IIRC, the Power instruction set has some DSP-like instructions (e.g., MAC, multiply and accumulate). And, of course, they could have licensed the AltiVec APU.
Of course, it's a little harder to upgrade a hardware codec, so you're locked into supporting whatever yesterday's killer format was, instead of what people want today. What you really want is some general-purpose hardware you can reconfigure without too much pain. Say a speedy processor to pump data to a DSP chip or two....
stop your web server (assuming you have Apache or IIS, otherwise don't even bother getting started)
edit the web server config file
restart the web server
Not sure how many "normal people" who can deal with *that* can't figure out the difference between the Java runtime (JRE) and the complete development kit (JDK).
Hmmm, I wonder. I made do with $20K living in downtown Chicago. Yeah, it was a little third-floor walk-up, but it was freshly renovated (I had to put in my own phone jack), and it was just two blocks from the bus, or three blocks to the El. I got by OK, and would have gotten by even better if I had had the sense to ditch my car. As it was, I was making a car payment and paying insurance and only driving about once a month out to the suburbs to see friends. Of course, this was back in the mid-80s, so I'm sure some things have changed, but I was still able to afford $8 cover charges and buy a beer or two.
Either you love it or you don't. Me, I write code because I can't NOT write code. During my morning commute, I don't see traffic flow, I see queueing theory (gone bad, most of the time). I'm writing an elevator controller in Ruby -- not because I have to, but because I had a long wait for an elevator over the weekend, and I started it and have to finish it. FWIW, I was an English major, but I wound up taking more CS classes than English before I was hired out of college for my first software development gig.
Yep. With everybody in a separate training room, using the projector to fill out that 110" screen, sound pounding through the 5.1 Onkyo presentation set-up -- after shutting down the Oracle instance on the development server to free up the CPU and network, of course.
when I spent $300 on a fuckin iPod I expected damn good audio quality...don't fuckin tell me it was my Bang and Olufsen speakers. You guys...are way too emotional to be nerds
I don't know, the first thing that caught my eye on the Audio Lunchbox site was their banner that proclaimed "100% compatibility with all portable music players, including the iPod". And Magnatune's FAQ states that their MP3-VBR format is perfect for the iPod.
I can sell an oil filter that says, "Fits Ford Broncos" without paying Ford.
Yes, but you can't sell a NIC with a sticker that says "Certified to work with Microsoft Windows" without paying Microsoft. And if you don't have that certification, people will return your card when Windows politely informs them that the driver isn't certified, are they sure they want to take the chance that it might destroy their system?
The article implies that if everyone has a radio that can broadcast on any frequency (via the magic of OSS), then it can't be regulated. And they can't stop anyone from having the radio, because the software will be GPLd.
Sorry, kids, but we're talking about a finite resource here. Frequencies aren't virtual, there is no magic multiplexer that will let everyone share the same bandwidth. Just imagine if someone wrote an Ethernet card driver that didn't respect the Ethernet protocol: that one card would monopolize the whole network. Hell, the FCC is already prosecuting people who don't respect the current band allocations, see here. Some people think that because they have a ham license and a 1000W amp they can broadcast whatever and whenever they want. Imagine what the situation will be like when anybody can get a radio and a 1000W (or more) amp. What's to stop people from having several radios and broadcasting on several frequencies at once? Or to stop some script kiddie from writing a simple loop to broadcast "I 4M 31337!!!1!!" starting at 50MHz and moving up 1MHz a step?
I'm with the economists one this one -- everyone is bad until proven otherwise.
Yes, I usually reserve my design spite for people who DON'T underline links in the first place. Esp. when they just display the text in another color, and they use that same technique for emphasis. Like I'm supposed to know that when text is in orange it's a link, and when it's in blue it's just to make a point. I'll be damned if I'm going to go hover over every odd-colored word just to see if my cursor changes.
You might want to check out this link. EarthLink has come up with a firmware upgrade for the Linksys WRT54G routers. Supports both 4 and 6 simultaneously, and it's free. All I have to do is convince Road Runner (Time Warner Cable) to give me a v6 addr and....
Yeah, that whole "Intel inside" campaign is starting to unravel. Try explaining to a marginally-techie friend that centrino=good, celeron=bad. The names are too similar, so they just wind up asking the salesman. And if they can point to an AMD box that's US$100 cheaper than an equivalent Intel box and the salesman tells them there's really no difference, then they'll pick the cheaper box. And anymore, why not? Sure, there's differences, but do they really matter that much any more?
I haven't run into a problem, as long as I have a fairly recent JVM. I ran into a problem just yesterday where I only had a v1.4.1 JVM, and I wanted to run Tomcat 5.5.12, which requres Java 1.5. So I installed 1.5.0_05 and everything's just fine. All my old apps continue to work, and Tomcat is happy.
