Everyone should just boycott the Olympics, it has become too much about money, not about the sport... if they don't want you to watch, then don't watch... don't worry, it's boring anyway..
If the BBC gets overloaded, you could proxy to Germany and watch the feeds from zdf.de. Although the commentary is in German, and it focuses on the German athletes...
Even better, I own an LG Optimus 2x, 2x more crashes, 2x more frustration, 2x longer to get updates. Although it would suck to get my phone stolen, it wouldn't be that much of a loss.
And they get HUGE bonuses after getting bailed out by the tax payers, and then the Fed via money printing, which is a stealth tax on all of us (why did oil and all commodities increase in price despite a recession?). How can it be that 2009 is a year where the banks gave out huge bonuses, just after they were all about to collapse? There are many other examples out there of financial fraud, but very very little examples of bankers being prosecuted. Wake up people!
I can't wait for fully automated cars. It would relieve us of another monotonous task. But I guarantee this will meet great resistance from those who want the freedom to cut people off and talk on their mobile phones while driving.
I disagree. Human drivers are always a disaster waiting to happen. Computers don't get drunk. Computers don't get angry. Computers don't get sleepy. Computers aren't trying to impress a woman. (At least not yet...) Sure, computers fail, but humans fail too, but much more often. My concern is with the cases where a malfunction occurs in the system, maybe a broken sensor. How does a computer driver respond to these scenarios, which are guaranteed to happen in the real world?
My experience is, no matter what process you use, bad developers and management will result in a disaster. A group of great developers and management will make a project a success. Anyone who is vehemently for or against Agile (or any development process) isn't really thinking critically and just jumping on a pro/con bandwagon.
German is not great. It's terrible. Nouns can be female, male, or neutral, there are 4 cases (Nominativ, Dativ, Akkusativ, Genitiv), they pile all their verbs at the end in a giant confusing stack, and the worst part, the "trennbare Verben", the separable verbs. Some verbs can separate into 2 parts. The first part is used normally, and the second part is dumped at the end of the sentence, which can be miles away. This means, you can be reading a super complicated huge sentence which spans two pages, and when you get to the end, you're greeted by an "ab", which changes the whole damn meaning of the sentence. By this time, you've already forgotten which verb this belongs to. Mark Twain wrote a great short called "The Awful German Language", which is very entertaining for English speakers learning German.
Clearly Samsung copied Apple's concept of a rectangular tablet. They could have used triangle or a pentagon, hexagon, or the infinite number of other shapes, but noooooo, they had to copy Apple and use a rectangle. I'm with Apple on this one. From 100m, it's hard to tell if the person is a douchy iPad user or a wannabe Galaxy Tab user.
Excellent but scary explanation. I still don't understand their motivation for wanting to impose their beliefs on society. It's not like the law prevents them from practising their religion. If they're right they go to heaven, the rest of us go to hell. Woohoo! Now why can't they just leave everyone else alone? This type of thinking baffles me.
Can someone explain to me what's the big deal with gay marriage? What's the hang up against letting two people marry? Who cares, it doesn't affect you. What's the harm in letting two guys or girls marry? There are more important things to be angry about, like the banks defrauding taxpayers out of billions.
Apparently, he got around this by compiling the bytecode to x86 code on the fly:
Moreover their design is much more elaborated: They combine the security/portability of Quake1 Virtual Machine with the high performances of Quake2's native DLLs. This is achieved by compiling the bytecode to x86 instruction on the fly.
And here's the evolution of this:
Trivia : The virtual machine was initially supposed to be a plain bytecode interpreter but performances were disappointing so the development team wrote a runtime x86 compiler. According to the.plan from Aug 16, 1999 this was done in one day.
My guess is performance. It's probably faster to have code running within the same process, rather than having the IPC overhead. You have to remember how slow the hardware was when Quake 3 was released. I'm impressed at how smooth that game ran on that slow hardware.
I was thinking the same thing. But I would imagine this was done to restrict what the code run by the VM can do. This way, the code is guaranteed to not to interfere with the core engine. Imagine what would happen if all the Quake 3 modders out there were able to do anything they wanted in C code. Invariably, most mods would probably have bugs in them that would cause the game to crash all the time. And I guess this wouldn't apply just to the modders, but also other game developers building on top of the Quake 3 engine.
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Everyone should just boycott the Olympics, it has become too much about money, not about the sport... if they don't want you to watch, then don't watch... don't worry, it's boring anyway..
If the BBC gets overloaded, you could proxy to Germany and watch the feeds from zdf.de. Although the commentary is in German, and it focuses on the German athletes...
To summarize the summary, the researchers managed to create a PN junction by applying an electric charge rather than doping.
It's really hard to picture what is described in the article. Here's a link to an article with a diagram.
Even better, I own an LG Optimus 2x, 2x more crashes, 2x more frustration, 2x longer to get updates. Although it would suck to get my phone stolen, it wouldn't be that much of a loss.
