"Actually, not _that_ much different from doing it in C or Java."
Hmmm... I'm not certain I agree. Assembly programming is very tedious, having done it for many years writing device drivers for Windoze. Sure, you can decompose any problem into bite-sized routines (that's the thrill of coding!) but ASM quickly turns into a lot of pieces. The abstraction of a slightly higher level language like C (not to mention tool support) really takes a load off.
The only advantage to assembly is the ability to tune code to the microarchitecture, write extremely tight code, or make low level hardware configuration calls (like going into protected mode on x86).
But still, if you look at the assembly created by g++ on Intel CPUs, it already comprehends architectural latencies fairly well.
Sounds more like a programming book than compsci book.
writing an RB tree or an A* search an assembly would be a huge pain in the ass, if you ask me.
compsci is a large part about data structures, how to choose the right datastructure, how to get the most out of an algorithm by picking the best datastructure, etc...
but i didn't read the book, so i'll just go back to my websurfing now...
Unless you are Steve Jobs, I would suggest putting your ego aside and not trying to define what is innovative and what is mundane, from your elitist perspective.
How many patents were filed by individual innovators, vs how many were filed by innovators working for big companies?
I don't know exact numbers, but I'll wager there are literally millions of innovations under a corporate IP umbrella compared to the three that you named. I can assume this because it costs about $15-25k to file a patent, out of reach to all but a few individuals, but easy when the IP is owned by a company.
In fact, all I have to do is walk down the aisle and look in the cubes, and there are a dozen people with multiple patent plaques on their walls. And this is one group of one division of one company in one sector.
Only a small, small, fraction of innovaction doesn't come from big corporations. And what is Apple today, A BIG CORPORATION! So by your logic they can no longer innovate!
Think about everything you use every day, the chairs you sit on, the gas in your car, your car's engine, airplanes, food processing techniques, shipping route innovations, the restaurant equipment that prepares your food, medicine for god's sake!
Once again in case you all missed it: only a tiny, tiny fraction of innovation comes from outside big corporations.
Where do people think innovation comes from? Big corporations paying for new designs?
Yup. Exactly how much design comes from a tinkerer in his/her garage? Nearly all but a small fraction of a percent of innovation and design comes from large corporations.
i read many of the posts here about disrupting the process, or tampering with votes between submission and counting.
my question is: suppose someone DOES manage to wipe out or tamper a bunch of votes, and the volunteers realize it. would the county actually admit they just lost 10,000, 20k, 30k votes by accident? there's no way you could sue the county, so all these folks would be denied their constitutional rights with no way for recourse.
I became morally offended at the director attempting to pass off children killing children as entertainment.
You're like the Religious Right Zealot who looks at an add for Diapers and shouts KIDDIE P*RN!!!
It was killing children killing passed off as horror. If the conditions of the kids in that movie didn't make you wretch, then you're a pervert who loves violence.
Go see "City of God" and see if you still think Peter Jackson should get best director. I definitely think TRotK deserves an oscar for Adaptation and Art Direction, but City of God was really powerful, and it was mostly kid actors.
Right right. I'm not bashing MIT, I'm just pointing out that for the majority of the undergrads I've encountered, there is no "mystical halo" adorning each and every one; the school produces average engineers if you use Olympic scoring. However, the few overachievers that I interviewed were truly astounding.
Keep in mind that overachievers probably aren't going to apply to my industry, so I have an inherently biased distribution.
"Writing a shareware app when you're a teenager is just as good a qualification to us as getting into MIT."
In my 15 years of hiring new college grads for entry level engineering positions, I've seen some total fucknuts come out of MIT. I mean complete mouth-breathers who couldn't solve a problem without their hands being held from start to finish.
I'm not putting MIT below any other school, I'm just surprised that it had an equal percentage of dead wood as the local state school.
However, I do find that the students who excel from MIT, generally do so to a much higher degree than the top performers from other schools.
I'd immediately pounce on an applicant who started and finished a big project, on their own time, during high-school. Hardware, software, organization: the simple fact that you have problem solving skill and care about something is a HUGE plus. Can't stress that enough.
So what if I'm accidentally tagged as red/orange? How impossible would it be for me to clear up the mistake? Or can I do 20 years of community service to have my color lowered to yellow.
