Hrm.. I'm astonished to find that there is no entry for "Geek" in the jargon file.
Well, regardless, I think I know what a geek is, and I think I know that being a geek means more than just playing with nerf and being able to install an operating system. Geeks aren't just happy go lucky overpaid (or out of work) dot commies, there is something more there. I wont do it the injustice ofr trying to classify what a geek is exactly, but it's there.
I find that odd. I observed a similar contest and the planes that won went much further than a crumpled up ball would have. Using a single sheet of paper the size of a typical drawing tablet I could make an airplane that goes the distance of the gymnasium where the contest took place. I don't think you could have thrown a crumped up sheet of the same paper that far, although I didn't try.
I think it is clear to anyone with any intellect who reads this that he took the contest out of context. People, a great deal of misery is the result of miscommunication. I'm talking about people who hear what they want to hear as opposed to what someone else is trying to convey, and lets be frank, spoken language is bad enough of a medium to convey ideas without people intentionally looking for ways to misinterpret it to their own ends.
Although I do still think it was a clever prank to pull, but not one that I would seriously make a webpage complaining about not getting paid.
Of course the argument is "But he said...!"
Well, my only response would be "Hear what I mean, not what I say."
If you are going to use ISO's (which is what everyone is doing these day's right?) get both cd's. Like most multi-cd distributions you can install from just the first disk and have a working system. In the past this is how I have always done it, and just downloaded extra stuff as I needed them. On Mandrake though, the first disk is taken up almost entirely by GUI oriented stuff (aside from the base) and has very little in the way of command line utilities or devloper applications. My advice is that you get ISO's for disks 1 and 2 burned before you begin the installation, otherwise you will miss a lot of apps and not even know it until you try to use them.
First off, I am an AMD owner and user and I'm way happy with it. Right now the price performance of AMD is killing Intel. That said I don't exactly agree with all of these assessments of the p4. Everyone is talking about how slow P4 is in benchmarks, well doh it's a new architecture change. All of the current code, including benchmarks, is tuned for the old architecture. Now when (if?) the software industry embraces the new achitecture, recompiles everything, then we might see the exact opposite of the scenario we have now.
Now I know that sounds like a bunch of crap, but keep in mind that we had almost this exact same scenario when Intel introduced the original Pentium. When the Pentium 60mhz came out it was -slower- clock for clock than then current 486 systems on most benchmarks. The reason is that most software was very closely tuned to the 486 cpu. The benchmarks where the P60 shined were in the ones that took advantage of it's faster system bus. That is the thing Intel was pushing then, a new architecture that would make it easier for them to ramp up clock speeds and have a faster bus because those were becoming the limiting factors. Now here we are at the same point we were back then!
The thing that worries me about this is that AMD is not playing the game, they are continuing the current achitecture where they are beating Intel, but what if we need to make this change? AMD might be able to ramp up speeds more than the P3 now, but will they continue to or will they hit a wall like Intel did and have to make core architecture changes also? What happens when we get to that point and neither architecture is winning? Where do consumers go? What do software engineers optimize for?
Oh well, I guess it's not a big worry really, there might be a bit of confusion but in all likelyhood the consumers are going to win either way.
I think one thing that is contributing to this "problem" (heh) is that of the content development. There isn't any point in making an engine that supports even -more- detail than you have now when creating the detail for the last 2 generations of engines was almost too much work for your 200 man content creation team. Every advancement in engine tech his historically created more work for the artists, and at this point the sheer amount of time it takes to make a decent single player game is getting ridiculous. I don't think the art department is ready for it yet.
I don't know if I want to trust the opinion of someone who didn't like The Matrix. I -really- liked The Matrix, as did most here I believe, so why is someone who has no appreciation for the movie reviewing this item? I'm more interested in wether or not a fan of the film will find this book to be worthy. In fact, I have to wonder if I should ever read any of Timothy's reviews....
You might try reading in context. It's a difficult skill, I know, but if you can work a little harder, get up to the 3rd grade reading level, then you might be able to pull it off.
That can't be right? How the hell does them using Open Source software mean that they should now be giving something? Does this mean I have to give something too? WTF?! Hey, I hate software patents as much as the next guy, but this just isn't right.
