Yes, in fact an ideal "change the world" computer should come with a complete schematics. Local tech industry can then get off the ground by manufacturing clones costing way less than $100 and eventually making more powerful versions for adults and even businesses.
After all, children do not stop needing cool, rugged laptops just because they have clean water and no malaria. Many US families are by no means reach and those pedal/crank/cord charging schemes would come very handy on scout trips. It's a bonus that the laptops will not run most viruses or "mature" 3D games. A modest market at somewhat higher price in US will lower costs through mass production as well as directly subsidize free - not even $100 - laptops for truly poor countries.
The fact that the OLPCs are not offered in US toy stores even before pushing them abroad makes me suspect that they are seriously underpowered machines without much available software and are not as fun and cool as the project leaders would have us think.
Well, what do you propose for photorealistic truecolor icons with proper lighting that combine retouched photos and custom art? I don't need an.ico plugin. png files drag and drop just fine into the Icon Composer.
I don't know how you draw smooth shapes in Elements without the Pen tool. But in any case, it would be fair use to install your licensed copy on all your machines as long as you are only using it on one machine at a time.
1. You create a path, edit it until you are satisfied and then convert it into selection 2. Nice to know, but when you just install the thing, Apple-Z stops working after just several undo steps. They could have easily used an adoptive algorithm that discards old undos when running low on memory or resorts to slower strategy of storing images every N steps and redoing operations in the middle.
In a lot of ways, Gimp is more intuitive than PS
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You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view. For example, there is no separate commands to draw geometric shapes. Instead you define a selection and then stroke or fill it. The upshot is that it's much easier to, for example, draw an intersection of two shapes. Default settings in photoshop also leave much to be desired. For example, only several undo levels are enabled by default. In Gimp you can review a long undo history and snap your project back to any point.
I am sure PS is a great tool for professional artists, but it's horrible for programmers who want to do a little icon drawing. On the other hand, price of Photoshop and lack of Pen tool in Photoshop Elements make it unsuitable for most hobbyists and shareware authors.
The problem would be distinguishing between someone installing a hyper-visor and a user buying a new sound card. The later case potentially has larger effect on timing.
Itanium runs x86 instructions through pure software emulation Transmeta transcodes source instructions into its native code New versions of Intel and AMD processors and motherboards most probably will not have the same instruction timings or emulate undocumented aspects of current hardware and software New hardware-based virtualization techniques may not change CPU performance much and can allow guest OS direct access to selected hardware
The bottom line is that VM detectors can only reliably fingerprint hardware configurations known to the developer. CPUs released a year later or ones released by smaller players like VIA will trigger false alarms and expose users to the VM/virtualization viruses since there is no way to tell the difference between trojaned and non-trojaned systems
Cult of personality is a religion. Millions were exterminated in the name of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Mao Tze-Dong. Native people of Americans were exterminated and subjugated by the cult of Jesus Christ. Tens of millions of Africans are dying of AIDS today because the cult of Roman Pope will not let them wear condoms.
Atheism is also a religion of sorts, since absence of any kind of being more powerful/intelligent then us or yet unknown forces controlling our lives can not be proven by today's science and is probably false on the scale of the whole Universe and in the face of quantum physics. True absense of unproven beliefs would be a form of agnosticism. However I am not aware of any wars raged in the name of atheism.
Since we are not born with flashlights glued to our heads (although in Soviet Russia one can be obtained by getting into a fistfight), we must compensate for the tone of ambient lighting. This correction that we easily do in our heads but must be applied manually on digital cameras in fact allows us to determine true color of the objects more accurately in natural settings. Therefore I wouldn't call this an optical illusion any more than the fact that our eyes become more sensitive at night.
This doesn't appear to be under jurisdiction of FBI. After all, you can not just go to another country and arrest someone without either declaring a war or breaking US and international law. We are perfectly capable of doing the later, but I still don't believe we are so reckless to put nuke controls on Internet. Otherwise, there is no need for other countries to build missile shields. Just DDOS our routers and feel free to strike.
Somewhere off the Internet, real children, women and adults are getting harmed. That should be priority of FBI rather than pictures being circulated online or intellectual (literally imaginary if you think of it) property. When all crimes are committed "online" we can all sigh in relief and confine offenders to Second Life jails.
Not the same thing. Smaller circuits inside more complex processors leak more power through inadequate insulation. Even if schematics of the simpler processor was replicated inside the more complex one, it would draw more power than a dedicated chip.
