I only have one thing to say to you. GET OVER IT. Bad things happen to people. Deal with it and move on. Your violence and hatred will not do anything except create more violence and hatred. The only reason sexual abuse lasts forever is b/c people like you like to wallow in self pity, and companies like to make money off of it. A bad thing happened to you, fine, but move on. There is so much better things in the world for you to enjoy. I really hope that you see one good thing out of your experience; i hope it made you really appreciate the good things in this world. I hope you got that out of it, i really hope you aren't wasting the rest of your life over this. Dweal on the good, not the bad.
Nevermind that somewhere might be a person without a record, yet trying to build a bomb big enough to wipe out the east coast. But hey, he's not no record, so he is safe.
Good remember that when i shoot you in the head for tailgatting me. Your life has no value anyway. Better yet, i'll put you in jail for a while, then shoot you in the head. From all accounts i've heard prision is not the most desirable enviroment to be in.
Well, i'llremember thta if i ever get convicted of anything. B/c if i do, and that is how most of society thinks, well then i'm gonna have a blast after that, b/c, what the hell, i'm branded a crimal forever. Might as well have some fun if i'm gonna be outcast like that. Oh, i guess if your kid ever smokes pot yu'd throw him right the hell out, after all, he's a criminal now, and will never be anything else. And smoking pot will ONLY lead to other drugs. And of course you'll never forgive him,you have no son now. You're an idiot.
Well, the fix would be a rehibilation program, but since we don't care about people anymore we'd rather just lock them up and let them rot. Besides that would cost too much money, so its not worth it. I wonder how soon it will be to do this to anyone that violates the law. I thought part of being human was having compasion, and the ability to forgive others. Another poster said whats a few innocent people dying as long as we get most of the guilty ones. To him i say, i hope he remembers that if he is ever getting strapped to the electic chair. He does not value human life. ALL human life is valueable. Even those of criminals. Even criminals have rights. Thats what this country was founded on, that EVERYONE, NO MATTER WHAT has certain rights from the day they are born. You might be stupid or an asshole, but that doesn't mean i can take away your rights.
Fine, you missed alot of work...thats understandable. That 2nd point tho is bs. IF I AM NOT ON THEIR TIME I DO NOT REPRESENT THEM. Speeding when you are delivering dominos pizza to a house is one thing, speeding on your own time is quite another. I work to live, i do not live to work.
Why the fuck should your employer care? What you do on your own time should be your business and your buiness alone. Employees are replacable. If it is ok for employers to do this, then thats say its ok for them to impose a certain moral code on you. NO ONE has that right.
Well let me ask you this. Is it illegal if i, who already owns the cd a song is on, downloads a song from someone else, who also owns the same cd? At any rate, i think copyright and patents need to be nixed, right now. They were designed to protect artists and inventors. Well, now it is a tool for large corperations to screw over as many people as possible. I'm tired of gov't sanctioned abuses by coroperations.
I agree. They are not about the music anymore. The Sad but True thing is they used to be, at least they seemed that way. I should've seen this coming tho when load came out...i thought maybe it was a stunt, and they'd go back to thier older music. But i guess its not...the minute you demand payment to create your art, you are no longer an artist. Hopefuly their bus will slip off the grand canyon or something. To think, i used to worship them...
To me the earth-shattering part of linux is its stability, and the freedom it gives me over MY computer. If i don't like something, i can just take it out. I have emense power with open source. Even if joe blow can't do that, there is always a few neighborhood kids that could do it. Just like not everyone is a mechanic, but there always seems to be someone around that is, and would like to lend you a hand. Even the car enthusist next door would be able to help you out. Finally, i'd like to point out that i work for a company that by its very nature must be open source. We develop web applications, and in the end, the clients get the source code to the pages (including the scripts run server side), and we still make a nice chunk of change:)
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Good drivers mean better performance. For instance, on Linux, 3dfx kicks nVidias ass, even though nVidia's hardware is better, because 3dfx's Linux drivers are far superior to nVidia's.
I understand poorly written drives can degrade performance, what i don't understand is why does nVIDIA care if 3dfx can see how they wrote their drivers? I'd think most of their 'secrets' would be in the chipset.
So probably the drivers have to convert from 32 bit to 16 bit color. Stuff like that.
Ok, but that seems rather trivial. Why would 3dfx care if anyone knew their software had to do that? Do you know of something less trivial done in the software?
And, nothing personal, but if you're asking this you probably _can't write a better driver (neither could I).
Opps, you're right..I should probably be someone else.
