Nowdays Flash has a backend semi-compiled language that is pretty full-featured... basically an extended Javascript, with extensive hooks into all Flash functionality. Not needed for simple tasks, but it's a rich enough environment to make full-featured apps in. Any flash games you see online are programmed, not just built on the timeline.
Actionscript is most certainly a 'real programming language'... it's quite a nice one to program in, actually. Like Javascript, but with a much nicer API than having to deal with the browser and DOM.
However, Flash doesn't require knowledge of Actionscript. You can do a lot of basic stuff without dropping out of the point-n-click interface... so, don't get too defensive. GP was correct. Even old VB required SOME 'real programming', but Flash doesn't.
Now, that's a STRENGTH of flash, and an edge it has over (for instance) HTML5... but that's a whole different discussion.
Is it really that hard of a concept how this technology works and what makes it worthwhile?
No one has a hard time figuring out how the technology of twitter works. Many are stuck, however, on the question of what makes it worthwhile.
Besides... I'm a marketing guy, and can tell you that while most online channels are continuing to climb, twitter has peaked and is slowly fading. I don't expect to hear about it five years from now.
' "Plaintiff's younger brother noticed that the light in the camera would go off and on at odd times, wondering if the family was being 'spied on.' Plaintiff's mother dismissed this idea as absurd, as the notion that the school district was secretly monitoring and taking pictures of students was simply incomprehensible and beyond all rational belief." '
Answered in the article. The thought that the school district was spying on them was dismissed as ludicrous. And, in fairness, it is practically insane. Rather than lawsuits and payouts, though (which punishes the wrong people), I'd prefer just to fire everyone in management at the school.
how were these figures calculated ? wasnt chernobyl alone hundreds of thousands of people ?
50 directly. Likelihood of a few thousand expected over their lifetime due to enhanced rates of cancer, etc. Hundreds of thousands is a massive exaggeration (although commonly repeated).
People who falsely accuse others of racism are as morally condemnable as racists themselves. You've proven yourself worse than the person you're attacking.
Take a real look at them. They didn't suck in comparison to their competition. If anything, the Zune was better than the iPods out at the same time. It was purely marketing and image that caused them to fail.
The algorithm used rays, but not in the sense that ray-tracing uses. Wolfenstein would fire one ray for each horizontal column on the screen, to see where it intersected with the wall. That would be 320 rays for the full screen, and was why the maps were effectively 2d. Ray-tracing, of course, uses at least one ray per pixel.
Nuclear winter is was mainly a propaganda device. It would have a cooling effect, but the claimed magnitude was terrifically overstated. It's a bit like global warming; real, but it's not going to result in 20 meter ocean risings.
I'm thinking about this more, and I've decided it's masterful. You can now do much of the activity without even using the TV. Quickly spend twenty minutes on WiiFit? Use the Opera browser, check news or weather?
All can be done while the TV is off or somebody else is using it. Kid playing a game and your show comes on? Switch it to the controller, and change channels.
The only problem is really the ergonomics of the large controller. Assuming that THAT is ok, the utility of this will be great. It reminds me of all the confusion when Nintendo first introduced the DS and the dual screen/touchscreen.
The Peter Thiel-inspired claim that college is a waste of time is just the latest example.
I think you should be concerning yourself about whether college may be showing signs of anti-intellectualism. I think you could make some strong arguments that it is, and that its importance and utility has diminished.
Also, the wii-mote+ nun-chuck was the best controller ever IMO (that's without motion control or pointing). I really liked my hands 18 inches apart, and angles how I wanted them, rather than some average for everyone (this will kill that though).
True. Even if the wiimote didn't have motion-sensitive or pointing functionality, separating the left and right hands like that would have been a large step forward. I would love a 360 controller split similarly (like two nunchucks wired together).
I'm not sure about the N64 controllers, but the Gamecube controllers were fantastic. The wiimote/nunchuck is decent, but different... the Wii's classic controller may be the best gamepad ever for a console. I'm not worried about ergonomics, here.
