Most of us couldn't sit down and code that game engine, draw the graphics, animate the models, program the AI, make the maps, etc.
Just because someone can code the game engine , etc. doesn't mean that we cannot judge it. I doubt any of us can design a car, but we can all agree that the Ford Pinto was absolute crap, but under your idea, we cannot judge it. Doesn't make sense at all. If one thinks it's crap, then they're entitiled to their own opinion.
Try using mail.rest.of.your.dns eg. my dns is c#####-b.stcla1.sfba.home.com so i'll just use mail.stcla1.sfba.home.com... took me 2 hours to figure that out =]
I agree, I currently attend a Catholic High School and we are required to take a religion class. I originally hated it (even though i am Catholic in the first place), it became very interesting. My teacher was someone that spent ~10 years in training to be a Jesuit. Current day theology (and what would-be priests are taught) is that much of the bible is not FACT, in fact, much if it is exaggerated (eg. moses crossing the sea.. reed sea does flood, but not to that extent and the Egyptian's chariots would've gotten stuck in a flood).
Much of what current day Catholocism has more and more historical basis on it (I may even be so bold to say SCIENTIFIC basis, but i won't since I don't want to get into a flame-war). EG. My post later on the first and second creation stories are actually made in the 750-500 BCE and how there is factual basis on why it was MADE UP.
Not all Christians take the bible literally. In fact, 9/10 Catholic priests that I have talked to believe in evolution (the 1 was from some ~80 year old ). I can't say much about the other 'sects' (or whatever you call them) of Christianity since I don't have any idea about their beliefs.
Really where? GENESIS? The first 2 creation stories, let's shed some light on it, ok?
IT WAS NOT INTENDED AS LITERAL BASIS!
First creation stories (7 days). Historically, the Jews were being held (i think by the babalonians). They were polytheistic. They thought the world was created by evil, specifically cutting someone's genitals. The story was made to reaffirm Judiasm and to make the people from converting to the babalonian religion. The were pressured to change religions and were greatly influenced. So priests made this story. Read it over. See how "IT WAS GOOD" was said over and over? It was written to show that the world was made with good intensions. See how everything is shown as peaceful (the babalonians were war-like). Also, see how much it reaffirms how there is ONE god, not many, like polytheistic babalon.
2nd Creation story (Adam & eve) contraticts the first. The world was created first in 1st creation story, but here man is created before the world. This creation story is stressing about how much man is important. More important than everything else, including the universe. I don't quite remember the factual basis on why this story was created, but a quick search on google on some theologian's webpages will probably give you some results and it's just as neat as the first creation story.
If you don't believe what I say, then read both creation stories and realize that they both contradict each other and both could not have happened. Is the bible LYING to you? NO! You're just putting things out of context, yes YOU, not the bible. The creation stories were made not to answer how the world was created, but to answer other questions.
Understand that this is coming from a Catholic. Any Catholic Theoligan can probably explain better than I can and when they talk about this, they always talk about the FACTUAL BASIS, like a scientist, not a priest. By the way, both stories were written 750-500 B.C.E. (aka B.C.)
If you're really curious I can probably find some links for you...
My view is this, science cannot understand with our knowledge today, but my view is it has to do with 5th+ dimension, here's an example of what i mean
1st dimension (a dot pretty much in 3d view infinitely small, infinitely big... over simpifiled =P)
2nd dimension is a line/square/shape that doesn't have depth. it modifies the first dimension because things cannot just be infinitely small/big but can have SIZE.
3rd dimension is what we SEE in our eyes, but still-frame. similar to 1st to 2nd, the question of how something can be infitely flat is answered by the 3rd dimension.
4th dimension is time. Movement. Modifies the 3rd dimension by moving things. Think movie camera. Question remains on how the universe started is in here.
5th dimension, i don't know what this is, my idea is maybe it makes time irrelavant. Maybe _when_ doesn't really matter when things are viewed in the 5th dimension if we ever find out what it is.
