I'm just throwing a half-educated guess out there, but genetic algorithms have so many outputs tied back into its inputs, all changing around quite frequently, such that an sql implementation would be painfully contorted.
But then, I don't quite see how neural network programs need mass replication the way db's do.
I'm not seeing anything that offers a real advantage over using advanced features like one finds in postgres combined with memcached. Some of my program likes to think of its data as a structured object while other parts like seeing that data as rows in a table (they even link up to other tables through foreign keys!).
What a minute... how did the romans ever build so many roads without having gasoline to tax to pay for it?
Enjoying one's legal right to pedal a bike in a lane is not the same as pretending to be a car.
I ride faster than cars 90% of the time in urban settings. They're a lot harder to maneuver past than bikes, AND I have to breathe their exhaust when they're clogging up all the damn roadways because more often than not, these people are too lazy to walk, ride a bike, or take public transit.
Breaking the law, in a pedantic sense, is only correlated to my safety as a cyclist. I've had far more dangerous encounters with cars during times when I was in 100% compliance with the law. One time I even got my upper body up on some a-hole's fender going 35mph while I was in my own bike lane and he tried to hook me.
A friend of mine was hit by a SUV that cruised right through a stoplight, admitted this to the police, and DIDN'T EVEN GET A TICKET. He had to get surgery on his knee and couldn't bike for two months.
If you think personal safety is a function solely of obeying the law and forfeiting your legal rights, then I have some beachfront property in arizona I'd like to show you.
Can they just license the original engine from lucasarts then? Give some royalty checks to steve purcell and ron gilbert and whoever else made it as part of the deal!
Did they invent C too?
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I really, really want to say that Ken and Dennis invented C to make unix but I'm not completely sure. I could look it up, but I'm interested to hear what people have to say here. I mean, they're the K&R of the original C book, right?
You were using an 8086 then? You could probably have fished a perfectly usable 286 or 386 machine out of a hospital dumpster for free, or bought such a computer for dirt cheap. I even had a 486sx/33 chip my rich (yet not pretentious) friend handed down to me around the time GC was born, though it took me a few months to get the rest of the components.
That's cool you were doing that and remember all that stuff! I remember using NCSA mosaic in 16-color windows 3.11, and how cool the beta netscape was. And before then I was serious into BBS's.
In fact, it was because of geocities that I came up with a nifty "hosting" service (namebooster.com, now owned by some squatter) that would allow you to have a domain name, and have it take you to a painfully long geocities URL. At first I did it in cgi, but then I learned apache rewrite rules that made it easier to manage. I didn't really make any money off of that, but it did open the door to some crazy adventures I encountered shortly after during the.com boom.
As others have pointed out here, piracy is easier and perhaps more rampant with the DS, yet they're making plenty of money and have a loyal and happy fanbase.
I think sony's idiocy in pushing a proprietary optical format for a portable system is way more to blame here for making people not want the system in the first place, or to make the effort to circumvent having to use the batter-sucker at all. If you're going to do all that piracy work to make your system work more effectively, it's not going to motivate you to spend money after having to do all that.
I think the lack of games and resentment toward their audio cd rootkit didn't help either.
I checked out your games site. Those look pretty neat and I may buy some!
If a typical empty-suit gotta-wrap-this-by-2-so-I-can-get-to-the-golf-course middle manager looks at open source software (priced at $0) and then Microsoft software (priced in the thousands or tens of thousands, for company-wide use), he's probably going to make the decision in favor of Microsoft because if it doesn't cost anything, it must not be worth anything.
Before I ever did any serious IT work for a large company, I was plenty well aware of the headaches and aggravations that were uniquely offered in a windows environment starting in 1995.
However, when I got into doing IT management and support for one specific large business, all of the batshit crazy stories I had been reading on slashdot about "teh M$ windoze" environments and admins seemed highly understated.
This was during the time that dept. of homeland security advised against using Internet Explorer.
The biggest problem was at the top: boss man felt GREAT about using microsoft products, because they were a big money corp that "everyone" used and he really liked money and the satisfaction of not having to think critically. The outside guy that he had doing his IT work before I showed up was a real MS troll, the kind I had previously though could not be real.
In the end, the agents loved me for making things work, my FOSS systems ran flawlessly for years after I had left, and everything else (including the phone systems the outside guy managed) were a complete smoldering clusterfuck. I had to leave, because I was CONSTANTLY in the position of having to fix all this broken shit, while the other guy kept making new broken shit for me to fix, all while getting little credit and making me look bad for hindering my real work.
