You lost family on 9/11, yet you buy into the blatantly anti-America traitorous garbage that the Bush admin. has been spewing forth since then? Forgive me for being entirely unsympathetic to your loss, then.
Personally, I've been trying to inform people with well reasoned arguments, credible sources for anything I present, etc. about the danger of the Bush/traitor/PNAC terrorists since 1999. Most refuse to listen, even when presented with many independent and verifiable sources, and to this day absolutely do not care about these extremely criminal actions.
The problem is not with those of us that know things are wrong, but with everyone else that refuses to open their eyes to the fact that these past seven years have done more to eliminate our open society than most anything in years past.
At this stage, we are so far gone that nothing that WE do, as an informed minority, will ever count towards fixing the issue. Citizens of a repressive regime at such a late stage of advancement must absolutely and wholly want to take back their freedom by force, or it will not happen. They must want it more than they want their comforts, more than they want their jobs or vacations or clothes or TVs, and more than they want their lives.
Most Americans do not even realize what has happened to our country, much less want to do anything about it.
I'll tell you what the only real option for those of us that have watched and wailed with righteous anger these long years can do: accelerate the pace of the deterioration of our Republic into a fascist regime by as much as possible, so those that do not, cannot, or refuse to see what is before their eyes will be FORCED to wake up to this new reality of oppression.
If you find this outrageous, you are by definition not one of the "religious, [neocon] nutjobs that get mocked on this site" (I replaced "conservative" with "neocon" since I know that anyone that bitches about such people don't actually mind REAL conservatives, but instead the traitorous scumbags masquerading as Republican conservatives). It would be unfortunate if you were actually still supporting the Dictator in Chief and his traitor goons, since they so blatantly stand for destroying everything that our forebears fought desperately to preserve and enshrine in the Constitution.
Then why exactly do they need to expand surveillance powers? FISA already enabled *everything* they've been claiming to want to do, *except* the ability to spy directly on domestic communications between non-suspect citizens (which, as anyone that doesn't have their head so far up their ass they're currently giving Dubya both oral AND anal knows is precisely what they've been doing).
Dubya and his supporters are terrorists and traitors to the Constitution.
In my opinion, you're both right. While engineers may not be as susceptible to *religious* brainwashing, they may in fact independently agree with the political motivations of a given organization.
I do find it disturbing that the Bush admin. is currently labeling anyone their corporate masters don't like as "supporting terrorism" (i.e., cannabis users, software/music pirates, engineers, probably other scientists, political activists etc.).
They include HPV in that statistic (1 in 4 has an STD) thus making it basically worthless, since it's the most common STD (IIRC) and they fail to mention that many males also carry it.
Absolutely correct. Only the weak minded cry "conspiracy theory" when the information is glaringly obvious, public, and despicable.
As far as I'm concerned, PNAC is a traitorous/terrorist organization (just read their garbage, calling for more terrorist attacks constantly, and their members "hoping" for an attack).
You don't have to have a degree to publish to a peer-reviewed journal. As long as you understand the process and quality requirements of writing a white paper (honestly people, it's not that difficult, even if you never attended college) you can likely get it published. That is, assuming you have a good enough understanding of the subject to write about it.
Nope, it's not about free speech. It's about the right to peacefully assemble and protest. NYC infringed this right, and now they're trying to get a blanket subpoena in order to weasel out of their illegal activities. Good on this guy for not taking one of the final blows to the shreds of freedom we have left laying down.
I hope this goes to the SCOTUS and they make a ruling that doesn't support their fascist masters.
I don't think most of the 800 lbs. gorillas of IT/software would want Blizzard to win something saying that copying an executable into RAM, whether or be through an intermediary program (what if this is some sort of disk operation, like a backup?) or just running it (say, more than once) is infringement. He's essentially just avoiding touching the running thread(s)' memory. If this is infringement, then you could be sued for 100 counts of infringement by this argument simply by copying the executable around your desktop 100 times, pressing CTRL-A and double clicking. A more sound analogy is say, opening the executable in a hex editor, or Notepad, or.... The entire argument is specious to anyone that understands how often executables can be read into memory.
Also, the argument that they're consuming more "resources" than a normal player is ridiculous. If they mean bandwidth/server slots, well, hate to break it to them, but many people just idle their characters enough to not be auto-kicked while doing other things. Not to mention, they're selling access, and their agreement doesn't say crap about metered access. I think they might hemorrhage quite a few customers if they started charging for X hours of access and requiring higher fees for unlimited, or cutting people off like Comcast would. I don't even need to speculate on whether or not they are claiming damages for *virtual resources*. The argument veers into insanity if they go there. If they can't meet the demand of players for active content(regardless if those players are using bots...^ ), they need to adjust their software, not sue people.
