police will be pulling people over left and right for... you guessed it, speeding!
HOW can victimless crimes really be a crime? But more importantly WHERE do the police get the jurisdiction to give you a ticket in the first place since the roads ARE PUBLIC!?
Travelling is a RIGHT, Driving is a privilege. You DON'T need a license to travel. I travel without one, and have yet to be given a ticket for speeding or for driving without a license.
Speeding is NOT a crime, UNLESS you went to the government asking for permission (DRIVER'S LICENSE) to use their property (REGISTERED VEHICLE.) If you don't want to be harassed by the good law officers, you can get an International Driver's Permit, which is valid in over 200 countries. No Socialist Slave Number is required.
> Also, I'm not sure that NT or Win98 are really flexible enough to accept a plug-in replacement for the standard filesystem drivers, in which case there isn't much motivation for anyone to create such a product.
They are. The Microsoft Joilet CD File System is a perfect example.
Virtual CD is another example of a virtual drive (and filesystem.)
Creating a plug-in file system is not trivial but it can be done. Snag the NT DDK docs is you want the gory details;-)
Instead of 2 ide drives on the same channel with your bandwidth going out the window, use SCSI my friend. It is an intelligently designed IO system. SCSI hard drives and CD Roms will barely use the cpu.
Problem is, people don't want to pay more for a better thing, when something cheap is "good enough" for the home user. i.e. ide
> Cutting edge stuff twenty years ago...stinkaroo today
Because some of the classics STILL aren't available on the PC. (Listed in order of most favorite)
Rescue Raiders Aquatron Lode Runner (and Champsionship) Goonies Aztec Prisoner 2 Gemstone Warrior Karateka (I had the most fun when I finally was able to rip the end music;) Gumball (Lots of easter eggs hidden in this game) Spare Change
VERY interesting that they are acknowleding STATE CITIZENSHIP.
BILL OF RIGHTS ARTICLE XVI Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
> The lovely thing is, as a defendant, there is federal legislation that says I can request a change of venue to my own local jurisdiction which they cannot (generally) refuse
Very interesting!
Do you have references/links, so I can look this up for myself?
> Could a peer-to-peer, instead of server-client, system be useful to stop cheating
Nope. Descent 1 and Diablo are peer-to-peer networking games, and both have cheats.
In fact, peer-to-peer games make it EASIER to cheat, due to the game state being stored localy. Thats WHY server-client games are preferred: The client can't as easily change the game state.
Unfortunately, it is IMPOSSIBLE to verify binary client integrity.
Furthermore, how does the server tell the difference between a real human, and a aimbot?
I'm a game developer and game player. Cheating is a fact of life, that will never go away.
Yes. I was even going to implement a Go game. And I quickly looked over GNU Go.
I would of thought that with only 2 pieces, GO would be easier to implement.
Uh-ah!
The strategy for GO is WAY more complex then chess. Even shrinking the board down to 9x9 or 11x11 is still difficult.
Someday (like in +2000 years) we'll have computers that will be powerfull enough to have the entire search tree in Ram. Until then, the human AI will have to do;-)
I fail to see what a tree and lights has to do with Christianity.
Christmas IS over-commercialized and I'm doing my part by not taking part of it. (Besides, gifts should be un-expected not expected.)
I wish for peace and good-will to all humans ALL YEAR around, not just ONE DAY, which IS the TRUE essence of Christianity: Treating people with respect, maturity, and love. Religion aside, the world would be a better place if everyone would just try a little harder to put aside our petty differences.
(Sorry if you were offended by the subject header, but I needed to grab your attention;-)
Cheers and Happy Holidays
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> Why did ID clean it up to use visual C?
Because Carmack use NT and Visual C to do the bulk of his coding.
> But I cannot stop thinking that one day some wise guy will buy from the government all the rights to the name of my street and I will have to pay him royalties for using it on my mails.
It IS possible to get your mailed delivered without a ZIP code.
Ask your Post Office about General Delivery.
Unfortunately I still have a zip-code, but I know many sovereigns who do not and have their mail delivered.
