The reason all kinds of scientifically valid double blind tests are ignored is that the so-called Audiophile has the attitude of "these were other people testing, I am superior to them, therefore that test is not relavant to me"
I think the biggest cause for this is that most open source games are made by one or two people. If you don't have any coders, you don't have any game. Therefore, those people tend to be coders, not musicians, visual artists, 3d modelers, or managers. It's possible, but uncommon, to be extremely good at everything. It's possible to involve more people, but that does make the whole project way more complicated and difficult.
I speak as an independant (possibly open source) game developer trying to work with an artist. Managing various resources is at least as hard as writing good code, and I have it easy in that I already know someone who's good at computer art in the right style for my game..
While I do agree that a relatively few bad apples give a bad name to religion, I don't think the analogy to race or sex is a good one, since religion is (theoretically) a choice one makes,. There are views and beliefs that ALL members of a given religion hold. Now sure, there are different subgroups that condone or reject various precepts, such as whether abortion is permissible, or whether violence is permissible, or what exactly constitutes a sacrament, and so on. But the fact that there are some things that all, let's say, Baptists agree on makes it far more reasonable to generalize about them.
Ever install HatRed? 240 packages later, you have a 'stripped down' *nix. Talk about losing sight of the original idea....
I had no idea that the original idea of unix was minimalism.
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LD-50 for Caffeine in humans is approximately 75mg per kg of body mass.
2x LD-50 doesn't ensure death, it just makes it more likely. I'm no toxologist or anything but at least I've got a handle on statistics. I'd bet that lethal dose requirements tend to fall into skewed normal distributions.
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Damn. I would've paid good money to see a giant frog eat a duck.
Well according to their FAQ they only sell them directly over the web site, and as such the only way to try one out is to buy it. If you don't like it you can return it but there is a 15% restocking fee.
I'd thinking that something this different from what people are used to would really do well to have some kind of trial offer. I'm certainly not going to shell out $45 just to try the damn thing out.
Hi, yes! I have a similar question: What is the best language for What I Want To Do? It needs to be able to handle floating point numbers. I don't want to use perl, because it's slower than C but messier than Smalltalk. Also, should I use vi or emacs to edit my source?
But seriously.. Every language provides standard support for file IO, unless it's totally half-assed*.
If you actually want to get helpful answers, you might provide a little more information. For instance: How much analysis will you be doing on the files? How much data are you dealing with? Is this probably going to be blocking on input all the time, or does run speed actually matter? How large and/or complicated will your program be? Does cost of deployment really matter?
You're just plain wrong. Even assuming that you mean the people making compilers, not the people using C++. First of all, if you exclude the people who implement your standard from the decision process, if it turns out to be a nightmare to implement or whatever, then they all just ignore the standard. Secondly, they may have some insights onto what constitutes well-definedness for various standards issues (when you're looking at the problem from the other end, you see different things). Thirdly, the people making the compilers get a lot of feature requests from their users. They can provide a lot of useful information to the consortium. Fourth, any embrace and extend can be avoided by putting the useful features that Microsoft wishes to add to lure people to their compiler into the actual standard. If the standard does what people want, there'll be no reason to use nonstandard extensions. Also note that it's not Microsoft that added a whole nother pair of operators to C++, but GCC. (try fixing _THAT_ with a preprocessor macro)
I agree with the basic sentiment that any standards body should not be dominated by a single entity, be it Netscape, Microsoft, or Sun. Microsoft should have a say. So should the GCC team. So should Borland. If they can all agree on a standard that they each want to implement, the standard will be implemented faster and with stronger adherence.
The point I was making is that I think it's irresponsible to invest in such solutions while things like walking, biking, public transit, and everything can help right now, for little or no cost other than personal comfort.
It is ridiculous to invest in other solutions if those changes you suggest could be guaranteed to take place. However it's very difficult to convince people to abandon comfort and convenience, and sometimes it's not possible at all. So given that, it seems it would be irresponsible not to explore alternatives.
The BIOS has a driver for USB keyboard. But if we enumerate all the OS's that use the BIOS instead of having native drivers, we get the following list:
DOS
So as soon as Linux starts using its 32 bit PS/2 driver instead of just using the crufty 16 bit software interrupt handlers that the BIOS installs, it stops reaping the rewards of the BIOS knowing more than it does.
There are a lot of people who don't use KVM switches. Perhaps this motherboard may be useful to them.
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I believe that titanium tends to be springier than steel. So while it's easier to bend, it likes to bend back. That's why my glasses frames and your mountain bike are made out of titanium. They're likely to be forcibly deformed, which is fine, but as long as they return to their original shape, who cares?
Someone who knows more about this, correct me if I'm wrong.
RISC code generally takes more instructions per Thing That You'd Want To Do than CISC code. So even if each instruction is the same size, the RISC code will be less dense.
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The reason all kinds of scientifically valid double blind tests are ignored is that the so-called Audiophile has the attitude of "these were other people testing, I am superior to them, therefore that test is not relavant to me"
I think the biggest cause for this is that most open source games are made by one or two people. If you don't have any coders, you don't have any game. Therefore, those people tend to be coders, not musicians, visual artists, 3d modelers, or managers. It's possible, but uncommon, to be extremely good at everything. It's possible to involve more people, but that does make the whole project way more complicated and difficult.
I speak as an independant (possibly open source) game developer trying to work with an artist. Managing various resources is at least as hard as writing good code, and I have it easy in that I already know someone who's good at computer art in the right style for my game..
