This two year degree is pretty much the kind of crap you'd expect. No theory, little exposure advanced topics. The cirriculum is pretty much a lesson in writing web applications for a small set of technologies. Apparently a critical part of all software is the Web.
This is no drop in replacement for a well rounded and indepth degree you'll find at your local University. Accrediation means something, you know.
Reggie claims Metroid is highly appealing to women gamers, but does anyone have any evidence to back that up? Its the first time I've heard any such claim, and the game doesn't sound nessecarily supportive of such a claim.
I mean, the traditional Metroid experience is a lonely and desolate affair. The only thing about it that caters to women is the fact that Samus is a woman, a plot element mostly obscured by the powersuit that enables her to complete missions. Its certainly a step up from the pink plastic approach that patronizes women, but its hardly any deep journey into the female psyche that makes a lasting connection.
Ironically, RARE has sole ownership of very little of its software. The Donkey Kong franchise remains Nintendo's, after Rare turned the Bond brand around with goldeneye, MGM decided to keep it to themselves, and they've also done a lot of games with Disney characters, who naturally remain part of Disney.
What I'd heard was the Stamper brothers wanted out of Rare, or possibly simply out of Nintendo's grip. Much of the talent behind goldeneye had already left to form Free Radical. Its amazing Microsoft purchased the company, really. Rare's offerings don't really mesh well with the XBox's heavily marketed demographics, and their in development titles are slowly achieving Duke Nukem Forever status.
If Micorosft were to purchase Nintendo, it would have to be accompanied by a shift in marketing, away from the xTreme appeal they're still making and towards a group and family situation. They'd also have to tell investors to choose between another high profile acquisition and their huge dividend boost, unless Gates was planning to do this with his 3 billion dollar share of the proceeds from said dividend.
As I recall, that's been on slashdot, and several posts already have mentioned this. Quite a few years ago. In fact, I think there was a Linux virus plus howto that linked to this on how to make small binaries to travel across networks with. Interesting read, and quite amusing to fit an entire virus inside an ELF header.
But normally to become a top-notch technical worker/scientist/engineer you don't have time to acquire those business skills.
Now that is just flat out a poor excuse. People with nothing but a high school degree have founded small businesses serving their local economy. And software is about the lowest barrier to entry field out there. The guy who started Debian managed to build himself a nice Linux consulting firm, even though I don't believe he's gone out to earn an MBA.
Of course people do fail. Look at the number of Redhat and Debian proprietary spinoffs that have failed. Even poor Bruce's User Linux is stagnating. I believe that there's a living to be found in learning from their mistakes and then trying to improve. Userlinux's leadership by consensus is making little progress, as narrow margins of victory on any given issue threaten to fragment their society, despite the relative ease with which any central solution can be locally overridden. There's no pressing need to thing big or national. On average, two thirds of your local economy is run by small, privately owned businesses. Now some of that will be stores that franchise and use equipment provided from a national headquarters, but there are still many locally owned businesses.
This theory that intellectuals can't be businessmen falls flat. In fact, its quite amazing that so many jump onto the boat of working for another persons dream, quietly disguarding their own hopes and ambitions. The only thing I can really agree with is that neither laissez-faire capitalism nor protectionism will solve your caste worker quandry. But I'm not sure what the government can do to solve the problem without been seen as protectionist!
One of my professors (everybody has one of these it seems) is working on cluster computing research, extensions of MOSIX. He's a guy with networking and operating systems expertise. I wouldn't hire him to build a new generation of super computing interconnects or processors. As the Republicans have taught us, federal budgets are not a zero sum game. Why divert focus from one to the other when we could have both?
We have to be careful about measuring these things however. One of the goals of cluster computing was to lower the cost of computing. If the government is spending less and still meeting needs, thats not nessecarily an indicator of a problem. If that means that we aren't writing code to fit into a vector platform, so be it!
What guarentee do you have that the people you're buying commercial, and closed source software from are trustworthy? Is every developer of VxWorks given a background check and top secret clearance? Seems doubtful, especially when you consider that most of VxWorks' toolset is based on GNU and BSD. Microsoft employs lots of people all over the place.
There is a very real threat that software you buy could be manipulated by a government. I'm reminded of the story where a Canadian company gave some software to Russia, only after being given assistance by the CIA to ensure that it would not be safe for use by anyone. You can read more about it .These days, COTS is the mantra contractors chant, and we all hear about developers moving overseas for cheaper labor. With the current market collapsing I think it might be easy to place a man on the inside one of those commercial-off-the-shelf vendors.
