I'm exact the opposite. Anything less then 60 looks like crap -- it is so stuttery. I absolutely can't stand the 24 Hz shit that movies use, but at least movies have temporal aliasing to make it semi-palatable.
GP didn't say anything about how it looked; he just said it made him nauseous.
I think lots of things look like crap, but they don't make me nauseous. I don't think your situation is really the "exact opposite" you're claiming here, unless your unwritten implication is that low framerates actually do give you motion sickness.
I won't claim to know anything about getting a game to market.
But I also have proof that knowing how to get a game to market doesn't mean you know jack shit about making a decent game. Just go look at any new game shelf; more than half of it is utter garbage, and for the console du jour, upwards of 80% can be hacked together crap.
Almost everybody believes that what they're doing is a good thing. Everyone wants to think that the work they're doing is beneficial in some way. I'd say you likely aren't in a position to objectively assess the work that the NCFTA does.
I really hope you are not an American citizen. We really do not need more self absorbed shitheads that stand by and watch as their freedoms are torn from them and their neighbors. I thank God that the real men and women that faced these decisions early in this countries history thought differently than you did.
Meanwhile, you're bravely changing the system by posting to Slashdot. If only you had been in that airport, you could have bravely changed the system there by grumbling in line about how stupid it was to pat down a 4 year old.
Seriously, we'd see the true colors of this nation and the control the politicians and corporate overlords really hold if someone went berserk at a checkpoint trying to protect their child.
No it wouldn't. And it hasn't. We've already had many instances of people taking a principled stand against the TSA at security checkpoints; nothing has changed. Tons of people in this very forum clearly equate every TSA employee as a low-life, child molesting, thieving goon, when most of them are just people who needed a job.
Throwing a tantrum at a security checkpoint to make a statement against those mean ol' TSA agents is idiotic misplaced anger. For the most part, these guys are just doing their jobs. The people you need to engage are the ones making the decisions higher up.
You'd find it even more surprising how many crimes are prevented by armed citizens.
I would indeed be surprised at this. Have any statistics to back this up? Because the very few I know of that exist are from heavily biased sources and disputed by everyone that doesn't share the bias.
You talk a good game, but I'm sure that when it comes down to it, you'll be just as accepting of your daughter's pat-down as anyone else is.
If pat downs are truly a necessary part of airport security, then you have to enforce them consistently. If you have a special class of people who won't receive them -- congratulations! You've just defeated your own security protocol! You might as well pat down nobody!
The white elephant in the room that nobody seems willing to point out is that *nobody* should be getting fucking pat downs to get on an airplane. When you accept pat downs as normal, this is what you get: EVERYBODY gets them.
I like that you imply that everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot, yet all you've "contributed" to the discussion is one- and two-sentence ad hom attacks.
That's great. Now we just have to adjust our civilization to work the same as that other advanced civilization that existed 2.5 million years ago, and we're all set.
I know you've already pointed it out, but if you hadn't, this statement shows that you clearly don't have a CS degree -- or even know what computer science is.
As we've learned from Darwin, competition weeds-out the bad and inefficient, leaving behind the well-adapted.
No, we didn't learn that AT ALL. What Darwin taught us is that we get the traits that are selected for; currently we are selecting for universities that have winning athletics programs. By themselves, "bad" and "inefficient" don't mean jack shit in the context of natural selection.
Not to mention that education should be viewed as an INVESTMENT, not an expense. If you think it's too expensive to make sure we have a well-educated populace, just think about the alternative.
It helps that any donations not specifically targeted to an organization on campus typically get credited toward the athletics department. Since most donations just go to the school without stipulations about where it should be spent, this means that the athletics department gets to take credit for nearly all donations.
But also, by your logic, if the athletics program is so profitable, why keep the rest of the school open at all? Most of the rest of any school is a big money loser.
Yeah, it really sucks that they're doing this. Tolerating jerks while playing video games has been necessary forever! I mean, I remember back in the SNES days when we'd play Mario Kart, and all those jerks that we didn't like would just come over and talk shit and be generally unpleasant assholes and we couldn't do ANYTHING about it! It's not like we could just ask them to *leave* or anything.
</sarcasm>
It's sad that generally the only way to get a decent online gaming experience is to play exclusively with people you know. There's also no reason it needs to be that way. I can go out and play a game of pool or cards with someone I've never met, and most of the time it manages to be a fairly enjoyable experience. Occasionally you'll get some overly competitive players, but there's a big difference between competitiveness and being a jerk ass.
