Well, that's the way these things act out in the real world - they orbit each other for several millions years, gradually losing orbital energy, then they merge within minutes (at least to an observer, for someone on the surface of each black hole it's probably going to seem like an eternity).
There is some guy who's name escapes me (and who is also I believe famous in geek circles) that said that if you take away features from a protocol, you'll increase innovation.
Nonfree software is controlled by its developer. The developers often implement malicious features--for example, to spy on the user or to restrict the user. Sometimes they keep the malicious features secret. But they also figure that people will be so desperate for the software that they will accept it even with malicious features. Users can't remove the malicious features, because they don't have the source code.
This cannot happen with free software, because free software is controlled by the users. If ever a free program had a malicious feature, any programmer could remove the malicious feature and release a modified version--and all users would choose that version, including nonprogrammers. You won't have to make this change yourself, because someone else will have done the job for you before you get it.
Innovation has always happened when people have combined totally unrelated things together. Sometimes these were by accident, others because people persisted. As an example, consider the airplanes made by the Wright brothers. They combined together wooden structures, linen, a gasoline engine, and chain link together to make a flying machine. The knowledge to make most of these items (linen, wooden structures, chain) was known for thousands of years, but it was only the knowledge of aerodynamics (wings, propellers) and controls that allowed the concept of heavier-than-air flight to become reality. (aerodynamics were known, but only in the form of vertically mounted windmills, and sails).
The fun part is we can accelerate innovation, if we keep trying to look for ways to combined unrelated things together.
Three British bankers have been extradited from the UK to Texas, using legislation that was originally intended to combat terrorism, but has now apparently been extended to include financial trading. At present the legislation has only been ratified in the UK, but not in the USA (there are a good few Irish nationalists the UK police would like to interview). They had the misfortune of ending up being tangled up the Enron collapse.
According to this article, he has been involved in a lawsuit against a spam blocker (his company was mistakenly placed on a spam blocklist), he has tracked Nazi war criminals, and he discovered that Elvis has Jewish ancestors.
He's had a mention in a previous slashdot comment in this article Comment title: "Outsourcing is a way around civil liberties". Article summary:
I saw a talk by Steve Rambam at Hope 05. Besides a live demo of a database that freakin blew my mind (in a live demo in than 30 seconds, steve pulled up everything about a guy in the audience, including past roommates, active phone lines, and his mom's credit report using *ONLY HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER*).
his assertion is that privacy is dead, not because Big Brother in D.C. is watching, but because Big Defense Contrator is watching. The government, sick of trying to ram through legislation on what it can and can't do with data it collects on its citizens, is now sub-contracting all kinds of tasks. For example, perhaps the Feds can't do a nation-wide driver's license photo scan without inciting privacy concerns; however, if most of the states sub-contract out their photo processing to a contractor on advice from big brother, then that contractor hires itself to the big brother and sells *RESULTS* from some data mining query (but never the data itself), then big brother hasn't violated any privacy rights. Similarly for phone logs, criminal databases, airline data, medicare, drivers license, health databases, traffic tickets etc.
he told me the name of the database we should all really be afraid of, bigger than Echelon, but i forgot its name.
Yes, matrox.com - their niche market is video post-production, so they were never affected by the 3D wars. A good number of the 25+ original 3D chip vendors are still around - most have abandoned the high-performance workstation/desktop market if not chip manufacture and went into either board manufacturing only and/or embedded systems - 3DLabs recently announced they were concentrating on embedded systems and laid off 100 people.
For a while, I tried maintaining a timeline of all the different 3D chip vendors starting from around 1995 (the days of GLint)with buyouts, mergers, lawsuits, but the DDR/SDRAM/RDRAM Samsung/Infineon/Mciron/Hynix patent lawsuit kept things boiling. The latest news article is RAMBUS settles lawsuit.
NVidia would seek a partnership with Intel (Although some news articles reported that they felt that Intel were holding back progress in 3D graphics performance).
Any "energy saver" website will give you the energy consumption ratings of electrical appliances.
The Green activist solutions are:
Washing machines 500 watts/hour
Wash your clothes in the nearest stream Drying machine 5000 watt/hour Hang your washing out on a line (apartments could have a line going from the window/balcony to the nearest opposite wall. The neighbourhood association might object of course
Air conditioner 750/1050 Knock holes in your roof to let the hot air out, and knock some holes in the basement to draw in the cool air (and the raccoons, squirrels and field mice - it's good to have nature in your home)
Cooker 12500 Get a solar barbecue (or paint that satellite dish reflective white and aim it at the sun - you should be able to cook those burgers just where the transponder is...and you'll save on electricity
Vaccuum cleaner 800 Get a dog - they will eat nearly anything except chocolate
Toaster 1150 See Cooker
Hair dryer 1000 Grow dreadlocks - you'll save on hot water, shampoo and blow drying
Hand Iron 1000 Wear clothes made of hemp - they don't need ironing
Frying pan 1150 Use the wood from the Air Conditioner solution to create a bonfire
Microwave Oven 1300 See Cooker
Electric Blanket 180 Snuggle up with one or more friends
I always thought the basic white box with an angled glass cover were rather boring.... If I were to have security cameras in my house, I'd go for the cameras used in the Bond movie Live_and_Let_Die. Having a rotating skull with top hat seems much more fun.
