He ordered a mandatory evacuation, the first in our city's 400-year history. This caused many, many people that might have stayed to leave and saved many lives.
Also, who is going to drive those 500 buses in the middle of a cat5 hurricane? 500 suicidal bus drivers? Maybe 500 national guardsman... Let's link that The Onion article again:
I don't think you realize what Lian-Li has done for some people. My computer was a wreck before Lian-Li, both functionally and cosmetically. After an easy setup with my new Lian-Li case, I was cooling better than I ever had. And what a difference aluminum makes, let me tell you. No more hernias or severed arteries for me.
And the look, man the look. Smooth. Cool. Sleek. I guess you could say it's a hit with the ladies. I don't mean to brag, but lets just say that I've received more oral sex from my co-workers since I set up my Lian-Li case than I've received in my entire life.
And Lian-Li is a company with morals and genuine care for things small and helpless. When a community needs a new animal shelter, Lian-Li is proud to put up the initial funds. When my house was burning down and my baby was still inside, Lian-Li said, "To hell with the danger!" and rushed inside. Two minutes later he emerged, scorched flesh and hair ablaze, and handed me my sooty but safe gene-bearer.
If there ever were a company that deserved one of your kidneys, much less your money, it would be Lian-Li. God bless you Lian-Li, and God bless the America that imports you.
Emulating an older handheld on a linux port on a newer handheld. It should run at the speed of irony. Almost as bad as having to use PearPC to run your Classic apps on your IntelMac. Commercials make fun of themselves nowadays. DR17 is in alpha. Bloggers are considered news. Young people are all meaningless sluts, sexy as termites to a wood-fetishist. To help me quit smoking I've started drinking. Sarcasm is not an effective counter to stupidity. I am not a good judge of character when it comes to monotype. Pointing out peoples' contradictions will cause them to be fiercely ironic. Why does no one get that George Bush is just nervous because it's his first time being reelected. They'd need a catapult to reach the lowest common denominator. If we all sewed our pants together we would have a very large pair of pants. There used to be this guy who said he poured hot grits down his pants, but he was lying. I used to work with a guy who would joke about tying fags to the back of trucks. Some people use nigger as an adjective, adverb, verb, and noun. I yell at my son when I'm not feeling well. I would yell at your son if I was not feeling well. More people are racist in the South, but more people have interracial relationships in the South. If the majority of people are on the fringes of society, is society the fringe? I miss dithering in my video games. Generation X was too ironic to be defined by a soft drink. Generation Y is too ironic to acknowledge being ironic. When I feel insecure, I have 16 seasons of the Simpsons to quote. This message has been brought to you by alcohol, fear, nihilism, hope, laughter at the previous three because of the first, and the letter #
Actually Apple bought NeXT several years ago. I guess they must have put some of the NeXT stuff to use somehow. The guy running NeXT got some senior management job or something, too. I think he even got his start at Apple back in the early 80's.
The 'wisdom' of the UN was just sit idle and let Saddam keep manufacturing WMD's and endanger the peace and security of the United States.
These inneffectual, corrupt bastards would have just waited for Saddam's regime to crumble rather than take swift military action and a years-long occupation that would cause the death of tens of thousands of people.
Thank God we've got a government here that's actually got the balls to act when necessary, to kill some goddam terrorists. One that will stand up to these cowards and their pathetic goal of world peace through diplomacy, acting with force only when there's no other alternative.
Yeah like I'd trust those fuckers! Bringing us crap like UNICEF, human rights committees, peace treaties between and within warring nations, war crimes tribunals, socioeconomic assistance to underdeveloped nations, women's rights advocacy, and other such horrors! Corruption!! Secularism!! Un-american, because they represent the entire rest of the world instead of just us!!
Appalling, t'is, though I still wouldn't trust them to regulate information in any way.
Of course Valve, id, and 3DRealms haven't sold out. They've produced three of the most popular PC games ever. Every indie studio can find this kind of success? This is your arguement? Matt Mihaly has been in business for almost ten years, yet he's nowhere near capable of (financially) pulling off even the simplest 3D graphical MUD.