* - Besides, if 100,000 of their players find the game that dull, maybe they *should* change things.
I have so much stuff on my laptop, none of it even remotely illegal, that it would probably take them a good 45 mins to an hour to "poke around". It seems to me that if I decide to travel from now on, I should probably set up an empty Ubuntu install, and edit the GRUB menu not to show my real Win or Ubuntu install (and not mount the other (encrypted) partitions). After I'm at my destination, re-edit the GRUB menu and/or re-mount the partitions. Though they might suspect something if the drive size looked odd (50GB drive, 10GB partition for instance). Might be best to just completely detach the harddrive and leave a live CD in there, or put one onto a USB key or something.
Though really, the nicest thing would be a modified boot loader that silently (no notification, so they can't be like "Oh hey press that and enter your password or off to Gitmo for you.") would wait for a key press at the normal menu, and give a password prompt...on success of the password it shows all the OSes.
Well, that's essentially what I meant. There's no reason any of those features couldn't be done in DX9. They were most likely slightly easier to do in DX10. And I think you'd find that many developers want to put DX10 features in simply to help uptake of the hardware (it's not about Vista at all, since if DX10 was supported in XP no one would care about Vista at all, at least in games) because they *want* to be able to use SM4 features for radically game changing elements. Obviously, that won't happen until the point where using DX10 for such things doesn't also mean losing the majority of your customer base. Hell, I'd *love* to be able to use the geometry shader in a number of ways at work on our projects, but it's just not feasible at the moment.
Well technically the hardware makers support shader model 4, which has the main and most promising feature that DirectX 10 supports: geometry shaders. It is a fairly big distinction, but this is a more accurate way of saying what they actually meant, "Shader model 4 was introduced by the hardware manufacturers and Microsoft supported it in DirectX 10." Using OGL extensions, you don't *need* DX10 or Vista to make use of the geometry shader. Now, granted there are a number of other changes that are nice in DX10, but the geometry shader is the *sole* reason that anyone is excited about SM4 (DX10). Being able to create geometry on the GPU is something entirely new and has a wide range of possible (and exciting) uses. A simple example of this is demonstrated by nVidia's procedural terrain demo.
As an aside, there's no particular reason most if not all of the effects seen on the DX10 screenshots in the articles couldn't have been done in DX9. My suspicion is that most were done specifically in DX10 to promote sales of it, rather than because of any technical limitation.
I think the real problem is with the article. Yes some of these games have tiny features which "require" DX10, but not a single one of them is a "DX10 game" which is the language used by the article throughout. The real potential of DX10 (or shader model 4 if you prefer, which doesn't require DX10 anyway) is the geometry shader, and *NO* game developer will be using that for the things that matter (i.e., radically gameplay changing elements) until DX10 hardware is ubiquitous. So to date, there hasn't been a "DX10 game" at all.
Oh yes, because you obviously can't "win" in WoW by trial and error, despite the fact that there are no penalties for dying. And yes, the game is essentially pressing your hot bar keys in order, during every fight, ad infinitum. Apparently you've never played that, either, though.
WoW requires more skill than Baldur's Gate? You, sir, are not a gamer. I doubt you've even ever played Baldur's Gate. Mashing a number row in order like a crack-fiend three year old does not take "skill". Baldur's Gate is a game of strategy at its core, and definitely requires far more skill than WoW ever could. So, go Collect 10 Kobold Candles, and have fun pressing your number row in order while doing it, several hundred times. I'm sure you are very *skilled* at it.
Frankly, I think the penalties aren't harsh *enough*. Recording a 20 second clip of a movie should be punishable by the death penalty and seizure of all of the offender's relatives' assets. Hell, why not give them the death penalty too!? I mean, they had the bad sense to be *related* to a terrorist movie stealer!
All politicians lie. It's about magnitude. Who the fuck cares about Clinton, low magnitude when we have Bush, black hole esque magnitude of incompetence and malicious intent in his entire administration. You need some perspective, FFS.
You fail at life. Trying to construe the PA guys as having some sort of ultimate MASTER SCHEME to ruin Jack Thompson is just hilarious, all things considered. Can anyone say "conspiracy theorist"?
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You lost family on 9/11, yet you buy into the blatantly anti-America traitorous garbage that the Bush admin. has been spewing forth since then? Forgive me for being entirely unsympathetic to your loss, then.
You are pathetic.
