If the scam company had been up and running for more than two months maybe. The way it works is by the Proprerties of the 'Somebody Elses Problem' effect. You just spend 3 months unemployed (or longer) and this startup hires you right away. your first few weeks there you start to notice that the billing isn't consistant, but you were just hired so it Must be Somebody Elses Problem. Perhaps the programmer of the billing software etc. Maybe you send some anonymous e-mails out to feel better but you don't stop to question anyone directly. Anyways The Somebody Elses Problem field effect is so potent that a device to cloak you in a SEP field could run virtually forever on a AAA battery.
While your design is fairly crude I prefer a more comprehensive solution. Implanting a micro-controller to stimulate either the pair or pleasure centers. Next install a camera and screenspy on each PC so when they look away from the screen or surf to other sites they writhe in agony and when they look intently at the site they feel immense pleasure. Just make sure that whatever networking controller (wireless or wired) is properly secured to ensure that hackers don't misuse your userbase.
When I looked into collecting unemployment it required that I apply at three jobs a week. I don't know about anyone else but I can't take the kind of depression that comes getting refused three jobs a week just to collect unemployment benefits. I generally need about a week of consoling myself to even work up to apply for another job, and yeah I've been diagnosed with depression before, but who has money for those expensive pills that 9 out of 10 won't even work even if you know what you have.
Try cracking open an Inspiron 8100. The water cooling isn't nearly as ambitious, and still requires fans to dissipate the heat. This Inspirion 8100 also has it's GPU on a replaceable daughter card as reviewed at tomshardware. Too bad the laptop is designed with a really flimsy body, and still relys on Pentium III processors. I also like that it can swap batteries while running, too bad they cost so much. I also highly doubt that you can run the i8100 on a foot pump since the brick it comes with is rated for a max of 70 watts, a couch potato might have a hard time powering the inspiron with a bicycle without a flywheel to ensure consistant power flow.
I hate to argue with you here but.. If you've ever been to some of the sites normal people go to like MSN gaming zone or pogo.com you'd realize those lille ActiveX Java apps slow a 200 mhz system to a crawl to the point where the mouse cursor sticks on the screen. My parents are finally having me build them a system because they keep buying these lame systems Designed 'for normals' that become worthless in 3 years time as the latest and greatest in web technology is released. I've decided on an AMD XP 1700+ processor, I was originally going to go with 512 MB of RAM but then prices trippled so that got scrapped. They Are getting a 7200 rpm drive even though they're 'normal' users. I haven't decided on which motherboard to get them yet, But I've got my eye on one of three, and all of the boards are known for speed and reliability, although one is more than 6 months old. I'm trying to decide if it's worth saving ~$80 going with a chipset that's 5% slower or not. At anyrate the system I'm putting together for them will still be better than the ones wal-mart is selling a year from now so I'm sure they're going to be using this PC for a long, long time.
You should really share the source code for something as useful as that;-) So far the only thing I've come up with is rm -rf *Britney*Spears* This really isn't compressing all my britney spears to zero bits losslessly, especially with how poorly named mp3s can be when Downloaded from the net.
Technically a MIDI file could be under 32 bits per second(compressed), depending on how many instruments are used. True midi sounds horrible without a good set of wavetable synthesis, but as long as you're sending a score of notes rather than sound waves 32/bits per second is enough for some music.
You're wrong about one thing Tires are being used to make concrete that is then used to build durable roads. Part of the process of making concrete requires the limestone be burnt within a coal fire, however since tires burn as well as coal and also contain steel (which results in a stronger concrete) by mixing a certain percentage of chopped up tires in with the coal you get a higher grade of concrete as a result. This concrete contains steel as a result and is more durable and better for building roads with. The problem is that concrete roads are more expensive to build, and are best suited to extremely high traffic roads, since they're better than tar based roads at resisting traffic wear and tear. Unlike other recycling efforts with tires this one actually has some financial benefit as tires can be obtained cheaper than coal, and can result in a slightly stronger concrete mix.
Then how about a network clipboard that enable copy/pase functions between unix/linux/windows PCs?
Once you put something in that clipboard it will be accessable to any machine you want to access it from.
