Unless your a doctor of such. In the UK/EU there is a MAXIMUM working week of 48 hours. If you sign a contract that says you will work more (this is legal) then it's your own bloody problem. I refused to sign the last contract that said this. If necessary (and it sometimes is) I will work more than this (I've worked 100 hour weeks when the need arose) but I WILL NOT SIGN AWAY MY RIGHTS.
Why should my tax pounds go to debug MS Windows? If the government wants to spend money on software projects they'd be better off building their own infrastructure designed to be used by and for the people. MS should debug their own software using the money I forked out to buy it. I'm DO NOT want to pay twice.
If this were MS's real reason then they could just provide all of with the source code to any hackers who wanted to look for holes (or... shudder... even a free (as in beer) license). It is protected by copyright in the same way as the OS or apps are. It is easier to copy a CD than recompile the Office CD I suspect!!!
There are so many tin foil hat answers to this it is mind boggling. How long before we see real improvements then?
Yeah... like my tube preamp really appeals to my soft, fluffy, feminine side and empathised with me when my dog got run over by my ex-girlfriend... my solid state amp merely told me to get on with life or hang myself.
There's no "emotion" in either of these things just different filtering characteristics... SSSHHHEEESSSHH!!!
I'm a nazi, terrorist, pro communist, anti pro-life devil worshipping, capitalist, running dog, zealot.... but it's not my fault... It's my evil gene....
"They'll" start screening for the liberal hormone at preschool and embark on a 3month course of correctional whipping if yer not too careful....
A true story.... I was on business in Taiwan last year and flew from Heathrow via Hong Kong to Taipei. Apparently Heathrow was on high alert at the time after some mumbo jumbo about a possible terrorist attack (which never happened surprise, surprise). I'm a bit of an old goth type so I had my long leather coat with me (it may be hot in Taiwan but 5AM in the UK is still wet and cold). I had already passed the bins for sharp objects when I suddenly realised that I still had a large metal broach on my leather. This is an EVIL looking broach over 3 inches, solid steel, with sharp spikes on either end and a needle sharp clasp about 2 inches long. Welllll.... I didn't really know what to do. I left my coat folded over my arm and placed it on the x-ray conveyor belt.... what do you reckon happened???? Answer... I got all the way through security, all the way to Taipei (Via HK) AND BACK without a single double check or funny look... well done guys... well done.... On the other hand I wasn't going to kill anyone and I'm glad I got to keep my broach.... which I subsequently lost at a club about a month later!!!
CRICKEY!!! What do you want! It would STILL run a compiler, STILL run multi channel soft synths, still even be capable of moderate video editing... that's a LOT of MIPS pumping through that thing. It will run a browser, run Javascript, emulate JAVA at a reasonable speed and has video acceleration anyway. It is fast enough to play DVDs - which is still the most taxing thing most users ever do with their PC's.
It will still run my FFTs and signal processing stuff and it will definitely read my email, news and let me type up documents (hell I was doing that on my 286's and 386's)
Sorry to moan but you either do fluid dynamics for a living or REALLY like running SuperPI.
WOW! I'd forgotten about those! A few of those pictures were in a paper here a little while ago. I haven't seen them since. VERY nice! "Dies Irae" is the one I remember.
I also remember some "secret" paintings. I believe these were from the English Civil War when having a picture of the monarch was a VERY dangerous thing to have.
Instead plates were painted with an apparently abstract pattern. However when a mirrored cyclinder is placed in the middle of the pattern the picture can be seen.... Can't find a link to a pic of it sadly.
At most cricket grounds over here (esp. for internationals like the current Windies tour) sponsor's logos are printed on the pitch (painted on the grass). BUT. The best camera angles for cricket are from a high up camera inthe stands. So the sponsors have to predistort their logos so that it looks good in a long, panoramic, high shot.
I thought that it was quite clever when I first saw it.
As far as I understand it... IF (and you'd be a right tool to do so) sign a SEPERATE contract of this nature then it is biding until whenever stated on the contract. IF this is part of your contract of employment (as nearly all are) then the contract is BROKEN when you leave the employ of that company as that is the tenure of such a contract.
None of this has EVER withstood a good trial and the few times employers have tried it (mostly in the City) it has failed. I suspect the EU Human Rights convention probably has a lot to say about it too.
Man! That's a good one! All I wanted to to was record some sounds but first I have to spend 6 months tracking down hardware specs (that might not be available) and writing (AND debugging) a bunch of low level, machine mangling driver code. I write drivers for a living, music helps me relax!
Note... it's very easy to get the MS DDKs.... very easy... WDM has worked well as a driver model. MS wants to replace it with Longhorn. I DON'T think this should (be allowed to) happen. WDM is supported across multiple (windows) OS's and I really don't see why some clever coders can't encapsulate that functionality.... hint, hint.
