If you truely were poor then you wouldn't have any money being taken from your pocket.
I wasn't saying to give the poor excesses of the rich to make things fair...
If it is the Church's mission to feed and clothe the poor (because isn't it the mission of churches to do good?), then this could be called a righteous act, and if you do the opposite you could be called evil...
the reality is that all through history when a people have been down trodden and taken advantage of, they have eventually risen up and overthrown the establishment, if you care so much about this country maybe you should help those who make it possible.
I always thought it was good to help the "less fortunate" with tax dollars... the reason being is the "less fortunate" are the back on which the weathly are made... for every rich person there must be a poor person.
Since you make so much money you get taxed heavier in order to support basic needs that the working class must have in order to have a life free from disease, hunger, dispair and homelessness.
You have your mansions, your Rolls Royces (or BMW/Mercedes) and your 2 week long vacations in the Bahamas... let the poor man have his schiltz.
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It will be ala starcraft or warcraft, only 2 races though... hell spawn and marines.
although the graphics engine will be awesome.
"Choose your race"
"Hell spawn- 13 unique characters and 5 tech trees, from imps to hell barons and the toughest tank ever, the cyberdemon!!"
"Marines- one unit, the grunt, equiped with a flashlit and a pda"
I guess you don't know much about the law regarding fair use for copyrighted works and how it pertains to this discussion.
Let's take VHS tapes for example, the supreme court ruled that it was within the law to make backup copies of VHS tapes, lend them to a friend, display them privately to friends, and save them in a different format (e.g. recording a song on the radio). As long as you were not making a profit or making a copy for sale or showing this publicly to make a profit.
The reasoning is, once you buy the work, you own a "copy" of the license for your personal use, furthermore this use is transferable.. like if i gave my copy of Raiders of the lost ark to a friend to keep.
Now the RIAA and the MPIAA (sp?) have been able to pass the DMCA which changes this precedent and makes it illegal to do any of this when it is in regards to digital media.
Because they are big and powerful, they were able to make this happen.. it is up to us to fight back and get the bill repealed.
before the DMCA you could buy a CD, rip the wav files and make them mp3s, then listen to them on the mp3 player of your choice... now it is illegal unless the recording company gives you express permission (which they don't). What is wrong with letting my friend borrow my music even if it is in mp3 form? pre-dmca, nothing, post it is illegal.
You are not allowed to make a physical back up of that new gaming CD you just bought.
My point was that we have lost some serious rights that have hurt us and people like you seem to think it is alright because these rights were somehow "depriving" these multibillion dollar companies of something when it has been proven not to be true.
you were the one who said have it for free, i was just using that as a spring board.
No. NVIDIA doesn't support SLI on two different models or from different vendors. SLI supports configurations with the same model (i.e. 6800 Ultra) from the same vendor (Vendor XYZ)
What cards can work together in an SLI configuration? All PCI Express based GeForce 6800 Ultra, GeForce 6800 GT, or NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 boards support SLI technology. Boards must be the exact same model number and from the same vendor - for example, two GeForce 6800 Ultras from Vendor XYZ. For Quadro boards, they should be identical model numbers, for example Quadro FX 3400.
Also- What motherboards will work with SLI technology? SLI technology requires a PCI Express motherboard. Current configurations support motherboards with two x16 physical connectors. The graphics cards plug into these connectors. The cards can work with whatever routing because x16 PCI Express connectors can auto-negotiate down to x8, or x4 electrical.
Note that you have to have at least 2 PCI-e slots with x16 connectors...
have it for free, or make a copy for backups, or let a friend borrow it, or use it on any device we wish in any format we wish.
We paid for it, why should we be able to use it in the way that best suits us?
Yah their abuse of the "law" is just and moral because they had enough political pull to get anything they wanted passed into law.. why should we stand up against that?
You're right, they are truely pure souls trying to defend themselves against the onslaught of depraved digital deviants.
So I was looking at the specs of the 6600 and the 6800, it looks like the 6600 has half the specs of the 6800 (128mb of ram, 128 mb bus, 8 pixel pipelines instead of 16, etc etc...) so what would the point be of SLIing 2 6600s?!?!
Surely by the time you "could" SLI 2 6600s together (technology become affordable (see motherboards) and drivers work and such) wouldn't a 6800 be cheaper anyway?
and even if it was the same price.. why buy 2 cards when you can just buy one and with less hassle have the same performance?!
HAAHHAA omfgoodness that is awesome.. not the easter egg but the fact that each of the screenshots are soooo dark you can't even tell what you're looking at...
maybe a re-take with the flashlight out would help;)
from the night vision I have used, it doesnt glow at all, it is more akin to green sunglasses where if a light was shined on the surface it would reflect green back to you.
