Dumbass Americans only care about eating more food, getting more fat, going to doctors for their fatass lifestyle diseases, complaining about the cost of food, driving their SUVs while never driving off-road or hauling cargo or carrying lots of passengers and complaining about the price of gas, voting for one party that wants to fuck up the nation or the other party that wants to fuck up the nation when they could write-in sane candidates, drowing themselves in shallow moronic soul-less meaningless popular culture and pretending like it's deep and profound, buying shit they don't need with borrowed money they don't have (America has a NEGATIVE average savings index, not that most Americans know what a savings index is), and believing every lying word of propaganda and manipulation that comes from their bought-and-paid-for government and their bought-and-paid-for mass media and following stupid moronic trends while operating general-purpose machines they don't even try to understand or secure so they can post trivial minutia about their pathetic little lives to be read by fellow jackass Americans who don't care.
An excellent manefsto! Now all you need to do is get a hoody and a big stack of postage stamps, and you are all set...
Don't worry, the Serbs and Croatians aren't involved in this fiasco yet. As long as nobody tries to shoot an arch-duke, we should be able to keep this contained to Asia minor.
Lord no, if you know information, you have power. You cannot just give your hard earned power away to just any pleeb that has the gumption to ask. Also:
"Some critics believe that rather than truly struggling with a problem, developers can now just ask Stack Overflow users to solve it for them."
Couldn't this also be extended to books? I mean, how are you truly learning anything if you can just pick up a book and read about how to solve a problem? These 'critics' are just obstructionists who are afraid of sharing information and allowing more people to be effective coders. Yeah, sure, there will be some bad coders who don't understand what they are doing, but really, who cares? The site has and will be an excellent educational tool for a vast number of people.
Good coders don't have to rely on hoarding information to be good.
Are legs really that useful in zero G? Only two arms when you could have three?
Yes, because even tracked vehicles have trouble going up 45 degree slopes. They want a robot that can climb hills, jump into pits, hang on to a irregular shaped asteroid, etc. You don't really think that this would just be used in space exclusively, do you?
Your suggestion about three arms is interesting, although you can argue that it might already have 4, since it is quite imagine-able that the feet might have articulate fingers/toes.
They aren't pandering to pop culture, it needs to be basically human shaped, since any vehicles it will be traveling in will be built primarily to accommodate human shaped astronauts. Or were you thinking that NASA should redesign everything to accommodate a three armed, no legged robot?
Scrum is a fantastic methodology, and you should get behind it if your company adopts it. The sooner you adopt it, the sooner people will start cutting corners and throwing away all the worthless aspects of it (e.g., most of it), so you can focus on getting real work done.
The core idea (break things down so they can be accurately estimated) is a great idea. The rest is crap.
This seems like a step backwards, rather than forwards. They have set up a technology to allow you to play a pencil and paper game remotely rather than create a game that can be played without having to fuck with all the books and papers. It's like a buggy whip maker wiring a buggy whip into a car's control console.
If you replace 'moslem' with 'human', I think you have a 100% accurate statement.
Why is is that every racist dumb-ass on the Internet is out tonight? Look, the problem isn't Muslims, its extremist religion. Doesn't matter what god people pray to, there are always a few fucked up idiots who have to take it too far, and Islam is no different than Christianity in that regard.
You clearly have never been to a Home Depot in the morning on a work day.
This is why I will never say anything bad about Mexican immigrants. You see dozens of them out at Home Depot waiting patiently for hard work. I have NEVER seen a unemployed white guy out there. I only ever see white people standing on street corners with cardboard signs, begging for handouts. I welcome immigrants (documented or otherwise) willing to come to our country and work hard to get ahead. Good for them. The only welfare leeches I see are the native citizens with a sense of entitlement that aren't willing to try to do some real work when they are unemployed.
Calling a celestial body a 'planet' or 'not a planet' is a Boolean classification that puts the continuous range of objects that populate the universe into two buckets, and a pack of supposedly smart scientists have to get into a slap fight over the tipping point of the definitions.
