Unfortunately, most game developers will probably continue writing for DX9.0c until the majority of users are running Vista and have DX10 capable video cards.
The exceptions, as listed in the summary, will be those developers that intend for their games to be cross-platform and run on Linux and OSX as well as Visa.
As Hilary laughs it off saying it was better than her off key rendition of the Star Spangled Banner I imagine her muttering under her breath, "yeah, and the really funny part is that asshole is out of a job and if I have anything to do with it, will never work again."
At least she is being a good sport about it, publicly at least. I wonder is she would have felt differently if it were George W. Bush's face up there rather than hers. I wonder if would have resigned or gotten a promotion.
What does the last six years have to do with anything? Didn't the Clintons use FBI files against their political opponents? At least this is done under the guise of National Security and not for political intimidation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this. I am telling you to not assume that this started when Bush took office. If anything, they're making a step in the right direction. I guess if you are going to abuse governmental powers, at least do to fight terrorism and not to fight the "other party". I guess that if you could not let your Bush hatred blow your logic circuits, you'd see that not all problems started when Bush took office.
And by "stroke victim", they don't mean someone with a medical condition. That's just what they call someone who gets caught downloading a Billy Squier album.
Of course, they could also get Michael Jackson's "Beat It" for the same effect.
In either case, their next download will have to be "Lick it Up" by Kiss.
I find it difficult to believe that you are being honest when you tell me that people where you live were expecting a long hard fight in Iraq
Actually, I remember seeing reporters on TV in full MOP gear with cameras rolling just waiting for the NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) alarms to go off. Everyone expected to be driving through a fog of human pesticides as they got close to Baghdad. There were even reports of artillery commanders who were ordered to fire chemical shells, but who's men abandoned their post well before it got to that point.
So, I don't know if you would call 5-10 thousand US and British soldiers lying on their backs with their legs in the air like roaches who just got doused with Raid would be a "blood-bath", but had NBC weaponry been used, it would have at least ended up with a much higher casualty rate.
So when you say "You didn't think it was gonna be that hard, did you? " I have to reply with, "You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did."
As an aside, I've come across your posts many times now, and I've been wondering why you chose your sig.
I'm glad someone finally asked! The point of the sig was to show that Democrats oppose whatever the President does, even if it something they have been screaming about for years. At the time I created that Sig, Kerry and everyone else on the left side of the aisle were screaming about Bush's plan for a troop surge in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling it a bad idea and coming up with plans to prevent it. Until Bush presented his plan for the troop surge, Democrats were critical of the President for not sending enough troops. I made the sig to show that Kerry and other Democrats take whatever side opposite of the President on every issue, regardless of what that issue is.
School vouchers, where the government gives money to poor children who want a better education so they can go to the private schools that only the rich white kids could have gone to before was opposed by Democrats. Ted Kennedy, who helped write the education bill even opposed it.
A similar example of hypocrisy would be William Jefferson vs Tom Delay. Ronnie Earle went through three grand juries before he found one that would indict Tom Delay. Even though Delay has not been found guilty of anything, he was forced to resign his leadership and was all but thrown out of Congress. William Jefferson (D-LA) was video taped taking $100,000 worth of bribes, $90,000 of which was recovered. Jefferson was placed on the Homeland Security Committee by Pelosi, who was elected by saying she would "Clean up the culture of corruption in Washington."
I'm not just blaming Democrats. It's just that they are the opposition party right now and they are doing their job of opposing anything the other side tries to accomplish. The Republicans are only mildly better. They opposed nearly everything Clinton proposed when Clinton was probably the most conservative Democrat in office this century! Although they did at least support the mission in Bosnia.
I guess I'm just tired of seeing the Prez get a bad wrap about everything. On his inauguration day, his limo was pelted with snowballs as it drove by blocks and blocks of protesters. What could Bush have possibly done 1 hr before even taking office to cause such rage among the left? I understand the election of 2000 was kind of rough, but I don't think Gore would have had to drive through snow-ball armed protesters had he gotten an inauguration. I'm just tired of the whole sore loser mentality and wish people would grow up.
