No. The engine of D3D would support multiple levels with the same X,Y coordinates (I'm using Z for height here), but it could not render them at the same time and if you ever tried to display two floors occupying the same X,Y on screen at once, you would get the old hall of mirrors effect.
There were objects that worked as bridges, but these were just objects that you did not clip through. Any time you could see two floors stacked, one was always one of these little bridges.
That's why people call it 2.5D. It supported it internally, but it couldn't draw it at all, so while multi-floor buildings did work, proper stairs were right out unless they were encased such that you could never see both floors at the same time.
Let's say I have a radiation source. I measure the decay with a gieger counter. I place the radiation source in a box lined with a thick layer of lead. Suddenly, I can no longer measure any decay from it.
In your view, saying "that's because you put it in a box!" is correct.
That's because they're going to wait a few weeks and admit that everything really was.
It should be criminal to employ this tactic, but we see it again and again. These companies have a responsibility to be good stewards of the information we have granted them. When they hide these breaches, they are not acting in good faith.
Although legally you need to purchase licenses for your software that requires such a purchase, you can download it all from the internet for free and still have proper functionality.
Windows volume licenses are *upgrade* licenses. They still require a full or oem license for the machine. Only the desktop OS is this way, by the way. All other OS's (well, the 1) and apps are not.
Kindle pricing was really nice prior to Apple getting involved and the resulting publisher price fixing.
Nothing like used, but it was much better than it is now. I'm not so sure that I would have gone that route if the pricing were as it stands currently.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If this thing is supposed to be a computer, I expect it to behave like one.
Can you imagine if HP, Dell, Asus, etc tried to tell you you are only allowed to install apps through their app stores on a computer you buy from them?
I said you can extract if faster than it is replinished, but it really is inexhaustable. You will not run out. Once the reserve is gone, you can only get it as fast as it seeps down, but it isn't *gone*
The point of the post was that people are far too accepting of the concept that *everything* is scarce. Water just isn't one of those things.
The planet will not run out of water. It just isn't going to happen. Sure, we might have to move usage around a bit in some cases, but the idea that water will magically disappear is preposterous.
Wait, you actually think water is disappearing, going poof? Where do you think this water is going? Water is not something you use up and then there is no more. You see, it evaporates, and then it rains down again clean. Now it may not be where you expected it would be, or it may end up unfit for use in areas with contaminants, but the water is still there.
You realize there are nearly inexhaustible supplies under the ground right? If you suck it out faster than it seeps back down, guess what, the water still exists. We could potentially use it faster than we harvest it, but to assert that water is a scarce resource is very, very misleading. You can always expand your collection techniques.
Or are you suggesting we are in danger of locking up *all* of the hydrogen and oxygen on the earth in to other compounds?
Oh, you know that salt water? Let it evaporate, and magically you have more fresh water.:P
A location cache would have no need to record timestamps unless the data were to age out (which it did not). Nor would it need to record the same bit of data with a new time stamp while maintaining the old one. There would be absolutely no reason to ever have the same data point twice with different time stamps. In an aging system, you would just update the time stamp on the existing point so that it didn't age out.
No, it can't. That would require every stream to be encoded separately on the fly to every cable box based on when they requested the channel to be tuned.
RIM doesn't have the private keys to decrypt the data you send through their infrastructure. They could provide it encrypted and the encyption could be cracked given a long enough timeline, but the whole point is that it is end to end secure.
This is like saying all your encrypted traffic going over ATT's backbone is arbitrarily viewable. Sure, the raw data could be, but the contents aren't.
This isn't hotmail or google where your data is sitting on their servers. Not sure why you are modded up for an uninformed claim.
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You were initially outraged because the university managed to negotiate some free services with their purchase?
Oh the travesty!
No. RTFA. They discounted conversion services by $250k. The school is still paying for the product. This is commonplace in the industry.
"Sure, we want to swap from x to your product y, but it will cost us too much to transition"
"How can we help out so that we get a revenue stream from your subscription/maintenance (that still makes us money in the long run)?"
Who needs accuracy (though the linked story had the same inaccurate headline)?
Let me guess, your AMD notebook is even at 100% to all cores? ;)
You can thank Apple for that price.
(no, I'm not joking).
No. The engine of D3D would support multiple levels with the same X,Y coordinates (I'm using Z for height here), but it could not render them at the same time and if you ever tried to display two floors occupying the same X,Y on screen at once, you would get the old hall of mirrors effect.