Personally, I've been trying to inform people with well reasoned arguments, credible sources for anything I present, etc. about the danger of the Bush/traitor/PNAC terrorists since 1999. Most refuse to listen, even when presented with many independent and verifiable sources, and to this day absolutely do not care about these extremely criminal actions.
The problem is not with those of us that know things are wrong, but with everyone else that refuses to open their eyes to the fact that these past seven years have done more to eliminate our open society than most anything in years past.
At this stage, we are so far gone that nothing that WE do, as an informed minority, will ever count towards fixing the issue. Citizens of a repressive regime at such a late stage of advancement must absolutely and wholly want to take back their freedom by force, or it will not happen. They must want it more than they want their comforts, more than they want their jobs or vacations or clothes or TVs, and more than they want their lives.
Most Americans do not even realize what has happened to our country, much less want to do anything about it.
I'll tell you what the only real option for those of us that have watched and wailed with righteous anger these long years can do: accelerate the pace of the deterioration of our Republic into a fascist regime by as much as possible, so those that do not, cannot, or refuse to see what is before their eyes will be FORCED to wake up to this new reality of oppression.
If you find this outrageous, you are by definition not one of the "religious, [neocon] nutjobs that get mocked on this site" (I replaced "conservative" with "neocon" since I know that anyone that bitches about such people don't actually mind REAL conservatives, but instead the traitorous scumbags masquerading as Republican conservatives). It would be unfortunate if you were actually still supporting the Dictator in Chief and his traitor goons, since they so blatantly stand for destroying everything that our forebears fought desperately to preserve and enshrine in the Constitution.
Then why exactly do they need to expand surveillance powers? FISA already enabled *everything* they've been claiming to want to do, *except* the ability to spy directly on domestic communications between non-suspect citizens (which, as anyone that doesn't have their head so far up their ass they're currently giving Dubya both oral AND anal knows is precisely what they've been doing). Dubya and his supporters are terrorists and traitors to the Constitution.
In my opinion, you're both right. While engineers may not be as susceptible to *religious* brainwashing, they may in fact independently agree with the political motivations of a given organization. I do find it disturbing that the Bush admin. is currently labeling anyone their corporate masters don't like as "supporting terrorism" (i.e., cannabis users, software/music pirates, engineers, probably other scientists, political activists etc.).
That's as may be, but we have to have a balance, otherwise we might get into feature-creep, and never ship Terrorist 1.0.
They include HPV in that statistic (1 in 4 has an STD) thus making it basically worthless, since it's the most common STD (IIRC) and they fail to mention that many males also carry it.
Absolutely correct. Only the weak minded cry "conspiracy theory" when the information is glaringly obvious, public, and despicable. As far as I'm concerned, PNAC is a traitorous/terrorist organization (just read their garbage, calling for more terrorist attacks constantly, and their members "hoping" for an attack).
You don't have to have a degree to publish to a peer-reviewed journal. As long as you understand the process and quality requirements of writing a white paper (honestly people, it's not that difficult, even if you never attended college) you can likely get it published. That is, assuming you have a good enough understanding of the subject to write about it.
Nope, it's not about free speech. It's about the right to peacefully assemble and protest. NYC infringed this right, and now they're trying to get a blanket subpoena in order to weasel out of their illegal activities. Good on this guy for not taking one of the final blows to the shreds of freedom we have left laying down. I hope this goes to the SCOTUS and they make a ruling that doesn't support their fascist masters.
I don't think most of the 800 lbs. gorillas of IT/software would want Blizzard to win something saying that copying an executable into RAM, whether or be through an intermediary program (what if this is some sort of disk operation, like a backup?) or just running it (say, more than once) is infringement. He's essentially just avoiding touching the running thread(s)' memory. If this is infringement, then you could be sued for 100 counts of infringement by this argument simply by copying the executable around your desktop 100 times, pressing CTRL-A and double clicking. A more sound analogy is say, opening the executable in a hex editor, or Notepad, or.... The entire argument is specious to anyone that understands how often executables can be read into memory.
Also, the argument that they're consuming more "resources" than a normal player is ridiculous. If they mean bandwidth/server slots, well, hate to break it to them, but many people just idle their characters enough to not be auto-kicked while doing other things. Not to mention, they're selling access, and their agreement doesn't say crap about metered access. I think they might hemorrhage quite a few customers if they started charging for X hours of access and requiring higher fees for unlimited, or cutting people off like Comcast would. I don't even need to speculate on whether or not they are claiming damages for *virtual resources*. The argument veers into insanity if they go there. If they can't meet the demand of players for active content(regardless if those players are using bots...^ ), they need to adjust their software, not sue people.
