Have you looked at open source games? Most (but not all) suck. Infighting over who's in charge, and what needs to be done end up killing most of the projects. While this is true of more open-source stuff than just games, its especially true with game developers, since they tend to be more opinionated about the "best" way to do things.
People make games to make money. Remove that incentive, and most developers will move on to other more productive enterprises. Or they'll go back to showing off their l33t graphics skills with old-school intros, etc.
Parent brings kid down to station, or mall or wherever. Officer fingerprints kid. Officer hands fingerprint card to parent. Parent, kid, fingerprint card, all leave together.
This way, should little johnny or little susie get kidnapped, or run away, the parent(s) can give the police the fingerprint card when they report them missing, but there are no privacy issues since the legal guardians of the kid is the one in control of the fingerprint card.
Because, when any company uses the software they have to (a) contribute to the community (pay, in terms of intellectual property)
In what way do they HAVE to contribute to the community?
Say I have a company that makes widgets. I use a free OS of some sort (say, Gentoo) with a free webserver (say, Apache) with a bunch of free stuff (say, solutions X, Y and Z from sourceforge) to handle all my eCommerce (obligitory buzzword) needs. In order to accomplish that, I've modified projects Y and Z that I grabbed from sourceforge for my own, internal needs. As long as they're not distributed, GPL doesn't require me to give ANYTHING back "to the community", nor do any other popular opensource licenses.
Yeah, in a fantasy world, everyone shares. In reality, if you don't give anything back, you're not going to be spending time defending why you forked the project, or why you made modifications, or dealing with the backlash from people expecting support for your modifications, etc.
There are no-script fanboys, they pop up in every single thread concerning javascript. To them, it IS a way of life, and they can't fathom anyone not agreeing that its the perfect solution to everything.
As for the de-caf....you're probably referring to coffee, which is disgusting. Then again, caffinated water is digusting too. So if its ok with you, I'll stick to plain, non-caffinated, non-carbonated, non-flavored, dihyrdogen-monoxide.:-)
If you're at a site that you need Javascript to run, the little icon down in the lower right hand corner will have a pop-up menu to enable Javascript for that site you're on. You can have it enabled just for that session or permanently.
You just described a whitelist.
His TRANSACTION was sent off elsewhere, to another site, and because THAT site hadn't been whitelisted, he didn't get an acknowlegement that his payment had been accepted.
I know you no-script fanboys can't stand the idea that your favorite tool might not be perfect for everyone, everywhere, all the time, but learn to read before spewing your fanboy-ism.
The so called "budget surplus" that the media loves to claim was Clinton's legacy, just ment that the government was spending less THAT YEAR. It ment we might have been able to pay off a very small fraction of the interest on the national debt. It did NOT mean the debt was gone, or even reduced.
Example: You owe $50,000 in student loans. You made $40,000 this year after taxes. You spent $35,000 on rent, car insurance, food, bills, and other stuff you wanted or needed. You have a "budget surplus" of $500 but you still owe $50,000. The "Budget Surplus" doesn't mean the money is actually there to be used. It is still owed elsewhere.
To be even more accurate, they spent less than they THOUGHT they were going to spend. They can still spend more than they collected in taxes, etc. Like, "(beginning of fiscal year) We're going to spend $1.5 trillion dollars this year. (end of fiscal year) Hey, look, we only spent $1.3 trillion dollars. We have a budget of surplus of $200 billion!"
And part of the problem is people are no longer willing to be inconvenienced at all to stand up for their rights. 24 hours, 3 hours, it wouldn't matter, people will roll over anyway.
Case in point: Police department wanted a statement from me. Did they call and ask me to come in? No. Did they show up and ask to speak with me? No. What DID they do? Show up, arrest me, haul me back to the station, and me a miranda waver THEN demanded a statement. Screw that, I'm arrested, I ain't talking. So down to county lockup I go to "teach me a lesson" (actual words from the officer). 20 hours later, I'm cut loose with an apology from the sherrif, and advice to stay away from the local police for a while since "they're pissed they couldn't bully you into talking."
What was it all about? I was nearby an argument between one of my friends and a local officer about a parking ticket. If they'd ASKED I would have been more than happy to tell 'em what happened ("I was four cars away, in my car, with the windows up and the AC on. I saw them talking, but couldn't tell what they were talking about, then I left."). But since they arrested me, they quite effectivly shut themselves out of the information they wanted.
