Ok, then how do you propose to 'terraform' mars, or have you been watching too much discovery channel. Just flick a switch huh.
In addition, life on earth has developed over billions of years and is a function of the raw materials and magnetic, geologic, and atmospheric parameters of earth. Mars didn't just show up yesterday. If life was able to develop on mars, with its characteristics, it would have already. If you want to seed it with life from earth, thats already been done with space probes.
The UN is a half deflated beach ball with a brick inside. That brick is the U.S.
A lot of people hate the U.N. because, "oh look, other countries have different opinions, goals, and interests than us." Those people are made of dense bricklike material. I saw a piece of propaganda in the paper today that was called Get US Out! These idiots want influence over other countries, but how is destroying the U.N. supposed to accomplish that.
Nuts want to rule the world but don't even know why.
Sorry, but you seem to be voting based on character likeability instead of acting ability. A likeable hobbit whose main function is to be a friend to the protagonist and give emotional summaries of the story so far is the EASIEST role to play in the movie. Now if you are Chris Walken and your bread and butter is playing a scary lunatic/ mobster/ whatever, then you decide to play a likeable father, well thats something special.
The quality of a Hollywood movie varies proportionally to the distance of the primary set location from Hollywood.
All movies where they don't even bother to leave L.A. to shoot always turn out crap. Getting away from L.A. means more money, effort, and diverse actors are being put into the movie. Sometimes you get a medium movie shot in Las Vegas.
Yeah, yeah. After the pledge debacle this became the rallying cry for all the far rightists who want people to worship their god. "They don't matter, they're loonies and crackpots"
The fact is, if you live in the western THIRD of the United States you are under the jurisdiction of the Ninth circuit. Doesn't sound so inconsequential to me. Being overturned because they followed the letter of the law just means that the SCOTUS favors politics over law.
The Captain doesn't control the ship directly. Doesn't the captain give orders to the XO who gives orders to the helmsman? In case the bridge is destroyed I imagine control could be accomplished with direct communications to the engine room.
1. The RIAA is not a Law Enforcement Agency 2. The RIAA is not even a government agency 3. Giving the RIAA a blanket subpoena power over all users on the internet gives everyone blanket subpoena power over all users on the internet. 4. The RIAA should not have ANY Subpoena power, they're not a court, they're not a grand jury, they're just a business. 5. The RIAA should contact the FBI if they have info on criminal activity.
This idea that the CEO is trying to be mister nice guy by taking a 20% pay cut is ridiculous.
A quick financial look shows that the Xilinx CEO Roelandts has over 4 million options worth $122 million. 20% of his $580k salary is NOTHING to him. What is important is stock price. A round of layoffs could deflate his options by $60 million or more if the stock price fell as a result.
The hoopla about video game violence is the same tired story that we heard in the 80s about rap music. The fact is some big cheeses in LA want to put themselves into the loop and thus into the revenue stream. They do this by complaining about video games (which already have ratings) until the government steps in giving them power, which is then converted to cash.
Just think, soon we will have the VGAA ran by some bloated hillbilly asshole. Video game ratings will cost $500k and it will be illegal not to have one. The point is the fees. The people who wedged themselves in are making lots of money.
Haha thats ridiculous. LCDs don't have a refresh rate.
What is interesting though is that after using LCD for the last year, 75hz CRTs look like crap and its easy to tell the difference between 75hz and 85hz crts. Before LCD, 75hz crts looked great.
Now if your talking about "ghosting", that has been eliminated on most LCDs except for the crap brands.
>Yeh. Tell yourself that, when someone writes some "fancy pants programming" program that fundamentally breaks all current cryptography.
Once again, brute forcing crytography reaches the same goals as an eloquent algorithm that exploits a weakness. Its stupid to say that we should give up on a machine that could brute force simply to preserve some silly ideal that only the most eloquent solution should be allowed.
In software, the ends DO justify the means. No one is going to die, starve, have their feelings hurt because someone used a faster processor with crappy code.
The case of studying algorithms as a result of a processor speed roadblock is ridiculous, Computer science is not concerned with processor speed or even the idea of a processor. People should study computer science if they want to learn or feel they can contribute to the field, not because their computers are slow.