Do you have any books / urls to recommend, as these sound interesting to read up on.
> Things which appear unpredictable and random are actually governed by hidden patterns and rules.
Funny you should mention that, as I have believed for years even before I knew about Chaos Theory. i.e. the universe is not really random, it just appears random because we don't have all the [missing] information. Its nice to see this hunch is being confirmed by others.
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I agree, WHEN are people going to learn that Science and Religion answer DIFFERENT questions.
Science is great at telling us HOW, i.e HOW the universe formed, and Religion attempts to answer WHY, i.e WHY the universe exists at all.
Science and Religion are NOT mutually exclusive, and I'm tired of the 2 extremes of people beating their chests with: a) the science of religion dogma (aka theosists who take opposition to science), and b) the religion of science dogma (scientists proclaiming they don't need a God to answer any of the Universe's question, since emprical knowledge is all we need.)
i.e. Science just hand-waves where the orginal Big Bang matter came from, and rightly so, they CAN'T answer that. The religious sect are just as guilty with the saying "God just made the universe, you don't need to know how". Uhm, no, humans are curious by nature, and want to know HOW the universe works.
Personally, I would say sciece is just re-discovering existing laws, and providing a better understanding of how the whole darn universe works (allthough gravity still throws us for a loop, pardon the pun.)
Scientific knowledge is limited, and CAN'T answer all the questions. (How do you perform repeatable and verifable experiments on the meta-physical, aka spirtual realm?)
A GREAT book which goes into an in depth analysis of this "debate" is "Fire in the Equations."
> If Adam and Eve had kids, and they were the only people existing at the time, kids would had to have sex with their mother to further the human race.
Thats a common fallacy.
Question: If God created Adam and Eve, don't you think he could of created MORE human mates for the children of Adam and Eve?;-)
The bible doesn't say if God DID or DID NOT create more humans, so why are you dismissing the premise that God can't create more humans?:-)
Cheers
Tthen whats the point of sex?
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> Are we meant to create life? I don't think so.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Nature allows us to pro-create: We create another organism anytime a mother (human or animal) has a child.
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HOW can victimless crimes really be a crime? But more importantly WHERE do the police get the jurisdiction to give you a ticket in the first place since the roads ARE PUBLIC!?
Probably because you don't have the Manufactor's Statement of Origin for your automobile:
Vehicle Manufacturer's Certificate/Statement of Origin
Manufacturer's Statement of Origin - Key To ownership
When you buy a new autmobile, WHY does the goverment want you to surrender the MSO?
Title transfer
Licensing your new vehicle in Washington
LOUISIANA OFFICE OF MOTOR VEHICLES VEHICLE REGISTRATION & TITLE
Massachusetts Title Law
Travelling is a RIGHT, Driving is a privilege. You DON'T need a license to travel. I travel without one, and have yet to be given a ticket for speeding or for driving without a license.
Here is a list of DOCUMENTED rulings.
Driver Licensing vs. the Right to Travel
Speeding is NOT a crime, UNLESS you went to the government asking for permission (DRIVER'S LICENSE) to use their property (REGISTERED VEHICLE.) If you don't want to be harassed by the good law officers, you can get an International Driver's Permit, which is valid in over 200 countries. No Socialist Slave Number is required.
Research the above links and see for yourself.Cheers
Having different binaries doesn't do much good when the API is the same. i.e. buffer overruns, Denial of Service attacks, etc.
Dr. Dobbs Dec/99 has an article by Bruce Schneier on Attack Trees. For those interested, it discusses one methodology of breaking security.
Cheers
> Also, I'm not sure that NT or Win98 are really flexible enough to accept a plug-in replacement for the standard filesystem drivers, in which case there isn't much motivation for anyone to create such a product.
;-)
They are. The Microsoft Joilet CD File System is a perfect example.
Virtual CD is another example of a virtual drive (and filesystem.)
Creating a plug-in file system is not trivial but it can be done. Snag the NT DDK docs is you want the gory details
Cheers
> We need intelligent devices!
