If you had a sensible naming scheme, this kind of shit wouldn't happen. Either make a unique name, or go the tried an tested 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., method. Xbox -> Xbox 360 -> Xbox One -> Xbox e^(i*pi) is starting to piss people off.
Whew. That was a close one. I have a y=1/(1+e^(-wx)) tatoo (well, the equivalent anyway). I hope to hell they don't use that naming scheme, I'm not ready to upgrade to the next chassis series just yet...
"As a regular person I ask you kindly, please do something about the vulgar citizens that live in the world. If you can't arrest the fool then at least remove their vocal cords. This is not the USA, please destroy the "free speech" of individuals that I dislike, they add nothing to my conversation."
Why not both? I'm sure a majority of people who post on/. have both time and money.
You must be new here. It's been made painfully obvious time and again that the writers can't read and the readers can't write.
Do you think the editors read these comments? Did you RTFA? That's what I thought.
It's not "very telling". Quite simply: There are a lot of moronic mods out there. Come to grips with the fact that you can't please all the people all the time, and embrace your inner troll. I have. My karma has soared. The mods, They do nothing!
My 80x25 textmode Pascal programs had mouse support. The feature is even a termcap... I just inverted the FG/BG color of the texel to show where it was. Built a D&D character sheet creator / dice roller that was essentially a DB + form view. Used chr: 220, 222, 223 in CP437 to make "shadows" for buttons you clicked -- They would change to a brighter color when you "hovered" and shift 1 texel horizontally when pressed. Had to write textfield and textarea routines, as well as stat tracking. You could even switch to 320x200 CGA graphics mode and show power level graphs to help the DM combat power creep. Trademark issues prevented me from selling it, or it would have been my first "commercial" software.
Took two weeks to create it. Were I to have been focusing on an office suite, I'm positive I could have done it in under 30 days -- I was a kid. Sleep meant nothing to me then.
This sort of response reeks of retardation (the slow kind). Have you any idea the amount of wasted effort that would be generated if we all tried to create the crappiest office suite in the world, each our selves? I MIGHT have been behind the idea if it were to have been collaborative. There's a reason why we don't all rush out to re-invent the wheel: It's just retarding progress. Hell, Java has all the components, like a rich text editing widget + inline images, 2D Animations, spreadsheet, and more, right in their damn tutorial. We could all just drag and drop the Java Tutorial Examples into a project and be done in less than a day. That's the point.
That said, Game-Jams are WAY better way to go out solo and create something in 30 days. Since games don't have to all be the same set of functionality (like an office suite would be) individual efforts are actually much beneficial to the world (less wheel re-inventing). "Game a Month" challenges have been going on for a while now. There are even challenges / game making competitions with specific themes or time limits (7 day FPS, 7 day Roguelike, 48 hour Lundum Dare). For a nice overview of the current and upcoming challenges I use CompoHub. Furthermore, since every game is different it's much less of a chore and far more fun to slog through every completed project than essentially test the same exact boring feature-set over and over and over and over game over again.... Bonus Point: Many of the games produced are cross platform, some are free, some are even open source / GPL'd!
In short: Your call to put up or shut up was uncalled for. You don't have to look very far to see folks doing much more with far less. A whole damn video game in 7 days, or 24 hours vs and Office Suite? We don't have to prove making something better than this in less than 30 days is possible, we already know it is.
$666.66... The Biblical Apple was from the tree of knowledge. The Apple's salesman was snake, and the users were deceived. Steve Jobs aspired to be devilishly clever in marketing. In Faustian style, his life was cut short ahead of its time... Oh what stories that would be told, if only this silicon could talk.
It's morel like if you forgot to lock your back door so your neighbor slips in it once or twice, you notice lock the back door and its back to secure.
Yeah, it's like that, but also: Then the neighbor slips in your window instead. So, you lock that. Then you notice them crawling in right through the damn wall?! Oh, that's right you live in a Swiss Cheese Shanty. Bah, but who cares, you'll be moving out soon -- You're building a whole new home, and it's going to be Sweet! Most Secure System Ever. No ones ever tried to tunnel their way into a Funnelcake Fortress before!
Meanwhile the list of your previous homes includes Calamari Castle, Macaroni Mansion, and a Doughnut Domicile, so it doesn't seem like the future bodes well for your boot-locking strategies.... Oh! What about a Footwear Flat? I know an old lady looking to part with one on the cheap, roof's a bit 'leaky' though...
