I normally wouldn't respond to blatant flamebait (or assholes), but I will make an exception this time.
The fact is that the market exists the way it is. I've set the bar for what I'm willing to buy and put up with. They set a price, and when I'm comfortable with the price and the goods I get, I purchase the goods. That's how a market economy works.
Now, as to your other "points."
1) I generally show up at movies late to miss the previews. Since I go see them at matinees or late-night shows, this tends to not be a problem. Also, previews on virtually all DVDs are skippable with the touch of a button. In the few cases that they haven't been, I simply return the movie to the store and request a refund. I haven't been denied yet.
2) As I said, when we agree on price and goods, I make a purchase. If they start inflating that price, I'm unwilling to purchase. I'm unwilling to pay the price for BR / HD because it includes the costs of research and development of DRM technology. I'm not interested in supporting that, therefore I won't be spending money on it.
3) Where you born in like 1994? For as long as we've had recorded media, we've had the FBI warning. On most of the dvds I own, it's quite skippable, or at the very least it's fast-forwardable. And it's hardly 60 seconds. In fact, if you actually leave it on, it barely stays on long enough to be read on most films.
4) Since you are unwilling to consume media legally at any price, you're not really relevant to the conversation. Shoo, take your communistic view of life somewhere else. All your viewpoint has contributed here is that you're unwilling to purchase any media. How do media companies know the difference between 'unwilling to purchase for any reason' and 'unwilling to purchase because I don't want to support DRM'?
You seem to know me really well, except that you actually don't know me at all. Despite the fact that I thoroughly enjoy gaming, I refuse to play games that phone home in order for me to play single player. As a consequence, I've never played HL2, or any other steam-powered games.
So, regardless of what you might think, it's people like me who are going to be the reason that DRM is eventually removed from media. I'm willing to purchase media that doesn't come with these technologies. I'm willing to pay for my entertainment. I'm unwilling to tolerate DRM features. I'll not be purchasing formats that require invasive DRM. (Macrovision is the limit of what I'm willing to accept as far as DRM goes).
I'm voting with my dollars. Rather than ranting like an idiot, you should thank people like me.
This is one of a long list of reasons that I won't be upgrading to Vista or HD-DVD/BluRay in the forseeable future. The sad thing for all of the companies involved is that I usually am an early adopter of technology.
I was one of the first people I knew to own a Tivo, DVD-player and an HD set (okay, I didn't own the set but I pressured my dad into buying one and he was really happy with it). I bought a copy of XP pretty much as soon as it was available. Last count, I owned nearly 500 DVDs.
And that's about as far as my relationship with these companies go. I--a legitimate, paying customer--am unwilling to be inconvenienced one single second, or pay a single extra dollar, to be treated like a criminal. I simply won't do it. So I'll continue buying DVDs until they stop manufacturing them, hopefully by which point this whole fiasco will have blown over.
Spoken like someone who hasn't ever been involved in the development of a large software project.
Large projects bring problems with them that aren't noticeable on small projects. The working set of my project is around 10 gigs, most of which is code and text files. The tree changes quite frequently, and syncing to that tree is painful.
What makes it more painful is when the tree is broken. So we had to develop tools to help ensure that the tree isn't broken, and that we have a way to tell what the last known good submission was.
There's performance issues related to the source repository, because no matter what repository you're using, they all have issues when you have 200 people working in the same place at the same time. (This is true of virtually any database application).
Applications that use OpenGL or Direct3D are subjected fairly heavily to Amdahl's Law. The problem is that there is a (quite severe) penalty to submitting data to the APIs from different threads, which generally means that all submission to the API is done from a single thread.
If the limiting framerate issue for your title is submission to the API (and for a lot of 3-D graphics applications, it is [warning: PDF]), then you're not going to get any speedup on multi-core systems, and there won't even by a way to improve the latency when typing messages because displaying those messages is what is taking so long.
Man... You seem to have some reading comprehension problems.
First off, signing statements are no more legal than the line item veto, they just haven't been stricken down yet.
They're not legal for pretty much the same reason that line-item vetoes are illegal: the president is not granted the power to pick and choose the parts of the law that his branch of government executes. He either signs the whole law or vetoes the whole law. Once the law has been signed, he is obligated to enforce the law as it is written.
And speaking of the past usages of signing statements, did you know that President Bush has issued only a single veto since he took office, and has issued more signing statements than all other presidents combined?
