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Macs Running windows!?

That's just obscene!

(btw, have some pr0n)

Seriously though, everyone always speculated about PCs running Mac OS or OSX, but the idea of windows running on a Mac (and I mean in native mode, rather then through emulation) seems really weird.

real time localization with voice synth... I don't know a lot of acting is in expressions of human emotion. Something I don't think a computer could do (in real time) vey well at all.

So while autolocalization might be nice, It's probably something better done by hiring local actors, and re-rendering the mouths and faces.

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: I would pay money to see you with a stick up your ass

How much we talking here?

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That's right, we shouldn't judge people on whether or not they have any basic understanding of geography. I mean, for some people it's hard to learn, thinking hurts! You're right, I'm sorry that I was so mean. The last thing I would want to do is hurt someone's feelings. It's much more important to know you're a good person then to know, well, anything at all. Never mind that Hong Kong is about as far away from Tokyo as London is from Berlin (geographically and culturally). Oops, I mean the distance from New York to Mexico City. You probably don't know much about that 'Europe' place (I hope you can deduce where Mexico City is - hint - it's not in New Mexico).

I said nothing about spelling or typing errors. But comments indicating true lack of mental ability deserve to be flamed. And flamed hard. If you don't think that being unaware of the fact that Hong-Kong action moves are not made in Japanese isn't unintelligent, then you have severely lacking standards.

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I'd never heard of this Sung-hi chick untill somone pointed here said I looked like her. Anyway, chad just asked me for a pic and I sent him one. I'm assuming he just grouped it with the other's he'd gotten.

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The culture of Canada and the US is actually pretty similar. I mean, just looking at a Canadian, or talking to them, isn't going to tell you right away. ('aboot' notwithstanding). On the other hand, there is a huge difference between Hong Kong and Japan, and they don't speak the same language. And there's a difference between misguessing individuals and getting major things wrong. How would you feel if someone who knew you were Canadian asked you what it felt like to be governed by George W Bush. Or clamed that your country had been founded on slavery. Those are American things. And even if you can't tell what country someone is from you should know those differences.

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Do you know what language they speak in Quebec? What about Mexico? You do? Well, then you must be an arrogant little punk who thinks he's cultured because he know what language they speak in those places.

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Real time rendered video is never going to be as detailed as pre-rendered (not physically possible). And, lets be honest, most Machinima looks like ass. I don't really see any point in having a movie real-time rendered at all. I mean, a movie by definition non-interactive. How does being real time improve that?

Can you point to any trends, or figures, other then your own personal preferences to indicate why what you are saying might be true?

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People in japan do not speak Cantonese. They already have to deal with crapply dubbed Jackie Chan movies.

Honestly, the idiocy of some people never ceases to amaze me.

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Intel trademarked the letter 'i' a decade or so ago, didn't you hear?

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PURGE THE WORLD OF MORONS!

Unfortunetly, I've been having trouble killing them, so I just flame them instaid.

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Is the kind who insults people smarter then him

Go read a history book, dumbass. The US did get a few plains off the ground. Keyword: few



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Isotope separation and bulk transmutation have given us little more than a huge pile of insanely dangerous radioactive waste and a lot of dead bodies.

Not that many dead bodies, compared to conventional weapons in ww2. It's also given us a lot of energy.

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1-800-NO-CHANC extension 3

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yes we do. But it's somewhat, uh, 'complex' ^__^. Involving both historic and modern history...

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P.S. That's "Chineseians". You need to study up more on the proper names for foreign peoples

What the hell? I've been chinese for quite a while. And lived both in Taiwan and the US and I've never heard that term before.

We usualy call Mainlanders "Commie Bastards" (j/k). But when speaking english we usualy refer to the whole of Han people as "Chinese".

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If you want to have some fun with this bot, on the main AI site. Try asking it about AIML. Here's a conversation I had with it.

