I haven't seen any reference to NCSoft losing their founder? You don't mean Richard Garriot I trust, since he was just an employee, and not that important an employee at that.
Brian May is an extremely skilled songwriter. The reason he isn't mentioned in the same breath as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Yngwie Malmsteen, Satriani, Vai, etc... is that he simply does not have the technical skills to stand next to them.
Boy, you need to go back to rock and roll school. Steve Vai couldn't carry May's jockstrap. I'm fairly certain he'd be the first to tell you that too. And Yngwie fucking Malmsteen????
OK, then why don't you fucking pay for all the State funds that built that park, and pony up the real market value for the real estate? What, are you going to move the team somewhere a state can give you a better deal? Is every team going to play for Delaware? Why don't the Cities own the team names in the first place? Oh, I get it -- it's like all the oil and mineral rights that states give up because the companies cut a "donation" to a given candidate. It's a lot cheaper for companies to buy politicians than pay for what they take from the people.
Um, there weren't any state funds involved in building the park. The Patriots financed it entirely themselves. The only state funding involved at all was very minor infrastructure stuff on the roads around the stadium.
As far as I can see, your problem stems from thinking that you're the entire community. You aren't. There are plenty of -other- members of this community, and plenty who do want to discuss this sort of thing. Just because you know the difference between Gnome and KDE doesn't necessarily mean you no longer care about what happens to this country.
Really. Theres a very, very simple answer. DON'T READ THE THREADS YOU AREN'T INTERESTED IN!
Do you guys realize that we are at war and there are actual bad guys, no scratch that, very evil, hate filled extremist muslims out there that will not be happy until every one of us are dead. Even if we left Iraq, Afghanistan, and lets even say we left fracking Europe, they still would not be happy until you and I were all dead. They don't want to negotiate a peace with us, they don't want us to leave them alone so that they can live as free and happy muslims. They want to kill us all, and then destroy all the other infidels in this world so that they can then create their happy little caliphate. We have been fighting this war half a$$ for too long. And you just can't win a war, especially one like this where we are fighting on their ground in a land not designed to wage major battles, if you don't commit yourself to the fact that its going to be brutal, violent and unmerciful. Isn't it obvious to all of you that these guys don't play by our rules, and our rules are getting our guys killed. So why don't all of you who are complainig so much grow up a little, become real men and help out our fellows soldiers in whatever way you can. They want to win. They don't want to come home feeling beaten by a bunch ruthless, hate filled, scumbags. And they need our support now more than ever.
Thats a great idea! Howzabout you go enlist tomorrow!
Its frightened little mice such as yourself that prove that Al Quaeda accomplised exactly what they set out to accomplish six years ago. Congratulations!
The editors are busy rolling back the Enlightenment because kdawson thinks that is the topic to discuss whether or not everyone should have the right to broadband. Why slashdot would hire a guy who's never read slashdot to be an editor, I dunno. I'm sure there's hundreds of actual slashdotters who would have loved to have kdawson's job and who would use that power for more than just pushing their political agenda.
No one is preventing you from leaving and starting your own site, Anonymous. The door is over thataway.
BTW, what part of 'stuff that matters' eludes you?
Well, you're both right!... the island has under 1,000 people the town across the water has over 7,000.
The arguments for building the bridge are:
1) The city doesn't have much adjacent developable land because it's all too mountainous... the nearby island has a lot of flat developable land...
2) The airport is on the island. And most importantly...
3) Senator Stevens is on the appropriations committee.
The arguments against spending federal money to build the bridge are:
1) It's classic pork-barrel spending on a local, not federal issue. The state of Alaska, and the city involved have their own money to spend on their own issues. And most importantly...
2) Because of the large amount of money and the tiny population of the island it provides plenty of good sound-bites to imply it's particularly frivolous pork. Especially when it was introduced right after Hurricane Katrina and there were a lot of bridges in need of repair there getting a lot less (or no) money.
I believe Stevens also has a financial interest in the undeveloped land on the other side of the water.
Yeah, what is it with the nitwits that just keep repeating this bullshit about her not being covert as though they knew better than the CIA and the REPUBLICAN prosecutor.
It doesn't matter how many times the record gets corrected they just keep repeating it as though they just fell of the back of the short bus.
