Many games are rated M for mature to begin with and nearly nobody follows that rule. Parents will do what they're going to do anyway, and most of the time it will be buying children these games, just like they watch rated R movies with them. So where's the problem? If a parent deems his child mature enough to watch a certain movie or play a certain game, that is their call. The babysitting that the government is doing is becoming unrealistic. Enough of this "but think about the children" We've thought about the children, parents everyday think about their children and they are the ones best to judge who gets to play what. When it all comes down to it, whether a game is 14+ or 15+ or 14.75+ will not matter, only what the parent thinks at the time of the purchase.
There are much more pressing issues in our country than these childish laws.
I agree 100%. Don't we have editors here that screen submissions? We have seen some poorly made summaries before and even ones with false information, but this brings it over the top. It is terrible that this happened to the victims, but flaming everyone from the company right on down to other testees is in plain bad taste.
This article might not be an exact dupe, but this same information has been posted countless times already. 90% of it is even readable at cell's wikipedia article. I don't think anything more about cell is news worthy until someone actually does something this the processor...
Why isn't anything compiled natively anymore?
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Outside of introspection and like technologies there is no reason why code cannot be compiled natively. Linux users are aware of compiling java code natively, microsoft is working on a native c# compiler, so why is it that everyone else things it's still okay to compile to byte code or scripts. It's not; end of story. I do not like when every new processor that comes out is stomped on by new programs requiring more resources to do the same job. How many java programmers use runtime reflection or introspection? How many programs is it actually needed? If you're not using that, then you should compile natively. Just because Vista is wasting precious resources on it's silly aero glass, etc, doesn't make it right for everyone else too. What happens when someone tries writing a kernel in an interpreted language? Stage 3 bootloaders'll throw us into a JIT environment now. I could just imagine the efficiency there. Native languages are the way to go and we're in for big problems if they don't stay around.
"All benchmark settings were controlled by us - I made sure that the Catalyst driver settings were at the default setting (High Quality), and I used included timedemos/stress tests in games.
FEAR has it's own benchmark, as does Lost Coast and the three Far Cry demos used are from Ubisoft.
I think that Intel has too much to lose to 'lie' or 'fix' these benchmarks. They configured an Athlon 64 FX-60 at 2.8GHz for us, but I declined the opportunity to run comparison numbers on it. This is because I wanted to include some of our own independently-run benchmarks, rather than running benchmarks on an Intel-configured Athlon 64 FX machine."
This has been brought up many times. Every chip has a sheet of bugs and the core duo is no exception. Though if you had actually read the sheet you'd notice that almost all of the bugs were found during intel testing and most involved extremely rare scenarios. The amount of bugs reported show only that intel is conducting serious testing. As for not fixing the bugs, do you think AMD is fixing all of the bugs its processors have? http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white _papers_and_tech_docs/25759.pdf There are a number of bugs still in amd processors and even a few are not planned to be fixed. However this is really negligible concern to anyone.
Mind posting those benchmarks, because I call bullshit..net is on par with java if not worse for both speed and memory usage. If your c++ app runs as slow or uses as much memory as a JIT'ed app, you are doing something wrong.
I see collapsible menus, but please tell me threads for each article will be collapsible. That is one feature I have longed for and I know has been posted by other users as well.
The cause is no child left behind and like action. As someone who is a senior in high school, I've watched as literally half of my science classmates had no business in my level of courses. Parents believe that their children should be able to do the top level no matter what and many times this is not the case. Worse, schools believe if a child accels at one subject then they should be in equal level classes for the rest.
The effect of this is that students potentials are limited. There are a few people in my classes who know absolutely nothing about the material at hand, and no matter how many times it is presented to them cannot grasp it. This is an honors (we don't have AP) level physics class. They slow the progression of the class, and in doing so limit people like me who grasp the concepts easily. People don't realize how it only takes a few lower people to ruin the atmosphere in a classroom. When parents strive to place their kids in classes above their abilities, they are not just jeopardizing their own child's learning, but the learning of everyone who is brought down by them. No teacher wants to fail a student, and many won't. They instead slow the class to the pace of the slowest kid. This is clearly acceptable in remedial classes, but in an accelerated class it should not happen. There should be a curriculum to follow and if someone is holding back the class, they should be let go.
Sadly the present state of education in America is to help the remedial students while squashing the advanced students' potentials. No child left behind and naive parents who believe their child is better than everyone else are two of the most detrimental things to the education system today. Schools need to stand up and say no to both of these if they want students to reach their potentials today. Fail a girl who cannot grasp a physics class she doesn't belong in if she cannot handle it. There is no other way to show that some people do not belong in advanced classes, and when they're placed in them ruin the environment.
