Directx is only 'cross platform' if you count different video cards and the xbox360 as different platforms. Opengl 'is' cross platform, you can run it on your pc, it's used on mac's, it's used in linux, it's used in most cellphones, it's used in most consoles(sans xbox and xbox360).
pulse audio is not a sound system like alsa and oss4, it's a sound server like esd and phonon are. and to a certain extent the dmix plugin for alsa. the dmix plugin though has the least overhead of the three. dmix is near real time due to it being part of alsa. esd and pulse audio add a few millisecond delay in giving the sound information to the hardware to mix sound streams to give you the perception you can play two or more streams of audio at once on sound cards that can't do it in hardware. esd is basically dead due to dmix working very well on the majority of hardware. pulse audio is still around due to only a few distro's adopting it*coughubuntucough* and the relatively niche ability to stream the actual sound stream instead of to the sound card in your system to one across a network to another. Well that is till those same people realize they could of gotten the same result with about half the work by installing mpd.:P
nope. this is about practicality, imagine if windows had to rely on a sound system that could be taken out from under them by the whims of a third party? this is exactly what happened with linux and oss years ago. Alsa was made to stop that so they would have a stable and permanent sound system. This is not comparable to the gnome vs kde or vi vs emacs wars where both programs work equally as well and just out of spite don't work together. This is instead where there is one now widely adopted and standardized sound system(alsa). being attacked by a few vocal people who prefer a system made by a third party with a history of burning people wanting to repeat the same exact mistake.
over zsnes. the sound dev for zsnes if i remember correctly is also the head dev for bsnes. both now require oss4.0 on linux for sound, he infact refuses to code zsnes to the specs and documentation on zsnes on purpose to push people to oss4(as in he calls the devices directly rather then through alsa-lib so library can do sound mixing on non hardware sound mixing cards for example). This is a no go for me due to what the company behind oss and oss4 did. years ago oss was the only sound system for linux, what people in the foss movement and people running linux in particular did not know was the company behind oss was just using them for free code debugging and feature improvement. Once the code matured to something that they could sell they closed off any more code improvements to the foss crowed and started selling their work. this royally pissed off a lot of people, enough that alsa was made so linux would always have a sound system that can't be yanked out from under them like that. years later the same company comes out with oss4, promising they won't do what they did before. the past experience plus the fact that some of the code in oss4 uses stuff that the kernel devs have now decided does not belong in the kernel as it could allow a single program to hard lock the machine. prevents it from being allowed in and not get the tainted kernel status which means your bug reports will be ignored. because of this the oss4 people like the one who makes bsnes and codes the sound system for zsnes cry 'i'm being prosecuted for using a Superior system!' alsa isn't perfect but it's better then the alternative that can and will get yanked out from under people once they deem it so after pulling the same trick again.
so in short if oss4 is required for 'accuracy' i will take inaccurate but functional any day.
No car is safe. Even a large suv can be a death trap in crashes. Small cars can be designed to be just as safe with the use of crumple zones and air bags.
That's what will happen in the first round. The following 'off-hour' peaks will be shorter and shorter till basically 'off-peak' will not be lower then peak demand.
Isn't it obvious that if you design the system so people can take advantage of 'off-peak' hours cost it would eliminate that time being 'off-peak'? Or do people not realize that there are millions of other people in this country alone who in the same system that would be seeking the same monetary savings? Are we too short sighted to see that in such a system as these same people chase each newer, and shorter 'off-peak' time that it would eventually end up being a system that had NO off-peak time resulting in higher costs for all? Not to mention that in such a system we willingly allow others to dictate what we do with what we pay for after we pay for it like we don't own it to begin with?
But didn't they do this during the health care debate about wanting the public option but no one listened and got rid of it anyway? you think they would learn their lesson on if they would actually be listened too rather then being used as a annoyance weapon, since just about every non partisan poll showed that well over 52% of the people wanted it. I know i would of loved to have it about that time, at that same time it started to heat up(beginning of 2009) a pituitary tumor made it's self known and i nearly died, the public option would of been a lot better then the hell i went through to get united health care to cover the 26k surgery cost.
heh that's what i was thinking any it staff above the mcse gofer, entry level would not only know how to use the command line. but be good enough in it that they would be able to handle the new server.
