Beer ads are clearly understood to be ads by everyone but small children. The website in question pretends to be something it's not (albeit very ineptly) - you have to look at whois to find out it's an ad. But I agree, it is a form of marketing (better known as astroturfing).
Nice idea, but some dude called Perelman beat you to it; he made up an even sillier sounding name, something like "Ricci flow with surgery". I like "frooblewompy" better myself.
Also, if any plane ever falls out of the sky because its software was dividing by zero, the engineers should be promptly be drug out into the street and shot.
In any case, I'm not sure I see how nullity rectifies the problem.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We're nullity minutes into this flight, and we're cruising at nullity knots, at an altitude of nullity feet below sea level. We've got a nice tailwind blowing along an axis perpendicular to spacetime, so we hope to arrive at our destination (7i-4) minutes early."
Absolutely right. Running MIPS code at full speed on a MIPS CPU is clearly impossible, even with a 4-5x clockspeed increase. It'd be like running win32/x86 apps at full speed on Linux/x86 - as if that's ever going to happen!
Every time I hear that bloody music I get a mental image of Samuel Barber bonking me on the head with a fistful of violins and ordering me to feel sad. Then I smash up his violins and use the strings to garotte him.
If you don't want to run the Beta, fine, don't run it. However, to my mind you lose all rights to complain about misfeatures and bugs if you had an opportunity to find and report them, and didn't.
Mate, that's the worst idea I've ever heard. Essentially, you're saying that the entire QA burden of software development should be carried by the general public, correct? And that bugs that slip through a public beta are somehow no longer grounds for criticism?
It's kind of like politics; if you can vote and don't, don't expect any sympathy from me if you bitch about the state of your government.
A better analogy would be a Brit such as myself bitching about the state of your glorious president, when I could have emigrated to the US, applied for citizenship, registered to vote in a swing state and then voted Democrat.
Anyway, I have solid arguments as to why I don't personally vote, and I bitch and moan about my government with a clear conscience.
They're copying Live because it's a good idea, and they need it. But they're copying the motion-sensor thing purely to piss on Nintendo's chips, and that's just nasty. They clearly have no idea what to do with it, and they'll have trouble copying Nintendo's game ideas (which will, I think, require positional information).
If the games don't benefit then the additional cash you pay for those sensors will just be a 'help us kill Nintendo' tax.
"I enjoy being imprisoned, beaten, and hounded all over the world for attempting to exercise my right to an employment tribunal, so a career in MI6 was a perfect fit for me."
What was your opinion of Windows and Microsoft before you joined the company? After? Do you feel any pressure to play down Linux's strengths internally? Externally? How would you personally feel if Windows achieved total market domination, extinguishing Linux?
Honestly though, why is every human life precious? Have you ever eaten eggs before? That's one life that will never have a chance to experience this wonderful beautiful world, all because of your senseless "hunger".
You're kidding...I thought those were chicken eggs. I'm going to be sick.
The figures given by the authors of the study are for online purchases of music. Many of the people who are not participating in illegal filesharing are still purchasing music on CDs. This makes their 4 1/2 times factor misleading.
Say your sample is 500 'music fans'. 50 are pirates who may also buy music online 50 only download legally 400 don't download music at all.
Pirates spend an average of $1 on music downloads Legal downloaders average $5 Non-downloaders, obviously, spend $0
Conclusion? Pirates outspend non-pirates nearly 2-1 on average. Hmm, that doesn't seem quite right...
A more honest approach would have been to restrict the survey to frequent music downloaders, but I don't think that would have yielded the result the pollsters clearly wanted.
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Plus, the next guy will release keys, but not the details of how he got them. So no-one will know which keys to revoke, and that's the ballgame.
Beer ads are clearly understood to be ads by everyone but small children. The website in question pretends to be something it's not (albeit very ineptly) - you have to look at whois to find out it's an ad. But I agree, it is a form of marketing (better known as astroturfing).
"It's also great to see so many girl gamers in the queue. I think one in 10 was a girl gamer."
Errr ... who is Ian Wright? And how has he never heard of Zelda?
He's an ex-footballer. He's never heard of Zelda in the same way the poster's never heard of Ian Wright.
I have a feeling that Dr. Anderson just won a bet.
Nice idea, but some dude called Perelman beat you to it; he made up an even sillier sounding name, something like "Ricci flow with surgery". I like "frooblewompy" better myself.
Also, if any plane ever falls out of the sky because its software was dividing by zero, the engineers should be promptly be drug out into the street and shot.
