T1 does exist. In fact most companies choose optic-fiber lines, since they not much more expensive than copper wires.
BUT, hardware is not expensive, BANDSWIDTH is damn expansive, and it's common that a company with fiber-optic capable of 1-2Mbit, uses only 64kb, because it costs almost as much as T1 in the US.
I know that, most of the honourable gentlemen and ladies at/. find the idea that Linus leaves highly paid job in the US to the research center in Moscow, where highest salary is probably no more than $500 a month. A month! And they don't get paid for months.
Most importantly, there they've got no money to develop their great ideas. If Linux was to work there, he would find that actually he can't do much, as no money means: no equipment, no newest data, no partners, no shit.
For me, as a Russian, is very sad to see this stupid joke. The people at the Babayan's lab have some of the greatest designs, but they have no chance to implement them, because of lack of funding. As a person who known Russia not from newspaper, I can say they are not going to get anything from Government in nearest 3-5 years. Their only hope is foreign investments, but companies like Intel doesn't really want to develop something superior than their own designs. Even if they are to buy the company, it will be just to make sure the designs will never leave the door.
The joke originally comes from Russian newspaper, and I tell you, that in Russia fools day (1 April) is generally the day, when most sad and sick jokes are done.
The last guys who will laugh today are the E2K processor team (maybe Linus won't laugh at that too, he is ethical guy enough not to laugh at someone's major problems, at least I hope so and want to believe).
:(
p.s. Article was not translated properly, in particular OS is said to be "native", but not "dependable" as in suggested variant.
p.p.s. Spell and grammar sucks, I know and I am working on it.
If you are using FAT16 (Win95), then the file itself takes maybe 16k or 32kb (minimal cluster size), depending on your partition.
While I fully agree that MSWord, MSExcel et ale writes lots of crap (including chunks of your RAM with your passwords), it still has no sense to argue about filesize.
Though, I often get puzzled HOW coders at MS could program, that simple inserted GIF or JPG of 30k, bloats document to 400k or something. They do store it as BMP and probably 3-4 times (to make it faster loading????)
I remember the day when I started programming games, back in 1993. The problem always was lack of quality code around. From my own experience I became very skeptical of suitability of any "game kits" making development easier, more portable etc.
I faced the truth that time: any universal approach, suhch as drivers, cross-platform code etc, is doomed to be too general, and as the result too slow for specific purposes. Why Quake2-3 doesn't use DirectX for anything but direct screen access???
As a game developer you will try to die, but to make your game DIFFERENT, now, tell me, how different you are doing to make game using same routines? Best of the best always had to create their own engines (DOOM,Quake,Unreal etc), what's the use of any other cross-platform staff?
For me as a game developer only real need is for some very basic, raw operations, such as direct access to screen. Engine itself can be done very portable, so, the only good thing in portable GameSDK is that it provides access to raw things, and that's it! Nothing more is required.
Hence, while I think the guys who are doing this project deserves a cheer or two, their creation will be useful for "educational purposes only", to learn new stuff, but not to create something commercial. It's very IMHO.
You can see my games at my site (with source code).
I think the only way to stop evil at it's root is to held any software company accountable for it's work. Let's say, when you buy a car, if you die in a crash due to faulty equipment, than car company will have to pay.
How many of us ever read a software license? One of the main points in it NOT whether sourse is open or not, the main point is that NO GUARANTEES GIVEN! Simply, the makes of product disclaims everything. We pay hefty sums to the MS and alike for products without any quality guarantee.
I think DOJ and legislators in particular should make it illegal to sell software without guarantees. So, we will have situation where makes of poor software will not be able to exploit monopolistic status, they will have to pay $$$ for each and every bug, crash etc.
One may object: the software fundamentally is so complicated, that one can't guarantee anything. Well, I would only point out to few well known examples of solid software such as Linux, where proof-of-consept has been demosntrated, and if some software company can't back it's own work than get the hell out of this business.
This approach is perfectly inline with the principles of freedom and entrepreneurship.
The other day I was asking for a reference for a school X from one of my tutors. We had good relations, I was good student, so I was sure I won't have any problems with that. Imagine, when she said: "You know, recently in the UK we have had this situation. One guy asked his tutor for a reference, applied a university and didn't make it. And you know what? He sued HIS TUTOR for reference! The bottom line is that he didn't only sue, he won something about $100k."
Now that's insane! I can understand sueing your school when you fail subject (understand, but not support, as since if you can't do your CS class then get the fsck out of school), but can't understand guy who does that. Except he was pissed of his tutor.
Gee, few weeks ago I applied Harvard and Stanford and I bet I won't get accepted there (this time). Now, I forgot who gave me these references....
