it's obviously an advantage to be a Java program, fully portable including UI.
Imagine playing quake on a beow^W^H Android phone cluster of those.
"Let's see, down the water, swim back in, enter the tunnel, nightmare difficulty. Yeah, episode 1. Take that, you ugly gru... huh? Out of battery, wtf!!"
That's news indeed. Even if it did, will the compiler find a better polygon intersection algorithm for me? Will it write a spatial hash?
I TA'ed a course called Contract-based Programming (which was about Hoare triples and JML, a java extension which does checking of pre-/postconditions and invariants).
I noted that the lecturer had a book on his shelves titled "Algorithm recognition". I speculate that it might talk, for instance, about how to recognize bubble sort and replace it with quicksort. Or how sorted(list)[0] might be replaced by min(list), or how sorted(list)[4] might be replaced by quickselect(list, 4).
I don't know what state of the art is, though, but presumably future compilers might find a better polygon intersection algorithm for you. Or make better algorithm choices across abstraction boundaries. I would love to be able to think about "the smallest four elements" as take 4 (sorted list) and have the compiler make it run in O(n) time rather than O(n log n).
If the DOJ woke up and stepped up to its long neglected responsibilities, it would be the USA raking in the billions in fines it will take to get Microsoft to behave itself, instead of the EU.
No offense, but if we keep chalking up video games to being the realm of "pre-pubescent boys" we're going to keep seeing our rights eroded away in the name of "protecting the children."
Given that both are caused by imbalances in brain chemistry, and given that the same patient can be both, how big of a leap is it to notice that they're really just different manifestations of the same problem?
I figure there's a ton of psychiatric condition which can occur at the same time. At some level, they're all caused by brain chemistry.
Are you saying that all psychiatric conditions are all the same thing? Because your reasoning in this one particular case, when applied to all other cases, sure makes it sound like it.
Fuck you Microsoft. Die already! Fuck you Adobe. Die already! Fuck you Java. Die already! Fuck you too Realnetworks. Just because.
Not "Just because". Fuck Real for producing crappy software that doesn't fit in anywhere at makes it annoyingly non-trivial to download things I want to watch.
Fuck Adobe for Flash. Seriously, I don't need vector graphics in my web browser. I'd love to have embedded.wmv/.avi/.mpeg files, whatever, because I can play those with mplayer which DOES NOT SUCK. As opposed to flash.
Fuck Microsoft for being the great browser market retardant. And in general for writing shitty software which doesn't do what I want it to (heck, I can't even get XP to install; epic fail).
And fuck Apple for being such control freaks. Well, first, fuck 'em for not helping fix this browser shit. Secondly, fuck them for being a worse control freak than Microsoft could ever be. I recently played with an iPhone (display/sales demo); among the top 25 apps in the store is one that displays scantily clad women, which are "as naked as Apple will let us get away with". FFS, Apple. Don't decide whether I'm going to watch porn on my phone. And you include a web browser---is that porn-filtered too? Assholes.
But don't fuck with Java. It's free software. It works for what it does: sorting algorithm animations and interactive Rubik's cube algorithm display. Java is OK, when used in moderation.
Making something 'more accessible' doesn't necessarily make it better.
I disagree. More accessible is better.
However, more accessible at the expense of some other valuable quality is not (always) better.
Whether or not it is really depends on what you value. Out of curiousness, I went out and bought an FPS for my wii; Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to be particular.
By pointing the wiimote, you both reorient your view-frustum in 3D space and move your aim-point on a 2D screen. The reorientation works (as best I can tell) by adding some acceleration which dies out over time due to "rotational friction". That means that if you point the aim-point to an (x, y)-coordinate on the screen, you aim at the corresponding point in 3D space for a very short time; then, due to the acceleration introduced by moving the wiimote your character yaws and pitches elsewhere, making it hard to aim.
To compensate for this, you can lock on to targets, meaning you always yaw and pitch in the target's direction, and can point in 2D space without affecting 3D space, making it easier to aim straight.
I think that makes the business of aiming easier than in, say, quake (or any PC FPS game I've ever played, really). Does the game suffer from this? Well, given than Metroid Prime is really a first-person action-adventure, it doesn't detract from what the game tries to be, so no. But if you hope for a twitch-based FPS, you'll be disappointed (as I was, although I learned to love MP3:C for what it is rather than what I wanted it to be).