A little history for you electronic arts folks who dig this stuff:
I did this same thing in 1989 using a Roland Alpha portable keyboard and MAX running on a Mac 2. Max was a great program for the Mac that let you graphically build a control system for any peripherals (almost like Labworks for MIDI/Appletalk). The scripte we wrote could queue video sequences by pressing a piano key, and you could scratch using the pitch wheel, turning it into a video jog wheel.
During the performance, three musicians would jam on midi instruments (drums, roland wind thingy and a guitar synth) and another program on MAX would improvise based on what we were playing. The video artist also stood on stage with the ROland Alpha, jamming with us and using a small monitor rather than facing the projection screen.
Technologically, it was HOT.
In practice, the music was a cacophony and the video didn't change fast enough to keep up.
Anonymous Coward writes "Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign that purports to give 'objective third-party information' comparing Windows to Linux."
-- purports? it DOES give a comparison, more spin
See the ad campaign website for more, uh, facts.
-- "uh, facts", biased tone, there really are facts on the site....as the linux zealots start to look more like M$oft, i expect more of this unobjective banter.
Has transmeta found a real design win yet? Something over 1m units is considered REAL. They've been issuing press releases since they started, and i have yet to see any success. i guess loads of venture capital are keeping them afloat, b/c their SECC filings show pathetic revenue.
looks like MY company, no, wait...
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Heh heh, if it weren't for small clues, like the molding at the bottom of the cube walls, or the desk surface, I'd swear you worked my company!
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"Actually, not _that_ much different from doing it in C or Java."
Hmmm... I'm not certain I agree. Assembly programming is very tedious, having done it for many years writing device drivers for Windoze. Sure, you can decompose any problem into bite-sized routines (that's the thrill of coding!) but ASM quickly turns into a lot of pieces. The abstraction of a slightly higher level language like C (not to mention tool support) really takes a load off.
The only advantage to assembly is the ability to tune code to the microarchitecture, write extremely tight code, or make low level hardware configuration calls (like going into protected mode on x86).
But still, if you look at the assembly created by g++ on Intel CPUs, it already comprehends architectural latencies fairly well.
Sounds more like a programming book than compsci book.
writing an RB tree or an A* search an assembly would be a huge pain in the ass, if you ask me.
compsci is a large part about data structures, how to choose the right datastructure, how to get the most out of an algorithm by picking the best datastructure, etc...
but i didn't read the book, so i'll just go back to my websurfing now...
Unless you are Steve Jobs, I would suggest putting your ego aside and not trying to define what is innovative and what is mundane, from your elitist perspective.
Here's my proof:
www.uspto.gov
How many patents were filed by individual innovators, vs how many were filed by innovators working for big companies?
I don't know exact numbers, but I'll wager there are literally millions of innovations under a corporate IP umbrella compared to the three that you named. I can assume this because it costs about $15-25k to file a patent, out of reach to all but a few individuals, but easy when the IP is owned by a company.
In fact, all I have to do is walk down the aisle and look in the cubes, and there are a dozen people with multiple patent plaques on their walls. And this is one group of one division of one company in one sector.
Thank you!!! That's exactly my point!!!
Only a small, small, fraction of innovaction doesn't come from big corporations. And what is Apple today, A BIG CORPORATION! So by your logic they can no longer innovate!
Think about everything you use every day, the chairs you sit on, the gas in your car, your car's engine, airplanes, food processing techniques, shipping route innovations, the restaurant equipment that prepares your food, medicine for god's sake!
Once again in case you all missed it: only a tiny, tiny fraction of innovation comes from outside big corporations.
Where do people think innovation comes from? Big corporations paying for new designs?
Yup. Exactly how much design comes from a tinkerer in his/her garage? Nearly all but a small fraction of a percent of innovation and design comes from large corporations.
Prove me wrong.
i read many of the posts here about disrupting the process, or tampering with votes between submission and counting.
my question is: suppose someone DOES manage to wipe out or tamper a bunch of votes, and the volunteers realize it. would the county actually admit they just lost 10,000, 20k, 30k votes by accident? there's no way you could sue the county, so all these folks would be denied their constitutional rights with no way for recourse.
in the neon of agrajag:
be afraid, be very afraid...
in 1990 i had to buy a PAIR of mechanics books (statics and dynamics) at $93 a pop! they were ~300 pages each! my 1000+ page Diffeq book was only $85.
those fukkers.
my alma mattar, RPI, still doesn't offer complete e-texts for most of its core classes.
Hear hear!
