You might hate globalization, but the main point of it is to make things more efficient. Those efficiency gains are sometimes translated in reduced pollution. For example, one big factory pollutes less than several smaller ones, it has more efficient distribution meaning less pollution from transportation. Instead of being anti-globabalization you should strive ask your country to embargo goods produced with less regulation than your own country requires, that would increase the price of the imported goods and improve the local industry.
Well you have to compare to what other adults did for a living back in the old days. The white collar did sit in a desk all day, but reading and writing papers. The blue collar spent all his day operating a machine in a repetitive task, if you ask any blue collar after a few years they would say they would love to have a desk job in a air-refrigerated room.
As for what you do in your home time, you could try going out more? The only difference today is that you have more options.
I just wanted to add that if you do hard-core raiding in the first 3-5 weeks of the new raid you will be playing a lot more often than usual. But that only happens every few months. Being in the "First-kills" guilds is almost a full time job during the first few weeks of a new patch. After the new raids have been completely cleared by your guild the work-load required to stay competitive reduces gradually to almost nothing.
In hard-core pvp though once you reach a rating growth you are comfortable for the week you actually have to stop playing because you risk reducing your rating.
I did play a lot back in the old days, after some time I got tired of the game, but I still raided with my guild. It was actually the only reason I logged in for, we were not hard-core, but we did well. During this time I invested 8 hours per week maximum, the major problem was that we scheduled raids two times a week, this meant that my mondays and wednesdays nights were always committed.
I agree that wow is very time consuming, but in reality unless you play multiple characters you can't find anything else to do after playing around 40 hours (which is comparable to a full-time job) per week. Even if you are in a hard-core raiding guild.
The fact is that these people either level play with multiple characters or just sit around doing nothing or talking with guildmates in the game. It's not so much an addiction, but something more like "I have nothing better to do so I might as well just keep playing".
Of course that is WoW, there are other MMOs worse. WoW actually goes to great lengths to limit the amount of time you have to invest per week to stay competitive.
I forgot to mention that some compilers leave to the operating system to crash your application on some undefined behaviors. Which brings its own cross-platform problems.
Well you are correct, but other languages just throw an exception or error when you do something that ought to be undefined behavior. Many C / C++ undefined behaviors allow your program to keep running when you do something stupid.
I'm not saying the problem is the language, if it did the same things the other languages do to prevent that kind of stuff the performance hit would be noticeable.
Undefined behavior is a very big problem in C and C++. It causes major headaches in producing cross-compiler code. I don't have much experience with multi-threaded in GCC but it must cause major headaches because of all the timing involved.
I wouldn't mind they charging extra for more GB per month. The problem lies in the absolutely ridiculous prices they ask for more, there is no way in hell the extra GBs per month actually cost that much for them. Also they shouldn't count the transfers that happen during low-traffic hours (like 1am->7am), If they did that I would gladly pay $1 to $2 per 10GB.
" So what does AMD have that's keeping it in business? " A licensing agreement with intel for the x64 instruction set also helps. Every intel chip sold gives AMD a few bucks and every AMD chip sold gives intel a few bucks (because of the licensing of x86 instruction set). I'm not sure on the specifics but I assume this to be a lot of money.
After some experience with the industry I have come to the conclusion that a lot (but not nearly enough) of the devs actually do know that the stuff they build is insecure. But usually it comes down to some situations: "Meh, this is not really that important to spend so much time securing", "My boss is on my ass to finish this fast" or "I have a deadline to meet", "If I get this done really fast I will win some points with the boss and maybe get a good review", "I do know I should encrypt this password, but I never done it before and I'm too lazy to look it up how to do it properly".
I don't have enough C++ or C development experience to say this for certain but I think that most people that say "Thank god I don't have to use C++ anymore" actually hated using the API calls, like POSIX and Win32 because they did things in a very C way (which made passing and returning strings to functions a pain in the ass for example). Today there are several libraries to abstract that stuff away so you can actually do things in a proper C++ and/or object oriented way (unless you are dealing with some very specific scenarios). Plus the C++11 stuff.
Huh, I thought it was because some sub-nuclear reaction involving background-radiation of some kind hitting the slug. I would assume they leave the slug in an almost vacuum container.
Well it is possible the situation was pretty dire in the beginnings of pre-launch SDKs and gotten better from there. The system has been out for a while.
"EA has claimed in a lawsuit (EA v. Zynga) that its copyright in The Sims Mobile extends to ownership of gameplay elements."
I don't agree with that, even if EA won in court I believe they would have won in plagiarism charges. There are some the sims clones out there but they are not being sued into oblivion
One Major problem I see in windows is inconsistent user interface. Dive in on the control panel and suddenly you go back to a ugly dialog screen last modified in windows 2000. Couldn't they just push those ugly dialogs back into the main control panel window?
