> Contract law is restricted to those contracts which generally serve the public good. For example, you generally can't enforce a contract that says an employee can't go work for a competitor
Yes, but you can contract your rights away. What do you think a NDA is ?!
Of course, certain clauses MAY BE uninforcable, since society/state assumes that in those specific cases, "no sane person would agree to something as crazy as limiting his rights."
> I'd like to see you treat brain cancer without chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.
The point the above author was making, if one lives in healthy lifestype, eating fresh organic food without the crapload of chemicals (e.g. doesn't over-dose in sugar water, isn't addicted to caffine, doesn't kill your lungs with tar, etc) then you won't get most diseases to begin with.
Yes, some disease's are heritary, but I believe that "you are what you eat" and for the most part, a person CAN live WITHOUT drugs.
Yes, the framerate _may_ actually be _slower_ in wireframe with some video cards.
Back when I first got my Voodoo 1 there was some demos showing off the speed. The card was actually SLOWER in wire frame mode! It didn't make any sense.
BUT if a card doesn't have points and lines as primitives, but only triangles, then the geometry/lighting processing may be taking more time then the time saved from not texturing.
All though, I would think that with modern cpu's and graphics cards with geometry engine there shouldn't be any frame rate hit.
~ "Triangles are the 3d pixels of today's graphics" - Anonymous
> One of the probles with GL is that it is a standard. Standards are a _GOOD_ thing.
> there havn't been any changes to it sense 1.2 back in 95ish. Better to have extensions that can be implemented any hardware vendor, and then re-evaluated to see if it should be moved into the core idea, instead of some half-baked idea. Do you remember execute buffers from D3D 3.0 ? How many versions has DX been through? Probably because MS can't get it RIGhT the FIRST time.
> OpenGL isnt that great, why is every soo unbelievably excited about it ??
Because it is a CLEAN and ORTHOGONAL API design. You probably don't remember Execute Buffers back in Direct3D 3.0 It only took MS _4_ versions to get a graphics API straightened out.
> all those professional animators and artists don't know shit about a usefull working environment, now do they?
Just to play the devil's advocate: Do they actually have a choice of platform to run their tools on? Aside from PC's running NT, and SGI's running IRIX, what other platforms do animators use?
I haven't seen 3D Studio MAX on anything other then Win32. Blender has been ported, but I don't know how popular it is.
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> I think that patenting the human genome is explicitly wrong,
I agree.
Namely because the THING (the human genome) ALLREADY existed. Patents definately should ONLY apply to a process.
> Contract law is restricted to those contracts which generally serve the public good. For example, you generally can't enforce a contract that says an employee can't go work for a competitor
Yes, but you can contract your rights away. What do you think a NDA is ?!
Of course, certain clauses MAY BE uninforcable, since society/state assumes that in those specific cases, "no sane person would agree to something as crazy as limiting his rights."
> No, I believe in compensation for one's work.
I think you mean TIME, since that is the one thing a person TRUELY owns.
We USE our time to produce something, which may or may not have value (to others or ourselves.)
> I'd like to see you treat brain cancer without chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.
The point the above author was making, if one lives in healthy lifestype, eating fresh organic food without the crapload of chemicals (e.g. doesn't over-dose in sugar water, isn't addicted to caffine, doesn't kill your lungs with tar, etc) then you won't get most diseases to begin with.
Yes, some disease's are heritary, but I believe that "you are what you eat" and for the most part, a person CAN live WITHOUT drugs.
That I think is what the orginal author meant.
> people playing female characters in order to get extra goodies from guys, and the player begging for money left and right
I agree, that's just "social engineering"
> and then they set off to create NT, an OS that nobody even wants to clone
;-)
Methinks you forgot to check facts before posting
http://www.reactos.com/
Yes, the framerate _may_ actually be _slower_ in wireframe with some video cards.
Back when I first got my Voodoo 1 there was some demos showing off the speed. The card was actually SLOWER in wire frame mode! It didn't make any sense.
BUT if a card doesn't have points and lines as primitives, but only triangles, then the geometry/lighting processing may be taking more time then the time saved from not texturing.
