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Hollywood might have been better in the 70s (quite controversial statement to me, though), but movies had good and bad examples in the 70s as much as they have today. I'm a quite avid movie watcher in German, English and sometimes even Chinese. I can tell you there are loads of good movies, even today.

And there are awesome games today. I'm currently playing and enjoying Bard's Tail and McDroid. Before I played the new X-Com which I enjoyed a lot. And I've spent so many hours in Civ5 and Crusader Kings. While I enjoyed games 15 years ago with a passion I can't have today, I would never change playing the new games for the old ones. The graphics are better, the games are more complex, but better userinterfaces make them easier to handle.
The ONLY CPU benchmark that was not browser-based (and therefore running wildly different software) is the 3DMark Physics test, and A8 lost bad on that test.

Everything else was either single threaded (all the browser benchmarks), in which case dual vs. quad is irrelevant, or they were GPU bottlenecked in which case you aren't talking 1.4GHz dual core, and on the GPU front Apple spends a huge amount of transistors on that. They throw oodles of power at the GPU.

Also thanks to power management the vast, vast majority of those "2+GHz Quad-cores" were not running at 2+GHz, they were running at closer to 1.4-1.6 GHz. Apple is really good about settings its max frequency to something sustainable, whereas everyone else advertises burst frequencies.
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Damn. I'd recommend offline backup and re-install, or try NTPasswd (http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/) to reset and enable the Administrator account, then password reset your account from there.

It will almost certainly break the MS account sync, and I'm not sure what state your account will be in with regards to online services etc, but it should at least allow you to access your account on the PC.
For the lazy, the features list is quite impressive.

JamVM "Features"

For those interested in the design of virtual machines, JamVM includes a number of optimisations to improve speed and reduce foot-print. A list, in no particular order, is given below.

Execution engine supports many levels of optimisation from basic switched interpreter to inline-threaded interpreter with stack-caching (equivalent performance to a simple JIT).
Uses native threading (posix threads). Full thread implementation including Thread.interrupt()
Object references are direct pointers (i.e. no handles)
Supports class loaders
Efficient thin locks for fast locking in uncontended cases (the majority of locking) without using spin-locking
Two word object header to minimise heap overhead (lock word and class pointer)
Stop-the-world garbage collector, with separate mark/sweep and mark/compact phases to minimise heap fragmentation
Thread suspension uses signals to reduce suspend latency and improve performance (no suspension checks during normal execution)
Full object finalisation support within the garbage collector (with finaliser thread)
Full support for Soft/Weak/Phantom References (with Reference Handler thread)
Full support for class and class-loader garbage-collection and unloading (including associated shared libraries)
Garbage collector can run synchronously or asynchronously within its own thread
String constants within class files are stored in hash table to minimise class data overhead (string constants shared between all classes)
Supports JNI and dynamic loading for use with standard libraries
Uses its own lightweight native interface for internal native methods without overhead of JNI
VM support for invokedynamic (JSR 292)
VM support for type annotations (JSR 308)
VM support for lambda expressions (JSR 335)
VM support for method parameter reflection
JamVM is written in C, with a small amount of platform dependent assembler, and is easily portable to other architectures.
Air Traffic Control feeds can be easier to let blur, since they lack any sense of drama. They do tend to be less busy late at night, though.
>You mean you like hoarding?

The best option I have seen for/against hoarding is "drop all" (Jagged Alliance 2 v1.13) on enemies. Basically every time you kill someone in the gameworld they drop ALL the items they were using/carrying.

You might try hoarding for the first 10, maybe first 50 enemies, but at ~100 it becomes unmanageable and you are forced to stop hoarding, or stop progressing in the game.
I read an article recently about how the NSA spying strips people of their privacy, which in turn strips them of their humanity. I think that fits really well into what the OP is saying here. Without the ability to selectively disclose information about yourself (ie develop a person mask), we lose the ability to be a 'person.'
I think the idea of a quick-time event is to make a cinematic experience more visceral/engaging, so it's not necessarily lazy... I mean it is more work than just putting the cutscene in after all. Anyways, maybe it's misguided and definitely overused, but I think it's pretty extreme to call it lazy. At some point pretty much every game devolves into "press button to make thing happen".
Useful, but how does it compare to Avian? As far as I can tell JamVM is not actually a JIT compiling VM at all, although the features list is optimistically phrased to make that a bit unclear. Avian is also very lightweight but it also manages to be a JIT compiler.
For so many games of the era, that was a bug not a feature. How many hours did our generation spend lost in some poorly-rendered flat walls trying to figure out where the heck the next content was? I actually am one of the few gamers that was excited to see the move towards linear maps. I spent enough time in Doom and Hexen living in the Automap view, I'm done with that.
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Annual Contract Value.