Nope if you read the studies it relies entirely on the placebo effect. Them changing the temp on the non-hooked up thermostat is enough to make them 'feel' the temp they wanted most of the time.
this is why cryptome which has been around longer has been thoroughly ignored. They did not work with the media to get the information out. granted this allows those who you piss off to have a target resulting in stuff similar to what is happening to assange.
a lot of the money mpaa and software companies earn, with a lesser extent riaa is through 'gotcha' marketing. hyping a product, advertising it, paying for glowing reviews of it. to simply trick the consumer into buying it or going to see it. You see, when you buy a software package at many retail stores(not websites) or if you go to see a movie at a theater. part of the cost of your ticket or the product goes to the film producer or software publisher. BUT if you demand a refund of your ticket, or return the product the money you get back is not the same you gave them. that money has already gone to said people, your refund money comes out of the profits of the theater or the big box store. This is why those places put so many restrictions in place for doing such things. the movie producer companies or the software publishers don't care though, they already got your money wither you demand a refund for a horrible movie exp or horrible piece of software. A customer who pirates is not effected by such underhanded but legal tactics, they have seen that hyped turd of a movie before word of mouth tells people to stay away despite the glowing paid movie reviews and commercials with cherry picked quotes. They might even go as far as to help others from being gypped. Similar with software in general and games specifically.
The greatest marking job of the past several decades was the one used to get average folks who will never ever have at the very least $500,000+ to their name to vote against their own self interests.
Done right they can be used to subsidize the cost of a game. Though what i have been seeing is the bad way of using micro transactions. Now i am not a mmorpg fan but for such a game allowing a micro-transaction to give a person the resources and skills to obtain and use a(item, weapon, armor, ship) that a non-paying player has to work for for months. is like putting feces in the eyes of your normal customer base. Or in the case of a zelda like game on android making it unplayable, the game in question had it so any non normal ie magical item could not be obtained except trough micro-transaction. Money was also near unobtainable except for paying for it with real money. A good way to use it is to have it so people can use micro-transactions to customize their appearance especially in mmorpg's
that's mostly server based. the most it will do is just make it a bit harder to set one of those up as they would have to get the ssl cert from a federal regulated authority. What they will most likely do is outlaw private encryption, no more encrypting files or hard drives. possession of such software or hardware by a individual and not a company or government body would be defacto admission of guilt of criminal activity.
This is a little understood but very important fact about the post ww2 economic boom in the united states. It wasn't because of Superior products etc. it was mainly due to the fact that we utterly demolished the countries that had the resource and manufacturing to compete or they demolished others(Germany did this to Britain and ussr to a extent.) looking at it this way it is little surprise that japan and germany(once the wall fell) started to demolish the u.s. heavy weights that grew out of this 'lack' of competition as soon as they rebuilt their infrastructure and the populace with the needed skills.
Thats one of the things i would love if the u.s.a. copied from Britain. I would not mind paying a small yearly tax if by doing so i was able to get for free and legally similar great programming.
No not that i remember. i DO remember the old bios viruses that would rewrite the bios or otherwise brick the machine. The difficulty of doing so made them not very wide spread. efi on the contrary makes it very easy to have a virus/trojan etc embed it's self in the efi. if efi becomes wide spread then you will not only have to have a windows anti-virus if you run windows. but also a efi anti-virus for all os's.
Depends on the industry and how much you want them to do. just vote yes or no on a certain piece of legislation? a few thousand to hundred thousand. To represent your interests over the majority of people? a few million. All per year by the way. *sarcasm* they have to earn a living too *sarcasm*
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Directx is only 'cross platform' if you count different video cards and the xbox360 as different platforms.
