The caustic statements flying around here about religion are so incredibly silly. If you think all Christians reject the idea of life on other planets, why don't you take a read through C.S. Lewis' space trilogy?
It's sad that so many people on Slashdot are so ignorant about and antognistic towards religion, Christianity or otherwise.
he got pretty much everything right except: "You can't Akamize dynamic content." Yes, you can -- unless live feeds of sporting events (NCAA March Madness) aren't considered dynamic enough.
I didn't watch the video, but usually when people talk about "dynamic content" they mean content that is generated on the fly, personalized to a particular user. So, as an example, you typically can't wholesale cache a page generated that way for a user with Akamai - it doesn't make any sense.
The article seems to miss all of the features that Retroweaver has added over the past year. I think the author may not have been paying attention to the active releases on-going with Retroweaver. For example, Retroweaver supports every feature that the author purports is specific to Retrotranslator.
I have been spending less of my personal time on Retroweaver over the past year, but Xavier Le Vourch has been doing an excellent job improving Retroweaver over that period.
I guess the question he's trying to get at is this: why isn't the game made such that you gain whatever levels you need by the time you get to where you need them?
He's obviously never played Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross. FFVI also required absolutely no grind. It's really an important part of what made those games great. Too bad that lesson isn't being applied to the latest crop of games.
The average person assumes data they download will not be able to infect their computer.
And how did this get modded as insightful? Codecs aren't data, they are programs. What's your first clue? CODEC stands for Compressor/Decompressor (Here's a linky for you). I actually worked on a wavelet codec almost 10 years ago, before anybody had heard about them in relation to JPEG2K.
If you want to argue that operating systems should secure users from malevolent programs that is an entirely different ball of wax. That's a hard problem, and it's what Sun and Microsoft have been trying to solve by creating sandboxes through VMs with the JVM and CLI.
At first glance I thought the article was talking about security flaws in trusted codecs that allowed malformed content (i.e. videos) to install virii, etc... That's a little scary - much akin to the libjpeg flaw from a year back or so.
However, this article is talking about something much more inane. Why do people expect that codecs downloaded from arbitrary untrusted sources would be any less free of viruses, adware, etc... than any other random executables obtained off the net?
How in the world did this get moderated insightful? At best, it's flamebait. I've lived in downtown Atlanta, and stayed in downtown Manhattan and SF. I currently live in the suburbs. How any sane person can compare suburbs to warzones is beyond me. Parents move to the suburbs to raise their children for obvious reasons.
why do you think people in suburbs drive to the real city to work?
I would say that 80% of the work I have done over the past decade has been in the suburbs. That includes work done for IBM, GE, and other billion-dollar companies. In fact, my experience is usually that the smaller startup companies are the ones who are most adamant about getting office space downtown, because they're looking for an air of legitimacy with existing and potential investors. As another example, did you know that Google is headquartered in Mountain View and not SF? I guess all the PhDs that put their time in there are belligerent, fearful, and stupified.
I second this comment. The chirping was a strong hint for me. It's one of the easter eggs I managed to uncover all by myself. Contrast that to the fact that I didn't do any crazy chocobo breeding or get more than half of the ultimate weapons without GameFaqs help.
In the past, I've worked on routing and logistics software. For one particular system, I developed a client-server mapping engine. The client basically sent a mapping projection to the server, which then ran a spatial index query against it, and returned the mapping data to the client in a compressed vector data format.
Where am I going with all this? The client machine was responsible for performing all of the rendering of the map. I was able to perform several important usability effects such as gaussian blurs (helps labels stand out against the map background) and transparency effects. Having a decent video card instead of an onboard intel extreme piece of crap, makes a very significant difference in rendering time.
People don't need great video cards for surfing the web and working with Word documents, but more and more enterprise software is taking advantage of hefty graphical effects as visualization aids.
Uh yes it does, because you allow the car to skid in the direction it's going until you're happy with it, at which point you let it regain traction.
It doesn't make any difference that braking slows you faster if you can't quickly orient the car away from its obstacle. You're still going to crash directly into it. Thanks for missing the point.
