"Full use? Probably never. There's always improvements to be made, and multi-threaded programs are a bitch and a half to debug, at least in Linux."
Yup. But this isn't about Linux. Give managed.Net threading a try (System.Threading Namespace). You'll see why Intel is doing this. The simplicty of.Nets managed threading (which is almost exactly syntatically and functionally the same across all.net languages(VB,C#, J#, C++)), is really easy to use. Think about what managed.net did to pointers. You now have wrappers around those really common (some overloads, not so common) functions. No more dangling pointers. Thats pretty nice.
I'm thinking it will be pretty much the same thing. Not to fan boy, I just think this is more about MS and pushing.net then anything else.
It's not about, nor has it ever been about those rare handful of games that still bring in revenue. Its about the untold masses of software out there account for the overwhelming majority that must adhere to the rules that protect the few.
Probably because once it hits, oh lets say the 10 year mark on software, the damn thing IS public domain. Sure the law say's otherwise, but the laws WILL change. We just have the foresight to see WHY it will change.
We KNOW we can't buy the hardware to run it anymore. We KNOW NOBODY carries the software anymore.
We KNOW the authors aren't making jack anymore.
We KNOW that access to classic works allows for a greater understanding and expanded creativity.
Quit treating software like other mediums, IT'S NOT THE SAME. It exists within its own timeline, one which flows at a different speed and needs different rules ebb it.
And on a side note, I can write a tetris clone in about a page of code nowdays, how in the hell do you justify protecting something thats basically become another trival (and common) programming problem? (The majority of all these games are the evolutionary equivalent of the wheelbarrow compared to the flying cars we have today.)
The scariest place on the net. If you really support this admin, and haven't read this, your an idiot. No arguement here, you don't understand what it is your supporting. Pax Americana.
http://www.peace.ca/paxamericana.htm
Just an outline of the shift in the admins arguement for going to war. Linguistists will be studing this for YEARS. Seriously, this shows a new form of language manipulation that is balls out scary.
We do it because we can. If we can do it, we MUST do it.
There is only one Good, Knowledge There is only one Evil, Ignorance. . . . . . . . . Socrates
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." --pg 61 1984
Ethics is not a word to throw around like "morality", there is a science to it, a set of theories (NET's, Kant, Util, etc.) that are to be taken as seriously as any other scientific theory.
Right or wrong, it will happen.
Maybe one day we'll realize it's the coping skills, and not the "ethics" of the human race that are truly lacking.
Managed Code in DirectX 9 is like chocalate pie. Or warm bread. It makes my tummy all warm and everything has a nice fuzzy glow.
The DirectX sdk is my favorite free MS product. I also belive its one of the rare occasions that somebody got OOP to do what it was meant to do, and actually be reusable.
"The first time I had sex. The second time I had sex. The third time I had sex. How about the fourth time? And the fifth?"
That reminds of me of the first time i lied on/. And the second time. And of the course the third. But the fourth? And the fifth? Those I don't remember.
This thing picked Norah Jones. Frankly, shes damn talented, and is quite the opposite of this modern day radio crap fest. If anything, this app seems to be telling the brain dead execs that the crap your playing sells well initally, but if you put out quility (like jones) you don't need the marketing blitz (which she didn't get) and you don't need to reinvent the market every year.
You would think the/. crowd would know better then to guess the outcome of data mining and pattern recognition applications(Look at me! I know how the ANN got it's answer!).
Lets not forget, the program his to be smarter then those execs making the decisions. It's not possible for it be dumber. Its really not.
I mean, for the.Net programmer, we have two options for graphics. GDI(+) and DirectX. The latter isn't feasible for web applications, and the former is a gimp pony for anything more complicated then a tetris clone.
This seems like a good middle man. Though I think most people realize this is MS taking a shot at Flashf, and it's about time.
Though just to vent, I would like to actually see some focus on getting the docs for DX 9.0c SDK for VB.net out the friendly door already.
Re:don't forget about darwinist programming
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Yea, GA's are neat. But they aren't exactly up to par with the other Darwinist examples, as GA's are unreliable in the consistent repeatability of their answers:(
I've used a genetic algorthim for the classic traveleing salesman problem with varying degrees of success, how would quantum computing effect the problem outside of the speed of computation?
I bow before your awe-inspiring geekdom, and shutter at the thought of your play acting prowess.
My jealousy at the inventible poo-tang drama club brings you will haunt me until the ends of my days, or until I too can take up the mantle something equally as sexauly apealing, such as interpretive dance.
Yea, but I am not really arguing economic, I'm talking more social. Society's view of education is at fault. We view it as a purely economic means to an end. The view being: "If I can make money without it, why do it?" And that's the problem.
