I run a online game, and had a domain registered for it, until a company claimed I was infringing on their trademark and wanted the domain.
Well fighting them I thought would be too expensive so let them have it for their nickel. (They paid to transfer it). They are now out of business and a couple of squatters picked it up.
They want $2500 for the domain name. Excuse me?
You rolled over at the slightest provocation, and then you want pity for this? Get a pair, buddy -
Sounds like either you felt you didn't have a case, or you're an absolute puss. If you can't afford an attorney and don't want the free one that'll be appointed for you, you take it on personally.
The best computer cases in the worlds IMO are available at www.coolermaster.com. They're so pretty. They have extra fans, alluminum body, and USB in the front, which is great for my gravis gamepad pro USBs. They're also extremely roomy and easy to work with. The trouble is finding a place that sells them, because the company doesn't sell them direct, and they have distributors in Japan and Europe, but not the US.
They aren't all too expensive either. I personally reccomend the ATC-201 for anyone who needs a full tower and worries about heat. The fan in the top of the cast helps SO much.
You can find it at Directron. I love these guys - they're usually the first or only to sell some of the more esoteric stuff.
They had removable aluminum U66/U100 IDE drive trays, USB 2.0 external drive cases, etc well before anyone. The prices have consistently been near the best on pricewatch, and delivery's been quick - can't say enough good about 'em.
And no, I don't work there or even know the guys running it.
Some of our most valuable guys are borderline insane. These are the guys you put on the graphics engine behind a well-defined interface, and with a video game, these are the guys you turn loose on optimization toward the end of the project.
I don't think our most valuable guy could design a way out of a paper bag, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to touch code after he's been through it. But in a few hours, he can singlehandedly double or triple the performance of code that most people are afraid to touch.
It's okay, in my book, if people want to pursue weird interests during office hours, or if they want to keep really weird hours, so long as a steady amount of work is getting done. A lot of the best programmers I know work this way to some extent, and it keeps them fresh and interested.
That said, the guy in the article wasn't a quirky genius. He was a circus side-show. If I have to keep pushing someone to work, they don't stay on my team, because having to spend hours each day supervising them eats into my productivity. If their code doesn't work and they can't fix it straight off, that's also useless to me. And I don't think I should ever have to remind someone to get into work - if they disappear for a few days and they haven't been in a coma, sent a postcard from wherever they eloped to, or come back with some really fucking amazing code to show for the time, I don't think there'd be a position to come back to.
How far would Microsoft have gotten if they "broke binary compatibility" with major releases of Windows? Basically, not far at all.
How far would MS have gotten? Probably up to about 20 megs for a basic install instead of 100. Maybe 64 megs of RAM total instead of 128 recommended for Outlook alone?
You take on bloat when you keep providing older interfaces and older subsystems.
Most of the SpeedStream models can be configured with a telnet-based interface. While I can't speak to the 5250 specifically, my model included information on how to configure it via telnet in the back of the manual that shipped with it.
Basically: set your ethernet interface to 10.0.0.2, telnet to 10.0.0.1 and hit ? for a list of available commands.
Word of warning - do NOT turn on the 'bridgefilter' option if it is present. This command (and possibly others) can render your DSL modem unusable, and there won't be a thing you can do to fix it.
Other CPUs are also very sensitive. What's rather surprising is how well Intel's P4 thermal shutdown works. I suspect AMD will get around to doing something similar.
The new Athlons (XP and MP) have thermal sensors on board according to AMD's site. I still can't find any information indicating whether/how they actually use these though.
You CAN put both sets of IP addresses through the same network hardware, but unfortunately, Windows 95, and 98 don't do multiple IPs on a single NIC. Our servers are smarter than that.
You have no freakin' idea what are you talking about.
I'll counter that you're responding without thinking, or that you're incredibly naive if you think programming standards are the standards that govern business decisions. We're speaking Oracle as a standard in the traditional sense of the word.