So are we going to see desktops switching to a slower VIA-type processor and video card when not running CPU/GPU intensive applications? How about monitors switching from backlit to reflective mode when the built-in camera detects abundant light?
I have no idea how they plan to recognize faces and license plate numbers. At this resolution, one person in blue shirt and jeans will look just like the other and so will two cars of the same model and color.
And tell them to block all text message "news clips" and all unsolicited phone calls addressed to me. In fact, if I give someone my number, I probably add theirs to my phone book. I want my phone to automatically drop calls from unregistered numbers. I care about pro-choice issue too much for that, but spam about other political issues and candidates could very well cause me to vote against the sender who clearly lacks moral character.
They better find more effective forms of political speech to get their message out.
Besides, there just haven't been enough communist countries for later ones to learn from negative experience of their predecesors. I hear first slave rebellions did not end well and first capitalist countries inflicted unspeakable human right abuse as well as killing their own economy with overproduction crisis.
The government takes the freedoms of killing, torturing and in general harming people away (the cynical might say to monopolize them for itself, but that's another subject), but few could argue that we are less free because of that.
You better hope they allow fair use as an affirmative defense then, and do not outlaw tools that enable such fair use. Because most probably "the government" will not be there when you get harmed, tortured or killed - they will only investigate after the fact.
In the same way, ignoring the license should be allowed when the copyright owner breaks laws or terms of your contract.
If anyone runs into authorization problems for those songs, especially on the computer where they were originally purchased. "Pay money to buy a song and we may revoke your access at some unspecified, arbitrary short time" is not a valid contract term. Going CD-RW -> MP3 route is not a solution since the company previously claimed that it would be illegal.
See if people will buy an $3 single from UMG when there are $1 singles of similar popularity available from other labels and $5 DRM-free albums available from CD Baby. In fact, let iTunes Suggest feature find similar, cheaper music when the user selects a song. They will be begging for old single price model in no time.
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Yes, in fact an ideal "change the world" computer should come with a complete schematics. Local tech industry can then get off the ground by manufacturing clones costing way less than $100 and eventually making more powerful versions for adults and even businesses.
After all, children do not stop needing cool, rugged laptops just because they have clean water and no malaria. Many US families are by no means reach and those pedal/crank/cord charging schemes would come very handy on scout trips. It's a bonus that the laptops will not run most viruses or "mature" 3D games. A modest market at somewhat higher price in US will lower costs through mass production as well as directly subsidize free - not even $100 - laptops for truly poor countries.
The fact that the OLPCs are not offered in US toy stores even before pushing them abroad makes me suspect that they are seriously underpowered machines without much available software and are not as fun and cool as the project leaders would have us think.
Well, what do you propose for photorealistic truecolor icons with proper lighting that combine retouched photos and custom art? I don't need an .ico plugin. png files drag and drop just fine into the Icon Composer.
I thought you were supposed to put some in space ship and check for a leak if they congregate in one place?
Why would super-expensive software be so dumb that it can not detect that I am editing an 128x128 pixel icon and adjust undo steps automatically?
I don't know how you draw smooth shapes in Elements without the Pen tool. But in any case, it would be fair use to install your licensed copy on all your machines as long as you are only using it on one machine at a time.
1. You create a path, edit it until you are satisfied and then convert it into selection
2. Nice to know, but when you just install the thing, Apple-Z stops working after just several undo steps. They could have easily used an adoptive algorithm that discards old undos when running low on memory or resorts to slower strategy of storing images every N steps and redoing operations in the middle.
You just have to look at it from programmer's point of view. For example, there is no separate commands to draw geometric shapes. Instead you define a selection and then stroke or fill it. The upshot is that it's much easier to, for example, draw an intersection of two shapes. Default settings in photoshop also leave much to be desired. For example, only several undo levels are enabled by default. In Gimp you can review a long undo history and snap your project back to any point.
I am sure PS is a great tool for professional artists, but it's horrible for programmers who want to do a little icon drawing. On the other hand, price of Photoshop and lack of Pen tool in Photoshop Elements make it unsuitable for most hobbyists and shareware authors.
The problem would be distinguishing between someone installing a hyper-visor and a user buying a new sound card. The later case potentially has larger effect on timing.
