> I don't know how the adult/erotic services was ever allowed. I figure they are facilitating a crime, and illegal industry, whether explicitly knowing or not. > I think it is futile that states prohibit the worlds oldest profession. I personally don't think states should bar women from making ends meet.
Exactly. What 2 other people do in the bedroom, is not my or your fucking business.
> Can someone please fill in in on 1) how its not a crime to carry prostitute's ads,
> So I call Bullshit- the only reason a high powered GPU is necessary is because game programmers have become LAZY.
Uhm, no.
We moved to 3D so that the artists didn't have to draw ever freaking possible combination of a guy running, running with a sword, running with a shield, running with a shield+sword, walking, falling, jumping, etc.
It's called "blending [multiple] animations"
3D Chain Mail used to look like shit until we had sufficient resolution where we were able to get a better texture-to-pixel ratio.
That said, most publishers don't seem to understand the advantages of a 2D rendered world.
> As I understand it, you can be compelled to identify yourself if requested by a law enforcement officer. You are not required to provide identification: providing your name is sufficient. You are not required to carry identification.
Not true.
My brother was walking home very late one night, when a cop asked him his name and what he was doing. He responded in a very polite manner: "I was not aware I was under obligation to contract?" and waited for the cop.
The cop didn't like this turn of power, and tried badgering him.
He said the same thing again, and again waited for the cop.
The cop got really pissed, but knew that the _first_ thing in any contract is for the two parties to identity themselves. Since my brother was throwing the burden of proof ONTO the cop to proof to show that there was even a contract in the first place, the cop decided to let him go since there was nothing he could legally do.
I had a Lawyer friend VERY begrudgingly admit that "All Law is based on Contract Law.", which is why that particular response even worked.
What? We're shocked that any institute has self preservation as its best interest?:-)
i.e. Lawyer's don't _want_ simple laws that anyone can understand. Textbook Publishers don't _want_ books that anyone can edit and learn from RIAA doesn't _want_ people sharing music FDA/Big Pharma doesn't want anyone to grow their own herbs, and foods so people eat and live healtier as there is no money in healthy people. The Automotive companies don't want to invest in alternate energy as it will impact their bottom line.
It's because America a) found violence accept due to a revolution (i.e. the last box in the 4 boxes: the ammo box) b) didn't leave their puritan English attitude behind.
As such, the vocal majority in America are a bunch of prudes that seeing a natural breast instantly becomes labeled as "Nipplegate".
> I've often wondered how many patterns we are missing because we mostly deal in base 10. Changing the base doesn't change the underlying pattern (it MAY make it more visible though).
Anyways, we've already discovered:
- ALL primes are of the form 6n+/-1. - In binary, primes start with 1, and end with 1. - The Prime Number Cross
Shouldn't come as shock that there will be more...
> Back in the '90s, they competed against Netscape in the browser wars by giving away IE for free; unlike Netscape, which was hoping to eventually start charging for Navigator, Microsoft made IE part of Windows (so it was effectively free for anyone who already paid for the PC).
Why wasn't Microsoft charged for "product dumping" ?
> I really hate updating my systems these days, because for every bug fixed it seems you get a fresh new one. Make it shiny, we will fix the bugs later! Of course later never comes, eventually the crap piles up too high and somebody decides to just start over. Which explains the piles of discarded stuff and the new one that also doesn't quite work in most areas, especially in system administration.
It's called 'The CADT Model', one of the reasons why OSS sucks. Fortunately this one negative doesn't outweigh the (other) positives.
> if traditional printed newspapers want to survive the digital age, all they need to do is go 100% ad-sponsored and distribute it to the public for FREE
That is one alternative. There is also another:
Motocycle Consumer News has 0% ads -- it is supported 100% by customers. The s/n ratio is superb. Don't see why the same couldn't work for newspapers as well.
> I wonder if they'll ever realize that control is as much an illusion as freedom is?
So the ability to criticize government/politicians, religion/church, commerce/companies or any other inefficient system without going to jail, or losing your life is just an illusion? Try living in China, or Singapore, or India and trying criticizing anything on the list.
There is always a trade off between performance, correctness/robustness, and features.
Pick 2, and don't complain when a 99.99999% guarantee of no data loss is dog slow compared to a filesystem that offers minimal protection against (meta) data loss.
> My mother, who was programming before a fair few of us (including me) were born, once told me this: If you think you've found a bug in a compiler, or an operating system, or a programming language, or a well-known commonly used library... you're wrong.
