The DA is not duty bound at all. They can choose to prosecute or not at a whim. As can police, they are not duty bound to arrest/charge every violation that they see or are told about.
To be honest its never been at the top of the list with games for the simple reason that windows still dominates anything thats not a console. Console are probably never going to be great with a open API since they are generally all about being very closed and controlled platforms.
Opengl games are the exception, not the rule. Its been that way for quite some time. The mistake that is often made, is to assume this means opengl==sux. Its doesn't sux any more than other api's.
Well it wasn't a complete accident. I always felt like MLK success was due to the PR. Sure most people stop betting the crap out of them. But thats not because they believed that betting the crap out of a different group was wrong. But because it was making them look bad.
Secondly, the price that one needs to be prepared to pay is well illustrated. Just sitting there taking a betting is not an easy thing to do (yes i know not everyone did just sit there). While the attitude of MLK was different. He was happy to be lawless with respect to the unjust laws. But he didn't expect not to get prison time for it.
Fact is we really don't care enough about any of these things to do more than rant a bit on/. and perhaps pass a few cussing stars at the pub.
That the *hard step* is the evolution of complex life, is one of the proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox. We have some evidence to support this. Basically everything was single celled, then one single cell life form swallowed another and made it a DNA management machine (nucleus). After than the explosion of complex multicellular life happened. This appears to have taken billions of years. Its quite possible that such an event is "rare" in the sense that it always takes a really long time even in favorable conditions.
Most of the Fermi colonization models *require* magic-like nanotech and AI abilities that we're not really sure are even possible.
No it doesn't. Thats the point. If we had the desire right now. We have the technology, or are close enough that we could devlop it. Thats why its a paradox.
Plus there's your disdain for jurors. This "people too stupid to get out of jury duty," thing is very tiring. I've twice been called for jury duty, neither time chosen to serve, but not because I tried to get out of it. I'd gladly serve on a jury, it is my duty.
When people complain about stupid jurors, I ask how many times they have tried to get out of it. I think its my duty too. But unfortunately I was reject on both occasions since I have a Masters Degree. That meant i am not the 95% or whatever of the general public and was successfully challenged by the prosecutor.
A huge amount of the 3d computer market is not games. We have all nivida/linux machines in the lab (about 200 machine in the department) for protein structure visualizations. Another company i worked with had a huge investment for CAD/CAD hardware. Its all opengl.
The fuss over OpenGL 3.0 was because it wasn't as awesome as it could have been at that time.
I got the impression that lots of DX coders just jump into forums and flamed away. Most of the pro opengl devs I know where not too unhappy with it. Now looking back I can say quite a few of them think it was a great idea not to push the object model too early... for the simple reason that vendors still were working out what is easy to put in drivers/hardware.
Even on this thread its pretty clear that quite a few comments about what opengl is not, has been made by folks that clearly don't code opengl.
I am a Linux fan (not boy.. I am a man dam it;) ) through and through. I sit here wearing my Slackware tshirt with 3 computers all with slack on them.
But lets be honest. Sound in Linux has always been a cluster fornication. Pulse Audio is just another piece of the cluster... I guess it has just never really been a big priority with the Linux core team, at least early on.
Another reason i love Slackware, is that its the *only* distribution that has ALSA working out of the box on every box I have put it on.
Right now however I have been using openAL. This seems to work really well across platforms.
Martin L. King would probably disagree. Seriously. Begin part of a "democracy" means so much more than the right to vote. If enough can rally to the cause there are many *peaceful* things you can do. Don't forget that bad PR is a DA worst nightmare....
But motivating lots of people to hit the streets rather than get hot under the collier on/. is probably harder than it looks.
but whenever anybody calls for bad cops to be held accountable, police unions raise a stink....
And "good cops" start bleating in the corner about why they didn't say anything. Some crap about don't snitch on your fellow inmates^W cops. Well if the "good cops" started actually being good cops --rather than an accessory after the fact (and probably an accessory before the fact), then my faith in the uniform wouldn't have been lost.
But when good cops bleet on about what would happen --ie are intimidated... where do we, who are not cops, stand?
Many (most?) employers now ask if you've merely been arrested...
In all the countries i live in, you can answer no to such a question regardless (its also illegal to ask it in the first place). Only the police have the information and its not public and it will not be on your criminal record.