No, that's what SVGA drivers are for: they run on virtually any video card, and they're quite slow.
Ok, well then it seems to me that nVIDIA shouldn't care about opening the source, because it wouldn't help anyone using a 3dfx card. The only reason i can think of is if they thought of a spiffy new way to do a 3d xform in the software or something, and wanted to hide it. But i've heard no claims of that, and even if i did, i would wonder why its not being done in the HW. I mean the whole point of the 3d card is to take the load of the cpu, so it can do other stuff, no? I understand your points and the importance of drives, i just don't understand what could be in nVIDIAs drivers that makes them think if 3dfx got them, 3dfx could bury nVIDIA.
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nVidia is inviting the competition to inspect the secret sauce and help them in developing their own recipes.
Ok, someone tell me why the drivers are the hottest thing about all these 3d cards? I thought it was the chip that was doing the real work, why do these companies know if I can write a better driver? Would that better driver be able to drive any 3d card? If thats the case, why waste money on the hardware we're getting if its only the software that matters. No one has explained this to me yet..
If it used the GPL, I wouldn't be able to use it in any game that I'm selling without opening the source.
Actually i don't think thats the case. If they were to gpl it, it would probably use the lgpl. But the fact that you use that lgpl'ed library wouldn't mean you'd have to open the source for your product. Of course i could be wrong, so someone feel free to correct me:)
Is it me, or does the old site seem quicker? Maybe b/c you're all on the beta site:P Seriously tho, the old site came right up, the new one sat there after giving me the usuall/. header pics.
Hey dumbass, the fact that he's 'slanting' them a little or a lot doesn't make a whole lot of difference if he says he doesn't his kids being manipulated. B/c even a little manipulation is manipulation. So he wouldn't go that far, big deal, he might almost go just as far anyway. You're the idiot.
What i don't get is, you buy a 3d card because the CHIPSET and HARDWARE offer great performance. Why do the companies care so much about the driver? I mean isn't a driver just an API that the os uses to draw crap on the screen? i mean is nvidia afraid that someone will hack the drivers so they can power my 3dfx card or what? And why do they care, they are selling HARDWARE not softare.
Could it be claimed that simply by releasing this as a binary file they are encrypting the contents of a copyrighted work (the source code?)
I really doubt it, since EVERYONE knows the 'encryption'. Besides the source files would be useless unless converted to binary. It would be like trying to eat a cake without putting any of the indredients together. Er something. Its early i can't think of a good analogy. At any rate, you're not encrypting anything b/c its fairly easy to go from binary back to the source.
I am the only person who should be slanting my children's thoughts...I want my children to be free of manipulation.
Um, didn't you just say you try to slant their thoughts? Thats manipulation too. HOw about teaching your children to think freely for themselves, and giving them FACTS (not nessarly you're opinion). I think your kids would be better off then.
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Hmm, you've raised some good points. As far as not having the time or vested intrest to keep up on how your company is doing morally, i do see your point. On the flip side if the idea is to get companies to act responsibly, then if you don't have time maybe you shouldn't invest, or just hope the company isn't found guilty of anything. Some would argue ignorance of the law is not an excuse. As far as your MS stock goes, well you've heard both the findings of fact and law now, so if you wanted to avoid punishment under my system you would've sold your stock by now to avoid it. As far as your example of the one guy signing a contract which screws ovre people, well i never said that the higher ups would not be held accountable, like they are now. You're right tho there are alot of interesting things to think about with that kind of system. But then its not like i thought it through, it wsa just something i wanted to toss out there:)
Well, given that Jefferson wrote "Creator" and you're created before you're actually born (unless I missed something in sex ed), you mean your have the rights AT CONCEPTION, including the right to (in order) Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Those are what's mentioned. Too many people confuse the Declaration and the Constitution. The Bill of Rights are restrictions on government, not a total enumeration of what rights you have.
Well i didn't mean to quote any one document, i was trying to talk about thier general philosophy of gov't and whatnot, which IIRC they borrowed from Locke, who in turn borrowed from Keyes...if the names aren't right someone correct me, its been over a year since my philosophy of law course:) Basically i think Keyes said that no person may interfere with another person, unless you are acting in a way to stop that person from interfering w/something else . Er something like that anyway. Children seeing porn doesn't create any situation of interferce, and there for there is no reason to bar them from seeing it. Actually i think with that line of thought you can argue that NOT letting them see it is interferce. Hmm...if i remember there is an extreme which you can take this too, but i still think that would be better then the other extreme. About your getting rights at conception, thats a whole other arguement about what makes a human a human that i don't want to get into right here:) Of course if someone wants to, i'd be morethen happy to share what i got out of another class;)
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I like that idea. A lot. Very interesting. The logistics of it would be next to impossible, but, yes, I think that would help tremendously in cleaning up the defunct morals of corporations.
