Well, they'll be installing tracks to service things, and fortunately we already standardized on 4' 8.5" between rails.
I bet that's why Google builds datacenters out of shipping containers -- To take advantage of Standard Gauge.
True. He turned out to by a crypto conservative plant, a false flag operative operating under the guise of hope and change. He is right of Ronald Reagan on a lot of issues, much to the absolute horror of the actual liberals in this country.
Congratulations! You just triggered every automated red-flag in the data system!
I've seen Stargate. I know this is just another lame government cover up of an alien visitation. Better check on your cows!!
It is Valence-Time Day for space faring races. Your similar, but mangled, Valentines' day has you lopping off the reproductive parts of plants, our bonding ceremony is at the molecular level, the cow genitals are just party favors.
Guess I won't be adding video record / playback / and upload to youtube to my games then... If the demo record and playback cooperate with the encoder, rendering a frame at a time, then the game can generate super high quality videos even on low end machines without requiring a screen recorder. Yeah, I did just that. Instead of calling into Google's code I started writing my own encoder, the parts I replaced are about twice as fast as the current WebM shite. Oh? Patents don't cover me? Well then, I guess you can keep those security exploits in your shit code then.
Hack together a fun little game in 12, 24, 36 or 48 hours. It's called a Game Jam. Games are just about the only program where you can use the entire gamut of a computer's capabilities and mathematics skills. Everything from text based adventure, to moving squares on the screen, to fully 3D flight simulators or procedural systems with learning AI. You've got optional Music, video in / out / overlays, every kind of algorithm you can possibly think of can be applied in a game. You can't do as much in a 48 hour window for just about any other kind of software, but at the end of a gamejam / hackathon, you'll all have lots of little somethings to take away, and show off, and a whole lot of fun in the process. Welcome to the next level.
Humans are pretty much obsessed with 2 things, well, actually, all lifeforms are: Killing and Sex.
Things eat other things to live, even trees try to poison the ground or overshadow undergrowth to kill the other plants so that they may survive... So, if we can't do the violence thing, then it's the other one.
I agree. However, I think "mostly pointless" is the most moronic phrase. You like viruses? Keep using a single stack for code and data and having no fine grained memory access barriers... Think it's "mostly pointless" to try and solve the malware issue? Well, fuck you then. Say a solution is found, it won't be in a monolithic kernel design. We need at least one more layer between Users and Master of the Universe. Hell, we could even have another level under userspace for "plugins", wouldn't it be grand if a plugin couldn't just take over your whole program? Solving any of these issues is basically what alternate OS development is needed for. What's "mostly pointless" is throwing money and time at the monolithic approach and hoping for innovation in operating systems...
Not currently usable by end users does not make something mostly pointless. End users don't give a damn about how the OS provides security or other features. HURD is MOST IMPORTANT because it actually does things differently than all the other mainstream OSs. That you can get 75% of the Debian repo running on it is HUGE. If you don't think so, I reiterate: Fuck you, fool.
Managing the trust graph is why it's hard. Security is always hard. On a monolithic kernel we just say: Uhm, yeah, I trust all these drivers and whatever, even though I probably shouldn't because... well... That's how it works. GNU/HURD/HIRD has a more modular approach that pushes the drivers out of kernel space, but it has some design flaws ( letting a directory node provide its own ".." -- Yikes! ), and the number of developers is next to non-existent.
Furthermore modern processors are designed for monolithic kernels. Just like x86 has a bunch of cruft from when ASM coders wanted more complex instructions (for less / easier coding), Features like Multiple Execution Ring Levels are missing. ARM gives me Two Rings. AMD x86 gives me Two Rings. Intel x86 gives me 4 rings! A ring level essentially is a hardware supported security level. Each ring allows another "mode" of security. So, with only two rings, I can create an OS that has userspace and kernel mode. With 3 rings I can have Kernel, Trusted Driver/Module/Interface, and Userspace. The barriers required to easily create a secure microkernel don't exist. With only 2 rings we have to decide if userspace or kernel mode is where a module belongs -- They don't belong in either! We Need The One Ring to be an intermediary between Ring Zero (which rules them all) and give Ring 2 to the userland, and in the darkness bind them.
