Terrorist groups (and SHAC certainly is one) tend not to organised as such. They tend to be pretty ad-hoc as insulation from law enforcement. The chances are, nobody within the groups knows everybody who is affiliated and there's no standard means of communication. They don't all already have this information.
Intel are perfectly capable of producing high performance graphics hardware. The reason they don't is that the cost of entry to that market is too high. ATI and nVidia have it sewn up between them. Intel make a lot more money selling lots of cheap chips to people who don't need much performance.
since I'm pretty sure I read that the original quake (or was it doom?) traced a ray or two for some mapping reason, back when the source code was released.
Not sure about those two, but I'm pretty certain Wolfenstein 3D did. That was for visibility and texture coordinate calculation, rather than light and shadow. Since the map was 2D only a handful of rays were needed.
I think the official position is that the truth or lack of truth of evolution is a matter for scientists to determine and Catholicism is concerned with the soul.
However, it's pretty much a majority view in the church that not all sections of the Bible are meant to be taken literally.
The fact is that it's simply a simplified model that the teacher was using that assumes an infinitely small atom (or one that takes probabilities as fractional atoms). Explaining that it's actually a simplification but for virtually all practical purposes it's fine would have answered your point. Or he could have pointed out that you could not predict, with 100% certainty a time in the future after which every single atom had decayed.
ID is a hypothesis that states that an unknown alien race that left no evidence of their visit to this planet created all life. Exactly how they did this is completely ignored. It provides no possible reason for the dozens of different eye designs, or different means of locomotion, or the fact that similar species seem to be located in regions that are geographically close to each other.
It also logically suggests that life is designed not to adapt to changes in the environment, and thus will, by design, result in a gradually decreasing number of species, eventually resulting in just one.
It's a matter the police are less likely to be interested in than the head of the school.
While the OP has the right to make a police complaint, there's no reason not to go through the school first. I assume here that the aim is simply to prevent this teacher from doing this in the future. A rebuke from her superior may well have this effect.
Prosecuting this as theft would strike me as being the same attitude that has file sharers prosecuted using laws designed for large scale reproduction facilities.
And likewise, Jim Gamble could probably manage on a 10% pay cut.
It's a government agency. If you're using services of private companies then you need to pay them. Some might offer the service for free, but the police have to pay for everything else they use.
Who had the most important job? Or who was best at their job? Good people management is a useful skill but it might have been the only skill the nice guy had. We don't know the whole story.
Apparently the more the local distributors pay, the earlier they can show it. The Australian distributors obviously don't think anyone is going to watch it (Is Brendan Fraser relatively unpopular there or something?)
Seriously - even if they have to dub it, that's probably only a couple of weeks' work for a handful of voice actors and it's not like each country needs to book time in the same audio studio.
It all comes down to the cost of programmer time and user time. I once wrote an application that took several minutes to run. I could have spent a few hours getting the runtime considerably lower. I didn't bother because it all ran as part of an overnight batch so it took no user time to run. The flipside is that some experts at IBM have spent weeks knocking a few seconds off Linux boot time. Is it worth it? Yes! The cumulative user time saved is much greater than the time spent by the experts.
Even with Vista, we assume that most users will have a modern PC with at least 1GB of RAM, and that will only go up over the next few years. Why should Microsoft waste their resources for the benefit of a handful of people with older hardware?
2. Web browsers and operating systems are separate markets.
I think this is the point a lot of people have a problem with. Once upon a time, operating systems and file managers were different markets. Norton didn't sue because the functionality was included in windows. There are dozens of other utilities that come with Windows; many of which were once sold separately, and most of which still are. The main complaint seems to be that the browser bundled with Windows is too good.
I don't need a licence to use software any more than I need explicit permission to read a book. Copyright restricts rights and doesn't allow me to do anything that an absence of copyright would prevent me from doing. Copyright simply prevents you from making and distributing copies.
You've fallen for the argument that proprietary software vendors use to try and convince you yo don't own the software you've bought.
The ethics of the situation depend upon ones personal ethics.
If they are genuinely offering a service for this money then perhaps. If they're trying to scam her by attempting to charge her for a nominal service then I don't see any ethical obligation to accept the terms.
I'm sure it's legal to provide a service and request money for it after the fact, and the licence that Openoffice is distributed under no doubt allows them to do this.
This doesn't automatically mean that one is obligated to pay. It depends on the local legal system.
Don't overvalue your credit rating. One refusal to pay a dodgy charge isn't going to clobber you. 98 Euros is a reasonable amoutn of cash. It's probable that this company isn't going to chase her up over it anyway. While this may be legal the company involved isn't going to push the point.
Deny ever having downloaded the software. Force them to put more effort into it than they will be able to be bothered to do.
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Yes, quite right. My terminology was incorrect. Raycasting is considerably less than ray tracing.
The vehicle used to publish it may be a viable means for going after the person posting the death threat.
I really don't fault the police for not just trusting Indymedia's word that they don't log anything.
Terrorist groups (and SHAC certainly is one) tend not to organised as such. They tend to be pretty ad-hoc as insulation from law enforcement. The chances are, nobody within the groups knows everybody who is affiliated and there's no standard means of communication. They don't all already have this information.