Instead of 2 ide drives on the same channel with your bandwidth going out the window, use SCSI my friend. It is an intelligently designed IO system. SCSI hard drives and CD Roms will barely use the cpu.
Problem is, people don't want to pay more for a better thing, when something cheap is "good enough" for the home user. i.e. ide
Cheers
> I don't understand why people would be buyin Intel chips ...
1) The quality of the Athlon MBs havn't been that great until just recently.
2) Scared off because Athlons require cleaner power.
3) Overclocked Dual Celerons 366 running at 550 for $35 each is pretty hard to beat !
Cheers
> I just upgraded to an Athlon 500 from an old P200MMX.
And me from an Pro200 to Dual Celerons 550.
2 - C366 $35/each
2- Heatsink/fan $30/each
Abit BP6 $130
I overclocked the C366 and they have been rock solid at 550.
> Did I notice that much speed difference? Only in graphic intensive 3d games.
Windows NT was MUCH more snappier. And since I'm a game developer, compiles are drastically shorter.
I loaded up Prim95 on each CPU (Task Manager > Affinity) for 100% cpu usage. I then started up Unreal and it was smooth as glass.
Of course 128 Megs helps since I usually have 4 or 5 apps running at once.
Cheers
> At 128*128*32bpp, each icon would be half a meg
a rt2/
128*128*32bpp = 524288 BITS / 8 BitsPerByte = 65536 BYTES = 64K
Add in (isotrophic) MIP mapping which increases storage by 33%, so each icon requires ~ 87162 BYTES = 85K
Note: Isotrophic MIP mapping downsamples the images (both width and height) by 1/2 until the image is 1x1.
More info on MIP mapping can be found here:
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/3dguide/p
Cheers
> My wife told me that icon size really doesn't matter.
;-)
Its not how big the icons are, its how well you can use them.
> I think this is Linux's first real competition
Check out Be OS. It's VERY SWEET.
Dam thing boots in a few seconds !
Each version is getter faster then the last one, something you don't see too much these days.
Cheers
> Cutting edge stuff twenty years ago...stinkaroo today
;)
Because some of the classics STILL aren't available on the PC. (Listed in order of most favorite)
Rescue Raiders
Aquatron
Lode Runner (and Champsionship)
Goonies
Aztec
Prisoner 2
Gemstone Warrior
Karateka (I had the most fun when I finally was able to rip the end music
Gumball (Lots of easter eggs hidden in this game)
Spare Change
Ahh, a lot of youth wasted on those.
Cheers
VERY interesting that they are acknowleding STATE CITIZENSHIP.
BILL OF RIGHTS
ARTICLE XVI
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Cheers
> The lovely thing is, as a defendant, there is federal legislation that says I can request a change of venue to my own local jurisdiction which they cannot (generally) refuse
Very interesting!
Do you have references/links, so I can look this up for myself?
Cheers
You say jib, I say gib.
As long as both parties know what the other person means, then pronounciation isn't [too] important.
Cheers
> Could a peer-to-peer, instead of server-client, system be useful to stop cheating
Nope. Descent 1 and Diablo are peer-to-peer networking games, and both have cheats.
In fact, peer-to-peer games make it EASIER to cheat, due to the game state being stored localy. Thats WHY server-client games are preferred: The client can't as easily change the game state.
Unfortunately, it is IMPOSSIBLE to verify binary client integrity.
Furthermore, how does the server tell the difference between a real human, and a aimbot?
I'm a game developer and game player. Cheating is a fact of life, that will never go away.
Cheers
> but does the term 'mate' necessarily refer to checkmate?
Yes. Allways.
> Could the game end, instead, with a stalemate?
Not this game. Stalemate refers to where either player can't mate the other. i.e. 2 kings.
For draws, there are also
a) repeat-3 move, and
b) 50 move pawn rule.
Cheers
> Chess WILL NEVER be solved by brute force.
Don't say NEVER.
Sure, impractical at this time, but I CAN imagine a future, say in few thousand years, where it is doable.
Unfortunately that doesn't help us now.
