Yes, but maybe they did that, and still couldn't reproduce it All he did was say "I can post to anyone's timeline", which is so vague as to be useless information. It gives them no hint as to what is broken, as the Timelines are probably integrated into huge swathes of the FB codebase. It truly was a needle in a haystack, and thus totally unverifiable. He needed to send the repro info.
This seems like a lot of work. I like laptops that allow me to push a switch and drop out the battery and swap in the spare in about 5 seconds...which would be almost every other laptop in the world other than ones made by Apple?
^^^^^^^ THIS! 18 years ago, my work email was pretty much spam free, and my private email was 50% spam. Fast forward to today, and my private email is **totally** spam free, and my work email is deluged (90% spam). Why? Because gmail reads millions of emails and filters better due to comparing people's mail, whereas my work email only has a small pool of mail messages to work with.
While I like the concept of email security, I am unwilling to part with "spam free" service.
I don't understand why people find Java faster than C++ to write code in. Any program large enough to require lengthy compiles is large enough that Java is unlikely to be a suitable candidate language, and even if you did write that triple-A game in Java it would take longer to code because of dealing with memory/performance issues.
Directly addressing memory/handling your own de-allocation of memory answers more problems than it creates unless I am writing trivial programs and have access to some magic libraries that I don't have access to in C++. All things being equal, I can code a better program faster in C++. Now, If I was a programmer who never learned/practiced coding with pointers then sure, my Java programming would be faster, but since I am comfortable with pointers/memory allocation schemes etc I find C++ faster. I am suspicious that people who find Java faster for coding large projects are just unfamiliar with C++ and managing your own memory, or are using libraries to do all the work and just don't know of an equivalent set of C++ libraries.
At the Montreal International Game Summit last fall, I believe it was Tim Sweeney that told the audience that the quickest growth in system power was going to be in the area of cell phones. He stated that in a very short time the average smart phone would be as powerful as our current desktops.
Given power like that is coming down the pipe fast, I expect MANY people will be editing videos on their smart phones in the near future.
America is different than Canada. It's warm here...so we actually go out of our houses and spend time out on the streets.
We also have a defective judicial system that keeps putting violent criminals back on those streets (this is the #1 cause of violent crime in America btw)
But if you compare Canadian sentencing to U.S. sentencing, Canadian sentencing is way more lenient. The U.S. is world-famous for putting a huge percentage of it's population in prison. Canada incarcerates 117 per 100,000, the U.S. rate is a staggering 754 per 100,000
So, according to actual statistics, the U.S. sticks more people in jail, for longer, than any other country. So no, it can't be your "defective judicial system that keeps putting violent criminals back on those streets"; that is, in fact, the opposite of what your judicial system is doing.
In Canada, as a general rule, the maximum magazine capacity is:
5 cartridges for most magazines designed for a semi-automatic centre-fire long gun; or 10 cartridges for most handgun magazines A large-capacity magazine is not prohibited if it has been permanently altered so that it cannot hold more than the number of cartridges allowed by law. Acceptable ways to alter a magazine are set out in the regulations. There is no limit to the magazine capacity for semi-automatic rim-fire long guns, or for other long guns that are not semi-automatics.
Works fine for us, not sure what all the fuss is about down south in gun-nut-land. Let's face it, the real issue is handguns, not rifles, anyway. Rifles should be for hunting, not home defense....home defense with a long gun is best covered by shotguns if you feel the need, although again, as a Canadian, the idea of "needing" a firearm for home defense seems ludicrous. Five rounds in a magazine is plenty for hunting purposes.
Handguns are only good for killing humans, so not sure why anyone besides the Police and Armed Forces should have them. If you are so scared of other people attacking you in a manner that would require a firearm as defense, you need to either a) move away from the hell-hole you are living in, or b) see a psychiatrist about your paranoid tenancies.
Adding in extra story choices/dialog/voiceovers/animations to support new "flirts" is a big job. It has NOTHING to do with whether the "flirt" is homosexual or heterosexual (or robosexual!), the extra work is there with every "flirt" they add. Going back and making the old encounters support more "flirts" is a big job, one that they don't have the resources to do right now, especially as the original voice actors would have to be recalled.