How well does this generalize? Meh, I don't know... but always consider what the core challenge is; making other things easier to do is often a win (listen hard to this, people who "designed" the GH3 user interface and menu structure).
The goal should be to make the law reflect the fact that people should be able to share copyrighted works, as long as they aren't making money on it.
Try to find the big events in the history of The Pirate Bay. Next, try to find the big intakes of new members of The (Swedish) Pirate Party.
Next, try and see if they line up somehow:)
I say The Pirate Bay is doing a lot towards changing peoples' attitudes towards copyright. The future will tell whether The Pirate Party can convert that attitude to legislative changes.
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It's kind of hard to get a handle on "cloud computing" since it's such an amorphous buzzword.
Just like software design patterns, cloud computing is a set of software deployment anti-patterns ;-)
Now try to imagine Microsoft, Opera, Mozilla, and Google implementing that compatibly.
Which is why there should be a reference implementation that's free for anyone to use and relicense for any purpose.
Then anyone can copy that code into their own; either by machine or by hand.
On a related tangent, have any of you wondered why mathematics uses prose rather than some kind of formalized pseudo-code to express algorithms?
it's obviously an advantage to be a Java program, fully portable including UI.
Imagine playing quake on a beow^W^H Android phone cluster of those.
"Let's see, down the water, swim back in, enter the tunnel, nightmare difficulty. Yeah, episode 1. Take that, you ugly gru... huh? Out of battery, wtf!!"
But actually, there is a bottom. The bottom is a self-emulating virtual machine.
What, no turtles? :(
I know you're being funny, but my first idea for how to implement this would be to
I use a browser for viewing /usr/share/doc/**/*html. Not all uses of a browser have to leave 127.0.0.1.
it was just a typo
My best guess would then be that you use the Dvorak keyboard layout. Good on you.
Everyone else: switch to Dvorak, even if only for the satisfaction of spotting those only-sensible-with-Dvorak typos. It's great fun ;-)
They want someway to control the devices on their network or update them remotely if so needed.
Wait, are you talking about cell providers or botnet operators?
I suddenly feel this appetite for brains... *turns off phone* hmm...
</cynicism>
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of band jokes coming about "blocked tubes" and the like.
Instead of traffic congestion, we will have traffic constipation.
I think the Italians might ask Google about what they learned when they did it:
http://www.google.com/tisp/
I especially like this one:
http://www.google.com/tisp/images/tisp_diagram.gif
That's news indeed. Even if it did, will the compiler find a better polygon intersection algorithm for me? Will it write a spatial hash?
I TA'ed a course called Contract-based Programming (which was about Hoare triples and JML, a java extension which does checking of pre-/postconditions and invariants).
I noted that the lecturer had a book on his shelves titled "Algorithm recognition". I speculate that it might talk, for instance, about how to recognize bubble sort and replace it with quicksort. Or how sorted(list)[0] might be replaced by min(list), or how sorted(list)[4] might be replaced by quickselect(list, 4).
I don't know what state of the art is, though, but presumably future compilers might find a better polygon intersection algorithm for you. Or make better algorithm choices across abstraction boundaries. I would love to be able to think about "the smallest four elements" as take 4 (sorted list) and have the compiler make it run in O(n) time rather than O(n log n).
If the DOJ woke up and stepped up to its long neglected responsibilities, it would be the USA raking in the billions in fines it will take to get Microsoft to behave itself, instead of the EU.
That's exactly why you shouldn't go tell them!
-- ancient european proverb
Care to explain me where I'm failing, then?
Here's what happens:
What did I do wrong? What should I do differently? It worked just fine in my VM.
Fuck Microsoft, but if you can't get XP to install, you're a fucking idiot.
Okay, I must be a moron, then.
Here's what happens:
What did I do wrong? What should I do differently? It worked just fine in my VM.
No, but they have an advantage: they're done right :)
(is my first, not-so-thorough impression)
No offense, but if we keep chalking up video games to being the realm of "pre-pubescent boys" we're going to keep seeing our rights eroded away in the name of "protecting the children."
But at least we could have some real good games.
You know, with beer, handguns and strippers...
Given that both are caused by imbalances in brain chemistry, and given that the same patient can be both, how big of a leap is it to notice that they're really just different manifestations of the same problem?
I figure there's a ton of psychiatric condition which can occur at the same time. At some level, they're all caused by brain chemistry.
