How many people recognized Tom Clancey's name on the poll, how many people have read Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke? Lets not forget LOTR and Harry Potter. Although the stars arn't as big in the book industry the discrepency between the top and the bottom is roughly the same. In the future the sales might not be there for the big artists due to file sharing but music will still be as popular. The reason why books have lost their popularity is that they're a form of primary/active(?) entertainment, when you are reading you cannot do another activity. You cannot read and drive, work, jog, socialize, or anything else. The only time people read was sitting around at home and now TV has taken that niche. The fact is that people will always listen to music because it doesn't take effort and there is nothing else to take its place (so far). Rock stars and most of the perks associated will always be around because music will always be around.
In case you're not too familiar the intricacies your physics (or your spelling:) this is a troll. My own physics isn't perfect and I might have some mnior details slightly off but I have taken several first year physics which is sufficient for the purpose of debunking this troll. Aside from the fact that he doesn't actually give any numbers lets look at a more accurate description of thrust. Thrust is more or less caused by impulse, this is the change in momentum of an object. When a particle goes out the back of an engine the velocity to which the impulse will accelerate that craft is described by the equation McVc=MpVp (c=craft p=particle). Therefore if you start from motionlessness and have a particle of propellent shooting out the back at 1/100000 c (c = speed of light) or 3000m/s, your craft made of 10 particles of the same mass will go at 1/1000000 c or 300m/s not 300 km/s as he would have you believe. Keep in mind also that I have chosen a very large value to shoot out my particle and the engineers could easily shoot their propellent on the scale of nanometers per second which would result in very manageable velocities. The only problem I could see is in storing propellent, it is much more likely that they would have some sort of electrical motor to drive legs or something like that. There could be some errors in my calculations or in the equations I used, if you find errors please post corrections, but I can assure you that the above post is a troll (I ran into one of his a while ago where he invented what can only be described as the opposite of an event horizon:).
I would have liked to include first person shooters (for the gameplay), but I'm limited by parental concerns, and perceptions in the community.
Simple just use Textmode Quake! I'm not sure if it's multiplayer but I don't think the parents will complain about it being too graphic!! (sadly enough that pun was intended)
My bad, I don't use IE so I didn't bother even looking at the patch link. Moderators, please moderate the above comment into oblivion and save me the horrid embarassment of my laziness and foolishness in overlooking the obvious joke. Reduce my foolish words to -1 so that none but the ranks of trolls may smirk at their stupidity!! (on that note if the moderators have done as I requested those who are reading this humor me and please don't look at the parent!)
Yeah this shouldn't be mentioned in the Moz 1.0 story but it's there anyways so I'll try to mix, MS has had since the 20th to look at this and just now that it was finally reported came up with a fix. Frighteningly coincidence(?) this could end up giving a lot of people the perception that M$ gives speedy bug fixes, patch a couple hours after the report! Nevertheless it still took them 16 days!! Contrast this with the fact that RC3 was released on the 24th! Hmmm, it takes M$ 16 days to release a bug patch and the Mozilla crew 11 to release a new build!!
A Microsoft spokesman who refused to be identified said Tuesday that the company is "moving forward on the investigation with all due speed" and will take the action that best serves its customers.
Since when did M$ start offering downloads of Mozilla?
But what if there isn't a Linux version as is the case with the mass majority of games. The fact is few companies don't make Linux games because there isn't enough of a market share to be profitable because the majority of Linux users still have Windows for the purpose of games. Now if you use something like WineX they now no longer need their windows partition and thus are only running linux, thus the number of linux only desktops start to rise. Of course the games run slower in linux with wineX so game companies will look for a way to run faster to get a competitive advantage in this new market. Soon they will decide, there is enough of a market so that if they make a true linux version they can get a better chunk of that market. And now you have your linux version. Buying the linux version is great, but until they are more widly available so other companies can see what they're missing we need programs like wineX to get the ball rolling.
