Whatever, whne hundreds of people works for 1-2 years or longer to make a videogame and then what, you think you "bought" these thousands of manhours for $60? Do you want to share their work with anyone? Then write to the software company and make them a fair offer to buy the source code and art assets.
He's just saying that if you want to experience games as they are on a ps3 or xbox360, in all their low-resolution, non-AA, 30fps glory you can just buy a $50 card and stick it in your $200 pc. I have quad-sli gtx295 because I want my games to look the best and run at 60fps.
I've looked at the picures on the site you linked to. Mau I ask you what exactly do you like about them? That people of Iran lost every trace of their cultural identity and looked like people from a generic Western country? Why does every country has to become a copy of the USA? And it's not like the current Iranian government is Taleban or something, google for people of Tehran for instance you will see fashionably but modestly dressed men and women, very few if any full body burqas. Let me note that every country has some idea of public modesty, I don't believe you are allowed to run naked through the streets and other public places in the USA (even tho "people of wallmart" website tries to convinvce me otherwise:)), yet being naked is entirely natural so the decision is cultural and arbitrary. Iranian idea idea of modesty extends to women partially covering their hair and not wearing overly tight clothing, the are rules for men too. This is also and arbitrary culural decision. One the page of pre-islamic revolution Iran I also saw pictures of women in academic setting, yet modern Iran has made a lot of progress in this area, Wikipedia states that over half of college students in Iran are female, including natural and hard sciences.
Some of the solutions proposed seem overly complicated, microwave links, CIA dropping wi-fi equpment behind the lines, wtf? A primitive HAM trancivier and morse code should be enough to get information out of the country.
Nazis used various human byproducts such as hair and skin to make comfy pillows and various leather goods, I sure wouldn't use such products even if it was technically superiour to sleeping on rags with a stone for a pillow. Stallman foresaw the future in the moment of clear insight many years ago when he was unable to fix the laser printer. It was a life changing moment for him. You apathy saddens me, you have no values, no desire to change the world for the better.. I feel sorry for you.
RMS is a genious and long ago when computers were not yet consumer products he had foreseen the future. It's hard not to politisize software when it has become a central piece in our lifes. Digital data handled by computers is connected with all aspects of our lifes. With online banking people entrust their life savings to proprietary software, entrust their private diaries and private photos. People have gone to jail over as little as giving a friend a copy of a program, people have gone to jail over data sent by their computer to law enforcement via propritary government approved rootkits. You can not compare your PC to a coffee maker and say you don't care what embedded OS it runs.
Whatever, hit google with vista hardware problem - 30 million hits, whole domains are for solving problem people have with vista drivers, hardware unsupported under vista, vista myseterious crashes, and windows 7 isnt even officially out yet. After you're done with this try vista software problems and see windows people spending months on forums waiting for a solution making their game work.
Maybe to many computers are just tools, but it's be foolish to compare them to ordinary household appliances. I don't entrust my life savings (via online banking) or my private thoughts and private images to a coffee maker. As long as you use windows or OSX you can never be sure it's not beaming your private data to whatever propretary company, I use Linux and I can.
I take medicne prepared by local tibetian medicine monks. Believe it or not (and you'll believe if you spend any time among them) they don't give a flying fuck about your stupid western nobel prize, their lifes go on on a entirely different plane of existence.
As a trained mathematician and a logical thinker, I can now definetly say that the real quakery is western medicine. I even hesitate calling what is practiced at western hospitals medicine since this sytem cannot cure anything resembling a chronic condition. All they do is treat your symptoms with more and more of stronger and stronger medicine with horrible side effects until even the strongest of them doesn't work anymore. To each his own, of course, if I break my limb I'll go a western doctor, for everything else I only go to homeopaths and tibetian doctors.
Sloppy work. There is nothing about piracy in the links, the consensus is that android app store and 24 hour money refund policy suck and that Android customers are not excited about paying money for farting sound apps, something the Apple demographics goes for. And that high availability of quality free apps for Android undermines commercial software. One person in the comments section even proposed artificially sticking paid-for apps on top (coz they "get lost" in the midth of free software that provides the same functionality).
