You were a kid, things were rainbows and sunshine. The adults who work at these companies to city centers because the kids hate backyards, but because the adults want more than what the suburbs have to offer.
You're misunderstanding Valve's position. They're not tweaking the drivers so much as using the source to understand which operations in THEIR software behave poorly. You're also ignorant to how much tweaking is already done in video games to make them work under Windows. Look at the furor Rage's release last year caused because AMD's drivers were broken and id Software didn't jump through hoops to make it work on that platform like so many other companies do.
In 1948 and again in 1952, the Democratic Party had asked him to run for president under their party banner. Ike was a Republican, but he was not a conservative in the sense of today. To demonstrate this point: he created the Interstate Highway System, which is a large government spending project that would be impossible to pass under the current Republicans who would champion a private solution.
embedded people have been working on screenless systems for years, they are not necessary for interacting with the computer. There are plenty of other ways.
You're absolutely right. We often rely upon serial ports to debug. Last thing I want is my local PC console to be limited to 9600 baud! How do you plan on debugging a bootloader problem or initialization problem with SSH?
That means being diplomatic while having a nuclear arsenal at the ready. No reason to develop a huge offensive force if no one will fuck with you because you'll retaliate by turning their piece of the Earth unlivable.
Unfortunately, people like you seem to think this is free license to tell people what to think and do (not talking softly) and beating them into submission should they disobey (using the big stick).
What does "see through to the end" mean for a software project?
Clearly the AC means "until the project is dead." That's the only "end" I can think of for a software project. And if that is truly the case, Miguel and others like him should be championed...
I have a coworker who just picked up a 2012 BMW 328i, which has a HUD integrated into the line of sight. The technology is there, but it is only available for the early adopters that can afford it.
let currently running processes reference the old stuff so they don't crash, but new processes can have the new stuff
That's kinda how things work now when you delete then create a file that is in use. Until that last file handle is closed the file still exists on disk, but any attempt to open the file will open the new version of it.
The problem occurs when a running program attempts to open a file after the upgrade has happened, which is no longer consistent with the system state that existed when the program was started. The only example I can think of where I have personally experienced such a problem is the rare occasion when I upgrade my video card driver and the Xorg shared library is no longer in sync causing some OpenGL commands to fail, certainly nothing catastrophic.
The issue is that an increasing amount of people simply cannot pay. Without physical assets on the line, the banks get nothing and the debtors are ruined for life.
You're right! And with an initial signup of 160,000 students (I'm certain that number will increase as popularity increases) at $100 a student, I think there may be a fair bit of money exchanging hands.
Sounds like you don't believe that they would enjoy the ability to remotely disable anyone's computer anywhere. This is also a feature that governments and media interests have been desiring for a long time. They're getting their shut down the internet switch and now they're getting their shut down people's PC's switch. The people? We're getting the shaft.
How would the private sector make being fat expensive? I'm curious since the private sector made being fat cheap with plentiful high-calorie foods which have a large profit margin.
You suggest that health insurance raise their rates for obesity, I believe they may already do this, often by increasing the rates on persons with obesity related conditions such as type II diabetes and heart disease. Do note that if these people are paying their fair share of insurance then this would cover their additional health costs without penalizing the rest of us. The problem is that not everyone has insurance and you even noted that those who suffer at the lowest levels of economic status are disproportionately more obese. What makes you think these people can afford to pay for insurance, let alone the higher rates that obesity would require?
There already are plenty of educational programs and health classes. The government doesn't create and disseminates the food pyramid and other similar information for the heck of it! School children are constantly informed that their choices have consequences, but then they go home to their families who eat dinner on 13.5" dinner plates (more than 100% the area of a 1950s 9" dinner plate!), drink their big gulps and play video games. Many communities have adult classes for things of this nature, but that requires an active effort of the individual and motivation, either intrinsic with a desire to become healthy, or extrinsic, to avoid punishment or gain reward, to follow through. Unless you suggest that the government institute a mandatory adult reeducation program or drastically increase taxes, the problem still persists.
Not too long ago Sudafed was purchased by a few in very large quantities to manufacture methamphetamines. Although the response was disproportionate in nature, the limitations on such large purchases have curtailed this specific activity quite successfully.
With obesity it is no longer the few. 30% of Americans are fat, and an even larger percentage of children are obese. Studies have shown that fat children tend to become fat adults. Children also lack the maturity and experience to make appropriate decisions with regard to their future health implying that without appropriate guidance children who form overeating habits turn into adults with overeating habits. An adult should be capable of determining whether or not that 800-calorie daiquiri should be a part of their diet and the alcohol in it prevents this decision from being made by adolescents.
