Beyond *me* why cannot Valve's sell a product in any manner they wish. If they want to put "internet required" on the the box, and only sell it to people who can activate via the internet. Well what is wrong with that? Where exactally is Valve's obligation to make and sell Half Life 2 to you, exactally as you would like it?
I get so tired of comments like these. Look Spacemonkey no one is saying Valve can't sell their game with restrictions. What you're seeing is Valve's market responding negatively to their planned actions. Understand? Is it really that complicated? Many people are tired of having to ask for permission to play their games after paying for them. Just because technology makes it possible doesn't mean that it's acceptable.
Additionally, this may in fact be illegal in the US. Buying a product is subject to the "first sale doctrine" in the US, which includes the right to resell a product. If I buy boxed software in the store, I do so with the expectation to be able to resell it when I'm done with it (just like a book, CD, etc.).
Nearly every assignment I received was modified between assignment and due date when earlybirds ran into difficult or unsolvable snags. These were the only classes I found in which waiting to start was really did help.
Last I heard, purchasing the product over Steam required product activation, and required internet verification to play the game every time. I won't take it from MS, and I won't take it from a video game.
That's what happened in CA in 1971. See Serrano v. Priest. And we all know how much better it is here in CA, right?
The real change is that now people don't believe they can do anything for their schools. They either move to an area with a good school, or turn to homeschooling/private schools.
Or they're too poor do do any of the above. Or they just plain don't care.
Gee what do you know? It's ALL the dot-boom's fault. It's all the OTHER GUYS fault. Gee do you think that a simplistic answer will cure what ails the world? Why not? After all a simplistic cause is what started it.
Think again. I know there isn't a simple cure or cause. However, there were a lot of people working in the industry who shouldn't have been. Unfortunately now there are people who should be working in the industry who aren't. Partially that has to do with companies having a sour taste for overbloated IT staff that were undertrained--they've now cut back to less than they probably should for their business needs (I know we have).
My own company went through bankruptcy. I live in a small town with very few software engineering jobs and it was a bit dicey for a while there. But my current job is due to effort I made, along with a useful college degree (not a MS certification), and a good dose of luck. I'm not saying that if you lost a job it was all your fault. But in the aggregate, we are in the normal oversupply stage of post-boom.
The recession begin Oct 2000, not Mar 2001. Note the DJ from the era.
And is it really any surprise that after the bubble burst jobs were lost? Here's a reality check: those jobs were based on wishful thinking. They had no foundation. No offense to those who lost a job in the downturn, but I've met a number of so-called IT workers who were barely HS grads with an MCSE during the boom.
The "romantic" dialog between him and Amadala were literally painful to watch.
Which just proves that Anikin is a geek and that Lucas knows his audience better than you think. Have you ever heard the "romantic" dialog between a geek and a girl?
Yep, painful to watch, hear, etc.
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See the original blocky transparencies around Tie Fighters and X-Wings!
You know, I can still see those. Are you suggesting they've been removed?
In cases like this, wouldn't it be more effective to hook your external connection to a wireless transmitter, and your internal network to a wireless AP? That way there'd be no physical connection from the outside (except for power of course).
After taking the 'methcall.cpp' file and removing the dynamic allocation, the runtime was 3.5 times faster. I suspect that was due not only to the call to new and delete but because of a faster function dispatch with the object on the stack as compared to the heap.
Just goes to show you how worthless these benchmarks are unless you have an expert implementing for each language writing code like you would in real life and the tests aren't aimed at the benefits of one language or another.
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The cout is done twice, and the new and delete are each done only once. They are not the reason for the poor performance.
Sure cout is done twice, but it uses 'endl' where '\n' would do. 'endl' flushes the stream, which pretty much kills cache behavior. When the disk/console is orders of magnitude slower than the CPU, a single 'endl' can indeed kill performance.
As for new/delete, they can also be very slow, depending on the current memory layout, etc. More importantly, they violate the C++ programming paradigm (local objects not allocated on the heap) and hence are indicators that this isn't a very good C++ programmer, and hence he isn't qualified to make a reasonable comparison.
Shoot, the last time I did the Java/C++ flamewar I found that Python was faster than both (reading and sorting strings).
How can you know this? Everything in the demo looks like a bluescreen. Without seeing a live demonstration, I think it's the only reasonable interpretation of the movies and screenshots.
So it's clear to everyone that this is a hoax, right? It's physically impossible. The videos show moving objects against an unmoving background, and the effect is clearly achieved through bluescreening.
Thanks for the link! Not the Ruby clip. Check out the Subsurface Scattering demo. That's some of the most impressive work to come out of Siggraph in the past few years, and one of the reasons Gollum looked so good in LotR. See here for more.
Implemented in a video card in real time? Wow. I'm impressed.
Maybe because people who found it too much of a pain stopped playing HL games. I've been playing Halo instead. I'm sure I'll be interested again when HL2 is finally released, but steam was such a steaming pile when it was released, everyone knew that HL2 wasn't going to ship on time--it would have imploded.
