But seriously, if these people are paying you, but locking you out, should you really be asking slashdot about it? Don't you think your BOSS should be who you talk about it with?
God I hope no one says "Well you should use Eclipse with CDT!". CDT today barely functions. 3.x is going in the right direction, but after all it is still make and gdb behind the scenes, so how good can it ever get? Maybe when the C/C++ refactoring catches up then at least the editor will be usefull, but the debugging and building sucks still.
I have a hunch that AGP would show barely an improvement over PCI in a typical system (where the PCI bus is mostly idle), and PCI-E would only show improvement in a dual-card config.
There are a couple things you may not have considered with your hunch. First, if you are doing 3D textured graphics, then transfer speed to texture and vertex memory is key to performance, and PCI is many times slower than AGP. 10x is not "barely an improvement" in the real-time 3d graphics world. Secondly, there typically isn't just one bus in a system, and that PCI bus is typically on the other side of more than one bridge relative to the CPU, where AGP is typically only one bridge away.
Finally I just don't understand the obsessiveness of your argument. Who cares about PCI? Do you think it costs that much more to manufacture an AGP card? The $$$ are in the GPU and memory, not in the bus interface. A PCI card wouldn't save you $$$ other than being not in demand and therefore cheaper because no one wants them. Are there really mainstream motherboards with no AGP slots? Haven't seen one in years.
I think women are just smarter than men. CS is a dumb degree. Math, Computer Engineering, Physics, these are all real fields of study. Computer Science is a nothing degree, it's like Lite(tm) beer. Why would a smart person pursue a useless degree?
My grandfather, who is no longer with us, was a cardiologist. He told me about witnessing researchers in India testing therapies for heart attacks on street people brought into the hospital in cardiac arrest. He said they used REALLY BIG NEEDLES to inject vitamin E into the heart. As my grandfather said, "Of course they died!". This was likely in the 1960's or 1970's.
Nothing new here, folks.
When I present my proposal for this degree to the school's advising staff, I would like to have a complete list of all of the topics this major should cover.
Something to keep in mind whenever you want to have a group of people approve of something is to already know that they will. Start talking to the advising staff. In particular start talking to professors. They would need to approve, and for a custom major you'll likely need an adviser. Who on the faculty do you think would be appropriate? Approach them. If the first one is a pompous ass (as some academicians are), then find another. And another. A good prof will recognize you as a potential grad student, and therefore a potential resource to be exploited as is their job (I'm only half joking), and therefore a resource to be developed.
Maybe you don't need a new major, just some undergraduate independent study. My first research publication started as a special project after a class (it was a cogsci paper). It showed up in print at my school's library the day I completed my last undergrad final in compsci. By that time I was already enrolled in grad school where you really do make your own personal major. Either way it is the same process.
It is my goal to one day get CPU-XMark to be a multi-platform Open Source clone of Futuremark's 3DMark05. Any suggestions?
How about something more exciting than a clone of something comercial. Nothing attracts good developers better than a good project. Try "A better, more applicable, less biased, multi platform benchmark."
but always got an irate flight attendant demanding me to turn them off.
What country was this? I've worn mine accross North America and Europe with never a problem, me along with half the plane on some flights. Just don't whip them out in the first or last ten minutes, and no one should stress.
I wear a Tin Foil Hat to protect/me from the negative health effects of "high voltage electricity sources". As I side benefit no one can hear the voices in my head but me, and the government has stopped controlling my every move!
This is just one of the resources available to entrepreneurs. You need to reach out to business people with experience, not just broadcast to the/. crowd. I strongly suggest you search out mentors in your local business community.
I'm dyslexic. I can barely write with a pen and paper, but I can type well. Taking notes on a laptop was the only way I got through many of my classes.
Having a standard word template with format styles that users must use might help you. Do you have any power to place standards on the submissions?
I long for the days when I used Framemaker. It's style system is much easier to use the Words, and makes it much easier to enforce standard formatting. And MIF output was great for Perl transformations.
As for redundancy, do nightly incrementals, use a decent RAID-5 controller (adaptec 2810SA or equivalent) with hot standby and don't forget to use hard drives from different lots, and maybe mirror your drives to another box if you're paranoid (I've never needed to do this but if you're really worried you can do RAID-10.
For a business, yeah the RAID-5 is required when you don't want to loose ANYTHING. For my home system I do nightly mirroring, and that's good enough. If I loose a disk, I loose less than a day's mail, but at much less hassle, $$$, and noise then setting up RAID.
