I thought I might bring up Shuji Nakamura, the guy who invented the blue LED. And how afterwards he got shafted by the company he was working for.
This link takes you to an editorial about how poorly inventors and engineers in Japan are treated by management.
Strangely enough however, I cannot find any mention of how poorly they treated Mr Nakamura in any of the bigger business journals. They talk only about how much he earned them, and leave out how little he was paid in compensation.
This guy has collected some of the most interesting demos I have seen as of late. You can order the mby date to view some of the newer productions. Also look at the following to get into the craze that is called demo scene.
http://www.pouet.net/
http://www.scene.org/
PS, anyone care to tell me how to make them proper links? I tried a little HTML and it failed.
This post deserves a constructive reply. Someone has modded it troll, and although it is a little, the underlying problem is that Creative just don't care. Hopefully this does not come off as troll.:)
The SoundBlaster Live (and from what I hear the SoundBlaster Audigy 1) does not support SMP machines in Windows. Often they work fine, but many of the people on the www.2cpu.com forums have had no end of trouble with them. Creative have patched their Audigy drivers to allow hyperthreaded processors to work with them, but not SMP. The Live, as to be expected, has been left unpatched.
I have also learned that the SoundBlaster Live is a bus master. Why? Is it necessary to cause conflicts with hardware that actually needs to master the bus like disk controllers?
And then there is this hardware Dolby Digital decoding feasco. I wanted a SoundBlaster Live back when I had a P233 so that my DXR-2 DVD decoder could output the digital signal to the SPDIF on the live and give me five channel audio. Apparently, it can't be done. Apparently, its done in the drivers... Marketing it as a hardware feature, go figure.
Oh well... I suppose I always have the right to vote with my wallet.
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It reminds me somewhat of trial by ordeal for a witch. In this case, all farmer can do is use Roundup to remove the non reistant crop.
Unfortunatly, this only serves to kill the innocent and to leave you with what you must burn.
The levels in Thief 3 asre split to allow the larger levels to fit on the X-Box. What happens during the save upon that transition? Does the skill setting reset then?
Yeah thats absolutely correct. New Zealanders shag sheep, all day every day.
From the age of sixteen, every boy is given a small flock of ewes and is told to shag them senseless until they are ready for the meat works. Its then packaged sent over to the US.
Think about that next time you've got gravy dribbling down your chin.:)
I knew a fellow with the name that roughly translates to idiot. His parents had named him Meshugana, which to my understanding is Hebrew for 'crazy' or 'foolish'. Why would any parent would do this to their child?
Reguardless, I suspect he will not travel to Israel any time soon.:)
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It's called a peer-review, and it's standard practice in all large SW engineering groups.
Aye, we do that here where I work. I have been involved in the review of other works of code, and I've certainly advised the removal of a few sprintf calls.
Perhaps I was not clear in my earlier post, but no piece of software is a simple as a length of climing rope, and far more difficult to inspect than an aircraft. How can one be certain of the safty measure of a piece of software when errors are hidden in the machine code? Even if they have the source, how easy it it to mistake (uid == root) for (uid = root)?
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I cannot comment on this statistically, but it is my opinion that software where the source is open could well be safer.
For example, a climber assures his saftey by inspecting his or her rope before a climb. This is common sense.
Likewise, a pilot makes a huge effort to guage the airworthyness of his or her aircraft by way of a awalkaround and runup checks.
Does free as in speech have to mean free as in beer?
For the sake of example, is it possible to produce a game with an open source licence that prohibits others from profiting from it? With such a licence you would sell the game data but not the engine code that runs it.
I ask this as I am considering using it for products I intend to sell in the future, but still give something back to the community that has given so much to me.
Morpheus: The EULA is a Microsoft-generated dreamworld built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
Morpheus holds up a bag of money.
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That system is nuts.
To make an analogy, the way these help desks currently promote their operators is like some sort of military promotion based upon how many bulletes a soldier has fired. It simply does not make sense.