Cheers
> Ever seen the math on the game of Go?
;-)
Yes. I was even going to implement a Go game.
And I quickly looked over GNU Go.
I would of thought that with only 2 pieces, GO would be easier to implement.
Uh-ah!
The strategy for GO is WAY more complex then chess. Even shrinking the board down to 9x9 or 11x11 is still difficult.
Someday (like in +2000 years) we'll have computers that will be powerfull enough to have the entire search tree in Ram. Until then, the human AI will have to do
Cheers
I fail to see what a tree and lights has to do with Christianity.
;-)
Christmas IS over-commercialized and I'm doing my part by not taking part of it. (Besides, gifts should be un-expected not expected.)
I wish for peace and good-will to all humans ALL YEAR around, not just ONE DAY, which IS the TRUE essence of Christianity: Treating people with respect, maturity, and love. Religion aside, the world would be a better place if everyone would just try a little harder to put aside our petty differences.
(Sorry if you were offended by the subject header, but I needed to grab your attention
Cheers and Happy Holidays
> Why did ID clean it up to use visual C?
Because Carmack use NT and Visual C to do the bulk of his coding.
A lot of us game developers do (myself included.)
Cheers
> But I cannot stop thinking that one day some wise guy will buy from the government all the rights to the name of my street and I will have to pay him royalties for using it on my mails.
It IS possible to get your mailed delivered without a ZIP code.
Ask your Post Office about General Delivery.
Unfortunately I still have a zip-code, but I know many sovereigns who do not and have their mail delivered.
Cheers
> existance of non-linear math and "Chaos Theory
Do you have any books / urls to recommend, as these sound interesting to read up on.
> Things which appear unpredictable and random are actually governed by hidden patterns and rules.
Funny you should mention that, as I have believed for years even before I knew about Chaos Theory. i.e. the universe is not really random, it just appears random because we don't have all the [missing] information. Its nice to see this hunch is being confirmed by others.
I agree, WHEN are people going to learn that Science and Religion answer DIFFERENT questions.
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;-)
Science is great at telling us HOW, i.e HOW the universe formed, and Religion attempts to answer WHY, i.e WHY the universe exists at all.
Science and Religion are NOT mutually exclusive, and I'm tired of the 2 extremes of people beating their chests with:
a) the science of religion dogma (aka theosists who take opposition to science), and
b) the religion of science dogma (scientists proclaiming they don't need a God to answer any of the Universe's question, since emprical knowledge is all we need.)
i.e. Science just hand-waves where the orginal Big Bang matter came from, and rightly so, they CAN'T answer that. The religious sect are just as guilty with the saying "God just made the universe, you don't need to know how". Uhm, no, humans are curious by nature, and want to know HOW the universe works.
Personally, I would say sciece is just re-discovering existing laws, and providing a better understanding of how the whole darn universe works (allthough gravity still throws us for a loop, pardon the pun.)
Scientific knowledge is limited, and CAN'T answer all the questions. (How do you perform repeatable and verifable experiments on the meta-physical, aka spirtual realm?)
A GREAT book which goes into an in depth analysis of this "debate" is "Fire in the Equations."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/08028435
I believe in the rationality and logic of Science and Religion. Does that make me crazy?
Cheers
> In fact, I've seen some recent scientific discoveries and theories that to me, PROVE the existence of God.
Like what?
I don't think it is possible to confirm (or deny) existance claims.
If you mean Science's inability to explain WHY the Universe formed, or WHERE the Big Bang matter came from in the first place, then I agree with you.
Cheers
> If Adam and Eve had kids, and they were the only people existing at the time, kids would had to have sex with their mother to further the human race.
;-)
:-)
Thats a common fallacy.
Question: If God created Adam and Eve, don't you think he could of created MORE human mates for the children of Adam and Eve?
The bible doesn't say if God DID or DID NOT create more humans, so why are you dismissing the premise that God can't create more humans?
Cheers
> Are we meant to create life? I don't think so.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Nature allows us to pro-create: We create another organism anytime a mother (human or animal) has a child.
Cheers