I focused on the Time Capsule seminar. I'm getting sick and tired of historians telling me I shouldn't be using my things, because it will destory their future historical value when:
a)The stuff only exists to be used in the first place. Don't use stuff and there won't be any stuff to preserve. b)Much of the value in historical artifacts comes from examining their wear patterns. Used stuff is usually more historically valuable. Unused stuff simply commands a higher price from collectors, which usually has the side effect of making the artifacts . ..less available to historians.
( ) paranoid ( ) delusional (x) impossible to confirm (x) impossible to refute
I am insulted that you do not consider me paranoid and delusional. In fact, I consider this is a libel. You'll be hearing from my Somoan lawyer, as soon as he actually exists.
What we actually did was build studio on Mars, where it was easier to fake lunar conditions. I'm sure the original tapes would have shown this clearly.
We'd only have a monarchy if there was a clear blood line of successi-
Of course to have a monarchy in the tradtional sense (rather than merely a dictator) it isn't enough that you have a blood line of succession. It requires that the blood line is viewed as the will of God, that God has ordained the monarch to be the ruler.
The entire point of WINE/Cider is to make ports unneccasary, to run the software natively under an alternate OS, because it is running on the same hardware for which it was compiled.
It is not an emulator. You only need to emulate when you are translating the intsruction set of one chip to a chip with a different instruction set.
Does software under Cider take a performance hit? Yes, sometimes. Sometimes it won't even run at all. This isn't because of an emulation layer, it is because Cider is incomplete.
The stuff they're particularly trying to protect is stuff that is specifically not legally protected intellectual property. They've chosen the "secret formula" route. Protected intellectual property (the only kind you need a license to use) is public knowledge.
And their secrets only need to be protected for a few years, the rate at which it becomes obsolescent, which is faster than reverse engineering time; and much shorter than patent protection time.
I'm sure they're perfectly capable of reverse engineering the drivers without having to look at the chip under a microscope.
And that is why Linux has no driver issues.
I've been known to make some custom hardware. If you give me driver code I can make you a chip that will run it; perfectly. If you give me a chip and a binary driver I can make the chip do something with my own code, but I'll never figure out everything it can do without the specs. Never, ever. No matter how bright I am.
. . . but I'd be very surprised if they can't dig into each other's hardware under a microscope to figure out what the other guy is doing, and reverse engineer each other's drivers.
What on earth would they do that for? What could they even do with said drivers? Nobody cares about the silly drivers, it's the chip they're interested in in the first place.
The fear is that by looking at the driver code they can figure out the architecture of the chip by looking at what's going on at a high level, without having to look at the chip under a microscope and try to figure out what the hell a godzillion apparently random transistors are doing.
Well then I guess that would be the declaration that the Federal government holds some sort of implicit title in . ..well, just about everything; and that thus all legal issues involving any sort of property are Federal issues.
Isn't pretty damned close to the definition of a fuedal monarchy?
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He who dies having spent the most time playing with his toys wins.
KFG
I focused on the Time Capsule seminar. I'm getting sick and tired of historians telling me I shouldn't be using my things, because it will destory their future historical value when:
.less available to historians.
a)The stuff only exists to be used in the first place. Don't use stuff and there won't be any stuff to preserve.
b)Much of the value in historical artifacts comes from examining their wear patterns. Used stuff is usually more historically valuable. Unused stuff simply commands a higher price from collectors, which usually has the side effect of making the artifacts . .
KFG
Columbus was a poor dresser . . .
.so I traded him in for an armoire.
. .
KFG
Look up "print-through" (you may have to resort to paper sources for that).
.on tape.
Naaaaaaaaah! No need to resort to paper. I've got lots of reference examples . .
KFG
( ) paranoid
( ) delusional
(x) impossible to confirm
(x) impossible to refute
I am insulted that you do not consider me paranoid and delusional. In fact, I consider this is a libel. You'll be hearing from my Somoan lawyer, as soon as he actually exists.
KFG
What we actually did was build studio on Mars, where it was easier to fake lunar conditions. I'm sure the original tapes would have shown this clearly.
KFG
Well, if it says it on Wikipedia it must be true.
.Windows, but SHHHHHHH! Don't tell the Linux/Mac people that.
