Games go beyond the "scratch an itch" model, because they require a artistic vision that is probably very hard to motivate other people towards unless you pay them. Imagine the mailing list flamewars over what philosophical or political undertones to put into a game or, even worse, what the cup size of the heroine should be.
Except that the whole testing process took 21 hours.
Well, that might be an improvement...when autoconf breaks, it breaks hard. I'd rather leave and come back to something that works rather than waste a weekend digging through 10000 lines of moldy spaghetti.
I miss the open party system of the first few NES FF games and the Gameboy FF legend series.
Me too. I remember going through the first FF multiple times with different party combinations. Getting to the point where they transformed to "master" status was a big motivator, too.
That is one thing about later FF games, where they played out sort of like a Disney adventure. Character A starts out, meets Character B on the road between Town A and Town B, they team up and eventually meet Character C in Cave D, etc., they fight stuff and defeat a witch or something. Actually, it is exactly like the Wizard of Oz, only done by Square.
The marxist-leftists? They are the ones who slaughtered more people in a few short years of the 20th century than every other ideology combined in all of recorded history... and a small war in Iraq is suddenly a big deal.
I'm not arguing against this at all (1970s SE Asia comes to mind). However those conflicts were generally localized within a nation's borders and very highly censored, e.g., North Korea. However, WWI, WWII, and the "war on terror" span the globe and affect everyone. What seemed far away is now very localized, that's why more attention goes to things like Iraq.
the revelation of all the various links between saddam and al-qaida?
Any real meat to these things is secretly held within the administration. They have yet to really convincingly justify themselves to the public. The article you link to improves the situation, and if they can really keep putting forth news like that, then a lot of the criticisms about Iraq will go away. A hard link to the 2001 attack on NYC is the only real justification for the war; all the trash about WMD, for example, is just worthless airtime on CNN.
Until then, GWB has a very long hard hill to climb to debunk criticisms about finishing his father's job, dealing corrupt contracts, and the hard-core religious fog impeding his brain.
Q: Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak, can you succinctly define what Adaptive Enterprise is supposed to be about? A: I define AE as a business strategy for customers who want to respond in real time to changes affecting their business. Q: That could be boilerplate applying to any company. What's the special sauce? A:The secret sauce that HP brings is the ability to link business processes--which obviously are a manifestation of a company's strategy--to IT gear. The big breakthrough is when those two things are synchronized, so changes in the business environment can dynamically trigger the IT changes necessary to support that business change.
What's great about interviews like this is that they can republish it in ten years and no one will even notice. I'd bet it originally appeared in 1995 somewhere, and we're all fools for thinking that synergizing business processes and IT gear is something new. I wonder what IBM was doing all those years before the transistor...
Phase III is "gold standard" FDA phase, where you prove statistically that your treatment works.
Or, they approve it anyway, because they are not properly funded by the government who created them and are in a position of financial conflict of interest with the pharmaceutical companies.
As long as we American remain blinded to the possibility that government is good for something, we're going to remain forever a society of technological haves and have nots just like they have in the third world nations.
Actually the only positive thing the government really did was to force standardization, possibly when the markets weren't ready for it. Beyond that, the government brought along for the ride a system that costs much more than it ever should have.
Look at software, for example. Even without government intervention, the markets are slowly begining to embrace standard communications protocols and non-proprietary systems and are managing to find business models for them. Sun's big Linux deal in China is a great example.
Maturing markets do find standardization eventually, because it becomes a matter of progress vs. stagnation.
That's over 20% of our annual budget.
That's also dwarfed by untenable social programs, like Social Security.
The old Sparc Station sitting in the closet never did much beyond being a mailserver...
What? No, you use the old imac for recipes, etc., and, then, you use the SPARCstation for loading up your copy of Pro/ENGINEER r15 for designing an even fancier magazine rack for the bathroom (who would want to touch a bathroom laptop's keyboard...yuck).
Does compiling different modules of an application provide improved performance over compiling all modules with the same set of flags?
I would fear enabling different flags for different modules, except perhaps flags that are explicitly guaranteed to be only local in scope. Even then, I'm not so sure, as I've run into optimization-dependent bugs in programs that are a real PITA.
The thing is, in the desktop it will take longer for machines to require more than 4/8 GB of memory.
Recently, it seems gaming consoles lag PCs by about five to seven years (PS2: 300MHz MIPS + 32MB RAM; XBox: ~700MHz + 64MB RAM; GC 400MHz? + 48MB RAM).
It would be pretty cool if, in 2012 or so, we had 2.5GHz+ consoles with 4GB+ of RAM (or even SMP if that Cell marketing fluff is true).
Unless AMD or someone else has a massive gain with respect to being able to cool these monster CPUs...
For quite a long time, now, Sun, for example, has been cooling it's CPUs using the full-size case fans and ducts to guide the air over their generous but modest heatsinks. Even the Blade 2000 with dual UltraSPARC IIIs just has a case fan and a duct. Take a look at the PowerMac G5; it's the same thing.
