they dont project enough light. they look fine if you stare at them, but they dont make the floor and walls light up.
If you flash different colored lights all over the place, and the people are drunk enough, ugly people look pretty sexy. Until the next morning, anyway.
That happens to me alot. My best examples of true brilliance don't get modded at all, or modded down, and my off the cuff crap that are reasonably humorous get modded as "insightful" or "interesting" all the time, like its a reasonable application of the technology. But thats ok, i get a good laugh, and I got Karma to burn anyway:)
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Star Trek generates Gamma radiation in the warp and impulse reactors (really just anti-matter / matter and fusion reactors respectively). This would allow you to actually utilize this new technology to generate energy efficiently: your reactors generate gamma and x-ray radiation (high-energy photons) and your crystals can change the wavelength to something useful, like the frequency that a solar cell (converts photons into electricity) is actually efficient at.
From what I have seen, it takes a square meter of solar cells to power a pinwheel. Not sure if that a good method of conversion:)
My point, however, was that books has INDEED changed (even since the press).
Thanks to Borders, you can have a cup of wannabe Starbucks while you shop. Thanks to Amazon, you don't even have to go to Borders, and can make your own coffee at home. More importantly, thanks to used book stores (including many Salvation Army's) anyone can afford them.
I wish I had a source, but in spite of the hype I have heard to the contrary, the number of books per person purchased has actually INCREASED since the popularization of the Internet. No matter how digital we get, its hard to beat real paper in your hands.
This would actually be pretty cool for the average DJ or night club, since traditional filters are so inefficient, and thus cause you to use higher wattage light, and more heat (and more AC to deal with it). This could make club lighting more attractive, more sophisticated and more varied.
After all, if science can't help drunk/horny/single people get laid, what good is it?:-)
If you mean, the instruction set is compatible, I'm not sure I'd believe that either, but I'm willing to reserve judgement until I look at the user's manual for the new processor.
The 970 is a stripped down Power4 processor (missed in all the posts here). The Power4 processor is designed to be more liable, but slower (think blade server). The 970 uses smaller everything, and is 'less reliable' but faster (although very reliable by desktop standards). They are already testing and publishing on them. The instruction sets are the same for both, so the instructions are well published. This means that Apple can pretty much develop their kernel on Power4, and have very little to port to get it to run on the 970. The 970 is designed from the ground up for two basic purposes: to run 32 or 64 bit software natively and to be smp by design. They are supposed to be very efficient in 8x systems, for example (watch out Sun).
Since Apple has moved to BSD (os x) and the apps dont talk directly to the hardware anyway, the apps should run fine on 970, even if they require a seperate compile. 32 or 64 bit. That is what has me most excited about the 970 and OS x / Linux/un*x.
As to Quark, I still run 4.x as I don't see any significant features in 5.x that I use. Thats the problem with coming up with the perfect software program: no one needs to upgrade. I also use Agent Forte for USENET on Windows. It hasn't changed significantly since I purchased it in 1995. (version.99 to 1.8), same reason being they did it right the first time, and have only released minor updates.
One of the major advantages of the 970 *IS* the reasonable watts. From what I have read (as much as I can find) the 970 delivers more power per heat than anything else out there.
I found dozens and dozens of articles referenced here on/. quoting that fact. Its not hard to find that info. While the 970 is designed from the ground up for SMP, its performance as a single cpu has EXCEEDED expectations, from all stories I have read.
Since the laptop is the most profitable, and fastest growing segment in computing, I can easily see them putting the 970 into a laptop as soon as reasonably possible, as a desktop replacement. Personally, I can't wait to buy a non-Apple 970 4x smp box to run Linux on. Or maybe apple will be the first with a dual cpu laptop (wishful thinking). THAT would get me to pull out the wallet.
When SCO is ground into dust, I fully expect Microsoft to begin announcing software for Linux.
I have always expected MS to create a desktop for Linux. Perhaps a few years off, but I can see several advantages to doing this.
1. MS has more experience with the GUI than anyone else. As much as we bitch about it, the MS desktop is still easier for the masses to use than anything other than OS X. The masses like the MS desktop, and don't care about what is underneath it. 98% of the public is not a kernel hacker, and has no desire to become one.
2. If Linux DID begin to expand into the desktop area, MS would still keep the GUI marketshare, and would probably be able to charge the same as they do for the entire OS. Or close.
3. Security and Money. MS would not be as responsible for the security, since the kernel of the OS is open source. This would allow them to focus on applications and the desktop, which is more profitable. I can see their applications REQUIRING "Windows for Linux" to operate, so their revenue stream is not effected. There is nothing to prevent them from using a proprietary DRM ontop of Linux to manage their own software and licensing.