Designers will never be able to satisfy your twisted fantasies. In a way they are only trying to satisfy their own by designing a game that appeals to themselves personally.
No computer program wants to be part of your "fellowship"
> I hope this means back to actually finding ways of optimizing code
Why do you feel this way? It makes no difference to the end user. If all the fancy pants programming in the world is made redundant by semiconductor technology, so what.
Code may have an aesthetic value to those who write it, but its worthless as an art form.
Good job with that 3 mil. I'm not being sarcastic, Ion blew like $25 mil. Retro, $25 mil for one game. 3 mil is good for 2.5 years.
Legends was an interesting thing. It seemed everything clicked except the game part. Truthfully, we tried it out the free cd and gave up immediately after we could not figure out the controls.
"The atmosphere at MaxCha was very loose on the downstairs, and business like on the upstairs"
A lot of people don't get it. A video game startup can't follow the 'business overlord' design. Everyone has to be down in the trenches to some degree (doing art or programming). Every new game company is a new invention. Did Ford just hire a bunch of people to come up with the Model T? Did edison hire a bunch of people to invent the light bulb for him? Did Gates sit in his leather chair while his drones wrote a Basic interpreter? Did Linus decide to have someone create a kernel for him?
Well, Then why do some game execs think they can hire their way to being a successful game company. This would only happen if you could hire an entire existing team that has already completed a project, and this will never happen. They are inventing the team from scratch. They can't do it looking over the team's shoulder with arms folded barking orders.
Theres nothing hard about getting into the video game industry if you have something to offer. For those who don't have anything, there are the positions of producer, leads, exec, etc that you will have to have connections and butt kissing to get.
Why doesn't bandwidth get any cheaper? It seems that infrastructure buildout should be paid off sooner or later giving us cheaper prices. Yet, here the same service that used to be @home back in the day has seen continual degradation of services with increased prices. Yesterday I paid $50 for 40Gb and somehow thats now only good for 5Gb? Thats called screwing the customer, something that is exponentially proportional to corporation size. I could understand new service limits with a reduction in price, but we know that won't happen.
Australia's caps are due to expensive transocean links to the Americas. What would be the excuse for American ISPs where the website's we access are likely to be within 100 miles on links that were built 10 to 20 years ago.
We don't mind paying for what we use, but we aren't going to pay for some rich prick's yacht. Its obvious the new management's goal is to cash out as fast as possible. Expect $300 mil cashouts from Comcast execs in about 3-5 years, while Comcast will be worthless. Beware investors.
The only way to store geometry data on the video card is by using extensions. To make matters worse, you passs nvidia's extension a couple floating point numbers and it magically gives you a block of memory if it feels like it, or not. Then this is the only block you get. Its up to you to write a memory manager on top of it
2. Documentation / Extension system
First, there hasn't been any HTML or even plaintext specs of the newer APIS. The PDFs look like ASS because of the pdf fonts. Second the extensions are made so that they are incremental updates to the manual "insert these lines into section 4.3.10" This helps no one use the extension. Why can't they just be explained in full. Plus, the least important fields such as the "issues" should go towards the bottom of the spec.
3. Arcane extensions with arcane (or no) docs
i'm talking about stuff like the nvidia register combiners, fence, vertex array range. And a powerpoint outline doesn't do the job explaining these.
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Right, we can make people take tests before they get to vote, that will help keep the people to ignorant to go to school from voting.
And then if they don't like that we can have a vote tax so lazy vagrants that don't want to work can't vote.
"Personally, I think"
Please don't, somethings broken up there. You and your buddy Jim Crow need to go back to your y2k hideout.
Ok, then how do you propose to 'terraform' mars, or have you been watching too much discovery channel. Just flick a switch huh.
In addition, life on earth has developed over billions of years and is a function of the raw materials and magnetic, geologic, and atmospheric parameters of earth. Mars didn't just show up yesterday. If life was able to develop on mars, with its characteristics, it would have already. If you want to seed it with life from earth, thats already been done with space probes.
The UN is a half deflated beach ball with a brick inside. That brick is the U.S.
