Many metric units are based on the relation of two metric units, often one of them is time.
"One newton is the force required to cause a mass of one kilogram to accelerate at a rate of one meter per second squared"
One of the benifits of the metric system is that these units have simple 1 to 1 relation ships (or at the worst base 10 relation ships) if you change the length of a second the definition of a newton would change to something like "One newton is the force required to cause a mass of one kilogram to accelerate at a rate of one meter per 1.00236283 second squared"
The worth of adjusting time to make it more base 10 pleasent is far less than the trouble it would cause for the metric system. Destory the well ordered relation of units, or redefine all the time dependant units, breaking all scientific equipment.
Your first quote is wrong in two ways a: Yahoo! is a verb. i.e. "Do you Yahoo!?" b: it should be writen "I Yahoo!ed for the..."
Not as great as it sounds for OpenGL 2.0
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This won't force companies to write good OpenGL 2.0 drivers, it will only force them to write drivers that impement those functions that DOOM 3 uses, the other functions may not even be implemented properly or implemeted at all.
As a former VooDoo (various versions) owner this is just fine if you only want to play games made by a few big name companies, but if your like me and looking to play smaller or indy games you'll find that your lucky if the games even run.
My apologies for not running my last post through a spellchecker. I do have significant trouble spelling, and was almost held back in school for it till I was diagnosed with a learning disorder that related to my ability to read and spell. I have stuck a Post-It note on my monitor's edge that reads 'SPEECH not speach' so I will remember next time. =)
This can become a great example for the next time games are challenged in court. Political speach is at the very core of what the 1st Amendment is intended to protect. By censoring or banning games courts would now be placing prior restraint on political speach.
I agree with you, there are so many people that unconsciously compare Episode I with the classic trilogy, it could never live up to expectations. Even the comparison to only "A New Hope" will fall short, it builds and foreshadows for the next two movies. After seeing episodes two and three I expect a lot of people that dislike Episode I will find that much of the movie that they disliked was very important to the further story.
My step-father proposed to my mother on 4/1, it was interesting to watch, but she was expecting it since it was the 1 year aniversary of their first date.
24/7/365?!?! You mean running it for 7 years strait?
Seriously though, the situation you describe DID happen with cell phones years ago. Some users did have rates jacked on them, because some contracts let service providers do that. The reason you don't hear about that now is that the cell phone industry has changed, competition and new technology force cell companies to drop rates steadily. The super special introductory rates from 3 months ago are this month's standard rates. When there were only two cell phone frequencies providers could get away with murder and they knew that to _one_ alternative their customers had was no better. With the expanded frequencies we now enjoy, there is true competition forming in the cellular service market.
The cable market is still an almost completely closed market by area. So any given company can charge what ever they feel they can get out of customers.
From what I understand joint sterio is not as nice as you make it out to be. It basicly encodes one 'primary' data stream and two smaller 'difference' data streams, then when it plays back it uses the difference streams to recreate two destinct channels from the primary channel.
In some cases this can be a huge gain, but the more separation there is between the channels, even when you can't hear the separation with your ears, the greater the chance of audible artifacts when encoded with joint sterio.
Also in most cases encodes will not vary how much is dedicated to the various portions of the joint sterio data streams. The primary stream will never get any larger portion of the overall bitstream, the diffence channels will just not show any diffrence. So if you think your better off with a larger center channel then you should be encoding in mono and not sterio. (Even if some would call that heracy)
Some games go way over to the other extream.
Outpost had you press buttons to fuel and launch probes then full and lauch your ship at the start of the game. All very boring and repeditive actions that sould probably not be done by the ships commander, but the theme of micro managing every thing (but what you acrualy want to manage) was a consistant through out the UI.
1.0 is important because it is the point where the programers can sit back and look at what they have done, in it's 'compleated' form. It's the point where they have to ask them selves wether it is good or not.
As a user I always want a new version, with fixes and new stuff to play with.
As a developer I often want to reach a point where I can call it done and feel good about it.
I know what you mean. Years of computer work have altered by biological structure to the point that if I'm away from a CRT for more than an hour or two I begin to feel weak.
I mean, radio has a lot of commercials, and we don't pay for it!
If you want free TV you can pull out a pair of 'Rabit Ears' and get all the free tv you want. Cable provides a Value Added service, you get a cleaner picture and more channels (181 max for standard cable).
GameSpy will be at the top of the list of people buying space in games.
I can't wait till games start poping up a dialog when they start that says "This game was not launched with GameSpy(r), the most popular server borwser. GameSpy, the Windows95 of server browsers."
In my opinion if I'm paying $60 for a game and/or $15/month I don't want a single add in the game, but if the price drops for games with adds then I'm cool with it.
in Jesus' day there were many people in the area of Judea that claimed to be the son of God. Most of them atracted a cult following for about 6 months, they attempting to 'liberate' Gods people lead an attack on some Romen Governmet building and would get killed in the raid or crusified soon after. That was considered commen in those days. After his death his followers would disapear or join some other group.
