Hmm, I can think of fairly trivial strategies for addressing shark attacks and mountain lion maulings. So you can address them, and what you feel is worth addressing really depends upon personal values.
Is it too soon for a holocaust movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/), or cartoon book (http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/holocaust/spiegelma n.html)?
Just because video games as an entertainment/art form are in their infancy doesn't mean they can't grow up and portray the same subjects that the more established arts do.
I think the main disadvantage of procedural texturing is that it limits the precision of control the artists can achieve. For many photorealistic situations artists really just want to be able to slap enormous textures that are hand painted for a precise effect, but are generally limited by the max texture size.
Well, unfortunately, as a statistic that is also not very useful, because security flaws are usually a matter of specific code vulnerabilities, so a flaw discovered in one browser would be expected not to be found in another browser in most if not all cases. Most IE vulnerabilities aren't in FireFox either, or even vice versa.
Things that work in Japan, a small island, don't necessarily work in the US, a large fraction of a big continent. The reason being that things are very spread out in the US, so you have significantly different issues with deployment and signaling distances. Not that I necessarily believe it's impossible in the US, just that there really are good reasons why it is harder to do here.
I'm pretty sure it's the future of 1080 / 60 p 130 megabit/sec porn videos that have the ISPs and internet backbone providers quivering in their boots.
I was referring to the speeds in the performance table referenced by the parent. However, one might suspect that Opera has fewer security breaks due to less usage. It's really difficult to compare when the two products don't have similar usage numbers.
I think the problem with that philosophy is that downloading the 'right' set of plugins to get a good experience is too challenging (for most users). You really do want your users to download, once, a package of stuff that yeilds a great experience, so that your reviews will be nice an glowingly positive. Hence, we'll always want to see the best features of the most popular plugins make their way into the core browser.
I'm more curious to know for what user speed is the most important aspect of a browser? There is no page I have ever visited that took more than 2 seconds to load in firefox 1.5. At that speed, for whom is speed an issue of consequence? I can't read any page faster than it renders, so who cares? What matters most to most users I would think would be two things: convenience and security. IE, you don't want to use IE because it can compromise your system so easily. And you don't want to use Opera because of the hassle. So in all seriousness, can you think of anyone whose primary consideration when choosing a browser is speed and not functionality? And unfortunately for Opera, while it is fast, different versions are the winners in different categories (so there's not even a single version of Opera to pick if you do want speed), and the difference between opera and firefox is so small as to be meaningless (when compared to say the time variance of packets being delivered over the internet).
It's not quite a parallel situation. A better parallel might be to discourage people from trying to make it as a solo unpublished musician, or a professional athlete unassociated with any professional sports franchise, or an actor making only undistributed films.... it's very hard to be independent in most fields. If popcap can't make it big with their innovative, fun games, it's going to be that much harder for someone without even that kind of backing.
People who want their own game house should go the obvious, cheaper route: work at a small dev house on one title, move to a major dev house for a second title, and then get the VC funding to launch your own company.
Yes, though I thought there was a clear implication that the author thought our work was more complicated than the work that goes into an airplane by a wide margin, my point was to make people aware of just how complex a beast an airplane really is, and that most of us will never work on a program quite that complicated.
Parts in total I believe. But that's the measure most relevant to the comparable complexity of computer code, as most of our lines are comparably similar. If (X) and If (y) may be different, but the difficulty of creating such code is probably comparable to attaching two identical clamps on a 747.
I don't think that's the suggestion of the research. I suspect the research has more to do with long developed biological imperatives created by evolution over millions of years before this recent 100,000 year period of relative wealth and tranquility that allowed you to think about (and have) the time to spend with someone to spend time with. So it's interesting to see what odd skills women have developed in terms of the biological imperative, even if they aren't as relevant today. Those skills won't go away any time soon, and are no doubt impacting what sorts of men women are physically attracted to, which may be information of interest to women who don't want to allow themselves to be so influenced.
