Arcades were cool when ALL games were a quarter. I too would rather not spend $1.00 to play a game for 3 minutes, which is why I stopped going to arcades when they started jacking the prices up.
"Motel 6" is very much a legitimate trademark and woe betide anyone who trespasses upon it.
Yes, so "Hotel 6" would probably infringe on that trademark.
But if Microsoft's trademark is for "Microsoft Windows Operating System", not just "Windows", then the term "Lindows" alone cannot infringe (though "Lindowsoft Lindows Operation System" might)
I bet an object-oriented flavor of SQL syntax could be developed to work with OODBMS's, making the learning curve a lot flatter for people who already know SQL.
From the XML world, something like xpath could also be useful for building queries against complex objects...
My impression is that this is for smaller databases where there is a lot of interactions with fewer objects.
At what point do we end up with diminishing returns, though?
The smaller and less complex a database is, the less important it becomes to tweak the design for performance benefits. Is this a case of an optimization that only works when optimization is unnecessary?
On the other hand, I have videotapes from 5-10 years ago that are barely watchable anymore due to degradation. If an analog signal deteriorates so badly, can you imagine what would happen to the integrity of a digital bitstream?
I also have yet in several years of burning to encounter a CD-R that worked correctly at first, but later became unreadable.
The problem is that it sounds grainy and "processed", and its easy to tell the difference between that and the real thing.
We've all been using digital recording media with a 'mere' 16 bits precision per sample per channel and 44,100 samples per second for 15-20 years now, and it's been good enough for the majority of the music-listening public.
Maybe it will be too expensive to truly capture analog sounds with digital technology.
Trends would suggest that as time passes, it will become cheaper and cheaper to increase digital sound resolution. Affordable home recording equipment is available already that handles multi-track audio at 24-bit resolution, 96KHz sample rate. One day it will be possible and affordable to store digitized music with enough resolution that it will be impossible for anyone to tell the difference between it and analog at any frequency within the range of human hearing.
Perhaps the advent of quantum computing will provide the solution.
Do we look forward to the day when the recording industry has intervened with guitar manufacturers and the only guitars you can buy are MIDI guitars that have embedded technology to prevent playing of copyrighted music?
Are you paranoid, or just retarded?
No, I got it. You're karma whoring -- suggest something bad about the recording industry and/or Hilary Rosen's personal hygeine and watch those (+1 Insightful)'s roll it!
Yes, PCI Express will only be an incremental improvement over the latest AGP spec. But there are other devices on the peripheral bus that need to move a lot of data around.
Your processor runs at an internal clockspeed of what, 1.5GHz? And your PCI bus? IIRC, it maxes out out a paltry 66MHz. The peripheral bus is already a bottleneck, today.
I don't care how much they can integrate onto the mainboard, it's still going over the same bus -- the only difference is that the connections are etched onto the board instead of having card slots.
Furthermore, bundling peripherals onto a mainboard is exactly as bad as bundling web browsers and such into an operating system: it's harder to choose solutions from other vendors even if they're better suited to your needs, you're paying for features you may never use or need, there's no incentive for the hardware company NOT to cut corners and put the cheapest shite on there that they can find.
The beauty of the x86 PC architecture, if any, is the extreme modularity. I hope that this feature of the design doesn't get eroded away by increasing levels of device integration, and a stronger, faster PCI spec can help a lot towards retaining openness and modularity.
Unless my understanding of the Taiwanese political climate is way off, no one was FORCED to buy pirate copies of any Microsoft product. If valid licensed copies of Windows were out of the average person's affordability range, he or she still has the choice to not have a copy of Windows at all.
The list of what the local system has is bound to be many times smaller than the list of all updates available from MS. In terms of network bandwidth, it's a lot more efficient to send the local data to the server than pull the entire global list to the client.
The concept of AI is the same whether you're chatting on an IRC terminal or overseeing a dye-master-process: a successful AI needs to take input, evaluate it intelligently in realtime, and respond with appropriate output.
Principles developed in one application of AI can be easily applied to other disciplines as well.
For example, start a petition for network admins that would allow Office attachements if, and only if, the spec was publicly released. If enough of us, the ones that control mail servers, do this
Anyone who does this will be getting an irate phonecall from the CTO of the company, asking why his secretary can't get Word documents in her email anymore and if you don't fix it immediately, you can look for another job. If you get in the way of your company doing business as usual, they'll push you out of the way without a second thought.
