Me, I'll be waiting for the card that can do Crysis set to 1920x1200, all the goodies on, and 50-60fps. Until then, my 7900GT SLI setup is going to have to be enough.
Which should be just in time for the "next big game" to come out.;)
I'm sorry if my post didn't portray it, but that's what I was hinting at. I feel that states should compete for populace by enacting laws that fit their population. If they see that the population is thinning, maybe the laws need to be revised because the general population is leaving or not reproducing (or reproducing and aborting... whatever.) Putting all laws under one body is like giving the Federal government a "monopoly on laws" and deteriorating the strength of the Constitution. We all know that not having a choice is part of the reason for the US and the Constitution coming into existence in the first place.
I built some of my later kits and set them on the shelf. Notably, a Technic car and Star Wars Driodeka. But I don't have much time to play with them, so they have become "trophies" of my youth.
He's pro-life, but he's anti-Federal restriction. Would you rather have one Federal body deciding if it's right or not, or 50 states with different opinions on what is right? He has voted against Federal regulations and funding in this respect. Please educate yourself on these things before believing what you read on the Internet.
As far as the US being a "christian" Afghanistan, I'm pretty sure that isn't exactly the way it'd go... say, rather, a more religiously free western-influenced Afghanistan.
A religiously free western-influence Afghanistan where the politicians add things like "under God" and "in God WE trust" to government documents and pledges? Do you understand that that's pretty much a form of subliminal mind control? Making your kids say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, where they are told in an indirect manner that this nation is "under God."
That's kind of sad actually. I know more atheists that are accepting of different religious beliefs than I do religious people who are accepting of other beliefs. I guess that says it all.
Maybe it's time for a lesson in parenting and/or raising a pet? If there's no room in the car, either you have too many kids, or too many pets. Time to put up some money to have some of them taken care of while your on vacation. I know many boarding kennels that take excellent care of your pets. Sometimes better care then they get at home.
A good indication of how Microsoft treats its customers is the fact that it has been more than 3 years since SP2 was released on 8/10/2004. Here is a quote from Paul Thurrott, who is over-the-top pro-Microsoft, and who often apologizes for Microsoft's abusiveness in a way that tries to make abusive behavior sound less destructive:... the 100+ updates that Microsoft has shipped since SP2 can be a nightmare to deploy.
For those who use Linux, I will explain: Windows often becomes infected with malware. It sometimes becomes unstable on its own, too; Microsoft releases sloppy, unfinished software. So, it is often necessary to re-load Windows XP SP2. Once you have done that, it is at present necessary to re-load perhaps 100 Megabytes of bug fixes that have been released since SP2.
I have a friend who actually thinks the world would come to a standstill if MS closed its doors tomorrow. Here's the basic gist of the conversation. "Hackers would create viruses and bring companies to their knees." "When you got your last virus, did Microsoft give you a file to clean it?" "No, Symantec did." "So, how does that mean a lack of Microsoft will destroy a company?" "Because all these updates that Microsoft puts out protect us. They are patching the vulnerabilities so they don't happen again. No operating system is secure. Microsoft happens to be the target 'cause they are the big guy. Without Microsoft, nobody would put out patches because nobody would be getting paid to put them out. Hackers would rule the Earth due to lack of updates. Viruses would destroy us." "So, without Microsoft, it's not enough for Symantec to clean your files before you open them?" "I have to pay for that service. Microsoft fixes the problem for free so I don't have to worry about it."
I kid you not.
He continues with things such as: "Companies don't want choices. They want a defined solution. You can't have more than one major OS because there would be too many applications and they would all read their own files and none other. Open standards won't work because they would be hacked."... it continues on. I can't have a civilized conversation with the man because he insists that a world without a monopolizing company would be too confusing and nothing would work. He also insists that "hackers" will do everything in their power (and beyond apparently) to make his life a living hell. I've asked him if he tried other things. "Yeah, I tried Red Hat once. It was like 1997. It wasn't ready to replace Windows and there are no games today, so I won't be trying it again."
I call mine MemorySkin. It completely covers and protects my memory from harm (me dropping it.) I even found one that covers both my memory and my camera!
So, what I gauge by this... is that Microsoft needed a way to dump cash. They had an opportunity to try to diversify in this action, so they started looking for other fields to dump that money into. Maybe a few will pick up, maybe they won't. When they finally level out, what division gets the axe? The least profitable of course. Meanwhile, they continue in whatever market they "stole" by dumping that extra cash. It sounds nice, but... wouldn't this be a bad tactic with the market share they hold? It opens you up to the government pulling an AT&T on your assets and chopping you up into a bunch of market based companies. I mean, it would be overall good to the economy to level them out and make them sweat again, but from a business standpoint it really makes you question the future of the business.
I picked out a few things I wanted to ask about/pick on (forgive me):
AND WHO SAID THAT XML IS SUPPOSED TO BE HUMAN-READABLE?
Ever try "humanly reading" a binary data file to find a value?:P
And free XNA development is a plus.