4. If Linux DID catch on even more, they could switch to BSD as a kernel, and not open up the source. This would be consistant with Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, with the end result being a MS GUI ontop of a proprietary or closed source kernel. This would be like the IBM model in reverse.
5. They could even consider continuing using the Linux OSS kernel, so other people will do their work for free, although I think the BSD route is more likely in the long run, since they could effectively TAKE the code, and not release any changes to it. Linus has already said that he is open to DRM in the kernel, to boot.
I don't expect that the above is necessarily PROBABLE, but it is entirely possible. I know this: I am a capitalist, and if I owned MS, I would be looking into the above as a possibility purely from a market share preservation move. I would also make sure that my 'real' Windows ran better, so people would get the impression that the NT kernel was better. Thier stockholders are not interested in MS's reputation as an innovator as much as a profit maker.
ah, but having(creating through mergers&etc) a 'monopoly' _is_ illeagal in itself in a non-goverment-endorsed-monopoly field of business!
But not in America. This is a big misconception here. Anti-trust laws deal with ACTIONS that a monopoly participates in. The monopoly itself is legal, hense, Windows.
and in the states too: " Since the Progressive era, the U.S. government has made most forms of monopoly, and to a lesser extent oligopoly, illegal under antitrust laws." , oligopoly being " the concentration of supply in a few producers". so for ms being a monopoly should be very well enough for breakup.
Here in the states, most utilities are publicly traded corporations that are allowed a monopoly as long as they act in the public good. We have laws that prevent companies from MERGING to form monopolies (DirecTV & Echostar, for example) but there is no law against creating a market and becoming a monopoly (Microsoft). Even AOL was near monopoly at one time, pre internet.
Here in America, we automatically mistrust anything "government endorsed" as well. That is kinda how we got here.
There are over 6 different companies I can get my phone service from here in Greensboro, NC, a town of about 280k. This is not the only town. Regulations that push land lines into the virtual public domain and let other companies compete are happening everywhere. Yes, it took a while, but its happening. Like i said, the system works, its just slow. Oh, and the other phone companies suck because they are inexperienced. that will change in time too.
Im old enough to know other examples, but my experience has been to stick to more recent examples for the yoots on/.
The courts are NOT supposed to keep monopolies from happening. Monopolies are not illegal by themselves. Regulations are designed to keep monopolies from happening (legislative and executive branch), and the courts get involved when someone ABUSES an otherwise legal monopoly, or to interpret intent of the laws and regulations passed by the other branches. The difference is a bit more than suptle. MS has commited no crime by having 97% of the desktop share, for instance. Its what they do to keep it, and some of the actions along the way. HAVING the monopoly is not illegal.
Even in a fair football game, with good meaning teams, you still need impartial referees, someone to act as arbitrator. The purpose of the law, any law, is based on that principal. Laws are written to keep the playing field level. Judges are there to be the imparial and uninterested party to decide what is fair. IBM breached the public trust. It was punished. It is now a very good company to OSS and its customers, in general. The free market DID more to punish IBM than the courts. The free market will end up punishing MS more than the courts as well. Now that there are better developed alternatives to their products (partially due to IBM's contributions, Sun's and Apple's) the market forces will begin to take action. As I said: It is not instant, nor fast, but it works.
We sell two products that are the exact same item, except we photographed one item with an "optional" part missing, even though we ship it with it. One is priced $1599, the other is priced $1899. The one for $1599 has an uglier picture, and is described simpler. It just has a different label on it. We sell about 3x more of the item at $1899. The idea is to average 1799 for each one sold.
We use the 1599 to get more people to the site, then promote the 1899 unit more. All descriptions are 100% accurate, we just make the 1899 unit look better, and point out more benefits. This was my idea. Sad thing, I haven't gotten a bonus for it yet.
Have you ever sucessfully used a magnet to destroy a hard drive?
Actually, yes. (i was really really bored, and it was a crappy drive anyway, and well, i was curious). Then again, it was a pretty good bulk eraser meant for 1/4 inch tape. I also said a 5# (pound) magnet. That would be a speaker magnet about 2inches thick, and about 8 inches or more in diameter. We sell car audio, I see those alot. I haven't trashed a drive with the magnet, but have used it to trash tapes. The bulk eraser does a better, more thorough job.
God, why is it the majority of Linux users are whining thieving babies who want everything for free? Wake up to the real world, where nothing is free. Not sex, not food, not clothing, and most certainly not operating systems.
