Either way, I hope these guys get the recognition and financial success they deserve.
I agree. This has to be some kind of record in terms of the breadth of effort put into a mod. They apparently re-designed all the levels of a full game, re-created the models in higher resolution, added additional models, made new cut scenes (and I would think the HL style of cut scene where the player retains control are harder to do well), and did original voice acting. I've been reading their dev blog and it sounds like they've done some relatively low-level tweaking of the base game mechanics as well. It's no wonder it's taken them so long.
The video looked impressive -- it looked better than my original expectations for HL:source. You might argue that it'll be impossible for this mod to live up to the hype, but that's what I thought about L4D, and it did not disappoint.
They are the company that outed other companies (and tested their own as well), to see who was willing to give positive reviews based on being bribed, such as tomshardware.
Really? Do you have a link to that story? I've read THG for years, so I'd like to hear the full details of that claim.
Given that the Nehalem is reaching the same speeds or higher on air-cooling, I wouldn't be surprised if Intel could match 6 GHz under liquid nitrogen cooled conditions.
Remove corporate income tax. Let the common people shoulder it.
But we already do, we just don't *see* it! Who shoulders the burden of corporate taxes? The company president gets a salary and pays personal income tax on that. His salary is an expense and a tax write-off for the company itself. Corporate profits are generally either re-invested in the company or paid out as dividends to share holders (and the dividends become income and are taxed AGAIN). So corporate taxes are going to tend to push up prices, decrease wages, and inhibit job creation at all income levels. I suppose decreased dividend payout is a burden *mostly* borne by the rich, but these days so many people are in the stock market that even many with "average" incomes would be affected.
So, how much taxable profit did the Mozilla foundation make anyway? The IRS has nothing to gain from this. I smell a rat closeby!
But Google *is* for profit. And Google arguably paid for Mozilla to put in some "branding" in the form of a default Google homepage and a Google search bar. If Google had paid that money to a for-profit entity, the for-profit entity would have had to pay tax on it (if they were profitable that year). Mozilla gets out of paying corporate income tax because they ostensibly do what they do for the common good. If they are doing things that solely benefit their big contributors, that calls their tax exempt status into question.
I'm by no means a fan of the current tax code. Personally, I'd like to see a plan to eliminate corporate income tax altogether. If taxes were less burdensome on society, I think the rules could be a lot simpler (because you wouldn't need so many exceptions).
Can anyone explain the summary title to me? I don't understand what any of this has to do with the "long tail" as I've heard it explained. I mean, it might apply to youtube... if youtube were selling it's videos.
If you watch Episode 4, right after Vader kills Obi Wan, he's holding a silver-colored stick. So, perhaps this mechanical core doesn't retract at the same time?
Good eye. Once the Jedi were defeated, the few survivors had to make their lightsabers from spare parts. I think Obi Wan used one of those powered telescoping radio antennas from an old land speeder.
Anyway I don't want to upgrade so I shouldn't have to. How hard is it to backport security updates?
I guess this could be regarded as a downside of free software: why should they care when you didn't even pay for the product? I know, I know, MS drops support for it's older products, too, but their user base has a little bit more influence because they are paying customers whom MS wants to keep. On the plus side, it's open source, so you could always take it upon yourself to backport the patches.
Omnipotence is problematic. The famous example is "Is it possible for an omnipotent creature to create a rock so heavy that he can not lift it?". Both answers would mean he's not omnipotent. So that makes all such religions look.. well.. PLAIN STUPID.
I have 2 responses to that sort of "argument":
1) What if God is not omnipotent? There could be a "most powerful" being powerful enough to have created the universe that is not actually omnipotent, but (as an engineer would say) "powerful enough for all pratical purposes".
2) The question doesn't even make sense in the first place. What the heck would it mean for God to create a rock that he couldn't lift? What would it even mean for God (usually considered a spirit) to "lift" a rock like, say, the Earth. You're just saying omnipotence is impossible because omnipotence can't exceed it's own limits in some way. Is infinity impossible because it can't be bigger than itself? IMO, any mathematician who uses this argument for the non-existence of God whilst believing what they do about infinity is being hypocritical.
lest a Christian decides to sue when they mention water turns solid at 32 degrees F since their messiah could clearly walk on it in the middle east where it tends to be warmer than that
I think you've got it backwards. I've never heard of any case in the last 30 years where a public school teacher got in trouble for NOT catering to a religion. Rather, teachers who have religious beliefs have to be very careful even mentioning them in class because of all the ANTI-religious lawsuits that have occured. There have been groups trying to get "I.D." or voluntary prayer or whatnot INTO schools by political means, but not by lawsuits (at least not that I've heard about).
To get back on topic: I, for one, had never heard a temperature expressed as "100 times colder than". It may be common in some circles, but apparently I wasn't the only one that hadn't heard it.
Except for the fact that they were stealing another company's identity, that's not a bad idea. If they'd started something called, say, "truck-bay" and allowed people to take bids from trucking companies on specific delivery jobs (tacking on a service fee of their own of course), they'd have a perfectly legitimate business.
