Futuremark should simply create a test that varies at runtime to defeat specific instruction path optimization. I wouldn't care if it looked horrible as long as the margin of error on the score wasn't more than let's say 2%. This way, the kids who play 3DMark could still have their eye-candy, while the people who use it for real diagnosis can have a standard test.
If you play the original tetris for the NES for a long period of time, eventually you will experience a type of zen enlightenment. Time slows down, and playing levels greater than level 19 becomes possible. I've only been able to acheive one of the lowest levels of this "tetris consciousness", but one of my friends can play up to level 29 while playing upside down. It's such a magnificent sight the only thing you can do is laugh and cry.
My tetris-grand master buddy supposes that level 30 may be possible, but only if the last three pieces you get are straights, and only if you had successfully built up a base big enough with a hole straight down the middle. However, as we all know, the tetris god would never be so kind.
I remember hearing a story about a scientist who invented a method of synthesizing vitamin-C thinking that there would be no way that such a technology could ever be abused.
Later on, he learns to his ultimate chagrin that naval subs started storing vats of his synthesized vitamind C onboard to prevent the crew from getting scurvy. In essence, his small scientific discovery allowed for the deployment of perhaps the most dangerous military device: the thermonuclear submarine.
I'm personally going to put one of my old hard drives (75GB IBM Deathstar, good enough for music, too scary to use for a system) in a new USB2/Firewire enclosures and take it would with me wherever I go. It'll alleviate the location problem, the quality difference between streaming and straight playing, and I can store other information on the drive as I see fit.
I'll just have to DVD-R backup the drive ever so often.
Thanks for your insightful post. As somebody who's constantly considering lasic, but fearing that I would be the screwed.5% who's vision would be completely destroyed, this gives me an extra security check that I can perform before I opt for the surgery. I'll be asking:
* What software do you use? * How do I get a safety report on this software for as long as it's been used? * How many revisions/updates has it had in the past year? * What's the underlying hardware and OS platform it runs on? * What kind of training do the operators of this software have to go through.
If I get ANY BLANK stares or anything less than definitive answers, I'll be going somewhere else. If it's the difference between a place that charges $500 an eye and one that charges $1000 an eye, so be it.
While I was attending university, I had the opportunity to work in typical white-collar IT departments in largish companies. I now work as a programming consultant at an education institution. In my experience, I'm the rariety. Most people who program or perform other geeky job functions are not CS/CSE/CE graduates. I've even met a few History majors like yourself, one of them a crazy Motorolla assembly programmer.
With this observation, coupled with the fact that employers simply don't give a damn that I graduated CS with a GPA of 3.9, it's now my recommendation that people go to college to study what they trully love. If they like to program, they'll do that on the side on their own, even read up on specialized topics that peak their interest. Otherwise, they aren't "true" programmers.
If I had to relive my college days, I'd be a Japanese major, minor in linguistics, with a few audited CS classes like AI and Software Engineering. I'd also get more T&A.
Chinese Guy: I see that you are here, and I am Chinese. Let us fight.
Neo: You are asain, thus I must fight you because you have to be good.
They fight.
Scene 3:
Neo fights another Neo because 2 + 2 = 4. Neo wins. Neo says "whoa."
Simpler Solution: Get Rid of the Penny
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Making Change
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· Score: 2, Interesting
* 2.79 coins average per transaction given that getting 5 cents is just as probable as getting 95 cents, and that no 50-cent pieces are used.
* Counting in 5's, 10s, and 25's is a lot easier.
* Saving pennies, rolling them up, going to the bank, and then driving home is a pain-in-the-ass, and honestly isn't worth my time, e.g. 2 hours of work to get $10 of pennies?!?!?. It's more economical to throw the friggen ugly coins in the trash, but I can't do that out of principle.
*HALF* the damn book is API documentation??? As a Java Developer, hell, as a programmer, I find it insulting that the publisher/author thinks I have enough time to waste looking through a book for API documentation where a 1 second JavaDoc browsing session will suffice. Also, I simply stay away from large books because they are hard to handle, and the binding usually cannot cope with such a large page count over time.
Book that actually concentrate on problems and their respective solutions, or even better, those that attack from multiple angles are the programming books worth reading.
Right on! First things's first: Setup a pr0n server on a Gamecube. Nintendo execs would marvel the ingenious use of its family game entertainment system. We could then move on to goatse.cx mirroring, and everything would be set!
