It's not that I don't think there aren't people at M$ that read/. The question is whether anyone that actually has the power to implement changes and/or gathers feedback for usage in the improvment of their products does.
And Scientology on/.? I won't even go there, but as it was said on SouthPark, "You're getting Sued!"
Why do I get the feeling that small, discrete blogs are being found and attended to, but something major where there is a user base of skill and regular usage of their products that aren't being paid attention to, or (gasp) heeded at all.
Or do they read/. all the time, and just keep it on the download so we don't become full of M$ loving?
How about due to the lack of code that takes advantage of the multiple processors? If you mainly use one heavy application that doesn't take advatage of more than one or two cores, then those other 78 are going to be bored (and not submitting their dupes to./)!
Welcome to critical thinking where you have to gather info from various opposing sides and attempt to discern between the lies to gather what is often at best a blurry picture. But you're right in that you should pretty much never take what one side tells you for the truth, because then you're guarenteed to be wrong. (This goes along with the post above that says everyone lies, because everyone does by tilting it in their favor or framing it in their perspective)
Which 'our' (meaning my) government has shown to not include our personal privacy, and as some apt person pointed out yesterday, if our goverment does it, then our corporations feel justified in doing the same.
Considering for the most part we aren't talking about subjective matters (ie. Politics, current opnion, business gossip wouldn't fair well), but when it comes to how to compute most mathematical functions through specific information on other hard sciences, I think it would for the most part be accurate. If not, one of the most valuable things that I learned in getting my Master's in CS is to google and sift through the garbage for what I needed to find.
That being said, who says that the text books being given have accurate information? Do you think that those aren't biased by the writers that wrote them? Or that they weren't picked by the government for specific reasons? (like pushing certain governmental views/ideals, while downplaying or excluding unflattering facts) I would say overall that if we teach them to verify their information and cite reliable sources (as was the complaint on which earlier post on/. today? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/122020 1/ ), then we will be teaching them the critical thinking skills and ability to learn that is drowned out by the rote of memorization and "do as everyone else" mentality that our schools suffer from.
So drop the outdated books that are full of candy coated misinformation anyway, and let them google shit. And with the money left over from the books, pay the teachers more and pay for a real network admin!
WoW won't last as long as everyone thinks, why? Because now that it's popular, it's not going to be long before people try it and get sick of it
You work up to 60 and most everything up to there is new or fun and interesting. Then you hit 60 and what? Find out that that two months you put in hardcore won't even touch what you need to do to be 'at the top'. Now it requires rep or raiding or PvP until people you know are concerned enough to talk about interventions with you.
Not to mention that once people learn the ultimate rule they won't have near the interest. And that is he with the most time will do the best. Not skill, not talent, and sure as hell not strategy, but simple time. And in what they think will make their money for them over time, is what will lead to its demise. I'm sure some would level more characters if they could get them to a decent status, but when you have to spend months and months of non-casual gaming (PvP up to 300k honor for the week, or Raiding 3-6 nights for 4 hours each), all of your fan base with a life, families, or jobs will all have to walk away. Because you just can't compete with 13 year-olds that don't have to work and have no responsibility.
I don't even think that it has that much more of a turn around time before people get sick of it. You work up to 60 and most everything up to there is new or fun and interesting. Then you hit 60 and what? Find out that that two months you put in hardcore won't even touch what you need to do to be 'at the top'. Now it requires rep or raiding or PvP until people you know are concerned enough to talk about interventions with you.
Not to mention that once people learn the ultimate rule they won't have near the interest. And that is he with the most time will do the best. Not skill, not talent, and sure as hell not strategy, but simple time. And in what they think will make their money for them over time, is what will lead to its demise. I'm sure some would level more characters if they could get them to a decent status, but when you have to spend months and months of non-casual gaming (PvP up to 300k honor for the week, or Raiding 3-6 nights for 4 hours each), all of your fan base with a life, families, or jobs will all have to walk away. Because you just can't compete with 13 year-olds that don't have to work and have no responsibility.
Even in the worst of times, humans have had beasts of burden to the the heavy lifting.
Great, so you're suggesting we send up Horses (or rather a Jack Ass or two) in spacesuits for the manual labor? That just sounds like trouble. Just wait until the astronauts hear they are riding up with a stable in tow!
You get modded up for talking about you dick (which was a poor joke that wasn't clear), and I get modded down for talking shit on M$ . . . hmmmm. Yeeeeeaaaaaaah.