I think it's more of a conflict between the press presentation and an understanding of detailed statistics. When you get the press presentation, it says that women can tell a man's level of testosterone. When you read the statistics, you find that with a >95% confidence level, the researchers have concluded that the participant's ratings matched testosterone level better than random chance would allow, implying that at least some of the women were getting the answers right enough that they must have been recognizing something. The numbers of participants required to make these conclusions are well understood. 20 participants is roughly the lower bound for studies of this type, and I'm sure in the actual research paper that various weaknesses of the sample were discussed (age, race distribution and such) as they nearly always are. But the press presentation will contain none of that, because the fraction of their readers who would understand the details is very small.
Morality becomes part of the energy equation when your government uses force in other countries to secure the gasoline you use to mow your lawn. When people are killed to provide the energy you paid for, your money, and by extension you, helped secure those deaths.
The off the grid movement is actually doing quite well. More and more people are installing net positive solar installations, and even profiting from sale back to the network. A government investment in improvements in hydrogen technologies will help that enormously, because hydrogen is one of the easiest to produce fuel sources for small generation plants (of the size you could keep on your property), but is difficult for anyone to use now mostly because of storage issues, and somewhat due to engine issues. If the government helps eliminate those problems, it is very much helping to lay down the first planks for the coffin of the big energy companies.
The thing that favors hydrogen is that gasoline, in particular, is hard to make. Given a randomly chosen source of energy, such as coal, natural gas, solar, geothermal, or wind power, producing hydrogen as fuel is a lot easier than producing gasoline. If you can then store the hydrogen and also burn it in convenient engines, then you have an economy which is much, much easier to run off of these energy sources, which means not requiring oil as your source energy, because that's the only energy source for which we have a convenient method to turn into gasoline.
If their final partner has to stuff videos in the US, the costs go way up because the minimum wage is at least 10x higher here. Presumably they'll also be looking for shipments of thousands of dvd's at a time, in which case it will probably look somewhat suspicious that you're shipping vacation videos a thousand or two to the box.
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Hmm, I can think of fairly trivial strategies for addressing shark attacks and mountain lion maulings. So you can address them, and what you feel is worth addressing really depends upon personal values.
Is it too soon for a holocaust movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/), or cartoon book (http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/holocaust/spiegelma n.html)?
Just because video games as an entertainment/art form are in their infancy doesn't mean they can't grow up and portray the same subjects that the more established arts do.
Unfortunately, there is no spoon.
I'm afraid you're probably about 8 or 9 years off from getting that level of performance for $80.
Actually, since they are moving towards 64 bit color rendering, you'll soon be able to enjoy 65,536 shades of brown.
I think the main disadvantage of procedural texturing is that it limits the precision of control the artists can achieve. For many photorealistic situations artists really just want to be able to slap enormous textures that are hand painted for a precise effect, but are generally limited by the max texture size.
Well, unfortunately, as a statistic that is also not very useful, because security flaws are usually a matter of specific code vulnerabilities, so a flaw discovered in one browser would be expected not to be found in another browser in most if not all cases. Most IE vulnerabilities aren't in FireFox either, or even vice versa.
Things that work in Japan, a small island, don't necessarily work in the US, a large fraction of a big continent. The reason being that things are very spread out in the US, so you have significantly different issues with deployment and signaling distances. Not that I necessarily believe it's impossible in the US, just that there really are good reasons why it is harder to do here.
Very HD runs to ~135 megabit/sec. Not that it does much to the numbers in your argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1
I'm pretty sure it's the future of 1080 / 60 p 130 megabit/sec porn videos that have the ISPs and internet backbone providers quivering in their boots.
I was referring to the speeds in the performance table referenced by the parent.
However, one might suspect that Opera has fewer security breaks due to less usage. It's really difficult to compare when the two products don't have similar usage numbers.
I think the problem with that philosophy is that downloading the 'right' set of plugins to get a good experience is too challenging (for most users). You really do want your users to download, once, a package of stuff that yeilds a great experience, so that your reviews will be nice an glowingly positive. Hence, we'll always want to see the best features of the most popular plugins make their way into the core browser.
