Well, I guess that's part of the reasons why most of us don't get too many girls, because when females talk about serious facts like 'eternity', 'love' etc., we start bringing out nonsense from completely unreliable sources.
I think I'd rather be alone than with a woman I have to lie to to get. And I'd rather trust Wikipedia than DeBeer's ads for facts about the properties of diamond.
Someone still has to program & maintain the machines that make theese things, someone's going to forget to put the safety on before sticking their head in the pressor to inspect it sooner or later.
Ever seen a hydraulic car crusher at work ? It moves slowly, since the hydraulics are used to exchange speed for force. I'd imagine that something that can crush carbon into diamonds doesn't exactly represent greased lightning either.
Unlike hardness, which only denotes resistance to scratching, diamond's toughness or tenacity is only fair to good. Toughness relates to the ability to resist breakage from falls or impacts: due to diamond's perfect and easy cleavage, it is vulnerable to breakage. A diamond will shatter if hit with an ordinary hammer. (emphasis mine)
So a diamond't isn't indestructible, or even hard to destroy. It's just hard to scratch.
On the other hand, and as an ethical matter, who the hell cares about the DeBeers?
Any politician who they can bribe^Hgive campaign contributions to. Expect this invention to be made illegal by the "Protecting Children And Small Furry Animals Against Fraudulent Diamonds" act. Altought a professional propagandist who speaks english natively will undoubtedly come up with a better acronym, which sounds like "NOKIDPORN" or something like that.
Whacking players limbs off was also a blast. Nothing like seeing someone running crazily with blood spurting out where their arms used to be.
And nothing like comments like yours to dispell the myth that games desentisize people to violence. You should spend less time playing with your computer and more on wholesome, gentling activities, like watching Sailor Moon slaughter armies in the name of love and justice. Now that is a children's show that teaches proper values:).
Anyways, IMO even if Firefox 2.0 is, as many people have claimed, as much of an upgrade from 1.5 as 1.5 was from 1.0, than no, it doesn't deserve to be called 2.0. If they didn't think the last upgrade was worthy of a major version jump, then why would another equivalent upgrade suddenly be worth it now?
The question is: Are the total chances after 1.0 sufficient to justify pumping the major version number ?
Remember, Open Source development methodology is: "release early, release often". In the ideal case, you release a new version every time any feature gets added or any bug squashed. Since this means that there are very little differences between subsequent releases, the only number you can ever justify upping is the build number if that's the only thing you're looking at.
Alternatively, you could release 1.0 and call every build between 1.0 and 2.0 a "development vcrsion". That would allow you to claim a huge number of improvements in 2.0 changelog, but would not make much sense otherwise.
Rumor has it that you need to make sure you're running your xserver with 24 bit color depth, not 16 bit, in order to get Flash 9 Beta working with Firefox 2.0 on Linux. Good luck.
And why on Earth would anyone use 16-bit colors on their desktop nowadays ? Even X-VNC server - which has no acceleration whatsoever, since it doesn't use the video hardware of the host machine - running on a 200-MHz 192 MB machine handles 24-bit colors perfectly well.
Yes, but level 0 children only get 2d2-1 hit points. (No idea really, just making this up - for the one purist who actually knows how many hit points level 0 children get.)
In 3.5, level 1 Commoner (adult) gets 1d4 hit points. A slingshot makes 1d3 points of damage (1d4 if used by an adult), so a very lucky kid can take 4 hits before dying, but can die from the first and is likely to die at the second hit.
Of course this all assumes that the kid is really a kid and not a skull child or some other hideous monster in disguise. And there's nothing quite like when the sunlight suddenly gets blocked by a shadow, allowing you to see that the theird markings on the kid you've been making fun of for the past half an hour are really scales, and then noticing that the shadow that's getting bigger all the time really looks like a pair of giant wings;)...
And the sad thing is that I've never played the game, but just read the rulebooks for kicks;(.
You've got to keep a close watch on people. Everyone from atheist to the far religeous right to NAMBLA to the ACLU seem to think The Constiution says they are right. It may, it may not, but they all claim it.
Well, what did you expect ? The exact same thing's been done to the Bible, Koran, and every other religious text I know of. The Constitution, written by the Prophet Muhammed^H^HFounding Fathers, is no exception. It gives authorization to whoever is bold enough to twist it to his purposes.