For hardware redundancy I keep an IDENTICAL server on cold standby. Same EVERYTHING down to the memory, bought at the same time. In seven years all I've lost is a power supply, and having the cold standby meant 1 hour downtime while I raided the spare and brought the system up. Then I went into town and bought another supply for the spare.
Coding may be a noble profession, but you are replaceable. If you are a code pig, you are nothing. A spec can be coded by anyone. If you want to keep a job (and buy a house, and that lease that BMW), and pay for your kid to go to college to not be a code pig, then you better be one writing the spec, not implementing it.
Dude, this is a no brainer. Take the JOB, not the dirty, blue collar, life limiting, chicken shit cop out. You can always code for free on the weekends on some open source project to get your ya yas out.
Well, is Mac OS an operating system? How about Windows? According to most currently used definitions they are.
This is exactly why I loathe seeing Microsoft products being used in education. It results in students who can't tell the difference between an OS and a user interface package.
It is pretty snide of you to dismiss anyone who challenges your inability to recognize software architectural boundaries as a "some sort of pendant".
But enough with the petty poop throwing. Let's look deeper at your examples. Is Mac OS an OS? Well, Darwin is. But the front end you see is a user interface package. What about Windows? Well, guess what: THERE ARE WINDOWS BOXES WITH NO BITMAPPED DISPLAYS OR MICE!!!! So, if you can remove the user interface, does that still make the user interface part of the OS? What about Java? Is Java an OS? Is Swing or SWT an OS?
Perhaps you should read some more books on software architecture before being so sure of yourself.
A google search won't give you real discusion and feedback on the usability of the programs. I often do google searches and then goto some irc channels to see what people think before i trouble myself with some programs.
What bugged me about this post was that the questioner hadn't done any homework on their own at all. A simple google search would have provided the basis of a question.
The Slashdot community is a valuable resource. For the editors of/. to hassle us with a question from someone who can't even be bothered to research the foundations on their own shows a lack of respect for our time. You'll never get anywhere in the F/OSS world if you can't do your own initial research before asking questions.
At a university on the west coast once voted as "#1 party school in the nation" by Playboy, and also part of the original ARPA net, we used a VAX on it's last legs as part of a drinking game.
We called the event "Crash and Compile". It was run as a pretty standard ACM style programming contest, all coding done through terminals on the VAX (running 4.2 BSD IIRC), but with the handicap that an alcoholic beverage had to be consumed before every compile. Who "won" is a matter of debate, but it was fun watching our valedictorian stumble out of the lab. Several foreign grad students joined in when we told them what we were up too, apologizing for disruption and all.
Just as we were setting up an assistant dean stuck his head in the lab (it was Saturday night at 8:30pm), but luckily the beverages were still in the bag.
This type of thing would be too risky at a university in America today. This was back in the 80's. Just the booze on campus would be enough to get you disciplined today, let alone in a computer lab.
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But seriously, if these people are paying you, but locking you out, should you really be asking slashdot about it? Don't you think your BOSS should be who you talk about it with?
God I hope no one says "Well you should use Eclipse with CDT!". CDT today barely functions. 3.x is going in the right direction, but after all it is still make and gdb behind the scenes, so how good can it ever get? Maybe when the C/C++ refactoring catches up then at least the editor will be usefull, but the debugging and building sucks still.
There are a couple things you may not have considered with your hunch. First, if you are doing 3D textured graphics, then transfer speed to texture and vertex memory is key to performance, and PCI is many times slower than AGP. 10x is not "barely an improvement" in the real-time 3d graphics world. Secondly, there typically isn't just one bus in a system, and that PCI bus is typically on the other side of more than one bridge relative to the CPU, where AGP is typically only one bridge away.
Finally I just don't understand the obsessiveness of your argument. Who cares about PCI? Do you think it costs that much more to manufacture an AGP card? The $$$ are in the GPU and memory, not in the bus interface. A PCI card wouldn't save you $$$ other than being not in demand and therefore cheaper because no one wants them. Are there really mainstream motherboards with no AGP slots? Haven't seen one in years.
Just a convolution, you mean.
I think women are just smarter than men. CS is a dumb degree. Math, Computer Engineering, Physics, these are all real fields of study. Computer Science is a nothing degree, it's like Lite(tm) beer. Why would a smart person pursue a useless degree?
