Eh, sort of. It's a C++ base, but most UE4 game developers work with blueprints due to the speed with which you can put something together. Visual scripting languages are quickly becoming the standard in game development.
You'll generally see people putting together custom functions and the like using C++, which are then implemented by the level designer / game designer / artists via blueprints.
The cost of manufacture is a pretty small portion of the total cost of these systems. Sure, the marginal cost of a single CPU is fairly low, but the R&D investment is massive and the fab itself is several billion dollars that needs to be recouped somehow.
You're not wrong, but there's a fair bit of debate that goes on about "superficial choice." If the choice has no consequences, is it really a choice, or is it just virtue signalling for the player? How much of an impact does a choice need to have before it becomes part of the story, and how much is just "fake depth?"
Basically, if every choice you make leads to the same place, do any of those choices matter? It's a complex question, both for philosophy and for game development. People get pretty worked up over it.
Um. If you're discussing what you do at work with a customer of your employer, it doesn't matter whether you called the twitter feed a "personal account" - you're speaking for the company. How you behave reflects on your employer, and your employer is justified in telling you not to do that, or, in a particularly egregious case, firing you over it.
As I understand it, it's not a ban on ISPs from breaking net neutrality, but rather an order to the state government that anybody doing business with the state of California must abide by net neutrality.
Basically, if you want any government contracts, you need to follow the regulations that they're putting forward, but you can operate in the state without them.
They did pay a fine as part of the original settlement, and a moderately severe one, too. The Commerce Department's decision to ban them from buying American hardware and software was levied only after they failed to adhere to the terms of settlement, specifically, that several executives would be punished, fired, and receive no bonuses. They didn't follow up on punishing the executives, hence the ban.
It's not like this was a draconian move out of the blue - they were told ahead of time what the consequences would be for not doing what they agreed to do, and they did it anyway. I presume the assumption was that the Commerce Department wouldn't actually follow through with it, which turned out to be wrong.
'course, Trump's probably the most corrupt president we've ever had, so it turns out to have been a fine move by ZTE.
Y'know, there's a pretty big difference between "please give us your personal information so we can use it to build our statistical models to improve our chances at winning an election" and "take this vapid quiz while we hoover up all your info and all your friends' info without you knowing."
Two people agreeing to have sex is fine. One person sneaking in to another person's house after they run into each other at the grocery store and proceeding to fuck them while they're asleep pointedly is not fine. Sure, the end result might be the same, but it turns out how you get there actually matters.
I wonder if this is in any way related to the recent ZTE decision. Qualcomm provides a lot of parts for ZTE, and with ZTE no longer able to buy parts from Qualcomm, they may be forced to go through some aggressive cost-cutting.
Given how close they are, it may simply be coincidence as well. Large companies don't do mass layoffs at the drop of a hat, after all.
But... this bill doesn't target phone calls. It targets hosts of web sites. I'm not trying to say the NSA doesn't collect information - they obviously do. I'm saying they don't have any real reason to care about *this* bill, because it doesn't affect their affairs.
Counterpoint: HIPAA exists, and places limits on speech. California has an extension of it, called CMIA, that goes further. The first amendment is massive, and the supreme court has been very leery of any reductions in its power, but there are a few limits that the court is willing to accept.
I prefer to not call people nazis unless they are actually nazis. I find it lessens the impact of the term to misuse it.
And rational does not mean they agree with me - far from it. Rational means their arguments and positions support their professed viewpoints, nothing more or less. I have no interest in having arguments with people that won't be honest with themselves or me.
If somebody tells me that public health care is bad because the government wastes tons of money despite heaps of evidence to the contrary, I cannot have a debate with them because they do not believe in research, logic, or honest debate. If they tells me public health care is bad because the government's role is not to provide health care, then I can talk with them, because while I disagree with that viewpoint there's nothing wrong with the logic itself.
Left winger here. I'll happily debate politics with people interested in a calm (if passionate) rational discussion. I will not waste my time arguing with somebody spewing racist dogwhistles with no intention of listening or thinking about the points made.
Reddit is too big to lump into a single category. It has multiple communities from all across the political spectrum.
Is/r/latestagecapitalism left wing? Yes. Is/r/thedonald left wing? No.
Typically reddit puts up with subreddits as long as they don't advocate or end up used to commit violence. Both/r/politics and/r/thedonald want each other gone, but it's not happening until it becomes evident that purpose of the subreddit itself is problematic. It's not the level of political extremism, it's what the sub is getting used for and advocates for that dictates whether or not it's allowed.
