We don't have any proof that developers don't want PhysX. What we have is spokes person from company A saying that no one wants company B's technology. There are no scientifically obtained statistics only one guy's - a competitor - opinion.
Nor did the article state *why* it may be unwanted, or any specific why-nots for using PhysX
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Shoot: Safari, IE, and FF block nearly all the ads I encounter in their default configurations. Kinda a non-issue these days.
We are sicker than ever and prevalence of all major illnesses are growing
Here is just some scientific data:More premature babies surviving than ever. Over half of the premature babies that survived experienced serious health problems. A UK study of premature births, called EPICure, found children born very early often had learning difficulties as well as physical problems such as cerebral palsy, blindness or deafness. Researchers at the Oxford Centre for Health Economics estimate the cost of an average preterm baby is one and a half times more than a baby born full term. Professor Neil Marlow, who has been running the EPICure studies, said: "Even with better survival rates, the rate of morbidity, meaning problems that the babies have, is still very high.
Data from 10 regional registries of birth defects show that the incidence of Down syndrome among U.S. children increased by 31 percent between 1979 and 2003, from 9.0 to 11.8 per 100,000 live births.
Recent headlines from China are revealing a growing public health crisis: birth defects are up 40% since 2001
According to the March of Dimes, one in 33 babies born in the US have a birth defect -- about twice as many as China.
In the US, the total number of cancer cases has increased since cancer statistics have been kept. 12,769 deaths in 1900 (3% of total deaths), 158,335 cancer deaths on 1940 (11,3% of deaths), 553,768 in 2001 (23 of deaths)
Alzheimer's: The annual number of incident cases is expected to more than double by the midpoint of the twenty-first century: from 377,000 (95% confidence interval = 159,000-595,000) in 1995 to 959,000 (95% confidence interval = 140,000-1,778,000) in 2050. The proportion of new onset casess who are age 85 or older will increase from 40% in 1995 to 62% in 2050 when the youngest of the baby boomers will attain that age
Parkinson's disease is a growing national health problem. There are over 20 new cases diagnosed per 100,000 people annually ( Bernstein, 1995b). Most victims are over 40 years old, although this disease has a form that can strike teenagers. Incidence of PD increase with the increase of longevity.
Multiple Sclerosis: M.S. affects 400,000 in the United States and 2 and half million people around the world. The overall prevalence estimate was 85/100,000 population, or approximately 211,000 (±20,000) persons. A 50% increase was observed in the number of women reporting MS for 1991 through 1994 vs 1982 through 1986. The observed trend in higher numbers of self-reported MS among women is consistent with recent observations of higher prevalence and incidence.
As for intellectually, American grades are lower than ever.
Hoover Institution, Stanford University: "A science and math, American students trail those in other advanced democracies. The longer students are in school, the worse things get. Among fourth graders, U.S. students rank high on the International Test of Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Despite this head start, by eighth grade, American adolescents have slipped to the midpoint on the TIMSS; by age 17, their scores trail all but those in a few developing countries.
The United States is living on its past. Among the oldest group in the study (those aged 56–65), U.S. prose skills rose to second place. For those attending school in the 1950s, SAT scores reached an all-time high.
As the years go by, the United States slips down the list. Americans educated in the sixties captured a Bronze Medal in literacy, those schooled in the seventies got 5th place in the race. But those schooled in the nineties ranked 14th.
Yes - dictating diet: outlawing trans-fats, banning peanuts, advocating (just this morning) that children do not eat anything brought from home, banning bake sales, banning smoking, Sin taxes on alcohol, proposed sin taxes on soda pop, the proposed ban on high fructose corn syrup...
Practically everything the FDA makes a ruling on controls our diet.
Not since FDR, at least. Now we are filling the population with people with genetic illnesses - saving any person we can regardless how their eventual reproduction will just make us weaker as a species. Both physically and intellectually. In addition, government is now dictating diet regardless of what an individual needs/wants, and to accommodate for those with allergies or other health problems. Brave New World has transformed from a fictional warning to future generations to a 'how to" manual...
