[On an OT note, since when does Slashdot require me to wait for an extraordinarily long period of time when I am just trying to reply with some simple information]
Um, hey I hate MS as much as the next guy, but this is straight out wrong. DX is binary backwards compatible [and probably source, but I wouldn't know, I don't make DX programs]. The software does some sort of COM QueryInterface() call to get an interface to the API that it expects. A DX2 game get IDirectDraw2, etc. [i think] If what you were saying were true you'd here millions of angry gamers torching Microsoft. Any DX2 or higher game should work fine with DirectX 8. (I suppose DX1 aka Game SDK should work too but I wouldn't be on it, not that anyone ever really used it anyhow.)
I don't know about you but with every version of Windows I have ever run, after running for extended periods of time the icon cache gets overwritten and wrong icons will show up for programs. JPEGs with IE icons, text files with "My Computer" icons, etc.. Now yes, the users were stupid but just saying because the icon looks wrong is not a justification either. Half the time on any windows box the icons are wrong.
Check Plus! 98 or Windows Millennium. They have. And it sucks. I don't know about you but I don't want it integrated, at least not the way they implemented it.
The only thing you neglect to mention is that wars with neighbours seldom remain just wars with neighbours. Without a doubt the friends of those two warring countries will get annoyed that their ally is being butchered and will begin to offer aid. This is after all how World War I started, some Austrian duke being shot by a Yugoslavian eventually pulling the whole world into war. You can't just let someone have a fight beside you without intervening because all you'll end up with is a stronger more powerhungry enemy to contend with in the future.
Virtually all the posts I have seen have been made by americans, I thought it would be interesting to have another point of view (Canadian in this case). In my high school we don't have guards of any sort, metal detectors, transparent bags or any of the other assorted baddies that have been mentioned. We have a student ID card which can be voluntarily obtained (you also have to pay for it, $25 CDN if I recall correctly), it takes them several months to make these ids so in the mean time you get a cheesy piece of paper saying basically that you bought the ID and will get one soon, it serves the same purpose until you get the real ID. The purposes of getting a student ID mainly are that you are required to have one to participate in extra-curicular activities, to purchase one of those discount student bus passes, and to simply use as an ID for all those annoying situations that require one. The card has your photo on it and a unique ID # in plain text and barcoded. The number as far as I can see has nothing to do with any important info about yourself, and additionally they tend to change their mind every year or so on the format of the number so you tend to get a different number each year. No one knows what their number is and no one really gives a damn. The only sort of dress code/etc. type thing we have is basically you can't wear anything you couldn't wear in public (and yes girls must wear tops despite toplessness being legal in Toronto). Additionally there is what they call a "safe schools zero tolerance policy" which is basically a bunch of garbage which is never enforced really but basiaclly states you can be suspened and expelled very easily for violence, drug use, firearm possesion, etc. We rarely really have any serious problems, of course there are always trouble makers and vandals and so on but not to any great extent. I don't know what's going on in some of these places but something's definitely wrong out there. Oh and to finally top off this already too long post, we only have a non-pepsi type deal in our cafeteria, although that never stopped pepsi from holding a taste test on school property one day... I can taste the difference but I lied and told them pepsi tastes better so I could get a better snack off them. BTW if you've ever seen the Reese peanut butter cup commercialy with a old grey haired caf lady in a caf with greenish blue walls, that was my school if what my friends have been saying about that commericial is correct.
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Sounds like the episode on TNG where the enterprise became an intelligent lifeform through all the experiences, etc. that were dumped into the computer, subsequently it went on a journey to procreate. Most definitely it is a life form, or at least on its way to becoming one... I don't know if we could classify it as some sort of "simple" organism as of yet or not, but eventually yes. Defining life as a bag of organic chemicals and processes is very limited, life extends throughout.
It's often been said and proven that people try to create things in their own image... whether it be physical, mechanical or ideological. Perhaps we're on the right track to having a technological replicant of a human brain.
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On the contrary. ID is not permitted to be required. See right here:
http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/contactus/merchantviolations.html
[On an OT note, since when does Slashdot require me to wait for an extraordinarily long period of time when I am just trying to reply with some simple information]
Actually that's precisely why they removed them. I believe official policy is to not encourage any walking as one may trip and fall. Yes dumb it is.
