Most people who get someone arrested for threatening to inflict serious physical harm do it because they're afraid of have serious physical harm inflicted on them, and they believe that having the person arrested will prevent serious physical harm. This is a little different from "vengeance".
I wouldn't be surprised if some of his "trolling" was gender based, but I don't know why she has to make some sort of connection between internet trolling and gender. Exactly as you said, had this been a guy it would have been exactly the same - up until the comment quoted above.
There would have been one major difference, though: it wouldn't have happened. Trolls love to bully women. Women do visibly get the shitty end of the stick on the internet.
And C++ is very close to the metal??? WTF? C++ is a high level language.
C++ is a low-level language (C) with a few very convenient high-level features tacked on. Having your game-world populated by objects rather than having to manipulate everything explicitly as variables certainly makes C++ more convenient than C.
What makes you think people need to be bribed with Wifi to get driverless trains into use?
Well that would be the sizable public reaction Every Single Time driverless trains have been mooted, even after the successful implementation of the DLR. TfL could convince people to accept driverless trains by an expensive publicity campaign, or they could just tie the issue to something everyone already likes and that they would realistically have to implement eventually.
There are no computer science students, because the industry only wants trained monkeys rather than people who can do new and clever things, and demand that computer science courses are replaced with programming ones.
Indeed. The wifi thing is a very smart move by Transport for London. The unions in the UK normally only get their way by getting the public behind them, and the public are understandably a bit jumpy about getting in driverless trains. But if the Transport Workers' Union objects to the new trains on grounds of being driverless, TfL and the Mayor's office will push the idea that TWU is keeping wifi off the tube, and if there's one thing that's more important to the modern public than a perception of safety, it's a permanent connection to social media....
I kept the optical drive, case, power supply and controller that I had in my old PC. Heck, I've have a 500GB hard drive for years. So no, I've not got Blu-Ray capacity, but I don't really want it -- games are either on DVD still or on download (all hail GOG.com)
I blame MS and Sony for hogging resources. I remember in PSX/PS2 and Dreamcast that the "OS" was nearly non-existent when the game was running.
On the Dreamcast, the OS was normally completely non-existent -- it was the last console that was typically programmed as "bare metal". This was because the only available full OS was Windows CE, and I seem to recall it hogged resources. My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I think the Dreamcast version of DirectX didn't even give access to some of the niftiest features of the chipset. Received wisdom is that Microsoft were at their usual self-serving game: they wanted the WinCE programming environment to be cross-compilable to desktop Windows (95/98 at the time) in order to encourage more devs to release more games for Windows. So obviously, any features that weren't available as standard on a PC were a problem for Microsoft.
Or so the story went at the time... there might not have been any sort of conspiracy behind it.
due to well done, albeit cartoonish graphics and animation.
There's no "albeit" about it. Cartoonishness is the only effective answer we have to the uncanny valley problem -- because it keeps us on the other side of the valley. Consider that old episodes of Scooby Doo will be repeated from now until kingdom come, but when did you last see Reboot on TV? (Although Reboot might get away with the dated computer animation due to the "inside the computer" angle -- it works on an abstract plane I suppose.)
It's also possible they're using some very slow high-level language for the AI, and/or that no one's ever done an algorithmic optimization pass on the AI code, and they just couldn't keep up with the pipeline of collision events and whatnot that are often tightly coupled with framerate.
It's possible, but highly unlikely. Game AI doesn't have all that much in common with research AI, and the issue of optimisation has meant that game AI is generally coded very close to the metal (C++, quite often).
There are no spelling errors in the grandparent post. If he has used a word that you have not encountered before, it is not a reflection on either his level of intellect or education, but on yours.
How is this innovative?
It's been a staple of science fiction for a very long time and as TFS states, we're already using it in hospitals. The only thing new here is that they're considering it as a viable option.
If anything goes wrong, they'll just wake up in a distant future where everyone is really stupid, or they're a delivery boy, or the Earth is ruled by damned dirty apes. Either way, hilarious hijinks and adventures will follow. Problem solved!
You forgot the scenario where Earth is under attack and no-one knows how to fly fighters any more.
True, the government shall make no law abridging the right to freedom of speech (e.g. GOV restriction of speech), but in practice that right has been upheld to private sector too. That is exactly why customer clauses prohibiting negative reviews have been found illegal and unenforceable.
I don't think that's quite it. I'm sure you could still sign into a contract prohibiting negative reviews and commentary on the establishment's own property (physical and website) -- it's the fact that such clauses are intended to subsist in public spaces that makes them unconstitutional.
My mobile phone is more powerful than my first mini-tower, IBM compatible PC. The processor is more powerful and there's more onboard RAM than the hard-disk of said PC. That PC did well enough for all my coursework programming projects and all my write-ups including my honours project. If you want to play the latest games or edit HD video you need a full spec PC, anything else... not so much.
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Most people who get someone arrested for threatening to inflict serious physical harm do it because they're afraid of have serious physical harm inflicted on them, and they believe that having the person arrested will prevent serious physical harm. This is a little different from "vengeance".
I wouldn't be surprised if some of his "trolling" was gender based, but I don't know why she has to make some sort of connection between internet trolling and gender. Exactly as you said, had this been a guy it would have been exactly the same - up until the comment quoted above.
There would have been one major difference, though: it wouldn't have happened. Trolls love to bully women. Women do visibly get the shitty end of the stick on the internet.
(FYI: I'm a guy.)
And C++ is very close to the metal??? WTF? C++ is a high level language.
C++ is a low-level language (C) with a few very convenient high-level features tacked on. Having your game-world populated by objects rather than having to manipulate everything explicitly as variables certainly makes C++ more convenient than C.