Calling liberals or conservatives a "cancer on our nation that should just fuck off and die" isn't actually against the rules. Saying "so-and-so is a liberal/conservative, here's his/her address, go get 'em wink wink" is against the rules. If you have enough of the latter on your sub, it's getting the boot.
There are some pretty compelling reasons to have ICE powered vehicles in mountains. 1. Refueling infrastructure is rarer in the mountains, and trips are longer. Electric energy storage capacity isn't anywhere near that of fossil fuel. 2. It's a lot easier to power a small aerodynamic vehicle on level ground than it is to power a truck over hilly terrain. Regenerative breaking helps some, but it isn't a panacea. 3. Waste heat is less of an issue, and is actually a boon in colder areas.
Are the insurmountable problems? No. But until we see much higher density electric energy storage, I think ICE will keep the lead in mountainous automotive powertrains.
Eh, they have a premium service that charges a few bucks a month but most people don't use it since it doesn't really offer much in terms of extra features.
I happen to enjoy it because it brings my VOIP and chat (which is just IRC with some extra front-end features) into one app. If it goes away, I can always go back to the mumble/IRC combo that I used before.
In my opinion, people should be free to practice the religion of their choice so long as their religious views do not necessitate changes in behavior of others.
Example: "I believe the soul enters the body at conception, and thus consider abortion to be unethical and I will not perform one or have one performed on me."
That's fine. You're stating your view on a religious issue and how it dictates your behavior. You are welcome to opt out of having an abortion or going into careers where you provide them, because you have your religious freedom.
Example #2: "I believe the soul enters the body at conception, therefore abortion is murder and should be banned."
This is problematic, because you're taking your view - the soul enters the body at conception - and using it to change the law to have other people adhere to your beliefs. What if they hold a religious belief that the soul only enters the body after a hundred and forty four days? Abortion would thus be an ethical choice to someone with that belief until roughly halfway through the second trimester.
In the same way, I believe that people have the right to hold their own religious views - including conservative muslim ones - so long as those views do not require other people to adjust their public behavior for them. I don't care if you or your female associates wear a head covering, but I do care if you try to make my female friends wear them.
NPR's editorial and opinion pieces are moderately left-leaning. Their factual reporting - which is to say, the news they report - is very high quality.
I also said that left-wing protests dominate the university scene, which shouldn't be a surprise. Universities tend to have a younger population, on average, and exposure to new ideas (like you get at a college or university) has a well-documented correlation with an increase in liberal opinions.
If you'd prefer, here's a 2002 report from the FBI on the subject. It, too, states that right-wing terrorism overtook left-wing terrorism in the early 1990s.
You are entitled to read and watch the sources of news you personally agree with the viewpoints of, but beware consuming opinions as facts. Debate only has purpose if all sides share the same information. If you have information that is pertinent to the topic at hand, I welcome you to share it.
While the left wing does have a pretty strong monopoly on university protest, actual terrorism is predominately the domain of the right wing in America, and has been so since the 1990s. Back in the 70s, things were different, but we haven't really had that many violent radical left movements or attacks in America for several decades now.
If the government is gone, then there's nothing stopping the rich person from directly screwing with threats to his wealth.
If there are no courts to enforce contracts and no police to enforce the law, then we fall back on the oldest paradigm of "might makes right" - which quickly degenerates into tyranny of some form.
IANAP, but from my limited experience most plumbing fittings are done on the basis of *interior* size, not exterior. Wall thickness combined with interior diameter dictates the exterior diameter of a fitting.
I'm pretty sure the point is to store the words of the *politician*, not the words of everyone that talks to him or her. If the politician opts to reply to a question, then sure, make that reply part of the record - but let's not fill the record with a spam bot spewing obscenities into everybody's twitter stream. That's not really useful.
They're honestly pretty close on IPC, too - I think Intel has something on the order of a 3-5% lead with Kaby Lake? It's definitely not like it was with the previous AMD architecture.
I just put together a 6800k system, which I was hoping would last me for a good five years, but if applications start coming out that can actually leverage sixteen cores I'll be putting together a threadripper 2.0 box sometime down the line. Ideally one with ECC memory support, which AMD hasn't seen fit to remove from their desktop parts.
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Eh, sort of. It's a C++ base, but most UE4 game developers work with blueprints due to the speed with which you can put something together. Visual scripting languages are quickly becoming the standard in game development.