A lot of people hate the U.N. because, "oh look, other countries have different opinions, goals, and interests than us." Those people are made of dense bricklike material. I saw a piece of propaganda in the paper today that was called Get US Out! These idiots want influence over other countries, but how is destroying the U.N. supposed to accomplish that.
Nuts want to rule the world but don't even know why.
Sorry, but you seem to be voting based on character likeability instead of acting ability. A likeable hobbit whose main function is to be a friend to the protagonist and give emotional summaries of the story so far is the EASIEST role to play in the movie. Now if you are Chris Walken and your bread and butter is playing a scary lunatic/ mobster/ whatever, then you decide to play a likeable father, well thats something special.
Please let me put forth my movie theory:
The quality of a Hollywood movie varies proportionally to the distance of the primary set location from Hollywood.
All movies where they don't even bother to leave L.A. to shoot always turn out crap. Getting away from L.A. means more money, effort, and diverse actors are being put into the movie. Sometimes you get a medium movie shot in Las Vegas.
"So long as which God(s) isn't specified, and you are free to worship as you choose."
Bullshit.
So why doesn't it say 'under god(s)' or 'in god(s) we trust' as to not establish monotheism over the many polytheistic religions practiced in the US?
I know its bullshit. you know its bullshit. Only one of use is willing to admit it.
"most crackpot far-leftist"
Yeah, yeah. After the pledge debacle this became the rallying cry for all the far rightists who want people to worship their god. "They don't matter, they're loonies and crackpots"
The fact is, if you live in the western THIRD of the United States you are under the jurisdiction of the Ninth circuit. Doesn't sound so inconsequential to me. Being overturned because they followed the letter of the law just means that the SCOTUS favors politics over law.
The Captain doesn't control the ship directly. Doesn't the captain give orders to the XO who gives orders to the helmsman? In case the bridge is destroyed I imagine control could be accomplished with direct communications to the engine room.
When are people going to wake up and realize that
1. The RIAA is not a Law Enforcement Agency
2. The RIAA is not even a government agency
3. Giving the RIAA a blanket subpoena power over all users on the internet gives everyone blanket subpoena power over all users on the internet.
4. The RIAA should not have ANY Subpoena power, they're not a court, they're not a grand jury, they're just a business.
5. The RIAA should contact the FBI if they have info on criminal activity.
If I said I killed somebody as a joke, and it made it to the media it would not be funny.
If some narrow-minded person thinks the whole world would react the same as the person's circle of contact, they are mistaken.
The vast majority of people think this is first a story about a Nazi, and then second, some asshole illegal cracker.
As this guy is about to find out, his joke went a little too far.
This idea that the CEO is trying to be mister nice guy by taking a 20% pay cut is ridiculous.
A quick financial look shows that the Xilinx CEO Roelandts has over 4 million options worth $122 million. 20% of his $580k salary is NOTHING to him. What is important is stock price. A round of layoffs could deflate his options by $60 million or more if the stock price fell as a result.
The hoopla about video game violence is the same tired story that we heard in the 80s about rap music. The fact is some big cheeses in LA want to put themselves into the loop and thus into the revenue stream. They do this by complaining about video games (which already have ratings) until the government steps in giving them power, which is then converted to cash.
Just think, soon we will have the VGAA ran by some bloated hillbilly asshole. Video game ratings will cost $500k and it will be illegal not to have one. The point is the fees. The people who wedged themselves in are making lots of money.
Haha thats ridiculous. LCDs don't have a refresh rate.
What is interesting though is that after using LCD for the last year, 75hz CRTs look like crap and its easy to tell the difference between 75hz and 85hz crts. Before LCD, 75hz crts looked great.
Now if your talking about "ghosting", that has been eliminated on most LCDs except for the crap brands.
>Yeh. Tell yourself that, when someone writes some "fancy pants programming" program that fundamentally breaks all current cryptography.
Once again, brute forcing crytography reaches the same goals as an eloquent algorithm that exploits a weakness. Its stupid to say that we should give up on a machine that could brute force simply to preserve some silly ideal that only the most eloquent solution should be allowed.
In software, the ends DO justify the means. No one is going to die, starve, have their feelings hurt because someone used a faster processor with crappy code.
