so you think the famously non-technical governments taking over the development of a version of Linux would turn out to be a great OS? I've used Linux as it is now and it completely and utterly sucks. There was almost no thought put into ease of use or easy user understandability. And I don't know what Linu is but Linux is open source and anyone can take all the code and make their own new version.
Um, what? Are you saying the fines and/or the cost of documenting the API are greater than the profit they'd lose from ceeding an entire market to Linux and giving governments even more reasons to heavily invest in the advancement of opensource? Sorry but that's bullshit.
You're a complete, irreperable moron. They have to pay almost a billion to those greedy idiots after a corrupt, biased, bullshit trial and go ahead and google search what % of windows copies in Europe are pirated. If they pulled it from there, which is easy as pie to enforce no matter what you think, they'd have saved probably 2 billion or more and showed those idiots what happens when they create their own bullshit lawsuits and run them through their own bullshit courts just to get some money.
with that many techies with that much money, I bet CA will go crazy with LAN parties with free Bawls and everyone with fancy new computers:P *starts packing*
that long of development when they could have just wrapped about a mile of duct tape around each building and no parts would blow off or fall apart or anything! If you think that's stupid, look at step two of the flash. The nail has "fat head technology"
The solution is simple: ask simple questions about the US that the typical outsider would know. This would filter out spammer AND incredibly stupid US people at the same time. Of course, this only works for US sites and US citizens but I live here so that's all I care about lol. *runs off to ban more "foreign devils" from his server*;)
if you think about it for 2 seconds you may come to that conclusion but if U think about it for 5+ seconds, you'd realize that govs taking over Linux development would spell disaster for it because they're control freaks. Some new thing, I think SP2 had something in it saying that Microsoft could disable your version Windows whenever they wanted for any reason at all so XP at least could be shot legally.
and they wouldn't have gotten sued and with the lawsuit they'll never turn a profit on Vista, especially with the amount of pirates in Europe. Speaking of that, with them out of the picture they could get rid of a lot of the fancy crap like WGA and scale it down a bit to something less anti-Germany and just make the not work in Europe code better. Plus if NO copies of windows past ME are supposed to be there, it'd be really easy for whistle blowers, especially with a cash reward incentive from Microsoft. Plus eventually after they're practically amish and their half working eurolinux OS crashes for the millionth time and they're back to using abacuses, the gov would realize what dumbasses they've been and let Windows include whatever they want. Movie maker sucks! Sound recorded sucks! It makes no difference and people want their computer to do something without spending a ton more money right out of the box!
If I were them, I'd tell em to fuck off and pull all plans for copies of Vista in Europe and disable all other Windows OS's in the next forced update as well as add protections. Then they can run all the third party crap they want. What a bunch of stuck up assholes.
I think I speak for all of us when I say there's already enough crazy little 12 year olds in online games complaining about lag! We need to get this settled once and for all!
lol that is awesome! Btw where were those words when I was typing the original? lol. I knew insane wasn't really the word. I'd totally mod your post up but I don't have any mod abilities nor do I have any idea how this system even works even after like a year but I do know it's complete bullshit and whoever made it is a dumbass (bet I'll get modded down for that lmao) God forbid I actually express a genuine opinion here in America instead of being all fake to rack up good karma like everyone else around here. Anyway, I go to a cheap community college where we totally keep it real and everyone's down to earth instead of a rich, stuck up, immature loser like most of those guys. They really did seem to have that personality in the video with the cheesy crap they were spewing out because the mass media and the kids from the OC told them how to react dramatically and they're dumb enough to think that's real. If you were here I'd shake your hand for not being one of them:-) Too bad normal ppl like us that keep it really really real get modded down by good actors.
Oh look, there's a video of aliens carrying it off on Youtube...lol just kidding, I guess not EVERYTHING is on Youtube. But clearly, it was kidnapped by aliens. The next one they send ought to have anti-alien defense mechanisms. Btw it sounds like there's a freakin lot of rovers and such on Mars at the moment. Just how many does Earth have there at the moment? I thought it was like 2.