Also, if you reread the bit of the constitution that you quoted, you'll find that it doesn't list 'public safety' as a reason to declare martial law anymore than it says that it doesn't have to be declared (just exercised, as you seem to think). It says quite clearly that public safety may require the suspension of habeas corpus in cases of rebellion or invasion. Habeas corpus is not martial law.
We are neither being invaded nor are we rebelling (yet), and since Bush and the executive branch haven't claimed to suspend habeas corpus (although they clearly have suspended it), there's no legal ground for the executive branch to act illegally. And beyond that, suspending habeas corpus doesn't imply that the government can act illegally, only that they can effectively jail people and not provide the body while the writ has been suspended. The GP was quite correct in saying that the government must be quite explicit about denying the writ and deal with the consequences thereof.
What is with your ridiculous hostility towards web developers? Are you offended because they don't write code like programmers?
Get over yourself. Web developers have to deal with pretty much the same headaches that normal application developers do: changing (or incomplete) user requirements, buggy APIs (browsers), too many features--not enough time, the list goes on. Yeah, they might not write code in C/C#/C++/Java/Whitespace, but that doesn't make them subhuman. It doesn't even make them less necessary for companies that wish to reach more consumers than they would without a website. Because if we're honest with ourselves, programmers generally make for lousy web developers. Sure, we can write code that's functionally correct, but the presentation is uhh... lacking.
The web developers I've worked with in the past were neither 'lazy,' nor were they doing 'piss poor jobs.' They had bugs for the reasons the rest of us do: because we don't have infinite time or money to get applications out the door.
Every game since pretty much 1980 is a ripoff of every other game since before 1980. Snake wasn't new on BSD, that was a ripoff of the TRS-80 version, which was itself a ripoff of the arcade game.
Just like every work of fiction is a ripoff of something that's already been done: the five types of conflict were fully explored by the ancient Greeks. That doesn't mean that we should stop writing, either.
Implementation matters in games.
Now, to be honest, I personally found fl0w to be pretty pedantic, and quite boring. The point is, dismissing something because it's like something else is stupid.
Developers and publishers have to care about profit because every title these days costs a lot of money to make. Even 'small' titles cost over a million dollars. That's ignoring advertising costs, which generally are at least equal to (and generally more than) the cost of development.
Publishers and developers these days aren't interested in building meaningful relationships with developers. They are interested in investing in a one-hit-wonder at the right time, and then moving on.
You might be different. Maybe you're great. I've worked with one guy from Full Sail, and he's painted a bleak picture of what they let through as graduates.
Since then, I haven't had a single candidate make it past phone screens from gaming universities. Maybe you're the exception.
Education is a tool, but it's pretty much the only thing I have to go on for recent graduates.
As someone who's worked in games and in game related industries, I'll tell you that the 'Games' degrees are largely laughed at by those of us in the industry.
Good fundamentals are what I care about. I can teach you the domain specific knowledge you need to know, but if you don't have the fundamentals you'll never be good enough for me to bother with.
You'd be mistaken. See the slide on Texture Mapping.
Perspective divide is performed before texture sampling. This is necessary to get proper texture step sizes, for correct sampling of the texture onto the pixel.
Fractional pixel locations are also used in antialiasing.
Now for my slashdot rant: I remember when slashdot used to post news. You know, 'news for nerds. stuff that matters'? Lately, the tagline might as well change to Slashdot: "Some idiot posted this somewhere on the web. We'll ride their coat tails."
These days, slashdot hardly has as much credit as celebrity gossip sites such as What Would Tyler Durden Do? and The Superficial. At least they're honest about the fact that they are posting little more than rumors.
I guess 'WoW Wrecks Lives' drives more page views than 'Take some personal responsibility for yourself and get out of your basement.'
The blog post is basically a rant from a slow learner. It took him over a year and '70 days played' to figure out what my friends and I figured out in a few weeks: Yup, WoW is still at treadmill.
It's a game, people. As soon as you have more 'virtual' commitments than real ones, that should be a clue that your priorities are askew.
No kidding. I was going to write a similar post, but it's good to see that someone already did so. Of course, on slashdot, you'll probably be modded out of existence.
How can Windows not be relevant? As I sit here on my windows box, remote-desktopping (not VNC, because RD is more efficient for the connection I'm working over) into my windows boxes at the office, writing code that runs on windows, how exactly is windows not relevant?
