Perhaps someone should sell SCO the time they need to prepare their legal arguments. They seem to function on a modified form of M$ time (as indicated by M$ time remaining bars).
For Darl, our dear frined, this could be done by even giving him some time... in a small cell with a large man called Bubba. This should give Darl enough time but instead of hassling the world he might want to consider some 'internal' matters.
For all intensive purposes I also postulate that Tomorrow(tm)SCO will never come.
I think that something is horribly wrong with the US legal system if people/companies are bullied into paying up because it'll cost less than potential litigation. This is the sort of problem that I'd expect in a school where a kid might decide that not having lunch will be less painfull than beaing beaten up.
It means that large companies can make it their business to use their legal team to steal money from smaller entities. US seems to have no problem with that... "sure beat up on the small guy, he must be commie or a retard" is the message I hear.
I hope that SCO case(s) gets big enough to highlight this problem at a sufficient level. Although, as a free country, why have law at all, have absolute freedom. Just bend over, cough twice and thank that they used lube.
Hmmm, I bet we will be soon buying Carbon Nano Tube Protected(C) music. It won't play in some CD players, but the discs will be clearly labeled so we, the customers, won't be wasting our money.
Does a religion have to be aproved by your government for you to believe in it? Personally I want to see the return of greek gods and those cool pegan rituals. If people want to believe in Jedi that should be OK, I don't see how you can have freedom of religion, democracy etc if you ban some beliefs, even if they did originate from a series of stories... oh wait, the whole christ thing... where is the solid proof that we are not victims of a really ancient joke????
Analysis of past choices is nice... but ultimately it will fail to play what I REALLY want to hear because it doesn't predict moods.
This type of system of past trait analysis has failed before, hasn't it???
Since it doesn't know what I am watching, and we can safely assume that not all channels have synched adds, this puppy should be able to interrupt my viewing to an add that suits me best. Oooo yeah.
Why don't they invent a direct retinal projection system that just beams adds to one eye and the show to the other. And to stop those free loading ppl with one eye only, they'd get just the adds.
M$ has the master plan to create "unhackable" devices. This can not be done through removing the current generation of hackers from the equation. But even if they succeed they are not going to get rid of the problem of cracking and piracy. By introducing "safe" computing platforms they are going to make the problem worse.
Someone WILL work out a way of controling the "unhackable" device. But because that device will be trusted they would then have the power of causing more damage then now as there will be fewer safeguards higher up the chain.
Anyway, it could be a cool job as long as there is no contractual sideffects, ie "Thou shalt not own xbox or work for competition in the forseeable future because thou knoweth of the secret M$ back door blah blah blah...". If you are already into hardware modding I think its unlikely that you'd get to do anything new at M$ though.
The fact that the human eye can only see about 16 million colours is true. The displays that we use can only display about as many also.
BUT, when you render stuff at 10bit per channel precision you get far fewer rounding errors. Think about it this way, you apply 4 texture maps to the same object, and then have a couple light sources... some fog. If everything gets rendered at 32bit colour (8bit per channel) you will get more rounding erros.
The Matrox Gigacolor will reduce banding and visual artifacts in rendered scenes...
I would assume that the end result will still be a 32bit image sent to the display.
Actually Galileo wasn't the first to discover that earth moves around the sun. This discovery and the planetary motion was made by Nicolaus Copernicus around 100 years before Galileo.
If you were born with the unfortunate ability to hear sounds and thus music, you should.. no YOU MUST pay the record labels. During your life you might accidentally overhear music that you haven't paid for and thus rip off "the artists".
Thus, the TAX will be an innitial fee on birth, based on your preliminary hearing tests. If found to have the ability to hear, you will be charged the TAX as an annual % of your income. Should you have no income within the first 10 years of your life, the record labels will render your hearing useless to stop your criminal activities...
This should address all those MP3 and other music piracy problems at the source..
Hmm... seems like ppl are divided between having to pay for website access and having banner adds.
The services that websites provide are undoubtedly useful. How useful depends on the user. Nevertheless the services need to be financed to ensure continued survival.
Over the last few years we have seen the rise and decline of online advertising. Mostly due to lack of its effectivness. I can only speculate that this is due to: software that limits the display of these adds during browsing or ppl's growing aptitude at "ignoring" them or just lack of well targeted advertising resulting in minimal hits.
The alternative for online service providers is to introduce subscription based products (who will porbably form aliances whereby a subscription to one service grants access to other similar sites. The pr0n industry does this well).
Personally I don't mind either but preffer the adds. I try to make use of the adds on sites that I like so that they contine providing the service that I use (I visit and shop at think geek regularly). But it seems that most would just ignore the adds thus giving no income to the very ppl that provide something they need. How do these ppl give back to the net community. We can't just take forever...