Whoever labelled their commitment to adding homosexual flirtations to new encounters an 'oddly regressive move' is an idiot.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note because it is waaaaaaay nicer than an iPhone 5...and that is the original Note, not even the new Note 2. Have you ever held a nice Samsung phone in your hands? The difference between an iPhone and a Samsung is like the difference between a mediocre MP3 player and an iPod. Next year I plan to get whatever large-screen, cool Tegra-4-sporting phone comes out that kicks Apple's ass all over the place.
Having an iPhone is like wearing a name tag that says "I am a chump that buys inferior hardware for too much money", in my mind.
When it comes to games, you can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. TV/Movies, No, you can't. Video games, yes you can.
Wrong, you can easily tell the difference in TV/Movies as well. I had my students do a test: display the same movie, side-by-side-by-side, running at 120/60/30 fps (on 120Hz monitors, naturally...the lower fps versions are made by dropping frames/duplicating the ones left, so they all ran at 120Hz, but different fps). They could ALL tell the difference.
Somewhere there is a study done on air-force pilots that showed they could perceive details at 1/500th of a second. The human eye certainly works at much higher "speeds" than that silly myth of 30 fps suggests.
Spacial distribution, like "channel hopping" to avoid interference? That helps with moving transmitters/receivers, but not within a static local area. In the end, for any given area covered by a transmitter, the frequency availability will be the hard cap on the shared bandwidth for that area. If 10k people in a given coverage area all want to download large files at 100 Gbps, all the trickery in the world won't increase that cap.
Somewhere, someone must have a simple rule-of-thumb for this sucker, like how much frequency spectrum is required for N dedicated 100 Gbps connections. It would be an interesting number to hear.
I am guessing that this only works because a huge amount of radio spectrum bandwidth is allocated per user. There probably is no actual method of scaling this up for general-purpose usage. The last line of the OP seems beyond speculative.
I grew up on some fantastic old school SF (Heinlen's "The Rolling Stones" for example), but as for modern stuff no-one has mentioned so far I would heartily recommend the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Artemis is a 12 year-old criminal mastermind with a ninja-bodyguard butler, and he discovers that the earth is hollow and strange beings live in there.
Tamora Pierce writes some good modern fantasy, like her Alana series...mmm, it's actually called "The Song of the Lioness Quartet", four books (and then a couple of extras) with a young female protagonist.
My four kids (one boy, three girls) all loved these, along with the usual Terry Pratchet's/Harry Potter.
The multiple people recommending the Tom Swift series also reminded me of a very old series I loved, the sort of thing you graduate to after Encyclopaedia Brown: Rick Brant Science Adventure stories. Probably hard to find, and definitely 'long in the tooth', but I adored them at his age.
Those old Retief books were fun SF books when I was a kid, and are still funny to re-read as an adult (and get all the sarcastic digs at bureaucracy and diplomats that you missed as a kid).
If Python were only 4 times slower than C++, it wouldn't be such a big deal. On things where speed really matters, Python seems to be a lot slower than that. Just to give an example off the top of my head, the other day I wrote a brute force decryption routine; the C++ version ran in seconds, the Python version took between 5-10 minutes on every run. Python is hella fun to code in, but it doesn't seem to be a language for heavy lifting. It makes a great scripting language, or a fun language to design and kick ideas around in.
I've heard that pypy can help with the speed issue, though. I'll have to look into that.
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Yes, but maybe they did that, and still couldn't reproduce it
All he did was say "I can post to anyone's timeline", which is so vague as to be useless information. It gives them no hint as to what is broken, as the Timelines are probably integrated into huge swathes of the FB codebase. It truly was a needle in a haystack, and thus totally unverifiable. He needed to send the repro info.
This seems like a lot of work. I like laptops that allow me to push a switch and drop out the battery and swap in the spare in about 5 seconds...which would be almost every other laptop in the world other than ones made by Apple?
...did they patent it yet?