For anyone wanting to mod me Troll, just look at how often someone comes up with an argument like: "Do you really think George Washington, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson would approve of the Patriot Act?" Can you honestly say that I'm incorrect in comparing this to the treatment religious texts and leaders ?
Right, because I know conversations at my parties are typically transcribed, published, and several times indexed down to a keyword and intelligent context level in a place anyone with an internet connection can find them.
They are. It's called "gossip". You can be certain that any comment that shows anyone in negative light will live, circulate, and grow to such epic proportions it would shame Hell itself.
This is especially certain if the original accusation is untrue.
It's called a taskbar, and this effect can be achieved by opening multiple instances of a tabbed browser.
Taskbar doesn't scale for lots of windows, especially when I have other programs open too. Besides, the taskbar is a flat list, and I'm thinking of hieararchical arrangement.
If you really want this feature within the same window, you should write an extension for it, and then see how many other people like it as much as yourself.
Did you perhaps miss the part where I said that I tried, but the browser memory handling is not up to it (it SEGFAULTs) ?
PLease tell us why you'd want to have that many web pages open. It seems an awful lot.
Well, my usual tactic of reading Slashdot is to open each article to its own page, and then jump from article to article, skimming the comments and opening the most interesting ones (and ones I want to answer to) in new tabs, to be returned to later with more time and detail. This makes 100+ web pages from Slashdot alone.
Apart from this, I frequent Elfwood, which is an amateur fantasy art gallery. Browsing the pics there, if I see anything I like, I often open the authors gallery in a new window, allowing me to open any interesting pics from him in new tabs. Another 100+ web pages open.
Finally, I sometimes program with Java. Java's documentation is in HTML form, with a separate page for each class, so I'll easily get another 100+ pages open simultaneously there. And of course any other computer-related task is made easier when you can open the same document in multiple tabs and use them to display different parts.
Add to these Software Suspend, which allows me to shut down my computer for the night and continue at the morning from there I left on, with all the programs going as I left them, and 100+ pages aggregate fast. It's not that I neccessarily want to read a 100+ pages, but that the information I want or need is spread between 100+ pages, or in a 100+ locations in the same page.
HTML is the preferred way of presenting information nowadays. And Firefox is woefully incapable of handling massive numbers of open documents in a scalable way; it works technically, but it's a pain switching windows constantly.
Now, if the tabbed interface had been applied to browsers for the first time last week, well, then it wouldn't be innovation. But, in 1997 (or 1994), applying tabs to browsers was a huge interface, and showed great foresight that one day people would be reading multiple webpages pretty much simultaneously, by tabbing between them.
Now lets wait and see who will innovate the obvious next step: multi-level tabs. That is, tabs arranged in a hieararchy, so that selecting one top-level tab can show a new row of tabs beneath the top-level one (different row for each of the top tabs), each of whos tabs can have a subrow of its own, and so on. I typically have 100+ web pages open at once, and would really appreciate the ability to keep them all in a single window, instead of having to continuously expand the number of my virtual desktops (up to 12, currently).
I tried to create an extension to do something like this a while ago, and got it to displaying the subtab row by abusing XUL, but the thing crashed with SEGFAULT when I tried to close the tab containing the row. I guess they should have used language with managed memory, like Java;(. Which, of course, would be a good idea for a program processing extremely untrustworthy information anyway...
So, what am I getting to with this rant? If it wasn't for google video, you tube...no the Interweb in general, I wouldn't have been exposed to such wonderful Canadian stuff, and I wouldn't have spent about $200 Canadian last summer importing DVDs of these two shows.
So, because you could get a sample of good stuff from the Internet, you paid $200 dollars for importing that good stuff, instead of buying domestic MPAA-produced crap ? I think you just found out why the various entertainment cartels hate the Internet: knowledge is power, and giving the customer power means less profits.
Then why not just have some connections that come straight out of the CPU and go directly to a graphics card, bypassing any bus entirely?
That's the whole point here: put the CPU and GPU right next to each other and wire them together. You see, the nearer they are to each other, the less time it takes for electric impulses to travel from one to the other, and the faster the communication is.
And, of course, the reason number one: you get a guaranteed GPU sale for each CPU sale - goodbye pesky competition;).
I'd go a step further and ask what benefit a 64-bit OS has unless you have over 4GB RAM.
You can memory map more than 4GB files into the memory simultaneously.
A single application can use more than 4GB of memory through swap space.
Eliminates highmem. Just split the virtual memory space in half between the kernel and application instead of worrying about what to make the split.
