it's not pornography if you send a picture of yourself. this is commonsense. you own you.
of course, if who you sent it to sends it out to everyone else... i could see that being 'wrong'. they have no right to do that to you, especially if you're a minor...
i really don't get why what i just said isn't just the simple law...
avast kept popping up ads to buy their stuff. switched to avira, no popups. similar number of false positives as avast... i saw no difference between them. but really, who knows if they're working.
is there a way to evaluate antivirus software? i mean, after it's 1.) no popups, 2.) not bloaty 3.) easy on the system 4.) convenient to use... how do you know if it actually works?
I mean I could write a system tray app that's a "virus checker". and always tells you your system's ok... haha
anyway, reading around, seemed like avast, avira, and avg were the best free ones. and after running avg and avast, I liked avira. but really, no idea who's the best.
wonder if this ffmpeg will let pytivo encode subtitles into the video on the fly... previously it was too slow, and the tivo timed out, canceling the transfer... annoying.
basically wondering if it'll be faster in this case.:)
premature optimization is sometimes as you say, bad. however there is an idea of mature optimization where you know something needs to be written in such a way as to be fast.
say your task has to run in realtime, and it involves iterating over most of the machine's memory. if it doesn't run fast, you have a real problem.
always choose the correct read/write patterns, the correct architecture, and then make that code as clear as possible...
>> "The first impression of this book is its heft---at 935 pages in the hardback edition"
at first glance, I thought you were going to discount the reviewer for judging a book by its heft instead of on it's content... i.e. "well if he's going to talk about the weight of the book, then fuck him, he obviously doesn't think very much and probably has little of value to say..."
but you said the opposite of what i expected. which is interesting.
i guess you and he would live outside of the math then? some speelys of the book might be better... ?
i think there are two audiences for this book. and it depends on attention span and love for details...
reading this book is like reading through some really interesting source code. not everyone will like it, or even be able to comprehend it, but those who do like it, really really connect with it...
and for that i love his work
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it's a mental challenge to get through, and the amount of new interesting ideas that i get out of his books as a result is worth it. very cool stuff.
ending - and - made up words
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i did think the ending of anathem was hacked off. they totally skipped the cool plot line of fraa jad going off on the ship... and basically ended with very little conflict. it was just weak. basically everyone hugs and is friends. it kinda sucked. though the alternate endings were neat, and perhaps it should have ended after one of the "bad" endings to make the book "good". then follow up with an epilog about the happy ending... (surprise, it's ok)...
the made up words to me made the whole work as if I was an archeology student discovering some ancient book and having to learn a whole now language and new ideas... the use of little dictionary segments splattered throughout the book from the orth dictionary was neat and added to this affect. i think use of strange words added to suspension of disbelief and really immersed me in the "otherworld"-ness of this book...
I completely agree with you
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>> All in all a very good read, but perhaps not for everyone.
yes. for me, the made up words really added to the _experience_ of the book. once I got them in my head. they were very cool. I even found myself thinking in those terms on the way to work in the morning. nerdy, yes, but it was that absorbing.
the book reminded me of what it was like to be in grad school, and a little of what it could have been like to be an early philosopher like aristotle/plato/etc... basically monks standing around and discussing really interesting technical topics.
I at first skipped the baroque cycle because of how boring it was to me. after reading anatham and loving it, i'm now reading baroque cycle, and love it too for the same reasons
anathem and baroque are both different than his other works, I think. more historical and researchy oriented. more of a thinking man's book. I love them for this.
the ending, as usual for stephen, sucked. no surprise there. but don't read the book for the ending, read it for the meat, the huge glut of interesting ideas presented in the book as a whole.
if they were serious about bluray
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if they were serious about bluray they'd make it cost the same as DVD, and phase out DVD a few years later.
instead they gouge with the price. $600 players and $30 disks. they're smoking crack if they don't know why no one's buying this.
another way to sell bluray to the public is to offer free (or cheap) replacement of existing DVD collections. this would get people moved over, and thus dependent, on the format.
the majority (mass market) of consumers don't care about DRM. they care about features like extras, and high def audio and video quality.
the problem is price. the players are stupid expensive. it's quite obvious why bluray isn't selling. getting sub $200 players is a start. but it's still about 3-4x too much. they need to compete with all the other methods of video playback - including DVD, which is of similar quality to most people (since people either can't tell, or have small TVs).
you get paid like crap, it's really hard, schedules are very tiresome/stressful. you do it because of all the really cool shit you learn, and the opportunity to hang with artists. since there's artists, you can snag a really cool wife, before you burn out and quit the industry.
that said, i'm still there, and like it. it is really interesting.
it's a bullshit law. so there's no reason to follow it. there's always denyability (i.e. we don't allow IM, so there is no record of it, because it doesn't exist)... there's also the "don't incriminate yourself" thing (right to remain silent).
