Yep, as 'oh well this probably already happens anyway' as this is, regarding the logging of traffic, does it really all have to be so Pisstakingly obvious.
I'm tired of hearing people say, "the terrorists have won" when the government infringes on our freedom, because it's wildly inaccurate. Terrorists win when their tactics cause outcomes that meet their objectives. Terrorists literally could not care less whether Americans are oppressed by their own government.
With these terrorists that may be true, maybe. But, as an example, the RAF in Germany in the 1970s considered the increase in surveilance and oppression that resulted from their actions to be a win. As it revealed to the general public the true nature and wishes of their government (as they believed them to be).
To steer away briefly from some of the ridiculous hyperbole this is generating, this looks like nothing more than a position statement. Its enforcement would be subjective to the point that I can't see it ever being enforced. I get the concerns being raised, definitely I do, but like a lot of EU proposals I'll wait to see if it ever genuinely goes anyway before tripping out.
Is it really completely beyond the wit of a developer to start doing some functional capture themselves, you know, ask around maybe ?
Or do developers want to be battery chickens where you feed a spec in one end and code comes out the other ? Seriously, I expect my devs to be capable of independent thought and action. A dev should not just sits on their arse doing goldfish impressions when there's no discernible direction to take they should, as far as I'm concerned, be trying to find out wtf is required. I don't expect this of fresh junior developers, but any developer with a few years of experience should have achieved a modicum of the skills required to do the above. Not saying they'll get it right, and they may not have the access to capture all the requirements, but some energy expended in that direction is the least I'd expect. If they can't do that, what hope is there of capturing a change that may seriously impact the application development. In software development everyone should feel they can contribute to any part of the application build with their thoughts (from design to delivery). I don't want dev staff completely incapable of thinking outside of a functional spec.
Probably not true. If its truly cobbled together as described, and therefore a lot of it has been created 'key to disk', then most of it is probably unnecessary code. Replacing it with a rewrite would more than likely require code that is a considerable order of magnitude lighter than 200k (say between 50-100K). I've seen this kind of crap before a few times, and have succesfully replaced with rewrites, and in reasonable time frames. The main key to doing a rewrite succesfully however is NOT to look at, or replicate the code as it is (but just a bit tidier). The best approach is to go through a proper design to functional specification process, just as if it was a new application.
Doing it that way you'll probably find far more elegant coding solutions than are currently being used by the 200k mess and these will cut down on coding time. Moreover it will produce better and more maintainable code, more than you ever would through a tidy and document process. If you think about it, documenting what the spaghetti is doing would probably take as much time, if not much longer, than a fresh design/spec process. Basically the time taken to do a good rewrite is very rarely going to be longer than it would be to unpick the mess. Just keep your team very, very small and make sure everyone including your programmers are involved from the first design/spec discussions onwards. Things go much faster, and you get a far better design, if your coders are invested fully in the project.
Yep , small helicopters work much better for the reasons you say. Plus a consumer HD camera is up to the job, I think this was shot with a hacked Panasonic GH2 IIRC (higher bitrate and maybe with a shorter GOP, could even be a GOP1 hack). http://www.yonderbluefilms.com/blog/ the showreel is worth a look too.
And yet full womens sufrage was not acheived in Switzerland on the federal level until 1971, and not on the full cantonal level until 1990. Its not exactly got a great history of being representational, unless your a bloke of course.
This sort of lazy unimaginative half arsed drone ambient slop annoys me more than relaxes me. Make a bloody effort people. Still its an impressive marketing strategy they have here I suppose.
Also, I'm frankly impressed that they've maintained Maya, 3DSMax and Softimage as independent prdoucts beyond what was in their roadmaps when they acquired them. I, and a lot of other people, were expecting some horrible hybrid single product to emerge to replace them.
That abandoned all Unix ports of their software many, many versions ago?