I took it to mean that it would allow gnome.themes.org and kde.themes.org to have the same theme files which when applied change the appearance as the user prefers.
It seems pretty easy to do, and it would make a few people's lives easier too.
Oh hey and the themes.org poll currently has a cowboyneal option too!
Indexing speed is good, but you forget bookmarks!
Bookmarks can't get accidently deleted, although they can fall out if the book is dropped. You don't have to search through a menu for the right bookmark, because the bookmark is right there in the book you want to look through.
Bookmarking websites is useful, but the fact is that page that entire site could dissapear, or the content of the page could change entirely. When was the last time a book you had left untouched simply dissapeared completely, or you came back to it to find it was no longer anything like what it had been before?
Can you name Any industrialized nation with a higher violent crime rate than america? At Any given time there are 35 serial killers at large in America. We lead the industrialized nations in the production of serial killers.
By the way I hate to burst the bubble on guns, but the problem is Freedom not guns. When you have the Freedom to dissapear and the Freedom to own a gun all of a sudden all you have to do to get away with murder is make someone 'dissapear.'
But I'm proud to say that America Is working hard at removing all those nasty freedoms that lead to violent crime. Almost every federal law on the books is unconstitutional if you discount the 'elastic clause.' That revision grants congress power to pass any law that isn't expressly forbidden by the constitution. Instead of the fact that the Constitution was intended to only provide for a limited federal government, and prevent any law not expressly allowed by the constitution.
Another interesting factor to consider is how the public rejection of dueling coincides with the civil war -- after which Lincoln was assasinated. Perhaps the freedom to challenge a man to a fight to the death weeded out potential assasins/serial killers young. After all anyone hungry for blood would first turn to the legal alternative because they wouldn't get hanged. Although people still murdered back then, of course. If two people duel one walks away, but the point would be to weed out the most violent.
I don't know about anyone else but I learned on arcade joystick quarterpumpers and frankly I can't stand playing games with a mouse. I think you've got a good point about 'when everyone learns on optical mice.' Frankly I've always thought a real arcade style control system was the way to go for any serious gaming. Using a force feedback wheel for racing. Using a force feedback yoke for flight sims. Using the classic arcade stick for most games, and a roller controller for the some odd games.
Although by the time 'optical' mice have replaced wheeled ones I'm sure the issues current opticals have will be resolved.
Well according to cmdrtaco.net ...eventually graduation from Holland Christian High School in 1994... He graduated HS in 94 since he doesn't seem like the kind to skip or be held back a grade that would make him 25-26 (possibly 27 depending on birthdate) years old or somewhere in that ballpark. At anyrate he probably isn't 'under 25' and he's been dating for a long time.
Then again he's been submitting stories tonight so either he submits on a crontab or else things didn't go so hot tonight. That or she's accepts his geekiness -- for now.
If everyone was invited that would be the first real life slashdotting we could overload the freeways and the airports. Just hope none of the planes crash.
I once had a nick on IRC from a female Anime character. I never specifically claimed to be female yet virtually everyone assumed I was. I also cleared it up with anyone who tried making advances, as I'm not into that thing. I was just going though an obsession with an anime girl.
After all who wouldn't want to be a cat-girl android?
Or at least have one.
I would like to point out that Showtime and HBO are producing some really good TV Shows. They don't run ads. There isn't any blatent product placement. You don't even have those annoying ghost-logos because people have to pay for the channel to see it. Last time I checked you could get the complete package of channels for under $30 a month and that is about a total of 15 movie channels, too.
If they can provide all that content for around $2 a channel then I for one will welcome the death of the commercial break. Considering that there are less than 10 channels of TV that I find worth watching getting them commercial free for a small premium over what I'm already paying for cable would be great.
I really doubt that PVRs will really manage to kill the commercial break though. As I recall it VCRs were going to do this as well. Everyone has a VCR everyone can pre-record programs and fast forward through commercials, but people only bother to do this for programs they don't want to miss.
PVRs make commercial skipping easier sure, they also make recording shows easier. And with time the cost of the hardware will come down, maybe the PS3 will come with PVR capabilities. I mean It's kinda surprizing that the X-box can't do PVR considering the processor speed and the Nvidia GPU making mpeg-2 streams should be a snap. It even comes with a HD.
