I'd say the other big role to worry about would be Gollum.
I don't know, I thought the guy who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings did a pretty ok job. What's his name again? I bet he would play it again given enough money!;-)
Weird, over the years I had thought the rating scale for the *cough* completely unbiased and fair game review industry *cough* was in the range of [7..10]. A 6 in my book reads as a -1, pretty much an "avoid even if it is free" kind of rating.
Perhaps they should have compared violent video games to alcohol abuse rather then smoking.
Every cigarette is bad for you, but that can't be right for video games. Zelda is violent, but hardly a thread to yourself or the people sitting next to you. Video games also hardly suffer from a 'second hand look' syndrome.
Alcohol is addictive. Long term use can have negative effects on your body and can lead to issues in society. Seems like those qualities have more potential as a comparison.
There are other secrets to smart kids. One of the biggest benefits my kid (2 years old now) will get is the fact that I am convinced that good parenting is the key to success because I had such great parents myself. Not just because I am smart (*cough* sorry).
When I was young I went through the 'I will never be like my parents' phase. Once I left home I started to look back and acknowledge that 'my parents where pretty ok'. Now, 20 years later and with a kid myself, I am of the opinion that if I can be half the parent that my parents where then my kid will grow up to be among the happiest kids around.
I grew up in an environment based on encouragement, rationalization, consequences and freedom. I was encouraged to try new things and do my best at things that wouldn't come easy (learn a 3rd language). It was explained to me why certain decision where not the right one (playing soccer indoors) and what would happen if I do them anyway (having to clean up and pay for the broken window). I was given the freedom to make my own mistakes and learn from them.
Sorry, didn't RTFA, but did they patent this cute idea? It sounds like fun, something that I might want on my cellphone even. Willing to pay for it, but as a developer for a large cellphone component maker I could probably create this application myself. If the idea is patented, and from what I have heard from patent lawyers this sounds rather patentable, it would prevent a quick and widespread adoption. The biggest problem is that though the idea is innovative, it is hardly remarkable. It falls into the category of "we thought of it first", rather then "we spend a huge budget on research to come up with this innovation for which we need some exclusive time in the market to recoup our cost and make a reasonable profit".
I just put together a new box using the Asus P5E3 Deluxe. Funny thing is that I considered that motherboard to be a decent high-end board, not state-of-the-art. It's affordable, fully featured and apparently capable of the next gen chips.
Nothing dramatic, but surely the topic poster is incorrectly claiming that Intel is hyping a chip that can't be expected to work in the market.
Compared to cryptographic algorithms, floating point math isn't that much more complex then integer math. Also, floating point math is exact since floating points representations (like IEEE 754) are eventually all calculations and representations in bits which are always exactly reproducible.
I don't believe I will ever read "A New Kind of Science" as I have many other books in front of that one on my list.
I have very mixed feelings about the book "A New Kind of Science". I did in fact read it and am still upset that such a badly written book (style) might at the same time be one of the few books displaying (but not proving) a key insight that links science and math.
I'm not sure if anyone has managed to get past the 'I'm a genius (read asshole)' parts of the book and filter the little content, and many pwitty pictures, into an abstract that contains the insight that even simple mathematical constructs can hold the wonders that lie between chaos and static/repetitive-states.
* huge monthly fees, just for storage and rest
* insane limitations on where you are allowed to explore. Exploring certain areas will get you BANNED!
* most NPC AI is so bad I can't imaging the game maker spend much time on it
Also
* grinding can suck in this game
* character creation screen consists of a single 'random roll', admittedly I got lucky
* there seems to be confusion about whether you respawn after death
I hope they are smart enough to figure out the dangers of stalling a car while it is in transit. Not just for the passengers (whoops, there goes the power breaks) but for those around (at the bottom of the hill) as well.
The right approach should be to wait till the car is parked, then prevent it from being started and send out the GPS coordinates so the police can come and pick it up.
I like Process Explorer as a replacement for taskmanager. It's almost the opposite of what this thread is about, it looks like a bloated taskmanager, but it really does manage to show you simple process info without going crazy. Comes without an installer (yeah!).
Best feature, right click a process and pick "Search Online".