Sure, because socialism has worked out so well in the past, we should drop all incentives for people to be successful by taking away their ability to spend the results of their success on whatever they want, even if it is silly and seems like a complete waste of money to some.
Then again, as I've said before, Ethics and Morals are individual You're welcome to your views. Just don't try to legislate them into existance for everyone else.
Now as for the price of the additional rocket fuel (not included in the $15M) is a completely different matter. Now that is, literally. burning money.
But its not. Someone was paid for that rocket fuel -- at least in theory -- more likely its ending up in some Russian politician or gangster's pocket, but either way the money is still in circulation.
My last Windows XP install, on a laptop no less, was 1 hour and 25 minutes, including updates and drivers. Rebooted twice. I'd love to find ANY linux distriubution that would play as nicely. Ubuntu and Knoppix both had issues with graphics. Redhat couldn't find the wireless card. SUSE died with a glorious spewage from a kernel panic.
Then again, I've got a desktop that refuses to play nicely with Windows XP but has had absolutely zero problems with any linux distro I've thrown at it.
BOTH sides can throw out examples and counter examples until the end of time. Give up on that argument, please?
It's just like the American government with Saddam. They bully every nation in the Middle East: all your oil is belong to us and hide those nuclear weapons we gave you a few years ago. Then there are some like Iraq and Iran that say: bring it on. They go in, do some havoc in Iraq and then they are just standing there: oops, we don't have a case, no WMD, no terrorist training camps, not enough troops, troops want to go home... shit..: terrorists, terrorists, protect freedom by taking it away.
If you're going to rant by dragging unrelated political crap into things, it helps to not undercut your own arguments.
Really, you should have learned that in "Internet Ranting 101":)
Because, you know, EVERYONE buys consoles based ENTIRELY on how the graphics look and what the hardware-snob magazines and reviewers say.
I'll probably end up with one of each, eventually. But I won't be buying ANY of them right around launch. Hell, I haven't even gotten around to buying a 360, and they've been out how long now? When there's games I want for the platform that I can't find for anything I already own (other consoles or PC), THEN I'll buy the platform.
I thought that was the case, but I was simply trying to just point out that autodesk doesn't exactly have a great reputation in the 3D modelling world at the moment, and their acquisition of Alias being viewed with a hefty dose of skeptisism.
I don't know about the others, but they already sold off Alias/Wavefront. While its good that Maya lives on, the fact that it was bought by Autodesk doesn't bode well for the future quality of Maya -- look what they did to 3D Studio Max (or 3dsmax or 3ds or whatever they decide to call it this week)
Yes, as a matter of fact, I have, and here's the reason:
Chiltons likes to take multiple generations of the same model, as well as other models based on the same platform, and combine them all into one book. For example: 1984 - 1993 Chevy Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, and some form of Buick all were based on the same platform. During that time there was a body change, the move to fuel-injected engines, multiple engine changes, a transmission change for the models with automatic transmissions, not to mention all the various differences between the different brands and of course the differences based on options the car was purchased with. Chances are the procedure you find won't be correct for your car. You might be able to do all the steps in the procedure, but you won't end up with the same result because your particular car has a slightly different revision of the engine control unit, but there was no way to tell that because the Chiltons doesn't give you that much detail.
Now, they've gotten "better" about that in newer manuals. By leaving out HOW to do things. Remove Part Y. Except Part Y is blocked by parts T, U, V and W, but the manual says that you must leave parts V and X in place or you can't fix part Y. This way they're not telling you anything incorrect, they're just not telling you anything.
When working on your car, all you need is your Chilton's
You don't want to know how many times I've needed to do something that WASN'T in a Chiltons. Substitute "Factory Service Manual" for "Chiltons" and I'll agree.
Hmm....No one bothered to tell me that I can't do that with my dual 1ghz P3 setup. Granted, I wouldn't try it on a single cpu 500mhz P3, but to say it cannot when the P3 line spanned a HUGE performance difference between low and high, is sort of rediculous.
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I picked up a Brother HL 5250DN a few months ago.
1200+ dpi, duplex, networked, picked it up at Staples for $260.
I'll highly recommend it.
Have you looked at open source games? Most (but not all) suck. Infighting over who's in charge, and what needs to be done end up killing most of the projects. While this is true of more open-source stuff than just games, its especially true with game developers, since they tend to be more opinionated about the "best" way to do things.
People make games to make money. Remove that incentive, and most developers will move on to other more productive enterprises. Or they'll go back to showing off their l33t graphics skills with old-school intros, etc.