But let's be more realistic here. Maybe for the office crowd (ignoring myself), the Web really does have an application to replace all of the necessities of the OS. I could use GMail and Google Calendar to replace Outlook, but then by doing so I've left all my data on the web. It might be secure, but do I really want to leave my business correspondance on a server that isn't behind my firewall?
In other news, the sky is blue, the earth is round and objects fall down!
Of course a large percentage of folks who don't use a particular technology don't know the acronyms used to refer to that technology. I'm sure back in the 40s, 70% of the population didn't know that TV was an acronym for television. For that matter, I bet 20 years ago (early days of the Personal Computer), 70% of the population didn't know what PC meant either.
Good job slashdot! If this were fark, the article would get the 'obvious' tag, and the submitter would be deserving of the 'dumbass' tag.
It's every bit as nonsensical as the war on drugs.
Neither of them are supply-side problems, and attacking the supply side is utterly ludicrous, and just reduces our civil liberties. You know, those things that make America a great place?
If we really wanted to stop terrorism, we'd work on solving the problem from a social position. You have to understand why people hate you so much in order to fix the problem.
The war on terror isn't about being effective, it's about making people feel like we're doing something. Well, we're doing something alright, we're eroding our liberties until the terrorists have won.
It's one program, has great quality, an easy user interface (I configure everything one time, insert a CD, click 'OK' after it completes the CDDB query, and click the 'Burn' button).
It rips fast, can use any number of formats (my collection is primarily ogg vorbis) without additional configuration headache, and is free (as in beer and speech. Or whatever the two freedoms people like around here).
It only runs on Windows though, but since you were talking about WMP, I don't think that's a problem for you.
(Full disclosure: I work for a major manufacturer of 3-D accelerators.)
There's lots of good sites that talk about GPGPU. Wikipedia has an okay article on the subject as well, and NVIDIA has a primer (PDF) on the subject. But the summary of this article is a bit overly broad.
GPGPU isn't about moving arbitrary processing to the GPU, rather it's about moving specific, computationally expensive computing to the massively parallel GPU.
Effectively, the core idea of GPGPU solutions is that you compute 256x256 (or another granularity) of solutions entirely in one pass.
NVIDIA has several examples on their website, specifically the GPGPU Disease and GPGPU Fluid samples. The Mandelbrot computation they have there could also be considered an example. (More samples here).
GPGPU has already been utilized to perform very fast (comparable to the CPU) FFTs. In an article in GPU Gems 2 (a very good book if you're interested in doing GPGPU work), they indicate that a 1.8x speedup can be had over performing FFTs on the CPU. I've heard that there are now significantly faster implementations as well.
I believe the GP was referring to a seperate deadlock that has no key mechanism from the outside. They can only be locked or unlocked from the inside (while someone was home).
You are an idiot. Because the statistics simply don't agree with you.
But you're also an idiot because legislating gun laws isn't going to do a damn bit of good. 80% of guns used in crimes (That's eight-zero-percent) were purchased or obtained through illegal means.
Plus, guns were used in only 6% of the 4.8 MILLION violent crimes that took place in 2004. (Also from the same website).
That's okay though, you're probably the same guy who thinks it's okay that the government is spying on its citizens and shredding our constitution as long as it makes you safer. Insert applicable Liberty / Security / deserve neither quote here.
Wait, so you're saying that because the RIAA claims to have 'crushed Indy artists' (which doesn't explain my CD case, but okay), that it's time for us to bomb a federal building, killing civilians and children in the process?
I just want to make sure that that's really what you're saying. Because that might actually be the stupidest, most misguided statement I've ever read in all of my years on the internet. I suddenly understand why the draw of 27 virgins is capable of convincing men to kill themselves in the process of bombing other people!
Actually, that might be the stupidest thing I've heard in my entire life. I... I think you're causing me to have an aneuerysm.
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I normally wouldn't respond to blatant flamebait (or assholes), but I will make an exception this time.
The fact is that the market exists the way it is. I've set the bar for what I'm willing to buy and put up with. They set a price, and when I'm comfortable with the price and the goods I get, I purchase the goods. That's how a market economy works.
Now, as to your other "points."
