The truth is that most people don't care. Most people are reasonably happy. If things were unacceptable, people would revolt. That hasn't happened in statistically large numbers in this country since the American Civil War.
American government has become a stable mediocrity. This is somewhat saddening considering the dramatic idealism of the founding fathers. Until the special corporate financial interests can be taken out of the political process, dramatic idealism in our leadership will not reappear.
Nikon and Canon also both support their own RAW format encodings. The complete imager readout is saved, no processing is done when in RAW mode. White balance can be adjusted afterwards in Photoshop.
You know the old saying: "If it's too good to be true, it probably is." In other words, that iMac was probably stolen.
Have you tried registering it? Maybe Apple will tell you that unit is missing from someone's inventory or was already registered to a customer other than the person you bought it from.
Of course, if you're using a Sun keyboard, you have the Esc to the left of the 1 (just above Tab), so it isn't nearly as difficult to reach as it is on a normal PC keyboard.
The register screen isn't always visible to the customers. And the customers don't always pay attention. The customer expects to pay $100 and does in fact pay $100 and receives the goods he was sold. The cashier, however, logs a sale in the machine for $50 and pockets the difference.
On a related note, have you noticed that every store now checks receipts on your way out? Aparrantly it's not because they think you're trying to steal something, it's because the cashiers are ripping them off. The cashiers will charge you $100, and you'll pay $100, but they'll give you a receipt for $50 in merchandise. Then, when you're gone, they pocket $50 from the register. Their register still has the amount of money in it that it should at the end of the day, but their system says they sold $50 worth of merchandise instead of the $100 that they sent out the door.
Aparrantly the cashiers won't do the scam as long as there are people at the doors checking reciepts. And that's why they get so upset if you blow past the receipt-checkers. Retail security is more about protecting the store from corrupt employees than it is protecting it from shoplifters. Aparrantly it's 10 times worse for companies like movie theaters where almost all of the business is in cash.
It is possible to do a partial boycott, you know? Simply don't purchase/consume as much as you might otherwise. Don't go to as many movies as you used to. Don't buy as many DVD's as you might want to if you agreed with the MPAA's stance against playing discs on unlicensed players. I already completely stopped buying new music because I decided it was a waste of money.
Just wear your "Got DeCSS" T-shirt when you go to Best Buy to buy the Two Towers DVD in a few months. The irony will make people's heads explode.
Just because you can't find it at WalMart or Costco doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. When Americans are so damned America-centric it's disgusting. There is a world that exists outside America, you know. And many Americans (especially the mainstream Disney crowd) always seem to try to convert everything foreign into an American story. The butchering of "Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa" into "Warriors of the Wind" was an horrid attack on an amazing creative work to turn it into a cheap dumb American action cartoon for kids in order to make a quick buck. It's disgusting what Americans will try if they think they can get away with it. It is no wonder that Americans get no respect from other countries, except for the fear of being invaded.
Disney is merely the publisher for Spirited Away. It was produced by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli in Japan. Aparrantly though, Disney has purchased the rights to distribute (or not distribute) all of the Studio Ghibli films in North America. Similarly, Monsters Inc was produced by Pixar, but is published and distributed by Disney under a deal the two companies have. To say that Disney is responsible is giving them far too much credit. At least in the case of Spirited Away, it would still exist without Disney; the financing simply would have been by a company with a different name. Perhaps the U.S. distribution would have been more difficult, but it still would have been produced in Japan, as all the other Studio Ghibli films were without the help of Disney.
If you drive over pedestrians and blow up helicopters and hold up stores and kill and run from the police, the police will come out with SWAT teams and FBI and more helicopters with machine guns and they will eventually kill you or arrest you. I always thought that that was a realistic aspect of the game, since that is approximately what would happen if you tried those things in reality.
