Everyone eventually dies, nothing can change that.
You can argue as much as you want, but I think it is safe to say that almost all humans anywhere would agree they are entitled to receive medical help if it can prevent their immediate death. I also think pretty much the same amount of people will agree that it is indeed evil to prevent someone from giving such help.
Of course this clashes fundamentally with the idea of a privately funded medical health system like in the US.
He might have been talking about gaseous fuels, perhaps he's not a native English speaker. To us the use of the word 'gas' for a liquid like gasoline always seemed a bit silly;-)
Another thing, unless you plan to bring tanks of liquid oxygen along for the ride with that perfect hydrogen/oxygen combustion engine the results will be far from clean. Atmospheric air contains all kinds of gases in addition to oxygen that would be involved in the process, yielding results like all flavors of nitrogen oxides (there is quite a few), ozone, monoatomic hydrogen and oxygen and all kinds of other weird kinds of results from trace elements in the air.
The amount of unwanted wastes and by products may be very small but far from zero.
I probably do know a lot more than you do since I program 3D real time graphics for a living, not games but we do much of the same stuff. Btw: I do not own a playstation (or Xbox for that matter), although I would have to admit my main PC is excellent for running the latest games;-)
1. ODE and OPCODE are excellent open source libraries not written in Java, I've used both on a regular basis. If your going to do everything using native libraries written in C/C++ then what is the point bothering with Java at all? You may as well write the glue (because that mainly whats left) in C++ or even use a script language since speed is probably not going to be much of an issue in that part of the code anyway. I have actually done something similar using Python and it was almost as fast as a native C/C++ solution, which makes sense since 99% of the code was C/C++ anyway.
2. LOL indeed, how old are 14? You need to learn how to read. I explicitly mentioned that you can offload skinning and animations to the GPU. But, and there is a big but, this only works if you are writing console games for playstation3 or something similar, everything else (PC/Mac) needs to support a way more primitive baseline of hardware. This is not a technical limitation but an economical. If your game only runs on the latest and greatest hardware then it will not be economically viable (it sucks but such is the real world). This means you may implement skinning or even physics on the GPU but you must still have a fall back to CPU on older hardware. This limitation will be gone in a few years, but I presumed we were discussing game engines for games in the current market or under current development.
3. It is not me that invented the "playstation syndrome". Go take a look at the ten top selling titles the last three years then you can come back and call me wrong.
Of course, as I said if commercial success is not a requirement then you may make your game using any tool at all. After all, no one cares what you do in your mothers basement (except perhaps your mother).
jmonkeyengine is not a competitive 3D game engine.
You also need to do a hell of a lot more in a game engine than just call OpenGL rendering calls, which would be fine if all you need was to render the same static frame again and again. In any game you will also need to do lot of CPU intensive tasks like intersection testing, physics simulations, skinning and other types of animations, AI and similar with real time performance and in addition to you game logic. OpenGL will not do this for you (yes, I know there is work being done, moving much of this to hardware, but that is not an option until everyone runs DX10 or later compatible GPU's many years down the line).
All this is of course possible with Java but it is not optimal and sub-optimal simply wont cut it in the game industry.
jmonkeyengine is a nice piece of work for small games and hobby projects. But it is a long way from being competitive in the serious gaming industry. But by all means, if this is just a hobby for you I'm sure it is more than good enough.
To put it in other words, "Bang Howdy" is a cute game but it is not exactly Halflife2.
and it is also based on a ten year old game engine (1997). It is about as relevant to the state of current gaming as world war II planes are to the development of our next stealth fighter airplane.
No, the 2 seconds loading time does not matter at all. But the fps really do matter, ask any hardcore gamer. In games (and almost all other realtime 3D) frame rate is king. Java is not very suitable when millisecond or even microsecond performance counts.
No commercial serious games are written in Java at all, the only counter example that comes to mind is all those small cute games on web pages, some of these are even written in flash or shockwave. I presume we're talking real games like Halflife 2 and similar here and in that case it is almost all C and some C++.
With instant messaging and all kinds of office applications etc, it does not matter if an operation takes ten milliseconds or twenty because for a human that is pretty instantaneous anyway. But in a 3D game, performance is crucial at least for the game engine itself. You will get away with using java in non-performance critical stuff like scripting inside the game but not for the game engine itself.
This is the reason no commercial game engines are written in java at all.
It is not because java is not a nice language, because it is. It is not because java in many ways are superior to C/C++, because it is. It is not because java does not have the features needed (3D bindings etc), because it does.
It is because of performance, performance and performance.
