This is interesting. Just when i think i have a good grasp of probability, there's a 99% chance i'm wrong.
I get what you say about the binary outcomes, but it still seems to me that there would be a greater chance of the outcome being a win since there are more winning combinations than tying combinations. Let's say i had a 6 sided die with a W's and L's on the faces. 5 of the faces have W and 1 face has L, I don't expect the probability of any 1 throw being L is 0.50. it's 1/6. Assuming i'm not wrong about that, if i had a 9 sided die and 6 faces were Win and 3 faces were Tie, wouldn't the probability of Tie be 0.333333?
like i said, i'm unsure of probability. i'm not looking to argue, just learn.
I took it more as a wrong tool for the job argument. I don't know much about PHP so i'll use another scenario to illustrate my point. We all know that person who will use excel for everything. Excel is fine and you can make it do an awful lot of stuff, but at some point you need to accept that it's never going to be as good as a drawing program for producing images. The solution shouldn't be to make excel a better drawing program.
its more like "you never have to write retain and release, but you have to stick to some rigid rules and be very aware of some subtle naming standards" than simple automatic reference counting. ie: i've found that i still need to be thinking about when stuff is being retained.
if this were true humans would surmount all obstacles once they got hungry enough. alas, history is littered with instances where humans fail to survive. Often being hungry just makes them worse at problem solving.
tripple buffering usually results in more fps rather than less. it's only impact is in memory. if you've got the memory you should be doing it. it doesn't take any longer to get a frame up on the device, but the renderer can start working on buffer 3 before the device is finished switching from 1 to 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buffering
Facebook can't change my email. They can't take over my DNS and reroute my mx records. All they can do is set up some address and collect junk on their servers.I don't even care what people looking at facebook think my email is. Honestly, i'd guess that 99.9% of the time if someone is using facebook to contact me, it's not going to be through email. As far as i'm concerned, this seems like a nice feature. keep facebook messaging routed to this honey pot they've set up on my behalf. Maybe they can set up a phone number for me too.
StarCraft 2 skills can be important. This evidence is purely anecdotal, but I did once miss out on a job opportunity because my SC2 skills were not as good as another candidate. I was kind of bummed about that until I landed my current position where Team Fortress 2 skills are what matter.
Yeah, you can pay 50 bucks for the low end chip. You can mess around with overclocking and poking other parts of it. You might get lucky and have something that works. That's fine and all if your goal is to tinker and gamble. Personally, I'm buying a video card to render stuff according to my needs. I fail to see the logic in risking my $50 and time to potentially get a card that doesn't fit my needs when i could just spend $200 and be up and running.
the keyboard in the cover is cool, but i'm left wondering how that really distinguishes the device from an android tablet or ipad. both of these devices could have the exact same kind of cover made for them. Maybe these products already exist.
Sure it can be a new category, but it seems erroneous to think that what the world really wants is some amalgamation of tablet and laptop that, at first glance, seems to be the worst of both worlds.
The real weakness of the ipad is not it's lack of USB or integrated kickstands (i'd argue that the lack of anything has contributed to the success of the device). The weakness is the walled garden. Instead of talking about how this thing is great because you can prop it up and the cover is also a keyboard (does that really distinguish it from an ipad? anyone could make a keyboard cover for ipad as well), they should be saying. "You can sideload your own apps on this thing. No license required." "You can image the os and installed apps and replicate it all over your enterprise." "no jailbreaking required." "You don't have to keep your enterprise in lockstep with our release cycle and new dev tools."
All the other benefits of cinema will remain, higher picture quality, bigger screens, popcorn
Home popcorn has been superior to cinema popcorn for a long time as well. It's just the cinema popcorn snobs that keep telling everyone it takes a sophisticated palate to appreciate the crap they are serving in theaters.
well, it is a visual experience. there aren't a lot of slideshows with really great stories dominating the film industry. frame rate does seem to contribute something to the medium.
The only reason 99% of consumers wanted intel in their desktops was because of intel's marketing. I see no reason why they can't launch a similar intel inside campaign for mobile.
After some playing around, i had a script that could solve the maze with
while(true){
turn(left);
while(wall(ahead)){
turn(right);
}
move(forward);
}
assuming i was given an api with functions like turn(), wall(), and move() and they took those constants it would be a hell of a lot easier just to type what i typed there than to navigate menus and drag things all over the place. maybe it's inviting to non programmers, but sooner or later they are going to realize that the punctuation isn't what's hard about programming, it's the logic.
after some digging i found out that apple replaced the nvidia chips in the 13" line some time ago. I guess nvidia wasn't able to make it's gpus small enough. Maybe they never did have dedicated graphics in the 13". I have one of the white plastic macbooks with an integrated nvidia gpu. My brother has the following generation unibody 13" pro and i swear he has a discrete nvidia gpu with the powersaving integrated intel chipset in it. I may be mistaken.
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This is interesting. Just when i think i have a good grasp of probability, there's a 99% chance i'm wrong.
I get what you say about the binary outcomes, but it still seems to me that there would be a greater chance of the outcome being a win since there are more winning combinations than tying combinations. Let's say i had a 6 sided die with a W's and L's on the faces. 5 of the faces have W and 1 face has L, I don't expect the probability of any 1 throw being L is 0.50. it's 1/6. Assuming i'm not wrong about that, if i had a 9 sided die and 6 faces were Win and 3 faces were Tie, wouldn't the probability of Tie be 0.333333?
like i said, i'm unsure of probability. i'm not looking to argue, just learn.
