"'Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'?" "Yes..." "O-L-S-E-N?" "Yes...." "B-I- R-D-S??" "Yes....." "Yes, well, we do have that, as a matter of fact...." "The expurgated version.... "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that...?" "The expurgated version. "The EXPURGATED version of 'Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'?!" "The one without the gannet!" "The one without the gannet--?! They've ALL got the gannet! It's a Standard British Bird, the gannet, it's in all the books!!!" "Well, I don't like them...they wet their nests." "All right! I'll remove it!! (rrrip!) Any other birds you don't like?! "I don't like the robin..." "The robin! Right! The robin! (rrrip!) There you are, any others you don't like, any others?" "The nuthatch?" "Right! The nuthatch, the nuthatch, the nuthatch, 'ere we are! (rrriiip!) There you are! NO gannets, NO robins, NO nuthatches, THERE's your book!" "I can't buy that! It's torn!"
Uh, yes, you can indeed get over 100% faster. Your example, though, talks about a percentage of reduction of time, which is not the same thing (they are inversely proportional).
For example, my old car topped out at 50 mph. My new car's max is 100 mph. It is 100% faster. My old car went 50 miles in 1 hour. My new car goes 50 miles in 30 minutes. The time it takes to travel anywhere has been reduced by 50%. If it were reduced by 100%, though, I'd be violated several laws of physics, I think.
Uhm, who exactly were you referring to as not needing "to release the source"?
If you mean NeoNapster, they're violating the original license anyway, so it's kind of strange that they've released the source at all. I have to wonder what difference having a BSD license would accomplish.
If you mean CDEx, then I have to assume that going under the GPL was a voluntary decision. You release something under the GPL when you WANT to make the source available to the public. The only time it works in reverse is when you're building on someone else's GPL'ed work to begin with.
I agree completely. It's also illegal to kidnap and hold someone against their will. Unless you're the government that is! That's all a prison is: a place where people are kidnapped (by police) and then held against their will (by prison guards). How hypocritical! We can't do it, but they can???
That's what we're talking about here. Private individuals taking over the responsibilities of law enforcement and the courts. Not only will they be gaining unauthorized access to your private property, they will also be taking it upon themselves to judge you guilty and inflict whatever punishment they see fit. Where's the oversight? Where's the accountability? There's none. I always discounted warnings of corporations gaining too much power, simply because corporations only get the power governments give them. Now we see that governments may be all too willing to give it.
Unreal Tournament 2003 will be a great boon to machinema artists, from what I've seen. During their UT2003 Mod Summit, they previewed a lot their tools for movie and cut-scene production. Matinee is the UT2k3 component that movie makers will be able to use in order to execute tailored bot scripts and set up special time- or animation-related notifications to trigger specific events. I'm not really into that kind of stuff myself, but what I saw did look very useful and very powerful. Now if we can all get easy access to the kind of motion-capture systems the industry has....
I think the reason there were no screenshots was because the artwork on the box was simply light years beyond what the computer was capable of. Nowadays, you can do some pretty impressive things. Besides, I like being able to see what I'm buying.
Definitely. These days, it seems to be impossible to find a Lego set for sale that doesn't have a unique piece specifically designed for that set. It's gotten ridiculous, but in the end, I guess they are just catering to a spoiled generation. It didn't used to matter if it didn't look just like a horse. Yes, I remember the days of making horses out of some 2x1 blocks for the legs, angled pieces for the head, shoulders, and hindquarters (with a smooth 2x1 flat for the ears!). The creation of actual horses seemed like a great idea at the time, though it all seems to have gone downhill from there. Now entire castles are 4 pieces that connect together, and spaceships are like 3 pieces total.
Legos used to be all about the ability to make a dizzying number of things out of the same basic pieces. That no longer applies.
I'm sorry, but if you think NWN is one of the most bug-ridden games to come out lately, you haven't been paying many games. You're right, though, that it does have quite a few problems. We had a number of players not get saved at all last night in our weekly multi-player session.
The real reason is that not only is DU extremely dense, it is also pyrophoric. Get it hot enough (let's say by slamming it through the armor plating of a tank) and it'll combust in air. Nothing is worse inside a tank than to raise the temperature so high that the tank's ammo magazine (full of gun powder) spontaneously combusts. This is why the turret will pop off a tank hit by a fin-stabilized DU penetrator.... the unfired rounds explode in the intense heat, blowing the top right off the tank.
In addition, nearly all handguns (as nearly all rifles) have rifled barrels. The only common small arm that doesn't usually have a rifled barrel is a shotgun (smoothbore).