If you lower your standards enough, everything is free. Sex? Find someone ugly enough. Food? Go dumpster diving. Clothing? Bin diving at the Salvation Army. OS? Fortunately, Linux doesn't require settling for less, and much less offensive than the gap-toothed gal with a peg leg you picked up for free sex.
amen. i have been saying they need to market the desktop seperately for a while now. I would gladly pay for Aqua ontop of Linux for the few desktops I use. Don't need it on the servers, fine.
Sad part is MS's prior experience with unix, they would be marketing "Windows for Linux" before too long. "All the widgets, none of the security!" It would be consistant with 'embrace, extend, extinguish', after all.
so, you saying if you take a magnet, and scramble a device that uses magnatism to store info, the info will still be there?
I dont think so. It will scramble all the bits to random values (0s and 1s, on and off), and can cause the head to scratch the platters as well. The data will NOT be there.
you should read the article. its about digital recording. on a hard drive. if you magnatize the hard drive, it quites reading, the head wants to stick to the platters, thus its "a bad drive".
Whlie i am also 100% for privacy, they only turn them on during a traffic stop.. Sooo at that point you have given up your rights of privacy in relation to that particular event.
If you are then set loose, they wont keep the recording as it serves no value. they already recorded the transaction of your name/time/location.
it helps keep the whole incident straight, for BOTH sides..
Doesn't matter. The courts have found you don't have an expectation of privacy while driving down the road. They already tape now. A cop can pat you down to search for weapons without a warrant (a "Terry Stop" ala Terry vs. Ohio). The 4th amendment protects you from unreasonable search and seizure, and to be secure in your possessions. The concept of the right to 'privacy' comes from the "Privacy Act of 1974" which is NOT part of the constitution. People SO often overstate privacy as a constitutional right, when it is NOT. I can sit on my porch and tape everyone on a public street all I want, so can the cops. You can't have an expectation of privacy in a public place this way.
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they dont project enough light. they look fine if you stare at them, but they dont make the floor and walls light up.
If you flash different colored lights all over the place, and the people are drunk enough, ugly people look pretty sexy. Until the next morning, anyway.
I'm confused. Are you saying that MIT researchers have developed a new "Cyrstal Light" drink mix that changes colors? What flavor is it?
You are thinking of the new flavour of Kool-Aid
I agree, and I wrote the damn thing! lol.
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That happens to me alot. My best examples of true brilliance don't get modded at all, or modded down, and my off the cuff crap that are reasonably humorous get modded as "insightful" or "interesting" all the time, like its a reasonable application of the technology. But thats ok, i get a good laugh, and I got Karma to burn anyway
Star Trek generates Gamma radiation in the warp and impulse reactors (really just anti-matter / matter and fusion reactors respectively). This would allow you to actually utilize this new technology to generate energy efficiently: your reactors generate gamma and x-ray radiation (high-energy photons) and your crystals can change the wavelength to something useful, like the frequency that a solar cell (converts photons into electricity) is actually efficient at.
:)
From what I have seen, it takes a square meter of solar cells to power a pinwheel. Not sure if that a good method of conversion
My point, however, was that books has INDEED changed (even since the press).
Thanks to Borders, you can have a cup of wannabe Starbucks while you shop. Thanks to Amazon, you don't even have to go to Borders, and can make your own coffee at home. More importantly, thanks to used book stores (including many Salvation Army's) anyone can afford them.
I wish I had a source, but in spite of the hype I have heard to the contrary, the number of books per person purchased has actually INCREASED since the popularization of the Internet. No matter how digital we get, its hard to beat real paper in your hands.
This would actually be pretty cool for the average DJ or night club, since traditional filters are so inefficient, and thus cause you to use higher wattage light, and more heat (and more AC to deal with it). This could make club lighting more attractive, more sophisticated and more varied.
:-)
After all, if science can't help drunk/horny/single people get laid, what good is it?
If you mean, the instruction set is compatible, I'm not sure I'd believe that either, but I'm willing to reserve judgement until I look at the user's manual for the new processor.
/un*x.
.99 to 1.8), same reason being they did it right the first time, and have only released minor updates.
The 970 is a stripped down Power4 processor (missed in all the posts here). The Power4 processor is designed to be more liable, but slower (think blade server). The 970 uses smaller everything, and is 'less reliable' but faster (although very reliable by desktop standards). They are already testing and publishing on them. The instruction sets are the same for both, so the instructions are well published. This means that Apple can pretty much develop their kernel on Power4, and have very little to port to get it to run on the 970. The 970 is designed from the ground up for two basic purposes: to run 32 or 64 bit software natively and to be smp by design. They are supposed to be very efficient in 8x systems, for example (watch out Sun).
