Does it count if everone from slashdot tries to hack at the same box at the same time?
If a singular Mac Mini could hanlde that, i would buy 100 of them and start a supercomputing center somewhere in the Nevada desert.
This would move us one step closer to the situation where you buy your entertainment from "the entertainment company" your food from "the food company" and your gas from "the gas company".
Everything else would come from wal-mart
as a developer, I want to be able to write one application, and have it run on all three systems. Its great that they are integrating opengl more and more into linux, as long as they normalize it such that it can be used by an API transparently (Ex. SWT/LWJGL for java, which i use.. and it works really well). If they dont, it wont be that useful because no one will be inclned to take advantage of it... Unless they arent lazy, (me) or they have a big room with a lot of developer monkeys constantly implementing different application/interfaces for different platforms.
After Hurricane katrina i had all of my office's equipent at my house which included 2 dell 21" flat panel monitors and one apple cinema display. I managed to hook all three of them up to one of the dell Precision workstations we have. It was pretty cool but the apple display was a WAY higher quality picture than the dell 21'' fp. Also, i had one of the dell fp using an d-sub cable, wich , when sitting next to to monitors hooked up with DVI made a huge difference. I managed to actually use all three when i was writing software (two windows of code and one of the object browser, console, etc..) however, there is no way that it was worth the 5,000 pricetag that i would have had to pay for it if i bought them myself. Eventually, my boss came and took his cinema display and now i have the 2 fp hooked up, which is nice.
at my job that i work at now (my other office dosent exist anymore) i have three monitors (a CRT a 19'' flatpanel and a 17'' flat panel) which i use to write code. the two bigger ones i use for the ide and the smaller one i use for the client web page preview.
my point is that id pay for 2 monitors that in total cost half the price of the big one and be happy.
really, id like to have 2 of the big ones, but for some reason, my wife wont let me spend 4000 dollars on monitors and 2000 dollars
on the video cards to run them.
grrr.
..., it would look a lot cooler and since it was "Designed in California and mass produced by really cheap labor in china" it would only cost 300 bucks instead of 500.
What i really want is a HeadsUp jetfighter-style television for the winsheild of my car.
Also, it needs to be indetectable from outside the car so i won't get in trouble for watching tv while driving
and if it came with one of those computers that can drive my car to my work at 5:30 Am across the
causeway bridge each morning fighting off sleep because i stayed up too late to make silly posts on slashdot.
Finally, sell it to me at best buy for 50 bucks so i can unload this gift card i got for christmas on something cool.
Also, i thought this was 2006, not 1986, because the product looks like it belongs on a sharper image shelf next to one of those phone lie detectors they used to sell.
I worked for blockbuster for about two weeks. I quit because my manager gave me a ton of crap over suggestive selling.. "i see that you are renting "Crappy Movie A". You know, you can pre order "Crappy Move A part 2" for only 23.99 and get it when it comes out next month. I absolutly hated that. Also, they want you to be "HIGH WELCOME TO BLOCKEBUSTER" when somone walks through the door. Then there are the crappy promotional ads that run all freaking day long. And they close at midnight, which means i get off work at like 1:30. Boyhowdy i am glad i went to college and dont have to work at a blockbuster. who is evil. Not to mention the intensive brain washing seminars they make you sit through when you start. grrr. Viacom owns everything.
I just finished my masters in Geophysics and have had very limited experience with C#. The place i got a job with uses an all Microsoft environment. I was upfront with them about using all open source languages for my thesis work and the software i developed for my lab. During my interview i was able to demonstrate that i knew the fundamentals of OOP and the code that i provided as an example did so also. My point is that in the long run dosen't matter, as long as you know what you are doing and understand the underlying fundamentals of the trade. Howerver, i personally use java because the development environments are free (Eclipse) and their online documentation (search any class name using google and Site:java.sun.com) is very good. Also, the newest versions of eclipse are supporting openGl and direct GPU acesss.
This seems like the same thing they pulled with the footbal program earlier this year. A lot of people think they are faking it. Scott Cowen has proven to be one of the most underhanded manipulative college presidents in history. I half think that he did this just so he could hold a press conference and claim that it was a historic restructuring of an american university. He actually said 'this is a move that will forever affect Tulane University for the next ten to twenty years' Another thing is that he is pushing his student community model, he's tried this before but it was rejected by the students. Right now, its just him and the board.. which eats out of his hand. I wish that the kids from yahoo and netscape would ante up some money to buy cowen out of Tulane.
