We're individuals. Generalizing is never good, not when done by gamasutra and not when done by you. Personality goes a very long way in our business, if you can talk and communicate with everyone - guess who gets a shot at being project leader, you or the geek who goes 'must reload slapdahs, dew, dew, mindstorm, 1001101101'? Of.c. if you have no ambition than to be a coder, you're off just fine - but then you shouldn't complain about Johnny Wiseguy cutting in line for promotions.
I reckon the percentage of true power-geeks (even here on your haven/.) is lower than you think. The computer business does not belong to the geeks alone - those days are far gone. Your mind does not determine your looks nor personality, but the other way round - now that can be a different story.
If I begin reading a book that's dull, I close it and put it away. I'd feel bad trying to review a book like that. People here aren't professional reviewers - don't expect them to read boring books (and thus giving 1/10 etc.)
Normalizing wouldn't help, 1/5 would never be given by a person who thought the book was average. All you do is remove the option of a little refinery in your review of a somewhat good book.
I agree. Algorithms should be patentable, but man this would be a sad world to code in if fex. QuickSort, HeapSort and derivatives were patented. Blech.
And what if netscape had patented cookies? Guess what, things are ingenious the first year or so after they've been developed. Then they become mainstream and common knowledge. Thank heavens that Patent Panic® didn't begin in the earliest days of the web.
All this could be done so much easier. Use applets - people do not have to understand anything at all in order to help out on a project like this. No need to install obscure clients and what have we. I think the only good use of applets is for easy distributed computing.
A patent is denied when an invention is obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art...
I'd say server side caching (bravo Yahoo) and session/cookie handling combined with services (voila Amazon) is pretty damn obvious to anyone in the business. How professionally does the patent office handle requests like this? Do they ask non-biased persons on internet tech advice? If someone else (A) has been using a technique that B tries to patent, is it a valid patent? Who tries to get all these ridiculous patents? Surely it isn't developers, they know better. Die marketing - die!:)
The demand for software developers is very high. I'm on salary, but what good is a salary that only takes 37 hours/week into account? I'd prefer a combination. I get nothing whatsoever for the time I spend here 'after salary hours'. I'd like a steady salary for the first 37 hours a week, and then hourly wages for everything after that. I love my job, but getting the same pay for 50 hours as I would for 37 seems off.
My guess is that companies will pop up here and there. Some will own a Quantum Computer and offer free (quantum) encryption (in return for banner ads).
Quantum Computers are not going to be something the general public is going to have access to - more likely, there's going to be some servers here and there, where people can rent time (I guess cycles won't work). Possibly HUGE systems that fex. resembles the Ray/Client stuff from Sun.
I doubt Sun's going to support BSD in this millenium.. Ehm.. Anyway, Sun hasn't even given solid support to Linux, one can argue that it's because it's a 'competing' OS - but BSD is an even more adept competitor (when it comes to networking at least). It must be hard for Sun to want to make a technology like Java popular as well as want to make a 'leading' networking OS.
I say lobby IBM instead, their Java stuff kicks butt.
Sooner or later any successful company will expand. What else would you expect? Is the so-called 'community' about bashing all companies with a market share above 20%?
My impression of 'the community' was that it has been created because a bunch of people all like a certain OS/movement - but all these anti RedHat posts kinda go against that. How can you ever expect Linux to get anywhere if you cannot agree with, and see the logic in, expansion caused by strategic moves made by one of the largest Linux distributers.
It is so much easier to bash, destroy and so forth than it is to be creative.
Have any of you ever heard of an attempt to keep data protected from copying that was successful? I haven't. Never seen a game, app with a software/hardware protection that hasn't been breached. The crackers have always "won" as I see it - perhaps it's just a matter of time before we see CRACK@home when the software business introduces long keys. Sooner or later any encryption technology (save quantum perhaps) will be outdated and basically worthless.
