He must be a pretty lame PhD. The hardest thing that you might have to do is format your computer (i.e. still not very hard, much easier than lugging it down the stairs to throw it away).
If it turns out that this does go through and it causes me any problems, I'll just use unprotected (i.e. pirated) content. It's fine if they make DRM that allows me to use legal stuff all the ways I want, but if my legal stuff doesn't work how I want, I'll just use illegal stuff.
That's freakin' hilarious. I thought that the writer meant to say "Preeminent," and I made fun of him, when in reality, I was the one who didn't know what he was talking about.
Who'da thought there was something called a "pre-emptive" multitasking environment!
What is a pre-emptive multitasking operating system? Is that when you multitask before the user asks you to? Maybe your threads terminate before you call kill?
Maybe I'm stupid and just don't get it.
It's a book that will make many times more money than the money that all of the people who read this post will make in their lifetimes. When we're talking about this much money, it might as well be national security.
That's why you break it down over multiple lines. Don't worry, it doesn't take up any more space on the stack than it would otherwise . . . and you can read it . . .
Er . . . there's no such thing as a MethodNotSupportedException exception. Actually, there's not even anything that matches the first two words, MethodNot.
Are you thinking about NoSuchMethodException? NSME is thrown when you're using reflection and you reflectively request a method by name that doesn't exist using something like Class.getMethod(String name). Or perhaps you meant to say CloneNotSupportedException, which is just a fancy way of saying, "Nope, you can't copy me."
Reflection is/was an artifact of not having generics (which is, by the way, the only reason why C++ doesn't need those kinds of RTTI keywords as well). Bagging in Java for not being OO is taking the Slashdot-flavor unsupported criticism a little bit too far.
What in the world? That's not what this part is talking about. It's saying that, even in the worst circumstances, there are things to be thankful for, because they have been given by the Giver.
In any case, it doesn't apply as you mean it to the guy who gave the interview, because he doesn't accept contributions from amateurs. He may have received in plenty (in a broad sense), but in terms of OSS, he has not received help from the people that he speaks against.
I think you missed the point of the grandparent (of my post; parent of yours). "Game theory," at least as the OP means it, is not actually Game Theory at all. Game Theory is a thinking tool used by social scientists, psychologists, and statisticians to learn things about the ways humans think and also about problem spaces that they are trying to address. Each of the grandparents' questions are classic problems in game theory, each of which have a very specific right answer.
If this is the worst you can come up with for Windows, then you've basically just admitted that it is better. There was a whole slew of problems with Linux that the grandfather poster mentioned, none of which even addressed what would happen if there was an error.
Wait, I thought the whole point of having multiple cores was that you don't have to switch context, since you dedicate each core to a single thread. The resource contention is a problem though. I wonder how we programmers will deal with that, when the time comes . . . I know! Another thread to make sure that everyone asks for the right resources!
In all seriousness, I know that these things are a problem now, but they too will be overcome in time, just like everything else is. Multithreaded gaming is the future, because processors won't be getting faster, but wider, going forward, and game programming has to adapt to that.
Forget that trash, I'm holding out for 128. Let's see, one thread for each enemy, one thread to do each sound currently playing, one thread to give instructions to the GPU, one thread for UI, as many threads as there are open ports for net play, times two for playing more than one game at onces . . .
At this point, it seems like the microprocessor market is on the cusp of becoming truly competitive. My friends, do you know what this means!? Innovation will skyrocket. More pixels, more flops, more cycles, more registers, more cache, more cores. Yes, the future is bright!
Thirty-two cores on one chip by 2010. You heard it first here.
i beleive real life is left to be defined by ME as i am the person living it.
Real life is what it is. It is not up to you or anyone else to define it. The experience you have in life does not wait and ask what your definition of it is before being; it simply is. If you don't like it, you can delude yourself into thinking that you have some kind of power to define real life, but the truth is that all the rules to the game have already been laid down, and you have to play the best that you can. You can't redefine life -- living, being with people, doing work, etc. -- no matter how hard you try and no matter who you are.
