I think something like DirectX will be needed as an abstraction layer over the differences between NVidia and ATI. But also over different generations of one vendors graphics chips.
But I can accept that a DirectX that abstracts two very different general purpose architectures will be a very different API from the current DirectX.
But then DirectX, unlike OpenGL, was always supposed to be the thinnest abstraction layer possible over hardware differences. That's the reason it's such a hairball to program.
If he did send them to Syria, and these putative WMD are so dangerous and destabilizing, then why has the US not attacked Syria? Lack of oil perhaps
Because the Iraq war turned out to be more trouble than expected. Mind you much of that is because the of the help the Syrians have given the insurgency.
WTF? You said Bush/Blair lied. I said you can't prove it and the facts I've seen indicate they didn't. Now you say that there's a conspiracy of X files types to manipulate those facts. So basically you don't have any evidence that they lied, you just want to believe it.
If I'd have been in Bush'n'Blair's position I would have used Saddam's non compliance UN disarmament resolutions as a legal way to get rid of him, because he needed to be got rid of. But I would also have believed he was up to no good with WMD based on his previous behaviour. Actually Iraq's obessesive non compliance with weapons inspections was the reason that the US and UK decided to get rid of Saddam. Post Gulf War the consensus was to leave him in power but contained and when that containment failed that consensus changed.
You can't prove any of these were lies. E.g. the yellow cake allegation is something which MI5 still believes but the CIA doesn't. Iraq had bought yellowcake from Niger in the past, after the first Gulf War the IAEA found 400 tonnes of it. Following the invasion US troops found it, and shipped it off to a Canadian uranium producer.
And obviously Saddam used gas on both the Kurds and Iranians.
And the Iraqis used missiles against coalition forces in Gulf War II. They'd destroyed their long range missiles in secret. This is what I think happened
"No, of course not, the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us." The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: "if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?" Saddam's reply: "We didn't want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."
Of course in retrospect WMDs were a brilliant casus belli for the US to choose. There's absolutely no way a regime like Saddams would be willing to tell the UN weapons inspectors enough about WMDs to convince them that it had disarmed.
Another thing; you act (in another thread as well) as if I justify the killing of homosexuals or something. I would like to point out to you that my interest lies purely in being accurate, and if you feel that it makes me less politically correct, then I'm sorry for your mentality.
I didn't say that you personally are justifying the killings of homosexuals, just that if Islamists take over homosexuals (and most other people) will obviously suffer.
To OBL, the US is siding with his real enemy, making them invincible. And the prize isn't Washington, it's Mecca.
And Tel Aviv. And Spain. And Chechnya. And North Thailand. And Indonesia. And Pakistan and most of India. And Xinjiang. And Afghanistan. And the whole Middle East. And the ghettos in Europe and the US. And any countries that he or his descendents can take over by force. All under a dark ages system of government that kills homosexuals and authors and women who dare to be independent.
The question was: did he still have them later on, and the answer to that, it seems now, is: no. Therefore, did Bush lie ? We don't know, but it looks like it an awful lot.
I don't understand why people believe this. If you look at The Downing Street memo
For instance, what were the consequences, if Saddam used WMD on day one, or if Baghdad did not collapse and urban warfighting began? You said that Saddam could also use his WMD on Kuwait. Or on Israel, added the Defence Secretary.
This is supposed to be the smoking gun that proves that Bush and Blair lied about WMD. And yet one of the contingencies they planned for was that Saddam would use WMD on Kuwait or Israel. From what I can tell Saddam either destroyed his WMD in secret or shipped them to Syria. But what he definitely didn't do was to comply with the ceasefire at the end of the first Gulf War or the numerous UN resolutions to prove he had destroyed them. Given that Iraq had been found with surprisingly advanced WMD programs at the end of the first Gulf War and that he had used poison gas against both the Iranian army and the Kurds, it's silly to expect that anyone would believe he had disarmed without some sort of proof.
There's a real tragedy with Sagan I think. If you read Cosmos he's very hostile to Christianity, mostly for the right reasons.
And he's hostile to ID too, on the grounds that people are allowing their religious views to get in the way of their scientific views.
But the problem is with things like Steady State theory he allows his religious views to get the way of his scientific views. And it's the same with TTAPS - his politics totally distorted his science. He knew what he wanted to prove politically and then cherry picked the science to fit that conclusion.
STUDENT: Yes, how do we know about the climate changes?
TEACHER: The overwhelming majority of scientists believe that climate is changing due to evil Republicans driving their SUVs and you must vote for Obama.
STUDENT: What about Freeman Dyson and Edward Teller? Or Bjorn Lomborg?
