Re:Looks like they've made some improvements.
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Blender 2.46 Released
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· Score: 4, Informative
The interface is a hurdle to learning but not much for work. It has almost no click-dragging (instead you click twice), I've read comments (about another program with little dragging) that that reduces strain on the fingers or hand.
Self-regulation failed, there were no non-smoking bars or restaurants and only few had non-smoker areas (which usually weren't separate, just signs put on some tables and some not). If the market fails to provide sometimes the govt has to meddle with it.
Ten laws were enough for "God" because they were more like their constitution, not their entire law. For a proper law you get lawyers (trained or just random people who disagree on some meaning) that will argue over what the law means and in that case you have to clarify the law to keep the intended purpose. Laws get hugely complex because they deal with reality which is very complex and humans which seek to exploit every weak point in the law.
An ignorant attempting to repair a problem is much more dangerous than someone who just sits idly. The ignorant has a high chance of fucking up and causing new problems without fixing the original one. How many tech support horror stories start with "and then I tried..." ?
And while I think there is a lot of dangerous ground here, what about the hypothetical of a child molester using GIMP to edit pictures of a real six-year-old performing sex acts on him and he then publishes it. There are real damages done here, for example, to the six-year-old, and I think many (though not all) people would agree that kind of act should be clearly prohibited.
It's the same as photoshopping a celebrity head on some porn, that it's a kid doesn't make a difference. Child porn was banned in first place because it was created by abusing chilren, if no children are abused it's no different from other fiction. The 6 year old isn't harmed by a photoshopped picture, it'll hurt his reputation but it'll probably do more to the reputation of the depicted partner (anyone feel like photoshopping GWB into a compromising situation?). Real child porn causes physical abuse, traumas and often death for the subjects. It won't cripple the kid for life if someone makes a fake picture of him giving a blowjob to Michael Jackson. If the country has laws against immoral speech it can apply them, if it doesn't it has no business regulating fiction (at least when it's clear to the reader that the work is fiction as with e.g. hentai games, noone would think comics are recordings of real events). There's no real harm from fictional child porn and claiming it causes paedophiles to rape children is silly, they have to be paedophiles in first place to watch that already and they were already a risk before they got any porn. Regular people don't remain celibate until they see porn either.
How can a law do something that was previously found unconstitutional? And how the hell does the "it's to prevent more actors from being 'recruited'" excuse work for obvious fiction? The US has its first amendment, if it doesn't want unrestricted speech it should repeal the amendment, not weasel around claiming that's not speech (I doubt this law has the usual "and no artistic value" rule). I'm pretty sure it'd be possible to show at least one or two hentai games that fall afoul of this law without being devoid of artistic value. Sorry but if you don't want speech to take preceedence over morality don't put it in the fucking constitution!
Some people in the judical branch really need to be impeached.
Are you sure that was the reason for the FF11 denial and not the fact that MMOs require huge patches and the Wii only has about 256MB of storage in total? Flash memory isn't particularly fast either.
If you ask me the only thing it really needs is to do away with this whole insane power growth through repeated whacking of similar enemies bullshit. It's not accepted in any other genre, why is it accepted for MMOs? Would Super Mario Bros be fun if you had to stomp 100 goombas to be able to hurt koopas, stomp 200 of those to be able to hurt hammer bros, etc? Would Gradius be better if powerup drops had a 1% chance to happen and without powerups you can't even hurt some enemies?
New classes alone won't do much for the majority of people, your character has his class already and getting a new one means starting over. That's not a good thing for an MMO, they retain players through all the work they had to do to get where they are.
In a sane election system that difference would not matter anyway as both sides would end up with the same power. It's just insane to declare a single winner based on such a tiny difference, it leaves half the nation unrepresented.
How do you propose enumerating the good for a virus scanner? A list of all harmless computer programs ever? Don't expect the user to fill it in, he bought the scanner to check unknown executables for viruses, not to keep a whitelist of known executables for him (if he knows it's safe he won't need the scanner). Remember that any defense becomes useless if it produces so many false positives that the legitimate positives get drowned out in the noise.
It does not matter if the judge knows that company is a patent troll, there are no laws that say patent trolls cannot sue for infringement and the judge's job is to apply existing law, not create new laws on a whim.
Also what about Europe? Stores here have roughly the same amount of space for PC games as they do for all consoles combined (unless you love the pain of shopping at Gamestop).
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The interface is a hurdle to learning but not much for work. It has almost no click-dragging (instead you click twice), I've read comments (about another program with little dragging) that that reduces strain on the fingers or hand.
You should go into middle management, I hear that state comes with the job.
Even my first Linux distro came with a BSOD emulator, you can safely switch.
That alone would just end up with all places marking themselves as smoking.
Self-regulation failed, there were no non-smoking bars or restaurants and only few had non-smoker areas (which usually weren't separate, just signs put on some tables and some not). If the market fails to provide sometimes the govt has to meddle with it.
