Say the FDA were to go away, who do you think would be trying out these new experimental treatments first? The poor who can't afford the expensive, tested treatments.
You can say what you will about libertarianism and freedom of choice, but there is something extremely morbid about using the poor as medical guinea pigs due to their desperate situation.
Although the poor are predominantly the ones in the first-human-stage drug testing now, at least there is some oversight so that we aren't just trying anything and everything on them.
I suppose I'd be more in favor of your plan when and if we have universal "free" medical coverage, and where absolutely no money can be given out for agreeing to try experimental treatments.
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From my experience in Japan, the 'natives' love it when I try and speak Japanese when communicating. I've never sensed an ounce of condescending tones when I struggle.
I'm sorry to say, but speaking from personal experience, they are being polite because you are inexperienced. Once you get to a point of near fluency, your mistakes will stand out, and they won't be so friendly any more.
It's not just a Japanese thing, a friend who lives in Beijing has reported the same problem with his Mandarin.
You can even see it in English to a degree. We are polite to foreigners that are near incomprehensible, but when someone mixes up their/there/they're, effect/affect, then/than, your/you're; many tend to get quite upset. It's sort of like the uncanny valley effect, I suppose.
Yes, the parties swapped ideologies. But that is it. It doesn't mean a Democrat nowadays is really a conservative, or vice versa. If we were alive back then, we'd most likely be a member of the opposite party.
If anything, it perhaps suggests we shouldn't be using Democrats and Republicans, but rather progressives and conservatives to refer to their respective ideologies.
Nice to see another great SNES emulator, but my god, what the hell is with those system requirements?
Two reasons. The first is bsnes runs at ~15-20x the precision of existing emulators. The S-CPU at 21.4MHz, the S-SMP at 24MHz, and the S-DSP at 1.024MHz. Everyone else uses 3.58MHz, 1.024MHz and 32KHz, respectively. This is mostly by breaking opcodes down to their cycle levels and emulating their bus hold delays. I also emulate dozens of things nobody else does: DRAM refresh, DMA sync delays, IRQ / NMI edge cases, RTO's X=256 glitch, etc. Each tend to fix a bug in only one or two games, but at a significant cost to performance.
The second is that the code is written to be clean, rather than fast. It serves as a research reference for other emulators, and I often help backport the findings to ZSNES, Snes9X, SNESGT, etc. It also makes fixing emulation bugs infinitely easier. You can say what you will about the approach, but it worked for me. I managed 100% compatibility* with zero known bugs in 3 years, while that's evaded entire teams of people for 12+ years now. Lastly, this gives more time for emulating new stuff for the first time, like the recently added Super Game Boy support.
( * the three incompatible games all have special unemulated hardware inside the cartridges. We are in the process of trying to decap the chips to extract their program ROMs now.)
Now as a whole, the accuracy doesn't matter for 90% of games, and the best emulators have workarounds to fix bugs in the most popular games anyway. So you pay a very heavy price, but it really is all needed if you want full compatibility without any hacks. If you have the hardware, it's nice to know your favorite games will work, without any glitches, and will look, play and sound exactly like the original.
Lastly, I don't really consider an Athlon 2600+ to be all that extreme in this day and age. That chip has been out for almost a decade now and costs ~$30. Since we already have fast emulators for older hardware, why write another ZSNES clone? Nestopia needs 800MHz compared to 50MHz for NESticle. That would've been a big deal in 2001. Likewise, I don't think bsnes' requirements will matter as much in a few years from now.
It happens the same with the GBA. While you can emulate games for the GBA without the need for a BIOS file, if you have one, they'll run better \ more accurately (or in some cases, they run instead of not running).
It really just displays the logo and validates that the Nintendo copyrighted startup logo is present in the ROM. It was a trick to try and prevent third-party publishers from making their own releases. As soon as the Game Boy cartridge is started, the boot ROM is locked out completely and no longer needed.
The GBA BIOS is quite different, it has tons of functions like various decompression routines, and without it you tend to have far less accurate timing and you may miss potential edge cases. Think of it as low-level emulation with the BIOS, and high-level emulation (in the vain of N64 graphics emulation) without it.
Good point. How about using Kirby for emphasis instead?
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Thank you! The Tragedy of the Commons is a perfect example of what happens when everyone or no one owns a resource.
The Tragedy of the Commons was about self-serving interests over the common good. I don't see how that parallels socialism.
The alternative to evenly dividing a scarce resource is to unevenly distribute it. So for example, with 100 gallons of milk, and 200 people -- where each person 'requires' exactly one gallon of milk a day -- would it be better to give 100 people a gallon, and let the others starve? Or find a way to make a half-gallon work for everyone?
Unless more harm will come by it (eg more than 100 people would die from having only a half-gallon of milk), I can't see the former being the correct choice. The solution to limited resources is not to create a privileged hierarchy, but to:
a) find a way to increase resource production
b) find an alternative resource
c) work toward reducing over-population
d) do all of the above
FWIW, I also don't believe socialism is a workable system with the way humanity is -- at least at our current level of evolution.
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Say the FDA were to go away, who do you think would be trying out these new experimental treatments first? The poor who can't afford the expensive, tested treatments.
You can say what you will about libertarianism and freedom of choice, but there is something extremely morbid about using the poor as medical guinea pigs due to their desperate situation.
Although the poor are predominantly the ones in the first-human-stage drug testing now, at least there is some oversight so that we aren't just trying anything and everything on them.