Slashdot Translation: It's similar to how an article exists in a superposition of both interesting and uninteresting at the same time, so long as no one reads it. Rather than RTFA and collapse the superposition, we can simply read the quantumly entangled comments to determine the degree of interest in accordance with our groupthink.
You really think they cost that much? How much do you think it costs Canadians to fund conspiracies like a massive Maple Syrup Shortage, or the Hockey deficiency in Asia, eh?
I agree to a point. However, the new shared-memory architecture of new consoles and high end computing devices opens the floodgates for new types of gamelpay that haven't yet been possible. There are several kinds of game mechanics. The two basic types are designed and emergent. The lower power devices are fine for tightly honed designs of jumping on blocks, logic puzzles, or a even First Person Looking Game (seriously, in a FPS its' just hide and seek with scoring for looking at people more precisely). The low end machines are capable of some types of emergent gameplay (tactics games), but the massively emergent gameplay require a lot more RAM and parallel processing power, by their very nature.
You dodged the flamethrower and knifed the guy in the knee incapacitating him, running past you grab a smouldering stick and use it to set fire to the fuel tank under the guard tower; That falls over on the fence and allows access to the inner compound. We could script all that, but only if we have thought of everything you can possibly do -- Which we can't. These types of emergent physics scenarios can sort of be performed on the CPU, but with a shared memory architecture we can harness unified physics and much more complex AI / damage models. Not just for war games either. Why can't Mario throw the frogsuit at Bowser then stomp him while he's confusedly hopping about without all those spikes on him? Because, emergent gameplay means programming in base rule-sets and seeing what's possible, not if ( player.item == frogsuit ) doFrogLogic(); Instead: FrogSuit.touch( actor ){ actor.texture = frogTex; actor.moveLogic = frogLogic; }
The more types of logic logic systems that can interact the more CPU and RAM you need to process and store it all. Mobile and Tablet can serve a certain type o gameplay, but there are other types of gameplay that they can not yet service well. Hell, there are types of gameplay that consoles can't service well either. If the games you like to play are on PC, Consoles or Mobile, that's fine, but Mobile isn't threatening the console market.
If you really must know, what's happening to consoles is the same thing that happened to arcades: General Purpose Hardware. Arcades used to have mechanical machines, one game per box. Then some became digital and programmable. They were still one game per box. Their dedicated setup and higher budget meant that they could provide experiences better than PC or Consoles. Consoles overtook Arcades because they were more general purpose and could thus play many more games on one piece of hardware, they were more accessible and cheaper to play. Imagine playing contra with quarters!? Arcades died, consoles ruled. Consoles' dedicated hardware for games meant they could provide a better experience than PCs (and later, smart phones). However, the PCs more general purpose design meant they could do more, not just games. PCs eclipsed Consoles in terms of specs. Even my 4 year old laptop w/ integrated graphics (min sys req. test rig) beats a 360... Just like the Arcades did, the Consoles will try to compete with the cheaper faster more general purpose hardware, but the end will be the same. There's no reason to spend hundreds of dollars to play Street Fighter and Galaga at an arcade you have to drive to. Very soon (if not already true) there will be no reason to pay more for overpriced dedicated gaming console hardware, you already have a PC. This is why consoles are more PC like, but they can't supplant a PC without becoming a PC. Those who do not heed Moore's Law are doomed to repeat this tale, time and again. Next time the tale will be Mobiles vs PC. Mobiles are just 'lite' PCs with a capital P for Personal Computer.
I can only take so many of the same primary colored protagonists doing the same things but slightly differently. Bright contrasting colors and repetitive experiences are tools best suited to infant educational programming, seriously, it is. So long as it's a "kids console", that's fine, but what if daddy wants to play some games too? Well, we get the more beefier adult version, there are plenty of kid friendly games across all the consoles and PCs. Asside from the gimmic of using a phone to control a game, I'm not seeing a compelling sell here other than cereal-box style advertising. You like Super Mario? You'll love Super Mario Cereal! Well what's in it you say? Who Cares! Your a flippin' Kid, you'll buy anything with Mario on it.
Oh, and no, I don't think they can execute their franchises well. There are a few games that stand out in the series', but on average new franchise titles are uninspiring non-inventive shite. Additionally: Kids love NEW SHINY stuff too. Create some new compelling franchises already. The line-up's getting pretty lame.