Everyone's using monoliths, hardware makers give us 2 rings to make that happen. Hell the hardware even prevents adoption of new (more secure) programming paradigms. Even the virtual memory addressing system in modern chipsets is designed to work best with C. I'm working on a more secure language with separate call and data stacks, and code-pointer overwrite protections for heap data, but the x86 / x64 / ARM platforms I'm working on are built for single stacks, and thus stack smashing or buffer overflow is an inherit design flaw. Segmented memory would be great for securing functions on a per call basis -- Swapping Stacks at will, Super easy Co-Routines... but those bits were sacrificed to the More Memory God, and the registers became a part of the virtual addressing system. On 16 bit code I can do some neat things that I can't do on 32bit mode code without a huge headache, because the hardware doesn't support me doing it.
So, that's why it takes so long. Because we're trying to do stuff in software that the hardware doesn't support. These things are more secure and are great for modularity, but the hardware's designed to do it faster the monolith / C way. Note that to a program it won't matter about whether the filesystem is uber modular, or the device drivers are not in ring 0. Hell, eventually I'll port a C compiler to the multi-stack code.
Note: I don't work on GNU/HURD/HIRD, just develop my own OSs. Yeah, I could work on Linux or other POSIX OSs, but why? That's not going to advance the state of the art in Operating Systems at all. A reliable design is grand for production systems, but to make the leap from the 80's, we're going to need some new hardware to help us out. Got Viruses? Blame the Chip Maker, Language Implementer (not designer), and Operating System. Seriously, they're all doing it WRONG if security is the goal. With a separate call and data stacks on chip, One Ring more, you could actually have the damn security you want.
It's a very elaborate troll. Perl 6 Parrot can run some Java programs on HURD / HIRD. They went all out, I'll forgive them missing the April 1 deadline, it's great fun!
There's nothing cohesive about Yahoo, nothing that makes it special as a company, and there never was.
That's all true. But the question is whether or not that can be changed;-)
The answer is: Does it even matter? Windows: On the desktop: "Holy crap! Fire the UI design team, wait Vista viruses work on 8? Aaaah! Don't use it for servers! What are you insane?" In Gaming: "Hmm, not to shabby. Why can't they do this on the desktop?" On Search: "What's a Bing?!" On Phones: "HA ha ha ha HA ha ha"
So, Dr. Frankenstein's Monster seems to be the only way any things ever really done. Just look at Google. A search and ads company that wants to replicate designer Geordi Laforge visors and be a social network too. Apple's the same, iTunes sucks, hardware overpriced, can't use the OS anywhere but their own hardware, reducing market for 3rd party devs, server platform was a stillborn -- They sell hard on "image", but it's far more nebulous than you believe. Servers? Really? $100 just for xcode? Is that so users won't experiment and write their own software? I mean, turn on my IIe, and there's a BASIC programming prompt... I learned to code in elementary school by accident thanks to that... Charging for the feature? So, iWhatever is not a computer, it's a consumption device. That's the image in my mind. A treacherous overpriced landmine, waiting to have the proprietary plug pulled out from under me if I try to develop software with it. Yet they could put replica IIe machines on the market and I'd by 10 just to trick my hackerspace garage out -- help kids learn coding (JS is what I use now). The brand doesn't matter.
I'm a scientist. Before you go changing shit, I want some proof the change is needed. Consider for a moment that I don't give a toss about who serves my uploaded images or search requests or news feeds. No one does. I see a vacuum they could fill if they pulled their brains out of their ass: Throws their weight behind One API To Talk To Them All so folks can have the features they want everywhere regardless of service provider, and eliminates migration issues. That way whether you use img.ur or Flickr, it doesn't matter; That way whether you use G+ or Facebook, Twitter or identi.ca, it doesn't matter, whether you use any of these or your own servers to push the content... It won't matter. "Be The Platform" -- Don't be the salesman, be the market. Don't be the lender or borrower, be the bank.
