I think this thinking is a matter of perspective. Terminator/ Conan had a mostly naked unrealistically beefy CA Gov. as the hero buy I always thought it was aimed at men.
When men see a musclebound male hero it makes sense to them but don't understand why a woman would want to see a tweaked woman hero. I think its because we don't expect women to see the female in the same way we do.
For women who thought Conan was sexy, perhaps they might wonder why all these boys like to see it?
Of course, my gf liked lara's big boobs too so perhaps I am totally off...
If this costs $400 plus $120/ year and you figure a 2 year life cycle, plus say 3 premium games/ year at (say) $10 each, thats $700 over two years.
I buy games at around $50 (or less) so that means 14 games on a normal PC. I presume that the buyers would have a PC as well (or you would have to figure the broadband costs into this as well)
Maybe I am out of the loop, but 14 games seems like a lot of games to purchase over 2 years and actually play for enough time to make worth it. Most of my games I buy a year out for $30 making it even less worth it to buy this system.
Of course, you don't have to pay to upgrade your PC to a r33t game machine...
I am familiar with Boost. It may handle the specific example of strings that I give but not the general case that I am trying to describe. STL also offers some generic programming tools.
For instance, I used the method to implement 3D graphics matrix math to reduce multiplication count by using templates to exploit special cases.
I rarely see this in template discussions but the thing I love about templates is the ability to do template "closures" for lazy evaluation whereby instead of returning the result of a function, you return an object which represents the application of the function to those arguements. This object then gets cast into the final resultant object.
Why?
Lets say you are concatenating a bunch of strings. Normally, you would create the concatenation of two strings, then concatenate the third, etc. Depending upon your string implementation, you could reallocate the string results many times.
However, with template closures, the concatenation would return an object which pointed to the two objects that were to be concatenated. Then the second concatenation would point to that object plus the next string. When the entire object was finally actualized by, say, setting it to a variable or as a function argument, then it would create the final string. It could then gather the lengths of all the strings, create a single result string, and then copy everything into it.
And it wouldn't look any more complicated than:
string a = b + c + d + e;
or whatever and it would still be optimally efficient.
The big downside is that error messages are all but useless.
How much hydrogen would a solar array the size of a modern gas station produce? Figure that the array was 10k sq ft, there was sunlight 50% of the time to varying degrees, etc. Perhaps, if you just consider more southern, sunnier areas.
I stayed at a resort in the bahamas that was powered by a 100Kw solar array that cost $100k total and consisted of 5-8? 8x8 panels. It would seem that would produce a fair amount of power and it was much smaller then 10k sq ft.
This is an argument for freeing music if I ever saw one. The biggest complaint with online music seemed to be that the "artist" never saw the money- but it doesn't look like they do anyway. Why not simply acknowledge that the times have changed, technology has changed and that things aren't what they once were. Musicians can make a living from performances and the love of the job. Same with programmers.
When I was there, I found indigenous people everywhere in the desert. I don't think anywhere is really "remote", unless one just means from themselves.
If I have 1000 individual PCs running at full load, and I replace them with this machine, does that mean they will still run at the same rate? What is the maximum number of virtual PCs you can run without seeing a performance hit? If I run fewer virtual servers, does that mean each gets more bang? Whats the scoop?
> In general, going online in any form, especially gaming, is usually considered for Geeks in the US
i'd always thought this was true buy i met so many "non-traditional" players in asheron's call that i changed my mind. i played with carpenters from canada and female lawyers in massachusetts. i was one of the youngest players in my group at 30. reading about the baseball players and EQ proves the point. hell, even my mother plays nintendo (don't you talk sh*t about my mother!:)
computer gaming, even online gaming, is no longer just for geeky males. (like me)
wait a minute. your all correct that the poster is off kilter, but why does that reflect on all slashdotters or even all liberals?
is it fair to say that the far-right nazi's sucked ass and therefore conservatives are all evil?
i am less concerned about the posters naive statements then your sweeping remarks about them.
i heard they are also using 'boa' to serve images.
sigh...
its nice to see microsoft embracing open source software like that.
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you know, i remember the first day a linux system could run that without diving...
sniff.
baby's all grown up!
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i live in boston, and the irony is that, until just recently, there was no cable modem or DSL actually IN boston itself but there was full service in every dinky little suburb around it.
apparently this had to do with the strange monopoly situation which i am not entirely clear on (or, strictly speaking, care about). just give me my damn bandwidth!:)
i had this self sustaining GP system wherein a bunch of program-creatures would vie for artificial resources. they could also kill ant eat each other and choose who they wanted to mate with.
the trickiest part was designing the environment so that they wouldn't breed so much that they consumed their environment in the first dozen steps.
in one run, there was a bug in the breed function where they could mate with themselves. it wouldn't produce anything. we also had a 'sing' function so that they could perform basic communication. after they 'evolved' for a few hours, we came back to find them all stuck in various corners singing and 'breeding' with themselves.
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I think this thinking is a matter of perspective. Terminator/ Conan had a mostly naked unrealistically beefy CA Gov. as the hero buy I always thought it was aimed at men.
When men see a musclebound male hero it makes sense to them but don't understand why a woman would want to see a tweaked woman hero. I think its because we don't expect women to see the female in the same way we do.
For women who thought Conan was sexy, perhaps they might wonder why all these boys like to see it?
Of course, my gf liked lara's big boobs too so perhaps I am totally off...
If this costs $400 plus $120/ year and you figure a 2 year life cycle, plus say 3 premium games/ year at (say) $10 each, thats $700 over two years.