We are not the sort of people who buy winshit
No, you're the kind of people who are so childish and puerile to use a term like "Winshit".
...if you buy all the little companies that are running distant second to Google, and put them together...
Put them together how?
I'd imagine the work required to analyze the millions of lines of code that make up each search engine that Overture now owns, and then integrate all of them into one SOOPER-search engine, is going to end up being more difficult and taking longer than it would to write a fresh search engine from scratch.
My guess is Overture doesn't know what they're doing.
The modern movie industry set up in Southern California to escape from Edison's patents
Wasn't an advance in technology, unless you're arguing that SoCal's pervasive sunlight is a technical improvement over the Black Mariah's rotating, lighting-controlled shooting stage.
The technical advances in motion pictures would have happened in New Jersey or upstate New York or any of the other early filming locations if they hadn't happened in Hollywood.
The VCR was fought tooth and nail by the movie industry even though 2/3rds of their revenue now come from video rentals and sales
Again, not an advance in technology.
The proliferation of the commodity PC was only possible when IBM's BIOS was reverse engineered thus evading trade secret laws
There were plenty of CP/M machines in homes and businesses at the time, few as powerful as the original IBM PC, but if the PC BIOS couldn't have been/hadn't been reverse-engineered it seems likely that CP/M would have been the foundation on which commodity home/business PC's proliferated.
The Internet is currently under siege from copyright holders
I'm not sure the Internet is at any risk of disappearing due to this, or even affected at all really.
One of the worlds fastest growing operating systems, Linux, explicitly rejects the concept of intellectual property in its license
Not true at all. The GPL would be entirely unenforceable if works distributed under it were not granted IP protections.
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So what if India "replaces" the US? The United States don't go away if that happens.
Or is this just a big patrotic dick-waving contest? "My country is better than your country"?
I wouldn't recommend instituting a 'women-only' hiring policy, unless you feel like running afoul of Equal Opportunity Employment regulations...
Arcades were cool when ALL games were a quarter. I too would rather not spend $1.00 to play a game for 3 minutes, which is why I stopped going to arcades when they started jacking the prices up.
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One if by land, two if by sea...
"Motel 6" is very much a legitimate trademark and woe betide anyone who trespasses upon it.
Yes, so "Hotel 6" would probably infringe on that trademark.
But if Microsoft's trademark is for "Microsoft Windows Operating System", not just "Windows", then the term "Lindows" alone cannot infringe (though "Lindowsoft Lindows Operation System" might)
Were enough Apple computer users actually involved with GNU software in 1990 as to make the FSF's politicking significant in the outcome of the case?
How can any complex search engine be implemented in 350 lines of code that also covers the persistance?
By judicious omission of linebreaks where possible, each of those lines of code is over 10,000 characters long.
I bet an object-oriented flavor of SQL syntax could be developed to work with OODBMS's, making the learning curve a lot flatter for people who already know SQL.
From the XML world, something like xpath could also be useful for building queries against complex objects...
My impression is that this is for smaller databases where there is a lot of interactions with fewer objects.
At what point do we end up with diminishing returns, though?
The smaller and less complex a database is, the less important it becomes to tweak the design for performance benefits. Is this a case of an optimization that only works when optimization is unnecessary?
On the other hand, I have videotapes from 5-10 years ago that are barely watchable anymore due to degradation. If an analog signal deteriorates so badly, can you imagine what would happen to the integrity of a digital bitstream?
I also have yet in several years of burning to encounter a CD-R that worked correctly at first, but later became unreadable.
Anecdotal evidence is not evidence.
The problem is that it sounds grainy and "processed", and its easy to tell the difference between that and the real thing.
We've all been using digital recording media with a 'mere' 16 bits precision per sample per channel and 44,100 samples per second for 15-20 years now, and it's been good enough for the majority of the music-listening public.
Maybe it will be too expensive to truly capture analog sounds with digital technology.
Trends would suggest that as time passes, it will become cheaper and cheaper to increase digital sound resolution. Affordable home recording equipment is available already that handles multi-track audio at 24-bit resolution, 96KHz sample rate. One day it will be possible and affordable to store digitized music with enough resolution that it will be impossible for anyone to tell the difference between it and analog at any frequency within the range of human hearing.
Perhaps the advent of quantum computing will provide the solution.
Do you know what quantum computing is???
Do we look forward to the day when the recording industry has intervened with guitar manufacturers and the only guitars you can buy are MIDI guitars that have embedded technology to prevent playing of copyrighted music?
