There needs to be some form of user feedback, clickthroughs do not define good, just popular. People accidently watch all kinds of crap, they also should completely discount any random videos people pick.
There should be some form of rating on the videos as well so the people subjected to them can say if they suck or not, cause most of them suck.
To all the fanboys and haters, regardless of what you think, this is a smart move in the part of nintendo. Sure, they may not be the fastest of the bunch, but regardless, it'll profit. And isnt that the reason any business is around, the good old step #4. It'll cost nothing for nintendo to produce, they'll make profit on the consoles, they'll make more profit off the emulation of all the systems they are gonna cover. This will milk the last 20 years of gaming for all that it's worth.
So kudo's nintendo, while microsoft and sony fight it out and lose money on every console they sell, you will stay in the game, and get an extra life to play the next round with.
Can't they shield from the radiation, I would think while they are in the shuttle or iss they would be reasonably safe from radiation. I would think that this would be more an issue of being exposed to radiation on things like space walks. I would think if mankind ever got to interstellar travel we'd have solar radiation shielding figured out and this would probably be a non-issue. I doubt this will be a risk to the space tourism industry either.
It doesnt sound to hard, some leds with some sort of fiber to spread the light. it's amazing that it would use so much power as to spark the lcd.
The cheap way of doing this would be to allow light from the tv to leak out the back, which would also change depending on what it's displaying. Save some money on materials too.
I learnt originally on QBasic that was in DOS back in the day. I can't say that I'm particularily fond of basic, it feels like I lost my virginity to an ugly girl I never wish to see her again.
As with.net, sure it could be taken seriously, it's just a little bit of syntax difference, but the complexity of coding the equivalent app in c# or c++ is pretty much equal. I think basic should have been left doing basic applications though, because the language just doesn't format all that well, and I really dont like to read it. Other then that, it's a matter of syntax preferences, all managed languages are ~=.
Your caps implies that you don't want this to happen, but the truth of the matter is as following.
YOU NEED A COMPOSITE WINDOW MANAGER IN ORDER TO ZOOM THE WAY YOU WANT
There, I said it, but the advantages of a composite window manager go a lot deeper then eye candy. It'll improve performance while expanding the boundary on the graphical capabilities of desktops, it's only a improvement and a logical step now that 3d acceleration is the norm.
Associative arrays were all php used to offer, and i've been using them as structs to store massive amounts of data in them. Very useful for quick hacking, but not good for scalability, it'll be a mess to try to figure out where anything is later on.
I was under the impression that all browsers stored a cache, and do they really need to store it in memory, can they not just use a disk cache like every other browser on the market. Also, unless it's caching video's 200megs is a lot of memory for webpages.
lets
say each page takes 1 meg up, that's still 10 tabs with 20 levels of history on each. and 1 meg is abhorrable for a html site and it's content, also images throughout the same site are often shared, so they should not need more then one copy in the cache. I would estimate, roughly, that on average a cached html page + images should not take more then 300k, and I consider that to be a generous estimate. Compression could make the html and such even smaller.
Point being, 200 megs in ram for a cache seems like to much, and with efficient caching, 100 cached pages should not take more then 30 megs or so of memory. Which would ideally be put on the disk and not store any duplicates of any information/images etc. (if tab1 and tab2 saw the same page, only keep 1 cached copy). It just seems wierd that they need to cache on a level beyond what the http and html both allow. Can't you just have a single normal cache like everyone else?
For out an about digital radio listening there is always evdo/gsm solutions, and you can disable those PING sounds in messenger, just goto the preferences.
Well you know why george bush wants to goto the moon again right?
It's to set up a military base on the moon, which would be the ideal place to put one. Virtually impossible to attack from earth, and insanely easy to strike precisely at any point on the planet with minimal energy exausted.
Although a good game, I've been playing the pc version for about a month and I have to say they are lazy as hell when they do these ports. The characters and in-game manuals refer to playstation controls, while the config settings for the controls are on a per-action database. So there are definatly times of confusion when playing the game trying to figure out the right keys to press.
The game is fun with an x-arcade though, and it runs at insanely high resolutions and looks great on a pc, high res textures and all.
If you are dealing with precision, you have precision error, although with enough precision it doesnt really matter.
If you choose to work with exact values, fractions are your best bet.
They warn kids every time you start up the game not to street race and to be safe. The kids are just stupid, has anyone ever considered that the game just may actually keep them OFF the streets, at least while they're playing it? It's a tradgedy that this happened, but kids were racing and killing people long before computers existed. So pointing the blame at a game is bullshit.