Amen to that, I am the kind of person who usually plays FPS games full tilt with no regard to safety or sanity, guns a blazing... I find myself actually backing down to the point where I'm afraid to enter a room because i know something is there that is gonna scare the crap outta me
"Why is a 12 year old playing a rated M game anyway?"
Well maybe because the Rating is a "guide" for parents, not a moral absolute.
Movie theaters do not allow admittance to some movies based on their ratings (NC-17) even if there is a guardian present, but this is based on the theater's choice not an actual Law.
"While the decision to enforce the rating system is purely voluntary, the overwhelming majority of theaters follow the Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines and diligently enforce its provisions."
"The argument goes both ways as well... if more people would buy the game then companies wouldn't have to hike the price up to maintain their profit margins. Additionally - assuming the price derives from greed is just that, an assumption. Have you considered the long development cycle, and that perhaps paying their programmers and support staff for the extra year or two ( in comparison to other games ) might be the reason for the increased price, in addition to the need to compensate for piracy?"
This arguement kina falls apart when you consider Serious Sam, Ground breaking technology at the time and they only sold it for 20 bucks, the liscense fee for the engine was also quite small (1000 i believe?)
the released a sequel full length game and charged the same price...
I could of downloaded it buy why when it is 20 bucks? That is just way to reasonable.
BTW I bought doom3 because I am a doom fanboy, but i only paid 43 for it which I consider somewhat reasonable.. 60 bucks for a game is rediculous.
now all they need to do is allow 15 yr old CS players to control the movement and shooting of the Soldiers, it would be like mech commander but much more l337.
"What do you think seat belt and helmet laws are all about?"
I thought it was about saving the lives of stupid people who would naturally remove themselves from the gene pool (saying this as someone who never wore them until I was in a serious accident).
Who the hell decided the white stripes deserved air time in the first place? The same people who push certain songs to the radio stations over others and basically decide the "top 40" for us...
thinking more about the bullet, basically i have a bullet for any band that has come out in the last 3 years with the word "The" as the first part of their name.
actually it makes perfect sense... if you can't buy it ANYWHERE then nobody is losing any money when you download it for free + the artists still get a following of people who love their music so much they are willing to search 15 stores and then buy it on ebay for 90 bucks...
except for the fact the beef council isn't threatening the school with lawsuits if they don't serve beef, it is a choice made purely by the school without undue outside influence.. i'm sure they would listen to complaints if the majority of the student body complained (or a large group of).
course required books are always at the school store, library books are populated by the librarians on a limited budget, thus many books are bought because of deals the librarians can get and are not always because of popularity. No crappy book lobby here either, threatening lawsuits...
This on the other hand is giving a corporate entity a foothold in an institution of learning, which gives them yet another outlet to push their shitty music.
I think the main problem is that instead of creating something that people want and thus making money from it, they are limiting people to what they can get and then charging them for it.
Right, but in my last paragraph wouldn't this hold true since the same half of the genetic information would propagate to a wider selection of hosts, the chances of 2 people having the genetic defect would then be greater right?
"Furthermore, because monogamy by its very nature restricts the genetic diversity of a population, creating more of a linear spread (through generations) of genes, genetic defects can last far longer than is necessary."
Please explain how 2 people from different families making children and then one of those children having children with a mate from a different family and so on and so on, would restrict genetic diversity?
also you do realize that when a monogamous family has multiple children, those children are quite often very diverse in their atributes, so when each one of those children chooses a mate from other families, the individual genes they pass on are being mixed quite well.. (did i explain that well, doesn't seem like it...)
thinking about it, wouldn't having multiple partners just be spreading the same genes from one parent to many children thus polluting the gene pool with the same dna over and over again?
besides the point that the ten commandments are jewish law not christian, jesus changed this to one "golden rule" (well basically 2) "Love god with all thine heart, and love thy neighbor as thyself.. this sums up all of the law and the prophets..." many times over he makes this point as the 10 commandments and most of the other jewlish laws were fufilled through Jesus' death.
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If you truely were poor then you wouldn't have any money being taken from your pocket.
I wasn't saying to give the poor excesses of the rich to make things fair...
If it is the Church's mission to feed and clothe the poor (because isn't it the mission of churches to do good?), then this could be called a righteous act, and if you do the opposite you could be called evil...
the reality is that all through history when a people have been down trodden and taken advantage of, they have eventually risen up and overthrown the establishment, if you care so much about this country maybe you should help those who make it possible.
