So they're still using some native C++ code? Big deal. Sounds like they just put a.NET wrapper around the QuakeII Engine, and they're still using native code to do all the heavy lifting. So you're still tied to Windows, and it runs 15% slower....fantastic.
Now, when they have a version written purely in managed code than can run on any.NET implementation (and runs only 15% slower), then I'll be impressed.
"The vote is made by representatives of the people, who rely on the military to advise them on situations."
Actually, Bush got most of his information of WMD from the CIA, which is not run by the Joint Chiefs. The military's job is not to conduct espionage and gather intelligence, and therefore has no information with which to advice the president.
"If the thing is never used it will be a "waste" of money"
If the aircraft carrier is never used then it will have served it's purpose. Sun-Tzu says "Those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle.", which is exactly what a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier does. Having the strongest military in the world prevents war by dissuading opposition.
And as for my three points, they were spot on. I wasn't opposing his position on America's foreign policy, I simply saying that this isn't the forum for disussing it.
But since when does Slashdot ever stay on topic...so lets burn some Karma...
Peace at any cost. That seems to be the mantra from everyone on slashdot recently. No matter what Hussein's and the Milosevic's of the world do, none of it warrants military action. Well, tell that to the Tibetans, who have had an opressive communist government occupying thier country since 1950. Tell that to the South Vietnameese who were slaughtered when Saigon fell. Tell that to the East Germans who were gunned down trying to jump the wall. Tell that to the women and children in Halabja who were gassed by thier own government.
Peace and Freedom are not free. Their cost is paid in blood. That cost can be reduced by using a strong military force as a deterrent, rather than a weapon. But when the leadership of a country disregards the lives of it's own people it it's quest for power, it comes down to us or them...and I choose us. I guess that makes me a decadent imperialist dog, but somehow I think that the United States may be more justified in it's actions than a military dictatorship or a communist regime. In the end, Iraq will end up free and prosperous like South Korea and West Germany, and the price paid today will be well worth the return on investment.
1) This is the worst kind of political flamebait. 2) Nowhere is the post does it say anything about America being a "peace loving" nation or how wonderful it is to be American, or anything like that (because quite frankly, it wouldn't be tolerated on slashdot). 3) This is totally offtopic, because:
Unlike China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, etc... the decision to go to war is not made by the Military, it's made by a civilian. Implying that building a new aircraft carrier promotes war is like saying that putting on a seat belt promotes car accidents.
If you want to have a political discussion about America's foreign policy in the post WWII era, fine. But do it in the comments for an article that is actually relevant to what you want to rant about.
Thank God I live in the U.S. where the tax laws are marginally less unfair and opressive.
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Yes you can go with the flow, agree with your PHB no matter what drivel he spews, and mindlessly repeat "yes" to every question your are asked. You can do that and keep your job....but if you hate your job so much, why exactly do you want to stay there?
The other option is that you pick your battles, and when the time comes, stick up for what you think is right. Will you rub people the wrong way? Yes. But you will also get noticed. So you might get fired, but you also might get promoted. Either way you get out of your crappy job. All the promotions I've gotten have come from sticking my neck out and being right. I also have had quite a few managers who think I'm a total idiot...but I don't work for those managers anymore.
Smaller scale games also provide a better platform for innovative games because they can be the product of a single person or a very close knit team. On huge budget games for PC's or Consoles, it's not uncommon for graphic artists and programmers to meet each other for the first time at the release party. On small budget games, a single person can closely watch over the game as it develops (or just do everything themselves) to make sure it turns out exactly like they wanted and not "Like Diablo, but in space!"
This is similar to the innovation that occured back in the first few years of gaming (Atari, Nintendo, etc...), where the systems were simple enough that one or two people could make a game with a fairly limited budget and still have it be really good.
In what situation does it offer anything that justifies the pain and inconvience that it incurs?
Here's three off the top of my head:
Enterprise Applications - The vast majority of the performance costs of Java occur at start time, when HotSpot is just starting up. Once you get the app up and running (like, for example, on a server), the difference in performace is usually negligable. This is especially true if you are a decent Java developer and understand what Java does well and what it doesn't.
Embedded devices - There are hundreds of millions of Cell Phones, PDA's, and smartcards out there today that are running Java. Each make and model can have a different processor, memory size, display, etc...but your Java application will run on all of them.
Web-Deployed applications - The ability to push an application out onto the web via a Java Applet or Webstart application, and have it run on every machine in your company, can save millions of dollars when deploying to a large orginization. Java is able to do this in a way that is reliable and secure.