This is what happens when people get their firearm knowledge from video games.
Actually, they're not called cop-killer bullets, and neither are teflon coated bullets. The bullets that are actually referred to by that name are "armor-piercing" rounds, the kind designed to defeat a bullet-proof vest. This type of bullet is generally a lead bullet with a small steel core in the center. The steel core has a high cross-sectional density and does not deform the way lead does.
"Pointy" is good for aerodynamics. Not really piercing armor.
Can someone explain the true meaning of "megapixels" to me? Here I was thinking that it meant the resolution had so many of millions of pixels in its resolution... in this case, 1.3. But right after saying it had a 1.3 megapixel resolution, the poster states it actually has a resolution of 640x480, which consists of 307,200 pixels. Can anyone clear up my confusion here?
And yes, this is what they did. I've seen the models they did for the three beasts intended to execute Obi Wan, Amidala and Annakin. Very detailed and then likely scanned in to speed up creating the 3D computer model.
I didn't see it until my second time watching. When you know what to look for, it's there. Lucas couldn't very well show a severed human head in a PG movie.
and because I write GPL code I'm going to use a GPL library
Maybe that's your problem. You're making a pretty big assumption that has no real bearing on reality. Just because I release something under the GPL, that automatically means its an extension of another GPL project? Bzzzt, doesn't work that way.
Spider-man was a great movie, don't get me wrong, but it's not like the computer graphics fooled anyone over the age of 5. And I don't just mean the obvious impossibleness of the stunts, I mean the way the movements and animations just looked plain wrong. Computer graphics are an astounding thing, but the more complex you get, the more noticeable the artificiality becomes.
GPL's biggest obstacle is the terrible misconception posted here. The uninformed seem to believe that GPL'ed code is forever tainted by the license and nothing can ever be done with it. We see people saying this on every single/. article on the GPL. It's bullshit, but people in the know don't seem to be all that driven to refute it in big print. It's the basis of most attacks on GPL, and we're still doing doing enough to get the truth out. I mean, how can GPL prevent me from licensing my source to someone for profit, when GPL is something to applies towards others and not the author?
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"'Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'?"- R-D-S??"
"Yes..."
"O-L-S-E-N?"
"Yes...."
"B-I
"Yes....."
"Yes, well, we do have that, as a matter of fact...."
"The expurgated version....
"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that...?"
"The expurgated version.
"The EXPURGATED version of 'Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'?!"
"The one without the gannet!"
"The one without the gannet--?! They've ALL got the gannet! It's a Standard British Bird, the gannet, it's in all the books!!!"
"Well, I don't like them...they wet their nests."
"All right! I'll remove it!! (rrrip!) Any other birds you don't like?!
"I don't like the robin..."
"The robin! Right! The robin! (rrrip!) There you are, any others you don't like, any others?"
"The nuthatch?"
"Right! The nuthatch, the nuthatch, the nuthatch, 'ere we are! (rrriiip!) There you are! NO gannets, NO robins, NO nuthatches, THERE's your book!"
"I can't buy that! It's torn!"
Uh, yes, you can indeed get over 100% faster. Your example, though, talks about a percentage of reduction of time, which is not the same thing (they are inversely proportional).
For example, my old car topped out at 50 mph. My new car's max is 100 mph. It is 100% faster. My old car went 50 miles in 1 hour. My new car goes 50 miles in 30 minutes. The time it takes to travel anywhere has been reduced by 50%. If it were reduced by 100%, though, I'd be violated several laws of physics, I think.
Uhm, who exactly were you referring to as not needing "to release the source"?
If you mean NeoNapster, they're violating the original license anyway, so it's kind of strange that they've released the source at all. I have to wonder what difference having a BSD license would accomplish.
If you mean CDEx, then I have to assume that going under the GPL was a voluntary decision. You release something under the GPL when you WANT to make the source available to the public. The only time it works in reverse is when you're building on someone else's GPL'ed work to begin with.
Gawd, I hate DB2. Seems that all of our state agencies use it (DOC, DOT). Its SQL syntax is so limited and finicky.
I agree completely. It's also illegal to kidnap and hold someone against their will. Unless you're the government that is! That's all a prison is: a place where people are kidnapped (by police) and then held against their will (by prison guards). How hypocritical! We can't do it, but they can???
(Yes, I am indeed mocking him)
That's what we're talking about here. Private individuals taking over the responsibilities of law enforcement and the courts. Not only will they be gaining unauthorized access to your private property, they will also be taking it upon themselves to judge you guilty and inflict whatever punishment they see fit. Where's the oversight? Where's the accountability? There's none. I always discounted warnings of corporations gaining too much power, simply because corporations only get the power governments give them. Now we see that governments may be all too willing to give it.
