Unfortunately, you just identified the key point here - DirectX is WAY ahead of openGL when it comes to game development. Left handed coordinate system aside, DirectX provides so much useful stuff (eg. d9dx) to the programmer, that you have to be either mad and/or John Carmack to use openGL on windows. So porting windows games to linux is still improbable. That said, an opensource 3D driver is nothing to be sniffed at. ATI graphics cards will soon become something that "just works" on linux.
Gay people.. you know, the people who receive an imbalance of hormones in the womb which causes their physical sexuality to sway from their mental sexuality.
Why can't the church get this simple concept into their heads? Morals and rights tend to oppose eachother when religion is involved, because some idiot wrote in the old testament that "he who lies atop another man as he were a woman" does what no animal has done before. Evidently the scribes of the trash that is the bible/koran were no zoologists, because homosexuality has been observed in almost every known animal, right down to insects. There's a zoo in Amsterdam which actually collects gay animals, and you can go there and watch them doing what comes NATURALLY to them.
What, a serial rapist who actively knows when people aren't menstruating? He'll still get murdered by the group. The children may survive, but they will be brought up by a rape-hating parent, which goes on to the point:
Something doesn't have to be genetic to be hereditary, and nowhere will you find that more the case than in religion. How many christian children do you know with muslim parents? The memes of religion are hereditary.
CITATION NEEDED! Because this is bullshit. The Church of England actively involved itself in slavery. The Bible, the Koran, and the Torah dictate not only nothing against having slaves, but actually propose moral ways to treat ones slaves. (look up "dhimmi"). William Wilberforce was an agnostic. This is the worst case of misinformation I've seen on slashdot, but then again, I'd expect that from a religious person - that's their job.
You cannot connect morality to evolution, without embarking on the slippery slope that is social darwinism. Evolution involves individuals possessing a competitive advantage which they can pass genetically to their offspring. Morality does not benefit the individual, but rather the group, and is not inherited.
Bullshit. The sacrificial actions of one individual can benefit the genes of an entire group, most of which that individual will share. Many potentially moral people may have died and failed to pass on their specifics, but the group has survived, and grown to recognise the advantage of protecting those who might protect them. This is even more apparent when one recognises the bias people usually have towards their families.
As for the tiresome "slippery slope" metaphor, it's only necessary to be wearing appropriate shoes for the terrain.
By this logic, theft, and indeed any other selfish crime is also an evolutionary strategy, however we have a far more useful evolutionary strategy in the form of social cooperation. Both of the above crimes will have you rejected from the greater group, and that is why most people find themselves compelled not to do it.
If you cannot understand if or why rape is wrong without referring to a religious book, then you have no morals, or, to put it in an evolutionary sense, you are less evolved.
Facebook openly invites me to add a "religious views" column to my profile. Do they REALLY want my religious views? Presently it's set to "are divisive", but I reserve my right to put what I really think without being slapped with the race card.
If you set up business in a country and trade there, you should pay tax there. Paying tax in another country is like staying in a posh hotel and paying the cheaper B&B next door. Small businesses don't have this ability and cannot compete with mega corporations getting a free ride at the expense of the people giving them trade in the first place.
The "dividends" part of this topic gives away the problem. A more mercenary person would now be slapping themselves for not investing in Eolas - and thus contributing to the problem and making money out of it.
There's one thing (another story) with suing over a frivolous patent if you make the product, but this company only exists to take money off another and give it to people who've done no work whatsoever.
Simple. Freeze the shares of a company who files an IP suit over a patent they're not using. If a company only has one patent and plans to start making something with it, they needn't worry - they can still make money from their product while getting an injunction against the competitor.
But they don't, and it would take something pretty drastic to change their mind on that. If they did, then fine, they can bugger off, but it's not in their interests to declare independence, so we have nothing to worry about there.
If there's a referendum on whether or not Scotland should be independent, then all the affected parties, ie Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland should vote on it, as it affects us all!
But if the Scots could only get independence with the blessing of the Scots, it wouldn't be a union, it would be an occupation. If the Scots don't want us, then they don't have to have us.
Calm down you two, or I'll send the geordies in:-)
Seriously, there's a good reason why England doesn't have an independent parliament - that would make England independent, and where there may exist a few English republicans out there, most English and Welsh are pro-union for two reasons:
1) We like the Scots. If the Scots voted for independence, we'd miss them. Ok, so it's not like they're going anywhere (and there already is a wall!), but without the Scottish influence on English culture and vice versa, our historical friendship and cooperation, as opposed to the countless wars we had before then, would be gone as two countries choose to sulk on either side Carlisle.
2) Have you any idea how complicated independence would be? NHS, driving licenses, passport authorities, the BBC, not to mention the Army, defence, etc. It would take years, and government efficiency both sides of the border (London Underground versus Edinburgh's parliamentary building) can hardly be expected to fix it without err. Ok, so an independent England, Scotland and Wales could avoid this by agreeing to continue to use eachothers services for the sake of convenience. Right, and what does that make independence except a few altered flags and less royalty trapsing up and down the Royal Mile every so often.
