The MS site says that the cost of staffing is cheaper for windows over a 5 year study; I wonder if this study was done over the last 2 years would the results be a bit different? Seems the linux community has been growing exponentially, and major corporations have thrown their complete confidence in linux (hp, ibm).
The.net stuff i would tentatively agree with, though, as I think its a great api/dev platform.
The athlon gets stomped in alot of the benchmarks here, but it seems there is little out there to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture. Especially when it comes to memory addressing, and I am sure there are people out there looking for more the 3 gigs of ram.
Try chewing tobacco.. although i recently quit, i must say that a lip full of Kodiak and a tall mug of steaming coffee can take the edge off any morning coding crunch. And they taste good together too!
even given that assumption, the tech workers who survive this will be well off, but the educational infrastructure for providing new tech workers will take the real hit, which was the point of my logic.:)
Latency issues? I can play counterstrike on a server in Korea at a sub40ms resonse time. Now, clearly counterstrike isn't flying a fighter jet, but then again, with dedicated bandwidth, and a heck of alot more computing power, I find it hard to imagine that latency is the real issue here.
A more compelling issue is security.. just imagine some disgruntled tech worker who just lost his job to Off-shoring hacked an F22 and took a "virtual" trip to Bangalore.
Its about time they stopped constraining fighter craft with people.. they should work on making them remote control so they can take 50 Gs, and a 12 year old computer gamer could fly them with a mouse and keyboard. Hmm somehow that sounds like a movie plot (cough Toys)
Follow this train of logic: If more and more software jobs move overseas, then there will be less drive to join an industry where you are paid a mediocre wage for complex work. Thus there will be fewer students enrolling university programs in the industry, and thus universities will cut back on software departments. Ultimately the very infrastructure of the nation's software industry will be severly reduced. No follow similar logic in the country that was offshored too, and the reverse happens.
The really high fps might seem unreasonable, but as this is an average, and it gives a clue as to what your fps would be if all hell broke loose (i.e. shitloads of polys to be drawn). Although counterstrike(cs) is an old game, a good example is on dust with 32 players, when you pop out into the bombsite and there are close to twenty players running around, you do not want you framerate to drop below 50 fps, and you would prefer to see things at 1600x1200, not 800x600. My ol' gf3 can take this burden without flinching in counterstrike, but we will see how well it handles a similar situation in half-life2.. that is a good reason for me to upgrade!
Admittedly trollish, but there are many things I can think of that would mean the end of the World (as in Earth), the least of which is the Sun supernovaing(a word?). Either way, your point of humanity's frailty still stands.
Is a couple of centuries sufficient to spot trends in climate change? Given that the ice age was over a period of thousands of years, it seems difficult to imagine that the climate fluctuations of a few hundred years is of sufficient length to form an accurate view of long term change. My confidence still lies in the drilled cores of Antartica (and i readily admit i have limited knowledge about the subject to make any reasonable judgement, and was too lazy to google enough information to pretend i do).
Full of myself? I am sorry, but Computer Science, NOT information technology, includes diverse fields such as crypto (as mentioned by the other pissed off computer scientist you insulted), linguistics, compiler theory, network engineering, concurrent systems, software engineering, computer graphics (i am not talking about flash, i am talking about the shitloads of information that is processed so you can use your CAD system), and a whole lot more. I took the full physics req. that all mechs or EE take, I took mathematics beyond all engineers where I got my BS (RIT), I took several language theory courses that are by no means trivial. Computer science is the science of harnessing the computer, and just about every ounce of what you do in modern ME is driven by the power we provide. So don't patronize me, and don't think that because you know a couple language names, and how to write a 'while' loop that you know what the fuck is going on. I build bicycles, and swap engines, but I don't pretend to be a mechanical engineer.
