"According to Tynt Insight's page, no individually identifiable info is provided."
apparently you don't know how things work... IP address + "list of search topics" is enough to personally ID someone even if they never search for themself or a relative.
IP Address + "things they've highlighted" have a very high probability of being able to do that too
A user shouldn't have to opt out of having slimeball tracking software. In fact, tracking software should have to disclose it's presence up front. Until you switch to Opt-in I blocked your entire domain at the firewalls I control.
having right click detection disabled breaks some very useful sites.. like Google maps
Re:Decoupling physics and rendering
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Must have changed the last five years.. used to be most games had 1 physics tick per frame rendered...
I would be interested in seeing their solution to concurrent data access problems in these new engines.. if they have normal lock that the physics of rendering threads have to acquire, or if they're doing shadow copy.
also, OpenGL is notoriously thread unsafe... you have to do all openGL operations in the same thread.. so i would like to see good solutions to that too.
the graphics engine still has to acquire locks on the data to render it. which is going to prevent the physics engine from altering it - thus introducing the properties i described.
Re:Motion blur and bloom effects
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Why can't the game/computer/monitor produce fast enough frame-rates that its my eyes that are creating the blur, not the Post Rendering effects?
Physics.. monitors cannot change fast enough and in the right way to do this. they simply don't work that way.
Speaking of Physics - the properties of a game's physics engine have the properties of a Riemann sum where n=fps. so the higher your FPS the more accurate your physics simulation, even if your monitor cannot discretely display all those frames.
[note: only applies in games where physics ticks/sec are tied to framerate... which is almost all games]
The College of Liberal Arts and Science has both the "soft disciplines" like english, philosophy, religious studies, etc and the hard disciplines like physics, biology, chemistry, geology, etc.
And the religious conservatives avoid those disciplines (except for religious studies) in general.
I didn't say dogmatists avoided them, i said religious fundamentalists.
PS: Sometimes you can simultaneously have an open mind, and be telling someone they're a moron. That happens when they're spouting something that open minded people considered, and found ridiculous, many years ago
and many students in Women's Studies openly challenge the dogma of their professors. My wife holds a WS degree...
WS is just a focused discipline of sociology. Sociology actually tends to be able to cite evidence, etc. Don't confuse the fact that some WS professors are feminazis (instead of just feminists) with the actual curricula at a good school.
to see the anti-porn crusader WS professors expression when one of their seniors told her she was going to make "Feminist porn" (basically: no "money shots" or stuff like that.. and using girls that haven't been plastic surgeried) was pure comedy gold
i went to Iowa State University. we don't have much of a fundie population as a whole in this state (and they're mostly concentrated in parts of district 4 and control district 5), but those we do have were much more common in the college of engineering.
Seems pretty obvious to me and it has nothing to do withengineers having more conservative religious views (they are actually much less likely to hold any religious views at all) nor with views on compromising, etc.
bullshiat.. the College of Engineering in my experience tend to be the most religious-fundie packed of the Colleges at a university. engineering doesn't challenge their dogma
and yet my experience in university tells me that the religious social conservatives are concentrated in the engineering college...
why?
because engineering is a world of black and white thinking, and it doesn't challenge their religious dogma like the other departments with their more rounded gen ed requirements do. Let alone the departments in Arts and Sciences like Geology, Biology, Paleontology, etc that the findings of openly challenge their dogma.
Let's not forget that laptop batteries probably have higher quality requirements for smooth power delivery, low heat emission during use, etc when compared to lawn mower batteries.
A) yes there are, mostly in the former east germany. The government even officially has a stance of tolerating them displaying nazi symbols so long as they remain peaceful B) the Nazi Swastika and the Hindu Swastika are not the same. The Nazi one is basically the Hindu one backwards
whether or not people agree with your theory - you theory is NOT why things are they way they are. your theory is merely your personal argument to maintain the status quo in this case.
strange that more and more of them are getting high ratings from the NRA
Howard Dean, all twelve governor candidates he endorsed in 2006 (who all won IIRC), etc.
the mainstream democrat voter recognizes the politician democrat is
A) more socially conservative than them B) more reactionary in their gun control ideas, and less effective in their gun control ideas C) almost all kiss corporation ass
all three of those are a result of american politics' "race to the right" in the last thirty years
republicans have moved from fiscal "conservative"*/social libertarian to corporatist/theocrat
democrats have moved from "fiscal responsible" (PAYGO) - government services/social liberal to "fiscal conservative"/social moderate-conservative
so if "center" 0 on a -10 (left) to +10 (right) scale the democrats have moved from -2 to 0.5 and the republicans moved from 4 to OVER 9000!:D
there is no functional in-market competition. that's the problem with cable and phone services - they're infrastructures, therefore natural monopolies. this encourages corporate abuse of the customer.
that's YOU. that's not why we as a country don't have it this way.
btw: we already have government standards on what can be legally called broadband. they're quite clear, and completely apolitical (beyond being unreasonably low.. pretty much everthing DSL or cable qualifies)
"Even since cable/dsl was introduced it was made clear you didn't buy 24/7 full throughput, you bought burst speeds that were subject to the traffic of others on your aggregation point."
Slashdot Mirror
what would be nice is "3rd mouse button as 2nd java script mouse button" :D
"According to Tynt Insight's page, no individually identifiable info is provided."
apparently you don't know how things work... IP address + "list of search topics" is enough to personally ID someone even if they never search for themself or a relative.
