The only Google employee I'll consider hiring is a CAD specialist, but then again I don't have a use for anything else, at this moment, as I can do the rest myself.
Admit that I don't know what I'm talking about while I'm busy taking out Sony's hypervisor - using assembly. Sure, you keep telling yourself that. See, we used assembler back in the day because we had fairly limited hardware. If we didn't use assembly, we used FORTRAN or COBOL. Assembler code condenses quite nicely, which works perfectly for the hardware limitations we had back then.
Oh, and before we had 486 processors, y'know, back in the 70s, we still went to space - using assembly and FORTRAN.
"You are talking about a lowest-common-denominator driver model, and the performance you gain by using assembly is lost manifold by not supporting the specific feature sets of hardware."
Hate to say it but a lot of the 'featuresets' of a piece of hardware are add-on pieces of software that pretty much SUCK. Logitech webcams and Microsoft webcams are prime examples of this, with their insistence on forcing the camera to run through their effects processor, even if you're not using effects, and this slows down performance and introduces a lag between the audio and video stream.
For "It just works" appealing to the lowest-common-denominator model is perfect for it. You get basic functionality, and you can enhance it later with your own code or someone elses code should you see the need to. No bloat, no excessive software packages, and no crap spewed everywhere across my system because someone doesn't have a clue.
What's so bad about that? Sure maybe smoeone has a use for overclockign the GPU, but most people are perfectly fine with the basic functionality.
That'll be pretty hilarious - I don't have a passport, so leaving the country isn't exactly an easy thing. I'm also a felon, and I'm pretty sure I'm on the no-fly list anyways.
If they want organs, they're sure taking one hell of a strange roundabout way to get at them!
Menuet supports more than that - every piece of hardware (minus webcam) works, including SATA and my SBLive! sound card. My onboard nVidia LAN works as well - if it's PXE capable you can get networking without drivers. It's a hack but it works for any PXE-enabled card.
As someone that has worked with Linux for several years, I only have one thing to say.
"you can compile linux to support many more hardware with the same size (excluding the apps)."
prove it and show me a distro under 1.4MB. Oh, and that 1.4MB OS I mentioned does EVERYTHING but gaming - that means video, audio, graphical work, web browsing, etc. Even Flash works in the 64-bit version of the OS - you can't say that with Linux.
You can't prove it - the latest kernel's source alone is over 60 megs in size. When that compiles down, maybe it'll get to 6 megs like MicroCore Linux - you're STILL not close the the OS I mention.
Oh, and it doesn't support a bare minimum of hardware - the generic assembly wrappers tend to make most ANY hardware work out of the box - oops, shows exactly what you know.
Pretty hard to contact the companies when my cell phone doesn't do international calling. So while I haven't gone through those layers, everyone else that I have doing bits of investigative work say "This looks about as legit to me as it does to you - just be careful and if they ask for money - run"
But they haven't asked for money and have offered me money and partial ownership of all developed IP and royalties.
I'd also become the lighting engineer for the company that develops from the partnership of these two businesses.
It all sounds EXACTLY when I started my first business venture, which went in pretty much the same way, though maybe taking a few more months.
I *DID* manage to contact the LED company that was mentioned as our supplier and managed to get a confirmation of business communications (through a bit of clever social engineering,) between the LED company and the UK company man.
Games deal with information. The software developed to leverage the hardware to make a game operate is a form of technology.
People forget the simple concepts. IT is IT - you do any computer work, database maintenance, even sorting a card catalog, you've done some form of IT.
Nope, not a grow op. Not when one of these guys is pro enough to turn barley seed into animal feed in 7 days without needing light, just a special blend of hydro nutes - were it a grow op you'd think this guy would have it nailed down already.
Especially when it involves individuals across the globe from each other.
I'm thinking/leaning towards legit, but I'm still erring on the side of caution.
I've googled both companies they claimed to own. Both exist, and have existed AFAICT for at least a decade. O'Neill Modern Media and Foddertech. AFAICT the phone numbers they've called me from match up with the HQ locations of these companies, city-wise.
Everything I can do to check says "Looks Legit" but I'm always skeptical. Never hurts to ask for extra opinions.
"Embedded development and bootstrapping is the last bastion of necessity in assembly.
Any other use is likely for obfuscation, academia or pride."
Or speed where it matters, because nothing beats speaking in one's native tongue for communication.
Which is why a many great deal of OS components are written in general x86 assembler.
There's even an OS written entirely in Assembler, fits on a 1.4MB floppy, and does pretty much everything Windows does, faster, in a smaller memory footprint, and in 1/7,000th the space - minus gaming.
IOW assembler is still plenty useful, not just for embedded markets or bootstrapping.
I'm actually in the middle of trying to figure out if an offer I recently received is genuine. I've not been asked to send out money, just use my brain and solve a problem involving lighting. Couple of guys from the UK and AUS found some postings of mine on a horticultural website, sent me an e-mail about a week ago, and now I've got all sorts of documents and photographs of the stuff they're wanting to do but need an acting lighting engineer for.
