That was one of the big pulls getting people to the polls. Stop the fags from getting married... It's quite remarkable, actually, when you think about it. So many millions of people "brainwashed" into believing that homosexual marriage is more dangerous for the country than having a man like Bush in control of the armed forces. All in the name of a religion, Christianity, started by a man who literally preached tolerance and compassion even for those considered to be despicable sinners.
Adultery is a sin greater than any other, even mass murder!
Seriously, this country is so fucked. There are so many people, mostly pretty extreme religious folk, who listen to anything Bush says as long as he sprinkles his speaches with the words "God," "Faith," etc. Oh, and don't forget, "crusade!"
It doesn't matter that he's lied. It doesn't matter that the VP's former company is given illegal no-bid contracts. It doesn't matter that the new AG is a supports the use of torture. There is nothing they can do that is evil enough to make the religious right turn away.
Combine that with an implementation of Unix that wipes the floor with Linux and BSD for security, stability
Bullshit on all counts. Apple is far slower to release fixes for THE SAME SOFTWARE as Linux distros and the BSDs are. I'm talking Samba, OpenSSH, etc. Stability is a matter of decent hardware for all OSes in question here, but Apple's desktop is much newer and arguably less stable at this point.
And lastly, OpenBSD is arguably the most secure operating system for personal computers that exists and is in common usage today. The others don't hold a candle to it. 1 remote hole in 6 years, OS X isn't even that old and already boasts more than 1 remote exploit in that time.
Could you suck any harder on Jobs's cock? He's a fucking businessman, and a sometimes ruthless one at that. He doesn't give a flying fuck about you or anyone else lapping up everything that Apple produces, he just wants your money for fuck's sake. Stop being a "loyal" fan.
Christ on a crooked crutch, no wonder so many people hate all things Apple...
Find one system out of a thousand out of compliance and then charge millions for the audit... or "agree" to a new licensing deal.
Not that I condone piracy or anything, but the BSA just seems downright evil. I hope you don't work with the BSA at all, otherwise I'd have to question whether you deserve the food you're putting on your table.
The death of the album may be real, but only for pop chart targeted music. The fact is, most artists making the pop charts suck and do nothing but regurgitate the same old crap, and have a "hit" when they get the "formula" right.
What I'm talking about is the "music" that can be tested with that silly audio analysis program Slashdot had a story about several weeks ago.
But is the album dead? Of course not. To most artists, a single track by itself is only part of a whole, not a standalone work of art.
There's plenty of good music out there, you just have to look for it. Don't let them shove the top 40 down your throats.
I've used Mac OS X a fair bit, and I am yet to be impressed by anything it has to offer. Commercial support issues aside anyway... The desktop is pretty, fonts look pretty nice, but I find font rendering in GTK and QT apps to be much more readable at equivalent screen sizes.
On OS X, fonts often appear much thicker and often very blurry, and while looking pretty are harder to read. On 'doze, well... Frankly, font rendering in Windows still looks like shit.
Mac OS X does have some major advantages with regard to fonts though, as pointed out in a few other posts.
I disagree with you about the Bitstream Vera fonts. They are very nice and readable fonts.
the big difference is that it's on the 8 o'clock news now.
Hardly! Maybe outside the US, but not here. The "torture" our media has reported on isn't even the tip of the fucking iceberg. Sexually humiliating people is hardly torture, as far as torture goes anyway.
Electrocution through electrodes attached to genitalia. Freezing people to *death. Cutting, burning, etc. These methods have been witnessed and reported being made by the US.
* Ok, consider this. It is hard to extract information from a dead person. This means one of three things. 1.) incompetence on the part of the interrogators, 2.) simple malice, 3.) the interrogators were actually trying to extract information from another hostage, using the murder of said dead person to scare them.
All those bombs dropping on cities in Iraq have ensured that the US will be loathed, featured, and especially distrusted by third and even some first world countries for at least the next four years.
It's also heartening to know that we have removed the torturous murderers who ran the country previously and have installed our own torturers. It's about damn time we stopped pretending to be civilized and resorted to the tactics everyone despises the most.
Lastly, it helps me sleep at night knowing that our nation's military, the largest, most expensive military in the world, is under the control of a good ol' American redneck who will lie to us to ensure that he can do what he's gotta do to further his own, righteous agenda.
Oh, I guess it's also good to know that all those bombs that we paid so much for didn't go to waste.
Reading down the first page of that link, people are reporting Doom 3 and UT2k4 working and being playable. No hint as to performance though.
Oh well, from the sounds of it, they are indeed improving a lot. Which is cool.
BTW, How is your novel coming along? I read the first many chapters of it at one point, and bookmarked it to read later. I see it's still in 3rd draft. Being the author, could you tell me if I should read it now, or would you recommend waiting for further revision?