Most indie developers will never have a couple hundred thousand in the bank. Few can even live simply on their game profits alone. This goes for popular indie games like digital eel's and the garagegames stuff.
The point of the Burning Down the House panel, the point the OA didn't get and that you apparently don't get is that the distribution models that allowed the smaller and indie developers to get their games on the shelf at EB and Babbages are gone. There are only a few publishers left, and the big retailers work almost exclusively with them. They focus 90% on console releases. The very small space left for PC games holds only Activision, Atari, EA, and VU releases.
id's and 3DRealms' first games where shareware, which is no longer viable. Valve had the financial support of a big publisher. The environment that allowed Bullfrog and Maxis (not Wright's first venture, he made atari games first) to prosper is gone, long gone.
The only real option for creative freedom is to self-publish, as do Irrational and Bethesda. Irrational's case shows that you don't have to make a Doom or Simcity to be in a position to do so.
They're weren't any to begin with. We were lied to. It was a scare tactic to get us to go to war with Amazon and get their IP, possibly use it as a staging point to go after more tech firms.
Of course, now we're 'fighting to defeat frivolous patents and securing software freedom'. I guess that means we're eyeing IBM and Sun.
Of course he is the largest contributer to charity. He is also the richest man on Earth.
Ignorance or blind hatred, I'm not sure and I don't really care.
Many, if not most, rich people give almost nothing to charity. The Waltons (some of them) are worth 1/4 of Bill, but give almost nothing to charity.
In other words he doesn't feel the difference. On the contrary giving away money gives hime a sense of achievement, some kind of warm feeling, etc.
I'd probably feel the differnece if I gave away 1/5 of my money to charity. And you know else gets a warm feeling? The thousands or millions who will get innoculations because of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. What bastards.
Essentially this guy is taking money that I've earned to give to his ideas of charity for his own ends, and this is simply not a kind of thought that I enjoy.
Yes, the way he gives to charity makes me mad too. MS makes Union Carbide, Nike, Walmart, Lockheed, and Halliburton look like angels.
Avalon needs a GeForce 5 for the same reason Core Image needs a GeForce 5: pixel shaders 2.0. And it's not 'needs' in either case. They can scale the image effects based on the hardware of the machine.
Retaining the vector information would requite no architectural changes be made to QE
I don't know if that's true, but it would be great if it were. Then you could accelerate scaling, translating, rotating, filling, and animating vector graphics. You could even design the whole UI in vector graphics. And demand everyone have 3GHz processors, 2 GB of memory, and GeForce 5's just to run the OS. Like Avalon/Aero.
Until they do rework their renderer, Avalon is more advanced. Though MS may not produce anything more advanced than Aqua with it. I guess we'll see; things should get much better from both camps.
On an unrelated note, on Panther, and with Tiger upcoming, the interface is so polished that everything else feels six years behind. I can't help wondering what Apple will offer to compete with Microsoft in the update after Tiger, which might be coming out the year Longhorn ships if Longhorn doesn't delay again. Longhorn sounds like they're ripping off a ton of OS X technology, like a new display technology, hardware-accelerated window drawing, and so on. And what new apps will take advantage of.NET? Adobe, Macromedia, id Software, and so on aren't going to rewrite their apps in unmanaged C++.NET code just to fit in. At least on OS X, Apple offered the Carbon APIs to allow old apps to compile with few changes and suddenly take advantage of the new environment.
Longhorn will still run Win32 apps.
Unmanaged C++.NET is highly ISO Standard-compliant C++.
Quartz Extreme doesn't retain the vector information of the graphics. It only accelerates the compositing of bitmaps (vector graphic info is rasterized into bitmaps beforehand and discarded, immediate-mode style). Avalon's rendering retains the vector information right up to rasterization, allowing the vector graphics themselves to be hardware-accelerated. This might be inspired by display postscript/pdf, but it does [will sometime in 2006] do more [than Apple does in January 2005].
...the animal gnu (also called the wildabeast) is pronounced with a silent G...
