> Same thing with video games, I actually try and keep my frame rate as close to 30 fps as I
I'm exact the opposite. Anything less then 60 looks like crap -- it is so stuttery. I absolutely can't stand the 24 Hz shit that movies use, but at least movies have temporal aliasing to make it semi-palatable.
Personally, I prefer 72 - 100 Hz for _smoothness_. I just wish people would move on from this 24 Hz garbage sometime in my lifetime.
> The usual ignorant interpretation means heaven FTFY.
The true meaning means higher self, but I wouldn't expect any theist to understand this in any depth since I have never seen one that even understands basics such as 2 Cor 12:4 on why certain words aren't allowed.
Besides, you will have all the proof you need that man is not alone around 2030. End of discussion.
A few have already known this fact for thousands of years - it is only those that crave power via religious, political, or economical means that are absolutely scared shitless when the mass populace realizes this one answer opens up infinite interesting questions!
Men (generally) can't handle the truth, so they don't have it.
-- TSA - groping and molesting children since 2001! Why the fuck is this still legal?!?!
Somehow I doubt the governments of the world would even have the tech to try to enforce the "unauthorized" part on "spaceships, doomsday stars and other prohibited devices" =)
> If you want performance, you don't use C you use C++ template metaprogramming.
Having worked with hundreds of professional PS3 developers (who were also doing Xbox 360 dev) my experiences says you are wrong. You are forgetting the most important aspect: the cache
Typically compiling code at -Os is often faster then -O3 because SMALLER code tends to be FASTER code because you are not blowing the I$ cache as much. I should point out this is less of an issue on x86 chips.
> unless you further qualify this by saying "console games" or possibly 'box retail games". Correct. Professional games was implied. i.e. Win32 / Xbox360 / PS3 / etc.
> I would also argue that the component/data driven design of many games and game engines primary goal is flexibility and extensibility, with a huge side benefit being the possible memory and performance benefits. Yup! For games a data-driven approach has many nice wins and benefits. Thanks for the enunciation of the finer points. =)
OOP, while a great paradigm, is NOT a silver bullet for every problem. Unfortunately far too many programmers view OOP as the only way to solve a problem in C++. "When all you have is a hammer... every problem starts to look like a nail."
> except when you write in C++ as though it is C, you get really bad C++
Total nonsense. Almost every game these days is written in C++ and while they all vary in the amount of applied OOP and generic meta programming, the fastest ones use a data driven approach because OOP is SLOW - raw C++ makes dealing with ONE type of object easy, but it doesn't help dealing with performance issues when you have MANY objects. I.e. Template Bloat, lack of virtual dead stripping, and inflated deep hierarchies, to start with.
C is a good language because it forces one to think about runtime performance. When you have some junior coder sticking a virtual function call inside a for loop because he doesn't the three levels of pointers being applied the problem is not the language per say, but programmers who don't understand enough of the hardware to know "There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
Higher level languages tend to help minimize *developer* time, at the expense of run-time.
> you expect everyone in the world to just pick up and use as the sole source for everything on a particular topic
You want to tell that to the thiests?:)
It is absolutely *idiotic* to waste human effort duplicating the same thing. *HOW* many fricken textbooks do you _really_ need on any one subject?? More then 10 is just pure greed.
The biggest flaw of capitalism is that it encourages people to waste their lives duplicating goods and promotes the mindless archaic concept of competition instead of rewarding people who cooperate.
Go watch the TED video on choice if you still mistakenly believe more choice is a good thing. SOME choice is the optimal amount.
Oh plz. Reddit is the dig of/. Gee, extreme noise-to-signal. Go figure. If I wanted circle jerking of group think I'd go to 4chan, thanks.
Reddit has it's strengths but it's mostly full of wankers who are too closed minded to even *consider* the possibility that they are dumb, young, and full of shit. At least I can disagree and have a meaningful conversation arguing over the finer points here on/. Any post outside of the group-think on reddit is quickly moderated down into oblivion because everyone else did./. isn't perfect, and I agree it needs to upgrade to stay with the times but it's a hell of a lot better then Reddit ever was.
