I ask this question seriously, and from a psychological perspective. We learn as we grow up what the social norms of attractiveness are, do we not? Isn't that why they have meandered and oscillated many times over human history? So then how does a blind person figure out what attractive physical traits are? Uncle Bob can tell little Johnny that girls with big boobs are hot, but if Johnny can't see boobs, then how will he know what that even means*? So what would distinguish between a hot chick and an ugly chick, for a blind person? In particular, much of what makes women attractive (or not) would seem to be things that would be extremely difficult to portray in any tactile way, such as hair color and length, small features of the face/nose/mouth area, and the like. Perhaps I underestimate the sensitivity of a blind person's fingers.
Notice, I am not asking why a blind person would find these sexually arousing. I'm asking how the norms of what is and isn't hot would be established for someone with a limited sensory pool. It makes perfect sense to me that a blind man who's touched boobs before would get off on pretending he's touching boobs while stroking a curved... er... now I know why blind uncle Ted always strokes the arms of his chair like that...
* I assume, of course, that he doesn't go around feeling up everyone he meets in a brute-force attempt to uncover Uncle Bob's meaning
So not the point he was trying to make there. The issue I believe he was trying to get at goes something like this: IF this person was in jail AND this person was addicted to heroin THEN the heroin use is probably involved in why this person is in jail, so IF the person uses heroin again THEN they'll likely end up in jail again, so IF they die because they overdose THEN it's no great loss to society cuz they were just going back to jail anyways.
You're fooling yourself on two counts:
1) You seem to think that the current administration ISN'T corrupt.
2) The political news media types jump on any potential issue, no matter how trivial, and no matter who it's about, because scandal brings ratings
Nothing special about Obama here. Every administration gets the same shit, the only thing that changes is whether it's Fox or MSNBC throwing it, and in the same fashion every administration is corrupt, because they're all made up of politicians.
Can it run Crysis? Just kidding. Really, I'm curious how you're planning on exposing the dependency management to the developers. Would there be a GUI tool where you drag+n+drop dependencies to create a configure-script-ish data blob that the installer would use to figure out if you have everything you need? Would I be able to go ahead with compilation even if some dependencies aren't met, just with those features disabled? Imagine for instance that I'm building a media player and some codec libs aren't present. I'd want to be able to still build the player, just without the code to activate those codecs (let's assume for the sake of the example that I don't want to putz around making it check for codec DLLs at runtime and load them, for whatever reason).
Or if ARM netbooks really take off. It's plausible enough that I can see Microsoft not wanting to miss out on the potential money. They've gotta write for a 2nd architecture anyways, might as well make it the one that shows signs of encroaching upon the desktop environment.
I was about to make a wisecrack about how Apple doesn't know what the market wants, it only knows what its devoted fanboys want, and then it hit me: Yes, the market for the iPad and such probably DOES want an Apple branded search, just so they can see the Apple logo instead of some other logo when they go to search.
Thank you for providing me the opportunity to enlighten myself.
Does Valve pay for the servers and bandwidth required to serve the DLC, or does Microsoft? I'm all for free, but if it's costing Microsoft money to distribute the stuff, I see no reason why they should give it out for free.
No joke. XNA is awesome. However, indie dev != user generated content. Forza 3 seems to have plenty of opportunities for user generated content though, so clearly Microsoft isn't sitting in their heavenly throne frowning at all the game devs who want their players to be able to customize their gear a little. As far as custom maps/mods goes, I can envision a slew of technical reasons why that wouldn't be attractive to MS, in addition to the issues mentioned elsewhere of users drawing penises on every surface they can touch. I don't think Microsoft is quite as anti-free as everyone seems to think. They just like control over what's free.
Do be careful to be aware of the distinctions between "theory" and "academic buzzword of the year" though. I think this year it's Patterns or some such?
Well, if there's one thing we know for sure, it's that a government-contracted program will result in a real cryptographically-secure solution, rather than whatever seems cheapest!
Little bit odd to me that C/C++/C# weren't among the languages analyzed. Must be that they're all dying languages that no-one uses outside of mainframes anymore.</sarcasm>
So, you're actually suggesting that journalists:
a) Are blithering idiots
b) Like to breathe false drama and conflict into stories that really don't have any?
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It won't. Latency will be shittacular.
I thought shovels were for hookers?
[dragoniz3r@phoenix ~]$ wc -c
Time to go to my closest Starbucks for a venti non fat latte. What a great way to round out the afternoon!
They have great snacks there, too, starting at just $1.49! you should try it!
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Just sayin.
