I remember my first program was on a calculator with 105 bytes of memory and numeric only display (row of 12 numbers plus mantissa). This thing flashes back to 1988, it was a top-of-the-art URSS make model MK-61. It didn't have any storage device, once you turned it off, you will have to type your program again. Programming was in machine codes only.
Even on that calculator we had kewl games. They had to stretch your imagination, and interprete something like 124.5 as your current attitude on the Moon. Those who never tried won't understand.
I wish I had such a baby like HP-49 or even my current TI-83. Do I use now kewl TI-83? No. If I had it back to 1988 I would made really cool visual games, but not now. I have laptop, desctop, a computer in every place I go. Many have Pilots and other devices. Besides I have calculator in watches. Who is gonna pay $100 for calculator if you could get 486 or even 586 (not Pentium) for that price? The whole new computer would cost you less then $500 these days, what's the point to have super-duper programming RAM and other stuff like OS in a calculator? These days, those advanced calculators are creatures of the past, almost extinct. New hand-held devices will beat the rest of crap out of that market. You will be paying money for something you probably won't use at all. These devices probably cost more to HP to develop than they give 'em back. In practice this means, that losses for this product are offset by others (more popular), like over=priced HP WinCE devices.
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This is exactly what would be required for "Burger King to offer Internet Access". If this thing will be able to withstand few months of this environment at all. All I wonder is if they tested the thing not with passive water, but actively corrosive stuff like Coke.
Actually, I would like to have this notebook (if it was not THAT expensive) to play some jokes, like spilling my coffee in refectory so people would be horrified.
The idea is dumb for this type of business. Burger King, McDonalds et al are supposed to be fast food. How many times did you use the Net for only 10-15 minutes? Now exclude checks for an E-mail. What if people would love this feature so much that they will keep surfing more then 15 mins? How they are gonna to enforce the limits? Fast food places are making their money on FAST rotation of people -- got your food, eat it and go away. This is not cafe where you can sit, drink coffee and enjoy your Quake session. It is not gonna work for the fast food chains.
Compile source and make a binary comparison. Granted, they used standard Java distribution or alternatively you may ask them to tell which compiled did they use. This is not the problem. Problem is that THEY have all your keys, they may log all your plaintext Emails (you are gonna mail some of your friends in plaintext, right?)
I think so. Perhaps I should not have used word -- block size -- this is more from RC5 competition. I meant: DATA UNIT. It's too big. I am running the client for 4 hours now and it's only 10% done of the DATA UNIT. IT is my understanding that until the WHOLE unit is done, it is NOT flushed to server. Consider this:
1. It will take 40 hours on PII-266 to complete it. 2. I am running the client on my University computers. Guess what? They are shared. I can reliably run a client only overnight (so no sucker will switch off the machine during day time).
Since it will take 4 nights to complete the whole block I have to MANUALLY go from one machine to another to backup partially done units. If I won't back it up, they might be deleted on a user disk by yet another sucker in the University.
While I had RC5 client I could get 100 blocks to do them overnight and flush 'em. Now, I can't do so, manually backup stuff from 20-30 machines sucks!
So, by saying block size I meant UNIT SIZE, this has nothing with actual resolution, just make data less (not resolution), so people on a decent machine can do a unit overnight and flush it.
Otherwise, project is bound to lose some people like me -- who are not admins but can run processes overnight. I hope now I am clear.
I am in the same position -- NT 4.0, no Admin assess. However, there is a trick I used with distributed.net client, to hide it from tray. Easy hack -- got my fav. resource editor and made tray icon -- TRANSPARENT! Now, when I run this thing first (before other tray icons), you can't see it! However, this won't work with SETI client -- when it runs full=mode you can't really do anything! This is because of priorities (I guess they will fix it).
I reckong it will take 3% of block done on PII-266. Considering that this client seems doesn't flush stuff till it's 100% done, machine should run 30 hours w/o break-off. It also seems, that in case if some luser turns off computer (I am running client on the Uni comps) I will have to relogin and start all over.
Am I the only one who thinkgs blocks should be way less in size/time? I would say few hours per block, or 7-8 hours (nightly run).
