I know a few "cool women" who hate being the "cool" one, but fear retaliation from guys if they actually speak up. When you work in a "man's world" and you hear guys say things like " although there are women that are cool and reasonable and men who are drama queens, this one is a stereotypical female drama queen in all her glory, and people like her are those that make the lives of other competent and cool women a lot harder." what are you to do? They then shut up and suffer because they like the challenge of their job, just not the hostility of their coworkers. They suffer as the "cool woman" because they don't want to risk retaliation or ostracization.
To me, she is a "cool woman" - she's willing to tell guys, Linus no less, to fuck off. Literally - read her email, she drops a few f-bombs herself, not what I consider stereotypical drama queen.
WOW is a serious project, no denying it. But if it doesn't perform sufficiently, the user is expected to purchase better hardware. On a console or mobile, that is not an option, the hardware is fixed. If two developers make the exact same game, and one uses a native language with few libraries, and the other uses an interpreted library with highly abstracted libraries, the experience provided to the end user will not be equal. You can profile the interpreted code to death and still never achieve the fidelity and quality of the native solution. You'll have noticeably fewer polygons, fewer AI, etc. Now maybe the spec for the game you're making will still be met, in which case knock yourself out. But In choosing that path you have already locked in an upper bound.
I have used Lua in a variety of console games that I have shipped, and it has its uses. In particular, iteration time with an interpreted language is typically much faster. When trying to hone the experience, iteration rules, and the developers that allow their content creators to iterate quickly and effortlessly will always be able to produce a game that feels more polished. It is a case of knowing why you are making your choices, not a case of allowing dogma (only low level is fast) or ignorance (ease of development can overcome inherent limitations). Note, I think that WOW uses Lua because it is easy for the servers to modify the code by sending data packages (but that may just be my male answer syndrome kicking in)
I disagree with the sentiment that scripted languages are easier to debug. I've shipped games where there was no Lua debugger for the designers (yes, that is abusive, and I still apologize to them today, but that was the hand we were dealt). The fast iteration time might make you think that you can keep trying different solutions as a method of debugging. Where the rapid iteration is great for improving the experience, it is a poor approach to take for debugging. Too many developers take the shot gun approach to debugging (and this has nothing to do with interpreted vs compiled, I've seen it everywhere). Though a bit too extreme to be realistic, I like to make people think about this: Debuggers are the worst tool for development, it makes programmers not think and analyze their code and therefore they don't understand it. Once again, between the two is right balance, use your debugger but think about your code - and that has nothing to do with scripting languages.
This has been a recurring theme (not just with cell phones, lots of Xbox Juan comments cover this topic also). The Feds have been able to remotely turn on your cell phone mic for a long time - long before iPhones or Androids. This feature is not needed for improved government snooping.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
Being able to respond to voice commands requires the CPU to always be parsing audio input. That will have a noticeable, and negative, impact on battery life. When I want to look something up I am in a context switch already, pushing a button on my phone is not an inconvenience. What problem are they trying to solve?
we will have to see many evolutionary steps between now and then
What better time to start taking them than now?
I agree 100%. I would love to see high speed rail between LA and SF. I would love to see high speed rail connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. I would be over the moon happy if we built the trains to mimic the functionality of the Eurotunnel train. Let me drive on with my car, take a high speed train to my destination and then drive off - no need to waste time with a rental car. These are achievable goals that will boost our infrastructure, which will help our economy. I WANT. When I looked through the 170 comments, all of them were bikeshedding about 1G acceleration or [voodoo] economics. The two corridors I mentioned are easily achievable, Europe and Asia have shown that. Lets start with that and then see what we can grow.
LA to SF in 30 minutes. Still much faster than current high speed rail, but nowhere near as insane as NY to LA in 30 minutes. Getting a mass transportation vehicle to travel at Mach 5.2 might happen one day, but we will have to see many evolutionary steps between now and then.
