There were actually two versions of the DX4... 75Mhz and 100Mhz and they ran on 25Mhz and 33Mhz busses. The DX4 had a 3X clock multiplier... not 4X as it's name would suggest.
That's the whole point of patents. When you patent something you disclose the details of the invention so that any that reads the patent would know how to implement your idea. The point of this is to encourage people to share their ideas and still make money off of them. Look at RSA as a perfect example. They made money off their idea... and everyone knew how to implement it so they could study it, improve it, figure out new ways to use it, etc. If you look at the part of the constitution that talks about patents, they state that the purpose is to encourage scientific advancement.
No way. Pirating is what is keeping the price down. Because it is only $X for XP, Y% of the people decide that it's afforadable enough for them to buy and Z% say... f-it... i'm just going to copy my friends CD. But, if the price was 2X... well, that Z% will be much higher.
On the flip side, if there is no more piracy... the software companies have no incentive to make their prices reasonable... especially M$ who has a monopoly on the idiot OSes (that run on PC hardware).
All this crap about piracy driving up prices is total BS. The end of piracy will drive the prices up.
"Carmack wrote a so-called graphics display engine that exploited both properties to the full by using a technique that had been originally developed in the 1970s for scrolling over large images"
I don't think they are claiming that he invented it... he was probably the first to use it on a PC.
Dude, don't dump SQLServer for mySQL. That would be like trading in your BMW for a go-cart.
If you are running SQLServer 6.5, upgrade to 2000.
I hate to say it but SQLServer 2000 is a damn nice database.
And it sounds like you are using Stored Procedures for what they were meant for... so don't listen to people telling you they are not needed... if they weren't needed every major RDBMS wouldn't have gigantic APIs to support such things.
Where I work there are three project managers. One is really good... one is decent... and the third just sucks. The good one is not technical. The other two are.
The reason why she's good is because she knows how to be a MANAGER. Good managers realize their strengths and their limitations and rely on the people they are managing to fill in the gaps. She is extremely good at listening to client requirements and when a developer tells her that something is impossible or unrealistic, she is not afraid to tell that to the client. Because there's no BS on her projects, the client almost always (unless they are unrealistic people) comes away happy with the finished project because they weren't lied to and their expectations were MANAGED to be realistic.
It takes a certain type of personality to be a manager... most engineers don't have it.
Relying on the physical transport mechnanism to keep data secure is not a good idea. People should assume that what they are sending can be captured by someone you don't want seeing it. I think a strong point to point encryption scheme is the better way to go.
The Free Software Foundation should just change the name of their project to the "Linux Project"... then they will get all the recognition they need.
But seriously... the GNU project gets recognition for their greatest achievement... GCC. They did not succeed in creating a kernel and that is the heart of an OS... so they should just quit whining and be glad that people are using their software.
That is a very good point. And if you look at the Linux kernal source most of the comments explain "why" and not "what". One that I can think of off the top of my head is in the memory management code. Whoever wrote the function I'm thinking of has a comment to justify his use of gotos in the code.
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There were actually two versions of the DX4... 75Mhz and 100Mhz and they ran on 25Mhz and 33Mhz busses. The DX4 had a 3X clock multiplier... not 4X as it's name would suggest.
I could care less about 64 bit processing... give me a bus that's faster than 133Mhz and I'll be happy.
That's the whole point of patents. When you patent something you disclose the details of the invention so that any that reads the patent would know how to implement your idea. The point of this is to encourage people to share their ideas and still make money off of them. Look at RSA as a perfect example. They made money off their idea... and everyone knew how to implement it so they could study it, improve it, figure out new ways to use it, etc. If you look at the part of the constitution that talks about patents, they state that the purpose is to encourage scientific advancement.
"GNU/GNU/Hurd"
:) This needs to be +5 Funny.
I love it.
It's because there are too many shitty programmers with too much time on their hands.
Top 3 /. pasttimes:
3. Posting links to pictures of some guy's stretched anus. (goatse.cx)
2. Making fun of Microsoft products.
1. Making fun of stupid Americans.
Wow... we have some really creative people around here.
Hey... you're onto something. That would be a good way to send out SPAM as well.
I can believe it. Apparently, there is a huge market for catering to stupidity.
No way. Pirating is what is keeping the price down. Because it is only $X for XP, Y% of the people decide that it's afforadable enough for them to buy and Z% say... f-it... i'm just going to copy my friends CD. But, if the price was 2X... well, that Z% will be much higher.
On the flip side, if there is no more piracy... the software companies have no incentive to make their prices reasonable... especially M$ who has a monopoly on the idiot OSes (that run on PC hardware).
All this crap about piracy driving up prices is total BS. The end of piracy will drive the prices up.
From the article:
"Carmack wrote a so-called graphics display engine that exploited both properties to the full by using a technique that had been originally developed in the 1970s for scrolling over large images"
I don't think they are claiming that he invented it... he was probably the first to use it on a PC.
Wait... One better:
if 2 divides n: n is NOT PRIME, stop
for (i = 3; i sqrt(n); i+=2)
if i divides n: n is NOT PRIME, stop;
if loop runs to exhaustion, n is PRIME.
This is much better because you only test odd numbers.
Maybe we can keep this thread going and eventually come up with an O(1) algorithm.
Dude, don't dump SQLServer for mySQL. That would be like trading in your BMW for a go-cart.
If you are running SQLServer 6.5, upgrade to 2000.
I hate to say it but SQLServer 2000 is a damn nice database.
And it sounds like you are using Stored Procedures for what they were meant for... so don't listen to people telling you they are not needed... if they weren't needed every major RDBMS wouldn't have gigantic APIs to support such things.
Umm... I think most people know that the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Hence Ma Bell and all the Baby Bells.
Yeah but saying "CD-ROM disc" is redundant.
Plus the economy sucks right now. Maybe people are just not spending money on CDs.
Actually, Ethernet addresses are 48-bit... so it would support a lot more than 4 billion.
Yes... that piece of software rocks. Best telnet/ssh client for Windows ever. It is definately worth the money.
Not to mention the fact that participation is voluntary.
"i see stupid americans, their everywhere"
Let me fix this up for you.
I see stupid Americans; They're everywhere.
Idiot.
Where I work there are three project managers. One is really good... one is decent... and the third just sucks. The good one is not technical. The other two are.
The reason why she's good is because she knows how to be a MANAGER. Good managers realize their strengths and their limitations and rely on the people they are managing to fill in the gaps. She is extremely good at listening to client requirements and when a developer tells her that something is impossible or unrealistic, she is not afraid to tell that to the client. Because there's no BS on her projects, the client almost always (unless they are unrealistic people) comes away happy with the finished project because they weren't lied to and their expectations were MANAGED to be realistic.
It takes a certain type of personality to be a manager... most engineers don't have it.
Relying on the physical transport mechnanism to keep data secure is not a good idea. People should assume that what they are sending can be captured by someone you don't want seeing it. I think a strong point to point encryption scheme is the better way to go.
Because we can. At least we don't put our adjectives after the noun.
The Free Software Foundation should just change the name of their project to the "Linux Project"... then they will get all the recognition they need.
But seriously... the GNU project gets recognition for their greatest achievement... GCC. They did not succeed in creating a kernel and that is the heart of an OS... so they should just quit whining and be glad that people are using their software.
That is a very good point. And if you look at the Linux kernal source most of the comments explain "why" and not "what". One that I can think of off the top of my head is in the memory management code. Whoever wrote the function I'm thinking of has a comment to justify his use of gotos in the code.
And for the industry to make advances in parallel programming.