Apple can say that some of the people who buy apple computers will buy DRM music.
A lot(SFAIK) of apple users are for-profit Media peoples, is it that surprising that Media peoples want to buy and download other peoples media. A lot of people wouldn't buy apple.
The US political system (or philosophy) is geared to an environment where high rates of growth are possible.
In contrast the more socialist governments of Europe are geared towards a stable population, and the 'communist' government of China tends itself to a highly populated country.
Each system fists with the population of the region, Europe couldn't deal with the population growth rates that the US has, and China is/was trying to reduce it's population.
In 10-15 years time the US will start to become over-grown and I should imagine that some of the stated will start to look for independence or more autonomy. Europe is old and mature, the USA is new, still growing and perhaps a little juvenile at times, china's just trying to cope with too many people, like a police man in a riot.
Well, if it's open source you could spend the money you don't pay on licences employing someone to make the software more useful to you.
If the cost of all M$ licences throught the US government, schools &co was spent on employing people to help write OSS then Microsoft would be in deep shit.
Having byte code is like having the source code. You can take preformance stats and recompile during runtime for a faster slicker application. For that reason byte code should always produce a faster application after a few runs than pre-compiled code.
I can build a house, make the walls nice and think, put some good solid oak timbers for rafters etc... and expect it to last a couple of hundred years without any magical training.
in software, one typo could be the differance between life and death.
In critical systems they usually get two different groups of people to software for the same task on different hardware and hope that they both didn't make the same mistake.
It appeals to the telcoms people, if they can make the public make the switch (say they offer viop + broadband instead of a phone) then it will become a killer app, because of the price and huge increase in accessibility and storage/convenience, just like Email or mobile phones.
DVD's and CD's took off because they were pushed and branded by the media companies and happened to be benificial to the public. Not because the public lapped up a geekie technology. VOIP, video phones and the like have been touted about for years, and the phone networks just caught up, a lot of R&D and pre-marketing has been done, so the major corps are going to be pussing that kind of technology soon(maybe Apple and Microsoft)
You can ditch your phone and only have digital into the house. It intergrates fully into your PC, giving you one hell-almighty answer phone.
You could even text to speech / speech to text. Have an email sent to you when someone calls or whatever.
The improvements are intergration with other communications networks, massive low cost feature enhancement and very friendly to people with disabilities.
Broadband + VOIP that can connect to other phone networks.
In car entertainment, based on a PC with 802.11b (download from the house) that plays mp3's with something like GDAM for real time, hands free mixing.
Better Gnutella/Kazaa that allows things like downloading from people with only part of the file.
And finially, a fully modular UI. so that when I install libjpeg and libogg on my PC, anything that can provide a bitmap makes use of libjpeg and anything that can provide a RIFF file makes use of ogg.
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Apple can say that some of the people who buy apple computers will buy DRM music.
A lot(SFAIK) of apple users are for-profit Media peoples, is it that surprising that Media peoples want to buy and download other peoples media. A lot of people wouldn't buy apple.
The US political system (or philosophy) is geared to an environment where high rates of growth are possible.
In contrast the more socialist governments of Europe are geared towards a stable population, and the 'communist' government of China tends itself to a highly populated country.
Each system fists with the population of the region, Europe couldn't deal with the population growth rates that the US has, and China is/was trying to reduce it's population.
In 10-15 years time the US will start to become over-grown and I should imagine that some of the stated will start to look for independence or more autonomy. Europe is old and mature, the USA is new, still growing and perhaps a little juvenile at times, china's just trying to cope with too many people, like a police man in a riot.
Ok I'll apply capitalism,
on one side put the countries who have nukes,
and on the other side, put the amount of money they spend on research.
then ring any countries that are planning to develope new nukes (against the NPT)
That sounds like fun to me. Maybe he was a little insecure and unsure of himself? I'd be bragging about that trip, not saying how crap it was.
My heads been snaped since I was 5 years old, now please can I take some LSD, Shrooms and smoke my crack pipe. It ain't going to make me any worse.
I've had depression for the past 20years. When I feel like killing myself, hell I just enjoy the ride, I'm not dead yet am I?
There's no such thing as a bad trip.
you hear people scream on a roler-coster, do they complain about crapping them selfs afterwards?
Bad trip, or sit back and enjoy the ride.
LSD, funny, are the mods on crack(again) or something.
Well, if it's open source you could spend the money you don't pay on licences employing someone to make the software more useful to you.
If the cost of all M$ licences throught the US government, schools &co was spent on employing people to help write OSS then Microsoft would be in deep shit.
When I was younger.... smaller and lighter I could easly jump out of a second story window onto the ground without causing myself any injury.
Now I'm older, taller and fatter there's no way I'd jump out of a second story window, it's hurt too much.
It's not too surprising that something small survived whilst the people died.
Having byte code is like having the source code.
You can take preformance stats and recompile during runtime for a faster slicker application. For that reason byte code should always produce a faster application after a few runs than pre-compiled code.
If you think that's bad, try reading the 99% of the web which has bgcolor=white (fuck knows why) when you've got a migraine, or dyslexia.
The purples cool, the white's ANOYING AS HELL. time to write my own CSS.
and latting in loads of viruses that munch there way through your HDD.
A killer virus would sort out a lot of the bugs.
Because the margin of error in software ~=0.
I can build a house, make the walls nice and think, put some good solid oak timbers for rafters etc... and expect it to last a couple of hundred years without any magical training.
in software, one typo could be the differance between life and death.
In critical systems they usually get two different groups of people to software for the same task on different hardware and hope that they both didn't make the same mistake.
Umm... what about p2p.
I pay £60 a month for 2Mb internet connection and run p2p. that's my micropayment(tax)
BeOS was anti-trusted till it died. It took off far better than Linux has for commercial end-user applications.
Good to see that BeOS really was that well designed, I hope trolltech and the KDE peeps take a few good tips.
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It appeals to the telcoms people, if they can make the public make the switch (say they offer viop + broadband instead of a phone) then it will become a killer app, because of the price and huge increase in accessibility and storage/convenience, just like Email or mobile phones.
DVD's and CD's took off because they were pushed and branded by the media companies and happened to be benificial to the public. Not because the public lapped up a geekie technology. VOIP, video phones and the like have been touted about for years, and the phone networks just caught up, a lot of R&D and pre-marketing has been done, so the major corps are going to be pussing that kind of technology soon(maybe Apple and Microsoft)
Plankton, pffft I want fish to rain down from the sky.
You can ditch your phone and only have digital into the house. It intergrates fully into your PC, giving you one hell-almighty answer phone.
You could even text to speech / speech to text. Have an email sent to you when someone calls or whatever.
The improvements are intergration with other communications networks, massive low cost feature enhancement and very friendly to people with disabilities.
everything including the chair wheels....
Broadband + VOIP that can connect to other phone networks.
In car entertainment, based on a PC with 802.11b (download from the house) that plays mp3's with something like GDAM for real time, hands free mixing.
Better Gnutella/Kazaa that allows things like downloading from people with only part of the file.
And finially, a fully modular UI. so that when I install libjpeg and libogg on my PC, anything that can provide a bitmap makes use of libjpeg and anything that can provide a RIFF file makes use of ogg.
why do people help old ladys across the road?
why not use the intel compiler while you at it, it's much better than GCC for intel processors?
russia is good for launching, they can do heavy loads and have the lowest failure rate.