The problem with the 90s RISC vs. CISC thing was that it was based on what turned out to be a false dilemma. Today's processors are both. They're arguably closer to RISC at the core, but the instruction sets haven't gotten any less CISC from the programmer's point of view, indeed more CISC than ever, leading to the apparently (but only apparently) paradoxical fact that a modern processor is more RISC-y than those 90s RISC chips AND more CISC-y than those 90s CISC chips. Trying to classify a modern processor as either is just continuing the 90s misconception that these design concepts were irreconcilable, when in fact what happened was clever engineers looked at both ideas and said, "yes, that's a great idea" and implemented both at once.
I think it might be better called "bomb resistant". Certainly a big enough bomb would go right through it. They make them into the megaton range these days...
And just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it sucks. How old is TCP/IP? The mouse? The binary system?
Would you believe my car still uses wheels?! You know how old that technology is? You would think by now we'd have something better for rolling on... XD
No, they would have discovered their are focus problems. They would not necessarily know the cause. They may even implement a fix or two, and at some point, the problem went away, so they marked the bug "fixed". They could easily have been testing for 90 days or more without discovering the exact nature of the bug, with multiple false positives indicating that it had been fixed.
The example I was thinking of was electric guitars, and when musicians started integrating distortion into their music. The argument a lot of people seem to accept is that any format that preserves things exactly is superior to something that changes the input. Just because something preserves the original bits exactly doesn't mean it sounds better. It may sound worse, and the change made by the codec may in fact sound better to many people's ears. The lossy decoder is guessing what bits to put back during playback -- the bits it substitutes may be better than the originals.
I have that checkbox, they must have a very low definition of "contributed". Trolls in the comments seems to make the cut.
And here I thought I was special. XD
I've had that checkbox for ages. I never check it. I like this site. If I can't be bothered to send them money, I should at least look at the ads so that someone does. That and I find/.'s ads are often worth looking at, unlike many other websites. And entertaining. There was once an ad (IBM, I think) which a few cheetah's that watched your mouse move around, and if you moved it near the ad, the cheetah would actually take a swipe at it. Gods I'm easily amused... XD
... In games though, frame rates tend to vary wildly... in WoW for exemple, I can go from 160+ when alone in the wilderness to 4 in a boss fight with lots of AOE spells.
/console SpellEffectLevel is your friend.:) I run it at/console SpellEffectLevel 100 when I'm soloing, but bring it down for groups. I believe the default is 25, but you can go even lower if you need to.
Ok, so they are British and they spell 'center' with the 'er' the other way around. Why don't they spell server as 'servre'?
First of all, it would be 'serveur', not 'servre'. And its use is too new to be one of those words in which the french spelling is retained from the days of the Normans. Incidentally, even in America, we fail to reverse the 'er/re' in some words, consider 'acre', 'massacre', and 'mediocre', so we're not exactly consistent either...
He lives in a temporal anomaly. It's been sixteen years for him since the the Celeron 300A first became available in 1999, so some localized effect is causing time to run a bit faster there.
Yeah, it's pretty weird to read that the combination of caffeine and alcohol is not "generally recognized as safe". For how many centuries do you suppose people have been drinking Irish coffee?
(Using the same logic...) It's pretty weird to read that cars require safety testing before being allowed on the road. For how many centuries do you suppose people have been using wheeled vehicles?
Cute, but entirely misses the point. None of this is to protect you from yourself. You can go hang for all I care if it's a result of your own actions. What's a problem is when you insist on dragging innocent people to their graves with you. "I will take responsibility for the consequences" doesn't cut it when there's absolutely nothing you can do to bring back the dead. Any claim of "taking responsibility for the consequences" under those circumstances is bullshit. There's absolutely nothing you can do to do that.
In all seriousness, what is it about being drunk that makes "paint your bedroom" seem like a good idea? I don't mean why the idea seems like a good one when drunk, I mean of all the bad things you could do while drunk, what is it about painting a room that makes that particular idea such a popular one? I swear that particular impulse is far more common than many other bad ideas for things you could do while drunk? What is it about home improvement in general and painting in particular?
Probably none. They're fat, not muscular. Eating bodybuilders, on the other hand, may pan out in a crisis.
Actually, the fat person will feed more people, although it's probably not as healthy a diet. (Your statement seems to imply only protein is a food source -- both carbs and fat are food sources too, and of more immediate value to the consumer, being easier to convert into energy directly.)
Not to mention easier to understand for those of us who have not adopted the metric system.
Some of us, perhaps. Most of the Americans I know have no trouble understanding you if you say 7m, even though we ourselves would say 23 feet instead. Preferring one doesn't mean you don't understand the other. I see no reason at all for the US to adopt the metric system, but I do think all Americans ought to be able to read and understand it. It's a simple matter of literacy, as far as I'm concerned. If I say "the rock is seven meters across" and you don't know what that means, you aren't a competent speaker of the English language. If you do, you are, and all is good. I couldn't care less whether you measure things in feet, meters, or cubits yourself...