The lower your price, the more your product and sales process needs to be self-service, because you can't afford to send a salesperson out for a $1000/yr contract (airfare + hotel + rental car + their time, annnd you're over any possible return, even before including R&D and support costs)
"or a rent seeker (you need to buy the asset to rent it out yourself)"

"Rent seeking" is a different thing than "renting out access to an asset".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Why can't the OS page Firefox's memory to disk too? Paging is done at much finer granularity than per-process.
Who is your employer, that they would fire you because one of your (apparently) two usable computers is out of commission for a day?

I don't know the specifics of your situation so I could be wrong, but unless your employer has actually said "I will fire you if you ever have computer issues, grr!", your job is probably not in jeopardy. Shit happens, employers understand.

(If in fact your employer is enough of a dick to fire you over this, then, ouch… good luck!)
I completely agree with your point. I'm more pessimistic about AAA in general, though. AAA always tries to maximize superficials, minimize the hard stuff, and pay more money for marketing than for development. It's the same in games, novels, music and movies. And your grandma could have said the same about the AAA products of her time (music, theatre), right? It's not a surprise.

There are lots of great games below AAA and even some AAA titles have good content by surprise (for example the interactive movie "The Last of Us" was great in my eyes, not as a game but as a movie, which you can enjoy for free on Youtube).
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Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.

Your comment hits on a lot of the points that motivated me to create homebrew-emacs in the first place.

For me, Homebrew is a pleasure to use. It's stable, robust, sensible, and has a great community around it.

ELPA, on the other hand, never seemed to have the same polish. Maybe with enough time and energy I could have configured ELPA to my liking. But that prospect never appealed to me when I have a perfectly good package manager I already use for everything else just sitting there.
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I think that is a given (i.e. yes!)
Thank you for writing it down. Especially the "hugging" part.
I believe he means annual contract value.

http://saasaddict.walkme.com/getting-your-saas-acv-annual-co...

http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2-definitions/
That's excellent, though I like the take Coding Horror lists from a Brendan Gregg book. http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-word...
I too had a similar experience with Foxbase, then CA Clipper, then FoxPro, then MS Visual FoxPro. Oh the good old days.
Yea, it is funny that PayPal has a security bug bounty program but eBay don't. I think you can thank David Marcus and Bill Scott of PayPal for that.
You should try Spec Ops: the Line then. It sounds like it would be game exactly for you.
The previous bbc article regarding this never stated that ebay allows users to embed javascript and flash into listings. No wonder they are having issues with xss.
What law did they supposedly break?
I started beekeeping 2 years ago, and I cannot be any happier about this hobby. It's easy and fun. Bees do not require feeding, cleaning, just an occasional check up. And they give my family the best honey the money can buy.

To start, I read (believe it or not) Beeking for Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/Beekeeping-For-Dummies-Howland-Blackis...). It's a well rated book, and it has all the basic info. Then I watched various YouTube videos.

Then I ordered the following list of supplies. (I buy all my equipment from Mann Lake. $100+ it's free shipping. http://mannlakeltd.com/)

This is a list I recommend:

Note that the hive boxes and frames, are unassembled. Mann lake does have assembled hives. Assembly is easy, and I did it with my kids.

1) WW-605_b Med Hive Qty. 5
2) FR-811 Med Frames Case of 10. Qty. 5 (so you get 50 frames)
3) CV-305 Suit - economy - Medium (Buy YOUR size.) Qty. 1
4) HD-540 Smoker Qty. 1
5) CL-620 Economy cowhide leather gloves(Buy YOUR size. This is small) Qty. 1
6) HD-210 7D Nails (1lb) Qty. 1
7) HD-220 Frame Nails Qty. 1
8) HD-620 Hive tool
9) HD-660 Bee Brush
10) WW-310 Bottom Board
11) Your choice of top cover (buy with Inner cover)... http://www.mannlakeltd.com/beekeeping-supplies/page29.html I practice foundationless but some prefer not to deal with the cross comb headaches and use foundation. Foundation part number is (FN-720).

I adopted my hive from Jack at Los Altos Honey Bees (http://losaltoshoneybees.wordpress.com/). He goes and rescues feral colonies.

I also joined Beekeepers' Guild Of San Mateo County (http://www.sanmateobeeguild.org/). The club is great: the mailing list discussions keep me informed about things to do right now, and what to do to prepare for upcoming seasons.
Actual gamer is someone who plays games for pleasure e.g. the customer. I added the for pleasure so that game tester or somebody similar who do not like the games much but do it to pay food does not count as gamer.

I know that some people put more limits on the definition (minimum number of hours played, type of game etc), but I did not meant to do so for the purpose of my previous comment.

Real game for me would be something that requires more activity from player then just passively experiencing it. Either some skill based challenge or puzzle and possibility to fail or at least get week score.

