If I were I teenager and my parents got me this computer, I would be plenty pissed off. If not immediately, then as soon as I tried to buy gaming software for it.
I use windows to play games, for the very reasons you stated before. I'm not talking about development systems, but runtime accomodation. But yeah, basically we are saying the same thing.
I may be an odd case when it comes to the number of pixels. I've studied OpenGL and general 3D rendering. I have an appreciation for lighting and shadowing effects. And a think my experience of the game is unduely affected by the sum total of information that is delivered per second. But I also agree that there are some rendering effects that are independent of pixel count which heavily affect the game experience; dynamic shadows, for instance.
As for the console experience, I see what you mean. For me the most annoying thing about video games is that they don't come close to accepting the complexity of expression involved in the normal movement of my muscles. Compared to that the console vs. PC differances seem insignificant.
What I mean is that there is nothing inherent in the OS itself that makes Windows a better platform. The examples you site show that Windows is a more popular and lucrative platform, but not necessarily a better one. Mind you, I am a big fan of VMS and Dave Cutler, and I think that Window (as of NT) is a decent OS, but I don't see anything about the OS that makes it a better gaming platform. If anything, DirectX is an inferior way of encapsulating 3D instructions than OpenGL on Intel platforms. I don't see anything about Windows, like scheduling latency or AGP control, that would make it a better OS. Can you enlighten me?
Pixel count is a big deal to me. Even after the results are gausian blurred by the TV phosphor I appreciate the extra amount of information. When I see a 720x480 display on a blurry TV screen, it just seems like cheeting to me.
Window is not the best OS for gameing. Most games are optimized for Windows. There's a differance.
I have a seperate PC running Windows for games because I don't have faith in the quality of the DRI drivers available for Linux. I won't even consider using a console because of the ~720x480 screen size used by the NTSC signal, a 1950's technology.
It's worth mentioning here that, unlike some of the other books mentioned, 'Emergence' ends up tying the concepts to modern applications. For example, it discusses Amazon.com's use of self-organizing groups.
Because proving that he was on the Internet is much simpler than proving that he had unsupervised contact with children, just as proving that someone circumvented a copy-protection mechanism is much simpler than proving that someone deprived a record company of a sale. Making a kid wait until 16 before he can drive is much easier than testing every 14-year-old who *thinks* he can drive. I'm not saying it is right. It's just a matter of logistics.
I know a guy who's spent most of his adult life in prison due to parole violations. He did one bad thing when he was 18 and then kept returning to prison on parole violations, most of which he was unaware of. There is so much crime going on that it is impossible for the courts to go into detail on every single case.
I would think that the point of something like this is to make sentencing easier if a person is caught for the same crime. Maybe there will be a point where they think the person has commited another crime and I'll the evidence that they have is the web activity. That would be enough to bring him in for questioning. And if they did convict him for this new crime, the penelty would be that much more severe if they could also pin breaking the Internet ban on him. I doubt that they expect to actually enforce the ban.
Yeah, we're sensitive. There are so many bad things about America that it's hard to see the not-so-bad things attacked as well.
Over the past few day I have come to see that there are many exceptions in english spelling. I was originally thinging about the spoken language when I brought ('brought'? how the hell do you spell that?) this subject up.
I am suprised that no one has pointed out that English does have noun gender: "the" and "the" are pronounced differently depending on the begining phoneme of the word that follows.
So we agree more than I thought, which is funny because my nickname used to be 'winterman' due to my always wearing a heavy jacket, even in the summertime. Hey, I like pockets.
Is there anyone from Venezuela who can tell us what's really going on over there? Is the government really switching to OSS, or is it just a ploy to get discounts from Microsoft? If the switch to OSS has already happened, is it a support nightmare like Microsoft would have us believe?
As it happens, I've studied Spanish, Swedish, French, and German. I am as qualified to defend English as the people who attack it. They already went through the trouble of learning their own language's gender system when they were two years old so they overlook the time savings that happens when they learn English nouns. They focus on the things they have trouble with. As you say, any language is hard to learn. (Icelandic, a germanic lauguage, has 24 main declensions, by the way).
I'm not saying that anyone is stupid. I don't know where you got that from. America seems to be an easy target for casting aspersions upon.
While I hope that the money goes to good use, no, I don't think the idea is worthy of half of a billion dollars. It's an obvious outgrowth of the browser field, something that even a normally skilled practitioner of the art would have developed independantly. Look at the precedents: callbacks, pipes, child processes. It was simply a matter of time before someone applied those concepts to a web browser.
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But since no one is sending SMTP traffic there won't be any email addresses to harvest. Thanks! I hope they add that bit about no port 25 to the FAQ.
Maybe they can classify it as a munition and ban its export.
Two questions come immediately to mind:
1) Can spam be sent through Tor?
2) Can spammers collect data by running a Tor server of their own?
I checked the site's FAQ but couldn't find answers there.
You just don't undersand! You're not the boss of me! I hate you I hate you I hate you!!!
If I were I teenager and my parents got me this computer, I would be plenty pissed off. If not immediately, then as soon as I tried to buy gaming software for it.
yo d00d, Nethack comp133tly bl0z away rougue. Get with the timz, 0ld man.
