Ebert: "The speeches provide not meaning, but the effect of meaning: It sure sounds like those guys are saying some profound things."
"That will not prevent fanboys from analyzing the philosophy of "The Matrix Reloaded" in endless Web postings."
Slashdot: One of the best after-effects of the first Matrix was the way it made you question your own take on reality. It really made you wonder what's real, and what's not.
Watching a professional critic talk about fanboys hanging on every line like it was deep philosophy and clicking over to read slash-shoppers hanging on every line like it was deep philosophy is the best part of these movies.
Weren't the previous 8% of tax hikes in the last 100 years supposed to fix the budget deficit? Why is this tax hike going to make any difference when all the others haven't?
You ever notice that all the trends today are technology to support other technology to achieve the same result while all the trends 10 years ago were technology to improve the result? Instead of online banking it's moving the online banking from a phone line to a wireless phone line. Instead of making bigger software it's making the same software with a different billing cycle. Why doesn't anyone write about that?
Some of the posts report over 100K incomes but don't say if that happens every year or is an extrapolation of their current month into the future. $8000/month means a lot more if you can do it year after year than if you only do it for one month and spend a year unemployed. Seems people in technology like to claim the 100K title as soon as they get hired only to get laid off next month. Hardly anyone who claims that is pulling it off year after year.
Linux innovation is when Codeweavers starts running Win32 binaries before Win 2003 starts runnning Win32 binaries. So far it's been the other way around.
Going through these free software funding groups is a real pain. Once you take their money, they obligate you to demonstrate significant progress on the project for the rest of your life, which over years and decades can become more of a financial burden than not taking the money in the first place.
Secondly, the fact that you need these organizations like pubsoft.org and thousands of dollars in lawyers to get tax deductions shows just how much the tax structure slams free software while promoting commercial software. Commercial software developers get virtually free equipment.
Been looking for a while at how to get tax writeoffs on free software expenses. Spending $150,000 on a free software project using after-tax income is a rediculous burden when you consider if you just charged $1 for the software you could make $75,000 with the tax writeoff.
We're at a serious disadvantage in that commercial software developers make the same product as free software developers but free software developers have to pay income tax on everything they use in developing that product while commercial developers don't.
Free software can never have the same tax advantage of commercial software because everyone would be claiming free software expenses on their school assignments. This is the main reason Linux supports virtually no current hardware without serious Windows emulation.
There's no real innovation happening in Mozilla at the feature level. It may have the best object oriented programming but it's slow and has no more features than Netscape did before Microsoft killed it. So few people use anything but IE and so much of the multimedia on Linux is just Windows binaries emulated in Wine, it's easier just to run a real copy of windows and IE.
Biology is modern feudalism. It's already impossibly tedious and slow to make any progress in biological research yet these wives and daughters do the research for free. They work endlessly with radioactive phosphorus, carcinogenic gel, in green fluorescent lighting for free for many years before maybe starting $5.25 an hour as a paid research assistant. If the drug companies are charging any money for their research, it's probably for the many years and decades each tiniest advance takes.
It's amazing that CPU's haven't increased performance on a clock for clock basis since 1997. Imagine if modern CPU's really ran 3000 times faster than a 6502.
Male breadwinning is a lot more important than it was in the past. Wives don't enlist in the workforce anymore. The low paying jobs 1 or 2 wives are willing to put up with don't provide anything. The modern 50,000 watt flamethrower of male breadwinning expectation expects results.
First, the Altera Flex is only $3000 or something and you could probably fabricate your own FPGA development board for $100. Slashdot shopping network won't tell you that nugget of information.
Doing stuff in hardware is neat because it runs real fast, you're interacting with the real world instead of living in a black box, and you can charge money for it. Other than that, it's too expensive to use in most commercial situations and you need to go back to a general purpose computer. Let's put it this way. The ML300 is $4695 in materials. A standalone FPGA with supporting electronics and PCB fabrication is $100 in materials. Pure software on a general purpose computer is $0 in materials.
But the part of this theory no-one likes to mention is eventually the stars are going to run out of energy and everything we've created is going to freeze no matter where we move to.
