You can batch texture generation to cores 2/3/4 while you are playing on core 1, assuming you are running on a game which, by nature, only utilizes the first core. That is a lot of rendering power.
Granted, Valve's engine now utilizes multiple cores and we will see multi-core engines emerge, but still a core or two (of a 4/8 core processor, speaking in the future) to batch textures is not unreasonable.
Point to specific bug fixes, talk about revamping the core engine, point to specific methods of tackling these issues... when your audience includes developers we want to hear technical answers, not PR bullshit.
IE6/7 renders quicker than FF on most pages (yes, there are a few random exceptional "AJAX" pages that he mentions) and he totally skirted question 6 regarding feature bloat, a real concern to some of us who do like a minimal functional firefox, saying "when you need the feature its there"...
Think about it... the slashdot crowd is technical and informed and "knows better"... why would someone spambot slashdot? It surely would not be effective...
*I* value my free time at the same price as my employer pays me. And somtimes I value it even more. My free time is exactly that - free. Free for me. Free to play with my kids or my wife or learn a new skill or just relax and recharge. I don't need to "work" more than I am already.
There are a number of free and open source thread library - like OpenThreads (which comes with OpenSceneGraph, www.openscenegraph.org) and Qt's thread library (www.trolltech.org, GPL for non-commercial use) which you can take a peek at for learning purposes. I've been a c++ developer for a good year now and I don't find it that difficult (I'm an engineer, but the compiler is my design tool... )
You have a few more hours to vote, you have time to research. Get off your lazy ass and do some research. Do a quick google and find the representatives for your district and decide who you want to vote for.
With my experience, TS jobs pay quite well, but not as good as mid-level IT. With a new baby at home and a wife who is no longer working, I can't afford the pay cut it would take to be entry level IT.
That is your concern, not your employers. Take the job that feeds your family and get over yourself.
That being said... are you looking in the right places? Willing to relocate? Willing to get a masters? Both will greatly increase your earning potential.
As a professional engineer who spends most of his time writing software (Aerospace simulations):
1) You follow the spec you are given. If the spec says don't worry about end-of-year transitions because we won't be flying over the transition, then you don't code it. You follow the spec you are given.
2) I would say that requiring a reboot every year on December 31 is a pretty huge error. The shuttle powers down in between flights. For a long time. This is a non-issue. And again, following the spec is not an error. It may be a design error, but it is not a programming error.
Because your Java implementation wouldn't be 99.996% bug-free? It isn't like anything in the shuttle has been upgraded, so why should the code that is 4-9's of reliability reliable be modified?
... because a retailer is working off of a database backend, especially a retailer like Walmart or Target that is contantly changing merchandise. You can't just save a static set of pages when your inventory is changing on a daily or weekly basis (by store, even... these companies are global and in general you are shopping locally)... you need a better solution that is dynamic yet implements the proper ADA corrections. (if you wish to comply...)
I've seen three implementations of SquirrelMail, all slower than GMail. I administered one which was on a beefy server and, at the time, was only serving up 10 people (it was a test server before we rolled it out in place of the old solution). It was slower than GMail by a noticable amount.
I'm sure you don't want my sympathy so I won't attempt to give it.
But in truth I have mixed feelings about enforced compliance with the ADA on online stores, for commercial organizations. They are trying to sell a product or provide a service - if they don't want your business (by way of not properly accomodating you) then don't give it to them! It is just that easy! Go to their competitor and let them reap the reward.
But then you start trickling down the web chain and think, what about non-profit orgs? Should they be enforced? What do you think from your POV? Should they have to take money out of their battle chest for whatever cause they are fighting so (parallel to your argument, no offense given) someone's blind wife can read what is on the page?
just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use.
... why? I'm as paranoid about security as anyone but I'm not afraid of people jumping in the window and sitting down at my keyboard... you might be going a little over the top with your parents.
Show them 1) the difference between a secure and non-secure connection and 2) good password conventions and that.
I have read the GPL. Microsoft isn't writing GPL code. Microsoft isn't selling Linux. All they are doing is working on appropriate interop between the two systems and a covenant not to sue non-commercial open-source programmers. None of that is GPL-breaking. You should really do some research. Press Release
Watching the video, Novell's CEO slips in that he reached out to Microsoft. Missing that, during Q&A, someone asks who reached out to whom. He again has to state he reached out to MS, but with more visible squirming and coverup.
No, it was incredibly clear, RTFTranscript:
QUESTION: How long have these talks been going on about this agreement, and who initiated it, essentially? Did Novell go to Microsoft, or Microsoft go to Novell, or did you just sort of get together spontaneously? How did that work?
RON HOVSEPIAN: How it happened was I reached out to Kevin Turner in the April timeframe, the COO of Microsoft, and I suggested to Kevin that there was a relationship to be had here, and I'm smiling a little bit, because I said to Kevin, I know you're at Microsoft, but I want you to go back to when you were a customer, and we had some laughs about that.
Also during Q&A, someone asks Ballmer if they would work with other vendors such as Red Hat on a similar deal. Ballmer talks for an extended period and does not address the question
It's pretty clear to me:
We had discussions with lots of folks in the industry. You can probably guess a list of names, as you hypothesized one [redhat]. But, it was really when Ron called and initiated a contact, since he's thinking about where he wanted to take Novell, that we were able to put together something that addressed the business issues, the patent issues, and the technology issues all at once.
Novell had the best portfolio. You have to make a trade why would they haggle with (say) Canonical? Nothing to gain patent-wise, whereas Novell has a decent portfolio.
Slashdot Mirror
You can batch texture generation to cores 2/3/4 while you are playing on core 1, assuming you are running on a game which, by nature, only utilizes the first core. That is a lot of rendering power.