And now you have yet another layer of new UI living alongside the current and previous ones.
"Regexp's are a programming language unto themselves."
Wrong. I am a little rusty in formal language, but I am pretty sure that regular expressions are at least two steps below (normal) computer programming languages. I remember there being state machines with stack and turing machines above regular expressions.
Also this is supposed to be a funny post, not informative ok? You know because I am taking what he is saying literally and without context.
I'm not sure how those countries generate electricity, but I assume they still burn some kind of fuel. Any saves they get from wind prevents burning even more coal/oil/gas.
Like all things in life the best approach usually is the middle ground. Multiple sources of power means that if there is a lack of rain/winds/sun you can burn more oil to help out the dams/wind farms/solar farms. In the future non-renewable power sources will probably be sporadically used to supply power in more aggravating times like extreme summers and winters or when disasters hits like hurricanes.
"Hey you know what would be totally funny?" said a drunken engineer in a Silicon Valley bar some decades ago. "What?" responded a drunken Market Manager "If we took the most slow operation a computer can do and make it slower!", responded the engineer "Why the hell would we do that?" asked the market guy "Hear me out!" shouted the engineer even though the bar was quiet and the market guy was right next to him. "We make this," the engineer said between hiccups " this software and convince people to install it. We make this software run random useless algorithms on every file that is written or read to the disk all the time! It would make the user computer inoperable! It is the perfect virus!" "That is the stupidest idea ever, people go to jail for that Engineer!" "But it would be so funny!" retorted the engineer. "I known, I know, but you can't just do that for kicks... Wait! I have an idea! How about you make that software, but you call it an 'anti-virus' and we charge buttloads of money for it?" proposed the market guy. "You weasel, that is so anti-ethic! You sicken me mister. You sicken me." argued the engineer. "I give you 25% of the profits" offered the market guy. "You sick bastard I don't sell my principles so cheaply!" angrily answered the engineer. "30%" the market guy responded. "Deal!"
It is not the old games, it is your new LCD monitor/tv, most of them have a lot of input lag. Try to play super meat boy on your LCD and compare against an old CRT.
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You might hate globalization, but the main point of it is to make things more efficient. Those efficiency gains are sometimes translated in reduced pollution. For example, one big factory pollutes less than several smaller ones, it has more efficient distribution meaning less pollution from transportation. Instead of being anti-globabalization you should strive ask your country to embargo goods produced with less regulation than your own country requires, that would increase the price of the imported goods and improve the local industry.
This lane of thought could be easily translated into a xkcd strip.
By learning CouchDB / Couchbase you get some javascript and JSON experience as a bonus.
Also, XML is dying, long live JSON.
Actually C is the 0x47th letter in the alphabet I use.
Well you have to compare to what other adults did for a living back in the old days. The white collar did sit in a desk all day, but reading and writing papers. The blue collar spent all his day operating a machine in a repetitive task, if you ask any blue collar after a few years they would say they would love to have a desk job in a air-refrigerated room.
As for what you do in your home time, you could try going out more? The only difference today is that you have more options.
I just wanted to add that if you do hard-core raiding in the first 3-5 weeks of the new raid you will be playing a lot more often than usual. But that only happens every few months. Being in the "First-kills" guilds is almost a full time job during the first few weeks of a new patch. After the new raids have been completely cleared by your guild the work-load required to stay competitive reduces gradually to almost nothing.
In hard-core pvp though once you reach a rating growth you are comfortable for the week you actually have to stop playing because you risk reducing your rating.
I did play a lot back in the old days, after some time I got tired of the game, but I still raided with my guild. It was actually the only reason I logged in for, we were not hard-core, but we did well. During this time I invested 8 hours per week maximum, the major problem was that we scheduled raids two times a week, this meant that my mondays and wednesdays nights were always committed.
I agree that wow is very time consuming, but in reality unless you play multiple characters you can't find anything else to do after playing around 40 hours (which is comparable to a full-time job) per week. Even if you are in a hard-core raiding guild.
The fact is that these people either level play with multiple characters or just sit around doing nothing or talking with guildmates in the game. It's not so much an addiction, but something more like "I have nothing better to do so I might as well just keep playing".
Of course that is WoW, there are other MMOs worse. WoW actually goes to great lengths to limit the amount of time you have to invest per week to stay competitive.
Your compiler will then also be able to program your application, mission accomplished I guess.
I forgot to mention that some compilers leave to the operating system to crash your application on some undefined behaviors. Which brings its own cross-platform problems.
Well you are correct, but other languages just throw an exception or error when you do something that ought to be undefined behavior. Many C / C++ undefined behaviors allow your program to keep running when you do something stupid.