Given that the current process of education and assistance programs are failing against the forces marketing and increased availability, the choices are do nothing and suffer the economic costs (both privately through reduced worker productivity and publicly with increased financial burden on the health systems), provide extrinsic motivation through increased taxation or some other penalty, or put supply-side restrictions on unhealthy foods in a similar manner that has succeeded in curbing pseudoephedrine kitchen meth labs.
People often tell you what you can and cannot do. You cannot go around injuring others, depriving them of property, behaving poorly in public, presenting a danger or nuisance to others. Now they want to make sure you're not going to be a financial drain on what little health "safety net" is available.
Due to the detrimental health effects, the current generation of children are expected to live shorter lives than previous generations. This is a negative change that hasn't been seen in hundreds, if not thousands of years. Furthermore, diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, increased cardiovascular problems will all decrease the quality of life for these people. Instead of living 76 years, this generation could live an unhealthy and unhappy 65 years.
Obesity is becoming a serious problem with fat people taking more sick days, spending more for healthcare (frequently at the taxpayers' expense!), require more medication to treat easily prevented illnesses. What would you propose to do about this? Would you try to curb the supply with taxation or regulations on marketing and manufacturing of foods? Would you try to curb demand by taxing fat people more? Would you increase spending on healthcare programs to account for the rising costs? You may want to plug your ears and argue that it's one's right to be fat and nothing is to be done, but then you're simply punting and saying that yes, we should suffer the collective ill effects of a fat nation.
STANAG 4586 only addresses UAVs, and caters to the fixed-wing variety. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) have adopted a standard architecture for command and control of robots known as AS-4, formerly Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems JAUS. This standard protocol addresses the needs of a wide variety of robotic and autonomous systems including UGVs, UAVs, and UUVs.
STANAG 4586 provides guidelines for both a communications protocol (albeit, fixed-wing centric) and recommendations for the GCS UI. You seem to have ignored the STANAG 4586 protocol portion.
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You were a kid, things were rainbows and sunshine. The adults who work at these companies to city centers because the kids hate backyards, but because the adults want more than what the suburbs have to offer.
You're misunderstanding Valve's position. They're not tweaking the drivers so much as using the source to understand which operations in THEIR software behave poorly. You're also ignorant to how much tweaking is already done in video games to make them work under Windows. Look at the furor Rage's release last year caused because AMD's drivers were broken and id Software didn't jump through hoops to make it work on that platform like so many other companies do.
It does alter how someone experiences the game, which is pretty significant.
In 1948 and again in 1952, the Democratic Party had asked him to run for president under their party banner. Ike was a Republican, but he was not a conservative in the sense of today. To demonstrate this point: he created the Interstate Highway System, which is a large government spending project that would be impossible to pass under the current Republicans who would champion a private solution.
embedded people have been working on screenless systems for years, they are not necessary for interacting with the computer. There are plenty of other ways.
You're absolutely right. We often rely upon serial ports to debug. Last thing I want is my local PC console to be limited to 9600 baud! How do you plan on debugging a bootloader problem or initialization problem with SSH?
One certainly could in 2008, but that isn't true any more. He's been the President of the United States of America for nearly 4 years now.
talking softly while carrying a big stick
That means being diplomatic while having a nuclear arsenal at the ready. No reason to develop a huge offensive force if no one will fuck with you because you'll retaliate by turning their piece of the Earth unlivable.
Unfortunately, people like you seem to think this is free license to tell people what to think and do (not talking softly) and beating them into submission should they disobey (using the big stick).
What does "see through to the end" mean for a software project?
Clearly the AC means "until the project is dead." That's the only "end" I can think of for a software project. And if that is truly the case, Miguel and others like him should be championed...
0xDEFEC8
It's only 24-bits of what is often a 32-bit value. I prefer 0xDEFEC8ED for this purpose!
Never used Agile
Sounds like you've constructed an opinion based not on experience or evidence, so why should I care for anything you say with regards to this matter?
I have a coworker who just picked up a 2012 BMW 328i, which has a HUD integrated into the line of sight. The technology is there, but it is only available for the early adopters that can afford it.
let currently running processes reference the old stuff so they don't crash, but new processes can have the new stuff
That's kinda how things work now when you delete then create a file that is in use. Until that last file handle is closed the file still exists on disk, but any attempt to open the file will open the new version of it.
The problem occurs when a running program attempts to open a file after the upgrade has happened, which is no longer consistent with the system state that existed when the program was started. The only example I can think of where I have personally experienced such a problem is the rare occasion when I upgrade my video card driver and the Xorg shared library is no longer in sync causing some OpenGL commands to fail, certainly nothing catastrophic.
What's the point in learning to program when all the computers you have at your disposal won't run your code?