Ermm. thats not true at all really. I'm always up for a bit of Autodesk bashing but Maya, Mudbox, 3DSMax, Softimage, Flame all run on Linux. In fact its CAD which is the odd one out really in their product lineup. Also the Area community isn't too shabby tbh. Oh, and FBX is pretty open really. I'm not an Autodesk fanboy by any means I'm an old Alias/Wavefront fanboy who is still bitching about some of the weird things they've done to Maya.
This is probably a lot more to do with the fact that Maya performs faster on Linux, than it being a noticeable performance improvement related to the graphics driver. Its not the only app where this is the case, Houdini is also a tad faster on Linux than it is on windows. Linux is.. well... faster on the whole isn't it ? This may also probably the case for minecraft too. Also, I don't think Maya officially supports ATi cards, just saying that cos YMMV depending on the generation of ATi card too. Basically, there are too many vagaries to make anything approaching a meaningful comparison here. The only thing to do would be to run graphics based benchmarks on both platforms, assuming that the benchmarks are coded in the same way too of course. But they've already done that, hence the % figures in this articles title.
As for the argument that CAD applications give the graphics cards more work, I really don't see how thats the case, a 3D viewport is just a 3D viewport after all. However, yeah, the processing in the backend to maintain the surfaces accuracy (is the term Type A surfaces ?), yep, thats a lot more hardcore than it is for 3D animation/modelling/rendering applications. But, and I'm interested to know if this if its wrong and someonecan explain it to me, drawing the 3D representation on screen isn't any much more of an effort for a CAD app than it is for something like Maya.
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Gartner. Extrapolation. Twats. That is all.
and what hill ? It's a slight incline in places if it's anything, the use of the word hill is stretching it a bit.
Yep, as 'oh well this probably already happens anyway' as this is, regarding the logging of traffic, does it really all have to be so Pisstakingly obvious.
I'm tired of hearing people say, "the terrorists have won" when the government infringes on our freedom, because it's wildly inaccurate. Terrorists win when their tactics cause outcomes that meet their objectives. Terrorists literally could not care less whether Americans are oppressed by their own government.
With these terrorists that may be true, maybe. But, as an example, the RAF in Germany in the 1970s considered the increase in surveilance and oppression that resulted from their actions to be a win. As it revealed to the general public the true nature and wishes of their government (as they believed them to be).
To steer away briefly from some of the ridiculous hyperbole this is generating, this looks like nothing more than a position statement. Its enforcement would be subjective to the point that I can't see it ever being enforced. I get the concerns being raised, definitely I do, but like a lot of EU proposals I'll wait to see if it ever genuinely goes anyway before tripping out.
Is it really completely beyond the wit of a developer to start doing some functional capture themselves, you know, ask around maybe ? Or do developers want to be battery chickens where you feed a spec in one end and code comes out the other ? Seriously, I expect my devs to be capable of independent thought and action. A dev should not just sits on their arse doing goldfish impressions when there's no discernible direction to take they should, as far as I'm concerned, be trying to find out wtf is required. I don't expect this of fresh junior developers, but any developer with a few years of experience should have achieved a modicum of the skills required to do the above. Not saying they'll get it right, and they may not have the access to capture all the requirements, but some energy expended in that direction is the least I'd expect. If they can't do that, what hope is there of capturing a change that may seriously impact the application development. In software development everyone should feel they can contribute to any part of the application build with their thoughts (from design to delivery). I don't want dev staff completely incapable of thinking outside of a functional spec.
Heh, a Dev team that accomplished nothing without a manager is a dev team I'd never want to manage.