Even if PRVs became as pervasive as VCRs most households would only have one, that means the primary viewer would get the majority of the benefit of the PVR while secondary members would sometimes get commercial skipping but if a show was in conflict with another family member they'd be stuck watching it commercials and all on the second TV.
Maybe in 30 years when every household has 4 PVRs the commercial sponsored TV show will die, but it certaintly won't kill quality programming as the broadcast networks have already managed to do that.
Imagine? History is full of examples. How many emperors had a vast number of concubines over the millenia? But as with anything of value security is a priority. How many of these 'clusters' have been comprimised by would be hackers. They're a target for lonely men everywhere.
Interesting, but one thing I was wondering is does it protect you if you use a cable modem? I've been having a lot of problems with security on my cable system. My box continually is being hijacked by a some hackers that seem to trace back to a DNS/hosting provider for spammers.
If cable modem users are unable to connect via ethernet addresses then I will probably run my firewall in an invisble mode the next time I clean install it.
If you really wanted you could have the soundtrack in ogg vorbis. All you need is a tool capable of getting the timing right when interleaving the audio and video. There was a 3 step procedure at some point that actually seperated the video output and the raw ac3 stream (which is capable of 5.1) As I recall you could then use another program to combine said ac3 track and a DivX stream. It could very well have been a bit of professional level software and the abillity to manipulate ac3 was needed for that reason.
Anyways other than synching issues there is no technical reason why a DivX can't use the same audio, the same subtitles probably even the same menus as 'real' DVD other than the cost in time and effort to obtain these features.
I've watched TV on PC before, and in general it's not so good. The high resolution of a modern monitor really makes the quality look really bad. However, there is one time I watch TV on a PC, that is when I tote around a laptop. This is really nice for long trips in a Van, I can even bring along a video game console and run both the laptop and the console off a DC/AC converter. What's nice about this is that laptops come with bigger screens and still use less power than a portable TV set.
I also use the TV tuner functionality sometimes when I go to Pracs. Any laptop is lighter and easier to tote around than even the lightest of portable TVs and provides the largest screen possible for the weight and power consumption. It's a great justification for getting a Laptop. I'm using a USB based TV Tuner so the quality isn't as good as a PCI, firewire, or PC Card based one. It's still very useful though.
Well then you should Check Here. or more to the point The ones they're selling here. They do have nice pictures of a hypothetical mockup of an active matrix full color OLED, and Researchers have proven that True Color can be reproduced with OLEDs. However the cost of actually building one would be pretty insane right now.
One last thing Sanyo will be making Active matrix OLED displays. they should be up to full speed at the plant by 2003, so full color active matrix displays should start showing up on highend Kodak digital cameras around that time frame, and perhaps even high end PDAs. Who can argue with low power vibrant picture indoors or outdoors for a PDA? Maybe by 2007 Nintendo will release a portable with OLEDs, if they're cheap enough by then they should.
College kid gets into WMV Scene, starts hacking Releases 'DivX;-)' which is two seperate version of WMV the older one 'Slow motion' and the newer one 'fast motion' and removes some other things M$ put in WMV to make it not good for High res movies.
College kid gets a lot of press, and gets sued out of existance. Domain host sells domain to a 'smarter' college kid who starts ProjectMayo and levereges all the hype to start 'OpenDivX.' Since he's not a coder, he goes out and takes an open source MPEG-4 implementation and credits it's author as per the licence agreement but violates the licence agreement in that he releases it under the "OpenDivx License" which allows him to Close Source it once people on the internet have made changes to improve it.
In the meantime he's found venture capital and even gotten good press, now he can hire programmers. He uses the "OpenDivx" license to make "DivX" a closed source Patent Pending Mpeg-4 implementation. To avoid legal problems he claims this was written from scratch -- but noone can prove that because it's closed source. This play was invented by Microsoft when they bought QDOS and used it to 'write from scratch' DOS 1.0. So the kid isn't stupid--at least he's learned from the best.
Kid needs more funding finds a friend in the creators of the mp3 codec.
The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is that the kid who got sued for DivX;-) is really different from the one who started project Mayo. I don't see how they could be the same person though, Microsoft has more Sharks than Seaworld.