Its also the same problem with Windows media devices - especially those with DRM. People like to ridicule Apple for their draconian and sometimes off the wall decisions, but very few people are having compatibility and upgrade problems. One app store, one OS to rule them all.
I wonder if Slashdot would remove links to porn sites. I doubt it. They have the same moral obligations as Apple. I am tempted to post a link here, but fear that even if I make my point, no one would know because Slashdot deleted it.
Yes the Apple app store has double standards. Yes, some of these denials seems unnecessary. But, they are also the result of being in the public view - and constant scrutiny.
Few of these articles, especially on banning of sexually explicit apps, consider the situation from Apple's point of view. Which is: iPhones, iTouches, iPods and iPads are marketed to people under the age of 18 and 21. Apple products are family products and need to abide by general morality guidelines if they are to be accepted in to homes, schools, and businesses.
Other topics, such as apps that are redundant to the Apple or their partner's apps, challenge Apples *successful* business strategy.
Undeniably, the iPad changes the situation from a phone with apps to mini-computer with a phone, yet still apps cannot interfere with the phone device or the partnered service plan.
Many people recoil and shout "CENSORSHIP!" in their blogs, but I wonder if they really understand the role Apple fills. What happens when something bad happens to a device or to the user? The responsibility will fall on Apple's shoulders - will hurt Apple's bottom line. Someone in the equation has to be responsible and, frankly, I don't expect that from anyone under 30.
No, I am not trolling. Just look at the post above and the complete utter lack of logic, "It's sure a good thing for those worried parents that they don't have any kind of web browser on there." Apple's app store doesn't sell internet content. Apple is not accountable for what's on the internet. Its only accountable for what it sells via the store and the content it points us too. Wobbly boobs apps appeal directly to children.
Yes, Apple's app approval process needs to be more benign. No, Apple shouldn't allow all and any app. Buy Android if you need to have sex apps with you at all times...
LOL - OK so Apple is blocking people for "security risk" when the risk is to the user, not Apple? That's absurd. The entire internet should be blocked if we embrace that logic.
I am not sure what you hope to achieve online that you haven't already lost offline.
We are tracked by an seemingly innumerable amount of sources: credit history, social security company, banks, credit card usage, stores, cell phone relationship to cell towers, land line and cell calling records, etc - I've have even read stories that cash can be tracked via the chain of bank who issued it to the person who spends or transfers it. And what about private and public security cams? Practically every store you enter into tracks you at least by a method of tracking IP addresses.
What the hell does that have to do with this situation? A private business has the right to refuse service to anyone as long as it is not institutionalized racism, sexism, ageism, or to the disabled.
Whats the difference? Whats the difference between your hat and a bucket!? You can put them both over your head - except one blinds you.
Chinese are blocking rights of free speech, the right to organize, and and the right collaborate. Obtaining and using entertainment media that someone else created and owns - without their permission - is theft.
So what if it is popular!? We block Nazi sites and other sites we deem are culturally or economically hazardous. Bottom line is that - today - distributing files your don't have permission to access or share is illegal. This is not an argument whether or not copyright laws are just or unjust. Simply, this is blocking illegal content. It is not the same as China censoring sites the government approve of. (I am sure the US gov is blocking sites, too.)
I think the bigger argument against blocking Pirate Bay is that they are an index, not a a distributor.
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If someone were to raid your desk or home, they'd probably take the change too. Oops
Maybe they are consulting the Zodiac astrology?
We don't have any proof that developers don't want PhysX. What we have is spokes person from company A saying that no one wants company B's technology. There are no scientifically obtained statistics only one guy's - a competitor - opinion.
Nor did the article state *why* it may be unwanted, or any specific why-nots for using PhysX
Shoot: Safari, IE, and FF block nearly all the ads I encounter in their default configurations. Kinda a non-issue these days.
