I think that it would be fair to say that this case falls somewhere between the two examples, and we don't have enough info decide which it is closer to. It is pretty obvious that the last time he released a P2P app it didn't go over well. I would guess that his AOL masters told him that P2P apps would not be tolerated and that he didn't have authority to release such things. You are guessing that such a conversation didn't occur?
Assuming it did, giving away the source is more akin to giving away the whole store than it is to selling a single item at deep discount. Of course all these examples are flawed since the real world doesn't map well to software.
Was Winamp released under the GPL? If the answer is no then your post is meaningless.
It is possible that Justin had authority to release binaries such as Winamp but no authority to release source. It is also possible that he was told specifically that he can't release something as GPL.
If you read the article, towards the end it starts talking about "over unity devices". He wants to hook his generator to his motor.
Notice that he blames both 9/11 and Enron for not wanting to deal with large companies. Maybe smaller companies are easier to fool and less likely to be able to expose him?
This sounds like a scam to me. I hope it isn't, but it sounds like one.
aggggh! Mac version isn't up on the web, which is odd, since I originally wrote it on a Mac, my trusty old 1995 Performa 6216, which had no 3d acceleration. The linux version isn't up either, though it still exists.
yet you did figure it out, right? Lots of people don't get it even when I explain it, but I agree it could use more documentation than simply mentioning that there is a heads up display.
I did something similar using OpenGL. It is a 3D asteroids game in which the action occurs in 3d, not in a 2d plane. The zip file for it is about 102 kb, but most of that is because I included glut.dll so that people wouldn't have to hunt it down. Oh, and by using OpenGL I have been able to run it on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Neal's books don't end. They accelerate. Allow me to explain. Snowcrash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon all begin with very detailed explainations of the technology that the plot hinges on. Stephenson is actually pretty good at making this interesting, and he puts plenty of plot in while he does it.
Once the tech is explained the story starts to move faster. It is as if the story is passing through Stephenson's mind faster and he isn't able to type fast enough to keep up. So as it accelerates the details that make it to the page are more and more sparse until there are no details or explainations left. That is when the book is over, since there is nothing to print on the next page as the pace of the book approaches infinity and he simply can type anything.
Quicksilver seems to break the mold. It doesn't get faster and in fact just gets harder and harder to read. The pace at which I could read it got slower and slower until I was unable to read any more of it. I stopped (well, the velocity of my reading reached zero) about 300 pages from the end. This from a person that read Cryptonomicon in two sittings.
I prefer Crytonomicon to Snowcrash, but enjoyed both of them and The Diamond Age as well. I tried and tried to finish Quicksilver (which I enjoyed at first) but couldn't. I figured that with hundreds of pages to go Jack Shaftoe was dead and the book seemed to get denser and denser without going anywhere. I couldn't see the point in finishing it.
This was actually a problem that bit the entire industry. A new compound was developed a few years ago to use as the insulator in capacitors. It allowed cheaper, smaller, higher capacity capacitors. Some companies in Taiwan didn't understand the process entirely before making the capacitors, and this caused them to break down over time. Lots of mobos from that era will eventually go out because of bad capacitors.
Your solution appears to be working, but I would guess that if you contact IBM with this problem they would fix the problem.
Steve himself has claimed that music from iTMS is superior in quality to what you get on a CD, because it is ripped from masters instead of from a CD. The masters have better sampling, so the resulting AAC file can be better than CD quality. Now when you burn that to a CD you are by definition getting a "CD quality" file, which according to Steve, is already worse than what you downloaded from iTMS. You then rip that file from the CD to create an MP3, which is another lossy process.
So you go through two lossy processes to get an MP3. If you don't think it is true, think rinse and repeat ten times and tell me if your songs sound the same after the tenth iteration.
