I took a year off (several actually) and what happens is this: you're not in school but need cash so you get a job. The money comes in, and you spend it on the necessities of life: an apartment, a car, groceries, debt service, etc. Now when your year is up, you look around and say "Oh, sh*t! I can't afford to go to college full time!" And now you are trapped. You spend the next twenty years going to college at night, working full time during the day and cursing that year off.
Since a long name such as GNU/X11/Apache/Linux/TeX/Perl/Python/FreeCiv becomes absurd, at some point, you will have to set a threshold and omit the names of the many other secondary contributions. There is no one obvious right place to set the threshold, so wherever you set it, we won't argue against it.
Ok, I'll call it RedHat Linux; they've made many important contributions as well.
Gurney is the author of ''The Cassandra Prophecy: Armageddon Approaches,'' a book that uses clues from the Bible to calculate that Judgment Day will occur in or about the year 2023.
Isn't that when time_t rolls over? Fixing y2k was hard, but this...damn!
Slashdot's ads are getting more insidious every day. I didn't see any fine print at the bottom of the question... "This question sponsored by The Ultimates"...
How about clicking through before posting a story? Please?
Err. not 'most coders'..maybe not even 'most slashdot readers'.
But anyway... you want to design games? What's that got to do with coding? If you want to work for a gaming company, you need to know one of the following:
Physics - become an expert in physics. Know how to model real-world actions efficiently.
Graphics - become an expert on 3D graphics. Know your transformations by heart. Be able to invert a matrix in your head... ok, in your code. Know how to do it fast.
AI - Know Artificial intelligence for the game logic.
Networking - MMORPGs. 'Nuff said.
When you are an expert at at least 2 of them, you can start thinking about designing a computer game.
So what about the 1-click patent? Who cares? It's not Amazon's fault that the PTO is criminally unaware of reality. Don't blame Amazon for what the system makes available. They looked around and did what they could to protect their IP and their business.
I shop at Amazon, I recommend Amazon to friends and family because they are certainly best of breed.
Congrats, Mr Bezos. BTW, how long does it take to get from your office to the loading dock on your new Segway?
Information is at College Board. I just finished my BS in CS -- took twenty years to do so with time off for good behaviour. Had I not clep'd out of 21 credits, I'd still be going. The only reason I finished the degree is to get the *next* job -- many HR departments use keyword filtering on their resume databases and I want to make sure I don't get lost because I didn't have a degree. That argument is moot if you are good, and have a good headhunter and the economy allows companies to afford their services.
PL/M for the 8085 and 80x86 is still being used by Thermo Jarrell Ash in some of their legacy analytical instruments as the language the firmware was written in. What a beast that was...no floating point, no pointers... ugh.
We used ICON to whip up a driver program for the CNC milling machine that the on-site machine shop had in order to aid conversion from their paper tape (!) library.
We did create a hardcore driver. It was product of political machinations and perturbations. UltraUpper Management (tm) created a second driver team to compete against my team (bitter? Me? nah!) that had none of the constraints we labored under. Our driver supported 3 chip models, and several revisions of each. Theirs supported only 1 chip and only one spin of the silicon as well. We wrote the drivers that drew the first triangles of freshly-spun hardware while they took all of our knowledge and didn't share their improvements. We had to steal them out of PVCS.
What I did there was to get the busmastering support (with full scatter/gather) for the rage pro into a shippable state. To do so, I forked the driver so that the new sexy rage pro had its own binary. Then, management pitted my driver against the 'performance' driver in terms of WinBench scores. The performance driver couldn't even draw lines, for pete's sake (who's pete?)! Every week brought a threat that their driver would become the 'shipping' driver in place of mine. Every week we would advance our performance to get within 5% of the performance driver, even with all of our constraints.
I don't know if they ever did ship that driver. I don't think so -- that team moved on (with bonuses), while we kept on working.
Oh, one more thing. All those drivers on their web site are not usually certified. You get those from the Windows install CD's. I've seen one driver (Rage128?) that had a control panel that let the user choose quality vs. speed. Come to think of it, my new Radeon has that as well.
As a former slav^H^H^H^H employee of ATI (Rage Pro D3D drivers) I can add a little bit here. When I worked there, we used games (many titles to boot!)and WinBench as test platforms. Many times we would find a way to speed up routines used in these games only to find they broke some stupid little D3D app that had to be 'perfect' or Microsoft would not pass the driver through WHQL (so the driver could not be 'certified' and not on the Windows CDs -- and it was very important to be there.) These apps -- Rock'em Robots, Twist, etc -- came with the DirectX SDKs and had to run and run well. We'd try to massage the optimization so that we'd sacrifice some of the speed gain in favor of the test apps. Sometimes that wasn't possible. Back then, we discussed checking for application names but never implemented the checks because the PR would be too bad.
IMHO, what probably happened is a developer actually implemented a speedup / namecheck and forgot to disable it before checking it in. Or management has gone insane. You decide.