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I think Microsoft pays people to read slashdot and defend its crappy products. Also, Monad is a misspelling of what the os really is Gonad
like my wife, who was at the Michoud Assembly Facility (where they build the big red tank in New Orleans) at 3AM this morning watching a computer screen readout of temperatures on the bipod heaters and the bellows heaters. It sucks because she has to wake up at 2 am tommrow and do the same thing. I know one thing, she's probably really glad she wasn't in the situation to have to scrub the launch. I mean, you you have any idea how much that costs?
Also it sucks that i am more excited about it than she is, and all i get is crappy fox news
Also, think about strapping a 70's era buick to a giant coke can filled with the most voliatle stuff you can find, getting the whole world to watch as you are about to shoot it into space, then have the entire thing scrapped because the 70's style break light goes out.
And. the computer that controls the systems on board the shuttle has a system memory of 256K.. that's right -->K
Also, if you think that i am a bad speller you are correct.
Programming of any sort of value is most certainly an artform
Well, at least, that is what i think of it as. Anyone can write code. Writing code well and being innovative is an art.
I am a master's student in the geo-sciences and my thesis requires that i process and handle a tremendous amount of data Most of the data that i use is spatial: topography, bathymetry, salinity concentrations.. Anyway, my point is that after i write some code to process the data (I am developing an ecological model that tracks subsidence of marshland based on a whole bunch of environmental and geophysical parameters) the best and easiest way for me to verify the output is reasonable is to draw a picture of it. I have spent probably 60% of my time writing software that displays the data in a graphical format. However, this is only to verify that my data is close to accurate.. like say everything looks like it should. You still can't beat some statistics for really checking the quality of the output.
Also, after watching a large number of presentations on theses, scientific studies, etc.. i would say that 0.05% of those presenters know nothing more of scientifc graphing than pushing buttons in xcel and seeing the nice graphics that pop up. I mean, most of them dont even change the default graphic colors, so they are up there, talking about something and behind them is that crappy Xcel purple color.
My friend and i really tried to brew our own beer a couple of times, it would have been really good too.. except for the aftertaste of feet.
I think we used too much hopps, or the ph was funny in our water supply.
I guess i am a loser.
i am in love with eclipse.
honestly, ive never worked with.net and it comes around bites me in my arse when i look for jobs
I (probably needlesly)worry that next week microsoft will drop it and go with something copletely new
Free beer is good
Why? You ask.
Well, off the top of My head i can think of these Reasons:
1. Java and the developnent platform is FREE.
2. Java has an On-Line users manual that is top notch.
3. Java is not Microsoft
4. Java has way better 3rd party SDKs (I.E. eclipse) than.NET
5. Java is not Microsoft
the word 'open' is the next 'i(insertActionVerbHere)'
I mean, just because something is 'open' dosent mean its good. In the words of Dana Carvey impersonating Ross Perot on SNL:
'You cant pee into a Mr. Coffee and get Tasters Choice'
its like the word 'organic'.
you can stick the word 'organic' on something and charge ten times as much and people will buy it. I would bet that 90% of the people who do so dont even know what 'organic' on a label means.
Just like 'open'.. do you think anyone who isn't a programmer or developer or i.t. savvy knows what open is?
I am in graduate school and when my boss says 'hey, read this book' i have to drop about 100 bucks on a book.. that is, if Dover publishing hasn't made an older text on the subject available for 12 dollars instead of 112 dollars.
I dont think that google providing free access for books is the solution, but i KNOW that paying some university publishing company 100 bucks for a book that i might read once isn't the awnser.
Ok, google is either perfect or really really evil.
Not the big blundering stupid kind of evil that microsoft is, but the creepy really really bad kind of evil.
Like the kind of evil in that story 'event horizon' where everyone rips their eyes out.
...or they are just really really good at internet programming
and properly done it.
And, somehow, they make a whole lot of money doing it.
Not only are they kicking everone else's large scale web development ass, they look GOOD doing it.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait, i thought SourceSafe was malware.
Does it count if everone from slashdot tries to hack at the same box at the same time?
If a singular Mac Mini could hanlde that, i would buy 100 of them and start a supercomputing center somewhere in the Nevada desert.