I see a lot of people in these comments questioning those numbers put forth by the researchers for one reason or another. I'd like to say that I think those numbers aren't far off at all.
I work in a small town ISP in middle American right in the center of the Bible Belt. It's a pretty religious place being 98% christian (conservative guess), and we have more churches than grocery stores here.
A few months ago I ran a transparent web proxy on some of our lines to guage whether it would do us much good. While tuning the cache I noticed is that there is a -whole- lot of porn browsing going on. (No I didn't match any of that up to user info, I respect privacy as much as possible).
Out of curiosity I wrote a simple script to comb the cache and see what percentage of URLs were porn related, I made a list of obvious things to search for like 'breast, pussy, hotchicks.com' etc. etc. Not scientific by any means but it gave me a decent ballpark. At 10pm at night I was getting percentages in the 35-40 range, quite a bit more than I expected.
Firstly I heartily agree that SDL is a dream to program in, I love it.
I haven't done any large projects in SDL, but I've heard the performance is quite good as Loki uses it for their porting efforts. Hey if it's good enough for commercial games.. er..:)
One thing you should keep in mind is that SDL is currently undergoing a complete rewrite and architecture change for SDL version 1.3 which will include the SDL 2.0 API. It's currently a year and a half from stable release (says cheif SDL ninja Sam Lantinga), so it's a long time to wait but you might want to keep that in mind as you are designing your project.
I see everyone blaming the small multihomed sites and talk about banning multihoming on this forum, I strongly disagree with that and I strongly disatree this nasty quote from the article:
"Half of the companies that are multihomed should have gotten better service from their providers," says Patrik Faltstrom, a Cisco engineer and co-chair of the IETF's Applications Area. "ISPs haven't done a good enough job explaining to their customers that they don't need to multihome."
Yeah sure, my provider told me how I didn't need to multi-home and I got burned. Excuse me for stamping on your elitism here, but everybody wants redundancy and you shouldn't have to be a fortune 500 to get it.
About a year and a half ago our company was looking into upgrading bandwidth, and since we already had a t1 my boss figured we could buy another t1 one from a different company than our normal bandwidth provider, thus achieving increased speed redundancy with a different isp at the same time.
Well I found out that in order to do something like that I needed to run BGP to get myself into the core routers routing table because I would have multiple paths to my network. I was a big concerned about this because it sounded drastic to me and I spoke with my tech rep at my current provider and we mutually agreed that perhaps it wasn't the best thing to do as we could get redundnacy from their network and I wouldn't need to have my own AS.
Well, to make a long story not quite as long, I got burned. They had some routing problems that affected both of my links at once, and we were down for a bit. I had to explain to the boss why I had made the decision I did and he wasn't real happy about it. I am about to be installing our 3rd t1 and switching to bgp so we can be multihomed.
This is a very typical story, and is the primary reason that the BGP4 tables are so huge. Every dotcom and their mom has been going through a similar scenario the past year or so. Now of course this is starting to not work very well so we are seeing some problems, and these same dotcoms are being blamed for this.
The problem isn't the dotcom's, its due to limitations in the current system. I suppose they (we) do shoulder some of the blame, but christ shouldn't we be allowed to have some kind redundancy? What is there some kind of special "VIP's only" sign in front of the redundancy bar? To hell with that. Obvously the current situation cannot continue, but I'll tell you right now that all of these dotcom's (and their moms) are not going to be giving up redundancy, so you core router guys better figure out why to let everyone in on the redundancy bandwagon.
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Hrm.. I'm astonished to find that there is no entry for "Geek" in the jargon file.
Well, regardless, I think I know what a geek is, and I think I know that being a geek means more than just playing with nerf and being able to install an operating system. Geeks aren't just happy go lucky overpaid (or out of work) dot commies, there is something more there. I wont do it the injustice ofr trying to classify what a geek is exactly, but it's there.
I find that odd. I observed a similar contest and the planes that won went much further than a crumpled up ball would have. Using a single sheet of paper the size of a typical drawing tablet I could make an airplane that goes the distance of the gymnasium where the contest took place. I don't think you could have thrown a crumped up sheet of the same paper that far, although I didn't try.
