what nonsense, using LINQ is only a good way to get bad performance out of your program, LINQ is for lazy programmers... just ditch LINQ for the time being...
This is your own call.. Nobody here can say a thing, it's easy to say to someone else to not take the money, but a lot of people will do it themselves..
Just make sure if you do go for the money and sign their contract, then at least let a lawyer go over it, AND make sure they add a clause incase they fire you the contract with them would be nullified (except for the work you've done on the project during the contract time)..
BUT, a lot of people think this only goes for the work they do for a company, but watchout, if you have a nasty boss and you develop something in your freetime, your boss can lay claim on it.. It already has happened a few times and courts decided in favore of the boss.. by the way this is only when you develop something with the skills you also use during your dayjob, so in case of a busdriver who develops a computergame in his sparetime the boss can claim whatever he wants but he wont win, but if you are a programmer and you did the code then you are in danger of having a nasty boss claim your stuff. so always make sure you've got something written about that in your contract..
It's all in the eye of the beholder... What you think is clean code doesn't mean someone else thinks the same about it.. Everybody has his/her own favorite way of doing stuff, and for them it's clean, but for others it isn't..
I have seen it so many times now.. someone who tell's you there is a rule to cleancode it lying, those are his rules...
as I said, cleancode is something in the eye of the beholder...
"DRM? what's that?" that's what most consumers think, because the people that buy Bluray's don't have any problems with DRM, and the few that have are mostly due to 'old/incompatible' hardware which are mostly fixed with a firmware update of the hardware.. DRM is mostly a problem for tech-people who think everybody is like them, using stuff like linuxmediacenters etc (which no normal consumer is using)..
The biggest problem is the pricing of the discs and player.. no normal consumer who's already pleased with dvd is going to fork out $200 just so they can watch a movie in higher resolution. If a player would be the same priced as the cheap dvd-players you can buy at a grocerystore for $24, and the discs priced the same as a regular dvd, only then does bluray stand a chance...
so DRM has nothing to do with BR not being accepted, that's only in the minds of techies..
why all the fuss with tabbased browsing, I personally don't like the whole tabbased browsing.. and having the urlbar under the tabs, is IMHO just as dumb as the urlbar above the menu's in IE7..
Don't get me wrong, the whole story seems to be very interesting, but I think it's just a populair/simple means to get to a lot of people who really think this is any different from other (new) browsers...
But we'll see when it actually is running on a lot of machines...
How do we know for sure this report is correct, and not an attempt to try to bankrupt Nvidia by some 3rd party.. All we have to go on is hearsay and no real facts. That's the problem with internet, a lot of people actually believe everything that is posted on it, which ofcourse a lot of times is just wrong information..
But 'porting' GoW2 over to the PC isn't any real problem as GoW2 is being developed on the PC with UE3, so there will be no significant time to get it out for the PC, only a little bit of tweaking.. That's also how they did it with GoW1, and they will sell enough to recoup their costs for the PC-version, and with that they keep their pc-fans a little happy... Let's not forget that games on the xbox360 are also pirated a lot...
Uhm.. there is only one nation on the world that proved to be such morons to use such a destructive weapon (when there was no need for it), and that's the US..
The US is led by greed, and that's just as bad as being led by religion..
I'm against nuclear weapons (or any other MDW), but as long as the US has them, any other country on the world is entitled to the same.. what gives the US the right to say to others they can't.. Nothing..
As I said, there is only one country in the world that used 2 H-bombs when it wasn't necessary, and that's the US.. So I'm more afraid of the US using nukes on 'innocent' countries as any other country..
It isn't directly linked to perl only, you can mess up and write hard to maintain code in ANY language. The points he brings up are valid points for a lot of projects that have been maintained over a long period, mostly it starts out as a proper designed project (for that point of time), but later because of a lot of wanted 'features' and with the 'pressure' of having it ready yesterday it has gone stray.. I see it in a lot of projects, and mostly I have to say that it isn't really a bad thing (yeah for some it's a horror), but with current events/managers the software has to be ready by yesterday if you want to stay ahead of your competition.. The advantage ofcourse is that after a while the system has about everything you'll ever need, and especially these days, by that time there's already a new fab/programming system, so you can port(/redesign) it for that new platofrm.. At this moment.NET is the fab (yes I say fab, because everything you ever want to do can still be done perfectly in say Visual studio 6), and we all know that.NET has already had some incarnations...
ahh, but if everybody thought like you, then we wouldn't have a lot of stuff.. A lot of new inventions are based on going beyond the science we think is possible.. remember it's us people who wrote the laws of physics, and in the past we have been wrong on many occasions.. A lot of inventions are done by so called amateur inventors, where scholarships said it wasn't possible...
