I'm not saying that a gay man should marry a woman. I'm saying that a man can leave the homosexual lifestyle. I'm saying that you have been lied to.
Don't sell yourself short. You were not born gay. It is not who you are but a choice you made along the way. I may as well say that I was born with a desire for Pearl Jam. It's learned.
You can actually fall in love with and marry a person of the opposite sex. It has happened many times before, despite what activists will tell you. Homosexuality is not a one-way street. There is an exit.
All those things hurt people. Cannibalism implies murder. Allowing necrophilia would be highly upsetting to people who don't want their bodies used in such ways after they die. Incest results in deformed children. That goat was harmed even if it wasn't able to say so. All of these things have reasons for being illegal.
I think you and I differ in opinion on the definition of marriage and presumably family.
But to address the above paragraph:
Incest results in deformed children? Since when did my brother shagging my father result in children? What if my friends mother was sterile when he gave her one?
The goat in that beastiality video I watched didn't put up any kind of fight, and the dead person I shagged then ate had signed a permission slip before committing suicide.
Tell me who was harmed in those cases? And they all brings great joy to the lives of those who participate in them. Surely they can't be wrong then?
Is the only source of morality the degree to which harm is directly imposed on another living being?
What are you talking about? The parent poster has exactly the same rights as you or I; In particular, to marry somebody of the opposite sex.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking a person is defined by their choice of sexuality. You might as well say that people who use Linux exclusively are people without rights because they can't run Microsoft Access 2003 (well, not without difficulty anyway).
I'm sure both Kerry and Bush are against pig-shagging too.
So, who do us pig-shaggers vote for? And they call this a democracy.
And cannibals? Well, they just don't have any options but to vote "No confidence".
The fact is that lines have to be drawn somewhere, otherwise by making radical legal changes to appease a vocal minority we just fall further down that slippery slope.
But why should you be given any more rights than people who perform other unnatural activities? Once we've let the barn doors open (so to speak), what happens next?
Can those of us who practice post-mortem cannibalism, necrophilia, and cross-generation incest be allowed the status we deserve in society? Surely we're not hurting anybody, so it's not immoral, right? And that goat didn't complain once.
Please don't think that because you have chosen to live a certain way that it's a God-given right.
People don't seem to realise that voting for a third party is not simply throwing your vote away.
Bush and Kerry are so similar that it doesn't matter really which one gets in, so voting for one just to ensure the other one doesn't get in isn't really that smart.
Don't just think you only have two choices. The whole point of democracy is to vote for the person/party/whatever that YOU WANT to be in power. Whether or not they actually do get the presidency or not (most likely not) is almost immaterial at the end of the day, you will have still voiced your lack of confidence in the current two choices.
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I'm tired of them.
But then again I'm not a subscriber, so it's not like slashdot owes me anything.
I wonder if this is the result of iDs 2003 meeting with Microsoft, when it was declared that an XBox port would be done.
"Oh, and if you just wait a few months before releasing it on a Mac, and don't include Linux binaries in the box." That way the only way you can play Doom 3 when it first comes out is to play it on a Microsoft platform. ugh.
First off, let me state that Creative EAX is crap. After playing games with Aureals A3D API there's just no contest. Sadly they went bust and were scooped up by Creative who seem to be just sitting on their IP.
As for OpenAL titles that are actually used, let me see: From www.openal.org:
AlienFlux (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) America's Army: Operations (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) Bridge Construction Set (Windows, Linux) Escape From Monkey Island (Macintosh) FlightGear (Windows, Unix, Macintosh) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Windows, Macintosh) Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Windows, Macintosh) Jedi Knight 2 (Windows, Macintosh) Marble Blast (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) MegaCorps Online (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) Orbz (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) Postal 2 (Windows) Soldier of Fortune 2 (Windows) Unreal 2 (Windows) Unreal Tournament 2003 (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) Unreal Tournament 2004 (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
Aw crap, you've just made me realise that I am now arguing for the 'console' side of the console-vs-pc wars. I'd better keep arguing the case so I don't look too silly:)
You're right. Many implentations on the Amiga were very hardware-centric, and hence did not scale well. That isn't always a bad thing, though. Do you need to run Hybris at 1024x768? Does Prince of Persia really need to be 3D? I have always said that the Amiga is closer to a games console than a personal computer. (Video toasters and office suites be damned).
I guess perhaps we can agree that, given any known hardware configuration, a game that knows 100% that the configuration will not change can use that hardware more effectively than one that has to cater for a wide variety of hardware/operating system configurations. Hence that game will be better, but for that configuration only. It will bomb on anything else that doesn't have the exact same hardware calls as the original.
I suppose that is why people still drag out their Playstation 1's - games on that could beat the snot out of anything their much-higher-specced Pentium-200 with Voodoo1 could do. But run the same game on a PS2, and you get no advantage. It is still a PS1 game.
Now I'm babbling!
Does this sum it up?
Console games: Better utilisation of hardware. Dead end.
PC games: More power required to achieve similar effects. Much more tolerant of new/different hardware.
