Comment Re:John Carmack and his BFG (Score 1) 148
Don't Zenimax own the BFG now though?
Don't Zenimax own the BFG now though?
You're saying that with a straight face? Force feedback was a stupid gimmick, good riddance to it.
Just what original work has Carmack done in VR? All this VR stuff is decades old, there's very little truly original work in an Oculus Rift and what there is was not done by Carmack from what I can tell (sorry John, you're awesome but not original in this instance), so this claim is double nonsense.
How much do you know about John's work at Oculus? Just because VR has been done before, that doesn't mean that it can't be done better than before.
Anyway, all of 3D gaming is ancient, I was playing Elite on the BBC Micro in 1984. Therefore everything that has been done since then is unoriginal and derivative of Elite.
Crucifiction's a doddle.
And what about the 4%? Is that an acceptable attrition rate?
If you don't have the ability to read, don't ask people to stop writing.
There should be no analogies, as comparing software to the real world means you're profoundly ignorant to begin with.
Software is real. It's part of the world. Same as the internet - it isn't a "cyberspace", it's people sitting at keyboards, and servers in real places, with actual cables between. And laws apply to those people, servers, cables, and software. And analogies apply equally well and equally badly between software and the rest of the world as they do between other parts of the rest of the world. Some analogies are useful, some less so. Just because it's "software" doesn't make it, and the processes that produce it, magically immune to logical, ethical, and legal analysis.
The torrent is the movie. It's just heavily compressed, using a compression algorithm that involves a look-up to a different location.
I love listening to the "whoosh" sound that accompanies each and every reply to this. Priceless!
I was probably over-optimistic when I said "finding bugs like this is easy to automate". What this would probably need is runtime access checking turned on, and a test case that has mismatched lengths. The latter would require the tester to implement what I call C4 tests, or "comprehensive corner case coverage".
Not true. Writing code is very hard to automate. Finding bugs like this is easy to automate. In fact, the OpenSSL team specifically turned off all the memory overrun checks on all platforms, because some platforms have performance problems with them. So, the automated checks should have spotted this problem (at run time, rather than compile time, but there are other tools for that), but they were turned off.
And, do it with your real login.
Priceless.
I watched that Penn and Teller piece with the glass wall, and although it's entertaining, it's statistically misleading, which is unforgiveable in that context.
They knocked over a single pin and said that that was representative of any potential link with autism. They then went on to throw balls to represent all the different diseases that vaccines protect against. But the "cost" of all vaccines was only counted once. The "benefit" of vaccine protection was counted dozens of times.
The implication is that that one pin being knocked over is the only thing that can happen for all of the vaccines against the diseases that they mentioned. Maybe that is statistically representative, I'd like to know. I am pro-vaccine, but I'm also pro-telling-it-straight, which they did not.
If taking faith out of the equation, namely the belief that "all deaths are bad", the picture becomes less clear.
Is culling of the herd necessarily a bad thing for humanity in the long perspective?
Faith is not necessary in order to hold all human life to be precious. As an agnositc-almost-atheist (in that you cannot prove a negative) I am actually rather offended at the suggestion.
Be as disgusted as you like, but it won't change.
That's what the Romans believed.
NOWPRINT. NOWPRINT. Clemclone, back to the shadows again. - The Firesign Theater