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You've got it backwards. MS VC has it wrong too. the declaration of i in your example is scoped with the body of the for loop. 'i' does not exist after the closing brace of the for-loop.
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Ok, I'll call it RedHat Linux; they've made many important contributions as well.
End of problem.
Is it just me, or does the logo at the top left of the HIPAA web site look like the cover of an O'Reilly book?
When I worked there, they made a low-profile card for use in a riser assembly. It might have been OEM only though, I don't recall.
Gurney is the author of ''The Cassandra Prophecy: Armageddon Approaches,'' a book that uses clues from the Bible to calculate that Judgment Day will occur in or about the year 2023.
Isn't that when time_t rolls over? Fixing y2k was hard, but this...damn!
Slashdot's ads are getting more insidious every day. I didn't see any fine print at the bottom of the question... "This question sponsored by The Ultimates"... How about clicking through before posting a story? Please?
from Bruce Springsteen's latest album.
A beowulf 2 cluster of these!
Sorry, had to be done.
But anyway... you want to design games? What's that got to do with coding? If you want to work for a gaming company, you need to know one of the following:
When you are an expert at at least 2 of them, you can start thinking about designing a computer game.
How about Politics of l33t h4x0rs?
Starlink.
Since we can't eat the stuff, why not package our food in it?
Well, that's not hard to do, is it? It's just a shift-right-and-rotate, isn't it?
How? AIM is free.
I shop at Amazon, I recommend Amazon to friends and family because they are certainly best of breed.
Congrats, Mr Bezos. BTW, how long does it take to get from your office to the loading dock on your new Segway?
Information is at College Board. I just finished my BS in CS -- took twenty years to do so with time off for good behaviour. Had I not clep'd out of 21 credits, I'd still be going.
The only reason I finished the degree is to get the *next* job -- many HR departments use keyword filtering on their resume databases and I want to make sure I don't get lost because I didn't have a degree.
That argument is moot if you are good, and have a good headhunter and the economy allows companies to afford their services.
PL/M for the 8085 and 80x86 is still being used by Thermo Jarrell Ash in some of their legacy analytical instruments as the language the firmware was written in. What a beast that was...no floating point, no pointers... ugh.
We used ICON to whip up a driver program for the CNC milling machine that the on-site machine shop had in order to aid conversion from their paper tape (!) library.
that suck?
We did create a hardcore driver. It was product of political machinations and perturbations. UltraUpper Management (tm) created a second driver team to compete against my team (bitter? Me? nah!) that had none of the constraints we labored under. Our driver supported 3 chip models, and several revisions of each. Theirs supported only 1 chip and only one spin of the silicon as well. We wrote the drivers that drew the first triangles of freshly-spun hardware while they took all of our knowledge and didn't share their improvements. We had to steal them out of PVCS.
What I did there was to get the busmastering support (with full scatter/gather) for the rage pro into a shippable state. To do so, I forked the driver so that the new sexy rage pro had its own binary. Then, management pitted my driver against the 'performance' driver in terms of WinBench scores. The performance driver couldn't even draw lines, for pete's sake (who's pete?)! Every week brought a threat that their driver would become the 'shipping' driver in place of mine. Every week we would advance our performance to get within 5% of the performance driver, even with all of our constraints.
I don't know if they ever did ship that driver. I don't think so -- that team moved on (with bonuses), while we kept on working.
Oh, one more thing. All those drivers on their web site are not usually certified. You get those from the Windows install CD's. I've seen one driver (Rage128?) that had a control panel that let the user choose quality vs. speed. Come to think of it, my new Radeon has that as well.
As a former slav^H^H^H^H employee of ATI (Rage Pro D3D drivers) I can add a little bit here. When I worked there, we used games (many titles to boot!)and WinBench as test platforms. Many times we would find a way to speed up routines used in these games only to find they broke some stupid little D3D app that had to be 'perfect' or Microsoft would not pass the driver through WHQL (so the driver could not be 'certified' and not on the Windows CDs -- and it was very important to be there.) These apps -- Rock'em Robots, Twist, etc -- came with the DirectX SDKs and had to run and run well. We'd try to massage the optimization so that we'd sacrifice some of the speed gain in favor of the test apps. Sometimes that wasn't possible. Back then, we discussed checking for application names but never implemented the checks because the PR would be too bad.
IMHO, what probably happened is a developer actually implemented a speedup / namecheck and forgot to disable it before checking it in. Or management has gone insane. You decide.
Yeah, you've got it...except that it is spelled 'loses' not 'looses'.
Geez.
Ah, but tis true. Welcome to a new way of looking at the world.
Now that we have that defined that equivalence, are there any IM patents that need busting?
Another victim of the CancelMoose(tm).
*sigh*
You've got it backwards. MS VC has it wrong too. the declaration of i in your example is scoped with the body of the for loop. 'i' does not exist after the closing brace of the for-loop.
This is per the ANSI/ISO C++ standard.
Hell, we don't want to eat the stuff, why grow it?