I watched the first 16 episodes or so of "24", but lately haven't bothered except to tune in occasionally as I channel surf. Kind of went to crap in my opinion. How many times does his family have to be kidnapped. Also, there are way too many characters that are just plain annoying. Good ides, poor execution.
Spy satellites that hang over one spot on the earth instead of rushing by in Low Earth Orbit? This mistake is make in many modern movies that attempt to portray the state of the art in space-based surveillance.
While the opening scene for "Contact" was visually breathtaking, you should note that the asteroid belts portrayed in the scene were many orders of magnitude too dense.
I have about 900 CDs, 100 vinyl albums, some music videos and DVDs, all of which I've purchased, some of it used. I have a couple thousand mp3s/oggs on a couple drives. Most of that is ripped from my own collection. Some of it is downloaded, though: of all that I've downloaded, I've bought albums for relatively little - maybe 10%. That doesn't include downloaded songs for music I already own (too lazy to rip, or my stuff is damaged - whether that is wrong is another topic). At the same time, I don't feel all that bad about keeping the other mp3s for stuff I don't own.
Maybe I'm just getting older (I think I would buy less music no matter what - it's not such a priority anymore), but I can't help but look at the wall my music collection takes up, and think about all the money it represents. Add to that all the money I've spent on concert tickets, t-shirts, beer sales at concerts, etc. It works out to be just shy of mother-fucking-lot-of money. And 95% of that has gone to the middleman,labels, and the RIAA. The artists I like tend to be poor. My devotion and buying habits don't help them: instead I just line the pockets of some record company exec's pocket.
I think any study should account for the fact that many people will likely buy less music as they get older. The trends with the kids (as in many things music related) is what really matters.
At this point, the RIAA owes me free access to every thing they put out until I die. I've been a good consumer. I probably paid for some asshole's Porche.
I don't know why people constantly bring up Buran.
Because we like to torment you. It obviously bothers you.
I also heard that France was working on a shuttle. Portugal has been flying their shuttle for years, though it's not widely publicized. Mexico scrapped their shuttle project in favor of their rail-gun / light-sail combination system with which they've manage to supply migrant workers for the asparagus farming on Venus.
.I don't think russia does, pretty sure no one else does either
Russia used to have a shuttle called the Buran or some such. Buran means Snow Storm, IIRC. I doubt if they fly it anymore, some enterprising Russian Engineer probably carved it up and traded the scrap metal for vodka.
One feature it was supposed to have that the US shuttle doesn't is some power on landing, allowing a wider margin of safety in landings.
I'm sure somebody has more info, or check google for "buran shuttle"
Everytime we see an example of the little guy getting threatened by the Big Evil, we Slashdotters have an orgy of analysis and in the end do absolutely nothing. Appeals to donate to the EFF are roundly issued but how many bother?
Doesn't your first statement assume the answer to the question in the second sentence? That said, I think giving to the EFF is a good idea. I've done it, and I'm sure other slashdoters have, too. Still others have probably done other things to help: publicity, letter writing, petition signing, website defacement, etc.
Don't assume we've done nothing because it fits your rhetorical arguments.
I like your quick-donation-link idea, though.
Regards
I'll defend to the death, the rights of a content creator, to control how s/he chooses to redistribute their content.
Go step in front of a speeding bus. The net effect on the rights of content creators and your life will be the same.
Also, consider carefully what "distribution" means.
Also, consider that the GPL itself puts limits on how something can be redistributed, so not only is your analogy completely flawed, it is also internally inconsistent.
Not disagreeing, but I've seen some compiler errors from straight C compilers rivaling that obfuscity. These are usually arising from the agressive use of really long complicated macros. This makes since when you consider that macros are used to acheive the some of the same functionality as templates in C++. Without the type safety, of course.
The parsing difficulties of the original sentence are the incorrect use of the word "although" and the two uses of the word "interesting" in close proximity. Of course, you and I may be able to parse the sentence, but that just indicates we're used to awkward and incorrect sentence structure (especially on slashdot).
BTW, I had difficulty parsing your use of the word "parase".;)
Yeah, I didn't mean to bring price into it - that will of course change everything. That's why I said "all things being equal" - assume that applies to price too;) The most important part of "64-bit" for most people is address space. There can be some performance benefit as well, but as you say, they're not worth the cost considering alternative ways to get the same raw horsepower. The address space increases exponentially, but the performace gains from parallelism increase only linearly. This cost increase is probably somewhere in between.
Hmmm, thanks for the clarification. It is a 64 bit mips though, so I'm not completely off my rocker. I remember when it came out that certain people were excited because the 64 meant what we thought it should mean.
I don't think there are any current systems with memory size large enough to utiltize something like 128bit processors. Though that just means that a 128bit address space isn't useful right now. The bitsize of a processor (can) also refer to the instruction and word sizes, which can buy you peformance by allowing you to do things in a vector fashion.