Oh, and when I informed him of how much unlicensed MS software I estimated we had installed and how much it would cost to be legit, he got ANGRY at me and expected me to magically fix this situation somehow without spending a lot of money and without converting to openoffice.
I agree that windows environments are appropriate in places and can be managed well. But for everything I care about, I have much better success and productivity with FOSS software.
I'm just one guy, giving you a brief anecdotal account of my experience, but I can tell you that after 12 years of banging my head against the wall over microsoft bullshit I am immensely happy to be away from all that.
ps. Did you know that they had free software in the 60's? They just called it "software".
When your society's shape is held in place by an authoritarian government with a monopoly on violent force, then "freeloading scavenging" occurs when that container is removed. Metaphorically, water does something similar when the glass it is contained in is removed.
But when your society is shaped by people living in direct contact with one another, working without the layers of isolation found in our modern social constructs, then the concepts of "law and order" are much more natural and formed by the people themselves rather than a subset of the people who are given badges, guns, and limited accountability with inadequate oversight.
Creationists always try to use the second law, to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw. The second law is quite precise about where it applies, only in a closed system must the entropy count rise. The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun, so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun! That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about, you're now down with a discount.
but the Western world is too scared to do what needs to be done in order to win.
I agree with this strongly! If the western world would quit being so greedy, angrily violent, and get their priorities straight instead of working at jobs that create no value for society, then it would be truly FTW.
Most of what I've been seeing over the past 8 years has been americans trying (and succeeding) to be better terrorists than the 9/11 hijackers could have ever hoped to have been.
he voted in support of telco immunity before being president. I don't like it, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt insofar as this is a mess that the bush administration created, which would cause an even bigger mess in trying to forcibly reverse it without regard to consequence.
I'm not disappointed in having voted (and swaying votes, and registering voters) for him. Seriously, anyone here complaining things would be better living in the nation of Mccainistan (capitol city, Palingrad)?
"singles out a specific corporation and product for unequal treatment"
Say, why single out microsoft when they could just option a competing product that will run all of their applications (equally) from another vendor in this free-market economy?
Good thing we have all those anti-trust rico laws that make this possible!
I paid the $50 for the game (a few weeks after it had come out) and while there are a lot of good things to say about it, I felt really disappointed. Compared to wow, the performance is a lot crappier for graphics that are just not as nice to look at. And the game takes 1gig instead of wow's 512M (approximate), and probably because of that on my 2Gram machine, it would take FOREVER to alt-tab in and out of the game.
Then, there were never enough people on my server to make it fun. Completing the public quests was always a hopeless fantasy.
I also couldn't understand my profession, and missed one of the flight paths early on. It's not that hard, wow set some kind of standard for usability and they mimic enough of wow EXCEPT for making the interface as useful.
The pvp combat is a lot more fun, but that's the only advantage I could see over wow. Oh, and you don't have to keep ammo in your inventory. Great.
If they'd made it possible to reflash, a zillion Linux weenies would have bought the devices just to put Rockbox on them.
No, they probably wouldn't have because it's an MS product.
/me consoles the modded xbox as it sheds a small tear.
Yeah I think the crappy software and restrictive cockteases (oh it has wifi? cool!!), not to mention drm were planned like sending one into no man's land with a blinking traffic cone on their head.
intel had 486's without math coprocessors integrated (the 486sx), though it was actually on the die but disabled (either intentionally or from chips with defective math coprocs). They had a 487 you could couple with your 486sx that was still basically the same chip as the 486dx, and I think may have just disabled the other 486sx and run everything on that one processor. From what I've heard, all that craziness was due to marketing rather than technical reasons.
And for winners of the darwin award, can we blame the world in which they live? Maybe said world could be sued or criminally prosecuted to maintain justice.
Just going with your morally and philosophically coherent logic here, since you claim it is the only correct opinion.
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I'm just throwing a half-educated guess out there, but genetic algorithms have so many outputs tied back into its inputs, all changing around quite frequently, such that an sql implementation would be painfully contorted.
But then, I don't quite see how neural network programs need mass replication the way db's do.
or would they.... ?
this is an interesting issue!
I'm not seeing anything that offers a real advantage over using advanced features like one finds in postgres combined with memcached. Some of my program likes to think of its data as a structured object while other parts like seeing that data as rows in a table (they even link up to other tables through foreign keys!).