Itanium runs x86 instructions through pure software emulation
Transmeta transcodes source instructions into its native code
New versions of Intel and AMD processors and motherboards most probably will not have the same instruction timings or emulate undocumented aspects of current hardware and software
New hardware-based virtualization techniques may not change CPU performance much and can allow guest OS direct access to selected hardware
The bottom line is that VM detectors can only reliably fingerprint hardware configurations known to the developer. CPUs released a year later or ones released by smaller players like VIA will trigger false alarms and expose users to the VM/virtualization viruses since there is no way to tell the difference between trojaned and non-trojaned systems
Cult of personality is a religion. Millions were exterminated in the name of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Mao Tze-Dong. Native people of Americans were exterminated and subjugated by the cult of Jesus Christ. Tens of millions of Africans are dying of AIDS today because the cult of Roman Pope will not let them wear condoms.
Atheism is also a religion of sorts, since absence of any kind of being more powerful/intelligent then us or yet unknown forces controlling our lives can not be proven by today's science and is probably false on the scale of the whole Universe and in the face of quantum physics. True absense of unproven beliefs would be a form of agnosticism. However I am not aware of any wars raged in the name of atheism.
The languages would mutate a lot on individual star systems while dictionary updates travel for thousands of light years though, don't you think?
I am more worried about that bin getting pregnant.
Since we are not born with flashlights glued to our heads (although in Soviet Russia one can be obtained by getting into a fistfight), we must compensate for the tone of ambient lighting. This correction that we easily do in our heads but must be applied manually on digital cameras in fact allows us to determine true color of the objects more accurately in natural settings. Therefore I wouldn't call this an optical illusion any more than the fact that our eyes become more sensitive at night.
This doesn't appear to be under jurisdiction of FBI. After all, you can not just go to another country and arrest someone without either declaring a war or breaking US and international law. We are perfectly capable of doing the later, but I still don't believe we are so reckless to put nuke controls on Internet. Otherwise, there is no need for other countries to build missile shields. Just DDOS our routers and feel free to strike.
Care to explain ever more powerful power supplies in PC cases and the very conclusions of TFA?
Somewhere off the Internet, real children, women and adults are getting harmed. That should be priority of FBI rather than pictures being circulated online or intellectual (literally imaginary if you think of it) property. When all crimes are committed "online" we can all sigh in relief and confine offenders to Second Life jails.
Not the same thing. Smaller circuits inside more complex processors leak more power through inadequate insulation. Even if schematics of the simpler processor was replicated inside the more complex one, it would draw more power than a dedicated chip.
So are we going to see desktops switching to a slower VIA-type processor and video card when not running CPU/GPU intensive applications? How about monitors switching from backlit to reflective mode when the built-in camera detects abundant light?
I have no idea how they plan to recognize faces and license plate numbers. At this resolution, one person in blue shirt and jeans will look just like the other and so will two cars of the same model and color.
And tell them to block all text message "news clips" and all unsolicited phone calls addressed to me. In fact, if I give someone my number, I probably add theirs to my phone book. I want my phone to automatically drop calls from unregistered numbers. I care about pro-choice issue too much for that, but spam about other political issues and candidates could very well cause me to vote against the sender who clearly lacks moral character.
They better find more effective forms of political speech to get their message out.
Besides, there just haven't been enough communist countries for later ones to learn from negative experience of their predecesors. I hear first slave rebellions did not end well and first capitalist countries inflicted unspeakable human right abuse as well as killing their own economy with overproduction crisis.
The government takes the freedoms of killing, torturing and in general harming people away (the cynical might say to monopolize them for itself, but that's another subject), but few could argue that we are less free because of that.
You better hope they allow fair use as an affirmative defense then, and do not outlaw tools that enable such fair use. Because most probably "the government" will not be there when you get harmed, tortured or killed - they will only investigate after the fact.
In the same way, ignoring the license should be allowed when the copyright owner breaks laws or terms of your contract.
If anyone runs into authorization problems for those songs, especially on the computer where they were originally purchased. "Pay money to buy a song and we may revoke your access at some unspecified, arbitrary short time" is not a valid contract term. Going CD-RW -> MP3 route is not a solution since the company previously claimed that it would be illegal.
See if people will buy an $3 single from UMG when there are $1 singles of similar popularity available from other labels and $5 DRM-free albums available from CD Baby. In fact, let iTunes Suggest feature find similar, cheaper music when the user selects a song. They will be begging for old single price model in no time.