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  1. Re:Oh, wow! on Inside the PlayStation Suite SDK · · Score: 1
    PS3 support. I don't care. Probably requires a firmware update in order for it to work, and they are probably focused on the PS3's replacement. This is also an Open Beta. It's easier to control errors when you're only supporting 1 platform for the Beta. Their will probably be a staged beta period where other platforms are tested prior to a release version.

    Compared to what you normally have to pay for the privilege of developing on any of the game platforms this is a nice and easy deal to work with.

    Given that the GameEngine2D wasn't apart of the closed Beta I wouldn't put additional engines like a 3D Engine out of the realm of possibility for release at this point in time.

  2. Re:So lets see if I get this on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 1

    Actually a message does get sent and is sent in just about every quantum entanglement experiments like this. The problem is always that you need one of the participants to communicate the information to determine the correlation or non-correlation (translated into a basic binary message). That information cannot go faster then the speed of light so even though a message was sent there is no way to know that the message is there outside of the bounds of the speed of light.

  3. So lets see if I get this on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 1

    Alice get Ia and Bob gets IIa and Victor get Ib and IIb. Alice and Bob do their measurements. Alice and Bob then can compare their measurements and find that Victor was fiddling with the equipment on his end or not. What constitutions "no communication passes between them during the experiment"? Does Victor have to do his measurements to determine that the experiment is over, or Can I shoot Victor as the only one who knows whether he diddled the equipment or not and his message would still exist in the hands of Alice and Bob?

  4. Re:Java is poor for memory-intensive codes on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    If you're having a memory bottle neck between RAM and CPU then you need to upgrade to a quad channel mother board. Cache lines can be an issue because object padding doesn't work as well in Java as it does in C and C++. However, if you're coding to the cache line size and you get a CPU with more of less cache then you originally coded for you end up with unpredictable performance issues. At that point just tear out the cache. The Wii U is using an processor that has the Ram on the CPU to give the highest bandwidth possible. Try coding to cache lines when you don't have l1 limits. I'd expect anything like a server to have a significant portion to be written in native code because you'll have access to things that a language like Java just wont have. Like CPU affinity. As far as I'm concerned all the current languages are lacking a good clean way to write concurrent or parallel code. Sure they all have something but they end up looking like old spaghetti code when they are used for anything major.

  5. Re:Not a ranking of the best or the most on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It can help show trends though. I wouldn't put much stock in C and C++ recovering ether given the numbers. More likely Java has continued to take serious blows to its user base. Java mostly resembles C and C++ code so the fleeing away from Java is what I would attribute the increase in C and C++ coders. The market is basically ripe to have Java cut out of the market. Which is unfortunate, but I understand. Ever since Oracle put its doom cloud up I've had doubts about continuing projects in Java and have been flirting with other languages to see if something else could replace it for my personal uses. Otherwise I'm left with .net since that's what my work likes.

  6. Re:Can't wait!!! on The Three Flavors of Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Windows already had a homogeneous look and feel, and if they stopped changing it radically every other version they'd not have to try to change it again to another homogeneous look and feel.

  7. Re:kickstarter - run by brogrammers? on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 1
    You're assuming the some legal recourse is possible. Most stalking laws don't have cover Spam like conduct they Threats of Violence and safty. In KS in perticular

    Intentionally or recklessly engaging in a course of conduct targeted at a specific person which would cause a reasonable person in the circumstances of the targeted person to fear for such person's safety, or the safety of a member of such person's immediate family and the targeted person is actually placed in such fear

    See 21-3438

    So unless the Spam Harrasment is threatening physical violence you need to perform a hat trick to get any legal action unless the harassment is physical violence.

  8. Re:How did they get a patent... on Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD · · Score: 1

    They bought it from someone. If memory serves me it was sold by some charity. This patent has been around for a while. Worlds.com should be dead by now but they seam to have the life expectancy of SCO

  9. Re:Embrace Extend? on Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    In "Common" when humans say it uses Java they typically mean JavaScript. So to the Common Orc saying it's written in Java is meaningless babble. To a Common Programming Elf you'll get asked to clarify which you're using if there is any doubt.

  10. Re:Fix bugs first on Skyrim Is Getting Kinect Support, Dragon Shouts Included · · Score: 0

    They haven't fixed the game breaking bugs yet? From a programming perspective some of them were funny. Really how do you miss "7 active dragons half a world a way"

  11. Re:.localhost on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    Watch it get approved, and the ensuing anarchy

  12. Re:Interesting consequences on Artificial Neural Networks Demonstrate the Evolution of Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Not really. Think of it as a Mendel Square. Lets say the one who exploited got 4 children The ones who both shoveled got 2 children each The one who was exploited got 1 children The ones who both did not shovel got 0 children The advantage come in when both try to exploit the exploitation gene will be at a severe disadvantage. After all you cant have children if you don't dig yourself out of the hole or someone digs you out. Exploiting can be a big pay out but it can also be a death sentence.