Well, you'll be happy to know they've extending into the Viagra market as well. It doesn't always work, and it might cause things to backfire on occasion, crash, or allow other people to control the stiffness thereof, but hey, it will net bill a few more bucks.
Funny how the anti-M$ sentiment that you typicall see on./ quickly diminshes at the prospect of being favored or treated well. Funny how some's 'hard-core' ideals quickly diminish for mere money.
Then again, that's why they can uphold their monopoly, isn't it?
I'm not saying I wouldn't consider it either, but I've never claimed a hard core stance against M$, just a general distaste
Yeah, does that mean you're going to be hiding certain aspects of yourself so you have a chance? I don't know whether that means general appearance, or perhaps an endowment issue . . .
They may take advantage of the core power provided, but do you think that they are going to write multi-thread code intelligently to utilize all 8 processors? I doubt it. There was talk in a special topics game design course at my University concerning the next gen platforms, and how we would be lucky to see games that actually made use of the hardware within the first two years. Sure they can pipe all the graphics onto one, and the AI on another, and then have two left over for networking and everything else. But are they going to delay their game to do that? Nope.
Just a programmer's view on why this won't really matter until we have programs that make use of them.
So this is a form of autogenerating content, but instead of being based on something random it's based on spam. So then it really depends all upon the mapping he uses.
So the Importnat question is: what colors/styles do the porn map to? Because I'm betting you see a fair amount of 'art' generated directly from that.
Who wants to pay for a game that is the same after one run through? At least in WoW they add in new content, new areas, new items, but more importantly NEW STORY. Yes, it's done well at creating a culture and world over it's past 3 games and expansions, and for those of us that gave up our free time then, we totally dig the evolving nature of WoW. Events happen, the world changes, things evolve.
Then again, I refused to play until I finished my degrees in college due to MY addictive personality. But hey, it's better than crack!(Seriously)
This becomes more a matter of definitions. The ability to operate over an exponetial number of inputs simutanously would allow us to solve NP Complete problems in a realistic time period (linear to polynomial instead of exponential). Would it change the fact that we have no better solution to the inital problem? No. I agree that some other method of computation or problem solving would be required to actually prove P = NP. See my reply above for references if you don't quite catch the difference.
Given the nature of Quantum computing, you can encode 2^n states in n qubits (quantum bits). Given the ability to encode an exponetial number of states and the ability to operate over each state simutanously, you could simply decrypt a given set of information for each key (one step) and validate which one is the correct one (most likey using some language recongnition, or other well-known method). The choice of an algorithm isn't really an issue, because of the pure brute force power provided. Here are some of the references from which I base this upon:
Nonsense? Keep in mind that Quantum computing can do an expontial amount of work per step. So the doubling of the problem space size requires one additonal qubit to operate over all extra space and does so in a single operation.
Maybe you should read up on what you're talking about before you call 'Nonsense';)
P.S. I have an MS in CS, so I don't need an explanation as to what exponential growth is.
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And Scientology on /.? I won't even go there, but as it was said on SouthPark, "You're getting Sued!"
Down Low, sorry, sometimes the geek in my fingers overrides the person typing. ;)
Why do I get the feeling that small, discrete blogs are being found and attended to, but something major where there is a user base of skill and regular usage of their products that aren't being paid attention to, or (gasp) heeded at all.
Or do they read /. all the time, and just keep it on the download so we don't become full of M$ loving?
How about due to the lack of code that takes advantage of the multiple processors? If you mainly use one heavy application that doesn't take advatage of more than one or two cores, then those other 78 are going to be bored (and not submitting their dupes to ./)!
least favorite, as in bottom of the list. Did you miss that?
Welcome to critical thinking where you have to gather info from various opposing sides and attempt to discern between the lies to gather what is often at best a blurry picture. But you're right in that you should pretty much never take what one side tells you for the truth, because then you're guarenteed to be wrong. (This goes along with the post above that says everyone lies, because everyone does by tilting it in their favor or framing it in their perspective)
Well, at least we know some of them had merit. Isn't this the same with women in cars?
Amen
including the cost of privacy.
"within the boundaries of the law"
Which 'our' (meaning my) government has shown to not include our personal privacy, and as some apt person pointed out yesterday, if our goverment does it, then our corporations feel justified in doing the same.