1. a.) Complexity doesn't necessarily need to increase forever. Limiting factors include many conventional bottlenecks like clock speed, memory size, memory bandwidth, etc. Also, with fast enough processors, programming could be made easier by using different techniques. b.) Who can say how complex things can get before said programmers hit a wall and fail to take advantage. Certainly not you.
2. Heat is certainly a problem, but not one that is unresolvable. I have a Gefore FX Go in my laptop that blows away my previous Geforce, yet is stuffed into a smaller form factor and produces less heat. It's certainly not a higher end GPU today, but it's no slouch. Many companies are working on the heat problem today, and there techniques being created to deal with it.
3. Do you live in a hole? NVIDIA and ATI both have contracts to create the GPUs for next gen consoles. ATI is working with MS and NVIDIA with Sony. Both are well on their way to completion.
That said, you may be right that things will slow down, but that doesn't mean it's a bubble similar to the dotcom bubble. If/when it slows, it will because technology simply can't keep up. That does not indicate a bubble burst and deemphasis on 3d video technology.
The real question is, how much will donating $750 million hurt Bill Gates. I imagine 99.9% of the Slashdot population would hurt financially more by donating $100.
I submit that that $750 million would be more useful if it had never been acquired by Mr. Gates.
I hate Steam because it is a system that is hostile towards me, the customer. As a customer, the developers' cutting out the middleman is of no concern to me unless it enables them to give me more or charge me less. So far it has done no such thing, and only serves to prevent me from making fair use of products, such as installing on multiple machines for personal use, or excercising my right as a consumer to resell a product I am no longer using under the doctrine of first sale.
As an avid gamer, I often play older games. With Steam, there is no guarantee I would be able to install and play a game 5 or 10 years down the road, due to the forced online registration(even with the goddam boxed retail version of HL2).
Read The Fucking Article. The person complaining wasn't trying to rip anything, and was in fact simply trying to use a product as it was intended to be used.
I whole-heartedly agree. I've had lots of coffee in my life, and 95% is worse than Starbucks. Someone said it was the "fast food" of coffee. I think that is a false analogy. It is more like the chain restaurant of coffee.
Now, I have had better coffee than Starbucks. But that is hard to come by. On a daily basis, I am not able to get better coffee than Starbucks coffee, so I take what I can get.
WTF is all this bullshit about image I keep hearing. I go to Starbucks to get a decent coffee. The gingerbread latte is pretty damn tasty too:)
BTW, it also depends on my mood. I often just grab a cup of coffee at McDonalds. Image? Yeah right...
Playing games on Linux, your selection will be somewhat limited. However, a number of LAN party staples are available for Linux or run acceptably in Transgaming's Cedega.
UT2004 is available for Linux and runs very well. Doom 3 is available and runs well, but not many people are playing that at LAN parties:) There's some classics, Quake 1 - 3, UT, UT2k3. RTCW, Enemy Territory.
Some Windows games that reportedly run very well are Far Cry, Painkiller, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, GTA3, GTA:VC, Half-Life, CS, Half-Life 2(including CS: Source)*, and a slew of others.
Check out linuxgames.com, tuxgames.com, transgaming.com, Google, etc.
Cheers.
* I refuse to buy HL2, however, since there's no guarantee that I'll be able to play it in the future, due to the silly forced registration BS.
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Seriously, this country is so fucked. There are so many people, mostly pretty extreme religious folk, who listen to anything Bush says as long as he sprinkles his speaches with the words "God," "Faith," etc. Oh, and don't forget, "crusade!"
It doesn't matter that he's lied. It doesn't matter that the VP's former company is given illegal no-bid contracts. It doesn't matter that the new AG is a supports the use of torture. There is nothing they can do that is evil enough to make the religious right turn away.
Bullshit on all counts. Apple is far slower to release fixes for THE SAME SOFTWARE as Linux distros and the BSDs are. I'm talking Samba, OpenSSH, etc. Stability is a matter of decent hardware for all OSes in question here, but Apple's desktop is much newer and arguably less stable at this point.
And lastly, OpenBSD is arguably the most secure operating system for personal computers that exists and is in common usage today. The others don't hold a candle to it. 1 remote hole in 6 years, OS X isn't even that old and already boasts more than 1 remote exploit in that time.
Christ on a crooked crutch, no wonder so many people hate all things Apple...
Not that I condone piracy or anything, but the BSA just seems downright evil. I hope you don't work with the BSA at all, otherwise I'd have to question whether you deserve the food you're putting on your table.
What I'm talking about is the "music" that can be tested with that silly audio analysis program Slashdot had a story about several weeks ago.
But is the album dead? Of course not. To most artists, a single track by itself is only part of a whole, not a standalone work of art.
There's plenty of good music out there, you just have to look for it. Don't let them shove the top 40 down your throats.