Actually, if you want to nitpick, we don't know how big womprats are, but we know they're bigger than 2m (just "not much bigger"), so "womprat = 2m" is inaccurate. "womprat > 2m".
RADAR isn't always accurate either, as the beam is wider and can't discriminate between different vehicles. It will always give a correct speed, but not necessarily that of the correct target.
Yup, if you're in a group of cars, you're safe from RADAR alone, as an old cop friend of mine once told me. They can't really tell what they just got a speed reading of. OTOH, the cops can usually tell when you're speeding without RADAR. They (or at least one of them) use the RADAR to collect objective evidence, not to identify the speeder, they've already done that before they reach for the RADAR gun.
GPL is a terrible license for a game engine if you plan to have a multi-player mode, because releasing the code to your game makes it really easy to make cheats.
No. Bad design makes it really easy to make cheats. A server naive enough to trust the clients makes it really easy to make cheats. A well designed multiplayer game is no easier to cheat in with or without the source code. If releasing the source code makes it easier to cheat, the game was poorly designed. Conversely, if a developer knows the source code will be available, they may be motivated to do the job right. Since people can make cheats for a poorly designed game anyway, regardless of whether you release the source code or not, a game that releases the source code and is designed to be secure anyway is certainly going to be harder to make cheats for than games which mistakenly think if they don't release the source code, their game will be more secure, a fact proven wrong again and again and again.
The GPL does not offer full freedom. Public domain offers full freedom.
Full freedom is a myth. A complete lack of rules results in tyranny, every time, because there's no rule against and mechanism to prevent some people taking away other people's freedom. Maximizing freedom involves finding the set of rules and mechanisms that give the most people the most freedom.
Christ, you would think ANYBODY would have read more than the first damn LINE I wrote....
Not really. When the first thing you write is utterly absurd, no one bothers to read further. What would be the point? You already know the poster is too far disconnected from reality to have a valid opinion on the subject...
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Let Chuck Norris create 'the instruction'
Chuck Moore was the Chuck Norris of the time... :p
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The problem with the 90s RISC vs. CISC thing was that it was based on what turned out to be a false dilemma. Today's processors are both. They're arguably closer to RISC at the core, but the instruction sets haven't gotten any less CISC from the programmer's point of view, indeed more CISC than ever, leading to the apparently (but only apparently) paradoxical fact that a modern processor is more RISC-y than those 90s RISC chips AND more CISC-y than those 90s CISC chips. Trying to classify a modern processor as either is just continuing the 90s misconception that these design concepts were irreconcilable, when in fact what happened was clever engineers looked at both ideas and said, "yes, that's a great idea" and implemented both at once.
I think it might be better called "bomb resistant". Certainly a big enough bomb would go right through it. They make them into the megaton range these days...
And just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it sucks. How old is TCP/IP? The mouse? The binary system?
Would you believe my car still uses wheels?! You know how old that technology is? You would think by now we'd have something better for rolling on... XD
No, they would have discovered their are focus problems. They would not necessarily know the cause. They may even implement a fix or two, and at some point, the problem went away, so they marked the bug "fixed". They could easily have been testing for 90 days or more without discovering the exact nature of the bug, with multiple false positives indicating that it had been fixed.
Yeah... only "clever" programming causes bugs. /eyeroll
The example I was thinking of was electric guitars, and when musicians started integrating distortion into their music. The argument a lot of people seem to accept is that any format that preserves things exactly is superior to something that changes the input. Just because something preserves the original bits exactly doesn't mean it sounds better. It may sound worse, and the change made by the codec may in fact sound better to many people's ears. The lossy decoder is guessing what bits to put back during playback -- the bits it substitutes may be better than the originals.
I have that checkbox, they must have a very low definition of "contributed". Trolls in the comments seems to make the cut.
And here I thought I was special. XD
I've had that checkbox for ages. I never check it. I like this site. If I can't be bothered to send them money, I should at least look at the ads so that someone does. That and I find /.'s ads are often worth looking at, unlike many other websites. And entertaining. There was once an ad (IBM, I think) which a few cheetah's that watched your mouse move around, and if you moved it near the ad, the cheetah would actually take a swipe at it. Gods I'm easily amused... XD
... In games though, frame rates tend to vary wildly... in WoW for exemple, I can go from 160+ when alone in the wilderness to 4 in a boss fight with lots of AOE spells.
/console SpellEffectLevel is your friend. :) I run it at /console SpellEffectLevel 100 when I'm soloing, but bring it down for groups. I believe the default is 25, but you can go even lower if you need to.
Ok, so they are British and they spell 'center' with the 'er' the other way around. Why don't they spell server as 'servre'?