If they had any sense, they might agree that there are probably hundreds of billions of objects out in space, some of which have the properties of the traditional view of a planet, and also the properties of of what is wasn't considered a planet. There, that wasn't hard now was it?
If they are doing this, there has to be a legal release form buried somewhere in the paperwork that people sign on admittance. There is no way a good medical lawyer would let this occur in a hospital that they were paid to represent, because of the possibility that people find out ten years later and crater the hospital with a class action lawsuit.
Of course, any pregnant woman admitted under emergency circumstances might not have had a chance to sign the papers before it is done..it seems that if this is true, someone is going to get sued for a lot of money over this.
The US economy. But the Indian economy is boosted. Do you think that we listen to India whine every time we build a new robotic assembly line that puts one of their manual assembly lines out of business? Of course not. This whole 'us and them' argument is kinda bullshit, as we all live on the same planet, and in the end anything that improves productivity globally is probably a good thing.
Now, you may have some other valid problems that need to be solved, such as finding enough work for every person on Earth, or preventing total wealth aggregation by the top 1%, but don't entangle that with globalization.
A really sensible complaint would be, 'We have companies in the US that are taking advantage of our infrastructure, but aren't employing the local taxpayers, or are hiding funds overseas to avoid paying their taxes.'
Goddamn you are stupid. Do you actually think this is what is happening?
If your theory is correct, then why didn't these dirt poor freeloaders move out of the Middle East say, five years ago? Why aren't there hundreds of millions of poor people constantly trying to move to richer countries? They aren't.
Turn in your trolling merit badge, are terrible at it.
...for that kinda money, we could have lined the border with Mexico with a ton of land mines, and solved a lot of the illegal crossings problems.
Teabag much? Did it ever occur to you that we might want some immigrants, some of who might even be Mexican? This is about legal immigration applications and forms, and really has nothing to do with dealing with the problem of illegal border crossings. But thanks for contributing your tangential and borderline racist POV to the topic at hand.
You should really consider your own signature quote before you post stuff like this.
Negotiations have been going on for years, led by the United States and Japan — with China conspicuously absent from the list of signee
One might almost view this as a partnership between all the non-china countries on the pacific rim to compete with the growing Chinese economy. While it is good for corporations, it reduces economic friction (tariffs, etc.) and makes it easier for everyone to compete with them. I am not sure that I am for this agreement, but I can see why it might have been created. The EU seems to be a similar creation, enabling the many small European countries to compete with the US and China.
The older I get, the more I reject that notion. Sure, the media is manipulating you and election season is a three ring circus, and yes, there is undoubtedly election fraud that nudges things a bit, but in the end, the people still vote, and the people elect the government they deserve. Everyone pretty much agrees with YOUR statement, "special interests blah blah blah" but upwards of 90% of you (at least the ones that vote) KEEP VOTING FOR THE SAME PEOPLE! What the fuck do you expect is going to happen?
Douglas Adams summed the situation up really well in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish:
That is a lovely and relevant quote by DA. You are correct that at the end of the day, the people are still ultimately in charge of things. The fundamental flaw with representative democracy is the idea that the average person is qualified or will spend the needed time to make an educated decision about their leaders. They keep voting for the same people that they think are going to represent their interests, because it is really hard to 'hire' someone represent them, and most people don't want to take the time to do it properly.
We clearly need to be more careful about which lizards we vote for (irony fully intended)
While a cloud server has more security resources, they also have more professional hackers targeting them, since a single exploit has a good chance of bagging all the cloud provider's customer data. Think attacks like the Sony breach were bad? Just wait until you can get Sony, Microsoft, Facebook and the state of Ohio all at once because they happen to be hosted by the same cloud provider.
OTOH, perhaps that might just be the best place to be when a zero day drops. A cyber criminal won't likely bother with a small business and just go straight for the 23 terabytes of customer data on the next rack over...
While the 5.9b isn't really for the game, but the IP and brand recognition, you have to pursue this line of thought.
If, rather than spending the ~6b, you hired a thousand teams of programmers & artists to create a thousand mobile games, and then dumped a billion dollars into marketing them all, what is the chance that you would have the next hit on your hands and a few billion left over? These sorts of games are cheap to make, why big companies don't crank them out assembly line style is beyond me.
