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You can get a TI-8x to say that there is a negative Kelvin temperature, by converting a negative Celcius to Kelvin, but according to TI, it's where you put the negative symbol, however, none of the other Temp converters screw up with the negative numbers.
Everyone knows that today you need more Harddrive space than ever. That is a fact.
However, I think that alot of that harddrive space is wasted on sloppy coding. At one point, hard drive space was so expensive, that you couldn't afford to have sloppy and inefficnat programs. 8mb of memory was standard, you didn't have 512mb to mess with and leak to. Look at your OS even. Windows 95 fit onto 30mb or so. You could sqeeze it even more if you started deleting things that weren't needed (paint, wordpad, etc...) Now, look at your WinME or WinXP install. I just did a clean install of XP Pro, and it's taking up 1,082,413,755 bytes (about a gig). Yea, that's a bit much.
Ok, I will give it to you, WinXP Pro has more features and functionality than 95, however is it 34x the features and functionality? Is my computer 34x better, or have 34x more applications and programs that I use? No!!!
I think that this code has been bloated to hell. At one point running DOS/Win3.1 and even NT 3.51, I knew what 90% of the files on my computer were, when they were put there, and what they were for. Now, who knows what 'adsmw.dll' does? (Ok, I know one of you guys probably know, but...)
Also, they haven't optimzed anything, or made anything faster. Win95 could run on a 486 great. WinXP choaks on a 300PII with 64mb. Again, we have gotten more features, but for a system to run smoothly do we need 10-20 times the processing power to make it run well? I think that's absurd. Again, we have came far, but dont' tell me that it couldn't be faster with current hardware.
Linux isn't free from this either. Again we have more features now, but look at the requirements of Redhat 5.2 to 7.3, they have gone up ALOT. And now its THREE CDS!!! That's even beating MSFT. We have alot of programs on linux, but come on, that's crazy. No you don't need all that stuff, but the size of the "Standard" install has gone up dramatically.
Now on to games. Let's take Ultima Online. I remember in the Alpha test and Beta test, a 486 DX/4 was more that enough. I ran it on a Pentium 90, it worked great. Now the system requirements are what? Pentium 233 with 64mb ram? It doesn't sound like much (the engine is pretty dated.), but they haven't gotten ANY new things in it that would have really increased processor usage. No new graphics in the 2d version, no sounds really, just bad programming.
Has anyone looked into the Demo Scene lately? I want them to program my OS and games for me!! They program stuff on 64k that most games can't do in 64MB!!!
I think that most of the time now, the programmers are seeing these fast 2.4ghz systems and thinking "Who needs to optimze their loops on a system that fast"? And "Let's use Long Doubles for everything, even if it's only a bool, more consistant that way..". I personally hope that they start seeing that they can run faster if they program better...
I wasn't even aware teh Dynamax went under until I saw this post (but then again I haven't really kept up with gaming much over the past few years..)
However, I would like to say, that asides from Bioware/Blizzard, Dynamax made some of the best games ever. The one that most sticks out in my mind was Betrayal at Krondor. This was one of those games that came out right around the migration to CDs for games in general, when you could still get the floppys instead of the CDs. I didn't have a CD drive yet, so I got the floppy version, and it was great.
While most games of the time had bad stories, graphics, and even worse music, Krondor beat everything. It had large duengons, good wordlock puzzels, and a nice storyline. The music was great for the time, and I hear it was even better on the CD. In addition, many of the CD games at the time were pushbutton movies that you choose something every few minutes, and then watched a movie- not Krondor. I still love that game and wish that someone would update it as they have the Ultima series. Anyway, I am sad to see this company gone. Tribes/Tribes 2 was a great game as well, because it broke up the FPS genre a bit, and added some more strategy to it. The only other FPS that I like better are the Rainbow 6/Ghost Recon series.
Isn't this like that they were using in Enemy of The State to try to see what was dropped in Will Smith's bag by that guy that was later killed on the road?
Well, from my experience, you can't get alot of stuff from the standard vendors or Whitebox dealers. Ok, well you can get most stuff, but perhaps not stuff that you want.