What GTA3 did that was interesting was it combined several genres of gaming into one. It is in many ways a chase game (i.e., do something that is required by the plot, then be chased by the "bad guys"). I am thinking really basic action game here, like Ms. Pacman. You run around the maze being chased by the "ghosts". Get all the dots and you win. There are also various elements of adventure gaming, at least in that there is a plot which develops over time as a result of accomplishing various missions. There aren't really any puzzles to solve, except in coming up with a strategy with which to attempt the missions.
The reason you appear at a police station or hospital when you are arrested or get killed is exactly because it is a game. It doesn't matter if they have you appear at the hospital or if you were given a "Game Over" screen. The effect is the same in that most people will still reload from a saved game anyway when they die because they lose all their weapons. There's nothing less realistic than that.
Anyway, they created an immersive world that had rules. You could break the rules (hit a cop car, run over too many pedestrians, shoot random people, etc), and you would get a wanted level. I liked the fact that you could break the rules and you would face the consequences. It is quite different from the many "role playing" games where the game program simply won't allow you to kill the people of the village, only the monsters in the forest. Your sword swings right through those villagers without making a scratch. That's not realistic either.
At least GTA's rules are consistant.
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I checked over at the NWN Forums on the Bioware site and one of the Bioware guys posted a reply to this information. Aparrantly he was very excited about this news.
Funny, but I think you're missing the point. The class was a computer architecture class. They designed a 16-bit microcomputer core with its own instruction set. They implemented that design in VHDL, which is synthesized onto a programmable chip (either a CPLD or an FPGA). The rest of their exercise is just to make it do something interesting besides add a bunch of numbers to verify that it works.
Reinventing the wheel is something you do quite often in school. Only by reinventing something do you truely realize both how things work and why they are built they way they are.
If you have any brains, when someone from law enforcement or the media asks you if you're a hacker you say "no"; you don't ask if they mean good hacker or bad hacker.
Los Angeles sucks. Here, it's more like $1000 for a one-room "studio"/"bachelor's" apartment. A full one-bedroom apartment (with a small living room) is more like $1250. And that's for a somewhat scummy apartment with neighbors who cook speed in their kitchens. A nice two-bedroom can easily be $2000.
Living in a dorm and sharing a room for $600 per month, but including food and utilities, is kind of a good deal in a way. If you get your own single dorm room, you only pay about $100 more. But essentially you have a 1 in 1000 chance of getting that lucky.
It seems like you could pretty easily ditch the laptop and set up a mini-ITX motherboard (like the VIA Epia) and an 802.11 card or USB adapter. Then you could run VNC on your desktop to see what the camera sees and to set up the software.
I don't know how much Matrox helped with getting the Linux/XFree86/GDI drivers written. I'm fairly sure it was mostly thanks to hackers who reverse engineered the Windows drivers.
Fenix Down was the name of the item which would revive a character from the dead in the old Final Fantasy games. It was an incorrect reverse transliteration. Phoenix is spelled phonetically in Japanese, but to go backwards, if you don't know how to spell it, you would write "fenix", or maybe "fenikksu". They used fenix in the English versions of the games. No one I knew had any idea what a "fenix" was.
It is too bad the moderators didn't realize your good sense of humor. To others who didn't realize it, the moderators changed several misspellings in the post, but not the glaring "line of site" error. I guess they have a spell checker, but no automatic tool for proper English usage.
Aparrantly it was also Nintendo who insisted that Final Fantasy 4 be released as Final Fantasy 2 in the U.S. (and 6 as FF3). Presumably this is because they skipped the old NES releases of 2 and 3 in the U.S. But apparrantly Nintendo didn't think that Americans could understand non-sequential game numberings? At least when they went and re-released those games for Playstation, they used the original numbers. It caused more confusion than simply skipping 2 and 3 would have done.
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The truth is that most people don't care. Most people are reasonably happy. If things were unacceptable, people would revolt. That hasn't happened in statistically large numbers in this country since the American Civil War.
