mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) (11/24/90)
Every so often, someone around here refers to becoming an officially
registered devloper. I had a couple of questions about this:
1] Registered with what/whom?
2] What do you get for being registered?
3] What do you have to give to be registered?
4] What is the overall point? Is this something that makes random hacking
more "legitimate"? Does it earn money? Does it give you access to some
otherwise secret sources of information about the computer? Will it
enhance your sex drive? (etc...)
(Note: If it sounds good, I might be very interested in such a status. As
a mildly serious programmer, I could use some weird status. I mean, I would
*like* to be able to tell my friends "hey, I'm a *DEVELOPER*"... Of course,
two-thirds of them would say "great, I've got negatives..." but hey...
Egotism is as deadly as anything else ;-) )
--SeebS--
Prophet in Exile
Trivia question for the day: What is the *sole* functional difference
between:
for(i = 0;i < 20;++i) {
<some loop>
}
and
i=0;
while(i < 20) {
<some loop, same as above>
++i;
}
(I got the question from a friend a while back. I think it's sorta neat.)frankjr@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Frank AnthonyJr Busalacchi) (11/27/90)
mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes: >Every so often, someone around here refers to becoming an officially >registered devloper. I had a couple of questions about this: >1] Registered with what/whom? >2] What do you get for being registered? >3] What do you have to give to be registered? >4] What is the overall point? Is this something that makes random hacking > more "legitimate"? Does it earn money? Does it give you access to some > otherwise secret sources of information about the computer? Will it > enhance your sex drive? (etc...) 1. Registered with Commodore Amiga Technical Support (CATS) 2. Registered users are sent AmigaMail, a technical mailing that comes every two months. It has lots of examples, and discussion about the computer and how to program it. It discusses areas such as intuition disk drive i/o, exec, graphics, sound. It is a great resource. They also are eligible for Developer prices (about the same as educational), and receive access to a special forum on BIX I think. They receive information and invitations to developer conferences... 3. There are two levels of developer status. One is for proven companies, and the other is for unproven developers. I don't remember the cost for the proven developer, but I think that the unproven developer cost is about $85 per year. 4. The overall point is that you are informed of new changes to the system, and receive information before it becomes publically known (obviously you have to sign a non-disclosure form). As for enhancing your sex drive, it hasn't done a thing for mine... If you look in the front of RKM: includes and autodocs, (copyright page I think) there is information on how to receive more information on becomming a registered developer. Hope this has been informative. ----------------------------- Frank Busalacchi Jr Undergrad Stanford University Computer Science Department -----------------------------