You'll generally see people putting together custom functions and the like using C++, which are then implemented by the level designer / game designer / artists via blueprints.
The cost of manufacture is a pretty small portion of the total cost of these systems. Sure, the marginal cost of a single CPU is fairly low, but the R&D investment is massive and the fab itself is several billion dollars that needs to be recouped somehow.
Disclaimer: I do game dev.
You're not wrong, but there's a fair bit of debate that goes on about "superficial choice." If the choice has no consequences, is it really a choice, or is it just virtue signalling for the player? How much of an impact does a choice need to have before it becomes part of the story, and how much is just "fake depth?"
Basically, if every choice you make leads to the same place, do any of those choices matter? It's a complex question, both for philosophy and for game development. People get pretty worked up over it.
Um. If you're discussing what you do at work with a customer of your employer, it doesn't matter whether you called the twitter feed a "personal account" - you're speaking for the company. How you behave reflects on your employer, and your employer is justified in telling you not to do that, or, in a particularly egregious case, firing you over it.
As I understand it, it's not a ban on ISPs from breaking net neutrality, but rather an order to the state government that anybody doing business with the state of California must abide by net neutrality.
Basically, if you want any government contracts, you need to follow the regulations that they're putting forward, but you can operate in the state without them.
Replying to undo incorrect moderation.
They did pay a fine as part of the original settlement, and a moderately severe one, too. The Commerce Department's decision to ban them from buying American hardware and software was levied only after they failed to adhere to the terms of settlement, specifically, that several executives would be punished, fired, and receive no bonuses. They didn't follow up on punishing the executives, hence the ban.
It's not like this was a draconian move out of the blue - they were told ahead of time what the consequences would be for not doing what they agreed to do, and they did it anyway. I presume the assumption was that the Commerce Department wouldn't actually follow through with it, which turned out to be wrong.
'course, Trump's probably the most corrupt president we've ever had, so it turns out to have been a fine move by ZTE.
Y'know, there's a pretty big difference between "please give us your personal information so we can use it to build our statistical models to improve our chances at winning an election" and "take this vapid quiz while we hoover up all your info and all your friends' info without you knowing."
Two people agreeing to have sex is fine. One person sneaking in to another person's house after they run into each other at the grocery store and proceeding to fuck them while they're asleep pointedly is not fine. Sure, the end result might be the same, but it turns out how you get there actually matters.
I wonder if this is in any way related to the recent ZTE decision. Qualcomm provides a lot of parts for ZTE, and with ZTE no longer able to buy parts from Qualcomm, they may be forced to go through some aggressive cost-cutting.
Given how close they are, it may simply be coincidence as well. Large companies don't do mass layoffs at the drop of a hat, after all.
But... this bill doesn't target phone calls. It targets hosts of web sites. I'm not trying to say the NSA doesn't collect information - they obviously do. I'm saying they don't have any real reason to care about *this* bill, because it doesn't affect their affairs.
Last I checked, the NSA did not run popular large-scale social media web sites...
Counterpoint: HIPAA exists, and places limits on speech. California has an extension of it, called CMIA, that goes further. The first amendment is massive, and the supreme court has been very leery of any reductions in its power, but there are a few limits that the court is willing to accept.
I prefer to not call people nazis unless they are actually nazis. I find it lessens the impact of the term to misuse it.
And rational does not mean they agree with me - far from it. Rational means their arguments and positions support their professed viewpoints, nothing more or less. I have no interest in having arguments with people that won't be honest with themselves or me.
If somebody tells me that public health care is bad because the government wastes tons of money despite heaps of evidence to the contrary, I cannot have a debate with them because they do not believe in research, logic, or honest debate. If they tells me public health care is bad because the government's role is not to provide health care, then I can talk with them, because while I disagree with that viewpoint there's nothing wrong with the logic itself.
Left winger here. I'll happily debate politics with people interested in a calm (if passionate) rational discussion. I will not waste my time arguing with somebody spewing racist dogwhistles with no intention of listening or thinking about the points made.
Reddit is too big to lump into a single category. It has multiple communities from all across the political spectrum.
Is /r/latestagecapitalism left wing? Yes. /r/thedonald left wing? No.
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Typically reddit puts up with subreddits as long as they don't advocate or end up used to commit violence. Both /r/politics and /r/thedonald want each other gone, but it's not happening until it becomes evident that purpose of the subreddit itself is problematic. It's not the level of political extremism, it's what the sub is getting used for and advocates for that dictates whether or not it's allowed.