Also, it seems the client doesn't support MMX, or does it?
That would be soooo nice in sense of security, to have a unique IP allocated to your house. A thing most maniacs and serial killers who are able enough to use traceroute would love for sure.
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These indecent prices for a stupid DNS name by internic.net and others (national domains are often even more expensive), could have been (somehow) justified if they were charging for an actual IP allocation. In this case they could have collected some real money and fund IPv6 initiative, which IMO could have made it more realistic in our the timeframe allocated to our lifes. Actually they are making money on IP allocations (selling them to ISPs), but they want to charge for domains too.
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Personally I opted not to ignore anyone via these checkboxes in UserPrefs. In my view there is no need of it for a mature person who can ignore an article or a post, which deemed to be stupid or (at least) arrogant without going to flame. If you strong and have force with you then you can do that. Rare author posts crap all the time and thus by blindly ignoring all possible posts from this author and some (probably) profound replies one loses that bit of new knowledge.
Consequently, this feature is in effect test of one's maturity.
I am glad fewer people use it on/. From the other hand maybe most of us are just lazy? I am, and that's why I get used to programming, how about you???
A decision against AOL could set a precedent for the online industry that might force companies to rethink the way they use volunteers, Rubin said, adding, "If the industry in fact was kept operating because of volunteer workers, it may have to reconfigure."
This directly concerns companies like Geocities who USE their members in exchange for services (free webpages), in fact their whole business model depends on them. Since we have same fact of doing something in exchange of some service or goods this constitutes work. I think Dept of Immigration would fully back this statement.
Of course these volunteers won't get any money -- since they agreed to work for free or at best get minimal pay level (though it will be impossible to find out how much everyone worked, of course for some strange(!) reason AOL didn't keep accounts). AOL in turn will lost money, not much, their business is still ISP, they will return their money. But those risky enough to buy Inet stocks -- be ware! One precendent like this may render all your shares to worthless pieces of paper. Ooops, you won't even have nicely printed paper -- they in electronic form nowadays. What a scam.
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Absolutely agree with you. But did YOU try out that Gecko source? I downloaded it few times, first being in Apr, 1998. It was SUCH A MESS. It is now. I don't mind catching bugs, but in MY software. NGLayout (as it was initially called) is a fairly complicated product, full of bugs. Only the one who designed it have really good chance to debug it. We simply need some solid ground to start with, not horde of bugs!
Indeed, programming for me is a hobby only and I hardly believe most of open source coders do it full-time for free (those who not students), we have to live somehow, right? So, I could and would code FEATURES (which IMO many would like to do), but not bugs. I simply have no time for that. If Linus rolled out his big stuff full of bugs he would get same responce. He made it right, giving out at least something VERY limited but stable, so people could start their own features and not get drawn in bugs.
IMO, Netscape made a fatal mistake: being desperate in the begging of 1998 they made half-move: releasing useless pile of code, even after year of development, having full time qualified developers from Netscape (!) they didn't make it! At best they will finish it by the end of this year (I hope, NN4 is no fun for me).
I believe this was one of the main reasons why so little developers so far.
Second biggest is that focus has changed: browser was is over. No matter who's won (IE in my opinion though), now it's no longer a hype. It's all about Linux vs Windows. All glory goes now to those who work on Linux, since most OSS guys don't get paid, the amount of glory received is way too important (that was rightfully noted by JWZ in his resignation).
In all, untill I see finished and shipping product (not beta-like-Communicator-4.0) I won't spend a minute coding it. And others seems had similiar thoughts.
p.s. My English is far from being perfect but I am working on it.