The question is interoperability. It's often not a choice to use MS, your customers demand it because their infastructure forces they to deal only with MS products. That is where MS is a bad monopoly, because they won't let you use a competitors product with ease (ie. netscape). We also don't necessarily want them to open up the source code, although if they did contrary to your belief that would be about the best thing that could happen for OS and the industry in general. Knowing what makes windows tick would give competitors the same advantages that MS has now, to make better products which would mean better competition and choice for you. You could add emulators into Linux that would allow you to play those windows games so people could do away with their windows partitions. MS would lose its biggest asset which is the fact that in order to live in an MS world (+95% of the buisness world) you NEED to use MS products because no one else can crack their file formats and APIs. Security is just the concern of SysAdmins who don't always get the last say, your average consumer couldn't give a damm whether their system was secure. Try sending a real presentation in RTF, are you really going to keep your customers if they have to screw around with file formats? What about your highly productive work force and you have the choice of suddenly making fundamental changes to their work environment taking a massive short term (and possibly long term) productivity loss in exchange for saving a few hundred bucks on software? In time Linux might start to make some inroads into the MS market. But in the meantime MS will just continue to gouge consumers and screw the competition (2 practices made possible by the fact they ARE a monopoly) with out legal intervention it is going to be a tough ride for the consumer.
Fuck, go to Canada. Look at how those schmoes live in abject poverty they call a higher standard of living. A stanard applied to prisons. Ahh well, you got food, shelter! Be happy!
Funny you should say that. I live in Canada. Do not think I live in ignorance of government corruption our national government is in fact going through a quite a controversy over diciplinary actions against several well known ministers and our provincial government is far from spotless. Also keep in mind that corruption is present is all organizations the reason we hear about it so much more in politics is because we are much more concerned with them and have better access to information. Governments are bad I corporations are just as bad, if not worse because tey are not accountable to that. Will the next Hitler win an election and then go nuts or will he be a CEO who fulfills his obligations to his stockholders by maximizing profit at any cost, ie. in Nigeria Shell Oil ran a brutal military dictatorship with the goal of more money.
Also not that there are many many more people who hate MS and write viruses with the sole purpose of embarrassing MS. I suspect especially now with the Darwin kernal most people with the skill to write a virus probably won't do so because they have nothing against the company and can do a lot more damage to the immensely more evil MicroSoft with the same effort. Why go after the good guys?
You seem to have been missing the boat on the whole M$ antitrust thing. If you have a monopoly in a sectors do you know what you get? It's sure not Capitalism, the laws might be the same but it's a whole new ball game because there is no competition. When corporations get too powerful (a point where our present system is starting to approach) it's them, not the governments, pulling the strings. What if you need the broadband but the cable provider and the telco are in bed together and charging through the roof. Competition can't get in because of the monopoly so the prices and service stay at that horrid level and you still have to buy it. Unfortunatly market forces arn't quite powerful enough to keep the big boys in line anymore and they're starting to make their own rules. I don't trust governments but I'd trust a corporation with the same power a whole lot less, at least in the end the leaders of the government are directly accountable to you and not dependent on how well they are able to force you to buy their product.
I hit delete, and I'm free. As for the rest of my spam: Keep it coming!
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Either way this guy is missing the point entirely, we hate spam because we didn't ask for it if he likes spam he can ask for himself to be put on mailing lists. Not only then will the not get the porno and 2 credit card offers a day he doesn't like but he would get more things that suit him because he requested things material like that. New laws like the one the EU is proposing would work only to his benefit. This is just one uninformed opinion contrasted against mine and the vast majority of other/.ers uninformed opinions. And I think we're winning:)
How in this enforced with respect to locations? Is this only applicable to domain names hosted in europe or if I claimed I was from Europe when I signed up for my hotmail account would I be protected by the Opt-in clause. If so how would they regulate this, do I have to be a resident of an European nation or do I merely need to route my e-mail through there? This decision is a great start but does anyone know if it will be truely effective and if so how can we on the other side of the pond benefit as well.
Yeah that seems to make sense... ummm but you forgot the fact that the gravitational effect of mass is proportional to distance so the farther away the light got the lesser the effect of gravity. If many physicists (and they have a degree instead of a nickname;) believe that the universe is expanding fast enough so that the effect of gravity is decrease fast enough so the universe will NEVER stop expanding I think your "Solar System light horizon" *snicker*, maybe we should just call it an anti-event horizon, is a figment of your little troll infested imagination.