With that counter argument in mind, ask yourself why the author hasn't pointed it out. If you look at green hill's website, none of the jobs even mention security clearance. They even list jobs working on the kernel, and don't mention that you have to be a US citizen. Either a) Green Hill is leaving out critical details or b) Green Hill is equally protected from the kinds of problems O'Dowd has discussed. You'll notice that he never even mentions how his own company outcompetes Linux, or exactly how the DO-178B Level A certification protects against intentionally malicious software!
Its been a number of years since I've tried it, but tiny/snort (I think that was the name of the combo) did a nice job of firewalling things, using MD5 signatures to make sure programs you'd already authorized had been given clearance. When set to a reasonable strength, it will alert you when any program not whitelisted is trying to open a connection.
For example, in science fiction there is often the assumption that a single world government is the most efficient, but perhaps some other number would actually be better
Well, its not exactly science-fiction, but George Orwell predicted 3 superpowers in a gridlock. Of course, the prime goal of the warfare was to rid the world of their excessive capacity in meaningless landwars in africa and Asia. So perhaps the vision Orwell put forth doesn't qualify as "efficient."
Maybe I'm confused about just what issue is at hand, but I thought the terraGrid was a distributed computing machine itself, located at nine facilities and growing. In fact, the grid part pretty much implies a distributed and omnipresent system. Are you for DC, for TerraGrid, or against both?
I'd have to wholeheartedly agree. Until a few years back, you could only use it to connect to one server at a time. I still have no idea how to make it connect to more than one server at startup. I thought chaining together perform actions on connect might accomplish the task, but it seems to go 'round in circles that way. If left alone it would be an infinite loop. I've resorted to the now poorly named xchat for this windows machine.
Scripting in mIRC is done via a custom built scripting language; xchat uses python and perl modules (and presumably others). I'd been a mIRC user for years, it was certainly head and shoulders above the free and runs-on-Windows crowd I'd tried. Trillian tanked on large channels -- join a channel with a large number of users (#debian on openprojects, perhaps), and the damn thing would slow to a halt, with the list of names in the channel slowly growing. As best as I could surmise, someone was using a vector to store the names of people in a sidebar, and rather than doubling it, was adding just enough space for the newly parsed name. I haven't tried since; you only get one first impression, people!
When I first tried xchat, it was on an elderly sparcstation running TWM, I believe. This was about three years ago. Very antiquated. The interface was ugly and not very explanitory at all. If you want a new user nightmare story, you need look no further than xchat 1.x and the detach window button. Bewilderment will follow. Thankfully xchat2 is around, and far friendlier Buttons make sense, its far more difficult to detach a window, and the settings are more explanitory. Its not perfect, but its leaps and bounds.
I guess thats enough venting/ preaching at the choir. The only thing left to do now is let the console irc junkies flame without compassion.
Uh, no. He broke a law of the day. That law is no longer in effect. Maybe you're contending he's a timetraveler who brought copies of laws not yet passed with him from the future to spit upon at the opening of the tournament?
I don't know who you think populates IRC and similar subterranean flows of culture, but there's certainly very few coporate manager taking a break from eating someone else's lunch.
Probably the easiest way would be to order up a batch of business card CDs. Not sure what to put on the title though. Software engineer is misleading since you're unlikely to actually be a liscenced engineer, software developer reeks of overpaid talent, and anything creative like Solution Creator tags you as incompetant. As does misspelling that word =/
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so I'll throw it out there -- PARSEC47 is proof that talented individuals need not be specialists. Tumiki fighters and parsec have been featured on slashdot not too long ago, with source code and windows binaries. I'm pleased to mention that an acquaintance has started up a sourceforge project to port Cho's games to Linux.
PARSEC is attributed to a single person, Kenta Cho. To sum the game is difficult, but I shall try. It's a stereotypical top down shooter with incredible amounts of ammo coming your way. Part of what distinguishes itself from the crowd is its particular aesthetic. The majority of the visuals are abstract GL_LINES, visually reminiscent of Tempest, and the music is trance/techno. It doesn't pay attention to plot, pacing or any other modern trappings of a "game" but is still very enjoyable. It has no plot, much like tetris has no ending, other than failure. It is a genre distilled and its waiting for you.
I can only guess that the oft repeated phrase "come out or I'll shit" was a rare source of humor for Germans during the final days surrounding the European theater.
Congratulations; sadly its quite difficult to notify all my loyal fans where I am staying on a daily basis, but lets just say that Marlatt is quite far off the mark.
Diebold doesn't have a monopoly on voting machines. They don't even have a monopoly on electronic voting machines. Election Systems & Software also controls a significant share of the market, perhaps a more significant share. Until they get a patent on paper and a pencil, election commissioners will not experience a market failure to provide alternative.
