It also seemed to me to be a good idea to pick my real name as my GMail account name, but then again with a name like "Milosz Derezynski" you're not exactly helping the memory of your friends
Well it should be obvious by now that local-range P2P is the solution to today's and especially tomorrow's traffic problems; i have a 30MBit/s connection and 100MBit/s over cable is on the verge here.
On a sidenote it should be noted that most telcos, unlike what most people are telling you, are only interested in throttling BT or other P2P because of the massive traffic load this causes, and not because of legal issues; in fact they couldn't care less whether a file is legal or illegal as long as you pay the traffic, court orders and being held responsible in your stead aside of course.
I'm (sort of) a native German speaker, in which "DNA" is abbreviated "DNS" ("DesoxyribonukleinsÃure" with "sÃure" being "acid").
Needless to say, my first impression of the headline was way more futuristic than what is there.
OK i guess this will be modded as flamebait, but perhaps it's US's responsibility to just stop messing with other countries altogether, no breaking, no fixing, just leaving them alone.
This is just Bush and co taking things too personal. Like a hurt and wounded animal, after the 9/11 attacks, it's all just paranoia, there just isn't any reason for all this.
As a good tactical leader Bin Laden knows that paranoia can and will drive an enemy into its own destruction. This really has to stop or we'll just end up killing ourselves and doing the job for him
But seriously, this is a first step into losing the real perspective, not looking into the places where we SHOULD be looking for if we want to seek safety.
In fact the curvature can even be negative, if we have negative mass density.
Normal matter is attracted to each other since it creates a positive spacetime curve. If antimatter has negative mass only then we would see the effects discussed here, that is, (anti-)matter creating a negative spacetime curvature, leading to it "roll off" pff the positive spacetime curvature of e.g. the earth).
Also, it wouldn't exactly disprove GR, it would only violate the positive energy condition of the GR, however it would not break up the consistency of GR mathematically.
I think that in case of Monsanto, and a lot of other patents, a qualifier of "substantial self-contribution" should be present and taken into jugdement when it comes to grant them a patent on it.
If they just scrap up ideas from around, or it's just a matter of non-substantial contribution (just spending a lot of time, but not adding real value or original research to the project), the patent should be denied.
Of course, in our current capitalistic system, money equals time equals substantial contribution, no matter if actual own research happened (which would be a qualitative distinction).
Seen like this, patents are just another way that enables you to get more money in return when you just throw a lot of money on something. The actual value-add for humanity isn't a factor here (which it IMHO should be). You simply throw a lot of money at a project and come up with a patent, which enables you to milk everyone else around, but you don't neccessarily need to have invented something truly unique, just be the first to formulate it.
This system doesn't do much by itself to drive humanity's progress. In some cases people do invent unique things, but in this system, it's just a sideeffect (people love new things so they'll spend more money).
If you don't let go of some of the margins and price them aggressively against Intel you're going to die. From die we come, and to die we shall return!
I wouldn't call it wasted. With all the massive privacy issues already standing, and upcoming, i'd say it's going to be pretty normal that a part of your CPU power should be dedicated to encryption where needed.
I also have a "media center" type box with ubuntu that the family uses to get and display multimedia content. This box is almost maintenance free, no virus, no problems. A Windows machine would have given me a lot more work and it would have turned me into a pirate:-) *twiddledum*
For a while there (1999-2007) I had the impression everything about the net is said, done and closed file, but people watch it were back to the big decisions. Now that everyone can have 30MBit/s connections (i pay about $60 a month for it, 40 EUR that is, but my ISP throttles BitTorrent!) it's not about the speed, the reach (except some areas but it's all coming), the software (just download Ubuntu and you get software for really all you can just do on the net), it's about things like net neutrality.
This isn't going to just pass by the courts, at least not where i live (the EU), and it's going to set important milestones for net access for decades to come!
The downside is that before the decisions will really be made we're going to wade for years through molasses, with ISPs doing all sort of weird things with their customer's access until someone puts the hat back on.
Do you mean solving "run-time" problems? That is if one can't figure out how to configure Windows 2003 to do this and that? That's one thing.
