"This analysis of the scientific research on the subject reveals that our brains unconsciously develop an affinity for products we choose over similarly attractive alternatives. "
Elliot Aronson described this in his 1972 textbook Social Animal. (Resolving cognitive dissonance and stuff...)
"And still, Red Faction was blowing holes in walls in 2001."
And they don't look very reailistic because of the low particle number. Also, it's much easier to blow hole in a wall than to blow up a car, or something of more complicated geometry, not even mentioning the non-homogenous material quality and other stuff.
"Every single game for the last 20 years has claimed "destructible environments" "
Don't forget non-linear gameplay. Which in practice means there's some variety in the order you play linear subplots. Until we got a human level AI a computer cannot create a compelling story, so you have to put up with the pre-baked ones. (Or go full sandbox like multiplayer FPS/RTS games.)
If you want stuff blowing up realistically (i.e. destructible environment), you have to simulate it offline, as it's really computation intensive. So it will be "scripted". Minecraft can only get away with it because everything is a cube. Also I don't expect a sudden surge in cubic 3d games. Minecraft is a one time wonder, and it could be only pulled of by an independent developer.
But we aren't speaking about physical goods, but software. Just look at Ubuntu, they're located in South-Africa, so they don't give a shit about the mpeg* software patents. All they asl is that if you don't have licenses for the patents then click cancel. You can bet most US users don't have licenses and still click "ok". On the other hand Red Hat doesn't host codecs in their repository, so the media players they ship won't work out of the box; I spent quite a bit of time getting them work, but I just gave up and installed MPlayer with the codec bundle from the MPlayer website. (Which is hosted in Hungary, which also don't recognize software patents.)
95% of Italy and Spain, 90% of Poland, 68% of Slovakia are Catholics, however they all have a total fertility rate of around 1.3 per woman, thus refuting your point.
Or because you can't strap your phone on your wrist. Also there are quite a few situations where phones aren't allowed, but watches are. (Exam, cinema, theater etc.)
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"Except the US government does not intentionally go after unarmed civilians"
Just like Wikileaks ...
The problem with that video are the guys who insist on shooting the people, who are obviously just recovering the bodies.
Just imagine Duke Nukem 3D!
I use VirtuaWin on WinXp for virtual desktops, and works pretty well for me.
I don't there are schoolbuses in Europe. (There isn't in Hungary for sure.) Kids just take public transportation.
"This analysis of the scientific research on the subject reveals that our brains unconsciously develop an affinity for products we choose over similarly attractive alternatives. "
Elliot Aronson described this in his 1972 textbook Social Animal. (Resolving cognitive dissonance and stuff ...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Aronson
"And still, Red Faction was blowing holes in walls in 2001."
And they don't look very reailistic because of the low particle number. Also, it's much easier to blow hole in a wall than to blow up a car, or something of more complicated geometry, not even mentioning the non-homogenous material quality and other stuff.
"Every single game for the last 20 years has claimed "destructible environments" "
Don't forget non-linear gameplay. Which in practice means there's some variety in the order you play linear subplots. Until we got a human level AI a computer cannot create a compelling story, so you have to put up with the pre-baked ones. (Or go full sandbox like multiplayer FPS/RTS games.)
If you want stuff blowing up realistically (i.e. destructible environment), you have to simulate it offline, as it's really computation intensive. So it will be "scripted". Minecraft can only get away with it because everything is a cube. Also I don't expect a sudden surge in cubic 3d games. Minecraft is a one time wonder, and it could be only pulled of by an independent developer.
I don't see how sound effects can't be done on GPU. Of course it'd be a lot of time to rewrite all the vst plugins.
You live on the wrong continent.
IIRC in the US not everyone is on the same grid. Small towns might have their own independent powerplant.
Android uses a register based VM instead of a stack based VM (for performance reason), so I'm not sure it's that easy for theam to stay clean.
But we aren't speaking about physical goods, but software. Just look at Ubuntu, they're located in South-Africa, so they don't give a shit about the mpeg* software patents. All they asl is that if you don't have licenses for the patents then click cancel. You can bet most US users don't have licenses and still click "ok".
On the other hand Red Hat doesn't host codecs in their repository, so the media players they ship won't work out of the box; I spent quite a bit of time getting them work, but I just gave up and installed MPlayer with the codec bundle from the MPlayer website. (Which is hosted in Hungary, which also don't recognize software patents.)
There is this wonderful invention, called the internet. Should try it one day.
What about the interstate commerce clause? Can you sell the "used" stuff in Texas?
95% of Italy and Spain, 90% of Poland, 68% of Slovakia are Catholics, however they all have a total fertility rate of around 1.3 per woman, thus refuting your point.
Because they come from third world countries?
" all of Islam, all of the Catholic people, and much of the third world no matter their religion, politics, or anything else."
You mean like Italy (total fertility rate:1.3), Spain (1.3), Hungary (1.3), Slovakia(1.3), Turkey (2.15), Algeria (1.75)?
But hey, don't bother with the facts!
How is it better/easier to use/more educational than a breadboard?
Maybe geature wise they're on par, however the MySQL syntax for nested queries is incredibly weird.
It's all fine and dandy until you have to pay child support.
If you compare intalling/running Linux to learning Chinese (both spoken and written), then you're seriouly delusional.
Or because you can't strap your phone on your wrist. Also there are quite a few situations where phones aren't allowed, but watches are. (Exam, cinema, theater etc.)
If it doesn't make your boobs bigger, it's a transplant.