Some Frostbite games will require a 64-bit OS in 2013 - DICE

mehgandavid · 4 days

Ok, most difficult practical/"software engineer" as opposed to computer scientist type problem, P ?= NP is admittedly a much more difficult theoretical problem :)

mehgandavid · 4 days

If by "bloody tricky" you mean probably the single most difficult problem currently facing computer science, then yes :) That said, it can be made somewhat easier for games by breaking discrete components onto separate cores - for example, running physics on one, music on one, and the main game engine on another. But breaking down any one of the main functional areas into multiple cores becomes much, much more difficult, and often requires using synchronization mechanisms that inherently slow the system down, so there is a limit to how much of a boost you can get on this type of program - core count increases have diminishing returns for problem spaces that aren't trivially parallelizable.

dastardlylemon · 6 days

Sankarea

PanicOffice · 7 days

"AES 256" and "Military Grade" are redundant here - AES 256 is a fairly standard cypher used in the military.

Vaguswarrior · 9 days

Trying to get help in local is pretty much a lost cause. Can't comment as to 2004 (I didn't start playing till 2008), but more recently there are dedicated and moderated newbie help channels that everyone gets force subscribed to for the first 30 days of the account so that you do have someplace to ask that sort of question. Also, unlike at launch, there is actually a tutorial.

Flawd · 11 days

Reading the story, made me wonder if maybe the guy has social anxiety - something I have to deal with on a daily basis. I know I've gone times without checking my voicemail for a month at a time because I freeze up when I go to listen to it, stop returning calls, etc. Then again, maybe he's just an asshole, you wouldn't normally associate the social anxiety crowd with the sorts of people who would storm around threatening to call lawyers :) Either way, you had your policy and stuck to it, exactly like you should have.

Earth_bound_misfit · 12 days

http://sciencefun.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/pants.gif

Kermitdude · 13 days

http://buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

nicks1205 · 16 days

If you didn't see it in 3D, I highly recommend a rewatch. The 3D effects artists seemed to take special care to be sure that Scarlett Johanson's everything was as everything as it could possibly be.

jerryconnelly · 16 days

I was pretty ticked about them having the cliffhanger of all cliffhanger endings, then immediately announcing that they weren't even considering working on the sequel for several more years - I had enjoyed the game, but that aspect of things horribly soured my memory of it.

CS-NL · 16 days

Ideally, he'd make use of the macros to replace them for that job, then using their newfound free time find some other task they can work on and contribute to the health of the company, both saving their jobs and furthering the company. But that would require effort and change on his part. Lazy guy bossman more than anything.

clmddy · 16 days

I find myself disappointed that this is not a real subreddit :(

cor64 · 18 days

I attended one of the marathons in Indianapolis. And yes, it was quite funky by 5pm, let alone 2:30am :( The theater's AC wasn't able to keep up with a maximum capacity crowd being in the theater for 15 hours straight, and it probably hit 80F inside. Concession stand staffing was also quite incapable of dealing with the demand of 600 people simultaneously needing refills during the breaks between the movies. despite their best efforts It was an... interesting... experience, but not one I can say I look forward to repeating.

Massif · 19 days

15 years ago magnets near computers were a problem, but it won't have much of an effect on a modern computer. The most sensitive part was actually floppy disks rather than the internals of the computer itself - even a cheap refrigerator magnet could destroy a floppy disk.

DocxVenture · 21 days

I'm pretty sure it's just described as Vibranium rather than Adamantium in the CA movie.

Knight0fCydonia · 21 days

They knew perfectly well how to use them - they'd all gone through training and qualified before they could be out there, so there was no reason that they shouldn't have had them. The problem is that National Guard is not riot police, and didn't have riot police training (and this wasn't just some group of students sitting around singing songs - this was a full on mob that was chucking bricks and setting fires). The root problem is that whoever ordered the NG in chose the wrong tool for the job. What they did wasn't right, but that's because the whole situation was a complete clusterfuck from the top on down.