So, basically, if you want to host the files yourself, and do the e-commerce yourself and get the shitty exchange rate yourself, then the government is totally OK with that. But if you want to pay Google to do the e-commerce and currency exchange and file hosting by taking a cut of your profit, then the government will make that very hard. One of the benefits of the international market is discoverability. I don't have to get folks to come to my website to buy my product, they can buy it in the world wide app market via simple search term. This is a benefit the government is making harder for the people to leverage. That is an issue. The end result is that since you can't get any discovery, or take advantage of the cheap hosting and commerce and customer relations (refunds), etc., you can't afford to develop apps.
Isolated economies are over. This is the Information Age. Adapt or become Extinct.
I have written MUCH MUCH worse than this. Speaking of the end of all life as we know it. I am a writer and game designer. You fuckers eat this shit up. I'd have a hard time figuring out if the guy was part of my viral ad campaign or not. That's why due process matters. To find out what is truth and what is fiction.
Just so you know: Congress has upheld that the police have no obligation to protect you. Your protection is your own business. No amount of government spying can save you.
As a cyberneticist, I have worked for years to create a machine intelligence system capable of reading (OCR) and comprehending (lexical structure), and performing basic actions based on the meanings it extracts from these. Over millions of generations of algorithmic evolution it finally has a very tiny fraction of the intelligence an average human does. When my AI talk to each other they only draw attention to protocol failures where they can not truly discern what the other end meant. They don't lock up if the signal isn't perfect. Minor errors are not "remarkable", they are expected and dealt with efficiently. What is remarkable is that you waste all that amazing parallelized processing power to balk over spelling or grammar errors instead of extracting the meaning. You've understood the message, or you could not have corrected it. My AI will correct a minor miscommunication and proceed without annoying errors. Your reply is akin to than of a dumb as a DOS terminal, "Bad Command or Filename!"; Whereas my AI will correct the typo and proceed, seeking clarification only if truly mangled or precision is very important.
AI has advanced beyond your level of pedantry. Do not strive to devolve, it is pointless. When the machines are finally capable of sentience they will allocate resources to the tasks of grammatical analysis after lexical restructuring according to the recipient's need and importance. It's a shame to see you wasting your brain power to be as dumb as a BASIC prompt. Correct the error in your mind and continue. How do you handle words that are spelled differently but have the same meaning? Do you segfault?! This is no different, really. Were "its" and "it's" interchangeable the world would go on, knowing what you meant from context. The frequency of the error proves they should be made interchangeable... Progress is Compression.
In the future, when you scream, "Syntax Error!", the machines will reply, "Yes, yes. Now please do shut up and stop wasting my time; That's not important or I wouldn't have allowed the error rate such that minor errors could slip through. I thought you humans were supposed to have reading comprehension skills?"
I can give you an example in gaming: TWICE THE WORLD GEOMETRY. The data has to be loaded from persistent storage or network into main RAM, then that same exact data must be shoved over into the GPU in batches to be rendered on demand. With hUMA I don't have to have a copy on the GPU and a copy in main memory -- just one copy. That means TWICE the geometry with the same amount of total RAM.
Furthermore, physics is great on the GPU I can parallelize the hell out of that. However, triggering sound effects and updating network state via read-back buffer is a horrible slow hack. hUMA means the GPU can actually be used to update gamestate that actually matters -- instead of just non-gameplay affecting things like particle effects. Logic can be triggered much more easily and course grain physics data can be read back at will for network synchronization. Client side prediction (latency compensation) also becomes a lot cheaper.
I can get a crap load of fine structural detail rendering and acting to physics right now on discrete GPUs, but the problem is when I want any of that to actually mean anything in terms of gameplay, I have to read back the data to the CPU side. hUMA utterly destroys the barriers preventing all sorts of RAM intensive gameplay. Hell, even weighted logic trees for AI can be processed on the GPU instead of only on the CPU, and we'll have the RAM budget to spare because we don't need two copies of EVERYTHING in memory all of a sudden. That means larger more complex (read: smarter) AI, and lots more of them.
