If they do go after Linus? It'd be a shame, and too bad for Linus. But Linux is bigger than Linus now, and if he were to never code again, it'd still grow. They can't sue us all.
Easy: By pulling IE support on the Mac platform, all they have to do to kill Apple is to somehow ensure that a big enough chunk of the Net is only accessibly through IE. That's the hard part, but if they can do that, Apple might be as good as dead.
He didn't say "six months collecting unemployment compensation", he just said "six months unemployment." You can be unemployed and not collect unemployment.
Lindows is free(beer), so what's to stop anyone who actually really just wants Windows XP from downloading Lindows first, then using that to leverage a quick discount for themselves?
If MS has to cut their prices for EVERY non-pre-bundled installation of WinXP, that could really pinch their budget. Of course, the fewer sales they make, the better, overall, but still, cutting their margins that significantly for every license holder gives me a nice warm feeling.
I don't know why more people don't use PNG. It's a great format. For photorealistic images JPG is best, but for logos or other types of graphics and drawings, PNG is great. I hope that we start seeing widespread use of vector-based graphics in the near future, though.
Since 99% of the new Star Wars movies are digital animation anyway, won't the cam just show you a few actors in costumes standing in front of a green screen? Seems kinda pointless...
The reason processor speed can't continue at the rate it does is because the processors are in THIS universe.
You can't model something that is as complex as the model, it's a basic limitation on information theory. Thus, if this universe is merely a nested reality a la the Matrix, this Matrix could not have within it a nested universe which is AS COMPLEX as the entire universe (unless it's being modeled VERY slowly).
OUTSIDE of this universe, however, all bets are off. If this is indeed a nested reality, the bounds on the laws of physics in the outside-reality may be quite different from what's being modeled in here (much like the "physics" of the cellular automata known as Life is much different from the physics of the world we call "reality"). The limits on computational power may be quite different, and at any rate; our pereption of time's passage may be quite different from what the actual rate of modelling in the outside universe. It might take them years to render one second of our reality. But for us, time still seems to tick by at one second per second. Or it could be 10 seconds per second. Or one second per year. How would we know the difference, unless we can somehow step outside?
I don't watch TV anymore, nor do I listen to much radio except to and from work. It is a vast sea of crap with only a few spots of non-crap to break up the monotony.
That said, this is still important, because many people do still tune in to mass media, and they use it as their primary source of news and information. Whoever controls that information can to a large degree influence what the public is thinking or talking about, and to a slightly lesser degree, what they think about what everyone else is thinking or talking about.
Democracy requires open debate and open information in order to be viable. Consolidation prevents this by choking off divergent points of view.
Come on, how can they defend their "free speech" and "fair use" rights if they openly call themselves "pirates"? That's like distributing a p2p sharing app called "kiddiefuckvidexchanger" and being surprised when the law comes around with arrest warrants.
They said the same thing to car hot rodders (the real kind, not ricers), and then the world was destroyed in an atomic apocalypse, and Mad Max came along, and well, suddenly it was useful to harvest parts from dead equipment and frankenstein it back together again into something that worked.
Maybe not by present rules, but it's worth noting that currency does not presently have RFID tags used to authenticate it as genuine currency, either. They write new laws every day, it wouldn't be difficult at all for them to pass a law if legislators are sold on the concept of ending counterfeit money and money laundering for good with this technology.
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If they do go after Linus? It'd be a shame, and too bad for Linus. But Linux is bigger than Linus now, and if he were to never code again, it'd still grow. They can't sue us all.
Why would MSFT do this?
Easy: By pulling IE support on the Mac platform, all they have to do to kill Apple is to somehow ensure that a big enough chunk of the Net is only accessibly through IE. That's the hard part, but if they can do that, Apple might be as good as dead.
They kindof did -- IE 6.1 is the last standalone release version of IE for Windows.
He didn't say "six months collecting unemployment compensation", he just said "six months unemployment." You can be unemployed and not collect unemployment.
