In all honesty at the moment I'm erring on the side of caution - have a machine placed in a CO-LO where I'm in charge of everything and they provide network, power and air-co. Two machines, one slow cheap machine as serial server to the real machine.
Any company that insists on "root access to the machine" is off the list.
I'm still browsing at the moment.
If your organisation gets big enough for multiple servers - look into leasing a line and hosting the machines yourself. It's old school - but it's "I'm in charge".
This I know, but unfortunately at this early stage of my company opening it up to unending lawsuits is basically the end of my dream.
The U.S. is basically "corporates only" for software. All the patents and pressures means until I have a sufficient _american_ patent portfolio, I'm easy game for the existing corporations registered with patents in the U.S.
I've worked on this software for about 1 year my time, and done things I think are "research" in their newness.
Releasing any software in the U.S. is basically opening me up to a multitude of unfounded lawsuits and I become a target for corporate espionage - why do I bother.
As a euro developer - I must confess that the U.S. is looking less and less interesting as a revenue source.
All the "steal people's data" and the "we control domains" - why on earth would I think about building a business in this piranha pool?
The lap time should have given it away - 9 minutes!
The nurburgring remains as an example of the old school racing circuits from the previous century - long and dangerous.
They've built a more modern circuit around the pits, but the old long configuration (nordschliefe) is still used for endurance events with various vehicles (GT cars, motorcycles etc)
It's the same way that saying 'The house seems dirty. I think Bill tracked some mud into the house yesterday' is not a scientific theory, but is a theory of history and is a falsifiable if Bill wakes up and says he didn't go outside yesterday.
Actually David as anyone that has children will tell you, someone telling you they didn't make mucky footprints all over your clean kitchen floor is not necessarily related in any way to "the truth".
Basically, if God is any way involved in a hypothesis all bets are off since his omnipotence means there are rules to the game we never get to see.
This is why any theories invoking the God of the gaps are useless.
I know this is off topic, but this back and forth shows what I consider to be the major problem with western politics as the public sees it.
Frequently consideration is not given to any more than two points in the solution space of opinion on any topic - never mind that they don't lie in a straight line nicely joining all of the available positions.
This childish distillation of politics into "you're either with us or against us" basically removes all possibility of sensibly discussing issues and the multi-dimension space of answers to individual problems.
Makes me sad and from what I've seen even here on Slashdot the American and (to a lesser extent) English political discourse devolves into name calling as a result of someone "not cheering for my team".
You see on one hand I'm eternally grateful for the introduction of the internet. Darpa did a slap up job in getting things started and then along with the Euro academics making it a _real_ global network.
On the other hand, America destroyed newsnet by unleashing AOL which has basically evolved into 4chan and more recently anonymous.
Tricky to say if it's a net gain or loss, to be honest.
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As far as I can tell the changes made by Marc Garcia seem to reflect what someone working with open source tools would expect from a workplace.
Don't get me wrong, there's the right place for the right tool - but in a lot of corps where you might work, there isn't the:
freedom to choose development software
distributed source control system
*Shrug* - just comes off as a wish list of how this developer thinks software companies should work. IMHO part of the attraction of the original Joel list was that it was more or less applicable regardless of product audience / build tools etc. The core principles *really were important*.
Not really as the surface absorbing the light has preserve the polarisation - and anyone who's setup a dual-projector 3D rig with polarised light can attest - you need a special surface coating to get good preservation of polarisation.
Paint with silver particles in it is typically used for painting 3D screens, for example.
Oval cars are setup like that to run on ovals - when they visit the road courses (watkins glen, sears point) they have no trouble at all.
It's all in the cambers, caster and springs. Making some of the wheels "softer" (springs) and forcing more grip on the outside wheel (camber).
The Dallara Indy car is the same - it offers suspension geometry settings that allow it to run both street / road courses and ovals (the dallara is actually more complicated than the C.O.T. - it has differing aero packages based on the track speed and downforce required in addition to the suspension package freedom).
It might look like it's a bunch of crazy rednecks going in a circle but you'd be surprised how much tech there actually is behind it.
Watson comes home early one day from sidekick school to find his cohort naked on all fours in the living room with lemon jam smeared all around his ring piece. There is a sign with an arrow pointing at his arse with the words "Do Me"
Watson: My God Holmes, what on earth are you up to? Holmes: Lemon-entry, my dear Watson.
Come back when PHP can allocate muti-dimensional arrays effectively without adding a few bytes of overhead per item. I've had a team member who wanted to do his pages in his "scripty language" waste two weeks trying to process OLAP information in PHP which would just fall over due to excessive memory allocation. The language is still a posh toy at this point.
