Heh. After reading that interview I get the feeling that this guy doesn't know anything about the product he is selling. Generic one-liner answers that dance around the questions with emphasis on market speak. Here's an excerpt:
GeForce 6 Series GPUs have the most advanced shading engines on the market. Compared to previous generation parts, the vertex and pixel shader engines on GeForce 6 Series GPUs have been completely redesigned from the ground-up. Pixel Shader performance is 4 to 8 times faster. Vertex shader performance is twice as fast. Performance numbers have been outstanding.
Absolut (tm) Garbage!!
Here's another, this time with the question:
* Do you have any idea how performance compares on the Mac between the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the ATI 9800 Pro/XT card?
GeForce 6800 Ultra represents the largest leap forward in graphics performance in our company's history. As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI. We will let the benchmarks speak for themselves.
Talk about trash!! A simple NO would have sufficed. Looks like he's made the most of his Business-for-dummies Manual. Man, why am I so angry over this?
I bet the overhaul of support personell really helped in addition to the new hardware. Its hard to get work done efficiently with all those ale drinking and weed smoking hobbits!
The only "hurdle" is that no publisher can get exclusive rights to publish it.
Hrm, I work at a printshop. Does that mean I could take some articles (based on a particular subject), put it into print (with all proper acknowledgement of course), and profit off of it (charging only the printer fees)? And if so, what's stopping anybody from doing it in the first place (aside from the constantly changing data)?
Considering the fact that wikipedia has gotten bigger than ever, are there any real potential fears that the lack of a steady cash flow may cause the whole project to collapse? Has any (and what kind of) unfavorable contingency plans been considered (like ads) and outright rejected, only to be reconsidered again at a later time?
Wow, I'm definately out of my league here. In the class I was referring to above, our prof made us create a pseudo os that would be able to handle multithreaded apps that my prof made up. The last app he made had multiple consumers, multiple producers, multiple resources, and totally inane production/consumption restrictions. My team was one of three (out of 24) that got that last one working perfectly. In any case it was very unpleasant experience (I suppose the time limit didn't help either).
In my experience semaphore programming can get really really complicated, and if they didn't have to, I'm sure a lot of other programmers out there would rather not work with them either. I'll leave that up to the really smart people.:-)
I don't know that much about os programming, but I do remember back in my college days for our OS class, there was nothing I hated more than trying to progam a scheduler for our minuature OS assignment. Working with semaphores and locks... *shudder* keep the bad man away!!
My condolences to all who do work on this part of the OS.
I suppose the big issue for me would be whether or not he's as smart as me. No PHBs for me, please!
Also, how's his communication skills? And does he worry about getting fired? Because that stuff may trickle down and in my experience it was never too pleasant. If the job title is more of a formality, and he doesn't micromanage, look for the smoothest talker with the highest education, that is jealous of what you do, but doesn't mind dealing with paper all day.
The best experience I've had in the working environment is when the whole team worrys about their work more than them worrying about their job. Quick, efficient, and the core energies are synergized!
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You are right, they DO work right out of the box, provided that you don't add anything else to them.;-)
Now that I think about it, OSX really IS stable, I've only got it to kernel panic once (last month on a panther -I was running Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Quark, Sherlock, A terminal, Fontbook, Suitcase, Ichat, Itunes and Safari...I think it was Quark [like always] pushed it over the edge.) The problem now is the applications.. wait let me rephrase that: The problem is the FONTS that the applications must use.
Fonts are the key to a regularly crashing Panther box, hands down. If you do not have more than a zillion fonts (with a jillion of them corrupt somewhere), then you won't have any problems with your mac. Unforunately, I don't have the time to sort thru all the fonts, so I just gotta trial-and-error it just to make sure I don't crash while I'm doing something critical.
Fonts are a bitch, and I don't have the long-term time (and money) to clear this issue. In the mean time, I'll just keep on flowing with the occasional font-derived crashes. Luckily it hasn't driven me nuts yet, I used to work with os9.:-)
Diddy Kong Racing was difficult, sure, but not up to the point of being unplayable. The beauty of this game is that once you totally mastered it, you realize how good you actaully are.