In the context of evolution Torvalds represents natural selection, and kernel developers changing the code represent mutation, albeit a poor representation because the developers have some sense and purpose in what they do, while mutation "in nature" has absolutely none.
I have to disagree with the notion that this isn't Exactly how evolution occurs. Evolution isn't Random, Virus are the vector for almost all radical natural genetic manipulation. The purpouse of a virus is to use the resources of a host organism to replicate it's DNA sequences because Virus are too small to replicate themselves. In doing so It injects it's DNA inside a host cell and basically exploits the RNA strands inside to replicate it's own DNA. While doing this The virus can in fanct find new DNA within the host and borrow it for it's own protection. In many cases this is to make it resistant to antibodies produced by the body (HIV.) Now, not all Virus destroy the host cell especially when antibodies destroy it before it can complete it's task. In some instances the Virus may act as a Vecor Borrowing the DNA from one species, and inserting that code in another. Many virus can cross infect species. For example humans and pigs can catch influenza from each other. Geese and pigs can also catch influenza from each other, while humans and geese cannot infect each other with influenza.
Virus are acting for thier own self promotion and preservation. When a DNA stand from one species makes that species less able to destroy them they would try to splice that DNA into as many species as they can. Comparing that to kernel developers
is pretty straight forward. They try to 'infect' the kernel tree with the 'code' they've produced for any number of reasons. Being known for coding on linux, to get promotions at a linux friendly workplace, for the challenge and fun of contributing to the linux kernel, or just to fix something so that they can do something with linux that they were trying to do but couldn't.
This introduces variation along the same analog as virus changed DNA. As for 'uncorrected errors' in the DNA strand the only thing we can prove comes from that is cancer. Thus that type of 'mutation' is analog to 'bugs' in the code of the linux kernel. Unfortunately humans aren't anywhere near as good as the roughly 99.7% error correction rate of replicating double helix DNA strands, so code tends to get a lot more malignant tumors (root exploits) to cut out.
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If the scam company had been up and running for more than two months maybe. The way it works is by the Proprerties of the 'Somebody Elses Problem' effect. You just spend 3 months unemployed (or longer) and this startup hires you right away. your first few weeks there you start to notice that the billing isn't consistant, but you were just hired so it Must be Somebody Elses Problem. Perhaps the programmer of the billing software etc. Maybe you send some anonymous e-mails out to feel better but you don't stop to question anyone directly.
Anyways The Somebody Elses Problem field effect is so potent that a device to cloak you in a SEP field could run virtually forever on a AAA battery.
While your design is fairly crude I prefer a more comprehensive solution. Implanting a micro-controller to stimulate either the pair or pleasure centers. Next install a camera and screenspy on each PC so when they look away from the screen or surf to other sites they writhe in agony and when they look intently at the site they feel immense pleasure. Just make sure that whatever networking controller (wireless or wired) is properly secured to ensure that hackers don't misuse your userbase.
When I looked into collecting unemployment it required that I apply at three jobs a week. I don't know about anyone else but I can't take the kind of depression that comes getting refused three jobs a week just to collect unemployment benefits. I generally need about a week of consoling myself to even work up to apply for another job, and yeah I've been diagnosed with depression before, but who has money for those expensive pills that 9 out of 10 won't even work even if you know what you have.
Try cracking open an Inspiron 8100.
The water cooling isn't nearly as ambitious, and still requires fans to dissipate the heat.
This Inspirion 8100 also has it's GPU on a replaceable daughter card as reviewed at tomshardware. Too bad the laptop is designed with a really flimsy body, and still relys on Pentium III processors. I also like that it can swap batteries while running, too bad they cost so much. I also highly doubt that you can run the i8100 on a foot pump since the brick it comes with is rated for a max of 70 watts, a couch potato might have a hard time powering the inspiron with a bicycle without a flywheel to ensure consistant power flow.
I hate to argue with you here but.. If you've ever been to some of the sites normal people go to like MSN gaming zone or pogo.com you'd realize those lille ActiveX Java apps slow a 200 mhz system to a crawl to the point where the mouse cursor sticks on the screen.
