It would survive. The problem, here, is that the market will encompass any accessible model, then start using it to predict its own behavior -- after a short term gain, the market then deviates away from the old model, and a new one has to be formed.
It reminds me of the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, on a macro scale. The better a model works, the faster it breaks.
Yet another deprived fan, wishing his carefully memorized sequence of joystick twiddles were useful in modern games. Dragon's Lair was strictly a memory game, albeit one with slick graphics and a funny narrative.
If you are a security administrator for your company -- yes, you can, but you need to have some common sense when it comes time to revealing your findings. I think it's safe to say that the sysadmin did not take proper precautions to protect his credibility as an impartial auditor.
RTFA -- Due to the dynamic environment, destructible and displaceable objects, Id thinks that the game is going to consume a lot more resources and bandwidth for the server than previous games. Hence the artificial 4 player limitation.
"Thus, smarter AI robots are safer, because they can more accurately forsee dangerous situations."
Actually, I think that in Asimov's stories, the more intelligent the AI was, the more likely it was to start trying to get hung up on the 0'th law meme -- the concept that a concern for humanity is more important than concern for individual humans.
I only get the local analog package, since our regional cable provider's digital package is mutually hostile with the killer app for television, my PVR. Out of the ninety some-odd channels, I can usually wean a couple hours of watchable shows for the family.. My two year old daughter watches Between the Lions and Sagwa, while the wife and I usually watch Mythbusters, Good Eats, or the occasional Stargate episode.
Looking back at our viewing habits, I'd be a happy customer if ala carte pricing ever became ubiquitous -- I only watch about five of these channels on a regular basis.
Sadly, these modern programs are worse.. The programs, themselves, are traditional ad campaigns for merchandising, but with even less of a plot.
It's what surrounds them that draws my sick fascination. Take, for example, Nickelodeon's "U-Pick" theme. It purports that the kiddies out in TV land can have a say about what episodes are broadcast for that night, yet, these programs are all neatly laid out several weeks in advance. How do I know?
Because the listings have percolated through the listing agencies to my TiVo. So, the kiddies are being given a pretty blatant lie, and, inbetween shows, even shortening them, they get to listen to teen heart-throbs who are actual twenty-somethings try to emphathize with their young audience.
I don't recall having wade through fifteen minutes of Menudo plugging their latest album just to watch fifteen minutes of Superfriends punctuated with five minutes of ads for Superfriends spin-offs. Then again, I probably wouldn't let a kid watch that crap unfiltered, either.
The highly groomed, preened and prepped young teen markets, of course. Oversaturated with hype from Viacom's twin dumping spouts -- Nickelodeon and MTV. Our poor kids get fed a tremendous amount of tie-in movie hype from these two, alone, let alone Disney's all-advertising, all-the-time channel.
The only youth oriented channel on US Cable that doesn't steadily pump our kids full of marketing hype is Cartoon Network, and that's probably just a matter of time.
That compliance note is a short blurb that restates the fact that the device is expected to fail safely in the presence of RF radiation. Class A also has additional provisions dictating the amount of RF interference it is allowed to produce, not that anyone really seems to pay attention anymore.
Any FCC Class A or Class B device must accept the possibility of harmful radio interference. If said devices were sensitive to radio transmissions on a particular frequency, and that frequency was delineated for that purpose, there's a possibility of it being a problem.
That being said? I find it highly unlikely that a critical device like that would be left to "We can just sneak along on any frequency we want, because we put out less than 1w"
I do a lot of cross platform development, so I have an OS X box, a couple Linux boxen, and a Windows partition, and hop between them pretty often.
The killer app that keeps me on OS X is SubEthaEdit -- the collaborative editing is invaluable for me, as well as many of its unique features to make life simpler for actually writing code.
I think it's a good idea, but I do wonder how many situations you'll be in where you already have an exisiting program that does everything you want to test against.
