I was just being snarky about iOS but Grand Central is something I mean to look into more. It sounds from a very quick skim of the material to be a decent thread-pool implementation but it created a bit more of a splash than that would warrant and, apple effect aside, so I must get around to figuring out what else is there.
"Engineer carries with it a liability as you are responsible for your actions in a way that a software programmer is not."
I hear this said a lot and don't see it in the real world. Engineering companies, just like software companies, enter into contracts to provide services to a set quality and schedule with penalties if these are not met. Liability of an individual engineer doesn't enter into it in either case.
And the reason I am not a "Professional Engineer" in the accredited sense is because accreditation is not settled yet. I have no problem considering myself, with a degree and a decade's experience, an Engineer in all the same ways.
I'm glad that people refuse jobs that they think are below their value. It keeps salaries up for everyone. We don't need a race to the bottom if we can help it and good software guys make a LOT of money for the company that knows how to use them well.
I've never had to look for work for more than a couple of weeks. Sometimes much to my own annoyance (I wanted some more time off!). And at least a couple of the positions I've filled had been open for months by then as they looked for someone that had the right skills.
I don't think I'm some sort of uber-genius but perhaps there are a lot of people out there in the industry that really aren't up to scratch?
Me, I hope that the IEEE and the various national and international computer societies sort out their accreditation criteria and schemes so this argument can be put to rest. They've been at it for years!
As a developer who architects, designs and writes code to run in high-traffic server environments I consider what I do to be a form of engineering.
It doesn't make a huge difference to me, though it would be nice to be an accredited professional. I also dislike the attitude that it's some sort of cowboy business because "you're not an engineer!". You may be able to play fast and loose in the world of the desktop or the web programmer, but when someone's credit card payment processing is at risk things have to be a little more formal.
No, it's not. It's really not. VISA allow the logo to be used on hundreds of thousands of card products across the world. Thye provide card/transaction standards, a worldwide authorisation network and various other things. Their relationship is with @aquiring banks and issuing banks.
You cannot get a credit card from visa. They do not deal with individual accouns or providing credit like @bank does. tThey are not like Amex. It's the company that you got your Visa card from that are your problem.
Well, it doesn't help that companies are ill informed a lot of the time. I got a call today claiming to be from my ISP, asking for feedback on the service. At the end of the call they said they just wanted to verify my identity and asked for my DOB and the answer to my secret question that gets used as a password backup/reset mechanism, so they could confirm they were talking to the right person.
I told them absolutely not, they phoned me, I only prove my identity with private information when I've phoned a number/service I recognise, not a random caller.
I'm pretty sure it was them as I got a 'thanks for your feedback' email afterwards, but WTF? I'm tempted to think it was some sort of test/survey thing to find out how dumb people are, but that's probably being too generous.
The problem with model numbers is that they go around!
That system was from 2005 IIRC, pretty cutting edge for the time but not so much now. Your Mac Mini is probably a bit more powerful than that, it's worth a try anyway!
I had an Athlon64 3200+ with an ATI X800 Pro in it last time I tried. One or two things worked acceptably, R-Type Final springs to mind, but most things either failed totally or ran at an abysmal speed. I don't know what's in your Mac Mini, but macs haven't historically been that hot on graphics have they?
Yeah, I suppose I've heard of chroot jails as a concept. I'm not sure I'm willing to concede that jailbreaking is that specific a term. Also it doesn't have much bearing on the whole "iPhone hack good, ps3 hack bad" aregument that seems to have kicked off.
"I think most people (not most technical people) would disagree. The primary goal of jailbreaking an iPhone is probably not piracy. The primary goal of modding consoles tends to be piracy."
That may be so, or at least it may have been so. I'm less convinced as the piracy angle on phones seems to be growing rapidly.
"In court, for example, this is likely going to matter in certain cases."
Well, courts and reason/reality haven't been too closely married in recent times. This is an annoyance though.
Indeed, the PS3 jailbreak is free now. It wasn't at first. I really don't think that's relevant though, except inasmuch as noting that lots of people were coughing up the cost of two games in order to play unlimited backups (or, possibly, to do homebrew which doesn't even exist yet.)
Well it's possible I am just weird, but I was tempted to do the hack just because it was interesting. And "backups", sign me up for those. Not the pirate kind. Don't see why I shouldn't be able to load my games from my hard drive for quicker loading and less farting about with disks.
I'm still amazed that a system crack like this, that has the potential for other operating systems and software, should have to be justified or defended on/. though.
1. I wasn't aware Jailbreaking was a particular technical term. I don't believe it is, in fact, that specific.
2. The primary goal is not a practical issue. Loading unapproved native code is the practical upshot of the PS3 jailbreak.
3. PS3 Jailbreaks are now free as well, thanks to PSGroove (you need a programmable USB stick) and PSFreedom for the N900 and various other devices. What's more the free versions are not shipping with the backup manager as this is non-free. Getting it, using it and how itis used is an exercise left to the user and their own moral code. On top of that not only have there been stories of widespread app piracy on jailbroken iPhones, but that the PS3 hack is in its very early stages so you can't expect a thriving software environment yet.
