The summary also fails to mention that the letter was also signed by people like Professor Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution, who probably knows a little more than the average children's writer about the effects of stimuli on the brain.
Because multiple cores can be used for other purposes. An AI core is limited to game uses, pretty much.
The way things are going, most new computers are going to be multiple core. So it's worth developers' time to develop multi-core engines to take advantage of them. What fraction of new computers are ever going to have an AI chip? 1%? 0.5%? How much time are developers going to spend developing for that market?
Gaming in general has a monthly fee, unless you stick to replaying games you already own. I've just started on WoW, so I don't know how it's going to affect my buying habits, but I generally buy around 2 games a month. That's four months' WoW subscription.
I just started on WoW (lvl 15) - please tell me the quests are going to get more varied? I'm not expecting epic storylines with pages of exposition for every quest, but something beyond Trogg hunting would be nice.
You do realise that profit = (value of sales) - (cost to produce), right? And that Unreal probably costs an order of magnitude or two more than a Barbie game to produce?
I haven't played WoW, but could someone not set up a casual guild for people who want to do the higher end content occasionally? You'd need a lot of members and some decent organisation, I guess.
It's hardly damning. In order for Wikipedia to be perfect, it requires that every single human being with access to the internet is perfect. That's obviously never going to happen, so Wikipedia has the odd problem. I'm amazed the site exists at all.
Why would anyone want a Mac version? I can just about see users not knowing how to delete their IE cache, but "Private Browsing" in Safari takes three mouse clicks to enable.
God of War was fun, but I'd put it in the B-game pile as well. Poor camera, boring platform sections, over reliance on FMV, too many spiked poles. It felt more like a poor man's Zelda to me.
Even more annoying, the snakers always seem to vote for Figure-8 circuit, the most boring track in the game. Nintendo should definitely have added some kind of way of limiting boosting, maybe have some limited boost fuel which recharges?
I'm not a big fan of boss battles, but what I hate more than that is linked boss battles with no save points in between. Nothing annoys me more than having to refight the first two incarnations of a boss again and again just to figure out how to kill the third incarnation. Metroid prime 2 had loads of them.
I only have a couple of years experience, so I doubt my advice means much to you, but I say just go with it. Explain the simple solution that they will understand first - after all, it may be more maintainable - but mention that there are more complex solutions. It's sad, but I experience does not necessarily equate to programming ability, so they have to ask those kind of questions. I regularly see appalling mistakes in code from experienced engineers (finding the nearest multiple of X to Y using a while loop for example). But then I also wince when I see the code I wrote when I first started here.
As far as I can see, what he did was a DoS, not spamming. He didn't attempt to make any sort of income from sending unsolicited emails, he just bombarded one mail server with 5 million emails.
I wouldn't recommend the 9500. The keyboard is nasty, the CPU is underpowered, the phone is huge and heavy and it's generally fiddly to use. The 9300i looks better (same size as the 9300, but with WiFi), but I haven't used it.
But why does the 'bloat' bother you? Take my K800i, for example: small, light, solidly made, reliable, goes about a week without recharging under normal use, UI is very easy (I can dial/message almost anyone in my address book in three or four button presses), great voice quality. There are smaller versions (k610, w810), but they would still be 'bloated' by your definition.
I agree that a waterproof/shockproof version would be nice - Nokia did release some of those a while back, but I don't think they did well enough in the market to justify updated version IIRC.
"I just want a phone to make phone calls" they will say. "Who wants all those other features? Kids these days...".
It's OK, you don't need to keep telling us, we know and phones for you exist. There is also a large market which wants email, internet, calendar, notes, SMS, video playing, music playback, radio etc on their phone: I certainly do.
PalmOS is definitely at the bottom of the pile for reliability. It was a great piece of engineering back when it was new, but these days it's pretty antiquated.
By way of comparison, BT Openzone (UK wireless hotspot provider) charges £0.20/minute ($22/hr) for its pay as you go wireless connections in places like train stations etc. There are various voucher options, the equivalent to the "entire flight" option is around $20.
They expire in around 20 years, by which time a lot of the inventions are obsolete. Patents are a good idea, but they need some reform: shorten the term, raise the barrier to getting one and improve the knowledge of the examiners.
I imagine most of the time it's just a convenience thing. You can phone and tell your kid you're going to be late picking them up, they can phone you in an emergency. Mobiles are so cheap these days, why not give the kid one? Give them your old handset when you upgrade and a PAYG SIM, that's like $20.
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The summary also fails to mention that the letter was also signed by people like Professor Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution, who probably knows a little more than the average children's writer about the effects of stimuli on the brain.
Because multiple cores can be used for other purposes. An AI core is limited to game uses, pretty much.
