Corporations used to write laws, but that turned out to be really inefficient. Why bother when you can write treaties instead?
And like I've said before, there's no bribing going on: the people writing these laws and treaties believe with all their hearts that the good of the nation -- nay, all humanity is served by maximizing corporate profit through physical force.
I wasn't always like this. And in fact, lest you mistake me for a turtle-suit-wearing WTO protester, I'm actually all in favor of free markets. It'd just be nice if we ever actually saw an actually free market in my lifetime.
The GP's logic is that Java containers (other than Array) are not strongly typed, because they only take Object. Everything is Object in Java, so everything can go into a container, even if it's illogical. Generics mitigate this somewhat, but given that they're erased, they're not hard to fool.
In the runtime, it's still quite strongly typed -- the downcast will fail when you retrieve an inappropriate object. From the perspective of static typing, it's completely untyped, which is as weak as typing gets.
> Is the old question - which javascript - still relevant?
If you're working without a toolkit, or developing one yourself, then very much so. Most browsers JS engines have only minor differences these days, but IE is, as always, the special short-bus kid that needs more time and attention.
If you're using a decent toolkit like Ext/Dojo/Moo/YUI/jquery then no, you don't really have to care.
MVC in web apps has about as much to do with Smalltalk's old MVC as unix signals have to do with the physical control lines they used to correspond to (gimme a break I couldn't find a car analogy). MVC is nothing more than three-tier, with the middle tier itself adding some extra separation between processing requests (controller) and generating output (view).
HTTP is stateless. So is UDP. Does that make every online game that uses it stateless? The web is not a protocol.
You still have to be an XNA creators club member to download others' XNA Game Studio Express games. MS has yet to promote even a single XNA game to XBLA -- the single title they announced last year that was making the jump (Schizoid) still hasn't landed. And that one is multiplayer-only.
> Apparently only 7 of the vector processors are used, the 8th is redundant in case one fails?
No, one is disabled to increase yields. They still disable one if all of them test ok in order to guarantee uniform characteristics. This leaves seven. One SPU is also reserved for the hypervisor, leaving six to play with.
> At the same time, by crippling the graphics, Sony doesn't cannibalize their own profits on selling games.
It's not that Sony thinks there's any likelihood of AAA titles being developed homebrew on Linux that might significantly cut into their developers profits and by extension, their royalty stream, it's that they figure that direct access to all the hardware would enable piracy of existing games. The games don't run on an OS per se, so they could technically be bootable from Linux (basically hotswapping the kernel out) but with all that pesky copy protection stripped out.
But the last time I tried I couldn't get h264/ac3 in mkv transcoded to mpeg2/ac3 at full resolution. Down scaling to PAL and 2 audiochannels worked, the problem was ffmpeg audio sync IIRC.
Did you try emitting a tachyon beam from the deflector dish? That always works.
> No sitting or former president has ever been disbarred by the Supreme Court.
Not the SCOTUS, no, but Nixon was disbarred in New York. He resigned from the US Supreme Court bar and the CA bar, but NY refused to accept his resignation and disbarred him anyway.
> Newsflash: ISPs do not have common carrier status.
They have data service provider status, which is essentially very similar. Common carrier status applies almost entirely to freight.
Anyway, last I looked, BT stood for British Telecom. Different set of laws, and an overall regulatory climate that is not going to be at all favorable to BT.
Once advertisers and web sites see a sizable percentage of their advertising being siphoned off and replaced by ads financially benefitting nobody but the ISP's, you'll start seeing more web sites using https.
No, you will see more lawsuits.
Advertisers paid for their ads to be served. Phorm is theft.
He's mentioned his involvement in the litigation in passing on occasion in his numerous screeds. However, I really should know better than to take Jack Thompson's word about anything -- he has claimed representing a case when in fact he had nothing to do with it (sometimes in fact doing so to court officials, it's one of the charges that got him disbarred).
So I retract my statement since it's based on the fallacy of, um, believing Jack.
Tunis has basically handed the charge to the FL Supreme Court, who will rule on it on Sep 2. They may strike one or more charges, but he's got 27 racked up against him, so it hardly matters.
It would take a wormhole opened into bizarro world for them to actually overturn the recommendation. The worst they might do within the realm of probability is disqualify Tunis and make Jack do it all over again.
My guess is Thompson's behavior will be such that they may actually pass down a harsher judgment.
I'll be brief: I'm unapologetically ready and eager to gag and demean someone who himself crusades to do precisely the same of both to others.
Jack Thompson was even involved in the 80's daycare scare (the "ritual satanic abuse") that ruined dozens of lives. For that alone, he is not simply strident, objectionable, or obstreperous, but really and truly evil. Schadenfreude may be shameful, but today I nonetheless feel the joy.
But there's a danger here, and the danger is that he may be replaced by someone not stupid.
