I just thought of a counterpoint to my argument, and then figured out a counterpoint to that. ..so I'm gonna post both as a reply:
Counterpoint:Sony is still ultimately responsible for what goes on their disks. Counter-counterpoint:If Sony sends a software engineering firm a description for a project and the firm gives them a finished project, expecting Sony to have software engineers of its own to go over and affirm it is built to spec is a bit hard to swallow. They might have well just built it themselves in the first place. I'm sure you could think of a million examples, like a mobo manufacturer that orders capacitors that are faulty. ..whos responsibility is it? The mobo manufacturer because they are last in line before consumers?
Alright, before I go I'll say one more thing: How does this compare to Firestone v. Ford blowouts. Discuss.
I think the real question is what exactly did Sony ask for from this firm. If Sony gave a vague description, then I think both would be to blame. If Sony gave a very verbose description, and all the offending stuff was added by the firm for whatever reason, then sure I think they should sue. If, however, the firm built it to Sony's description, then obviously they have next to no liability (maybe accessory to crime or negligence).
From me weak understanding of corporate politics and keeping in step with the Slashdot tradition of forming an "expert" opinion based on no facts, I believe that the firm built it to Sony's description, but Sony will now conveniently lose their documents and will refute the authenticity of any documents the firm brings to the table. . .
When I read that in TFA, I swear the first thought in my mind was -- he's going to reinvent Emacs? Heh, you mean vi right? I mean. ..Emacs is great and all, but vi would really be a better example here.
While I do appreciate the funny mod, I was also being somewhat serious, if a cop has the authority to shoo you away from a "scene" and make sure you aren't taping him/her doing something, they can still get away with doing "bad things". I guess you just have to tape them covertly? I can also see all sorts of legal issues arising from this. ..good thing the ACLU is backing it up.
"Tonight at 11, 2 trains collide. Engineer says he forgot to carry the 1"
Ironically enough the problem was: If a train leaves chicago at 10:30 AM (Central time) heading westbound at 55 mph and a train leaves Las Vegas at 11:25 AM (Mountain time) eastbound at 115 kph on the same track, where will they collide?
The answer of course (relative to the engineer) was "here".
Random quote at the bottom of the page was "Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses." I read the first part and thought it fit quite well with this story. ..then the second part equated Bush and his daughters to "lonely stewardesses". ..I have no words.
The crops we use for Biodiesel are not viable alternatives to fossil fuels. .."
True, but hemp isn't the answer either. Algae is. Algae yields way more than either of them. I think the number is 100-100 times the yield, I'm not sure google around for the actual number.
What makes me scratch my head... if these guys can find holes in a few hours, why can't Apple? It's not like these guys spent months to find some really obscure bug. They banged away with known attack vectors and got near-instant results. In a case like that, "it's a beta", particularly when it's been hyped at a big event, rings VERY hollow.
I definitely disagree with you there, no offense. For all the programmers that can relate, please tell me if the following fictitious story reminds you of something that happened to you. Picture yourself as either Bob or John, it doesn't really matter since I'm sure you've been in both positions at some point.
Bob: "Sweet, finally whipped up that quicksort routine, must be the millionth time I've done it. I think I eliminated a few clock cycles off of every recursive call."
John: "Cool, submit it to the cvs and I'll work on integrating it into the core."
Bob: "Sure, hey how about lunch." (Bob now begins to commit his code)
John: "Sounds great, let me just sync up real quick here." (as thousands of lines of code update on Johns computer and fly across the screen, he notices a few lines that jump out at him)
John: "Hey uh Bob, you remember to delete that temp variable off the heap if the recursive function returns early?"
Bob: "Uh. ..crap. ..I've been doing too much Java lately, I'll fix it and recommit:-/ "
Yes I know, why would you put a temp variable on the heap, how the hell do you express an emoticon in dialog, my example is flawed but you get the point, sometimes the best thing source code needs is more eyes. When's the last time you poured over source code for hours screaming "IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, I DON'T SEE HOW THE CODE COULD POSSIBLY DO THAT!!" and then someone casually glances at your code and says "Dude, why isn't there a break after that case statement?" Even the best and brightest can miss something stupid.