Since Apple has moved to BSD (os x) and the apps dont talk directly to the hardware anyway, the apps should run fine on 970, even if they require a seperate compile. 32 or 64 bit. That is what has me most excited about the 970 and OS x / Linux
As to Quark, I still run 4.x as I don't see any significant features in 5.x that I use. Thats the problem with coming up with the perfect software program: no one needs to upgrade. I also use Agent Forte for USENET on Windows. It hasn't changed significantly since I purchased it in 1995. (version
Your wrong. You are infinitely stupid := You're infinitely stupid Woo hoo! My first post!
Sounds more like your first beer, not just first post.
One of the major advantages of the 970 *IS* the reasonable watts. From what I have read (as much as I can find) the 970 delivers more power per heat than anything else out there.
/. quoting that fact. Its not hard to find that info. While the 970 is designed from the ground up for SMP, its performance as a single cpu has EXCEEDED expectations, from all stories I have read.
I found dozens and dozens of articles referenced here on
Since the laptop is the most profitable, and fastest growing segment in computing, I can easily see them putting the 970 into a laptop as soon as reasonably possible, as a desktop replacement. Personally, I can't wait to buy a non-Apple 970 4x smp box to run Linux on. Or maybe apple will be the first with a dual cpu laptop (wishful thinking). THAT would get me to pull out the wallet.
When SCO is ground into dust, I fully expect Microsoft to begin announcing software for Linux.
I have always expected MS to create a desktop for Linux. Perhaps a few years off, but I can see several advantages to doing this.
1. MS has more experience with the GUI than anyone else. As much as we bitch about it, the MS desktop is still easier for the masses to use than anything other than OS X. The masses like the MS desktop, and don't care about what is underneath it. 98% of the public is not a kernel hacker, and has no desire to become one.
2. If Linux DID begin to expand into the desktop area, MS would still keep the GUI marketshare, and would probably be able to charge the same as they do for the entire OS. Or close.
3. Security and Money. MS would not be as responsible for the security, since the kernel of the OS is open source. This would allow them to focus on applications and the desktop, which is more profitable. I can see their applications REQUIRING "Windows for Linux" to operate, so their revenue stream is not effected. There is nothing to prevent them from using a proprietary DRM ontop of Linux to manage their own software and licensing.
4. If Linux DID catch on even more, they could switch to BSD as a kernel, and not open up the source. This would be consistant with Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, with the end result being a MS GUI ontop of a proprietary or closed source kernel. This would be like the IBM model in reverse.
5. They could even consider continuing using the Linux OSS kernel, so other people will do their work for free, although I think the BSD route is more likely in the long run, since they could effectively TAKE the code, and not release any changes to it. Linus has already said that he is open to DRM in the kernel, to boot.
I don't expect that the above is necessarily PROBABLE, but it is entirely possible. I know this: I am a capitalist, and if I owned MS, I would be looking into the above as a possibility purely from a market share preservation move. I would also make sure that my 'real' Windows ran better, so people would get the impression that the NT kernel was better. Thier stockholders are not interested in MS's reputation as an innovator as much as a profit maker.
ah, but having(creating through mergers&etc) a 'monopoly' _is_ illeagal in itself in a non-goverment-endorsed-monopoly field of business!
But not in America. This is a big misconception here. Anti-trust laws deal with ACTIONS that a monopoly participates in. The monopoly itself is legal, hense, Windows.
and in the states too: " Since the Progressive era, the U.S. government has made most forms of monopoly, and to a lesser extent oligopoly, illegal under antitrust laws." , oligopoly being " the concentration of supply in a few producers". so for ms being a monopoly should be very well enough for breakup.
Here in the states, most utilities are publicly traded corporations that are allowed a monopoly as long as they act in the public good. We have laws that prevent companies from MERGING to form monopolies (DirecTV & Echostar, for example) but there is no law against creating a market and becoming a monopoly (Microsoft). Even AOL was near monopoly at one time, pre internet.
Here in America, we automatically mistrust anything "government endorsed" as well. That is kinda how we got here.
There are over 6 different companies I can get my phone service from here in Greensboro, NC, a town of about 280k. This is not the only town. Regulations that push land lines into the virtual public domain and let other companies compete are happening everywhere. Yes, it took a while, but its happening. Like i said, the system works, its just slow. Oh, and the other phone companies suck because they are inexperienced. that will change in time too.
Im old enough to know other examples, but my experience has been to stick to more recent examples for the yoots on /.
The courts are NOT supposed to keep monopolies from happening. Monopolies are not illegal by themselves. Regulations are designed to keep monopolies from happening (legislative and executive branch), and the courts get involved when someone ABUSES an otherwise legal monopoly, or to interpret intent of the laws and regulations passed by the other branches. The difference is a bit more than suptle. MS has commited no crime by having 97% of the desktop share, for instance. Its what they do to keep it, and some of the actions along the way. HAVING the monopoly is not illegal.