Ironically having a record in the countries i live is also not such a death warrant for jobs either. Generally people are prepared to believe you turned over a new leaf--even if its just about a book of new leafs.
But its not all peaches and sunshine. In particular if it goes to trial, that is a matter of public record. One guy got news headlines that he knocked up a little girl and was a dirty pedo, with a "unrelated" picture next to his mug shot of 5year old girl playing in a new playground on the front page. He was fully acquitted since the girl in question was 15 and he meet her in a bar (drinking age back then was 20) and she acted 20 claiming to have a office job etc. The Judge/jury said there was no way the defendant could have reasonably expected that she was underage.
It didn't matter. In the end the fully acquitted and innocent guy had to change his name and move countries.
So I do agree. There is a very real social cost with an arrest, one that cops generally don't pay. And they wonder why so many of us don't respect the uniform.
You make all good points. The production quality was good. The acting and the actors where decent. The dialog didn't sux.
But really, do we have to have a "drama" where the crew basically pack a sad with the mission profile that they knew about before the even left. Thats what i mean when they depict these missions. They make a really strong case why sending soft, squishy, radiation intolerant, vacuum adverse and emotional humans is dumb.
There is also no argument against a God who does not wish to have proof of existence in the "universe". Or any proof that the entire universe is not just some kids simulation in some science project in the real universe.
None of these things are scientific questions because they cannot be tested. The only view that reason can lead too, is that we don't can can't know the answer to these questions. In other words... they are a matter of faith, not fact. But anything other than "agnostic" view, is not any more reasonable than the other.
Guess what I did for a job for some years. Nice piece of PR "needs more study give us cash" garbage reporting there too (by the PR guys no less). Notice the wording "may cause"- they say that so they don't get into trouble for BS. Do you even know what a peer review study is? You do know that still births, birth defects, organ blar blar blar are rare and happen *without* TMI. In fact there is *zero* data to support that the rates are higher than normal ie very very low.
Undetectable levels of radiation don't have an effect over what you are exposed to *right now* from space. High altitude villages and cities have background radiation levels 2-3 times higher than sea level background, yet no increase in *anything*.
Way to ignore the rest of the comments. Whats wrong with a plan old measurement. If the claims in your citation (not a peer review source) are even half true, it would be trivial to show it. But no one does because -- there is no measurement that backs up OMG 100x more radiation BS, because there nothing to measure (or so close to it) at all --less that background levels.
And where is the cite for the "caused 500 deaths?" from a peer reviewed. Basically you are making stuff up or quoting reports that do.
And by the way, IAEA reports are peer reviewed. Its the only way to keep all the countries that are part of it happy.
A real citation. Not a BS media OMG all cancer in the area is TMI fault. I read the engineering reports. Here is a more creditable source: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull472/htmls/tmi.html. The follow up medical studies that are done half properly (ie not by green peace) don't show anything out of the ordinary. You should also note that the high altitude cities get more radiation that folks next to TMI.
Heres another hint on how easily it would be to prove "100 times worse than reported" exposer rates. Get a geiger counter. Oh... its only reading normal background levels.......... Which is why these media pieces don't do that.
That is a chemical laser. And they have been stuck at about 1MW for years (over 20 years in fact). Then there is the tons of toxic chemicals that are used and exhausted. People have been tring with lasers for a long time (Regans star wars was probably the biggest push), and all we have is demonstration models. Nothing has ever gone into production.
Oh and i forgot. Most Th reactors *require* the separation of Protactinium 233 from the breeding environment for neutron economy reasons. Since this is chemical separation it can be done relatively easily, and can be very pure with minimal amounts of Protactinium 234. So now you can just take the X kgs of Protactinium and wait about 200 days and now you have a nice chuck of pure U233 with a very low U234 content (the bit that makes it hard to handle).
The comment about Th 232 not being U233 makes me think you know nothing about a Th fuel cycle. See my other comment below.
So put a U238 blanket around your reactor. Chemically separate the Pu and bobs your uncle. Any strong neutron source is a proliferation risk. Claiming otherwise is false.
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The DA is not duty bound at all. They can choose to prosecute or not at a whim. As can police, they are not duty bound to arrest/charge every violation that they see or are told about.