I've really believe that higher education's value isn't that intrinsic. I think the value is in a generation of people whose focus is above and beyond their line of work, and whose interests encompasses as much as possible. The three staples of a developed nation: money, technology, and education. That third is the one that can't be remade/remanufactured/reinvented, as it constrains society as a whole as compared to the other two. I should mention I failed International Management.
I believe this attitude is the root cause of American Isolationism
I know it's not practical for everyone, but we as a whole do need a fundamental change.
I think a value shift on education would cause so many micro level changes that the benefits far outweigh the cost.
Not that people are lazy, that's as profound as saying people are selfish (though accurate).
The problem with this county is that it sees education as elitist. You know the old Hollywood stereotype. Evil genius gets the crap beat out of him by buff super guy using big guns.
We have fox news with o Riley calling Yale alumni pinheads. It's fucking Yale, YALE. Hell, we have fox news, which alone says enough about our problems.
Even on Slashdot we get into these regular retarded arguments about how your code is more important then your college degree. Never mind the good it does for society to have another person that can think outside of their narrow scope. It's this attitude that's the real problem.
Only 27 % if Americans (over 25) have earned college degree in 2002. Is that higher then the past years? Sure. But damn it, we are the richest Country in the word, but more then 2/3 of the people only have (at best) a high school education? That's fucking ridiculous.
Seriously, majority rule and the majority have the education of chimp on tequila binge?
I alwalys wondered if we could plug the human genome into a genetic algorithm in the feeble attempt to "roll up" the perfect human, not from the Hollywood type Dr.Frankenstein crap, but from a purely software standpoint.
Well, not really. But no comments about Genetic Algorithms makes baby geek cry:(
"Bio DieselD is the best alternative fuel right now but then you have the moral issue of is it right to use that land for fuel instead of feeding people?"
Wow, somebody needs a reality check.
There is NO moral issue there. Thats just bad exuse for the real issue of watste in the US. http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/wastenot.htm
96 billion pounds of waste food a year, and Biodiesell sure isn't going to change that.
But, it could well end farm subsides. Industral Hemp makes great oil for biodiesel and it grows ANYWHERE.
And yes, actually reading some facts on biodiesel will net some amazing revelations : http://www.biodiesel.org/. Such as the fact that it can run in any disiel engine (some rare models require new hoses and seals), and can be made from pretty much any waste oil. Or we can continue to ignore the fact such as that when the diesel engine was introduced in Paris in 1900, it ran on 100% peanut oil. We don't use biodiesel because theres some horrible flaw with it. Its works damn good. Workable alternative cars aren't a secret, they just aren't profitable.
"MC Pee-Pants doesn't just want candy now--that's childish. He needs it, and when you need something, that's a responsibility that only an adult of my maturity--(see boxes of chocolate bunnies behind Carl) Bunnies!!" -Meatwad
I NEED the new Grand Theft Auto. So it's a not a addiction, it's my RESPONSIBILTY to rob EB blind of every copy they have. And knocking up the Mrs. Fields on the way out is just butter.
Let me first of all remove my tin foil hat.
*crunch*
There, that's better.
Now, for those of you that still don't know what the Iraq war is about, I recommended that you read the Policy for a New American Century Plan For Iraq. The article itself is quite a read, but a short synopsis is available here : http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/pnac_030310.html
(and every other major news site for that matter).
To summarize : The Iraq war was never about WMD's, regime change, Terrorism, or even Oil (well, not for Iraq's oil specifically). After the fall of soviet Russia, America remained the sole remaining super power. We obtained, and remain in this position by means our economy. Our economy is oil based, there is no way around that. The PNCA plan basically states that if we wish to remain on top (read: maintain economic stability), we need to control the flow oil. Iraq may not be the largest oil nation on the face of the planet, but its right next door to everyone that is. The idea, of course, is that by controlling Iraq, we might 1. Bring stability to the region and therefore stabilize the flow of oil and 2. Be in a better position to take control of the flow of oil when shortages begin.
Most estimates place us at about 20 years before bad oil shortages really begin. This isn't brain surgery folks, the Iraq war was a bait and switch. How else to you tell the Land of The Free that to maintain your current level of economic comfort you have to annex another country?
*Tin foil hat is now back on*
Re:Not outsourcing - from a business point of view
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Ah yea, stay out of big businesses way and it will do the right thing. I mean, it's not like it has the largest lawsuit in the history of the nation pending agaisnt it. Oh wait...
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/news/other/walma rt.html
Slashdot Mirror
"Full use? Probably never. There's always improvements to be made, and multi-threaded programs are a bitch and a half to debug, at least in Linux." Yup. But this isn't about Linux. Give managed .Net threading a try (System.Threading Namespace). You'll see why Intel is doing this. The simplicty of .Nets managed threading (which is almost exactly syntatically and functionally the same across all .net languages(VB,C#, J#, C++)), is really easy to use. Think about what managed .net did to pointers. You now have wrappers around those really common (some overloads, not so common) functions. No more dangling pointers. Thats pretty nice.
