I gotta tell ya, my boss got me hooked on the sinus rinse stuff. I use a pressurized version (the neti pot never manages to plow through without a good couple of tries...). I feel 1000% better most of the time cuz of it. My boss sweared by it because he no longer needed allergy meds nor suffered from hay fever. Stuff is magic!
Christ I was wondering if anyone else fucking realized that. It's all a matter of inelastic vs elastic collisions (as these are the only things CHANGING in the difference between the chicken being frozen vs unfrozen), and the amount of kinetic energy lost in the collision. There's a fucking reason we fire bullets and not nerf darts out of guns meant to kill people.
When you have an unfrozen chicken it is definitely going to be much more elastic and absorb significantly more of the impact. Wheras a frozen chicken will be wholy unforgiving.
This is evidenced from when you "pack" snowballs and when you just use loose powder. Ice balls hurt like a bitch and are significantly more deadly than a loose powder ball. (same mass, relatively same velocity, different densities)
Did government help every make anything innovative? Hello? You're using it, the fucking internet.
That would _never_ have been created in a free market. Period. The value was not there (aside from defense), and no corporation would have ever spent the money to expand it the way that it was (aside from the USA's good ol military industrial complex + grants!) .
Science and creation are not entirely tied to economics. Just because we COULD wait until we completely exhausted a resource to find an alternative doesn't mean we should. That's fallacy. And what if we need that resource for something else down the line? (Like more plastics rather than more car gas...). There are many uses for many things.
I spent years trying to figure out this whole "fundie" mentality of religion myself. I think it just really stems from who is teaching and who is learning. I learned everything about Christianity and God from my grandmother (Wiccan/Catholic nun) and the jesuits at my private school in highschool. It's... very very different from everything else I've heard of.
I mean, in all seriousness, my Bible study teacher flat out said that the reason there is a creation myth in the Bible is because all the other religions had one as well. However, he did ad, that if you don't take it too literally it can work with our current understanding. None of my teachers ever once even hinted that science and religion could not get along nor go hand in hand.
Topics like Abortion were always met with a very hard handed "evil", however, well, aside from my Grandmother, who very strongly believes that no one has the right to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body (and that ultimately it is between her and God and no one else) and I very strongly agree with her.
... and ultimately who is to say the database wont eventually be flawed because whoever programmed THAT has a workaround for the whole bloody filesystem?
The filesystem should definitely be abstracted to the point where the software does not need to do anything super special (telling the OS to manually plug in the cached writes it's insane).
Mind you, this is pretty heavy OS code, so, YMMV. Bottom line, even these guys shouldn't fucking care if you're using ext4 or fat32(just an example! and yes, there are exceptions, but general software case, you shouldn't need to) at the end of the day.
I think you should try telling that to the middle east. You know, the guys that feel the rest of the world looks down on them because they don't have nuclear capibilities...
I read all my slashdot during "build time". The worst part is, my work machine is so crappy, I'm in C# and I still have time to at least read the summary before it finishes JITing.
Uhm, 5 extra developers isn't an issue? You don't just need a "developer" you need a senior level developer that is well versed in multithreaded and embeded systems. As well as knowing his ASM. And that's going to set you back at LEAST 100k. So 500,000k/yr added up on your game is nothing?
Killzone took two years to develop. That's a million dollars extra for the game. On a platform that has less base users than xbox. And if your game flops, you are entirely and utterly done. Game over, don't pass go, don't collect $200 mil.
Yes, but everyone seems to be forgetting the real shitty part, you can't listen to their music AND other music in a playlist. It's either only their stuff or anything else. If multiple bands started to do this... it would be increasingly annoying!
When was the last time you liked EVERY song on an album?
... regenerative braking only matters in city situations. As, well, quite obviously, IT ONLY POWERS UP YOUR CAR WHEN YOU BRAKE.
Crappy highway conditions aside, you aren't pulling up to a stopsign/red light that often on the highway. THUS, the regenerative braking can't work.
bottom line, if we keep making little features that add up, we can make an extremely efficient vehicle. Braking and shock absorption have always been energy transfer mechanisms that have just turned energy into waste heat before, now, we can do something with that energy and that is amazing!
DDT is known to screw up the body chemistry of birds during the egg laying process, resulting in an egg that is not thick enough to maintain itself. Thus, wiping out bird populations.
DDT is a horrible horrible chemical and should NOT be in use again.