Opengl 'is' cross platform, you can run it on your pc, it's used on mac's, it's used in linux, it's used in most cellphones, it's used in most consoles(sans xbox and xbox360).
pulse audio is not a sound system like alsa and oss4, it's a sound server like esd and phonon are. and to a certain extent the dmix plugin for alsa. the dmix plugin though has the least overhead of the three. dmix is near real time due to it being part of alsa. esd and pulse audio add a few millisecond delay in giving the sound information to the hardware to mix sound streams to give you the perception you can play two or more streams of audio at once on sound cards that can't do it in hardware. esd is basically dead due to dmix working very well on the majority of hardware. pulse audio is still around due to only a few distro's adopting it*coughubuntucough* and the relatively niche ability to stream the actual sound stream instead of to the sound card in your system to one across a network to another. Well that is till those same people realize they could of gotten the same result with about half the work by installing mpd. :P
nope. this is about practicality, imagine if windows had to rely on a sound system that could be taken out from under them by the whims of a third party? this is exactly what happened with linux and oss years ago. Alsa was made to stop that so they would have a stable and permanent sound system.
This is not comparable to the gnome vs kde or vi vs emacs wars where both programs work equally as well and just out of spite don't work together. This is instead where there is one now widely adopted and standardized sound system(alsa). being attacked by a few vocal people who prefer a system made by a third party with a history of burning people wanting to repeat the same exact mistake.
over zsnes. the sound dev for zsnes if i remember correctly is also the head dev for bsnes. both now require oss4.0 on linux for sound, he infact refuses to code zsnes to the specs and documentation on zsnes on purpose to push people to oss4(as in he calls the devices directly rather then through alsa-lib so library can do sound mixing on non hardware sound mixing cards for example). This is a no go for me due to what the company behind oss and oss4 did. years ago oss was the only sound system for linux, what people in the foss movement and people running linux in particular did not know was the company behind oss was just using them for free code debugging and feature improvement. Once the code matured to something that they could sell they closed off any more code improvements to the foss crowed and started selling their work. this royally pissed off a lot of people, enough that alsa was made so linux would always have a sound system that can't be yanked out from under them like that.
years later the same company comes out with oss4, promising they won't do what they did before. the past experience plus the fact that some of the code in oss4 uses stuff that the kernel devs have now decided does not belong in the kernel as it could allow a single program to hard lock the machine. prevents it from being allowed in and not get the tainted kernel status which means your bug reports will be ignored. because of this the oss4 people like the one who makes bsnes and codes the sound system for zsnes cry 'i'm being prosecuted for using a Superior system!' alsa isn't perfect but it's better then the alternative that can and will get yanked out from under people once they deem it so after pulling the same trick again.
so in short if oss4 is required for 'accuracy' i will take inaccurate but functional any day.
No car is safe. Even a large suv can be a death trap in crashes. Small cars can be designed to be just as safe with the use of crumple zones and air bags.
That's what will happen in the first round. The following 'off-hour' peaks will be shorter and shorter till basically 'off-peak' will not be lower then peak demand.
Isn't it obvious that if you design the system so people can take advantage of 'off-peak' hours cost it would eliminate that time being 'off-peak'?
Or do people not realize that there are millions of other people in this country alone who in the same system that would be seeking the same monetary savings?
Are we too short sighted to see that in such a system as these same people chase each newer, and shorter 'off-peak' time that it would eventually end up being a system that had NO off-peak time resulting in higher costs for all? Not to mention that in such a system we willingly allow others to dictate what we do with what we pay for after we pay for it like we don't own it to begin with?
Thank you i needed that laugh this morning.
But didn't they do this during the health care debate about wanting the public option but no one listened and got rid of it anyway? you think they would learn their lesson on if they would actually be listened too rather then being used as a annoyance weapon, since just about every non partisan poll showed that well over 52% of the people wanted it.
I know i would of loved to have it about that time, at that same time it started to heat up(beginning of 2009) a pituitary tumor made it's self known and i nearly died, the public option would of been a lot better then the hell i went through to get united health care to cover the 26k surgery cost.
heh that's what i was thinking any it staff above the mcse gofer, entry level would not only know how to use the command line. but be good enough in it that they would be able to handle the new server.
