No, all apps are sandboxed into their own little world.
Take any game you can find on the market, you'll have 20 megs of code if they included your moms kitchen sink and gigs of media such as sound, textures, models, levels and so on that actually make up the game.
Programers are very efficient, its the artists who eat up the space;)
No shit? You mean its different on different platforms? Wow, thats not expected or anything and no one has ever done that before.
I totally expected it would be exactly the same on an iPhone as it would be on my quad core, SLI, water cooled over clocked machine that weights 100 pounds.
No shit its different, only someone completely ignorant of software and the differences in a desktop PC and a phone would assume its going to be the same. Of course, thats not even likely since most people ignorant of such things have experienced console ports in the past which are pretty much always different as well do to different hardware capabilities.
You know, now that I think of it, the only idiot who would assume they would be identical is you I think. Even non-techies are aware that different devices are DIFFERENT.
I don't see anyone arguing that piracy is acceptable.
What I do see is people arguing is the fact that the punishment for piracy is ridiculous compared to the actual damages.
You are right, if you can't afford it, sorry, you can't have it. But if that person who can't afford it pirates it from a friend, then no one is actually harmed and nothing is actually lost by anyone that cares.
The software developer is arguing a lost sale, which is simply bunk if the person who pirated didn't have the money to buy it in the first place. The software developer didn't have to pay for bandwidth or disk storage. They were out nothing by the piracy because there were never going to make anything off that person and they didn't lose any money at all by that person getting a DIGITAL COPY... COPY... let me say it again FUCKING COPY from SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE DEVELOPER.
I'm a developer myself. I'm whole heartedly against piracy in all forms, music included. I buy my software and media or I don't, but I no longer pirate.
I've been put in several situations where I know my software is being pirated and the pirates are using my online services, actually costing me money in the form of bandwidth... I just kill their online id. If they buy it then, I win, if they don't buy it then, I still don't lose because I'm literally not any worse off than if the person never existed.
Again though, I agree with you to an extent. People today believe they are entitled to whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want, without any compensation or consideration for others.
Castaway, perfect storm and Apollo 13 all had 'bad guys', that just weren't made out that bad.
Castaway just had 'bad people' at the end. Apollo 13 had gross negligence shown in several places on the ground, but these are both arguable and probably just based on my particular viewpoint. Both of them shared mechanical failure as 'the bad guy'
Perfect Storm on the other hand had a very clear bad guy, the boat owner who drove them to go back out and fish more. Of course, you could always say 'the storm' was the bad guy, which it clearly was as well.
Most porn movies have bad GUYs, you know, the guy who treats the girl like shit by gagging her and blowing his load all over her face, then pounding her in the ass until she bleeds? I realize that you don't actually have sex outside of jerking off to porn, but most chicks really aren't getting off by having a face full of sperm or a bleeding ass.
Without conflict most things are rather pointless, especially movies and games, its just variations on who/what the bad guy is, even if you don't recognize it.
As a developer, I really don't want a 'rapid release schedule' for the languages and frameworks that I use.
Don't get me wrong, I do want new features eventually, but I'd much rather that the design and improvements were well thought out and less often.
A rapid release schedule just creates a mess. What version am I developing against? What version are my users running? Are they going to have to go get something new just to use MY app when they haven't had to do this for anyone else? How long has this new feature actually been used? Can I trust its functionality across multiple platforms?
Every release makes all those questions get an entirely new set of answers added to the last set of answers, it gets more and more complicated every time. This is of course a fact of life for developers, it comes with the territory. It doesn't have to be more complicated just so some marketing dick can say 'ohohohohoh new version of our crap! YOU MUST UPGRADE' oh and by the way, its not compatible for these old bits, so you need both installed!
I don't develop for Linux because I don't want to hit a moving target, I'm not alone. Perhaps Oracle should get a clue here. Of course, they won't, Java is pretty much just for Oracle middleware now unfortunately, which sucks since I've been working on a rather large java app for the last few years:(
Really? I do it all the time, its really not that hard actually.
Right to Left is the only thing that ever requires any extra work, and thats only with corner cases now days.
I use libxml2 for a lot of stuff, and I've never given a second thought to character encoding. It handles that problem for me, thats what good libraries are supposed to do.