The XBOX, with a 32-bit CPU, is faster than the Nintendo 64, which had a 64 in the name
And a 64 in the processor. IIRC, the processor is based on the Alpha core. And when the alpha came out, it was faster than anything 32 bit. But comparing the X-box and the Nintendo 64, which were released many years apart won't buy you much of a conclusion other than current processors are generally faster than older processors.
All other things being equal, a processors with larger word size (instruction sizes and address sizes) will be faster than those with smaller, though, depending on application, the results can be negligible or even worse, especially if compilers and programs aren't properly optimized.
Of course, I don't really know, I'm just guessing, just like the rest of you;).
Can technology make money for you? Hmmm, let me think. Agriculture. The Wheel. Pentagon hammers. Vibrating dildos. Recorded music. Laser Hair Removal. Yes. Technology isn't just computers and other slashdot-style-geek toys.
Well, putting your alarmism aside for a second, the military (US Air Force in this case) will likely make catalogs of orbiting debris available when commercial spacecraft become a reality. They already make much of that information public, though I don't know if that includes information on all orbiting objects now.
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No, Anonymous Coward has been posting to slashdot as long as I can remember. His User Id must be low, but I can't seem to figure out what it is.
Maybe I'm just getting older (I think I would buy less music no matter what - it's not such a priority anymore), but I can't help but look at the wall my music collection takes up, and think about all the money it represents. Add to that all the money I've spent on concert tickets, t-shirts, beer sales at concerts, etc. It works out to be just shy of mother-fucking-lot-of money. And 95% of that has gone to the middleman,labels, and the RIAA. The artists I like tend to be poor. My devotion and buying habits don't help them: instead I just line the pockets of some record company exec's pocket.
I think any study should account for the fact that many people will likely buy less music as they get older. The trends with the kids (as in many things music related) is what really matters.
At this point, the RIAA owes me free access to every thing they put out until I die. I've been a good consumer. I probably paid for some asshole's Porche.
Because we like to torment you. It obviously bothers you.
I also heard that France was working on a shuttle. Portugal has been flying their shuttle for years, though it's not widely publicized. Mexico scrapped their shuttle project in favor of their rail-gun / light-sail combination system with which they've manage to supply migrant workers for the asparagus farming on Venus.
Russia used to have a shuttle called the Buran or some such. Buran means Snow Storm, IIRC. I doubt if they fly it anymore, some enterprising Russian Engineer probably carved it up and traded the scrap metal for vodka.
One feature it was supposed to have that the US shuttle doesn't is some power on landing, allowing a wider margin of safety in landings.
I'm sure somebody has more info, or check google for "buran shuttle"
Doesn't your first statement assume the answer to the question in the second sentence? That said, I think giving to the EFF is a good idea. I've done it, and I'm sure other slashdoters have, too. Still others have probably done other things to help: publicity, letter writing, petition signing, website defacement, etc.
Don't assume we've done nothing because it fits your rhetorical arguments.
I like your quick-donation-link idea, though. Regards
Go step in front of a speeding bus. The net effect on the rights of content creators and your life will be the same.
Also, consider carefully what "distribution" means.
Also, consider that the GPL itself puts limits on how something can be redistributed, so not only is your analogy completely flawed, it is also internally inconsistent.
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Which is, of course, why I didn't say it.
Not disagreeing, but I've seen some compiler errors from straight C compilers rivaling that obfuscity. These are usually arising from the agressive use of really long complicated macros. This makes since when you consider that macros are used to acheive the some of the same functionality as templates in C++. Without the type safety, of course.
BTW, I had difficulty parsing your use of the word "parase". ;)
Yeah, I didn't mean to bring price into it - that will of course change everything. That's why I said "all things being equal" - assume that applies to price too ;) The most important part of "64-bit" for most people is address space. There can be some performance benefit as well, but as you say, they're not worth the cost considering alternative ways to get the same raw horsepower. The address space increases exponentially, but the performace gains from parallelism increase only linearly. This cost increase is probably somewhere in between.
I don't think there are any current systems with memory size large enough to utiltize something like 128bit processors. Though that just means that a 128bit address space isn't useful right now. The bitsize of a processor (can) also refer to the instruction and word sizes, which can buy you peformance by allowing you to do things in a vector fashion.
And a 64 in the processor. IIRC, the processor is based on the Alpha core. And when the alpha came out, it was faster than anything 32 bit. But comparing the X-box and the Nintendo 64, which were released many years apart won't buy you much of a conclusion other than current processors are generally faster than older processors.
All other things being equal, a processors with larger word size (instruction sizes and address sizes) will be faster than those with smaller, though, depending on application, the results can be negligible or even worse, especially if compilers and programs aren't properly optimized.
Of course, I don't really know, I'm just guessing, just like the rest of you ;).
Well, putting your alarmism aside for a second, the military (US Air Force in this case) will likely make catalogs of orbiting debris available when commercial spacecraft become a reality. They already make much of that information public, though I don't know if that includes information on all orbiting objects now.