My parents are finally having me build them a system because they keep buying these lame systems Designed 'for normals' that become worthless in 3 years time as the latest and greatest in web technology is released.
I've decided on an AMD XP 1700+ processor, I was originally going to go with 512 MB of RAM but then prices trippled so that got scrapped. They Are getting a 7200 rpm drive even though they're 'normal' users. I haven't decided on which motherboard to get them yet, But I've got my eye on one of three, and all of the boards are known for speed and reliability, although one is more than 6 months old. I'm trying to decide if it's worth saving ~$80 going with a chipset that's 5% slower or not.
At anyrate the system I'm putting together for them will still be better than the ones wal-mart is selling a year from now so I'm sure they're going to be using this PC for a long, long time.
You should really share the source code for something as useful as that ;-)
So far the only thing I've come up with is
rm -rf *Britney*Spears*
This really isn't compressing all my britney spears to zero bits losslessly, especially with how poorly named mp3s can be when Downloaded from the net.
Technically a MIDI file could be under 32 bits per second(compressed), depending on how many instruments are used. True midi sounds horrible without a good set of wavetable synthesis, but as long as you're sending a score of notes rather than sound waves 32/bits per second is enough for some music.
You're wrong about one thing Tires are being used to make concrete that is then used to build durable roads. Part of the process of making concrete requires the limestone be burnt within a coal fire, however since tires burn as well as coal and also contain steel (which results in a stronger concrete) by mixing a certain percentage of chopped up tires in with the coal you get a higher grade of concrete as a result. This concrete contains steel as a result and is more durable and better for building roads with.
The problem is that concrete roads are more expensive to build, and are best suited to extremely high traffic roads, since they're better than tar based roads at resisting traffic wear and tear.
Unlike other recycling efforts with tires this one actually has some financial benefit as tires can be obtained cheaper than coal, and can result in a slightly stronger concrete mix.
Then how about a network clipboard that enable copy/pase functions between unix/linux/windows PCs?
Once you put something in that clipboard it will be accessable to any machine you want to access it from.
I took it to mean that it would allow gnome.themes.org and kde.themes.org to have the same theme files which when applied change the appearance as the user prefers.
It seems pretty easy to do, and it would make a few people's lives easier too.
Oh hey and the themes.org poll currently has a cowboyneal option too!
Indexing speed is good, but you forget bookmarks!
Bookmarks can't get accidently deleted, although they can fall out if the book is dropped. You don't have to search through a menu for the right bookmark, because the bookmark is right there in the book you want to look through.
Bookmarking websites is useful, but the fact is that page that entire site could dissapear, or the content of the page could change entirely. When was the last time a book you had left untouched simply dissapeared completely, or you came back to it to find it was no longer anything like what it had been before?
Can you name Any industrialized nation with a higher violent crime rate than america? At Any given time there are 35 serial killers at large in America. We lead the industrialized nations in the production of serial killers.
By the way I hate to burst the bubble on guns, but the problem is Freedom not guns. When you have the Freedom to dissapear and the Freedom to own a gun all of a sudden all you have to do to get away with murder is make someone 'dissapear.'
But I'm proud to say that America Is working hard at removing all those nasty freedoms that lead to violent crime. Almost every federal law on the books is unconstitutional if you discount the 'elastic clause.' That revision grants congress power to pass any law that isn't expressly forbidden by the constitution. Instead of the fact that the Constitution was intended to only provide for a limited federal government, and prevent any law not expressly allowed by the constitution.
Another interesting factor to consider is how the public rejection of dueling coincides with the civil war -- after which Lincoln was assasinated. Perhaps the freedom to challenge a man to a fight to the death weeded out potential assasins/serial killers young. After all anyone hungry for blood would first turn to the legal alternative because they wouldn't get hanged. Although people still murdered back then, of course. If two people duel one walks away, but the point would be to weed out the most violent.
I don't know about anyone else but I learned on arcade joystick quarterpumpers and frankly I can't stand playing games with a mouse. I think you've got a good point about 'when everyone learns on optical mice.' Frankly I've always thought a real arcade style control system was the way to go for any serious gaming. Using a force feedback wheel for racing. Using a force feedback yoke for flight sims. Using the classic arcade stick for most games, and a roller controller for the some odd games.