I do everything internally in UTF8, convert to UTF16/32 when I need to talk to external libraries/OSes that prefer those formats.
Not sure how Java is any different when it comes to network encoding, unless you mean because you can just pass strings off to the existing class libraries which handle the work for you, in which case, thats the same thing I do. I have an existing stock pile of libraries I use that are unicode aware for networking. In a couple cases, those libraries are my own, but its not like it took me more than a few hours to do them, all the major protocols are covered already.
Who uses xerces for XML parsing other than apache?
Those positions ARE out there. They get filled by qualified personal. There simply aren't a lot of people qualified for those positions. Just because a person is born, doesn't mean they have what it takes for the job.
Contrary to what you've been spoon fed your entire life, we are not all equals. Some of us ARE better at things than others. Some of us ARE worse at some things than others too. We ARE NOT qualified to work ANY JOB WE WANT at birth so everyone going to college for CS still wouldn't solve the problem.
Yea, a lot of people were laid off... its nice how you and everyone else seems to ignore the fact that most of them weren't qualified to hold the job they are in.
Actually, by my standards, I'd say about 1 in 10 people I come across in the tech industry actually know what they are doing.
10 years ago the tech jobs didn't exist, where were they then? I know the tech industry isn't run by a bunch of prepubescent kids, so it seems really fucking retarded that you blame this on the tech industry when they are new comers to the industry anyway.
Maybe, just maybe, before getting laid off the last time she might have inquired about ways to avoid that particular problem. The problem in America is too many people think they are entitled to work and get paid a lot of money regardless of their ability to actually bring money into the company. Your internal help desk doesn't have to sell stuff to be 'profitable' but it does have to be useful.
Carry your weight and you won't have a problem, seems to be what I see all over.
I haven't seen a competent worker laid off in 7 years. I'm sure some get hit as collateral damage, but in my experience, most of the lay offs should have been done sooner. The industry couldn't support what it was trying to carry and as companies realize they really don't need a big IT staff of idiots who can install XP, they need a useful staff of a much smaller size that knows they don't need to install XP, they can just image everyone remotely and work smarter rather than harder.
Too many people came to IT because 'OMG LOTS OF MONEY AND LOTS OF NEED'... except they couldn't actually do the job. Companies slowly figured that out and the fact that they no longer had a bunch of people throwing investment money at them meant they had to start cutting costs, useless IT workers was a good start.
Of course, lots of other types of jobs filled by useless people were cut too... but god forbid you look at it logically rather than a 'me me me me me' perspective.
Because I want to actually be able to afford to buy stuff?
Thanks to unions and workers who feel entitled to everything, all that happens is when we do things, it costs to much to sell to anyone in America.
American's in general have A LOT OF EXTRA SHIT THEY DON'T NEED because some little girl in China put it together for them for $1/day.
Go ahead, bring manufacturing back to the USA, it'll get a few thousand jobs per plant... and it'll be so expensive from that planet that the company won't be able to sell anything it makes at a profit.
But I don't do anything that revolves around audio.
Of course 99.5% of the people who claim to be audiophiles and claim they can 'tell the difference' don't need one either. Its just a different type of epenis.
Okay, and you can do that with Apple gear... and its not like the protocols Apple uses are different than the ones Cisco uses... you know... since they have to interoperate and all.
He didn't say 'cheap dlink POS'. Apple hardware generally works well so he's unlikely to run into problems with it.
Of course, RADIUS is for authentication and authorization, not encryption, which is what WPA is for... so are you saying you'd just authorize them and not encrypt the traffic... making it... well, easy to just sniff a password and auth anyway?
Judging by your statement, I'm fairly sure you have no idea what you're talking about.