while we're at it, maybe I should record all conversations I have too. just in case some one want to see wat I've been saying. and my brain waves. just in case some lawyer needs to see if I was thinking impure thoughts over the last year.
paying again for the network connection i already have paid for is senseless. I boycott xboxlive gold... ridiculous that they charge us for servers. servers are what get us to buy/pay-for the game. any PC game company does this for free - or.. lets you peer-to-peer it or run your own server for free...
even the dumb video camera requires xboxlive gold subscription. on PS3 you can video conference over standard network connection - no subscription... and i hate ps3, but they have this one thing right. I say WTF microsoft. you're not getting any subscription dollars from me, get off my lawn...
one reason I can think of is that they will still attract people to work on the great titles, and wont have to compensate with hourly overtime (the resume building experience would be enough for some developers..)
still, even with this, I can't think that retention will be all that good. what developer will want to _stay_ at a company that doesn't compensate them? one who doesn't care about money (or security for their family, etc..). single people will be most likely to go for these "companies without overtime", as will people who just love it and/or don't care about the money...
since version 8, directX has been far easier to program than opengl... it is easy to create a directx application, - you no longer have to deal with the crazy amounts of COM crap - the init calls are really streamlined now. - also nehe has tutorials for lots of dx apps directx mirrors the hardware more correctly (was more true back with DX8/9), meaning that your code will run faster. (however opengl is catching up fast) game developers really really care about performance. microsoft gives support, and hs a really really smart team who can help give great ideas on cutting edge usage (i've met them). opengl extensions are really annoying to sift through to find what you should be using... dx9 API is right there. so much fixed function clutter still in opengl..:( PC drivers support directx better (usually). xbox 360 supports directx (mostly), so code will port to a significant paying market (unlike you free loadin linux hippies - just kidding). great documentation.
this is why directx is preferred these days. (I was a huge a opengl advocate pre DX8, definitely not a fanboy).
that said, it's not too hard to make a wrapper around both DX and opengl using the highest performance graphics driver calls. both APIs today have the features...
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Firefox4 has it
Chrome has it
Opera beta has it
Safari beta has it
it's not pornography if you send a picture of yourself. this is commonsense. you own you.
of course, if who you sent it to sends it out to everyone else... i could see that being 'wrong'. they have no right to do that to you, especially if you're a minor...
i really don't get why what i just said isn't just the simple law...
avast kept popping up ads to buy their stuff.
switched to avira, no popups. similar number of false positives as avast... i saw no difference between them. but really, who knows if they're working.
is there a way to evaluate antivirus software? i mean, after it's 1.) no popups, 2.) not bloaty 3.) easy on the system 4.) convenient to use... how do you know if it actually works?
I mean I could write a system tray app that's a "virus checker". and always tells you your system's ok... haha
anyway, reading around, seemed like avast, avira, and avg were the best free ones. and after running avg and avast, I liked avira. but really, no idea who's the best.
wonder if this ffmpeg will let pytivo encode subtitles into the video on the fly... previously it was too slow, and the tivo timed out, canceling the transfer... annoying.
basically wondering if it'll be faster in this case. :)
it's not pirating if you created and thus own the rights to the album...
this is a silly story.
Structure of Arrays
premature optimization is sometimes as you say, bad. however there is an idea of mature optimization where you know something needs to be written in such a way as to be fast.
say your task has to run in realtime, and it involves iterating over most of the machine's memory. if it doesn't run fast, you have a real problem.
always choose the correct read/write patterns, the correct architecture, and then make that code as clear as possible...
>> "The first impression of this book is its heft---at 935 pages in the hardback edition"
at first glance, I thought you were going to discount the reviewer for judging a book by its heft instead of on it's content... i.e. "well if he's going to talk about the weight of the book, then fuck him, he obviously doesn't think very much and probably has little of value to say..."
but you said the opposite of what i expected. which is interesting.
i guess you and he would live outside of the math then? some speelys of the book might be better... ?
i think there are two audiences for this book. and it depends on attention span and love for details...
reading this book is like reading through some really interesting source code. not everyone will like it, or even be able to comprehend it, but those who do like it, really really connect with it...
it's a mental challenge to get through, and the amount of new interesting ideas that i get out of his books as a result is worth it. very cool stuff.
i did think the ending of anathem was hacked off. they totally skipped the cool plot line of fraa jad going off on the ship... and basically ended with very little conflict. it was just weak. basically everyone hugs and is friends. it kinda sucked. though the alternate endings were neat, and perhaps it should have ended after one of the "bad" endings to make the book "good". then follow up with an epilog about the happy ending... (surprise, it's ok)...
the made up words to me made the whole work as if I was an archeology student discovering some ancient book and having to learn a whole now language and new ideas... the use of little dictionary segments splattered throughout the book from the orth dictionary was neat and added to this affect. i think use of strange words added to suspension of disbelief and really immersed me in the "otherworld"-ness of this book...
