why waste energy and time on the matrix? why didn't they just render all the humans unconcious?
let alone the whole energy innefficiency. Though I suppose, you know, humans are pretty efficient, since we organize energies greater than us, and end up producing more, growing larger as a whole, etc.
but I mean...couldn't they make more efficient energy bacteria or something with genetic engineering?
there's lots of plotholes and really stupid shallow philosophy in the matrix. I just like it because it has awesome (tyhouygh about over-the-top) action that makes you grin when you see it the first time.
I'm wondering, whatever happened to the giant fusion reactor they were building in Japan, the one that had man-sized conduits with the three magnetic things spiraling around them, that was supposed to achieve fusion reactions on a large scale?
I mean through the 25MHz 68000 core.
Moreover...if you want to develop for "vintage" systems, in CURRENT day, you can just buy a gameboy advance, and a cheap flash rom thing, for a total of about $140 or so, and develop right on your PC with emulators (debugging often on the GBA itself). The GBA seems much better-designed, to me.
"Each GameStation memory cartridge contains 8K/16K/32K/64K "Blocks" of memory. Most games will fit on the 8/16K block carts, but heavy graphics and sound games may need more."
I fail to see how a 25MHz CPU with graphics capabilities 10x that of the SNES...has 64K rom cartridges. You couldn't emulate NES successfully on it, like they claim, because *most* good NES games are 64k or more. They went up to a meg even, sometimes.
And that was NES games. 64K simply ISN'T enough space to take advantage of all that power, I am sorry!
And he tries to pass of the ability to plug a 65816 (16-bit variant of 6502 that is technically but not totally code-compatible due to fixed bugs) as a boon to emulation....how? Unless *all* the processor's I/O is done through the 25MHz 65k core...
Sorry, but this doesn't seem nearly as nice as it looks.
"if I were a dictator"
right there you're saying you wouldn't be on the front lines defending that freedom you would so aggresively send others.
If I were dictator this fucking asshole would be filled full of lead until there was nothing left of his body
If you were dictator I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't assasinated and overthrown for being such a stupid jackass. Sorry.
If you loved America, then you'd love their right to say and think what they want, fraud.
Please, tell me how jailing people who write public, non-violent articles against the Bush administration is protecting me
but Kazaa, Napster, Grokster, and any other method of distributing music that was taken from a CD that was distributed as a copyrighted material is just as bad as the guys that scan in the playboy centerfolds and post them to usenet. It's theft of property/right to make money. I am sorry, "friend", but Kazaa, Napster, and Grokster are not designed to share music specifically nor should they be labeled simply as a "method of distributing music that was taken from..." Technically, TV, radio, CDs, etc. can all be used for this too.
Just because we think RIAA is screwing the artists, and RIAA is keeping CD prices artifically high, or whatever justification of the week is tossed out, you're still stealing the music.
The RIAA does none of these. It is the record labels that do this evil. And you're not stealing music, you're infringing copyrights. Did you know its technically illegal to imagine a movie you just saw with another actor in the lead? That's infringing copyright too.
It's not like Napster/Kazaa negotiated contracts with the artists that allowed you the user to download music seperate and outside the distribution structure.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Napster did sign one such contract at some point.
When you download a song off of kazaa or whatever the p2p du jour is, you're stealing You're NOT stealing. You're not taking someone else's property that they don't want you to have. Technically that person is willfully copying it for you. That is a *copyright infringement*, since you don't own the right to copy that work (though the argument is often made that it is the person who owns the computer you're getting the music off of that is doing the actual 'copying'). Big philosophical difference, though under law there is little.
There isn't a justification for this other than some made up BS. You aren't 'fighting the man' because 'the man' is someone that is out to make a buck. they're not 'trampling your rights' in an attempt to enforce their valid and legal copyrights.
I have recently personally become a big disbeliever in the copyright and patent systems as a whole. I don't even need to cite examples where patents have held back cancer and AIDS research, or how the record labels go against the original spirit of the original copyright law. We've all heard of these. I will however cite the fact that the DMCA is constitutionally unsound, and I am sure that within a few years it will be found so by a high-level court of law. If it isn't, I'm moving to Canada, because I will have lost what little faith I personally have in the good ol' US of A. And technically, they are trampling your rights, such as the right to due process.
That is all I have to say for now, except that I am disturbed at how often we are all referred to as "consumers" instead of "citizens" by congress.
You'd have to be ignorant to believe Nintendo doesn't have its own 3d handheld in the works.
Nintendo has traditionally recently only released handhelds when they fall below the $100 mark. For instance the GBA SP was ready MONTHS before it was released, maybe even when the original GBA came out, but it was too expensive for them to sell it.
wow, you really don't have to be a total asshole, you know.
here's some advice to you: try being civil to people and they might take you seriously.
