Indeed. At this point we don't even know that they're going to be making 3D programming in 5 years. I'm sure that 60 years ago everybody assumed that everything would be 3D by the 90s. At this point it's just a fad, it could become more than that, but I'm not holding my breath.
What's particularly problematic is that you're better off just using 2D cinema. If you want to give it depth, there are techniques available that can make a 2D image seem very 3 dimensional. A lot of the old cowboy movies from the period after they went color are a good example. You watch the movie and your brain reconstructs it in 3D without glasses. Sure you don't get that gauche effect of hurling things at your face, but the effect of things falling away into the background is much more pleasing anyways.
You don't really need tools for it. MS allows you to use the WINNT.SIF file for that purpose. It's also a convenient way to do all sorts of other adjustments that wouldn't work properly when done post install. It goes back to at least Windows 2000.
You do realize that a bus is a mass transport vehicle that stops every few blocks to pick up passengers and typically doesn't go more than about 40mph on most routes, right? Sure there are buses that travel further and faster, but that's not the norm, most buses are for use in cities at normal speeds.
Seattle has had trolleybuses for as long as I can remember. Until Metro started replacing them with hybrids they were the only ones that were allowed to operate in our transit tunnel. That included hybrids where they were able to completely switch between gas and electric, but as far as I can tell couldn't operate like the newer ones. They work well, however they aren't without their disadvantages.
For one thing they can't make 90 degree turns. Any time the driver needs to make a 90 degree turn he has to get out of the bus and manually switch lines.
There's also the need to put up the wires and maintain them, which isn't particularly convenient if you need to change routes at any time.
That being said, we've been getting link light rail installed lately and those do run on a similar system. A single overhead wire that feeds the trains as they go.
Reread the summary. They claim the 1st Amendment 'requires' them to fight this case. No it doesn't. The 1st Amendment would remain perfectly intact had they exercised some responsibility and allowed the original poster to remove or at least add a disclaimer. Everything doesn't have to be a multi-year Federal case.
I disagree, it is essential to the use of the 1st amendment protections that a site not be required to remove materials posted by a 3rd party which turn out to be defamatory and false.
Were they to bow to the pressure then it would potentially lead to a situation where a website or newspaper could be held liable for something which somebody else posted. Enforcing their first amendment rights is really the only way to ensure that that doesn't happen.
That would be a valid line of reasoning if we didn't have 200+ years of interpretation of the constitution to tell us that it isn't a literal interpretation that counts. I realize that the right likes to claim that if it isn't literally there under their interpretation that it isn't there, but that's not true.
Doubtful. Mugabe is quite aware that there are people working against him, specifically Tsvangirai. He might not have known the specifics, but he's paranoid enough about Tsvangirai that he almost certainly assumed that he was up to something.
This will have little if any effect on the situation in Zimbabwe.
You don't believe that certain politicians are so bad that the ends end up justifying the means? So, Hitler, Stalin or Chairman Mao, individuals who between them caused the deaths of somewhere between 50 and 100 million of their own citizens outside of combat, aren't bad enough to consider doing things a bit undemocratically?
I'm not personally one to chuck democracy out the window for anything less than a very serious situation, but in some cases where democracy isn't functioning, throwing out a mostly broken democracy is probably better than trying to maintain the pretense of democratically elected officials.
No, he was a halfway decent leader that won legitimately at first. These days though, you're impression is pretty apt. He lost the last campaign but was able to use militias to beat, torture, murder and rape his was to a coalition government over the actual winner of the poll.
I don't see how they've managed to call this undemocratic - nothing undemocratic has been done yet. Even though your or I might dislike Mugabe, him gaining popular support is part of the democratic process. It's the exact point of democracy. I am surprised at how they manage to label this as undemocratic when just as bad smear campaigns make the local television stations in the US.
I must have missed it in class when they suggested using militias to beat, torture and kill opposition supporters as being a part of the democratic process. Sure he might have won anyways, but don't pass this off as a legitimate will of the people situation. A legitimate will of the people does not require crimes against humanity to be expressed.
Citation necessary. Mugabe's regime took what was a functional government where people could feed themselves and turned it into one that required foreign aid in order to subsist. They took the farms from the white farmers and handed them over to black farmers without regard for what the new farmers were going to do with it, and without giving any compensation at all to the farmers who through no fault of their own came into possession of the properties.
Mugabe has committed crimes against humanity and ought to be brought to the Hague to face charges.
That's nearly a year until it was completely haxxored, it had been successfully hacked a couple times over that time period, just not in a way that didn't require a dongle.
I don't think so. That would be prohibitively difficult to the point that I don't think they could do it. With the signing key somebody could create a new list and allow people to flash that into their system with the appropriate boot strap necessary to play new games as well.
I tend to assume that that asshole was full of it. It was pretty lame of him to piss off Sony by claiming to have a crack and not even provide it to anybody to verify.
I've yet to see anybody crack the PS3 that didn't assert that they only started around the time that the otheros feature removed except for the person that triggered the removal. And he'd only been at it for a little under 2 months.
It's not disingenuous to say that. Unless they were examining the system looking for flaws, I see no reason at all to suggest that they gained something from that time period.
