I just finished coding up some rendering stuff using NVIDIA GL extensions. Its ugly, it only works with NVIDIA (and has to consider whether it is a GF2 or 3). It would have taken far less time if I was just using the standard API, but it would have been slow as hell. It seems that there is inevitable problem. Either you have to go with the least common denominator or use hardware specific calls. The only other answer would be for each vendor to introduce the same new features at the same time and use the same interface. Then why have seperate vendors? The communication and debate would make it take forever for anything new to come out. I think we are stuck with it until the industry is played out and 3D cards that do anything you could possibly want are $25 commodity items. That's a long way off.:)
This is moronic. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It says nothing about you not being able to make agreements that restrict your speech voluntarily. Imagine the consequences if it did.
Richard Stallman has no idea what liberty is. While I agree with most of sentiment he expresses in this piece it is quite contridictory for the founder of the FSF to speak of freedom (despite the appearance of the word "freedom" in the organizations name.) Freedom means the freedom to live your life as a human qua human. Humans rely on their mind to produce for survival. This means that people must be able to keep the fruits of their labor. Because man's capacity to produce is primarily mental, this means men must be able to keep the *intellectual* fruits of their mental labor. Thus, the justification for patent and copyright laws. The FSF and others who seek to rid this country of these laws are assaulting rights. I, therfore, beleive that such people have no room to speak about civil liberties or rights.
Furthermore, we have two options to keep us safe. One is constant surveillance by the government. This is unlikely to work and punishes the US citizens rather than the terrorists. It therefore achieves the terrorists goal: destruction of the American way of life. The other is to make it impossible for terrorists to operate. Stallman wants us to choose neither option which means that the terrorists will continue to attack us and we will be powerless to defend ourselves. If we target the individuals responsible for this attack then the governments that covertly (or not so covertly to anyone who reads a newspaper on a regular basis instead of listening to the drivel from our government appeasers) spronsor the terrorists will find some new people to replace them.
This country is not built on Christian principles at all. American success is based upon its free market which is based upon the recognition of rights. Don't be confused by the few referernces to God by Jeffereson and the other Founding Fathers. They were, for the most part, Deists not Christians. The right to pursue happiness is a fundamentally secular idea. Christianity (discounting moden liberal watered-down versions) , like other religions, believes that the physical world is unimportant (blessed are the weak....) and that the spiritual world is important. The Twin Towers and American culture are a stark contradiction to this idea. America is great because of it is secular and promotes happiness here on earth. This is what the Islamic terrorists consider an affront to their religion. They see us as infidels because we choose (with many contradictions of course) the secular world over the spiritual world. They beleive we should renounce this world, live in suffering and be sacrificial to please Allah and only achieve happiness in the after-life (observe the laws against almost anything pleasurable in Afghanistan). Because their beliefs are based on faith (ie arbitrary), they cannot convince us by reason, therefore the resort to physical force. Because they cannot be reasoned with the only way to deal with them is force. Note that every attempt to reason with them has led to further destruction of American lives and property.
Visit www.ReasonVsTerrorism.com for more and sign their petition encouraging the US to declare war on terrorist harboring governments.
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I just finished coding up some rendering stuff using NVIDIA GL extensions. Its ugly, it only works with NVIDIA (and has to consider whether it is a GF2 or 3). It would have taken far less time if I was just using the standard API, but it would have been slow as hell. It seems that there is inevitable problem. Either you have to go with the least common denominator or use hardware specific calls. The only other answer would be for each vendor to introduce the same new features at the same time and use the same interface. Then why have seperate vendors? The communication and debate would make it take forever for anything new to come out. I think we are stuck with it until the industry is played out and 3D cards that do anything you could possibly want are $25 commodity items. That's a long way off. :)
"viri" is plural for "vir." "Vir" means "man", hence "viri" means "men."
Each game has its own copy of the OS on the disc.
I am talking about the proper moral justification for these laws not the historical one so please take your obnoxious buzzer somewhere else.
and then put your hands down if you clicked the "I Agree" button.
This is moronic. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It says nothing about you not being able to make agreements that restrict your speech voluntarily. Imagine the consequences if it did.
Richard Stallman has no idea what liberty is. While I agree with most of sentiment he expresses in this piece it is quite contridictory for the founder of the FSF to speak of freedom (despite the appearance of the word "freedom" in the organizations name.) Freedom means the freedom to live your life as a human qua human. Humans rely on their mind to produce for survival. This means that people must be able to keep the fruits of their labor. Because man's capacity to produce is primarily mental, this means men must be able to keep the *intellectual* fruits of their mental labor. Thus, the justification for patent and copyright laws. The FSF and others who seek to rid this country of these laws are assaulting rights. I, therfore, beleive that such people have no room to speak about civil liberties or rights. Furthermore, we have two options to keep us safe. One is constant surveillance by the government. This is unlikely to work and punishes the US citizens rather than the terrorists. It therefore achieves the terrorists goal: destruction of the American way of life. The other is to make it impossible for terrorists to operate. Stallman wants us to choose neither option which means that the terrorists will continue to attack us and we will be powerless to defend ourselves. If we target the individuals responsible for this attack then the governments that covertly (or not so covertly to anyone who reads a newspaper on a regular basis instead of listening to the drivel from our government appeasers) spronsor the terrorists will find some new people to replace them.
This country is not built on Christian principles at all. American success is based upon its free market which is based upon the recognition of rights. Don't be confused by the few referernces to God by Jeffereson and the other Founding Fathers. They were, for the most part, Deists not Christians. The right to pursue happiness is a fundamentally secular idea. Christianity (discounting moden liberal watered-down versions) , like other religions, believes that the physical world is unimportant (blessed are the weak....) and that the spiritual world is important. The Twin Towers and American culture are a stark contradiction to this idea. America is great because of it is secular and promotes happiness here on earth. This is what the Islamic terrorists consider an affront to their religion. They see us as infidels because we choose (with many contradictions of course) the secular world over the spiritual world. They beleive we should renounce this world, live in suffering and be sacrificial to please Allah and only achieve happiness in the after-life (observe the laws against almost anything pleasurable in Afghanistan). Because their beliefs are based on faith (ie arbitrary), they cannot convince us by reason, therefore the resort to physical force. Because they cannot be reasoned with the only way to deal with them is force. Note that every attempt to reason with them has led to further destruction of American lives and property. Visit www.ReasonVsTerrorism.com for more and sign their petition encouraging the US to declare war on terrorist harboring governments.