Even in a fair football game, with good meaning teams, you still need impartial referees, someone to act as arbitrator. The purpose of the law, any law, is based on that principal. Laws are written to keep the playing field level. Judges are there to be the imparial and uninterested party to decide what is fair. IBM breached the public trust. It was punished. It is now a very good company to OSS and its customers, in general. The free market DID more to punish IBM than the courts. The free market will end up punishing MS more than the courts as well. Now that there are better developed alternatives to their products (partially due to IBM's contributions, Sun's and Apple's) the market forces will begin to take action. As I said: It is not instant, nor fast, but it works.
It's a wildly swinging pendulum.
Now THAT I would agree with. My point is that on average, taken over a longer period of time, its about even. And should be.
We sell two products that are the exact same item, except we photographed one item with an "optional" part missing, even though we ship it with it. One is priced $1599, the other is priced $1899. The one for $1599 has an uglier picture, and is described simpler. It just has a different label on it. We sell about 3x more of the item at $1899. The idea is to average 1799 for each one sold.
We use the 1599 to get more people to the site, then promote the 1899 unit more. All descriptions are 100% accurate, we just make the 1899 unit look better, and point out more benefits. This was my idea. Sad thing, I haven't gotten a bonus for it yet.
Tobacco lawsuits. Oreo lawsuit (dropped today). McDonnalds Hot Coffee lawsuit. Fast food makes people fat lawsuit. etc etc etc.
are you SURE businesses have more rights than individuals? I would disagree.
Have you ever sucessfully used a magnet to destroy a hard drive?
Actually, yes. (i was really really bored, and it was a crappy drive anyway, and well, i was curious). Then again, it was a pretty good bulk eraser meant for 1/4 inch tape. I also said a 5# (pound) magnet. That would be a speaker magnet about 2inches thick, and about 8 inches or more in diameter. We sell car audio, I see those alot. I haven't trashed a drive with the magnet, but have used it to trash tapes. The bulk eraser does a better, more thorough job.
God, why is it the majority of Linux users are whining thieving babies who want everything for free? Wake up to the real world, where nothing is free. Not sex, not food, not clothing, and most certainly not operating systems.
If you lower your standards enough, everything is free. Sex? Find someone ugly enough. Food? Go dumpster diving. Clothing? Bin diving at the Salvation Army. OS? Fortunately, Linux doesn't require settling for less, and much less offensive than the gap-toothed gal with a peg leg you picked up for free sex.
amen. i have been saying they need to market the desktop seperately for a while now. I would gladly pay for Aqua ontop of Linux for the few desktops I use. Don't need it on the servers, fine.
Sad part is MS's prior experience with unix, they would be marketing "Windows for Linux" before too long. "All the widgets, none of the security!" It would be consistant with 'embrace, extend, extinguish', after all.
If you are watching COPS, and you notice the house on the TV looks JUST LIKE your house....no amount of Karma is gonna help you.
so, you saying if you take a magnet, and scramble a device that uses magnatism to store info, the info will still be there?
I dont think so. It will scramble all the bits to random values (0s and 1s, on and off), and can cause the head to scratch the platters as well. The data will NOT be there.
you should read the article. its about digital recording. on a hard drive. if you magnatize the hard drive, it quites reading, the head wants to stick to the platters, thus its "a bad drive".
If they are using MS, it will probably crash anyway. BSD would be better if it wasn't dead.
In Soviet Russia, YOU record COPS. (huh?)
1. Film prostitutes
2. ?????
3. Profit!
Did I leave any out?</troll>
Whlie i am also 100% for privacy, they only turn them on during a traffic stop.. Sooo at that point you have given up your rights of privacy in relation to that particular event.
If you are then set loose, they wont keep the recording as it serves no value. they already recorded the transaction of your name/time/location.
it helps keep the whole incident straight, for BOTH sides..
Doesn't matter. The courts have found you don't have an expectation of privacy while driving down the road. They already tape now. A cop can pat you down to search for weapons without a warrant (a "Terry Stop" ala Terry vs. Ohio). The 4th amendment protects you from unreasonable search and seizure, and to be secure in your possessions. The concept of the right to 'privacy' comes from the "Privacy Act of 1974" which is NOT part of the constitution. People SO often overstate privacy as a constitutional right, when it is NOT. I can sit on my porch and tape everyone on a public street all I want, so can the cops. You can't have an expectation of privacy in a public place this way.