This is my personal view on it and the only solution to find out what it is science! Or maybe i'm going on the wrong track and there is no 5th dimension. This view makes sense for ME, of course if someone can shed more light, i'd be happy, after all, i'm only in high school and haven't taken Physics or other weird subjects yet =]
Yes, solicitating over a cell phone is ILLEGAL, anything telemarkiting costs you money is illegal (yes that includes fax paper) except for your personal time. I found it off of junkbusters.com
No, i doubt that, they're getting INCREASED market share from Europe. They're releasing their earnings next week so if you hold their stock, i would guess you should wait until next week if you think it'll be good... shrug, VIA just released their earnings and it was QUADRUPLED expecations. Most Athlon/Duron/Thunderburd use VIA's chipset, so.... I guess you can figure out the rest;-]
That analogy doesn't fit with the current scenario. A better analogy would be someone making "copybobscars.com" where it teaches you how to use an magical matter copier machine, where it copies bob's cars. Bob also puts his stuff in the open so you can copy it too! (equivalent to sony making everything into the public). Bob's cars is a CAR DEALARSHIP. So you copy his cars. He still has one and you have one too! (did anyone lose money?)
Sure he 'lost money' in the sense that he lost a sale IF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ONE IN THE FIRST PLACE, but otherwise...
I gotta reply to your global warming thing, the fear of Global Warming is Global Cooling. Yes that sounds hypocritical, but it isn't. Here's a summary of the example shown by many supercomputer simulations-
1. The world gets warmer because of X.
2. The oceans warm and the north artic and south artic begins to warm
3. Ice melts
4. oh shit
5. Cooling kicks in (not sure weather it's from the oceans or the mountains, different sims say one or the other)
6. Ice Age
Most midrange DVD players have a Digital Out, so i don't see your problem... if it's the dvd protection (i doubt your mini-disc has that) then just get a macrovision filter, there all over the place on the internet, you should probably explain better because i don't see what you really need...
Heh, @home cable services is just the same, i dual boot between linux and windows and have called on both instances and they seem to be more friendly when you call them when you're using linux, if you are using windows during that time, then they'll ask you stupid questions like is your ethernet plugged in, can you move your mouse to the bottom left and left mouse button click, etc. When i ask them in linux, they'll just ask me to ping and traceroute =].
Of course, once i had someone get totally anal because i was using linux, they're like 'oh we don't support it.' That time i wanted their dns/gateway servers and i was so fed up i just asked for another person, of course he didn't let me, so i just called again and they happily gave it to me, didn't even ask for my address, etc too.
The best time was someone that knew what the hell he was talking about and asking me to check ifconfig, so i guess it depends on who you talk to, some people know what they're doing, others are ignorant....
Episode VI was SUPPOSED to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" but there was some kind of Star Trek movie going to have a similar name that was going to be released the same year, so lucas changed it to Return of the Jedi, but eventually the Star Trek movie changed its name ALSO for other reasons.
I definately think it's a good thing! Why? More (l?)users on linux. Don't take this as sarcasm. I'd like more AOLers, that way a few years later game companies can see linux and say "Oh they have 25% market-share 5x what it is for macs, i guess we should develop our games for linux too!"
That way i could format my windows partition! =]
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Not to mention the press release, which says that they'll have radeon driver support for linux -
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DAMNIT! I was just working on changing the password and someone beat me to the punch! All you need to do is run a good ad-blocking proxy server and you can view the redirect source and his password was eXvyuuPs. I was going to change it to prevent logging but noooo... =]
Sure, for 400 dollars and the high polygon rates, it seems like an absolute steal. Here's a huge dose of reality. The 400 dollar equipment will be near worthless late next year (its slated release date). The emachines of late next year probably has better perfeormance/fps than the X-Box late next year. So bang for your buck is NOT an issue, contrary to the x-box hype.
Now we go to performance. How great is the X-BOX performance? Insnanely high poly rates? The high poly rates have a drawback though. Your computer video card that you're running right now probably can get comparable polys. What? You're saying that you've tested and you cant? Well gee, i guess it's because you didn't set it to 320x240 res (the resolution of the TV) and set a max fps of 27 (also that of the TV). Well, it doesn't seem that absurd now, doesn't it?