I'm thinking it will be pretty much the same thing. Not to fan boy, I just think this is more about MS and pushing .net then anything else.
Read:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/faq.php#a11
Links of intrest:
http://www.mobygames.com/featured_article/feature= 7/
http://www.bhlegend.com/icas/ etc.
Probably because once it hits, oh lets say the 10 year mark on software, the damn thing IS public domain. Sure the law say's otherwise, but the laws WILL change. We just have the foresight to see WHY it will change. We KNOW we can't buy the hardware to run it anymore. We KNOW NOBODY carries the software anymore. We KNOW the authors aren't making jack anymore. We KNOW that access to classic works allows for a greater understanding and expanded creativity. Quit treating software like other mediums, IT'S NOT THE SAME. It exists within its own timeline, one which flows at a different speed and needs different rules ebb it. And on a side note, I can write a tetris clone in about a page of code nowdays, how in the hell do you justify protecting something thats basically become another trival (and common) programming problem? (The majority of all these games are the evolutionary equivalent of the wheelbarrow compared to the flying cars we have today.)
http://www.pnac.info/ A more indepth look (or replace indepth with "bias")
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonlette r.htm
The scariest place on the net. If you really support this admin, and haven't read this, your an idiot. No arguement here, you don't understand what it is your supporting. Pax Americana.
http://www.peace.ca/paxamericana.htm Just an outline of the shift in the admins arguement for going to war. Linguistists will be studing this for YEARS. Seriously, this shows a new form of language manipulation that is balls out scary.
We do it because we can. If we can do it, we MUST do it.
There is only one Good, Knowledge
There is only one Evil, Ignorance.
. . . . . . . . Socrates
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." --pg 61 1984
Ethics is not a word to throw around like "morality", there is a science to it, a set of theories (NET's, Kant, Util, etc.) that are to be taken as seriously as any other scientific theory.
Right or wrong, it will happen.
Maybe one day we'll realize it's the coping skills, and not the "ethics" of the human race that are truly lacking.
There is only one management skill that matters.
The ability to have meetings about having more meetings.
Master this young padawan, and succeed in all things managerial you will.
Managed Code in DirectX 9 is like chocalate pie. Or warm bread. It makes my tummy all warm and everything has a nice fuzzy glow.
The DirectX sdk is my favorite free MS product. I also belive its one of the rare occasions that somebody got OOP to do what it was meant to do, and actually be reusable.
"The first time I had sex. The second time I had sex. The third time I had sex. How about the fourth time? And the fifth?"
/. And the second time. And of the course the third. But the fourth? And the fifth? Those I don't remember.
That reminds of me of the first time i lied on
Mahaps Lord Elric can stop this nonsense, and suck a few souls in the process.
Uh, we did read both links right?
/. crowd would know better then to guess the outcome of data mining and pattern recognition applications(Look at me! I know how the ANN got it's answer!).
This thing picked Norah Jones. Frankly, shes damn talented, and is quite the opposite of this modern day radio crap fest. If anything, this app seems to be telling the brain dead execs that the crap your playing sells well initally, but if you put out quility (like jones) you don't need the marketing blitz (which she didn't get) and you don't need to reinvent the market every year.
You would think the
Lets not forget, the program his to be smarter then those execs making the decisions. It's not possible for it be dumber. Its really not.
I like the idea so far.
.Net programmer, we have two options for graphics. GDI(+) and DirectX. The latter isn't feasible for web applications, and the former is a gimp pony for anything more complicated then a tetris clone.
I mean, for the
This seems like a good middle man. Though I think most people realize this is MS taking a shot at Flashf, and it's about time.
Though just to vent, I would like to actually see some focus on getting the docs for DX 9.0c SDK for VB.net out the friendly door already.
Lets pool our cash and advertise for GIMP.
Triple Strength or the regular old Inner Sphere Flavor?t her.html
http://www.kerensky.tierranet.com/btech/mechlab/o
Star Leauge for life.
Yea, GA's are neat. But they aren't exactly up to par with the other Darwinist examples, as GA's are unreliable in the consistent repeatability of their answers :(
I've used a genetic algorthim for the classic traveleing salesman problem with varying degrees of success, how would quantum computing effect the problem outside of the speed of computation?
"fun environemnt like drama club"
You sir, have converted me to your flock.
I bow before your awe-inspiring geekdom, and shutter at the thought of your play acting prowess.
My jealousy at the inventible poo-tang drama club brings you will haunt me until the ends of my days, or until I too can take up the mantle something equally as sexauly apealing, such as interpretive dance.