An incentive like they received from Microsoft to implement Palladium, perhaps?
Yes, the current system works just fine, but the fact is that the current system is not going to be with us much longer. It looks like tomorrows system is going to be what sinister groups like Microsoft make it. One that only lets 'signed' code run. Looked at an Xbox lately?
It is this that I believe Stallman is trying to prevent.
Not really. The assisting chips in modern sound and graphics cards are nowhere near as closely coupled at that of the Amiga.
I think a lot of it is also due to the fact that the Amiga wasn't running a multi-taking operating system and all the components were running off the same clock. If your 68000 processor sent a packet to the sound chip, it *knew* that in 0.038 seconds (or whatever) it would be ready for the next packet.
And of course the graphics chip (and therefore the processor) knew exactly what refresh rate the monitor was at, so you always got *exactly* one frame per screen refresh, and only updated on a vertical blank. Believe me, no PC graphics driver does this correctly, even with an option like "sync on vblank" enabled.
Modern PCs still struggle to maintain the level of smoothness you could get scrolling with 4 levels of parallax on an A500, while playing an 8-channel MOD, while loading the next level.
Kind of similar to the Unix philosophy: instead of one fast monolithic processor, why not have 5 (was it 5?) slowish processors, but each one does what they do REALLY well.
How can this be possible? I thought the whole point of black holes being 'black' was because they had a spherical boundary the crossing thereof would result in an escape velocity greater than C.
But what if, say, the diagnostic codes returned by your car computer are encrypted, and require a digital key to access?
Technically, duplicating or circumventing that key would construe a violation of the DMCA, and thus dubious terms like "theft of intellectual property" would be used against you.
How would you adjust your second-gear pickup then?
However not all applications for modchips are evil.
When I consider buying modchips for an XBox, the last thing on my mind is playing pirated games.
It is to: 1. Disable Macrovision, so I can backup movies that I have legally bought. 2. Install Linux. 3. Watch DVDs without that silly DVD remote. 4. Store my most-played games on the hard drive.
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Just a show? Who's playing semantic games now?
I'm not saying that a gay man should marry a woman. I'm saying that a man can leave the homosexual lifestyle. I'm saying that you have been lied to.
Don't sell yourself short. You were not born gay. It is not who you are but a choice you made along the way. I may as well say that I was born with a desire for Pearl Jam. It's learned.
You can actually fall in love with and marry a person of the opposite sex. It has happened many times before, despite what activists will tell you. Homosexuality is not a one-way street. There is an exit.
All those things hurt people. Cannibalism implies murder. Allowing necrophilia would be highly upsetting to people who don't want their bodies used in such ways after they die. Incest results in deformed children. That goat was harmed even if it wasn't able to say so. All of these things have reasons for being illegal.
I think you and I differ in opinion on the definition of marriage and presumably family.
But to address the above paragraph:
Incest results in deformed children? Since when did my brother shagging my father result in children? What if my friends mother was sterile when he gave her one?
The goat in that beastiality video I watched didn't put up any kind of fight, and the dead person I shagged then ate had signed a permission slip before committing suicide.
Tell me who was harmed in those cases? And they all brings great joy to the lives of those who participate in them. Surely they can't be wrong then?
Is the only source of morality the degree to which harm is directly imposed on another living being?
"Don't make the mistake of assuming I am anything else but a giant penis looking for a repository."
Too late. I already assumed you were a human being. And still do.
What are you talking about? The parent poster has exactly the same rights as you or I; In particular, to marry somebody of the opposite sex.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking a person is defined by their choice of sexuality. You might as well say that people who use Linux exclusively are people without rights because they can't run Microsoft Access 2003 (well, not without difficulty anyway).
I'm sure both Kerry and Bush are against pig-shagging too.
So, who do us pig-shaggers vote for? And they call this a democracy.
And cannibals? Well, they just don't have any options but to vote "No confidence".
The fact is that lines have to be drawn somewhere, otherwise by making radical legal changes to appease a vocal minority we just fall further down that slippery slope.
But why should you be given any more rights than people who perform other unnatural activities? Once we've let the barn doors open (so to speak), what happens next?
Can those of us who practice post-mortem cannibalism, necrophilia, and cross-generation incest be allowed the status we deserve in society? Surely we're not hurting anybody, so it's not immoral, right? And that goat didn't complain once.
Please don't think that because you have chosen to live a certain way that it's a God-given right.
People don't seem to realise that voting for a third party is not simply throwing your vote away.
Bush and Kerry are so similar that it doesn't matter really which one gets in, so voting for one just to ensure the other one doesn't get in isn't really that smart.
Don't just think you only have two choices. The whole point of democracy is to vote for the person/party/whatever that YOU WANT to be in power. Whether or not they actually do get the presidency or not (most likely not) is almost immaterial at the end of the day, you will have still voiced your lack of confidence in the current two choices.
I'm tired of them.
But then again I'm not a subscriber, so it's not like slashdot owes me anything.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Still:
Worst... Slashdot week... ever!
