It does make more sense. I found the (large) PDF file and I'm trying to make some sense of it. At first I thought you guys just put together some parts and qhipped up some code, but now I have a much, much deeper respect and understanding for how much work that was.
How exactly does CASM differ from C? I don't see any ASM type code in there, it just looks like C. I realize that it isn't quite C, but hmmm...
I'm interested in more details about the compiler/processor.
That's exactly why a lot of people (including me) pirate sometimes. I can't afford Photoshop, so what do I do? Pirate it until I can. Some day I intend on buying it, but until then I must and I will pirate.
The problem is price gouging. These large companies, such as Adobe, have many, many products, each of which cost the consumer at least $200, if not upwards of $600. How much does it cost to make the CD, print the manual and box? Maybe $4. Maybe. Of course, I realize that all the programmers have to be paid as well, but surely $500 is a little much for one copy of one product.
When companies realize why people pirate and that many (if not most (if not nearly all)) customers WANT to pay for their product, but can't justify the outrageous prices, then maybe we'll see some change.
Until then, KaZaA Lite will still be running on my computer.
It seems like this case shouldn't even be happening. Adobe just wants to make an example out of someone. The problem is, they picked the wrong guy. As seen earlier on Slashdot, they haven't found a single eBook decrypted with his software, and if it isn't on (I assume they use) KaZaA, then it really doesn't exist freely. He also appears to have said all the right things in court.
There is such a thing as catching a drift, and I think Adobe missed it, and is now trying to drown Sklyarov.
$50.00 to Microsoft is like 1 cent to the rest of the world. I suppose that the reason they got is because they 'support' public officials.
In fact I wouldn't be suprised if those public officials gave them support on the ads in the first place.
It isn't impossible. By using a strong magnetic field, you could store antimatter in a vaccum without contact with the walls of the container. However, if the field were to fail at all, anhiliation would come pretty quick.
I doubt they cheered because it was Microsoft, but because it was a tablet PC. As the article says, people have been trying to make an effective tablet PC for years. Maybe Microsoft will *&@% it up, but at least now we know that it CAN be done, and maybe other companies will figure out how to do it as well.
I hope
I don't know if this occurs to anyone else, but it seems to me that the POINT of comic book characters was that they could do things that defied the laws of physics. I mean, if they couldn't, what would we be left with?
Non-weapons research my foot. While I know that other countries actually do have other things on their mind than defense against people they've pissed off, that doesn't mean that they're still going to reasearch weapons.
On a side note, how much of that computing power is used to administer tasks to all the processors? It seems to me that the more processors you have, the less power each adds on, because some power has to be saved for administrative tasks.
I wonder what kind of FPS someone could get on that thing...;-)
I envision a future in which the entire world is wirelessly connected, one in which you can walk anywhere on Earth (with the possible exception of the oceans), and still surf the 'net (or whatever has replaced it by then) with your wireless equipped laptop or handheld.
Of course, we have a long way to go before we get there. As the article mentions, the 2.4 GHz band is slowly being used for more and more transmissions. Unless we regulate usage in some way, the wireless world will become impossible to achieve, as the noise would be too great.
Another problem is that of price. In order to have a fully connected network, you would have to have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of nodes placed throughout the world. The unfortunate truth is that SOMEONE would have to pay for that, whether it is a private company or government(s).
Once you DO have such a network, however, control becomes an issue. If the network is privately controlled, someone could be making a bundle off of everyone's usage. If the government controlled it, it could be used for propaganda. If I had to chooose one over the other, I would choose a group of nations (the UN?) to control it, and it could become another sanction they could place.
Swinging upside-down, swinging standing up, swinging both ways, swinging both ways at ONCE, swinging with another person, using two swings, swinging without hands, swinging without feet, and finally, swinging with a brainless parent.
What kind of parent actually files a patent, to teach about the patent process? That's like taking your kid to the bedroom with you and your wife (husband) to teach him/her about the birds and the bees!
The thing that I wonder about is HOW people ensure that these privacy claims are followed through with. I trust that, for most sites, the want to protect privacy and the drive to do so is there, but despite eTrust and despite (eventually) P3P, I'm still getting lots and lots of junk mail even though I recently changed e-mail addresses.
These standardized privacy ratings are great, since they provide a common scale from which to view the results, don't get me wrong here. But I just think that there should be a better way of, if not ENFORCING privacy, at least downgrading site's ratings if they don't keep true to their word. (It's also possible it's the ads on the site collecting the data, not the site itself)
I guess what the whole internet needs is a/. type moderation system.
I can't see why there could be any connection between gum-chewing and brainpower. Authors (well, one of them anyway) agree with this. Look at Roald Dahl's book, Charlie's Chocolate Factory. One of the characters is the world record holder for gum chewing, and she's portrayed in the book as being rather dim and annoying.
