Free people reserve the right not to support their detractors.
What this is, however, is an embarrassment for Apple, increasing the infamy of the discussion, rather than squelching it, as other, coincidentally also free people, point out what Apple's doing so they can be mocked and criticized.
Vulcan, God of the Forge: (Leans close) Well, you see, all you do is sit harmlessly, thousands of miles away from the battlefield and just push...the...button [pushes her cute nose.]
Well, it's doubtful with almost a kiloposts that anyone'll read this, but...
You do realize that "financial failure" is not the correct yardstick when measuring the benefits of copyrights, et al. w.r.t. engendering creative work, don't you?
Just reducing profits (a separate issue, as I'm sure many here would be happy to pipe up about) would reduce the number of creative works, in accordance with supply and demand.
Now I know many people want to believe artists do it for the artistic integrity of it, the way doctors research cures for the integrity of it, and that money plays little or no part. (Or, more accurately, should play no part, in our fantasy world of other people working to benefit us for memetic reasons.)
But that air your starting to hyperventilate is part of what's known as the "real world". As in "You think that's air you're breathing? Humph."
I first noticed this firing up the old Quake with its software renderer on a more modern machine (PII in that case, vs. Pentium Pro)
Though blocky as hell, it was like looking through a window at a real world. It was that smooth, even when turning and moving. Now that I think about it, it's kind of like the super-fast framerate on some parts of sporting events. Each frame is so fast there's no blur, much less stutter.
Unfortunately, graphics cards, no matter how powerful, cannot keep up with that unless you are not, as mentioned, moving, which causes stutter as well as generally slower framerates.
3dfx, just before they went out of business, went 180 degrees the wrong way, adding motion blur to their cards, as if it was a feature, instead of a defective liability from the movies and TV.
'Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not [trying] to sell it,' Russo said, just before going to jail for hacking, much less mebbe selling.
In the one video from New Mexico someone posted, in the beginning the officer told him to back away, so he went across the street and down the street a bit, which is all on the video. So even "interfering with police authority" would not stick there.
It is. The government likes to play word games like it's a "privilege", yet roadways and "rights of way" when applied to long-established paths, and people moving about with horses and carriages, have been around a lot longer than the car, or governments shoving their snoot into roads.
One of the other posts said the government could yank this "privilege" for any reason at all. I doubt that, as the government could not, in fact, do that simply to stop you from moving around for its own political benefit, as opposed to you are a crook or drive like an idiot, or drunk. Equality under the law and all that.
You mean where you shoot each other dozens of times and people don't die?
Talk about immersion busting.
Prolly the worst example is the huge Gatling gun in City of Heroes held by the Council NPCs. It'd be like standing in front of that thing in Predator. Yet a squishy is hardly affected by one.
Here's some immersion busters I've seen over the years, aside from the curious lack of the power of guns.
1. Catching on fire doesn't make the person run screaming or rolling on the ground.
2. A 10 foot tall ogre who looks like he could bench press at least 14,000 pounds swings a 10 foot, 200 pound sword at a little gnome in cloth, who must wear cloth lest their delicate magic casting hand movements be disrupted, does not, for all that effort, actually disrupt the delicate hand movements.
3. Being frozen solid doesn't kill the person when it melts, which should take 4-8 hours, depending.
4. "Boiling the blood" of skeletons. Causing zombies and skeletons to "bleed". "Hamstringing" a skeleton. Et al.
5. EQ2: Creating a butterfly fairy race that can't actually fly, but "floats", i.e. slides along the ground, translated 2 feet up in the air, such that you have to "hop" over logs.
God effing forbid someone be a fairy to take advantage of flying over logs, much less actually flying unrestricted, ala City of Heroes.
6. Jedi who can't take out 3-5 Boba Wannabees simultaneously. Yes, I know the balancing issue, and I wouldn't wanna solve it. But that's different from immersion *SMASHING*. And we won't even get started on dogs and giraffes that can have 5 guys with lasers and one guy with a flamethrower shoot it point blank for 60 seconds before it dies.
7. Like lemmings would just walk off a ledge.
8. What's with all these elves and gnomes and stuff anyway? Those don't exist!
9. And what's with "balanced" fighting anyway? "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you haven't done your homework." Why even attempt it when you'll just be dead in a few fights, if you're very lucky?