Consider that Moscow budget used to be relatively ok because of: 1. 90% of all banks were in Moscow and paid taxes there -- now most of them bankrupt and do not pay a penny. 2. Gazprom (gaz monopoly) accounted form 25-30% of the whole Moscow budget, now probably even higher since it earns hard currency which soared from 6.3 rubles/$ to 26 rubles/$ for just half-a-year. Gazprom is only formally registered in Moscow, all real activities are done in West Siberia, which means people do all stuff there but taxes (according to current legislation) are being paid in Moscow! New proposed law will require all companies pay taxes at the place of real business, not formal registration -- bummer, will be -40-50% of Moscow budget, unless you will find some gaz dwells on it's territory. 3. Lukoil (biggest oil company), is struggling with low oil prices, sometimes below actual costs. They also only legally registered in Moscow and pay taxes there yet until above condition will be met. 4. Devaluation of the ruble created big troubles for anyone who borrowed hard currency from foreign investors. Should I say that Moscow was #1 in these investments? This year Moscow will have to repay a lot of money, which account to at least half a budget unless restructured!
And now you saying Moscow is ok? Are you actually living in Moscow and reading any information source except computer-oriented????
No offence, but Moscow is by no means far from being ok.
are fantasy until they actually get alife. For the last 10 years vast majority of these promises were not completed at all.
Chip design requires 100% funding, because you can't release a chip, which is 99.99% bug free, no one in his mind will buy it. Actually no one from serious buyers (mission critical stuff) will buy it until v2.xx or something.
Also bear in mind that current estimates on how much money is required to complete research (I don't believe they have finished it and only need fab's, that won't be a problem) tend to increase A LOT in this industry. So, they guys from Elbrus2000 project will have to beg for money again and again.
I seriously doubt they will get them (although I wish they will).
People from the US and other developed countries won't probably understand how it can be that top official promises to fund something, makes budget and it NEVER happens, even this official never get sacked. This is Russia's reality.
Since this post contained direct insult I could not resist answering it.
0. I guess there are more bragging fools than me, in particular those who prefer to critique hiding under AC status, my work is not the best in the world but to certain point it was as good as some commercial samples. Until I see _anything_ from you I would
1. I have had a job, I do have a job and will have job. I could have a job in recognized computer company but I felt that I can do more than that. As you could mention I have other qualifications beyond programming.
2. TOEFL. My score is not as high as it will be this summer. True that I do have way too much spell and grammar errors, primarily because I have little time devoted to my site. This is fair point to notice and I do not ask for an excuse here. And I am working on it.
3. I take your advice, mister AC and working on my English, that work includes posts on this site where I have pleasure to talk with people like you. Don't get me wrong, I am actually grateful to you as you make some fair comments.
4. About Harvard/Stanford/Wharton. Pity you don't have Email, I would notify you when I get in. This will be sooner than you think.
5. As for mov ecx,0
6. If you pretend to know Russian learn how to spell.
Go to my site, download my dune32 source code, have a look at my assembler code (it's in C++ file) designeg for Watcom.
The reason this lib is not in Asm is most likely because you wanted to make it portable, besides in game 10% of code runs 90% of time, and I DO know optimization rules, that's why I was not suggesting insane idea to write it all in asm. Only few functions must be in Asm.
About instructions I do complain: this was OBVIOUS optimization, and if you could not do that, than you probably can't do other, inside loops. Pipelines are easy to figure out as long as you don't be lazy to look at timings for mainstream processors, I would optimize for Pentium+.
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You don't need to ruin my world, it's already ruined. And yes I am amateur, as you could see from my page my main profession is business, BUSINESS, programming is my hobby, see the difference? Interesting, did you look at MY asm, while I have looked at yours? I think you didn't.
Look, I am not saying you bad programmer, you probably even better than me, this is not my point.
To the AC below me: I've had job interview I did HAVE work offers, since my study will end in June this year I postponed my final decisions;P
Now, if you want to see some real guy who kicked some major ID ass look here:
Look for PolyEngine, he is my old friend from high school.
The main reason he and me quit games programming is because we are way out of colledges now and need to make some money for life, dammit! If you still studying than you won't understand that at all.
He is computer professional, since we have the Net there is no big deal where you actually are. Mitnick can do to some other 3rd world country, where he will definatly get permisson to work, he will have computers and the Net BUT he will work for some major corporations in the US. They will for example make a contract with his newly established company in Zimbabve or something like that. He has lots of ways to work around it, but I guess he will not be allowed to leave country while on parole AT ALL. He will have to visit his parole officer once a week or so.
