Read the Quake II source (sans obsolete software renderer) and tell me "game code still uses alot of assembly." Even the math library is C. And that was seven years ago.
Disclaimer: I did not actually enroll for these courses, I simply went to a semester of lectures. I have no formal education in Computer Science.
My experience with CS (at Simon Fraser University) was rather disappointing. Information was presented without much value given to its usefulness. For example, the students were told how to do a quicksort, and how to do a mergesort. They were told that both were O(n lg n). They were told that mergesort requires twice the memory of a quicksort. Thus, they all went home (and eventually on to jobs) believing you should never use a mergesort.
The problem? The teacher, like many, didn't have coding *experience*. She was playing it by the books. I would much rather spend two or four years writing code on my own (possibly even for money) than two or four years being taught things which could be picked up in a day perusing Wikipedia.
Then, if you've not already found a job you're satisfied with, you could challenge the courses and get better grades without having to get too stressed about it.
I agree with your points. However, my POST screen tells me that I have a Barton 2500+ regardless of how far I've overclocked it. I'm sure most people would be quick to spot that their supposed 3200+ system is indicating otherwise. Ensuring the computer clearly tells you what it really is when you start it ought to be enough to prevent people from selling one thing as another. Though I generally don't overclock, I'm not about to purchase a processor with known arbitrary limitations.
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You are way off. This is pure novelty and has nothing to do with "server side" or "web pages," don't be fooled by the presence of PHP. Also, "port of OpenGL" doesn't make much sense -- OpenGL cannot be ported, just implemented, which this does not do. It's just an OpenGL client.
How about you just test it yourself? I have, and I've found gcc does some clever things which cl.exe does not. For example, gcc seems to use a binary search for switches, whereas cl.exe just does a linear search. Despite this, cl.exe seemed to do better than gcc in more general cases. As well, it's a pain in the ass to try to build things like Quake on Windows with anything other than Microsoft tools.
You should expect downtime from anything, unless you're paying a LOT. How much do you pay for your hotmail service? A few bucks a month? So if it was down for a few hours, are you gonna call them up and demand your five cents back?
I'm no expert, but you send your public key to Verisign, and Verisign signs it. How would the FBI having Verisign's private key serve to make SSL any less secure?
"And of course you would have no way of knowing because you dont run a firewall or antivirus."
It is fairly evident when somebody is "sending out tons of email and infecting other systems." See, the conversation goes something like this:
"Gee, the T1 is saturated. Have a look at the traffic on the router." "Strange. A box appears to be sending out tons of email and infecting other systems."
or perhaps
"I was watching the traffic on the router for unrelated reasons, and happened to notice your IP address was sending out tons of email and infecting other systems."
or maybe even
"My computer seems to be running unexplained processes, threads, or services. Perhaps the purpose of those services is to send out tons of email and infect other systems."
As for a firewall, what would it accomplish? I've disabled all services I am not using, and I wouldn't want to firewall out the services which I am. Why firewall out packets which my OS throws away anyways?
Just because you can't administrate Windows competently (as indicated by your "have no way of knowing" line) doesn't mean that I can't.
I have two Windows XP boxes which I use near continuously, and neither have ever had any sort of virus, trojan, worm, etc. One of those is completely without a firewall.
Not that I'm any sort of Windows zealot -- my two windows boxes are eclipsed by a dozen or so BSDs between home, work, and server room, which seem to require far more frequent security maintainence.
What do you pay for blank CD-Rs? A spindle of 50 of the really budget 700mb ones are $16 CAD (just over $12 USD.) If I'm being taxed, I'm certainly not hurting.
Sedatives? The treatment for ADHD is *speed*. The symptoms of ADHD are similar to the short term effects of amphetamines, and yet they are used to treat ADHD, and give consistent results. And you are claiming that ADHD "is not real"? The facts do the flaming for me.
You sound like a misdiagnosis. For those of us that are genuinely affected, stimulants make the difference between utter misery and mental health. Maybe this guy should do what his daughter thinks is best, instead of some guy preaching "fuck the system" on slashdot.
First of all his site has a huge graph structure stored in a very large database. Secondly that's "wikipedia.org", not "wikimedia.org". His Alexa rank is 933, which totally smokes yours. I suggest you check your facts in the future, lest you again look like a huge idiot.
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Read the Quake II source (sans obsolete software renderer) and tell me "game code still uses alot of assembly." Even the math library is C. And that was seven years ago.
Disclaimer: I did not actually enroll for these courses, I simply went to a semester of lectures. I have no formal education in Computer Science.
