I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN
About once a week these days CmdrTaco makes some comment similar to the above which I believe he means as a swipe at Microsoft. Anyone who has used the Microsoft products he's swiping, however, just view it as him admitting he's technically incompetent and/or he uses really shoddy computer systems. And that is also the case here.
It is _not_ difficult to get AGP4X working under XP unless you're an idiot or running shitty hardware. Maybe all he has for hardware is left over VA Systems junk. Poor Taco.
This honestly isn't a troll. I'm just wondering how viable Slashdot is for the near future? Considering the well known "Slashdot" effect, they must pay a bundle on bandwidth charges each month, and 90% of the ads on the site seem to be for other OSDN sites, so I don't think they're pulling in any money there. I know they have subscriptions, but have THAT many people really signed up for them? How long until Slashdot is gone or goes a bit-more subscription based (ala Salon)? Anyone willing to make some public guesses?
Re:Why do interviewers use "riddles"?
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Tech-Interview Riddles
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If you tell me about ARP, DNS, and HTTP and you can name the port numbers and transport layers, that's fine. DHCP, load-balancing, firewalls, SSL, proxy servers, server-side processors, databases, that's all extra credit. If you can't talk about these things, you're not yet ready for a professional career in this industry.
'this industry', meaning network admins who focus on web sites only, right? Not admins or programmers in general?
Because I'd have an easy time talking about all of that stuff, but I know people as or more intelligent than I am that wouldn't simply because they haven't been exposed to any of that directly.
It seems to me your question is flawed. You're asking too much about details that can be learned by any intelligent technical individual in a matter of days. Just because they don't know the answer when you ask it doesn't say shit about how good they might be at the job, especially if the job is something more than simple web admin.
Aren't there like a billion cooking/recipe sites already? Untold number of geocities homepages with Aunt Maude's favorite dishes? Geeks eat pretty much the same food as everyone else (though some clearly eat more than others!).. I don't really see the need for this. Is Big Business trying to snuff out free trade of recipies? Does everything need to be equated to the Open Source movement?
The original poster said that M$ could use this source code in Mafia Player, without having to return any code to the public (under the proposed licence, which is not the GPL).
The original poster didn't say that, reread it. What he is saying is that Real can't exactly reverse engineer Microsoft's protocols, release a product that uses those protocols (whether its OSS or not is irrelevant) and then bitch and moan if Microsoft does the same thing to them. By releasing a product that includes reverse engineered WMV/WMA support, Real is giving Microsoft a license to do the same with the.RM/.RAM formats. If Real were to try to sue MS in this case it would look pretty dumb and also be thrown out of court really quickly.
It would be illegal for someone to release a true game mod (and not, say, a front-end for a game) as GPL, because the game itself is not GPL and the GPL states that all linked code (even dynmically linked) must also be GPL...So...
Its not quite as dumb as the Redherring article makes it seem. Whoever the idiot journalist is who wrote that (not even worth my time to look it up), he obviously got confused between different forms of distributed processing. The PS3 isn't going to use SETI-like distributed processing, its going to use a large collection of local processors to do its work. Somewhat like the old Thinking Machines cubes.
Actually JPEG 2000 is a completely different beast. FWIW, JPEG 2000 is actually based on various technologies that are patented up the wazoo, especially wrt/wavelet technology. However, with JPEG 2000 the patent holders have agreed to make the patented technology available to all at no charge.
But this doesn't surprise me. After MS claimed ownership of parts of OpenGL, that sorta opened the floodgates for really sad attempts to bilk more money out of an already financialy strapped populace/industry.
You are a sad, sad, person. Microsoft only claimed that they have patents in the area relating to fragment shaders, which in fact they do. They didn't make any threats as far as lawsuits, or in any way try to block to OpenGL ARB from moving forward. What should they have done, said nothing and then brought the issue up 3 years later? Isn't that why we all hate RAMBUS? Microsoft does a lot of questionable things, but you do the Linux/OSS crowd a huge disservice by knocking everything they do without even understanding what is going on. I guess you can't be blamed completely, you're just a Slashdot-sheep parroting what CmdrTaco told you to think...
Blender is pretty good if you can get used to the crappy UI.
They might be going Open Source, but they have made some demands like they need to get $100k (Euro, ~95k US) in user donations before they open up the source code...So its not a sure thing.