Yes I know Java is not as slow as it used to be, but it is still not as fast as well written low level C and probably never will be. When writing a game engine you usually need ALL the performance you can squeeze out of the hardware and will often even resort to hand tweak assembly code to get critical parts fast enough.
This is really just a matter of choosing the right tool for the right job. When writing a 3D game engine Java is not the right tool. If your writing a typical business application or an instant messaging client it probably is.
BTW: I don't think current Microsoft products are good examples when it comes to performance and memory use. Considering their track record for writing bloated software I'm surprised Messenger is not even worse than it is.
That "almost-Earth-like" planet is inside our own galaxy, just about 20 light years away. This makes it one of our closest neighbors even compared to the distances within our own galaxy.
Finding planets in other galaxies is way beyond our current capabilities.
I do not know much about SETI but always believed they just piggy back on other projects and look for sign of intelligent life (radio signatures) in whatever the other projects might be looking at - in our own galaxy or not. Perhaps someone would care to elaborate.
Not possible. Australian law requires the ISP to take the site down when they receive this type of complaint NO MATTER WHAT. It does not matter that the complaint is bogus, YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE SITE DOWN else the law will slap you big time.
If you don't like it, the only thing you can do is fight it in court.
Yes it is completely idiotic but the law is still the law.
Handing it off to another country might work, at least for some time. But you should realize these types of laws are cropping up everywhere these days because the US is using their weight in the world trade organizations to bully other countries to "be hard on copyright pirates".
Of course if they have the money to take this to court, then the mining company would most likely loose. But this would require them to either have enough funds or find a lawyer that is willing to take the case on the assumption they will win and get awarded fees from the counterpart. Unfortunately this is not always possible in the real world.
You must not know much about how the system works if you think voting makes any difference.
Well, perhaps not. But then I'm European and not American, so I have mostly only the standard news/propaganda to rely on and have to make an opinion about how well your system works from that.
I'm not sure what is most scary, the way your current administration behave or the sentiments you express in your post. If they are common it would explain a lot. Talk about self fulfilling prophecies. If enough of you people have given up hope and do not think it will matter then that is exactly what will happen.
GetSystemInfo() in Win32 and GetNativeSystemInfo() in WoW64 will give you some CPU information: It will tell you if your running on Intel, IA64 or AMD64, it will also identify 386, 486 and Pentium, Processor Level and Stepping and processor Revision. I think this will be sufficient in most cases to identify the CPU.
>And this is what countless other companies try to do, and they don't get banned in Norway for selling stuff that only works with their product.
And you got this information from where?
The Norwegian consumer council has publicly stated (on TV, sorry no link) that all companies doing this is in violation of norwegian law and they will pursue it. But they went after Apple first because they are the biggest offender, even the governemnt has limited resources so going after the biggest fish first is usually a good idea;-) If they need to take it to court it will prove a useful test case and will make it easier to convince other companies to play by the rules.
>Children under 18 are not considered old enough to make the decision to appear in porn.
That argument falls flat on its face if you consider a 16 year old enough to understand he should resist his perfectly normal urge to watch nude girls in order to prevent the pornography industry exploiting 16 year old girls.
Either a 16 year old is an adult or a child, make up your mind it cant be both.
It is also perfectly possible that the images the teenage boy had on his computer was of someone approximately the same age or even older than himself. Child pornography is defined as sexualized pictures of anyone below the age of 18. In fact it would be illegal if this child distributed nude pictures of himself, something that should give you a hint about the rationality of charging minors with child pornography offenses at all.
Even if the pictures was of children much younger than him, the whole idea of trying to convict him to 90 years in prison is just ludicrous. Any competent psychiatrist can tell you it is perfectly normal for children to be curious about all aspects of human sexuality, even those that falls outside the accepted norm. He *might* need some counseling, but certainly not prison.
In the USA children are children until they commit a crime, then they have proven them self to be adult and will be treated as such.
"Would someone please think of the children", yeah right/sarcasm
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Everyone eventually dies, nothing can change that.
You can argue as much as you want, but I think it is safe to say that almost all humans anywhere would agree they are entitled to receive medical help if it can prevent their immediate death. I also think pretty much the same amount of people will agree that it is indeed evil to prevent someone from giving such help.
Of course this clashes fundamentally with the idea of a privately funded medical health system like in the US.
You need to train those reading skills better. He did not say any such thing.