P.S. I've released some beta's with major security/stability issues, that's what the TODO keyword in comments is for:-D
If done properly, I assume it would be like talking. If you can keep your mouth shut and not say the wrong thing at the wrong time, it should be possible to have similar control over a brain-IM interface.
because the last time(s) we launched when we really shouldnt, people died. Challenger because they didnt want to delay the launch because of some faulty O-rings and the last disaster because of the fuel tank having a nasty tendency to shed foam. I would much rather them delay the flight then die- it is a terrible shame to lose human life and very bad for the space program in general if you rush things. what we wish could be done is be able to remotely install parts like this without risking human life but we haven't quite got that down yet- until then we have to be cautious with the lives we send up there.
Oh I understand that we must be cautious and make sure its absolutely safe before we launch. I suppose I was being more critical towards the methods in which these problems are detected, why do we have to get all the way ready for launch and then stop at the last second. For instance the corrosion that could cause a catastrophic failure. I hope that was detected on the ground during some routine maintenance and not shortly before they wanted to launch. As I stated before I do not believe this is their 17th try, rather the submitter phrased it somewhat ambiguously and was referring to the June 17th (the date) attempt.
17th time? Thats an awful lot of attempts; what were the causes for delays? I heard on the radio today (probably NPR) that there was concern for bolts to some sort of fuel pump that were showing signs of corrosion, but these concerns were dismissed. I sacrificed the ability to get a first post trying to find a link but was unsuccessful. Anyone else hear about this corrosion issue?
Your compiler knows that a const is constant, and won't throw memory (and lookup time) away with it. Unless, of course, you want to debug. And you shouldn't be thinking about cache size while targeting the (quite heterogeneous) PC.
Yeah I know that most cases it wouldn't matter, but I can think of quite a few worst-case scenarios with a lot of lookups. In any case, I know that you can modify const values by getting a pointer, casting to non-const, and then modifying it. But it appears that will only work if the value has already been allocated memory (such as parameter passing) or something. I tried manipulating a global variable in this manner and have gotten nothing but segfaults:) This is all in GCC btw.
You don't even follow the news enough to understand a project that only runs on a modified version of an outdated hardware platform and does the same job and dozens of other far more powerful systems and commercial products?!?
The modded xbox costs what now, maybe $150? With it (modded) you can play SNES, Genesis, N64 games. Not to mention xbox games. If that wasn't enough now comes XBMC. My roomates and I ALWAYS use XBMC to watch movies from our computers, we just leave the xbox plugged into the network and watch the movies right from our windows share. I have yet to run into a codec that won't run on XBMC, and the picture/sound quality is top-notch. Once I had a movie that was spread across a zillion rar files, I thought I'd have to go back to my computer and extract them, but no, just select the first rar file in XBMC and you can play it right there, over the network. It doesn't extract to a temp directory or anything, it seamlessly plays across a series of rar files. I can listen to my mp3's (over the network) with some very trippy visualizations, or listen to shoutcast instead. I can watch youtube too. I'm sure there are even more features I am not aware of. It turned my little console in a machine that fills dozens of niches. XBMC is one of my favorite open source programs. Ofcourse credit is also due to the folks at Mplayer and other GPL projects XBMC glued together in their app. It's just one of those things where once you have it you have no idea how you lived without it.
Don't use #define. Avoid it as best as you can. Use const int.
Wouldn't that be slightly less efficient? Wouldn't that allocate memory to hold the value rather than having a literal in the program code? Would be disaserterous if it caused a cache-miss too, you coul lose a lot of efficency there. Anyone know how various compilers handle const ints?
Many RPG's and MMORPG's to some degree encourage farming (playing the game in a way that isn't entertaining but to increase your virtual wealth). This monotonous activity leads to bots and other forms of automating the game.
Have you done anything to decrease (or possibly eliminate) the need to farm, and if not what is your stance towards automated play?
Not if the TV will let predators talk to you directly and you thinking they are someone your age who wants to hang out in the park later.
I think you missed my point, I was attacking the idea of expecting your children to behave the same as you did when you were a child. As for predators talking to your kids. . . It's like telling your kids not to take candy from a stranger, if they are smart enough to follow the rules and notice when something fishy is going on they'll be alright. I remember being in aol chatrooms 10 years ago and talking to (possibly) other kids that would ask for my name and and where I lived etc., but I was plenty paranoid and never gave anything more descriptive than my first name and a nearby major city. I just fail to see how myspace/facebook is more dangerous, the same set of rules should apply, don't give the information out to anyone because you can't be sure they are who they say they are and once it is out there you can't take it back.