I'm a huge video game racing nut. I've played DKR, beat all the stages, unlocked all the secrets, everything. And not to brag, but I have yet to meet someone of similar skills.
The original Mario Kart was the most difficult of the three (four if you count the GBA version). I've gotten so good at the original, whenever I played the newer versions, they are basically too easy. I was introduced to Super Mario Kart for the Gamecube on a friday night. I've unlocked every character and beat every circuit (including all of the reverse 150cc cups) by sat morning.
I remember one of my greatest video game acheivements was getting a record time of less than 30 seconds in F-zero n64 death race (the trick is to destroy as many as possible (24-28) in the first 10 seconds, and chasing down the remaining few). I haven't played it for the gamecube yet, but my time will come.:-) I know Sega makes DIFFICULT racing games (I have yet to get the highest ranking in Crazy Taxi - I bow to those that can), but Sega is bar none my favorite game company. Hrm, maybe I will rent F-Zero tonight...
It wasn't that bad. I got it during the slashdotting. I was downloading sporadically at 400kb/s spurts. All I did was click on the link, and started surfing on another tab (firefox, what else?).
I totally forgot about the url. I was actaully pretty suprised that I got in, because I'm so used to not getting to the websites on time. MIT's pipe must be HUGE.
You know, I wonder how many people didn't bother clicking on the link, knowing it was video. It's sorta like killing a dead rat, only this rat wasn't dead. Sure suprised me.
And if you don't know anything about ArrayList, you're sure as hell not coming within 100' of our java projects.
Granted, but knowing the differences between the Collection classes is tricky if one doesn't use them often. Considering that the exam should be more about CS concepts and all, I think what they should have done was not work with api specific classes, but rather more generic/abstract objects (with clearly defined definitions). Of course, this is based on the assumption that Grandparent poster is telling the truth.:-P
For fun I took the sun java cert exam (the non-coding one). Grabbed a little book and started studying. The most difficult thing for me was trying to remember all the differences between the different Collections. Bah, I didn't like memorizing the differences. I only look up the differences between Collections when it's time to find which class is most appropriate depending on the resource requirements of the project I'm working on. Of course, that's when my book comes in handy, plus it also prevents me from trying to build my own collections set:-).
As the for recursion issue, it makes me sad that I can't get a programming job.
Isn't Longhorn supposed to be built on.NET, VMs and all?
That's what I've been reading anyway. This is partly why it keeps being delayed,.NET isn't exactly mature and even if it was, there's a lot of old code that's being rewritten for this.
Really? Wow, so the computers of tomorrow will act like miniature mainframes? (not that the specs can't refute it) And at those speeds, I guess Longhorn can emulate pretty much whatever the hell it wants to. =)
If that happens, I suppose a new breed of sysadmins will be appearing to help support all those nasty boxes. Maybe I can finally get a job! Woohoo, I can't wait till 2008!!!
Haven't you ever used an Apple Pro mouse? No discernable button -- the entire shell moves:)
What Jobs needs to create is a magic wand - a pointing device where all you have to do is point to the screen. There, now all your buttons are gone, and you can use the left hand to use the keyboard for all your extra button clicking needs. =)
Not necessarily that it's more expedient to work on a 1 button mouse, but that working habits change. For example, cut/copy/paste, which I have to do pretty often, is so much quicker on the keyboard, but is so much 'easier' to do on the 2 button mouse. Once I get used to the 'easierness,' in the back of my head I start shifting emphasis on the importance of the keyboard away, instead toward the mouse. And then eventually I would try to do everything on the mouse, up to the point where I just prop up my head with my left arm, and just 'work away' with my right arm. When I finally have to do something that requires me to use the keyboard, I have to 'get up' and start using my left arm, and when I catch myself saying "what a pain in the ass to actually use that keyboard" I realize how much lazier I got, and how complacent I became with my pace.
Now that I'm back on a mac, I became forced to use the keyboard, and especially since every single command has a short cut combo in illustrator, quark, indesign, photoshop, etc., pacing myself by trying to do everything with the mouse is terribly slow.
