[1] I'm sorry, but if long experience developing has taught me anything, it's this: If you don't know how to code, and have no experience of coding, you have no idea what you want.
I have to disagree here, if only about the way you express this. It's not that you don't know what you want it's just that you don't know how to express it in a way that a developer will understand. Customers talk in vague high-level terms and we talk in terms of testable cases and conditions. It is such a terrible terrible mistake to think you know better than them what they want because you will often be wrong - badly wrong - and have to spend a great deal of time and money fixing it (then blame them for changing their mind). This is not a new concept but a well understood principle of engineering.
It is important not to try to interpret someone else's first expression of their idea into workable software. You have to discuss it with them. Find a common ground in which to communicate (this is where languages like UML come in because they can be used at all levels of development for different purposes). Tell them what is and isn't feasible and find solutions. Don't just dismiss what you have been asked to as impossible or unreasonable because you are the 'expert'. You may be the expert coder but you aren't the expert in someone else's business or in their idea.
Look, if you're not a programmer, your idea is basically worthless.
I think you need a trip into the real world of software development. Ideas may be a dime a dozen but good ideas aren't so easy to come by and they take work. And the sheer arrogance that only a programmer could produce a good idea for an application is ridiculous. Fools like you give we professional software developers a terrible image because you think you know what everyone wants. You don't.
Obviously, if you're a programmer who has an awesome idea, don't participate in this contest. Implement it yourself.
There are reasons that software houses need clients, domain experts, marketeers, analysts, designers, lawyers and consultants as well as many developers and testers - an idea that isn't researched and based on a genuine customer need will rarely sell to the general public and good software cannot implemented to any reasonable standard of quality by a lone programmer no matter how 1337 they believe themself to be.
Go back to your DVD and games collection (yes I took a look at your blog) and leave the adults to talk in peace please.
A lot of games are TCP based... World of Warcraft for example.
Interesting then that they give World of Warcraft as the example in the 'Sneak Peek' performance statistics when compared to an onboard Marvell GigE chip known to have relatively high CPU usage. But then they also describe the piddly 10-20ms reduction in latency as 'stunning'. I don't know about others but that wouldn't make much of a dent in my 300ms ping times.
Any resemblence to any real (or vaporware snakeoil) network card is purely coincidental.
LocalPing -
Win more because LocalPing Technology offers the fastest gaming performance possible. No matter how fast your ISP is, you can get a better Ping by having the NIC provide the ping reply instead of all that pesky messing about with the actual network.
SneakyFPS -
Killerizer's superior performance allows you to experience more frames per second even on uber PCs with top of line graphics cards and other peripherals by having its driver secretly access the nVidia/ATI display options and turn down the settings.
UNA
Uncontrolled Network Architecture (UNA) allows everyone to freely write, download, and run applications that execute on the Killerizer's Network Processing Unit. UNapps are cracker developed applications that free your computer's CPU to focus on the game while ignoring the security breaches from the superuser-enabled auxiliary card
RouteFirst -
Network packets for your games are prioritized and delivered before all other network activity on the system. Or you could just shut down eDonkey. DiffServ or VLAN-capable router sold separately.
PingCheater -
When other gamers complain your Ping is too low, adjust it a little higher until they stop complaining. Then turn it back down and go in for the head shot! You too can be despised by all your friends and barred from public game servers.
TrustWatch Search extension. Does something similar. Focused on phishing not malware but also not limited to Google.
Disclaimer: Other verification providers are available
Of course if you actually READ Mary Shelley's Frankenstein you'll unserstand that it was fear of the unknown that caused all the misery. Without ignorant, closed-minded people Frankenstein's creation would have been a very different character indeed.
According to one limited poll of 100 journalists and developers in 2001 it was. By no stretch of the imagination does it remain so. Even if you ignore the many more popular console games (Super Mario Bros for example still holds the official record as the best selling game of all time) Half-Life and its sequel are largely considered to have replaced Doom for the best PC game spot (and HL is the best-selling FPS) and The Sims remains the best-selling PC game overall.
Call me a cynic but do you really think that this report is supposed to be some grand gesture to free us from malware? This was a statement made by a commercial organisation and therefore serves Sophos commercial interests in some way. You have to ask...
Do thay have a poorly-selling Mac anti-malware product and need more customers? Do they want more Mac users to promote more malware production and create a new market where they can take a share from Symantec and McAfee? Do they just want to make noise to get more visibility; make contraversial statements and get more coverage? Would they really say - 'move to Mac and you won't need our products any more'?
Take this at face value and it probably doesn't hold water for many of the reasons already posted. Look at it from another angle and maybe it does serve its purpose of spreading FUD for commercial gain.
http://www.intel.com/network/csp/resources/white_p apers/4631web.htm
This is a standard for sending fax data over VoIP (or any packet) networks. Many VoIP systems have DSPs that can detect fax tones and automatically switch to T.38 over RTP mode where non-lossy fax data is bundled into RTP packets.
I know that at least the Linksys WRTP54G wireless Vonage router supports T.38 and other models may do as well.
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TrustWatch Search extension. Does something similar. Focused on phishing not malware but also not limited to Google.
Disclaimer: Other verification providers are available
Of course if you actually READ Mary Shelley's Frankenstein you'll unserstand that it was fear of the unknown that caused all the misery. Without ignorant, closed-minded people Frankenstein's creation would have been a very different character indeed.
According to one limited poll of 100 journalists and developers in 2001 it was. By no stretch of the imagination does it remain so. Even if you ignore the many more popular console games (Super Mario Bros for example still holds the official record as the best selling game of all time) Half-Life and its sequel are largely considered to have replaced Doom for the best PC game spot (and HL is the best-selling FPS) and The Sims remains the best-selling PC game overall.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_video_g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling
There is no doubt that it was the leader and trend-setter in its genre and a fantastic game to boot but I think a little perspective is in order.
Call me a cynic but do you really think that this report is supposed to be some grand gesture to free us from malware? This was a statement made by a commercial organisation and therefore serves Sophos commercial interests in some way. You have to ask...
Do thay have a poorly-selling Mac anti-malware product and need more customers?
Do they want more Mac users to promote more malware production and create a new market where they can take a share from Symantec and McAfee?
Do they just want to make noise to get more visibility; make contraversial statements and get more coverage?
Would they really say - 'move to Mac and you won't need our products any more'?
Take this at face value and it probably doesn't hold water for many of the reasons already posted. Look at it from another angle and maybe it does serve its purpose of spreading FUD for commercial gain.
http://www.intel.com/network/csp/resources/white_p apers/4631web.htm
This is a standard for sending fax data over VoIP (or any packet) networks. Many VoIP systems have DSPs that can detect fax tones and automatically switch to T.38 over RTP mode where non-lossy fax data is bundled into RTP packets.
I know that at least the Linksys WRTP54G wireless Vonage router supports T.38 and other models may do as well.