I suppose there could be a problem if you're using some old pre-Java2 code, but there was not a lot of that to begin with, so it's not been an issue that I've run in to.
The idea is to take and leave what works for your organization
I HATE this. It used to be you could tell what kind of shop you were getting in to by asking "So, what development methodology do you use?" You'd either get an honest "well, we really don't have one" to "We use DOD-STD-2167A" (semantically equivalent to "we don't have one") or "We like to follow Yourdon/Booch/whoever". Regardless, you could tell something about how seriously management took the software development process.
Nowadays it's the same answer: "We use a modified RUP". Which invariably means they use UML and produce either sequence or class diagrams, sometimes (gasp!) even both. The rest is always whatever method they used to have, just brought under the "RUP umbrella".
...it's improved mightily since I last used it. Granted, it was reverse-engineering some Java code, but it wouldn't do squat unless it could compile the whole thing (I assume it created a symbol table/parse tree and based its analysis on that). Which made it useless for documenting portions of a product, or one that was in flux and not in a cleanly-compilable state. Sure, you could stub out everything, but if you're talking an entire package that isn't available, then it's more work than it's worth.
Personally, I'd try to break it down functionally first. Set off the graphics, the user interaction, the game core, any AI. Then break them down into their respective functions, and so on and so forth. Keep an eye out for "extern struct" declarations (esp. things like "extern struct _common" or "extern struct shared_vars", these will be communication vectors and be a general pain source).
Ummm.....cites? According to this, IBM is the market leader with 36%, Oracle follows closely with 32.6%, while MS isn't even close with 18.7%. Or is this "ships more units" as in "ships it with every copy of Windows Server", whether it gets used or not?
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Ummm, prolly not. Let's take a quick look:
Turbo Miata:
Power/weight: 9.77 lb/hp
C6 Corvette:
Power/weight: 6.2 lb/hp
Considering the Vette also gets 0.99G on the skidpad (c.f. 0.9 for the Miata), I think you'll have to do a little better than that...
IIRC, the Power instruction set has some DSP-like instructions (e.g., MAC, multiply and accumulate). And, of course, they could have licensed the AltiVec APU.
Of course, it's a little harder to upgrade a hardware codec, so you're locked into supporting whatever yesterday's killer format was, instead of what people want today. What you really want is some general-purpose hardware you can reconfigure without too much pain. Say a speedy processor to pump data to a DSP chip or two....
Not sure how many "normal people" who can deal with *that* can't figure out the difference between the Java runtime (JRE) and the complete development kit (JDK).
Hey man, the death rays *are* the cure....
Hmmm, I wonder. I made do with $20K living in downtown Chicago. Yeah, it was a little third-floor walk-up, but it was freshly renovated (I had to put in my own phone jack), and it was just two blocks from the bus, or three blocks to the El. I got by OK, and would have gotten by even better if I had had the sense to ditch my car. As it was, I was making a car payment and paying insurance and only driving about once a month out to the suburbs to see friends. Of course, this was back in the mid-80s, so I'm sure some things have changed, but I was still able to afford $8 cover charges and buy a beer or two.
Either you love it or you don't. Me, I write code because I can't NOT write code. During my morning commute, I don't see traffic flow, I see queueing theory (gone bad, most of the time). I'm writing an elevator controller in Ruby -- not because I have to, but because I had a long wait for an elevator over the weekend, and I started it and have to finish it. FWIW, I was an English major, but I wound up taking more CS classes than English before I was hired out of college for my first software development gig.
Do or do not...
Yep. With everybody in a separate training room, using the projector to fill out that 110" screen, sound pounding through the 5.1 Onkyo presentation set-up -- after shutting down the Oracle instance on the development server to free up the CPU and network, of course.
Try easily networking an office full of PCs, postscript printers and servers in 1990 and see how quickly you switch to using Macs.
Bah, trivial. We'll just hook them all up to the VAX...
when I spent $300 on a fuckin iPod I expected damn good audio quality...don't fuckin tell me it was my Bang and Olufsen speakers.
You guys...are way too emotional to be nerds
Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, Pot.
I don't know, the first thing that caught my eye on the Audio Lunchbox site was their banner that proclaimed "100% compatibility with all portable music players, including the iPod". And Magnatune's FAQ states that their MP3-VBR format is perfect for the iPod.
Sounds like PEBKAC to me....
I can sell an oil filter that says, "Fits Ford Broncos" without paying Ford.
