Actually, as it stands povray creats a seperate set of objects for every CGS instance but a single copy for mesh objects. (See Giles Tran Christopher Hormann's websites for more info) This is one of the issues that I would like to see changed for 4.0
and perhaps most significantly, you seem unaware that the activities of the FBI are overseen by Senators and Representatives that you and I vote for
These would be the same Senators and Representatives who were promised in the leaked memos that they would win the next election if electronic voting were installed by a certian company. With all this government oversight who is watching the govenment?
The government is using it's power to keep from the people information necessary for their oversight as voters of said government. As a voter I depend on people like this to make sure I vote with my eyes open, and I am horrified that the government is using such strong arm tactics to exact retribution on someone for doing so.
Your Patriotic American Friend (Who the government should be working for not against) JFMILLER
The question that the two ancestors raise is one of the economic fundability of music. Fundability is the property of a substance to be sold in bulk. Flour, crude oil, sugar, cotten and Iron are all examples of products where the suplies from one manufacture can be used in place of another. This has the effect of universalizing prices and creating compitition in branding and marketing rather then product quality as products are of a universal standard.
Music is not traditionally a fundabil product. listening to !Akimbo is not the same as Led Zeppelin. music culture recently has begun to treat them as simular. My perception is that garcia doesn't care who is performing the music as long as it sounds good, while glpierce wants to hear music by a particular person or group.
The music industry has in the past survived on the fact that modern musicians we not replacible with cheaper local or independant alternitives. Neither Elvis nor The Beatles could be substituted with the band from the corner pub. However todays signed artists lack the distinction in either sound or charicter to hold this kind of sway. Older bands like Led Zeppelin may still hold this quality of distinctiveness but newer groups music offerings are carbon copies of each other. The music industry has found a "working formula" for artists and that formula is strictly followed and leaves very little room for inovation in sound or charictor.
Thus music to many has become fundabil and an Indie band is just as good as the more expencive RIAA counterpart. Signing new talanted and inovative artist will help the music industries cause, while the availibility of viable non-industry chanels for those same artists will increase compitioion and break the cartel
Just for kicks, (and because I'd like to do this too) How did you git aroung the lack of games, esp. on-line RPG's like FFXI that my youngest brother is addicted to?
I would respectfully disagree with the first two on the following basis. Both CBS and MLB are granted limited monopoly by the Federal Government to act in the public's best interest. CBS gets to use publically held airwaves to make a large amount of money. MLB has a sanctioned exemption form Monopoly laws which they use to make a large amount of money. In return for these services they are required to uphold the ideals and interests of the American People. This includes Free Speech.
To give a good analogy, what whould have happened is AT&T prior to the telecommunications deregulation prohibited certian ideas from going over their privately held networks.
Neither of these orginzations is just a private enterprise they use public resources and are bound by the use of those resources to act in the best interest of the American people.
And just how many users will reinstall from the 2 year old recovery CD, reintroduction all of the known vulnerabilities that it took so much effort to get them to patch?
There is exactly one consumer in Thailand that is under true presure to buy ligit software -- The Thai Government. They are starting a program of selling low cost hardware and need to put legal software on it or face ecconomic sanctions from the west. Can you immagin what the responce would be if a government announced that it was going to ignore international copyright law and sell low cost computers with unlicensed copies of XP?
If this is the 7 story high by 3 block wide shopping mall in Bangkok, then yes. I must admit to being a bit overwelmed my first couple of days in Thialand when I was there a couple of years ago, so I hope you will forgive me not rememebering all the names of all the places I went.
Anyway, what I remember as being most suprizing aside from the shire magnitude of the place, was the number of shops selling dvd and software for 50-100 Baht(1 to 2 USD). And these were not shady back ally shops, they were well established otherwise respectable buisnesses. It was either paradise or a nightmare depending on whether you are a content producer of consumer.
While, I agree that piracy is probably not the sole reason for MS to be putting out windows Lite, I has certianlly got to be a factor.
There was an arcade game at on point where you flew a stationary bike through varoius landscapes. I've often thought that ifI had one of those on my home pc, I might be in much better shape, esp. if the attached game could hold my attention.
"The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to rewire their networks to guarantee police the ability to eavesdrop on subscribers' conversations."
It would appear that they are asking for help from the providers. They simply want the same situation with VoIP providers as they have with POTS folks.
Sence the value of a VoIP system (again like POTS phones) is based on how many people you can talk to. You can encrypt all the informatiojn you want between you and your friends, but if you wnat to be on a big and easily accessable network, the feds want in.
What are you posting here for. You have almost a year to go before you can legaly enjoy Perl like it was meant to be enjoyed... After a couple of strong drinks!
May I suggest that while Gore-Tex hiking boots may seem cool, it is almost imposible to get them as gifts. Well, at least in the traditional sence. One needs the actual feet that are going to be in the boots in order to but the right ones, and that would ruin the suprize.
