the reason most people get upset about religion is that the religious don't always behave morally, they don't have all the answers, and they make no bones about admitting that (well, at least the good ones don't).
This isn't the same as people making a "Leia does Tatooine" film on their own, but I really like th idea of the Phantom Edit and I am wondering how hard it would be do thusly--
suppose you don't release the film, just the instructions for making it. So, you say, ok, take this clip from time x to time y, replace the sound from time z to time aa with this sound, etc. It seems like
a) this is technically doable* b) there wouldn't be much anyone could do about it, as you aren't distributing anyone else's IP.
I think Lucas should fund the development of such a system. Then he oculd even see the Phantom Edit! I'm sure he still wants to.:)
PS: Patent pending
* (by "technically doable" I mean that I think it is possible for this to be done in a way such that viewing it could be done automatically [*waves hand*] somehow. It's obvious that the phantom edit could be done in the way I describe, but it probably wouldn't be watched if all there was was a text file description and some sound clips.
(PS I have a patent on out of context pun-shots at slashdot headlines, contact me for licensing terms)
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So, these people have this drug patented, you want it. They produced it because they knew they could patent it and make good on their investment. But, you say, we should take it. It's for the good of the people.
Suppose you take it. Now, who is going to invest to kill the next plague? Or even other, current plagues, like cancer, or arthritis?
You're proposing to kill the system that produced this drug. Are you sure that you want this to be the last drug produced like this? Is this more important than all other diseases that might be cured at a profit in the future?
If you haven't thought about these questions, maybe you should think about whether you're hearing anything but one side of a complex story.
If you read the theory as described by the guy in the National Geographic story (linked from the yahoo site), he basically says that cosmic acceleration (the fact that, apparently, not only is the universe expanding, the rate of that expansion is increasing) makes everything spread so far apart that you basically have new vacuum that can spawn new big bang. I guess "big bangs"? I don't know, it was short on details. He calls this state of everything being spread so thin a "crunch"--it seems to me more like, well, butter scraped over too much bread (ok, that was just for fun). But "crunch" seems to me like everything collapsing back in on itself, where what he is saying is that things are just spread so far apart that you have the conditions for (a? many?) big bang(s?).
In answer to your "why, after going public to get cash, are they now cash-strapped", i believe that this is because there was a bozo CEO for a while that they have since gotten rid of, but are still trying to work out from under the damage.
Um, yeah, you're right. 1,000 apple-related sites is enough, but 1001 is too many!
But seriously, this is being put up as a favor to MacSlash--the idea is to have a place here for troll-gathering and keep MacSlash's sig/noise higher...
...I would never tell _you_. Go away! Why are you reading this, anyway? Are you trackin everything I post on the net? Don't I recognize you from behind the newspaper at the coffe shop?
Here is a dissenting voice from the discussion which is probably going to be a better argument for the current
(BSD-style) license than anyone here will come up with off hand:
This is from a person who has made money developing wine-related stuff but thinks he won't be able to
under the xGPL scheme. You have to (well, you should) ask whether shutting out this kind of development
is good for the project.
Here is a dissenting voice from the discussion which is probably going to be a better argument for the current (BSD-style) license than anyone here will come up with off hand:
This is from a person who has made money developing wine-related stuff but thinks he won't be able to under the xGPL scheme. You have to (well, you should) ask whether shutting out this kind of development is good for the project.
So, being the inquisitive type, I have to wonder what it was that Jeremy couldn't talk about that convinced him to raise this issue again after it had been "settled" before. Any ideas? Lindows? (--that's my speculation).
This is like Apple switching to preemptive multitasking instead of cooperative multitasking. Cooperative multitasking was fine as long as everyone played by the (unenforced except by community practice) rules. But, at some point some big player, or a horde or little players, is going to come along and not play be the (unenforced except by community practice) rules.
