A decade is approximately a cultural generation, and is the range where generational cultural artifacts like music should be protected in order to meet the intent of copyrights.
A "generation" in computing is shorter, with respect to software copyrights & patents.
If you've got RS232, why not use X-Modem or something more commonly used? Are you saying manufacturers are shipping embedded components with only Kermit protocol support in their firmware?
The main difference semantically is that a GUI shows you what options are currently available, while an empty C:\> or READY. or whatnot requires you to know what it wants in advance.
What you need to do with the sunny-side up eggs is fry them normally, but right before they're done splash a bit of water in the pan and cover it up immediately. The steam will help cook the top layer of the egg whites, getting rid of the "egg snot" effect, but the yolks will still be runny.
Yes, I learned this from my mother. When I moved out of my house, I asked her for recipes and various other householdy tips, so I know what the heck to do in my bachelor pad besides be a health hazard.
I fully agree with the cooking, as well as the ability to operate the laundry machines and dishwasher. And every car owner, male or female, should know how to change a flat tire and check the oil.
They used the ISP's FTP hosting as a collaboration point between the different companies spread across the planet (animation studios, live action studios, editing, etc), and it was part of the deal that backups be done at the ISP itself. Yes, it's a non-redundant setup as opposed to having replication across all sites, but they did have a paid-for backup service that unfortunately didn't do their job.
Correct, but preservation is an interesting and real side-effect, especially as those who are interested in particular content are generally the ones to keep that content alive & hosted.
The lost data included an entire season of "Zodiac Island" -- 6,480 files -- that was stored on a CyberLynk FTP server. The show's producers had been using the server for nearly a year as a drop box where contributors from the U.S., Manila, Beijing and Hong Kong could collaborate on episodes.
CyberLynk was supposed to have backed up the data, but CEO Adam Hobach told WeR1 that his company's backup procedure "had failed and/or was not properly instituted," WeR1 said in a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.
How different is "roll in the mud C++" from understanding high-speed VM implementations? This is what the "general workings of the environment you're in" are about, whether the machine your code is running on is some assembly-language architecture, or a VM with its own set of performance tradeoffs. You cannot optimize to a system that you don't understand. The understanding of how a managed system works internally overlaps heavily with understanding of how fundamental C/assembly-style environments work, and most students come out of modern CS degrees without understanding either.
Yes, the lack of understanding of data structures and algorithms in a practical sense (or at all) is a somewhat separate but still severe problem. The underlying system they're working with utilizes various data structures for various design tradeoff purposes, and if they don't know why those decisions were made, or what the implications are, then that leads into the above problem of inability to understand the system, even after explanation.
I'm not even coming from a game development aspect, but from moderately data-intensive business applications. When some code bottlenecks, it's just as devastating of a show-stopper as if a game were to experience unplayable slowdown or hanging. Optimization, and the world of knowledge that feeds it, is not only necessary in games.
Managed languages are great for simple things, and for some complex thing. But if you treat the system as a black box, don't be surprised when it opens to reveal a monster.
Managed languages are great for reducing development time to get a running system, *especially* with complex systems. But if it's not fast enough, you're stuck with what you got.
Do you want a mechanic working on your car who was clueless about cars until one day he decided to blindly go take car repair courses, purely because he thought he could make some easy cash with it?
Or somebody who's been tinkering under the hood of a car since he was 13?
How much knowledge of what's running under the hood is needed to make a competent logic tier (e.g. physics and AI) for a video game on a managed platform? Must one know assembly language first?
It's not just assembly, but data structures and general workings that enable you to take advantage of the environment and know what traps to avoid. If efficiency (time or memory) is required then much of this sort of knowledge is required.
If something runs slow, somebody without that sort of knowledge flails and tries purely random approaches hoping that some "magical" combination will pull him out of the hole he's dug, since he has no clue _why_ it's slow, nor what to look for. Those random searches rarely do anything but waste time and showcase the programmer's inabilities.
As soon as IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, those IPv4 addresses will most likely become generally worthless. Sure there might be some market for backwards-compatibility, but the mainstream dollars will have moved on.
