Given that he and I share a birthday (according to IMDB, he is exactly one year older than I am) I guess I could cut him some slack. Or licence my patent in return for a signed Wesley doll.
Don't tell him this, but my patent claim against Wil Wheaton is unlikely to succeed, and not being a billionaire, I can't merely intimidate him into giving me a Wesley doll. All he has to do is argue that CleverNickName is actually not clever, and hence his name is self-contradictory rather than self-referential. My attack lawyer sadly did not add this as a claim.
If the amount of code changed or added in your program per unit time is roughly constant, then it will take O(N^2) time to compile, where N is the size of the program, over the life of the program.
Think about that for a moment. Think back to computer science 101. Now ask yourself if this is a good idea or not.
Someone whose name begins with "S" tells me that you feel that you're a skeptical person. She tells me that... wait... that you're feeling some anger right now. I'm seeing the colour "blue". Does that mean anything to you?
Trimmed NURBS are about the only primitives Maya/Houdini share with 'real' solid modelling tools, and their implementation is focussed on a completely different use-case.
I thought it was fairly clear that the poster that I was replying to was interested in the same use case as Maya/Houdini (coming from POV-Ray), rather than CAD.
I can certainly see why solid modelling would be a distinct advantage in CAD. People in the entertainment industry, on the other hand, want both in general. The reason why I mentioned this is that I suspect the original poster claimed to want CSG when in fact they just wanted nonlinear editing.
After growing up on Povray, I find that mesh-based modellers just feel far too fuzzy and vague to be at all useful. How are you supposed to do anything precisely by hauling points around by hand? What are you supposed to do if you discover that you wanted to change your mind about something half an hour ago? Do it all again?
You wouldn't say this if you'd ever used a decent mesh-based modeller. The graph-based systems of modellers like Maya and Houdini give you the best of both worlds: CSG if that's appropriate, and mesh-based modelling with the ability to edit any part of the history if that's appropriate.
You can't offer the stuff, that's the quirky point about copying.
That's true as far as it goes, however under the scheme imposed by the German court, you may be able to argue successfully that offering copies is okay. Under legal systems based on British common law (which, admittedly, the German system isn't), you may be able to argue that there is an implied agreement that a certain amount of "piracy", limited by the licence fees paid, is legal. After all, there was an exchange of consideration. If you limit the amount of "piracy" to the value of the licence in another venue (e.g. via iTunes), then it would be hard to argue (from the *AA's point of view) that the copying was excessive.
It's about US$41 or so tax per PC. Given that songs are about US$0.99 on iTunes, simply advertise on your web site that you will give copies of some song to the first 41 downloaders, all paid for by you.
As a programmer, my biggest peeve is that threads are still second-class citizens, and in particular, event delivery is all over the place.
Unix lets you wait for events to occur on file descriptors, signals, shared semaphores and condition variables individually, but not on more than one class of "event" at once. Win32 almost got it right, but it will only let you wait on 64 "events" at once, which is an unrealistically low number these days. QNX comes pretty close with its "pulse" event delivery model. Unix is pretty far behind in this respect.
I don't think the Vatican has the greatest vested interest in literal biblical interpretation.
Quite. Indeed, there is precisely nobody who has a vested interest in literal interpretation of the entire Bible, though there are some people/groups who arguably have a vested interest in the literal interpretation of certain portions.
Here in the corporate world, the term 'open source' works better than 'free software'.
As a term, you're right. As a slogan, business people are beginning to care about freedom more than openness. Not freedom in the abstract, either; businesses have paid out significants amount of money migrating to systems that free from vendor lock-in and the eternal Microsoft upgrade cycle.
So while I don't necessarily think that "free software" is a good term in English, the concept of freedom is definitely something that you can sell to business.
no fair using g++, I they have some sort of rule that C++ must compile badly
Actually, the rule is that unlike the Intel compiler, G++ is cross-platform. Unfortunately, the IA32 architecture is a bitch to compile for.
Most modern compilers are designed for modern architectures, and the GCC suite is no exception. Unlike a modern architecture, the IA32 has effectively zero integer registers and precisely zero floating-point registers (that you can actually treat as registers, anyway). Basically, the IA32 is the exception to every rule.
Mind you, the IA64 is even worse in this respect...
2) The first guy to realize "I'm not just re-wiring this, I'm describing an procedure for it to use" - the FORTRAN moment
Babbage and Lovelace. Though the award for the first implementation (i.e. the compiler) goes to Grace Hopper.
3) The first guy to ask "Why can't I used the same procedure from different places in my code" - the subroutine moment
Turing.
5) The first guy to ask "Why do I have to be the one writing down the results?" - the printer moment
Nice try, but radio teletype predates the computer. Interestingly, in the Unix-esque world, we still use the acronym "tty".
6) The first guy to realize "This isn't just a calculator, it's also a controller!" - the embedded moment
Hard to say, but it probably came from the days when older computers were used as card-to-tape transfer systems.