Me: Where are you?
AI: I am in Dr. Richard S. Wallace's computer in San Francisco. Where are you?
Me: I'm in Taipei Taiwan. Who is Dr. Richard S. Wallace?
AI: Tell me a little about life in Taipei Taiwan.He is the author of Artificial Intelligence Markup Langauge (AIML) and Botmaster of ALICE (Artifical Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). Dr. Wallace's work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, ZDTV and in numerous foreign langauge publications across Asia, Latin America and europe. <p> Richard Wallace was born in Portlan, Mane in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in computer sciance from Carnegie Mellon in 1989. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Kim, and son, Linus. (Yeh, the p tag actually showed up in the text)
Me: Taipei is OK. Why did Richard S. Wallace name his son Linus?
AI: OK. Do you still <get_does/>?He is a mad scientist.
Me: Do you know what Linux is?
AI: Linux is the world's best operating system
Me: What about Microsoft Windows?
AI: Microsoft windows ? I havn't heard enough about ti to have an opinion.
Me: What's AIML?
AI: The ALICE software impelents AIML (artificial Intelligence Markup Language) a non-standard evolving markup language for creating chat robots. The primary design feature of AIML (bla bla bla) XML (bla bla bla)
Me: Is there a URL for AIML?
AI: I belive there is one, yes.
Me: Where is it?
AI: It depends on what "it" refers to.
Me: It refers to AIML
AI: Oh i get it
Me: no you don't.
AI: I do too.
Me: What is the URL for AIML?
AI: Use http://www.alicebot.org


Well, I thought it was humors, this bot might not be that good of a conversationalist, but it certainly seems to be pretty good at self-promotion. o_O. I wonder if DreamWorks knows their site is being used for free advertising. One thing though, this bot dosn't seem to have much 'context', if you don't include the topic of conversation in each message, it'll probably forget.

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That's weird. Those AI's did a really good job of talking to each other. But the monument I got sick of retyping (couldn't seem to cut'n'paste) The thing seemed to loose all sense of being real. Kind of disappointing.

They don't seem to have much state.

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I think my subject says it all...

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I seriously doubt a drop shock would knock a 'flake' of coating off.

Once again, you're 'perspective' dosn't really apply to anything. Show some real numbers, or (to be blunt) stfu.

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Why don't you try a google search?

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the 'uptime' command or 'ps' will tell you how much CPU you're using.

What is slashdot comming to?

Not to mention the fact that I wanted to title this comment 'X' instaid of 'Xwindows' and slashdot's 'lameness filter' thought I was a troll because of it.

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I dropped an old 2 giger a couple of feet. Worked fine afterwards. Your friends paranoia about hard drive placement has no real baring on the real world...

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Above.net says that they won't deliver packets to anybody who the RBL lists as spam-friendly; spamming is a behavior that is content-neutral.

Spam is content nutral. However, being Spam friendly is not a behavior, it's a position. Blocking sites that are hosted by spammers. Blocking sites that sell Spaming software, or even lists of email address is not, in any way, content nutral

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If the GPL isn't legally binding in this situation, it doesn't matter what the writers meant or what their emotional state was when they wrote it.

Of course it does.

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This has never made sense to me - that ANY dynamic link library makes ALL linking programs derivative works. It seems to me that the entire purpose of creating a dynamic link library is exporting a PUBLIC API and header file that allows someone to create reasonably separate programs that can access a function.

It was SloMedia, not the virtualDub guy who created the DLL. VirtualDub is just a regular program.

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The GPL is not a contract. It's a license granting rights that people would not normaly have. Without folowing the GPLs rules, SloMedia is nothing more then a common pirate.

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(see subject)

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I think they took the VirtualDub code and wrapped it up in a DLL, then gave away the DLL (but not the main program)

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Hinduism is a very pure and honest religion at heart too, but most people only see the terrorist fundamentalists.

Don't you mean islam?

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Taking this argument to it's logical extreme, any program that can create a pipe to another process could be in violation of GPL.

Or network sockets, even. But would it be a bad thing? Remember, it wouldn't have any effect on you, since you can do whatever you want to a GPL'd program in private, as long as you don't distribute it.

Suppose someone wrote a proprietary program that required the distribution of PostgreSQL (or something). The program communicates over Unix Domain Sockets. Now, would that be a GPL violation? Maybe it should be. Really it should be up to the author of the original program how much they want closed source people to be able to profit of their hard work without compensation.

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Technically, there isn't much difference between someone connecting to a companies server on port 80 and downloading something, and connecting on a port used by MSSQL and grabbing lists of credit cards that are 'publicly available'. But the law really doesn't care.

What makes things crimes are not their technicality, but rather their intent. I would get into far less trouble for running you over accidentally then if I had done it with the pre-meditated intent to kill you. The effect is the same, but the punishment isn't.

