The humor is that the only reason DX11 is coming is because wine is working on compatibility for DX10.
Once wine starts working on DX11, MS is going to shove out DX12....and so forth and so forth. Very soon, developers are going to be pissed with the changes, which as I hear in DX11 are about as big as from DX9 to DX10 (aka almost nothing).
well, dead on that maybe I should have mentioned it as "sans those issues" but I'd hardly label those two as dealbreakers, and most laptops are pretty well supported at this point. As far as drivers, I agree, and maybe we'll get lucky and things will pick up steam when windows releases their latest flop.
Well, not quite true about the delay at all. The delay period is already over. As soon as the judge made his decision, Minnesota can do anything that they want up to the day of whenever an appeal decision is made. Even if an appeal does favor the shitty telco. Most state constitutions have laws that say things like "if you did something when it was legal, you can't repeal it later".
Expensive and long process? Definitely. Will they put off another city? Not if the appeal fails. In fact, the fact that this article is a slashdot headline indicates that the US is watching, thus the decision will affect other states decisions to build out networks or not. Establishing precedence, etc is a big deal and can occur due to an appeal.
Methinks you want to be more careful with the information you put out.
Actually, the people who know things under the hood are the best ones to make good decisions. It's just that sometimes people in those positions are prone to being headcases, Bill Joy no exception.
I'd rather see someone who is open to new viewpoints/researches the topics they are assigned to with minimal prior knowledge, than someone that could possibly be closed to new viewpoints even if they very proficient in a specific field that is related to whatever the issue is.
In both situations, it's a complete gamble as to whether the person ends up actually good for the position or not anyway.
While I'm thankful that a professor can dispute the whole magic theory of someone going GTA on their city after playing the game, I can't help but wonder why the thread is trolled so badly.
Meanwhile, nice to have something easy and solid to point to in order to show people the whole "Correlation is not causation" thing, since many don't get it.
The way healthcare would get taxed, indeed, would presume otherwise than what you think about Mccain. See, he said it exactly how it is. He won't tax the poor directly. He Will tax the poor indirectly.
Meanwhile, the whole thing is hubbub until we see something being done about our current situation.
I understand the "historically" bad part of a democratic sweep instead of just democratic president, but maybe they (hopefully) won't be stupid enough to continue with that historically part like we've dealt with the last 8 years.
Sides, some things were just going to happen at some point. Having a republican rep lose to a democratic in some areas has been necessary and vice versa...bad people get elected out hopefully.
On a funny level, I'm curious what you think is a useful application on windows 3.1 that we magically somehow don't have an equivalent of. What do you have in mind?
I do always say irregardless. I need to fix that lol. I think you are probably the person I annoy the most with that, which I apologize for:D However, as any psychologist or folks of related fields can tell you, the linking of violence to video games thing is a very dangerous proposition there.
Interesting view. I do agree it's not necessary mutually exclusive. It's just one positive option. The "amount of pressure released through verbal/internet outlet" part, is entirely subjective and I would feel is not something that can be specifically quantified.
Your last paragraph, is somewhat of a emotional comfort issue though. For example, people who can explode with anger are not necessarily angry the rest of the time, or fatigued. In fact, it could be akin to a 5 minute burst of anger and then calm for a week, or something. They certainly could objectify to reduce their anger in general though, I am not in disagreement on that.
However, the idea of who maintains anger is in and of itself not mutually exclusive to objectifying. There are external things that will affect whether someone stays angry, as well as whether they are resilience or susceptible to those external forces.
man, I had a huge reply I had typed up, and then accidentally went back on the browser. Thus, short answer: I agree.
Longer answer: You and I both know there are games that have physical components or are active enough to induce sweat/physically exercise someone, if that is your concern.
Other side of the issue: complacency, initiative, and independence are all affected by video games/computer usage/tv/anything "lazy". An imbalance of those 3 things is simply maintained or continued on some level by using them (comptuers/etc) beyond a small amount. It's not like people can't balance, but the things above will not improve the situation. You know, the old methodology of "if you're complacent, something is wrong. You should never be 100% complacent, and should always strive to better yourself/improve your life"
Regardless of how extreme some people respond to some parts of anger, this is a pretty positive thing. I'd rather have someone rant about something online than go out and live out the murder they wished upon someone./stabbity
It's not really pent up energy, it's just focus. Someone gets highly focused and sucked into something enjoyable, and you're trying to take it away. Think anyone's response would be positive?
This is like trying to grab a needle from someone as they're trying to use it + addicted. Or in my case, when I am practicing my cello and really enjoying it. If someone came in and told me to just "stop", whether or not with a precursor warning, my response to them is not going to be positive, whether external or internal, my response is going to be something negative. Or as another example, if you're having sex, and you or your partner is about to orgasm, and you just stop.
