Dear MsResistor. Go fuck yourself. Your friend, me!
Frankly, we don't need to support living a shitty life style. I lived in thsoe types of conditions a long time ago. Yeah it's histoy, but we dont' need to advocate the behaviour.
I suggest you take a course in psychology, specifically group psych and race-and-ethnicity psychology. You'll find I touch upon those things. I'm also appauled that you assume I think that way. If the world was perfect and smart, you'll find these things laughable, but there are people who are of different opinions of you or i.
I'm an OSS fan in general. Linux, FreeBSD, OO, KOffice and all... but if Linux is so successful on the desktop, why do we keep reporting it? How come we never report on the mac desktop or windows desktops being successful?
Movies are quite different and you know that. Actors are what drive the industry. If minorities were only used as criminals, yes, ban them. But we know that's not true. I can easily name movies that had black people, white people and every other type in the position of violence. It is more equal than video games.
In comics, video games and the likes, they are made up. Rather than reflect the facts, which aren't healthy, why not either do something more equal or not at all? Yes, you can be sarcastic if you want and have that whole, everyone represented in one gang with one-of-each BS. Moving away from stereotypes is all that I ask. It doesn't have to be completely mixed each and every time, but c'mmon...
No, not white people can only commit crimes. "redneck" is a very demeaning term. Just like "white trash".
If the movie industry can mix it up between a black or a white president, why can't a black or a white person commit a crime? And you should have complained about Redneck Rampage, otherwise you have little reason to complain now.
One of the many things to reduce prejiduce and dispell stereotypes, is positive exposure.
For instance, the entire "nerd" stereotype. I'm sure there are quite a few nerds here. Heck, by the base definition of just beign smart, I'm a nerd. It doesn't mean that I'm phsically uncoordinated or have a severe inability to interact with people. I don't get sick very often, except when I'm unusally stressed. Never had a bad case of acne. A lot of people follow this line of life. But through exposure, we know that acne + social flaws + uncoordinated isn't tied to being smart.
Another example, the entire cold war "Russians are backwards" stereotype. The biggest thing that's different between Russians and Americans are where they live, the languages spoken and small cultural things. These differences exist between any two cultures to varying degrees. But via exposure, we learn that a lot of thinsg aren't true because we see for ourselevs.
By showing various races in negative stereotypes only reinforces certain ideas. Eventually, one deems for current fact either what isn't fact or isn't even current just because the idea was presented to them, not from some random joe on the street, but a coorporation.
Frankly, I would expect an american company, to have learned from its past and not promote these types of stupidity. In a way, it's disrespectful for what most of us have stood up against. Worse yet, it's plain wrong in that it gives "black", "latino", and any other races that get depicted in this fasion. After all, isn't America supposed to be about equality of people and power? Isn't this just plain slanderous of an entire group of people who will now be seen more as thieves and other assorted criminals? We dont' want to put criminals in power, but minorities should be ok, yet we slight them in this way? Shame on you GTA producers.
Each of my hands, (I have two), in a relatively relaxed open position, are somewhere between 4 and 5 inches wide, from thumb to pinky (narf). When my eyes are tired, focusing on distant objects becomes "hard".
Tiny screen plus uber small keybaord? No tnx. If i have the realestate, I rather have my 18" or however wide keyboard it is + a 19" monitor. For travelling, I rather have something big enough but not outweigh an every-day text book plus wide enough that I'm not squinting and can see my screen, w/o carrying around a full sized monitor.
Which part if the federal crime? The study of reproducing it, the reproduction, the public disclosure or the usage? It's so not black and white, that black and white laws seem inappropriate.
Deadline, features and money. If you have one that's pinned down, you can usually move the other two in your favour.
If the deadline is short, you can either a. hire more people to alleviate some of the work load (doesn't always work) or b. lessen the features. Want it for cheap? Decrease the features. Want more features? increase cost and time.
I used to sit in class and write my notes out. They were quite neat, but I write very slow to stay relatively neat. I may have been lefthanded, who knows. But I always lagged behind my profs.
When I use my laptop, I can copy down most of what is said, near verbatim, as he pauses for people to finish copying, while I can be more verbose. I type 80wpm:)
The same reason the NT boot discs (to boot strap the cd boot process) was 3 floppies. Drivers drivers drivers.
Also, let's not forget a modern monitor supports 1024x768 x 32bit colour easily. Keeping your wallpaper in memory costs at least 2 megs of ram. No I didn't calculate that. I think it comes to ~3 megs. Windows has more support + services to support the support than you can shake a stick at.
I'ms ure if you went with a fine tooth combe though, you can get it to work on lower end machines.
Don't forget the plugin type facilities some of these languages provide, like java and JNI, or perl and XS. I work someplace that does jsut that to get IE in their app to display 1 web page. Kinda lame when java has an text editing widget that does html. Not super spiffy, but it works.
Software rendered or done on a souped up video card, being able to move in 3d, is biggest graphical technology, imho, to come to pass.
Games like double dragon, TMNT (original), street fighter, they all were cool games, but it didn't make sense that you could dodge backwards and vertically (by jumping or ducking) but not in a 3rd dimension. Yes, you you had limited movement in the 3rd dimension, but you couldn't turn diagonally like you could in true 3d games like Mario 64, or Quake or DOOM. Wolfenstein 3d doesn't count btw, no vertical movement;)
That added a lot to the gaming experience over games like Mario Brothers, OutRun or Adventure of Zelda.
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Frankly, we don't need to support living a shitty life style. I lived in thsoe types of conditions a long time ago. Yeah it's histoy, but we dont' need to advocate the behaviour.
