I concur. I find that code is very infrequently reused. Often, it will take longer to understand some horrible api that has too many classes, parameter overloading (a personal pet peeve), and other unnecessary over-engineering. Instead, a modest, and mostly functional, design will be easily refactorable when you find that reuse is needed. I find that it is faster to refactor code when I need to reuse it than it is to engineer it for all possible reuse cases.
I don't understand why the EU isn't all over Apple for this stuff. As ridiculous as the MS browser choice stuff is, what Apple is up to in my opinion is far worse than having IE installed by default in windows. I dislike IE as much as the next slashdotter, but how about some consistency?
As a professional software engineer, I find that typing speed is mostly irrelevant to my job. Autocomplete makes up for any perceived slowness and lack of technique. For me (as an eclipse user) its mostly 4 or 5 characters then crtl-space and BAM! big long disgustingly verbose variable and function names.
You do realize that the first dune RTS games came out way before starcraft, and in my opinion laid a lot of the groundwork for what RTS gaming in the 90s became.
But yes, the 4-disk dune3d rts game wasn't great, but the cut scenes were sufficiently creepy to give you the feel of the dune universe.
I'm not entirely certain the web developers entirely to blame here either. If I accidentally leave pandora on overnight at work, my firefox will be hosed when I get back in the morning. However, using opera I do not have this problem. This also holds true for facebook, cnn, slashdot, and other web sites as well. It seems as though opera is doing something smarter such that my whole system isn't hosed by the web page. This is why I'm starting to use opera more than firefox at work.
(ubuntu 9.10 x64)
depends on your linux set-up. For me, I put the javas in/usr/lib/jvm/
there is a symlink in this folder "java-gcj" which points to the default java to use. Thats the way it came installed, so I just manipulated the symlinc to point to the java that I installed. Which until tomorrow was sun jdk 1.6_10
Perhaps I'm over-simplifying the problem, but:
You could split the image frame into sections (perhaps halves if you only have two cores) and have separate threads processing each half in parallel and then assemble them later on with a third thread. Assuming that you can support the data bandwidth, then you have decreased your processing time because the processing queues and the assembling thread are all running in parallel, which means you're limited only by the number of core available and the data bandwidth to get the bits to the cores.
Since this seems so obvious, what am I missing?
I had several games with audio tracks on the game cd which would play in a cd player...
The C&C covert ops comes to mind as well the Red alert expansion pack
Also some old version of Jurassic Park got me through many boring tests in high school.
I have to second the motion that GalCiv II rocks. I haven't had time to check out the expansion yet, but just noticed the announcement that a second expansion is in the works. Its the first new pc game I bought in a couple years and maybe the last as my pc is starting to show it's age. Is the expansion good, or simply more of the same?
Averages suck, you need to get the data for where you live. Where I grew up, the 'rich' school graduated about 70% with 20% going to college. Other city high schools were less. The private high school (catholic) graduated 95% with about 90% going to college. Where would you send your kid?
--disclaimer-- I went to the public school
How about some data to back this up? My mom teaches at a private school for 1/2 the public school salary (and her school send about 90% of the kids to college -- seriously). My wife has taught at several private schools in several states and in each case made a fraction of a public school salary. Where is there better pay in private schools, and how do I get a tech job there?
Whats funny is that they keep saying that 'this year' will be the year that more hd-tvs are bought than non-HD tvs. And it seems for several years running it hasn't been the case. I'm wondering if all this next gen stuff is too much. Maybe its like cars, sure a Porsche is faster / safer / better than a ford whatever, but for a lot of people their ford whatever is 'good enough' and they don't want to spend the extra money for a premium car.
If the betterness was enough, then wouldn't ford be out of business. Last time I checked there were a lot more fords sold than porsches. So, if HD/BlueRay is the prosche, maybe it'll never take over. For me at least, the benefits do not outway the costs. But maybe if I could pick up more chicks with my sony Blue-ray player that would be an incentive? Where are those marketting folks, why aren't they doing this?
I have to dissagree with your comment about education. I've worked school projects with grad students from india and their education background (at least from an engineering aspect) was stronger than any of us american students, yet our code typically was readable and less buggy than our indian counterparts. I present this purely as anecdotal evidence without an explination. If anyone has a good explination, I'm all ears.
I agree with the cheap shot sentament, but realistically, the $100 laptop per child thing is doomed to failure, unless we suddenly shift into a period of deflation.
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I concur. I find that code is very infrequently reused. Often, it will take longer to understand some horrible api that has too many classes, parameter overloading (a personal pet peeve), and other unnecessary over-engineering. Instead, a modest, and mostly functional, design will be easily refactorable when you find that reuse is needed. I find that it is faster to refactor code when I need to reuse it than it is to engineer it for all possible reuse cases.
let us not forget the SCUMM!
