Every seems to saying how much trouble taking to the clients would be. Maybe a better route would be to approach the ppl who did get the contract, and contract your services to them. I'm sure they'd much rather shell out some extra $$$ than to have their good name destroyed when the site gets hit...
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No.. you should have updatedb set to a low priority to start with. If it's something that's important to you, it's simple enough to modify your crontab + a few startup scripts to give the game more CPU...
VRML is a markup language, like HTML for 3-D spaces. OpenGL is a library that programs use to do graphics (primarily 3D) with. I could see a VRML program written in GL, but other than that, I don't see how they relate much.
As for Java3D, unfortunately, the Java2 spec has yet to see much market penetration, since IE & Netscape still ship w/ braindead JVMs.
So, what you're saying is that XP is a solution for ppl who need to buy into a system, and bought into a bad one w/ Rational? Strange, I assumed that my "Introduction to Engineering Design" and "Systems Engineering" classew covered all these ideas about how engineering works, and then a quick read-through of The Mythical Man Month took care of some 'real world' examples.
I don't think new methodologies are the key, but simply adapting proven, existing engineering methodologies, and adhering to them would do wonders. If you haven't noticed, software designers don't exactly have much credibility with real engineers (mechanical, electrical, chemical..), and it's not without reason. If any -physical- product, be it a bridge, car or toothbrush were shipped in the same condition that much software does, people would be dead, and companies would go out of business. Of course with software, the physical price of the media (and w/ the internet, merely bandwidth), is insignificant, and replacing, fixing the product is a trivial task when compared to replacing a bridge. In a way, it's comparable to LSD distribution. (a 1x1mm square of paper is a dose, but only contains arround 100 micrograms of content))
Why would they start with Java, an OO language, and then move to a non-standard language for teaching OOP?
Nothing against java, but it doesn't seem to be the easiest language for beginners to pick up. To even write "hello world" there's a lot of apparently meaninless, arbitrary voodoo stuff. And with it's painfully limited (compared to C/C++) console handling.
So, after the students have gone through the trudgery of learning Java as their first language, why would you switch over to another? I see two ways for this to turn out : students are either forced to go out unprepared to program in the language, and learn as they go/on their own time, or covering of the basics of the language will take up the first half of the class...
So, what's so great about Eifel that it's worth throwing away the student's familiarity w/ Java?
I've really gotta know why you need such a beast... When would somebody need to be able to freely transport that kind of power arround, unless they're heisting it?
You could always look into some of the stuff that people in the Gamer/Overclocker/Casemod Scene have done for LAN-party boxes, for ideas on making the case portable... One word of caution : Big ass heatsinks don't like rough handling when mounted...
Have you ever actually used Napster? If you're trying to find tracks by any artist -not- in the Top 40, or being played in heavy rotation on some major FM radio stations, you're not likely to find much.
Example : Look for, say, the new Dream single and you'll find yourself swimming in possible sources that have a T1 or better connection. OTOH, look at an older/less popular band, Rush in this example, and you'll less than half the music they ever released on there, and fewer than 5 sources with better than a 56k connect.
I think it'd be better to make a comparison to software copy protection. Copy protection has -never- worked for very long, since the momemnt you ship the product, it becomes little more than a coding puzzle to figure out how to break it. (perhaps the most successful software copy protection ever was, back when CD-ROMs were still young + nobody had CDR/broadband, to make the program too large to download over a 14.4/28.8 modem.)
Of course, comparing it to copy protection, it's interesting to note that machines w/ rampant pirate (C=64, atari, amiga...) communities have eventually died out.
Well, if they're going to take over, and use the site to track radicals + dissidents, they're going to have to do something to keep all the extra log data generated...
isn't there because it's an interesting bit of code. Granted it could be better commented, but it's all fairly self-explanatory. The other plugins that ship with it are also fairly simple. When combined with actually looking at the players sources should give you more than enough info on writing a plugin.
[insert snide comment about posting to/. for something that could be discovered with 5min of research]
IANAE(cconomist), but something about this seems fundamentally wrong. The way I understand it, while there's no -direct- connection between the market and reality, it and the general health of the ecconomy have a somewhat symbiotic relationship. Encouraging companies to fail would somewhat weaken the ecconomy, and a weaker ecconomy means less bennefit to this activity. The situation seems like the shared village grazing green metaphor from that one open source book I can't remember the name of (ESR|RMS wrote it..)
It's one thing to manipulate and take advantage of others and their labors, but to actively bennefit from repeatedly destroying others and their works..
I guess if you're a greedy asshole, you don't care tho... Kinda like being a sociopath...
