From personal experience: Rule no. 1: Never (ever) do customer support for non developers. It always (as in 100%) is something they did to the machine, usually while trying to get their hands on porno graphical material..
Rule no.2: If you have from some (mad really) reason to take on customer support for non devs (mom, brother in law) just re-image the shit out of the system and maybe lock it down even further.
Well, they did a lot of R&D all right.. On how to loose the crowd's interest and how not to do community policy. My main account was banned from yahoo answers years ago because apparently I was "infringing on community guidelines". After contacting them for more info they said I was "infringing on community guidelines". After a couple more mails I was informed that I was "infringing on community guidelines". A couple of telephone calls later I was "infringing on community guidelines".
To this day I do not know why I was banned. The account was active on that portal for some time, I even had gotten a few levels (good idea btw). The best insight I managed to get (by personal contemplation, no they didn't help at all with that) was that probably you can't say that "downloading a stream from the Internet is perfectly legal as long as it's legal to stream"
Yeah.... we got bored with adding one day every four years, so we just add two months roughly every 2.5 centuries now. Welcome to 2507, you'll like it here!
Well SW engineering does become more and more important for real world systems so I could positively see govs want to regulate you as they do with civil engineers..
Which really sucks because last time I looked at what the govt thought I could do it was 100% incorrect.
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And here is the vimeo video for those who want to tear their eyes out when visiting i-programmer and their 180px content column.
Oh, and ignoring what I searched for in favor of what they think I meant.
This was the first thing that irritated me about Google. I think it's been about 2 years now when I realized that writing stuff in quotes didn't have the effect it used to. Then they just started auto correcting you. Then pushing the "search for {original query} instead" link stopped making a difference. Then there was the excessive bubbling. And then my paranoia kicked in when they started merging all their privacy policies and I moved away from Google for good.
I've been on ddg for some time now and (after getting used to the different api & interface) I have come to like it and actually a finding it quite powerful.
Something I want to look into though is how much of the search results are organic and which come from yahoo's BOSS infrastructure.
jup, it does work great for dev work. Google does this very well also but when researching some obscure things google tends to depend on stackexchange a bit too much...
I can remember using a java messenger back in 2005 that did more than just connect to all IM networks. And that was high dumbphone era when traffic costs were measured by KB...
Hmm.. I think you are right. On the first read I thought the GP was talking about engine plugins and post processing while obviously he is talking about content generation...
No, actually they are not. I had dabbled a lot with 3D in 2007/2008 and I can tell you no engine whatsoever delivers accurate foliage.
What state of the art engines do is return a good approximation by filtering obstructed objects out of computation. Transforms are not live and lighting is a very rough estimate, ignoring subsurface scattering and calculating shadows out of a reduced mesh.
Want to go even further? Fur and then cloth. Fur atm is non existent in real time engines (to create real tangible fur in a Max scene can introduce thousandfold increases in computation) and don't even get me started about cloth.
So yes, graphics hardware isn't anywhere near a plateau. The 5000fold estimate is a reasonable one if not optimistic. IMO hardware will continue to leap forward untill state of the art processing will be able to simulate realtime physics of high density meshes by just knowing the material properties of each mesh (which has never been as much as suggested).
As for displays, those will keep growing both in physical dimensions and resolution because there just are uses for that (and before anybody argues think how many people thought `17" 1024x768 is all you need`)
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From personal experience:
Rule no. 1:
Never (ever) do customer support for non developers. It always (as in 100%) is something they
did to the machine, usually while trying to get their hands on porno graphical material..
Rule no.2:
If you have from some (mad really) reason to take on customer support for non devs (mom,
brother in law) just re-image the shit out of the system and maybe lock it down even further.
Well, they did a lot of R&D all right.. On how to loose the crowd's interest and how not to
do community policy. My main account was banned from yahoo answers years ago
because apparently I was "infringing on community guidelines". After contacting them
for more info they said I was "infringing on community guidelines". After a couple more
mails I was informed that I was "infringing on community guidelines". A couple of
telephone calls later I was "infringing on community guidelines".