I find it unlikely to believe the journalist got this Win98 tidbit right. All joking about Win98 stability aside, its just not an OS that is designed to be run in any embedded enviornment. Why would they choose Win98 over WinXP embedded, some Pocket PC variant, or something else? It just doesn't add up.
I'd bet money that the journalist flubbed this one, or its some elaborate trolling with MSNBC realizing that a 'safe' car running Win98 would get an instant Slashdotting.
Is anyone else frightened by the Sourceforge ads constantly running on Slashdot?
You know, the ones that basically promise to keep your developers in line through increased task monitoring? I'm all for source code control, bug tracking, etc, but the crux of these ads seem to be "your developers (especially those overseas ones..foreign bastards!) are probably fucking off, why not monitor them with Sourceforge?"....
Some even directly use the "unblinking eye" motif!
Who is the advertising genius that came up with that shit?
In theory, some day programmers won't be needed, but that same argument applies to programming in general, not just SFX.
That day, however, is a long way off. All the good effects houses still have lots of dedicated programmers pumping out custom solutions to be used with the off-the-shelf packages.
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
Actually nForce is largely for the lower to mid cost mainstream OEM PC market, not just gamers. So why should these people spend $80 when they could spend $1-2 more to get a second NIC in their nForce PC? It makes sense for a lot of people. Maybe not YOU, but the world doesn't revolve around you.
Some of the commercials do have a high level of FUD though.
The biggest example is the "Blue Screen of Death" commercial. I mean, yes, you could make a case that BSOD would be an issue if Microsoft were still trying to peddle WinME on the public, but they aren't. So it would be more honest to compare OS X with XP, and on stability that comparison is very favorable to both, as both are stable operating systems. Sure, MS's older systems (until NT/2000) had serious BSOD problems, but then so did MacOS previous to X (not BSOD, but LOTS of random lock ups due to lack of full memory protection, shitty multitasking, etc). And you could make a case that Microsoft's OSes, even if more stable, tend to be less secure, but at least Microsoft doesn't tend to ship out install scripts that format the system harddrive of a significant percentage of the people who run it...So it all evens out.
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NYTimes Looks at Warez
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Yes this can be defeated, but my experience with warez sites is that they just have CD images, the programs security hasn't been defeated, and people just share license keys-- in this case reporting the key to a central server and the ability to turn it off when it becomes obviously shared is easy.
This seems to be working for ambrosia and idsoftware.
The problem with this is that unless you have some server-side logic, pirates can (and will) just hack the 'phone home' part of your program out. It works for id and other game companies because you need to connect to a server to get the full benefit of the game (and by the way, there are even hacked versions of the Quake3 server that allow people to connect with bad cd keys, though running one of these is obviously somewhat dangerous since it can be fairly easy for id to track down).
Slashdot Mirror
"Don't hold your breath waiting for it. When we announced it we didn't realize that Linux owners are all cheap fucks who don't pay for games."
About once a week these days CmdrTaco makes some comment similar to the above which I believe he means as a swipe at Microsoft.
Anyone who has used the Microsoft products he's swiping, however, just view it as him admitting he's technically incompetent and/or he uses really shoddy computer systems. And that is also the case here.
It is _not_ difficult to get AGP4X working under XP unless you're an idiot or running shitty hardware. Maybe all he has for hardware is left over VA Systems junk. Poor Taco.
hey shithead, a celeron 300 *IS* a better server chip than a p pro 200.
This honestly isn't a troll. I'm just wondering how viable Slashdot is for the near future? Considering the well known "Slashdot" effect, they must pay a bundle on bandwidth charges each month, and 90% of the ads on the site seem to be for other OSDN sites, so I don't think they're pulling in any money there. I know they have subscriptions, but have THAT many people really signed up for them? How long until Slashdot is gone or goes a bit-more subscription based (ala Salon)? Anyone willing to make some public guesses?
'this industry', meaning network admins who focus on web sites only, right? Not admins or programmers in general?
Because I'd have an easy time talking about all of that stuff, but I know people as or more intelligent than I am that wouldn't simply because they haven't been exposed to any of that directly.
It seems to me your question is flawed. You're asking too much about details that can be learned by any intelligent technical individual in a matter of days. Just because they don't know the answer when you ask it doesn't say shit about how good they might be at the job, especially if the job is something more than simple web admin.
Jeez.
Who needs 100% quality JPEGs, though? Try it again at 90% or 75% and put image quality into the mix to have meaningful results.
