He didn't. He said that it was too slow due to swapping, so they built a server with 192GB of RAM. The reference wasn't about how slow building maps is, but relation to an old system that had 128 bytes of ram, and the fact that they can now build a system for less money that has over 9 orders of magnitude more of RAM.
It had nothing to do with actual efficiency, and I suspect that they will optimize the code (or you will just have to build it slowly with swapping).
It's worth noting that most benchmarks use a certain version of popular games. If next version breaks benchmark functionality in a significant way, testers simply continue using old version.
Then again, has crysis 2 ever been used a serious benchmark? The game actually looked worse then crysis (especially warhead) in terms of graphics in spite of having higher polygon counts and such, and was designed from ground up to work on machines that would never be able to run original crysis or warhead (current gen consoles).
I'm pretty certain that it's very much a business of an adult raising a child to know that his/her child has started masturbating. Problem arises when they (adults) react in a childish/stupid way to it. A good parent will put this information in good use.
Granted most parents that come from puritan cultures tend to react to this information very badly.
The easy solution is to sandbox the entire browser and all of it's plugins. Try sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com/) if you're running windows and are paranoid enough to do that.
No red flags for microsoft there really. It has nokia as its bitch thanks to Elop, and unlike google, it paid something in line of 1/16 of the price that google ended up footing for MMI.
Here's a simplified version of how trading on stock market and modern flash trading works:
Party A puts stocks for sale. It specifies initial and minimum selling price. Party B wants to buy stock that A sells. It puts a buy offer for stock, with initial and maximum buying price.
Party A and B find each other, and if sale and buy order sums match, trade happens.
What flash trader C does is abuse the fact that he has a supercomputer with extremely low latency on the trading floor, rather then a system connected from outside. C sees that both A and B are interested seconds before A and B find each other, first tests how low A will sell by buying 1 piece of stock at a time for lower and lower until the sale no longer happens. Then C places an offer for amount of stock that B wants to buy at lowest possible price that A will sell for. At the same time, C goes through similar process with B, only selling stocks little by little to find maximum buying price.
Then C simply sells all the stock it bought from A to B and pockets the difference. All this is possible because of latency before searches for trade made by A and B find each other that C doesn't suffer from.
Reading stuff like this makes me wonder why people aren't upgrading to 3.6 en masse. Sounds awfully lot like vista rollout, with people upgrading to xp.
This story isn't about investing. It's about flash trading, skimming off the top of the market taking a share of trades as they are just about to happen.
Essentially, if you do any stock investment, these are the people that take a share of every purchase and sell you make by intercepting it as it's about to happen, testing for maximum buy/minimum sell value and trading both with you and the party you would have been trading with if they didn't have low latency supercomputers intercepting trades, pocketing the difference in the process.
It's a very profitable and low risk endeavour that feeds on the market like a parasite.
In civilized countries they lose their job and go to jail for a longer time then normal citizen would, because their position requires them to adhere to certain standards of behaviour. Behaviour such as not beating a handcuffed guy in the face with blunt objects.
It's a contract violation, not a law violation. Contract violators don't get prosecuted - they simply suffer the penalties specified in contract (in this case, account termination).
It's worth noting that in both examples you site, the result was FAR better for nation as a whole then cause. In case of French revolution, "let them eat cake", in case of Russian it removed a czar that essentially wasn't ruling the country, and it was literally being eaten alive by nobles fighting each other.
French revolution gave us modern democracy and bill of rights, Russian revolution spawned an empire that was #2 in the world during industrial age from ashes of a broken, poor rural country.
Prior to antibiotics, more people died from wound infection and various diseases in wars then from actual trauma of the wounds - this has to do with effectiveness of weapons of that time and massive lack of even rudimentary understanding of proper medicine (back then leeches cured EVERYTHING). That said, wars tended to be a whole lot more cruel as well, because "killing all men and enslaving all women (and sometimes salting the land)" was pretty much a norm when conquering. Hell, Nuremburg showed that most military officers in WW2 time still viewed atrocities committed by all sides as "normal acts of war" (yes, including death camps and Nanjing). It's the civilian part of the court and politicians as well as soldiers who weren't high up in hierarchy who were horrified and/or who saw that material as useful propaganda tool that insisted on that being "inhuman", and that certainly ended up being a good thing (for us) in the end.
You should open one of those history books before you slander them like that. Wars themselves, while interesting, tend to be far less interesting then events leading to them, and events following them.
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There was a grand total of zero humor in this one, and 100% of sadness.
He didn't. He said that it was too slow due to swapping, so they built a server with 192GB of RAM. The reference wasn't about how slow building maps is, but relation to an old system that had 128 bytes of ram, and the fact that they can now build a system for less money that has over 9 orders of magnitude more of RAM.
It had nothing to do with actual efficiency, and I suspect that they will optimize the code (or you will just have to build it slowly with swapping).
You can find the statement yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28 he talks about it around 43 minute mark.