To this day I do not know why I was banned. The account was active on that portal for
some time, I even had gotten a few levels (good idea btw). The best insight I managed
to get (by personal contemplation, no they didn't help at all with that) was that probably
you can't say that "downloading a stream from the Internet is perfectly legal as long as
it's legal to stream"
Germany seems to have pretty lax IP law, and IIRC they were discussing banning
software patents about a decade ago (don't know what happened to that).
Yahoo has a patent for that..
You'll be hearing from them.
The true reason is, so that they can put him behind bars for protesting
against content tyranny with the SOPA blackout.
You're binary That's why you liked it!
Yeah.... we got bored with adding one day every four years, so we just add two months roughly every 2.5 centuries now.
Welcome to 2507, you'll like it here!
I this how the world is going to end?!
With Pi being half a Pie?
Well SW engineering does become more and more important for real world systems
so I could positively see govs want to regulate you as they do with civil engineers..
Which really sucks because last time I looked at what the govt thought I could do
it was 100% incorrect.
And here is the vimeo video for those who want to tear their eyes out when
visiting i-programmer and their 180px content column.
Oh, and ignoring what I searched for in favor of what they think I meant.
This was the first thing that irritated me about Google. I think it's been about 2 years now when I
realized that writing stuff in quotes didn't have the effect it used to.
Then they just started auto
correcting you.
Then pushing the "search for {original query} instead" link stopped making a difference.
Then there was the excessive bubbling.
And then my paranoia kicked in when they started merging all their privacy policies and I moved
away from Google for good.
I've been on ddg for some time now and (after getting used to the different api & interface) I have
come to like it and actually a finding it quite powerful.
Something I want to look into though is how much of the search results are organic and which
come from yahoo's BOSS infrastructure.
jup, it does work great for dev work. Google does this very well also but when researching some obscure things google tends to depend on stackexchange a bit too much...
100Mamps? I think they are going to need the desert and a couple nuclear reactors
did you mean
kinect like mobile camera
?
IMO ddg actually returns better results for this than google (but I'm in somebody else's bubble there so no idea)
One thing I didn't like about ddg was that it doesn't show that much spell correction.
Later I realized I kind of like it. Makes you a better typist.
I can remember using a java messenger back in 2005 that did more than just connect to all IM networks.
And that was high dumbphone era when traffic costs were measured by KB...
AFAIK it uses BSD
staredown?
hat^H^H^HWhat
DuckDuckGo? It works. hat else is there to say?
Hmm.. I think you are right. On the first read I thought the GP was talking about engine plugins and post processing while obviously he is talking about content generation...
Remember that one, good laugh even back then.
That isn't tangible fur it's a caned post processing filter (at least from what can be deduced from the image).
Next time you want to call somebody wrong at least have the decency to link to some proper whitepapers...
No, actually they are not. I had dabbled a lot with 3D in 2007/2008 and I can tell you no engine whatsoever delivers accurate foliage.
What state of the art engines do is return a good approximation by filtering obstructed objects out of computation. Transforms are not
live and lighting is a very rough estimate, ignoring subsurface scattering and calculating shadows out of a reduced mesh.
Want to go even further? Fur and then cloth. Fur atm is non existent in real time engines (to create real tangible fur in a Max scene can introduce thousandfold increases in computation) and don't even get me started about cloth.
So yes, graphics hardware isn't anywhere near a plateau. The 5000fold estimate is a reasonable one if not optimistic. IMO hardware will continue to leap forward untill state of the art processing will be able to simulate realtime physics of high density meshes by just knowing the material properties of each mesh (which has never been as much as suggested).
As for displays, those will keep growing both in physical dimensions and resolution because there just are uses for that (and before anybody argues think how many people thought `17" 1024x768 is all you need`)
Hmm... I never got that issue.
$str="08";
$int=4;
$arr=array(
$str=>"this",
$int=>"that"
);
var_dump(key($arr)); // string(2) "08" // int(4)
next($arr);
var_dump(key($arr));
var_dump(isset($arr[08])); // bool(false) // bool(true)
var_dump(isset($arr['08']));
var_dump(isset($arr[4])); // bool(true) // bool(false)
var_dump(isset($arr['04']));
var_dump(($arr)); // array(2) { ["08"]=> string(4) "this" [4]=> string(4) "that" }
but maybe I'm not getting what you describe(been a long day).
Meth.. It workz bitchinz!