Well to be fair that's modelling a single molecule, not millions or billions of molecules.
But yes I thought claiming that it would be more powerful than a quantum computer was very off too. Quantum computers don't just operate with a different base number for basic storage, they operate on completely different paradigm. It's not about having more possible states, it's about your system effectively being in all possible states at one moment in time, so if you design it correctly you can work out an answer basically instantaneously. Or something! The whole thing is completely counter-intuitive and I have to read up on it every year or so just to make sure I don't get too sane.
Actual programming time will probably be insignificant compared to UI/algorithm planning and design, and as Halo1 says, debugging time. Delphi pretty much writes out begin/end for you using code completion anyway. There are a couple of places where I find it annoying, but overall it's decent. I'd say C looks neater, but I've never had a problem typing out begin/end either.
Besides, I get paid at a fixed rate, not by how much code I produce. I've spent a lot of time this year playing around with ideas to improve our in house web apps.
PHP surprises me though perhaps the kids find writing an interface in HTML too challenging?
I think you've got that the wrong way round. To use PHP effectively to build a web app, I think you'd need a good basic understanding of HTML to start with. Of course it's been years since I used PHP, and at Uni we just used to generate raw HTML rather than using any fancy formatting libraries.. which is often what I still do, when I started programming I was living in an offline world and I'm still used to thinking I have to write everything from the ground up rather than searching for libraries to do what I want.. I suppose I learn more about how things work that way, but it's not very efficient.
If someone has used freely avaialable open source code to control a dangerous machine or play the stock market, it sounds like it's their own fault rather than the fault of the original author (who may not have intended their source code to be put to such uses). As the GP said, selling someone something vs making it available as reference code for them to do what they like with it, are two completely different things.
But it would be so easy to port CS to PS3.. I know the reasons that the PS3 port is not meant to be as good, but it's still playable, and I think it's a waste to have all the rest ported and not CS - especially since CS is on the simpler end of the scale when it comes to Source games:/ I'd still play it even if it didn't have as fast frame rates as the XBox version.
If they're bringing it to Linux then that kinda makes up for it though because presumably I won't have to pay for it again (since I already own the HL2 "Silver" set or whatever on Windows), and it's a reason to once again buy/build a kickass gaming rig:)
And I finally have a reason to actually buy something more powerful than my netbook! Every now and then I get distracted by shiny gaming laptops and have to remind myself that I have no reason to purchase one. Counter-Strike and the rest of my old Steam titles running natively on Linux is definitely a worthwhile reason:) If they'd brought out CS:Source for PS3 I likely wouldn't care, but they for some reason stopped after they made that poor port of the Orange Box.. I'm guessing MS paid a lot of money to have it as an XBox exclusive?
After all the fuss with the last one.. you'd really have to be a complete and utter moron to do this. Did Gray ever get fired for loss of the first phone?
I don't really see why EB should be entitled to anything from EA. If EB can't mould their business model to suit both publishers and consumers then they will go out of business, and deservedly so. Having a physical high street intermediary (who obviously need to take their own cut to say in business) seems a bit silly, when we already have started moving to digital content delivery and services like eBay/Amazon Market Place for reselling and buying new and used stuff.
High street games retailers are a pretty outdated concept by now. With things like clothes stores it's still useful to be able to try on the clothes, and for really expensive electronics you'd probably want to try before you buy, but with games and game peripherals then buying online makes the most sense (unless you for some reason can't wait a day for delivery).
I don't even care that I've seen that stuff. It's kind of nice to know that there's not much out there that's going to freak me out. I do worry that new stuff might freak me out, but after I heard of the blue waffle and looked it up, I wasn't even bothered by it. I actually kind of like the colour.
Ah, that sucks. My aunt is Thai, and she made us some proper food at her wedding. Definitely not weak - it had some of the rest of the family in tears, but I love my spicy Thai curries:)
Now, it doesn't mean there will never be a data breach (by a disgruntled employee or whatever), but the fact that they have actually bothered to get a certification says to me that these guys are more committed to data privacy than your average website that collects and distribute personal information.