My experience with CS (at Simon Fraser University) was rather disappointing. Information was presented without much value given to its usefulness. For example, the students were told how to do a quicksort, and how to do a mergesort. They were told that both were O(n lg n). They were told that mergesort requires twice the memory of a quicksort. Thus, they all went home (and eventually on to jobs) believing you should never use a mergesort.
The problem? The teacher, like many, didn't have coding *experience*. She was playing it by the books. I would much rather spend two or four years writing code on my own (possibly even for money) than two or four years being taught things which could be picked up in a day perusing Wikipedia.
Then, if you've not already found a job you're satisfied with, you could challenge the courses and get better grades without having to get too stressed about it.
Maybe I'm just missing the point.
Isn't he the one who directed that piece of shit Requiem for a Dream? Did anyone not an artsy Mac user enjoy that?
I agree with your points. However, my POST screen tells me that I have a Barton 2500+ regardless of how far I've overclocked it. I'm sure most people would be quick to spot that their supposed 3200+ system is indicating otherwise. Ensuring the computer clearly tells you what it really is when you start it ought to be enough to prevent people from selling one thing as another. Though I generally don't overclock, I'm not about to purchase a processor with known arbitrary limitations.
You are way off. This is pure novelty and has nothing to do with "server side" or "web pages," don't be fooled by the presence of PHP. Also, "port of OpenGL" doesn't make much sense -- OpenGL cannot be ported, just implemented, which this does not do. It's just an OpenGL client.
59 fps? Sounds like vertical sync at 60 hz. Anybody have any real performance figures?
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You could probably compile on Windows and link on Linux.
How about you just test it yourself? I have, and I've found gcc does some clever things which cl.exe does not. For example, gcc seems to use a binary search for switches, whereas cl.exe just does a linear search. Despite this, cl.exe seemed to do better than gcc in more general cases. As well, it's a pain in the ass to try to build things like Quake on Windows with anything other than Microsoft tools.
You should expect downtime from anything, unless you're paying a LOT. How much do you pay for your hotmail service? A few bucks a month? So if it was down for a few hours, are you gonna call them up and demand your five cents back?
Did you invent those numbers? 3.1 ran nicely with 4 MB. 95 was good with 16 MB. 98 was good with 32. XP is tolerable with 128.
Chances are the alpha is built in debug mode. Those seem to be rather bulkier, both on disk and in memory.
I'm no expert, but you send your public key to Verisign, and Verisign signs it. How would the FBI having Verisign's private key serve to make SSL any less secure?
Five lines with errors that I can see, so I guess you answered your own question.
"And of course you would have no way of knowing because you dont run a firewall or antivirus."
It is fairly evident when somebody is "sending out tons of email and infecting other systems." See, the conversation goes something like this:
"Gee, the T1 is saturated. Have a look at the traffic on the router."
"Strange. A box appears to be sending out tons of email and infecting other systems."
or perhaps
"I was watching the traffic on the router for unrelated reasons, and happened to notice your IP address was sending out tons of email and infecting other systems."
or maybe even
"My computer seems to be running unexplained processes, threads, or services. Perhaps the purpose of those services is to send out tons of email and infect other systems."
As for a firewall, what would it accomplish? I've disabled all services I am not using, and I wouldn't want to firewall out the services which I am. Why firewall out packets which my OS throws away anyways?
Just because you can't administrate Windows competently (as indicated by your "have no way of knowing" line) doesn't mean that I can't.
clue->get();
I have two Windows XP boxes which I use near continuously, and neither have ever had any sort of virus, trojan, worm, etc. One of those is completely without a firewall.
Not that I'm any sort of Windows zealot -- my two windows boxes are eclipsed by a dozen or so BSDs between home, work, and server room, which seem to require far more frequent security maintainence.
Well, you went on a good rant, made some false accusations, but you still didn't answer the question: what do you pay for blank CD-Rs?
What do you pay for blank CD-Rs? A spindle of 50 of the really budget 700mb ones are $16 CAD (just over $12 USD.) If I'm being taxed, I'm certainly not hurting.
5.2.
Sedatives? The treatment for ADHD is *speed*. The symptoms of ADHD are similar to the short term effects of amphetamines, and yet they are used to treat ADHD, and give consistent results. And you are claiming that ADHD "is not real"? The facts do the flaming for me.
You sound like a misdiagnosis. For those of us that are genuinely affected, stimulants make the difference between utter misery and mental health. Maybe this guy should do what his daughter thinks is best, instead of some guy preaching "fuck the system" on slashdot.
Family Guy reference?
Idle CPU cycles are used to pre-zero pages, among other little tasks.
First of all his site has a huge graph structure stored in a very large database. Secondly that's "wikipedia.org", not "wikimedia.org". His Alexa rank is 933, which totally smokes yours. I suggest you check your facts in the future, lest you again look like a huge idiot.