It uses the XRender extentions which uses X to do the AA work.
If you'd have bothered to read about this at all you'd realize that, yes, X does do sub-pixel AA if you want it to.
I never said that they wouldn't ever even think about playing those games.
I just said that they would be less likely to want to, and if they knew that you were open about the issue, they would be more likely to want to talk to you about it rather than do it behind your back without your knowledge.
What I remember is being told not to do somethings with no reason at all as to why I shouldn't, so I ended up doing them just to figure out what was wrong with it!
And unless you edit the ESRB lists yourself (Do you think you'll have this kind of access to the ratings system on the xbox?), you are letting others decide what is appropriate/inappropriate for your children.
For a case like that, couldn't you just set your more mature games someplace more than a few feet off the ground, and you wouldn't have to worry about small children finding them and managing to become adept at slaughtering virtual enemies?
Yes.
At exactly 18 solar revolutions after the moment of their birth, a human aquires all the competence they will need for the rest of their life.
No sooner, no later.
Or could it be that different people develop differently (or that some people never quite develop maturity at all)?
But, how is a parent going to know when their child is 'mature' enough to play a certain game.
Is there a magic age when a person realizes that the violence on the screen isn't real?
Some might realize this at an early age, and some might never realize this.
The parent still has to play an active role in the process, and I agree with the rest of your post.
Yes, if a person really wants to see/do something, they're going to find a way to do it. You can control things in your own house, but what about a neighbor or friend's house?
If you really did *explain* why a game is 'unacceptable' and they really understand it, then they are really unlikely to want to play it.
But don't forget that a child isn't an extention of their parents! You can't force your thought patterns and morals on another individual and expect them to follow exactly what you say. They are intelligent and searching for knowledge, good or bad. The only way to learn about something is to experience it, and just having a directive without reason behind it is just ignorance.
Before I start, let me just state that I'm in no way judging you as a (future) parent.
Just tell your kids why they shouldn't be doing 'bad' things and give them good reasons!
The problem with a technological rather than social solution is that it only applies to one specific type of device, won't work in the long run, and it DOESN'T teach respect or self-control to kids.
If you show a kid WHY they shouldn't be doing something, they'll be less likely to want to do it than if you just say "Don't do this... because I say so!"
Technological measures can always be circumvented if the kid really wants to do something anyway!
Would you know if you restricted your child's access to this material at home but they were gaining access through a friend who didn't have these limitatons?
I have a p2 (klamath, the hottest of the bunch) overclocked from 233 to 300 with a decent fan/heatsink and I've never had any instability problems.
I don't know about the kind of heat that the newer cpus put out, but as long as it's properly cooled and ventilated I wouldn't think you'd have any problems at all.
Oh, yes, I remember now. It was in a quickie quite a while ago.
There isn't even much at the site to warrent a whole article for it.
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Or maybe it could be that people just want to do things in new and unusual ways, just to say they can.
Stop reading so much into these articles, you're quite on the virge of trolling.
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Even then you wouldn't have a velocity faster than light, you'd just go from one point to the next with no apparent (from a spectators point of vew) path between them. From your point of view you would have traveled a much shorter distance at a normal velocity than conventional means would have allowed.
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Some of the wierd effects of sub-sub-atomic particles are that they just *are* here and then the next 'moment' (however you want to define time, but just as long as they aren't at different points at the same time) they *are* someplace else with no real path between the two points.
It might seem that there is infinite velocity, but because they didn't actually have a path between the points, there isn't a velocity at all.
I would agree to that, only on the condition that the manufacturer actually wrote the driver in question. Most of the work I've seen was written in the scratch-my-itch fashon.
Also, the main problem really isn't the driver (which is just a kernel module) but installing and configuring the supporting files and applications (Mesa in the case of GL drivers). And that IS the job of the distro to make sure those things work.
Bar graphs!
We need brightly colored bar graphs.
They don't have to represent anything signifigant, random values will do.
To really get peoples attention and comprehension we need clipart scattered around a large bar graph.
And also a few phone-in surveys.
Those are always a statistically acurate representation of the average citizens' oppinion on matters such as these.
We need one master list of who believes this and who doesn't.
From this list we can use trial-and-error to eliminate the impossible and all that's left must be the truth!
This is the funniest comment I've read in a long time.
I wish I had mod points.
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I think he's saying that there are fairly major changes for just an increment of the minor version number.
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Personally, I like the seperate-ness of GNOME.
KDE seems to try to be a monolithic UI that controls everything, while GNOME seems to take a more modular approach. GNOME allows me to mix-and-match the programs I prefer and still have a consistant UI (I wish mozilla would at least have an option for letting GTK/QT handle it's widgets), that allows for greater flexability/configuration but does lead to occasional conflicts and slowdowns.
I do use KDE apps alongside GNOME though, which is nice to have that option. I use konq for light browsing/ftp stuff. I don't bother with koffice because abiword suits my wordprocessing needs.
The friendly competition between desktop environments will ensure that both are better because of it.
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It uses the XRender extentions which uses X to do the AA work.
If you'd have bothered to read about this at all you'd realize that, yes, X does do sub-pixel AA if you want it to.
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How about:
Give me convenience or give me a reasonable facimile for a slightly lesser price.
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I never said that they wouldn't ever even think about playing those games.
I just said that they would be less likely to want to, and if they knew that you were open about the issue, they would be more likely to want to talk to you about it rather than do it behind your back without your knowledge.