Skidding allows you to very quickly orient the car away from the obstacle you'd otherwise be hitting, while reducing your forward momentum at a very quick rate. Once your car is in an appropriate orientation (facing away from the obstacle), you let off the brakes to interrupt the skid, regain traction, and brake to a quick stop.
What in the hell is the point of being stronger if you can't attack the weaker freely... if you choose to do so?
Out of the mouths of 12 year olds...
I think you misunderstand. Dishonor would mean that you're free to attack lowbies if you want too - you'd just face RP penalties when you do.
For example, I'd love to see Blizzard implement faction assassins that would hunt down people with dishonor and gank them - maybe sending the lowbies a screenshot mail of the 60's death. Fun for the 60 and the lowbie! (Speaking as a 60 Priest, a 45 warlock, and a 40 mage on Bonechewer - a PvP server).
Did anyone else miss Chrono Trigger? It was easily one of the best games I've ever played and deserves to be on that list much more than FFX or FFVII. The epic storyline (with a sense of humor), the magnificent soundtrack, the detailed graphics (excellent for its time), the battle system (with triple techs), the lack of random encounters, and the replayability (so many different endings) all add up to make the game so enjoyable.
Do yourself a favor, if you've never played it. Buy the remake for the PlayStation, but don't play it. (The load times will make you want to gouge your eyes out). Then download the ROM for the original SNES Chrono Trigger and play it on one of the emus. It'll be well worth your time and money, even for a game that's now 10 years old.
Second, he throws out anything with obvious lies such as "10 years of Java experience".
Nice. So my resume would get junked because I first started working with Java in 1996, before 1.0.2 was even released. Ah - the good old days, when combo boxes (java.awt.Choice) didn't have a method to remove items, and the approach to handling component events was subclassing and overriding handleEvent (long before the arrival of listeners). You'll have to forgive me that I round to 10 years, instead of writing 9.6.
Babies are able to grasp very quickly that words apply to categories of things
This is so true. I remember being utterly amazed when my toddler was able to immediately spot a bird in real life based off a cartoonish caricature in one of his children's books. It just flabbergasts me how a mind so young can perform recognition that we can't achieve with a beowulf cluster of supercomputers.
The term I see most oftenly used to describe this is dynamic recompilation. Dynamic recompilation differs from basic emulation in that it attempts to perform block optimizations across instruction windows (basic blocks) and caches the results for repeated execution. Contrast to basic emulation, which is interpretive in nature.
AFAIK, the only vehicles on the road today that have CVT's are hybrids
I don't know about other vehicles, but Saturn has had CVTs in their VUEs for quite some time now - and being a VUE owner, I can quite definitively tell you they are not hybrid vehicles.
That's strange. When I talked to a Comcast rep, he said that VPN connections weren't actively blocked, but they weren't "supported", either. In other words, if you were using VPN and having problems, you couldn't go complain to Comcast support to get help. I've been working from home via VPN once a week, every week, for over a year, without problems.
Funny that. The dialog box has three (count them - 1, 2, 3) exclamation icons, has a title that says "Warning - Security", explicitly states that the certificate is invalid and issued by an untrusted company, and has "No" as the default selected button. What more can be asked of Sun?
I suggest that Java make loud, obnoxious noises and shout Monty Python quotes at the user at an intolerable volume if he perchances to select "Yes", against all warnings.
I'm hardly a Microsoft defender, but a fibonacci heap is anything but a common data structure. You'd most likely use one as a priority queue where extract-mins and decrease-keys are extremely common, but even then, lots of people still avoid them.
On the other hand, AVL trees get used all over the place (red-black trees being a typical backing data structure for an ordered map).
I looked at PostGIS for our spatial indexing needs, and I wasn't thrilled at all. We work with the entire US detailed road network (50 million links and 40 million nodes) plus a ton of mapping shape data. All in all, it's many gigabytes of GIS data.
I ended up implementing my own spatial index from scratch in fairly short order. It does everything we need, is orders of magnitude faster, and I've even been able to reuse it in client-side code (mapping).
I'm tempted to say our needs were simply too special for PostGIS, but pathing, mapping, and geocoding are pretty commonplace GIS functions. To be fair to PostGIS, I thought Oracle's spatial database was crap too.