Of course, there could be some connection, but if that's the case, I think a lot of my high school classmates should have been a bit smarter.
Thumbnails for ANY sizable picture, pr0n or no, are needed, in my opinion. Without them, no 56K user really has a chance to surf large sites, because high-quality pictures usually take upwards of 50K, which doesn't download immediately.
Thumbnails also help reduce internet traffic, by reducing the amount of "required" content. Without thumbnails, each full picture must be transmitted, which takes a lot of bandwidth (not only for the user, but the server). However, thumbnails minimize this required download amount. If the user likes the thumbnail, the larger version can be viewed as well.
Escape velocity was the first game that I really played heavily, due to it's (largely) dynamic universe. You could play the game through several times, each time allying yourself with different factions and ideals. And then, of course, there were the random campaigns that certain pilots would get that others wouldn't. I've played the game with several different pilots, and still haven't gotten them all. And then there were the plugins. Download a plugin and you could have new ships, missions, factions, star systems... everything you could ever want. Download the plugin editor, and you could create these new universes yourself. In short, EV was a fantastic game. I can only hope that Ambrosia will continue that with EV:N (and maybe give the PCs a port, if not of EV:N, at least of the original EV).
Definately reminds me of the babelfish... although I don't think they worked for reading...
I read an article a month or so ago about a research group working on AR (augmented reality). The setup they had weighed about 50 pounds and required a big bulky headset.
But with the rate of miniturization these days... who knows what'll be possible in the not-too-distant future. I envision everyone wearing glasses that project the AR, and connect to a computer in a pocket somewhere... Maybe it'll be contacts.
I can see the televised version now... "Yeah, Bob, he's really doing well now... look at the way he takes advantage of the extended keyboard and 5 button mouse to really create excellent code" "Wait... wait... I think he's found a... Oh! Look at that! That's not what he expected to get..." "He's in trouble now... He's attempting to track the bug... We have his LiveScreenCam up now.." "There it is! Right there in the middle of that algorithm!" "How could he have made such a stupid logic error?"
What I want to know is how they take into account the smaller asteroids that they cannot track. Every once in a while they must collide with tracked ones, so how do they provide for that in their tracking program? Or do they not worry about it at all, and just revise their courses when a visible deviation is seen...?
Hmmm...
From what I've read, the large majority of the asteroids we don't track are too small to be picked up with the current technology. Now whether or not this means that they would still destroy civilization as we know it if they hit the Earth I don't know, but I think that the smaller they are, the better.
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It does make more sense. I found the (large) PDF file and I'm trying to make some sense of it. At first I thought you guys just put together some parts and qhipped up some code, but now I have a much, much deeper respect and understanding for how much work that was.
And really, do you think they'll give them ALL the source cold or even the CORRECT source code?
How exactly does CASM differ from C? I don't see any ASM type code in there, it just looks like C. I realize that it isn't quite C, but hmmm... I'm interested in more details about the compiler/processor.
That's exactly why a lot of people (including me) pirate sometimes. I can't afford Photoshop, so what do I do? Pirate it until I can. Some day I intend on buying it, but until then I must and I will pirate. The problem is price gouging. These large companies, such as Adobe, have many, many products, each of which cost the consumer at least $200, if not upwards of $600. How much does it cost to make the CD, print the manual and box? Maybe $4. Maybe. Of course, I realize that all the programmers have to be paid as well, but surely $500 is a little much for one copy of one product. When companies realize why people pirate and that many (if not most (if not nearly all)) customers WANT to pay for their product, but can't justify the outrageous prices, then maybe we'll see some change. Until then, KaZaA Lite will still be running on my computer.
It seems like this case shouldn't even be happening. Adobe just wants to make an example out of someone. The problem is, they picked the wrong guy. As seen earlier on Slashdot, they haven't found a single eBook decrypted with his software, and if it isn't on (I assume they use) KaZaA, then it really doesn't exist freely. He also appears to have said all the right things in court. There is such a thing as catching a drift, and I think Adobe missed it, and is now trying to drown Sklyarov.
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$50.00 to Microsoft is like 1 cent to the rest of the world. I suppose that the reason they got is because they 'support' public officials. In fact I wouldn't be suprised if those public officials gave them support on the ads in the first place.
It isn't impossible. By using a strong magnetic field, you could store antimatter in a vaccum without contact with the walls of the container. However, if the field were to fail at all, anhiliation would come pretty quick.
I would have to say that toilet one is the worst. Who wants to be stuck in a bathroom? Although the Patriot missile screwup was really bad as well...
