Head-cheese \Head"-cheese\, n. A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.
or if you prefer:
A jellied loaf or sausage made from chopped and boiled parts of the feet, head, and sometimes the tongue and heart of an animal, usually a hog.
Before I stopped attending church when I was a kid we had an expert come in and try to convince us that the earth was 5,000 years old. I don't hate religion but to use "science" to refute evolution is just flat out deceptive.
The problem is that the pace of scientific discoveries have increased to the point that to believe in a litereal interpretation of the bible is only reasonable if you can somehow use science in your argument.
It can't be easy to take the foundation of your beliefs, the bible in the case of a lot of people, and say, "Well some of it it just made up but there is probably a lot of truth to it." When is someone going to create a bible for scientists? Morality and the search for truth can't be mutually exclusive.
I'm helping to develop a driving simulator/game and the 3rd party graphics, physics and input systems (OGRE, ODE, SDL) we're using all work on the Mac, Linux and Windows. We're mainly developing the code on Linux machines but it works on Windows without having to go through a massive re-engineering.
As middleware matures I think this is going to become much more common. The OS is going to become commoditized only when cross platform software becomes the norm.
Oh by the way, our project only works with Windows and Linux right now, if you're a Mac compile guru stop by, shouldn't be a ton of work to get it running on the Mac.
Tell them you write for a games magazine and that you're pissed, it was true in my case. I didn't get it fixed free but it was $50 and no shipping instead of $100+. Also the first guy I talked to said they wouldn't deal so I hung up, called back and the next person helped me out.
They're all about the bottom line and they lose money on every Xbox sold(hardware only) so if you can convince them that you can affect their bottom line it's in their interest to be customer centric.
Uhh, they'd stop watching unless they were 4 and it was Seasame Street and then they'd start annoying the driver. You have a good point but I think driving is one of the few times a lot of families spend in a place where conversation can happen. I know a lot of people who eat in front of the TV.
I just saw an ad selling a $1,000 entertainment system for the back of cars that included two video screens in the back of the front seat headrests as well as headphones for the kids. My first thought was, overpaid, crappy, career obsessed parents. Then I thought, what if the kids can't hear their parents reminding them to put on their seatbelts because they're watching Britney Spears disrobe on the ABC Family Channel. The driver looks back at his kids to repeat himself and crashes into a Starbucks at which point the kids fly face first into the Liquid Crystal Displays that now act as thier surrogate parents. Neglect is becoming fashionable.
I think you're confusing the governments with the people. Remember the tank guy during the massacre? How is that not a value we should admire? It's easier to justify collateral damage if you can just call them a bunch of wacky commies. You classify Islam as an "external hostility". My advice to you is READ a freaking booK(other than the King James version of the bible). An encyclopedia would be a good start.
Your post is well written but wrong. Broad generalizations are a sure sign of ignorance.
I stopped taking supplements after reading this article a few weeks ago. Here's an excerpt: Careless use of vitamins, taken by millions in the belief that they promote good health, could be causing thousands of premature deaths.
A study investigating whether antioxidant vitamin supplements can prevent cancer found that rather than saving lives they seemed to increase overall risk of death.
Although the effect was small, it amounted to 9,000 premature deaths among every million supplement users. Food for thought.
If you are a picture quality purist like myself and you don't need a 60" TV have a look at some of the direct view(tube) HDTVs. I got one for about $740 through the deals section at AVS forums. There is a difference in quality between 1080i and 720p, I know because my tv does both. Most projection/DLP hdtvs can only display 720p. Football looks better in 720p especially on Fox, CBS does games in 1080i and while there is more detail it doesn't look quite as good and you can see compression artifacts.
I think the lack of programming depends on your location. TimeWarner in San Diego has Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, TNT, Discovery channel and a bunch of the Padres games in HD as well for free if you have digital cable. ESPN HD is $10 a month, way too much money IMO.