You "web 2.0" programmers are basically a bunch of lazy "I want to program in basic" idiots who don't _get_ threaded programming because "it's hard".
I'd say from looking at it those were a bunch of sensible #defines before the code was released and in a fit of humour said author thought it would be funny to do a find and replace on the original ALL_CAPS_SENSIBLE_NAMES.
It just looks cheap, if you ask me.
Now back in my University days we had to implement the producers consumer problem in lisp and whilst I don't have the code to hand I do remember that I came up with the poem the code was going to say _before_ I wrote the code that solved the producers consumers assignment....
The only thing that still sticks in my head is the first line:
(hold_your (trousers) (lovelytrousers))
Yes, the queue was a pair of trousers, and the widgets were sausages.
Was fascinating, I tell you. And totally high class.
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In all honesty at the moment I'm erring on the side of caution - have a machine placed in a CO-LO where I'm in charge of everything and they provide network, power and air-co. Two machines, one slow cheap machine as serial server to the real machine.
Any company that insists on "root access to the machine" is off the list.
I'm still browsing at the moment.
If your organisation gets big enough for multiple servers - look into leasing a line and hosting the machines yourself. It's old school - but it's "I'm in charge".
Your mileage may vary :-)
This I know, but unfortunately at this early stage of my company opening it up to unending lawsuits is basically the end of my dream.
The U.S. is basically "corporates only" for software. All the patents and pressures means until I have a sufficient _american_ patent portfolio, I'm easy game for the existing corporations registered with patents in the U.S.
It's a crazy state of affairs.
I'm someone interested in releasing my software.
I've worked on this software for about 1 year my time, and done things I think are "research" in their newness.
Releasing any software in the U.S. is basically opening me up to a multitude of unfounded lawsuits and I become a target for corporate espionage - why do I bother.
As a euro developer - I must confess that the U.S. is looking less and less interesting as a revenue source.
All the "steal people's data" and the "we control domains" - why on earth would I think about building a business in this piranha pool?
Ah, true, point taken :-)
I thought the same thing (currently running linux, but have 10.5 on the "old" drive).
Unfortunately the requirements are that you will have to install snow leopard to be able to use the app store to upgrade to lion. See step 2 below.
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Sucks really.
The lap time should have given it away - 9 minutes!
The nurburgring remains as an example of the old school racing circuits from the previous century - long and dangerous.
They've built a more modern circuit around the pits, but the old long configuration (nordschliefe) is still used for endurance events with various vehicles (GT cars, motorcycles etc)
Have a look at the track map here
They stopped running F1 there due to safety concerns (no run-off and thin track).
On topic of this EV, I have to say it's closer to a motorcycle than a car...
I live in the U.K. too and can confirm your suspicions - dinner is a disaster.
Fortunately we English have lived with this major emergency for long enough we take it all in our stride now. Ketchup. Lots of ketchup.
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It's the same way that saying 'The house seems dirty. I think Bill tracked some mud into the house yesterday' is not a scientific theory, but is a theory of history and is a falsifiable if Bill wakes up and says he didn't go outside yesterday.
Actually David as anyone that has children will tell you, someone telling you they didn't make mucky footprints all over your clean kitchen floor is not necessarily related in any way to "the truth".
Basically, if God is any way involved in a hypothesis all bets are off since his omnipotence means there are rules to the game we never get to see.
This is why any theories invoking the God of the gaps are useless.
I know this is off topic, but this back and forth shows what I consider to be the major problem with western politics as the public sees it.
Frequently consideration is not given to any more than two points in the solution space of opinion on any topic - never mind that they don't lie in a straight line nicely joining all of the available positions.
This childish distillation of politics into "you're either with us or against us" basically removes all possibility of sensibly discussing issues and the multi-dimension space of answers to individual problems.
Makes me sad and from what I've seen even here on Slashdot the American and (to a lesser extent) English political discourse devolves into name calling as a result of someone "not cheering for my team".
Yes, I feel better for getting it off my chest.
Planning the next one are we Hans?
You know they won't let you out, right?
The successful effort by the left to derail nuclear power through much of the 1980s and 1990s
Why is it that people are such blinkered assholes when it comes to politics?
You say "The left" - but an accurate accusation would be "nuclear opponents".
I'm what you would label a "lefty" but I'm all for Nuclear technology.
I expect better from the Slashdot crowd.
