Developing for Linux typically means building your Game in Open GL, which allows portability between Windows and Linux, but you lose the (relatively) easy jump from the PC world to the console world. The gaming market for the Xbox 360 is arguably much larger than Linux.
Only the XBox (360) uses DX. All other consoles use OpenGL or a custom 3D API similar to OpenGL. The XBox 360 is a tiny market compared to the other major consoles put together. Using DX makes it that much harder for PC/XBox games to be ported to other consoles.
While linux wasn't intended to be a gaming platform, it handles games better than Windows. Try playing Doom3 or Quake4 in XP/Vista and any current linux distro - you'll find linux to be a much more pleasant experience. Windows is prone to unexpected (and inexplicable) slow downs or jerks that don't occur in linux. File access is usually much smoother as well. A common "trick" to try to get Doom3 to run better in Windows is to decompress all the paks, and make the buffer HUGE. Neither is necessary in linux.
The pollution around cities compensates for the lack of ozone. In fact, ozone is usually a common component of pollution. Funny how ozone way up high is good, but ozone down near the ground is "pollution".:D
Lots and lots of kids get run over crossing the street in the dark on Halloween. They really do.
I love people who simply parrot the words politicians bandy about. Do you actually KNOW how many 'lots and lots' actually is? How many more kids are killed on Halloween from traffic accidents? Well, let's look at what the University of Michigan has to say.
From the article here: http://www.ur.umich.edu/0506/Oct31_05/24.shtml
Compared to the approximately 3,000 annual pedestrian fatalities in darkness, the increase in Halloween deaths is relatively small, amounting to about three additional deaths per year.
Three more deaths due to Halloween. Yeah, that's 'lots and lots' all right. So I guess this new law will bump that down to two, huh?
This is the first complete calculation of this phenomenon to employ a highly accurate description of the quarks that adds a fifth dimension beyond those of space and time.
It turns out that fifth dimension is called the "fudge" dimension. It makes all the calculated values match the measured data, no matter how far off they might be.;)
I like how you try to equate General Relativity with Reality. GR is a mathematical model that fits much of the data pretty well, but it is hardly an explanation of what is actually happening. People tend to forget little details like that. They get so caught up in how well the model is working that they actually believe they've explained Reality - and they're just fooling themselves. When a better model comes around, GR and related models will be dropped just as quick as the previous models.
As such, Dark Matter is also just a mathematical model. It's a "fudge factor" that makes modern (relatively speaking) models fit the measured data better. It's an effort to hold onto incomplete and/or inaccurate models when they should be looking for something better. Scientist: "No! We're not wrong! It's just vast amounts of undetectable 'stuff' that skews the data. Yeah -that's the ticket!"
That's the way I take it. Consider the article - they claim the distortion is less than 0.1 percent. Now that can't POSSIBLY be due to: detector limitations; calibration errors; environmental interference; recording errors; equipment failure; incorrect equations used in the models; rounding errors; faking the data to keep the money coming in; even more sources of error than you can shake a stick at. No - it's GOT to be huge structures millions of times larger than any other structures in the known universe... which can't be detected in any other manner. Suuuuuuure. I believe them! Really! (We need smilies to help express our incredulity for articles such as this one.)
What was established as fact was the tactics MS used to prevent Be from getting drivers for hardware... among other things MS did to kill their competition. You really should read the finds of fact ruling for the MS trial. There's a lot of eye-openers in it.
Incorrect. BeOS was VERY valuable - so valuable that MS used illegal tactics to put them out of business to keep from losing business to the superior product (this was found to be a matter of FACT by a court of law in the US years ago). Given your premise that BeOS was not valuable is wrong, all you conclusions based on that are also wrong.
What's REALLY funny is this ban affects nearly all China's culture and mythology. I guess the Chinese won't be telling stories older than a hundred years anymore. So much for thousands of years of civilization.:)
It would be nice if students learned all that, but you're talking about classes that only the geekiest of the geeks take in modern high schools (I took all those classes you mention). Just try to get your average "jock" into those classes.:)
That's the biggest problem with science-based curriculum - very few kids are taking classes that would enable them to understand the material. That results in kids instead getting "basic" introductions that give little than more than hand-waving and flawed analogies.
That's the point - you are now punished just as harshly for a 99 cent download as for causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. The law is grossly unbalanced as to punishment vs harm done.
Starship Troopers needed to be made exactly like Saving Private Ryan. The book has the same kind of tone and scope. The movie was a travesty to all fans of the novel.
If they're getting such real results, then why not hook up an array of these to a small generator that feeds back into itself and give themselves some free energy.
If you read up on the subject, you'd be able to answer that yourself. Fusing deuterium produces helium, neutrons, and some energy. Cold fusion only fuses incredibly tiny amounts of deuterium at present. The amount of energy produced is barely measurable. It's easier for them to detect the neutrons than the heat (several labs have documented neutron production proving this is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical reaction).