No, it's not. Unless she was making the decisions as to what went in and what went out they should be in the clear. I've never taken a course which stipulated that I couldn't pay a professional editor to edit the work and or make suggestions, because ultimately, it's me that's being graded and as long as I made the decisions and it expresses what I want it to, there's no problem.
It's probably more realistic to just use special rooms for tests and install a Faraday cage in said room. Or, better yet have a camera monitoring every single student, like the sort that security often has, where the teacher can randomly view any of them, and probably several at once.
You do realize that a GPA is pretty completely meaningless, right? My GPA in high school suffered a lot because I was taking the hardest classes I could get and pretty much stopped going at all in favor of college by my junior year. By your logic, I ought to be screwed over because it's more convenient for the HR trolls.
That's a large part of why America is going down the drain.
That's more of a flaw with the GPA system. I earned my BA from a school that doesn't hand out letter grades, everything is a narrative which the person who really wants to know how you did can look at. Sure it takes more time, but you don't have to read the entire thing, just looking at a couple of courses gives you much more information about how a student really did than a list of letters.
Well, that and the lazy slobs that work in HR that seem fully unqualified to do their own jobs much less decide who is qualified for other positions.
To be honest, I tend to suspect that the numbers of cheaters are over inflated in general. To hear people tell of it, you'd think that everybody was cheating. I'm sure the numbers of people that cheat from time to time are higher than I think they are, but I doubt that the numbers are high enough to round up to everybody.
Plus, if that were the case, that would be a pretty solid indication that the method of testing and evaluation isn't right. Especially considering as one of my chemistry profs pointed out, in the real world you'll be able to look up any reference you like tests that ignore that aren't particularly useful.
It was an inspired idea. The only way that you could cheat was quite literally the internet or talking to a fellow student, and I'm sure even with him out of the room, that he'd know if anybody were doing that when he was out of the room. Of course the tests were written with that in mind, and I'm sure more difficult or abstract as a result, which is probably also better for future work.
How would he pass? I'm not being obtuse here, he'd be accused of cheating and he'd have to prove that he didn't. It does happen from time to time that somebody copies off of you without your knowing, in which case even though you've done nothing wrong you wouldn't likely be able to prove innocence.
Strikes me that if they're going to go around making allegations of scholastic dishonesty that they should be required to prove that the allegations are right, not the other way around.
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Indeed. At this point we don't even know that they're going to be making 3D programming in 5 years. I'm sure that 60 years ago everybody assumed that everything would be 3D by the 90s. At this point it's just a fad, it could become more than that, but I'm not holding my breath.
What's particularly problematic is that you're better off just using 2D cinema. If you want to give it depth, there are techniques available that can make a 2D image seem very 3 dimensional. A lot of the old cowboy movies from the period after they went color are a good example. You watch the movie and your brain reconstructs it in 3D without glasses. Sure you don't get that gauche effect of hurling things at your face, but the effect of things falling away into the background is much more pleasing anyways.
You don't really need tools for it. MS allows you to use the WINNT.SIF file for that purpose. It's also a convenient way to do all sorts of other adjustments that wouldn't work properly when done post install. It goes back to at least Windows 2000.
In the MS world, perhaps. But I know FreeBSD supports it and I don't think they added that after they split from UNIX.
You do realize that a bus is a mass transport vehicle that stops every few blocks to pick up passengers and typically doesn't go more than about 40mph on most routes, right? Sure there are buses that travel further and faster, but that's not the norm, most buses are for use in cities at normal speeds.
Seattle has had trolleybuses for as long as I can remember. Until Metro started replacing them with hybrids they were the only ones that were allowed to operate in our transit tunnel. That included hybrids where they were able to completely switch between gas and electric, but as far as I can tell couldn't operate like the newer ones. They work well, however they aren't without their disadvantages.
For one thing they can't make 90 degree turns. Any time the driver needs to make a 90 degree turn he has to get out of the bus and manually switch lines.
There's also the need to put up the wires and maintain them, which isn't particularly convenient if you need to change routes at any time.
That being said, we've been getting link light rail installed lately and those do run on a similar system. A single overhead wire that feeds the trains as they go.
Reread the summary. They claim the 1st Amendment 'requires' them to fight this case. No it doesn't. The 1st Amendment would remain perfectly intact had they exercised some responsibility and allowed the original poster to remove or at least add a disclaimer. Everything doesn't have to be a multi-year Federal case.
I disagree, it is essential to the use of the 1st amendment protections that a site not be required to remove materials posted by a 3rd party which turn out to be defamatory and false.
Were they to bow to the pressure then it would potentially lead to a situation where a website or newspaper could be held liable for something which somebody else posted. Enforcing their first amendment rights is really the only way to ensure that that doesn't happen.
That would be a valid line of reasoning if we didn't have 200+ years of interpretation of the constitution to tell us that it isn't a literal interpretation that counts. I realize that the right likes to claim that if it isn't literally there under their interpretation that it isn't there, but that's not true.
