The coffee spill is not a fair comparison. McDonalds were sued because they were selling coffee too hot to consume, as a cost-cutting measure. Their coffee gave third degree burns that required skin grafts. Don't be so swift to write of the case as an example of litigation gone mad.
...the patented stuff is "a device or devices designed to accept optical media containing binary representation of entertainment software and render said media inoperable due to the physical inscription of randomly-situated groves.". I'm not sure what that could mean.
I quote from the article that you clearly didn't read: Anyone who reads any evolutionary literature, even at a basic level, will quickly find out that birds are thought to have evolved from dinosaurs in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, and that mammals are thought to have evolved from a reptile-like group of animals called the therapsids in the Triassic about 220 million years ago. No competent evolutionist has ever claimed that platypuses are a link between birds and mammals.
Basic comprehension beyond your grasp? You fucking retard, God is going to send you to hell for not using the brain he wasted on you.
has anyone ever found a single fossil record of any precursor?
I typed "platypus fossil record" into Google, and the first hit discusses the fossil record of the platypuses. Dude, have you even tried to answer your own questions? Or is is easier to conclude that because you don't know, therefore we don't know?
I wonder whether Alienware machines will continue to use AMD chips, or whether pressure on Dell from Intel will lead to their gradual phasing out. If the latter, then I can't see Alienware hanging on to the bleeding-edge gaming market...
In fact, the majority of game physics can be solved analytically, with the results hard-coded in; there's no need in most cases to actually solve ODEs. For instance, although it may come as a shock to most/. readers, it is possible to calculate the trajectory of an object moving under the influence of gravity -- it's a parabola, of course. Who in their right mind would code up an ODE solver to do this?
No. The fossilized remains were from species within the same genus, but not the same species as found today. Because we have found ancient homo erectus fossils, yet Man lives today, does not mean that carbon dating is wrong, nor does it mean that we were resurrected from homo erectus remains.
I never claimed it was a parody. In fact, never having read the book, I make no claims whatsoever about its relationship to the book. I see it in its own light, as a film that subverts the `military action hero' meme promulgated by Arnie and the like.
Please write down a linear differential equation describing the two body problem -- in particular, I'd like to see the linear for of Kepler's equation. Then I'll be able to understand you when you use the term "linear".
How about the navigation software telling them to turn into a one-way street, driving the wrong way? I have an acquaintance who drives like this, blindly following the software without actually reading the road. It scares the hell out of me.
'Free speech' in the USA takes place in well regulated 'free speech zones', conveniently located miles from the event or person that is being spoken about. This is not real free speach, but the end product of decades spent fetishizing the rights supposedly enshrined in the Constitution, all the while forgetting that the right to speak freely is only meaningful if it is excercised. Free speach in the USA is a joke, a sick reminder of the wool labelled 'democracy' that has been pulled over the citizens'/consumers'/cattle's eyes.
And then the sheep look up...
I wonder whether the quad-core Intel chips will be as bandwidth-starved as the dual-core chips? Currently, the comparison between a dual-core Pentium and a dual-core Opteron is farcical, especially for memory-limited apps.
I was thinking about the various algorithms that do implicit isosurfaces -- you supply a function that returns a value, and the algorithm traces out an isosurface of this function. I've implemented a couple of such algorithms, and you can do really neat stuff like changing the triangle size based on the local radius of curvature of the surface. The triangles produced are usually pretty close to equilateral, and the meshes typically have a lot fewer vertices than marching cubes.
However, I should add that I haven't tried out any postprocessing with marching cubes. I've heard that can give good meshes -- what's your experience of this?
Marching Cubes was patented in 1987. It should expire next year, right?
In any case, it's a shite way of doing an isosurface. There are methods that make much nicer meshes.
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And there was I thinking that you were talking about what goes on atop the bed, not underneath it....
The coffee spill is not a fair comparison. McDonalds were sued because they were selling coffee too hot to consume, as a cost-cutting measure. Their coffee gave third degree burns that required skin grafts. Don't be so swift to write of the case as an example of litigation gone mad.
...the patented stuff is "a device or devices designed to accept optical media containing binary representation of entertainment software and render said media inoperable due to the physical inscription of randomly-situated groves.". I'm not sure what that could mean.
Did she commit a crime? Was she found guilty of copyright infringement in a court of law? Was she even indicted for copyright infringement?
Did it evolve from something like a duck...