What I mean is, that for my computer, I couldn't have gotten what I have now, with spending either a TON from a vendor, or doing it myself. Stuff like dual and quad processor boards, alpha chips, gigabit ethernet, scsi controllers, raid, high quality memory, highest end 3d cards, certain high speed hard drives, a good case, or a large case, or an expandable motherboard are NOT available unless you go the 'server/workstation' route through Dell or something and then you are gonna pay 4x what you should for a hard drive or memory.
I am using a Supermicro P6DGU with dual P3/850s. I can get a Raid controller for my system and I have a HUGE case (Supermicro 760A). I also have a SCSI CDR, etc... Not that vendors won't do this for you, but normally it's cheap mobos, cheap memory, cheap cases, powersupplies, etc...
On top of that, you will have to pay for Windows (version here) even if you plan on trashing it the day you got it. I got my laptop with WinME, but I wanted Win2K on it, still, in some way i had payed for it, without ever using it!
Cheaper for homebrews? Not always. But certainly more flexable. I am thinking of getting a Rack case, but you can't get that (except for servers) from most OEMs..
I am not really trying to Troll here, but I am just thinking of what Microsoft does for me on a day to day basis. Yes, I can see from other posts here, that other OSes would have probably taken the place of Windows if Microsoft had dissapeared in the 90's. I do know that after Win95, alot more people were starting to buy computers, but for some reason the release of OS/2 didn't fly as well, even though it had a few months up on Win95.
What does Windows do for me?
Compatability- let's face it, even all of our beloved OSes like *nix and OS2 dont' support everything that we want. Microsoft is generally up to date a good bit of stuff. If I want a Paralell scanner that I have to work, its easy. Linux, I look online, sorry that's not supported, it needs to be SCSI or USB. OS2, I don't know, but IBM isn't really pushing its updating now are they... Other things also fall into this pit. Alot of hardware is Windows only, while this isn't Microsoft's fault, its certainly nice to have an OS that's 'standard' on most desktops, no it's not the only OS I use, I have 3 linux boxes and 5 windows boxes around the house, all different flavors on all.
Simplcity- While Mac OS offers this as well, which I am grateful for. I know Windows well. I know linux well too. However, there are too few 'standards' around for linux setups and configs. Its hard to troubleshoot. Perhaps thats just me, but it still needs maturing for standard setups, etc...
There are a few other ways that Windows helps me, but I am outta time....
Anyway, sorry if you guys thought I was trolling, but I just didn't see the 'antitrust' suits as being really a big deal, Microsoft didn't ever stop me from using a 3rd party utility or 'confuse' me about their options to install software. I can put Opera, or Mozilla, or Netscape, or AOL, or Realplayer on my system as easy as anything else. It's not stopping me from doing what I need to do. Anyway, there goes my Karma...
Wow, that Priest compairision was really great, I would have modded you up some if I hadn't already started talking on this topic and had a few points.
True, we couldn't just do with it as we please. However, why should we to tell people that they HAVE to give up their rights to something that they put their time and money into? I think that if a person wants to keep their property, than they can, and if they want to share it, then so be it.
I personally don't mind Explorer, Media player, etc... I kinda minded the Microsoft Messanger thing, but that's just because it autolaunched.
Yes in fact, and in addition I think that Apple has done many great things for the industry as well. Although they also have their problems, but they are getting better and so is Microsoft. And truely, is Mac really that great of a Development platform? I like macs mainly for multimedia, not programming OR Networking
Even all that Microsoft has done that is bad, lets think of the good things that they have also done for us. Where would we be without Microsoft's existance? How easy/hard would computers be to use? I don't think that Linux would even be as mature as it is because alot of people started off on Microsoft products, and turned to Linux as an alternative, but found their love of computers using Dos and Win3.1
Just an idea, perhaps they haven't done anything good, but I think that they have done some for us. We should think of this before we totally bash (no pun intended, well just a little) them.
Well, it's a good day to run Lynx, that makes my running Linux, checking my mail with Pine or Elm (which aren't subject to many viruses), and using Lynx, which doesn't have graphics support in it.