On the lower-end, Sun's UltraSPARC IIi and IIIi CPUs are given little heat sinks and teeny fans.
It seems to be only the PeeCee crowd that wants to attach a half-pound chunk of aluminum to their CPUs with dual fans, etc. I wonder if it's related to phallic underachievement, you know, the computer geek equivilent of those super-long slender dragsters with the 3000HP at the base or perhaps like a 300-foot-tall five-million-pound-thrust rocket whose only job is to lift three 200lb men and cargo into orbit...
Of course, the libertarians will be all over that argument, saying it's a form of welfare for physicists...
It isn't "welfare for physicists," if research is for helping government fufill its basic duties for the People. The billions upon billions of dollars we see today might not be needed, but there is a need for economists and political analysts in the government, for example. National defense is obvious. I'd even say well-thought-out vaccination programs are justified, if such a relatively simple measure could do things such as eradicate diseases like polio and smallpox (good vaccines do good for the entire nation/world as opposed to things like monetary welfare combined with a drug war that traps bleeding families and communities into a figurative shark tank).
Welfare for the sake of it is not the responsibility of the government (no matter what the Dems say), but this shouldn't be taken to preclude legitimate, useful, and constitutional government contracts for research.
...recent corporate welfare projects like the Iraq war physicsist welfare amounts to peanuts so the libertarians can just STFU.
Are you trying to say libertarians would favor corporate welfare, even though it is just as inequitable and unhealthy in the marketplace as other forms of welfare? If so, I think you might have the wrong impression and probably mean to aim your criticism at the Republicans.
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Games go beyond the "scratch an itch" model, because they require a artistic vision that is probably very hard to motivate other people towards unless you pay them. Imagine the mailing list flamewars over what philosophical or political undertones to put into a game or, even worse, what the cup size of the heroine should be.
Except that the whole testing process took 21 hours.
Well, that might be an improvement...when autoconf breaks, it breaks hard. I'd rather leave and come back to something that works rather than waste a weekend digging through 10000 lines of moldy spaghetti.
This thread didn't seem to have enough trolling. I"m just keeping up the quota.
I miss the open party system of the first few NES FF games and the Gameboy FF legend series.
Me too. I remember going through the first FF multiple times with different party combinations. Getting to the point where they transformed to "master" status was a big motivator, too.
That is one thing about later FF games, where they played out sort of like a Disney adventure. Character A starts out, meets Character B on the road between Town A and Town B, they team up and eventually meet Character C in Cave D, etc., they fight stuff and defeat a witch or something. Actually, it is exactly like the Wizard of Oz, only done by Square.
wonder why the adventure genre dried up.
It's interesting how the popularity of classic adventure games seems inversely proportional to the popularity of Microsoft software...
Wow, those voices in my head were true!
The marxist-leftists? They are the ones who slaughtered more people in a few short years of the 20th century than every other ideology combined in all of recorded history... and a small war in Iraq is suddenly a big deal.
I'm not arguing against this at all (1970s SE Asia comes to mind). However those conflicts were generally localized within a nation's borders and very highly censored, e.g., North Korea. However, WWI, WWII, and the "war on terror" span the globe and affect everyone. What seemed far away is now very localized, that's why more attention goes to things like Iraq.
the revelation of all the various links between saddam and al-qaida?
Any real meat to these things is secretly held within the administration. They have yet to really convincingly justify themselves to the public. The article you link to improves the situation, and if they can really keep putting forth news like that, then a lot of the criticisms about Iraq will go away. A hard link to the 2001 attack on NYC is the only real justification for the war; all the trash about WMD, for example, is just worthless airtime on CNN.
Until then, GWB has a very long hard hill to climb to debunk criticisms about finishing his father's job, dealing corrupt contracts, and the hard-core religious fog impeding his brain.
Q: Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak, can you succinctly define what Adaptive Enterprise is supposed to be about?
A: I define AE as a business strategy for customers who want to respond in real time to changes affecting their business.
Q: That could be boilerplate applying to any company. What's the special sauce?
A:The secret sauce that HP brings is the ability to link business processes--which obviously are a manifestation of a company's strategy--to IT gear. The big breakthrough is when those two things are synchronized, so changes in the business environment can dynamically trigger the IT changes necessary to support that business change.
What's great about interviews like this is that they can republish it in ten years and no one will even notice. I'd bet it originally appeared in 1995 somewhere, and we're all fools for thinking that synergizing business processes and IT gear is something new. I wonder what IBM was doing all those years before the transistor...
met his wife that way when they were both in the same tent recovering from malaria.
Through sickness and in health, and in that order.
It's actually quite romantic.
Phase III is "gold standard" FDA phase, where you prove statistically that your treatment works.
