What part of this am I missing. I mean, a consultant should consult. And when i think of consulting, i think of explaining the situation, and reasoning out a workable solution with them. Your situation doesn't seem to be consulting anything since they just tell you what to do and you have to implement it, and are just thinking about if you should debate. Sounds more like contract programming...
Whats up with the ask slashdot trolls as of late... come on!
Last time i checked Windows already supported -
Fast User Switching
Multiple Mice
Multiple Keyboard
Multiple Monitors
Try windows XP for the fast user switching, Multiple monitors have been there since win98. And just try plugging a USB keyboard/mouse into your laptop and you'll see that the orginals and usb ones work at the same time!
So it isn't like they're that far from already having it.
This is not a troll, but don't any of you find the 1TB memory ceiling stupid? I mean, doesn't this remind you of 640kb limit? Why only a 40bit address space? Why not 64bit? I mean if you're gonna go 64bit, go 64bit! this isn't even half assed it 3/8's assed.
I know it isn't the best answer. But, it works pretty well against the average joe. At UC Berkeley pretty much every ethernet port is guarded with MAC based security. So now if you have a user acting like a bandwidth black hole, you can easily just drop them off the network, and tell them to fix it via web based email. When they do, they tell you, you let them back on.
I'm not a unix guru but is super user the same as kernal mode? IE, if a program runs as root, does the code actually run in kernal mode without VM and what not? Some how i doubt it, but may very well be wrong.
You would be writing a Linux Game then, not a ps2 game.
If you write a ps2 game, you get to run in super user mode and touch all the hardware. If you write your game on linux. well you wrote it on linux, not ps2. You would run as a user program, and wouldn't get to touch the hardware. Have you ever deved on a console?
I'm currently enrolled in cs 162 (OSs) at UC Berkeley, todays lecture was on different flavors of schedulers and this scheduler was mentioned breifly. For more theoretical info see http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.html?p rog=116&group=52 for a webcast of the lecture or http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/Lectures/L11. pdf for a pdf of the lecutre notes.
Even if it was encrypted, encryption just allows for either party to make sure no one else is listening. All they would have to do to listen would be pretend to be a peer. And, let me ask you this, what good would encrypting search queries be?
So, the best they can really do is "scramble" with the only strength being that the cypher wasn't know by others. We all know how strong this would be...
I know this is a complete what if, but here it goes.
What if i was the owner of a company like Castle. A small shop of 30 or so people writing a commercial OS. Now say it was the task of three of the programmers to write some part of some IOKit. Now say they were under deadline and feared being fired, and couldn't keep up and stole a couple of pages of source from a GPL OS of your choice. Now say no one realizes this for 18 months and then the door is suddenly blow open and the execs of the small company are totally against this violation, and fire the employees in question and remove the code in question from the OS. Should the rest of the OS have to be GPLed? I would hope not!
I know this is a complete what if, but here it goes.
What if i was the owner of a company like Castle. A small shop of 30 or so people writing a commercial OS. Now say it was the task of three of the programmers to write some part of some IOKit. Now say they were under deadline and feared being fired, and couldn't keep up and stole a couple of pages of source from a GPL OS of your choice. Now say no one realizes this for 18 months and then the door is suddenly blow open and the execs of the small company are totally against this violation, and fire the employees in question and remove the code in question from the OS. Should the rest of the OS have to be GPLed? I would hope not!
Hmm... extremeley Microsoftesque. Much like VB5 and 6's variant data type and C#'s boxing rules.
Seriously, with a language like C you can feel like you actually know ALL the rules, and it makes you feel safe. With the beasts that are VB.net/VB6 and C#, and the one that Java is becoming, you always have that lingering "What If" in the back of your head. Seriously, you end up programming with the idea "Nah, they wouldn't let me make that mistake" constantly in the back of your head.
I have a net admin friend at a school who helps manage the dorm network. Amazingly, he claims that it is really those tiny ads (150x40pix). I guess AIM is very lazy and is constantly refreshing them (If you're using the computer or not) and doesn't do much caching.
To fix it, they rerouted ads.aol.com (i just made up that DNS) to their own servers and sent their own images back localally.
I've Actually done some gameboy advance development (http://www.neo-modus.com/GBAAtaxx.zip). And IIRC, the GBA is running at 60fps. I doubt any mpegs are gonna be 60fps, maybe 24fps? Anyway, that doubles your write time. Anyway, you're going to need to double buffer, which means you should use mode 5, which is 160x128. So now you almost have a factor of 4 increase in time, I think it can be done...
But then again, who cares about 160x128 mpegs, unless its pr0n.
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Honestly, how's it run? I have 500mhz iBook, and cannot play heroes 4 and dumb as that sounds.
It is SO choppy.
Anyway, just curious.
One Function explains it all ...
bltMegsOfTextureMaps(...) {
return;
}
"hum, nah, that shouldn't mess up the results..."
What part of this am I missing. I mean, a consultant should consult. And when i think of consulting, i think of explaining the situation, and reasoning out a workable solution with them. Your situation doesn't seem to be consulting anything since they just tell you what to do and you have to implement it, and are just thinking about if you should debate. Sounds more like contract programming...
Maybe i'm off base here, if so, just let me know.
"Microsoft will never do it but how..."
Whats up with the ask slashdot trolls as of late... come on!