> Oddly enough I don't mind the ribbon UI on Office 2011 Mac, but that's because it still have a standard menu bar up top that gives me a choice between ribbon or traditional menu UI.
THIS, a thousand times over. This is one of the things I love about OSX version of Office -- I can *choose* if I want to use the menu or the ribbon. For some tasks, the menu bar is far faster, for others the ribbon is faster. Microsoft tries to ram their One True Way (ribbon) down PC users is the height of arrogance. Stop treating your power-users like idiots.
- Broderbund games (Drol, Spare Change, Captain Goodnight, Choplighter, etc.) offered smooth animation because they used the (initially) undocumented V-SYNC: (Vertical Blanking) ! RDVBLBAR = $C019;not VBL (VBL signal low)
Agreed that victimless crimes are bullshit laws. Unfortunately most people are pussies and would rather bitch about the abuses of government then actually fix the problem. -- Bad cops follow the letter of the law, Good cops follow the spirit of the law.
I'll probably get modded down, but it is clear you don't have a clue what money is. There are 3 levels of money:
- the exchange of physical things aka barter, - the exchange of a common unit (physical or digital / virtual) for experience, wisdom, and time - the exchange of energy
You're an idiot if you think you need money to survive. (Don't get me wrong - money, currently, is _very_ convenient, but it is sufficient, not a necessary condition.) Proof: Animals have been in this planet for _millions_ of years - they dont have nor need an economic system - only stupid greedy humans who have falsely bought in the belief system that there is never enough are insane to insist on idiotic barter systems. In 100 years you will find the concept of money will be an archaic, barbaric system by people who didn't know any better. And to drive the point home - how much did you pay the Sun and Earth today that supports your very existence? We -already- have free energy but you are too busy being brain washed by a capitalistic system to understands it's strengths AND weakness to realize how the existing system will be replaced - free energy is only the catalyst for this paradigm shift.
ALL civilizations are built upon the concept of sharing. Truly advanced civilizations (not the joke called "Western") take this to the extreme -- some of the native Indians perfectly understood the nonsense of ownership - they were stewards of the planet AND of each other.
The primitive human race still tries to grok why one has to pay to live on the planet that one was born on but this ignorance won't last much longer even though you can keep on trying. You are already seeing the start if this paradigI'll probably get modded down, but it is clear you don't have a clue what money is. There are 3 levels of money:
- the exchange of physical things aka barter, - the exchange of a common unit (physical or digital / virtual) for experience, wisdom, and time - the exchange of energy
You're an idiot if you think you need money to survive. (Don't get me wrong - money, currently, is _very_ convenient, but it is sufficient, not a necessary condition.) Proof: Animals have been in this planet for _millions_ of years - they dont have nor need an economic system - only stupid greedy humans who have falsely bought in the belief system that there is never enough are insane to insist on idiotic barter systems. In 100 years you will find the concept of money will be an archaic, barbaric system by people who didn't know any better. And to drive the point home - how much did you pay the Sun and Earth today that supports your very existence? We -already- have free energy but you are too busy being brain washed by a capitalistic system to understands it's strengths AND weakness to realize how the existing system will be replaced - free energy is only the catalyst for this paradigm shift.
ALL civilizations are built upon the concept of sharing. Truly advanced civilizations (not the joke called "Western") take this to the extreme -- some of the native Indians perfectly understood the nonsense of ownership - they were stewards of the planet AND of each other.
The primitive human race is still trying to grok why one has to pay to live on the planet that one was born on but this ignorance won't last much longer even though you can keep on trying. You are already seeing the start if this paradigm shift with the total breakdown of copyright WRT music and software.
You don't play Tic-Tac-Toe anymore once you come up with a good heuristic to either win or at best tie. If the game is "solved" most don't see the point in playing. i.e. There is little fun due to being no challenge left when all the outcomes are already known before hand. There is no "fun" in beating a computer chess program - it is much more rewarding playing a human because the outcome is much more volatile and interesting.
