Thanks for the link, I've been looking for a source like that. I think you'll find it interesting to know that the country with the second most firearms per capita is Finland, yet our firearm related murders per capita is smaller than that of countries like Canada and the Netherlands, and nowhere even close to the rate of the US. So obviously the problem lies elsewhere than in the number of weapons. My guess would be the harsher penalties in the US, if you know your going to be locked up for a long time or even put to death, then it's better to leave less evidence and witnesses to make your chances of evading capture better.
Are you really a game developer? Because you seem to be a ill-informed one at that. OpenGL will work the same way it did in XP: GPU manufacturers provide an OpenGL ICD in their drivers. The only part that is being dropped from Vista is the crappy software OpenGL ICD, which no one used.
but when you plop down a DX10 title next to a DX9/whatever-else title in the end, they will not be noticably different.
It's up to developers if they want to use geometry shaders or not, even if you're a lazy developer and re-use the same shaders from your DX9 title, you'll be able to benefit from the more effective DX10 API that supposedly gives a nice 20% performance boost.
I don't know what you do as a game developer, but I'm guessing you're not a programmer.
Is it the cupholders? I keep telling my boss that you can never go wrong with cupholders, but he always looks at me like I'm mad or something. I guess he just isn't a cup person.
Did you actually get modded insightful for that nugget of joy? I guess some of the moderators actually thought that they would only sell 2 PS3s. I guess I'll take a karma hit from that aforementioned moderator, but that has to be the dumbest insightful mod I've seen to date.:P
I disagree. When you use a cell phone you still have to talk into a microphone, so that is vocal communication. If you had an "thoughtphone" implanted in your brain, then you wouldn't use the vocal cords at all, you would instead channel thoughts through the implant to the receiving party. How is that not telepathy? Unless you too are stuck in the notion that telepathy must use magic, because any technological solution isn't telepathy.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Yes, which is why telepathy through radiowaves wouldn't break any physical laws we know of.
However, how would this be different from speaking to each other as we do now, which is just the same manipulation of energy/matter at lower levels.
It wouldn't. This is a question of semantics really, if you define telepathy as "magical communication without a physical channel" then obviously telepathy is impossible, period (at least within our knowledge of physics). But if you define it as "nonvocal transmission of information from one brain to another" then suddenly telepathy isn't so impossible anymore. Of course telepathy doesn't sound so fancy when you put it that way, but that is the price we pay for knowledge.
Not necessarily, if only a very small number of people (one in a million maybe?) had it, and if the range would be limited to a few meters then it would be unlikely to detect them. But I do agree that it is a silly idea, but if we only research "reasonable" ideas then we would not be at the technological level we are today. Narrowmindedness is the realm of creationists and geocentrists, not modern scientists.
Telepathy doesn't need to violate any natural laws. What if a very small amount of people had a gene that makes them able to send and receive radio signals? Or better yet, how about in the future when we can have these abilities implanted with the help of technology, wouldn't that be telepathy? I guess if you want to think of telepathy in terms of "communications without a physical channel" then yeah, telepathy is impossible and this experiment is useless.
My guess is that TF he is about is the FED's irresponsible money printing, and the governments disrespect towards the constitution which explicitly states that money must be backed by silver or gold i.e. no fiat money allowed. Not that the euro is much better, but at least it isn't burdened by huge deficits.
The difference is that with episodic content there is no base game to expand, it's like you're only buying expansions. It is new, because if Diablo 2 had been episodic, they would have sold every act separately.
Now if you think I'm just picking apart your statement for fun, you're only half right, look at this:
[indiadaily.com]
In light of this article, scary.
How would W98 becoming abandonware change that? Abandonware is still illegal to copy. I do agree that Linux will not be getting any boost whatsoever from MS dropping W98 support.
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Thanks for the link, I've been looking for a source like that. I think you'll find it interesting to know that the country with the second most firearms per capita is Finland, yet our firearm related murders per capita is smaller than that of countries like Canada and the Netherlands, and nowhere even close to the rate of the US. So obviously the problem lies elsewhere than in the number of weapons. My guess would be the harsher penalties in the US, if you know your going to be locked up for a long time or even put to death, then it's better to leave less evidence and witnesses to make your chances of evading capture better.
If you read his post closely, you'll note that he didn't mention firearms anywhere.