Look how narrowminded a linux user actually is... thinking that a broken flashplayer is one of the only things holding people back on Linux.. yeah right..
Also you must think, what's in it for Adobe for creating a linuxplayer? (I must admit that it shouldn't be a big problem if there is already a player out to fix at least on a case by case base, even with only one programmer on the job).
One advantage of converting your car to a EV is you can have a cool looking car.. The EV's that are straight from the factory are buttugly (wouldn't be caught dead in a Toyota Prius), hell, even most new cars look buttugly IMHO..
In the US it's propably a lot easier to drive a car around which has been converted, but I guess here in the Netherlands you have to go through a lot of bureaucratic hoops to be able to drive your car on the road LEGALLY.. hehe..
hmmm.. then I guess it's time for you to expand your universe.. just use google, and you'll see Linux crashes just as much... but then again, I guess you are just blinded by your hatret for MS..
What difference does it make if they where computergenerated.. nobody complained about cutting up the opening alltogether by NBC just so americans could see their team walk into the stadium just around the time when they got home from work.. pfff... there is so much computergenerated manipulation going on onscreen these days, especially during sportevents..
so who cares.. as long as it is entertaining...
that's a good idea.. finally a country that comes to it senses... ofcourse it is much cheaper to do in China than it would be in like say the UK or the US...
I whish them good luck, and hopefully other countries will follow the same great example...
The only thing they can do is try to make 'Mono' be able to run all/most.Net applications... If Mono is 100% framework 3.5 (at the moment) compatible then there would be no problems for.Net developers.. because Windows is still the major player for businessapplications... and that won't change if linux doesn't shape up with all their different (and a lot of incompatible) distro's....
'innovative' past copying of markets and technologies created by Apple and others.
Uhm, by putting that in the article makes the whole article void.... Apple NEVER has done anything innovating (ok, except for the Apple I and ][), talk about a company who does rip everything from everybody and claiming it their own...
I don't understand why Sony doesn't want you to have access to the GPU if you have access to about anything else (well a little bit ofcourse I do understand).. having no access to the gpu is only a bitch for things we(well at least for me) really want run linux for in the PS3, like being able to play with emulators or Scummvm.. for piracy it doesn't matter if we do/don't have access to the gpu, so that's not the reason.. The only reason I can think of is otherwise people will create linux games and run them instead of buying real ps3 games.. So I do hope the grant access to the GPU once they start making money on the PS3 hardware, IMHO for a lot of people being able to use linux with full access to the GPU would be a major selling point (being able to run any mediacenter you want, being able to run any linuxgame you want, being able to run a lot of emulators, but I guess for a lot of people the mediacenter would be the biggest plus)..
yes, these certainly are some beautifull amazing images... but seeing all the wires and little parts, gets me more an more afraid for a big accident waiting to happen.. with all the cheapest contractors possible I just wishes they build it in the states, and not so close to our own home.. hehe..
The biggest problem with UI is... there is no perfect UI..... a UI is always in the eye of the beholder, some like this, some like that.. Some people like to work with toolbars, some with ribbons, and others with menu's...
All manuals I've read so far about UI design is always from the perspective of the writer, 'his/her way would be best', well it's not... Also some methods may work for Application A, but it won't for Application B, hell sometimes it even doesn't work in the same application...
So no matter what tool you try to use, it is always based on someones opinion.. I'm realistic enough to say that it's just not possible to create a UI that fits everybodies needs/wants.. and someone who claims he/she can is wrong and nothing more than expressing his/her opinion..
So to get to the most 'wanted' UI you need input from a lot of people...
these kind of initiatives should be as much explored as possible, it's a very good way of providing power, combined with a lot of other natural sources it could really reduce the polution..
I wonder how naive the writer of the article is... It's common to ask ridiculous prices for internetconnections on such locations, it's for commercial use.. If a news-company can't afford the 1800 bucks for one whole month then it's a very bad news-company... Remember a normal commercial ADSL-line costs also way more than a consumer ADSL-line for the same speeds.. So the prices aren't even that high..
Uhm.. yeah, we also did get much faster results by just putting the code back into the routine instead of splitting it up into little functions.. But knowing when to use fast code and when to use 'slow-but-better readable' code is something everybody must decide for him/herself, IMHO due to the faster machines people tend to get lazy and therefore we still keep needing faster and faster machines just to run the same program at the same speed as the previous version..
But just to quote one of my favorite characters: 'Opinions are just like assholes, everybody's got one'..... So what you think is a good way of doing code doesn't mean it is for somebody else... (me included).. Just format your code as you think will make your life easier when you need to revisit your code, that's the most important thing...
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what nonsense, using LINQ is only a good way to get bad performance out of your program, LINQ is for lazy programmers... just ditch LINQ for the time being...