To be honest its never been at the top of the list with games for the simple reason that windows still dominates anything thats not a console. Console are probably never going to be great with a open API since they are generally all about being very closed and controlled platforms.
Opengl games are the exception, not the rule. Its been that way for quite some time. The mistake that is often made, is to assume this means opengl==sux. Its doesn't sux any more than other api's.
Well it wasn't a complete accident. I always felt like MLK success was due to the PR. Sure most people stop betting the crap out of them. But thats not because they believed that betting the crap out of a different group was wrong. But because it was making them look bad.
/. and perhaps pass a few cussing stars at the pub.
Secondly, the price that one needs to be prepared to pay is well illustrated. Just sitting there taking a betting is not an easy thing to do (yes i know not everyone did just sit there). While the attitude of MLK was different. He was happy to be lawless with respect to the unjust laws. But he didn't expect not to get prison time for it.
Fact is we really don't care enough about any of these things to do more than rant a bit on
Life is common...
This is not a given.
That the *hard step* is the evolution of complex life, is one of the proposed solutions to the Fermi paradox. We have some evidence to support this. Basically everything was single celled, then one single cell life form swallowed another and made it a DNA management machine (nucleus). After than the explosion of complex multicellular life happened. This appears to have taken billions of years. Its quite possible that such an event is "rare" in the sense that it always takes a really long time even in favorable conditions.
Awesome post.
Most of the Fermi colonization models *require* magic-like nanotech and AI abilities that we're not really sure are even possible.
No it doesn't. Thats the point. If we had the desire right now. We have the technology, or are close enough that we could devlop it. Thats why its a paradox.
They found 5 bodies in the trunk :)
Plus there's your disdain for jurors. This "people too stupid to get out of jury duty," thing is very tiring. I've twice been called for jury duty, neither time chosen to serve, but not because I tried to get out of it. I'd gladly serve on a jury, it is my duty.
When people complain about stupid jurors, I ask how many times they have tried to get out of it. I think its my duty too. But unfortunately I was reject on both occasions since I have a Masters Degree. That meant i am not the 95% or whatever of the general public and was successfully challenged by the prosecutor.
A huge amount of the 3d computer market is not games. We have all nivida/linux machines in the lab (about 200 machine in the department) for protein structure visualizations. Another company i worked with had a huge investment for CAD/CAD hardware. Its all opengl.
The fuss over OpenGL 3.0 was because it wasn't as awesome as it could have been at that time.
I got the impression that lots of DX coders just jump into forums and flamed away. Most of the pro opengl devs I know where not too unhappy with it. Now looking back I can say quite a few of them think it was a great idea not to push the object model too early... for the simple reason that vendors still were working out what is easy to put in drivers/hardware.
Even on this thread its pretty clear that quite a few comments about what opengl is not, has been made by folks that clearly don't code opengl.
I am a Linux fan (not boy.. I am a man dam it ;) ) through and through. I sit here wearing my Slackware tshirt with 3 computers all with slack on them.
But lets be honest. Sound in Linux has always been a cluster fornication. Pulse Audio is just another piece of the cluster... I guess it has just never really been a big priority with the Linux core team, at least early on.
Another reason i love Slackware, is that its the *only* distribution that has ALSA working out of the box on every box I have put it on.
Right now however I have been using openAL. This seems to work really well across platforms.
And what did they find in your car?
What is our recourse? There isn't one...
Martin L. King would probably disagree. Seriously. Begin part of a "democracy" means so much more than the right to vote. If enough can rally to the cause there are many *peaceful* things you can do. Don't forget that bad PR is a DA worst nightmare....
/. is probably harder than it looks.
But motivating lots of people to hit the streets rather than get hot under the collier on
But then again flash mobs do happen.
but whenever anybody calls for bad cops to be held accountable, police unions raise a stink....
And "good cops" start bleating in the corner about why they didn't say anything. Some crap about don't snitch on your fellow inmates^W cops. Well if the "good cops" started actually being good cops --rather than an accessory after the fact (and probably an accessory before the fact), then my faith in the uniform wouldn't have been lost.
But when good cops bleet on about what would happen --ie are intimidated... where do we, who are not cops, stand?
Many (most?) employers now ask if you've merely been arrested...