Screw a brand. All end users really care about are features and benefits... Gimme a stable secure Unix (POSIX) server platform for a reasonable price and comparable feature-set, I'd buy an iServer, or run IIS.
Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the power of the federal government to regulate economic activity.
A farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for on-farm consumption in Ohio. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to drive up wheat prices during the Great Depression, and Filburn was growing more than the limits permitted. Filburn was ordered to destroy his crops and pay a fine, even though he was producing the excess wheat for his own use and had no intention of selling it.
Now just imagine how fucking moronic you sound to me.
Return a list from a function. Sure, you can legally do it, there's nothing in the language inherently stopping you, but experienced C programmers will avoid returning a list at all costs.
Hmm, that's odd. So C has its place but it's avoided because it lacks garbage collection? My C code has automatic garbage collection and OOP facilities. It's got lists and maps, and a comprehensive collections library. It's just under 30 thousand lines of code, but then it's just a game engine. It only has to do everything the computer actually can. If you don't have these basic facilities in your C library, it's your own damn fault. Seems to me if I want I can always have it in C, there's no excuse for not having it.
My memory manager replaces the malloc / free facilities, so it can even be added to other C code-bases, hell, I use it in C++ code because it's faster than the GC in the standard library (for the way I use it). So it's not like I have to call reference counting functions; Just the GC_recycle() function, or enable it to run automatically, which blocks on malloc() / free(), and optionally gives each thread their own local GC rather than a unified approach such that part of the program can garbage collect while another keeps running.
However, when my testers bitch about stutter in Java / Android No matter how badly I want Java or JavaScript to give me control of the damn garbage collector, so it doesn't run in the middle of the rendering loop or intense action sequence, I can't have it. I have to implement an object cache atop Java and pre-allocate everything, try my hardest not to give the GC a chance to run, and if I slip up once and let that fucker have control, it's game over, literally, when the enemy attacks and the game lags for half a second.
I return lists from functions all the time you dumbass. I'm an "experienced C programmer". Stop painting with such a wide brush, you're getting the paint in you eyes.
An AC adds:
Or return a function from a function?
I throw Function pointers around like crazy, that's how efficient state machines, decision trees, or other flexible structures are formed. Hell, my Entity-like system allows Actors to composite sets of functionality as it transitions states to create efficient AI -- Just because it's fleeing doesn't mean it's still not searching for Health. It would be like if C++ let you pick which methods you inherited from multiple parents on the fly. I mean hell, returning and passing a function pointer is how I implemented multiple sorts: list->sort( list, list->getSortRoutine( SORT_MERGE ) ); // or
myCustomRoutine = getCurrentSort();
list->sort( list, myCustomRoutine );
That first "list" being passed in the sort function pointer invocation is where your magic "this" pointer comes from in C++.
That's what you get for giving a shit about some whiny puff piece like indie game the movie.
Full disclosure: I'm a part-time independent game developer.
Speaking of "six strikes" how do we successfully petition for a new six strikes law: If you issue 6 invalid DMCA takedown notices you lose the right to issue takedown notices for the next 12 months.
I want a different 6 strikes law: Anyone who bowls 6 strikes in one game gets to choose among any who used private channels instead of DMCA notices (to dodge perjury laws) and use their head as the ball in the next game.
What? It has just as much chance of passing into law as yours does.
ANSI to mandate all ARM and x86 processors be compatible with each the other's instruction sets.
Not A Single Sense was Made.