It's these liberal, scum maxist commie producing, so-called "higher educational institutions" that are ruining kids these days. Think I'd ever send a kid to Harvard, to be trained to become another big-govt. moron monkey who wants to take away our God given right to the money we've earned? Forgeeet aboouuuuuut it.
God I love conservative talk radio. It's 10X better than Stern for shock-value entertainment. BTW, the above is impersonation if it wasn't obvious:)
My favorites collection is something that I backup along with my normal data. It's quite easy to go > 64 characters with the ways some web pages title themselves. The easy solution of course is to just zip 'em up in a file, or export to bookmark.htm, but it's still one more step that I have to do becuase of some arbitrary 64 character filename limit.
I live in Arizona where it's a 17 years/image (as far as I've year) felony to have child pornography on your machine. This is the harshest sentance in the U.S. btw.
USNet crossposting spammers mean that even touching the porn groups risks hardcore time for anybody in Arizona. It is often the case that the subject header does not accurately describe the contents, so browsing becomes quite risky. People who run bulk binary downloaders are just asking for life imprisonment. I've always wondered about how the law is dealing/will deal with USENET because of this problem.
You hit the point on exactly. Government imposed quality regulations only hurt the industry. They make it so companies don't want to improve quality, they make the barrier to entry lower for quality, and they put companies who've built a good names for themselves on the same level as some new startup who just happens to meet the minimums.
Note to consumers, don't be an idiot, do some research on the product you buy before you buy it. Maybe then you'll buy something that lasts for heaven forbid > 1 year. Give no mercy to companies that skimp on quality, otherwise you'll see the same situation as with what's going on in the hard drive industry (all IDE drives, all manufacturers, 1 year max warranty).
I started playing video games at around the age of 6 with an Atari 2600. Soon, everything else became "slow" and "boring" compared to video games. I like playing the original tetris on level 19+, so you imaging how "bad" my condition is.
After years of not getting the hang of it in school, I adapted my studying methods around 7th grade, and went from a C/D+ student to nearly straight As. My favorite studying method for was for memorization of material like vocabulary items. I'd get a partner who'd "blitz" me with questions that I would have to answer in under a second, e.g. "What's the subjunctive form of savoir for first person?" We would randomly switch roles to and from questionier and questionee.
Not only would this method work nearly 100%, it allowed more free time since I'd be able to study for fact based tests in 30 minutes, preferably in the hall before class:) However, this method had the disadvantage that almost none of it was put into long-term memory. In other words, I'd repeat the process again for finals on the same material.
As for problem solving tests and essays, programming helped me with the former, and essay grading was always too subjective for me to ever improve (random grades from C to A). Everybody is as full of shit as the next person as far as I'm concerned.
So yep, I've been rewired by video games. Now I'm in the work force, but now I find that it's hard to apply my "twichspeed" mentality to work. Everything is too slow, and it's hard to keep the ball rolling.
When was this meal: breakfast, lunch, or dinner? How much water/day did you drink? Did you drink other beverages? How many calories/day did you average? How much muscle/strength did you lose, gain???
Let's say you are using XML to store the class rosters for your school. Assume the structure, . This has the advantages of being the easiest to parse, you create your data-structure and it's finished, and lastly, writing XSLT to convert your XML to HTML is a piece of cake. However, it's both redundant in the XML itself and in memory.
Assuming something more efficient, like <class><studentId>, where you simply reference students by an id rather than inlining each student's data, removes the reduplication problem. However, everything else becomes harder. First, you have to be able to reference a student by its id, so you use a hashtable. Next you either have to require that student data comes first, or you have an update phase where you update each of your class objects. Lastly, XSLT isn't cake anymore (show me the roster for class X including all the students details).
Although this problem exists in any other application that parses data that contains internal references, it's still a major pain-in-the-ass.
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Futuremark should simply create a test that varies at runtime to defeat specific instruction path optimization. I wouldn't care if it looked horrible as long as the margin of error on the score wasn't more than let's say 2%. This way, the kids who play 3DMark could still have their eye-candy, while the people who use it for real diagnosis can have a standard test.
I personally use: "Can't understand. Brain on fire?"
