One of my good (internet) friends is a programmer on Quake 4, and I know a few other guys on the Activision tech team and such.
The story is a continuation of Quake 2, but you can expect Q3A style multiplayer awesomeness as well. It's going to be a great game.
I just wish, just ONCE that somebody would do a fair evaluation, without an agenda to forward. But I guess that'll never happen. We all have bias...but surely we could at least attempt to get above that?
Woo, thanks.
All of the people saying that MS got scared into submission were clearly fools now. MS didn't support the bill for their stated reason -- they didn't feel like spending legal money on public policy. But since it's clearly important to people, they're going back and supporting it.
I don't believe MS is evil, any more. They were once upon a time, but I think that something's fundamentally changed over there. Even that psycho Ballmer is, I think, starting to see the light of sanity.
"continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena."
I have to admit, I'm a little confused...ostensibly they're trying to somehow include creationism in this...but that definition doesn't seem to leave any loopholes for god or the bible.
Aww yeah, nothing like a big cool tall glass of IGNORANCE.
From what I can gather, they're basically giving things coming out of MS Research to companies. And if you poke around the conveniently linked site, there's a lot of stuff there. A lot of it is research -- mind you that means it's not production ready or polished. But there's a lot of good stuff there. I don't understand how this could possibly be construed as a bad thing, but as history as shown, the zealots will find a way.
MS Research is great, albeit unpolished. Please try to see that.
He's not taking credit for creating the internet, although people are trying to falsely pin it on him. But as far as the legislative and government side is concerned with the internet, he was the primary drive and power behind it. And considering all of you (and me) are internet addicts, doing silly things like posting on slashdot, I think maybe we owe him a bit of thanks.
Won't it be kinda boring? I mean, I always enjoyed going to a large skyscraper, pressing every button in the elevator from bottom to top, and then getting off at the very next floor, leaving any other poor bastards to wait as the elevators stops on every one of 84 floors. Not too many floors in space though. At least, not yet. I'm betting there'll be a McDonald's half way up by the time you or I get a ride.
Ignoring the absolutely scary fact that you're using hungarian...
Are you in debug mode or release mode? If the optimizer's not active, then of course you're not getting optimal code. That looks to me like the fairly typical code VC tends to generate when the optimizer is turned off. Stack variables when registers would have worked fine, pushing and popping unused registers, etc. In fact, I'm pretty damned certain the optimizer hasn't actually been over that code yet. Perhaps your Visual Studio skills aren't quite up to snuff.
The interesting thing is, except for the reboot requests from Windows Update, all of these reboots aren't actually necessary. Most of them come from badly written install software designed for Win 98/ME that can't detect that they're on an NT based system, which is rather more rugged. When an installer asks me to reboot, I just click no and ignore it. I've yet to have anything break, because the need to reboot is a myth. I could just as easily write a shell script to install something in/usr/lib and say "You must reboot to finish the installation, press y to continue or n to cancel". That doesn't mean you need to reboot. It means whoever wrote the installer is an idiot.
Well, I always felt that stage 1 installs were idiotic myself. I start at stage 3 (no GRP, don't want to waste another CD) and then leave the system on for a night or two as it gradually compiles downwards. Actually I don't even bother with that anymore, because frankly it's not worth the 0% effort I put into it.
"A lot of 15- and 16-year-old guys are smart enough to have strong political opinions," Roberto Preatoni, Zone-H founder, told Reuters on Monday.
Usually strong political opinions at that age are your parents' opinions, shaped by ignorance and upbringing and characterized by a complete lack of comprehension of how life works. Or long story short, they have strong political opinions because they're stupid, not because they're smart.
Yep, just like Ximian got acquired by Novell and now ships free and non free versions.
Or perhaps like Sun's StarOffice and OpenOffice. But nobody seems particularly miffed about StarOffice. It's supposed to be better than OpenOffice so that people will use it instead, right?
Come to think of it, SuSE got 'acquired' by Novell too. Where's their non free version?
Stop screaming wolf slashdot. It's not "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." anymore. None of this matters, and real nerds, who are supposedly smart people, can hopefully see through the massive ongoing FUD machine that is Slashdot.
6% differences across the board.
Normally, 6% is something to be expected simply because it's using different search algorithms. Normally.
Look at the distribution of specific words. It varies a fair bit, even occasionally with MSN returning less IIS based sites than Apache...although usually more. But it ALWAYS totals out to 6%.