Oh, I get it intermediately, while there's still a myriad of languages out there, increasing the number of spoken languages seems like a good thing. You'll be more able to communicate. However, from a rational thermodynamic perspective, you're placing more cognitive load on individuals needlessly. Anyone who anticipates needing the linguistic skill should adopt it, anyone who doesn't anticipate the need can learn the language as needed. The way to get everyone on the same wavelength isn't to have everyone learn everyone's language, its to use translators (a "VM" in machine-speak), or teach everyone only one language the world over. It should be one that's compressible and has few glyphs, like (new) Japanese or English. Hell, the Japanese change their glyph direction at will to flow more with the right to left top to bottom styling of the French, English, German, Russian, etc. "western" languages.
Culture blah blah blah. Don't care. Whatever best translates to machine speak is what I'm going with. That's English, or Japanese, and there's lots more folks speaking English than Japanese, thus it's the future. Deal with it. From their disregard of per unit energy consumption I take it these are the same folks who use AV products instead of running hardware supported virtualized OSs? Figures. Someone needs to cull these legislators from the herd fast, they're hindering progress.
Near ten years as a software developer with no major medical bills (crossing fingers it continues).
Who gives a fuck about your anecdotal evidence? You could go your whole damn life without ever setting foot in a doctor's office. That shite doesn't matter. What matters is that in aggregate that the outliers like you are being used as excuses to charge higher prices. You may not pay for it directly, but you do pay for it in everything else you buy. You're being foolish. Cut it out.
God you people have no life, who gives a shit if it's Xbox 3.14 or Zero or who-gives-a-crap?
Buy it or don't. Idiots.
Boycotting doesn't work. It feels good from a moral standpoint, that your money isn't going to support DRM shit that makes each player in your household pay additional fees to play the one game disk you bought... However, Boycotts don't work. What if you heard the ending of ME3 sucked, and just didn't buy it? That wouldn't change anything. Bitch about it online enough such that it causes a horrible PR debacle and guess what happens? Shit. Shit actually happens. All you have to do is get enough people bitching about something and something will happen.
What if folks had just unfollowed the MS guy who was saying dumb shit about how "always-on" is great and being a general ass? Nothing. Bitch about it enough, guess what happens? Fucker is GONE. That's right. Bitching made it happen. You're the idiot if you think moaning about shit is pointless.
Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc.
That means I'll have to pay twice to play the ONE fucking game I bought. No. They had a chance to fix this shit, not buying it until they do.
I have two xboxes, but have to have two different accounts because it won't let folks watch netflix in one room while I play games in the other. I bought Bullet Storm -- My first encounter with Online Pass. My brother was visiting, he popped the game in while I went on a beer run. Got back, he started making pizza while went to go play... They wanted $10 more to play the damn game I just bought because my bro already used the online pass. We talked about what the fuck just happened, he thought that the code was just something in the box to prove you had it -- Like the codes in the manual of X-Com, back in the day. You could lend the game and the manual to a friend, but you needed the manual to put in the code and play... Nope, it was single use code. We ate pizza, went to gamestop to return the broken game. It had been opened so the best they could do was store credit for a used game trade-in... It was busy. About 20 people in the store. I stood in the middle of the store, held the disk above my head and said: "Listen Up Folks! This is a brand new game, bought two hours ago. They want 50% off because it's a Game With a Single Use Codes. They want $10 more for each account / game player in your house even though only one of them can play it at a time. I snapped the disk in half. Gave the finger to the clerk and told her, "This finger is only partially for you. It's also for the assholes who gave you the crap you just sold me. You deserve it because you sold me useless broken crap, instead of warning me of the defects, like a sleazy used car salesman would."
Let me know when the consoles have games that are DRM free. Till then, they can all go fuck right off.
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Well, they'll be installing tracks to service things, and fortunately we already standardized on 4' 8.5" between rails.
I bet that's why Google builds datacenters out of shipping containers -- To take advantage of Standard Gauge.
[Who works at a data center?]
I mean, you look at Apple's massive data centers and there are like 4 cars in the parking lot.
They never leave... That's why they call them INturns.
