...when push comes to shove I can get my hands dirty and dig into the source myself to solve the problem.
There are some people who doubt that source code is ever searched through by people who want to find problems but aren't working on the project that produced the code. Believe it or not, this actually happens. As an example, I had a problem with the GNU MP library that I couldn't figure out. I looked through the source, and found what was going wrong. It involved division by zero, and it was my fault.
This is just an example. It does help illustrate, however, that having source code is useful to actual users, although perhaps not your normal "where's the any key?" user.
You raise an excellent point: you can use FTP or something similar. Which brings me to my primary beef with P2P: I have fast internet access, yet when I download from a P2P network, it seems like I'm downloading from a slow modem! A better way, in my opinion, would be to have some servers with good bandwidth host MP3s and such with plain old FTP. That way we can use nice programs to accelerate downloads, we can resume downloads, and things wouldn't be too slow.
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You get some video editing software, download the unedited footage (equivalent of source code) and make your own version.
I don't see the problem, except perhaps on mailing lists. It would take more processing power to send email, so ISPs might have to upgrade some hardware, but in general I think it could work if it were adopted by enough people. And it would prevent mass spamming of gigantic amounts of people. You have a problem with this?
So let me repeat: Blender has a wonderful interface once you get the hang of it. Smooth enough for my needs, anyway, and I actually get work done in it. I don't like the renderer, though - I hope the work will start to implement more export formats and/or interfacing with other renderers (Renderman support would be pretty neat).
There are several Python scripts floating around on the web that will export a blender scene to several formats for other renderers, like Renderman (tested with BMRT), POV-Ray, and others. Hopefully now that the source is opened, people will start making the interface smoother, like a menu where you can choose the renderer. It shoudn't be too hard. And the interface is nice.
According to most of the interviews, Doom 3 is going to be slower paced, not a real fragfest. It will focus fore on being scary, having a monster eating a corpse look at you, than the monster and the corpse both try to kill you, less guns and ammo, fewer monsters. This will push your hardware, though.
If you want to do more than just make people laugh at your pathetic attempt at a troll, you ought to try linking things that are not completely different. You might try one of the "What will this game do to our children???" posts, rather than just acting like you have the IQ of a dimwitted beet.
You could interpret the question of figuring out what number between 1 and 10 in an array is missing in more than one way. You could go with the simple and obvious plan--just go through the array linearly--or you could use a binary search type thing. Whichever the prospective employee answers, you then ask for a justification of the answer. You could justify the simpler approach by saying that the speed gains from using the latter approach are negligible on such a small array, or you could justify the latter approach by saying that it leaves room for expansion.
I like the idea of questions like that--they're hard to study for, and they let the interviewer get an idea of what sort of programmer they're interviewing.
You, my dear trolling AC, are a perfect example of my point. You seem to think that homestarrunner.com is a good use of Flash that would get people to abandon their "prejudice" and like annoying overflashy and slow interfaces. The sort of GUIs Flash tends to be used in are what anyone who prefers content to packaging would call "a problem", or "IEEEEE! Back button! BACK BUTTON!". Get a clue: Flash and Shockwave are good for a few applications, but they are being used in a lot of places where ordinary HTML would and beat them with flying colors. Does anyone really want to wait ~15 seconds (over 128 Kbps connection, YMMV) for an annoying content-free introduction to load?
Flash, Shockwave, and COBOL. They all have a few uses, and they all are liked best by crazy people.
If you want to look at fat flash-infested pages, you probably still don't need a Pentium 4. And if you want fast rendering with a slow chip, try turning pictures off or using lynx.
Besides, if you really want to look at bloated Flashy web sites on a regular basis, you probably need to get your head checked.
I'm not sure, but in the US (I don't know about other countries' laws) there are truth-in-advertising laws. Basically, advertisements can't lie, they can only mislead. These people are probably just trying to get some justice for AMD.
The problem with this is that sometimes you encounter websites that are "IE only", and if they don't detect IE won't let you see their page, even if it would display perfectly on your browser. So some browsers (maybe Mozilla, definitely Opera) have an option to identify themselves as IE, which makes browsing smoother, but skews statistics.
Essentially, you are held back to the limits of Crush unless you decide to reverse-engineer BRiX which is illegal under the DMCA act.