It's not that impressive, either.
On the topic of raytracing - one thing that still stands out to me from the images in the paper are the lack of proper occlusion and shadows.
Take a look at the shot of the close up of the car side - look under the front wheel and it just looks .... artificial.
Unless there's some magic sauce that can be sprinkled on this without added a frame rate hit this isn't really all that wow at all.
You see on one hand I'm eternally grateful for the introduction of the internet. Darpa did a slap up job in getting things started and then along with the Euro academics making it a _real_ global network.
On the other hand, America destroyed newsnet by unleashing AOL which has basically evolved into 4chan and more recently anonymous.
Tricky to say if it's a net gain or loss, to be honest.
*Shrug* - just comes off as a wish list of how this developer thinks software companies should work. IMHO part of the attraction of the original Joel list was that it was more or less applicable regardless of product audience / build tools etc. The core principles *really were important*.
Actually it's five. I decided to go with the flow and have taken up a magical sky friend whilst *thinking of the children*.
Not really as the surface absorbing the light has preserve the polarisation - and anyone who's setup a dual-projector 3D rig with polarised light can attest - you need a special surface coating to get good preservation of polarisation.
Paint with silver particles in it is typically used for painting 3D screens, for example.
Sorry that's here-say.
I think some of the F1 team (williams, HRT) are using RFactor PRO with a whole bunch of their own custom plugins for engine / aero / tyre.
So your claim of racer.nl being used by "F1 teams" is just that, a claim.
Currently iRacing is indeed the most realistic simulation available on the market. As in, available to you or me.
And it seems their beta-testers have been using the calendar function to plan interesting things:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54577173@N04/5054479509/in/photostream/
(See top left)
AFAIK NASCAR cars actually cant steer right
This is a fable.
Oval cars are setup like that to run on ovals - when they visit the road courses (watkins glen, sears point) they have no trouble at all.
It's all in the cambers, caster and springs. Making some of the wheels "softer" (springs) and forcing more grip on the outside wheel (camber).
The Dallara Indy car is the same - it offers suspension geometry settings that allow it to run both street / road courses and ovals (the dallara is actually more complicated than the C.O.T. - it has differing aero packages based on the track speed and downforce required in addition to the suspension package freedom).
It might look like it's a bunch of crazy rednecks going in a circle but you'd be surprised how much tech there actually is behind it.
Actually NASCAR are going the other way FYI.
They've taken the physical car out of the loop and are using technology to replace it.
Together with iRacing they've endorsed the first official NASCAR series champion for virtual racing:
http://www.iracing.com/partners/
Richard Towler has become the first non-resident crowned champion of their online world drivers championship:
http://www.nascar.com/news/headlines/official/iracing.standings/ .-)
Reminds me of my favourite Sherlock Holmes joke:
Watson comes home early one day from sidekick school to find his cohort naked on all fours in the living room with lemon jam smeared all around his ring piece. There is a sign with an arrow pointing at his arse with the words "Do Me"
Watson: My God Holmes, what on earth are you up to?
Holmes: Lemon-entry, my dear Watson.
2/10, very poor effort.
Come back when PHP can allocate muti-dimensional arrays effectively without adding a few bytes of overhead per item. I've had a team member who wanted to do his pages in his "scripty language" waste two weeks trying to process OLAP information in PHP which would just fall over due to excessive memory allocation. The language is still a posh toy at this point.
You "web 2.0" programmers are basically a bunch of lazy "I want to program in basic" idiots who don't _get_ threaded programming because "it's hard".
Seriously, crawl back under that rock.
Looks like a poor mans attempt at humour.
I'd say from looking at it those were a bunch of sensible #defines before the code was released and in a fit of humour said author thought it would be funny to do a find and replace on the original ALL_CAPS_SENSIBLE_NAMES.
It just looks cheap, if you ask me.
Now back in my University days we had to implement the producers consumer problem in lisp and whilst I don't have the code to hand I do remember that I came up with the poem the code was going to say _before_ I wrote the code that solved the producers consumers assignment....
The only thing that still sticks in my head is the first line:
(hold_your (trousers) (lovelytrousers))
Yes, the queue was a pair of trousers, and the widgets were sausages.
Was fascinating, I tell you. And totally high class.
Good point and in all honesty I don't know.
I wonder if it's different if you own the machine and just rent the space or rent the host, too.
Things also get quite murky when you start taking into account VPN's and data not actually coming from the host itself but routed through it.
Still feels like they shouldn't admit liability for some other (individual/corporation)s data/website though.