They talk about kilowatts, but for how long?... 1 second? 1/2 second? 1/100?
if it's 1/40th of a second as I would estimate each passing car would generate 0.069444 KWh and it would take about 50 cars to produce the equivalent of a fully charged AA rechargeable (if we take a 2500mAh battery). But I guess their marketing department wouldn't want us to learn those number first...
From the same company who didn't think there was a market for computers at home in the 70's.
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Why did you bust the myth about sinking ship creating succion?
In one of your experiments on the subject I remember clearly one of you sitting unattached on a cement block sinking rapidly, following it at the same speed not letting time to escape. Exactly why didn't it qualify as proof that a sinking object can pull people with it?
There should be a law against sites which require IE6. I knew it was a Win32 application, I was ready to try it with CEDEGA, but to register you need Internet Explorer 6. I really don't like this kind of... thing.
Just a question: Are you a Microsoft turf attempting to slowly discredit Bittorrent (a technology soon to be under assimilation attacks by MS) by vaguely associating it to pirating?
If not then you may be interested to know: There are ports which are commonly used by all applications to enable a server to "call back". For various reasons, pure functionality, legacy, practicality or laziness, those applications are not satisfied with the first already opened channel. Such applications use a bracket of ports which are available for that purpose. I would imagine that Bittorrent open at least a few of these ports that in other times the sql, oracle or others would have used if they were on.
But then, since you did not provide the port numbers, the firewall type and version we can't say what problem you got.
Yes, I see your point, you're saying competition kills your profits, so you must do everything in your power to kill the competition...
I see that it's more important for you to kill the competition than to give real value to your customers, I can understand; you would be a closed source proponent.
But I'm warning you, I'll do my best in the following years to educate peoples around me and make them understand how much added value the source brings to a software, even to non-programmers, how it will promote innovations, how it will prevent the lock-ins that corporations tend to like too much. This, if I'm successful, will be less customers for you and I'm not sorry.
If it happens the way I would like it to be: Yes the economics will change, some companies will fall, some others will thrive. The days that a guy was able to make billions just because he had the software product of the moment with enough lock-ins in it are over, I hope.
Why would I hope?, why would I put efforts in trying to convince others? why?
Because one day after 10 years of MS and after 1 year of Linux I instinctivly wrote that line:
dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip -c > ~/drawer1_part1.gz
That day I started to believe. In this tiny shell command line I saw the thruth, the might of the thruth, I've been illuminated by it.
And the thruth was that I've been had for 10 years.
And OK, you're right, I didn't take much time to "semantically attack the other's arguments" but I went for the heart of it and left for other stuff..
It's not my fault if you feel cohersed when I give my opinion on the subject, my method to calculate what is good and what is not... Someone asked a question and I answered....
If you go back to the mid-70's at the time of the Altair, you'll find the Homebrew club, people that got together for fun but also for finding solutions to many problems the early PC had.
They were a bunch of hippies of the 70's, sharing everything, every ideas, every solutions, every new concept together. It was so creative, so powerful that it generated one of the biggest industry on the planet.
When enough problems were solved this way some (especially one that called all the others "thieves") stopped sharing and start keeping for themselves. They started companies and thrived on them.
Today those same guys are still ruling the business, they keep so much a big share of the market that it is indecent. They use strategies so cruel and inhuman to keep this share and they leave crumbles for the rest of the world.
Open Source brings us back to that sharing, we go back to that very innovative time where so much new is invented and shared.
So for me it's not so much important to be comfortable with one browser or another but it is important to contribute to the knowledge of mankind and to promote the use of open source solution and to discourage the use of closed source ones. It's a simple formula:
Open Source solution = Can be a good solution. Closed Source Solution = Cannot be a good solution.
Bring back the sharing of ideas and stop contributing to the technologies lockdown of the shrews.