It looks like someone was making a bid to slurp up Codeweavers or something, eh? "Here's a lot of money, dude, give us your soul!" But a miniature RMS-resembling angel on the other ear said "GPL is the path to Free-dom!". And he swatted that one down, but then a more reasonable pixie sort of thing that looked halfway between a penguin and a demon says "Psst--use the Deprecated license, Luke". And that's what he put to the vote.
when I read this, I thought, wow, HP used to be Apple. I mean, all that stuff about the band not showing seams, with a quick release, and the battery replacement pack comes in something that is the tool to open the watch! (if i understood correctly)
But then, isn't that where Woz was working when he came up with the Apple 1? If they hadn't turned him down, they would probably still be making apple ]['s:).
Anway, a bunch of random half-remembered stuff for you to pick apart. Thanks for the link, that is a seriously cool watch.
Jobs likes to say that Apple is the last company that can take full responsiblity for the user experience, hardware and software. That's pretty much the end of the story.
This is the sentence after the end of the story. They are probably keeping OS X's intel capability alive internally in case something bad (or, maybe, something worse?) happens wth the PowerPC. But even if the chip becomes an Intel chip, they will go on making it so that their OS only runs on their machines, because they want to remain int hat position.
"The eurypterid which made it must have been enormous, probably about 2,5m long, but there is good reason to think that it was not a fearsome predator like many of its smaller terrestrial and aquatic relatives," said Almond.
Well-preserved details of the newly discovered tracks show that while the animal was walking along the sea bed, it raked through the soft bottom muds, almost certainly foraging for food - probably small worms and crustaceans - using specialised comb-like structures on its limbs.
Yeah, sure, that COULD have been what was going on. Or maybe there had just been a HUGE party because five or so of the 30-foot variety scorpions had killed a herd of mega-ichthyosaur and they were making the LITTLE guy sweep up!
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Oh, right, there are _good_ people in the world. I keep forgetting.
:)
the reason most people get upset about religion is that the religious don't always behave morally, they don't have all the answers, and they make no bones about admitting that (well, at least the good ones don't).
*sigh*
the lesson is, people are people.
I just want to give a +1 funny to whoever modded the parent down as offtopic...
This isn't the same as people making a "Leia does Tatooine" film on their own, but I really like th idea of the Phantom Edit and I am wondering how hard it would be do thusly--
:)
suppose you don't release the film, just the instructions for making it. So, you say, ok, take this clip from time x to time y, replace the sound from time z to time aa with this sound, etc. It seems like
a) this is technically doable*
b) there wouldn't be much anyone could do about it, as you aren't distributing anyone else's IP.
I think Lucas should fund the development of such a system. Then he oculd even see the Phantom Edit! I'm sure he still wants to.
PS: Patent pending
* (by "technically doable" I mean that I think it is possible for this to be done in a way such that viewing it could be done automatically [*waves hand*] somehow. It's obvious that the phantom edit could be done in the way I describe, but it probably wouldn't be watched if all there was was a text file description and some sound clips.
...until it got tired of being treated like shit.
(PS I have a patent on out of context pun-shots at slashdot headlines, contact me for licensing terms)
So, these people have this drug patented, you want it. They produced it because they knew they could patent it and make good on their investment. But, you say, we should take it. It's for the good of the people.
Suppose you take it. Now, who is going to invest to kill the next plague? Or even other, current plagues, like cancer, or arthritis?
You're proposing to kill the system that produced this drug. Are you sure that you want this to be the last drug produced like this? Is this more important than all other diseases that might be cured at a profit in the future?
If you haven't thought about these questions, maybe you should think about whether you're hearing anything but one side of a complex story.
Maybe "baby bangs" would be a better description.
If you read the theory as described by the guy
in the National Geographic story (linked from
the yahoo site), he basically says that cosmic
acceleration (the fact that, apparently, not only
is the universe expanding, the rate of that expansion
is increasing) makes everything spread so far
apart that you basically have new vacuum that can
spawn new big bang. I guess "big bangs"? I don't
know, it was short on details. He calls this state
of everything being spread so thin a "crunch"--it
seems to me more like, well, butter scraped over
too much bread (ok, that was just for fun). But
"crunch" seems to me like everything collapsing back
in on itself, where what he is saying is that things
are just spread so far apart that you have the conditions
for (a? many?) big bang(s?).
this site mentions modifications
t el anatomy.html
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/intelplay/in
All I can say is, thank goodness Larry left it out of Perl.