I'd assume, however, that a company who's core biz. was producing software wouldn't be contracting with outside programmers to write the whole package for them. The fact that they call in an outside person to be responsible for the job seems to imply to me that they are mainly interested in using the software themselves, and not resaling ti.
Lips and an asshole.. that was all that was left of him by the time the medics arrived. Two lips, an asshole, and a little bit of brainstem. The medics, being trained professionals were able to handle the situation calmly, they must have to deal with these things all the time, rebuilding people from their orifices must be old hat to them by now.
After they arrived, the medics coolly swept the remaining bit into a box, and carted him of to fix him. Nobody realy understands how they do it, but they do, they're professionals.
That was the last we saw of Oscar Meyer for a few weeks.
Being a CS student about to graduate, I can only hope I get a line on a job like this when my time comes. The reason I went into CS was my love for computers, but the further I get along, the more I realize the likelyhood of doing mundane corporate work such as coding DB fron-ends and maintaining accounting software.
I can't imagine that finding candidates who have strong mathematical backgrounds, but would like to have more contact with software development than doing pure CS research would entail. Granted, if you are pursuing science (as opposed to doing more commercially oriented R&D) coming up with the money to properly compensate the best & brightest in the field (we're grostesquely overpaid in the US). Perhaps you should put more work into playing up some of the other aspects of the position, which I can imagine would be exciting, dynamic, challenging, and would most likely end up being a great learning experience.
Almost exactly the idea I had. Except I was thinking just get slack's a + n sets on a 128MB fat partition (+kernel+loadlin+rootdisk+...), then pull the rest off the net. Once everything's up and running, you can cover up the remains w/ a swap.
Of course, there's something to be said about just going to the store, buying a USB cd, and returning it after the install.. +)
Too bad you missed the bit about not having a CD. I don't think anything later than 95 was able to install off floppy. And if you've ever used win95's USB support, you'd realize exactly how bad of an idea it is.
It's not the core functionality that would take the time... But finding new and novel things for the paperclip to do and say DOES take considerable amounts of time.
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Every seems to saying how much trouble taking to the clients would be. Maybe a better route would be to approach the ppl who did get the contract, and contract your services to them. I'm sure they'd much rather shell out some extra $$$ than to have their good name destroyed when the site gets hit...
No.. you should have updatedb set to a low priority to start with. If it's something that's important to you, it's simple enough to modify your crontab + a few startup scripts to give the game more CPU...
VRML is a markup language, like HTML for 3-D spaces. OpenGL is a library that programs use to do graphics (primarily 3D) with. I could see a VRML program written in GL, but other than that, I don't see how they relate much.
As for Java3D, unfortunately, the Java2 spec has yet to see much market penetration, since IE & Netscape still ship w/ braindead JVMs.
So, what you're saying is that XP is a solution for ppl who need to buy into a system, and bought into a bad one w/ Rational? Strange, I assumed that my "Introduction to Engineering Design" and "Systems Engineering" classew covered all these ideas about how engineering works, and then a quick read-through of The Mythical Man Month took care of some 'real world' examples.
I don't think new methodologies are the key, but simply adapting proven, existing engineering methodologies, and adhering to them would do wonders. If you haven't noticed, software designers don't exactly have much credibility with real engineers (mechanical, electrical, chemical..), and it's not without reason. If any -physical- product, be it a bridge, car or toothbrush were shipped in the same condition that much software does, people would be dead, and companies would go out of business. Of course with software, the physical price of the media (and w/ the internet, merely bandwidth), is insignificant, and replacing, fixing the product is a trivial task when compared to replacing a bridge. In a way, it's comparable to LSD distribution. (a 1x1mm square of paper is a dose, but only contains arround 100 micrograms of content))
Why would they start with Java, an OO language, and then move to a non-standard language for teaching OOP?
Nothing against java, but it doesn't seem to be the easiest language for beginners to pick up. To even write "hello world" there's a lot of apparently meaninless, arbitrary voodoo stuff. And with it's painfully limited (compared to C/C++) console handling.
So, after the students have gone through the trudgery of learning Java as their first language, why would you switch over to another? I see two ways for this to turn out : students are either forced to go out unprepared to program in the language, and learn as they go/on their own time, or covering of the basics of the language will take up the first half of the class...
So, what's so great about Eifel that it's worth throwing away the student's familiarity w/ Java?
I've really gotta know why you need such a beast... When would somebody need to be able to freely transport that kind of power arround, unless they're heisting it?
You could always look into some of the stuff that people in the Gamer/Overclocker/Casemod Scene have done for LAN-party boxes, for ideas on making the case portable... One word of caution : Big ass heatsinks don't like rough handling when mounted...