We may have had no moral authority to invade Iraq I only agree in that the whole world should have invaded Iraq, just as the whole would should have invaded Rwanda and now Darfur. We had no business going in without wider world-wide support. Unfortunately, the much of the world just doesn't give a damn. The US can not be world's policeman. If the UN won't prevent millions of men, women and children die due to political and tyrannical bullshit, we shouldn't have do it for them....but we sure as Hell have a moral responsibility now to clean up after our mistake, no matter the cost to the United States of America. I whole heartedly agree. The debate to go into Iraq is over. We have to finish the job.
The only real question is, do we even have the ability to do it anymore? We do if people like Rosie Odonnell shut the hell up and stop trying to take down the Prez even if it takes down the entire country with him. We do if the left can put down their snowballs long enough to offer something other than blind opposition. We do if the right can try to be more open to the members of congress when it comes to things that can not be released to the public.
Did "Mission Accomplished" have anything to do with that?
Unfortunately, yeah, it did. The really sad part is that the "Mission Accomplished" sign was misunderstood by the media. It was hung by the sailors and for the sailors in that carrier group. For them, the Mission was Accomplished. Their part of the war was done and they were coming home, so the sign was accurate. Unfortunately, people like you and the media took it as a presidential statement to represent the entire campaign, not just this group's mission.
That money would be better spent on teaching soldiers some arabic. Seriously. Modern war isnt about tanks and pitch battles between rival fleets of helicopter gunships. Modern warfare is fought in a city, in amongst a civilian population, who may or may not be hostile to US troops. teaching some basic arabic for beginners to soldiers so they can understand what the locals are saying is going to save more lives, and lead to a better outcome, than any l33t new nano-engineered hi tech gubbins that will most likely fail the moment it gets exposed to heat and sand.
The biggest pitfall for any military is training to fight the last war. Poland in the 1930s is a prime example. They were ready to fight a WWI army when Hitler invaded. Unfortunately for the Poles, the German war machine spent its time getting ready for the NEXT war and wiped the Poles out!
Urban warfare is always a messy business. However, regardless of what you hear on the news, our soldiers are doing a hell of a job in the Iraqi cities. The problem is that when compared to the bang-up job they did in the deserts, their performance in the cities looks atrocious. We have lost a minuscule amount of troops in the cities, but those numbers overshadow the casualty rate in getting to the cities in the first place. We lost more training for D-Day than we have lost in both gulf wars combined. If we had taken huge numbers of casualties overthrowing Iraq, the press would be marveled at how well we are doing in the urban areas. But as it stands, the public didn't expect casualty rates to rise after heavy combat operations ceased. The press has only fueled this perception by following the "if it bleeds, it leads" philosophy and completely ignoring any successes in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Here is all the data I need: the variety of GM maze in question, has been authorized for markets in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines.
So this corn has been eaten in all these places and no one has gotten sick yet? Now here comes Greenpeace, who has proven that they would rather see populations starve to death than have them eat GM foods, claiming that these foods caused liver problems in rats, and therefor should be banned, even though in all these countries, no one has gotten sick off this corn. I call Bullshit!
Me? I'm just listening to my gut - that mysterious place where common sense springs from - and my gut tells me that genetically altered things are not good eats.
Since you are typing on a computer with Internet access, I assume you live in an area where you are free to eat whatever you want. Unfortunately, not everyone has that luxury. There are places in the world where the best meal a family can hope for is a spoon full of rice that Sally Struthers provided. Granted, it's something to eat, but it has little nutritional value other than the carbohydrates. Now let's say you can genetically modify this rice to contain vitamins (such as "Golden rice") and even human breast-milk protein. Now, this bit of rice can be a nutritionally complete meal that could possibly be grown in these local areas to feed starving populations.
Unfortunately, in the meantime, groups like Greenpeace have convinced the governments of starving nations to reject GM foods and allow their populations to starve. Yes, that is correct. Greenpeace would rather let men, women and children starve to death than have them eat GM foods. And people wonder why I think that Greenpeace is more concerned with their own political agendas than the welfare of the people they claim to be trying to help.
And thus people grew accustomed to eating the variations over the centuries. When you modify something and it's vastly different than what the body can handle it can cause serious issues.
