It is the same as selling a car saying it has a 20 gallon gas capacity, then finding out that the tank itself is 15 gallons and there are 5 one gallon gas cans in the trunk. Yes, there's 20 gallons. Yes, it is all usable. However using the last 5 gallons is slow because you have to stop the car and keep adding it to the tank.
Sure, you're getting 20 gallons, but it can't all be used at the same time.
I've been living in ginormous game engines for 6 years, and the amount of times I've had to, in the span of a timed half an hour, optimize a routine to make sure it was running in the optimal time has been....zero.
Do you happen to work for EA? That would explain a lot...
I don't understand the reliance on active communication from the plane. Aren't all flights tracked by ground radar? Surely there were military craft or bases in the area that were tracking it?
You might as well ask the wino on the corner to hold onto your money, because he's about as accountable if your money goes missing.
I'd argue the wino is an order of magnitude more accountable because he is a real person. These exchanges are nebulous companies which have no actual humans directly responsible.
They lost the ability to talk to it, they didn't forget how to. They lack the equipment to do it, but they know how to build it, they just don't have the funding and/or desire to do so. Small difference, but your version of the headline sure is sensationalist! What happened to this site?
It is the ONLY EA game I've bought in the last decade. My friends begged me to give it a try, and the talk of 64 player games was really interesting to me. I've learned from my mistake, and won't make it again. For the record, I purchased from Amazon, not direct from EA, so EA would not refund me. I'm absolutely positive Amazon would, but frankly I'm not sure EA would get the message.
This seems to be tied to certain ISPs, especially Uverse. They claim they can't verify it is a US IP address, even though I'm in indiana and the IP clearly comes up under a US company's IP block (AT&T).
The first EA person actually had the nerve to tell me my ISP programmed the release date wrong. The second one said it would be fixed in an hour. Finally after getting a manager he said they are aware of the problem and can only wait until 7pm tomorrow.
I asked why don't they just completely remove the lock outs to let people play the game they paid for, acknowledging that some regions may get early access. That was "impossible". I bet people pirating the game are playing just fine, I feel like a fool for parting with $100 for the deluxe edition.
Not buying another EA game. Some have suggested using a VPN service to somewhere else in North America that the Origin virus can verify you to North America properly. Silly...
I'd like to see your stats on that. The last real figures I've seen show only 30% want it repealed. The Republicans as usual think they speak for everyone when really they only speak for their narrow elitist buddies. It is all really ironic considering the health plan was originally planned by Republicans, until the Obama administration actually got it done... at which point since it wasn't their idea any more it became the WORST THING EVER. Frankly, there are more important things that they could be focusing on, like our crumbling transportation infrastructure or other real problems. If people really wanted them to keep doing this, why does this Congress have the lowest approval rating in the history of political approval tracking?
Maybe Linus needs to create a backup program like he did when he wanted a better version control system and created git? Also, why is the only copy of the changes on his local workstation and not a server with redundancy? This seems rather amateurish.
So, the predominant theory seems to be that the water on Earth came from comets raining down in mass quantities in the early days of the Earth. The samples of this old water source shows a high amount of hydrogen. Could the water here have come from our planet having a lot of H2 that burned/reacted with the O2 we had, creating all our water, instead of being delivered here from the sky?
You could possibly be looping through an array or reading lines in a data file (such as CSV) and have some elements or lines with errors that you just want to handle and keep processing. Exceptions would be a bad choice here. You assume if one entry is bad, they all must be, which is almost never the case.
I code for a company that deals with huge (million+ entry) data sets. Using and dealing with exceptions is to be avoided when possible. If you think 4ms is trivial, I would not trust you to write any of our performance code.
I'll take good comments explaining difficult to read code over using exceptions to make it "appear" more readable any day. Exceptions should only be used when the code has no way to recover from the error gracefully. They should not be used to improve readability. That's what comments are for. Now, I'm not saying every trivial line should be commented, but blocks of code that are complex should at least have the intent of the code commented, so no one later on changes its behavior unintentionally (yes, there should be unit tests for that...)
I believe the reason for not wanting to throw exceptions unless really needed is that exceptions (and their handling) are relatively expensive and resource intensive operations. Most languages when exceptions are thrown do a lot of runtime stack analysis to, among other things, get a full stack trace. There are many research links on the interweb explaining how expensive it is in whatever language you happen to be using, but here is the first link I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282252/how-much-more-expensive-is-an-exception-than-a-return-value
In the case of the.net runtime, throwing an exception was > 1000x as expensive as using a return value, in processing time.
For example, it insists on sorting artist rather than composer in many views.
Have you tried playing with the sort options under the "View -> View Options" Menu? This menu has a drop-down that lets you control the primary sort, and a sub-section to refine how to sort beyond that (including "sort composer"). Perhaps this is the option you want?
Apple didn't write the original iTunes. Apple bought SoundJam MP from Casady and Green. I still remember using SoundJam fondly. For its time, it was way ahead of the curve (which is why Apple bought it, I'm sure). SJ and iTunes are similar, but iTunes was redesigned as a store as much as a music player. SJ just wanted to help import, organize, and play music.
Isn't the main problem that it is trivial to fake or block the real caller ID? If this was fixed, finding the actual source of the calls for prosecution would be straightforward. Right now, they are forging the numbers in a way even the phone companies can't seem to find the origin for the calls. That seems like a problem... and a solvable one.
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It is the same as selling a car saying it has a 20 gallon gas capacity, then finding out that the tank itself is 15 gallons and there are 5 one gallon gas cans in the trunk. Yes, there's 20 gallons. Yes, it is all usable. However using the last 5 gallons is slow because you have to stop the car and keep adding it to the tank. Sure, you're getting 20 gallons, but it can't all be used at the same time.