This would move us one step closer to the situation where you buy your entertainment from "the entertainment company" your food from "the food company" and your gas from "the gas company".
Everything else would come from wal-mart
Then i guess thats why my comment got flamed.
as a developer, I want to be able to write one application, and have it run on all three systems. Its great that they are integrating opengl more and more into linux, as long as they normalize it such that it can be used by an API transparently (Ex. SWT/LWJGL for java, which i use.. and it works really well). If they dont, it wont be that useful because no one will be inclned to take advantage of it... Unless they arent lazy, (me) or they have a big room with a lot of developer monkeys constantly implementing different application/interfaces for different platforms.
I hear the makers of the phantom gaming system are going to use this in their product.
After Hurricane katrina i had all of my office's equipent at my house which included 2 dell 21" flat panel monitors and one apple cinema display. I managed to hook all three of them up to one of the dell Precision workstations we have. It was pretty cool but the apple display was a WAY higher quality picture than the dell 21'' fp. Also, i had one of the dell fp using an d-sub cable, wich , when sitting next to to monitors hooked up with DVI made a huge difference. I managed to actually use all three when i was writing software (two windows of code and one of the object browser, console, etc..) however, there is no way that it was worth the 5,000 pricetag that i would have had to pay for it if i bought them myself. Eventually, my boss came and took his cinema display and now i have the 2 fp hooked up, which is nice.
at my job that i work at now (my other office dosent exist anymore) i have three monitors (a CRT a 19'' flatpanel and a 17'' flat panel) which i use to write code. the two bigger ones i use for the ide and the smaller one i use for the client web page preview.
my point is that id pay for 2 monitors that in total cost half the price of the big one and be happy. really, id like to have 2 of the big ones, but for some reason, my wife wont let me spend 4000 dollars on monitors and 2000 dollars on the video cards to run them. grrr.
People make income from intangible goods all the time.
Its called the service industry
..., it would look a lot cooler and since it was "Designed in California and mass produced by really cheap labor in china" it would only cost 300 bucks instead of 500.
What i really want is a HeadsUp jetfighter-style television for the winsheild of my car.
Also, it needs to be indetectable from outside the car so i won't get in trouble for watching tv while driving
and if it came with one of those computers that can drive my car to my work at 5:30 Am across the causeway bridge each morning fighting off sleep because i stayed up too late to make silly posts on slashdot.
Finally, sell it to me at best buy for 50 bucks so i can unload this gift card i got for christmas on something cool.
Also, i thought this was 2006, not 1986, because the product looks like it belongs on a sharper image shelf next to one of those phone lie detectors they used to sell.
I worked for blockbuster for about two weeks. I quit because my manager gave me a ton of crap over suggestive selling.. "i see that you are renting "Crappy Movie A". You know, you can pre order "Crappy Move A part 2" for only 23.99 and get it when it comes out next month. I absolutly hated that. Also, they want you to be "HIGH WELCOME TO BLOCKEBUSTER" when somone walks through the door. Then there are the crappy promotional ads that run all freaking day long. And they close at midnight, which means i get off work at like 1:30. Boyhowdy i am glad i went to college and dont have to work at a blockbuster. who is evil. Not to mention the intensive brain washing seminars they make you sit through when you start.
grrr.
Viacom owns everything.
I just finished my masters in Geophysics and have had very limited experience with C#. The place i got a job with uses an all Microsoft environment. I was upfront with them about using all open source languages for my thesis work and the software i developed for my lab. During my interview i was able to demonstrate that i knew the fundamentals of OOP and the code that i provided as an example did so also. My point is that in the long run dosen't matter, as long as you know what you are doing and understand the underlying fundamentals of the trade. Howerver, i personally use java because the development environments are free (Eclipse) and their online documentation (search any class name using google and Site:java.sun.com) is very good. Also, the newest versions of eclipse are supporting openGl and direct GPU acesss.
Microsoft is.
Its called Windows.
This seems like the same thing they pulled with the footbal program earlier this year. A lot of people think they are faking it. Scott Cowen has proven to be one of the most underhanded manipulative college presidents in history. I half think that he did this just so he could hold a press conference and claim that it was a historic restructuring of an american university. He actually said 'this is a move that will forever affect Tulane University for the next ten to twenty years' Another thing is that he is pushing his student community model, he's tried this before but it was rejected by the students. Right now, its just him and the board.. which eats out of his hand. I wish that the kids from yahoo and netscape would ante up some money to buy cowen out of Tulane.
