The Quake community would like to fix the bugs in Quakeworld / glQuake as there are STILL a few of us hard-core quakers, i.e. CTF, ThunderWalker, Team Fortress, and Mega-TF players.
When we can expect to see the source for Quakeworld / glQuake?
> Another way of showing that they aren't unalienable is to look at an ocean undertow: does it care that you have an unalienable right to life as it sucks you out to sea?
The ocean undertow isn't a legal entity, I'm not sure what rights it DOES have. The line gets real fuzzy as soon as we move away from humans., i.e. animals, the environment, etc.
> What you describe as `socialism' is in reality communism.
Yes, unfortunately most Americans don't see that.
Communist Manifesto 1. Abolition of private property [look up Allodial Title, and Manufactors Statement of Origin] 2. Heavy progressive income tax [33% isn't heavy?!] 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance 4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Central Bank [Federal Reserve "controls" all paper money] 6. Government control of Communications & Transporation [FTC] 7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture. [Corporations are created by the Government] 8. Government control of labor [look up Social Security Number, and invisible contracts] 9. Corporate farms, regional planning 10. Government control of education [Public school systems]
> There is no requirement to posess ANY kind of identification in the US, except for certain priveleges, such as driving,
You are correct that driving is a privilege, but TRAVELLING is a right.
You DON'T need a driver's license to travel.
Search for "the right to travel". Here are some links to get you started: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/4417 /vehiclereg.html http://www.ptialaska.net/~swampy/interest/travel _2.html http://teaminfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html http://www.lvdi.net/~willys/travel.htm
The above links also mention "Manufactor's Certificate of Origin" which you will want to have to show that you legally own your automobile.
And you might want to look into an "International Drivers Permit", if you don't want to be harassed by the law oficers.
> Rights are a construct of man, a consept. and they are not inherent to anything
By that logic we would never have any "rights" to be free.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain una-lien-able Rights,..." (una-lien-able emphasis mine, as the word un-alien-able didn't exist at the time of the writing.)
I think you need to look up "Rights" and "Privileges" in Black's Law dictionary and stop confusing the two.
> Well, gee. So making Raymond pay some extra taxes on his precious income is equivalent to murdering 10.5 million innocent people? Really. What an interesting notion.
And the government uses its "income" money, to fund wars that we have no business being in the FIRST place. INDIRECTLY you're income is being used to kill people. THAT'S the point.
Instead of wasting money killing people, why don't address the issues in our OWN country first.
Apparently you've never heard the old axiom: "No man has the right to be taxed without his consent."
> I remeber speculation on hardware which could render/raytrace NURBS and other spline based modelling, directly w/o conversion to polys. However i've yet to see it materiealize.
Remember the adage "Triangles are the pixels of 3d". Until we see bezier surfaces and NURBS as primitives, we probably won't see hardware for another 5 to 10 years.
The problem with NURBS is that they are slow. In contrast to tossing a few more textured tris at the hardware, since thats what the hardware is optimized for.
> The acceleration of a solar sail drops as inverse cube of your distance from the sun... and using the sun's gravity well and the solar wind after that to get yourself up to max speed.
Yeah, but I want to know how do you apply the brakes on a solar sail !?
i.e. How much stopping distance do you need? Hey wasn't that pluto back there 10 mins ago?!;-)
> but even to this day people choose backwards compatiblity and games over a superior OS.
Partially true. Developers have wanted MS to release the FULL hardware accelleration of DirectX on NT for YEARS, but MS refuses to. It is only recently that they will on NT 5, aka Windows 2000. Don't even get me started on the HUGE OpenGL vs Direct3D debate from just a few years back.
Could it be because they are milking the customer base with Win95 OSR 2 (ala Windows 96), Win98, and Win98 SE (ala Windows 99) and laughing all the way to the bank? Hmm, we seem to reached the same conclusion!