Tough to take your comment seriously when the first link talks about ASLR (available on Windows since Windows 7). The 2nd is a blog that talks about full file/disk encryption for the Mac and then about Microsoft's Security Essentials, which aren't even the same thing -- and declares MacOS the winner. The 3rd is about gestures.
3 strikes, you're out. I didn't bother reading the 4th link.
It took half a year for all of the Christian Taliban candidates to finally bail out of the Republican presidential primary race. If you honestly think we're that much more enlightened because one loony poisoned a bunch of girls and it hasn't happened here yet, you've got your head in the sand.
For instance, banning the light bulb - just how stupid is that?
Almost as stupid as the straw man you just created with that statement.
What I believe you're actually referring to is the new efficiency standards put in place on incandescent light bulbs. The ones that made everyone (particularly light bulb manufacturers) hem and haw about how they would destroy the industry. The ones that are currently -- you guessed it! -- causing investments in R&D that have yielded massive improvements in incandescent light bulb efficiency.
Heh, the funny thing is that GP is correct; this research did happen, the articles do exist, and there was a nice Slashdot discussion about it that you apparently missed. (oh noes! You failed to white knight for Apple! Are they going to make you revoke your membership card?)
However, I'm too lazy to do his Googling either -- I honestly don't care if you remain ignorant.
In other words, the sample size is too small and too selective to be of any use and your comment is complete nonsense.
It is complete nonsense; however it is also completely reasonable to assume that there are tons of apps out there that do this surreptitious data harvesting. And it's the height of naivete to assume that having less information to protect yourself with (in this case, not knowing what permissions an app requires) is somehow better than being able to make an informed choice.
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I'm exact the opposite. Anything less then 60 looks like crap -- it is so stuttery. I absolutely can't stand the 24 Hz shit that movies use, but at least movies have temporal aliasing to make it semi-palatable.
GP didn't say anything about how it looked; he just said it made him nauseous.
I think lots of things look like crap, but they don't make me nauseous. I don't think your situation is really the "exact opposite" you're claiming here, unless your unwritten implication is that low framerates actually do give you motion sickness.
--Jeremy
I won't claim to know anything about getting a game to market.
But I also have proof that knowing how to get a game to market doesn't mean you know jack shit about making a decent game. Just go look at any new game shelf; more than half of it is utter garbage, and for the console du jour, upwards of 80% can be hacked together crap.
--Jeremy
Almost everybody believes that what they're doing is a good thing. Everyone wants to think that the work they're doing is beneficial in some way. I'd say you likely aren't in a position to objectively assess the work that the NCFTA does.
--Jeremy
Actually, you've got that completely backwards. The Republican party is the one opposed to passing *anything* the Democrats want to do.
--Jeremy
You don't need dirt for crops.
Seriously?
--Jeremy
If you weren't running Adobe applications on OS9, what exactly were you running -- and why did you have a Mac?
--Jeremy
I really hope you are not an American citizen.
We really do not need more self absorbed shitheads that stand by and watch as their freedoms are torn from them and their neighbors.
I thank God that the real men and women that faced these decisions early in this countries history thought differently than you did.
Meanwhile, you're bravely changing the system by posting to Slashdot. If only you had been in that airport, you could have bravely changed the system there by grumbling in line about how stupid it was to pat down a 4 year old.
--Jeremy
Seriously, we'd see the true colors of this nation and the control the politicians and corporate overlords really hold if someone went berserk at a checkpoint trying to protect their child.
No it wouldn't. And it hasn't. We've already had many instances of people taking a principled stand against the TSA at security checkpoints; nothing has changed. Tons of people in this very forum clearly equate every TSA employee as a low-life, child molesting, thieving goon, when most of them are just people who needed a job.
Throwing a tantrum at a security checkpoint to make a statement against those mean ol' TSA agents is idiotic misplaced anger. For the most part, these guys are just doing their jobs. The people you need to engage are the ones making the decisions higher up.
--Jeremy
You'd find it even more surprising how many crimes are prevented by armed citizens.
I would indeed be surprised at this. Have any statistics to back this up? Because the very few I know of that exist are from heavily biased sources and disputed by everyone that doesn't share the bias.
--Jeremy
You talk a good game, but I'm sure that when it comes down to it, you'll be just as accepting of your daughter's pat-down as anyone else is.
If pat downs are truly a necessary part of airport security, then you have to enforce them consistently. If you have a special class of people who won't receive them -- congratulations! You've just defeated your own security protocol! You might as well pat down nobody!