So when MSVC prints "Internal Compiler Error" and stops compiling my code, I'm wrong?:)
Five years ago, it was easy to cause MSVC to crash & burn - lately their back-end compiler has gotten much better dealing with C/C++ code.
> the most common piece of self modifying code was to implement a 16 bit index read/write/goto instruction in the Apple ]['s (and Atari and C64) 6502 processor.
Yeah, there were 2 common paradigms...
a) self modifying code... 300: A2 00 LDY #00 302: BD rr ss LDA $ssrr,X 305: 9D tt uu STA $uutt,X 308: E8 INX 309: D0 FA BNE $302 30B: EE 03 03 INC $303 30E: EE 07 03 INC $307
b) using the Zero-Page 300:B1 00 LDA ($00),Y 302:91 00 STA ($00),Y
> The piracy issue is finally coming to a head. You know it's illegal and wrong.
Typical 20th century brainwashing. Illegal != Immoral. Tomorrow (21st century) it will be legal, and there is not a dam thing you can do to stop the masses from trading music, video, etc.
> How would you like it if you were a software developer, and your boss didn't give you a paycheck one month because "information wants to be free," or "you can't 'steal' code," or some other stupid reason that pirates always give?
Doesn't stop me one bit from writing software in my free time.
> There's no other reason you do it but that you're selfish like all humans and want something for free without paying money to its creator.
So how did all that art get created BEFORE copyright even existed in the 17th century??
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> I don't know how the adult/erotic services was ever allowed. I figure they are facilitating a crime, and illegal industry, whether explicitly knowing or not.
> I think it is futile that states prohibit the worlds oldest profession. I personally don't think states should bar women from making ends meet.
Exactly. What 2 other people do in the bedroom, is not my or your fucking business.
> Can someone please fill in in on 1) how its not a crime to carry prostitute's ads,
Free Speech.
> 128 MB VGA
You meant 128 KB. (128 MB is a recent thing.)
> So I call Bullshit- the only reason a high powered GPU is necessary is because game programmers have become LAZY.
Uhm, no.
We moved to 3D so that the artists didn't have to draw ever freaking possible combination of a guy running, running with a sword, running with a shield, running with a shield+sword, walking, falling, jumping, etc.
It's called "blending [multiple] animations"
3D Chain Mail used to look like shit until we had sufficient resolution where we were able to get a better texture-to-pixel ratio.
That said, most publishers don't seem to understand the advantages of a 2D rendered world.
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Reddit, the Dig of Slashdot.
Ugh, YouTube? There is a much higher quality version available on the main site...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
There is another perspective that people are missing:
People are trading short term inexpensive food with long term expensive health care.
Poor people don't care about the High Fructose Corn Syrup crap being in almost everything they eat.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/04/art-student-creates.html
Better tell Blizzard then, because WOW is illegal then *smirk*
> As I understand it, you can be compelled to identify yourself if requested by a law enforcement officer. You are not required to provide identification: providing your name is sufficient. You are not required to carry identification.
Not true.
My brother was walking home very late one night, when a cop asked him his name and what he was doing. He responded in a very polite manner: "I was not aware I was under obligation to contract?" and waited for the cop.
The cop didn't like this turn of power, and tried badgering him.
He said the same thing again, and again waited for the cop.
The cop got really pissed, but knew that the _first_ thing in any contract is for the two parties to identity themselves. Since my brother was throwing the burden of proof ONTO the cop to proof to show that there was even a contract in the first place, the cop decided to let him go since there was nothing he could legally do.
I had a Lawyer friend VERY begrudgingly admit that "All Law is based on Contract Law.", which is why that particular response even worked.
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Reddit is the Dig of Slashdot.
One more author I won't bother reading since all they can do is whine about "piracy."
What? We're shocked that any institute has self preservation as its best interest? :-)
i.e.
Lawyer's don't _want_ simple laws that anyone can understand.
Textbook Publishers don't _want_ books that anyone can edit and learn from
RIAA doesn't _want_ people sharing music
FDA/Big Pharma doesn't want anyone to grow their own herbs, and foods so people eat and live healtier as there is no money in healthy people.
The Automotive companies don't want to invest in alternate energy as it will impact their bottom line.
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Reddit is the Dig of Slashdot.
It's because America
a) found violence accept due to a revolution (i.e. the last box in the 4 boxes: the ammo box)
b) didn't leave their puritan English attitude behind.
As such, the vocal majority in America are a bunch of prudes that seeing a natural breast instantly becomes labeled as "Nipplegate".
But yeah, its fucked up.
Yup, that the one [obvious] exception, hence the reason I didn't mention it.
> I've often wondered how many patterns we are missing because we mostly deal in base 10.
