We used to use a third party TCP/IP stack by Trumpet back in the Windows 3.1 days.
That Microsoft rolled their own based on the BSD one is pretty much irrelevant, and to have rolled a non-compatible one would have been pretty much a waste of their effort becasue the Internet was becoming mainstream in Universities and early-adoptor businesses before Microsoft "got on board."
8 Months is a substantial investemnt. Especially in a grind-game, but it seems to me, that's a shortcoming of the game dealing death too simply, and pushing the grind, and making your character an investment, rather than a tool to play the game.
I stopped counting the number of times I died playing MMOGs after it hit about 50, and I expect that over my few years of playing these games, I've died well over a few thousand times.
Its a tired paradigm.
We need to advocate better systems of failure, and manage better systems for reward by "playing it safe" vs. rewards for risking life and limb.
You could incorporate better facilities for dealing with death as well--perhaps allowing characters to create a will for the next character, or some other character in a way to make gameplay more interesting (you could also add some tradeoff or reprocussion when it occurs--oath of vengence or whatnot).
I think a well designed system would also make "true death" the sort of feat that doesn't happen by a run of bad luck or accident. You could run a system to incorprate an unconcious state. Here, to die you need some sufficiently negative HP damage (possibly scalible or otherwise improvable), otherwise you fall down unconsious, take less damage, and aggro is turned off towards you till you're concious again. If you don't take lethal dameage, you don't die.
The bottom line is most games also push some manner of player-driven resurrection also, so death could be permanent to "some extent" with much wider-reaching or at the very least interesting reprocussions than what happens now.
I don't believe so either, and don't think for a second I would vote for a candedate that espouses initiation of force when there are clearly better candiates on both ends of the american political spectrum. But its fundamentally more important to the well-being of a nation that people have a say and exercie it, than it is to argue any of a thousand points and not take any action at all.
Someone has to be at the helm of the american military behemoth.
A quarter billion people might easily be wrong, but its important they have both the opportunity to revise their position or stay the course and feel the repercussions. What never fails to amaze me about society is that we have a hard time accepting people have the right to be wrong.
Not to go too far off topic here, but its a great question.
What if the result of more people voting is exactly the opposite of what you want?
What if it is?
Americans are still the privilegd few of history who have a say in how a superpower is going to be run. Many people believe apathy from such a privlideged role is considerably more offenceive and ignorant than banging heads over picking the wrong leader.
If the wrong one gets in, well, at least he was elected there by a majority--a reflection that people who care about their privliledge also wnat the leader more (electoral colledge aside), and said leader didn't find his way there via a military coup or idiot birthright.
If the right one gets in, at least the voter did his part in ensuring it.
You can't lose by exercising a true democratic priviledge, even if the one you want isn't the one you get.
Most of those features have already hit the NA market. Its too bad VW doesn't sell them here, but I've driven GM cars with the dimming mirror, internal/external temperature gauge, recent mpg(l/km) and how far you can go and often you'll need to stop on a trip on a given tank of gas.
My own car has a couple of those features and also projects my speed, and minimal radio info into my windshield via a HUD, so I can see what they're at without having to take my eyes off the road.
Obviously, people of lower incomes need to prioritize food and maybe shelter, and for some of the the costs of thing like electricity is a bigger issue than the cost of a PC, if those above this line a can get a PC for $100 and start to better themselves, how is this a problem? You're missing the whole give a man a fish / teach a man to fish paradigm, or perhaps you think people people should want to live in squalor, or you think the poor should get software freebies.
Whatever it is you're saying, its not clear and its apparently quite wrong.
Resumes that don't come out of a word processor get passed over. Anyone who can't used the latest software in place at a company is going to get fired. No company can function without data management they way they could 20 years ago. Welcome to the bottom line of this new world we've created.
Ballmer is approaching the problem as a way to sell the shit he calls an OS by exploiting the problem that is a win for his company and a win for the poor. He's not forcing the poor to use it any more than he's forcing you, and he has every right to charge for it. You however, are glazing over the problem in an insultingly arrogant fashion by your presumption that third world people would be better off having to continue living in third world conditions, or that they have a right to pirate software--just like you used to do.