I suggest you take a course in psychology, specifically group psych and race-and-ethnicity psychology. You'll find I touch upon those things. I'm also appauled that you assume I think that way. If the world was perfect and smart, you'll find these things laughable, but there are people who are of different opinions of you or i.
Get a small laptop. I use one all the time, even on planes. I use a backback since I typically carry mine a lot.
I'm an OSS fan in general. Linux, FreeBSD, OO, KOffice and all... but if Linux is so successful on the desktop, why do we keep reporting it? How come we never report on the mac desktop or windows desktops being successful?
Just playing devil's advocate.
In comics, video games and the likes, they are made up. Rather than reflect the facts, which aren't healthy, why not either do something more equal or not at all? Yes, you can be sarcastic if you want and have that whole, everyone represented in one gang with one-of-each BS. Moving away from stereotypes is all that I ask. It doesn't have to be completely mixed each and every time, but c'mmon...
No, not white people can only commit crimes. "redneck" is a very demeaning term. Just like "white trash".
If the movie industry can mix it up between a black or a white president, why can't a black or a white person commit a crime? And you should have complained about Redneck Rampage, otherwise you have little reason to complain now.
One of the many things to reduce prejiduce and dispell stereotypes, is positive exposure.
For instance, the entire "nerd" stereotype. I'm sure there are quite a few nerds here. Heck, by the base definition of just beign smart, I'm a nerd. It doesn't mean that I'm phsically uncoordinated or have a severe inability to interact with people. I don't get sick very often, except when I'm unusally stressed. Never had a bad case of acne. A lot of people follow this line of life. But through exposure, we know that acne + social flaws + uncoordinated isn't tied to being smart.
Another example, the entire cold war "Russians are backwards" stereotype. The biggest thing that's different between Russians and Americans are where they live, the languages spoken and small cultural things. These differences exist between any two cultures to varying degrees. But via exposure, we learn that a lot of thinsg aren't true because we see for ourselevs.
By showing various races in negative stereotypes only reinforces certain ideas. Eventually, one deems for current fact either what isn't fact or isn't even current just because the idea was presented to them, not from some random joe on the street, but a coorporation.
Frankly, I would expect an american company, to have learned from its past and not promote these types of stupidity. In a way, it's disrespectful for what most of us have stood up against. Worse yet, it's plain wrong in that it gives "black", "latino", and any other races that get depicted in this fasion. After all, isn't America supposed to be about equality of people and power? Isn't this just plain slanderous of an entire group of people who will now be seen more as thieves and other assorted criminals? We dont' want to put criminals in power, but minorities should be ok, yet we slight them in this way? Shame on you GTA producers.
Each of my hands, (I have two), in a relatively relaxed open position, are somewhere between 4 and 5 inches wide, from thumb to pinky (narf). When my eyes are tired, focusing on distant objects becomes "hard".
Tiny screen plus uber small keybaord? No tnx. If i have the realestate, I rather have my 18" or however wide keyboard it is + a 19" monitor. For travelling, I rather have something big enough but not outweigh an every-day text book plus wide enough that I'm not squinting and can see my screen, w/o carrying around a full sized monitor.
Which part if the federal crime? The study of reproducing it, the reproduction, the public disclosure or the usage? It's so not black and white, that black and white laws seem inappropriate.
Actually it's 3.
Deadline, features and money. If you have one that's pinned down, you can usually move the other two in your favour.
If the deadline is short, you can either a. hire more people to alleviate some of the work load (doesn't always work) or b. lessen the features. Want it for cheap? Decrease the features. Want more features? increase cost and time.
30 does NOT make you old.
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I used to sit in class and write my notes out. They were quite neat, but I write very slow to stay relatively neat. I may have been lefthanded, who knows. But I always lagged behind my profs.
When I use my laptop, I can copy down most of what is said, near verbatim, as he pauses for people to finish copying, while I can be more verbose. I type 80wpm
Amen. and i have an ibook 850. I get 5.5 max on max(dim)+1 and low processor speed.
Claiming ignorance doesn't exempt you from the law.
Use it next to my G5? :)
Funny, I've chatted from there too. I mean.. er..
Also, let's not forget a modern monitor supports 1024x768 x 32bit colour easily. Keeping your wallpaper in memory costs at least 2 megs of ram. No I didn't calculate that. I think it comes to ~3 megs. Windows has more support + services to support the support than you can shake a stick at.
I'ms ure if you went with a fine tooth combe though, you can get it to work on lower end machines.
Yes, that big DISC icon is so easy to confuse with a FOLDER icon.
j2me = java 2 MICRO edition (java.sun.com/j2me)
Cool.. maybe their flights will now be ontime. Oh wait, I thought you said liat
Yeah, that whole JNI for plugging into java, definitely cross platform.
And as for porting over easy, don't forget, interpreters will inevitably have bugs which cause them to act differently.
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Don't forget the plugin type facilities some of these languages provide, like java and JNI, or perl and XS. I work someplace that does jsut that to get IE in their app to display 1 web page. Kinda lame when java has an text editing widget that does html. Not super spiffy, but it works.
Games like double dragon, TMNT (original), street fighter, they all were cool games, but it didn't make sense that you could dodge backwards and vertically (by jumping or ducking) but not in a 3rd dimension. Yes, you you had limited movement in the 3rd dimension, but you couldn't turn diagonally like you could in true 3d games like Mario 64, or Quake or DOOM. Wolfenstein 3d doesn't count btw, no vertical movement
That added a lot to the gaming experience over games like Mario Brothers, OutRun or Adventure of Zelda.
Too bad you (proverbial you) weren't using perl. A bit more mature and all..
Isn't that just called a Karnaugh map?