Intel, on the other hand, has an excellent driver for their graphics chipset, and it's even open-source. I'd like to point out that nvidia's drivers aren't open source.
You download driver binaries, and an open source wrapper that ties it into your kernel, but the drivers themselves are still closed source.
That being said, there is an unofficial open source nvidia driver about (X.org server uses it by default on nvidia cards), but it was considerably slower then the official drivers, and had horrible 3d acceleration, last i used it.
Still, at least there has always been strong linux support from nvidia, if only i could say the same with ati some day in the future.
Actually that is not true. Not only does the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which also defines what a citizen is protect all persons within the States
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. You'll find that bush revoked the right for habeas corpus, for non-us citizens in the war on terror. The writ of "habeas corpus ad subjiciendum" is a court order addressed to a prison official (or other custodian) ordering that a prisoner be brought before the court so that the court can determine whether that person is serving a lawful sentence or should be released from custody.
Since i am not a us citizen, if i was detained over the war on terror, for whatever reason (or lack thereof), the US forces could detain me indefinitely, and would be completely at the mercy (if any) of my jailers.
If i'm not mistaken, thats exactly what happened with one of citizens of Australian, only after having the presure of a 1st world government, and ally to America, did they start the processing him after he was jailed in Guantánamo Bay for years without charges. If he was American, he would of had his due rights, but alas not his case, and the cases of many many other non-US citizens.
There is only 1 reason i can foresee, for the time being, that would make me upgrade to windows vista.
That reason is DirectX 10, which is exclusive to windows vista. This version apparently runs faster then DX9 too... once the drivers fully support it.
Saying that, in the short term, i fully expect any games that come out to support both the DX9 and possibly the DX10 framework. But those running on DX10 will run faster, and possibly look nicer too.
But it'll take some game i haven't heard about to force my hand. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you can apply for a patent, and advertise your concept all you want, without mentioning that its patent pending, and then once you get your patent, announce it as patented, and collect revenue.
The companies that have committed themselves to that patent will be forced to pay your royalties, face legal action, or back out of production. All of which can be extremely costly.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. This statement was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. (1759) which was attributed to Franklin in the edition of 1812, but in a letter of September 27, 1760 to David Hume, he states that he published this book and denies that he wrote it, other than a few remarks that were credited to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in which he served. The phrase itself was first used in a letter from that Assembly dated November 11, 1755 to the Governor of Pennsylvania. An article on the origins of this statement here includes a scan that indicates the original typography of the 1759 document, which uses an archaic form of "s": "Thoe who would give up Essential Liberty to purchae a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Researchers now believe that a fellow diplomat by the name of Richard Jackson is the primary author of the book. With the information thus far available the issue of authorship of the statement is not yet definitely resolved, but the evidence indicates it was very likely Franklin, who in the Poor Richard's Almanack of 1738 is known to have written a similar proverb: "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Now your just evading the point. I've proven that buying gold is both illegal and immoral, your now going off-topic.
The willingness of stores to refund your purchase is entirely up to them and their country's legal system. It has nothing to do with the rules of the game.
Furthermore, with regards to FFXI, there is no clause or mention about a refund policy. You either accept their contract, or you abort the install.
I'll state this one final time. Buying gold online is both illegal and cheating, anyone who things otherwise is too cowardly to accept that truth.
Sorry, my mistake Chinese currency is yuan, Japanese is yen
The Sakoku policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku) was in different times, and not relevant to the argument, as times change.
You haven't shown any evidence that the action taken in MMOGs is more justified than action taken on soil in this reality.
Are you suggesting that buying gold is justifiable?
When you install the game, your forced to either agree to the terms and conditions of the game, or abort the install. It is by your actions, you accept the restrictions and rules of the game. Nobody forced a gun to your head to make you accept.
When you accept an agreement, and then choose not to follow what you agreed to, you've broken basic contract law.
Under FFXI's EULA Paragraph 3.1.a
Any activities consisting of selling, offering to sell, purchasing, agreeing to purchase, exchanging, or agreeing to exchange "gil" (or any other currency that may be used in the Game from time to time), characters, or Game items for value (including, but not limited to, any payment in kind and any payment in any currency recognized as legal tender in any country, state, territory or other jurisdiction anywhere in the world) through any means or venue, including, without limitation, Internet auctions or other online exchanges;
If you accept that agreement, and then break it, your breaking the law. And by doing so, i'd say that also makes you a cheater.