This is your own call.. Nobody here can say a thing, it's easy to say to someone else to not take the money, but a lot of people will do it themselves.. Just make sure if you do go for the money and sign their contract, then at least let a lawyer go over it, AND make sure they add a clause incase they fire you the contract with them would be nullified (except for the work you've done on the project during the contract time).. BUT, a lot of people think this only goes for the work they do for a company, but watchout, if you have a nasty boss and you develop something in your freetime, your boss can lay claim on it.. It already has happened a few times and courts decided in favore of the boss.. by the way this is only when you develop something with the skills you also use during your dayjob, so in case of a busdriver who develops a computergame in his sparetime the boss can claim whatever he wants but he wont win, but if you are a programmer and you did the code then you are in danger of having a nasty boss claim your stuff. so always make sure you've got something written about that in your contract..
It's all in the eye of the beholder... What you think is clean code doesn't mean someone else thinks the same about it.. Everybody has his/her own favorite way of doing stuff, and for them it's clean, but for others it isn't.. I have seen it so many times now.. someone who tell's you there is a rule to cleancode it lying, those are his rules... as I said, cleancode is something in the eye of the beholder...
"DRM? what's that?" that's what most consumers think, because the people that buy Bluray's don't have any problems with DRM, and the few that have are mostly due to 'old/incompatible' hardware which are mostly fixed with a firmware update of the hardware.. DRM is mostly a problem for tech-people who think everybody is like them, using stuff like linuxmediacenters etc (which no normal consumer is using).. The biggest problem is the pricing of the discs and player.. no normal consumer who's already pleased with dvd is going to fork out $200 just so they can watch a movie in higher resolution. If a player would be the same priced as the cheap dvd-players you can buy at a grocerystore for $24, and the discs priced the same as a regular dvd, only then does bluray stand a chance... so DRM has nothing to do with BR not being accepted, that's only in the minds of techies..
why all the fuss with tabbased browsing, I personally don't like the whole tabbased browsing.. and having the urlbar under the tabs, is IMHO just as dumb as the urlbar above the menu's in IE7.. Don't get me wrong, the whole story seems to be very interesting, but I think it's just a populair/simple means to get to a lot of people who really think this is any different from other (new) browsers... But we'll see when it actually is running on a lot of machines...
How do we know for sure this report is correct, and not an attempt to try to bankrupt Nvidia by some 3rd party.. All we have to go on is hearsay and no real facts. That's the problem with internet, a lot of people actually believe everything that is posted on it, which ofcourse a lot of times is just wrong information..
But 'porting' GoW2 over to the PC isn't any real problem as GoW2 is being developed on the PC with UE3, so there will be no significant time to get it out for the PC, only a little bit of tweaking.. That's also how they did it with GoW1, and they will sell enough to recoup their costs for the PC-version, and with that they keep their pc-fans a little happy... Let's not forget that games on the xbox360 are also pirated a lot...
Uhm.. there is only one nation on the world that proved to be such morons to use such a destructive weapon (when there was no need for it), and that's the US.. The US is led by greed, and that's just as bad as being led by religion.. I'm against nuclear weapons (or any other MDW), but as long as the US has them, any other country on the world is entitled to the same.. what gives the US the right to say to others they can't.. Nothing.. As I said, there is only one country in the world that used 2 H-bombs when it wasn't necessary, and that's the US.. So I'm more afraid of the US using nukes on 'innocent' countries as any other country..
It isn't directly linked to perl only, you can mess up and write hard to maintain code in ANY language. The points he brings up are valid points for a lot of projects that have been maintained over a long period, mostly it starts out as a proper designed project (for that point of time), but later because of a lot of wanted 'features' and with the 'pressure' of having it ready yesterday it has gone stray.. I see it in a lot of projects, and mostly I have to say that it isn't really a bad thing (yeah for some it's a horror), but with current events/managers the software has to be ready by yesterday if you want to stay ahead of your competition.. The advantage ofcourse is that after a while the system has about everything you'll ever need, and especially these days, by that time there's already a new fab/programming system, so you can port(/redesign) it for that new platofrm.. At this moment .NET is the fab (yes I say fab, because everything you ever want to do can still be done perfectly in say Visual studio 6), and we all know that .NET has already had some incarnations...
ahh, but if everybody thought like you, then we wouldn't have a lot of stuff.. A lot of new inventions are based on going beyond the science we think is possible.. remember it's us people who wrote the laws of physics, and in the past we have been wrong on many occasions.. A lot of inventions are done by so called amateur inventors, where scholarships said it wasn't possible...