I remember a call from a friend of mine who remembered that I was knowledgeable in video editing and she contacted me to help her with a problem they had with a student project. (that was back in 1994)
They were student who selected very short extracts of scenes for their project for the last 20 sleepless hours and they wondered why they couldn't make copies of many of their extracts. When I finally arrived all I could do is explaining what was happenning and tell them to find some other scenes (Macrovision had a cyclic effect in which a few seconds would be copied all right) I didn't have any video filter at that time to go around it and it was too late to go and find/build one.
CONCLUSION: It's simple, DRM prevented those kids to express themselves correctly, it was damaging their possibility to create.
Now, with DRMs much more insinous than Macrovision nowadays just try to imagine the artists who have been prevented to express themselves, imagine also the art forms that have been crushed before their own existences by these DRMs.
DRM is bad, it is evil, it MUST be banned for the sake of the human spirit.
( it's the second time I put this story in/. comments but i figure most didn't see it the first time)
I believe that any research in Cancer and Aids will help the technology of living longer
AS WELL as any research in the core functions of cells to make us live longer will help all Cancer and Aids research in some ways.. (maybe even in the best of ways).
So I do realize it and I would be glad to contribute in such a way.
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They talk about kilowatts, but for how long?... 1 second? 1/2 second? 1/100?
if it's 1/40th of a second as I would estimate each passing car would generate 0.069444 KWh and it would take about 50 cars to produce the equivalent of a fully charged AA rechargeable (if we take a 2500mAh battery). But I guess their marketing department wouldn't want us to learn those number first...
From the same company who didn't think there was a market for computers at home in the 70's.
Why did you bust the myth about sinking ship creating succion?
In one of your experiments on the subject I remember clearly one of you sitting unattached on a cement block sinking rapidly, following it at the same speed not letting time to escape. Exactly why didn't it qualify as proof that a sinking object can pull people with it?
There should be a law against sites which require IE6. ... thing.
I knew it was a Win32 application, I was ready to try it with CEDEGA, but to register you need Internet Explorer 6. I really don't like this kind of
7680 x 4320 does not equal 8 megapixels on my calculator...
It's more like 33 Megapixels....
It's not only a parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5, it's one fighting against the others.
Each time some expert's saying that Moore's Law is about to hit a barrier,
there is something going on like those promising nanotubes.
Another one for Moore against those doomsday preacher like this one:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5112061.html
If you try to search those 2 words with it: Microsoft sux
the first entry will be linuxsux.org, they are just a bunch of freaking weasels...
Google have earned the trust of the world with honesty, something Microsoft has a lot to learn about.
Just a question: Are you a Microsoft turf attempting to slowly discredit Bittorrent (a technology soon to be under assimilation attacks by MS) by vaguely associating it to pirating?
If not then you may be interested to know:
There are ports which are commonly used by all applications to enable a server to "call back". For various reasons, pure functionality, legacy, practicality or laziness, those applications are not satisfied with the first already opened channel. Such applications use a bracket of ports which are available for that purpose. I would imagine that Bittorrent open at least a few of these ports that in other times the sql, oracle or others would have used if they were on.
But then, since you did not provide the port numbers, the firewall type and version we can't say what problem you got.
I fail to see the link between the math, the treatment and the cure.. could someone explain it to me?
Yes, I see your point, you're saying competition kills your profits, so you must do everything in your power to kill the competition...
I see that it's more important for you to kill the competition than to give real value to your customers, I can understand; you would be a closed source proponent.
But I'm warning you, I'll do my best in the following years to educate peoples around me and make them understand how much added value the source brings to a software, even to non-programmers, how it will promote innovations, how it will prevent the lock-ins that corporations tend to like too much. This, if I'm successful, will be less customers for you and I'm not sorry.
If it happens the way I would like it to be: Yes the economics will change, some companies will fall, some others will thrive. The days that a guy was able to make billions just because he had the software product of the moment with enough lock-ins in it are over, I hope.
Why would I hope?, why would I put efforts in trying to convince others? why?
