The old. tired BSD vs GPL argument is not needed here.
And neither is the old tired 'big bad corporation is infringing on my freedom! DRM is evil and is ruining everything!'. This is a soapbox post, nothing more.
No. Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
Either something should be free or it should not. GPL simply pretends to be free while at the same time forcing you to adhere to a very specific philosophy.
But you have to admit it was really annoying for the officer. I'd like to see anyone be able to stand there and have bubbles blown in their face for any length of time and not get annoyed. The girl was just being stupid and deliberately confrontational.
False dichotomy. You're suggesting that the nuclear deterrant by the USSR should have kept those democratically elected leaders in power, and therefore that there is a dichotomy between dictators backed by the USA and democratically elected presidents backed by the USSR.
No, I'm not saying that at all. Read about your own history and educate yourself on the criminal acts of the CIA. It's generally got nothing to do with the USSR.
Since then, the USSR has only directly invaded one country, Afghanistan, that wasn't already occupied by it.
And how about the countries the US has invaded and the DOZENS of countries where the CIA has overthrown democratically elected leaders and put puppet governments in their place?
I'm not saying we are not having an adverse effect on climate - we are. However, I do believe even without the effects of man we would still be coming out of the last ice age and the polar caps would melt. My point was that we need to worry less about climate change (as this happens naturally) and more about how we are polluting the planet.
Very nice map link. And do you know what is also very evident? That the ice capped poles are VERY recent and NOT the normal climate of our world. So everyone please STOP complaining about the ice cap melt, they are not supposed to be there in the first place. Climate change is normal, but what we really need to be concerned about is the effect of our pollution and deforestation on the planet. Fix man's destructive effects and the climate will change as it is intended.
Baptists are numbered at 100 million worldwide, but I would argue that baptists in the US have a different belief system. The Southern Baptist Convention has 16 million members.
Contrasted with this is all of Christianity at over 2 billion, and over half of that are Catholics. Here's an actual breakdown by the numbers if you are interested.
But the rules are COMPLETELY STUPID!! They do absolutely nothing to increase passenger or airline security. They are there only to justify the securities own existance. If they were really concerned about security they would scan 100% of cargo going into and out of the US.
Doesn't it seem ridiculous that they ask you to dump out your water, take off your belt and shoes, but then 90% of the cargo that everyone is sitting on has NEVER been scanned?
Maybe I'm not familiar enought with DirectX. I know you can convert right handded to left handed, but how would I set up my DirectX environment such that my world coordinate system has +x to the right of the screen, +y to the top of the screen and +Z towards the camera (right hand)? In DirectX isn't +z always towards the screen regardless of what your data is set up to be?
"Unfortunately no-one would get the Hispanic vote if they didnt cater to them by having Spanish translations." Would this NOT give extra incentive to learn the language of the land, and assimilate into the greater US culture, as past generations of immigrants did?
You seem to forget that the Spanish were in the US long before the English. Many Spanish speaking are not immigrants.
Sure it's English by default, but does that give the government the right to FORCE someone to operate in English who doesn't want to or hasn't yet learned to? Isn't that an assault on their personal liberties to use whatever language they choose?
There's no requirement to have only English at the voting boots, and if a region recognizes that a significant percentage of their voters are more comfortable in a different language, then supplying that language to make voting easier shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks for the post. I would say however that since OpenGL 3 released in 2008, the extensions have gone away and have been incorporated into the main OpenGL API. There is no need to use specific ATI or nVidia extensions any more.
Also, if you are on Windows, using OpenGL does not prevent you from using any of the other DirectX libraries such as DirectSound or DirectInput. These are fully compatible with OpenGL. It's just the Direct3D portion that you would not be using. If you want to be truly cross platform, there are OSS equivalents called OpenAudio and OpenInput.
That's not what it says. It says if your data is right handed, here is how to read it in. Calculations are still left handed, and the scene is still left handed. So if I take a cross product of x and y vectors, a left handed system has the z going in one direction and a right hand system has it going the other. If I expect to move in my scene based on these calculations, and I'm taking calculations from the scientific world with right hand calculations, the directions can be backwards in the left hand world of DirectX.
OpenGL is most certainly right handed. Has been this way ever since its inception from IrisGL in the 80's.
There is NO left hand coordinate system in the REAL world. All of physics, engineering, robotics and most graphics use a right hand coordinate system. Obviously you can define a coordinate system to be anything you like, and DirectX has defined theirs to be left handed which is contrary to every other standard out there.
The link does not say it can be either. It says DirectX uses a left hand coordinate system. They then tell you how to use right hand coordinate DATA but fundamentally the internals are still left handed.
Where I live, diesel does cost more at the pump. In regions where it costs less its because of the difference in taxes between diesel and gas (diesel is usually taxed at a lower rate because it directly affects cost of goods).
And if you research, diesel DOES cost more to produce per volume. I think I read about 12-14% more.
I've emphasised the bits where it says they can be any goddam size.
Right. So if they can be any size, then size has nothing to do with being called an asteroid. Than you for agreeing with me.
Besides, if something the size of Mars came hurtling towards Earth from an out of plane trajectory, what exactly would you call it? Asteroid or comet are your only two real choices. No one would call it a planet.
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Why would I bother developing something if I wasn't going to distribute it, either myself or someone I work for?
The old. tired BSD vs GPL argument is not needed here.
And neither is the old tired 'big bad corporation is infringing on my freedom! DRM is evil and is ruining everything!'. This is a soapbox post, nothing more.
No. Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
Either something should be free or it should not. GPL simply pretends to be free while at the same time forcing you to adhere to a very specific philosophy.
