Bingo. "The name of the game is getting shit done." I could not have said that better myself.
This fact of life is a true thorn in the side of the "open or nothing" mentality, and I'm glad I'm finally seeing it on Slashdot.
sidenote: the UIDs on this page are crazy high... the lower numbered old-hats like myself usually (irrationally) hate anything non-open on habit alone.
my grandparent's house is so insulated that they can heat the entire house with a candle burning on the dining room table. I kid you not.
in the summer, when its 95+ outside, the AC runs once a day (depending on how many people enter & leave the house) and it is a very comfy 72f almost all day.
continuing that analogy, if you're saying that VB is equivalent to a car's frame, body, or engine, you're dead wrong. if you're talking about the anchor in my trunk that i'm about to toss into the river, i'll give you that.
This is 2006. J2EE, C#, and C++ custom stuff are three/far/ superior choices for enterprise level apps, and they have been for about 4 years at least. Building a GUI in C# is just as fast as in VB6 or VB.NET, and just as easy to learn.
My Fortune 50 employer is dumping VB6 like a hot potato, and we're not even *thinking* of implementing VB.NET ever. J2EE is our direction and C# is acceptable when needed. VB is out. There's a good reason for that.
Visual Basic (especially VB6) have no place in the enterprise.
C# and VB.NET are very similar, and C# has a much more standardized syntax style. It will take little time to teach someone C# that is familiar with Java or even C++, but it could take some time to acclimate that same programmer to VB's retarded syntax style. Any language with constructs like "If Not foo Is Nothing Then... End If" rather than "if (foo) {...}" has no place in my brain.
JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, and even Perl have the same curly-brace blocks, statements end with a semicolon syntax style.
If your boss gives you the often used "anyone can learn visual basic in a day" line, give him the "anyone can learn Java or C# in a day also, and the talent pool for those languages is much larger" response.
in fact if anyone on a vulnerable modem loads this page it will disconnect them as soon as the modem sees that text.:)
I did this on an IRC server once. There were loads of people in a room discussing politics, and it got very heated and furious. Having never tried the ATH command before, I figured then was the perfect time. about 4/5 of the room suddenly went silent, and a few seconds later they had timed out.
What gave you the idea that a program running on AMD will make a different number of function calls than the same program running on Intel?
What gave you the idea that this is what he asked? He asked to see if anyone knew of a good profiler for AMD processors, since obviously the Intel ones won't work (be it for marketing or technical reasons). He said that he wanted to profile his code, to find bottlenecks, not to find the different bottlenecks between AMD and Intel.
I'm guessing you haven't played it lately, then. It is far more fun for me than WoW ever was or will be, even though every person I know in RL that plays games like this play WoW, I still feel that EQ2 is worth playing more than WoW.
It has changed a lot in the last year, CaseM. You should give it a try again.
yeah the nausea is pretty strong but i'm not much of a puker so no inside-out episodes yet. food does help in that it lessens the severity, but food makes it worse for me because the nausea duration is hours longer. even reading (or typing) the word 'nausea' makes my stomach move on its own behalf. ugh.
as to the comment about me being in for quite a ride - what do you mean by that?
buy an analog one, not digitall, unless it is fast enough to update every image at your desired framerate. digital multiplexors that i've seen usually only update each image maybe 4-8 times per second. digital is cheaper, but you don't get what you want with digital.
that was about 7 years ago though, i don't know what they're capable of now.
apparently you don't remember the HUNDREDS of horrible games released for the NES and Atari (and Intellivision, and Atari consoles, and early computers)
There are only a handful of good games for any particular generation of gaming console, and there are only a handful of good games for any particular period of time in the desktop computer world.
horrible games are the norm, and they always have been. Its just that as you get older, you notice the horrible games much easier.
From what I've been able to find, the XBox360 CPU is a modified PPC chip.
I read *somewhere* that some internal IBM person confessed to some blog writer that the XBox 360 CPU and IBMs Cell processor are the same, except that the one that IBM provided for Microsoft has been as much removed from the Cell name and Cell support circuitry as possible, so that either MS or Sony have competitive advantage, depending on who is making the sales pitch.
They both have 3 cores, running at 3.2GHz (name another triple-core 3.2GHz consumer level chip; I can't)
The XBox 360 processor is related to the Cell. I'm guessing that it is indeed a very close relative. brothers yes; twins, probably.
"What part of sex do you not think a person at 13 is ready for? Up until very recently in our social eveolution, people were going to war, getting married and having children at that age. Young people haven't become more stupid over time... if anything they are collectively more intelligent. The problem is, sir, is that you treat them as something less than a person."
Do you know any 13 year olds? There is nothing about any 13 year old that is ready for sex except their bodies, and even that is borderline.
Your arguement is similar to this: "There is nothing wrong with lead consumption. Until very recently in our social evolution, toothpaste came in lead tubes and water was delivered to our households in lead pipes. we survived fine."