Hmm so let's break down what happened here. He threatened the police if they touched him while at the same time refusing to leave. That's the exact specific time police are supposed to taze someone to prevent injury to themselves or others by completely aggresive, insane people on rants about something so small as leaving a library. Then after ridiculously playing the race card he STILL refuses to leave and they warn him to get up and cooperate or they'll taze him again at least a half dozen more times and he doesn't so guess what, they taze him again! DUH! If he didn't see that coming, he's a moron. Though I'd say it's a bit fuzzy and hard to tell what's going on later so he may or may not have deserved the extra tazingins but he probably did. And the other students actually think there's something wrong with how the police handled it? Are they that used to insane, uncooperative people with out of control tempers and other serious issues at their college with no respect for rules or the police? The guy had to be so unstable to get that pissed over being asked to leave a library because he didn't have his card or whatever before they even tazed him, not the mention that the police were probably called because he was already going on a rant about refusing to leave and spewing ridiculous racial bullshit to the staff members there. Don't fall into the media crap trying to turn this into some martyr story.
I bet if they were using WMP to view it, they STILL saw an annoying BUFFERING! BUFFERING! BUFFERING! every couple seconds. Btw what's the point of that transfer speed if your RAM/hard drive can't have data fed into it that fast?
lmao, you're funny. All black holes have an ergosphere unless they're literally not moving at all. It's clear you have no idea what you're talking about so I won't even bother to type a whole big thing about what scientists who know what they're talking about think about how large singularities are regardless of how far out the event horizon is. It's either a simple physics statement that it's infinitely small but large enough to exist because if it was 0, it wouldn't exist or it's barel;y larger than a quark because two quarks can occupy the same spot in space if they're traveling at different speeds and if they weren't moving, they would be in the same spot so they're kinda vibrating a tiny bit so that they are technically covering area and thus moving at a certain speed. Either way you're wrong. As for everyone thinking that a guy with a jet pack and BB gun could take down a plane BY HITTING IT, that's not what I said. You don't hit the black hole with anything, you fire next to it and it converts the inertial forward motion to rotation when the black hole pulls in the object. Imagine like 10 more moons the size of ours flying past Earth and getting sucked into it and spirals in and lands in a nice little circle, the earth's spin speed would fall to like half or less if they were going in the opposite direction or double or more if it was in the traveling with the spin direction. Here's a quote from a well known paper (though their example has the object also spinning as it spirals in)
A non-radial intrinsic spin gives a term in the energy-momentum tensor, which is not present for a radial pointing spin and which represents the spin contribution to total angular momentum. As the particle falls in the Schwarzschild black hole acquires a small rotation.
because you suck at physics I guess. If you shot a whole bunch of 100 mile wide asteroids at an angle...umm I guess the best way to describe it is to say there was a 1000 mile tall flagpole on earth's surface going straight up and you aim for just above the tip of it, then the asteroids' would curve in and eventually spiral in to earth's surface cuz of gravity. The forward inertia is absorbed through this process and earth spins slightly faster in the direction that the asteroids were heading. It's like shooting an airsoft gun at a spinning beach ball in space coated in glue. If they all hit at the same point, each airsoft BB that hits it makes it spin faster in that direction. Same with black holes.
They didn't mention it in the article but thankfully I'm a black hole expert:-D There's a theory that says since the singularity is infinitely small then technically no matter is actually moving when it's rotating so it doesn't have to obey the speed of light speed limit and may be able to rotate faster than the speed of light. No idea how they can measure the speed if there's no radius but anyway, if it gets up to that speed they theorize that it will completely stop emitting gravity and either just sit there or explode, but most likely just sit there. This is the only known (well, in theory) way to "destroy" a black hole so when one comes and sucks up Pluto, thus ending that stupid debate, and is heading for Earth, we can just shoot particles into it at the correct angle and it will absorb the kinetic energy and translate it into spin and eventually spin so fast it effectively isn't dangerous anymore:)
as soon as they make it work with a console, I can have reason to dodge back and forth in Unreal Tournament 2004 when it's 4v1 and all I've got is a biosludge gun! It'd seriously be sweet if they added sensors that could detect you, which of course they have (you know, the black suits with white ping pong ball thingies) Ever since DDR and now the new tilt controllers, gamers are going to be moving around like crazy, especially with the development of 3D display technology. I would totally go for a sword fighting VR setup without a dumb helmet weighing me down.
