Yes, the taxes are quite high. This was tolerable back before the medical system fell apart. Nowadays, we still pay high taxes but don't get much back in return.
I've got a couple of old Byte mags from the early 80's, and one of my favorite ads is William Shatner pushing the Commodore Vic-20. Does anyone remember these? Did anyone actually buy a Vic-20 because of Captain Kirk? (I bought mine beforehand, so that doesn't count).
Given that network bandwidth would quickly become your bottleneck, it seems that going SMP would be a *much* more efficient (and cost-effective) solution.
Aaarg! The same thing happened to me with Vic-20 Dig Dug. I beat the high score, but my mom left the camera flash on, and the photo turned out useless.
Hmm... tough call. Obviously, I would learn more from a CS degree than the 2-year program that I took. The thing is, would the value of that extra knowledge be worth 2 years of time and money? Personally, I'm going to say no. After 8 years in the workforce, I can say that my compensation or capabilities are not suffering at all. But I can see how a CS degree could be useful to other folks.
My biggest beef with many CS programs is that they spend too much time using obscure, academic tools. What extra value do you get in writing a microkernel in Modula-2 that you couldn't get from C++ or Java?
There is nothing you could do in C that you couldn't do in Modula-2
Of course the Modula-2 program would contain at least twice as many lines of code. Hell, a decent printf() statement in C ends up as 5 lines of Modula-2!
...You have my pity
No pity required or accepted. The way I figure it, if you shave off the first year of bullsh1t courses, and the last year of pinko courses, then I got the same "meat" as a CS degree. Granted, I did go to a pretty good college. I have been able to kick ass upon the majority of CS guys that I've met.
Please tell me that you were forced to use Modula-2, and didn't really choose it on purpose.
I hate how CS programs force pinko, academic tools like Modula-2 onto students. This is the reason that I took a quickie little 2-year college program instead of a full CS degree. Even then, I ended up with 3 or 4 classes that were based on Modula-2 (on VMS, just for more fun).
I realize that Modula-2 is a great teaching languge, but c'mon -- how many commercial-grade microkernels out there are written in Modula-2?
This may have been the case once upon a time, but it's not true anymore. If a non-american parent has kids that are US citizens, that paren't doesn't get any special rights. A kid can't sponsor his parents until he becomes an adult.
Computer sciences: Whoa, has this stuff changed. Blink and you miss it. New manufacturing techniques, new technological breakthroughs, new things to keep track of... spending a day in a classroom filling your head with the old stuff actually robs you of the time you need to learn the new stuff.
Not quite true, but I can see your point. CS
starts off with a very solid programming foundation (algorithms, data structures, OO, etc). You don't get to do anything fashionable like MFC or Palm programming. In fact, you'll probably do all your coding in some pinko academic language like Modula-2, or worst case some crazy language that your prof developed himself. In 4th year (and beyond), you do some really cool, bleeding edge stuff. When you're all done, you get hired because 1. Proof that you earned a CS is proof that you're probably not dumb (YMMV). OR 2. The bleeding edge stuff that you learned has hit the marketplace and is fashionable now.
On the other hand, a trade school usually gets you in and out in less than a year. It's designed for retreads (ie: tires) -- for painters and truckers and dropouts who need a career that pays a better wage. These guys (and gals) will learn some marketable skills that will get them a job right away. They'll become a Crystal Reports monkey or that junior VB guy that only gets to write helpfiles and menus and "About" screens. These guys' days are numbered. If they can't get into lower management before their sole computer skill becomes obsolete, then they'd better pray that they can get on-the-job training for somehing else. Otherwise, it's back to Devry for another retread.
Reposting copyrighted materials verbatim is not free speech. It's theft. Can I photocopy this month's Time magazine and give away copies on the street? No way.
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I've been told to expect twice the performance from a G3 than a similarly clocked PIII.
Of course you've been told to beleive this, that's how these cult things work. Pope Steve told me to beleive it, so I will do so blindly. Please check out www.spec.org, or any of the impartial sites out there (Ars Technica?).
