"Written historical account". Given that pagan by definition means "of the country.", and in those times most people were illiterate, does it really surprise you that there was little written record to contradict what the Christians wrote? It's not like they have ever burned books or anything, either.
As a more direct rebuttal specifically to the Osiris resurrection thing, that was written in hieroglyphs. How else would we have known about it? It's not like there have been any native Egyptian speakers for a long, long time, so we had to learn about ancient Egypt through other methods.
But hey, why let the facts stand in the way of your chosen God, right? He's infallible, and if anyone that believes in him says anything about him, it must be true!
The "freedom" isn't freedom from having to pay, or from having to do work for free. It's the freedom to not have to reinvent the wheel every time you want to do something that someone else has done before.
Reproduction of the product is "free", so the marginal cost should trend to zero, especially over a long enough time period.
You're hinging on the wrong thing. A good FPS player will notice if input lag is the difference between 50 and 15ms. They will NOT notice it if the graphics keep a minimum of around 30fps, as long as the input doesn't lag. VSYNC is a good thing with properly programmed applications and drivers, because it allows more CPU time to be devoted to the calculations that keep the game running rather than forcing pointless refreshes of the frame that can't even be drawn to the screen. The only reason to turn VSYNC off is to pump up framerates in benchmarks.
Thank you for making sense, even if you don't get modded up for it. It's sad to see so many self-selected "smart" people that just accept rules and laws simply because they exist, rather than because they are there for a just reason, and don't understand that because there's an infinite range of human behavior, there should also be an infinite range of reactions to it.
Sure. There's persistence of vision. For motion, we can only separate 20 different "frames" per second. After that, everything becomes a blur. The 1/220th of a second vision test was just a single image flashed against a very plain background, so as it's the only thing that changed, it's easily recognizable.
Don't prohibit DRM. That's a technical measure, and completely within the company's right to try to implement. What needs to happen is that the DMCA needs to get thrown out so that it's no longer illegal to break that DRM. Exercising fair-use rights should not be illegal.
And before the trolls start, yes, I do rip a lot of DVD's I own so that I can watch them on the road without having to bring the physical discs with me and risk losing or breaking them, as well as saving the luggage space for more important things, like underwear and deodorant.
The problem is that people who learn it as a second language learn the difference between "loose" and "lose". It's people who learned English phonetically and spell that way that can't spell for shit. I've actually found that most ESL-types that bother to write in English to participate have learned from reading, which typically highlights the usages of words, whereas if you're learning by listening and speaking you can't tell the difference between homonyms as easily.
The persistence of vision is 1/20th of a second. But that's ONLY vision. If you don't render faster on an interactive system, your control inputs will lag, because we compensate for the "slow" vision by being able to predict movements according to the rules that are set out. How else could a pitcher catch a ball hit directly back at him? Point is, there IS a very valid reason on games to do faster than 20fps. On movies, not quite so much, but anything interactive definitely so.
Nope, but cleaners love throwing out old pizza boxes with the trash. They're so zealous about it that it's almost like it's part of their job description.
Hey, it is kinda fun doing these ad hominem attacks! They're completely baseless!
By the way, they were convicted by the EU, and that was NOT overturned. But hey, go ahead and think the US is the center of the world. Even though I live here, I realize it isn't.
Run a recent SSH server at home, and use it as a transparent proxy (if you use Windows, PuTTY is pretty easy to set up a port forward, google for it). That's what I do when I need to get around HTTP blocks on client sites. Usually SSH is not a blocked port, much less to "consumer" IP blocks.
I'd wager that it's something like we run into... "It's what our customers run". That said, I am running 64bit Kubuntu on a screamin' laptop, and it's faster than Windows could ever hope to be with our software. I don't even think that 64bit XP would run on this machine, the drivers don't exist, so Vista would be yet another detriment.
Sure, go ahead and choose Microsoft. The problem is that Microsoft has proven again and again that if you choose them, you can choose nothing else, ever. If you're fine with tying all your company's infrastructure to the whims of a convicted monopolist, feel free to do so, but sane people aren't ok with that. If Microsoft says your bug isn't important enough (if they even deem you worthy of acknowledgment), you are fucked, period. You can't switch to a competitor, you have too much invested in your infrastructure and if you have to change one thing, you get to change everything.