Besides, with the unrelenting need for bigger proffits, the subscription based services will put up adds anyway. Won't happen stright away but it will happen. What then?
I guess there will always be young talented ppl who will try to start a new service. To get ppl into it they will do it for free, because they want to do it... but its unreasonable to expect those ppl to work for nothing... but that is another argument which touches on open source, copy right and lots of other issues. I guess the Net is not the utopia we've been waiting for after all.
Is there room in todays ever growing IT industry for recycled computers? It seems that there are new CPUs being released weekly, each faster then the previous.
New software makes use of the new hardware, often rendering the old hardware useless due to performance requirements.
So how does one find a recycled computer useful? Of course there are numerous computing tasks that require little processing power... but why go for recycled hardware, unless you have no funds for the new and shiny.
As for pure geek factor... well new geek toys have large geek appeal, old toys don't. Its something about that new hardware smell (hmmm... maybe if they sprayed those alphas with that electricity fregrance for geeks...?)
Finally, old hardware chews power. Its expensive to run because of it as it takes more real time (thus power) to perform the same tasks.
That would work IF spam was always done in a mostly legitimate way. For bigger firms this would be the case, but for your small, "I want to tell the world about the new cream my paa made from our dead pet" type of firm you can expect that they would probably hire their cousin, to exploit some free service out there to host their pages.
Besides, are you really willing to pay $100US to teach someone a lesson? If everyone thought like you, there wouldn't be a problem:-) Total capital from spam receiving population would be greater then the capital of spam sending population and so we could push them out of the "market"....
Everyone always goes on about SPAM and how bad it is and how we don't like to get it.......
The real problem is that it must be profitable for some individuals to do it otherwise it wouldn't happen (save the handful of ppl who just like to do it for fun, similar to graffiti).
I have a some contact with the advertising and marketing industries here in Aus and I can tell you that from the pure marketing point of view it does look attractive. The marketing ppl rarely consider the annoyance factor, they just want nice numbers... ie "so you can send this out to 1000s of people, Great! How much per person.... what's that, its a LOT cheaper then mail, WOW put me down for 50000"... and so the corporate world pays for what we hate.
Sure there might be exceptions, but I bet that this is the norm, esp in cases when the marketing department has 0 exposure to technology and so doesn't suffer like the rest of us.
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Hehehe... hope they know that Sun wants to give their hardware away.
Perhaps someone should sell SCO the time they need to prepare their legal arguments. They seem to function on a modified form of M$ time (as indicated by M$ time remaining bars).
For Darl, our dear frined, this could be done by even giving him some time... in a small cell with a large man called Bubba. This should give Darl enough time but instead of hassling the world he might want to consider some 'internal' matters.
For all intensive purposes I also postulate that Tomorrow(tm)SCO will never come.
I think that something is horribly wrong with the US legal system if people/companies are bullied into paying up because it'll cost less than potential litigation. This is the sort of problem that I'd expect in a school where a kid might decide that not having lunch will be less painfull than beaing beaten up.
It means that large companies can make it their business to use their legal team to steal money from smaller entities. US seems to have no problem with that... "sure beat up on the small guy, he must be commie or a retard" is the message I hear.
I hope that SCO case(s) gets big enough to highlight this problem at a sufficient level. Although, as a free country, why have law at all, have absolute freedom. Just bend over, cough twice and thank that they used lube.
Hmmm, I bet we will be soon buying Carbon Nano Tube Protected(C) music. It won't play in some CD players, but the discs will be clearly labeled so we, the customers, won't be wasting our money.
Does a religion have to be aproved by your government for you to believe in it?
Personally I want to see the return of greek gods and those cool pegan rituals. If people want to believe in Jedi that should be OK, I don't see how you can have freedom of religion, democracy etc if you ban some beliefs, even if they did originate from a series of stories... oh wait, the whole christ thing... where is the solid proof that we are not victims of a really ancient joke????
Analysis of past choices is nice... but ultimately it will fail to play what I REALLY want to hear because it doesn't predict moods.
This type of system of past trait analysis has failed before, hasn't it???
Since it doesn't know what I am watching, and we can safely assume that not all channels have synched adds, this puppy should be able to interrupt my viewing to an add that suits me best. Oooo yeah.
Why don't they invent a direct retinal projection system that just beams adds to one eye and the show to the other. And to stop those free loading ppl with one eye only, they'd get just the adds.
M$ has the master plan to create "unhackable" devices. This can not be done through removing the current generation of hackers from the equation. But even if they succeed they are not going to get rid of the problem of cracking and piracy. By introducing "safe" computing platforms they are going to make the problem worse.
Someone WILL work out a way of controling the "unhackable" device. But because that device will be trusted they would then have the power of causing more damage then now as there will be fewer safeguards higher up the chain.
