The Anandtech review was right a few months ago when it was new. Since then new drivers have come out and almost everything seems to function correctly and recieve fairly good benefits now. They even mention new more mature drivers in the HardOCP article.
Chi
I don't know whether I took a time machine back to 1970 or ended up in an Ayn Rand alternate reality, where technology is failing and we are moving back to older more useless techs beause all the great minds have left us.
Surely there is a better way than the old nasty fuel wasting, vehicle destroying days of 1960's NASA?
Just a thought...
Chi
I didn' use, modify, or distribute anyone elses work. I simply linked to the libraries necassary to run on Linux. We didn't even include them with our distribution because it was a Source based distribution that had to be compiled once it arrived on the site.
The only lack of decency I can think of is having my lively hood threatened for making software for a particular OS.
CGoK
No,
when you write progam's that link to MS's DLL's they don't threaten you. I would never modify or give away someone elses work/source code. Linking to a library on the other hand I would do. Although now I don't write many Linux apps because I have to find LGPL stuff or make my own LGPL wrapper libraries to access things that aren't. If MS owned everthing that linked into their OS's Core DLL's would anyone use it? Answer: No.
CGoK
No, under even MS's evil rules if you write a program that runs under their OS and uses thoir API's they don't own your code. It's only natural to assume that my APP which simply linked to thinks would not be in Violation. Expecting every programmer to keep a lawyer at hand is getting a bit ridiculous.
CGoK
No all I did was try to write an application that ran on Linux. I didn't modify any of it. I had no idea that linking to the OS's API's would cause the Idealogues to try to make me OSS our own software which shipped with source.
I guess in OSS's opinion I should be sorry that I want to make a living from software not software support.
CGoK
If I didn't have to check the legality of every Open Source Library and OS feature I would easily use them in my commercial work. I will in no way however do anything which will draw another set of threats. I.E. the OSS community has sent threatening letters to the company I worked for because we linked with libraries considered to be GPL'd forcing us to write wrappers and stop using some of them. Not a very good way to get fan boys.
CGoK
They also control the black helicopters, Flying Saucers, and it seems that if you dig deep enough you find out that the Anal Probe(tm held by MS) was actually worked on in the late 70's by none other than Bill Gates himself. His new secret projects are being tested in a certain prison in Cuba as we speak. Anal Probe De-Virginater 2.0.
or maybe you guys need to lighten up...
To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss--the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery--that you must offer them values, not wounds--that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade--with reason, not force, as their final arbiter--it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability--and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?
I switch back and forth everyday. Basicly I type like a bat out of hell on my laptop and personal computers. I do however have to glance at the mappings occasionly on qwerty, but I still type and a reasonable clip with no big problems. It was absolutely worth the switch. The difference was me with wrist braces typing in pain, and me typing effortlessly to you now in Dvorak.
Chi
Dvorak has rescued me from wrist braces and anti-inflamatory drugs. I have since become such a fan boy that I bought the 290 dollar Kinesis Contour Dvorak Keyboard. Its saved my job and discomfort. I no longer need the braces or drugs for the past 5 years
Chi
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I was wearing wrist braces and taking anti-inflamitories until I switched to Dvorak Layout. I have since switched over to Kinesis Dvorak Keyboard and Logitech Thumbball mouse allowing me to throw away the braces and drugs. I also type easily twice as fast as I used too.
Can I get an AMEN!!! my brother???
Chi
I think I would rather be gang raped in prison by a band of evil satan worshiping midgets than get caught breaking the law in China. Then again I was always kind of partial to the idea of midget prison gangs.;)
I am concerned for your safet. I wouldn't recommend circumventing anything. When you live in a PoliceState (Communist or Fascist) a Western style prank like hacking will land you in prison for life. They will lock you in a room and throw away the room. If you want to read the news I recommend you move to a place with even a small bill of rights.
I agree with your concern as well, if you compete for the government funded prize money, or get a contract to produce something for NASA the technology and all techinical details belongs in the public domain as it was our money that made it happen. I didn't state that, but it was just assumed on my part.
I love NASA, but if you compare the success and cost of its programs to the X-Prize you on can only hope that they offer up their new budget as prizes to private ventures as talked about the other day in the news. It seems much more cost effective as in, if the program fails you don't win the prize and NASA still keeps the money. It cost just 10 million to get Scaled Composites to compete on a low orbit altitude reaching trajectory flight. How much for a moon landing 100 million? Thats peas compared to what NASA would spend if they did it themselves. So fund NASA by all means, but lets find a smarter way to spend the money than another bunch of blown up shuttles and failed probes.
