Every programmer that has ever written in VB.net. The bigger question is:
so developers that use VB.NET now have the possibility of directly porting applications to Linux
Porting? Porting what? They develop in VB.Net, and it should run on any.NET runtime regardless of whether it is mono, MS, or whatever. Wasn't that the whole point?
I agree, but do you find yourself constantly having to switch disciplines? For example, I work as an SA at the moment. Once a month, I have a hardcore Oracle or MySQL issue that I have to resolve. I end up working on one of the largest OLTP instances in the world, not because I am a qualified DBA/DBO, but because I just happen to "be there" and the boss tells me to do it.
While I'm qualified to troubleshoot SQL issues, I am far from qualified to touch an OLTP instance that does 10000 transactions per minute at a rate of $8 million a month. I call the position an "Accidental DBA".
I assume that this happens far more often in the IT world than one world presume, and is not something that one should put on their resume if you want to show a certain career path.
If I were Google, I'd simply settle the case by purchasing them two DL360's. All they have to do is serve the single homepage 2.2 million times a day (68 mil hits month/30 days a month. As long as the homepage is static content (looks like a bajillion gif images), they'll be fine.
Remember that there is a distinction between "cosmetic" plastic surgery and "reconstructive" plactic surgery. Hockey players need to get laid just as badly as that pimple faced geek in the cubicle next to you. The difference is that hockey players "earned" thier noses, and weren't born with them.
On a side note... Why is it that every time my nose gets broken, I immediately get the urge to sneeze? You would think that evolution would have fixed that quirk by now!
I'd be one to petition Mozilla, as RealPlayer is a piece of software that I refuse to be associated with. Also, I refuse to be associated with the following turds:
MS Passport SDK
Anything made or distributed by Rational (other than Rose)
Anything that was ever bundled in CA's Unicenter TNG
Windows ME
Microsoft MOM
Openair (the web site)
Windows versions of WordPerfect (other than in law offices)
ATM PVC and LANE configuration
Microsoft SMS
Seagate "WinInstall"
And many many more! I've even passed on job offers because something like Rational Clearcase was involved (Does IBM own Rational now?).
What about cards with more advanced Ogl drivers like the Matrox P10 (the called it the Perelia or something) or Permedia2. Or, rather more to the point... Is this a WGL limitation or a driver limitation? I recall having a number of dual moniter Intergraph boxes (glint based I believe) that seemed to do accelerated OGL on both monitors. It is possible that they were using the SGI windows OGL implementation though.
If I need multi-monitor and/or multi-device hardware acceleration on anything other than an upper end SGI, like what I currently work on, I HAVE to use DirectX9/10 and Win32
Why is this? Does WGL not allow two device contexts (as well as multiple render contexts, one active at a time, with multiple threads per render context)?
Unfortunately, the key-recovert feature was added after I had registered my online account. The funny thin is, My account from all those years ago still works, I simply can't re-install the game as the key is long gone. There was also a text file in the program directory that you could recover the key from. That file (and the computer for that matter) were consumed in the same house fire that took out the manual. I am left with the keygen and no online play.
I bought NwN as well. It was years ago. I then lost my manual in a house fire. Despite my having the media, receipt, box, manuals, and everything else, they would not provide me with another CD Key.
In the next several years, we will still just be learning to do the basics of film, like motion blur, depth of field -- all of that stuff alone chews up a lot of graphics processing
Didn't 3dfx (now owned by nvidia) already have tech to do just this? I believe it was called T-Buffering. Can anyone in-the-know fill us in?
Uh, if you didn't pay for it, you're not a party to the EULA
But I didn't pay for my copies of XP. One was given to me while I worked for MS. The other I received as a "Gift" for playtesting games at the MS Millenium campus. Both of which now show as being invalid under WGA. Seeing as I don't work for MS anymore, I'm guessing I'm pretty screwed?
