no one answer or even a magic combination to explain the situation.
You are looking at the wrong metric, its not how much fun the game gives you, for mmorpg subscriber numbers its how long any game can keep the most number of people hooked, how long it can provide the absolute minimum entertainment factor (for each person) to keep them coming back. Thats what adds up to 10m subscribers.
It all comes down to a basic element of humanity: different people have fun in different ways; saying a game is maximally fun or even comparatively fun is a misrepresentation of both fun and what it means to be human. The only fact we can draw about WoW are that it provides sufficient levels of fun for the biggest virtual populous on earth. We can say nothing about how enguaged or what has enguaged different people, not without real research.
log on to the server at try scp foo localhost:foo for any foo of significant size scp is slow yo.
its not ssh overhead its synchronous block encryption cpu usage. thats not an excuse its a computational constraint.
my comcast blows chunks too, i max about 100KB/s down from a VPS with no reserves about happily saturating a 10mbit upstream, but i'm not measuring with scp.
the party lines seems to be that a number of serious gating ipv6 bugs cannot be marked as gating because no devs can verify them, for lack of ipv6 setups to test. a highly suggest <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&content=ipv6">looking at the ipv6</a> bugs if you're bored at work and want cause for a good chuckle.
i've always been an opera proponent because firefox consumes far more resources than is concievably acceptable for any piece of code to use (my p1120 laptop IS perfect, no theres nothing wrong with 224mb of ram and an 800mhz crusoe), but the mishandling of critical showstopping issues in firefox 3 has been hilarious. firefox 3 has made enormous strides to try and become something like respectable, but ten percent of linux users are going to have firefox fall flat on its face and thats <i>hilarious</i>.
I think a large part of the problem is the job market. Most job postings go by the "X years of Y" rigamaroll with very few people looking to hire what they should be looking for: talented new blood. I am one of many many computer engineers I know who opted to go into programming rather than suck down some totally shit entry level job for lack of on the job experience, even though I've been building microcontroller systems for years.
I've heard outside the US the embedded market is a lot less corporate and a lot more about small teams of elite engineers. The US does not have this culture anymore. Bootstrapping is left to people who've already made bank. This is damning us.
The amazingly sweet thing is that embedded is getting rediculously easier. System on chips have just about everything onboard you'd need for most embedded computers (some PHY, memory, connectors aside) and while more serial and p2p busses require stricter timing, the availability of cheap high quality fabs and the ability to forgoe routing a wide pci bus snaking from chip to chip to chip, well, I can only wonder how much longer the corporate model will endure.
All thats left is the availability of small volume runs packaging and I think the scene will be in "upheaval" mode.
The issue is more "should ISP's abandon their safe harbor clause" and start mucking with our content.
As for profit, I dont think its really an issue. Presumably all ISP's would be held to the same standard, so it shouldnt provide any comparative disadvantage to one ISP v. another. But really, if ISPs are ever legally coerced into the role of censors, people will switch over to encrypting all their traffic (finally, something they should've learned long ago).
eMagin Z800's is what you likely have and they are the most superior HMD around.
Whats proper fucked though is that, when new, they were $600. Check the price now, $1400. They just jacked up their margins cause their stock was doing crappy. A lot of gamers would love a sophisticated SVGA OLED HMD with the best head tracking around, but no one knew about it, and no on bought it. With the new jacked up price, they dont have a hope of selling to gamers.
eMagin, fix your damned pricing you robber baron jackals, and let this fledgingly field not suck!
The article talks about a 800x600 OLED 400mW high contrast emagin display and you rant your mouth off about some trash ass QVGA LCD piece of junk that sucks down 1.2W. The article mentions numerous times that its a future emagin product.
Just for the record, dropped (shaped) udp packets are not recovered. TCP/IP notices dropped packets, has them resent, and automatically lowers the connection's transmission rate, whereas with UDP you're just tossing EMP's into people's datastreams. UDP/IP is much more primitive, and relies on application level consistency checks, which, for the record, almost never ever ever monitor packet drops & throttle themselves down when packets start dropping. Thats why most packet filtering systems simply de-prioritize UDP and will not drop UDP.
what is available that uses no MythTV at all? the fact that every piece of software out there uses the same mythtv recording backend somewhat frightens me. no doubt its fine software but are there really no alterantives?