Doubtful. Mugabe is quite aware that there are people working against him, specifically Tsvangirai. He might not have known the specifics, but he's paranoid enough about Tsvangirai that he almost certainly assumed that he was up to something.
This will have little if any effect on the situation in Zimbabwe.
You don't believe that certain politicians are so bad that the ends end up justifying the means? So, Hitler, Stalin or Chairman Mao, individuals who between them caused the deaths of somewhere between 50 and 100 million of their own citizens outside of combat, aren't bad enough to consider doing things a bit undemocratically?
I'm not personally one to chuck democracy out the window for anything less than a very serious situation, but in some cases where democracy isn't functioning, throwing out a mostly broken democracy is probably better than trying to maintain the pretense of democratically elected officials.
Indeed, Mugabe like the conservatives in the US where any effort to engage the rest of the world is passed off as treasonous activity.
No, he was a halfway decent leader that won legitimately at first. These days though, you're impression is pretty apt. He lost the last campaign but was able to use militias to beat, torture, murder and rape his was to a coalition government over the actual winner of the poll.
I don't see how they've managed to call this undemocratic - nothing undemocratic has been done yet. Even though your or I might dislike Mugabe, him gaining popular support is part of the democratic process. It's the exact point of democracy. I am surprised at how they manage to label this as undemocratic when just as bad smear campaigns make the local television stations in the US.
I must have missed it in class when they suggested using militias to beat, torture and kill opposition supporters as being a part of the democratic process. Sure he might have won anyways, but don't pass this off as a legitimate will of the people situation. A legitimate will of the people does not require crimes against humanity to be expressed.
Citation necessary. Mugabe's regime took what was a functional government where people could feed themselves and turned it into one that required foreign aid in order to subsist. They took the farms from the white farmers and handed them over to black farmers without regard for what the new farmers were going to do with it, and without giving any compensation at all to the farmers who through no fault of their own came into possession of the properties.
Mugabe has committed crimes against humanity and ought to be brought to the Hague to face charges.
I wouldn't go that far. These days if you want to do it, you're stuck staging a guerrilla campaign, complete with IEDs and various other war crimes.
That's nearly a year until it was completely haxxored, it had been successfully hacked a couple times over that time period, just not in a way that didn't require a dongle.
I don't think so. That would be prohibitively difficult to the point that I don't think they could do it. With the signing key somebody could create a new list and allow people to flash that into their system with the appropriate boot strap necessary to play new games as well.
I tend to assume that that asshole was full of it. It was pretty lame of him to piss off Sony by claiming to have a crack and not even provide it to anybody to verify.
I've yet to see anybody crack the PS3 that didn't assert that they only started around the time that the otheros feature removed except for the person that triggered the removal. And he'd only been at it for a little under 2 months.
It's not disingenuous to say that. Unless they were examining the system looking for flaws, I see no reason at all to suggest that they gained something from that time period.
No, it's not. Unless she was making the decisions as to what went in and what went out they should be in the clear. I've never taken a course which stipulated that I couldn't pay a professional editor to edit the work and or make suggestions, because ultimately, it's me that's being graded and as long as I made the decisions and it expresses what I want it to, there's no problem.
It's probably more realistic to just use special rooms for tests and install a Faraday cage in said room. Or, better yet have a camera monitoring every single student, like the sort that security often has, where the teacher can randomly view any of them, and probably several at once.
You do realize that a GPA is pretty completely meaningless, right? My GPA in high school suffered a lot because I was taking the hardest classes I could get and pretty much stopped going at all in favor of college by my junior year. By your logic, I ought to be screwed over because it's more convenient for the HR trolls.
That's a large part of why America is going down the drain.
That's more of a flaw with the GPA system. I earned my BA from a school that doesn't hand out letter grades, everything is a narrative which the person who really wants to know how you did can look at. Sure it takes more time, but you don't have to read the entire thing, just looking at a couple of courses gives you much more information about how a student really did than a list of letters.
Well, that and the lazy slobs that work in HR that seem fully unqualified to do their own jobs much less decide who is qualified for other positions.
To be honest, I tend to suspect that the numbers of cheaters are over inflated in general. To hear people tell of it, you'd think that everybody was cheating. I'm sure the numbers of people that cheat from time to time are higher than I think they are, but I doubt that the numbers are high enough to round up to everybody.
Plus, if that were the case, that would be a pretty solid indication that the method of testing and evaluation isn't right. Especially considering as one of my chemistry profs pointed out, in the real world you'll be able to look up any reference you like tests that ignore that aren't particularly useful.
It was an inspired idea. The only way that you could cheat was quite literally the internet or talking to a fellow student, and I'm sure even with him out of the room, that he'd know if anybody were doing that when he was out of the room. Of course the tests were written with that in mind, and I'm sure more difficult or abstract as a result, which is probably also better for future work.
How would he pass? I'm not being obtuse here, he'd be accused of cheating and he'd have to prove that he didn't. It does happen from time to time that somebody copies off of you without your knowing, in which case even though you've done nothing wrong you wouldn't likely be able to prove innocence.
Strikes me that if they're going to go around making allegations of scholastic dishonesty that they should be required to prove that the allegations are right, not the other way around.