I don't think you truly appreciate the ingenuity of thieves. By the way, I was just passing and wondered if you needed your driveway paving? You see, we have this extra load of asphalt that we didn't need on our last job...
In England there is a scam where builders go door to door offering to fix your driveway. Part of the scam is offering to do it cheap because they have some left over asphalt from a large job and it needs to be used quick.
They then do a terrible job with the stolen asphalt, but cosmetically it looks okay so the householder pays and the crooks leave.
The driveway scam is generally done with stolen asphalt from roadway construction. I know this from a professional con artist who has had a long career in this kind of shenanigans.
Yeah, that lowers cost considerably. Copper is attractive even when it needs to be cut out of signal cables. The Norwegian railroad authority is switching to aluminum cables in certain parts of the country to avoid it.
When I frist saw the title of Zach Laine's talk, I was confused too. Type erasure for me is what happens with generics in Java, i.e. type information is discarded after compilation.
In this case, the type is still present at runtime. I saw this technique described as "type safe void*", which is paradoxal to me.
However, I do get the idea behind this, but I think "type erasure" is a wrong name for it.
Yes, I think this stuff has nothing to do at all with type erasure. it's very confusing when a well defined concept gets appropriated for something that is very different, and totally unrelated.
Not sure about its exact origins, but in the C++ context the usage is pretty well established. AFAIK it was first used to denote the way std::function (then boost::function) is able to hide the actual type of a callable object while retaining type safety.
The only part that I didn't like was the "rewards for strangers for rescuing you". Not that there is anything inherently wrong with rewarding people who help you,but I feel like it's kind of wrong to have it advertised as a feature.
They're probably referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese#Psycho.... It's not a fact that no one helps, but it is a fact that there are psychological issues at play that mean people are less likely to help in those situations.
And you should read all the peer-reviewed papers in published psychology journals below that document other examples of this and the factors that affect it?
I'm not saying such an effect doesn't exist. I'm saying the statement "The fact is people dont react when someone need help in the street/metro. " is patently false. There are many many more anecdotes where people do help. In fact, I havent read one anecdote where this device would have changed anything. It seems to me that most of the deadly delay is caused by shock and fear more than anything else.
Feel free to provide me a study where they actually conducted scientifically rigorous tests in public and not just a few guys in a test room. I'd like to see the actual percentage of failures to assist and I'd like to see evidence where this device helps at all. For all we know it could hinder matters, though I would suspect not.
Then perhaps you need only read my comment. I typed the exact words "It's not a fact that no one helps". I have no interest in providing scientifically rigorous studies for you, I was only helping you see where the GP was probably coming from.
It certainly seems wierd, like a quick fix for symptoms with some further possible side effects. The site is down atm, i only saw it partially and it got some strange marketing decisions, like the children toy colors, the rewards for rescuers, and the slogan "never be alone again" which i understand more as a threat than a relief. I guess this is aimed at (over)protective mothers and to be used by children or young women, which then poses the question if they can take responsibility for such easy button presses that alert authorities and random people looking for bounty in the vicinity. Overall, i would put this in the same category as the vaginal razorblades (anti-rape thing like a tampon i read about some days ago): good intention on the surface, but not thought-through, adresses symptoms instead of the cause, might even have unwanted side effects that could do even more harm.
I think the primary reason is just that when you play an FPS, you are looking at a screen, which is the same as looking at the TV when you watch a movie. In this real world setting, your brain is used to see all those effects.
A FPS for a VR headset however should try to mimic the eye instead, because I think it'll be more apparent that those effects shouldn't be there.
That's not true anymore. Most of the AI "thinking" can be multithreaded, physics can be multithreaded, rendering can be multithreaded, even core systems like loading of ressources is heavily multithreaded. It's not easy, but it's a reality for most gamedev now. However, there is a limit of how much can be multithreaded and how well it'll scale. There's a lot of inter dependencies between objects and systems that force some level of serialization, just like any other multithreaded application.
>From 2000 to 2009, no province had lower so-called “firm entry” than Quebec. In fact, in the manufacturing, retail, transportation and finance sectors, more companies went away than were created. No other province had that level of “destruction” without the customarily accompanying “creative.”
Quote: "Zeroconf: This option is only available if distcc was compiled with Avahi support enabled at configure time. When this special entry is present in the hosts list, distcc will use Avahi Zeroconf DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) to locate any available distccd servers on the local network. This avoids the need to explicitly list the host names or IP addresses of the distcc server machines. The distccd servers must have been started with the "--zeroconf" option to distccd. An important caveat is that in the current implementation, pump mode (",cpp") and compression (",lzo") will never be used for hosts located via zeroconf."
The above relatively new feature means that compiles will complete even if some local machines go on and off line during the work session.
