No. A joke about the stupid masses. I did not know that in America, even the cows were fat.;)
Oh, and I can't work at Walmart, because I only know it from the stories of others. I've never seen one myself. My joke/argument is meant for every consume temple, not any specific one.
Ok, first of all: STOP calling it piracy! Piracy is stealing shit on the seas and murdering people. And unless you want me to do that to you...;)
Second: People will of course continue to copy music, as they have done since they were able to do so. But does it matter? NO. Not in your way. Because freely copied music would still not be bought, if it could not be copied. Some people think it's not worth the money, and some just don't have it. So what's left, is free promotion, which could very well replace the promotion offered by the industry.
In fact, that's why small labels are more successful since the beginning of MP3 and P2P.
Oh, and for me personally, knowing that the money goes straight to the artist, does completely change the game. I like some artists, and this is a personal thing. So I support them by an here and there, or telling friends about them, even when I'm not buying their music. It's just cool and feel really good, to know that partially, a band got big because of you!:)
Wow. Nice thought. I guess this artifact comes from our limited ability to understand time.
And I also guess, that the inside of the black hole exists longer than the outside of the universe. I always thought that the logical way for an universe to end would be by all supermassive black holes eating all mass in the universe, then eating each other, until only one is left, which then explodes in the big bang, because some other cosmological border for critical mass is crossed.
Kind of a upend and recycle the universe (including time!).
Nope. Not infinite energy. Just more speed than light. Of course for all that we know, going at light speed takes infinite energy for every particle with a mass. If theoretically, a non-mass particle could be faster than light, it would still be able to exit at that distance.
So the radius of no escape really depends on your mass.
No, GP is right. Your time would pass normal for you, but the time of everything outside the black hole would pass faster and faster, meaning you'd get more and more radiation and faster and faster star movement, until the sky is completely white. But I guess you'd be dead by then.
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.
This brings tears to my eyes... I didn't know, that Hurd was already in development back than... And 17 years later... it's still not done... Even the Firefox spell checker does not know it... It recommends "Turd". *lol* Hey, it does not know "Firefox" too. Oh well...
Think of what happened if Linus had waited* for Hurd instead...
[* Is that correct English? It's not my first language... I don't know...)
Just because we can't look inside, doesn't mean that everything breaks down inside.
People often see a black hole as something magical, and think, the Schwarzschild radius is some magical wall. It's just the distance, at which gravitation is stronger than everything else, so we can't get useful information from the inside. Although maybe with entangled particle-pairs we could get information out!)
About the inside we know nothing. It's not the physics that break down. It's the formulas and theories, because they result in infinite numbers, which is a typical symptom of formulas being applied outside their useful range.
So we have to fix our theories, but we don't know how, because we can't look inside. And if nobody especially lucky comes around and finds a method to get that information anyway, it's going to stay that way for a loong time.
If you want to deal with the legal disaster that would result in outside of China, sure.
What legal disaster? If you create drivers for a card, and they work, this means shit. First nVidia would have to prove that you posess(ed) that source code. Good luck with that! Then they would have to go to the one who *broke the license*! Or do you still live in **AA wonderland, where downloading is illegal for no reason? You should know that 1) The uploader gave you the right to use it how you please, by letting you download it without license, and 2) the uploader broke a *license*! This is still far away from breaking a law! Oh, and the one who broke the license would be *China*! So good luck with THAT! And your country being controlled by companies and making up laws does not change a thing for the rest of the world. Get real!
> and although it might be interesting to peek at AMD/ATI's driver source, it would not be very helpful in the long run, since most of the cards' structures are already documented
Yeah. As far as I know it only misses the most irrelevant part: The 3D- and video acceleration interfaces. Very useful... </sarcasm>
I'll look up KMS and GEM. Thanks for the tip.
About the prices: I hope, this also happens to the graphics card market. By the way: Shouldn't nVidia be punished for even offering price fixing?
Who is Dawkins?* I never heard of that guy. Or at least I can't remember.
But Penrose... of course everybody knows him, if only from the books of Hawking....What do you mean, nobody reads those books??? How can they even survive that way?? Oh... the bible.... right...;)
...to finally get much hardware to work with Linux.
I'm sure you know how much gray channels have their source in China. The Russians provide the cracks and the Chinese supply the world with cracked versions, or so I'm told.
So if someone in China leaks all that source... an you can be assured that it will leak... then we can finally understand the interfaces and implement the drivers.
My hope is, that nVidia, AMD/ATi and intel will decide to still sell to that market and give them the source. Then when they notice the leakage, it's already too late, and 1. we have enough information to implement fast graphics card drivers and 2. china will develop knock-offs for their own market, which then strangely find themselves for a fraction of the price, in your local computer store.