Hopefully Windows 2000 will put an end to this peice of crud called Windows 9x once and for all. At least DirectX7 is NOT intentionally backwards compatible with DX3 D3D. Die Executive Buffers, Die !;-)
> The people who overuse "hack" as a verb probably would be bewildered to have to work on a project
I hope I'm not overusing "hack", but the reason I did is because I have my doubts that Winblows95/98 is an example of good software engineering, its more like a HACK job, or would that be better said as ONE_BIG_KLUDGE?;-)
I'm a software engineer, and admist the Design Specs, and Software Engineering that I do, I also happen to HACK code. Hack in this case means Good. The Hack above has a bad conotation. Sorry for not being more clear.
> How many of us would prefer going back, slashing, then completely reworking all of the code for Windows so that it is actually a viable, stable operating system that does something useful besides, well, look pretty?
Actually I probably WOULD hack on the Windows codebase(s) because then I could finally fix that damn NT 4 memory leak which SP5 STILL doesn't fix! (And maybe hacking DirectX 6 into NT4 would be nice too for all those stupid games that require Winblows95/98 and DX5;-)
It's kind of interesting that we have already have a few Open Source Projects of MS's Operating Systems and APIs: http://www.reactos.com http://www.freedos.org http://www.winehq.com/
NT 4 shipped with DirectX 2 (DirectDraw) SP3 has DirextX3 (Direct3D software only) SP4 upgrades DirectPlay to DX6
I'm one of the many game developers upset that MS REFUSES to ship DX5 or DX6 on NT, when in fact there is NO REASON they CAN'T. i.e. anyone remember nt4dx5 ?;-) We're forced to use Winblows 95/98 for game development. It sucks. Thank God for SurRender, and that it runs on NT.
> Corporations are not created by governments they're created by individuals.
You might want to stop by your local town hall and ask them who creates businesses/corporations? i.e. _HOW_ does a corporation exist in the FIRST place? People go to the government and ask them to create a corporation. The business license is "proof of ownership" that the corporation exists.
(And yes you can engage in free enterprise without a business licnce, how do you think people did business before corporations existed? By Trusts.
> What gives the government the right to decide wether Microsoft should be broken up or not. > You don't own MIcrosoft and niether does the U.S government.
You're forgetting a little thing called a BUSINESS LICENSE. A corporation is a legal entity that is given privileges by its creator, namely the government. When you go to the government and ask for permission to engage in free enterprise, the corporation MUST abide by the laws the government creates, in this case the Sherman Anti Trust Law. THAT is WHERE the government gets the right to break up Microsoft.
> Each nation has sovreignity over the actions of its own citizens,
Did the citizens create the government, or did the government create the citizens?
The US government RECIEVES its sovereignty FROM the people, as PEOPLE GRANT the government privileges, since you CAN'T transfer a right.
BILL OF RIGHTS ARTICLE X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
> Not really. I mean this *is* a.1 release. nothing major. Basically this is just a "service pack" release, or as our arch enemy at Redmond calls it, the "Second Edition".
I'm curious as to why M$ didn't just call: Windows 95 OSR --> Windows 96, and Windows 98 SE --> Windows 99 considering the timeframe when both of those came out.
Oh wait, I was asking M$ to do something LOGICAL. Silly me.
Slashdot Mirror
ripped off the Debian logo !
Ok, not 100% spitting image, but darn close !
> Descent was the first mainstream game to have 6DOF
Ultima Underworld came out around the same time as Doom.
The Quake community would like to fix the bugs in Quakeworld / glQuake as there are STILL a few of us hard-core quakers, i.e. CTF, ThunderWalker, Team Fortress, and Mega-TF players.
When we can expect to see the source for Quakeworld / glQuake?
> Another way of showing that they aren't unalienable is to look at an ocean undertow: does it care that you have an unalienable right to life as it sucks you out to sea?
The ocean undertow isn't a legal entity, I'm not sure what rights it DOES have. The line gets real fuzzy as soon as we move away from humans., i.e. animals, the environment, etc.
> and to drive I need, get this 1) registration documents 2) insurance documents 3) photo drivers license
You might want to research "International Driver's Permit", and "Manufactor's Statement of Origin"
I posted a message above that you can read to get started.
