Mario 64 - hardly a platformer? Excuse me? Did we play the same Mario 64?
Anyways, some of my favorite 3D platformers were the Jak and Daxter series and the Ratchet and Clank series, both a lot of fun - one of my favorites being Jak II, which was set in an immersive city with fun platforming levels and other challenges.
Agreed, there are drawbacks, but he said he already has 9 gigs, so once you already have it, the drawbacks are now irrelevant. What I was arguing is that it's not bad behavior for a program to use more RAM if you have more. I'm not saying that is what Firefox is doing, but if you have 9 GB's, hell, Firefox can use a Gig if it will cause performance enhancements. The problem comes with you have a gig and a half and firefox is using a gig.
Additionally, 9 GB of RAM and keeping more things in RAM does not use more power than paging things to/from disk. Accessing memory from RAM is much cheaper (power and CPU wise) than getting it from disk, nullifying that argument.
I am calling bullshit on this. I love firefox but it's definitely a memory hog.7 tabs open and it's at 400mb. Granted I have 9GB of RAM but still.
Then who cares about 400 MB, when you have that kind of RAM to spare. The more data you have stored in RAM => the less you have to page to/from disk => better performance.
It's based on the WiFi network you are connected to. There are companies like Skyhook which create maps of WAPs, and uses that to find your location. Much more accurate than cell towers, much less than GPS.
I was thinking of some joke a little more limp-wristed, which is what I always thought when I saw some kid talking about "Rouge Squadron". They fly the pink X-Wings, right?
Would be a field that uses clear/transparent turf. and all colors on the field are defined by lights under it. The white in the 10/20/30... could be done dynamically, the end zones could be designed dynamically and relit, heck, you could switch from a green field to Boise State's blue.
This could be used to make the same field a football field, soccer field, lacrosse, field hockey... all without the the clutter of all the lines on one field.
This might be tricky with turf technology currently, but I feel like a first technology to do this might be a basketball court (lights for basketball, volleyball, etc)...
It probably isn't feasible, but would be interesting.
I don't believe personalization is correct. I believe some of the next big things to come out of search are localization and knowledge. Localization being better local results (at least for the relevant searches), and better knowledge meaning knowledge of what is on the page vs. knowledge of what the query meant. This might mean more verbose queries, but the ability to know what the user is looking for, and show them the pages that Google knows mean the same thing, seems to be much bigger than personalizing results based on what they know about the user.
Yeah, that's a good point too. A lot of these "self thought up" Captcha schemes might work well on one or two sites, but when you talk about deploying to sites like Google and Yahoo (huge spam bot targets), a lot of them become infeasible.
Because then any spam bot would have a 1 in 3 chance of getting it correct. And then if you try to scale if up to 100 cups and 1 ball, then it would not be feasible for even a human to follow.
I would have thought being near a Google data center would be more valuable, with the huge amount of traffic, and the indexing that comes through Google.
Maybe Google has better practices in terms of security of their data centers?
I understand why my post was confusing, but I was referring to processing speed in GHz or MHz. Power was a poor choice of words there. Sorry for confusion. However, if we replace power with processing speed, my post will be correct.
Actually, the reason for this is because of the heat consumption. As the power of a chip grows, the heat consumption grows much faster, and more cores are a much better way to get more speed with less power consumption and heat.
Even with this, I still don't mind using Python. It was just a very special set of circumstances that made tabs an issue. I use RoR for web development, but when it comes to scripting languages, I still prefer Python for getting something working, its GTK bindings are pretty slick.
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Mario 64 - hardly a platformer? Excuse me? Did we play the same Mario 64?
Anyways, some of my favorite 3D platformers were the Jak and Daxter series and the Ratchet and Clank series, both a lot of fun - one of my favorites being Jak II, which was set in an immersive city with fun platforming levels and other challenges.