I will definately take a look at mapping expose, thanks for the tip. Mostly I use f9-11 since my left hand is already scootin around on the keyboard, but I find that the hot corners are 'easier'.:-)
Not to beat this arguement to death (ok, nevermind), but I seem to remember during my college days, all the macs used the 2 button mouse, on os 9 - for all the college kids complaining about how to right-click save on internet explorer. I wonder how much earlier this wasn't an issue.
I use osx all the time now (was a PC to mac convert 2 months ago), and I just find the one button mouse a much more elegant solution. I just find the keyboard and mouse combo is much more efficient. Interestingly enough, it wasn't that I was actually slower, but I was LAZIER with the two button mouse - I didn't want to bother using the keyboard, when i could do it in one hand - which in the end caused performance to suffer. And expose rocks my world. I keep finding myself how to switch windows on winxp, and I marvel at how I was able to survive without expose for so long (alt-tab doesn't cut it anymore). The app switching bottleneck is so gone now.
I work at a printshop, so I very much rather enjoy being able to work on 5-6 jobs at the same time. It reduces a lot of downtime, and I find that the biggest bottleneck on the computer is actaully me. Which, of course causes me to push bigger jobs faster, simultaneously, up until the point where the hardware is near it's limit. It's a vicious cycle, but productivity is the big winner here, and my boss likes that. Plus I feel like Johnny Neumonic(sp?).
No, it can still be boring even if you do know how to play it, just like the Xanth novels can be unfunny even if you get all the puns. I'm not arguing that you are wrong to like Go (or even, God forbid, Xanth novels), just that your argument claiming that people who find Go boring must not "get it" is flawed.
Curse my karma..:(
Wow, I'm having a hard time determining if this parent post is sarcastic or not. Uh.. No, it's not flawed. Knowing the rules of the game != knowing how to play. I would say that 'getting it' and 'knowing how to play' would be an equivalent statement. This would apply for any form of entertainment, be it soccer, sex, or quake. So I'll have to disagree with your statement.
Because it doesn't simulate anything? I mean I'm not a huge chess fan myself, but at least I can see how that lead to the development of miniature warfare gaming, which in turn influenced many computer strategy games. With the exception of Othello, Go didn't really "go" anywhere.
I'm really hoping you were being sarcastic. How about the simulation of "be the guy with the most stuff?" Go is about possession of territory. How could this NOT lead to warfare? Or strategy? I would say that this is a very fundamental aspect of human nature, no?
Heh, I was working over at 57th between 8th and 9th myself.
I remember the supermarkets selling off their water, ice, and sodas. The ice cream parlor next to where I work was selling like crazy. People crowded around cars that had their doors open blasting news radio, trying to find out what the heck was going on. Trying to drive crosstown meant a 2 hour wait per block.
It was a night out on the town, for sure. Everybody that didn't want to stay in their pitch black apartments, went out to meet their neighbors, and their neighbors neighbors. People were drinking in the streets, smoking in the bars (which is illegal in NYC), lying down on the grass in central park looking up at the sky, all in all having a good time. It was really cool, in a post-apocalyptic kind of way.
I'm more concerned about how much power is going to be needed to fully charge one of these babies.
And also how long will the batter life last? I don't wanna change batteries on my cellphone/laptop more than I havta change my underwear.
Also, if this thing catches on, could this be used in electric cars, maybe as the 'oil for the new millenium'? All we could have to do is charge every once in a while, and change batteries every weekend.
Slashdot Mirror
GeForce 6 Series GPUs have the most advanced shading engines on the market. Compared to previous generation parts, the vertex and pixel shader engines on GeForce 6 Series GPUs have been completely redesigned from the ground-up. Pixel Shader performance is 4 to 8 times faster. Vertex shader performance is twice as fast. Performance numbers have been outstanding.
Absolut (tm) Garbage!! Here's another, this time with the question:
* Do you have any idea how performance compares on the Mac between the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the ATI 9800 Pro/XT card?
GeForce 6800 Ultra represents the largest leap forward in graphics performance in our company's history. As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI. We will let the benchmarks speak for themselves.
Talk about trash!! A simple NO would have sufficed. Looks like he's made the most of his Business-for-dummies Manual. Man, why am I so angry over this?
nevermind
I bet the overhaul of support personell really helped in addition to the new hardware. Its hard to get work done efficiently with all those ale drinking and weed smoking hobbits!
