that'll scare em for sure. china needs most favored nation status so that they can export all their goods to the US.
That's definitely a good idea, and something that should be done sooner rather than later (for many other reasons than just for GPL enforcement). Problem is that American companies are soooooo hell-bent on getting *their* products into the biggest market on earth, they're doing everything they can to keep China's status the way it is.
Yes, many governments in this world are heavily influenced by corporate interests. This is sad, but not because of the influence by Big Companies. It is sad because of the influence of Big Government on its citizens. Citizens go to their governments demanding that every one of their stupid problems be solved. And almost all these problems stem from a lack of personal self-responsibility and complete ignorance of the values of rugged individualism.
If people would start taking responsibility and stop their reliance and addiction to Big Government, it follows that Big Corporations could not have as much influence on the people.
I remember a time, maybe 6-7 years ago, when almost all text files had the.doc extension. They were "Documents", not "Proprietary-MS-encoded-documents". Gosh, to be back in the good old days...
'I don't think it will be a film for children. One of the big monsters was genuinely terrifying.'
Yeah, no kidding the movie is not for kids. It had better not be for kids, anyway. LOTR is hands down one of the best books ever, mostly because of the incredible intertwining storylines and unbelievingly detailed history of Middle Earth. Lord knows the movie is going to be dumbed down for general consumption and to fit in the 2-3 hr timeframe the directors are given; I just hope they would, at the very least, salvage the powerful imagery used by J.R.R. Tolkien. IMO, I think Peter Jackson is really setting himself for the Big Hurt if he doesn't give us an accurate portrayal of the greatest story (history?) on earth.
Of course, I'll probably be watching it no matter how dumbed down it is.
Sure, it may have taken 200 lines of code to make a window, but rememeber the kind of satisfaction you got out of it?
Um...Ok...I learned programming on GWBASIC and BASICA (IBM) back in 1990 and ended up doing quite a bit of programming with it. I never remember any kind of satisfaction from making a window. It was a DOS interpreter. Unless you're talking about peeks and pokes, GWBASIC never provided methods for doing that!
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...otherwise how ya gonna rail those bastards?
It's gonna be damn hard . . . this is a q1 sourceport . . . q1 doesn't have the railgun that you find in q3a.
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I'd like to experience Quake without looking at a computer screen. Instead have some sort of EM ray exite part of my brain to directly control what I'm seeing. Heh, THEN let's try that panoramic view...see how long it takes me to ralph...
Since these highly social(Eusocial?) beings depend on long distance communication through corridors of reflection; isn't this technology just going to drive them MAD?
What the hell do whales do when volcanoes erupt underwater, or earthquakes occur? I would think this has much more of an effect on them. Not only is there a huge BOOM and lots of rumblings that can be heard for many thousands of miles, but their precious "corridors of reflection" get changed all the time as islands form. Whales have had to deal with underwater noise for much much much longer than humans have walked the earth. I don't think supercavitation is really going to hurt them much. (Heh heh...unless one gets shot...)
The supercavitating projectiles are still going to have a hard time changing course. I would imagine that until course changes for these weapons are perfected, typical evasive maneuvers would be sufficient for a submarine that is being attacked (at least for attacks coming from a great enough distance).
So how fast could we do a full Linux kernel compile with one of these babies? Will quantum computing even be useful for a (mostly) sequential operation such as this, or will it be mostly used for massively "parallelizable" functions such as decryption?
And the real burning question, how long has the NSA had one of these???
> Publishing it is a crime because a judge said it was. That's really all it takes.
Yes, it is a sad state of affairs in the U.S. when the judicial system has the last word on just about everything. While I'm glad we have a judicial branch of gov't, it is absolutely terrible that they are the ones making the bulk of the laws in this country.
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The Industry Standard had an article on this a couple months ago: http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,26784,00 .html.
... Microsoft can finally (literally) kiss my ass.
that'll scare em for sure. china needs most favored nation status so that they can export all their goods to the US.
