Actually, this probably could be very useful in AI vision programs. One of the things that I heard was tough was edge detection. Edge detection is an important part of human vision, so this might help. Hey, if you see robots wandering around with four giant strobe lights on their heads blame these guys!
Cheers,
Ryan
In defense of their rant, your quote took out a lot of context that makes much more sense, and is much more mature:
Your thinking is alike to the reasoning of those who invented jailhouses and death sentences. You believe that punishment will discourage the immoral people from abusing your services. And I hope you believe that - because punishment without a reason, usually, happens because of strong emotions. And strong emotions, as we often learn, tend to complicate business matters.
Well, I haven't used BSD too much, but that doesn't change what I said. You quoted it yourself. *One* reason to use BSD is now available in Linux. One of the things BSD did better than Linux is now done by Gentoo. I never said that Gentoo's gonna convert all of the BSD users in the world, I just said, essentially, that Gentoo made the choice a little tougher.
Gentoo does add something not standard to linux: A ports system. That is the whole point. One reason to use BSD is now available in Linux, something that was not available before. I have to say, I like it too.
Cheers,
Ryan
Well, it would be hard to find out, since the habitual liars won't tell you they are. If they've adjusted to it, and don't work much harder, you won't find them.
Sorry, but looking at what everyone is saying, and what gets modded up in general, most people agree that Valve is in the right.
When I said I wanted to play it freely, I did not mean without paying for it. I would like to play it without activation too. Read my post again. By the way, I didn't know patent and copyright law was immoral. Is it? No.
Also, you are not buying the game. Do you need that explained again, because it has been said before by plenty of others on Slashdot. If you had *actually* bought the game, you would be able to copy it and sell it to whomever you'd like. Certainly not something that should be allowed. Granted, you think protecting one's property is immoral, so, what can I say?
Again, who are you to determine what rights Valve has? I'd say the people who you elected are a better judge of their rights than you.
Cheers, Ryan
P.S. and stop with all of twisting my words junk, or I'll continue to twist yours. OK? No hard feelings man.
Tell me, since when was Verizon prevented from competing with the government for broadband? For wifi? Never. So, if the government wifi is expensive, and it's competing with the cheap Verizon wifi(which will appear in the future), won't the gov wifi disappear? Yes. So stop whining, it's giving poor people access to the internet until the time Verizon, or some other company decides to provide service. That is unless government provided wifi is *cheaper* than Verizon's.
Cheers,
Ryan
Well, actually peaches do apply here. What if the peaches had a license? The peaches were used as an analogy, an incomplete one, but sometimes people take them too far. Really, I do agree that the ToS should be known before hand, but many people here are arguing that the ToS's mean nothing and are unenforcable. If you believe differently, great. Maybe I misread the grandparent. Still, the ToS is enforceable if you agree to it. It doesn't matter how hard your life would have been if you didn't agree to it, because my life would be easier too if I had an agreement to get $5000000 for stealing the world's largest diamond for some guy from New York.
Uh, considering that you do in fact know the terms before you are bound to the agreement, your argument is fallacious. Essentially, your argument is that a grocery store must define what peaches are to you, before you buy them.
Doesn't reall work man, although I do understand your point of view.:-)
Cheers,
Ryan
More like buying a can of peaches, finding out that you don't really know what peaches are, and trying to blame it all on the grocer.
Look, even most of/. disagrees with you, and this is about a game we all want to play freely, without this activation junk. But still, most people here see that Valve is acting within it's rights. That's a pretty strong indicator.
This is actually a very interesting possibility for general purpose GPU programming, which aims to offload as much easily parallelizable operations off to the video card. If you can have two, running off of PCIe, you could get a big return in speed, allowing some very cool stuff to be done much quicker.
Check out http://www.gpgpu.org/ for cool stuff. And if I'm not mistaken, it is already possible to use SLI.