BTW, doesn't *everyone* know by now that MHz are meaningless? You should think about "what's the speed difference between $1500 worth of mac vs. $1500 worth of PC?"
I installed a firewall on my PC (zonealarm) earlier this year, and was shocked at how frequently my PC gets poked at (eg: TCP port 31337). I've traced these attacks all the way from Saskatoon to Qatar.
I even managed to get a fellow @Home user's account terminated after I proved to abuse@home.net (via my firewall logs) that he'd been a naughty boy.
I strongly urge anyone with a windows box and a cable/DSL connection to get a firewall (zonealarm, black ice, etc).
Actually, Baer was the second guy to invent pong. Higginbotham was the first. Check out:
http://www.pong-story.com/thefirst.htm
BTW, it sounds like Mr. Baer is quite bitter about this. At the same web site, he is quoted:
His demo used an oscilloscope as a display and an analog computer to move the CRT spot around. To qualify as a video game, you have to have to pass one major test: Can you play the game on a standard home TV set or a TV monitor?
Of *course* Higginbotham's pong qualifies as a video game. It was interactive. It was entertainment. It included a display. What does TV or a monitor have to do with it? A gameboy doesn't use a "standard home tv set or monitor", and it certainly plays video games. And in 50 years, when games pipe images straight into our optic nerves, they'll still qualify as video games too.
Baer's other argument that is that it's not a real game because it wasn't a commercial venture. I guess all us open source guys aren't real programmers either, eh?
I disagree. Think about it. It's got to be *way* easier to port your own source code than it is to write an emulator. You can hire any goober programmer to port code, but you need a rocket scientist to write an emulator from scratch.
The only way that an emulator would pay off is if a program is written almost entirely in asm. And I doubt that this is the case (nowadays), because it kills code portability. Capcom knows that hit games will be ported to consoles and maybe even the PC.
That being said, I suspect that Capcom has actually developed some sort of "portability API", and is incorrectly attaching the "emulation" buzzword to it.
My PC was stolen four years ago. When I bought a new one, the shop wouldn't/couldn't sell me a naked PC, despite the fact that I still had the Win95 CD from my original PC.
I therefore consider my nonlegal version of Win98 to be morally legit, since I have *two* Win95 licenses for only one PC.
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Yes, the taxes are quite high. This was tolerable back before the medical system fell apart. Nowadays, we still pay high taxes but don't get much back in return.
I've got a couple of old Byte mags from the early 80's, and one of my favorite ads is William Shatner pushing the Commodore Vic-20. Does anyone remember these? Did anyone actually buy a Vic-20 because of Captain Kirk? (I bought mine beforehand, so that doesn't count).
Given that network bandwidth would quickly become your bottleneck, it seems that going SMP would be a *much* more efficient (and cost-effective) solution.
Aaarg! The same thing happened to me with Vic-20 Dig Dug. I beat the high score, but my mom left the camera flash on, and the photo turned out useless.
Two words: John Carmack
My biggest beef with many CS programs is that they spend too much time using obscure, academic tools. What extra value do you get in writing a microkernel in Modula-2 that you couldn't get from C++ or Java?
Of course the Modula-2 program would contain at least twice as many lines of code. Hell, a decent printf() statement in C ends up as 5 lines of Modula-2!
No pity required or accepted. The way I figure it, if you shave off the first year of bullsh1t courses, and the last year of pinko courses, then I got the same "meat" as a CS degree. Granted, I did go to a pretty good college. I have been able to kick ass upon the majority of CS guys that I've met.
I hate how CS programs force pinko, academic tools like Modula-2 onto students. This is the reason that I took a quickie little 2-year college program instead of a full CS degree. Even then, I ended up with 3 or 4 classes that were based on Modula-2 (on VMS, just for more fun).
I realize that Modula-2 is a great teaching languge, but c'mon -- how many commercial-grade microkernels out there are written in Modula-2?
Check your facts. For it's time, the banshee was one of the fastest 2d cards around, next to the big bad matrox cards.