From a traditional POV (economic doctrine from say 50 years ago), this was a solid move. In a modern digital economy, it was probably a really stupid thing to do.
At some point, a powerful country will be willing to go to war to halt carbon emissions. If you do the game theory math, if you don't bring down greenhouse emissions, the earth will eventually overheat and mass death will occur. If this is the outcome, there isn't any reason not to start blowing up everyone and everything emitting greenhouse gas. Either everyone dies, or you start dishing out death and destruction, and you might survive the resulting war(s). It's a pretty cold blooded calculus.
Time isn't hard to get right. We have just done done a wonderful job of making it complicated. A second is defined as a fixed period of time based on what was thought to be 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of a day. As we get better ways of accurately measuring a day, we just haven't redefined it.
1) Redefine a second to account for leap seconds, leap centuries, and any other extra corrective increments we might need to apply. We now know really well how to measure the Earth's rotation accurately, and we could even account for relativity by taking in altitude if you want to be really accurate. A lot of hardware will need to be updated, so this seems impractical.
2) Ignore leap seconds altogether. Why do we need the time to match when the sun is overhead during a solstice anyway? Why do you need time zones at all? Is it really important to have everybody in the word getting up at 8 am and going to bed at 10 pm? It is important to know that California is 8 hours ahead of GMT, but the actual local time is just a number. Ignoring leap seconds will cause gradual time drift, but if we stop trying to force a discrete calendar onto non-integer time cycles, the problem just goes away.500 years from now, the winter solstice might be in June in the Northern Hemisphere, but honestly, who cares?
I am really curious what it is they are cashing in local RAM that is so big - Are they staging textures and models to local ram before pushing them onto the GPU? Media resources are the only thing that really bloats up a game's size, game physics and AI rules are usually pretty small.I suspect that the parent post is correct, in that the devs are kinda being lazy and not lazy loading assets on demand and just dumping everything into RAM on level load.
May John C. come save us from bad game coders, amen.
Interesting resistance tactic - load your laptop with all sorts of disturbing and upsetting videos to cause mental anguish to any government viewers, while concealing and heavily encrypting anything real data. Remember, someone has to look at all this data to make sense of it....
The government can seize and spy on my data, but they better be prepared to go to counseling afterwards..
Meh, the 'invisible hand of nature' will regulate the population. Either China (and the rest of the collective globe) will get control of its population growth, or they will spew vast amounts of Co2 as a result of existing in a modern society and the Earth will heat up and kill off vast numbers of people. I don't see 20 billion people living in a carbon neutral fashion any time soon.
If this is the case, (economics being religious in nature) then the government would have no business setting rules and regulations that impact the US economy. Church and state first amendment issues aside, if the economy is really so unpredictable, then nothing they do can reliably influence it in the ways that they intend.
Religion is the belief in pixies, unicorns, zombie Jews, and other insane delusions. The only business the government has to be involved with religion is to insure that anybody can practice any idiotic belief they choose without censure, so long as it doesn't interfere with others.
Economics is the imperfect and messy business of observing how goods and services are exchanged, and manipulating the system to improve things for the greater good of society. While the government screws it up from time to time, the net result is much better than doing nothing at all. An analogy: You cannot reliably 100% cure cancer in a patient (now), but you get much better results by trying rather than sitting back and doing nothing.
Economics is better compared to psychology, which seems like pseudo-science at best. Both deal with unimaginably complex systems that would seem to be deterministic, but yet can be very unpredictable. Economics doesn't deserve to be called a science (in a strict dictionary sense of the word), but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth of serious study.
Your comment smacks of tea-bagger dogma, believing that no government regulation of the economy would be a good thing. We tried that in various fashions over the last oh, ten thousand years or so, and the outcome was generally bad. People make rules not because they like making rules, but to avoid repeats of disastrous events.
