I opened said link in a Chrome incognito window, and I can't see any posts there. If I open it while logged in to facebook in another tab, I can read it just fine. So now we all know that you are logged in to facebook while reading/.
Since there is the rumor that they are working on a console or console-like device, and they've found their games ran at a higher FPS for same quality when running under Linux, I would expect them to announce that if they announce a console.
As someone who has programmed under the influence of less than recreational drugs, I disagree. I'm not going to endorse the use of narcotics for coding purposes, but if you happen to be taking them for another reason and code while taking them, they can help you out big time. For me, it was during college OO C++; doing meta programming with a ton of abstract templates and unknown data. Things that looks like if (tree->node1->leaf->data(value) >= tree->node2->leaf->data(value), only with longer variable names because the TAs want 'descriptive variables'. 80 column wasn't enough to contain a single if statement in a few of those cases, and the large amount of pain meds I was on at the time made it much simpler to look at the program and see how it all fit together. Also helped when debugging other people's code, since I didn't care about the headache I was getting by just reading it.
As for commenting, I wrote my comments in first as I designed, then filled in with code to do what the comments claimed would happen; changing both when needed. Lost points in college classes for not always using doxygen format, but the code was always documented. Sometimes to a stupid overkill amount.
That is not what happened here. They trespassed onto his land then placed cameras there. The police officers violated the law to place those cameras.
The articles I've read have all been edited to remove the suggestion that the defendants owned or leased the land involved. It seems that the fact of their owning or not owning the land was avoided in the ruling somehow, and so that detail seems to be implied a lot but with nothing to back it up.
You might read the ruling, then. It avoided the issue of whether the defendants even owned or leased the field involved. I don't know whether they failed to bring that detail up, or if they didn't mention it because they too were trespassing, or whether the judge ignored it. But there is no indication that they were on the land lawfully either.
As far as the articles I've read suggest, it's not even in this hearing as to whether the defendants owned or leased the property involved. They might have been trespassing themselves.
Bullshit. This ruling isn't even between the DEA cops and the accused. This case is one to determine if the evidence is usable in court, nothing else. That means it is between the accused and the law, in this case Judge Griesbach. The two accused have not been found guilty yet, as far as I can tell. If you wish to be dogmatic and overly specific, at least aim your ire in the right direction.
Interesting thought, but last resort drugs seem to have worked. First time in months I haven't had a PICC line, and no sign of more drug resistant crap. But I'll keep that option in mind. Meanwhile, I'll keep daydreaming of ways that breeding resistant bacteria could give me superpowers. I'd make a good arch-nemisis.
The original pathogen was not a gut bacteria. It was something a bit stranger than that, which I won't go into here. Regardless, the available treatment was 2 weeks of antibiotics which, because of flaws unknown at the time, only killed the apparent infection and not the 'cyst' it was hiding in. So the infection returned multiple times before surgery could be scheduled. And when JAMA articles suggest that the survival rate of treating this pathogen is only 25%, you take the antibiotics.
But treatment with drugs that strong are going to kill everything. 3rd gen sporins are just that nasty of a cure. Weakened immune system or not (probably weak from 4 months of fighting) there is no balance to maintain when nothing is left. The first bacteria that got back will be the one that takes over. Why yes, I do wish my doctors had access to these less gross transplants; post surgery that might have saved me another month of recovery. But I didn't mean to imply that the bacteria chewed its way through my gut literally; fecal coloforms spread, either through incisions, or just touching the faucet before and after hand washing. And getting a kidney infection in a hospital post surgery is like getting stitches: it will happen if foleys are involved.
Just had that happen to me. Multiple infections meant that in the last six months I have had every type of antibiotic available. Then, surgery to remove the source of the infections. Since I'd been exposed to every major branch of antibiotics, the bacteria in my gut was now resistant to all but the 'drugs of last resort'. So of course, some of that bacteria got out and started trashing my insides and the surgical incision.
Scariest thing in the world to hear that the normal bacteria in your gut is now resistant to everything but Vanc, Streptomycin, and Linezolid; and that it's trying to chew it's way through your kidneys. Especially since those drugs of last resort almost all cause kidney damage.
Yogurt does help create a healthy gut flora, but yogurt contains only a few, at most, of the bacteria that the intestine needs to operate normally. Your gut naturally contains E. Coli, and Enterococcus, neither of which you want to get from the grocery store.