Yes, but you can't sell a NIC with a sticker that says "Certified to work with Microsoft Windows" without paying Microsoft. And if you don't have that certification, people will return your card when Windows politely informs them that the driver isn't certified, are they sure they want to take the chance that it might destroy their system?
The article implies that if everyone has a radio that can broadcast on any frequency (via the magic of OSS), then it can't be regulated. And they can't stop anyone from having the radio, because the software will be GPLd.
Sorry, kids, but we're talking about a finite resource here. Frequencies aren't virtual, there is no magic multiplexer that will let everyone share the same bandwidth. Just imagine if someone wrote an Ethernet card driver that didn't respect the Ethernet protocol: that one card would monopolize the whole network. Hell, the FCC is already prosecuting people who don't respect the current band allocations, see here. Some people think that because they have a ham license and a 1000W amp they can broadcast whatever and whenever they want. Imagine what the situation will be like when anybody can get a radio and a 1000W (or more) amp. What's to stop people from having several radios and broadcasting on several frequencies at once? Or to stop some script kiddie from writing a simple loop to broadcast "I 4M 31337!!!1!!" starting at 50MHz and moving up 1MHz a step?
I'm with the economists one this one -- everyone is bad until proven otherwise.
Yes, I usually reserve my design spite for people who DON'T underline links in the first place. Esp. when they just display the text in another color, and they use that same technique for emphasis. Like I'm supposed to know that when text is in orange it's a link, and when it's in blue it's just to make a point. I'll be damned if I'm going to go hover over every odd-colored word just to see if my cursor changes.
You might want to check out this link. EarthLink has come up with a firmware upgrade for the Linksys WRT54G routers. Supports both 4 and 6 simultaneously, and it's free. All I have to do is convince Road Runner (Time Warner Cable) to give me a v6 addr and....
Since his home page is at "assambassador.com", I'd say you hit it.
Yes, but AMD machines are sold directly too. It would be interesting to see the complete figures.
Yeah, that whole "Intel inside" campaign is starting to unravel. Try explaining to a marginally-techie friend that centrino=good, celeron=bad. The names are too similar, so they just wind up asking the salesman. And if they can point to an AMD box that's US$100 cheaper than an equivalent Intel box and the salesman tells them there's really no difference, then they'll pick the cheaper box. And anymore, why not? Sure, there's differences, but do they really matter that much any more?
I haven't run into a problem, as long as I have a fairly recent JVM. I ran into a problem just yesterday where I only had a v1.4.1 JVM, and I wanted to run Tomcat 5.5.12, which requres Java 1.5. So I installed 1.5.0_05 and everything's just fine. All my old apps continue to work, and Tomcat is happy.
I suppose there could be a problem if you're using some old pre-Java2 code, but there was not a lot of that to begin with, so it's not been an issue that I've run in to.
The idea is to take and leave what works for your organization
I HATE this. It used to be you could tell what kind of shop you were getting in to by asking "So, what development methodology do you use?" You'd either get an honest "well, we really don't have one" to "We use DOD-STD-2167A" (semantically equivalent to "we don't have one") or "We like to follow Yourdon/Booch/whoever". Regardless, you could tell something about how seriously management took the software development process.
Nowadays it's the same answer: "We use a modified RUP". Which invariably means they use UML and produce either sequence or class diagrams, sometimes (gasp!) even both. The rest is always whatever method they used to have, just brought under the "RUP umbrella".
Me too, when I submitted it a week ago....
Ipod Nano 200GB mod 16:57 Wednesday 05 October 2005 Rejected
In theory, C should only be a problem if it was coded without regard for OOP
Yes, and we know that this practically never happens. Especially with performance-critical software like games.
<eyeroll/>
...it's improved mightily since I last used it. Granted, it was reverse-engineering some Java code, but it wouldn't do squat unless it could compile the whole thing (I assume it created a symbol table/parse tree and based its analysis on that). Which made it useless for documenting portions of a product, or one that was in flux and not in a cleanly-compilable state. Sure, you could stub out everything, but if you're talking an entire package that isn't available, then it's more work than it's worth.
Personally, I'd try to break it down functionally first. Set off the graphics, the user interaction, the game core, any AI. Then break them down into their respective functions, and so on and so forth. Keep an eye out for "extern struct" declarations (esp. things like "extern struct _common" or "extern struct shared_vars", these will be communication vectors and be a general pain source).
Ummm.....cites? According to this, IBM is the market leader with 36%, Oracle follows closely with 32.6%, while MS isn't even close with 18.7%. Or is this "ships more units" as in "ships it with every copy of Windows Server", whether it gets used or not?
No kidding, what a bunch of mixed metaphors. Competition is like brushing teeth? WTF?