So you have an air marshal on the plane...
really good for stopping suicide bombers?
really good for stopping a gang of hijackers
really good for getting a gun onto the plane
Can this air marshal be fully alert throughout the 15th long haul flight he has been on this week...?
Probably be a better idea to stop people getting on the plane with the box-cutters first...?
If you program in Java then you know assembly language - Java *is* the assembly language of a java machine (the Bytecode is the machine code)
This means you are no longer talking to your machine, you are talking to the JVM....
C# does much the same thing with CLR (I believe it gives some access to low level.NET and Windows services etc...)
Unfortunately this means you lose control over the real hardware and a lot of low level optimisation techniques, which is why people still program in C/C++ (with an optimising compiler), and occasionally in assembler where the optimising compiler cannot cope and cannot be coerced by a good low level programmer to optimise enough.
So you if you have a small company which already has products don't try and patent any of them....... again only Large companies or Patent trolls can actually use Software Patents, small companies cannot use them they only get hurt...
Software Patent system is broken Abort, Retry, Fail.....
In all of these the "plot" is irrelevant to playing the game?
So in terms of narrative they are lacking....
Give me a game that actually does not rely on new graphics, new technique for gameplay, or other new innovation (as all these rely on) and you will finally get games that are playable because they are playable not because they are new...
Tetris is a good example - graphics - basic, gameplay - simple, playability - where did the last hour go? And how many of these will people still be playing in 10 years time?
Inventor : You are infringing my patented software
Megacorp : We might be but we will drag you through the courts for the next three years to prove we are not, but meanwhile you are infringing 256 of ours so pay up now....
This is how Software patents work, the only people who have them and actually can use them are large software companies who use them to bargain against other software companies so they can do a patent cross-licensing deal, of patent trolls who just go after anyone making money with "their" ideas (they never originated them, and do not actually use the patented idea)
These feral gangs of youths are nothing like the American no-go areas in the ghettos where if you are not a member of a gang you *will* be shot and the Police do not even go....
But of course in the UK they do not all have guns....
This is why the Free Software community is based around Microsoft systems?
No it's based around Unix systems, which were around before Microsoft - and it's what large parts of Windows is based on as well...
There was already a large community based around a common system with a common API before Microsoft and their still is...and it has nothing to do with Microsoft...
This is the same situation as any country.... including the USA - Do you think the RIAA gives money to non-US Companies, or just the ones it represents?
The CRIA represents the same cartel of Music production companies as the RIAA....?
1 - Is at their discretion.... 2 - there are already limits on the service since they at their own admission cannot deliver the service "unlimited" as advertised 3 - Is not what they want to do
the problem is that they advertise an unlimited service which they have no intentions of delivering and are incabable of delivering - and now admit they deliberately do not deliver....
I have a small portable device that allows me to listen to music and I believe that some mobile phone already have this built in... it's called a Radio! unencrypted un DRM'ed free music....?
OK so if I have Satellite Broadband and my ISP is not UK based how does this apply...?
The old adage "the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it" applies here.......Only China has managed to block the internet and that is by blocking every way of accessing it...
1. The ISPs will not be willing to monitor the traffic (prohibitively expensive) 2. The ISPs are not allowed by UK Law to monitor the traffic 3. The ISPs cannot tell if the traffic is copyright infringing material anyway , it might be encrypted, it might be Public domain, it might not be copyrightable material, it might be fair use, it might be creative commons, it might be with the owners consent?
This is another unenforceable law that the police and the public will ignore...
OK I looked and the maximum quoted figure is 1 in 10^13 but this is normally considered statistically unsupportable, the highest figure that is considered statistically supportable is 1 in a billion or 1/6 of the population of the planet...(as I said)
i.e. if the process is done perfectly every time and no mistakes are made, and you do the maximum testing (which is normally far too slow) then you get figures of 1 in 10^13...
But note this assumes that there are no errors made in gathering the DNA, in the lab or in the process, these cause errors far greater than even the 1:billion...
Fahrenheit project - was going to be OpenGL meets Direct3D, Microsoft backed out and it collapsed, and then they stopped supporting anything but the very basic OpenGL core system on Windows (and almost completely on Vista)
OpenGL is supported by all the consoles (except the XBox of course) and all major operating systems (Except properly by Windows)
It is still alive well and going forward and is used in Graphics systems other than Games (Direct3D was only for games)
That's why I said "not normally" if someone contaminates the evidence then all bets are off
DNA samples can be contaminated, mis-filed, deliberately mis-itendified etc.. just like any other evidence
It's just the process of matching is now purely mechanical... and even then it has (extremely small) errors so how can fingerprints always match 100%...?