What are you suggesting?
By making sweeping statements like that, you're basically destroying whatever incentive there is in the banking industry for anyone to act honestly.
Are you fucking serious? What's really destroying the incentive to act honestly is the governments' refusal to prosecute bank fraud.
And they get HUGE bonuses after getting bailed out by the tax payers, and then the Fed via money printing, which is a stealth tax on all of us (why did oil and all commodities increase in price despite a recession?). How can it be that 2009 is a year where the banks gave out huge bonuses, just after they were all about to collapse? There are many other examples out there of financial fraud, but very very little examples of bankers being prosecuted. Wake up people!
Flamebait? Is Goldman Sachs a mod here?
All big banks are engaged in fraud. Google "LIBOR scandal".
I can't wait for fully automated cars. It would relieve us of another monotonous task. But I guarantee this will meet great resistance from those who want the freedom to cut people off and talk on their mobile phones while driving.
I disagree. Human drivers are always a disaster waiting to happen. Computers don't get drunk. Computers don't get angry. Computers don't get sleepy. Computers aren't trying to impress a woman. (At least not yet...) Sure, computers fail, but humans fail too, but much more often. My concern is with the cases where a malfunction occurs in the system, maybe a broken sensor. How does a computer driver respond to these scenarios, which are guaranteed to happen in the real world?
My experience is, no matter what process you use, bad developers and management will result in a disaster. A group of great developers and management will make a project a success. Anyone who is vehemently for or against Agile (or any development process) isn't really thinking critically and just jumping on a pro/con bandwagon.
Does anyone else fear that this will be an excuse to make another "Speed" movie?
German is not great. It's terrible. Nouns can be female, male, or neutral, there are 4 cases (Nominativ, Dativ, Akkusativ, Genitiv), they pile all their verbs at the end in a giant confusing stack, and the worst part, the "trennbare Verben", the separable verbs. Some verbs can separate into 2 parts. The first part is used normally, and the second part is dumped at the end of the sentence, which can be miles away. This means, you can be reading a super complicated huge sentence which spans two pages, and when you get to the end, you're greeted by an "ab", which changes the whole damn meaning of the sentence. By this time, you've already forgotten which verb this belongs to. Mark Twain wrote a great short called "The Awful German Language", which is very entertaining for English speakers learning German.
Hey that's not fair. Clippy was an original Microsoft idea.
Clearly Samsung copied Apple's concept of a rectangular tablet. They could have used triangle or a pentagon, hexagon, or the infinite number of other shapes, but noooooo, they had to copy Apple and use a rectangle. I'm with Apple on this one. From 100m, it's hard to tell if the person is a douchy iPad user or a wannabe Galaxy Tab user.
Just like how many people get upset that the schools show the kids how to use condoms and then send them home with them.
WTF?!?! There are a significant amount of people who get upset about this? This is 2012, right? I'm not an American, so please excuse my surprise.
Excellent but scary explanation. I still don't understand their motivation for wanting to impose their beliefs on society. It's not like the law prevents them from practising their religion. If they're right they go to heaven, the rest of us go to hell. Woohoo! Now why can't they just leave everyone else alone? This type of thinking baffles me.
Can someone explain to me what's the big deal with gay marriage? What's the hang up against letting two people marry? Who cares, it doesn't affect you. What's the harm in letting two guys or girls marry? There are more important things to be angry about, like the banks defrauding taxpayers out of billions.
Apparently, he got around this by compiling the bytecode to x86 code on the fly:
Moreover their design is much more elaborated: They combine the security/portability of Quake1 Virtual Machine with the high performances of Quake2's native DLLs. This is achieved by compiling the bytecode to x86 instruction on the fly.
And here's the evolution of this:
Trivia : The virtual machine was initially supposed to be a plain bytecode interpreter but performances were disappointing so the development team wrote a runtime x86 compiler. According to the .plan from Aug 16, 1999 this was done in one day.
My guess is performance. It's probably faster to have code running within the same process, rather than having the IPC overhead. You have to remember how slow the hardware was when Quake 3 was released. I'm impressed at how smooth that game ran on that slow hardware.
I was thinking the same thing. But I would imagine this was done to restrict what the code run by the VM can do. This way, the code is guaranteed to not to interfere with the core engine. Imagine what would happen if all the Quake 3 modders out there were able to do anything they wanted in C code. Invariably, most mods would probably have bugs in them that would cause the game to crash all the time. And I guess this wouldn't apply just to the modders, but also other game developers building on top of the Quake 3 engine.
RIAA has also determined that the copy function in Windows Vista was so terrible, it posed no threat.
I guess Las Vegas pirated the Eiffel Tower, New York, and Venice... the copy is never is good as the original.
PHP is great for hacking together a small website that's fairly static. But I can't imagine doing anything substantial with it.