The arguments on both sides are right. The climate is changing and the earth is warming. That much is true. However, it has not been shown that humans are the primary cause of this warming. This is also true.
So we should be studying ways to mitigate the impact of climate change, not trying to find ways to reverse the irreversible.
Except that instead of whatever magical caching thing you think was going on, the OS was thrashing the hard disk and performance was brought to a crawl.
With the extra RAM, the system runs like Jim Carrey on crack. What's more, memory usage is indicated at 47%, not pegged at 100%.
Last week I bought some DRAM for my aging Vista PC. Can you believe it? Vista just came out a couple years ago and it's already gotten to the point that the original amount of RAM is completely used up by the OS. XP didn't get that way until SP3!
Anyway, I digress. There was RAM from many different companies, in many different configurations, with different speeds and all sorts of things that I never thought about when I bought my first computer way back in the old days when dinosaurs roamed the Albuquerque halls. Things have changed so much that I now have more RAM than my first computer had hard disk space!
So all these different standards for RAM made it a pain in the ass, because not only was my computer only compatible with certain models, there was a different model for each RAM manufacturer.
In the same way, using a debug tool to determine whether a webpage is working correctly is a crapshoot. Should I go with the best browser (Opera)? How about the most wide-spread browser (IE)? Or should I target the browser most likely to gain the most marketshare (Webkit, aka Chrome and Safari)? Or what about the old stalwart (Netscape)?
They all purport to do the same thing, provide great debugging tools. But how can I trust them when they work so differently from each other and have such different levels of standards support?
Opera is great to release these tools, but I'm afraid such low usage makes it useless for most purposes.
What all these anti-cheating efforts fail to realize is that cheating is an integral part of the game, especially in computer gaming. Given that such a cheat can be performed by anyone, the playing field is *always* level in the aggregate. By removing actions that they consider cheating, they are removing key gameplay elements and ultimately changing the face of the game.
Additionally, it says a lot that they must resort to installing what is essentially a rootkit just to make sure someone isn't taking advantage of superior technology or extra knowledge. If these games are so unplayable with cheating enabled, perhaps the designers shouldn't have put those features in.
I don't go to movies to learn stuff, but it is hard to come away from them without having learned something. In the Fast and the Furious, it was shown that you don't need to buy a Ferrari to have the fastest car on the street. In fact, with a little work, any Japanese sports coupe can be made exceptionally fast (and furious).
The key is to change out the engine for something better. The stock 1500cc 4 banger can be swapped out for a 3500cc turbo and the car's entire character changes. But the looks don't need to necessarily change.
Google does so many things. It's hard to keep track of every little project they are involved in.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates money to causes like vaccination and school building in third world countries.
The impact of the Gates' money is immediate, but in the long run a well-funded knowledge base is much more effective at raising the standard of living worldwide. Again, Google upstages Microsoft. Is there anything they can't fail at?
Like the cross platform compilation capabilities of gcc, a toolset only really has any usefulness if you have an actual need for it.
Blender is one of those tools that most people are just not going to need. Like POVray and other 3D image creation tools, it looks like a lot of fun, but ends up being a major pain in the ass. You'll be back playing Sudoku or Mahjongg within an hour.
So skip the book and stick to online samples. If you are really interested in Blender after spending a few days slogging through the existing documentation, then buy the book (bad grammar and all). Otherwise, it's just a waste of money.
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The plain jane SL viewer is sooo bland.
This kitty's sharpening his claws!
So like artificial trees to replace the windows faster than they break?
This thread makes me very happy.
The arguments on both sides are right. The climate is changing and the earth is warming. That much is true. However, it has not been shown that humans are the primary cause of this warming. This is also true.
So we should be studying ways to mitigate the impact of climate change, not trying to find ways to reverse the irreversible.
There's been a lot of controversy over whether Heisenberg deliberately sabotaged the Nazi bomb-making or whether he tried to help but was incompetent
I guess we'll never really know. Maybe it was both.
Why can't we talk about 1940s Germany without bringing up the Jews?
but you fuck one goat...
Except that instead of whatever magical caching thing you think was going on, the OS was thrashing the hard disk and performance was brought to a crawl.