American government has become a stable mediocrity. This is somewhat saddening considering the dramatic idealism of the founding fathers. Until the special corporate financial interests can be taken out of the political process, dramatic idealism in our leadership will not reappear.
Reality is in much higher resolution than any computer game.
Nikon and Canon also both support their own RAW format encodings. The complete imager readout is saved, no processing is done when in RAW mode. White balance can be adjusted afterwards in Photoshop.
You know the old saying: "If it's too good to be true, it probably is." In other words, that iMac was probably stolen.
Have you tried registering it? Maybe Apple will tell you that unit is missing from someone's inventory or was already registered to a customer other than the person you bought it from.
Of course, if you're using a Sun keyboard, you have the Esc to the left of the 1 (just above Tab), so it isn't nearly as difficult to reach as it is on a normal PC keyboard.
The register screen isn't always visible to the customers. And the customers don't always pay attention. The customer expects to pay $100 and does in fact pay $100 and receives the goods he was sold. The cashier, however, logs a sale in the machine for $50 and pockets the difference.
Wow. Cash back without a receipt? That's amazing.
On a related note, have you noticed that every store now checks receipts on your way out? Aparrantly it's not because they think you're trying to steal something, it's because the cashiers are ripping them off. The cashiers will charge you $100, and you'll pay $100, but they'll give you a receipt for $50 in merchandise. Then, when you're gone, they pocket $50 from the register. Their register still has the amount of money in it that it should at the end of the day, but their system says they sold $50 worth of merchandise instead of the $100 that they sent out the door.
Aparrantly the cashiers won't do the scam as long as there are people at the doors checking reciepts. And that's why they get so upset if you blow past the receipt-checkers. Retail security is more about protecting the store from corrupt employees than it is protecting it from shoplifters. Aparrantly it's 10 times worse for companies like movie theaters where almost all of the business is in cash.
It is possible to do a partial boycott, you know? Simply don't purchase/consume as much as you might otherwise. Don't go to as many movies as you used to. Don't buy as many DVD's as you might want to if you agreed with the MPAA's stance against playing discs on unlicensed players. I already completely stopped buying new music because I decided it was a waste of money.
Just wear your "Got DeCSS" T-shirt when you go to Best Buy to buy the Two Towers DVD in a few months. The irony will make people's heads explode.
Hipocracy is a necessity.
Just because you can't find it at WalMart or Costco doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. When Americans are so damned America-centric it's disgusting. There is a world that exists outside America, you know. And many Americans (especially the mainstream Disney crowd) always seem to try to convert everything foreign into an American story. The butchering of "Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa" into "Warriors of the Wind" was an horrid attack on an amazing creative work to turn it into a cheap dumb American action cartoon for kids in order to make a quick buck. It's disgusting what Americans will try if they think they can get away with it. It is no wonder that Americans get no respect from other countries, except for the fear of being invaded.
By the way, I am an American.
Disney is merely the publisher for Spirited Away. It was produced by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli in Japan. Aparrantly though, Disney has purchased the rights to distribute (or not distribute) all of the Studio Ghibli films in North America. Similarly, Monsters Inc was produced by Pixar, but is published and distributed by Disney under a deal the two companies have. To say that Disney is responsible is giving them far too much credit. At least in the case of Spirited Away, it would still exist without Disney; the financing simply would have been by a company with a different name. Perhaps the U.S. distribution would have been more difficult, but it still would have been produced in Japan, as all the other Studio Ghibli films were without the help of Disney.
If you drive over pedestrians and blow up helicopters and hold up stores and kill and run from the police, the police will come out with SWAT teams and FBI and more helicopters with machine guns and they will eventually kill you or arrest you. I always thought that that was a realistic aspect of the game, since that is approximately what would happen if you tried those things in reality.