Well, probably I am way too strict to a 0.00x release (if we can call it release) but anyway, being a former game developer for PC I have noted the following.
How many of YOU here (yes personally you reading my words) have actually downloaded stuff and LOOKED AT THE SOURCE?? Personally I was most interested in their ASM routines, as a game programmer I had some hard times back in 1993 beating out of a CPU extra tick or two in every routine.
So, if you look at their file asm_rle.nasm (the first I have spotted), you can see something like that:
move ecx,0
You know, those who familiar with assembler not in theory but in practice, those who programmed games, demos etc WILL NEVER EVER USE THIS CODE!
For Christ sake, in games SPEED is the most important thing (memory comes second), it ought to be: xor ecx,ecx It's faster.
Same thing all over other assembler routies, they are WAY not optimized!!! Such a thing like movsb in a supposedly 32bit code is _the_ shame!
I ask myself, how it could happen that the guys did such an obvious mistake? The answer is simple: in their demos they can't check the real usefullness of their SDK, these simple demos could run fine even under EGAVGA.BGI (those who knew Borland would get what I mean) or even old WinG!
The guys should have made real demo, which stresses the hell out of their "SDK" to show it's useful for anything. Those who will try to develop real fun game (not stupid demo no one is gonna place more than 5 mins) will face big problems.
This actually brings to second point, did you ask yourself why there were so many SDKs and no one was successful? Even DirectX is mostly used in modern games only to obtain a valid pointer at video memory, all the other stuff is done by internals of the game itself.
These days such SDKs are only useful for educational type games, forget about serious game development if you can't make up your own engine, and this engine should be fast (unless you do Solitaire).
Honestly I wish guys who make this SDK good luck, but really all they get from it is good experience for themself, rather than some killer SDK.
Portability issue is not that important, with proper programming it's easy to port ANYTHING provided you didn't use external libs (without source code), to port all my games I only need to port Asm, which is easy too if target platform is x86.
You can check my games code and sources (including asm) at my website.
I was just thinking, first of all these equity investments might not be money at all, those familiar with NYSE know that many investments are in fact EQUITY swaps, like AOL "purchased" Netscape, they merely swapped one bunch of worthless paper marked NSCP to another of AOL.
So, Dell probably traded some of it shares too. The thing which worries me is that in any case there is no need to throw money only into RedHat as most vendors do, kernel is not done exclusively by RedHat you know. No one seems wants to invest in SuSE, Caldera etc, isn't that strange???
I am probably is a pro-conspiracy suspect guy, but I think these moves have far more meaning than just money NOW, we are talking here about attempts of various big companies to take control over leading Linux distributor. Maybe Dell has only 4-5%, but look, all other alien shareholders, which include mammoths like IBM, Intel got stakes too!!!
This is not a bug. Linux started from zero, slowly adding up and polishing modules of the project. If Linus team had a mess like mozilla they released in April, 98 they wouldn't make much too. I wanted to contribute to the mozilla, but hell, I want to program features, I am not going to work 10 hours a day to look for someone else's bugs. They have made a big mistake releasing that mess. But they didn't have choice did they?
Unless you look for some stupid AOLer, you will get at best coordinates of my proxy server. There are miriads of those, allowing external access. And not all of them use CGI variable to show originating IP.
Because they (rioters) expected that MS will make some sort of statement like: "MSWindows is an excellent OS, far superior and user-friendly than Linux", and since it will be the Folls day, no one would believe MS.
You are very wrong, claiming after being brainwashed by propaganda as making YOUR choice? The whole point is that in the modern world it's extremely easy to use zomby techniques on people, as a result you will do something THEY need, and consider it as YOUR desicons, that what the GNU fellow was trying to tell you and other dudez who thins they do their own desicions.
In the modern world, your only true desicion is whether to make a pi-pi.
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I remember my first program was on a calculator with 105 bytes of memory and numeric only display (row of 12 numbers plus mantissa). This thing flashes back to 1988, it was a top-of-the-art URSS
make model MK-61. It didn't have any storage device, once you turned it off, you will have to type your program again. Programming was in machine codes only.