True. He turned out to by a crypto conservative plant, a false flag operative operating under the guise of hope and change. He is right of Ronald Reagan on a lot of issues, much to the absolute horror of the actual liberals in this country.
Congratulations! You just triggered every automated red-flag in the data system!
Mind transference experiment. It's the only explanation for how Obama is almost exactly the same as Bush.
Wait. That would make Bush Jr. the world's first surviving Brain Donor.... Makes a scary degree of sense.
I've seen Stargate. I know this is just another lame government cover up of an alien visitation. Better check on your cows!!
It is Valence-Time Day for space faring races. Your similar, but mangled, Valentines' day has you lopping off the reproductive parts of plants, our bonding ceremony is at the molecular level, the cow genitals are just party favors.
Guess I won't be adding video record / playback / and upload to youtube to my games then... If the demo record and playback cooperate with the encoder, rendering a frame at a time, then the game can generate super high quality videos even on low end machines without requiring a screen recorder. Yeah, I did just that. Instead of calling into Google's code I started writing my own encoder, the parts I replaced are about twice as fast as the current WebM shite. Oh? Patents don't cover me? Well then, I guess you can keep those security exploits in your shit code then.
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
> Global Thermonuclear Wa^H^H^H Gamejam_
Bring your favorite libraries, and placeholder assets, or even snag some free ones online.
Hack together a fun little game in 12, 24, 36 or 48 hours. It's called a Game Jam. Games are just about the only program where you can use the entire gamut of a computer's capabilities and mathematics skills. Everything from text based adventure, to moving squares on the screen, to fully 3D flight simulators or procedural systems with learning AI. You've got optional Music, video in / out / overlays, every kind of algorithm you can possibly think of can be applied in a game. You can't do as much in a 48 hour window for just about any other kind of software, but at the end of a gamejam / hackathon, you'll all have lots of little somethings to take away, and show off, and a whole lot of fun in the process. Welcome to the next level.
Humans are pretty much obsessed with 2 things, well, actually, all lifeforms are: Killing and Sex.
Things eat other things to live, even trees try to poison the ground or overshadow undergrowth to kill the other plants so that they may survive... So, if we can't do the violence thing, then it's the other one.
DILDOS FOR ALL!
I agree. However, I think "mostly pointless" is the most moronic phrase. You like viruses? Keep using a single stack for code and data and having no fine grained memory access barriers... Think it's "mostly pointless" to try and solve the malware issue? Well, fuck you then. Say a solution is found, it won't be in a monolithic kernel design. We need at least one more layer between Users and Master of the Universe. Hell, we could even have another level under userspace for "plugins", wouldn't it be grand if a plugin couldn't just take over your whole program? Solving any of these issues is basically what alternate OS development is needed for. What's "mostly pointless" is throwing money and time at the monolithic approach and hoping for innovation in operating systems...
Not currently usable by end users does not make something mostly pointless. End users don't give a damn about how the OS provides security or other features. HURD is MOST IMPORTANT because it actually does things differently than all the other mainstream OSs. That you can get 75% of the Debian repo running on it is HUGE. If you don't think so, I reiterate: Fuck you, fool.
Managing the trust graph is why it's hard. Security is always hard. On a monolithic kernel we just say: Uhm, yeah, I trust all these drivers and whatever, even though I probably shouldn't because... well... That's how it works. GNU/HURD/HIRD has a more modular approach that pushes the drivers out of kernel space, but it has some design flaws ( letting a directory node provide its own ".." -- Yikes! ), and the number of developers is next to non-existent.
Furthermore modern processors are designed for monolithic kernels. Just like x86 has a bunch of cruft from when ASM coders wanted more complex instructions (for less / easier coding), Features like Multiple Execution Ring Levels are missing. ARM gives me Two Rings. AMD x86 gives me Two Rings. Intel x86 gives me 4 rings! A ring level essentially is a hardware supported security level. Each ring allows another "mode" of security. So, with only two rings, I can create an OS that has userspace and kernel mode. With 3 rings I can have Kernel, Trusted Driver/Module/Interface, and Userspace. The barriers required to easily create a secure microkernel don't exist. With only 2 rings we have to decide if userspace or kernel mode is where a module belongs -- They don't belong in either! We Need The One Ring to be an intermediary between Ring Zero (which rules them all) and give Ring 2 to the userland, and in the darkness bind them.
