You do have a point, but there is an exception here. With embedded work and gaming consoles, you don't usually have the low-level work done for you, and having optimal code will give better results than sticking in better hardware since the hardware usually comes with tied in with the software ( think OSes and such on PDA's ).
I'm currently an embedded systems developer, and I think I've found my niche, the work's interesting and I have the opportunity to optimize my work, and not have to rely on libraries.
I guess this sort of situation is analogous to making things the old fashioned way, like making homemade ice cream, where you can enjoy the process of making it and enjoying the final product, even though it takes more time and effort than running to the local grocery store. I guess embedded work and a few other things ( research? ) are the only places in which programming is still an art form.
I think to a certain point, piracy can drive the price of games up. However, if piracy reaches a point where it's so widespread ( IIRC, it's a lot worse in China than here ), then the only thing left to do is lower the prices. It's sort of like an upside down parabola, shifted up and to the right.
some wacko gay rights activist comes out and complains about the fact that one cannot have two male or two female connectors connected without an adapter.
I'm curious how long the battery will last in such a device. Packaging in all of these features such as 802.11 support looks like it's going to drain the battery pretty quickly.
Any guesses as to how much this thing will cost though? It seems to offer more than what we see on most PDA's.
It's true that getting the hydrogen from a renewable source is difficult, but it's I'm sure that one big plant is more efficient. To clarify, if we have electric cars, we need the electricity from somewhere, it is more efficient to have one big plant ( even if its coal ) than say, 1000 cars with on-board generators running off of diesel.
to see interest back in the moon.
Having colonies on the moon has a lot of advantages, for example, launching some sort of spacecraft from the moon to another object ( say, an asteriod ) and then back, sort of like making round trips. This sort if thing would be great for mining, since having shuttles having to go back and forth through the earth's atmosphere would be expensive for mining.
I'd have to disagree with co-op jobs. These days jobs are harder to come by. I know a lot of my friends have had great trouble getting jobs, and RIM has roughly 50 co-ops there at any given time. On top of that, a great percent of full-timers are Waterloo students.
The relationship between these two organizations ( RIM and U of Waterloo ) is symbiotic, and could seriously damage U of W.
Hopefully RIM can recover from this. U of Waterloo relies on quite a few donations from RIM, and a lot of students get co-op jobs ( and very good jobs at that ) at the company.
Hopefully this doesn't bring another round of layoffs.
I must say, that Gentoo is a great Distro for actually learning some of the things of the Linux environment.
Gentoo was/is my second distro (I tried redhat first), I was intrigued by the idea of doing everything from almost scratch.
Starting from Stage 1, I was able to learn quite a few things that I probably would not have learnt till some time if I had not decided to do a Gentoo Stage 1 setup as you're somewhat forced to learn the basics and have a fairly good foundation to go learn more stuff yourself.
Although I am sure there are other distros out there (including linux from scratch, if that's even technically a distro ) that are like Gentoo, but I find it to be a rather good Distro.
However though, I may decide some time from now to try the "from scratch" route, and perhaps learn even more. Although, I think the think that will keep me with Gentoo, like others have said is Portage, I think it would be great if there was a well maintained Portage-like system for any distro, as a piece of software, even though it's probably possible to get portage working on other distros, but probably not without some major tinkering.
I have to agree. I've lost many a good porn sites while accidently closing the window when I meant to maximize, and then forgetting the URL of the site.
We don't need all that junk...
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... because all you need is to go out and grab a couple GeForce FX 5800's.
I know everyone hates MS, and I'm not too fond if the company either, but look at it this way. some of that $471M is going to make its way to MS employees. Those employees have more money, and they will spend more money, and the money gets spread around. However, one could have a long and heated Economic debate about this, since throwing money at the problem doesn't always fix things.
Yeah right, this is probably just some ploy to hide the real truth.
That real truth being a gang of hacker parents hacking into the school database and copying such information to an unprotected location in order for themselves and other parents to find out their childrens' marks since report cards seemed to be getting "lost" in the mail.