And, if it weren't for your large intestine filtering out most of the water, then when you drank milk you would excrete something similar to yogurt.
I completely agree, we don't yet have nearly the understanding to start meddling with our genome on a large scale. Not that that will stop us.
The problem with evolution though is that by virtually eliminating death by other than "old age" we've largely eliminated one of the driving forces behind evolution - survival of the fittest. The driving force now is simply who makes the most babies (i.e. the fittest in the new reality). So basically if we want to select for anything other than "breeders" we're going to have to do it ourselves, either by genetic engineering or reproductive control regulations. So three bad choices to wind our way between...
Even if evolution was still working it is unlikely to magically find a "solution" to trade-offs, at least not on any timescale were we'd care. Take sickle-cell anemia as a recessive disease with clear benefits - if you only have one copy of the gene you're immune to malaria, a major advantage in tropical locales without access to modern medicine. If the gene is prevalent enough in the population then *eventually*, maybe, another random mutation will occur that counteracts the anemia problem - but it will probably incur a cost of it's own. If the cost/benefit ratio plays out well then it will disperse through the population as well, if not...
You still have death by "other than old age". You have death at the cellular level. At the gamete level. As for malaria, you are making an unstated assumption along the lines that either the sickle cell gene will just mutate to be safer/better, or that malaria will cause it to need to mutate along the lines of the red queen hypothesis. Neither is necessarily true. It could be that the sickle cell gene is the best it can be where it is located, a local maxima if you will, and that the only way to force a better solution would be to eliminate that gene and open the entire genome up to random mutation and see what occurs.
As for there being less survival of the fittest, you have a flawed understanding of what survival of the fittest means. "Fittest" is subjective (by environment standard, not personally subjective), it is only what works better in the environment of the moment. It is not personally subjective, just because some people would like for it to mean more intelligent or more physically fit it does not have to mean that. It might be that "breeders" are the best options given the situation at the moment. We're too tied up in our own prejudices and in the system to often look at it objectively and judge.
Can also happen in cruise ports, near boats with strong pico-cell towers. See google for people in florida getting massive over-seas roaming bills while never leaving shore.
Then the answer is paper. Hard copy. Because of there is a massive electrical event that fries every computer plugged in, there will be nothing to read your data for several years.
Why? Every fab plant is computerized now days. Those fabs won't be operating until those chips are replaces and bootstraping them could be tricky. Not my field, but I would figure months before even an old large nm foundry is back online. To get back to current production levels and prices, those first chips will go to building new chip fabrication plants. Unless Intel or AMD have their data backed up in paper, someone will need to design a new common CPU; besides, what better reason to get rid of X86 16bit compatibility? Then eventually, consumer level chips and things like optical drives. Maybe all the lithograpy is still actual lithographs and not digital, but I doubt it.
In the end, a major emp event is nature thumbing its nose at geeks. You can be prepared, but you won't keep your source code.
Citizens United overturned a law stating the corporations only had the right to air 'political' tv bits when it was not X months before an election. The SCOTUS said that if Congress gives them the right to speech, then the 1st applies, and it can't be time limited to "this time of the year only". No magical appearing corporate right to free speech, unless you count acts of Congress many many years ago. But that wouldn't fit with your rant.
Besides, three hand picked data points to make a statistical argument? This is/. so at least get enough data points for a reasonable p-value; otherwise you are just insulting the other readers.
You need to use vector math to figure out Big O complexity? Maybe for a specific application like some vector math based functions, and proving the complexity of a specific function operating over N-dimensional space, but the principle doesn't require anything past knowing functions and exponents.
but not the way you think. You can get away with game development now without knowing how physics works. Get a game engine like you mentioned and just treat every object as a Newtonian solid body and let it's physics system handle the math. Or you could go for calculus overkill and let wind affect every bullet in a shooter game by treating them as particles and integrating up from delta-delta v (change in wind acceleration). More likely, you'll want to know the calculus, some of the simplification like a parabolic arc, and know some of the mathematical estimates of the multivariable equations; and you will mix and match to meet the requirements you have. If you don't know the math for any part of that, then you are missing that tool in your mind and can't use it.