In any case, I'm not sure I see how nullity rectifies the problem.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We're nullity minutes into this flight, and we're cruising at nullity knots, at an altitude of nullity feet below sea level. We've got a nice tailwind blowing along an axis perpendicular to spacetime, so we hope to arrive at our destination (7i-4) minutes early."
Nope, the reason you want a fast 1/sqrt(x) in graphics is so you can normalise 3D vectors quickly (something that most 3D apps have to do a LOT).
/= length; /= length; /= length;
Slow:
const float length = sqrt( v.x*v.x + v.y*v.y + v.z*v.z );
v.x
v.y
v.z
Fast:
const float recip_length = InvSqrt( v.x*v.x + v.y*v.y + v.z*v.z );
v.x *= recip_length;
v.y *= recip_length;
v.z *= recip_length;
The 2nd version has no divides, and no call to sqrt, which makes it *loads* faster.
Absolutely right. Running MIPS code at full speed on a MIPS CPU is clearly impossible, even with a 4-5x clockspeed increase. It'd be like running win32/x86 apps at full speed on Linux/x86 - as if that's ever going to happen!
Every time I hear that bloody music I get a mental image of Samuel Barber bonking me on the head with a fistful of violins and ordering me to feel sad. Then I smash up his violins and use the strings to garotte him.
'Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!' gave me a lump in my throat, on the level when I had to help the dead guy haunt is grieving girlfriend.
So google.cn is whitelisted, on the understanding that they do some filtering of their own?
That's a real showstopper of a problem you've spotted there.
...what would happen if I sent some packets from google.com to google.cn, containing words like 'democracy' and 'Falun Gong'.
If you don't want to run the Beta, fine, don't run it. However, to my mind you lose all rights to complain about misfeatures and bugs if you had an opportunity to find and report them, and didn't.
Mate, that's the worst idea I've ever heard.
Essentially, you're saying that the entire QA burden of software development should be carried by the general public, correct? And that bugs that slip through a public beta are somehow no longer grounds for criticism?
It's kind of like politics; if you can vote and don't, don't expect any sympathy from me if you bitch about the state of your government.
A better analogy would be a Brit such as myself bitching about the state of your glorious president, when I could have emigrated to the US, applied for citizenship, registered to vote in a swing state and then voted Democrat.
Anyway, I have solid arguments as to why I don't personally vote, and I bitch and moan about my government with a clear conscience.
At least now they'll have an excuse that doesn't scare (normal) people.
"That arm's stronger because I play with my Wii a lot"
Oh yeah, problem solved.
There was 'Breaking the Code' a while ago, which was a drama focussing on Turing's homosexuality rather than his codebreaking work.
Are you kidding, you crazy flamebaiter? You *did* see the giraffe simulator right? That's some nice grazing...
The Playstation Thwii?
They're copying Live because it's a good idea, and they need it. But they're copying the motion-sensor thing purely to piss on Nintendo's chips, and that's just nasty. They clearly have no idea what to do with it, and they'll have trouble copying Nintendo's game ideas (which will, I think, require positional information).
If the games don't benefit then the additional cash you pay for those sensors will just be a 'help us kill Nintendo' tax.
Noone cares about the security of the thing, they just want to be able to connect to WPA-enabled APs.
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"I enjoy being imprisoned, beaten, and hounded all over the world for attempting to exercise my right to an employment tribunal, so a career in MI6 was a perfect fit for me."
What was your opinion of Windows and Microsoft before you joined the company? After?
Do you feel any pressure to play down Linux's strengths internally? Externally?
How would you personally feel if Windows achieved total market domination, extinguishing Linux?
Honestly though, why is every human life precious? Have you ever eaten eggs before? That's one life that will never have a chance to experience this wonderful beautiful world, all because of your senseless "hunger".
You're kidding...I thought those were chicken eggs. I'm going to be sick.
The figures given by the authors of the study are for online purchases of music. Many of the people who are not participating in illegal filesharing are still purchasing music on CDs. This makes their 4 1/2 times factor misleading.
Say your sample is 500 'music fans'.
50 are pirates who may also buy music online
50 only download legally
400 don't download music at all.
Pirates spend an average of $1 on music downloads
Legal downloaders average $5
Non-downloaders, obviously, spend $0
Conclusion? Pirates outspend non-pirates nearly 2-1 on average. Hmm, that doesn't seem quite right...
A more honest approach would have been to restrict the survey to frequent music downloaders, but I don't think that would have yielded the result the pollsters clearly wanted.