Hmm, I don't know, but I've found my Blackberry rather helpful for my studies. The little thumbpad is helpful for taking down assignments and firing off quick emails to the prof before you forget. The built-in phone is great too. IMO, a little better for productivity, all utility, no fuss, no gimmicks.
Battery life is great too, I find it lasting around 2 weeks, which is amazing considering I tend to read slashdot during lectures =)
Well, a lot oof companies in north america, or even up here in ontario canada use linus for their development. I worked for one on my last coop term ( I go to a coop university that alternates coop and study terms) and linux was used extensively in testing and development. We are currently looking into switching even more toward linux as we have more and more of our internal tools available for windows.
Along with helping increase the realism of games by using the heart rate, I think thi opens new doors for AI. You could have AI in fps games react to your vitals. For example, chasing affter you if your heart is racing.
I like the idea of using heart rate for features though. Like maybe you get special abilities with a fast heart rate in mmorpgs. The good thing is that geeks will get some exercise by trying to get their heart racing:)
I personally think that ms should start a all over again from the ground up. The problem is that fixing up bad code is annoying and you ultimately get something that's mangled.
The best thing to do would be to start over but make things appear the same at the upper layers so some existing apps work. However I do understand that this would leave a bunch of non working apps, but I think it might give M$ new life.
They could even rip off linux and call it their own. But don't get me wrong, I hate M$.
Great.. I hope there are at least the CTRL, CLT and DEL Keys on that thing. Or perhaps you're supposed to run backwards, hold the start button and jack up the speed in order to reboot the thing.
Forgive my ignorance, but is Cg made for NVIDIA only? Or is it even optimized for NVIDIA chips?
If it is one of the above, I think that this is another gimmick for NVIDIA to get a greater market share
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You do have a point, but there is an exception here. With embedded work and gaming consoles, you don't usually have the low-level work done for you, and having optimal code will give better results than sticking in better hardware since the hardware usually comes with tied in with the software ( think OSes and such on PDA's ).
I'm currently an embedded systems developer, and I think I've found my niche, the work's interesting and I have the opportunity to optimize my work, and not have to rely on libraries.
I guess this sort of situation is analogous to making things the old fashioned way, like making homemade ice cream, where you can enjoy the process of making it and enjoying the final product, even though it takes more time and effort than running to the local grocery store. I guess embedded work and a few other things ( research? ) are the only places in which programming is still an art form.
I think to a certain point, piracy can drive the price of games up. However, if piracy reaches a point where it's so widespread ( IIRC, it's a lot worse in China than here ), then the only thing left to do is lower the prices. It's sort of like an upside down parabola, shifted up and to the right.
some wacko gay rights activist comes out and complains about the fact that one cannot have two male or two female connectors connected without an adapter.
Everyone knows that Geeks don't have girlfriends!
Heh, I read it as Nadia taking over zion to control sybian. Too much porn and American Pie, and throw in some matrix.
I'm curious how long the battery will last in such a device. Packaging in all of these features such as 802.11 support looks like it's going to drain the battery pretty quickly.
Any guesses as to how much this thing will cost though? It seems to offer more than what we see on most PDA's.
It's true that getting the hydrogen from a renewable source is difficult, but it's I'm sure that one big plant is more efficient. To clarify, if we have electric cars, we need the electricity from somewhere, it is more efficient to have one big plant ( even if its coal ) than say, 1000 cars with on-board generators running off of diesel.
Well, the next step is obvious. They will engineer a superior human that will beat them at chess, humans will reign again and the cycle continues.
Do you suppose seizure robots will be better or worse with this sort of high-def?
I bet if that car had a couple VTEC stickers and perhaps Type R somewhere on the hood, it could do 0-60 in half that time.
to see interest back in the moon.
Having colonies on the moon has a lot of advantages, for example, launching some sort of spacecraft from the moon to another object ( say, an asteriod ) and then back, sort of like making round trips. This sort if thing would be great for mining, since having shuttles having to go back and forth through the earth's atmosphere would be expensive for mining.