Hrm, I work at a printshop. Does that mean I could take some articles (based on a particular subject), put it into print (with all proper acknowledgement of course), and profit off of it (charging only the printer fees)? And if so, what's stopping anybody from doing it in the first place (aside from the constantly changing data)?
Seems kinda shady to me...
Considering the fact that wikipedia has gotten bigger than ever, are there any real potential fears that the lack of a steady cash flow may cause the whole project to collapse? Has any (and what kind of) unfavorable contingency plans been considered (like ads) and outright rejected, only to be reconsidered again at a later time?
In my experience semaphore programming can get really really complicated, and if they didn't have to, I'm sure a lot of other programmers out there would rather not work with them either. I'll leave that up to the really smart people. :-)
My condolences to all who do work on this part of the OS.
Also, how's his communication skills? And does he worry about getting fired? Because that stuff may trickle down and in my experience it was never too pleasant. If the job title is more of a formality, and he doesn't micromanage, look for the smoothest talker with the highest education, that is jealous of what you do, but doesn't mind dealing with paper all day.
The best experience I've had in the working environment is when the whole team worrys about their work more than them worrying about their job. Quick, efficient, and the core energies are synergized!
Now that I think about it, OSX really IS stable, I've only got it to kernel panic once (last month on a panther -I was running Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Quark, Sherlock, A terminal, Fontbook, Suitcase, Ichat, Itunes and Safari...I think it was Quark [like always] pushed it over the edge.) The problem now is the applications.. wait let me rephrase that: The problem is the FONTS that the applications must use.
Fonts are the key to a regularly crashing Panther box, hands down. If you do not have more than a zillion fonts (with a jillion of them corrupt somewhere), then you won't have any problems with your mac. Unforunately, I don't have the time to sort thru all the fonts, so I just gotta trial-and-error it just to make sure I don't crash while I'm doing something critical.
Fonts are a bitch, and I don't have the long-term time (and money) to clear this issue. In the mean time, I'll just keep on flowing with the occasional font-derived crashes. Luckily it hasn't driven me nuts yet, I used to work with os9. :-)
Sell it for $450,000. Then get a house.
I'm a huge video game racing nut. I've played DKR, beat all the stages, unlocked all the secrets, everything. And not to brag, but I have yet to meet someone of similar skills.
The original Mario Kart was the most difficult of the three (four if you count the GBA version). I've gotten so good at the original, whenever I played the newer versions, they are basically too easy. I was introduced to Super Mario Kart for the Gamecube on a friday night. I've unlocked every character and beat every circuit (including all of the reverse 150cc cups) by sat morning.
I remember one of my greatest video game acheivements was getting a record time of less than 30 seconds in F-zero n64 death race (the trick is to destroy as many as possible (24-28) in the first 10 seconds, and chasing down the remaining few). I haven't played it for the gamecube yet, but my time will come. :-) I know Sega makes DIFFICULT racing games (I have yet to get the highest ranking in Crazy Taxi - I bow to those that can), but Sega is bar none my favorite game company. Hrm, maybe I will rent F-Zero tonight...
I totally forgot about the url. I was actaully pretty suprised that I got in, because I'm so used to not getting to the websites on time. MIT's pipe must be HUGE.
You know, I wonder how many people didn't bother clicking on the link, knowing it was video. It's sorta like killing a dead rat, only this rat wasn't dead. Sure suprised me.
That's only because it is the minimum required specs to run their upcoming LonghornCE. Afterall, what good is hardware if it doesn't *operate?* ;-)
Granted, but knowing the differences between the Collection classes is tricky if one doesn't use them often. Considering that the exam should be more about CS concepts and all, I think what they should have done was not work with api specific classes, but rather more generic/abstract objects (with clearly defined definitions). Of course, this is based on the assumption that Grandparent poster is telling the truth. :-P
For fun I took the sun java cert exam (the non-coding one). Grabbed a little book and started studying. The most difficult thing for me was trying to remember all the differences between the different Collections. Bah, I didn't like memorizing the differences. I only look up the differences between Collections when it's time to find which class is most appropriate depending on the resource requirements of the project I'm working on. Of course, that's when my book comes in handy, plus it also prevents me from trying to build my own collections set :-).