I know most of the classics: "Ping", Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 vibrating broom (sadly taken down), the collection of "Mr Small", "Mr Uppity", and "Mr Messy". And yes they are funny, and yes I don't get upset at people up-voting an obviously funny review (even if some parents without a strong command line background were getting upset at the review of "Ping"). the system can be gamed, which is why a "ban this" option is a bad idea and why people should take time to learn how to interpret reviews. Sadly, that means you have to read more than one or two - no rushing to get reliable information on the internet. In this case the reviews are just dumb and won't get a cult following of up-votes, so the system should work fairly well.
Amazon has a rating system for reviews. Sure you can't flag something as spam, but that would be abused by the tolls so it's a balance they have to strike. Also, Amazon allows for comments to be added for reviews. With so few reviews on this book, it should be quick enough to make the reviews as not helpful and add in some cases add a comment on the egregious ones. In other words, the review system is only as good as the average of the reviewers - get some good reviewers to balance out the bad ones and it works well enough.
Datastores work offline, too
With datastores, your app works great even without an Internet connection. When a user goes offline, your app can continue to work with all its data locally. The next time the user is online, Dropbox will take care of syncing things up.
How is this DRM? If I write a note pad app that syncs with drop box across all of your devices, the synced data is still a text file. It just makes it convenient for you to switch from one machine to the next without having to worry about "did I sync all the files that I might need".
How is trying to find out how our elected officials are beholden to wealthy contributors the same thing as our government snooping through all our crap?
[note: there are far too many threads where I could post this. I did not want to favor any of the excellent "TL;DR" over any other equally excellent "Blowhard"]
A heavy car colliding with a small car will typically send the small car flying. The current car crash tests do nothing to help with this. It would be interesting to see new standards set where the energy imparted is limited as well. Effectively, if a car manufacturer wants to build a 6 ton car they need to design the crumple zones such that the absorb the energy to protect the passengers and the other vehicle. If you're building a light car you still have the challenge of protecting the passengers but the energy transfer wouldn't be an issue.
You're not going to get the board of directors to be held liable - they'll pin the blame on some low level grunt and let them serve time while they dig up a new schlep to continue filing takedowns. This way you get the entire portfolio of the company out in the open for a full year with no recourse to the DMCA. You want to talk about making the board sweat, they will make sure that no one screws it up. Keep in mind that this will include any new content they create during that year. Imagine in WB hit their six strikes (ok, not hard to imagine, but imagine if they did it with a six strike rule in effect) now they would be unable to post any takedown notices when they found an Ironman 3 video. Yeah, they would sweat that far more than worrying about some staffer possibly doing time.
I don't really think that my law makes sense. the parent post to mine referenced six strikes, and it occurred to me that the DMCA proponents seem to favor n-strike laws to ban abusers. Giving them a dose of their own medicine would amuse me - if for no other reason that to watch them contort in attempts to explain why they shouldn't be treated the way they want to treat the rest of us.
Speaking of "six strikes" how do we successfully petition for a new six strikes law: If you issue 6 invalid DMCA takedown notices you lose the right to issue takedown notices for the next 12 months.
Um, one question that a person could ask is: If this proof is found, how does it change the world? How would being able to use the proof influence something in the real world? I'm not saying it can't or won't, only that simply picking a brainy subject does not mean that doing things in it aren't basically intellectual masturbation.
The change to our world is this: we now know something that we didn't know before. Now we can teach this new knowledge to others (and by others I mean people smarter than me) who can find new places and ways to apply this new knowledge. They might never do anything interesting with it, or it might cause an avalanche of new findings, we don't know. But we, as a species, fundamentally know more today than we did yesterday.
As an example, the ancient greeks studied prime numbers. Was there any immediate use of primes at the time? Did it allow them to improve harvest? Defeat the Roman army? Nope, they just studied them. At the time there is no way that they could have conceived their application for encryption. Yet today, all commerce on the web uses the mathematics of primes.
It is not important to have an immediate use for knowledge.
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I know a few "cool women" who hate being the "cool" one, but fear retaliation from guys if they actually speak up. When you work in a "man's world" and you hear guys say things like " although there are women that are cool and reasonable and men who are drama queens, this one is a stereotypical female drama queen in all her glory, and people like her are those that make the lives of other competent and cool women a lot harder." what are you to do? They then shut up and suffer because they like the challenge of their job, just not the hostility of their coworkers. They suffer as the "cool woman" because they don't want to risk retaliation or ostracization.