Every story submitted to slashdot has a submitted caption to go alongside it. Sometimes the editors add their own comments, sometimes they don't. The trick is to watch the nesting of quotation marks. This simple task saves you from making an ass out of yourself by making untrue assumptions and commenting on somebody's attitude about words they never said!
Well, there's some wisdom there. The beauty about spending is that it keeps on giving. If I spend a dollar more, that's now a dollar in someone else's pocket. If nobody ever saved, that lone dollar would keep on moving, after all, you have to spend it! Fortunately, we do, and that helps keep inflation in check. During the height of the.com bubble savings rates were notoriously low, and I'm sure you recall stories, or perhaps lived the life, of excess and living beyond your means.
The benefit beind unemployment, economically is to put money in the pockets of people who will spend it. In a way, rich people aren't that kind of person, they've kept money around, that's why they're rich, after all. A poor guy's more likely to spend it at the store, where it matters, rather than fret about looking for a tax free or tax deferred investment for his newfound dollar.
Of course, its horribly unfair that someone who's working would be taxed so someone with no job can be paid for the quality of not having a job. Furthermore, there's the college 101 notion of deadweight loss, that putting a tax on people will result negative economic influences ie less money for everyone. But the huge problem facing President Bush was a recession, or perhaps minor economic depression. And part of that strategy is to get people out and spend. Thats a tough sell. "The economy isn't doing well lately, your stocks are probably down, the WTC just fell and many people are telling you its gonna get worse. But I want you to go to the mall and shop till you drop!" Good luck. That's why they had that instant tax rebate. Put money in the hands of Americans NOW, before it gets worse. Maybe all my friends and family are horrible with money (they probably are) but tax return season is a small christmas for them. When they get back a thousand dollars or more they paid in, just when they needed it the most for their spring break trip, or a new car audio system. I can only hope I learn from their mistakes. Anyways, spending is good for the economy, but bad for you should anything awkward happen, like a large building symbolic of commerce topple.
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This two year degree is pretty much the kind of crap you'd expect. No theory, little exposure advanced topics. The cirriculum is pretty much a lesson in writing web applications for a small set of technologies. Apparently a critical part of all software is the Web.
This is no drop in replacement for a well rounded and indepth degree you'll find at your local University. Accrediation means something, you know.
Reggie claims Metroid is highly appealing to women gamers, but does anyone have any evidence to back that up? Its the first time I've heard any such claim, and the game doesn't sound nessecarily supportive of such a claim.
I mean, the traditional Metroid experience is a lonely and desolate affair. The only thing about it that caters to women is the fact that Samus is a woman, a plot element mostly obscured by the powersuit that enables her to complete missions. Its certainly a step up from the pink plastic approach that patronizes women, but its hardly any deep journey into the female psyche that makes a lasting connection.
Ironically, RARE has sole ownership of very little of its software. The Donkey Kong franchise remains Nintendo's, after Rare turned the Bond brand around with goldeneye, MGM decided to keep it to themselves, and they've also done a lot of games with Disney characters, who naturally remain part of Disney.
What I'd heard was the Stamper brothers wanted out of Rare, or possibly simply out of Nintendo's grip. Much of the talent behind goldeneye had already left to form Free Radical. Its amazing Microsoft purchased the company, really. Rare's offerings don't really mesh well with the XBox's heavily marketed demographics, and their in development titles are slowly achieving Duke Nukem Forever status.
If Micorosft were to purchase Nintendo, it would have to be accompanied by a shift in marketing, away from the xTreme appeal they're still making and towards a group and family situation. They'd also have to tell investors to choose between another high profile acquisition and their huge dividend boost, unless Gates was planning to do this with his 3 billion dollar share of the proceeds from said dividend.
As I recall, that's been on slashdot, and several posts already have mentioned this. Quite a few years ago. In fact, I think there was a Linux virus plus howto that linked to this on how to make small binaries to travel across networks with. Interesting read, and quite amusing to fit an entire virus inside an ELF header.
But normally to become a top-notch technical worker/scientist/engineer you don't have time to acquire those business skills.
Now that is just flat out a poor excuse. People with nothing but a high school degree have founded small businesses serving their local economy. And software is about the lowest barrier to entry field out there. The guy who started Debian managed to build himself a nice Linux consulting firm, even though I don't believe he's gone out to earn an MBA.