This has nothing to do with anything because that isn't how he completed the challenege in the first place.
I think it is clear to anyone with any intellect who reads this that he took the contest out of context. People, a great deal of misery is the result of miscommunication. I'm talking about people who hear what they want to hear as opposed to what someone else is trying to convey, and lets be frank, spoken language is bad enough of a medium to convey ideas without people intentionally looking for ways to misinterpret it to their own ends.
Although I do still think it was a clever prank to pull, but not one that I would seriously make a webpage complaining about not getting paid.
Of course the argument is "But he said...!"
Well, my only response would be "Hear what I mean, not what I say."
If you are going to use ISO's (which is what everyone is doing these day's right?) get both cd's. Like most multi-cd distributions you can install from just the first disk and have a working system. In the past this is how I have always done it, and just downloaded extra stuff as I needed them. On Mandrake though, the first disk is taken up almost entirely by GUI oriented stuff (aside from the base) and has very little in the way of command line utilities or devloper applications. My advice is that you get ISO's for disks 1 and 2 burned before you begin the installation, otherwise you will miss a lot of apps and not even know it until you try to use them.
First off, I am an AMD owner and user and I'm way happy with it. Right now the price performance of AMD is killing Intel. That said I don't exactly agree with all of these assessments of the p4. Everyone is talking about how slow P4 is in benchmarks, well doh it's a new architecture change. All of the current code, including benchmarks, is tuned for the old architecture. Now when (if?) the software industry embraces the new achitecture, recompiles everything, then we might see the exact opposite of the scenario we have now.
Now I know that sounds like a bunch of crap, but keep in mind that we had almost this exact same scenario when Intel introduced the original Pentium. When the Pentium 60mhz came out it was -slower- clock for clock than then current 486 systems on most benchmarks. The reason is that most software was very closely tuned to the 486 cpu. The benchmarks where the P60 shined were in the ones that took advantage of it's faster system bus. That is the thing Intel was pushing then, a new architecture that would make it easier for them to ramp up clock speeds and have a faster bus because those were becoming the limiting factors. Now here we are at the same point we were back then!
The thing that worries me about this is that AMD is not playing the game, they are continuing the current achitecture where they are beating Intel, but what if we need to make this change? AMD might be able to ramp up speeds more than the P3 now, but will they continue to or will they hit a wall like Intel did and have to make core architecture changes also? What happens when we get to that point and neither architecture is winning? Where do consumers go? What do software engineers optimize for?
Oh well, I guess it's not a big worry really, there might be a bit of confusion but in all likelyhood the consumers are going to win either way.
I think one thing that is contributing to this "problem" (heh) is that of the content development. There isn't any point in making an engine that supports even -more- detail than you have now when creating the detail for the last 2 generations of engines was almost too much work for your 200 man content creation team. Every advancement in engine tech his historically created more work for the artists, and at this point the sheer amount of time it takes to make a decent single player game is getting ridiculous. I don't think the art department is ready for it yet.
The irony is we have just seen the release of a mainstream app that will bring most cpu's to their knees. Tribes 2
T2 will be out next week for Linux and just came out for the windows world, so give it a shot.
They don't want to do this because it adds bloat to a codebase that is quickly becoming unwieldy.
I don't know if I want to trust the opinion of someone who didn't like The Matrix. I -really- liked The Matrix, as did most here I believe, so why is someone who has no appreciation for the movie reviewing this item? I'm more interested in wether or not a fan of the film will find this book to be worthy. In fact, I have to wonder if I should ever read any of Timothy's reviews....
I hate to trivialize this and become just another /. naysayer, but if it's that important they can build a cd-rom drive.
I've seen several comments like yours that critisize the article but don't seem to supply any kind of counter. Wonder why.
You might try reading in context. It's a difficult skill, I know, but if you can work a little harder, get up to the 3rd grade reading level, then you might be able to pull it off.
Talk about missing the point.
How in the hell is this insightful? There is no qualifying of any of the statements.
Ok the article is a lot of hot air, how and why?