Hmm...can't really tell if you're being sarcastic here, but i think it would work. Perhaps your punishment would be proportinal to the amount of stock you own. Anyway if you've got a better idea i'dlike to hear it. I'm tired of companies getting away w/all this shit, b/c they are a 'big faceless company'.
There are different kinds of censorship, and while some may be necessary,
Censorship is never nessasry, it is always wrong. Even putting age restrictions on something is censorship. Why? Well, the philosphy here is that children aren't capible of handling it. That philosophy is flawed. Where do we draw the line? Do retarted people not have any rights? Stupid people? Everyone has rights, and our founding fathers believed this. They said you have certain god given rights FROM THE TIME YOU'RE BORN. Unalienable. Meaning there is NEVER a reason to take them away. Even if you're a child molster, handicapped, or a child. Children know when people are trying to control them and they don't like it anymore then an older person would. And i think the more restictive we get about wht children can and cannot do, the worse they will be for it, the more they will lash out about it. We need to TEACH children, not CONTROL them. Education is the solution to all social woes.
you can enlist in the Army when you're 17, you can become a stripper when you're 18 but you can't drink, gamble or be old enough to look at pr0n until 21.
I think its 18 for the army; at least thast when i had to register. Most places also use 18 and the age limit for porn, but it can vary city to city. At any rate all of these age restrictions are pointless. Like you're gonna wake up on your 21st birthday and suddenly be able to hanlde drinking more responsibily then the day before. I really don't know why people even care what others are doing. As long as you're not interfering w/me i couldn't give a fuck.
I'll let my kids watch pornos before i start letting them watch violent movies. Of course i suppose anything can be damaging to a child, if the child isn't talked to about it. But then i guess thats where the real problem lies. People like lying to children instead of being honest with them. Thats probably why kids are so fucked up today. Instead of educating parents want to ban. I wish parents would start taking a little more responsibility with raising thier kids.
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I only have one thing to say to you. GET OVER IT. Bad things happen to people. Deal with it and move on. Your violence and hatred will not do anything except create more violence and hatred. The only reason sexual abuse lasts forever is b/c people like you like to wallow in self pity, and companies like to make money off of it. A bad thing happened to you, fine, but move on. There is so much better things in the world for you to enjoy. I really hope that you see one good thing out of your experience; i hope it made you really appreciate the good things in this world. I hope you got that out of it, i really hope you aren't wasting the rest of your life over this. Dweal on the good, not the bad.
Nevermind that somewhere might be a person without a record, yet trying to build a bomb big enough to wipe out the east coast. But hey, he's not no record, so he is safe.
Good remember that when i shoot you in the head for tailgatting me. Your life has no value anyway. Better yet, i'll put you in jail for a while, then shoot you in the head. From all accounts i've heard prision is not the most desirable enviroment to be in.
once a criminal, always a criminal.
Well, i'llremember thta if i ever get convicted of anything. B/c if i do, and that is how most of society thinks, well then i'm gonna have a blast after that, b/c, what the hell, i'm branded a crimal forever. Might as well have some fun if i'm gonna be outcast like that. Oh, i guess if your kid ever smokes pot yu'd throw him right the hell out, after all, he's a criminal now, and will never be anything else. And smoking pot will ONLY lead to other drugs. And of course you'll never forgive him,you have no son now. You're an idiot.
Well, the fix would be a rehibilation program, but since we don't care about people anymore we'd rather just lock them up and let them rot. Besides that would cost too much money, so its not worth it. I wonder how soon it will be to do this to anyone that violates the law. I thought part of being human was having compasion, and the ability to forgive others. Another poster said whats a few innocent people dying as long as we get most of the guilty ones. To him i say, i hope he remembers that if he is ever getting strapped to the electic chair. He does not value human life. ALL human life is valueable. Even those of criminals. Even criminals have rights. Thats what this country was founded on, that EVERYONE, NO MATTER WHAT has certain rights from the day they are born. You might be stupid or an asshole, but that doesn't mean i can take away your rights.
Fine, you missed alot of work...thats understandable. That 2nd point tho is bs. IF I AM NOT ON THEIR TIME I DO NOT REPRESENT THEM. Speeding when you are delivering dominos pizza to a house is one thing, speeding on your own time is quite another. I work to live, i do not live to work.