The kind of support i'm speaking of is the entire effort that is being put in e.g. a Linux distribution like Ubuntu, and packages in general; continuous upgrades (they're a no-brainer and cause no problems using a package management system like apt+dpkg), where an actual bug gets *fixed* after a forseeable timespan and you actually *can* participate in the process of fixing the code you need to be fixed. There are still people around who think this is spaced out, that's not for them to do, it's up to the great big thing above that bemothers them, but they're really shifted from reality.
If this is what you mean (the run-time help) then i'd call this "advice"; as someone else has aptly put, an OS is the foundation of a company's offerings which offers services that enable you to use your computer for specific tasks. Putting out one version every few years with few updates in between (SPs) and otherwise just helping users out to work better with what's there just doesn't cut it; I realize that i'm setting the standard here at how i just described it how Linux distros work, but that is the way this is going to work for the future.
Doing it the Microsoft way works only in a closed ecosystem which Microsoft has thrust upon all its users in the past 20 or so years, but the moment you turn open (and i don't mean open as in open source, but in the entire breadth of the meaning) you just can not afford to publish one monolithic piece of software and expect everyone to keep it using as-is while other components of your entire stack keep evolving.
It's as if Microsoft expects you to buy a newspaper on let's say Jan 1st 2009, and stay with the same headlines for the next 3 years, and if reality shifts away from those headlines they just tell you how best to cope with it.
With this announcement of total backwards break, Microsoft has declared complete defeat for their business model. It would be nicer if they would fly the white flag and be good sports about it. The free software community will welcome them if they just GPL their code and act nice.
Yeah they could just GPL the code and become a company for mostly just supporting their products. It's just that Microsoft seems to notoriously suck at support, so they won't be making any dime with that one. Seems it's really either fly or die for them.
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It also seemed to me to be a good idea to pick my real name as my GMail account name, but then again with a name like "Milosz Derezynski" you're not exactly helping the memory of your friends
Well it should be obvious by now that local-range P2P is the solution to today's and especially tomorrow's traffic problems; i have a 30MBit/s connection and 100MBit/s over cable is on the verge here.
On a sidenote it should be noted that most telcos, unlike what most people are telling you, are only interested in throttling BT or other P2P because of the massive traffic load this causes, and not because of legal issues; in fact they couldn't care less whether a file is legal or illegal as long as you pay the traffic, court orders and being held responsible in your stead aside of course.
I, for one, welcome our new Memristor-based RRAM overlords!
WTF it's not a joke? My initial thought before i read it again was that it was some kind of bioengineering feat...
I'm (sort of) a native German speaker, in which "DNA" is abbreviated "DNS" ("DesoxyribonukleinsÃure" with "sÃure" being "acid").
Needless to say, my first impression of the headline was way more futuristic than what is there.
OK i guess this will be modded as flamebait, but perhaps it's US's responsibility to just stop messing with other countries altogether, no breaking, no fixing, just leaving them alone.
i guess it's better than Ballmer throwing a chair
Now when my software-developing colleagues will accuse me of having a mind of my own I'll just refer them to my compiler instead!
"By using an accelerated aging process to test the longevity of CD media, eFilm Gold CD-R disks have been shown to safely store images for 300 years"
Ah, yes, the good old 1600's, when CD-Rs were invented. Back then they were still made of wood and "burning" them often meant that, just literally.
I sense a wave of people cracking their purchased software rolling. Mass Effect indeed.
Most made the switch in advance, I guess due to shelf-life of products and ironing out problems working with the new material.
/. so much!
So that's what they put in there instead, good to be in the know! These little hints in the summaries are what makes me appreciate
I bought this great Firefox addon from SCO, but it seems to stop me from posting when referring to e.g. UNIXWA
This is just Bush and co taking things too personal. Like a hurt and wounded animal, after the 9/11 attacks, it's all just paranoia, there just isn't any reason for all this. As a good tactical leader Bin Laden knows that paranoia can and will drive an enemy into its own destruction. This really has to stop or we'll just end up killing ourselves and doing the job for him But seriously, this is a first step into losing the real perspective, not looking into the places where we SHOULD be looking for if we want to seek safety.