Chess lost it's appeal once I realized you had to memorize the standard book openings to be any good.
That is why I enjoy Go immensely more. I suck at it but at least there are no boring static openings to memorize - the game is much more dynamic and engaging.
-- That cliche seems to be true here too "Behind every successful man... is most likely a woman!" Hmm, Watson - check, Einstein - check, where is/was Newton's woman? =)
What is bullshit is the Arrogant Cunt who would rather bury their head in the sand ignoring the problem instead of learning from it. Autistic people are _extremely_ bright -- their brain just doesn't spend much of its processing power on the "Social Customs" of society.
He wasn't the first, Planck said it ~50 years earlier. "Science advanced one funeral at a time", paraphrasing Max Planck's "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
The worse are the "pseudo skeptics" -- those who "pretends to be a skeptic but is so closed-minded that they have become a fundamentalist; unable to accept any other perspective - their mind is already made up by ignoring any (potential new) evidence, such as that liar Randi, a magician pretending to be a Scientist. http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Page30.htm#RealSkeptics
"Simply put, one unwon public challenge by a debunker and magician does NOT invalidate the countless millions of paranormal experiences throughout world history, nor does it refute the years of replicable psi research done by Ganzfeld or PEAR experiments, among others."
A perfect example of how Science has become Religion is Astronomy. They make _several_ assumptions that will turn out to be false once they have more information. They "assume" Dark Matter and Dark Energy Energy exists but they have never observed it. They assume the laws of physics are constant throughout the universe; that is a very dangerous precedent when you have only directly explored %0.0000000001 of it.
While it is fine to come to conclusions before the evidence is in BUTit would behoove BOTH the scientist and public by being honest and upfront with the usual disclaimer: "With our current understanding, this is our best guess (theory) for how we think things work." To pretend otherwise is sheer dogma.
The greatest problem with a few Scientists is that they believe their Holy Scientific Principle is the ONLY way to achieve truth. What Science does is remove one _falsehood_ at a time. There are other methods that add truth one level at a time.
> I'll give Nintendo credit for creating a very successful fad console
Uh, you DO realize that ALL consoles are "fads" -- trying buying new games 10 years after the initial launch. The industry moves onto the latest shiny to milk the customers yet again.
> Absolutely agree. Basically, if it were possible to bring a plane down merely by using a cellphone, it would already have been done by now. Certain groups have an intense interest in doing just that. They haven't, so they can't. Q.E.D.
Agreed. I leave my cell phone & iPad on all the time. Nothing has ever happened nor ever will. The small amount of EMF "noise" they generate and the part of the spectrum they use is not going to interfere with any of the plane's electronics.
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> The more fast motion/pans you have, the more noticeable framerate is.
This a *thousands* times over. Please mod parent up! Even for slow pans one can notice the "jitterness."
For dramas that 24/29 Hz crap is perfectly fine.
For action / sci-fi, 60 Hz minimum is the way to go.
> Same thing with video games, I actually try and keep my frame rate as close to 30 fps as I
I'm exact the opposite. Anything less then 60 looks like crap -- it is so stuttery. I absolutely can't stand the 24 Hz shit that movies use, but at least movies have temporal aliasing to make it semi-palatable.
Personally, I prefer 72 - 100 Hz for _smoothness_. I just wish people would move on from this 24 Hz garbage sometime in my lifetime.
> Cocaine may be more destructive than explosives.
And your LD50 data for BOTH cocaine and explosives is where again ... ?
LOL. If there is ever a more funny
simpsons.nelson = HA HA !
that it is. How many years did it take Microsoft to switch Hotmail off BSD ? =)
> The usual ignorant interpretation means heaven
FTFY.
The true meaning means higher self, but I wouldn't expect any theist to understand this in any depth since I have never seen one that even understands basics such as 2 Cor 12:4 on why certain words aren't allowed.
Besides, you will have all the proof you need that man is not alone around 2030. End of discussion.