That would be annoying for those of us who like to drive ion corrugated/rocky tracks in the outback, from the soundproofing perspective and from the perspective of ruining my loud-music-sunshine-and-wilderness high.
Other than the road crossing bit, I'm the opposite. I loved being cocooned in my little world of my own sound when walking through London. Somehow it seemed easier and faster to get through crowds of tourists when I had some pounding metal or industrial music on.
"In November 2009, an IBM representative said that it has discontinued the development of a Cell processor with 32 SPUs[19][20] but they have not halted development of other future products in the Cell family"
Sounds really dead, sure. And the 'underdog' is rapidly reaching the same level of sales as the 360.
I have no experience programming for Cell, but it always sounded interesting to me as a parallelism experiment. Maybe it should have ben restricted to the scientific and engineering establishment for the first few iterations.
"And the latest report is that the next firmware update is going to disable the USB ports"
BULLSHIT.
Sorry, but I have to call this one out for what it is.
The USB ports are how the controllers are used during certain updates or if they're out of power. The USB ports also are how you plug in things like the Playstation Eye, a peripheral that Sony themselves sell and are relying on for their "Move" push.
They will not now, nor ever, disable the USB ports, this is some sort of forum echo-chamber nonsense or an outright troll that's somehow gained credence.
Especially when an update to their USB driver will destroy this jailbreak just as well.
Well, IF the PS3 is unlocked fully and the homebrew scene develops properly, and IF the performance is as good as it should be, and IF some clever people get on it, it may be possible to port he pcsx2 emulator to the PS3.
It would take quite a bit of work, AFAICT, because the current emulator is heavily tied to x86/x86_64 and x86 extensions, but with a bit of work it could be possible.
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I've heard that the iPhone does the kill behaviour too.
Not to come across as too Fanboi-ish, but the N900 does it marvellously. Next step - Nokia, please make a slimmer,prettier Maemo/Meego phone? Please?
Oh true.
I was just being snarky about iOS but Grand Central is something I mean to look into more. It sounds from a very quick skim of the material to be a decent thread-pool implementation but it created a bit more of a splash than that would warrant and, apple effect aside, so I must get around to figuring out what else is there.
Who needs multiple cores when multi-tasking has been decreed irrelevant?
Or did I miss an update where multitasking was invented and gifted to the world by Apple?
"Engineer carries with it a liability as you are responsible for your actions in a way that a software programmer is not."
I hear this said a lot and don't see it in the real world. Engineering companies, just like software companies, enter into contracts to provide services to a set quality and schedule with penalties if these are not met. Liability of an individual engineer doesn't enter into it in either case.
And the reason I am not a "Professional Engineer" in the accredited sense is because accreditation is not settled yet. I have no problem considering myself, with a degree and a decade's experience, an Engineer in all the same ways.
And you're an anonymous coward.
I'm both, thanks.
Interesting. I'll have a read about those. Thanks!
(I'd still like an IEEE software accreditation, but I may be waiting a while).
I'm glad that people refuse jobs that they think are below their value. It keeps salaries up for everyone. We don't need a race to the bottom if we can help it and good software guys make a LOT of money for the company that knows how to use them well.
As for "discipline", what do you mean by that?
Not to toot my own horn, but....
I've never had to look for work for more than a couple of weeks. Sometimes much to my own annoyance (I wanted some more time off!). And at least a couple of the positions I've filled had been open for months by then as they looked for someone that had the right skills.
I don't think I'm some sort of uber-genius but perhaps there are a lot of people out there in the industry that really aren't up to scratch?
Me, I hope that the IEEE and the various national and international computer societies sort out their accreditation criteria and schemes so this argument can be put to rest. They've been at it for years!
As a developer who architects, designs and writes code to run in high-traffic server environments I consider what I do to be a form of engineering.
It doesn't make a huge difference to me, though it would be nice to be an accredited professional. I also dislike the attitude that it's some sort of cowboy business because "you're not an engineer!". You may be able to play fast and loose in the world of the desktop or the web programmer, but when someone's credit card payment processing is at risk things have to be a little more formal.
No, it's not. It's really not. VISA allow the logo to be used on hundreds of thousands of card products across the world. Thye provide card/transaction standards, a worldwide authorisation network and various other things. Their relationship is with @aquiring banks and issuing banks.
You cannot get a credit card from visa. They do not deal with individual accouns or providing credit like @bank does. tThey are not like Amex. It's the company that you got your Visa card from that are your problem.
I'm an engineer, a software engineer. No, I don't give a crap if you think it's not engineering.
That guy's father sounds like an asshole.
Well, it doesn't help that companies are ill informed a lot of the time. I got a call today claiming to be from my ISP, asking for feedback on the service. At the end of the call they said they just wanted to verify my identity and asked for my DOB and the answer to my secret question that gets used as a password backup/reset mechanism, so they could confirm they were talking to the right person.
