up until now i thought AIM was a virus, imagine my suprise. well that explains why everyone has complained to me after asking me to clean the spyware off their computer.
"In places where guns are outlawed, there is no decrease in the number of murder by guns, much less in the murder rate as a whole. Violent crime rises when the average Joe or Jane can't carry, and decreases when he or she can."-lheal
Im not so sure its that simple. Japan has some very strict gun laws, pretty much no one is allowed to have a gun. murder there is far below the US. however switzerland has very lax gun laws, many people have automatic weapons in their homes, and murder there is about the same as Japan. Canada is slightly more strict than the US, but has much lower gun crime rates, and here in the US, we have relatily relaxed gun laws, and high gun crime rates. for some reason we have more crime than switzerland and japan, and canada, but we are the upper middle ground of gun control(lax, but not the most lax).
my point is, gun crime is not related to gun laws. IMO gun crime is related to culture. Here in the US we glorify violence and guns, and we pay for it in high crime. many people see movies like Scareface and think "i wanna be like that". where Japan is heavily against violence and guns, and their crime is very low. in Japan, the few that are allowed guns are not allowed, in any way, to do something that might glorify the gun(such as modifications like custom handles and what not). when people commit murder, or are thinking about commiting murder, they arent really thinking about the law. so, to say murder is realted to laws, or gun control, is kinda over simplistic to me. if you feel you NEED to kill someone, you will find a way. the question is, "what makes you feel you NEED to kill someone?"
most crime is a result of culture, not law. when you're commiting a crime, the law is the last thing on your mind.
new playstation controller
ok, im just joking, but when i thought about it, the transition from this to nintendo's new controller isnt that big of a leap. combine this with the eyetoy and your almost there(minus the corded analog ).
once again, for tha fanboys, it was a joke, no need to mod me as troll about how they arent the same thing. it occured to me when i showed my girlfriend the new nintendo controller, and then reached for the playstation remote to turn on tekken5.
i have a feeling a "DRM approved" monitor, will be any monitor that when probed confirms its a monitor of any type. it would be a terrible idea to not allow monitors that exist today. that would make he upgrade to Vista about $400 (OS+new monitor). its going to be hard to get someone to drop $400 for something they probably dont need, and for many people $400 is enough to make those that do need it evaluate how much they need it.
the goal of the DRM approval is to prevent you from sending your video out to a device to record the video stream. so as long as the prboe on the monitor returns any kind of actual monitor, and confirms its not pluged to a DVD player or something, i bet it will be approved.
the thing about FPS porting is that it is simple to port from keyboard and mouse to console controller and back. for the keyboard its a simple matter of button maping and for mouse, its just a pointing device, not very different from the analog controller. but, with this new design, how do you map 'swing to the upper left while holding in the center' to buttons? maybe with a a mouse, but it would be a diffucult thing to map a 3D mouse(which is what this is) to a 2d mouse.
i have a feeling that what we will see with this is that some companies will make a few games for it, like youve seen with other non standard controllers like the light guns, the donky conga drums, the eye toy, and whatnot, but most games will avoid it because they want easy portability because it increases the money they can make. few games that use it cool functions wil be ported to the other consoles, and other games ported to it wont use it functions and will just have it be an odd shaped controller. but we'll see, i hope its used becsaue it does look promising, but i doubt it will be anything more than a novelty controller(like my sony eye toy).
ive seen a sword game that uses something like this, and i was seriously let down by it. it simply lacked the acuracy to make it usefull and it just didnt allow for a lot of what i wanted to do with it. ive taken fencing and kendo and many motions i tried to do with the sword just wernt recognized by the game. also i doubt this thing will be a fine, acurate, expensive piece of equipment, so i doubt it will be good for games like tekken(my favorite console game) or soul caliber. these games rely too much on precision timing and acuracy, something that i dont see this thing having. to use thins on one of those games would totaly ruin the current game, but maybe be a cute new version.