Not being able to burn isn't a problem for most anymore, however if you can't put these songs on an ipod or like device, there is no way this will fly. I can't imagine mtv viewers being too thrilled about a new program if it doesn't let them put music onto their ipods.
Insight? Do you really think microsoft needs to bribe another company or risk abuse of the courts just to not release an OS on the said date. 90+% of users still probably don't know what vista is, and it's certainly the opinion of/. that it's not worth upgrading to, so why the worry. I've heard of some crazy conspiracies, but for ms to do all of that to find an excuse to delay their OS is just nuts. I even doubt that this case will affect the release of the OS at all.
What about microsoft's singularity project?
It's built on c#, and should feature most of the OOP techniques that you talked about. It also is a microkernel which fits nicely into this whole debate.
Granted it is truly just a research project, they're reaching far out into the future with trying to make a microkernel built around an OO and managed language.
Think about the amount of kids who programmed back in the day, it was a rough sliver of the population, but if you looked on BBS's or usenet, you could find them concentrated. Look on irc, there are some places where channels are filled with 30+ kids under 20 that have serious experience in coding. As much as everyone hates hackers with a diabolic passion, those who make some of those programs are quite young, and have a knowledge of windows internals that rivals most. There are still many kids who are fascinatingly smart.
I believe both of you missed the point of the article. Code obfuscation wasn't the goal. That exists now. If I want to move around bytes in some form of reversible transformation I can download one of a plethora existing tools on the internet. The article suggested having the processor actually use a different instruction set. The binaries would be specific to the computer on which the code is run. It's not a polymorphism idea at all. It is creating unique executables for unique computers. The difference hear is that there is no reversible transformation. The code runs natively in it's altered state... which wouldn't be feasible with binary only installs.
How are companies supposed to distribute copies of their closed, binary only applications. I cannot see Microsoft willing to let users compile their own copies of windows, office, exchange, visual studio, etc to match their architecture. I cannot see Microsoft compiling binaries to match a user's given architecture. I even more cannot see the average person being able to successfully do this on their own. Imagine introducing the nearest lay person you know to Gentoo and telling them to get a system operating, they'd be dumbfounded even with instructions. "Compile from source? What does that even mean?"
The only solution possible is if there's a compatibility layer that will run binaries on any machine... A VM perhaps... and this would just allow viruses to run anyway and defeat the entire purpose of such an architecture to begin with.
My only experience with kava comes from using it as an anti-anxiety supplement. As a high school senior worrying about SATs, I decided I would take a supplement of kava twice daily to see if it's effects really work. The wikipedia article notes:
"Other interesting uses of kava include dispensation to military personnel (Fiji) to aid in vigilance and anxiety reduction; to provide concentration, focus, and muscle control before sports and music performances; to reduce the anxiety associated with public speaking and other public performances; use in corporate board rooms to aid in mental clarity, sociability and improved decision making."
Whether it was placebo effect or not, the ~month I took kava provided unmatched sleep and a decent boost in mental clarity and concentration. My math SAT scores finally hit 790, not quite perfect, but a number I definitely should have reached earlier, and I felt fine.
I stopped taking Kava because of the precautions of liver damage. Reading now that it is mainly FUD intrigues me, mainly because I remember feeling all in all better taking kava as a supplement.
On a totally unrelated note, I have been intrigued by organic and drug chemistry for a long while, and noticed the following simularity between MDMA (ectasy) and methysticin (one of the active ingredients in kava). The active group on many phenethylamines tends to be the 4 position of the phenyl ring and on MDMA there is a methylenedioxy on the 3 and 4 positions. This same structure occurs on methysticin, and I have long wondered if kava's narcotic effect comes from this similarity. However my highschool chemistry is far from enough to seriously evaluate this and I would love to hear if anyone has any idea.
When I wished to install linux, instead of partitioning my existing windows drive I stole an unused drive from another computer and installed linux on it. My windows drive wasn't even in the computer during the install and when I put them back together they worked like a charm. I however didn't mess with grub to boot windows. I just hit F11 and change what drive to boot from in my bios. Granted not everyone has this luxury, it's a fairly hassle-free way to dualboot. XP and linux still see each other's partitions, but during boot they have nothing to do with each other.
As a guitar player myself I second the vote for guitarpro. I would also add though that DGuitar is a multiplatform guitarpro implementation that can read up to guitarpro 4 files. If you want to use linux or os x and guitarpro this is an easy solution.
If the party is guilty. The RIAA is leveraging it's finances against people who obviously cannot compete in court and have no chance of proving their innocence. The RIAA even has a policy of no negotiations (from TFA). So in this way it is extortion.
