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Now to be honest that was something I yanked out of my ass, but I googled it and it's a real damn thing.

No, they're pretty consistent that they just don't want people to affect animals

I'd have more sympathy for them if they were PETP - People for the Ethical Treatment of People. A cause I can get behind is the "leave me the fuck alone" cause.

The standards are pretty low... you may as well.

Oh, and I am Young Earth Creationist.

In that case I think you confused your IQ with your SAT score?

This is a good thing. Pretty soon there will be no FBI. The office may exist, but they won't be able to STAFF it.

Well they would if the shooter was designed to apply, say, the character rotation as a delta versus as an absolute. That operation uses a lot of sin/cos, most games are designed such that the angle is stored, the delta updates the angle, and the rotation reapplied on update. Versus rotating the vertices based on the delta from the update, and saving the result (until the next update). You do the latter too much and eventually your object looks like poo. Mathematically, it's perfectly acceptable, but practically wrong.

I would test that theory first. I have a hunch some GPUs are going to take shortcuts with math that someone like the guy who wrote this article will object to.

I suspect those viewers are watching Ghost Hunters and happy with it. This is a show whose niche market is mostly disgusted with it.

It's just the usual groupthink that cliques like to propagate. There are tens of thousands of lines of new perl and ruby (not to mention python, tcl and javascript) being created in the engineering world every day. There's been no shift away from them, and in many cases they are integral parts of CAD tools. I have yet to work in a place where Perl wasn't an institution. I keep hearing that C is dying, obsolete, ancient, yet I would advise any child who wants to pursue CS to learn it first, and learn it well, that if you knew only one language that it should be C. It isn't going to "die" in my lifetime, and probably not my children's. It's an excellent language where pragmatism is advantageous (read everywhere, but primarily OS/Systems/embedded) .

The key thing here is that these languages are tools we use, but we do not define ourselves as "C Programmers" or "Perl Programmers". My title has something like "design verification" or "design engineer" or something in it, my resume lists C, perl, python and (gasp!) various assembly languages. I'm not hired because of those skills, but those skills definitely increase my chances of being looked at. I think if you say looking for a "Perl Programming" job, you'll strike out. But there's tons of jobs out there for which perl programming is a hugely valuable skill.

But if you want to chase trends, and you want to chase job req's... well I have no advice for you except that you're doing something fundamentally wrong anyway.

Or you just keep writing in C and rely on tools to create code in those bullshit languages for you, because who wants to define their career by the platform-du-jour? Sure, someone will have to know C#,Java,ObjC,Swift,JS, but not really that many people.

This stuff would go away if we could just agree to boycott these things. Corporations know how to make products, they are absolutely terrible at creating anything that lasts.

Not entirely. "Her" was perhaps the most even-handed I've ever seen, but as such the AI managed to also be selfish and inconsiderate. But at no time did one question whether it was going to slaughter everyone and start looking for John Conner. Perhaps it did the best at showing how the failings of intelligence are from the intelligence, rather than the underlying technology.

"Transcendence" doesn't fit, the entire plot hinges around the intentions of the AI, and whether it is good or bad. However if anything, it was more or less the reverse of "Her", it was the human consciousness that was at question, and it was the intentions of that consciousness that resolved the plot. The technology itself was portrayed as terrifying and dehumanizing.

I feel like the FCC is trying to butter us up (or perhaps lube our rear ends) for something unpleasant they plan to do.

No he didn't, the Koch brothers want to keep all the profit in coal. Duh.

If only we could put datagrams on bullets, we might at last get high speed internet!

As long as I can play with my cell phone, I won't have a hand free for the whiskey bottle.