I don't think it's illegal to just go in the source (under Artistic Licence) and do all the reverse-engineering you want. Perhaps you are getting this confused with proprietary software.
My internet connection isn't near that, but it's still pretty cool. There is an internal speed (to all computers on our ISP's network) of 2-11 Mbps, and a 128 Kbps connection to everything else. It is on one end of a balance: price vs. speed. I can't do stuff that internet2 can, nor could I even if I had a connection of twice your speed. But I do get it cheap: $25 per month, you only pay extra if you exceed 4 GB in a month. And you can get a low-end computer for $150.
It is a trade-off. Although I sit at one end, I can still look happily to the other, and know that in a few years I'll be going to a college with internet2.
You horribly misinterpreted my post. I do wish that the people running china would get off their oppressive asses and put lots of civil rights and stuff into their government. All that I said was that if a government is going to moniter the internet activities of their people I wish they would be honest about it, rather than using a bunch of annoying political double-speak.
I think that the more civil rights a country has, the more likely they will be secretive about invading people's privacy. Please note, for those of you who may be tempted to misinterpret this and flame me, that this does not imply an endorsement of restrictive government at all!
You make yourself look like a moron when you say that I make myself look like a moron for saying something I didn't even say.
The chinese approach to monitoring their citizens' internet traffic is refreshing compared to the USA: publicly say that they are watching their citizens and not pretend that they aren't doing anything, as opposed to the USA, where the approach is to secretly (or at least semi-secretly) do the same thing, and then bill themselves as defenders of freedom.
I would prefer neither policy, but at least China isn't hipocritical about it.
You're right. We are terribly short on evidence. I think that we should try to find out all we can about the universe, and then perhaps we will be better informed.
But a personal God, the sort in religions like Christianity, is pretty imporbable sounding to me. And if there is some sort of God/Gods out there somewhere that doesn't/don't really care about what we believe here on earth, the whole matter is irrelevant in the absence of further information, except as a philosophical topic.
I'm not religious but I do think that there is life elsewhere in the universe. The way I justify this is by this line of reasoning:
There are other planets around other stars in our galaxy. A small fraction will probably have some kind of life, although perhaps not intelligent. There are gigantic numbers of galaxies in the universe. The odds are with life on multiple planets. I could be wrong: there could be a God/Gods and no life anywhere except earth, but I think the odds are against it.
This all depends on what you think that the purpose of life is. If you are one of the strange people who think that life is about gathering as much money as possible then time is money, work hard, la la la. If you think (I'm in this category) that you should strive to be happy, make others happy (or at least don't make them unhappy unless they deserve it), and try to make the world even slightly better, then writing software and giving it away is well worth the time you put into it. You enjoy your hobby, get cool software, and other people get software too! You also get software from people with a similar philosophy. And yes, some free stuff is as good as or better than any commercial counterpart. Some examples that are hard to dispute are Hello World and ls. Some debatable ones are Python (a great language, much better than Visual Basic IMO) and Apache (which runs on almost all of the web servers with top uptime, according to netcraft.
An example he gave for this was that blurred photographs, jerky videotapes, and people claiming to have been abducted wasn't good enough evidence for aliens visiting the earth, But it would be a whole different matter if you had an actual alien or a cool alien device.
Perhaps we could use a program called "Burn all MP3s" that would go through your computer and change all the MP3 files into OGG files. Just to be on the safe side. And then perhaps mangle the names and gzip them, if you're truly paranoid.
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There are some people who doubt that source code is ever searched through by people who want to find problems but aren't working on the project that produced the code. Believe it or not, this actually happens. As an example, I had a problem with the GNU MP library that I couldn't figure out. I looked through the source, and found what was going wrong. It involved division by zero, and it was my fault.
This is just an example. It does help illustrate, however, that having source code is useful to actual users, although perhaps not your normal "where's the any key?" user.
You raise an excellent point: you can use FTP or something similar. Which brings me to my primary beef with P2P: I have fast internet access, yet when I download from a P2P network, it seems like I'm downloading from a slow modem! A better way, in my opinion, would be to have some servers with good bandwidth host MP3s and such with plain old FTP. That way we can use nice programs to accelerate downloads, we can resume downloads, and things wouldn't be too slow.