So what if for example Microsoft gave you for free all development tools, you made some new ICQ and at the end of the day it will appear that you got no rights whatsoever to distribute your work???
The whole point of licenses in my view is to clarify what will happen when, to secure developer in this case, to ensure that hard work will be rewarded (in either money, fame or even both).
Just think, you can download anything pirated, but without rights, clearly written down you got nothing but to be doomed to stuck with all that software on your computer, trying not to show anyone that you've got it, fearing legal action.
Most importantly, since APSL is not just license for one or two products, but instead it's intended to become a COMMON BASE for many programs, it's important as hell to make it legally bug-free. Errors in it will doom whole bunch of develpers, few of whom can protect themselves with highly paid lawyers in case if APSL didn't clarify something right.
The specs sound awesome. And the price is not too high for such a brand as Sony (IMHO).
Can't you buy it paying all the sum and get the tou home? If you can, why then you complaining about their credit policy? If you do not have money to pay up frond price, then I am afraid you can't do much with their credit policies.
Not that I support them, I think it's stupid to buy anything in credit, and that's my perception after being manager in the credit department of one of the banks.
some or even many scenes in SciFi movies with lots and lots of special effects do require an actor to be filmed in front of totally white background to enable easier special effects. So what do you expect to see in unedited PM? All you may get is rough plot and dialogs. While that might sound cool (sound, not look!) for some, it is not for me.
I agree with those who say that knowing the plot in advanve will ruin all fun and coolness of one of true Masters such as Lucas.
p.s. I wish subject line allowed more words to type in.
Just look at Mac emulators (commercial) that designed to emulate PC. As far as I know legal system in States is based on precendent, and once someone won case claiming emulation is illegal, it will be applied to all other cases. And "surely" all those poor dudes with Mac's use emulators to run stolen software like games.
This case will lose in court for sure IF it gets there. IMHO, what Nintendo is trying to do is to scare to death two teens/20+ with their legal machine.
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I know that's off-topic, but just to show-off:
/* Since X=Y, X-Y=0, you can't divide by zero (X-Y) */
X=Y;
X^2=XY;
X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2;
(X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y);
X+Y=Y;
2Y=Y;
2=1
It's a fool's day anyway.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
T1 does exist. In fact most companies choose optic-fiber lines, since they not much more expensive than copper wires.
BUT, hardware is not expensive, BANDSWIDTH is damn expansive, and it's common that a company with fiber-optic capable of 1-2Mbit, uses only 64kb, because it costs almost as much as T1 in the US.
That majorly sucks.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
I know that, most of the honourable gentlemen and ladies at /. find the idea that Linus leaves highly paid job in the US to the research center in Moscow, where highest salary is probably no more than $500 a month. A month! And they don't get paid for months.
:(
Most importantly, there they've got no money to develop their great ideas. If Linux was to work there, he would find that actually he can't do much, as no money means: no equipment, no newest data, no partners, no shit.
For me, as a Russian, is very sad to see this stupid joke. The people at the Babayan's lab have some of the greatest designs, but they have no chance to implement them, because of lack of funding. As a person who known Russia not from newspaper, I can say they are not going to get anything from Government in nearest 3-5 years. Their only hope is foreign investments, but companies like Intel doesn't really want to develop something superior than their own designs.
Even if they are to buy the company, it will be just to make sure the designs will never leave the door.
The joke originally comes from Russian newspaper, and I tell you, that in Russia fools day (1 April) is generally the day, when most sad and sick jokes are done.
The last guys who will laugh today are the E2K processor team (maybe Linus won't laugh at that too, he is ethical guy enough not to laugh at someone's major problems, at least I hope so and want to believe).
p.s. Article was not translated properly, in particular OS is said to be "native", but not "dependable" as in suggested variant.
p.p.s. Spell and grammar sucks, I know and I am working on it.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
If you are using FAT16 (Win95), then the file itself takes maybe 16k or 32kb (minimal cluster size), depending on your partition.
While I fully agree that MSWord, MSExcel et ale writes lots of crap (including chunks of your RAM with your passwords), it still has no sense to argue about filesize.
Though, I often get puzzled HOW coders at MS could program, that simple inserted GIF or JPG of 30k, bloats document to 400k or something. They do store it as BMP and probably 3-4 times (to make it faster loading????)
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
I remember the day when I started programming games, back in 1993. The problem always was lack of quality code around. From my own experience I became very skeptical of suitability of any "game kits" making development easier, more portable etc.
I faced the truth that time: any universal approach, suhch as drivers, cross-platform code etc, is doomed to be too general, and as the result too slow for specific purposes. Why Quake2-3 doesn't use DirectX for anything but direct screen access???