AFAICT, you use up more disk space, individual apps require more memory and the biggest benefit - that you can access >4GB without hacks like PAE - is irrelevant.
The biggest benefit of 64-bit processor is increased virtual address space.
Yah, except,.... I am not aware of any legal right they have to make those restrictions.
It's called the "Right of the biggest wallet": he who holds the gun to your head makes the rules.
Thinking in the term of legal rights is all fine and good, but don't confuse the hypothetical world where right rules to this one where might does. Doing so will simply put yourself beneath the 500-pound gorilla when it sits down.
The basic problem is that Microsoft can simply drag any court case on until you go banckrupt and therefore lose by default. In a civil case it doesn't matter what the laws say, it only matters who can keep paying their lawyers longer.
So I think Salzbrot's point was that we need to spend time and money on better animation if we want animated films that aren't full of creepy wax dolls, because their flagship use of this technology lost all the subtelties that a human cares about.
I don't think it's so much a matter of subleties but consistency. Pixar's movies aren't photorealistic. They are 3D cartoons. Your brains happily fill in missing detail to cartoon characters, as long as the hints are there. But confuse the brain about whether this is a real human or not, and it will classify the being as "creepy".
Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen Polar Express, just a trailer, and that was a long time ago. However, it looked like they were going for "real human" -look.
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I think I'd rather be alone than with a woman I have to lie to to get. And I'd rather trust Wikipedia than DeBeer's ads for facts about the properties of diamond.
Ever seen a hydraulic car crusher at work ? It moves slowly, since the hydraulics are used to exchange speed for force. I'd imagine that something that can crush carbon into diamonds doesn't exactly represent greased lightning either.
From the Wikipedia article:
And from another article:
So a diamond't isn't indestructible, or even hard to destroy. It's just hard to scratch.
Any politician who they can bribe^Hgive campaign contributions to. Expect this invention to be made illegal by the "Protecting Children And Small Furry Animals Against Fraudulent Diamonds" act. Altought a professional propagandist who speaks english natively will undoubtedly come up with a better acronym, which sounds like "NOKIDPORN" or something like that.
And nothing like comments like yours to dispell the myth that games desentisize people to violence. You should spend less time playing with your computer and more on wholesome, gentling activities, like watching Sailor Moon slaughter armies in the name of love and justice. Now that is a children's show that teaches proper values :).
You forgot Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2).
The question is: Are the total chances after 1.0 sufficient to justify pumping the major version number ?
Remember, Open Source development methodology is: "release early, release often". In the ideal case, you release a new version every time any feature gets added or any bug squashed. Since this means that there are very little differences between subsequent releases, the only number you can ever justify upping is the build number if that's the only thing you're looking at.
Alternatively, you could release 1.0 and call every build between 1.0 and 2.0 a "development vcrsion". That would allow you to claim a huge number of improvements in 2.0 changelog, but would not make much sense otherwise.
And why on Earth would anyone use 16-bit colors on their desktop nowadays ? Even X-VNC server - which has no acceleration whatsoever, since it doesn't use the video hardware of the host machine - running on a 200-MHz 192 MB machine handles 24-bit colors perfectly well.
And by "malicious" we mean "Disney doesn't like it".
After all, it's not the user who's being protected here, it's the media corporations Microsoft is trying to sell Windows as a distribution channel to.
Alternatively, it could be "Provides good native OpenGL acceleration". After all, portable applications would be the death of Windows.
In 3.5, level 1 Commoner (adult) gets 1d4 hit points. A slingshot makes 1d3 points of damage (1d4 if used by an adult), so a very lucky kid can take 4 hits before dying, but can die from the first and is likely to die at the second hit.
Of course this all assumes that the kid is really a kid and not a skull child or some other hideous monster in disguise. And there's nothing quite like when the sunlight suddenly gets blocked by a shadow, allowing you to see that the theird markings on the kid you've been making fun of for the past half an hour are really scales, and then noticing that the shadow that's getting bigger all the time really looks like a pair of giant wings ;)...
And the sad thing is that I've never played the game, but just read the rulebooks for kicks ;(.
Well, at least Take-Two could solve that problem easily. So could Blizzard, for that matter - Night Elves are yummy :).
Yeah. Think of the poor starving gangsters !
Well, what did you expect ? The exact same thing's been done to the Bible, Koran, and every other religious text I know of. The Constitution, written by the Prophet Muhammed^H^HFounding Fathers, is no exception. It gives authorization to whoever is bold enough to twist it to his purposes.