Everyone's using monoliths, hardware makers give us 2 rings to make that happen. Hell the hardware even prevents adoption of new (more secure) programming paradigms. Even the virtual memory addressing system in modern chipsets is designed to work best with C. I'm working on a more secure language with separate call and data stacks, and code-pointer overwrite protections for heap data, but the x86 / x64 / ARM platforms I'm working on are built for single stacks, and thus stack smashing or buffer overflow is an inherit design flaw. Segmented memory would be great for securing functions on a per call basis -- Swapping Stacks at will, Super easy Co-Routines... but those bits were sacrificed to the More Memory God, and the registers became a part of the virtual addressing system. On 16 bit code I can do some neat things that I can't do on 32bit mode code without a huge headache, because the hardware doesn't support me doing it.
So, that's why it takes so long. Because we're trying to do stuff in software that the hardware doesn't support. These things are more secure and are great for modularity, but the hardware's designed to do it faster the monolith / C way. Note that to a program it won't matter about whether the filesystem is uber modular, or the device drivers are not in ring 0. Hell, eventually I'll port a C compiler to the multi-stack code.
Note: I don't work on GNU/HURD/HIRD, just develop my own OSs. Yeah, I could work on Linux or other POSIX OSs, but why? That's not going to advance the state of the art in Operating Systems at all. A reliable design is grand for production systems, but to make the leap from the 80's, we're going to need some new hardware to help us out. Got Viruses? Blame the Chip Maker, Language Implementer (not designer), and Operating System. Seriously, they're all doing it WRONG if security is the goal. With a separate call and data stacks on chip, One Ring more, you could actually have the damn security you want.
It's a very elaborate troll. Perl 6 Parrot can run some Java programs on HURD / HIRD. They went all out, I'll forgive them missing the April 1 deadline, it's great fun!
That's all true. But the question is whether or not that can be changed ;-)
The answer is: Does it even matter? Windows: On the desktop: "Holy crap! Fire the UI design team, wait Vista viruses work on 8? Aaaah! Don't use it for servers! What are you insane?" In Gaming: "Hmm, not to shabby. Why can't they do this on the desktop?" On Search: "What's a Bing?!" On Phones: "HA ha ha ha HA ha ha"
So, Dr. Frankenstein's Monster seems to be the only way any things ever really done. Just look at Google. A search and ads company that wants to replicate designer Geordi Laforge visors and be a social network too. Apple's the same, iTunes sucks, hardware overpriced, can't use the OS anywhere but their own hardware, reducing market for 3rd party devs, server platform was a stillborn -- They sell hard on "image", but it's far more nebulous than you believe. Servers? Really? $100 just for xcode? Is that so users won't experiment and write their own software? I mean, turn on my IIe, and there's a BASIC programming prompt... I learned to code in elementary school by accident thanks to that... Charging for the feature? So, iWhatever is not a computer, it's a consumption device. That's the image in my mind. A treacherous overpriced landmine, waiting to have the proprietary plug pulled out from under me if I try to develop software with it. Yet they could put replica IIe machines on the market and I'd by 10 just to trick my hackerspace garage out -- help kids learn coding (JS is what I use now). The brand doesn't matter.
I'm a scientist. Before you go changing shit, I want some proof the change is needed. Consider for a moment that I don't give a toss about who serves my uploaded images or search requests or news feeds. No one does. I see a vacuum they could fill if they pulled their brains out of their ass: Throws their weight behind One API To Talk To Them All so folks can have the features they want everywhere regardless of service provider, and eliminates migration issues. That way whether you use img.ur or Flickr, it doesn't matter; That way whether you use G+ or Facebook, Twitter or identi.ca, it doesn't matter, whether you use any of these or your own servers to push the content... It won't matter. "Be The Platform" -- Don't be the salesman, be the market. Don't be the lender or borrower, be the bank.
