Are we talking about the same Flash Player? The one that Apple refuses to support because of all the bugs it creates? The same one that updates itself more frequently than the OS? Yes, "stable" is exactly the word I'd use to describe that.

That's what I got from the article as well. Rather than women just throwing their hands up "fuck it" style and just getting on with STEM studies it looks like we're going to sanitize it to suit their tastes. There's a reason that computer science is full of geeks - that's because geeks do well in that field. It's not…

*sigh*

"we noticed that many of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 titles we saw at E3 were running on PCs during their early demos"

No, you're absolutely right*.

Yes, Unity3D is a bullshit plug-in. This is the same sort of crap that is making the web a completely fragmented pile of nastiness that's impossible to develop for. We need standards - not just more bullshit plugins piled on top of other bullshit plugins.

Moreover, how do you control that experience? Games like Doom or Quake don't map well onto it unless it's playing out in a gigantic 3D holodeck experience (now that would be hella cool). It'd work well for board games but that just seems like a big waste of power.

Maybe I misunderstood, but there still needs to be a PS3 somewhere for as long as you might ever intend on playing that game.

Not practical for newer machines unless we can somehow find a way to emulate them. There's a barely working PS2 emulator, a horrible PS3 emulator and I doubt there'll ever be a working PS4 emulator. Without this you'll never move these platforms into a datacenter and dynamically provision them effectively - so now…

Because transcoding. Transcoding a game is a bit more involved than just taking some frames and recompressing them to an MP4.

That technique only gets you so far. In the good old days you'd have to worry how many bones were in your matrix palette skinning, and on PS2 you'd have to write VU code to simulate it and push DMA packets around. These days it's less hard but there are still limits in this hardware. The hardest problem is that most…

With game development costing up in the high $10s of millions to $100s I don't see how we'll convince the studios to support these platforms. The old game console was a CPU and some blitters - the modern game console is a nightmare of IO coprocessors, graphics coprocessors, streaming processors, multicores and all…

I wouldn't want to go rasterizing in 3D that quickly. Voxels lead to hate, hate leads to suffering and bad frame rates. Our old favorites like hidden surface removal don't work in these cases either.

Okay, I'll bite. I think you give people in power too much credit as good people. They're in power because they're psychotic and money grabbing - there's nothing in the moral code of these people that suggests they should even give a flying fuckadoodle about you or anyone except themselves.

We're running out of things to do with those FLOPS. The major thing that we're going to introduce in this generation is GPGPU (finally) because we'll actually get to throw these spare cycles into doing something computationally interesting - like physics. PhysX was a wash, the PS3 SPUs were powerful but limited, this…

What's an "incidental collection"? If I ask for communication data on X, and X talked to Y, and I get data on Y as well? In that case you just need to ask for the data on Kevin Bacon and we're all screwed.

There are HUGE problems with promiscuous sex. Firstly you have to be able to manage a lot of phone numbers in your cellphone. Then you have to stock up on lots of Alka Seltzer because you're gonna be partying a lot of the time. You'll probably end up leaving your keys at more than one house as well so you'll probably…

74% of participants or 74% of exposures? There's a big difference and one of them is difficult to measure.

We're all a sum of experiences - some of them leaving a bigger mark than others. I'm sorry for what you had to deal with but really appreciate you sharing. It certainly gives me a better context for trying to understand what you believe about the goals of feminism.

The reason I think I side-tracked here is because I read "man-hater" and "pissed at us" and I thought "radical feminist"...I fell into the same trap again; off-topic, my bad. Radical feminism is going to get painted in a bad light for however long the media keeps portraying them as a bunch of unreasonable misfits. The…