OpenGL on vista will be running on TOP of DirectX. This means that DirectX will EMULATE opengl although this process in reverse is possible with very little efficiency lost. As an example check out the cedaga project that ports directx games to linux using opengl.
You're right. There are many people that with international aid are not starving and dying of disease and now they want to improve on their situation by learning enough to build a real national economy in the third world.
Basic computer skills are important for outsourcing jobs. Whether or not oyu like outsourcing doens't matter however because it is the way the world is going.
In the slashback article above it links to a Montana law that some people are mad about. Ill post it here: 2) It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the peace officer was acting in an illegal manner, provided that the peace officer was acting under the peace officer's official authority.
So basically what this says is that it is illegal to resist a police officer even if they are doing something illegal. This is an important point. Citizens do NOT hold power over the police. When the police are wrong it IS going to suck, its wrong and should be prevented but you as a citizen are not going to be able to overpower the officer on the spot with your witty knowledge of the laws.
Just imagine that. "Sorry sir, you took a picture of something you weren't supposed to. I'm going to have to confiscate your camera." "The pictures are already in Texas, and in ten minutes they'll be posted online. Same as the recording of what you're saying right now. You really want to illegally take my possessions, Officer Frank, Number 3894?"
You should never NEVER talk to a cop this way. The poster in the slashback that wrote this may think that he holds the power in a cop on citizen confrontation. One thing many peopel forget is that the cops hold the power. Insisting toa cop especially to their face that YOU are the one with the power is going to get your arrested. You technically are well within your rights to say what is wrote about however, when a cop messes up on the job they go home to their wife and kids after work and nothing comes of it. If they illegal search and seize some property it is only later in court that this comes out and already the citizen has spent some time in a holding cell/jail had their property seized for some time. In many cases where photographic or compute requipment is seized people dont get it back untill it is almost worthless becuase newer better stuff can be bought for very cheap.
It seems like a lot of people are really scared they are going to die. Those people just dont understand terrorism. The reason why the biggest attacks in the US were SYMBOLIC ATTACKS was for fear. The WTC and the Pentagon were the symbols of US imperialism. When will people wake up and realize nobody wants to blow up a dirty bomb, set off a nuclear bomb, or release smallpox into the US?
Of course there are some people who advocate mass destruction of the US but there are also people in the US who would honestly support a carpet bombing of the middle east. We have uninformed belligerant zealots on both sides but those people need to be more or less ignored when making policies.
How long did it take your family to learn windows? Probably years before they got to the point they are at now. I am not saying linux is 100% ready for the desktop but neither was windows at any point.
Walk through downtown seattle on 3rd Avenue. You will see several entrances to ATM's that you need to swipe your card to get into. I think at 3rd & University there are 2 of these ATM room's across the street from each other but i could be wrong about the cross street.
Do you really believe that when DRM is implemented that will bring down prices of consumer products?
If you think that you dont understand how economics works. The price that is set for a particular goods or service is not at ALL based on the price of making it. The price that something is sold at is based on the highest price someone can get and still sell the most of the commodity.
The thinking for cryonic suspension goes like this. 50 Years ago when your heart stopped you were dead, nothing anyone could do would get you back from your heart stopping. Today we can revive someone with a good rate of success after a few minutes after the heart stopping, the biggest problem being lack of oxygen to the brain. In 50 years from now how long will we have after a heart stops untill we cant revive someone.
This has non-trauma related applications too. Take for example cancer or lukemia. You can imagine any progressive and fatal disease as a possible application here. Many people today are frozen at the moment of death either of natural causes or slow non trauma related diseases. The company Alcor freezes people all the time with the hopes that in the future their disease will be curable AND they will be able to be revived at a few minutes of their heart stopping.
Some people opt to have only their head frozen. The idea with that is in the future a new body will be able to be grown from a DNa sample from yourself.
It's not just probable that women worked 100 years ago, its fact. The only women who could stay home and take care of the children were women of a wealthy household. The idea that a women belongs in the home is refered to as the "Cult of Domesticity" and was really only ever popular in the mid 1800's in the southern states. There was a resurgence of some of these ideas in the 1950's becuase of the prosperity after World War 2. The fact is that women never really did stay home but that was the IDEAL so many people believed with 1950's economics and technology we would finally achieve a society in which women did not work.