7) The first guy to realize "This isn't just a calculator, it's also a storage system!" - the database moment
Probably Vannevar Bush gets the award for the "aha" moment (even though he never actually built a database system). The name for the "top 20" list is E.F. Codd, for the invention of the relational model. He's actually a very odd omission.
8) The first guy to realize "This isn't just a calculator, it's also a communication system!" - the network moment
Once again, radio teletype and the facsimile predate the computer, but the award probably goes to George Steblitz.
9) The first guy to realize "I'm not just submitting instructions for it to process - it's submiting instructions back for me to process!" - the interactive moment
That's a tough one. A lot of people realised this early on, but it's a hardware problem and an operating system problem more than a software problem.
10) The first guy to think "Why can't it do something else while its waiting?" - the multitasking moment
That's a hard one, because you need to distinguish between multi-programming, multi-tasking and time-sharing. Probably a toss-up between Bob Bemer and Christopher Strachey.
11) The first guy to think "Why can't it show me more context while I work?" - the full-screen moment
That relies on the invention of the screen. Probably Douglas Engelbart wins this one.
12) The first guy to think "Man, why can't this thing show me some chicks?" - the porn moment
Again, a tough one. Honourable mention goes to the geeks at USC who digitized the Lena image some time in early 1973.
More important than COBOL, FLOW-MATIC was the first example of what we today know as a compiler. This has probably had a greater impact on modern software development than anything else, since Turing's invention of the subroutine.
I would have though that Knuth would be "up there" with Turing and Berners-Lee. Every programmer has heard of Knuth, all of the good ones have consulted his works on regular occasions. And, also importantly, most programmers have relied on an LR parser generator at some time or another. LR parsing is a Knuth invention.
Years ago, long before FreeBSD had kernel preemption and Linux already had some crude form (maybe 5 years ago), there was already a huge advantage of FreeBSD over Linux w.r.t. responsiveness while under high load (CPU and/or disk).
I attribute this to the algorithms used at the time.
FreeBSD's algorithms (e.g. for scheduling, virtual memory etc) had extremely good complexity, whereas those of Linux had extremely low constant factors. This meant that FreeBSD worked better under load, whereas Linux worked better unloaded.
Things have moved on in both OSes since then, of course.
The World Series is named after a newspaper (no longer in existence) called the New York World. You've probably heard of its proprietor, one Joseph Pulitzer.
Having said that, don't get me started on the "Miss Universe" contest. There's just no excuse for that kind of parochialism.
Well here's a data point for you. My youngest child had to be taught how to breastfeed. She's now almost 3, and has a reading vocabulary of about 200 words, so "dumbass" doesn't really seem appropriate.
Did anyone else see those screenshots and think "OMG! It's Kai Krause! Run for the hills!"?
As one artist once commented to me, you can envisage Spock with some alien's computer saying: "I'm sorry, Captain. I cannot work out how to use this. The interface appears to have been designed by Kai Krause."
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Given that he and I share a birthday (according to IMDB, he is exactly one year older than I am) I guess I could cut him some slack. Or licence my patent in return for a signed Wesley doll.
Don't tell him this, but my patent claim against Wil Wheaton is unlikely to succeed, and not being a billionaire, I can't merely intimidate him into giving me a Wesley doll. All he has to do is argue that CleverNickName is actually not clever, and hence his name is self-contradictory rather than self-referential. My attack lawyer sadly did not add this as a claim.
If the amount of code changed or added in your program per unit time is roughly constant, then it will take O(N^2) time to compile, where N is the size of the program, over the life of the program.
Think about that for a moment. Think back to computer science 101. Now ask yourself if this is a good idea or not.
Unfortunately for Nick, I already have a patent on self-referential false names.
Step 3, here I come!
The Sixth Sense came first.
Someone whose name begins with "S" tells me that you feel that you're a skeptical person. She tells me that... wait... that you're feeling some anger right now. I'm seeing the colour "blue". Does that mean anything to you?
I thought it was fairly clear that the poster that I was replying to was interested in the same use case as Maya/Houdini (coming from POV-Ray), rather than CAD.
I can certainly see why solid modelling would be a distinct advantage in CAD. People in the entertainment industry, on the other hand, want both in general. The reason why I mentioned this is that I suspect the original poster claimed to want CSG when in fact they just wanted nonlinear editing.
You wouldn't say this if you'd ever used a decent mesh-based modeller. The graph-based systems of modellers like Maya and Houdini give you the best of both worlds: CSG if that's appropriate, and mesh-based modelling with the ability to edit any part of the history if that's appropriate.
That's true as far as it goes, however under the scheme imposed by the German court, you may be able to argue successfully that offering copies is okay. Under legal systems based on British common law (which, admittedly, the German system isn't), you may be able to argue that there is an implied agreement that a certain amount of "piracy", limited by the licence fees paid, is legal. After all, there was an exchange of consideration. If you limit the amount of "piracy" to the value of the licence in another venue (e.g. via iTunes), then it would be hard to argue (from the *AA's point of view) that the copying was excessive.