Carpenter? Speak for yourself. Your average carpenter knows little college-level science. I think saying a programmer is like a mechanical engineer is a far more adequate comparison. Perhaps you should specify that you are referring to visual basic or dynamic web pages, because i doubt somebody with a vocational education would be able to build network routing software, statistical analysis software, or anything even remotely more complex than a VB interface on top of some sql tables
Before you further insult those of us who spent 4+ years in university studying the intricacies of computer science, why don't you try doing some real programming yourself.
Hah, I love it when people just itching to write 3 paragraph arguments hop onto a clearly senseless and stupid comment i write. Face it: Bush is an idiot, Saddam is a sadist, US is concerned for iraq because of its economic importance alone, as is France, and torpedoing a floating ship-o-spam is clearly not as controversial as invading a nation, and should be done asap. Slashdot is hardly a worthwhile forum for anything beyond insightful *short* points and funny quips.
Bush can put all his hawkish qualities to good use. Rather than bullying 3rd world dicators who were former allies, he can put a couple of tomahawks through the hull of that ship.
So thats why those obsure 120 ping Counterstrike servers always have people jabbering away in Korean (at least I think it is, my ability to differentiate between Asian langs in limited). Now if only the Indians would pick up heavy gaming addicitions, I wouldn't have to worry about my application being off-shored
Ready.gov has plenty of useful information on radiation shielding. If you have a thick shield between yourself and the radioactive materials more of the radiation will be absorbed by the thick shield, and you will be exposed to less. Perhaps NASA could use some insightful advice from the Dept of Homeland Securty. I bet a couple rolls of duct tape and some plastic would be quite useful in Space!
But that is a great review. Shitty sci fi books deserve to get pummeled imo, especially from authors who are known to do better. Speaking of which, i would like this guy to rip a non sci fi but equally deserving book apart (ahem "Rainbow Six"?). As someone who enjoys fiction, authors who *are capable of writing good fiction* who put out a bunch of stagnant predictable characters deserve scorn (*cough* Lucky Starr).
Remember that the infrastructure for cars is paid for by the taxpayers. And don't limit infrastructure to just road construction and maintenance, add all the regulatory facets too (police speed control, license and registration issues... even drunk driving accidents that could be prevented).
I doubt, with all things considered, that cars as primary transportation has a higher return. Think about it: 1 person per 4 passenger vehicle, individuals given responsibility over a several thousand pound hunk of metal - compared to: 200+ people per 1 vehicle (train), 1 driver given control over the vehicle on a determined track. And just think about the energy usage.
Despite my personal pride in being one who tries to grasp a concept/issue via multiple sources from different perspectives, i just realized that the vast majority of my information these days funnels through google. And i know i am not alone.
I would wager google's potential control of information distribution and content filtering rivals that of major centralized information outlets like CNN or the NY times. Kinda unnerving.
I am really gettting tired of shameless plugs for MS related books by people who have no trace in the slashdot community. The review was a play by play that gave me little depth as to the quality of the book, and little reference to other books on the topic. And of course the author of the review came from a Compact Framework specific site, so what would qualify him to write a review of a book that introduces the Compact Framework?
And before you call me biased, know that I love c# and.NET, and use it exclusivly everyday for development. But I want from slashdot real reviews, not MS marketing.. i have to sift through enough of that when i want details on upcoming technologies.
I would like to see some serious creative muscle applied to developing decentralized energy sources (preferably clean, of course); as energy is a driving force in the world economy.Those who control it will have a very strong influence over the world economy. Decentralize it, and no more invading haggard rogue nations whose only worth to world economical power games is the energy resources contained under its soil.
Of course then some other centralized commodity will most likely become the key to world domination (communications infrastructure? media, oh wait that already is a key to control).
Maybe after we decentralize all the industries we can get around to *actually* decentralizing government (i.e. democracy); although i should probably be careful what i wish for.
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The MS site says that the cost of staffing is cheaper for windows over a 5 year study; I wonder if this study was done over the last 2 years would the results be a bit different? Seems the linux community has been growing exponentially, and major corporations have thrown their complete confidence in linux (hp, ibm).