DocxVenture · 21 days

Per Fury, at this point in time it is still in development and not ready for fielding - I believe the weapon Agent Coulson grabs is one of the prototypes they rescue in the beginning of the movie (and like he said, he didn't even know what it did - this is new stuff).

Wordcraftian · 23 days

Was hoping for an ORB disk here. Not many people had them, but they were kind of like a better Jazz drive, and had the rather novel feature of sealing themselves and purging the air out of the drive while in operation.

cassus_fett · 23 days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion - it's always roughly the same size (it's so far away that what little the distance varies isn't enough to make a significant difference), it's believed to be an optical illusion concerning how it is oriented with other objects in the sky.

Rawwkit · 25 days

In Portal 1, there's a reference later in the game - there's a projector n an office frozen in the middle of a powerpoint presentation that mentions Black Mesa on the slide.

xdig2000 · 25 days

A published paper on the subject: http://2004.isdc.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/NearEarthAsteroidMining(Ross2001).pdf. Interesting part is section 3, which estimates the delta-v for 6-10% of near earth asteroids is actually lower than that to make the same transfer from lunar orbit to LEO. Still a big undertaking for a large enough rock, but close enough to things we've done before to place it within the realm of possibility. You also don't need to start off with a 1km asteroid. IIRC, the first one they're planning on trying it with is just 7m.

Saying Earth orbit for the asteroids was a poor simplification on my part. More precisely, I was referring to those asteroids for which a low energy transfer orbit is available, like the ones mentioned in the linked paper.

xdig2000 · 26 days

In the near term, we're not looking at pulling things from the asteroid belt, but rather near earth asteroids - things that are already essentially in Earth orbit or close to it, the orbit just needs to be altered to get the rock into a position where we can work on it. Much less energy needed than to grab something from the asteroid belt and move it into Earth orbit. However, in the long term, there's nothing saying we can't look farther out. It doesn't have to be fast - if the rock is valuable enough, you can plan to take years, even a couple of decades, and it's still a good use of time. Plus, the intention of some of these is to use materials from the asteroid for fuel. It's conceivable that you can actually send a relatively small amount of equipment out, then use the asteroid itself for the fuel. That level is probably beyond what we can do right now, but if we don't take the first steps, we will never get to that level.

xdig2000 · 26 days

1 asteroid could contain more platinum than has been mined in human history - you could grab a rock, alter its orbit a bit to put it in clean earth orbit, then mine the precious metals and deorbit them. That would make up for a fair bit of cost right there :)

Of course, the bigger thing is getting usable resources into orbit. It's much easier to alter the orbit of an asteroid than to lift things from the ground. A water asteroid gives us a basis for fuel, and an iron/nickel asteroid would give us materials that we could begin construction of spacecraft in orbit. This would remove a LOT of our current restrictions, which are almost entirely caused by how hard it is to get mass into orbit. You could much more easily, say, go to Mars when all you have to lift off the ground is the astronauts and maybe some harder to manufacture components (microchips, etc), then build the actual ship entirely in orbit.

mepper · 28 days

Panama City, FL's airport is an international airport, despite being a tiny little thing that makes Dayton (another airport I've frequented) look downright immense. I was curious how an airport with 10 flights a day, almost all to Atlanta, got called an international airport; so, while waiting for a horribly delayed flight one time, I asked. Turns out the key is having a customs inspector available - that's all it takes to qualify. Doesn't even have to be full time, just available on call for when a private plane arrives from out of country.

jpwasson · 1 month

Never dealt with horticulture, my background is more with math/physics and I've just never heard of the word penetration being used in terms of optics. You said a couple of posts up about light penetration per similar wattages - perhaps this has to do with bulb efficiency? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_light has an efficiency table for various light categories. Most of the references I find to the term light penetration have to do with penetration into water, and limiting my search to horticulture related areas mostly comes up with a bunch of trees forums looking for advice or sites selling grow lights rather than proper references. Not trying to be a pain here, I'm curious and trying to mentally map the terminology with the physics of how it works :)

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