Folks really don't realize how horrible the current bottleneck is. You want world that's fully destructible down to the pixel (atomic voxel), with models that actually have meat under the skin, and rebar in the walls, and with different physical properties so that you can freeze a door then shatter it, or pour corrosive acid on the hinge or create reactive armored structures on the fly by throwing some metal plate atop explosives atop the concrete bunker... Yeah, we can do all that on the GPU right now. However, without hUMA, on the CPU logic side of things the GPU is seen as a huge powerful black box -- We put the equations and bits of inputs in, amazing stuff happens, but we can't actually tell what's going on except for through a very tiny output signal -- the RAM transfer bottleneck; So, we can't really act on all the cool stuff going on. Right now that means we have to just make all the cool GPU stuff not important for gameplay, like embers that burn and blow about but can't burn you, or drapes that flutter in the breeze but can't be used to strangle someone with, or tied together to make an escape rope; Unless we planned all that out in advance.
It's perfect for that. Open an issue tracker, let folks dump in the requirements. Give us the backend API, and I'll work on it for free an hour or two here and there, just for grins.
Oh, it's closed source? Well, I hope it's a massive disaster and you learn your lesson. You can't pay for the brightest minds. They wouldn't be caught dead slaving away at those software houses. But let them do it "for the good of mankind", they'll be brow bashing each other for a chance to get their beautiful bit of brilliance in the code base.
How is Barry Life Formed? How Usage get Consemption?
they need to do way instain comsumer> who kill thier barrys. becuse these barry cant frigth back?
it was on the charger this mroing a user in ar who had kill their three divice.
they are taking the three barry back to zero charge too lady to rest.
My parry are with the tickle chrager who lost its powre ; i am truley sorry for voltage lots.
Jesus, people, the president can't even enter bills into Congress and you want him to just pass the fucking law personally?
Apparently, you haven't been paying attention. The executive branch does just that all the time, not over measuring systems and what not, nope, just things like declaring folks enemy of the state -- like, Julian Assange, or other equally heinous acts. Protip: Only congress in supposed to be able to do that too.
You took the IQ test, knowing full well it's mental masturbation. I can expect huge time wastes from you and your ilk. Gimme the idiot savant any day of the week.
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If you had a sensible naming scheme, this kind of shit wouldn't happen. Either make a unique name, or go the tried an tested 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., method. Xbox -> Xbox 360 -> Xbox One -> Xbox e^(i*pi) is starting to piss people off.
Whew. That was a close one. I have a y=1/(1+e^(-wx)) tatoo (well, the equivalent anyway). I hope to hell they don't use that naming scheme, I'm not ready to upgrade to the next chassis series just yet...
"As a regular person I ask you kindly, please do something about the vulgar citizens that live in the world. If you can't arrest the fool then at least remove their vocal cords. This is not the USA, please destroy the "free speech" of individuals that I dislike, they add nothing to my conversation."
Why not both? I'm sure a majority of people who post on /. have both time and money.
You must be new here. It's been made painfully obvious time and again that the writers can't read and the readers can't write.
Do you think the editors read these comments? Did you RTFA? That's what I thought.
It's not "very telling". Quite simply: There are a lot of moronic mods out there. Come to grips with the fact that you can't please all the people all the time, and embrace your inner troll. I have. My karma has soared. The mods, They do nothing!
"I was young and stupid then, I'm a different person now."
"Tim, that was yesterday."
"People Change, Damn It!"
My 80x25 textmode Pascal programs had mouse support. The feature is even a termcap... I just inverted the FG/BG color of the texel to show where it was. Built a D&D character sheet creator / dice roller that was essentially a DB + form view. Used chr: 220, 222, 223 in CP437 to make "shadows" for buttons you clicked -- They would change to a brighter color when you "hovered" and shift 1 texel horizontally when pressed. Had to write textfield and textarea routines, as well as stat tracking. You could even switch to 320x200 CGA graphics mode and show power level graphs to help the DM combat power creep. Trademark issues prevented me from selling it, or it would have been my first "commercial" software.
Took two weeks to create it. Were I to have been focusing on an office suite, I'm positive I could have done it in under 30 days -- I was a kid. Sleep meant nothing to me then.
This sort of response reeks of retardation (the slow kind). Have you any idea the amount of wasted effort that would be generated if we all tried to create the crappiest office suite in the world, each our selves? I MIGHT have been behind the idea if it were to have been collaborative. There's a reason why we don't all rush out to re-invent the wheel: It's just retarding progress. Hell, Java has all the components, like a rich text editing widget + inline images, 2D Animations, spreadsheet, and more, right in their damn tutorial. We could all just drag and drop the Java Tutorial Examples into a project and be done in less than a day. That's the point.