Why the fuck should your employer care? What you do on your own time should be your business and your buiness alone. Employees are replacable. If it is ok for employers to do this, then thats say its ok for them to impose a certain moral code on you. NO ONE has that right.
Well let me ask you this. Is it illegal if i, who already owns the cd a song is on, downloads a song from someone else, who also owns the same cd? At any rate, i think copyright and patents need to be nixed, right now. They were designed to protect artists and inventors. Well, now it is a tool for large corperations to screw over as many people as possible. I'm tired of gov't sanctioned abuses by coroperations.
I agree. They are not about the music anymore. The Sad but True thing is they used to be, at least they seemed that way. I should've seen this coming tho when load came out...i thought maybe it was a stunt, and they'd go back to thier older music. But i guess its not...the minute you demand payment to create your art, you are no longer an artist. Hopefuly their bus will slip off the grand canyon or something. To think, i used to worship them...
To me the earth-shattering part of linux is its stability, and the freedom it gives me over MY computer. If i don't like something, i can just take it out. I have emense power with open source. Even if joe blow can't do that, there is always a few neighborhood kids that could do it. Just like not everyone is a mechanic, but there always seems to be someone around that is, and would like to lend you a hand. Even the car enthusist next door would be able to help you out. Finally, i'd like to point out that i work for a company that by its very nature must be open source. We develop web applications, and in the end, the clients get the source code to the pages (including the scripts run server side), and we still make a nice chunk of change :)
What advertisements, i don't see any :)
Good drivers mean better performance. For instance, on Linux, 3dfx kicks nVidias ass, even though nVidia's hardware is better, because 3dfx's Linux drivers are far superior to nVidia's.
I understand poorly written drives can degrade performance, what i don't understand is why does nVIDIA care if 3dfx can see how they wrote their drivers? I'd think most of their 'secrets' would be in the chipset.
So probably the drivers have to convert from 32 bit to 16 bit color. Stuff like that.
Ok, but that seems rather trivial. Why would 3dfx care if anyone knew their software had to do that? Do you know of something less trivial done in the software?
And, nothing personal, but if you're asking this you probably _can't write a better driver (neither could I).
Opps, you're right..I should probably be someone else.
No, that's what SVGA drivers are for: they run on virtually any video card, and they're quite slow.
Ok, well then it seems to me that nVIDIA shouldn't care about opening the source, because it wouldn't help anyone using a 3dfx card. The only reason i can think of is if they thought of a spiffy new way to do a 3d xform in the software or something, and wanted to hide it. But i've heard no claims of that, and even if i did, i would wonder why its not being done in the HW. I mean the whole point of the 3d card is to take the load of the cpu, so it can do other stuff, no? I understand your points and the importance of drives, i just don't understand what could be in nVIDIAs drivers that makes them think if 3dfx got them, 3dfx could bury nVIDIA.
nVidia is inviting the competition to inspect the secret sauce and help them in developing their own recipes.
Ok, someone tell me why the drivers are the hottest thing about all these 3d cards? I thought it was the chip that was doing the real work, why do these companies know if I can write a better driver? Would that better driver be able to drive any 3d card? If thats the case, why waste money on the hardware we're getting if its only the software that matters. No one has explained this to me yet..
If it used the GPL, I wouldn't be able to use it in any game that I'm selling without opening the source.
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Actually i don't think thats the case. If they were to gpl it, it would probably use the lgpl. But the fact that you use that lgpl'ed library wouldn't mean you'd have to open the source for your product. Of course i could be wrong, so someone feel free to correct me
Is it me, or does the old site seem quicker? Maybe b/c you're all on the beta site :P Seriously tho, the old site came right up, the new one sat there after giving me the usuall /. header pics.
Hey dumbass, the fact that he's 'slanting' them a little or a lot doesn't make a whole lot of difference if he says he doesn't his kids being manipulated. B/c even a little manipulation is manipulation. So he wouldn't go that far, big deal, he might almost go just as far anyway. You're the idiot.
What i don't get is, you buy a 3d card because the CHIPSET and HARDWARE offer great performance. Why do the companies care so much about the driver? I mean isn't a driver just an API that the os uses to draw crap on the screen? i mean is nvidia afraid that someone will hack the drivers so they can power my 3dfx card or what? And why do they care, they are selling HARDWARE not softare.
Could it be claimed that simply by releasing this as a binary file they are encrypting the contents of a copyrighted work (the source code?)