With the extra RAM, the system runs like Jim Carrey on crack. What's more, memory usage is indicated at 47%, not pegged at 100%.
Last week I bought some DRAM for my aging Vista PC. Can you believe it? Vista just came out a couple years ago and it's already gotten to the point that the original amount of RAM is completely used up by the OS. XP didn't get that way until SP3!
Anyway, I digress. There was RAM from many different companies, in many different configurations, with different speeds and all sorts of things that I never thought about when I bought my first computer way back in the old days when dinosaurs roamed the Albuquerque halls. Things have changed so much that I now have more RAM than my first computer had hard disk space!
So all these different standards for RAM made it a pain in the ass, because not only was my computer only compatible with certain models, there was a different model for each RAM manufacturer.
In the same way, using a debug tool to determine whether a webpage is working correctly is a crapshoot. Should I go with the best browser (Opera)? How about the most wide-spread browser (IE)? Or should I target the browser most likely to gain the most marketshare (Webkit, aka Chrome and Safari)? Or what about the old stalwart (Netscape)?
They all purport to do the same thing, provide great debugging tools. But how can I trust them when they work so differently from each other and have such different levels of standards support?
Opera is great to release these tools, but I'm afraid such low usage makes it useless for most purposes.
That's pretty much the whole point of the military.
How about my nudity?
Can I be exposed to theirs?
After all, it's just the human body, right? Nothing to be ashamed about.
What all these anti-cheating efforts fail to realize is that cheating is an integral part of the game, especially in computer gaming. Given that such a cheat can be performed by anyone, the playing field is *always* level in the aggregate. By removing actions that they consider cheating, they are removing key gameplay elements and ultimately changing the face of the game.
Additionally, it says a lot that they must resort to installing what is essentially a rootkit just to make sure someone isn't taking advantage of superior technology or extra knowledge. If these games are so unplayable with cheating enabled, perhaps the designers shouldn't have put those features in.
Crippling superior players is Communism.
Neither for nor against? I suppose we could say you were ambivalent.
remember what happened to you as a child when you "said something mommy and daddy didn't like
All those years of expensive therapy for naught...
Thanks, asshole.
Some games are really bad, whether it be egregious content or age-inappropriate content.
But there's no need to get violent about it. A normal rational games ban would work just as well as a violent games ban.
I don't go to movies to learn stuff, but it is hard to come away from them without having learned something. In the Fast and the Furious, it was shown that you don't need to buy a Ferrari to have the fastest car on the street. In fact, with a little work, any Japanese sports coupe can be made exceptionally fast (and furious).
The key is to change out the engine for something better. The stock 1500cc 4 banger can be swapped out for a 3500cc turbo and the car's entire character changes. But the looks don't need to necessarily change.
Google does so many things. It's hard to keep track of every little project they are involved in.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates money to causes like vaccination and school building in third world countries.
The impact of the Gates' money is immediate, but in the long run a well-funded knowledge base is much more effective at raising the standard of living worldwide. Again, Google upstages Microsoft. Is there anything they can't fail at?
I don't know.
The problem with inner beauty is that it's usually hidden under several layers of outer ugly.
it is possible to do all of this without the monitor even functioning
Who am I? Anne freaking Frank?
What is this? A config file for ants? How can we expect to increase the font size if we can't event read the words?
So hot...
THE TEXT IS TOO SMALL. YOU CAN'T READ THIS ON A LUCID-BASED NETBOOK.
With the size of the screen, you'd think that a GUI that emphasized ease of use would have bigger text and icons.
That's why we buy support contracts. If the phone breaks *for whatever reason*, it will get replaced.
These users are getting what they were promised. That's all.
Like the cross platform compilation capabilities of gcc, a toolset only really has any usefulness if you have an actual need for it.
Blender is one of those tools that most people are just not going to need. Like POVray and other 3D image creation tools, it looks like a lot of fun, but ends up being a major pain in the ass. You'll be back playing Sudoku or Mahjongg within an hour.
So skip the book and stick to online samples. If you are really interested in Blender after spending a few days slogging through the existing documentation, then buy the book (bad grammar and all). Otherwise, it's just a waste of money.
They updated it? Where?
We need a space station on the moon.