had this neat technology where they sorted the write jobs by cylinder so the disk head made fewer tracks back and forth on the disk. Elevator writing or some such they called it. I used to wonder why ALL disk IO wasn't like that.
Then I got old and cynical and stopped wondering...
Since the American corporations seem prepared to kill God and destroy the entire universe to fatten the bottom line for next quarter, how long do you think until this entire project is declared illegal and Sourceforge, an American treasure if only they'd figure it out, is forced to remove it?
It was overpriced. If they were all in one book for ten bucks I've have gladly paid it. And the guy would have made more money because a ten dollar sale made is more profitable (and it was ALL profit wasn't it?) then a $100 sale that didn't happen.
And it wasn't so bad. He avoided a lot of cliches, except the 'computer is God' one. but he handled it well.
All in all a good first effort from a promising writer.
One thing - the computer was puzzled that giving everybody everything didn't make them happy. Observation of MMORPGS shows that what people really want is a world of scarcity but opportunity.
I can't tell you how many times I was stymied by BIOS crapolla while consulting.
I still don't pretend to understand all of it, but what bothered me was that I used to go to these Toronto computer shows and there would be these little books for sale on the BIOS, 4 of them, consisting of 5 pages of 8 x 10 photocopies folded over and stapled in the middle with a cheap colour cover on them. In other words, cheapest possible production values.
They went into detail on the BIOS and were EXACTLY what I needed, but the guy wanted twenty five bucks EACH for them.
I wouldn't have bought them even if I could, but I swore one day I would and publish them for free all over the BBS world (This was pre-Internet)
Now it looks like I won't have to, but I'm still pissed off. Charging a fortune for stuff people really needed is wrong.
When you hire a coder it's like hiring a poet. You never know what you'll get and everyone wants the other guy to have paid for the coder's learning experiences.
This is hunting and gathering. We haven't hit agriculture in the geek business yet.
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had this neat technology where they sorted the write jobs by cylinder so the disk head made fewer tracks back and forth on the disk. Elevator writing or some such they called it. I used to wonder why ALL disk IO wasn't like that.
Then I got old and cynical and stopped wondering...
I don't know why they even bothered to join in the first place, maybe because it would be more evil to pretend to go along with it for a while.
Like MS will EVER endorse ANYTHING AT ALL that isn't propriatry to them!
But what does it have to do with surfing Pr0n on the net?
Just kidding - good jobs guys.
is to have a fork stuck in it as it is done.
The long-term future of manned space flight is another matter entirely, but for the immediate future it is 'back off and reconsider'.
How many of the people who contributed to Linux knew their work was going to be used to kill people?
The French have a saying about this.
They say 'reading the artists work is like eating Goose Pate' - meeting the artist is like meeting a Goose.'
Only, they say it in French.
Pretty soon the DRM on the cd will check to see if it'll accept what you're writting to it.
That with Linux the software is cheap but the people are expensive and with Windows its the other way around.
Since the American corporations seem prepared to kill God and destroy the entire universe to fatten the bottom line for next quarter, how long do you think until this entire project is declared illegal and Sourceforge, an American treasure if only they'd figure it out, is forced to remove it?
It was overpriced. If they were all in one book for ten bucks I've have gladly paid it. And the guy would have made more money because a ten dollar sale made is more profitable (and it was ALL profit wasn't it?) then a $100 sale that didn't happen.
And it wasn't so bad. He avoided a lot of cliches, except the 'computer is God' one. but he handled it well.
All in all a good first effort from a promising writer.
One thing - the computer was puzzled that giving everybody everything didn't make them happy. Observation of MMORPGS shows that what people really want is a world of scarcity but opportunity.
You give stuff away, and they still try to steal it.
I can't tell you how many times I was stymied by BIOS crapolla while consulting.
I still don't pretend to understand all of it, but what bothered me was that I used to go to these Toronto computer shows and there would be these little books for sale on the BIOS, 4 of them, consisting of 5 pages of 8 x 10 photocopies folded over and stapled in the middle with a cheap colour cover on them. In other words, cheapest possible production values.
They went into detail on the BIOS and were EXACTLY what I needed, but the guy wanted twenty five bucks EACH for them.
I wouldn't have bought them even if I could, but I swore one day I would and publish them for free all over the BBS world (This was pre-Internet)
Now it looks like I won't have to, but I'm still pissed off. Charging a fortune for stuff people really needed is wrong.
You know what - thats a damn good idea!
Make a very light sittable one with peddles. The segway-type works only BALANCE the machine. You have to propel it workself!
they don't build their own coffins too.
This is more dangerous than home built aircraft.
The only reward Bill wants is big bucks and world domination.
This'll never fly.
It was a great piece of software.
The only thing I DIDN'T like about it was that it only went up to Direct X 3 so it couldn't play modern video games.
So I switched to XP when it came out, but I was very happy with NT.
Thanks Bill!
PS - you owe me a house for this, ok?
The fact that you have to STAND while riding a Segway!
If they just stuck a seat on it everything would be different.
but without the sexual danger.
See, here's the problem.
Programming is still an ART, not a science.
When you hire a coder it's like hiring a poet. You never know what you'll get and everyone wants the other guy to have paid for the coder's learning experiences.
This is hunting and gathering. We haven't hit agriculture in the geek business yet.
Because I was asked that by a person unclear on the median concept.
Also, this message is not off topic, it's funny. What's up with some moderators around here?
When do we get Scouters like on Dragonball?
to a great democratizing of the hardware business, much as Open Source has done for software.
was my system of choice - I ran from 1200 baud to cable modem with it.
They're turning Allan Moore's literature into another Kung Fu movie.
At least it has Sean Connery...