I downloaded the engine and tried it. On my fairly pathetic old system with a not-very-good 5-year-old 3D graphics card, the quake 3 level rendering demo in question gets several hundred frames per second. More than adequate performance, I feel, for anything other than the most demanding of games.
Yes, I doubt you could write Doom3 using this engine. For that kind of cutting-edge work, you need to get directly to the hardware-supported APIs (e.g. OpenGL), rather than working through a simplifying abstraction layer that might prevent you from making certain optimisations.
It's because of the clause in the GPL which effectively states that anything you distribute under the GPL you have to provide the source code for, under the GPL, on request. The only exclusions are "components that are normally supplied with the operating system or compiler".
So, if a library isn't "GPL compatible", you can't use it in a GPL project.
No, counting cards doesn't apply to poker, just blackjack.
Counting cards can help in poker, just not as much, and not in all variants. Take for instance "stud" poker where all players have some cards (number varies according to the precise variant) dealt face up at the start of the game. If a player has, for instance, two aces face up, and is playing reasonably high bets, a normal inference might be that he has a third ace in his and also. But if I know that the other two aces are on the table elsewhere, it is more likely he has two-of-a-kind instead.
I think they have this covered; I believe the first thing they ask, before they allow you to gamble, is for you to warrant that you are in a region where such gambling is legally acceptable. This effectively gets them off the hook, because if they then lose any money because of you not being in such a region, they can sue you for breach of contract causing them those losses.
People who say that unambiguous evil does not exist in the real world need to get a clue. Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hussein, bin Laden, all evil. Nothing complicated, they are just evil.
Napoleon -- a man who had a vision of restoring the great Republic of Rome and removing the excesses of the monarchies that ruled Europe, often completely ignoring the problems of their subjects.
Hitler -- a great leader, who showed an entire nation how to achieve their vision of industrial development, bringing them back onto a level with the rest of Europe after they had been left behind following a previous war they had lost.
Stalin -- a man who was content, despite achieving great power, to live a simple life with few material posessions.
Pol Pot / Hussein -- I'll admit I don't know anything redeeming about either of these
bin Laden -- a devout religious man, angry at perceived attacks upon his way of life by imperialist nations.
OK, so they had flaws. But I don't think any of them was _pure_ evil. They just all believed that the world should be something different to what it was, and set out to change it.
The character of Raistlin does not explore any sort of moral boundary, he is adventure story wish fulfillment in raw form.
Oh, yeah, cause every kid wants to trade all semblance of health and physical ability for great power that leaves him totally exhausted every time he uses it.
Analog's readership, for example, has declined dramatically, and 100K sales of new titles twenty years ago have declined to 20K today.
So far I haven't seen any convincing arguments for why this decline is occurring.
I think this goes back to the core question here... I don't know if you're aware of Orson Scott Card's division of stories into four classes, Milieu, Idea, Character and Event. The OP claimed that science fiction was running out of ideas... this is interesting, as I find short stories (i.e., most of what Analog et al publish) are more likely to be an Idea story than the others.
I think there's a big shift towards novels. Over the last ten to twenty years, it is evident that people have been preferring longer & longer works of fiction. More people buy novels who used to buy magazines of short stories; over the same period the average novel length has been steadily rising. 70,000 words used to be frequently quoted as the average novel size; when was the last time you purchased a novel that was that short (about 250 pages in standard trade paperback format)? On my shelves, the most recent novel of that size has a copyright date of 1974.
More and more novels are parts of series. People like to come back to the same world over and over again.
In the mean time, editors are stressing that the most important thing about novels are the characters in them.
So, is this all just a shift from Idea toward Milieu and Character stories? Because the ideas are looking old?
I don't know. If I said I could supply a new paradigm in enterprise-class vertically scalable groupware solutions, everything about that other than "groupware" would be essentially meaningless, but I am still saying I can supply groupware...
I don't know much about Australian laws, other than them being based on the UK's laws.
In a civil case in the UK, however, you have to submit details of the arguments you intend to present to the court before the hearing. I would suspect the MPAA's solicitors would back down on receipt of this, rather than let it go to court. In the UK this means you would have cost them a GBP 30 filing fee.
These, at least, are jargon, not buzzwords. Jargon words run a high risk of becoming buzzwords, but you have to ask: are they being used to mean something important and descriptive, or have they been included just because they increase the appeal of the document?
Interesting. But I believe there was non-bullshit content to that sentence. It is "We offer anti-spam"; that is 18 characters out of 250, for a BSD of 0.072. Hell, that sentence was only 93% bullshit. We've got to be able to do better than that.
i mean, think of drakes equation, what are the chances that of the small amount of planets that can sustaine life, the first one happens to be next door....