TEACHER: They are part of a conspiracy funded by Big Oil. Don't question Obama or the world will be destroyed.
Maybe if a few people vote for this bug, it will bring it to the attention of whoever thought it was a good idea in the first place...
You should post this on/b/ too. Everyone knows the best way to win an argument on the internet is to call for/b/lackup from people who won't bother to check up on the other side of the argument.
Actually... yes, that is the way it happened. Debian thought they had an agreement (which they cite in that thread) from Mozilla which would let them continue to use the "Firefox" name while avoiding certain aspects of the branding requirements which proved too onerous for the DFSG. And all was well until one day a guy from Mozilla Corporation (which, ironically, is not the entity which owns the trademark) came along and started the threat process.
Once again: Mozilla's done this before. They're doing it again. Isn't it about time we had a Free browser?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU XNU is the computer operating system kernel that Apple Inc. acquired and developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as free and open source software as part of the Darwin operating system. XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix[1]
Originally developed by NeXT for the NEXTSTEP operating system, XNU was a hybrid kernel combining version 2.5 of the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from 4.3BSD and an object-oriented API for writing drivers called Driver Kit.
After Apple acquired NeXT, the Mach component was upgraded to 3.0, the BSD components were upgraded with code from the FreeBSD project and the Driver Kit was replaced with a C++ API for writing drivers called I/O Kit.
I'm sure you're right though, your team has won the game and that makes you a winner too.
Windows XP ----- 69.49% Windows Vista -- 17.85% MacIntel -------- 5.44% Mac OS ---------- 2.42% Windows 2000 ---- 1.93% Linux ----------- 0.93% Windows NT ----- 0.72% Windows 98 ----- 0.38%
It's not a human with a family. It's not a human that thinks it's going to heaven to 42 virgins or whatever. It's a machine with the sole purpose of killing them.
You know the odd thing about rewards after death for heroism is you could actually do it with AIs. They could download into new hardware and be assesed for how good they were. Good ones would get mass produced, i.e. copied and downloaded into lots of new machines and bad ones would get boxed.
So they wouldn't need to fear death per se, just failing to achieve their mission objectives.
Cross-platform widget sets are always dreadful. An application developed using cross-platform widgets will, at best, work well on one platform, and more usually on no platforms. OS X and Windows have different UI philosophies, and an OS X application needs a different UI from a Windows application.
Yeah, I quite agree. Knocking out a Windows only GUI application is a hell of lot easier than a cross platform one.
Dang, beat me to it. Absofreakinglutely correct though... massive LAN bandwidth doesn't do shit for me if all I'm doing is downloading torrents from somewhere in Russia or looking at pr0n.
But they are useful for people who actually create things rather than just consuming what others create.
Millions of Muslims slit throats of sheep at least once a year as a sacrifice for 'Eid-ul-Adha (the right sacrifice is to do it yourself).
From my personal experience the tough part is to overcome the fur resistance by exposing the skin (I have never been able to manage that and had to delegate this to someone else), but this problem (I guess) does not exist if you need to cut the throat of the captured enemy soldier (unless he has a really thick beard) (on contrary to what it looks like, this is one of the most merciful ways of execution or slaughtering because when you cut that artery the brain is quickly deprived of oxygen).
Umm, bullshit.
WARNING: VIDEO IS OF CHECHENS BEHEADING RUSSIAN CONSCRIPTS WHO DIE VERY SLOWLY. IT IS INCREDIBLY DISTURBING
No I'm not. "Asia" is a vast area - many different cultures and countries. Saying all Asians pirate software is racist, in the same way that saying all people with black skin have some undesirable characteristic.
I've had waitresses chase me down the street in Japan because I left them a tip, and I can quite imagine the same thing happening in Taiwan. It's highly offensive to suggest that all Asians are dishonest when I've experienced some of them being conspicuously honest.
So much for "A PBS mind in a Fox News world" I guess.
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I think something like DirectX will be needed as an abstraction layer over the differences between NVidia and ATI. But also over different generations of one vendors graphics chips.
But I can accept that a DirectX that abstracts two very different general purpose architectures will be a very different API from the current DirectX.
But then DirectX, unlike OpenGL, was always supposed to be the thinnest abstraction layer possible over hardware differences. That's the reason it's such a hairball to program.
If he did send them to Syria, and these putative WMD are so dangerous and destabilizing, then why has the US not attacked Syria? Lack of oil perhaps
Because the Iraq war turned out to be more trouble than expected. Mind you much of that is because the of the help the Syrians have given the insurgency.
You can't prove any of this is the truth.
WTF? You said Bush/Blair lied. I said you can't prove it and the facts I've seen indicate they didn't. Now you say that there's a conspiracy of X files types to manipulate those facts. So basically you don't have any evidence that they lied, you just want to believe it.