In all the countries i live in, you can answer no to such a question regardless (its also illegal to ask it in the first place). Only the police have the information and its not public and it will not be on your criminal record.
Ironically having a record in the countries i live is also not such a death warrant for jobs either. Generally people are prepared to believe you turned over a new leaf--even if its just about a book of new leafs.
But its not all peaches and sunshine. In particular if it goes to trial, that is a matter of public record. One guy got news headlines that he knocked up a little girl and was a dirty pedo, with a "unrelated" picture next to his mug shot of 5year old girl playing in a new playground on the front page. He was fully acquitted since the girl in question was 15 and he meet her in a bar (drinking age back then was 20) and she acted 20 claiming to have a office job etc. The Judge/jury said there was no way the defendant could have reasonably expected that she was underage.
It didn't matter. In the end the fully acquitted and innocent guy had to change his name and move countries.
So I do agree. There is a very real social cost with an arrest, one that cops generally don't pay. And they wonder why so many of us don't respect the uniform.
You make all good points. The production quality was good. The acting and the actors where decent. The dialog didn't sux.
But really, do we have to have a "drama" where the crew basically pack a sad with the mission profile that they knew about before the even left. Thats what i mean when they depict these missions. They make a really strong case why sending soft, squishy, radiation intolerant, vacuum adverse and emotional humans is dumb.
There is also no argument against a God who does not wish to have proof of existence in the "universe". Or any proof that the entire universe is not just some kids simulation in some science project in the real universe.
None of these things are scientific questions because they cannot be tested. The only view that reason can lead too, is that we don't can can't know the answer to these questions. In other words... they are a matter of faith, not fact. But anything other than "agnostic" view, is not any more reasonable than the other.
Guess what I did for a job for some years. Nice piece of PR "needs more study give us cash" garbage reporting there too (by the PR guys no less). Notice the wording "may cause"- they say that so they don't get into trouble for BS. Do you even know what a peer review study is? You do know that still births, birth defects, organ blar blar blar are rare and happen *without* TMI. In fact there is *zero* data to support that the rates are higher than normal ie very very low.
Undetectable levels of radiation don't have an effect over what you are exposed to *right now* from space. High altitude villages and cities have background radiation levels 2-3 times higher than sea level background, yet no increase in *anything*.
Way to ignore the rest of the comments. Whats wrong with a plan old measurement. If the claims in your citation (not a peer review source) are even half true, it would be trivial to show it. But no one does because -- there is no measurement that backs up OMG 100x more radiation BS, because there nothing to measure (or so close to it) at all --less that background levels.
And where is the cite for the "caused 500 deaths?" from a peer reviewed. Basically you are making stuff up or quoting reports that do.
And by the way, IAEA reports are peer reviewed. Its the only way to keep all the countries that are part of it happy.
A real citation. Not a BS media OMG all cancer in the area is TMI fault. I read the engineering reports. Here is a more creditable source: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull472/htmls/tmi.html. The follow up medical studies that are done half properly (ie not by green peace) don't show anything out of the ordinary. You should also note that the high altitude cities get more radiation that folks next to TMI.
Heres another hint on how easily it would be to prove "100 times worse than reported" exposer rates. Get a geiger counter. Oh... its only reading normal background levels.......... Which is why these media pieces don't do that.
That is a chemical laser. And they have been stuck at about 1MW for years (over 20 years in fact). Then there is the tons of toxic chemicals that are used and exhausted. People have been tring with lasers for a long time (Regans star wars was probably the biggest push), and all we have is demonstration models. Nothing has ever gone into production.
Oh and i forgot. Most Th reactors *require* the separation of Protactinium 233 from the breeding environment for neutron economy reasons. Since this is chemical separation it can be done relatively easily, and can be very pure with minimal amounts of Protactinium 234. So now you can just take the X kgs of Protactinium and wait about 200 days and now you have a nice chuck of pure U233 with a very low U234 content (the bit that makes it hard to handle).
The comment about Th 232 not being U233 makes me think you know nothing about a Th fuel cycle. See my other comment below.
So put a U238 blanket around your reactor. Chemically separate the Pu and bobs your uncle. Any strong neutron source is a proliferation risk. Claiming otherwise is false.
U233 is the fuel, as its fissile. Th is fertile as in it can be turned into fuel. A Th fuel *cycle* uses U233 as the fuel.