Sugar IS a horrible diet, and whatever "the hell" you feel like eating is very much a function of the diet you have, healthy or not.
Your point being? My entire post was about how we should use science to allow me to eat a horrible diet in the first place. Also your full of it trying to make grandiose claims about how people who've eaten a good diet all along don't wish to eat things that are bad for them. Anyone who's actually ever studied something like diabetes will tell you very clearly: Science still doesn't really understand how human metabolism or hunger works.
The article mentioned here is just further proof of that.
Really? So are you trying to say science shouldn't be used to allow me to eat more sugar? Because I'm pretty sure I want to eat whatever the hell I feel like. Having to eat a horrid diet might give you a healthy body but it's not optimal in any way. Most of the people who have to do it against their wills are still suffering. Substituting mental suffering for physical suffering is not a be all end all cure.
You have to wonder why thunderbird doesn't compete as well in the email marketspace as firefox does in the browser market space.
It's the mail. You can't just download an email program in windows and try it out and have the mail be stored in both programs like it should be. Plus little things like setting up the mail client to connect to the server can confuse a lot of users. A bunch of them probably don't even remember their password for their mail account since they just had the program save it 4 years ago or whatever.
Why there is neither Mario nor Zelda to play on the Wii then, huh?
I think a lot of people who work in the industry would probably put Mario in the "casual" market category. Either that or some sort of casual/hardcore hybrid. Zelda isn't exactly feeling it's roots lately either. It's not hard to imagine the first Zelda exclusively for the Wii might be a bit more casual than previous titles.
"Nintendo has turned its back on hardcore gamers!" they cry. "The Nintendo we know is gone!" they shout. Poor Miyamoto just can't attain the elusive benefit of the doubt, no matter how many times he proves us wrong.
This made me pull a WTF? Proves us wrong? I'd say it's been pretty clear for a long while now that Nintendo has indeed pulled out of the hardcore section of the market. It's not like that will hurt the hardcore market though. Even in the unlikely event that they gain market dominance over the console market that will just shift some hardcore focus to the PC market where it belongs in the first place.
I'm somewhat skeptical too. I mean this isn't just an aids cure they are talking about. As far as I know the procedure talked about in the article is a dramatically new way to fight viruses if it's true.
On the topic of pharmico's covering up a vaccine I don't find that likely. Vaccines are for people who aren't sick yet after all. An HIV vaccine would likely become a medical requirement for every 1st world country on the planet.
Bringing up the 5th amendment is an interesting point though. In our increasingly complex lives the human brain becomes a limitation to the point that we have to start putting personal info in day planners and emails and what not instead of trying to keep track of it all in our heads. If they ever figure out how to read a persons memories in the far future is that going to be protected by the 5th amendment? What if we start putting computers in hour head? Etc etc.
Perhaps invoking the 5th to avoid turning over encryption keys wouldn't fly in court but thinking about all this I can't say I disagree with the logic that it SHOULD fly.
So sure, 720p games scaled to 1080p will look good, but the art assets (textures, etc.) were not created for the higher resolution.
Increasing the resolution internally requires more computing power. The reality is most consumers wont have 1080p so the games will be designed around 720p or 1080i because by doing so they can increase the visual complexity (i.e. make it look better).
Think of it like a slider where on one end you have high resolution and the other hand you have "good looking".
So the concept that any console is going to do real 1080p is a joke in the first place.
As per the norm on/. the article title is incredibly misleading. The guy never once talks about ditching math. He doesn't even vaguely imply that math should be ditched. What he seems to be talking about is how the methods and tools of orthodox mathematicians (i.e. pure math guys) are still being used by Computer Scientists when all of that stuff should by now be far more "specialized" towards the things Computer Science really studies.
I think we can see what he's talking about in the many arguments about functional programming. I don't want to open that debate but I can at least attest I've met many people who are biased towards functional programming simply because it's so mathematical.
It's not hard for me to imagine that some of these same people (who are in academia) are pretty close minded about updating their skill set to something more suited to their actual jobs.
I'd be very hesitant to have robots with tasers running around but I think it's fair to point out there might actually be some really positive aspects to this.
