I fail to see how you are actually disagreeing with me? Perhaps it is because I didn't express myself clearly? The argument you are making is the same as mine, except that it appears you are placing the onus of providing children with structure and consequences on the educational system instead of the parents.
Now that you mention it, I did actually have an Nvidia card the last time I played games that used any significant hardware graphics acceleration. Dwarf fortress does not count, even though it is OpenGL accelerated.
Not in my experience. My completely anecdotal evidence suggests that OpenGL implementations of the same program have had higher detail at higher framerates for the same application. The summary implies that DirectX is hardwire accelerated while OpenGL is not.
I know people are complicated. Sometimes, they are not as complicated as you might suspect. My father most likely became a brutal, violent sociopath for a couple reasons.
He was beaten relentlessly by a father almost as bad as the one he became. He fought in Vietnam. His actions were supported or dismissed every time they were brought to the attention of family, the church, his superior officers and even law enforcement. He was a member of a typical fundamentalist christian church. A church that believes in the absolute power of the patriarch. They believe that children and wife are to be absolutely subservient to a mans will or face the righteous wrath of god. They believed that children or wife who were beaten had obviously sinned and displeased the man, and that they should pray to god for forgiveness and guidance to please their master.
Like I said, I wouldn't wish my childhood on anyone. But I survived, we all did. I and my siblings may be a little odd each in our own way, but for the most part we turned out ok. I see a lot of people, especially younger people, who have never been given responsibility, almost always been given what they ask for, never so much as scolded for misbehavior much less had to live through hunger, suffering or brainwashing like I did. And they just can not deal with the basics of life like teenage hormones, occasionally not getting their way, people "being mean" AKA (not giving them everything in exchange for contempt) or being rejected by someone they like.
You are right, social pressure means nothing when you are barely surviving.
I had it a "little easier" growing up in the America in the 80s, at least in terms of food. My father would hunt anything in season, and poach anything out of season so we had meat. My family would go out in the fields after the combine harvesters and gather the vegetables that were missed. My family would buy cheap hogs feed at the farm store and mill it for bread. We had food, even if it was green beans for breakfast, green beans and bread for lunch, green beans and antelope for dinner for six months strait. And that was the good part. After my parents divorced (my father was a brutal, violent sociopath) I got to live on "welfare" while my mother struggled to get an education. I was served inedible food at school, red grease on a slice of bread and a scoop of grey spoiled vegetables. The foodstamp budget had to be split 5 ways, so I got at most one decent meal a day at home.
Kids today get emo and suicidal because they have been given everything, never had to earn anything, never been hungry, never had anything real to fear, never been punished for their behavior and are bored with having to much entertainment. I wouldn't wish my childhood on my worst enemy, but from what I see for other people, completely pampering children is at least as destructive as the brutal abuse, crushing poverty and neglect that I endured.
I don't use facebook, or myspace, or livejournal, etc. The only information I have on linked is professional and educational explicitly for the purpose of managing my place in the job market and I did that only because I needed a job and to stay in touch with previous co workers. I damn well expect my privacy. A lot of things are not social norms, like hunting for or growing your own food, being an atheist, valuing knowledge and understanding, being polygamous, respecting legitimate authority, disrespecting illegitimate authority, etc. That doesn't mean that they should not be expected. And it definitely does not mean that they should be any less protected by the law because the tyranny of the majority or those who manipulate them don't like the idea.
That is technically accurate, you can do functional programming in languages that do not enforce use of stateless atomic functions... If you are able to ensure that you only use stateless atomic functions and none of the functions/objects you use in the language alter the programs state. In practice, that means being confined to a fairly small subset of the language in question and it may be impossible in some languages.
His definition was still clearly referencing procedural programming.
No. Functional programming does not just "implies the use of functions". Functional programming applies only to languages that consist of stateless atomic functions exclusively. The word you are looking for is "procedural programming"
Duke Nukem 3d was the last DN game before DNF was announced. The portable and console games were all side projects released while DNF development was underway.
You fell for a big one. There is a reason both parties used to have the name Democratic-Republican. Our electoral process ensures a 2 party system, if you can use two different names for the same party, you can reduce it to a one party system.
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My experience was that the first 10 minutes made my eyes water than the rest of the movie was fine. When I got out of the theater it took 30 seconds for my brain to implode in a crushing migraine that left me disabled for 3 hours.
The company went under, a lot of us never got our last paycheck, I work for the air force now.
blah!
Anyway, I don't think what I did would qualify as prior art. The key claim seems to be a multi level key system for unlocking different bit rate/qualities for a downloaded file. What I did was related to live video streaming using P2P to reduce server load.
Thats why I enclosed it in quotes. Copyright infringment isn't theft, but most media producers like to perpetuate that lie. The misspelling was entirely unintentional.
If I wanted a top level post, I would have posted at the top level. When I got here, that was the only post, I replied to it specifically because it had already mentioned prior art.
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come on now, you know thats not how you do back of the napkin math. First, you need to assume a perfectly spherical human...
And here I thought that Double D was more than enough.
Iran VS China in an contest to out censor each other?
Whoever wins, we loose!
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I fail to see how you are actually disagreeing with me? Perhaps it is because I didn't express myself clearly? The argument you are making is the same as mine, except that it appears you are placing the onus of providing children with structure and consequences on the educational system instead of the parents.