Because one day after 10 years of MS and after 1 year of Linux I instinctivly wrote that line:
dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip -c > ~/drawer1_part1.gz
That day I started to believe. In this tiny shell command line I saw the thruth, the might of the thruth, I've been illuminated by it.
And the thruth was that I've been had for 10 years.
And OK, you're right, I didn't take much time to "semantically attack the other's arguments" but I went for the heart of it and left for other stuff..
I like your brain... and your saying.
As many people do, you are mixing up free software (free as in beer) with open source (as in open source)
In short I said that "every software should be open source" and you are accusing me of saying that "every software should be free of charge".
But I am sorry, I never said such a thing.
I think you mentioned the word "free" first...
Well, I don't think you're a millionnaire yet... but go ahead... and good luck...
I defy you to write 3 paragraphs on the same subject..without some errors in my native language (french) and within 5 minutes.
We'll then see who can laugh more of the other.
It's not my fault if you feel cohersed when I give my opinion on the subject, my method to calculate what is good and what is not... Someone asked a question and I answered....
Intel really invented and innovated and it helped the PC to become ubiquitous, but Microsoft didn't invent much.
After Intel the PC was like a mega-wave coming in, a market coming in the form of a tsunami, all that Microsoft did is build a dam to collect.
You're confusing open source and free as in beer software...
You didn't get it....
I'm telling you that the fact that it is a closed source makes any software inferior to their open source counterpart.
If you go back to the mid-70's at the time of the Altair, you'll find the
Homebrew club, people that got together for fun but also for finding
solutions to many problems the early PC had.
They were a bunch of hippies of the 70's, sharing everything, every ideas,
every solutions, every new concept together. It was so creative, so
powerful that it generated one of the biggest industry on the planet.
When enough problems were solved this way some (especially one that called all
the others "thieves") stopped sharing and start keeping for themselves. They
started companies and thrived on them.
Today those same guys are still ruling the business, they keep so much a big
share of the market that it is indecent. They use strategies so cruel and
inhuman to keep this share and they leave crumbles for the rest of the world.
Open Source brings us back to that sharing, we go back to that very
innovative time where so much new is invented and shared.
So for me it's not so much important to be comfortable with one browser or
another but it is important to contribute to the knowledge of mankind and
to promote the use of open source solution and to discourage the use of
closed source ones. It's a simple formula:
Open Source solution = Can be a good solution.
Closed Source Solution = Cannot be a good solution.
Bring back the sharing of ideas and stop contributing to the technologies lockdown of the shrews.
The first DRM I was aware of was Macrovision.
/. comments but i figure most didn't see it the first time)
I remember a call from a friend of mine who remembered that I was knowledgeable in video editing and she contacted me to help her with a problem they had with a student project. (that was back in 1994)
They were student who selected very short extracts of scenes for their project for the last 20 sleepless hours and they wondered why they couldn't make copies of many of their extracts. When I finally arrived all I could do is explaining what was happenning and tell them to find some other scenes (Macrovision had a cyclic effect in which a few seconds would be copied all right) I didn't have any video filter at that time to go around it and it was too late to go and find/build one.
CONCLUSION:
It's simple, DRM prevented those kids to express themselves correctly, it was damaging their possibility to create.
Now, with DRMs much more insinous than Macrovision nowadays just try to imagine the artists who have been prevented to express themselves, imagine also the art forms that have been crushed before their own existences by these DRMs.
DRM is bad, it is evil, it MUST be banned for the sake of the human spirit.
( it's the second time I put this story in
Totalitarian Secured Computing?
It's a totally bad Wintel idea and it's Netscape who implement it first? WTF?
I believe that any research in Cancer and Aids will help the technology of living longer
AS WELL as any research in the core functions of cells to make us live longer will help all Cancer and Aids research in some ways.. (maybe even in the best of ways).
So I do realize it and I would be glad to contribute in such a way.
Well.. while you ask yourself the question, I'll drink the potion (or get the shot, or go through the molecular processor or whatever).
The owner of that technology will hold me by my balls and I'll even still thank him after my third mortgage on the house.