Even on that calculator we had kewl games. They had to stretch your imagination, and interprete something like 124.5 as your current attitude on the Moon. Those who never tried won't understand.
I wish I had such a baby like HP-49 or even my current TI-83. Do I use now kewl TI-83? No. If I had it back to 1988 I would made really cool visual games, but not now. I have laptop, desctop, a computer in every place I go. Many have Pilots and other devices. Besides I have calculator in watches. Who is gonna pay $100 for calculator if you could get 486 or even 586 (not Pentium) for that price? The whole new computer would cost you less then $500 these days, what's the point to have super-duper programming RAM and other stuff like OS in a calculator? These days, those advanced calculators are creatures of the past, almost extinct. New hand-held devices will beat the rest of crap out of that market. You will be paying money for something you probably won't use at all. These devices probably cost more to HP to develop than they give 'em back. In practice this means, that losses for this product are offset by others (more popular), like over=priced HP WinCE devices.
p.s. I wish I had such a baby in school.
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This is exactly what would be required for
"Burger King to offer Internet Access".
If this thing will be able to withstand few months of this environment at all. All I wonder is if they tested the thing not with passive water, but actively corrosive stuff like Coke.
Actually, I would like to have this notebook (if it was not THAT expensive) to play some jokes, like spilling my coffee in refectory so people would be horrified.
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The idea is dumb for this type of business. Burger King, McDonalds et al are supposed to be fast food. How many times did you use the Net for only 10-15 minutes? Now exclude checks for an E-mail.
What if people would love this feature so much that they will keep surfing more then 15 mins? How they are gonna to enforce the limits? Fast food places are making their money on FAST rotation of people -- got your food, eat it and go away. This is not cafe where you can sit, drink coffee and enjoy your Quake session. It is not gonna work for the fast food chains.
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Compile source and make a binary comparison. Granted, they used standard Java distribution or alternatively you may ask them to tell which compiled did they use. This is not the problem. Problem is that THEY have all your keys, they may log all your plaintext Emails (you are gonna mail some of your friends in plaintext, right?)
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I think so. Perhaps I should not have used word -- block size -- this is more from RC5 competition. I meant: DATA UNIT. It's too big. I am running the client for 4 hours now and it's only 10% done of the DATA UNIT. IT is my understanding that until the WHOLE unit is done, it is NOT flushed to server. Consider this:
1. It will take 40 hours on PII-266 to complete it.
2. I am running the client on my University computers. Guess what? They are shared. I can reliably run a client only overnight (so no sucker will switch off the machine during day time).
Since it will take 4 nights to complete the whole block I have to MANUALLY go from one machine to another to backup partially done units. If I won't back it up, they might be deleted on a user disk by yet another sucker in the University.
While I had RC5 client I could get 100 blocks to do them overnight and flush 'em. Now, I can't do so, manually backup stuff from 20-30 machines sucks!
So, by saying block size I meant UNIT SIZE, this has nothing with actual resolution, just make data less (not resolution), so people on a decent machine can do a unit overnight and flush it.
Otherwise, project is bound to lose some people like me -- who are not admins but can run processes overnight. I hope now I am clear.
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> it's not showing up in the system tray either.
I am in the same position -- NT 4.0, no Admin assess. However, there is a trick I used with distributed.net client, to hide it from tray. Easy hack -- got my fav. resource editor and made tray icon -- TRANSPARENT! Now, when I run this thing first (before other tray icons), you can't see it!
However, this won't work with SETI client -- when it runs full=mode you can't really do anything! This is because of priorities (I guess they will fix it).
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I reckong it will take 3% of block done on PII-266. Considering that this client seems doesn't flush stuff till it's 100% done, machine should run 30 hours w/o break-off. It also seems, that in case if some luser turns off computer (I am running client on the Uni comps) I will have to relogin and start all over.
Am I the only one who thinkgs blocks should be way less in size/time? I would say few hours per block, or 7-8 hours (nightly run).
Also, it seems the client doesn't support MMX, or does it?
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That would be soooo nice in sense of security, to have a unique IP allocated to your house. A thing most maniacs and serial killers who are able enough to use traceroute would love for sure.