"The way it's taught now, evolution isn't falsifiable either. To teach it for real, you'd have to teach the kids college-level biochemistry. Let's prioritize!"
holly $#!+ thats just crazyness. nothing in grade school is fully taught, everyting you learn is just a primer. to say something like "if you cant teach it right then you shouldnt teach it at all" is just wrong in so many ways it makes baby jesus cry. i hate to say this because i hate it when its used for selfish reasons, but here i really mean this. "We owe it to our kids". If we skip out on biology for grade school, we deprive them of something they deserve to hear. if we remove biology from highschool then the number of highschool students interested in it will drop so low you might as well get rid of it for college too. you cant skip evolution and teach biology in highschool, thats like teaching writing, but skipping that part about the alphabet. you have to at least brush it over in biology class or your ignoring what biology class really is, dont take that from me either: Wiki link
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution is a 1973 essay by the evolutionary biologist and Russian Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky
hey, while were at it, since our children really wont get college level wrinting in grade school, lets just remove writing classes as well. yeah, see how silly that sounds not that you apply it to any other subject?
i see a lot of people confusing design with art. some people are saying things like "if an architect designs a pretty house, hes an artist, so that makes me an artist too". BZZZT wrong!!!
its not art because its pretty and functional, thats DESIGN. at work im not called an artist, my title is graphic DESIGNER. why??? becasue of what makes art, "art"... expression. im designing at work, im expressing myself at home on my own time in my own works.
when coding you dont get to express anger, love, happieness, or sadness. you just design with the tools you have, and what you design might be "pretty", but you did not express any emotion in your code.
your no more an artist than an artist who can do a "hello world" in perl is a programmer. dont confuse design with expression. yes a designer can express themselves, but its very rare and i have not seen one example of emotional expression in someone code, unless they are writing poetry in their comments.
i just moved to Orlando 2 years ago. funny thing, i learned about the wifi spot before i moved here from a link on the Orlando home page. After moving here i never heard anything about it again until now. i take walks around downtown orlando on my lunch breaks and would see the signs that marked where you could connect, but i never saw any other advertising.
My bets on why it failed are:
1. no one new about it, there wasnt much advertising for it.
2. This is Orlando, do you have any idea how FLIPPIN HOT it is outside. i knew it was there but would go to somewhere in doors even if i had to pay(starbucks). there were some buildings and resturants but if you had no business to be in them you really wernt invited in to surf the net in their AC.
3. Parking in downtown orlando is evil, unless you worked somewhere you would have to pay to park to use the internet.
in my lunch time walks i would sometimes see someone at a cafe or at a bench using their computers, but it was rare. they have mentioned its not gone for good and they may bring it back soon. they are putting in a bunch of new high rise condos downtown that will bring a lot more people and this may bring it back. i hope so, i wouldnt mind using it after summer is over.
i didnt say IBM cant keep up, i said they missed the ball with apple on this and let down users(me being one of them).
if your claiming AMDs design is a rushed design then you are the one that doesnt seem to know what they are talking about. AMD designed the chip from the begining with dual core in mind my back up "Memory requests are piped through a system request interface to a crossbar switch. The original Opteron/Athlon 64 design was designed with multiple cores in mind, he reminded the audience." FTA
relax, i didnt talk smack about your mother, i just said i was let down.
"being disappointed when a product we never announced fails to materialize is, frankly, pretty bizarre.
"
im not dissapointed because they didnt match up to the myth, im disapointed that they dont have them and Intel and AMD do(or will very soon). I think that maybe the rumor came about because its what the users wanted/expected, and not getting what they wanted is the let down. Rumor or not, Apple fell behind, dont blame it on rumors, blame it on Apples/IBM 's slip up.
hopefully they will get them soon
Slashdot Mirror
or even better watch the latest movie from pixar, rendered on intel machines.
up until now i thought AIM was a virus, imagine my suprise. well that explains why everyone has complained to me after asking me to clean the spyware off their computer.
