If Microsoft is smart (and regardless of what you may think of their policies or products, they are smart) they will keep the architecture the same across all boxes. Put in better/faster/more renderers each year, a bigger harddrive each year, but keep everything standardized. Then you can upgrade, and all your old games keep working.
Just like the real pc world. The computer I had 5 computers ago will play quake3, counterstrike, and everything else that comes out. It may play like crap, but it plays it.
And my current computer plays doom!
Microsoft knows the backwards/forwards compatability thing. In fact, they sometimes keep compatability at the expense of feature improvement (himem386.sys anyone?)
Tivo could also record 2 shows at once. But just on the DirecTivo unit. Pretty much all of the DirectTV PVRs can do 2 shows at once, and the cable ones can only do one show at a time.
I am probably going to lose karma for posting off topic, but oh well.
Trolls are not censored on slashdot. they are modded down. Their input, such as it is, remains a part of the discussion. But people who don't want to see it can chose to browse at 0 or 1. Anyone who likes the trolls, they can read at -1. Just like I do.
Um. if you think the ARE using strong encryption, you obviously didn't read the article. The point is they WEREN'T using strong encryption. Just like 99.999% of the world, they are lazy, and used the default that was given to them.
Of course we can't stop someone from getting strong encryption if they really want it.
We also can't stop someone from shooting the clerk at the 7-11 if they really want to. But we make it illegal anyway.
The point is you get rid of 80% of the bad guys who are stupid (stupid - yet still incredibly dangerous) and let the 3 letter agencies worry about the smart ones.
Apparently it does matter. There are quite often comments on SlashDot such as "If strong encryption is made illegal, only criminals will have strong encryption"
In this case, the criminals did not have strong encryption, at a time during which it would be illegal for them to have the strong encryption. If the export restriction had not been in place, certainly Microsoft would have put out the strongest encryption everywhere.
al Qaeda is arguably one of the most advanced and resourceful enemies the United States has (if you ignore state governments)
The fact that they did not have strong encryption shows that the policy of export controls was in fact productive.
As my parent post indicated, anyone with math skills and programming skills can make strong encryption. But apparently (suprise? I'm not!) not everyone in the world is a programmer, or has people who can program for them!
SGI had that power as well. They chose to sell that power to microsoft. They were not forced. Just because you like SGI's policies better than Microsoft's policies does not invalidate the right of ownership. (Assuming for the argument, that the patents in question are legitimate non-trivial patents)
I meant that there is a one to many relationship between uploaders and downloaders. Of course the actual number of uploads will be equal to the downloads. I mean that a given file will be downloaded multiple times, by many different people, from one source.
Uh. Your logic is whack. People are downloading more than they are uploading. If people offer more files, it will increase the number of downloads. (More people want b-spears-naked.jpg than HAVE b-spears-naked.jpg)
If this were not true, essentially, people would be offering files that nobody wanted, and that would just be stupid.
You paid money to study physics in college. The principles of physics are free. The applications of physics are NOT free. Physics is what make cars work. Cars are not free. Physics is what allows planes to fly. Planes are not free.
The principles of computer science are well established, and really not changing all that much. When someone DOES come up with an idea, they usually publish it very quickly either to A) get a degree, or B) write a book.
However the average CS _student_ is not looking to push the boundries of CS. He is looking to get a job doing programming, and if everything were open source, there would be no money involved.
The moon would be pretty bad actually, as it would at a minumum screw up our tides royally which could have a huge effect on lifes, and certainly the economy. Worse is that a hit on the moon could push the moon into a decaying orbit, and the moon is significanly bigger and WOULD be a global killer:)
If you played doom on your 286, I am suprised you didn't shoot yourself with the musket you have by your door.
I played doom on a 386-25, and it was slow as hell. And I remember an April fools joke coming out just after Doom saying they had found a loop that was taking too many cycles, and now the game would run ok on a 386.