My grandfather, who is no longer with us, was a cardiologist. He told me about witnessing researchers in India testing therapies for heart attacks on street people brought into the hospital in cardiac arrest. He said they used REALLY BIG NEEDLES to inject vitamin E into the heart. As my grandfather said, "Of course they died!". This was likely in the 1960's or 1970's. Nothing new here, folks.
Something to keep in mind whenever you want to have a group of people approve of something is to already know that they will. Start talking to the advising staff. In particular start talking to professors. They would need to approve, and for a custom major you'll likely need an adviser. Who on the faculty do you think would be appropriate? Approach them. If the first one is a pompous ass (as some academicians are), then find another. And another. A good prof will recognize you as a potential grad student, and therefore a potential resource to be exploited as is their job (I'm only half joking), and therefore a resource to be developed.
Maybe you don't need a new major, just some undergraduate independent study. My first research publication started as a special project after a class (it was a cogsci paper). It showed up in print at my school's library the day I completed my last undergrad final in compsci. By that time I was already enrolled in grad school where you really do make your own personal major. Either way it is the same process.
Zinc whiskers are a major hazard of raised floors used for cooling. Little shards of metal are not good for circuit boards.
How about something more exciting than a clone of something comercial. Nothing attracts good developers better than a good project. Try "A better, more applicable, less biased, multi platform benchmark."
Time for a tin foil envelope.
What country was this? I've worn mine accross North America and Europe with never a problem, me along with half the plane on some flights. Just don't whip them out in the first or last ten minutes, and no one should stress.
If you have no clue, then you should BUY SOME CLUE by talking to a vendor.
I wear a Tin Foil Hat to protect /me from the negative health effects of "high voltage electricity sources". As I side benefit no one can hear the voices in my head but me, and the government has stopped controlling my every move!
This is just one of the resources available to entrepreneurs. You need to reach out to business people with experience, not just broadcast to the /. crowd. I strongly suggest you search out mentors in your local business community.
Obviously school just started.
Same logic as the recent Grokster rulings -- if you specifically enable illegal conduct, then you will be responsible for that conduct.
I'm dyslexic. I can barely write with a pen and paper, but I can type well. Taking notes on a laptop was the only way I got through many of my classes.
I long for the days when I used Framemaker. It's style system is much easier to use the Words, and makes it much easier to enforce standard formatting. And MIF output was great for Perl transformations.
For hardware redundancy I keep an IDENTICAL server on cold standby. Same EVERYTHING down to the memory, bought at the same time. In seven years all I've lost is a power supply, and having the cold standby meant 1 hour downtime while I raided the spare and brought the system up. Then I went into town and bought another supply for the spare.
Dude, this is a no brainer. Take the JOB, not the dirty, blue collar, life limiting, chicken shit cop out. You can always code for free on the weekends on some open source project to get your ya yas out.
Better yet, don't use personal equipment for work! Big mistake on his part.
It is pretty snide of you to dismiss anyone who challenges your inability to recognize software architectural boundaries as a "some sort of pendant".
But enough with the petty poop throwing. Let's look deeper at your examples. Is Mac OS an OS? Well, Darwin is. But the front end you see is a user interface package. What about Windows? Well, guess what: THERE ARE WINDOWS BOXES WITH NO BITMAPPED DISPLAYS OR MICE!!!! So, if you can remove the user interface, does that still make the user interface part of the OS? What about Java? Is Java an OS? Is Swing or SWT an OS?
Perhaps you should read some more books on software architecture before being so sure of yourself.
The Slashdot community is a valuable resource. For the editors of /. to hassle us with a question from someone who can't even be bothered to research the foundations on their own shows a lack of respect for our time. You'll never get anywhere in the F/OSS world if you can't do your own initial research before asking questions.
Assembly code always looks better after a few drinks.
We called the event "Crash and Compile". It was run as a pretty standard ACM style programming contest, all coding done through terminals on the VAX (running 4.2 BSD IIRC), but with the handicap that an alcoholic beverage had to be consumed before every compile. Who "won" is a matter of debate, but it was fun watching our valedictorian stumble out of the lab. Several foreign grad students joined in when we told them what we were up too, apologizing for disruption and all.
Just as we were setting up an assistant dean stuck his head in the lab (it was Saturday night at 8:30pm), but luckily the beverages were still in the bag.
This type of thing would be too risky at a university in America today. This was back in the 80's. Just the booze on campus would be enough to get you disciplined today, let alone in a computer lab.