I do not think that we do a lot of imposing of our own way of life on others. Americans are famously ignorant and apathetic about the outside world. The problem I think that other people have is how seductive our way of life is.
If America is seen as being more attractive to the youth than your fundamentalist teachings, then America must be seen as the greatest enemy you have.
I do not believe they would purposefully move the soundtrack to stereo if it was originally 5.1. What purpose would that serve? Many times I believe this is because the original program was only in stereo. There is no technical reason that all the tracks can't be 5.1. The companies that ADV and Manga love anime, or else why would they bother to reduce the quality of the sub?
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Just post the location of the copy of windows xp in pi which already has the crack applied to it, and while we are at it, lets find the version of windows xp which has no bugs in it, never blue screens, and has all the source code included.
Studies cannot prove anything, because they only gather and analyze data. They can show a correlation between two factors, but not proof that one causes the other. The only way to do that is with an experiment. In an experiment you control the factors so you can definitely say that "I changed factor X and it caused factor Y to change." You do this by having a control group to which you use to exstablish a base line. Unfortunately, studies are about all you can do to study most socialogy problems, because setting up human control groups and changing variables in peoples lives in an experimental way is really creepy.
Imagine an experiment to study the effects of bullying on kids. With a study you go out and find kids that have been bullied and ones that have not and you analyze the data. Since you didn't control the situation you can only say that their is a relationship between bullying and some resulting behavior in the victims. But, to do an experiment you would actually have to create two groups of very similar kids and subject one group to bullying while shielding the others.
This would be horrible meddling in a person's life, so we can't do it (ethically) and so we will never really have proof of anything caused by bullying.
Now, I hear a cry that "of course we can have proof that bullying causes this and that!," and sometimes we do have a strong common sense notion that the correlation between one thing and another is actually causation. But that only really works for "obvious" things like "being in battle for more than 6 weeks without a break causes psycosis in 98 percent of soldiers." Most social questions are nowhere near as straighforward as that.
This is a study, not an experiment. You don't need a control group if you are not controlling anything. If you have a variable, which you can control, you are doing an experiment and you need to control group to show the effects of the change you are making. If you do this you can prove that doing something causes something else to happen. But, this is a study so they are only looking for correlations, not causality. You need an experiment to find causality, and they never claimed to prove any causality.
Its really hard to do experiments with people, I would hate to be told I can't play video games because I was part of an experiment I was signed up for when I was a baby ^_^ (or forced to play games). If the experimentor just chooses kids out of the population who already have these tendencies then she is not doing an experiment, it's just a study
I think its a bad idea to turn on the EFF so quickly. They do this sort of thing full time, and I am sure they know what they are doing.
Hardassed militance is not the solution to very many problems. If Adobe is not acting in good faith, then everyone will be doubly angry at them.
I would prefer that Adobe press the issue and this go to court where the DMCA can be questioned even further. However, I'd like to know if Dmitri is willing to bet 5 years and 500,000 dollars on that first.
But, strcpy is not implemented using StrCpy in VC++. Microsoft provides the source code to msvcrt.dll, I have seen the source because it crashes if you give strcpy a NULL pointer (ANSI defines such stupidity as undefined behavior, so its my fault) and the debugger points me to an assembly language file containing the code that MS has written for it. msvcrt.dll is an almost completely standalone as a library. I think it only depends on user32.dll and maybe kernel32.dll.
You do know the PS2 devkits come with GCC as the compiler?
But, the GPL says that Sony only has to give the source code to the people it gives the compiler to. Even then I don't think they have to unless they are ask. So, the only people that would have the right to complain that the source is not available are the PS2 developers. So, if Sony distributes the license agreement with the compiler (a copy of the GPL), then they are in compliance as long as when I developer ask for source he gets it.
If you ask for the source from Sony, well, tough, you never bought a development kit from Sony so you never got the Binary, so the license does not apply.
Nothing keeps a developer from posting the binary and source. At least, I hope Sony does not imply or threaten developers not to. Anyway, the compiler would do you little good without the rest of Sony's devkit, which would be proprietary.
