For example, the Fibannaci (sp?) series alone requires over 3000 billion calculations, using the recursive method, to find Fib(100). And that's one of the easier functions.
Do we really need this kind of processing ability? Like come on, who REALLY needs an Athalon running that fast?
I do. One of my hobbies is 3-D graphics. Now, admittedly, I use one of the lower end software packages, mostly because it does what I want, but even it has taken 5 days to render a 1000 x 1000 scene.
Of course, most of that was due to my (over)use of objects with their material set to diamond... But the multiple (10+) light sources refracted and reflected nicely!
(Note to self, stop imbedding light sources inside diamond objects.)
Congress, or more specifically Orrin Hatch, is pushing a 'pill' that the Music Industry will find hard to swallow. Likely in the hopes that they will get off their collective arses, and offer the services that people actually want.
The application of these fibers would be obvious. Tanks and other kinds or mobile warfare devices. Personally, I vote for Mechs. Now all we need is a Cold Fusion plant to keep the things running.
I don't think that microscopic glue capsules are going to help with a hole the size of a manhole cover.
Remember that for a great many modern weapons, it's one hit = one kill. The problem is usually finding the target.
Or was I the only one who watched the History Channel Stealth show last night?
Is some follow-up on this a couple months down the line. I mean, we're all worked up, figuratively speaking, about this now, but I would like to know what the resolution, if any, turns out to be....
True, however, history shows that these are areas where Microsoft is second to none. It's obviously worked so far. If there's anything we should have learned from the past few years of American financial/technological history, it's that What's right or what works better means nothing in the face of what people think is right and works better. Public mindshare tends to lead to market share...this is how Windows won dominance in the first place.
Exactly. A saying I've been using for a few years now come to mind:
Perception is 9/10ths of reality.
Until the general public, and not just us geeks, sees the true potential and usefulness of Linux, that mindshare won't perceptablly change.
One of the ways to do this is to provide the tools that the 'average user' needs to enjoy his computer experiance. Of course, easier said than done.
Thus prices drop when one realises they can undercut the price, and all are forced to follow.
I can follow that... That's why when one airline cuts fares, all the others cut fares...
But why is the converse also true? For example, when one soda company (Coke) raised prices a while back, the other big soda company (Pepsi) announced that they were raising prices as well.
Show a hardcore smoker a friend who is dying because he is drowning in the fluids of his own depleted lungs, and I'll show you a person who finally decides he needs help kicking the habit.
WTF? Isn't that what the ad was doing? The ad you were complaining about? Showing what could happen to you if you smoke?
No... That ad was showing a random person, who may well have been an actor, in a hospital bed, with several medical devices hooked up to him.
The message they were sending was that he was in this situation because of cigarette induced afflictions, but we don't know the Truth, pun intended, of that statement.
Like all advertising, they are just trying to get their message across. And, like all 'rightous' causes, they will use any means necessary.
I don't think this will happen. The variety of music will mutate the recording industry to a rating industry. Since most people do not want to spend their time sorting playlists, the industry will do that pre-sorting for them. That's basically what it's doing right now, through their marketing.
As soon as anybody writes C# bytecode interpreter for Linux and good system classes library for Linux, it would work. At least when programmed right.
What makes you think that anyone would? M$ has been trying to marginalize Linux since day one. Why would they provide the necessary port? And, IIRC, Corel got rid of it's Linux stuff, thus dumping the only support for.NET that I've heard of.
M$ is only going to provide.NET to what they consider 'valid' platforms, which in their eyes does not include Linux. And I'm happy about this... I don't like the.NET, and I don't want to see it on my future Linux box...
whatever... Ireland was actually EXPORTING grain during the famine. The problem was that the "tenants" were kept too poor to eat anything but potatoes. They did not own the grain they harvested nor the land they lived on.
A big part of it was the English imposed taxes that made grain so expensive in Ireland (but not outside) that it had to be exported... No one could afford it.
The first amendment (free speech) is one of America's most basic tenets; something people do not take lightly. That's why you can still buy Nazi memorobilia, KKK literature, etc. It's generally accepted in this country that limitations on speech are very damaging, and should only be applied in extreme circumstances.
Limiting any kind of electronic communication could quickly become a slipperly slope, and free-speech advocates would most likely fight this (even though it would mean having to deal with spam).
There is a noticable difference between "Free Speech" and spam. I can walk away from Free Speech. I don't have to listen. And if the speaker continues after me, it becomes harrasment, which is not constitutionally protected.
Spam, on the other hand, cannot be as easily avoided. Yes, I can block certain e-mail addresses, or just redirect them to trash, but I have to continually update that, or I get swamped. And some mailer don't have that option. Hotmail, for instance, only allows you to block 50 e-dresses, last I checked.