And for those who think that all cheaters are breaking the law, only the ones that enter into contract saying they would play fairly... Much like all the FFXI cheaters.
Is buying yen with USD cheating? If not, then why is buying gil with USD cheating?
Buying yen isn't illegal, the Chinese government is well aware that their money is sold in such ways, and supports such transactions.
Buying gil however, is cheating, the game developers are aware of it, denounce it, and take disciplinary action against such accounts proven to be selling gil.
Its pretty simple to see that buying money is cheating, anyone who thinks otherwise, is just too cowardly to accept the truth.
I know of plenty of online friends who purchased online money in the MMORPG i play, at least they all knew and accepted that they were cheating by doing so.
Because when they launched Google.cn, they changed it so that typing "google.com" in China redirected to the Chinese version, just like going to Google.com in Germany actually brings you to Google.de. The result is that it's effectively impossible to bring up the US version in mainland China; most users will only ever see the "cn" version.
Use www.google.us
You'll be redirected to www.google.com/webhp, unlike www.google.com, which will usually redirect you to your local google.
For HD Movies we need another storage medium. Thats where blu-ray and HD-DVD come into play. Your not going to get any HD movies on your 300TB drives without them. And if i'm not mistaken, blu-rays didn't even allow you to copy the movies to your HD. That was the biggest reason why microsoft dropped support of blu-ray and shifted to HD-DVD. Because MS wanted people to be able to copy the movies to their HD, as its essential for their media center product lines.
I'm personally hoping that HD-DVD pulls ahead however. Its slightly less restrictive with DRM then sony's blu-ray (hence the reason ms are supporting it)
And lets not forget, the entire reason we have this stupid dvd format war, is because Sony pulled out of the HD-DVD consortium to make their own propriety disk format.
I believe someone did just that when it came about an exploit to do with apple and a certain wifi chip.
He publicly announced that there was a flaw in the chip, and that it could lead to a root exploit, gave a few clues, and a movie of it in action, but nothing that explained how it worked, and didn't let anyone know except apple...
Then all of a sudden he went quiet, and stopped responding to all questions about the exploit... people believed it was because it was a hoax, however it appeared that apple gave him a court order to be quiet...
Months later and apple still hadn't patched the system, the guy reappeared touting his exploit again, only this time its for a intel chipset, altho the expoit method was the same, since it wasn't apples problem, he was freed from what was probably a restraining order
Anyway, sorry i can't give any real citations, but regardless the moral of the story is true,..
If your going to give them advanced warning, it means you can't do it anonymously, which means they can get a court injunction against you, and continue sitting on the exploit.
This is absolute idiocy. Very frustrating. Here's what happens when airplanes hit reinforced concrete. (commercial airliner skins are around 0.048" thick. Metal skinned fighters from the 60's are not much different) http://www.jokaroo.com/extremevideos/plane_vs_wall .html The concrete wins... The way the trade center and the pentagon are built are very different from each other. The Trade Centers had totally open floor plans and thin exterior walls. It's a skeleton of steel with walls of glass. The Pentagon is a brick. It's made of concentric shells of reinforced concrete walls. The airplanes hit the Trade Center and had huge expanses for the jet fuel to burn in. The heat from the fire was free to move up and down the hollow shafts in the building, heating up the metal structure to the point that it failed (NOTE: The steel didn't melt. Melting temp for steel is around 1500C, the WTC fire temp is estimated at around 750-800C --hot enough to weaken the metal, realign the crystal grain structure of the steel. See http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Confronting %20the%20Evidence/annotations_2.htm for details). The Pentagon is made of concentric shells of THICK concrete walls. The airplane broke through the first layer and then couldn't really do much more damage. The fire was essentially contained in a concrete shell that couldn't go anywhere. Heating up a concrete wall doesn't cause failure nearly as fast as heating metal (stones don't melt remember...). Wait...did we mention that we make our government buildings tough to resist these kinds of attacks?...(White House and Congress are build to resist impact as well) BTW, airplane wreckage WAS found at the scene. Everywhere. In tiny little pieces. You just can't see them in the crappy grainy pictures that are released to the public. And by the way, aluminum melts at around 660C. Of course stuff is left unburned at the Pentagon. The fire was contained. And the last time I checked, steel is a much better conductor of heat that say, concrete. The huge exposure in the side of the Pentagon is largely from demolition work as part of the clean up!!! That airplane fuselage is only 12' 4" in diameter, so compared to the 70' building, it's pretty small. The 46' quoted includes the height when sitting on it's landing gear, and includes the height of the vertical tail. There are only 5 pictures being released because the aircraft was traveling at 350 mph and most security cameras are not running super high speed film!!! Idiots...this is making me angry.