Paleoclimatologists have the records of weather condifions going back thousands of years using information such as tree rings, snow, lava, and seed deposits.
If the researchers could develop a long timescale atmospheric simulator that could replicate this data, then maybe they could predict general trends 30 years into the future. Although unpredictable events such as earthquakes and volcanos) make things bit harder, although they will probably run a large number of possible scenarios before making any conclusions.
That gives a completely new meaning to coaxial cable....
"... please cable, just grow a little bit more, you've almost made it to the router, just stretch out those coils a little bit more, that's it, a few more inches, I know you can do it. I don't want to have to hang you from the roof and stretch you out..."
Enterprise search engines are basic search engines with some intelligence built in - sorting results by document type, corporate group/division, date, related keywords and context as well as by keyword. They are able to read all document formats. Enterprise just means they are covering every aspect of the corporation.
Brand new, my 450 Mhz Windows 98 laptop could boot up and have a browser window open in 40 seconds. After three to four years of installing code development tools, updating virus scanners and firewall software, media players and image viewers, the boot up time went up to around 3 minutes.
I haven't tried installing Linux on it, but a Knoppix CD would boot up in a minute or less.
There were different configurations of consoles like the Ultra 64 - the Ultra 64 had the optional controller pak, rumble pak, and expansion pak. As long as they keep the memory, CPU and GPU standard, having additional memory, disk drives, or networked storage, there shouldn't be a problem.
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Well, that's the way these things act out in the real world - they orbit each other for several millions years, gradually losing orbital energy, then they merge within minutes (at least to an observer, for someone on the surface of each black hole it's probably going to seem like an eternity).
As the saying goes "never battle wits with an unarmed opponent".
There's an even simpler reason ...
The code was stored on an IBM deathstar drive.
There is some guy who's name escapes me (and who is also I believe famous in geek circles) that said that if you take away features from a protocol, you'll increase innovation.
Could be Richard Stalllman
Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview
Nonfree software is controlled by its developer. The developers often implement malicious features--for example, to spy on the user or to restrict the user. Sometimes they keep the malicious features secret. But they also figure that people will be so desperate for the software that they will accept it even with malicious features. Users can't remove the malicious features, because they don't have the source code.
This cannot happen with free software, because free software is controlled by the users. If ever a free program had a malicious feature, any programmer could remove the malicious feature and release a modified version--and all users would choose that version, including nonprogrammers. You won't have to make this change yourself, because someone else will have done the job for you before you get it.
Many more...
Innovation has always happened when people have combined totally unrelated things together. Sometimes these were by accident, others because people persisted. As an example, consider the airplanes made
by the Wright brothers. They combined together wooden structures, linen, a gasoline engine,
and chain link together to make a flying machine. The knowledge to make most of these items (linen, wooden structures, chain) was known for thousands of years, but it was only the knowledge of aerodynamics (wings, propellers) and controls that allowed the concept of heavier-than-air flight to become reality. (aerodynamics were known, but only in the form of vertically mounted windmills, and sails).
The fun part is we can accelerate innovation, if we keep trying to look for ways to combined unrelated
things together.
Three British bankers have been extradited from the UK to Texas, using legislation that was originally
intended to combat terrorism, but has now apparently been extended to include financial trading.
At present the legislation has only been ratified in the UK, but not in the USA (there are a good few
Irish nationalists the UK police would like to interview). They had the misfortune of ending
up being tangled up the Enron collapse.
BUSINESS NEWS: CIMA protests over 'NatWest Three' extradition
And one witness has already committed suicide
According to this article, he has been involved in a lawsuit against a spam blocker (his company was mistakenly placed on a spam blocklist), he has tracked Nazi war criminals, and he discovered that
Elvis has Jewish ancestors.
He's had a mention in a previous slashdot comment in this article Comment title: "Outsourcing is a way around civil liberties". Article summary:
I saw a talk by Steve Rambam at Hope 05. Besides a live demo of a database that freakin blew my mind (in a live demo in than 30 seconds, steve pulled up everything about a guy in the audience, including past roommates, active phone lines, and his mom's credit report using *ONLY HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER*).
his assertion is that privacy is dead, not because Big Brother in D.C. is watching, but because Big Defense Contrator is watching. The government, sick of trying to ram through legislation on what it can and can't do with data it collects on its citizens, is now sub-contracting all kinds of tasks. For example, perhaps the Feds can't do a nation-wide driver's license photo scan without inciting privacy concerns; however, if most of the states sub-contract out their photo processing to a contractor on advice from big brother, then that contractor hires itself to the big brother and sells *RESULTS* from some data mining query (but never the data itself), then big brother hasn't violated any privacy rights. Similarly for phone logs, criminal databases, airline data, medicare, drivers license, health databases, traffic tickets etc.
he told me the name of the database we should all really be afraid of, bigger than Echelon, but i forgot its name.