There is a fairly good $500 minimum rate for small non-commercial webcasters, which actually seems fairly reasonable to me. It covers near ~140,000 listening hours a year, which would give 1000 users 10 hours of listening per month. Another breakdown would be 140 listeners at 20 hours a week. Or, you have on average 384 listening hours per day. As a former college radio DJ and a current online radio addict, these numbers are fairly good, and definitely a great starting place, providing a somewhat reasonable flat rate capable of covering quite a large number of online webcasters.
Does anyone know what payment royalties current webcasters must pay? For the all the crybabying and hubabaloo I've seen very little in terms of comparison. Please link me some rules!
Of course, the real fucked up situation is the fact that we have to pay SoundExchange, the biggest scam organization on the planet. They were spun off from everyones favorite RIAA in 2000 as an independent entity responsible for collecting and distributing broadcast dues. But these fuckers will never give a dog damned dime to My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, no matter how many times I play their discography. The money we pay them doesnt do jack shit for the authors and artists we play. I'd like to see their profit margins and executive salaries, so I can complete the trifecta and cackle myself to death. These guys are the worst of the worst, and should be aborted like a bad mistake. The fact that we pay mafioso organizations like this at all is just criminal. Frankly I'd much rather track down every artists I play and give them $5.
"Proprietary solutions and vendor lock-in are also dead ends." So you acknowledge the presence of product solutions for ajax exist yet disqualify the possibility of using them because they are "dead ends"?
there are no issues with javascript. cross site security simply demands you be resilient and durable and know when to fail user operations when they're asking for "funky" stuff, but that security was mandated at some level by traffic sniffing and packet generating long ago.
as for cross platform reliability, what other standard library would you propose?
the wonder of javascript is that things can be hacked to work cross site. greasemonkey provides an interface back into the web application and permits users to medal on their own. eventually cross site atom reading will allow sites to mix web content dynamically. 3rd party sites running their own js on your page is not a problem, authors that use shite namespacing techniques are. javascript is the only standard platform available that comes with a display layer. it will kick javas lily bitch ass.
Java is the dead end of all dead ends, the furtherest logical business case extension of c++. The fact taht there will never be anything after Java, to me, indicates is stasis decay and dead end. In this I agree very much with Alan Kay and his theories of languages.
marketter, fan boy, or run of the mill overly excited moron. you ought be fisked.
any use of a LOC logotype or emblem however would not be protected, as they can qualify as trademarks.
the more you know?
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if any dirty unsocialized hacker punks are looking for work in denver or boulder, we're hiring.;)
seriously, your capability to deliver to the client are all that matter. you can be awful in every way but if you can magically make clients happy it just does not matter.
Open Source Progress will be right back. We're just napping while GNOME and KDE finish providing suitable commodity desktop environments to emulate and replace Windows. Once there is a base, we should be able to site some higher mountains to start climbing again. Sorry we've been so rediculously lame and havent spurned any major revolutions in the past 5 years, we're getting right on it, love open source.
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Microsoft also never claimed the sky is blue asshole
Sure dude whatever.
.net was portable, just the CLR. And, for the record, the first reference implementation of the CLR -- Rotor -- was cross platform to BSD. Mono came along of its own volition and works independently of MS, and MS has never made any claims on their behalf. Mono has had very good 2.0 compliance for going on three now. Library support is excellent but not perfect, which makes sense given that the .Net library is a massive all encompassing + the kitchen sink beast and there will always be pieces no one has ported. That wont prevent 99.99% of apps from working.
First off, Microsoft never claimed
Rather than FUD'ing around, I suggest downloading the Moma tool and which will check whether an application is compatible with Mono.