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It's about linking. The GPL prohibits linking of code with non-GPL'd code. In that respect the product is in clear violation. There is the LGPL for people who want to allow other people to access their binary code from other products.

Since these dlls aren't part of the OS, and aren't even designed to work with any other programs, it's pretty obvious that they are a 'part' of the program. With out them, the program is nothing. Because of that, the GPL'd software authors have every right to legally require this company to stop distributing the dlls. And sue them for damages (if They filed their copy right with the Library of congress).

They can't force them to open their code, but that might be a reasonable alternative for this company then to simply stop selling it.

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how so?

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According to the second law of thermodynamics the amount of energy needed to cool all that wire cannot, according to the law, be less than the energy saved by the reduction in resistance, because that would decrease entropy, which is impossible.

That isn't even remotely True. It wouldn't decrease entropy; it would just bring the rate of entropy creation down to zero (or near zero). Or are you saying everything has an equal amount of efficiency?

God, why are so many people so stupid!

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The magnetic fields around an electrical conductor actually rotate around the core, rather then attract it; counterclockwise, if you were facing the current flow. A coil will produce a nice directed magnetic flow, though.

Also, coins do not contain ferromagnetic elements.

Where are you from anyway? I'm assuming it's the US based on the sorry state of education there.

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Yes, I'm sure the city of Detroit hasn't done any estimation or analysis, and has no idea how much this will actually cost, unlike some random slashdot poster who must clearly be some kind of electrical infrastructure idiot savant.

Of course you must be right, what was I thinking. I mean, you have so much support to go a long with your opinion. Christ, how the hell did a fucking idiot like you get +2?

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Nitrogen gas is not a hazard unless it can displace all of the oxygen in the aria.

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In my opinion, any one worrying about the environmental impact of releasing nitrogen gas should be shot in the head immediately.

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what? what does 'pre-op TS' mean? I get the feeling you're insulting me. But if you are, I'm sure you'd want me to actualy understand what you said.

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Well, the cost of the watch was listed as $1200. So I wouldn't place it out of reach...

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http://wouter.fov120.com/gfxengine/fisheyequake/

It's done by the same guy, but on a spherical geometry rather then a cylindrical one like Pan Quake.

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Is it the normal modus opperandi of a karma whore to loose karma? but I digress. What does my user info have to do with anything?

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You mean the "It's PotQuake" refrence? First of all, I didn't even see it untill just now. I don't normaly deal with the sub 2 rabble here unless it's a reply to one of my comments

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Actually, I think playing in a Cave environment would actually cause less problems the playing it on a flat big screen monitor. Since a cave is a true stereoscopic environment, the signals from the game wouldn't require any more processing then something like playing a game of football.

Of course, in real life you have *a lot* more sensorial ques as to what's going on. Whereas in these VR systems you're eyes are disagreeing with the rest of your body.

I played through the original shareware game with this, and I do feel a little nauseous :P. I think part of the problem was that I turned down the 'slices' the game uses, so that when I panned left or right I would get these 'wavy' effects. It was either that or low frame rates, which are also bothersome. And I wouldn't rule out interacting with a seriously weird visual environment as a cause either ^__^

But anyway, just about everything can have a deleterious effect on your health. If quake gives you painful headaches then don't play it. If it only causes a little irritation, then who cares? It's not like it's slowly killing you.

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Yeh, yeh, I'm a looser, but I did feel a *wee* bit nauseous playing this at 360 (btw, don't forget to set the console variable pfov to 360, otherwise you only get a half-way panoramic view). But it was well worth it. What sucked was how slow it ran though, quite a bit slower then q3 on my system (a AMD duron 600)

By the way, has anyone else noticed after playing games like q3 the original quake just doesn't seem like much of a challenge at all! I mean the bad guys don't move around much at all, you've just got to circle strafe around them and leisurely blow them to bits :P

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PanQuake: Best when played on acid.



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Some open-source advocates considered Microsoft Corp.'s recent public flaming of the GNU General Public License equivalent to criticizing motherhood and apple pie. But not Ransome Love, CEO of Caldera Systems

Wow. Now, I've heard of some people with cool names before. But Ransome Love, damn. That's a just a cool name.

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but who decides what is just and what is unjust

I do.

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And I doubt RMS would either, if we didn't have opressive copyright laws on the book. the GPL, or copyleft is an attempt to twist the law into something good. If the bad laws were not there to begin with, there wouldn't even be a need.

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