...with a picture of a beautiful, but clothed, member-of-the-appropriate-sex.
In answer to your "why, after going public to get cash, are they now cash-strapped", i believe that this is because there was a bozo CEO for a while that they have since gotten rid of, but are still trying to work out from under the damage.
And, if I were Sun, and I were worried, I would probably send up a FUD balloon and see which way the community reaction wind is blowing.
...they got some great negatives.
Um, yeah, you're right. 1,000 apple-related sites is enough, but 1001 is too many!
But seriously, this is being put up as a favor to MacSlash--the idea is to have a place here for troll-gathering and keep MacSlash's sig/noise higher...
...I would never tell _you_. Go away! Why are you reading this, anyway? Are you trackin everything I post on the net? Don't I recognize you from behind the newspaper at the coffe shop?
what, no aliens? C'mon! I want _speculation_, not this repackaging of what everyone in the industry already knows...
Heh, well, I hate to be the one to counter my own speculation, but it looks like Lindows is not a good candidate for speculating abuut.
2 /0312.html
Roberston contributed this, among other things, to the discusion:
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/0
But I have a new question to speculate about (see the "view by thread" on that page to understand):
Who peed in Brett Glass' cereal? He seems really mad.
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/02 /0129.html
This is from a person who has made money developing wine-related stuff but thinks he won't be able to under the xGPL scheme. You have to (well, you should) ask whether shutting out this kind of development is good for the project.
Here is a dissenting voice from the discussion which is probably going to be a better argument for the current (BSD-style) license than anyone here will come up with off hand:
/ 02 /0125.html
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002
This is from a person who has made money developing wine-related stuff but thinks he won't be able to under the xGPL scheme. You have to (well, you should) ask whether shutting out this kind of development is good for the project.
So, being the inquisitive type, I have to wonder what it was that Jeremy couldn't talk about that convinced him to raise this issue again after it had been "settled" before. Any ideas? Lindows? (--that's my speculation).
This is like Apple switching to preemptive multitasking instead of cooperative multitasking. Cooperative multitasking was fine as long as everyone played by the (unenforced except by community practice) rules. But, at some point some big player, or a horde or little players, is going to come along and not play be the (unenforced except by community practice) rules.
It looks like someone was making a bid to slurp up Codeweavers or something, eh? "Here's a lot of money, dude, give us your soul!" But a miniature RMS-resembling angel on the other ear said "GPL is the path to Free-dom!". And he swatted that one down, but then a more reasonable pixie sort of thing that looked halfway between a penguin and a demon says "Psst--use the Deprecated license, Luke". And that's what he put to the vote.
when I read this, I thought, wow, HP used to be Apple. I mean, all that stuff about the band not showing seams, with a quick release, and the battery replacement pack comes in something that is the tool to open the watch! (if i understood correctly)
:).
But then, isn't that where Woz was working when he came up with the Apple 1? If they hadn't turned him down, they would probably still be making apple ]['s
Anway, a bunch of random half-remembered stuff for you to pick apart. Thanks for the link, that is a seriously cool watch.
Jobs likes to say that Apple is the last company that can take full responsiblity for the user experience, hardware and software. That's pretty much the end of the story.
This is the sentence after the end of the story. They are probably keeping OS X's intel capability alive internally in case something bad (or, maybe, something worse?) happens wth the PowerPC. But even if the chip becomes an Intel chip, they will go on making it so that their OS only runs on their machines, because they want to remain int hat position.
Also, Jobs hates fan noise.
Yeah, sure, that COULD have been what was going on. Or maybe there had just been a HUGE party because five or so of the 30-foot variety scorpions had killed a herd of mega-ichthyosaur and they were making the LITTLE guy sweep up!