When someone can easily write a 4000 word essay on a subject they previously had almost no knowledge of in one night and still get an A, there is a big problem.
Indeed, information is clearly too hard to come by. We need to restrict it so it is not so easy to find information....... and people call me elitist.
That aside, please explain to me how this is a "big problem".
Um.. you DO realize the entire point of placing a HINFO record in the zone is so that people can.. I dunno.. query the HINFO record. You do.. don't you?
Not all of them:/ It's hard to believe, but people have turned reverting back into the dark ages their reason for living. I've seem them go so far as to discuss the earth is a globe hoax. These people feel they need something to believe in, and for some of them it's all in or all out. Either completely fucking nuts and deluded, or sane. Granted, this, hopefully, is a small minority. It's scary that they exist nonetheless, and it's even scarier that religion still imbues them with massive power to convince others of their insanity.
It's also very possible the effect varies between different panels based on any number of things. I'm usually rather critical of my display considering how much time I have to spend looking at it. I have to really be looking for the effect to see it even when playing dark games such as doom3 sitting 2 feet away from the display. I've only ever had a chance to see one S-IPS (dell 2007fpw) and one S-PVA (samsung 204t) up close and personal for some time. The rest I've seen are cheap crap TN panels. Unfortunately, that makes it difficult to compare differences inside the same panel type or even between different panels of the same model.
You are correct about the shifting and loss of detail when viewing at a perpendicular angle. I have personally noticed it on my own monitor. The effect is subtle, and I don't mind it myself, but others may disagree. However, beyond the very slight shift when viewing from a perpendicular angle the viewing angle is superb as the shift only happens in that small area. Even up to extreme angles in both directions the image is still very clear. Even so, with both types of panels the angle has gotten good enough that the image will be distorted by the severe angle enough to prevent any meaningful use of the display before color shifting becomes a serious issue.
The newest IPS panels that can finally match the spva black level I would probably enjoy as you get the best of both worlds, but if it comes to dealing with that slight shift in order to achieve half the black level (the last series of reviews I read with black level measurements showed IPS having on average 0.5 lumen as opposed to the SPVA typical 0.25 lumen, but that was some time ago) I'll deal with it. I like using my monitor at night with the lights off, and the glow of the back light can get irritating.
It's funny you mention that. I'm not sure about PVA, but if I got S-IPS instead of S-PVA I'd be pissed. The original S-IPS is worse at color reproduction, has over twice the black level, and much smaller viewing angles than a S-PVA or S-MVA screen. Some of the extremely high end IPS types (AS-IPS and H-IPS) come pretty close to a good S-PVA/MVA in black level and color gamut, but still not quite there. You also still get bad viewing angles.
A great S-PVA w/ led back lighting will exceed sRGB with near perfect color fidelity down to the point where the typical LCD black level interferes, and with such a panel that is as low as 0.24 lumens (some even lower with specialized filters). They do as well with CCFL's within the limitations of a CCFL. The viewing angle is so good you can hit 170 degrees and still get great color both horizontally AND vertically.
Perhaps you had an old school non S PVA (those aren't quite as nice), perhaps dell didn't bother to calibrate it, or perhaps your subjective definition of good differs with the quantitative definition (hey, some people prefer some things that aren't technically accurate, and that's cool with me). I own a Samsung 204t which is a 20" S-PVA that I calibrated with a colorvision spyder, and I am extremely pleased with it.
Yeah, how dare the developers want compensation for all their hard work? Mind you, I'm not in the "Everything should be GPL" camp. However, taking freely avalible code, adding some much-wanted functionality, donating nothing back to the people who generously gave you access to the code, and then closing or obfuscating the resulting code and charging a fee seems like a supreme dick move. And from my point of view, Wine has made far more progress in Win32 API emulation than Cedega can ever hope to make in an equivilent period of time because of community support.
If the developers felt that way then they should have licensed the code accordingly. This is the entire point of the GPL. If they wanted the code to remain free and they wanted forks to be forced to contribute back then it should have been licensed under a license that forces the issue. While I may understand and even sympathize with how they felt, they did explicitly give permission to use the code in such a way for anybody that wanted to.