I took it more as a wrong tool for the job argument. I don't know much about PHP so i'll use another scenario to illustrate my point. We all know that person who will use excel for everything. Excel is fine and you can make it do an awful lot of stuff, but at some point you need to accept that it's never going to be as good as a drawing program for producing images. The solution shouldn't be to make excel a better drawing program.
its more like "you never have to write retain and release, but you have to stick to some rigid rules and be very aware of some subtle naming standards" than simple automatic reference counting. ie: i've found that i still need to be thinking about when stuff is being retained.
crap. 66% chance of winning :(
actually, there are 9 possible combinations 3 of them result in a draw. there would be a ~33% chance that someone would win 100% of the time.
if this were true humans would surmount all obstacles once they got hungry enough. alas, history is littered with instances where humans fail to survive. Often being hungry just makes them worse at problem solving.
tripple buffering usually results in more fps rather than less. it's only impact is in memory. if you've got the memory you should be doing it. it doesn't take any longer to get a frame up on the device, but the renderer can start working on buffer 3 before the device is finished switching from 1 to 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buffering
Facebook can't change my email. They can't take over my DNS and reroute my mx records. All they can do is set up some address and collect junk on their servers.I don't even care what people looking at facebook think my email is. Honestly, i'd guess that 99.9% of the time if someone is using facebook to contact me, it's not going to be through email. As far as i'm concerned, this seems like a nice feature. keep facebook messaging routed to this honey pot they've set up on my behalf. Maybe they can set up a phone number for me too.
StarCraft 2 skills can be important. This evidence is purely anecdotal, but I did once miss out on a job opportunity because my SC2 skills were not as good as another candidate. I was kind of bummed about that until I landed my current position where Team Fortress 2 skills are what matter.
i see your pedantry and raise you one. Any frog large enough to carry a scorpion across a body of water would eat the scorpion.
I'm certain the makers of any one of those systems sincerely want there to be one single standard system.
maybe so you could drive a larger display like a projector or tv?
we don't, as a culture, need every single person to be a sysadmin or computer scientist.
Yeah, you can pay 50 bucks for the low end chip. You can mess around with overclocking and poking other parts of it. You might get lucky and have something that works. That's fine and all if your goal is to tinker and gamble. Personally, I'm buying a video card to render stuff according to my needs. I fail to see the logic in risking my $50 and time to potentially get a card that doesn't fit my needs when i could just spend $200 and be up and running.
You mean someone could make a driver that makes my Quadro actually approach the performance of a GeForce in games?
the keyboard in the cover is cool, but i'm left wondering how that really distinguishes the device from an android tablet or ipad. both of these devices could have the exact same kind of cover made for them. Maybe these products already exist.
Sure it can be a new category, but it seems erroneous to think that what the world really wants is some amalgamation of tablet and laptop that, at first glance, seems to be the worst of both worlds.
The real weakness of the ipad is not it's lack of USB or integrated kickstands (i'd argue that the lack of anything has contributed to the success of the device). The weakness is the walled garden. Instead of talking about how this thing is great because you can prop it up and the cover is also a keyboard (does that really distinguish it from an ipad? anyone could make a keyboard cover for ipad as well), they should be saying. "You can sideload your own apps on this thing. No license required." "You can image the os and installed apps and replicate it all over your enterprise." "no jailbreaking required." "You don't have to keep your enterprise in lockstep with our release cycle and new dev tools."
All the other benefits of cinema will remain, higher picture quality, bigger screens, popcorn
Home popcorn has been superior to cinema popcorn for a long time as well. It's just the cinema popcorn snobs that keep telling everyone it takes a sophisticated palate to appreciate the crap they are serving in theaters.
well, it is a visual experience. there aren't a lot of slideshows with really great stories dominating the film industry. frame rate does seem to contribute something to the medium.
The only reason 99% of consumers wanted intel in their desktops was because of intel's marketing. I see no reason why they can't launch a similar intel inside campaign for mobile.
Because for 99% of use cases all notebooks are powerful reliable and cheap these days. The competition is in the thickness.
It looks 100% user replaceable to me. Replace it with a whole new computer!
Yeah. I guess i forget what it was like to have no knowledge of any syntax.
After some playing around, i had a script that could solve the maze with
while(true){
turn(left);
while(wall(ahead)){
turn(right);
}
move(forward);
}
assuming i was given an api with functions like turn(), wall(), and move() and they took those constants it would be a hell of a lot easier just to type what i typed there than to navigate menus and drag things all over the place. maybe it's inviting to non programmers, but sooner or later they are going to realize that the punctuation isn't what's hard about programming, it's the logic.
after some digging i found out that apple replaced the nvidia chips in the 13" line some time ago. I guess nvidia wasn't able to make it's gpus small enough. Maybe they never did have dedicated graphics in the 13". I have one of the white plastic macbooks with an integrated nvidia gpu. My brother has the following generation unibody 13" pro and i swear he has a discrete nvidia gpu with the powersaving integrated intel chipset in it. I may be mistaken.