Just as an opportunity to plug a friend's business:
CNY Digital sells nextel phones and provides demo models for customers to try. As far as I know the owner buys several of each unit as a business expense because, like the poster argues, its hard to sell someone on a 500$ phone they've never seen.
sorry to reply to myself, but I had one more thing to add.
While working for cyberwarrior we had a bug tracking system. You can type in a description of the defect and when a developer fixed it he could close the bug. Some bugs on this software were open for years. One of my favorites was bug #2 or 3 which was still open even after new bugs were ~#500.
I don't remember the exact details but the bug was basically titled "make the game not suck" and the bug description was "this game sucks, fix it".
All of these bugs are entered by the design or development team. It was funny to see that even the original deevlopers thought the game was crap.
Basically this is exactly what I expected from the company.
This game has been in development for ~7 years. I worked on it for a little while about 2 years ago and it had no chance of shipping. Feature creep had pushed the release date out for years. The rest of the market at the time was using 3d hardware while we still had a ray casting engine similar to doom. The combat system was horrible. The servers could barely stay online for 4 hours with 20 users before memory leaks took them down.
The company had no focus on shipping a product and was content to stay beta for half a decade.
Overall there were a lot of reasons this project didn't work out.
I'm sad to see the company go under, and I hope my old co-workers find new positions, but I can't say that it's a surprise.
I bought a coders cable from a company in Canada about 2 weeks ago. Lik Sang had a similar price but I wanted to avoid the long shipping delays and having to resolve customer issues across language barriers. Anyway, it arrived a couple days later with no troubles over shipping or customs.
The cable is obviously hand made, the adapter section is covers in plastic wrap instead of some hard encloser.
The main issue that customs can have here it that I will be using my cable to help with the netbsd-superh project. But I can also use the cable to load a binary dump utility and then download the contents of a game disk back to the PC. This is useful for copying GD-rom disks which can't be read on normaly cd-roms, but can be read on a dreamcast.
While Sega thinks its ok for me to program Netbsd, the game developers might be upset if I start copying games.
I used a similar system when I did bioinformatic study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. My favorite journal was, appropriately, titled _Bioinformatics_. A subscription is something on the order of 2k$/yr. I was able to use the schools copies freely. The ACM also publishes a journal for their bioinformatics SIG. By far the best option for personal and acedemic usage is to get a library card or make friends with a local biology professor. You can also try looking at the bionet.* newsgroups.
Just as an aside:
Propellerheads Software and the musical group Propellerheads aren't the same.
I'm a fan of the musical group which also did theme music for James Bond. I'm also a fan of the software studio which makes the fine product Reason, which is being used by Trent Rexnor on his new album, last I heard.
Our bioinformatics program here at RIT is starting next quarter and should be offering a joint bio/computer science grad program starting next year. I'll be taking the undergrad classes as part of my parallel computing program and can let you know more once they've started next month. I don't even think the course web pages are up yet but if you contact me in a month there should be more information for you.
Most of the examples shown here concern college students with debts 4-5 years old. This would place most people into the age range of a minor. This is typicaly 18 years or younger in the US with exceptiong differing in each state. As a minor any contract that you enter into is voidable at your choice. You simply return that goods offered in consideration for the contract, the comic books, music or whatever. This behavior legal shows that you have voided your contract and therefore do not owe any debt. Of course this is only useful if you made the contract as a minor and there might also be aditional rules based on your state. Simply put though, you don't have to be held responsible for contracts that you entered into as a minor.
I had to write a karel the robot interpreter in snobol. This is a pretty easy language to learn. I took about 2 days to learn karel, learn snobol and write the interpreter. snobol would also be a nice language to learn. Its a very simple syntax, but there isn't much you can do with it so it won't be much fun
Pearl is a programming language that existed long before perl did. This was spelled correctly. Go read why Larry Wall named his language perl. He says that he didn't want it confused with the previous language called pearl. Perl didn't exist in the time of the PDP machines.
There isn't really a way to reprogram the cpu to act like a new cpu. Other than the chipset, socket layout, power supply and software issues, the instruction decoder only understands the instruction set for one chip type, the microcode can be done differently depending on how the chip works, eg: AMD v Intel, but it can't make the x86 instruction set look like the sparc instruction set. Even if you turned off all of the non-essential instructions it still wouldn't be RISC, it would be CISC with a lot of wasted space. RISC is designed from the ground up with smaller arithemtic/logic units to run at higher clock rates. It also uses the higher speeds of internal cache to avoid "slower" ram intensive operations.
The intel assembly language is horrible to program in. I've had an easier time writing assembly code for a Vax than trying to get anything to run on x86. Its basicaly the 10th generation of new stuff slapped onto old stuff with backwards compatability. The segment registers are all worthless with a 32 bit adressing register. The lack of a large number of register such as on an r6000 or ultraSparc make the chip very memory intensive, it can't page registers after a context switch. So intel just spends most of its time waiting for the memory bus to get back with the data instead of doing actual calculation.
The best way to squeeze out more calculations per clock cycle are by overclocking or redesigning the chip, trying to one-up Intel's microcode, assuming you could even get access to it and had the ability to reprogram it, would most likely just make it run slower because you don't understand the system as well as they do.