Not a game is not necessary derogatory descriptor. I love reading and watching movies, but neither are games. Comics read on phone or laptop is not a game, but you click things to turn pages and occasionally have to think to put together clues. A thing can be interactive experience (e.g. not game) or whatever and still be fine.

I'm ok with the fact that there will by grey zone between games and non-games. If you say "X is somewhere between game and non-game" you still conveyed much more of useful information then as if you lump everything with pictures into large group "game".
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Tastes have changed as well. An AAA title is expected to have mo-cap, cut scene, bleeding edge graphics as a baseline. Once you hit the baseline only then can you start to explore the often lacking innovations at the mechanic level.

It's frankly the main reason it is such a promising time for mid tier indie developers. Games with interesting mechanics and concepts ARE getting traction and rewarding risk taking. Modern game development studies are ripe for disruption.
It'll be interesting to see how that changes with Android L. My Nexus 5 gets massively better battery life (~30% for me) on the developer preview.
GTA5 has way more options than GTA1. This doesn't say anything about the general development but it should show that there are also these games where choices increased over time.

If you say that the number of choices in game design and options decreases over time, you should back that up with data. Otherwise it's just an opinion and as you've already read in my comment my opinion is different.
With pictures as proof!
It'll be interesting to see how much Android improves with Android L; an early June build gave the Nexus 5 around 30-40% extra battery life. I believe that sound latency is also reduced by an order of magnitude in L, and there are many big improvements to the camera API. Interesting times indeed!
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/
Trying to restrict the browser as a whole doesn't work for a couple reasons:

1. The browser as a whole needs to have permission to do quite a few things, including reading from and writing to the filesystem (for uploading and downloading files), talking to your system's graphical environment so it can display windows, and accessing arbitrary hosts on the network so it can access web servers. It's just not possible to meaningfully sandbox something requiring so much access. Individual browser components, on the other hand, can be designed to do very specific tasks and are thus easier to isolate.

2. You want to protect not only your system from a browser exploit but also other parts of the browser. A site that exploits a browser vulnerability shouldn't be able to read your cookies for another site.

These reasons imply that you need to focus on isolating and restricting components inside the browser instead of the browser as a whole.
> I disagree that there can't be a measure of skill across different games. You can just look at the probability of a top X% player winning against a top Y% player.

Solitaire.

You can't measure my probability of winning against you. This metric sucks.

In a more general way, while in many cases for perhaps a broad range of people stressfulness will correlate, to some nonlinear degree, with the correlation between their choice of action and their odds of achieving a goal (see what I did there, with the second-degree function and everything), the fact that this very (stress-to-skillness) correlation varies in formula from person to person leads me to believe that it's a symptom of a different variable being more meaningful.

What I'm saying isn't that stress doesn't indicate anything, but rather that it's not a very appropriate yardstick to measure things like fun and player engagement when the correlation between stress and skill-dependence varies so much from person to person.

For me, for example, time pressure and assiduousness-related pressures (remembering to always do X when Y or always do Z every time K) will far eclipse any notion of skill-dependency and impact-on-success as far as how stressful I feel is concerned. Give me a game of Chess, and I'll be rather unstressed, despite the high skill-dependency. Put a timer, and my stress level shoots up exponentially, despite skill-dependency remaining more or less unchanged (since the time limit applies to my opponent as well, and doesn't really change the ratio between my choices and my odds of victory).
One benefit is related to DNS. If you assume fbsrv is an internal network, you have to be on the company network in order to access it. This automatically restricts everything on fbsrv.com to company machines on the VPN or things in the datacenter. Now when you see db1.fbsrv.com you know that it's your database server on your private network, and none of that traffic is going across the internet.

You can do the same thing with subdomains (e.g. internal.foobar.com), and then tree off of that (db1.site1.internal.megacorp.com), but that gets confusing.
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I don't think QTE can define a game, but it can enhance it.

Years ago I played God of War and really enjoyed the QTE kill animations. It made me feel, well, like a God of War.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the exception to the rule though. Shenmue had some terrible QTEs (my biggest criticism were that they were unpredictable). Also, too many FPS games have QTEs whenever some animal bites you. It's practically a trope now.
I think that a good target would be a problem with many sincronization points related with many objects/variables.
also this strangeness while using dev-tools:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771043
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While I have the opposite opinion about SC1-SC2 in some regards I can agree. There are also these games with 2D or pixely graphics which is a kind of beautiful that you can't achieve with 3D. That's why there are still hundreds of games developed with these graphics settings.
That is amazing. I've gone and used pkfix and updated the file. It looks perfect now. Thanks!
It's a false claim that there is GHz rat-race in the Android world. There is one Android SoC maker of note, and that is Qualcomm, who achieved total dominance of high end smartphones by anticompetitive behaviour.