Look how narrowminded a linux user actually is... thinking that a broken flashplayer is one of the only things holding people back on Linux.. yeah right.. Also you must think, what's in it for Adobe for creating a linuxplayer? (I must admit that it shouldn't be a big problem if there is already a player out to fix at least on a case by case base, even with only one programmer on the job).
One advantage of converting your car to a EV is you can have a cool looking car.. The EV's that are straight from the factory are buttugly (wouldn't be caught dead in a Toyota Prius), hell, even most new cars look buttugly IMHO.. In the US it's propably a lot easier to drive a car around which has been converted, but I guess here in the Netherlands you have to go through a lot of bureaucratic hoops to be able to drive your car on the road LEGALLY.. hehe..
Yep.. that's what mr Lucas is good at, taking something great and turn it into crap.. just look at the EP1-3, and Indy 4.
hmmm.. then I guess it's time for you to expand your universe.. just use google, and you'll see Linux crashes just as much... but then again, I guess you are just blinded by your hatret for MS..
What difference does it make if they where computergenerated.. nobody complained about cutting up the opening alltogether by NBC just so americans could see their team walk into the stadium just around the time when they got home from work.. pfff... there is so much computergenerated manipulation going on onscreen these days, especially during sportevents.. so who cares.. as long as it is entertaining...
that's a good idea.. finally a country that comes to it senses... ofcourse it is much cheaper to do in China than it would be in like say the UK or the US... I whish them good luck, and hopefully other countries will follow the same great example...
The only thing they can do is try to make 'Mono' be able to run all/most .Net applications... If Mono is 100% framework 3.5 (at the moment) compatible then there would be no problems for .Net developers.. because Windows is still the major player for businessapplications... and that won't change if linux doesn't shape up with all their different (and a lot of incompatible) distro's....
I think was just a test for how the most stupid thing can get patented.. You can't really be serious if you as a patentclerk grant such a patent..
'innovative' past copying of markets and technologies created by Apple and others. Uhm, by putting that in the article makes the whole article void.... Apple NEVER has done anything innovating (ok, except for the Apple I and ][), talk about a company who does rip everything from everybody and claiming it their own...
I don't understand why Sony doesn't want you to have access to the GPU if you have access to about anything else (well a little bit ofcourse I do understand).. having no access to the gpu is only a bitch for things we(well at least for me) really want run linux for in the PS3, like being able to play with emulators or Scummvm.. for piracy it doesn't matter if we do/don't have access to the gpu, so that's not the reason.. The only reason I can think of is otherwise people will create linux games and run them instead of buying real ps3 games.. So I do hope the grant access to the GPU once they start making money on the PS3 hardware, IMHO for a lot of people being able to use linux with full access to the GPU would be a major selling point (being able to run any mediacenter you want, being able to run any linuxgame you want, being able to run a lot of emulators, but I guess for a lot of people the mediacenter would be the biggest plus)..
yes, these certainly are some beautifull amazing images... but seeing all the wires and little parts, gets me more an more afraid for a big accident waiting to happen.. with all the cheapest contractors possible I just wishes they build it in the states, and not so close to our own home.. hehe..
The biggest problem with UI is... there is no perfect UI..... a UI is always in the eye of the beholder, some like this, some like that.. Some people like to work with toolbars, some with ribbons, and others with menu's... All manuals I've read so far about UI design is always from the perspective of the writer, 'his/her way would be best', well it's not... Also some methods may work for Application A, but it won't for Application B, hell sometimes it even doesn't work in the same application... So no matter what tool you try to use, it is always based on someones opinion.. I'm realistic enough to say that it's just not possible to create a UI that fits everybodies needs/wants.. and someone who claims he/she can is wrong and nothing more than expressing his/her opinion.. So to get to the most 'wanted' UI you need input from a lot of people...
these kind of initiatives should be as much explored as possible, it's a very good way of providing power, combined with a lot of other natural sources it could really reduce the polution..
I wonder how naive the writer of the article is... It's common to ask ridiculous prices for internetconnections on such locations, it's for commercial use.. If a news-company can't afford the 1800 bucks for one whole month then it's a very bad news-company... Remember a normal commercial ADSL-line costs also way more than a consumer ADSL-line for the same speeds.. So the prices aren't even that high..
Uhm.. yeah, we also did get much faster results by just putting the code back into the routine instead of splitting it up into little functions.. But knowing when to use fast code and when to use 'slow-but-better readable' code is something everybody must decide for him/herself, IMHO due to the faster machines people tend to get lazy and therefore we still keep needing faster and faster machines just to run the same program at the same speed as the previous version.. But just to quote one of my favorite characters: 'Opinions are just like assholes, everybody's got one'..... So what you think is a good way of doing code doesn't mean it is for somebody else... (me included).. Just format your code as you think will make your life easier when you need to revisit your code, that's the most important thing...