I buy games at around $50 (or less) so that means 14 games on a normal PC. I presume that the buyers would have a PC as well (or you would have to figure the broadband costs into this as well)
Maybe I am out of the loop, but 14 games seems like a lot of games to purchase over 2 years and actually play for enough time to make worth it. Most of my games I buy a year out for $30 making it even less worth it to buy this system.
Of course, you don't have to pay to upgrade your PC to a r33t game machine...
I agree.
/. So, until I get run over by one of those things, ride on!
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I am familiar with Boost. It may handle the specific example of strings that I give but not the general case that I am trying to describe. STL also offers some generic programming tools.
For instance, I used the method to implement 3D graphics matrix math to reduce multiplication count by using templates to exploit special cases.
I rarely see this in template discussions but the thing I love about templates is the ability to do template "closures" for lazy evaluation whereby instead of returning the result of a function, you return an object which represents the application of the function to those arguements. This object then gets cast into the final resultant object.
Why?
Lets say you are concatenating a bunch of strings. Normally, you would create the concatenation of two strings, then concatenate the third, etc. Depending upon your string implementation, you could reallocate the string results many times.
However, with template closures, the concatenation would return an object which pointed to the two objects that were to be concatenated. Then the second concatenation would point to that object plus the next string. When the entire object was finally actualized by, say, setting it to a variable or as a function argument, then it would create the final string. It could then gather the lengths of all the strings, create a single result string, and then copy everything into it.
And it wouldn't look any more complicated than:
string a = b + c + d + e;
or whatever and it would still be optimally efficient.
The big downside is that error messages are all but useless.
I don't know physics but...
How much hydrogen would a solar array the size of a modern gas station produce? Figure that the array was 10k sq ft, there was sunlight 50% of the time to varying degrees, etc. Perhaps, if you just consider more southern, sunnier areas.
I stayed at a resort in the bahamas that was powered by a 100Kw solar array that cost $100k total and consisted of 5-8? 8x8 panels. It would seem that would produce a fair amount of power and it was much smaller then 10k sq ft.
Any physics folks know?
This is an argument for freeing music if I ever saw one. The biggest complaint with online music seemed to be that the "artist" never saw the money- but it doesn't look like they do anyway. Why not simply acknowledge that the times have changed, technology has changed and that things aren't what they once were. Musicians can make a living from performances and the love of the job. Same with programmers.
Serving Cache is like serving static pages (depending upon the degree of caching..).
When I was there, I found indigenous people everywhere in the desert. I don't think anywhere is really "remote", unless one just means from themselves.
If I have 1000 individual PCs running at full load, and I replace them with this machine, does that mean they will still run at the same rate? What is the maximum number of virtual PCs you can run without seeing a performance hit? If I run fewer virtual servers, does that mean each gets more bang? Whats the scoop?
> In general, going online in any form, especially gaming, is usually considered for Geeks in the US
:)
i'd always thought this was true buy i met so many "non-traditional" players in asheron's call that i changed my mind. i played with carpenters from canada and female lawyers in massachusetts. i was one of the youngest players in my group at 30. reading about the baseball players and EQ proves the point. hell, even my mother plays nintendo (don't you talk sh*t about my mother!
computer gaming, even online gaming, is no longer just for geeky males. (like me)
someone please mod this up as funny! i loved it!
oh wait, was it serious?
wait a minute. your all correct that the poster is off kilter, but why does that reflect on all slashdotters or even all liberals?
is it fair to say that the far-right nazi's sucked ass and therefore conservatives are all evil?
i am less concerned about the posters naive statements then your sweeping remarks about them.
> Talking about assasinating one's leader in a
> country like that is illegal at best.
that would be illegal in the US as well
yepper. i have the 7500 and you can have two separate screens. my second screen is a 21" at 1280x1024 or so which is independant of the lcd.
it also has a 3d graphics card but while it works, its not the best way to go for 3d.
not to mention it weighs as much as a volkswagon.
i heard they are also using 'boa' to serve images.
sigh...
its nice to see microsoft embracing open source software like that.
you know, i remember the first day a linux system could run that without diving...
sniff.
baby's all grown up!
i live in boston, and the irony is that, until just recently, there was no cable modem or DSL actually IN boston itself but there was full service in every dinky little suburb around it.
:)
apparently this had to do with the strange monopoly situation which i am not entirely clear on (or, strictly speaking, care about). just give me my damn bandwidth!
could you detect heart rate, or whether someone is lying? those would have excellent UI uses (particularly in the pornsoft industry :)
how about minute differences between people to determine who is using the computer?
no good- i got spam'd and i DID use an alternate registry. i don't think this would effect my domain however....
with linux caching, this isn't really necessary. with enough memory, the whole thing will be in memory anyway
how long before linux can run (well) on such an architecture?
they should have waited to crack it until it became some standard and there was tons of music distributed with it....
i guess i'm just thinking like a criminal though.
...back in college, what, '94?
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i had this self sustaining GP system wherein a bunch of program-creatures would vie for artificial resources. they could also kill ant eat each other and choose who they wanted to mate with.
the trickiest part was designing the environment so that they wouldn't breed so much that they consumed their environment in the first dozen steps.
in one run, there was a bug in the breed function where they could mate with themselves. it wouldn't produce anything. we also had a 'sing' function so that they could perform basic communication. after they 'evolved' for a few hours, we came back to find them all stuck in various corners singing and 'breeding' with themselves.
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> labtops that are more power hungry...large
> screens, huge displays, super
> surround sound with extra bass, huge
> processors...the list goes on...
ooh sounds good! i want one!