Now... where's the drivers for more synth cards?? Oh... there aren't any.... oh well.... Linux sound is fine for the desktop (mostly onboard or Creative) but many important cards are not supported.
ALL the cinemas near me are Odeons (Odious's?) Camden, Holloway and Muswell Hill... THERE SITE SUCKS!!! It has ALWAYS sucked. It doesn't just need IE it need Flash too... 4FS!!! ALL IT NEEDS TO DO IS LIST THE BLOODY FILMS IN MY AREA!!!! ARRRGHHH!!! Which SSM's were employed for this balls up!
It's almost un-navigable. It's just a right royal pain in the aris. Bare HTML and a few list boxes would have made me a million times happier... SHEESH! Web designers should take inspiration from such sites as google (simplicity personified) or the BBC weather site (complex but very functional) OR timeanddate.com which has just about everything about times and dates one needs to know... and you can store favs....
For a start one should have half decent virus checkers etc OR (a far better solution) is to make sure your users are well informed about these things. I run a firewall and no anti-virus software and have had 1 virus in 10 years. Prevention is better than cure.
Secondly - My USB Key is a god send. It may 'only' be 128Meg but I can take work home and work on it directly on the key. I always have the most up to date docs/code with me. If I couldn't take stuff home it'd take me much longer to do. When one is working in R&D you never quite know when inspiration and a solution will hit you.
Yes - there are hazards but (for me) the benefits massively outweigh them.
I deliberately haven't installed the flash/shockwave type plugins and I run Mozilla. I do so so I don't have to see adverts etc. There are some sites that won't work like that but what with SVG and Javascript I reckon the emphasis on 3rd party plugins for animation will slowly wane.
Also... this isn't about what _YOU_ want. Browsers are for everybody who wants web access and that in itself presents a problem - one can't keep all the people happy all the time. If enough people have your attitude then you'll probably find a browser port that intentionally blocks the use of plugins.
That's called consumer choice and market pressure. A standard plugin architecture will also help a lot of corporations produce their own cross platform plugins that allow them to use a web browser as a GUI to, say, a corporate database, maintenance code or some such. That would be VERY useful IMHO.
There may be workarounds, but there will also be a fair number of people who will not want to put forth the effort to deal with such workarounds.
Then those that see a bargain (a ripped off CD but cheaper than the original) will buy it. If they do so then pirates will start copying it because consumers can't be bothered but will still pay less for it (duh! who wouldn't!) ad infinitum...
Hmmm... as you've already described - there will probably be workarounds... Me... well I love ripping my CDs and seeing as I've almost done the entire collection I can just rip the new ones I buy. It's great - choice... isn't it??? MMMmm...
Why do you need hardware for 3D? The N64 was a softcore (SIMD type engine with special opcodes but still programmable). "Hardware 3D" becomes more and more software every cycle of the graphics industry - witness pixel and vertex shaders... The PS2 is basically a huge and slightly dedicated soft engine.
The ARM9 at such speeds should deliver pretty good 3D - hardware or software is not the issue - throughput is....
OK - That's partially fair comment.
The easiest way to differentiate the systems in the market is PRICE! Expect GBA to come down to next to nothing (it costs chuff all to make). GBA maybe going for 20 or 30 bucks. DS will mark the new high price point but expect it to be WELL under the price of the PSP.
DS probably is compatible with GBA games as it has an ARM7 on board and the video can probably be emulated with the new video hardware. Well have to wait and see. The DS ARM7 core is rumoured to run at 33Mhz whereas the GBA runs at 16.7Mhz. This _could_ lead to trouble with games using software timing but maybe not - it is more likely to offer GBA coders the ability to write enhanced versions for DS that run from the same cart as the GBA version. Having said that... we'll of course have to wait and see.
Dual screen is most definitely NOT a gimmick. A larger screen doesn't fit in your pocket. Also the bottom half being a touch screen is going to be a god send for stuff like Advance Wars. MMMmmm DS Advance Wars... I can't wait!!!
Nintendo is thinking this "how can we make games and systems that play well and yet appear different to other peoples games?" If they can't achieve that then they may as well just become EA.
Could someone PLEASE conjure up a half decent Socket A CPU?! I mean one that doesn't require some huge cooling system... then I can make use of all those lovely Socket A integrated mobos with a nice passively cooled (silent) CPU...
It doesn't have to be State of the art - I'm running a Duron 1.8Ghz here and audio and image editting are running just fine... just like they worked fine on my 500Mhz K7....
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Unless your a doctor of such. In the UK/EU there is a MAXIMUM working week of 48 hours. If you sign a contract that says you will work more (this is legal) then it's your own bloody problem. I refused to sign the last contract that said this. If necessary (and it sometimes is) I will work more than this (I've worked 100 hour weeks when the need arose) but I WILL NOT SIGN AWAY MY RIGHTS.