If this is so blindingly obvious maybe you should have invented it and started selling low-cost refridgeration equipment in Africa. If you read up on the effects of this device you would find that young women in families that use the device are now allowed to go to school instead of being sent to the market to sell goods? Why? Because crops last longer so they don't have to sell them as soon as they pick them.
So tell those young girls that it doesn't matter. Tell the same thing to families that have food that lasts weeks instead of days.
Just because something is simple doesn't mean it doesn't matter.
There was a database class offered at Stanford that was advertised as being about "things you could do with our db of 1/3rd of the internet's text, including links."
This sounded interesting, but I hated the prof so I didn't take it. This class turned out to be related to the Google project of course and many of the people who took it ended up at the company.
My other brush with Google greatness was being designated driver for Larry (friend of a friend). This was before anyone knew about Google.
No, I am talking about a different effect. I understand that a pixel level effect is as good as you can do. The quake demo has only 256 levels of depth to it, so surfaces appear choppy. If you are looking at the floor a horizontal row 5 pixels tall all appear to be the same depth, then there is another row. He has another demo on his site which is not choppy and does pixel level depth.
Yeah, if you explore the guy's site you can find a screenshot of a smooth one. I would guess that it is computationally easier to do the 8 bit depth, but the smooth ones look much nicer.
Do stereograms have to have discrete depths? Is there something preventing the depth from varying by the pixel? The chunkiness of this is distracting. It looks like you are walking on a cattle guard.
I agree! It would tweak the font size, line spacing, margins, even kerning. There were lots of other properties that I can't remember. You could also restrict it and tell it what it could and couldn't mess with to try to get it to fit. Generally the results were much better than what you would get by messing with it by hand.
If MS is going to give us technology that allows any idiot to visually compose a program by "drawing" it, then the cost of SW will go down as well, right?
Of course nobody sees this happening since software isn't easy to write, and any tool that makes software easy to write seems to lead to more complex software, which is again hard to write.
I agree that if Freenet becomes the only alternative for filesharing then it will develop rapidly. Witness the rapid evolution of Gnutella clients, especially after Napster went bye-bye.
I also don't see how you could make Freenet illegal in the United States. Congress might try it but I don't see the courts allowing it.
My point wasn't to cause Senator Hatch to focus on Freenet as the enemy, but to point out the unforeseen consequences of his proposed legislation in hopes of getting him to reconsider it. I doubt that he will do that though.
To tell him that he is just going to make Freenet more popular if this bill becomes law.
If he thinks that the porn kids are exposed to on current systems is harmful wait until he causes them to all flee to Freenet. Not only will the be exposed to kiddie porn, but the file traders will be unknowingly storing it on their computers! I am sure that this is the result he wants, the popularization of child pornography.
This legislation is ill-concieved for that reason alone. It will accomplish the opposite of its intention.
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All else being equal, I'd hire a Stanford grad over anybody else for whatever position, but I'm biased.
Bart: You're going to Stanford! You're going to Stanford!
Assuming it did, giving away the source is more akin to giving away the whole store than it is to selling a single item at deep discount. Of course all these examples are flawed since the real world doesn't map well to software.
Could the manager also sell you the actual Walmart store for $5? He is allowed to act on Walmart's behalf, right?
It is possible that Justin had authority to release binaries such as Winamp but no authority to release source. It is also possible that he was told specifically that he can't release something as GPL.
Notice that he blames both 9/11 and Enron for not wanting to deal with large companies. Maybe smaller companies are easier to fool and less likely to be able to expose him?
This sounds like a scam to me. I hope it isn't, but it sounds like one.
aggggh! Mac version isn't up on the web, which is odd, since I originally wrote it on a Mac, my trusty old 1995 Performa 6216, which had no 3d acceleration. The linux version isn't up either, though it still exists.
