If you're in the tech things/scientific and don't know who Strauss was, you are automatically banned in the limb of the mind numbed tech freak, while if you studied history of arts and you don't know what a square root is, that's simply normal.
I remember time spent fixing pc for other students that had to finish their thesis about don't know the role of granary in the middle of dark ages and that trated the "machine" as the root of evil, the stuff that was wasting their precious time.
They were of course thankful but at their eyes you were just a cleric of the satanic cult of technology that behave in a very gentle manner, and fixing the pc was a sort of dark ritual.
So if someone in the Humanities starts looking at the technology in another way maybe is the begining of a better world.
This thing of companies threating other companies sounds more like comecon, when USSR forced polish to produce potatoes, buy VCR from East Germany and trad Apples with Ungary but not Bulgary, or like feudal thing with Lord MS having the "ius primae noctis " on the hardware of his vassals.
It's ipotizable that an army will buy some hardware (tanks, airplane) without knowing exactly how it works, and without any chance of getting this knowledge, even paying, and last but not least that is controlled by a corporation (that for all but one country is a foreign corporation)? Hard to think.
Can Microsoft give a serious answer to the people concerned by this matter?
That's a serious issue that could take some market share away from Microsoft, and worst could create a solid alternative to the dominance of windows in the desktop (I have no idea of the number of pc used by the governement around the world but i'm sure it's pretty much).
What can also MS do? Avoid restrecive laws by invoking the freedom of choice and let the its impressive marketing machine do its work.
that sounds great, but what the hell is there in the older OS versions that eats so much power and heats so much (I was barely burned by my powerbook yesterday)? A warm-the-planet daemon on the old kernel?
I think that one of the principle of communism is the abolition of the private property, don't think China would take all the intellectual properties issues very seriously.
They would maybe buy one windows license and then use it 1,3 billions time (they're not just a Billion, there's an half an Europe or a USA more)
It would be interesting to see a battle between Hollywood and some major hardware producer (the article speaks about Apple, but also other will be affected by such restrictions).
Til now it was too easy for intellectual propertiy holders to ban hardware made by some obscure taiwanese producer or harass norwegian teenagers...
billions dollars companies will maybe be more indigestible.
The proposed anchor zone is in the Pacific Ocean near the equator,
somewhere far from America or Europa, but it has also this 100000km ribbon so it would wrap twice around the earth before hitting the ground.
More exactly: ribbon 100000km, earth circonference 42000km so after two orbits around the world there would be some 16000km left... so the danger area is a circonference with 16000km radius and center at the anchorage point: if you're farther than that no problem if you're closer you should be at worst be hitted by the ribbon... it shouldn't be so devastating ; )
you can maybe appreciate the aesthetic of the powerPC architecture but that's philosophy, when it get in to the Collosseum of brute performance then Intel and AMD play the lions while G3/G4/G5 play the christians.
The only fear that remains are people who don't study or pay attention. Now, they won't have to do anything in class with this set up because all of the vocal part of the class will be recorded and all of the written part will be transmitted.
People who don't want to pay attention won't in any case learn a thing, but such devices will surely let the uninterested/lazy student to pretend to study in an easier way ; )
Cray has a long history and a big Legacy and Sigmund Cray was quite a genius, so is not so bad to see that some old good things keep going on.
Morehover is undoubtful that the existence of supercomputer with superperformance brings to the development of new concepts of applications that later can influence the desktop computer industry.
But in the trilogy the awareness of the limitation of the puppets avoided the abuse of scenes starring yoda, in EP2 there was many close ups where that were pretty much Shrek like, and Shrek was all but a SF movie
And in addition DivX users will be surely able to make copies of Xbox DivX games as soon as media price drop to an interesting level; they are simply the customer that a corporation would never have.
Don't really believe that Ms Office is the application that sells macs.
Maybe there're some user (designer, photographer) that buy apple because photoshop and illustrator are slightly better on MacOS than on MS Win, maybe.
These are research made by car makers, that are powerfull enough to face oil companies.
It's obvious that if a beared ex-hippie would build an engine powered by love and cosmic harmony the oil companies would immediatly find a way to shut his mouth, but this is Daimler-Chrysler, a giant that move more money than many little countries.
A new type of engine could harm or even destroy the petroleum market, but the car maker will easily switch to the new technology and continue selling millions of vehicules (I think that in future I'll dream the hydrogen Lamborghini as much as now I dream the benzine powered one).
Question is, exist there potentially killer application on the xbox?
I fear the answer is no. If you think about PS/PS2 or nintendo's things you can easily figure out a long list of games that exist only on these machines (Metal Gear, Mario's stuffs, GT3,...) or that are farely better on a console (I played FF on my PC, terrible), games that are thinked to be played on a console.
On Xbox runs a little amount of big names, but all these Very Imporant Games are basically porting of PC games, and PC games are not nicer when played on a TV with a gamepad.
I mean playing quake or unreal with a gamepad, when you played it with a mouse, is as satisfying as having sex with animals; someone can like it, I don't and I think I'm not the only one.
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You can just pretend that it take its root in some ancient sanscrit text and start some new branch of the new age universe ; )
If you're in the tech things/scientific and don't know who Strauss was, you are automatically banned in the limb of the mind numbed tech freak, while if you studied history of arts and you don't know what a square root is, that's simply normal.
I remember time spent fixing pc for other students that had to finish their thesis about don't know the role of granary in the middle of dark ages and that trated the "machine" as the root of evil, the stuff that was wasting their precious time.
