What they found on the 'bra' texture was a pinkish texture intended for use with clothing textures. No nipples, and not really anatomically correct. Not sexual.
It's no more sexual (and probably less so) than those pinkish flesh-coloured swimsuits. From a distance it might look like the girls wearing them are nude, but on closer investigation it's not more exciting than any other swimsuit.
These textures, not being intended for nudeness, are even less attractive and certainly not anatomically correct.
As absurd as it sounds, this would be a pretty damn funny mod. A lot of the games nowadays do use suggestive player models, especially for females (low-cut black leather armour, etc), although they tend to stop short of blatant sexuality. Mario games aren't this way, however, and the sheer unexpectedness of it would make it rather amusing to hack the textures/models on a friend's cart:-)
About how they will archive the required hardware or server-side authentication etc... but not about what they would be archiving. While Half Life 2 et al might make the honor of archival, that's not a for-sure thing either. What exactly would qualify a game for inclusion in the LOC?
I'm pretty sure that Apple is the one paying for maintaining servers, consuming bandwidth, etc. I doubt that there's really all that much profit in there.
It wasn't being argued that poor diet and exercise in the case of Americans is definately a factor, but when you compare to a country with equally unhealthy dietary habits the Americans are still coming out on the bottom.
What I'd like to know though, is -as a Canadian - how do I compare with my US and EU cousins? Here we have a similar to US lifestyle and/or environment with a few subtle differences.
My understanding was that Unichrome was a VIA chipset. I happen to have one in one of my little Epia machines, and the DRI etc do in fact work (either with the provided drivers from VIA's website, or from the openchrome project). They are, of course, a bit buggy, and some of the newer-gen chipsets still have issues (we have some at work) which are only currently rectified in the X.org CVS builds.
It's not the university paying the students, it's the RIAA. There have been cases in the past where it was indicated that this was going on... you can score a few extra bucks by snitching on your fellows to the RIAA, not the university itself.
From the sounds of it, we're talking about open network shares here. It would hardly require any invasive software to find or browse them, and not likely anything illegal. In fact, ruling software that scans open SMB shares would probably be just as much a slippery slope as anything.
Despite the implications of this statement, what it probably really involves is paying off a student or two to sniff out and inform on filesharing activity, either by running RIAA apps or just manual searching. It wouldn't be the first time they've used this method.
For many things that must be synced (projectile velocity, etc) it wouldn't be of much help. For those that are into such things, the non-interactive elements such as flying gibs or dust effects... things that 99% of the time don't affect gameplay but do affect eyecandy... would benefit.
Of course, the other side is that if the game is merged with an API, then you would have the same result using either the hardware or a software emulation, but the processing of such would be last CPU intensive or generally faster with the dedicated card (such as back when you *could* run many GL/d3d games in software mode, but with hardware it looked much nicer and generally ran smoother).
It's demand for cheap labor. When somebody lacks the rights of citizenship, it's a lot easier to underpay, abuse, and overwork them. If they're unhappy, what can they do, complaining to a labor board will most likely get them deported.
Being that those figures tended towards being very prominent and publicly visible, I'm not sure how an ID card would have held them back. Back in the day, there were heroes and groups of people who stood up and shouted out what they believed in, rather than grumbling and mutting in cramped cubicles.
Is blog sites, or other sites that are publicly writable or have been recently defaced. This is especially true for sites that are hosts for many users or subsites.
However, it does help you avoid the 11,000 known sites, but scammers are always ready to have more... unfortunately.
How about a law barring the requirement that any person must undergo semi-permanent or medical modification from their a physical state (worded so to exclude fitness requirements etc)? RFID injections, barcode tattoos, or anything else in the future that would be considered rather permanent. The semi-permanent is in there because tats *can* be removed with some difficulty as can likely the RFID identifier, but one could still exclude things like haircuts etc (very long hair is a danger in some occupations such as industrial settings)
Power goes from you to the local outlet. If you're having a bigger LAN party, then you could be connecting to somebody in a different room, or on a different floor. Every room will have power, but not every room is necessarily going to be wired to the master ethernet switch, and crossing floors is even more of a pain in the butt.
At the time, the first GB hard drives were coming out and I couldn't imagine why someone would need all that room (can we say "software bloat" boys and girls?).