Actually, I ordered a very nice vostro from dell with a spiffy webcam. And windows XP.
The best part of the laptop? It had a very fancy phased array microphone setup. Even better, the line from it went too close to the CPU and was unshielded, so it rendered it useless as it would provide more static and line noise than anyone could hear from my actual voice on the other end.
I mean seriously, if they can't even figure out a MAJOR hardware defect, how the hell do you expect them to even start getting their drivers right on linux?
Actually the best part is they usually give you a few "waves" down the major cross town streets, like fulton + geary. Just floor it a lil bit over the speed limit and you can ride the lights for a while... provided there's no traffic!
SF is definitely a pedestrian city however. And they tend to want to slow down the motorists more than anything else.
And competing with bicycle space has become some what of an issue.
The trick isn't to use each SPU. The trick is to fully use the SPU and not have it waiting for memory look-ups or core-to-core communication.
Which is definitely not a "no problem" kind of situation. Look at the list of canceled PS3 games, heck, even EA had issues getting red alert 3 onto it! It is not a simple nor easy setup. Anyone that has any experience threading systems could tell you that, especially across asymmetric cores!
Yes, but there is nothing stopping them from swiping the plans for the rocket boosters and developing a few payload systems that could easily hit US shores with a dirty/chemical warhead.
Technically, this would not result in massive retaliation. Technically, as we weren't nuked, but I have no idea how governments would react to this kind of attack. And frankly, if it was a terrorist/extremist group it would be just as bad I guess.
Either way, I'd really prefer it if our rocketry sciences weren't put into public domain. (Although, yes, the ingredients are one of the hardest parts... as I believe the rocket fuel for NASA was published at some point and people COULD make it if they improvised on some of the ingredients and it would do some pretty awesome stuff).
What really needs to happen is that taxpayers fund government research which releases *all* findings/blueprints/formulas/source/etc to the public (minus *real* national security issues, such nuclear weapons).
You are completely and utterly out of your mind if you think we should be letting out all of our rocket technology to the public.
Absolutely insane.
The only thing keeping us from getting "missiled" at this point is that few countries have the ICBM technology to hit us. Which is why we're developing these "missile shields" (which sometimes work... the patriot missle defence is more or less useless at this point against modern missiles).
Giving other countries access to our space shuttle tech (aside from the iron state memory and whatever else is inside the shuttle is pretty much useless), I'm sure they could use at least the engine to design a better missile.
Some of this stuff needs to be kept safeish right now.
On a side note, lots of companies make a lot of money and jobs by being given these contracts and they usually do it more efficiently than the government can so I'm all in favor of it (I'm not saying they're perfect, I've heard enough stories of the government contract jobs that it really pisses me off when I pay taxes...)
Actually, if I remember this story correctly, they actually tried to REPEATEDLY warn the MBTA about this. They even offered a comprehensive list of suggestions to fix it.
They were repeatedly denied.
It wasn't until they were going to present the hack at a conference that the gag order was brought up and issued.
Either way, the MBTA basically told them to get lost on their suggestions and then threatened them to hell and back when they were going to go public with the knowledge.
I read the paper, whoever designed that system should be ashamed.
Uh... guys, it's called UDP, which has pretty much entirely replaced IPX. Mostly because it's the same protocol more or less running through IP.
It saves you from having to install multiple network interfaces on your system. And it's all going through the same layers.
That and UDP can work through NATS/Firewalls, which I'm not totally sure IPX did successfully (at least back in teh day when I was still learning how to use port forwarding when I was playing star craft games over a LAN).
Amen.
Although I'm only a student/intern in game development, the sincere joy of using C#/XML has far outpaced ever going back to a text file and created "Yet Another Scripting Language".
Never having to write my own parser that may be buggy and ridiculously out of scope? No problem, C# has them built in, even with low weight forward only readers! C++? No problem, TinyXML (or whatever other parser you want to use).
Saving myself from writing a text parser? PRICELESS.
XML Serialization is entirely and completely useful instead of having to change data inside my code, which is a ridiculous practice. I'd rather just change an xml file instead of having to recompile.
I use XML for most of my projects, and my artists on my team have thanked me for not using some assinine formate for getting data into the game. If they want to change ANYTHING, they just start plugging in new values in the XML docs. Simple. Easy. And requires 0 input/effort on my end.
Never having to worry about EOF? Thank you!
