Agreed. When I worked at EA in 04-05, there was zero interest among management in developing original IP. The Redwood Shores studio was shedding itself of anything that wasn't 3rd person action licensed content.
Seriously, have you actaully ever used facebook? Probably half the people I've reconnected with are people I would never have found through online search. Google search won't reveal networks of mutual friends, but it's how a lot of facebook friends find each other.
The whole cost of bandwidth thing is just arbitrary bullshit, the actual physical cost of running a given pipe at 0% capacity, and the same pipe at 100% capacity, is measured in cents worth of electricity per hour.
It's not actually pipes or tubes.
Aggregate bandwidth exceeding router or upstream and peering bandwidth capacity impose real costs for ISPs. It's not BS.
The popularity of DVD rentals (Netflix, Blockbuster, mom and pop) is proof that most people want to see a wide selection of movies exactly once. You're pointing at outliers and calling it the norm.
I'd like to complain about your summary of the summary. I am on the internet and I never complain. You are unfairly stereotyping internet users like myself. It's not right, and I'm going to start "tweeting" about it pretty soon if you don't apologize.
I still have to write destructors that clean up all the pointers to an object, and all garbage collection does is force me to call the destructor as a function, rather than a more clear 'delete' statement.
I don't know what you mean. In Java, for instance, you instantiate an object, pass it around, put it into a container or two, do stuff to it, etc. When you're done with it, you just stop using it (i.e. remove it from any accessible scope). When are you "forced to call a destructor as a function"?
You couldn't play Populous without the manual. Besides the fact that some aspects of the game weren't self-explanatory, the DRM was implemented using the "which symbol is on page 87 of the manual?" technique.
1. Well below average intelligence 2. Unable to communicate in a coherent fashion(no ability to elaborate on a point except to repeat it verbatim but louder) 3. Blissfully unaware of points 2. and 3.
4. Create weird recursive lists when trying to explain the failure of other people to communicate coherently.
By looking at the second digit, he's simply analyzing the distribution modulo 10. It's clear that we would not expect random distribution at certain other modulos. For instance, at the modulo 100 (that is, the raw numbers themselves), you would expect to see clustering around 50 since many of these polls are 2-way races, and even 3 way races tend to be like 50/40/10. Modulo 50, you would expect to see clustering around 0 and 50. Modulo 25, you would still expect clustering at the top and bottom, so 0 and 25. Is it that surprising that at modulo 10, there's some clustering going on?
My imagination is failing me. How could this be used to advantage by the defense?
Try imagining the fourth amendment. It unambiguously requires a warrant to describe specifically what is to be searched. I'm quite sure the Wii was not mentioned in the warrant.
After entering a premises and doing their highly stressful job, they played some Wii. Big Whoop. The real story is that attorney are trying to say this counts a seizing property. That's the abuse here.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
That's the word on the street anyhow. Also known as the fourth amendment of the US Constitution. Entering someone's private residence with a warrant is serious business. There's a time to blow off steam, but it's not during the execution of a search warrant.
The 64 kicked the 800's butt in terms of platform games (it has better sprites)
Indeed. IIRC, Atari's "Player Missile Graphics" only allowed for 3 player sprites and 4 missile sprites (or 4 and 0 respectively if you chose that route). All sprites were monochrome. Players were 8-pixels wide, and missiles were 2 pixels wide. I never did any serious game development on the platform, but I always figured most games used their own blitting routines for sprites.
Yet another article where a bunch of know-it-alls put down an invention for not being the status quo. "It's too expensive. It looks dangerous. Ride a bicycle. Ride an electric bike. Ride a motorcycle."
Go back to your basements and play WoW. The creative people are busy creating.
It is a just a fucking technology to make managing those backend servers easier. Not good or not bad.
The most informative post here is yours, AC. Cloud computing is about businesses reducing their IT costs by using other companies' servers. It's not about Joe Schmoe getting rid of his cheap hard drive and putting all his information online. Cory's example of S3 is an example of the relatively small amount of overlap, and it's presumably not too evil for he himself to use.
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Agreed. When I worked at EA in 04-05, there was zero interest among management in developing original IP. The Redwood Shores studio was shedding itself of anything that wasn't 3rd person action licensed content.
What's $270 million between friends?
I'm surprised we're up to almost 40 responses without:
"Obviously you have no idea what you are doing, so hire someone who does."
Seriously, have you actaully ever used facebook? Probably half the people I've reconnected with are people I would never have found through online search. Google search won't reveal networks of mutual friends, but it's how a lot of facebook friends find each other.