I doubt they cheered because it was Microsoft, but because it was a tablet PC. As the article says, people have been trying to make an effective tablet PC for years. Maybe Microsoft will *&@% it up, but at least now we know that it CAN be done, and maybe other companies will figure out how to do it as well. I hope
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Non-weapons research my foot. While I know that other countries actually do have other things on their mind than defense against people they've pissed off, that doesn't mean that they're still going to reasearch weapons. ;-)
On a side note, how much of that computing power is used to administer tasks to all the processors? It seems to me that the more processors you have, the less power each adds on, because some power has to be saved for administrative tasks.
I wonder what kind of FPS someone could get on that thing...
I envision a future in which the entire world is wirelessly connected, one in which you can walk anywhere on Earth (with the possible exception of the oceans), and still surf the 'net (or whatever has replaced it by then) with your wireless equipped laptop or handheld.
Of course, we have a long way to go before we get there. As the article mentions, the 2.4 GHz band is slowly being used for more and more transmissions. Unless we regulate usage in some way, the wireless world will become impossible to achieve, as the noise would be too great.
Another problem is that of price. In order to have a fully connected network, you would have to have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of nodes placed throughout the world. The unfortunate truth is that SOMEONE would have to pay for that, whether it is a private company or government(s).
Once you DO have such a network, however, control becomes an issue. If the network is privately controlled, someone could be making a bundle off of everyone's usage. If the government controlled it, it could be used for propaganda. If I had to chooose one over the other, I would choose a group of nations (the UN?) to control it, and it could become another sanction they could place.
Can anyone else see this happeneing?
Swinging upside-down, swinging standing up, swinging both ways, swinging both ways at ONCE, swinging with another person, using two swings, swinging without hands, swinging without feet, and finally, swinging with a brainless parent. What kind of parent actually files a patent, to teach about the patent process? That's like taking your kid to the bedroom with you and your wife (husband) to teach him/her about the birds and the bees!
I guess what the whole internet needs is a /. type moderation system.
I can't see why there could be any connection between gum-chewing and brainpower. Authors (well, one of them anyway) agree with this. Look at Roald Dahl's book, Charlie's Chocolate Factory. One of the characters is the world record holder for gum chewing, and she's portrayed in the book as being rather dim and annoying.
Of course, there could be some connection, but if that's the case, I think a lot of my high school classmates should have been a bit smarter.
Thumbnails for ANY sizable picture, pr0n or no, are needed, in my opinion. Without them, no 56K user really has a chance to surf large sites, because high-quality pictures usually take upwards of 50K, which doesn't download immediately. Thumbnails also help reduce internet traffic, by reducing the amount of "required" content. Without thumbnails, each full picture must be transmitted, which takes a lot of bandwidth (not only for the user, but the server). However, thumbnails minimize this required download amount. If the user likes the thumbnail, the larger version can be viewed as well.
Escape velocity was the first game that I really played heavily, due to it's (largely) dynamic universe. You could play the game through several times, each time allying yourself with different factions and ideals. And then, of course, there were the random campaigns that certain pilots would get that others wouldn't. I've played the game with several different pilots, and still haven't gotten them all.
And then there were the plugins. Download a plugin and you could have new ships, missions, factions, star systems... everything you could ever want. Download the plugin editor, and you could create these new universes yourself.
In short, EV was a fantastic game. I can only hope that Ambrosia will continue that with EV:N (and maybe give the PCs a port, if not of EV:N, at least of the original EV).
Definately reminds me of the babelfish... although I don't think they worked for reading... I read an article a month or so ago about a research group working on AR (augmented reality). The setup they had weighed about 50 pounds and required a big bulky headset. But with the rate of miniturization these days... who knows what'll be possible in the not-too-distant future. I envision everyone wearing glasses that project the AR, and connect to a computer in a pocket somewhere... Maybe it'll be contacts.
I can see the televised version now...
"Yeah, Bob, he's really doing well now... look at the way he takes advantage of the extended keyboard and 5 button mouse to really create excellent code"
"Wait... wait... I think he's found a... Oh! Look at that! That's not what he expected to get..."
"He's in trouble now... He's attempting to track the bug... We have his LiveScreenCam up now.."
"There it is! Right there in the middle of that algorithm!"
"How could he have made such a stupid logic error?"
What I want to know is how they take into account the smaller asteroids that they cannot track. Every once in a while they must collide with tracked ones, so how do they provide for that in their tracking program? Or do they not worry about it at all, and just revise their courses when a visible deviation is seen...? Hmmm...
From what I've read, the large majority of the asteroids we don't track are too small to be picked up with the current technology. Now whether or not this means that they would still destroy civilization as we know it if they hit the Earth I don't know, but I think that the smaller they are, the better.