Well fireworks are legal to set off in your backyard, they're small bombs... If the bomb is big enough to damage someone else's property then they might arrest you for criminal damage, but if it just explodes in your back yard and makes a crater in your lawn noone will care.
That kind of freedom is wonderful, but why don't you take it a step further: How about if your neighbor puts together a bomb big enough to take out more then his own house.
Is he free to do so "as long as he doesn't hurt someone"?
Or would you say that there are limits to this "freedom"?
How about if he mixes in nuclear material (dirty bomb), or heck builds a nuke...
So Darth Vader gets screwed again. Lets face it, the whole series is really about him but noooo, his glory robbing little snot faced kid has got to prance around and steal his thunder. Typical younger generation...
The name "Joop Houtkooper" is most likely Dutch in origin. Houtkoper means "wood buyer", the double 'o' in Houtkooper is likely an old style spelling (1600's).
#1: sizeof(pszSrc) is 4 if pszSrc is a pointer, not a staticly-allocated array. #2: szDest is left unterminated if strlen(pszSrc) equals MAX #3: Writing "szDest[MAX]" overruns the array #4: Misuse of the size parameter to strncat, it should be the space left, not the total space in the array. #5: Author of that code doesn't understand strlen;)
Not only is space really big and our influence on it really small (so far), but the age of the universe is huge compared to the time we have been capable of making an impact which might be visible by ETI's looking for us. If we take earth history, with us humans in particular, as a measure of what is needed to get to a civilization that can be seen from another part of the universe then we might notice that it has only been very recent since shapes and development on or around earth might be visible and taken as a sign of intelligence present. Us humans have only been making an impact in the last couple of centuries (give or take a few 1000 years). So, relative to the age of the universe (13 odd billion years) we have barely started participating in the race of finding others. The big question is how long human civilization will last and continue to grow its influence on our cosmic surrounding in a way that will make it more and more likely to be picked up by ETI's. I find it hard to predict if we will even be here in the same shape and form a 1000 years from now (human singularity, natural or unnatural catastrophe). The distribution in time of when ETI's might have been able to show themselves might be the same. If there is only a visible window of a few 1000 years before a ETI civilization passes back into a state of non-visibleness then that significantly reduces our chance of finding any.
I studied CS about 20 years ago (started in 1988) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I didn't know it at the time but apparently the CS curriculum in Utrecht was leaning strongly towards the theoretic knowledge rather then teaching practical experience. I found theoretical computer science to be very difficult and sometimes so abstract it was hard to see how it related to day-to-day computer use. Turing machines, Set theory, computer language paradigms, Algorithm Complexity theory, etc. Now, 20 years later, I notice that nearly the only relevant knowledge I have from my education is all that theoretical stuff. It still holds and can be applied to the algorithms I need to understand/create to do my job as a staff engineer. The practical classes at the time dealt with what then where modern computers and most of that knowledge is now dated and near obsolete.
All that said, my first advise is to do what you enjoy though:-)
Make fun of these people all you want, but as far as I am concerned these people have a better chance of their wishes/beliefs to come true (meeting an alien) then a religious person has of hoping to talk to any of his divine entities (god, christ, angles,...). To be really fair in this comparison, those waiting for aliens "have" a chance.
- peace - clean water - clean air - housing - electricity
Hey, you live in California too??
- peace: The best reason for War the US has to offer. - clean water: I sure as hell don't drink it from the tab, and some people here can't even afford to buy drinking water (more expensive then gas) - clean air: Ever been to LA? - housing: renting 2 bedroom apt at $2000/month till I can get my $750K 4 bedroom house (no yard). - electricity: 2 more weeks of heat and no water and we will loose that as well. Rolling blackouts where discussed on the radio again today.
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I'd say the other big role to worry about would be Gollum.
;-)
I don't know, I thought the guy who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings did a pretty ok job. What's his name again? I bet he would play it again given enough money!
How about
*sigh*
Weird, over the years I had thought the rating scale for the *cough* completely unbiased and fair game review industry *cough* was in the range of [7..10]. A 6 in my book reads as a -1, pretty much an "avoid even if it is free" kind of rating.
Perhaps they should have compared violent video games to alcohol abuse rather then smoking.