Making a program with installer for one target (two if you cound x64, three or four if your program needs a special Vista version, five if you want to provide support for Windows 9x, but the vast majority of users are covered under one) is tough enough. How can you expect all but the largest projects to provide or have volunteers able to produce installers for all of the popular distros?
I'm pretty sure that after all of the effort of developing and producing the game the couple of hours it'll take to make a rpm and deb isn't really going to be a problem.
Enjoy your self-appointed elitist title. Meanwhile, the rest of the Linux community is busy making Linux palitable into an operating system the average joe would want to use.
Aren't all elitists self appointed? If that is the label you wish to apply to me, then so be it. In the meantime users who have replaced religion with using linux will continue to preach about and create some non existent war between linux and windows while the devs (including myself) will continue to make apps they want to use ignoring this user created "war". That is the status quo, and I am rather confident it will remain that way.
Good games are timeless and budgetless. You can make a crap game with tons of money riding behind it or very little, and they can be a decade old or a few months old. Ultimately, though, if you stick to Linux for your gaming fix, you're missing out on a bunch of genuinely good games. Writing off non-Linux gaming as "too mainstream" is ignorant at best and a weak rationalization at justifying your use of Linux for gaming at worst. I dare you to sit down for a game of Team Fortress 2 (first being sure to clear the patronizing "MAINSTREAM GAMING:rolleyes:" thoughts out of your head and taking the game on its own merits). I guarentee you that you'll have *gasp* fun with a high budget title.
Nowhere did I say all mainstream high budget games are bad and all independent low budget games or good. Perhaps you were reading something else? I'm also pretty sure I've tried team fortress 2, and I'm pretty sure I didn't like it. Believe it or not not everyone is into the multiplayer fps thing. I don't even like the free and open independent FPS games. However, some of the mainstream big budget games I do enjoy:
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Black & White Warcraft 1, 2, 3 Starcraft Most of the command and conquer series
And there are many more. Most of them I play on cedega or dosbox.
Yes, it turns out that in gaming, just like music, movies, and many other forms of entertainment, in order to find the really good stuff you have to look for it. Waiting for it to be shoved in your face doesn't really work.
Most of them are poorly cobbled together and rely on "HOLY SHIT ITS OPEN SOURCE" word of mouth instead of actually concentrating on being a fun or good looking game.
Does that definition of good looking coincide with whether or not it stresses the most recent 3d graphics card? A well themed mud can be good looking. All of the examples I pasted are games that are more or less complete and are well designed artistically. Notice I did not include long standing foss vaporware such as, e.g. adonthell as many other lists trying to paint a rosy picture do?
1. Installing the game usually requires downloading a seperate set of files. Who is going to know to do that except the technically inclined?
E.g. the kind of people who enjoy an OS like linux? Personally, I dread the day linux becomes attractive for the non technically inclined.. I do consider the two mutually exclusive (techie OS vs. "average joe" OS, and I still hate it that the current status of the world is where we try to hide that average people are morons behind some silly moniker like that).
4. A continuation of point 3. The games that people truely want to play, such as World of Warcraft, Counterstrike, Diablo 2, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty
I have no desire to play a single one of those. Mainstream gaming is not the only gaming there is, and a system not being mainstream does not mean that it is not capable of being or is not a viable gaming platform. I've kept myself busy with a variety of games for 7 years now running only linux. If you must play what everyone else plays and what ign spams then linux probably isn't the right OS for you. I just like to play games. I don't care what game, as long as it's fun.
So, it appears that the majority of times the issue is mistated. Linux is not a bad gaming platform, it's a bad high budget, extremely hyped, mass media gaming platform. Two very different things.
it would be a lie to say they don't run, since we have wine, but wine is unsupported by EA, Blizzard, Valve and Popcap, so one bad patch can completely kill the game in wine.
True, however, and leading into the next topic, blizzard and valve I know have working relationships with transgaming to beta test patches against cedega before release.
CCP making an official Eve Online linux client avalible, and they're doing a pretty half-assed job of the release, by simply relying on Cedega (which in and of itself deserves none of your attention)
And why is that? I have a nice neat list of windows games in a nicely contained application I can go to. If I want to install a game I click "install" and "detect game disc". That's it. It appears in my list of games. I select the game, and I hit Play. It's very, very well done. I have a say in the direction of development. They work with game developers and form relationships with them. Some are even offering to let transgaming test pre releases to help ensure compatibility on release day.