I ask this question seriously, and from a psychological perspective. We learn as we grow up what the social norms of attractiveness are, do we not? Isn't that why they have meandered and oscillated many times over human history? So then how does a blind person figure out what attractive physical traits are? Uncle Bob can tell little Johnny that girls with big boobs are hot, but if Johnny can't see boobs, then how will he know what that even means*? So what would distinguish between a hot chick and an ugly chick, for a blind person? In particular, much of what makes women attractive (or not) would seem to be things that would be extremely difficult to portray in any tactile way, such as hair color and length, small features of the face/nose/mouth area, and the like. Perhaps I underestimate the sensitivity of a blind person's fingers.
Notice, I am not asking why a blind person would find these sexually arousing. I'm asking how the norms of what is and isn't hot would be established for someone with a limited sensory pool. It makes perfect sense to me that a blind man who's touched boobs before would get off on pretending he's touching boobs while stroking a curved... er... now I know why blind uncle Ted always strokes the arms of his chair like that...
* I assume, of course, that he doesn't go around feeling up everyone he meets in a brute-force attempt to uncover Uncle Bob's meaning
So not the point he was trying to make there. The issue I believe he was trying to get at goes something like this:
IF this person was in jail AND this person was addicted to heroin THEN the heroin use is probably involved in why this person is in jail, so IF the person uses heroin again THEN they'll likely end up in jail again, so IF they die because they overdose THEN it's no great loss to society cuz they were just going back to jail anyways.
Simultaneously giving you colon cancer?
Is that an achievement? Did he unlock something?
How did that end, anyways? Or is it still rolling?
You're fooling yourself on two counts:
1) You seem to think that the current administration ISN'T corrupt.
2) The political news media types jump on any potential issue, no matter how trivial, and no matter who it's about, because scandal brings ratings
Nothing special about Obama here. Every administration gets the same shit, the only thing that changes is whether it's Fox or MSNBC throwing it, and in the same fashion every administration is corrupt, because they're all made up of politicians.
How long until I have to pay my webhost not to sandbag these measurements? Yippee...
Try Eve Online. It'll give you a new sense of what "bland gameplay" means.
Can it run Crysis?
Just kidding. Really, I'm curious how you're planning on exposing the dependency management to the developers. Would there be a GUI tool where you drag+n+drop dependencies to create a configure-script-ish data blob that the installer would use to figure out if you have everything you need? Would I be able to go ahead with compilation even if some dependencies aren't met, just with those features disabled? Imagine for instance that I'm building a media player and some codec libs aren't present. I'd want to be able to still build the player, just without the code to activate those codecs (let's assume for the sake of the example that I don't want to putz around making it check for codec DLLs at runtime and load them, for whatever reason).
From TFA:
Clearly these are horrible goals and this should by no means be done, simply because he is planning to do it in Windows.
Or if ARM netbooks really take off. It's plausible enough that I can see Microsoft not wanting to miss out on the potential money. They've gotta write for a 2nd architecture anyways, might as well make it the one that shows signs of encroaching upon the desktop environment.
I was about to make a wisecrack about how Apple doesn't know what the market wants, it only knows what its devoted fanboys want, and then it hit me: Yes, the market for the iPad and such probably DOES want an Apple branded search, just so they can see the Apple logo instead of some other logo when they go to search.
Thank you for providing me the opportunity to enlighten myself.
Does Valve pay for the servers and bandwidth required to serve the DLC, or does Microsoft? I'm all for free, but if it's costing Microsoft money to distribute the stuff, I see no reason why they should give it out for free.
No joke. XNA is awesome. However, indie dev != user generated content. Forza 3 seems to have plenty of opportunities for user generated content though, so clearly Microsoft isn't sitting in their heavenly throne frowning at all the game devs who want their players to be able to customize their gear a little. As far as custom maps/mods goes, I can envision a slew of technical reasons why that wouldn't be attractive to MS, in addition to the issues mentioned elsewhere of users drawing penises on every surface they can touch.
I don't think Microsoft is quite as anti-free as everyone seems to think. They just like control over what's free.
That would be an integral, sir. A derivative is the slope of a function at some given point.
Do be careful to be aware of the distinctions between "theory" and "academic buzzword of the year" though. I think this year it's Patterns or some such?
Well, if there's one thing we know for sure, it's that a government-contracted program will result in a real cryptographically-secure solution, rather than whatever seems cheapest!
Uh, no, a desire to have officers who are too stupid to question their instructions keeps them from doing that.
Little bit odd to me that C/C++/C# weren't among the languages analyzed.
Must be that they're all dying languages that no-one uses outside of mainframes anymore.</sarcasm>
More accurately, something more closely resembling "common sense"
So, you're actually suggesting that journalists:
a) Are blithering idiots
b) Like to breathe false drama and conflict into stories that really don't have any?
What a revolutionary idea!
Diminishing returns applies to programming too... big surprise...