It's not as if they've been holding back and saying "oh hey I'll let Jack Thompson speak for us". With a little less sensationalist massacre-chasing going on, perhaps we can get back to meaningful and respectful dialog. At least where cable news isn't concerned.
So remember kids, if you want to promulgate partisan prejudice against others, all you have to do is agree to let McCain undermine liberty in the name of liberty. He says that lawless vendors of statism make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers. Hey, McCain, how about telling us the truth for once? The fault, dear McCain, is not in your stars but in yourself. I believe in "live and let live". McCain, in contrast, demands not only tolerance and acceptance of his stratagems but endorsement of them. It's because of such pharisaical demands that I believe that if he truly believes that arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming, then maybe he should enroll in Introduction to Reality 101.
You know, you really are no Hunter S. Thompson. He actually managed to pack significant amounts of meaning into the paragraphs of his polysyllabic polemics.
I actually agree with what you're saying, but you gotta work on the presentation.
The point of FISA is not so much to maintain oversight itself as it is to keep records so if Congress ever came up with a single functional cojone, it could subpoena the records.
This is the contempt that Bush shows for the rule of law. And it's what he got away with, and thanks to that, what future presidents will get away with.
I truly feel that the USs post-modernist approach to game storytelling (ie: GTA, Mass Effect, Oblivion, ect.) will be shortlived and is doomed to inevitable extiction, for the same reason folks don't sit around the camp fire and listen to John Cage.
Oh please, could you possibly use any more hyperbole? Yes, there's perhaps more postmodern abhorrence of cliche in the "western" creative process, but when push comes to shove, people still enjoy swinging swords and saving princesses within their comfortable familiar narratives. And it's not like Japan is entirely absent of challenging story -- go watch a Kurosawa flick sometime, say Rashamon.
It's not even close to a wholly American phenomenom. France was doing it while we were going to the hop in bobby sox, and nowadays Eastern Europe comes out with plots in movies and games that are downright strange to folks on these shores.
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That was funny to read. Once. Now you're just spamming it everywhere. Fuck off with a steampunk dildo and die.
Actually, I need to stop actually saying "actually" all the time. It's actually kind of annoying to read my own posts.
Corporations used to write laws, but that turned out to be really inefficient. Why bother when you can write treaties instead?
And like I've said before, there's no bribing going on: the people writing these laws and treaties believe with all their hearts that the good of the nation -- nay, all humanity is served by maximizing corporate profit through physical force.
I wasn't always like this. And in fact, lest you mistake me for a turtle-suit-wearing WTO protester, I'm actually all in favor of free markets. It'd just be nice if we ever actually saw an actually free market in my lifetime.
I would be interested to see how they captured the image data to that level without massive pixelation.
... you don't actually think that the image data came from one photo ... do you?
You don't
*slaps forehead*
IronBrainFuck. IronUnlambda. IronBefunge.
The GP's logic is that Java containers (other than Array) are not strongly typed, because they only take Object. Everything is Object in Java, so everything can go into a container, even if it's illogical. Generics mitigate this somewhat, but given that they're erased, they're not hard to fool.
In the runtime, it's still quite strongly typed -- the downcast will fail when you retrieve an inappropriate object. From the perspective of static typing, it's completely untyped, which is as weak as typing gets.
> Is the old question - which javascript - still relevant?
If you're working without a toolkit, or developing one yourself, then very much so. Most browsers JS engines have only minor differences these days, but IE is, as always, the special short-bus kid that needs more time and attention.
If you're using a decent toolkit like Ext/Dojo/Moo/YUI/jquery then no, you don't really have to care.
MVC in web apps has about as much to do with Smalltalk's old MVC as unix signals have to do with the physical control lines they used to correspond to (gimme a break I couldn't find a car analogy). MVC is nothing more than three-tier, with the middle tier itself adding some extra separation between processing requests (controller) and generating output (view).
HTTP is stateless. So is UDP. Does that make every online game that uses it stateless? The web is not a protocol.
You still have to be an XNA creators club member to download others' XNA Game Studio Express games. MS has yet to promote even a single XNA game to XBLA -- the single title they announced last year that was making the jump (Schizoid) still hasn't landed. And that one is multiplayer-only.
> Apparently only 7 of the vector processors are used, the 8th is redundant in case one fails?
No, one is disabled to increase yields. They still disable one if all of them test ok in order to guarantee uniform characteristics. This leaves seven. One SPU is also reserved for the hypervisor, leaving six to play with.
> At the same time, by crippling the graphics, Sony doesn't cannibalize their own profits on selling games.
It's not that Sony thinks there's any likelihood of AAA titles being developed homebrew on Linux that might significantly cut into their developers profits and by extension, their royalty stream, it's that they figure that direct access to all the hardware would enable piracy of existing games. The games don't run on an OS per se, so they could technically be bootable from Linux (basically hotswapping the kernel out) but with all that pesky copy protection stripped out.