Yes, but the Gnu (or wildebeest -- the Afrikaans name) is GNU's mascot, as seen on their site. This makes the arguement for the pronunciation a little more difficult.
Wikipedia has a writeup on the wildebeest that may be a source of the mispronunciaiton:
The erroneous (but common) pronunciation 'g-noo' is largely due to the comic song 'A G-nu' by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, in which all words starting with n have a g prepended: 'I'm a g-nu, I'm a g-nu, the g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo.'
And for some quick facts about the Gnu (if you're feeling desparately metaphorical):
Behavior: The gnu is active both day and night, constantly moving. It generally lives in herds numbering several thousand. In periods of drought the herd moves toward watering holes during dry weather, but when the rains arrive the herds tend to scatter. It feeds mainly on grass, showing distinct preferences for certain kinds of grass. In the breeding period the males strive to isolate harems of females. After a few hours or days they rejoin the main herd. The gnu is a major prey species for many of the large predators, including lions, cheetahs, and wild dogs.
The unifying factor is pixel shaders--that's the hardware that Core Image takes advantage of. All of these cards have at least ps_2_0. I'm not that familiar with pixel shaders, so I'm not sure how difficult it would be to scale the effects down to the 9200's 1.2 (I think) shaders.
Ever heard of MONO, the software that lets you run.NET apps for Linux? Anyway, what use is having a software that runs everywhere, if its clumsy interface reduces productivity to a mere 20 or 10%?
I'm surprised you're so impressed by Mono, being as its UI is powered by gtk (the Gimp Toolkit) on Windows/Linux. Anyway, nice troll.
Well, if you don't mind sub-GBA graphics, no backlight, and a very limited selection of games, get a Neo-Geo Pocket Color off of ebay for $30 (w/ $5-$15 games). Came out in 1998. 40 hours of batt life easy!
The video ran for 20 minutes, with commercials. They only took two (more like 1 1/2) questions from the crowd. It seems someone didn't like what he was saying.
Some people are complaining about the commercials in the video. I say keep them. They really show the absurdity of the whole situation (Anderson Cooper: News Anchor, Jeopardy Champion). This video is historical as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully it's something we'll look back on with disgust and regret; 10 years from now after legislation regulates the size and consolidation of media companies and breaks breaks up Knight-Ridder, Gannet, News Corp., and Time-Warner's news divisions.
Of course this instantly deteriorates into a discussion about the shameful state of IP and copyright laws, the need to pool all human knowledge, and how crappy the US budget deficit is.
If you go to the LOC's site, you'll notice American Memory on the front page.
American Memory is where you can get a good portion of the public domain stuff (books, letters from immigrants to their families back home, photos of civil war enlistees, audio, Edison-era short movies) for free in a low-quality format. Archival quality copies and custom scans/recordings are available for $$$. Almost any work in the LOC can be scanned on request (3 week waiting time or so); this is how they manage to continue adding scans to their collection without requiring public or private funding. It's underfunded as it is and needs more bandwidth.
This idiot in the article's proposal is completely unrealistic. Books can contain 100,000 to 5,000,000 characters. That's 100k-5Mb per book, times 26,000,000 books. That's not including the images and illustrations in some of these works. Many of the texts have value beyond the words they contain. We may be talking about image scanning the pages to preserve the look of the type, paper, and images. Archival TIFFs, since that's what the LOC uses.
The article also mentions $60 thousand to 'store' this data (per month?, per year?, just once???, what about access?, searching?, redundant backups?). Another unrealistic number, even working off of the 1TB estimate.
Eh? You can't make innovative games with DirectX? And this is because writing your own graphics/sound/resource management/music/network code somehow makes the game more innovative?
The reason people use DirectX is because it lets them MAKE THEIR GAME instead of rewriting the entire mutlimedia/network/etc. codebase for each title.
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He ordered a mandatory evacuation, the first in our city's 400-year history. This caused many, many people that might have stayed to leave and saved many lives.
