I'm not really interested in making an incrementally better game using current techniques; more into the indie-gaming, art-gaming, and experimental scene in general.
Then don't make an incrementally better game. Quality is unrelated to what sort of pretty graphics you can manage.
That's the kind of society I prefer to live in. If it means a measure of censorship of publicly available material, I'd rather have that, quite honestly.
What makes you think you can't have both? Live somewhere where you know your neighbors and go order sandman comics off Amazon (or from a comic book store).
The meta-message of the old comics to children was, in fact, that people in uniforms could generally be trusted and that they were people working to make society safe. That's quite a positive message.
Nowadays, it's dangerous unless you live in a small town. Most of the time, when you meet a cop, he's looking for a reason to give you a ticket.
The Hayes Code forced writers to write smart, clever and witty dialog to suggest what is is now splashed across the screen. Think Jaws or the 1960 Psycho or The Birds instead of Saw. Another comparison: Double Indemnity vs. Basic Instinct.
Part of freedom is freedom to write lowbrow schlock. Your ends justify the means attitude is unamerican.
The Iowa votes still count because they count towards the popular vote, which in turn determines the distribution of a majority of the electoral votes.
Not if you always send the votes to whoever gets 270 electoral votes, since none of those votes are from Iowa.
It's worse than that - Iowa is planning to only submit its electoral votes after the election is decided. If you live in Iowa, your vote doesn't count. It really is idiots out wandering around.
New york state is as red as a damn stop sign, and the entire state has gone democrat since forever because the city has more votes than the whole rest of the state. Those states have more electoral votes than nearly all the midwest combined.
The city has 8M people out of about 19.5M in the state. Since that's about half, New York state isn't as red as you think. Or do you want to scale votes by land ownership or something? The legislative branch (you know, the guys who make the laws) is set up to balance cities vs. farmers, so you have some protection there.
But the "right" to not be defamed is not defined in the constitution, so doesn't the right to free speech over-ride the "right" not to be defamed?
What made you think the bill of rights is in any way complete? It's perfectly reasonable to make it illegal for someone to spread damaging disinformation about you.
I thought it was obvious, but I guess I'm not a very good communicator. I'm unhappy that new sockets are coming out all the time, and new chips are coming out all the time, but the performance increases are marginal.
If the performance increases are marginal (they aren't), why do you care? Keep your PC 5 years and replace it. It won't matter what socket you've got.
Sure it affects your mutual situation, but the point is that you head off the arguments about some random gadget by reserving money to each person for the purposes of screwing around on whatever you find interesting.
And that is EXACTLY what "evolution" is. Any other result would disprove evolution.
More to the point, there's really no such thing as dogs and cats. Dog and Cat are labels imposed by us on populations of animals that can interbreed but not crossbreed. It's a simplistic treatment of a phenomenon that's fairly complex - on the fuzzy edges, you get ligers and mules and ring species. If you want to be precise, you would have to come up with some concept of genetic distance - too far and there's no kid, too close and you get inbreeding.
That's arguable. We're quickly approaching performance limits, diminishing returns are starting to show up, and processors are only getting marginally faster. Now the trick is to play with the cache, and add cores to show a performance increase.
Guess what? Adding more cores usually needs more pins for IO. AMD did something smart and reserved some space for another HT link (apparently), which is what you've been complaining about them not doing, so I'm confused why you're unhappy. Why would they have added the HT stuff 2 years ago if noone was going to use them? What happens when it's time to go past 40 address lines? We get a new socket, that's what.
I remember reading about what a huge impact the concept of interchangeable parts had on the industrial revolution. And at the beginning there for a while, it also applied to computers.
It still does. Your PCI-E video card works in just about any computer that supports that socket.
I am positive you can engineer a socket that leaves plenty of room for the future. But why would you want to do that, if you can drain your customer's bank accounts?
Why would you do that? It'd be more expensive now, offer no advantages, and in three years, the new socket would be faster and come with updated IO choices.
So my advice to the married chumps out there is to keep a separate bank account for discretionary purchases which your wives have neither control of nor access to. Life without self-respect (and gadgets) is not worth living.
Seconded. One of the best things you can do is establish the idea of a slush fund for both sides of the relationship; fighting over money is one of the more common reasons for divorce.
And after WW2, it was an attractive place for intellectuals to come get a graduate degree and maybe stay and invent stuff. You really think that we haven't been a good place to move to for half a century?
Unionized workers, of course. Haven't you heard about the troubles of American auto makers?
Yeah. GM is in trouble because they're unable to make a car people want at a decent price. It's that simple - they haven't made competitive stuff for decades.
Why do they? Access is the part that has value - extra bits, not so much. The current incremental cost of data transit is around $0.10-$0.20/GB and dropping. I honestly wouldn't care about caps if they just charged something reasonable for overages and had some options for tracking usage and throttling. seriously, if you could see how much you have left in a given month and set your connection to either scale down or charge you when you get above a certain level, what reasonable person could complain?
While maybe you think that children should have the same rights under the constitution as adults they actually do not have the same rights as an adult.
The only difference between kids and adults is that the adult doesn't have anyone who can tell them when to go to bed. 4th ammendment still applies.
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I'm not really interested in making an incrementally better game using current techniques; more into the indie-gaming, art-gaming, and experimental scene in general.
Then don't make an incrementally better game. Quality is unrelated to what sort of pretty graphics you can manage.
That's the kind of society I prefer to live in. If it means a measure of censorship of publicly available material, I'd rather have that, quite honestly.
What makes you think you can't have both? Live somewhere where you know your neighbors and go order sandman comics off Amazon (or from a comic book store).