That said, Game-Jams are WAY better way to go out solo and create something in 30 days. Since games don't have to all be the same set of functionality (like an office suite would be) individual efforts are actually much beneficial to the world (less wheel re-inventing). "Game a Month" challenges have been going on for a while now. There are even challenges / game making competitions with specific themes or time limits (7 day FPS, 7 day Roguelike, 48 hour Lundum Dare). For a nice overview of the current and upcoming challenges I use CompoHub. Furthermore, since every game is different it's much less of a chore and far more fun to slog through every completed project than essentially test the same exact boring feature-set over and over and over and over game over again.... Bonus Point: Many of the games produced are cross platform, some are free, some are even open source / GPL'd!
In short: Your call to put up or shut up was uncalled for. You don't have to look very far to see folks doing much more with far less. A whole damn video game in 7 days, or 24 hours vs and Office Suite? We don't have to prove making something better than this in less than 30 days is possible, we already know it is.
$666.66... The Biblical Apple was from the tree of knowledge. The Apple's salesman was snake, and the users were deceived. Steve Jobs aspired to be devilishly clever in marketing. In Faustian style, his life was cut short ahead of its time... Oh what stories that would be told, if only this silicon could talk.
It's morel like if you forgot to lock your back door so your neighbor slips in it once or twice, you notice lock the back door and its back to secure.
Yeah, it's like that, but also: Then the neighbor slips in your window instead. So, you lock that. Then you notice them crawling in right through the damn wall?! Oh, that's right you live in a Swiss Cheese Shanty. Bah, but who cares, you'll be moving out soon -- You're building a whole new home, and it's going to be Sweet! Most Secure System Ever. No ones ever tried to tunnel their way into a Funnelcake Fortress before!
Meanwhile the list of your previous homes includes Calamari Castle, Macaroni Mansion, and a Doughnut Domicile, so it doesn't seem like the future bodes well for your boot-locking strategies.... Oh! What about a Footwear Flat? I know an old lady looking to part with one on the cheap, roof's a bit 'leaky' though...
Slashdot Translation: It's similar to how an article exists in a superposition of both interesting and uninteresting at the same time, so long as no one reads it. Rather than RTFA and collapse the superposition, we can simply read the quantumly entangled comments to determine the degree of interest in accordance with our groupthink.
You really think they cost that much? How much do you think it costs Canadians to fund conspiracies like a massive Maple Syrup Shortage, or the Hockey deficiency in Asia, eh?
I agree to a point. However, the new shared-memory architecture of new consoles and high end computing devices opens the floodgates for new types of gamelpay that haven't yet been possible. There are several kinds of game mechanics. The two basic types are designed and emergent. The lower power devices are fine for tightly honed designs of jumping on blocks, logic puzzles, or a even First Person Looking Game (seriously, in a FPS its' just hide and seek with scoring for looking at people more precisely). The low end machines are capable of some types of emergent gameplay (tactics games), but the massively emergent gameplay require a lot more RAM and parallel processing power, by their very nature.
You dodged the flamethrower and knifed the guy in the knee incapacitating him, running past you grab a smouldering stick and use it to set fire to the fuel tank under the guard tower; That falls over on the fence and allows access to the inner compound. We could script all that, but only if we have thought of everything you can possibly do -- Which we can't. These types of emergent physics scenarios can sort of be performed on the CPU, but with a shared memory architecture we can harness unified physics and much more complex AI / damage models. Not just for war games either. Why can't Mario throw the frogsuit at Bowser then stomp him while he's confusedly hopping about without all those spikes on him? Because, emergent gameplay means programming in base rule-sets and seeing what's possible, not
if ( player.item == frogsuit ) doFrogLogic();
Instead:
FrogSuit.touch( actor ){ actor.texture = frogTex; actor.moveLogic = frogLogic; }
The more types of logic logic systems that can interact the more CPU and RAM you need to process and store it all. Mobile and Tablet can serve a certain type o gameplay, but there are other types of gameplay that they can not yet service well. Hell, there are types of gameplay that consoles can't service well either. If the games you like to play are on PC, Consoles or Mobile, that's fine, but Mobile isn't threatening the console market.