Please tell me this isn't some crap about how the wine project pitched a fit when everyone on the project suddenly decided they didn't like the terms of their own license, then screamed, bitched, moaned, and cried over someone taking advantage of those generous terms.
Virtually no major studios have thrown their Linux hat into the ring since the 'fad' of doing so a few years ago. The only one I can recall is CCP making an official Eve Online linux client avalible, and they're doing a pretty half-assed job of the release, by simply relying on Cedega (which in and of itself deserves none of your attention)
If EA doesn't then I won't be too broken up about it. I tend to like blizzard, but not mmorpg's. So I am looking forward to sta
Wow, sensitive much? There wasn't an insult in my previous reply, and I'm pretty sure I was feeding your trolling. Anyways, no sense in continuing this despite having some things I'd like to say. You'll probably just misread it like you did my entire previous post.
Where are the commercial game ports for Linux? No one wants to make them, obviously, save for the FPS crowd (and there's only an Unreal Tournament for Linux because Epic passes the buck to Icculus to get the job done, not because they have the in-house talent to do it themselves). There are a few commercial games for Linux, yes, but only a few, and there's very little variety between them. In the open source world we have a few good games (the majority of them being FPS's, what a surprise), Battle for Wesnoth if you like strategy games (turn based ones, that is). Then we have the unfortunate, ugly ripoffs like "Secret Maryo Chronicles," and other games that look like they were developed for a C64. Plenty of selection, not a lot of quality.
The following publishers develop comemrcial linux games:
There are also the high profile ones such as neverwinter nights, the doom and quake series, unreal, etc.
There are many high quality independant titles such as neverball, you mentioned wesnoth, crimson fields, flight gear, torcs, the spring project, total annihilation 3d, tecnoballZ, powermanga, tile racer, pingus, clonk, freeciv, ultimate stunts, planeshift, scorched3d, VDrift, silvertree (not complete, but being created by the wesnoth guys so likely will not be vapor), ufo: alien invasion, scourge, etc.
Many of these are very impressive independently made free games. Perhaps they lack the multi million dollar marketing budget and won't make your geofrce 8800 gtxz 45 x super elite ultra melt, but theya re *fun* games, and they are numerous. Also keep in mind this publisher and free game list is only what I could find in 1 hour of searching.
Then there are freed older commercial games such as warzone 2100, homeworld, descent 1 and 2, doom, quake, etc.
Did you actually read the parent post? That's kind of exactly what he said. To sum up, he said as long as mars remains in the cone the probability will increase as the cone shrinks. If the cone shrinks to the point mars is no longer in it then the probably suddenly drops to 0. He was simply outlining a trend for the probably to increase before it drops to 0 for non impact events.
That seems to be an issue of character, however. That does not change the fact that they still work for and represent the people and should bend to the peoples will.
We have a much better understanding of the lower level mechanics than the higher level mechanics, afaik. The way I understand it is the interactions of individual atoms and molecules is well understood, but our understanding of the higher level structures they build is not as well understood. Therefore, if we can build a simulator to use our understanding of the low level processes to watch what happens when combined into the more complex form it can help devise theories on why and how the higher level forms function. Those theories can then be tested.
Clinton just seems to be too populist, almost as if her stance on issues is determined by the changing winds of public opinion.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but isn't that the ideal candidate? I always figured the government was *suppose* to bend to the will of the people. Note I'm not showing support for her here. I just found that attempt at criticism ironic.
On a somewhat related note, Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note from that stated if she killed the people on the attached list, she'd be out the door, gun in hand, before checking that the thing was even loaded.
Did I read this wrong, or did you miss the "then" clause of that if statement?
Perhaps this attitude wouldn't be needed if it weren't for people with your attitude. Try actually coding something large and dealing with user contributed bug reports. When a large majority of reported bugs consist of "It's broke! How can you distribute a broken product?! You people are incompetent! I demand you fix it now!" and no other information. How do you expect developers of foss to respond? When the well mannered bug reports more often than not consist of bugs in supporting libraries managed by a different team, hardware malfunctions, user error, or other non related problems beyond the devs control you must take an attitude of rule out user error first. It's just too common.