Cheers
> What you describe as `socialism' is in reality communism.
;-(
Yes, unfortunately most Americans don't see that.
Communist Manifesto
1. Abolition of private property [look up Allodial Title, and Manufactors Statement of Origin]
2. Heavy progressive income tax [33% isn't heavy?!]
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Central Bank [Federal Reserve "controls" all paper money]
6. Government control of Communications & Transporation [FTC]
7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture. [Corporations are created by the Government]
8. Government control of labor [look up Social Security Number, and invisible contracts]
9. Corporate farms, regional planning
10. Government control of education [Public school systems]
Seems like the U.S. is almost there
> There is no requirement to posess ANY kind of identification in the US, except for certain priveleges, such as driving,
7 /vehiclereg.html l _2.html
You are correct that driving is a privilege, but TRAVELLING is a right.
You DON'T need a driver's license to travel.
Search for "the right to travel". Here are some links to get you started:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/441
http://www.ptialaska.net/~swampy/interest/trave
http://teaminfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html
http://www.lvdi.net/~willys/travel.htm
The above links also mention "Manufactor's Certificate of Origin" which you will want to have to show that you legally own your automobile.
And you might want to look into an "International Drivers Permit", if you don't want to be harassed by the law oficers.
Cheers
> besides I am the only person in the whole world who recognizes that corporations are created to shirk personal responsibility
;-)
"Limited Liability Company"
Not that hard to recognize, is it?
> Rights are a construct of man, a consept. and they are not inherent to anything
..."
By that logic we would never have any "rights" to be free.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain una-lien-able Rights,
(una-lien-able emphasis mine, as the word un-alien-able didn't exist at the time of the writing.)
I think you need to look up "Rights" and "Privileges" in Black's Law dictionary and stop confusing the two.
Cheers
> Well, gee. So making Raymond pay some extra taxes on his precious income is equivalent to murdering 10.5 million innocent people? Really. What an interesting notion.
And the government uses its "income" money, to fund wars that we have no business being in the FIRST place. INDIRECTLY you're income is being used to kill people. THAT'S the point.
Instead of wasting money killing people, why don't address the issues in our OWN country first.
Apparently you've never heard the old axiom: "No man has the right to be taxed without his consent."
Cheers
> misquoted as "Linux doesn't scale
/ 168/
I agree. I checked it out and indeed its misquoted.
http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19990925
"Again it's pretty obvious, just like Linus, Corel doesn't scale."
How Nikolai Bezroukov gets "Linux doesn't scale" from the above is beyond me.
Also, where are the REST of the references that Linux doesn't scale? Mis-quoting someone's opinion doesn't make it true !
Cheers
> I remeber speculation on hardware which could render/raytrace NURBS and other spline based modelling, directly w/o conversion to polys. However i've yet to see it materiealize.
Remember the adage "Triangles are the pixels of 3d". Until we see bezier surfaces and NURBS as primitives, we probably won't see hardware for another 5 to 10 years.
The problem with NURBS is that they are slow. In contrast to tossing a few more textured tris at the hardware, since thats what the hardware is optimized for.
> The acceleration of a solar sail drops as inverse cube of your distance from the sun ... and using the sun's gravity well and the solar wind after that to get yourself up to max speed.
;-)
Yeah, but I want to know how do you apply the brakes on a solar sail !?
i.e. How much stopping distance do you need? Hey wasn't that pluto back there 10 mins ago?!
> but even to this day people choose backwards compatiblity and games over a superior OS.
;-)
Partially true. Developers have wanted MS to release the FULL hardware accelleration of DirectX on NT for YEARS, but MS refuses to. It is only recently that they will on NT 5, aka Windows 2000. Don't even get me started on the HUGE OpenGL vs Direct3D debate from just a few years back.
Could it be because they are milking the customer base with Win95 OSR 2 (ala Windows 96), Win98, and Win98 SE (ala Windows 99) and laughing all the way to the bank? Hmm, we seem to reached the same conclusion!