Have you ever actually used Napster? If you're trying to find tracks by any artist -not- in the Top 40, or being played in heavy rotation on some major FM radio stations, you're not likely to find much.
Example : Look for, say, the new Dream single and you'll find yourself swimming in possible sources that have a T1 or better connection. OTOH, look at an older/less popular band, Rush in this example, and you'll less than half the music they ever released on there, and fewer than 5 sources with better than a 56k connect.
I think it'd be better to make a comparison to software copy protection. Copy protection has -never- worked for very long, since the momemnt you ship the product, it becomes little more than a coding puzzle to figure out how to break it. (perhaps the most successful software copy protection ever was, back when CD-ROMs were still young + nobody had CDR/broadband, to make the program too large to download over a 14.4/28.8 modem.)
Of course, comparing it to copy protection, it's interesting to note that machines w/ rampant pirate (C=64, atari, amiga...) communities have eventually died out.
It all depends on who's leading the flock.
Well, if they're going to take over, and use the site to track radicals + dissidents, they're going to have to do something to keep all the extra log data generated...
isn't there because it's an interesting bit of code. Granted it could be better commented, but it's all fairly self-explanatory. The other plugins that ship with it are also fairly simple. When combined with actually looking at the players sources should give you more than enough info on writing a plugin.
/. for something that could be discovered with 5min of research]
[insert snide comment about posting to
Hrmmm... wasn't there a story a while back saying that TCP/IP would time-out on links like this?
If so, I see no reasonable alternatives in this situation other than using carrier pigeons...
IANAE(cconomist), but something about this seems fundamentally wrong. The way I understand it, while there's no -direct- connection between the market and reality, it and the general health of the ecconomy have a somewhat symbiotic relationship. Encouraging companies to fail would somewhat weaken the ecconomy, and a weaker ecconomy means less bennefit to this activity. The situation seems like the shared village grazing green metaphor from that one open source book I can't remember the name of (ESR|RMS wrote it..)
It's one thing to manipulate and take advantage of others and their labors, but to actively bennefit from repeatedly destroying others and their works..
I guess if you're a greedy asshole, you don't care tho... Kinda like being a sociopath...
This may be the first time that a telephone system has been slashdotted.
I'd assume, however, that a company who's core biz. was producing software wouldn't be contracting with outside programmers to write the whole package for them. The fact that they call in an outside person to be responsible for the job seems to imply to me that they are mainly interested in using the software themselves, and not resaling ti.
Lips and an asshole.. that was all that was left of him by the time the medics arrived. Two lips, an asshole, and a little bit of brainstem. The medics, being trained professionals were able to handle the situation calmly, they must have to deal with these things all the time, rebuilding people from their orifices must be old hat to them by now.
After they arrived, the medics coolly swept the remaining bit into a box, and carted him of to fix him. Nobody realy understands how they do it, but they do, they're professionals.
That was the last we saw of Oscar Meyer for a few weeks.
About 3mo ago, I had to pick an open-source OS project to work on for a class project. I had narrowed down my choice to xMach + v2OS.
-great-
V2 has 'died' several times since then, and mostly stagnated, while xmach is getting posted on slashdot... such is life, I guess...
Being a CS student about to graduate, I can only hope I get a line on a job like this when my time comes. The reason I went into CS was my love for computers, but the further I get along, the more I realize the likelyhood of doing mundane corporate work such as coding DB fron-ends and maintaining accounting software.
I can't imagine that finding candidates who have strong mathematical backgrounds, but would like to have more contact with software development than doing pure CS research would entail. Granted, if you are pursuing science (as opposed to doing more commercially oriented R&D) coming up with the money to properly compensate the best & brightest in the field (we're grostesquely overpaid in the US). Perhaps you should put more work into playing up some of the other aspects of the position, which I can imagine would be exciting, dynamic, challenging, and would most likely end up being a great learning experience.
There's another package called Cluclo out there... You can find it (and probably a few others) of freshmeat.
it doesn't matter if you're going to return the mofos to the store when you're done.
Almost exactly the idea I had. Except I was thinking just get slack's a + n sets on a 128MB fat partition (+kernel+loadlin+rootdisk+...), then pull the rest off the net. Once everything's up and running, you can cover up the remains w/ a swap.
Of course, there's something to be said about just going to the store, buying a USB cd, and returning it after the install.. +)
Too bad you missed the bit about not having a CD. I don't think anything later than 95 was able to install off floppy. And if you've ever used win95's USB support, you'd realize exactly how bad of an idea it is.
How much does it cost to rent a truck and fill it full of fertilizer these days?
It's not the core functionality that would take the time... But finding new and novel things for the paperclip to do and say DOES take considerable amounts of time.
BFD
So does Slackware.