"These people just misuse science as surrogate religion"...except, one that has less animal sacrifice, doesn't require us to crucify or torture people who spread the word of science, and doesn't generally lead to book burning and pogroms. We don't have to hold forth the idea that the one true textbook written between 2000-3000 years ago is infallible and anything that contradicts it is from sent to deceive us. Science doesn't demand 10% of your income each week and rarely ever holds a cake sale.
Science doesn't demand we marry other people from the same denomination; marriages between a physicist and a biologist are just as sacred. Science doesn't force us into indoctrinating our children into our faith in the one true meaning of Dark Matter.
Nobody has fought a war to eradicate the filthy heretical . It hasn't raped their wives and children then put them to the sword. It hasn't taken control of their lands and forced the remaining...hmm, let's say biologist (unbelievers!) to work as slaves, and indentured their children and their children's children.
So yeh, science, it's just like religion...apart from all that stuff.
Not likely any time soon. The DK2 has a 1080p display, but due to the extreme field of view this looks more like an old 800x600 display with a screen door effect to boot and chromatic aberration. The CV1 is expected to use a 1440p display, which is a nice step up, but still might not be enough to reduce that screen door effect.
Reading delicate text and fonts in a no-go with a Rift. Everything needs to be scaled up to deal with the low pixel / degree of view factor. Colours wash out slightly as well I think, but that might just be subjective.
If you live in a hot climate you're not going to want to be wearing the Rift unless you have some nice air conditioning. Things can get sweaty or foggy in there.
I think we can expect to see some improvement in display density, and more accurate adjustments for the chromatic aberrations and other artefacts over the next few years. I wouldn't expect to be replacing my desktop display any time soon with a VR display.
Marijuana doesn't have the same dramatic effects as meth, and there are people who are long-term users who suffer very few side effects from this drug. There is however a small chance that it can lead to temporary or even permanent psychosis. There is still some debate over this issue, but I can assure you it's quite real.
A while ago I spent some time in a mental facility and one of the patients there was that unlucky 1 in 700,000 who was vulnerable to the psychotic effects that marijuana could cause. He was a good student who was just starting university. Intelligent, articulate, and with excellent grades - he had good prospects for a long and happy life.
His mother worked as a nurse at that hospital so she could spend time with her son, and I received this information directly from her. At uni he tried marijuana, just a few times. I get the impression he was just a typical uni kid enjoying his new freedom and he started to smoke it because his new social circle were smoking it. Pretty typical stuff. He had an adverse reaction (I think over a short time period of maybe week or so) and had to be hospitalised due to psychosis.
By the time I met him, he had been in hospital for 12 years. He had no teeth left, since he couldn't look after them they had to all be removed. He was heavily medicated but was still liable to fits of anger and hitting other patients for something simple like sitting in his chair. He was barely able to speak and never managed more than a couple of mumbled, often unintelligible words. There was a rec room where we could watch a TV which was behind a plexiglass panel we needed to lift up to change channels. He had a tic that meant every 1-2 minutes he needed to get up, walk to the TV, life the plexiglass, run his hand over the top of the TV, then sit down again. He might do this 100+ times in a day.
While it's easy to think there's no dangers using marijuana, and admittedly, they are few and low - it's not totally without cost or risk. This man will spend the rest of his short life in that mental institution, unable to read, play games, go outside, speak to others, share friendships or talk about the good old days. He will never experience any of the myriad of things that you and countless others can - and that is directly attributed to a fairly small quantity of weed he smoked - he wasn't trying any other drugs at the time.
Certainly, he had a disposition towards this happening, but it was marijuana that pushed it over the limit and completely fucked his entire life.
We have a decent welfare system and free hospitalisation in Australia, so he is getting the care he needs. You could argue that as taxpayers who are shouldering that cost we do get a say in whether people consume the drug or not...but, I'm not going to bother with that argument, it's not the important one.
Enjoy the smoke if you can amd avoid it if that's that you prefer. Just bear in mind, however small, there is a chance of psychosis that may in same rare cases be permanent - and weed is a known contributor to this condition.
A sticker with ultraviolet reflectance so the black lights in your case make it look right wicked and totally worth the extra $80 you paid for commodity hardware with F4tal1ty's name on it.
You could do a lot worse than using Australian Jarrah wood. It's lovely looking, hard, and can be brought to a smooth finish. My speaker cabinets use this wood for their veneer.
The profit comes from the same place gym membership profits come from. People sign up, use it a couple of times, then forget about it, meanwhile - it ticks over every month pulling in money for nothing.