The coffee was defective? Hardly, unless by defective, you mean piping hot.
The coffee was designed to be served that hot, its what consumers as a whole, want the coffee served as, HOT. People don't drive to MD just to have luke-warm coffee served.
Futhermore, he claimed it was defective because, if it was served at a lower temperature recommended by some association, it would of given her 15-20 seconds to clean up the spill, instead of the 9-12 seconds she had before being burnt. Unfortunately, she sat in the coffee spill for 90 seconds... she would of been burnt regardless.
If serving the hot coffee that consumers perfer is a crime because some association recommends otherwise, why did we stop at coffee, when its a well known fact that the food MD serves is below recommended standards of half a dozen associations.
I feel for the person burnt, but justice wasn't served that day.
Theres a suitable saying here that might interest you...
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Google didn't get to where it is today by avoiding criticism.
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You download driver binaries, and an open source wrapper that ties it into your kernel, but the drivers themselves are still closed source.
That being said, there is an unofficial open source nvidia driver about (X.org server uses it by default on nvidia cards), but it was considerably slower then the official drivers, and had horrible 3d acceleration, last i used it.
Still, at least there has always been strong linux support from nvidia, if only i could say the same with ati some day in the future.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. You'll find that bush revoked the right for habeas corpus, for non-us citizens in the war on terror.
The writ of "habeas corpus ad subjiciendum" is a court order addressed to a prison official (or other custodian) ordering that a prisoner be brought before the court so that the court can determine whether that person is serving a lawful sentence or should be released from custody.
Since i am not a us citizen, if i was detained over the war on terror, for whatever reason (or lack thereof), the US forces could detain me indefinitely, and would be completely at the mercy (if any) of my jailers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus#Suspen
If i'm not mistaken, thats exactly what happened with one of citizens of Australian, only after having the presure of a 1st world government, and ally to America, did they start the processing him after he was jailed in Guantánamo Bay for years without charges.
If he was American, he would of had his due rights, but alas not his case, and the cases of many many other non-US citizens.
There is only 1 reason i can foresee, for the time being, that would make me upgrade to windows vista.
That reason is DirectX 10, which is exclusive to windows vista.
This version apparently runs faster then DX9 too... once the drivers fully support it.
Saying that, in the short term, i fully expect any games that come out to support both the DX9 and possibly the DX10 framework. But those running on DX10 will run faster, and possibly look nicer too.
But it'll take some game i haven't heard about to force my hand. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you can apply for a patent, and advertise your concept all you want, without mentioning that its patent pending, and then once you get your patent, announce it as patented, and collect revenue.
The companies that have committed themselves to that patent will be forced to pay your royalties, face legal action, or back out of production. All of which can be extremely costly.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Now your just evading the point.
I've proven that buying gold is both illegal and immoral, your now going off-topic.
The willingness of stores to refund your purchase is entirely up to them and their country's legal system. It has nothing to do with the rules of the game.
Furthermore, with regards to FFXI, there is no clause or mention about a refund policy. You either accept their contract, or you abort the install.
I'll state this one final time.
Buying gold online is both illegal and cheating, anyone who things otherwise is too cowardly to accept that truth.
Chinese currency is yuan, Japanese is yen
The Sakoku policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku) was in different times, and not relevant to the argument, as times change.
You haven't shown any evidence that the action taken in MMOGs is more justified than action taken on soil in this reality.Are you suggesting that buying gold is justifiable?