I suppose I'd be more in favor of your plan when and if we have universal "free" medical coverage, and where absolutely no money can be given out for agreeing to try experimental treatments.
I can totally see that, especially now.
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From my experience in Japan, the 'natives' love it when I try and speak Japanese when communicating. I've never sensed an ounce of condescending tones when I struggle.
I'm sorry to say, but speaking from personal experience, they are being polite because you are inexperienced. Once you get to a point of near fluency, your mistakes will stand out, and they won't be so friendly any more.
It's not just a Japanese thing, a friend who lives in Beijing has reported the same problem with his Mandarin.
You can even see it in English to a degree. We are polite to foreigners that are near incomprehensible, but when someone mixes up their/there/they're, effect/affect, then/than, your/you're; many tend to get quite upset. It's sort of like the uncanny valley effect, I suppose.
Yes, the parties swapped ideologies. But that is it. It doesn't mean a Democrat nowadays is really a conservative, or vice versa. If we were alive back then, we'd most likely be a member of the opposite party.
If anything, it perhaps suggests we shouldn't be using Democrats and Republicans, but rather progressives and conservatives to refer to their respective ideologies.
Not entirely. You still can't reference an SVG image via CSS, eg:
... quite a shame, really.
body { background: url(fade.svg); }
This is also true for Webkit-based browers. Only Opera 9+ seems to have full SVG integration with HTML and CSS
That list is very old. In fact I don't believe they are even using Bountysource anymore.
Many of these issues have been fixed in SVN by Jonas Quinn, Nach et al, and will work in ZSNES v2.0.
Nice to see another great SNES emulator, but my god, what the hell is with those system requirements?
Two reasons. The first is bsnes runs at ~15-20x the precision of existing emulators. The S-CPU at 21.4MHz, the S-SMP at 24MHz, and the S-DSP at 1.024MHz. Everyone else uses 3.58MHz, 1.024MHz and 32KHz, respectively. This is mostly by breaking opcodes down to their cycle levels and emulating their bus hold delays. I also emulate dozens of things nobody else does: DRAM refresh, DMA sync delays, IRQ / NMI edge cases, RTO's X=256 glitch, etc. Each tend to fix a bug in only one or two games, but at a significant cost to performance.
The second is that the code is written to be clean, rather than fast. It serves as a research reference for other emulators, and I often help backport the findings to ZSNES, Snes9X, SNESGT, etc. It also makes fixing emulation bugs infinitely easier. You can say what you will about the approach, but it worked for me. I managed 100% compatibility* with zero known bugs in 3 years, while that's evaded entire teams of people for 12+ years now. Lastly, this gives more time for emulating new stuff for the first time, like the recently added Super Game Boy support.
( * the three incompatible games all have special unemulated hardware inside the cartridges. We are in the process of trying to decap the chips to extract their program ROMs now.)
Now as a whole, the accuracy doesn't matter for 90% of games, and the best emulators have workarounds to fix bugs in the most popular games anyway. So you pay a very heavy price, but it really is all needed if you want full compatibility without any hacks. If you have the hardware, it's nice to know your favorite games will work, without any glitches, and will look, play and sound exactly like the original.
Lastly, I don't really consider an Athlon 2600+ to be all that extreme in this day and age. That chip has been out for almost a decade now and costs ~$30. Since we already have fast emulators for older hardware, why write another ZSNES clone? Nestopia needs 800MHz compared to 50MHz for NESticle. That would've been a big deal in 2001. Likewise, I don't think bsnes' requirements will matter as much in a few years from now.
Sorry for the long post.
It happens the same with the GBA. While you can emulate games for the GBA without the need for a BIOS file, if you have one, they'll run better \ more accurately (or in some cases, they run instead of not running).
It really just displays the logo and validates that the Nintendo copyrighted startup logo is present in the ROM. It was a trick to try and prevent third-party publishers from making their own releases. As soon as the Game Boy cartridge is started, the boot ROM is locked out completely and no longer needed. The GBA BIOS is quite different, it has tons of functions like various decompression routines, and without it you tend to have far less accurate timing and you may miss potential edge cases. Think of it as low-level emulation with the BIOS, and high-level emulation (in the vain of N64 graphics emulation) without it.
Good point. How about using Kirby for emphasis instead?
)>^_^)> The software is provided "as is" and the author <(^_^(<
)>^_^)> disclaims all warranties with regard to this <(^_^(<
)>^_^)> software including all implied warranties of <(^_^(<
)>^_^)> merchantability and fitness. <(^_^(<
Thank you! The Tragedy of the Commons is a perfect example of what happens when everyone or no one owns a resource.
The Tragedy of the Commons was about self-serving interests over the common good. I don't see how that parallels socialism.
The alternative to evenly dividing a scarce resource is to unevenly distribute it. So for example, with 100 gallons of milk, and 200 people -- where each person 'requires' exactly one gallon of milk a day -- would it be better to give 100 people a gallon, and let the others starve? Or find a way to make a half-gallon work for everyone?
Unless more harm will come by it (eg more than 100 people would die from having only a half-gallon of milk), I can't see the former being the correct choice. The solution to limited resources is not to create a privileged hierarchy, but to:
a) find a way to increase resource production
b) find an alternative resource
c) work toward reducing over-population
d) do all of the above
FWIW, I also don't believe socialism is a workable system with the way humanity is -- at least at our current level of evolution.