Although by the time 'optical' mice have replaced wheeled ones I'm sure the issues current opticals have will be resolved.
I found this page on google, and as syntax highlighted a 'fent' is apparently a request for information on a file.
Well according to cmdrtaco.net
...eventually graduation from Holland Christian High School in 1994...
He graduated HS in 94 since he doesn't seem like the kind to skip or be held back a grade that would make him 25-26 (possibly 27 depending on birthdate) years old or somewhere in that ballpark. At anyrate he probably isn't 'under 25' and he's been dating for a long time.
Then again he's been submitting stories tonight so either he submits on a crontab or else things didn't go so hot tonight. That or she's accepts his geekiness -- for now.
If everyone was invited that would be the first real life slashdotting we could overload the freeways and the airports. Just hope none of the planes crash.
I once had a nick on IRC from a female Anime character. I never specifically claimed to be female yet virtually everyone assumed I was. I also cleared it up with anyone who tried making advances, as I'm not into that thing. I was just going though an obsession with an anime girl.
After all who wouldn't want to be a cat-girl android?
Or at least have one.
I would like to point out that Showtime and HBO are producing some really good TV Shows. They don't run ads. There isn't any blatent product placement. You don't even have those annoying ghost-logos because people have to pay for the channel to see it. Last time I checked you could get the complete package of channels for under $30 a month and that is about a total of 15 movie channels, too.
If they can provide all that content for around $2 a channel then I for one will welcome the death of the commercial break. Considering that there are less than 10 channels of TV that I find worth watching getting them commercial free for a small premium over what I'm already paying for cable would be great.
I really doubt that PVRs will really manage to kill the commercial break though. As I recall it VCRs were going to do this as well. Everyone has a VCR everyone can pre-record programs and fast forward through commercials, but people only bother to do this for programs they don't want to miss.
PVRs make commercial skipping easier sure, they also make recording shows easier. And with time the cost of the hardware will come down, maybe the PS3 will come with PVR capabilities. I mean It's kinda surprizing that the X-box can't do PVR considering the processor speed and the Nvidia GPU making mpeg-2 streams should be a snap. It even comes with a HD.
Even if PRVs became as pervasive as VCRs most households would only have one, that means the primary viewer would get the majority of the benefit of the PVR while secondary members would sometimes get commercial skipping but if a show was in conflict with another family member they'd be stuck watching it commercials and all on the second TV.
Maybe in 30 years when every household has 4 PVRs the commercial sponsored TV show will die, but it certaintly won't kill quality programming as the broadcast networks have already managed to do that.
Imagine? History is full of examples. How many emperors had a vast number of concubines over the millenia? But as with anything of value security is a priority. How many of these 'clusters' have been comprimised by would be hackers. They're a target for lonely men everywhere.
Interesting, but one thing I was wondering is does it protect you if you use a cable modem? I've been having a lot of problems with security on my cable system. My box continually is being hijacked by a some hackers that seem to trace back to a DNS/hosting provider for spammers.
If cable modem users are unable to connect via ethernet addresses then I will probably run my firewall in an invisble mode the next time I clean install it.
If you really wanted you could have the soundtrack in ogg vorbis. All you need is a tool capable of getting the timing right when interleaving the audio and video. There was a 3 step procedure at some point that actually seperated the video output and the raw ac3 stream (which is capable of 5.1) As I recall you could then use another program to combine said ac3 track and a DivX stream. It could very well have been a bit of professional level software and the abillity to manipulate ac3 was needed for that reason.
Anyways other than synching issues there is no technical reason why a DivX can't use the same audio, the same subtitles probably even the same menus as 'real' DVD other than the cost in time and effort to obtain these features.
I've watched TV on PC before, and in general it's not so good. The high resolution of a modern monitor really makes the quality look really bad. However, there is one time I watch TV on a PC, that is when I tote around a laptop. This is really nice for long trips in a Van, I can even bring along a video game console and run both the laptop and the console off a DC/AC converter. What's nice about this is that laptops come with bigger screens and still use less power than a portable TV set.