(and there's no way I'm stupid enough to stick my laptop in the microwave for any amount of time.)
bad idea, since razor blades are metal, unless you like fire.
fire is fun!
I swear, this 20-second/2-minute thing kills your ability to actively participate in a discussion here...
and this isn't a joke,
what about those who dislike having their picture taken due to religous reasons?
Shouldn't mandatory picture-taking be against some kind of law based on religion? Isn't it descrimination or...or...something?
"But then to ship the resulting movies as AVI files? That's the biggest cop out I've ever seen in any art form. If no one was allowed to see a great painting except as a photograph, we'd call it photography, not painting. "
What about those who don't own the game? If we only allowed people with cameras to see the photographs, it wouldn't be very GOOD photography.
why don't we just stop putting money into the arts too? according to you, we can't afford such frivolous things such as curiosity and expression and searching for meaning.
Well, what's to stop me from putting copyrighted material on my friends' computer? Material I've copyrighted, that is? Then, when I see people downloading it on Kazaa, it'll be legal for me to destroy their computer?
It's kind of like making certain kinds of hacking legal.
"Q. You now have PC, Internet and cell phone connectivity with the Xbox, plus Karaoke. How are you addressing security issues now that the Xbox is stepping out of the safe living room?
A. We are designing everything we are doing to provide security as a service for both player and game publisher. For example, we can sense and disable an Xbox modified with third party "modchips" and not allow it to play online."
I see that somewhat as bullshite. Yeah, bullshite. If you want, Microsoft, go ahead and take over people's livingrooms, and eventually permutate it into a full PC - but don't be assess and apply your DRM thinking to the hardware you sell. That's just asinine. "Don't forget, you don't own your hardware." Yeah, I haven't.
But doom 3's will not by any means be near the end. Face it, the doom 3 demo looked good - for starkly lit futuristic interiors. Not 'til radiosity is realtime will lighting TRULY look good I think.
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why waste energy and time on the matrix? why didn't they just render all the humans unconcious? let alone the whole energy innefficiency. Though I suppose, you know, humans are pretty efficient, since we organize energies greater than us, and end up producing more, growing larger as a whole, etc. but I mean...couldn't they make more efficient energy bacteria or something with genetic engineering? there's lots of plotholes and really stupid shallow philosophy in the matrix. I just like it because it has awesome (tyhouygh about over-the-top) action that makes you grin when you see it the first time.
heh, its called floating-point inaccuracy if you need more precision, you can get it with libraries
I'm wondering, whatever happened to the giant fusion reactor they were building in Japan, the one that had man-sized conduits with the three magnetic things spiraling around them, that was supposed to achieve fusion reactions on a large scale?
I mean through the 25MHz 68000 core. Moreover...if you want to develop for "vintage" systems, in CURRENT day, you can just buy a gameboy advance, and a cheap flash rom thing, for a total of about $140 or so, and develop right on your PC with emulators (debugging often on the GBA itself). The GBA seems much better-designed, to me.
"Each GameStation memory cartridge contains 8K/16K/32K/64K "Blocks" of memory. Most games will fit on the 8/16K block carts, but heavy graphics and sound games may need more."
I fail to see how a 25MHz CPU with graphics capabilities 10x that of the SNES...has 64K rom cartridges. You couldn't emulate NES successfully on it, like they claim, because *most* good NES games are 64k or more. They went up to a meg even, sometimes.
And that was NES games. 64K simply ISN'T enough space to take advantage of all that power, I am sorry! And he tries to pass of the ability to plug a 65816 (16-bit variant of 6502 that is technically but not totally code-compatible due to fixed bugs) as a boon to emulation. ...how? Unless *all* the processor's I/O is done through the 25MHz 65k core...
Sorry, but this doesn't seem nearly as nice as it looks.
I'm not talking about exotic forms of conciousness created sporadically from energy or those sorts of things. I'm talking about life as we know it.
Or does current dark matter theory rule out the idea of life as we know it existing in dark matter?
"if I were a dictator" right there you're saying you wouldn't be on the front lines defending that freedom you would so aggresively send others. If I were dictator this fucking asshole would be filled full of lead until there was nothing left of his body If you were dictator I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't assasinated and overthrown for being such a stupid jackass. Sorry.
If you loved America, then you'd love their right to say and think what they want, fraud. Please, tell me how jailing people who write public, non-violent articles against the Bush administration is protecting me
we have all the mad-cow diseases and and huge deficit (aha!) in all europe countries put it's nothing comperd to the "abuse" of microsoft ... funny.
Goverments can focus on more than one problem at a time, you know.