This is not just a semantic argument - the natural state for music is to be free (libre), whoever can hear it can enjoy it. When I play the organ in church on Sundays, the music isn't mine, it's just the music I'm making.
Hmmm, using your line of reasoning... The natural state for oil paintings is to be free (libre), whoever can view it can enjoy it. When I paint in my college art class the painting isn't mine, it's just the art I'm making.
Sounds a little bit crazy right? But the only difference is that there are tangible elements involved with an oil painting that maybe I had to pay for. Musicians have overhead too, marketing, instruments, studio time.
Is there no such thing as art that someone can't keep to themselves? What if Shakespeare wrote some incredibly good but incredibly personal poetry? Is he somehow obligated to share that with you? It's art right so it should be free (libre).
Stealing music is wrong however you do it. If the artist realizes that there is a chance they could get more gigs and sell more tickets to shows by releasing their music for free then great but that's their choice. If they succeed in preventing P2P sharing people are just going to resort to CD Burning again.
A lot of people, including the inventor of BitTorrent are making a lot of money just from donations and none of that goes to a middleman. Hopefully artists will turn to word of mouth marketing and donations sometime in the near future.
What if those big radioactive blocks of glass could be used to decontaminate polluted water supplies in poor nations. If they're as stable as it sounds then there wouldn't be the risk of waste getting into the water and it'd kill a lot of the germs that lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths.
I've seen UV light used to decontaminate water, why not use something that doesn't need to be plugged in?
I'm using an open source version of Ghost called G4U. I've installed Firefox on over 1000 computers that go out to schools and other non profits and only downloaded it ONCE! So yes, I think the 1 million stat is misleading and yes, I set it as the default browser.
Irrlicht is good because it's easy to use. If you want a high performance engine for use in a serious project have a look at OGRE. Sure it's harder to use but it has an active community and the performance in complex, real world scenarios is great. I looked at both when researching what to use for Motorsport and right now, OGRE is a better choice for big serious apps. We're using OGRE for our open source driving simulator and it compiles in Linux and Windows with no changes to the code. OGRE is good because it sticks to what it is good at, 3D. There are a lot of Game engines out there that try to be all things to all people but aren't good at any of them. OGRE is good at 3D.
That said, if you're new to 3D Irrlicht is a good place to start.
Forget about lower prices and increased innovation, the real benefit of having an alternative in Linux IMO is the protection of our rights as consumers. MS will simply speed the migration to Linux if it tries to cram DRM down our throats.
We could crush all of the robots in the factories that make cars. It'd create a ton of new jobs. Of course cars would suddenly become a hell of a lot more expensive and less reliable.
If you have a problem with capitalism then don't whine, propose something better. If you believe that capitalism is as good as it gets then read the following quote. If not, check out Parecon or read about some of Noam Chomsky's theories.
In the future there are two roads. One is to look backward and hang on to what we think we're entitled to. The other is to recognize what has made America. Our virtues lie in a flexible and open, technology friendly, risk-taking, entrepreneurial, market-driven system. This is exactly the same type of challenge farmers went through in the late 1800's, sweatshop workers went through in the early 1900's, and manufacturing workers did in the first half of the 80's. We've got to focus on setting in motion a debate that pushes us into new sources of job creation rather than bemoaning the loss. There are Republicans and Democrats alike who are involved in this protectionist backlash. They're very vocal right now, and they need to be challenged.
Stephen S. Roach, managing director and chief economist of Morgan Stanley
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Go HERE and tell the attorneys to leave our games alone. Maybe they'll back off if they hear some alternative points of view.
Head-cheese \Head"-cheese\, n. A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass. or if you prefer: A jellied loaf or sausage made from chopped and boiled parts of the feet, head, and sometimes the tongue and heart of an animal, usually a hog.
Maybe they should use the $2Mil to filter out the lips and assholes. They could set up a lucrative head-cheese contract with all of the extra "meat".
