I first noticed film stuttering with SW V: The Empire Strikes back. Approaching the cloud city. Ugh.
Did anyone catch West Wing last week? For the TV debates, they showed video. The rest of the episode was on film. I noticed.
I'd like to think that 60 Hz 720P would become "standard". Digital projection, especially if it's a whole-frame (e.g. TI's micro-mirror array) rather than projection TV done large). It would certainly be noticable, and (IMHO) help reduce film and video artifacts. In exchange for some new ones, no doubt.
Dude, there's a big difference between business practices that cross the line into price fixing and simply walking out of the store with a CD you didn't pay for.
Yes. Price-fixing is a felony. Shoplifting a CD isn't.
When you download a song off of the Internet, you're shoplifting, plain and simple.
No you're not. Downloading a song off the internet is, at its worst, making an unauthorized copy. The law allows for that under some circumstances. If you send it to cassette tape, then you're covered by the AHRA...
Please justify your notion of arithmatic where This $799 computer http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/82/wo/8m6Oo190p6jyK5FRTx/0.3.0.3.34. 39.3.3.1.1.0?222,31 is "2 or 3 times as much" as a $500-$1,000 PC.
Radio stations get payed to play tunes. The ones that pays the most, gets played the most. And with networks like Clear Channel Communications buying up every radio station in sight, you won't have any choice but to listen to two commercials for every song they are paid to play.
You can bet the mortgage that broadcast radio and the big labels are very pleased that Internet Radio has been squashed. They play interesting, new music.
It's not about death as revenge or justice as far as I'm concerned, it's about death because there's literaelly nothing else to do with these people. There's no way that human law can possibly carry out a "just" punishment against these people no matter what you do.
We're talking about people who think it's OK to kill thousands of civillians and actively seek to do so. This isn't just "misguided," it's just plain wrong, but these people have all but been programmed to think this way.
The U.S.'s war in Afghanistan has killed thousands of civilians. War against Iraq would probably kill an order of magnitude more Iraqis. Where does that fall on your moral scale?
I got called to pay my "voting tax" next week (Jury Duty), and I would dread being on a case like this. While common sense would have me acquit on the basis that a broad "patent" like this is a mockery of the Office, and that even if eBay were abusing it with intent, I'd still not have much sympathy for this guy -- it's still the law, and I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means (since laws are no longer by the people -- if you need a lawyer to explain a law, there's something WRONG!).
Ahhh, but "obviousness" is a valid defense against a claim of infringement. _Proving_ obviousness seems harder.
And, since you read slashdot, you obviously know too much to be allowed to sit on jury for a software patent infringement case. One side or the other would insist you go...
You still can't patent an idea or algorithm or thought
Old school. Patent lawyers have gotten the law to distinguish between mathematical algorithms, which cannot be patented, and other algorithms, which can be. These are the Software patents.
Whether an algorithm is mathematical or not is decided by how much each side in the controvoersy spends on lawyers.
What about distributing code with instructions to the end user on how to link the code with GPL'ed libraries? Does that imply a burden to open-source the code?
Young-earth creationists have a problem: the appearance of history. It is quite possible that God did create the universe just 6,000 years ago, complete with the appearance of history. It is more provable that my Cat, Sidney, created the world, complete with the appearance of history, Last Thursday.
The fossil record is no where near complete. Evolution lets us make predictions, though, that those arguing for a separate creation of individual species have a difficult time explaining. With Archaeopteryx sharing many skeletal characteristics of therapod dinosaurs and one characteristic of Birds (feathers), it was easy to predict that there would be more fossils found with more dinosaur-like features and fewere bird-like features, and vice versa. The recent finds of feathered dinosaurs in China confirms this prediction.
This is a common misconception. If you travel at the speed of light 1 second for you is the same as 1 second on Earth.
No. If you were going away from the earth at half the speed of light, in one second of your time, 1.15 seconds would go by on earth 1/sqrt( 1 - (v/c)^2). From the other perspective, in one second on earth, 1.15 seconds would elapse on your spacecraft. The paradox is left to students of the Lorentz Transformation.
If you were travelling at the speed of light, in one second of your time, not-a-number seconds would pass back on earth. As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, clocks on earth go slower and slower.
In short, if Einstein is right we are in a dead end. So, I want to beleive there is worm hole or hyperspace or whatever which makes space travel possible otherwise humanity will stuck to this planet forever.
Or, as I hope, Einstein is not right. I hope a genius in the future will invalidate Einstein theory as Einstein invalidated Newton theory. It is interesting that nobody dares to say, but Newton theory about gravity and his equations were completely shattered by Einstein on the theoretical level.
Newton's physics is "good enough", except at very high speeds or very dense gravitational gradients. Experiments have confirmed those subtle discrepencies between reality and the predictions of the theory. Einstein's physics is "good enough" in those cases... Feel free to study Einstein's theories, and figure out an experiment to perform to show that he was wrong.
We shall see whether humanity is stuck on this planet forever (errr. for mumble billion years before the sun swells to its red-giant phase and vaporizes the planet...) or we make it out to the solar system, or even the stars.
It may take hundreds or thousands of years before we have the wealth and the ability and the desire to create a civilization off of this planet.
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I first noticed film stuttering with SW V: The Empire Strikes back. Approaching the cloud city. Ugh.
Did anyone catch West Wing last week? For the TV debates, they showed video. The rest of the episode was on film. I noticed.