I don't know, I think that's bullshit that a business couldn't come up with the receipt for their software licenses. At the very least, they could go back to their retailer and obtain another copy of the sales transaction. In all seriousness, this is an accounting issue and those guys should have every record of their stuff ever. Especially a major purchase of 10,000 or so licenses of windowze.
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I gotta tell ya, my boss got me hooked on the sinus rinse stuff. I use a pressurized version (the neti pot never manages to plow through without a good couple of tries...). I feel 1000% better most of the time cuz of it. My boss sweared by it because he no longer needed allergy meds nor suffered from hay fever. Stuff is magic!
Christ I was wondering if anyone else fucking realized that. It's all a matter of inelastic vs elastic collisions (as these are the only things CHANGING in the difference between the chicken being frozen vs unfrozen), and the amount of kinetic energy lost in the collision. There's a fucking reason we fire bullets and not nerf darts out of guns meant to kill people.
When you have an unfrozen chicken it is definitely going to be much more elastic and absorb significantly more of the impact. Wheras a frozen chicken will be wholy unforgiving.
This is evidenced from when you "pack" snowballs and when you just use loose powder. Ice balls hurt like a bitch and are significantly more deadly than a loose powder ball. (same mass, relatively same velocity, different densities)
Did government help every make anything innovative? Hello? You're using it, the fucking internet.
That would _never_ have been created in a free market. Period. The value was not there (aside from defense), and no corporation would have ever spent the money to expand it the way that it was (aside from the USA's good ol military industrial complex + grants!) .
Science and creation are not entirely tied to economics. Just because we COULD wait until we completely exhausted a resource to find an alternative doesn't mean we should. That's fallacy. And what if we need that resource for something else down the line? (Like more plastics rather than more car gas...). There are many uses for many things.
I spent years trying to figure out this whole "fundie" mentality of religion myself. I think it just really stems from who is teaching and who is learning. I learned everything about Christianity and God from my grandmother (Wiccan/Catholic nun) and the jesuits at my private school in highschool. It's... very very different from everything else I've heard of.
I mean, in all seriousness, my Bible study teacher flat out said that the reason there is a creation myth in the Bible is because all the other religions had one as well. However, he did ad, that if you don't take it too literally it can work with our current understanding. None of my teachers ever once even hinted that science and religion could not get along nor go hand in hand.
Topics like Abortion were always met with a very hard handed "evil", however, well, aside from my Grandmother, who very strongly believes that no one has the right to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body (and that ultimately it is between her and God and no one else) and I very strongly agree with her.
... and ultimately who is to say the database wont eventually be flawed because whoever programmed THAT has a workaround for the whole bloody filesystem?
The filesystem should definitely be abstracted to the point where the software does not need to do anything super special (telling the OS to manually plug in the cached writes it's insane).
Mind you, this is pretty heavy OS code, so, YMMV. Bottom line, even these guys shouldn't fucking care if you're using ext4 or fat32(just an example! and yes, there are exceptions, but general software case, you shouldn't need to) at the end of the day.
I think you should try telling that to the middle east. You know, the guys that feel the rest of the world looks down on them because they don't have nuclear capibilities...
I read all my slashdot during "build time". The worst part is, my work machine is so crappy, I'm in C# and I still have time to at least read the summary before it finishes JITing.
Killzone took two years to develop. That's a million dollars extra for the game. On a platform that has less base users than xbox. And if your game flops, you are entirely and utterly done. Game over, don't pass go, don't collect $200 mil.
When was the last time you liked EVERY song on an album?
Oh, I'm a programmer, and I understand the difference. I'm just terrified of trying to write a massively parallel program :D
Crappy highway conditions aside, you aren't pulling up to a stopsign/red light that often on the highway. THUS, the regenerative braking can't work.
bottom line, if we keep making little features that add up, we can make an extremely efficient vehicle. Braking and shock absorption have always been energy transfer mechanisms that have just turned energy into waste heat before, now, we can do something with that energy and that is amazing!
DDT is known to screw up the body chemistry of birds during the egg laying process, resulting in an egg that is not thick enough to maintain itself. Thus, wiping out bird populations. DDT is a horrible horrible chemical and should NOT be in use again.
robot snakes with lasers on their heads...
San Francisco City College is $20 a credit. *shrug* they have a lot of interesting classes to take there :D
The best part of the laptop? It had a very fancy phased array microphone setup. Even better, the line from it went too close to the CPU and was unshielded, so it rendered it useless as it would provide more static and line noise than anyone could hear from my actual voice on the other end.