As someone who periodically has to repaint his property because of the little assh*les, I second the "BUY A DANG CANVAS!!!" movement.
i love when i try out an MSIE security hole on firebird and it fails... heh heh heh...
wow. i completely disagree.
i thought the shots of the endless slums/suburbs and half-completed underfunded grandiose wasteland pretty much illustrated the poverty.
i also thought shooting the kids in the foot resonated significantly.
not at all MTV aesthetic in my book.
Gloss??!?!?
I became morally offended at the director attempting to pass off children killing children as entertainment.
You're like the Religious Right Zealot who looks at an add for Diapers and shouts KIDDIE P*RN!!!
It was killing children killing passed off as horror. If the conditions of the kids in that movie didn't make you wretch, then you're a pervert who loves violence.
well put. those are my thoughts exactly, but i always feel like a 'tard for saying "mise en scene". ;-)
Go see "City of God" and see if you still think Peter Jackson should get best director. I definitely think TRotK deserves an oscar for Adaptation and Art Direction, but City of God was really powerful, and it was mostly kid actors.
Right right. I'm not bashing MIT, I'm just pointing out that for the majority of the undergrads I've encountered, there is no "mystical halo" adorning each and every one; the school produces average engineers if you use Olympic scoring. However, the few overachievers that I interviewed were truly astounding.
Keep in mind that overachievers probably aren't going to apply to my industry, so I have an inherently biased distribution.
"Writing a shareware app when you're a teenager is just as good a qualification to us as getting into MIT."
In my 15 years of hiring new college grads for entry level engineering positions, I've seen some total fucknuts come out of MIT. I mean complete mouth-breathers who couldn't solve a problem without their hands being held from start to finish.
I'm not putting MIT below any other school, I'm just surprised that it had an equal percentage of dead wood as the local state school.
However, I do find that the students who excel from MIT, generally do so to a much higher degree than the top performers from other schools.
I'd immediately pounce on an applicant who started and finished a big project, on their own time, during high-school. Hardware, software, organization: the simple fact that you have problem solving skill and care about something is a HUGE plus. Can't stress that enough.
GPA and SAT scores are the LAST things I look at.
FWIW, I'm glad there are people like you in this world. Thanks!
or the talking bass fish?
the dancing santa?
or anything build around the dancing santa skeleton?
the dancing baby?
So what if I'm accidentally tagged as red/orange? How impossible would it be for me to clear up the mistake? Or can I do 20 years of community service to have my color lowered to yellow.
Bad, bad, BAD idea.
According to Adams (paraphrasing):
Yes, 6x9=42, in base 13, but no one writes jokes in base 13.
A little history for you electronic arts folks who dig this stuff:
I did this same thing in 1989 using a Roland Alpha portable keyboard and MAX running on a Mac 2. Max was a great program for the Mac that let you graphically build a control system for any peripherals (almost like Labworks for MIDI/Appletalk). The scripte we wrote could queue video sequences by pressing a piano key, and you could scratch using the pitch wheel, turning it into a video jog wheel.
During the performance, three musicians would jam on midi instruments (drums, roland wind thingy and a guitar synth) and another program on MAX would improvise based on what we were playing. The video artist also stood on stage with the ROland Alpha, jamming with us and using a small monitor rather than facing the projection screen.
Technologically, it was HOT.
In practice, the music was a cacophony and the video didn't change fast enough to keep up.
Thanks /., for providing an equally biased header:
...as the linux zealots start to look more like M$oft, i expect more of this unobjective banter.
Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign
-- not anti-linux, just a comparison
from the fear-the-penguin dept.
-- biased that linux is some kind of threat
Anonymous Coward writes "Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign that purports to give 'objective third-party information' comparing Windows to Linux."
-- purports? it DOES give a comparison, more spin
See the ad campaign website for more, uh, facts.
-- "uh, facts", biased tone, there really are facts on the site.
Has transmeta found a real design win yet? Something over 1m units is considered REAL. They've been issuing press releases since they started, and i have yet to see any success. i guess loads of venture capital are keeping them afloat, b/c their SECC filings show pathetic revenue.
Heh heh, if it weren't for small clues, like the molding at the bottom of the cube walls, or the desk surface, I'd swear you worked my company!
Exact same cube panels, ceiling tiles, lights, ventialition grates, carpet color, wall style... creepy!
but I can't have a book on my shelf next to Plato and Cicero called
LOL! Good thing I got the paperback: I put it with my Cliff's notes and crossword puzzle books!