1) I generally show up at movies late to miss the previews. Since I go see them at matinees or late-night shows, this tends to not be a problem. Also, previews on virtually all DVDs are skippable with the touch of a button. In the few cases that they haven't been, I simply return the movie to the store and request a refund. I haven't been denied yet.
2) As I said, when we agree on price and goods, I make a purchase. If they start inflating that price, I'm unwilling to purchase. I'm unwilling to pay the price for BR / HD because it includes the costs of research and development of DRM technology. I'm not interested in supporting that, therefore I won't be spending money on it.
3) Where you born in like 1994? For as long as we've had recorded media, we've had the FBI warning. On most of the dvds I own, it's quite skippable, or at the very least it's fast-forwardable. And it's hardly 60 seconds. In fact, if you actually leave it on, it barely stays on long enough to be read on most films.
4) Since you are unwilling to consume media legally at any price, you're not really relevant to the conversation. Shoo, take your communistic view of life somewhere else. All your viewpoint has contributed here is that you're unwilling to purchase any media. How do media companies know the difference between 'unwilling to purchase for any reason' and 'unwilling to purchase because I don't want to support DRM'?
You seem to know me really well, except that you actually don't know me at all. Despite the fact that I thoroughly enjoy gaming, I refuse to play games that phone home in order for me to play single player. As a consequence, I've never played HL2, or any other steam-powered games.
So, regardless of what you might think, it's people like me who are going to be the reason that DRM is eventually removed from media. I'm willing to purchase media that doesn't come with these technologies. I'm willing to pay for my entertainment. I'm unwilling to tolerate DRM features. I'll not be purchasing formats that require invasive DRM. (Macrovision is the limit of what I'm willing to accept as far as DRM goes).
I'm voting with my dollars. Rather than ranting like an idiot, you should thank people like me.
This is one of a long list of reasons that I won't be upgrading to Vista or HD-DVD/BluRay in the forseeable future. The sad thing for all of the companies involved is that I usually am an early adopter of technology.
I was one of the first people I knew to own a Tivo, DVD-player and an HD set (okay, I didn't own the set but I pressured my dad into buying one and he was really happy with it). I bought a copy of XP pretty much as soon as it was available. Last count, I owned nearly 500 DVDs.
And that's about as far as my relationship with these companies go. I--a legitimate, paying customer--am unwilling to be inconvenienced one single second, or pay a single extra dollar, to be treated like a criminal. I simply won't do it. So I'll continue buying DVDs until they stop manufacturing them, hopefully by which point this whole fiasco will have blown over.
Spoken like someone who hasn't ever been involved in the development of a large software project.
Large projects bring problems with them that aren't noticeable on small projects. The working set of my project is around 10 gigs, most of which is code and text files. The tree changes quite frequently, and syncing to that tree is painful.
What makes it more painful is when the tree is broken. So we had to develop tools to help ensure that the tree isn't broken, and that we have a way to tell what the last known good submission was.
There's performance issues related to the source repository, because no matter what repository you're using, they all have issues when you have 200 people working in the same place at the same time. (This is true of virtually any database application).
Applications that use OpenGL or Direct3D are subjected fairly heavily to Amdahl's Law. The problem is that there is a (quite severe) penalty to submitting data to the APIs from different threads, which generally means that all submission to the API is done from a single thread.
If the limiting framerate issue for your title is submission to the API (and for a lot of 3-D graphics applications, it is [warning: PDF]), then you're not going to get any speedup on multi-core systems, and there won't even by a way to improve the latency when typing messages because displaying those messages is what is taking so long.
Man... You seem to have some reading comprehension problems.
First off, signing statements are no more legal than the line item veto, they just haven't been stricken down yet.
They're not legal for pretty much the same reason that line-item vetoes are illegal: the president is not granted the power to pick and choose the parts of the law that his branch of government executes. He either signs the whole law or vetoes the whole law. Once the law has been signed, he is obligated to enforce the law as it is written.
And speaking of the past usages of signing statements, did you know that President Bush has issued only a single veto since he took office, and has issued more signing statements than all other presidents combined?
Also, if you reread the bit of the constitution that you quoted, you'll find that it doesn't list 'public safety' as a reason to declare martial law anymore than it says that it doesn't have to be declared (just exercised, as you seem to think). It says quite clearly that public safety may require the suspension of habeas corpus in cases of rebellion or invasion. Habeas corpus is not martial law.