To me, she is a "cool woman" - she's willing to tell guys, Linus no less, to fuck off. Literally - read her email, she drops a few f-bombs herself, not what I consider stereotypical drama queen.
Having worked in offices with > 100 men and
* and by BS I obviously mean Bigoted Shit.
WOW is a serious project, no denying it. But if it doesn't perform sufficiently, the user is expected to purchase better hardware. On a console or mobile, that is not an option, the hardware is fixed. If two developers make the exact same game, and one uses a native language with few libraries, and the other uses an interpreted library with highly abstracted libraries, the experience provided to the end user will not be equal. You can profile the interpreted code to death and still never achieve the fidelity and quality of the native solution. You'll have noticeably fewer polygons, fewer AI, etc. Now maybe the spec for the game you're making will still be met, in which case knock yourself out. But In choosing that path you have already locked in an upper bound.
I have used Lua in a variety of console games that I have shipped, and it has its uses. In particular, iteration time with an interpreted language is typically much faster. When trying to hone the experience, iteration rules, and the developers that allow their content creators to iterate quickly and effortlessly will always be able to produce a game that feels more polished. It is a case of knowing why you are making your choices, not a case of allowing dogma (only low level is fast) or ignorance (ease of development can overcome inherent limitations). Note, I think that WOW uses Lua because it is easy for the servers to modify the code by sending data packages (but that may just be my male answer syndrome kicking in)
I disagree with the sentiment that scripted languages are easier to debug. I've shipped games where there was no Lua debugger for the designers (yes, that is abusive, and I still apologize to them today, but that was the hand we were dealt). The fast iteration time might make you think that you can keep trying different solutions as a method of debugging. Where the rapid iteration is great for improving the experience, it is a poor approach to take for debugging. Too many developers take the shot gun approach to debugging (and this has nothing to do with interpreted vs compiled, I've seen it everywhere). Though a bit too extreme to be realistic, I like to make people think about this: Debuggers are the worst tool for development, it makes programmers not think and analyze their code and therefore they don't understand it. Once again, between the two is right balance, use your debugger but think about your code - and that has nothing to do with scripting languages.
Sigh... I did look back to see if it had been posted, didn't go far enough. *hangs head in shame*
Here's a preliminary list... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
This has been a recurring theme (not just with cell phones, lots of Xbox Juan comments cover this topic also). The Feds have been able to remotely turn on your cell phone mic for a long time - long before iPhones or Androids. This feature is not needed for improved government snooping.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
I confess to only learning about it yesterday.
Being able to respond to voice commands requires the CPU to always be parsing audio input. That will have a noticeable, and negative, impact on battery life. When I want to look something up I am in a context switch already, pushing a button on my phone is not an inconvenience. What problem are they trying to solve?
we will have to see many evolutionary steps between now and then
What better time to start taking them than now?
I agree 100%. I would love to see high speed rail between LA and SF. I would love to see high speed rail connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. I would be over the moon happy if we built the trains to mimic the functionality of the Eurotunnel train. Let me drive on with my car, take a high speed train to my destination and then drive off - no need to waste time with a rental car. These are achievable goals that will boost our infrastructure, which will help our economy. I WANT.
When I looked through the 170 comments, all of them were bikeshedding about 1G acceleration or [voodoo] economics. The two corridors I mentioned are easily achievable, Europe and Asia have shown that. Lets start with that and then see what we can grow.
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/07/hyperloop-elon.php
LA to SF in 30 minutes. Still much faster than current high speed rail, but nowhere near as insane as NY to LA in 30 minutes. Getting a mass transportation vehicle to travel at Mach 5.2 might happen one day, but we will have to see many evolutionary steps between now and then.
As a fan of horror movies and entertainment, I consider DC a prime vacation spot.