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Dumbass Americans only care about eating more food, getting more fat, going to doctors for their fatass lifestyle diseases, complaining about the cost of food, driving their SUVs while never driving off-road or hauling cargo or carrying lots of passengers and complaining about the price of gas, voting for one party that wants to fuck up the nation or the other party that wants to fuck up the nation when they could write-in sane candidates, drowing themselves in shallow moronic soul-less meaningless popular culture and pretending like it's deep and profound, buying shit they don't need with borrowed money they don't have (America has a NEGATIVE average savings index, not that most Americans know what a savings index is), and believing every lying word of propaganda and manipulation that comes from their bought-and-paid-for government and their bought-and-paid-for mass media and following stupid moronic trends while operating general-purpose machines they don't even try to understand or secure so they can post trivial minutia about their pathetic little lives to be read by fellow jackass Americans who don't care.
An excellent manefsto! Now all you need to do is get a hoody and a big stack of postage stamps, and you are all set...
Don't worry, the Serbs and Croatians aren't involved in this fiasco yet. As long as nobody tries to shoot an arch-duke, we should be able to keep this contained to Asia minor.
Can't we just tell them?
Lord no, if you know information, you have power. You cannot just give your hard earned power away to just any pleeb that has the gumption to ask. Also:
"Some critics believe that rather than truly struggling with a problem, developers can now just ask Stack Overflow users to solve it for them."
Couldn't this also be extended to books? I mean, how are you truly learning anything if you can just pick up a book and read about how to solve a problem? These 'critics' are just obstructionists who are afraid of sharing information and allowing more people to be effective coders. Yeah, sure, there will be some bad coders who don't understand what they are doing, but really, who cares? The site has and will be an excellent educational tool for a vast number of people.
Good coders don't have to rely on hoarding information to be good.
Are legs really that useful in zero G? Only two arms when you could have three?
Yes, because even tracked vehicles have trouble going up 45 degree slopes. They want a robot that can climb hills, jump into pits, hang on to a irregular shaped asteroid, etc. You don't really think that this would just be used in space exclusively, do you?
Your suggestion about three arms is interesting, although you can argue that it might already have 4, since it is quite imagine-able that the feet might have articulate fingers/toes.
They aren't pandering to pop culture, it needs to be basically human shaped, since any vehicles it will be traveling in will be built primarily to accommodate human shaped astronauts. Or were you thinking that NASA should redesign everything to accommodate a three armed, no legged robot?
Scrum is a fantastic methodology, and you should get behind it if your company adopts it. The sooner you adopt it, the sooner people will start cutting corners and throwing away all the worthless aspects of it (e.g., most of it), so you can focus on getting real work done.
The core idea (break things down so they can be accurately estimated) is a great idea. The rest is crap.
This seems like a step backwards, rather than forwards. They have set up a technology to allow you to play a pencil and paper game remotely rather than create a game that can be played without having to fuck with all the books and papers. It's like a buggy whip maker wiring a buggy whip into a car's control console.
everywhere the you find moslem they kill
If you replace 'moslem' with 'human', I think you have a 100% accurate statement.
Why is is that every racist dumb-ass on the Internet is out tonight? Look, the problem isn't Muslims, its extremist religion. Doesn't matter what god people pray to, there are always a few fucked up idiots who have to take it too far, and Islam is no different than Christianity in that regard.
You clearly have never been to a Home Depot in the morning on a work day.
This is why I will never say anything bad about Mexican immigrants. You see dozens of them out at Home Depot waiting patiently for hard work. I have NEVER seen a unemployed white guy out there. I only ever see white people standing on street corners with cardboard signs, begging for handouts. I welcome immigrants (documented or otherwise) willing to come to our country and work hard to get ahead. Good for them. The only welfare leeches I see are the native citizens with a sense of entitlement that aren't willing to try to do some real work when they are unemployed.
Calling a celestial body a 'planet' or 'not a planet' is a Boolean classification that puts the continuous range of objects that populate the universe into two buckets, and a pack of supposedly smart scientists have to get into a slap fight over the tipping point of the definitions.
If they had any sense, they might agree that there are probably hundreds of billions of objects out in space, some of which have the properties of the traditional view of a planet, and also the properties of of what is wasn't considered a planet. There, that wasn't hard now was it?