There were objects that worked as bridges, but these were just objects that you did not clip through. Any time you could see two floors stacked, one was always one of these little bridges.
That's why people call it 2.5D. It supported it internally, but it couldn't draw it at all, so while multi-floor buildings did work, proper stairs were right out unless they were encased such that you could never see both floors at the same time.
Really? So if I made a plane out of wood it will have the same properties? It has the sane geometry after all. You are a silly, silly ac.
No. What you have done is akin to the following:
Let's say I have a radiation source. I measure the decay with a gieger counter. I place the radiation source in a box lined with a thick layer of lead. Suddenly, I can no longer measure any decay from it.
In your view, saying "that's because you put it in a box!" is correct.
No, it's because I encased it with lead.
The amusing thing is, you mean faraday cage instead of gaussian surface.
I suppose I can, sort of, see how you made that mistake, but you are like the grammar pedant who confuses there and their.
That's because they're going to wait a few weeks and admit that everything really was.
It should be criminal to employ this tactic, but we see it again and again. These companies have a responsibility to be good stewards of the information we have granted them. When they hide these breaches, they are not acting in good faith.
That's because you're querying for A records and not AAAA.
Use something like nslookup and set the type of query to AAAA.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ipv6.l.google.com
Address: 2001:4860:800e::93
Aliases: ipv6.google.com
Evolution has nothing to do with survival and has everything to do with gene propagation.
It is a very important distinction to make.
Similarly, you presume that they aren't.
Although legally you need to purchase licenses for your software that requires such a purchase, you can download it all from the internet for free and still have proper functionality.
See what I did there? Same thing as you.
Windows volume licenses are *upgrade* licenses. They still require a full or oem license for the machine. Only the desktop OS is this way, by the way. All other OS's (well, the 1) and apps are not.
Only when the competition is Apple can we say that we were better off with the monopoly ;)
Kindle pricing was really nice prior to Apple getting involved and the resulting publisher price fixing.
Nothing like used, but it was much better than it is now. I'm not so sure that I would have gone that route if the pricing were as it stands currently.
SCOTUS needs to address this, badly.
Language changes over time. In fact, the OED agrees with the more modern definiton. Dictionaries cannot agree if it can mean to injure even.
Since the OED is a paid site, here is another one referencing the OED defintion.
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/electrocute
All of the devices that are being forcibly shoved in to the business space when they do not belong there due to the lack of manageability.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If this thing is supposed to be a computer, I expect it to behave like one.
Can you imagine if HP, Dell, Asus, etc tried to tell you you are only allowed to install apps through their app stores on a computer you buy from them?
I said you can extract if faster than it is replinished, but it really is inexhaustable. You will not run out. Once the reserve is gone, you can only get it as fast as it seeps down, but it isn't *gone*
The point of the post was that people are far too accepting of the concept that *everything* is scarce. Water just isn't one of those things.
The planet will not run out of water. It just isn't going to happen. Sure, we might have to move usage around a bit in some cases, but the idea that water will magically disappear is preposterous.
Wait, you actually think water is disappearing, going poof? Where do you think this water is going? Water is not something you use up and then there is no more. You see, it evaporates, and then it rains down again clean. Now it may not be where you expected it would be, or it may end up unfit for use in areas with contaminants, but the water is still there.
You realize there are nearly inexhaustible supplies under the ground right? If you suck it out faster than it seeps back down, guess what, the water still exists. We could potentially use it faster than we harvest it, but to assert that water is a scarce resource is very, very misleading. You can always expand your collection techniques.
Or are you suggesting we are in danger of locking up *all* of the hydrogen and oxygen on the earth in to other compounds?
Oh, you know that salt water? Let it evaporate, and magically you have more fresh water. :P
A location cache would have no need to record timestamps unless the data were to age out (which it did not). Nor would it need to record the same bit of data with a new time stamp while maintaining the old one. There would be absolutely no reason to ever have the same data point twice with different time stamps. In an aging system, you would just update the time stamp on the existing point so that it didn't age out.
No, it can't. That would require every stream to be encoded separately on the fly to every cable box based on when they requested the channel to be tuned.
RIM doesn't have the private keys to decrypt the data you send through their infrastructure. They could provide it encrypted and the encyption could be cracked given a long enough timeline, but the whole point is that it is end to end secure.
This is like saying all your encrypted traffic going over ATT's backbone is arbitrarily viewable. Sure, the raw data could be, but the contents aren't.
This isn't hotmail or google where your data is sitting on their servers. Not sure why you are modded up for an uninformed claim.