Games? Well, any game for the X-Box can be ported to the Windows platform with minimal effort (and any for-profit company with the brian of a monkey would realize that would be a good idea).
So price, performance, and games are ruled out... what advantages does it have over a 1.5 year old PC with windows runing on it? Probably nothing.
And here's something to keep me mostly on-topic. Carmack is wasting his time on a doomed platform.
Oh yeah, no new CD players, SMDI seems like a GREAT technology, yep! No more pirating! Oh gee. except for when some guy sticks a stereo cord into a headphone jack and outputs it to his computer sound-in imput jack.
Really! Wait! RIAA, you say you can't do that? awwwww what are you going to do? Make a SMDI chip in all speakers and headphones, even those cheapo 5 dollar headphones will become 30 dollars more expensive and will require an AC outlet? oh yeah, real smart! The cost of piracy is at a plateu, it's not going to get any higher. The RIAA MUST DEAL WITH IT.
hehe, it's because google is based on linking to pages and you should see rpmfind's linking, like 5 links to one rpm, so they prolly SHOULD be on the top of the list, if you really dont want rpmfind then do -rpmfind (for example if you want to search for openssh do-
openssh -rpmfind ) .. that's what i do, it's kinda a pain in the ass if you want to find the official page and get rpmfind on the top....
Doesn't that stuff cause cancer in lab mice? If so intelligent species wouldn't be using it (of course that's open to discussion because some humans consume it...).
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They give you 3 selections from what I remember (Note: I chose the expert options so maybe the beginner options exclude this)
Towards the end of the install, it will ask you what version of X you want to use:
1. X 4.01 3d Hardware Acel.
2. X 4.01 plain
3. X 3.3.6
Just because someone can code the game engine , etc. doesn't mean that we cannot judge it. I doubt any of us can design a car, but we can all agree that the Ford Pinto was absolute crap, but under your idea, we cannot judge it. Doesn't make sense at all. If one thinks it's crap, then they're entitiled to their own opinion.
Try using mail.rest.of.your.dns eg. my dns is c#####-b.stcla1.sfba.home.com so i'll just use mail.stcla1.sfba.home.com ... took me 2 hours to figure that out =]
I agree, I currently attend a Catholic High School and we are required to take a religion class. I originally hated it (even though i am Catholic in the first place), it became very interesting. My teacher was someone that spent ~10 years in training to be a Jesuit. Current day theology (and what would-be priests are taught) is that much of the bible is not FACT, in fact, much if it is exaggerated (eg. moses crossing the sea.. reed sea does flood, but not to that extent and the Egyptian's chariots would've gotten stuck in a flood).
Much of what current day Catholocism has more and more historical basis on it (I may even be so bold to say SCIENTIFIC basis, but i won't since I don't want to get into a flame-war). EG. My post later on the first and second creation stories are actually made in the 750-500 BCE and how there is factual basis on why it was MADE UP.
Not all Christians take the bible literally. In fact, 9/10 Catholic priests that I have talked to believe in evolution (the 1 was from some ~80 year old ). I can't say much about the other 'sects' (or whatever you call them) of Christianity since I don't have any idea about their beliefs.
Really where? GENESIS? The first 2 creation stories, let's shed some light on it, ok?
IT WAS NOT INTENDED AS LITERAL BASIS!
First creation stories (7 days). Historically, the Jews were being held (i think by the babalonians). They were polytheistic. They thought the world was created by evil, specifically cutting someone's genitals. The story was made to reaffirm Judiasm and to make the people from converting to the babalonian religion. The were pressured to change religions and were greatly influenced. So priests made this story. Read it over. See how "IT WAS GOOD" was said over and over? It was written to show that the world was made with good intensions. See how everything is shown as peaceful (the babalonians were war-like). Also, see how much it reaffirms how there is ONE god, not many, like polytheistic babalon.
2nd Creation story (Adam & eve) contraticts the first. The world was created first in 1st creation story, but here man is created before the world. This creation story is stressing about how much man is important. More important than everything else, including the universe. I don't quite remember the factual basis on why this story was created, but a quick search on google on some theologian's webpages will probably give you some results and it's just as neat as the first creation story.