6%. 6%. Why are all 8 averages showing a difference of almost exactly 6%? An even marginally random experiment ought to show variations, unless MSN itself is tweaked for 6%. Now, I'm not an "M$ hater" but it seems kind of odd that MSN would be set to favor IIS sites on average 6% of the time. It seems equally odd that the reviewer results would always average out to 6%, particularly given the small size of the dataset; that all 8 graphs converge to the same central value is odd, to say the least.
I'm not going to suggest any particular theories on what's going on, but this is a pretty shoddy report, if you ask me. Hardly thorough or definitive. More like a guy in his basement looking for another reason to hate Microsoft. Kinda like a (stereo)typical slashdot member, come to think of it.
So, I'm thinking to myself, what the hell is going on? Why do the results look this way? I graphed the alternate's detailed results (quick excel graph with sort, nothing special, will make available on request). One graph of the difference in Apache results, one graph of the difference in IIS results. And well, the results are cubic. No question about it. R squared values of.982 and.973.
Looking at the data, it becomes apparent that there's one single search result which skewed everything, and that's the search for "plexiglas". Drop off that result and now things are starting to look just a little bit inconsistent. Flip back to the original article and notice a small handful of similar results that are also off the graph by a fair bit.
Six Percent. The nearly cubic curve, the constant 6% differences. I'm going to stop here, but please people, just think about this. Something's strange here, to say the least.
iTunes installs (without asking, I might add) the iPod driver to communicate with the iPod, as well as at least 2 background services. It's that driver that Windows is warning you about.
The war's heating up. Most the Linux and Windows FUD machines are in high gear, spreading all sorts of lies about both OSes.
If only people would live in reality for once.
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One of my good (internet) friends is a programmer on Quake 4, and I know a few other guys on the Activision tech team and such. The story is a continuation of Quake 2, but you can expect Q3A style multiplayer awesomeness as well. It's going to be a great game.
Yeah...yeah...
I just wish, just ONCE that somebody would do a fair evaluation, without an agenda to forward. But I guess that'll never happen. We all have bias...but surely we could at least attempt to get above that?
10%? 15%? Those are numbers I'd believe. But THREE HUNDRED PERCENT? I like Microsoft, and I like when somebody defends them. But this is just bull.
In other news, some bratty teenager just got owned by somebody 80 years her elder.
Yeah...
In fact, if I had to guess...I'd say somebody is suffering from some real insecurity problems. Poor, poor Stuart Cohen.
Woo, thanks. All of the people saying that MS got scared into submission were clearly fools now. MS didn't support the bill for their stated reason -- they didn't feel like spending legal money on public policy. But since it's clearly important to people, they're going back and supporting it. I don't believe MS is evil, any more. They were once upon a time, but I think that something's fundamentally changed over there. Even that psycho Ballmer is, I think, starting to see the light of sanity.
"continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena."
I have to admit, I'm a little confused...ostensibly they're trying to somehow include creationism in this...but that definition doesn't seem to leave any loopholes for god or the bible.
Aww yeah, nothing like a big cool tall glass of IGNORANCE. From what I can gather, they're basically giving things coming out of MS Research to companies. And if you poke around the conveniently linked site, there's a lot of stuff there. A lot of it is research -- mind you that means it's not production ready or polished. But there's a lot of good stuff there. I don't understand how this could possibly be construed as a bad thing, but as history as shown, the zealots will find a way. MS Research is great, albeit unpolished. Please try to see that.
He's not taking credit for creating the internet, although people are trying to falsely pin it on him. But as far as the legislative and government side is concerned with the internet, he was the primary drive and power behind it. And considering all of you (and me) are internet addicts, doing silly things like posting on slashdot, I think maybe we owe him a bit of thanks.
Won't it be kinda boring? I mean, I always enjoyed going to a large skyscraper, pressing every button in the elevator from bottom to top, and then getting off at the very next floor, leaving any other poor bastards to wait as the elevators stops on every one of 84 floors. Not too many floors in space though. At least, not yet. I'm betting there'll be a McDonald's half way up by the time you or I get a ride.
I think somebody just found their towel...
Ignoring the absolutely scary fact that you're using hungarian...