Why don't they add some sort of system where by the customer can rate the call? This could mean that unhelpful calls do not count towards your call statistics, and thus only useful people like Ken would get promotion.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but dont economic situations such as this have a way of settling themselves? I am not an economist, but wont the value of the US dollar decrease such that outsourcing and importing are less profitable, and exports are more?
This will require the US to produce more of its own food and oil however, because of the cost of the increase in the price of imported goods.
It is my understanding that ambulance officers are specifically instructed to ignore accident victims that make excessive amounts of noise. This is because if you are alive enough to yell for help then you are more likely to survive than someone who isn't yelling for help.
Of the millions of aircraft that fly over cities each day, it is reasonable to consider some might get in to trouble (engine failure, low fuel) and there could be a further slim chance that one of these aircraft might have to fly over something important. To shoot down every one would be stupid.
I think it poor that anyone would end the life of every passenger on an aircraft on the off (and very slim) chance that the pilot was going to use said aircraft to perform some terrorist act. I supose soon snipers will shoot the drivers of cars that are headed toward important buildings just in case they have a load of TNT on the back seat. But I suppose it is in the interests of the common good, or so we will be told.
So thats where that New Zealand fellow's cruise missle went! Gandalf stole it to send the one ring on its way without the need for those pesky corruptable humans!
Since it ended up in the river where Smeagol found it however, we think we all know how good Middle Earth's GPS network is...
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Atomic is a magazine devoted to case moding and games. An interesting read as it always seems to have interesting content.
:)
That and they have given my free stuff.
I thought I might bring up Shuji Nakamura, the guy who invented the blue LED. And how afterwards he got shafted by the company he was working for.
This link takes you to an editorial about how poorly inventors and engineers in Japan are treated by management.
Strangely enough however, I cannot find any mention of how poorly they treated Mr Nakamura in any of the bigger business journals. They talk only about how much he earned them, and leave out how little he was paid in compensation.
Send it to me, just in time for spring south of the equator. :)
True... Still, I wouldn't want to be near when it goes off. :)
What about those Soviet carrier buster torpedos?
Have a look at:
http://www.calodox.org/demoo/
This guy has collected some of the most interesting demos I have seen as of late. You can order the mby date to view some of the newer productions. Also look at the following to get into the craze that is called demo scene.
http://www.pouet.net/
http://www.scene.org/
PS, anyone care to tell me how to make them proper links? I tried a little HTML and it failed.
This post deserves a constructive reply. Someone has modded it troll, and although it is a little, the underlying problem is that Creative just don't care. Hopefully this does not come off as troll. :)
The SoundBlaster Live (and from what I hear the SoundBlaster Audigy 1) does not support SMP machines in Windows. Often they work fine, but many of the people on the www.2cpu.com forums have had no end of trouble with them. Creative have patched their Audigy drivers to allow hyperthreaded processors to work with them, but not SMP. The Live, as to be expected, has been left unpatched.
I have also learned that the SoundBlaster Live is a bus master. Why? Is it necessary to cause conflicts with hardware that actually needs to master the bus like disk controllers?
And then there is this hardware Dolby Digital decoding feasco. I wanted a SoundBlaster Live back when I had a P233 so that my DXR-2 DVD decoder could output the digital signal to the SPDIF on the live and give me five channel audio. Apparently, it can't be done. Apparently, its done in the drivers... Marketing it as a hardware feature, go figure.
Oh well... I suppose I always have the right to vote with my wallet.
It reminds me somewhat of trial by ordeal for a witch. In this case, all farmer can do is use Roundup to remove the non reistant crop.
Unfortunatly, this only serves to kill the innocent and to leave you with what you must burn.
Cruise missles armed with nukes?
The levels in Thief 3 asre split to allow the larger levels to fit on the X-Box. What happens during the save upon that transition? Does the skill setting reset then?
We have them in America. They're called potato chips.
What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them "chazzwazzers".