Run CentOS with SMB so that you can get domain support in place for the Windows workstations, but avoid having to pay obnoxious per-seat/per-connection licensing ON TOP OF server licensing as you would have to do with Microsoft's solutions. If you need a full feature alternative to Exchange, check out Scalix or Zimbra (both are very inexpensive compared to Exchange) and run either one on CentOS. For backups, I've become partial to just writing bash scripts to back up to external drives. Get three or more external hard drives and rotate through them day by day. If Windows is required for your server, I would recommend the same hardware, but be aware that the total costs are much, much higher when you factor in Server+client access licensing + groupware solution + realtime antivirus (annual subscription) + email gateway antivirus (annual subscription unless you want to wrestle with perl to get ASSP running on 64-bit Windows) = your new server is incredibly expensive. Another problem with Windows licensing is eventually Microsoft will pull the plug on client access licenses for your installed version, which means that you will be forced into an OS upgrade if the current OS would otherwise be perfectly adequate for your purposes.
Or just install Microsoft Small Business server. I'm pretty sure the $1k or so up front cost will be less than paying the guy to do all the crap you just say]id for a 20 seat office, especially considering SBS doesn't follow the same licensing model. Then you get an actual directory server, an actual exchange server and an actual windows file server to match all your windows clients.
Second, when you show me a REAL exchange alternative, I'll hop on it. All the 'exchange workalikes' out there are not even a little bit freaking close to being the same as exchange. You certainly cant' run the exchange based applications on them can you?
Everytime I see someone make this suggestion I can't help but think how incredibly ignorant of what exchange actually DOES people can be some times. Don't confuse me, I wouldn't admin an exchange machine if my life depended on it, but you really have no idea what you're talking about when you start talking about 'exchange workalikes' as if they are are actually acceptable alternatives. If Zimbra or Scalix are acceptable alternatives to you, you might as well just save yourself some effort and just use IMAP with a client side plugin for Outlook that will just use IMAP as a backend rather than MAPI.
Along with smell it can allow you to pick up on the cars situation.
You can test gases in the air, like those that fill the cabin of a race car. Gases that can give you hints about engine performance or failure.
Don't get me wrong, its not as useful as your eyes noticing the smoke pouring out, but you probably REALLY underestimate how much all 5 of your senses feed information into your brain about your environment.
The test in the air can tell you about your environment... ever taste or smell the rain coming? Or the ocean as you get near it when you've been or lived inland?
Drivers currently outperform cars, even the most expensive race cars, consistently.
Fighter aircraft are one of the few places that the machine out performs the driver.
In all cases however, most 'computer' drivers are far more consistent in general and can be designed to do the 'ideal' reaction to pretty much every situation thats been analyzed. Eventually, a computer driving a car should be fully capable of out performing the car just like a human, and be better at it than a human.
That translates to... the computerized driver will likely be faster, more consistent and safer every time... but the new record for running Pikes Peak is unlikely to change very much due to the computerized driver. Remember, people have been driving Pike's Peak for years and the only reason times get lower is because the cars get better, not because the drivers are evolving that fast.
, are still manned by "drivers" who spend their time pushing a button to tell the computer they're still alive
They are also telling the train that they concur with its assessment that the train is operating safely. Consider the driver a backup safety check. For the amount of fuel a train typically consumes to move just the locomotive, the cost of employing the driver is already irelavent, and may just save the train during that one in a million malfunction.
Of course, the reality of it is, as with almost all train accidents in the past, the fault that cause a crash is not 'a fault', its like 20, that all combined together finally throw things into mayham. In most of those accidents, a computer couldn't have saved the train either because of bad input information.
A locomotive alone weights far too much to be such a cheap bastard that you can't put a guy on it with a clue. Its just silly when you're talking about large trains, the cost savings simply isn't worth the risk in the grand scheme of things, even though the risk is so tiny and the likely hood that the human can fix it is equally tiny.
Slashdotters of all people should be fully aware of the advantages of over building your redundancy when the cost to do so is so trivial.
and it won't help out playing games or even building kernels.
Then your clustering software sucks ass. I do distributed builds using xcode/xgrid rather often. Of couse, with a 1000 cores... you'd just make -j 2000 and accomplish the same thing without some silly cluster.
, I know who would be first to support all those cores, and it doesn't come from Redmond (or their offshore outsourced developers).
I hope you realize just because you can't buy a boxed version of Windows from Staples/BestBuy/Whatever that supports more processors, versions supporting FAR more processors already exist from Redmond for custom hardware... which is what you start talking about when you start talking 256 processors, its pretty much all 'custom' even when its a pretty generic version of 'custom'
Its called Starwars Galaxies, and it encompasses far more than just Tie Fighter, but it does have a great XvT to it when you play the Jump to Lightspeed stuff.