Unreal Tournament 2003 will be a great boon to machinema artists, from what I've seen. During their UT2003 Mod Summit, they previewed a lot their tools for movie and cut-scene production. Matinee is the UT2k3 component that movie makers will be able to use in order to execute tailored bot scripts and set up special time- or animation-related notifications to trigger specific events. I'm not really into that kind of stuff myself, but what I saw did look very useful and very powerful. Now if we can all get easy access to the kind of motion-capture systems the industry has....
I think the reason there were no screenshots was because the artwork on the box was simply light years beyond what the computer was capable of. Nowadays, you can do some pretty impressive things. Besides, I like being able to see what I'm buying.
Definitely. These days, it seems to be impossible to find a Lego set for sale that doesn't have a unique piece specifically designed for that set. It's gotten ridiculous, but in the end, I guess they are just catering to a spoiled generation. It didn't used to matter if it didn't look just like a horse. Yes, I remember the days of making horses out of some 2x1 blocks for the legs, angled pieces for the head, shoulders, and hindquarters (with a smooth 2x1 flat for the ears!). The creation of actual horses seemed like a great idea at the time, though it all seems to have gone downhill from there. Now entire castles are 4 pieces that connect together, and spaceships are like 3 pieces total.
Legos used to be all about the ability to make a dizzying number of things out of the same basic pieces. That no longer applies.
I'm sorry, but if you think NWN is one of the most bug-ridden games to come out lately, you haven't been paying many games. You're right, though, that it does have quite a few problems. We had a number of players not get saved at all last night in our weekly multi-player session.
The real reason is that not only is DU extremely dense, it is also pyrophoric. Get it hot enough (let's say by slamming it through the armor plating of a tank) and it'll combust in air. Nothing is worse inside a tank than to raise the temperature so high that the tank's ammo magazine (full of gun powder) spontaneously combusts. This is why the turret will pop off a tank hit by a fin-stabilized DU penetrator.... the unfired rounds explode in the intense heat, blowing the top right off the tank.
In addition, nearly all handguns (as nearly all rifles) have rifled barrels. The only common small arm that doesn't usually have a rifled barrel is a shotgun (smoothbore).
This is what happens when people get their firearm knowledge from video games.
"Pointy" is good for aerodynamics. Not really piercing armor.
This got modded to +5, Insightful? Where the hell is the moderation label "-1, Just Plain Wrong"?
I can't help but wonder how blase' you'd be if it was your life they were talking about snuffing.
Oh, I guess not.....
Except there's a big difference between your girlfriend screwing you and your company screwing you.
Don't know what it is? I hope I never work for you!
Now that I read through the linked article, I see that the 1.3 megapixels is in fact not even true. So how exactly can they make that claim?
Can someone explain the true meaning of "megapixels" to me? Here I was thinking that it meant the resolution had so many of millions of pixels in its resolution... in this case, 1.3. But right after saying it had a 1.3 megapixel resolution, the poster states it actually has a resolution of 640x480, which consists of 307,200 pixels. Can anyone clear up my confusion here?
And yes, this is what they did. I've seen the models they did for the three beasts intended to execute Obi Wan, Amidala and Annakin. Very detailed and then likely scanned in to speed up creating the 3D computer model.
I didn't see it until my second time watching. When you know what to look for, it's there. Lucas couldn't very well show a severed human head in a PG movie.
Maybe that's your problem. You're making a pretty big assumption that has no real bearing on reality. Just because I release something under the GPL, that automatically means its an extension of another GPL project? Bzzzt, doesn't work that way.
Spider-man was a great movie, don't get me wrong, but it's not like the computer graphics fooled anyone over the age of 5. And I don't just mean the obvious impossibleness of the stunts, I mean the way the movements and animations just looked plain wrong. Computer graphics are an astounding thing, but the more complex you get, the more noticeable the artificiality becomes.
GPL's biggest obstacle is the terrible misconception posted here. The uninformed seem to believe that GPL'ed code is forever tainted by the license and nothing can ever be done with it. We see people saying this on every single /. article on the GPL. It's bullshit, but people in the know don't seem to be all that driven to refute it in big print. It's the basis of most attacks on GPL, and we're still doing doing enough to get the truth out. I mean, how can GPL prevent me from licensing my source to someone for profit, when GPL is something to applies towards others and not the author?
How exactly do I type a message to my teammates on a gamepad controller?