I'm not against having Microsoft as a choice. I just think people should realize WHAT they're choosing when they choose Microsoft, which is basically becoming their bitch and paying for the privilege.
You realize that Microsoft BOUGHT the Virtual Server product from Connectix? They didn't actually make it. The quality of Virtual Server has no bearing on the quality of Hyper V, since they were developed by completely different companies, let alone teams.
Given that Hyper-V doesn't actually support virtualization except under Microsoft's shroud (Novell is part of it now), I see no way that it is going to actually do anything other than try to lock people into yet more Microsoft proprietary incompatible bullshit.
OEM's are EQUIPMENT manufacturers. If you bring up the "winmodem" argument where most of the actual hardware is in software, well, tough. That's where the "damned if you don't" part comes in, when they're trying to cut the bottom line and rather than make actual hardware, they offload everything to the CPU.
Linux users want more OEM support, but if OEM's want us to buy their stuff, they have to start opening up their source so it actually works with our systems. No, the kernel devs won't even look at the issue because there's no way they can dig down TO the issue when the kernel loads binary blobs.
And it is possible... Intel has lots of fully-programmable CPU's, a nice open-source compatible GPU with full 3D acceleration (not bleeding-edge gaming, but not bad) and pretty damn nice wireless cards, too. They seem to be doing alright.
Overall, my Vista install rarely runs into errors- maybe one or two non-system apps are hanging a week. UAC got less annoying (it wasn't that bad to begin with).
You certainly have a funny definition of "rarely". I don't even run into that many errors on Kubuntu 8.04, and the whole system there is in beta, it's not a service update.
I do it about once a day during lunchtime... I have a number of web comics that I read, and I just right-click on the folder and "Open all in Tabs". It loads up about 40 tabs, and I just close them as I read them. Makes it easy to see which ones I've read, and which ones I still need/want to. That's on Firefox2... doesn't seem to kill my machine too much. But I also restart the browser a few times a day.
The problem is that they get higher ratings if they dumb it down. Make it more accessible to everyone, and more people will watch. If you show things too complicated, most people aren't interested enough to keep watching. My fiancee and I love watching Alton Brown because he injects science into his show, as well as goofy theatrics, but one of her relatives actually said that he doesn't like Alton BECAUSE of the science content. He still wants a new computer though... most people don't care about the science. They want the flashy toys and simple overviews. Information is complex and hard to handle, so it confuses them.
Have you EVER done a serious document in Word? Even with 2007 you still need reveal codes, which isn't there. You may not have had use for Wordperfect's features, but people who actually used the power of a word processor and needed more than something like Wordpad provides Wordperfect was, and in many cases still is, better.
Naah. It's more like if you did that in Las Vegas, not New York. People often join games like Second Life in order to live out fantasies they can't do in their first life. No matter how much "good" goes on, there's still a larger proportion of weird shit than there is in real life.
And my culture includes beating the shit out of anyone that has "borg" in their slashdot user name. STOP OPPRESSING ME!
I don't care what the cultural significance is... the worldwide ecological significance trumps any petty local cultural concerns. If it had no impact on everyone else, I wouldn't give two fucks. But whales are important to everyone, not just the Japanese.
Doesn't work that way. Once you've accepted the code under a license (GPL), then it stays under the terms of that license. If you sold someone your house, and all of a sudden said "I actually didn't want to do that, give it back", do you think you'd have a snowball's chance in hell of getting it back without paying for it and negotiating with the people there as the owners? If you want to release future versions of the software under a different license, feel free to do so. But you can't retroactively relicense something.
It has everything to do with loosing software freedoms. They'll allow people to do things with their patents without fear of a lawsuit, or so they claim.
Oh, wait... you probably meant LOSING software freedoms. That's what will probably actually happen if anyone goes along with it.
Sure, drive it into the ground if you're trying to be as fiscally tight as possible. But you know what? It's NICE to drive a new car. I'll pay a bit extra to have a car that is comfortable, and isn't loud or underpowered when going up into the mountains and such.
If he bought a new car every year, I'd agree. But 150K miles is a LOT of miles. He's getting a lot of good use out of the vehicle before dumping it, and he is paying more because he prefers to have a nicer vehicle to drive. I'm sure he could save a ton of money by buying a rusted-out Geo Metro and driving it into the ground. But there are things other than just money that have value... as much time as most Americans spend in their cars, having a nice environment is worth quite a bit.