Or, they approve it anyway, because they are not properly funded by the government who created them and are in a position of financial conflict of interest with the pharmaceutical companies.
When the government is using tax payer money to fund projects like this, no price is too high!
some reasonable policies
I suggest ridding ourselves of the Sixteenth Amendment. It should be easier to do after the withholding scandal erupts.
Sadly, the elected officials would see that "sudden turnover" and hide under their tables like the cowards that they are.
As long as we American remain blinded to the possibility that government is good for something, we're going to remain forever a society of technological haves and have nots just like they have in the third world nations.
Actually the only positive thing the government really did was to force standardization, possibly when the markets weren't ready for it. Beyond that, the government brought along for the ride a system that costs much more than it ever should have.
Look at software, for example. Even without government intervention, the markets are slowly begining to embrace standard communications protocols and non-proprietary systems and are managing to find business models for them. Sun's big Linux deal in China is a great example.
Maturing markets do find standardization eventually, because it becomes a matter of progress vs. stagnation.
That's over 20% of our annual budget.
That's also dwarfed by untenable social programs, like Social Security.
Communism and Socialism win again over democaracy and capitalism.
??? Democracy in Iraq is a red herring. It's all about politics and an arrogance not seen in quite a while in the world.
The old Sparc Station sitting in the closet never did much beyond being a mailserver...
What? No, you use the old imac for recipes, etc., and, then, you use the SPARCstation for loading up your copy of Pro/ENGINEER r15 for designing an even fancier magazine rack for the bathroom (who would want to touch a bathroom laptop's keyboard...yuck).
I have a red sign on my door. It says "If this sign is blue, you're going too fast."
Hehehehe... man I love that one!
Yeah, but what if it's green, and the viewer is colorblind? How will he know?
A scheme for automating optimization choices is not fragile...
Perhaps, someone should consider a GA for autoconf...
12 hours on an 8 CPU
100 million LOC, really crappy makefiles, or eight 60MHz CPUs?
Does compiling different modules of an application provide improved performance over compiling all modules with the same set of flags?
I would fear enabling different flags for different modules, except perhaps flags that are explicitly guaranteed to be only local in scope. Even then, I'm not so sure, as I've run into optimization-dependent bugs in programs that are a real PITA.
The thing is, in the desktop it will take longer for machines to require more than 4/8 GB of memory.
Recently, it seems gaming consoles lag PCs by about five to seven years (PS2: 300MHz MIPS + 32MB RAM; XBox: ~700MHz + 64MB RAM; GC 400MHz? + 48MB RAM).
It would be pretty cool if, in 2012 or so, we had 2.5GHz+ consoles with 4GB+ of RAM (or even SMP if that Cell marketing fluff is true).
Unless AMD or someone else has a massive gain with respect to being able to cool these monster CPUs...
For quite a long time, now, Sun, for example, has been cooling it's CPUs using the full-size case fans and ducts to guide the air over their generous but modest heatsinks. Even the Blade 2000 with dual UltraSPARC IIIs just has a case fan and a duct. Take a look at the PowerMac G5; it's the same thing.
On the lower-end, Sun's UltraSPARC IIi and IIIi CPUs are given little heat sinks and teeny fans.
It seems to be only the PeeCee crowd that wants to attach a half-pound chunk of aluminum to their CPUs with dual fans, etc. I wonder if it's related to phallic underachievement, you know, the computer geek equivilent of those super-long slender dragsters with the 3000HP at the base or perhaps like a 300-foot-tall five-million-pound-thrust rocket whose only job is to lift three 200lb men and cargo into orbit...
My six-year-old Sun Ultra workstation won't be obselete! What a relief!
I wonder if those whistling competitions and cowboy songs will suddenly become politically incorrect.
Of course, the libertarians will be all over that argument, saying it's a form of welfare for physicists...
...recent corporate welfare projects like the Iraq war physicsist welfare amounts to peanuts so the libertarians can just STFU.
It isn't "welfare for physicists," if research is for helping government fufill its basic duties for the People. The billions upon billions of dollars we see today might not be needed, but there is a need for economists and political analysts in the government, for example. National defense is obvious. I'd even say well-thought-out vaccination programs are justified, if such a relatively simple measure could do things such as eradicate diseases like polio and smallpox (good vaccines do good for the entire nation/world as opposed to things like monetary welfare combined with a drug war that traps bleeding families and communities into a figurative shark tank).
Welfare for the sake of it is not the responsibility of the government (no matter what the Dems say), but this shouldn't be taken to preclude legitimate, useful, and constitutional government contracts for research.
Are you trying to say libertarians would favor corporate welfare, even though it is just as inequitable and unhealthy in the marketplace as other forms of welfare? If so, I think you might have the wrong impression and probably mean to aim your criticism at the Republicans.
I'm personally happy that we provide money for topologists and don't ask them to work on an assembly line.
Topology is pretty fundamental to computer-aided design and computer networking...