The original poster didn't say that, reread it. What he is saying is that Real can't exactly reverse engineer Microsoft's protocols, release a product that uses those protocols (whether its OSS or not is irrelevant) and then bitch and moan if Microsoft does the same thing to them. By releasing a product that includes reverse engineered WMV/WMA support, Real is giving Microsoft a license to do the same with the .RM/.RAM formats. If Real were to try to sue MS in this case it would look pretty dumb and also be thrown out of court really quickly.
It would be illegal for someone to release a true game mod (and not, say, a front-end for a game) as GPL, because the game itself is not GPL and the GPL states that all linked code (even dynmically linked) must also be GPL...So...
Its not quite as dumb as the Redherring article makes it seem. Whoever the idiot journalist is who wrote that (not even worth my time to look it up), he obviously got confused between different forms of distributed processing. The PS3 isn't going to use SETI-like distributed processing, its going to use a large collection of local processors to do its work. Somewhat like the old Thinking Machines cubes.
I agree.. except for SIMD. SIMD on its own might not have amounted to much, but SSE2/3DNOW etc are a great success.
Actually JPEG 2000 is a completely different beast. FWIW, JPEG 2000 is actually based on various technologies that are patented up the wazoo, especially wrt/wavelet technology. However, with JPEG 2000 the patent holders have agreed to make the patented technology available to all at no charge.
You are a sad, sad, person. Microsoft only claimed that they have patents in the area relating to fragment shaders, which in fact they do. They didn't make any threats as far as lawsuits, or in any way try to block to OpenGL ARB from moving forward. What should they have done, said nothing and then brought the issue up 3 years later? Isn't that why we all hate RAMBUS? Microsoft does a lot of questionable things, but you do the Linux/OSS crowd a huge disservice by knocking everything they do without even understanding what is going on. I guess you can't be blamed completely, you're just a Slashdot-sheep parroting what CmdrTaco told you to think...
They might be going Open Source, but they have made some demands like they need to get $100k (Euro, ~95k US) in user donations before they open up the source code...So its not a sure thing.
I'd bet money that the journalist flubbed this one, or its some elaborate trolling with MSNBC realizing that a 'safe' car running Win98 would get an instant Slashdotting.
You know, the ones that basically promise to keep your developers in line through increased task monitoring? I'm all for source code control, bug tracking, etc, but the crux of these ads seem to be "your developers (especially those overseas ones..foreign bastards!) are probably fucking off, why not monitor them with Sourceforge?"....
Some even directly use the "unblinking eye" motif!
Who is the advertising genius that came up with that shit?
Most of the cost goes into artist & programmer salaries.
That day, however, is a long way off. All the good effects houses still have lots of dedicated programmers pumping out custom solutions to be used with the off-the-shelf packages.
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
There's a show on FOX called "American Idol", the long and short of it is that they hope to create a "pop superstar" ala NSync or whatever. The voting for this show is done by the public via telephone. Please call this toll-free number 1 (866) 436-5707 to vote for the most retarded of all the contestants just to undermine the results of this show. Must call within the next 2 hours. Pass it on!
Actually nForce is largely for the lower to mid cost mainstream OEM PC market, not just gamers. So why should these people spend $80 when they could spend $1-2 more to get a second NIC in their nForce PC? It makes sense for a lot of people. Maybe not YOU, but the world doesn't revolve around you.
The biggest example is the "Blue Screen of Death" commercial. I mean, yes, you could make a case that BSOD would be an issue if Microsoft were still trying to peddle WinME on the public, but they aren't. So it would be more honest to compare OS X with XP, and on stability that comparison is very favorable to both, as both are stable operating systems. Sure, MS's older systems (until NT/2000) had serious BSOD problems, but then so did MacOS previous to X (not BSOD, but LOTS of random lock ups due to lack of full memory protection, shitty multitasking, etc). And you could make a case that Microsoft's OSes, even if more stable, tend to be less secure, but at least Microsoft doesn't tend to ship out install scripts that format the system harddrive of a significant percentage of the people who run it...So it all evens out.
The problem with this is that unless you have some server-side logic, pirates can (and will) just hack the 'phone home' part of your program out. It works for id and other game companies because you need to connect to a server to get the full benefit of the game (and by the way, there are even hacked versions of the Quake3 server that allow people to connect with bad cd keys, though running one of these is obviously somewhat dangerous since it can be fairly easy for id to track down).
Well all the Final Fantasy games since FF8 and Metal Gear Solid 2 come pretty close...