;-)
Your level of brainwashing is astounding
He might have been talking about gaseous fuels, perhaps he's not a native English speaker. To us the use of the word 'gas' for a liquid like gasoline always seemed a bit silly ;-)
Another thing, unless you plan to bring tanks of liquid oxygen along for the ride with that perfect hydrogen/oxygen combustion engine the results will be far from clean. Atmospheric air contains all kinds of gases in addition to oxygen that would be involved in the process, yielding results like all flavors of nitrogen oxides (there is quite a few), ozone, monoatomic hydrogen and oxygen and all kinds of other weird kinds of results from trace elements in the air.
The amount of unwanted wastes and by products may be very small but far from zero.
Is this the way you honor your brothers sacrifice? He would have been real proud of you I'm sure.
Hello anonymous coward!
;-)
;-)
Obvious trolling, but I'll bite anyway
I probably do know a lot more than you do since I program 3D real time graphics for a living, not games but we do much of the same stuff. Btw: I do not own a playstation (or Xbox for that matter), although I would have to admit my main PC is excellent for running the latest games
1. ODE and OPCODE are excellent open source libraries not written in Java, I've used both on a regular basis. If your going to do everything using native libraries written in C/C++ then what is the point bothering with Java at all? You may as well write the glue (because that mainly whats left) in C++ or even use a script language since speed is probably not going to be much of an issue in that part of the code anyway. I have actually done something similar using Python and it was almost as fast as a native C/C++ solution, which makes sense since 99% of the code was C/C++ anyway.
2. LOL indeed, how old are 14? You need to learn how to read. I explicitly mentioned that you can offload skinning and animations to the GPU. But, and there is a big but, this only works if you are writing console games for playstation3 or something similar, everything else (PC/Mac) needs to support a way more primitive baseline of hardware. This is not a technical limitation but an economical. If your game only runs on the latest and greatest hardware then it will not be economically viable (it sucks but such is the real world). This means you may implement skinning or even physics on the GPU but you must still have a fall back to CPU on older hardware. This limitation will be gone in a few years, but I presumed we were discussing game engines for games in the current market or under current development.
3. It is not me that invented the "playstation syndrome". Go take a look at the ten top selling titles the last three years then you can come back and call me wrong.
Of course, as I said if commercial success is not a requirement then you may make your game using any tool at all. After all, no one cares what you do in your mothers basement (except perhaps your mother).
jmonkeyengine is not a competitive 3D game engine.
You also need to do a hell of a lot more in a game engine than just call OpenGL rendering calls, which would be fine if all you need was to render the same static frame again and again. In any game you will also need to do lot of CPU intensive tasks like intersection testing, physics simulations, skinning and other types of animations, AI and similar with real time performance and in addition to you game logic. OpenGL will not do this for you (yes, I know there is work being done, moving much of this to hardware, but that is not an option until everyone runs DX10 or later compatible GPU's many years down the line).
All this is of course possible with Java but it is not optimal and sub-optimal simply wont cut it in the game industry.
jmonkeyengine is a nice piece of work for small games and hobby projects. But it is a long way from being competitive in the serious gaming industry. But by all means, if this is just a hobby for you I'm sure it is more than good enough.
To put it in other words, "Bang Howdy" is a cute game but it is not exactly Halflife2.
and it is also based on a ten year old game engine (1997). It is about as relevant to the state of current gaming as world war II planes are to the development of our next stealth fighter airplane.
Nice hobby project though.
No, the 2 seconds loading time does not matter at all. But the fps really do matter, ask any hardcore gamer. In games (and almost all other realtime 3D) frame rate is king. Java is not very suitable when millisecond or even microsecond performance counts.
No commercial serious games are written in Java at all, the only counter example that comes to mind is all those small cute games on web pages, some of these are even written in flash or shockwave. I presume we're talking real games like Halflife 2 and similar here and in that case it is almost all C and some C++.
With instant messaging and all kinds of office applications etc, it does not matter if an operation takes ten milliseconds or twenty because for a human that is pretty instantaneous anyway. But in a 3D game, performance is crucial at least for the game engine itself. You will get away with using java in non-performance critical stuff like scripting inside the game but not for the game engine itself.
This is the reason no commercial game engines are written in java at all.
It is not because java is not a nice language, because it is.
It is not because java in many ways are superior to C/C++, because it is.
It is not because java does not have the features needed (3D bindings etc), because it does.
It is because of performance, performance and performance.
Yes I know Java is not as slow as it used to be, but it is still not as fast as well written low level C and probably never will be. When writing a game engine you usually need ALL the performance you can squeeze out of the hardware and will often even resort to hand tweak assembly code to get critical parts fast enough.
This is really just a matter of choosing the right tool for the right job. When writing a 3D game engine Java is not the right tool. If your writing a typical business application or an instant messaging client it probably is.