Cops have caught a lot of flack lately for over aggressiveness and in a lot of those cases the reason is the cop has to be aggressive is to protect himself. With a robot we can let it basically do totally suicidal things to try and subdue the suspect without harming him.
Also cops can be intimidating when it's not necessarily good to be intimidating. If a big guy with a gun and a nightstick comes after you then your fight or flight responses kick in and you might start acting irrationally. If a weak robot without weapons attempts to arrest you it could lead to much more calm thought and actions on both sides of the fence. Of course thats assuming the suspect to be arrested would act rationally in the first place.
I would say Arena.net got the true "big dogs". It's not something that people write news about but it's pretty well an accepted thing in the industry that the success of Blizzard North games was due to massive rebalancing and idea storming and general fixes by Blizz Central.
Diablo 1 was originally turn based till someone from Bliz Central looked at it and basically forced Blizz North to try making the game real time. Also the reason Diablo 2 was purportedly late wasn't that Blizzard was doing their usual of polishing polishing and repolishing. It was because Blizz North was dorking around playing Everquest in the office for months. Blizz Central again had to pick up the slack and get D2 out the door.
Moving forward it will be interesting to see if Bill Roper really has what it takes from a management perspective. It's hard to say when it seems like he was having all the shots called for him before. Maybe he's really good and people were getting in his way. Or maybe they were calling shots for him because he's really a fake.
If Flagship pulls a catstrophe like Sigil and Brad McQuaid though I suspect venture capitalists to start getting really tight around the purse strings around these "rock star" developer types.
To me Blizzard and Arena.net bar more watching. Does Blizzard still have the magic? SC2 can't fail and they won't likely try to innovate in it much due to SC1's rabid following in Korea. What comes after that though from both Blizzard and Arena.net will be very telling. If Blizzard can still keep pumping out the industries premier content it will be a big victory for game design via engineering and all these posturing "artists" will finally start looking like the schmucks most of them are.
This is the obvious result of people finally being able to buy 1 song for a buck or two. Before people would pay 12~20 bucks for a CD that only had a few songs on it that they actually liked. That's the whole reason they are trying to force itunes to raise prices on certain songs.
I was thinking virtually the exact same thing, actually. Farming having an undesirable environmental impact? Really, it only limits the availability of land that might be used for other reasons (most of which are far more detrimental to the environment than farming).
It's statements like this that really make environmentalists look bad. Farming has a huge environmental impact. How can it NOT? We're talking about humans taking every possible bit of land that can grow plants and digging it up to grow man-made crops! Not only do we kill off forests and swamps and anything else that gets in the way we then proceed to blanket the land with insecticides and other.
Environmentalists need to stop assuming that becoming luddites is the only way to solve problems. Vertical farming and some sort of vastly cheap energy source is probably the ONLY way to return the majority of the Earth to a pristine state. The only other likely solution is going to be some sort of technology that makes food out of raw materials.
Ok, but doesn't that merely prevent someone from using Express to develop such a plugin or using a plugin with Express? I don't see how that clause prevents someone distributing such a plugin.
Basically the API's he's using to release his plugin are covered under the express license I would assume. In other words the license (you know those things we use like GPL and LGPL) which covers the API's expressly forbids using those API's to integrate with Express.
I don't agree with what they are doing but it seems like they have a legal leg to stand on. The irony here is that if he had "hacked" it instead of using the MS api's he would probably be protected by reverse engineering laws.
Lots of comments about how our current languages are too "primitive" for parallel programming but I don't buy that. The whole reason people still like to use C in the first place is specifically because it's primitive.
What's really missing are better libraries and compilers. Those of you hoping parallel programming will bring some sort of second coming for functional languages should keep dreaming probably. If the people that like C can't use C they'll probably use assembler before they use one of those "dirty" functional languages that aren't close to the metal.
It is not difficult to justify parallel programming. Ten years ago, it was difficult to justify because most computers had a single processor. Today, dual-core systems are increasingly common, and 8-core PC's are not unheard of. And software developers are already complaining because it's "too hard" to write parallel programs.
