I think the industry is starting to use the term "reboot" in place of "screw-up." There is no reason to reboot something recently made and still successful. Remaking the first Spider Man movie would be dull.
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost...I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from
The biggest difference between a gas-power versus an electric-power car is that there's no transmission. Electric motors don't need gears or gear shifts.
While the Volt may not have a transmission in the same sense that most gasoline vehicles do, it is not correct to say that "electric motors don't need gears or gear shifts." The author of the article seems to be confusing three terms: gear, gear shift, and transmission. They are 3 different things.
Right now, even if gasoline-electric or all-electric cars were available, very few people in cities could charge them. Not everyone has a private driveway. I rely on street parking, and sometimes I must park a block away (farther in snowy weather). Even if I had a spot in front of my house, I can't run an electric cord across the sidewalk to my car.
The original game has no trademark or software patent associated with it, and my clone isn't infringing on the original's copyright in any way
If what you say is fact, then you did all the research already. The only thing you can get from Slashdot is "Go ask a lawyer" or "how should we know?" or the overly skeptical and cautious "law is absurd and complex so it doesn't matter what you do, you could wind up in court anyway."
I know the Nintendo DS supports OpenGL, so does the PS2 and PS3. I don't know about the Gamecube or Wii. In general, neither Sony nor Nintendo port their games to other platforms. I don't know what engine they use, but I'm guessing they use OpenGL.
Yeah, but if you want to port to the XBOX 360, you need to use DirectX. Sometimes I think that the XBOX 360 was designed solely to wrestle control from OpenGL. Windows supports OpenGL, so there's no reason they couldn't have supported it on the XBOX/360.
Very few game studios develop their own engines any longer - they let the engine developers take care of this problem. This is especially important because the world isn't just OGL -vs- DirectX. Every major console now has it's own form of parallel processing, and someone has to optimize the engine to work in that environment.
Well, as long as they are throttling all their customers (at a particular service tier) in the same manner, I wouldn't be real worried about it.
Which certainly would not be the case. And even if it were, it doesn't take into account ISP C.
You paid ISP A to not throttle. The website/peer paid ISP B not to throttle. But ISP C thinks your content violates their rules, so they throttle it. So you both paid to get nothing, and your ISPs can't do anything about it.
The funds for constructing the fiber network come from bonds issued by the City of Wilson. Tax revenues are not being used to fund this project in any way."
Government bonds are paid back with tax money. That's like saying "I'm not paying anything for this house: I took out a loan."
"These data yield a testable hypothesis for the alleged, but still controversial, causative association of BDV infection with schizophrenia and mood disorders," Feschotte said.
Does that mean that we can now infect someone with schizophrenia by injecting them with a virus? And that that individual's children are more likely to have schizophrenia?
Nor can you simply separate legality for law enforcement versus legality for common citizens:
I think that is the misunderstanding. Based on the original statement (which I have long since lost since I haven't RTFA in a while, and lost where this thread started from), I though that was exactly what the court decided.
The key words are "police" and "without a warrant." I'm really unclear if an individual citizen would be allowed to use some of these devices or not. From one stand point, it would violate an individuals privacy. From the other standpoint, does the constitutional guarantee of privacy apply to everyone, or just to the government?
Yes, you cannot account for every penny... You cannot get exact numbers on this. You can get well researched estimates.
Glad we agree here. So it comes down to which estimates are most accurate.
It is not a valid argument you make by dismissing the 911 cost estimates by saying they are not calculated the same as the war costs.
I didn't dismiss any estimates. I cited 2 estimates that seem quite reasonable. I included a discussion of why I think one estimate is better than the other. You however, included only a sound-effect.
Welcome to Slashdot: Where an insult is better than a citation.
I still don't see the reference to health care in my post. Nor how it is relevant to 9/11. We aren't talking about national healthcare or something, so what does the NHE have to do with it? Are you replying to the right post?
As for the numbers of the iraq war cost and the 9/11 cost -- see the other threads that replied to the OP. Those have actual citations to real numbers.
Ironically, you are telling me I am mouthing off, when my replies have links and numbers and citations. You seem to be yet another Slashdot poster who seems to think that insulting people somehow makes their arguments stronger. I won't reply to this post anymore -- better arguments are made in the other thread.
I don't think the film motion blur entirely compensates for the low frame rate. IMHO, high-speed action sequences often look stuttery. there must be some unsampled time-slot while the shutter is closed and the film is advancing (or in digital, when the CCD is being read).
Also, CG films must artificially create the motion blur. I am not convinced that they actually bother to do this.
In every school I went to, discrete structures is a CS requirement. Don't graduate with out it. But programming is about solving problems, so the question you need to ask is "what kinds of problems do I want to solve?" Then, pick a math or science that matches that.