Also, who is going to drive those 500 buses in the middle of a cat5 hurricane? 500 suicidal bus drivers? Maybe 500 national guardsman... Let's link that The Onion article again:
Louisiana National Guard Offers Help By Phone From Iraq.
Blatant? Hardly.
I don't think you realize what Lian-Li has done for some people. My computer was a wreck before Lian-Li, both functionally and cosmetically. After an easy setup with my new Lian-Li case, I was cooling better than I ever had. And what a difference aluminum makes, let me tell you. No more hernias or severed arteries for me.
And the look, man the look. Smooth. Cool. Sleek. I guess you could say it's a hit with the ladies. I don't mean to brag, but lets just say that I've received more oral sex from my co-workers since I set up my Lian-Li case than I've received in my entire life.
And Lian-Li is a company with morals and genuine care for things small and helpless. When a community needs a new animal shelter, Lian-Li is proud to put up the initial funds. When my house was burning down and my baby was still inside, Lian-Li said, "To hell with the danger!" and rushed inside. Two minutes later he emerged, scorched flesh and hair ablaze, and handed me my sooty but safe gene-bearer.
If there ever were a company that deserved one of your kidneys, much less your money, it would be Lian-Li. God bless you Lian-Li, and God bless the America that imports you.
Emulating an older handheld on a linux port on a newer handheld. It should run at the speed of irony. Almost as bad as having to use PearPC to run your Classic apps on your IntelMac. Commercials make fun of themselves nowadays. DR17 is in alpha. Bloggers are considered news. Young people are all meaningless sluts, sexy as termites to a wood-fetishist. To help me quit smoking I've started drinking. Sarcasm is not an effective counter to stupidity. I am not a good judge of character when it comes to monotype. Pointing out peoples' contradictions will cause them to be fiercely ironic. Why does no one get that George Bush is just nervous because it's his first time being reelected. They'd need a catapult to reach the lowest common denominator. If we all sewed our pants together we would have a very large pair of pants. There used to be this guy who said he poured hot grits down his pants, but he was lying. I used to work with a guy who would joke about tying fags to the back of trucks. Some people use nigger as an adjective, adverb, verb, and noun. I yell at my son when I'm not feeling well. I would yell at your son if I was not feeling well. More people are racist in the South, but more people have interracial relationships in the South. If the majority of people are on the fringes of society, is society the fringe? I miss dithering in my video games. Generation X was too ironic to be defined by a soft drink. Generation Y is too ironic to acknowledge being ironic. When I feel insecure, I have 16 seasons of the Simpsons to quote. This message has been brought to you by alcohol, fear, nihilism, hope, laughter at the previous three because of the first, and the letter #
Soooo, we'll need to run PearPC on our Macs, now. I hope there's a, uh, port in the works (?)
Make sure you have a Plan B
Explain that this CD will remove his spyware
Afterwards it should be easier to get him to go along with Plan A
I think it's the Kansas State Board of Education that putting out the flamebait.
Actually Apple bought NeXT several years ago. I guess they must have put some of the NeXT stuff to use somehow. The guy running NeXT got some senior management job or something, too. I think he even got his start at Apple back in the early 80's.
Right on, brother.
The 'wisdom' of the UN was just sit idle and let Saddam keep manufacturing WMD's and endanger the peace and security of the United States.
These inneffectual, corrupt bastards would have just waited for Saddam's regime to crumble rather than take swift military action and a years-long occupation that would cause the death of tens of thousands of people.
Thank God we've got a government here that's actually got the balls to act when necessary, to kill some goddam terrorists. One that will stand up to these cowards and their pathetic goal of world peace through diplomacy, acting with force only when there's no other alternative.
Yeah like I'd trust those fuckers!
Bringing us crap like UNICEF, human rights committees, peace treaties between and within warring nations, war crimes tribunals, socioeconomic assistance to underdeveloped nations, women's rights advocacy, and other such horrors! Corruption!! Secularism!! Un-american, because they represent the entire rest of the world instead of just us!!
Appalling, t'is, though I still wouldn't trust them to regulate information in any way.
