But trust me when I say that I've seen 1000X speedup by going from excellent C code to highly optimized ASM
That is not an exclusive fact of game development. I used to program in assembler about 8 years ago and, I also read the bcc and gcc compiler assembler outputs of some C programs.
Even though compilers can do good optimizations in general, nothing can beat the [b]manual[/b] implementation of code in assembler (or machine code for that matter), while programming in assembler you specify *exactly* what you want to do, and you can do some "hacks" to get more performance from the machine.
Too hard, and in some cases impossible. Anyone who has used both [Professional Software] and [Open source knock-off] will laugh in your face if you try and tell them [Open source knock-off] is an overall better piece of software to use.
The karma, the karma, the karma is on fire! we don't need no water let the..
It is a pity then that all they remember is what buttons to press in Word and not how to write a letter. It is a pity then that I have to train each and every person we get to use the tools we have.
The fact that your school system is broken and your teachers are lazy and stupid is not Microsoft's fault.
To learn "how to write a letter" you should take English Redaction courses. To learn how to write a letter *using a computer* you may take your Computing courses.
The fact is that for the general population computers are mainly used to perform at most 10 things: Write a small document, read/write email, navigate the web, etc.
<quote>Learn people what a spreadsheet is and does and they will be able to use any of them. Specifics will be learned when they are in the company that then can decide if they want to use OpenOffice, Excel, Gnumeric or paper.</quote> Again, if the school where you took your spreadsheet courses is bad, then it is your though luck. Where I went, we made a very simple spreadsheet program in C. Along with learning the basic concepts of the spreadsheet in Excel.
Agreed, I wonder when is the RedHat Linux 6 support going to end? or what about Linux-Mandrake 8? Or Debian is 2.2r2., all released around the same time that Windows 2000, or even later.
History Block fixes this problem very nicely. It let's you setup a block list of urls that should not appear in the history.
So if someone snoops around in your browser, they would see an addon called "HistoryBlock" which contains a list of all the sites you didn't want them to know you visit.
Classic.
Duh, that's the reason the extension ExtensionBlock exists. You can configure it to hide any extension you do not want other people to see (HistoryBlock, refspoof, firefusk, etc).
Ilive in Norway. Here the movies are in the movie theater months after they are released in the USA, and the ticket is very expensive (twice as much as what I have seen in France).
I am currently living in Germany and the bastards dub the films! (we don't do that even in Mexico... well only for kid's movies) to German.
Even though I am learning German, I *hate* dubbed movies (even when they are dubbed in Spanish , my mother tongue), it just completely screws the movie.
There are however some odd films that arrive in O.V. (mainly English) and I do go to see them with my wife, however the fuckers charge about 8 Euro per ticket, a soda is 5 Euro more!
And, to make things worse, movies arrive even later than in Mexico (e.g., Coraline was released in February 6th in Mexico and here in Germany it was released August 13th).
As a matter of fact, I do not know how do they want to compete against digital downloads with all those barriers they put to themselves.
Adding to that, you can buy an OK LCD TV (32'') for about 350 Euro, and see the downloaded movie days after it is released (sometimes, before it is released) in the rest of the world, in the comfort of your home, with a 0.50 Euro CocaCola and 0.50 euro popcorn...
Are you a legal expert? Decision is still pending, and you're spreading weasel words trying to make a point that what they are doing is illegal? I smell a troll somewhere....
Even though the vocal majority of slashdot does not agree with it, they have actually been found guilty and they have been sentenced for it.
Thus, they broke the law (the Swedish law at least) and are guilty. The next reasonable step would be to change that law that we find morally wrong (similarly to alcohol-prohibition, drugs-prohibition, etc), but while the law says what they do is illegal, there is no excuse.
There's two./ hot buttons here: spam and abusing the courts. It's a tale of a bunch of shitty people being shitty each other, and we're the one's footing the bill for the judge who has to oversee it all, and the courtroom and clerks they're using.
Bbbut they are Spammers! There are good and bad lawyers, but spammers? everybody hate spammers!
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The chance of this actually occurring is highly remote, to say the least. The technique of racing ahead of a potential 2-factor authentication is compelling in theory, but of little practical use
Some food for thought:
After you have successfully installed a Trojan into a victims computer you could: - Log for a predefined time, the web usage, filtering specific sites of interest (like online banking logon pages) - Extract time/date patterns of such information to predict the next time the victim will hit the interest page. - Create a trigger that enables real time logging of the http traffic when the victim is login in. You can use VNC-like screen capturing for real-tiem monitoring. - Ask the victim for TANs while impersonating the web page. - Use those TANs along with other obtained information to gain unauthorized access to the victim's account.