"Unrecoverable" is a misused word by the original article. "Unreadable" is the correct terminology, and all that means is that the read sensor failed to read that bit. Pass the read sensor over that same area a second time, and it should work just fine.
Can you cite a source for this? There seems to be some disagreement.
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Wow, guys. You didn't even need to read the article-
Actually, if you DO read the article (the one linked from the older slashdot post), you'll see that the airlock operator noticed the smell on the spacesuits of his fellow astronauts after each spacewalk.
FTA: "It's pleasurable for liberals to think more. They gravitate toward art, to things that are not as concrete," says Carney. "Conservatives have a need for order, for there not to be ambiguity. There you see that expressed by being more orderly, having more cleaning supplies, needing to have everything lined up and organized so that one feels one's environment is predictable and therefore safe."
Who wants to bet that the person who made that comment is a messy liberal? "Liberals like thinking"? Even if there is a strong correlation here, how does having more books mean you like thinking more. Maybe "liberals like reading" would have made more sense. Then they go on to make being neat sound bad -- like it's some obsessive need based on insecurity. As for myself, I'm a very messy conservative who reads a lot and likes art.
"Just about the only thing that Republicans will do that you approve of, is cut taxes. They've shown they won't cut spending to match either so it's inevitable that that bill has to come due and taxes will rise even higher than they were before they were cut. You just might want to vote differently."
I and many Republicans are very frustrated about that, but I'm still hoping that that can change. I certainly don't think voting for higher taxes is the answer. If someone has a spending problem, you don't keep giving them more money to spend.
and the person you label as 'big brother' openly declares support about net neutrality and lectures about what freedom and equal opportunity means to internet and how it is tied to network neutrality on his website and policies.
Politicians preaching one thing and practicing the exact opposite has been around since the dawn of politics.
Yes, but there's a pretty good chance that either of them will die (Obama by some racist asshole, McCain by being a hundred and twelve), so the VP is unusually important here.
Out of curiosity I looked up some actuarial tables on the web and calculated McCain's chances of dying in the next 4 years (based on averages - of course, being president would introduce factors that could skew the figure either way - i.e. he might get assassinated, he might succumb to stress, but then again he has bodyguards and probably much better medical care than most of us). Let's put it in positive terms and say that statistically he has a 85.5% chance of surviving 4 more years, and a 68.2% chance of surviving 8.
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You can't spend your way out of a bad economic cycle; that's like drinking more beer as a solution to a hangover.
That's a great analogy! You might be able to drink away a hangover, but it's just going to result in a worse hangover later.
Either way, I hope these guys get the recognition and financial success they deserve.
I agree. This has to be some kind of record in terms of the breadth of effort put into a mod. They apparently re-designed all the levels of a full game, re-created the models in higher resolution, added additional models, made new cut scenes (and I would think the HL style of cut scene where the player retains control are harder to do well), and did original voice acting. I've been reading their dev blog and it sounds like they've done some relatively low-level tweaking of the base game mechanics as well. It's no wonder it's taken them so long.
The video looked impressive -- it looked better than my original expectations for HL:source. You might argue that it'll be impossible for this mod to live up to the hype, but that's what I thought about L4D, and it did not disappoint.
Sean Connery only recognizes YOUR voice!
Oh, and something about Natalie Portman
They are the company that outed other companies (and tested their own as well), to see who was willing to give positive reviews based on being bribed, such as tomshardware.
Really? Do you have a link to that story? I've read THG for years, so I'd like to hear the full details of that claim.
Given that the Nehalem is reaching the same speeds or higher on air-cooling, I wouldn't be surprised if Intel could match 6 GHz under liquid nitrogen cooled conditions.
Here is an example of Core i7 at 5.2 GHz on LN2
Remove corporate income tax. Let the common people shoulder it.
But we already do, we just don't *see* it! Who shoulders the burden of corporate taxes? The company president gets a salary and pays personal income tax on that. His salary is an expense and a tax write-off for the company itself. Corporate profits are generally either re-invested in the company or paid out as dividends to share holders (and the dividends become income and are taxed AGAIN). So corporate taxes are going to tend to push up prices, decrease wages, and inhibit job creation at all income levels. I suppose decreased dividend payout is a burden *mostly* borne by the rich, but these days so many people are in the stock market that even many with "average" incomes would be affected.
So, how much taxable profit did the Mozilla foundation make anyway? The IRS has nothing to gain from this. I smell a rat closeby!
But Google *is* for profit. And Google arguably paid for Mozilla to put in some "branding" in the form of a default Google homepage and a Google search bar. If Google had paid that money to a for-profit entity, the for-profit entity would have had to pay tax on it (if they were profitable that year). Mozilla gets out of paying corporate income tax because they ostensibly do what they do for the common good. If they are doing things that solely benefit their big contributors, that calls their tax exempt status into question.
I'm by no means a fan of the current tax code. Personally, I'd like to see a plan to eliminate corporate income tax altogether. If taxes were less burdensome on society, I think the rules could be a lot simpler (because you wouldn't need so many exceptions).