The meta-message of the old comics to children was, in fact, that people in uniforms could generally be trusted and that they were people working to make society safe. That's quite a positive message.
Nowadays, it's dangerous unless you live in a small town. Most of the time, when you meet a cop, he's looking for a reason to give you a ticket.
The Hayes Code forced writers to write smart, clever and witty dialog to suggest what is is now splashed across the screen. Think Jaws or the 1960 Psycho or The Birds instead of Saw. Another comparison: Double Indemnity vs. Basic Instinct.
Part of freedom is freedom to write lowbrow schlock. Your ends justify the means attitude is unamerican.
He isn't misogynistic, he just hates Yoko Ono. Personally, I would've picked someone else to break up a band over.
The Iowa votes still count because they count towards the popular vote, which in turn determines the distribution of a majority of the electoral votes.
Not if you always send the votes to whoever gets 270 electoral votes, since none of those votes are from Iowa.
It's worse than that - Iowa is planning to only submit its electoral votes after the election is decided. If you live in Iowa, your vote doesn't count. It really is idiots out wandering around.
New york state is as red as a damn stop sign, and the entire state has gone democrat since forever because the city has more votes than the whole rest of the state. Those states have more electoral votes than nearly all the midwest combined.
The city has 8M people out of about 19.5M in the state. Since that's about half, New York state isn't as red as you think. Or do you want to scale votes by land ownership or something? The legislative branch (you know, the guys who make the laws) is set up to balance cities vs. farmers, so you have some protection there.
Yes it does. Otherwise, the only options are 1: take it or 2: fork the source. Not that you can really expect to run weather simulations on your PC.
But the "right" to not be defamed is not defined in the constitution, so doesn't the right to free speech over-ride the "right" not to be defamed?
What made you think the bill of rights is in any way complete? It's perfectly reasonable to make it illegal for someone to spread damaging disinformation about you.
I thought it was obvious, but I guess I'm not a very good communicator. I'm unhappy that new sockets are coming out all the time, and new chips are coming out all the time, but the performance increases are marginal.
If the performance increases are marginal (they aren't), why do you care? Keep your PC 5 years and replace it. It won't matter what socket you've got.
Sure it affects your mutual situation, but the point is that you head off the arguments about some random gadget by reserving money to each person for the purposes of screwing around on whatever you find interesting.
And that is EXACTLY what "evolution" is. Any other result would disprove evolution.
More to the point, there's really no such thing as dogs and cats. Dog and Cat are labels imposed by us on populations of animals that can interbreed but not crossbreed. It's a simplistic treatment of a phenomenon that's fairly complex - on the fuzzy edges, you get ligers and mules and ring species. If you want to be precise, you would have to come up with some concept of genetic distance - too far and there's no kid, too close and you get inbreeding.
That's arguable. We're quickly approaching performance limits, diminishing returns are starting to show up, and processors are only getting marginally faster. Now the trick is to play with the cache, and add cores to show a performance increase.
Guess what? Adding more cores usually needs more pins for IO. AMD did something smart and reserved some space for another HT link (apparently), which is what you've been complaining about them not doing, so I'm confused why you're unhappy. Why would they have added the HT stuff 2 years ago if noone was going to use them? What happens when it's time to go past 40 address lines? We get a new socket, that's what.
I remember reading about what a huge impact the concept of interchangeable parts had on the industrial revolution. And at the beginning there for a while, it also applied to computers.
It still does. Your PCI-E video card works in just about any computer that supports that socket.
I am positive you can engineer a socket that leaves plenty of room for the future. But why would you want to do that, if you can drain your customer's bank accounts?
Why would you do that? It'd be more expensive now, offer no advantages, and in three years, the new socket would be faster and come with updated IO choices.
So my advice to the married chumps out there is to keep a separate bank account for discretionary purchases which your wives have neither control of nor access to. Life without self-respect (and gadgets) is not worth living.
Seconded. One of the best things you can do is establish the idea of a slush fund for both sides of the relationship; fighting over money is one of the more common reasons for divorce.
Seriously, unless you're building a DB server, memory hasn't been expensive for a while - 2G is $40-50. A new processor is $200+
So, are they directs or going through an agency? That salary doesn't track with my data at all.
You can't even get decent tech support for that pay. I suspect your entry level devs might be best employed inside a locked box.
And after WW2, it was an attractive place for intellectuals to come get a graduate degree and maybe stay and invent stuff. You really think that we haven't been a good place to move to for half a century?
Unionized workers, of course. Haven't you heard about the troubles of American auto makers?
Yeah. GM is in trouble because they're unable to make a car people want at a decent price. It's that simple - they haven't made competitive stuff for decades.
They can pay about 10% of what they do in a major US city if they move operations to India.
Yeah right. Find me an Indian engineer worth his keep willing to work for $10k year. You can't because they don't exist.
You also don't have to stay in the store - they aren't going to tackle you in the parking lot.
Why do they? Access is the part that has value - extra bits, not so much. The current incremental cost of data transit is around $0.10-$0.20/GB and dropping. I honestly wouldn't care about caps if they just charged something reasonable for overages and had some options for tracking usage and throttling. seriously, if you could see how much you have left in a given month and set your connection to either scale down or charge you when you get above a certain level, what reasonable person could complain?
If the stores could transparently scan these bags as I walk out with RFID tags or some such, inconvenience is gone and so are my complaints.
You can just walk past the line and let them work on the RFID thing on their own time.
While maybe you think that children should have the same rights under the constitution as adults they actually do not have the same rights as an adult.
The only difference between kids and adults is that the adult doesn't have anyone who can tell them when to go to bed. 4th ammendment still applies.