Bullshit there was no conspiracy. There absolutely was a conspiracy coming out of the VPs office to get Plame's name out there. Armitage is the one who leaked to Novak, but Libby was leaking it to everyone he could.
Bullshit as well that Plame wasn't undercover. I don't know why it isn't enough for you pinheads when the CIA, AND the prosecutor both confirm that she WAS.
BTW, its Pelosi, not Pelosy. Nitwit.
Also I don't think Libby should be able to be convicted of obstruction of justice without the prosecutor actually prosecuting the crime that he was supposed to be obstructing.
WTF?? What do you suppose -obstruction of justice- IS? Fitzgerald as much as said that his investigation was brought to a deadend by Libby's lies. That was the entire point.
There's a degree to which the psychoacoustic models that schemes like mp3 use actually clean up the noisy mess that all or most all CDs present. The way these schemes hollow out the back of the sound produces something clearer and more delicate - more like live music straight from the amps. Except it really sounds quite different from live music. Good vinyl, on the other hand, can be indistinguishable from live performance if your eyes are closed. CDs never had that. So it's easy to walk away from them. All the discussion of "lossless" misses the point that at the rates CDs are sampled there's already a high degree of loss. Music is inherently analog; digital has to get an order of magnitude better (at least) before it'll be so realistic that it's worth a premium.
What utter nonsense. Vinyl indistinguishable from live performance with your eyes closed? Perhaps if you've never heard a performance with a signal to noise ratio greater than 60dB or so. Which leaves out an awful lot of music.
It's not that we don't give a shit, it's that after 200+ years we've come to the conclusion that we're screwed no matter what we do. It's like the Futurama parody where the only two candidates are Jack Johnson or John Jackson.
Ok, so we somehow manage to boot the existing leaders out. Now what? We get a new set of leaders that are just as self-serving and corrupt. It doesn't matter what we do, we'll always be ruled by an aristocracy comprised of corporations, special-interest groups and the wealthy.
The thing is, not all adminstrations are created equal. It seems fashionable to say it, oh, it doesn't matter, they all suck and are corrupt, but if there is/anything/ the Bush adminstration has proved, its that they/aren't/ all as self-serving and corrupt. No adminstration in our history has tried so systematically to dismantle our very constituition.
Sorry, doesn't wash. We're responsible for the goverment we get, and we got the worst possible one.
>I wouldn't have been a hypocrite and slandered the record companies that supported my ass through it all.
Umm...I think you have it ass backward. He was the one supporting THEM.
Hypercompression predates the iPod by a good long time. Its been going on for a long time as a sort of arms race, getting worse and worse. MP3 players may or may not have contributed, but if they did, it wasn't all the much. Radio airplay is much more a driving force.
Or simply look at it on any meter system. I'm a recording engineer, and playing many of today's CDs through my console, you can see the meters are simply pegged at the top of the scale, solid bars of color, instead of fluctuating with the music as they would without the hypercompression thats popular in mastering today.
As far as I know, Eric is the only developer. I recommend spending some time at the developer site to learn more. I believe just about everything is accesible without needing a license. I assume you've seen that theres a demo download available?
I've had the license for it for just about a year, which gives me a good perspective on how the development cycle has progressed. In that year there have been about 10 releases. Each one has added functionality. In terms of phyics integration, if by integration you mean integrating other packages, its not as easy as it might be, but its not awful. C4 does, however, have a pretty reasonable phyics engine built in.
What I like is that the code is solid, and the engine is built with a certain...how should I say it, unity of vision. Torque is based on something that at this point is pretty old. They've done things to it, but to do that has required a fair amount of cruftiness. C4 is very clean by comparison.
Supportwise, as I said, the documentation is a bit lacking, simply because the engine moves forward faster than the documentation can. But the support in the forums is as good as you could wish for.
There are a couple of things you might look at to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.terathon.com/c4engine/notes.php are the release notes for the various builds.
http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Offic ial_Roadmap is the roadmap showing the plan for development and which builds will contain which features. Eric has been pretty consistent in adhering to the roadmap.
In brief, its absolutely worth what he charges.
I've licensed both Torque, and C4. C4 is really very very good, and the development is consistently moving ahead at a rapid pace. The only area in which it falls down at all is the somewhat lacking documentation, but it has a very active user community.
Its well worth what they charge for it.