I also use the TV tuner functionality sometimes when I go to Pracs. Any laptop is lighter and easier to tote around than even the lightest of portable TVs and provides the largest screen possible for the weight and power consumption. It's a great justification for getting a Laptop. I'm using a USB based TV Tuner so the quality isn't as good as a PCI, firewire, or PC Card based one. It's still very useful though.
Well then you should Check Here.
or more to the point The ones they're selling here.
They do have nice pictures of a hypothetical mockup of an active matrix full color OLED, and Researchers have proven that True Color can be reproduced with OLEDs. However the cost of actually building one would be pretty insane right now.
One last thing Sanyo will be making Active matrix OLED displays. they should be up to full speed at the plant by 2003, so full color active matrix displays should start showing up on highend Kodak digital cameras around that time frame, and perhaps even high end PDAs. Who can argue with low power vibrant picture indoors or outdoors for a PDA? Maybe by 2007 Nintendo will release a portable with OLEDs, if they're cheap enough by then they should.
College kid gets into WMV Scene, starts hacking Releases 'DivX ;-)' which is two seperate version of WMV the older one 'Slow motion' and the newer one 'fast motion' and removes some other things M$ put in WMV to make it not good for High res movies.
;-) is really different from the one who started project Mayo. I don't see how they could be the same person though, Microsoft has more Sharks than Seaworld.
College kid gets a lot of press, and gets sued out of existance. Domain host sells domain to a 'smarter' college kid who starts ProjectMayo and levereges all the hype to start 'OpenDivX.' Since he's not a coder, he goes out and takes an open source MPEG-4 implementation and credits it's author as per the licence agreement but violates the licence agreement in that he releases it under the "OpenDivx License" which allows him to Close Source it once people on the internet have made changes to improve it.
In the meantime he's found venture capital and even gotten good press, now he can hire programmers. He uses the "OpenDivx" license to make "DivX" a closed source Patent Pending Mpeg-4 implementation. To avoid legal problems he claims this was written from scratch -- but noone can prove that because it's closed source. This play was invented by Microsoft when they bought QDOS and used it to 'write from scratch' DOS 1.0. So the kid isn't stupid--at least he's learned from the best.
Kid needs more funding finds a friend in the creators of the mp3 codec.
The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is that the kid who got sued for DivX
In the context of evolution Torvalds represents natural selection, and kernel developers changing the code represent mutation, albeit a poor representation because the developers have some sense and purpose in what they do, while mutation "in nature" has absolutely none.
I have to disagree with the notion that this isn't Exactly how evolution occurs. Evolution isn't Random, Virus are the vector for almost all radical natural genetic manipulation. The purpouse of a virus is to use the resources of a host organism to replicate it's DNA sequences because Virus are too small to replicate themselves. In doing so It injects it's DNA inside a host cell and basically exploits the RNA strands inside to replicate it's own DNA. While doing this The virus can in fanct find new DNA within the host and borrow it for it's own protection. In many cases this is to make it resistant to antibodies produced by the body (HIV.) Now, not all Virus destroy the host cell especially when antibodies destroy it before it can complete it's task. In some instances the Virus may act as a Vecor Borrowing the DNA from one species, and inserting that code in another. Many virus can cross infect species. For example humans and pigs can catch influenza from each other. Geese and pigs can also catch influenza from each other, while humans and geese cannot infect each other with influenza.
Virus are acting for thier own self promotion and preservation. When a DNA stand from one species makes that species less able to destroy them they would try to splice that DNA into as many species as they can. Comparing that to kernel developers
is pretty straight forward. They try to 'infect' the kernel tree with the 'code' they've produced for any number of reasons. Being known for coding on linux, to get promotions at a linux friendly workplace, for the challenge and fun of contributing to the linux kernel, or just to fix something so that they can do something with linux that they were trying to do but couldn't.
This introduces variation along the same analog as virus changed DNA. As for 'uncorrected errors' in the DNA strand the only thing we can prove comes from that is cancer. Thus that type of 'mutation' is analog to 'bugs' in the code of the linux kernel. Unfortunately humans aren't anywhere near as good as the roughly 99.7% error correction rate of replicating double helix DNA strands, so code tends to get a lot more malignant tumors (root exploits) to cut out.