I told them absolutely not, they phoned me, I only prove my identity with private information when I've phoned a number/service I recognise, not a random caller.
I'm pretty sure it was them as I got a 'thanks for your feedback' email afterwards, but WTF?
I'm tempted to think it was some sort of test/survey thing to find out how dumb people are, but that's probably being too generous.
The problem with model numbers is that they go around!
That system was from 2005 IIRC, pretty cutting edge for the time but not so much now. Your Mac Mini is probably a bit more powerful than that, it's worth a try anyway!
Yeah, I wouldn't count on much!
I had an Athlon64 3200+ with an ATI X800 Pro in it last time I tried. One or two things worked acceptably, R-Type Final springs to mind, but most things either failed totally or ran at an abysmal speed. I don't know what's in your Mac Mini, but macs haven't historically been that hot on graphics have they?
Yeah, I suppose I've heard of chroot jails as a concept. I'm not sure I'm willing to concede that jailbreaking is that specific a term. Also it doesn't have much bearing on the whole "iPhone hack good, ps3 hack bad" aregument that seems to have kicked off.
"I think most people (not most technical people) would disagree. The primary goal of jailbreaking an iPhone is probably not piracy. The primary goal of modding consoles tends to be piracy."
That may be so, or at least it may have been so. I'm less convinced as the piracy angle on phones seems to be growing rapidly.
"In court, for example, this is likely going to matter in certain cases."
Well, courts and reason/reality haven't been too closely married in recent times. This is an annoyance though.
Indeed, the PS3 jailbreak is free now. It wasn't at first. I really don't think that's relevant though, except inasmuch as noting that lots of people were coughing up the cost of two games in order to play unlimited backups (or, possibly, to do homebrew which doesn't even exist yet.)
Well it's possible I am just weird, but I was tempted to do the hack just because it was interesting. And "backups", sign me up for those. Not the pirate kind. Don't see why I shouldn't be able to load my games from my hard drive for quicker loading and less farting about with disks.
I'm still amazed that a system crack like this, that has the potential for other operating systems and software, should have to be justified or defended on /. though.
This place has changed, and not for the better.
1. I wasn't aware Jailbreaking was a particular technical term. I don't believe it is, in fact, that specific.
2. The primary goal is not a practical issue. Loading unapproved native code is the practical upshot of the PS3 jailbreak.
3. PS3 Jailbreaks are now free as well, thanks to PSGroove (you need a programmable USB stick) and PSFreedom for the N900 and various other devices. What's more the free versions are not shipping with the backup manager as this is non-free. Getting it, using it and how itis used is an exercise left to the user and their own moral code. On top of that not only have there been stories of widespread app piracy on jailbroken iPhones, but that the PS3 hack is in its very early stages so you can't expect a thriving software environment yet.
I'm sorry, but they are effectively identical.
That would be annoying for those of us who like to drive ion corrugated/rocky tracks in the outback, from the soundproofing perspective and from the perspective of ruining my loud-music-sunshine-and-wilderness high.
Other than the road crossing bit, I'm the opposite. I loved being cocooned in my little world of my own sound when walking through London. Somehow it seemed easier and faster to get through crowds of tourists when I had some pounding metal or industrial music on.
Reading further it seems to be one guy with an agenda and too much free time!
Sorry, what the hell?
Technically - it's using a flaw in the system to be able to run unsigned code, it's almost identical to an iPhone jailbreak.
Practically - It's just been announced in the last couple of weeks, so there's no SDK yet, let alone a software "scene"
Morally? what are you smoking? It's exactly the fscking same deal.
What? Delayed?
But I wanted to watch my one and only 3d-bluray movie!
From wikipedia -
"In November 2009, an IBM representative said that it has discontinued the development of a Cell processor with 32 SPUs[19][20] but they have not halted development of other future products in the Cell family"
Sounds really dead, sure. And the 'underdog' is rapidly reaching the same level of sales as the 360.
I have no experience programming for Cell, but it always sounded interesting to me as a parallelism experiment. Maybe it should have ben restricted to the scientific and engineering establishment for the first few iterations.
"And the latest report is that the next firmware update is going to disable the USB ports"
BULLSHIT.
Sorry, but I have to call this one out for what it is.
The USB ports are how the controllers are used during certain updates or if they're out of power. The USB ports also are how you plug in things like the Playstation Eye, a peripheral that Sony themselves sell and are relying on for their "Move" push.
They will not now, nor ever, disable the USB ports, this is some sort of forum echo-chamber nonsense or an outright troll that's somehow gained credence.
Especially when an update to their USB driver will destroy this jailbreak just as well.
Really?
That's a shame, as I'm sure more than a few folks would be interested in trying to get pcsx2 running on there.
Well, IF the PS3 is unlocked fully and the homebrew scene develops properly, and IF the performance is as good as it should be, and IF some clever people get on it, it may be possible to port he pcsx2 emulator to the PS3.
It would take quite a bit of work, AFAICT, because the current emulator is heavily tied to x86/x86_64 and x86 extensions, but with a bit of work it could be possible.