Do you think that anyone back during the conception of that feature thought that a decade down the road companies were going to distribute executables on music cds that install rootkits a la DRM? Outside of that whole fiasco there's no possibly reason why autoplay is not a feature. Nearly everyone knows that programs launch when they insert their cds and most the time this feature saves them the time of loading it. Anyone who really needs to do anything besides run whatever the default program is should know to hold down shift anyway. It's not like the cd-rom is a vulnerable part of the computer where unapproved information is readily inserted, it's a piece of hardware a foot away from my leg - I know if anything malicious is going to be placed in there.
The short answer is yes, but in the end if someone is serious about programming, they will have learned multiple languages and paradigms, so much that the original language loses most of its influence. Every language has obvious good and bad sides, likewise every language will both teach good and bad methods to beginners.
A solid example is java-to-C++ programmers who allocate absolutely every object with new. Then forget to delete it. Garbage collection is a great convenience, but is it suitable for a beginner? Sure if they are going to be stuck making financial sector front ends, but not obtaining a firm grasp of memory management is detrimental for further language learning.
A second is the C or poorly taught C++ which is really C programmer trying to move to C++. There are countless examples of C++ and stl methods that people recode endlessly while still believing they are using "C++". Also are they people who make huge classes to handle absolutely everything in their program. No OOP, no abstraction, but because they've used classes, they have programmed correctly in C++. No matter which you start with (C/C++), adapting to the other is tough. They are extremely close syntaxally, etc, but are both extremely different languages.
VB is in a class of its own. I took a course in VB 6 this year and the first 3 chapters of the book were entirely using the visual editor and gui creation - No Code. This is not a way to teach good programming techniques obviously, but is it harming anything? If a new programmer does not go in depth into VB then takes a course in a more OOP language (read C++/any.net/java) is he hurt? My guess is no.
C# is a becoming a very viable first language, but it too has some of the same problems as java, mainly garbage collection.
Finally, no one's mentioned it but what about good old assembly? You won't learn the OOP concepts, but the low level knowledge of a cpu's architecture will help indefinitely in some fields.
Is VB a good language for beginners? probably not. Is C++/C#/java/the next language? likely more so than VB, but not definite. There is no "best" beginners language as much as there is no "best" language. Infinitely more important is how well you learn. A poor C++ teacher will likely be more detrimental than a good VB.net teacher
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Many games are rated M for mature to begin with and nearly nobody follows that rule. Parents will do what they're going to do anyway, and most of the time it will be buying children these games, just like they watch rated R movies with them. So where's the problem? If a parent deems his child mature enough to watch a certain movie or play a certain game, that is their call. The babysitting that the government is doing is becoming unrealistic. Enough of this "but think about the children" We've thought about the children, parents everyday think about their children and they are the ones best to judge who gets to play what. When it all comes down to it, whether a game is 14+ or 15+ or 14.75+ will not matter, only what the parent thinks at the time of the purchase.
There are much more pressing issues in our country than these childish laws.
Arch linux is beginning to use Mkinitcpio. It is for the most part easy to install and use.
I agree 100%. Don't we have editors here that screen submissions? We have seen some poorly made summaries before and even ones with false information, but this brings it over the top. It is terrible that this happened to the victims, but flaming everyone from the company right on down to other testees is in plain bad taste.
This article might not be an exact dupe, but this same information has been posted countless times already. 90% of it is even readable at cell's wikipedia article. I don't think anything more about cell is news worthy until someone actually does something this the processor...
Outside of introspection and like technologies there is no reason why code cannot be compiled natively. Linux users are aware of compiling java code natively, microsoft is working on a native c# compiler, so why is it that everyone else things it's still okay to compile to byte code or scripts. It's not; end of story. I do not like when every new processor that comes out is stomped on by new programs requiring more resources to do the same job. How many java programmers use runtime reflection or introspection? How many programs is it actually needed? If you're not using that, then you should compile natively. Just because Vista is wasting precious resources on it's silly aero glass, etc, doesn't make it right for everyone else too. What happens when someone tries writing a kernel in an interpreted language? Stage 3 bootloaders'll throw us into a JIT environment now. I could just imagine the efficiency there. Native languages are the way to go and we're in for big problems if they don't stay around.
This has been brought up many times. Every chip has a sheet of bugs and the core duo is no exception. Though if you had actually read the sheet you'd notice that almost all of the bugs were found during intel testing and most involved extremely rare scenarios. The amount of bugs reported show only that intel is conducting serious testing. As for not fixing the bugs, do you think AMD is fixing all of the bugs its processors have? http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white _papers_and_tech_docs/25759.pdf There are a number of bugs still in amd processors and even a few are not planned to be fixed. However this is really negligible concern to anyone.