The reason that our society sees 13-year-olds as being too young for sex (and lead unsuitable for human consumption) is because we know a *lot* more about the growth of the mind, starting very recently. it is called progress. We know more, so we know what to avoid much more clearly.
making a law which makes it illegal to sell games (of any type, violent or not) to minors is not a violation of anyone's first amendment rights. Perhaps you should read that amemdment again. No one's free speech is being squelched.
minors aren't full citizens of the united states, ask any attorney. Its the reason that many minors get away with murder and its the reason that your record is *supposed* to be wiped clean when you turn 18. Nothing in the constitution says anything about giving gaming rights to people that are not citizens of the United States.
there is *nothing* wrong with those laws, which I'm sure many of you will argue with. I agree that they should not have been put into law, but the fact that they're laws has nothing to do with ANYONE's first amendment rights.
So the teens of the US can't go out and buy games which allow them to steal imaginary cars and kill imaginary hookers. so what? Since when is stealing imaginary cars and killing imaginary hookers a right? persuit of stupidity and violence is not a right, and there are plenty of other ways to persue happiness.
you idiots can mod me down all you want. you're still morons if you think gaming is a constitutional right.
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anyone who thinks that the moon landings were faked is making themselves look like an idiot in the same manner that those who forward chain emails to save their yahoo account from deletion look like idiots. same goes for those of you that think cow-tipping is real. you're all just the punchline in someone's joke.
why don't you actually try and find out the facts on your own instead of believing everything you read on the internet?
doesn't that still require that you change the profile setting for each user at each machine they log in to? he's trying to avoid that.
this is slashdot. i'm sure you'll all rip me a new asshole for being so obviously clueless, and demand that i surrender my firstborn child to the god of stupid sacrifices for asking such an idiotic question, so just save yourselves the effort before you hit 'reply', because i'm not going to read any replies anyway.
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What's this!? Reason AND logic, on SLASHDOT? Far out. I like it.
Bingo. "The name of the game is getting shit done." I could not have said that better myself.
This fact of life is a true thorn in the side of the "open or nothing" mentality, and I'm glad I'm finally seeing it on Slashdot.
sidenote: the UIDs on this page are crazy high... the lower numbered old-hats like myself usually (irrationally) hate anything non-open on habit alone.
my grandparent's house is so insulated that they can heat the entire house with a candle burning on the dining room table. I kid you not.
in the summer, when its 95+ outside, the AC runs once a day (depending on how many people enter & leave the house) and it is a very comfy 72f almost all day.
"Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word"
Word is a question?
continuing that analogy, if you're saying that VB is equivalent to a car's frame, body, or engine, you're dead wrong. if you're talking about the anchor in my trunk that i'm about to toss into the river, i'll give you that.
/far/ superior choices for enterprise level apps, and they have been for about 4 years at least. Building a GUI in C# is just as fast as in VB6 or VB.NET, and just as easy to learn.
This is 2006. J2EE, C#, and C++ custom stuff are three
My Fortune 50 employer is dumping VB6 like a hot potato, and we're not even *thinking* of implementing VB.NET ever. J2EE is our direction and C# is acceptable when needed. VB is out. There's a good reason for that.
Visual Basic (especially VB6) have no place in the enterprise.
... End If" rather than "if (foo) {...}" has no place in my brain.
C# and VB.NET are very similar, and C# has a much more standardized syntax style. It will take little time to teach someone C# that is familiar with Java or even C++, but it could take some time to acclimate that same programmer to VB's retarded syntax style. Any language with constructs like "If Not foo Is Nothing Then
JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, and even Perl have the same curly-brace blocks, statements end with a semicolon syntax style.
If your boss gives you the often used "anyone can learn visual basic in a day" line, give him the "anyone can learn Java or C# in a day also, and the talent pool for those languages is much larger" response.
its ATH0+++, I believe.
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in fact if anyone on a vulnerable modem loads this page it will disconnect them as soon as the modem sees that text.
I did this on an IRC server once. There were loads of people in a room discussing politics, and it got very heated and furious. Having never tried the ATH command before, I figured then was the perfect time. about 4/5 of the room suddenly went silent, and a few seconds later they had timed out.
I got a good laugh. I'm sure it still works.
What gave you the idea that a program running on AMD will make a different number of function calls than the same program running on Intel?
What gave you the idea that this is what he asked? He asked to see if anyone knew of a good profiler for AMD processors, since obviously the Intel ones won't work (be it for marketing or technical reasons). He said that he wanted to profile his code, to find bottlenecks, not to find the different bottlenecks between AMD and Intel.
R.I.F.
BSG is filmed in Toronto. Hardly Hollywood.
John Romero is to developing an MMO.
What's a Massive Multiplayer Online?
funny. nevermind the horrible grammar even without the MMO citation.
