dutchflyboy

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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
"There are several reasons why one should prefer LaTeX to a WYSIWYG word processor like Microsoft Word: portability, lightness, security are just a few of them" I agree with most points but seriously, lightness? Have you ever downloaded it?
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Hmm, you're right, I misread his comment. Sorry for the confusion.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
"You missed the part where I pointed out that current major competitions don't accept arbitrary languages." In this competition, if you wanted to use another language, you just needed to make a starter package (a stupid bot) and some instru
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, you should understand that at the end the bot had to be pretty complex to be competitive. Fast prototyping wasn't so important, as most of the theory was already there. But only a few managed to get them working together. In this case
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
The problem with Java was that it was impossible to get it running fast enough. You had 1 second of thinking time, but with Java you could barely access 0.05s, while compiled languages like C/C++ or even C# could easily use 0.95s without ha
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, actually the purpose of patents IS to allow you to get rich. Why? Well, by protecting the invention, you allow the inventor to make money with it for some time. This means that if you put millions in R&D, you have a guarantee that
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, I must disagree on most points. As the archos has a sd card reader, the memory isn't an issue (16GB modules are quite easy to find), the chip is low power but that's not bad, as it'll have more autonomy, (that's why the iPad has the A
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Wow, that's old! Just by looking at Moore's law: 30/1.5 = 20, a machine of the same size would have aproximatively 2^20 times more power!
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Personally I think speeding IS a reason. It's true that people can keep safe distances without speed limits, however it's undeniable that people who go much faster than the average speed are dangerous. Limiting the speed is one way to try t
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
I agree, the fact that the german Autobahn is compared directly to US highways is laughable. It's comparing apples and pears: not relevant.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Isn't this a case where entropy shows it isn't possible? Once you degrade the quality/quantity of the information, you can't get it back. You can find a clever way to hide what you did, but this doesn't add information, you're just interpol
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
I agree. A guy who says "I just didn’t do my homework because I knew it was bullshit" just doesn't deserve any help.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
No, if you use Picasa, people who have access to your history can find your gmail address.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
In that case, it probably uses FireMetal: "Introducing FireMetal: a Megan-Fox-picture platform optimizer"
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
I'm not, I mean seriously, if you make a machine that "produces" energy, you have to be the worlds biggest idiot to sell it for 10'000$. It's like selling a chicken that lays golden eggs, you just don't. You keep it and make profits.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, that's too bad. I would happily pay 100'000 for a machine that "produces" energy. I mean, you build a few, connect them to the grid, sell the electricity and you've got you're money back in no time.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, no, that's not the answer. It's not important how the mass is transformed into energy, nor how much. He's just saying that if it's possible to transform x kg of something into y energy and back again (the second part being the real ch
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
But isn't ActionScript completely open? And the flash framework is open too. You don't need Flash CS4 to use flash. You can also program it with a third party IDE and then use the free compiler. This would be quite comparable.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, it is sold as a drug, in the sense that on the package it says that it cures a sickness, which is the point of a drug. I'm not saying that it doesn't work (sometimes the placebo effect is everything you want, for example when a child
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, yes. But as FF+Chrome+Safari have more than a third of the marketshare, you can start writing parts of a website that work better with HTML5. For example, an application that uses the application cache to be usable offline, and tell I
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Looks nice! I would just make one change, that is to give a texture to the white "apples" (that's what they are in the original game I think). Just one other comment, did you notice that all shaders mover around constantly? For example, the
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
> and willing to work at... Well, that depends. Inside or outside?
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Just in case some people are interested in doing this as a DIY project, it's based on the RepRap ( http://www.reprap.org/ ).
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
@mqander (for some reason I can't reply directly): Yeah, you're probably right. I had also forgotten about those chess databases, those are quite powerful. The problem is probably that the last commercial chess AI I used dates from ~1995, w
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Disclaimer: I don't play a lot of Go, I could be completely wrong. That's probably due to the fact that in Go there are less intermidiary goals. In chess capturing a piece, defending a piece or simply making your position better by putting
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Hmm, so this would mean that a normal player sees the game as just a bunch of pieces, whereas a pro looks at the position (strategy, advantages for one player, etc). Well, it would explain some things about pros, but what does this mean whe
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
I agree, it's not a case of "What works for me must work for everyone" but more a case of "applying theory helps learning, especially when it's fun". I still haven't found anyone who doesn't like any game, so as long as there are a few diff
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
Well, it could be done with HTML5 and the video tag.
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
It would be possible (a bit slow though). This has already been done a few times with JS. For example, qBasic ( http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92 ) or even virtualizing a whole device like the gameboy ( http://www.codebase.es/jsgb/
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by dutchflyboy 17y ago
> ranging from the subtle to the not-so-subtle (do they even have canvas?) That's the beauty of this thing. It works with svg -> supported by all browsers (with the obvious exception of IE, although I think it shouldn't be too hard

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