That's where you would got for the big sell though. Find a customer hooking up on higher-speed internet service (or in those days, I suppose buying a fast 56k V90 modem would do) and tell them how much extra pr0n and music downloads they could fit on a 1GB drive. Easy sell:-)
Indeed, sometimes I've been known to interject with a salesperson right in the middle of his/her running spiel.
"Actually, if you just want to do X you can buy one of these guys over here for 20% less" or "actually, it sounds like he's trying to Y and that item won't work for him because..."
And my favorite "that's a good project, but did you know that Z has them on sale for 75% of the price here":-)
No window should be allowed to programmatically, without user intervention, pop to the foreground and get focus
There are times when a rather immediate attention is required. Important messages such as "The network is going down, save your work!" or "you're running low on both RAM and SWAP space" etc are rather important. Personally I wouldn't mind if my spreadsheet or web-browsing were interrupted to show me a message indicating a possibly more serious interruption was imminent.
But I do agree that your general userland applications should not be able to popup you to death and steal focus, just the OS-integral ones.
If 99% of your population were able to just get by on a MacDonald's job filling french-fry orders and living in a 6x9' apartment it would still give you a 1% employment rate. What it doesn't consider is the fact that they're in jobs that suck, at least partly because the higher jobs don't pay shit either as they've been filled by H1B's who work double hours unpaid overtime for slightly more than said fry-fry job pays...
If I try to smuggle crack over the border only to lose it when my car accidentally catches fire, I could still be arrested for smuggling crack. Attempting to break the law or breaking the law for a failed attempt at profit is no less illegal just because of failure.
a) Given the equal or greater number of stories about the niceties offered to prisoners (video games, cable, etc) - depending on the prison the though of anal violation adds somewhat to the deterrence factor
b) People make fun of what they fear. Personally being analy violated is a rather fearsome prospect to me, but if it were brought up I'd probably joke about it. There are many similar jokes based on a similarly macabre sense of humour.
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What they found on the 'bra' texture was a pinkish texture intended for use with clothing textures. No nipples, and not really anatomically correct. Not sexual.
It's no more sexual (and probably less so) than those pinkish flesh-coloured swimsuits. From a distance it might look like the girls wearing them are nude, but on closer investigation it's not more exciting than any other swimsuit.
These textures, not being intended for nudeness, are even less attractive and certainly not anatomically correct.
As absurd as it sounds, this would be a pretty damn funny mod. A lot of the games nowadays do use suggestive player models, especially for females (low-cut black leather armour, etc), although they tend to stop short of blatant sexuality. Mario games aren't this way, however, and the sheer unexpectedness of it would make it rather amusing to hack the textures/models on a friend's cart :-)
About how they will archive the required hardware or server-side authentication etc... but not about what they would be archiving. While Half Life 2 et al might make the honor of archival, that's not a for-sure thing either. What exactly would qualify a game for inclusion in the LOC?
I'm pretty sure that Apple is the one paying for maintaining servers, consuming bandwidth, etc. I doubt that there's really all that much profit in there.
It wasn't being argued that poor diet and exercise in the case of Americans is definately a factor, but when you compare to a country with equally unhealthy dietary habits the Americans are still coming out on the bottom.
What I'd like to know though, is -as a Canadian - how do I compare with my US and EU cousins? Here we have a similar to US lifestyle and/or environment with a few subtle differences.
Hmm. Well where I work most sites have a linux server that allows machines that are somewhat akin to thin clients to connect to a master X server.
My understanding was that Unichrome was a VIA chipset. I happen to have one in one of my little Epia machines, and the DRI etc do in fact work (either with the provided drivers from VIA's website, or from the openchrome project). They are, of course, a bit buggy, and some of the newer-gen chipsets still have issues (we have some at work) which are only currently rectified in the X.org CVS builds.
It's not the university paying the students, it's the RIAA. There have been cases in the past where it was indicated that this was going on... you can score a few extra bucks by snitching on your fellows to the RIAA, not the university itself.
