Not to mention, with full screen antialiazing just beginning to take off, all of that extra rendering power can now be used to make the images look better!
But has anyone ever considered the consequences if everyone had fiber to the home? If you thought the internet was bogged down now, imagine the servers trying to serve all that extra content. Imagine trying to saturate all the connections of a/.ed site. (shudder)
I have a feeling that when we get to the point of fiber to every home, the rest of the internet would have scaled up as well.
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Landfills are just delayed recycling. It's the ocean dumping that is truly wasteful - when we need it, it will be very expensive to trawl the ocean. Of course, the toxins are the real worry. ___
Some are offended by certain things and nobody should have to walk by a station and view a sexuality explicit image they feel is offensive and demeaning.
Why not? Couldn't they stop looking?
Magazines and books are different. You have the right not to read them.
You have a right not to watch over the shoulder of a web surfer too.
People don't have the right not to be offended; they have the ability. ___
TNT has some extremely annoying ads at the bottom of the screen, for whatever their new made-for-TNT movie is. I remember for their Tom Selleck movie there was this huge red, white, and blue explosion of stars that took up maybe 1/16th of the screen before resolving into the movie's logo. Witchblade had a similar ad, but it was slightly less distracting due to its darker colors. Also, I am slightly worried about what will happen with Babylon 5 in widescreen on the SciFi channel. I hope they can resist filling that extra screen real estate with ads. Though it will be nice that their 'bug' will not be covering any actual picture. ___
From the web site in question: I was bored this
morning so I put FC on
ebay. Bidding starts at
$1. Took the auction off
of Ebay -- interested
parties, contact me and
tell me who you are.
Click here for more
information
Posted: 9/13/2000
It doesn't seem that ebay took the auction down. ___
And no, people in colleges rarely set up Windows File Sharing to trade mp3s, they might at your school, but its not nearly as wide spread as an FTP server.
I think you may be wrong about this. My experience was that most file trading was through the Network Neighborhood, and the good stuff was stuff that knowledgeable people got from FTP sites and shared on Network Neighborhood. ___
Some of those cheap CDs have an amusing property - you can pull both the label and the data layer off of the CD with tape. Just rub some tape onto the label side, and rip it off quickly. I managed to get a completely transparent CD that way.
Would that put all of the "smartest" judges in one court and the rest in another.
That's an interesting idea. We'd have lawyers for each side arguing over whether to take the case to Smart Court or Not So Smart Court. And frivolous lawsuits could be weeded out by judging against those who thied to get their case tried in Not So Smart Court. ___
No intellectual property is lost because the author is credited.
Most songs on Napster are probably credited to the author (not necessarily the copyright holder, though), and most of the mis-crediting of songs on Napster happened after Metallica's complaint. ___
I have a feeling that the loss of rotational velocity of the Earth could be easily countered with an occasional blast of pressurized gas out of the side of the counterweight... ___
You have to remember, however, that rocket propulsion is extremely inefficient, when compared to climbing up an existing structure. A space elevator would result in at least an order of magnitude of savings, probably several. And you could generate and store power on the way down. ___
From all the articles I read in various publications, carbon nanotubes would solve all the world's problems! The question I have is, when will they be fabricated in mass quantities? I want my space elevator, molecule-thick knife, lightweight bulletproof clothing, and ultimate fuzzy heat sink NOW! ___
From page 9 of the submission from the American Film Marketing Association, Association of American Publishers, Business Software Alliance, Interactive Digital Software Association, Motion Picture Association of America, National Music Publishers' Association, and Recording Industry Association of America:
...it has long been clear under U.S. law that the placement of copyrighted material into computer memory (ie RAM) is a reproduction of that material.
So if you have a legal copy on your hard drive, the action of putting it into RAM, in order to run it, or otherwise access it, falls under copyright law.
It seems that there is a fundamental disconnect somewhere here... ___
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And if a decent 3d viewing mechanism is ever mainstreamed, FPS will be pretty much divided by two...
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DC needs complete control.
Hey! Hackers! Leave DC alone!
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I don't get it. What are the s? I'm more and more worried.
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What does "Many happy s!" mean? I'm worried.
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I have a feeling that when we get to the point of fiber to every home, the rest of the internet would have scaled up as well.
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Landfills are just delayed recycling. It's the ocean dumping that is truly wasteful - when we need it, it will be very expensive to trawl the ocean. Of course, the toxins are the real worry.
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Why not? Couldn't they stop looking?
Magazines and books are different. You have the right not to read them.
You have a right not to watch over the shoulder of a web surfer too.
People don't have the right not to be offended; they have the ability.
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Well, you could have an html parser that reads one of the several free TV listings web sites... They may not like it, though.
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I hope JVC funded the entire Highlander-Endgame movie, for the placement they got.
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TNT has some extremely annoying ads at the bottom of the screen, for whatever their new made-for-TNT movie is. I remember for their Tom Selleck movie there was this huge red, white, and blue explosion of stars that took up maybe 1/16th of the screen before resolving into the movie's logo. Witchblade had a similar ad, but it was slightly less distracting due to its darker colors. Also, I am slightly worried about what will happen with Babylon 5 in widescreen on the SciFi channel. I hope they can resist filling that extra screen real estate with ads. Though it will be nice that their 'bug' will not be covering any actual picture.
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It doesn't seem that ebay took the auction down.
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I think you may be wrong about this. My experience was that most file trading was through the Network Neighborhood, and the good stuff was stuff that knowledgeable people got from FTP sites and shared on Network Neighborhood.
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Sort of fun.
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That's an interesting idea. We'd have lawyers for each side arguing over whether to take the case to Smart Court or Not So Smart Court. And frivolous lawsuits could be weeded out by judging against those who thied to get their case tried in Not So Smart Court.
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The score after how much time?
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The four books were: 2001, 2010, 2061, and 3001.
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But did he hit any of the stars in London? They've always had good theater there. (Or would that be theatre?)
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Most songs on Napster are probably credited to the author (not necessarily the copyright holder, though), and most of the mis-crediting of songs on Napster happened after Metallica's complaint.
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I have a feeling that the loss of rotational velocity of the Earth could be easily countered with an occasional blast of pressurized gas out of the side of the counterweight...
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You have to remember, however, that rocket propulsion is extremely inefficient, when compared to climbing up an existing structure. A space elevator would result in at least an order of magnitude of savings, probably several. And you could generate and store power on the way down.
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How about into your toater oven or cofee maker? Waste not, want not!
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From all the articles I read in various publications, carbon nanotubes would solve all the world's problems! The question I have is, when will they be fabricated in mass quantities? I want my space elevator, molecule-thick knife, lightweight bulletproof clothing, and ultimate fuzzy heat sink NOW!
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Ouch!
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So if you have a legal copy on your hard drive, the action of putting it into RAM, in order to run it, or otherwise access it, falls under copyright law.
It seems that there is a fundamental disconnect somewhere here...
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That may have more to do with a hardware based UI, and higher quality cable connections.
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