I always thought it was good to help the "less fortunate" with tax dollars... the reason being is the "less fortunate" are the back on which the weathly are made... for every rich person there must be a poor person.
Since you make so much money you get taxed heavier in order to support basic needs that the working class must have in order to have a life free from disease, hunger, dispair and homelessness.
You have your mansions, your Rolls Royces (or BMW/Mercedes) and your 2 week long vacations in the Bahamas... let the poor man have his schiltz.
It will be ala starcraft or warcraft, only 2 races though... hell spawn and marines.
although the graphics engine will be awesome.
"Choose your race"
"Hell spawn- 13 unique characters and 5 tech trees, from imps to hell barons and the toughest tank ever, the cyberdemon!!"
"Marines- one unit, the grunt, equiped with a flashlit and a pda"
I guess you don't know much about the law regarding fair use for copyrighted works and how it pertains to this discussion.
Let's take VHS tapes for example, the supreme court ruled that it was within the law to make backup copies of VHS tapes, lend them to a friend, display them privately to friends, and save them in a different format (e.g. recording a song on the radio). As long as you were not making a profit or making a copy for sale or showing this publicly to make a profit.
The reasoning is, once you buy the work, you own a "copy" of the license for your personal use, furthermore this use is transferable.. like if i gave my copy of Raiders of the lost ark to a friend to keep.
Now the RIAA and the MPIAA (sp?) have been able to pass the DMCA which changes this precedent and makes it illegal to do any of this when it is in regards to digital media.
Because they are big and powerful, they were able to make this happen.. it is up to us to fight back and get the bill repealed.
before the DMCA you could buy a CD, rip the wav files and make them mp3s, then listen to them on the mp3 player of your choice... now it is illegal unless the recording company gives you express permission (which they don't). What is wrong with letting my friend borrow my music even if it is in mp3 form? pre-dmca, nothing, post it is illegal.
You are not allowed to make a physical back up of that new gaming CD you just bought.
My point was that we have lost some serious rights that have hurt us and people like you seem to think it is alright because these rights were somehow "depriving" these multibillion dollar companies of something when it has been proven not to be true.
you were the one who said have it for free, i was just using that as a spring board.
From the article:
Can I mix and match?
No. NVIDIA doesn't support SLI on two different models or from different vendors. SLI supports configurations with the same model (i.e. 6800 Ultra) from the same vendor (Vendor XYZ)
What cards can work together in an SLI configuration?
All PCI Express based GeForce 6800 Ultra, GeForce 6800 GT, or NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 boards support SLI technology. Boards must be the exact same model number and from the same vendor - for example, two GeForce 6800 Ultras from Vendor XYZ. For Quadro boards, they should be identical model numbers, for example Quadro FX 3400.
Also-
What motherboards will work with SLI technology?
SLI technology requires a PCI Express motherboard. Current configurations support motherboards with two x16 physical connectors. The graphics cards plug into these connectors. The cards can work with whatever routing because x16 PCI Express connectors can auto-negotiate down to x8, or x4 electrical.
Note that you have to have at least 2 PCI-e slots with x16 connectors...
have it for free, or make a copy for backups, or let a friend borrow it, or use it on any device we wish in any format we wish.
We paid for it, why should we be able to use it in the way that best suits us?
Yah their abuse of the "law" is just and moral because they had enough political pull to get anything they wanted passed into law.. why should we stand up against that?
You're right, they are truely pure souls trying to defend themselves against the onslaught of depraved digital deviants.
yah it does load balancing but I haven't seen it say anywhere you could use 2 different models of cards.
So I was looking at the specs of the 6600 and the 6800, it looks like the 6600 has half the specs of the 6800 (128mb of ram, 128 mb bus, 8 pixel pipelines instead of 16, etc etc...) so what would the point be of SLIing 2 6600s?!?!
Surely by the time you "could" SLI 2 6600s together (technology become affordable (see motherboards) and drivers work and such) wouldn't a 6800 be cheaper anyway?
and even if it was the same price.. why buy 2 cards when you can just buy one and with less hassle have the same performance?!
HAAHHAA omfgoodness that is awesome.. not the easter egg but the fact that each of the screenshots are soooo dark you can't even tell what you're looking at...
;)
maybe a re-take with the flashlight out would help
from the night vision I have used, it doesnt glow at all, it is more akin to green sunglasses where if a light was shined on the surface it would reflect green back to you.
"Demos are put out to give you a try it before you buy it."
ever played a demo and then when you bought the game is was wholly different than the demo?