He's going to send in Elvis?
I loved mario tennis.
Mostly because, as you said, the stereo display actually WORKED. That fact alone overcame most of its shortcomings.
Around here, those programs work this way:
Parent brings kid down to station, or mall or wherever.
Officer fingerprints kid.
Officer hands fingerprint card to parent.
Parent, kid, fingerprint card, all leave together.
This way, should little johnny or little susie get kidnapped, or run away, the parent(s) can give the police the fingerprint card when they report them missing, but there are no privacy issues since the legal guardians of the kid is the one in control of the fingerprint card.
Because, when any company uses the software they have to (a) contribute to the community (pay, in terms of intellectual property)
In what way do they HAVE to contribute to the community?
Say I have a company that makes widgets. I use a free OS of some sort (say, Gentoo) with a free webserver (say, Apache) with a bunch of free stuff (say, solutions X, Y and Z from sourceforge) to handle all my eCommerce (obligitory buzzword) needs. In order to accomplish that, I've modified projects Y and Z that I grabbed from sourceforge for my own, internal needs. As long as they're not distributed, GPL doesn't require me to give ANYTHING back "to the community", nor do any other popular opensource licenses.
Yeah, in a fantasy world, everyone shares. In reality, if you don't give anything back, you're not going to be spending time defending why you forked the project, or why you made modifications, or dealing with the backlash from people expecting support for your modifications, etc.
There are no-script fanboys, they pop up in every single thread concerning javascript. To them, it IS a way of life, and they can't fathom anyone not agreeing that its the perfect solution to everything.
:-)
As for the de-caf....you're probably referring to coffee, which is disgusting. Then again, caffinated water is digusting too. So if its ok with you, I'll stick to plain, non-caffinated, non-carbonated, non-flavored, dihyrdogen-monoxide.
If you're at a site that you need Javascript to run, the little icon down in the lower right hand corner will have a pop-up menu to enable Javascript for that site you're on. You can have it enabled just for that session or permanently.
You just described a whitelist.
His TRANSACTION was sent off elsewhere, to another site, and because THAT site hadn't been whitelisted, he didn't get an acknowlegement that his payment had been accepted.
I know you no-script fanboys can't stand the idea that your favorite tool might not be perfect for everyone, everywhere, all the time, but learn to read before spewing your fanboy-ism.
The money was NOT there.
The so called "budget surplus" that the media loves to claim was Clinton's legacy, just ment that the government was spending less THAT YEAR. It ment we might have been able to pay off a very small fraction of the interest on the national debt. It did NOT mean the debt was gone, or even reduced.
Example: You owe $50,000 in student loans. You made $40,000 this year after taxes. You spent $35,000 on rent, car insurance, food, bills, and other stuff you wanted or needed. You have a "budget surplus" of $500 but you still owe $50,000. The "Budget Surplus" doesn't mean the money is actually there to be used. It is still owed elsewhere.
To be even more accurate, they spent less than they THOUGHT they were going to spend. They can still spend more than they collected in taxes, etc. Like, "(beginning of fiscal year) We're going to spend $1.5 trillion dollars this year. (end of fiscal year) Hey, look, we only spent $1.3 trillion dollars. We have a budget of surplus of $200 billion!"
And part of the problem is people are no longer willing to be inconvenienced at all to stand up for their rights. 24 hours, 3 hours, it wouldn't matter, people will roll over anyway.
Case in point: Police department wanted a statement from me. Did they call and ask me to come in? No. Did they show up and ask to speak with me? No. What DID they do? Show up, arrest me, haul me back to the station, and me a miranda waver THEN demanded a statement. Screw that, I'm arrested, I ain't talking. So down to county lockup I go to "teach me a lesson" (actual words from the officer). 20 hours later, I'm cut loose with an apology from the sherrif, and advice to stay away from the local police for a while since "they're pissed they couldn't bully you into talking."
What was it all about? I was nearby an argument between one of my friends and a local officer about a parking ticket. If they'd ASKED I would have been more than happy to tell 'em what happened ("I was four cars away, in my car, with the windows up and the AC on. I saw them talking, but couldn't tell what they were talking about, then I left."). But since they arrested me, they quite effectivly shut themselves out of the information they wanted.
Sure, because socialism has worked out so well in the past, we should drop all incentives for people to be successful by taking away their ability to spend the results of their success on whatever they want, even if it is silly and seems like a complete waste of money to some.