* - Besides, if 100,000 of their players find the game that dull, maybe they *should* change things.
You can't even get a 12Mbps connection in the US for less than $1000/mo. Max for any reasonable price is around 6Mbps.
I have so much stuff on my laptop, none of it even remotely illegal, that it would probably take them a good 45 mins to an hour to "poke around". It seems to me that if I decide to travel from now on, I should probably set up an empty Ubuntu install, and edit the GRUB menu not to show my real Win or Ubuntu install (and not mount the other (encrypted) partitions). After I'm at my destination, re-edit the GRUB menu and/or re-mount the partitions. Though they might suspect something if the drive size looked odd (50GB drive, 10GB partition for instance). Might be best to just completely detach the harddrive and leave a live CD in there, or put one onto a USB key or something. Though really, the nicest thing would be a modified boot loader that silently (no notification, so they can't be like "Oh hey press that and enter your password or off to Gitmo for you.") would wait for a key press at the normal menu, and give a password prompt...on success of the password it shows all the OSes.
Well, that's essentially what I meant. There's no reason any of those features couldn't be done in DX9. They were most likely slightly easier to do in DX10. And I think you'd find that many developers want to put DX10 features in simply to help uptake of the hardware (it's not about Vista at all, since if DX10 was supported in XP no one would care about Vista at all, at least in games) because they *want* to be able to use SM4 features for radically game changing elements. Obviously, that won't happen until the point where using DX10 for such things doesn't also mean losing the majority of your customer base. Hell, I'd *love* to be able to use the geometry shader in a number of ways at work on our projects, but it's just not feasible at the moment.
Well technically the hardware makers support shader model 4, which has the main and most promising feature that DirectX 10 supports: geometry shaders. It is a fairly big distinction, but this is a more accurate way of saying what they actually meant, "Shader model 4 was introduced by the hardware manufacturers and Microsoft supported it in DirectX 10." Using OGL extensions, you don't *need* DX10 or Vista to make use of the geometry shader. Now, granted there are a number of other changes that are nice in DX10, but the geometry shader is the *sole* reason that anyone is excited about SM4 (DX10). Being able to create geometry on the GPU is something entirely new and has a wide range of possible (and exciting) uses. A simple example of this is demonstrated by nVidia's procedural terrain demo. As an aside, there's no particular reason most if not all of the effects seen on the DX10 screenshots in the articles couldn't have been done in DX9. My suspicion is that most were done specifically in DX10 to promote sales of it, rather than because of any technical limitation.
I think the real problem is with the article. Yes some of these games have tiny features which "require" DX10, but not a single one of them is a "DX10 game" which is the language used by the article throughout. The real potential of DX10 (or shader model 4 if you prefer, which doesn't require DX10 anyway) is the geometry shader, and *NO* game developer will be using that for the things that matter (i.e., radically gameplay changing elements) until DX10 hardware is ubiquitous. So to date, there hasn't been a "DX10 game" at all.
Bullshit alert! Your assertion is without any evidence. Have a cookie.
Well, you'll notice that JC says that the editors will be shipped with the game. Unless you meant source access.
Oh yes, because you obviously can't "win" in WoW by trial and error, despite the fact that there are no penalties for dying. And yes, the game is essentially pressing your hot bar keys in order, during every fight, ad infinitum. Apparently you've never played that, either, though.
WoW requires more skill than Baldur's Gate? You, sir, are not a gamer. I doubt you've even ever played Baldur's Gate. Mashing a number row in order like a crack-fiend three year old does not take "skill". Baldur's Gate is a game of strategy at its core, and definitely requires far more skill than WoW ever could. So, go Collect 10 Kobold Candles, and have fun pressing your number row in order while doing it, several hundred times. I'm sure you are very *skilled* at it.
Yes, but such protections don't apply to TERRORIST PIRATES! OH NOES! (AC supposed "copyright expert" = pwned)
Frankly, I think the penalties aren't harsh *enough*. Recording a 20 second clip of a movie should be punishable by the death penalty and seizure of all of the offender's relatives' assets. Hell, why not give them the death penalty too!? I mean, they had the bad sense to be *related* to a terrorist movie stealer!
All politicians lie. It's about magnitude. Who the fuck cares about Clinton, low magnitude when we have Bush, black hole esque magnitude of incompetence and malicious intent in his entire administration. You need some perspective, FFS.
You fail at life. Trying to construe the PA guys as having some sort of ultimate MASTER SCHEME to ruin Jack Thompson is just hilarious, all things considered. Can anyone say "conspiracy theorist"?
You said it yourself. It will harm biodiversity because it CAN'T propagate.