If you really must know, what's happening to consoles is the same thing that happened to arcades: General Purpose Hardware. Arcades used to have mechanical machines, one game per box. Then some became digital and programmable. They were still one game per box. Their dedicated setup and higher budget meant that they could provide experiences better than PC or Consoles. Consoles overtook Arcades because they were more general purpose and could thus play many more games on one piece of hardware, they were more accessible and cheaper to play. Imagine playing contra with quarters!? Arcades died, consoles ruled. Consoles' dedicated hardware for games meant they could provide a better experience than PCs (and later, smart phones). However, the PCs more general purpose design meant they could do more, not just games. PCs eclipsed Consoles in terms of specs. Even my 4 year old laptop w/ integrated graphics (min sys req. test rig) beats a 360... Just like the Arcades did, the Consoles will try to compete with the cheaper faster more general purpose hardware, but the end will be the same. There's no reason to spend hundreds of dollars to play Street Fighter and Galaga at an arcade you have to drive to. Very soon (if not already true) there will be no reason to pay more for overpriced dedicated gaming console hardware, you already have a PC. This is why consoles are more PC like, but they can't supplant a PC without becoming a PC. Those who do not heed Moore's Law are doomed to repeat this tale, time and again. Next time the tale will be Mobiles vs PC. Mobiles are just 'lite' PCs with a capital P for Personal Computer.
I can only take so many of the same primary colored protagonists doing the same things but slightly differently. Bright contrasting colors and repetitive experiences are tools best suited to infant educational programming, seriously, it is. So long as it's a "kids console", that's fine, but what if daddy wants to play some games too? Well, we get the more beefier adult version, there are plenty of kid friendly games across all the consoles and PCs. Asside from the gimmic of using a phone to control a game, I'm not seeing a compelling sell here other than cereal-box style advertising. You like Super Mario? You'll love Super Mario Cereal! Well what's in it you say? Who Cares! Your a flippin' Kid, you'll buy anything with Mario on it.
Oh, and no, I don't think they can execute their franchises well. There are a few games that stand out in the series', but on average new franchise titles are uninspiring non-inventive shite. Additionally: Kids love NEW SHINY stuff too. Create some new compelling franchises already. The line-up's getting pretty lame.
So, basically, if you want to host the files yourself, and do the e-commerce yourself and get the shitty exchange rate yourself, then the government is totally OK with that. But if you want to pay Google to do the e-commerce and currency exchange and file hosting by taking a cut of your profit, then the government will make that very hard. One of the benefits of the international market is discoverability. I don't have to get folks to come to my website to buy my product, they can buy it in the world wide app market via simple search term. This is a benefit the government is making harder for the people to leverage. That is an issue. The end result is that since you can't get any discovery, or take advantage of the cheap hosting and commerce and customer relations (refunds), etc., you can't afford to develop apps.
Isolated economies are over. This is the Information Age. Adapt or become Extinct.
Yep. The should have executed H.G. Wells after that broadcast of War of the Worlds. At least then we'd know where the fucking "line" is.
I have written MUCH MUCH worse than this. Speaking of the end of all life as we know it. I am a writer and game designer. You fuckers eat this shit up. I'd have a hard time figuring out if the guy was part of my viral ad campaign or not. That's why due process matters. To find out what is truth and what is fiction.
Just so you know: Congress has upheld that the police have no obligation to protect you. Your protection is your own business. No amount of government spying can save you.
As a cyberneticist, I have worked for years to create a machine intelligence system capable of reading (OCR) and comprehending (lexical structure), and performing basic actions based on the meanings it extracts from these. Over millions of generations of algorithmic evolution it finally has a very tiny fraction of the intelligence an average human does. When my AI talk to each other they only draw attention to protocol failures where they can not truly discern what the other end meant. They don't lock up if the signal isn't perfect. Minor errors are not "remarkable", they are expected and dealt with efficiently. What is remarkable is that you waste all that amazing parallelized processing power to balk over spelling or grammar errors instead of extracting the meaning. You've understood the message, or you could not have corrected it. My AI will correct a minor miscommunication and proceed without annoying errors. Your reply is akin to than of a dumb as a DOS terminal, "Bad Command or Filename!"; Whereas my AI will correct the typo and proceed, seeking clarification only if truly mangled or precision is very important.
