Because now, suddenly money is an "unsafe material" (could be fake, could be to pay "terrorists", could be a bomb inside, "I'm just asking questions."(TM)*), and therefore it is "by definition reasonable".
Who are those people who think they could stop criminals that don't care for the rules of society (laws), by creating yet another law? Are they drunk?
On the other hand... who said they actually want to stop them...? ^^ ___ * Trademark of FOX News.
I hate - where KDE 4 is going. - where GNOME was and is going. - Windows... in general, and Microsoft's behavior. - the philosophy behind OS X's UI, and Apple's behavior.
So I'm back to the console again,...until my own project becomes usable.;)
That's because they all are imitating. Not innovating. Which again is because they listen to those who complain about everything that is different, no matter if it's good or bad. Which is because they themselves have a weak sense of reality / set of values, and so put the opinions of everyone who is loud enough above their own. And that is sadly a problem that very many computer experts have. (Just like me in the past.)
But I think it's a good idea of them, to not repeat the "fun" with the KDE 4.0 misunderstanding. And the "more fun" of KDE 4.3 still being pretty much unusable for an experienced KDE3 user.
If only the GNOME team would care for things like choice (= building in options/configurability), and that part of the Gaussian curve that does not want dumbing down to unusability... (which sadly now is half the hype with KDE4 too.)
You know what the most complex computer known to man is? The human brain!
And you know what social engineering is? Hacking the human brain!
So by making a bum with suicidal tendencies do it for you (or make him get suicidal), and then jumping off a bridge or something, you actually are on the forefront of the hacker spirit. (Black hat. Definitely black hat! ^^)
That's as close to "indistinguishable to magic" as you can get nowadays.
I had a C64 emulator on my Nokia 3650 in 2003/4! And a Gameboy emulator! And a MAMEmulator! And all S60 phones from then on had it. And probably tons of other phones.
But because it's a stupid iPhone, from its stupid user community, who have never seen or heard anything from outside their reality distortion bubble, it must get a special mentioning! Khat's next? An article about a SSH client? (Won't work, since the dumb iPhone hasn't even got all the necessary character buttons on its "keyboard" to properly use it.)
Oh iPhone. You're really "special". Just like your users are "special"... (Yeah, in that "special" sense. ^^)
That's the thing: I have a passion for high-level physics programming. Meaning I would have my own non-graphics scene graph, and render out the actual scene from that one. But I don't want to put up with all that stupid special trickery. Like manually rendering shadows, instead of them being a natural result of lack of photon radiation. Or the "set of empty hulls" approach, instead of it being real materials with a volume. Etc.
All those standard packages exclusively use those things. And none of them seems no separate the actual rendering from the scene graph representation itself. Which is what I would need: A library that just does the low-level graphics stuff for me, while leaving the world management (scene, collision, physics, etc) to me.
I could simply create the scene graph of such a complete engine package out of my internal scene graph. But those engines are not made for re-creating the entire scene-graph on every frame. (Which is what I would have to do in that case.) They are made to load a map, and then call commands/scripts to modify things in it.
I ditched TV entirely in 2002, when I noticed that I could switch trough all the channels on a random evening, and find nothing even remotely worth watching. Besides, it's not as if I got any real news from there anyway.
I switched to the obvious: eDonkey and BitTorrent (with mldonkey) for TV shows. And RSS websites for news. (Well, going to news sites, as RSS was not used much yet.) Nowadays many of those are called "blogs".:)
I must say that while I miss some "old media only" news/"scandals", etc, which I'm not interested in much anyway, I'm very happy with my descision. Instead of sitting in front of a device that allows passive usage only, I get to really deal with the subjects. Like commenting on news stories. (I avoid sites without comment functionality like the plague.) Or going to forums to talk/read about a TV show afterwards.
In my opinion my level of intelligence and education grew extremely trough all the things I learned by thinking and discussing things with others. So it's pretty strange to get together with TV-only people and see them watch something like "big brother" or another pointless stupid mind-numbingly boring plastic fantastic show, or fake "real news". It's impossible to discuss things with them, since they have no idea of what's really going on in the world, or in general. You only hear those pre-formed mass-opinions that everyone of them thinks are the correct ones, without them putting a single thought into asking or answering question.
Also I play a lot more games, which belong in the same category as TV shows anyway.
So as a summary, I can only say: Improve yourself! Throw away your TV! (If you must have a big screen, buy a beamer. ^^)
Oh, and it's not real-time at all. IT will *at least* have the lag of one ping roundtrip. Then add some ms of rendering time and input/ouput on the device to it. On a mobile phone that can mean 1.5 seconds(!) in delay. Or ever more.