VERY little money has been spent on cold fusion due to skeptics like you. On the other hand, hundreds of billions have been spent over the last 50 years trying to make hot fusion work. Don't you think it would be worth spending a few million on cold fusion rather than wasting more billions on hot fusion?
By the way, due to idiots denouncing cold fusion without bothering to look into the subject, most scientists now call it Low Energy Nuclear Reactions to get around the stigma of trying to get funding for "cold fusion." Do a search on "low energy nuclear reactions" and you'll find a lot more decent information than searching on "cold fusion."
It can't possibly be in Missouri or Kentucky - it's on the Atlantic coastline. Homer WALKS to the lighthouse on the edge of town once (the episode where he seeks his soulmate). Unless you think they put lighthouses on rivers or lakes, Springfield HAS to be either on the Atlantic coast (most probable), or the Gulf of Mexico.
Given Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokal, this clearly puts Springfield in Virginia or North Carolina (the accent and lifestyle are right for those two states). I would say North Carolina is the most probable location of Springfield given everything seen over the years.
Soldier 1: Should we shoot it? It looks like a medical truck.
Soldier 2: I've been playing video games my whole life and medical stuff ALWAYS uses GREEN crosses. That fucker's CLEARLY red - no way that's a medical truck. Blow it to hell!
Modelling is extremely tough for sure - but how do you account for the fact that there are models that can do a very good 'backcasts'?
You're kidding, right? All the way back in Jr. High, they taught us in math class how to calculate a formula that fit multiple data points. Good "backcast" - start with a set of data points for the past, then calculate formula that fits data points. Now pretend it accurately models all data points. Yeah, that's really good science. SHEESH!
Dark matter has vast (let me repeat, VAST) amounts of evidence beyond rotation curves of galaxies.
Complete bull. You haven't given any supporting links because you can't. The parent was correct - dark matter is merely a fudge factor for scientists with bloated egos who are incapable of admitting that they don't know the real answer.
IBM never promised 3GHz G5s - Jobs did. It's a common misconception. IBM has delivered everything THEY promised, plus some of what Apple promised.
Apple has ALWAYS been a finicky customer. Motorola made the 68060 to allow the 68K series to compete with Pentiums, so how many did Apple buy? None. Instead, they decided they would completely change over to a different CPU. They also pitted Motorola against a rival to supply chips in an effort to get a better deal for themselves.
I had a 68060 in my Amiga, and it was a really great processor. It was VERY competitive with Apple's high-end 601 systems when using OS 7.5.x (with a Mac emulator). OS 8.x had code added to it that forced 68060 users to switch off the features that made the 060 fast (branch cache and superscalar).
First small inventors are not without options. They are encouraged by the system to market and sell (or lease) their rights to larger groups that have the money to defend them and the resources to bring them to market. No matter what system you are for, this will always be the case.
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I've never seen someone use strong-arming the weak as an argument FOR something. "Say... nice IP you got there. Hand it over for a token pittance and we won't sue your ass out of existence." Small inventors are ABSOLUTELY without options. There is NO WAY they can stand up to larger companies.
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While linux wasn't intended to be a gaming platform, it handles games better than Windows. Try playing Doom3 or Quake4 in XP/Vista and any current linux distro - you'll find linux to be a much more pleasant experience. Windows is prone to unexpected (and inexplicable) slow downs or jerks that don't occur in linux. File access is usually much smoother as well. A common "trick" to try to get Doom3 to run better in Windows is to decompress all the paks, and make the buffer HUGE. Neither is necessary in linux.
The pollution around cities compensates for the lack of ozone. In fact, ozone is usually a common component of pollution. Funny how ozone way up high is good, but ozone down near the ground is "pollution". :D
Uh... rust is just the oxide layer on the boundary of the metal. So saying aluminum doesn't rust, it just oxidizes, is contradicting yourself. :)
I like how you try to equate General Relativity with Reality. GR is a mathematical model that fits much of the data pretty well, but it is hardly an explanation of what is actually happening. People tend to forget little details like that. They get so caught up in how well the model is working that they actually believe they've explained Reality - and they're just fooling themselves. When a better model comes around, GR and related models will be dropped just as quick as the previous models.
As such, Dark Matter is also just a mathematical model. It's a "fudge factor" that makes modern (relatively speaking) models fit the measured data better. It's an effort to hold onto incomplete and/or inaccurate models when they should be looking for something better. Scientist: "No! We're not wrong! It's just vast amounts of undetectable 'stuff' that skews the data. Yeah -that's the ticket!"
That's the way I take it. Consider the article - they claim the distortion is less than 0.1 percent. Now that can't POSSIBLY be due to: detector limitations; calibration errors; environmental interference; recording errors; equipment failure; incorrect equations used in the models; rounding errors; faking the data to keep the money coming in; even more sources of error than you can shake a stick at. No - it's GOT to be huge structures millions of times larger than any other structures in the known universe... which can't be detected in any other manner. Suuuuuuure. I believe them! Really! (We need smilies to help express our incredulity for articles such as this one.)
