Note that things can have different effects on animals. For example, try feeding heavily spiced meat to a dog (well, rather don't). Perfectly fine for a human, but something between a heavily messed up flat and death for the canine friend.
I'm having huge issues with that game. I only bought it a few days ago (reading about how it'll go more expensive soon), and looked into it for a brief time, so I could get to know my purchase for a bit (having time constraints myself).
Well, the "just 5 minutes more" now turns into about 2 hours usually, and I get up waaay too late every day... Damn.
You've obviously never worked with a good project manager.
GP's statement being so popular says a lot about what kind of person usually works in such a position. In the end, it's not about what a project manager should do, it's what he/she actually does.
This comparison is completely meaningless. In Sweden, cheating one woman with another is considered rape, while in some muslim countries (and maybe others), having forced sex with your unwillingly married wife is perfectly fine (for everyone except the woman herself).
Sorry, OP is right..NET is not "server-side". You are thinking of ASP.NET..NET is very similar to Java in a number of ways, in fact it runs on a number of different platforms. There is even a version of.NET designed to run on ARM micros.
I was talking about web solutions. Dedicated desktop/mobile applications are a field where standardization is completely irrelevant.
Uh, Java is Open Source,.net is server-side (except for Silverlight of course) and Flash does undermine standardization as well. What's your point again?
What's happening to Wikileaks is astounding and should be scaring the living shit out of each and every one of you.
I'm not any more scared than I was before. After all, the governments (and especially the US government) already acted like that before. Just the proportions of the leaks are now much larger, and so the results are much more visible to everybody. Before these leaks, the corruption allegations were only voiced by a few people the general population doesn't believe (they were called conspiracy theorists, even on this site), and they had nothing to prove it. But still, if you listened to them, you got a completely different picture of the upper caste than they portrayed of themselves. A few things showed small glimpses of what it's really about, for example the way OOXML got into ISO or the way ACTA was created, but those didn't reveal the big picture.
I'm pretty sure these cables will change a lot, either we will get a better society or police states. Currently, the trend points to the latter, just like it has for nearly a decade now.
Game developers are very reluctant to support anything that's not shipped with the original product, since it reduces your target market considerably. Even the Wii Motion Plus has that issue.
If they had hand-coded the frontend and written a lightweight backend, Wave would likely still be around.
I'm not so sure about that. Wave didn't fail for technical reasons. It failed because there was no transition path (No mail gateway for a mail replacement? wtf? XMPP-IM at least gets that part right.) and bad management (they expected a private beta for a walled garden solution to take off immediately).
The point here is, that the factory producing these chips would still have to handle the problematic material. Recently, a factory in Hungary demonstrated why this is a bad idea: Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube.
I suspect this is going to be just like when video card drivers detect the filename of the executable and optimize specifically for that (I think it was quake3.exe that we saw that happen with before).
Actually, that still happens, and not just for Quake. It's even configurable in nVidia's control panel.
I think the magic of the hardware is in the infra-red grid scattering as seen in the night-shot video in the link and (I believe, but correct me if I'm wrong) hardware level processing of that returned data from the camera...
Yes, it looks like all Kinect does is measure the size of each dot, as reflected back into a IR-sensitive camera (big dot = near, small dot = far). That means you can actually see the 2D grid resolution of the device in the night shot.
It's probably done so the manufacturer can decide on the memory capacity of the phone after it has been produced outside of the factory and react quicker to market demands.
Plus, rebranders can put different amounts of memory into previously brandless phones.
This was a project by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to create $200 tablet like the iPad that was started in 2008 (long before even rumors of an Apple tablet)
Uh, there have been rumors about an Apple tablet since at least 2002. There's a big difference between planted information and real rumors:)
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Note that things can have different effects on animals. For example, try feeding heavily spiced meat to a dog (well, rather don't). Perfectly fine for a human, but something between a heavily messed up flat and death for the canine friend.
I'm having huge issues with that game. I only bought it a few days ago (reading about how it'll go more expensive soon), and looked into it for a brief time, so I could get to know my purchase for a bit (having time constraints myself).
Well, the "just 5 minutes more" now turns into about 2 hours usually, and I get up waaay too late every day... Damn.
it gets there in the fairly specific case of using a quantum version of a fourier transform to factor large primes.
Bill Gates, is that you?
I think I know of a better algorithm to factor large primes ;)
You've obviously never worked with a good project manager.