It's real-time, when it does not sound weird anymore, when I press a key in a music game, to hear the sound. That's below 10 ms for me. But something around 50ms TOTAL for the average Joe.
Oh, and don't even think about winning a game against someone with real real-time rendering.
I'm a game designer, and not a game developer or graphics designer. But I think I'm a fairly good programmer. But I have trouble getting to that level that is a decade past display lists. What do you recommend for someone who learned OpenGL 1.2 back then, and wants to get up to a top notch experienced professional level in the fastest possible way (meaning with the highest compression of information that is at all possible)!
(I loathe those 600-800 page tomes where every 100 page chapter could be condensed to 10 pages without any loss of information. To get a feeling on my preferred level of information compression, look at the Haskell Report. ^^)
Don't worry. Apparently, from the physical rules shown in the movie, the bigger the ball of red matter is, the less dangerous it is.
That's why a tiny drop can kill an entire planet. While Spock can steer a spaceship with a HUGE ball of red mass straight into a ship in a space-time rift, and the enterprise crew doesn't even blink. Much less fly away in terror as fast as they can. ^^
(Yes. That consistency error totally ruined the ending for me.)
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No. But goatses!
Actually, scientifically, we rather move in the hairless direction. The idea is, that there is no need for it anymore, anyway.
No Picard really is a rather advanced specimen. ^^
That manipulation does not make this manipulation any better.
Classic fallacy!
...is an idiot.^^
Because now, suddenly money is an "unsafe material" (could be fake, could be to pay "terrorists", could be a bomb inside, "I'm just asking questions."(TM)*),
and therefore it is "by definition reasonable".
Who are those people who think they could stop criminals that don't care for the rules of society (laws), by creating yet another law? Are they drunk?
On the other hand... who said they actually want to stop them...? ^^
___
* Trademark of FOX News.
Great. Hit by a fanboy with mod points, who in unable to tolerate any critique.
I should change my sig to: "Protip: If you think I'm trolling, that says more about your prejudices, than about me."
but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal.
Yeah, because there never even was a animal who cut itself, and where then the wound healed...
FAIL
I hate
- where KDE 4 is going.
- where GNOME was and is going.
- Windows... in general, and Microsoft's behavior.
- the philosophy behind OS X's UI, and Apple's behavior.
So I'm back to the console again, ...until my own project becomes usable. ;)
That's because they all are imitating. Not innovating.
Which again is because they listen to those who complain about everything that is different, no matter if it's good or bad.
Which is because they themselves have a weak sense of reality / set of values, and so put the opinions of everyone who is loud enough above their own.
And that is sadly a problem that very many computer experts have. (Just like me in the past.)
Don't get me wrong: I love KDE3.
But I think it's a good idea of them, to not repeat the "fun" with the KDE 4.0 misunderstanding. And the "more fun" of KDE 4.3 still being pretty much unusable for an experienced KDE3 user.
If only the GNOME team would care for things like choice (= building in options/configurability), and that part of the Gaussian curve that does not want dumbing down to unusability... (which sadly now is half the hype with KDE4 too.)
Uuum, ever heard of social engineering? The new advanced human mind hacking?
Oh, and if you make him kill himself in the process, there is nobody to squeal. ^^
Actually it's extreme high tech:
You know what the most complex computer known to man is?
The human brain!
And you know what social engineering is?
Hacking the human brain!
So by making a bum with suicidal tendencies do it for you (or make him get suicidal),
and then jumping off a bridge or something,
you actually are on the forefront of the hacker spirit. (Black hat. Definitely black hat! ^^)
That's as close to "indistinguishable to magic" as you can get nowadays.
We get paid by every single big criminal out there.
We have decades of experience.
We are the best in the world.
We wish you goood luck! ^^
Greetz,
Your Russian hacker community.
Exactly. Nd dey givz me many moneyz fer tonz of cheezburgerz!
Long Tim
iz Loooooong Cat
I had a C64 emulator on my Nokia 3650 in 2003/4! And a Gameboy emulator! And a MAMEmulator!
And all S60 phones from then on had it. And probably tons of other phones.
But because it's a stupid iPhone, from its stupid user community, who have never seen or heard anything from outside their reality distortion bubble, it must get a special mentioning!
Khat's next? An article about a SSH client? (Won't work, since the dumb iPhone hasn't even got all the necessary character buttons on its "keyboard" to properly use it.)
