This highlights the reasoning that large corporations such as IBM, Novell, and Sun have adopted open source methods: it lowers their bottom line. They pay programmers to work on open-source projects and they more than recoup the costs through savings in other areas such as interoperability. Open-source breeds open-standards and when basic infrastructure such as audio support is basically "free" then costs are lowered more by using common-infrastructure between manufacturers vs. constantly reinventing-the-wheel or developing your own library of common code/components. Reiterating simply, it's cheaper to pay programmers to develop free infrastructure code and give it away to reap higher profits from reduced costs in other areas such as interoperability.
I played Maniac Mansion when it was brand new (I was a kid) and it kicked off and defined a golden era of adventure games that lasted from the late '80s well into the '90s. Something like Broken Sword: Angel of Death is the spiritual successor in our present day for this genre.
You are doing a really good job at summarizing the first page in both your original and this post. But. Did you read the other three pages? They discuss the advantages and disadvantages based on specific scenarios for both methodololigies contrasting how each approach (and mixed approaches) fares.
You've anchored yourself to a position that can't be assailed but that's not the interesting part. Go read the other three pages.
...Without this collaboration, musical works would be lost in a sea of other copyrighted works without some reasonable way of locating and licensing what you want....
I don't think so Tim. Shoutcast works perfectly fine to find new music with. Tags on the streams narrow you down to genres and from there the artist's name and song title are displayed while it is playing. So new music (and sales) is actually easier to find/generate on the Internet if you know where to look.
It's no different than my Media Center PC. It has one click recording, and XM is complicated so they provide you with a "one button" recording device. It's not how you go about recording off the radio that should be the issue - the case should not be muddled by focusing on the technology used to achieve a goal of recording a song but instead it should be viewed that the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 absolutely does apply here when you remove the technology of the day and instead focus on what people are doing. I believe the real motivation for this suit is obviously greed; RIAA hates to see any content become part of any library without paying them money - so they will pursue every avenue to shut out everything but them.
In ten years someone who has been recording them for thirty years will have quantum breakers to decode them with. Once this first layer of protection is broken - and it will be - then I hope our information inside of that is also semantically encoded (Windtalkers) to give it a few more years after that before someone else knows our old secrets.
Maybe it would be so I'm gonna try! I've installed Qemu with the acceleration module that promises native execution (or near) speeds! I also did a little bit of leg work and found some Qemu disk images at OSZoo. I'm downloading both Kubuntu and Ubuntu images to try out on my MCE system.
I hope it works well, will find out in a couple hours when the torrents finish.
What's stupid is that they were not aware of the obviously better solution you know of. That's where targeted information needs to be supplied. Google is everyone's friend but sometimes it's still not easy enough to find the answers to your specific situation. The challenge being connecting the right answers with unknown information in the search queries. Google's next biggest challenge is finding what you didn't know you needed!
Well I'd just switch to a white list of e-mail addresses and everything else be damned! Captcha based filtering for application to join my white list if I wanted it too.
How much effort and cost is involved with upgrading the current backbones to this standard? Can existing fibre be used? Especially all the "dark fibre" that was laid during the.com boom and AFAIK is still just sitting there unused to this day! If existing fibre can be kept only having to upgrade optical nodes could provide a relatively cheap upgrade to network bandwidth in the US at least?
I worked as a telemarketer for about a week (including training) and I quit because I couldn't stand to always be bugging people when I phoned them. So I am definately against intrusive or unwanted advertising.
It's understandable that an old-codger like yourself;) would object to environmental advertising. In a range of 30 years from now when TV viewership is seriously on the wane because more and more people are interested in participating in virtual environments then the advertising will follow people into those environments. It's inevitable because of the money involved. Now to why I consider this a "good" thing is as I said, the market effects. People need advertising to educate them of their choices. You don't have to pay attention to it. The economical-benefits and progress-creation of our free-market systems depend on the movement of money and like a pump advertising performs that function. 8^p
Advertising just short of spam is generally a "good" thing. In our market system you need some method of becoming aware of similar products as a basis for making informed buying decisions. You don't have to stop and read each ad so like the majority of advertising it will be relegated to the ignore bin for most players. At the same time if something catches your attention and introduces something new that you really do want then good. Besides as Data said, "Television? That didn't last much longer than the 2040's...".
The real innovations you're talking about takes place in a completely separate domain than the physical connections that make the Internet possible. When people use Internet protocols such as http to share information they are receiving programming of some sort (video, audio, text, image). The routers and service providers do not examine the information flowing over them and therefore do not benefit from what they carry. So, isp's have a low learning index from the information while people have much higher learning index for the same information that travels over the wires. Innovation occures where there is a high learning index so the isp's are just carriers and deserve to be relegated to utility status to improve the domain where the real innovation is: people. ;)
I watched the google video link of the presentation for a bit to just be sure - and - he does say fusion. I thought that fusion was perpetually 20 years off? If it's fusion, this will be the most important breakthrough in decades. Clean power without all that nasty global warming consequences.