So I can just not show up at work in the USA and not get fired? Hell, most of the states in the US are 'work at will' - your boss can kick you out today for no reason at all (other than federally and locally recognized discrimination). But your stories are amuzing indeed, my parents, who are scientists would LOVE to go back, you know respect, good salaries that increased with career advancement, guranteed employment, tons of free social services - all of these compares very favourably to the worship of money and corrupt western pop-culture.
Maybe because he sees that democracy just doesn't work! I never understood it myself. Let's take an ordinary IQ curve. Why should someone bordelione retarded jhave the same say as a skilled professional or scientist?? And it's even worse in America. Maybe a month ago some new research came forward and made US national news - overweight and obese people suffer the loss of brain tissue (up to 16% if I recall) that leads to cognitive impairament. Lat time I cheked at least a third of Americans are either obese or overweight, and in some states like Louisiana the number goes over 60%. Democracy just doezn't work outside some idealized state. Personally I believe a good old fashined hereditary monarchy is the answer.
Well, as they say - Linux developers are not your personal army. Everyone works on what interests them academically or on what they are paid for by Redhat, IBM and Co.
Interesting opionion. What if one of the close relatives is infertile or agrees to sterilization? Would you then drop your opposition to their marriage? What if threy are rich and set-up a 10 million dollar trust fund for their child? Id yoou position really well thoughtout?
The guy is right, you have to use yout commond sense first. Taking medicine that gives you side effects worse than the illness is stupid no matter what your doc or some clinical research says.
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Whatever, whne hundreds of people works for 1-2 years or longer to make a videogame and then what, you think you "bought" these thousands of manhours for $60? Do you want to share their work with anyone? Then write to the software company and make them a fair offer to buy the source code and art assets.
Please... if someone wanted it it wouln't even take a month to whip Germans into French hating frenzy.
He's just saying that if you want to experience games as they are on a ps3 or xbox360, in all their low-resolution, non-AA, 30fps glory you can just buy a $50 card and stick it in your $200 pc. I have quad-sli gtx295 because I want my games to look the best and run at 60fps.
Prepare to be stoned, infidel! How dare you Jehovah!
I've looked at the picures on the site you linked to. Mau I ask you what exactly do you like about them? That people of Iran lost every trace of their cultural identity and looked like people from a generic Western country? Why does every country has to become a copy of the USA? And it's not like the current Iranian government is Taleban or something, google for people of Tehran for instance you will see fashionably but modestly dressed men and women, very few if any full body burqas. Let me note that every country has some idea of public modesty, I don't believe you are allowed to run naked through the streets and other public places in the USA (even tho "people of wallmart" website tries to convinvce me otherwise :)), yet being naked is entirely natural so the decision is cultural and arbitrary. Iranian idea idea of modesty extends to women partially covering their hair and not wearing overly tight clothing, the are rules for men too. This is also and arbitrary culural decision. One the page of pre-islamic revolution Iran I also saw pictures of women in academic setting, yet modern Iran has made a lot of progress in this area, Wikipedia states that over half of college students in Iran are female, including natural and hard sciences.
Some of the solutions proposed seem overly complicated, microwave links, CIA dropping wi-fi equpment behind the lines, wtf? A primitive HAM trancivier and morse code should be enough to get information out of the country.
So, what is the value of Virginity? I'm curious.
And I though they had crushed the Mafia in the US! You have a bright future in front of you boy!
Nazis used various human byproducts such as hair and skin to make comfy pillows and various leather goods, I sure wouldn't use such products even if it was technically superiour to sleeping on rags with a stone for a pillow. Stallman foresaw the future in the moment of clear insight many years ago when he was unable to fix the laser printer. It was a life changing moment for him. You apathy saddens me, you have no values, no desire to change the world for the better.. I feel sorry for you.