Corn and tomatoes are indigenous to the Americas. When the settlers from Europe or wherever arrived, they ate corn and tomatoes, that had been selectively grown for centuries. They were not accustomed to eating the variations over the centuries and yet they suffered no ill effects.
Even one the biggest nerds in the world is still getting teased and/or made fun of???
Actually, when I turn on the local radar station, hear the computer generated voice and think "Stephen Hawking?"... that kinda makes me one of the biggest nerds in the world!
Inkjet printers? Man they are going to be expensive.
Not if they go to InkSell.com. Well, that or they could start their own squid farm.
(for those who don't get the squid bit, inksell has the most anoying commercials in the world. One has a girl that tells about her favorite pet saying that it is her squid "Inky. Dad says it's the only way we can afford ink refills". Another has a guy trying to save his office money by having a squid farm to produce ink. The nasal sounding secretary is whining because a report stinks. "Get it out of here before it stinks up the whole office!" On that note, never order from inksell. Their commercials are THAT annoyingly stupid! I'd rather hear the Head-On commercials looped over and over!)
Actually, I heard Hawking as the voice for the National Weather Service in our area. He reads the weather report while the radar is looping on Time Warner Cable channel 43.
Call me an asshole, but it's what I think. I will do no such thing! That's you opinion and you are entitled to it.
I'm certainly no astrophysicist so I am in no position to evaluate Hawking's theories one way or the other. All I can do is say that I found his book to be well written and entertaining. I don't really care if his theories are bullshit or not because they have opened my mind to ideas that I would have never came up with on my own. I like Hawking because he makes me think. It's the same reason I like the Twilight Zone. Other than making me think, both Stephen Hawking's and Rod Sterling's theories about the Universe have the same effect on my life.
But that is what makes Hawking who he is. For a guy in a wheelchair who can not talk on his own, this guy has mastered the art of communication. You got to admit, the guy is charming. A Brief History of Time was by no means a physics textbook, but a dumbed down version of "Discovery Channel science". It was pure entertainment meant to make the reader feel smart.
Still, that doesn't mean to knock Hawking at all. What he has done is become the spokesperson for scientists. He has sparked a public interest in science that no one else has been able to do since Einstein.
Hydrogen is already storable in a solid state, borax. I don't know how feasible it is for wide use. One of the main problems I see is that it would require three tanks in a vehicle; one for the borax, one for water and a third for waste, which is basically soap. From here:
"We developed a dual-bladder fuel tank," says Moore, "to hold the residue created by this process." Refueling pushes the filtrate out of the second bladder and into a collection tank, where it is held until returned for reprocessing. "Unlike gasoline, the tankers won't return to the refinery empty," says Moore, "so the trip back is value-added." And vehicle dynamics are more consistent due to the retention of the residue. There is no dramatic weight variation between "Full" and "empty".
The technology currently is undergoing testing in a Chrysler minivan. "Technically, the vehicle is a hybrid," says Moore, "because the fuel cell recharges a lithium-ion battery pack that provides power for the wheels." Early testing has shown the van to be capable of 0-60 mph in 16 sec., the equivalent of 30 mpg, and of 300 miles on a tank of, well, slush. That tank, by the way, holds 54 gallons of new fuel, up to 40 gallons of residue, and is located between the rear axle and bumper under the van floor.
Ironically, U.S. Borax, Former sponsor of Death Valley Days, owns most of the borax reserves in the world. There are 600 million metric tons of known borax reserves (dry lake beds are the greatest source), and estimates predict the 50 million vehicles currently on the road would use 20 million tons of borax each year, most of which would be recycled.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. It's the games that make the console, not the other way around (although more power can mean better games!)
I think Sony should offer to pay for or at least split the development costs for some heavy hitter games. If Sony could team up with Blizzard, for example, to make a PS3 version of WOW that shares the online world with PC's, it may go a long way toward selling consoles.
Funny! My Okidata LED printer runs flawlessly with Linux as an HP LaserJet 4. Of course, just about any LaserJet compatible printer on earth should run like a champ with the HP LJ 2P driver. If your printer is a LaserJet, I'd start with the 2P driver and move up from there.
Now inkjets are a different matter entirely. It's a safe bet that any printer that costs less than the ink that goes inside it is not going to work with Linux, or OSX for that matter. These printers have no on-board processing ability and must rely on software for them to print.