What math for what parts of a game? Calculus based physics for physics engines, obviously. You could do algebra based and discrete time steps, but try it with anything past a 2 body problem and it's a simulation, not a game. Someone else mentioned and I'll second quaternions for graphics; learn to love them because lots of the hardware is accelerated for them and Euler angles will screw you when you least expect it. Graph theory for space partitioning, which shows up in both graphics engines and AI. Statistics shows up anywhere, from simulations to helping you figure out where and why programs crash (simple example, a function that handles random numbers in a game crashes 1 out of 36 calls when called by some part feeding it the results of 2 six sided dice. Write your test case for 1 and 12.)
So if you are comfortable using tools from other people, and writing code that glues pieces together, you don't need a ton of math. You may not spot problems as quickly, and your code may not be optimized as much, but it will work and sell. If you want to write the engines that other people use, or want to add things in to other engines, then you need a lot of math.
The author mentioned using Unity, I would suppose for game development. No physics is required to do basic physics in that engine, everything is built into the engine by default. Tell it what direction gravity is, and it handles the rest. Now if the author is comfortable doing drag-and-drop development, and never touching the code behind the scenes, they could still do game development without ever needing calculus.
How many of those facebook clicks to your website are people who are actually interested, and how many are bots from facebook simply crawling every link they find?
Dado and rabbit joins for particle board? Mayhap I'm wrong, but that just sounds wrong. I agree with you for nicer furniture and lumber*, but for cheap stuff . . . not seeing it. A cheap drill or rotary tool to pretend to be a drill, and screws will hold together cheap particle board just fine, better than flat-pack crap, and be in the range of knowledge of a newcomer to carpentry work. But it is still more than some people desire to invest in "just a bookshelf".
*:I can spell it correctly, but I typed faster than I could think the first time.
I absorbed the Reader's Digest Big Yellow Book, also known as the "Fix-It-Yourself Manual". Find it at the library, or for like $5 online. I don't think the new version is yellow, but it has a little bit of everything you need to know for home maintenance and basic repair. You can even use it as a instruction book when you want to do something, it had step by step guides.
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I opened said link in a Chrome incognito window, and I can't see any posts there. If I open it while logged in to facebook in another tab, I can read it just fine. So now we all know that you are logged in to facebook while reading /.
Since there is the rumor that they are working on a console or console-like device, and they've found their games ran at a higher FPS for same quality when running under Linux, I would expect them to announce that if they announce a console.
As someone who has programmed under the influence of less than recreational drugs, I disagree. I'm not going to endorse the use of narcotics for coding purposes, but if you happen to be taking them for another reason and code while taking them, they can help you out big time. For me, it was during college OO C++; doing meta programming with a ton of abstract templates and unknown data. Things that looks like if (tree->node1->leaf->data(value) >= tree->node2->leaf->data(value), only with longer variable names because the TAs want 'descriptive variables'. 80 column wasn't enough to contain a single if statement in a few of those cases, and the large amount of pain meds I was on at the time made it much simpler to look at the program and see how it all fit together. Also helped when debugging other people's code, since I didn't care about the headache I was getting by just reading it.
As for commenting, I wrote my comments in first as I designed, then filled in with code to do what the comments claimed would happen; changing both when needed. Lost points in college classes for not always using doxygen format, but the code was always documented. Sometimes to a stupid overkill amount.
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That is not what happened here. They trespassed onto his land then placed cameras there. The police officers violated the law to place those cameras.
The articles I've read have all been edited to remove the suggestion that the defendants owned or leased the land involved. It seems that the fact of their owning or not owning the land was avoided in the ruling somehow, and so that detail seems to be implied a lot but with nothing to back it up.
You might read the ruling, then. It avoided the issue of whether the defendants even owned or leased the field involved. I don't know whether they failed to bring that detail up, or if they didn't mention it because they too were trespassing, or whether the judge ignored it. But there is no indication that they were on the land lawfully either.
As far as the articles I've read suggest, it's not even in this hearing as to whether the defendants owned or leased the property involved. They might have been trespassing themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice There would be no case here if the Obama administration had not brought one..
Bullshit. This ruling isn't even between the DEA cops and the accused. This case is one to determine if the evidence is usable in court, nothing else. That means it is between the accused and the law, in this case Judge Griesbach. The two accused have not been found guilty yet, as far as I can tell. If you wish to be dogmatic and overly specific, at least aim your ire in the right direction.