Are you going to use Java to write a Windows desktop application? Probably not. But how many new Windows desktop apps are there left to write? That's why there are more developers using Java than any other language.
Yetanotherfailedattempt by Microsoft to break into an industry in which they do not have a monopoly. Considering how much stock Balmer and company have been selling, I think they see the writing on the wall, and want to cash out before the world realizes that the glory days of Microsoft are over.
I'm sure you could build a system that will measure strikes and balls better than any human. That's not the point. There's plenty of sports where automated systems could be used to replace human judges, but the question you have to ask is "does it make the game better?"
I argue that most of the time, the answer is no. Sports are not meant to be an exersize in perfection, and there is an element to every sport that involves playing 'outside' the rules. In the specific case of Baseball, for example, a human umpire knows when to call a ball as a strike because the batter is being a dick. Competition can be more about manipulating the human and social factors than about following the rules, and we shouldn't take that aspect out of the game just because we can.
Yes, Corporate Welfare is wrong. And that's exactly what the South Korean government is doing. If you had bothered to read the first paragraph of the article you would know that the reason the Commerce Department is levying this tariff because it believes the Korean government is illegally subsidizing chip exports.
This tariff is just leveling the playing field, but "U.S. imposes chip tariff in response to Korean subsidy" doesn't draw nearly as many eyeballs to the advertisements below the article.
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In the first sentence of the article, it says the tariff is in reponse to subsidies provided by the Korean government. The U.S. is re-balancing the field, and is more than entitled to impose a tariff on a subsidized product when it competes with products made in the U.S.
I guess that means I can just change my first name to "President" and become the leader of my own country. Makes perfect sense. Now all I need to do is find a personal assistant whose last name is "of State" and I can broker my own peace deal in the Middle East.
When I want to test-drive a new car, do I build a driving simulator based on the car and load in my route to work so I can see how it would handle during a typical commute? Of course not, I just take the car for a test drive, because sometimes the best way to test something is just to use it.
Benchmarks are inheriently flawed because a benchmark is not what your buy the card for. Card manufacturers are always going to "teach to the test" by optimizing their cards and drivers for whatever the reviewers are using to review the cards. So why not take advantage of this and use popular applications to benchmark? The venerable Quake3 framerate test is one example of this, but I would arge that all benchmarks should be numerical data taken from the performance of real world applications. That way, at least those apps will perform as advertised, and any other apps that take advantage of the same features on the card will benefit.
For boys at least, 13 is the age when they start getting more competitive and agressive. I think that videogame violence helps them deal with those agressive tendencies in a positive way. Up until about 5000 years ago, if you didn't kill your food with your own hands, you didn't eat. Violence has been programmed into us, and we need to find a way to release it or bad shit start to happen.
I would argue that videogames are just as good as sports when it comes to relieving agressive tendencies. When playing online or with friends, gaming can not only be a social event, it can sometimes be an intellectual one as well (Civ III, for example).
So unless there's sadstic or explicitly sexual content, I think a little fragging will do your teenager good.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything. A monopoly is when you completely control an entire market, not a single product within that market. By your rationale, Burger King has a monopoly because they're the only ones that make The Whopper.
Microsoft has a monopoly in the operating system market because they hold 80%-90% of the market share.
The only reason they're saving these birds is because they're cute and rats aren't. If the rats had made their way to this island on their own (airspeed velocity of a rat-laden swallow, and all that) would that have been any better?
I'll tell you, if Koala Bears ate cockroaches, nobody would complain if they got imported to New York and eradicated the cockroach population. All this Envronmental hoopla about Saving the Whales or Saving the Seals or Saving the whatever in the name of maintaining a "natural balance" is a bunch of crap. Nature gets along just fine by itself. The environment changes and life can either adapt or die. That's the way it's always been and that's the way it's always going to be.
Nobody's going to 'Save the Humans' when the next ice age comes.....even the cute ones are going down like the rest of us.
You can boycott Amazon.com all you want. You can make T-Shirts. Post on slashdot....whatever. But until you get a big company with lots of lawyers and money, fighting for what you want, it's never going to happen.
Now, E-bay will probably not want to do away with the entire software patent system (which is the right way to go, in my opinion), but unless you have someone to fight the battle, you're never going to win the war.
Back in the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church wanted a Cathedral built, they would pay a bunch of Freemasons to do it. The Freemasons viewed themselves as creative artisans, and they closely guarded the secrets they used to construct these impressive houses of worship.