What if the Virus itself had such a security measure?
Would it then be illegal under US law to write anti-virus software for it?
Yeah thats absolutely correct. New Zealanders shag sheep, all day every day.
:)
From the age of sixteen, every boy is given a small flock of ewes and is told to shag them senseless until they are ready for the meat works. Its then packaged sent over to the US.
Think about that next time you've got gravy dribbling down your chin.
Stolen from Mike King's stand up comedy.
Hey, I thought you guys had freedom of speech?
Naa, thats just what the travel brochure says.
I knew a fellow with the name that roughly translates to idiot. His parents had named him Meshugana, which to my understanding is Hebrew for 'crazy' or 'foolish'. Why would any parent would do this to their child?
:)
Reguardless, I suspect he will not travel to Israel any time soon.
It's called a peer-review, and it's standard practice in all large SW engineering groups.
Aye, we do that here where I work. I have been involved in the review of other works of code, and I've certainly advised the removal of a few sprintf calls.
Perhaps I was not clear in my earlier post, but no piece of software is a simple as a length of climing rope, and far more difficult to inspect than an aircraft. How can one be certain of the safty measure of a piece of software when errors are hidden in the machine code? Even if they have the source, how easy it it to mistake (uid == root) for (uid = root)?
I cannot comment on this statistically, but it is my opinion that software where the source is open could well be safer.
For example, a climber assures his saftey by inspecting his or her rope before a climb. This is common sense.
Likewise, a pilot makes a huge effort to guage the airworthyness of his or her aircraft by way of a awalkaround and runup checks.
Surley the same could be said about software?
Correct me if I'm worng, but isn't ATi planning on releasing their R300 drivers open source when they release their new R400 gear?
I for one am looking forward to the prospect. If they don't release them, I may have to switch back to my Voodoo5 to de-taint my system.
Does free as in speech have to mean free as in beer?
For the sake of example, is it possible to produce a game with an open source licence that prohibits others from profiting from it? With such a licence you would sell the game data but not the engine code that runs it.
I ask this as I am considering using it for products I intend to sell in the future, but still give something back to the community that has given so much to me.
Morpheus: The EULA is a Microsoft-generated dreamworld built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this. Morpheus holds up a bag of money.
That system is nuts.
To make an analogy, the way these help desks currently promote their operators is like some sort of military promotion based upon how many bulletes a soldier has fired. It simply does not make sense.
Why don't they add some sort of system where by the customer can rate the call? This could mean that unhelpful calls do not count towards your call statistics, and thus only useful people like Ken would get promotion.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but dont economic situations such as this have a way of settling themselves? I am not an economist, but wont the value of the US dollar decrease such that outsourcing and importing are less profitable, and exports are more?
This will require the US to produce more of its own food and oil however, because of the cost of the increase in the price of imported goods.
There are of course exceptions...
It is my understanding that ambulance officers are specifically instructed to ignore accident victims that make excessive amounts of noise. This is because if you are alive enough to yell for help then you are more likely to survive than someone who isn't yelling for help.
Well, it is down here anyway.
Why does everyone assume we all live in the northen hemisphere?
Today, that plane would be shot down.
Of the millions of aircraft that fly over cities each day, it is reasonable to consider some might get in to trouble (engine failure, low fuel) and there could be a further slim chance that one of these aircraft might have to fly over something important. To shoot down every one would be stupid.
I think it poor that anyone would end the life of every passenger on an aircraft on the off (and very slim) chance that the pilot was going to use said aircraft to perform some terrorist act. I supose soon snipers will shoot the drivers of cars that are headed toward important buildings just in case they have a load of TNT on the back seat. But I suppose it is in the interests of the common good, or so we will be told.
So thats where that New Zealand fellow's cruise missle went! Gandalf stole it to send the one ring on its way without the need for those pesky corruptable humans!
Since it ended up in the river where Smeagol found it however, we think we all know how good Middle Earth's GPS network is...