Software engineering has a tendency to enshrine ivory tower principles, that - although sound and logical, can end up making your project large, slow bloated and excessively encapsulated. I'm happy that NASA and the DoD both use it, those things need to be rock solid, but it just doesn't make sense for a lot of businesses where being first to market is more important than any code refactoring issues you might have 2 years down the track. Being slow to market might mean you don't even have a business 12 months from now.
Good programmers know when to lay on the engineering and when to pull out the stops and slap something together that does the job "just good enough". That's part of what makes it an art, not a science.
I don't know where you learnt to program, but at my uni the first thing they taught us was dealing with algorithms, writing algorithms, and how to break an algorithm down and turn it into code. They taught us this before even teaching us any code, because if you can't write the problem down as an algorithm, you simply don't understand the problem.
Flow charting was introduced shortly after as another means of envisioning the algorithm / designing an implementation.
As for bubble sort - could you have picked a worse example?
for each item in the list
compare current item to the previous item
swap items if current previous repeat until no swaps have occurred on a run
That's it as a pseudocode algorithm. If you're having trouble understanding that or implementing it in any language, well - you might be in the wrong business.
"...does anyone else look at bigbang-theory and think "wtf, WHEN are we gonna be done with this shit?"
Definitely.Those guys are a horrible parody of a decades old caricature of people with in depth technical and scientific skills (geeks). They are nerds, rather than geeks; socially inept (a creep, a social mute, a loser and a robot), and well into the autism spectrum. It's pretty insulting stuff.
All the geeks I know are very sociable, articulate and generally interesting / fun people.
But then again, what can you expect from the guy who gave us Two and a Half Men?
"Of course, all of this was done in software designed by people without any engineering experience at all...go figure."
You don't need to have an engineering degree to write a price of software that implements calculations and algorithms that are needed for an engineering project. Programmers turn math, algorithms, business methods, ideas and the like into code. That's our skill, understanding your needs and expressing it in a way a computer can understand.
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"These people just misuse science as surrogate religion" ...except, one that has less animal sacrifice, doesn't require us to crucify or torture people who spread the word of science, and doesn't generally lead to book burning and pogroms. We don't have to hold forth the idea that the one true textbook written between 2000-3000 years ago is infallible and anything that contradicts it is from sent to deceive us. Science doesn't demand 10% of your income each week and rarely ever holds a cake sale.
Science doesn't demand we marry other people from the same denomination; marriages between a physicist and a biologist are just as sacred. Science doesn't force us into indoctrinating our children into our faith in the one true meaning of Dark Matter.
Nobody has fought a war to eradicate the filthy heretical . It hasn't raped their wives and children then put them to the sword. It hasn't taken control of their lands and forced the remaining...hmm, let's say biologist (unbelievers!) to work as slaves, and indentured their children and their children's children.
So yeh, science, it's just like religion...apart from all that stuff.
Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Despite having a public gmail account since it was invite only I escaped the list. Password managers FTW!
Well played, sir. I tip my hat to you.
Not likely any time soon. The DK2 has a 1080p display, but due to the extreme field of view this looks more like an old 800x600 display with a screen door effect to boot and chromatic aberration. The CV1 is expected to use a 1440p display, which is a nice step up, but still might not be enough to reduce that screen door effect.
Reading delicate text and fonts in a no-go with a Rift. Everything needs to be scaled up to deal with the low pixel / degree of view factor. Colours wash out slightly as well I think, but that might just be subjective.
If you live in a hot climate you're not going to want to be wearing the Rift unless you have some nice air conditioning. Things can get sweaty or foggy in there.
I think we can expect to see some improvement in display density, and more accurate adjustments for the chromatic aberrations and other artefacts over the next few years. I wouldn't expect to be replacing my desktop display any time soon with a VR display.
I use Debian you insensitive clod!
I'm still using Fidonet you insensitive clod!
And is making five guys come on a TV show with her to take a paternity test.
Only if you can get some massive dude standing outside the simulation to kindly fold the piece of paper for you and push a pen through it ^^
People like you are the reason we build prisons in the first place.
Are there any features of the language that you wish hadn't been added or could now be removed?
Marijuana doesn't have the same dramatic effects as meth, and there are people who are long-term users who suffer very few side effects from this drug. There is however a small chance that it can lead to temporary or even permanent psychosis. There is still some debate over this issue, but I can assure you it's quite real.
http://www.sane.org/informatio...
http://medicalmarijuana.procon...
A while ago I spent some time in a mental facility and one of the patients there was that unlucky 1 in 700,000 who was vulnerable to the psychotic effects that marijuana could cause. He was a good student who was just starting university. Intelligent, articulate, and with excellent grades - he had good prospects for a long and happy life.