I don't see a great library, I see average--slightly below even. I'm not saying the system is a waste, but the library is weak. It may get better--will see.
Halo and KOTOR have been ported to PC already, which for a number of us, was a BETTER hardware experience than TV.
None of EA nor Sega nor Ubi have done exclusive X-Box development with any of their good titles. They do it with their big, relatively massive franchises, which don't suck, but don't make anyone do cartwheels either.
Project Gotham is alright, but its hardly the be-all and end-all of racing games.
Top Spin is, well, tennis. I'm having a really hard time getting excited about it, but in all fairness I haven't played it, due to an overwhelming lack of excitement for playing tennis.
Cuz I think Molyneux does interesting work, I'll give you Fable, and in all fairness, there's a few other decent titles out now and coming soon (halo 2), but that's true for all the consoles and the PC too (half-life 2).
The bottom line is $150 lets me play alot of the same or readily more interesting things on other systems. (Pikmin 2, or Paper Mario spring to mind because I spent a large chunk of last week on playing 'cube).
Even that's weak. I never bothered upgrading from the classic GBA, since I need the same amount of light to play it as say, read a book--and all the same cool games are still there.
I don't know about him, but that sums up the stores here in Edmonton. Anything you can get there, you can get at about 90% of the price at London Drugs, who's employees also know slighly more than the toadies at Best Buy, Future Shop and the Sony Store (still can't ask them if it "runs in linux," but they can tell you what an rs-232 port is without staring stupidly at you waiting to rephrase it as COM1 and still proceeding to stare stupidly at you because they think mice only come in USB and PS/2 ports).
About the only things the Sony Stores are good for, IMHO is you can get anything Sony repaired for little to no grief, without a warrenty, bought from them or otherwise--you can expect to pay for it tho.
Just so you have some idea what you've talked about in reference to AIDS. The here's a rough idea of statistics comparing how many people die in a developed country, vs. a non-developed country.
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I make sure everyone is dressed in a bright, ruffled shirt and no one is allowed into the conference if their shirt is the same colour as someone else.
They're also not allowed in if they're not wearing perfume and willing to pose for a picture that looks like the makings of a mechanical orgy.
It may be that visually for every scene that's true, but I read somewhere a year or two back that they changed minor verbage for EVERY release, and rerelease to theaters back in the 80s, as well as videocasette (I had it on Beta back in the day) and later LD.
Essentailly what the editors would do was release different takes at a few different points in the film, for shits and giggles as the way Lucas does shoots his actors, things get rephrased and paraphrased for almost every take. (Yet somehow it still always sounds kinda wooden.)
Its not the kind of thing you notice (like Greedo shooting first,) unless you have every line from another release committed to memory.
I think Metroid Prime was one of, if not the most fun game I played last year. I'm already psyched to play "Echos," and take it out for a multiplayer spin when I've finished the single player.
If some "lesser" version of the revived franchise is bundled with a DS, I'm already sold.
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You've attached values, and assigned right and wrong which have no place in the definition. Because the founding fathers happen to share your and my definition of right and wrong in this case, we'll just glaze over the fact the definition still holds.
I think any redshirt dying at the hands of the founding fathers or the arbitrary boston tea merchant, my have seen them in a different light than you and me.
What defines death? Brain death? I think that's actually a poor definition, despite the fact its the best we have.
I mean socially, if said person reamains on life support for the few years it takes for brain death to finally set in, does it really matter once they are brain dead? Think long and hard about being a person in that position. Being a relative of someone in this scenario myself, and having a few other "common" deaths in the family, to the outside world, and I suspect to the person dying, catatonic isolation and death are pretty much indistinuishable, and defining death as brain death is splitting hairs.