Other Places they could have been influenced by racing
TV
Movies
Friends
Parents
Maybe they just pressed the gas pedal and liked it
Point being, the game didn't take control of their lil weak minds and force them to do this, actually EA's product recommends against behaviour like this and gives kids a place to race off the streets. This is more a combination of faults, from outside influence and self choice, which led to this event happening. Was NFS a part of this? yes, but only a tiny fraction of the overall problem with the kids today.
I don't believe he was ever sold to the general population, I think only 6-7 of him where ever built and are now used for research. I believe most of them are in some university in the states being used for robotics research
Just saying that you can't really complain much that a research project was cancelled, qrio was cute, and an amazingly advanced robot, but there was never a real market outside of the "cute pet robot" market which hasn't been the most profitable
It's a shame we never saw aibo marketted in north america, because it could have been one of those high-margin rich kid toys. Compared to the robo-sapiens that are out there, aibo is like a completely different evolution, and the newest versions has some useful features. If they were to actual have them around and market them, they may have been successful. Personally though, my first robot will be a Roomba (tm).
Also, forgot to mention in my last post, linux isn't taking anyones jobs, it's a fucken hobby, sure it has business purposes, but all it does is create new jobs for people to operate linux systems. Last time I checked aside from redhat and some other major distro's, linux kernel developer was not the highest paying job on the market, as far as I'm concerned, the russians and indians can do all the kernel development they want on free, open software.
Last time I checked, the japanese were the ones making all the anime and consuming 99% of it, and they are years ahead of us, you anonymous bastard. I believe video games are also huge there, probably with a bigger market saturation then north america.
I dont know where this myth comes from that russians and indians are genetically better programmers.
" efficient programmers in india and china don't care about your stupid nerd things, and that's why your jobs are going there.
You'd be a fool to mod me down."
Trust me, they care about entertainment in india too, why do you think there movies are all 4 hours long and contain a bit of everything in them.
Also, they are not magically efficient, just cheaper, and your probably inefficient, I'm a faster programmer then most the indians I know who develop, and there are a lot of them.
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There needs to be some form of user feedback, clickthroughs do not define good, just popular. People accidently watch all kinds of crap, they also should completely discount any random videos people pick.
There should be some form of rating on the videos as well so the people subjected to them can say if they suck or not, cause most of them suck.
It's some kinda floating point rounding error, maybe god should switch to doubles.
Maybe practice for a year, topcoder is a good place to start.
Yeah, if they get there asses up and actually move. I think fat comes hand in hand with lazy. How many athletic fat people do you know?
To all the fanboys and haters, regardless of what you think, this is a smart move in the part of nintendo. Sure, they may not be the fastest of the bunch, but regardless, it'll profit. And isnt that the reason any business is around, the good old step #4. It'll cost nothing for nintendo to produce, they'll make profit on the consoles, they'll make more profit off the emulation of all the systems they are gonna cover. This will milk the last 20 years of gaming for all that it's worth.
So kudo's nintendo, while microsoft and sony fight it out and lose money on every console they sell, you will stay in the game, and get an extra life to play the next round with.
Can't they shield from the radiation, I would think while they are in the shuttle or iss they would be reasonably safe from radiation. I would think that this would be more an issue of being exposed to radiation on things like space walks. I would think if mankind ever got to interstellar travel we'd have solar radiation shielding figured out and this would probably be a non-issue. I doubt this will be a risk to the space tourism industry either.
It doesnt sound to hard, some leds with some sort of fiber to spread the light. it's amazing that it would use so much power as to spark the lcd. The cheap way of doing this would be to allow light from the tv to leak out the back, which would also change depending on what it's displaying. Save some money on materials too.
I learnt originally on QBasic that was in DOS back in the day. I can't say that I'm particularily fond of basic, it feels like I lost my virginity to an ugly girl I never wish to see her again.
As with .net, sure it could be taken seriously, it's just a little bit of syntax difference, but the complexity of coding the equivalent app in c# or c++ is pretty much equal. I think basic should have been left doing basic applications though, because the language just doesn't format all that well, and I really dont like to read it. Other then that, it's a matter of syntax preferences, all managed languages are ~=.
YOU NEED A COMPOSITE WINDOW MANAGER IN ORDER TO ZOOM THE WAY YOU WANT
There, I said it, but the advantages of a composite window manager go a lot deeper then eye candy. It'll improve performance while expanding the boundary on the graphical capabilities of desktops, it's only a improvement and a logical step now that 3d acceleration is the norm.