Yes, matrox.com - their niche market is video post-production, so they were never affected by the 3D wars. A good number of the 25+ original 3D chip vendors are still around - most have abandoned the high-performance workstation/desktop market if not chip manufacture and went into either board manufacturing only and/or embedded systems - 3DLabs recently announced they were concentrating on embedded systems and laid off 100 people.
For a while, I tried maintaining a timeline of all the different 3D chip vendors starting from around 1995 (the days of GLint)with buyouts, mergers, lawsuits, but the DDR/SDRAM/RDRAM Samsung/Infineon/Mciron/Hynix patent lawsuit kept things boiling. The latest news article is RAMBUS settles lawsuit.
... or so I thought the article header read.
Though maybe not as funny as the talking cat video
NVidia would seek a partnership with Intel (Although some news articles reported that they felt that Intel
were holding back progress in 3D graphics performance).
Any "energy saver" website will give you the energy consumption ratings of electrical appliances.
The Green activist solutions are:
Washing machines 500 watts/hour
Wash your clothes in the nearest stream
Drying machine 5000 watt/hour
Hang your washing out on a line (apartments could have a line going from the window/balcony to the nearest opposite wall. The neighbourhood association might object of course
Air conditioner 750/1050
Knock holes in your roof to let the hot air out, and knock some holes in
the basement to draw in the cool air (and the raccoons, squirrels and field mice - it's good to have nature in your home)
Cooker 12500
Get a solar barbecue (or paint that satellite dish reflective white and aim it at the sun - you should be able to cook those burgers just where the transponder is...and you'll
save on electricity
Vaccuum cleaner 800
Get a dog - they will eat nearly anything except chocolate
Toaster 1150
See Cooker
Hair dryer 1000
Grow dreadlocks - you'll save on hot water, shampoo and blow drying
Hand Iron 1000
Wear clothes made of hemp - they don't need ironing
Frying pan 1150
Use the wood from the Air Conditioner solution to create a bonfire
Microwave Oven 1300
See Cooker
Electric Blanket 180
Snuggle up with one or more friends
Electric Heater 1200
See Electric Blanket
I always thought the basic white box with an angled glass cover were rather boring....
If I were to have security cameras in my house, I'd go for the cameras used in the
Bond movie Live_and_Let_Die.
Having a rotating skull with top hat seems much more fun.
According to this website on paleoclimatology, there are some long period weather oscillations such as:
the El Niño -Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - 6 to 18 months,
the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) - 20 to 30 years
the Pacific-North American Oscillation (PNA) - 3 to 10 years
the The North Atlantic Oscillation NAO - 5 to 10 years
the Artic Oscillation (AO)- 5 to 10 years
the Antartic Oscillation (AAO) - 5 to 10 years
Paleoclimatologists have the records of weather condifions going back thousands of years using information such as tree rings, snow, lava, and seed deposits.
If the researchers could develop a long timescale atmospheric simulator that could replicate this data, then maybe they could predict general trends 30 years into the
future. Although unpredictable events such as earthquakes and volcanos) make things
bit harder, although they will probably run a large number of possible scenarios
before making any conclusions.
That gives a completely new meaning to coaxial cable....
"... please cable, just grow a little bit more, you've almost made it to the router, just
stretch out those coils a little bit more, that's it, a few more inches, I know you can do it. I don't want to have to hang you from the roof and stretch you out..."
But the company as a business entity is not.
In salespersonspeak, that's called "preserving the brand name".
Enterprise Search Conference
Enterprise search engines are basic search engines with some intelligence built in - sorting results by document type, corporate group/division, date, related keywords and context as well as by keyword. They are able to read all document formats. Enterprise
just means they are covering every aspect of the corporation.
By the way, the folders are fucking ENCRYPTED. You can't decrypt data by saying "THIS IS YOUR ADMINISTRATOR, OPEN UP!"
Not unless it was the password the user chose to encrypt the data with.
If the researchers placed a full size model of a shark below the laser, would that make you happy?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye
I dunno - but it sure attracts sandworms...
Brand new, my 450 Mhz Windows 98 laptop could boot up and have a browser window open in 40 seconds. After three to four years of installing code development tools, updating virus scanners and firewall software, media players and image viewers, the boot up time went up to around 3 minutes.
I haven't tried installing Linux on it, but a Knoppix CD would boot up in a minute or less.
Sun Netscape AOL alliance
Sounds vaguely familiar - Just change a few terms:
Sun = Microsoft
Netscape = Google
AOL = Yahoo
That sounds kindof cool ....
Imagine being able to say you work for the Volcano Zomba BMG division at Sony?
There were different configurations of consoles like the Ultra 64 - the Ultra 64 had the optional controller pak, rumble pak, and expansion pak. As long as they keep the memory, CPU and GPU standard, having additional memory, disk drives, or networked storage, there shouldn't be a problem.
Remember, the best ride is on the face of the wave.
I'm sorry, you'll have to come up with a car analogy.
The best ride is on the roofrack of the car?