I've been living in ginormous game engines for 6 years, and the amount of times I've had to, in the span of a timed half an hour, optimize a routine to make sure it was running in the optimal time has been....zero.
Do you happen to work for EA? That would explain a lot...
I don't understand the reliance on active communication from the plane. Aren't all flights tracked by ground radar? Surely there were military craft or bases in the area that were tracking it?
You might as well ask the wino on the corner to hold onto your money, because he's about as accountable if your money goes missing.
I'd argue the wino is an order of magnitude more accountable because he is a real person. These exchanges are nebulous companies which have no actual humans directly responsible.
They lost the ability to talk to it, they didn't forget how to. They lack the equipment to do it, but they know how to build it, they just don't have the funding and/or desire to do so. Small difference, but your version of the headline sure is sensationalist! What happened to this site?
It isn't nice to refer to her as a "box". I hope he's using a condom.
I hope Howard, Leonard, and Rajesh didn't just mess up Sheldon's experiment...
Silly EA. They should have known pulling out isn't a safe form of copy protection. Didn't they take 5th grade health class?
It is the ONLY EA game I've bought in the last decade. My friends begged me to give it a try, and the talk of 64 player games was really interesting to me. I've learned from my mistake, and won't make it again. For the record, I purchased from Amazon, not direct from EA, so EA would not refund me. I'm absolutely positive Amazon would, but frankly I'm not sure EA would get the message.
This seems to be tied to certain ISPs, especially Uverse. They claim they can't verify it is a US IP address, even though I'm in indiana and the IP clearly comes up under a US company's IP block (AT&T). The first EA person actually had the nerve to tell me my ISP programmed the release date wrong. The second one said it would be fixed in an hour. Finally after getting a manager he said they are aware of the problem and can only wait until 7pm tomorrow. I asked why don't they just completely remove the lock outs to let people play the game they paid for, acknowledging that some regions may get early access. That was "impossible". I bet people pirating the game are playing just fine, I feel like a fool for parting with $100 for the deluxe edition. Not buying another EA game. Some have suggested using a VPN service to somewhere else in North America that the Origin virus can verify you to North America properly. Silly...
They are jumping through coils. Tesla coils...
I'd like to see your stats on that. The last real figures I've seen show only 30% want it repealed. The Republicans as usual think they speak for everyone when really they only speak for their narrow elitist buddies. It is all really ironic considering the health plan was originally planned by Republicans, until the Obama administration actually got it done... at which point since it wasn't their idea any more it became the WORST THING EVER. Frankly, there are more important things that they could be focusing on, like our crumbling transportation infrastructure or other real problems. If people really wanted them to keep doing this, why does this Congress have the lowest approval rating in the history of political approval tracking?
Sounds a lot like Congress... "Hey, maybe the 42nd attempt to repeal the healthcare laws will work better!"
Maybe Linus needs to create a backup program like he did when he wanted a better version control system and created git? Also, why is the only copy of the changes on his local workstation and not a server with redundancy? This seems rather amateurish.
Wow, it used to have a thick atmosphere AND feet? Awesome! What is Mars' shoe size?
Sounds like we are on the road to a good Quantum Leap! I can't wait to meet Al!
So, the predominant theory seems to be that the water on Earth came from comets raining down in mass quantities in the early days of the Earth. The samples of this old water source shows a high amount of hydrogen. Could the water here have come from our planet having a lot of H2 that burned/reacted with the O2 we had, creating all our water, instead of being delivered here from the sky?
Any word on if this stuff contains BVO like regular Mountain Dew? I would hope the answer is "no", but I've been wrong before.
You could possibly be looping through an array or reading lines in a data file (such as CSV) and have some elements or lines with errors that you just want to handle and keep processing. Exceptions would be a bad choice here. You assume if one entry is bad, they all must be, which is almost never the case. I code for a company that deals with huge (million+ entry) data sets. Using and dealing with exceptions is to be avoided when possible. If you think 4ms is trivial, I would not trust you to write any of our performance code.
I'll take good comments explaining difficult to read code over using exceptions to make it "appear" more readable any day. Exceptions should only be used when the code has no way to recover from the error gracefully. They should not be used to improve readability. That's what comments are for. Now, I'm not saying every trivial line should be commented, but blocks of code that are complex should at least have the intent of the code commented, so no one later on changes its behavior unintentionally (yes, there should be unit tests for that...)
I believe the reason for not wanting to throw exceptions unless really needed is that exceptions (and their handling) are relatively expensive and resource intensive operations. Most languages when exceptions are thrown do a lot of runtime stack analysis to, among other things, get a full stack trace. There are many research links on the interweb explaining how expensive it is in whatever language you happen to be using, but here is the first link I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282252/how-much-more-expensive-is-an-exception-than-a-return-value
.net runtime, throwing an exception was > 1000x as expensive as using a return value, in processing time.
In the case of the
For example, it insists on sorting artist rather than composer in many views.
Have you tried playing with the sort options under the "View -> View Options" Menu? This menu has a drop-down that lets you control the primary sort, and a sub-section to refine how to sort beyond that (including "sort composer"). Perhaps this is the option you want?
Apple didn't write the original iTunes. Apple bought SoundJam MP from Casady and Green. I still remember using SoundJam fondly. For its time, it was way ahead of the curve (which is why Apple bought it, I'm sure). SJ and iTunes are similar, but iTunes was redesigned as a store as much as a music player. SJ just wanted to help import, organize, and play music.
You can completely disable the iTunes store under the parental controls section if it bothers you that much.
Isn't the main problem that it is trivial to fake or block the real caller ID? If this was fixed, finding the actual source of the calls for prosecution would be straightforward. Right now, they are forging the numbers in a way even the phone companies can't seem to find the origin for the calls. That seems like a problem... and a solvable one.