Of course people do fail. Look at the number of Redhat and Debian proprietary spinoffs that have failed. Even poor Bruce's User Linux is stagnating. I believe that there's a living to be found in learning from their mistakes and then trying to improve. Userlinux's leadership by consensus is making little progress, as narrow margins of victory on any given issue threaten to fragment their society, despite the relative ease with which any central solution can be locally overridden. There's no pressing need to thing big or national. On average, two thirds of your local economy is run by small, privately owned businesses. Now some of that will be stores that franchise and use equipment provided from a national headquarters, but there are still many locally owned businesses.
This theory that intellectuals can't be businessmen falls flat. In fact, its quite amazing that so many jump onto the boat of working for another persons dream, quietly disguarding their own hopes and ambitions. The only thing I can really agree with is that neither laissez-faire capitalism nor protectionism will solve your caste worker quandry. But I'm not sure what the government can do to solve the problem without been seen as protectionist!
One of my professors (everybody has one of these it seems) is working on cluster computing research, extensions of MOSIX. He's a guy with networking and operating systems expertise. I wouldn't hire him to build a new generation of super computing interconnects or processors. As the Republicans have taught us, federal budgets are not a zero sum game. Why divert focus from one to the other when we could have both?
We have to be careful about measuring these things however. One of the goals of cluster computing was to lower the cost of computing. If the government is spending less and still meeting needs, thats not nessecarily an indicator of a problem. If that means that we aren't writing code to fit into a vector platform, so be it!
What guarentee do you have that the people you're buying commercial, and closed source software from are trustworthy? Is every developer of VxWorks given a background check and top secret clearance? Seems doubtful, especially when you consider that most of VxWorks' toolset is based on GNU and BSD. Microsoft employs lots of people all over the place.
.These days, COTS is the mantra contractors chant, and we all hear about developers moving overseas for cheaper labor. With the current market collapsing I think it might be easy to place a man on the inside one of those commercial-off-the-shelf vendors.
There is a very real threat that software you buy could be manipulated by a government. I'm reminded of the story where a Canadian company gave some software to Russia, only after being given assistance by the CIA to ensure that it would not be safe for use by anyone. You can read more about it
With that counter argument in mind, ask yourself why the author hasn't pointed it out. If you look at green hill's website, none of the jobs even mention security clearance. They even list jobs working on the kernel, and don't mention that you have to be a US citizen. Either a) Green Hill is leaving out critical details or b) Green Hill is equally protected from the kinds of problems O'Dowd has discussed. You'll notice that he never even mentions how his own company outcompetes Linux, or exactly how the DO-178B Level A certification protects against intentionally malicious software!
Okay. How about an exclusive and highly publicized deal with Pepsi?
I thought we threw out the inalienable right to free speech the minute we decided that spam (ie criminal speech) was inherantly criminal.
Its been a number of years since I've tried it, but tiny/snort (I think that was the name of the combo) did a nice job of firewalling things, using MD5 signatures to make sure programs you'd already authorized had been given clearance. When set to a reasonable strength, it will alert you when any program not whitelisted is trying to open a connection.
For example, in science fiction there is often the assumption that a single world government is the most efficient, but perhaps some other number would actually be better
Well, its not exactly science-fiction, but George Orwell predicted 3 superpowers in a gridlock. Of course, the prime goal of the warfare was to rid the world of their excessive capacity in meaningless landwars in africa and Asia. So perhaps the vision Orwell put forth doesn't qualify as "efficient."
Maybe I'm confused about just what issue is at hand, but I thought the terraGrid was a distributed computing machine itself, located at nine facilities and growing. In fact, the grid part pretty much implies a distributed and omnipresent system. Are you for DC, for TerraGrid, or against both?
I'd have to wholeheartedly agree. Until a few years back, you could only use it to connect to one server at a time. I still have no idea how to make it connect to more than one server at startup. I thought chaining together perform actions on connect might accomplish the task, but it seems to go 'round in circles that way. If left alone it would be an infinite loop. I've resorted to the now poorly named xchat for this windows machine.
Scripting in mIRC is done via a custom built scripting language; xchat uses python and perl modules (and presumably others). I'd been a mIRC user for years, it was certainly head and shoulders above the free and runs-on-Windows crowd I'd tried. Trillian tanked on large channels -- join a channel with a large number of users (#debian on openprojects, perhaps), and the damn thing would slow to a halt, with the list of names in the channel slowly growing. As best as I could surmise, someone was using a vector to store the names of people in a sidebar, and rather than doubling it, was adding just enough space for the newly parsed name. I haven't tried since; you only get one first impression, people!