Forgive me if this changed recently, but don't you still have to pay $100 to test your game on the console or was that just to "publish" it on the web?
and the customers like that little blue "e" it's hard to convince them to click on the Firefox icon.
Same issue here (until I showed my parents Adblock) but your talking big distributions where plug-ins probably are not an option. Though I do hate that people get lost when the "E" icon goes away without taking a second to look around (I normally name the Firefox icon "The New Internet" to help them.)
Otherwise, I too would prefer a Java world if they could update the language to include things like accessors and such, but I've not not been a fan of anything Microsoft out of prinicple for some time so my viewpoint is bias/skewed.
Apparently I've offended you in some way? For your own information, my user ID is my initial and name all mashed up together. In no way, shape, or form does someone's user ID have to form a sentence or meaningful thought. (Just FYI, Mr. North.) Also, I'm sorry I abused the English language in such a horrific manner as you state. I will go back to dancing in feces or whatever it is that you picture me doing while posting other horrific abuses of the English language such as using "there" in place of "they're"!
I never knew who Joseph Conrad was and I still cannot place why his name is relevant to this discussion by reading a short Wiki article on him. Perhaps you have some finer explanation that you can forward to someone with my low level of comprehension skills and lack of knowledge on Austrian history and literature (since I've never been there.)
looked in the mirror, and didn't see anything there. It's clear he's decided to do something about that, and good on him for it.
I read somewhere that Vampires can't see their reflection in the mirror either. So what your saying is that if Dracula were to suddenly change his ways and forgive all the people he had converted or bitten over the years, that he'd suddenly be a "good guy" you'd trust your kids with?
Also, there are those in the industry that think Microsoft is doing no wrong and they are making our lives easier because they provide free (only Microsoft compatible) code on MSDN for everyone to ingrain in their applications.
These are the people I like to call the "greeds". They only think of themselves when they create something or use a tool. They don't think, "Gosh, this might be bad for the industry...maybe I should try out this competitive product" because said product doesn't integrate into every aspect of Windows allowing you to launch calculator with the click of a button.
I work with one such person who insists that.NET is the savior of the world. He also subscribes (almost exclusively) to MSDN blogs to get the latest Microsoft PR related news and strictly adheres to "Microsoft standards" for coding and application design whenever someone on MSDN writes about it. I swear, if someone from MS came out next week to tell everyone they need to add 4 lines of filler between every line of code, he'd be the first to go back and edit every program and insert 4 lines of comments between every line of code.
Which in RH's case means the issue is published, but in MS's case would not be published.
That's what I think this is all about. Microsoft can publish whatever number they want as the number of "vulnerabilities" to make itself out as the "good guy" while distributions of Linux put it all on the pavement so everyone can see what has been fixed or will be soon.
Need I mention the army of "developers" that find "a cool way to do ___" and cut/paste the code from some website only to find out that that way only works in IE. I'm sure (as I know someone that does this) there are many people that use MSDN almost exclusively for development questions and place 100% trust in that code blaming other browsers/operating systems for not supporting it.
What's even better is (from what I understand of the 360 architecture) that the CPU uses the GPU to get access to the memory, so in restricting "use of the GPU bandwidth", you are effectively reducing the CPU load or not using the CPU at all.
All this is fine, but I think we will have to wait another 20+ years for computers to be fast and cheap enough before this becomes a reality.
This is the part that I don't understand... We have the massively parallel video cards, couldn't silicon be etched to speed up common ray trace functions?
That's not the actual source. It's an interpretation of what the source does. It's kind of like a reverse compiler if that makes sense. (At least that's how I understand it.)
Attach it to the lash. (Though, I don't know if I'd have surgery to attach a lens to my eye so I could see something.)
That, and I thought contact lenses floated in your eye? For one, you'd have to secure it so it doesn't spin/move, and you'd also have to put in in right side up. Getting a screen in the center of the pupil would be pretty easy with an ultra high res micro grid as long as you can control the blink reflex. Keeping it there would be the problem.
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I'm sorry if my post didn't portray it, but that's what I was hinting at. I feel that states should compete for populace by enacting laws that fit their population. If they see that the population is thinning, maybe the laws need to be revised because the general population is leaving or not reproducing (or reproducing and aborting... whatever.) Putting all laws under one body is like giving the Federal government a "monopoly on laws" and deteriorating the strength of the Constitution. We all know that not having a choice is part of the reason for the US and the Constitution coming into existence in the first place.
I built some of my later kits and set them on the shelf. Notably, a Technic car and Star Wars Driodeka. But I don't have much time to play with them, so they have become "trophies" of my youth.
He's pro-life, but he's anti-Federal restriction. Would you rather have one Federal body deciding if it's right or not, or 50 states with different opinions on what is right? He has voted against Federal regulations and funding in this respect. Please educate yourself on these things before believing what you read on the Internet.
Hate the supporters all you want, but don't hate the man for a proper grasp on the Constitution.
What I find funny is that you point out in an earlier post how there should be no absolutes, but you support absolutely prohibiting "drug" use?