His mother worked as a nurse at that hospital so she could spend time with her son, and I received this information directly from her. At uni he tried marijuana, just a few times. I get the impression he was just a typical uni kid enjoying his new freedom and he started to smoke it because his new social circle were smoking it. Pretty typical stuff. He had an adverse reaction (I think over a short time period of maybe week or so) and had to be hospitalised due to psychosis.
By the time I met him, he had been in hospital for 12 years. He had no teeth left, since he couldn't look after them they had to all be removed. He was heavily medicated but was still liable to fits of anger and hitting other patients for something simple like sitting in his chair. He was barely able to speak and never managed more than a couple of mumbled, often unintelligible words. There was a rec room where we could watch a TV which was behind a plexiglass panel we needed to lift up to change channels. He had a tic that meant every 1-2 minutes he needed to get up, walk to the TV, life the plexiglass, run his hand over the top of the TV, then sit down again. He might do this 100+ times in a day.
While it's easy to think there's no dangers using marijuana, and admittedly, they are few and low - it's not totally without cost or risk. This man will spend the rest of his short life in that mental institution, unable to read, play games, go outside, speak to others, share friendships or talk about the good old days. He will never experience any of the myriad of things that you and countless others can - and that is directly attributed to a fairly small quantity of weed he smoked - he wasn't trying any other drugs at the time.
Certainly, he had a disposition towards this happening, but it was marijuana that pushed it over the limit and completely fucked his entire life.
We have a decent welfare system and free hospitalisation in Australia, so he is getting the care he needs. You could argue that as taxpayers who are shouldering that cost we do get a say in whether people consume the drug or not...but, I'm not going to bother with that argument, it's not the important one.
Enjoy the smoke if you can amd avoid it if that's that you prefer. Just bear in mind, however small, there is a chance of psychosis that may in same rare cases be permanent - and weed is a known contributor to this condition.
Role your dice, move your mice.
You're going to be replaced by a guy who can replace your job with a Python / Ruby script ^^ ;p
A sticker with ultraviolet reflectance so the black lights in your case make it look right wicked and totally worth the extra $80 you paid for commodity hardware with F4tal1ty's name on it.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up amphetamines."
You could do a lot worse than using Australian Jarrah wood. It's lovely looking, hard, and can be brought to a smooth finish. My speaker cabinets use this wood for their veneer.
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
Now I can see pictures of other's people's food and children so much more quickly...can't wait..>.>
The profit comes from the same place gym membership profits come from. People sign up, use it a couple of times, then forget about it, meanwhile - it ticks over every month pulling in money for nothing.
The Pirate Hawkings (whore kings).
Service guarantees citizenship!
I'm doing my part!
Software engineering has a tendency to enshrine ivory tower principles, that - although sound and logical, can end up making your project large, slow bloated and excessively encapsulated. I'm happy that NASA and the DoD both use it, those things need to be rock solid, but it just doesn't make sense for a lot of businesses where being first to market is more important than any code refactoring issues you might have 2 years down the track. Being slow to market might mean you don't even have a business 12 months from now.
Good programmers know when to lay on the engineering and when to pull out the stops and slap something together that does the job "just good enough". That's part of what makes it an art, not a science.
I can't wait for the VR release of Two Girls, One Cup.
I don't know where you learnt to program, but at my uni the first thing they taught us was dealing with algorithms, writing algorithms, and how to break an algorithm down and turn it into code. They taught us this before even teaching us any code, because if you can't write the problem down as an algorithm, you simply don't understand the problem.
Flow charting was introduced shortly after as another means of envisioning the algorithm / designing an implementation.
As for bubble sort - could you have picked a worse example?
for each item in the list
compare current item to the previous item
swap items if current previous
repeat until no swaps have occurred on a run
That's it as a pseudocode algorithm. If you're having trouble understanding that or implementing it in any language, well - you might be in the wrong business.
"...does anyone else look at bigbang-theory and think "wtf, WHEN are we gonna be done with this shit?"
Definitely.Those guys are a horrible parody of a decades old caricature of people with in depth technical and scientific skills (geeks). They are nerds, rather than geeks; socially inept (a creep, a social mute, a loser and a robot), and well into the autism spectrum. It's pretty insulting stuff.
All the geeks I know are very sociable, articulate and generally interesting / fun people.
But then again, what can you expect from the guy who gave us Two and a Half Men?
"Of course, all of this was done in software designed by people without any engineering experience at all...go figure."
You don't need to have an engineering degree to write a price of software that implements calculations and algorithms that are needed for an engineering project. Programmers turn math, algorithms, business methods, ideas and the like into code. That's our skill, understanding your needs and expressing it in a way a computer can understand.