I really enjoyed that article. It doesn't offer any answers and makes a lot of obvious statements, but there is some insight there as well.
Thank you for spreading wild and stupid speculation without even a source to back it up.
WTF??!!!
That can't be right? How the hell does them using Open Source software mean that they should now be giving something? Does this mean I have to give something too? WTF?! Hey, I hate software patents as much as the next guy, but this just isn't right.
Uh.. right. The UI has nothing to do with it, this discussion is about the kernels.
Thats what happens when a game is developed in the US of A, like most are.
I see a lot of people in these comments questioning those numbers put forth by the researchers for one reason or another. I'd like to say that I think those numbers aren't far off at all.
I work in a small town ISP in middle American right in the center of the Bible Belt. It's a pretty religious place being 98% christian (conservative guess), and we have more churches than grocery stores here.
A few months ago I ran a transparent web proxy on some of our lines to guage whether it would do us much good. While tuning the cache I noticed is that there is a -whole- lot of porn browsing going on. (No I didn't match any of that up to user info, I respect privacy as much as possible).
Out of curiosity I wrote a simple script to comb the cache and see what percentage of URLs were porn related, I made a list of obvious things to search for like 'breast, pussy, hotchicks.com' etc. etc. Not scientific by any means but it gave me a decent ballpark. At 10pm at night I was getting percentages in the 35-40 range, quite a bit more than I expected.
Firstly I heartily agree that SDL is a dream to program in, I love it.
:)
I haven't done any large projects in SDL, but I've heard the performance is quite good as Loki uses it for their porting efforts. Hey if it's good enough for commercial games.. er..
One thing you should keep in mind is that SDL is currently undergoing a complete rewrite and architecture change for SDL version 1.3 which will include the SDL 2.0 API. It's currently a year and a half from stable release (says cheif SDL ninja Sam Lantinga), so it's a long time to wait but you might want to keep that in mind as you are designing your project.
Thats not the point. I shouldn't have to qualify what I am going to use it for, if it's available it should be available to all.
I see everyone blaming the small multihomed sites and talk about banning multihoming on this forum, I strongly disagree with that and I strongly disatree this nasty quote from the article:
"Half of the companies that are multihomed should have gotten better service from their providers," says Patrik Faltstrom, a Cisco engineer and co-chair of the IETF's Applications Area. "ISPs haven't done a good enough job explaining to their customers that they don't need to multihome."
Yeah sure, my provider told me how I didn't need to multi-home and I got burned. Excuse me for stamping on your elitism here, but everybody wants redundancy and you shouldn't have to be a fortune 500 to get it.
About a year and a half ago our company was looking into upgrading bandwidth, and since we already had a t1 my boss figured we could buy another t1 one from a different company than our normal bandwidth provider, thus achieving increased speed redundancy with a different isp at the same time.
Well I found out that in order to do something like that I needed to run BGP to get myself into the core routers routing table because I would have multiple paths to my network. I was a big concerned about this because it sounded drastic to me and I spoke with my tech rep at my current provider and we mutually agreed that perhaps it wasn't the best thing to do as we could get redundnacy from their network and I wouldn't need to have my own AS.
Well, to make a long story not quite as long, I got burned. They had some routing problems that affected both of my links at once, and we were down for a bit. I had to explain to the boss why I had made the decision I did and he wasn't real happy about it. I am about to be installing our 3rd t1 and switching to bgp so we can be multihomed.
This is a very typical story, and is the primary reason that the BGP4 tables are so huge. Every dotcom and their mom has been going through a similar scenario the past year or so. Now of course this is starting to not work very well so we are seeing some problems, and these same dotcoms are being blamed for this.
The problem isn't the dotcom's, its due to limitations in the current system. I suppose they (we) do shoulder some of the blame, but christ shouldn't we be allowed to have some kind redundancy? What is there some kind of special "VIP's only" sign in front of the redundancy bar? To hell with that. Obvously the current situation cannot continue, but I'll tell you right now that all of these dotcom's (and their moms) are not going to be giving up redundancy, so you core router guys better figure out why to let everyone in on the redundancy bandwagon.
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