To be fair, what ever it is is mighty tasty.
Before I stopped attending church when I was a kid we had an expert come in and try to convince us that the earth was 5,000 years old. I don't hate religion but to use "science" to refute evolution is just flat out deceptive.
The problem is that the pace of scientific discoveries have increased to the point that to believe in a litereal interpretation of the bible is only reasonable if you can somehow use science in your argument.
It can't be easy to take the foundation of your beliefs, the bible in the case of a lot of people, and say, "Well some of it it just made up but there is probably a lot of truth to it." When is someone going to create a bible for scientists? Morality and the search for truth can't be mutually exclusive.
I'm helping to develop a driving simulator/game and the 3rd party graphics, physics and input systems (OGRE, ODE, SDL) we're using all work on the Mac, Linux and Windows. We're mainly developing the code on Linux machines but it works on Windows without having to go through a massive re-engineering.
As middleware matures I think this is going to become much more common. The OS is going to become commoditized only when cross platform software becomes the norm.
Oh by the way, our project only works with Windows and Linux right now, if you're a Mac compile guru stop by, shouldn't be a ton of work to get it running on the Mac.
OK, it was a joke but here it is in case anybody is curious. I have no idea what this sounds like...
How do you say Patriot Act in Chinese?
Tell them you write for a games magazine and that you're pissed, it was true in my case. I didn't get it fixed free but it was $50 and no shipping instead of $100+. Also the first guy I talked to said they wouldn't deal so I hung up, called back and the next person helped me out. They're all about the bottom line and they lose money on every Xbox sold(hardware only) so if you can convince them that you can affect their bottom line it's in their interest to be customer centric.
Uhh, they'd stop watching unless they were 4 and it was Seasame Street and then they'd start annoying the driver. You have a good point but I think driving is one of the few times a lot of families spend in a place where conversation can happen. I know a lot of people who eat in front of the TV.
I just saw an ad selling a $1,000 entertainment system for the back of cars that included two video screens in the back of the front seat headrests as well as headphones for the kids. My first thought was, overpaid, crappy, career obsessed parents. Then I thought, what if the kids can't hear their parents reminding them to put on their seatbelts because they're watching Britney Spears disrobe on the ABC Family Channel. The driver looks back at his kids to repeat himself and crashes into a Starbucks at which point the kids fly face first into the Liquid Crystal Displays that now act as thier surrogate parents. Neglect is becoming fashionable.
Hey that's a good point. I sound sort of hypocritical. :) Though it would make for a good Yogi Berra esque quote.
I think you're confusing the governments with the people. Remember the tank guy during the massacre? How is that not a value we should admire? It's easier to justify collateral damage if you can just call them a bunch of wacky commies. You classify Islam as an "external hostility". My advice to you is READ a freaking booK(other than the King James version of the bible). An encyclopedia would be a good start.
Your post is well written but wrong. Broad generalizations are a sure sign of ignorance.
I stopped taking supplements after reading this article a few weeks ago. Here's an excerpt:
Careless use of vitamins, taken by millions in the belief that they promote good health, could be causing thousands of premature deaths.
A study investigating whether antioxidant vitamin supplements can prevent cancer found that rather than saving lives they seemed to increase overall risk of death.
Although the effect was small, it amounted to 9,000 premature deaths among every million supplement users.
Food for thought.
...of Microsoft realizing it had missed the boat with the Internet back in the '90s. Let's hope the paraniod play fair.
If you are a picture quality purist like myself and you don't need a 60" TV have a look at some of the direct view(tube) HDTVs. I got one for about $740 through the deals section at AVS forums. There is a difference in quality between 1080i and 720p, I know because my tv does both. Most projection/DLP hdtvs can only display 720p. Football looks better in 720p especially on Fox, CBS does games in 1080i and while there is more detail it doesn't look quite as good and you can see compression artifacts.