I have staffed up quite a few R & D departments in my years and I can honestly say that a degree only means something on the 1st job you get when you have no experience. After the 1st job its all the relevant experience sections on the resume that gets them an interview. I am usually more interested in the actual interview and the answers to the technical questions than I am with the resume itself. In fact the best programmers I have met either didn't graduate, or didn't take software engineering is school at all. I am a Human Machine Interface and Design major I have been programming, designing UI's, and managing programmers of over 10 years now. I taught myself to program on my C64 as a kid in the 80's, and read an Amiga book on C in 1985. I have been programming daily ever since, and will usually hire a motivated self taught guy like myself over a 4 year degree if the interview shows him to be more knowledgeable.
Although, (how can I say this tactfully without being mod'd to flame bait?) some Apple users aren't exactly known for being the most technically savvy people in tech-land these books are a bit beneath anyone's levels I have met. These seem like an attempt to help the people who spent 200-500 dollars of their cash to listen to music, spend another 30-50 dollars on a book. They all suspiciously sound like books that weren't born of a need, but were born of a marketing department finding a target audience that spends money.
I tried not to make this FUD, so please don't think me as a troll. I just don't see a honest need for these, except to line a publishers pockets. Am I wrong?
This would be good advice for every software company I have worked for. It's almost considered standard to have to put in a few months of 16 hour days to ship a product. When all thats really necessary is to make more realistic schedules. I have seen the strain on the marriages of many friends.
I am running into similar problems with getting my media from my PC to my entertainment center. The best solution I have seen to date is to build my own PVR. I have even managed to find ATX cases that look just like the stereo components I have, with little LCD displays and all. The hardest question I am having is which software to run? Windows Media Center is the best option so far and I am not thrilled with it.
In order to pay for the service and support necessary to provide these free popup accounts they are going to have to use advertisements either in mail form or in the shoved into a new cool new mail program.
Maybe thats why they are thinking of rolling their own version of Mozilla and its Mail Client?
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The Anandtech review was right a few months ago when it was new. Since then new drivers have come out and almost everything seems to function correctly and recieve fairly good benefits now. They even mention new more mature drivers in the HardOCP article. Chi
I don't know whether I took a time machine back to 1970 or ended up in an Ayn Rand alternate reality, where technology is failing and we are moving back to older more useless techs beause all the great minds have left us. Surely there is a better way than the old nasty fuel wasting, vehicle destroying days of 1960's NASA? Just a thought... Chi
I didn' use, modify, or distribute anyone elses work. I simply linked to the libraries necassary to run on Linux. We didn't even include them with our distribution because it was a Source based distribution that had to be compiled once it arrived on the site. The only lack of decency I can think of is having my lively hood threatened for making software for a particular OS. CGoK
No, when you write progam's that link to MS's DLL's they don't threaten you. I would never modify or give away someone elses work/source code. Linking to a library on the other hand I would do. Although now I don't write many Linux apps because I have to find LGPL stuff or make my own LGPL wrapper libraries to access things that aren't. If MS owned everthing that linked into their OS's Core DLL's would anyone use it? Answer: No. CGoK
I didn't make anyone's work not free. I simply linked to free libraries that are part of the core Linux OS. CGoK
No, under even MS's evil rules if you write a program that runs under their OS and uses thoir API's they don't own your code. It's only natural to assume that my APP which simply linked to thinks would not be in Violation. Expecting every programmer to keep a lawyer at hand is getting a bit ridiculous. CGoK
No all I did was try to write an application that ran on Linux. I didn't modify any of it. I had no idea that linking to the OS's API's would cause the Idealogues to try to make me OSS our own software which shipped with source. I guess in OSS's opinion I should be sorry that I want to make a living from software not software support. CGoK
If I didn't have to check the legality of every Open Source Library and OS feature I would easily use them in my commercial work. I will in no way however do anything which will draw another set of threats. I.E. the OSS community has sent threatening letters to the company I worked for because we linked with libraries considered to be GPL'd forcing us to write wrappers and stop using some of them. Not a very good way to get fan boys. CGoK
They also control the black helicopters, Flying Saucers, and it seems that if you dig deep enough you find out that the Anal Probe(tm held by MS) was actually worked on in the late 70's by none other than Bill Gates himself. His new secret projects are being tested in a certain prison in Cuba as we speak. Anal Probe De-Virginater 2.0. or maybe you guys need to lighten up...