If you don't believe what I say, then read both creation stories and realize that they both contradict each other and both could not have happened. Is the bible LYING to you? NO! You're just putting things out of context, yes YOU, not the bible. The creation stories were made not to answer how the world was created, but to answer other questions.
Understand that this is coming from a Catholic. Any Catholic Theoligan can probably explain better than I can and when they talk about this, they always talk about the FACTUAL BASIS, like a scientist, not a priest. By the way, both stories were written 750-500 B.C.E. (aka B.C.)
If you're really curious I can probably find some links for you...
My view is this, science cannot understand with our knowledge today, but my view is it has to do with 5th+ dimension, here's an example of what i mean
1st dimension (a dot pretty much in 3d view infinitely small, infinitely big... over simpifiled =P)
2nd dimension is a line/square/shape that doesn't have depth. it modifies the first dimension because things cannot just be infinitely small/big but can have SIZE.
3rd dimension is what we SEE in our eyes, but still-frame. similar to 1st to 2nd, the question of how something can be infitely flat is answered by the 3rd dimension.
4th dimension is time. Movement. Modifies the 3rd dimension by moving things. Think movie camera. Question remains on how the universe started is in here.
5th dimension, i don't know what this is, my idea is maybe it makes time irrelavant. Maybe _when_ doesn't really matter when things are viewed in the 5th dimension if we ever find out what it is.
This is my personal view on it and the only solution to find out what it is science! Or maybe i'm going on the wrong track and there is no 5th dimension. This view makes sense for ME, of course if someone can shed more light, i'd be happy, after all, i'm only in high school and haven't taken Physics or other weird subjects yet =]
Whoops thought you did, sorry.
Good, Fast, Cheap, that's all good, but where does intel fit into the equasion?
Good? Ahem need i remind you of the Pentium 3 1133 recall and the Pentium 4 delay because it was crap and none of the OEMs wanted it?
Fast? Sure it's not insanely slow, so i have to give intel this one
Cheap? Gee, george it's not all that cheap, compared to Athlons, and with RDRAM added in it's fricken expensve
Intel 1 out of 3
AMD 2 out of 3
My question is, what the hell was intel doing while AMD was making the athlon
Yes, solicitating over a cell phone is ILLEGAL, anything telemarkiting costs you money is illegal (yes that includes fax paper) except for your personal time. I found it off of junkbusters.com
No, i doubt that, they're getting INCREASED market share from Europe. They're releasing their earnings next week so if you hold their stock, i would guess you should wait until next week if you think it'll be good... shrug, VIA just released their earnings and it was QUADRUPLED expecations. Most Athlon/Duron/Thunderburd use VIA's chipset, so.... I guess you can figure out the rest ;-]
Is this what you're talking about?m l
http://www.minidisco.com/minispecs/maudioco3.ht
grabbed the link through google =P wheee
That analogy doesn't fit with the current scenario. A better analogy would be someone making "copybobscars.com" where it teaches you how to use an magical matter copier machine, where it copies bob's cars. Bob also puts his stuff in the open so you can copy it too! (equivalent to sony making everything into the public). Bob's cars is a CAR DEALARSHIP. So you copy his cars. He still has one and you have one too! (did anyone lose money?)
Sure he 'lost money' in the sense that he lost a sale IF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY ONE IN THE FIRST PLACE, but otherwise...
I gotta reply to your global warming thing, the fear of Global Warming is Global Cooling. Yes that sounds hypocritical, but it isn't. Here's a summary of the example shown by many supercomputer simulations-
1. The world gets warmer because of X.
2. The oceans warm and the north artic and south artic begins to warm
3. Ice melts
4. oh shit
5. Cooling kicks in (not sure weather it's from the oceans or the mountains, different sims say one or the other)
6. Ice Age
Whoops, so i guess it's bit, that's why i should read the link ... and so should timothy =P
it's a capital B so it's BYTE, i think..