Most people such as yourself dont know these things because its not really taught in schools very much. When you study history of the mid 1800's you study slavery, the Civil War, and reconstruction. I personally think it robs women of the credit they deserve to say that they have traditionally stayed at home and taken care of the kids when really they had been working the whole time.
How about cutting out the sex scenes so we reduce the number of teenage pregnancies. If you think that cutting out sex scenes will lead to reduced teenage pregnency then you are either too old to understand "kids these days" or you are just completely and obliviously unaware of how the world works.
then get get pregnant, or a STD at age 16 and then guess what, their life is screwed. The vast majority of STD's are curable if detected quickly and treated. I bet your one of those right wing wackos who wants to closed down planned parenthood and not let them hand out condoms in school too. Pregnancy does not have to ruin your life. Even if you dont like it abortion IS an option and is a honestly a good option for many people.
And why is it screwed...because mommy and daddy let their kids watch sex scenes in movies at age 10 and their kids wanted to do it as soon as they could. Let me guess, back in your day kids didn't know what sex was and also never wanted to have it when they did find out. WHow do you explain all of the children who are allowed to watch violent and sexual movies and yet turn out to be perfectly normal people?
The idea of "1 bread winner per family" never actually was the way of life for most people. Women have always had to work they just never got credit for it. It would be extremely hard to maintain a society in which less than half of the people worked. A lot of the consumer goods you take for granted today and in your house becuase we have so many more people in the workforce than 100 years ago.
IHRC (I have raised chickens). Chickens with clipped wings can still make very high jumps when flapping their wings hard. They also can maintain a near verticle glide when jumping off of a high space. Chickens with clipped wings can often jump over fences or most high barriers they just cant maintain flight for extended periods.
Becuase you know how often people are poisoned with cyanide. So often in fact we need to train all doctors to diagnose it without anything but their own senses.
It has already been done, sort of, with Best Buy. They were not there to negotiate a deal but amny people went to a Best buy and sure enough the cops were called.
I think your exactly right. If the exact smell can be diagnosed by a machine why cant you just have the machine give a readout of what chemicals it detected. The human nose is not a very good way for doctors to make a diagnosis.
The human scent of smell lets us know about immediatly dangerous or immediatly apetizing food and other things. We dont use our nose to track animals or anything much more than warn us when we are putting something in our mouth.
What makes you think legalized the drug trade will remove the use of the money they generate from keeping entrenched interests in power?
There are quite a few regeimes in central/south america that are controled by minority groups. The vast majority of the money for these groups comes from the drug trade. Cut off the drug money and you cut off the supplies for a minority to keep the masses down.
Your taking the wrong arguement for the right cause. I think in the end you and me both agree but your slippery slope arguement is jsut wrong. I know you really want to draw a parallel between 1984 and this crime but there is not much to work with.
Planning a crime IS a crime. Discussing a crime IS a crime. Thinking about a crime is NOT a crime.
These are some important distinctions. You seem to make the claim that if someone is PLANNING a school shooting but has not done it yet there is nothing wrong. I think most reasonable people including yourself can agree that this is wrong. If someone is only fantasizing about a crime or considering a crime then its wrong but not ILLEGAL and the parents/school are right to step in but not with punishment.
One great example of this is ecstasy. Pure ecstasy does not kill people, it just doesn't. You are more likely to die taking tylenol than ecstasy (this does not mean esctasy is SAFER becuase it is profoundly more neuroptoxic). However many street tablets are cut with drugs like PMA or DXM that cause have a mulitiplying effect on the body raising effects of the ecstasy. This leads to people dying but the government doesn't care becuase its drug users who are dying.
More people die from the narco traffic violence than from the war in Iraq in the same time period. All of these deaths are caused by US policy but nobody cares about people dying who are not in our country. (One of) the reasons we invaded Iraq was to spread democracy. If we really wanted to spread democracy we could first start by legalizing and taxing drugs in the USA. This would nearly shut down many of the large violent drug cartels that keep dictators in power.
You are correct that the Sun is unmoving as long as you want to think of it that way. One of the basic ideas of general relativity is that movement is relative. We can accept the Sun is moving around the center of the Milky Way and it wobbles back and forth as the planets rotate around it but only when you enter the milky way into the equation. If you want to say the sun is unmoving and the earth moves around it then from a viewpoint of relativity you are correct.
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OpenGL on vista will be running on TOP of DirectX. This means that DirectX will EMULATE opengl although this process in reverse is possible with very little efficiency lost. As an example check out the cedaga project that ports directx games to linux using opengl.