Um, hey I hate MS as much as the next guy, but this is straight out wrong. DX is binary backwards compatible [and probably source, but I wouldn't know, I don't make DX programs]. The software does some sort of COM QueryInterface() call to get an interface to the API that it expects. A DX2 game get IDirectDraw2, etc. [i think] If what you were saying were true you'd here millions of angry gamers torching Microsoft. Any DX2 or higher game should work fine with DirectX 8. (I suppose DX1 aka Game SDK should work too but I wouldn't be on it, not that anyone ever really used it anyhow.)
I don't know about you but with every version of Windows I have ever run, after running for extended periods of time the icon cache gets overwritten and wrong icons will show up for programs. JPEGs with IE icons, text files with "My Computer" icons, etc.. Now yes, the users were stupid but just saying because the icon looks wrong is not a justification either. Half the time on any windows box the icons are wrong.
Check Plus! 98 or Windows Millennium. They
have. And it sucks. I don't know about you but I don't want it integrated, at least not the way they implemented it.
Using CGI to spread propoganda? Sounds like Slashdot (;) for the humour impared)
The only thing you neglect to mention is that wars with neighbours seldom remain just wars with neighbours. Without a doubt the friends of those two warring countries will get annoyed that their ally is being butchered and will begin to offer aid. This is after all how World War I started, some Austrian duke being shot by a Yugoslavian eventually pulling the whole world into war. You can't just let someone have a fight beside you without intervening because all you'll end up with is a stronger more powerhungry enemy to contend with in the future.
Virtually all the posts I have seen have been made by americans, I thought it would be interesting to have another point of view (Canadian in this case). In my high school we don't have guards of any sort, metal detectors, transparent bags or any of the other assorted baddies that have been mentioned. We have a student ID card which can be voluntarily obtained (you also have to pay for it, $25 CDN if I recall correctly), it takes them several months to make these ids so in the mean time you get a cheesy piece of paper saying basically that you bought the ID and will get one soon, it serves the same purpose until you get the real ID. The purposes of getting a student ID mainly are that you are required to have one to participate in extra-curicular activities, to purchase one of those discount student bus passes, and to simply use as an ID for all those annoying situations that require one. The card has your photo on it and a unique ID # in plain text and barcoded. The number as far as I can see has nothing to do with any important info about yourself, and additionally they tend to change their mind every year or so on the format of the number so you tend to get a different number each year. No one knows what their number is and no one really gives a damn. The only sort of dress code/etc. type thing we have is basically you can't wear anything you couldn't wear in public (and yes girls must wear tops despite toplessness being legal in Toronto). Additionally there is what they call a "safe schools zero tolerance policy" which is basically a bunch of garbage which is never enforced really but basiaclly states you can be suspened and expelled very easily for violence, drug use, firearm possesion, etc. We rarely really have any serious problems, of course there are always trouble makers and vandals and so on but not to any great extent. I don't know what's going on in some of these places but something's definitely wrong out there. Oh and to finally top off this already too long post, we only have a non-pepsi type deal in our cafeteria, although that never stopped pepsi from holding a taste test on school property one day... I can taste the difference but I lied and told them pepsi tastes better so I could get a better snack off them. BTW if you've ever seen the Reese peanut butter cup commercialy with a old grey haired caf lady in a caf with greenish blue walls, that was my school if what my friends have been saying about that commericial is correct.
Xenix, not IRIX... IRIX is SGI's UNIX.
Sounds like the episode on TNG where the enterprise became an intelligent lifeform through all the experiences, etc. that were dumped into the computer, subsequently it went on a journey to procreate. Most definitely it is a life form, or at least on its way to becoming one... I don't know if we could classify it as some sort of "simple" organism as of yet or not, but eventually yes. Defining life as a bag of organic chemicals and processes is very limited, life extends throughout.
It's often been said and proven that people try to create things in their own image... whether it be physical, mechanical or ideological. Perhaps we're on the right track to having a technological replicant of a human brain.