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These indecent prices for a stupid DNS name by internic.net and others (national domains are often even more expensive), could have been (somehow) justified if they were charging for an actual IP allocation. In this case they could have collected some real money and fund IPv6 initiative, which IMO could have made it more realistic in our the timeframe allocated to our lifes. Actually they are making money on IP allocations (selling them to ISPs), but they want to charge for domains too.
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Personally I opted not to ignore anyone via these checkboxes in UserPrefs. In my view there is no need of it for a mature person who can ignore an article or a post, which deemed to be stupid or (at least) arrogant without going to flame. If you strong and have force with you then you can do that. Rare author posts crap all the time and thus by blindly ignoring all possible posts from this author and some (probably) profound replies one loses that bit of new knowledge.
/. From the other hand maybe most of us are just lazy? I am, and that's why I get used to programming, how about you???
Consequently, this feature is in effect test of one's maturity.
I am glad fewer people use it on
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It will make even more sense (if any exists at all): the bigger your code the more functions supposedly it will do.
Delphi/VB5/other lame languages are exempt for obvious reason unless you used dynamicly linked library (not to bload your exe). Your DLLs are ok.
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A decision against AOL could set a precedent for the online industry that might force companies to rethink the way they use volunteers, Rubin said, adding, "If the industry in fact was kept operating because of volunteer workers, it may have to reconfigure."
This directly concerns companies like Geocities who USE their members in exchange for services (free webpages), in fact their whole business model depends on them. Since we have same fact of doing something in exchange of some service or goods this constitutes work. I think Dept of Immigration would fully back this statement.
Of course these volunteers won't get any money -- since they agreed to work for free or at best get minimal pay level (though it will be impossible to find out how much everyone worked, of course for some strange(!) reason AOL didn't keep accounts).
AOL in turn will lost money, not much, their business is still ISP, they will return their money. But those risky enough to buy Inet stocks -- be ware! One precendent like this may render all your shares to worthless pieces of paper. Ooops, you won't even have nicely printed paper -- they in electronic form nowadays. What a scam.
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Absolutely agree with you. But did YOU try out that Gecko source? I downloaded it few times, first being in Apr, 1998. It was SUCH A MESS. It is now. I don't mind catching bugs, but in MY software. NGLayout (as it was initially called) is a fairly complicated product, full of bugs. Only the one who designed it have really good chance to debug it. We simply need some solid ground to start with, not horde of bugs!
Indeed, programming for me is a hobby only and I hardly believe most of open source coders do it full-time for free (those who not students), we have to live somehow, right? So, I could and would code FEATURES (which IMO many would like to do), but not bugs. I simply have no time for that.
If Linus rolled out his big stuff full of bugs he would get same responce. He made it right, giving out at least something VERY limited but stable, so people could start their own features and not get drawn in bugs.
IMO, Netscape made a fatal mistake: being desperate in the begging of 1998 they made half-move: releasing useless pile of code, even after year of development, having full time qualified developers from Netscape (!) they didn't make it! At best they will finish it by the end of this year (I hope, NN4 is no fun for me).
I believe this was one of the main reasons why so little developers so far.
Second biggest is that focus has changed: browser was is over. No matter who's won (IE in my opinion though), now it's no longer a hype. It's all about Linux vs Windows. All glory goes now to those who work on Linux, since most OSS guys don't get paid, the amount of glory received is way too important (that was rightfully noted by JWZ in his resignation).
In all, untill I see finished and shipping product (not beta-like-Communicator-4.0) I won't spend a minute coding it. And others seems had similiar thoughts.
p.s. My English is far from being perfect but I am working on it.
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Consider that Moscow budget used to be relatively ok because of:
1. 90% of all banks were in Moscow and paid taxes there -- now most of them bankrupt and do not pay a penny.
2. Gazprom (gaz monopoly) accounted form 25-30% of the whole Moscow budget, now probably even higher since it earns hard currency which soared from 6.3 rubles/$ to 26 rubles/$ for just half-a-year. Gazprom is only formally registered in Moscow, all real activities are done in West Siberia, which means people do all stuff there but taxes (according to current legislation) are being paid in Moscow! New proposed law will require all companies pay taxes at the place of real business, not formal registration -- bummer, will be -40-50% of Moscow budget, unless you will find some gaz dwells on it's territory.