It's not a video game thing at all. It's not an age thing at all. If you try to stop people from doing what they enjoy, and some will be motivated to smash your face. Just because you don't enjoy/comprehend whatever they enjoy, isn't an excuse to halt their activity. This is an ignorance of society and is not something limited to parents, although it does show bad parenting which is being passed on to the kids continuing the cycle of bad parenting. Also please note that I am not implying or saying that you have done this or are attributing you to this. Setting a timeframe or giving a kid other things to do is a very good and reasonable response.
Okay, you do understand that correlation is not causation right? If correlation was causation, then x thing could automagically be associated with y attribute, irregardless of if they make sense. It could be something like "all people are apples". See the fallacy?
Just because you can somehow correlate that people are happier on days when the sky is blue doesn't automatically mean that the statement is correct. Thus the tag.
Meanwhile, a judge put it well, maybe I can find the link later. He basically said without these things we are left unprepared for life in general, as these topics do exist whether or not people like them. It is far more positive to outlet your violence or even general frustration/any negativity through a video game (if you can do so) than take it out on someone.
So nonphysical (music) is different than nonpyhsical (computer)? What are you doing to your computer, installing Vista/Windows 7? Won't someone think of the poor purple barney PCs?
I thought this exactly too, its like "hi, we're not going to lock you into windows media player anymore, but we're still going to lock you completely into proprietary windows. whoops!"
I've heard many people say that if we form a third party, the two are so in-line with eachother that they'd try to absorb it./still wants to start a new party someday
Whenever America is at the forefront of a change, people tend to either look on from our example or get badgered into trade agreements to force our backwards rulings onto them. So what's your point? Idiocy in America reflects on idiocy everywhere, because lots of people are idiots.
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The humor is that the only reason DX11 is coming is because wine is working on compatibility for DX10.
Once wine starts working on DX11, MS is going to shove out DX12....and so forth and so forth. Very soon, developers are going to be pissed with the changes, which as I hear in DX11 are about as big as from DX9 to DX10 (aka almost nothing).
well, dead on that maybe I should have mentioned it as "sans those issues" but I'd hardly label those two as dealbreakers, and most laptops are pretty well supported at this point. As far as drivers, I agree, and maybe we'll get lucky and things will pick up steam when windows releases their latest flop.
I've heard of more support on Linux for laptops than windows, so I'm extremely skeptical of your claim here.
Wait, that's not vista capable?
Well, not quite true about the delay at all. The delay period is already over. As soon as the judge made his decision, Minnesota can do anything that they want up to the day of whenever an appeal decision is made. Even if an appeal does favor the shitty telco. Most state constitutions have laws that say things like "if you did something when it was legal, you can't repeal it later".
Expensive and long process? Definitely. Will they put off another city? Not if the appeal fails. In fact, the fact that this article is a slashdot headline indicates that the US is watching, thus the decision will affect other states decisions to build out networks or not. Establishing precedence, etc is a big deal and can occur due to an appeal.
Methinks you want to be more careful with the information you put out.
Yeah, give it a week without IT - tell them you'll both take a week vacay to demonstrate, and you'll see them start to justify things differently.
Actually, the people who know things under the hood are the best ones to make good decisions. It's just that sometimes people in those positions are prone to being headcases, Bill Joy no exception.
I'd rather see someone who is open to new viewpoints/researches the topics they are assigned to with minimal prior knowledge, than someone that could possibly be closed to new viewpoints even if they very proficient in a specific field that is related to whatever the issue is.
In both situations, it's a complete gamble as to whether the person ends up actually good for the position or not anyway.
While I'm thankful that a professor can dispute the whole magic theory of someone going GTA on their city after playing the game, I can't help but wonder why the thread is trolled so badly.
Meanwhile, nice to have something easy and solid to point to in order to show people the whole "Correlation is not causation" thing, since many don't get it.
Don't worry, I think RA3 uses securom as well.
They'll learn, someday, but remember! they'll use less DRM just like the last DRM they used! /sarcasm
The way healthcare would get taxed, indeed, would presume otherwise than what you think about Mccain. See, he said it exactly how it is. He won't tax the poor directly. He Will tax the poor indirectly.
Meanwhile, the whole thing is hubbub until we see something being done about our current situation.
I understand the "historically" bad part of a democratic sweep instead of just democratic president, but maybe they (hopefully) won't be stupid enough to continue with that historically part like we've dealt with the last 8 years.
Sides, some things were just going to happen at some point. Having a republican rep lose to a democratic in some areas has been necessary and vice versa...bad people get elected out hopefully.