If you want to use programming to solve physics problems, than the "Selected math chapters" sounds useful. The vectors and euclidean space sounds great for video games or robotics.
But let me ask this: if math is not your thing, would IT be a better major? Computer science is a science, and science is math. In the past, computer science was programming, but now it is far more than that. Many CS students approach the upper-level CS classes (algorithms, finite automata, etc.) and find that they really wanted to administer a network, write Python code, and make web sites. CS may not be the best place for that.
This discussion is not about availability as a factor into determining if something is legal. It is about availability as a factor into determining if something should require a warrant.
Taking pornographic pictures of someone without their consent is illegal. No matter what device you use to do it.
Courts have repeatedly ruled that this means people can't use electronic devices to spy on what is going on in someone's home. Again, availability does not factor into it at all.
No, the courts said the exact opposite. That is why we are having this discussion. They said that if something is cheap, and commonly available, that it can be used by the police without a warrant.
online service is only provided for 1 year from release date
I don't know the release date of Madden '09, but Madden '10 comes out in August, while the shutdown of Madden '09 is February 2nd. So... nobody can play the game online between Feburary and August? That doesn't make sense.
I won't restate the entire thing, but, in short: the $2 trillion cost isn't comparable to the $900 billion number of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. One is an estimated cost of all potential side-effects of 9/11, with little regard to actual accounting. (There's really no way to account for it accurately). While the war costs don't include any ancillary damages to reputation, unemployment, foreign relations, security, etc. It's just military costs. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
In just a single day, the terrorists inflected between $1 trillion and $3 trillion.
Someone else posted a link that says 2 trillion. Othersources I find say closer to $900 billion. Either way, those are on order of what we have spent on the war so far. It keeps going up.
Exactly HOW do you support your conclusion?
Notice that those war costs are real expenditures - they can be tracked to actual invoices, not someone's grand guesses (which are often politically charged to sound big in order to justify war.) Those $2 trillion numbers include all kinds of indirect damages like the effect on the economy, the stock market, etc. But the figures we use for the war are only the actual expenditures. If you were to account for the war costs the same way you account for the costs of the 9/11 hijacking, then we would have a different picture.
How many times do you think a "success" like 9-11 need happen before we can't recover economically? Not many.
Wow: that would take a lot of research. How many do you think it would take? Fortunately, they now lock the doors to the cockpits, which is the biggest preventative measure we could possibly take.
I wonder if your question is trying to make it seem like I don't care about the effects of 9/11. That is hardly the case. The discussion here is about war costs and imaging scanner costs. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don't do anything to prevent another hijacking. Neither do imaging systems. The imaging systems prevent suicide bombers, not hijackings. Biiiiig difference in costs between those two items. A suicide bomber destroying one plane can't do the kind of damage that happened on 9/11. Nobody is saying that it could.
Remember why the USSR fell? The US spread disinformation to make a fake enemy, the "Star Wars" missile defense system, to get the USSR to spend like mad. It disrupted their economy. What are we doing now? Spending absurd amounts on a military campaign during the worst economic condition in 50 years. Eerily familiar. Kinda scary.
None of your facts conflicts with what I said. You seem to be arguing against someone who said that the cost of the war exceeds the cost of health care. Or maybe someone who was saying the war cost more than all government entitlement programs. I didn't say that.
I said that the cost of the wars exceeds the damage done on September 11th. Several people have posted facts that seem to prove me wrong. I'll look a those. But I'm not sure what I said that you disagreed with.
So you are saying there is a market for menacing turnstyles that intimidate people who near them?
Man: Walks toward turnstyle. Turnstyle: Don't even think about it. Man: Stops, looks at the turnstyle, confused. Turnstyle: I might be electrified. Did you think of that? Man: But... I am going through the right way! Turnstyle: How do you know I'm programmed to care?
Availability is relevant because of this scenario: what happens when anyone can tell the temperature of your roof just by grabbing their iPhone 8GS and switching it into thermal imaging mode? Or by going to Google Maps Realtime and clicking the "infrared" option. When everyone could do it simply by walking by your home, then would it make sense to still consider this intrusive?
Maybe it will still be considered intrusive. Maybe it won't. I wonder if someone from 1920 would consider it invasive to use a radar gun to judge your speed, or to look at your profile on facebook, or get a satellite picture of your house. I don't know if this is a bad thing or not, but the availability test does seem to measure what is considered intrusive by society.
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I think the industry is starting to use the term "reboot" in place of "screw-up." There is no reason to reboot something recently made and still successful. Remaking the first Spider Man movie would be dull.
I know, let's reboot Avatar!