BTW: I don't think current Microsoft products are good examples when it comes to performance and memory use. Considering their track record for writing bloated software I'm surprised Messenger is not even worse than it is.
That "almost-Earth-like" planet is inside our own galaxy, just about 20 light years away. This makes it one of our closest neighbors even compared to the distances within our own galaxy.
Finding planets in other galaxies is way beyond our current capabilities.
I do not know much about SETI but always believed they just piggy back on other projects and look for sign of intelligent life (radio signatures) in whatever the other projects might be looking at - in our own galaxy or not. Perhaps someone would care to elaborate.
Not possible. Australian law requires the ISP to take the site down when they receive this type of complaint NO MATTER WHAT. It does not matter that the complaint is bogus, YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE SITE DOWN else the law will slap you big time.
If you don't like it, the only thing you can do is fight it in court.
Yes it is completely idiotic but the law is still the law.
Handing it off to another country might work, at least for some time. But you should realize these types of laws are cropping up everywhere these days because the US is using their weight in the world trade organizations to bully other countries to "be hard on copyright pirates".
Of course if they have the money to take this to court, then the mining company would most likely loose. But this would require them to either have enough funds or find a lawyer that is willing to take the case on the assumption they will win and get awarded fees from the counterpart. Unfortunately this is not always possible in the real world.
You must not know much about how the system works if you think voting makes any difference.
Well, perhaps not. But then I'm European and not American, so I have mostly only the standard news/propaganda to rely on and have to make an opinion about how well your system works from that.
I'm not sure what is most scary, the way your current administration behave or the sentiments you express in your post. If they are common it would explain a lot. Talk about self fulfilling prophecies. If enough of you people have given up hope and do not think it will matter then that is exactly what will happen.
Why do you ask when you already know the answer?
As you said yourself "you vote"!
you missed the important word: "supposed"
Of course in the real world we all know it didnt work that well.
Not entirely correct.
GetSystemInfo() in Win32 and GetNativeSystemInfo() in WoW64 will give you some CPU information:
It will tell you if your running on Intel, IA64 or AMD64, it will also identify 386, 486 and Pentium, Processor Level and Stepping and processor Revision. I think this will be sufficient in most cases to identify the CPU.
Well, that would have been excellent :-)
I seriously doubt lycos is using MS-Exchange to provide free email services, they would have to be insane.
In almost any other email system it is rather trivial to restore just one mailbox.
Exchange may have many features that make it popular in the corporate world but easy maintenance seems to be NOT one of them.
That arguement might be a twiddle left wing but it still fits reality much better than the reverse.
They wont, you got it the wrong way around.
They will outlaw a company from preventing other companies to sell razor blades that fits in the first company razor's.
>And this is what countless other companies try to do, and they don't get banned in Norway for selling stuff that only works with their product.
;-) If they need to take it to court it will prove a useful test case and will make it easier to convince other companies to play by the rules.
And you got this information from where?
The Norwegian consumer council has publicly stated (on TV, sorry no link) that all companies doing this is in violation of norwegian law and they will pursue it. But they went after Apple first because they are the biggest offender, even the governemnt has limited resources so going after the biggest fish first is usually a good idea
I agree with you completely. This kind of stupidity solves nothing, but threatens to destroy many innocent lives.
I also wish you were joking.
Unfortunately, I think you may be correct.
>Children under 18 are not considered old enough to make the decision to appear in porn.
That argument falls flat on its face if you consider a 16 year old enough to understand he should resist his perfectly normal urge to watch nude girls in order to prevent the pornography industry exploiting 16 year old girls.
Either a 16 year old is an adult or a child, make up your mind it cant be both.
I have also read the story.
/sarcasm
It is also perfectly possible that the images the teenage boy had on his computer was of someone approximately the same age or even older than himself. Child pornography is defined as sexualized pictures of anyone below the age of 18. In fact it would be illegal if this child distributed nude pictures of himself, something that should give you a hint about the rationality of charging minors with child pornography offenses at all.
Even if the pictures was of children much younger than him, the whole idea of trying to convict him to 90 years in prison is just ludicrous. Any competent psychiatrist can tell you it is perfectly normal for children to be curious about all aspects of human sexuality, even those that falls outside the accepted norm. He *might* need some counseling, but certainly not prison.
In the USA children are children until they commit a crime, then they have proven them self to be adult and will be treated as such.
"Would someone please think of the children", yeah right
Which perfectly explains the sorry state our world is in...
Your friend was extremly lucky