This reminds me of the woman from Walmart who wanted change for her $1000000 bill(wouldn't that be a treasury security?). You've got to be stupid. Stupid, and, uh, just stupid really.
Well, maybe they only programmed it to effect Kerry and Bush, not third party candidates? Although your point about not being able to prove it is technically correct, that would mean most murder investigations are just cr@p too. It's a "reasonable doubt", not proof. Most scientific theories are theories too, they aren't proved. Gravity is still a theory. Does that mean gravity is fictional nonsense? This study is an example of evidence, that, while not proof alone, does describe a fishy scenario. And anyway, just because it's a conspiracy, doesn't mean it's not true. People were saying the people who believed in Area 51 were conspiracy nuts, yet it exists(although the dead alien bit is still up in the air).
Unfortunately, economics does not take pollution into account, nor does it charge a producer for pollution. Maybe the Kyoto treaty would have solved that, but with it's developing countries loophole, it's just gonna cost us more in the long, but short sighted, run.
Yes, and did you know America actively participated and profited in the UN Food For Oil scam? Yessirree. One American participated in it, therefore America is an enemy regime of America. And did you know we gave weapons to Afghanistan and bin Laden? And Iran even? Yes, we are an enemy regime of ourselves, surely.
Same typo over and over again, I meant county. God darn my fingers(I've been typing an essay on the US, so my fingers have "country" memorized in their muscles).;-)
When you have a candidate *surprised* about how many votes he got in a country, and many people say they accidentally voted for that candidate, you can't say they're just trying to change their vote, there really *was* a problem.
Well, I meant country, and I'm referring to Buchanan saying he was shocked to have such a large amount of votes in a primarily Jewish county(Miami-Dade or something?). The problem was that many people, with bad eyesight particularly, thought they were punching in Al Gore, and instead got Pat Buchanan. Not sure if this is the actual case, but it's pretty suspicious.
They couldn't count the votes again, as they were electronic ballots! You can't recount the same number. There was no paper trail to tally up again. This is the only method that you can really use, besides an analysis of the machines, which is what blackboxvoting.org is trying to do.
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Actually, this probably could be very useful in AI vision programs. One of the things that I heard was tough was edge detection. Edge detection is an important part of human vision, so this might help. Hey, if you see robots wandering around with four giant strobe lights on their heads blame these guys! Cheers, Ryan
These things never die man, they just grow old and read email in Korea.
Is this the new "In Soviet Russia..." joke? Come to think of it, I haven't seen many of them lately, unless they involved old Korean people...
Cheers, Ryan
Well, I haven't used BSD too much, but that doesn't change what I said. You quoted it yourself. *One* reason to use BSD is now available in Linux. One of the things BSD did better than Linux is now done by Gentoo. I never said that Gentoo's gonna convert all of the BSD users in the world, I just said, essentially, that Gentoo made the choice a little tougher.
Cheers,
Ryan
Gentoo does add something not standard to linux: A ports system. That is the whole point. One reason to use BSD is now available in Linux, something that was not available before. I have to say, I like it too. Cheers, Ryan
Well, it would be hard to find out, since the habitual liars won't tell you they are. If they've adjusted to it, and don't work much harder, you won't find them.
When I said I wanted to play it freely, I did not mean without paying for it. I would like to play it without activation too. Read my post again. By the way, I didn't know patent and copyright law was immoral. Is it? No.
Also, you are not buying the game. Do you need that explained again, because it has been said before by plenty of others on Slashdot. If you had *actually* bought the game, you would be able to copy it and sell it to whomever you'd like. Certainly not something that should be allowed. Granted, you think protecting one's property is immoral, so, what can I say?
Again, who are you to determine what rights Valve has? I'd say the people who you elected are a better judge of their rights than you.
Cheers,
Ryan
P.S. and stop with all of twisting my words junk, or I'll continue to twist yours. OK? No hard feelings man.