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but Kazaa, Napster, Grokster, and any other method of distributing music that was taken from a CD that was distributed as a copyrighted material is just as bad as the guys that scan in the playboy centerfolds and post them to usenet. It's theft of property/right to make money.
I am sorry, "friend", but Kazaa, Napster, and Grokster are not designed to share music specifically nor should they be labeled simply as a "method of distributing music that was taken from..." Technically, TV, radio, CDs, etc. can all be used for this too.
Just because we think RIAA is screwing the artists, and RIAA is keeping CD prices artifically high, or whatever justification of the week is tossed out, you're still stealing the music.
The RIAA does none of these. It is the record labels that do this evil. And you're not stealing music, you're infringing copyrights. Did you know its technically illegal to imagine a movie you just saw with another actor in the lead? That's infringing copyright too.
It's not like Napster/Kazaa negotiated contracts with the artists that allowed you the user to download music seperate and outside the distribution structure.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Napster did sign one such contract at some point.
When you download a song off of kazaa or whatever the p2p du jour is, you're stealing
You're NOT stealing. You're not taking someone else's property that they don't want you to have. Technically that person is willfully copying it for you. That is a *copyright infringement*, since you don't own the right to copy that work (though the argument is often made that it is the person who owns the computer you're getting the music off of that is doing the actual 'copying'). Big philosophical difference, though under law there is little.
There isn't a justification for this other than some made up BS. You aren't 'fighting the man' because 'the man' is someone that is out to make a buck. they're not 'trampling your rights' in an attempt to enforce their valid and legal copyrights.
I have recently personally become a big disbeliever in the copyright and patent systems as a whole. I don't even need to cite examples where patents have held back cancer and AIDS research, or how the record labels go against the original spirit of the original copyright law. We've all heard of these. I will however cite the fact that the DMCA is constitutionally unsound, and I am sure that within a few years it will be found so by a high-level court of law. If it isn't, I'm moving to Canada, because I will have lost what little faith I personally have in the good ol' US of A. And technically, they are trampling your rights, such as the right to due process.
That is all I have to say for now, except that I am disturbed at how often we are all referred to as "consumers" instead of "citizens" by congress.
You'd have to be ignorant to believe Nintendo doesn't have its own 3d handheld in the works. Nintendo has traditionally recently only released handhelds when they fall below the $100 mark. For instance the GBA SP was ready MONTHS before it was released, maybe even when the original GBA came out, but it was too expensive for them to sell it.
wow, you really don't have to be a total asshole, you know. here's some advice to you: try being civil to people and they might take you seriously. (and there's no way I'm stupid enough to stick my laptop in the microwave for any amount of time.)
bad idea, since razor blades are metal, unless you like fire. fire is fun! I swear, this 20-second/2-minute thing kills your ability to actively participate in a discussion here...
you spend as little as possible on hygiene products too?
and this isn't a joke, what about those who dislike having their picture taken due to religous reasons? Shouldn't mandatory picture-taking be against some kind of law based on religion? Isn't it descrimination or...or...something?
you forget that OpenOffice is also for Windows. I didn't realize it 'til today, that it would be, because I'm silly, but it is.
"But then to ship the resulting movies as AVI files? That's the biggest cop out I've ever seen in any art form. If no one was allowed to see a great painting except as a photograph, we'd call it photography, not painting. " What about those who don't own the game? If we only allowed people with cameras to see the photographs, it wouldn't be very GOOD photography.
don't forget, its not possible to click on the link and see for yourself.
why don't we just stop putting money into the arts too? according to you, we can't afford such frivolous things such as curiosity and expression and searching for meaning.
well, if he managed to reverse-engineer DirecTV, I think it's probable he isn't a fast-food worker.
Well, what's to stop me from putting copyrighted material on my friends' computer? Material I've copyrighted, that is? Then, when I see people downloading it on Kazaa, it'll be legal for me to destroy their computer? It's kind of like making certain kinds of hacking legal.
"Q. You now have PC, Internet and cell phone connectivity with the Xbox, plus Karaoke. How are you addressing security issues now that the Xbox is stepping out of the safe living room? A. We are designing everything we are doing to provide security as a service for both player and game publisher. For example, we can sense and disable an Xbox modified with third party "modchips" and not allow it to play online." I see that somewhat as bullshite. Yeah, bullshite. If you want, Microsoft, go ahead and take over people's livingrooms, and eventually permutate it into a full PC - but don't be assess and apply your DRM thinking to the hardware you sell. That's just asinine. "Don't forget, you don't own your hardware." Yeah, I haven't.
there's been a pill you can swallow for a few years now. Works quite well. No maneuverability, though. But it works well.
But doom 3's will not by any means be near the end. Face it, the doom 3 demo looked good - for starkly lit futuristic interiors. Not 'til radiosity is realtime will lighting TRULY look good I think.