That's probably why they moved away from peroxide in the 60's. Liquid hydrogen might be producable from home-made components. Merely electrolyze water and refrigerate it with several stages of liquid nitrogen and compression.
Looks like a kid with really rich parents. If all parents were that rich and put all their money into their kid's hobbies we would be a lot farther along. By the time normal kids are old enough to afford just one of these experiments, they've lost the curiosity and imagination.
With all these jobs going to Asia and Americans jumping ship in search of a better life, I've often wondered what it's going to be like when I'm the last American, to drive all the freeways at 120 mph, to have the choice of every house in the country to live in, to not have to pay bills anymore. Enjoy your time in India.
Is there a 16 bit floating point camera? Does Povray generate 16 bit floating point renders? Are TV stations going to start broadcasting 16 bit floating point? It looks like the only way to do it is to spend a few months in front of Maya creating a scene from scratch and render a few hundred variations in brightness.
In 1997 when Intel first announced the CPU serial number, opposition was never ending. By the looks of current slashdot comments, 6 years and billions of layoffs later have changed consumer sentiment dramatically. Now consumers clearly are ambivalent about CPU-based copy protection if not supportive of it.
#1 They don't want to give up the high priced feature sets that copy protection brings them.
#2 The boost in technology stocks brought by copy protection outweighs the loss of freedom.
Most of today's opinions use financial conditions as reason for imposing CPU copy protection where yesterday's opposition was entirely based on pure computer science.
What is the cheapest way to program an FPGA using just Linux? All I've seen are development kits costing thousands of dollars, which only run in Win32.
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1400 automatically retrievable CD's for $1000.
Ebert: "The speeches provide not meaning, but the effect of meaning: It sure sounds like those guys are saying some profound things."
"That will not prevent fanboys from analyzing the philosophy of "The Matrix Reloaded" in endless Web postings."
Slashdot: One of the best after-effects of the first Matrix was the way it made you question your own take on reality. It really made you wonder what's real, and what's not.
Watching a professional critic talk about fanboys hanging on every line like it was deep philosophy and clicking over to read slash-shoppers hanging on every line like it was deep philosophy is the best part of these movies.
Weren't the previous 8% of tax hikes in the last 100 years supposed to fix the budget deficit? Why is this tax hike going to make any difference when all the others haven't?
You ever notice that all the trends today are technology to support other technology to achieve the same result while all the trends 10 years ago were technology to improve the result? Instead of online banking it's moving the online banking from a phone line to a wireless phone line. Instead of making bigger software it's making the same software with a different billing cycle. Why doesn't anyone write about that?
Some of the posts report over 100K incomes but don't say if that happens every year or is an extrapolation of their current month into the future. $8000/month means a lot more if you can do it year after year than if you only do it for one month and spend a year unemployed. Seems people in technology like to claim the 100K title as soon as they get hired only to get laid off next month. Hardly anyone who claims that is pulling it off year after year.
Linux innovation is when Codeweavers starts running Win32 binaries before Win 2003 starts runnning Win32 binaries. So far it's been the other way around.
I'm not interested in buying a Honda Accord, a Pentium 4 3Ghz, a copy of EverQuest, or a copy of Firefly on DVD.
Along with the demise of tall buildings, space shuttles, freedom of speech, and the US economy, the end of supersonic air travel brings our score to
Free world: 0
U.B.W.H.Laiden the Ist: 1,000,000,000,000 New hall of fame inductee!
Going through these free software funding groups is a real pain. Once you take their money, they obligate you to demonstrate significant progress on the project for the rest of your life, which over years and decades can become more of a financial burden than not taking the money in the first place.
Secondly, the fact that you need these organizations like pubsoft.org and thousands of dollars in lawyers to get tax deductions shows just how much the tax structure slams free software while promoting commercial software. Commercial software developers get virtually free equipment.
Been looking for a while at how to get tax writeoffs on free software expenses. Spending $150,000 on a free software project using after-tax income is a rediculous burden when you consider if you just charged $1 for the software you could make $75,000 with the tax writeoff.