We are neither being invaded nor are we rebelling (yet), and since Bush and the executive branch haven't claimed to suspend habeas corpus (although they clearly have suspended it), there's no legal ground for the executive branch to act illegally. And beyond that, suspending habeas corpus doesn't imply that the government can act illegally, only that they can effectively jail people and not provide the body while the writ has been suspended. The GP was quite correct in saying that the government must be quite explicit about denying the writ and deal with the consequences thereof.
What is with your ridiculous hostility towards web developers? Are you offended because they don't write code like programmers?
Get over yourself. Web developers have to deal with pretty much the same headaches that normal application developers do: changing (or incomplete) user requirements, buggy APIs (browsers), too many features--not enough time, the list goes on. Yeah, they might not write code in C/C#/C++/Java/Whitespace, but that doesn't make them subhuman. It doesn't even make them less necessary for companies that wish to reach more consumers than they would without a website. Because if we're honest with ourselves, programmers generally make for lousy web developers. Sure, we can write code that's functionally correct, but the presentation is uhh... lacking.
The web developers I've worked with in the past were neither 'lazy,' nor were they doing 'piss poor jobs.' They had bugs for the reasons the rest of us do: because we don't have infinite time or money to get applications out the door.
So I say again: Get over yourself.
Pretty much the only thing that will help you with BrainFuck is an aneurysm.
Every game since pretty much 1980 is a ripoff of every other game since before 1980. Snake wasn't new on BSD, that was a ripoff of the TRS-80 version, which was itself a ripoff of the arcade game.
Just like every work of fiction is a ripoff of something that's already been done: the five types of conflict were fully explored by the ancient Greeks. That doesn't mean that we should stop writing, either.
Implementation matters in games.
Now, to be honest, I personally found fl0w to be pretty pedantic, and quite boring. The point is, dismissing something because it's like something else is stupid.
Developers and publishers have to care about profit because every title these days costs a lot of money to make. Even 'small' titles cost over a million dollars. That's ignoring advertising costs, which generally are at least equal to (and generally more than) the cost of development.
Publishers and developers these days aren't interested in building meaningful relationships with developers. They are interested in investing in a one-hit-wonder at the right time, and then moving on.
It may not be the 'right way,' but it 'the way.'
You might be different. Maybe you're great. I've worked with one guy from Full Sail, and he's painted a bleak picture of what they let through as graduates.
Since then, I haven't had a single candidate make it past phone screens from gaming universities. Maybe you're the exception.
Education is a tool, but it's pretty much the only thing I have to go on for recent graduates.
Best of luck!
As someone who's worked in games and in game related industries, I'll tell you that the 'Games' degrees are largely laughed at by those of us in the industry.
Good fundamentals are what I care about. I can teach you the domain specific knowledge you need to know, but if you don't have the fundamentals you'll never be good enough for me to bother with.
Good luck!
Only 90%?
Boo-freaking-hoo.
You'd be mistaken. See the slide on Texture Mapping.
Perspective divide is performed before texture sampling. This is necessary to get proper texture step sizes, for correct sampling of the texture onto the pixel.
Fractional pixel locations are also used in antialiasing.
Yes. It absolutely matters. It makes a huge difference in image quality.
It matters when we go to sample textures, it matters when we enable AA, it matters.
Last time I checked, the term 'most' meant a majority.
Firefox, Safari and Opera may have significant market penetration, but 30% a majority does not make.
Now for my slashdot rant: I remember when slashdot used to post news. You know, 'news for nerds. stuff that matters'? Lately, the tagline might as well change to Slashdot: "Some idiot posted this somewhere on the web. We'll ride their coat tails."
These days, slashdot hardly has as much credit as celebrity gossip sites such as What Would Tyler Durden Do? and The Superficial. At least they're honest about the fact that they are posting little more than rumors.
I guess 'WoW Wrecks Lives' drives more page views than 'Take some personal responsibility for yourself and get out of your basement.'
The blog post is basically a rant from a slow learner. It took him over a year and '70 days played' to figure out what my friends and I figured out in a few weeks: Yup, WoW is still at treadmill.
It's a game, people. As soon as you have more 'virtual' commitments than real ones, that should be a clue that your priorities are askew.
No kidding. I was going to write a similar post, but it's good to see that someone already did so. Of course, on slashdot, you'll probably be modded out of existence.
