First: In the future, Kevin, I'd suggest using another word in place of "gay." I'm not saying Slashdot posts should adhere to the rules of political correctness or accusing you of homophobia, but it is both juvenile and mildly derogatory to use the word in that matter.
Get off your high horse, gay boy. There, I said it. Are you going to flame me as well?
Fear mongering, freedom hating, genocidal manics with a liking for covert global domination of all natural resources is more akin to something I'd say if I really wanted to piss you off!!
Seriously: how hard is it to precompute normals for your models? All you need is a precomputed normal for each vertex stored with the coordinate and color/texture data.
Yea, I was just thinking the same thing:)
I can't remember which is greater, the number of available IPv6 addresses or the estimated total number of atoms in the universe
Err, not quite. IPv6 increases the IP address size to 128 bits, that's 2^128 = 3.402823669e+38 hosts minus a few for private and reserved networks. I'm not sure how many atoms I have in my ass, but it must be approaching that figure. Perhaps someone can help me out.
One of the characteristics of a scripting language is that it is not compiled. Unless it is just-in-time compiled, there is no way to optimize it to the CPU!
I don't really the problem here.. you can use an old JVM if you wish - no one's forcing you to upgrade every time a new version of Java is released. Most libraries out there work with 1.1.
Great response. IMHO the article and jcr13 should be modded "-1 fuckwit". He has drawn some very wrong conclusions from his flawed experiment.
The "falsehood" here is that you claim that code written in a functional style is slow, when you really should have said "my code written in a naively functional style is slow"
And the best thing is, you can use XSLT to generate your SVG graph from XML data. Or better still, borrow someone else's XSLT stylesheet and modify it. How neat is that?
This guy is trying to tell techies how to do their job. How many developers do you know that enjoy re-inventing the wheel just for the sake of it? I know none because we're all lazy. And laziness is a virtue because it means we don't re-invent the wheel. The cheek involved in this guy assuming he knows how a developer should be doing their job better than the developers themselves is astounding.
Quite so. I find it hard to stomach what this guy is saying - first he purports that he is one of us engineers because he has a science degree, then says he has 500 people reporting to him and sits on a board. Which is it? Suit or techie? Suit, obviously. Then he has the gall to proclaim that it's the engineers' faults that 30-40 percent of projects fail. IMHO the following factors are most likely to cause a project to fail:
Poorly defined requirements
Bad project planning
Bad project managment
Scope creep
None of these are in the remit of the engineer. The engineer is the guy who gets the job done by doing what he is told. If the person doing the telling is useless, what chance does the project have?
I would prefer the subscription service, since I rarely wish to watch a film more than once. Besides, I have enough objects in my posession - I don't need any more bits of plastic cluttering up my living space.
But, consider this. Perl allows you to postfix your if() statements, like so:
wave() if $person_seen eq 'Paul';
This is much more naturally readable than:
if ($person_seen eq 'Paul') { wave() }
I think that's subjective. It doesn't strike me as being intuitive if you've never used it before.
Dude, listen to all the guys that posted before me in response to your post. I just wanted to say that I agree with them and you sound like a cock but that's prolly not your fault.
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You hope to get a +5..? Etc, ad infinitum.
You must be new around here :)
Indeed. Exciting features and effects like these should attract more people to X, which can only be good. If you don't need 'em, don't turn 'em on"!
I don't really the problem here.. you can use an old JVM if you wish - no one's forcing you to upgrade every time a new version of Java is released. Most libraries out there work with 1.1.
And the best thing is, you can use XSLT to generate your SVG graph from XML data. Or better still, borrow someone else's XSLT stylesheet and modify it. How neat is that?
I'm guessing it's a phsychological phenomenom whereby the majority of /. readers read the teaser and have a sudden bout of writer's block.
This guy is trying to tell techies how to do their job. How many developers do you know that enjoy re-inventing the wheel just for the sake of it? I know none because we're all lazy. And laziness is a virtue because it means we don't re-invent the wheel. The cheek involved in this guy assuming he knows how a developer should be doing their job better than the developers themselves is astounding.
- Poorly defined requirements
- Bad project planning
- Bad project managment
- Scope creep
None of these are in the remit of the engineer. The engineer is the guy who gets the job done by doing what he is told. If the person doing the telling is useless, what chance does the project have?I would prefer the subscription service, since I rarely wish to watch a film more than once. Besides, I have enough objects in my posession - I don't need any more bits of plastic cluttering up my living space.
Well I don't know about you but I'd rather watch a plastic disk.
Dude, listen to all the guys that posted before me in response to your post. I just wanted to say that I agree with them and you sound like a cock but that's prolly not your fault.