As a game developer you will try to die, but to make your game DIFFERENT, now, tell me, how different you are doing to make game using same routines? Best of the best always had to create their own engines (DOOM,Quake,Unreal etc),
what's the use of any other cross-platform staff?
For me as a game developer only real need is for some very basic, raw operations, such as direct access to screen. Engine itself can be done very portable, so, the only good thing in portable GameSDK is that it provides access to raw things, and that's it! Nothing more is required.
Hence, while I think the guys who are doing this project deserves a cheer or two, their creation will be useful for "educational purposes only", to learn new stuff, but not to create something commercial. It's very IMHO.
You can see my games at my site (with source code).
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
I think the only way to stop evil at it's root is to held any software company accountable for it's work. Let's say, when you buy a car, if you die in a crash due to faulty equipment, than car company will have to pay.
How many of us ever read a software license? One of the main points in it NOT whether sourse is open or not, the main point is that NO GUARANTEES GIVEN! Simply, the makes of product disclaims everything. We pay hefty sums to the MS and alike for products without any quality guarantee.
I think DOJ and legislators in particular should make it illegal to sell software without guarantees. So, we will have situation where makes of poor software will not be able to exploit monopolistic status, they will have to pay $$$ for each and every bug, crash etc.
One may object: the software fundamentally is so complicated, that one can't guarantee anything. Well, I would only point out to few well known examples of solid software such as Linux, where proof-of-consept has been demosntrated, and if some software company can't back it's own work than get the hell out of this business.
This approach is perfectly inline with the principles of freedom and entrepreneurship.
Comments are welcome.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
The other day I was asking for a reference for a school X from one of my tutors. We had good relations, I was good student, so I was sure I won't have any problems with that. Imagine, when she said:
"You know, recently in the UK we have had this situation. One guy asked his tutor for a reference, applied a university and didn't make it. And you know what? He sued HIS TUTOR for reference! The bottom line is that he didn't only sue, he won something about $100k."
Now that's insane! I can understand sueing your school when you fail subject (understand, but not support, as since if you can't do your CS class then get the fsck out of school), but can't understand guy who does that. Except he was pissed of his tutor.
Gee, few weeks ago I applied Harvard and Stanford and I bet I won't get accepted there (this time).
Now, I forgot who gave me these references....
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
So what if for example Microsoft gave you for free all development tools, you made some new ICQ and at the end of the day it will appear that you got no rights whatsoever to distribute your work???
The whole point of licenses in my view is to clarify what will happen when, to secure developer in this case, to ensure that hard work will be rewarded (in either money, fame or even both).
Just think, you can download anything pirated, but without rights, clearly written down you got nothing but to be doomed to stuck with all that software on your computer, trying not to show anyone that you've got it, fearing legal action.
Most importantly, since APSL is not just license for one or two products, but instead it's intended to become a COMMON BASE for many programs, it's important as hell to make it legally bug-free.
Errors in it will doom whole bunch of develpers, few of whom can protect themselves with highly paid lawyers in case if APSL didn't clarify something right.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
guys, you all missed the whole point.
:(((
the Geek's gadget is a wallet full of _money_.
or a gold corporate credit card with no limit.
that's the GADGET all those CEO's enjoy, not some other tech toys they buy.
Unfortunatly it looks like all of us here miss that ultimate gadget
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
The specs sound awesome. And the price is not too high for such a brand as Sony (IMHO).
Can't you buy it paying all the sum and get the tou home? If you can, why then you complaining about their credit policy? If you do not have money to pay up frond price, then I am afraid you can't do much with their credit policies.
Not that I support them, I think it's stupid to buy anything in credit, and that's my perception after being manager in the credit department of one of the banks.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
Just to note,
some or even many scenes in SciFi movies with lots and lots of special effects do require an actor to be filmed in front of totally white background to enable easier special effects.
So what do you expect to see in unedited PM? All you may get is rough plot and dialogs. While that might sound cool (sound, not look!) for some, it is not for me.
I agree with those who say that knowing the plot in advanve will ruin all fun and coolness of one of true Masters such as Lucas.
p.s. I wish subject line allowed more words to type in.
AtW,
http://www.investigatio.com
BSD is gonna need it, considering current hype over Linux.
Just look at Mac emulators (commercial) that designed to emulate PC. As far as I know legal system in States is based on precendent, and once someone won case claiming emulation is illegal, it will be applied to all other cases. And "surely" all those poor dudes with Mac's use emulators to run stolen software like games.
This case will lose in court for sure IF it gets there. IMHO, what Nintendo is trying to do is to scare to death two teens/20+ with their legal machine.