Mono supported the DLR by day five after release or something. C# 3.0 support is on the way, and, to my understanding, most of the pending work is still in LINQ re-implementation world. Given that it was released November 19, 2007 and that it requires implementing a huge AST, I wouldnt complain.
At its base, the CLR is a wonderful VM to implement and write to. The libraries built on CLR are give or take. For the most part, I prefer the non MS ones anyways.
In reverse order,
Apologies for the poor link, I will make sure to lash my fact checkers harshly.
I am delighted to see the DDK/WDK available gain. I'd known it'd become availabe again, but I have not inspected the new all important terms of service / eula. Wish me luck signing up for a WDK!
The most important issue, regarding drivers: my understanding is that developers need a certified key from microsoft to sign their own drivers. For example, Microsoft decided Atsiv was not authorized software and terminated the Atsiv developer key. To the best of my limited understanding, this has made it no longer possible to install the driver. Whether its Microsoft that signs the driver or Microsoft that signs the key that the developer uses to sign the driver makes only a modicrum of difference, my imperfect understanding is that MS now holds the key to what we can and cannot develop and install on system.
And my mistake on not clearly citing that my post was in regards to Vista 64.
.Net is portable to *nix.
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF MICROSOFT RAPING POOCHES FOR THEIR OWN PERCIEVED GAIN. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE AVERSE TO GRAPHIC CONTENT OR EASILY ANGERED BY MICROSOFTS WANTON COCKMONGERING STUPIDITY.
/nearly/ just a straight usb joystick device. Likely using the old DDK and making by his own confession very few changes he turned this sweet piece of hardware from something that can only be used with the handful of apps the jerk offs built the controller to support, to a universally accessible wonder controler you can use to stomp the crap out of people in gears of war and freespace 2 with.
The biggest issue is Vista drivers. And its not simply hardware people that need drivers, theres a huge base of software that relies on installing system level devices that perform various things Windows is simply unable to do itself.
MS really fucked the pooch particularly gruesomely in this department
1. Device driver development kits got shipped only at the 25th hour
2. DDK availability was low then and is low now. You have to like red tape and receiving anal sex to play this game anymore.
3. Oh yeah, DDK is now useless.
#3 is really where things get EXTRA DOUBLE Microsoft pooch screwing special. See, because Microsoft wanted a DRM safe platform the only way to secure the OS was to make only certified secure drivers able to run on the OS. Whereas before MS certification just a big roadblock most people just went around (see: not fans of pooch screwing), now its totally mandatory with no exceptions.
My favorite example of how badly customers get fucked by MS's great love of pooch rear ends is the RBC9 SpaceNavigator driver. Some enthusiast saw that the badass 6 degree of freedom controller from 3dconnexion was a) basically useless for anything these jerk offs didnt write a driver for yet b) is
Theres just one problem. Theres not a snowballs chance in hell there will ever be a not-totally-fucking trash 64 bit driver for this awesome controller. 3dconnexion thinks their business is selling shitty proprietary software when in fact all we want is a hardware company, they're to freaking drunk on software sales to write something actually useful for their hardware and have no interest in doing so. On the other hand, RBC9, who wrote this sweet driver, has no way of a) getting a new DDK for Vista 64, and b) distributing the driver in usable form if he DID get a DDK.
I largely suspect Adobe's similar pooch abuse related activities regarding availability of 64 bit flash relates to the above circle jerks. Its been nearly 3 years and they still dont have a Flash that runs on 10% of the world's Windows IE.
MS bent hte customer and developer and the pooch over backwards to produce Vista. I really hope it takes them a while to clean all the gore off their dicks when they're done.
link drop / references:
vista drm:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
rbc9 3dconnexion pooching clusterfsck:
http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=336&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=390&sid=8207b7e5a2e2949040a86ba9c6c31e1d
> One of the major barriers getting into embedded programming is finding a cheap
> programmer that doesn't require RS232 standard 18 Volt serial ports (or
> similarly high-voltage parallel ports).
Thankfully a major barrier to becoming an embedded programmer is people who dont realize USB RS232 adapters are $8.
