chased into extinction by the DMCA & RIAA.... With all this crap going on, it makes me want to get a feed for Internet2 and basically punt/start all over again.
But how long will it be before the profit-mongers chase down Internet2??
I'm not against a company making a buck, but these are VERY RICH COMPANIES that ARE NOT HURTING FOR PROFITS, but the greedy bastards think they see additional profits (which to a large extent do NOT EXIST) by chasing companies like this down...
no ideas what's up szomb.. I wanted to write a 3d-enabled device driver for the i81X chipset.. so i started in, got it kinda working, then found the bsd-hackers forum, asked if there were any similar efforts going on, and got a rash of very rude answers..
My persuit for collaboration turned into flamefest, so i discontinued my active participation...
I'm having fun with my little driver, but it's not getting checked into any publicly available builds, as I don't wish to fight to get it there.
ugh, i'm not trying to INSTALL IT.. installation was cake, as you pointed out... I WAS OFFERING TO HELP CODE, trying to figure out where to plug in at..
There's no doubt that both palm and Motherboard Manufacturers should do better when designing for ESD resistance.
Sure, they could ESD harden the motherboards, but are you willing to pay for the increase in cost?
Basically Mr. Sue-Happy is gonna raise the price of your computer components. I'd rather have cheaper components than pay for someone elses uneducated electronics bumblings.
so, the product has been GPL'd and open-sourced for a while now, and it's a collection of contributed elements from a presumably wide array of developers.. Now the company says "well, we need money, so we're going to take the codebase and sell it for profit." Is that fair to all the open-source developers out there that basically worked for free?
The current project team of sourceforge is listed as:
Ariel Garza, Tim Perdue, Dominick Bellizzi,Chad Schwartz, Dan Bressler, James Byers, Jim Gleason, John Mark Walker, Marc, Trae McCombs, Jacob Moorman, Ze Arruda, Patrick McGovern, Paul Sokolovsky, Uriah Welcome, Darrell Brogdon
are all these people employed by VA? Are they going to be compensated for their efforts once VA starts making cashola off this?
wow, where have you been the past couple of years.. Ever hear of n-tiered development? Or actual projects for actual companies that happen to store data in completely disparate databases? How you do manage a transaction that includes RDB, MS SQL Server, and the provisioning hardware? Oracle's little transaction manager won't do it. So you stack a layer on top of that and do your transactions there. Prep the transaction first, then commit it to the database(s). MySQL and Oracle at that point do EXACTLY the same thing, only MySQL happens to do it a bit quicker.
n-tiered architecture is used for exactly this purpose, to provide a layer of abstraction for both the data providers AND for the application.
My application shouldn't care what dataproviders it's talking to, it just knows that it has an order for whatever.
My database shouldn't care what transactions are happening, because my database is there to store & retrieve DATA.
so we utilize a middleware that has the logic for managing those transactions. Works great, allows me to use whatever database the data is stored it, allows me to provide whatever App interface the users want to use, and allows me to write the transactional piece in a very modular, easy to interface with manner.
Re-inventing the wheel? perhaps, but *shrug* it works great....
In 1997, the company contemplated voice recognition technology and reassignment as alternatives but ultimately concluded they were not viable. Thornton received a letter terminating her.
I do hope they ment terminating her employment, otherwise there's an entirely different matter at hand... can you say LOGAN'S RUN!?
DX8 was nice and feature rich to be certain, but that still didn't stop companies like NVidia from putting extensions into OpenGL to accomplish the same things..
both contain very similar stuff you'll find i think, and I've always found OpenGL to be a better interface anyway. DX8 is night and day better than DX7 or before, but still carries a bit of the bloat around the middle that DirectX is famous for...
for those that don't have a NYTimes acct..
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The most interesting thing about counter-culture is that it seems to feed on the strength of the dominate culture.. I hate to sound all yin and yang, but the stronger the dominate culture, the stronger the counter-culture.