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The whole cost of bandwidth thing is just arbitrary bullshit, the actual physical cost of running a given pipe at 0% capacity, and the same pipe at 100% capacity, is measured in cents worth of electricity per hour.
It's not actually pipes or tubes.
Aggregate bandwidth exceeding router or upstream and peering bandwidth capacity impose real costs for ISPs. It's not BS.
Incorrect? Completely wrong?
The popularity of DVD rentals (Netflix, Blockbuster, mom and pop) is proof that most people want to see a wide selection of movies exactly once. You're pointing at outliers and calling it the norm.
I'd like to complain about your summary of the summary. I am on the internet and I never complain. You are unfairly stereotyping internet users like myself. It's not right, and I'm going to start "tweeting" about it pretty soon if you don't apologize.
It's not "for all intensive purposes". It's "for all ant, ents, and porpoises." Get it right next time, OK?
I still have to write destructors that clean up all the pointers to an object, and all garbage collection does is force me to call the destructor as a function, rather than a more clear 'delete' statement.
I don't know what you mean. In Java, for instance, you instantiate an object, pass it around, put it into a container or two, do stuff to it, etc. When you're done with it, you just stop using it (i.e. remove it from any accessible scope). When are you "forced to call a destructor as a function"?
>> the lack of a proper Marketplace,
> Do you mean you can't connect to ebay, craigslist, or google shopping? What is a marketplace in relation to an operating system on a computer?
The capital "M" means it's a proper noun. It's referring to Android Marketplace.
You couldn't play Populous without the manual. Besides the fact that some aspects of the game weren't self-explanatory, the DRM was implemented using the "which symbol is on page 87 of the manual?" technique.
1. Well below average intelligence
2. Unable to communicate in a coherent fashion(no ability to elaborate on a point except to repeat it verbatim but louder)
3. Blissfully unaware of points 2. and 3.
4. Create weird recursive lists when trying to explain the failure of other people to communicate coherently.
DHT doesn't remove the management problem.
And your robust solution to a scalable global directory of name-to-ip address mapping is... ?
By looking at the second digit, he's simply analyzing the distribution modulo 10. It's clear that we would not expect random distribution at certain other modulos. For instance, at the modulo 100 (that is, the raw numbers themselves), you would expect to see clustering around 50 since many of these polls are 2-way races, and even 3 way races tend to be like 50/40/10. Modulo 50, you would expect to see clustering around 0 and 50. Modulo 25, you would still expect clustering at the top and bottom, so 0 and 25. Is it that surprising that at modulo 10, there's some clustering going on?
My imagination is failing me. How could this be used to advantage by the defense?
Try imagining the fourth amendment. It unambiguously requires a warrant to describe specifically what is to be searched. I'm quite sure the Wii was not mentioned in the warrant.
After entering a premises and doing their highly stressful job, they played some Wii. Big Whoop. The real story is that attorney are trying to say this counts a seizing property. That's the abuse here.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
That's the word on the street anyhow. Also known as the fourth amendment of the US Constitution. Entering someone's private residence with a warrant is serious business. There's a time to blow off steam, but it's not during the execution of a search warrant.
It seems about right to me.
How can a concrete, environmentally controlled, power sucking, place people drive to be considered green?
http://advice.cio.com/michael_bullock/internaps_new_data_center_built_green_built_right
Disclaimer: Internap is my employer.
The 64 kicked the 800's butt in terms of platform games (it has better sprites)
Indeed. IIRC, Atari's "Player Missile Graphics" only allowed for 3 player sprites and 4 missile sprites (or 4 and 0 respectively if you chose that route). All sprites were monochrome. Players were 8-pixels wide, and missiles were 2 pixels wide. I never did any serious game development on the platform, but I always figured most games used their own blitting routines for sprites.
Yet another article where a bunch of know-it-alls put down an invention for not being the status quo. "It's too expensive. It looks dangerous. Ride a bicycle. Ride an electric bike. Ride a motorcycle."
Go back to your basements and play WoW. The creative people are busy creating.
It is a just a fucking technology to make managing those backend servers easier. Not good or not bad.
The most informative post here is yours, AC. Cloud computing is about businesses reducing their IT costs by using other companies' servers. It's not about Joe Schmoe getting rid of his cheap hard drive and putting all his information online. Cory's example of S3 is an example of the relatively small amount of overlap, and it's presumably not too evil for he himself to use.
I'd rather keep my computer and not run a thin client and "trust" that the company isn't monitoring what I'm using "their" server cluster for.
The exception I have to that rule is Google docs.
[rim shot]
* NAT prevents direct attacks on Internet- connected machines
* NAT prevents snooping of internal network structures
You misspelled "firewall"