I think the lack of programming depends on your location. TimeWarner in San Diego has Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, TNT, Discovery channel and a bunch of the Padres games in HD as well for free if you have digital cable. ESPN HD is $10 a month, way too much money IMO.
They've been working on a variant of the local search except it's for guns and weed.
Hey, you make a really good point, I've got no rebuttal. Learned something in the process.
This is not just a semantic argument - the natural state for music is to be free (libre), whoever can hear it can enjoy it. When I play the organ in church on Sundays, the music isn't mine, it's just the music I'm making.
Hmmm, using your line of reasoning...
The natural state for oil paintings is to be free (libre), whoever can view it can enjoy it. When I paint in my college art class the painting isn't mine, it's just the art I'm making.
Sounds a little bit crazy right? But the only difference is that there are tangible elements involved with an oil painting that maybe I had to pay for. Musicians have overhead too, marketing, instruments, studio time.
Is there no such thing as art that someone can't keep to themselves? What if Shakespeare wrote some incredibly good but incredibly personal poetry? Is he somehow obligated to share that with you? It's art right so it should be free (libre).
Stealing music is wrong however you do it. If the artist realizes that there is a chance they could get more gigs and sell more tickets to shows by releasing their music for free then great but that's their choice. If they succeed in preventing P2P sharing people are just going to resort to CD Burning again. A lot of people, including the inventor of BitTorrent are making a lot of money just from donations and none of that goes to a middleman. Hopefully artists will turn to word of mouth marketing and donations sometime in the near future.
What if those big radioactive blocks of glass could be used to decontaminate polluted water supplies in poor nations. If they're as stable as it sounds then there wouldn't be the risk of waste getting into the water and it'd kill a lot of the germs that lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths. I've seen UV light used to decontaminate water, why not use something that doesn't need to be plugged in?
I'm using an open source version of Ghost called G4U. I've installed Firefox on over 1000 computers that go out to schools and other non profits and only downloaded it ONCE! So yes, I think the 1 million stat is misleading and yes, I set it as the default browser.
Good point, I actually downloaded the windows binaries and ran it to see how it looked, they need screenshots!
Irrlicht is good because it's easy to use. If you want a high performance engine for use in a serious project have a look at OGRE. Sure it's harder to use but it has an active community and the performance in complex, real world scenarios is great. I looked at both when researching what to use for Motorsport and right now, OGRE is a better choice for big serious apps. We're using OGRE for our open source driving simulator and it compiles in Linux and Windows with no changes to the code. OGRE is good because it sticks to what it is good at, 3D. There are a lot of Game engines out there that try to be all things to all people but aren't good at any of them. OGRE is good at 3D.
That said, if you're new to 3D Irrlicht is a good place to start.
Forget about lower prices and increased innovation, the real benefit of having an alternative in Linux IMO is the protection of our rights as consumers. MS will simply speed the migration to Linux if it tries to cram DRM down our throats.
We could crush all of the robots in the factories that make cars. It'd create a ton of new jobs. Of course cars would suddenly become a hell of a lot more expensive and less reliable.
If you have a problem with capitalism then don't whine, propose something better. If you believe that capitalism is as good as it gets then read the following quote. If not, check out Parecon or read about some of Noam Chomsky's theories.
In the future there are two roads. One is to look backward and hang on to what we think we're entitled to. The other is to recognize what has made America. Our virtues lie in a flexible and open, technology friendly, risk-taking, entrepreneurial, market-driven system. This is exactly the same type of challenge farmers went through in the late 1800's, sweatshop workers went through in the early 1900's, and manufacturing workers did in the first half of the 80's. We've got to focus on setting in motion a debate that pushes us into new sources of job creation rather than bemoaning the loss. There are Republicans and Democrats alike who are involved in this protectionist backlash. They're very vocal right now, and they need to be challenged.
Stephen S. Roach, managing director and chief economist of Morgan Stanley