I'd like to think that 60 Hz 720P would become "standard". Digital projection, especially if it's a whole-frame (e.g. TI's micro-mirror array) rather than projection TV done large). It would certainly be noticable, and (IMHO) help reduce film and video artifacts. In exchange for some new ones, no doubt.
I see. Microsoft breaks the law, gets caught and convicted. Buys a new Justice Department. Then pleads for a punishment that is not punative.
So they end up promising not to do some of the bad stuff ever again. And, they even get to decide whether they are doing the bad stuff!
"Officer, I promise not to speed ever again. To be sure of it, I will watch how fast I'm driving, and report back if I ever drive too fast."
Sheesh.
Change region 3 to color 1, and then use color 3 for region X.
Yes. Price-fixing is a felony. Shoplifting a CD isn't.
No you're not. Downloading a song off the internet is, at its worst, making an unauthorized copy. The law allows for that under some circumstances. If you send it to cassette tape, then you're covered by the AHRA...
I used the introduction dates from Apple's web site. See PowerMacintosh 8100, 8500, and 8600 models.
Your data for 1994 through 1998 for Motorola are wrong.
Source: http://docs.info.apple.com
1994 110 (not 80)
1995 132 (not 100)
1996 200 (not 100) -- parity with Intel
1997 350 (not 150) -- better than Intel
1998 350 (not 233)
1999 450
'twould be odd. Apple had 225 MHz PPC 604e machines when the fastest Pentium (possibly -Pro or -II) was only 200. Ca. 1996
Please justify your notion of arithmatic where This $799 computer http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/82/wo/8m6Oo190p6jyK5FRTx/0.3.0.3.34. 39.3.3.1.1.0?222,31 is "2 or 3 times as much" as a $500-$1,000 PC.
Or used.
For those missing the cultural reference, there was a slogan in the early 1970s:
"Drive 55. It's not just a good idea, it's THE LAW.".
My favorite variation:
"Drive 55. It's not a good idea, it's just THE LAW."
Word order matters!
Naaahhh.
Radio stations get payed to play tunes. The ones that pays the most, gets played the most. And with networks like Clear Channel Communications buying up every radio station in sight, you won't have any choice but to listen to two commercials for every song they are paid to play.
You can bet the mortgage that broadcast radio and the big labels are very pleased that Internet Radio has been squashed. They play interesting, new music.
The U.S.'s war in Afghanistan has killed thousands of civilians. War against Iraq would probably kill an order of magnitude more Iraqis. Where does that fall on your moral scale?
Just Say No to new versions of Windows, too.
Ahhh, but "obviousness" is a valid defense against a claim of infringement. _Proving_ obviousness seems harder.
And, since you read slashdot, you obviously know too much to be allowed to sit on jury for a software patent infringement case. One side or the other would insist you go...
Old school. Patent lawyers have gotten the law to distinguish between mathematical algorithms, which cannot be patented, and other algorithms, which can be. These are the Software patents.
Whether an algorithm is mathematical or not is decided by how much each side in the controvoersy spends on lawyers.
They'd be on their asses looking up at a Sherman Act antitrust suit. Prima Facia illegal.
What about distributing code with instructions to the end user on how to link the code with GPL'ed libraries? Does that imply a burden to open-source the code?
It's only been seven years, but you've already forgotten the blond-haired, blue-eyed, Christian American terrorists.
_That_ is why Racial Profiling is a bad idea.
The problem that the day-age people have is that the order is all wrong. Fruit trees before fish. Plants before the sun.
Young-earth creationists have a problem: the appearance of history. It is quite possible that God did create the universe just 6,000 years ago, complete with the appearance of history. It is more provable that my Cat, Sidney, created the world, complete with the appearance of history, Last Thursday.
The fossil record is no where near complete. Evolution lets us make predictions, though, that those arguing for a separate creation of individual species have a difficult time explaining. With Archaeopteryx sharing many skeletal characteristics of therapod dinosaurs and one characteristic of Birds (feathers), it was easy to predict that there would be more fossils found with more dinosaur-like features and fewere bird-like features, and vice versa. The recent finds of feathered dinosaurs in China confirms this prediction.
Yes, we have witnessed one species becoming two different species.
No. There is the Theory of Evolution. There is Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. There is no scientifically-viable Theory of Creation.
No. If you were going away from the earth at half the speed of light, in one second of your time, 1.15 seconds would go by on earth 1/sqrt( 1 - (v/c)^2). From the other perspective, in one second on earth, 1.15 seconds would elapse on your spacecraft. The paradox is left to students of the Lorentz Transformation.
If you were travelling at the speed of light, in one second of your time, not-a-number seconds would pass back on earth. As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, clocks on earth go slower and slower.
Newton's physics is "good enough", except at very high speeds or very dense gravitational gradients. Experiments have confirmed those subtle discrepencies between reality and the predictions of the theory. Einstein's physics is "good enough" in those cases... Feel free to study Einstein's theories, and figure out an experiment to perform to show that he was wrong.
We shall see whether humanity is stuck on this planet forever (errr. for mumble billion years before the sun swells to its red-giant phase and vaporizes the planet...) or we make it out to the solar system, or even the stars.
It may take hundreds or thousands of years before we have the wealth and the ability and the desire to create a civilization off of this planet.
And do you know why IBM didn't insist on exclusive rights to the Operating Systems they vended for the IBM PC?
It wasn't because they didn't "get it"; it was because of the Anti-Trust action against them.
Where would Microsoft be if IBM had insisted on an exclusive license? So that MS couldn't sell PC-DOS to anyone else?
Support costs. Add (# technicians / # desktops) * (salary + office space costs for techs)