Of course Valve, id, and 3DRealms haven't sold out. They've produced three of the most popular PC games ever. Every indie studio can find this kind of success? This is your arguement? Matt Mihaly has been in business for almost ten years, yet he's nowhere near capable of (financially) pulling off even the simplest 3D graphical MUD.
Most indie developers will never have a couple hundred thousand in the bank. Few can even live simply on their game profits alone. This goes for popular indie games like digital eel's and the garagegames stuff.
The point of the Burning Down the House panel, the point the OA didn't get and that you apparently don't get is that the distribution models that allowed the smaller and indie developers to get their games on the shelf at EB and Babbages are gone. There are only a few publishers left, and the big retailers work almost exclusively with them. They focus 90% on console releases. The very small space left for PC games holds only Activision, Atari, EA, and VU releases.
id's and 3DRealms' first games where shareware, which is no longer viable. Valve had the financial support of a big publisher. The environment that allowed Bullfrog and Maxis (not Wright's first venture, he made atari games first) to prosper is gone, long gone.
The only real option for creative freedom is to self-publish, as do Irrational and Bethesda. Irrational's case shows that you don't have to make a Doom or Simcity to be in a position to do so.
The CLR is ported to OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and other Unices, along with most of the framework.
...for several years now.
Much work has been done on the port of Windows.Forms on top of GTK, Cairo, and Quartz ( magnitude in that order ).
They're weren't any to begin with. We were lied to. It was a scare tactic to get us to go to war with Amazon and get their IP, possibly use it as a staging point to go after more tech firms.
Of course, now we're 'fighting to defeat frivolous patents and securing software freedom'. I guess that means we're eyeing IBM and Sun.
Of course he is the largest contributer to charity. He is also the richest man on Earth.
Ignorance or blind hatred, I'm not sure and I don't really care.
Many, if not most, rich people give almost nothing to charity. The Waltons (some of them) are worth 1/4 of Bill, but give almost nothing to charity.
In other words he doesn't feel the difference. On the contrary giving away money gives hime a sense of achievement, some kind of warm feeling, etc.
I'd probably feel the differnece if I gave away 1/5 of my money to charity. And you know else gets a warm feeling? The thousands or millions who will get innoculations because of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. What bastards.
Essentially this guy is taking money that I've earned to give to his ideas of charity for his own ends, and this is simply not a kind of thought that I enjoy.
Yes, the way he gives to charity makes me mad too. MS makes Union Carbide, Nike, Walmart, Lockheed, and Halliburton look like angels.
Avalon needs a GeForce 5 for the same reason Core Image needs a GeForce 5: pixel shaders 2.0. And it's not 'needs' in either case. They can scale the image effects based on the hardware of the machine.
Retaining the vector information would requite no architectural changes be made to QE
I don't know if that's true, but it would be great if it were. Then you could accelerate scaling, translating, rotating, filling, and animating vector graphics. You could even design the whole UI in vector graphics. And demand everyone have 3GHz processors, 2 GB of memory, and GeForce 5's just to run the OS. Like Avalon/Aero.
Until they do rework their renderer, Avalon is more advanced. Though MS may not produce anything more advanced than Aqua with it. I guess we'll see; things should get much better from both camps.
On an unrelated note, on Panther, and with Tiger upcoming, the interface is so polished that everything else feels six years behind. I can't help wondering what Apple will offer to compete with Microsoft in the update after Tiger, which might be coming out the year Longhorn ships if Longhorn doesn't delay again. Longhorn sounds like they're ripping off a ton of OS X technology, like a new display technology, hardware-accelerated window drawing, and so on. And what new apps will take advantage of .NET? Adobe, Macromedia, id Software, and so on aren't going to rewrite their apps in unmanaged C++ .NET code just to fit in. At least on OS X, Apple offered the Carbon APIs to allow old apps to compile with few changes and suddenly take advantage of the new environment.
.NET is highly ISO Standard-compliant C++.
Longhorn will still run Win32 apps.