10. And who comes back to life, anyway? That's the very definition of fiction.
And a bonus, the rare "plasma fire" put out by choking off the oxygen. Plasma is atomic nuclei bouncing around with no electrons. Thus chemistry cannot occur. Dr. Crusher should know better; Geordi most certainly should!
FYI, famous supporters of the left are hurt a lot more by entertainment piracy than the right.
You have a collision of "my side is right!" memes. Haven't seen something so funny since Hollywood bailed on boycotting Colorado because some powerful billionaire producer had just built a ski resort there.
> It's like taking advanced college physics and never hearing of Feynman.
I don't know. Many posts around here show he's more important as an aggregator of algorithms rather than a producer of new stuff. He's more Carl Sagan than Einstein or Newton. This is an important position, don't get me wrong. But there was a big row on admitting Carl Sagan to the American Academy of Scientists, which was for the Einstein type of scientist. (I think he did get a more honorary award for popularizing science...)
Now, I assume if he's announcing something, then it's because he did it and not someone else (e.g. P ?= NP) And if it's something like that, then we're all wrong that he's just a catalogger.
I had not heard of him until CS grad school for an MS. Prof heaved a book at me when researching speed optimizations for my stuff for rand() and various sorting methods. IRRC, vol. 2 of Knuth.
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It's only censorship when the government does it.
Free people reserve the right not to support their detractors.
What this is, however, is an embarrassment for Apple, increasing the infamy of the discussion, rather than squelching it, as other, coincidentally also free people, point out what Apple's doing so they can be mocked and criticized.
This article gets my seal of approval!
Little Girl: That's horrible!
Vulcan, God of the Forge: (Leans close) Well, you see, all you do is sit harmlessly, thousands of miles away from the battlefield and just push...the...button [pushes her cute nose.]
UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria
So what? Bobby Fischer started doing this 20 years ago!
Jeebus H. Christ, I thought someone hooked up a chess piece-moving robot arm to one of these web chess sites several years ago.
Well, it's doubtful with almost a kiloposts that anyone'll read this, but...
You do realize that "financial failure" is not the correct yardstick when measuring the benefits of copyrights, et al. w.r.t. engendering creative work, don't you?
Just reducing profits (a separate issue, as I'm sure many here would be happy to pipe up about) would reduce the number of creative works, in accordance with supply and demand.
Now I know many people want to believe artists do it for the artistic integrity of it, the way doctors research cures for the integrity of it, and that money plays little or no part. (Or, more accurately, should play no part, in our fantasy world of other people working to benefit us for memetic reasons.)
But that air your starting to hyperventilate is part of what's known as the "real world". As in "You think that's air you're breathing? Humph."
China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest
I'm fine with that.
Well, don't forget the 18 billion percent VAT tax (hidden inside the displayed price), import duties, and god knows what.
60 fps adds a super-realism, though.
I first noticed this firing up the old Quake with its software renderer on a more modern machine (PII in that case, vs. Pentium Pro)
Though blocky as hell, it was like looking through a window at a real world. It was that smooth, even when turning and moving. Now that I think about it, it's kind of like the super-fast framerate on some parts of sporting events. Each frame is so fast there's no blur, much less stutter.
Unfortunately, graphics cards, no matter how powerful, cannot keep up with that unless you are not, as mentioned, moving, which causes stutter as well as generally slower framerates.
3dfx, just before they went out of business, went 180 degrees the wrong way, adding motion blur to their cards, as if it was a feature, instead of a defective liability from the movies and TV.
120 Hz is good for 3D with shutter glasses; each eye gets 60 fps.
Want that, and in the 3-wide monitor configuration. Don't care about lameass flat pseudo-3D anymore. :)
It's called a state machine. It's a marvelous invention. Look into it.
'Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not [trying] to sell it,' Russo said, just before going to jail for hacking, much less mebbe selling.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saddo
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[edit]Pronunciation
Rhymes: -æd
[edit]Noun
saddo (plural saddos)
A pathetic or socially inept person; a nerd.
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Ok. Who brought the dog?