If you play the original tetris for the NES for a long period of time, eventually you will experience a type of zen enlightenment. Time slows down, and playing levels greater than level 19 becomes possible. I've only been able to acheive one of the lowest levels of this "tetris consciousness", but one of my friends can play up to level 29 while playing upside down. It's such a magnificent sight the only thing you can do is laugh and cry.
My tetris-grand master buddy supposes that level 30 may be possible, but only if the last three pieces you get are straights, and only if you had successfully built up a base big enough with a hole straight down the middle. However, as we all know, the tetris god would never be so kind.
Although perhaps an urban-legend...
I remember hearing a story about a scientist who invented a method of synthesizing vitamin-C thinking that there would be no way that such a technology could ever be abused.
Later on, he learns to his ultimate chagrin that naval subs started storing vats of his synthesized vitamind C onboard to prevent the crew from getting scurvy. In essence, his small scientific discovery allowed for the deployment of perhaps the most dangerous military device: the thermonuclear submarine.
MMM, Mmm, mmm. Baby, you make me wish I had THREE hands!
I'm personally going to put one of my old hard drives (75GB IBM Deathstar, good enough for music, too scary to use for a system) in a new USB2/Firewire enclosures and take it would with me wherever I go. It'll alleviate the location problem, the quality difference between streaming and straight playing, and I can store other information on the drive as I see fit.
I'll just have to DVD-R backup the drive ever so often.
Are you taking into account that'd you be firing these rifles straight up rather than simply over land at sea level?
Thanks for your insightful post. As somebody who's constantly considering lasic, but fearing that I would be the screwed .5% who's vision would be completely destroyed, this gives me an extra security check that I can perform before I opt for the surgery. I'll be asking:
* What software do you use?
* How do I get a safety report on this software for as long as it's been used?
* How many revisions/updates has it had in the past year?
* What's the underlying hardware and OS platform it runs on?
* What kind of training do the operators of this software have to go through.
If I get ANY BLANK stares or anything less than definitive answers, I'll be going somewhere else. If it's the difference between a place that charges $500 an eye and one that charges $1000 an eye, so be it.
While I was attending university, I had the opportunity to work in typical white-collar IT departments in largish companies. I now work as a programming consultant at an education institution. In my experience, I'm the rariety. Most people who program or perform other geeky job functions are not CS/CSE/CE graduates. I've even met a few History majors like yourself, one of them a crazy Motorolla assembly programmer.
With this observation, coupled with the fact that employers simply don't give a damn that I graduated CS with a GPA of 3.9, it's now my recommendation that people go to college to study what they trully love. If they like to program, they'll do that on the side on their own, even read up on specialized topics that peak their interest. Otherwise, they aren't "true" programmers.
If I had to relive my college days, I'd be a Japanese major, minor in linguistics, with a few audited CS classes like AI and Software Engineering. I'd also get more T&A.
Scene 1:
An Albino: Can I get a shark with a frikk....
Neo: *sigh*
The albino and Neo fight.
Scene 2:
Chinese Guy: I see that you are here, and I am Chinese. Let us fight.
Neo: You are asain, thus I must fight you because you have to be good.
They fight.
Scene 3:
Neo fights another Neo because 2 + 2 = 4. Neo wins. Neo says "whoa."
* 2.79 coins average per transaction given that getting 5 cents is just as probable as getting 95 cents, and that no 50-cent pieces are used.
* Counting in 5's, 10s, and 25's is a lot easier.
* Saving pennies, rolling them up, going to the bank, and then driving home is a pain-in-the-ass, and honestly isn't worth my time, e.g. 2 hours of work to get $10 of pennies?!?!?. It's more economical to throw the friggen ugly coins in the trash, but I can't do that out of principle.
GET RID OF THE PENNY!
*HALF* the damn book is API documentation??? As a Java Developer, hell, as a programmer, I find it insulting that the publisher/author thinks I have enough time to waste looking through a book for API documentation where a 1 second JavaDoc browsing session will suffice. Also, I simply stay away from large books because they are hard to handle, and the binding usually cannot cope with such a large page count over time.
Book that actually concentrate on problems and their respective solutions, or even better, those that attack from multiple angles are the programming books worth reading.
Me personally, I'm not afraid.
A census taker once tried to test me.-- I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Right on! First things's first: Setup a pr0n server on a Gamecube. Nintendo execs would marvel the ingenious use of its family game entertainment system. We could then move on to goatse.cx mirroring, and everything would be set!
