With that kind of attitude, you might consider yourself lucky she fucks you at all. Enjoy it while it lasts -- even the most desperate of women won't suffer you for long.
...Except that the Last.fm plugin indexes everything played by the host audio player, including (commercial) audio CDs, without differentiation -- there's nothing in their database to indicate what storage medium the playback was from, let alone whether it was legally obtained. I'm always up for a little healthy paranoia, but this is way beyond ridiculous.
I must admit, I'm not sure why my off-handed response to GP is currently at +5 Informative while this far more informative comment languishes unloved by moderation. Had I mod points, and dispensation to spend them here, they would be yours.
...who had difficulty in parsing this headline at first? Despite my familiarity with the character and series in question, I spent several passes trying to puzzle out what "Gently Serialized" might possibly mean, and deciding there was a good likelihood I didn't really want to know...
Impressive. How does one manage to butcher the spelling of Occam's surname so throughly in one's post while still managing to somehow link to the correct (and correctly-spelled) article in Wikipedia?
Where's my -1, Improper/Excessive Use Of "Scare" Quotes mod?
This isn't a semi-literate junior high textbook, you don't need to highlight the important terms for us -- we're perfectly capable of figuring those out from context, thanks.
But yes, you're absolutely right about the necessity of lighting design to create dramatic lighting even with raytraced rendering. Most modern 3d-accelerated raster technologies are similar enough to raytracing in their effect that environmental lighting workflows shouldn't change dramatically with the introduction of real-time ray-tracing. The more interesting implications lie in real-time dynamic lighting effects on NPCs and objects: when everything in the scene is capable of casting and receiving shadows -- and reflections -- a whole world of subtlety and nuance in gameplay and storytelling is opened up. Imagine playing an FPS, catching your opponent's reflection in a metallic object nearby, just in time to dodge his attack. Or seeing a shadow approaching from around the corner, giving you time to hide in a darkened corner nearby -- then inadvertently giving yourself away when a glint of reflected light off of your visor catches your opponent's eye. We've already gotten a taste of this sort of thing in games like Doom 3, F.E.A.R., and BioShock, but raytracing throws the doors wide open.
Also easy enough to answer your own questions with a little research. Now I'm having a hard time deciding whether you're hopelessly lazy, or just trolling.
5. Idiots who apparently have never read the OOXML DTD, which, as I recall, includes certain type definitions for backward compatability with the binary DOC format, but explicitly deprecates them?
I might be prepared to offer you that concession — I don't think there's been a "conservative" worthy of the name, in the Whitehouse at least, since before Nixon.
There may have at one point been a rational and respectful discourse between "left" and "right" in this country ("progressive" and "conservative", if you prefer), and it still may exist, at least vestigially, at a popular level, but that discourse has long since vacated the sphere of professional politics.
The "Left" and the "Right"? The Democratic Party hasn't represented the "Left" in at least a generation. Try "the moderate Right" and "the radical Right".
What your kid would miss out is the contact with other kids, not just their friends but actually finding a way to work together with people they didn't choose but that were "forced" onto them. Much like they'll later encounter in business life.
Sorry. That's an interesting speculation, but as someone who was actually homeschooled K-12, and not just, you know, engaging in uninformed supposition: I call bullshit. I never had any more opportunity than my public school peers to pick and choose who I interacted with, and I had a far greater sphere of social interaction, relative to the narrow sampling of similar-aged children most public school students are limited to dealing with in their daily lives.
The problem is, you're only looking at capacity, not memory speed. As 32-bit CPUs over the last decade have gotten faster and faster without increasing their address space, the pressure to increase memory speed has been substantially greater than to increase capacity. This will probably shift again as 64-bit chips and operating systems become more prevalent.
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With that kind of attitude, you might consider yourself lucky she fucks you at all. Enjoy it while it lasts -- even the most desperate of women won't suffer you for long.
...Except that the Last.fm plugin indexes everything played by the host audio player, including (commercial) audio CDs, without differentiation -- there's nothing in their database to indicate what storage medium the playback was from, let alone whether it was legally obtained. I'm always up for a little healthy paranoia, but this is way beyond ridiculous.