Nope if you read the studies it relies entirely on the placebo effect. Them changing the temp on the non-hooked up thermostat is enough to make them 'feel' the temp they wanted most of the time.
What also works, and studies back it up is just putting in a dummy thermostat. people who complain it's too(hot/cold) suddenly stop afterwards.
this is why cryptome which has been around longer has been thoroughly ignored. They did not work with the media to get the information out. granted this allows those who you piss off to have a target resulting in stuff similar to what is happening to assange.
a lot of the money mpaa and software companies earn, with a lesser extent riaa is through 'gotcha' marketing. hyping a product, advertising it, paying for glowing reviews of it. to simply trick the consumer into buying it or going to see it. You see, when you buy a software package at many retail stores(not websites) or if you go to see a movie at a theater. part of the cost of your ticket or the product goes to the film producer or software publisher. BUT if you demand a refund of your ticket, or return the product the money you get back is not the same you gave them. that money has already gone to said people, your refund money comes out of the profits of the theater or the big box store. This is why those places put so many restrictions in place for doing such things.
the movie producer companies or the software publishers don't care though, they already got your money wither you demand a refund for a horrible movie exp or horrible piece of software. A customer who pirates is not effected by such underhanded but legal tactics, they have seen that hyped turd of a movie before word of mouth tells people to stay away despite the glowing paid movie reviews and commercials with cherry picked quotes. They might even go as far as to help others from being gypped. Similar with software in general and games specifically.
The greatest marking job of the past several decades was the one used to get average folks who will never ever have at the very least $500,000+ to their name to vote against their own self interests.
you can get the same by enabling tear-free in catalyst or turning on vsync.
Done right they can be used to subsidize the cost of a game. Though what i have been seeing is the bad way of using micro transactions. Now i am not a mmorpg fan but for such a game allowing a micro-transaction to give a person the resources and skills to obtain and use a(item, weapon, armor, ship) that a non-paying player has to work for for months. is like putting feces in the eyes of your normal customer base. Or in the case of a zelda like game on android making it unplayable, the game in question had it so any non normal ie magical item could not be obtained except trough micro-transaction. Money was also near unobtainable except for paying for it with real money. A good way to use it is to have it so people can use micro-transactions to customize their appearance especially in mmorpg's
that's mostly server based. the most it will do is just make it a bit harder to set one of those up as they would have to get the ssl cert from a federal regulated authority. What they will most likely do is outlaw private encryption, no more encrypting files or hard drives. possession of such software or hardware by a individual and not a company or government body would be defacto admission of guilt of criminal activity.
or to outlaw private use of encryption software in the united states.
well if we default we most likely will have a cheaper labor force then china.
This is a little understood but very important fact about the post ww2 economic boom in the united states. It wasn't because of Superior products etc. it was mainly due to the fact that we utterly demolished the countries that had the resource and manufacturing to compete or they demolished others(Germany did this to Britain and ussr to a extent.)
looking at it this way it is little surprise that japan and germany(once the wall fell) started to demolish the u.s. heavy weights that grew out of this 'lack' of competition as soon as they rebuilt their infrastructure and the populace with the needed skills.
Thats one of the things i would love if the u.s.a. copied from Britain. I would not mind paying a small yearly tax if by doing so i was able to get for free and legally similar great programming.
at&t already does similar. I have to use a vpn service to run something simple like a minecraft server. otherwise at&t's systems BLOCK it.
No not that i remember. i DO remember the old bios viruses that would rewrite the bios or otherwise brick the machine. The difficulty of doing so made them not very wide spread. efi on the contrary makes it very easy to have a virus/trojan etc embed it's self in the efi. if efi becomes wide spread then you will not only have to have a windows anti-virus if you run windows. but also a efi anti-virus for all os's.
Depends on the industry and how much you want them to do. just vote yes or no on a certain piece of legislation? a few thousand to hundred thousand. To represent your interests over the majority of people? a few million. All per year by the way. *sarcasm* they have to earn a living too *sarcasm*