yay! Now endless wings at Buffalo Wild Wings are going to be even cheaper cuz they'll grow them right in the kitchen! Now they need to invent something to make the waitor/waitress come around more often and I'll be set:)
Those were awesome but even better was the google ad at the bottom. Mine was for an industrial strength microwave generator:D Can anyone guess what I'm thinking? Yeah, I'll meet you at the match factory!
well obviously Seinfeld isn't on over there or they'd remember the episode where Kramer sponsors his own highway and thinks he can do anything to it so he uses paint thinner to erase the lines and everyone certainly doesn't drive cautiously. More like "how luxurious!" *swerves back and forth* Seriously, people will just do whatever without signs, especially if they're drunk or on a cell phone.
That ONLY applies to submitting your resume to huge companies electronically. They'll read in your degree, usually with an AI system, and go right past it. But big companies suck anyway and networking (the ppl kind) can avoid the whole resume pool nightmare. As long as you have any experience in writing normal programs and put that on their, it will catch the attention of any human that reads it. Go to your church or something, write them a program, and put it on there and don't apply at some mega-company. But it sounds like you do want to get into gaming and they absolutely DO NOT like hiring ppl without specific gaming degrees and if they do, they probably make crap games like horrible movie tie in ones or something. If you're going to work on game engines seperate from your job and just be a regular programmer, then you'd want to take a lot of the gaming courses as electives and get the normal degree though. And in response to your other post, you'll absolutely need calculus and any geometry courses they have and I'd also suggest an advanced trigonometry (sometimes disguised as "pre-calculus") which comes in handy with physics stuff.
from what I've heard, you don't come out with anywhere near the amount of math that you need to do game programming from a CS degree. Since game programming is WAY harder in that area, you definitely need that degree, trust me. Disregard what anyone says about what degree people will hire you with because all they really care about is what you've learned and what you can do because of it. It sounds like they did a decent job with the degree too in that it takes out everything you don't need for game programming but leaves in the basic and advanced universal programming skills that you'd need in both.
If Chinese ppl get service from a satellite based ISP with their own dish, can't they completely ignore the "great firewall" and access whatever they want cuz they're jumping straight from their house to an outside China connection? There's no way to guard against that cuz they CAN be indoors so I'd love to see a US company offer service over there, I'm sure it'd explode (and make China hate us but who cares)
Sols is a kinda strange unit cuz it's as different on different planets as the term day. Why don't they just say "Mars Day." Well that sounds like a holiday but Solmars kinda sounds like a sciency unit. They're just racist against martians, that's the real problem. Soon they'll be counting martian votes at 3/5ths of a vote or whatever.
yay, I can't wait! Return of the Leonids is gonna be even better than the first two! (that's a LOTR reference in case you're dumb:-P) But last time I stayed up until like 2:00 in the morning to watch a meteor shower....err...I think it was the aurora borealis...anyway, I had my window open and it was FREAKIN cold (wisconsin btw) and I caught a massively baaaaad cold or flu or somethin:( damn asteroids/ions! Must have STD's (Spacially Transmitted Diseases)
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with that many techies with that much money, I bet CA will go crazy with LAN parties with free Bawls and everyone with fancy new computers :P *starts packing*
that long of development when they could have just wrapped about a mile of duct tape around each building and no parts would blow off or fall apart or anything! If you think that's stupid, look at step two of the flash. The nail has "fat head technology"
The solution is simple: ask simple questions about the US that the typical outsider would know. This would filter out spammer AND incredibly stupid US people at the same time. Of course, this only works for US sites and US citizens but I live here so that's all I care about lol. *runs off to ban more "foreign devils" from his server* ;)
if you think about it for 2 seconds you may come to that conclusion but if U think about it for 5+ seconds, you'd realize that govs taking over Linux development would spell disaster for it because they're control freaks.