Jesus managed to get a huge following, some Romen acounts say it was any where from 10 to 100 times the size of the next largest 'Messiah cult'. His follower weeks after his death reapeared and continued to teach in his place, even though many of them were tortured to death for their teachings.
So either he was just better at faking it than the others or he was the son of God.
It was his skills that made him what he was, no mater the source he did have the 1337 134d3r $ki11z.
Saskatchewan in all honesty beats the crap our of most of rural US in infrastructure. Last year we did some studies for a group of Timothy hay growers on the feasability of exporing their hay to the US. While there we asked most of the people we dealt with how they felt about the comunications infrastructure and more spacificly the Internet infrastructure in there area. We found out that a number of years back that the province had gotten a large sum of money that it used to do major upgrades to their comunications systems.
Most people that live in urban and suburban areas have PC's but out side that the number of computers drops sharply.
I live in a semi-rural area of Kansas and there are a lot of people 30 minutes south of here don't have computers. My company has spoken with a number of people in out business dealings that would buy a computer only if they could get decent internet (anything better than 28.8), but no one will start ISP's in these areas because no one has computers.
There is a serious class segregation between the urban 'haves' and the rural 'have nots' in the information age. My company has participated in a number of subcommittees in the Kansas legislature. During which we were told not in so many words that a bunch of farmer would never have any thing to say on the Internet and that farmers probably were not even smart enough to get on the Internet.
Eventually some one will figure out that not every one lives in a city and rural areas will see their communications infrastructure brought up to a more acceptable level. We've spent 5 years trying so we're not holding our breathes.
Verisign, when I checked them out last year, would sign any certificate you sent them, provided you could prove your identity and forked over the cash. They never even asked what httpd you used.
Actualyn they use CSS not JavaScript. There isn't a single tag in the whole page that I could find.
It's still a nasty compatability problem, they should set the font color in the tag for older browsers, but then that goes against to whole purpose of using CSS (separate style from content) so your damned if you do damned if you don't.
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Many metric units are based on the relation of two metric units, often one of them is time.
"One newton is the force required to cause a mass of one kilogram to accelerate at a rate of one meter per second squared"
One of the benifits of the metric system is that these units have simple 1 to 1 relation ships (or at the worst base 10 relation ships) if you change the length of a second the definition of a newton would change to something like "One newton is the force required to cause a mass of one kilogram to accelerate at a rate of one meter per 1.00236283 second squared"
The worth of adjusting time to make it more base 10 pleasent is far less than the trouble it would cause for the metric system. Destory the well ordered relation of units, or redefine all the time dependant units, breaking all scientific equipment.
Your first quote is wrong in two ways ..."
a: Yahoo! is a verb. i.e. "Do you Yahoo!?"
b: it should be writen "I Yahoo!ed for the
This won't force companies to write good OpenGL 2.0 drivers, it will only force them to write drivers that impement those functions that DOOM 3 uses, the other functions may not even be implemented properly or implemeted at all.
As a former VooDoo (various versions) owner this is just fine if you only want to play games made by a few big name companies, but if your like me and looking to play smaller or indy games you'll find that your lucky if the games even run.
My apologies for not running my last post through a spellchecker. I do have significant trouble spelling, and was almost held back in school for it till I was diagnosed with a learning disorder that related to my ability to read and spell. I have stuck a Post-It note on my monitor's edge that reads 'SPEECH not speach' so I will remember next time. =)
(This post is spellchecked for your pleasure)
This can become a great example for the next time games are challenged in court. Political speach is at the very core of what the 1st Amendment is intended to protect. By censoring or banning games courts would now be placing prior restraint on political speach.
I agree with you, there are so many people that unconsciously compare Episode I with the classic trilogy, it could never live up to expectations. Even the comparison to only "A New Hope" will fall short, it builds and foreshadows for the next two movies. After seeing episodes two and three I expect a lot of people that dislike Episode I will find that much of the movie that they disliked was very important to the further story.
My step-father proposed to my mother on 4/1, it was interesting to watch, but she was expecting it since it was the 1 year aniversary of their first date.
24/7/365?!?! You mean running it for 7 years strait?
Seriously though, the situation you describe DID happen with cell phones years ago. Some users did have rates jacked on them, because some contracts let service providers do that. The reason you don't hear about that now is that the cell phone industry has changed, competition and new technology force cell companies to drop rates steadily. The super special introductory rates from 3 months ago are this month's standard rates. When there were only two cell phone frequencies providers could get away with murder and they knew that to _one_ alternative their customers had was no better. With the expanded frequencies we now enjoy, there is true competition forming in the cellular service market.
The cable market is still an almost completely closed market by area. So any given company can charge what ever they feel they can get out of customers.