That being said, who says that the text books being given have accurate information? Do you think that those aren't biased by the writers that wrote them? Or that they weren't picked by the government for specific reasons? (like pushing certain governmental views/ideals, while downplaying or excluding unflattering facts) I would say overall that if we teach them to verify their information and cite reliable sources (as was the complaint on which earlier post on /. today? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/122020 1/ ), then we will be teaching them the critical thinking skills and ability to learn that is drowned out by the rote of memorization and "do as everyone else" mentality that our schools suffer from.
So drop the outdated books that are full of candy coated misinformation anyway, and let them google shit. And with the money left over from the books, pay the teachers more and pay for a real network admin!
You work up to 60 and most everything up to there is new or fun and interesting. Then you hit 60 and what? Find out that that two months you put in hardcore won't even touch what you need to do to be 'at the top'. Now it requires rep or raiding or PvP until people you know are concerned enough to talk about interventions with you.
Not to mention that once people learn the ultimate rule they won't have near the interest. And that is he with the most time will do the best. Not skill, not talent, and sure as hell not strategy, but simple time. And in what they think will make their money for them over time, is what will lead to its demise. I'm sure some would level more characters if they could get them to a decent status, but when you have to spend months and months of non-casual gaming (PvP up to 300k honor for the week, or Raiding 3-6 nights for 4 hours each), all of your fan base with a life, families, or jobs will all have to walk away. Because you just can't compete with 13 year-olds that don't have to work and have no responsibility.
I don't even think that it has that much more of a turn around time before people get sick of it. You work up to 60 and most everything up to there is new or fun and interesting. Then you hit 60 and what? Find out that that two months you put in hardcore won't even touch what you need to do to be 'at the top'. Now it requires rep or raiding or PvP until people you know are concerned enough to talk about interventions with you. Not to mention that once people learn the ultimate rule they won't have near the interest. And that is he with the most time will do the best. Not skill, not talent, and sure as hell not strategy, but simple time. And in what they think will make their money for them over time, is what will lead to its demise. I'm sure some would level more characters if they could get them to a decent status, but when you have to spend months and months of non-casual gaming (PvP up to 300k honor for the week, or Raiding 3-6 nights for 4 hours each), all of your fan base with a life, families, or jobs will all have to walk away. Because you just can't compete with 13 year-olds that don't have to work and have no responsibility.
Even in the worst of times, humans have had beasts of burden to the the heavy lifting. Great, so you're suggesting we send up Horses (or rather a Jack Ass or two) in spacesuits for the manual labor? That just sounds like trouble. Just wait until the astronauts hear they are riding up with a stable in tow!
You get modded up for talking about you dick (which was a poor joke that wasn't clear), and I get modded down for talking shit on M$ . . . hmmmm. Yeeeeeaaaaaaah.
Well, you'll be happy to know they've extending into the Viagra market as well. It doesn't always work, and it might cause things to backfire on occasion, crash, or allow other people to control the stiffness thereof, but hey, it will net bill a few more bucks.
Then again, that's why they can uphold their monopoly, isn't it?
I'm not saying I wouldn't consider it either, but I've never claimed a hard core stance against M$, just a general distaste
Amen, I'll be happy when the market clears out this crap. Umbrella? Next I need a control that changes the song when I flush the toliet . . . pfffffff
Yeah, does that mean you're going to be hiding certain aspects of yourself so you have a chance? I don't know whether that means general appearance, or perhaps an endowment issue . . .
Just a programmer's view on why this won't really matter until we have programs that make use of them.
So the Importnat question is: what colors/styles do the porn map to? Because I'm betting you see a fair amount of 'art' generated directly from that.
Then again, I refused to play until I finished my degrees in college due to MY addictive personality. But hey, it's better than crack!(Seriously)
This becomes more a matter of definitions. The ability to operate over an exponetial number of inputs simutanously would allow us to solve NP Complete problems in a realistic time period (linear to polynomial instead of exponential). Would it change the fact that we have no better solution to the inital problem? No. I agree that some other method of computation or problem solving would be required to actually prove P = NP. See my reply above for references if you don't quite catch the difference.
http://www.qubit.org/library/intros/comp/comp.html /
http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/B679/M743.html/
http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/
Maybe you should read up on what you're talking about before you call 'Nonsense' ;)
P.S. I have an MS in CS, so I don't need an explanation as to what exponential growth is.