The only problem is that the area in which it may have "landed" is fairly large. With the NASA rovers they knew exactly where to look.
Why should my tax pounds go to debug MS Windows? If the government wants to spend money on software projects they'd be better off building their own infrastructure designed to be used by and for the people. MS should debug their own software using the money I forked out to buy it. I'm DO NOT want to pay twice.
If this were MS's real reason then they could just provide all of with the source code to any hackers who wanted to look for holes (or... shudder... even a free (as in beer) license). It is protected by copyright in the same way as the OS or apps are. It is easier to copy a CD than recompile the Office CD I suspect!!!
There are so many tin foil hat answers to this it is mind boggling. How long before we see real improvements then?
She INSISTS on Diet Coke... Only "full fat" Coke does it for me.... Rum is probably one of my favourite hobbies! ;-)
In your dreams! I'm old enough to be your daddy!
Wow.. trolling... anonymously... do you really understand irony.... now fuck off.
Yeah... like my tube preamp really appeals to my soft, fluffy, feminine side and empathised with me when my dog got run over by my ex-girlfriend... my solid state amp merely told me to get on with life or hang myself. There's no "emotion" in either of these things just different filtering characteristics... SSSHHHEEESSSHH!!!
I'm a nazi, terrorist, pro communist, anti pro-life devil worshipping, capitalist, running dog, zealot.... but it's not my fault... It's my evil gene....
"They'll" start screening for the liberal hormone at preschool and embark on a 3month course of correctional whipping if yer not too careful....
Politics??? Make your own mind up for fucks sake.
A true story.... I was on business in Taiwan last year and flew from Heathrow via Hong Kong to Taipei. Apparently Heathrow was on high alert at the time after some mumbo jumbo about a possible terrorist attack (which never happened surprise, surprise). I'm a bit of an old goth type so I had my long leather coat with me (it may be hot in Taiwan but 5AM in the UK is still wet and cold). I had already passed the bins for sharp objects when I suddenly realised that I still had a large metal broach on my leather. This is an EVIL looking broach over 3 inches, solid steel, with sharp spikes on either end and a needle sharp clasp about 2 inches long. Welllll.... I didn't really know what to do. I left my coat folded over my arm and placed it on the x-ray conveyor belt.... what do you reckon happened???? Answer... I got all the way through security, all the way to Taipei (Via HK) AND BACK without a single double check or funny look... well done guys... well done.... On the other hand I wasn't going to kill anyone and I'm glad I got to keep my broach.... which I subsequently lost at a club about a month later!!!
CRICKEY!!! What do you want! It would STILL run a compiler, STILL run multi channel soft synths, still even be capable of moderate video editing... that's a LOT of MIPS pumping through that thing. It will run a browser, run Javascript, emulate JAVA at a reasonable speed and has video acceleration anyway. It is fast enough to play DVDs - which is still the most taxing thing most users ever do with their PC's. It will still run my FFTs and signal processing stuff and it will definitely read my email, news and let me type up documents (hell I was doing that on my 286's and 386's) Sorry to moan but you either do fluid dynamics for a living or REALLY like running SuperPI.
WOW! I'd forgotten about those! A few of those pictures were in a paper here a little while ago. I haven't seen them since. VERY nice! "Dies Irae" is the one I remember.
I also remember some "secret" paintings. I believe these were from the English Civil War when having a picture of the monarch was a VERY dangerous thing to have.
Instead plates were painted with an apparently abstract pattern. However when a mirrored cyclinder is placed in the middle of the pattern the picture can be seen.... Can't find a link to a pic of it sadly.
At most cricket grounds over here (esp. for internationals like the current Windies tour) sponsor's logos are printed on the pitch (painted on the grass). BUT. The best camera angles for cricket are from a high up camera inthe stands. So the sponsors have to predistort their logos so that it looks good in a long, panoramic, high shot.
I thought that it was quite clever when I first saw it.
As far as I understand it... IF (and you'd be a right tool to do so) sign a SEPERATE contract of this nature then it is biding until whenever stated on the contract. IF this is part of your contract of employment (as nearly all are) then the contract is BROKEN when you leave the employ of that company as that is the tenure of such a contract.
None of this has EVER withstood a good trial and the few times employers have tried it (mostly in the City) it has failed. I suspect the EU Human Rights convention probably has a lot to say about it too.
I congratulate you! That's the best business model I've ever seen! Should make billions... I'd patent it if I were you.
Man! That's a good one! All I wanted to to was record some sounds but first I have to spend 6 months tracking down hardware specs (that might not be available) and writing (AND debugging) a bunch of low level, machine mangling driver code. I write drivers for a living, music helps me relax!