Assuming the quantities of diamond used are significant to envoke market forces normally it still shouldn't make a difference. After all, diamonds are not as rare as the big jewelry companies would like people to believe. This is an understatement,the scarcity of diamonds is entirly artifical, a heightened demand will only result in the consortiums mining just the few more necessary to fulfill that demand and other than that keep everything else at the status quo that has been working so well until now. The thing I might wonder about is artificial diamonds. I've heard they can create very small, low quality diamonds artificially, perhaps that would be sufficient for this process, but I know very little and it could very well be a mistake in facts on my part, (got to work no time for google:)
My only concern would be that MPAA & Fiends would try to block this. I don't think the DMCA can touch this but would the CBTBA (something like that) if it ever gets passed do something to this? If they arn't able to make up a legal obstacle my guess is they will just put something readable only in the new format on their DVDs that will crash the new players (though could they still cal them DVDs then?). Anyone else have any ideas on what the MPAA might try to pull to kill this technology, I'm sure they're not just going to take it lying down.
(By the way, the one at the bottom of the article looks like Darth Maul;)"
Hello? True it was a long time ago but but what part of a galaxy far far away did you miss?! You have to check you facts before making a statement like that, this is how rumours get started!
CowboyNeal! Have him read all your mail type it out on a typewriter, delete the files, eat the carbon paper, and stuff the messages in a backpack and follow you around all day. Assuming his memory is dood you get fast and relevant responses to searches, excellent security, and easily access at all times! The only problem is space, while hard drive space isn't used the physical size of the system is far from negligable, it can also start to smell after a few days...
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How many people recognized Tom Clancey's name on the poll, how many people have read Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke? Lets not forget LOTR and Harry Potter. Although the stars arn't as big in the book industry the discrepency between the top and the bottom is roughly the same. In the future the sales might not be there for the big artists due to file sharing but music will still be as popular. The reason why books have lost their popularity is that they're a form of primary/active(?) entertainment, when you are reading you cannot do another activity. You cannot read and drive, work, jog, socialize, or anything else. The only time people read was sitting around at home and now TV has taken that niche. The fact is that people will always listen to music because it doesn't take effort and there is nothing else to take its place (so far). Rock stars and most of the perks associated will always be around because music will always be around.
In case you're not too familiar the intricacies your physics (or your spelling:) this is a troll. My own physics isn't perfect and I might have some mnior details slightly off but I have taken several first year physics which is sufficient for the purpose of debunking this troll. Aside from the fact that he doesn't actually give any numbers lets look at a more accurate description of thrust. Thrust is more or less caused by impulse, this is the change in momentum of an object. When a particle goes out the back of an engine the velocity to which the impulse will accelerate that craft is described by the equation McVc=MpVp (c=craft p=particle). Therefore if you start from motionlessness and have a particle of propellent shooting out the back at 1/100000 c (c = speed of light) or 3000m/s, your craft made of 10 particles of the same mass will go at 1/1000000 c or 300m/s not 300 km/s as he would have you believe. Keep in mind also that I have chosen a very large value to shoot out my particle and the engineers could easily shoot their propellent on the scale of nanometers per second which would result in very manageable velocities. The only problem I could see is in storing propellent, it is much more likely that they would have some sort of electrical motor to drive legs or something like that. There could be some errors in my calculations or in the equations I used, if you find errors please post corrections, but I can assure you that the above post is a troll (I ran into one of his a while ago where he invented what can only be described as the opposite of an event horizon:).
But I'm pretty sure the SysAdmin is quietly weeping as he watches his server get /.ed into oblivion.
I would have liked to include first person shooters (for the gameplay), but I'm limited by parental concerns, and perceptions in the community.
Simple just use Textmode Quake! I'm not sure if it's multiplayer but I don't think the parents will complain about it being too graphic!! (sadly enough that pun was intended)
My bad, I don't use IE so I didn't bother even looking at the patch link. Moderators, please moderate the above comment into oblivion and save me the horrid embarassment of my laziness and foolishness in overlooking the obvious joke. Reduce my foolish words to -1 so that none but the ranks of trolls may smirk at their stupidity!!