Can anyone explain the summary title to me? I don't understand what any of this has to do with the "long tail" as I've heard it explained. I mean, it might apply to youtube ... if youtube were selling it's videos.
We need to explore the effects/affects of what we do.
I agree. It's/its important not/knot to/two/too lose/loose sight/site of our/hour responsibility.
If you watch Episode 4, right after Vader kills Obi Wan, he's holding a silver-colored stick. So, perhaps this mechanical core doesn't retract at the same time?
Good eye. Once the Jedi were defeated, the few survivors had to make their lightsabers from spare parts. I think Obi Wan used one of those powered telescoping radio antennas from an old land speeder.
Anyway I don't want to upgrade so I shouldn't have to. How hard is it to backport security updates?
I guess this could be regarded as a downside of free software: why should they care when you didn't even pay for the product? I know, I know, MS drops support for it's older products, too, but their user base has a little bit more influence because they are paying customers whom MS wants to keep. On the plus side, it's open source, so you could always take it upon yourself to backport the patches.
I often use sed to split a delimited line into multiple lines. E.g.:
I have 2 responses to that sort of "argument":
After weeks of relentless doom and gloom (and coverage of the US election), ...
Careful, you might get modded "redundant" for that.
- flexibility (ala gymanasts and skaters) peaks at 15 and ends around 25
Flexiblity ENDS at 25? Is that some sort of pun? I never was very limber, but I'm over 40 and it's not like rigor mortis has set in yet.
lest a Christian decides to sue when they mention water turns solid at 32 degrees F since their messiah could clearly walk on it in the middle east where it tends to be warmer than that
I think you've got it backwards. I've never heard of any case in the last 30 years where a public school teacher got in trouble for NOT catering to a religion. Rather, teachers who have religious beliefs have to be very careful even mentioning them in class because of all the ANTI-religious lawsuits that have occured. There have been groups trying to get "I.D." or voluntary prayer or whatnot INTO schools by political means, but not by lawsuits (at least not that I've heard about).
To get back on topic: I, for one, had never heard a temperature expressed as "100 times colder than". It may be common in some circles, but apparently I wasn't the only one that hadn't heard it.
They were acting like ebay... except they were keeping the entire final bid and disappearing to leave the bidder and seller to argue about payment.
You're right, I did miss that ...
Except for the fact that they were stealing another company's identity, that's not a bad idea. If they'd started something called, say, "truck-bay" and allowed people to take bids from trucking companies on specific delivery jobs (tacking on a service fee of their own of course), they'd have a perfectly legitimate business.
It is really tough to consider that these flagrant transgressions still go on in todays environment.
Transgressions of what? I'm not taking the other side, just asking you to be more specific.
"Unrecoverable" is a misused word by the original article. "Unreadable" is the correct terminology, and all that means is that the read sensor failed to read that bit. Pass the read sensor over that same area a second time, and it should work just fine.
Can you cite a source for this? There seems to be some disagreement.
Wow, guys. You didn't even need to read the article-
Actually, if you DO read the article (the one linked from the older slashdot post), you'll see that the airlock operator noticed the smell on the spacesuits of his fellow astronauts after each spacewalk.
FTA: "It's pleasurable for liberals to think more. They gravitate toward art, to things that are not as concrete," says Carney. "Conservatives have a need for order, for there not to be ambiguity. There you see that expressed by being more orderly, having more cleaning supplies, needing to have everything lined up and organized so that one feels one's environment is predictable and therefore safe."
Who wants to bet that the person who made that comment is a messy liberal? "Liberals like thinking"? Even if there is a strong correlation here, how does having more books mean you like thinking more. Maybe "liberals like reading" would have made more sense. Then they go on to make being neat sound bad -- like it's some obsessive need based on insecurity. As for myself, I'm a very messy conservative who reads a lot and likes art.
"Just about the only thing that Republicans will do that you approve of, is cut taxes. They've shown they won't cut spending to match either so it's inevitable that that bill has to come due and taxes will rise even higher than they were before they were cut. You just might want to vote differently."
I and many Republicans are very frustrated about that, but I'm still hoping that that can change. I certainly don't think voting for higher taxes is the answer. If someone has a spending problem, you don't keep giving them more money to spend.
and the person you label as 'big brother' openly declares support about net neutrality and lectures about what freedom and equal opportunity means to internet and how it is tied to network neutrality on his website and policies.
Politicians preaching one thing and practicing the exact opposite has been around since the dawn of politics.
Yes, but there's a pretty good chance that either of them will die (Obama by some racist asshole, McCain by being a hundred and twelve), so the VP is unusually important here.
Out of curiosity I looked up some actuarial tables on the web and calculated McCain's chances of dying in the next 4 years (based on averages - of course, being president would introduce factors that could skew the figure either way - i.e. he might get assassinated, he might succumb to stress, but then again he has bodyguards and probably much better medical care than most of us). Let's put it in positive terms and say that statistically he has a 85.5% chance of surviving 4 more years, and a 68.2% chance of surviving 8.