RMS is a genious and long ago when computers were not yet consumer products he had foreseen the future. It's hard not to politisize software when it has become a central piece in our lifes. Digital data handled by computers is connected with all aspects of our lifes. With online banking people entrust their life savings to proprietary software, entrust their private diaries and private photos. People have gone to jail over as little as giving a friend a copy of a program, people have gone to jail over data sent by their computer to law enforcement via propritary government approved rootkits. You can not compare your PC to a coffee maker and say you don't care what embedded OS it runs.
Whatever, hit google with vista hardware problem - 30 million hits, whole domains are for solving problem people have with vista drivers, hardware unsupported under vista, vista myseterious crashes, and windows 7 isnt even officially out yet. After you're done with this try vista software problems and see windows people spending months on forums waiting for a solution making their game work.
Maybe to many computers are just tools, but it's be foolish to compare them to ordinary household appliances. I don't entrust my life savings (via online banking) or my private thoughts and private images to a coffee maker. As long as you use windows or OSX you can never be sure it's not beaming your private data to whatever propretary company, I use Linux and I can.
I take medicne prepared by local tibetian medicine monks. Believe it or not (and you'll believe if you spend any time among them) they don't give a flying fuck about your stupid western nobel prize, their lifes go on on a entirely different plane of existence.
As a trained mathematician and a logical thinker, I can now definetly say that the real quakery is western medicine. I even hesitate calling what is practiced at western hospitals medicine since this sytem cannot cure anything resembling a chronic condition. All they do is treat your symptoms with more and more of stronger and stronger medicine with horrible side effects until even the strongest of them doesn't work anymore. To each his own, of course, if I break my limb I'll go a western doctor, for everything else I only go to homeopaths and tibetian doctors.
Sloppy work. There is nothing about piracy in the links, the consensus is that android app store and 24 hour money refund policy suck and that Android customers are not excited about paying money for farting sound apps, something the Apple demographics goes for. And that high availability of quality free apps for Android undermines commercial software. One person in the comments section even proposed artificially sticking paid-for apps on top (coz they "get lost" in the midth of free software that provides the same functionality).
Sounds scary! Well, at least piracy is not killing Linux!
Maybe then you realize that you suck and shouldn't be making music and go on to find something else you are good at?
So I can just not show up at work in the USA and not get fired? Hell, most of the states in the US are 'work at will' - your boss can kick you out today for no reason at all (other than federally and locally recognized discrimination). But your stories are amuzing indeed, my parents, who are scientists would LOVE to go back, you know respect, good salaries that increased with career advancement, guranteed employment, tons of free social services - all of these compares very favourably to the worship of money and corrupt western pop-culture.
Maybe because he sees that democracy just doesn't work! I never understood it myself. Let's take an ordinary IQ curve. Why should someone bordelione retarded jhave the same say as a skilled professional or scientist?? And it's even worse in America. Maybe a month ago some new research came forward and made US national news - overweight and obese people suffer the loss of brain tissue (up to 16% if I recall) that leads to cognitive impairament. Lat time I cheked at least a third of Americans are either obese or overweight, and in some states like Louisiana the number goes over 60%. Democracy just doezn't work outside some idealized state. Personally I believe a good old fashined hereditary monarchy is the answer.
Well, as they say - Linux developers are not your personal army. Everyone works on what interests them academically or on what they are paid for by Redhat, IBM and Co.
Interesting opionion. What if one of the close relatives is infertile or agrees to sterilization? Would you then drop your opposition to their marriage? What if threy are rich and set-up a 10 million dollar trust fund for their child? Id yoou position really well thoughtout?
Maybe next time he'll visit an Apple factory to give some on-the-spot advice to ordinary workers!
The Doctor should decide, and you should silently obey his every order. Stupid sheep.
The guy is right, you have to use yout commond sense first. Taking medicine that gives you side effects worse than the illness is stupid no matter what your doc or some clinical research says.
You gorgot to mention that US was the only country with high level of science and engineering outside of Axis reach.