I don't know, everything I've read suggests that the average Mexicans don't like the drug cartels. Who would? T
You are partially right. People do not like what has became to happen (the Zetas, and murdering of Wife and Children). In the "old days" drug dealers usually killed among each other, without affecting their families. Nowadays that kind of honour has been lost.
On the other hand, drug lords usually are liked in their home towns. They provide money to the city, they invest (money laundery) and they produce jobs (see my previous coment on harvesters).
Regarding the famous people killing, you can be almost sure that every single person that gets ultimated (as oposed to being hit by a random bullet in the street) has something to do with the drugs. They may be singers, governors, businessmen, etc.
Narcotics are no more an integral part of Mexican culture than[...]or corruption is in Mexico.
Unfortunately corruption is an integral part of Mexican culture, and I tell you that as a Mexican. Corruption starts where you get stopped for passing a red light and ask the policeman to give him some cash for a coffee instead of the ticket. People like having corruption, of course only when it benefits them.
Unfortunately for him, the cartel has tremendous firepower (smuggled from the United States)
Although it is late in the story, I just feel I *need* to reply to that. I am from Mexico and I am very aware at the state of things (I look from outside my country, somewhere in Europe).
Although some of the arms are smuggled from the USA. It is also known that higher caliber weapons such as bazookas, granade launchers and the like, are sold by guys from the Middle east (you know what I am talking about).
OTOH about the policeman being killed. What a lot of you do not know is that those same policeman *are* corrupted people that made the narcs angry. There's a really good video from a newspaper in Tijuana (which has been attacked, 1 of his reporters killed and the other almost killed) here, with transcription in spanish where you can realize how corrupted the system is. For example, some policeman got killed because they stole a lot of drug from "the boss" how happens to be a member of the municipal government.
This decriminalization may be the first sign that he is accepting the fact that narcotics is an integral part of Mexican culture.
The main reason for decriminalization is to divide between the "soft" drug crimes (narcomenudeo) and the distribution.
Actually, drug consumption in Mexico just started being a problem around 10 years ago (at most). Usually all the drug goes to the USA (they pay better).
I am of the opinion that what should be allowed is the production and distribution of drugs (at least, say, mariguana). I know of cases where an entire town in a rural area survives for the harvest of mariguana they do once or twice a year... some of they plant big dense corn to hide smallish mariguana plants.
Thus, from the point of view of produciton drugs do matter to Mexico, but from the point of view of consumption it is the USA where it is big and profitable.
have you heard of some guys who think that rebooting their computer every 3 hours or pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill a broken program is a normal computer behaviour?
I had these two consoles (I'm 28 years old) and in my house they were *really* stress-used. During the 10 years were we mostly played them we had:
- A chewed (by a baby sheep living in our house) power adapter - Chewed controller cables (by the same bastard sheep). - Several controller throws (fucking brother winning in Street Fighter, Frustrating Karate Kid and WWF NES games). - Dirt, heat (68 to 101 ÂF in average were I live) and humidity (40% to 90%) - One or two visits to the floor (when a dog passed by and pushed the cables, pulling the consoles to the ground). - Small operation to the controllers to add aluminum pieces under the buttons.
Incredible how after all that, the consoles are still running! My Xbox (the first one) went kaput after about 3 years of playing...
I think that is called Escapism and women in Mexico for example do it while watching Telenovelas.
People can be quite addicted to tv dramas, sports, and news.
You've never noticed the people that just HAVE to get home to watch their favorite tv show? Talk about it incessantly? Miss other social engagements to watch it if they aren't able to record it and it won't be available online until *gasp* TOMORROW (and they can't bear to be the last person on earth to see the latest drama)?
People get addicted. To a lot of things. It's just always just a "simple way" to pass the time. It becomes a "need," according to them.
Not everyone does get addicted, but certainly many do.
It's not just Caucasians either. I've noticed people getting fatter in Thailand and Japan over the last say ten years.
You do not have to go so far (assuming you are in the USA)... We in Mexico are "second fattest" country in the world behind the United States".
I find funny that the Wikipedia page implies that Mexican's are fat because they eat McDonalds... Given that in Mexico, a "McDonalds" burger is usually seen as something expensive, usually people will eat a burger/hotdog or tacos from the corner street shop.
On the other hand, I read in some study (in Spanish) where they show that the majority of people in Mexico drink Coke (or pepsi, but mostly Coke) while eating, instead of water. This because Coke is cheaper and easier to get than drinkable-water.