(on that note if the moderators have done as I requested those who are reading this humor me and please don't look at the parent!)
Yeah this shouldn't be mentioned in the Moz 1.0 story but it's there anyways so I'll try to mix, MS has had since the 20th to look at this and just now that it was finally reported came up with a fix. Frighteningly coincidence(?) this could end up giving a lot of people the perception that M$ gives speedy bug fixes, patch a couple hours after the report! Nevertheless it still took them 16 days!! Contrast this with the fact that RC3 was released on the 24th! Hmmm, it takes M$ 16 days to release a bug patch and the Mozilla crew 11 to release a new build!!
A Microsoft spokesman who refused to be identified said Tuesday that the company is "moving forward on the investigation with all due speed" and will take the action that best serves its customers.
Since when did M$ start offering downloads of Mozilla?
Okay, you fork up the few million so we can buy our own "think tank" and make our own report:)
and I want a 40 billion dollars in the bank :)
The second HelloWorld program looks like a tracing question off of one of my CompSci exams :)
Yeah, but now you can submit it as a story as soon as it comes out :)
But what if there isn't a Linux version as is the case with the mass majority of games. The fact is few companies don't make Linux games because there isn't enough of a market share to be profitable because the majority of Linux users still have Windows for the purpose of games. Now if you use something like WineX they now no longer need their windows partition and thus are only running linux, thus the number of linux only desktops start to rise. Of course the games run slower in linux with wineX so game companies will look for a way to run faster to get a competitive advantage in this new market. Soon they will decide, there is enough of a market so that if they make a true linux version they can get a better chunk of that market. And now you have your linux version. Buying the linux version is great, but until they are more widly available so other companies can see what they're missing we need programs like wineX to get the ball rolling.
The question is interoperability. It's often not a choice to use MS, your customers demand it because their infastructure forces they to deal only with MS products. That is where MS is a bad monopoly, because they won't let you use a competitors product with ease (ie. netscape). We also don't necessarily want them to open up the source code, although if they did contrary to your belief that would be about the best thing that could happen for OS and the industry in general. Knowing what makes windows tick would give competitors the same advantages that MS has now, to make better products which would mean better competition and choice for you. You could add emulators into Linux that would allow you to play those windows games so people could do away with their windows partitions. MS would lose its biggest asset which is the fact that in order to live in an MS world (+95% of the buisness world) you NEED to use MS products because no one else can crack their file formats and APIs. Security is just the concern of SysAdmins who don't always get the last say, your average consumer couldn't give a damm whether their system was secure. Try sending a real presentation in RTF, are you really going to keep your customers if they have to screw around with file formats? What about your highly productive work force and you have the choice of suddenly making fundamental changes to their work environment taking a massive short term (and possibly long term) productivity loss in exchange for saving a few hundred bucks on software? In time Linux might start to make some inroads into the MS market. But in the meantime MS will just continue to gouge consumers and screw the competition (2 practices made possible by the fact they ARE a monopoly) with out legal intervention it is going to be a tough ride for the consumer.
Yeah you're trolling but I'll feed you anyways,
Fuck, go to Canada. Look at how those schmoes live in abject poverty they call a higher standard of living. A stanard applied to prisons. Ahh well, you got food, shelter! Be happy!
Funny you should say that. I live in Canada. Do not think I live in ignorance of government corruption our national government is in fact going through a quite a controversy over diciplinary actions against several well known ministers and our provincial government is far from spotless. Also keep in mind that corruption is present is all organizations the reason we hear about it so much more in politics is because we are much more concerned with them and have better access to information. Governments are bad I corporations are just as bad, if not worse because tey are not accountable to that. Will the next Hitler win an election and then go nuts or will he be a CEO who fulfills his obligations to his stockholders by maximizing profit at any cost, ie. in Nigeria Shell Oil ran a brutal military dictatorship with the goal of more money.
But if it was opt-in if you didn't ask for that spam you would never recieve it and would never lose any productivity time.