Fun is a pretty goddamned fucking huge category. WoW has trumped the mmorpg category for totally safe character advancement, but that and the (absolutely rediculous) 10M subscriber number still doesnt make it more fun, only more addicting. We can clearly determine that it has people enguaged, as for why they are enguaged the jury is still out, and in truth there is no one answer or even a magic combination to explain the situation.
You are looking at the wrong metric, its not how much fun the game gives you, for mmorpg subscriber numbers its how long any game can keep the most number of people hooked, how long it can provide the absolute minimum entertainment factor (for each person) to keep them coming back. Thats what adds up to 10m subscribers.
It all comes down to a basic element of humanity: different people have fun in different ways; saying a game is maximally fun or even comparatively fun is a misrepresentation of both fun and what it means to be human. The only fact we can draw about WoW are that it provides sufficient levels of fun for the biggest virtual populous on earth. We can say nothing about how enguaged or what has enguaged different people, not without real research.
now includes battery backed heater!
"4.294 billion ip's ought to be enough for any planet"
log on to the server at try
scp foo localhost:foo
for any foo of significant size
scp is slow yo.
its not ssh overhead its synchronous block encryption cpu usage.
thats not an excuse its a computational constraint.
my comcast blows chunks too, i max about 100KB/s down from a VPS with no reserves about happily saturating a 10mbit upstream, but i'm not measuring with scp.
firefox breaks if you have the ipv6 module in without an ipv6 capable ISP.
the party lines seems to be that a number of serious gating ipv6 bugs cannot be marked as gating because no devs can verify them, for lack of ipv6 setups to test. a highly suggest <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&content=ipv6">looking at the ipv6</a> bugs if you're bored at work and want cause for a good chuckle.
i've always been an opera proponent because firefox consumes far more resources than is concievably acceptable for any piece of code to use (my p1120 laptop IS perfect, no theres nothing wrong with 224mb of ram and an 800mhz crusoe), but the mishandling of critical showstopping issues in firefox 3 has been hilarious. firefox 3 has made enormous strides to try and become something like respectable, but ten percent of linux users are going to have firefox fall flat on its face and thats <i>hilarious</i>.
I think a large part of the problem is the job market. Most job postings go by the "X years of Y" rigamaroll with very few people looking to hire what they should be looking for: talented new blood. I am one of many many computer engineers I know who opted to go into programming rather than suck down some totally shit entry level job for lack of on the job experience, even though I've been building microcontroller systems for years.
I've heard outside the US the embedded market is a lot less corporate and a lot more about small teams of elite engineers. The US does not have this culture anymore. Bootstrapping is left to people who've already made bank. This is damning us.
The amazingly sweet thing is that embedded is getting rediculously easier. System on chips have just about everything onboard you'd need for most embedded computers (some PHY, memory, connectors aside) and while more serial and p2p busses require stricter timing, the availability of cheap high quality fabs and the ability to forgoe routing a wide pci bus snaking from chip to chip to chip, well, I can only wonder how much longer the corporate model will endure.
All thats left is the availability of small volume runs packaging and I think the scene will be in "upheaval" mode.
The issue is more "should ISP's abandon their safe harbor clause" and start mucking with our content.
As for profit, I dont think its really an issue. Presumably all ISP's would be held to the same standard, so it shouldnt provide any comparative disadvantage to one ISP v. another. But really, if ISPs are ever legally coerced into the role of censors, people will switch over to encrypting all their traffic (finally, something they should've learned long ago).
eMagin Z800's is what you likely have and they are the most superior HMD around.
Whats proper fucked though is that, when new, they were $600. Check the price now, $1400. They just jacked up their margins cause their stock was doing crappy. A lot of gamers would love a sophisticated SVGA OLED HMD with the best head tracking around, but no one knew about it, and no on bought it. With the new jacked up price, they dont have a hope of selling to gamers.
eMagin, fix your damned pricing you robber baron jackals, and let this fledgingly field not suck!
