Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 144
People die playing 'regular' games because they forget to eat etc.
That's why the sandwich was invented (just like Columbus discovered North America and Cook discovered Australia).
People die playing 'regular' games because they forget to eat etc.
That's why the sandwich was invented (just like Columbus discovered North America and Cook discovered Australia).
Nothing like advertising: "Someone actually died from playing this game, causing it to be banned in 12 states" to ensure it'll be the top ranking game for months to come.
It could be true. In which case - don't play VR games on rooftops or in traffic. Or get a life.
Some inveterate gamers are not social outcasts. I know someone who met one.[/sarcasm]
Yeah - I looked for the paper that won him the Amdocs prize but couldn't find it. All reports seem to be, um, based on this story. Which is where I found he trained the system using two Fffacebook pages:
posts on Hebrew-language Facebook pages that are almost pure opinion, called “superior and condescending people” and “ordinary and sensible people.” The pages are basically forums for people to let off steam about things and events that get them mad, a substitute for actually confronting the offending person. Between them, the two pages have about 150,000 “likes,” and active traffic full of snarky, sarcastic, and sometimes sincere comments on politics, food, drivers, and much more.
“Now, the system can recognize patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant,” explained Saig.
System Alert - Possible Arrogance Detected - user message issued
[ 328.0081004] Overtones Warning (bug): Optional FUBAR field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x000000000000102C/0x0 (Sarcasm overflow)
So it's a startup pitch - expect optimistic projections of outcomes. It's even possible (would it detect that) it's based on pure supposition - you know, like maybe the opinion of the machine learning program matched a readers take on those Fffacebook pages.
The problem is also exampled by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
That's a completely different "problem" to your original complaint. For completeness I've addressed it - in context, further down.
[...] They've also effectively killed Thunderbird.[...]
They no longer devote paid resources to develop new features and versions (which IMO, is a good thing). - rumors of it's death are grossly exaggerated. Mozilla still actively devotes paid resources to the security side of things, and community development is still strong. Lots of Open Source projects do well without the original upstream development - some do even better (LibreOffice). In this case we'd like to keep the current situation as it is to ensure integration with Firefox - but if Mozilla completely severs it's involvement development of Thunderbird is very unlikely to stop.
tl;dr? Mozilla still supports their original ESR commitments and have announced no plans to change that.
I just don't get Mozilla. Firefox's share of the market has dropped so much. Recent browser market share stats show that all versions of Firefox Desktop are only around 8% of the market.
Have you allowed for the vast changes in the market i.e desktop no longer is the majority platform type? And the flaws in the reporting i.e. Firefox is counted as Firefox, but Iceweasel, PaleMoon, and a myriad of other builds of Firefox aren't.
Notes:- PaleMoon is listed as a type that is not listed - but others variants aren't even acknowledged. Mobile platform browser figure sources aren't given, Desktop platform figures come from StatCounter - I don't know who the fuck they are - and no one I know does either. Perhaps that makes their "figures" even more irrelevant than those from Alexis (every admin I know refuses to use Alexis). So I don't know that those figures are particularly meaningful - at least to me. Disclaimer: I go by awstats reports from sites I manage.
Netmarketshare says 12.06%, a 3% drop since August last year. Probably a more reliable figure for the broad range of web servers, and similar to other figures from the largest websites.
Apropos of the story - I've already disabled Pocket as it's of no interest to me.
The "one phone call" is a myth made up by Hollywood. Last time I was arrested, there were several phones in the holding cell, and I was there for four hours. I could make as many phone calls as I wanted, to anyone, either local or collect.
I don't think it was a myth so much back in the day - the supreme courts ruled that if you were arrested, you have a right to contact someone. I.e., the police could not arrest you, then toss you in jail without you being able to talk to someone who can try to do something about it.
Perhaps it's more apt to the smaller communities, you know, the ones where the cops are just as crooked and looking to arrest you for any reason whatsoever. The one phone call came into play saying you were at least to have the right to contact someone - otherwise the police would just lock you up for a month, then set you free.
In most "normal" areas, yes, the phone is freely available for use because the last thing anyone wants is for you to be let go because you did not have sufficient time to contact someone, especially an attorney.
So today it's more likely a myth, but back maybe 50 years ago, it probably wasn't. Plus probably a bunch of court precedent that basically said under what conditions that "one call" really meant (is it one call, and if you reach a busy signal, no answer or an answering machine and that's it?). Just safer to let them have use of the phone as much as possible so no lawyer can get the guy off because he was denied sufficient phone access.
This product doesn't appear to be outside of the realm of the possible; bulk metallic glasses are a real thing (and apparently not excessively expensive for consumer electronics, a number of Sandisk's adequate-but-cheap-and-wholly-unexciting MP3 players used them as chassis materials); and the rest of the specs are on the high side; but available.
However, there appears to be almost nothing about this 'Turing Robotic Industries' except a couple of sites with the same 3d renders and vague puffery. Is 'cryptic' just what all the cool kids are doing these days, or is this the ever delightful scent of vaporware?
I suspect these guys may be an industrial manufacturer or some form or other, where a webpage is basically whoever can host web pages for free and who use gmail for email.
Given Apple just renewed their exclusivity to use Liquid Metal technology (in consumer electronics), someone's going to be in a world of hurt.
Could be these guys may be forced to license through Apple, Apple may demand damages from Liquid Metal for allowing this to happen, or Liquid Metal might terminate the contract with these guys.
Might want to hold off on the pre-orders...
They probably just ran into a million issues on OS X and its implementation of OpenGL and Apple doesn't give a shit.
I also never heard of DX11 on OS X. I imagine he must be referring to Bootcamp, although I don't know the state of Apple's drivers for bootcamp.
I guess they could have just not released the game in the first place instead of pulling it later...
No, they basically recompiled their app using a Windows API library.
There are lots of Windows API libraries - like WineLib - where you take your Windows source code, compile against the library and you have a Mac/Linux/Etc. app.
Square used Cider, which is an older port of WINE (before WINE switched licenses because TransGaming was effectively selling WINE without contributing back)
And no, there is no "DirectX for OS X". There's a DirectX API provided by the library that runs on top of OpenGL. Basically they're hoping the next release of Cider will have improvements in the Windows API library.
But it still will run like crap. Because it's a Windows game that runs on a Windows API emulation layer that runs on top of OS X. So of course, when you add in the library, it's no wonder performance on OS X sucks - OS X is running a virtual Windows API layer.
The reverse is also true - iTunes/QuickTime are notorious offenders in the "runs like crap" category, because they do the same thing - Apple has an OS X API layer that runs on Windows, and it's that OS layer that iTunes runs on.
The circuit board from an old IDE drive re-purposed as a networked device for controlling an irrigation system. Seemed obvious when I looked at it - after it'd been done. I/O, CPU, Flash, JTAG header, stepper motor controller - dirt cheap, tiny, low power, and built for harsh conditions.
Seems logical. And unlikely - for good reasons.
What I meant to say, to you, was along the lines of; Yeah. I found it a bit odd that they were "seeing" things in the other person's post. It was remarkable how much insight they could gather from those limited sentences. Their ability to grasp a person's mental health status with so limited information should be lauded and investigated as they truly can change the psychiatric medical field. I suspect they will get a Nobel Prize and be featured on the cover of both Time and Rolling Stone magazines. Also, the ladies will be impressed so they will further their genetic profile far and wide.
It's not psychosis - it's psychic abilities. Obviously.
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