What was established as fact was the tactics MS used to prevent Be from getting drivers for hardware... among other things MS did to kill their competition. You really should read the finds of fact ruling for the MS trial. There's a lot of eye-openers in it.
Incorrect. BeOS was VERY valuable - so valuable that MS used illegal tactics to put them out of business to keep from losing business to the superior product (this was found to be a matter of FACT by a court of law in the US years ago). Given your premise that BeOS was not valuable is wrong, all you conclusions based on that are also wrong.
What's REALLY funny is this ban affects nearly all China's culture and mythology. I guess the Chinese won't be telling stories older than a hundred years anymore. So much for thousands of years of civilization. :)
It would be nice if students learned all that, but you're talking about classes that only the geekiest of the geeks take in modern high schools (I took all those classes you mention). Just try to get your average "jock" into those classes. :)
That's the biggest problem with science-based curriculum - very few kids are taking classes that would enable them to understand the material. That results in kids instead getting "basic" introductions that give little than more than hand-waving and flawed analogies.
Yep. We'll be removing carbon from the air until none is left and all the plants die. :)
I foresee a day when the government pays people to polute to "save the environment."
That's the point - you are now punished just as harshly for a 99 cent download as for causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. The law is grossly unbalanced as to punishment vs harm done.
Starship Troopers needed to be made exactly like Saving Private Ryan. The book has the same kind of tone and scope. The movie was a travesty to all fans of the novel.
If they're getting such real results, then why not hook up an array of these to a small generator that feeds back into itself and give themselves some free energy.
If you read up on the subject, you'd be able to answer that yourself. Fusing deuterium produces helium, neutrons, and some energy. Cold fusion only fuses incredibly tiny amounts of deuterium at present. The amount of energy produced is barely measurable. It's easier for them to detect the neutrons than the heat (several labs have documented neutron production proving this is a nuclear reaction, not a chemical reaction).
VERY little money has been spent on cold fusion due to skeptics like you. On the other hand, hundreds of billions have been spent over the last 50 years trying to make hot fusion work. Don't you think it would be worth spending a few million on cold fusion rather than wasting more billions on hot fusion?
By the way, due to idiots denouncing cold fusion without bothering to look into the subject, most scientists now call it Low Energy Nuclear Reactions to get around the stigma of trying to get funding for "cold fusion." Do a search on "low energy nuclear reactions" and you'll find a lot more decent information than searching on "cold fusion."
It can't possibly be in Missouri or Kentucky - it's on the Atlantic coastline. Homer WALKS to the lighthouse on the edge of town once (the episode where he seeks his soulmate). Unless you think they put lighthouses on rivers or lakes, Springfield HAS to be either on the Atlantic coast (most probable), or the Gulf of Mexico.
Given Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokal, this clearly puts Springfield in Virginia or North Carolina (the accent and lifestyle are right for those two states). I would say North Carolina is the most probable location of Springfield given everything seen over the years.
Well, I guess we have a new definition for "rim job" here in the US now.
Two soldiers at an artillery emplacement in 2015.
Soldier 1: Should we shoot it? It looks like a medical truck.
Soldier 2: I've been playing video games my whole life and medical stuff ALWAYS uses GREEN crosses. That fucker's CLEARLY red - no way that's a medical truck. Blow it to hell!
Modelling is extremely tough for sure - but how do you account for the fact that there are models that can do a very good 'backcasts'?
You're kidding, right? All the way back in Jr. High, they taught us in math class how to calculate a formula that fit multiple data points. Good "backcast" - start with a set of data points for the past, then calculate formula that fits data points. Now pretend it accurately models all data points. Yeah, that's really good science. SHEESH!
Dark matter has vast (let me repeat, VAST) amounts of evidence beyond rotation curves of galaxies.
Complete bull. You haven't given any supporting links because you can't. The parent was correct - dark matter is merely a fudge factor for scientists with bloated egos who are incapable of admitting that they don't know the real answer.
IBM never promised 3GHz G5s - Jobs did. It's a common misconception. IBM has delivered everything THEY promised, plus some of what Apple promised.
Apple has ALWAYS been a finicky customer. Motorola made the 68060 to allow the 68K series to compete with Pentiums, so how many did Apple buy? None. Instead, they decided they would completely change over to a different CPU. They also pitted Motorola against a rival to supply chips in an effort to get a better deal for themselves.
I had a 68060 in my Amiga, and it was a really great processor. It was VERY competitive with Apple's high-end 601 systems when using OS 7.5.x (with a Mac emulator). OS 8.x had code added to it that forced 68060 users to switch off the features that made the 060 fast (branch cache and superscalar).
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I've never seen someone use strong-arming the weak as an argument FOR something. "Say... nice IP you got there. Hand it over for a token pittance and we won't sue your ass out of existence." Small inventors are ABSOLUTELY without options. There is NO WAY they can stand up to larger companies.
Easy, TV keeps people inside and pacified instead of outside lynching the foreigners. TV has done more to save lives than any other single invention.