If you want to be a designer, then programming skills are not completely required. Design, most of the time, is a management position. Its like being a movie director, you don't nessecarily need to know all the ins and outs of how to use a camera.
It sounds like you want to be a programmer. For that, you need to know math fairly well, especially Linear Algebra for 3D Math. Program everyday and put together a portfolio of demo programs. Its not nessecary to do everything from scratch! Game developers are looking for people that can take existing librarys and put them together. One way to show them that you can work with existing tools is to do a game mod or two for games like Unreal or Quake.
Get together with someone who can do artwork and/or music because programmers are rarely artists, and you won't have time to do good artwork and program anyway. Either create your own engine, demo programs, and/or mods and put it all together so you can send it along with your resume to game developers. Make sure its easy to install and virus scan it.
Read, read, and read some more, and write programs to make sure you have learned what you read about.
Good books are:
OpenGL Programming Guide
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice - by Foley, Van Dam, et al
3D Game Engine Design - by David H. Eberly
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics and Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics
The first thing that pops into my head when the idea of key escrow is who do you trust to escrow keys and where do you keep them?
This may not be a big problem for domestic network traffic, but it becomes a huge problem for international traffic.
Considering that the European Community is very suspicious of the so-called Epsilon system spying on its businesses, how likely are they to trust keys that are escrowed in the US for doing business with Europe? Of course, the sword cuts both ways.
No one should trust encryption key escrow anymore than they should trust the government to have all the guns. I guess that statement only applies to the US, just try to take away guns from US citizens! People should react the same way to the privacy rape thats going on now.
I wonder if its even possible for an alternat office suite to gain a foothold in the market place. It't not just Microsoft Office's incredible market share on both Windows and Mac computers, but also its mindshare and what people are used to using.
It seems to me that in order for another office suite to truly succeed, it will have to be almost exactly like Office, just like KDE and Gnome became popular by copying all the best stuff from Windows. Thats not flamebait, its just that one thing that Linux needs to survive is familiarity to those who would switch.
The problem is just how to make Linux friendly and familiar without just ripping of all of Microsofts good ideas (which many would argue that they ripped off from someone else, but thats not my point).
My point is that its a vicious circle. You can't get people to use your software if its not familiar (meaning, just like MS), but if its just like MS then why bother (and don't tell me because its free as in beer, no way could you make an office suite as comprehensive as Office without paying someone)
Well, I do read the articles, but this had nothing to do with the linked article. I just though he had left out a zero or something. Although I don't know what type of dyslexia caused me to think that an M was a K.
I take extreme exception to that. I happen to live in a city in Arkansas (Jonesboro) where a fairly significant part of the economy is based on health care. You would be as well off here as anywhere else in America. Its very rude to just drop names like that. I have lots of complaints about Arkansas, but health care certainly is not one of them.
And if it isn't, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
I've always been annoyed by this expression. Just because the pot is black, does not mean that the kettle is not black. i.e., the truth is seperate from the speaker.
A more apropoe expression would be -- First remove the tree from your own eye, before helping someone remove the splinter from theirs.
I think they are indeed sight based. Some of them have tactile and even aural components, but I think that they have visual components which do not translate. I admit I did not make that clear.
A dolphin may indeed be able to tell you that something sounds round, but thats a very different thing than looking round.
The problem is not that the researchers can see, but that they use a langauge that is primarily created by sight oriented creatures (humans). A blind person still speaks the same language as his sighted counterparts, even though it uses lots of notions that are based on vision. e.g., in English the habit of saying 'I see' to mean 'I understand'.
I would bet that most adjectives are sight based (red, dark, round, fuzzy, far, near, etc.). Translating these concepts to a non-sight oriented creature may be difficult.
So, a blind researcher would not have a significant advantage, except that they might be able to determine, perhaps, which parts of langauge biased. e.g., a blind person would say that they have no idea what the words 'bright' and 'red' really mean. But such things are pretty obvious to a sighted person as well (a sighted person would not be blinded to the bias in the language, pun intended).