We are sicker than ever and prevalence of all major illnesses are growing
Here is just some scientific data:More premature babies surviving than ever. Over half of the premature babies that survived experienced serious health problems. A UK study of premature births, called EPICure, found children born very early often had learning difficulties as well as physical problems such as cerebral palsy, blindness or deafness. Researchers at the Oxford Centre for Health Economics estimate the cost of an average preterm baby is one and a half times more than a baby born full term. Professor Neil Marlow, who has been running the EPICure studies, said: "Even with better survival rates, the rate of morbidity, meaning problems that the babies have, is still very high.
Data from 10 regional registries of birth defects show that the incidence of Down syndrome among U.S. children increased by 31 percent between 1979 and 2003, from 9.0 to 11.8 per 100,000 live births.
Recent headlines from China are revealing a growing public health crisis: birth defects are up 40% since 2001
According to the March of Dimes, one in 33 babies born in the US have a birth defect -- about twice as many as China.
In the US, the total number of cancer cases has increased since cancer statistics have been kept. 12,769 deaths in 1900 (3% of total deaths), 158,335 cancer deaths on 1940 (11,3% of deaths), 553,768 in 2001 (23 of deaths)
Alzheimer's: The annual number of incident cases is expected to more than double by the midpoint of the twenty-first century: from 377,000 (95% confidence interval = 159,000-595,000) in 1995 to 959,000 (95% confidence interval = 140,000-1,778,000) in 2050. The proportion of new onset casess who are age 85 or older will increase from 40% in 1995 to 62% in 2050 when the youngest of the baby boomers will attain that age
Parkinson's disease is a growing national health problem. There are over 20 new cases diagnosed per 100,000 people annually ( Bernstein, 1995b). Most victims are over 40 years
old, although this disease has a form that can strike teenagers. Incidence of PD increase with the increase of longevity.
Multiple Sclerosis: M.S. affects 400,000 in the United States and 2 and half million people around the world. The overall prevalence estimate was 85/100,000 population, or approximately 211,000 (±20,000) persons. A 50% increase was observed in the number of women reporting MS for 1991 through 1994 vs 1982 through 1986. The observed trend in higher numbers of self-reported MS among women is consistent with recent observations of higher prevalence and incidence.
Prevalence of Genetic Conditions / Birth Defects
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/prof/prevalnc.html
As for intellectually, American grades are lower than ever.
Hoover Institution, Stanford University: "A science and math, American students trail those in other advanced democracies. The longer students are in school, the worse things get. Among fourth graders, U.S. students rank high on the International Test of Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Despite this head start, by eighth grade, American adolescents have slipped to the midpoint on the TIMSS; by age 17, their scores trail all but those in a few developing countries.
The United States is living on its past. Among the oldest group in the study (those aged 56–65), U.S. prose skills rose to second place. For those attending school in the 1950s, SAT scores reached an all-time high.
As the years go by, the United States slips down the list. Americans educated in the sixties captured a Bronze Medal in literacy, those schooled in the seventies got 5th place in the race. But those schooled in the nineties ranked 14th.
Yes - dictating diet: outlawing trans-fats, banning peanuts, advocating (just this morning) that children do not eat anything brought from home, banning bake sales, banning smoking, Sin taxes on alcohol, proposed sin taxes on soda pop, the proposed ban on high fructose corn syrup ...
Practically everything the FDA makes a ruling on controls our diet.
Care to reply to anything I said specifically - with something specific? Maybe some data?
Not since FDR, at least. Now we are filling the population with people with genetic illnesses - saving any person we can regardless how their eventual reproduction will just make us weaker as a species. Both physically and intellectually. In addition, government is now dictating diet regardless of what an individual needs/wants, and to accommodate for those with allergies or other health problems. Brave New World has transformed from a fictional warning to future generations to a 'how to" manual...
After 30+ years of improving impact and collision safety by the US and world auto industry, how much of that is lost in these new designs?
Its also the same problem with Windows media devices - especially those with DRM. People like to ridicule Apple for their draconian and sometimes off the wall decisions, but very few people are having compatibility and upgrade problems. One app store, one OS to rule them all.