Oh, and hopefully, nobody tries to go to war over it, or we might be fscked. But hey. at least we all finally got our 8x dual-chip-card Crossfire setups at home.. in our bunker basements.:D
If I can quit friendships over them using Vista, you can quit your job over being forced to "wear a bikini in a hail of bullets". Especially if you're male.;)
I'm sorry, but i can't tell you... that the 700 billion (as in 700 thousand million for the non-retarded) go into our new project, to brainwash you into thinking you are brainwashing others, while in fact you live in gel filled containers in giant towers, with a giant probe up your ass. I heart it's for "power" or something. But I'm not sure what kind of "power".
Oh well... I have to take my blue pill and get started working. See you later...
Did you know, that in Civilization 2 (in my eyes, the best of the series), fascism and fundamentalism were the two most successful forms of government? Successful in conquering the world.
Do you actually shut down your computer??? How strange. It's like willfully disabling/crippling yourself.
I am 29, so don't call me old-fashioned, but I simply prefer a real computer. With a large ergonomic keyboard, a full mouse (optional), an extremely huge screen space (1920*1200 = absolute minimum), and a big tower, that I can stuff full of devices until it bursts.
Then again, unlike most people, I actually use those resources.
A portable device will not become useful to me, until I can input as fast and accurate as on a normal computer, and have just as much screen space. Oh, and 3-5 hours of use, until I have do dock again? As I do not shut down, this will not be very useful.
P.S.: Yes, I will be one of the first to use wearable computer systems. But I still wait for hardware that does not make you look like a dork. I'm working on it...:)
No, it's because he got the html to text and plain text modes messed up. Try submitting stuff in plain text with added tags. they get interpreted. While in html to text mode they don't. This message was written in plain text mode to prove the point.
Your definition of "police" in wonderful. But outdated.
It's like in Sim City. You could choose "Good" or "Bad" police. We have mostly the bad kind nowadays. Bad, as in "they are the enemy of the people, and the enforcers of the will of a minority".
Interestingly not communism itself was evil, but this kind of practical reality, that emerged from a government that refused to do the last step and dissolve itself to hand the power to the people, after creating the base for it.
So we're very close to those aspects of communist/dictator states, that we really hate. Great... I want to move to another country. But which?
That was also the first thing that came to my mind. If someone would seize my data, I would probably have to shoot me at that same day. That's how important my data is. Of course I'm not stupid, and would try to shoot others to get it back, before shooting myself.;)
And you can't just create a backup and hide it somewhere else, every time you store something important.:( Besides: They may find that too.
In the early years ('99) I found a complete construction plan for a nuclear bomb on the net. Including contacts. First I thought this was a joke, but nowadays I know better, because I know quite a bit about that stuff.
The point is, that it's very easy to build a nuclear bomb... in theory! In reality, it's very very hard, because first, you have to have uranium 235 (or plutonium 239, if you can get it), which must be extremely purified. And because of this, it is horribly expensive. If you buy the cheap crap, you get a dirty bomb, witch has exponentially less power, and is not very useful except for explosions that are so small that regular explosives would be more easy and more cheap.
And then comes the hard part! If you build the classic hollow sphere design, you have to place the compressing explosives around the uranium in an extremely regular way. It has to ignite even more regular. One tiny timing difference, and you get no real compression, but the uranium blows out at the place where the explosion was delayed the most. Therefore you most probably do not even get a critical mass, and fission does not start. So you end up with a small explosion and some uranium pollution. Yeah. Great. All the hassle, for nothing.
Don't even dream of going bigger and create a fusion bomb by putting (super)heavy water around it. You will never get it to work, because you have to make so many tests that the whole world would notice, before you would even get it to work right.
That's why "terrorists" do not care for nuclear bombs. It's not economic and not worth the hassle. And if you're so crazy that you want to nuke something anyway, you either try to build it yourself and fail, or steal a real warhead. (Easy in the ex-CCCP countries, if they're not eaten by the rust by now.)
And: No, I'm no spy, Russian, terrorist, American, or anyone special. I only was fascinated with Albert Einstein and the technology and physics behind fission/fusion as a kid.:)
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No. A joke about the stupid masses. ;)
I did not know that in America, even the cows were fat.
Oh, and I can't work at Walmart, because I only know it from the stories of others. I've never seen one myself.
My joke/argument is meant for every consume temple, not any specific one.
Ok, first of all: STOP calling it piracy! Piracy is stealing shit on the seas and murdering people. And unless you want me to do that to you... ;)
Second: People will of course continue to copy music, as they have done since they were able to do so.