Once the smoke's clear, the trial will likely end up making the police and city government look stupid. That is, assuming the judge and jury acts reasonably on people that aren't evil criminals. No need to wait. The police and city goverment already look exceedingly stupid. Particularly since these things have been around for 2-3 weeks in 10 other cities as well as Boston with nary a peep from anyone.
Environmentalists are not and never have been interested in helping mankind. They are simply an alliance between the ivory-tower preservationists and the Gaia-theory radicals who would frankly prefer that the earth swallow up all the filthy parasite humans (except them and their nature-worshipping friends, of course) and spit out the bones. Bullshit generalization much?
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I haven't seen any reference to NCSoft losing their founder? You don't mean Richard Garriot I trust, since he was just an employee, and not that important an employee at that.
Boy, you need to go back to rock and roll school. Steve Vai couldn't carry May's jockstrap. I'm fairly certain he'd be the first to tell you that too. And Yngwie fucking Malmsteen????
As far as I can see, your problem stems from thinking that you're the entire community. You aren't. There are plenty of -other- members of this community, and plenty who do want to discuss this sort of thing. Just because you know the difference between Gnome and KDE doesn't necessarily mean you no longer care about what happens to this country. Really. Theres a very, very simple answer. DON'T READ THE THREADS YOU AREN'T INTERESTED IN!
The irony is almost unbearable.
Remind me again exactly when it was that Congress declared war? And who did they declare it on? Oh. Thats right.
Yeah, what is it with the nitwits that just keep repeating this bullshit about her not being covert as though they knew better than the CIA and the REPUBLICAN prosecutor. It doesn't matter how many times the record gets corrected they just keep repeating it as though they just fell of the back of the short bus.
Bullshit there was no conspiracy. There absolutely was a conspiracy coming out of the VPs office to get Plame's name out there. Armitage is the one who leaked to Novak, but Libby was leaking it to everyone he could. Bullshit as well that Plame wasn't undercover. I don't know why it isn't enough for you pinheads when the CIA, AND the prosecutor both confirm that she WAS. BTW, its Pelosi, not Pelosy. Nitwit.
You're point escapes me. No, he wasn't supporting EMI when he was 14. And they weren't supporting him? So?
>I wouldn't have been a hypocrite and slandered the record companies that supported my ass through it all. Umm...I think you have it ass backward. He was the one supporting THEM.
Hypercompression predates the iPod by a good long time. Its been going on for a long time as a sort of arms race, getting worse and worse. MP3 players may or may not have contributed, but if they did, it wasn't all the much. Radio airplay is much more a driving force.
Or simply look at it on any meter system. I'm a recording engineer, and playing many of today's CDs through my console, you can see the meters are simply pegged at the top of the scale, solid bars of color, instead of fluctuating with the music as they would without the hypercompression thats popular in mastering today.
As far as I know, Eric is the only developer. I recommend spending some time at the developer site to learn more. I believe just about everything is accesible without needing a license. I assume you've seen that theres a demo download available?
I've had the license for it for just about a year, which gives me a good perspective on how the development cycle has progressed. In that year there have been about 10 releases. Each one has added functionality. In terms of phyics integration, if by integration you mean integrating other packages, its not as easy as it might be, but its not awful. C4 does, however, have a pretty reasonable phyics engine built in. What I like is that the code is solid, and the engine is built with a certain...how should I say it, unity of vision. Torque is based on something that at this point is pretty old. They've done things to it, but to do that has required a fair amount of cruftiness. C4 is very clean by comparison. Supportwise, as I said, the documentation is a bit lacking, simply because the engine moves forward faster than the documentation can. But the support in the forums is as good as you could wish for. There are a couple of things you might look at to see what I'm talking about: http://www.terathon.com/c4engine/notes.php are the release notes for the various builds. http://www.terathon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Offic ial_Roadmap is the roadmap showing the plan for development and which builds will contain which features. Eric has been pretty consistent in adhering to the roadmap.
In brief, its absolutely worth what he charges.
I've licensed both Torque, and C4. C4 is really very very good, and the development is consistently moving ahead at a rapid pace. The only area in which it falls down at all is the somewhat lacking documentation, but it has a very active user community. Its well worth what they charge for it.
Nope. Only sissies cook them. Dick eats them raw.