Interesting thought, but last resort drugs seem to have worked. First time in months I haven't had a PICC line, and no sign of more drug resistant crap. But I'll keep that option in mind. Meanwhile, I'll keep daydreaming of ways that breeding resistant bacteria could give me superpowers. I'd make a good arch-nemisis.
The original pathogen was not a gut bacteria. It was something a bit stranger than that, which I won't go into here. Regardless, the available treatment was 2 weeks of antibiotics which, because of flaws unknown at the time, only killed the apparent infection and not the 'cyst' it was hiding in. So the infection returned multiple times before surgery could be scheduled. And when JAMA articles suggest that the survival rate of treating this pathogen is only 25%, you take the antibiotics.
But treatment with drugs that strong are going to kill everything. 3rd gen sporins are just that nasty of a cure. Weakened immune system or not (probably weak from 4 months of fighting) there is no balance to maintain when nothing is left. The first bacteria that got back will be the one that takes over. Why yes, I do wish my doctors had access to these less gross transplants; post surgery that might have saved me another month of recovery. But I didn't mean to imply that the bacteria chewed its way through my gut literally; fecal coloforms spread, either through incisions, or just touching the faucet before and after hand washing. And getting a kidney infection in a hospital post surgery is like getting stitches: it will happen if foleys are involved.
Just had that happen to me. Multiple infections meant that in the last six months I have had every type of antibiotic available. Then, surgery to remove the source of the infections. Since I'd been exposed to every major branch of antibiotics, the bacteria in my gut was now resistant to all but the 'drugs of last resort'. So of course, some of that bacteria got out and started trashing my insides and the surgical incision.
Scariest thing in the world to hear that the normal bacteria in your gut is now resistant to everything but Vanc, Streptomycin, and Linezolid; and that it's trying to chew it's way through your kidneys. Especially since those drugs of last resort almost all cause kidney damage.
Yogurt does help create a healthy gut flora, but yogurt contains only a few, at most, of the bacteria that the intestine needs to operate normally. Your gut naturally contains E. Coli, and Enterococcus, neither of which you want to get from the grocery store.
And, if it weren't for your large intestine filtering out most of the water, then when you drank milk you would excrete something similar to yogurt.
No, you are thinking of Kenny Rogers; he wrote Loose Seals.
As a long lurking member of the POVRay community, you are sick and twisted.
I completely agree, we don't yet have nearly the understanding to start meddling with our genome on a large scale. Not that that will stop us.
The problem with evolution though is that by virtually eliminating death by other than "old age" we've largely eliminated one of the driving forces behind evolution - survival of the fittest. The driving force now is simply who makes the most babies (i.e. the fittest in the new reality). So basically if we want to select for anything other than "breeders" we're going to have to do it ourselves, either by genetic engineering or reproductive control regulations. So three bad choices to wind our way between...
Even if evolution was still working it is unlikely to magically find a "solution" to trade-offs, at least not on any timescale were we'd care. Take sickle-cell anemia as a recessive disease with clear benefits - if you only have one copy of the gene you're immune to malaria, a major advantage in tropical locales without access to modern medicine. If the gene is prevalent enough in the population then *eventually*, maybe, another random mutation will occur that counteracts the anemia problem - but it will probably incur a cost of it's own. If the cost/benefit ratio plays out well then it will disperse through the population as well, if not...
You still have death by "other than old age". You have death at the cellular level. At the gamete level. As for malaria, you are making an unstated assumption along the lines that either the sickle cell gene will just mutate to be safer/better, or that malaria will cause it to need to mutate along the lines of the red queen hypothesis. Neither is necessarily true. It could be that the sickle cell gene is the best it can be where it is located, a local maxima if you will, and that the only way to force a better solution would be to eliminate that gene and open the entire genome up to random mutation and see what occurs.
As for there being less survival of the fittest, you have a flawed understanding of what survival of the fittest means. "Fittest" is subjective (by environment standard, not personally subjective), it is only what works better in the environment of the moment. It is not personally subjective, just because some people would like for it to mean more intelligent or more physically fit it does not have to mean that. It might be that "breeders" are the best options given the situation at the moment. We're too tied up in our own prejudices and in the system to often look at it objectively and judge.
Can also happen in cruise ports, near boats with strong pico-cell towers. See google for people in florida getting massive over-seas roaming bills while never leaving shore.