I've had e-mail, I've had phone conversations. I'm asking for a face-to-face now. I'd find it hard to believe that scammers would spend so much money, especially when there are far easier fish to catch. Flying from both AUS and UK would be rather expensive, I'd imagine, and well outside of a typical scammer's pocket potential. I also find it hard to believe that any scammer would send me so much valuable information, either. Unfinished facilities, experimental setups, etc.
Of course, this could be a pretty ballsy high-level scam. But then the guys say they've got an NDA for me to sign for the face-to-face with them and a contract manager.
Nope, it's not handling any NAT, it is acting as a pure wireless repeater - which means to start with the bandwidth is halved - 56mbps just shot down to 28mbps. For each extra connected client, that speed drops again by half.
Even using it as a pure gateway with a cable modem handling all NAT, it sucks. The only reason I still have it is because my Linux networking box is out of commission at this moment.
It's the hardware and crap RAM amount. Older revisions with more RAM worked so much better at handling torrents.
As it is right now just maintaining a connection to a camfrog video chat server is almost impossible once I open up more than 5 camera streams.
Except the WRT54GL can't handle torrents, doesn't matter if it's Tomato, DD-WRT, OpenWRT, or the stock firmware. And handling of wireless signals isn't too great.
Running one right now with DD-WRT to act as a wireless repeater bridge to post to/.
Graphical DDR3 is a different beast from XDR. GDDR is not meant for main system memory. XDR is, and I even have a system at home that uses it.
XDR destroys DDR all the way up to DDR3. DDR4 finally catches up with XDR, but XDR2 is out and runs at 8GHz and can wipe any DDR chip off the map. I love getting to beta test new stuff.
That 256MB is XDR in the PS3 is certainly beating the crap out of the 512MB GDDR3. Microsoft should have stuck with the XDR as they originally planned to do in their console design, now that I can actually say that without violating an NDA which expired a few weeks ago.
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"we do computers, not electro-mechanical devices."
A printer is controlled by a computer microprocessor - if you can't fix it you don't deserve to call yourself a 'computer person.'
Oh, and what the fuck would you call a hard drive or optical drive, huh? It's an electro-mechanical device but I bet you do work on those!
But only in those fields of IT.
The only Google employee I'll consider hiring is a CAD specialist, but then again I don't have a use for anything else, at this moment, as I can do the rest myself.
Admit that I don't know what I'm talking about while I'm busy taking out Sony's hypervisor - using assembly. Sure, you keep telling yourself that. See, we used assembler back in the day because we had fairly limited hardware. If we didn't use assembly, we used FORTRAN or COBOL. Assembler code condenses quite nicely, which works perfectly for the hardware limitations we had back then.
Oh, and before we had 486 processors, y'know, back in the 70s, we still went to space - using assembly and FORTRAN.
If they didn't have 'real programmers' I guarantee you that old hardware wouldn't be feasible to use in the first place.
Tool.
"You are talking about a lowest-common-denominator driver model, and the performance you gain by using assembly is lost manifold by not supporting the specific feature sets of hardware."
Hate to say it but a lot of the 'featuresets' of a piece of hardware are add-on pieces of software that pretty much SUCK. Logitech webcams and Microsoft webcams are prime examples of this, with their insistence on forcing the camera to run through their effects processor, even if you're not using effects, and this slows down performance and introduces a lag between the audio and video stream.
For "It just works" appealing to the lowest-common-denominator model is perfect for it. You get basic functionality, and you can enhance it later with your own code or someone elses code should you see the need to. No bloat, no excessive software packages, and no crap spewed everywhere across my system because someone doesn't have a clue.
What's so bad about that? Sure maybe smoeone has a use for overclockign the GPU, but most people are perfectly fine with the basic functionality.
"Our competition's servers run so hot, no wonder their name rhymes with Hell."
No, there's no inflection or tone to hear in order to detect sarcasm.
When we get an audio web, THEN we'll probably hear the sarcasm. At 110dB because some moron thinks Mic Boost +20dB is CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
That'll be pretty hilarious - I don't have a passport, so leaving the country isn't exactly an easy thing. I'm also a felon, and I'm pretty sure I'm on the no-fly list anyways.
If they want organs, they're sure taking one hell of a strange roundabout way to get at them!
Menuet supports more than that - every piece of hardware (minus webcam) works, including SATA and my SBLive! sound card. My onboard nVidia LAN works as well - if it's PXE capable you can get networking without drivers. It's a hack but it works for any PXE-enabled card.
And they couldn't keep the bug-free design on for later processors? Holy shit.
"If speed matters it's cheaper, easier, and faster to buy more processing power."
Okay, tell that to NASA, who so far have done most of their science perfectly fine on sub-Pentium 1 class hardware.
Real programmers don't need lots of hardware or abstracted interpretive languages.
The old NT Kernel from NT4 was truly portable, after Win2K It became a predominantly x86 platform.
Still got a DEC Alpha somewhere.
As someone that has worked with Linux for several years, I only have one thing to say.
"you can compile linux to support many more hardware with the same size (excluding the apps)."
prove it and show me a distro under 1.4MB. Oh, and that 1.4MB OS I mentioned does EVERYTHING but gaming - that means video, audio, graphical work, web browsing, etc. Even Flash works in the 64-bit version of the OS - you can't say that with Linux.