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No, all apps are sandboxed into their own little world.
Take any game you can find on the market, you'll have 20 megs of code if they included your moms kitchen sink and gigs of media such as sound, textures, models, levels and so on that actually make up the game.
Programers are very efficient, its the artists who eat up the space ;)
No shit? You mean its different on different platforms? Wow, thats not expected or anything and no one has ever done that before.
I totally expected it would be exactly the same on an iPhone as it would be on my quad core, SLI, water cooled over clocked machine that weights 100 pounds.
No shit its different, only someone completely ignorant of software and the differences in a desktop PC and a phone would assume its going to be the same. Of course, thats not even likely since most people ignorant of such things have experienced console ports in the past which are pretty much always different as well do to different hardware capabilities.
You know, now that I think of it, the only idiot who would assume they would be identical is you I think. Even non-techies are aware that different devices are DIFFERENT.
So which Paramount office do you work at again?
Yes.
We're about to be covered in 'in game advertising' anyway so they'll be making money on pirated copies as well.
You do realize thats how television is produced, right?
I don't see anyone arguing that piracy is acceptable.
What I do see is people arguing is the fact that the punishment for piracy is ridiculous compared to the actual damages.
You are right, if you can't afford it, sorry, you can't have it. But if that person who can't afford it pirates it from a friend, then no one is actually harmed and nothing is actually lost by anyone that cares.
The software developer is arguing a lost sale, which is simply bunk if the person who pirated didn't have the money to buy it in the first place. The software developer didn't have to pay for bandwidth or disk storage. They were out nothing by the piracy because there were never going to make anything off that person and they didn't lose any money at all by that person getting a DIGITAL COPY ... COPY ... let me say it again FUCKING COPY from SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE DEVELOPER.
I'm a developer myself. I'm whole heartedly against piracy in all forms, music included. I buy my software and media or I don't, but I no longer pirate.
I've been put in several situations where I know my software is being pirated and the pirates are using my online services, actually costing me money in the form of bandwidth ... I just kill their online id. If they buy it then, I win, if they don't buy it then, I still don't lose because I'm literally not any worse off than if the person never existed.
Again though, I agree with you to an extent. People today believe they are entitled to whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want, without any compensation or consideration for others.
Castaway, perfect storm and Apollo 13 all had 'bad guys', that just weren't made out that bad.
Castaway just had 'bad people' at the end. Apollo 13 had gross negligence shown in several places on the ground, but these are both arguable and probably just based on my particular viewpoint. Both of them shared mechanical failure as 'the bad guy'
Perfect Storm on the other hand had a very clear bad guy, the boat owner who drove them to go back out and fish more. Of course, you could always say 'the storm' was the bad guy, which it clearly was as well.
Most porn movies have bad GUYs, you know, the guy who treats the girl like shit by gagging her and blowing his load all over her face, then pounding her in the ass until she bleeds? I realize that you don't actually have sex outside of jerking off to porn, but most chicks really aren't getting off by having a face full of sperm or a bleeding ass.
Without conflict most things are rather pointless, especially movies and games, its just variations on who/what the bad guy is, even if you don't recognize it.
Steve owns the mine and the workers in it, he just sells its product to Apple.
As a developer, I really don't want a 'rapid release schedule' for the languages and frameworks that I use.
Don't get me wrong, I do want new features eventually, but I'd much rather that the design and improvements were well thought out and less often.
A rapid release schedule just creates a mess. What version am I developing against? What version are my users running? Are they going to have to go get something new just to use MY app when they haven't had to do this for anyone else? How long has this new feature actually been used? Can I trust its functionality across multiple platforms?
Every release makes all those questions get an entirely new set of answers added to the last set of answers, it gets more and more complicated every time. This is of course a fact of life for developers, it comes with the territory. It doesn't have to be more complicated just so some marketing dick can say 'ohohohohoh new version of our crap! YOU MUST UPGRADE' oh and by the way, its not compatible for these old bits, so you need both installed!