In fact the curvature can even be negative, if we have negative mass density. Normal matter is attracted to each other since it creates a positive spacetime curve. If antimatter has negative mass only then we would see the effects discussed here, that is, (anti-)matter creating a negative spacetime curvature, leading to it "roll off" pff the positive spacetime curvature of e.g. the earth).
Also, it wouldn't exactly disprove GR, it would only violate the positive energy condition of the GR, however it would not break up the consistency of GR mathematically.
That's why the *AA hate general purpose computing ever since harddisks got large enough to store a full album's worth of tracks.
Did anyone bother to point out that TPM has been discussed to death and the mere existence of the Trusted Platform Module is no news at all?
I think that in case of Monsanto, and a lot of other patents, a qualifier of "substantial self-contribution" should be present and taken into jugdement when it comes to grant them a patent on it.
If they just scrap up ideas from around, or it's just a matter of non-substantial contribution (just spending a lot of time, but not adding real value or original research to the project), the patent should be denied.
Of course, in our current capitalistic system, money equals time equals substantial contribution, no matter if actual own research happened (which would be a qualitative distinction). Seen like this, patents are just another way that enables you to get more money in return when you just throw a lot of money on something. The actual value-add for humanity isn't a factor here (which it IMHO should be). You simply throw a lot of money at a project and come up with a patent, which enables you to milk everyone else around, but you don't neccessarily need to have invented something truly unique, just be the first to formulate it.
This system doesn't do much by itself to drive humanity's progress. In some cases people do invent unique things, but in this system, it's just a sideeffect (people love new things so they'll spend more money).
I wouldn't call it wasted. With all the massive privacy issues already standing, and upcoming, i'd say it's going to be pretty normal that a part of your CPU power should be dedicated to encryption where needed.
For a while there (1999-2007) I had the impression everything about the net is said, done and closed file, but people watch it were back to the big decisions. Now that everyone can have 30MBit/s connections (i pay about $60 a month for it, 40 EUR that is, but my ISP throttles BitTorrent!) it's not about the speed, the reach (except some areas but it's all coming), the software (just download Ubuntu and you get software for really all you can just do on the net), it's about things like net neutrality.
This isn't going to just pass by the courts, at least not where i live (the EU), and it's going to set important milestones for net access for decades to come!
The downside is that before the decisions will really be made we're going to wade for years through molasses, with ISPs doing all sort of weird things with their customer's access until someone puts the hat back on.
Do you mean solving "run-time" problems? That is if one can't figure out how to configure Windows 2003 to do this and that? That's one thing.
The kind of support i'm speaking of is the entire effort that is being put in e.g. a Linux distribution like Ubuntu, and packages in general; continuous upgrades (they're a no-brainer and cause no problems using a package management system like apt+dpkg), where an actual bug gets *fixed* after a forseeable timespan and you actually *can* participate in the process of fixing the code you need to be fixed. There are still people around who think this is spaced out, that's not for them to do, it's up to the great big thing above that bemothers them, but they're really shifted from reality.
If this is what you mean (the run-time help) then i'd call this "advice"; as someone else has aptly put, an OS is the foundation of a company's offerings which offers services that enable you to use your computer for specific tasks. Putting out one version every few years with few updates in between (SPs) and otherwise just helping users out to work better with what's there just doesn't cut it; I realize that i'm setting the standard here at how i just described it how Linux distros work, but that is the way this is going to work for the future.
Doing it the Microsoft way works only in a closed ecosystem which Microsoft has thrust upon all its users in the past 20 or so years, but the moment you turn open (and i don't mean open as in open source, but in the entire breadth of the meaning) you just can not afford to publish one monolithic piece of software and expect everyone to keep it using as-is while other components of your entire stack keep evolving.
It's as if Microsoft expects you to buy a newspaper on let's say Jan 1st 2009, and stay with the same headlines for the next 3 years, and if reality shifts away from those headlines they just tell you how best to cope with it.
With this announcement of total backwards break, Microsoft has declared complete defeat for their business model. It would be nicer if they would fly the white flag and be good sports about it. The free software community will welcome them if they just GPL their code and act nice.
Yeah they could just GPL the code and become a company for mostly just supporting their products. It's just that Microsoft seems to notoriously suck at support, so they won't be making any dime with that one. Seems it's really either fly or die for them.