"In places where guns are outlawed, there is no decrease in the number of murder by guns, much less in the murder rate as a whole. Violent crime rises when the average Joe or Jane can't carry, and decreases when he or she can."-lheal
Im not so sure its that simple. Japan has some very strict gun laws, pretty much no one is allowed to have a gun. murder there is far below the US. however switzerland has very lax gun laws, many people have automatic weapons in their homes, and murder there is about the same as Japan. Canada is slightly more strict than the US, but has much lower gun crime rates, and here in the US, we have relatily relaxed gun laws, and high gun crime rates. for some reason we have more crime than switzerland and japan, and canada, but we are the upper middle ground of gun control(lax, but not the most lax).
my point is, gun crime is not related to gun laws. IMO gun crime is related to culture. Here in the US we glorify violence and guns, and we pay for it in high crime. many people see movies like Scareface and think "i wanna be like that". where Japan is heavily against violence and guns, and their crime is very low. in Japan, the few that are allowed guns are not allowed, in any way, to do something that might glorify the gun(such as modifications like custom handles and what not). when people commit murder, or are thinking about commiting murder, they arent really thinking about the law. so, to say murder is realted to laws, or gun control, is kinda over simplistic to me. if you feel you NEED to kill someone, you will find a way. the question is, "what makes you feel you NEED to kill someone?"
most crime is a result of culture, not law. when you're commiting a crime, the law is the last thing on your mind.
new playstation controller ok, im just joking, but when i thought about it, the transition from this to nintendo's new controller isnt that big of a leap. combine this with the eyetoy and your almost there(minus the corded analog ).
once again, for tha fanboys, it was a joke, no need to mod me as troll about how they arent the same thing. it occured to me when i showed my girlfriend the new nintendo controller, and then reached for the playstation remote to turn on tekken5.
i have a feeling a "DRM approved" monitor, will be any monitor that when probed confirms its a monitor of any type. it would be a terrible idea to not allow monitors that exist today. that would make he upgrade to Vista about $400 (OS+new monitor). its going to be hard to get someone to drop $400 for something they probably dont need, and for many people $400 is enough to make those that do need it evaluate how much they need it.
the goal of the DRM approval is to prevent you from sending your video out to a device to record the video stream. so as long as the prboe on the monitor returns any kind of actual monitor, and confirms its not pluged to a DVD player or something, i bet it will be approved.
the thing about FPS porting is that it is simple to port from keyboard and mouse to console controller and back. for the keyboard its a simple matter of button maping and for mouse, its just a pointing device, not very different from the analog controller. but, with this new design, how do you map 'swing to the upper left while holding in the center' to buttons? maybe with a a mouse, but it would be a diffucult thing to map a 3D mouse(which is what this is) to a 2d mouse.
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i have a feeling that what we will see with this is that some companies will make a few games for it, like youve seen with other non standard controllers like the light guns, the donky conga drums, the eye toy, and whatnot, but most games will avoid it because they want easy portability because it increases the money they can make. few games that use it cool functions wil be ported to the other consoles, and other games ported to it wont use it functions and will just have it be an odd shaped controller. but we'll see, i hope its used becsaue it does look promising, but i doubt it will be anything more than a novelty controller(like my sony eye toy).
ive seen a sword game that uses something like this, and i was seriously let down by it. it simply lacked the acuracy to make it usefull and it just didnt allow for a lot of what i wanted to do with it. ive taken fencing and kendo and many motions i tried to do with the sword just wernt recognized by the game. also i doubt this thing will be a fine, acurate, expensive piece of equipment, so i doubt it will be good for games like tekken(my favorite console game) or soul caliber. these games rely too much on precision timing and acuracy, something that i dont see this thing having. to use thins on one of those games would totaly ruin the current game, but maybe be a cute new version.
ok, i asked for it, so mod me to death
"The way it's taught now, evolution isn't falsifiable either. To teach it for real, you'd have to teach the kids college-level biochemistry. Let's prioritize!"