How can Windows not be relevant? As I sit here on my windows box, remote-desktopping (not VNC, because RD is more efficient for the connection I'm working over) into my windows boxes at the office, writing code that runs on windows, how exactly is windows not relevant?
But let's be more realistic here. Maybe for the office crowd (ignoring myself), the Web really does have an application to replace all of the necessities of the OS. I could use GMail and Google Calendar to replace Outlook, but then by doing so I've left all my data on the web. It might be secure, but do I really want to leave my business correspondance on a server that isn't behind my firewall?
In other news, the sky is blue, the earth is round and objects fall down!
Of course a large percentage of folks who don't use a particular technology don't know the acronyms used to refer to that technology. I'm sure back in the 40s, 70% of the population didn't know that TV was an acronym for television. For that matter, I bet 20 years ago (early days of the Personal Computer), 70% of the population didn't know what PC meant either.
Good job slashdot! If this were fark, the article would get the 'obvious' tag, and the submitter would be deserving of the 'dumbass' tag.
It's every bit as nonsensical as the war on drugs.
Neither of them are supply-side problems, and attacking the supply side is utterly ludicrous, and just reduces our civil liberties. You know, those things that make America a great place?
If we really wanted to stop terrorism, we'd work on solving the problem from a social position. You have to understand why people hate you so much in order to fix the problem.
The war on terror isn't about being effective, it's about making people feel like we're doing something. Well, we're doing something alright, we're eroding our liberties until the terrorists have won.
Sometimes, forcing everyone to a complete standstill is better than allowing egregious violations of our basic liberties to continue.
Only in the context of filibustering though (which really can only affect the senate).. This is not an argument for any sort of anarchist standpoint.
I use CDex for all my ripping needs.
It's one program, has great quality, an easy user interface (I configure everything one time, insert a CD, click 'OK' after it completes the CDDB query, and click the 'Burn' button).
It rips fast, can use any number of formats (my collection is primarily ogg vorbis) without additional configuration headache, and is free (as in beer and speech. Or whatever the two freedoms people like around here).
It only runs on Windows though, but since you were talking about WMP, I don't think that's a problem for you.
(Full disclosure: I work for a major manufacturer of 3-D accelerators.)
There's lots of good sites that talk about GPGPU. Wikipedia has an okay article on the subject as well, and NVIDIA has a primer (PDF) on the subject. But the summary of this article is a bit overly broad.
GPGPU isn't about moving arbitrary processing to the GPU, rather it's about moving specific, computationally expensive computing to the massively parallel GPU.
Effectively, the core idea of GPGPU solutions is that you compute 256x256 (or another granularity) of solutions entirely in one pass.
NVIDIA has several examples on their website, specifically the GPGPU Disease and GPGPU Fluid samples. The Mandelbrot computation they have there could also be considered an example. (More samples here).
GPGPU has already been utilized to perform very fast (comparable to the CPU) FFTs. In an article in GPU Gems 2 (a very good book if you're interested in doing GPGPU work), they indicate that a 1.8x speedup can be had over performing FFTs on the CPU. I've heard that there are now significantly faster implementations as well.
I believe the GP was referring to a seperate deadlock that has no key mechanism from the outside. They can only be locked or unlocked from the inside (while someone was home).
They are thus immune to bumping.
You are an idiot. Because the statistics simply don't agree with you.
But you're also an idiot because legislating gun laws isn't going to do a damn bit of good. 80% of guns used in crimes (That's eight-zero-percent) were purchased or obtained through illegal means.
Plus, guns were used in only 6% of the 4.8 MILLION violent crimes that took place in 2004. (Also from the same website).
That's okay though, you're probably the same guy who thinks it's okay that the government is spying on its citizens and shredding our constitution as long as it makes you safer. Insert applicable Liberty / Security / deserve neither quote here.
Wait, so you're saying that because the RIAA claims to have 'crushed Indy artists' (which doesn't explain my CD case, but okay), that it's time for us to bomb a federal building, killing civilians and children in the process?
I just want to make sure that that's really what you're saying. Because that might actually be the stupidest, most misguided statement I've ever read in all of my years on the internet. I suddenly understand why the draw of 27 virgins is capable of convincing men to kill themselves in the process of bombing other people!
Actually, that might be the stupidest thing I've heard in my entire life. I... I think you're causing me to have an aneuerysm.