Databases are not MS Office. Oracle is at the same level with all other application developers since all the API are completely open. They have to be, otherwise the database would not sell. *sigh* As if you wouldn't know that 90% of all database appliacations deployed are custom made by in-house development teams. Try to deny API for your database and you are dead in the business.
The company that implements the database "for free" will be the company people go to for related products. No matter how open and free the standard is, with source out there and all the trappings that go with it, Oracle would be "the authority."
BTW - on your other points - even if the implementation standards weren't completely open, it's not a choice of whether the database "sells" if it's already in use by the US government and everyone else is trying to use it. And even if 90% of database apps are developed in-house, the relevant tools aren't, and even putting that aside, being first in line for 10% of the database apps would be a pretty sweet spot to be in.
Oracle and Sun are trying to cash in on the spilled blood just like every other big business. There's nobody making an offer out of the kindness of their hearts in this case.
Oracle does not plan to take away any of your liberties or profit on a national tragedy.
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The other point I've heard was that (as I've heard) Oracle planed to donate database software for the purpose of creating the global ID.
Oh, sure - absolutely no profit in being the de-facto standard for applications interfacing to the national every-last-person database...
The display crams an array of 640 by 480 pixels into a watch face just 0.65 inches tall by 0.87 inches wide, said Chandra Narayanaswami, manager of the IBM Research Division's wearable computing program. The pixels are so small that sprinkling them judiciously gives the illusion of the ability to show a range of shades of gray, he said.
Good lord - GIVE ME THAT DISPLAY! 640 pixels in less than an inch? It's a 736-DPI organic LED!
Can you imagine a 24" display at that dot resolution? That'd be roughly 14,000 by 10,000 (using a 3:4 aspect) - or, roughly enough to see the famous 9k by 9k WTC satellite photo and still have plenty of space to code and surf.
Clients should be capable of telling their capability level, and servers should be able to use this to determine the data format they receive. If your clients can't return a capability level, new clients should have the feature added, and the lack of the feature should be considered capability level 0. Capability level 1 would be unicode display.
For older clients, simply send a question mark or similar for any character not in the ASCII character set; this is extremely trivial to add to your back end. New clients get unicode and all the trappings that go with it. Be sure your support people are trained to explain that updating the client provides the new multinational functionality and eliminates the question mark placeholders.
Regarding your question about different languages/encodings - you may need to include the language per record all the way through to the client end. Without knowing more about your output system, it's difficult to say what the display issues are, but it's difficult to believe many display libraries would limit you to a language per session.
Re:He SHOULD care about the competition...
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Here goes - I can afford the karma blowout, and maybe a few people will see this and get it through their thick skulls before I hit -1.
"Linus Torvalds: I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others. And quite frankly, I don't see anythign very interesting on a technical level in either."
To quote the "Art of War":
Oh, fuck you bloody, and that goes twice more for anyone who moderated your post up.
Linus just said he doesn't give a flying fuck about competing with anything, only about making improvements. You quoted that very response and then proceed to go on quoting Sun Tzu and saying Linus should read that.
What the fuck is wrong with you? Can't you even READ WHAT YOU QUOTE?
Linus is not at war. Linus is not competing. Linus is trying to make a kernel that improves upon itself over time, Q., E. and fucking D. End of story, and you and everyone else who's never contributed anything beyond hot air to open source, but who want to reframe everything as a battle against MS, can kiss my wet and bloody goatse.cx.
Essentially, all devices and software that fall into this vague definition of digital interactive technology will have to include encryption so it can't be copied. This could include VCR tapes, compact discs, and the devices that run them, as well as computers and open source software.
The thing that really bugs me is that the bill specifically prescribes Macrovision as the protection.
Doesn't it seem wrong that the government would take a free standard like VHS and mandate that a licensed solution needs to be used with it?
According to this bill the TELNET protocol would be ILLIGAL to use, same with SMTP, any protocol which used plain text transfers would be ILLIGAL:...