What GTA3 did that was interesting was it combined several genres of gaming into one. It is in many ways a chase game (i.e., do something that is required by the plot, then be chased by the "bad guys"). I am thinking really basic action game here, like Ms. Pacman. You run around the maze being chased by the "ghosts". Get all the dots and you win. There are also various elements of adventure gaming, at least in that there is a plot which develops over time as a result of accomplishing various missions. There aren't really any puzzles to solve, except in coming up with a strategy with which to attempt the missions.
The reason you appear at a police station or hospital when you are arrested or get killed is exactly because it is a game. It doesn't matter if they have you appear at the hospital or if you were given a "Game Over" screen. The effect is the same in that most people will still reload from a saved game anyway when they die because they lose all their weapons. There's nothing less realistic than that.
Anyway, they created an immersive world that had rules. You could break the rules (hit a cop car, run over too many pedestrians, shoot random people, etc), and you would get a wanted level. I liked the fact that you could break the rules and you would face the consequences. It is quite different from the many "role playing" games where the game program simply won't allow you to kill the people of the village, only the monsters in the forest. Your sword swings right through those villagers without making a scratch. That's not realistic either.
At least GTA's rules are consistant.
Well, that would make dating easier...
I checked over at the NWN Forums on the Bioware site and one of the Bioware guys posted a reply to this information. Aparrantly he was very excited about this news.
Wow. If this is true, I would consider it absolute proof that Bioware is lying about the Linux port.
Funny, but I think you're missing the point. The class was a computer architecture class. They designed a 16-bit microcomputer core with its own instruction set. They implemented that design in VHDL, which is synthesized onto a programmable chip (either a CPLD or an FPGA). The rest of their exercise is just to make it do something interesting besides add a bunch of numbers to verify that it works.
Reinventing the wheel is something you do quite often in school. Only by reinventing something do you truely realize both how things work and why they are built they way they are.
And the only good product Rational has ever had, Purify, has a better open source equivalent already.
What is this better open source equivalent which you refer to?
If you have any brains, when someone from law enforcement or the media asks you if you're a hacker you say "no"; you don't ask if they mean good hacker or bad hacker.
Los Angeles sucks. Here, it's more like $1000 for a one-room "studio"/"bachelor's" apartment. A full one-bedroom apartment (with a small living room) is more like $1250. And that's for a somewhat scummy apartment with neighbors who cook speed in their kitchens. A nice two-bedroom can easily be $2000.
Living in a dorm and sharing a room for $600 per month, but including food and utilities, is kind of a good deal in a way. If you get your own single dorm room, you only pay about $100 more. But essentially you have a 1 in 1000 chance of getting that lucky.
What kind of city are you talking about?
Presumably the robot is powered by batteries.
It seems like you could pretty easily ditch the laptop and set up a mini-ITX motherboard (like the VIA Epia) and an 802.11 card or USB adapter. Then you could run VNC on your desktop to see what the camera sees and to set up the software.
I don't know how much Matrox helped with getting the Linux/XFree86/GDI drivers written. I'm fairly sure it was mostly thanks to hackers who reverse engineered the Windows drivers.
Fenix Down was the name of the item which would revive a character from the dead in the old Final Fantasy games. It was an incorrect reverse transliteration. Phoenix is spelled phonetically in Japanese, but to go backwards, if you don't know how to spell it, you would write "fenix", or maybe "fenikksu".
They used fenix in the English versions of the games. No one I knew had any idea what a "fenix" was.
It is too bad the moderators didn't realize your good sense of humor. To others who didn't realize it, the moderators changed several misspellings in the post, but not the glaring "line of site" error. I guess they have a spell checker, but no automatic tool for proper English usage.
Aparrantly it was also Nintendo who insisted that Final Fantasy 4 be released as Final Fantasy 2 in the U.S. (and 6 as FF3). Presumably this is because they skipped the old NES releases of 2 and 3 in the U.S. But apparrantly Nintendo didn't think that Americans could understand non-sequential game numberings? At least when they went and re-released those games for Playstation, they used the original numbers. It caused more confusion than simply skipping 2 and 3 would have done.