Granted, Valve's engine now utilizes multiple cores and we will see multi-core engines emerge, but still a core or two (of a 4/8 core processor, speaking in the future) to batch textures is not unreasonable.
Point to specific bug fixes, talk about revamping the core engine, point to specific methods of tackling these issues... when your audience includes developers we want to hear technical answers, not PR bullshit.
IE6/7 renders quicker than FF on most pages (yes, there are a few random exceptional "AJAX" pages that he mentions) and he totally skirted question 6 regarding feature bloat, a real concern to some of us who do like a minimal functional firefox, saying "when you need the feature its there" ...
The owner is the performer, in this case. At least as I read it.
unfortunately I'm not :(
Think about it ... the slashdot crowd is technical and informed and "knows better" ... why would someone spambot slashdot? It surely would not be effective...
*I* value my free time at the same price as my employer pays me. And somtimes I value it even more. My free time is exactly that - free. Free for me. Free to play with my kids or my wife or learn a new skill or just relax and recharge. I don't need to "work" more than I am already.
you have got to be kidding me ...
There are a number of free and open source thread library - like OpenThreads (which comes with OpenSceneGraph, www.openscenegraph.org) and Qt's thread library (www.trolltech.org, GPL for non-commercial use) which you can take a peek at for learning purposes. I've been a c++ developer for a good year now and I don't find it that difficult (I'm an engineer, but the compiler is my design tool ... )
You have a few more hours to vote, you have time to research. Get off your lazy ass and do some research. Do a quick google and find the representatives for your district and decide who you want to vote for.
With my experience, TS jobs pay quite well, but not as good as mid-level IT. With a new baby at home and a wife who is no longer working, I can't afford the pay cut it would take to be entry level IT.
That is your concern, not your employers. Take the job that feeds your family and get over yourself.
That being said... are you looking in the right places? Willing to relocate? Willing to get a masters? Both will greatly increase your earning potential.
As a professional engineer who spends most of his time writing software (Aerospace simulations):
1) You follow the spec you are given. If the spec says don't worry about end-of-year transitions because we won't be flying over the transition, then you don't code it. You follow the spec you are given.
2) I would say that requiring a reboot every year on December 31 is a pretty huge error. The shuttle powers down in between flights. For a long time. This is a non-issue. And again, following the spec is not an error. It may be a design error, but it is not a programming error.
Because your Java implementation wouldn't be 99.996% bug-free? It isn't like anything in the shuttle has been upgraded, so why should the code that is 4-9's of reliability reliable be modified?
... because a retailer is working off of a database backend, especially a retailer like Walmart or Target that is contantly changing merchandise. You can't just save a static set of pages when your inventory is changing on a daily or weekly basis (by store, even... these companies are global and in general you are shopping locally) ... you need a better solution that is dynamic yet implements the proper ADA corrections. (if you wish to comply...)
only if the ADA wins this suit :)
Then why isn't your own website ADA compliant? ...
Would be interested in knowing
***whoooshhh***
I've seen three implementations of SquirrelMail, all slower than GMail. I administered one which was on a beefy server and, at the time, was only serving up 10 people (it was a test server before we rolled it out in place of the old solution). It was slower than GMail by a noticable amount.
I'm sure you don't want my sympathy so I won't attempt to give it.
But in truth I have mixed feelings about enforced compliance with the ADA on online stores, for commercial organizations. They are trying to sell a product or provide a service - if they don't want your business (by way of not properly accomodating you) then don't give it to them! It is just that easy! Go to their competitor and let them reap the reward.
But then you start trickling down the web chain and think, what about non-profit orgs? Should they be enforced? What do you think from your POV? Should they have to take money out of their battle chest for whatever cause they are fighting so (parallel to your argument, no offense given) someone's blind wife can read what is on the page?
Stopping Slashdot Dupes
... web 2.0 just makes it prettier...
The infinite scroll on images is pretty cool, and grandparent is right on about Live not having the spam that Google has succumbed to.
just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use.
... why? I'm as paranoid about security as anyone but I'm not afraid of people jumping in the window and sitting down at my keyboard ... you might be going a little over the top with your parents.
Show them 1) the difference between a secure and non-secure connection and 2) good password conventions and that.
I have read the GPL. Microsoft isn't writing GPL code. Microsoft isn't selling Linux. All they are doing is working on appropriate interop between the two systems and a covenant not to sue non-commercial open-source programmers. None of that is GPL-breaking. You should really do some research. Press Release
Watching the video, Novell's CEO slips in that he reached out to Microsoft. Missing that, during Q&A, someone asks who reached out to whom. He again has to state he reached out to MS, but with more visible squirming and coverup.
No, it was incredibly clear, RTFTranscript:
QUESTION: How long have these talks been going on about this agreement, and who initiated it, essentially? Did Novell go to Microsoft, or Microsoft go to Novell, or did you just sort of get together spontaneously? How did that work?
RON HOVSEPIAN: How it happened was I reached out to Kevin Turner in the April timeframe, the COO of Microsoft, and I suggested to Kevin that there was a relationship to be had here, and I'm smiling a little bit, because I said to Kevin, I know you're at Microsoft, but I want you to go back to when you were a customer, and we had some laughs about that.
Also during Q&A, someone asks Ballmer if they would work with other vendors such as Red Hat on a similar deal. Ballmer talks for an extended period and does not address the question
It's pretty clear to me:
We had discussions with lots of folks in the industry. You can probably guess a list of names, as you hypothesized one [redhat]. But, it was really when Ron called and initiated a contact, since he's thinking about where he wanted to take Novell, that we were able to put together something that addressed the business issues, the patent issues, and the technology issues all at once.
Novell had the best portfolio. You have to make a trade why would they haggle with (say) Canonical? Nothing to gain patent-wise, whereas Novell has a decent portfolio.