Karl Benz, moron...from the library of congress:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html
^^^^^^^ THIS!
18 years ago, my work email was pretty much spam free, and my private email was 50% spam. Fast forward to today, and my private email is **totally** spam free, and my work email is deluged (90% spam). Why? Because gmail reads millions of emails and filters better due to comparing people's mail, whereas my work email only has a small pool of mail messages to work with.
While I like the concept of email security, I am unwilling to part with "spam free" service.
I don't understand why people find Java faster than C++ to write code in. Any program large enough to require lengthy compiles is large enough that Java is unlikely to be a suitable candidate language, and even if you did write that triple-A game in Java it would take longer to code because of dealing with memory/performance issues.
Directly addressing memory/handling your own de-allocation of memory answers more problems than it creates unless I am writing trivial programs and have access to some magic libraries that I don't have access to in C++. All things being equal, I can code a better program faster in C++. Now, If I was a programmer who never learned/practiced coding with pointers then sure, my Java programming would be faster, but since I am comfortable with pointers/memory allocation schemes etc I find C++ faster. I am suspicious that people who find Java faster for coding large projects are just unfamiliar with C++ and managing your own memory, or are using libraries to do all the work and just don't know of an equivalent set of C++ libraries.
Jon Stewart is a comedian. It is a comedy routine. The Daily Show is aired on "Comedy Central".
WTF? How did this guy get modded "+4 Informative" for an insane diatribe like this?
At the Montreal International Game Summit last fall, I believe it was Tim Sweeney that told the audience that the quickest growth in system power was going to be in the area of cell phones. He stated that in a very short time the average smart phone would be as powerful as our current desktops.
Given power like that is coming down the pipe fast, I expect MANY people will be editing videos on their smart phones in the near future.
America is different than Canada. It's warm here...so we actually go out of our houses and spend time out on the streets.
We also have a defective judicial system that keeps putting violent criminals back on those streets (this is the #1 cause of violent crime in America btw)
But if you compare Canadian sentencing to U.S. sentencing, Canadian sentencing is way more lenient. The U.S. is world-famous for putting a huge percentage of it's population in prison. Canada incarcerates 117 per 100,000, the U.S. rate is a staggering 754 per 100,000
Put another way, the U.S. contains 5% of the world's population, but is host to 25% of the world's prisoners. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
So, according to actual statistics, the U.S. sticks more people in jail, for longer, than any other country. So no, it can't be your "defective judicial system that keeps putting violent criminals back on those streets"; that is, in fact, the opposite of what your judicial system is doing.
...they also tax any Movie rated more than PG-13, any adult novels or magazines, and TV revenues for shows that are aimed at adults etc.
Let's see the Republican party get THAT one through!
* tendencies...got fooled by autocorrect, dammit.
In Canada, as a general rule, the maximum magazine capacity is:
5 cartridges for most magazines designed for a semi-automatic centre-fire long gun; or
10 cartridges for most handgun magazines
A large-capacity magazine is not prohibited if it has been permanently altered so that it cannot hold more than the number of cartridges allowed by law. Acceptable ways to alter a magazine are set out in the regulations.
There is no limit to the magazine capacity for semi-automatic rim-fire long guns, or for other long guns that are not semi-automatics.
Works fine for us, not sure what all the fuss is about down south in gun-nut-land. Let's face it, the real issue is handguns, not rifles, anyway. Rifles should be for hunting, not home defense....home defense with a long gun is best covered by shotguns if you feel the need, although again, as a Canadian, the idea of "needing" a firearm for home defense seems ludicrous. Five rounds in a magazine is plenty for hunting purposes.
Handguns are only good for killing humans, so not sure why anyone besides the Police and Armed Forces should have them. If you are so scared of other people attacking you in a manner that would require a firearm as defense, you need to either a) move away from the hell-hole you are living in, or b) see a psychiatrist about your paranoid tenancies.
Adding in extra story choices/dialog/voiceovers/animations to support new "flirts" is a big job. It has NOTHING to do with whether the "flirt" is homosexual or heterosexual (or robosexual!), the extra work is there with every "flirt" they add. Going back and making the old encounters support more "flirts" is a big job, one that they don't have the resources to do right now, especially as the original voice actors would have to be recalled.