What nice culture you live in.
Hint: masturbation is not that embarassing when you don't live in a puritan society and have a good relationship with your parents.
It's worth noting that most benchmarks use a certain version of popular games. If next version breaks benchmark functionality in a significant way, testers simply continue using old version.
Then again, has crysis 2 ever been used a serious benchmark? The game actually looked worse then crysis (especially warhead) in terms of graphics in spite of having higher polygon counts and such, and was designed from ground up to work on machines that would never be able to run original crysis or warhead (current gen consoles).
I'm pretty certain that it's very much a business of an adult raising a child to know that his/her child has started masturbating. Problem arises when they (adults) react in a childish/stupid way to it. A good parent will put this information in good use.
Granted most parents that come from puritan cultures tend to react to this information very badly.
The easy solution is to sandbox the entire browser and all of it's plugins. Try sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com/) if you're running windows and are paranoid enough to do that.
No red flags for microsoft there really. It has nokia as its bitch thanks to Elop, and unlike google, it paid something in line of 1/16 of the price that google ended up footing for MMI.
You don't know how stock market works, do you?
Here's a simplified version of how trading on stock market and modern flash trading works:
Party A puts stocks for sale. It specifies initial and minimum selling price.
Party B wants to buy stock that A sells. It puts a buy offer for stock, with initial and maximum buying price.
Party A and B find each other, and if sale and buy order sums match, trade happens.
What flash trader C does is abuse the fact that he has a supercomputer with extremely low latency on the trading floor, rather then a system connected from outside. C sees that both A and B are interested seconds before A and B find each other, first tests how low A will sell by buying 1 piece of stock at a time for lower and lower until the sale no longer happens. Then C places an offer for amount of stock that B wants to buy at lowest possible price that A will sell for. At the same time, C goes through similar process with B, only selling stocks little by little to find maximum buying price.
Then C simply sells all the stock it bought from A to B and pockets the difference. All this is possible because of latency before searches for trade made by A and B find each other that C doesn't suffer from.
IE is an option. So is opera. In many eyes either or both are significantly better, especially when it comes to interface.
"Stupid users complaining about our magnificent idea that is FF's new version system"-problem.
Too late, mozilla already told corporate people to to fuck themselves about a month ago. Officially.
Well, google pays their salaries. Technically.
"So guys, I had this GREAT idea!.."
Wow, I never saw someone hang themselves so effectively on slashdot. "I can't boot windows" "Please go help > about windows"...
Reading stuff like this makes me wonder why people aren't upgrading to 3.6 en masse. Sounds awfully lot like vista rollout, with people upgrading to xp.
This story isn't about investing. It's about flash trading, skimming off the top of the market taking a share of trades as they are just about to happen.
Essentially, if you do any stock investment, these are the people that take a share of every purchase and sell you make by intercepting it as it's about to happen, testing for maximum buy/minimum sell value and trading both with you and the party you would have been trading with if they didn't have low latency supercomputers intercepting trades, pocketing the difference in the process.
It's a very profitable and low risk endeavour that feeds on the market like a parasite.
I suspect that woman could claim freelancer reporter status, unless it requires some sort of official registration in her state.
In civilized countries they lose their job and go to jail for a longer time then normal citizen would, because their position requires them to adhere to certain standards of behaviour. Behaviour such as not beating a handcuffed guy in the face with blunt objects.
It's a contract violation, not a law violation. Contract violators don't get prosecuted - they simply suffer the penalties specified in contract (in this case, account termination).
It's worth noting that in both examples you site, the result was FAR better for nation as a whole then cause. In case of French revolution, "let them eat cake", in case of Russian it removed a czar that essentially wasn't ruling the country, and it was literally being eaten alive by nobles fighting each other.
French revolution gave us modern democracy and bill of rights, Russian revolution spawned an empire that was #2 in the world during industrial age from ashes of a broken, poor rural country.
This makes no sense. You have to install stock sink just as well as a custom one. It's not welded to the chip or anything.
Prior to antibiotics, more people died from wound infection and various diseases in wars then from actual trauma of the wounds - this has to do with effectiveness of weapons of that time and massive lack of even rudimentary understanding of proper medicine (back then leeches cured EVERYTHING). That said, wars tended to be a whole lot more cruel as well, because "killing all men and enslaving all women (and sometimes salting the land)" was pretty much a norm when conquering. Hell, Nuremburg showed that most military officers in WW2 time still viewed atrocities committed by all sides as "normal acts of war" (yes, including death camps and Nanjing). It's the civilian part of the court and politicians as well as soldiers who weren't high up in hierarchy who were horrified and/or who saw that material as useful propaganda tool that insisted on that being "inhuman", and that certainly ended up being a good thing (for us) in the end.
You should open one of those history books before you slander them like that. Wars themselves, while interesting, tend to be far less interesting then events leading to them, and events following them.
Not "what" but "how" dear.