Well, given that we know Mars is a planet that (a) exists and (b) is approximately suitable for life, we're now looking for the value of f_{l}.
Estimates range from 1e-{very big} (i.e., Earth is the only planet on which life arose, ever) to 1.0 {to a rather large number of significant digits} (i.e., almost all suitable planets have life).
There are good arguments in both directions. Let's just say I would be unsurprised with whichever outcome turns up.
unlikely, since were sitting in the golden spot for life, anywhere farther or closer to the sun wont be very good for life...
I believe that temperatures on Mars would be reasonable if it had a working greenhouse effect. Temperatures on Venus would be reasonable (although a _little_ on the warm side) if it didn't. Also note that there is a very wide degree of temperatures to which life has adapted here on Earth. The habitable zone is probably a lot wider than you think.
Huh? Did you read the comment I was replying to. Specifically where it said the old handset was no better, but looks cool, and I then went on to point out exactly _why_ it's better...?
I wouldn't say _dishonest_. To most British people (and I suspect those in English speaking nations other than the USA), "English" refers to the language we speak, and "US (or American) English" refers to the language you speak.
So, the point is that the description is written in English (as in what British people speak) so "English" in it refers to the British concept of it. If the site had been written in US English, I would understand your objection...
Audiophiles have for years advocated the old analog vinyl and tape technology over digital CD or DVD for the quality of sound.
There's a word missing in this sentence. It is "some" and it goes at the very beginning.
Of course, mp3's and other compressed digital media are even poorer quality.
Actually, I think a 96KHz 384Kb/s MP3 provides substantially better reproduction than CD, and needs roughly a quarter of the data storage capacity (~4-5 hours of music on a CD).
English frequently absorbs foreign words that are used as part of a phrase. For instance, my local supermarket stocks "Herbes de Provence" in their herbs section.
OTOH, I have no idea what the rest of those are about.
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(By the way, it's Perl, not PERL.)
No it isn't.
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perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
As it is an acronym, I prefer to capitalise the individual letters to reflect this.
It lacks performance.
I downloaded the engine and tried it. On my fairly pathetic old system with a not-very-good 5-year-old 3D graphics card, the quake 3 level rendering demo in question gets several hundred frames per second. More than adequate performance, I feel, for anything other than the most demanding of games.
Yes, I doubt you could write Doom3 using this engine. For that kind of cutting-edge work, you need to get directly to the hardware-supported APIs (e.g. OpenGL), rather than working through a simplifying abstraction layer that might prevent you from making certain optimisations.
It's because of the clause in the GPL which effectively states that anything you distribute under the GPL you have to provide the source code for, under the GPL, on request. The only exclusions are "components that are normally supplied with the operating system or compiler".
So, if a library isn't "GPL compatible", you can't use it in a GPL project.
No, counting cards doesn't apply to poker, just blackjack.
Counting cards can help in poker, just not as much, and not in all variants. Take for instance "stud" poker where all players have some cards (number varies according to the precise variant) dealt face up at the start of the game. If a player has, for instance, two aces face up, and is playing reasonably high bets, a normal inference might be that he has a third ace in his and also. But if I know that the other two aces are on the table elsewhere, it is more likely he has two-of-a-kind instead.
I think they have this covered; I believe the first thing they ask, before they allow you to gamble, is for you to warrant that you are in a region where such gambling is legally acceptable. This effectively gets them off the hook, because if they then lose any money because of you not being in such a region, they can sue you for breach of contract causing them those losses.
People who say that unambiguous evil does not exist in the real world need to get a clue. Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hussein, bin Laden, all evil. Nothing complicated, they are just evil.
Napoleon -- a man who had a vision of restoring the great Republic of Rome and removing the excesses of the monarchies that ruled Europe, often completely ignoring the problems of their subjects.
Hitler -- a great leader, who showed an entire nation how to achieve their vision of industrial development, bringing them back onto a level with the rest of Europe after they had been left behind following a previous war they had lost.
Stalin -- a man who was content, despite achieving great power, to live a simple life with few material posessions.
Pol Pot / Hussein -- I'll admit I don't know anything redeeming about either of these
bin Laden -- a devout religious man, angry at perceived attacks upon his way of life by imperialist nations.
OK, so they had flaws. But I don't think any of them was _pure_ evil. They just all believed that the world should be something different to what it was, and set out to change it.
No. In 2020, flying car gets you.
The plural of axis is axes. "axii" just looks daft.
But your point is correct -- it is all a single multidimensional continuum. Trying to arrange on any single line gives pointless results.
The character of Raistlin does not explore any sort of moral boundary, he is adventure story wish fulfillment in raw form.
Oh, yeah, cause every kid wants to trade all semblance of health and physical ability for great power that leaves him totally exhausted every time he uses it.
