We run that way too. We have one person who handles licensing who we go to when we need one. There is also an internal wiki we can use for site licenses. We use a trial till we have the license. There is no pirated software and each developer takes responsibility for their machines. Believe me, it works and lets people get on with their jobs.
I'd like to ask a few related questions from a developer's point of view :
1) Is there a programming language that tries to make programming for multiple cores easier? 2) Is programming for parallel cores the same as parallel programming? 3) Is anybody aware of anything in this direction on the C++ front that does not rely on OS APIs?
hehe...proves the nightly gets better i guess...66/100 here with grayscale squares:) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
you think so? I bet they'll go after the physics then. After that, they'll go after the senses - hearing, touch, smell. Improving technology is much easier than writing good games. Lets just hope that by the time they're done with all that, there are still people around who know how to write good games.
So has anyone managed to figure out how to add tags to the hundreds of old bookmarks that FF3 imports from FF2? How DO you batch tag? Yes, I know its a bit OT, but that's precisely whats keeping me from seeing what all the fuss is about with places and the new bookmarks system.
Heh...that'll be the day...hypersonic commercial airlines...you'll need a whole new level of training to turn around and slam a building at that speed! lol..i can see it now : "We thought it was suspicious...he only wanted to perfect U-turns once the plane reached Mach 6":)
Vista needs to be something very different to really warrant the jump from Windows XP SP2. I can understand courting the studios...what with HD-DVD/Blu-Ray and online entertainment round the corner. "A wise man learns from others mistakes". This time, its users who are wisening up to Microsoft. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it seems to care less and less about its users as time goes by. They will wake up soon, but I honestly don't think they are agile enough of an organization to implement the needed change. Microsoft is dying by its own hand. Yes its really early to say that, but if you look at the tree that is Microsoft, its pretty hard not to see the rot.
Thank you. You have just described my experience with Blender as well. There is no denying the power behind this application. There is also no denying that this app is like a car whose accelerator is the handbrake. I for example love modeling the interiors of buildings as a hobby. I have no background in architecture and none in graphics but I could figure my way out in 3dStudio Max, Lightwave, Maya, Poser & Sketchup to create pretty realistic versions of real world interiors. I love open source and at every single opportunity I get, I try to use an open source solution first. Hence Blender. Over the past 3 years, I have made at least 15 attempts to figure it out. Heck, it took me less time to figure out how to build a Linux system from source with no prior background. If I spent that much time on any one of the others, I would be able to do a LOT more in either of the other applications.
Which reminds me, this being slashdot and all, if anyone wants to start up a project to create a decent user interface for Blender, you've got my time & support. Its an open source project. There should be nothing stopping us from designing a useful UI. Lets do it.
This is not meant for people who already can tell phishing sites on their own. Its meant to protect the 95% out there who can't. What's the alternative? Have them click false credit card and lottery links and give their banking passwords to a criminal? Its the lesser of the two evils here. Get over it. If you can tell that its a phishing site, you don't need it.
here's what is common: 1) student uses software. 2) something doesn't work OR the student doesn't like the way something works. 3) curious student tries to fix it.
At this point, with proprietary software, a teacher does not even have the option to show the student the source code. With F/OSS, a student may not be able to do anything with the code at this point but it sparks an interest that could very well drive them to further study and finally turn into a profession.
Mind you, we're not just talking programming here. We're talking stuff like icons, artwork, ui design, help documentation, etc. too.
When you show kids something, you stimulate their curiosity. When that curiosity is not restricted, you'll be surprised with what some of them can do.
What I don't get is the rationale behind claims that the software market is not ready for quad cores. When so many apps are running a LOT of simultaneous threads - iTunes itself runs about 4 or 5, why can these cores not be made use of?
The reason I prefer top posting is that I do not need to continually scroll down to the bottom of a message thats been quoted and re-quoted in all the replies. I'm already familiar with the discussion and I would like to get straight to the present point of the discussion.