Hopefully this will fail the new obviousness criteria
I, on the other hand, hope that all of microsoft's other patents fail, and this is the only one they're left with in their entire portfolio. Fluffy dice.
If you were preparing salmon, and your neighbour's house was on fire, and the smoke caused the salmon to become smoked salmon which is a bit tastier, so you put up a tubing system to enhance the path of the smoke to the salmon, but the salmon actually came from your own land, but fished with your neighbour's rod, and it's not friday and your neighbour is jewish, and you called the fire brigade anyway, are you guilty of stealing your neighbour's smoke?
We once had a mail server where some wag's buggy code managed to fill it with about 3 million emails. While it was choking on that, about 5000 legit emails got stuck in the queue on it.
Adding noatime sped up delivery of those 5000 by about 60%.
Plugging kit in with USB will always be better than midi - midi runs at a really low baud rate, and if you play 16 notes simultaneously, you can actually hear the delay between the first note and the last. I always used to put the drums in the first track so it didn't sound out of time.
In desktop distributions like Kubuntu or Mandriva, the standard kernel is in fact configured to be responsive for desktop use.
No it isn't - you have to install the low latency kernel (which they do provide), but that's not the point. It's still shit.
Try getting 2ms guaranteed sound out of it. Try dragging a window when you've got 5 GCC's running. Fact is, I don't care if I've got high load, there should be an interrupt bound to my mouse movement which will keep the desktop responsive. GCC can bloody wait.
If I hit 'fire' in a game of quake, with a nice value of -19, I expect two things to happen:
At the VERY NEXT FRAME, my gun starts firing
I hear the noise of it firing IMMEDIATELY
The above is NEVER interrupted by ntpd or cron or some shit. I've told the computer which is priority, and it should behave like that
The reality is that it's about half a second between hitting the fire button and something happening. This isn't responsive. My Amiga could do this, why can't a PC, 15 years later? Because it's running a server OS.
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Unfortunately, you just identified the key point here - DirectX is WAY ahead of openGL when it comes to game development. Left handed coordinate system aside, DirectX provides so much useful stuff (eg. d9dx) to the programmer, that you have to be either mad and/or John Carmack to use openGL on windows. So porting windows games to linux is still improbable. That said, an opensource 3D driver is nothing to be sniffed at. ATI graphics cards will soon become something that "just works" on linux.
actually, here's a moral right:
Gay people.. you know, the people who receive an imbalance of hormones in the womb which causes their physical sexuality to sway from their mental sexuality.
Why can't the church get this simple concept into their heads? Morals and rights tend to oppose eachother when religion is involved, because some idiot wrote in the old testament that "he who lies atop another man as he were a woman" does what no animal has done before. Evidently the scribes of the trash that is the bible/koran were no zoologists, because homosexuality has been observed in almost every known animal, right down to insects. There's a zoo in Amsterdam which actually collects gay animals, and you can go there and watch them doing what comes NATURALLY to them.
Whence commeth homophobia?
What, a serial rapist who actively knows when people aren't menstruating? He'll still get murdered by the group. The children may survive, but they will be brought up by a rape-hating parent, which goes on to the point:
Something doesn't have to be genetic to be hereditary, and nowhere will you find that more the case than in religion. How many christian children do you know with muslim parents? The memes of religion are hereditary.
CITATION NEEDED! Because this is bullshit. The Church of England actively involved itself in slavery. The Bible, the Koran, and the Torah dictate not only nothing against having slaves, but actually propose moral ways to treat ones slaves. (look up "dhimmi"). William Wilberforce was an agnostic. This is the worst case of misinformation I've seen on slashdot, but then again, I'd expect that from a religious person - that's their job.
Their finest moment has to be wheeling a trojan horse full of greek soldiers into the turkish embassy.. (can we park this here?)
You cannot connect morality to evolution, without embarking on the slippery slope that is social darwinism. Evolution involves individuals possessing a competitive advantage which they can pass genetically to their offspring. Morality does not benefit the individual, but rather the group, and is not inherited.
Bullshit. The sacrificial actions of one individual can benefit the genes of an entire group, most of which that individual will share. Many potentially moral people may have died and failed to pass on their specifics, but the group has survived, and grown to recognise the advantage of protecting those who might protect them. This is even more apparent when one recognises the bias people usually have towards their families.
As for the tiresome "slippery slope" metaphor, it's only necessary to be wearing appropriate shoes for the terrain.
By this logic, theft, and indeed any other selfish crime is also an evolutionary strategy, however we have a far more useful evolutionary strategy in the form of social cooperation. Both of the above crimes will have you rejected from the greater group, and that is why most people find themselves compelled not to do it.
If you cannot understand if or why rape is wrong without referring to a religious book, then you have no morals, or, to put it in an evolutionary sense, you are less evolved.