Gnu's Not Unix when they can't pay for the name, but it sure is Unix otherwise.
And that makes WINE . .
KFG
No kidding. Real scientists looking for patterns in the unpredictable convert to spin art.
KFG
It'd be cool if they could explain what was happening at what points in the melodies.
Let's just say that when you hear Asus you'd better C# and run or you'll Bb.
KFG
. . .we'd like to buy your girlfriend's cat for $350 billion.
Save yourself some money, you can rent it for only twenty bucks, same as in town.
KFG
I however wonder what will happen when Page and Brin are gone or are sidestepped by the government.
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." - Thomas Paine
Especially in a publicly traded company.
KFG
If the government ever does hunt for people guilty of something . . .
Who said they're hunting for guilty people?
KFG
We'd only have a monarchy if there was a clear blood line of successi-
.wait. . .
Of course to have a monarchy in the tradtional sense (rather than merely a dictator) it isn't enough that you have a blood line of succession. It requires that the blood line is viewed as the will of God, that God has ordained the monarch to be the ruler.
Oh. .
KFG
The entire point of WINE/Cider is to make ports unneccasary, to run the software natively under an alternate OS, because it is running on the same hardware for which it was compiled.
It is not an emulator. You only need to emulate when you are translating the intsruction set of one chip to a chip with a different instruction set.
Does software under Cider take a performance hit? Yes, sometimes. Sometimes it won't even run at all. This isn't because of an emulation layer, it is because Cider is incomplete.
KFG
The stuff they're particularly trying to protect is stuff that is specifically not legally protected intellectual property. They've chosen the "secret formula" route. Protected intellectual property (the only kind you need a license to use) is public knowledge.
And their secrets only need to be protected for a few years, the rate at which it becomes obsolescent, which is faster than reverse engineering time; and much shorter than patent protection time.
I'm sure they're perfectly capable of reverse engineering the drivers without having to look at the chip under a microscope.
And that is why Linux has no driver issues.
I've been known to make some custom hardware. If you give me driver code I can make you a chip that will run it; perfectly. If you give me a chip and a binary driver I can make the chip do something with my own code, but I'll never figure out everything it can do without the specs. Never, ever. No matter how bright I am.
KFG
. . . but I'd be very surprised if they can't dig into each other's hardware under a microscope to figure out what the other guy is doing, and reverse engineer each other's drivers.
What on earth would they do that for? What could they even do with said drivers? Nobody cares about the silly drivers, it's the chip they're interested in in the first place.
The fear is that by looking at the driver code they can figure out the architecture of the chip by looking at what's going on at a high level, without having to look at the chip under a microscope and try to figure out what the hell a godzillion apparently random transistors are doing.
KFG
. . .you need to act as a leader as well as a stablizing force in the workplace. A PC running this slave-driver software does neither.
Ahhhhhhh, but when people think it does, it will.
KFG
One, shouldn't I be a freakin' gazillionaire by now?
.who saw it through.
Yes, but you didn't do it, did you?
Roy Kroc was just a guy with an idea. .
KFG
In that they only involve a Federal institution when a Federal law has been broken.
To make this a "Federal Case" the law has been bent beyond all recognition.
KFG
Next issue please.
.well, just about everything; and that thus all legal issues involving any sort of property are Federal issues.
Well then I guess that would be the declaration that the Federal government holds some sort of implicit title in . .
Isn't pretty damned close to the definition of a fuedal monarchy?
KFG
The whole jurisdiction issue aside, it seems to me that things are working as they are suppose to.
Jurisdiction is the issue.
KFG
He claims there is no crime on the tape, fine, then show it and be done with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Some of us remember.
KFG
"Bed - A single layer of sedimentary rock or a single stratum "
Works for me.
KFG
. . .a sheet of plywood . . .
Oh sure, you put it that way to put him down, but really, his accomplishment is far greater than that:
He used two sheets of plywood and a tuba quartet for spacers. That implies actual carpentry, for sufficiently small values of carpentry.
And don't forget the spray painting. That Rustoleum is tricky stuff.
KFG
A pizza and a bottle of coke to the first slashdotter who builds a wireless floating bed under $500.
I'm Pepsi generation with celiac disease. I'm out.
What'll ya give me for just duplicating his effort for $500 in a damned sight less than six frickin' years?
KFG