If they are doing this, there has to be a legal release form buried somewhere in the paperwork that people sign on admittance. There is no way a good medical lawyer would let this occur in a hospital that they were paid to represent, because of the possibility that people find out ten years later and crater the hospital with a class action lawsuit.
Of course, any pregnant woman admitted under emergency circumstances might not have had a chance to sign the papers before it is done..it seems that if this is true, someone is going to get sued for a lot of money over this.
Yes, but the economy is still harmed.
The US economy. But the Indian economy is boosted. Do you think that we listen to India whine every time we build a new robotic assembly line that puts one of their manual assembly lines out of business? Of course not. This whole 'us and them' argument is kinda bullshit, as we all live on the same planet, and in the end anything that improves productivity globally is probably a good thing.
Now, you may have some other valid problems that need to be solved, such as finding enough work for every person on Earth, or preventing total wealth aggregation by the top 1%, but don't entangle that with globalization.
A really sensible complaint would be, 'We have companies in the US that are taking advantage of our infrastructure, but aren't employing the local taxpayers, or are hiding funds overseas to avoid paying their taxes.'
Goddamn you are stupid. Do you actually think this is what is happening?
If your theory is correct, then why didn't these dirt poor freeloaders move out of the Middle East say, five years ago? Why aren't there hundreds of millions of poor people constantly trying to move to richer countries? They aren't.
Turn in your trolling merit badge, are terrible at it.
Re: Catastrophic man-made global warming...
Catastrophic? We are doing a pretty go job of it, lol.....
...for that kinda money, we could have lined the border with Mexico with a ton of land mines, and solved a lot of the illegal crossings problems.
Teabag much? Did it ever occur to you that we might want some immigrants, some of who might even be Mexican? This is about legal immigration applications and forms, and really has nothing to do with dealing with the problem of illegal border crossings. But thanks for contributing your tangential and borderline racist POV to the topic at hand.
You should really consider your own signature quote before you post stuff like this.
Negotiations have been going on for years, led by the United States and Japan — with China conspicuously absent from the list of signee
One might almost view this as a partnership between all the non-china countries on the pacific rim to compete with the growing Chinese economy. While it is good for corporations, it reduces economic friction (tariffs, etc.) and makes it easier for everyone to compete with them. I am not sure that I am for this agreement, but I can see why it might have been created. The EU seems to be a similar creation, enabling the many small European countries to compete with the US and China.
The older I get, the more I reject that notion. Sure, the media is manipulating you and election season is a three ring circus, and yes, there is undoubtedly election fraud that nudges things a bit, but in the end, the people still vote, and the people elect the government they deserve. Everyone pretty much agrees with YOUR statement, "special interests blah blah blah" but upwards of 90% of you (at least the ones that vote) KEEP VOTING FOR THE SAME PEOPLE! What the fuck do you expect is going to happen?
Douglas Adams summed the situation up really well in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish:
That is a lovely and relevant quote by DA. You are correct that at the end of the day, the people are still ultimately in charge of things. The fundamental flaw with representative democracy is the idea that the average person is qualified or will spend the needed time to make an educated decision about their leaders. They keep voting for the same people that they think are going to represent their interests, because it is really hard to 'hire' someone represent them, and most people don't want to take the time to do it properly.
We clearly need to be more careful about which lizards we vote for (irony fully intended)
While a cloud server has more security resources, they also have more professional hackers targeting them, since a single exploit has a good chance of bagging all the cloud provider's customer data. Think attacks like the Sony breach were bad? Just wait until you can get Sony, Microsoft, Facebook and the state of Ohio all at once because they happen to be hosted by the same cloud provider.
OTOH, perhaps that might just be the best place to be when a zero day drops. A cyber criminal won't likely bother with a small business and just go straight for the 23 terabytes of customer data on the next rack over...
While the 5.9b isn't really for the game, but the IP and brand recognition, you have to pursue this line of thought.