The way things are going, most new computers are going to be multiple core. So it's worth developers' time to develop multi-core engines to take advantage of them. What fraction of new computers are ever going to have an AI chip? 1%? 0.5%? How much time are developers going to spend developing for that market?
Gaming in general has a monthly fee, unless you stick to replaying games you already own. I've just started on WoW, so I don't know how it's going to affect my buying habits, but I generally buy around 2 games a month. That's four months' WoW subscription.
I just started on WoW (lvl 15) - please tell me the quests are going to get more varied? I'm not expecting epic storylines with pages of exposition for every quest, but something beyond Trogg hunting would be nice.
You do realise that profit = (value of sales) - (cost to produce), right? And that Unreal probably costs an order of magnitude or two more than a Barbie game to produce?
Maybe I missed something, but why does one person being out of the house mean the house is empty? What about partners, housemates etc?
I haven't played WoW, but could someone not set up a casual guild for people who want to do the higher end content occasionally? You'd need a lot of members and some decent organisation, I guess.
It's hardly damning. In order for Wikipedia to be perfect, it requires that every single human being with access to the internet is perfect. That's obviously never going to happen, so Wikipedia has the odd problem. I'm amazed the site exists at all.
Why would anyone want a Mac version? I can just about see users not knowing how to delete their IE cache, but "Private Browsing" in Safari takes three mouse clicks to enable.
Agreed, the PS2 controller is terrible. Why did they put the analogue sticks so far down the controller?
The most comfortable controller I've used is the Nintendo Wavebird, I think the 360 controller looks similarly comfortable as well.
I believe that producing this kind of pornography has been illegal in the UK for a while, but possession of it wasn't until now.
God of War was fun, but I'd put it in the B-game pile as well. Poor camera, boring platform sections, over reliance on FMV, too many spiked poles. It felt more like a poor man's Zelda to me.
Even more annoying, the snakers always seem to vote for Figure-8 circuit, the most boring track in the game. Nintendo should definitely have added some kind of way of limiting boosting, maybe have some limited boost fuel which recharges?
I'm not a big fan of boss battles, but what I hate more than that is linked boss battles with no save points in between. Nothing annoys me more than having to refight the first two incarnations of a boss again and again just to figure out how to kill the third incarnation. Metroid prime 2 had loads of them.
I only have a couple of years experience, so I doubt my advice means much to you, but I say just go with it. Explain the simple solution that they will understand first - after all, it may be more maintainable - but mention that there are more complex solutions. It's sad, but I experience does not necessarily equate to programming ability, so they have to ask those kind of questions. I regularly see appalling mistakes in code from experienced engineers (finding the nearest multiple of X to Y using a while loop for example). But then I also wince when I see the code I wrote when I first started here.
As far as I can see, what he did was a DoS, not spamming. He didn't attempt to make any sort of income from sending unsolicited emails, he just bombarded one mail server with 5 million emails.
Is there even a mainstream CPU that uses the x86 ISA any more? They're all RISC internally.
I wouldn't recommend the 9500. The keyboard is nasty, the CPU is underpowered, the phone is huge and heavy and it's generally fiddly to use. The 9300i looks better (same size as the 9300, but with WiFi), but I haven't used it.
But why does the 'bloat' bother you? Take my K800i, for example: small, light, solidly made, reliable, goes about a week without recharging under normal use, UI is very easy (I can dial/message almost anyone in my address book in three or four button presses), great voice quality. There are smaller versions (k610, w810), but they would still be 'bloated' by your definition.
I agree that a waterproof/shockproof version would be nice - Nokia did release some of those a while back, but I don't think they did well enough in the market to justify updated version IIRC.
"I just want a phone to make phone calls" they will say. "Who wants all those other features? Kids these days...".
It's OK, you don't need to keep telling us, we know and phones for you exist. There is also a large market which wants email, internet, calendar, notes, SMS, video playing, music playback, radio etc on their phone: I certainly do.
PalmOS is definitely at the bottom of the pile for reliability. It was a great piece of engineering back when it was new, but these days it's pretty antiquated.
I've only heard good things from people I know with E61s - what problems did you find with it?
By way of comparison, BT Openzone (UK wireless hotspot provider) charges £0.20/minute ($22/hr) for its pay as you go wireless connections in places like train stations etc. There are various voucher options, the equivalent to the "entire flight" option is around $20.
So, compared to that, the prices aren't that bad.
They expire in around 20 years, by which time a lot of the inventions are obsolete. Patents are a good idea, but they need some reform: shorten the term, raise the barrier to getting one and improve the knowledge of the examiners.
I imagine most of the time it's just a convenience thing. You can phone and tell your kid you're going to be late picking them up, they can phone you in an emergency. Mobiles are so cheap these days, why not give the kid one? Give them your old handset when you upgrade and a PAYG SIM, that's like $20.