I quote from the article that you clearly didn't read: Anyone who reads any evolutionary literature, even at a basic level, will quickly find out that birds are thought to have evolved from dinosaurs in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, and that mammals are thought to have evolved from a reptile-like group of animals called the therapsids in the Triassic about 220 million years ago. No competent evolutionist has ever claimed that platypuses are a link between birds and mammals.
Basic comprehension beyond your grasp? You fucking retard, God is going to send you to hell for not using the brain he wasted on you.
has anyone ever found a single fossil record of any precursor?
I typed "platypus fossil record" into Google, and the first hit discusses the fossil record of the platypuses. Dude, have you even tried to answer your own questions? Or is is easier to conclude that because you don't know, therefore we don't know?
I thought doctors were supposed to tell you about prescribed medications
No, that's the job of a pharmacist. That's why you need a college degree to be a pharmacist. Whereas, any fucktard like yourself can post to slashdot.
You see, if you understood the word, you would realize that the end user is not suffering a loss. They are losing some convenience.
So losing convenience is not a loss? That is, there is no semantic relation between the words 'losing' and 'loss'?
Fucktard.
...who build their own notebooks and brand them with the Ferrari logo.
I wonder whether Alienware machines will continue to use AMD chips, or whether pressure on Dell from Intel will lead to their gradual phasing out. If the latter, then I can't see Alienware hanging on to the bleeding-edge gaming market...
In fact, the majority of game physics can be solved analytically, with the results hard-coded in; there's no need in most cases to actually solve ODEs. For instance, although it may come as a shock to most /. readers, it is possible to calculate the trajectory of an object moving under the influence of gravity -- it's a parabola, of course. Who in their right mind would code up an ODE solver to do this?
What, and we can trust the NOAA, after the recent evidence that the administration censors what they say?
...I just connect an unpatched Windows machine to the internet, and wait 90 seconds. Cool!
So on the one hand we had Auschwitz, but on the other --- hey, the US got nukes!
Stupid cunt. There, I've excercised my 'right' to freedom of speech. If I'm modded troll, it will be because of censors, most likely based in the US.
No. The fossilized remains were from species within the same genus, but not the same species as found today. Because we have found ancient homo erectus fossils, yet Man lives today, does not mean that carbon dating is wrong, nor does it mean that we were resurrected from homo erectus remains.
I never claimed it was a parody. In fact, never having read the book, I make no claims whatsoever about its relationship to the book. I see it in its own light, as a film that subverts the `military action hero' meme promulgated by Arnie and the like.
But it was a great tongue-in-cheek poke at those who elevate the military to God-like status. Wonderfully subversive!
Can you give specifics? What do they claim the $80 is for?
Hats off to all of our fighting men and women, regardless of job title.
All? Even the minority who are ordered to torture prisoners by their commanding officers -- and carry out these orders?
Please write down a linear differential equation describing the two body problem -- in particular, I'd like to see the linear for of Kepler's equation. Then I'll be able to understand you when you use the term "linear".
How about the navigation software telling them to turn into a one-way street, driving the wrong way? I have an acquaintance who drives like this, blindly following the software without actually reading the road. It scares the hell out of me.
'Free speech' in the USA takes place in well regulated 'free speech zones', conveniently located miles from the event or person that is being spoken about. This is not real free speach, but the end product of decades spent fetishizing the rights supposedly enshrined in the Constitution, all the while forgetting that the right to speak freely is only meaningful if it is excercised. Free speach in the USA is a joke, a sick reminder of the wool labelled 'democracy' that has been pulled over the citizens'/consumers'/cattle's eyes. And then the sheep look up...
I wonder whether the quad-core Intel chips will be as bandwidth-starved as the dual-core chips? Currently, the comparison between a dual-core Pentium and a dual-core Opteron is farcical, especially for memory-limited apps.
I was thinking about the various algorithms that do implicit isosurfaces -- you supply a function that returns a value, and the algorithm traces out an isosurface of this function. I've implemented a couple of such algorithms, and you can do really neat stuff like changing the triangle size based on the local radius of curvature of the surface. The triangles produced are usually pretty close to equilateral, and the meshes typically have a lot fewer vertices than marching cubes. However, I should add that I haven't tried out any postprocessing with marching cubes. I've heard that can give good meshes -- what's your experience of this?
Marching Cubes was patented in 1987. It should expire next year, right? In any case, it's a shite way of doing an isosurface. There are methods that make much nicer meshes.