Take a look at Salt Lake City.. Strong religious culture there, right? with a party/rave scene underneath that you wouldn't believe. The stronger MSNBW/AOL/Warner get, the more prolific the seanbabies of the net are going to be..
Actually, I've noticed a growing trend in the crowd of programmers I run with is not to care about the implementation platform.. SQL is SQL, and you don't do transactional based stuff on the platform anymore, you abstract away from that into your middleware, and do things the way you want to. In REAL LIFE programming, you often don't have the chance or opportunity to spec out what your back-end platforms are, you have to deal with what's given, or what's legacy at Company XYZ Inc. You also are often dictated a programming langauge for the project whether it be java, c, cobol, perl, python or whatever.
The real value lies in being able to adjust to whatever the PROJECT calls for, and being able to implement on just about any platform you need with strong good design patterns. MySQL and Oracle both do exactly the same thing from my point of view, hold data in a relational format for storage and quick retrieval. Putting too much logic into the database only serves to slow things down in the long run.
Nasa Switches from Oracle to MySQL shows us why Oracle putting all those bells and whistles in their product may lead to a weakening of their marketshare ultimately. The fact is, bells and whistles cost memory and processor, and there's a balance between the two that Oracle seems to be blithly ignoring.
Cray's engineers seem always willing to consider every possibility, whether it be clusters, p2p, parallel, etc..
showing us that they're considering things well outside of what they're currently offering is also showing us why they're still in the game and even ahead in serious computing power after so many years.. IBM, Sun, etc.. have had their rise and falls, but Cray is always mentioned with reverance...
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I think you are referring to the "z" classes? the layer ontop of which win32 resides? It's been a few years, but that was the rumor anyway..
chased into extinction by the DMCA & RIAA.... With all this crap going on, it makes me want to get a feed for Internet2 and basically punt/start all over again.
But how long will it be before the profit-mongers chase down Internet2??
I'm not against a company making a buck, but these are VERY RICH COMPANIES that ARE NOT HURTING FOR PROFITS, but the greedy bastards think they see additional profits (which to a large extent do NOT EXIST) by chasing companies like this down...
stupid greed, is all this boils down to..
I hope this guy isn't planning on supporting the wife and kids with this thing.
I can't even fathom trying to go up against a company that has a 15-20 year headstart and literaly billions of dollars worth of resources.
sure, it sounds like a neat project, but doesn't sound like a good business strategy imho
any of the Sim-lines (SimCity, SimRollercoaster, SimGolf, etc..)
hell, strap a fire extinguisher on there and go nuts!
(ok, so not really, but you get my drift)
would be better as PornJaq, dontcha know..
no ideas what's up szomb.. I wanted to write a 3d-enabled device driver for the i81X chipset.. so i started in, got it kinda working, then found the bsd-hackers forum, asked if there were any similar efforts going on, and got a rash of very rude answers..
My persuit for collaboration turned into flamefest, so i discontinued my active participation...
I'm having fun with my little driver, but it's not getting checked into any publicly available builds, as I don't wish to fight to get it there.
13-Mar-2000 FreeBSD 4.0 has been released
hmm... so a little over a year and a half for another major labeled release..
wow, most corporate software would be GREEN with envy. No pressure guys, you're still outperforming Microsoft and the rest of them.
having coded device drivers as part of my job, and being a C and C++ programmer for about 10 years now, I think I'm good to go..
The questions i had were more of the lines of "What needs to be done", not "How do i do this"
ugh, i'm not trying to INSTALL IT.. installation was cake, as you pointed out... I WAS OFFERING TO HELP CODE, trying to figure out where to plug in at..
The response i got was basically "whatever"
*cough*TIM*cough*
anyway, at least the bsd-hackers forum can be quite hostile, and i've seen it keep more than a couple people away..
There's no doubt that both palm and Motherboard Manufacturers should do better when designing for ESD resistance.