You get some video editing software, download the unedited footage (equivalent of source code) and make your own version.
I don't see the problem, except perhaps on mailing lists. It would take more processing power to send email, so ISPs might have to upgrade some hardware, but in general I think it could work if it were adopted by enough people. And it would prevent mass spamming of gigantic amounts of people. You have a problem with this?
There are several Python scripts floating around on the web that will export a blender scene to several formats for other renderers, like Renderman (tested with BMRT), POV-Ray, and others. Hopefully now that the source is opened, people will start making the interface smoother, like a menu where you can choose the renderer. It shoudn't be too hard. And the interface is nice.
Of course, ther's more than one way to do it.
According to most of the interviews, Doom 3 is going to be slower paced, not a real fragfest. It will focus fore on being scary, having a monster eating a corpse look at you, than the monster and the corpse both try to kill you, less guns and ammo, fewer monsters. This will push your hardware, though.
If you want to do more than just make people laugh at your pathetic attempt at a troll, you ought to try linking things that are not completely different. You might try one of the "What will this game do to our children???" posts, rather than just acting like you have the IQ of a dimwitted beet.
I like the idea of questions like that--they're hard to study for, and they let the interviewer get an idea of what sort of programmer they're interviewing.
Flash, Shockwave, and COBOL. They all have a few uses, and they all are liked best by crazy people.
The difference in statistics for major browsers like IE would certainly be miniscule, but the effect on the Opera statistics could be noticeable.
Besides, if you really want to look at bloated Flashy web sites on a regular basis, you probably need to get your head checked.
I'm not sure, but in the US (I don't know about other countries' laws) there are truth-in-advertising laws. Basically, advertisements can't lie, they can only mislead. These people are probably just trying to get some justice for AMD.
The problem with this is that sometimes you encounter websites that are "IE only", and if they don't detect IE won't let you see their page, even if it would display perfectly on your browser. So some browsers (maybe Mozilla, definitely Opera) have an option to identify themselves as IE, which makes browsing smoother, but skews statistics.
I don't think it's illegal to just go in the source (under Artistic Licence) and do all the reverse-engineering you want. Perhaps you are getting this confused with proprietary software.
It is a trade-off. Although I sit at one end, I can still look happily to the other, and know that in a few years I'll be going to a college with internet2.
I think that the more civil rights a country has, the more likely they will be secretive about invading people's privacy. Please note, for those of you who may be tempted to misinterpret this and flame me, that this does not imply an endorsement of restrictive government at all!
You make yourself look like a moron when you say that I make myself look like a moron for saying something I didn't even say.
I would prefer neither policy, but at least China isn't hipocritical about it.
But a personal God, the sort in religions like Christianity, is pretty imporbable sounding to me. And if there is some sort of God/Gods out there somewhere that doesn't/don't really care about what we believe here on earth, the whole matter is irrelevant in the absence of further information, except as a philosophical topic.
There are other planets around other stars in our galaxy. A small fraction will probably have some kind of life, although perhaps not intelligent. There are gigantic numbers of galaxies in the universe. The odds are with life on multiple planets. I could be wrong: there could be a God/Gods and no life anywhere except earth, but I think the odds are against it.
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This all depends on what you think that the purpose of life is. If you are one of the strange people who think that life is about gathering as much money as possible then time is money, work hard, la la la. If you think (I'm in this category) that you should strive to be happy, make others happy (or at least don't make them unhappy unless they deserve it), and try to make the world even slightly better, then writing software and giving it away is well worth the time you put into it. You enjoy your hobby, get cool software, and other people get software too! You also get software from people with a similar philosophy. And yes, some free stuff is as good as or better than any commercial counterpart. Some examples that are hard to dispute are Hello World and ls. Some debatable ones are Python (a great language, much better than Visual Basic IMO) and Apache (which runs on almost all of the web servers with top uptime, according to netcraft.
An example he gave for this was that blurred photographs, jerky videotapes, and people claiming to have been abducted wasn't good enough evidence for aliens visiting the earth, But it would be a whole different matter if you had an actual alien or a cool alien device.
Perhaps we could use a program called "Burn all MP3s" that would go through your computer and change all the MP3 files into OGG files. Just to be on the safe side. And then perhaps mangle the names and gzip them, if you're truly paranoid.
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