Some new thing, I think SP2 had something in it saying that Microsoft could disable your version Windows whenever they wanted for any reason at all so XP at least could be shot legally.
and they wouldn't have gotten sued and with the lawsuit they'll never turn a profit on Vista, especially with the amount of pirates in Europe. Speaking of that, with them out of the picture they could get rid of a lot of the fancy crap like WGA and scale it down a bit to something less anti-Germany and just make the not work in Europe code better. Plus if NO copies of windows past ME are supposed to be there, it'd be really easy for whistle blowers, especially with a cash reward incentive from Microsoft. Plus eventually after they're practically amish and their half working eurolinux OS crashes for the millionth time and they're back to using abacuses, the gov would realize what dumbasses they've been and let Windows include whatever they want. Movie maker sucks! Sound recorded sucks! It makes no difference and people want their computer to do something without spending a ton more money right out of the box!
If I were them, I'd tell em to fuck off and pull all plans for copies of Vista in Europe and disable all other Windows OS's in the next forced update as well as add protections. Then they can run all the third party crap they want. What a bunch of stuck up assholes.
I think I speak for all of us when I say there's already enough crazy little 12 year olds in online games complaining about lag! We need to get this settled once and for all!
lol that is awesome! Btw where were those words when I was typing the original? lol. I knew insane wasn't really the word. I'd totally mod your post up but I don't have any mod abilities nor do I have any idea how this system even works even after like a year but I do know it's complete bullshit and whoever made it is a dumbass (bet I'll get modded down for that lmao) God forbid I actually express a genuine opinion here in America instead of being all fake to rack up good karma like everyone else around here. Anyway, I go to a cheap community college where we totally keep it real and everyone's down to earth instead of a rich, stuck up, immature loser like most of those guys. They really did seem to have that personality in the video with the cheesy crap they were spewing out because the mass media and the kids from the OC told them how to react dramatically and they're dumb enough to think that's real. If you were here I'd shake your hand for not being one of them :-) Too bad normal ppl like us that keep it really really real get modded down by good actors.
Oh look, there's a video of aliens carrying it off on Youtube...lol just kidding, I guess not EVERYTHING is on Youtube. But clearly, it was kidnapped by aliens. The next one they send ought to have anti-alien defense mechanisms. Btw it sounds like there's a freakin lot of rovers and such on Mars at the moment. Just how many does Earth have there at the moment? I thought it was like 2.
Hmm so let's break down what happened here. He threatened the police if they touched him while at the same time refusing to leave. That's the exact specific time police are supposed to taze someone to prevent injury to themselves or others by completely aggresive, insane people on rants about something so small as leaving a library. Then after ridiculously playing the race card he STILL refuses to leave and they warn him to get up and cooperate or they'll taze him again at least a half dozen more times and he doesn't so guess what, they taze him again! DUH! If he didn't see that coming, he's a moron. Though I'd say it's a bit fuzzy and hard to tell what's going on later so he may or may not have deserved the extra tazingins but he probably did. And the other students actually think there's something wrong with how the police handled it? Are they that used to insane, uncooperative people with out of control tempers and other serious issues at their college with no respect for rules or the police? The guy had to be so unstable to get that pissed over being asked to leave a library because he didn't have his card or whatever before they even tazed him, not the mention that the police were probably called because he was already going on a rant about refusing to leave and spewing ridiculous racial bullshit to the staff members there. Don't fall into the media crap trying to turn this into some martyr story.
I bet if they were using WMP to view it, they STILL saw an annoying BUFFERING! BUFFERING! BUFFERING! every couple seconds. Btw what's the point of that transfer speed if your RAM/hard drive can't have data fed into it that fast?
because you suck at physics I guess. If you shot a whole bunch of 100 mile wide asteroids at an angle...umm I guess the best way to describe it is to say there was a 1000 mile tall flagpole on earth's surface going straight up and you aim for just above the tip of it, then the asteroids' would curve in and eventually spiral in to earth's surface cuz of gravity. The forward inertia is absorbed through this process and earth spins slightly faster in the direction that the asteroids were heading. It's like shooting an airsoft gun at a spinning beach ball in space coated in glue. If they all hit at the same point, each airsoft BB that hits it makes it spin faster in that direction. Same with black holes.