Unmanaged C++
Quartz Extreme doesn't retain the vector information of the graphics. It only accelerates the compositing of bitmaps (vector graphic info is rasterized into bitmaps beforehand and discarded, immediate-mode style). Avalon's rendering retains the vector information right up to rasterization, allowing the vector graphics themselves to be hardware-accelerated. This might be inspired by display postscript/pdf, but it does [will sometime in 2006] do more [than Apple does in January 2005].
For a second I thought they were allowing wildcards in trademarks. I guess someone would have trademarked '*' by now.
2) a black eye for going after people who don't like them
Actually, it's two black eyes for going after people who do like them.
Like them very much and run websites enthusiastically promoting their unreleased gadgets.
Go Apple.
Yes, but the Gnu (or wildebeest -- the Afrikaans name) is GNU's mascot, as seen on their site. This makes the arguement for the pronunciation a little more difficult.
Wikipedia has a writeup on the wildebeest that may be a source of the mispronunciaiton: (Link)
And for some quick facts about the Gnu (if you're feeling desparately metaphorical): (Link)
The unifying factor is pixel shaders--that's the hardware that Core Image takes advantage of. All of these cards have at least ps_2_0. I'm not that familiar with pixel shaders, so I'm not sure how difficult it would be to scale the effects down to the 9200's 1.2 (I think) shaders.
Ever heard of MONO, the software that lets you run .NET apps for Linux? Anyway, what use is having a software that runs everywhere, if its clumsy interface reduces productivity to a mere 20 or 10%?
I'm surprised you're so impressed by Mono, being as its UI is powered by gtk (the Gimp Toolkit) on Windows/Linux. Anyway, nice troll.
Well, if you don't mind sub-GBA graphics, no backlight, and a very limited selection of games, get a Neo-Geo Pocket Color off of ebay for $30 (w/ $5-$15 games).
Came out in 1998. 40 hours of batt life easy!
At a glance I thought the headline was talking about NICK Spitzer taking payola from the record companies. I almost cried.
"Next on American Routes, a soulful singer who's Southeast Louisiana influence is still resonating in her music: Brittany Spears."
The video ran for 20 minutes, with commercials. They only took two (more like 1 1/2) questions from the crowd. It seems someone didn't like what he was saying.
Some people are complaining about the commercials in the video. I say keep them. They really show the absurdity of the whole situation (Anderson Cooper: News Anchor, Jeopardy Champion). This video is historical as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully it's something we'll look back on with disgust and regret; 10 years from now after legislation regulates the size and consolidation of media companies and breaks breaks up Knight-Ridder, Gannet, News Corp., and Time-Warner's news divisions.
Of course this instantly deteriorates into a discussion about the shameful state of IP and copyright laws, the need to pool all human knowledge, and how crappy the US budget deficit is.
If you go to the LOC's site, you'll notice American Memory on the front page.
American Memory is where you can get a good portion of the public domain stuff (books, letters from immigrants to their families back home, photos of civil war enlistees, audio, Edison-era short movies) for free in a low-quality format. Archival quality copies and custom scans/recordings are available for $$$. Almost any work in the LOC can be scanned on request (3 week waiting time or so); this is how they manage to continue adding scans to their collection without requiring public or private funding. It's underfunded as it is and needs more bandwidth.
This idiot in the article's proposal is completely unrealistic. Books can contain 100,000 to 5,000,000 characters. That's 100k-5Mb per book, times 26,000,000 books. That's not including the images and illustrations in some of these works. Many of the texts have value beyond the words they contain. We may be talking about image scanning the pages to preserve the look of the type, paper, and images. Archival TIFFs, since that's what the LOC uses.
The article also mentions $60 thousand to 'store' this data (per month?, per year?, just once???, what about access?, searching?, redundant backups?). Another unrealistic number, even working off of the 1TB estimate.
Eh? You can't make innovative games with DirectX? And this is because writing your own graphics/sound/resource management/music/network code somehow makes the game more innovative?
The reason people use DirectX is because it lets them MAKE THEIR GAME instead of rewriting the entire mutlimedia/network/etc. codebase for each title.