A few have already known this fact for thousands of years - it is only those that crave power via religious, political, or economical means that are absolutely scared shitless when the mass populace realizes this one answer opens up infinite interesting questions!
Men (generally) can't handle the truth, so they don't have it.
--
TSA - groping and molesting children since 2001! Why the fuck is this still legal?!?!
Somehow I doubt the governments of the world would even have the tech to try to enforce the "unauthorized" part on "spaceships, doomsday stars and other prohibited devices" =)
> If you want performance, you don't use C you use C++ template metaprogramming.
Having worked with hundreds of professional PS3 developers (who were also doing Xbox 360 dev) my experiences says you are wrong. You are forgetting the most important aspect: the cache
Typically compiling code at -Os is often faster then -O3 because SMALLER code tends to be FASTER code because you are not blowing the I$ cache as much. I should point out this is less of an issue on x86 chips.
> unless you further qualify this by saying "console games" or possibly 'box retail games".
Correct. Professional games was implied. i.e. Win32 / Xbox360 / PS3 / etc.
> I would also argue that the component/data driven design of many games and game engines primary goal is flexibility and extensibility, with a huge side benefit being the possible memory and performance benefits.
Yup! For games a data-driven approach has many nice wins and benefits. Thanks for the enunciation of the finer points. =)
Start here young grasshopper...
Mike Acton's "Typical C++ Bullshit"
http://macton.smugmug.com/gallery/8936708_T6zQX/1/593426709_ZX4pZ#!i=593426709&k=ZX4pZ
OOP, while a great paradigm, is NOT a silver bullet for every problem. Unfortunately far too many programmers view OOP as the only way to solve a problem in C++. "When all you have is a hammer ... every problem starts to look like a nail."
> except when you write in C++ as though it is C, you get really bad C++
Total nonsense. Almost every game these days is written in C++ and while they all vary in the amount of applied OOP and generic meta programming, the fastest ones use a data driven approach because OOP is SLOW - raw C++ makes dealing with ONE type of object easy, but it doesn't help dealing with performance issues when you have MANY objects. I.e. Template Bloat, lack of virtual dead stripping, and inflated deep hierarchies, to start with.
C is a good language because it forces one to think about runtime performance. When you have some junior coder sticking a virtual function call inside a for loop because he doesn't the three levels of pointers being applied the problem is not the language per say, but programmers who don't understand enough of the hardware to know "There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
Higher level languages tend to help minimize *developer* time, at the expense of run-time.
> you expect everyone in the world to just pick up and use as the sole source for everything on a particular topic
You want to tell that to the thiests? :)
It is absolutely *idiotic* to waste human effort duplicating the same thing. *HOW* many fricken textbooks do you _really_ need on any one subject?? More then 10 is just pure greed.
The biggest flaw of capitalism is that it encourages people to waste their lives duplicating goods and promotes the mindless archaic concept of competition instead of rewarding people who cooperate.
Go watch the TED video on choice if you still mistakenly believe more choice is a good thing. SOME choice is the optimal amount.
Oh plz. Reddit is the dig of /. Gee, extreme noise-to-signal. Go figure. If I wanted circle jerking of group think I'd go to 4chan, thanks.
Reddit has it's strengths but it's mostly full of wankers who are too closed minded to even *consider* the possibility that they are dumb, young, and full of shit. At least I can disagree and have a meaningful conversation arguing over the finer points here on /. Any post outside of the group-think on reddit is quickly moderated down into oblivion because everyone else did. /. isn't perfect, and I agree it needs to upgrade to stay with the times but it's a hell of a lot better then Reddit ever was.
> Oddly enough I don't mind the ribbon UI on Office 2011 Mac, but that's because it still have a standard menu bar up top that gives me a choice between ribbon or traditional menu UI.
THIS, a thousand times over. This is one of the things I love about OSX version of Office -- I can *choose* if I want to use the menu or the ribbon. For some tasks, the menu bar is far faster, for others the ribbon is faster. Microsoft tries to ram their One True Way (ribbon) down PC users is the height of arrogance. Stop treating your power-users like idiots.