On a funny level, I'm curious what you think is a useful application on windows 3.1 that we magically somehow don't have an equivalent of. What do you have in mind?
considering that it's about 5 bucks after the first google result, I wouldn't go crying like its' hard to get though.
someone FINALLY got the joke!
Man, if you look at all the replies, nobody got the sarcasm at the end. Sure invoked a lot of people going psychoanalyst/crazy.
If I had mod points for you, you would get a +funny.
I do always say irregardless. I need to fix that lol. I think you are probably the person I annoy the most with that, which I apologize for :D However, as any psychologist or folks of related fields can tell you, the linking of violence to video games thing is a very dangerous proposition there.
Interesting view. I do agree it's not necessary mutually exclusive. It's just one positive option. The "amount of pressure released through verbal/internet outlet" part, is entirely subjective and I would feel is not something that can be specifically quantified.
Your last paragraph, is somewhat of a emotional comfort issue though. For example, people who can explode with anger are not necessarily angry the rest of the time, or fatigued. In fact, it could be akin to a 5 minute burst of anger and then calm for a week, or something. They certainly could objectify to reduce their anger in general though, I am not in disagreement on that.
However, the idea of who maintains anger is in and of itself not mutually exclusive to objectifying. There are external things that will affect whether someone stays angry, as well as whether they are resilience or susceptible to those external forces.
man, I had a huge reply I had typed up, and then accidentally went back on the browser. Thus, short answer: I agree.
Longer answer: You and I both know there are games that have physical components or are active enough to induce sweat/physically exercise someone, if that is your concern.
Other side of the issue: complacency, initiative, and independence are all affected by video games/computer usage/tv/anything "lazy". An imbalance of those 3 things is simply maintained or continued on some level by using them (comptuers/etc) beyond a small amount. It's not like people can't balance, but the things above will not improve the situation. You know, the old methodology of "if you're complacent, something is wrong. You should never be 100% complacent, and should always strive to better yourself/improve your life"
Regardless of how extreme some people respond to some parts of anger, this is a pretty positive thing. I'd rather have someone rant about something online than go out and live out the murder they wished upon someone. /stabbity
It's not really pent up energy, it's just focus. Someone gets highly focused and sucked into something enjoyable, and you're trying to take it away. Think anyone's response would be positive?
This is like trying to grab a needle from someone as they're trying to use it + addicted. Or in my case, when I am practicing my cello and really enjoying it. If someone came in and told me to just "stop", whether or not with a precursor warning, my response to them is not going to be positive, whether external or internal, my response is going to be something negative. Or as another example, if you're having sex, and you or your partner is about to orgasm, and you just stop.
It's not a video game thing at all. It's not an age thing at all. If you try to stop people from doing what they enjoy, and some will be motivated to smash your face. Just because you don't enjoy/comprehend whatever they enjoy, isn't an excuse to halt their activity. This is an ignorance of society and is not something limited to parents, although it does show bad parenting which is being passed on to the kids continuing the cycle of bad parenting. Also please note that I am not implying or saying that you have done this or are attributing you to this. Setting a timeframe or giving a kid other things to do is a very good and reasonable response.
Okay, you do understand that correlation is not causation right? If correlation was causation, then x thing could automagically be associated with y attribute, irregardless of if they make sense. It could be something like "all people are apples". See the fallacy?
Just because you can somehow correlate that people are happier on days when the sky is blue doesn't automatically mean that the statement is correct. Thus the tag.
Meanwhile, a judge put it well, maybe I can find the link later. He basically said without these things we are left unprepared for life in general, as these topics do exist whether or not people like them. It is far more positive to outlet your violence or even general frustration/any negativity through a video game (if you can do so) than take it out on someone.
So nonphysical (music) is different than nonpyhsical (computer)? What are you doing to your computer, installing Vista/Windows 7? Won't someone think of the poor purple barney PCs?
I thought this exactly too, its like "hi, we're not going to lock you into windows media player anymore, but we're still going to lock you completely into proprietary windows. whoops!"
Nobody on slashdot would typically suggest Novell for anything. Patent issues, selling their soul to MS, working with mono, You should know better.
Pidgin + OTR + Jabber server if needed = good solution, open source, no software costs of any kind (only hardware).
I've heard many people say that if we form a third party, the two are so in-line with eachother that they'd try to absorb it. /still wants to start a new party someday
Whenever America is at the forefront of a change, people tend to either look on from our example or get badgered into trade agreements to force our backwards rulings onto them. So what's your point? Idiocy in America reflects on idiocy everywhere, because lots of people are idiots.