I wonder if Slashdot would remove links to porn sites. I doubt it. They have the same moral obligations as Apple. I am tempted to post a link here, but fear that even if I make my point, no one would know because Slashdot deleted it.
Yes the Apple app store has double standards. Yes, some of these denials seems unnecessary. But, they are also the result of being in the public view - and constant scrutiny.
Few of these articles, especially on banning of sexually explicit apps, consider the situation from Apple's point of view. Which is: iPhones, iTouches, iPods and iPads are marketed to people under the age of 18 and 21. Apple products are family products and need to abide by general morality guidelines if they are to be accepted in to homes, schools, and businesses.
Other topics, such as apps that are redundant to the Apple or their partner's apps, challenge Apples *successful* business strategy.
Undeniably, the iPad changes the situation from a phone with apps to mini-computer with a phone, yet still apps cannot interfere with the phone device or the partnered service plan.
Many people recoil and shout "CENSORSHIP!" in their blogs, but I wonder if they really understand the role Apple fills. What happens when something bad happens to a device or to the user? The responsibility will fall on Apple's shoulders - will hurt Apple's bottom line. Someone in the equation has to be responsible and, frankly, I don't expect that from anyone under 30.
No, I am not trolling. Just look at the post above and the complete utter lack of logic, "It's sure a good thing for those worried parents that they don't have any kind of web browser on there." Apple's app store doesn't sell internet content. Apple is not accountable for what's on the internet. Its only accountable for what it sells via the store and the content it points us too. Wobbly boobs apps appeal directly to children.
Yes, Apple's app approval process needs to be more benign. No, Apple shouldn't allow all and any app. Buy Android if you need to have sex apps with you at all times...
It all depends on what Steve Jobs likes.
I am not sure you are replying to the correct /. post
LOL - you post of list of examples when another's rights are infringed on *and then you accuse _me_ of missing the point!
LOL - OK so Apple is blocking people for "security risk" when the risk is to the user, not Apple? That's absurd. The entire internet should be blocked if we embrace that logic.
I am not sure what you hope to achieve online that you haven't already lost offline.
We are tracked by an seemingly innumerable amount of sources: credit history, social security company, banks, credit card usage, stores, cell phone relationship to cell towers, land line and cell calling records, etc - I've have even read stories that cash can be tracked via the chain of bank who issued it to the person who spends or transfers it. And what about private and public security cams? Practically every store you enter into tracks you at least by a method of tracking IP addresses.
Although, I am curious what a security risks a jail broken phone poses in a download only app/community.
What the hell does that have to do with this situation? A private business has the right to refuse service to anyone as long as it is not institutionalized racism, sexism, ageism, or to the disabled.
Or even, what's this thing called "leftover chocolate?"
... Or don't allow them to track you. In this case use a pay as you go phone or steal someone else's. And take the battery out when not in use.
"And, copyright infringement is no more theft than rape is murder."
Yes, but all three are a crime.
Freedom of speech is not absolute. In the US, SCOTUS has ruled that there are times when you don't get to say what you want...
I am not sure how comparing China to Germany pertains to the blocking of Pirate Bay, an entertainment index site (mostly).
Whats the difference? Whats the difference between your hat and a bucket!? You can put them both over your head - except one blinds you.
Chinese are blocking rights of free speech, the right to organize, and and the right collaborate. Obtaining and using entertainment media that someone else created and owns - without their permission - is theft.
Stay away from buckets.
So what if it is popular!? We block Nazi sites and other sites we deem are culturally or economically hazardous. Bottom line is that - today - distributing files your don't have permission to access or share is illegal. This is not an argument whether or not copyright laws are just or unjust. Simply, this is blocking illegal content. It is not the same as China censoring sites the government approve of. (I am sure the US gov is blocking sites, too.)
I think the bigger argument against blocking Pirate Bay is that they are an index, not a a distributor.