Most midrange DVD players have a Digital Out, so i don't see your problem... if it's the dvd protection (i doubt your mini-disc has that) then just get a macrovision filter, there all over the place on the internet, you should probably explain better because i don't see what you really need...
Heh, @home cable services is just the same, i dual boot between linux and windows and have called on both instances and they seem to be more friendly when you call them when you're using linux, if you are using windows during that time, then they'll ask you stupid questions like is your ethernet plugged in, can you move your mouse to the bottom left and left mouse button click, etc. When i ask them in linux, they'll just ask me to ping and traceroute =].
Of course, once i had someone get totally anal because i was using linux, they're like 'oh we don't support it.' That time i wanted their dns/gateway servers and i was so fed up i just asked for another person, of course he didn't let me, so i just called again and they happily gave it to me, didn't even ask for my address, etc too.
The best time was someone that knew what the hell he was talking about and asking me to check ifconfig, so i guess it depends on who you talk to, some people know what they're doing, others are ignorant....
Episode VI was SUPPOSED to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" but there was some kind of Star Trek movie going to have a similar name that was going to be released the same year, so lucas changed it to Return of the Jedi, but eventually the Star Trek movie changed its name ALSO for other reasons.
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I definately think it's a good thing! Why? More (l?)users on linux. Don't take this as sarcasm. I'd like more AOLers, that way a few years later game companies can see linux and say "Oh they have 25% market-share 5x what it is for macs, i guess we should develop our games for linux too!"
That way i could format my windows partition! =]
Not to mention the press release, which says that they'll have radeon driver support for linux -
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http://www.ati.com/na/pages/corporate/press/200
to all idiot moderators- the faq says all-in-wonder, not radeon... so this is NOT reduntant
DAMNIT! I was just working on changing the password and someone beat me to the punch! All you need to do is run a good ad-blocking proxy server and you can view the redirect source and his password was eXvyuuPs. I was going to change it to prevent logging but noooo... =]
Sure, for 400 dollars and the high polygon rates, it seems like an absolute steal. Here's a huge dose of reality. The 400 dollar equipment will be near worthless late next year (its slated release date). The emachines of late next year probably has better perfeormance/fps than the X-Box late next year. So bang for your buck is NOT an issue, contrary to the x-box hype.
Now we go to performance. How great is the X-BOX performance? Insnanely high poly rates? The high poly rates have a drawback though. Your computer video card that you're running right now probably can get comparable polys. What? You're saying that you've tested and you cant? Well gee, i guess it's because you didn't set it to 320x240 res (the resolution of the TV) and set a max fps of 27 (also that of the TV). Well, it doesn't seem that absurd now, doesn't it?
Games? Well, any game for the X-Box can be ported to the Windows platform with minimal effort (and any for-profit company with the brian of a monkey would realize that would be a good idea).
So price, performance, and games are ruled out... what advantages does it have over a 1.5 year old PC with windows runing on it? Probably nothing.
And here's something to keep me mostly on-topic. Carmack is wasting his time on a doomed platform.
Oh yeah, no new CD players, SMDI seems like a GREAT technology, yep! No more pirating! Oh gee. except for when some guy sticks a stereo cord into a headphone jack and outputs it to his computer sound-in imput jack.
Really! Wait! RIAA, you say you can't do that? awwwww what are you going to do? Make a SMDI chip in all speakers and headphones, even those cheapo 5 dollar headphones will become 30 dollars more expensive and will require an AC outlet? oh yeah, real smart! The cost of piracy is at a plateu, it's not going to get any higher. The RIAA MUST DEAL WITH IT.
hehe, it's because google is based on linking to pages and you should see rpmfind's linking, like 5 links to one rpm, so they prolly SHOULD be on the top of the list, if you really dont want rpmfind then do -rpmfind (for example if you want to search for openssh do-
openssh -rpmfind
)
.. that's what i do, it's kinda a pain in the ass if you want to find the official page and get rpmfind on the top....
=]
Doesn't that stuff cause cancer in lab mice? If so intelligent species wouldn't be using it (of course that's open to discussion because some humans consume it...).