Probably not true. If its truly cobbled together as described, and therefore a lot of it has been created 'key to disk', then most of it is probably unnecessary code. Replacing it with a rewrite would more than likely require code that is a considerable order of magnitude lighter than 200k (say between 50-100K). I've seen this kind of crap before a few times, and have succesfully replaced with rewrites, and in reasonable time frames. The main key to doing a rewrite succesfully however is NOT to look at, or replicate the code as it is (but just a bit tidier). The best approach is to go through a proper design to functional specification process, just as if it was a new application. Doing it that way you'll probably find far more elegant coding solutions than are currently being used by the 200k mess and these will cut down on coding time. Moreover it will produce better and more maintainable code, more than you ever would through a tidy and document process. If you think about it, documenting what the spaghetti is doing would probably take as much time, if not much longer, than a fresh design/spec process. Basically the time taken to do a good rewrite is very rarely going to be longer than it would be to unpick the mess. Just keep your team very, very small and make sure everyone including your programmers are involved from the first design/spec discussions onwards. Things go much faster, and you get a far better design, if your coders are invested fully in the project.
Yep , small helicopters work much better for the reasons you say. Plus a consumer HD camera is up to the job, I think this was shot with a hacked Panasonic GH2 IIRC (higher bitrate and maybe with a shorter GOP, could even be a GOP1 hack). http://www.yonderbluefilms.com/blog/ the showreel is worth a look too.
Microsoft as a brand isn't "cool" - probably never will be (Again? was it ever?).
Yes, it was once. Because it wasn't IBM.
What was wrong with your society that resulted in not enough women being concerned about politics ? I'm genuinely interested to know.
And yet full womens sufrage was not acheived in Switzerland on the federal level until 1971, and not on the full cantonal level until 1990. Its not exactly got a great history of being representational, unless your a bloke of course.
This sort of lazy unimaginative half arsed drone ambient slop annoys me more than relaxes me. Make a bloody effort people. Still its an impressive marketing strategy they have here I suppose.
What on earth are you talking about ? I wish they had a plan, the organisation and the consistent rhetoric that the bolsheviks had, read some history.
Gain power by hoarding information ? Drop some Prospero in here.. ;) http://vimeo.com/28884746
Yeah, and we're talking about something they just acquired aren't we.
Also, I'm frankly impressed that they've maintained Maya, 3DSMax and Softimage as independent prdoucts beyond what was in their roadmaps when they acquired them. I, and a lot of other people, were expecting some horrible hybrid single product to emerge to replace them.
That abandoned all Unix ports of their software many, many versions ago?
Ermm. thats not true at all really. I'm always up for a bit of Autodesk bashing but Maya, Mudbox, 3DSMax, Softimage, Flame all run on Linux. In fact its CAD which is the odd one out really in their product lineup. Also the Area community isn't too shabby tbh. Oh, and FBX is pretty open really. I'm not an Autodesk fanboy by any means I'm an old Alias/Wavefront fanboy who is still bitching about some of the weird things they've done to Maya.
This is probably a lot more to do with the fact that Maya performs faster on Linux, than it being a noticeable performance improvement related to the graphics driver. Its not the only app where this is the case, Houdini is also a tad faster on Linux than it is on windows. Linux is.. well... faster on the whole isn't it ? This may also probably the case for minecraft too. Also, I don't think Maya officially supports ATi cards, just saying that cos YMMV depending on the generation of ATi card too. Basically, there are too many vagaries to make anything approaching a meaningful comparison here. The only thing to do would be to run graphics based benchmarks on both platforms, assuming that the benchmarks are coded in the same way too of course. But they've already done that, hence the % figures in this articles title. As for the argument that CAD applications give the graphics cards more work, I really don't see how thats the case, a 3D viewport is just a 3D viewport after all. However, yeah, the processing in the backend to maintain the surfaces accuracy (is the term Type A surfaces ?), yep, thats a lot more hardcore than it is for 3D animation/modelling/rendering applications. But, and I'm interested to know if this if its wrong and someonecan explain it to me, drawing the 3D representation on screen isn't any much more of an effort for a CAD app than it is for something like Maya.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/29/awesomely-weird-expanding-halo-of-light-seen-from-hawaii/ Another link on said pretty thing that reads better than the forum.