The only question is when (which could still be a very long time).
I remember Duke Nukem from my childhood. It was a pretty fun EGA platformer. Of course, platforms with hardware sprites and finescrolling still had more fluid gameplay.
Bank transfers cost something like $25 last time I used them here in the USA.
It's ridiculous that one of the most labor-intensive ways of transferring money (handwritten check) is still the only free option, that none of these technology-oriented transfers have found a way to make free transfers for the customers & merchants, but that's I believe due to the government mandating free check processing.
Of course this is about subduing. This is the face of humanity underneath the very thin veneer of civilization. There is no objective "right" or "wrong" here, just those views of the UN representatives, the views of Ghadafihoweveryouspellit, the views of the Libyians, and the views of the citizenry represented by the UN, of which there are conflicting views. The whole notion of "legal" is thrown out with a toppled government, as the toppling typically stems from the currently executed notion of "legal" being fundamentally unwanted and reprehensible by the people at large, turning over into revolution as a final survival response to eliminate that "legal" system of behavior that threatens them.
And yes, the UN is acting as a "world police" here, stating that the Libyan people should not be treated as they are, thus trumping Ghadafi's sovereignty. Now, there might be all sorts of other ulterior motives at play, but this coincides with the public view.
There are days when I hate being a westerner.
This is a very strange statement to make, after exposing the basic primal human responses going on here. Of course, the whole "western" notion carries its own conflict of "freedom to act" vs "freedom from oppression", where Ghadafi is acting and the Libyans are being oppressed. The UN obviously holds the latter as overruling the former, and has the power to act against his actions (though at the speed of government). I'm curious to hear you expand on your statement.
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Apple is not a consumer electronics company. They are not an enthusiast electronics company.
They are an electronics fashion company. Any decision like easy-access panels and room to tinker interferes with the more important fashion design.
Are you saying Heinlein was in copyright violation and his estate should be sued now?
A decade is approximately a cultural generation, and is the range where generational cultural artifacts like music should be protected in order to meet the intent of copyrights.
A "generation" in computing is shorter, with respect to software copyrights & patents.
If you've got RS232, why not use X-Modem or something more commonly used? Are you saying manufacturers are shipping embedded components with only Kermit protocol support in their firmware?
And they made some great CRTs back in the day.
That very act of dumping large quantities of sugar into a drink is what caused us to stop having Kool-Aid when we were growing up.
At least Facebook and Twitter are legitimately used by people, unlike the weird media spectacle that was Second Life.
The main difference semantically is that a GUI shows you what options are currently available, while an empty C:\> or READY. or whatnot requires you to know what it wants in advance.
What you need to do with the sunny-side up eggs is fry them normally, but right before they're done splash a bit of water in the pan and cover it up immediately. The steam will help cook the top layer of the egg whites, getting rid of the "egg snot" effect, but the yolks will still be runny.
Yes, I learned this from my mother. When I moved out of my house, I asked her for recipes and various other householdy tips, so I know what the heck to do in my bachelor pad besides be a health hazard.
I fully agree with the cooking, as well as the ability to operate the laundry machines and dishwasher. And every car owner, male or female, should know how to change a flat tire and check the oil.
In my boxercase.
They used the ISP's FTP hosting as a collaboration point between the different companies spread across the planet (animation studios, live action studios, editing, etc), and it was part of the deal that backups be done at the ISP itself. Yes, it's a non-redundant setup as opposed to having replication across all sites, but they did have a paid-for backup service that unfortunately didn't do their job.
Good thing Torvalds never used CyberLynk's FTP hosting.
Correct, but preservation is an interesting and real side-effect, especially as those who are interested in particular content are generally the ones to keep that content alive & hosted.
From TFA:
The lost data included an entire season of "Zodiac Island" -- 6,480 files -- that was stored on a CyberLynk FTP server. The show's producers had been using the server for nearly a year as a drop box where contributors from the U.S., Manila, Beijing and Hong Kong could collaborate on episodes.