Completely agree - this is nonsense. If the VLC authors truly considered their application as free then it would be distributed under BSD not GPL.
What if someone stood at your desk at work and blew bubbles on you all day? How long before you would get pissed off and say 'stop it!'.
But you have to admit it was really annoying for the officer. I'd like to see anyone be able to stand there and have bubbles blown in their face for any length of time and not get annoyed. The girl was just being stupid and deliberately confrontational.
Completely agree. Patents have done NOTHING but hurt the creative process and stagnate development.
False dichotomy. You're suggesting that the nuclear deterrant by the USSR should have kept those democratically elected leaders in power, and therefore that there is a dichotomy between dictators backed by the USA and democratically elected presidents backed by the USSR.
No, I'm not saying that at all. Read about your own history and educate yourself on the criminal acts of the CIA. It's generally got nothing to do with the USSR.
Do you seriously consider any of those a major act?
I consider assassinating democratically elected leaders of other countries and putting in puppet governments a major act, yes. Don't you?
Since then, the USSR has only directly invaded one country, Afghanistan, that wasn't already occupied by it.
And how about the countries the US has invaded and the DOZENS of countries where the CIA has overthrown democratically elected leaders and put puppet governments in their place?
I'm not saying we are not having an adverse effect on climate - we are. However, I do believe even without the effects of man we would still be coming out of the last ice age and the polar caps would melt. My point was that we need to worry less about climate change (as this happens naturally) and more about how we are polluting the planet.
Then there is all the fossil fuel we are burning. Why would an earlier civilisation leave it for us?
The oil *was* the earlier civilization.
Very nice map link. And do you know what is also very evident? That the ice capped poles are VERY recent and NOT the normal climate of our world. So everyone please STOP complaining about the ice cap melt, they are not supposed to be there in the first place. Climate change is normal, but what we really need to be concerned about is the effect of our pollution and deforestation on the planet. Fix man's destructive effects and the climate will change as it is intended.
Here's baptist disribution in the US.
Baptists are numbered at 100 million worldwide, but I would argue that baptists in the US have a different belief system. The Southern Baptist Convention has 16 million members.
Contrasted with this is all of Christianity at over 2 billion, and over half of that are Catholics. Here's an actual breakdown by the numbers if you are interested.
Yes but baptists are such a small group and are mainly in the US. I wouldn't consider baptist a worldwide religion.
But the rules are COMPLETELY STUPID!! They do absolutely nothing to increase passenger or airline security. They are there only to justify the securities own existance. If they were really concerned about security they would scan 100% of cargo going into and out of the US.
Doesn't it seem ridiculous that they ask you to dump out your water, take off your belt and shoes, but then 90% of the cargo that everyone is sitting on has NEVER been scanned?
Maybe I'm not familiar enought with DirectX. I know you can convert right handded to left handed, but how would I set up my DirectX environment such that my world coordinate system has +x to the right of the screen, +y to the top of the screen and +Z towards the camera (right hand)? In DirectX isn't +z always towards the screen regardless of what your data is set up to be?
"Unfortunately no-one would get the Hispanic vote if they didnt cater to them by having Spanish translations." Would this NOT give extra incentive to learn the language of the land, and assimilate into the greater US culture, as past generations of immigrants did?
You seem to forget that the Spanish were in the US long before the English. Many Spanish speaking are not immigrants.
Sure it's English by default, but does that give the government the right to FORCE someone to operate in English who doesn't want to or hasn't yet learned to? Isn't that an assault on their personal liberties to use whatever language they choose?
There's no requirement to have only English at the voting boots, and if a region recognizes that a significant percentage of their voters are more comfortable in a different language, then supplying that language to make voting easier shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks for the post. I would say however that since OpenGL 3 released in 2008, the extensions have gone away and have been incorporated into the main OpenGL API. There is no need to use specific ATI or nVidia extensions any more.
Also, if you are on Windows, using OpenGL does not prevent you from using any of the other DirectX libraries such as DirectSound or DirectInput. These are fully compatible with OpenGL. It's just the Direct3D portion that you would not be using. If you want to be truly cross platform, there are OSS equivalents called OpenAudio and OpenInput.
That's not what it says. It says if your data is right handed, here is how to read it in. Calculations are still left handed, and the scene is still left handed. So if I take a cross product of x and y vectors, a left handed system has the z going in one direction and a right hand system has it going the other. If I expect to move in my scene based on these calculations, and I'm taking calculations from the scientific world with right hand calculations, the directions can be backwards in the left hand world of DirectX.
OpenGL is most certainly right handed. Has been this way ever since its inception from IrisGL in the 80's.
Why is this so hard to understand?
There is NO left hand coordinate system in the REAL world. All of physics, engineering, robotics and most graphics use a right hand coordinate system. Obviously you can define a coordinate system to be anything you like, and DirectX has defined theirs to be left handed which is contrary to every other standard out there.
The link does not say it can be either. It says DirectX uses a left hand coordinate system. They then tell you how to use right hand coordinate DATA but fundamentally the internals are still left handed.
Does that explain it for you?
Where I live, diesel does cost more at the pump. In regions where it costs less its because of the difference in taxes between diesel and gas (diesel is usually taxed at a lower rate because it directly affects cost of goods).
And if you research, diesel DOES cost more to produce per volume. I think I read about 12-14% more.
I've emphasised the bits where it says they can be any goddam size.
Right. So if they can be any size, then size has nothing to do with being called an asteroid. Than you for agreeing with me.
Besides, if something the size of Mars came hurtling towards Earth from an out of plane trajectory, what exactly would you call it? Asteroid or comet are your only two real choices. No one would call it a planet.
It did. This went away years ago. It's the GP that's out of date..