Even besides all of that, what part of asking for how to reproduce an error is a problem? While fixing a bug by completely guessing at what could be causing it may be possible, it's far from preferred. Reproduction is a damn near necessity, and havign that ability goes a long way towards efficiently tracking down and fixing the problem.
You even imply that devs should be expected to fix bugs they don't even know exist! - "if you had a bug, you should've reported it!" - I know some of the best coders out there have perfected mind reading, but that is a rarer trait than is commonly believed. In order for a dev to know there is a bug to fix the bug kinda has to be made known.
But that's just it, isn't it? There are many, many people who will GLADLY take the risk and be "first". Anyone who wishes to deny us a space program has no right so say no on the grounds of danger if there are people who understand and willingly accept the danger deciding the benefits far outweight it. Me first? Sure, point me to the shuttle.
So anyone can make a recording of the on-duty government employee who's changing the launch codes for the nukes? Or the state-paid lawer who's talking with a client? Or the government doctor who is reviewing someone's medical records?
Yes, but hopefully they're not stupid enough to do it while being recorded. Such a law would not stop them from going into a room and not allowing you inside.
Then that sucks for the person living in *that* state. There are strict rules for where one must prosecute, and since the defendant lives in Texas and committed the crime in Texas the case is tried in Texas with all applicable state and local laws in the city in Texas in which she lives.
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So, the release of KDE 4.0 gets a minor footnote on /.'s main page, and Gnomes expanded mouse tweaking gets a glowing review? wtf?
When someone can easily write a 4000 word essay on a subject they previously had almost no knowledge of in one night and still get an A, there is a big problem.
... and people call me elitist.
Indeed, information is clearly too hard to come by. We need to restrict it so it is not so easy to find information....
That aside, please explain to me how this is a "big problem".
Um.. you DO realize the entire point of placing a HINFO record in the zone is so that people can.. I dunno.. query the HINFO record. You do.. don't you?
Hmm... a gigantic near absolute black building in the middle of a sunny day... hmmmmm... nope, don't think I'd notice that.
Not all of them :/ It's hard to believe, but people have turned reverting back into the dark ages their reason for living. I've seem them go so far as to discuss the earth is a globe hoax. These people feel they need something to believe in, and for some of them it's all in or all out. Either completely fucking nuts and deluded, or sane. Granted, this, hopefully, is a small minority. It's scary that they exist nonetheless, and it's even scarier that religion still imbues them with massive power to convince others of their insanity.
I'll give up my life before i give up my A/C. Piss off.
Haha, better sensitive than ignoring the issue completely :)
It's also very possible the effect varies between different panels based on any number of things. I'm usually rather critical of my display considering how much time I have to spend looking at it. I have to really be looking for the effect to see it even when playing dark games such as doom3 sitting 2 feet away from the display. I've only ever had a chance to see one S-IPS (dell 2007fpw) and one S-PVA (samsung 204t) up close and personal for some time. The rest I've seen are cheap crap TN panels. Unfortunately, that makes it difficult to compare differences inside the same panel type or even between different panels of the same model.
You are correct about the shifting and loss of detail when viewing at a perpendicular angle. I have personally noticed it on my own monitor. The effect is subtle, and I don't mind it myself, but others may disagree. However, beyond the very slight shift when viewing from a perpendicular angle the viewing angle is superb as the shift only happens in that small area. Even up to extreme angles in both directions the image is still very clear. Even so, with both types of panels the angle has gotten good enough that the image will be distorted by the severe angle enough to prevent any meaningful use of the display before color shifting becomes a serious issue.
The newest IPS panels that can finally match the spva black level I would probably enjoy as you get the best of both worlds, but if it comes to dealing with that slight shift in order to achieve half the black level (the last series of reviews I read with black level measurements showed IPS having on average 0.5 lumen as opposed to the SPVA typical 0.25 lumen, but that was some time ago) I'll deal with it. I like using my monitor at night with the lights off, and the glow of the back light can get irritating.
It's funny you mention that. I'm not sure about PVA, but if I got S-IPS instead of S-PVA I'd be pissed. The original S-IPS is worse at color reproduction, has over twice the black level, and much smaller viewing angles than a S-PVA or S-MVA screen. Some of the extremely high end IPS types (AS-IPS and H-IPS) come pretty close to a good S-PVA/MVA in black level and color gamut, but still not quite there. You also still get bad viewing angles.