IP Address + "things they've highlighted" have a very high probability of being able to do that too
A user shouldn't have to opt out of having slimeball tracking software. In fact, tracking software should have to disclose it's presence up front. Until you switch to Opt-in I blocked your entire domain at the firewalls I control.
that's the point.
until i find a subscribable whitelist (ala AdblockPlus's blacklist) I won't use it.
I don't want to go through the trouble of adding every known benign site to my white list.
having right click detection disabled breaks some very useful sites.. like Google maps
Must have changed the last five years.. used to be most games had 1 physics tick per frame rendered...
I would be interested in seeing their solution to concurrent data access problems in these new engines.. if they have normal lock that the physics of rendering threads have to acquire, or if they're doing shadow copy.
also, OpenGL is notoriously thread unsafe... you have to do all openGL operations in the same thread.. so i would like to see good solutions to that too.
the graphics engine still has to acquire locks on the data to render it. which is going to prevent the physics engine from altering it - thus introducing the properties i described.
Physics.. monitors cannot change fast enough and in the right way to do this. they simply don't work that way.
Speaking of Physics - the properties of a game's physics engine have the properties of a Riemann sum where n=fps. so the higher your FPS the more accurate your physics simulation, even if your monitor cannot discretely display all those frames.
[note: only applies in games where physics ticks/sec are tied to framerate... which is almost all games]
Black and white thinking is fine for an "adequate engineer" - which is what most of them are.
The College of Liberal Arts and Science has both the "soft disciplines" like english, philosophy, religious studies, etc and the hard disciplines like physics, biology, chemistry, geology, etc.
And the religious conservatives avoid those disciplines (except for religious studies) in general.
I didn't say dogmatists avoided them, i said religious fundamentalists.
PS: Sometimes you can simultaneously have an open mind, and be telling someone they're a moron. That happens when they're spouting something that open minded people considered, and found ridiculous, many years ago
and many students in Women's Studies openly challenge the dogma of their professors. My wife holds a WS degree...
WS is just a focused discipline of sociology. Sociology actually tends to be able to cite evidence, etc. Don't confuse the fact that some WS professors are feminazis (instead of just feminists) with the actual curricula at a good school.
to see the anti-porn crusader WS professors expression when one of their seniors told her she was going to make "Feminist porn" (basically: no "money shots" or stuff like that.. and using girls that haven't been plastic surgeried) was pure comedy gold
i went to Iowa State University. we don't have much of a fundie population as a whole in this state (and they're mostly concentrated in parts of district 4 and control district 5), but those we do have were much more common in the college of engineering.
bullshiat.. the College of Engineering in my experience tend to be the most religious-fundie packed of the Colleges at a university. engineering doesn't challenge their dogma
and yet my experience in university tells me that the religious social conservatives are concentrated in the engineering college...
why?
because engineering is a world of black and white thinking, and it doesn't challenge their religious dogma like the other departments with their more rounded gen ed requirements do. Let alone the departments in Arts and Sciences like Geology, Biology, Paleontology, etc that the findings of openly challenge their dogma.
Let's not forget that laptop batteries probably have higher quality requirements for smooth power delivery, low heat emission during use, etc when compared to lawn mower batteries.
A) yes there are, mostly in the former east germany. The government even officially has a stance of tolerating them displaying nazi symbols so long as they remain peaceful
B) the Nazi Swastika and the Hindu Swastika are not the same. The Nazi one is basically the Hindu one backwards
if you have a smartphone on verizon you are REQUIRED to have a smartphone data plan which is "unlimited" (5GB/month), so no 1MB billings.
i know. I have an Omnia on Verizon /employer discounts ftw
argumentum ad populum
whether or not people agree with your theory - you theory is NOT why things are they way they are. your theory is merely your personal argument to maintain the status quo in this case.
"Democrats desire to remove the second amendment"
strange that more and more of them are getting high ratings from the NRA
Howard Dean, all twelve governor candidates he endorsed in 2006 (who all won IIRC), etc.
the mainstream democrat voter recognizes the politician democrat is
A) more socially conservative than them
B) more reactionary in their gun control ideas, and less effective in their gun control ideas
C) almost all kiss corporation ass
all three of those are a result of american politics' "race to the right" in the last thirty years
republicans have moved from fiscal "conservative"*/social libertarian to corporatist/theocrat
democrats have moved from "fiscal responsible" (PAYGO) - government services/social liberal to "fiscal conservative"/social moderate-conservative
so if "center" 0 on a -10 (left) to +10 (right) scale the democrats have moved from -2 to 0.5 and the republicans moved from 4 to OVER 9000! :D
* fiscal conservative != fiscally responsible
wrong. stop listening to rush limbaugh. there were actual year over year surplusses.
there is no functional in-market competition. that's the problem with cable and phone services - they're infrastructures, therefore natural monopolies. this encourages corporate abuse of the customer.
that's YOU. that's not why we as a country don't have it this way.
btw: we already have government standards on what can be legally called broadband. they're quite clear, and completely apolitical (beyond being unreasonably low.. pretty much everthing DSL or cable qualifies)
"Even since cable/dsl was introduced it was made clear you didn't buy 24/7 full throughput, you bought burst speeds that were subject to the traffic of others on your aggregation point."
bullshit
They advertise it as
"X down/Y Up"
not
"X down/Y up for part of the time, X1/Y1 the rest of the time".
Throttling is a violation of your customer agreement and false advertising.
The "1%" (it's more than that) that expect 24/7 full throughput ARE THE CUSTOMERS WHO WANT TO USE WHAT THEY PAID FOR.
You sir, are what is wrong with american commerce. you'll take it up the arse from the corporate overloads all day long.