Life support in many cases has more to do with the living being unable to come to terms with the loss (this is a problem fostered largely by modern western culture, where we live in some peculiar denial of it, death isn't celebrated and mourning is meant to be done in private) and less to do with bringing them back to life.
Now after all this, I would argue, the catatonic vegetable has more right to life, because there is a slim chance he or she is self-aware. Show me anyone with a memory of the first 10 weeks of being a fetus. ANYONE. You'll be hard pressed to find a 3 year old who can remember the last week in the womb. Personhood starts, when a person can define themselves as such, even if if only to themselves--be it a baby crying becasue it is hungry and knows it, or an old made cussing about kids these days because the world is changing around him and he knows it.
This is a big and easily spotted dividing line that differentiates people from animals, murder from butchery.
As an abortable fetus doesn't have a sense of itself (it lack's the mental cognition), its hard to paint it as murder.
Now having played devils advocate, I do agree with you about potential. My mind shudders that there would be no Bethoven in a world with abortions, but that's a diffent story, and humans waste potential all the time with no absolutely no respect for it.
Frankly, I've never ported my own C code, and if I expect there's ANY chance of my own getting ported, it weighs heavily into chosing the language and APIs for the developemnt platform off the bat.
What's unfortuante, (as I'm sure someone named OldWolf would know) is the people who make the decisions, are seldom the people actually doing the work.
I agree. And (And never start a sentance with and!) don't think I can't out-"should-have" you on many a project I've had to work on, because for the first few years after I graduated, I was the poor bastard who always got assigned to clean up other people's messes, document everything, and address the requirements that requirements gathering missed.
Software Maintenance--what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.
Well, you have to appreciate there are two float libraries, one that ports well, and one that performs like there is a floating point processor on the system.
As yourself which is more important, becasue if you're porting it, you're milage will be no better than with C from intel to mips, and both libaries use the same API anyhow, so its even easy to port from on to the other.
A better gripe is the 64-bit limitation, when we should be doing calculations at 80 or even 128 bits like on intel.
For swing, the outcome is largely dependant on the PLAF you use. There's a few odd behaviors, especially with frames and windows on Mac, or when repaints get called, but nothing you can't wade through in an afternoon.
Try it sometime wih say, MFC or GTK. and let me know how that works for you.
Just so you know, nvidia doesn't really sell mobile chips to "custom builders" as they see their market as large OEMs only.
Your best bet might be to find a custom builder who activly supports linux on some models with an ati or intel chipset, or suck up the price and buy something proprietary with windows on it, and convert it to linux yourself.
I don't see the problem with the marriage definition. Like it or not, the christian institution already fails to meet the requirements of millions of hetrosexuals marriages already (or vice-versa, if you prefer to look at it that way), so you have to ask yourself, what is it really you think you're got to keep away from the homos?
Is it just the word?
Because depriving them of a legal acknowlegement that they can do the job of faithfulness, commitment and/or love to each other as well as a hetro, just seems inane to me.
Food for thought.
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We used to use a third party TCP/IP stack by Trumpet back in the Windows 3.1 days.
That Microsoft rolled their own based on the BSD one is pretty much irrelevant, and to have rolled a non-compatible one would have been pretty much a waste of their effort becasue the Internet was becoming mainstream in Universities and early-adoptor businesses before Microsoft "got on board."
8 Months is a substantial investemnt. Especially in a grind-game, but it seems to me, that's a shortcoming of the game dealing death too simply, and pushing the grind, and making your character an investment, rather than a tool to play the game.
I stopped counting the number of times I died playing MMOGs after it hit about 50, and I expect that over my few years of playing these games, I've died well over a few thousand times.
Its a tired paradigm.
We need to advocate better systems of failure, and manage better systems for reward by "playing it safe" vs. rewards for risking life and limb.
You could incorporate better facilities for dealing with death as well--perhaps allowing characters to create a will for the next character, or some other character in a way to make gameplay more interesting (you could also add some tradeoff or reprocussion when it occurs--oath of vengence or whatnot).