Amen to that, I am the kind of person who usually plays FPS games full tilt with no regard to safety or sanity, guns a blazing... I find myself actually backing down to the point where I'm afraid to enter a room because i know something is there that is gonna scare the crap outta me
wooot!!
I think more blame should be placed on the outlet... I bought a copy at Fry's electronics (like best buy on the west coast) and it cost me 43.99.
So obviously the store has some hand in that 54.99 price... (ie GameStop loves teh monay)
"Why is a 12 year old playing a rated M game anyway?"
Well maybe because the Rating is a "guide" for parents, not a moral absolute.
Movie theaters do not allow admittance to some movies based on their ratings (NC-17) even if there is a guardian present, but this is based on the theater's choice not an actual Law.
"While the decision to enforce the rating system is purely voluntary, the overwhelming majority of theaters follow the Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines and diligently enforce its provisions."
http://www.bigscreen.com/MPAA_RatingsInfo.php
Less coffee, more spell checking needed... sorry :-/
"The argument goes both ways as well ... if more people would buy the game then companies wouldn't have to hike the price up to maintain their profit margins. Additionally - assuming the price derives from greed is just that, an assumption. Have you considered the long development cycle, and that perhaps paying their programmers and support staff for the extra year or two ( in comparison to other games ) might be the reason for the increased price, in addition to the need to compensate for piracy?"
This arguement kina falls apart when you consider Serious Sam, Ground breaking technology at the time and they only sold it for 20 bucks, the liscense fee for the engine was also quite small (1000 i believe?)
the released a sequel full length game and charged the same price...
I could of downloaded it buy why when it is 20 bucks? That is just way to reasonable.
BTW I bought doom3 because I am a doom fanboy, but i only paid 43 for it which I consider somewhat reasonable.. 60 bucks for a game is rediculous.
now all they need to do is allow 15 yr old CS players to control the movement and shooting of the Soldiers, it would be like mech commander but much more l337.
Osama yuo got teh pwned!!
KEKE kthxbye
"Massive Power Supplies: 6800 GTs are happy in shuttles with 250W PSUs"
6800s are specced at needing at least 480W power supplies
"What do you think seat belt and helmet laws are all about?"
I thought it was about saving the lives of stupid people who would naturally remove themselves from the gene pool (saying this as someone who never wore them until I was in a serious accident).
I would gladly supply the bullet.
Who the hell decided the white stripes deserved air time in the first place? The same people who push certain songs to the radio stations over others and basically decide the "top 40" for us...
thinking more about the bullet, basically i have a bullet for any band that has come out in the last 3 years with the word "The" as the first part of their name.
actually it makes perfect sense... if you can't buy it ANYWHERE then nobody is losing any money when you download it for free + the artists still get a following of people who love their music so much they are willing to search 15 stores and then buy it on ebay for 90 bucks...
I don't see who the loser is here?
except for the fact the beef council isn't threatening the school with lawsuits if they don't serve beef, it is a choice made purely by the school without undue outside influence.. i'm sure they would listen to complaints if the majority of the student body complained (or a large group of).
course required books are always at the school store, library books are populated by the librarians on a limited budget, thus many books are bought because of deals the librarians can get and are not always because of popularity.
No crappy book lobby here either, threatening lawsuits...
This on the other hand is giving a corporate entity a foothold in an institution of learning, which gives them yet another outlet to push their shitty music.
I think the main problem is that instead of creating something that people want and thus making money from it, they are limiting people to what they can get and then charging them for it.
Right, but in my last paragraph wouldn't this hold true since the same half of the genetic information would propagate to a wider selection of hosts, the chances of 2 people having the genetic defect would then be greater right?
"Furthermore, because monogamy by its very nature restricts the genetic diversity of a population, creating more of a linear spread (through generations) of genes, genetic defects can last far longer than is necessary."
Please explain how 2 people from different families making children and then one of those children having children with a mate from a different family and so on and so on, would restrict genetic diversity?
also you do realize that when a monogamous family has multiple children, those children are quite often very diverse in their atributes, so when each one of those children chooses a mate from other families, the individual genes they pass on are being mixed quite well.. (did i explain that well, doesn't seem like it...)
thinking about it, wouldn't having multiple partners just be spreading the same genes from one parent to many children thus polluting the gene pool with the same dna over and over again?
besides the point that the ten commandments are jewish law not christian, jesus changed this to one "golden rule" (well basically 2) "Love god with all thine heart, and love thy neighbor as thyself.. this sums up all of the law and the prophets..." many times over he makes this point as the 10 commandments and most of the other jewlish laws were fufilled through Jesus' death.