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  1. Other things like... on Indrema Developer's Network Site Comes Up · · Score: 1

    space exploration, nanities, solvents, HP calculators, cars, the SR71 how have these possibly been taken advantage of via the porn industry?

  2. Is there any attempt at text based/rendered games? on Indrema Developer's Network Site Comes Up · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps replacements for overboard attempts at 3d? Maybe optimized 3d algorithms and the like?

  3. And personally I refute that notion on Technology Issues by Candidate · · Score: 1

    Prove it to me with absolute and undeniable facts then we'll talk. I doubt that a sizeable percentage of people are doing this out of any symbolic significance I think it's more of a true disinterest from the process because it's not dealing with wrestling or drinking beer or sports or anything that they truly care about.

    There is no "Republicrat scam" as you call it it's just that the majority of people have voted for these parties and they keep doing so. Politically there are major differences between parties just because other people don't vote for the under dog dosn't mean that there isn't that choice.

    So what does this mean? It means that people are not really believing that these 3rd parties can do anything in a sensible and non revolutionary way. Most people don't like their lives to be dramatically changed in unspecified ways and ways that may eventually make America a second class nation so they don't vote for those people who promise problems and difficulty.

  4. It's because not voting dosn't prove anything on Technology Issues by Candidate · · Score: 1

    That's completely irrevelent if you don't like the choices that you are given for candiates. The candiates who get more votes than any other (even if they get 3 votes and the rest get none) will win anyway.

    I don't believe that many people who don't vote are really all that educated about the issue and doing it to "stick it to the man" in the least, just lazy.

  5. And a slanted news site is useful why? on Technology Issues by Candidate · · Score: 1

    Why should I believe a slanted news site anyway?

  6. Well I happen to have a 486 how do you get it? on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    Sounds really swell how do I get a copy?

  7. No it's not there just shareware on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    and hey thanks for the little link I found that entertaining

  8. I didn't think it was a "classic" game on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    And I didn't suspect it was there. Is it?

  9. There are many programs to do this on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    Search the net for them. Or write your own they are basically just nop operations in a continuous loop to keep the processor busy for a while thereby decreasing the ammount of processor attention being paid to the app and reducing it's execution speed.

  10. Never played one of them on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    Where can you obtain one that runs well on old hardware?

  11. Then that can apply to any code *you* crate on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    So theoretically if you don't do anything with a piece of code I can take it under the public domain right?

  12. A little test on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    What if you do something like this. Ok I personally never got a chance to register Wolfenstein but would really like to get a chance to play all the levels. Now is there a way to get the game? Can you call up ID and get a copy on floppies or such? Can you pay for it? Is there a site you can get it? I would think that software companies at least have copies off of backups that somone could get ahold of for these types of events.

  13. It's to screw people on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 4

    Their theory is that if you want games you *have* to buy the current games and that you should be forced to either upgrade or buy a new device to play said game. It's all meant for them to get more and more money out of you. Suppose you have every game ever produced since games were first produced for "computers" and you could play them anytime you wanted. There wouldn't be much desire to buy the new titles.

  14. Classic games really this important? on IDSA Goes After Abandonware · · Score: 1

    When I want to play a game I like a nice long plot/story and I usually can't find that in most "classic" games. Are there any good examples of these games with a novelistic plot?

  15. Some history for you on The Full Nader Plus a Taste of Bush and Gore · · Score: 1

    The electoral college dosn't change votes for anyone they are just a symbolic step to prevent mob rule. Basically they will vote for whomever gets the most votes in the state. There has only been one case of a faithless elector and that was during the era of good feelings in 1820 when the elector didn't vote for the winning president saying that only George Washington should have won completely.

  16. But it better drop in price on Is The PS2 Your Next DVD Player? · · Score: 1

    If they want anyone to buy one they will have to drop the price to around $100 USD like they did with the original playstation or most people will refrain from buying one.

  17. Positive reinforcement is far better on Greenspun on Managing Software Engineers · · Score: 1

    Feeling that no matter what you do you will fail is absolutely the worst possible thing that you can do. Personally I don't believe in total failure just setbacks and revenge^H^H^H^H^H^H^H reaction to problems.

  18. Doom is easier on a server on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    quake 3 can run on a machine but it takes more system resources and therefore has a better chance of locking up the machine. When you want to do something like kill processes and the machine can barely move you really should have something a bit more portable.

  19. Isn't antialiasing outdated on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    I remember a post to slashdot a while back that basically said that antialiasing was only a remeant of keeping text readable on crappy monitors with low resoultion or some such. So theoretically it really isn't all that important.

  20. It's the same window manager on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    it's a joke that many people find funny

  21. Findings on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    It appears to be a theme for englightenment or some such according to google

  22. Wrongo on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    Where did you go to school? Simple math here

    For instance, with every mouse movement you have to calculate the new coordinates in a 3 space trialog, instead
    of the old Cartesian method.


    Even a first year calculus student knows this is BS. Moving to 3 space dosn't cause you to change from cartesian coordianates. No if for example you base your coordinates on rotational movement then you might have a point about doing something but even then it's not a function of a larger store of video ram but a faster processor.

  23. It relates to the file manager she was using on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    It just so happens that the girl in the above quote was using something similar to this program so it's at least tangentially relevent.

  24. Yeah on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    at the temperature of your overclocked 3d accelerator as the liquid metal streams down your leg

  25. Exactly how? on 3Dwm Updates · · Score: 1

    I admit that improvement is there but what areas exactly?