Last time i checked Windows already supported -
Fast User Switching
Multiple Mice
Multiple Keyboard
Multiple Monitors
Try windows XP for the fast user switching,
Multiple monitors have been there since win98.
And just try plugging a USB keyboard/mouse into your laptop and you'll see that the orginals and usb ones work at the same time!
So it isn't like they're that far from already having it.
Linux is great, but no one likes zealots...
This is not a troll, but don't any of you find the 1TB memory ceiling stupid? I mean, doesn't this remind you of 640kb limit? Why only a 40bit address space? Why not 64bit? I mean if you're gonna go 64bit, go 64bit! this isn't even half assed it 3/8's assed.
well, since its a one MAC per PORT if you switch MACs, the port shuts down.
Sorry I waasn't clear -
Jon
I know it isn't the best answer. But, it works pretty well against the average joe. At UC Berkeley pretty much every ethernet port is guarded with MAC based security. So now if you have a user acting like a bandwidth black hole, you can easily just drop them off the network, and tell them to fix it via web based email. When they do, they tell you, you let them back on.
That is cause two processors won't make things twice as fast and one processor that is twice the speed will almost always be better.
Two processors just lets you do twice as much work in the SAME unit of time. Not same amount of work in half the time.
I'm not a unix guru but is super user the same as kernal mode? IE, if a program runs as root, does the code actually run in kernal mode without VM and what not? Some how i doubt it, but may very well be wrong.
You would be writing a Linux Game then, not a ps2 game.
If you write a ps2 game, you get to run in super user mode and touch all the hardware. If you write your game on linux. well you wrote it on linux, not ps2. You would run as a user program, and wouldn't get to touch the hardware. Have you ever deved on a console?
I have if you count GBA as a console.
Obviously we have some mods who are impressed by big words and are in awe of mensa. This comment is BS the guys is pulling your leg.
I'm currently enrolled in cs 162 (OSs) at UC Berkeley, todays lecture was on different flavors of schedulers and this scheduler was mentioned breifly. For more theoretical info see http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.html?p rog=116&group=52 for a webcast of the lecture or http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs162/Lectures/L11. pdf for a pdf of the lecutre notes.
In Soviet Russia digital recorders look for you!
In soviet russia reality takes on you!
Even if it was encrypted, encryption just allows for either party to make sure no one else is listening. All they would have to do to listen would be pretend to be a peer. And, let me ask you this, what good would encrypting search queries be?
So, the best they can really do is "scramble" with the only strength being that the cypher wasn't know by others. We all know how strong this would be...
Anyone else notice that they link to slashdot with the word "Freak" in the svideo round up?
Repeal the story!
Yo momma's so dirty she throws gmake clean into an infinite loop!
Yo momma's so slutty she gives it up in O(1) time!
I know this is a complete what if, but here it goes.
What if i was the owner of a company like Castle. A small shop of 30 or so people writing a commercial OS. Now say it was the task of three of the programmers to write some part of some IOKit. Now say they were under deadline and feared being fired, and couldn't keep up and stole a couple of pages of source from a GPL OS of your choice. Now say no one realizes this for 18 months and then the door is suddenly blow open and the execs of the small company are totally against this violation, and fire the employees in question and remove the code in question from the OS. Should the rest of the OS have to be GPLed? I would hope not!
Jon Hess
Yeah, in VisualStudio.Net start a new C# project, then type System. and start playing with the pop up dialogs. Jon Hess
I know this is a complete what if, but here it goes.
What if i was the owner of a company like Castle. A small shop of 30 or so people writing a commercial OS. Now say it was the task of three of the programmers to write some part of some IOKit. Now say they were under deadline and feared being fired, and couldn't keep up and stole a couple of pages of source from a GPL OS of your choice. Now say no one realizes this for 18 months and then the door is suddenly blow open and the execs of the small company are totally against this violation, and fire the employees in question and remove the code in question from the OS. Should the rest of the OS have to be GPLed? I would hope not!
Jon Hess
"Autoboxing"
Hmm... extremeley Microsoftesque. Much like VB5 and 6's variant data type and C#'s boxing rules.
Seriously, with a language like C you can feel like you actually know ALL the rules, and it makes you feel safe. With the beasts that are VB.net/VB6 and C#, and the one that Java is becoming, you always have that lingering "What If" in the back of your head. Seriously, you end up programming with the idea "Nah, they wouldn't let me make that mistake" constantly in the back of your head.
I have a net admin friend at a school who helps manage the dorm network. Amazingly, he claims that it is really those tiny ads (150x40pix). I guess AIM is very lazy and is constantly refreshing them (If you're using the computer or not) and doesn't do much caching.
To fix it, they rerouted ads.aol.com (i just made up that DNS) to their own servers and sent their own images back localally.
I've Actually done some gameboy advance development (http://www.neo-modus.com/GBAAtaxx.zip). And IIRC, the GBA is running at 60fps. I doubt any mpegs are gonna be 60fps, maybe 24fps? Anyway, that doubles your write time. Anyway, you're going to need to double buffer, which means you should use mode 5, which is 160x128. So now you almost have a factor of 4 increase in time, I think it can be done...
But then again, who cares about 160x128 mpegs, unless its pr0n.
Anyone know if there is any chacne of getting this setup on a sun ray with our having root privlidges? What about if there was a 100meg disk quota?
CDE on a class a acount sucks big time.
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