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The caustic statements flying around here about religion are so incredibly silly. If you think all Christians reject the idea of life on other planets, why don't you take a read through C.S. Lewis' space trilogy?
It's sad that so many people on Slashdot are so ignorant about and antognistic towards religion, Christianity or otherwise.
I didn't watch the video, but usually when people talk about "dynamic content" they mean content that is generated on the fly, personalized to a particular user. So, as an example, you typically can't wholesale cache a page generated that way for a user with Akamai - it doesn't make any sense.
Disclosure: I'm the Retroweaver author.
The article seems to miss all of the features that Retroweaver has added over the past year. I think the author may not have been paying attention to the active releases on-going with Retroweaver. For example, Retroweaver supports every feature that the author purports is specific to Retrotranslator.
I have been spending less of my personal time on Retroweaver over the past year, but Xavier Le Vourch has been doing an excellent job improving Retroweaver over that period.
And how did this get modded as insightful? Codecs aren't data, they are programs. What's your first clue? CODEC stands for Compressor/Decompressor (Here's a linky for you). I actually worked on a wavelet codec almost 10 years ago, before anybody had heard about them in relation to JPEG2K.
If you want to argue that operating systems should secure users from malevolent programs that is an entirely different ball of wax. That's a hard problem, and it's what Sun and Microsoft have been trying to solve by creating sandboxes through VMs with the JVM and CLI.
At first glance I thought the article was talking about security flaws in trusted codecs that allowed malformed content (i.e. videos) to install virii, etc... That's a little scary - much akin to the libjpeg flaw from a year back or so.
However, this article is talking about something much more inane. Why do people expect that codecs downloaded from arbitrary untrusted sources would be any less free of viruses, adware, etc... than any other random executables obtained off the net?
How in the world did this get moderated insightful? At best, it's flamebait. I've lived in downtown Atlanta, and stayed in downtown Manhattan and SF. I currently live in the suburbs. How any sane person can compare suburbs to warzones is beyond me. Parents move to the suburbs to raise their children for obvious reasons.
I would say that 80% of the work I have done over the past decade has been in the suburbs. That includes work done for IBM, GE, and other billion-dollar companies. In fact, my experience is usually that the smaller startup companies are the ones who are most adamant about getting office space downtown, because they're looking for an air of legitimacy with existing and potential investors. As another example, did you know that Google is headquartered in Mountain View and not SF? I guess all the PhDs that put their time in there are belligerent, fearful, and stupified.
I second this comment. The chirping was a strong hint for me. It's one of the easter eggs I managed to uncover all by myself. Contrast that to the fact that I didn't do any crazy chocobo breeding or get more than half of the ultimate weapons without GameFaqs help.
In the past, I've worked on routing and logistics software. For one particular system, I developed a client-server mapping engine. The client basically sent a mapping projection to the server, which then ran a spatial index query against it, and returned the mapping data to the client in a compressed vector data format.
Where am I going with all this? The client machine was responsible for performing all of the rendering of the map. I was able to perform several important usability effects such as gaussian blurs (helps labels stand out against the map background) and transparency effects. Having a decent video card instead of an onboard intel extreme piece of crap, makes a very significant difference in rendering time.
People don't need great video cards for surfing the web and working with Word documents, but more and more enterprise software is taking advantage of hefty graphical effects as visualization aids.
Uh yes it does, because you allow the car to skid in the direction it's going until you're happy with it, at which point you let it regain traction.
It doesn't make any difference that braking slows you faster if you can't quickly orient the car away from its obstacle. You're still going to crash directly into it. Thanks for missing the point.
I've never understood this.
Skidding allows you to very quickly orient the car away from the obstacle you'd otherwise be hitting, while reducing your forward momentum at a very quick rate. Once your car is in an appropriate orientation (facing away from the obstacle), you let off the brakes to interrupt the skid, regain traction, and brake to a quick stop.
Out of the mouths of 12 year olds...
I think you misunderstand. Dishonor would mean that you're free to attack lowbies if you want too - you'd just face RP penalties when you do.