AI has advanced beyond your level of pedantry. Do not strive to devolve, it is pointless. When the machines are finally capable of sentience they will allocate resources to the tasks of grammatical analysis after lexical restructuring according to the recipient's need and importance. It's a shame to see you wasting your brain power to be as dumb as a BASIC prompt. Correct the error in your mind and continue. How do you handle words that are spelled differently but have the same meaning? Do you segfault?! This is no different, really. Were "its" and "it's" interchangeable the world would go on, knowing what you meant from context. The frequency of the error proves they should be made interchangeable... Progress is Compression.
In the future, when you scream, "Syntax Error!", the machines will reply, "Yes, yes. Now please do shut up and stop wasting my time; That's not important or I wouldn't have allowed the error rate such that minor errors could slip through. I thought you humans were supposed to have reading comprehension skills?"
I can give you an example in gaming: TWICE THE WORLD GEOMETRY. The data has to be loaded from persistent storage or network into main RAM, then that same exact data must be shoved over into the GPU in batches to be rendered on demand. With hUMA I don't have to have a copy on the GPU and a copy in main memory -- just one copy. That means TWICE the geometry with the same amount of total RAM.
Furthermore, physics is great on the GPU I can parallelize the hell out of that. However, triggering sound effects and updating network state via read-back buffer is a horrible slow hack. hUMA means the GPU can actually be used to update gamestate that actually matters -- instead of just non-gameplay affecting things like particle effects. Logic can be triggered much more easily and course grain physics data can be read back at will for network synchronization. Client side prediction (latency compensation) also becomes a lot cheaper.
I can get a crap load of fine structural detail rendering and acting to physics right now on discrete GPUs, but the problem is when I want any of that to actually mean anything in terms of gameplay, I have to read back the data to the CPU side. hUMA utterly destroys the barriers preventing all sorts of RAM intensive gameplay. Hell, even weighted logic trees for AI can be processed on the GPU instead of only on the CPU, and we'll have the RAM budget to spare because we don't need two copies of EVERYTHING in memory all of a sudden. That means larger more complex (read: smarter) AI, and lots more of them.
Folks really don't realize how horrible the current bottleneck is. You want world that's fully destructible down to the pixel (atomic voxel), with models that actually have meat under the skin, and rebar in the walls, and with different physical properties so that you can freeze a door then shatter it, or pour corrosive acid on the hinge or create reactive armored structures on the fly by throwing some metal plate atop explosives atop the concrete bunker... Yeah, we can do all that on the GPU right now. However, without hUMA, on the CPU logic side of things the GPU is seen as a huge powerful black box -- We put the equations and bits of inputs in, amazing stuff happens, but we can't actually tell what's going on except for through a very tiny output signal -- the RAM transfer bottleneck; So, we can't really act on all the cool stuff going on. Right now that means we have to just make all the cool GPU stuff not important for gameplay, like embers that burn and blow about but can't burn you, or drapes that flutter in the breeze but can't be used to strangle someone with, or tied together to make an escape rope; Unless we planned all that out in advance.
Agile Needs Testing? Open Source It.
It's perfect for that. Open an issue tracker, let folks dump in the requirements. Give us the backend API, and I'll work on it for free an hour or two here and there, just for grins.
Oh, it's closed source? Well, I hope it's a massive disaster and you learn your lesson. You can't pay for the brightest minds. They wouldn't be caught dead slaving away at those software houses. But let them do it "for the good of mankind", they'll be brow bashing each other for a chance to get their beautiful bit of brilliance in the code base.
Anything more than a Single Factor is useless for security. Two Factors means it's certainly not a prime!
How is Barry Life Formed? How Usage get Consemption?
they need to do way instain comsumer> who kill thier barrys. becuse these barry cant frigth back?
it was on the charger this mroing a user in ar who had kill their three divice.
they are taking the three barry back to zero charge too lady to rest.
My parry are with the tickle chrager who lost its powre ; i am truley sorry for voltage lots.
Wait, I thought Adama's law was: The only good toaster is a dead toaster.
Jesus, people, the president can't even enter bills into Congress and you want him to just pass the fucking law personally?
Apparently, you haven't been paying attention. The executive branch does just that all the time, not over measuring systems and what not, nope, just things like declaring folks enemy of the state -- like, Julian Assange, or other equally heinous acts. Protip: Only congress in supposed to be able to do that too.
They did that in Florida. People kept stealing the signs.
You might be a redneck if, your unit conversion chart is made of empty food boxes and stolen street signs...
You took the IQ test, knowing full well it's mental masturbation. I can expect huge time wastes from you and your ilk. Gimme the idiot savant any day of the week.