While I do agree that a relatively few bad apples give a bad name to religion, I don't think the analogy to race or sex is a good one, since religion is (theoretically) a choice one makes,. There are views and beliefs that ALL members of a given religion hold. Now sure, there are different subgroups that condone or reject various precepts, such as whether abortion is permissible, or whether violence is permissible, or what exactly constitutes a sacrament, and so on. But the fact that there are some things that all, let's say, Baptists agree on makes it far more reasonable to generalize about them.
That's hard to believe. Are you sure they didn't squirrel it away into a different section than you looked?
There are a lot of free spectrogram tools around, for two reasons:
They're useful for a number of sciences (linguistics, for instance uses them a crapload).
They're just FFTs which nearly everyone who studies computer science winds up implementing sometime or another during their education.
Next time, try google.
Ever install HatRed? 240 packages later, you have a 'stripped down' *nix. Talk about losing sight of the original idea....
I had no idea that the original idea of unix was minimalism.
LD-50 for Caffeine in humans is approximately 75mg per kg of body mass.
2x LD-50 doesn't ensure death, it just makes it more likely. I'm no toxologist or anything but at least I've got a handle on statistics. I'd bet that lethal dose requirements tend to fall into skewed normal distributions.
Damn. I would've paid good money to see a giant frog eat a duck.
Oh, I thought you were Canadian.
First, software installation should be passive.
Doesn't matter. The first time it runs it can do all it's untrusted binary crap that it needs to do to work properly / wants to do to fuck you over.
Chess is a game of perfect information
Good thing too. Otherwise FICS would be ruined by losers using hacked clients to eliminate fog of war.
Well according to their FAQ they only sell them directly over the web site, and as such the only way to try one out is to buy it. If you don't like it you can return it but there is a 15% restocking fee.
I'd thinking that something this different from what people are used to would really do well to have some kind of trial offer. I'm certainly not going to shell out $45 just to try the damn thing out.
but to remove it from Google's web cache is a whole 'nother legal fight.
If it's your site, you could just ask them not to archive it. If it's not your page, then what the hell do you care?
If the SCA isn't geeky enough for you, just give up now.
That's like saying that the atoms making up the cd are visible to the naked eye. If you put enough of them together, you can indeed see them.
Hi, yes! I have a similar question: What is the best language for What I Want To Do? It needs to be able to handle floating point numbers. I don't want to use perl, because it's slower than C but messier than Smalltalk. Also, should I use vi or emacs to edit my source?
But seriously.. Every language provides standard support for file IO, unless it's totally half-assed*.
If you actually want to get helpful answers, you might provide a little more information. For instance: How much analysis will you be doing on the files? How much data are you dealing with? Is this probably going to be blocking on input all the time, or does run speed actually matter? How large and/or complicated will your program be? Does cost of deployment really matter?
* Or halfway totally assed, or whatever.
You're just plain wrong. Even assuming that you mean the people making compilers, not the people using C++. First of all, if you exclude the people who implement your standard from the decision process, if it turns out to be a nightmare to implement or whatever, then they all just ignore the standard. Secondly, they may have some insights onto what constitutes well-definedness for various standards issues (when you're looking at the problem from the other end, you see different things). Thirdly, the people making the compilers get a lot of feature requests from their users. They can provide a lot of useful information to the consortium. Fourth, any embrace and extend can be avoided by putting the useful features that Microsoft wishes to add to lure people to their compiler into the actual standard. If the standard does what people want, there'll be no reason to use nonstandard extensions. Also note that it's not Microsoft that added a whole nother pair of operators to C++, but GCC. (try fixing _THAT_ with a preprocessor macro)
I agree with the basic sentiment that any standards body should not be dominated by a single entity, be it Netscape, Microsoft, or Sun. Microsoft should have a say. So should the GCC team. So should Borland. If they can all agree on a standard that they each want to implement, the standard will be implemented faster and with stronger adherence.
Microsoft and their associated 90% of the market, you mean? Many CEOs are not idiots either.
The point I was making is that I think it's irresponsible to invest in such solutions while things like walking, biking, public transit, and everything can help right now, for little or no cost other than personal comfort.
It is ridiculous to invest in other solutions if those changes you suggest could be guaranteed to take place. However it's very difficult to convince people to abandon comfort and convenience, and sometimes it's not possible at all. So given that, it seems it would be irresponsible not to explore alternatives.
Water is only a by-product if you're using combustion as the fuel source. If you use solar (Which seems the smart thing to do) it doesn't make water.
Yeah, it would be a shame if software were easy to learn to use.
In the future all technology will be cryptic and unintuitive. Witness Star Trek.
Well, you weren't asking, but puTTY is a freakin' great SSH client for windows. It's small, light, and generally great.
The BIOS has a driver for USB keyboard. But if we enumerate all the OS's that use the BIOS instead of having native drivers, we get the following list:
- DOS
So as soon as Linux starts using its 32 bit PS/2 driver instead of just using the crufty 16 bit software interrupt handlers that the BIOS installs, it stops reaping the rewards of the BIOS knowing more than it does.There are a lot of people who don't use KVM switches. Perhaps this motherboard may be useful to them.
I believe that titanium tends to be springier than steel. So while it's easier to bend, it likes to bend back. That's why my glasses frames and your mountain bike are made out of titanium. They're likely to be forcibly deformed, which is fine, but as long as they return to their original shape, who cares?
Someone who knows more about this, correct me if I'm wrong.
RISC code generally takes more instructions per Thing That You'd Want To Do than CISC code. So even if each instruction is the same size, the RISC code will be less dense.