Scanners have been easy as well, provided they are not bundled on top of an inkjet printer. I've had no trouble making both SCSI and USB scanners (usually Epson and Microtek) work with Linux without issue. Of course, this was back in the day when SANE had to be manually configured. I'm sure it's much easier nowadays.
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In a word, NO.
Unfortunately, most game developers will probably continue writing for DX9.0c until the majority of users are running Vista and have DX10 capable video cards.
The exceptions, as listed in the summary, will be those developers that intend for their games to be cross-platform and run on Linux and OSX as well as Visa.
As Hilary laughs it off saying it was better than her off key rendition of the Star Spangled Banner I imagine her muttering under her breath, "yeah, and the really funny part is that asshole is out of a job and if I have anything to do with it, will never work again."
At least she is being a good sport about it, publicly at least. I wonder is she would have felt differently if it were George W. Bush's face up there rather than hers. I wonder if would have resigned or gotten a promotion.
Clinton's been out for 6 years. Go to hell.
I'm sure Senator Clinton will be quite surprised to find out that she has been doing charity work all this time.
What a mess we've created these last six years.
What does the last six years have to do with anything? Didn't the Clintons use FBI files against their political opponents? At least this is done under the guise of National Security and not for political intimidation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this. I am telling you to not assume that this started when Bush took office. If anything, they're making a step in the right direction. I guess if you are going to abuse governmental powers, at least do to fight terrorism and not to fight the "other party". I guess that if you could not let your Bush hatred blow your logic circuits, you'd see that not all problems started when Bush took office.
And by "stroke victim", they don't mean someone with a medical condition. That's just what they call someone who gets caught downloading a Billy Squier album.
Of course, they could also get Michael Jackson's "Beat It" for the same effect.
In either case, their next download will have to be "Lick it Up" by Kiss.
I find it difficult to believe that you are being honest when you tell me that people where you live were expecting a long hard fight in Iraq
Actually, I remember seeing reporters on TV in full MOP gear with cameras rolling just waiting for the NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) alarms to go off. Everyone expected to be driving through a fog of human pesticides as they got close to Baghdad. There were even reports of artillery commanders who were ordered to fire chemical shells, but who's men abandoned their post well before it got to that point.
So, I don't know if you would call 5-10 thousand US and British soldiers lying on their backs with their legs in the air like roaches who just got doused with Raid would be a "blood-bath", but had NBC weaponry been used, it would have at least ended up with a much higher casualty rate.
So when you say "You didn't think it was gonna be that hard, did you? "
I have to reply with, "You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did."
As an aside, I've come across your posts many times now, and I've been wondering why you chose your sig.
...but we sure as Hell have a moral responsibility now to clean up after our mistake, no matter the cost to the United States of America.
I'm glad someone finally asked! The point of the sig was to show that Democrats oppose whatever the President does, even if it something they have been screaming about for years. At the time I created that Sig, Kerry and everyone else on the left side of the aisle were screaming about Bush's plan for a troop surge in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling it a bad idea and coming up with plans to prevent it. Until Bush presented his plan for the troop surge, Democrats were critical of the President for not sending enough troops. I made the sig to show that Kerry and other Democrats take whatever side opposite of the President on every issue, regardless of what that issue is.
School vouchers, where the government gives money to poor children who want a better education so they can go to the private schools that only the rich white kids could have gone to before was opposed by Democrats. Ted Kennedy, who helped write the education bill even opposed it.
A similar example of hypocrisy would be William Jefferson vs Tom Delay. Ronnie Earle went through three grand juries before he found one that would indict Tom Delay. Even though Delay has not been found guilty of anything, he was forced to resign his leadership and was all but thrown out of Congress. William Jefferson (D-LA) was video taped taking $100,000 worth of bribes, $90,000 of which was recovered. Jefferson was placed on the Homeland Security Committee by Pelosi, who was elected by saying she would "Clean up the culture of corruption in Washington."
I'm not just blaming Democrats. It's just that they are the opposition party right now and they are doing their job of opposing anything the other side tries to accomplish. The Republicans are only mildly better. They opposed nearly everything Clinton proposed when Clinton was probably the most conservative Democrat in office this century! Although they did at least support the mission in Bosnia.