Intel are perfectly capable of producing high performance graphics hardware. The reason they don't is that the cost of entry to that market is too high. ATI and nVidia have it sewn up between them. Intel make a lot more money selling lots of cheap chips to people who don't need much performance.
since I'm pretty sure I read that the original quake (or was it doom?) traced a ray or two for some mapping reason, back when the source code was released.
Not sure about those two, but I'm pretty certain Wolfenstein 3D did. That was for visibility and texture coordinate calculation, rather than light and shadow. Since the map was 2D only a handful of rays were needed.
She took items of negligible value.
Yes, this is wrong, but you seem to equate it to stealing the crown jewels.
I think the official position is that the truth or lack of truth of evolution is a matter for scientists to determine and Catholicism is concerned with the soul.
However, it's pretty much a majority view in the church that not all sections of the Bible are meant to be taken literally.
That's rather a shame.
The fact is that it's simply a simplified model that the teacher was using that assumes an infinitely small atom (or one that takes probabilities as fractional atoms). Explaining that it's actually a simplification but for virtually all practical purposes it's fine would have answered your point. Or he could have pointed out that you could not predict, with 100% certainty a time in the future after which every single atom had decayed.
Lol!
ID is a hypothesis that states that an unknown alien race that left no evidence of their visit to this planet created all life. Exactly how they did this is completely ignored. It provides no possible reason for the dozens of different eye designs, or different means of locomotion, or the fact that similar species seem to be located in regions that are geographically close to each other.
It also logically suggests that life is designed not to adapt to changes in the environment, and thus will, by design, result in a gradually decreasing number of species, eventually resulting in just one.
It's a matter the police are less likely to be interested in than the head of the school.
While the OP has the right to make a police complaint, there's no reason not to go through the school first. I assume here that the aim is simply to prevent this teacher from doing this in the future. A rebuke from her superior may well have this effect.
Prosecuting this as theft would strike me as being the same attitude that has file sharers prosecuted using laws designed for large scale reproduction facilities.
Morality aside, who would give up that much power if they were offered it?
Me. But then again I don't have the desire for that much power in the first place. This is one of many reasons I'm not a politician.
And likewise, Jim Gamble could probably manage on a 10% pay cut.
It's a government agency. If you're using services of private companies then you need to pay them. Some might offer the service for free, but the police have to pay for everything else they use.
The OEMs will be able to ship IE. Or Firefox. Or Opera. It's just that MS will not be able to mandate that they do.
Who had the most important job? Or who was best at their job? Good people management is a useful skill but it might have been the only skill the nice guy had. We don't know the whole story.
Apparently the more the local distributors pay, the earlier they can show it. The Australian distributors obviously don't think anyone is going to watch it (Is Brendan Fraser relatively unpopular there or something?)
Seriously - even if they have to dub it, that's probably only a couple of weeks' work for a handful of voice actors and it's not like each country needs to book time in the same audio studio.
There's a lot of hate about it. A lot of it is focussed on the DRM.
What are the other problems?
It all comes down to the cost of programmer time and user time. I once wrote an application that took several minutes to run. I could have spent a few hours getting the runtime considerably lower. I didn't bother because it all ran as part of an overnight batch so it took no user time to run. The flipside is that some experts at IBM have spent weeks knocking a few seconds off Linux boot time. Is it worth it? Yes! The cumulative user time saved is much greater than the time spent by the experts.
Even with Vista, we assume that most users will have a modern PC with at least 1GB of RAM, and that will only go up over the next few years. Why should Microsoft waste their resources for the benefit of a handful of people with older hardware?
2. Web browsers and operating systems are separate markets.
I think this is the point a lot of people have a problem with. Once upon a time, operating systems and file managers were different markets. Norton didn't sue because the functionality was included in windows. There are dozens of other utilities that come with Windows; many of which were once sold separately, and most of which still are. The main complaint seems to be that the browser bundled with Windows is too good.
Yes, but they also built roads and sponsored innovation.
You can't automatically assume something is bad just because Nazi Germany did it.
I don't need a licence to use software any more than I need explicit permission to read a book. Copyright restricts rights and doesn't allow me to do anything that an absence of copyright would prevent me from doing. Copyright simply prevents you from making and distributing copies.
You've fallen for the argument that proprietary software vendors use to try and convince you yo don't own the software you've bought.
When I first read the headline, I thought it meant that New York would use profanity to ban games. That could work.
Don't you dare buy that ****ing game, you ****, or I'll ****ing kill you!
You also own a copy of the software. This can be sold. The data and the rights to the data, while related are different things.
The ethics of the situation depend upon ones personal ethics.
If they are genuinely offering a service for this money then perhaps. If they're trying to scam her by attempting to charge her for a nominal service then I don't see any ethical obligation to accept the terms.
I'm sure it's legal to provide a service and request money for it after the fact, and the licence that Openoffice is distributed under no doubt allows them to do this.
This doesn't automatically mean that one is obligated to pay. It depends on the local legal system.
Don't overvalue your credit rating. One refusal to pay a dodgy charge isn't going to clobber you. 98 Euros is a reasonable amoutn of cash. It's probable that this company isn't going to chase her up over it anyway. While this may be legal the company involved isn't going to push the point.
Deny ever having downloaded the software. Force them to put more effort into it than they will be able to be bothered to do.