I know most of the classics: "Ping", Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 vibrating broom (sadly taken down), the collection of "Mr Small", "Mr Uppity", and "Mr Messy". And yes they are funny, and yes I don't get upset at people up-voting an obviously funny review (even if some parents without a strong command line background were getting upset at the review of "Ping"). the system can be gamed, which is why a "ban this" option is a bad idea and why people should take time to learn how to interpret reviews. Sadly, that means you have to read more than one or two - no rushing to get reliable information on the internet. In this case the reviews are just dumb and won't get a cult following of up-votes, so the system should work fairly well.
and if you haven't read *the* review of "Ping" you owe it to yourself to do so now. http://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0448421658&nodeID=283155&store=books
Amazon has a rating system for reviews. Sure you can't flag something as spam, but that would be abused by the tolls so it's a balance they have to strike. Also, Amazon allows for comments to be added for reviews. With so few reviews on this book, it should be quick enough to make the reviews as not helpful and add in some cases add a comment on the egregious ones. In other words, the review system is only as good as the average of the reviewers - get some good reviewers to balance out the bad ones and it works well enough.
Datastores work offline, too With datastores, your app works great even without an Internet connection. When a user goes offline, your app can continue to work with all its data locally. The next time the user is online, Dropbox will take care of syncing things up.
How is this DRM? If I write a note pad app that syncs with drop box across all of your devices, the synced data is still a text file. It just makes it convenient for you to switch from one machine to the next without having to worry about "did I sync all the files that I might need".
How is trying to find out how our elected officials are beholden to wealthy contributors the same thing as our government snooping through all our crap?
Let off some steam Bennet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19R2fDXCzcM
[note: there are far too many threads where I could post this. I did not want to favor any of the excellent "TL;DR" over any other equally excellent "Blowhard"]
cool. What heavy metal batteries are you talking about?
the AC/DC kind obviously.
A heavy car colliding with a small car will typically send the small car flying. The current car crash tests do nothing to help with this. It would be interesting to see new standards set where the energy imparted is limited as well. Effectively, if a car manufacturer wants to build a 6 ton car they need to design the crumple zones such that the absorb the energy to protect the passengers and the other vehicle. If you're building a light car you still have the challenge of protecting the passengers but the energy transfer wouldn't be an issue.
You're not going to get the board of directors to be held liable - they'll pin the blame on some low level grunt and let them serve time while they dig up a new schlep to continue filing takedowns. This way you get the entire portfolio of the company out in the open for a full year with no recourse to the DMCA. You want to talk about making the board sweat, they will make sure that no one screws it up. Keep in mind that this will include any new content they create during that year. Imagine in WB hit their six strikes (ok, not hard to imagine, but imagine if they did it with a six strike rule in effect) now they would be unable to post any takedown notices when they found an Ironman 3 video. Yeah, they would sweat that far more than worrying about some staffer possibly doing time.
I don't really think that my law makes sense. the parent post to mine referenced six strikes, and it occurred to me that the DMCA proponents seem to favor n-strike laws to ban abusers. Giving them a dose of their own medicine would amuse me - if for no other reason that to watch them contort in attempts to explain why they shouldn't be treated the way they want to treat the rest of us.
Speaking of "six strikes" how do we successfully petition for a new six strikes law: If you issue 6 invalid DMCA takedown notices you lose the right to issue takedown notices for the next 12 months.
Um, one question that a person could ask is: If this proof is found, how does it change the world? How would being able to use the proof influence something in the real world? I'm not saying it can't or won't, only that simply picking a brainy subject does not mean that doing things in it aren't basically intellectual masturbation.
The change to our world is this: we now know something that we didn't know before. Now we can teach this new knowledge to others (and by others I mean people smarter than me) who can find new places and ways to apply this new knowledge. They might never do anything interesting with it, or it might cause an avalanche of new findings, we don't know. But we, as a species, fundamentally know more today than we did yesterday.
As an example, the ancient greeks studied prime numbers. Was there any immediate use of primes at the time? Did it allow them to improve harvest? Defeat the Roman army? Nope, they just studied them. At the time there is no way that they could have conceived their application for encryption. Yet today, all commerce on the web uses the mathematics of primes.
It is not important to have an immediate use for knowledge.
The Osborne was a transportable.
You must be new around here... you clearly forgot part of that joke...