Yea, but I am not really arguing economic, I'm talking more social. Society's view of education is at fault. We view it as a purely economic means to an end. The view being: "If I can make money without it, why do it?" And that's the problem.
I've really believe that higher education's value isn't that intrinsic. I think the value is in a generation of people whose focus is above and beyond their line of work, and whose interests encompasses as much as possible. The three staples of a developed nation: money, technology, and education. That third is the one that can't be remade/remanufactured/reinvented, as it constrains society as a whole as compared to the other two. I should mention I failed International Management.
I believe this attitude is the root cause of American Isolationism
I know it's not practical for everyone, but we as a whole do need a fundamental change.
I think a value shift on education would cause so many micro level changes that the benefits far outweigh the cost.
I agree.
Not that people are lazy, that's as profound as saying people are selfish (though accurate).
The problem with this county is that it sees education as elitist. You know the old Hollywood stereotype. Evil genius gets the crap beat out of him by buff super guy using big guns.
We have fox news with o Riley calling Yale alumni pinheads. It's fucking Yale, YALE. Hell, we have fox news, which alone says enough about our problems.
Even on Slashdot we get into these regular retarded arguments about how your code is more important then your college degree. Never mind the good it does for society to have another person that can think outside of their narrow scope. It's this attitude that's the real problem.
Only 27 % if Americans (over 25) have earned college degree in 2002. Is that higher then the past years? Sure. But damn it, we are the richest Country in the word, but more then 2/3 of the people only have (at best) a high school education? That's fucking ridiculous.
Seriously, majority rule and the majority have the education of chimp on tequila binge?
Not cool.
Yea, except you NEED a COMPUTER to stream linux to it :P.
I alwalys wondered if we could plug the human genome into a genetic algorithm in the feeble attempt to "roll up" the perfect human, not from the Hollywood type Dr.Frankenstein crap, but from a purely software standpoint.
:(
Well, not really. But no comments about Genetic Algorithms makes baby geek cry
"Bio DieselD is the best alternative fuel right now but then you have the moral issue of is it right to use that land for fuel instead of feeding people?"
t .htm
Wow, somebody needs a reality check.
There is NO moral issue there. Thats just bad exuse for the real issue of watste in the US. http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/wasteno
96 billion pounds of waste food a year, and Biodiesell sure isn't going to change that.
But, it could well end farm subsides. Industral Hemp makes great oil for biodiesel and it grows ANYWHERE.
And yes, actually reading some facts on biodiesel will net some amazing revelations : http://www.biodiesel.org/. Such as the fact that it can run in any disiel engine (some rare models require new hoses and seals), and can be made from pretty much any waste oil. Or we can continue to ignore the fact such as that when the diesel engine was introduced in Paris in 1900, it ran on 100% peanut oil. We don't use biodiesel because theres some horrible flaw with it. Its works damn good. Workable alternative cars aren't a secret, they just aren't profitable.
"MC Pee-Pants doesn't just want candy now--that's childish. He needs it, and when you need something, that's a responsibility that only an adult of my maturity--(see boxes of chocolate bunnies behind Carl) Bunnies!!" -Meatwad
I NEED the new Grand Theft Auto. So it's a not a addiction, it's my RESPONSIBILTY to rob EB blind of every copy they have. And knocking up the Mrs. Fields on the way out is just butter.
Let me first of all remove my tin foil hat. *crunch* There, that's better. Now, for those of you that still don't know what the Iraq war is about, I recommended that you read the Policy for a New American Century Plan For Iraq. The article itself is quite a read, but a short synopsis is available here : http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews /pnac_030310.html
(and every other major news site for that matter).
To summarize : The Iraq war was never about WMD's, regime change, Terrorism, or even Oil (well, not for Iraq's oil specifically). After the fall of soviet Russia, America remained the sole remaining super power. We obtained, and remain in this position by means our economy. Our economy is oil based, there is no way around that. The PNCA plan basically states that if we wish to remain on top (read: maintain economic stability), we need to control the flow oil. Iraq may not be the largest oil nation on the face of the planet, but its right next door to everyone that is. The idea, of course, is that by controlling Iraq, we might 1. Bring stability to the region and therefore stabilize the flow of oil and 2. Be in a better position to take control of the flow of oil when shortages begin.
Most estimates place us at about 20 years before bad oil shortages really begin. This isn't brain surgery folks, the Iraq war was a bait and switch. How else to you tell the Land of The Free that to maintain your current level of economic comfort you have to annex another country?
*Tin foil hat is now back on*
Ah yea, stay out of big businesses way and it will do the right thing. I mean, it's not like it has the largest lawsuit in the history of the nation pending agaisnt it. Oh wait... http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/news/other/walma rt.html
3 words for ya. GRIM FUCKING FANDAGO. Now shut your mouth.