"By tapping into the secondary pathways like this, I can "see" about twice as well as most people in the dark"
Mate, you're not tapping into anything. Everyone has varying night vision - it all depends on the number of rods you have on your retina and how well your eyes adapt to low light. So give it up with the night vision powers BS , you don't have it.
As for people seeing in infra red - err , no. That would require a major structural change to the rods or cones which wold require a common but as yet undiscovered genetic mutation. Apparently we all have some ability to see the very near infrared if the source is extremely bright but even that only extends a short way down.
"Since the average person's brain normally focuses intently upon just a small area in front of them, expanding that to your entire field of vision makes a huge difference."
Right , because normal people never see something out the corner of their eye as they only ever concentrate on whats right in front of them. Yeah , to see stuff in peripheral vision you need months of l337 training! Not. If we didn't notice stuff in our peripheral vision all our ancestors would have been eaten by lions millions of years ago and we wouldn't be here to have this dicussion.
Given the rate at which Labour is running down the UK armed services it probably won't be long before the subs along with those letters are up for sale on ebay and the nukes are strapped to a sponsored dingy.
Or at least a backup. If the download price is the same as the CD/DVD price then why not buy the latter because then you don't have to bother making a backup yourself? And thats assuming the console will allow you to make a backup in the first place and if it does whether than backup will run anyway. The way DRM is going I doubt it would.
Its generally not the language itself people have an issue with (though if you want to teach low level programming its the wrong choice) - its usually the poor JVMs - even the JIT ones - with their CPU and memory hogging performance that people have a beef about.
I wouldn't say firefox is better - it crashes on me regularly when using flash and every window hangs until a DNS lookup is finished. Its pretty shoddy software IMO, but then all browsers seem to be bug ridden in my experience.
.. in fact I'm a diehard linux fanman (too old to be a fanboi!)
But even I'm getting sick of the hysterical anti MS reaction every single time some exploit appears for some or other program. Some people particularly media commentators need to get a sense of perspective and understand that no complex piece of software can really ever be bug free and these sorts of errors will creep in occasionally. Who hear who codes in C or C++ hasn't had a similar bug in their own code from time to time even though you were sure you'd debugged everything and the code passed through testing fine? Probably all of us. So look around you to spot the glass before you start chucking any stones!
"So I ended up figuring out that the best way to port nethack was to actually invert the interaction paradigm, going from action->object to object->action."
I don't know how windows works low level but in X windows theres no excuse for focus stealing since its quite easy to make a window pop up over all the others but not take the focus so you still keep typing away in the window underneath.
"Linux is "always faster" than Vista or Mac OS X -- to the tune of 1% to 2% -- because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in the background."
I'm sorry , what? Have these people never heard of daemon processes? What the hell are they talking about? If this is their level of expertise I think I'd take any tests they do with a whole cellar full of salt.
I woudl suggest you actually watch the fscking video - particularly the bit where he shoves A4 in front of its face with japanese and english and it reads both with 100% accuracy in real time.
The "one guy in his garage" generally invents a new kind of toaster or something , he doesn't solve complicated algorithmic computer problems in multiple fields all at the same time that thousands of other researchers in the field have failed to do.
Oh , and I forgot to mention - it seems to have perfect speech recognition too.
Buy hey, if he's a genius no doubt he'll patent his algos and clean up and within a year we'll all have it on our desktops.
Perfect image recognition + perfect handwriting recognition all decoded and read out in real time AND doing the maths too?
Sorry , but this is a fraud - its nothing more than a pre-programmed voice box he's set up beforehand and he then puts the correct thing in front of it at the right time so it looks like its comprehending it. If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research? He's either a fscking genius and has invented algorithms 20 years ahead of their time or he's got some snake oil tucked away just out of camera shot.
I wouldn't normally response to an AC , but well said. People who rant on that you should never use gotos are usually clueless drones who couldn't hack their way out of a paper bag and just blindly follow whatever coding paradigm they were taught at college.
I started learning to program with BASIC on an 8 bit micro. I now code professionally in C++. BASIC is a perfect language for children as its syntax is simple and it has all the main fundemental concepts of computer programming - ie variables, loops and flow of control statements.
"It was my first programming language, too, and it took almost ten years and a study of computer science to finally get all those bad habits you acquire in BASIC out of my system."
What bad habits? Programming is programming , you can either do it or you can't. A language doesn't force bad habits on anyone.
Besides , OO is simply procedural programming with knobs on and if procedural programming can't handle multi core then multi core is stuffed because machine code is procedural and thats what your fancy functional language will be compiled down to.
... possibly paedophiles themselves but don't want to admit it and so make a big deal out of everything that could possibly turn them on? I'm not trying to be frivolous , but it days past (and probably still) you'd often get violently anti gay men who in the end turned out to be gay themselves but couldn't accept it - that anger was actually self hate. I do wonder these days with a lot of people seeing child porn everywhere whether these people themselves are paedos and are getting turned on by pictures of peoples kids on the beach or whatever and so to try to prove to themselves that they're not perverts they do a 180 and try to ban everything.