Nobody has managed to smack Sony down for removing the Other OS option, which was clearly a built-in feature and not a service.. I hope someone does though, otherwise software companies are going to be pulling this disgraceful sort of crap for years to come.
I don't re-sell my games, but I do often lend them to people. I think it's a joke that they shouldn't get to play the full game if I'm not using it at the time. We also have 2 PS3s in our household so I hope any games are locked down to actual PSN accounts and not per PS3. It's already a pain in the ass for games that don't authorise you to transfer your saved game to memory stick.
One difference that strikes me: in one you fly a plane, the other you drive a car? If I were to make a car analogy, I'd say that it was as if in one you drove a car, and the other you did not drive a car. Seems quite clear cut.
Besides, most arcade racers are utter tripe. The only one I've played that seemed to make any attempt at realism was a Ferrari licensed one.
It doesn't say things in those words. I wouldn't even qualify myself as an "amateur" astrophysicist as it's not something I've studied at all or am even very often interested in, so I wouldn't have considered redshifts between 3 and 12 as being "roughly equal". And at a distance of billions of light years, fitting on the same screen means fuck all in terms of how close they are together (even with the very restricted size of the image), and I have no idea how many or how close they'd have to be to count as a cluster for the purposes of breaking this record. You'd think if there was some record breaking cluster in that image that the wikipedia article would give it some mention - if something like that is big enough to get on/. surely some space geek would put such info on the wiki?
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Well to be fair that's modelling a single molecule, not millions or billions of molecules.
But yes I thought claiming that it would be more powerful than a quantum computer was very off too. Quantum computers don't just operate with a different base number for basic storage, they operate on completely different paradigm. It's not about having more possible states, it's about your system effectively being in all possible states at one moment in time, so if you design it correctly you can work out an answer basically instantaneously. Or something! The whole thing is completely counter-intuitive and I have to read up on it every year or so just to make sure I don't get too sane.
That was the point of the summary yes, but the thread I was replying to was discussing free vs paid software.
Actual programming time will probably be insignificant compared to UI/algorithm planning and design, and as Halo1 says, debugging time. Delphi pretty much writes out begin/end for you using code completion anyway. There are a couple of places where I find it annoying, but overall it's decent. I'd say C looks neater, but I've never had a problem typing out begin/end either.
Besides, I get paid at a fixed rate, not by how much code I produce. I've spent a lot of time this year playing around with ideas to improve our in house web apps.
PHP surprises me though perhaps the kids find writing an interface in HTML too challenging?
I think you've got that the wrong way round. To use PHP effectively to build a web app, I think you'd need a good basic understanding of HTML to start with. Of course it's been years since I used PHP, and at Uni we just used to generate raw HTML rather than using any fancy formatting libraries.. which is often what I still do, when I started programming I was living in an offline world and I'm still used to thinking I have to write everything from the ground up rather than searching for libraries to do what I want.. I suppose I learn more about how things work that way, but it's not very efficient.
Pascal would be much better compared to C++ than C.. I'd take Pascal over C unless the concern was raw speed.
If someone has used freely avaialable open source code to control a dangerous machine or play the stock market, it sounds like it's their own fault rather than the fault of the original author (who may not have intended their source code to be put to such uses). As the GP said, selling someone something vs making it available as reference code for them to do what they like with it, are two completely different things.
But it would be so easy to port CS to PS3.. I know the reasons that the PS3 port is not meant to be as good, but it's still playable, and I think it's a waste to have all the rest ported and not CS - especially since CS is on the simpler end of the scale when it comes to Source games :/ I'd still play it even if it didn't have as fast frame rates as the XBox version.
If they're bringing it to Linux then that kinda makes up for it though because presumably I won't have to pay for it again (since I already own the HL2 "Silver" set or whatever on Windows), and it's a reason to once again buy/build a kickass gaming rig :)
And I finally have a reason to actually buy something more powerful than my netbook! Every now and then I get distracted by shiny gaming laptops and have to remind myself that I have no reason to purchase one. Counter-Strike and the rest of my old Steam titles running natively on Linux is definitely a worthwhile reason :) If they'd brought out CS:Source for PS3 I likely wouldn't care, but they for some reason stopped after they made that poor port of the Orange Box.. I'm guessing MS paid a lot of money to have it as an XBox exclusive?