First of all, it would be 'serveur', not 'servre'. And its use is too new to be one of those words in which the french spelling is retained from the days of the Normans. Incidentally, even in America, we fail to reverse the 'er/re' in some words, consider 'acre', 'massacre', and 'mediocre', so we're not exactly consistent either...
How did you get a 300 mhz CPU in 1993?
He lives in a temporal anomaly. It's been sixteen years for him since the the Celeron 300A first became available in 1999, so some localized effect is causing time to run a bit faster there.
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You're surfing the net from a Commodore Amiga? Isn't that 400 megahertz PPC processor kinda slow? ;-)
God gods, that would be blazing fast. IIRC, my Amiga had a 7 MHz 68000.
Yeah, it's pretty weird to read that the combination of caffeine and alcohol is not "generally recognized as safe". For how many centuries do you suppose people have been drinking Irish coffee?
(Using the same logic...) It's pretty weird to read that cars require safety testing before being allowed on the road. For how many centuries do you suppose people have been using wheeled vehicles?
Cute, but entirely misses the point. None of this is to protect you from yourself. You can go hang for all I care if it's a result of your own actions. What's a problem is when you insist on dragging innocent people to their graves with you. "I will take responsibility for the consequences" doesn't cut it when there's absolutely nothing you can do to bring back the dead. Any claim of "taking responsibility for the consequences" under those circumstances is bullshit. There's absolutely nothing you can do to do that.
XD
In all seriousness, what is it about being drunk that makes "paint your bedroom" seem like a good idea? I don't mean why the idea seems like a good one when drunk, I mean of all the bad things you could do while drunk, what is it about painting a room that makes that particular idea such a popular one? I swear that particular impulse is far more common than many other bad ideas for things you could do while drunk? What is it about home improvement in general and painting in particular?
Probably none. They're fat, not muscular. Eating bodybuilders, on the other hand, may pan out in a crisis.
Actually, the fat person will feed more people, although it's probably not as healthy a diet. (Your statement seems to imply only protein is a food source -- both carbs and fat are food sources too, and of more immediate value to the consumer, being easier to convert into energy directly.)
Okay, so we should send up birds with bagels to deflect asteroids...
Not to mention easier to understand for those of us who have not adopted the metric system.
Some of us, perhaps. Most of the Americans I know have no trouble understanding you if you say 7m, even though we ourselves would say 23 feet instead. Preferring one doesn't mean you don't understand the other. I see no reason at all for the US to adopt the metric system, but I do think all Americans ought to be able to read and understand it. It's a simple matter of literacy, as far as I'm concerned. If I say "the rock is seven meters across" and you don't know what that means, you aren't a competent speaker of the English language. If you do, you are, and all is good. I couldn't care less whether you measure things in feet, meters, or cubits yourself...
Womprat = 2m
Actually, if you want to nitpick, we don't know how big womprats are, but we know they're bigger than 2m (just "not much bigger"), so "womprat = 2m" is inaccurate. "womprat > 2m".
Go out and stop real crime.
Hehe! One of my old cop friend's favorite lines.
Motorist: "Why don't you go out and catch some real criminals?"
Cop: "I am." [Hands person who just broke the law a ticket.]
RADAR isn't always accurate either, as the beam is wider and can't discriminate between different vehicles. It will always give a correct speed, but not necessarily that of the correct target.
Yup, if you're in a group of cars, you're safe from RADAR alone, as an old cop friend of mine once told me. They can't really tell what they just got a speed reading of. OTOH, the cops can usually tell when you're speeding without RADAR. They (or at least one of them) use the RADAR to collect objective evidence, not to identify the speeder, they've already done that before they reach for the RADAR gun.
Rivals working for the same boss who hate each other is terribly new and interesting...
GPL is a terrible license for a game engine if you plan to have a multi-player mode, because releasing the code to your game makes it really easy to make cheats.
No. Bad design makes it really easy to make cheats. A server naive enough to trust the clients makes it really easy to make cheats. A well designed multiplayer game is no easier to cheat in with or without the source code. If releasing the source code makes it easier to cheat, the game was poorly designed. Conversely, if a developer knows the source code will be available, they may be motivated to do the job right. Since people can make cheats for a poorly designed game anyway, regardless of whether you release the source code or not, a game that releases the source code and is designed to be secure anyway is certainly going to be harder to make cheats for than games which mistakenly think if they don't release the source code, their game will be more secure, a fact proven wrong again and again and again.
The GPL does not offer full freedom. Public domain offers full freedom.
Full freedom is a myth. A complete lack of rules results in tyranny, every time, because there's no rule against and mechanism to prevent some people taking away other people's freedom. Maximizing freedom involves finding the set of rules and mechanisms that give the most people the most freedom.
Christ, you would think ANYBODY would have read more than the first damn LINE I wrote....
Not really. When the first thing you write is utterly absurd, no one bothers to read further. What would be the point? You already know the poster is too far disconnected from reality to have a valid opinion on the subject...