Just because Qualcomm's design achieves high clock speeds doesn't mean there's a rat-race in the Android world. Since Qualcomm dominates, there is no race at all. Second, Qualcomm's competitors are much more moderately clocked. Samsung's, Intel's and Nvidia's current high end chips don't even touch 2 GHz yet.

For a rat race you need rats and a race. But there's only one rat and no race.
I'm not sure what you're driving at. Are you saying that Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are like System Shock 2? Or are you saying that they're prime targets and reference examples for examining what's going wrong?
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Leaving a comment on my own submission here… unfortunately, I do think the title may give the impression that this is just another "boy do those engineers make the big bucks!" kind of story, which are common enough that I think a lot of people might just pass over this one.

I think this article is more interesting that than that - it actually presents aninteresting debate on whether it is a good business practice to pay high value engineers, especially at startups, salaries that are well above market rate. It includes discussion market salaries in the context of the very high cost of living (mortgage and child care) in SF, raising a family, and so forth. It also includes input from Sam Altman at ycombinator on the notion of high salaries creating a "mercenary" mentality that would not be good for early stage startups.

I avoid editorializing in the title field for HN, so I stuck with the published title. But if you're reading the comments first (as I often do), just want to mention that this may be a more interesting article than you'd realize from the title here.
My best guess is that the Sunspider benchmark like single-threaded performance, and Cyclone destroys Krait/Cortex here.

As for why, Cyclone's core are bigger, wider compared to Krait/Cortex, and are Out Of Order. (This is a nice article on that: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/179473-apples-a7-cyclon...)
Anything can of course be bundled and productised, including insurance. Scale can only be achieved through self service for both customers and employees/contractors. If you can facilitate a trusted connection between these two parties, without intervention, you have reached the promised land. On the other side, you must provide your workers with all the resources necessary to execute without you. Self reliant people.
Why is eBay not using sandboxed iframes for the auction description/content?

You dont need JS to make amazing looking listings. Just look at all the customized subreddits with crazy stuff going on utilizing just CSS/HTML. All the 'tracking' needed for ebay listings could easily be done with a pixel as well.
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If it's 'brand new', there shouldn't be too much disparity between the recovery and your current state.
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It is sad to know that even after this much worked he did, he was asked to switch and work on something he was not hired for !!
Is it common for people to create accounts without noting the credentials? I'm not saying MS is without fault here, but I would think one would at least note the details long enough to get what one needs.
I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1071067 to get this issue tracked. I agree that we could do a better job here, as the unfolded view takes up 3x the vertical space compared to the inline view.
Well, for future reference, it is still possible to create a local-only account with Windows 8. The process is made intentionally obscure and cumbersome. However, I always do this, and don't have my login account tied to Microsoft.
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There are billions of individuals and millions of small businesses that can be reached without a sales team. If you don't want to do sales, then don't target enterprise customers. I make my living with SaaS products, and have never made a cold call or sent an unsolicited mail about it.
One of my side projects is building a sensing electronics package to monitor the health and activity of beehives. The idea is to make it easier for someone just starting to maintain their hive.

Any one have feedback on the concept? Or features we haven't thought of?
250k is not well above market in the bay area.
For those of you who are concerned about getting stung, I can say that I never was stung, and I cannot possibly get stung. I am completely covered, with gloves and boots.
Definitely sounds like a straw man. What on earth would the business model (SaaS vs anything else) have to do with the product selling itself?
If you sandbox the whole browser, it can't actually do anything, including actually display the webpages or connecting to sites.
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It's unreasonable to expect that of people. URLs are maddeningly maddling to parse even if you know what is going on, if you don't it's almost impossible to explain it. Why is ebay.com.au different to ebay.com.au.edgesuite.net, should I worry if I see that? Why is edgesuite alright for hosting the images on? It's a rabbit warren of edge cases and exceptions that defied all normal levels of explanations.
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is there a way to speed up my local server connection? Ironically, it's slower than my production environment.
Your last sentence is a better worded version of what I meant. That it is less that the tabs are isolated and sandboxed, and more that components of the browser are.
The lack of JIT is interesting to me; JIT does give higher performance, but at a memory cost (because JITted code is not shared between processes).

I think the 3 sweet-spots are:

* JIT (OpenJDK, Android Dalvik)

* AOT compilation (Android ART, RoboVM)

* Interpreted (JamVM)

I think JamVM is interesting, because there aren't many good options there. It's also presumably much simpler, so if you wanted to experiment (Golang-style lightweight threads is an interest of mine), it would probably be easier.
And that just reminded me that the doubt quote was "SHIFT+2"! (unlike English US keyboards)
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> The state’s attorney general claims Rubin and his classmates violated New Jersey computer crime laws and demanded they hand over source code for their creation and any documentation related to the tool.