What a minute... how did the romans ever build so many roads without having gasoline to tax to pay for it?
Enjoying one's legal right to pedal a bike in a lane is not the same as pretending to be a car.
I ride faster than cars 90% of the time in urban settings. They're a lot harder to maneuver past than bikes, AND I have to breathe their exhaust when they're clogging up all the damn roadways because more often than not, these people are too lazy to walk, ride a bike, or take public transit.
Breaking the law, in a pedantic sense, is only correlated to my safety as a cyclist. I've had far more dangerous encounters with cars during times when I was in 100% compliance with the law. One time I even got my upper body up on some a-hole's fender going 35mph while I was in my own bike lane and he tried to hook me.
A friend of mine was hit by a SUV that cruised right through a stoplight, admitted this to the police, and DIDN'T EVEN GET A TICKET. He had to get surgery on his knee and couldn't bike for two months.
If you think personal safety is a function solely of obeying the law and forfeiting your legal rights, then I have some beachfront property in arizona I'd like to show you.
Simply improve bicycle safety by keeping off the pavement and...
Holy shit - where can I buy a hoverbike!?
TELL ME NOW!!!
Can they just license the original engine from lucasarts then? Give some royalty checks to steve purcell and ron gilbert and whoever else made it as part of the deal!
I really, really want to say that Ken and Dennis invented C to make unix but I'm not completely sure. I could look it up, but I'm interested to hear what people have to say here. I mean, they're the K&R of the original C book, right?
Quake ran pretty well on my commodity beige box at the time. I don't remember... pentium 166? And that was doing software rendering!
You were using an 8086 then? You could probably have fished a perfectly usable 286 or 386 machine out of a hospital dumpster for free, or bought such a computer for dirt cheap. I even had a 486sx/33 chip my rich (yet not pretentious) friend handed down to me around the time GC was born, though it took me a few months to get the rest of the components.
That's cool you were doing that and remember all that stuff! I remember using NCSA mosaic in 16-color windows 3.11, and how cool the beta netscape was. And before then I was serious into BBS's.
In fact, it was because of geocities that I came up with a nifty "hosting" service (namebooster.com, now owned by some squatter) that would allow you to have a domain name, and have it take you to a painfully long geocities URL. At first I did it in cgi, but then I learned apache rewrite rules that made it easier to manage. I didn't really make any money off of that, but it did open the door to some crazy adventures I encountered shortly after during the .com boom.
As others have pointed out here, piracy is easier and perhaps more rampant with the DS, yet they're making plenty of money and have a loyal and happy fanbase.
I think sony's idiocy in pushing a proprietary optical format for a portable system is way more to blame here for making people not want the system in the first place, or to make the effort to circumvent having to use the batter-sucker at all. If you're going to do all that piracy work to make your system work more effectively, it's not going to motivate you to spend money after having to do all that.
I think the lack of games and resentment toward their audio cd rootkit didn't help either.
I checked out your games site. Those look pretty neat and I may buy some!
net services aren't very resource intensive, unless they're serving a significant load, and yes indy's were nice for doing those things.
Doom3 however, having been released a decade after the indy was discontinued, would probably not run so well. Iknow,Iknow, you probably meant doom2.
I got a sansa mp3 player some time ago that plays doom pretty well on its mips proc!
DRM systems are exactly designed to 'compel' you to pay money for things which were previously your fair use rights.
There's a reason they call it "defective by design". I can't say with authority, but I'm pretty darn sure drm has only hurt the entities that use it.
If a typical empty-suit gotta-wrap-this-by-2-so-I-can-get-to-the-golf-course middle manager looks at open source software (priced at $0) and then Microsoft software (priced in the thousands or tens of thousands, for company-wide use), he's probably going to make the decision in favor of Microsoft because if it doesn't cost anything, it must not be worth anything.
I can vouch for this!
Before I ever did any serious IT work for a large company, I was plenty well aware of the headaches and aggravations that were uniquely offered in a windows environment starting in 1995.
However, when I got into doing IT management and support for one specific large business, all of the batshit crazy stories I had been reading on slashdot about "teh M$ windoze" environments and admins seemed highly understated.
This was during the time that dept. of homeland security advised against using Internet Explorer.
The biggest problem was at the top: boss man felt GREAT about using microsoft products, because they were a big money corp that "everyone" used and he really liked money and the satisfaction of not having to think critically. The outside guy that he had doing his IT work before I showed up was a real MS troll, the kind I had previously though could not be real.