I don't develop for Linux because I don't want to hit a moving target, I'm not alone. Perhaps Oracle should get a clue here. Of course, they won't, Java is pretty much just for Oracle middleware now unfortunately, which sucks since I've been working on a rather large java app for the last few years :(
Really? I do it all the time, its really not that hard actually.
Right to Left is the only thing that ever requires any extra work, and thats only with corner cases now days.
I use libxml2 for a lot of stuff, and I've never given a second thought to character encoding. It handles that problem for me, thats what good libraries are supposed to do.
I do everything internally in UTF8, convert to UTF16/32 when I need to talk to external libraries/OSes that prefer those formats.
Not sure how Java is any different when it comes to network encoding, unless you mean because you can just pass strings off to the existing class libraries which handle the work for you, in which case, thats the same thing I do. I have an existing stock pile of libraries I use that are unicode aware for networking. In a couple cases, those libraries are my own, but its not like it took me more than a few hours to do them, all the major protocols are covered already.
Who uses xerces for XML parsing other than apache?
Wrong.
Those positions ARE out there. They get filled by qualified personal. There simply aren't a lot of people qualified for those positions. Just because a person is born, doesn't mean they have what it takes for the job.
Contrary to what you've been spoon fed your entire life, we are not all equals. Some of us ARE better at things than others. Some of us ARE worse at some things than others too. We ARE NOT qualified to work ANY JOB WE WANT at birth so everyone going to college for CS still wouldn't solve the problem.
Yea, a lot of people were laid off ... its nice how you and everyone else seems to ignore the fact that most of them weren't qualified to hold the job they are in.
Actually, by my standards, I'd say about 1 in 10 people I come across in the tech industry actually know what they are doing.
10 years ago the tech jobs didn't exist, where were they then? I know the tech industry isn't run by a bunch of prepubescent kids, so it seems really fucking retarded that you blame this on the tech industry when they are new comers to the industry anyway.
Maybe, just maybe, before getting laid off the last time she might have inquired about ways to avoid that particular problem. The problem in America is too many people think they are entitled to work and get paid a lot of money regardless of their ability to actually bring money into the company. Your internal help desk doesn't have to sell stuff to be 'profitable' but it does have to be useful.
Carry your weight and you won't have a problem, seems to be what I see all over.
I haven't seen a competent worker laid off in 7 years. I'm sure some get hit as collateral damage, but in my experience, most of the lay offs should have been done sooner. The industry couldn't support what it was trying to carry and as companies realize they really don't need a big IT staff of idiots who can install XP, they need a useful staff of a much smaller size that knows they don't need to install XP, they can just image everyone remotely and work smarter rather than harder.
Too many people came to IT because 'OMG LOTS OF MONEY AND LOTS OF NEED' ... except they couldn't actually do the job. Companies slowly figured that out and the fact that they no longer had a bunch of people throwing investment money at them meant they had to start cutting costs, useless IT workers was a good start.
Of course, lots of other types of jobs filled by useless people were cut too ... but god forbid you look at it logically rather than a 'me me me me me' perspective.
Because I want to actually be able to afford to buy stuff?
Thanks to unions and workers who feel entitled to everything, all that happens is when we do things, it costs to much to sell to anyone in America.
American's in general have A LOT OF EXTRA SHIT THEY DON'T NEED because some little girl in China put it together for them for $1/day.
Go ahead, bring manufacturing back to the USA, it'll get a few thousand jobs per plant ... and it'll be so expensive from that planet that the company won't be able to sell anything it makes at a profit.
I don't.
But I don't do anything that revolves around audio.
Of course 99.5% of the people who claim to be audiophiles and claim they can 'tell the difference' don't need one either. Its just a different type of epenis.
They were trying rather hard to reclaim Titanic rather than let it get raped by treasure hunters.
Okay, and you can do that with Apple gear ... and its not like the protocols Apple uses are different than the ones Cisco uses ... you know ... since they have to interoperate and all.
He didn't say 'cheap dlink POS'. Apple hardware generally works well so he's unlikely to run into problems with it.
Of course, RADIUS is for authentication and authorization, not encryption, which is what WPA is for ... so are you saying you'd just authorize them and not encrypt the traffic ... making it ... well, easy to just sniff a password and auth anyway?