Oh iPhone. You're really "special". Just like your users are "special"... (Yeah, in that "special" sense. ^^)
That's the thing: I have a passion for high-level physics programming. Meaning I would have my own non-graphics scene graph, and render out the actual scene from that one. But I don't want to put up with all that stupid special trickery. Like manually rendering shadows, instead of them being a natural result of lack of photon radiation. Or the "set of empty hulls" approach, instead of it being real materials with a volume. Etc.
All those standard packages exclusively use those things. And none of them seems no separate the actual rendering from the scene graph representation itself. Which is what I would need:
A library that just does the low-level graphics stuff for me, while leaving the world management (scene, collision, physics, etc) to me.
I could simply create the scene graph of such a complete engine package out of my internal scene graph. But those engines are not made for re-creating the entire scene-graph on every frame. (Which is what I would have to do in that case.) They are made to load a map, and then call commands/scripts to modify things in it.
Because if anyone of your customers or competitors is a bigger fat cat than you, the FTC will get you? ^^
I mean its not as if they got away with it...
I ditched TV entirely in 2002, when I noticed that I could switch trough all the channels on a random evening, and find nothing even remotely worth watching. Besides, it's not as if I got any real news from there anyway.
I switched to the obvious: eDonkey and BitTorrent (with mldonkey) for TV shows. :)
And RSS websites for news. (Well, going to news sites, as RSS was not used much yet.) Nowadays many of those are called "blogs".
I must say that while I miss some "old media only" news/"scandals", etc, which I'm not interested in much anyway, I'm very happy with my descision.
Instead of sitting in front of a device that allows passive usage only, I get to really deal with the subjects. Like commenting on news stories. (I avoid sites without comment functionality like the plague.) Or going to forums to talk/read about a TV show afterwards.
In my opinion my level of intelligence and education grew extremely trough all the things I learned by thinking and discussing things with others.
So it's pretty strange to get together with TV-only people and see them watch something like "big brother" or another pointless stupid mind-numbingly boring plastic fantastic show, or fake "real news". It's impossible to discuss things with them, since they have no idea of what's really going on in the world, or in general. You only hear those pre-formed mass-opinions that everyone of them thinks are the correct ones, without them putting a single thought into asking or answering question.
Also I play a lot more games, which belong in the same category as TV shows anyway.
So as a summary, I can only say:
Improve yourself! Throw away your TV! (If you must have a big screen, buy a beamer. ^^)
Oh, and it's not real-time at all. IT will *at least* have the lag of one ping roundtrip. Then add some ms of rendering time and input/ouput on the device to it. On a mobile phone that can mean 1.5 seconds(!) in delay. Or ever more.
It's real-time, when it does not sound weird anymore, when I press a key in a music game, to hear the sound.
That's below 10 ms for me. But something around 50ms TOTAL for the average Joe.
Oh, and don't even think about winning a game against someone with real real-time rendering.
In Internet speak this project is a... LAG FAIL!
Yeah! Don't first ask what the actual point is! Go!
We can always make up a reason for it, when we're there.
</sarcasm>
But the winning/non-winning was never the topic/point/question.
It was about getting through the wall. Which they unquestionably did.
And this is what makes it a bad association to a condom.
By the way: Wow, how did we get to condoms from blu-ray movies? Porn again? ^^
I'm a game designer, and not a game developer or graphics designer. But I think I'm a fairly good programmer. But I have trouble getting to that level that is a decade past display lists. What do you recommend for someone who learned OpenGL 1.2 back then, and wants to get up to a top notch experienced professional level in the fastest possible way (meaning with the highest compression of information that is at all possible)!
(I loathe those 600-800 page tomes where every 100 page chapter could be condensed to 10 pages without any loss of information. To get a feeling on my preferred level of information compression, look at the Haskell Report. ^^)
You forgot to mention, that what you describe is what is known as Hawking radiation.
Don't worry. Apparently, from the physical rules shown in the movie, the bigger the ball of red matter is, the less dangerous it is.
That's why a tiny drop can kill an entire planet.
While Spock can steer a spaceship with a HUGE ball of red mass straight into a ship in a space-time rift, and the enterprise crew doesn't even blink. Much less fly away in terror as fast as they can. ^^
(Yes. That consistency error totally ruined the ending for me.)
So... In micro-black-holes world, universe sucks YOU!? :D
Slow black holes colliding? Plus horrible terror?
Well, simply think of two Goatse guys slowly riding a double dildo ass-to-ass.
Now there is some (ir?)rational thing to be afraid of for ya! ^^