But does it matter? NO. Not in your way. Because freely copied music would still not be bought, if it could not be copied. Some people think it's not worth the money, and some just don't have it.
So what's left, is free promotion, which could very well replace the promotion offered by the industry.
In fact, that's why small labels are more successful since the beginning of MP3 and P2P.
Oh, and for me personally, knowing that the money goes straight to the artist, does completely change the game. I like some artists, and this is a personal thing. So I support them by an here and there, or telling friends about them, even when I'm not buying their music. It's just cool and feel really good, to know that partially, a band got big because of you! :)
Wow. Nice thought. I guess this artifact comes from our limited ability to understand time.
And I also guess, that the inside of the black hole exists longer than the outside of the universe.
I always thought that the logical way for an universe to end would be by all supermassive black holes eating all mass in the universe, then eating each other, until only one is left, which then explodes in the big bang, because some other cosmological border for critical mass is crossed.
Kind of a upend and recycle the universe (including time!).
Nope. Not infinite energy. Just more speed than light. Of course for all that we know, going at light speed takes infinite energy for every particle with a mass. If theoretically, a non-mass particle could be faster than light, it would still be able to exit at that distance.
So the radius of no escape really depends on your mass.
No, GP is right. Your time would pass normal for you, but the time of everything outside the black hole would pass faster and faster, meaning you'd get more and more radiation and faster and faster star movement, until the sky is completely white. But I guess you'd be dead by then.
"ERROR 589: Your argument is out of relation."
A huge sun right in front of you for billions of years makes a *very* effective heating device too. :)
for the possibility that any mall anywhere in America could spontaneously be invaded by radio-controlled cows.
Possibility?
I see that every day, ...here at Walmart.
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix.
This brings tears to my eyes...
I didn't know, that Hurd was already in development back than...
And 17 years later... it's still not done...
Even the Firefox spell checker does not know it... It recommends "Turd". *lol*
Hey, it does not know "Firefox" too. Oh well...
Think of what happened if Linus had waited* for Hurd instead...
[* Is that correct English? It's not my first language... I don't know...)
It wasn't... until you MENTIONED IT!
Aaahh... a thousand years of darkness....! ;)
He's right tough.
Just because we can't look inside, doesn't mean that everything breaks down inside.
People often see a black hole as something magical, and think, the Schwarzschild radius is some magical wall.
It's just the distance, at which gravitation is stronger than everything else, so we can't get useful information from the inside. Although maybe with entangled particle-pairs we could get information out!)
About the inside we know nothing. It's not the physics that break down. It's the formulas and theories, because they result in infinite numbers, which is a typical symptom of formulas being applied outside their useful range.
So we have to fix our theories, but we don't know how, because we can't look inside.
And if nobody especially lucky comes around and finds a method to get that information anyway, it's going to stay that way for a loong time.
And: Yeah, that's kinda sad.
If you want to deal with the legal disaster that would result in outside of China, sure.
What legal disaster? If you create drivers for a card, and they work, this means shit. First nVidia would have to prove that you posess(ed) that source code. Good luck with that! Then they would have to go to the one who *broke the license*! Or do you still live in **AA wonderland, where downloading is illegal for no reason? You should know that 1) The uploader gave you the right to use it how you please, by letting you download it without license, and 2) the uploader broke a *license*! This is still far away from breaking a law!
Oh, and the one who broke the license would be *China*! So good luck with THAT!
And your country being controlled by companies and making up laws does not change a thing for the rest of the world.
Get real!
> and although it might be interesting to peek at AMD/ATI's driver source, it would not be very helpful in the long run, since most of the cards' structures are already documented
Yeah. As far as I know it only misses the most irrelevant part: The 3D- and video acceleration interfaces. Very useful... </sarcasm>
I'll look up KMS and GEM. Thanks for the tip.
About the prices: I hope, this also happens to the graphics card market.
By the way: Shouldn't nVidia be punished for even offering price fixing?
Who is Dawkins?* I never heard of that guy. Or at least I can't remember.
But Penrose... of course everybody knows him, if only from the books of Hawking. ...What do you mean, nobody reads those books??? How can they even survive that way?? ;)
Oh... the bible.... right...
* Yeah, alright. I'll look it up on Wikipedia!
...to finally get much hardware to work with Linux.
I'm sure you know how much gray channels have their source in China. The Russians provide the cracks and the Chinese supply the world with cracked versions, or so I'm told.
So if someone in China leaks all that source... an you can be assured that it will leak... then we can finally understand the interfaces and implement the drivers.