... or mplayer
I wonder if this is the result of iDs 2003 meeting with Microsoft, when it was declared that an XBox port would be done.
"Oh, and if you just wait a few months before releasing it on a Mac, and don't include Linux binaries in the box." That way the only way you can play Doom 3 when it first comes out is to play it on a Microsoft platform. ugh.
Aw, crap!
I meant Justin.
... that this might not be a scam at all, and poor Sal is being harrassed to the point of suicide?
To say nothing of his family, including newborn.
Okay, so it's unlikely given the text so far, but not impossible. Vince might have the wrong guy.
First off, let me state that Creative EAX is crap. After playing games with Aureals A3D API there's just no contest. Sadly they went bust and were scooped up by Creative who seem to be just sitting on their IP.
As for OpenAL titles that are actually used, let me see:
From www.openal.org:
AlienFlux (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
America's Army: Operations (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
Bridge Construction Set (Windows, Linux)
Escape From Monkey Island (Macintosh)
FlightGear (Windows, Unix, Macintosh)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Windows, Macintosh)
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Windows, Macintosh)
Jedi Knight 2 (Windows, Macintosh)
Marble Blast (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
MegaCorps Online (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
Orbz (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
Postal 2 (Windows)
Soldier of Fortune 2 (Windows)
Unreal 2 (Windows)
Unreal Tournament 2003 (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
Unreal Tournament 2004 (Windows, Linux, Macintosh)
You're right. Many implentations on the Amiga were very hardware-centric, and hence did not scale well. That isn't always a bad thing, though. Do you need to run Hybris at 1024x768? Does Prince of Persia really need to be 3D? I have always said that the Amiga is closer to a games console than a personal computer. (Video toasters and office suites be damned).
I guess perhaps we can agree that, given any known hardware configuration, a game that knows 100% that the configuration will not change can use that hardware more effectively than one that has to cater for a wide variety of hardware/operating system configurations. Hence that game will be better, but for that configuration only. It will bomb on anything else that doesn't have the exact same hardware calls as the original.
I suppose that is why people still drag out their Playstation 1's - games on that could beat the snot out of anything their much-higher-specced Pentium-200 with Voodoo1 could do. But run the same game on a PS2, and you get no advantage. It is still a PS1 game.
Now I'm babbling!
Does this sum it up?
.. except that any number of patents approved by the EU could kill the entire OSS movement tomorrow.
Or at least force it underground.
An incentive like they received from Microsoft to implement Palladium, perhaps?
Yes, the current system works just fine, but the fact is that the current system is not going to be with us much longer. It looks like tomorrows system is going to be what sinister groups like Microsoft make it. One that only lets 'signed' code run. Looked at an Xbox lately?
It is this that I believe Stallman is trying to prevent.
Not really. The assisting chips in modern sound and graphics cards are nowhere near as closely coupled at that of the Amiga.
I think a lot of it is also due to the fact that the Amiga wasn't running a multi-taking operating system and all the components were running off the same clock. If your 68000 processor sent a packet to the sound chip, it *knew* that in 0.038 seconds (or whatever) it would be ready for the next packet.
And of course the graphics chip (and therefore the processor) knew exactly what refresh rate the monitor was at, so you always got *exactly* one frame per screen refresh, and only updated on a vertical blank. Believe me, no PC graphics driver does this correctly, even with an option like "sync on vblank" enabled.
The Amiga was a truly breathtaking machine.
Modern PCs still struggle to maintain the level of smoothness you could get scrolling with 4 levels of parallax on an A500, while playing an 8-channel MOD, while loading the next level.
Kind of similar to the Unix philosophy: instead of one fast monolithic processor, why not have 5 (was it 5?) slowish processors, but each one does what they do REALLY well.
Ah, Paula, Denise, Fat Agnus, I miss you *sniff*
But what happens if an object travelling at close to C relative to a sun is pulled by gravity toward the sun?
Since gravity is a constant acceleration irrespective of force, would the object accelerate beyond C or would gravity itself change?
Would anyone care to dumb down his point a bit?
How can this be possible? I thought the whole point of black holes being 'black' was because they had a spherical boundary the crossing thereof would result in an escape velocity greater than C.
How can something like that only be apparent?
What do you mean 'if'?
But what if, say, the diagnostic codes returned by your car computer are encrypted, and require a digital key to access?
Technically, duplicating or circumventing that key would construe a violation of the DMCA, and thus dubious terms like "theft of intellectual property" would be used against you.
How would you adjust your second-gear pickup then?
Perhaps.
I'm not all that familiar with the PS2 scene.
However not all applications for modchips are evil.
When I consider buying modchips for an XBox, the last thing on my mind is playing pirated games.
It is to:
1. Disable Macrovision, so I can backup movies that I have legally bought.
2. Install Linux.
3. Watch DVDs without that silly DVD remote.
4. Store my most-played games on the hard drive.
Forget multi-core processors.
The final nails in the coffin for per-processor software licensing in my world were the Free Software and Open Source movements.
This gets moderated funny?
Man, I was being serious.