I'm buying a PDA in the near future, and I was wondering where I'll get the biggest bang/buck ratio. I checked out the Visors and really wanted one, but I live in Europe... Is a Palm V worth the money? I'm leaning towards a Palm III, but nothing's certain. Anyone have any good/bad experiences they'd like to share?
I think this is an interesting view, but... Can you please rephrase the 'question' - I don't understand what you mean by...question they asked was is economic freedom itself that has contribute...
I don't think you can measure freedom by economic means. In Singapore you can get arrested for spitting on the street, in the states you're not allowed to smoke in public (even though it contains less CO2, lead and what have we than 'the other smoke' - gee, lobbyism).
It's a fact that 90% of private americans funds belongs to 10% of the people, what kinda distribution is that re. the post I'm replying to.
Funny how the most repressed countries are (ex) enemies of america, isn't it?
I believe they stopped using x86 because Intel were forbidden to patent 586 (as it is a number). I guess patenting became an issue because of the upstart AMD and Cyrix chip corps.
I would have guessed Hexium and Heptium etc. back then, but nope. Anyway - Itanium sucks, so does Sledgehammer. I'd prefer 'Brute' or something else I can relate better to;)
-- "You rarely reach the target first by walking in another mans path"
We used to use the 'blank cards' as special cards. A blank card entitles you to give any other player a 'wooden arm/leg' anytime during the game. I've seen one of my friends jump on another guy because of this game - can't wait to get my slimy hands on the new version.
What's up with the Java bashing?? I'd say one is ignorant if he cannot recognize the benefits of having more than one language. Perhaps some people think they're losing ground to 'this upstart OOP language!' - pfft. Try it, you might even understand and like it.
I use both Perl, C and Java - your choice of language should depend on what you'd like to make. Not on the degree of your stubbornness. The must go as fast as possible all the time servers - well - code them in C, optimize it in your assembler, but why not make the clients in Java? Seems logical enough to me.
Imagine all code being uncommented Perl - now wouldn't that be a riot! A true Tower of Babylon;)
Sure, use C++ and OpenGL for games, use Java when you really find a good use for it (as in servlets). Use what's best given the circumstances. Java is piss easy and has a brilliant API, but that doesn't make it as fast as C.
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Yeah, I always wanted the other two movies to be prequel The Vector and sequel The Tensor.
We're individuals. Generalizing is never good, not when done by gamasutra and not when done by you. Personality goes a very long way in our business, if you can talk and communicate with everyone - guess who gets a shot at being project leader, you or the geek who goes 'must reload slapdahs, dew, dew, mindstorm, 1001101101'? Of.c. if you have no ambition than to be a coder, you're off just fine - but then you shouldn't complain about Johnny Wiseguy cutting in line for promotions.
I reckon the percentage of true power-geeks (even here on your haven /.) is lower than you think. The computer business does not belong to the geeks alone - those days are far gone. Your mind does not determine your looks nor personality, but the other way round - now that can be a different story.
If I begin reading a book that's dull, I close it and put it away. I'd feel bad trying to review a book like that. People here aren't professional reviewers - don't expect them to read boring books (and thus giving 1/10 etc.)
Normalizing wouldn't help, 1/5 would never be given by a person who thought the book was average. All you do is remove the option of a little refinery in your review of a somewhat good book.
I'd say ASUS motherboards have a pretty good reputation.
ASUS for the Athlon
I agree. Algorithms should be patentable, but man this would be a sad world to code in if fex. QuickSort, HeapSort and derivatives were patented. Blech.
And what if netscape had patented cookies?
Guess what, things are ingenious the first year or so after they've been developed. Then they become mainstream and common knowledge. Thank heavens that Patent Panic® didn't begin in the earliest days of the web.
Why do you need 1.2? You can download Swing and most importantly Collections as seperate packages.
All this could be done so much easier. Use applets - people do not have to understand anything at all in order to help out on a project like this. No need to install obscure clients and what have we. I think the only good use of applets is for easy distributed computing.
