I knew that Palladium had the ability to absorb a month's worth of attention span in just a slim book, but I hadn't heard about the hydrogen thing. Thanks!
Nintendo had integration of the Gameboy Advance and the DS on the Gamecube. Yet another Nintendo idea branded gimmicky by developers until a more promiment company offers an implementaion of it.
Did CliffyB himself say it was gimmicky?
If he did say it, is he allowed to change his mind?
i really hate when programmers try to be funny. this article is asinine. Programming isn't a joke and telling a novice how to program and introducing all that sperflous crap is only going to confuse them even more. If i'm looking to program that means i want to learn to program, don't piss in my cornflakes and call it milk.
I'm pretty sure you didn't need the article to do that. You seem to have done fine on your own.
Personally, I found it mildly funny. Yeah, he's trying too hard. On the plus side, this article of his seems to be funnier than the rest of the stuff on his blog.
Maybe I came in at the wrong time, though? I couldn't tell whether or not he was writing a serial in the other posts, which changes everything.
No, its not plagiarism. I'm not arguing about the ethics of what you describe. Just saying that plagiarism neccessitates passing off the work as your own. If you site a source, its no more plagiarism then copying a music CD is plagiarism.
Exactamundo. Quibbling about semantics sometimes seems worthless, until you remember that people's opinions and morals are often swayed by using just the right (or wrong) words. Witness the ??AA calling copyright infringement "stealing" to throw the weight of the Ten Commandments behind laws against it.
(I'm fairly sure that Moses wasn't bringing laws down the mountain that had anything to do with copying some other dude's scrolls, as getting copied actually gave authors warm fuzzies in those days.)
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Hey, as soon as Joe User decides to start treating Jill OSS Developer as though *she* owed *him* something, the "so submit a patch" comeback becomes perfectly acceptable.
No kidding. Joe User should do at least two days of groveling before he can expect Jill OSS Developer to even notice his request. Anything else isn't showing the proper respect for the exalted position.
What the maximum allowed network latency and thereby the maximum allowed operation distance be? Could somebody come with an answer?
I wonder if it would depend on the doctor. Network FPS games seem to be a decent analogue to this with regards to latency. Some players adapt just fine, and others never really get it.
It's not such a big deal now that all of them implement client-side prediction (which a surgical system might be able to do), but back in the days of Quake 1, it was a huge differentiator.
Please don't use that "word". It's worse than "nukyular." At least nukular has no inherent meaning, whereas "irregardless" implies a double negative meaning: "without lack of regard."
Actually, it's 100% correct. "Irregardless" is the joculary invective form of "regardless," which is used strictly to show how high-class the speaker is.
"Reconfigure the upstream bandwidth, and re-route all traffic to the backup server!"
That's a HUGE user interface problem, actually.
The best round-trip time you'll get across the Atlantic is about 200ms. When you're expecting immediate feedback, it's an eternity. Not everyone learns how to deal with it very well.
I'm the author of Unlagged for Quake 3 (which is currently the lag compensation technique used in Enemy Territory, if I'm understanding things correctly). It works by rolling back server frames and doing hit tests against the past. Too bad you can't do something like that in surgery!
The best you could do is predict the robotic arm movement and show the predicted arm state to the doctor. Predicting the patient state? Good luck.
And doctors have to do things that require a lot more precision than railing. Fortunately, they don't usually have a moving target.
I think that might have been his point. You know, "not that expensive" juxtaposed with same-price consoles that failed--it's obviously sarcasm. Now he's modded a Troll.
Hey mods! Can you folks read between the lines, or at least practice giving benefit of the doubt?
The apocalypse is nigh? You've got that right. The way things are shaping up, we have a pretty clear picture of who the four horsemen are: AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple.
War: Microsoft Pestilence: Intel (or Intel is Pollution if you believe that Pestilence retired after the advent of penicillin) Famine: Apple Death: AMD
Linux, is, of course, God himself. Or Linus is. (In the symbolic interpretation, Linux and Linus are often conflated.) The mark of the beast is obviously RFID.
Everything fits! Better buy up some property in Montana or Idaho and start building your self-sustaining end-of-the-world compound.
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Even better, you were moderated "Offtopic" for... appreciating a joke! Excellent!
It looks like somebody didn't read the moderator guidelines.
You may now mod-bomb me, I am full of love.
...they would rather shave costs than sell future-proof hardware.
Isn't this an implicit admission that piracy isn't as big a deal as they've been screaming at us?
Isn't that a colorful way of describing supply and demand?
Pretty much, and don't forget inflation. The argument also depends on believing that entertainment is as addicting as recreational drugs.
Maybe it is, I don't know. But I've spent less and less time in front of the toob as I've gotten older.
I had no idea it was such a useful metal.
I knew that Palladium had the ability to absorb a month's worth of attention span in just a slim book, but I hadn't heard about the hydrogen thing. Thanks!
Exactly. Inflation be damned; the manufacturing of components that go into the game systems has gotten cheaper!
That works too - and it's probably more correct - but I was actually commenting on the commoditization of console gaming systems.
For those, I recommend Bugs Bunny or the Three Stooges, or maybe Treasure Isle.
Being snobby like that with a +1 karma bonus must take a lot of courage. I wish I had courage like that.
If you meant it as a joke, it didn't work, but I apologize anyway.
For a company that's over a hundred years old, they certainly have an interesting take on inflation...
I'd say they have an absolutely correct take on commoditization.