A great S-PVA w/ led back lighting will exceed sRGB with near perfect color fidelity down to the point where the typical LCD black level interferes, and with such a panel that is as low as 0.24 lumens (some even lower with specialized filters). They do as well with CCFL's within the limitations of a CCFL. The viewing angle is so good you can hit 170 degrees and still get great color both horizontally AND vertically.
Perhaps you had an old school non S PVA (those aren't quite as nice), perhaps dell didn't bother to calibrate it, or perhaps your subjective definition of good differs with the quantitative definition (hey, some people prefer some things that aren't technically accurate, and that's cool with me). I own a Samsung 204t which is a 20" S-PVA that I calibrated with a colorvision spyder, and I am extremely pleased with it.
Very cool. Thank you for the suggestion.
Yeah, how dare the developers want compensation for all their hard work? Mind you, I'm not in the "Everything should be GPL" camp. However, taking freely avalible code, adding some much-wanted functionality, donating nothing back to the people who generously gave you access to the code, and then closing or obfuscating the resulting code and charging a fee seems like a supreme dick move. And from my point of view, Wine has made far more progress in Win32 API emulation than Cedega can ever hope to make in an equivilent period of time because of community support.
:rolleyes:" thoughts out of your head and taking the game on its own merits). I guarentee you that you'll have *gasp* fun with a high budget title.
If the developers felt that way then they should have licensed the code accordingly. This is the entire point of the GPL. If they wanted the code to remain free and they wanted forks to be forced to contribute back then it should have been licensed under a license that forces the issue. While I may understand and even sympathize with how they felt, they did explicitly give permission to use the code in such a way for anybody that wanted to.
Making a program with installer for one target (two if you cound x64, three or four if your program needs a special Vista version, five if you want to provide support for Windows 9x, but the vast majority of users are covered under one) is tough enough. How can you expect all but the largest projects to provide or have volunteers able to produce installers for all of the popular distros?
I'm pretty sure that after all of the effort of developing and producing the game the couple of hours it'll take to make a rpm and deb isn't really going to be a problem.
Enjoy your self-appointed elitist title. Meanwhile, the rest of the Linux community is busy making Linux palitable into an operating system the average joe would want to use.
Aren't all elitists self appointed? If that is the label you wish to apply to me, then so be it. In the meantime users who have replaced religion with using linux will continue to preach about and create some non existent war between linux and windows while the devs (including myself) will continue to make apps they want to use ignoring this user created "war". That is the status quo, and I am rather confident it will remain that way.
Good games are timeless and budgetless. You can make a crap game with tons of money riding behind it or very little, and they can be a decade old or a few months old. Ultimately, though, if you stick to Linux for your gaming fix, you're missing out on a bunch of genuinely good games. Writing off non-Linux gaming as "too mainstream" is ignorant at best and a weak rationalization at justifying your use of Linux for gaming at worst. I dare you to sit down for a game of Team Fortress 2 (first being sure to clear the patronizing "MAINSTREAM GAMING
Nowhere did I say all mainstream high budget games are bad and all independent low budget games or good. Perhaps you were reading something else? I'm also pretty sure I've tried team fortress 2, and I'm pretty sure I didn't like it. Believe it or not not everyone is into the multiplayer fps thing. I don't even like the free and open independent FPS games. However, some of the mainstream big budget games I do enjoy:
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Black & White
Warcraft 1, 2, 3
Starcraft
Most of the command and conquer series
And there are many more. Most of them I play on cedega or dosbox.
Unfortuniatly, none of them are well marketed
Yes, it turns out that in gaming, just like music, movies, and many other forms of entertainment, in order to find the really good stuff you have to look for it. Waiting for it to be shoved in your face doesn't really work.
Most of them are poorly cobbled together and rely on "HOLY SHIT ITS OPEN SOURCE" word of mouth instead of actually concentrating on being a fun or good looking game.
Does that definition of good looking coincide with whether or not it stresses the most recent 3d graphics card? A well themed mud can be good looking. All of the examples I pasted are games that are more or less complete and are well designed artistically. Notice I did not include long standing foss vaporware such as, e.g. adonthell as many other lists trying to paint a rosy picture do?