I really doubt it, since EVERYONE knows the 'encryption'. Besides the source files would be useless unless converted to binary. It would be like trying to eat a cake without putting any of the indredients together. Er something. Its early i can't think of a good analogy. At any rate, you're not encrypting anything b/c its fairly easy to go from binary back to the source.
I am the only person who should be slanting my children's thoughts...I want my children to be free of manipulation.
Um, didn't you just say you try to slant their thoughts? Thats manipulation too. HOw about teaching your children to think freely for themselves, and giving them FACTS (not nessarly you're opinion). I think your kids would be better off then.
Hmm, you've raised some good points. As far as not having the time or vested intrest to keep up on how your company is doing morally, i do see your point. On the flip side if the idea is to get companies to act responsibly, then if you don't have time maybe you shouldn't invest, or just hope the company isn't found guilty of anything. Some would argue ignorance of the law is not an excuse. As far as your MS stock goes, well you've heard both the findings of fact and law now, so if you wanted to avoid punishment under my system you would've sold your stock by now to avoid it. As far as your example of the one guy signing a contract which screws ovre people, well i never said that the higher ups would not be held accountable, like they are now. You're right tho there are alot of interesting things to think about with that kind of system. But then its not like i thought it through, it wsa just something i wanted to toss out there :)
Well, given that Jefferson wrote "Creator" and you're created before you're actually born (unless I missed something in sex ed), you mean your have the rights AT CONCEPTION, including the right to (in order) Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Those are what's mentioned. Too many people confuse the Declaration and the Constitution. The Bill of Rights are restrictions on government, not a total enumeration of what rights you have.
:) Basically i think Keyes said that no person may interfere with another person, unless you are acting in a way to stop that person from interfering w/something else . Er something like that anyway. Children seeing porn doesn't create any situation of interferce, and there for there is no reason to bar them from seeing it. Actually i think with that line of thought you can argue that NOT letting them see it is interferce. Hmm...if i remember there is an extreme which you can take this too, but i still think that would be better then the other extreme. About your getting rights at conception, thats a whole other arguement about what makes a human a human that i don't want to get into right here :) Of course if someone wants to, i'd be morethen happy to share what i got out of another class ;)
Well i didn't mean to quote any one document, i was trying to talk about thier general philosophy of gov't and whatnot, which IIRC they borrowed from Locke, who in turn borrowed from Keyes...if the names aren't right someone correct me, its been over a year since my philosophy of law course
I like that idea. A lot. Very interesting. The logistics of it would be next to impossible, but, yes, I think that would help tremendously in cleaning up the defunct morals of corporations.
Hmm...can't really tell if you're being sarcastic here, but i think it would work. Perhaps your punishment would be proportinal to the amount of stock you own. Anyway if you've got a better idea i'dlike to hear it. I'm tired of companies getting away w/all this shit, b/c they are a 'big faceless company'.
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of censorship, and while some may be necessary,
Censorship is never nessasry, it is always wrong. Even putting age restrictions on something is censorship. Why? Well, the philosphy here is that children aren't capible of handling it. That philosophy is flawed. Where do we draw the line? Do retarted people not have any rights? Stupid people? Everyone has rights, and our founding fathers believed this. They said you have certain god given rights FROM THE TIME YOU'RE BORN. Unalienable. Meaning there is NEVER a reason to take them away. Even if you're a child molster, handicapped, or a child. Children know when people are trying to control them and they don't like it anymore then an older person would. And i think the more restictive we get about wht children can and cannot do, the worse they will be for it, the more they will lash out about it. We need to TEACH children, not CONTROL them. Education is the solution to all social woes.
you can enlist in the Army when you're 17, you can become a stripper when
you're 18 but you can't drink, gamble or be old enough to look at pr0n until 21.
I think its 18 for the army; at least thast when i had to register. Most places also use 18 and the age limit for porn, but it can vary city to city. At any rate all of these age restrictions are pointless. Like you're gonna wake up on your 21st birthday and suddenly be able to hanlde drinking more responsibily then the day before. I really don't know why people even care what others are doing. As long as you're not interfering w/me i couldn't give a fuck.
I'll let my kids watch pornos before i start letting them watch violent movies. Of course i suppose anything can be damaging to a child, if the child isn't talked to about it. But then i guess thats where the real problem lies. People like lying to children instead of being honest with them. Thats probably why kids are so fucked up today. Instead of educating parents want to ban. I wish parents would start taking a little more responsibility with raising thier kids.