Nintendo had integration of the Gameboy Advance and the DS on the Gamecube. Yet another Nintendo idea branded gimmicky by developers until a more promiment company offers an implementaion of it.
Did CliffyB himself say it was gimmicky?
If he did say it, is he allowed to change his mind?
Oh well, now use crying over spilled milk. Luckily, you didn't give away the real shocker: Obi-Wan killed the parrot.
The parrot shot first.
i really hate when programmers try to be funny. this article is asinine. Programming isn't a joke and telling a novice how to program and introducing all that sperflous crap is only going to confuse them even more. If i'm looking to program that means i want to learn to program, don't piss in my cornflakes and call it milk.
I'm pretty sure you didn't need the article to do that. You seem to have done fine on your own.
Personally, I found it mildly funny. Yeah, he's trying too hard. On the plus side, this article of his seems to be funnier than the rest of the stuff on his blog.
Maybe I came in at the wrong time, though? I couldn't tell whether or not he was writing a serial in the other posts, which changes everything.
No, its not plagiarism. I'm not arguing about the ethics of what you describe. Just saying that plagiarism neccessitates passing off the work as your own. If you site a source, its no more plagiarism then copying a music CD is plagiarism.
Exactamundo. Quibbling about semantics sometimes seems worthless, until you remember that people's opinions and morals are often swayed by using just the right (or wrong) words. Witness the ??AA calling copyright infringement "stealing" to throw the weight of the Ten Commandments behind laws against it.
(I'm fairly sure that Moses wasn't bringing laws down the mountain that had anything to do with copying some other dude's scrolls, as getting copied actually gave authors warm fuzzies in those days.)
How fast is one nanometer per nanosecond, in meters per second? I don't have my calculator with me.
I don't know about meters/second, but it's approximately 1.2096 meters/microfortnight. Does that help?
Yes, but that didn't get our favorite re-hash submitter Roland Piquepaille some hits to his web log.
It's okay, SuperBanana. We're all jealous of Roland.
Wake me up when we're OVERclocking atoms.
I boiled some water yesterday.
Hey, as soon as Joe User decides to start treating Jill OSS Developer as though *she* owed *him* something, the "so submit a patch" comeback becomes perfectly acceptable.
No kidding. Joe User should do at least two days of groveling before he can expect Jill OSS Developer to even notice his request. Anything else isn't showing the proper respect for the exalted position.
I don't get it either. How is this even a news story?
It's probably a good thing it's on Slashdot, as we seem to have the actual truth. Rumors that start true don't stay true, as a rule.
And was the controller just a mars bar wrapped in tin foil?
No, it was a Nestle Crunch. You think a Mars Bar could do that?
What the maximum allowed network latency and thereby the maximum allowed operation distance be? Could somebody come with an answer?
I wonder if it would depend on the doctor. Network FPS games seem to be a decent analogue to this with regards to latency. Some players adapt just fine, and others never really get it.
It's not such a big deal now that all of them implement client-side prediction (which a surgical system might be able to do), but back in the days of Quake 1, it was a huge differentiator.
Please don't use that "word". It's worse than "nukyular." At least nukular has no inherent meaning, whereas "irregardless" implies a double negative meaning: "without lack of regard."
Actually, it's 100% correct. "Irregardless" is the joculary invective form of "regardless," which is used strictly to show how high-class the speaker is.
"Oh no! The connection's lagging doctor!"
"Reconfigure the upstream bandwidth, and re-route all traffic to the backup server!"
That's a HUGE user interface problem, actually.
The best round-trip time you'll get across the Atlantic is about 200ms. When you're expecting immediate feedback, it's an eternity. Not everyone learns how to deal with it very well.
I'm the author of Unlagged for Quake 3 (which is currently the lag compensation technique used in Enemy Territory, if I'm understanding things correctly). It works by rolling back server frames and doing hit tests against the past. Too bad you can't do something like that in surgery!
The best you could do is predict the robotic arm movement and show the predicted arm state to the doctor. Predicting the patient state? Good luck.
And doctors have to do things that require a lot more precision than railing. Fortunately, they don't usually have a moving target.
And how successful were those consoles?
I think that might have been his point. You know, "not that expensive" juxtaposed with same-price consoles that failed--it's obviously sarcasm. Now he's modded a Troll.
Hey mods! Can you folks read between the lines, or at least practice giving benefit of the doubt?
If I what I'm really looking for is a game console, the added cost for the Blu-Ray player sounds more like several hundred dollars down the toilet.
You misspelled "a several hundred dollar gift to Sony from a fanboi."
Anyway, I hate the way Sony is trying to push the PS3, saying "OMG it is almost a gift for what it does!!!"...
Would that be a gift from the consumer to Sony?
You're right! That's embarrassing! It should have been:
Interviewed by Eurogamer, SCE UK Managing Director Weasel Maguire said...
Heads will roll for this.
The apocalypse is nigh? You've got that right. The way things are shaping up, we have a pretty clear picture of who the four horsemen are: AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple.
War: Microsoft
Pestilence: Intel (or Intel is Pollution if you believe that Pestilence retired after the advent of penicillin)
Famine: Apple
Death: AMD
Linux, is, of course, God himself. Or Linus is. (In the symbolic interpretation, Linux and Linus are often conflated.) The mark of the beast is obviously RFID.
Everything fits! Better buy up some property in Montana or Idaho and start building your self-sustaining end-of-the-world compound.