3. Lukoil (biggest oil company), is struggling with low oil prices, sometimes below actual costs.
They also only legally registered in Moscow and pay taxes there yet until above condition will be met.
4. Devaluation of the ruble created big troubles for anyone who borrowed hard currency from foreign investors. Should I say that Moscow was #1 in these investments? This year Moscow will have to repay a lot of money, which account to at least half a budget unless restructured!
And now you saying Moscow is ok? Are you actually living in Moscow and reading any information source except computer-oriented????
No offence, but Moscow is by no means far from being ok.
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are fantasy until they actually get alife. For the last 10 years vast majority of these promises were not completed at all.
Chip design requires 100% funding, because you can't release a chip, which is 99.99% bug free, no one in his mind will buy it. Actually no one from serious buyers (mission critical stuff) will buy it until v2.xx or something.
Also bear in mind that current estimates on how much money is required to complete research (I don't believe they have finished it and only need fab's, that won't be a problem) tend to increase A LOT in this industry. So, they guys from Elbrus2000 project will have to beg for money again and again.
I seriously doubt they will get them (although I wish they will).
People from the US and other developed countries won't probably understand how it can be that top official promises to fund something, makes budget and it NEVER happens, even this official never get sacked. This is Russia's reality.
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Since this post contained direct insult I could not resist answering it.
0. I guess there are more bragging fools than me, in particular those who prefer to critique hiding under AC status, my work is not the best in the world but to certain point it was as good as some commercial samples. Until I see _anything_ from you I would
1. I have had a job, I do have a job and will have job. I could have a job in recognized computer company but I felt that I can do more than that. As you could mention I have other qualifications beyond programming.
2. TOEFL. My score is not as high as it will be this summer. True that I do have way too much spell and grammar errors, primarily because I have little time devoted to my site. This is fair point to notice and I do not ask for an excuse here. And I am working on it.
3. I take your advice, mister AC and working on my English, that work includes posts on this site where I have pleasure to talk with people like you. Don't get me wrong, I am actually grateful to you as you make some fair comments.
4. About Harvard/Stanford/Wharton. Pity you don't have Email, I would notify you when I get in. This will be sooner than you think.
5. As for mov ecx,0
6. If you pretend to know Russian learn how to spell.
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Go to my site, download my dune32 source code, have a look at my assembler code (it's in C++ file) designeg for Watcom.
;P
;)
The reason this lib is not in Asm is most likely because you wanted to make it portable, besides in game 10% of code runs 90% of time, and I DO know optimization rules, that's why I was not suggesting insane idea to write it all in asm. Only few functions must be in Asm.
About instructions I do complain: this was OBVIOUS optimization, and if you could not do that, than you probably can't do other, inside loops.
Pipelines are easy to figure out as long as you don't be lazy to look at timings for mainstream processors, I would optimize for Pentium+.
;)
You don't need to ruin my world, it's already ruined. And yes I am amateur, as you could see from my page my main profession is business, BUSINESS, programming is my hobby, see the difference? Interesting, did you look at MY asm, while I have looked at yours? I think you didn't.
Look, I am not saying you bad programmer, you probably even better than me, this is not my point.
To the AC below me: I've had job interview I did HAVE work offers, since my study will end in June this year I postponed my final decisions
Now, if you want to see some real guy who kicked some major ID ass look here:
http://www.ii.uib.no/~alexey/
Look for PolyEngine, he is my old friend from high school.
The main reason he and me quit games programming is because we are way out of colledges now and need to make some money for life, dammit! If you still studying than you won't understand that at all.
He is now doing Java browsers: http://www.icesoft.no
Peace, and good luck, don't be mad at me
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He is computer professional, since we have the Net there is no big deal where you actually are. Mitnick can do to some other 3rd world country, where he will definatly get permisson to work, he will have computers and the Net BUT he will work for some major corporations in the US. They will for example make a contract with his newly established company in Zimbabve or something like that. He has lots of ways to work around it, but I guess he will not be allowed to leave country while on parole AT ALL. He will have to visit his parole officer once a week or so.