Also not that there are many many more people who hate MS and write viruses with the sole purpose of embarrassing MS. I suspect especially now with the Darwin kernal most people with the skill to write a virus probably won't do so because they have nothing against the company and can do a lot more damage to the immensely more evil MicroSoft with the same effort. Why go after the good guys?
You seem to have been missing the boat on the whole M$ antitrust thing. If you have a monopoly in a sectors do you know what you get? It's sure not Capitalism, the laws might be the same but it's a whole new ball game because there is no competition. When corporations get too powerful (a point where our present system is starting to approach) it's them, not the governments, pulling the strings. What if you need the broadband but the cable provider and the telco are in bed together and charging through the roof. Competition can't get in because of the monopoly so the prices and service stay at that horrid level and you still have to buy it. Unfortunatly market forces arn't quite powerful enough to keep the big boys in line anymore and they're starting to make their own rules. I don't trust governments but I'd trust a corporation with the same power a whole lot less, at least in the end the leaders of the government are directly accountable to you and not dependent on how well they are able to force you to buy their product.
I agree with your conclusion on the article
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/.ers uninformed opinions. And I think we're winning:)
Hit delete.
I hit delete, and I'm free. As for the rest of my spam: Keep it coming!
he forgot a few steps though
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Either way this guy is missing the point entirely, we hate spam because we didn't ask for it if he likes spam he can ask for himself to be put on mailing lists. Not only then will the not get the porno and 2 credit card offers a day he doesn't like but he would get more things that suit him because he requested things material like that. New laws like the one the EU is proposing would work only to his benefit. This is just one uninformed opinion contrasted against mine and the vast majority of other
How in this enforced with respect to locations? Is this only applicable to domain names hosted in europe or if I claimed I was from Europe when I signed up for my hotmail account would I be protected by the Opt-in clause. If so how would they regulate this, do I have to be a resident of an European nation or do I merely need to route my e-mail through there? This decision is a great start but does anyone know if it will be truely effective and if so how can we on the other side of the pond benefit as well.
Is it just me or have we been getting a lot of 802.11b stories lately? Maybe it's just to replace the lack of MS stories today:)
Yeah that seems to make sense... ummm but you forgot the fact that the gravitational effect of mass is proportional to distance so the farther away the light got the lesser the effect of gravity. If many physicists (and they have a degree instead of a nickname;) believe that the universe is expanding fast enough so that the effect of gravity is decrease fast enough so the universe will NEVER stop expanding I think your "Solar System light horizon" *snicker*, maybe we should just call it an anti-event horizon, is a figment of your little troll infested imagination.
Assuming the quantities of diamond used are significant to envoke market forces normally it still shouldn't make a difference.
After all, diamonds are not as rare as the big jewelry companies would like people to believe.
This is an understatement,the scarcity of diamonds is entirly artifical, a heightened demand will only result in the consortiums mining just the few more necessary to fulfill that demand and other than that keep everything else at the status quo that has been working so well until now. The thing I might wonder about is artificial diamonds. I've heard they can create very small, low quality diamonds artificially, perhaps that would be sufficient for this process, but I know very little and it could very well be a mistake in facts on my part, (got to work no time for google:)
My only concern would be that MPAA & Fiends would try to block this. I don't think the DMCA can touch this but would the CBTBA (something like that) if it ever gets passed do something to this? If they arn't able to make up a legal obstacle my guess is they will just put something readable only in the new format on their DVDs that will crash the new players (though could they still cal them DVDs then?). Anyone else have any ideas on what the MPAA might try to pull to kill this technology, I'm sure they're not just going to take it lying down.
(By the way, the one at the bottom of the article looks like Darth Maul ;)"
Hello? True it was a long time ago but but what part of a galaxy far far away did you miss?! You have to check you facts before making a statement like that, this is how rumours get started!
CowboyNeal! Have him read all your mail type it out on a typewriter, delete the files, eat the carbon paper, and stuff the messages in a backpack and follow you around all day. Assuming his memory is dood you get fast and relevant responses to searches, excellent security, and easily access at all times! The only problem is space, while hard drive space isn't used the physical size of the system is far from negligable, it can also start to smell after a few days...