This kind of rampant lunacy only succeeds in countries where only the criminals (and fed gov police enforcement) have guns.
What the fuck has that got to do with anything? Unless you would resort martyrdom to stop this filter; in which case need to redo your cost benefit analysis:).
by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage.
This seems like a good sign to me. If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it. You can't really do this if you are writing a commercial product. Usually it just ends up sucking, and clogging up the retail channel with cruddy software. Better to die a deserved early death, then waste people's time and money.
It's also beneficial in the sense that if it were closed source and you ran out of energy halfway through, that code/time would be wasted. On the other hand a partially completed open source project can be picked up by someone else, or even just used as a reference.
I've tried Left4Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2 in Wine, and both of them run about 25-35 fps slower than the native Windows client. That simply doesn't cut it. It's putting good hardware to waste.
What you propose there is ludicrus. Native clients will always run faster than Wine. Not to mention that if a game is properly ported you don't have to worry about what distro you run. Go get a copy of Unreal Tournament, and install it on Ubuntuu 10.04. It installs just fine, and is 11 years old.
There is no need to make a "wine-compatible client" when OpenGL is just fine, will run better, and will be supported longer. Wine has gone through more fundamental changes than the basic structure of Linux. So while it might seem like a good short term idea to just make "wine compatible" games, what happens when the next wine version hits, and things aren't working properly anymore. Anyone who has used Wine enough will tell you that some older versions work better for certain games, etc.
Indeed, particularly when they already write OpenGL renderers for their PS3 and Wii versions, how much harder is it to do a Linux and an OS X version? I know that OpenGL ES is somewhat different to the Desktop version, and sound and networking libraries are platform specific, but how much extra work would really be needed?
He - David Barksdale, notorious harasser of vulnerable teens, I mean - shares a name with a more famous chap, who will remain at the top of Google searches. Unless enough people start referring to David Barksdale primarily in the context of the famous freaky violator of childrens' privacy. You know, David Barksdale. The freaky creepy weird fucked up emotionally stunted probably-not-a-pederast basket case fired by Google for stalking children. That guy.
It's on the first page, the fourth entry is about him.
Then they can stay the fuck out! How hard is this to understand?
Wow, you could say the same thing about every law your totalitarian Govt. comes up with. You don't like it, then get fuck out!
The simple fact is that you have arbitrarily decided that this chunk of dirt belongs to you. You have pissed in all the right places, and your gonna bite anyone who tries to share it with you.
I think John Howard in Australia might have beaten him to that title by a fair number of years. There's crackpot dictators and theocrats in all but name all over the place.
John Howard was probably worse than Bush, compare the treatment of the Indonesian "boat-people" by Australia, to the treatment of Mexican Illegal's in the US.
The question is: When does it become safe to say things again? When terrorists no longer target the United States? That could be a very long time indeed and at that point people may be accustomed to a government that operates on a "need to know" policy.
In terms of actual danger, terrorism in the US is at the bottom of the list, and it certainly does not justify the decrease in Govt. transparency (almost nothing would) that has occurred. I mean even here in New Zealand we got our own terrorism act, and exactly how much domestic terrorism have we had? None. It's just an excuse to make life easier for the Police and the Intelligence service, at the expense of justice.
What about Noam Chomsky, Philippe Van Parijs, Mike Gravel ect?. Left-Libertarian is not an oxymoron. Sure I find the far-Left Libertarian Communism and mutualism a bit hard to follow, but Georgism and Geolibertarianism have a fairly consistent center-Left ideology.
Yeah, or using their parliamentary credit card to purchase it. At least he didn't apologise for the porn, just for the misspending. One of the local body politicians got caught peeing on a bush, and since he didn't apologise for it, I'm considering voting for him purely on that basis:).
What I hate is when they turn on the waterworks etc.., it just highlights that they are manipulative worms, but of course we already knew that.
He can always use his imagination, after all, that's how they did it back in the good ol' days. Even child pornography is legal there, for now anyway...
Where do they get that? Plenty of Americans with functioning synapses say the same damn thing about the Iraq Clusterfuck, and Terry Jones *IS* a fucking troglodyte.
You are absolutely correct. This is the same mentality as those who say that opposing the building of the Ground Zero Mosque is "anti-Islamic". You can dislike something supported by some members of a group without being "anti" that group.
No, It's more like saying that those who are opposed to Al-Qaeda are anti-Islamic. Those who are opposed to what amounts to little more than a Muslim YMCA, are most likely anti-Islamic.