I think a well designed system would also make "true death" the sort of feat that doesn't happen by a run of bad luck or accident. You could run a system to incorprate an unconcious state. Here, to die you need some sufficiently negative HP damage (possibly scalible or otherwise improvable), otherwise you fall down unconsious, take less damage, and aggro is turned off towards you till you're concious again. If you don't take lethal dameage, you don't die.
The bottom line is most games also push some manner of player-driven resurrection also, so death could be permanent to "some extent" with much wider-reaching or at the very least interesting reprocussions than what happens now.
I played some of it while they were demoing over E3--alot of potential there.
Someone has to be at the helm of the american military behemoth.
A quarter billion people might easily be wrong, but its important they have both the opportunity to revise their position or stay the course and feel the repercussions. What never fails to amaze me about society is that we have a hard time accepting people have the right to be wrong.
What if the result of more people voting is exactly the opposite of what you want?
What if it is?
Americans are still the privilegd few of history who have a say in how a superpower is going to be run. Many people believe apathy from such a privlideged role is considerably more offenceive and ignorant than banging heads over picking the wrong leader.
If the wrong one gets in, well, at least he was elected there by a majority--a reflection that people who care about their privliledge also wnat the leader more (electoral colledge aside), and said leader didn't find his way there via a military coup or idiot birthright. If the right one gets in, at least the voter did his part in ensuring it.
You can't lose by exercising a true democratic priviledge, even if the one you want isn't the one you get.
IBM makes an MPEG-4 codec for Java, which can parse its way through Quicktime mpeg4 as well as DivX.
My own car has a couple of those features and also projects my speed, and minimal radio info into my windshield via a HUD, so I can see what they're at without having to take my eyes off the road.
This is Insightful?
Obviously, people of lower incomes need to prioritize food and maybe shelter, and for some of the the costs of thing like electricity is a bigger issue than the cost of a PC, if those above this line a can get a PC for $100 and start to better themselves, how is this a problem? You're missing the whole give a man a fish / teach a man to fish paradigm, or perhaps you think people people should want to live in squalor, or you think the poor should get software freebies.
Whatever it is you're saying, its not clear and its apparently quite wrong.
Resumes that don't come out of a word processor get passed over. Anyone who can't used the latest software in place at a company is going to get fired. No company can function without data management they way they could 20 years ago. Welcome to the bottom line of this new world we've created.
Ballmer is approaching the problem as a way to sell the shit he calls an OS by exploiting the problem that is a win for his company and a win for the poor. He's not forcing the poor to use it any more than he's forcing you, and he has every right to charge for it. You however, are glazing over the problem in an insultingly arrogant fashion by your presumption that third world people would be better off having to continue living in third world conditions, or that they have a right to pirate software--just like you used to do.
Either way, I disagree.
Cuz I think Molyneux does interesting work, I'll give you Fable, and in all fairness, there's a few other decent titles out now and coming soon (halo 2), but that's true for all the consoles and the PC too (half-life 2).
The bottom line is $150 lets me play alot of the same or readily more interesting things on other systems. (Pikmin 2, or Paper Mario spring to mind because I spent a large chunk of last week on playing 'cube).
Even that's weak. I never bothered upgrading from the classic GBA, since I need the same amount of light to play it as say, read a book--and all the same cool games are still there.
About the only things the Sony Stores are good for, IMHO is you can get anything Sony repaired for little to no grief, without a warrenty, bought from them or otherwise--you can expect to pay for it tho.
I'm an expert on what they say about Gozilla in Japan--they usually say something to the effect of:
Eeeek! Go-jirra!! Ack!
If you're in doubt, or unclear just assume they are lamenting their untimly death.
Flirting with one's girlfriend and having "popups" is a Good Thing.
Think before you type, hmmm?
He said part!
They're also not allowed in if they're not wearing perfume and willing to pose for a picture that looks like the makings of a mechanical orgy.
Oh wait. Did I say conference?
