This is the silliest attempt at legislation yet. What with stations whose mainstay still is FM, but also do MP3 as a service? Will their streams be DRMed also? The radio waves they send out sure as hell aren't! As a foreign listener without any possibility of snapping up US radio stations via the ether, will I lose my WFMU?
If this whole RIAA-member circle jerk continues I bet that you can't even get an analog radio reciever soon. It'll all be digital, with 7-layer DRM, so as to disable any pesky copying of anything broadcast anywhere, ever!
Do you really need 3D acceleration when the complexity of what you're making amounts to, say, a hundred thousand flat-shaded polygons, max? I'd think any CPU above a PIII-500 would be able to software-render that with 20~30 fps..?
Screen savers, smilies, and pretty much anything that says it's free, but doesn't say open source - stay away or be very freakin' cautious.
That's very good advice, one I've been applying - and giving not-quite-as-geeky friends - when looking for "shareware-type" apps: Just add "GPL" to the search query.
While I'm not a trekkie, I still think "miiiiilk it!" initially and although they're also jumping on the prequel bandwagon, I feel this is the best way of creating YASSS (yet another Star Trek Show). I've had it with new crews, new ships and "new" aliens. OK, so Enterprise was a prequel show, but this one lets us know the young originals!
I'm thinking college-like situations - Kirk in panty raids! Kirk and Scotty drinking contests! Keg parties, the occasional world-threatening alien encounter etc.
Might be fun. Might also bomb horrifically.
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As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that we (v1.0) humans have some distributed sensory response capacity outside the brain itself already.
I heard scientists have found a layer of tissue in the colon and stomach very similar to the brain, with neurons and all, which they think might explain the fact that when you get nervous, your stomach does also.
It might be that in the future, the "colon brain" will process more data than it does now, perhaps relegating only main (sight/sound) sensory processing to the brain itself. Now it seems to work semi-independently - it's self-regulating with regards to what its function is (processing and expunging food), though responds to "scare-signals" from the brain.
HL2 is singlethreaded so the performance would be the same as on one Itanium. Also x86 code has to be emulated on Itaniums = slow.
Um, like, of course you emulate a complete single-P4 computer using... what, half the chips or something. Kind of like AMD's reverse hyperthreading. With ~5K 1.6 GHz CPUs to use I think you'd see performance equivalent of _at least_ a 5-10 GHz P4.
Oh and no GPU which means pixel/vertex shaders would have to run on software. Educated guess: 0.1 fps.
...and use the rest of the CPUs to emulate a good GFX card, like a 256-shader-pipeline 16GB RAM Radeon clocked at a couple GHz.
Something like that would be nice - one could have a single passport card (RFID or smartcard) with biometric info like today's new passports, but the card would not be validated without iris, fingerprint _and_ facial geometry matches. They can all be scanned at the same time.
Imagine some crook trying to fake your identity to gain entrance into the US of A, showing up at customs with your eyes, one of your hands and your head!
My ISP has no special policy, neither does any other Norwegian ISP I know of. If one should ever try and implement some bandwidth restriction it would be Telenor, seeing as they're the most "evil" telco here (i.e. most American-like). But that's just a hunch, NextGenTel would probably be one of them as well.
My ISP started out as a tiny "neighbourhood" company, and got bought out by Norway's most decent large ISP - reknowned by techies for their line quality. Customer service did go down the drain, but the lines are still good.
If an ISP here should try restrictions, there'd be an uproar, I'm sure. Telenor tried the "metered by the gig" subscription for a while but had to toss it when no-one else did it. While a bunch of pussies politically, us Norwegians are good at getting what we're paying for. "Hey, we paid for 2Mb, you're saying we can't _use_ those 2Mb as we please? And not actually use the full bandwidth all the time? Screw you!" Our "consumer rights agency" would stomp down hard on anyone trying.
Remember when 1.3 MP digicams were the norm? People (OK, early adopters at least) used those as their primary camera - the resolution was good enough to use for standard-size prints. I had one (Olympus C-860) for years, until I got a new phone with 2MP autofocus camera. Apart from the bump up in res., the image quality (especially in macro mode) is better also.
It's used as my primary camera. For people of limited finances, not able to afford a EOS 350 or something, they work just fine.
Example: A rose - macro. Now tell me that's not enough image quality for casual, regular-size print use.
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But when Apple squashes rumour sites, and news of it gets published, wouldn't you say even more buzz is created? "If Apple stopped this, maybe there's something to it? OMG! I can't wait to see! Ponies!"
You can't copyright the idea of a ball rolling around getting things attached to it. You can trademark the name and copyright the execution - the graphical design, sounds etc, but not the idea itself.
You can copyright the sequence of words used in a book to tell a story, but not the story itself.
I believe that's how it works. Perhaps all this is debunked by someone here who knows better than me.
you saved me the bother of saying it. All GPS units have warnings about exactly this too, in the style of "This is not a replacement for watching the road, dumbass".
It would be nice if there could be some legislation put into place surrounding this - if a company is presented with a valid death certificate, the estate should have access to all that person's data.
I like the notion of having your privacy even in death. That some things should not necessarily be known by others unless the person wants it. "Alas, poor Crizp, I don't know him all that well."
In addition, who cares what happens to themselves after they're dead? Unless you believe you're up in heaven afterwards looking down to people, that is. You're dead. You don't care.
"Oh no, my memory might be tainted!" You don't care. You're dead:)
With some geeks having actually having calculated the force needed to tip an AT-ST walker (or the weight of a walker or something - I've seen the site years ago and tried googling but found nawt) using a suspended log, I guess someone would be glad to help you out.
More importantly, how hot would a lightsaber need to be to cut a pony into sausages? Pink hot?