That's kind of sad actually. I know more atheists that are accepting of different religious beliefs than I do religious people who are accepting of other beliefs. I guess that says it all.
Maybe it's time for a lesson in parenting and/or raising a pet? If there's no room in the car, either you have too many kids, or too many pets. Time to put up some money to have some of them taken care of while your on vacation. I know many boarding kennels that take excellent care of your pets. Sometimes better care then they get at home.
"Hackers would create viruses and bring companies to their knees."
"When you got your last virus, did Microsoft give you a file to clean it?"
"No, Symantec did."
"So, how does that mean a lack of Microsoft will destroy a company?"
"Because all these updates that Microsoft puts out protect us. They are patching the vulnerabilities so they don't happen again. No operating system is secure. Microsoft happens to be the target 'cause they are the big guy. Without Microsoft, nobody would put out patches because nobody would be getting paid to put them out. Hackers would rule the Earth due to lack of updates. Viruses would destroy us."
"So, without Microsoft, it's not enough for Symantec to clean your files before you open them?"
"I have to pay for that service. Microsoft fixes the problem for free so I don't have to worry about it."
I kid you not.
He continues with things such as: "Companies don't want choices. They want a defined solution. You can't have more than one major OS because there would be too many applications and they would all read their own files and none other. Open standards won't work because they would be hacked."
It's like talking to a brick wall.
I call mine MemorySkin. It completely covers and protects my memory from harm (me dropping it.) I even found one that covers both my memory and my camera!
... ,falling asleep, or eating the paper. (or so I hear)
So, what I gauge by this... is that Microsoft needed a way to dump cash. They had an opportunity to try to diversify in this action, so they started looking for other fields to dump that money into. Maybe a few will pick up, maybe they won't. When they finally level out, what division gets the axe? The least profitable of course. Meanwhile, they continue in whatever market they "stole" by dumping that extra cash. It sounds nice, but... wouldn't this be a bad tactic with the market share they hold? It opens you up to the government pulling an AT&T on your assets and chopping you up into a bunch of market based companies. I mean, it would be overall good to the economy to level them out and make them sweat again, but from a business standpoint it really makes you question the future of the business.
Otherwise, I too would prefer a Java world if they could update the language to include things like accessors and such, but I've not not been a fan of anything Microsoft out of prinicple for some time so my viewpoint is bias/skewed.
Apparently I've offended you in some way? For your own information, my user ID is my initial and name all mashed up together. In no way, shape, or form does someone's user ID have to form a sentence or meaningful thought. (Just FYI, Mr. North.) Also, I'm sorry I abused the English language in such a horrific manner as you state. I will go back to dancing in feces or whatever it is that you picture me doing while posting other horrific abuses of the English language such as using "there" in place of "they're"!
I never knew who Joseph Conrad was and I still cannot place why his name is relevant to this discussion by reading a short Wiki article on him. Perhaps you have some finer explanation that you can forward to someone with my low level of comprehension skills and lack of knowledge on Austrian history and literature (since I've never been there.)
Maybe someone hired/paid (or gifted?) to make Microsoft look good?
Also, there are those in the industry that think Microsoft is doing no wrong and they are making our lives easier because they provide free (only Microsoft compatible) code on MSDN for everyone to ingrain in their applications.
These are the people I like to call the "greeds". They only think of themselves when they create something or use a tool. They don't think, "Gosh, this might be bad for the industry...maybe I should try out this competitive product" because said product doesn't integrate into every aspect of Windows allowing you to launch calculator with the click of a button.
I work with one such person who insists that
That's what I think this is all about. Microsoft can publish whatever number they want as the number of "vulnerabilities" to make itself out as the "good guy" while distributions of Linux put it all on the pavement so everyone can see what has been fixed or will be soon.
Need I mention the army of "developers" that find "a cool way to do ___" and cut/paste the code from some website only to find out that that way only works in IE. I'm sure (as I know someone that does this) there are many people that use MSDN almost exclusively for development questions and place 100% trust in that code blaming other browsers/operating systems for not supporting it.
What's even better is (from what I understand of the 360 architecture) that the CPU uses the GPU to get access to the memory, so in restricting "use of the GPU bandwidth", you are effectively reducing the CPU load or not using the CPU at all.
You don't think there is reason for that? I mean, would you create a better product than your own offerings for another company?
My question is:
If you see a "bug" in Microsoft's code, can you write a fix for it, date stamp it and sell it to MS as your code with a restrictive license?
That's not the actual source. It's an interpretation of what the source does. It's kind of like a reverse compiler if that makes sense. (At least that's how I understand it.)
Attach it to the lash. (Though, I don't know if I'd have surgery to attach a lens to my eye so I could see something.)
That, and I thought contact lenses floated in your eye? For one, you'd have to secure it so it doesn't spin/move, and you'd also have to put in in right side up. Getting a screen in the center of the pupil would be pretty easy with an ultra high res micro grid as long as you can control the blink reflex. Keeping it there would be the problem.