Add in to the other informed replies, that UK and US English also differ in this, which is noticeable in sentences such as:
USians would say "Blondie is a group".
However, would they also say: "The Rolling Stones is a group"? (ugh)
How about "The Walker Brothers is a group"?
What about "The Righteous Brothers is a group"?
Should it make any difference that the latter were neither brothers or named "Righteous".
Actually in all of your examples you are talking about singular entities. That is, The Rolling Stones, while sounding plural, is actually an sigular item. Thus, "The Rolling Stones is a group" is correct...
And I actually can't believe I just responded to this...
Those parasites, I mean Congressmen, in Washington won't pass such a law because they are getting too much money from the 'pro-spam' special interest group.
And even it were to come close to passing, someone would tack an unrelated addition on to it, to ensure that it dies.
And unless the 'law' allowed going after spammers in other countries, there would be a quick dash by all the spam-mongers to Mexico or Canada.
Don't get me wrong, though... I would love to see this, but I'm too much of a realist to expect it to happen.
Living in Vancouver for example means mild winters (i.e. only 1 day of snow this year) and hot summers.
Ummm... Dude, it's the third. Of January. So one day of snow this year is probably not the best way to word that. Try one day of snow this season, assuming that is what you actually meant.
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Math functions.
Yep, plain old 'ordinary' math.
For example, the Fibannaci (sp?) series alone requires over 3000 billion calculations, using the recursive method, to find Fib(100). And that's one of the easier functions.
Do we really need this kind of processing ability? Like come on, who REALLY needs an Athalon running that fast?
I do. One of my hobbies is 3-D graphics. Now, admittedly, I use one of the lower end software packages, mostly because it does what I want, but even it has taken 5 days to render a 1000 x 1000 scene.
Of course, most of that was due to my (over)use of objects with their material set to diamond... But the multiple (10+) light sources refracted and reflected nicely!
(Note to self, stop imbedding light sources inside diamond objects.)
...probably to appease NSA...
Repeat after me, citizen. The NSA does not exist. The NSA does not exist. There is No Such Agency.
Comparing the industry-crafted dreck at the top of the charts
Industry crafted dreck...
That would be Limp Bizcut, right?
Congress, or more specifically Orrin Hatch, is pushing a 'pill' that the Music Industry will find hard to swallow. Likely in the hopes that they will get off their collective arses, and offer the services that people actually want.
Bravo!
The application of these fibers would be obvious. Tanks and other kinds or mobile warfare devices. Personally, I vote for Mechs. Now all we need is a Cold Fusion plant to keep the things running.
I don't think that microscopic glue capsules are going to help with a hole the size of a manhole cover.
Remember that for a great many modern weapons, it's one hit = one kill. The problem is usually finding the target.
Or was I the only one who watched the History Channel Stealth show last night?
Is some follow-up on this a couple months down the line. I mean, we're all worked up, figuratively speaking, about this now, but I would like to know what the resolution, if any, turns out to be....
Or maybe I'm just rambling again...
I think the Vapour-Box is more appropriate.
True, however, history shows that these are areas where Microsoft is second to none. It's obviously worked so far. If there's anything we should have learned from the past few years of American financial/technological history, it's that What's right or what works better means nothing in the face of what people think is right and works better. Public mindshare tends to lead to market share...this is how Windows won dominance in the first place.
Exactly. A saying I've been using for a few years now come to mind:
Perception is 9/10ths of reality.
Until the general public, and not just us geeks, sees the true potential and usefulness of Linux, that mindshare won't perceptablly change.
One of the ways to do this is to provide the tools that the 'average user' needs to enjoy his computer experiance. Of course, easier said than done.
Thus prices drop when one realises they can undercut the price, and all are forced to follow.
I can follow that... That's why when one airline cuts fares, all the others cut fares...
But why is the converse also true? For example, when one soda company (Coke) raised prices a while back, the other big soda company (Pepsi) announced that they were raising prices as well.
How does that make sense?
Show a hardcore smoker a friend who is dying because he is drowning in the fluids of his own depleted lungs, and I'll show you a person who finally decides he needs help kicking the habit.
WTF? Isn't that what the ad was doing? The ad you were complaining about? Showing what could happen to you if you smoke?
No... That ad was showing a random person, who may well have been an actor, in a hospital bed, with several medical devices hooked up to him.
The message they were sending was that he was in this situation because of cigarette induced afflictions, but we don't know the Truth, pun intended, of that statement.
Like all advertising, they are just trying to get their message across. And, like all 'rightous' causes, they will use any means necessary.
I don't think this will happen. The variety of music will mutate the recording industry to a rating industry. Since most people do not want to spend their time sorting playlists, the industry will do that pre-sorting for them. That's basically what it's doing right now, through their marketing.
