The Prime Number Shitting Bear. Watching a console window spit out prime numbers might do it for the geeks, but everyone can loves the prime number shitting bear.
Well the big deal is apparently that the CDs they gave out explicitly say: "Illegal without separate license" and since there was no separate license...well...
Personally I think it's microsoft's own software so they should be able to hand it out however they want without printing new cds if they want to give them away sans-license.
I would suggest the book Emergence by Steven Johnson It's sort of a collection of little stories about swarm inttleigences, genetic algorithms, and a lot of the bottom up approaches that are now becoming popular.
Well I WAS indexing all of my mp3s (about 20gigs of albums) using their tagger and it was working very, very well. If something is misidentified it is very easy to spot and remedy.
Then, about 15 minutes ago I noticed the program was no longer speaking to their servers. Lo and behold, the story was put up on slashdot about 15 minutes ago. Not to sound paranoid or anything but I think this coincidence is a little creepy.
RTF has been in office for years and it is an open, portable standard readable on many platforms and with many programs. The problem is that Microsoft chooses to retain their obfuscated binary format as the default save type for documents.
If the XML files office produce are not made the default save types or if the XML merely encapsulates large portions of binary code, it will not matter one lick that office can save these xml documents because the majority of people will be stuck on the default, unreadable formats.
This brings up an interesting point, some people will always want a good looking car no matter how fast it goes, and this may be the market that these companies can shoot for in the alternative fuel future.
Still, my friend is driving some 12 year honda that looks like a piece of crap but can do 180kph, until these cars can do that, he'd laugh at anyone driving one of them.
Sure, there may be backdoors in the ms stuff, but it seems like the German gov't just got scared off of windows by some local company looking to replace ms with their own software...
Sure it's a great technology. However since DVD's have been proclaimed by so many to be the way to watch movies etc for the next 10 or so years and so many companies have put their futures into developing DVD stuff I almost doubt these new CD's will be backed by nearly as many companies and we may never see these things hit the mainstream.
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I read the headline as "CDC Wants to Trick Travelers" ... amounts to the same thing I guess
The Prime Number Shitting Bear. Watching a console window spit out prime numbers might do it for the geeks, but everyone can loves the prime number shitting bear.
Is the site slashdotted already or did they drop the vehicle on their web server?
Well the big deal is apparently that the CDs they gave out explicitly say: "Illegal without separate license" and since there was no separate license...well...
Personally I think it's microsoft's own software so they should be able to hand it out however they want without printing new cds if they want to give them away sans-license.
I would suggest the book Emergence by Steven Johnson It's sort of a collection of little stories about swarm inttleigences, genetic algorithms, and a lot of the bottom up approaches that are now becoming popular.
Well I WAS indexing all of my mp3s (about 20gigs of albums) using their tagger and it was working very, very well. If something is misidentified it is very easy to spot and remedy.
Then, about 15 minutes ago I noticed the program was no longer speaking to their servers. Lo and behold, the story was put up on slashdot about 15 minutes ago. Not to sound paranoid or anything but I think this coincidence is a little creepy.
ClearChannel is a big, bad corporation. This is very unbecoming of them.
"Bring your pussy face to my ass"
I was buying it until I saw that.
RTF has been in office for years and it is an open, portable standard readable on many platforms and with many programs. The problem is that Microsoft chooses to retain their obfuscated binary format as the default save type for documents.
If the XML files office produce are not made the default save types or if the XML merely encapsulates large portions of binary code, it will not matter one lick that office can save these xml documents because the majority of people will be stuck on the default, unreadable formats.
This brings up an interesting point, some people will always want a good looking car no matter how fast it goes, and this may be the market that these companies can shoot for in the alternative fuel future.
Still, my friend is driving some 12 year honda that looks like a piece of crap but can do 180kph, until these cars can do that, he'd laugh at anyone driving one of them.
Very cool maps, looks like fun.
Sure, there may be backdoors in the ms stuff, but it seems like the German gov't just got scared off of windows by some local company looking to replace ms with their own software...
It looks like it worked too.
Sure it's a great technology. However since DVD's have been proclaimed by so many to be the way to watch movies etc for the next 10 or so years and so many companies have put their futures into developing DVD stuff I almost doubt these new CD's will be backed by nearly as many companies and we may never see these things hit the mainstream.