Every cigarette is bad for you, but that can't be right for video games. Zelda is violent, but hardly a thread to yourself or the people sitting next to you. Video games also hardly suffer from a 'second hand look' syndrome.
Alcohol is addictive. Long term use can have negative effects on your body and can lead to issues in society. Seems like those qualities have more potential as a comparison.
Education, education, education.
There are other secrets to smart kids. One of the biggest benefits my kid (2 years old now) will get is the fact that I am convinced that good parenting is the key to success because I had such great parents myself. Not just because I am smart (*cough* sorry).
When I was young I went through the 'I will never be like my parents' phase. Once I left home I started to look back and acknowledge that 'my parents where pretty ok'. Now, 20 years later and with a kid myself, I am of the opinion that if I can be half the parent that my parents where then my kid will grow up to be among the happiest kids around.
I grew up in an environment based on encouragement, rationalization, consequences and freedom. I was encouraged to try new things and do my best at things that wouldn't come easy (learn a 3rd language). It was explained to me why certain decision where not the right one (playing soccer indoors) and what would happen if I do them anyway (having to clean up and pay for the broken window). I was given the freedom to make my own mistakes and learn from them.
Sorry, didn't RTFA, but did they patent this cute idea? It sounds like fun, something that I might want on my cellphone even. Willing to pay for it, but as a developer for a large cellphone component maker I could probably create this application myself. If the idea is patented, and from what I have heard from patent lawyers this sounds rather patentable, it would prevent a quick and widespread adoption. The biggest problem is that though the idea is innovative, it is hardly remarkable. It falls into the category of "we thought of it first", rather then "we spend a huge budget on research to come up with this innovation for which we need some exclusive time in the market to recoup our cost and make a reasonable profit".
I just put together a new box using the Asus P5E3 Deluxe. Funny thing is that I considered that motherboard to be a decent high-end board, not state-of-the-art. It's affordable, fully featured and apparently capable of the next gen chips.
Nothing dramatic, but surely the topic poster is incorrectly claiming that Intel is hyping a chip that can't be expected to work in the market.
Compared to cryptographic algorithms, floating point math isn't that much more complex then integer math. Also, floating point math is exact since floating points representations (like IEEE 754) are eventually all calculations and representations in bits which are always exactly reproducible.
I don't believe I will ever read "A New Kind of Science" as I have many other books in front of that one on my list.
I have very mixed feelings about the book "A New Kind of Science". I did in fact read it and am still upset that such a badly written book (style) might at the same time be one of the few books displaying (but not proving) a key insight that links science and math.
I'm not sure if anyone has managed to get past the 'I'm a genius (read asshole)' parts of the book and filter the little content, and many pwitty pictures, into an abstract that contains the insight that even simple mathematical constructs can hold the wonders that lie between chaos and static/repetitive-states.
I call false advertising!!
* huge monthly fees, just for storage and rest
* insane limitations on where you are allowed to explore. Exploring certain areas will get you BANNED!
* most NPC AI is so bad I can't imaging the game maker spend much time on it
Also
* grinding can suck in this game
* character creation screen consists of a single 'random roll', admittedly I got lucky
* there seems to be confusion about whether you respawn after death
but, but, if I search for "Google" using Google, then the first hit is Google. So why would you redesign it? :-)
I hope they are smart enough to figure out the dangers of stalling a car while it is in transit. Not just for the passengers (whoops, there goes the power breaks) but for those around (at the bottom of the hill) as well.
The right approach should be to wait till the car is parked, then prevent it from being started and send out the GPS coordinates so the police can come and pick it up.
I like Process Explorer as a replacement for taskmanager. It's almost the opposite of what this thread is about, it looks like a bloated taskmanager, but it really does manage to show you simple process info without going crazy. Comes without an installer (yeah!).
Best feature, right click a process and pick "Search Online".
That kind of freedom is wonderful, but why don't you take it a step further: How about if your neighbor puts together a bomb big enough to take out more then his own house.
Is he free to do so "as long as he doesn't hurt someone"?
Or would you say that there are limits to this "freedom"?
How about if he mixes in nuclear material (dirty bomb), or heck builds a nuke...