1. Installing the game usually requires downloading a seperate set of files. Who is going to know to do that except the technically inclined?
E.g. the kind of people who enjoy an OS like linux? Personally, I dread the day linux becomes attractive for the non technically inclined.. I do consider the two mutually exclusive (techie OS vs. "average joe" OS, and I still hate it that the current status of the world is where we try to hide that average people are morons behind some silly moniker like that).
4. A continuation of point 3. The games that people truely want to play, such as World of Warcraft, Counterstrike, Diablo 2, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty
I have no desire to play a single one of those. Mainstream gaming is not the only gaming there is, and a system not being mainstream does not mean that it is not capable of being or is not a viable gaming platform. I've kept myself busy with a variety of games for 7 years now running only linux. If you must play what everyone else plays and what ign spams then linux probably isn't the right OS for you. I just like to play games. I don't care what game, as long as it's fun.
So, it appears that the majority of times the issue is mistated. Linux is not a bad gaming platform, it's a bad high budget, extremely hyped, mass media gaming platform. Two very different things.
it would be a lie to say they don't run, since we have wine, but wine is unsupported by EA, Blizzard, Valve and Popcap, so one bad patch can completely kill the game in wine.
True, however, and leading into the next topic, blizzard and valve I know have working relationships with transgaming to beta test patches against cedega before release.
CCP making an official Eve Online linux client avalible, and they're doing a pretty half-assed job of the release, by simply relying on Cedega (which in and of itself deserves none of your attention)
And why is that? I have a nice neat list of windows games in a nicely contained application I can go to. If I want to install a game I click "install" and "detect game disc". That's it. It appears in my list of games. I select the game, and I hit Play. It's very, very well done. I have a say in the direction of development. They work with game developers and form relationships with them. Some are even offering to let transgaming test pre releases to help ensure compatibility on release day.
Please tell me this isn't some crap about how the wine project pitched a fit when everyone on the project suddenly decided they didn't like the terms of their own license, then screamed, bitched, moaned, and cried over someone taking advantage of those generous terms.
Virtually no major studios have thrown their Linux hat into the ring since the 'fad' of doing so a few years ago. The only one I can recall is CCP making an official Eve Online linux client avalible, and they're doing a pretty half-assed job of the release, by simply relying on Cedega (which in and of itself deserves none of your attention)
If EA doesn't then I won't be too broken up about it. I tend to like blizzard, but not mmorpg's. So I am looking forward to sta
Wow, sensitive much? There wasn't an insult in my previous reply, and I'm pretty sure I was feeding your trolling. Anyways, no sense in continuing this despite having some things I'd like to say. You'll probably just misread it like you did my entire previous post.
Where are the commercial game ports for Linux? No one wants to make them, obviously, save for the FPS crowd (and there's only an Unreal Tournament for Linux because Epic passes the buck to Icculus to get the job done, not because they have the in-house talent to do it themselves). There are a few commercial games for Linux, yes, but only a few, and there's very little variety between them. In the open source world we have a few good games (the majority of them being FPS's, what a surprise), Battle for Wesnoth if you like strategy games (turn based ones, that is). Then we have the unfortunate, ugly ripoffs like "Secret Maryo Chronicles," and other games that look like they were developed for a C64. Plenty of selection, not a lot of quality.
The following publishers develop comemrcial linux games:
http://www.pompomgames.com/
http://www.garagegames.com/
http://www.introversion.co.uk/
http://frictionalgames.com/
http://sillysoft.net/
http://www.basiliskgames.com/
http://www.guildsoftware.com/
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/
http://www.rune-soft.com/
http://grubbygames.com/
http://www.caravelgames.com/
http://www.planewalkergames.com/
http://www.graalonline.com/
There are also the high profile ones such as neverwinter nights, the doom and quake series, unreal, etc.