I will agree, that on some CS exams, they can get absurd. You can't do this, you can't do that. But at the same time, it works out problem solving, and there IS a way to solve it correctly.
I personally thought that it's always like Music Theory. In a MT exam, you don't really write any real music, you (for Bourque music in theory 1 and 2) can't write Parralell 5ths, octaves, make large skips, use certain inversions, etc. In real life you do all of these. We study Bach in there, but even Bach breaks these rules constantly.
CS exams are the same way, they are an absurdity of real life, but they teach you a set of rules and logic that apply on any langauge (just as MT can apply to any music but Squarepusher... lol).
I personally have always done fine on CS exams, often correcting the teacher, or even proofreading the exams for lower classes. Still, sometimes, they just aren't fair, and I agree that there should be a little more flexabilty. But again, just like MT, I know people who have played instruments for 30 years who can't pass a Theory exam.
The CS exam isn't about programming, it's theory. It doesn't care if you can program much, just as long as you know the theory and some syntax.
I wish there was a Maglev in Boston... grr, the T sucks. It even stops for cars and traffic lights on the green line! Does anyone else know of a subway that ass backwards? Maglev would sure speed up my trip from Allston to Back Bay...
Just the idea of having something available easily, and fully usable- but not able to be copied is somewhat absurd. If something is readable, then it is copyable. I can't see any way to really stop people from copying things.
The most effective copy protections that I have seen, dealt having to be online to use the product effectively (Halflife) and having an individual serial # for it. Of course, it doesn't always work, but it's better than most.
The other good protections that I have seen dealt with having to enter in words from the pages of the instruction manual (which could be defeated by copying the whole manual...) but most people didn't go and copy a 100 page manual.
Overall, i think it's an uphill battle. Any protection will be cracked quickly. Perhaps they should try better (128 bit) encryption instead of weak ones, a la CSS. Who knows... perhaps it should just be open source...
"When you have circles and ellipses, there is no way you'd be able to do this without a calculator,"
You know this reminds me of a math class in high school, that calculators deprived even the teacher of some knowledge in their lazyness. I asked the teacher, well, how do you figure out Sine, Cosine, and Tangent values of angles by hand? The teacher looked at me like I was stupid and responded, "What do you mean? Just hit Sin(x) to get a value on the calculator". The teacher just didn't get it when I said that trig was around before a TI-86, and I wanted to know HOW to figure out those values. I later figured it out with a book, but they should have known.
The same teacher didn't know how to show me how to find the sqrt(x) for a number like x = 2. He just said to punch it in again. Again, I quickly figured it out without too much problem on myself.
As a FINAL stupid thing that a teacher didn't believe, was Euler's Identity (yes this teacher was a retard), because he said that you can't take the Log of a negative number, which you really can't, but I did it anyway on the calculator (or something like this, it's late...), and got -pi*i. Quickly solved it around and god Euler's Identity, which he thought was just a calculator fluke and that the whole equation was bogus, anyway, the school systems in NC are great aren't they...
While I am past summer reading for my classes, some of the most enlighting books that I have read in high school have been:
The Metamorphisis
Siddartha
Candide (Volare is a riot!!!)
Sophie's World (ok, wasn't the best, but entertaining nontheless)
While, not in topic, I have also seen some excelent movies lately:
Muholland Drive
Pi
Memento
The Quills
The Wonder Boys
Y tu Madre Tambien (watched it in spanish, without subtitles, but still a great movie!!)
I don't think that these previous movies I have mentioned got enough box office attention. They were all really good. Some of them (Anything by David Lynch), even makes you think a little more than your standard simple movie plot
Sorry I got offtopic (Watches Karma get shot in the foot)
We have ALL seen how quickly networks that aren't at the top can fall over. The network is only as strong as its customer base.
XM has a strong ad campaign, has been out longer, is cheaper (10 a month vs 12.99? I think..), more people have heard of XM, and if I am going to as a production company go with one of the Satilite Radio networks, I am going to go with XM, because more people are going to use it.