Well, that explains Limp Bizcut...
As soon as anybody writes C# bytecode interpreter for Linux and good system classes library for Linux, it would work. At least when programmed right.
.NET that I've heard of.
.NET to what they consider 'valid' platforms, which in their eyes does not include Linux. And I'm happy about this... I don't like the .NET, and I don't want to see it on my future Linux box...
What makes you think that anyone would? M$ has been trying to marginalize Linux since day one. Why would they provide the necessary port? And, IIRC, Corel got rid of it's Linux stuff, thus dumping the only support for
M$ is only going to provide
whatever... Ireland was actually EXPORTING grain during the famine. The problem was that the "tenants" were kept too poor to eat anything but potatoes. They did not own the grain they harvested nor the land they lived on.
A big part of it was the English imposed taxes that made grain so expensive in Ireland (but not outside) that it had to be exported... No one could afford it.
America claims to be the "Land of the Free", but a greater percentage of its citizens are in prison than in any other democracy.
To quote Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show':
"We're number one! We're number one!"
completely abandoning the whole "pay your debt to society, start over" thing.
I'm of the opinion that child molesters have paid their 'debt to society' when they are stone, fcsking dead.
But that's just me...
The first amendment (free speech) is one of America's most basic tenets; something people do not take lightly. That's why you can still buy Nazi memorobilia, KKK literature, etc. It's generally accepted in this country that limitations on speech are very damaging, and should only be applied in extreme circumstances.
Limiting any kind of electronic communication could quickly become a slipperly slope, and free-speech advocates would most likely fight this (even though it would mean having to deal with spam).
There is a noticable difference between "Free Speech" and spam. I can walk away from Free Speech. I don't have to listen. And if the speaker continues after me, it becomes harrasment, which is not constitutionally protected.
Spam, on the other hand, cannot be as easily avoided. Yes, I can block certain e-mail addresses, or just redirect them to trash, but I have to continually update that, or I get swamped. And some mailer don't have that option. Hotmail, for instance, only allows you to block 50 e-dresses, last I checked.
Spam is not free speech...
Add in to the other informed replies, that UK and US English also differ in this, which is noticeable in sentences such as:
USians would say "Blondie is a group".
However, would they also say: "The Rolling Stones is a group"? (ugh)
How about "The Walker Brothers is a group"?
What about "The Righteous Brothers is a group"?
Should it make any difference that the latter were neither brothers or named "Righteous".
Actually in all of your examples you are talking about singular entities. That is, The Rolling Stones, while sounding plural, is actually an sigular item. Thus, "The Rolling Stones is a group" is correct...
And I actually can't believe I just responded to this...
IHBT. IHL. HAND.
In other words, "Hey, I'm Norweigan, and I need to get around this pesky law. Please help me."
No... It's "Can I pretend to be Norweigan, using a redirector, so I never have to see spam again?"
As Homey the Clown would say, "I don't think so."
I thought it was, "Homey don't play that."
I agree, but it will never happen.
Those parasites, I mean Congressmen, in Washington won't pass such a law because they are getting too much money from the 'pro-spam' special interest group.
And even it were to come close to passing, someone would tack an unrelated addition on to it, to ensure that it dies.
And unless the 'law' allowed going after spammers in other countries, there would be a quick dash by all the spam-mongers to Mexico or Canada.
Don't get me wrong, though... I would love to see this, but I'm too much of a realist to expect it to happen.
'May you live in interesting pants.' - "Interesting Times" by Terry Pratchett, the only British author worth reading.
But just wait until you read the EULA you have to agree to (by breaking the seal on the lid) before drinking your coffee...
Damnit! I don't want to liscence my coffee...
Living in Vancouver for example means mild winters (i.e. only 1 day of snow this year) and hot summers.
Ummm... Dude, it's the third. Of January. So one day of snow this year is probably not the best way to word that. Try one day of snow this season, assuming that is what you actually meant.
Sticks his head between the pods again, and it flash fries and explodes.
Returns to Tattoine, gets tasted by the Sarlac, and spit into a low, unstable orbit where he burns up on re-entry.
Gives Darth Sidius a 'wedgie' and is barbecued by the Force Lightning.
Explosive decompression. If it was good enough to make in on the 'Ways to kill Weasley Crusher List', it's good enough for Jar-Jar.
Stupidly uses a lightsaber to scratch himself, accidently activates it, and... You get the idea...
Does the tongue thing to another bowl of fruit, but 'accidently' gets a thermal detonator instead.
Eaten by a pack of Jawas. That's right, Jawas. None of us know what they eat, so it may as well be Jar-Jar.
Anything I've missed?
...is a new movie. I don't want to see Empire reworked with different characters and a slightly different plot.
:)
Oh, yeah, and kill off Jar-Jar. He's just got to go.