Add this to the logical fallacies. How do you think the grocery store refrigerates your food before you buy it? Now, how much would refrigerated goods cost to you (the average Joe) if refrigeration costs doubled?
You might even notice other goods and services increase in cost. It's silly to think that the cost of electricity is only reflected in your electricity bill.
His book can be purchased on paper, or downloaded free (he has literally put his money where his mouth is). I was about halfway through the electronic version when I decided to support it by buying the hardcopy (which is easier to read anyway).
I strongly recommend this to anyone. Buy it. Read it. Tell other people about it. And mention it in the first post on a digital rights story on/.
At least in Thunderbird, you can turn off loading of images not contained in the message, irrespective of whether it's junk or not. I've been quite happy with that setting.
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Additionally, this may in fact be illegal in the US. Buying a product is subject to the "first sale doctrine" in the US, which includes the right to resell a product. If I buy boxed software in the store, I do so with the expectation to be able to resell it when I'm done with it (just like a book, CD, etc.).
Nearly every assignment I received was modified between assignment and due date when earlybirds ran into difficult or unsolvable snags. These were the only classes I found in which waiting to start was really did help.
Let me know when the box is on the shelf.
Without it, every county in the US would have had a recount. This would be an improvement how?
The real change is that now people don't believe they can do anything for their schools. They either move to an area with a good school, or turn to homeschooling/private schools.
Or they're too poor do do any of the above. Or they just plain don't care.
Think again. I know there isn't a simple cure or cause. However, there were a lot of people working in the industry who shouldn't have been. Unfortunately now there are people who should be working in the industry who aren't. Partially that has to do with companies having a sour taste for overbloated IT staff that were undertrained--they've now cut back to less than they probably should for their business needs (I know we have).
My own company went through bankruptcy. I live in a small town with very few software engineering jobs and it was a bit dicey for a while there. But my current job is due to effort I made, along with a useful college degree (not a MS certification), and a good dose of luck. I'm not saying that if you lost a job it was all your fault. But in the aggregate, we are in the normal oversupply stage of post-boom.
And is it really any surprise that after the bubble burst jobs were lost? Here's a reality check: those jobs were based on wishful thinking. They had no foundation. No offense to those who lost a job in the downturn, but I've met a number of so-called IT workers who were barely HS grads with an MCSE during the boom.
Color me not-terribly-surprised.
Since it is a MS product, be sure to wait until version 3.0.
(Yes, that is a joke.)
Yep, painful to watch, hear, etc.
It's up on Microsoft's website now. Go here and click on the download link. Or if you just want the .exe link, here it is.
In cases like this, wouldn't it be more effective to hook your external connection to a wireless transmitter, and your internal network to a wireless AP? That way there'd be no physical connection from the outside (except for power of course).
Just goes to show you how worthless these benchmarks are unless you have an expert implementing for each language writing code like you would in real life and the tests aren't aimed at the benefits of one language or another.
Sure cout is done twice, but it uses 'endl' where '\n' would do. 'endl' flushes the stream, which pretty much kills cache behavior. When the disk/console is orders of magnitude slower than the CPU, a single 'endl' can indeed kill performance.
As for new/delete, they can also be very slow, depending on the current memory layout, etc. More importantly, they violate the C++ programming paradigm (local objects not allocated on the heap) and hence are indicators that this isn't a very good C++ programmer, and hence he isn't qualified to make a reasonable comparison.
Shoot, the last time I did the Java/C++ flamewar I found that Python was faster than both (reading and sorting strings).
How can you know this? Everything in the demo looks like a bluescreen. Without seeing a live demonstration, I think it's the only reasonable interpretation of the movies and screenshots.
Otherwise, how would a block in front of you show the static background behind you.
Or more ludicrously, how would a block in front of you show your skeleton? Especially when the skeleton doesn't move with your motions?
Please, we've had bluescreen technology for decades. And we've even upgraded to greenscreen.
Is this the HDR demo you mentioned?
Implemented in a video card in real time? Wow. I'm impressed.
Maybe because people who found it too much of a pain stopped playing HL games. I've been playing Halo instead. I'm sure I'll be interested again when HL2 is finally released, but steam was such a steaming pile when it was released, everyone knew that HL2 wasn't going to ship on time--it would have imploded.
Indeed, I have a UV filter over all my lenses by default, simply to protect the lens. I suspect IR filters would work just as well.
You might even notice other goods and services increase in cost. It's silly to think that the cost of electricity is only reflected in your electricity bill.
His book can be purchased on paper, or downloaded free (he has literally put his money where his mouth is). I was about halfway through the electronic version when I decided to support it by buying the hardcopy (which is easier to read anyway).
I strongly recommend this to anyone. Buy it. Read it. Tell other people about it. And mention it in the first post on a digital rights story on /.
Note that in the comparison box, the launch vehicle for the Webb isn't a shuttle. It's an Ariane rocket.
At least in Thunderbird, you can turn off loading of images not contained in the message, irrespective of whether it's junk or not. I've been quite happy with that setting.