The white elephant in the room that nobody seems willing to point out is that *nobody* should be getting fucking pat downs to get on an airplane. When you accept pat downs as normal, this is what you get: EVERYBODY gets them.
--Jeremy
Imposter. There's no random bolding, no creative use of punctuation symbols, and you never once mentioned a host file.
It also helps that we didn't have to dismantle civilization to get rid of CFCs.
And you accuse people who believe global warming is an issue worth dealing with of being 'alarmists.'
--Jeremy
I like that you imply that everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot, yet all you've "contributed" to the discussion is one- and two-sentence ad hom attacks.
--Jeremy
That's great. Now we just have to adjust our civilization to work the same as that other advanced civilization that existed 2.5 million years ago, and we're all set.
--Jeremy
I know you've already pointed it out, but if you hadn't, this statement shows that you clearly don't have a CS degree -- or even know what computer science is.
--Jeremy
As we've learned from Darwin, competition weeds-out the bad and inefficient, leaving behind the well-adapted.
No, we didn't learn that AT ALL. What Darwin taught us is that we get the traits that are selected for; currently we are selecting for universities that have winning athletics programs. By themselves, "bad" and "inefficient" don't mean jack shit in the context of natural selection.
Not to mention that education should be viewed as an INVESTMENT, not an expense. If you think it's too expensive to make sure we have a well-educated populace, just think about the alternative.
--Jeremy
It helps that any donations not specifically targeted to an organization on campus typically get credited toward the athletics department. Since most donations just go to the school without stipulations about where it should be spent, this means that the athletics department gets to take credit for nearly all donations.
But also, by your logic, if the athletics program is so profitable, why keep the rest of the school open at all? Most of the rest of any school is a big money loser.
--Jeremy
Yeah, it really sucks that they're doing this. Tolerating jerks while playing video games has been necessary forever! I mean, I remember back in the SNES days when we'd play Mario Kart, and all those jerks that we didn't like would just come over and talk shit and be generally unpleasant assholes and we couldn't do ANYTHING about it! It's not like we could just ask them to *leave* or anything.
</sarcasm>
It's sad that generally the only way to get a decent online gaming experience is to play exclusively with people you know. There's also no reason it needs to be that way. I can go out and play a game of pool or cards with someone I've never met, and most of the time it manages to be a fairly enjoyable experience. Occasionally you'll get some overly competitive players, but there's a big difference between competitiveness and being a jerk ass.
--Jeremy
Tough to take your comment seriously when the first link talks about ASLR (available on Windows since Windows 7). The 2nd is a blog that talks about full file/disk encryption for the Mac and then about Microsoft's Security Essentials, which aren't even the same thing -- and declares MacOS the winner. The 3rd is about gestures.
3 strikes, you're out. I didn't bother reading the 4th link.
--Jeremy
That is set by your state, not the feds.
This is a stupid argument.
Are you going to claim that if each state decided to have an individual mandate for health insurance, you'd have no problem with it?
Either the individual mandate is bad, or it's not -- who imposes it is a completely moot point.
--Jeremy
It took half a year for all of the Christian Taliban candidates to finally bail out of the Republican presidential primary race. If you honestly think we're that much more enlightened because one loony poisoned a bunch of girls and it hasn't happened here yet, you've got your head in the sand.
--Jeremy
Banning political television advertisement would be one such thing.
Why do you hate free speech and love socialism?
--Jeremy
For instance, banning the light bulb - just how stupid is that?
Almost as stupid as the straw man you just created with that statement.
What I believe you're actually referring to is the new efficiency standards put in place on incandescent light bulbs. The ones that made everyone (particularly light bulb manufacturers) hem and haw about how they would destroy the industry. The ones that are currently -- you guessed it! -- causing investments in R&D that have yielded massive improvements in incandescent light bulb efficiency.
--Jeremy
Heh, the funny thing is that GP is correct; this research did happen, the articles do exist, and there was a nice Slashdot discussion about it that you apparently missed. (oh noes! You failed to white knight for Apple! Are they going to make you revoke your membership card?)
However, I'm too lazy to do his Googling either -- I honestly don't care if you remain ignorant.
--Jeremy
In other words, the sample size is too small and too selective to be of any use and your comment is complete nonsense.
It is complete nonsense; however it is also completely reasonable to assume that there are tons of apps out there that do this surreptitious data harvesting. And it's the height of naivete to assume that having less information to protect yourself with (in this case, not knowing what permissions an app requires) is somehow better than being able to make an informed choice.
--Jeremy