Yeah, well... they didn't tell us how many times it *dropped* the cellphone. I bet one good catch out of 1000 wouldn't have impressed you quite so much.
>"R2-D2 - Meh, I don't see why you'd need a droid who was built to interface with ships directly and only speak to people via the ship's computer to have the ability to speak."
Well he can *understand* speech so he's obviously designed to communicate with humans.
Speech recognition is a zilion times harder than synthesis, so...
That always bugged me too. Why did they fly along that trench for about 20 miles when they could have just flown in somewhere near the target and avoided flying past all those laser towers?
I distinctly remember Obi-Wan saying something like "Look at those blast marks, only imperial stormtroopers are so precise" near the start of the film. The we spend the rest of the film watching them failing to hit anything at all.
The biggest irony of all is that by getting wildly rich the guys from TPB make it more attractive for other people to set up torrent sites. The RIAA is just cutting a single head off a huge hydra.
Well... the "rights holders" seem to think that 30 songs are worth $1.9 million. At that rate the GGF will need about 32 quadrillion US dollars a month in income to keep up with the payments.
I for one wish them luck with their new business model.
Writing large programs in assembly language is almost impossible, you have to get it perfect first time because refactoring assembler code is next-to-impossible.
eg. Small changes in the base data structures (eg. change a data type) mean you have to go through and change every instruction which references that data, and since there's no type-checking in assembler you can easily miss some and the assembler won't tell you about it.
With a compiled language you can change the data type and you're done.
This argument also explains why C++ is better than C. C++ and OO methodology makes writing large programs MUCH easier than using C and procedural code. With C code you have to keep an awful lot more knowledge in your head at any give time and it's easy to forget things in C that can be done automagically in C++.
"If you give me six lines of code written by the most diligent of programmers, I will surely find enough in them to crash the OS" - Cardinal Ritchielieu
Doesn't matter if a question is "hard"...no parent should ever be 'stumped'. Everybody should know how to find things out.
If a child asks a question you don't know the answer to, you should be able to say "I don't know... but let's see if we can figure it out".
Or you could take it a step further, you should say "I was rather hoping *you* could figure that then tell *me* the answer" (Richard Feynman's father used this approach on him and look at how smart *he* ended up!)
Why this basic skill isn't in the curriculum is beyond me.
(if they every really intended to do it - why should they when they've got their own agenda for web video, ie. Silverlight)
I don't see Microsoft jumping on this new bandwagon either. Why should they when Silverlight has 3D? Without support in IE then I don't see anybody using this for anything much.
No, it's square. OpenGL ES has no immediate mode rendering, all rendering is done via arrays of floating point data, and pointers to them. Support for that sort of data storage is non-existent in JavaScript. I'm not even sure you could pretend that strings are binary data (like they do in PHP).
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>"Nokia adds that the Booklet will be able to access services such as the Nokia Music Store, "
ie. It comes preloaded with an avalanche of crapware.
Yeah, well... they didn't tell us how many times it *dropped* the cellphone. I bet one good catch out of 1000 wouldn't have impressed you quite so much.
>"R2-D2 - Meh, I don't see why you'd need a droid who was built to interface with ships directly and only speak to people via the ship's computer to have the ability to speak."
Well he can *understand* speech so he's obviously designed to communicate with humans.
Speech recognition is a zilion times harder than synthesis, so...
That always bugged me too. Why did they fly along that trench for about 20 miles when they could have just flown in somewhere near the target and avoided flying past all those laser towers?
I distinctly remember Obi-Wan saying something like "Look at those blast marks, only imperial stormtroopers are so precise" near the start of the film. The we spend the rest of the film watching them failing to hit anything at all.
I know my hand starts to hurt if I have to write more than a couple of paragraphs by hand.
The biggest irony of all is that by getting wildly rich the guys from TPB make it more attractive for other people to set up torrent sites. The RIAA is just cutting a single head off a huge hydra.
Just add "filetype:torrent" to the end of your search, eg.
watchmen filetype:torrent
Well ... the "rights holders" seem to think that 30 songs are worth $1.9 million. At that rate the GGF will need about 32 quadrillion US dollars a month in income to keep up with the payments.
I for one wish them luck with their new business model.
academic = It's admirable on an intellectual level but not useful to the outside world.
Writing large programs in assembly language is almost impossible, you have to get it perfect first time because refactoring assembler code is next-to-impossible.
eg. Small changes in the base data structures (eg. change a data type) mean you have to go through and change every instruction which references that data, and since there's no type-checking in assembler you can easily miss some and the assembler won't tell you about it.
With a compiled language you can change the data type and you're done.
This argument also explains why C++ is better than C. C++ and OO methodology makes writing large programs MUCH easier than using C and procedural code. With C code you have to keep an awful lot more knowledge in your head at any give time and it's easy to forget things in C that can be done automagically in C++.
I expect you'll be sending back the Statue Of Liberty any day now...right?
Windows has cost double in the UK since Windows 95...now it's cheaper there and you're up in arms?
Hypocrisy of the first order.
Touche! I'm a Brit who writes "color", "honor", "realize", etc.
...are you even supposed to be talking on your 'phone when driving?
Are you saying you couldn't live without the RIAA's product? That you're somehow forced to listen to it whether you want to or not?
You need to get out more.
I guess you missed the cultural reference...
"If you give me six lines of code written by the most diligent of programmers, I will surely find enough in them to crash the OS" - Cardinal Ritchielieu
Would the DMCA have breezed through the congress quite so easily if there were two million votes on the line...?
Very few people want "no copyright" but an awful lot of them want "less government"
Doesn't matter if a question is "hard"...no parent should ever be 'stumped'. Everybody should know how to find things out.
If a child asks a question you don't know the answer to, you should be able to say "I don't know ... but let's see if we can figure it out".
Or you could take it a step further, you should say "I was rather hoping *you* could figure that then tell *me* the answer" (Richard Feynman's father used this approach on him and look at how smart *he* ended up!)
Why this basic skill isn't in the curriculum is beyond me.
They could have given those 10,000 people a million bucks each and it would have been cheaper and stimulated the economy more.
PS: The money is coming from the taxpayer.
The Kronos group has had it on life support all this time. Now it's called "Collada" but it's still VRML in disguise.
Translation: "Microsoft dropped it"
(if they every really intended to do it - why should they when they've got their own agenda for web video, ie. Silverlight)
I don't see Microsoft jumping on this new bandwagon either. Why should they when Silverlight has 3D? Without support in IE then I don't see anybody using this for anything much.
No, it's square. OpenGL ES has no immediate mode rendering, all rendering is done via arrays of floating point data, and pointers to them. Support for that sort of data storage is non-existent in JavaScript. I'm not even sure you could pretend that strings are binary data (like they do in PHP).