The method they used, however, was less than impressive. Typically, they would start with a general design, and piece together stone and mortar until something collapsed, which happened quiteoften. Then they would patch the section that collapsed and keep on going until something else fell down, or they finished. Given the level of understanding with regards to Physics and Material Science, those Freemasons has no other choice than to build them this way.
Now fast forward to the 21st century. The engineering disasters on par with those medieval collapses can be counted on one hand (Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse are the only two I can think of). This is directly due to the fact that a civil engineer can determine if a design is structurally sound before they build it.
Contrast this with modern day software development. We can't even tell if a system is flawed after we build it, let alone before. So software gets written, deployed, and put into the marketplace that has no assurances whatsoever of actually doing what it's supposed to do (hence the 10,000 page EULA).
You can't have Civil Engineers until you have Physics. And you won't have 100% bulletproof software until you have Software Engineering. And you won't have that until someone can figure out a way to prove that a given peice of software will perform as it's supposed to. JUnit is a step in the right direction, but there's still a long way to go. It's going to take a breakthrough on the order of Newton to make Software Engineering as reliable a discipline as Civil Engineering.
Well-to-do areas tend to have voting methods with less % of error than more poor-class areas
And what exactly is the scientific unit of measure for "X voting method is more accurate than Y"? Or is your statement based on the relative error rates of well-to-do vs. poor areas?
If this is the case, then how do you know that it is the voting methods that are causing the error. Isn't it just as likely that a college educated "well-to-do" person is better equipped to understand the voting procedure than a high school dropout, and therefore is less likely to vote improperly?
Unfortunately, the US government runs its own elections, rather than a truely impartial third party.
"a truely impartial third party"? Like who? What organization is responsible enough to oversee the elections of the most powerful nation on Earth and yet has no opinion one way or another on how they should go.
There is no "impartial third party". The U.S. electoral process isn't perfect but handing it over to Deloitte and Touche, or the U.N. or any other supposedly 'impartial' body is just going to make it worse. The best way to keep it legit is just to make the counters accountable.
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So they're still using some native C++ code? Big deal. Sounds like they just put a .NET wrapper around the QuakeII Engine, and they're still using native code to do all the heavy lifting. So you're still tied to Windows, and it runs 15% slower....fantastic.
.NET implementation (and runs only 15% slower), then I'll be impressed.
Now, when they have a version written purely in managed code than can run on any
"The vote is made by representatives of the people, who rely on the military to advise them on situations."
Actually, Bush got most of his information of WMD from the CIA, which is not run by the Joint Chiefs. The military's job is not to conduct espionage and gather intelligence, and therefore has no information with which to advice the president.
"If the thing is never used it will be a "waste" of money"
If the aircraft carrier is never used then it will have served it's purpose. Sun-Tzu says "Those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle.", which is exactly what a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier does. Having the strongest military in the world prevents war by dissuading opposition.
And as for my three points, they were spot on. I wasn't opposing his position on America's foreign policy, I simply saying that this isn't the forum for disussing it.
But since when does Slashdot ever stay on topic...so lets burn some Karma...
Peace at any cost. That seems to be the mantra from everyone on slashdot recently. No matter what Hussein's and the Milosevic's of the world do, none of it warrants military action. Well, tell that to the Tibetans, who have had an opressive communist government occupying thier country since 1950. Tell that to the South Vietnameese who were slaughtered when Saigon fell. Tell that to the East Germans who were gunned down trying to jump the wall. Tell that to the women and children in Halabja who were gassed by thier own government.
Peace and Freedom are not free. Their cost is paid in blood. That cost can be reduced by using a strong military force as a deterrent, rather than a weapon. But when the leadership of a country disregards the lives of it's own people it it's quest for power, it comes down to us or them...and I choose us. I guess that makes me a decadent imperialist dog, but somehow I think that the United States may be more justified in it's actions than a military dictatorship or a communist regime. In the end, Iraq will end up free and prosperous like South Korea and West Germany, and the price paid today will be well worth the return on investment.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
1) This is the worst kind of political flamebait.
2) Nowhere is the post does it say anything about America being a "peace loving" nation or how wonderful it is to be American, or anything like that (because quite frankly, it wouldn't be tolerated on slashdot).
3) This is totally offtopic, because:
Unlike China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, etc... the decision to go to war is not made by the Military, it's made by a civilian. Implying that building a new aircraft carrier promotes war is like saying that putting on a seat belt promotes car accidents.