Calling liberals or conservatives a "cancer on our nation that should just fuck off and die" isn't actually against the rules. Saying "so-and-so is a liberal/conservative, here's his/her address, go get 'em wink wink" is against the rules. If you have enough of the latter on your sub, it's getting the boot.
There are some pretty compelling reasons to have ICE powered vehicles in mountains.
1. Refueling infrastructure is rarer in the mountains, and trips are longer. Electric energy storage capacity isn't anywhere near that of fossil fuel.
2. It's a lot easier to power a small aerodynamic vehicle on level ground than it is to power a truck over hilly terrain. Regenerative breaking helps some, but it isn't a panacea.
3. Waste heat is less of an issue, and is actually a boon in colder areas.
Are the insurmountable problems? No. But until we see much higher density electric energy storage, I think ICE will keep the lead in mountainous automotive powertrains.
Eh, they have a premium service that charges a few bucks a month but most people don't use it since it doesn't really offer much in terms of extra features.
I happen to enjoy it because it brings my VOIP and chat (which is just IRC with some extra front-end features) into one app. If it goes away, I can always go back to the mumble/IRC combo that I used before.
In my opinion, people should be free to practice the religion of their choice so long as their religious views do not necessitate changes in behavior of others.
Example: "I believe the soul enters the body at conception, and thus consider abortion to be unethical and I will not perform one or have one performed on me."
That's fine. You're stating your view on a religious issue and how it dictates your behavior. You are welcome to opt out of having an abortion or going into careers where you provide them, because you have your religious freedom.
Example #2: "I believe the soul enters the body at conception, therefore abortion is murder and should be banned."
This is problematic, because you're taking your view - the soul enters the body at conception - and using it to change the law to have other people adhere to your beliefs. What if they hold a religious belief that the soul only enters the body after a hundred and forty four days? Abortion would thus be an ethical choice to someone with that belief until roughly halfway through the second trimester.
In the same way, I believe that people have the right to hold their own religious views - including conservative muslim ones - so long as those views do not require other people to adjust their public behavior for them. I don't care if you or your female associates wear a head covering, but I do care if you try to make my female friends wear them.
NPR's editorial and opinion pieces are moderately left-leaning. Their factual reporting - which is to say, the news they report - is very high quality.
I also said that left-wing protests dominate the university scene, which shouldn't be a surprise. Universities tend to have a younger population, on average, and exposure to new ideas (like you get at a college or university) has a well-documented correlation with an increase in liberal opinions.
If you'd prefer, here's a 2002 report from the FBI on the subject. It, too, states that right-wing terrorism overtook left-wing terrorism in the early 1990s.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archi...
You are entitled to read and watch the sources of news you personally agree with the viewpoints of, but beware consuming opinions as facts. Debate only has purpose if all sides share the same information. If you have information that is pertinent to the topic at hand, I welcome you to share it.
This. The real winners in the whole bitcoin craze are not the people mining; it's the folks selling GPUs and ASICs.
While the left wing does have a pretty strong monopoly on university protest, actual terrorism is predominately the domain of the right wing in America, and has been so since the 1990s. Back in the 70s, things were different, but we haven't really had that many violent radical left movements or attacks in America for several decades now.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/...
If the government is gone, then there's nothing stopping the rich person from directly screwing with threats to his wealth.
If there are no courts to enforce contracts and no police to enforce the law, then we fall back on the oldest paradigm of "might makes right" - which quickly degenerates into tyranny of some form.
IANAP, but from my limited experience most plumbing fittings are done on the basis of *interior* size, not exterior. Wall thickness combined with interior diameter dictates the exterior diameter of a fitting.
I'm pretty sure the point is to store the words of the *politician*, not the words of everyone that talks to him or her. If the politician opts to reply to a question, then sure, make that reply part of the record - but let's not fill the record with a spam bot spewing obscenities into everybody's twitter stream. That's not really useful.
They're honestly pretty close on IPC, too - I think Intel has something on the order of a 3-5% lead with Kaby Lake? It's definitely not like it was with the previous AMD architecture.
I just put together a 6800k system, which I was hoping would last me for a good five years, but if applications start coming out that can actually leverage sixteen cores I'll be putting together a threadripper 2.0 box sometime down the line. Ideally one with ECC memory support, which AMD hasn't seen fit to remove from their desktop parts.