They added a similar patch into the BFG edition and you can't turn it off, which is one reason the re-release got lower ratings. I, too, liked Doom 3 when you had to switch between flashlight and your gun. It gave you a sense of being insufficiently armed and heightened the tension.
That sucks. You're unlucky. I got SLAPPed and my lawyers got awarded a 1.5x multiplier -- so they got paid more than their normal fee. Suppose it depends on the judge. Personally i'm happy with the anti-SLAPP laws on the books in California. It's a shame the federal laws are so weak.
Of course the Christian who came up with the GWB theory argued that an all knowing deity would know ASCII before it was invented, and thus it makes some sort of sense. Cornering a religious loon is like trying to nail jello to a wall. They always find some excuse for the absurdest of the absurd and don't hesitate to resort to "it's one of God's mysteries!" if you really corner em.
i'm not an astrophysicist so I really have no clue about any of this, but wouldn't a large orbit big enough to be affected by earth's orbit also actually affect earth's orbit, even ever so slightly?
I'd almost like to mark everybody just to prove that wrong. If you really want to destroy a religion, fulfill it's eschatology and watch the believers lose faith as nothing happens.
Greek, but you're right. Nero is a possible fit for 666. Of course so was George Walker Bush Jr, in ASCII, if I recall correctly, George Walker bushjr (6 char, 6 char, 6 char) add up the ASCII values for each word and you get 666.
I grew up in a Christian home and my parents were seriously into the whole Revelations bit. Basically what the Bible says is that it's a mark on either the right hand or forehead that will be required if you want to buy or sell anything. Of course there are debates as to whether hand and forehead are literal, or whether it's a figurative meaning.
I just read the person who made the video wasn't even present at the scene of the events and was only relaying what others had said, so would't that be double heresay? As I understand it, that makes the video completely useless.
Wouldn't the video be heresay? And wouldn't an inconsistent statement have to be made by the same person speaking in the YouTube video. Provided the witness did testify, did contradict himself on the stand, and you could bring the video in, what's to stop the kids from simply arguing that they were bragging / joking in an inappropriate fashion? What if that's the truth. Is the girl even testifying? It doesn't seem the video helps you very much other than to make the witnesses (not even the defendants) look like assholes. I'm genuinely curious as to what you have to say. I've only been involved in civil cases.
Why raytracing? Go straight to real-time path tracing (inverse raytracing). Modern GPUs can do it with static scenes quite easily and efficiently, but there are issues where geometry needs to deform or move (that being said, some seem to have solved this problem). It's doable. Next generation or two and we'll start seeing it in action, but it's going to be rough convincing everybody to give up scanline rendering and all the fakery they've gotten used to. If you can make something look better with scanline, why not do it? There are good fakes for almost everything, including bounce lighting, and physically accuracy isn't always desirable.
You can probably preload textures and some geometry. Some game engines do something similar now. You get low-res proxies to start with and it updates textures as it can read them off the disk (or in this case, the network). Second Life is a good example of this in action. You don't need to load the whole game at once. Just what's visible, and you keep a cache of that locally. I don't see them needing a Tegra 4 in the handheld if all it's doing is decoding a video stream. It makes sense that they would be doing something like this. If not, they're going to run into serious latency problems with FPS, driving, and similar unforgiving games.
I lived in Ireland for three years. By US standards, they're mostly all alcoholics (by their standards, we're prudes). After work it's customary to go to the pub and it's not looked down upon to get drunk, even to the point of throwing up. I don't even think the Irish are bothered by the stereotype. It's just their culture. Nothing racist about it.
Agreed. And at least on my 2.6ghz Core 2 duo MBP, it uses up half a core idle with all windows closed. I have steam running on my Windows box idle with all windows closed and it's not even cracking 0%. Why should I play games on steam when the client eats up a full quarter of my CPU while it's supposed to be doing nothing. No downloading. Nothing. I haven't tested out the Linux client yet (I use Windows for games), but I hope there aren't the same issues. I would expect a more technically minded Linux audience to be less tolerant of such inefficiency.
Technically it's the router/nas/dlna/seedbox combo box provided by the ISP that does it. The key difference being: if you don't like it, you can turn it off. And the problem with uneducated masses drowning in ads is many ads will lead them to malware which ends up eating everybody's bandwidth. They could very well end up being part of some botnet anyway, but without every idiot clicking every fake link, it's less likely to happen..
Ideally, you're right, but all this is assuming religion doesn't teach something specific. Science has no holy book telling people what to do. Religions do... so while you can't really blame science when some politically motivated atheist blows up a building (did Einstein tell him to do it), it is perfectly fair to blame religion when somebody carry's out it's instructions and, for example, beats his wife. Do all religious "follower" follow their religion to the letter. No, and so it's not fair to judge all of them, but that doesn't mean those who would claim to follow a doctrine aren't more likely than others to have a tendency to adhere to it's tenets.