In addition, I believe that XM has deals with some major car companies, to install XM radios on many of their cars, and some are prepaying to subscription fee (which in the scope of a car purchase isn't that much really). XM has better numbers (their stock that is). They only needed 60,000 users to break even i think, but they will have over a half million i think by the end of the year.
I might be wrong on a few of those facts, but I think I am right on most of them. Overall XM seems to be better (and my XM stock has performed alot better, I wouldn't touch Sirus at all, except to short it!)
Overall, check their stock news, etc.... its got some great info. You don't want a receiver that in one a year will be nothing more than a Busted Tech company reminder (think of BS Zelda on Nintendo, 300 dollars, and it didn't last more than 3 weeks...)
Ok, so let me get this straight... the initial program that was put out was Broadcast 2000.
However, the program was capable of doing "Professional" quality and features, but there was the chance that it had a few major bugs.
Soo.... the company pulled the product in case some major company sued them for lost information when the program crashed. This just doesn't seem to make much sense.
Question: Can I sue Abobe/Macromedia/Digidesign/Avid/(Insert company here), when Photoshop/Flash/Protools/etc... crashes and I lose a client's information? Because that's what they seem to be afraid of. Instead, couldn't have they just called it a Beta or put a disclaimer on the page (or in the EULA?...)
Don't tell me that each of you haven't lost information ever (well if you had a Beowulf cluster of redundant machines perhaps you haven't), to a program crash?
Why could people sue about it in the first place? Java even has this little neat disclaimer....
The Software may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as online control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines or weapons systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Which to me, tends to make me think that a simalar software disclaimer could put saying "If you are producing Starwars III on this, it probably won't handle the 1.7TB of information that the movie has..."
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You can get a TI-8x to say that there is a negative Kelvin temperature, by converting a negative Celcius to Kelvin, but according to TI, it's where you put the negative symbol, however, none of the other Temp converters screw up with the negative numbers.
Everyone knows that today you need more Harddrive space than ever. That is a fact.
However, I think that alot of that harddrive space is wasted on sloppy coding. At one point, hard drive space was so expensive, that you couldn't afford to have sloppy and inefficnat programs. 8mb of memory was standard, you didn't have 512mb to mess with and leak to. Look at your OS even. Windows 95 fit onto 30mb or so. You could sqeeze it even more if you started deleting things that weren't needed (paint, wordpad, etc...)
Now, look at your WinME or WinXP install. I just did a clean install of XP Pro, and it's taking up 1,082,413,755 bytes (about a gig). Yea, that's a bit much.
Ok, I will give it to you, WinXP Pro has more features and functionality than 95, however is it 34x the features and functionality? Is my computer 34x better, or have 34x more applications and programs that I use? No!!!
I think that this code has been bloated to hell. At one point running DOS/Win3.1 and even NT 3.51, I knew what 90% of the files on my computer were, when they were put there, and what they were for. Now, who knows what 'adsmw.dll' does? (Ok, I know one of you guys probably know, but...)
Also, they haven't optimzed anything, or made anything faster. Win95 could run on a 486 great. WinXP choaks on a 300PII with 64mb. Again, we have gotten more features, but for a system to run smoothly do we need 10-20 times the processing power to make it run well? I think that's absurd. Again, we have came far, but dont' tell me that it couldn't be faster with current hardware.
Linux isn't free from this either. Again we have more features now, but look at the requirements of Redhat 5.2 to 7.3, they have gone up ALOT. And now its THREE CDS!!! That's even beating MSFT. We have alot of programs on linux, but come on, that's crazy. No you don't need all that stuff, but the size of the "Standard" install has gone up dramatically.
Now on to games. Let's take Ultima Online. I remember in the Alpha test and Beta test, a 486 DX/4 was more that enough. I ran it on a Pentium 90, it worked great. Now the system requirements are what? Pentium 233 with 64mb ram? It doesn't sound like much (the engine is pretty dated.), but they haven't gotten ANY new things in it that would have really increased processor usage. No new graphics in the 2d version, no sounds really, just bad programming.
Has anyone looked into the Demo Scene lately? I want them to program my OS and games for me!! They program stuff on 64k that most games can't do in 64MB!!!