Will it still be relevent if Intel delivers 80 cores in five years as they promise? Or will history repeat itself and we'll have our 80 cores plus specialized "math coprocessors" again?
You could do it if all browsers were designed to provide a BIOS api like PC's. Plugin's could request an area of the page to render to and be informed of input events within the area as well. The implementation of areas could allow for cross-plugin functionality as well - the svg plugin and the truetype plugin can be used within the flash plugin as the flash plugin requests their output and gets the browser BIOS to do the low level work of combining the output bitmaps into the controlling plugins graphic area; combining is encapsulated behind the BIOS api so the plugins can be high-level and therefore cross-platform. What I'm thinking is that the "BIOS" of a browser contain an api much like SDL - a lowest common denominator virtual graphics area. And you can do a lot with SDL. So provide all the SDL primitives as "BrowserBIOS 1.0". Other plugins could then register themselves as primitives like an SVG plugin. Then another plugin such as a flash player could see if the SVG plugin was installed and if so use it's renderSVG method as just another primitive within the flash area.
In five years computers should be capable enough to program Microsoft Earth in a scripting language and with the response times of today. A platform neutral language that is interpreted not executed (as ActiveX controls are) would be more desirable as binary execution across architectures would obviously fail. Computers keep getting faster so we can keep going higher and higher in the languages without becoming unresponsive. The only reason to use executable binaries is for speed purposes and if absolutely neccesary "fat" binaries like the OS9/X transition on the Mac could be used.
From the amount of groaning for a Linux version, whats stopping the development of a plugin-interface that is the same across browsers? Publish an RFC or get ECMA certification then get everyone to use it to the point that only Microsoft is not. Then make Microsoft use it. Replace ActiveX, Java, and Media Player proprietary interfaces with a standard plugin-interface that works for everything - leveling the playfield. Make the render engine a plugin too.
Rehashing some ideas that are floating around out there but still, why can't it be done?
We'll start with bacteria and move our way up to humans!;)
Hopefully this would eventually allow risky medial treatments to be simulated before they have to be performed with a scan of the patients physiology as a reference.
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This highlights the reasoning that large corporations such as IBM, Novell, and Sun have adopted open source methods: it lowers their bottom line. They pay programmers to work on open-source projects and they more than recoup the costs through savings in other areas such as interoperability. Open-source breeds open-standards and when basic infrastructure such as audio support is basically "free" then costs are lowered more by using common-infrastructure between manufacturers vs. constantly reinventing-the-wheel or developing your own library of common code/components. Reiterating simply, it's cheaper to pay programmers to develop free infrastructure code and give it away to reap higher profits from reduced costs in other areas such as interoperability.
I played Maniac Mansion when it was brand new (I was a kid) and it kicked off and defined a golden era of adventure games that lasted from the late '80s well into the '90s. Something like Broken Sword: Angel of Death is the spiritual successor in our present day for this genre.
You are doing a really good job at summarizing the first page in both your original and this post. But. Did you read the other three pages? They discuss the advantages and disadvantages based on specific scenarios for both methodololigies contrasting how each approach (and mixed approaches) fares.
You've anchored yourself to a position that can't be assailed but that's not the interesting part. Go read the other three pages.
Thanks for the link! My collection grows ;)
...Without this collaboration, musical works would be lost in a sea of other copyrighted works without some reasonable way of locating and licensing what you want....
I don't think so Tim. Shoutcast works perfectly fine to find new music with. Tags on the streams narrow you down to genres and from there the artist's name and song title are displayed while it is playing. So new music (and sales) is actually easier to find/generate on the Internet if you know where to look.
It's no different than my Media Center PC. It has one click recording, and XM is complicated so they provide you with a "one button" recording device. It's not how you go about recording off the radio that should be the issue - the case should not be muddled by focusing on the technology used to achieve a goal of recording a song but instead it should be viewed that the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 absolutely does apply here when you remove the technology of the day and instead focus on what people are doing. I believe the real motivation for this suit is obviously greed; RIAA hates to see any content become part of any library without paying them money - so they will pursue every avenue to shut out everything but them.
Duh. Activate the rings and release the black hole from it's omni-magnetic retainer so it can eat Earth. No traces left.
Hold your horses, E is already used in a quite good Amiga Language.
In ten years someone who has been recording them for thirty years will have quantum breakers to decode them with. Once this first layer of protection is broken - and it will be - then I hope our information inside of that is also semantically encoded (Windtalkers) to give it a few more years after that before someone else knows our old secrets.
Maybe it would be so I'm gonna try! I've installed Qemu with the acceleration module that promises native execution (or near) speeds! I also did a little bit of leg work and found some Qemu disk images at OSZoo. I'm downloading both Kubuntu and Ubuntu images to try out on my MCE system.
I hope it works well, will find out in a couple hours when the torrents finish.