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"Written historical account". Given that pagan by definition means "of the country.", and in those times most people were illiterate, does it really surprise you that there was little written record to contradict what the Christians wrote? It's not like they have ever burned books or anything, either.
As a more direct rebuttal specifically to the Osiris resurrection thing, that was written in hieroglyphs. How else would we have known about it? It's not like there have been any native Egyptian speakers for a long, long time, so we had to learn about ancient Egypt through other methods.
But hey, why let the facts stand in the way of your chosen God, right? He's infallible, and if anyone that believes in him says anything about him, it must be true!
The "freedom" isn't freedom from having to pay, or from having to do work for free. It's the freedom to not have to reinvent the wheel every time you want to do something that someone else has done before.
Reproduction of the product is "free", so the marginal cost should trend to zero, especially over a long enough time period.
You're hinging on the wrong thing. A good FPS player will notice if input lag is the difference between 50 and 15ms. They will NOT notice it if the graphics keep a minimum of around 30fps, as long as the input doesn't lag. VSYNC is a good thing with properly programmed applications and drivers, because it allows more CPU time to be devoted to the calculations that keep the game running rather than forcing pointless refreshes of the frame that can't even be drawn to the screen. The only reason to turn VSYNC off is to pump up framerates in benchmarks.
Thank you for making sense, even if you don't get modded up for it. It's sad to see so many self-selected "smart" people that just accept rules and laws simply because they exist, rather than because they are there for a just reason, and don't understand that because there's an infinite range of human behavior, there should also be an infinite range of reactions to it.
So... you're saying they're too incompetent to brief their managers on corporate policy?
Sure. There's persistence of vision. For motion, we can only separate 20 different "frames" per second. After that, everything becomes a blur. The 1/220th of a second vision test was just a single image flashed against a very plain background, so as it's the only thing that changed, it's easily recognizable.
Don't prohibit DRM. That's a technical measure, and completely within the company's right to try to implement. What needs to happen is that the DMCA needs to get thrown out so that it's no longer illegal to break that DRM. Exercising fair-use rights should not be illegal.
And before the trolls start, yes, I do rip a lot of DVD's I own so that I can watch them on the road without having to bring the physical discs with me and risk losing or breaking them, as well as saving the luggage space for more important things, like underwear and deodorant.
The problem is that people who learn it as a second language learn the difference between "loose" and "lose". It's people who learned English phonetically and spell that way that can't spell for shit. I've actually found that most ESL-types that bother to write in English to participate have learned from reading, which typically highlights the usages of words, whereas if you're learning by listening and speaking you can't tell the difference between homonyms as easily.
The persistence of vision is 1/20th of a second. But that's ONLY vision. If you don't render faster on an interactive system, your control inputs will lag, because we compensate for the "slow" vision by being able to predict movements according to the rules that are set out. How else could a pitcher catch a ball hit directly back at him? Point is, there IS a very valid reason on games to do faster than 20fps. On movies, not quite so much, but anything interactive definitely so.
Nope, but cleaners love throwing out old pizza boxes with the trash. They're so zealous about it that it's almost like it's part of their job description.
How much are they paying you to be a shill?
Hey, it is kinda fun doing these ad hominem attacks! They're completely baseless!
By the way, they were convicted by the EU, and that was NOT overturned. But hey, go ahead and think the US is the center of the world. Even though I live here, I realize it isn't.
Run a recent SSH server at home, and use it as a transparent proxy (if you use Windows, PuTTY is pretty easy to set up a port forward, google for it). That's what I do when I need to get around HTTP blocks on client sites. Usually SSH is not a blocked port, much less to "consumer" IP blocks.
I'd wager that it's something like we run into... "It's what our customers run". That said, I am running 64bit Kubuntu on a screamin' laptop, and it's faster than Windows could ever hope to be with our software. I don't even think that 64bit XP would run on this machine, the drivers don't exist, so Vista would be yet another detriment.
Sure, go ahead and choose Microsoft. The problem is that Microsoft has proven again and again that if you choose them, you can choose nothing else, ever. If you're fine with tying all your company's infrastructure to the whims of a convicted monopolist, feel free to do so, but sane people aren't ok with that. If Microsoft says your bug isn't important enough (if they even deem you worthy of acknowledgment), you are fucked, period. You can't switch to a competitor, you have too much invested in your infrastructure and if you have to change one thing, you get to change everything.
