With all the various attempts at "standardizing" codebases, project often add 50-75% more overhead than if they'd just coded the damn thing without trying to create a "generic, extensible layer". Biggest headache is when some software architect gets involved on a project who has ZERO actual application delivery experience and insists on spending 6 months making everything modular and pluggable.. 6 months later we've got a basecode that no one will ever use again, and is a pain in the ass to work with for our OWN purposes..
leave well enough alone, use the APIs set for by the system, the hardware manufacturer, or whomever and just get the freaking job done..
now can you imagine a beowulf...
but... what are the reverse engineering possibilities here?? I'm thinking i get Linux on my PS2, it's not too long before PS2 games are available for Linux..
How big of a market and boon for Linux would THAT be?
forgive me if I'm not too concerned about Zulu tribe outcoding me for the next 20 years. I've been doing this since i was a kid, and don't anticipate too many difficulties keeping ahead of Africa-come-lately in the programming department.
"It's operating as intended", Bill Gates chuckles to himself as he closes the view port on his ever growing stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material.
yup, they're slowly but surely tying up the distribution channels for all media.
I Heard of a project 4 years ago where Time-Warner tried to create pay-per-view channels that ONLY showed time-warner flix.. it bombed of course, Fair Game ran for 3 months.
Knowing what Time-Warner wants, and seeing AOL-Time-Warner get Amazon underneath their thumb is scary.
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With all the various attempts at "standardizing" codebases, project often add 50-75% more overhead than if they'd just coded the damn thing without trying to create a "generic, extensible layer". Biggest headache is when some software architect gets involved on a project who has ZERO actual application delivery experience and insists on spending 6 months making everything modular and pluggable.. 6 months later we've got a basecode that no one will ever use again, and is a pain in the ass to work with for our OWN purposes.. leave well enough alone, use the APIs set for by the system, the hardware manufacturer, or whomever and just get the freaking job done..
now can you imagine a beowulf... but... what are the reverse engineering possibilities here?? I'm thinking i get Linux on my PS2, it's not too long before PS2 games are available for Linux.. How big of a market and boon for Linux would THAT be?
forgive me if I'm not too concerned about Zulu tribe outcoding me for the next 20 years. I've been doing this since i was a kid, and don't anticipate too many difficulties keeping ahead of Africa-come-lately in the programming department.
"It's operating as intended", Bill Gates chuckles to himself as he closes the view port on his ever growing stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material.
and they said we didn't need the StarWars missle defense program...
yup, they're slowly but surely tying up the distribution channels for all media. I Heard of a project 4 years ago where Time-Warner tried to create pay-per-view channels that ONLY showed time-warner flix.. it bombed of course, Fair Game ran for 3 months. Knowing what Time-Warner wants, and seeing AOL-Time-Warner get Amazon underneath their thumb is scary.
they're "stress relief toys".. Ever see Cherry 2000? hey, astronauts have needs too...