I hated my friends with 486s. But I was a god when I got my p5-90:)
Supposedly ie 5.5sp2 and ie6 do not run java. However, I have ie 6 as included with XP. If I go to http://java.sun.com/applets all the demo applets run just fine.
If you are Terminal Servering into a win2k box, there is a java based client that comes installed on the win2k box. Works automajically with IE and Netscape. Dont know about alternate browsers.
Jews were in Chapterhouse, as the sect that had the secret alliance with the bene geserit. But the Telaxiu were Islamic. They spoke the language "Islamiyat" and had Jihad and Shariat and Powindah as ideas.
It wasn't just hinted at. Herbert came right out and said it.
Actually, there are some extensive interviews with Herbert saying that water is oil.
Exceprt from "When I was writing dune" can be found in the front of the paperback copy of Heretics of dune.
...there was no room in my mind for cencerns about the book's sucess of failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before exprienced.
It was to be a story exploring the myth of the Messiah.
It was to produce another view of a human-occupied planet as an energy machine.
It was to penetrate the interlocked workings of politics and economincs.
It was to be an examination of absolute prediction and its pitfalls.
It was to have an awareness drug in it and tell what could happen through dependence on such a substance.
Potable water was to be an analog for oil and for water iteself, a substance whose supply diminishes each day
It was to be an ecological novel then, with many overtones, as well as a story about people and their human concerns with human values, and I had to monitor each of thes elevels at every stage in the book
But the islam stuff doesnt stop there. The Telaxiu are Islamic, as can be seen in the later books.
I really get the impression tha chapterhouse wasn't supposed to be the last book. They introduce new chars, and don't do anything with them. They give Teg new powers, and don't do anything with them etc.
I suppose it could be just bad writing tho. There were several huge plot mistakes in this book.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
A) Teg's Ghola was supposed to be imprinted, but they dicided not to. Instead they sent him to the sheena, who was basically an imprinter. The whole convolutions involved were not neccissary. They could've let lucilla do her job to begin with
B) The battle against the honored matres was pointless. They had the whole battle, in the end the Bene Geserit lose, and Murbella lands on and dukes it out with the spider queen. She wins, the two groups merge.
They could've just sent murbella to kick her ass to begin with. Murbella didn't have any fear of not being accepted.
C) What is up with the farmer gholas in the net that Teg can see? They had 0 purpose in the story. If there were later books, then this would be a decent intro. But not the way they set it up.
D) They sent Duncan off into space, but no resolution to his char.
Such a species could exist. But it would never be technilogically advanced, because most if not all technology requires faster response time to external stimuli.
If it takes you a year to form an action, the circumstances which cause the action arent likely to still be around.
On the other hand, the life could very well be intelligent, and even migratory (spores or seeds or something)
But we wouldn't notice it as intelligent, and likely the reverse would be true as well..
However since the theorem involved specifies "technologically advanced" races as one of the variables, encountering species such as this one has already been taken into account.
Ahnold isnt in sports anymore. But steroids in body building is accepted, just not weight lifting.
WWF isnt a sport, therefore there is no "enhancement" involved. The winner is scripted fool.
NFL is legit, and if they have proof, they bust em. But they dont look too hard, because big $ are at stake.
In fact for the NFL they probably don't care, but if they condoned steroids at the pro level, it would bleed more into the college and high school level, where things are supposed to be "pure"
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For almost all the shows I watch, hitting the 30 second skip 8 times, then the instant replay button twice takes me to exactly the start of the show.
This also takes about 2 seconds, and I dont have to pay attention and try and time getting out of fast forward
If Microsoft is smart (and regardless of what you may think of their policies or products, they are smart) they will keep the architecture the same across all boxes. Put in better/faster/more renderers each year, a bigger harddrive each year, but keep everything standardized. Then you can upgrade, and all your old games keep working.
Just like the real pc world. The computer I had 5 computers ago will play quake3, counterstrike, and everything else that comes out. It may play like crap, but it plays it.
And my current computer plays doom!