The published rates of mis-match (fingerprints did not match but system said they did) is 1% or in other words according to the Governments own figures a fingerprint at a crime scene will match (on average) 3,033,000 people in the USA with current techniques...
Because of course fingerprinting always matches 100% and is utterly reliable and no-one has the same fingerprints ?
Fingerprint identification is a human (computer assisted) task that people learn how to do, get better at but are never 100% accurate at (especially in marginal cases) The fingerprints used are quite often partial and the chance of error can be magnified greatly...
DNA "fingerprinting" however is not normally subject to human error but is still quoted (correctly) as error value (e.g. the chance of two people matching this DNA sample is 1:10000000)
If you use fingerprints on suspects it works fairly reliably (there are mistakes made) if you trawl a database to find suspects the errors will increase exponentially
Most DNA fingerprints are quoted as 1 in million to 1 in billion... which means it will match 6-7 people on earth...?
The point is that BitKeeper code was never part of Linux (Kernel or larger software) it was never reverse engineered and then made part of any official part of Linux
It was used to manage the source of the Kernel and Tridge wrote a utility to extract the kernel source without a BitKeeper licence, this is not illegal, but Bitkeeper and Linus complained it was not ethical?....and all this is academic since Git is opensource and is now used instead of BitKeeper
Copyright should be fair to the consumer and the producer, it does not need to be fair to the distributer
It is an anti-market, government condoned temporary monopoly to encourage innovation
The DCMA (and the proposed Canadian equivilent) do not encourage innovation they encourage the established copyright holders to resell thier existing roducts again and again....
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So you have an air marshal on the plane...
...?
...?
really good for stopping suicide bombers?
really good for stopping a gang of hijackers
really good for getting a gun onto the plane
Can this air marshal be fully alert throughout the 15th long haul flight he has been on this week
Probably be a better idea to stop people getting on the plane with the box-cutters first
If you program in Java then you know assembly language - Java *is* the assembly language of a java machine (the Bytecode is the machine code)
....
.NET and Windows services etc...)
This means you are no longer talking to your machine, you are talking to the JVM
C# does much the same thing with CLR (I believe it gives some access to low level
Unfortunately this means you lose control over the real hardware and a lot of low level optimisation techniques, which is why people still program in C/C++ (with an optimising compiler), and occasionally in assembler where the optimising compiler cannot cope and cannot be coerced by a good low level programmer to optimise enough.
So you if you have a small company which already has products don't try and patent any of them.... ... again only Large companies or Patent trolls can actually use Software Patents, small companies cannot use them they only get hurt ...
.....
Software Patent system is broken Abort, Retry, Fail
In all of these the "plot" is irrelevant to playing the game?
....
...
So in terms of narrative they are lacking
Give me a game that actually does not rely on new graphics, new technique for gameplay, or other new innovation (as all these rely on) and you will finally get games that are playable because they are playable not because they are new
Tetris is a good example - graphics - basic, gameplay - simple, playability - where did the last hour go?
And how many of these will people still be playing in 10 years time?
This is how the conversation would go ...
....
Inventor : You are infringing my patented software
Megacorp : We might be but we will drag you through the courts for the next three years to prove we are not, but meanwhile you are infringing 256 of ours so pay up now
This is how Software patents work, the only people who have them and actually can use them are large software companies who use them to bargain against other software companies so they can do a patent cross-licensing deal, of patent trolls who just go after anyone making money with "their" ideas (they never originated them, and do not actually use the patented idea)
These feral gangs of youths are nothing like the American no-go areas in the ghettos where if you are not a member of a gang you *will* be shot and the Police do not even go....
....
But of course in the UK they do not all have guns
This is why the Free Software community is based around Microsoft systems?
...
...and it has nothing to do with Microsoft ...
No it's based around Unix systems, which were around before Microsoft - and it's what large parts of Windows is based on as well
There was already a large community based around a common system with a common API before Microsoft and their still is
This is the same situation as any country .... including the USA - Do you think the RIAA gives money to non-US Companies, or just the ones it represents?
....?
The CRIA represents the same cartel of Music production companies as the RIAA
1 - Is at their discretion ....
....
2 - there are already limits on the service since they at their own admission cannot deliver the service "unlimited" as advertised
3 - Is not what they want to do
the problem is that they advertise an unlimited service which they have no intentions of delivering and are incabable of delivering - and now admit they deliberately do not deliver
Is this false advertising ?
I have a small portable device that allows me to listen to music and I believe that some mobile phone already have this built in ... it's called a Radio! unencrypted un DRM'ed free music ....?
That would have been Steve Job's NEXT being bought out by Steve Jobs ...?
...?
BeOS would have had to be superb to be the first choice
OK so if I have Satellite Broadband and my ISP is not UK based how does this apply ...?