If you want to have a political discussion about America's foreign policy in the post WWII era, fine. But do it in the comments for an article that is actually relevant to what you want to rant about.
Thank God I live in the U.S. where the tax laws are marginally less unfair and opressive.
Yes you can go with the flow, agree with your PHB no matter what drivel he spews, and mindlessly repeat "yes" to every question your are asked. You can do that and keep your job....but if you hate your job so much, why exactly do you want to stay there?
The other option is that you pick your battles, and when the time comes, stick up for what you think is right. Will you rub people the wrong way? Yes. But you will also get noticed. So you might get fired, but you also might get promoted. Either way you get out of your crappy job. All the promotions I've gotten have come from sticking my neck out and being right. I also have had quite a few managers who think I'm a total idiot...but I don't work for those managers anymore.
Smaller scale games also provide a better platform for innovative games because they can be the product of a single person or a very close knit team. On huge budget games for PC's or Consoles, it's not uncommon for graphic artists and programmers to meet each other for the first time at the release party. On small budget games, a single person can closely watch over the game as it develops (or just do everything themselves) to make sure it turns out exactly like they wanted and not "Like Diablo, but in space!"
This is similar to the innovation that occured back in the first few years of gaming (Atari, Nintendo, etc...), where the systems were simple enough that one or two people could make a game with a fairly limited budget and still have it be really good.
...reboot per day. At least the rifles aren't running Windows yet.
- Enterprise Applications - The vast majority of the performance costs of Java occur at start time, when HotSpot is just starting up. Once you get the app up and running (like, for example, on a server), the difference in performace is usually negligable. This is especially true if you are a decent Java developer and understand what Java does well and what it doesn't.
- Embedded devices - There are hundreds of millions of Cell Phones, PDA's, and smartcards out there today that are running Java. Each make and model can have a different processor, memory size, display, etc...but your Java application will run on all of them.
- Web-Deployed applications - The ability to push an application out onto the web via a Java Applet or Webstart application, and have it run on every machine in your company, can save millions of dollars when deploying to a large orginization. Java is able to do this in a way that is reliable and secure.
Are you going to use Java to write a Windows desktop application? Probably not. But how many new Windows desktop apps are there left to write? That's why there are more developers using Java than any other language.Yes.
Yet another failed attempt by Microsoft to break into an industry in which they do not have a monopoly. Considering how much stock Balmer and company have been selling, I think they see the writing on the wall, and want to cash out before the world realizes that the glory days of Microsoft are over.
Boy, if you think those InkJet printer cartridges are expensive now.....
I'm sure you could build a system that will measure strikes and balls better than any human. That's not the point. There's plenty of sports where automated systems could be used to replace human judges, but the question you have to ask is "does it make the game better?"
I argue that most of the time, the answer is no. Sports are not meant to be an exersize in perfection, and there is an element to every sport that involves playing 'outside' the rules. In the specific case of Baseball, for example, a human umpire knows when to call a ball as a strike because the batter is being a dick. Competition can be more about manipulating the human and social factors than about following the rules, and we shouldn't take that aspect out of the game just because we can.
Yes, Corporate Welfare is wrong. And that's exactly what the South Korean government is doing. If you had bothered to read the first paragraph of the article you would know that the reason the Commerce Department is levying this tariff because it believes the Korean government is illegally subsidizing chip exports.
This tariff is just leveling the playing field, but "U.S. imposes chip tariff in response to Korean subsidy" doesn't draw nearly as many eyeballs to the advertisements below the article.
Oh yeah right, typical Slashdot M.O.
1) Blame America
2) Read article*
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In the first sentence of the article, it says the tariff is in reponse to subsidies provided by the Korean government. The U.S. is re-balancing the field, and is more than entitled to impose a tariff on a subsidized product when it competes with products made in the U.S.
I guess that means I can just change my first name to "President" and become the leader of my own country. Makes perfect sense. Now all I need to do is find a personal assistant whose last name is "of State" and I can broker my own peace deal in the Middle East.
How do these people sleep at night?
When I want to test-drive a new car, do I build a driving simulator based on the car and load in my route to work so I can see how it would handle during a typical commute? Of course not, I just take the car for a test drive, because sometimes the best way to test something is just to use it.
Benchmarks are inheriently flawed because a benchmark is not what your buy the card for. Card manufacturers are always going to "teach to the test" by optimizing their cards and drivers for whatever the reviewers are using to review the cards. So why not take advantage of this and use popular applications to benchmark? The venerable Quake3 framerate test is one example of this, but I would arge that all benchmarks should be numerical data taken from the performance of real world applications. That way, at least those apps will perform as advertised, and any other apps that take advantage of the same features on the card will benefit.