>> All in all a very good read, but perhaps not for everyone.
yes. for me, the made up words really added to the _experience_ of the book. once I got them in my head. they were very cool. I even found myself thinking in those terms on the way to work in the morning. nerdy, yes, but it was that absorbing.
the book reminded me of what it was like to be in grad school, and a little of what it could have been like to be an early philosopher like aristotle/plato/etc... basically monks standing around and discussing really interesting technical topics.
I at first skipped the baroque cycle because of how boring it was to me. after reading anatham and loving it, i'm now reading baroque cycle, and love it too for the same reasons
anathem and baroque are both different than his other works, I think. more historical and researchy oriented. more of a thinking man's book. I love them for this.
the ending, as usual for stephen, sucked. no surprise there. but don't read the book for the ending, read it for the meat, the huge glut of interesting ideas presented in the book as a whole.
if they were serious about bluray they'd make it cost the same as DVD, and phase out DVD a few years later.
instead they gouge with the price. $600 players and $30 disks. they're smoking crack if they don't know why no one's buying this.
another way to sell bluray to the public is to offer free (or cheap) replacement of existing DVD collections. this would get people moved over, and thus dependent, on the format.
the majority (mass market) of consumers don't care about DRM. they care about features like extras, and high def audio and video quality.
the problem is price. the players are stupid expensive. it's quite obvious why bluray isn't selling. getting sub $200 players is a start. but it's still about 3-4x too much. they need to compete with all the other methods of video playback - including DVD, which is of similar quality to most people (since people either can't tell, or have small TVs).
price.
maybe if gmail supported it.... then it'd catch on...
does anyone have this problem? there's really no content there, when the video doesn't play.
http://tivosupport2.instancy.com/LaunchContent.aspx?CID=121611EE-D091-4702-8869-7249D921A0B5
:(
Though looking at the 2.6 software, I don't see the feature...
well, were those emails read or not?
if they were read, then he's known about this for a while.... if not, well, maybe we can trust him...
gimp's the toy. linux is solid. not saying gimp isn't useful. photoshop's just damn powerful and well polished for workflow.
you get paid like crap, it's really hard, schedules are very tiresome/stressful.
you do it because of all the really cool shit you learn, and the opportunity to hang with artists.
since there's artists, you can snag a really cool wife, before you burn out and quit the industry.
that said, i'm still there, and like it. it is really interesting.
while we're at it, maybe I should record all conversations I have too. just in case someone wants to know what I've been saying. you just never know.
and my brain waves too. just in case some lawyer needs to see if I was thinking impure thoughts over the last year.
I think we could all accept an implanted recording device in our skulls, don't you?
it's a bullshit law. so there's no reason to follow it.
there's always denyability (i.e. we don't allow IM, so there is no record of it, because it doesn't exist)...
there's also the "don't incriminate yourself" thing (right to remain silent).
while we're at it, maybe I should record all conversations I have too. just in case some one want to see wat I've been saying.
and my brain waves. just in case some lawyer needs to see if I was thinking impure thoughts over the last year.
like i said. stupid law.
paying again for the network connection i already have paid for is senseless. I boycott xboxlive gold... ridiculous that they charge us for servers. servers are what get us to buy/pay-for the game. any PC game company does this for free - or.. lets you peer-to-peer it or run your own server for free...
even the dumb video camera requires xboxlive gold subscription. on PS3 you can video conference over standard network connection - no subscription... and i hate ps3, but they have this one thing right.
I say WTF microsoft. you're not getting any subscription dollars from me, get off my lawn...
that word theory. i'm not sure it means what you think it means.
so why wouldn't it work for "big companies" ?
one reason I can think of is that they will still attract people to work on the great titles, and wont have to compensate with hourly overtime (the resume building experience would be enough for some developers..)
still, even with this, I can't think that retention will be all that good. what developer will want to _stay_ at a company that doesn't compensate them? one who doesn't care about money (or security for their family, etc..). single people will be most likely to go for these "companies without overtime", as will people who just love it and/or don't care about the money...
since version 8, directX has been far easier to program than opengl... :(
it is easy to create a directx application,
- you no longer have to deal with the crazy amounts of COM crap
- the init calls are really streamlined now.
- also nehe has tutorials for lots of dx apps
directx mirrors the hardware more correctly (was more true back with DX8/9), meaning that your code will run faster. (however opengl is catching up fast)
game developers really really care about performance.
microsoft gives support, and hs a really really smart team who can help give great ideas on cutting edge usage (i've met them).
opengl extensions are really annoying to sift through to find what you should be using... dx9 API is right there. so much fixed function clutter still in opengl..
PC drivers support directx better (usually).
xbox 360 supports directx (mostly), so code will port to a significant paying market (unlike you free loadin linux hippies - just kidding).
great documentation.
this is why directx is preferred these days.
(I was a huge a opengl advocate pre DX8, definitely not a fanboy).
that said, it's not too hard to make a wrapper around both DX and opengl using the highest performance graphics driver calls. both APIs today have the features...