Then again, as I've said before, Ethics and Morals are individual You're welcome to your views. Just don't try to legislate them into existance for everyone else.
Now as for the price of the additional rocket fuel (not included in the $15M) is a completely different matter. Now that is, literally. burning money.
But its not. Someone was paid for that rocket fuel -- at least in theory -- more likely its ending up in some Russian politician or gangster's pocket, but either way the money is still in circulation.
My last Windows XP install, on a laptop no less, was 1 hour and 25 minutes, including updates and drivers. Rebooted twice. I'd love to find ANY linux distriubution that would play as nicely. Ubuntu and Knoppix both had issues with graphics. Redhat couldn't find the wireless card. SUSE died with a glorious spewage from a kernel panic.
Then again, I've got a desktop that refuses to play nicely with Windows XP but has had absolutely zero problems with any linux distro I've thrown at it.
BOTH sides can throw out examples and counter examples until the end of time. Give up on that argument, please?
It's just like the American government with Saddam. They bully every nation in the Middle East: all your oil is belong to us and hide those nuclear weapons we gave you a few years ago. Then there are some like Iraq and Iran that say: bring it on. They go in, do some havoc in Iraq and then they are just standing there: oops, we don't have a case, no WMD, no terrorist training camps, not enough troops, troops want to go home... shit..: terrorists, terrorists, protect freedom by taking it away.
:)
If you're going to rant by dragging unrelated political crap into things, it helps to not undercut your own arguments.
Really, you should have learned that in "Internet Ranting 101"
(in some cases, "storage" meant ... the on/off condition of a vacuum tube)
As opposed to, say, the on/off condition of a transistor, or the charged/discharged condition of a capacitor?
OMGWTFTUBES! Its called history, get over it.
Because, you know, EVERYONE buys consoles based ENTIRELY on how the graphics look and what the hardware-snob magazines and reviewers say.
I'll probably end up with one of each, eventually. But I won't be buying ANY of them right around launch. Hell, I haven't even gotten around to buying a 360, and they've been out how long now? When there's games I want for the platform that I can't find for anything I already own (other consoles or PC), THEN I'll buy the platform.
I thought that was the case, but I was simply trying to just point out that autodesk doesn't exactly have a great reputation in the 3D modelling world at the moment, and their acquisition of Alias being viewed with a hefty dose of skeptisism.
Can't speak for you, but those of us who have matured past middle school won't have any problem buying a Nintendo Wii without embarassment
I don't know about the others, but they already sold off Alias/Wavefront. While its good that Maya lives on, the fact that it was bought by Autodesk doesn't bode well for the future quality of Maya -- look what they did to 3D Studio Max (or 3dsmax or 3ds or whatever they decide to call it this week)
I seem to remember a little thing called IRC. Real time. Somewhat-forum-like.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I have, and here's the reason:
Chiltons likes to take multiple generations of the same model, as well as other models based on the same platform, and combine them all into one book. For example: 1984 - 1993 Chevy Cavalier, Pontiac Sunbird, and some form of Buick all were based on the same platform. During that time there was a body change, the move to fuel-injected engines, multiple engine changes, a transmission change for the models with automatic transmissions, not to mention all the various differences between the different brands and of course the differences based on options the car was purchased with. Chances are the procedure you find won't be correct for your car. You might be able to do all the steps in the procedure, but you won't end up with the same result because your particular car has a slightly different revision of the engine control unit, but there was no way to tell that because the Chiltons doesn't give you that much detail.
Now, they've gotten "better" about that in newer manuals. By leaving out HOW to do things. Remove Part Y. Except Part Y is blocked by parts T, U, V and W, but the manual says that you must leave parts V and X in place or you can't fix part Y. This way they're not telling you anything incorrect, they're just not telling you anything.
When working on your car, all you need is your Chilton's
You don't want to know how many times I've needed to do something that WASN'T in a Chiltons. Substitute "Factory Service Manual" for "Chiltons" and I'll agree.
Hmm....No one bothered to tell me that I can't do that with my dual 1ghz P3 setup. Granted, I wouldn't try it on a single cpu 500mhz P3, but to say it cannot when the P3 line spanned a HUGE performance difference between low and high, is sort of rediculous.
No, just pointing out some obvious ways to get around the "can't moderate a thread your IP appears in" bit. Nothing more than that.
Thats ok, post AC from the office, Mod your comment up from home.
Or "borrow" your neighbor's open 802.11x connection. Or just fire up the ole stand-by dial-up connection.