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In Scandinavia, Honda released the Honda Fitta ('fitta' means 'the cunt' in Norwegian). It was quickly changed to "Honda Jazz".
sssh! don't give them ideas!
This is the silliest attempt at legislation yet. What with stations whose mainstay still is FM, but also do MP3 as a service? Will their streams be DRMed also? The radio waves they send out sure as hell aren't! As a foreign listener without any possibility of snapping up US radio stations via the ether, will I lose my WFMU?
If this whole RIAA-member circle jerk continues I bet that you can't even get an analog radio reciever soon. It'll all be digital, with 7-layer DRM, so as to disable any pesky copying of anything broadcast anywhere, ever!Do you really need 3D acceleration when the complexity of what you're making amounts to, say, a hundred thousand flat-shaded polygons, max? I'd think any CPU above a PIII-500 would be able to software-render that with 20~30 fps..?
I got 7/8 - missed on the song lyric pages.
Ugh... yeah. Let the Star Trek über-retconning take place!
While I'm not a trekkie, I still think "miiiiilk it!" initially and although they're also jumping on the prequel bandwagon, I feel this is the best way of creating YASSS (yet another Star Trek Show). I've had it with new crews, new ships and "new" aliens. OK, so Enterprise was a prequel show, but this one lets us know the young originals!
I'm thinking college-like situations - Kirk in panty raids! Kirk and Scotty drinking contests! Keg parties, the occasional world-threatening alien encounter etc.
Might be fun. Might also bomb horrifically.
I heard scientists have found a layer of tissue in the colon and stomach very similar to the brain, with neurons and all, which they think might explain the fact that when you get nervous, your stomach does also.
It might be that in the future, the "colon brain" will process more data than it does now, perhaps relegating only main (sight/sound) sensory processing to the brain itself. Now it seems to work semi-independently - it's self-regulating with regards to what its function is (processing and expunging food), though responds to "scare-signals" from the brain.
Um, like, of course you emulate a complete single-P4 computer using... what, half the chips or something. Kind of like AMD's reverse hyperthreading. With ~5K 1.6 GHz CPUs to use I think you'd see performance equivalent of _at least_ a 5-10 GHz P4.
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No? Seriously, I sucked it up like... um, a black hole really. Cool news, 'tis.
Something like that would be nice - one could have a single passport card (RFID or smartcard) with biometric info like today's new passports, but the card would not be validated without iris, fingerprint _and_ facial geometry matches. They can all be scanned at the same time.
Imagine some crook trying to fake your identity to gain entrance into the US of A, showing up at customs with your eyes, one of your hands and your head!
Too many of them are used in whiskey! Stop the senseless grouse slaughterfest now!
My ISP has no special policy, neither does any other Norwegian ISP I know of. If one should ever try and implement some bandwidth restriction it would be Telenor, seeing as they're the most "evil" telco here (i.e. most American-like). But that's just a hunch, NextGenTel would probably be one of them as well.
My ISP started out as a tiny "neighbourhood" company, and got bought out by Norway's most decent large ISP - reknowned by techies for their line quality. Customer service did go down the drain, but the lines are still good.
If an ISP here should try restrictions, there'd be an uproar, I'm sure. Telenor tried the "metered by the gig" subscription for a while but had to toss it when no-one else did it. While a bunch of pussies politically, us Norwegians are good at getting what we're paying for. "Hey, we paid for 2Mb, you're saying we can't _use_ those 2Mb as we please? And not actually use the full bandwidth all the time? Screw you!" Our "consumer rights agency" would stomp down hard on anyone trying.
Remember when 1.3 MP digicams were the norm? People (OK, early adopters at least) used those as their primary camera - the resolution was good enough to use for standard-size prints. I had one (Olympus C-860) for years, until I got a new phone with 2MP autofocus camera. Apart from the bump up in res., the image quality (especially in macro mode) is better also.
It's used as my primary camera. For people of limited finances, not able to afford a EOS 350 or something, they work just fine.
Example: A rose - macro. Now tell me that's not enough image quality for casual, regular-size print use.
But when Apple squashes rumour sites, and news of it gets published, wouldn't you say even more buzz is created? "If Apple stopped this, maybe there's something to it? OMG! I can't wait to see! Ponies!"
You can't copyright the idea of a ball rolling around getting things attached to it. You can trademark the name and copyright the execution - the graphical design, sounds etc, but not the idea itself.
You can copyright the sequence of words used in a book to tell a story, but not the story itself.
I believe that's how it works. Perhaps all this is debunked by someone here who knows better than me.
you saved me the bother of saying it. All GPS units have warnings about exactly this too, in the style of "This is not a replacement for watching the road, dumbass".
I like the notion of having your privacy even in death. That some things should not necessarily be known by others unless the person wants it. "Alas, poor Crizp, I don't know him all that well."
Now I understand why it's not a good idea to be able to change nicks here... :)
In addition, who cares what happens to themselves after they're dead? Unless you believe you're up in heaven afterwards looking down to people, that is. You're dead. You don't care.
:)
"Oh no, my memory might be tainted!" You don't care. You're dead
The movies are dead yes, but the format itself will live on, no? How else are they going to ship new games?
OMG PONIES!!! I knew I should've checked that. I appreciate the correction and will forever remember how it is written.
With some geeks having actually having calculated the force needed to tip an AT-ST walker (or the weight of a walker or something - I've seen the site years ago and tried googling but found nawt) using a suspended log, I guess someone would be glad to help you out.
More importantly, how hot would a lightsaber need to be to cut a pony into sausages? Pink hot?
pt... frh... ptfBRAAAAAAaaahfffft!