Screw a brand. All end users really care about are features and benefits... Gimme a stable secure Unix (POSIX) server platform for a reasonable price and comparable feature-set, I'd buy an iServer, or run IIS.
We need to make it so its strictly regulated and people can only get food from government approved sites.
?! Are you and the mods fucking double retarded? Grow you some wheat, dumbass.
Now just imagine how fucking moronic you sound to me.
Return a list from a function. Sure, you can legally do it, there's nothing in the language inherently stopping you, but experienced C programmers will avoid returning a list at all costs.
Hmm, that's odd. So C has its place but it's avoided because it lacks garbage collection? My C code has automatic garbage collection and OOP facilities. It's got lists and maps, and a comprehensive collections library. It's just under 30 thousand lines of code, but then it's just a game engine. It only has to do everything the computer actually can. If you don't have these basic facilities in your C library, it's your own damn fault. Seems to me if I want I can always have it in C, there's no excuse for not having it.
My memory manager replaces the malloc / free facilities, so it can even be added to other C code-bases, hell, I use it in C++ code because it's faster than the GC in the standard library (for the way I use it). So it's not like I have to call reference counting functions; Just the GC_recycle() function, or enable it to run automatically, which blocks on malloc() / free(), and optionally gives each thread their own local GC rather than a unified approach such that part of the program can garbage collect while another keeps running.
However, when my testers bitch about stutter in Java / Android No matter how badly I want Java or JavaScript to give me control of the damn garbage collector, so it doesn't run in the middle of the rendering loop or intense action sequence, I can't have it. I have to implement an object cache atop Java and pre-allocate everything, try my hardest not to give the GC a chance to run, and if I slip up once and let that fucker have control, it's game over, literally, when the enemy attacks and the game lags for half a second.
I return lists from functions all the time you dumbass. I'm an "experienced C programmer". Stop painting with such a wide brush, you're getting the paint in you eyes.
An AC adds:
Or return a function from a function?
I throw Function pointers around like crazy, that's how efficient state machines, decision trees, or other flexible structures are formed. Hell, my Entity-like system allows Actors to composite sets of functionality as it transitions states to create efficient AI -- Just because it's fleeing doesn't mean it's still not searching for Health. It would be like if C++ let you pick which methods you inherited from multiple parents on the fly. I mean hell, returning and passing a function pointer is how I implemented multiple sorts:
// or
list->sort( list, list->getSortRoutine( SORT_MERGE ) );
myCustomRoutine = getCurrentSort();
list->sort( list, myCustomRoutine );
That first "list" being passed in the sort function pointer invocation is where your magic "this" pointer comes from in C++.
That's what you get for giving a shit about some whiny puff piece like indie game the movie.
Full disclosure: I'm a part-time independent game developer.
squirrels are never benign.
So, they only spring forth from malignant tumours? That explains a few things...
Speaking of "six strikes" how do we successfully petition for a new six strikes law: If you issue 6 invalid DMCA takedown notices you lose the right to issue takedown notices for the next 12 months.
I want a different 6 strikes law: Anyone who bowls 6 strikes in one game gets to choose among any who used private channels instead of DMCA notices (to dodge perjury laws) and use their head as the ball in the next game.
What? It has just as much chance of passing into law as yours does.
Didn't a US Senator once sue God?
My school book says his name was Jesus. I wouldn't recommend it: Poor bastard was crucified to teach a lesson to the rest of us.
ANSI to mandate all ARM and x86 processors be compatible with each the other's instruction sets.
Not A Single Sense was Made.