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I just thought of a counterpoint to my argument, and then figured out a counterpoint to that. . .so I'm gonna post both as a reply:
.whos responsibility is it? The mobo manufacturer because they are last in line before consumers?
Counterpoint:Sony is still ultimately responsible for what goes on their disks.
Counter-counterpoint:If Sony sends a software engineering firm a description for a project and the firm gives them a finished project, expecting Sony to have software engineers of its own to go over and affirm it is built to spec is a bit hard to swallow. They might have well just built it themselves in the first place. I'm sure you could think of a million examples, like a mobo manufacturer that orders capacitors that are faulty. .
Alright, before I go I'll say one more thing: How does this compare to Firestone v. Ford blowouts. Discuss.
I think the real question is what exactly did Sony ask for from this firm. If Sony gave a vague description, then I think both would be to blame. If Sony gave a very verbose description, and all the offending stuff was added by the firm for whatever reason, then sure I think they should sue. If, however, the firm built it to Sony's description, then obviously they have next to no liability (maybe accessory to crime or negligence).
From me weak understanding of corporate politics and keeping in step with the Slashdot tradition of forming an "expert" opinion based on no facts, I believe that the firm built it to Sony's description, but Sony will now conveniently lose their documents and will refute the authenticity of any documents the firm brings to the table. . .
When I read that in TFA, I swear the first thought in my mind was -- he's going to reinvent Emacs? .Emacs is great and all, but vi would really be a better example here.
Heh, you mean vi right? I mean. .
While I do appreciate the funny mod, I was also being somewhat serious, if a cop has the authority to shoo you away from a "scene" and make sure you aren't taping him/her doing something, they can still get away with doing "bad things". I guess you just have to tape them covertly? I can also see all sorts of legal issues arising from this. . .good thing the ACLU is backing it up.
What do you do if the cops say "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."?
Ironically enough the problem was:
If a train leaves chicago at 10:30 AM (Central time) heading westbound at 55 mph and a train leaves Las Vegas at 11:25 AM (Mountain time) eastbound at 115 kph on the same track, where will they collide?
The answer of course (relative to the engineer) was "here".
Random quote at the bottom of the page was "Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses." I read the first part and thought it fit quite well with this story. . .then the second part equated Bush and his daughters to "lonely stewardesses". . .I have no words.
The crops we use for Biodiesel are not viable alternatives to fossil fuels. . ."
True, but hemp isn't the answer either. Algae is. Algae yields way more than either of them. I think the number is 100-100 times the yield, I'm not sure google around for the actual number.
I hear that one of the perqs at Philip Morris is free smokes for the whole family.
:-D
Not entirely true, you can only get that packaged together with their largest pension plan.
Yeah, cuz I have no idea how else porn sites would make money, not like they have ads or popups or anything.
I definitely disagree with you there, no offense. For all the programmers that can relate, please tell me if the following fictitious story reminds you of something that happened to you. Picture yourself as either Bob or John, it doesn't really matter since I'm sure you've been in both positions at some point. Bob: "Sweet, finally whipped up that quicksort routine, must be the millionth time I've done it. I think I eliminated a few clock cycles off of every recursive call."
John: "Cool, submit it to the cvs and I'll work on integrating it into the core."
Bob: "Sure, hey how about lunch." (Bob now begins to commit his code) John: "Sounds great, let me just sync up real quick here." (as thousands of lines of code update on Johns computer and fly across the screen, he notices a few lines that jump out at him)
John: "Hey uh Bob, you remember to delete that temp variable off the heap if the recursive function returns early?"
Bob: "Uh. .
Yes I know, why would you put a temp variable on the heap, how the hell do you express an emoticon in dialog, my example is flawed but you get the point, sometimes the best thing source code needs is more eyes. When's the last time you poured over source code for hours screaming "IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, I DON'T SEE HOW THE CODE COULD POSSIBLY DO THAT!!" and then someone casually glances at your code and says "Dude, why isn't there a break after that case statement?" Even the best and brightest can miss something stupid.
P.S. I've released some beta's with major security/stability issues, that's what the TODO keyword in comments is for
Clearly it's the vacated home of the Asteroid Worm in Star Wars: Episode V. He couldn't afford the rent anymore.
More like his mom finally kicked him out, she lived on the surface of the asteroid, which made his dwelling her basement.
If done properly, I assume it would be like talking. If you can keep your mouth shut and not say the wrong thing at the wrong time, it should be possible to have similar control over a brain-IM interface.