Not even remotely true. First off, try the very second paragraph:
Subsection (a) does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device, if such device was legally manufactured or imported, and sold, prior to the effective date of regulations adopted under section 104 and not subsequently modified in violation of (a) or 103(a).
Protocols are not devices; it's okay to outlaw telnet and smtp on new hardware?
I don't like the idea of being tracked, so I use different names on all my cards, and I change cards periodically. These cards are always first to go if I need to get through a door, prop up a bit of furniture or scrape some dried goo off one thing or another.
As long as you're not signing up for use as a check card, they don't need an ID or social security number. You can get as many as you like. Needless to say - you should always pay cash with these, or it defeats the whole point.
At Jewel, I was "Jesus DeNazareth" for a while. At Dominicks, I'm "Anon Imus" and at Whole Foods, I'm something which I really can't print here, and I'm shocked as hell that I got away with it.
p.s. - To hell with those who say you're not holding up your end of the bargain by thwarting tracking. It's a fact that prices have gone up disproportionately in the last decade if you don't use the card. That's like me doubling the price of gas at the pump for anyone who won't let me see them and their wife/girlfriend topless. It's an invasion of privacy, subsidized by you, pure and simple.
Hi, I'm a game developer. I looked at your compiler at Siggraph and GDC.
...when I spoke to your sales rep at GDC and Siggraph, he indicated that C++ wasn't ready, as you said. He also didn't think your symbol information would be compatible with VTune or the other standard Windows profilers and couldn't tell me of any test suites that your compiler had passed, though he named a couple which were "close." I wouldn't use a compiler which doesn't pass basic conformance testing, and I certainly wouldn't take on a new compiler if I don't know that I can profile its output to prove that its working.
When I tried creating some simple code and looking at the disassembly on the sample machine at Siggraph, the compiler choked on some valid code (it seemed confused by the critical 'volatile' keyword), and the assembly generated was extremely naive about cache use and couldn't even hoist redundant operations out of loop operations.
So far as I can see, I'm supposed to dump my compiler for something that lets me use half a dozen instructions I can get with inline assembly or Intel's _free_ compiler, where Windows is concerned.
Shouldn't you finish your tools and make them work on one platform before you go trying to pitch them on others? Have your tools really advanced so far in the last few months that you're ready to split resources?
I haven't seen anything like this for Linux. Plenty of simple profiling tools, but nothing like VTune.
I would strongly suggest that you port the performance-critical portion of your app to Windows. You can give it a null display interface, fake input, etc, just enough to keep the inner loop(s) running while you run VTune over it.
Despite the previous poster's comment about C++ being bad for performance, a well-designed C++ app also makes it easy to set up portable test code as described above. This is one of the many reasons for which C++ is more and more often used for performance-critical work such as video game authoring.
The downside is that the graphic card is a Matrox G200/Quad-MMS. The Matrox card itself is a sexy little beast, meant to drive 4 DVI or SVGA monitors. But it's not so sexy when used this way.
With this monitor, you don't get one big framebuffer, you get four, so you'll need to run Xinerama or similar. If you want to run a game, it'll be in a single head of that card, which (on that monitor) turns into a tall strip about 1/4 the width of the display, and at the speed of a Matrox G200 card.
You wouldn't know shit from clay imbecile, you gave that away when blurt out you haven't even seen a WD drive since 540Mb (what's that, 1995?) days - and now you're passing judgement on the current crop without any experience to back up your assertions???
I won't touch WDs not because of their quality, but because of WD's insisting on keeping me in the dark about even the possibility of any problem. I have a problem with the company, not the hardware, which I won't take a risk on because of the company.
The IBM 7200RPM drives take longer to wake up after being spun down. I seem to recall seeing similar problems under FreeBSD that turned out to be read/write operations timing out.
Is it possible that your BIOS or drive parms were set to power down the drive after some amount of inactivity? Anyone know more?
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You rolled over at the slightest provocation, and then you want pity for this? Get a pair, buddy -
Sounds like either you felt you didn't have a case, or you're an absolute puss. If you can't afford an attorney and don't want the free one that'll be appointed for you, you take it on personally.