Microsoft knows the backwards/forwards compatability thing. In fact, they sometimes keep compatability at the expense of feature improvement (himem386.sys anyone?)
Tivo could also record 2 shows at once. But just on the DirecTivo unit. Pretty much all of the DirectTV PVRs can do 2 shows at once, and the cable ones can only do one show at a time.
I am probably going to lose karma for posting off topic, but oh well.
Trolls are not censored on slashdot. they are modded down. Their input, such as it is, remains a part of the discussion. But people who don't want to see it can chose to browse at 0 or 1. Anyone who likes the trolls, they can read at -1. Just like I do.
Um. if you think the ARE using strong encryption, you obviously didn't read the article. The point is they WEREN'T using strong encryption. Just like 99.999% of the world, they are lazy, and used the default that was given to them.
Of course we can't stop someone from getting strong encryption if they really want it.
We also can't stop someone from shooting the clerk at the 7-11 if they really want to. But we make it illegal anyway.
The point is you get rid of 80% of the bad guys who are stupid (stupid - yet still incredibly dangerous) and let the 3 letter agencies worry about the smart ones.
Apparently it does matter. There are quite often comments on SlashDot such as "If strong encryption is made illegal, only criminals will have strong encryption"
In this case, the criminals did not have strong encryption, at a time during which it would be illegal for them to have the strong encryption. If the export restriction had not been in place, certainly Microsoft would have put out the strongest encryption everywhere.
al Qaeda is arguably one of the most advanced and resourceful enemies the United States has (if you ignore state governments)
The fact that they did not have strong encryption shows that the policy of export controls was in fact productive.
As my parent post indicated, anyone with math skills and programming skills can make strong encryption. But apparently (suprise? I'm not!) not everyone in the world is a programmer, or has people who can program for them!
If SGI sold those rights to Microsoft, with full knowledge of what MS may do with them, then SGI is no better than MS.
:)
They wanted money, the just let MS do the dirty work in exchange for the money.
SGI had that power as well. They chose to sell that power to microsoft. They were not forced. Just because you like SGI's policies better than Microsoft's policies does not invalidate the right of ownership. (Assuming for the argument, that the patents in question are legitimate non-trivial patents)
I meant that there is a one to many relationship between uploaders and downloaders. Of course the actual number of uploads will be equal to the downloads. I mean that a given file will be downloaded multiple times, by many different people, from one source.
Uh. Your logic is whack. People are downloading more than they are uploading. If people offer more files, it will increase the number of downloads. (More people want b-spears-naked.jpg than HAVE b-spears-naked.jpg)
If this were not true, essentially, people would be offering files that nobody wanted, and that would just be stupid.
That works fine, assuming your company never needs tech support from microsoft, and never needs to buy any additional software from microsoft.
What makes you think an unencrypted temporary file needs to be created? Have you never heard of RAM?
You paid money to study physics in college. The principles of physics are free. The applications of physics are NOT free. Physics is what make cars work. Cars are not free. Physics is what allows planes to fly. Planes are not free.
The principles of computer science are well established, and really not changing all that much. When someone DOES come up with an idea, they usually publish it very quickly either to A) get a degree, or B) write a book.
However the average CS _student_ is not looking to push the boundries of CS. He is looking to get a job doing programming, and if everything were open source, there would be no money involved.
The moon would be pretty bad actually, as it would at a minumum screw up our tides royally which could have a huge effect on lifes, and certainly the economy. Worse is that a hit on the moon could push the moon into a decaying orbit, and the moon is significanly bigger and WOULD be a global killer :)
If you played doom on your 286, I am suprised you didn't shoot yourself with the musket you have by your door.
:)
I played doom on a 386-25, and it was slow as hell. And I remember an April fools joke coming out just after Doom saying they had found a loop that was taking too many cycles, and now the game would run ok on a 386.