They were of course thankful but at their eyes you were just a cleric of the satanic cult of technology that behave in a very gentle manner, and fixing the pc was a sort of dark ritual.
So if someone in the Humanities starts looking at the technology in another way maybe is the begining of a better world.
That's a cute and a little obscure story, but as long as no evidence are provided still a story ;)
I bo longer believe in Santa, Little Folks, Faeries or martians why sould I believe in stuff just because there was something in the internet.
This thing of companies threating other companies sounds more like comecon, when USSR forced polish to produce potatoes, buy VCR from East Germany and trad Apples with Ungary but not Bulgary, or like feudal thing with Lord MS having the "ius primae noctis " on the hardware of his vassals.
It's ipotizable that an army will buy some hardware (tanks, airplane) without knowing exactly how it works, and without any chance of getting this knowledge, even paying, and last but not least that is controlled by a corporation (that for all but one country is a foreign corporation)? Hard to think.
Can Microsoft give a serious answer to the people concerned by this matter?
That's a serious issue that could take some market share away from Microsoft, and worst could create a solid alternative to the dominance of windows in the desktop (I have no idea of the number of pc used by the governement around the world but i'm sure it's pretty much).
What can also MS do? Avoid restrecive laws by invoking the freedom of choice and let the its impressive marketing machine do its work.
that sounds great, but what the hell is there in the older OS versions that eats so much power and heats so much (I was barely burned by my powerbook yesterday)? A warm-the-planet daemon on the old kernel?
I think that one of the principle of communism is the abolition of the private property, don't think China would take all the intellectual properties issues very seriously.
They would maybe buy one windows license and then use it 1,3 billions time (they're not just a Billion, there's an half an Europe or a USA more)
It would be interesting to see a battle between Hollywood and some major hardware producer (the article speaks about Apple, but also other will be affected by such restrictions).
...
billions dollars companies will maybe be more indigestible.
Til now it was too easy for intellectual propertiy holders to ban hardware made by some obscure taiwanese producer or harass norwegian teenagers
The proposed anchor zone is in the Pacific Ocean near the equator,
... so the danger area is a circonference with 16000km radius and center at the anchorage point: if you're farther than that no problem if you're closer you should be at worst be hitted by the ribbon ... it shouldn't be so devastating ; )
somewhere far from America or Europa, but it has also this 100000km ribbon so it would wrap twice around the earth before hitting the ground.
More exactly: ribbon 100000km, earth circonference 42000km so after two orbits around the world there would be some 16000km left
I still thinking that face lions is more terrifying than face christians ;)
In the Colosseum lions were used to win ;)
As usual. Never understimate the power of .\
Motorola is better?
you can maybe appreciate the aesthetic of the powerPC architecture but that's philosophy, when it get in to the Collosseum of brute performance then Intel and AMD play the lions while G3/G4/G5 play the christians.
.1 = .10 = .100 = .100000000000
;)
ciao
The only fear that remains are people who don't study or pay attention. Now, they won't have to do anything in class with this set up because all of the vocal part of the class will be recorded and all of the written part will be transmitted.
People who don't want to pay attention won't in any case learn a thing, but such devices will surely let the uninterested/lazy student to pretend to study in an easier way ; )
Errare humanum est ; )
Someone will hack your PS2, so what? You maybe lose your FFX savedata but what more?
With Xbox things will be maybe a little harder because of the harddrive and a maybe more hackable OS, but whatever it's only a game.
"verba volant scripta manet"
Cray has a long history and a big Legacy and Sigmund Cray was quite a genius, so is not so bad to see that some old good things keep going on.
Morehover is undoubtful that the existence of supercomputer with superperformance brings to the development of new concepts of applications that later can influence the desktop computer industry.
Sorry, it was mystiping, I meant DVD
But in the trilogy the awareness of the limitation of the puppets avoided the abuse of scenes starring yoda, in EP2 there was many close ups where that were pretty much Shrek like, and Shrek was all but a SF movie
And in addition DivX users will be surely able to make copies of Xbox DivX games as soon as media price drop to an interesting level; they are simply the customer that a corporation would never have.
Don't really believe that Ms Office is the application that sells macs. Maybe there're some user (designer, photographer) that buy apple because photoshop and illustrator are slightly better on MacOS than on MS Win, maybe.
These are research made by car makers, that are powerfull enough to face oil companies. It's obvious that if a beared ex-hippie would build an engine powered by love and cosmic harmony the oil companies would immediatly find a way to shut his mouth, but this is Daimler-Chrysler, a giant that move more money than many little countries. A new type of engine could harm or even destroy the petroleum market, but the car maker will easily switch to the new technology and continue selling millions of vehicules (I think that in future I'll dream the hydrogen Lamborghini as much as now I dream the benzine powered one).
Question is, exist there potentially killer application on the xbox? I fear the answer is no. If you think about PS/PS2 or nintendo's things you can easily figure out a long list of games that exist only on these machines (Metal Gear, Mario's stuffs, GT3, ...) or that are farely better on a console (I played FF on my PC, terrible), games that are thinked to be played on a console.
On Xbox runs a little amount of big names, but all these Very Imporant Games are basically porting of PC games, and PC games are not nicer when played on a TV with a gamepad.
I mean playing quake or unreal with a gamepad, when you played it with a mouse, is as satisfying as having sex with animals; someone can like it, I don't and I think I'm not the only one.