Are you really a game developer? Because you seem to be a ill-informed one at that. OpenGL will work the same way it did in XP: GPU manufacturers provide an OpenGL ICD in their drivers. The only part that is being dropped from Vista is the crappy software OpenGL ICD, which no one used.
but when you plop down a DX10 title next to a DX9/whatever-else title in the end, they will not be noticably different.
It's up to developers if they want to use geometry shaders or not, even if you're a lazy developer and re-use the same shaders from your DX9 title, you'll be able to benefit from the more effective DX10 API that supposedly gives a nice 20% performance boost.
I don't know what you do as a game developer, but I'm guessing you're not a programmer.
fine, I'm missing the last one, bust still...
Freudian bust? I mean slip.
Is it the cupholders? I keep telling my boss that you can never go wrong with cupholders, but he always looks at me like I'm mad or something. I guess he just isn't a cup person.
Did you actually get modded insightful for that nugget of joy? I guess some of the moderators actually thought that they would only sell 2 PS3s. I guess I'll take a karma hit from that aforementioned moderator, but that has to be the dumbest insightful mod I've seen to date. :P
I disagree. When you use a cell phone you still have to talk into a microphone, so that is vocal communication. If you had an "thoughtphone" implanted in your brain, then you wouldn't use the vocal cords at all, you would instead channel thoughts through the implant to the receiving party. How is that not telepathy? Unless you too are stuck in the notion that telepathy must use magic, because any technological solution isn't telepathy.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Uh, radio signals are a physical channel.
Yes, which is why telepathy through radiowaves wouldn't break any physical laws we know of.
However, how would this be different from speaking to each other as we do now, which is just the same manipulation of energy/matter at lower levels.
It wouldn't. This is a question of semantics really, if you define telepathy as "magical communication without a physical channel" then obviously telepathy is impossible, period (at least within our knowledge of physics). But if you define it as "nonvocal transmission of information from one brain to another" then suddenly telepathy isn't so impossible anymore. Of course telepathy doesn't sound so fancy when you put it that way, but that is the price we pay for knowledge.
Not necessarily, if only a very small number of people (one in a million maybe?) had it, and if the range would be limited to a few meters then it would be unlikely to detect them. But I do agree that it is a silly idea, but if we only research "reasonable" ideas then we would not be at the technological level we are today. Narrowmindedness is the realm of creationists and geocentrists, not modern scientists.
Telepathy doesn't need to violate any natural laws. What if a very small amount of people had a gene that makes them able to send and receive radio signals? Or better yet, how about in the future when we can have these abilities implanted with the help of technology, wouldn't that be telepathy? I guess if you want to think of telepathy in terms of "communications without a physical channel" then yeah, telepathy is impossible and this experiment is useless.
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He was obviously dictating through a microphone that was connected to his modem. D-oh!
I think that tinfoil hat is quite shiny enough.
My guess is that TF he is about is the FED's irresponsible money printing, and the governments disrespect towards the constitution which explicitly states that money must be backed by silver or gold i.e. no fiat money allowed. Not that the euro is much better, but at least it isn't burdened by huge deficits.
Your sig doesn't work.
HL2 is more of an exception, and the episodes are supposed to replace HL3. The Sin episodes is a good example of episodic content.
You completed Prey in 4 hours? And I thought Q4 was bad with it's miniscule 6 hours of gameplay!
There's one big reason procedural generation works: everything in nature is procedurally generated.
Play the F-ing Game [abraxas-medien.de]. 96k Windows download, you have no excuse not to.
How about not having Windows?
Ah, but he said coems. That's an important distinction!
The difference is that with episodic content there is no base game to expand, it's like you're only buying expansions. It is new, because if Diablo 2 had been episodic, they would have sold every act separately.
Now if you think I'm just picking apart your statement for fun, you're only half right, look at this:
[indiadaily.com]
In light of this article, scary.
Yes, those brackets can be scary sometimes.
[[[indiadaily.com]]]
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Open source software.
Companies fit this bill by their very nature. People, in groups..
Aren't those essentially one and the same? In a truly free market, I mean.
How would W98 becoming abandonware change that? Abandonware is still illegal to copy. I do agree that Linux will not be getting any boost whatsoever from MS dropping W98 support.
Why would you want W98, even if it was "abandonware"? And I don't think MS has sued anyone ever for putting anything in piratebay.