You are welcome!
yet you did figure it out, right? Lots of people don't get it even when I explain it, but I agree it could use more documentation than simply mentioning that there is a heads up display.
http://www.angelfire.com/games/ultimateblaster/
I did something similar using OpenGL. It is a 3D asteroids game in which the action occurs in 3d, not in a 2d plane. The zip file for it is about 102 kb, but most of that is because I included glut.dll so that people wouldn't have to hunt it down. Oh, and by using OpenGL I have been able to run it on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Once the tech is explained the story starts to move faster. It is as if the story is passing through Stephenson's mind faster and he isn't able to type fast enough to keep up. So as it accelerates the details that make it to the page are more and more sparse until there are no details or explainations left. That is when the book is over, since there is nothing to print on the next page as the pace of the book approaches infinity and he simply can type anything.
Quicksilver seems to break the mold. It doesn't get faster and in fact just gets harder and harder to read. The pace at which I could read it got slower and slower until I was unable to read any more of it. I stopped (well, the velocity of my reading reached zero) about 300 pages from the end. This from a person that read Cryptonomicon in two sittings.
I prefer Crytonomicon to Snowcrash, but enjoyed both of them and The Diamond Age as well. I tried and tried to finish Quicksilver (which I enjoyed at first) but couldn't. I figured that with hundreds of pages to go Jack Shaftoe was dead and the book seemed to get denser and denser without going anywhere. I couldn't see the point in finishing it.
Your solution appears to be working, but I would guess that if you contact IBM with this problem they would fix the problem.
So you go through two lossy processes to get an MP3. If you don't think it is true, think rinse and repeat ten times and tell me if your songs sound the same after the tenth iteration.
If this is so blindingly obvious maybe you should have invented it and started selling low-cost refridgeration equipment in Africa. If you read up on the effects of this device you would find that young women in families that use the device are now allowed to go to school instead of being sent to the market to sell goods? Why? Because crops last longer so they don't have to sell them as soon as they pick them.
So tell those young girls that it doesn't matter. Tell the same thing to families that have food that lasts weeks instead of days.
Just because something is simple doesn't mean it doesn't matter.
That is why it is known as "The Project that Ate Stanford."
This sounded interesting, but I hated the prof so I didn't take it. This class turned out to be related to the Google project of course and many of the people who took it ended up at the company.
My other brush with Google greatness was being designated driver for Larry (friend of a friend). This was before anyone knew about Google.
No, I am talking about a different effect. I understand that a pixel level effect is as good as you can do. The quake demo has only 256 levels of depth to it, so surfaces appear choppy. If you are looking at the floor a horizontal row 5 pixels tall all appear to be the same depth, then there is another row. He has another demo on his site which is not choppy and does pixel level depth.
Yeah, if you explore the guy's site you can find a screenshot of a smooth one. I would guess that it is computationally easier to do the 8 bit depth, but the smooth ones look much nicer.
Do stereograms have to have discrete depths? Is there something preventing the depth from varying by the pixel? The chunkiness of this is distracting. It looks like you are walking on a cattle guard.
I agree! It would tweak the font size, line spacing, margins, even kerning. There were lots of other properties that I can't remember. You could also restrict it and tell it what it could and couldn't mess with to try to get it to fit. Generally the results were much better than what you would get by messing with it by hand.
Of course nobody sees this happening since software isn't easy to write, and any tool that makes software easy to write seems to lead to more complex software, which is again hard to write.
I also don't see how you could make Freenet illegal in the United States. Congress might try it but I don't see the courts allowing it.
My point wasn't to cause Senator Hatch to focus on Freenet as the enemy, but to point out the unforeseen consequences of his proposed legislation in hopes of getting him to reconsider it. I doubt that he will do that though.
To tell him that he is just going to make Freenet more popular if this bill becomes law. If he thinks that the porn kids are exposed to on current systems is harmful wait until he causes them to all flee to Freenet. Not only will the be exposed to kiddie porn, but the file traders will be unknowingly storing it on their computers! I am sure that this is the result he wants, the popularization of child pornography. This legislation is ill-concieved for that reason alone. It will accomplish the opposite of its intention.