Analog's readership, for example, has declined dramatically, and 100K sales of new titles twenty years ago have declined to 20K today.
So far I haven't seen any convincing arguments for why this decline is occurring.
I think this goes back to the core question here... I don't know if you're aware of Orson Scott Card's division of stories into four classes, Milieu, Idea, Character and Event. The OP claimed that science fiction was running out of ideas... this is interesting, as I find short stories (i.e., most of what Analog et al publish) are more likely to be an Idea story than the others.
I think there's a big shift towards novels. Over the last ten to twenty years, it is evident that people have been preferring longer & longer works of fiction. More people buy novels who used to buy magazines of short stories; over the same period the average novel length has been steadily rising. 70,000 words used to be frequently quoted as the average novel size; when was the last time you purchased a novel that was that short (about 250 pages in standard trade paperback format)? On my shelves, the most recent novel of that size has a copyright date of 1974.
More and more novels are parts of series. People like to come back to the same world over and over again.
In the mean time, editors are stressing that the most important thing about novels are the characters in them.
So, is this all just a shift from Idea toward Milieu and Character stories? Because the ideas are looking old?
Same here ;). That was a great book.
I don't know. If I said I could supply a new paradigm in enterprise-class vertically scalable groupware solutions, everything about that other than "groupware" would be essentially meaningless, but I am still saying I can supply groupware...
For god's sake, this is answered on the FAQ page of the BBC Dirac site. Do some research before asking questions, or moderating them up...
I don't know much about Australian laws, other than them being based on the UK's laws.
In a civil case in the UK, however, you have to submit details of the arguments you intend to present to the court before the hearing. I would suspect the MPAA's solicitors would back down on receipt of this, rather than let it go to court. In the UK this means you would have cost them a GBP 30 filing fee.
[i]Vulnerability
Attack Vector
Deployment
Interactive
cash reserves
Groupware
Framework[/i]
These, at least, are jargon, not buzzwords. Jargon words run a high risk of becoming buzzwords, but you have to ask: are they being used to mean something important and descriptive, or have they been included just because they increase the appeal of the document?
Interesting. But I believe there was non-bullshit content to that sentence. It is "We offer anti-spam"; that is 18 characters out of 250, for a BSD of 0.072. Hell, that sentence was only 93% bullshit. We've got to be able to do better than that.
That's not too bad. I mean, the last 3 words actually tell you what they sell...
i mean, think of drakes equation, what are the chances that of the small amount of planets that can sustaine life, the first one happens to be next door....
Well, given that we know Mars is a planet that (a) exists and (b) is approximately suitable for life, we're now looking for the value of f_{l}.
Estimates range from 1e-{very big} (i.e., Earth is the only planet on which life arose, ever) to 1.0 {to a rather large number of significant digits} (i.e., almost all suitable planets have life).
There are good arguments in both directions. Let's just say I would be unsurprised with whichever outcome turns up.
unlikely, since were sitting in the golden spot for life, anywhere farther or closer to the sun wont be very good for life...
I believe that temperatures on Mars would be reasonable if it had a working greenhouse effect. Temperatures on Venus would be reasonable (although a _little_ on the warm side) if it didn't. Also note that there is a very wide degree of temperatures to which life has adapted here on Earth. The habitable zone is probably a lot wider than you think.
Huh? Did you read the comment I was replying to. Specifically where it said the old handset was no better, but looks cool, and I then went on to point out exactly _why_ it's better...?
This list only has ENGLISH words, and as we all know, "grok" is Martian.
I believe it has been officially adopted, see this FAQ item.
(Although they seem to think Heinlein invented it...)
I wouldn't say _dishonest_. To most British people (and I suspect those in English speaking nations other than the USA), "English" refers to the language we speak, and "US (or American) English" refers to the language you speak.
So, the point is that the description is written in English (as in what British people speak) so "English" in it refers to the British concept of it. If the site had been written in US English, I would understand your objection...
Audiophiles have for years advocated the old analog vinyl and tape technology over digital CD or DVD for the quality of sound.
There's a word missing in this sentence. It is "some" and it goes at the very beginning.
Of course, mp3's and other compressed digital media are even poorer quality.
Actually, I think a 96KHz 384Kb/s MP3 provides substantially better reproduction than CD, and needs roughly a quarter of the data storage capacity (~4-5 hours of music on a CD).
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Thank you. That's very useful, as the damned flash didn't work for me. Kept saying words were ranked 'NaN'...
English frequently absorbs foreign words that are used as part of a phrase. For instance, my local supermarket stocks "Herbes de Provence" in their herbs section.
OTOH, I have no idea what the rest of those are about.
Or slashdotters, perhaps?