It seems clear now that few actually intend to purchase the Xbox One right out of the gate. Definitely few around here at PSXE, which makes sense.
In general, though, things haven't gone well for Microsoft over the last week or so. So here's the question- We're all gamers, right? We all have ideas. We all know what we want. We all basically know what Microsoft did terribly wrong when unveiling the Xbox One. Now you don't want one. But what can be done to make you want one in the future...?
Some people are apparently so bitter about this mess that they've sworn off Microsoft completely. We've had more than a few people sign up at PSXE, saying they were once admitted hardcore Xbox fans, but they just couldn't believe what they saw when the Xbox One was announced. They've switched teams and they're not looking back. Other people are trying to be a bit more patient and objective; they're waiting to hear a little more and above all else, they want to hear about more games. There are a few promising ones, after all, and several more could be revealed at E3. And I honestly hope that happens.
So, would that do it? A few more high-profile, totally awesome-looking Xbox One exclusives? Or would Microsoft have to rescind a few of their planned programs and policies? For instance, it seems possible that Sony has axed their own DRM plans after the consumer backlash. So maybe Microsoft can do something similar and reclaim lost loyalty. Or perhaps you'll conclude that you don't mind a few of the restrictions and mandates quite as much as you thought. Like I said, we're all gamers, so what can Microsoft do? Is it already over or can they win you back?
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May 28, 2013 ? The offspring of parents who live to a ripe old age are more likely to live longer themselves, and less prone to cancer and other common diseases associated with ageing, a study has revealed.
Experts at the University of Exeter Medical School, supported by the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula (NIHR PenCLAHRC), led an international collaboration which discovered that people who had a long-lived mother or father were 24% less likely to get cancer. The scientists compared the children of long-lived parents to children whose parents survived to average ages for their generation.
The scientists classified long-lived mothers as those who survived past 91 years old, and compared them to those who reached average age spans of 77 to 91. Long-lived fathers lived past 87 years old, compared with the average of 65 to 87 years. The scientists studied 938 new cases of cancer that developed during the 18 year follow-up period.
The team also involved experts from the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in France (Institut national de la sant? et de la recherche m?dicale), the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. They found that overall mortality rates dropped by up to 19 per cent for each decade that at least one of the parents lived past the age of 65. For those whose mothers lived beyond 85, mortality rates were 40 per cent lower. The figure was a little lower (14 per cent) for fathers, possibly because of adverse lifestyle factors such as smoking, which may have been more common in the fathers.
In the study, published in the Journals of Gerontology: Series A, the scientists analysed data from a series of interviews conducted with 9,764 people taking part in the Health and Retirement Study. The participants were based in America, and were followed up over 18 years, from 1992 to 2010. They were interviewed every two years, with questions including the ages of their parents and when they died. In 2010 the participants were in their seventies.
Professor William Henley, from the University of Exeter Medical School, said: "Previous studies have shown that the children of centenarians tend to live longer with less heart disease, but this is the first robust evidence that the children of longer-lived parents are also less likely to get cancer. We also found that they are less prone to diabetes or suffering a stroke. These protective effects are passed on from parents who live beyond 65 -- far younger than shown in previous studies, which have looked at those over the age of 80. Obviously children of older parents are not immune to contracting cancer or any other diseases of ageing, but our evidence shows that rates are lower. We also found that this inherited resistance to age-related diseases gets stronger the older their parents lived."
Ambarish Dutta, who worked on the project at the University of Exeter Medical School and is now at the Asian Institute of Public Health at the Ravenshaw University in India, said: "Interestingly from a nature versus nurture perspective, we found no evidence that these health advantages are passed on from parents-in-law. Despite being likely to share the same environment and lifestyle in their married lives, spouses had no health benefit from their parents-in-law reaching a ripe old age. If the findings resulted from cultural or lifestyle factors, you might expect these effects to extend to husbands and wives in at least some cases, but there was no impact whatsoever."
In analysing the data, the team made adjustments for sex, race, smoking, wealth, education, body mass index, and childhood socioeconomic status. They also excluded results from those whose parents died prematurely (ie mothers who died younger than 61 or fathers younger than 46).
The study could not look at the various sub groups of cancer, as numbers did not allow accurate estimates. This study was carried out in preparation for a more detailed analysis of factors explaining why some people seem to age more slowly than others. Future work will use the UK Biobank, which analyses a cohort of 500,000 participants.
Other collaborators on the paper were Dr Jean-Marie Robine, of the Institut National de la Sant? et de la Recherche M?dical, Dr Kenneth Langa of the University of Michigan, Professor Robert Wallace of the University of Iowa and Professor David Melzer, of the University of Exeter Medical School.