Looking at the article, my innitial reaction was, "So THAT'S what windows looks like nowadays!". Of course, adblock had already taken care of the popups, banner ads, and.js stats collectors. Had the play-by-play not been there, I would have never known what XP looked like. Rather informative
All the comments above mentions stuf like using pgp/drivecrypt or other utils to write random data to a disk before selling a piece of hardware. Whatever happened to dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda? Doesn't that do pretty much the same thing, or is "encrypted random" data better than "plain old random data" for some reason?
Prince sells tickets at about $50 a pop. Each concert go'er receives a CD as part of the "experience". The result is that Prince has one of the best selling albums of the year (without selling a ton of albums), gets billboard placement, and puts on a hell-of-a good show.
Bowie's a god and all, but his live performances have always been less than stellar.
I don't know of anybody whose ever gone to jail for
Nobody said anything about jail. The "three months" was referring to something worse than jail. It is that time period where the government seems to think that you owe them $175K, and you have to find every scrap of paper from the last 5 years to prove them wrong. This usually involves having to call the "ex-wife" to get a copy of the deed that you signed over to her 4 years prior. Then it involves finding out that one of the dot.bomb's that you worked at 3 years prior "forgot" to pay their taxes before going under (at least I stole their laptop). Bought a car in NY years before driving to Seattle? Didn't pay sales tax when registering it in WA? Out of pocket expenses for Chemo only equal to 18% of your anual income?
Have fun dropping out of school to pursue your ideals
A number of us did just this. Not only did I have a ton of fun along the way, but am more successful that I would have been had I stayed in school. Mechanical Engineering?! WTF was I thinking?!
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Who uses this?
.NET runtime regardless of whether it is mono, MS, or whatever. Wasn't that the whole point?
Every programmer that has ever written in VB.net. The bigger question is:
so developers that use VB.NET now have the possibility of directly porting applications to Linux
Porting? Porting what? They develop in VB.Net, and it should run on any
BBH
I agree, but do you find yourself constantly having to switch disciplines? For example, I work as an SA at the moment. Once a month, I have a hardcore Oracle or MySQL issue that I have to resolve. I end up working on one of the largest OLTP instances in the world, not because I am a qualified DBA/DBO, but because I just happen to "be there" and the boss tells me to do it.
While I'm qualified to troubleshoot SQL issues, I am far from qualified to touch an OLTP instance that does 10000 transactions per minute at a rate of $8 million a month. I call the position an "Accidental DBA".
I assume that this happens far more often in the IT world than one world presume, and is not something that one should put on their resume if you want to show a certain career path.
BBH
If I were Google, I'd simply settle the case by purchasing them two DL360's. All they have to do is serve the single homepage 2.2 million times a day (68 mil hits month /30 days a month. As long as the homepage is static content (looks like a bajillion gif images), they'll be fine.
BBH
Bigger Gyro?
the increasing use of plastic surgery
Remember that there is a distinction between "cosmetic" plastic surgery and "reconstructive" plactic surgery. Hockey players need to get laid just as badly as that pimple faced geek in the cubicle next to you. The difference is that hockey players "earned" thier noses, and weren't born with them.
On a side note... Why is it that every time my nose gets broken, I immediately get the urge to sneeze? You would think that evolution would have fixed that quirk by now!
BBH
in my jurisidiction (Canada), the typical payout is around $1000 for every day you are unjustly incarcerated
So in the US, we should get $666?
BBH
I dunno, this could be the role Hayden Christansen was born for! He could use BOTH of his facial expressions...
Both "Blue Steel" AND "Magnum"?!?
BBH
I'd be one to petition Mozilla, as RealPlayer is a piece of software that I refuse to be associated with. Also, I refuse to be associated with the following turds:
MS Passport SDK
Anything made or distributed by Rational (other than Rose)
Anything that was ever bundled in CA's Unicenter TNG
Windows ME
Microsoft MOM
Openair (the web site)
Windows versions of WordPerfect (other than in law offices)
ATM PVC and LANE configuration
Microsoft SMS
Seagate "WinInstall"
And many many more! I've even passed on job offers because something like Rational Clearcase was involved (Does IBM own Rational now?).