I thought the hip thing was GPU based supercomputing. NVidia even has a dedicated GPU based, desktop sized, scalable supercomputer line called Tesla.
The basic Tesla unit c870 = 518 Giga flops for ~$1300.
Tesla s870 = 2 Terra flop for ~$12000 (still desktop size)
NVidia Tesla
Read his blog: http://darthside.blogspot.com/
Amazing story.
Hey, I am from Holland and live in America making me a legal alien....oh, nm.
The name "Joop Houtkooper" is most likely Dutch in origin. Houtkoper means "wood buyer", the double 'o' in Houtkooper is likely an old style spelling (1600's).
note: this information is worth less then $0.02
How to siphon gasoline
oh, lighten up (no pun intended).
The following code snippets assume pszSrc is smaller or equal to 50 chars
// Example #1
// Example #2
// Example #3
// Example #4
// Example #5
Which of the above is safe?Not a single one!
#1: sizeof(pszSrc) is 4 if pszSrc is a pointer, not a staticly-allocated array.
#2: szDest is left unterminated if strlen(pszSrc) equals MAX
#3: Writing "szDest[MAX]" overruns the array
#4: Misuse of the size parameter to strncat, it should be the space left, not the total space in the array.
#5: Author of that code doesn't understand strlen
Sorry, you didn't get the job.
The above snippet was taken from here
Not only is space really big and our influence on it really small (so far), but the age of the universe is huge compared to the time we have been capable of making an impact which might be visible by ETI's looking for us. If we take earth history, with us humans in particular, as a measure of what is needed to get to a civilization that can be seen from another part of the universe then we might notice that it has only been very recent since shapes and development on or around earth might be visible and taken as a sign of intelligence present. Us humans have only been making an impact in the last couple of centuries (give or take a few 1000 years). So, relative to the age of the universe (13 odd billion years) we have barely started participating in the race of finding others. The big question is how long human civilization will last and continue to grow its influence on our cosmic surrounding in a way that will make it more and more likely to be picked up by ETI's. I find it hard to predict if we will even be here in the same shape and form a 1000 years from now (human singularity, natural or unnatural catastrophe). The distribution in time of when ETI's might have been able to show themselves might be the same. If there is only a visible window of a few 1000 years before a ETI civilization passes back into a state of non-visibleness then that significantly reduces our chance of finding any.
just a thought.
I studied CS about 20 years ago (started in 1988) in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I didn't know it at the time but apparently the CS curriculum in Utrecht was leaning strongly towards the theoretic knowledge rather then teaching practical experience. I found theoretical computer science to be very difficult and sometimes so abstract it was hard to see how it related to day-to-day computer use. Turing machines, Set theory, computer language paradigms, Algorithm Complexity theory, etc. Now, 20 years later, I notice that nearly the only relevant knowledge I have from my education is all that theoretical stuff. It still holds and can be applied to the algorithms I need to understand/create to do my job as a staff engineer. The practical classes at the time dealt with what then where modern computers and most of that knowledge is now dated and near obsolete.
:-)
All that said, my first advise is to do what you enjoy though
Make fun of these people all you want, but as far as I am concerned these people have a better chance of their wishes/beliefs to come true (meeting an alien) then a religious person has of hoping to talk to any of his divine entities (god, christ, angles, ...). To be really fair in this comparison, those waiting for aliens "have" a chance.
Ugh, neither you nor the mod that modded me Troll recognized the sarcasm in my post :-(
But really, you thought you actually had to point out to me that Beijing and Bagdad are worse places to live then California?
A big chunk of the world is denied basic such as:
- peace
- clean water
- clean air
- housing
- electricity
Hey, you live in California too??
- peace: The best reason for War the US has to offer.
- clean water: I sure as hell don't drink it from the tab, and some people here can't even afford to buy drinking water (more expensive then gas)
- clean air: Ever been to LA?
- housing: renting 2 bedroom apt at $2000/month till I can get my $750K 4 bedroom house (no yard).
- electricity: 2 more weeks of heat and no water and we will loose that as well. Rolling blackouts where discussed on the radio again today.
But f&^%ck all that...I gots an iPhone baby!