But from my personal experience, I believe obesity problems in Mexico are due to a lack of exercise culture.
Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap. When I was in grade school in the 70's, and high school in the early 80's, Columbus was still considered a heroic figure in mainstream middle class society. Still is if you're Italian.
That only became blase in the late 90s Which was 10 years ago. When these freshmen were 8 years old.
That reminded me of a time when I was studying for a History exam (about 12 years ago, during high school, in Mexico). The subject? The Man's landing on the moon.
My father could not believe I was studying the landing as history, given that he was 20 years old and could see it on TV when that happen.
I guess the Persian Gulf War or the NAFTA are also historical notes in today's books.
OMG What gives you the right to say that? WTF You're generalising my generation. You are implying that we all listen to rap LOL, and we all conform. w8am You are implying that we are all stupid, and we all are materialistic. ROFL I do not listen to rap. I listen to Slayer w00t. I am not stupid FFS. I PWN my whole classes ass at the academic bowl every year. I know about these things. I know who the green giant is. We are not all ignorant LULZ.
Nice rant, now finish your homework and go to your room.
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But trust me when I say that I've seen 1000X speedup by going from excellent C code to highly optimized ASM
That is not an exclusive fact of game development. I used to program in assembler about 8 years ago and, I also read the bcc and gcc compiler assembler outputs of some C programs.
Even though compilers can do good optimizations in general, nothing can beat the [b]manual[/b] implementation of code in assembler (or machine code for that matter), while programming in assembler you specify *exactly* what you want to do, and you can do some "hacks" to get more performance from the machine.
Please replace all references to "football" in the summary with "throwball".
Thank you for your patience.
Now a proper footy game for the Wii, that would be interesting. Maybe they could strap a Wiimote to each leg or something.
From your linked page:
Since the sport barely requires you to use your feet.
I wonder how do the players move, do they float or something?
You people play that pussy sport SOCCER. You don't have big well protected men slamming into one another.
WELL NOW, I'm a LOUD European..
You people play that pussy sport AMERICAN-FOOTBALL. You must have very well protected men slamming into each other for short, paused time periods.
Disclaimer: I am actually not an European, although I am trying to pass as one of them while living there.
Too hard, and in some cases impossible. Anyone who has used both [Professional Software] and [Open source knock-off] will laugh in your face if you try and tell them [Open source knock-off] is an overall better piece of software to use.
The karma, the karma, the karma is on fire! we don't need no water let the..
It is a pity then that all they remember is what buttons to press in Word and not how to write a letter. It is a pity then that I have to train each and every person we get to use the tools we have.
The fact that your school system is broken and your teachers are lazy and stupid is not Microsoft's fault.
To learn "how to write a letter" you should take English Redaction courses. To learn how to write a letter *using a computer* you may take your Computing courses.
The fact is that for the general population computers are mainly used to perform at most 10 things: Write a small document, read/write email, navigate the web, etc.
<quote>Learn people what a spreadsheet is and does and they will be able to use any of them. Specifics will be learned when they are in the company that then can decide if they want to use OpenOffice, Excel, Gnumeric or paper.</quote>
Again, if the school where you took your spreadsheet courses is bad, then it is your though luck. Where I went, we made a very simple spreadsheet program in C. Along with learning the basic concepts of the spreadsheet in Excel.
Agreed, I wonder when is the RedHat Linux 6 support going to end? or what about Linux-Mandrake 8? Or Debian is 2.2r2., all released around the same time that Windows 2000, or even later.
... They wanted their web-design pages back.
Is that a BLINK tag I am looking at? Just that makes FSF or whoever else uses it E.V.I.L. (c)
When I was a kid, my father used to do some mechanical stuff. Everytime something fell out of his hands for some reason he used to yell:
"Que deroguen esa ley!" ("Abolish that law!").
It is funny but stupid at the same time. The sad thing is these guys are really trying to do something like that.
Just the letter C, for instance, could have Camera-related sites, Cinemark, and for no reason at all the Washington Post.
And that for me is why it is not useful at all. The reason you got the Washington post is that it is a .com site and thus the awfullbar shows it.
So if someone snoops around in your browser, they would see an addon called "HistoryBlock" which contains a list of all the sites you didn't want them to know you visit.
Classic.
Duh, that's the reason the extension ExtensionBlock exists. You can configure it to hide any extension you do not want other people to see (HistoryBlock, refspoof, firefusk, etc).
While it is currently up, it is only a matter of time until it goes down..