If I'd have been in Bush'n'Blair's position I would have used Saddam's non compliance UN disarmament resolutions as a legal way to get rid of him, because he needed to be got rid of. But I would also have believed he was up to no good with WMD based on his previous behaviour. Actually Iraq's obessesive non compliance with weapons inspections was the reason that the US and UK decided to get rid of Saddam. Post Gulf War the consensus was to leave him in power but contained and when that containment failed that consensus changed.
You can't prove any of these were lies. E.g. the yellow cake allegation is something which MI5 still believes but the CIA doesn't. Iraq had bought yellowcake from Niger in the past, after the first Gulf War the IAEA found 400 tonnes of it. Following the invasion US troops found it, and shipped it off to a Canadian uranium producer.
Polish troops actually found Sarin
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-01-poland-iraq-sarin_x.htm
Insurgents actually tried to use it against US troops
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3722255.stm
And obviously Saddam used gas on both the Kurds and Iranians.
And the Iraqis used missiles against coalition forces in Gulf War II. They'd destroyed their long range missiles in secret. This is what I think happened
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMD_theories_in_the_aftermath_of_the_2003_Iraq_War#Saddam_lied_to_retain_power
On 14 December Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces. Time Online Edition reports that in his first interrogation he was asked whether Iraq had any WMDs. According to an official, his reply was:
"No, of course not, the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us." The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: "if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?" Saddam's reply: "We didn't want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."
Of course in retrospect WMDs were a brilliant casus belli for the US to choose. There's absolutely no way a regime like Saddams would be willing to tell the UN weapons inspectors enough about WMDs to convince them that it had disarmed.
Another thing; you act (in another thread as well) as if I justify the killing of homosexuals or something. I would like to point out to you that my interest lies purely in being accurate, and if you feel that it makes me less politically correct, then I'm sorry for your mentality.
I didn't say that you personally are justifying the killings of homosexuals, just that if Islamists take over homosexuals (and most other people) will obviously suffer.
That guy is a hacker and terrorist. DDOS him now.
To OBL, the US is siding with his real enemy, making them invincible. And the prize isn't Washington, it's Mecca.
And Tel Aviv. And Spain. And Chechnya. And North Thailand. And Indonesia. And Pakistan and most of India. And Xinjiang. And Afghanistan. And the whole Middle East. And the ghettos in Europe and the US. And any countries that he or his descendents can take over by force. All under a dark ages system of government that kills homosexuals and authors and women who dare to be independent.
The question was: did he still have them later on, and the answer to that, it seems now, is: no. Therefore, did Bush lie ? We don't know, but it looks like it an awful lot.
I don't understand why people believe this. If you look at The Downing Street memo
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/docs/memotext.pdf
For instance, what were the consequences, if Saddam used WMD on day one, or if Baghdad did not collapse and urban warfighting began? You said that Saddam could also use his WMD on Kuwait. Or on Israel, added the Defence Secretary.
This is supposed to be the smoking gun that proves that Bush and Blair lied about WMD. And yet one of the contingencies they planned for was that Saddam would use WMD on Kuwait or Israel. From what I can tell Saddam either destroyed his WMD in secret or shipped them to Syria. But what he definitely didn't do was to comply with the ceasefire at the end of the first Gulf War or the numerous UN resolutions to prove he had destroyed them. Given that Iraq had been found with surprisingly advanced WMD programs at the end of the first Gulf War and that he had used poison gas against both the Iranian army and the Kurds, it's silly to expect that anyone would believe he had disarmed without some sort of proof.
There's a real tragedy with Sagan I think. If you read Cosmos he's very hostile to Christianity, mostly for the right reasons.
And he's hostile to ID too, on the grounds that people are allowing their religious views to get in the way of their scientific views.
But the problem is with things like Steady State theory he allows his religious views to get the way of his scientific views. And it's the same with TTAPS - his politics totally distorted his science. He knew what he wanted to prove politically and then cherry picked the science to fit that conclusion.
It's like religion got him in the end.
STUDENT: Yes, how do we know about the climate changes?
TEACHER: The overwhelming majority of scientists believe that climate is changing due to evil Republicans driving their SUVs and you must vote for Obama.
STUDENT: What about Freeman Dyson and Edward Teller? Or Bjorn Lomborg?
TEACHER: They are part of a conspiracy funded by Big Oil. Don't question Obama or the world will be destroyed.
Fixed that for you.
Maybe if a few people vote for this bug, it will bring it to the attention of whoever thought it was a good idea in the first place...