He didn't mean that kind of justification. There seems to be a misconception among non programmers that parallel programming is something that merely has to be implemented and then suddenly those crazy 4 core PC's will be ultra powerful.
That can work for some things but for many uses the overhead created by using multiple cores makes speeding up the parts that matter impossible.
My first thought on reading this is about if it costs to make starch than hydrogen? Sure we can grow starch but there are upper limits on that production method. We'd eventually have to manufacture the starch from non biomass derived sources if we wanted to use it as fuel.
As far as a storage mechanism goes it sounds like it might have advantages but how complicated is the process to break it down for hydrogen? How much does it cost to make the enzymes and what not needed to break it down as well?
Overall an interesting idea but still far less important than the question of where we are going to get energy to make starch or hydrogen in the first place.
So Bill Best invented the grill, patented it and used his temporary monopoly to sell the grill for a high price and (presumably) made lots of money from his invention. Why shouldn't he be allowed to do this? It's not like an infra-red grill is a basic human necessity.
He didn't invent the grill he invented a method for drying car paint faster. The article gives no indication at all if he's actually made any money off the patent in fact. It implies his company worked with the grill industry AFTER his patent expired to make the grills cheaper. It doesn't even list any info on whether or not infrared grills were even selling before the patent expired.
As I understood it, the article is about a patent expiration. I think the message here is that the mass marketing of a consumer item was delayed a few years because there was a patent holding it back.
The article is worded badly. The original patent was created in the 1960s and expired in 2000. Then after it expired they started trying to figure out how to use it in a grill and it still took them 7 years to make it cheap enough for home owners.
The article doesn't seem to really go into WHY they waited for it to expire though. It could be that they couldn't use it anyways for all we know.
Philosophy majors or debaters out there must have some fancy term for this kind of misleading argument? Clearly the only thing google is doing here is offering a service to ISPs that will maintain the status quo yet the article author is glossing that over and acting like google will now be responsible for the way ISPs might use what is essentially a software package that doesn't do anything new at all.
Most taken a paycut for moving into this industry - in return for higher job satisfaction and a great work environment.
It's the taking a paycut thing they are interested in. Bioware might be a bit different but my experience with people who work for game companies is that at first they thought they'd get better job satisfaction from working on video games but that they eventually realize management is even worse than usual and you don't get to work on games you like or some other such thing happens.
So you get to work crap hours for worse pay for no benefit in the end.
From reading the article on hypervisor it still seems ambiguous. It implies that a hypervisor is not exactly a VM but the actual detailed description makes it out to be a VM. Others seem to imply it means the VM is running as an OS basically.
From everything I can see though the word is useless and it amounts to the equivalent of computer scientists being fussy. VM or VM OS are better choices.
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Your point being? My entire post was about how we should use science to allow me to eat a horrible diet in the first place. Also your full of it trying to make grandiose claims about how people who've eaten a good diet all along don't wish to eat things that are bad for them. Anyone who's actually ever studied something like diabetes will tell you very clearly: Science still doesn't really understand how human metabolism or hunger works.
The article mentioned here is just further proof of that.
Really? So are you trying to say science shouldn't be used to allow me to eat more sugar? Because I'm pretty sure I want to eat whatever the hell I feel like. Having to eat a horrid diet might give you a healthy body but it's not optimal in any way. Most of the people who have to do it against their wills are still suffering. Substituting mental suffering for physical suffering is not a be all end all cure.
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It's the mail. You can't just download an email program in windows and try it out and have the mail be stored in both programs like it should be. Plus little things like setting up the mail client to connect to the server can confuse a lot of users. A bunch of them probably don't even remember their password for their mail account since they just had the program save it 4 years ago or whatever.
I think a lot of people who work in the industry would probably put Mario in the "casual" market category. Either that or some sort of casual/hardcore hybrid. Zelda isn't exactly feeling it's roots lately either. It's not hard to imagine the first Zelda exclusively for the Wii might be a bit more casual than previous titles.