CyberLynk was supposed to have backed up the data, but CEO Adam Hobach told WeR1 that his company's backup procedure "had failed and/or was not properly instituted," WeR1 said in a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.
They preserve culture.
How different is "roll in the mud C++" from understanding high-speed VM implementations? This is what the "general workings of the environment you're in" are about, whether the machine your code is running on is some assembly-language architecture, or a VM with its own set of performance tradeoffs. You cannot optimize to a system that you don't understand. The understanding of how a managed system works internally overlaps heavily with understanding of how fundamental C/assembly-style environments work, and most students come out of modern CS degrees without understanding either.
Yes, the lack of understanding of data structures and algorithms in a practical sense (or at all) is a somewhat separate but still severe problem. The underlying system they're working with utilizes various data structures for various design tradeoff purposes, and if they don't know why those decisions were made, or what the implications are, then that leads into the above problem of inability to understand the system, even after explanation.
I'm not even coming from a game development aspect, but from moderately data-intensive business applications. When some code bottlenecks, it's just as devastating of a show-stopper as if a game were to experience unplayable slowdown or hanging. Optimization, and the world of knowledge that feeds it, is not only necessary in games.
Managed languages are great for simple things, and for some complex thing. But if you treat the system as a black box, don't be surprised when it opens to reveal a monster.
Managed languages are great for reducing development time to get a running system, *especially* with complex systems. But if it's not fast enough, you're stuck with what you got.
Do you want a mechanic working on your car who was clueless about cars until one day he decided to blindly go take car repair courses, purely because he thought he could make some easy cash with it?
Or somebody who's been tinkering under the hood of a car since he was 13?
How much knowledge of what's running under the hood is needed to make a competent logic tier (e.g. physics and AI) for a video game on a managed platform? Must one know assembly language first?
It's not just assembly, but data structures and general workings that enable you to take advantage of the environment and know what traps to avoid. If efficiency (time or memory) is required then much of this sort of knowledge is required.
If something runs slow, somebody without that sort of knowledge flails and tries purely random approaches hoping that some "magical" combination will pull him out of the hole he's dug, since he has no clue _why_ it's slow, nor what to look for. Those random searches rarely do anything but waste time and showcase the programmer's inabilities.
Then why don't you block them?
As soon as IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, those IPv4 addresses will most likely become generally worthless. Sure there might be some market for backwards-compatibility, but the mainstream dollars will have moved on.
The only question is when (which could still be a very long time).
I remember Duke Nukem from my childhood. It was a pretty fun EGA platformer. Of course, platforms with hardware sprites and finescrolling still had more fluid gameplay.
Bank transfers cost something like $25 last time I used them here in the USA.
It's ridiculous that one of the most labor-intensive ways of transferring money (handwritten check) is still the only free option, that none of these technology-oriented transfers have found a way to make free transfers for the customers & merchants, but that's I believe due to the government mandating free check processing.
Of course this is about subduing. This is the face of humanity underneath the very thin veneer of civilization. There is no objective "right" or "wrong" here, just those views of the UN representatives, the views of Ghadafihoweveryouspellit, the views of the Libyians, and the views of the citizenry represented by the UN, of which there are conflicting views. The whole notion of "legal" is thrown out with a toppled government, as the toppling typically stems from the currently executed notion of "legal" being fundamentally unwanted and reprehensible by the people at large, turning over into revolution as a final survival response to eliminate that "legal" system of behavior that threatens them.
And yes, the UN is acting as a "world police" here, stating that the Libyan people should not be treated as they are, thus trumping Ghadafi's sovereignty. Now, there might be all sorts of other ulterior motives at play, but this coincides with the public view.
There are days when I hate being a westerner.
This is a very strange statement to make, after exposing the basic primal human responses going on here. Of course, the whole "western" notion carries its own conflict of "freedom to act" vs "freedom from oppression", where Ghadafi is acting and the Libyans are being oppressed. The UN obviously holds the latter as overruling the former, and has the power to act against his actions (though at the speed of government). I'm curious to hear you expand on your statement.