To say that i 'espouse' a world view is to imply that i subscribe to a specific set of views put forth by somebody else.
Read it again. Did I say that you espouse someone else's world view? No, I said that you espouse a world view, i.e. you believe certain things about the world (Or, it can be taken from your post that you do. You may not actually know what you believe at all.)
As for this kind of thing being far better discussed openly: this is the kind of thing that pot-head CS majors discuss when they're high, not the kind of thing real people discuss. You believe what you believe, I'll believe what I believe, and our conversation with life will shape what we believe in the end. To think I could have even the most minor effect on what you think would be the greatest arrogance on my part.
Don't get me wrong, it's very impressive that you worked with Blizzard; I've heard how hard it is to get a job there. You must be a really smart guy. As an up-and-coming coder myself, I hope someday to be able to look back on things and say, "Diablo III, I'm James A," or something like that.
However, your claim of working on Diablo II doesn't add much credibility to your talking about learning AI. Here, let me illustrate by sketching out a plausible simalcra of Diablo II's AI, and you can tell me if I miss anything:
while (!dead()) {
if (hasSpell() && canCast()) {
castSpellAtPlayer();
} else if (!healthLow()) {
runAtPlayerAndAttack();
} else {
runAwayFromPlayer();
}
maybeRoarOrDoSomething(); }
All right, that's really it. Is there more to it than that that I'm just not seeing? So, what game did you work on that had a learning AI? Or even just a relatively complicated one? I don't mean to belittle your work, but I'm sure that you did more in Diablo than just AI, cause there just doesn't seem to be much meat to it.
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He must be a pretty lame PhD. The hardest thing that you might have to do is format your computer (i.e. still not very hard, much easier than lugging it down the stairs to throw it away).
Ergo, this argument is worthless.
You are too skeptical.
If it turns out that this does go through and it causes me any problems, I'll just use unprotected (i.e. pirated) content. It's fine if they make DRM that allows me to use legal stuff all the ways I want, but if my legal stuff doesn't work how I want, I'll just use illegal stuff.
That's freakin' hilarious. I thought that the writer meant to say "Preeminent," and I made fun of him, when in reality, I was the one who didn't know what he was talking about.
Who'da thought there was something called a "pre-emptive" multitasking environment!
What is a pre-emptive multitasking operating system? Is that when you multitask before the user asks you to? Maybe your threads terminate before you call kill? Maybe I'm stupid and just don't get it.
When I think anti-trust, I think free market, no matter who is implementing it.
Are you kiddding me? The truth is much more important than national boundaries!
And why should I care any more about people working in CA versus Canada? They have about the same impact on my economic standing.
This is wonderful news. Any move that causes the free market to gain more force in this world should be heralded with joy.
Especially if you want 120 more FPS by Christmas 2006.
It's a book that will make many times more money than the money that all of the people who read this post will make in their lifetimes. When we're talking about this much money, it might as well be national security.
That's why you break it down over multiple lines. Don't worry, it doesn't take up any more space on the stack than it would otherwise . . . and you can read it . . .
Er . . . there's no such thing as a MethodNotSupportedException exception. Actually, there's not even anything that matches the first two words, MethodNot.
Are you thinking about NoSuchMethodException? NSME is thrown when you're using reflection and you reflectively request a method by name that doesn't exist using something like Class.getMethod(String name). Or perhaps you meant to say CloneNotSupportedException, which is just a fancy way of saying, "Nope, you can't copy me."
Reflection is/was an artifact of not having generics (which is, by the way, the only reason why C++ doesn't need those kinds of RTTI keywords as well). Bagging in Java for not being OO is taking the Slashdot-flavor unsupported criticism a little bit too far.
Anything that is worth doing is done better in C++. =)
What in the world? That's not what this part is talking about. It's saying that, even in the worst circumstances, there are things to be thankful for, because they have been given by the Giver.
In any case, it doesn't apply as you mean it to the guy who gave the interview, because he doesn't accept contributions from amateurs. He may have received in plenty (in a broad sense), but in terms of OSS, he has not received help from the people that he speaks against.