You're right. There are many people that with international aid are not starving and dying of disease and now they want to improve on their situation by learning enough to build a real national economy in the third world.
Basic computer skills are important for outsourcing jobs. Whether or not oyu like outsourcing doens't matter however because it is the way the world is going.
In the slashback article above it links to a Montana law that some people are mad about. Ill post it here:
2) It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the peace officer was acting in an illegal manner, provided that the peace officer was acting under the peace officer's official authority.
So basically what this says is that it is illegal to resist a police officer even if they are doing something illegal. This is an important point. Citizens do NOT hold power over the police. When the police are wrong it IS going to suck, its wrong and should be prevented but you as a citizen are not going to be able to overpower the officer on the spot with your witty knowledge of the laws.
Just imagine that. "Sorry sir, you took a picture of something you weren't supposed to. I'm going to have to confiscate your camera." "The pictures are already in Texas, and in ten minutes they'll be posted online. Same as the recording of what you're saying right now. You really want to illegally take my possessions, Officer Frank, Number 3894?"
You should never NEVER talk to a cop this way. The poster in the slashback that wrote this may think that he holds the power in a cop on citizen confrontation. One thing many peopel forget is that the cops hold the power. Insisting toa cop especially to their face that YOU are the one with the power is going to get your arrested. You technically are well within your rights to say what is wrote about however, when a cop messes up on the job they go home to their wife and kids after work and nothing comes of it. If they illegal search and seize some property it is only later in court that this comes out and already the citizen has spent some time in a holding cell/jail had their property seized for some time. In many cases where photographic or compute requipment is seized people dont get it back untill it is almost worthless becuase newer better stuff can be bought for very cheap.
Usually the Japanese are not to keen on working to make nuclear bombs.
Everyone else needs to get the _hell_ out of the way! ;-)
Good ol' America!
It seems like a lot of people are really scared they are going to die. Those people just dont understand terrorism. The reason why the biggest attacks in the US were SYMBOLIC ATTACKS was for fear. The WTC and the Pentagon were the symbols of US imperialism. When will people wake up and realize nobody wants to blow up a dirty bomb, set off a nuclear bomb, or release smallpox into the US?
Of course there are some people who advocate mass destruction of the US but there are also people in the US who would honestly support a carpet bombing of the middle east. We have uninformed belligerant zealots on both sides but those people need to be more or less ignored when making policies.
How long did it take your family to learn windows? Probably years before they got to the point they are at now. I am not saying linux is 100% ready for the desktop but neither was windows at any point.
Walk through downtown seattle on 3rd Avenue. You will see several entrances to ATM's that you need to swipe your card to get into. I think at 3rd & University there are 2 of these ATM room's across the street from each other but i could be wrong about the cross street.
Do you really believe that when DRM is implemented that will bring down prices of consumer products?
If you think that you dont understand how economics works. The price that is set for a particular goods or service is not at ALL based on the price of making it. The price that something is sold at is based on the highest price someone can get and still sell the most of the commodity.
The businessmen with a technical background, thats who.
The thinking for cryonic suspension goes like this. 50 Years ago when your heart stopped you were dead, nothing anyone could do would get you back from your heart stopping. Today we can revive someone with a good rate of success after a few minutes after the heart stopping, the biggest problem being lack of oxygen to the brain. In 50 years from now how long will we have after a heart stops untill we cant revive someone.
This has non-trauma related applications too. Take for example cancer or lukemia. You can imagine any progressive and fatal disease as a possible application here. Many people today are frozen at the moment of death either of natural causes or slow non trauma related diseases. The company Alcor freezes people all the time with the hopes that in the future their disease will be curable AND they will be able to be revived at a few minutes of their heart stopping.
Some people opt to have only their head frozen. The idea with that is in the future a new body will be able to be grown from a DNa sample from yourself.
If all posible scanrios lead to a conspiracy theory maybe you should be thinking about why you see conspiracy theories in all possible scenarios.
It's not just probable that women worked 100 years ago, its fact. The only women who could stay home and take care of the children were women of a wealthy household. The idea that a women belongs in the home is refered to as the "Cult of Domesticity" and was really only ever popular in the mid 1800's in the southern states. There was a resurgence of some of these ideas in the 1950's becuase of the prosperity after World War 2. The fact is that women never really did stay home but that was the IDEAL so many people believed with 1950's economics and technology we would finally achieve a society in which women did not work.