A common language has the potential to finally force mankind to stop treating the earth as its own, and realize that we share it with many other creatures - some perhaps as advanced as we are.
As much as I love your optimism, we humans cannot even get along with ourselves. I think that most people do understand that we do not own the world. But that does not keep people from trying to take it from others, and all the evil that comes from doing that.
It is very reasonable to assume that the girls is white, because if she was any other race it would have been mentioned. Whites are still the majority in america, and the tendency in any language is to leave out what can be assumed or is common, and to point out new information (i.e., what is different).
If you where purple, and most of the people around you were purple too, then if you wrote a story about a little green girl, you would probably mention that she is green.
We need to change the way people think, not the way they talk. That is why political correctness is so evil.
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If America is seen as being more attractive to the youth than your fundamentalist teachings, then America must be seen as the greatest enemy you have.
I do not believe they would purposefully move the soundtrack to stereo if it was originally 5.1. What purpose would that serve? Many times I believe this is because the original program was only in stereo. There is no technical reason that all the tracks can't be 5.1. The companies that ADV and Manga love anime, or else why would they bother to reduce the quality of the sub?
I love the irony of your .sig, its great.
Just post the location of the copy of windows xp in pi which already has the crack applied to it, and while we are at it, lets find the version of windows xp which has no bugs in it, never blue screens, and has all the source code included.
Imagine an experiment to study the effects of bullying on kids. With a study you go out and find kids that have been bullied and ones that have not and you analyze the data. Since you didn't control the situation you can only say that their is a relationship between bullying and some resulting behavior in the victims. But, to do an experiment you would actually have to create two groups of very similar kids and subject one group to bullying while shielding the others.
This would be horrible meddling in a person's life, so we can't do it (ethically) and so we will never really have proof of anything caused by bullying.
Now, I hear a cry that "of course we can have proof that bullying causes this and that!," and sometimes we do have a strong common sense notion that the correlation between one thing and another is actually causation. But that only really works for "obvious" things like "being in battle for more than 6 weeks without a break causes psycosis in 98 percent of soldiers." Most social questions are nowhere near as straighforward as that.
This was not an experiment, it was a study. Therefore there is no such thing as a "control group" because you are not claiming to control anything.
Its really hard to do experiments with people, I would hate to be told I can't play video games because I was part of an experiment I was signed up for when I was a baby ^_^ (or forced to play games). If the experimentor just chooses kids out of the population who already have these tendencies then she is not doing an experiment, it's just a study
I would prefer that Adobe press the issue and this go to court where the DMCA can be questioned even further. However, I'd like to know if Dmitri is willing to bet 5 years and 500,000 dollars on that first.
In any case, the DMCA has got to go!
But, strcpy is not implemented using StrCpy in VC++. Microsoft provides the source code to msvcrt.dll, I have seen the source because it crashes if you give strcpy a NULL pointer (ANSI defines such stupidity as undefined behavior, so its my fault) and the debugger points me to an assembly language file containing the code that MS has written for it. msvcrt.dll is an almost completely standalone as a library. I think it only depends on user32.dll and maybe kernel32.dll.
woo woo, clue train coming your way! The article is about COPYRIGHT, it said nothing about PATENTS.
But, the GPL says that Sony only has to give the source code to the people it gives the compiler to. Even then I don't think they have to unless they are ask. So, the only people that would have the right to complain that the source is not available are the PS2 developers. So, if Sony distributes the license agreement with the compiler (a copy of the GPL), then they are in compliance as long as when I developer ask for source he gets it.
If you ask for the source from Sony, well, tough, you never bought a development kit from Sony so you never got the Binary, so the license does not apply.
Nothing keeps a developer from posting the binary and source. At least, I hope Sony does not imply or threaten developers not to. Anyway, the compiler would do you little good without the rest of Sony's devkit, which would be proprietary.