You can find it at Directron. I love these guys - they're usually the first or only to sell some of the more esoteric stuff.
They had removable aluminum U66/U100 IDE drive trays, USB 2.0 external drive cases, etc well before anyone. The prices have consistently been near the best on pricewatch, and delivery's been quick - can't say enough good about 'em.
And no, I don't work there or even know the guys running it.
I don't think our most valuable guy could design a way out of a paper bag, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to touch code after he's been through it. But in a few hours, he can singlehandedly double or triple the performance of code that most people are afraid to touch.
It's okay, in my book, if people want to pursue weird interests during office hours, or if they want to keep really weird hours, so long as a steady amount of work is getting done. A lot of the best programmers I know work this way to some extent, and it keeps them fresh and interested.
That said, the guy in the article wasn't a quirky genius. He was a circus side-show. If I have to keep pushing someone to work, they don't stay on my team, because having to spend hours each day supervising them eats into my productivity. If their code doesn't work and they can't fix it straight off, that's also useless to me. And I don't think I should ever have to remind someone to get into work - if they disappear for a few days and they haven't been in a coma, sent a postcard from wherever they eloped to, or come back with some really fucking amazing code to show for the time, I don't think there'd be a position to come back to.
How far would MS have gotten? Probably up to about 20 megs for a basic install instead of 100. Maybe 64 megs of RAM total instead of 128 recommended for Outlook alone?
You take on bloat when you keep providing older interfaces and older subsystems.
Yeesh, guys! You really hate Samba that much? ;)
I'm kidding of course - only pointing out the duplicate slash article, and heads up on Samba - they do excellent work.
Also, might I suggest that more people use this as their link for slash? It's the best way to catch all the stories.
Basically: set your ethernet interface to 10.0.0.2, telnet to 10.0.0.1 and hit ? for a list of available commands.
Word of warning - do NOT turn on the 'bridgefilter' option if it is present. This command (and possibly others) can render your DSL modem unusable, and there won't be a thing you can do to fix it.
The new Athlons (XP and MP) have thermal sensors on board according to AMD's site. I still can't find any information indicating whether/how they actually use these though.
Sure they do:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/k b/articles/Q156/7/72.ASP
Have they the authority to do smack about it?
That said, the RIO is flashable. You could feasibly rewrite the software to support whatever format you please.
Do VMWare, etc even work for 3D? With reasonable performance on a hot system, and with 3D acceleration?
*yawn* ... somebody wake me up when Cringely is dead.
I'll counter that you're responding without thinking, or that you're incredibly naive if you think programming standards are the standards that govern business decisions. We're speaking Oracle as a standard in the traditional sense of the word.
The company that implements the database "for free" will be the company people go to for related products. No matter how open and free the standard is, with source out there and all the trappings that go with it, Oracle would be "the authority."
BTW - on your other points - even if the implementation standards weren't completely open, it's not a choice of whether the database "sells" if it's already in use by the US government and everyone else is trying to use it. And even if 90% of database apps are developed in-house, the relevant tools aren't, and even putting that aside, being first in line for 10% of the database apps would be a pretty sweet spot to be in.
Oracle and Sun are trying to cash in on the spilled blood just like every other big business. There's nobody making an offer out of the kindness of their hearts in this case.
Oh, sure - absolutely no profit in being the de-facto standard for applications interfacing to the national every-last-person database...
Good lord - GIVE ME THAT DISPLAY! 640 pixels in less than an inch? It's a 736-DPI organic LED!
Can you imagine a 24" display at that dot resolution? That'd be roughly 14,000 by 10,000 (using a 3:4 aspect) - or, roughly enough to see the famous 9k by 9k WTC satellite photo and still have plenty of space to code and surf.
For older clients, simply send a question mark or similar for any character not in the ASCII character set; this is extremely trivial to add to your back end. New clients get unicode and all the trappings that go with it. Be sure your support people are trained to explain that updating the client provides the new multinational functionality and eliminates the question mark placeholders.