For the past seven days, spurred by Women Action and the Media and the Everyday Sexism Project, everyone on your Twitter feed has been asking Facebook to remove content that condones and encourages violence and hate speech against women. Today, the social media behemoth finally responded.
Make plans now to participate in the 28th Annual Loyola Ramblers Golf Outing. This year?s event will be held on Thursday, August 1 at Harborside International Golf Center in Chicago. The outing provides fans and alums with a round of golf at one of the area?s top courses plus food, drink, and fun, all while supporting Loyola athletics.
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Why does this code displays a triangle, i'm curious, i'm not sure if it's something related to ASCII table. I'm just starting to learn my first language, and as i've heard from many PRO when you're learning a new language, write, read and play with the code, test new stuff, ask why... So there's my "code"
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#2 GunnerInc ?
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Re: Why a triangle
Posted Yesterday, 09:16 PM
Why wouldn't it print a triangle, or any other character? You defined an array but did not initialize it, so it will contain whatever garbage is on the stack. It is called undefined behavior.
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Re: Why a triangle
Posted Yesterday, 09:26 PM
Thank you my friend, and sorry, maybe my qeuestio too dumb but i've just started readin Head First C, to learn C as my first language, actually i have done some "code" with Pascal, when i was in my Computer technician course, and i really the programming area, so i'm focusing on it, i've finished my course 2 years ago and i feel like i don't know nothing about programming, maybe due to my compulsion for learning a lot of things at the same time... Thank you
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Re: Why a triangle
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Simply, you've defined a size 4 char array but didn't initialize it in any way. You then treat is as a string.
That array is filled with random crap. The printf expects a string and will stop printing when it hits '\0'. What this means is that it will start at the address referenced by your variable, which you've allocated four bytes to, and just keep printing, probably past those four bytes.
Given a completely random domain of 0..255, you actually only have a ~2% chance of hitting a particular char. You tend to do much better than that, because computers like to zero things out.
You see diamonds? Please tell me aren't using Turbo-C? If you are, stop.
There are, usually, 240+ visible characters. Less that 100 of those are your basics. The rest are specials for certain languages, but there are usually a few playful symbols. You're most likely seeing this one: ???? ( note, you may or may not see a few diamonds there. )
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Re: Why a triangle
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baavgai, on 27 May 2013 - 04:49 AM, said:
Simply, you've defined a size 4 char array but didn't initialize it in any way. You then treat is as a string.
That array is filled with random crap. The printf expects a string and will stop printing when it hits '\0'. What this means is that it will start at the address referenced by your variable, which you've allocated four bytes to, and just keep printing, probably past those four bytes.
Given a completely random domain of 0..255, you actually only have a ~2% chance of hitting a particular char. You tend to do much better than that, because computers like to zero things out.
You see diamonds? Please tell me aren't using Turbo-C? If you are, stop.
There are, usually, 240+ visible characters. Less that 100 of those are your basics. The rest are specials for certain languages, but there are usually a few playful symbols. You're most likely seeing this one: ???? ( note, you may or may not see a few diamonds there. )
I'm using gcc and i have DevC++ installed too, but now i'm using just the gcc, everybody says it's good, so i'm trying to get used to it. I'm getting a triangle... Here's my "code" And my triangle By the way, i'm not having any trouble, it just happened by chance and i got interested to it
#6 JackOfAllTrades ?
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Re: Why a triangle
Posted Today, 12:13 PM
To find out what's in memory, add this after your printf:
int i = 0; for (; i < sizeof(msg); ++i) printf("%08x ", msg[i]); printf("\n");
What does that print?
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Re: Why a triangle
Posted Today, 12:24 PM
JackOfAllTrades, on 27 May 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:
To find out what's in memory, add this after your printf:
int i = 0; for (; i < sizeof(msg); ++i) printf("%08x ", msg[i]); printf("\n");
What does that print?
See for yourself
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Re: Why a triangle
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That's really all it prints? I would have expected three 8 hex digit numbers. On my Mac:
./test You entered You entered 0000007f 00000000 00000000
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Re: Why a triangle
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OwllwO, on 27 May 2013 - 01:14 AM, said:
Why does this code displays a triangle, i'm curious, i'm not sure if it's something related to ASCII table. I'm just starting to learn my first language, and as i've heard from many PRO when you're learning a new language, write, read and play with the code, test new stuff, ask why... So there's my "code"
baavgai, on 27 May 2013 - 04:49 AM, said:
