I don't go to theaters either, my last trip was about 5 years ago. Last I heard the tickets were like $10 or something. Now if I went every week I would pay $20 for tickets alone for me and my wife, which is over a $1000 a year, not counting gas and overpriced drinks and popcorn. This is how I can afford a home theater that puts most movie theaters to shame. So what if I see the movie 6 months later, I get to watch it in the comfort of my home without any annoyances and a couple of beers to make it even sweeter.
Completely agree that emissions need to be measured in g/km, not % total output.
And you can have a safe, light and cheap car. Aluminum, steel and fine leather are anything but cheap these days and carbon fiber along with other composites are getting cheaper every year. The reason cars are getting heavier is due to all the unnecessary crap they put into them. All the DVD players, GPS units, motors for 12-way adjustable seats and other overpriced junk is adding to the weight of the car. It's nearly impossible to buy a simple stick shift stripped down, but with airbags, car to drive to work.
Why is game support a driver problem? I have written a few drivers myself so I understand what they do. What I don't understand is why every time a new game comes out, ATI and Nvidia need to provide support for that game in their driver? If they are putting game specific code in the drivers, shouldn't that code be part of the game? And if their driver blows and doesn't use the hardware correctly, shouldn't they fix it for all games, not just one?
Can somebody explain this to me please.
This is exactly why I don't even bother paying for music any more. RIAA can't make up their mind about licenses. If I own a CD and lose it, I have to pay for another one, which means I owned the CD that I lost. But RIAA will tell you that you don't own anything, you get a license to listen to it. Ok, then if I lose my CD give me another one for free, right?!
And by the way, anybody who owns any vinyls, tapes, or any other kind of media should digitise it as many times as he wants to. At the time you bought those things there was no law about digitising music, therefore you still don't break any laws according to the old license. And why would you even think about what you can or cannon do with the music you bought, forget RIAA and do whatever you want.
If you worked even one Defense contract you'd know that there is no way you can roll a small fix without the rest of the company knowing about it. I know, because I work on this stuff every day. Every line of code is test and certified. Although I am not surprised since its Boeing and LM that built this thing
It's not bullshit. Each of these systems is developed independently which means that computer that assists with controls is totally different than the one that controls NAV or weapons systems. It's NAV and all other systems could have been completely F****D and it wouldn't affect ECU or Flight Assist software at all. But what this does say is that the company that developes NAV software needs to fire all their test and software engineers because this kind of test is one of the most basic ones to do. Aircraft software is tested to DO-178B standards because it's Safety Critical and should have gone through full code coverage. Somebody forgot to do their job.
People always complain about how their rights are being taken away and they have no freedom. You have the freedom to install Vista or not to install Vista, or to download and install the DRM crack or not to. I haven't paid for music in any format or for any software in the last 10 years and I never will. I refuse to pay for something I don't own. So it doesn't bother me at all what music and movie business is doing these days. And if they make it so that there is no other way, I guess I won't be listening to anything other than a radio. And if they lock down Windows to the point where I can't use it at all without paying for it, I'll switch to Linux.
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I don't go to theaters either, my last trip was about 5 years ago. Last I heard the tickets were like $10 or something. Now if I went every week I would pay $20 for tickets alone for me and my wife, which is over a $1000 a year, not counting gas and overpriced drinks and popcorn. This is how I can afford a home theater that puts most movie theaters to shame. So what if I see the movie 6 months later, I get to watch it in the comfort of my home without any annoyances and a couple of beers to make it even sweeter.
Completely agree that emissions need to be measured in g/km, not % total output. And you can have a safe, light and cheap car. Aluminum, steel and fine leather are anything but cheap these days and carbon fiber along with other composites are getting cheaper every year. The reason cars are getting heavier is due to all the unnecessary crap they put into them. All the DVD players, GPS units, motors for 12-way adjustable seats and other overpriced junk is adding to the weight of the car. It's nearly impossible to buy a simple stick shift stripped down, but with airbags, car to drive to work.
Why is game support a driver problem? I have written a few drivers myself so I understand what they do. What I don't understand is why every time a new game comes out, ATI and Nvidia need to provide support for that game in their driver? If they are putting game specific code in the drivers, shouldn't that code be part of the game? And if their driver blows and doesn't use the hardware correctly, shouldn't they fix it for all games, not just one? Can somebody explain this to me please.
This is exactly why I don't even bother paying for music any more. RIAA can't make up their mind about licenses. If I own a CD and lose it, I have to pay for another one, which means I owned the CD that I lost. But RIAA will tell you that you don't own anything, you get a license to listen to it. Ok, then if I lose my CD give me another one for free, right?! And by the way, anybody who owns any vinyls, tapes, or any other kind of media should digitise it as many times as he wants to. At the time you bought those things there was no law about digitising music, therefore you still don't break any laws according to the old license. And why would you even think about what you can or cannon do with the music you bought, forget RIAA and do whatever you want.
If you worked even one Defense contract you'd know that there is no way you can roll a small fix without the rest of the company knowing about it. I know, because I work on this stuff every day. Every line of code is test and certified. Although I am not surprised since its Boeing and LM that built this thing
It's not bullshit. Each of these systems is developed independently which means that computer that assists with controls is totally different than the one that controls NAV or weapons systems. It's NAV and all other systems could have been completely F****D and it wouldn't affect ECU or Flight Assist software at all. But what this does say is that the company that developes NAV software needs to fire all their test and software engineers because this kind of test is one of the most basic ones to do. Aircraft software is tested to DO-178B standards because it's Safety Critical and should have gone through full code coverage. Somebody forgot to do their job.
People always complain about how their rights are being taken away and they have no freedom. You have the freedom to install Vista or not to install Vista, or to download and install the DRM crack or not to. I haven't paid for music in any format or for any software in the last 10 years and I never will. I refuse to pay for something I don't own. So it doesn't bother me at all what music and movie business is doing these days. And if they make it so that there is no other way, I guess I won't be listening to anything other than a radio. And if they lock down Windows to the point where I can't use it at all without paying for it, I'll switch to Linux.