Like many art forms - such as photography and cinema - video games have largely been driven by developers' desire and consumers' appetite for greater realism.
Better watch that line of argument. The "film franchise" has manifested itself with multitudinous (and qualitatively regressing) sequels.
Seems to me any such "performance" advantage would be overtaken by the practical drawbacks of a dual-boot system.
If you're running a specific application that requires the performance boost, then you ought to be running it on a machine that that runs the best environment. Unless, I suppose, you're running an app that you only need occasionally.
Do you have any idea just how many organizations, profit and non, receive some funds somehow through the government?
Oh, until I read your statement, I didn't realize that CPB PAID taxes as well as received taxpayer monies!
(Oh, wait, you didn't mean that, did you? The fact that the government TAKES your money, then gives you a smaller amount in return doesn't really register with you, does it?)
Hey, here's a thought: Let's cut taxes, cut the budget, and cut out the middle-man. Let's let people KEEP their money, so they don't have to go begging to the government for a portion of what they've paid in taxes. But that would deprive the bureaucracy, beloved of the Left, of their power, now wouldn't it?
Why continue to fund NPR anyway? What is available on NPR that you can get from no other source? I mean, if you want a Leftist skew to your news, that's available in spades.
There is no content you can obtain via NPR that isn't available elsewhere. And here's a novel thought: It can actually be MARKET-DRIVEN, and not the result of taxpayers' largesse.
If the auto industry had to be developed in the litigation environment of today, there would only be one make of car available. It would be black, and you'd have a five year waiting period to get one.
"FSF does nothing but good" is debatable. Few human institutions are so altruistic.
But that's not the issue I'm speaking to.
Rather, it is that the "legalists" have wormed their way so deeply into our social fabric that the fabric has begun to rot and fray.
Whenever I see something like "so-and-so has established a financial services foundation to help kumquat growers," my immediate reaction is "lawyers have just created another source of lucre that allows them to profit by doing essentially nothing but 'protect' the unwary from the traps and deadfalls that they themselves have set through our legal system."
They play on our greed, of course, just like all confidence tricksters.
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Interesting to think that FidoNet may have been the cradle of the king of cyber-porn.
Do you really think that googling "Steve Jones" is going to result in a plethora of focused information?
OS-Nazi-speak for "trying to make a buck."
Here, in one short clause, is the most pithy statement of modern geekdom I think I have ever seen.
What, it wouldn't fit in this year's budget?
Wow, imagine the Beowulf cluster that WON'T be needed to store this!
I presume that the project name derives from Portland cement, an essential component of concrete.
Better watch that line of argument. The "film franchise" has manifested itself with multitudinous (and qualitatively regressing) sequels.
Anybody ever see "Jaws 3"?
The day your mother gets a blog, is the day you realize blogging has jumped the shark.
Yeah, and we all know the result the last time that happened.
*Crickets Chirping*
If you're running a specific application that requires the performance boost, then you ought to be running it on a machine that that runs the best environment. Unless, I suppose, you're running an app that you only need occasionally.
No, rather they spend all their time going to Congress for more funding.
Oh, until I read your statement, I didn't realize that CPB PAID taxes as well as received taxpayer monies!
(Oh, wait, you didn't mean that, did you? The fact that the government TAKES your money, then gives you a smaller amount in return doesn't really register with you, does it?)
Hey, here's a thought: Let's cut taxes, cut the budget, and cut out the middle-man. Let's let people KEEP their money, so they don't have to go begging to the government for a portion of what they've paid in taxes. But that would deprive the bureaucracy, beloved of the Left, of their power, now wouldn't it?
Oh. So this whole "let's vote to continue funding NPR" thing is just an elaborate joke?
So your response to "stop taxpayer funding of NPR" is "there is no taxpayer funding." And your source is "the NPR website."
I'm sure if you went to the Josef Stalin website, it'd tell you that he never murdered 10 million Kulaks, either.
(Of course, you also consider their information "unbiased," so I think you're pretty far gone anyway).
Do you pay taxes?
Then you've already paid for it.
There is no content you can obtain via NPR that isn't available elsewhere. And here's a novel thought: It can actually be MARKET-DRIVEN, and not the result of taxpayers' largesse.
But what would be the advantage of running Linux vs. the BSD-based MacOS X?
"More stable"? I thought that's what MacOS X was famous for. "Nicer interface"? Same response.
I can understand how someone might want to escape Windows for Linux, but I don't understand craving that Linux experience when you have a Mac.
Well, I hope that they don't fall for that old "replace the AE-35 Unit" ruse!
(So where's my thread?)
Maybe, but it has been years since I read "The Foundation Trilogy."
Well, I DID remember that they are OUT of the Apple Macintosh.
Ha! From your lips to Mattel's ears. Tell THEM that, every time my daughter wants an "upgrade" to her Barbi's accessories collection!
The problem isn't "patents"--we've had them in the U.S. since colonial days; h*ll, they're mentioned in the Constitution.
The problem is that EVERYTHING nowadays, every notion, every vague idea, is considered "patentable."
We all laughed back in the 80s, when Apple threatened to sue any and everyone who infringed their idiotic "look and feel."
The joke has long since soured.
If the auto industry had to be developed in the litigation environment of today, there would only be one make of car available. It would be black, and you'd have a five year waiting period to get one.
But that's not the issue I'm speaking to.
Rather, it is that the "legalists" have wormed their way so deeply into our social fabric that the fabric has begun to rot and fray.
Whenever I see something like "so-and-so has established a financial services foundation to help kumquat growers," my immediate reaction is "lawyers have just created another source of lucre that allows them to profit by doing essentially nothing but 'protect' the unwary from the traps and deadfalls that they themselves have set through our legal system."
They play on our greed, of course, just like all confidence tricksters.