Sure, they could ESD harden the motherboards, but are you willing to pay for the increase in cost?
Basically Mr. Sue-Happy is gonna raise the price of your computer components. I'd rather have cheaper components than pay for someone elses uneducated electronics bumblings.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:G2Rd3nolquw:
check out the posts that defend sourceforge's new direction.... mod:5, now check out the posts that question it.. yeah, that's what i thought..
The current project team of sourceforge is listed as:
Ariel Garza, Tim Perdue, Dominick Bellizzi,Chad Schwartz, Dan Bressler, James Byers, Jim Gleason, John Mark Walker, Marc, Trae McCombs, Jacob Moorman, Ze Arruda, Patrick McGovern, Paul Sokolovsky, Uriah Welcome, Darrell Brogdon
are all these people employed by VA? Are they going to be compensated for their efforts once VA starts making cashola off this?
just curious..
to give us a working non-reg link? me no how to typie..
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http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/22/obituaries/
That it's going to take this EXACTLY the same amount of time as it will for HAL to develop into maturity?????
Mr. Clarke was 10 years off perhaps? HMMMMMM
until it can understand l33+ h4XX0r speak?
n-tiered architecture is used for exactly this purpose, to provide a layer of abstraction for both the data providers AND for the application.
My application shouldn't care what dataproviders it's talking to, it just knows that it has an order for whatever.
My database shouldn't care what transactions are happening, because my database is there to store & retrieve DATA.
so we utilize a middleware that has the logic for managing those transactions. Works great, allows me to use whatever database the data is stored it, allows me to provide whatever App interface the users want to use, and allows me to write the transactional piece in a very modular, easy to interface with manner.
Re-inventing the wheel? perhaps, but *shrug* it works great....
I do hope they ment terminating her employment, otherwise there's an entirely different matter at hand... can you say LOGAN'S RUN!?
NVidia OpenGL bad-ass extenstions
NVidia DX8 SDK
both contain very similar stuff you'll find i think, and I've always found OpenGL to be a better interface anyway. DX8 is night and day better than DX7 or before, but still carries a bit of the bloat around the middle that DirectX is famous for...
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/15/science/15PH YS.html
The most interesting thing about counter-culture is that it seems to feed on the strength of the dominate culture.. I hate to sound all yin and yang, but the stronger the dominate culture, the stronger the counter-culture.
Take a look at Salt Lake City.. Strong religious culture there, right? with a party/rave scene underneath that you wouldn't believe. The stronger MSNBW/AOL/Warner get, the more prolific the seanbabies of the net are going to be..
Actually, I've noticed a growing trend in the crowd of programmers I run with is not to care about the implementation platform.. SQL is SQL, and you don't do transactional based stuff on the platform anymore, you abstract away from that into your middleware, and do things the way you want to. In REAL LIFE programming, you often don't have the chance or opportunity to spec out what your back-end platforms are, you have to deal with what's given, or what's legacy at Company XYZ Inc. You also are often dictated a programming langauge for the project whether it be java, c, cobol, perl, python or whatever. The real value lies in being able to adjust to whatever the PROJECT calls for, and being able to implement on just about any platform you need with strong good design patterns. MySQL and Oracle both do exactly the same thing from my point of view, hold data in a relational format for storage and quick retrieval. Putting too much logic into the database only serves to slow things down in the long run. Nasa Switches from Oracle to MySQL shows us why Oracle putting all those bells and whistles in their product may lead to a weakening of their marketshare ultimately. The fact is, bells and whistles cost memory and processor, and there's a balance between the two that Oracle seems to be blithly ignoring.
Cray's engineers seem always willing to consider every possibility, whether it be clusters, p2p, parallel, etc.. showing us that they're considering things well outside of what they're currently offering is also showing us why they're still in the game and even ahead in serious computing power after so many years.. IBM, Sun, etc.. have had their rise and falls, but Cray is always mentioned with reverance...