He did exactly what MS asked, "Because of the severity of the flaws, Slemko withheld publication until Microsoft had an opportunity to correct it."
From what I understand joint sterio is not as nice as you make it out to be. It basicly encodes one 'primary' data stream and two smaller 'difference' data streams, then when it plays back it uses the difference streams to recreate two destinct channels from the primary channel.
In some cases this can be a huge gain, but the more separation there is between the channels, even when you can't hear the separation with your ears, the greater the chance of audible artifacts when encoded with joint sterio.
Also in most cases encodes will not vary how much is dedicated to the various portions of the joint sterio data streams. The primary stream will never get any larger portion of the overall bitstream, the diffence channels will just not show any diffrence. So if you think your better off with a larger center channel then you should be encoding in mono and not sterio. (Even if some would call that heracy)
since when did "propagation of the species" require any intelegence?
real virii propagate but I don't hear any one claiming they have intelegence.
Some games go way over to the other extream.
Outpost had you press buttons to fuel and launch probes then full and lauch your ship at the start of the game. All very boring and repeditive actions that sould probably not be done by the ships commander, but the theme of micro managing every thing (but what you acrualy want to manage) was a consistant through out the UI.
1.0 is important because it is the point where the programers can sit back and look at what they have done, in it's 'compleated' form. It's the point where they have to ask them selves wether it is good or not.
As a user I always want a new version, with fixes and new stuff to play with.
As a developer I often want to reach a point where I can call it done and feel good about it.
I know what you mean. Years of computer work have altered by biological structure to the point that if I'm away from a CRT for more than an hour or two I begin to feel weak.
Are you talking about Rocket Jocky made by Sega Soft?
I mean, radio has a lot of commercials, and we don't pay for it!
If you want free TV you can pull out a pair of 'Rabit Ears' and get all the free tv you want. Cable provides a Value Added service, you get a cleaner picture and more channels (181 max for standard cable).
GameSpy will be at the top of the list of people buying space in games.
I can't wait till games start poping up a dialog when they start that says "This game was not launched with GameSpy(r), the most popular server borwser. GameSpy, the Windows95 of server browsers."
In my opinion if I'm paying $60 for a game and/or $15/month I don't want a single add in the game, but if the price drops for games with adds then I'm cool with it.
in Jesus' day there were many people in the area of Judea that claimed to be the son of God. Most of them atracted a cult following for about 6 months, they attempting to 'liberate' Gods people lead an attack on some Romen Governmet building and would get killed in the raid or crusified soon after. That was considered commen in those days. After his death his followers would disapear or join some other group.
Jesus managed to get a huge following, some Romen acounts say it was any where from 10 to 100 times the size of the next largest 'Messiah cult'. His follower weeks after his death reapeared and continued to teach in his place, even though many of them were tortured to death for their teachings.
So either he was just better at faking it than the others or he was the son of God.
It was his skills that made him what he was, no mater the source he did have the 1337 134d3r $ki11z.
Saskatchewan in all honesty beats the crap our of most of rural US in infrastructure. Last year we did some studies for a group of Timothy hay growers on the feasability of exporing their hay to the US. While there we asked most of the people we dealt with how they felt about the comunications infrastructure and more spacificly the Internet infrastructure in there area. We found out that a number of years back that the province had gotten a large sum of money that it used to do major upgrades to their comunications systems.
Most people that live in urban and suburban areas have PC's but out side that the number of computers drops sharply.
I live in a semi-rural area of Kansas and there are a lot of people 30 minutes south of here don't have computers. My company has spoken with a number of people in out business dealings that would buy a computer only if they could get decent internet (anything better than 28.8), but no one will start ISP's in these areas because no one has computers.
There is a serious class segregation between the urban 'haves' and the rural 'have nots' in the information age. My company has participated in a number of subcommittees in the Kansas legislature. During which we were told not in so many words that a bunch of farmer would never have any thing to say on the Internet and that farmers probably were not even smart enough to get on the Internet.
Eventually some one will figure out that not every one lives in a city and rural areas will see their communications infrastructure brought up to a more acceptable level. We've spent 5 years trying so we're not holding our breathes.
Verisign, when I checked them out last year, would sign any certificate you sent them, provided you could prove your identity and forked over the cash. They never even asked what httpd you used.
That's what dithering is for.
You just need to be careful that you don't put dithers next to visable scan lines, plaids and stripes don't mix.
12345! now I have to change the compination on all my luggage.
sorry, it begged for the propper reply.
Yes but /. isn't deleating the post and trying to sweap it under the rug, or pass it off as something minor.
Actualyn they use CSS not JavaScript. There isn't a single tag in the whole page that I could find.
It's still a nasty compatability problem, they should set the font color in the tag for older browsers, but then that goes against to whole purpose of using CSS (separate style from content) so your damned if you do damned if you don't.