holly $#!+ thats just crazyness. nothing in grade school is fully taught, everyting you learn is just a primer. to say something like "if you cant teach it right then you shouldnt teach it at all" is just wrong in so many ways it makes baby jesus cry. i hate to say this because i hate it when its used for selfish reasons, but here i really mean this. "We owe it to our kids". If we skip out on biology for grade school, we deprive them of something they deserve to hear. if we remove biology from highschool then the number of highschool students interested in it will drop so low you might as well get rid of it for college too. you cant skip evolution and teach biology in highschool, thats like teaching writing, but skipping that part about the alphabet. you have to at least brush it over in biology class or your ignoring what biology class really is, dont take that from me either:
Wiki link
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution is a 1973 essay by the evolutionary biologist and Russian Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky
hey, while were at it, since our children really wont get college level wrinting in grade school, lets just remove writing classes as well. yeah, see how silly that sounds not that you apply it to any other subject?
i see a lot of people confusing design with art. some people are saying things like "if an architect designs a pretty house, hes an artist, so that makes me an artist too". BZZZT wrong!!!
its not art because its pretty and functional, thats DESIGN. at work im not called an artist, my title is graphic DESIGNER. why??? becasue of what makes art, "art"... expression. im designing at work, im expressing myself at home on my own time in my own works.
when coding you dont get to express anger, love, happieness, or sadness. you just design with the tools you have, and what you design might be "pretty", but you did not express any emotion in your code.
your no more an artist than an artist who can do a "hello world" in perl is a programmer. dont confuse design with expression. yes a designer can express themselves, but its very rare and i have not seen one example of emotional expression in someone code, unless they are writing poetry in their comments.
i just moved to Orlando 2 years ago. funny thing, i learned about the wifi spot before i moved here from a link on the Orlando home page. After moving here i never heard anything about it again until now. i take walks around downtown orlando on my lunch breaks and would see the signs that marked where you could connect, but i never saw any other advertising.
My bets on why it failed are:
1. no one new about it, there wasnt much advertising for it.
2. This is Orlando, do you have any idea how FLIPPIN HOT it is outside. i knew it was there but would go to somewhere in doors even if i had to pay(starbucks). there were some buildings and resturants but if you had no business to be in them you really wernt invited in to surf the net in their AC.
3. Parking in downtown orlando is evil, unless you worked somewhere you would have to pay to park to use the internet.
in my lunch time walks i would sometimes see someone at a cafe or at a bench using their computers, but it was rare. they have mentioned its not gone for good and they may bring it back soon. they are putting in a bunch of new high rise condos downtown that will bring a lot more people and this may bring it back. i hope so, i wouldnt mind using it after summer is over.
Amen!!!
Dear KDE dev team,
If we could help you LESS we would, but ITS AGAINST THA LAW.
Yours Truely,
Apple Development Team
PS. thank you for the great, FREE code, we will make large sums of money from it. just look at the buzz around dashboard.
-- this post inspired by the great Chris Rock
Liger is going to pretty much be my favorite OS. its bred for its skills in stability and magic.
i didnt say IBM cant keep up, i said they missed the ball with apple on this and let down users(me being one of them).
if your claiming AMDs design is a rushed design then you are the one that doesnt seem to know what they are talking about. AMD designed the chip from the begining with dual core in mind
my back up
"Memory requests are piped through a system request interface to a crossbar switch. The original Opteron/Athlon 64 design was designed with multiple cores in mind, he reminded the audience." FTA
relax, i didnt talk smack about your mother, i just said i was let down.
"being disappointed when a product we never announced fails to materialize is, frankly, pretty bizarre. " im not dissapointed because they didnt match up to the myth, im disapointed that they dont have them and Intel and AMD do(or will very soon). I think that maybe the rumor came about because its what the users wanted/expected, and not getting what they wanted is the let down. Rumor or not, Apple fell behind, dont blame it on rumors, blame it on Apples/IBM 's slip up. hopefully they will get them soon