We're at a serious disadvantage in that commercial software developers make the same product as free software developers but free software developers have to pay income tax on everything they use in developing that product while commercial developers don't.
Free software can never have the same tax advantage of commercial software because everyone would be claiming free software expenses on their school assignments. This is the main reason Linux supports virtually no current hardware without serious Windows emulation.
There's no real innovation happening in Mozilla at the feature level. It may have the best object oriented programming but it's slow and has no more features than Netscape did before Microsoft killed it. So few people use anything but IE and so much of the multimedia on Linux is just Windows binaries emulated in Wine, it's easier just to run a real copy of windows and IE.
Look for this in Linux 5 years from now. Leave it to Microsoft to introduce the idea of unique ID's in libraries and Linux to copy it.
Since most of the stories were forwards of advertizing campaigns for new handhelds or cell phones I'm not going to miss much by not paying.
Biology is modern feudalism. It's already impossibly tedious and slow to make any progress in biological research yet these wives and daughters do the research for free. They work endlessly with radioactive phosphorus, carcinogenic gel, in green fluorescent lighting for free for many years before maybe starting $5.25 an hour as a paid research assistant. If the drug companies are charging any money for their research, it's probably for the many years and decades each tiniest advance takes.
It's amazing that CPU's haven't increased performance on a clock for clock basis since 1997. Imagine if modern CPU's really ran 3000 times faster than a 6502.
The object of the game should be this:
Send autonomous construction robots to Mars.
Use the native materials to build enourmous castles.
Pressurize the castles for humans.
Terraforming would take too long to be any use.
Male breadwinning is a lot more important than it was in the past. Wives don't enlist in the workforce anymore. The low paying jobs 1 or 2 wives are willing to put up with don't provide anything. The modern 50,000 watt flamethrower of male breadwinning expectation expects results.
First, the Altera Flex is only $3000 or something and you could probably fabricate your own FPGA development board for $100. Slashdot shopping network won't tell you that nugget of information.
Doing stuff in hardware is neat because it runs real fast, you're interacting with the real world instead of living in a black box, and you can charge money for it. Other than that, it's too expensive to use in most commercial situations and you need to go back to a general purpose computer. Let's put it this way. The ML300 is $4695 in materials. A standalone FPGA with supporting electronics and PCB fabrication is $100 in materials. Pure software on a general purpose computer is $0 in materials.
But the part of this theory no-one likes to mention is eventually the stars are going to run out of energy and everything we've created is going to freeze no matter where we move to.
That's probably why they moved away from peroxide in the 60's. Liquid hydrogen might be producable from home-made components. Merely electrolyze water and refrigerate it with several stages of liquid nitrogen and compression.
Looks like a kid with really rich parents. If all parents were that rich and put all their money into their kid's hobbies we would be a lot farther along. By the time normal kids are old enough to afford just one of these experiments, they've lost the curiosity and imagination.
With all these jobs going to Asia and Americans jumping ship in search of a better life, I've often wondered what it's going to be like when I'm the last American, to drive all the freeways at 120 mph, to have the choice of every house in the country to live in, to not have to pay bills anymore. Enjoy your time in India.
Is there a 16 bit floating point camera? Does Povray generate 16 bit floating point renders? Are TV stations going to start broadcasting 16 bit floating point? It looks like the only way to do it is to spend a few months in front of Maya creating a scene from scratch and render a few hundred variations in brightness.
In 1997 when Intel first announced the CPU serial number, opposition was never ending. By the looks of current slashdot comments, 6 years and billions of layoffs later have changed consumer sentiment dramatically. Now consumers clearly are ambivalent about CPU-based copy protection if not supportive of it.
#1 They don't want to give up the high priced feature sets that copy protection brings them.
#2 The boost in technology stocks brought by copy protection outweighs the loss of freedom.
Most of today's opinions use financial conditions as reason for imposing CPU copy protection where yesterday's opposition was entirely based on pure computer science.
What is the cheapest way to program an FPGA using just Linux? All I've seen are development kits costing thousands of dollars, which only run in Win32.