When you install the game, your forced to either agree to the terms and conditions of the game, or abort the install. It is by your actions, you accept the restrictions and rules of the game. Nobody forced a gun to your head to make you accept.
When you accept an agreement, and then choose not to follow what you agreed to, you've broken basic contract law.
Under FFXI's EULA
Any activities consisting of selling, offering to sell, purchasing, agreeing to purchase, exchanging, or agreeing to exchange "gil" (or any other currency that may be used in the Game from time to time), characters, or Game items for value (including, but not limited to, any payment in kind and any payment in any currency recognized as legal tender in any country, state, territory or other jurisdiction anywhere in the world) through any means or venue, including, without limitation, Internet auctions or other online exchanges;Paragraph 3.1.a
If you accept that agreement, and then break it, your breaking the law. And by doing so, i'd say that also makes you a cheater.
And for those who think that all cheaters are breaking the law, only the ones that enter into contract saying they would play fairly... Much like all the FFXI cheaters.
Buying yen isn't illegal, the Chinese government is well aware that their money is sold in such ways, and supports such transactions.
Buying gil however, is cheating, the game developers are aware of it, denounce it, and take disciplinary action against such accounts proven to be selling gil.
Its pretty simple to see that buying money is cheating, anyone who thinks otherwise, is just too cowardly to accept the truth.
I know of plenty of online friends who purchased online money in the MMORPG i play, at least they all knew and accepted that they were cheating by doing so.
running on vista
Use www.google.us
You'll be redirected to www.google.com/webhp, unlike www.google.com, which will usually redirect you to your local google.
For HD Movies we need another storage medium. Thats where blu-ray and HD-DVD come into play.
Your not going to get any HD movies on your 300TB drives without them. And if i'm not mistaken, blu-rays didn't even allow you to copy the movies to your HD. That was the biggest reason why microsoft dropped support of blu-ray and shifted to HD-DVD. Because MS wanted people to be able to copy the movies to their HD, as its essential for their media center product lines.
I'm personally hoping that HD-DVD pulls ahead however. Its slightly less restrictive with DRM then sony's blu-ray (hence the reason ms are supporting it)
And lets not forget, the entire reason we have this stupid dvd format war, is because Sony pulled out of the HD-DVD consortium to make their own propriety disk format.
He publicly announced that there was a flaw in the chip, and that it could lead to a root exploit, gave a few clues, and a movie of it in action, but nothing that explained how it worked, and didn't let anyone know except apple...
Then all of a sudden he went quiet, and stopped responding to all questions about the exploit... people believed it was because it was a hoax, however it appeared that apple gave him a court order to be quiet...
Months later and apple still hadn't patched the system, the guy reappeared touting his exploit again, only this time its for a intel chipset, altho the expoit method was the same, since it wasn't apples problem, he was freed from what was probably a restraining order
Anyway, sorry i can't give any real citations, but regardless the moral of the story is true,.. If your going to give them advanced warning, it means you can't do it anonymously, which means they can get a court injunction against you, and continue sitting on the exploit.
The coffee was defective?
Hardly, unless by defective, you mean piping hot.
The coffee was designed to be served that hot, its what consumers as a whole, want the coffee served as, HOT.
People don't drive to MD just to have luke-warm coffee served.
Futhermore, he claimed it was defective because, if it was served at a lower temperature recommended by some association, it would of given her 15-20 seconds to clean up the spill, instead of the 9-12 seconds she had before being burnt. Unfortunately, she sat in the coffee spill for 90 seconds... she would of been burnt regardless.
If serving the hot coffee that consumers perfer is a crime because some association recommends otherwise, why did we stop at coffee, when its a well known fact that the food MD serves is below recommended standards of half a dozen associations.
I feel for the person burnt, but justice wasn't served that day.
Its the consumer that will be using the copy, but its the commercial entity that is doing the copy. IANAL, but thats just how i read it.
Coming to a supermarket near you Locally grown and imported from 3rd world nations, its the newest taste sensation I Can't Believe Its Not Bacon
Theres a suitable saying here that might interest you... "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Google didn't get to where it is today by avoiding criticism.
For those who are curious as to the correct meaning of "begs the question" I'd recommend reading http://skepdic.com/begging.html