Interesting enough, last week at a conference dinner we talked at length about Hitler, death camps, child pron and the current state of affairs in both Germany and the UK. This was in Germany. There was not "shutdown" in thinking for any topic.
Of course you have a point. But so did the original speaker (for example what was the follow on?). That point isn't perhaps that its wrong per say, but that law and order should not be at the expense of freedom and liberty. I don't know what was originally meant, but when the crowd chants for a stronger iron fist to deal with what they perceive to be the problem, they are almost never concerned with details such as due process or Justice.
Its not the first time this sort of "3d" has had a day in the sun, it just never seems to last. Quake 3 supported stereo vision since its release, so 3d for games has been there for quite a while and yet its still not popular. I also think you have hit the nail on the head. Our brains are already getting most of the 3d out of a 2d image in the first place. The parallax is not a big addition and adds more problems that it solves. Hell in far shots (where close and far things are far away from the camera), parallax doesn't even play a roll in real scenes.
I avoid 3d films because they don't add anything for me, and they charge extra.
And for vastly longer than "ages", grains were not part of our diet at all.
Grains have been the bulk of Europeans diet for longer than 5000 years, and at least an important component for more than 10000 years. Its longer than ages and much longer than the "obesity" problem.
Crime - particularly violent crime - is at pretty much the lowest point in recorded history...
The decline has been accelerating recently too. My google foo is broken so i can't find the link. However it is still true that the US has quite a high violent crime rate compared to a lot (not all) of the EU countries and places like Canada.
Water takes about 400 years to go full cycle from surface to bottom to surface again.
Do you have a reference for that. No really i am serious. I have seen figures from 100-1000 years for ocean turnover. Yet i have failed miserably at finding good references.
No this is false. Otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to xray children now would you. Or live in Denver, or fly, or be an air hostess or etc.... When the dosage is *below* the background what risk is there? And what part of conservative (liability is the main reason for that) don't you understand. There is no consensus.
If you are incapable of action without a firearm, you are incapable with one.
The only thing issuing guns to everyone will do, will up the total number of accidental gun related deaths massively at best, to all out massacre where everyone assumes the other people are the terrorists.
The effects are well studied to a point. However the "linear damage model" verse the "threshold model" is still very much contested. The latest data tends to support a threshold model.
Guide lines typically follow a linear model simply because its more conservative. Don't forget places like Denver get much higher background doses that most places yet we don't in fact see any increass in --well anything. Living in Denver would be like some from a sea level city getting a *lot* of xrays every year...
Well One company I contracted for developed a java desktop app. After acceptance testing they told us they were really happy it wasn't a slow java app.
GUI responsiveness does have a lot to do with they way its coded. Its not like there isn't some unresponsive C/C++ gui apps out there. They only difference its that if a java program is slow its java fault, but if a C/C++ app or whatever is slow --well everyone knows C is fast.......
this is unfortunately not true. They are not legally bound, and they can take you to court and you can try that as a defense. It works not so often, and you still are going to need 500k in legal fees just to get started.
Programming language R&D has kind of stalled for a decade.
No it hasn't. However mainstream languages are still at *least* 20 years behind the state of the art. And the university based language/compilers are no where near polished enough for mainstream use. Think the early days of templates in C++, the error messages were totally uninformative. If you got one at all.
But i absolutely agree we need better tools than Java, C#, etc. I just don't agree that java is not just a valid tool in that toolbox as the others. Of course there are some emerging langs. Scalar is interesting thou i have yet to try it.
The sad fact is that it worked. The lack of out of the box compatible java support was and still is a serious blow to desktop java. Its really what push java to server side.
Why is it sad, well its not java the language that would have been awesome. But the jvm runtime that would be as close to platform independent as you can get (you can never be 100% ie macs only have one mouse button). Java is not the only language you can use for the jvm (its also not slow anymore with a few very specific exceptions).
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More personnel isn't generally safer. It can make you less safe.
Interesting enough, last week at a conference dinner we talked at length about Hitler, death camps, child pron and the current state of affairs in both Germany and the UK. This was in Germany. There was not "shutdown" in thinking for any topic.
Of course you have a point. But so did the original speaker (for example what was the follow on?). That point isn't perhaps that its wrong per say, but that law and order should not be at the expense of freedom and liberty. I don't know what was originally meant, but when the crowd chants for a stronger iron fist to deal with what they perceive to be the problem, they are almost never concerned with details such as due process or Justice.