they clearly thought the hardware was open source too so they could just take it :-P
They didn't mention it in the article but thankfully I'm a black hole expert :-D There's a theory that says since the singularity is infinitely small then technically no matter is actually moving when it's rotating so it doesn't have to obey the speed of light speed limit and may be able to rotate faster than the speed of light. No idea how they can measure the speed if there's no radius but anyway, if it gets up to that speed they theorize that it will completely stop emitting gravity and either just sit there or explode, but most likely just sit there. This is the only known (well, in theory) way to "destroy" a black hole so when one comes and sucks up Pluto, thus ending that stupid debate, and is heading for Earth, we can just shoot particles into it at the correct angle and it will absorb the kinetic energy and translate it into spin and eventually spin so fast it effectively isn't dangerous anymore :)
So...they're going to have dragons enforce anti-piracy laws? What's draconian mean? lol
as soon as they make it work with a console, I can have reason to dodge back and forth in Unreal Tournament 2004 when it's 4v1 and all I've got is a biosludge gun! It'd seriously be sweet if they added sensors that could detect you, which of course they have (you know, the black suits with white ping pong ball thingies) Ever since DDR and now the new tilt controllers, gamers are going to be moving around like crazy, especially with the development of 3D display technology. I would totally go for a sword fighting VR setup without a dumb helmet weighing me down.
yay! Now endless wings at Buffalo Wild Wings are going to be even cheaper cuz they'll grow them right in the kitchen! Now they need to invent something to make the waitor/waitress come around more often and I'll be set :)
Those were awesome but even better was the google ad at the bottom. Mine was for an industrial strength microwave generator :D Can anyone guess what I'm thinking? Yeah, I'll meet you at the match factory!
well obviously Seinfeld isn't on over there or they'd remember the episode where Kramer sponsors his own highway and thinks he can do anything to it so he uses paint thinner to erase the lines and everyone certainly doesn't drive cautiously. More like "how luxurious!" *swerves back and forth* Seriously, people will just do whatever without signs, especially if they're drunk or on a cell phone.
That ONLY applies to submitting your resume to huge companies electronically. They'll read in your degree, usually with an AI system, and go right past it. But big companies suck anyway and networking (the ppl kind) can avoid the whole resume pool nightmare. As long as you have any experience in writing normal programs and put that on their, it will catch the attention of any human that reads it. Go to your church or something, write them a program, and put it on there and don't apply at some mega-company. But it sounds like you do want to get into gaming and they absolutely DO NOT like hiring ppl without specific gaming degrees and if they do, they probably make crap games like horrible movie tie in ones or something. If you're going to work on game engines seperate from your job and just be a regular programmer, then you'd want to take a lot of the gaming courses as electives and get the normal degree though. And in response to your other post, you'll absolutely need calculus and any geometry courses they have and I'd also suggest an advanced trigonometry (sometimes disguised as "pre-calculus") which comes in handy with physics stuff.
from what I've heard, you don't come out with anywhere near the amount of math that you need to do game programming from a CS degree. Since game programming is WAY harder in that area, you definitely need that degree, trust me. Disregard what anyone says about what degree people will hire you with because all they really care about is what you've learned and what you can do because of it. It sounds like they did a decent job with the degree too in that it takes out everything you don't need for game programming but leaves in the basic and advanced universal programming skills that you'd need in both.
If Chinese ppl get service from a satellite based ISP with their own dish, can't they completely ignore the "great firewall" and access whatever they want cuz they're jumping straight from their house to an outside China connection? There's no way to guard against that cuz they CAN be indoors so I'd love to see a US company offer service over there, I'm sure it'd explode (and make China hate us but who cares)
Sols is a kinda strange unit cuz it's as different on different planets as the term day. Why don't they just say "Mars Day." Well that sounds like a holiday but Solmars kinda sounds like a sciency unit. They're just racist against martians, that's the real problem. Soon they'll be counting martian votes at 3/5ths of a vote or whatever.
yay, I can't wait! Return of the Leonids is gonna be even better than the first two! (that's a LOTR reference in case you're dumb :-P) :( damn asteroids/ions! Must have STD's (Spacially Transmitted Diseases)
But last time I stayed up until like 2:00 in the morning to watch a meteor shower....err...I think it was the aurora borealis...anyway, I had my window open and it was FREAKIN cold (wisconsin btw) and I caught a massively baaaaad cold or flu or somethin