Having even a tiny black-and-white screen on the Dreamcast was nice; I think this will be great.
'Even if you have a radiation release, although that's not a good thing, it's not automatically a harmful thing. It depends on what the level turns out to be,' says Steve Kerekes, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute
To repeat myself from yesterday, the public should trust the pronouncements about things that can kill you for thousands of years from industry shills why, exactly?
Because that pronouncement is self-evidently true and no sane person would argue with it? Did you read what you quoted?
That's not even superficially logical. What he's saying is that some animals (the human subset) are more important than other animals (the non-human subset). You're saying that humans are animals, therefore animals are humans. Nobody sane believes that.
You're missing the point. Nobody is saying they're out to get us. They're out to help us, and will make things worse by their incompetent and misguided actions. I'll cite any newspaper from any day in the last hundred years for evidence.
I don't think he deserves charges of sexual assault, etc.
I think he broke laws, and deserves punishment. He lied to the school, filmed the kids under false pretenses, and used their images in a stupid and somewhat desperate attention whoring video. There's really no doubt he is the easy target of at least a civil suit. Still, though, I don't think this should be in any way considered sexual harassment of a minor.
MichaelKristopeit is a prolific troll. He's ruined a vast number of slashdot threads with his rambling and repetitive comments. He has at least thirty different accounts. If you see him, do not respond, no matter HOW stupid he is (and he IS stupid). If you are a moderator, just mod him down and move on.
DO NOT try to engage him; he is either insane or gets his giggles from pretending to be.
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You realize that he supported them, voted for them while in congress, and signed the ones that came through when he was president?
Now, you can certainly say on his behalf is that he wasn't the ONLY one to blame.
On the other hand, he didn't target the underaged; the school district did. And, it sounds like the school district had MORE images saved.
Nowdays Flash has a backend semi-compiled language that is pretty full-featured... basically an extended Javascript, with extensive hooks into all Flash functionality. Not needed for simple tasks, but it's a rich enough environment to make full-featured apps in. Any flash games you see online are programmed, not just built on the timeline.
Actionscript is most certainly a 'real programming language'... it's quite a nice one to program in, actually. Like Javascript, but with a much nicer API than having to deal with the browser and DOM.
However, Flash doesn't require knowledge of Actionscript. You can do a lot of basic stuff without dropping out of the point-n-click interface... so, don't get too defensive. GP was correct. Even old VB required SOME 'real programming', but Flash doesn't.
Now, that's a STRENGTH of flash, and an edge it has over (for instance) HTML5... but that's a whole different discussion.
The answer is evidently 'no, I have no proof. Here's a link about the xbox.'
Is it really that hard of a concept how this technology works and what makes it worthwhile?
No one has a hard time figuring out how the technology of twitter works. Many are stuck, however, on the question of what makes it worthwhile.
Besides... I'm a marketing guy, and can tell you that while most online channels are continuing to climb, twitter has peaked and is slowly fading. I don't expect to hear about it five years from now.
Most of the so called economic growth of the last few hundred years has been entirely based on digging things out of the ground and consuming them
No. Most of the economic growth of the last few hundred years has been due to advances in science and technology. That trend is likely to continue.
Examples? Chernobyl. Fukushima Daiichi. 'nuff said.
Those are minor examples. Use banning of DDT if you want an example of human stupidity costing thousands of lives.
' "Plaintiff's younger brother noticed that the light in the camera would go off and on at odd times, wondering if the family was being 'spied on.' Plaintiff's mother dismissed this idea as absurd, as the notion that the school district was secretly monitoring and taking pictures of students was simply incomprehensible and beyond all rational belief." '
Answered in the article. The thought that the school district was spying on them was dismissed as ludicrous. And, in fairness, it is practically insane. Rather than lawsuits and payouts, though (which punishes the wrong people), I'd prefer just to fire everyone in management at the school.
how were these figures calculated ? wasnt chernobyl alone hundreds of thousands of people ?