Also while I'm at it, make sure that Gore-Tex is really wht you want in a boot. Gore-Tex doesn't breath as well as leather. This tends to make boots "hot and sweety," and thats when blisters happen. What you really need to think about is whether water proof boots make sence for what you'r doing. There a very limited number of circumstances where Gore-Tex will keep your feet dry when leather would not: Light snow and tall damp grass are the only two I know. almost any other situation, either leather will also keep your feed dry and be cooler, or water is going to go over the top of the boots anyway, in which case leather will dry faster.
Anyway a good pair of boots would definatly be a nice gift, just make sure you get what you really want. A good pair of boots are worthe your weight in gold, while a bad pair will cost that much in doctors bills and mole skin.
If one were a conspiracy theorist, and I am not, one might postulate that dell ether now or in the future plans to install spyware themselves and that open source programs would mess this up. Therefore they have told there techs not to recommend any of them, and now have found a willing corp. that will agree with them about the difference between marketing tools and spyware. Bu there is of course no proof and since I am not a conspiracy theorist, I will not make such accusations.
The poster has obviously not kept up with the Diebold debates.
There are two goals in voting. Quickly and accuratly counting votes, and making sure no one cheets. Paper and pencle voting were great for the later. All that was needed was good physical security and oversight. Computers are supurb for the former. Press the button and out pups the reuslts. It is finding a system where both goals, Accountibility and Efficiency, are met that is the issue.
Computer data, as has been shown on slashdot overe and over, in vonerable to an infinate number of changes. With out an audit trail there are any number of ways to stuff the ballet box, particularly if your company makes the voting machine.
By having the computer produce a hard copy, there can be public review of the vote. And sence the computer can be designed to create uniformally accurate paper ballets, there will be none of the hanging chad debates. The computer can ensure that every ballet it prints is valid and clear. It can also tabulate results quickly. If there is then a question as to whether the computer was misprogramed, the user varified paper trail is still there to be counted. And sence it was produced in a uniform way and verifird by the voter, even a recount will be much faster and more accurate then the old pencil and paper methode.
I think that the origional poster knows all this and it just trolling, but five slashdot moderators can't be wrong. Just hope I'm not the one to M2 this post.
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I believe that is the second solution in the article I pointed to.
I would like to point all of you to this article at Ars Technica. It explains the problem and how to fix it.
Good Luck
JFMILLER
Actually, as it stands povray creats a seperate set of objects for every CGS instance but a single copy for mesh objects. (See Giles Tran Christopher Hormann's websites for more info) This is one of the issues that I would like to see changed for 4.0
JFMILLER
and perhaps most significantly, you seem unaware that the activities of the FBI are overseen by Senators and Representatives that you and I vote for
These would be the same Senators and Representatives who were promised in the leaked memos that they would win the next election if electronic voting were installed by a certian company. With all this government oversight who is watching the govenment?
The government is using it's power to keep from the people information necessary for their oversight as voters of said government. As a voter I depend on people like this to make sure I vote with my eyes open, and I am horrified that the government is using such strong arm tactics to exact retribution on someone for doing so.
Your Patriotic American Friend (Who the government should be working for not against)
JFMILLER
The question that the two ancestors raise is one of the economic fundability of music. Fundability is the property of a substance to be sold in bulk. Flour, crude oil, sugar, cotten and Iron are all examples of products where the suplies from one manufacture can be used in place of another. This has the effect of universalizing prices and creating compitition in branding and marketing rather then product quality as products are of a universal standard.
Music is not traditionally a fundabil product. listening to !Akimbo is not the same as Led Zeppelin. music culture recently has begun to treat them as simular. My perception is that garcia doesn't care who is performing the music as long as it sounds good, while glpierce wants to hear music by a particular person or group.
The music industry has in the past survived on the fact that modern musicians we not replacible with cheaper local or independant alternitives. Neither Elvis nor The Beatles could be substituted with the band from the corner pub. However todays signed artists lack the distinction in either sound or charicter to hold this kind of sway. Older bands like Led Zeppelin may still hold this quality of distinctiveness but newer groups music offerings are carbon copies of each other. The music industry has found a "working formula" for artists and that formula is strictly followed and leaves very little room for inovation in sound or charictor.
Thus music to many has become fundabil and an Indie band is just as good as the more expencive RIAA counterpart. Signing new talanted and inovative artist will help the music industries cause, while the availibility of viable non-industry chanels for those same artists will increase compitioion and break the cartel
JFMILLER
Just for kicks, (and because I'd like to do this too) How did you git aroung the lack of games, esp. on-line RPG's like FFXI that my youngest brother is addicted to?
John
I would respectfully disagree with the first two on the following basis. Both CBS and MLB are granted limited monopoly by the Federal Government to act in the public's best interest. CBS gets to use publically held airwaves to make a large amount of money. MLB has a sanctioned exemption form Monopoly laws which they use to make a large amount of money. In return for these services they are required to uphold the ideals and interests of the American People. This includes Free Speech.
To give a good analogy, what whould have happened is AT&T prior to the telecommunications deregulation prohibited certian ideas from going over their privately held networks.
Neither of these orginzations is just a private enterprise they use public resources and are bound by the use of those resources to act in the best interest of the American people.