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Well, probably I am way too strict to a 0.00x release (if we can call it release) but anyway, being a former game developer for PC I have noted the following.
How many of YOU here (yes personally you reading my words) have actually downloaded stuff and LOOKED AT THE SOURCE?? Personally I was most interested in their ASM routines, as a game programmer I had some hard times back in 1993 beating out of a CPU extra tick or two in every routine.
So, if you look at their file asm_rle.nasm (the first I have spotted), you can see something like that:
move ecx,0
You know, those who familiar with assembler not in theory but in practice, those who programmed games, demos etc WILL NEVER EVER USE THIS CODE!
For Christ sake, in games SPEED is the most important thing (memory comes second), it ought to be: xor ecx,ecx It's faster.
Same thing all over other assembler routies, they are WAY not optimized!!! Such a thing like movsb in a supposedly 32bit code is _the_ shame!
I ask myself, how it could happen that the guys did such an obvious mistake? The answer is simple: in their demos they can't check the real usefullness of their SDK, these simple demos could run fine even under EGAVGA.BGI (those who knew Borland would get what I mean) or even old WinG!
The guys should have made real demo, which stresses the hell out of their "SDK" to show it's useful for anything. Those who will try to develop real fun game (not stupid demo no one is gonna place more than 5 mins) will face big problems.
This actually brings to second point, did you ask yourself why there were so many SDKs and no one was successful? Even DirectX is mostly used in modern games only to obtain a valid pointer at video memory, all the other stuff is done by internals of the game itself.
These days such SDKs are only useful for educational type games, forget about serious game development if you can't make up your own engine, and this engine should be fast (unless you do Solitaire).
Honestly I wish guys who make this SDK good luck, but really all they get from it is good experience for themself, rather than some killer SDK.
Portability issue is not that important, with proper programming it's easy to port ANYTHING provided you didn't use external libs (without source code), to port all my games I only need to port Asm, which is easy too if target platform is x86.
You can check my games code and sources (including asm) at my website.
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I was just thinking, first of all these equity investments might not be money at all, those familiar with NYSE know that many investments are in fact EQUITY swaps, like AOL "purchased" Netscape, they merely swapped one bunch of worthless paper marked NSCP to another of AOL.
So, Dell probably traded some of it shares too.
The thing which worries me is that in any case there is no need to throw money only into RedHat as most vendors do, kernel is not done exclusively by RedHat you know. No one seems wants to invest in SuSE, Caldera etc, isn't that strange???
I am probably is a pro-conspiracy suspect guy, but I think these moves have far more meaning than just money NOW, we are talking here about attempts of various big companies to take control over leading Linux distributor. Maybe Dell has only 4-5%, but look, all other alien shareholders, which include mammoths like IBM, Intel got stakes too!!!
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By making a hash where seeds are one or more CPUIDs of your cool PIII+ one will avoid these problems.
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This is not a bug. Linux started from zero, slowly adding up and polishing modules of the project. If Linus team had a mess like mozilla they released in April, 98 they wouldn't make much too. I wanted to contribute to the mozilla, but hell, I want to program features, I am not going to work 10 hours a day to look for someone else's bugs. They have made a big mistake releasing that mess. But they didn't have choice did they?
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Unless you look for some stupid AOLer, you will get at best coordinates of my proxy server. There are miriads of those, allowing external access. And not all of them use CGI variable to show originating IP.
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Because they (rioters) expected that MS will make some sort of statement like: "MSWindows is an excellent OS, far superior and user-friendly than Linux", and since it will be the Folls day, no one would believe MS.
That's just my hypothesis.
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You are very wrong, claiming after being brainwashed by propaganda as making YOUR choice?
The whole point is that in the modern world it's extremely easy to use zomby techniques on people, as a result you will do something THEY need, and consider it as YOUR desicons, that what the GNU fellow was trying to tell you and other dudez who thins they do their own desicions.
In the modern world, your only true desicion is whether to make a pi-pi.
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