So? As far as I know, 'Funny' gives 0 karma bonus. (while overrated still recuces your karma) In other words: posting +6 funny -1 overrated gives you a penalty to your karma while stilling being modded to 5.
Weird 'flaw' in the mod system. (losing karma for posting funny stuff)
Actually, (AFAIK, IANAS, correct me if I'm wrong) the Hubble images are correct, but they're just using pretty colours to represent different kinds of radiation, not just the normal light.
I get the impression that you can scan and save the image, it's just when you try to print it out at the normal size that Photoshop takes steps.
The newspost clearly says: Something has been built into Photoshop's core coding that can detect something in images of currency and will prevent the user from opening the file.
Things like Morrowind, where crossing the map without stop takes a hour or more, and exploring all the corners is months of play, were plainly impossible when it all required hand-coding
You forgot to mention that Morrowind was buggy, slow, crashed often, and had horrible loading times.;)
But what is the big deal here? We've had this kind of memory leak tracing for ages (simple C++ macro's to wrap around 'new' and 'delete' is one example) Ok, so we're doing it externally with perl now, yay.
And by the way: ... could be achieved in C by replacing the allocate calls with a macro that inserts the filename and line number. Alternatively, add a parameter (string/number) to the allocate function and then preprocess the source with an external tool (PERL script, for example) that puts a unique value in each call to a memory function.
If you need to edit the source, then why use an external script in the first place?
*cough* We've seen all of that before.. And it starts up in 0.5 nanoseconds too. Although it doesn't look as sexy as winamp, it (imho) beats winamp in every aspect.
No, not really The most important point here is that anime fansubs are technically illegal (you're downloading something somebody worked hard for for free, some lawyer proved this is illegal, although I can see the point)
While if you buy a DVD from another region, you're actually spending money that goes to the producers. In this case you have actually bought a product
Why should this be illegal just because you live somewhere else? It's ridiculous! If you aren't satisfied with the products offered in your country/region you should be allowed to purchase it somewhere else.
Of course, but you can't turn back time like that. We've long since passed our natural equilibrium.
The only way out as I see it is some kind of birth control. Something like that is bound to be government-controlled though, and subject to all the nasty consequences of it.
Of course, some kind of massive plague would solve our problem too. But that would either wipe us out completely or leave us in a kind of post-apocalyptic world.
I'd rather have a lenghtened lifespan and birth control:)
But then what do we do, let people die? We've always been researching medicine to allow people to live longer, this is merely a significant new direction.
Why would the population problem matter? What reason would there be for mass-cloning?
As I see it, cloning/stem cell/whatever research is a way to learn more about how we work. And the more we know about how we work, the better we can work on small things like medicine. (genetic research seems very promising for a cure for cancer)
The artist was deprived of the money Bob would have otherwise spent. It does matter how you look at it.
And that is where you are wrong. Because we don't know if Bob would have actually spent the money on the CD. He might not like the music enough to buy it on CD for example, or might not even have the money for it.
I can understand your reaction though, and I agree that filesharing is not really 'correct/legal' and that some people are too defensive about it. But I still don't agree with this relentless 'war on filesharing' I'm not going to voice my reasons why (it's 04:00 here, I'm going to bed) cause there are plenty of other insightful comments in topics like this one.
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Nah, Vogons would eat cows. (even tiny cows) ;)
I let them type my posts for me.
Vogons never do the same poetry twice (or thrice).
I think they could argue that God gave them permission to copy the bible...
I hope so, or there's gonna be one hell of a lawsuit
So?
As far as I know, 'Funny' gives 0 karma bonus. (while overrated still recuces your karma)
In other words: posting +6 funny -1 overrated gives you a penalty to your karma while stilling being modded to 5.
Weird 'flaw' in the mod system. (losing karma for posting funny stuff)
E60 for high quality 8mbits downstream and 1mbit upstream ADSL (250GB/month datalimit)
:)
Cheapest is 512/512 kbit for around E20 per month.
I'm not complaining
Actually, the XBox is a pretty succesful Microsoft experiment. (especially when compared to things like the smartphone and MSN ISP)
;-)
It's of course, because the succes of the XBox is mostly thanks to lots of other corporations (ATI, Intel, etc) and good game developers.