The solution is simple: urinals should be installed as standard in homes.
It's called the shower, just run it for a few seconds to "flush".
optical radiation? so. . like cyclops rays or something?
Oh I understand that we must be cautious and make sure its absolutely safe before we launch. I suppose I was being more critical towards the methods in which these problems are detected, why do we have to get all the way ready for launch and then stop at the last second. For instance the corrosion that could cause a catastrophic failure. I hope that was detected on the ground during some routine maintenance and not shortly before they wanted to launch. As I stated before I do not believe this is their 17th try, rather the submitter phrased it somewhat ambiguously and was referring to the June 17th (the date) attempt.
17th time? Thats an awful lot of attempts; what were the causes for delays?
.lol
After re-reading it, I think by "17th attempt" the submitter meant "attempt on the 17th". .
17th time? Thats an awful lot of attempts; what were the causes for delays? I heard on the radio today (probably NPR) that there was concern for bolts to some sort of fuel pump that were showing signs of corrosion, but these concerns were dismissed. I sacrificed the ability to get a first post trying to find a link but was unsuccessful. Anyone else hear about this corrosion issue?
Your compiler knows that a const is constant, and won't throw memory (and lookup time) away with it. Unless, of course, you want to debug. And you shouldn't be thinking about cache size while targeting the (quite heterogeneous) PC.
:) This is all in GCC btw.
Yeah I know that most cases it wouldn't matter, but I can think of quite a few worst-case scenarios with a lot of lookups. In any case, I know that you can modify const values by getting a pointer, casting to non-const, and then modifying it. But it appears that will only work if the value has already been allocated memory (such as parameter passing) or something. I tried manipulating a global variable in this manner and have gotten nothing but segfaults
You don't even follow the news enough to understand a project that only runs on a modified version of an outdated hardware platform and does the same job and dozens of other far more powerful systems and commercial products?!?
The modded xbox costs what now, maybe $150? With it (modded) you can play SNES, Genesis, N64 games. Not to mention xbox games. If that wasn't enough now comes XBMC. My roomates and I ALWAYS use XBMC to watch movies from our computers, we just leave the xbox plugged into the network and watch the movies right from our windows share. I have yet to run into a codec that won't run on XBMC, and the picture/sound quality is top-notch. Once I had a movie that was spread across a zillion rar files, I thought I'd have to go back to my computer and extract them, but no, just select the first rar file in XBMC and you can play it right there, over the network. It doesn't extract to a temp directory or anything, it seamlessly plays across a series of rar files. I can listen to my mp3's (over the network) with some very trippy visualizations, or listen to shoutcast instead. I can watch youtube too. I'm sure there are even more features I am not aware of. It turned my little console in a machine that fills dozens of niches. XBMC is one of my favorite open source programs. Ofcourse credit is also due to the folks at Mplayer and other GPL projects XBMC glued together in their app. It's just one of those things where once you have it you have no idea how you lived without it.
I don't think homebrew is possible on the 360 . . .
Yah it is: XNA
Don't use #define. Avoid it as best as you can. Use const int.
Wouldn't that be slightly less efficient? Wouldn't that allocate memory to hold the value rather than having a literal in the program code? Would be disaserterous if it caused a cache-miss too, you coul lose a lot of efficency there. Anyone know how various compilers handle const ints?
Is RegisterFly a publicly traded company? I'd like to invest.
Many RPG's and MMORPG's to some degree encourage farming (playing the game in a way that isn't entertaining but to increase your virtual wealth). This monotonous activity leads to bots and other forms of automating the game.
Have you done anything to decrease (or possibly eliminate) the need to farm, and if not what is your stance towards automated play?
Not if the TV will let predators talk to you directly and you thinking they are someone your age who wants to hang out in the park later.
I think you missed my point, I was attacking the idea of expecting your children to behave the same as you did when you were a child. As for predators talking to your kids. . . It's like telling your kids not to take candy from a stranger, if they are smart enough to follow the rules and notice when something fishy is going on they'll be alright. I remember being in aol chatrooms 10 years ago and talking to (possibly) other kids that would ask for my name and and where I lived etc., but I was plenty paranoid and never gave anything more descriptive than my first name and a nearby major city. I just fail to see how myspace/facebook is more dangerous, the same set of rules should apply, don't give the information out to anyone because you can't be sure they are who they say they are and once it is out there you can't take it back.