The issue is that an increasing amount of people simply cannot pay. Without physical assets on the line, the banks get nothing and the debtors are ruined for life.
After commenting, I did find that AMD did publish one 3D document in 2009 for an already obsolete chip but no updates since.
Has AMD opened up the 3D documentation? All I've seen are the 2D specs, which have helped make a rock solid 2D driver.
You're right! And with an initial signup of 160,000 students (I'm certain that number will increase as popularity increases) at $100 a student, I think there may be a fair bit of money exchanging hands.
Sounds like you don't believe that they would enjoy the ability to remotely disable anyone's computer anywhere. This is also a feature that governments and media interests have been desiring for a long time. They're getting their shut down the internet switch and now they're getting their shut down people's PC's switch. The people? We're getting the shaft.
How would the private sector make being fat expensive? I'm curious since the private sector made being fat cheap with plentiful high-calorie foods which have a large profit margin.
You suggest that health insurance raise their rates for obesity, I believe they may already do this, often by increasing the rates on persons with obesity related conditions such as type II diabetes and heart disease. Do note that if these people are paying their fair share of insurance then this would cover their additional health costs without penalizing the rest of us. The problem is that not everyone has insurance and you even noted that those who suffer at the lowest levels of economic status are disproportionately more obese. What makes you think these people can afford to pay for insurance, let alone the higher rates that obesity would require?
There already are plenty of educational programs and health classes. The government doesn't create and disseminates the food pyramid and other similar information for the heck of it! School children are constantly informed that their choices have consequences, but then they go home to their families who eat dinner on 13.5" dinner plates (more than 100% the area of a 1950s 9" dinner plate!), drink their big gulps and play video games. Many communities have adult classes for things of this nature, but that requires an active effort of the individual and motivation, either intrinsic with a desire to become healthy, or extrinsic, to avoid punishment or gain reward, to follow through. Unless you suggest that the government institute a mandatory adult reeducation program or drastically increase taxes, the problem still persists.
Not too long ago Sudafed was purchased by a few in very large quantities to manufacture methamphetamines. Although the response was disproportionate in nature, the limitations on such large purchases have curtailed this specific activity quite successfully.
With obesity it is no longer the few. 30% of Americans are fat, and an even larger percentage of children are obese. Studies have shown that fat children tend to become fat adults. Children also lack the maturity and experience to make appropriate decisions with regard to their future health implying that without appropriate guidance children who form overeating habits turn into adults with overeating habits. An adult should be capable of determining whether or not that 800-calorie daiquiri should be a part of their diet and the alcohol in it prevents this decision from being made by adolescents.
Given that the current process of education and assistance programs are failing against the forces marketing and increased availability, the choices are do nothing and suffer the economic costs (both privately through reduced worker productivity and publicly with increased financial burden on the health systems), provide extrinsic motivation through increased taxation or some other penalty, or put supply-side restrictions on unhealthy foods in a similar manner that has succeeded in curbing pseudoephedrine kitchen meth labs.
People often tell you what you can and cannot do. You cannot go around injuring others, depriving them of property, behaving poorly in public, presenting a danger or nuisance to others. Now they want to make sure you're not going to be a financial drain on what little health "safety net" is available.
Due to the detrimental health effects, the current generation of children are expected to live shorter lives than previous generations. This is a negative change that hasn't been seen in hundreds, if not thousands of years. Furthermore, diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, increased cardiovascular problems will all decrease the quality of life for these people. Instead of living 76 years, this generation could live an unhealthy and unhappy 65 years.
Obesity is becoming a serious problem with fat people taking more sick days, spending more for healthcare (frequently at the taxpayers' expense!), require more medication to treat easily prevented illnesses. What would you propose to do about this? Would you try to curb the supply with taxation or regulations on marketing and manufacturing of foods? Would you try to curb demand by taxing fat people more? Would you increase spending on healthcare programs to account for the rising costs? You may want to plug your ears and argue that it's one's right to be fat and nothing is to be done, but then you're simply punting and saying that yes, we should suffer the collective ill effects of a fat nation.
Or stomach acids for that matter...
I'm pretty sure Casablanca predates Dawkins' coining the word "meme" and all forms of the Arpanet.
STANAG 4586 only addresses UAVs, and caters to the fixed-wing variety. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) have adopted a standard architecture for command and control of robots known as AS-4, formerly Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems JAUS. This standard protocol addresses the needs of a wide variety of robotic and autonomous systems including UGVs, UAVs, and UUVs.
Learn more at: http://www.sae.org/servlets/works/committeeHome.do?comtID=TEAAS4
STANAG 4586 provides guidelines for both a communications protocol (albeit, fixed-wing centric) and recommendations for the GCS UI. You seem to have ignored the STANAG 4586 protocol portion.