My hope is, that nVidia, AMD/ATi and intel will decide to still sell to that market and give them the source. Then when they notice the leakage, it's already too late, and 1. we have enough information to implement fast graphics card drivers and 2. china will develop knock-offs for their own market, which then strangely find themselves for a fraction of the price, in your local computer store.
Oh, and hopefully, nobody tries to go to war over it, or we might be fscked. But hey. at least we all finally got our 8x dual-chip-card Crossfire setups at home.. in our bunker basements. :D
If I can quit friendships over them using Vista, you can quit your job over being forced to "wear a bikini in a hail of bullets". Especially if you're male. ;)
I'm sorry, but i can't tell you... that the 700 billion (as in 700 thousand million for the non-retarded) go into our new project, to brainwash you into thinking you are brainwashing others, while in fact you live in gel filled containers in giant towers, with a giant probe up your ass. I heart it's for "power" or something. But I'm not sure what kind of "power".
Oh well... I have to take my blue pill and get started working. See you later...
Did you know, that in Civilization 2 (in my eyes, the best of the series), fascism and fundamentalism were the two most successful forms of government?
Successful in conquering the world.
Go figure...
I have a much quicker solution: Delete Vista and disable TCPA. Finito! :)
Do you actually shut down your computer???
How strange. It's like willfully disabling/crippling yourself.
I am 29, so don't call me old-fashioned, but I simply prefer a real computer. With a large ergonomic keyboard, a full mouse (optional), an extremely huge screen space (1920*1200 = absolute minimum), and a big tower, that I can stuff full of devices until it bursts.
Then again, unlike most people, I actually use those resources.
A portable device will not become useful to me, until I can input as fast and accurate as on a normal computer, and have just as much screen space.
Oh, and 3-5 hours of use, until I have do dock again? As I do not shut down, this will not be very useful.
P.S.: Yes, I will be one of the first to use wearable computer systems. But I still wait for hardware that does not make you look like a dork. I'm working on it... :)
No, it's because he got the html to text and plain text modes messed up. Try submitting stuff in plain text with added tags. they get interpreted. While in html to text mode they don't. This message was written in plain text mode to prove the point.
Your definition of "police" in wonderful. But outdated.
It's like in Sim City. You could choose "Good" or "Bad" police. We have mostly the bad kind nowadays. Bad, as in "they are the enemy of the people, and the enforcers of the will of a minority".
Interestingly not communism itself was evil, but this kind of practical reality, that emerged from a government that refused to do the last step and dissolve itself to hand the power to the people, after creating the base for it.
So we're very close to those aspects of communist/dictator states, that we really hate. Great... I want to move to another country. But which?
That was also the first thing that came to my mind. If someone would seize my data, I would probably have to shoot me at that same day. That's how important my data is. Of course I'm not stupid, and would try to shoot others to get it back, before shooting myself. ;)
And you can't just create a backup and hide it somewhere else, every time you store something important. :(
Besides: They may find that too.
We need things that make us go!
Can you make us go?
Then we strong. And smart! *huhuhuhuhu*
In the early years ('99) I found a complete construction plan for a nuclear bomb on the net. Including contacts. First I thought this was a joke, but nowadays I know better, because I know quite a bit about that stuff.
The point is, that it's very easy to build a nuclear bomb... in theory!
In reality, it's very very hard, because first, you have to have uranium 235 (or plutonium 239, if you can get it), which must be extremely purified. And because of this, it is horribly expensive. If you buy the cheap crap, you get a dirty bomb, witch has exponentially less power, and is not very useful except for explosions that are so small that regular explosives would be more easy and more cheap.
And then comes the hard part! If you build the classic hollow sphere design, you have to place the compressing explosives around the uranium in an extremely regular way. It has to ignite even more regular. One tiny timing difference, and you get no real compression, but the uranium blows out at the place where the explosion was delayed the most. Therefore you most probably do not even get a critical mass, and fission does not start. So you end up with a small explosion and some uranium pollution. Yeah. Great. All the hassle, for nothing.
Don't even dream of going bigger and create a fusion bomb by putting (super)heavy water around it. You will never get it to work, because you have to make so many tests that the whole world would notice, before you would even get it to work right.
That's why "terrorists" do not care for nuclear bombs. It's not economic and not worth the hassle. And if you're so crazy that you want to nuke something anyway, you either try to build it yourself and fail, or steal a real warhead. (Easy in the ex-CCCP countries, if they're not eaten by the rust by now.)
And: No, I'm no spy, Russian, terrorist, American, or anyone special. I only was fascinated with Albert Einstein and the technology and physics behind fission/fusion as a kid. :)
Let me guess... Hillbilly style, from behind? :D