I guess I'm just tired of seeing the Prez get a bad wrap about everything. On his inauguration day, his limo was pelted with snowballs as it drove by blocks and blocks of protesters. What could Bush have possibly done 1 hr before even taking office to cause such rage among the left? I understand the election of 2000 was kind of rough, but I don't think Gore would have had to drive through snow-ball armed protesters had he gotten an inauguration. I'm just tired of the whole sore loser mentality and wish people would grow up.
We may have had no moral authority to invade Iraq
I only agree in that the whole world should have invaded Iraq, just as the whole would should have invaded Rwanda and now Darfur. We had no business going in without wider world-wide support. Unfortunately, the much of the world just doesn't give a damn. The US can not be world's policeman. If the UN won't prevent millions of men, women and children die due to political and tyrannical bullshit, we shouldn't have do it for them.
I whole heartedly agree. The debate to go into Iraq is over. We have to finish the job.
The only real question is, do we even have the ability to do it anymore?
We do if people like Rosie Odonnell shut the hell up and stop trying to take down the Prez even if it takes down the entire country with him. We do if the left can put down their snowballs long enough to offer something other than blind opposition. We do if the right can try to be more open to the members of congress when it comes to things that can not be released to the public.
Did "Mission Accomplished" have anything to do with that?
Unfortunately, yeah, it did. The really sad part is that the "Mission Accomplished" sign was misunderstood by the media. It was hung by the sailors and for the sailors in that carrier group. For them, the Mission was Accomplished. Their part of the war was done and they were coming home, so the sign was accurate. Unfortunately, people like you and the media took it as a presidential statement to represent the entire campaign, not just this group's mission.
That money would be better spent on teaching soldiers some arabic. Seriously.
Modern war isnt about tanks and pitch battles between rival fleets of helicopter gunships. Modern warfare is fought in a city, in amongst a civilian population, who may or may not be hostile to US troops.
teaching some basic arabic for beginners to soldiers so they can understand what the locals are saying is going to save more lives, and lead to a better outcome, than any l33t new nano-engineered hi tech gubbins that will most likely fail the moment it gets exposed to heat and sand.
The biggest pitfall for any military is training to fight the last war. Poland in the 1930s is a prime example. They were ready to fight a WWI army when Hitler invaded. Unfortunately for the Poles, the German war machine spent its time getting ready for the NEXT war and wiped the Poles out!
Urban warfare is always a messy business. However, regardless of what you hear on the news, our soldiers are doing a hell of a job in the Iraqi cities. The problem is that when compared to the bang-up job they did in the deserts, their performance in the cities looks atrocious. We have lost a minuscule amount of troops in the cities, but those numbers overshadow the casualty rate in getting to the cities in the first place. We lost more training for D-Day than we have lost in both gulf wars combined. If we had taken huge numbers of casualties overthrowing Iraq, the press would be marveled at how well we are doing in the urban areas. But as it stands, the public didn't expect casualty rates to rise after heavy combat operations ceased. The press has only fueled this perception by following the "if it bleeds, it leads" philosophy and completely ignoring any successes in Iraq or Afghanistan.
sacrifice a virgin! yeah, theres plenty of those here reading slashdot im sure..
NOT IT!
Here is all the data I need:
the variety of GM maze in question, has been authorized for markets in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines.
So this corn has been eaten in all these places and no one has gotten sick yet? Now here comes Greenpeace, who has proven that they would rather see populations starve to death than have them eat GM foods, claiming that these foods caused liver problems in rats, and therefor should be banned, even though in all these countries, no one has gotten sick off this corn. I call Bullshit!
Me? I'm just listening to my gut - that mysterious place where common sense springs from - and my gut tells me that genetically altered things are not good eats.
Since you are typing on a computer with Internet access, I assume you live in an area where you are free to eat whatever you want. Unfortunately, not everyone has that luxury. There are places in the world where the best meal a family can hope for is a spoon full of rice that Sally Struthers provided. Granted, it's something to eat, but it has little nutritional value other than the carbohydrates. Now let's say you can genetically modify this rice to contain vitamins (such as "Golden rice") and even human breast-milk protein. Now, this bit of rice can be a nutritionally complete meal that could possibly be grown in these local areas to feed starving populations.
