TFA explains that the AI is used to finetune the compiler options.
Since GCC has a set of 50+ options, the AI compiles your code with several sets of options (around 500 compilations seem sufficient) and is able to determine which options are useful and which are not for a given code.
In France, if you buy a stolen car, you are responsible. It's considered as "recel", and your car can be seized without compensation. So yes, if this newspaper does a profit with every sell (outside of publishing the magazine), it has to protect its customers.
EBay makes a profit with every sell, so it's their duty to protect the buyers. France relies a lot on its brands (like perfume, bags, wines and other expensive products), so it's normal to protect them against any kind of piracy. Also, becoming a reseller of such brands is very expensive. So, I think it's normal that they have some protection.
That's the point tho isn't it - game designers are overshadowing the game programmers. As an ex-game programmer myself, I don't see the problem. It may be a problem with your ego. Game designers need to have an extraverted personality, and coders are better when they are introverted.
Games companies don't care how skilled their CADers or Photoshopers are when they're likely to outsource most of that anyway, and since there's no shortage of them its not a massive problem. No, they need to keep their graphists near. On the contrary, coders use game frameworks (like 3D libraries), and outside of a few companies, the 'coders' are now 'scripters'.
financial rewards. Graphists have hard times finding stable jobs. They work mostly for advertisement companies, so it's great that they can work on games.
Many of them haven't heard of the Gems series, let alone own any! Who cares about Gems ? Frankly, I read some parts of them, and it was so boring and useless.
Frankly, if you think that you can code games because you read some books, you are so wrong ! Becoming a good programmer requires a lot of work and efforts. I'm coding since 20 years, and still learning every day, and trying to remain humble.
When I was coding games, the difference of skills was very visible, but now, it really disappeared, but you can still recognize the experience.
A lot of games on the Atari ST came from well known english companies (The Bitmap Brothers, Psygnosis, etc...). The Amiga had more games coming from other countries (like the Turrican serie from Germany).
Self-modifying assembly is a long-lost art It was not an art. This just lead to ugly and buggy code.
The clean way to do this is to generate code in data memory, lock the data memory as executable memory, and execute the code, it will run fine in Windows (I'm using this technique right now on computer crossword filling).
Assembly language has not really disappeared. It's just hidden under a lot of layers. For example, you can use dynamic JIT compilers, like LUA, which generates inline assembly code, and if you know well the language and the assembly generation, you can write some pretty code.
The online game companies imagine that since there are millions of Internet users, it means that they'll have instantly a lot of users.
It's also because they need financial partners, so they tend to inflate their numbers to attract money. Investors like to hear about attracting 0.01% of the Internet users, even if they have nothing new, or even worse, nothing to sell !
Hint: I worked in 2 such game companies, and they both failed !
None of these videos are fake. Cube masters are also able to solve it blindfolded.
At my work, my colleagues are unable to solve the cube, so I performed a small demonstration. I did it in 97 seconds, and it was my first time to play it since more than 10 years. I was so proud !
When Microsoft releases a new OS, almost all previous games break, and need patches, and Microsoft also releases patches so that the games could work (nobody knows what they patch in their OS).
I'm a victim of this sort of spam since several years, and it may happen to anybody that has an email address since a long time.
A few years ago, AOL always blocked my legitimate emails to AOL users, due to the fact that my email address was blacklisted due to this spam infection.
Or probably, they are late with Windows Server 2008, which is an expected fat cow.
Maybe also because they invested a lot in advertising Vista. This will pay in a couple of years.
Another problem is that the OEM version of Vista is about the same price as XP, and since its development took a lot of resources, Microsoft is losing money comparatively.
Is it really so amazing that the ratio of circumference to diameter is exactly pi and not 2.143243*pi ? This is just a notation. PI could be have been equal to 6.2831853, without perturbing anything.
On another note, it's good to know that young people are formed to several operating systems, since the more people know, the more people are free.
In Brazil, it's the school that should teach that Windows is not mandatory, as the students probably use Windows at home (when they have enough money to buy a computer).
The future depends less on a single technology, and since there is a globalization process, knowing more platforms is like learning several languages.
partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows
Come on, Microsoft's business only depends on its large collection of programs, and every new version of its OS breaks a large percent of them.
A full binary incompatibility is dead from the beginning (except for server applications, and we all know Microsoft earns money from the desktops).
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Video named "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov As A Chess Boxer!" (bottom left)
They are not retarded: they try to make a profit, and they don't care about the consumers.
Sarkozy never hid his friendship with the big bosses in France (Bollore, Arnault, Lagardere, etc...), and his own brother is vice-president of MEDEF.
In France, we have some systems to avoid corruption, but the politicians always find a way to bypass them.
France has two big political parties: UMP and PS. UMP is rightist and PS is leftist.
They both are pushing for these regulations.
There are some other parties that tend to better protect the consumers, but they don't have enough political weight.
TFA explains that the AI is used to finetune the compiler options.
Since GCC has a set of 50+ options, the AI compiles your code with several sets of options (around 500 compilations seem sufficient) and is able to determine which options are useful and which are not for a given code.
So it's NOT learning AI at all !