In the one video from New Mexico someone posted, in the beginning the officer told him to back away, so he went across the street and down the street a bit, which is all on the video. So even "interfering with police authority" would not stick there.
It is. The government likes to play word games like it's a "privilege", yet roadways and "rights of way" when applied to long-established paths, and people moving about with horses and carriages, have been around a lot longer than the car, or governments shoving their snoot into roads.
One of the other posts said the government could yank this "privilege" for any reason at all. I doubt that, as the government could not, in fact, do that simply to stop you from moving around for its own political benefit, as opposed to you are a crook or drive like an idiot, or drunk. Equality under the law and all that.
> California looks more and more like Rome at the end of its life.
Thank you. Don't any of the 60 million people there realize this and care?
Clippied before his prime, eh?
You mean where you shoot each other dozens of times and people don't die?
Talk about immersion busting.
Prolly the worst example is the huge Gatling gun in City of Heroes held by the Council NPCs. It'd be like standing in front of that thing in Predator. Yet a squishy is hardly affected by one.
Here's some immersion busters I've seen over the years, aside from the curious lack of the power of guns.
1. Catching on fire doesn't make the person run screaming or rolling on the ground.
2. A 10 foot tall ogre who looks like he could bench press at least 14,000 pounds swings a 10 foot, 200 pound sword at a little gnome in cloth, who must wear cloth lest their delicate magic casting hand movements be disrupted, does not, for all that effort, actually disrupt the delicate hand movements.
3. Being frozen solid doesn't kill the person when it melts, which should take 4-8 hours, depending.
4. "Boiling the blood" of skeletons. Causing zombies and skeletons to "bleed". "Hamstringing" a skeleton. Et al.
5. EQ2: Creating a butterfly fairy race that can't actually fly, but "floats", i.e. slides along the ground, translated 2 feet up in the air, such that you have to "hop" over logs.
God effing forbid someone be a fairy to take advantage of flying over logs, much less actually flying unrestricted, ala City of Heroes.
6. Jedi who can't take out 3-5 Boba Wannabees simultaneously. Yes, I know the balancing issue, and I wouldn't wanna solve it. But that's different from immersion *SMASHING*. And we won't even get started on dogs and giraffes that can have 5 guys with lasers and one guy with a flamethrower shoot it point blank for 60 seconds before it dies.
7. Like lemmings would just walk off a ledge.
8. What's with all these elves and gnomes and stuff anyway? Those don't exist!
9. And what's with "balanced" fighting anyway? "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you haven't done your homework." Why even attempt it when you'll just be dead in a few fights, if you're very lucky?
10. And who comes back to life, anyway? That's the very definition of fiction.
And a bonus, the rare "plasma fire" put out by choking off the oxygen. Plasma is atomic nuclei bouncing around with no electrons. Thus chemistry cannot occur. Dr. Crusher should know better; Geordi most certainly should!
> Males Doing Cosplay Put Themselves To Shame
Fixed.
Mods, don't hate! Can we get back to chick cosplay in 3 grams of cloth or less?
FYI, famous supporters of the left are hurt a lot more by entertainment piracy than the right.
You have a collision of "my side is right!" memes. Haven't seen something so funny since Hollywood bailed on boycotting Colorado because some powerful billionaire producer had just built a ski resort there.
Well, why not? Germans use bees to monitor pastry quality at pastry shops in the Black Forest and elsewhere.
>> No woman I know would allow such a thing to happen. :-)
>>
> You obviously move in the wrong circles
You forget this is slashdot. His statement is technically true.
> It's like taking advanced college physics and never hearing of Feynman.
I don't know. Many posts around here show he's more important as an aggregator of algorithms rather than a producer of new stuff. He's more Carl Sagan than Einstein or Newton. This is an important position, don't get me wrong. But there was a big row on admitting Carl Sagan to the American Academy of Scientists, which was for the Einstein type of scientist. (I think he did get a more honorary award for popularizing science...)
Now, I assume if he's announcing something, then it's because he did it and not someone else (e.g. P ?= NP) And if it's something like that, then we're all wrong that he's just a catalogger.
I had not heard of him until CS grad school for an MS. Prof heaved a book at me when researching speed optimizations for my stuff for rand() and various sorting methods. IRRC, vol. 2 of Knuth.