I'm not against having Microsoft as a choice. I just think people should realize WHAT they're choosing when they choose Microsoft, which is basically becoming their bitch and paying for the privilege.
You realize that Microsoft BOUGHT the Virtual Server product from Connectix? They didn't actually make it. The quality of Virtual Server has no bearing on the quality of Hyper V, since they were developed by completely different companies, let alone teams.
Given that Hyper-V doesn't actually support virtualization except under Microsoft's shroud (Novell is part of it now), I see no way that it is going to actually do anything other than try to lock people into yet more Microsoft proprietary incompatible bullshit.
OEM's are EQUIPMENT manufacturers. If you bring up the "winmodem" argument where most of the actual hardware is in software, well, tough. That's where the "damned if you don't" part comes in, when they're trying to cut the bottom line and rather than make actual hardware, they offload everything to the CPU.
Linux users want more OEM support, but if OEM's want us to buy their stuff, they have to start opening up their source so it actually works with our systems. No, the kernel devs won't even look at the issue because there's no way they can dig down TO the issue when the kernel loads binary blobs.
And it is possible... Intel has lots of fully-programmable CPU's, a nice open-source compatible GPU with full 3D acceleration (not bleeding-edge gaming, but not bad) and pretty damn nice wireless cards, too. They seem to be doing alright.
You certainly have a funny definition of "rarely". I don't even run into that many errors on Kubuntu 8.04, and the whole system there is in beta, it's not a service update.
I do it about once a day during lunchtime... I have a number of web comics that I read, and I just right-click on the folder and "Open all in Tabs". It loads up about 40 tabs, and I just close them as I read them. Makes it easy to see which ones I've read, and which ones I still need/want to. That's on Firefox2... doesn't seem to kill my machine too much. But I also restart the browser a few times a day.
The problem is that they get higher ratings if they dumb it down. Make it more accessible to everyone, and more people will watch. If you show things too complicated, most people aren't interested enough to keep watching. My fiancee and I love watching Alton Brown because he injects science into his show, as well as goofy theatrics, but one of her relatives actually said that he doesn't like Alton BECAUSE of the science content. He still wants a new computer though... most people don't care about the science. They want the flashy toys and simple overviews. Information is complex and hard to handle, so it confuses them.
Have you EVER done a serious document in Word? Even with 2007 you still need reveal codes, which isn't there. You may not have had use for Wordperfect's features, but people who actually used the power of a word processor and needed more than something like Wordpad provides Wordperfect was, and in many cases still is, better.
Naah. It's more like if you did that in Las Vegas, not New York. People often join games like Second Life in order to live out fantasies they can't do in their first life. No matter how much "good" goes on, there's still a larger proportion of weird shit than there is in real life.
And my culture includes beating the shit out of anyone that has "borg" in their slashdot user name. STOP OPPRESSING ME!
I don't care what the cultural significance is... the worldwide ecological significance trumps any petty local cultural concerns. If it had no impact on everyone else, I wouldn't give two fucks. But whales are important to everyone, not just the Japanese.
Doesn't work that way. Once you've accepted the code under a license (GPL), then it stays under the terms of that license. If you sold someone your house, and all of a sudden said "I actually didn't want to do that, give it back", do you think you'd have a snowball's chance in hell of getting it back without paying for it and negotiating with the people there as the owners? If you want to release future versions of the software under a different license, feel free to do so. But you can't retroactively relicense something.
It has everything to do with loosing software freedoms. They'll allow people to do things with their patents without fear of a lawsuit, or so they claim.
Oh, wait... you probably meant LOSING software freedoms. That's what will probably actually happen if anyone goes along with it.
Sure, drive it into the ground if you're trying to be as fiscally tight as possible. But you know what? It's NICE to drive a new car. I'll pay a bit extra to have a car that is comfortable, and isn't loud or underpowered when going up into the mountains and such.
If he bought a new car every year, I'd agree. But 150K miles is a LOT of miles. He's getting a lot of good use out of the vehicle before dumping it, and he is paying more because he prefers to have a nicer vehicle to drive. I'm sure he could save a ton of money by buying a rusted-out Geo Metro and driving it into the ground. But there are things other than just money that have value... as much time as most Americans spend in their cars, having a nice environment is worth quite a bit.