50 directly. Likelihood of a few thousand expected over their lifetime due to enhanced rates of cancer, etc. Hundreds of thousands is a massive exaggeration (although commonly repeated).
People who falsely accuse others of racism are as morally condemnable as racists themselves. You've proven yourself worse than the person you're attacking.
Even with a 30% fail rate, 70% of 360 owners would never have seen any issue.
Take a real look at them. They didn't suck in comparison to their competition. If anything, the Zune was better than the iPods out at the same time. It was purely marketing and image that caused them to fail.
The algorithm used rays, but not in the sense that ray-tracing uses. Wolfenstein would fire one ray for each horizontal column on the screen, to see where it intersected with the wall. That would be 320 rays for the full screen, and was why the maps were effectively 2d. Ray-tracing, of course, uses at least one ray per pixel.
Nuclear winter is was mainly a propaganda device. It would have a cooling effect, but the claimed magnitude was terrifically overstated. It's a bit like global warming; real, but it's not going to result in 20 meter ocean risings.
The report nicely avoids explaining it's methodology and likely uses a broad definition of games (Farmville and minesweeper anyone?)
My God. It includes games in its definition of games? Obviously biased study.
I'm thinking about this more, and I've decided it's masterful. You can now do much of the activity without even using the TV. Quickly spend twenty minutes on WiiFit? Use the Opera browser, check news or weather?
All can be done while the TV is off or somebody else is using it. Kid playing a game and your show comes on? Switch it to the controller, and change channels.
The only problem is really the ergonomics of the large controller. Assuming that THAT is ok, the utility of this will be great. It reminds me of all the confusion when Nintendo first introduced the DS and the dual screen/touchscreen.
The Peter Thiel-inspired claim that college is a waste of time is just the latest example.
I think you should be concerning yourself about whether college may be showing signs of anti-intellectualism. I think you could make some strong arguments that it is, and that its importance and utility has diminished.
Also, the wii-mote+ nun-chuck was the best controller ever IMO (that's without motion control or pointing). I really liked my hands 18 inches apart, and angles how I wanted them, rather than some average for everyone (this will kill that though).
True. Even if the wiimote didn't have motion-sensitive or pointing functionality, separating the left and right hands like that would have been a large step forward. I would love a 360 controller split similarly (like two nunchucks wired together).
I'm not sure about the N64 controllers, but the Gamecube controllers were fantastic. The wiimote/nunchuck is decent, but different... the Wii's classic controller may be the best gamepad ever for a console. I'm not worried about ergonomics, here.
Having even a tiny black-and-white screen on the Dreamcast was nice; I think this will be great.
'Even if you have a radiation release, although that's not a good thing, it's not automatically a harmful thing. It depends on what the level turns out to be,' says Steve Kerekes, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute
To repeat myself from yesterday, the public should trust the pronouncements about things that can kill you for thousands of years from industry shills why, exactly?
Because that pronouncement is self-evidently true and no sane person would argue with it? Did you read what you quoted?
That's not even superficially logical. What he's saying is that some animals (the human subset) are more important than other animals (the non-human subset). You're saying that humans are animals, therefore animals are humans. Nobody sane believes that.
You're missing the point. Nobody is saying they're out to get us. They're out to help us, and will make things worse by their incompetent and misguided actions. I'll cite any newspaper from any day in the last hundred years for evidence.
I don't think he deserves charges of sexual assault, etc.
I think he broke laws, and deserves punishment. He lied to the school, filmed the kids under false pretenses, and used their images in a stupid and somewhat desperate attention whoring video. There's really no doubt he is the easy target of at least a civil suit. Still, though, I don't think this should be in any way considered sexual harassment of a minor.
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MichaelKristopeit is a prolific troll. He's ruined a vast number of slashdot threads with his rambling and repetitive comments. He has at least thirty different accounts. If you see him, do not respond, no matter HOW stupid he is (and he IS stupid). If you are a moderator, just mod him down and move on.
DO NOT try to engage him; he is either insane or gets his giggles from pretending to be.