I mean seriously, if they can't even figure out a MAJOR hardware defect, how the hell do you expect them to even start getting their drivers right on linux?
Actually the best part is they usually give you a few "waves" down the major cross town streets, like fulton + geary. Just floor it a lil bit over the speed limit and you can ride the lights for a while... provided there's no traffic!
SF is definitely a pedestrian city however. And they tend to want to slow down the motorists more than anything else.
And competing with bicycle space has become some what of an issue.
The trick isn't to use each SPU. The trick is to fully use the SPU and not have it waiting for memory look-ups or core-to-core communication.
Which is definitely not a "no problem" kind of situation. Look at the list of canceled PS3 games, heck, even EA had issues getting red alert 3 onto it! It is not a simple nor easy setup. Anyone that has any experience threading systems could tell you that, especially across asymmetric cores!
Yes, but there is nothing stopping them from swiping the plans for the rocket boosters and developing a few payload systems that could easily hit US shores with a dirty/chemical warhead.
Technically, this would not result in massive retaliation. Technically, as we weren't nuked, but I have no idea how governments would react to this kind of attack. And frankly, if it was a terrorist/extremist group it would be just as bad I guess.
Either way, I'd really prefer it if our rocketry sciences weren't put into public domain. (Although, yes, the ingredients are one of the hardest parts... as I believe the rocket fuel for NASA was published at some point and people COULD make it if they improvised on some of the ingredients and it would do some pretty awesome stuff).
What really needs to happen is that taxpayers fund government research which releases *all* findings/blueprints/formulas/source/etc to the public (minus *real* national security issues, such nuclear weapons).
You are completely and utterly out of your mind if you think we should be letting out all of our rocket technology to the public.
Absolutely insane.
The only thing keeping us from getting "missiled" at this point is that few countries have the ICBM technology to hit us. Which is why we're developing these "missile shields" (which sometimes work... the patriot missle defence is more or less useless at this point against modern missiles).
Giving other countries access to our space shuttle tech (aside from the iron state memory and whatever else is inside the shuttle is pretty much useless), I'm sure they could use at least the engine to design a better missile.
Some of this stuff needs to be kept safeish right now.
On a side note, lots of companies make a lot of money and jobs by being given these contracts and they usually do it more efficiently than the government can so I'm all in favor of it (I'm not saying they're perfect, I've heard enough stories of the government contract jobs that it really pisses me off when I pay taxes...)
hah.
They were repeatedly denied.
It wasn't until they were going to present the hack at a conference that the gag order was brought up and issued.
Either way, the MBTA basically told them to get lost on their suggestions and then threatened them to hell and back when they were going to go public with the knowledge.
I read the paper, whoever designed that system should be ashamed.
Uh... guys, it's called UDP, which has pretty much entirely replaced IPX. Mostly because it's the same protocol more or less running through IP. It saves you from having to install multiple network interfaces on your system. And it's all going through the same layers. That and UDP can work through NATS/Firewalls, which I'm not totally sure IPX did successfully (at least back in teh day when I was still learning how to use port forwarding when I was playing star craft games over a LAN).
Amen. Although I'm only a student/intern in game development, the sincere joy of using C#/XML has far outpaced ever going back to a text file and created "Yet Another Scripting Language". Never having to write my own parser that may be buggy and ridiculously out of scope? No problem, C# has them built in, even with low weight forward only readers! C++? No problem, TinyXML (or whatever other parser you want to use). Saving myself from writing a text parser? PRICELESS. XML Serialization is entirely and completely useful instead of having to change data inside my code, which is a ridiculous practice. I'd rather just change an xml file instead of having to recompile. I use XML for most of my projects, and my artists on my team have thanked me for not using some assinine formate for getting data into the game. If they want to change ANYTHING, they just start plugging in new values in the XML docs. Simple. Easy. And requires 0 input/effort on my end. Never having to worry about EOF? Thank you!
I don't know, I think that's bullshit that a business couldn't come up with the receipt for their software licenses. At the very least, they could go back to their retailer and obtain another copy of the sales transaction. In all seriousness, this is an accounting issue and those guys should have every record of their stuff ever. Especially a major purchase of 10,000 or so licenses of windowze.
http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/ eng/compilers/279578.htm#sysreq