For anyone willing to create a mirror, The guy at BTArena has made a
tutorial available.
Of course, you need to download a copy of the 21GB Piratebay database
My question is why didn't they compressed the tpb.db file with LZMA or other, in order to make it smaller?
Ilive in Norway. Here the movies are in the movie theater months after they are released in the USA, and the ticket is very expensive (twice as much as what I have seen in France).
I am currently living in Germany and the bastards dub the films! (we don't do that even in Mexico... well only for kid's movies) to German.
Even though I am learning German, I *hate* dubbed movies (even when they are dubbed in Spanish , my mother tongue), it just completely screws the movie.
There are however some odd films that arrive in O.V. (mainly English) and I do go to see them with my wife, however the fuckers charge about 8 Euro per ticket, a soda is 5 Euro more!
And, to make things worse, movies arrive even later than in Mexico (e.g., Coraline was released in February 6th in Mexico and here in Germany it was released August 13th).
As a matter of fact, I do not know how do they want to compete against digital downloads with all those barriers they put to themselves.
Adding to that, you can buy an OK LCD TV (32'') for about 350 Euro, and see the downloaded movie days after it is released (sometimes, before it is released) in the rest of the world, in the comfort of your home, with a 0.50 Euro CocaCola and 0.50 euro popcorn...
Are you a legal expert? Decision is still pending, and you're spreading weasel words trying to make a point that what they are doing is illegal? I smell a troll somewhere....
Even though the vocal majority of slashdot does not agree with it, they have actually been found guilty and they have been sentenced for it.
Thus, they broke the law (the Swedish law at least) and are guilty. The next reasonable step would be to change that law that we find morally wrong (similarly to alcohol-prohibition, drugs-prohibition, etc), but while the law says what they do is illegal, there is no excuse.
There's two ./ hot buttons here: spam and abusing the courts. It's a tale of a bunch of shitty people being shitty each other, and we're the one's footing the bill for the judge who has to oversee it all, and the courtroom and clerks they're using.
Bbbut they are Spammers! There are good and bad lawyers, but spammers? everybody hate spammers!
The chance of this actually occurring is highly remote, to say the least. The technique of racing ahead of a potential 2-factor authentication is compelling in theory, but of little practical use
Some food for thought:
After you have successfully installed a Trojan into a victims computer you could:
- Log for a predefined time, the web usage, filtering specific sites of interest (like online banking logon pages)
- Extract time/date patterns of such information to predict the next time the victim will hit the interest page.
- Create a trigger that enables real time logging of the http traffic when the victim is login in. You can use VNC-like screen capturing for real-tiem monitoring.
- Ask the victim for TANs while impersonating the web page.
- Use those TANs along with other obtained information to gain unauthorized access to the victim's account.
I don't know, everything I've read suggests that the average Mexicans don't like the drug cartels. Who would? T
You are partially right. People do not like what has became to happen (the Zetas, and murdering of Wife and Children). In the "old days" drug dealers usually killed among each other, without affecting their families. Nowadays that kind of honour has been lost.
On the other hand, drug lords usually are liked in their home towns. They provide money to the city, they invest (money laundery) and they produce jobs (see my previous coment on harvesters).
Regarding the famous people killing, you can be almost sure that every single person that gets ultimated (as oposed to being hit by a random bullet in the street) has something to do with the drugs. They may be singers, governors, businessmen, etc.
Narcotics are no more an integral part of Mexican culture than[...]or corruption is in Mexico.
Unfortunately corruption is an integral part of Mexican culture, and I tell you that as a Mexican. Corruption starts where you get stopped for passing a red light and ask the policeman to give him some cash for a coffee instead of the ticket. People like having corruption, of course only when it benefits them.
Unfortunately for him, the cartel has tremendous firepower (smuggled from the United States)
Although it is late in the story, I just feel I *need* to reply to that. I am from Mexico and I am very aware at the state of things (I look from outside my country, somewhere in Europe).
Although some of the arms are smuggled from the USA. It is also known that higher caliber weapons such as bazookas, granade launchers and the like, are sold by guys from the Middle east (you know what I am talking about).
OTOH about the policeman being killed. What a lot of you do not know is that those same policeman *are* corrupted people that made the narcs angry. There's a really good video from a newspaper in Tijuana (which has been attacked, 1 of his reporters killed and the other almost killed) here, with transcription in spanish where you can realize how corrupted the system is. For example, some policeman got killed because they stole a lot of drug from "the boss" how happens to be a member of the municipal government.