I don't understand why the EU isn't all over Apple for this stuff. As ridiculous as the MS browser choice stuff is, what Apple is up to in my opinion is far worse than having IE installed by default in windows. I dislike IE as much as the next slashdotter, but how about some consistency?
As a professional software engineer, I find that typing speed is mostly irrelevant to my job. Autocomplete makes up for any perceived slowness and lack of technique. For me (as an eclipse user) its mostly 4 or 5 characters then crtl-space and BAM! big long disgustingly verbose variable and function names.
You do realize that the first dune RTS games came out way before starcraft, and in my opinion laid a lot of the groundwork for what RTS gaming in the 90s became. But yes, the 4-disk dune3d rts game wasn't great, but the cut scenes were sufficiently creepy to give you the feel of the dune universe.
I'm not entirely certain the web developers entirely to blame here either. If I accidentally leave pandora on overnight at work, my firefox will be hosed when I get back in the morning. However, using opera I do not have this problem. This also holds true for facebook, cnn, slashdot, and other web sites as well. It seems as though opera is doing something smarter such that my whole system isn't hosed by the web page. This is why I'm starting to use opera more than firefox at work. (ubuntu 9.10 x64)
depends on your linux set-up. For me, I put the javas in /usr/lib/jvm/
there is a symlink in this folder "java-gcj" which points to the default java to use. Thats the way it came installed, so I just manipulated the symlinc to point to the java that I installed. Which until tomorrow was sun jdk 1.6_10
Perhaps I'm over-simplifying the problem, but: You could split the image frame into sections (perhaps halves if you only have two cores) and have separate threads processing each half in parallel and then assemble them later on with a third thread. Assuming that you can support the data bandwidth, then you have decreased your processing time because the processing queues and the assembling thread are all running in parallel, which means you're limited only by the number of core available and the data bandwidth to get the bits to the cores. Since this seems so obvious, what am I missing?
I had several games with audio tracks on the game cd which would play in a cd player... The C&C covert ops comes to mind as well the Red alert expansion pack Also some old version of Jurassic Park got me through many boring tests in high school.
I have to second the motion that GalCiv II rocks. I haven't had time to check out the expansion yet, but just noticed the announcement that a second expansion is in the works. Its the first new pc game I bought in a couple years and maybe the last as my pc is starting to show it's age. Is the expansion good, or simply more of the same?
Wait a minute, so you're saying that people actually play PSP games? I've only seen one in the wild, and that was won in a radio call-in contest.
I've thought of this before, which leads me to wonder how melting all the ice on the polar caps would increase the ocean level on which they float.
Maybe I'm just not up on all the hype, but I really don't mind watching regular non-HD programming. Sounds like some elitism going on here.
While they may be afraid of this, what does that have to do with suing p2p file sharers?
Averages suck, you need to get the data for where you live. Where I grew up, the 'rich' school graduated about 70% with 20% going to college. Other city high schools were less. The private high school (catholic) graduated 95% with about 90% going to college. Where would you send your kid? --disclaimer-- I went to the public school
How about some data to back this up? My mom teaches at a private school for 1/2 the public school salary (and her school send about 90% of the kids to college -- seriously). My wife has taught at several private schools in several states and in each case made a fraction of a public school salary. Where is there better pay in private schools, and how do I get a tech job there?
since the advent of assemblers, I doubt that anybody really codes from scratch anymore.
thats nothing, I bet most people around here spend half of that MONTHLY for their cell phones
The problem is that your suggestion is full of thought and reason. Therefore it isn't sexy enough to be heard by the brainwashed masses.
unbelievable, a coherent thought on Slashdot of all places. I'd have to agree with your reasoning
Whats funny is that they keep saying that 'this year' will be the year that more hd-tvs are bought than non-HD tvs. And it seems for several years running it hasn't been the case. I'm wondering if all this next gen stuff is too much. Maybe its like cars, sure a Porsche is faster / safer / better than a ford whatever, but for a lot of people their ford whatever is 'good enough' and they don't want to spend the extra money for a premium car.
If the betterness was enough, then wouldn't ford be out of business. Last time I checked there were a lot more fords sold than porsches. So, if HD/BlueRay is the prosche, maybe it'll never take over. For me at least, the benefits do not outway the costs. But maybe if I could pick up more chicks with my sony Blue-ray player that would be an incentive? Where are those marketting folks, why aren't they doing this?
I have to dissagree with your comment about education. I've worked school projects with grad students from india and their education background (at least from an engineering aspect) was stronger than any of us american students, yet our code typically was readable and less buggy than our indian counterparts. I present this purely as anecdotal evidence without an explination. If anyone has a good explination, I'm all ears.
Hilarious!
I agree with the cheap shot sentament, but realistically, the $100 laptop per child thing is doomed to failure, unless we suddenly shift into a period of deflation.
Thank you.
It happenned, they sucked, MOVE on.