You are an addict. You will be paying for your fix down the road
That's not a given when talking about information on the internet. Information is easy to copy and share via P2P or whatever.
I believe he was alluding to the common complaint that a black man is more likely to go to jail than a white man for the same act.
Ten laws were enough for "God" because they were more like their constitution, not their entire law. For a proper law you get lawyers (trained or just random people who disagree on some meaning) that will argue over what the law means and in that case you have to clarify the law to keep the intended purpose. Laws get hugely complex because they deal with reality which is very complex and humans which seek to exploit every weak point in the law.
An ignorant attempting to repair a problem is much more dangerous than someone who just sits idly. The ignorant has a high chance of fucking up and causing new problems without fixing the original one. How many tech support horror stories start with "and then I tried..." ?
And while I think there is a lot of dangerous ground here, what about the hypothetical of a child molester using GIMP to edit pictures of a real six-year-old performing sex acts on him and he then publishes it. There are real damages done here, for example, to the six-year-old, and I think many (though not all) people would agree that kind of act should be clearly prohibited.
It's the same as photoshopping a celebrity head on some porn, that it's a kid doesn't make a difference. Child porn was banned in first place because it was created by abusing chilren, if no children are abused it's no different from other fiction. The 6 year old isn't harmed by a photoshopped picture, it'll hurt his reputation but it'll probably do more to the reputation of the depicted partner (anyone feel like photoshopping GWB into a compromising situation?). Real child porn causes physical abuse, traumas and often death for the subjects. It won't cripple the kid for life if someone makes a fake picture of him giving a blowjob to Michael Jackson. If the country has laws against immoral speech it can apply them, if it doesn't it has no business regulating fiction (at least when it's clear to the reader that the work is fiction as with e.g. hentai games, noone would think comics are recordings of real events). There's no real harm from fictional child porn and claiming it causes paedophiles to rape children is silly, they have to be paedophiles in first place to watch that already and they were already a risk before they got any porn. Regular people don't remain celibate until they see porn either.
How can a law do something that was previously found unconstitutional? And how the hell does the "it's to prevent more actors from being 'recruited'" excuse work for obvious fiction? The US has its first amendment, if it doesn't want unrestricted speech it should repeal the amendment, not weasel around claiming that's not speech (I doubt this law has the usual "and no artistic value" rule). I'm pretty sure it'd be possible to show at least one or two hentai games that fall afoul of this law without being devoid of artistic value. Sorry but if you don't want speech to take preceedence over morality don't put it in the fucking constitution!
Some people in the judical branch really need to be impeached.
Are you sure that was the reason for the FF11 denial and not the fact that MMOs require huge patches and the Wii only has about 256MB of storage in total? Flash memory isn't particularly fast either.
If you ask me the only thing it really needs is to do away with this whole insane power growth through repeated whacking of similar enemies bullshit. It's not accepted in any other genre, why is it accepted for MMOs? Would Super Mario Bros be fun if you had to stomp 100 goombas to be able to hurt koopas, stomp 200 of those to be able to hurt hammer bros, etc? Would Gradius be better if powerup drops had a 1% chance to happen and without powerups you can't even hurt some enemies?
New classes alone won't do much for the majority of people, your character has his class already and getting a new one means starting over. That's not a good thing for an MMO, they retain players through all the work they had to do to get where they are.
In a sane election system that difference would not matter anyway as both sides would end up with the same power. It's just insane to declare a single winner based on such a tiny difference, it leaves half the nation unrepresented.
How do you propose enumerating the good for a virus scanner? A list of all harmless computer programs ever? Don't expect the user to fill it in, he bought the scanner to check unknown executables for viruses, not to keep a whitelist of known executables for him (if he knows it's safe he won't need the scanner). Remember that any defense becomes useless if it produces so many false positives that the legitimate positives get drowned out in the noise.
How would a user be able to install anything then? Malware would just use the regular installation procedure.
Besides, the click-everything user is unfortunately the default and the resulting bot-nets can hurt you no matter how good your security is.
Does Nintendo actually enforce the use of those codes or are they just using them and some developers are following their lead?
Meh, it's good enough to point out that this was the value awarded, not the value sued for. It comes out to less than a dollar per Wiimote...
It does not matter if the judge knows that company is a patent troll, there are no laws that say patent trolls cannot sue for infringement and the judge's job is to apply existing law, not create new laws on a whim.
I wonder what it'd be like to load Rick Astley on one...
Or what the RIAA will do...
They could try being less narrow-minded and start making games for non-DirectX platforms instead? Over-specialization is suicide.
In the previous generation there was not enough difference between the consoles that platform exclusivity really made a difference beyond graphics.
Any sufficiently long discussion devolves into semantics...
Also what about Europe? Stores here have roughly the same amount of space for PC games as they do for all consoles combined (unless you love the pain of shopping at Gamestop).