It's not that simple: We import much of our gasoline in part because for the last 30 years the government has been systematically draining the state-owned oil company of all of its profits to finance other programs (partly because of the big tax cuts they give to big enterprises) instead of using the money on building new refineries and such.
Also some argue that since the mid 80's the company has been left to die on purpose in order to show the incompetence of state-owned companies against the "copious benefits" of having private enterprises participating. Right now there's a big discussion on the senate on the subject.
I was reading about some events that occurred almost immediately after the japanese attacks on pearl harbour in 1941, mainly the creation of a censorship agency under management of the Associated Press director of the time. The book did not mention if the censorship only applied to reading citizen's letters or also about censoring the news (I imagine both of them) and unfortunately didn't went into detail of the public reaction at the time (also mentions the fact that many US citizens of japanese descent, even third or fourth generation ones, were sent to some sort of "concentration camps"), and I'm from Mexico so I don't have much insight on the issue.
I think the matter is very interesting: What will the people tolerate given the circumstances, and what will they consider absolutely inappropriate?
AFAIK the US congress has not declared war to Irak, so the context is totally different and I'm not trying to draw parallels between WWII and the current "war" on terrorism, nor do I intend to justify censorship during times of severe crisis, I'm just curious of the people's reaction (maybe the/. community of the time, whatever that is, had a feeling of indignation?) and their reasons to accept/reject the idea.
Are any history-versed slashdotters with more insight of the matter?
Running glewinfo reported the extension was supported (so AFAIK the only difference between my textured quads and the point sprites was setting the glTexEnvf to GL_POINT_SPRITE_ARB).
I didn't file the bug mainly because of my inexperience with OpenGL (I though that I was doing something silly, and maybe I am), but I found a couple of posts with more or less the same problems.
Unfortunately I don't have access to that radeon (nor the cited forum posts), but as soon as I have one in my hands I will test the program again with the new drivers.
most of the extensions are ARB or EXT extensions- they're intended to be used by either player and are typically provided by
the same
Unfortunately ATI has proven to be (to put it nicely) "slow" adopting OpenGL extensions (at least in their radeon series). While programming a particle system using point sprites I found that texture mapping was broken: the sprites simply dissapeared.
I'm no game developer but AFAIK using textured point sprites as particles is almost canonical for the advantages in speed and simplicity (and the possiblity to store them into display lists). I don't know how do game developers programming in OpenGL go around this problem (I'd love to know though, it still puzzles me), but It was a big surprise when the exactly same code running in a machine with a geforce 2 mx (several years older and much more crappy than the radeon 9800 I was first testing in, and yes I had the latest drivers installed) ran flawlessly.
Practicing "digital media terrorism" by downloading songs patronized under the RIAA's wing, just ensures their position in the market, their position as the media masters. You do not express inconformity with their filthy practices or their shitty music, and I don't think it's very helpful to the fight in the long term.
I study at the facutly of sciences in the UNAM (National Autonomous University of México), and we have pretty much the same level of security.
Almost every lab that contains equipment such as computers, microscopes, etc. is properly surrounded by cameras, behind a door with a keycard lock.
The decision to install the cameras and the locks was made after many thefts of equipment were commited, even in daylight and most of the times without damaging the locks or the doors, which rose suspicions about the integirty of the union workers and the security personal. Probably is a completely different situation (the fact that crime in México is more extended than in the UK may be determinant) but it may just be the case.
Read that as "...demolishing terrorist states that don't look after the US interests or explicitly bashes them...", and I'm not only meaning justice, freedom, etc.
I don't know if the purpose of this experiment is to deliver hundreds of probes that can communicate with each other (didn't RTFA, but I fear this is unlikely now because of costs), but imagine a bunch of these scattered through all the martian surface.
"Position is likely hard to determine without a Martian GPS system"
Each one would know it's position in relation of the others, and transmiting data they gather between them. This could be acomplished by creating a network in which the nodes are the tumbleweeds, and the arcs the distance between them, also it would be necesary to dinamically adjust the network if some tumbleweed falls out of range, so that the union in the general net would be preserved.
OK. someone cracked up and wrote a virus that not only spreads illegaly, but also attacks sco.
I'm not sure about the consequences or the total damage that this kind of behaviour does to the vision of the public about open source community but surely this is not good.
I'm gonna be brave and declare that this is not work of any self-respected open source team (yes I know, the term is too general), but unfortunately this is nothing but air in court. Also I could declare that this is the work of someone who tries to toss a little shit on the open source community, to most of us that would be as childish as saying: "Those linux freaks made it, they wrote a virus to fuck us", but something we know is that many "adult" reasoning is made by those kind of statements (only a bit polished), and many court decisions are funded by those kind of decisions.
"They're doing a shitty job for almost no pay and they might come home in pieces."
Add to this the fact that they are there because some nutcase (and co.) planned a war based on nothing but air (and little oil) and you got yourself a job.
"Fractal Memory". Reminds me of "Robot Dreams", by Isaac Asimov.
In this short story someone designs a robot's brain in a kind of fractal pattern, making it dream like a human being.
Don't want to spoil it, it's quite an amazing story, also a short read (about 6 pages).
By the way: another form of humor is by pointing out what is obvious (in this case the fact that he misspelled scientist), but maybe I should have added something like Doh! or any other expression that enfatized the fact that I was joking.
That way the "satirical content of the post" would have been enough.
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It's not that simple: We import much of our gasoline in part because for the last 30 years the government has been systematically draining the state-owned oil company of all of its profits to finance other programs (partly because of the big tax cuts they give to big enterprises) instead of using the money on building new refineries and such.