It sounds like you want to be a programmer. For that, you need to know math fairly well, especially Linear Algebra for 3D Math. Program everyday and put together a portfolio of demo programs. Its not nessecary to do everything from scratch! Game developers are looking for people that can take existing librarys and put them together. One way to show them that you can work with existing tools is to do a game mod or two for games like Unreal or Quake.
Get together with someone who can do artwork and/or music because programmers are rarely artists, and you won't have time to do good artwork and program anyway. Either create your own engine, demo programs, and/or mods and put it all together so you can send it along with your resume to game developers. Make sure its easy to install and virus scan it.
Read, read, and read some more, and write programs to make sure you have learned what you read about.
Good books are:
OpenGL Programming Guide
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice - by Foley, Van Dam, et al
3D Game Engine Design - by David H. Eberly
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics and Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics
Good Luck!
This may not be a big problem for domestic network traffic, but it becomes a huge problem for international traffic.
Considering that the European Community is very suspicious of the so-called Epsilon system spying on its businesses, how likely are they to trust keys that are escrowed in the US for doing business with Europe? Of course, the sword cuts both ways.
No one should trust encryption key escrow anymore than they should trust the government to have all the guns. I guess that statement only applies to the US, just try to take away guns from US citizens! People should react the same way to the privacy rape thats going on now.
It seems to me that in order for another office suite to truly succeed, it will have to be almost exactly like Office, just like KDE and Gnome became popular by copying all the best stuff from Windows. Thats not flamebait, its just that one thing that Linux needs to survive is familiarity to those who would switch.
The problem is just how to make Linux friendly and familiar without just ripping of all of Microsofts good ideas (which many would argue that they ripped off from someone else, but thats not my point).
My point is that its a vicious circle. You can't get people to use your software if its not familiar (meaning, just like MS), but if its just like MS then why bother (and don't tell me because its free as in beer, no way could you make an office suite as comprehensive as Office without paying someone)
Well, I do read the articles, but this had nothing to do with the linked article. I just though he had left out a zero or something. Although I don't know what type of dyslexia caused me to think that an M was a K.
no, he is not an idiot, he is right. I screwed up, and now I'm paying for it. I was talking about how much bandwidth I get.
I take extreme exception to that. I happen to live in a city in Arkansas (Jonesboro) where a fairly significant part of the economy is based on health care. You would be as well off here as anywhere else in America. Its very rude to just drop names like that. I have lots of complaints about Arkansas, but health care certainly is not one of them.
I'm not sure he was asserting moral superiority, just bitching.
If one believes the cliche "Takes one to know one" then the pot is the best thing to ask if the kettle is black.
Too... many... cliches... must... stop...!
I've always been annoyed by this expression. Just because the pot is black, does not mean that the kettle is not black. i.e., the truth is seperate from the speaker.
A more apropoe expression would be -- First remove the tree from your own eye, before helping someone remove the splinter from theirs.
Sorry, but companies should be more responsible for their actions than individuals because they have much more power.
lzip is a jpeg of a monkey (knocked me out of my chair when I saw it)
lunzip is the lyrics to a song.
and the other files are about as funny, especially the license.
A dolphin may indeed be able to tell you that something sounds round, but thats a very different thing than looking round.
I would bet that most adjectives are sight based (red, dark, round, fuzzy, far, near, etc.). Translating these concepts to a non-sight oriented creature may be difficult.
So, a blind researcher would not have a significant advantage, except that they might be able to determine, perhaps, which parts of langauge biased. e.g., a blind person would say that they have no idea what the words 'bright' and 'red' really mean. But such things are pretty obvious to a sighted person as well (a sighted person would not be blinded to the bias in the language, pun intended).
As much as I love your optimism, we humans cannot even get along with ourselves. I think that most people do understand that we do not own the world. But that does not keep people from trying to take it from others, and all the evil that comes from doing that.
If you where purple, and most of the people around you were purple too, then if you wrote a story about a little green girl, you would probably mention that she is green.
We need to change the way people think, not the way they talk. That is why political correctness is so evil.