Oh, I get it intermediately, while there's still a myriad of languages out there, increasing the number of spoken languages seems like a good thing. You'll be more able to communicate. However, from a rational thermodynamic perspective, you're placing more cognitive load on individuals needlessly. Anyone who anticipates needing the linguistic skill should adopt it, anyone who doesn't anticipate the need can learn the language as needed. The way to get everyone on the same wavelength isn't to have everyone learn everyone's language, its to use translators (a "VM" in machine-speak), or teach everyone only one language the world over. It should be one that's compressible and has few glyphs, like (new) Japanese or English. Hell, the Japanese change their glyph direction at will to flow more with the right to left top to bottom styling of the French, English, German, Russian, etc. "western" languages.
Culture blah blah blah. Don't care. Whatever best translates to machine speak is what I'm going with. That's English, or Japanese, and there's lots more folks speaking English than Japanese, thus it's the future. Deal with it. From their disregard of per unit energy consumption I take it these are the same folks who use AV products instead of running hardware supported virtualized OSs? Figures. Someone needs to cull these legislators from the herd fast, they're hindering progress.
Near ten years as a software developer with no major medical bills (crossing fingers it continues).
Who gives a fuck about your anecdotal evidence? You could go your whole damn life without ever setting foot in a doctor's office. That shite doesn't matter. What matters is that in aggregate that the outliers like you are being used as excuses to charge higher prices. You may not pay for it directly, but you do pay for it in everything else you buy. You're being foolish. Cut it out.
God you people have no life, who gives a shit if it's Xbox 3.14 or Zero or who-gives-a-crap?
Buy it or don't. Idiots.
Boycotting doesn't work. It feels good from a moral standpoint, that your money isn't going to support DRM shit that makes each player in your household pay additional fees to play the one game disk you bought... However, Boycotts don't work. What if you heard the ending of ME3 sucked, and just didn't buy it? That wouldn't change anything. Bitch about it online enough such that it causes a horrible PR debacle and guess what happens? Shit. Shit actually happens. All you have to do is get enough people bitching about something and something will happen.
What if folks had just unfollowed the MS guy who was saying dumb shit about how "always-on" is great and being a general ass? Nothing. Bitch about it enough, guess what happens? Fucker is GONE. That's right. Bitching made it happen. You're the idiot if you think moaning about shit is pointless.
Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc.
That means I'll have to pay twice to play the ONE fucking game I bought. No. They had a chance to fix this shit, not buying it until they do.
I have two xboxes, but have to have two different accounts because it won't let folks watch netflix in one room while I play games in the other. I bought Bullet Storm -- My first encounter with Online Pass. My brother was visiting, he popped the game in while I went on a beer run. Got back, he started making pizza while went to go play... They wanted $10 more to play the damn game I just bought because my bro already used the online pass. We talked about what the fuck just happened, he thought that the code was just something in the box to prove you had it -- Like the codes in the manual of X-Com, back in the day. You could lend the game and the manual to a friend, but you needed the manual to put in the code and play... Nope, it was single use code. We ate pizza, went to gamestop to return the broken game. It had been opened so the best they could do was store credit for a used game trade-in... It was busy. About 20 people in the store. I stood in the middle of the store, held the disk above my head and said: "Listen Up Folks! This is a brand new game, bought two hours ago. They want 50% off because it's a Game With a Single Use Codes. They want $10 more for each account / game player in your house even though only one of them can play it at a time. I snapped the disk in half. Gave the finger to the clerk and told her, "This finger is only partially for you. It's also for the assholes who gave you the crap you just sold me. You deserve it because you sold me useless broken crap, instead of warning me of the defects, like a sleazy used car salesman would."
Let me know when the consoles have games that are DRM free. Till then, they can all go fuck right off.
It's always going to be on... you can walk into a room and say "Xbox, On." That means it's always going to be watching.
No, that means it's always going to be "listening", and that your command is fucking redundant.
Then they should have used the standard metric for "one tool to do it all" and called it the (subpar) Windows Gaming PC.