You start with multiple exposures, each one with a different exposure value, each of these images has a dynamic range that runs from 0-255 (one octet), these images are then stacked so that you get a floating point value image, the most common being an EXR file. Because these images are of a greater dynamic range than any monitor can display, they are either tone-mapped, where all the data is pushed back into an octet of depth, or a slice of the new image's depth is chosen.
(For example, all of my graphics are produced in 3D Studio and rendered as 2D sprites. Suppose Apple takes a dislike to Autodesk...?)
That's a bit of a silly example, because there would be no legal way to establish that they were created in Max.
I can think of a more reasonable one though, suppose all your graphics are rendered to SVG's, and you build a high speed SVG interpreter into your engine; oops you just ran interpreted code. Suppose your scene graph was made with DG nodes that are parsed from an XML file, that could also be considered an interpreted language (It would be Turing complete).
However, simplicity/efficiency is often the enemy of fairness. It certainly was in this case.
I mean, I can drastically simplify the American legal system if we toss the laws and move to a system of laws only I know. We'll get rid of all the lawyering and costly trials, and I'll just let the secret police know who they should quietly execute.
I would say just the opposite, it's the exceptions and complications that break the system:
You can say whatever you like, except if it's obscene or compromises national security.
A warrant is required to search your person or your vehicle, except if they suspect you are in possession of drugs or weapons.
In the eyes of the law; everyone is equal, except for the ruling class/the wealthy/a certain race/those born elsewhere.
No-one shall be held without trial indefinitely, except for suspected terrorists.
You shall not be spied on without a warrant, except on the Internet.
Anyone can be filmed in a public place, except for law enforcement.
Then again when I was at high school we had a relief teacher (history) who was convinced that the ancient Egyptians discovered New Zealand before the Maori. He was a Canadian chap who would demonstrate iaido with metre rules, and was taken aback when we weren't impressed by the fact that his shoes were "Nikeees".
I use Evince on windows, it's lightning fast compared to Acrobat or Foxit, and has the added advantage of just displaying a basic document; and nothing more.
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This kind of rampant lunacy only succeeds in countries where only the criminals (and fed gov police enforcement) have guns.
What the fuck has that got to do with anything? Unless you would resort martyrdom to stop this filter; in which case need to redo your cost benefit analysis :).
by far the largest part are abandoned, half-finished and/or complete garbage.
This seems like a good sign to me. If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it. You can't really do this if you are writing a commercial product. Usually it just ends up sucking, and clogging up the retail channel with cruddy software. Better to die a deserved early death, then waste people's time and money.
It's also beneficial in the sense that if it were closed source and you ran out of energy halfway through, that code/time would be wasted. On the other hand a partially completed open source project can be picked up by someone else, or even just used as a reference.
In that case; there is a fifty percent chance that septillionth digit is 1.
I've tried Left4Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2 in Wine, and both of them run about 25-35 fps slower than the native Windows client. That simply doesn't cut it. It's putting good hardware to waste.
What you propose there is ludicrus. Native clients will always run faster than Wine. Not to mention that if a game is properly ported you don't have to worry about what distro you run. Go get a copy of Unreal Tournament, and install it on Ubuntuu 10.04. It installs just fine, and is 11 years old.
There is no need to make a "wine-compatible client" when OpenGL is just fine, will run better, and will be supported longer. Wine has gone through more fundamental changes than the basic structure of Linux. So while it might seem like a good short term idea to just make "wine compatible" games, what happens when the next wine version hits, and things aren't working properly anymore. Anyone who has used Wine enough will tell you that some older versions work better for certain games, etc.
Indeed, particularly when they already write OpenGL renderers for their PS3 and Wii versions, how much harder is it to do a Linux and an OS X version? I know that OpenGL ES is somewhat different to the Desktop version, and sound and networking libraries are platform specific, but how much extra work would really be needed?
He - David Barksdale, notorious harasser of vulnerable teens, I mean - shares a name with a more famous chap, who will remain at the top of Google searches. Unless enough people start referring to David Barksdale primarily in the context of the famous freaky violator of childrens' privacy. You know, David Barksdale. The freaky creepy weird fucked up emotionally stunted probably-not-a-pederast basket case fired by Google for stalking children. That guy.
It's on the first page, the fourth entry is about him.
Nor anonymising headgear.
Actually, it's not hyphenated.
Then they can stay the fuck out! How hard is this to understand?
Wow, you could say the same thing about every law your totalitarian Govt. comes up with. You don't like it, then get fuck out!