Most people such as yourself dont know these things because its not really taught in schools very much. When you study history of the mid 1800's you study slavery, the Civil War, and reconstruction. I personally think it robs women of the credit they deserve to say that they have traditionally stayed at home and taken care of the kids when really they had been working the whole time.
How about cutting out the sex scenes so we reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.
If you think that cutting out sex scenes will lead to reduced teenage pregnency then you are either too old to understand "kids these days" or you are just completely and obliviously unaware of how the world works.
then get get pregnant, or a STD at age 16 and then guess what, their life is screwed.
The vast majority of STD's are curable if detected quickly and treated. I bet your one of those right wing wackos who wants to closed down planned parenthood and not let them hand out condoms in school too. Pregnancy does not have to ruin your life. Even if you dont like it abortion IS an option and is a honestly a good option for many people.
And why is it screwed...because mommy and daddy let their kids watch sex scenes in movies at age 10 and their kids wanted to do it as soon as they could.
Let me guess, back in your day kids didn't know what sex was and also never wanted to have it when they did find out. WHow do you explain all of the children who are allowed to watch violent and sexual movies and yet turn out to be perfectly normal people?
The idea of "1 bread winner per family" never actually was the way of life for most people. Women have always had to work they just never got credit for it. It would be extremely hard to maintain a society in which less than half of the people worked. A lot of the consumer goods you take for granted today and in your house becuase we have so many more people in the workforce than 100 years ago.
IHRC (I have raised chickens). Chickens with clipped wings can still make very high jumps when flapping their wings hard. They also can maintain a near verticle glide when jumping off of a high space. Chickens with clipped wings can often jump over fences or most high barriers they just cant maintain flight for extended periods.
Becuase you know how often people are poisoned with cyanide. So often in fact we need to train all doctors to diagnose it without anything but their own senses.
http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?m ission_id=57
It has already been done, sort of, with Best Buy. They were not there to negotiate a deal but amny people went to a Best buy and sure enough the cops were called.
I think your exactly right. If the exact smell can be diagnosed by a machine why cant you just have the machine give a readout of what chemicals it detected. The human nose is not a very good way for doctors to make a diagnosis.
The human scent of smell lets us know about immediatly dangerous or immediatly apetizing food and other things. We dont use our nose to track animals or anything much more than warn us when we are putting something in our mouth.
What makes you think legalized the drug trade will remove the use of the money they generate from keeping entrenched interests in power?
There are quite a few regeimes in central/south america that are controled by minority groups. The vast majority of the money for these groups comes from the drug trade. Cut off the drug money and you cut off the supplies for a minority to keep the masses down.
Your taking the wrong arguement for the right cause. I think in the end you and me both agree but your slippery slope arguement is jsut wrong. I know you really want to draw a parallel between 1984 and this crime but there is not much to work with.
Planning a crime IS a crime. Discussing a crime IS a crime. Thinking about a crime is NOT a crime.
These are some important distinctions. You seem to make the claim that if someone is PLANNING a school shooting but has not done it yet there is nothing wrong. I think most reasonable people including yourself can agree that this is wrong. If someone is only fantasizing about a crime or considering a crime then its wrong but not ILLEGAL and the parents/school are right to step in but not with punishment.
One great example of this is ecstasy. Pure ecstasy does not kill people, it just doesn't. You are more likely to die taking tylenol than ecstasy (this does not mean esctasy is SAFER becuase it is profoundly more neuroptoxic). However many street tablets are cut with drugs like PMA or DXM that cause have a mulitiplying effect on the body raising effects of the ecstasy. This leads to people dying but the government doesn't care becuase its drug users who are dying.
More people die from the narco traffic violence than from the war in Iraq in the same time period. All of these deaths are caused by US policy but nobody cares about people dying who are not in our country. (One of) the reasons we invaded Iraq was to spread democracy. If we really wanted to spread democracy we could first start by legalizing and taxing drugs in the USA. This would nearly shut down many of the large violent drug cartels that keep dictators in power.
You are correct that the Sun is unmoving as long as you want to think of it that way. One of the basic ideas of general relativity is that movement is relative. We can accept the Sun is moving around the center of the Milky Way and it wobbles back and forth as the planets rotate around it but only when you enter the milky way into the equation. If you want to say the sun is unmoving and the earth moves around it then from a viewpoint of relativity you are correct.