Essentailly what the editors would do was release different takes at a few different points in the film, for shits and giggles as the way Lucas does shoots his actors, things get rephrased and paraphrased for almost every take. (Yet somehow it still always sounds kinda wooden.)
Its not the kind of thing you notice (like Greedo shooting first,) unless you have every line from another release committed to memory.
I think Metroid Prime was one of, if not the most fun game I played last year. I'm already psyched to play "Echos," and take it out for a multiplayer spin when I've finished the single player.
If some "lesser" version of the revived franchise is bundled with a DS, I'm already sold.
Does it go to 11?
You've attached values, and assigned right and wrong which have no place in the definition. Because the founding fathers happen to share your and my definition of right and wrong in this case, we'll just glaze over the fact the definition still holds.
I think any redshirt dying at the hands of the founding fathers or the arbitrary boston tea merchant, my have seen them in a different light than you and me.
What defines death? Brain death? I think that's actually a poor definition, despite the fact its the best we have.
I mean socially, if said person reamains on life support for the few years it takes for brain death to finally set in, does it really matter once they are brain dead? Think long and hard about being a person in that position. Being a relative of someone in this scenario myself, and having a few other "common" deaths in the family, to the outside world, and I suspect to the person dying, catatonic isolation and death are pretty much indistinuishable, and defining death as brain death is splitting hairs.
Life support in many cases has more to do with the living being unable to come to terms with the loss (this is a problem fostered largely by modern western culture, where we live in some peculiar denial of it, death isn't celebrated and mourning is meant to be done in private) and less to do with bringing them back to life.
Now after all this, I would argue, the catatonic vegetable has more right to life, because there is a slim chance he or she is self-aware. Show me anyone with a memory of the first 10 weeks of being a fetus. ANYONE. You'll be hard pressed to find a 3 year old who can remember the last week in the womb. Personhood starts, when a person can define themselves as such, even if if only to themselves--be it a baby crying becasue it is hungry and knows it, or an old made cussing about kids these days because the world is changing around him and he knows it.
This is a big and easily spotted dividing line that differentiates people from animals, murder from butchery.
As an abortable fetus doesn't have a sense of itself (it lack's the mental cognition), its hard to paint it as murder.
Now having played devils advocate, I do agree with you about potential. My mind shudders that there would be no Bethoven in a world with abortions, but that's a diffent story, and humans waste potential all the time with no absolutely no respect for it.
What's unfortuante, (as I'm sure someone named OldWolf would know) is the people who make the decisions, are seldom the people actually doing the work.
I agree. And (And never start a sentance with and!) don't think I can't out-"should-have" you on many a project I've had to work on, because for the first few years after I graduated, I was the poor bastard who always got assigned to clean up other people's messes, document everything, and address the requirements that requirements gathering missed.
Software Maintenance--what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.
As yourself which is more important, becasue if you're porting it, you're milage will be no better than with C from intel to mips, and both libaries use the same API anyhow, so its even easy to port from on to the other.
A better gripe is the 64-bit limitation, when we should be doing calculations at 80 or even 128 bits like on intel.
For swing, the outcome is largely dependant on the PLAF you use. There's a few odd behaviors, especially with frames and windows on Mac, or when repaints get called, but nothing you can't wade through in an afternoon.
Try it sometime wih say, MFC or GTK. and let me know how that works for you.
Just so you know, nvidia doesn't really sell mobile chips to "custom builders" as they see their market as large OEMs only.
Your best bet might be to find a custom builder who activly supports linux on some models with an ati or intel chipset, or suck up the price and buy something proprietary with windows on it, and convert it to linux yourself.
Best.
I don't see the problem with the marriage definition. Like it or not, the christian institution already fails to meet the requirements of millions of hetrosexuals marriages already (or vice-versa, if you prefer to look at it that way), so you have to ask yourself, what is it really you think you're got to keep away from the homos?
Is it just the word?
Because depriving them of a legal acknowlegement that they can do the job of faithfulness, commitment and/or love to each other as well as a hetro, just seems inane to me.
Food for thought.