All though, I would think that with modern cpu's and graphics cards with geometry engine there shouldn't be any frame rate hit.
~
"Triangles are the 3d pixels of today's graphics"
- Anonymous
> Windows NT 4.0 is still DirectX 3.0
:)
Sort of. Service Pack 5 added DirectPlay 6.1, but Microsoft never told anyone
Go check out requirements on the side of the box for Age of Empires 2.
If you want to check out an orginal RTS+RPG blend of gameplay,
check out: Majesty
> Why not have a digital signiture based off of your social security number?
Because not everyone has one, my friend.
> Organizing a boycott can be viewed as a form of racketeering.
I must of missed something. Any info, or urls what you mean by this?
> YOu would think that there might be one or two /.'s who use linux *and* freebsd.
CompUsa has the FreeBSD power pak ( 10 cd's plus 800 page manual) for $40
> What operating systems does quake run on?
;-)
You also forgot BeOS
> One of the probles with GL is that it is a standard.
Standards are a _GOOD_ thing.
> there havn't been any changes to it sense 1.2 back in 95ish.
Better to have extensions that can be implemented any hardware vendor, and then re-evaluated to see if it should be moved into the core idea, instead of some half-baked idea. Do you remember execute buffers from D3D 3.0 ? How many versions has DX been through? Probably because MS can't get it RIGhT the FIRST time.
> I expect he will drop Open GL soon.
And how many portable games have YOU worked on?
Carmack uses OpenGL because DirectX ISN'T available on *Nix, or Macs. So much for Direct X "being superior"
> OpenGL isnt that great, why is every soo unbelievably excited about it ??
Because it is a CLEAN and ORTHOGONAL API design. You probably don't remember Execute Buffers back in Direct3D 3.0 It only took MS _4_ versions to get a graphics API straightened out.
> see the New Jersey mentality is at work again
Hey, I lost my link to why that "why good is good enough" by Jamie Z... on why Unix/C was good enogh.
Anyone know the url I'm talking about?
> thats what MS is talking about when they claim NT is C2 certified
Wonder why M$ never mentions that NT was C2 certified when it _wasn't_ hooked up to a network =P
> all those professional animators and artists don't know shit about a usefull working environment, now do they?
Just to play the devil's advocate: Do they actually have a choice of platform to run their tools on? Aside from PC's running NT, and SGI's running IRIX, what other platforms do animators use?
I haven't seen 3D Studio MAX on anything other then Win32. Blender has been ported, but I don't know how popular it is.
> Why does COM 'suck eggs'?
It's design is far from elegant. Reference Counting used to suck. I can't find the critique page, but this will do:
http://www.chappellassoc.com/art3.htm
Of course CORBA has its own problems too (DCOM is also critiqued to provide a fair comparision):
http://www.usenix.org/publ ications/java/usingjava13.html
Don't let the url titles confuse you, read the articles for a good explaination of the strengths and weaknesses.
> 1. It's a huge resource and memory HOG.
You don't use Outlook do you?
When you MINIMIZE it, it unloads most of itself, and takes about 1 meg of memory.
Sure Outlook has its faults, but I haven't noticed it sucking up resources and memory like you claim.
The TRUE hero is the consumer, for without, stock wouldn't turn over, and no-one would be making any money.
> It's highly unlikely that Microsoft has a "Secret Win32 API" manual floating around it's headquarters
No, but they do have one for the Native NT calls.
Inside the native NT API
and
Inside Native Applications
> People aren't allowed to drive really fast because
:)
Because they went to the government and ASKED for a LICENSE to drive the GOVERNMENTS's vehicle.
Software License = You don't own the software.
Driver's License = You don't own the vehicle.
We ALREADY have the right to travel: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~karl/gov t/driver/driver.html
You don't legally own your automobile unless you have the Manufacture Statement of Origin
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> nothing left but the $800 rent (we live in a semi-rural southern California area), etc..
Sounds like you went Sovereign, and/or simplified your life and are finding it much more rewarding. Very COOL.