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What I remember is being told not to do somethings with no reason at all as to why I shouldn't, so I ended up doing them just to figure out what was wrong with it!
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I just don't want others raising my kids.
And unless you edit the ESRB lists yourself (Do you think you'll have this kind of access to the ratings system on the xbox?), you are letting others decide what is appropriate/inappropriate for your children.
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For a case like that, couldn't you just set your more mature games someplace more than a few feet off the ground, and you wouldn't have to worry about small children finding them and managing to become adept at slaughtering virtual enemies?
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Yes.
At exactly 18 solar revolutions after the moment of their birth, a human aquires all the competence they will need for the rest of their life.
No sooner, no later.
Or could it be that different people develop differently (or that some people never quite develop maturity at all)?
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But, how is a parent going to know when their child is 'mature' enough to play a certain game.
Is there a magic age when a person realizes that the violence on the screen isn't real?
Some might realize this at an early age, and some might never realize this.
The parent still has to play an active role in the process, and I agree with the rest of your post.
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You contradict yourself in the first paragraph.
Yes, if a person really wants to see/do something, they're going to find a way to do it. You can control things in your own house, but what about a neighbor or friend's house?
If you really did *explain* why a game is 'unacceptable' and they really understand it, then they are really unlikely to want to play it.
But don't forget that a child isn't an extention of their parents! You can't force your thought patterns and morals on another individual and expect them to follow exactly what you say. They are intelligent and searching for knowledge, good or bad. The only way to learn about something is to experience it, and just having a directive without reason behind it is just ignorance.
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Before I start, let me just state that I'm in no way judging you as a (future) parent.
Just tell your kids why they shouldn't be doing 'bad' things and give them good reasons!
The problem with a technological rather than social solution is that it only applies to one specific type of device, won't work in the long run, and it DOESN'T teach respect or self-control to kids.
If you show a kid WHY they shouldn't be doing something, they'll be less likely to want to do it than if you just say "Don't do this... because I say so!"
Technological measures can always be circumvented if the kid really wants to do something anyway!
Would you know if you restricted your child's access to this material at home but they were gaining access through a friend who didn't have these limitatons?
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The media just isn't interested in facts. Secondhand heresay is good enough for them.
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Actually, if there was pure refined gold on the Moon, using todays launch veichles, it would cost more that it would return to bring it to Earth.
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Haven't you heard?
Fair use was outlawed in 1998 by the DMCA.
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For the tuner, check in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARD LIST
for your tuner card.
If it's in there, it's supported.
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Clocking a 300A at 450 is safe, at 600 is just stupid.
You can't reasonably expect a chip to perform twice it's rated speed reliably.
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...then you shouldn't have any problems.
I have a p2 (klamath, the hottest of the bunch) overclocked from 233 to 300 with a decent fan/heatsink and I've never had any instability problems.
I don't know about the kind of heat that the newer cpus put out, but as long as it's properly cooled and ventilated I wouldn't think you'd have any problems at all.
And of course, YMMV.
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Where have I seen this before..?
Oh, yes, I remember now. It was in a quickie quite a while ago.
There isn't even much at the site to warrent a whole article for it.
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Or maybe it could be that people just want to do things in new and unusual ways, just to say they can.
Stop reading so much into these articles, you're quite on the virge of trolling.
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Even then you wouldn't have a velocity faster than light, you'd just go from one point to the next with no apparent (from a spectators point of vew) path between them. From your point of view you would have traveled a much shorter distance at a normal velocity than conventional means would have allowed.
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Some of the wierd effects of sub-sub-atomic particles are that they just *are* here and then the next 'moment' (however you want to define time, but just as long as they aren't at different points at the same time) they *are* someplace else with no real path between the two points.
It might seem that there is infinite velocity, but because they didn't actually have a path between the points, there isn't a velocity at all.
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I would agree to that, only on the condition that the manufacturer actually wrote the driver in question. Most of the work I've seen was written in the scratch-my-itch fashon.
Also, the main problem really isn't the driver (which is just a kernel module) but installing and configuring the supporting files and applications (Mesa in the case of GL drivers). And that IS the job of the distro to make sure those things work.
--
Bar graphs!
We need brightly colored bar graphs.
They don't have to represent anything signifigant, random values will do.
To really get peoples attention and comprehension we need clipart scattered around a large bar graph.
And also a few phone-in surveys.
Those are always a statistically acurate representation of the average citizens' oppinion on matters such as these.
We need one master list of who believes this and who doesn't.
From this list we can use trial-and-error to eliminate the impossible and all that's left must be the truth!
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This is the funniest comment I've read in a long time.
I wish I had mod points.
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I think he's saying that there are fairly major changes for just an increment of the minor version number.
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Personally, I like the seperate-ness of GNOME.
KDE seems to try to be a monolithic UI that controls everything, while GNOME seems to take a more modular approach. GNOME allows me to mix-and-match the programs I prefer and still have a consistant UI (I wish mozilla would at least have an option for letting GTK/QT handle it's widgets), that allows for greater flexability/configuration but does lead to occasional conflicts and slowdowns.
I do use KDE apps alongside GNOME though, which is nice to have that option. I use konq for light browsing/ftp stuff. I don't bother with koffice because abiword suits my wordprocessing needs.
The friendly competition between desktop environments will ensure that both are better because of it.
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