GP's statement being so popular says a lot about what kind of person usually works in such a position. In the end, it's not about what a project manager should do, it's what he/she actually does.
Considering that Gamebryo is dead, that would be rather horrific for development...
Being good for a Hello World demo app doesn't mean it's good for a larger 10000+ (or 100000+) lines app and vice-versa.
This comparison is completely meaningless. In Sweden, cheating one woman with another is considered rape, while in some muslim countries (and maybe others), having forced sex with your unwillingly married wife is perfectly fine (for everyone except the woman herself).
.NET has at least 3 different ways to write client-side apps...Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight
See my other reply... I was talking about web applications. Except for Silverlight, .net is irrelevant for the client.
Sorry, OP is right. .NET is not "server-side". You are thinking of ASP .NET. .NET is very similar to Java in a number of ways, in fact it runs on a number of different platforms. There is even a version of .NET designed to run on ARM micros.
I was talking about web solutions. Dedicated desktop/mobile applications are a field where standardization is completely irrelevant.
Reminds me of those product ads: "We're cross platform! We're running both on Windows XP and Windows 2000!"
Uh, Java is Open Source, .net is server-side (except for Silverlight of course) and Flash does undermine standardization as well. What's your point again?
All right, genius, show us even one shred of evidence that the government threatened to shut down either Amazon or Paypal.
Maybe it'll show up on wikileaks at some point.
What's happening to Wikileaks is astounding and should be scaring the living shit out of each and every one of you.
I'm not any more scared than I was before. After all, the governments (and especially the US government) already acted like that before. Just the proportions of the leaks are now much larger, and so the results are much more visible to everybody. Before these leaks, the corruption allegations were only voiced by a few people the general population doesn't believe (they were called conspiracy theorists, even on this site), and they had nothing to prove it. But still, if you listened to them, you got a completely different picture of the upper caste than they portrayed of themselves. A few things showed small glimpses of what it's really about, for example the way OOXML got into ISO or the way ACTA was created, but those didn't reveal the big picture.
I'm pretty sure these cables will change a lot, either we will get a better society or police states. Currently, the trend points to the latter, just like it has for nearly a decade now.
Reason for that is that open source lacks artists and modelers and other designers.
Uh, game engines aren't written by designers, they're written by programmers.
Game developers are very reluctant to support anything that's not shipped with the original product, since it reduces your target market considerably. Even the Wii Motion Plus has that issue.
They built Wave using some kind of Java toolkit that hid the JavaScript frontend code from programmers.
Let's call the demon by its name: Google Web Toolkit.
If they had hand-coded the frontend and written a lightweight backend, Wave would likely still be around.
I'm not so sure about that. Wave didn't fail for technical reasons. It failed because there was no transition path (No mail gateway for a mail replacement? wtf? XMPP-IM at least gets that part right.) and bad management (they expected a private beta for a walled garden solution to take off immediately).
Another difference is that PC games depend on a keyboard and a mouse, both of which don't work all that well while sitting on your TV couch.
Instant on isn't that large of a hurdle nowadays, since there's perfectly fine sleep support in all PCs.
The point here is, that the factory producing these chips would still have to handle the problematic material. Recently, a factory in Hungary demonstrated why this is a bad idea: Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube.
In my experience, ads being louder and more obnoxious results in muting the TV or tuning to a different channel.
With the caveat that those guys are almost certainly not the same ones who wrote the js interpreter.
I suspect this is going to be just like when video card drivers detect the filename of the executable and optimize specifically for that (I think it was quake3.exe that we saw that happen with before).
Actually, that still happens, and not just for Quake. It's even configurable in nVidia's control panel.
I think the magic of the hardware is in the infra-red grid scattering as seen in the night-shot video in the link and (I believe, but correct me if I'm wrong) hardware level processing of that returned data from the camera...
Yes, it looks like all Kinect does is measure the size of each dot, as reflected back into a IR-sensitive camera (big dot = near, small dot = far). That means you can actually see the 2D grid resolution of the device in the night shot.
Or perhaps it wasn't easy for those actors as well.
It's probably done so the manufacturer can decide on the memory capacity of the phone after it has been produced outside of the factory and react quicker to market demands.
Plus, rebranders can put different amounts of memory into previously brandless phones.
This was a project by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to create $200 tablet like the iPad that was started in 2008 (long before even rumors of an Apple tablet)
Uh, there have been rumors about an Apple tablet since at least 2002. There's a big difference between planted information and real rumors :)