  13. Re:A bit of a deceptive title on Artificial Neural Networks Demonstrate the Evolution of Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    What I'm saying is I've seen demonstrations of little robots that were built to play Soccer. They then set them into a breading program using a genetic algorithm and artificial neural networks and they evolved a method for communicating and recognizing team mates. What this article is about is a much lower form of intelligence than what has already been done. It's interesting only in how the application of game theory in artificial evolution. In terms of AI it's lack luster.

  14. A bit of a deceptive title on Artificial Neural Networks Demonstrate the Evolution of Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    The title made it sound like this was something big. In reality it's interesting but not that interesting. I've see this kind of thing before when they did something similar to get a "team" of robots to play a game together. Nice, but not human level intelligence. Heck it's not even cat or dog level intelligence. I was hoping this would be some kind of break though AI but really it's more disappointing reading the article.

  15. Re:And it took this long to "make the connection"? on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    Which is why you should be checking the sample size first. Saying "They found a small risk (from) a pair of bitewings, but not a full mouth series, which is multiple bitewings. That inconsistency is impossible to understand to me,". It's easy to understand IF you look at the sample sizes.

  16. Re:And it took this long to "make the connection"? on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    If that's the case then I'd like to see their sample size for full mouth x-rays. I'd bet it's smaller than the sample size for the partial/single bitwing and that could be the source of the vanishing connection. Basic statistics, if a known correlation exists, and you didn't find it in your particular sample check your sample size first. Throwing out the correlation because the smaller sample doesn't show what the larger sample does sounds a bit foolish, and if done that way would result in no correlation ever being found in anything.

  17. Re:But But But.... on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    Not worried until the X-ray powered cell phone is released.

  18. Finally on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 2

    A valid reason to avoid the dentist

  19. I'll settle for a Dallas fix on BioWare Announces Free DLC To Add More To the Mass Effect 3 Endings · · Score: 1

    Just have me wake up after being hit by the beam in ME1. It's a horrible way to think about it, but at least that ending will have been erased. It then puts you in a nice recursive replay loop, and that I can accept.

  20. You're Early on Minecraft Creator Announces Space Sandbox Game Mars Effect · · Score: 1

    The 1st is in a few more hours.

  21. Re:Isn't Attacked by the Immune System on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 1

    It is not possible for a provirus to spontaneously re-develop all of the necessary machinery for making a complete package. That's equivalent to making a typo in Word and accidentally producing a Shakespearean sonnet. It's a lot of very specific programming, not random noise.

    Viruses evolved those mechanisms once before and there is no reason to believe that they wouldn't be able to do so again. Lets say one mutation occurs that makes the virus just linger in the system longer increasing the changes that the patient gets infected with the original virus. That increases the number of copies, and because this version isn't attacked by the immune system lingers around again until the patient is infected again. Given enough time and enough random mutations it could become a threat again, and would have the added bonus of the immune system ignoring it. It's how evolution works. I'm not saying this would be over night, but for us to believe the virus wont do it because we created it is arrogance on the part of humanity.

  22. Re:Isn't Attacked by the Immune System on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 1

    So you've eliminated all forms of mutation? Doubtful since the sun is still on. I'm sure they've done everything possible to eliminate it's replication ability to "self replicate". However viruses have been shown to swap genes with other viruses and bacteria. It would be a bit arrogant to believe that a random event wont occure and cause the gene that allows it to slip by the immune system won't get picked up by other more liberal viruses or bacteria, or for it to get changed in some other fashion. Saying it cant replicate and bread sounds like the GMO engineers saying that their plant can't breed and won't infect the general plant population. All it will take is 1 mistake.

  23. Isn't Attacked by the Immune System on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds nice but once it mutates into something harmful what are you going to do?

  24. Re:All in memory? on Java Web Attack Installs Malware In RAM · · Score: 1
    Unless the JVM has been changed to stream in jar's for applets and for web start I don't see how what you describe works. Applets and Web Start need an initial bit of code to start that is supposed to be downloaded and will reside in ether the browser cache for applets or the web start cache for jnlp files. From the exploits description that is exactly what happens. It downloads a jar runs it gets out of the sand box though a known exploit then it download the DLL into memory. The jar is the actual dropper they are looking for because it's responsible for putting the DLL into memory in the first place. The jar should trip the AV if it's working properly which it should recognize it as code intended on downloading and executing additional code and trigger a full memory sweep.

    See also Webstar: The Java Web Start software caches (stores) the entire application locally on your computer.
    Applets operate in a similar fashion and if there is a way to get web start or applets to load entirely by being streamed off the net then that's the bug that needs to be fixed. They always have the initial code downloaded. Sure they might do other things after that, but you're suggesting that they can get around that starting code that begins the exploit, and I don't see anything that says that's how it works. Until you break out of the Web Start/Applet Sand Box java doesn't have a full IO for you to play with.

  25. Re:All in memory? on Java Web Attack Installs Malware In RAM · · Score: 2

    But the Jar is the exploit and that has to be downloaded for the JVM to load it. You won't find the DLL but that's not really the exploit. Any jar that is designed to get out of the sand box without being signed should be locked up by the AntiVirus as a code exploit.