But the last time I tried I couldn't get h264/ac3 in mkv transcoded to mpeg2/ac3 at full resolution. Down scaling to PAL and 2 audiochannels worked, the problem was ffmpeg audio sync IIRC.
Did you try emitting a tachyon beam from the deflector dish? That always works.
Make npitunes.dll a zero-length file and make it not writable.
Me, I just stopped using iTunes. Still need to strip the DRM out of my existing library, but QuickTime and iTunes are never touching my system again.
> No sitting or former president has ever been disbarred by the Supreme Court.
Not the SCOTUS, no, but Nixon was disbarred in New York. He resigned from the US Supreme Court bar and the CA bar, but NY refused to accept his resignation and disbarred him anyway.
> Newsflash: ISPs do not have common carrier status.
They have data service provider status, which is essentially very similar. Common carrier status applies almost entirely to freight.
Anyway, last I looked, BT stood for British Telecom. Different set of laws, and an overall regulatory climate that is not going to be at all favorable to BT.
Dumb question, but does AdBlock+ stop me from seeing the ads but they are still downloaded, or does it block the download entirely?
It blocks the download entirely.
Once advertisers and web sites see a sizable percentage of their advertising being siphoned off and replaced by ads financially benefitting nobody but the ISP's, you'll start seeing more web sites using https.
No, you will see more lawsuits.
Advertisers paid for their ads to be served. Phorm is theft.
He's mentioned his involvement in the litigation in passing on occasion in his numerous screeds. However, I really should know better than to take Jack Thompson's word about anything -- he has claimed representing a case when in fact he had nothing to do with it (sometimes in fact doing so to court officials, it's one of the charges that got him disbarred).
So I retract my statement since it's based on the fallacy of, um, believing Jack.
Thompson started his career as a loudmouth by complaining about some rap from "2 Live Crew" back in the early 1990s
Nope, that was Thompson's second crusade. The first windmill he tilted at was pornography.
Tunis has basically handed the charge to the FL Supreme Court, who will rule on it on Sep 2. They may strike one or more charges, but he's got 27 racked up against him, so it hardly matters.
It would take a wormhole opened into bizarro world for them to actually overturn the recommendation. The worst they might do within the realm of probability is disqualify Tunis and make Jack do it all over again.
My guess is Thompson's behavior will be such that they may actually pass down a harsher judgment.
I'll be brief: I'm unapologetically ready and eager to gag and demean someone who himself crusades to do precisely the same of both to others.
Jack Thompson was even involved in the 80's daycare scare (the "ritual satanic abuse") that ruined dozens of lives. For that alone, he is not simply strident, objectionable, or obstreperous, but really and truly evil. Schadenfreude may be shameful, but today I nonetheless feel the joy.
But there's a danger here, and the danger is that he may be replaced by someone not stupid.
It's not as if they've been holding back and saying "oh hey I'll let Jack Thompson speak for us". With a little less sensationalist massacre-chasing going on, perhaps we can get back to meaningful and respectful dialog. At least where cable news isn't concerned.
So remember kids, if you want to promulgate partisan prejudice against others, all you have to do is agree to let McCain undermine liberty in the name of liberty. He says that lawless vendors of statism make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers. Hey, McCain, how about telling us the truth for once? The fault, dear McCain, is not in your stars but in yourself. I believe in "live and let live". McCain, in contrast, demands not only tolerance and acceptance of his stratagems but endorsement of them. It's because of such pharisaical demands that I believe that if he truly believes that arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming, then maybe he should enroll in Introduction to Reality 101.
You know, you really are no Hunter S. Thompson. He actually managed to pack significant amounts of meaning into the paragraphs of his polysyllabic polemics.
I actually agree with what you're saying, but you gotta work on the presentation.
The point of FISA is not so much to maintain oversight itself as it is to keep records so if Congress ever came up with a single functional cojone, it could subpoena the records.
This is the contempt that Bush shows for the rule of law. And it's what he got away with, and thanks to that, what future presidents will get away with.
I truly feel that the USs post-modernist approach to game storytelling (ie: GTA, Mass Effect, Oblivion, ect.) will be shortlived and is doomed to inevitable extiction, for the same reason folks don't sit around the camp fire and listen to John Cage.
Oh please, could you possibly use any more hyperbole? Yes, there's perhaps more postmodern abhorrence of cliche in the "western" creative process, but when push comes to shove, people still enjoy swinging swords and saving princesses within their comfortable familiar narratives. And it's not like Japan is entirely absent of challenging story -- go watch a Kurosawa flick sometime, say Rashamon.
It's not even close to a wholly American phenomenom. France was doing it while we were going to the hop in bobby sox, and nowadays Eastern Europe comes out with plots in movies and games that are downright strange to folks on these shores.