Hmmm, If cola cleans toilet bowls, and stomach acide cleans toilet bowls, and alcohol is also a good solvent/cleaner, we should just drink lots of "rum & coke"s, then "hurl" into the toilet bowls to get the clean!!!!
If they can design their hardware to be that "adaptable" to applications by merely providing a software (driver) "enhancement", then more power to them.
Suppose you bought a car becasue it had good solid features/capabilites that are based on today's most popular roads and driving habits. If next year, the most popular roads are paved with a different substance and the speed limits have changed, I'd be FRIGGIN ECSTATIC if my car's performance could be significantly improved (under these new conditions), merely by applying a software update (No "driver" jokes please).
Seem to be the same sort of thing.
My only gripe is the fact that NVidia (and ATI) are making their harware "perform" for a benchmark instead of the most popular games and playing habits. Ant this is nothing short of marketing/sales BS!!!
As ridiculous as "Intellectual Property"
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Can/should virtual world "property" be treated as legal property? Lets look at "intellectual property". (almost an oxymoron in itself) To say that an idea could be treated as property has always amazed me.
Property can be destroyed - an idea cannot.
Property can be stolen - and idea cannot (although it can be copied)
Upon transferal of property, the original owner loses possession - not so with an idea
And so on......... Seem more likely that lawyers got together and realized that the only way for them to "sell" the absurd notion that an intangible "intellectual item" was "entitled" to legal rights and protection similar to real possessions, was to make those items seem "tangible" to the common public. And to that end, the term "Intelectual Property" seems to have been born.
But I digress... Seems like virtual world property might actually be more "tangible" than "intellectual property". Virtual world "property" exists (albeit in a virtual world), and its existence is governed by the programming/rules of that virtual world. As such, that "property" (in the context of that virtual world) can:
Be stolen
Be destroyed
Be transferred (whereby the previous owner loses possession)
And so on... (provided that the programming/rules permit these things).
And as such, it makes the prospect of virtual world "property" being treated as legal property even less ridiculous than "Intellectual Property"
OK, I gotta ask: If macaroni (or any pasta product) gets so nasty as a prepared MRE, how is it that I can go to a store and buy perfectly fine tasting Spaghetti-Os (loved em as a kid and can still eat them right from the can). I'm sure that they don't have a shelf life of 5 years, but I have had cans that had quite a few months "buildup of dust" on their lids.
And why is it that irradiation is not an option. I freely admit to limmited knowlege of the subject, but I was under the impression that it was possible to irratiate a hermetically sealed package and destroy virtually any living pathogen. Then these packages should keep indefinitely. Anyone know more about this (or why it can't be used)?
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Provided that: 1.) the radiation completely eliminates the fly's reproductive capabilities and 2.) the flies do not remain radioactive then what dangers could be lurking?
The fly no longer can reproduce and it carries no residual ratiation to harm anything that ingests or decomposes the fly. So even if other aspects of the fly's physiology is mutated, its impact is stricly limmited to the fly's short lifespan.
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Tape? You whipper-snappers have all the new-fangeled gadgets. Why in my day our linked lists were on punch cards.
Hmmm, If cola cleans toilet bowls, and stomach acide cleans toilet bowls, and alcohol is also a good solvent/cleaner, we should just drink lots of "rum & coke"s, then "hurl" into the toilet bowls to get the clean!!!!
or will you need to use "white-out"?
(or will an eraser work too?)
Damn little bastards will become weight concious and go on a diet just to elude detection.
If they can design their hardware to be that "adaptable" to applications by merely providing a software (driver) "enhancement", then more power to them.
Suppose you bought a car becasue it had good solid features/capabilites that are based on today's most popular roads and driving habits. If next year, the most popular roads are paved with a different substance and the speed limits have changed, I'd be FRIGGIN ECSTATIC if my car's performance could be significantly improved (under these new conditions), merely by applying a software update (No "driver" jokes please).
Seem to be the same sort of thing.
My only gripe is the fact that NVidia (and ATI) are making their harware "perform" for a benchmark instead of the most popular games and playing habits. Ant this is nothing short of marketing/sales BS!!!
Can/should virtual world "property" be treated as legal property?
Lets look at "intellectual property". (almost an oxymoron in itself)
To say that an idea could be treated as property has always amazed me.
Property can be destroyed - an idea cannot.
Property can be stolen - and idea cannot (although it can be copied)
Upon transferal of property, the original owner loses possession - not so with an idea
And so on.........
Seem more likely that lawyers got together and realized that the only way for them to "sell" the absurd notion that an intangible "intellectual item" was "entitled" to legal rights and protection similar to real possessions, was to make those items seem "tangible" to the common public. And to that end, the term "Intelectual Property" seems to have been born.
But I digress...
Seems like virtual world property might actually be more "tangible" than "intellectual property".
Virtual world "property" exists (albeit in a virtual world), and its existence is governed by the programming/rules of that virtual world.
As such, that "property" (in the context of that virtual world) can:
Be stolen
Be destroyed
Be transferred (whereby the previous owner loses possession)
And so on...
(provided that the programming/rules permit these things).
And as such, it makes the prospect of virtual world "property" being treated as legal property even less ridiculous than "Intellectual Property"
OK, I gotta ask: If macaroni (or any pasta product) gets so nasty as a prepared MRE, how is it that I can go to a store and buy perfectly fine tasting Spaghetti-Os (loved em as a kid and can still eat them right from the can). I'm sure that they don't have a shelf life of 5 years, but I have had cans that had quite a few months "buildup of dust" on their lids.
And why is it that irradiation is not an option. I freely admit to limmited knowlege of the subject, but I was under the impression that it was possible to irratiate a hermetically sealed package and destroy virtually any living pathogen. Then these packages should keep indefinitely. Anyone know more about this (or why it can't be used)?
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Provided that:
1.) the radiation completely eliminates the fly's reproductive capabilities and
2.) the flies do not remain radioactive
then what dangers could be lurking?
The fly no longer can reproduce and it carries no residual ratiation to harm anything that ingests or decomposes the fly. So even if other aspects of the fly's physiology is mutated, its impact is stricly limmited to the fly's short lifespan.
Am I missing something some other dangers?