My big concern is normal users (my parents, brother, girlfriend, etc). How are they supposed to tell the difference between Flash 6 and something like gator?
Normal people may not have heard of gators nasty little activities, and unfortunate as it is someone of them will click yes.
Companies like this, and others listed on scumware (repeated from first post) really make me feel sick to the stomach with their exploitative nature.
(I think I'm some form of weird hippy that just wants people to be able to play on the internet safely, without there computer being clogged with steaming hell shite.)
People may also want to check out grc's optout
or have a poke around on the internet for other anti spy ware (adaware and stuff, sure it's been mentioned in this discussion somewhere)
Jt
I agree with your comments about VB, concerning less than best practices, but would like to point out for.NET (which is what they are pushing at the students) they have heavily changed VB.
It now supports inheritance and has better error-handling. Speed issues should also be out the window (when compared to other languages on the same platform) as they all go through the CLR.
(Although I do earn my money using Microsoft products I would prefer to live in a world where they didn't create the OS, the DB, the languages and the IDE. (not to mention the media player, browser, etc))
Cheers
Jt
The article does seem incredibly counter intuitive. The human brain learns through experiance, when learning to play badminton or tennis your brain builds a mental model of how the ball will travel to you.
IT also builds a mental model of how the ball will travel away from you when struck.
This just takes exposure and practice. (However I could believe that the brain has developed the ability to learn patterns of motion)
During our lives we watch leaves fall, we play ball games, we do the thing out of aliens with the knife. All of this allows our brain to predict how things will happen around us.
Maybe the scientists are right (I really have no educational basis for what I say) but I feel that too often people have a theory, they do an experiment and then merrily claim that the experiment proves the theory. Without exploring the alternatives. (I apologise to scientist types, I do not meen to generalise and I only refer to the "weird" experiments that make it into the main stream press)
Cheers.
As previous people have pointed out this power is unlikely to be usefull for graphics. It's also unlikely to be useful for any real time physics style calulations.
Could all that processing be used for highly complicated AI's? With thousands of "actors" all individually motivated?
(I know very little about distributed computing)
Would the storage also be distributed? Or would the distributed machines transmit their results back to your ps3?
(maybe this story was supposed to be posted on april 1?)
I understand why more and more businesses are charging for content.
However twice now yahoo has sent me incredibly invasive (albeit breif) adverts.
On one of them tape appeared all across the screen(ok, an image of police tape, not the real deal, although dirty marketeers are probably working on it)
I just feel that invasive adverts such as these damage someones experiance and create a negative impression. (Even more than pop-unders, pop-overs, pop-afters and other such wondering hell poop)
Slashdot Mirror
jt.
My big concern is normal users (my parents, brother, girlfriend, etc). How are they supposed to tell the difference between Flash 6 and something like gator?
Normal people may not have heard of gators nasty little activities, and unfortunate as it is someone of them will click yes.
Companies like this, and others listed on scumware (repeated from first post) really make me feel sick to the stomach with their exploitative nature.
(I think I'm some form of weird hippy that just wants people to be able to play on the internet safely, without there computer being clogged with steaming hell shite.)
People may also want to check out grc's optout or have a poke around on the internet for other anti spy ware (adaware and stuff, sure it's been mentioned in this discussion somewhere)
Jt
It now supports inheritance and has better error-handling. Speed issues should also be out the window (when compared to other languages on the same platform) as they all go through the CLR.
(Although I do earn my money using Microsoft products I would prefer to live in a world where they didn't create the OS, the DB, the languages and the IDE. (not to mention the media player, browser, etc)) Cheers Jt
IT also builds a mental model of how the ball will travel away from you when struck.
This just takes exposure and practice. (However I could believe that the brain has developed the ability to learn patterns of motion)
During our lives we watch leaves fall, we play ball games, we do the thing out of aliens with the knife. All of this allows our brain to predict how things will happen around us.
Maybe the scientists are right (I really have no educational basis for what I say) but I feel that too often people have a theory, they do an experiment and then merrily claim that the experiment proves the theory. Without exploring the alternatives. (I apologise to scientist types, I do not meen to generalise and I only refer to the "weird" experiments that make it into the main stream press) Cheers.
As previous people have pointed out this power is unlikely to be usefull for graphics. It's also unlikely to be useful for any real time physics style calulations.
Could all that processing be used for highly complicated AI's? With thousands of "actors" all individually motivated?
(I know very little about distributed computing) Would the storage also be distributed? Or would the distributed machines transmit their results back to your ps3?
(maybe this story was supposed to be posted on april 1?)
On one of them tape appeared all across the screen(ok, an image of police tape, not the real deal, although dirty marketeers are probably working on it) I just feel that invasive adverts such as these damage someones experiance and create a negative impression. (Even more than pop-unders, pop-overs, pop-afters and other such wondering hell poop)