I mean, look at GMail's approach. Within the message, everything is top posted. However, the message itself is "bottom posted" in the conversation, BUT all the older messages are collapsed and the browser takes you straight to what you want to read. I think that's the way it should be done. The function of an email/news program should be to make it as convenient as possible for its user to get access to information.
Sadly, this approach has not been taken by 99% of the email/news clients out there (which is one of the reasons GMail has been so successful). That's what has given rise to top posting.
So, in summary, eliminate the need for me and all the readers in a discussion to continually scroll to the bottom of the message and I believe you will eliminate the need for anyone for anyone to top post.
You've got it all wrong people! MONARCH is actually the result of the military's research into other forms of government. They're getting quite tired of 'ol Bush. Somebody just needs to add the final Yes:) *ducks*
No, but it runs Duke Nukem Forever. Just wish startup didn't take so long. apparently, it has something to do with the game forever re-configuring itself:) *ducks*
Coming from a DSP background, I can't imagine a company like Texas Instruments NOT jumping all over this idea as their entry point into the world of the mainstream desktop. They already have tons of experience in designing processors dedicated to audio/image processing and I could so easily see a "codec co-processor" made by them being one of the processors you could add to your uber system for some really amazing decoding/transcoding of multimedia content.
After all, are we not moving towards the era of where multimedia is as vital to your social life as email is now?
From TFA: It also involves a "patent co-operation agreement", under which Microsoft and Novell agreed not to sue each other's customers for patent infringement.
So...as I see it, Novell has also agreed not to sue MS? Which means MS is infringing? Wonder how much GPL stuff its using too...
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We run that way too. We have one person who handles licensing who we go to when we need one. There is also an internal wiki we can use for site licenses. We use a trial till we have the license. There is no pirated software and each developer takes responsibility for their machines. Believe me, it works and lets people get on with their jobs.
and standards compliant too!
It does. FF3 beta 5-pre here.
1) Yes.
Which one(s)?I'd like to ask a few related questions from a developer's point of view :
1) Is there a programming language that tries to make programming for multiple cores easier?
2) Is programming for parallel cores the same as parallel programming?
3) Is anybody aware of anything in this direction on the C++ front that does not rely on OS APIs?
hehe...proves the nightly gets better i guess...66/100 here with grayscale squares :)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
you think so? I bet they'll go after the physics then. After that, they'll go after the senses - hearing, touch, smell. Improving technology is much easier than writing good games. Lets just hope that by the time they're done with all that, there are still people around who know how to write good games.
So has anyone managed to figure out how to add tags to the hundreds of old bookmarks that FF3 imports from FF2? How DO you batch tag? Yes, I know its a bit OT, but that's precisely whats keeping me from seeing what all the fuss is about with places and the new bookmarks system.
Heh...that'll be the day...hypersonic commercial airlines...you'll need a whole new level of training to turn around and slam a building at that speed! lol..i can see it now : "We thought it was suspicious...he only wanted to perfect U-turns once the plane reached Mach 6" :)
Vista needs to be something very different to really warrant the jump from Windows XP SP2. I can understand courting the studios...what with HD-DVD/Blu-Ray and online entertainment round the corner. "A wise man learns from others mistakes". This time, its users who are wisening up to Microsoft. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it seems to care less and less about its users as time goes by. They will wake up soon, but I honestly don't think they are agile enough of an organization to implement the needed change. Microsoft is dying by its own hand. Yes its really early to say that, but if you look at the tree that is Microsoft, its pretty hard not to see the rot.
1,000,000pcs each consuming 400W running 24/7 for a year would use :
:)
1000000 * 400W * (3600s * 24 * 365.25) = 1.262304 × 10^16 joules (Watt-seconds) of energy
= 3,506,400,000 kWh
The conversion factor from kWh of mains electricity to kgCO2 is 0.43.
That gives you : 1,507,752,000 kgCO2.
My calculations may be wrong, but its a big number
No, we know that doesn't work. Microsoft tried it.