On OS X, fonts often appear much thicker and often very blurry, and while looking pretty are harder to read. On 'doze, well... Frankly, font rendering in Windows still looks like shit.
Mac OS X does have some major advantages with regard to fonts though, as pointed out in a few other posts.
I disagree with you about the Bitstream Vera fonts. They are very nice and readable fonts.
Hardly! Maybe outside the US, but not here. The "torture" our media has reported on isn't even the tip of the fucking iceberg. Sexually humiliating people is hardly torture, as far as torture goes anyway.
Electrocution through electrodes attached to genitalia. Freezing people to *death. Cutting, burning, etc. These methods have been witnessed and reported being made by the US.
* Ok, consider this. It is hard to extract information from a dead person. This means one of three things. 1.) incompetence on the part of the interrogators, 2.) simple malice, 3.) the interrogators were actually trying to extract information from another hostage, using the murder of said dead person to scare them.
I thought the humorous / sarcastic tone in my post was pretty clear. Was I wrong?
All those bombs dropping on cities in Iraq have ensured that the US will be loathed, featured, and especially distrusted by third and even some first world countries for at least the next four years.
It's also heartening to know that we have removed the torturous murderers who ran the country previously and have installed our own torturers. It's about damn time we stopped pretending to be civilized and resorted to the tactics everyone despises the most.
Lastly, it helps me sleep at night knowing that our nation's military, the largest, most expensive military in the world, is under the control of a good ol' American redneck who will lie to us to ensure that he can do what he's gotta do to further his own, righteous agenda.
Oh, I guess it's also good to know that all those bombs that we paid so much for didn't go to waste.
Oh well, from the sounds of it, they are indeed improving a lot. Which is cool.
BTW, How is your novel coming along? I read the first many chapters of it at one point, and bookmarked it to read later. I see it's still in 3rd draft. Being the author, could you tell me if I should read it now, or would you recommend waiting for further revision?
2. Heat is certainly a problem, but not one that is unresolvable. I have a Gefore FX Go in my laptop that blows away my previous Geforce, yet is stuffed into a smaller form factor and produces less heat. It's certainly not a higher end GPU today, but it's no slouch. Many companies are working on the heat problem today, and there techniques being created to deal with it.
3. Do you live in a hole? NVIDIA and ATI both have contracts to create the GPUs for next gen consoles. ATI is working with MS and NVIDIA with Sony. Both are well on their way to completion.
That said, you may be right that things will slow down, but that doesn't mean it's a bubble similar to the dotcom bubble. If/when it slows, it will because technology simply can't keep up. That does not indicate a bubble burst and deemphasis on 3d video technology.
For some time now, people who have successfully gotten their ATI cards working have had to put up with very poor performance compared to Windows.
I'd love to have another option for 3D on Linux :)
Besides, they aren't hoping to even have any sort of decent 3D performance at all, just enough for the latest desktop tech. Forgeting gaming with it.
Either way, both were great, and the film is a good example of a book to film adaptation done right.
I submit that that $750 million would be more useful if it had never been acquired by Mr. Gates.
So far, they've got one Zelda game and one Mario game, and both are not really considered proper successors to their respective franchises!
I wanted so badly to have some good ol' classic Mario brought to the new console generation, but they blew it.
Oh well. I really hope Nintendo gets their shit together.
Exactly, and these new ones are not. Lucas is not a good director, script writer, or even writer at all without someone else fixing it up first.
The new movies focus entirely on special effects and pretty scenery, and the story is completely lost.
And lest anyone forget... midichlorians.
As an avid gamer, I often play older games. With Steam, there is no guarantee I would be able to install and play a game 5 or 10 years down the road, due to the forced online registration(even with the goddam boxed retail version of HL2).
Now, I have had better coffee than Starbucks. But that is hard to come by. On a daily basis, I am not able to get better coffee than Starbucks coffee, so I take what I can get.
WTF is all this bullshit about image I keep hearing. I go to Starbucks to get a decent coffee. The gingerbread latte is pretty damn tasty too :)
BTW, it also depends on my mood. I often just grab a cup of coffee at McDonalds. Image? Yeah right...
UT2004 is available for Linux and runs very well. Doom 3 is available and runs well, but not many people are playing that at LAN parties :) There's some classics, Quake 1 - 3, UT, UT2k3. RTCW, Enemy Territory.
Some Windows games that reportedly run very well are Far Cry, Painkiller, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, GTA3, GTA:VC, Half-Life, CS, Half-Life 2(including CS: Source)*, and a slew of others.
Check out linuxgames.com, tuxgames.com, transgaming.com, Google, etc.
Cheers.
* I refuse to buy HL2, however, since there's no guarantee that I'll be able to play it in the future, due to the silly forced registration BS.