.... ...Only China has managed to block the internet and that is by blocking every way of accessing it ...
The old adage "the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it" applies here
They have three problems
...
1. The ISPs will not be willing to monitor the traffic (prohibitively expensive)
2. The ISPs are not allowed by UK Law to monitor the traffic
3. The ISPs cannot tell if the traffic is copyright infringing material anyway , it might be encrypted, it might be Public domain, it might not be copyrightable material, it might be fair use, it might be creative commons, it might be with the owners consent?
This is another unenforceable law that the police and the public will ignore
BeOS was technically DVD ready on launch (Be was aware that DVD was coming) and as soon as the spec was finalised could play DVD's
....
It could however play DVD quality (and above) movies in a window on launch
OK I looked and the maximum quoted figure is 1 in 10^13 but this is normally considered statistically unsupportable, the highest figure that is considered statistically supportable is 1 in a billion or 1/6 of the population of the planet ...(as I said)
...
...
i.e. if the process is done perfectly every time and no mistakes are made, and you do the maximum testing (which is normally far too slow) then you get figures of 1 in 10^13
But note this assumes that there are no errors made in gathering the DNA, in the lab or in the process, these cause errors far greater than even the 1:billion
So a 3d accelerated desktop, with DVD in a window, and a 3D accelerated program in another
... or playing catchup as usual ....
BeOS (1991) - Yes
XP(2001) - No
Mac OSX (2002) - Yes
Compiz (2006) - Yes
Vista(2007) - Yes
MS Innovating
Note most game consoles (and game PC's) do not need to do this as they run full-screen.....So it's not a gaming feature...
So XP can't do this but Vista can .... All hail MS innovation Linux can do this ... MaxOS can do this ... BeOS could do this ...
....
MS playing catchup again
No you are missing the point the 5% pay thier fair share already you are paying more than your fair share ...
...
What they want to do pay your unfair share and the 5% to pay more than thier fair share
Yahoo finance. .yahoo.com
...
Yahoo sports.
Yahoo news.
Yahoo movies.
Yahoo TV.
Yahoo weather.
Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo maps.
aka
Flickr (I don't use it though)
One of many photo sharing sites, content will decamp to working site in a heartbeat
Delicious.
One of many social bookmarking site, community will decamp to another if it closes
Ok that's three and besides Delicious all have a customer loyalty rating of near zero....
The reason MS can buy Yahoo! is that it is a struggling to survive also-ran
Fahrenheit project - was going to be OpenGL meets Direct3D, Microsoft backed out and it collapsed, and then they stopped supporting anything but the very basic OpenGL core system on Windows (and almost completely on Vista)
OpenGL is supported by all the consoles (except the XBox of course) and all major operating systems (Except properly by Windows)
It is still alive well and going forward and is used in Graphics systems other than Games (Direct3D was only for games)
That's why I said "not normally" if someone contaminates the evidence then all bets are off
.. just like any other evidence
... and even then it has (extremely small) errors so how can fingerprints always match 100% ...?
...
DNA samples can be contaminated, mis-filed, deliberately mis-itendified etc
It's just the process of matching is now purely mechanical
The published rates of mis-match (fingerprints did not match but system said they did) is 1% or in other words according to the Governments own figures a fingerprint at a crime scene will match (on average) 3,033,000 people in the USA with current techniques
Because of course fingerprinting always matches 100% and is utterly reliable and no-one has the same fingerprints ?
...
... which means it will match 6-7 people on earth ...?
Fingerprint identification is a human (computer assisted) task that people learn how to do, get better at but are never 100% accurate at (especially in marginal cases) The fingerprints used are quite often partial and the chance of error can be magnified greatly
DNA "fingerprinting" however is not normally subject to human error but is still quoted (correctly) as error value (e.g. the chance of two people matching this DNA sample is 1:10000000)
If you use fingerprints on suspects it works fairly reliably (there are mistakes made) if you trawl a database to find suspects the errors will increase exponentially
Most DNA fingerprints are quoted as 1 in million to 1 in billion
...and Children never met stangers before the internet .. and peadophiles did not exist ...
The point is that BitKeeper code was never part of Linux (Kernel or larger software) it was never reverse engineered and then made part of any official part of Linux
....and all this is academic since Git is opensource and is now used instead of BitKeeper
It was used to manage the source of the Kernel and Tridge wrote a utility to extract the kernel source without a BitKeeper licence, this is not illegal, but Bitkeeper and Linus complained it was not ethical?
Fair to who ...?
....
Copyright should be fair to the consumer and the producer, it does not need to be fair to the distributer
It is an anti-market, government condoned temporary monopoly to encourage innovation
The DCMA (and the proposed Canadian equivilent) do not encourage innovation they encourage the established copyright holders to resell thier existing roducts again and again