BBH
What about cards with more advanced Ogl drivers like the Matrox P10 (the called it the Perelia or something) or Permedia2. Or, rather more to the point... Is this a WGL limitation or a driver limitation? I recall having a number of dual moniter Intergraph boxes (glint based I believe) that seemed to do accelerated OGL on both monitors. It is possible that they were using the SGI windows OGL implementation though.
BBH
If I need multi-monitor and/or multi-device hardware acceleration on anything other than an upper end SGI, like what I currently work on, I HAVE to use DirectX9/10 and Win32
Why is this? Does WGL not allow two device contexts (as well as multiple render contexts, one active at a time, with multiple threads per render context)?
BBH
Unfortunately, the key-recovert feature was added after I had registered my online account. The funny thin is, My account from all those years ago still works, I simply can't re-install the game as the key is long gone. There was also a text file in the program directory that you could recover the key from. That file (and the computer for that matter) were consumed in the same house fire that took out the manual. I am left with the keygen and no online play.
BBH
I bought NwN as well. It was years ago. I then lost my manual in a house fire. Despite my having the media, receipt, box, manuals, and everything else, they would not provide me with another CD Key.
Last game I ever bought from Bio/Atari.
BBH
They have a wonderful facility in Niskayuna, NY on River Road (GECRD, not power systems)
http://ge.com/research/
BBH
Paul Hogan was sued for trying to upload copies of Crocadile Dundee 2 to the web, but the suit was dropped as nobody wanted to download it.
BBH
From TFA
In the next several years, we will still just be learning to do the basics of film, like motion blur, depth of field -- all of that stuff alone chews up a lot of graphics processing
Didn't 3dfx (now owned by nvidia) already have tech to do just this? I believe it was called T-Buffering. Can anyone in-the-know fill us in?
BBH
You may have missed the pdf file that accompanied the post.
BBH
Cmon Slashdot! On with the Peter Pan jokes!
Hoppefully, it will get the QA it needs this week. I was kinda hoping it would be in the ~x86 branch already. Anyone have a prelim ebuild?
BBH
Uh, if you didn't pay for it, you're not a party to the EULA
But I didn't pay for my copies of XP. One was given to me while I worked for MS. The other I received as a "Gift" for playtesting games at the MS Millenium campus. Both of which now show as being invalid under WGA. Seeing as I don't work for MS anymore, I'm guessing I'm pretty screwed?
BBH
Looking at the article, my innitial reaction was, "So THAT'S what windows looks like nowadays!". Of course, adblock had already taken care of the popups, banner ads, and .js stats collectors. Had the play-by-play not been there, I would have never known what XP looked like. Rather informative
BBH
All the comments above mentions stuf like using pgp/drivecrypt or other utils to write random data to a disk before selling a piece of hardware. Whatever happened to dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda? Doesn't that do pretty much the same thing, or is "encrypted random" data better than "plain old random data" for some reason?
BBH
Prince sells tickets at about $50 a pop. Each concert go'er receives a CD as part of the "experience". The result is that Prince has one of the best selling albums of the year (without selling a ton of albums), gets billboard placement, and puts on a hell-of-a good show.
Bowie's a god and all, but his live performances have always been less than stellar.
BBH
I don't know of anybody whose ever gone to jail for
Nobody said anything about jail. The "three months" was referring to something worse than jail. It is that time period where the government seems to think that you owe them $175K, and you have to find every scrap of paper from the last 5 years to prove them wrong. This usually involves having to call the "ex-wife" to get a copy of the deed that you signed over to her 4 years prior. Then it involves finding out that one of the dot.bomb's that you worked at 3 years prior "forgot" to pay their taxes before going under (at least I stole their laptop). Bought a car in NY years before driving to Seattle? Didn't pay sales tax when registering it in WA? Out of pocket expenses for Chemo only equal to 18% of your anual income?
Jail? I would have motherf'in loved it!
BBH
I thought "thrust" was measured in Newton Seconds?
BBH
Have fun dropping out of school to pursue your ideals
A number of us did just this. Not only did I have a ton of fun along the way, but am more successful that I would have been had I stayed in school. Mechanical Engineering?! WTF was I thinking?!
BBH