I hated my friends with 486s. But I was a god when I got my p5-90
Supposedly ie 5.5sp2 and ie6 do not run java. However, I have ie 6 as included with XP. If I go to http://java.sun.com/applets all the demo applets run just fine.
Shrug
If you are Terminal Servering into a win2k box, there is a java based client that comes installed on the win2k box. Works automajically with IE and Netscape. Dont know about alternate browsers.
Ebay now allows authentication via passport. Logging in from a win2k box or winxp box for ebay is automatic.
Jews were in Chapterhouse, as the sect that had the secret alliance with the bene geserit. But the Telaxiu were Islamic. They spoke the language "Islamiyat" and had Jihad and Shariat and Powindah as ideas.
It wasn't just hinted at. Herbert came right out and said it.
Actually, there are some extensive interviews with Herbert saying that water is oil.
Exceprt from "When I was writing dune" can be found in the front of the paperback copy of Heretics of dune.
...there was no room in my mind for cencerns about the book's sucess of failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before exprienced.
It was to be a story exploring the myth of the Messiah.
It was to produce another view of a human-occupied planet as an energy machine.
It was to penetrate the interlocked workings of politics and economincs.
It was to be an examination of absolute prediction and its pitfalls.
It was to have an awareness drug in it and tell what could happen through dependence on such a substance.
Potable water was to be an analog for oil and for water iteself, a substance whose supply diminishes each day
It was to be an ecological novel then, with many overtones, as well as a story about people and their human concerns with human values, and I had to monitor each of thes elevels at every stage in the book
But the islam stuff doesnt stop there. The Telaxiu are Islamic, as can be seen in the later books.
No, there were not wierding modules in the book.
The "wierding way" was the kick ass kung-fu pranha-bindu shit the Bene Geserit did, sometimes with the voice added in.
Stilgar refers to the wierding way after Jessica kicks his ass when Paul and Jessica escape, and they had no funky equipment with them at that point.
The whole modules, and muadd'ib being a "killing word" was totally made up for the movie
I really get the impression tha chapterhouse wasn't supposed to be the last book. They introduce new chars, and don't do anything with them. They give Teg new powers, and don't do anything with them etc.
I suppose it could be just bad writing tho. There were several huge plot mistakes in this book.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
A) Teg's Ghola was supposed to be imprinted, but they dicided not to. Instead they sent him to the sheena, who was basically an imprinter. The whole convolutions involved were not neccissary. They could've let lucilla do her job to begin with
B) The battle against the honored matres was pointless. They had the whole battle, in the end the Bene Geserit lose, and Murbella lands on and dukes it out with the spider queen. She wins, the two groups merge.
They could've just sent murbella to kick her ass to begin with. Murbella didn't have any fear of not being accepted.
C) What is up with the farmer gholas in the net that Teg can see? They had 0 purpose in the story. If there were later books, then this would be a decent intro. But not the way they set it up.
D) They sent Duncan off into space, but no resolution to his char.
E) More exist, but I cant think of em right now.
Such a species could exist. But it would never be technilogically advanced, because most if not all technology requires faster response time to external stimuli.
If it takes you a year to form an action, the circumstances which cause the action arent likely to still be around.
On the other hand, the life could very well be intelligent, and even migratory (spores or seeds or something)
But we wouldn't notice it as intelligent, and likely the reverse would be true as well..
However since the theorem involved specifies "technologically advanced" races as one of the variables, encountering species such as this one has already been taken into account.
Uh. SPOILER!
:)
Some of us don't have UPN, so we have to wait a week or so for it to get to the network. Be nice and mark stuff as spoiler
Ahnold isnt in sports anymore. But steroids in body building is accepted, just not weight lifting.
WWF isnt a sport, therefore there is no "enhancement" involved. The winner is scripted fool.
NFL is legit, and if they have proof, they bust em. But they dont look too hard, because big $ are at stake.
In fact for the NFL they probably don't care, but if they condoned steroids at the pro level, it would bleed more into the college and high school level, where things are supposed to be "pure"