Now that you mention it, I did actually have an Nvidia card the last time I played games that used any significant hardware graphics acceleration. Dwarf fortress does not count, even though it is OpenGL accelerated.
Not in my experience. My completely anecdotal evidence suggests that OpenGL implementations of the same program have had higher detail at higher framerates for the same application. The summary implies that DirectX is hardwire accelerated while OpenGL is not.
Neither do I, how is going from OpenGL to DirectX an "upgrade" either?
I know people are complicated. Sometimes, they are not as complicated as you might suspect.
My father most likely became a brutal, violent sociopath for a couple reasons.
He was beaten relentlessly by a father almost as bad as the one he became.
He fought in Vietnam.
His actions were supported or dismissed every time they were brought to the attention of family, the church, his superior officers and even law enforcement.
He was a member of a typical fundamentalist christian church. A church that believes in the absolute power of the patriarch.
They believe that children and wife are to be absolutely subservient to a mans will or face the righteous wrath of god.
They believed that children or wife who were beaten had obviously sinned and displeased the man, and that they should pray to god for forgiveness and guidance to please their master.
Like I said, I wouldn't wish my childhood on anyone. But I survived, we all did. I and my siblings may be a little odd each in our own way, but for the most part we turned out ok. I see a lot of people, especially younger people, who have never been given responsibility, almost always been given what they ask for, never so much as scolded for misbehavior much less had to live through hunger, suffering or brainwashing like I did. And they just can not deal with the basics of life like teenage hormones, occasionally not getting their way, people "being mean" AKA (not giving them everything in exchange for contempt) or being rejected by someone they like.
You are right, social pressure means nothing when you are barely surviving.
I had it a "little easier" growing up in the America in the 80s, at least in terms of food. My father would hunt anything in season, and poach anything out of season so we had meat. My family would go out in the fields after the combine harvesters and gather the vegetables that were missed. My family would buy cheap hogs feed at the farm store and mill it for bread. We had food, even if it was green beans for breakfast, green beans and bread for lunch, green beans and antelope for dinner for six months strait. And that was the good part. After my parents divorced (my father was a brutal, violent sociopath) I got to live on "welfare" while my mother struggled to get an education. I was served inedible food at school, red grease on a slice of bread and a scoop of grey spoiled vegetables. The foodstamp budget had to be split 5 ways, so I got at most one decent meal a day at home.
Kids today get emo and suicidal because they have been given everything, never had to earn anything, never been hungry, never had anything real to fear, never been punished for their behavior and are bored with having to much entertainment. I wouldn't wish my childhood on my worst enemy, but from what I see for other people, completely pampering children is at least as destructive as the brutal abuse, crushing poverty and neglect that I endured.
correction: now they are getting payed for it.
Advertisers and the CIA.
I don't use facebook, or myspace, or livejournal, etc. The only information I have on linked is professional and educational explicitly for the purpose of managing my place in the job market and I did that only because I needed a job and to stay in touch with previous co workers. I damn well expect my privacy. A lot of things are not social norms, like hunting for or growing your own food, being an atheist, valuing knowledge and understanding, being polygamous, respecting legitimate authority, disrespecting illegitimate authority, etc. That doesn't mean that they should not be expected. And it definitely does not mean that they should be any less protected by the law because the tyranny of the majority or those who manipulate them don't like the idea.
Because it could be even stranger.
That is technically accurate, you can do functional programming in languages that do not enforce use of stateless atomic functions... If you are able to ensure that you only use stateless atomic functions and none of the functions/objects you use in the language alter the programs state. In practice, that means being confined to a fairly small subset of the language in question and it may be impossible in some languages.
His definition was still clearly referencing procedural programming.
No. Functional programming does not just "implies the use of functions". Functional programming applies only to languages that consist of stateless atomic functions exclusively. The word you are looking for is "procedural programming"
How? By killing off half their staff in the most accidentally brutal manner possible?
Duke Nukem 3d was the last DN game before DNF was announced. The portable and console games were all side projects released while DNF development was underway.
I would also point out that there are open standards for networking, input and sound. They just are not all bundled up under a single name.
You fell for a big one. There is a reason both parties used to have the name Democratic-Republican. Our electoral process ensures a 2 party system, if you can use two different names for the same party, you can reduce it to a one party system.
My experience was that the first 10 minutes made my eyes water than the rest of the movie was fine. When I got out of the theater it took 30 seconds for my brain to implode in a crushing migraine that left me disabled for 3 hours.
Bah. thats just security through obscurity.
The company went under, a lot of us never got our last paycheck, I work for the air force now.
blah!
Anyway, I don't think what I did would qualify as prior art. The key claim seems to be a multi level key system for unlocking different bit rate/qualities for a downloaded file. What I did was related to live video streaming using P2P to reduce server load.
Thats why I enclosed it in quotes. Copyright infringment isn't theft, but most media producers like to perpetuate that lie. The misspelling was entirely unintentional.
If I wanted a top level post, I would have posted at the top level. When I got here, that was the only post, I replied to it specifically because it had already mentioned prior art.
except that "steeling" a product results in a civil fine. Cracking DRM is a federal felony that can get you decades of hardcore prison time.