.net stuff i would tentatively agree with, though, as I think its a great api/dev platform.
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The athlon gets stomped in alot of the benchmarks here, but it seems there is little out there to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture. Especially when it comes to memory addressing, and I am sure there are people out there looking for more the 3 gigs of ram.
Try chewing tobacco.. although i recently quit, i must say that a lip full of Kodiak and a tall mug of steaming coffee can take the edge off any morning coding crunch. And they taste good together too!
even given that assumption, the tech workers who survive this will be well off, but the educational infrastructure for providing new tech workers will take the real hit, which was the point of my logic. :)
Latency issues? I can play counterstrike on a server in Korea at a sub40ms resonse time. Now, clearly counterstrike isn't flying a fighter jet, but then again, with dedicated bandwidth, and a heck of alot more computing power, I find it hard to imagine that latency is the real issue here.
A more compelling issue is security.. just imagine some disgruntled tech worker who just lost his job to Off-shoring hacked an F22 and took a "virtual" trip to Bangalore.
Its about time they stopped constraining fighter craft with people.. they should work on making them remote control so they can take 50 Gs, and a 12 year old computer gamer could fly them with a mouse and keyboard. Hmm somehow that sounds like a movie plot (cough Toys)
Follow this train of logic: If more and more software jobs move overseas, then there will be less drive to join an industry where you are paid a mediocre wage for complex work. Thus there will be fewer students enrolling university programs in the industry, and thus universities will cut back on software departments. Ultimately the very infrastructure of the nation's software industry will be severly reduced. No follow similar logic in the country that was offshored too, and the reverse happens.
The really high fps might seem unreasonable, but as this is an average, and it gives a clue as to what your fps would be if all hell broke loose (i.e. shitloads of polys to be drawn). Although counterstrike(cs) is an old game, a good example is on dust with 32 players, when you pop out into the bombsite and there are close to twenty players running around, you do not want you framerate to drop below 50 fps, and you would prefer to see things at 1600x1200, not 800x600. My ol' gf3 can take this burden without flinching in counterstrike, but we will see how well it handles a similar situation in half-life2.. that is a good reason for me to upgrade!
Admittedly trollish, but there are many things I can think of that would mean the end of the World (as in Earth), the least of which is the Sun supernovaing(a word?). Either way, your point of humanity's frailty still stands.
Is a couple of centuries sufficient to spot trends in climate change? Given that the ice age was over a period of thousands of years, it seems difficult to imagine that the climate fluctuations of a few hundred years is of sufficient length to form an accurate view of long term change. My confidence still lies in the drilled cores of Antartica (and i readily admit i have limited knowledge about the subject to make any reasonable judgement, and was too lazy to google enough information to pretend i do).
Full of myself? I am sorry, but Computer Science, NOT information technology, includes diverse fields such as crypto (as mentioned by the other pissed off computer scientist you insulted), linguistics, compiler theory, network engineering, concurrent systems, software engineering, computer graphics (i am not talking about flash, i am talking about the shitloads of information that is processed so you can use your CAD system), and a whole lot more. I took the full physics req. that all mechs or EE take, I took mathematics beyond all engineers where I got my BS (RIT), I took several language theory courses that are by no means trivial. Computer science is the science of harnessing the computer, and just about every ounce of what you do in modern ME is driven by the power we provide. So don't patronize me, and don't think that because you know a couple language names, and how to write a 'while' loop that you know what the fuck is going on. I build bicycles, and swap engines, but I don't pretend to be a mechanical engineer.
Carpenter? Speak for yourself. Your average carpenter knows little college-level science. I think saying a programmer is like a mechanical engineer is a far more adequate comparison. Perhaps you should specify that you are referring to visual basic or dynamic web pages, because i doubt somebody with a vocational education would be able to build network routing software, statistical analysis software, or anything even remotely more complex than a VB interface on top of some sql tables
Before you further insult those of us who spent 4+ years in university studying the intricacies of computer science, why don't you try doing some real programming yourself.