For anyone wanting to mod me Troll, just look at how often someone comes up with an argument like: "Do you really think George Washington, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson would approve of the Patriot Act?" Can you honestly say that I'm incorrect in comparing this to the treatment religious texts and leaders ?
They are. It's called "gossip". You can be certain that any comment that shows anyone in negative light will live, circulate, and grow to such epic proportions it would shame Hell itself.
This is especially certain if the original accusation is untrue.
Taskbar doesn't scale for lots of windows, especially when I have other programs open too. Besides, the taskbar is a flat list, and I'm thinking of hieararchical arrangement.
Did you perhaps miss the part where I said that I tried, but the browser memory handling is not up to it (it SEGFAULTs) ?
Well, my usual tactic of reading Slashdot is to open each article to its own page, and then jump from article to article, skimming the comments and opening the most interesting ones (and ones I want to answer to) in new tabs, to be returned to later with more time and detail. This makes 100+ web pages from Slashdot alone.
Apart from this, I frequent Elfwood, which is an amateur fantasy art gallery. Browsing the pics there, if I see anything I like, I often open the authors gallery in a new window, allowing me to open any interesting pics from him in new tabs. Another 100+ web pages open.
Finally, I sometimes program with Java. Java's documentation is in HTML form, with a separate page for each class, so I'll easily get another 100+ pages open simultaneously there. And of course any other computer-related task is made easier when you can open the same document in multiple tabs and use them to display different parts.
Add to these Software Suspend, which allows me to shut down my computer for the night and continue at the morning from there I left on, with all the programs going as I left them, and 100+ pages aggregate fast. It's not that I neccessarily want to read a 100+ pages, but that the information I want or need is spread between 100+ pages, or in a 100+ locations in the same page.
HTML is the preferred way of presenting information nowadays. And Firefox is woefully incapable of handling massive numbers of open documents in a scalable way; it works technically, but it's a pain switching windows constantly.
Now lets wait and see who will innovate the obvious next step: multi-level tabs. That is, tabs arranged in a hieararchy, so that selecting one top-level tab can show a new row of tabs beneath the top-level one (different row for each of the top tabs), each of whos tabs can have a subrow of its own, and so on. I typically have 100+ web pages open at once, and would really appreciate the ability to keep them all in a single window, instead of having to continuously expand the number of my virtual desktops (up to 12, currently).
I tried to create an extension to do something like this a while ago, and got it to displaying the subtab row by abusing XUL, but the thing crashed with SEGFAULT when I tried to close the tab containing the row. I guess they should have used language with managed memory, like Java ;(. Which, of course, would be a good idea for a program processing extremely untrustworthy information anyway...
So, because you could get a sample of good stuff from the Internet, you paid $200 dollars for importing that good stuff, instead of buying domestic MPAA-produced crap ? I think you just found out why the various entertainment cartels hate the Internet: knowledge is power, and giving the customer power means less profits.
The thing you remember from your honeymoon is Japanese TV series. That's just sad, even by Slashdot standards.
Besides, everyone knows that Japanese television shows nonstop cartoon tentacle porn ;).
Not true. Or have you forgotten DOS ?
That's the whole point here: put the CPU and GPU right next to each other and wire them together. You see, the nearer they are to each other, the less time it takes for electric impulses to travel from one to the other, and the faster the communication is.
And, of course, the reason number one: you get a guaranteed GPU sale for each CPU sale - goodbye pesky competition ;).
The biggest benefit of 64-bit processor is increased virtual address space.
It's called the "Right of the biggest wallet": he who holds the gun to your head makes the rules.
Thinking in the term of legal rights is all fine and good, but don't confuse the hypothetical world where right rules to this one where might does. Doing so will simply put yourself beneath the 500-pound gorilla when it sits down.
The basic problem is that Microsoft can simply drag any court case on until you go banckrupt and therefore lose by default. In a civil case it doesn't matter what the laws say, it only matters who can keep paying their lawyers longer.
I don't think it's so much a matter of subleties but consistency. Pixar's movies aren't photorealistic. They are 3D cartoons. Your brains happily fill in missing detail to cartoon characters, as long as the hints are there. But confuse the brain about whether this is a real human or not, and it will classify the being as "creepy".
Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen Polar Express, just a trailer, and that was a long time ago. However, it looked like they were going for "real human" -look.
Al Capone wasn't equipped with Godslayer of Hit Points ;).