Canonical is trying to be more commercial, and i don't blame them, as you're going to need some of that to really get Linux on the desktop, which I think I recall is Ubuntu's goal. Amazon searches piss people off. I get it. But is your anonymized search data any worse off with Canonical than it is with Google (use Google Now, the updated Google search, to find something on your phone, and it's the exact same thing). and if you really have something to hide you can turn it off. I also understand some power users hate Unity. Well. If they're truly power users they can install an alternate window manager. If that doesn't satisfy them, they can switch distros, but it doesn't make Ubuntu bad, especially for your average user. As for Google being more evil than MS, i beg to disagree, but that's another conversation entirely.
Are you saying a more advanced user isn't capable of installing and using an alternative window manager or running a very simple command to disable Amazon searches? I get what you're saying and you have a valid point, but what's going on here is a lot more than just complaining about Ubuntu's focus. It's seemingly an opposition to Ubuntu for anybody. It's throwing the one hope for Linux on the desktop under the bus on idealistic and group-think grounds. It's unrealistic idealism, elitism and smug superiority. There will always bee niche distros and even Linux from scratch if you really want, but it doesn't make Ubuntu bad, or even a bad choice for power-users / developers.
Sure there are a few sites where you can "custom build" a laptop, but it's not like with a desktop where you can order a case, motherboard, CPU, etc, and put it all together yourself.
I know some have experienced these problems, but personally I haven't. I could say just the same about Windows 8 since I've had some really strange BSODs (albeit they look nicer now). And i'm running on pure Intel/Nvidia. I know full well there are plenty of alternatives, but I personally just don't see a window manager you don't like as sufficient reason to throw the entire distro under the bus publicly. It's popular to do so, I realize, but in my mind a lot of the hate is based less in realism and more in ideological/social groupthink. (This doesn't fit my ideology 100% so rah rah rah.. destroy it!. My friends don't think this is cool so i mustn't admit to liking it either!)
It's not so hard to do all that when half the country suddenly "loses" their guns all at once. And I don't think they would have sufficient grounds for a warrant based on just a suspicion you may still have a gun you claimed to have lost. If they searched and found one, you could get your lawyer to have the evidence thrown out as it would be fruit of the poisonous tree. That is unless nobody cares about the 4th amendment by this hypothetical point in time, which is entirely possible and otherwise I agree with you.
I like it because it has really efficient hardware decoding of all sorts of formats which is important if you care about battery life and don't want to trans-code all your media.
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They added a similar patch into the BFG edition and you can't turn it off, which is one reason the re-release got lower ratings. I, too, liked Doom 3 when you had to switch between flashlight and your gun. It gave you a sense of being insufficiently armed and heightened the tension.
It's Placebo - Pure Morning. Depending on your age it may be before your time.
That sucks. You're unlucky. I got SLAPPed and my lawyers got awarded a 1.5x multiplier -- so they got paid more than their normal fee. Suppose it depends on the judge. Personally i'm happy with the anti-SLAPP laws on the books in California. It's a shame the federal laws are so weak.
Of course the Christian who came up with the GWB theory argued that an all knowing deity would know ASCII before it was invented, and thus it makes some sort of sense. Cornering a religious loon is like trying to nail jello to a wall. They always find some excuse for the absurdest of the absurd and don't hesitate to resort to "it's one of God's mysteries!" if you really corner em.
i'm not an astrophysicist so I really have no clue about any of this, but wouldn't a large orbit big enough to be affected by earth's orbit also actually affect earth's orbit, even ever so slightly?
I'd almost like to mark everybody just to prove that wrong. If you really want to destroy a religion, fulfill it's eschatology and watch the believers lose faith as nothing happens.
Greek, but you're right. Nero is a possible fit for 666. Of course so was George Walker Bush Jr, in ASCII, if I recall correctly, George Walker bushjr (6 char, 6 char, 6 char) add up the ASCII values for each word and you get 666.
I grew up in a Christian home and my parents were seriously into the whole Revelations bit. Basically what the Bible says is that it's a mark on either the right hand or forehead that will be required if you want to buy or sell anything. Of course there are debates as to whether hand and forehead are literal, or whether it's a figurative meaning.
Many Blu Ray disks as well. Of course it actually works well at that high bitrate, but yeah, you're absolutely right about HDTV.
I just read the person who made the video wasn't even present at the scene of the events and was only relaying what others had said, so would't that be double heresay? As I understand it, that makes the video completely useless.
Wouldn't the video be heresay? And wouldn't an inconsistent statement have to be made by the same person speaking in the YouTube video. Provided the witness did testify, did contradict himself on the stand, and you could bring the video in, what's to stop the kids from simply arguing that they were bragging / joking in an inappropriate fashion? What if that's the truth. Is the girl even testifying? It doesn't seem the video helps you very much other than to make the witnesses (not even the defendants) look like assholes. I'm genuinely curious as to what you have to say. I've only been involved in civil cases.