The case of studying algorithms as a result of a processor speed roadblock is ridiculous, Computer science is not concerned with processor speed or even the idea of a processor. People should study computer science if they want to learn or feel they can contribute to the field, not because their computers are slow.
Stick with pen and paper...
Designers will never be able to satisfy your twisted fantasies. In a way they are only trying to satisfy their own by designing a game that appeals to themselves personally.
No computer program wants to be part of your "fellowship"
> I hope this means back to actually finding ways of optimizing code
Why do you feel this way? It makes no difference to the end user. If all the fancy pants programming in the world is made redundant by semiconductor technology, so what.
Code may have an aesthetic value to those who write it, but its worthless as an art form.
Good job with that 3 mil. I'm not being sarcastic, Ion blew like $25 mil. Retro, $25 mil for one game. 3 mil is good for 2.5 years.
Legends was an interesting thing. It seemed everything clicked except the game part. Truthfully, we tried it out the free cd and gave up immediately after we could not figure out the controls.
"The atmosphere at MaxCha was very loose on the downstairs, and business like on the upstairs"
A lot of people don't get it. A video game startup can't follow the 'business overlord' design. Everyone has to be down in the trenches to some degree (doing art or programming). Every new game company is a new invention. Did Ford just hire a bunch of people to come up with the Model T? Did edison hire a bunch of people to invent the light bulb for him? Did Gates sit in his leather chair while his drones wrote a Basic interpreter? Did Linus decide to have someone create a kernel for him?
Well, Then why do some game execs think they can hire their way to being a successful game company. This would only happen if you could hire an entire existing team that has already completed a project, and this will never happen. They are inventing the team from scratch. They can't do it looking over the team's shoulder with arms folded barking orders.
Theres nothing hard about getting into the video game industry if you have something to offer. For those who don't have anything, there are the positions of producer, leads, exec, etc that you will have to have connections and butt kissing to get.
No shit.
The difference is that the defendant proposes the settlement instead of the plaintiff demanding it.
"Sounds legitimate to me."
Legitimate if you are the police or the copyright holder.
Its going to take a lot of checks to pay all those Danish artists.
Ok then explain this...
Why doesn't bandwidth get any cheaper? It seems that infrastructure buildout should be paid off sooner or later giving us cheaper prices. Yet, here the same service that used to be @home back in the day has seen continual degradation of services with increased prices. Yesterday I paid $50 for 40Gb and somehow thats now only good for 5Gb? Thats called screwing the customer, something that is exponentially proportional to corporation size. I could understand new service limits with a reduction in price, but we know that won't happen.
Australia's caps are due to expensive transocean links to the Americas. What would be the excuse for American ISPs where the website's we access are likely to be within 100 miles on links that were built 10 to 20 years ago.
We don't mind paying for what we use, but we aren't going to pay for some rich prick's yacht. Its obvious the new management's goal is to cash out as fast as possible. Expect $300 mil cashouts from Comcast execs in about 3-5 years, while Comcast will be worthless. Beware investors.
Sounds like you have the hots for you old boss. Looks like you fell for some old tricks.
-Backwards arrow cursor...freaky
-Left pointing hand cursor instead of up pointing hand cursor...reminds me of M. Jackson.
-Can't change video mode without dumping to CLI and editing a config file
-Poor user feedback from apps: "look in the log files"
-Sluggish gui
1. Vertex/Index Buffers
The only way to store geometry data on the video card is by using extensions. To make matters worse, you passs nvidia's extension a couple floating point numbers and it magically gives you a block of memory if it feels like it, or not. Then this is the only block you get. Its up to you to write a memory manager on top of it
2. Documentation / Extension system
First, there hasn't been any HTML or even plaintext specs of the newer APIS. The PDFs look like ASS because of the pdf fonts. Second the extensions are made so that they are incremental updates to the manual "insert these lines into section 4.3.10" This helps no one use the extension. Why can't they just be explained in full. Plus, the least important fields such as the "issues" should go towards the bottom of the spec.
3. Arcane extensions with arcane (or no) docs
i'm talking about stuff like the nvidia register combiners, fence, vertex array range. And a powerpoint outline doesn't do the job explaining these.