Threat to who? The entrenched powers that be? Sure. The rest of us? Not so much. The average citizen should be more worried about bankers and the cops than about Anonymous.
Nobody's outlawing incandescent lightbulbs because of global warming either. CFLs have a greater carbon footprint than incandescent lights. They are doing this because of corruption, the same reason they do everything.
Why can't open source be fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory? All of those adjectives apply to any open source license better than they apply to any proprietary license.
2. Amplified signal power in your direction == amplified noise for your neighbors in other directions. 3. This is probably illegal in many jurisdictions.
It's still right on average. Any increase in probability due to clustering of population in one place is accompanied with a decrease in probability elsewhere on the planet due to rarefaction of population.
Doom is still great. It was designed to be great without all those things. And we had all those things in FPSs by 1999, with polygonal 3d accelerated graphics. Since then we've gotten more polygons, hardware T&L, bump mapping, shaders, and so on but we've lost the design. Just GIS "FPS map design" and you'll see.
The government DID turn off my recreation, and is more than happy to incarcerate me for years on end if I just try to have a little fun. From my point of view, there's very little difference between America banning Cannabis and Iran banning western music/TV.
In the absence of a middle man trader, any value that would have ended up in the traders pocket would end up in the buyers or the sellers pocket instead.
Because someone else will do the same, and then another, and another. If I were to leave a few second gap each time someone slid right in, I might as well just park because I'll be slowing down every few seconds
No, you reach equilibrium before you come to a stop. You need less distance the slower you move, and the slower you move the faster the people in front of you pull away from you.
Or stop following so closely that you can't avoid hitting the person in front of you in an emergency. Yes, people will sneak in front of you in heavy traffic. Let them. Maintain sufficient distance between you and them too.
The Voodoo 2 still has the prettiest output of any graphics card I've ever seen. It may not have all the features you want, but what it has it does really well.
You have a point though. 3dfx didn't do much to hold onto its market leader position and paid the price.
Voodoo 2 SLI is as good as advertised. Twice the FPS, higher resolution support, and it "just works". No stability problems, and the cards work fine with passive cooling.
I'd agree that what nVidia did with SLI has all been garbage though.
Did Voodoo cards apply any sort of motion blur? I've long noticed this stuttering, e.g. when circle strafing around a corner it's pretty easy to see that the corner doesn't move smoothly. It even happens when running very non-demanding games (prboom, openarena, UT, etc) at 75hz under vsync with modern hardware under any OS.
The only hardware I've ever used where I didn't see this effect is my Voodoo 2 setup. Those things are smooth as butter, as long as you don't throw too many polygons at them.
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Threat to who? The entrenched powers that be? Sure. The rest of us? Not so much. The average citizen should be more worried about bankers and the cops than about Anonymous.
Maybe the term "Bible Belt" is an anachronism now.
Also, Warner Bros should loose their rights under the DMCA to issue takedown requests at all
Can't we just send the guy who signed the notices to jail?
Have you spent any time in eastern KY or western PA? It's pretty fucking rural and jesusy.
The FBI is the threat to national security. Anonymous simply reveals how insecure we are.
Nobody's outlawing incandescent lightbulbs because of global warming either. CFLs have a greater carbon footprint than incandescent lights. They are doing this because of corruption, the same reason they do everything.
Why can't open source be fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory? All of those adjectives apply to any open source license better than they apply to any proprietary license.
Or to put it another way, ideally enforced copyright would kill this entire industry.
You didn't take enough chemistry, and no you wouldn't like it very much.
Because "white" should be the same color as daylight.
2. Amplified signal power in your direction == amplified noise for your neighbors in other directions.
3. This is probably illegal in many jurisdictions.
This isn't amplification. It's just a reflector.
It's still right on average. Any increase in probability due to clustering of population in one place is accompanied with a decrease in probability elsewhere on the planet due to rarefaction of population.
Doom is still great. It was designed to be great without all those things. And we had all those things in FPSs by 1999, with polygonal 3d accelerated graphics. Since then we've gotten more polygons, hardware T&L, bump mapping, shaders, and so on but we've lost the design. Just GIS "FPS map design" and you'll see.
When? I've never bought a title with DRM, and they still make them.
The government DID turn off my recreation, and is more than happy to incarcerate me for years on end if I just try to have a little fun. From my point of view, there's very little difference between America banning Cannabis and Iran banning western music/TV.
In the absence of a middle man trader, any value that would have ended up in the traders pocket would end up in the buyers or the sellers pocket instead.
Because someone else will do the same, and then another, and another. If I were to leave a few second gap each time someone slid right in, I might as well just park because I'll be slowing down every few seconds
No, you reach equilibrium before you come to a stop. You need less distance the slower you move, and the slower you move the faster the people in front of you pull away from you.
Or stop following so closely that you can't avoid hitting the person in front of you in an emergency. Yes, people will sneak in front of you in heavy traffic. Let them. Maintain sufficient distance between you and them too.
It's not replacing humans, it just improves profit making for those who want to trade
By siphoning value away from those who want to do something productive.
The Voodoo 2 still has the prettiest output of any graphics card I've ever seen. It may not have all the features you want, but what it has it does really well.
You have a point though. 3dfx didn't do much to hold onto its market leader position and paid the price.
You can't reconcile "free will" with causality. That's what the "free" means. If your will is subject to cause and effect, then it is not free.
There is still a strong argument for some free will.
Which is?
Dualism was destroyed by f=ma. Everything since has just been confirmation.
Voodoo 2 SLI is as good as advertised. Twice the FPS, higher resolution support, and it "just works". No stability problems, and the cards work fine with passive cooling.
I'd agree that what nVidia did with SLI has all been garbage though.
Did Voodoo cards apply any sort of motion blur? I've long noticed this stuttering, e.g. when circle strafing around a corner it's pretty easy to see that the corner doesn't move smoothly. It even happens when running very non-demanding games (prboom, openarena, UT, etc) at 75hz under vsync with modern hardware under any OS.
The only hardware I've ever used where I didn't see this effect is my Voodoo 2 setup. Those things are smooth as butter, as long as you don't throw too many polygons at them.