Judging by your statement, I'm fairly sure you have no idea what you're talking about.
Or just install Microsoft Small Business server. I'm pretty sure the $1k or so up front cost will be less than paying the guy to do all the crap you just say]id for a 20 seat office, especially considering SBS doesn't follow the same licensing model. Then you get an actual directory server, an actual exchange server and an actual windows file server to match all your windows clients.
Second, when you show me a REAL exchange alternative, I'll hop on it. All the 'exchange workalikes' out there are not even a little bit freaking close to being the same as exchange. You certainly cant' run the exchange based applications on them can you?
Everytime I see someone make this suggestion I can't help but think how incredibly ignorant of what exchange actually DOES people can be some times. Don't confuse me, I wouldn't admin an exchange machine if my life depended on it, but you really have no idea what you're talking about when you start talking about 'exchange workalikes' as if they are are actually acceptable alternatives. If Zimbra or Scalix are acceptable alternatives to you, you might as well just save yourself some effort and just use IMAP with a client side plugin for Outlook that will just use IMAP as a backend rather than MAPI.
The problem is not that cell phones are so different, the problem is that you think what you described is quality control.
installing and running a package and marking the checkbox when the window pops up is not quality control, sorry.
Along with smell it can allow you to pick up on the cars situation.
You can test gases in the air, like those that fill the cabin of a race car. Gases that can give you hints about engine performance or failure.
Don't get me wrong, its not as useful as your eyes noticing the smoke pouring out, but you probably REALLY underestimate how much all 5 of your senses feed information into your brain about your environment.
The test in the air can tell you about your environment ... ever taste or smell the rain coming? Or the ocean as you get near it when you've been or lived inland?
Drivers currently outperform cars, even the most expensive race cars, consistently.
Fighter aircraft are one of the few places that the machine out performs the driver.
In all cases however, most 'computer' drivers are far more consistent in general and can be designed to do the 'ideal' reaction to pretty much every situation thats been analyzed. Eventually, a computer driving a car should be fully capable of out performing the car just like a human, and be better at it than a human.
That translates to ... the computerized driver will likely be faster, more consistent and safer every time ... but the new record for running Pikes Peak is unlikely to change very much due to the computerized driver. Remember, people have been driving Pike's Peak for years and the only reason times get lower is because the cars get better, not because the drivers are evolving that fast.
They are also telling the train that they concur with its assessment that the train is operating safely. Consider the driver a backup safety check. For the amount of fuel a train typically consumes to move just the locomotive, the cost of employing the driver is already irelavent, and may just save the train during that one in a million malfunction.
Of course, the reality of it is, as with almost all train accidents in the past, the fault that cause a crash is not 'a fault', its like 20, that all combined together finally throw things into mayham. In most of those accidents, a computer couldn't have saved the train either because of bad input information.
A locomotive alone weights far too much to be such a cheap bastard that you can't put a guy on it with a clue. Its just silly when you're talking about large trains, the cost savings simply isn't worth the risk in the grand scheme of things, even though the risk is so tiny and the likely hood that the human can fix it is equally tiny.
Slashdotters of all people should be fully aware of the advantages of over building your redundancy when the cost to do so is so trivial.
Good game, felt repetitive at times though. Oh, you meant crisis ...
Then your clustering software sucks ass. I do distributed builds using xcode/xgrid rather often. Of couse, with a 1000 cores ... you'd just make -j 2000 and accomplish the same thing without some silly cluster.
I hope you realize just because you can't buy a boxed version of Windows from Staples/BestBuy/Whatever that supports more processors, versions supporting FAR more processors already exist from Redmond for custom hardware ... which is what you start talking about when you start talking 256 processors, its pretty much all 'custom' even when its a pretty generic version of 'custom'
Its called Starwars Galaxies, and it encompasses far more than just Tie Fighter, but it does have a great XvT to it when you play the Jump to Lightspeed stuff.
http://www.starwarsgalaxies.com/
When they did the Jump to Lightspeed addon, they pretty much did a XvT with better graphics, massive netplay and persistence.
I don't know, it seems more and more like the answer is for everyone to simply stop flying. Given a short period of time they'd be gone :/