Why do you sign your name on your posts when it's right there in the username, or could be put in your signature? I'm merely curious :P
After all the fuss with the last one.. you'd really have to be a complete and utter moron to do this. Did Gray ever get fired for loss of the first phone?
I don't really see why EB should be entitled to anything from EA. If EB can't mould their business model to suit both publishers and consumers then they will go out of business, and deservedly so. Having a physical high street intermediary (who obviously need to take their own cut to say in business) seems a bit silly, when we already have started moving to digital content delivery and services like eBay/Amazon Market Place for reselling and buying new and used stuff.
High street games retailers are a pretty outdated concept by now. With things like clothes stores it's still useful to be able to try on the clothes, and for really expensive electronics you'd probably want to try before you buy, but with games and game peripherals then buying online makes the most sense (unless you for some reason can't wait a day for delivery).
I don't even care that I've seen that stuff. It's kind of nice to know that there's not much out there that's going to freak me out. I do worry that new stuff might freak me out, but after I heard of the blue waffle and looked it up, I wasn't even bothered by it. I actually kind of like the colour.
It is actually kinda funny, though I'm disappointed at the lack of image hover punchline.
Ah, that sucks. My aunt is Thai, and she made us some proper food at her wedding. Definitely not weak - it had some of the rest of the family in tears, but I love my spicy Thai curries :)
Try beautiful girls with big boobs. That should work [with] any army.
Yes.. that's exactly what a bunch of rigorously brainwashed men who sleep and shower together clearly want!
Very confused and weak.
Was that before or after thinking "Russian Thai" sounded like a good idea? ;)
Actually, Russian Thai sounds like a fun genetic concoction.
You could try following the links, dumbass
https://www.european-privacy-seal.eu/awarded-seals
Now, it doesn't mean there will never be a data breach (by a disgruntled employee or whatever), but the fact that they have actually bothered to get a certification says to me that these guys are more committed to data privacy than your average website that collects and distribute personal information.
Nobody has managed to smack Sony down for removing the Other OS option, which was clearly a built-in feature and not a service.. I hope someone does though, otherwise software companies are going to be pulling this disgraceful sort of crap for years to come.
I don't re-sell my games, but I do often lend them to people. I think it's a joke that they shouldn't get to play the full game if I'm not using it at the time. We also have 2 PS3s in our household so I hope any games are locked down to actual PSN accounts and not per PS3. It's already a pain in the ass for games that don't authorise you to transfer your saved game to memory stick.
One difference that strikes me: in one you fly a plane, the other you drive a car? If I were to make a car analogy, I'd say that it was as if in one you drove a car, and the other you did not drive a car. Seems quite clear cut.
Besides, most arcade racers are utter tripe. The only one I've played that seemed to make any attempt at realism was a Ferrari licensed one.
It doesn't say things in those words. I wouldn't even qualify myself as an "amateur" astrophysicist as it's not something I've studied at all or am even very often interested in, so I wouldn't have considered redshifts between 3 and 12 as being "roughly equal". And at a distance of billions of light years, fitting on the same screen means fuck all in terms of how close they are together (even with the very restricted size of the image), and I have no idea how many or how close they'd have to be to count as a cluster for the purposes of breaking this record. You'd think if there was some record breaking cluster in that image that the wikipedia article would give it some mention - if something like that is big enough to get on /. surely some space geek would put such info on the wiki?
Unchecked candy eating will lead to precious seconds taken away from education due to required teeth brushing.
It could also lead to a world full of fat bastards! Oh, wait..
Where there does it say that they found a "galaxy cluster" in that set of data?
You, sir, are an idiot*.
*unless you know of a way for matter, or indeed light, to travel faster than light.
It would certainly make a a real fun evening entertainment of collecting a few hundred BR Movies just for the sheer hell of it!
That's.. fun? *speechless*