I'd have to disagree with co-op jobs. These days jobs are harder to come by. I know a lot of my friends have had great trouble getting jobs, and RIM has roughly 50 co-ops there at any given time. On top of that, a great percent of full-timers are Waterloo students.
The relationship between these two organizations ( RIM and U of Waterloo ) is symbiotic, and could seriously damage U of W.
Hopefully RIM can recover from this. U of Waterloo relies on quite a few donations from RIM, and a lot of students get co-op jobs ( and very good jobs at that ) at the company.
Hopefully this doesn't bring another round of layoffs.
I must say, that Gentoo is a great Distro for actually learning some of the things of the Linux environment.
Gentoo was/is my second distro (I tried redhat first), I was intrigued by the idea of doing everything from almost scratch.
Starting from Stage 1, I was able to learn quite a few things that I probably would not have learnt till some time if I had not decided to do a Gentoo Stage 1 setup as you're somewhat forced to learn the basics and have a fairly good foundation to go learn more stuff yourself.
Although I am sure there are other distros out there (including linux from scratch, if that's even technically a distro ) that are like Gentoo, but I find it to be a rather good Distro.
However though, I may decide some time from now to try the "from scratch" route, and perhaps learn even more. Although, I think the think that will keep me with Gentoo, like others have said is Portage, I think it would be great if there was a well maintained Portage-like system for any distro, as a piece of software, even though it's probably possible to get portage working on other distros, but probably not without some major tinkering.
I have to agree. I've lost many a good porn sites while accidently closing the window when I meant to maximize, and then forgetting the URL of the site.
... because all you need is to go out and grab a couple GeForce FX 5800's.
I know everyone hates MS, and I'm not too fond if the company either, but look at it this way. some of that $471M is going to make its way to MS employees. Those employees have more money, and they will spend more money, and the money gets spread around.
However, one could have a long and heated Economic debate about this, since throwing money at the problem doesn't always fix things.
Yeah right, this is probably just some ploy to hide the real truth.
That real truth being a gang of hacker parents hacking into the school database and copying such information to an unprotected location in order for themselves and other parents to find out their childrens' marks since report cards seemed to be getting "lost" in the mail.
Hmm, I don't know, but I've found my Blackberry rather helpful for my studies. The little thumbpad is helpful for taking down assignments and firing off quick emails to the prof before you forget. The built-in phone is great too. IMO, a little better for productivity, all utility, no fuss, no gimmicks.
Battery life is great too, I find it lasting around 2 weeks, which is amazing considering I tend to read slashdot during lectures =)
I thought they were calling it Windows RG?
Well, a lot oof companies in north america, or even up here in ontario canada use linus for their development. I worked for one on my last coop term ( I go to a coop university that alternates coop and study terms) and linux was used extensively in testing and development. We are currently looking into switching even more toward linux as we have more and more of our internal tools available for windows.
Along with helping increase the realism of games by using the heart rate, I think thi opens new doors for AI. You could have AI in fps games react to your vitals. For example, chasing affter you if your heart is racing. :)
I like the idea of using heart rate for features though. Like maybe you get special abilities with a fast heart rate in mmorpgs. The good thing is that geeks will get some exercise by trying to get their heart racing
I personally think that ms should start a all over again from the ground up. The problem is that fixing up bad code is annoying and you ultimately get something that's mangled.
The best thing to do would be to start over but make things appear the same at the upper layers so some existing apps work. However I do understand that this would leave a bunch of non working apps, but I think it might give M$ new life.
They could even rip off linux and call it their own. But don't get me wrong, I hate M$.
Great.. I hope there are at least the CTRL, CLT and DEL Keys on that thing. Or perhaps you're supposed to run backwards, hold the start button and jack up the speed in order to reboot the thing.
Forgive my ignorance, but is Cg made for NVIDIA only? Or is it even optimized for NVIDIA chips?
If it is one of the above, I think that this is another gimmick for NVIDIA to get a greater market share