Anyway, it could be a cool job as long as there is no contractual sideffects, ie "Thou shalt not own xbox or work for competition in the forseeable future because thou knoweth of the secret M$ back door blah blah blah...". If you are already into hardware modding I think its unlikely that you'd get to do anything new at M$ though.
The fact that the human eye can only see about 16 million colours is true. The displays that we use can only display about as many also. BUT, when you render stuff at 10bit per channel precision you get far fewer rounding errors.
Think about it this way, you apply 4 texture maps to the same object, and then have a couple light sources... some fog. If everything gets rendered at 32bit colour (8bit per channel) you will get more rounding erros.
The Matrox Gigacolor will reduce banding and visual artifacts in rendered scenes...
I would assume that the end result will still be a 32bit image sent to the display.
Actually Galileo wasn't the first to discover that earth moves around the sun. This discovery and the planetary motion was made by Nicolaus Copernicus around 100 years before Galileo.
If you were born with the unfortunate ability to hear sounds and thus music, you should.. no YOU MUST pay the record labels.
During your life you might accidentally overhear music that you haven't paid for and thus rip off "the artists".
Thus, the TAX will be an innitial fee on birth, based on your preliminary hearing tests. If found to have the ability to hear, you will be charged the TAX as an annual % of your income. Should you have no income within the first 10 years of your life, the record labels will render your hearing useless to stop your criminal activities...
This should address all those MP3 and other music piracy problems at the source..
Hmm... seems like ppl are divided between having to pay for website access and having banner adds.
The services that websites provide are undoubtedly useful. How useful depends on the user. Nevertheless the services need to be financed to ensure continued survival.
Over the last few years we have seen the rise and decline of online advertising. Mostly due to lack of its effectivness. I can only speculate that this is due to: software that limits the display of these adds during browsing or ppl's growing aptitude at "ignoring" them or just lack of well targeted advertising resulting in minimal hits.
The alternative for online service providers is to introduce subscription based products (who will porbably form aliances whereby a subscription to one service grants access to other similar sites. The pr0n industry does this well).
Personally I don't mind either but preffer the adds. I try to make use of the adds on sites that I like so that they contine providing the service that I use (I visit and shop at think geek regularly). But it seems that most would just ignore the adds thus giving no income to the very ppl that provide something they need. How do these ppl give back to the net community. We can't just take forever...
Besides, with the unrelenting need for bigger proffits, the subscription based services will put up adds anyway. Won't happen stright away but it will happen. What then?
I guess there will always be young talented ppl who will try to start a new service. To get ppl into it they will do it for free, because they want to do it... but its unreasonable to expect those ppl to work for nothing... but that is another argument which touches on open source, copy right and lots of other issues. I guess the Net is not the utopia we've been waiting for after all.
Is there room in todays ever growing IT industry for recycled computers? It seems that there are new CPUs being released weekly, each faster then the previous.
New software makes use of the new hardware, often rendering the old hardware useless due to performance requirements.
So how does one find a recycled computer useful? Of course there are numerous computing tasks that require little processing power... but why go for recycled hardware, unless you have no funds for the new and shiny.
As for pure geek factor... well new geek toys have large geek appeal, old toys don't. Its something about that new hardware smell (hmmm... maybe if they sprayed those alphas with that electricity fregrance for geeks...?)
Finally, old hardware chews power. Its expensive to run because of it as it takes more real time (thus power) to perform the same tasks.
That would work IF spam was always done in a mostly legitimate way. For bigger firms this would be the case, but for your small, "I want to tell the world about the new cream my paa made from our dead pet" type of firm you can expect that they would probably hire their cousin, to exploit some free service out there to host their pages. :-) Total capital from spam receiving population would be greater then the capital of spam sending population and so we could push them out of the "market"....
Besides, are you really willing to pay $100US to teach someone a lesson? If everyone thought like you, there wouldn't be a problem
Everyone always goes on about SPAM and how bad it is and how we don't like to get it....... The real problem is that it must be profitable for some individuals to do it otherwise it wouldn't happen (save the handful of ppl who just like to do it for fun, similar to graffiti). I have a some contact with the advertising and marketing industries here in Aus and I can tell you that from the pure marketing point of view it does look attractive. The marketing ppl rarely consider the annoyance factor, they just want nice numbers... ie "so you can send this out to 1000s of people, Great! How much per person.... what's that, its a LOT cheaper then mail, WOW put me down for 50000"... and so the corporate world pays for what we hate. Sure there might be exceptions, but I bet that this is the norm, esp in cases when the marketing department has 0 exposure to technology and so doesn't suffer like the rest of us.
My bad... :-)
Someone should follow up on new members post slashdot posting
C'mon its been on slashdot! I bet most of those 130 members have slashdot accounts :-)