Agreed, there are drawbacks, but he said he already has 9 gigs, so once you already have it, the drawbacks are now irrelevant. What I was arguing is that it's not bad behavior for a program to use more RAM if you have more. I'm not saying that is what Firefox is doing, but if you have 9 GB's, hell, Firefox can use a Gig if it will cause performance enhancements. The problem comes with you have a gig and a half and firefox is using a gig.
Additionally, 9 GB of RAM and keeping more things in RAM does not use more power than paging things to/from disk. Accessing memory from RAM is much cheaper (power and CPU wise) than getting it from disk, nullifying that argument.
I am calling bullshit on this. I love firefox but it's definitely a memory hog.7 tabs open and it's at 400mb. Granted I have 9GB of RAM but still.
Then who cares about 400 MB, when you have that kind of RAM to spare. The more data you have stored in RAM => the less you have to page to/from disk => better performance.
Oh wait...
http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/landlord_demands_dead_victims_late_rent_fees_4821831.html
Modded Offtopic on accident, posting to undo, tried to scroll down while the drop down had focus - good post.
http://www.bash.org/?246405
It's based on the WiFi network you are connected to. There are companies like Skyhook which create maps of WAPs, and uses that to find your location. Much more accurate than cell towers, much less than GPS.
I was thinking of some joke a little more limp-wristed, which is what I always thought when I saw some kid talking about "Rouge Squadron". They fly the pink X-Wings, right?
Pink 5 standing by... And FABULOUS
Be sure not to have all the weddings on the same day in 4 different castles to women who have different numbers of eyes.
It doesn't end well.
Would be a field that uses clear/transparent turf. and all colors on the field are defined by lights under it. The white in the 10/20/30... could be done dynamically, the end zones could be designed dynamically and relit, heck, you could switch from a green field to Boise State's blue.
This could be used to make the same field a football field, soccer field, lacrosse, field hockey... all without the the clutter of all the lines on one field.
This might be tricky with turf technology currently, but I feel like a first technology to do this might be a basketball court (lights for basketball, volleyball, etc)...
It probably isn't feasible, but would be interesting.
Yeah, didn't see anyone else had posted it, and for good reason.
And it's in the article. Yay me.
What about Google Chrome? I know it's currently only Windows only, but it's a very good browser and Open Source.
You mean it causes ignorance? :-)
Lisa: I thought you said it was just a name!!
Advisor: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a Peninsula.
It could, but I felt like that was a different field than personalization.
I don't believe personalization is correct. I believe some of the next big things to come out of search are localization and knowledge. Localization being better local results (at least for the relevant searches), and better knowledge meaning knowledge of what is on the page vs. knowledge of what the query meant. This might mean more verbose queries, but the ability to know what the user is looking for, and show them the pages that Google knows mean the same thing, seems to be much bigger than personalizing results based on what they know about the user.
Yeah, that's a good point too. A lot of these "self thought up" Captcha schemes might work well on one or two sites, but when you talk about deploying to sites like Google and Yahoo (huge spam bot targets), a lot of them become infeasible.
Because then any spam bot would have a 1 in 3 chance of getting it correct. And then if you try to scale if up to 100 cups and 1 ball, then it would not be feasible for even a human to follow.
I would have thought being near a Google data center would be more valuable, with the huge amount of traffic, and the indexing that comes through Google.
Maybe Google has better practices in terms of security of their data centers?
Maybe this link will be a little more useful: http://strawberryperl.com/
I understand why my post was confusing, but I was referring to processing speed in GHz or MHz. Power was a poor choice of words there. Sorry for confusion. However, if we replace power with processing speed, my post will be correct.
Actually, the reason for this is because of the heat consumption. As the power of a chip grows, the heat consumption grows much faster, and more cores are a much better way to get more speed with less power consumption and heat.
Epiphany can use WebKit to render, and runs well in Gnome.
Even with this, I still don't mind using Python. It was just a very special set of circumstances that made tabs an issue. I use RoR for web development, but when it comes to scripting languages, I still prefer Python for getting something working, its GTK bindings are pretty slick.