I think that most of the time now, the programmers are seeing these fast 2.4ghz systems and thinking "Who needs to optimze their loops on a system that fast"? And "Let's use Long Doubles for everything, even if it's only a bool, more consistant that way..". I personally hope that they start seeing that they can run faster if they program better...
I wasn't even aware teh Dynamax went under until I saw this post (but then again I haven't really kept up with gaming much over the past few years..)
However, I would like to say, that asides from Bioware/Blizzard, Dynamax made some of the best games ever. The one that most sticks out in my mind was Betrayal at Krondor. This was one of those games that came out right around the migration to CDs for games in general, when you could still get the floppys instead of the CDs. I didn't have a CD drive yet, so I got the floppy version, and it was great.
While most games of the time had bad stories, graphics, and even worse music, Krondor beat everything. It had large duengons, good wordlock puzzels, and a nice storyline. The music was great for the time, and I hear it was even better on the CD. In addition, many of the CD games at the time were pushbutton movies that you choose something every few minutes, and then watched a movie- not Krondor. I still love that game and wish that someone would update it as they have the Ultima series. Anyway, I am sad to see this company gone. Tribes/Tribes 2 was a great game as well, because it broke up the FPS genre a bit, and added some more strategy to it. The only other FPS that I like better are the Rainbow 6/Ghost Recon series.
Isn't this like that they were using in Enemy of The State to try to see what was dropped in Will Smith's bag by that guy that was later killed on the road?
42!!!!
Well, from my experience, you can't get alot of stuff from the standard vendors or Whitebox dealers. Ok, well you can get most stuff, but perhaps not stuff that you want.
What I mean is, that for my computer, I couldn't have gotten what I have now, with spending either a TON from a vendor, or doing it myself. Stuff like dual and quad processor boards, alpha chips, gigabit ethernet, scsi controllers, raid, high quality memory, highest end 3d cards, certain high speed hard drives, a good case, or a large case, or an expandable motherboard are NOT available unless you go the 'server/workstation' route through Dell or something and then you are gonna pay 4x what you should for a hard drive or memory.
I am using a Supermicro P6DGU with dual P3/850s. I can get a Raid controller for my system and I have a HUGE case (Supermicro 760A). I also have a SCSI CDR, etc... Not that vendors won't do this for you, but normally it's cheap mobos, cheap memory, cheap cases, powersupplies, etc...
On top of that, you will have to pay for Windows (version here) even if you plan on trashing it the day you got it. I got my laptop with WinME, but I wanted Win2K on it, still, in some way i had payed for it, without ever using it!
Cheaper for homebrews? Not always. But certainly more flexable. I am thinking of getting a Rack case, but you can't get that (except for servers) from most OEMs..
BTW I used pricewatch for most things
I am not really trying to Troll here, but I am just thinking of what Microsoft does for me on a day to day basis. Yes, I can see from other posts here, that other OSes would have probably taken the place of Windows if Microsoft had dissapeared in the 90's. I do know that after Win95, alot more people were starting to buy computers, but for some reason the release of OS/2 didn't fly as well, even though it had a few months up on Win95.
What does Windows do for me?
Compatability- let's face it, even all of our beloved OSes like *nix and OS2 dont' support everything that we want. Microsoft is generally up to date a good bit of stuff. If I want a Paralell scanner that I have to work, its easy. Linux, I look online, sorry that's not supported, it needs to be SCSI or USB. OS2, I don't know, but IBM isn't really pushing its updating now are they... Other things also fall into this pit. Alot of hardware is Windows only, while this isn't Microsoft's fault, its certainly nice to have an OS that's 'standard' on most desktops, no it's not the only OS I use, I have 3 linux boxes and 5 windows boxes around the house, all different flavors on all.
Simplcity- While Mac OS offers this as well, which I am grateful for. I know Windows well. I know linux well too. However, there are too few 'standards' around for linux setups and configs. Its hard to troubleshoot. Perhaps thats just me, but it still needs maturing for standard setups, etc...
There are a few other ways that Windows helps me, but I am outta time....