... is becuase they need powerful CPUs to run the eye candy and bloatware that gets shoved onto them. Yes that means you too apple, KDE, Gnome, not just MS Vista. If developers wrote more efficient code instead of trying to shoehorn in every more useless features for the Oooo Shiny! crowd laptops could stick with more modest CPUs and this wouldn't be an issue.
However , as we've seen many are sticking with XP now for this very reason (although XP is hardly a paragon of cpu cycle abstinance but its better than Vista in this respect) so perhaps OSS and closed source devs might wake up and smell the overheating.
Admins tend to stick with what they know and ext4 is a natural progression from ext3. btrfs however hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet - and to be honest who is going to want to use a 1.0 release anyway on something as fundamental as a filesystem? Also its development is being done by an Oracle team , albeit FOSS , which may put a few people off.
My prediction for what its worth is that ext4 will be around for a LONG time.
.. but others might. Your arrogance is just astounding - typical I'm alright jack , fsck the rest of you.
And I'd be interested in what "making quite a decent living" actually is. I don't want a "decent" living , I want a damn good living given the time and effort I've invested in my career. You may be happy living in some tiny flat making just enough money to pay your bills and go away once a year, the rest of us however would like a bit more out of life than that.
They're just pretending to be one of the big boys. Not realising that the big boys don't actually talk like that , its only middle management wannabes.
And you've missed my point. Parallel computing on a von neumann computer raises issues of race conditions, deadlocking etc. These are the sort of things you have to worry about with parallel silicon systems. None of these issues apply to brains (as far as we know) so what is the use in learning about them? You're talking about simulating a neural system which is not the same thing - a simulation of anything can be done serially given enough time, never mind in parallel. But it will never be an exact representation of the real physical process and in the case of brains , seems to have given little insight into how they actually work anyway beyond the most basic I/O of neurons.
Also neurons are not just affected by signals from other neurons - they respond to chemicals in their enviroment and not forgetting that 90% of the brain consists of glials cells - and their full functionality is far from being understood.
Haven't we had a number of stories recently questioning the validity of CS degrees with lots of (usually sys admins) waffling on about how degrees are a waste of time and how anyone can pick up computer skills? Ok all you "I don't need no degree , I can do it all on my own" , show us how you've all conquered the world of AI where so many others doing BScs, MSCs and PHds degrees have failed?
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"By tapping into the secondary pathways like this, I can "see" about twice as well as most people in the dark"
Mate, you're not tapping into anything. Everyone has varying night vision - it all depends on the number of rods you have on your retina and how well your eyes adapt to low light. So give it up with the night vision powers BS , you don't have it.
As for people seeing in infra red - err , no. That would require a major structural change to the rods or cones which wold require a common but as yet undiscovered genetic mutation. Apparently we all have some ability to see the very near infrared if the source is extremely bright but even that only extends a short way down.
"Since the average person's brain normally focuses intently upon just a small area in front of them, expanding that to your entire field of vision makes a huge difference."
Right , because normal people never see something out the corner of their eye as they only ever concentrate on whats right in front of them. Yeah , to see stuff in peripheral vision you need months of l337 training! Not. If we didn't notice stuff in our peripheral vision all our ancestors would have been eaten by lions millions of years ago and we wouldn't be here to have this dicussion.
Given the rate at which Labour is running down the UK armed services it probably won't be long before the subs along with those letters are up for sale on ebay and the nukes are strapped to a sponsored dingy.
Or at least a backup. If the download price is the same as the CD/DVD price then why not buy the latter because then you don't have to bother making a backup yourself? And thats assuming the console will allow you to make a backup in the first place and if it does whether than backup will run anyway. The way DRM is going I doubt it would.
Its generally not the language itself people have an issue with (though if you want to teach low level programming its the wrong choice) - its usually the poor JVMs - even the JIT ones - with their CPU and memory hogging performance that people have a beef about.
I wouldn't say firefox is better - it crashes on me regularly when using flash and every window hangs until a DNS lookup is finished. Its pretty shoddy software IMO, but then all browsers seem to be bug ridden in my experience.
.. in fact I'm a diehard linux fanman (too old to be a fanboi!)
But even I'm getting sick of the hysterical anti MS reaction every single time some exploit appears for some or other program. Some people particularly media commentators need to get a sense of perspective and understand that no complex piece of software can really ever be bug free and these sorts of errors will creep in occasionally. Who hear who codes in C or C++ hasn't had a similar bug in their own code from time to time even though you were sure you'd debugged everything and the code passed through testing fine? Probably all of us. So look around you to spot the glass before you start chucking any stones!
"So I ended up figuring out that the best way to port nethack was to actually invert the interaction paradigm, going from action->object to object->action."
So you translated it into German!
Most of them when I played them back in the 90s seemed to require the following player input:
find monsters
kill monsters
level
And then when you go to a high enough level
find newbies
kill newbies
run from angry wizards
And that was about it.
I don't know how windows works low level but in X windows theres no excuse for focus stealing since its quite easy to make a window pop up over all the others but not take the focus so you still keep typing away in the window underneath.