The next big target in AI is surely a neural net that can introspect and formalise the rules it has learnt -- a sort of "Artificial Pedagogue".
What makes you think people need to be bribed with Wifi to get driverless trains into use?
Well that would be the sizable public reaction Every Single Time driverless trains have been mooted, even after the successful implementation of the DLR. TfL could convince people to accept driverless trains by an expensive publicity campaign, or they could just tie the issue to something everyone already likes and that they would realistically have to implement eventually.
Sorry, but your stereotype is out of date.
There are no computer science students, because the industry only wants trained monkeys rather than people who can do new and clever things, and demand that computer science courses are replaced with programming ones.
Oh shugar. TWU? It's RMT over here isn't it. Sorry... still got Oz on the brain.
Unions. The DLR has been automated for decades.
Indeed. The wifi thing is a very smart move by Transport for London. The unions in the UK normally only get their way by getting the public behind them, and the public are understandably a bit jumpy about getting in driverless trains. But if the Transport Workers' Union objects to the new trains on grounds of being driverless, TfL and the Mayor's office will push the idea that TWU is keeping wifi off the tube, and if there's one thing that's more important to the modern public than a perception of safety, it's a permanent connection to social media....
I kept the optical drive, case, power supply and controller that I had in my old PC. Heck, I've have a 500GB hard drive for years. So no, I've not got Blu-Ray capacity, but I don't really want it -- games are either on DVD still or on download (all hail GOG.com)
I think what Ubisoft is trying to say here is that it's programmers are shit, and so is it's game engine (AnvilNext).
AnvilNext?!? I thought they said this was Assassin's Creed Unity !!!
I blame MS and Sony for hogging resources. I remember in PSX/PS2 and Dreamcast that the "OS" was nearly non-existent when the game was running.
On the Dreamcast, the OS was normally completely non-existent -- it was the last console that was typically programmed as "bare metal". This was because the only available full OS was Windows CE, and I seem to recall it hogged resources. My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I think the Dreamcast version of DirectX didn't even give access to some of the niftiest features of the chipset. Received wisdom is that Microsoft were at their usual self-serving game: they wanted the WinCE programming environment to be cross-compilable to desktop Windows (95/98 at the time) in order to encourage more devs to release more games for Windows. So obviously, any features that weren't available as standard on a PC were a problem for Microsoft.
Or so the story went at the time... there might not have been any sort of conspiracy behind it.
due to well done, albeit cartoonish graphics and animation.
There's no "albeit" about it. Cartoonishness is the only effective answer we have to the uncanny valley problem -- because it keeps us on the other side of the valley. Consider that old episodes of Scooby Doo will be repeated from now until kingdom come, but when did you last see Reboot on TV? (Although Reboot might get away with the dated computer animation due to the "inside the computer" angle -- it works on an abstract plane I suppose.)
It's also possible they're using some very slow high-level language for the AI, and/or that no one's ever done an algorithmic optimization pass on the AI code, and they just couldn't keep up with the pipeline of collision events and whatnot that are often tightly coupled with framerate.
It's possible, but highly unlikely. Game AI doesn't have all that much in common with research AI, and the issue of optimisation has meant that game AI is generally coded very close to the metal (C++, quite often).
You're accusing me of childishness? Well... you started it.
Sorry, I didn't read the title, just the post. And there were no errors in the post. Look up "post" and "pedant" yourself...
There are no spelling errors in the grandparent post. If he has used a word that you have not encountered before, it is not a reflection on either his level of intellect or education, but on yours.
How is this innovative? It's been a staple of science fiction for a very long time and as TFS states, we're already using it in hospitals. The only thing new here is that they're considering it as a viable option.
It's called "pushing the boundaries".
Yes, but "inactivity" is different from "slowed metabolic rate".
If anything goes wrong, they'll just wake up in a distant future where everyone is really stupid, or they're a delivery boy, or the Earth is ruled by damned dirty apes. Either way, hilarious hijinks and adventures will follow. Problem solved!
You forgot the scenario where Earth is under attack and no-one knows how to fly fighters any more.
A hibernating crew could be closely packed and aligned with their feet towards the sun,
If you do that, you preclude the use of rotation as a simulation of gravity to deal with bone deterioration.
the main hazard is the sun, which is 'behind' you.
That depends on your trajectory. The planets aren't in one straight line, remember.
Sounds workable. But what of lack of gravity? How does the sleeping one deal with bone loss?
First and foremost: slowed metabolism. Bone loss is caused when the bone metabolises bone material. A slowed metabolism metabolises more slowly.
Secondly, from TFA: "One design includes a spinning habitat to provide a low-gravity environment to help offset bone and muscle loss."
True, the government shall make no law abridging the right to freedom of speech (e.g. GOV restriction of speech), but in practice that right has been upheld to private sector too. That is exactly why customer clauses prohibiting negative reviews have been found illegal and unenforceable.
I don't think that's quite it. I'm sure you could still sign into a contract prohibiting negative reviews and commentary on the establishment's own property (physical and website) -- it's the fact that such clauses are intended to subsist in public spaces that makes them unconstitutional.
My mobile phone is more powerful than my first mini-tower, IBM compatible PC. The processor is more powerful and there's more onboard RAM than the hard-disk of said PC. That PC did well enough for all my coursework programming projects and all my write-ups including my honours project. If you want to play the latest games or edit HD video you need a full spec PC, anything else... not so much.
First Battleship, now this.
Hey, what ever happened to that Asteroids movie that they were supposed to be making?
I think they may have hit the hyperspace button... never a good idea.