Then the answer is paper. Hard copy. Because of there is a massive electrical event that fries every computer plugged in, there will be nothing to read your data for several years.
Why? Every fab plant is computerized now days. Those fabs won't be operating until those chips are replaces and bootstraping them could be tricky. Not my field, but I would figure months before even an old large nm foundry is back online. To get back to current production levels and prices, those first chips will go to building new chip fabrication plants. Unless Intel or AMD have their data backed up in paper, someone will need to design a new common CPU; besides, what better reason to get rid of X86 16bit compatibility? Then eventually, consumer level chips and things like optical drives. Maybe all the lithograpy is still actual lithographs and not digital, but I doubt it.
In the end, a major emp event is nature thumbing its nose at geeks. You can be prepared, but you won't keep your source code.
Citizens United overturned a law stating the corporations only had the right to air 'political' tv bits when it was not X months before an election. The SCOTUS said that if Congress gives them the right to speech, then the 1st applies, and it can't be time limited to "this time of the year only". No magical appearing corporate right to free speech, unless you count acts of Congress many many years ago. But that wouldn't fit with your rant.
Besides, three hand picked data points to make a statistical argument? This is /. so at least get enough data points for a reasonable p-value; otherwise you are just insulting the other readers.
You need to use vector math to figure out Big O complexity? Maybe for a specific application like some vector math based functions, and proving the complexity of a specific function operating over N-dimensional space, but the principle doesn't require anything past knowing functions and exponents.
but not the way you think. You can get away with game development now without knowing how physics works. Get a game engine like you mentioned and just treat every object as a Newtonian solid body and let it's physics system handle the math. Or you could go for calculus overkill and let wind affect every bullet in a shooter game by treating them as particles and integrating up from delta-delta v (change in wind acceleration). More likely, you'll want to know the calculus, some of the simplification like a parabolic arc, and know some of the mathematical estimates of the multivariable equations; and you will mix and match to meet the requirements you have. If you don't know the math for any part of that, then you are missing that tool in your mind and can't use it.
What math for what parts of a game? Calculus based physics for physics engines, obviously. You could do algebra based and discrete time steps, but try it with anything past a 2 body problem and it's a simulation, not a game. Someone else mentioned and I'll second quaternions for graphics; learn to love them because lots of the hardware is accelerated for them and Euler angles will screw you when you least expect it. Graph theory for space partitioning, which shows up in both graphics engines and AI. Statistics shows up anywhere, from simulations to helping you figure out where and why programs crash (simple example, a function that handles random numbers in a game crashes 1 out of 36 calls when called by some part feeding it the results of 2 six sided dice. Write your test case for 1 and 12.)
So if you are comfortable using tools from other people, and writing code that glues pieces together, you don't need a ton of math. You may not spot problems as quickly, and your code may not be optimized as much, but it will work and sell. If you want to write the engines that other people use, or want to add things in to other engines, then you need a lot of math.
You can do vector math without basic algebra? This sounds very zen, solving for [X,Y,Z] without solving the equation or using real numbers.
The author mentioned using Unity, I would suppose for game development. No physics is required to do basic physics in that engine, everything is built into the engine by default. Tell it what direction gravity is, and it handles the rest. Now if the author is comfortable doing drag-and-drop development, and never touching the code behind the scenes, they could still do game development without ever needing calculus.
Russ, Tiptree/Sheldon started the trend. Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge and others still continue it.
How many of those facebook clicks to your website are people who are actually interested, and how many are bots from facebook simply crawling every link they find?
Dado and rabbit joins for particle board? Mayhap I'm wrong, but that just sounds wrong. I agree with you for nicer furniture and lumber*, but for cheap stuff . . . not seeing it. A cheap drill or rotary tool to pretend to be a drill, and screws will hold together cheap particle board just fine, better than flat-pack crap, and be in the range of knowledge of a newcomer to carpentry work. But it is still more than some people desire to invest in "just a bookshelf".
*:I can spell it correctly, but I typed faster than I could think the first time.
I absorbed the Reader's Digest Big Yellow Book, also known as the "Fix-It-Yourself Manual". Find it at the library, or for like $5 online. I don't think the new version is yellow, but it has a little bit of everything you need to know for home maintenance and basic repair. You can even use it as a instruction book when you want to do something, it had step by step guides.