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Just as an opportunity to plug a friend's business: CNY Digital sells nextel phones and provides demo models for customers to try. As far as I know the owner buys several of each unit as a business expense because, like the poster argues, its hard to sell someone on a 500$ phone they've never seen.
sorry to reply to myself, but I had one more thing to add.
While working for cyberwarrior we had a bug tracking system. You can type in a description of the defect and when a developer fixed it he could close the bug. Some bugs on this software were open for years. One of my favorites was bug #2 or 3 which was still open even after new bugs were ~#500.
I don't remember the exact details but the bug was basically titled "make the game not suck" and the bug description was "this game sucks, fix it".
All of these bugs are entered by the design or development team. It was funny to see that even the original deevlopers thought the game was crap.
Basically this is exactly what I expected from the company.
This game has been in development for ~7 years. I worked on it for a little while about 2 years ago and it had no chance of shipping. Feature creep had pushed the release date out for years. The rest of the market at the time was using 3d hardware while we still had a ray casting engine similar to doom. The combat system was horrible. The servers could barely stay online for 4 hours with 20 users before memory leaks took them down.
The company had no focus on shipping a product and was content to stay beta for half a decade.
Overall there were a lot of reasons this project didn't work out.
I'm sad to see the company go under, and I hope my old co-workers find new positions, but I can't say that it's a surprise.
Those were days when we had exams.
I just paid 3k$ to take the broadband networking class this past spring semester. Where can I get my refund?
On a relavent note. Shiv was a very good professor, and I learned an extreme amount of information.
I bought a coders cable from a company in Canada about 2 weeks ago. Lik Sang had a similar price but I wanted to avoid the long shipping delays and having to resolve customer issues across language barriers. Anyway, it arrived a couple days later with no troubles over shipping or customs.
The cable is obviously hand made, the adapter section is covers in plastic wrap instead of some hard encloser.
The main issue that customs can have here it that I will be using my cable to help with the netbsd-superh project. But I can also use the cable to load a binary dump utility and then download the contents of a game disk back to the PC. This is useful for copying GD-rom disks which can't be read on normaly cd-roms, but can be read on a dreamcast.
While Sega thinks its ok for me to program Netbsd, the game developers might be upset if I start copying games.
I used a similar system when I did bioinformatic study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. My favorite journal was, appropriately, titled _Bioinformatics_. A subscription is something on the order of 2k$/yr. I was able to use the schools copies freely. The ACM also publishes a journal for their bioinformatics SIG. By far the best option for personal and acedemic usage is to get a library card or make friends with a local biology professor. You can also try looking at the bionet.* newsgroups.
Just as an aside:
Propellerheads Software and the musical group Propellerheads aren't the same.
I'm a fan of the musical group which also did theme music for James Bond. I'm also a fan of the software studio which makes the fine product Reason, which is being used by Trent Rexnor on his new album, last I heard.
Our bioinformatics program here at RIT is starting next quarter and should be offering a joint bio/computer science grad program starting next year. I'll be taking the undergrad classes as part of my parallel computing program and can let you know more once they've started next month. I don't even think the course web pages are up yet but if you contact me in a month there should be more information for you.
Most of the examples shown here concern college students with debts 4-5 years old. This would place most people into the age range of a minor. This is typicaly 18 years or younger in the US with exceptiong differing in each state. As a minor any contract that you enter into is voidable at your choice. You simply return that goods offered in consideration for the contract, the comic books, music or whatever. This behavior legal shows that you have voided your contract and therefore do not owe any debt. Of course this is only useful if you made the contract as a minor and there might also be aditional rules based on your state. Simply put though, you don't have to be held responsible for contracts that you entered into as a minor.
I had to write a karel the robot interpreter in snobol. This is a pretty easy language to learn. I took about 2 days to learn karel, learn snobol and write the interpreter. snobol would also be a nice language to learn. Its a very simple syntax, but there isn't much you can do with it so it won't be much fun
Pearl is a programming language that existed long before perl did. This was spelled correctly. Go read why Larry Wall named his language perl. He says that he didn't want it confused with the previous language called pearl. Perl didn't exist in the time of the PDP machines.
There isn't really a way to reprogram the cpu to act like a new cpu. Other than the chipset, socket layout, power supply and software issues, the instruction decoder only understands the instruction set for one chip type, the microcode can be done differently depending on how the chip works, eg: AMD v Intel, but it can't make the x86 instruction set look like the sparc instruction set. Even if you turned off all of the non-essential instructions it still wouldn't be RISC, it would be CISC with a lot of wasted space. RISC is designed from the ground up with smaller arithemtic/logic units to run at higher clock rates. It also uses the higher speeds of internal cache to avoid "slower" ram intensive operations.
The intel assembly language is horrible to program in. I've had an easier time writing assembly code for a Vax than trying to get anything to run on x86. Its basicaly the 10th generation of new stuff slapped onto old stuff with backwards compatability. The segment registers are all worthless with a 32 bit adressing register. The lack of a large number of register such as on an r6000 or ultraSparc make the chip very memory intensive, it can't page registers after a context switch. So intel just spends most of its time waiting for the memory bus to get back with the data instead of doing actual calculation.
The best way to squeeze out more calculations per clock cycle are by overclocking or redesigning the chip, trying to one-up Intel's microcode, assuming you could even get access to it and had the ability to reprogram it, would most likely just make it run slower because you don't understand the system as well as they do.