This made me pull a WTF? Proves us wrong? I'd say it's been pretty clear for a long while now that Nintendo has indeed pulled out of the hardcore section of the market. It's not like that will hurt the hardcore market though. Even in the unlikely event that they gain market dominance over the console market that will just shift some hardcore focus to the PC market where it belongs in the first place.
I'm somewhat skeptical too. I mean this isn't just an aids cure they are talking about. As far as I know the procedure talked about in the article is a dramatically new way to fight viruses if it's true.
On the topic of pharmico's covering up a vaccine I don't find that likely. Vaccines are for people who aren't sick yet after all. An HIV vaccine would likely become a medical requirement for every 1st world country on the planet.
Bringing up the 5th amendment is an interesting point though. In our increasingly complex lives the human brain becomes a limitation to the point that we have to start putting personal info in day planners and emails and what not instead of trying to keep track of it all in our heads. If they ever figure out how to read a persons memories in the far future is that going to be protected by the 5th amendment? What if we start putting computers in hour head? Etc etc.
Perhaps invoking the 5th to avoid turning over encryption keys wouldn't fly in court but thinking about all this I can't say I disagree with the logic that it SHOULD fly.
Increasing the resolution internally requires more computing power. The reality is most consumers wont have 1080p so the games will be designed around 720p or 1080i because by doing so they can increase the visual complexity (i.e. make it look better).
Think of it like a slider where on one end you have high resolution and the other hand you have "good looking".
So the concept that any console is going to do real 1080p is a joke in the first place.
Well you have to buy two 360's so when the first one bricks you can use the other one while you wait for MS to refurbish the first one.
I assume this is what he meant by half the price?
I wasn't talking about a robot armed with a taser in that part actually. I meant an unarmed robot literally.
As per the norm on /. the article title is incredibly misleading. The guy never once talks about ditching math. He doesn't even vaguely imply that math should be ditched. What he seems to be talking about is how the methods and tools of orthodox mathematicians (i.e. pure math guys) are still being used by Computer Scientists when all of that stuff should by now be far more "specialized" towards the things Computer Science really studies.
I think we can see what he's talking about in the many arguments about functional programming. I don't want to open that debate but I can at least attest I've met many people who are biased towards functional programming simply because it's so mathematical.
It's not hard for me to imagine that some of these same people (who are in academia) are pretty close minded about updating their skill set to something more suited to their actual jobs.
I'd be very hesitant to have robots with tasers running around but I think it's fair to point out there might actually be some really positive aspects to this.
Cops have caught a lot of flack lately for over aggressiveness and in a lot of those cases the reason is the cop has to be aggressive is to protect himself. With a robot we can let it basically do totally suicidal things to try and subdue the suspect without harming him.
Also cops can be intimidating when it's not necessarily good to be intimidating. If a big guy with a gun and a nightstick comes after you then your fight or flight responses kick in and you might start acting irrationally. If a weak robot without weapons attempts to arrest you it could lead to much more calm thought and actions on both sides of the fence. Of course thats assuming the suspect to be arrested would act rationally in the first place.
I would say Arena.net got the true "big dogs". It's not something that people write news about but it's pretty well an accepted thing in the industry that the success of Blizzard North games was due to massive rebalancing and idea storming and general fixes by Blizz Central.
Diablo 1 was originally turn based till someone from Bliz Central looked at it and basically forced Blizz North to try making the game real time. Also the reason Diablo 2 was purportedly late wasn't that Blizzard was doing their usual of polishing polishing and repolishing. It was because Blizz North was dorking around playing Everquest in the office for months. Blizz Central again had to pick up the slack and get D2 out the door.
Moving forward it will be interesting to see if Bill Roper really has what it takes from a management perspective. It's hard to say when it seems like he was having all the shots called for him before. Maybe he's really good and people were getting in his way. Or maybe they were calling shots for him because he's really a fake.
If Flagship pulls a catstrophe like Sigil and Brad McQuaid though I suspect venture capitalists to start getting really tight around the purse strings around these "rock star" developer types.