From the sounds of it, we're talking about open network shares here. It would hardly require any invasive software to find or browse them, and not likely anything illegal. In fact, ruling software that scans open SMB shares would probably be just as much a slippery slope as anything.
but it probably didn't involve asking permission
Despite the implications of this statement, what it probably really involves is paying off a student or two to sniff out and inform on filesharing activity, either by running RIAA apps or just manual searching. It wouldn't be the first time they've used this method.
which is a little mind-boggling considering how much simpler the UI is
Such as, for example, dragging your CD icon into the trash bin in order to cause the drive to eject. Every OS has its idiotsyncracies
For many things that must be synced (projectile velocity, etc) it wouldn't be of much help. For those that are into such things, the non-interactive elements such as flying gibs or dust effects... things that 99% of the time don't affect gameplay but do affect eyecandy... would benefit.
Of course, the other side is that if the game is merged with an API, then you would have the same result using either the hardware or a software emulation, but the processing of such would be last CPU intensive or generally faster with the dedicated card (such as back when you *could* run many GL/d3d games in software mode, but with hardware it looked much nicer and generally ran smoother).
It's demand for cheap labor. When somebody lacks the rights of citizenship, it's a lot easier to underpay, abuse, and overwork them. If they're unhappy, what can they do, complaining to a labor board will most likely get them deported.
Because the closed-source flash components do not yet seem to have an available package for my AMD64-based Debian machine.Fooey
Being that those figures tended towards being very prominent and publicly visible, I'm not sure how an ID card would have held them back. Back in the day, there were heroes and groups of people who stood up and shouted out what they believed in, rather than grumbling and mutting in cramped cubicles.
Is blog sites, or other sites that are publicly writable or have been recently defaced. This is especially true for sites that are hosts for many users or subsites.
However, it does help you avoid the 11,000 known sites, but scammers are always ready to have more... unfortunately.
How about a law barring the requirement that any person must undergo semi-permanent or medical modification from their a physical state (worded so to exclude fitness requirements etc)? RFID injections, barcode tattoos, or anything else in the future that would be considered rather permanent. The semi-permanent is in there because tats *can* be removed with some difficulty as can likely the RFID identifier, but one could still exclude things like haircuts etc (very long hair is a danger in some occupations such as industrial settings)
Power goes from you to the local outlet. If you're having a bigger LAN party, then you could be connecting to somebody in a different room, or on a different floor. Every room will have power, but not every room is necessarily going to be wired to the master ethernet switch, and crossing floors is even more of a pain in the butt.
At the time, the first GB hard drives were coming out and I couldn't imagine why someone would need all that room (can we say "software bloat" boys and girls?).
:-)
That's where you would got for the big sell though. Find a customer hooking up on higher-speed internet service (or in those days, I suppose buying a fast 56k V90 modem would do) and tell them how much extra pr0n and music downloads they could fit on a 1GB drive. Easy sell
Indeed, sometimes I've been known to interject with a salesperson right in the middle of his/her running spiel.
:-)
"Actually, if you just want to do X you can buy one of these guys over here for 20% less" or "actually, it sounds like he's trying to Y and that item won't work for him because..."
And my favorite "that's a good project, but did you know that Z has them on sale for 75% of the price here"
No window should be allowed to programmatically, without user intervention, pop to the foreground and get focus
There are times when a rather immediate attention is required. Important messages such as "The network is going down, save your work!" or "you're running low on both RAM and SWAP space" etc are rather important. Personally I wouldn't mind if my spreadsheet or web-browsing were interrupted to show me a message indicating a possibly more serious interruption was imminent.
But I do agree that your general userland applications should not be able to popup you to death and steal focus, just the OS-integral ones.
If 99% of your population were able to just get by on a MacDonald's job filling french-fry orders and living in a 6x9' apartment it would still give you a 1% employment rate. What it doesn't consider is the fact that they're in jobs that suck, at least partly because the higher jobs don't pay shit either as they've been filled by H1B's who work double hours unpaid overtime for slightly more than said fry-fry job pays...
If I try to smuggle crack over the border only to lose it when my car accidentally catches fire, I could still be arrested for smuggling crack. Attempting to break the law or breaking the law for a failed attempt at profit is no less illegal just because of failure.
a) Given the equal or greater number of stories about the niceties offered to prisoners (video games, cable, etc) - depending on the prison the though of anal violation adds somewhat to the deterrence factor
b) People make fun of what they fear. Personally being analy violated is a rather fearsome prospect to me, but if it were brought up I'd probably joke about it. There are many similar jokes based on a similarly macabre sense of humour.