http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/native-level-performance-on-the-web-a-brief-examination-of-asm-js/

In case anyone is unaware, it's a subset of javascript created by the Firefox team to make code on the browser a lot faster than full javascript, details:

http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/

Only problem is, it only runs really fast in Firefox. So does Microsoft have any plans for this technology?

I agree with Sven, MS has gone the wrong path. It seems they're completely oblivious as to what made the 360 a success to begin with. Hint: Only a single Kinect game has ever made it into the top 10 selling 360 games for a given month. 

http://www.neowin.net/news/next-gen-xbox-specs-reportedly-leak

"

CPU:

• x64 Architecture
• 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz)
• each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 http://www.neowin.net/news/next-gen-xbox-specs-reportedly-leak#" rel="nofollow">data cache
• each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache
• each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources
• each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock

GPU:

• custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor
• 12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads
• each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle
• at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second

High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present

• Storage and Memory:
• 8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s)
• 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
• from the GPU's perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec.
• Hard drive is always present
• 50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive"

@cbae, in my case space is the delimiter. A delimiter is just some separator of data. 

It's a txt file, an example would be like so:

2 11 3 10
1 9 4 6
6 13 7 8
5 14 15 12

So what I want is to read int by int and put each number into my 2-dimensional array. I guess it boils 

down to if I can do something like this in C#:

inFile >> someInt;  // for ints seperate by space

I've looked into StreamReader, StringReader and BinaryReader and while I can get it done, I think I must be missing something since it's not nearly as straightforward as it is in C++. So far I've used StreamReader to read the entire file, then use ' ' as a delimiter and get my ints that way. 

Basically I'm looking to do the C# equivalent of this:

std::ifstream ins;
ins.open(file_name.c_str());
if(ins.is_open())
{
     while(ins)
     {
          ins >> tmp;
          arr[iter] = tmp; iter++;
      }
}

 Now if only Windows 8 has good support for it 

14 minutes ago, magicalclick wrote

*snip*

I would answer. I would put a wrapper around standard library and call it awsome VectorEx 

 lol, I'm going to give that one a try on one of my interviews. 

2 days ago, BitFlipper wrote

I know some people might think this is a good idea and feel all warm and fuzzy about it, but this could have a negative impact. MS spent a ton of money developing this, with the idea that they can make this up with game sales. If people only buy the hardware, then they can't make up the R&D costs. Which makes it a non-profitable product.

So then they will have to raise the price, cancel the product, sell it only in bundles, and likely they won't develop a Kinect 2.0. None of those are good for Kinect's future.

Personally I think MS has a right to protect their investment and hope they figure out a way to prevent such unintended uses.

 

 But how do these people buying only hardware negatively impact those that want to buy the hardware and software? I don't see this negatively affecting MS and Kinect. Seems to me, these people weren't going to use for gaming either way, so now they're simply buying the hardware which still makes MS money.

Interesting to see a Google engineer helping MS with Kinect. 

spivonious said:

I'd love to work there. Windows division or some game.

Same here. I really like their games with managed code movement with XNA. OS programming is the next most interesting thing. 

 I've been doing C# after getting into XNA. I wanted to learn some new tech in the summer and decided on C# because MS gives me a free copy of VS2010 and C# is an accessible and productive language. Being hooked ever since. But most students don't care for MS technologies since the school stays clear of it. I think the Dreamspark and MSDNAA initiatives are a good start, XNA is also a nice push. MS needs to show how easy it is to build complex apps with their tools to win over more students. 

xgamer said:

Though I have been skeptic  about ( as that many other MS Research - Techfest / Concept Video  - Prototypes ) Courier and was expecting it to be another vaporware, I feel sad sometimes when my feeling become truth.

 

I think MS Management has to seriously rethink their product lifecycle management style, where they overpromise or atleast create great enthusiasm thru videos and their talks and then never deliver ( not even under ... ).  I think in the current network connected world where news travels so fast ... it will create a disillusion about MS promises in the minds of general public and specially in the minds of MS followers ... 

 

So whats next Natal Cancellation ... I dont think Dovella will be a fanboy of MS a lot longer

 Did MS ever even announced they were going to deliver such a product? It's not a cancellation, if it was never on track to be made into a retail product. 

 I was looking forward to it either way, but I knew the chances of it never making it to market were high. Looks like an ipad will have to suffice, 

Ion Todirel said:

spivonious said:

*snip*

> As far as anime in general, I prefer the more sci-fi/action ones with Akira probably my favorite movie.

 

Have you tried Ghost in the Shell? From the recent ones, Yukikaze also comes in my mind.

 I do like Ghost in the Shell. The first movie was great. 

bureX said:

There's a a^2 - ab ≠ 0 missing somewhere, I think

(by the way, I suck at math)

 That's right. 

9(a^2 - ab) = (a^2 - ab)  → 0 = 0

  *EDIT*

So I've narrowed down the problem, it only seems to occur after I open a window explorer such as control panel or Computer folder, at that moment and thereafter, if I create a new folder it won't show up unless I refresh. Guess I'll just have to avoid doing this (if that's the only thing that causes the problem, still unsure) since MS probably takes ages to fix a bug. 

Dexter said:

algorith said:

*snip*

Yep, there's an extension to do it: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/7687f71d-49aa-4cbd-b0ad-6f90c9a64572

 Brilliant, thank you.