Let's say you've written a quick and dirty implementation -- no optimizations, it expresses your data model, but rather inefficiently. Lots of linear and exponential time consumption. Certain programming practices recommend using the simplest, easiest implementation first, and optimizing the slower portions of the code until performance is acceptable.
This tool becomes a lot more useful; the slower yet clearer implementation becomes your reference for writing the optimized version.
They've already had geeks testing it.. And friends of geeks.. Bloggers are their next lowest potential source of non-technical users, who are idea for last-phase testing of an application.
It's posted in an ad, visible to registered users.
3. Kenseiden -- A sleeper for the SMS as well, Kenseiden required a good sense of timing instead of super-fast reflexes. A nonlinear solution path was presented, as well.
2. Wonder Boy 3 -- RPG meets Action Side-Scroller. Great story, and with the use of powerups, each level has several paths through it, depending on your form. Absolutely gorgeous graphics, even on the Sega Master System version.
1. Abuse -- Not a console game, but probably the damn hardest side scroller I've ever played. Keyboard control of movement, and mouse control of firing was extremely demanding considered to other side scroller control schemes, yet, once mastered, was very fluid. Also beautifully animated, and user scriptable.
God save our moderators.. A well reasoned comment on the relationship between two oft-confused terms on Slashdot is a troll. I suppose I should start posting anything intelligent as an AC to protect my beloved karma.
Reviewing the comments made thus far, despite the fact that most are simply trolls honing their skills, it seems to bear pointing out that just because a language is high level, does not mean that it is interpreted. While many high level languages are interpreted, and many interpreted languages are high level, there are many exceptions to the rule.
Common Lisp, which has been mentioned here as the great shining hope for compiled environments is a fairly high level, abstract language. Java is, at its basest level, the jvm, an interpreted, primitive system, although the byte code compiler has made Java increasingly higher level.
Many of the arguments made from one side or another are commentary on the relative merits of high level and low level languages, not a discussion of platform neutrality, execution performance and various methods of using optimization to reduce the penalty of interpreters.
For my two cents on the whole performance issue, an indirect-threaded Forth is in many ways an interpreted language which is very low level and quite fast. It wasn't designed by a pubescent teenager, and Forth images are often smaller than comparable C programs, despite having the interpreter included in the image.
I recently forked over $75 for a set of the original first edition Paranoia because our local gaming group was getting way too obsessed with their stats and game mechanics. The ensuing pandemonium and infighting didn't solve the problem, but at least it entertains the game master, which is the point of it all, right?
I'm especially happy to hear that the new edition won't be using d20. I've been using Active Exploits, a free, diceless game system, and it has worked very well for keeping the game fast and simple -- an essential for Paranoia.
There are also some excellent resources for individuals who want to play Paranoia online; Paranoia-RPG is probably the best place to start.
And, finally, if Paranoia tickles your fancy and you want to try a different comic genre, check out Atlas Games' Over the Edge, a lightweight conspiracy game that makes Fox Mulders' wildest guesses seem tame.
The x86's have been used in embedded apps for quite some time now. I distinctly remember discovering an 80186 in a microwave I disassembled, and many industrial applications use them, due to their well known characteristics.
All these comments about POST and other silliness come from the PC architecture, not the CPU itself. Amazing how many people are willing to comment when they really have no clue.
It is free as in the bait laid neatly at the center of the bear trap..
BeOS was free as in beer for personal use, too -- then, when Be's money dried up, the OS was neatly packed up in Palm's back pocket. Sure, there have been a few runs at trying to keep the OS alive, but they are far too disorganized to be of any worth.
When SkyOS's development team disintegrates, what will happen to its users, and its source code? Forking is a healthy thing for operating systems, from the point of view of its users, because it means the OS will continue to exist, independant of a few individual developers' whims.
The only actual reason for keeping the kernel source closed is the ego of the developers. It's a cute OS from the screenshots, but anyone who is really looking for a desktop replacement should think long and hard about what happens when this project folds.
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It would survive. The problem, here, is that the market will encompass any accessible model, then start using it to predict its own behavior -- after a short term gain, the market then deviates away from the old model, and a new one has to be formed.
It reminds me of the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, on a macro scale. The better a model works, the faster it breaks.
That would require the moderators to shoulder the onerous burden of reading the article, themselves. Mod first, read later..
Yet another deprived fan, wishing his carefully memorized sequence of joystick twiddles were useful in modern games. Dragon's Lair was strictly a memory game, albeit one with slick graphics and a funny narrative.
If you are a security administrator for your company -- yes, you can, but you need to have some common sense when it comes time to revealing your findings. I think it's safe to say that the sysadmin did not take proper precautions to protect his credibility as an impartial auditor.
RTFA -- Due to the dynamic environment, destructible and displaceable objects, Id thinks that the game is going to consume a lot more resources and bandwidth for the server than previous games. Hence the artificial 4 player limitation.
"Thus, smarter AI robots are safer, because they can more accurately forsee dangerous situations."
Actually, I think that in Asimov's stories, the more intelligent the AI was, the more likely it was to start trying to get hung up on the 0'th law meme -- the concept that a concern for humanity is more important than concern for individual humans.
I only get the local analog package, since our regional cable provider's digital package is mutually hostile with the killer app for television, my PVR. Out of the ninety some-odd channels, I can usually wean a couple hours of watchable shows for the family.. My two year old daughter watches Between the Lions and Sagwa, while the wife and I usually watch Mythbusters, Good Eats, or the occasional Stargate episode.
Looking back at our viewing habits, I'd be a happy customer if ala carte pricing ever became ubiquitous -- I only watch about five of these channels on a regular basis.
Sadly, these modern programs are worse.. The programs, themselves, are traditional ad campaigns for merchandising, but with even less of a plot.
It's what surrounds them that draws my sick fascination. Take, for example, Nickelodeon's "U-Pick" theme. It purports that the kiddies out in TV land can have a say about what episodes are broadcast for that night, yet, these programs are all neatly laid out several weeks in advance. How do I know?
Because the listings have percolated through the listing agencies to my TiVo. So, the kiddies are being given a pretty blatant lie, and, inbetween shows, even shortening them, they get to listen to teen heart-throbs who are actual twenty-somethings try to emphathize with their young audience.
I don't recall having wade through fifteen minutes of Menudo plugging their latest album just to watch fifteen minutes of Superfriends punctuated with five minutes of ads for Superfriends spin-offs. Then again, I probably wouldn't let a kid watch that crap unfiltered, either.
Yet another reason to own a PVR.
The highly groomed, preened and prepped young teen markets, of course. Oversaturated with hype from Viacom's twin dumping spouts -- Nickelodeon and MTV. Our poor kids get fed a tremendous amount of tie-in movie hype from these two, alone, let alone Disney's all-advertising, all-the-time channel.
The only youth oriented channel on US Cable that doesn't steadily pump our kids full of marketing hype is Cartoon Network, and that's probably just a matter of time.
I believe the problem, here, is that it's far too accepting. =)
That compliance note is a short blurb that restates the fact that the device is expected to fail safely in the presence of RF radiation. Class A also has additional provisions dictating the amount of RF interference it is allowed to produce, not that anyone really seems to pay attention anymore.
It also must accept harmful interference.. So.. They're both in the wrong. ;)
Any FCC Class A or Class B device must accept the possibility of harmful radio interference. If said devices were sensitive to radio transmissions on a particular frequency, and that frequency was delineated for that purpose, there's a possibility of it being a problem.
That being said? I find it highly unlikely that a critical device like that would be left to "We can just sneak along on any frequency we want, because we put out less than 1w"
I do a lot of cross platform development, so I have an OS X box, a couple Linux boxen, and a Windows partition, and hop between them pretty often.
The killer app that keeps me on OS X is SubEthaEdit -- the collaborative editing is invaluable for me, as well as many of its unique features to make life simpler for actually writing code.
They've already had geeks testing it.. And friends of geeks.. Bloggers are their next lowest potential source of non-technical users, who are idea for last-phase testing of an application.
It's posted in an ad, visible to registered users.
Yeah, I know, ihbt..
3. Kenseiden -- A sleeper for the SMS as well, Kenseiden required a good sense of timing instead of super-fast reflexes. A nonlinear solution path was presented, as well.
2. Wonder Boy 3 -- RPG meets Action Side-Scroller. Great story, and with the use of powerups, each level has several paths through it, depending on your form. Absolutely gorgeous graphics, even on the Sega Master System version.
1. Abuse -- Not a console game, but probably the damn hardest side scroller I've ever played. Keyboard control of movement, and mouse control of firing was extremely demanding considered to other side scroller control schemes, yet, once mastered, was very fluid. Also beautifully animated, and user scriptable.
Too bad, Crack dot com tanked soon after..
God save our moderators.. A well reasoned comment on the relationship between two oft-confused terms on Slashdot is a troll. I suppose I should start posting anything intelligent as an AC to protect my beloved karma.
Reviewing the comments made thus far, despite the fact that most are simply trolls honing their skills, it seems to bear pointing out that just because a language is high level, does not mean that it is interpreted. While many high level languages are interpreted, and many interpreted languages are high level, there are many exceptions to the rule.
Common Lisp, which has been mentioned here as the great shining hope for compiled environments is a fairly high level, abstract language. Java is, at its basest level, the jvm, an interpreted, primitive system, although the byte code compiler has made Java increasingly higher level.
Many of the arguments made from one side or another are commentary on the relative merits of high level and low level languages, not a discussion of platform neutrality, execution performance and various methods of using optimization to reduce the penalty of interpreters.
For my two cents on the whole performance issue, an indirect-threaded Forth is in many ways an interpreted language which is very low level and quite fast. It wasn't designed by a pubescent teenager, and Forth images are often smaller than comparable C programs, despite having the interpreter included in the image.
You Don't Say.."
Sit down, shut up, and let the engineers talk, junior.
Ugh. I keep forgetting that Slashdot translates empty lines into BR tags, even in HTML mode. Sorry about the crap formatting.
I recently forked over $75 for a set of the original first edition Paranoia because our local gaming group was getting way too obsessed with their stats and game mechanics. The ensuing pandemonium and infighting didn't solve the problem, but at least it entertains the game master, which is the point of it all, right?
I'm especially happy to hear that the new edition won't be using d20. I've been using Active Exploits, a free, diceless game system, and it has worked very well for keeping the game fast and simple -- an essential for Paranoia.
There are also some excellent resources for individuals who want to play Paranoia online; Paranoia-RPG is probably the best place to start.
And, finally, if Paranoia tickles your fancy and you want to try a different comic genre, check out Atlas Games' Over the Edge, a lightweight conspiracy game that makes Fox Mulders' wildest guesses seem tame.
The x86's have been used in embedded apps for quite some time now. I distinctly remember discovering an 80186 in a microwave I disassembled, and many industrial applications use them, due to their well known characteristics.
All these comments about POST and other silliness come from the PC architecture, not the CPU itself. Amazing how many people are willing to comment when they really have no clue.
It is free as in the bait laid neatly at the center of the bear trap..
BeOS was free as in beer for personal use, too -- then, when Be's money dried up, the OS was neatly packed up in Palm's back pocket. Sure, there have been a few runs at trying to keep the OS alive, but they are far too disorganized to be of any worth.
When SkyOS's development team disintegrates, what will happen to its users, and its source code? Forking is a healthy thing for operating systems, from the point of view of its users, because it means the OS will continue to exist, independant of a few individual developers' whims.
The only actual reason for keeping the kernel source closed is the ego of the developers. It's a cute OS from the screenshots, but anyone who is really looking for a desktop replacement should think long and hard about what happens when this project folds.
You're wrong. Pardon me while I dust off the Saiteks!