Yeah, but if EVERYONE uses WinRAR instaed of PKZip? Problem goes away like magic.
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to keep using WinRAR.
Gotta be in the sextillions, right?
Lindows is free(beer), so what's to stop anyone who actually really just wants Windows XP from downloading Lindows first, then using that to leverage a quick discount for themselves?
If MS has to cut their prices for EVERY non-pre-bundled installation of WinXP, that could really pinch their budget. Of course, the fewer sales they make, the better, overall, but still, cutting their margins that significantly for every license holder gives me a nice warm feeling.
Hey, he made it easy enough... just do a whois trace on 127.0.0.1 and you'll find out who he is!
Install this as ground FX on my car, can I levitate finally?
I don't know why more people don't use PNG. It's a great format. For photorealistic images JPG is best, but for logos or other types of graphics and drawings, PNG is great. I hope that we start seeing widespread use of vector-based graphics in the near future, though.
It's nice to see someone else picking up the meme I started.
However, you now owe me one meme:)
Actually they used to use blue screens, but anymore it's a green screen.
I just wish I could collect a share of those $11,000 fines. I'd retire tomorrow.
Since 99% of the new Star Wars movies are digital animation anyway, won't the cam just show you a few actors in costumes standing in front of a green screen? Seems kinda pointless...
So basically, what you're saying is, "Carmack is God", right? I thought Slashdot already knew that.
The reason processor speed can't continue at the rate it does is because the processors are in THIS universe.
You can't model something that is as complex as the model, it's a basic limitation on information theory. Thus, if this universe is merely a nested reality a la the Matrix, this Matrix could not have within it a nested universe which is AS COMPLEX as the entire universe (unless it's being modeled VERY slowly).
OUTSIDE of this universe, however, all bets are off. If this is indeed a nested reality, the bounds on the laws of physics in the outside-reality may be quite different from what's being modeled in here (much like the "physics" of the cellular automata known as Life is much different from the physics of the world we call "reality"). The limits on computational power may be quite different, and at any rate; our pereption of time's passage may be quite different from what the actual rate of modelling in the outside universe. It might take them years to render one second of our reality. But for us, time still seems to tick by at one second per second. Or it could be 10 seconds per second. Or one second per year. How would we know the difference, unless we can somehow step outside?
I don't watch TV anymore, nor do I listen to much radio except to and from work. It is a vast sea of crap with only a few spots of non-crap to break up the monotony.
That said, this is still important, because many people do still tune in to mass media, and they use it as their primary source of news and information. Whoever controls that information can to a large degree influence what the public is thinking or talking about, and to a slightly lesser degree, what they think about what everyone else is thinking or talking about.
Democracy requires open debate and open information in order to be viable. Consolidation prevents this by choking off divergent points of view.
Come on, how can they defend their "free speech" and "fair use" rights if they openly call themselves "pirates"? That's like distributing a p2p sharing app called "kiddiefuckvidexchanger" and being surprised when the law comes around with arrest warrants.
In principle? Yeah, but in practice? It'll work like this:
Fair use not available? We will not buy! Ooooh, shiny!
We are doomed as a civilization until our collective consciousness rises above the level of Homer Simpson.
All your BIOS are belong to us.
Those hundreds of Agent Smiths that Neo had to fight were actually multiple streaming BitTorrent threads. It all makes sense now.
They said the same thing to car hot rodders (the real kind, not ricers), and then the world was destroyed in an atomic apocalypse, and Mad Max came along, and well, suddenly it was useful to harvest parts from dead equipment and frankenstein it back together again into something that worked.
Maybe not by present rules, but it's worth noting that currency does not presently have RFID tags used to authenticate it as genuine currency, either. They write new laws every day, it wouldn't be difficult at all for them to pass a law if legislators are sold on the concept of ending counterfeit money and money laundering for good with this technology.
They could easily rule that bills with missing or damaged RFID tags are not IDentifiable, and thus invalid tender.