Ah, yes, thanks for the correction.
Some cool Apple ][ trivia ...
- Karateka was one of the first games to have cut-scenes. Here is the end-game music in MIDI format =)
http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/dev/applewin/karateka/karateka_end.mid
- Conan: Hall of Volta by Datasoft (*) was the one of the first games to use a 1-bit stencil buffer!
http://michael.peopleofhonoronly.com/dev/applewin/conan/conan_stencil_buffer.bmp
- Broderbund games (Drol, Spare Change, Captain Goodnight, Choplighter, etc.) offered smooth animation because they used the (initially) undocumented V-SYNC: (Vertical Blanking) ! ;not VBL (VBL signal low)
RDVBLBAR = $C019
I highly recommend AppleWin for finding out old Easter Eggs =)
http://applewin.berlios.de/
* To see the stencil buffer you need
a) disk image
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II//images/disk_utils/cracking/the_saltine/Conan%20A.dsk
b) Mount disk A in the first drive in AppleWin
c) press F2 to boot
d) at the intro. screen press F7 to enter the debugger
e) in the debugger type the following commands to view the HI-RES pages 1 or 2 respectively
HGR1
HGR2
Agreed that victimless crimes are bullshit laws. Unfortunately most people are pussies and would rather bitch about the abuses of government then actually fix the problem.
--
Bad cops follow the letter of the law,
Good cops follow the spirit of the law.
Have to completely agree. I refer to 2 specific B&M stores as:
Worst Buy (USA)
Future Crap (Canada)
Both companies don't understand the importance of making the customer feel relaxed. Good bye and good riddance I say.
I'll probably get modded down, but it is clear you don't have a clue what money is. There are 3 levels of money:
- the exchange of physical things aka barter,
- the exchange of a common unit (physical or digital / virtual) for experience, wisdom, and time
- the exchange of energy
You're an idiot if you think you need money to survive. (Don't get me wrong - money, currently, is _very_ convenient, but it is sufficient, not a necessary condition.) Proof: Animals have been in this planet for _millions_ of years - they dont have nor need an economic system - only stupid greedy humans who have falsely bought in the belief system that there is never enough are insane to insist on idiotic barter systems. In 100 years you will find the concept of money will be an archaic, barbaric system by people who didn't know any better. And to drive the point home - how much did you pay the Sun and Earth today that supports your very existence? We -already- have free energy but you are too busy being brain washed by a capitalistic system to understands it's strengths AND weakness to realize how the existing system will be replaced - free energy is only the catalyst for this paradigm shift.
ALL civilizations are built upon the concept of sharing. Truly advanced civilizations (not the joke called "Western") take this to the extreme -- some of the native Indians perfectly understood the nonsense of ownership - they were stewards of the planet AND of each other.
The primitive human race still tries to grok why one has to pay to live on the planet that one was born on but this ignorance won't last much longer even though you can keep on trying. You are already
seeing the start if this paradigI'll probably get modded down, but it is clear you don't have a clue what money is. There are 3 levels of money:
- the exchange of physical things aka barter,
- the exchange of a common unit (physical or digital / virtual) for experience, wisdom, and time
- the exchange of energy
You're an idiot if you think you need money to survive. (Don't get me wrong - money, currently, is _very_ convenient, but it is sufficient, not a necessary condition.) Proof: Animals have been in this planet for _millions_ of years - they dont have nor need an economic system - only stupid greedy humans who have falsely bought in the belief system that there is never enough are insane to insist on idiotic barter systems. In 100 years you will find the concept of money will be an archaic, barbaric system by people who didn't know any better. And to drive the point home - how much did you pay the Sun and Earth today that supports your very existence? We -already- have free energy but you are too busy being brain washed by a capitalistic system to understands it's strengths AND weakness to realize how the existing system will be replaced - free energy is only the catalyst for this paradigm shift.