There are many high quality independant titles such as neverball, you mentioned wesnoth, crimson fields, flight gear, torcs, the spring project, total annihilation 3d, tecnoballZ, powermanga, tile racer, pingus, clonk, freeciv, ultimate stunts, planeshift, scorched3d, VDrift, silvertree (not complete, but being created by the wesnoth guys so likely will not be vapor), ufo: alien invasion, scourge, etc.
http://spring.clan-sy.com/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.flightgear.org/
https://icculus.org/neverball/
http://ta3d.darkstars.co.uk/
http://linux.tlk.fr/games/
http://tileracer.model-view.com/
http://pingus.seul.org/
http://www.clonk.de/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/
http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/
http://www.planeshift.it/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://vdrift.net/
http://www.silvertreerpg.org/
http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
http://scourge.sourceforge.net/
Many of these are very impressive independently made free games. Perhaps they lack the multi million dollar marketing budget and won't make your geofrce 8800 gtxz 45 x super elite ultra melt, but theya re *fun* games, and they are numerous. Also keep in mind this publisher and free game list is only what I could find in 1 hour of searching.
Then there are freed older commercial games such as warzone 2100, homeworld, descent 1 and 2, doom, quake, etc.
Lets not stop t
Did you actually read the parent post? That's kind of exactly what he said. To sum up, he said as long as mars remains in the cone the probability will increase as the cone shrinks. If the cone shrinks to the point mars is no longer in it then the probably suddenly drops to 0. He was simply outlining a trend for the probably to increase before it drops to 0 for non impact events.
That seems to be an issue of character, however. That does not change the fact that they still work for and represent the people and should bend to the peoples will.
We have a much better understanding of the lower level mechanics than the higher level mechanics, afaik. The way I understand it is the interactions of individual atoms and molecules is well understood, but our understanding of the higher level structures they build is not as well understood. Therefore, if we can build a simulator to use our understanding of the low level processes to watch what happens when combined into the more complex form it can help devise theories on why and how the higher level forms function. Those theories can then be tested.
I could be way off here....
Clinton just seems to be too populist, almost as if her stance on issues is determined by the changing winds of public opinion.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but isn't that the ideal candidate? I always figured the government was *suppose* to bend to the will of the people. Note I'm not showing support for her here. I just found that attempt at criticism ironic.
On a somewhat related note, Ms. Clinton has always struck me as the kind of person who, if presented with a pistol and a note from that stated if she killed the people on the attached list, she'd be out the door, gun in hand, before checking that the thing was even loaded.
Did I read this wrong, or did you miss the "then" clause of that if statement?
Perhaps this attitude wouldn't be needed if it weren't for people with your attitude. Try actually coding something large and dealing with user contributed bug reports. When a large majority of reported bugs consist of "It's broke! How can you distribute a broken product?! You people are incompetent! I demand you fix it now!" and no other information. How do you expect developers of foss to respond? When the well mannered bug reports more often than not consist of bugs in supporting libraries managed by a different team, hardware malfunctions, user error, or other non related problems beyond the devs control you must take an attitude of rule out user error first. It's just too common.
Even besides all of that, what part of asking for how to reproduce an error is a problem? While fixing a bug by completely guessing at what could be causing it may be possible, it's far from preferred. Reproduction is a damn near necessity, and havign that ability goes a long way towards efficiently tracking down and fixing the problem.
You even imply that devs should be expected to fix bugs they don't even know exist! - "if you had a bug, you should've reported it!" - I know some of the best coders out there have perfected mind reading, but that is a rarer trait than is commonly believed. In order for a dev to know there is a bug to fix the bug kinda has to be made known.
But that's just it, isn't it? There are many, many people who will GLADLY take the risk and be "first". Anyone who wishes to deny us a space program has no right so say no on the grounds of danger if there are people who understand and willingly accept the danger deciding the benefits far outweight it. Me first? Sure, point me to the shuttle.
So anyone can make a recording of the on-duty government employee who's changing the launch codes for the nukes? Or the state-paid lawer who's talking with a client? Or the government doctor who is reviewing someone's medical records?
Yes, but hopefully they're not stupid enough to do it while being recorded. Such a law would not stop them from going into a room and not allowing you inside.
Then that sucks for the person living in *that* state. There are strict rules for where one must prosecute, and since the defendant lives in Texas and committed the crime in Texas the case is tried in Texas with all applicable state and local laws in the city in Texas in which she lives.
So what your saying is, out there in interstellar space is a giant space kitteh saying 'I has a shape, let me apply it to you'.
Precisely