You can't prove it - the latest kernel's source alone is over 60 megs in size. When that compiles down, maybe it'll get to 6 megs like MicroCore Linux - you're STILL not close the the OS I mention.
Oh, and it doesn't support a bare minimum of hardware - the generic assembly wrappers tend to make most ANY hardware work out of the box - oops, shows exactly what you know.
Real men are talking - sit down and listen.
Pretty hard to contact the companies when my cell phone doesn't do international calling. So while I haven't gone through those layers, everyone else that I have doing bits of investigative work say "This looks about as legit to me as it does to you - just be careful and if they ask for money - run"
But they haven't asked for money and have offered me money and partial ownership of all developed IP and royalties.
I'd also become the lighting engineer for the company that develops from the partnership of these two businesses.
It all sounds EXACTLY when I started my first business venture, which went in pretty much the same way, though maybe taking a few more months.
I *DID* manage to contact the LED company that was mentioned as our supplier and managed to get a confirmation of business communications (through a bit of clever social engineering,) between the LED company and the UK company man.
IT = Information Technology.
Games deal with information. The software developed to leverage the hardware to make a game operate is a form of technology.
People forget the simple concepts. IT is IT - you do any computer work, database maintenance, even sorting a card catalog, you've done some form of IT.
I am friendly with a few lawyers. In fact, I think I know the perfect lawyers to help with this - they just helped me kick EA in the teeth.
Nope, not a grow op. Not when one of these guys is pro enough to turn barley seed into animal feed in 7 days without needing light, just a special blend of hydro nutes - were it a grow op you'd think this guy would have it nailed down already.
Especially when it involves individuals across the globe from each other.
I'm thinking/leaning towards legit, but I'm still erring on the side of caution.
I've googled both companies they claimed to own. Both exist, and have existed AFAICT for at least a decade. O'Neill Modern Media and Foddertech. AFAICT the phone numbers they've called me from match up with the HQ locations of these companies, city-wise.
Everything I can do to check says "Looks Legit" but I'm always skeptical. Never hurts to ask for extra opinions.
"Embedded development and bootstrapping is the last bastion of necessity in assembly.
Any other use is likely for obfuscation, academia or pride."
Or speed where it matters, because nothing beats speaking in one's native tongue for communication.
Which is why a many great deal of OS components are written in general x86 assembler.
There's even an OS written entirely in Assembler, fits on a 1.4MB floppy, and does pretty much everything Windows does, faster, in a smaller memory footprint, and in 1/7,000th the space - minus gaming.
IOW assembler is still plenty useful, not just for embedded markets or bootstrapping.
I'm actually in the middle of trying to figure out if an offer I recently received is genuine. I've not been asked to send out money, just use my brain and solve a problem involving lighting. Couple of guys from the UK and AUS found some postings of mine on a horticultural website, sent me an e-mail about a week ago, and now I've got all sorts of documents and photographs of the stuff they're wanting to do but need an acting lighting engineer for.
I've had e-mail, I've had phone conversations. I'm asking for a face-to-face now. I'd find it hard to believe that scammers would spend so much money, especially when there are far easier fish to catch. Flying from both AUS and UK would be rather expensive, I'd imagine, and well outside of a typical scammer's pocket potential. I also find it hard to believe that any scammer would send me so much valuable information, either. Unfinished facilities, experimental setups, etc.
Of course, this could be a pretty ballsy high-level scam. But then the guys say they've got an NDA for me to sign for the face-to-face with them and a contract manager.
Nope, it's not handling any NAT, it is acting as a pure wireless repeater - which means to start with the bandwidth is halved - 56mbps just shot down to 28mbps. For each extra connected client, that speed drops again by half.
Even using it as a pure gateway with a cable modem handling all NAT, it sucks. The only reason I still have it is because my Linux networking box is out of commission at this moment.
It's the hardware and crap RAM amount. Older revisions with more RAM worked so much better at handling torrents.
As it is right now just maintaining a connection to a camfrog video chat server is almost impossible once I open up more than 5 camera streams.
Except the WRT54GL can't handle torrents, doesn't matter if it's Tomato, DD-WRT, OpenWRT, or the stock firmware. And handling of wireless signals isn't too great.
Running one right now with DD-WRT to act as a wireless repeater bridge to post to /.
Graphical DDR3 is a different beast from XDR. GDDR is not meant for main system memory. XDR is, and I even have a system at home that uses it.
XDR destroys DDR all the way up to DDR3. DDR4 finally catches up with XDR, but XDR2 is out and runs at 8GHz and can wipe any DDR chip off the map. I love getting to beta test new stuff.
That 256MB is XDR in the PS3 is certainly beating the crap out of the 512MB GDDR3. Microsoft should have stuck with the XDR as they originally planned to do in their console design, now that I can actually say that without violating an NDA which expired a few weeks ago.
animefreak.tv, DUH.
"Running a program constitutes an infringement since it transfers the data into memory, thus making an illegal copy."
Except we already have the exception in the law for that, and it's actually specifically stated.