The Wright brothers also eventually publicized their work. Pearse seems, according to the reports, a bit of an eccentric who didn't call much attention to his work. That's important too. A discovery you don't tell the world about is only half done. Others must know about your work and be able to replicate it.
We now know that Viking journeys to North America preceded Columbus' voyage by some centuries. But, again, they didn't follow up their voyages or make them known to the world at large. We also suspect some fishermen made it to North America years before Columbus. But, again, they didn't tell the world.
Remember kids, it's not important to find something (say America) first, or second or even third, it's much more important to find anything and than boldly proclaim to have found what you wanted to find (say the sea-way to India). Thus you will find fame.
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In this case it probably is - just that the direction of the cause is most likely not what vik and the other pro-pirates want it to be. Sure, "Local Music is popular in New Zealand because it gets pirated so much" makes so much more sense than "Local Music gets pirated so much in New Zealand because it is popular" -NOT.
A sane person would have just pointed out that illegal copying does not prevent huge sales. But no, vik had to claim something bozonic like what he did - the question is: What's his agenda.
I would hope not;-) I should have said "my hypothetical, yet fully standard compliant int...". The fact remains, things like int_32t are just retro-fitted sanity to C (and all offspring), and most programers are oblivious to that whole mess. This may haunt us as much as Y2K.
You mean C isn't a little vague about the size of int because it can't be less than 16 bit? My standard compliant int is 37 bit, with INT_MIN == -(INT_MAX*3). Will the Linux kernel compile?
Right, they buy computers that come with graphics cards - that have 3D accelleration "because most people want it" -nope, they don't care, they usually would rather have decent image quality. This discussion isn't about aftermarket GCs, it's about GCs, period.
Er, no, it's not "simply because [3D] look[s] pretty." It's because 3D performance is what people want.
Err, no, they don't - at least not the vast majority of people. Most people couldn't even tell if the 3D part of their graphics card didn't work. Well, maybe if they use some fancy screen saver.
Eric S. Raymond writes in a mail to heise on-line: "Why should we be so stupid to start a DDOS on SCO if the juridical system already prepares their fall."
www.sco.com with the IP address 216.250.128.12 couldn't be reached
ftp.sco.com with the address 216.250.128.13 worked great.
traceroutes reached SCO's ISP, then stopped. The provider reported no disruptions.
The press release says that a SYN-attack brought down SCO's intranet - the company selling the "reliable and highly available Unix" didn't prepare against the well-known SYN-attack like their support tells people?
Oh, be fair! It wasn't "music execs" who thought that, it was just Michael Eisner. Real music execs are also out of touch with reallity, but he's in his own league.
Uh-huh. You copy the content and have full control over it, unlike the owner of the right to control, as you like to call it. How have you not taken that right away?
Investigate what? That the house their grand-parents build would someday be right besides a noisy street? That the new airport runway would suddenly put their hideaway house in the hills right into the path of starting planes every couple of minutes?
Oh yeah, that argument again. "I stuffed the ballot, but the Mac still won. Maccies simply must have cheated. " Those 5% must be really clever hackers.
Where would Linux be without the cheap platform. What would the price of Apples be they did not have to compete against cheap PC. Compaq indirectly created the environment in which the current standardization and resulting commodity parts can profitable exists.
Well, without Compaq, maybe an architecture without so many flaws would have won out. Something not x86, probably 68k. Something without that stupid A20-Gate. Almost everything else was better and cheaper than the PC architecture. Without Compaq I wouldn't be forced to use a Mac to have a decent computer.
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Sorry, "the ice age is coming" is a 50's hype, not a 80's paradigm.
Because they sell their songs at 99 cents instead of 79 like the others (say they do)? Ooooh, evil Apple, how can the others compete?
I heard your a stupid troll. Looks like my sources are better than yours.
$10 is quite a bit of money. I live in a nice comfortable apartment, drive a nice car, eat well, and don't even spend $10 a day to do it.
Urmm, yeah, whatever. What did you spend on you calculator?
We now know that Viking journeys to North America preceded Columbus' voyage by some centuries. But, again, they didn't follow up their voyages or make them known to the world at large. We also suspect some fishermen made it to North America years before Columbus. But, again, they didn't tell the world.
Remember kids, it's not important to find something (say America) first, or second or even third, it's much more important to find anything and than boldly proclaim to have found what you wanted to find (say the sea-way to India). Thus you will find fame.
Well,at least he saw where it was coming from...
So you volunteer to check a decompiled ICC-compiled kernel for a trapdoor that Intel may have hidden? ;-)
A sane person would have just pointed out that illegal copying does not prevent huge sales. But no, vik had to claim something bozonic like what he did - the question is: What's his agenda.
I would hope not ;-) I should have said "my hypothetical, yet fully standard compliant int...". The fact remains, things like int_32t are just retro-fitted sanity to C (and all offspring), and most programers are oblivious to that whole mess. This may haunt us as much as Y2K.
You mean C isn't a little vague about the size of int because it can't be less than 16 bit? My standard compliant int is 37 bit, with INT_MIN == -(INT_MAX*3). Will the Linux kernel compile?
Well, Star Trek is older than Star Wars, so ....
But the somebody would post a Google redirect and get +4 Insightful. Well. mybe not ;-)
Nope, you mean ray casting (apart from POV-Ray). Look here.
Right, they buy computers that come with graphics cards - that have 3D accelleration "because most people want it" -nope, they don't care, they usually would rather have decent image quality. This discussion isn't about aftermarket GCs, it's about GCs, period.
Err, no, they don't - at least not the vast majority of people. Most people couldn't even tell if the 3D part of their graphics card didn't work. Well, maybe if they use some fancy screen saver.
Here is the article from Heise News (in German - Google transmogrification). Highlights:
Oh, be fair! It wasn't "music execs" who thought that, it was just Michael Eisner. Real music execs are also out of touch with reallity, but he's in his own league.
And the answer to high priced CDs is not to buy the CD, not to get the content for free.
Uh-huh. You copy the content and have full control over it, unlike the owner of the right to control, as you like to call it. How have you not taken that right away?
Investigate what? That the house their grand-parents build would someday be right besides a noisy street? That the new airport runway would suddenly put their hideaway house in the hills right into the path of starting planes every couple of minutes?
Yeah, especially in big cities. WTF is up with you people, +4 insightful? Did the noise blow away your brains?
That, and they get some games you don't get - and they get other games than you do.
Oh yeah, that argument again. "I stuffed the ballot, but the Mac still won. Maccies simply must have cheated. " Those 5% must be really clever hackers.
Well, without Compaq, maybe an architecture without so many flaws would have won out. Something not x86, probably 68k. Something without that stupid A20-Gate. Almost everything else was better and cheaper than the PC architecture. Without Compaq I wouldn't be forced to use a Mac to have a decent computer.
RTFA - actually, that should should be: RTF Boeing promo. And something about the Osprey. At least that concept makes some sense.