Why raytracing? Go straight to real-time path tracing (inverse raytracing). Modern GPUs can do it with static scenes quite easily and efficiently, but there are issues where geometry needs to deform or move (that being said, some seem to have solved this problem). It's doable. Next generation or two and we'll start seeing it in action, but it's going to be rough convincing everybody to give up scanline rendering and all the fakery they've gotten used to. If you can make something look better with scanline, why not do it? There are good fakes for almost everything, including bounce lighting, and physically accuracy isn't always desirable.
You can probably preload textures and some geometry. Some game engines do something similar now. You get low-res proxies to start with and it updates textures as it can read them off the disk (or in this case, the network). Second Life is a good example of this in action. You don't need to load the whole game at once. Just what's visible, and you keep a cache of that locally. I don't see them needing a Tegra 4 in the handheld if all it's doing is decoding a video stream. It makes sense that they would be doing something like this. If not, they're going to run into serious latency problems with FPS, driving, and similar unforgiving games.
I lived in Ireland for three years. By US standards, they're mostly all alcoholics (by their standards, we're prudes). After work it's customary to go to the pub and it's not looked down upon to get drunk, even to the point of throwing up. I don't even think the Irish are bothered by the stereotype. It's just their culture. Nothing racist about it.
Agreed. And at least on my 2.6ghz Core 2 duo MBP, it uses up half a core idle with all windows closed. I have steam running on my Windows box idle with all windows closed and it's not even cracking 0%. Why should I play games on steam when the client eats up a full quarter of my CPU while it's supposed to be doing nothing. No downloading. Nothing. I haven't tested out the Linux client yet (I use Windows for games), but I hope there aren't the same issues. I would expect a more technically minded Linux audience to be less tolerant of such inefficiency.
Jack Kerouac, Baudelaire and Dumas also... There are tons.
For years I've had the option to disable ads, and use it. I haven't seen any change since the buyout.
Technically it's the router/nas/dlna/seedbox combo box provided by the ISP that does it. The key difference being: if you don't like it, you can turn it off. And the problem with uneducated masses drowning in ads is many ads will lead them to malware which ends up eating everybody's bandwidth. They could very well end up being part of some botnet anyway, but without every idiot clicking every fake link, it's less likely to happen..
Ideally, you're right, but all this is assuming religion doesn't teach something specific. Science has no holy book telling people what to do. Religions do... so while you can't really blame science when some politically motivated atheist blows up a building (did Einstein tell him to do it), it is perfectly fair to blame religion when somebody carry's out it's instructions and, for example, beats his wife. Do all religious "follower" follow their religion to the letter. No, and so it's not fair to judge all of them, but that doesn't mean those who would claim to follow a doctrine aren't more likely than others to have a tendency to adhere to it's tenets.
Canonical is trying to be more commercial, and i don't blame them, as you're going to need some of that to really get Linux on the desktop, which I think I recall is Ubuntu's goal. Amazon searches piss people off. I get it. But is your anonymized search data any worse off with Canonical than it is with Google (use Google Now, the updated Google search, to find something on your phone, and it's the exact same thing). and if you really have something to hide you can turn it off. I also understand some power users hate Unity. Well. If they're truly power users they can install an alternate window manager. If that doesn't satisfy them, they can switch distros, but it doesn't make Ubuntu bad, especially for your average user. As for Google being more evil than MS, i beg to disagree, but that's another conversation entirely.
Are you saying a more advanced user isn't capable of installing and using an alternative window manager or running a very simple command to disable Amazon searches? I get what you're saying and you have a valid point, but what's going on here is a lot more than just complaining about Ubuntu's focus. It's seemingly an opposition to Ubuntu for anybody. It's throwing the one hope for Linux on the desktop under the bus on idealistic and group-think grounds. It's unrealistic idealism, elitism and smug superiority. There will always bee niche distros and even Linux from scratch if you really want, but it doesn't make Ubuntu bad, or even a bad choice for power-users / developers.
Sure there are a few sites where you can "custom build" a laptop, but it's not like with a desktop where you can order a case, motherboard, CPU, etc, and put it all together yourself.
I know some have experienced these problems, but personally I haven't. I could say just the same about Windows 8 since I've had some really strange BSODs (albeit they look nicer now). And i'm running on pure Intel/Nvidia. I know full well there are plenty of alternatives, but I personally just don't see a window manager you don't like as sufficient reason to throw the entire distro under the bus publicly. It's popular to do so, I realize, but in my mind a lot of the hate is based less in realism and more in ideological/social groupthink. (This doesn't fit my ideology 100% so rah rah rah.. destroy it!. My friends don't think this is cool so i mustn't admit to liking it either!)
It's not so hard to do all that when half the country suddenly "loses" their guns all at once. And I don't think they would have sufficient grounds for a warrant based on just a suspicion you may still have a gun you claimed to have lost. If they searched and found one, you could get your lawyer to have the evidence thrown out as it would be fruit of the poisonous tree. That is unless nobody cares about the 4th amendment by this hypothetical point in time, which is entirely possible and otherwise I agree with you.
I like it because it has really efficient hardware decoding of all sorts of formats which is important if you care about battery life and don't want to trans-code all your media.