Changing the base doesn't change the underlying pattern (it MAY make it more visible though).
Anyways, we've already discovered:
- ALL primes are of the form 6n+/-1.
- In binary, primes start with 1, and end with 1.
- The Prime Number Cross
Shouldn't come as shock that there will be more...
Yeah, the Trash 80 is a good contender. It could be argued that [low] price is one of the defining features of a netbook.
Other contenders...
History of Laptop Computers
> Back in the '90s, they competed against Netscape in the browser wars by giving away IE for free; unlike Netscape, which was hoping to eventually start charging for Navigator, Microsoft made IE part of Windows (so it was effectively free for anyone who already paid for the PC).
Why wasn't Microsoft charged for "product dumping" ?
> What is the root of the problem? I know it's not video games, music, or any other activity or media that they could honestly care to ban.
Why do you assume it is only one thing?
It's hard to say what the root cause when the system of greed, power, and intolerance is designed to keep the slaves from waking up.
Fortunately the ignorance of both Atheism & Theism will soon be over.
> The UI is still the Office 95 clone, which works how we used to design user interactivity *15* years ago.
And the wheel is a THOUSAND years old. Quit whining about just because something is old, that newer is better.
But then I shouldn't expect better then someone who doesn't even have the balls to post with a name.
> I really hate updating my systems these days, because for every bug fixed it seems you get a fresh new one. Make it shiny, we will fix the bugs later! Of course later never comes, eventually the crap piles up too high and somebody decides to just start over. Which explains the piles of discarded stuff and the new one that also doesn't quite work in most areas, especially in system administration.
It's called 'The CADT Model', one of the reasons why OSS sucks. Fortunately this one negative doesn't outweigh the (other) positives.
> if traditional printed newspapers want to survive the digital age, all they need to do is go 100% ad-sponsored and distribute it to the public for FREE
That is one alternative. There is also another:
Motocycle Consumer News has 0% ads -- it is supported 100% by customers. The s/n ratio is superb. Don't see why the same couldn't work for newspapers as well.
> I wonder if they'll ever realize that control is as much an illusion as freedom is?
So the ability to criticize government/politicians, religion/church, commerce/companies or any other inefficient system without going to jail, or losing your life is just an illusion? Try living in China, or Singapore, or India and trying criticizing anything on the list.
Methinks you don't understand freedom.
No mon, ya got it all wrong. :)
There is always a trade off between performance, correctness/robustness, and features.
Pick 2, and don't complain when a 99.99999% guarantee of no data loss is dog slow compared to a filesystem that offers minimal protection against (meta) data loss.
> My mother, who was programming before a fair few of us (including me) were born, once told me this: If you think you've found a bug in a compiler, or an operating system, or a programming language, or a well-known commonly used library... you're wrong.
So when MSVC prints "Internal Compiler Error" and stops compiling my code, I'm wrong? :)
Five years ago, it was easy to cause MSVC to crash & burn - lately their back-end compiler has gotten much better dealing with C/C++ code.
> Hungarian notation is bad because you are encoding type and scope information into the name, which makes it harder to change things later.
_ANY_ idealogy taken to an extreme is bad. However, Hungarian notation _in balance_ is perfectly fine.
i.e.
p pointer
a array
_ member
n number of/total
i iterator/index
e enum
b bool/flag
s static
g global
m matrix
v vector
q quaternion
r reference
> the most common piece of self modifying code was to implement a 16 bit index read/write/goto instruction in the Apple ]['s (and Atari and C64) 6502 processor.
Yeah, there were 2 common paradigms...
a) self modifying code...
300: A2 00 LDY #00
302: BD rr ss LDA $ssrr,X
305: 9D tt uu STA $uutt,X
308: E8 INX
309: D0 FA BNE $302
30B: EE 03 03 INC $303
30E: EE 07 03 INC $307
b) using the Zero-Page
300:B1 00 LDA ($00),Y
302:91 00 STA ($00),Y
> The piracy issue is finally coming to a head. You know it's illegal and wrong.
Typical 20th century brainwashing. Illegal != Immoral. Tomorrow (21st century) it will be legal, and there is not a dam thing you can do to stop the masses from trading music, video, etc.
> How would you like it if you were a software developer, and your boss didn't give you a paycheck one month because "information wants to be free," or "you can't 'steal' code," or some other stupid reason that pirates always give?
Doesn't stop me one bit from writing software in my free time.
> There's no other reason you do it but that you're selfish like all humans and want something for free without paying money to its creator.
So how did all that art get created BEFORE copyright even existed in the 17th century??