Unfortunately, in the meantime, groups like Greenpeace have convinced the governments of starving nations to reject GM foods and allow their populations to starve. Yes, that is correct. Greenpeace would rather let men, women and children starve to death than have them eat GM foods. And people wonder why I think that Greenpeace is more concerned with their own political agendas than the welfare of the people they claim to be trying to help.
And thus people grew accustomed to eating the variations over the centuries. When you modify something and it's vastly different than what the body can handle it can cause serious issues.
Corn and tomatoes are indigenous to the Americas. When the settlers from Europe or wherever arrived, they ate corn and tomatoes, that had been selectively grown for centuries. They were not accustomed to eating the variations over the centuries and yet they suffered no ill effects.
Have you ever eaten anything for the first time?
Even one the biggest nerds in the world is still getting teased and/or made fun of???
Actually, when I turn on the local radar station, hear the computer generated voice and think "Stephen Hawking?"... that kinda makes me one of the biggest nerds in the world!
But does it run Linux?
Or Quake?
Maybe it was bullion-bullionth... which is really strong soup.
Inkjet printers? Man they are going to be expensive.
Not if they go to InkSell.com. Well, that or they could start their own squid farm.
(for those who don't get the squid bit, inksell has the most anoying commercials in the world. One has a girl that tells about her favorite pet saying that it is her squid "Inky. Dad says it's the only way we can afford ink refills". Another has a guy trying to save his office money by having a squid farm to produce ink. The nasal sounding secretary is whining because a report stinks. "Get it out of here before it stinks up the whole office!" On that note, never order from inksell. Their commercials are THAT annoyingly stupid! I'd rather hear the Head-On commercials looped over and over!)
Actually, I heard Hawking as the voice for the National Weather Service in our area. He reads the weather report while the radar is looping on Time Warner Cable channel 43.
Call me an asshole, but it's what I think.
I will do no such thing! That's you opinion and you are entitled to it.
I'm certainly no astrophysicist so I am in no position to evaluate Hawking's theories one way or the other. All I can do is say that I found his book to be well written and entertaining. I don't really care if his theories are bullshit or not because they have opened my mind to ideas that I would have never came up with on my own. I like Hawking because he makes me think. It's the same reason I like the Twilight Zone. Other than making me think, both Stephen Hawking's and Rod Sterling's theories about the Universe have the same effect on my life.
But that is what makes Hawking who he is. For a guy in a wheelchair who can not talk on his own, this guy has mastered the art of communication. You got to admit, the guy is charming. A Brief History of Time was by no means a physics textbook, but a dumbed down version of "Discovery Channel science". It was pure entertainment meant to make the reader feel smart.
Still, that doesn't mean to knock Hawking at all. What he has done is become the spokesperson for scientists. He has sparked a public interest in science that no one else has been able to do since Einstein.
Sounds like his speech was Much Ado About Nothing
OK, bad example... but Blizzard was just that, AN EXAMPLE!
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. It's the games that make the console, not the other way around (although more power can mean better games!)
I think Sony should offer to pay for or at least split the development costs for some heavy hitter games. If Sony could team up with Blizzard, for example, to make a PS3 version of WOW that shares the online world with PC's, it may go a long way toward selling consoles.
Even though it is a laserjet. ;-)
Funny! My Okidata LED printer runs flawlessly with Linux as an HP LaserJet 4. Of course, just about any LaserJet compatible printer on earth should run like a champ with the HP LJ 2P driver. If your printer is a LaserJet, I'd start with the 2P driver and move up from there.
Now inkjets are a different matter entirely. It's a safe bet that any printer that costs less than the ink that goes inside it is not going to work with Linux, or OSX for that matter. These printers have no on-board processing ability and must rely on software for them to print.
Scanners have been easy as well, provided they are not bundled on top of an inkjet printer. I've had no trouble making both SCSI and USB scanners (usually Epson and Microtek) work with Linux without issue. Of course, this was back in the day when SANE had to be manually configured. I'm sure it's much easier nowadays.