Whoever labelled their commitment to adding homosexual flirtations to new encounters an 'oddly regressive move' is an idiot.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note because it is waaaaaaay nicer than an iPhone 5...and that is the original Note, not even the new Note 2. Have you ever held a nice Samsung phone in your hands? The difference between an iPhone and a Samsung is like the difference between a mediocre MP3 player and an iPod. Next year I plan to get whatever large-screen, cool Tegra-4-sporting phone comes out that kicks Apple's ass all over the place.
Having an iPhone is like wearing a name tag that says "I am a chump that buys inferior hardware for too much money", in my mind.
If this thing lets me check the status of my oven on my phone, and does things like ring me when the roast is cooked, I'm interested.
When it comes to games, you can tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps. TV/Movies, No, you can't. Video games, yes you can.
Wrong, you can easily tell the difference in TV/Movies as well. I had my students do a test: display the same movie, side-by-side-by-side, running at 120/60/30 fps (on 120Hz monitors, naturally...the lower fps versions are made by dropping frames/duplicating the ones left, so they all ran at 120Hz, but different fps). They could ALL tell the difference.
Myth busted.
Somewhere there is a study done on air-force pilots that showed they could perceive details at 1/500th of a second. The human eye certainly works at much higher "speeds" than that silly myth of 30 fps suggests.
Spacial distribution, like "channel hopping" to avoid interference? That helps with moving transmitters/receivers, but not within a static local area. In the end, for any given area covered by a transmitter, the frequency availability will be the hard cap on the shared bandwidth for that area. If 10k people in a given coverage area all want to download large files at 100 Gbps, all the trickery in the world won't increase that cap.
Somewhere, someone must have a simple rule-of-thumb for this sucker, like how much frequency spectrum is required for N dedicated 100 Gbps connections. It would be an interesting number to hear.
I am guessing that this only works because a huge amount of radio spectrum bandwidth is allocated per user. There probably is no actual method of scaling this up for general-purpose usage. The last line of the OP seems beyond speculative.
League of Legends (currently the most popular game on the planet) would be a must-have.
On a more general note, what we really need is for game developers to move away from DirectX and over to OpenGL.
Not from the U.S., but Canada uses them too...they are 1c.
The loudest song about moving silently.
I grew up on some fantastic old school SF (Heinlen's "The Rolling Stones" for example), but as for modern stuff no-one has mentioned so far I would heartily recommend the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Artemis is a 12 year-old criminal mastermind with a ninja-bodyguard butler, and he discovers that the earth is hollow and strange beings live in there.
Tamora Pierce writes some good modern fantasy, like her Alana series...mmm, it's actually called "The Song of the Lioness Quartet", four books (and then a couple of extras) with a young female protagonist.
My four kids (one boy, three girls) all loved these, along with the usual Terry Pratchet's/Harry Potter.
The multiple people recommending the Tom Swift series also reminded me of a very old series I loved, the sort of thing you graduate to after Encyclopaedia Brown: Rick Brant Science Adventure stories. Probably hard to find, and definitely 'long in the tooth', but I adored them at his age.
Those old Retief books were fun SF books when I was a kid, and are still funny to re-read as an adult (and get all the sarcastic digs at bureaucracy and diplomats that you missed as a kid).
I like Python. I like C++. I sort-of like C.
If Python were only 4 times slower than C++, it wouldn't be such a big deal. On things where speed really matters, Python seems to be a lot slower than that. Just to give an example off the top of my head, the other day I wrote a brute force decryption routine; the C++ version ran in seconds, the Python version took between 5-10 minutes on every run. Python is hella fun to code in, but it doesn't seem to be a language for heavy lifting. It makes a great scripting language, or a fun language to design and kick ideas around in.
I've heard that pypy can help with the speed issue, though. I'll have to look into that.
Nah, he isn't a redneck. He is pronouncing it "fah-jay", obviously. I guess that would be the gay way to say faggot ;)