As the for recursion issue, it makes me sad that I can't get a programming job.
for online games. Those pesky 64 man fps games are so laggy!
That's what I've been reading anyway. This is partly why it keeps being delayed, .NET isn't exactly mature and even if it was, there's a lot of old code that's being rewritten for this.
Really? Wow, so the computers of tomorrow will act like miniature mainframes? (not that the specs can't refute it) And at those speeds, I guess Longhorn can emulate pretty much whatever the hell it wants to. =)
If that happens, I suppose a new breed of sysadmins will be appearing to help support all those nasty boxes. Maybe I can finally get a job! Woohoo, I can't wait till 2008!!!
What Jobs needs to create is a magic wand - a pointing device where all you have to do is point to the screen. There, now all your buttons are gone, and you can use the left hand to use the keyboard for all your extra button clicking needs. =)
I would get one.
How about the ability to not have the OS crash and burn when you add too many fonts into fontbook? Wow, that's a nightmare.
Now that I'm back on a mac, I became forced to use the keyboard, and especially since every single command has a short cut combo in illustrator, quark, indesign, photoshop, etc., pacing myself by trying to do everything with the mouse is terribly slow.
I will definately take a look at mapping expose, thanks for the tip. Mostly I use f9-11 since my left hand is already scootin around on the keyboard, but I find that the hot corners are 'easier'. :-)
I use osx all the time now (was a PC to mac convert 2 months ago), and I just find the one button mouse a much more elegant solution. I just find the keyboard and mouse combo is much more efficient. Interestingly enough, it wasn't that I was actually slower, but I was LAZIER with the two button mouse - I didn't want to bother using the keyboard, when i could do it in one hand - which in the end caused performance to suffer. And expose rocks my world. I keep finding myself how to switch windows on winxp, and I marvel at how I was able to survive without expose for so long (alt-tab doesn't cut it anymore). The app switching bottleneck is so gone now.
I work at a printshop, so I very much rather enjoy being able to work on 5-6 jobs at the same time. It reduces a lot of downtime, and I find that the biggest bottleneck on the computer is actaully me. Which, of course causes me to push bigger jobs faster, simultaneously, up until the point where the hardware is near it's limit. It's a vicious cycle, but productivity is the big winner here, and my boss likes that. Plus I feel like Johnny Neumonic(sp?).
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It could have been Minix. ;-)
Curse my karma.. :(
;-P
Wow, I'm having a hard time determining if this parent post is sarcastic or not. Uh.. No, it's not flawed. Knowing the rules of the game != knowing how to play. I would say that 'getting it' and 'knowing how to play' would be an equivalent statement. This would apply for any form of entertainment, be it soccer, sex, or quake. So I'll have to disagree with your statement.
Because it doesn't simulate anything? I mean I'm not a huge chess fan myself, but at least I can see how that lead to the development of miniature warfare gaming, which in turn influenced many computer strategy games. With the exception of Othello, Go didn't really "go" anywhere.
I'm really hoping you were being sarcastic. How about the simulation of "be the guy with the most stuff?" Go is about possession of territory. How could this NOT lead to warfare? Or strategy? I would say that this is a very fundamental aspect of human nature, no?
Oh how wonderful it must be to be in bliss
I remember the supermarkets selling off their water, ice, and sodas. The ice cream parlor next to where I work was selling like crazy. People crowded around cars that had their doors open blasting news radio, trying to find out what the heck was going on. Trying to drive crosstown meant a 2 hour wait per block.
It was a night out on the town, for sure. Everybody that didn't want to stay in their pitch black apartments, went out to meet their neighbors, and their neighbors neighbors. People were drinking in the streets, smoking in the bars (which is illegal in NYC), lying down on the grass in central park looking up at the sky, all in all having a good time. It was really cool, in a post-apocalyptic kind of way.
And also how long will the batter life last? I don't wanna change batteries on my cellphone/laptop more than I havta change my underwear.
Also, if this thing catches on, could this be used in electric cars, maybe as the 'oil for the new millenium'? All we could have to do is charge every once in a while, and change batteries every weekend.
the first of April? After all, that would be SO original...