Anyway, sorry if you guys thought I was trolling, but I just didn't see the 'antitrust' suits as being really a big deal, Microsoft didn't ever stop me from using a 3rd party utility or 'confuse' me about their options to install software. I can put Opera, or Mozilla, or Netscape, or AOL, or Realplayer on my system as easy as anything else. It's not stopping me from doing what I need to do. Anyway, there goes my Karma...
Wow, that Priest compairision was really great, I would have modded you up some if I hadn't already started talking on this topic and had a few points.
Good points too
True, we couldn't just do with it as we please. However, why should we to tell people that they HAVE to give up their rights to something that they put their time and money into? I think that if a person wants to keep their property, than they can, and if they want to share it, then so be it.
I personally don't mind Explorer, Media player, etc... I kinda minded the Microsoft Messanger thing, but that's just because it autolaunched.
Anyway, just my 2c
Yes in fact, and in addition I think that Apple has done many great things for the industry as well. Although they also have their problems, but they are getting better and so is Microsoft. And truely, is Mac really that great of a Development platform? I like macs mainly for multimedia, not programming OR Networking
Even all that Microsoft has done that is bad, lets think of the good things that they have also done for us. Where would we be without Microsoft's existance? How easy/hard would computers be to use? I don't think that Linux would even be as mature as it is because alot of people started off on Microsoft products, and turned to Linux as an alternative, but found their love of computers using Dos and Win3.1
Just an idea, perhaps they haven't done anything good, but I think that they have done some for us. We should think of this before we totally bash (no pun intended, well just a little) them.
Well, it's a good day to run Lynx, that makes my running Linux, checking my mail with Pine or Elm (which aren't subject to many viruses), and using Lynx, which doesn't have graphics support in it.
I will agree, that on some CS exams, they can get absurd. You can't do this, you can't do that. But at the same time, it works out problem solving, and there IS a way to solve it correctly.
I personally thought that it's always like Music Theory. In a MT exam, you don't really write any real music, you (for Bourque music in theory 1 and 2) can't write Parralell 5ths, octaves, make large skips, use certain inversions, etc. In real life you do all of these. We study Bach in there, but even Bach breaks these rules constantly.
CS exams are the same way, they are an absurdity of real life, but they teach you a set of rules and logic that apply on any langauge (just as MT can apply to any music but Squarepusher... lol).
I personally have always done fine on CS exams, often correcting the teacher, or even proofreading the exams for lower classes. Still, sometimes, they just aren't fair, and I agree that there should be a little more flexabilty. But again, just like MT, I know people who have played instruments for 30 years who can't pass a Theory exam.
The CS exam isn't about programming, it's theory. It doesn't care if you can program much, just as long as you know the theory and some syntax.
Oh, Boston's isn't useless at all, just odd. The T is just about the only way I will be getting around
Good point, I am from DC, and the subways were nothing like the Green line, more like the Red ( I didn't go on the orange except for 1 transfer...
I wish there was a Maglev in Boston... grr, the T sucks. It even stops for cars and traffic lights on the green line! Does anyone else know of a subway that ass backwards? Maglev would sure speed up my trip from Allston to Back Bay...
Oh, wait, he is already free..
Let Kevin Use a Pager... - Damn, doesn't fit on a bumper sticker...
Ok, who needs freed now? Free MP3s!
Already have FTP, damn...
I wonder if we can ./ a public place IRL just as a Geocities site?...
You should see the world of a Novell CNA... :)
Just the idea of having something available easily, and fully usable- but not able to be copied is somewhat absurd. If something is readable, then it is copyable. I can't see any way to really stop people from copying things.
...
The most effective copy protections that I have seen, dealt having to be online to use the product effectively (Halflife) and having an individual serial # for it. Of course, it doesn't always work, but it's better than most.
The other good protections that I have seen dealt with having to enter in words from the pages of the instruction manual (which could be defeated by copying the whole manual...) but most people didn't go and copy a 100 page manual.