Hah, I love it when people just itching to write 3 paragraph arguments hop onto a clearly senseless and stupid comment i write. Face it: Bush is an idiot, Saddam is a sadist, US is concerned for iraq because of its economic importance alone, as is France, and torpedoing a floating ship-o-spam is clearly not as controversial as invading a nation, and should be done asap. Slashdot is hardly a worthwhile forum for anything beyond insightful *short* points and funny quips.
Bush can put all his hawkish qualities to good use. Rather than bullying 3rd world dicators who were former allies, he can put a couple of tomahawks through the hull of that ship.
Easy as pie.. except they are talking over the voice comm system, not the text system (which is ascii btw.. half life is pre-unicode-ubiquity (puu?))
So thats why those obsure 120 ping Counterstrike servers always have people jabbering away in Korean (at least I think it is, my ability to differentiate between Asian langs in limited). Now if only the Indians would pick up heavy gaming addicitions, I wouldn't have to worry about my application being off-shored
Ready.gov has plenty of useful information on radiation shielding. If you have a thick shield between yourself and the radioactive materials more of the radiation will be absorbed by the thick shield, and you will be exposed to less. Perhaps NASA could use some insightful advice from the Dept of Homeland Securty. I bet a couple rolls of duct tape and some plastic would be quite useful in Space!
But that is a great review. Shitty sci fi books deserve to get pummeled imo, especially from authors who are known to do better. Speaking of which, i would like this guy to rip a non sci fi but equally deserving book apart (ahem "Rainbow Six"?). As someone who enjoys fiction, authors who *are capable of writing good fiction* who put out a bunch of stagnant predictable characters deserve scorn (*cough* Lucky Starr).
Remember that the infrastructure for cars is paid for by the taxpayers. And don't limit infrastructure to just road construction and maintenance, add all the regulatory facets too (police speed control, license and registration issues... even drunk driving accidents that could be prevented).
I doubt, with all things considered, that cars as primary transportation has a higher return. Think about it: 1 person per 4 passenger vehicle, individuals given responsibility over a several thousand pound hunk of metal - compared to: 200+ people per 1 vehicle (train), 1 driver given control over the vehicle on a determined track. And just think about the energy usage.
I thought your review sounded like a chapter summary and marketing short, not an evaluation as to the quality of the book. Deal with it.
Despite my personal pride in being one who tries to grasp a concept/issue via multiple sources from different perspectives, i just realized that the vast majority of my information these days funnels through google. And i know i am not alone.
I would wager google's potential control of information distribution and content filtering rivals that of major centralized information outlets like CNN or the NY times. Kinda unnerving.
Thats fuckin cool
I am really gettting tired of shameless plugs for MS related books by people who have no trace in the slashdot community. The review was a play by play that gave me little depth as to the quality of the book, and little reference to other books on the topic. And of course the author of the review came from a Compact Framework specific site, so what would qualify him to write a review of a book that introduces the Compact Framework?
.NET, and use it exclusivly everyday for development. But I want from slashdot real reviews, not MS marketing.. i have to sift through enough of that when i want details on upcoming technologies.
And before you call me biased, know that I love c# and
I would like to see some serious creative muscle applied to developing decentralized energy sources (preferably clean, of course); as energy is a driving force in the world economy.Those who control it will have a very strong influence over the world economy. Decentralize it, and no more invading haggard rogue nations whose only worth to world economical power games is the energy resources contained under its soil.
Of course then some other centralized commodity will most likely become the key to world domination (communications infrastructure? media, oh wait that already is a key to control).
Maybe after we decentralize all the industries we can get around to *actually* decentralizing government (i.e. democracy); although i should probably be careful what i wish for.