Are you in debug mode or release mode? If the optimizer's not active, then of course you're not getting optimal code. That looks to me like the fairly typical code VC tends to generate when the optimizer is turned off. Stack variables when registers would have worked fine, pushing and popping unused registers, etc. In fact, I'm pretty damned certain the optimizer hasn't actually been over that code yet. Perhaps your Visual Studio skills aren't quite up to snuff.
All I want to know is who's going to be swimming with Opera's CEO across the atlantic.
The interesting thing is, except for the reboot requests from Windows Update, all of these reboots aren't actually necessary. Most of them come from badly written install software designed for Win 98/ME that can't detect that they're on an NT based system, which is rather more rugged. When an installer asks me to reboot, I just click no and ignore it. I've yet to have anything break, because the need to reboot is a myth. I could just as easily write a shell script to install something in /usr/lib and say "You must reboot to finish the installation, press y to continue or n to cancel". That doesn't mean you need to reboot. It means whoever wrote the installer is an idiot.
1) Charge a ridiculous tax on iPods
2) Profit!
Wait a second, something's missing here.
196 euro extra?! Does it even cost that much?
1) Steal severely abused and trite joke 2) ?? 3) Profit!
Real patriots have their phone lines wiretapped 24/7!
Well, I always felt that stage 1 installs were idiotic myself. I start at stage 3 (no GRP, don't want to waste another CD) and then leave the system on for a night or two as it gradually compiles downwards. Actually I don't even bother with that anymore, because frankly it's not worth the 0% effort I put into it.
"A lot of 15- and 16-year-old guys are smart enough to have strong political opinions," Roberto Preatoni, Zone-H founder, told Reuters on Monday.
Usually strong political opinions at that age are your parents' opinions, shaped by ignorance and upbringing and characterized by a complete lack of comprehension of how life works. Or long story short, they have strong political opinions because they're stupid, not because they're smart.
Yep, just like Ximian got acquired by Novell and now ships free and non free versions. Or perhaps like Sun's StarOffice and OpenOffice. But nobody seems particularly miffed about StarOffice. It's supposed to be better than OpenOffice so that people will use it instead, right? Come to think of it, SuSE got 'acquired' by Novell too. Where's their non free version? Stop screaming wolf slashdot. It's not "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." anymore. None of this matters, and real nerds, who are supposedly smart people, can hopefully see through the massive ongoing FUD machine that is Slashdot.
6% differences across the board. Normally, 6% is something to be expected simply because it's using different search algorithms. Normally. Look at the distribution of specific words. It varies a fair bit, even occasionally with MSN returning less IIS based sites than Apache...although usually more. But it ALWAYS totals out to 6%. 6%. 6%. Why are all 8 averages showing a difference of almost exactly 6%? An even marginally random experiment ought to show variations, unless MSN itself is tweaked for 6%. Now, I'm not an "M$ hater" but it seems kind of odd that MSN would be set to favor IIS sites on average 6% of the time. It seems equally odd that the reviewer results would always average out to 6%, particularly given the small size of the dataset; that all 8 graphs converge to the same central value is odd, to say the least. I'm not going to suggest any particular theories on what's going on, but this is a pretty shoddy report, if you ask me. Hardly thorough or definitive. More like a guy in his basement looking for another reason to hate Microsoft. Kinda like a (stereo)typical slashdot member, come to think of it. So, I'm thinking to myself, what the hell is going on? Why do the results look this way? I graphed the alternate's detailed results (quick excel graph with sort, nothing special, will make available on request). One graph of the difference in Apache results, one graph of the difference in IIS results. And well, the results are cubic. No question about it. R squared values of .982 and .973.
Looking at the data, it becomes apparent that there's one single search result which skewed everything, and that's the search for "plexiglas". Drop off that result and now things are starting to look just a little bit inconsistent. Flip back to the original article and notice a small handful of similar results that are also off the graph by a fair bit.
Six Percent. The nearly cubic curve, the constant 6% differences. I'm going to stop here, but please people, just think about this. Something's strange here, to say the least.
iTunes installs (without asking, I might add) the iPod driver to communicate with the iPod, as well as at least 2 background services. It's that driver that Windows is warning you about.
The war's heating up. Most the Linux and Windows FUD machines are in high gear, spreading all sorts of lies about both OSes. If only people would live in reality for once.
Are you kidding? A 4200+? The least you could've done is octal dual core opterons (8-way total). What a loser.