highlighted the deep relationship between the internet and pornography
What deep relationship? Do people still honestly believe porn is the driving force behind the internet? I guess that would make the few perverts who fund pornographic content the internets steering committee.
Why is this? Is it because TV shows like the Simpsons promote that belief or is it simply the Betamax myth?
Sony products adhere strictly to DVD Region coding: corrupt racketeering of the DVD distribution.
Are you sure? My 4 year old Sony 5-disc DVD player works just fine and I've played dozens of region 1, 2 and 4 discs in it without any problems, ever.
Sure, it would be nice if it didn't have that awful "cannot skip this advertisement because the studio really wants you to see it" feature, but I don't know of any commercial players that don't have it.
A pretty nice Little Graphics Demo to be sure, in fact it won first place at a Little Graphics Demo competition in 2002.
But it's hardly a benchmarking suite, and since it hasn't been maintained since 2002 (it is a one-off for a compo after all), it can hardly be expected to test OpenGL 2.0 extensions.
I guess an fps count in Nexquiz is one way of doing it...
Workplaces that have little or no minority group representation tend to panic and favour minority job-seekers to "improve the balance" so as to be seen as complying with the above act. Sometimes that means overlooking people who might be better suited for the job.
It's not the act itself, but an unintentional but inevitable side-effect.
And tell me, how do you propose to enforce a society like this? If all information truly wanted to be free, of course, you wouldn't have to.
How will you force everyone to reveal every detail about themselves?
Some guy once said: "The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?"
Sure, most information wants to be free, in the sense that duplication usually requires less energy than actively preventing this duplication. The human mind for example has to work rather hard to put in safeguards to keep a secret. But that doesn't mean it always should be free. Do you really want to know what everyone you've ever met really thinks about you?
Unfortunately technical issues aren't the only hurdle to overcome in getting the world off petroleum. Many of the more influential world leaders believe the demon Allah has given them control of the world's energy.
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highlighted the deep relationship between the internet and pornography
What deep relationship? Do people still honestly believe porn is the driving force behind the internet? I guess that would make the few perverts who fund pornographic content the internets steering committee.
Why is this? Is it because TV shows like the Simpsons promote that belief or is it simply the Betamax myth?
It's time for the "sex is evil" meme to die.
Who thinks sex is evil?
I think you mean the "sex is wonderful and sacred and must not be cheapened" meme.
And if you think that meme needs to die then I would suggest it is not the aforementioned Joe Sixpack who has issues.
Sony products adhere strictly to DVD Region coding: corrupt racketeering of the DVD distribution.
Are you sure?
My 4 year old Sony 5-disc DVD player works just fine and I've played dozens of region 1, 2 and 4 discs in it without any problems, ever.
Sure, it would be nice if it didn't have that awful "cannot skip this advertisement because the studio really wants you to see it" feature, but I don't know of any commercial players that don't have it.
But that's where Mplayer comes in.
Of course if the Public Domain still existed you wouldn't have to pay for them.
Mickey would be free.
Thanks, but that's just a Little Graphics Demo.
A pretty nice Little Graphics Demo to be sure, in fact it won first place at a Little Graphics Demo competition in 2002.
But it's hardly a benchmarking suite, and since it hasn't been maintained since 2002 (it is a one-off for a compo after all), it can hardly be expected to test OpenGL 2.0 extensions.
I guess an fps count in Nexquiz is one way of doing it...
How else then do you suggest we describe this meme that exhibits unwavering closed-minded loyalty to a particular person, product or company?
How about $COMPANY-philic? I'm using 'philic' in the sense of the opposite of phobic, an irrational fear.
Or shall we just pretend the meme doesn't exist and maybe it will go away? I can tell you now it won't.
You misunderstand.
Workplaces that have little or no minority group representation tend to panic and favour minority job-seekers to "improve the balance" so as to be seen as complying with the above act. Sometimes that means overlooking people who might be better suited for the job.
It's not the act itself, but an unintentional but inevitable side-effect.
Indeed with a Mac, Apple ultimately controls both the hardware and software. So this fits into the open source geek mentality exactly how?
It doesn't. Or at least, it shouldn't. But Apply fanboyism is rampant around these parts.
Does anyone know of any decent cross-platform OpenGL/openal/SDL benchmarks?
:)
Preferrably in the form of a shiny demo with techno music, of course
It would be nice to compare the performance of OpenGL implementations on different systems.
What I'd really like to see is books and courses on how to use OpenOffice, GIMP, LaTeX, Blender and other FOSS programs.
Let people know they don't need to depend on proprietary software.
"PC För alla?"
Are you sure that isn't some Muslim political correctness site?
And tell me, how do you propose to enforce a society like this? If all information truly wanted to be free, of course, you wouldn't have to.
How will you force everyone to reveal every detail about themselves?
Some guy once said: "The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?"
Sure, most information wants to be free, in the sense that duplication usually requires less energy than actively preventing this duplication. The human mind for example has to work rather hard to put in safeguards to keep a secret. But that doesn't mean it always should be free. Do you really want to know what everyone you've ever met really thinks about you?
Intellectual Property is now officially an oxymoron.
Ssssh, you'll upset the evolutionists!
Parent is right.
Ipods can't even do vorbis or FM radio.
There are much better alternatives.
So are the "Boycott Sony" advocates going to stick to their guns and boycott Microsoft too?
Of course anyone who still buys from Microsoft either doesn't know enough about them or is hopelessly locked in by 3rd party apps.
Cities will be built around these things... - Steve Jobs, 2002
Download the 10 MPH trailer formatted for your video iPod. - 10mph.com, 2006
I scratch your back...
Unfortunately you now live in such a world where the terrorism is very real.
There are around a billion people who will not rest until everyone who doesn't think like them is either worshipping Allah or dead.
Sure, let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater by being uber-paranoid, but let's not pretend that terrorism is just some minor annoyance.
*Tosses XBox360 in harbour*
Just say no to DRM. Boycott Sony and yes that means the PS3!
And what, give Microsoft (I say that again: Microsoft) a virtual monopoly on the games console market?
Bathwater, meet baby.
At some point extracting oil from shale and tar sands will become cost-effective.
And where do you propose we get the energy to do this?
Unfortunately technical issues aren't the only hurdle to overcome in getting the world off petroleum. Many of the more influential world leaders believe the demon Allah has given them control of the world's energy.
Silly.
They used 747s to fly the clocks above the clouds.
but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!
Ummm, no.
It just makes the decision of what operating system to install on my computer that little bit easier.
And in your crusade against Sony, do you realise that you're effectively handing Microsoft the game console market on a silver platter?
What interesting times we live in.