For boys at least, 13 is the age when they start getting more competitive and agressive. I think that videogame violence helps them deal with those agressive tendencies in a positive way. Up until about 5000 years ago, if you didn't kill your food with your own hands, you didn't eat. Violence has been programmed into us, and we need to find a way to release it or bad shit start to happen.
I would argue that videogames are just as good as sports when it comes to relieving agressive tendencies. When playing online or with friends, gaming can not only be a social event, it can sometimes be an intellectual one as well (Civ III, for example).
So unless there's sadstic or explicitly sexual content, I think a little fragging will do your teenager good.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything. A monopoly is when you completely control an entire market, not a single product within that market. By your rationale, Burger King has a monopoly because they're the only ones that make The Whopper.
Microsoft has a monopoly in the operating system market because they hold 80%-90% of the market share.
I can see it now...
With Shawn Fanning as the evil supervillian and Hilary Rosen as your trusty sidekick!
Wonderful, I'll run out and get that game right after I drop $50 on Dikatana.
The only reason they're saving these birds is because they're cute and rats aren't. If the rats had made their way to this island on their own (airspeed velocity of a rat-laden swallow, and all that) would that have been any better?
I'll tell you, if Koala Bears ate cockroaches, nobody would complain if they got imported to New York and eradicated the cockroach population. All this Envronmental hoopla about Saving the Whales or Saving the Seals or Saving the whatever in the name of maintaining a "natural balance" is a bunch of crap. Nature gets along just fine by itself. The environment changes and life can either adapt or die. That's the way it's always been and that's the way it's always going to be.
Nobody's going to 'Save the Humans' when the next ice age comes.....even the cute ones are going down like the rest of us.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
You can boycott Amazon.com all you want. You can make T-Shirts. Post on slashdot....whatever. But until you get a big company with lots of lawyers and money, fighting for what you want, it's never going to happen.
Now, E-bay will probably not want to do away with the entire software patent system (which is the right way to go, in my opinion), but unless you have someone to fight the battle, you're never going to win the war.
Back in the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church wanted a Cathedral built, they would pay a bunch of Freemasons to do it. The Freemasons viewed themselves as creative artisans, and they closely guarded the secrets they used to construct these impressive houses of worship.
The method they used, however, was less than impressive. Typically, they would start with a general design, and piece together stone and mortar until something collapsed, which happened quite often. Then they would patch the section that collapsed and keep on going until something else fell down, or they finished. Given the level of understanding with regards to Physics and Material Science, those Freemasons has no other choice than to build them this way.
Now fast forward to the 21st century. The engineering disasters on par with those medieval collapses can be counted on one hand (Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse are the only two I can think of). This is directly due to the fact that a civil engineer can determine if a design is structurally sound before they build it.
Contrast this with modern day software development. We can't even tell if a system is flawed after we build it, let alone before. So software gets written, deployed, and put into the marketplace that has no assurances whatsoever of actually doing what it's supposed to do (hence the 10,000 page EULA).
You can't have Civil Engineers until you have Physics. And you won't have 100% bulletproof software until you have Software Engineering. And you won't have that until someone can figure out a way to prove that a given peice of software will perform as it's supposed to. JUnit is a step in the right direction, but there's still a long way to go. It's going to take a breakthrough on the order of Newton to make Software Engineering as reliable a discipline as Civil Engineering.
If the Internet dies we can just get Al Gore to make us another one.
It not like he has anything better to do...
Well-to-do areas tend to have voting methods with less % of error than more poor-class areas
And what exactly is the scientific unit of measure for "X voting method is more accurate than Y"? Or is your statement based on the relative error rates of well-to-do vs. poor areas?
If this is the case, then how do you know that it is the voting methods that are causing the error. Isn't it just as likely that a college educated "well-to-do" person is better equipped to understand the voting procedure than a high school dropout, and therefore is less likely to vote improperly?
Unfortunately, the US government runs its own elections, rather than a truely impartial third party.
"a truely impartial third party"? Like who? What organization is responsible enough to oversee the elections of the most powerful nation on Earth and yet has no opinion one way or another on how they should go.
There is no "impartial third party". The U.S. electoral process isn't perfect but handing it over to Deloitte and Touche, or the U.N. or any other supposedly 'impartial' body is just going to make it worse. The best way to keep it legit is just to make the counters accountable.