You should post this on /b/ too. Everyone knows the best way to win an argument on the internet is to call for /b/lackup from people who won't bother to check up on the other side of the argument.
Actually... yes, that is the way it happened. Debian thought they had an agreement (which they cite in that thread) from Mozilla which would let them continue to use the "Firefox" name while avoiding certain aspects of the branding requirements which proved too onerous for the DFSG. And all was well until one day a guy from Mozilla Corporation (which, ironically, is not the entity which owns the trademark) came along and started the threat process.
Once again: Mozilla's done this before. They're doing it again. Isn't it about time we had a Free browser?
Yeah, just like we have a free SSL package.
I'm not comfortable with the U.N. becoming involved in Slashdot's moderation process.
Don't mess with the UN, man. They might send you a sternly worded email.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
XNU is the computer operating system kernel that Apple Inc. acquired and developed for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as free and open source software as part of the Darwin operating system. XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix[1]
Originally developed by NeXT for the NEXTSTEP operating system, XNU was a hybrid kernel combining version 2.5 of the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from 4.3BSD and an object-oriented API for writing drivers called Driver Kit.
After Apple acquired NeXT, the Mach component was upgraded to 3.0, the BSD components were upgraded with code from the FreeBSD project and the Driver Kit was replaced with a C++ API for writing drivers called I/O Kit.
I'm sure you're right though, your team has won the game and that makes you a winner too.
It has a Posix subsystem. Mind you so does Windows, so you could say Unix has 100% market share!!11!
4% of the people that visit a geek site like www.w3schools.com use Linux. It's a lot less elsewhere
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10
It's not a human with a family. It's not a human that thinks it's going to heaven to 42 virgins or whatever. It's a machine with the sole purpose of killing them.
You know the odd thing about rewards after death for heroism is you could actually do it with AIs. They could download into new hardware and be assesed for how good they were. Good ones would get mass produced, i.e. copied and downloaded into lots of new machines and bad ones would get boxed.
So they wouldn't need to fear death per se, just failing to achieve their mission objectives.
I suppose it's good business sense to write software for the most popular platform. With around 75% of the OS hits being from Windows
From your link
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
OS Platform Statistics
Windows XP is the most popular operating system. The windows family counts for over 90%:
Windows XP (73.9%) + Windows 2000 (2.4%) + Win98 (0.2%) + Windows 2003 (1.9%) + Vista (12.5%) = 90.9%
Cross-platform widget sets are always dreadful. An application developed using cross-platform widgets will, at best, work well on one platform, and more usually on no platforms. OS X and Windows have different UI philosophies, and an OS X application needs a different UI from a Windows application.
Yeah, I quite agree. Knocking out a Windows only GUI application is a hell of lot easier than a cross platform one.
lemme guess: we will have it on the market in 5 years, right after the flying cars.
Once we get these babies all work on flying cars will stop. And so will work on anything else.
You could combine the two. Visit Joan of Arc and see her get burned at the stake. And then fuck her.
Dang, beat me to it. Absofreakinglutely correct though... massive LAN bandwidth doesn't do shit for me if all I'm doing is downloading torrents from somewhere in Russia or looking at pr0n.
But they are useful for people who actually create things rather than just consuming what others create.
I think US forces were roughly 50/50, but I could be remembering that wrong.
In any event, you are right about us not being quite as haunted by the Nazis. Since Russia was by far the most hurt, do they restrict hate speech?
In Russia, hate speech restricts you.
Millions of Muslims slit throats of sheep at least once a year as a sacrifice for 'Eid-ul-Adha (the right sacrifice is to do it yourself).
From my personal experience the tough part is to overcome the fur resistance by exposing the skin (I have never been able to manage that and had to delegate this to someone else), but this problem (I guess) does not exist if you need to cut the throat of the captured enemy soldier (unless he has a really thick beard) (on contrary to what it looks like, this is one of the most merciful ways of execution or slaughtering because when you cut that artery the brain is quickly deprived of oxygen).
Umm, bullshit.
WARNING: VIDEO IS OF CHECHENS BEHEADING RUSSIAN CONSCRIPTS WHO DIE VERY SLOWLY. IT IS INCREDIBLY DISTURBING
http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2008/07/six-russian-conscripts-beheading_7739.html
No I'm not. "Asia" is a vast area - many different cultures and countries. Saying all Asians pirate software is racist, in the same way that saying all people with black skin have some undesirable characteristic.
I've had waitresses chase me down the street in Japan because I left them a tip, and I can quite imagine the same thing happening in Taiwan. It's highly offensive to suggest that all Asians are dishonest when I've experienced some of them being conspicuously honest.
So much for "A PBS mind in a Fox News world" I guess.