I think Microsoft pays people to read slashdot and defend its crappy products. Also, Monad is a misspelling of what the os really is Gonad
like my wife, who was at the Michoud Assembly Facility (where they build the big red tank in New Orleans) at 3AM this morning watching a computer screen readout of temperatures on the bipod heaters and the bellows heaters.
It sucks because she has to wake up at 2 am tommrow and do the same thing.
I know one thing, she's probably really glad she wasn't in the situation to have to scrub the launch. I mean, you you have any idea how much that costs?
Also it sucks that i am more excited about it than she is, and all i get is crappy fox news
Also, think about strapping a 70's era buick to a giant coke can filled with the most voliatle stuff you can find, getting the whole world to watch as you are about to shoot it into space, then have the entire thing scrapped because the 70's style break light goes out.
And. the computer that controls the systems on board the shuttle has a system memory of 256K.. that's right -->K
Also, if you think that i am a bad speller you are correct.
Programming of any sort of value is most certainly an artform
Well, at least, that is what i think of it as. Anyone can write code. Writing code well and being innovative is an art.
this is also an art
http://gprime.net/images/sidewalkchalkguy/
Coolest thing i have ever seen.
...Now if only he could somehow hook it up to google maps..
I am a master's student in the geo-sciences and my thesis requires that i process and handle a tremendous amount of data
Most of the data that i use is spatial: topography, bathymetry, salinity concentrations..
Anyway, my point is that after i write some code to process the data
(I am developing an ecological model that tracks subsidence of marshland based on a whole bunch of environmental and geophysical parameters)
the best and easiest way for me to verify the output is reasonable is to draw a picture of it. I have spent probably 60% of my time writing software that displays the data in a graphical format.
However, this is only to verify that my data is close to accurate.. like say everything looks like it should.
You still can't beat some statistics for really checking the quality of the output.
Also, after watching a large number of presentations on theses, scientific studies, etc.. i would say that 0.05% of those presenters know nothing more of scientifc graphing than pushing buttons in xcel and seeing the nice graphics that pop up.
I mean, most of them dont even change the default graphic colors, so they are up there, talking about something and behind them is that crappy Xcel purple color.
My friend and i really tried to brew our own beer a couple of times, it would have been really good too.. except for the aftertaste of feet.
I think we used too much hopps, or the ph was funny in our water supply.
I guess i am a loser. .net and it comes around bites me in my arse when i look for jobs
i am in love with eclipse.
honestly, ive never worked with
I (probably needlesly)worry that next week microsoft will drop it and go with something copletely new
Free beer is good
Why? You ask. .NET
Well, off the top of My head i can think of these Reasons:
1. Java and the developnent platform is FREE.
2. Java has an On-Line users manual that is top notch.
3. Java is not Microsoft
4. Java has way better 3rd party SDKs (I.E. eclipse) than
5. Java is not Microsoft
the word 'open' is the next 'i(insertActionVerbHere)'
I mean, just because something is 'open' dosent mean its good. In the words of Dana Carvey impersonating Ross Perot on SNL:
'You cant pee into a Mr. Coffee and get Tasters Choice'
its like the word 'organic'. you can stick the word 'organic' on something and charge ten times as much and people will buy it. I would bet that 90% of the people who do so dont even know what 'organic' on a label means.
Just like 'open'.. do you think anyone who isn't a programmer or developer or i.t. savvy knows what open is?
I am in graduate school and when my boss says 'hey, read this book' i have to drop about 100 bucks on a book.. that is, if Dover publishing hasn't made an older text on the subject available for 12 dollars instead of 112 dollars.
I dont think that google providing free access for books is the solution, but i KNOW that paying some university publishing company 100 bucks for a book that i might read once isn't the awnser.
Ok, google is either perfect or really really evil.
...or they are just really really good at internet programming
Not the big blundering stupid kind of evil that microsoft is, but the creepy really really bad kind of evil.
Like the kind of evil in that story 'event horizon' where everyone rips their eyes out.
and properly done it. And, somehow, they make a whole lot of money doing it.
Not only are they kicking everone else's large scale web development ass, they look GOOD doing it.