I'm not saying the problem is the language, if it did the same things the other languages do to prevent that kind of stuff the performance hit would be noticeable.
Undefined behavior is a very big problem in C and C++. It causes major headaches in producing cross-compiler code. I don't have much experience with multi-threaded in GCC but it must cause major headaches because of all the timing involved.
I wouldn't mind they charging extra for more GB per month. The problem lies in the absolutely ridiculous prices they ask for more, there is no way in hell the extra GBs per month actually cost that much for them. Also they shouldn't count the transfers that happen during low-traffic hours (like 1am->7am), If they did that I would gladly pay $1 to $2 per 10GB.
" So what does AMD have that's keeping it in business? "
A licensing agreement with intel for the x64 instruction set also helps. Every intel chip sold gives AMD a few bucks and every AMD chip sold gives intel a few bucks (because of the licensing of x86 instruction set). I'm not sure on the specifics but I assume this to be a lot of money.
You might be right, but I rather live with my naivety.
That is... really insightful, I had no idea. Thank you anonymous poster.
After some experience with the industry I have come to the conclusion that a lot (but not nearly enough) of the devs actually do know that the stuff they build is insecure. But usually it comes down to some situations:
"Meh, this is not really that important to spend so much time securing",
"My boss is on my ass to finish this fast" or "I have a deadline to meet",
"If I get this done really fast I will win some points with the boss and maybe get a good review",
"I do know I should encrypt this password, but I never done it before and I'm too lazy to look it up how to do it properly".
I don't have enough C++ or C development experience to say this for certain but I think that most people that say "Thank god I don't have to use C++ anymore" actually hated using the API calls, like POSIX and Win32 because they did things in a very C way (which made passing and returning strings to functions a pain in the ass for example). Today there are several libraries to abstract that stuff away so you can actually do things in a proper C++ and/or object oriented way (unless you are dealing with some very specific scenarios). Plus the C++11 stuff.
Huh, I thought it was because some sub-nuclear reaction involving background-radiation of some kind hitting the slug. I would assume they leave the slug in an almost vacuum container.
Can someone confirm if that is indeed the case?
Well it is possible the situation was pretty dire in the beginnings of pre-launch SDKs and gotten better from there. The system has been out for a while.
"EA has claimed in a lawsuit (EA v. Zynga) that its copyright in The Sims Mobile extends to ownership of gameplay elements."
I don't agree with that, even if EA won in court I believe they would have won in plagiarism charges. There are some the sims clones out there but they are not being sued into oblivion
One Major problem I see in windows is inconsistent user interface. Dive in on the control panel and suddenly you go back to a ugly dialog screen last modified in windows 2000. Couldn't they just push those ugly dialogs back into the main control panel window?
And now you have yet another layer of new UI living alongside the current and previous ones.
"Regexp's are a programming language unto themselves."
Wrong. I am a little rusty in formal language, but I am pretty sure that regular expressions are at least two steps below (normal) computer programming languages. I remember there being state machines with stack and turing machines above regular expressions.
Also this is supposed to be a funny post, not informative ok? You know because I am taking what he is saying literally and without context.
I'm not sure how those countries generate electricity, but I assume they still burn some kind of fuel. Any saves they get from wind prevents burning even more coal/oil/gas.
Like all things in life the best approach usually is the middle ground. Multiple sources of power means that if there is a lack of rain/winds/sun you can burn more oil to help out the dams/wind farms/solar farms. In the future non-renewable power sources will probably be sporadically used to supply power in more aggravating times like extreme summers and winters or when disasters hits like hurricanes.
"Hey you know what would be totally funny?" said a drunken engineer in a Silicon Valley bar some decades ago.
"What?" responded a drunken Market Manager
"If we took the most slow operation a computer can do and make it slower!", responded the engineer
"Why the hell would we do that?" asked the market guy
"Hear me out!" shouted the engineer even though the bar was quiet and the market guy was right next to him. "We make this," the engineer said between hiccups " this software and convince people to install it. We make this software run random useless algorithms on every file that is written or read to the disk all the time! It would make the user computer inoperable! It is the perfect virus!"
"That is the stupidest idea ever, people go to jail for that Engineer!"
"But it would be so funny!" retorted the engineer.
"I known, I know, but you can't just do that for kicks... Wait! I have an idea! How about you make that software, but you call it an 'anti-virus' and we charge buttloads of money for it?" proposed the market guy.
"You weasel, that is so anti-ethic! You sicken me mister. You sicken me." argued the engineer.
"I give you 25% of the profits" offered the market guy.
"You sick bastard I don't sell my principles so cheaply!" angrily answered the engineer.
"30%" the market guy responded.
"Deal!"
It is not the old games, it is your new LCD monitor/tv, most of them have a lot of input lag. Try to play super meat boy on your LCD and compare against an old CRT.