Don't even try to understand... I'm sure many orders of magnitude more neurons have been fired trying to understand his post than he employed in writing it...
Translation: "I feel that we do not have the muscle - as open source software developers - to force hardware manufactures to bow to our DRM demands. They'll just laugh at us."
Translation: "I'm a dumbfuck who puts words in peoples mouths."
The very first sentence of this review turns me off, and tells me this was not a review he should have written... Just because he was not aware of the complexity and nuonce (sp?) in the best fighting games does NOT mean that that complexity and depth do not exist.
In fact, because arcade fighters pit humans against humans so well, I know of no other genre that offers the immediate strategice expression of the best fighters...
I have dualed with humans who had instantaneous access to hundreads of moves that are combinable in thousands of offensive and defensive strategies... The best fighting games have a subtle rhythm of alternating offense and defense... they flow...
In short, this reviewer is a button masher... and I'd love to play a game of old school SF2 with him, just for the joy of invisible throwing his ass to death...
You know, as excited as I am about a new C++, when I looked at some of the code Bjarne offers up as an example I have to say that I feel a bit underwhelmed.
I know all you C++ guru's out their are just IN LOVE with template classes, but you should pick your head up every now and then and look at how other languages are tackling the issue. Other languages offer the same inherent functionality in MUCH cleaner ways at the expense of a little CPU. You already have RTTI, use it, and save us all the pain of debugging a class with 4 template parameters (which themselves are probably templated classes)....
Don't even get me started on the useless error messages heavily templated code causes the compiler to emit.
You cannot copywrite an idea, you can copywrite "creative" work...
Essentially what this means is that if you made a game called foobar, that was just like tetris except you called it "foobar"... And you had rights to all of the assets used in the game (art, sound... IE, you didn't screen grab tetris and cut out the bits you needed, you made them from scratch yourself)... even if the game plays exactly the same, it is totally legal...
Hence, the jillions of tetris clones...
Gameplay is not copywriteable... Ideas can be Patented, but not copywrited...
Poverty alleviation? Not at all like what has happened in India right? A country that went right from ag -> IT... But thats not poverty alleviation... no... not at all... Who or what is that talking about? Apparently you don't know how to read, as that made perfect sense to me. What exactly is the problem? If the US is so hands off why are they keeping control? And what do they want to control it for? Because the other side isn't pushing for LESS governmental control. Understand this: This is a pissing match pure and simple. What is so important about root zone files? Ahh, I understand now... You're clueless... Apart from putting more politicians in control that is? Umm... Yeah. Dumbshit. Is it something to do with taking the bribes outside the USA? I'm sure those who take bribes have no trouble taking them from those outside the USA....
If you tuned in, and had no explanation of what had happened up to that point, you would not get it. It would probably take weeks and weeks before you were up to speed.
I fear that by building these loopholes, we will actually be legitamizing the DMCA as a whole... And we will be losing 1 more datapoint in our arguments against this monstrosity...
But seriously, reviewers are biased and sloppy, as are the editors. The fact that reviews are blind means that they are also unaccountable, which fosters even more bias.
I recently switched my desktop to Ubuntu... It's nice... But I have to say, as a developer, it was not set up with me in mind... It is a fine Desktop distro, but I had apt-get about a million things before I had a decent dev box...
How many of these crashes are deadlocks? Or otherwise thread related.
It appears that the hardware world is going multi-core to keep up with Moore's Law...
I think some brilliant computer scientists need to invent some things that are far superior to mutex's to truly enable software in the multi-threaded future... The limiting factor here may be human brainpower to come up with a solution to this problem...
I feel like locks and condition variables are kind of like stone tools, and we're trying to build a car... We need some new tools...
The commercial for Call of Duty 2 looks freakin awesome.
I may buy an XBox 360 just for that!
Also, its inevitable that we will see a story here (probably in about 1-2 weeks) about someone getting Linux running on it... and that would just rule...
I actually had the pleasure of working at the same company as Andrew a few years back...
We didn't directly work together (he was, obviousley doing kernel stuff, and I was doing UI back then), but I used to invent excuses to go talk to him, just to try to soak up some of that kernel hacking aura...
Must have worked somewhat since now I'm doing driver development!
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If you're writing window's gui apps, .NET is the way to go. Not surprising one bit that this ability is in high demand...
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Don't even try to understand...
I'm sure many orders of magnitude more neurons have been fired trying to understand his post than he employed in writing it...
Translation: "I'm a dumbfuck who puts words in peoples mouths."
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If we're such "crap animals" explain how we've managed to spread so well, and educate so many.
The very first sentence of this review turns me off, and tells me this was not a review he should have written... Just because he was not aware of the complexity and nuonce (sp?) in the best fighting games does NOT mean that that complexity and depth do not exist.