I'm guessing you haven't played it lately, then. It is far more fun for me than WoW ever was or will be, even though every person I know in RL that plays games like this play WoW, I still feel that EQ2 is worth playing more than WoW.
It has changed a lot in the last year, CaseM. You should give it a try again.
too many spelling errors, idiot. :)
yeah the nausea is pretty strong but i'm not much of a puker so no inside-out episodes yet. food does help in that it lessens the severity, but food makes it worse for me because the nausea duration is hours longer. even reading (or typing) the word 'nausea' makes my stomach move on its own behalf. ugh.
as to the comment about me being in for quite a ride - what do you mean by that?
Mine gave me 10mg of Lexapro to take once a day.
It is working fantastically well.
can someone tell me wtf NGE stands for?
perhaps this is what tipped cupid's arrows?
maybe it could be a real dating service... pay to have someone fall for you via remote administration of this love chemical.
security companies sell them.
buy an analog one, not digitall, unless it is fast enough to update every image at your desired framerate. digital multiplexors that i've seen usually only update each image maybe 4-8 times per second. digital is cheaper, but you don't get what you want with digital.
that was about 7 years ago though, i don't know what they're capable of now.
apparently you don't remember the HUNDREDS of horrible games released for the NES and Atari (and Intellivision, and Atari consoles, and early computers)
There are only a handful of good games for any particular generation of gaming console, and there are only a handful of good games for any particular period of time in the desktop computer world.
horrible games are the norm, and they always have been. Its just that as you get older, you notice the horrible games much easier.
From what I've been able to find, the XBox360 CPU is a modified PPC chip.
I read *somewhere* that some internal IBM person confessed to some blog writer that the XBox 360 CPU and IBMs Cell processor are the same, except that the one that IBM provided for Microsoft has been as much removed from the Cell name and Cell support circuitry as possible, so that either MS or Sony have competitive advantage, depending on who is making the sales pitch.
They both have 3 cores, running at 3.2GHz (name another triple-core 3.2GHz consumer level chip; I can't)
The XBox 360 processor is related to the Cell. I'm guessing that it is indeed a very close relative. brothers yes; twins, probably.
"What part of sex do you not think a person at 13 is ready for? Up until very recently in our social eveolution, people were going to war, getting married and having children at that age. Young people haven't become more stupid over time... if anything they are collectively more intelligent. The problem is, sir, is that you treat them as something less than a person."
Do you know any 13 year olds? There is nothing about any 13 year old that is ready for sex except their bodies, and even that is borderline.
Your arguement is similar to this: "There is nothing wrong with lead consumption. Until very recently in our social evolution, toothpaste came in lead tubes and water was delivered to our households in lead pipes. we survived fine."
The reason that our society sees 13-year-olds as being too young for sex (and lead unsuitable for human consumption) is because we know a *lot* more about the growth of the mind, starting very recently. it is called progress. We know more, so we know what to avoid much more clearly.
making a law which makes it illegal to sell games (of any type, violent or not) to minors is not a violation of anyone's first amendment rights. Perhaps you should read that amemdment again. No one's free speech is being squelched.
minors aren't full citizens of the united states, ask any attorney. Its the reason that many minors get away with murder and its the reason that your record is *supposed* to be wiped clean when you turn 18. Nothing in the constitution says anything about giving gaming rights to people that are not citizens of the United States.
there is *nothing* wrong with those laws, which I'm sure many of you will argue with. I agree that they should not have been put into law, but the fact that they're laws has nothing to do with ANYONE's first amendment rights.
So the teens of the US can't go out and buy games which allow them to steal imaginary cars and kill imaginary hookers. so what? Since when is stealing imaginary cars and killing imaginary hookers a right? persuit of stupidity and violence is not a right, and there are plenty of other ways to persue happiness.
you idiots can mod me down all you want. you're still morons if you think gaming is a constitutional right.
anyone who thinks that the moon landings were faked is making themselves look like an idiot in the same manner that those who forward chain emails to save their yahoo account from deletion look like idiots. same goes for those of you that think cow-tipping is real. you're all just the punchline in someone's joke.
why don't you actually try and find out the facts on your own instead of believing everything you read on the internet?
1) SWG deletes characters shortly after account cancelation because Sony is in league with Satan
While I won't agree with the Satan bit, I left my account unsubscribed for over 14 months, just renewed it yesterday, and everything was still there.
So, in other words, you're wrong.
yeah i think i popped something in my body while laughing at this.
doesn't that still require that you change the profile setting for each user at each machine they log in to? he's trying to avoid that.
this is slashdot. i'm sure you'll all rip me a new asshole for being so obviously clueless, and demand that i surrender my firstborn child to the god of stupid sacrifices for asking such an idiotic question, so just save yourselves the effort before you hit 'reply', because i'm not going to read any replies anyway.