IMHO, static import is really going to confuse the hell out of maintainers.
:(
static import package.*;
Where was the int BOB_DOBBS declared again, an what is it really equal to? Go have fun looking through every class in that package.
Yep, not good
I'd like to convert all my CDR burns to DVD-R, but if CDR doesn't have this problem, then I might think twice.
Might as well get a 5400 RPM beast HD or two.
It's these liberal, scum maxist commie producing, so-called "higher educational institutions" that are ruining kids these days. Think I'd ever send a kid to Harvard, to be trained to become another big-govt. moron monkey who wants to take away our God given right to the money we've earned? Forgeeet aboouuuuuut it.
:)
God I love conservative talk radio. It's 10X better than Stern for shock-value entertainment. BTW, the above is impersonation if it wasn't obvious
My favorites collection is something that I backup along with my normal data. It's quite easy to go > 64 characters with the ways some web pages title themselves. The easy solution of course is to just zip 'em up in a file, or export to bookmark.htm, but it's still one more step that I have to do becuase of some arbitrary 64 character filename limit.
I live in Arizona where it's a 17 years/image (as far as I've year) felony to have child pornography on your machine. This is the harshest sentance in the U.S. btw.
USNet crossposting spammers mean that even touching the porn groups risks hardcore time for anybody in Arizona. It is often the case that the subject header does not accurately describe the contents, so browsing becomes quite risky. People who run bulk binary downloaders are just asking for life imprisonment. I've always wondered about how the law is dealing/will deal with USENET because of this problem.
You hit the point on exactly. Government imposed quality regulations only hurt the industry. They make it so companies don't want to improve quality, they make the barrier to entry lower for quality, and they put companies who've built a good names for themselves on the same level as some new startup who just happens to meet the minimums.
Note to consumers, don't be an idiot, do some research on the product you buy before you buy it. Maybe then you'll buy something that lasts for heaven forbid > 1 year. Give no mercy to companies that skimp on quality, otherwise you'll see the same situation as with what's going on in the hard drive industry (all IDE drives, all manufacturers, 1 year max warranty).
I started playing video games at around the age of 6 with an Atari 2600. Soon, everything else became "slow" and "boring" compared to video games. I like playing the original tetris on level 19+, so you imaging how "bad" my condition is.
:) However, this method had the disadvantage that almost none of it was put into long-term memory. In other words, I'd repeat the process again for finals on the same material.
After years of not getting the hang of it in school, I adapted my studying methods around 7th grade, and went from a C/D+ student to nearly straight As. My favorite studying method for was for memorization of material like vocabulary items. I'd get a partner who'd "blitz" me with questions that I would have to answer in under a second, e.g. "What's the subjunctive form of savoir for first person?" We would randomly switch roles to and from questionier and questionee.
Not only would this method work nearly 100%, it allowed more free time since I'd be able to study for fact based tests in 30 minutes, preferably in the hall before class
As for problem solving tests and essays, programming helped me with the former, and essay grading was always too subjective for me to ever improve (random grades from C to A). Everybody is as full of shit as the next person as far as I'm concerned.
So yep, I've been rewired by video games. Now I'm in the work force, but now I find that it's hard to apply my "twichspeed" mentality to work. Everything is too slow, and it's hard to keep the ball rolling.
How can you break the rubber band in order to get the doughnut to go to a point without breaking the doughnut too?
I'd say more like BrainFuck because it makes your head hurt just looking at it.
When was this meal: breakfast, lunch, or dinner? How much water/day did you drink? Did you drink other beverages? How many calories/day did you average? How much muscle/strength did you lose, gain???
Let's say you are using XML to store the class rosters for your school. Assume the structure, . This has the advantages of being the easiest to parse, you create your data-structure and it's finished, and lastly, writing XSLT to convert your XML to HTML is a piece of cake. However, it's both redundant in the XML itself and in memory.
Assuming something more efficient, like <class><studentId>, where you simply reference students by an id rather than inlining each student's data, removes the reduplication problem. However, everything else becomes harder. First, you have to be able to reference a student by its id, so you use a hashtable. Next you either have to require that student data comes first, or you have an update phase where you update each of your class objects. Lastly, XSLT isn't cake anymore (show me the roster for class X including all the students details).
Although this problem exists in any other application that parses data that contains internal references, it's still a major pain-in-the-ass.
What's the best way to tackle this situation?