This decriminalization may be the first sign that he is accepting the fact that narcotics is an integral part of Mexican culture.
The main reason for decriminalization is to divide between the "soft" drug crimes (narcomenudeo) and the distribution.
Actually, drug consumption in Mexico just started being a problem around 10 years ago (at most). Usually all the drug goes to the USA (they pay better).
I am of the opinion that what should be allowed is the production and distribution of drugs (at least, say, mariguana). I know of cases where an entire town in a rural area survives for the harvest of mariguana they do once or twice a year... some of they plant big dense corn to hide smallish mariguana plants.
Thus, from the point of view of produciton drugs do matter to Mexico, but from the point of view of consumption it is the USA where it is big and profitable.
Xbox 360s are manufactured and tested by Flextronics at their plant in Guad Mexico, known as Flex-Guad.
You do know that Flextronics have also assemblers in Asia, Brazil and Europe?
Does Xbox really say "assembled in Mexico" (or in Guadalajara?)
I remember buying a 19'' Dell monitor that said "Made in Tijuana". I found it funny (as a Mexican) that it said Tijuana instead of "Mexico"
That's the Microsoft syndrome..
have you heard of some guys who think that rebooting their computer every 3 hours or pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill a broken program is a normal computer behaviour?
AAAaah the NES and SuperNES.
I had these two consoles (I'm 28 years old) and in my house they were *really* stress-used. During the 10 years were we mostly played them we had:
- A chewed (by a baby sheep living in our house) power adapter
- Chewed controller cables (by the same bastard sheep).
- Several controller throws (fucking brother winning in Street Fighter, Frustrating Karate Kid and WWF NES games).
- Dirt, heat (68 to 101 ÂF in average were I live) and humidity (40% to 90%)
- One or two visits to the floor (when a dog passed by and pushed the cables, pulling the consoles to the ground).
- Small operation to the controllers to add aluminum pieces under the buttons.
Incredible how after all that, the consoles are still running! My Xbox (the first one) went kaput after about 3 years of playing...
Atari 2600 FTW!
That, along with the warlords game is thousands of family entertainment!
And is still rocking!, similarly to my NES and SNES (granted, they are much younger).
Today consoles are terribly manufactured. They are basically designed to break one day after your "warranty" has expired.
I think that is called Escapism and women in Mexico for example do it while watching Telenovelas.
People can be quite addicted to tv dramas, sports, and news.
You've never noticed the people that just HAVE to get home to watch their favorite tv show? Talk about it incessantly? Miss other social engagements to watch it if they aren't able to record it and it won't be available online until *gasp* TOMORROW (and they can't bear to be the last person on earth to see the latest drama)?
People get addicted. To a lot of things. It's just always just a "simple way" to pass the time. It becomes a "need," according to them.
Not everyone does get addicted, but certainly many do.
It's not just Caucasians either. I've noticed people getting fatter in Thailand and Japan over the last say ten years.
You do not have to go so far (assuming you are in the USA)... We in Mexico are "second fattest" country in the world behind the United States".
I find funny that the Wikipedia page implies that Mexican's are fat because they eat McDonalds... Given that in Mexico, a "McDonalds" burger is usually seen as something expensive, usually people will eat a burger/hotdog or tacos from the corner street shop.
On the other hand, I read in some study (in Spanish) where they show that the majority of people in Mexico drink Coke (or pepsi, but mostly Coke) while eating, instead of water. This because Coke is cheaper and easier to get than drinkable-water.
But from my personal experience, I believe obesity problems in Mexico are due to a lack of exercise culture.
Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap. When I was in grade school in the 70's, and high school in the early 80's, Columbus was still considered a heroic figure in mainstream middle class society. Still is if you're Italian.
That only became blase in the late 90s Which was 10 years ago. When these freshmen were 8 years old.
That reminded me of a time when I was studying for a History exam (about 12 years ago, during high school, in Mexico). The subject? The Man's landing on the moon.
My father could not believe I was studying the landing as history, given that he was 20 years old and could see it on TV when that happen.
I guess the Persian Gulf War or the NAFTA are also historical notes in today's books.
OMG What gives you the right to say that?
WTF You're generalising my generation. You are implying that we all listen to rap LOL, and we all conform. w8am You are implying that we are all stupid, and we all are materialistic. ROFL
I do not listen to rap. I listen to Slayer w00t. I am not stupid FFS. I PWN my whole classes ass at the academic bowl every year. I know about these things. I know who the green giant is. We are not all ignorant LULZ.
Nice rant, now finish your homework and go to your room.