Well, I'll trust the courts then. Unfortunately, their the last word on this argument(and they agree with me, woohoo!). :-)
Cheers,
Ryan
Tell me, since when was Verizon prevented from competing with the government for broadband? For wifi? Never. So, if the government wifi is expensive, and it's competing with the cheap Verizon wifi(which will appear in the future), won't the gov wifi disappear? Yes. So stop whining, it's giving poor people access to the internet until the time Verizon, or some other company decides to provide service. That is unless government provided wifi is *cheaper* than Verizon's. Cheers, Ryan
Well, actually peaches do apply here. What if the peaches had a license? The peaches were used as an analogy, an incomplete one, but sometimes people take them too far. Really, I do agree that the ToS should be known before hand, but many people here are arguing that the ToS's mean nothing and are unenforcable. If you believe differently, great. Maybe I misread the grandparent. Still, the ToS is enforceable if you agree to it. It doesn't matter how hard your life would have been if you didn't agree to it, because my life would be easier too if I had an agreement to get $5000000 for stealing the world's largest diamond for some guy from New York.
Cheers,
Ryan
Uh, considering that you do in fact know the terms before you are bound to the agreement, your argument is fallacious. Essentially, your argument is that a grocery store must define what peaches are to you, before you buy them. Doesn't reall work man, although I do understand your point of view. :-)
Cheers,
Ryan
More like buying a can of peaches, finding out that you don't really know what peaches are, and trying to blame it all on the grocer.
/. disagrees with you, and this is about a game we all want to play freely, without this activation junk. But still, most people here see that Valve is acting within it's rights. That's a pretty strong indicator.
Look, even most of
Cheers,
Ryan
Check out http://www.gpgpu.org/ for cool stuff. And if I'm not mistaken, it is already possible to use SLI.
Cheers,
While I'll admit that it wasn't really censorship, it does walk down that path.
Cheers
This reminds me of the woman from Walmart who wanted change for her $1000000 bill(wouldn't that be a treasury security?). You've got to be stupid. Stupid, and, uh, just stupid really.
OK, but those aren't the short sighted ones that run our country. Anyway, I'll be going now.
Well, maybe they only programmed it to effect Kerry and Bush, not third party candidates? Although your point about not being able to prove it is technically correct, that would mean most murder investigations are just cr@p too. It's a "reasonable doubt", not proof. Most scientific theories are theories too, they aren't proved. Gravity is still a theory. Does that mean gravity is fictional nonsense? This study is an example of evidence, that, while not proof alone, does describe a fishy scenario. And anyway, just because it's a conspiracy, doesn't mean it's not true. People were saying the people who believed in Area 51 were conspiracy nuts, yet it exists(although the dead alien bit is still up in the air).
Well, about that last bit, it was kinda a new frontier... :-/
Unfortunately, economics does not take pollution into account, nor does it charge a producer for pollution. Maybe the Kyoto treaty would have solved that, but with it's developing countries loophole, it's just gonna cost us more in the long, but short sighted, run.
Yes, and did you know America actively participated and profited in the UN Food For Oil scam? Yessirree. One American participated in it, therefore America is an enemy regime of America. And did you know we gave weapons to Afghanistan and bin Laden? And Iran even? Yes, we are an enemy regime of ourselves, surely.
Yes, but not polluting doesn't allow you to produce things more quickly. It probably just raises the cost.
Same typo over and over again, I meant county. God darn my fingers(I've been typing an essay on the US, so my fingers have "country" memorized in their muscles). ;-)
Well, I meant country, and I'm referring to Buchanan saying he was shocked to have such a large amount of votes in a primarily Jewish county(Miami-Dade or something?). The problem was that many people, with bad eyesight particularly, thought they were punching in Al Gore, and instead got Pat Buchanan. Not sure if this is the actual case, but it's pretty suspicious.
They couldn't count the votes again, as they were electronic ballots! You can't recount the same number. There was no paper trail to tally up again. This is the only method that you can really use, besides an analysis of the machines, which is what blackboxvoting.org is trying to do.