JFMILLER
One Heartbeat
One Heartbeat
And just how many users will reinstall from the 2 year old recovery CD, reintroduction all of the known vulnerabilities that it took so much effort to get them to patch?
The National Park Service seems to have it's stuff up still. as does the USGS
There is exactly one consumer in Thailand that is under true presure to buy ligit software -- The Thai Government. They are starting a program of selling low cost hardware and need to put legal software on it or face ecconomic sanctions from the west. Can you immagin what the responce would be if a government announced that it was going to ignore international copyright law and sell low cost computers with unlicensed copies of XP?
JFMILLER
Has anyone else gone shopping at Panthip Plaza?
If this is the 7 story high by 3 block wide shopping mall in Bangkok, then yes. I must admit to being a bit overwelmed my first couple of days in Thialand when I was there a couple of years ago, so I hope you will forgive me not rememebering all the names of all the places I went.
Anyway, what I remember as being most suprizing aside from the shire magnitude of the place, was the number of shops selling dvd and software for 50-100 Baht(1 to 2 USD). And these were not shady back ally shops, they were well established otherwise respectable buisnesses. It was either paradise or a nightmare depending on whether you are a content producer of consumer.
While, I agree that piracy is probably not the sole reason for MS to be putting out windows Lite, I has certianlly got to be a factor.
JFMILLER
This software is "Free" as in Puppy.
There was an arcade game at on point where you flew a stationary bike through varoius landscapes. I've often thought that ifI had one of those on my home pc, I might be in much better shape, esp. if the attached game could hold my attention.
JFMILLER
"The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to rewire their networks to guarantee police the ability to eavesdrop on subscribers' conversations."
It would appear that they are asking for help from the providers. They simply want the same situation with VoIP providers as they have with POTS folks.
Sence the value of a VoIP system (again like POTS phones) is based on how many people you can talk to. You can encrypt all the informatiojn you want between you and your friends, but if you wnat to be on a big and easily accessable network, the feds want in.
JFMILLER
The Transbay Tunnel: San Francisco,CA built in 1967, 6.1 kilometers submarine
What are you posting here for. You have almost a year to go before you can legaly enjoy Perl like it was meant to be enjoyed ... After a couple of strong drinks!
May I suggest that while Gore-Tex hiking boots may seem cool, it is almost imposible to get them as gifts. Well, at least in the traditional sence. One needs the actual feet that are going to be in the boots in order to but the right ones, and that would ruin the suprize.
Also while I'm at it, make sure that Gore-Tex is really wht you want in a boot. Gore-Tex doesn't breath as well as leather. This tends to make boots "hot and sweety," and thats when blisters happen. What you really need to think about is whether water proof boots make sence for what you'r doing. There a very limited number of circumstances where Gore-Tex will keep your feet dry when leather would not: Light snow and tall damp grass are the only two I know. almost any other situation, either leather will also keep your feed dry and be cooler, or water is going to go over the top of the boots anyway, in which case leather will dry faster.
Anyway a good pair of boots would definatly be a nice gift, just make sure you get what you really want. A good pair of boots are worthe your weight in gold, while a bad pair will cost that much in doctors bills and mole skin.
JFMILLER
Could we all spesify weather our mach numbers are at sea level or 100,000 feet or whatever, the speed of sound changes as altitude increases.
If one were a conspiracy theorist, and I am not, one might postulate that dell ether now or in the future plans to install spyware themselves and that open source programs would mess this up. Therefore they have told there techs not to recommend any of them, and now have found a willing corp. that will agree with them about the difference between marketing tools and spyware. Bu there is of course no proof and since I am not a conspiracy theorist, I will not make such accusations.
IANACT
JFMILLER
Is this also the reason none of the major Credit Card serveses show up? ie Visa and Master Card?
The poster has obviously not kept up with the Diebold debates.
There are two goals in voting. Quickly and accuratly counting votes, and making sure no one cheets. Paper and pencle voting were great for the later. All that was needed was good physical security and oversight. Computers are supurb for the former. Press the button and out pups the reuslts. It is finding a system where both goals, Accountibility and Efficiency, are met that is the issue.
Computer data, as has been shown on slashdot overe and over, in vonerable to an infinate number of changes. With out an audit trail there are any number of ways to stuff the ballet box, particularly if your company makes the voting machine.
By having the computer produce a hard copy, there can be public review of the vote. And sence the computer can be designed to create uniformally accurate paper ballets, there will be none of the hanging chad debates. The computer can ensure that every ballet it prints is valid and clear. It can also tabulate results quickly. If there is then a question as to whether the computer was misprogramed, the user varified paper trail is still there to be counted. And sence it was produced in a uniform way and verifird by the voter, even a recount will be much faster and more accurate then the old pencil and paper methode.
I think that the origional poster knows all this and it just trolling, but five slashdot moderators can't be wrong. Just hope I'm not the one to M2 this post.
JFMILLER
Real Genus is definatily something every geek shoud have in his or her collection!
JFMILLER
try This Link instead it actually works.
JFMILLER