The simple fact is that you have arbitrarily decided that this chunk of dirt belongs to you. You have pissed in all the right places, and your gonna bite anyone who tries to share it with you.
I think John Howard in Australia might have beaten him to that title by a fair number of years. There's crackpot dictators and theocrats in all but name all over the place.
John Howard was probably worse than Bush, compare the treatment of the Indonesian "boat-people" by Australia, to the treatment of Mexican Illegal's in the US.
And Coca-Cola, although I somewhat doubt that a revolting orange flavoured soft drink would have helped their war effort.
It's really more of an argument for limited, direct democracy.
The question is: When does it become safe to say things again? When terrorists no longer target the United States? That could be a very long time indeed and at that point people may be accustomed to a government that operates on a "need to know" policy.
In terms of actual danger, terrorism in the US is at the bottom of the list, and it certainly does not justify the decrease in Govt. transparency (almost nothing would) that has occurred. I mean even here in New Zealand we got our own terrorism act, and exactly how much domestic terrorism have we had? None. It's just an excuse to make life easier for the Police and the Intelligence service, at the expense of justice.
What about Noam Chomsky, Philippe Van Parijs, Mike Gravel ect?. Left-Libertarian is not an oxymoron.
Sure I find the far-Left Libertarian Communism and mutualism a bit hard to follow, but Georgism and Geolibertarianism have a fairly consistent center-Left ideology.
There's always a choice, it's just looks like those on the right have been tactical voting.
Yeah, or using their parliamentary credit card to purchase it. At least he didn't apologise for the porn, just for the misspending. One of the local body politicians got caught peeing on a bush, and since he didn't apologise for it, I'm considering voting for him purely on that basis :).
What I hate is when they turn on the waterworks etc.., it just highlights that they are manipulative worms, but of course we already knew that.
He can always use his imagination, after all, that's how they did it back in the good ol' days. Even child pornography is legal there, for now anyway...
I know this isn't you, but some people care about getting shit done and have no interest in dicking around in the guts of their software.
For most tasks, that includes me, and I've been a programmer since childhood.
It's not an issue of "digging around the guts", it's simply that the software is more trustworthy, because the development process is transparent.
Illegal immigration, by definition, selects for people who are willing to break US laws.
Which I might note, is almost everyone. If a law is unjust, it will be broken.
Where do they get that? Plenty of Americans with functioning synapses say the same damn thing about the Iraq Clusterfuck, and Terry Jones *IS* a fucking troglodyte.
You are absolutely correct. This is the same mentality as those who say that opposing the building of the Ground Zero Mosque is "anti-Islamic". You can dislike something supported by some members of a group without being "anti" that group.
No, It's more like saying that those who are opposed to Al-Qaeda are anti-Islamic. Those who are opposed to what amounts to little more than a Muslim YMCA, are most likely anti-Islamic.
You start with multiple exposures, each one with a different exposure value, each of these images has a dynamic range that runs from 0-255 (one octet), these images are then stacked so that you get a floating point value image, the most common being an EXR file. Because these images are of a greater dynamic range than any monitor can display, they are either tone-mapped, where all the data is pushed back into an octet of depth, or a slice of the new image's depth is chosen.
I can't see why they don't just build a Visual Basic GUI that downloads the images as they are needed.
(For example, all of my graphics are produced in 3D Studio and rendered as 2D sprites. Suppose Apple takes a dislike to Autodesk...?)
That's a bit of a silly example, because there would be no legal way to establish that they were created in Max.
I can think of a more reasonable one though, suppose all your graphics are rendered to SVG's, and you build a high speed SVG interpreter into your engine; oops you just ran interpreted code.
Suppose your scene graph was made with DG nodes that are parsed from an XML file, that could also be considered an interpreted language (It would be Turing complete).
However, simplicity/efficiency is often the enemy of fairness. It certainly was in this case.
I mean, I can drastically simplify the American legal system if we toss the laws and move to a system of laws only I know. We'll get rid of all the lawyering and costly trials, and I'll just let the secret police know who they should quietly execute.
I would say just the opposite, it's the exceptions and complications that break the system:
Holy fuck, and he's a science teacher too.
Then again when I was at high school we had a relief teacher (history) who was convinced that the ancient Egyptians discovered New Zealand before the Maori. He was a Canadian chap who would demonstrate iaido with metre rules, and was taken aback when we weren't impressed by the fact that his shoes were "Nikeees".
I use Evince on windows, it's lightning fast compared to Acrobat or Foxit, and has the added advantage of just displaying a basic document; and nothing more.