In the end, the agents loved me for making things work, my FOSS systems ran flawlessly for years after I had left, and everything else (including the phone systems the outside guy managed) were a complete smoldering clusterfuck. I had to leave, because I was CONSTANTLY in the position of having to fix all this broken shit, while the other guy kept making new broken shit for me to fix, all while getting little credit and making me look bad for hindering my real work.
Oh, and when I informed him of how much unlicensed MS software I estimated we had installed and how much it would cost to be legit, he got ANGRY at me and expected me to magically fix this situation somehow without spending a lot of money and without converting to openoffice.
I agree that windows environments are appropriate in places and can be managed well. But for everything I care about, I have much better success and productivity with FOSS software.
I'm just one guy, giving you a brief anecdotal account of my experience, but I can tell you that after 12 years of banging my head against the wall over microsoft bullshit I am immensely happy to be away from all that.
ps. Did you know that they had free software in the 60's? They just called it "software".
When your society's shape is held in place by an authoritarian government with a monopoly on violent force, then "freeloading scavenging" occurs when that container is removed. Metaphorically, water does something similar when the glass it is contained in is removed.
But when your society is shaped by people living in direct contact with one another, working without the layers of isolation found in our modern social constructs, then the concepts of "law and order" are much more natural and formed by the people themselves rather than a subset of the people who are given badges, guns, and limited accountability with inadequate oversight.
A choice of lyrics from MC Hawkings' "Entropy":
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
I was going to post that but the AC beat me to it
but the Western world is too scared to do what needs to be done in order to win.
I agree with this strongly! If the western world would quit being so greedy, angrily violent, and get their priorities straight instead of working at jobs that create no value for society, then it would be truly FTW.
Most of what I've been seeing over the past 8 years has been americans trying (and succeeding) to be better terrorists than the 9/11 hijackers could have ever hoped to have been.
he voted in support of telco immunity before being president. I don't like it, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt insofar as this is a mess that the bush administration created, which would cause an even bigger mess in trying to forcibly reverse it without regard to consequence.
I'm not disappointed in having voted (and swaying votes, and registering voters) for him. Seriously, anyone here complaining things would be better living in the nation of Mccainistan (capitol city, Palingrad)?
"singles out a specific corporation and product for unequal treatment"
Say, why single out microsoft when they could just option a competing product that will run all of their applications (equally) from another vendor in this free-market economy?
Good thing we have all those anti-trust rico laws that make this possible!
the archivist class actually sounds pretty cool - I'm still eager to try out the witchdoctor.
Do I get my achievement yet?
Of all the april fools stories, I thought the achievements one was such.
I paid the $50 for the game (a few weeks after it had come out) and while there are a lot of good things to say about it, I felt really disappointed. Compared to wow, the performance is a lot crappier for graphics that are just not as nice to look at. And the game takes 1gig instead of wow's 512M (approximate), and probably because of that on my 2Gram machine, it would take FOREVER to alt-tab in and out of the game.
Then, there were never enough people on my server to make it fun. Completing the public quests was always a hopeless fantasy.
I also couldn't understand my profession, and missed one of the flight paths early on. It's not that hard, wow set some kind of standard for usability and they mimic enough of wow EXCEPT for making the interface as useful.
The pvp combat is a lot more fun, but that's the only advantage I could see over wow. Oh, and you don't have to keep ammo in your inventory. Great.
If they'd made it possible to reflash, a zillion Linux weenies would have bought the devices just to put Rockbox on them.
No, they probably wouldn't have because it's an MS product.
/me consoles the modded xbox as it sheds a small tear.
Yeah I think the crappy software and restrictive cockteases (oh it has wifi? cool!!), not to mention drm were planned like sending one into no man's land with a blinking traffic cone on their head.
intel had 486's without math coprocessors integrated (the 486sx), though it was actually on the die but disabled (either intentionally or from chips with defective math coprocs). They had a 487 you could couple with your 486sx that was still basically the same chip as the 486dx, and I think may have just disabled the other 486sx and run everything on that one processor. From what I've heard, all that craziness was due to marketing rather than technical reasons.
And for winners of the darwin award, can we blame the world in which they live? Maybe said world could be sued or criminally prosecuted to maintain justice.
Just going with your morally and philosophically coherent logic here, since you claim it is the only correct opinion.