When I first tried xchat, it was on an elderly sparcstation running TWM, I believe. This was about three years ago. Very antiquated. The interface was ugly and not very explanitory at all. If you want a new user nightmare story, you need look no further than xchat 1.x and the detach window button. Bewilderment will follow. Thankfully xchat2 is around, and far friendlier Buttons make sense, its far more difficult to detach a window, and the settings are more explanitory. Its not perfect, but its leaps and bounds.
I guess thats enough venting/ preaching at the choir. The only thing left to do now is let the console irc junkies flame without compassion.
Uh, no. He broke a law of the day. That law is no longer in effect. Maybe you're contending he's a timetraveler who brought copies of laws not yet passed with him from the future to spit upon at the opening of the tournament?
I don't know who you think populates IRC and similar subterranean flows of culture, but there's certainly very few coporate manager taking a break from eating someone else's lunch.
This parsec? That looks more like defender. And the abstract portion of PARSEC47 is far more... abstract..er
If they go any slower, they jeopordize losing out to another community based Distro infamous for long testing cycles...
Probably the easiest way would be to order up a batch of business card CDs. Not sure what to put on the title though. Software engineer is misleading since you're unlikely to actually be a liscenced engineer, software developer reeks of overpaid talent, and anything creative like Solution Creator tags you as incompetant. As does misspelling that word =/
There's also safety considerations. Crash testing these things would be interesting, though wasteful and incredibly demoralizing.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so I'll throw it out there -- PARSEC47 is proof that talented individuals need not be specialists. Tumiki fighters and parsec have been featured on slashdot not too long ago, with source code and windows binaries. I'm pleased to mention that an acquaintance has started up a sourceforge project to port Cho's games to Linux.
PARSEC is attributed to a single person, Kenta Cho. To sum the game is difficult, but I shall try. It's a stereotypical top down shooter with incredible amounts of ammo coming your way. Part of what distinguishes itself from the crowd is its particular aesthetic. The majority of the visuals are abstract GL_LINES, visually reminiscent of Tempest, and the music is trance/techno. It doesn't pay attention to plot, pacing or any other modern trappings of a "game" but is still very enjoyable. It has no plot, much like tetris has no ending, other than failure. It is a genre distilled and its waiting for you.
I can only guess that the oft repeated phrase "come out or I'll shit" was a rare source of humor for Germans during the final days surrounding the European theater.
Congratulations; sadly its quite difficult to notify all my loyal fans where I am staying on a daily basis, but lets just say that Marlatt is quite far off the mark.
Diebold doesn't have a monopoly on voting machines. They don't even have a monopoly on electronic voting machines. Election Systems & Software also controls a significant share of the market, perhaps a more significant share. Until they get a patent on paper and a pencil, election commissioners will not experience a market failure to provide alternative.
Every story submitted to slashdot has a submitted caption to go alongside it. Sometimes the editors add their own comments, sometimes they don't. The trick is to watch the nesting of quotation marks. This simple task saves you from making an ass out of yourself by making untrue assumptions and commenting on somebody's attitude about words they never said!
Well, there's some wisdom there. The beauty about spending is that it keeps on giving. If I spend a dollar more, that's now a dollar in someone else's pocket. If nobody ever saved, that lone dollar would keep on moving, after all, you have to spend it! Fortunately, we do, and that helps keep inflation in check. During the height of the .com bubble savings rates were notoriously low, and I'm sure you recall stories, or perhaps lived the life, of excess and living beyond your means.
The benefit beind unemployment, economically is to put money in the pockets of people who will spend it. In a way, rich people aren't that kind of person, they've kept money around, that's why they're rich, after all. A poor guy's more likely to spend it at the store, where it matters, rather than fret about looking for a tax free or tax deferred investment for his newfound dollar.
Of course, its horribly unfair that someone who's working would be taxed so someone with no job can be paid for the quality of not having a job. Furthermore, there's the college 101 notion of deadweight loss, that putting a tax on people will result negative economic influences ie less money for everyone. But the huge problem facing President Bush was a recession, or perhaps minor economic depression. And part of that strategy is to get people out and spend. Thats a tough sell. "The economy isn't doing well lately, your stocks are probably down, the WTC just fell and many people are telling you its gonna get worse. But I want you to go to the mall and shop till you drop!" Good luck. That's why they had that instant tax rebate. Put money in the hands of Americans NOW, before it gets worse. Maybe all my friends and family are horrible with money (they probably are) but tax return season is a small christmas for them. When they get back a thousand dollars or more they paid in, just when they needed it the most for their spring break trip, or a new car audio system. I can only hope I learn from their mistakes. Anyways, spending is good for the economy, but bad for you should anything awkward happen, like a large building symbolic of commerce topple.