I use windows to play games, for the very reasons you stated before. I'm not talking about development systems, but runtime accomodation. But yeah, basically we are saying the same thing.
I may be an odd case when it comes to the number of pixels. I've studied OpenGL and general 3D rendering. I have an appreciation for lighting and shadowing effects. And a think my experience of the game is unduely affected by the sum total of information that is delivered per second. But I also agree that there are some rendering effects that are independent of pixel count which heavily affect the game experience; dynamic shadows, for instance.
As for the console experience, I see what you mean. For me the most annoying thing about video games is that they don't come close to accepting the complexity of expression involved in the normal movement of my muscles. Compared to that the console vs. PC differances seem insignificant.
What I mean is that there is nothing inherent in the OS itself that makes Windows a better platform. The examples you site show that Windows is a more popular and lucrative platform, but not necessarily a better one. Mind you, I am a big fan of VMS and Dave Cutler, and I think that Window (as of NT) is a decent OS, but I don't see anything about the OS that makes it a better gaming platform. If anything, DirectX is an inferior way of encapsulating 3D instructions than OpenGL on Intel platforms. I don't see anything about Windows, like scheduling latency or AGP control, that would make it a better OS. Can you enlighten me?
Pixel count is a big deal to me. Even after the results are gausian blurred by the TV phosphor I appreciate the extra amount of information. When I see a 720x480 display on a blurry TV screen, it just seems like cheeting to me.
Window is not the best OS for gameing. Most games are optimized for Windows. There's a differance.
I have a seperate PC running Windows for games because I don't have faith in the quality of the DRI drivers available for Linux. I won't even consider using a console because of the ~720x480 screen size used by the NTSC signal, a 1950's technology.
Wow, someone else who remembers Rougue! To this day I do not trust emus, foul natured beasts.
I'll say the same about The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The movie was great but the book was simply brilliant.
It's worth mentioning here that, unlike some of the other books mentioned, 'Emergence' ends up tying the concepts to modern applications. For example, it discusses Amazon.com's use of self-organizing groups.
Because proving that he was on the Internet is much simpler than proving that he had unsupervised contact with children, just as proving that someone circumvented a copy-protection mechanism is much simpler than proving that someone deprived a record company of a sale. Making a kid wait until 16 before he can drive is much easier than testing every 14-year-old who *thinks* he can drive. I'm not saying it is right. It's just a matter of logistics.
I know a guy who's spent most of his adult life in prison due to parole violations. He did one bad thing when he was 18 and then kept returning to prison on parole violations, most of which he was unaware of. There is so much crime going on that it is impossible for the courts to go into detail on every single case.
I would think that the point of something like this is to make sentencing easier if a person is caught for the same crime. Maybe there will be a point where they think the person has commited another crime and I'll the evidence that they have is the web activity. That would be enough to bring him in for questioning. And if they did convict him for this new crime, the penelty would be that much more severe if they could also pin breaking the Internet ban on him. I doubt that they expect to actually enforce the ban.
Is there some way of finding out, online, which theatres include ads? I would be willing to use that information to boycott certain venues.
Yeah, we're sensitive. There are so many bad things about America that it's hard to see the not-so-bad things attacked as well.
Over the past few day I have come to see that there are many exceptions in english spelling. I was originally thinging about the spoken language when I brought ('brought'? how the hell do you spell that?) this subject up.
I am suprised that no one has pointed out that English does have noun gender: "the" and "the" are pronounced differently depending on the begining phoneme of the word that follows.
So we agree more than I thought, which is funny because my nickname used to be 'winterman' due to my always wearing a heavy jacket, even in the summertime. Hey, I like pockets.
I won't believe it till I see it either.
Well, that is depressing, but thank you for the update.
Anyone? Anyone?
Is there anyone from Venezuela who can tell us what's really going on over there? Is the government really switching to OSS, or is it just a ploy to get discounts from Microsoft? If the switch to OSS has already happened, is it a support nightmare like Microsoft would have us believe?
If you put it on a plane, it would be in many differant cells at once. Am I missing something here?
The GPS might works, but I doubt that the cell connection would. The phone would be in many differant cells at the same time.
The RSA algorithm is very clever, but RSA didn't patent the algorithm. They patented all of the applications they could think of.
As it happens, I've studied Spanish, Swedish, French, and German. I am as qualified to defend English as the people who attack it. They already went through the trouble of learning their own language's gender system when they were two years old so they overlook the time savings that happens when they learn English nouns. They focus on the things they have trouble with. As you say, any language is hard to learn. (Icelandic, a germanic lauguage, has 24 main declensions, by the way).
I'm not saying that anyone is stupid. I don't know where you got that from. America seems to be an easy target for casting aspersions upon.
If Microsoft has unlimited legal expenses and a crack legal team, how is it that Mr. Wei's testemony got blocked?
While I hope that the money goes to good use, no, I don't think the idea is worthy of half of a billion dollars. It's an obvious outgrowth of the browser field, something that even a normally skilled practitioner of the art would have developed independantly. Look at the precedents: callbacks, pipes, child processes. It was simply a matter of time before someone applied those concepts to a web browser.
Hi. Welcome to Earth. You're gonna hate it here.