Are you paranoid, or just retarded?
No, I got it. You're karma whoring -- suggest something bad about the recording industry and/or Hilary Rosen's personal hygeine and watch those (+1 Insightful)'s roll it!
Yes, PCI Express will only be an incremental improvement over the latest AGP spec. But there are other devices on the peripheral bus that need to move a lot of data around.
Your processor runs at an internal clockspeed of what, 1.5GHz? And your PCI bus? IIRC, it maxes out out a paltry 66MHz. The peripheral bus is already a bottleneck, today.
I don't care how much they can integrate onto the mainboard, it's still going over the same bus -- the only difference is that the connections are etched onto the board instead of having card slots.
Furthermore, bundling peripherals onto a mainboard is exactly as bad as bundling web browsers and such into an operating system: it's harder to choose solutions from other vendors even if they're better suited to your needs, you're paying for features you may never use or need, there's no incentive for the hardware company NOT to cut corners and put the cheapest shite on there that they can find.
The beauty of the x86 PC architecture, if any, is the extreme modularity. I hope that this feature of the design doesn't get eroded away by increasing levels of device integration, and a stronger, faster PCI spec can help a lot towards retaining openness and modularity.
Unless my understanding of the Taiwanese political climate is way off, no one was FORCED to buy pirate copies of any Microsoft product. If valid licensed copies of Windows were out of the average person's affordability range, he or she still has the choice to not have a copy of Windows at all.
So he's planning to retract his plea and claim that it was coerced out of him?
People will always kill other people too, so don't bother creating or enforcing any laws that make murder illegal.
Yeah, but the name is so STUPID-sounding!
Who was the omron that came up with that one???
The list of what the local system has is bound to be many times smaller than the list of all updates available from MS. In terms of network bandwidth, it's a lot more efficient to send the local data to the server than pull the entire global list to the client.
The concept of AI is the same whether you're chatting on an IRC terminal or overseeing a dye-master-process: a successful AI needs to take input, evaluate it intelligently in realtime, and respond with appropriate output.
Principles developed in one application of AI can be easily applied to other disciplines as well.
For example, start a petition for network admins that would allow Office attachements if, and only if, the spec was publicly released. If enough of us, the ones that control mail servers, do this
Anyone who does this will be getting an irate phonecall from the CTO of the company, asking why his secretary can't get Word documents in her email anymore and if you don't fix it immediately, you can look for another job. If you get in the way of your company doing business as usual, they'll push you out of the way without a second thought.
We are not the sort of people who buy winshit
No, you're the kind of people who are so childish and puerile to use a term like "Winshit".
Grow up.
...if you buy all the little companies that are running distant second to Google, and put them together...
Put them together how?
I'd imagine the work required to analyze the millions of lines of code that make up each search engine that Overture now owns, and then integrate all of them into one SOOPER-search engine, is going to end up being more difficult and taking longer than it would to write a fresh search engine from scratch.
My guess is Overture doesn't know what they're doing.
The modern movie industry set up in Southern California to escape from Edison's patents
Wasn't an advance in technology, unless you're arguing that SoCal's pervasive sunlight is a technical improvement over the Black Mariah's rotating, lighting-controlled shooting stage.
The technical advances in motion pictures would have happened in New Jersey or upstate New York or any of the other early filming locations if they hadn't happened in Hollywood.
The VCR was fought tooth and nail by the movie industry even though 2/3rds of their revenue now come from video rentals and sales
Again, not an advance in technology.
The proliferation of the commodity PC was only possible when IBM's BIOS was reverse engineered thus evading trade secret laws
There were plenty of CP/M machines in homes and businesses at the time, few as powerful as the original IBM PC, but if the PC BIOS couldn't have been/hadn't been reverse-engineered it seems likely that CP/M would have been the foundation on which commodity home/business PC's proliferated.
The Internet is currently under siege from copyright holders
I'm not sure the Internet is at any risk of disappearing due to this, or even affected at all really.
One of the worlds fastest growing operating systems, Linux, explicitly rejects the concept of intellectual property in its license
Not true at all. The GPL would be entirely unenforceable if works distributed under it were not granted IP protections.
Office XP doubled the size of the clipboard
Wow, they changed int clipboard[12] to int clipboard[24] and recompiled!
Better upgrade today!
Mmmmm... port wine...
Why doesn't Kibo post to alt.religion.kibology as much anymore?