To me Blizzard and Arena.net bar more watching. Does Blizzard still have the magic? SC2 can't fail and they won't likely try to innovate in it much due to SC1's rabid following in Korea. What comes after that though from both Blizzard and Arena.net will be very telling. If Blizzard can still keep pumping out the industries premier content it will be a big victory for game design via engineering and all these posturing "artists" will finally start looking like the schmucks most of them are.
This is the obvious result of people finally being able to buy 1 song for a buck or two. Before people would pay 12~20 bucks for a CD that only had a few songs on it that they actually liked. That's the whole reason they are trying to force itunes to raise prices on certain songs.
It's statements like this that really make environmentalists look bad. Farming has a huge environmental impact. How can it NOT? We're talking about humans taking every possible bit of land that can grow plants and digging it up to grow man-made crops! Not only do we kill off forests and swamps and anything else that gets in the way we then proceed to blanket the land with insecticides and other.
Environmentalists need to stop assuming that becoming luddites is the only way to solve problems. Vertical farming and some sort of vastly cheap energy source is probably the ONLY way to return the majority of the Earth to a pristine state. The only other likely solution is going to be some sort of technology that makes food out of raw materials.
Basically the API's he's using to release his plugin are covered under the express license I would assume. In other words the license (you know those things we use like GPL and LGPL) which covers the API's expressly forbids using those API's to integrate with Express.
I don't agree with what they are doing but it seems like they have a legal leg to stand on. The irony here is that if he had "hacked" it instead of using the MS api's he would probably be protected by reverse engineering laws.
Lots of comments about how our current languages are too "primitive" for parallel programming but I don't buy that. The whole reason people still like to use C in the first place is specifically because it's primitive.
What's really missing are better libraries and compilers. Those of you hoping parallel programming will bring some sort of second coming for functional languages should keep dreaming probably. If the people that like C can't use C they'll probably use assembler before they use one of those "dirty" functional languages that aren't close to the metal.
He didn't mean that kind of justification. There seems to be a misconception among non programmers that parallel programming is something that merely has to be implemented and then suddenly those crazy 4 core PC's will be ultra powerful.
That can work for some things but for many uses the overhead created by using multiple cores makes speeding up the parts that matter impossible.
My first thought on reading this is about if it costs to make starch than hydrogen? Sure we can grow starch but there are upper limits on that production method. We'd eventually have to manufacture the starch from non biomass derived sources if we wanted to use it as fuel.
As far as a storage mechanism goes it sounds like it might have advantages but how complicated is the process to break it down for hydrogen? How much does it cost to make the enzymes and what not needed to break it down as well?
Overall an interesting idea but still far less important than the question of where we are going to get energy to make starch or hydrogen in the first place.
He didn't invent the grill he invented a method for drying car paint faster. The article gives no indication at all if he's actually made any money off the patent in fact. It implies his company worked with the grill industry AFTER his patent expired to make the grills cheaper. It doesn't even list any info on whether or not infrared grills were even selling before the patent expired.
The article is worded badly. The original patent was created in the 1960s and expired in 2000. Then after it expired they started trying to figure out how to use it in a grill and it still took them 7 years to make it cheap enough for home owners.
The article doesn't seem to really go into WHY they waited for it to expire though. It could be that they couldn't use it anyways for all we know.
Philosophy majors or debaters out there must have some fancy term for this kind of misleading argument? Clearly the only thing google is doing here is offering a service to ISPs that will maintain the status quo yet the article author is glossing that over and acting like google will now be responsible for the way ISPs might use what is essentially a software package that doesn't do anything new at all.
It's the taking a paycut thing they are interested in. Bioware might be a bit different but my experience with people who work for game companies is that at first they thought they'd get better job satisfaction from working on video games but that they eventually realize management is even worse than usual and you don't get to work on games you like or some other such thing happens.
So you get to work crap hours for worse pay for no benefit in the end.
From reading the article on hypervisor it still seems ambiguous. It implies that a hypervisor is not exactly a VM but the actual detailed description makes it out to be a VM. Others seem to imply it means the VM is running as an OS basically.
From everything I can see though the word is useless and it amounts to the equivalent of computer scientists being fussy. VM or VM OS are better choices.