Also some argue that since the mid 80's the company has been left to die on purpose in order to show the incompetence of state-owned companies against the "copious benefits" of having private enterprises participating. Right now there's a big discussion on the senate on the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca
I was reading about some events that occurred almost immediately after the japanese attacks on pearl harbour in 1941, mainly the creation of a censorship agency under management of the Associated Press director of the time. The book did not mention if the censorship only applied to reading citizen's letters or also about censoring the news (I imagine both of them) and unfortunately didn't went into detail of the public reaction at the time (also mentions the fact that many US citizens of japanese descent, even third or fourth generation ones, were sent to some sort of "concentration camps"), and I'm from Mexico so I don't have much insight on the issue.
/. community of the time, whatever that is, had a feeling of indignation?) and their reasons to accept/reject the idea.
I think the matter is very interesting: What will the people tolerate given the circumstances, and what will they consider absolutely inappropriate?
AFAIK the US congress has not declared war to Irak, so the context is totally different and I'm not trying to draw parallels between WWII and the current "war" on terrorism, nor do I intend to justify censorship during times of severe crisis, I'm just curious of the people's reaction (maybe the
Are any history-versed slashdotters with more insight of the matter?
Running glewinfo reported the extension was supported (so AFAIK the only difference between my textured quads and the point sprites was setting the glTexEnvf to GL_POINT_SPRITE_ARB).
I didn't file the bug mainly because of my inexperience with OpenGL (I though that I was doing something silly, and maybe I am), but I found a couple of posts with more or less the same problems.
Unfortunately I don't have access to that radeon (nor the cited forum posts), but as soon as I have one in my hands I will test the program again with the new drivers.
Cheers.
Unfortunately ATI has proven to be (to put it nicely) "slow" adopting OpenGL extensions (at least in their radeon series). While programming a particle system using point sprites I found that texture mapping was broken: the sprites simply dissapeared.
I'm no game developer but AFAIK using textured point sprites as particles is almost canonical for the advantages in speed and simplicity (and the possiblity to store them into display lists). I don't know how do game developers programming in OpenGL go around this problem (I'd love to know though, it still puzzles me), but It was a big surprise when the exactly same code running in a machine with a geforce 2 mx (several years older and much more crappy than the radeon 9800 I was first testing in, and yes I had the latest drivers installed) ran flawlessly.
Cheers.
Now, there's a sig If I ever saw one.
Practicing "digital media terrorism" by downloading songs patronized under the RIAA's wing, just ensures their position in the market, their position as the media masters. You do not express inconformity with their filthy practices or their shitty music, and I don't think it's very helpful to the fight in the long term.
I would be much more worried if someone wears it while, uhm, satisfying him/herself
No, it's just more inclusive. Think of al the people still stuck with 28.8 modems.
I think is just as bad now as it can be, I'm mexican and here the word "mensa" is applied to dumb people (femenine, menso for masculine), strange huh?
Ok, slashdot has officially become a mirror for www.fark.com, this was posted yesterday. Congrats!
Nice, Mr. Karma Whore, at least quote the original author of that sentence.
Not to be overly pedantic, but I think it's "La fin du monde" instead of "Le fin du monde". Cheers
What the fuck was he thinking about?
The decision to install the cameras and the locks was made after many thefts of equipment were commited, even in daylight and most of the times without damaging the locks or the doors, which rose suspicions about the integirty of the union workers and the security personal. Probably is a completely different situation (the fact that crime in México is more extended than in the UK may be determinant) but it may just be the case.
.Not sure if that's classified as "stealing" I belive it's some sort of "CopyRight Infringement".
"...demolishing terrorist states..."
Read that as "...demolishing terrorist states that don't look after the US interests or explicitly bashes them...", and I'm not only meaning justice, freedom, etc.I thought they were teaching the king's language (Elvis, of course), sometimes is hard to understand people down in Memphis.
I don't know if the purpose of this experiment is to deliver hundreds of probes that can communicate with each other (didn't RTFA, but I fear this is unlikely now because of costs), but imagine a bunch of these scattered through all the martian surface.
"Position is likely hard to determine without a Martian GPS system"
Each one would know it's position in relation of the others, and transmiting data they gather between them. This could be acomplished by creating a network in which the nodes are the tumbleweeds, and the arcs the distance between them, also it would be necesary to dinamically adjust the network if some tumbleweed falls out of range, so that the union in the general net would be preserved.OK. someone cracked up and wrote a virus that not only spreads illegaly, but also attacks sco.
I'm not sure about the consequences or the total damage that this kind of behaviour does to the vision of the public about open source community but surely this is not good.
I'm gonna be brave and declare that this is not work of any self-respected open source team (yes I know, the term is too general), but unfortunately this is nothing but air in court. Also I could declare that this is the work of someone who tries to toss a little shit on the open source community, to most of us that would be as childish as saying: "Those linux freaks made it, they wrote a virus to fuck us", but something we know is that many "adult" reasoning is made by those kind of statements (only a bit polished), and many court decisions are funded by those kind of decisions.
"They're doing a shitty job for almost no pay and they might come home in pieces." Add to this the fact that they are there because some nutcase (and co.) planned a war based on nothing but air (and little oil) and you got yourself a job.
"Fractal Memory". Reminds me of "Robot Dreams", by Isaac Asimov.
In this short story someone designs a robot's brain in a kind of fractal pattern, making it dream like a human being. Don't want to spoil it, it's quite an amazing story, also a short read (about 6 pages).
Chicks dig Leisure Suit Larry!
Juan.
But surely does know how to spell SCIENTIST