For example, I'd love to see Blizzard implement faction assassins that would hunt down people with dishonor and gank them - maybe sending the lowbies a screenshot mail of the 60's death. Fun for the 60 and the lowbie! (Speaking as a 60 Priest, a 45 warlock, and a 40 mage on Bonechewer - a PvP server).
Heh - So it is. Dunno how I missed it. :)
Did anyone else miss Chrono Trigger? It was easily one of the best games I've ever played and deserves to be on that list much more than FFX or FFVII. The epic storyline (with a sense of humor), the magnificent soundtrack, the detailed graphics (excellent for its time), the battle system (with triple techs), the lack of random encounters, and the replayability (so many different endings) all add up to make the game so enjoyable.
Do yourself a favor, if you've never played it. Buy the remake for the PlayStation, but don't play it. (The load times will make you want to gouge your eyes out). Then download the ROM for the original SNES Chrono Trigger and play it on one of the emus. It'll be well worth your time and money, even for a game that's now 10 years old.
Nice. So my resume would get junked because I first started working with Java in 1996, before 1.0.2 was even released. Ah - the good old days, when combo boxes (java.awt.Choice) didn't have a method to remove items, and the approach to handling component events was subclassing and overriding handleEvent (long before the arrival of listeners). You'll have to forgive me that I round to 10 years, instead of writing 9.6.
Your professor is an idiot.
This is so true. I remember being utterly amazed when my toddler was able to immediately spot a bird in real life based off a cartoonish caricature in one of his children's books. It just flabbergasts me how a mind so young can perform recognition that we can't achieve with a beowulf cluster of supercomputers.
Recompiles on the fly?
The term I see most oftenly used to describe this is dynamic recompilation. Dynamic recompilation differs from basic emulation in that it attempts to perform block optimizations across instruction windows (basic blocks) and caches the results for repeated execution. Contrast to basic emulation, which is interpretive in nature.I don't know about other vehicles, but Saturn has had CVTs in their VUEs for quite some time now - and being a VUE owner, I can quite definitively tell you they are not hybrid vehicles.
That's strange. When I talked to a Comcast rep, he said that VPN connections weren't actively blocked, but they weren't "supported", either. In other words, if you were using VPN and having problems, you couldn't go complain to Comcast support to get help. I've been working from home via VPN once a week, every week, for over a year, without problems.
Lol. I love how stating that the post is a dupe is modded as offtopic. The whole entire article posting should be modded offtopic.
(Sung to the tune of the William Tell Overture)
Dupe, dada dupe, dada dupe, dupe, dupe.
Dupe, dada dupe, dada dupe, dupe, dupe.
Dupe, dada dupe, dada dupe, dupe, dupe.
Dupe, dada dupe, dupe, dupe.
This is where it becomes important to pay attention to grammar details:
Exploit, my ass != Exploit my ass.
Funny that. The dialog box has three (count them - 1, 2, 3) exclamation icons, has a title that says "Warning - Security", explicitly states that the certificate is invalid and issued by an untrusted company, and has "No" as the default selected button. What more can be asked of Sun?
I suggest that Java make loud, obnoxious noises and shout Monty Python quotes at the user at an intolerable volume if he perchances to select "Yes", against all warnings.
Exploit, my ass.
I'm hardly a Microsoft defender, but a fibonacci heap is anything but a common data structure. You'd most likely use one as a priority queue where extract-mins and decrease-keys are extremely common, but even then, lots of people still avoid them.
On the other hand, AVL trees get used all over the place (red-black trees being a typical backing data structure for an ordered map).
I looked at PostGIS for our spatial indexing needs, and I wasn't thrilled at all. We work with the entire US detailed road network (50 million links and 40 million nodes) plus a ton of mapping shape data. All in all, it's many gigabytes of GIS data.
I ended up implementing my own spatial index from scratch in fairly short order. It does everything we need, is orders of magnitude faster, and I've even been able to reuse it in client-side code (mapping).
I'm tempted to say our needs were simply too special for PostGIS, but pathing, mapping, and geocoding are pretty commonplace GIS functions. To be fair to PostGIS, I thought Oracle's spatial database was crap too.