Agent Smith:
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost...I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from
FTFA:
The biggest difference between a gas-power versus an electric-power car is that there's no transmission. Electric motors don't need gears or gear shifts.
While the Volt may not have a transmission in the same sense that most gasoline vehicles do, it is not correct to say that "electric motors don't need gears or gear shifts." The author of the article seems to be confusing three terms: gear, gear shift, and transmission. They are 3 different things.
Who told you gas goes bad after six weeks?
No one. I never said it did. What are you talking about? I think you replied to the wrong post.
Right now, even if gasoline-electric or all-electric cars were available, very few people in cities could charge them. Not everyone has a private driveway. I rely on street parking, and sometimes I must park a block away (farther in snowy weather). Even if I had a spot in front of my house, I can't run an electric cord across the sidewalk to my car.
The original game has no trademark or software patent associated with it, and my clone isn't infringing on the original's copyright in any way
If what you say is fact, then you did all the research already. The only thing you can get from Slashdot is "Go ask a lawyer" or "how should we know?" or the overly skeptical and cautious "law is absurd and complex so it doesn't matter what you do, you could wind up in court anyway."
I know the Nintendo DS supports OpenGL, so does the PS2 and PS3. I don't know about the Gamecube or Wii. In general, neither Sony nor Nintendo port their games to other platforms. I don't know what engine they use, but I'm guessing they use OpenGL.
Yeah, but if you want to port to the XBOX 360, you need to use DirectX. Sometimes I think that the XBOX 360 was designed solely to wrestle control from OpenGL. Windows supports OpenGL, so there's no reason they couldn't have supported it on the XBOX/360.
Very few game studios develop their own engines any longer - they let the engine developers take care of this problem. This is especially important because the world isn't just OGL -vs- DirectX. Every major console now has it's own form of parallel processing, and someone has to optimize the engine to work in that environment.
Well, as long as they are throttling all their customers (at a particular service tier) in the same manner, I wouldn't be real worried about it.
Which certainly would not be the case. And even if it were, it doesn't take into account ISP C.
You paid ISP A to not throttle. The website/peer paid ISP B not to throttle. But ISP C thinks your content violates their rules, so they throttle it. So you both paid to get nothing, and your ISPs can't do anything about it.
The funds for constructing the fiber network come from bonds issued by the City of Wilson. Tax revenues are not being used to fund this project in any way."
Government bonds are paid back with tax money. That's like saying "I'm not paying anything for this house: I took out a loan."
"These data yield a testable hypothesis for the alleged, but still controversial, causative association of BDV infection with schizophrenia and mood disorders," Feschotte said.
Does that mean that we can now infect someone with schizophrenia by injecting them with a virus? And that that individual's children are more likely to have schizophrenia?
Nor can you simply separate legality for law enforcement versus legality for common citizens:
I think that is the misunderstanding. Based on the original statement (which I have long since lost since I haven't RTFA in a while, and lost where this thread started from), I though that was exactly what the court decided.
The key words are "police" and "without a warrant." I'm really unclear if an individual citizen would be allowed to use some of these devices or not. From one stand point, it would violate an individuals privacy. From the other standpoint, does the constitutional guarantee of privacy apply to everyone, or just to the government?
Yes, you cannot account for every penny... You cannot get exact numbers on this. You can get well researched estimates.
Glad we agree here. So it comes down to which estimates are most accurate.
It is not a valid argument you make by dismissing the 911 cost estimates by saying they are not calculated the same as the war costs.
I didn't dismiss any estimates. I cited 2 estimates that seem quite reasonable. I included a discussion of why I think one estimate is better than the other. You however, included only a sound-effect.
Welcome to Slashdot: Where an insult is better than a citation.
I still don't see the reference to health care in my post. Nor how it is relevant to 9/11. We aren't talking about national healthcare or something, so what does the NHE have to do with it? Are you replying to the right post?
As for the numbers of the iraq war cost and the 9/11 cost -- see the other threads that replied to the OP. Those have actual citations to real numbers.
Ironically, you are telling me I am mouthing off, when my replies have links and numbers and citations. You seem to be yet another Slashdot poster who seems to think that insulting people somehow makes their arguments stronger. I won't reply to this post anymore -- better arguments are made in the other thread.
I don't think the film motion blur entirely compensates for the low frame rate. IMHO, high-speed action sequences often look stuttery. there must be some unsampled time-slot while the shutter is closed and the film is advancing (or in digital, when the CCD is being read).
Also, CG films must artificially create the motion blur. I am not convinced that they actually bother to do this.
In every school I went to, discrete structures is a CS requirement. Don't graduate with out it. But programming is about solving problems, so the question you need to ask is "what kinds of problems do I want to solve?" Then, pick a math or science that matches that.
