"But you really have to blame the pirates for that."
Give me a break. I didn't realize college students were akin to my high school football team - when one of you screws up and everyone does a lap. Piracy isn't even the real issue with this story - it's about a government gone completely into the pocket of the corporations that employ them. I know it's not a new story, but it is one of the most blatant. Buried in this 700+ page behemoth of a bill lies this nefarious little troll that essentially says: "Do what the Motion Picture and Recording Industries want you to do or this government will ruin your education." At the very least it would force you to go to another university that gets in line. Why the hell is this a real issue? We have problems in this country (and with our foreign policy) that go waaaay beyond this. Our economy is not in a sh*thole because of piracy. Our budget isn't out of control because of piracy.
Piracy is not our problem. The people who tell us it is are our true problem.
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This technique is called mipmapping and has been around for over two decades, though it wasn't in widespread use in games until much later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap
"But you really have to blame the pirates for that."
Give me a break. I didn't realize college students were akin to my high school football team - when one of you screws up and everyone does a lap. Piracy isn't even the real issue with this story - it's about a government gone completely into the pocket of the corporations that employ them. I know it's not a new story, but it is one of the most blatant. Buried in this 700+ page behemoth of a bill lies this nefarious little troll that essentially says: "Do what the Motion Picture and Recording Industries want you to do or this government will ruin your education." At the very least it would force you to go to another university that gets in line. Why the hell is this a real issue? We have problems in this country (and with our foreign policy) that go waaaay beyond this. Our economy is not in a sh*thole because of piracy. Our budget isn't out of control because of piracy.
Piracy is not our problem. The people who tell us it is are our true problem.