Associative arrays were all php used to offer, and i've been using them as structs to store massive amounts of data in them. Very useful for quick hacking, but not good for scalability, it'll be a mess to try to figure out where anything is later on.
I was under the impression that all browsers stored a cache, and do they really need to store it in memory, can they not just use a disk cache like every other browser on the market. Also, unless it's caching video's 200megs is a lot of memory for webpages.
lets say each page takes 1 meg up, that's still 10 tabs with 20 levels of history on each. and 1 meg is abhorrable for a html site and it's content, also images throughout the same site are often shared, so they should not need more then one copy in the cache. I would estimate, roughly, that on average a cached html page + images should not take more then 300k, and I consider that to be a generous estimate. Compression could make the html and such even smaller.
Point being, 200 megs in ram for a cache seems like to much, and with efficient caching, 100 cached pages should not take more then 30 megs or so of memory. Which would ideally be put on the disk and not store any duplicates of any information/images etc. (if tab1 and tab2 saw the same page, only keep 1 cached copy). It just seems wierd that they need to cache on a level beyond what the http and html both allow. Can't you just have a single normal cache like everyone else?
I think people should put better use to the and tags in there documents, without it the sub-text is hard to understand.
This is amazing, this has to be the fastest card of 1999. Does this run on direct X 7 with that new fangled "texture mapping"
For out an about digital radio listening there is always evdo/gsm solutions, and you can disable those PING sounds in messenger, just goto the preferences.
Nuclear generators traditionally work by causing a reaction which generats heat which in turn generates steam.
Without water you have no nuclear power, so I dont think that would work to well on the moon.
Well you know why george bush wants to goto the moon again right?
It's to set up a military base on the moon, which would be the ideal place to put one. Virtually impossible to attack from earth, and insanely easy to strike precisely at any point on the planet with minimal energy exausted.
Although a good game, I've been playing the pc version for about a month and I have to say they are lazy as hell when they do these ports. The characters and in-game manuals refer to playstation controls, while the config settings for the controls are on a per-action database. So there are definatly times of confusion when playing the game trying to figure out the right keys to press.
The game is fun with an x-arcade though, and it runs at insanely high resolutions and looks great on a pc, high res textures and all.
If you are dealing with precision, you have precision error, although with enough precision it doesnt really matter. If you choose to work with exact values, fractions are your best bet.
Other Places they could have been influenced by racing
Point being, the game didn't take control of their lil weak minds and force them to do this, actually EA's product recommends against behaviour like this and gives kids a place to race off the streets. This is more a combination of faults, from outside influence and self choice, which led to this event happening. Was NFS a part of this? yes, but only a tiny fraction of the overall problem with the kids today.
I don't believe he was ever sold to the general population, I think only 6-7 of him where ever built and are now used for research. I believe most of them are in some university in the states being used for robotics research
Just saying that you can't really complain much that a research project was cancelled, qrio was cute, and an amazingly advanced robot, but there was never a real market outside of the "cute pet robot" market which hasn't been the most profitable
It's a shame we never saw aibo marketted in north america, because it could have been one of those high-margin rich kid toys. Compared to the robo-sapiens that are out there, aibo is like a completely different evolution, and the newest versions has some useful features. If they were to actual have them around and market them, they may have been successful. Personally though, my first robot will be a Roomba (tm).
Also, forgot to mention in my last post, linux isn't taking anyones jobs, it's a fucken hobby, sure it has business purposes, but all it does is create new jobs for people to operate linux systems. Last time I checked aside from redhat and some other major distro's, linux kernel developer was not the highest paying job on the market, as far as I'm concerned, the russians and indians can do all the kernel development they want on free, open software.
Last time I checked, the japanese were the ones making all the anime and consuming 99% of it, and they are years ahead of us, you anonymous bastard. I believe video games are also huge there, probably with a bigger market saturation then north america. I dont know where this myth comes from that russians and indians are genetically better programmers.
I guess your right, fuck the stakeholders, lets petition for a free windows source for everyone.
" efficient programmers in india and china don't care about your stupid nerd things, and that's why your jobs are going there.
You'd be a fool to mod me down."
Trust me, they care about entertainment in india too, why do you think there movies are all 4 hours long and contain a bit of everything in them.
Also, they are not magically efficient, just cheaper, and your probably inefficient, I'm a faster programmer then most the indians I know who develop, and there are a lot of them.
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Mac users are FUCKED
That is all.......