You are a moron.
The article talks about a 800x600 OLED 400mW high contrast emagin display and you rant your mouth off about some trash ass QVGA LCD piece of junk that sucks down 1.2W. The article mentions numerous times that its a future emagin product.
Get lost or get a clue
what if you want to tune for alternate scales?
Just for the record, dropped (shaped) udp packets are not recovered. TCP/IP notices dropped packets, has them resent, and automatically lowers the connection's transmission rate, whereas with UDP you're just tossing EMP's into people's datastreams. UDP/IP is much more primitive, and relies on application level consistency checks, which, for the record, almost never ever ever monitor packet drops & throttle themselves down when packets start dropping. Thats why most packet filtering systems simply de-prioritize UDP and will not drop UDP.
what is available that uses no MythTV at all? the fact that every piece of software out there uses the same mythtv recording backend somewhat frightens me. no doubt its fine software but are there really no alterantives?
There is a fairly good $500 minimum rate for small non-commercial webcasters, which actually seems fairly reasonable to me. It covers near ~140,000 listening hours a year, which would give 1000 users 10 hours of listening per month. Another breakdown would be 140 listeners at 20 hours a week. Or, you have on average 384 listening hours per day. As a former college radio DJ and a current online radio addict, these numbers are fairly good, and definitely a great starting place, providing a somewhat reasonable flat rate capable of covering quite a large number of online webcasters.
Does anyone know what payment royalties current webcasters must pay? For the all the crybabying and hubabaloo I've seen very little in terms of comparison. Please link me some rules!
Of course, the real fucked up situation is the fact that we have to pay SoundExchange, the biggest scam organization on the planet. They were spun off from everyones favorite RIAA in 2000 as an independent entity responsible for collecting and distributing broadcast dues. But these fuckers will never give a dog damned dime to My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, no matter how many times I play their discography. The money we pay them doesnt do jack shit for the authors and artists we play. I'd like to see their profit margins and executive salaries, so I can complete the trifecta and cackle myself to death. These guys are the worst of the worst, and should be aborted like a bad mistake. The fact that we pay mafioso organizations like this at all is just criminal. Frankly I'd much rather track down every artists I play and give them $5.
"Proprietary solutions and vendor lock-in are also dead ends."
So you acknowledge the presence of product solutions for ajax exist yet disqualify the possibility of using them because they are "dead ends"?
there are no issues with javascript. cross site security simply demands you be resilient and durable and know when to fail user operations when they're asking for "funky" stuff, but that security was mandated at some level by traffic sniffing and packet generating long ago.
as for cross platform reliability, what other standard library would you propose?
the wonder of javascript is that things can be hacked to work cross site. greasemonkey provides an interface back into the web application and permits users to medal on their own. eventually cross site atom reading will allow sites to mix web content dynamically. 3rd party sites running their own js on your page is not a problem, authors that use shite namespacing techniques are. javascript is the only standard platform available that comes with a display layer. it will kick javas lily bitch ass.
Java is the dead end of all dead ends, the furtherest logical business case extension of c++. The fact taht there will never be anything after Java, to me, indicates is stasis decay and dead end. In this I agree very much with Alan Kay and his theories of languages.
marketter, fan boy, or run of the mill overly excited moron. you ought be fisked.
any use of a LOC logotype or emblem however would not be protected, as they can qualify as trademarks.
the more you know?
if any dirty unsocialized hacker punks are looking for work in denver or boulder, we're hiring. ;)
seriously, your capability to deliver to the client are all that matter. you can be awful in every way but if you can magically make clients happy it just does not matter.
Open Source Progress will be right back. We're just napping while GNOME and KDE finish providing suitable commodity desktop environments to emulate and replace Windows. Once there is a base, we should be able to site some higher mountains to start climbing again. Sorry we've been so rediculously lame and havent spurned any major revolutions in the past 5 years, we're getting right on it, love open source.
data graph sounds suspiciously like some kind of branching transactional execution system.
sry bout the fcked up tagging, should have previewed!