Are you saying that all psychiatric conditions are all the same thing? Because your reasoning in this one particular case, when applied to all other cases, sure makes it sound like it.
This could be very bad for the tin foil hat industry.
Clearly this calls for a big government bailout!
Note that schizophrenia and dissociative personality disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder) are two distinct conditions.
Schizophrenia is characterized by auditory and/or visual hallucinations, plus delusions. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia.
If I ever learned anything from watching South Park, it's that any successful HIV vaccine has to contain large amounts of raw money! ;-)
All kidding aside, this is wonderful. I hope this gets to save a lot of people very soon.
And to be pedantic, since it's a vaccine, I guess it works against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, not the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Basically, Theora and Vorbis are huge unknowns with potential patent bombs in them
I take it Apple also doesn't implement topological sorting, then. That must be why I remember pressing "recalculate" in my spreadsheets.
No, wait... hmm. All I can conclude is that software patents suck.
Fuck you Microsoft. Die already!
Fuck you Adobe. Die already!
Fuck you Java. Die already!
Fuck you too Realnetworks. Just because.
Not "Just because". Fuck Real for producing crappy software that doesn't fit in anywhere at makes it annoyingly non-trivial to download things I want to watch.
Fuck Adobe for Flash. Seriously, I don't need vector graphics in my web browser. I'd love to have embedded .wmv/.avi/.mpeg files, whatever, because I can play those with mplayer which DOES NOT SUCK. As opposed to flash.
Fuck Microsoft for being the great browser market retardant. And in general for writing shitty software which doesn't do what I want it to (heck, I can't even get XP to install; epic fail).
And fuck Apple for being such control freaks. Well, first, fuck 'em for not helping fix this browser shit. Secondly, fuck them for being a worse control freak than Microsoft could ever be. I recently played with an iPhone (display/sales demo); among the top 25 apps in the store is one that displays scantily clad women, which are "as naked as Apple will let us get away with". FFS, Apple. Don't decide whether I'm going to watch porn on my phone. And you include a web browser---is that porn-filtered too? Assholes.
But don't fuck with Java. It's free software. It works for what it does: sorting algorithm animations and interactive Rubik's cube algorithm display. Java is OK, when used in moderation.
Flame on ;-)
Especially since the shared connection to battlenet for multiple people will never be as good as a connection on a LAN
Especially when I go out to a lent beach house where I can bring a router but no internet.
Or is Blizzard going to sell Hosted Battle.net? ;-)
Making something 'more accessible' doesn't necessarily make it better.
I disagree. More accessible is better.
However, more accessible at the expense of some other valuable quality is not (always) better.
Whether or not it is really depends on what you value. Out of curiousness, I went out and bought an FPS for my wii; Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to be particular.
By pointing the wiimote, you both reorient your view-frustum in 3D space and move your aim-point on a 2D screen. The reorientation works (as best I can tell) by adding some acceleration which dies out over time due to "rotational friction". That means that if you point the aim-point to an (x, y)-coordinate on the screen, you aim at the corresponding point in 3D space for a very short time; then, due to the acceleration introduced by moving the wiimote your character yaws and pitches elsewhere, making it hard to aim.
To compensate for this, you can lock on to targets, meaning you always yaw and pitch in the target's direction, and can point in 2D space without affecting 3D space, making it easier to aim straight.
I think that makes the business of aiming easier than in, say, quake (or any PC FPS game I've ever played, really). Does the game suffer from this? Well, given than Metroid Prime is really a first-person action-adventure, it doesn't detract from what the game tries to be, so no. But if you hope for a twitch-based FPS, you'll be disappointed (as I was, although I learned to love MP3:C for what it is rather than what I wanted it to be).
How well does this generalize? Meh, I don't know... but always consider what the core challenge is; making other things easier to do is often a win (listen hard to this, people who "designed" the GH3 user interface and menu structure).
Then what will players 2, 3, and 4 stick with?
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The goal should be to make the law reflect the fact that people should be able to share copyrighted works, as long as they aren't making money on it.
Try to find the big events in the history of The Pirate Bay. Next, try to find the big intakes of new members of The (Swedish) Pirate Party.
Next, try and see if they line up somehow :)
I say The Pirate Bay is doing a lot towards changing peoples' attitudes towards copyright. The future will tell whether The Pirate Party can convert that attitude to legislative changes.