And some people probably feel more comfortable buying a solid American Made(tm) product instead of those tiny japanese imports
Yes, that's one point many here seem to be missing.
Of course, it's still their fault of not seperating the data into fields.
Actually, (AFAIK, IANAS, correct me if I'm wrong) the Hubble images are correct, but they're just using pretty colours to represent different kinds of radiation, not just the normal light.
That's true, but I think shouting "let's go to Mars!" isn't very inspiring.
It'd be inspiring if they'd actually mean it, and produced solid goals (and stick to them) and sufficient budget.
I get the impression that you can scan and save the image, it's just when you try to print it out at the normal size that Photoshop takes steps.
The newspost clearly says:
Something has been built into Photoshop's core coding that can detect something in images of currency and will prevent the user from opening the file.
Things like Morrowind, where crossing the map without stop takes a hour or more, and exploring all the corners is months of play, were plainly impossible when it all required hand-coding
;)
You forgot to mention that Morrowind was buggy, slow, crashed often, and had horrible loading times.
(was a great game anyways)
The keywords are:
A shader program
The GPU is designed for CG, not for 'general purpose computing'.
I guess the instruction set is pretty limited too.
What kind of instructions does the GPU actually accept?
I mean, you probably just can't run any kind of algorithm on there can you?
But what is the big deal here?
... could be achieved in C by replacing the allocate calls with a macro that inserts the filename and line number. Alternatively, add a parameter (string/number) to the allocate function and then preprocess the source with an external tool (PERL script, for example) that puts a unique value in each call to a memory function.
We've had this kind of memory leak tracing for ages (simple C++ macro's to wrap around 'new' and 'delete' is one example)
Ok, so we're doing it externally with perl now, yay.
And by the way:
If you need to edit the source, then why use an external script in the first place?
The maximum number of results have been returned.
Well, he was right wasn't he?
:P
Although patent litigations seem kind of hard to do in a war
Thanks, I could've spent days looking for the pun.
*cough* We've seen all of that before .. And it starts up in 0.5 nanoseconds too.
Although it doesn't look as sexy as winamp, it (imho) beats winamp in every aspect.
No, not really
The most important point here is that anime fansubs are technically illegal
(you're downloading something somebody worked hard for for free, some lawyer proved this is illegal, although I can see the point)
While if you buy a DVD from another region, you're actually spending money that goes to the producers.
In this case you have actually bought a product
Why should this be illegal just because you live somewhere else? It's ridiculous!
If you aren't satisfied with the products offered in your country/region you should be allowed to purchase it somewhere else.
Looks like they're raytracing on their webserver, or could it be something else?
Of course, but you can't turn back time like that.
:)
We've long since passed our natural equilibrium.
The only way out as I see it is some kind of birth control.
Something like that is bound to be government-controlled though, and subject to all the nasty consequences of it.
Of course, some kind of massive plague would solve our problem too.
But that would either wipe us out completely or leave us in a kind of post-apocalyptic world.
I'd rather have a lenghtened lifespan and birth control
Of course, I missed that.
But then what do we do, let people die?
We've always been researching medicine to allow people to live longer, this is merely a significant new direction.
It doesn't seem that easy to research outside of the well-connected scientific community.
Although eventually it will be done somewhere, if it would be completely banned.
Why would the population problem matter?
What reason would there be for mass-cloning?
As I see it, cloning/stem cell/whatever research is a way to learn more about how we work.
And the more we know about how we work, the better we can work on small things like medicine. (genetic research seems very promising for a cure for cancer)
The artist was deprived of the money Bob would have otherwise spent. It does matter how you look at it.
And that is where you are wrong.
Because we don't know if Bob would have actually spent the money on the CD.
He might not like the music enough to buy it on CD for example, or might not even have the money for it.
I can understand your reaction though, and I agree that filesharing is not really 'correct/legal' and that some people are too defensive about it.
But I still don't agree with this relentless 'war on filesharing'
I'm not going to voice my reasons why (it's 04:00 here, I'm going to bed) cause there are plenty of other insightful comments in topics like this one.