I'm more curious to know for what user speed is the most important aspect of a browser? There is no page I have ever visited that took more than 2 seconds to load in firefox 1.5. At that speed, for whom is speed an issue of consequence? I can't read any page faster than it renders, so who cares? What matters most to most users I would think would be two things: convenience and security. IE, you don't want to use IE because it can compromise your system so easily. And you don't want to use Opera because of the hassle. So in all seriousness, can you think of anyone whose primary consideration when choosing a browser is speed and not functionality? And unfortunately for Opera, while it is fast, different versions are the winners in different categories (so there's not even a single version of Opera to pick if you do want speed), and the difference between opera and firefox is so small as to be meaningless (when compared to say the time variance of packets being delivered over the internet).
It's not quite a parallel situation. A better parallel might be to discourage people from trying to make it as a solo unpublished musician, or a professional athlete unassociated with any professional sports franchise, or an actor making only undistributed films .... it's very hard to be independent in most fields. If popcap can't make it big with their innovative, fun games, it's going to be that much harder for someone without even that kind of backing.
People who want their own game house should go the obvious, cheaper route: work at a small dev house on one title, move to a major dev house for a second title, and then get the VC funding to launch your own company.
Yes, though I thought there was a clear implication that the author thought our work was more complicated than the work that goes into an airplane by a wide margin, my point was to make people aware of just how complex a beast an airplane really is, and that most of us will never work on a program quite that complicated.
Parts in total I believe. But that's the measure most relevant to the comparable complexity of computer code, as most of our lines are comparably similar. If (X) and If (y) may be different, but the difficulty of creating such code is probably comparable to attaching two identical clamps on a 747.
The boeing 747 is composed of roughly 6 million parts.4 7facts.html
http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/747evolution/7
I can't find a cite, but I'd guess you are off by an order of magnitude on the car as well.
Well, in all fairness to the pc side of things, the performance of the 5 grand ps3 isn't much better than the half grand one.
I don't think that's the suggestion of the research. I suspect the research has more to do with long developed biological imperatives created by evolution over millions of years before this recent 100,000 year period of relative wealth and tranquility that allowed you to think about (and have) the time to spend with someone to spend time with. So it's interesting to see what odd skills women have developed in terms of the biological imperative, even if they aren't as relevant today. Those skills won't go away any time soon, and are no doubt impacting what sorts of men women are physically attracted to, which may be information of interest to women who don't want to allow themselves to be so influenced.
I think the suprise is supposed to be over women being smart enough to do it. No surprise if men are too.
I think it's more of a conflict between the press presentation and an understanding of detailed statistics. When you get the press presentation, it says that women can tell a man's level of testosterone. When you read the statistics, you find that with a >95% confidence level, the researchers have concluded that the participant's ratings matched testosterone level better than random chance would allow, implying that at least some of the women were getting the answers right enough that they must have been recognizing something. The numbers of participants required to make these conclusions are well understood. 20 participants is roughly the lower bound for studies of this type, and I'm sure in the actual research paper that various weaknesses of the sample were discussed (age, race distribution and such) as they nearly always are. But the press presentation will contain none of that, because the fraction of their readers who would understand the details is very small.
Morality becomes part of the energy equation when your government uses force in other countries to secure the gasoline you use to mow your lawn. When people are killed to provide the energy you paid for, your money, and by extension you, helped secure those deaths.
The off the grid movement is actually doing quite well. More and more people are installing net positive solar installations, and even profiting from sale back to the network. A government investment in improvements in hydrogen technologies will help that enormously, because hydrogen is one of the easiest to produce fuel sources for small generation plants (of the size you could keep on your property), but is difficult for anyone to use now mostly because of storage issues, and somewhat due to engine issues. If the government helps eliminate those problems, it is very much helping to lay down the first planks for the coffin of the big energy companies.
The thing that favors hydrogen is that gasoline, in particular, is hard to make. Given a randomly chosen source of energy, such as coal, natural gas, solar, geothermal, or wind power, producing hydrogen as fuel is a lot easier than producing gasoline. If you can then store the hydrogen and also burn it in convenient engines, then you have an economy which is much, much easier to run off of these energy sources, which means not requiring oil as your source energy, because that's the only energy source for which we have a convenient method to turn into gasoline.
If their final partner has to stuff videos in the US, the costs go way up because the minimum wage is at least 10x higher here. Presumably they'll also be looking for shipments of thousands of dvd's at a time, in which case it will probably look somewhat suspicious that you're shipping vacation videos a thousand or two to the box.