That's definitely a good idea, and something that should be done sooner rather than later (for many other reasons than just for GPL enforcement). Problem is that American companies are soooooo hell-bent on getting *their* products into the biggest market on earth, they're doing everything they can to keep China's status the way it is.
Our governments are owned by corporate interests.
Yes, many governments in this world are heavily influenced by corporate interests. This is sad, but not because of the influence by Big Companies. It is sad because of the influence of Big Government on its citizens. Citizens go to their governments demanding that every one of their stupid problems be solved. And almost all these problems stem from a lack of personal self-responsibility and complete ignorance of the values of rugged individualism.
If people would start taking responsibility and stop their reliance and addiction to Big Government, it follows that Big Corporations could not have as much influence on the people.
I remember a time, maybe 6-7 years ago, when almost all text files had the .doc extension. They were "Documents", not "Proprietary-MS-encoded-documents". Gosh, to be back in the good old days...
'I don't think it will be a film for children. One of the big monsters was genuinely terrifying.'
Yeah, no kidding the movie is not for kids. It had better not be for kids, anyway. LOTR is hands down one of the best books ever, mostly because of the incredible intertwining storylines and unbelievingly detailed history of Middle Earth. Lord knows the movie is going to be dumbed down for general consumption and to fit in the 2-3 hr timeframe the directors are given; I just hope they would, at the very least, salvage the powerful imagery used by J.R.R. Tolkien. IMO, I think Peter Jackson is really setting himself for the Big Hurt if he doesn't give us an accurate portrayal of the greatest story (history?) on earth.
Of course, I'll probably be watching it no matter how dumbed down it is.
Sure, it may have taken 200 lines of code to make a window, but rememeber the kind of satisfaction you got out of it?
Um...Ok...I learned programming on GWBASIC and BASICA (IBM) back in 1990 and ended up doing quite a bit of programming with it. I never remember any kind of satisfaction from making a window. It was a DOS interpreter. Unless you're talking about peeks and pokes, GWBASIC never provided methods for doing that!
...otherwise how ya gonna rail those bastards?
It's gonna be damn hard . . . this is a q1 sourceport . . . q1 doesn't have the railgun that you find in q3a.
I'd like to experience Quake without looking at a computer screen. Instead have some sort of EM ray exite part of my brain to directly control what I'm seeing. Heh, THEN let's try that panoramic view...see how long it takes me to ralph...
Nick Petreley, open-source commentator, founding editor of LinuxWorld.com, and all-'round great guy, was recently laid off by Caldera. Coincidence???
Since these highly social(Eusocial?) beings depend on long distance communication through corridors of reflection; isn't this technology just going to drive them MAD?
What the hell do whales do when volcanoes erupt underwater, or earthquakes occur? I would think this has much more of an effect on them. Not only is there a huge BOOM and lots of rumblings that can be heard for many thousands of miles, but their precious "corridors of reflection" get changed all the time as islands form. Whales have had to deal with underwater noise for much much much longer than humans have walked the earth. I don't think supercavitation is really going to hurt them much. (Heh heh...unless one gets shot...)
The supercavitating projectiles are still going to have a hard time changing course. I would imagine that until course changes for these weapons are perfected, typical evasive maneuvers would be sufficient for a submarine that is being attacked (at least for attacks coming from a great enough distance).
Anyone care to reply with links to basic quantum computing information you care to share?
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A great Scientific American article on the subject ("Quantum Computing with Molecules") can be found at http://www.sciam.com/1998/0698issue/0698gershenfe
Yeah, and now we can watch Windows crash faster.
So how fast could we do a full Linux kernel compile with one of these babies? Will quantum computing even be useful for a (mostly) sequential operation such as this, or will it be mostly used for massively "parallelizable" functions such as decryption?
And the real burning question, how long has the NSA had one of these???
Thanks!
> Publishing it is a crime because a judge said it was. That's really all it takes.
Yes, it is a sad state of affairs in the U.S. when the judicial system has the last word on just about everything. While I'm glad we have a judicial branch of gov't, it is absolutely terrible that they are the ones making the bulk of the laws in this country.