Overall, i think it's an uphill battle. Any protection will be cracked quickly. Perhaps they should try better (128 bit) encryption instead of weak ones, a la CSS. Who knows... perhaps it should just be open source
You know this reminds me of a math class in high school, that calculators deprived even the teacher of some knowledge in their lazyness. I asked the teacher, well, how do you figure out Sine, Cosine, and Tangent values of angles by hand? The teacher looked at me like I was stupid and responded, "What do you mean? Just hit Sin(x) to get a value on the calculator". The teacher just didn't get it when I said that trig was around before a TI-86, and I wanted to know HOW to figure out those values. I later figured it out with a book, but they should have known.
The same teacher didn't know how to show me how to find the sqrt(x) for a number like x = 2. He just said to punch it in again. Again, I quickly figured it out without too much problem on myself.
As a FINAL stupid thing that a teacher didn't believe, was Euler's Identity (yes this teacher was a retard), because he said that you can't take the Log of a negative number, which you really can't, but I did it anyway on the calculator (or something like this, it's late...), and got -pi*i. Quickly solved it around and god Euler's Identity, which he thought was just a calculator fluke and that the whole equation was bogus, anyway, the school systems in NC are great aren't they...
While I am past summer reading for my classes, some of the most enlighting books that I have read in high school have been:
The Metamorphisis
Siddartha
Candide (Volare is a riot!!!)
Sophie's World (ok, wasn't the best, but entertaining nontheless)
While, not in topic, I have also seen some excelent movies lately:
Muholland Drive
Pi
Memento
The Quills
The Wonder Boys
Y tu Madre Tambien (watched it in spanish, without subtitles, but still a great movie!!)
I don't think that these previous movies I have mentioned got enough box office attention. They were all really good. Some of them (Anything by David Lynch), even makes you think a little more than your standard simple movie plot
Sorry I got offtopic (Watches Karma get shot in the foot)
Thanks for setting me straight on alot of things everyone. Someone please mod some of these posts up, because they have been very informative :)
To be truthful, I don't have an XM or Sirus system, hell I don't even have a built in CD player, I just have what's stock in an 89 Camry!
Didn't mean to give any wrong numbers or anything, but still networks are only as good as their userbase...
We have ALL seen how quickly networks that aren't at the top can fall over. The network is only as strong as its customer base.
XM has a strong ad campaign, has been out longer, is cheaper (10 a month vs 12.99? I think..), more people have heard of XM, and if I am going to as a production company go with one of the Satilite Radio networks, I am going to go with XM, because more people are going to use it.
In addition, I believe that XM has deals with some major car companies, to install XM radios on many of their cars, and some are prepaying to subscription fee (which in the scope of a car purchase isn't that much really). XM has better numbers (their stock that is). They only needed 60,000 users to break even i think, but they will have over a half million i think by the end of the year.
I might be wrong on a few of those facts, but I think I am right on most of them. Overall XM seems to be better (and my XM stock has performed alot better, I wouldn't touch Sirus at all, except to short it!)
Overall, check their stock news, etc.... its got some great info. You don't want a receiver that in one a year will be nothing more than a Busted Tech company reminder (think of BS Zelda on Nintendo, 300 dollars, and it didn't last more than 3 weeks...)
Ok, so let me get this straight... the initial program that was put out was Broadcast 2000.
However, the program was capable of doing "Professional" quality and features, but there was the chance that it had a few major bugs.
Soo.... the company pulled the product in case some major company sued them for lost information when the program crashed. This just doesn't seem to make much sense.
Question: Can I sue Abobe/Macromedia/Digidesign/Avid/(Insert company here), when Photoshop/Flash/Protools/etc... crashes and I lose a client's information? Because that's what they seem to be afraid of. Instead, couldn't have they just called it a Beta or put a disclaimer on the page (or in the EULA?...)
Don't tell me that each of you haven't lost information ever (well if you had a Beowulf cluster of redundant machines perhaps you haven't), to a program crash?
Why could people sue about it in the first place? Java even has this little neat disclaimer....
The Software may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as online control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines or weapons systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Which to me, tends to make me think that a simalar software disclaimer could put saying "If you are producing Starwars III on this, it probably won't handle the 1.7TB of information that the movie has..."
Thoughts anyone?