If you were a programmer, you'd understand why a microkernel architecture just makes sense.
This may have been the case once upon a time, but it's not true anymore. If a non-american parent has kids that are US citizens, that paren't doesn't get any special rights. A kid can't sponsor his parents until he becomes an adult.
Not quite true, but I can see your point. CS starts off with a very solid programming foundation (algorithms, data structures, OO, etc). You don't get to do anything fashionable like MFC or Palm programming. In fact, you'll probably do all your coding in some pinko academic language like Modula-2, or worst case some crazy language that your prof developed himself. In 4th year (and beyond), you do some really cool, bleeding edge stuff. When you're all done, you get hired because 1. Proof that you earned a CS is proof that you're probably not dumb (YMMV). OR 2. The bleeding edge stuff that you learned has hit the marketplace and is fashionable now.
On the other hand, a trade school usually gets you in and out in less than a year. It's designed for retreads (ie: tires) -- for painters and truckers and dropouts who need a career that pays a better wage. These guys (and gals) will learn some marketable skills that will get them a job right away. They'll become a Crystal Reports monkey or that junior VB guy that only gets to write helpfiles and menus and "About" screens. These guys' days are numbered. If they can't get into lower management before their sole computer skill becomes obsolete, then they'd better pray that they can get on-the-job training for somehing else. Otherwise, it's back to Devry for another retread.
"Win2001 ain't done 'til Plex86 won't run."
Will someone also be doing a review on the MS-DOS portion of Windows?
Reposting copyrighted materials verbatim is not free speech. It's theft. Can I photocopy this month's Time magazine and give away copies on the street? No way.
Of course you've been told to beleive this, that's how these cult things work. Pope Steve told me to beleive it, so I will do so blindly. Please check out www.spec.org, or any of the impartial sites out there (Ars Technica?).
BTW, doesn't *everyone* know by now that MHz are meaningless? You should think about "what's the speed difference between $1500 worth of mac vs. $1500 worth of PC?"
I even managed to get a fellow @Home user's account terminated after I proved to abuse@home.net (via my firewall logs) that he'd been a naughty boy.
I strongly urge anyone with a windows box and a cable/DSL connection to get a firewall (zonealarm, black ice, etc).
http://www.pong-story.com/thefirst.htm
BTW, it sounds like Mr. Baer is quite bitter about this. At the same web site, he is quoted:
His demo used an oscilloscope as a display and an analog computer to move the CRT spot around. To qualify as a video game, you have to have to pass one major test: Can you play the game on a standard home TV set or a TV monitor?
Of *course* Higginbotham's pong qualifies as a video game. It was interactive. It was entertainment. It included a display. What does TV or a monitor have to do with it? A gameboy doesn't use a "standard home tv set or monitor", and it certainly plays video games. And in 50 years, when games pipe images straight into our optic nerves, they'll still qualify as video games too.
Baer's other argument that is that it's not a real game because it wasn't a commercial venture. I guess all us open source guys aren't real programmers either, eh?
The only way that an emulator would pay off is if a program is written almost entirely in asm. And I doubt that this is the case (nowadays), because it kills code portability. Capcom knows that hit games will be ported to consoles and maybe even the PC.
That being said, I suspect that Capcom has actually developed some sort of "portability API", and is incorrectly attaching the "emulation" buzzword to it.
Download a C64 or Atari emulator, and play the original versions of Jumpman and Jumpman Jr in all their 8-bit glory.
It might be adequate for simple graphs and such, but at 160x160 resolution, I wouldn't throw away your laptop+powerpoint quite yet.
I therefore consider my nonlegal version of Win98 to be morally legit, since I have *two* Win95 licenses for only one PC.
And everyone's happy as long as they keep taking their Soma pills...
If you guys want to stop catching TB, maybe you shouldn't be licking TB-spit-infested sidewalks in the first place...
Christ, when did it become "bash red hat week" here on slashdot? That's at least the third disparaging main story about them this week...