Thank you. You have just described my experience with Blender as well. There is no denying the power behind this application. There is also no denying that this app is like a car whose accelerator is the handbrake. I for example love modeling the interiors of buildings as a hobby. I have no background in architecture and none in graphics but I could figure my way out in 3dStudio Max, Lightwave, Maya, Poser & Sketchup to create pretty realistic versions of real world interiors. I love open source and at every single opportunity I get, I try to use an open source solution first. Hence Blender. Over the past 3 years, I have made at least 15 attempts to figure it out. Heck, it took me less time to figure out how to build a Linux system from source with no prior background. If I spent that much time on any one of the others, I would be able to do a LOT more in either of the other applications.
Which reminds me, this being slashdot and all, if anyone wants to start up a project to create a decent user interface for Blender, you've got my time & support. Its an open source project. There should be nothing stopping us from designing a useful UI. Lets do it.
You mean 320 Pennsylvania Ave :) Can I let them know that I built a hotel there too?
This is not meant for people who already can tell phishing sites on their own. Its meant to protect the 95% out there who can't. What's the alternative? Have them click false credit card and lottery links and give their banking passwords to a criminal? Its the lesser of the two evils here. Get over it. If you can tell that its a phishing site, you don't need it.
Sorry, but you've missed the point and are wrong.
here's what is common:
1) student uses software.
2) something doesn't work OR the student doesn't like the way something works.
3) curious student tries to fix it.
At this point, with proprietary software, a teacher does not even have the option to show the student the source code. With F/OSS, a student may not be able to do anything with the code at this point but it sparks an interest that could very well drive them to further study and finally turn into a profession.
Mind you, we're not just talking programming here. We're talking stuff like icons, artwork, ui design, help documentation, etc. too.
When you show kids something, you stimulate their curiosity. When that curiosity is not restricted, you'll be surprised with what some of them can do.
What I don't get is the rationale behind claims that the software market is not ready for quad cores. When so many apps are running a LOT of simultaneous threads - iTunes itself runs about 4 or 5, why can these cores not be made use of?
The reason I prefer top posting is that I do not need to continually scroll down to the bottom of a message thats been quoted and re-quoted in all the replies. I'm already familiar with the discussion and I would like to get straight to the present point of the discussion.
I mean, look at GMail's approach. Within the message, everything is top posted. However, the message itself is "bottom posted" in the conversation, BUT all the older messages are collapsed and the browser takes you straight to what you want to read. I think that's the way it should be done. The function of an email/news program should be to make it as convenient as possible for its user to get access to information.
Sadly, this approach has not been taken by 99% of the email/news clients out there (which is one of the reasons GMail has been so successful). That's what has given rise to top posting.
So, in summary, eliminate the need for me and all the readers in a discussion to continually scroll to the bottom of the message and I believe you will eliminate the need for anyone for anyone to top post.
You've got it all wrong people! MONARCH is actually the result of the military's research into other forms of government. They're getting quite tired of 'ol Bush. Somebody just needs to add the final Yes :)
*ducks*
No, but it runs Duke Nukem Forever. Just wish startup didn't take so long. apparently, it has something to do with the game forever re-configuring itself :) *ducks*
so it's basically AMD with a case of Inside Intel on Intel Inside ;)
Coming from a DSP background, I can't imagine a company like Texas Instruments NOT jumping all over this idea as their entry point into the world of the mainstream desktop. They already have tons of experience in designing processors dedicated to audio/image processing and I could so easily see a "codec co-processor" made by them being one of the processors you could add to your uber system for some really amazing decoding/transcoding of multimedia content.
After all, are we not moving towards the era of where multimedia is as vital to your social life as email is now?
Well, given your bread will be so "close to the metal", I'm guessing, not good ;)
Thou shalt not use Forever as the last word in the game's name ;)
From TFA:
It also involves a "patent co-operation agreement", under which Microsoft and Novell agreed not to sue each other's customers for
patent infringement.
So...as I see it, Novell has also agreed not to sue MS? Which means MS is infringing? Wonder how much GPL stuff its using too...