If you want to use programming to solve physics problems, than the "Selected math chapters" sounds useful. The vectors and euclidean space sounds great for video games or robotics.
But let me ask this: if math is not your thing, would IT be a better major? Computer science is a science, and science is math. In the past, computer science was programming, but now it is far more than that. Many CS students approach the upper-level CS classes (algorithms, finite automata, etc.) and find that they really wanted to administer a network, write Python code, and make web sites. CS may not be the best place for that.
Availability is not factored into the law at all.
This discussion is not about availability as a factor into determining if something is legal. It is about availability as a factor into determining if something should require a warrant.
Taking pornographic pictures of someone without their consent is illegal. No matter what device you use to do it.
Courts have repeatedly ruled that this means people can't use electronic devices to spy on what is going on in someone's home. Again, availability does not factor into it at all.
No, the courts said the exact opposite. That is why we are having this discussion. They said that if something is cheap, and commonly available, that it can be used by the police without a warrant.
online service is only provided for 1 year from release date
I don't know the release date of Madden '09, but Madden '10 comes out in August, while the shutdown of Madden '09 is February 2nd. So... nobody can play the game online between Feburary and August? That doesn't make sense.
To play devil's advocate: an IR sensor doesn't look inside your house. It is a camera with a different filter over it.
Check out my reply to Jhon below.
I won't restate the entire thing, but, in short: the $2 trillion cost isn't comparable to the $900 billion number of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. One is an estimated cost of all potential side-effects of 9/11, with little regard to actual accounting. (There's really no way to account for it accurately). While the war costs don't include any ancillary damages to reputation, unemployment, foreign relations, security, etc. It's just military costs. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
In just a single day, the terrorists inflected between $1 trillion and $3 trillion.
Someone else posted a link that says 2 trillion. Other sources I find say closer to $900 billion. Either way, those are on order of what we have spent on the war so far. It keeps going up.
Exactly HOW do you support your conclusion?
Notice that those war costs are real expenditures - they can be tracked to actual invoices, not someone's grand guesses (which are often politically charged to sound big in order to justify war.) Those $2 trillion numbers include all kinds of indirect damages like the effect on the economy, the stock market, etc. But the figures we use for the war are only the actual expenditures. If you were to account for the war costs the same way you account for the costs of the 9/11 hijacking, then we would have a different picture.
How many times do you think a "success" like 9-11 need happen before we can't recover economically? Not many.
Wow: that would take a lot of research. How many do you think it would take? Fortunately, they now lock the doors to the cockpits, which is the biggest preventative measure we could possibly take.
I wonder if your question is trying to make it seem like I don't care about the effects of 9/11. That is hardly the case. The discussion here is about war costs and imaging scanner costs. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don't do anything to prevent another hijacking. Neither do imaging systems. The imaging systems prevent suicide bombers, not hijackings. Biiiiig difference in costs between those two items. A suicide bomber destroying one plane can't do the kind of damage that happened on 9/11. Nobody is saying that it could.
Remember why the USSR fell? The US spread disinformation to make a fake enemy, the "Star Wars" missile defense system, to get the USSR to spend like mad. It disrupted their economy. What are we doing now? Spending absurd amounts on a military campaign during the worst economic condition in 50 years. Eerily familiar. Kinda scary.
Get your facts before you mouth off.
None of your facts conflicts with what I said. You seem to be arguing against someone who said that the cost of the war exceeds the cost of health care. Or maybe someone who was saying the war cost more than all government entitlement programs. I didn't say that.
I said that the cost of the wars exceeds the damage done on September 11th. Several people have posted facts that seem to prove me wrong. I'll look a those. But I'm not sure what I said that you disagreed with.
So you are saying there is a market for menacing turnstyles that intimidate people who near them?
Man: Walks toward turnstyle.
Turnstyle: Don't even think about it.
Man: Stops, looks at the turnstyle, confused.
Turnstyle: I might be electrified. Did you think of that?
Man: But... I am going through the right way!
Turnstyle: How do you know I'm programmed to care?
If it was in a proper sandbox, the buffer overflow still couldn't do anything that that sandbox can't do.
Availability is relevant because of this scenario: what happens when anyone can tell the temperature of your roof just by grabbing their iPhone 8GS and switching it into thermal imaging mode? Or by going to Google Maps Realtime and clicking the "infrared" option. When everyone could do it simply by walking by your home, then would it make sense to still consider this intrusive?
Maybe it will still be considered intrusive. Maybe it won't. I wonder if someone from 1920 would consider it invasive to use a radar gun to judge your speed, or to look at your profile on facebook, or get a satellite picture of your house. I don't know if this is a bad thing or not, but the availability test does seem to measure what is considered intrusive by society.