I must admit, I'm not sure why my off-handed response to GP is currently at +5 Informative while this far more informative comment languishes unloved by moderation. Had I mod points, and dispensation to spend them here, they would be yours.
The Constitution doesn't "grant" us our rights and freedoms, it legally protects them. This is not a minor philosophical point.
I stand humbly corrected.
...who had difficulty in parsing this headline at first? Despite my familiarity with the character and series in question, I spent several passes trying to puzzle out what "Gently Serialized" might possibly mean, and deciding there was a good likelihood I didn't really want to know...
Impressive. How does one manage to butcher the spelling of Occam's surname so throughly in one's post while still managing to somehow link to the correct (and correctly-spelled) article in Wikipedia?
Wolfram called; they want their concept back.
Because (and this may come as a surprise to many Slashdot users) many rational people consider Linux to be a software platform -- not a fellowship.
Where's my -1, Improper/Excessive Use Of "Scare" Quotes mod?
This isn't a semi-literate junior high textbook, you don't need to highlight the important terms for us -- we're perfectly capable of figuring those out from context, thanks.
But yes, you're absolutely right about the necessity of lighting design to create dramatic lighting even with raytraced rendering. Most modern 3d-accelerated raster technologies are similar enough to raytracing in their effect that environmental lighting workflows shouldn't change dramatically with the introduction of real-time ray-tracing. The more interesting implications lie in real-time dynamic lighting effects on NPCs and objects: when everything in the scene is capable of casting and receiving shadows -- and reflections -- a whole world of subtlety and nuance in gameplay and storytelling is opened up. Imagine playing an FPS, catching your opponent's reflection in a metallic object nearby, just in time to dodge his attack. Or seeing a shadow approaching from around the corner, giving you time to hide in a darkened corner nearby -- then inadvertently giving yourself away when a glint of reflected light off of your visor catches your opponent's eye. We've already gotten a taste of this sort of thing in games like Doom 3, F.E.A.R., and BioShock, but raytracing throws the doors wide open.
I don't know about that: if we assume you to be representative of average Slashdot intelligence, I'd rate the odds of success at better than even.
You can feel the grammar Nazi's what stalking you?
...have Carrie Fisher muttering "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
Falls kind of flat in this context. Perhaps if he'd been pictured in flagrante delicto with a replica tauntaun puppet...
Also easy enough to answer your own questions with a little research. Now I'm having a hard time deciding whether you're hopelessly lazy, or just trolling.
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I guess you mean 'literally' in the metaphorical sense?
Re-read the question.
5. Idiots who apparently have never read the OOXML DTD, which, as I recall, includes certain type definitions for backward compatability with the binary DOC format, but explicitly deprecates them?
I might be prepared to offer you that concession — I don't think there's been a "conservative" worthy of the name, in the Whitehouse at least, since before Nixon.
There may have at one point been a rational and respectful discourse between "left" and "right" in this country ("progressive" and "conservative", if you prefer), and it still may exist, at least vestigially, at a popular level, but that discourse has long since vacated the sphere of professional politics.
The "Left" and the "Right"? The Democratic Party hasn't represented the "Left" in at least a generation. Try "the moderate Right" and "the radical Right".
Otherwise, dead on.
The comment to which he was replying wasn't making a simple correlation claim, so that explanation doesn't wash.
Ethnic makeup? How the fuck do you get "ethnic makeup" from a discussion of poverty and crime rates?
Disgusting racist motherfucker.
Bullshit. Of course it's censorship. It's just not state censorship.
Your comments re: DPI differences make it clear that you don't know the first thing about CSS. Nice troll, though.
Sorry. That's an interesting speculation, but as someone who was actually homeschooled K-12, and not just, you know, engaging in uninformed supposition: I call bullshit. I never had any more opportunity than my public school peers to pick and choose who I interacted with, and I had a far greater sphere of social interaction, relative to the narrow sampling of similar-aged children most public school students are limited to dealing with in their daily lives.
The problem is, you're only looking at capacity, not memory speed. As 32-bit CPUs over the last decade have gotten faster and faster without increasing their address space, the pressure to increase memory speed has been substantially greater than to increase capacity. This will probably shift again as 64-bit chips and operating systems become more prevalent.