If, rather than spending the ~6b, you hired a thousand teams of programmers & artists to create a thousand mobile games, and then dumped a billion dollars into marketing them all, what is the chance that you would have the next hit on your hands and a few billion left over? These sorts of games are cheap to make, why big companies don't crank them out assembly line style is beyond me.
From a traditional POV (economic doctrine from say 50 years ago), this was a solid move. In a modern digital economy, it was probably a really stupid thing to do.
At some point, a powerful country will be willing to go to war to halt carbon emissions. If you do the game theory math, if you don't bring down greenhouse emissions, the earth will eventually overheat and mass death will occur. If this is the outcome, there isn't any reason not to start blowing up everyone and everything emitting greenhouse gas. Either everyone dies, or you start dishing out death and destruction, and you might survive the resulting war(s). It's a pretty cold blooded calculus.
Time isn't hard to get right. We have just done done a wonderful job of making it complicated. A second is defined as a fixed period of time based on what was thought to be 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of a day. As we get better ways of accurately measuring a day, we just haven't redefined it.
1) Redefine a second to account for leap seconds, leap centuries, and any other extra corrective increments we might need to apply. We now know really well how to measure the Earth's rotation accurately, and we could even account for relativity by taking in altitude if you want to be really accurate. A lot of hardware will need to be updated, so this seems impractical.
2) Ignore leap seconds altogether. Why do we need the time to match when the sun is overhead during a solstice anyway? Why do you need time zones at all? Is it really important to have everybody in the word getting up at 8 am and going to bed at 10 pm? It is important to know that California is 8 hours ahead of GMT, but the actual local time is just a number. Ignoring leap seconds will cause gradual time drift, but if we stop trying to force a discrete calendar onto non-integer time cycles, the problem just goes away.500 years from now, the winter solstice might be in June in the Northern Hemisphere, but honestly, who cares?
I am really curious what it is they are cashing in local RAM that is so big - Are they staging textures and models to local ram before pushing them onto the GPU? Media resources are the only thing that really bloats up a game's size, game physics and AI rules are usually pretty small.I suspect that the parent post is correct, in that the devs are kinda being lazy and not lazy loading assets on demand and just dumping everything into RAM on level load.
May John C. come save us from bad game coders, amen.
Interesting resistance tactic - load your laptop with all sorts of disturbing and upsetting videos to cause mental anguish to any government viewers, while concealing and heavily encrypting anything real data. Remember, someone has to look at all this data to make sense of it....
The government can seize and spy on my data, but they better be prepared to go to counseling afterwards..
Meh, the 'invisible hand of nature' will regulate the population. Either China (and the rest of the collective globe) will get control of its population growth, or they will spew vast amounts of Co2 as a result of existing in a modern society and the Earth will heat up and kill off vast numbers of people. I don't see 20 billion people living in a carbon neutral fashion any time soon.
Nature will find a level.
I feel an overwhelming urge to expand and read these functions....well played, sir.
If this is the case, (economics being religious in nature) then the government would have no business setting rules and regulations that impact the US economy. Church and state first amendment issues aside, if the economy is really so unpredictable, then nothing they do can reliably influence it in the ways that they intend.
Religion is the belief in pixies, unicorns, zombie Jews, and other insane delusions. The only business the government has to be involved with religion is to insure that anybody can practice any idiotic belief they choose without censure, so long as it doesn't interfere with others.
Economics is the imperfect and messy business of observing how goods and services are exchanged, and manipulating the system to improve things for the greater good of society. While the government screws it up from time to time, the net result is much better than doing nothing at all. An analogy: You cannot reliably 100% cure cancer in a patient (now), but you get much better results by trying rather than sitting back and doing nothing.
Economics is better compared to psychology, which seems like pseudo-science at best. Both deal with unimaginably complex systems that would seem to be deterministic, but yet can be very unpredictable. Economics doesn't deserve to be called a science (in a strict dictionary sense of the word), but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth of serious study.
Your comment smacks of tea-bagger dogma, believing that no government regulation of the economy would be a good thing. We tried that in various fashions over the last oh, ten thousand years or so, and the outcome was generally bad. People make rules not because they like making rules, but to avoid repeats of disastrous events.