Regarding your question about different languages/encodings - you may need to include the language per record all the way through to the client end. Without knowing more about your output system, it's difficult to say what the display issues are, but it's difficult to believe many display libraries would limit you to a language per session.
Oh, fuck you bloody, and that goes twice more for anyone who moderated your post up.
Linus just said he doesn't give a flying fuck about competing with anything, only about making improvements. You quoted that very response and then proceed to go on quoting Sun Tzu and saying Linus should read that.
What the fuck is wrong with you? Can't you even READ WHAT YOU QUOTE ?
Linus is not at war. Linus is not competing. Linus is trying to make a kernel that improves upon itself over time, Q., E. and fucking D. End of story, and you and everyone else who's never contributed anything beyond hot air to open source, but who want to reframe everything as a battle against MS, can kiss my wet and bloody goatse.cx.
The thing that really bugs me is that the bill specifically prescribes Macrovision as the protection.
Doesn't it seem wrong that the government would take a free standard like VHS and mandate that a licensed solution needs to be used with it?
Protocols are not devices; it's okay to outlaw telnet and smtp on new hardware?
For some reason Linux doesn't have a command reference there the way other ones do.
As long as you're not signing up for use as a check card, they don't need an ID or social security number. You can get as many as you like. Needless to say - you should always pay cash with these, or it defeats the whole point.
At Jewel, I was "Jesus DeNazareth" for a while. At Dominicks, I'm "Anon Imus" and at Whole Foods, I'm something which I really can't print here, and I'm shocked as hell that I got away with it.
p.s. - To hell with those who say you're not holding up your end of the bargain by thwarting tracking. It's a fact that prices have gone up disproportionately in the last decade if you don't use the card. That's like me doubling the price of gas at the pump for anyone who won't let me see them and their wife/girlfriend topless. It's an invasion of privacy, subsidized by you, pure and simple.
...when I spoke to your sales rep at GDC and Siggraph, he indicated that C++ wasn't ready, as you said. He also didn't think your symbol information would be compatible with VTune or the other standard Windows profilers and couldn't tell me of any test suites that your compiler had passed, though he named a couple which were "close." I wouldn't use a compiler which doesn't pass basic conformance testing, and I certainly wouldn't take on a new compiler if I don't know that I can profile its output to prove that its working.
When I tried creating some simple code and looking at the disassembly on the sample machine at Siggraph, the compiler choked on some valid code (it seemed confused by the critical 'volatile' keyword), and the assembly generated was extremely naive about cache use and couldn't even hoist redundant operations out of loop operations.
So far as I can see, I'm supposed to dump my compiler for something that lets me use half a dozen instructions I can get with inline assembly or Intel's _free_ compiler, where Windows is concerned.
Shouldn't you finish your tools and make them work on one platform before you go trying to pitch them on others? Have your tools really advanced so far in the last few months that you're ready to split resources?
I would strongly suggest that you port the performance-critical portion of your app to Windows. You can give it a null display interface, fake input, etc, just enough to keep the inner loop(s) running while you run VTune over it.
Despite the previous poster's comment about C++ being bad for performance, a well-designed C++ app also makes it easy to set up portable test code as described above. This is one of the many reasons for which C++ is more and more often used for performance-critical work such as video game authoring.
With this monitor, you don't get one big framebuffer, you get four, so you'll need to run Xinerama or similar. If you want to run a game, it'll be in a single head of that card, which (on that monitor) turns into a tall strip about 1/4 the width of the display, and at the speed of a Matrox G200 card.
I won't touch WDs not because of their quality, but because of WD's insisting on keeping me in the dark about even the possibility of any problem. I have a problem with the company, not the hardware, which I won't take a risk on because of the company.
The IBM 7200RPM drives take longer to wake up after being spun down. I seem to recall seeing similar problems under FreeBSD that turned out to be read/write operations timing out.
Is it possible that your BIOS or drive parms were set to power down the drive after some amount of inactivity? Anyone know more?