Hopefully Windows 2000 will put an end to this peice of crud called Windows 9x once and for all.
At least DirectX7 is NOT intentionally backwards compatible with DX3 D3D. Die Executive Buffers, Die !
Cheers
> The people who overuse "hack" as a verb probably would be bewildered to have to work on a project
;-)
I hope I'm not overusing "hack", but the reason I did is because I have my doubts that Winblows95/98 is an example of good software engineering, its more like a HACK job, or would that be better said as ONE_BIG_KLUDGE?
I'm a software engineer, and admist the Design Specs, and Software Engineering that I do, I also happen to HACK code. Hack in this case means Good. The Hack above has a bad conotation. Sorry for not being more clear.
Cheers
> How many of us would prefer going back, slashing, then completely reworking all of the code for Windows so that it is actually a viable, stable operating system that does something useful besides, well, look pretty?
;-)
Actually I probably WOULD hack on the Windows codebase(s) because then I could finally fix that damn NT 4 memory leak which SP5 STILL doesn't fix!
(And maybe hacking DirectX 6 into NT4 would be nice too for all those stupid games that require Winblows95/98 and DX5
It's kind of interesting that we have already have a few Open Source Projects of MS's Operating Systems and APIs:
http://www.reactos.com
http://www.freedos.org
http://www.winehq.com/
Cheers
This discusses WHY ACLs aren't that great, and presents a possible solution.
http://www.eros-os.org/essays/capintro.html
NT 4 shipped with DirectX 2 (DirectDraw)
;-)
SP3 has DirextX3 (Direct3D software only)
SP4 upgrades DirectPlay to DX6
I'm one of the many game developers upset that MS REFUSES to ship DX5 or DX6 on NT, when in fact there is NO REASON they CAN'T. i.e. anyone remember nt4dx5 ?
We're forced to use Winblows 95/98 for game development. It sucks. Thank God for SurRender, and that it runs on NT.
> Corporations are not created by governments they're created by individuals.
You might want to stop by your local town hall and ask them who creates businesses/corporations?
i.e. _HOW_ does a corporation exist in the FIRST place? People go to the government and ask them to create a corporation. The business license is "proof of ownership" that the corporation exists.
(And yes you can engage in free enterprise without a business licnce, how do you think people did business before corporations existed? By Trusts.
Cheers
> What gives the government the right to decide wether Microsoft should be broken up or not.
> You don't own MIcrosoft and niether does the U.S government.
You're forgetting a little thing called a BUSINESS LICENSE. A corporation is a legal entity that is given privileges by its creator, namely the government. When you go to the government and ask for permission to engage in free enterprise, the corporation MUST abide by the laws the government creates, in this case the Sherman Anti Trust Law. THAT is WHERE the government gets the right to break up Microsoft.
IANAL
Cheers
Moderate this up, please.
This makes sense.
> Each nation has sovreignity over the actions of its own citizens,
Did the citizens create the government, or did the government create the citizens?
The US government RECIEVES its sovereignty FROM the people, as PEOPLE GRANT the government privileges, since you CAN'T transfer a right.
BILL OF RIGHTS
ARTICLE X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Good post BTW.
Cheers
> as they wouldn't be rare anymore
Diamonds aren't rare. The prices are just markedup up between 200% and 500%.
Research the price of diamonds for the past 200 years, and look up the word cartel.
2 months of salary for an over-priced rock?! NOT !
Now precious metals like Gold or Silver, mmmm.
Cheers
> And I'm not talking about vaporware, like NT 5
e ta/beta3rtm.asp
h tm
NT 5 is NOT vaporware; it's been renamed Windows 2000.
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/professional/b
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/preview/order.
Cheers
> Not really. I mean this *is* a .1 release. nothing major. Basically this is just a "service pack" release, or as our arch enemy at Redmond calls it, the "Second Edition".
I'm curious as to why M$ didn't just call:
Windows 95 OSR --> Windows 96, and
Windows 98 SE --> Windows 99
considering the timeframe when both of those came out.
Oh wait, I was asking M$ to do something LOGICAL. Silly me.