In fact, because arcade fighters pit humans against humans so well, I know of no other genre that offers the immediate strategice expression of the best fighters...
I have dualed with humans who had instantaneous access to hundreads of moves that are combinable in thousands of offensive and defensive strategies... The best fighting games have a subtle rhythm of alternating offense and defense... they flow...
In short, this reviewer is a button masher... and I'd love to play a game of old school SF2 with him, just for the joy of invisible throwing his ass to death...
You know, as excited as I am about a new C++, when I looked at some of the code Bjarne offers up as an example I have to say that I feel a bit underwhelmed.
I know all you C++ guru's out their are just IN LOVE with template classes, but you should pick your head up every now and then and look at how other languages are tackling the issue. Other languages offer the same inherent functionality in MUCH cleaner ways at the expense of a little CPU. You already have RTTI, use it, and save us all the pain of debugging a class with 4 template parameters (which themselves are probably templated classes)....
Don't even get me started on the useless error messages heavily templated code causes the compiler to emit.
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I call shenanigans on this article.
Those numbers appear to be made of PURE foo foo dust.
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Running Linux as a screen saver under windows? That has to be a sin of some kind!
Hmmm... Predicting the success of a movie by analyzing it's content compared to the content of past films is not AI?
Sounds like AI to me...
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It seems their has been a recent spurt of "smart" systems like this...
Maybe we're finally coming out of the "AI Winter" it seems like we've been in for a decade or so...
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You cannot copywrite an idea, you can copywrite "creative" work...
Essentially what this means is that if you made a game called foobar, that was just like tetris except you called it "foobar"... And you had rights to all of the assets used in the game (art, sound... IE, you didn't screen grab tetris and cut out the bits you needed, you made them from scratch yourself)... even if the game plays exactly the same, it is totally legal...
Hence, the jillions of tetris clones...
Gameplay is not copywriteable... Ideas can be Patented, but not copywrited...
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Poverty alleviation?
Not at all like what has happened in India right? A country that went right from ag -> IT... But thats not poverty alleviation... no... not at all...
Who or what is that talking about?
Apparently you don't know how to read, as that made perfect sense to me.
What exactly is the problem? If the US is so hands off why are they keeping control? And what do they want to control it for?
Because the other side isn't pushing for LESS governmental control. Understand this: This is a pissing match pure and simple.
What is so important about root zone files?
Ahh, I understand now... You're clueless...
Apart from putting more politicians in control that is?
Umm... Yeah. Dumbshit.
Is it something to do with taking the bribes outside the USA?
I'm sure those who take bribes have no trouble taking them from those outside the USA....
That show was not "casual watcher" friendly...
If you tuned in, and had no explanation of what had happened up to that point, you would not get it. It would probably take weeks and weeks before you were up to speed.
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This strikes me as a horrible idea.
I fear that by building these loopholes, we will actually be legitamizing the DMCA as a whole... And we will be losing 1 more datapoint in our arguments against this monstrosity...
If you have to choose between a future where the earth is HOT...
or one where the earth is cold...
I choose hot.
At least with hot their is the potential that we could harness all that heat energy and do something useful with it.. (like air conditioners!)
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All I can say is WOW.
WOW.
Here that, you anonymous cowards!
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I recently switched my desktop to Ubuntu... It's nice... But I have to say, as a developer, it was not set up with me in mind... It is a fine Desktop distro, but I had apt-get about a million things before I had a decent dev box...
How many of these crashes are deadlocks? Or otherwise thread related.
It appears that the hardware world is going multi-core to keep up with Moore's Law...
I think some brilliant computer scientists need to invent some things that are far superior to mutex's to truly enable software in the multi-threaded future... The limiting factor here may be human brainpower to come up with a solution to this problem...
I feel like locks and condition variables are kind of like stone tools, and we're trying to build a car... We need some new tools...
The commercial for Call of Duty 2 looks freakin awesome.
I may buy an XBox 360 just for that!
Also, its inevitable that we will see a story here (probably in about 1-2 weeks) about someone getting Linux running on it... and that would just rule...
You know, it may be true that hypnosis is real, but it's still a field populated in large part by liars & kooks.
I actually had the pleasure of working at the same company as Andrew a few years back...
We didn't directly work together (he was, obviousley doing kernel stuff, and I was doing UI back then), but I used to invent excuses to go talk to him, just to try to soak up some of that kernel hacking aura...
Must have worked somewhat since now I'm doing driver development!
So, Fanning's new venture Snocap, sounds like their trying to get people to pay for music on a p2p network?
So, I get to pay for low bitrate, inconsistantly labled and unorganized music? What a steal!
Is it just me or does it seem like this new venture hasn't a snoballs chance in hell of success?
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Cluster**ck
1. See "Sony Rootkit Debacle"
Apache Portable Runtime.
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