FTA:
"Linux is "always faster" than Vista or Mac OS X -- to the tune of 1% to 2% -- because like Windows 2000, "it never runs anything in the background."
I'm sorry , what? Have these people never heard of daemon processes? What the hell are they talking about?
If this is their level of expertise I think I'd take any tests they do with a whole cellar full of salt.
I woudl suggest you actually watch the fscking video - particularly the bit where he shoves A4 in front of its face with japanese and english and it reads both with 100% accuracy in real time.
She left him and took the child processes with her.
The "one guy in his garage" generally invents a new kind of toaster or something , he doesn't solve complicated algorithmic computer problems in multiple fields all at the same time that thousands of other researchers in the field have failed to do.
Oh , and I forgot to mention - it seems to have perfect speech recognition too.
Buy hey, if he's a genius no doubt he'll patent his algos and clean up and within a year we'll all have it on our desktops.
Or maybe not.
Perfect image recognition + perfect handwriting recognition all decoded and read out in real time AND doing the maths too?
Sorry , but this is a fraud - its nothing more than a pre-programmed voice box he's set up beforehand and he then puts the correct thing in front of it at the right time so it looks like its comprehending it. If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research? He's either a fscking genius and has invented algorithms 20 years ahead of their time or he's got some snake oil tucked away just out of camera shot.
I wouldn't normally response to an AC , but well said. People who rant on that you should never use gotos are usually clueless drones who couldn't hack their way out of a paper bag and just blindly follow whatever coding paradigm they were taught at college.
I started learning to program with BASIC on an 8 bit micro. I now code professionally in C++. BASIC is a perfect language for children as its syntax is simple and it has all the main fundemental concepts of computer programming - ie variables, loops and flow of control statements.
"It was my first programming language, too, and it took almost ten years and a study of computer science to finally get all those bad habits you acquire in BASIC out of my system."
What bad habits? Programming is programming , you can either do it or you can't. A language doesn't force bad habits on anyone.
Besides , OO is simply procedural programming with knobs on and if procedural programming can't handle multi core then multi core is stuffed because machine code is procedural and thats what your fancy functional language will be compiled down to.
... possibly paedophiles themselves but don't want to admit it and so make a big deal out of everything that could possibly turn them on? I'm not trying to be frivolous , but it days past (and probably still) you'd often get violently anti gay men who in the end turned out to be gay themselves but couldn't accept it - that anger was actually self hate. I do wonder these days with a lot of people seeing child porn everywhere whether these people themselves are paedos and are getting turned on by pictures of peoples kids on the beach or whatever and so to try to prove to themselves that they're not perverts they do a 180 and try to ban everything.
... is becuase they need powerful CPUs to run the eye candy and bloatware that gets shoved onto them. Yes that means you too apple, KDE, Gnome, not just MS Vista. If developers wrote more efficient code instead of trying to shoehorn in every more useless features for the Oooo Shiny! crowd laptops could stick with more modest CPUs and this wouldn't be an issue.
However , as we've seen many are sticking with XP now for this very reason (although XP is hardly a paragon of cpu cycle abstinance but its better than Vista in this respect) so perhaps OSS and closed source devs might wake up and smell the overheating.
Admins tend to stick with what they know and ext4 is a natural progression from ext3. btrfs however hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet - and to be honest who is going to want to use a 1.0 release anyway on something as fundamental as a filesystem? Also its development is being done by an Oracle team , albeit FOSS , which may put a few people off.
My prediction for what its worth is that ext4 will be around for a LONG time.
.. but others might. Your arrogance is just astounding - typical I'm alright jack , fsck the rest of you.
And I'd be interested in what "making quite a decent living" actually is. I don't want a "decent" living , I want a damn good living given the time and effort I've invested in my career. You may be happy living in some tiny flat making just enough money to pay your bills and go away once a year, the rest of us however would like a bit more out of life than that.
Damn hippy.
They're just pretending to be one of the big boys. Not realising that the big boys don't actually talk like that , its only middle management wannabes.
I got everything I wanted out of my degree. Without the skills I learnt from it I wouldn't have got a number of jobs.
And you've missed my point. Parallel computing on a von neumann computer raises issues of race conditions, deadlocking etc. These are the sort of things you have to worry about with parallel silicon systems. None of these issues apply to brains (as far as we know) so what is the use in learning about them? You're talking about simulating a neural system which is not the same thing - a simulation of anything can be done serially given enough time, never mind in parallel. But it will never be an exact representation of the real physical process and in the case of brains , seems to have given little insight into how they actually work anyway beyond the most basic I/O of neurons.
Also neurons are not just affected by signals from other neurons - they respond to chemicals in their enviroment and not forgetting that 90% of the brain consists of glials cells - and their full functionality is far from being understood.
Haven't we had a number of stories recently questioning the validity of CS degrees with lots of (usually sys admins) waffling on about how degrees are a waste of time and how anyone can pick up computer skills? Ok all you "I don't need no degree , I can do it all on my own" , show us how you've all conquered the world of AI where so many others doing BScs, MSCs and PHds degrees have failed?
What? Is that the sound of silence I can hear?