Did you read the article? That's exactly how his company makes money.
*sigh*
I think you missed the point of the grandparent (of my post; parent of yours). "Game theory," at least as the OP means it, is not actually Game Theory at all. Game Theory is a thinking tool used by social scientists, psychologists, and statisticians to learn things about the ways humans think and also about problem spaces that they are trying to address. Each of the grandparents' questions are classic problems in game theory, each of which have a very specific right answer.
I don't think that having a 0.0.1.0 release and being first to market are really compatible concepts.
If this is the worst you can come up with for Windows, then you've basically just admitted that it is better. There was a whole slew of problems with Linux that the grandfather poster mentioned, none of which even addressed what would happen if there was an error.
Conclusions?
1/ Mac OS X is not all that great
Way to go for the 'ole "Proof by Small Example" there.
espouse: 2 : to take up and support as a cause : become attached to
synonym see ADOPT
This does not in any way imply that it is someone else's cause you are taking up. I don't really know how to respond to the second part. Sorry.
Wait, I thought the whole point of having multiple cores was that you don't have to switch context, since you dedicate each core to a single thread. The resource contention is a problem though. I wonder how we programmers will deal with that, when the time comes . . . I know! Another thread to make sure that everyone asks for the right resources!
In all seriousness, I know that these things are a problem now, but they too will be overcome in time, just like everything else is. Multithreaded gaming is the future, because processors won't be getting faster, but wider, going forward, and game programming has to adapt to that.
Forget that trash, I'm holding out for 128. Let's see, one thread for each enemy, one thread to do each sound currently playing, one thread to give instructions to the GPU, one thread for UI, as many threads as there are open ports for net play, times two for playing more than one game at onces . . .
At this point, it seems like the microprocessor market is on the cusp of becoming truly competitive. My friends, do you know what this means!? Innovation will skyrocket. More pixels, more flops, more cycles, more registers, more cache, more cores. Yes, the future is bright!
Thirty-two cores on one chip by 2010. You heard it first here.
i beleive real life is left to be defined by ME as i am the person living it.
Real life is what it is. It is not up to you or anyone else to define it. The experience you have in life does not wait and ask what your definition of it is before being; it simply is. If you don't like it, you can delude yourself into thinking that you have some kind of power to define real life, but the truth is that all the rules to the game have already been laid down, and you have to play the best that you can. You can't redefine life -- living, being with people, doing work, etc. -- no matter how hard you try and no matter who you are.
To say that i 'espouse' a world view is to imply that i subscribe to a specific set of views put forth by somebody else.
Read it again. Did I say that you espouse someone else's world view? No, I said that you espouse a world view, i.e. you believe certain things about the world (Or, it can be taken from your post that you do. You may not actually know what you believe at all.)
As for this kind of thing being far better discussed openly: this is the kind of thing that pot-head CS majors discuss when they're high, not the kind of thing real people discuss. You believe what you believe, I'll believe what I believe, and our conversation with life will shape what we believe in the end. To think I could have even the most minor effect on what you think would be the greatest arrogance on my part.Don't get me wrong, it's very impressive that you worked with Blizzard; I've heard how hard it is to get a job there. You must be a really smart guy. As an up-and-coming coder myself, I hope someday to be able to look back on things and say, "Diablo III, I'm James A," or something like that.
However, your claim of working on Diablo II doesn't add much credibility to your talking about learning AI. Here, let me illustrate by sketching out a plausible simalcra of Diablo II's AI, and you can tell me if I miss anything:
while (!dead()) {
if (hasSpell() && canCast()) {
castSpellAtPlayer();
} else if (!healthLow()) {
runAtPlayerAndAttack();
} else {
runAwayFromPlayer();
}
maybeRoarOrDoSomething();
}
All right, that's really it. Is there more to it than that that I'm just not seeing? So, what game did you work on that had a learning AI? Or even just a relatively complicated one? I don't mean to belittle your work, but I'm sure that you did more in Diablo than just AI, cause there just doesn't seem to be much meat to it.
Please see #12897635 and it's parent.