How about if you limited the number of downloads?
It's about US$41 or so tax per PC. Given that songs are about US$0.99 on iTunes, simply advertise on your web site that you will give copies of some song to the first 41 downloaders, all paid for by you.
As a programmer, my biggest peeve is that threads are still second-class citizens, and in particular, event delivery is all over the place.
Unix lets you wait for events to occur on file descriptors, signals, shared semaphores and condition variables individually, but not on more than one class of "event" at once. Win32 almost got it right, but it will only let you wait on 64 "events" at once, which is an unrealistically low number these days. QNX comes pretty close with its "pulse" event delivery model. Unix is pretty far behind in this respect.
This is known as Feynmann's Interpretation, and it is usually phrased: "Shut up and calculate!"
Quite. Indeed, there is precisely nobody who has a vested interest in literal interpretation of the entire Bible, though there are some people/groups who arguably have a vested interest in the literal interpretation of certain portions.
As a term, you're right. As a slogan, business people are beginning to care about freedom more than openness. Not freedom in the abstract, either; businesses have paid out significants amount of money migrating to systems that free from vendor lock-in and the eternal Microsoft upgrade cycle.
So while I don't necessarily think that "free software" is a good term in English, the concept of freedom is definitely something that you can sell to business.
Excellent! That means it's obvious who to sue.
Yours sincerely,
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Actually, the rule is that unlike the Intel compiler, G++ is cross-platform. Unfortunately, the IA32 architecture is a bitch to compile for.
Most modern compilers are designed for modern architectures, and the GCC suite is no exception. Unlike a modern architecture, the IA32 has effectively zero integer registers and precisely zero floating-point registers (that you can actually treat as registers, anyway). Basically, the IA32 is the exception to every rule.
Mind you, the IA64 is even worse in this respect...
Oh, no no no. Java is "write once, run anywhere". Common Lisp, on the other hand, is "write anywhere, run once".
Well, I have found a remote root in djbdns, but unfortunately the margin is too small to contain the example exploit.
Well, I can fill in a few.
Babbage and Lovelace. Though the award for the first implementation (i.e. the compiler) goes to Grace Hopper.
Turing.
Nice try, but radio teletype predates the computer. Interestingly, in the Unix-esque world, we still use the acronym "tty".
Hard to say, but it probably came from the days when older computers were used as card-to-tape transfer systems.
Probably Vannevar Bush gets the award for the "aha" moment (even though he never actually built a database system). The name for the "top 20" list is E.F. Codd, for the invention of the relational model. He's actually a very odd omission.
Once again, radio teletype and the facsimile predate the computer, but the award probably goes to George Steblitz.
That's a tough one. A lot of people realised this early on, but it's a hardware problem and an operating system problem more than a software problem.
That's a hard one, because you need to distinguish between multi-programming, multi-tasking and time-sharing. Probably a toss-up between Bob Bemer and Christopher Strachey.
That relies on the invention of the screen. Probably Douglas Engelbart wins this one.
Again, a tough one. Honourable mention goes to the geeks at USC who digitized the Lena image some time in early 1973.
More important than COBOL, FLOW-MATIC was the first example of what we today know as a compiler. This has probably had a greater impact on modern software development than anything else, since Turing's invention of the subroutine.
I would have though that Knuth would be "up there" with Turing and Berners-Lee. Every programmer has heard of Knuth, all of the good ones have consulted his works on regular occasions. And, also importantly, most programmers have relied on an LR parser generator at some time or another. LR parsing is a Knuth invention.
I hear that in the digitally remastered version, she's holding a walkie-talkie.
Incidentally, was I the only person who expected a poster for something called The House of Yes to be painted by Roger Dean?
I attribute this to the algorithms used at the time.
FreeBSD's algorithms (e.g. for scheduling, virtual memory etc) had extremely good complexity, whereas those of Linux had extremely low constant factors. This meant that FreeBSD worked better under load, whereas Linux worked better unloaded.
Things have moved on in both OSes since then, of course.
I'm not from the US, but even I know why this is.
The World Series is named after a newspaper (no longer in existence) called the New York World. You've probably heard of its proprietor, one Joseph Pulitzer.
Having said that, don't get me started on the "Miss Universe" contest. There's just no excuse for that kind of parochialism.
Well here's a data point for you. My youngest child had to be taught how to breastfeed. She's now almost 3, and has a reading vocabulary of about 200 words, so "dumbass" doesn't really seem appropriate.
I realise that E17 is still a WIP, but...
Did anyone else see those screenshots and think "OMG! It's Kai Krause! Run for the hills!"?
As one artist once commented to me, you can envisage Spock with some alien's computer saying: "I'm sorry, Captain. I cannot work out how to use this. The interface appears to have been designed by Kai Krause."