Its not the first time this sort of "3d" has had a day in the sun, it just never seems to last. Quake 3 supported stereo vision since its release, so 3d for games has been there for quite a while and yet its still not popular. I also think you have hit the nail on the head. Our brains are already getting most of the 3d out of a 2d image in the first place. The parallax is not a big addition and adds more problems that it solves. Hell in far shots (where close and far things are far away from the camera), parallax doesn't even play a roll in real scenes.
I avoid 3d films because they don't add anything for me, and they charge extra.
With software even a decade is perhaps too long.
Care to back that up with a proper study citation?
And for vastly longer than "ages", grains were not part of our diet at all.
Grains have been the bulk of Europeans diet for longer than 5000 years, and at least an important component for more than 10000 years. Its longer than ages and much longer than the "obesity" problem.
Crime - particularly violent crime - is at pretty much the lowest point in recorded history...
The decline has been accelerating recently too. My google foo is broken so i can't find the link. However it is still true that the US has quite a high violent crime rate compared to a lot (not all) of the EU countries and places like Canada.
Yea, But RS will be the first yelling bloody murder when someone takes emacs, makes it more awesome and sells it without the source.
You know what they use to say about --well all that math we now use for quantum physics.
Turtles for the win!
-Ray damage is cumulative over your lifetime, per the current consensus.
NO there is NOT a consensus on this. Thats my point. Read the bloody literature.
I thought it was Energy/time=power ;)
Water takes about 400 years to go full cycle from surface to bottom to surface again.
Do you have a reference for that. No really i am serious. I have seen figures from 100-1000 years for ocean turnover. Yet i have failed miserably at finding good references.
No this is false. Otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to xray children now would you. Or live in Denver, or fly, or be an air hostess or etc.... When the dosage is *below* the background what risk is there? And what part of conservative (liability is the main reason for that) don't you understand. There is no consensus.
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Oh i agree, but look at any steam story and a lot of post here are backing up how awesome steam is.
We can't that here now. /. group think likes steam, but since its also DRM, we now have to modify the statement to "badly designed DRM". ;)
If you are incapable of action without a firearm, you are incapable with one.
The only thing issuing guns to everyone will do, will up the total number of accidental gun related deaths massively at best, to all out massacre where everyone assumes the other people are the terrorists.
The effects are well studied to a point. However the "linear damage model" verse the "threshold model" is still very much contested. The latest data tends to support a threshold model.
Guide lines typically follow a linear model simply because its more conservative. Don't forget places like Denver get much higher background doses that most places yet we don't in fact see any increass in --well anything. Living in Denver would be like some from a sea level city getting a *lot* of xrays every year...
Well One company I contracted for developed a java desktop app. After acceptance testing they told us they were really happy it wasn't a slow java app.
GUI responsiveness does have a lot to do with they way its coded. Its not like there isn't some unresponsive C/C++ gui apps out there. They only difference its that if a java program is slow its java fault, but if a C/C++ app or whatever is slow --well everyone knows C is fast.......
this is unfortunately not true. They are not legally bound, and they can take you to court and you can try that as a defense. It works not so often, and you still are going to need 500k in legal fees just to get started.
You know dam well the patent suite is not against java. I'm starting to think I am feeding a troll, or worse, a language bigot.
Programming language R&D has kind of stalled for a decade.
No it hasn't. However mainstream languages are still at *least* 20 years behind the state of the art. And the university based language/compilers are no where near polished enough for mainstream use. Think the early days of templates in C++, the error messages were totally uninformative. If you got one at all.
But i absolutely agree we need better tools than Java, C#, etc. I just don't agree that java is not just a valid tool in that toolbox as the others. Of course there are some emerging langs. Scalar is interesting thou i have yet to try it.
Real programmers solve problems with tools that are appropriate for the job. They don't go all Scientology on "forbidden" tools.
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Unless its perl written as a one liner regular expression.
The sad fact is that it worked. The lack of out of the box compatible java support was and still is a serious blow to desktop java. Its really what push java to server side.
Why is it sad, well its not java the language that would have been awesome. But the jvm runtime that would be as close to platform independent as you can get (you can never be 100% ie macs only have one mouse button). Java is not the only language you can use for the jvm (its also not slow anymore with a few very specific exceptions).