In France, if you buy a stolen car, you are responsible. It's considered as "recel", and your car can be seized without compensation. So yes, if this newspaper does a profit with every sell (outside of publishing the magazine), it has to protect its customers.
EBay makes a profit with every sell, so it's their duty to protect the buyers.
France relies a lot on its brands (like perfume, bags, wines and other expensive products), so it's normal to protect them against any kind of piracy.
Also, becoming a reseller of such brands is very expensive.
So, I think it's normal that they have some protection.
Game designers need to have an extraverted personality, and coders are better when they are introverted. Games companies don't care how skilled their CADers or Photoshopers are when they're likely to outsource most of that anyway, and since there's no shortage of them its not a massive problem. No, they need to keep their graphists near.
On the contrary, coders use game frameworks (like 3D libraries), and outside of a few companies, the 'coders' are now 'scripters'. financial rewards. Graphists have hard times finding stable jobs.
They work mostly for advertisement companies, so it's great that they can work on games. Many of them haven't heard of the Gems series, let alone own any! Who cares about Gems ?
Frankly, I read some parts of them, and it was so boring and useless.
Frankly, if you think that you can code games because you read some books, you are so wrong !
Becoming a good programmer requires a lot of work and efforts. I'm coding since 20 years, and still learning every day, and trying to remain humble.
When I was coding games, the difference of skills was very visible, but now, it really disappeared, but you can still recognize the experience.
It was a 32-bit computer.
A lot of games on the Atari ST came from well known english companies (The Bitmap Brothers, Psygnosis, etc...).
The Amiga had more games coming from other countries (like the Turrican serie from Germany).
And what monitors R2-D2 ?
Never heard of Perl. Is she your girlfriend ?
The clean way to do this is to generate code in data memory, lock the data memory as executable memory, and execute the code, it will run fine in Windows (I'm using this technique right now on computer crossword filling).
Assembly language has not really disappeared.
It's just hidden under a lot of layers.
For example, you can use dynamic JIT compilers, like LUA, which generates inline assembly code, and if you know well the language and the assembly generation, you can write some pretty code.
An enumeration is not a proof, since there may be some bug in the program.
Although it's an impressive achievement, this result will only be accepted when someone else will verify this result with a different method.
Sadly, the young fellow will probably be harassed by the Scientology group from now on.
What ? No mention of Norton Commander ?
It was the greatest piece of software on DOS !
I'm still using one of its successors: Total Commander.
The online game companies imagine that since there are millions of Internet users, it means that they'll have instantly a lot of users.
It's also because they need financial partners, so they tend to inflate their numbers to attract money.
Investors like to hear about attracting 0.01% of the Internet users, even if they have nothing new, or even worse, nothing to sell !
Hint: I worked in 2 such game companies, and they both failed !
None of these videos are fake.
Cube masters are also able to solve it blindfolded.
At my work, my colleagues are unable to solve the cube, so I performed a small demonstration.
I did it in 97 seconds, and it was my first time to play it since more than 10 years. I was so proud !
And faster OSes !
There is also a problem with games.
When Microsoft releases a new OS, almost all previous games break, and need patches, and Microsoft also releases patches so that the games could work (nobody knows what they patch in their OS).
I'm a victim of this sort of spam since several years, and it may happen to anybody that has an email address since a long time.
A few years ago, AOL always blocked my legitimate emails to AOL users, due to the fact that my email address was blacklisted due to this spam infection.
Or probably, they are late with Windows Server 2008, which is an expected fat cow.
Maybe also because they invested a lot in advertising Vista. This will pay in a couple of years.
Another problem is that the OEM version of Vista is about the same price as XP, and since its development took a lot of resources, Microsoft is losing money comparatively.
PI could be have been equal to 6.2831853, without perturbing anything.
On another note, it's good to know that young people are formed to several operating systems, since the more people know, the more people are free.
In Brazil, it's the school that should teach that Windows is not mandatory, as the students probably use Windows at home (when they have enough money to buy a computer).
The future depends less on a single technology, and since there is a globalization process, knowing more platforms is like learning several languages.
Neither Vista 32 bits nor XP 32 bits can use more than 3Gb of RAM !
You have to manually change the configuration to use the whole RAM: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791558.aspx
In England and in France, there were some terrorist acts, with bombs planted in the subway, and in the buses.
People learnt to be careful about this, and don't trust anybody in public transports.
In France, it's called the principle of precaution.
I thought that this article was real until I saw:
partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows
Come on, Microsoft's business only depends on its large collection of programs, and every new version of its OS breaks a large percent of them.
A full binary incompatibility is dead from the beginning (except for server applications, and we all know Microsoft earns money from the desktops).
Don't talk about american beer !
Czech have much stronger (and better) beers:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/breweries/brewers-directory-0-56.htm
For europeans, american 'beer' is no beer.
In France, in the last elections 2 weeks ago, there was a fraud where a guy counting the paper ballots hid voting ballots in his sockets.
Here is a link with a nice comic picture:
http://www.ouest-france.fr/La-chaussette-fait-recette-a-Perpignan-/re/actuDet/actu_3635-598349------_actu.html
This means that cheating is always possible, even in major democratic countries (I don't include Russia and Mexico in these).