A patent is denied when an invention is obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art...
I'd say server side caching (bravo Yahoo) and session/cookie handling combined with services (voila Amazon) is pretty damn obvious to anyone in the business. How professionally does the patent office handle requests like this? Do they ask non-biased persons on internet tech advice? If someone else (A) has been using a technique that B tries to patent, is it a valid patent? Who tries to get all these ridiculous patents? Surely it isn't developers, they know better. Die marketing - die! :)
The demand for software developers is very high. I'm on salary, but what good is a salary that only takes 37 hours/week into account? I'd prefer a combination. I get nothing whatsoever for the time I spend here 'after salary hours'. I'd like a steady salary for the first 37 hours a week, and then hourly wages for everything after that. I love my job, but getting the same pay for 50 hours as I would for 37 seems off.
Quantum Computers are not going to be something the general public is going to have access to - more likely, there's going to be some servers here and there, where people can rent time (I guess cycles won't work). Possibly HUGE systems that fex. resembles the Ray/Client stuff from Sun.
I doubt Sun's going to support BSD in this millenium.. Ehm.. Anyway, Sun hasn't even given solid support to Linux, one can argue that it's because it's a 'competing' OS - but BSD is an even more adept competitor (when it comes to networking at least). It must be hard for Sun to want to make a technology like Java popular as well as want to make a 'leading' networking OS.
I say lobby IBM instead, their Java stuff kicks butt.
"Only one thing is certain about the future - it is going to be utterly fantastic"
Quote, Arthur C. Clarke. What a guy!
My impression of 'the community' was that it has been created because a bunch of people all like a certain OS/movement - but all these anti RedHat posts kinda go against that. How can you ever expect Linux to get anywhere if you cannot agree with, and see the logic in, expansion caused by strategic moves made by one of the largest Linux distributers.
It is so much easier to bash, destroy and so forth than it is to be creative.
Success -> growth. We should all be happy.
Kingpin
Thanks
I think this is an interesting view, but... Can you please rephrase the 'question' - I don't understand what you mean by
I don't think you can measure freedom by economic means. In Singapore you can get arrested for spitting on the street, in the states you're not allowed to smoke in public (even though it contains less CO2, lead and what have we than 'the other smoke' - gee, lobbyism).
It's a fact that 90% of private americans funds belongs to 10% of the people, what kinda distribution is that re. the post I'm replying to.
Funny how the most repressed countries are (ex) enemies of america, isn't it?
I would have guessed Hexium and Heptium etc. back then, but nope. Anyway - Itanium sucks, so does Sledgehammer. I'd prefer 'Brute' or something else I can relate better to ;)
--
"You rarely reach the target first by walking in another mans path"
We used to use the 'blank cards' as special cards. A blank card entitles you to give any other player a 'wooden arm/leg' anytime during the game. I've seen one of my friends jump on another guy because of this game - can't wait to get my slimy hands on the new version.
Uh.. Kill me, I'm a heathen.
What's up with the Java bashing?? I'd say one is ignorant if he cannot recognize the benefits of having more than one language. Perhaps some people think they're losing ground to 'this upstart OOP language!' - pfft. Try it, you might even understand and like it.
I use both Perl, C and Java - your choice of language should depend on what you'd like to make. Not on the degree of your stubbornness. The must go as fast as possible all the time servers - well - code them in C, optimize it in your assembler, but why not make the clients in Java? Seems logical enough to me.
Imagine all code being uncommented Perl - now wouldn't that be a riot! A true Tower of Babylon ;)
Kingpin
Don't know about your naming policy, the
;)
mathmatically inclined would probably vouch
for
The Vector
The Matrix
The Tensor
...
Sure, use C++ and OpenGL for games, use
Java when you really find a good use for it
(as in servlets). Use what's best given
the circumstances. Java is piss easy and
has a brilliant API, but that doesn't make it
as fast as C.
The company I work for is 100% Java oriented,
and we do quite well out there in the real
world.