Note... it's very easy to get the MS DDKs.... very easy... WDM has worked well as a driver model. MS wants to replace it with Longhorn. I DON'T think this should (be allowed to) happen. WDM is supported across multiple (windows) OS's and I really don't see why some clever coders can't encapsulate that functionality.... hint, hint.
Now... where's the drivers for more synth cards?? Oh... there aren't any.... oh well.... Linux sound is fine for the desktop (mostly onboard or Creative) but many important cards are not supported.
ALL the cinemas near me are Odeons (Odious's?) Camden, Holloway and Muswell Hill... THERE SITE SUCKS!!! It has ALWAYS sucked. It doesn't just need IE it need Flash too... 4FS!!! ALL IT NEEDS TO DO IS LIST THE BLOODY FILMS IN MY AREA!!!! ARRRGHHH!!! Which SSM's were employed for this balls up!
It's almost un-navigable. It's just a right royal pain in the aris. Bare HTML and a few list boxes would have made me a million times happier... SHEESH! Web designers should take inspiration from such sites as google (simplicity personified) or the BBC weather site (complex but very functional) OR timeanddate.com which has just about everything about times and dates one needs to know... and you can store favs....
For a start one should have half decent virus checkers etc OR (a far better solution) is to make sure your users are well informed about these things. I run a firewall and no anti-virus software and have had 1 virus in 10 years. Prevention is better than cure.
Secondly - My USB Key is a god send. It may 'only' be 128Meg but I can take work home and work on it directly on the key. I always have the most up to date docs/code with me. If I couldn't take stuff home it'd take me much longer to do. When one is working in R&D you never quite know when inspiration and a solution will hit you.
Yes - there are hazards but (for me) the benefits massively outweigh them.
I deliberately haven't installed the flash/shockwave type plugins and I run Mozilla. I do so so I don't have to see adverts etc. There are some sites that won't work like that but what with SVG and Javascript I reckon the emphasis on 3rd party plugins for animation will slowly wane.
Also... this isn't about what _YOU_ want. Browsers are for everybody who wants web access and that in itself presents a problem - one can't keep all the people happy all the time. If enough people have your attitude then you'll probably find a browser port that intentionally blocks the use of plugins.
That's called consumer choice and market pressure. A standard plugin architecture will also help a lot of corporations produce their own cross platform plugins that allow them to use a web browser as a GUI to, say, a corporate database, maintenance code or some such. That would be VERY useful IMHO.
Matthew.
Errr... Any half decent fighting game on a GB?
Then those that see a bargain (a ripped off CD but cheaper than the original) will buy it. If they do so then pirates will start copying it because consumers can't be bothered but will still pay less for it (duh! who wouldn't!) ad infinitum...
Hmmm... as you've already described - there will probably be workarounds... Me... well I love ripping my CDs and seeing as I've almost done the entire collection I can just rip the new ones I buy. It's great - choice... isn't it??? MMMmm...
YAR!!!!
Matthew.
EH!!???
Why do you need hardware for 3D? The N64 was a softcore (SIMD type engine with special opcodes but still programmable). "Hardware 3D" becomes more and more software every cycle of the graphics industry - witness pixel and vertex shaders... The PS2 is basically a huge and slightly dedicated soft engine.
The ARM9 at such speeds should deliver pretty good 3D - hardware or software is not the issue - throughput is....
OK - That's partially fair comment. The easiest way to differentiate the systems in the market is PRICE! Expect GBA to come down to next to nothing (it costs chuff all to make). GBA maybe going for 20 or 30 bucks. DS will mark the new high price point but expect it to be WELL under the price of the PSP. DS probably is compatible with GBA games as it has an ARM7 on board and the video can probably be emulated with the new video hardware. Well have to wait and see. The DS ARM7 core is rumoured to run at 33Mhz whereas the GBA runs at 16.7Mhz. This _could_ lead to trouble with games using software timing but maybe not - it is more likely to offer GBA coders the ability to write enhanced versions for DS that run from the same cart as the GBA version. Having said that... we'll of course have to wait and see. Dual screen is most definitely NOT a gimmick. A larger screen doesn't fit in your pocket. Also the bottom half being a touch screen is going to be a god send for stuff like Advance Wars. MMMmmm DS Advance Wars... I can't wait!!! Nintendo is thinking this "how can we make games and systems that play well and yet appear different to other peoples games?" If they can't achieve that then they may as well just become EA.
Could someone PLEASE conjure up a half decent Socket A CPU?! I mean one that doesn't require some huge cooling system... then I can make use of all those lovely Socket A integrated mobos with a nice passively cooled (silent) CPU... It doesn't have to be State of the art - I'm running a Duron 1.8Ghz here and audio and image editting are running just fine... just like they worked fine on my 500Mhz K7....