Mind posting those benchmarks, because I call bullshit. .net is on par with java if not worse for both speed and memory usage. If your c++ app runs as slow or uses as much memory as a JIT'ed app, you are doing something wrong.
I see collapsible menus, but please tell me threads for each article will be collapsible. That is one feature I have longed for and I know has been posted by other users as well.
The cause is no child left behind and like action. As someone who is a senior in high school, I've watched as literally half of my science classmates had no business in my level of courses. Parents believe that their children should be able to do the top level no matter what and many times this is not the case. Worse, schools believe if a child accels at one subject then they should be in equal level classes for the rest.
The effect of this is that students potentials are limited. There are a few people in my classes who know absolutely nothing about the material at hand, and no matter how many times it is presented to them cannot grasp it. This is an honors (we don't have AP) level physics class. They slow the progression of the class, and in doing so limit people like me who grasp the concepts easily. People don't realize how it only takes a few lower people to ruin the atmosphere in a classroom. When parents strive to place their kids in classes above their abilities, they are not just jeopardizing their own child's learning, but the learning of everyone who is brought down by them. No teacher wants to fail a student, and many won't. They instead slow the class to the pace of the slowest kid. This is clearly acceptable in remedial classes, but in an accelerated class it should not happen. There should be a curriculum to follow and if someone is holding back the class, they should be let go.
Sadly the present state of education in America is to help the remedial students while squashing the advanced students' potentials. No child left behind and naive parents who believe their child is better than everyone else are two of the most detrimental things to the education system today. Schools need to stand up and say no to both of these if they want students to reach their potentials today. Fail a girl who cannot grasp a physics class she doesn't belong in if she cannot handle it. There is no other way to show that some people do not belong in advanced classes, and when they're placed in them ruin the environment.
Not being able to burn isn't a problem for most anymore, however if you can't put these songs on an ipod or like device, there is no way this will fly. I can't imagine mtv viewers being too thrilled about a new program if it doesn't let them put music onto their ipods.
Insight? Do you really think microsoft needs to bribe another company or risk abuse of the courts just to not release an OS on the said date. 90+% of users still probably don't know what vista is, and it's certainly the opinion of /. that it's not worth upgrading to, so why the worry. I've heard of some crazy conspiracies, but for ms to do all of that to find an excuse to delay their OS is just nuts. I even doubt that this case will affect the release of the OS at all.
What about microsoft's singularity project?
It's built on c#, and should feature most of the OOP techniques that you talked about. It also is a microkernel which fits nicely into this whole debate.
Granted it is truly just a research project, they're reaching far out into the future with trying to make a microkernel built around an OO and managed language.
I saw a video from a conference in Germany that has to do with infared hacking. It's quite interesting if you have the time to watch it.
Think about the amount of kids who programmed back in the day, it was a rough sliver of the population, but if you looked on BBS's or usenet, you could find them concentrated. Look on irc, there are some places where channels are filled with 30+ kids under 20 that have serious experience in coding. As much as everyone hates hackers with a diabolic passion, those who make some of those programs are quite young, and have a knowledge of windows internals that rivals most. There are still many kids who are fascinatingly smart.
I believe both of you missed the point of the article. Code obfuscation wasn't the goal. That exists now. If I want to move around bytes in some form of reversible transformation I can download one of a plethora existing tools on the internet. The article suggested having the processor actually use a different instruction set. The binaries would be specific to the computer on which the code is run. It's not a polymorphism idea at all. It is creating unique executables for unique computers. The difference hear is that there is no reversible transformation. The code runs natively in it's altered state... which wouldn't be feasible with binary only installs.
How are companies supposed to distribute copies of their closed, binary only applications. I cannot see Microsoft willing to let users compile their own copies of windows, office, exchange, visual studio, etc to match their architecture. I cannot see Microsoft compiling binaries to match a user's given architecture. I even more cannot see the average person being able to successfully do this on their own. Imagine introducing the nearest lay person you know to Gentoo and telling them to get a system operating, they'd be dumbfounded even with instructions. "Compile from source? What does that even mean?"
The only solution possible is if there's a compatibility layer that will run binaries on any machine... A VM perhaps... and this would just allow viruses to run anyway and defeat the entire purpose of such an architecture to begin with.