Facebook openly invites me to add a "religious views" column to my profile. Do they REALLY want my religious views? Presently it's set to "are divisive", but I reserve my right to put what I really think without being slapped with the race card.
Ok, fact of the week:
The atmosphere on titan is so thick, and the gravity so weak, that humans could fly about by flapping wings attached to their arms.
I want to go to titan NOW!
It's evil KITT. Night rider's worst enemy.
If you set up business in a country and trade there, you should pay tax there. Paying tax in another country is like staying in a posh hotel and paying the cheaper B&B next door. Small businesses don't have this ability and cannot compete with mega corporations getting a free ride at the expense of the people giving them trade in the first place.
whereas south of the border in blighty, "alright wee man" is what you would hear from someone talking to their manhood.
The "dividends" part of this topic gives away the problem. A more mercenary person would now be slapping themselves for not investing in Eolas - and thus contributing to the problem and making money out of it.
There's one thing (another story) with suing over a frivolous patent if you make the product, but this company only exists to take money off another and give it to people who've done no work whatsoever.
Simple. Freeze the shares of a company who files an IP suit over a patent they're not using. If a company only has one patent and plans to start making something with it, they needn't worry - they can still make money from their product while getting an injunction against the competitor.
How can they take time away from us?
They usually do that by way of their automated call-queueing system.
So what if Yorkshire wants out too then?
But they don't, and it would take something pretty drastic to change their mind on that. If they did, then fine, they can bugger off, but it's not in their interests to declare independence, so we have nothing to worry about there.
If there's a referendum on whether or not Scotland should be independent, then all the affected parties, ie Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland should vote on it, as it affects us all!
But if the Scots could only get independence with the blessing of the Scots, it wouldn't be a union, it would be an occupation. If the Scots don't want us, then they don't have to have us.
Calm down you two, or I'll send the geordies in :-)
Seriously, there's a good reason why England doesn't have an independent parliament - that would make England independent, and where there may exist a few English republicans out there, most English and Welsh are pro-union for two reasons:
1) We like the Scots. If the Scots voted for independence, we'd miss them. Ok, so it's not like they're going anywhere (and there already is a wall!), but without the Scottish influence on English culture and vice versa, our historical friendship and cooperation, as opposed to the countless wars we had before then, would be gone as two countries choose to sulk on either side Carlisle.
2) Have you any idea how complicated independence would be? NHS, driving licenses, passport authorities, the BBC, not to mention the Army, defence, etc. It would take years, and government efficiency both sides of the border (London Underground versus Edinburgh's parliamentary building) can hardly be expected to fix it without err. Ok, so an independent England, Scotland and Wales could avoid this by agreeing to continue to use eachothers services for the sake of convenience. Right, and what does that make independence except a few altered flags and less royalty trapsing up and down the Royal Mile every so often.
>> what resources would you recommend I look to for guidance in this transition
> A comb for the pointy-hair on the sides of your head and wax for the shinny top.
Cattle prod. People learn to do as you say fast when you use a cattle prod on them. Failing that, hit your subordinates with a big stick.
Oxygen deprivation is a good technique too.
Hopefully this will fail the new obviousness criteria
I, on the other hand, hope that all of microsoft's other patents fail, and this is the only one they're left with in their entire portfolio. Fluffy dice.
How about..
If you were preparing salmon, and your neighbour's house was on fire, and the smoke caused the salmon to become smoked salmon which is a bit tastier, so you put up a tubing system to enhance the path of the smoke to the salmon, but the salmon actually came from your own land, but fished with your neighbour's rod, and it's not friday and your neighbour is jewish, and you called the fire brigade anyway, are you guilty of stealing your neighbour's smoke?
We once had a mail server where some wag's buggy code managed to fill it with about 3 million emails. While it was choking on that, about 5000 legit emails got stuck in the queue on it.
Adding noatime sped up delivery of those 5000 by about 60%.
How on earth did you get that through the lamness filter?
It was conserving energy.
Plugging kit in with USB will always be better than midi - midi runs at a really low baud rate, and if you play 16 notes simultaneously, you can actually hear the delay between the first note and the last. I always used to put the drums in the first track so it didn't sound out of time.
No it isn't - you have to install the low latency kernel (which they do provide), but that's not the point. It's still shit.
Try getting 2ms guaranteed sound out of it. Try dragging a window when you've got 5 GCC's running. Fact is, I don't care if I've got high load, there should be an interrupt bound to my mouse movement which will keep the desktop responsive. GCC can bloody wait.
If I hit 'fire' in a game of quake, with a nice value of -19, I expect two things to happen:
- At the VERY NEXT FRAME, my gun starts firing
- I hear the noise of it firing IMMEDIATELY
- The above is NEVER interrupted by ntpd or cron or some shit. I've told the computer which is priority, and it should behave like that
The reality is that it's about half a second between hitting the fire button and something happening. This isn't responsive. My Amiga could do this, why can't a PC, 15 years later? Because it's running a server OS.