To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss--the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery--that you must offer them values, not wounds--that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade--with reason, not force, as their final arbiter--it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability--and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?
Who is John Galt?
I switch back and forth everyday. Basicly I type like a bat out of hell on my laptop and personal computers. I do however have to glance at the mappings occasionly on qwerty, but I still type and a reasonable clip with no big problems. It was absolutely worth the switch. The difference was me with wrist braces typing in pain, and me typing effortlessly to you now in Dvorak. Chi
Dvorak has rescued me from wrist braces and anti-inflamatory drugs. I have since become such a fan boy that I bought the 290 dollar Kinesis Contour Dvorak Keyboard. Its saved my job and discomfort. I no longer need the braces or drugs for the past 5 years Chi
I was wearing wrist braces and taking anti-inflamitories until I switched to Dvorak Layout. I have since switched over to Kinesis Dvorak Keyboard and Logitech Thumbball mouse allowing me to throw away the braces and drugs. I also type easily twice as fast as I used too. Can I get an AMEN!!! my brother??? Chi
Who is John Galt?
I think I would rather be gang raped in prison by a band of evil satan worshiping midgets than get caught breaking the law in China. Then again I was always kind of partial to the idea of midget prison gangs. ;)
I am concerned for your safet. I wouldn't recommend circumventing anything. When you live in a PoliceState (Communist or Fascist) a Western style prank like hacking will land you in prison for life. They will lock you in a room and throw away the room. If you want to read the news I recommend you move to a place with even a small bill of rights.
I agree with your concern as well, if you compete for the government funded prize money, or get a contract to produce something for NASA the technology and all techinical details belongs in the public domain as it was our money that made it happen. I didn't state that, but it was just assumed on my part.
I love NASA, but if you compare the success and cost of its programs to the X-Prize you on can only hope that they offer up their new budget as prizes to private ventures as talked about the other day in the news. It seems much more cost effective as in, if the program fails you don't win the prize and NASA still keeps the money. It cost just 10 million to get Scaled Composites to compete on a low orbit altitude reaching trajectory flight. How much for a moon landing 100 million? Thats peas compared to what NASA would spend if they did it themselves. So fund NASA by all means, but lets find a smarter way to spend the money than another bunch of blown up shuttles and failed probes.
I have staffed up quite a few R & D departments in my years and I can honestly say that a degree only means something on the 1st job you get when you have no experience. After the 1st job its all the relevant experience sections on the resume that gets them an interview. I am usually more interested in the actual interview and the answers to the technical questions than I am with the resume itself. In fact the best programmers I have met either didn't graduate, or didn't take software engineering is school at all. I am a Human Machine Interface and Design major I have been programming, designing UI's, and managing programmers of over 10 years now. I taught myself to program on my C64 as a kid in the 80's, and read an Amiga book on C in 1985. I have been programming daily ever since, and will usually hire a motivated self taught guy like myself over a 4 year degree if the interview shows him to be more knowledgeable.
Although, (how can I say this tactfully without being mod'd to flame bait?) some Apple users aren't exactly known for being the most technically savvy people in tech-land these books are a bit beneath anyone's levels I have met. These seem like an attempt to help the people who spent 200-500 dollars of their cash to listen to music, spend another 30-50 dollars on a book. They all suspiciously sound like books that weren't born of a need, but were born of a marketing department finding a target audience that spends money. I tried not to make this FUD, so please don't think me as a troll. I just don't see a honest need for these, except to line a publishers pockets. Am I wrong?
This would be good advice for every software company I have worked for. It's almost considered standard to have to put in a few months of 16 hour days to ship a product. When all thats really necessary is to make more realistic schedules. I have seen the strain on the marriages of many friends.
I am running into similar problems with getting my media from my PC to my entertainment center. The best solution I have seen to date is to build my own PVR. I have even managed to find ATX cases that look just like the stereo components I have, with little LCD displays and all. The hardest question I am having is which software to run? Windows Media Center is the best option so far and I am not thrilled with it.
In order to pay for the service and support necessary to provide these free popup accounts they are going to have to use advertisements either in mail form or in the shoved into a new cool new mail program.
Maybe thats why they are thinking of rolling their own version of Mozilla and its Mail Client?
I talk the talk and walk the walk, but now I have to read the book? Geez, whoever thought programming could be so much fun?