ALL civilizations are built upon the concept of sharing. Truly advanced civilizations (not the joke called "Western") take this to the extreme -- some of the native Indians perfectly understood the nonsense of ownership - they were stewards of the planet AND of each other.
The primitive human race is still trying to grok why one has to pay to live on the planet that one was born on but this ignorance won't last much longer even though you can keep on trying. You are already seeing the start if this paradigm shift with the total breakdown of copyright WRT music and software.
To use an analogy:
You don't play Tic-Tac-Toe anymore once you come up with a good heuristic to either win or at best tie. If the game is "solved" most don't see the point in playing.
i.e.
There is little fun due to being no challenge left when all the outcomes are already known before hand. There is no "fun" in beating a computer chess program - it is much more rewarding playing a human because the outcome is much more volatile and interesting.
Chess lost it's appeal once I realized you had to memorize the standard book openings to be any good.
That is why I enjoy Go immensely more. I suck at it but at least there are no boring static openings to memorize - the game is much more dynamic and engaging.
The more I learn about Watson the more I'm inclined to believe he was a dick.
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/BI0020_Miller/dh/guide.html
-- ... is most likely a woman!" Hmm, Watson - check, Einstein - check, where is/was Newton's woman? =)
That cliche seems to be true here too "Behind every successful man
> And your employer needs your ssn to employ you, pay you and deduct your taxes, for verification, etc.
Total nonsense. It would behoove you to actually check the facts before posting lies.
https://www.google.com/search?q=taco+bell+ssn
What is bullshit is the Arrogant Cunt who would rather bury their head in the sand ignoring the problem instead of learning from it. Autistic people are _extremely_ bright -- their brain just doesn't spend much of its processing power on the "Social Customs" of society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FlIyJJRc0E
To expand upon your great post, at the risk of getting modded down, since people confuse passion and integrity:
A fantastic read is "Myths of Skepticism"
http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/talk/talk.html
Feynman already warned about how Science was turning into a religion.
http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
He wasn't the first, Planck said it ~50 years earlier.
"Science advanced one funeral at a time", paraphrasing Max Planck's "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
The worse are the "pseudo skeptics" -- those who "pretends to be a skeptic but is so closed-minded that they have become a fundamentalist; unable to accept any other perspective - their mind is already made up by ignoring any (potential new) evidence, such as that liar Randi, a magician pretending to be a Scientist.
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Page30.htm#RealSkeptics
"Simply put, one unwon public challenge by a debunker and magician does NOT invalidate the countless millions of paranormal experiences throughout world history, nor does it refute the years of replicable psi research done by Ganzfeld or PEAR experiments, among others."
A perfect example of how Science has become Religion is Astronomy. They make _several_ assumptions that will turn out to be false once they have more information. They "assume" Dark Matter and Dark Energy Energy exists but they have never observed it. They assume the laws of physics are constant throughout the universe; that is a very dangerous precedent when you have only directly explored %0.0000000001 of it.
While it is fine to come to conclusions before the evidence is in BUT it would behoove BOTH the scientist and public by being honest and upfront with the usual disclaimer: "With our current understanding, this is our best guess (theory) for how we think things work." To pretend otherwise is sheer dogma.
The greatest problem with a few Scientists is that they believe their Holy Scientific Principle is the ONLY way to achieve truth. What Science does is remove one _falsehood_ at a time. There are other methods that add truth one level at a time.
Great post BTW.
> I'll give Nintendo credit for creating a very successful fad console
Uh, you DO realize that ALL consoles are "fads" -- trying buying new games 10 years after the initial launch. The industry moves onto the latest shiny to milk the customers yet again.
> Absolutely agree. Basically, if it were possible to bring a plane down merely by using a cellphone, it would already have been done by now. Certain groups have an intense interest in doing just that. They haven't, so they can't. Q.E.D.
Agreed. I leave my cell phone & iPad on all the time. Nothing has ever happened nor ever will. The small amount of EMF "noise" they generate and the part of the spectrum they use is not going to interfere with any of the plane's electronics.