This is truly wishful thinking at its finest
My only experience with kava comes from using it as an anti-anxiety supplement. As a high school senior worrying about SATs, I decided I would take a supplement of kava twice daily to see if it's effects really work. The wikipedia article notes:
"Other interesting uses of kava include dispensation to military personnel (Fiji) to aid in vigilance and anxiety reduction; to provide concentration, focus, and muscle control before sports and music performances; to reduce the anxiety associated with public speaking and other public performances; use in corporate board rooms to aid in mental clarity, sociability and improved decision making."
Whether it was placebo effect or not, the ~month I took kava provided unmatched sleep and a decent boost in mental clarity and concentration. My math SAT scores finally hit 790, not quite perfect, but a number I definitely should have reached earlier, and I felt fine.
I stopped taking Kava because of the precautions of liver damage. Reading now that it is mainly FUD intrigues me, mainly because I remember feeling all in all better taking kava as a supplement.
On a totally unrelated note, I have been intrigued by organic and drug chemistry for a long while, and noticed the following simularity between MDMA (ectasy) and methysticin (one of the active ingredients in kava). The active group on many phenethylamines tends to be the 4 position of the phenyl ring and on MDMA there is a methylenedioxy on the 3 and 4 positions. This same structure occurs on methysticin, and I have long wondered if kava's narcotic effect comes from this similarity. However my highschool chemistry is far from enough to seriously evaluate this and I would love to hear if anyone has any idea.
When I wished to install linux, instead of partitioning my existing windows drive I stole an unused drive from another computer and installed linux on it. My windows drive wasn't even in the computer during the install and when I put them back together they worked like a charm. I however didn't mess with grub to boot windows. I just hit F11 and change what drive to boot from in my bios. Granted not everyone has this luxury, it's a fairly hassle-free way to dualboot. XP and linux still see each other's partitions, but during boot they have nothing to do with each other.
As a guitar player myself I second the vote for guitarpro. I would also add though that DGuitar is a multiplatform guitarpro implementation that can read up to guitarpro 4 files. If you want to use linux or os x and guitarpro this is an easy solution.
If the party is guilty. The RIAA is leveraging it's finances against people who obviously cannot compete in court and have no chance of proving their innocence. The RIAA even has a policy of no negotiations (from TFA). So in this way it is extortion.
The factorial function is generalized to non integer numbers and even complex numbers by the gamma function
You're referring to Autoplay as a flaw?
Do you think that anyone back during the conception of that feature thought that a decade down the road companies were going to distribute executables on music cds that install rootkits a la DRM? Outside of that whole fiasco there's no possibly reason why autoplay is not a feature. Nearly everyone knows that programs launch when they insert their cds and most the time this feature saves them the time of loading it. Anyone who really needs to do anything besides run whatever the default program is should know to hold down shift anyway. It's not like the cd-rom is a vulnerable part of the computer where unapproved information is readily inserted, it's a piece of hardware a foot away from my leg - I know if anything malicious is going to be placed in there.
The short answer is yes, but in the end if someone is serious about programming, they will have learned multiple languages and paradigms, so much that the original language loses most of its influence. Every language has obvious good and bad sides, likewise every language will both teach good and bad methods to beginners.
.net/java) is he hurt? My guess is no.
A solid example is java-to-C++ programmers who allocate absolutely every object with new. Then forget to delete it. Garbage collection is a great convenience, but is it suitable for a beginner? Sure if they are going to be stuck making financial sector front ends, but not obtaining a firm grasp of memory management is detrimental for further language learning.
A second is the C or poorly taught C++ which is really C programmer trying to move to C++. There are countless examples of C++ and stl methods that people recode endlessly while still believing they are using "C++". Also are they people who make huge classes to handle absolutely everything in their program. No OOP, no abstraction, but because they've used classes, they have programmed correctly in C++. No matter which you start with (C/C++), adapting to the other is tough. They are extremely close syntaxally, etc, but are both extremely different languages.
VB is in a class of its own. I took a course in VB 6 this year and the first 3 chapters of the book were entirely using the visual editor and gui creation - No Code. This is not a way to teach good programming techniques obviously, but is it harming anything? If a new programmer does not go in depth into VB then takes a course in a more OOP language (read C++/any
C# is a becoming a very viable first language, but it too has some of the same problems as java, mainly garbage collection.
Finally, no one's mentioned it but what about good old assembly? You won't learn the OOP concepts, but the low level knowledge of a cpu's architecture will help indefinitely in some fields.
Is VB a good language for beginners? probably not. Is C++/C#/java/the next language? likely more so than VB, but not definite. There is no "best" beginners language as much as there is no "best" language. Infinitely more important is how well you learn. A poor C++ teacher will likely be more detrimental than a good VB.net teacher