What's stupid is that they were not aware of the obviously better solution you know of. That's where targeted information needs to be supplied. Google is everyone's friend but sometimes it's still not easy enough to find the answers to your specific situation. The challenge being connecting the right answers with unknown information in the search queries. Google's next biggest challenge is finding what you didn't know you needed!
Well I'd just switch to a white list of e-mail addresses and everything else be damned! Captcha based filtering for application to join my white list if I wanted it too.
How much effort and cost is involved with upgrading the current backbones to this standard? Can existing fibre be used? Especially all the "dark fibre" that was laid during the .com boom and AFAIK is still just sitting there unused to this day! If existing fibre can be kept only having to upgrade optical nodes could provide a relatively cheap upgrade to network bandwidth in the US at least?
My bad.
/. writeup totally confused: Read a better writeup. California and Texas have settled - five other states still get to rake Sony across the coals.
My roommate tells me I'm "full of flying bullsh*t" sometimes. ;)
:p
I respond that the operative word is "flying".
You work for an ad agency don't you?
;) would object to environmental advertising. In a range of 30 years from now when TV viewership is seriously on the wane because more and more people are interested in participating in virtual environments then the advertising will follow people into those environments. It's inevitable because of the money involved. Now to why I consider this a "good" thing is as I said, the market effects. People need advertising to educate them of their choices. You don't have to pay attention to it. The economical-benefits and progress-creation of our free-market systems depend on the movement of money and like a pump advertising performs that function. 8^p
I worked as a telemarketer for about a week (including training) and I quit because I couldn't stand to always be bugging people when I phoned them. So I am definately against intrusive or unwanted advertising.
It's understandable that an old-codger like yourself
Advertising just short of spam is generally a "good" thing. In our market system you need some method of becoming aware of similar products as a basis for making informed buying decisions. You don't have to stop and read each ad so like the majority of advertising it will be relegated to the ignore bin for most players. At the same time if something catches your attention and introduces something new that you really do want then good. Besides as Data said, "Television? That didn't last much longer than the 2040's...".
The real innovations you're talking about takes place in a completely separate domain than the physical connections that make the Internet possible. When people use Internet protocols such as http to share information they are receiving programming of some sort (video, audio, text, image). The routers and service providers do not examine the information flowing over them and therefore do not benefit from what they carry. So, isp's have a low learning index from the information while people have much higher learning index for the same information that travels over the wires. Innovation occures where there is a high learning index so the isp's are just carriers and deserve to be relegated to utility status to improve the domain where the real innovation is: people.
;)
I watched the google video link of the presentation for a bit to just be sure - and - he does say fusion. I thought that fusion was perpetually 20 years off? If it's fusion, this will be the most important breakthrough in decades. Clean power without all that nasty global warming consequences.
Will it still be relevent if Intel delivers 80 cores in five years as they promise? Or will history repeat itself and we'll have our 80 cores plus specialized "math coprocessors" again?
You could do it if all browsers were designed to provide a BIOS api like PC's. Plugin's could request an area of the page to render to and be informed of input events within the area as well. The implementation of areas could allow for cross-plugin functionality as well - the svg plugin and the truetype plugin can be used within the flash plugin as the flash plugin requests their output and gets the browser BIOS to do the low level work of combining the output bitmaps into the controlling plugins graphic area; combining is encapsulated behind the BIOS api so the plugins can be high-level and therefore cross-platform. What I'm thinking is that the "BIOS" of a browser contain an api much like SDL - a lowest common denominator virtual graphics area. And you can do a lot with SDL. So provide all the SDL primitives as "BrowserBIOS 1.0". Other plugins could then register themselves as primitives like an SVG plugin. Then another plugin such as a flash player could see if the SVG plugin was installed and if so use it's renderSVG method as just another primitive within the flash area.
In five years computers should be capable enough to program Microsoft Earth in a scripting language and with the response times of today. A platform neutral language that is interpreted not executed (as ActiveX controls are) would be more desirable as binary execution across architectures would obviously fail. Computers keep getting faster so we can keep going higher and higher in the languages without becoming unresponsive. The only reason to use executable binaries is for speed purposes and if absolutely neccesary "fat" binaries like the OS9/X transition on the Mac could be used.
From the amount of groaning for a Linux version, whats stopping the development of a plugin-interface that is the same across browsers? Publish an RFC or get ECMA certification then get everyone to use it to the point that only Microsoft is not. Then make Microsoft use it. Replace ActiveX, Java, and Media Player proprietary interfaces with a standard plugin-interface that works for everything - leveling the playfield. Make the render engine a plugin too.
Rehashing some ideas that are floating around out there but still, why can't it be done?
We'll start with bacteria and move our way up to humans! ;)
Hopefully this would eventually allow risky medial treatments to be simulated before they have to be performed with a scan of the patients physiology as a reference.
It's too late to turn off the collective. ;)