I guess the quality problems come from the analog part of the graphics hardware. I think the processor-integrated graphics would only cover the digital parts (i.e. doing 3D calculations etc.) while the analog parts (creating the actual VGA or TV signals) would still be handled by separate hardware.
This "analog problem hypothesis" should be quite simple to test: Does onboard graphics image quality also suck when using a digital connector (e.g. DVI-D)? If I'm right, then it shouldn't, because in this case all the analog hardware is in the screen, not on the mainboard.
If you do the same thing as everyone else but do it better, you don't have to come up with anything new. What new things do you really want in a CPU? The dwim instruction.
Or breathing, ehm, I mean: a method to increase the oxygen level of blood while reducing its carbon dioxide level by periodically sucking air into the lungs and then blowing it out again.
Ok, maybe I should make it more general:
Claims:
1. A method of exchange of gases between a gas mixture containing such gases and a liquid transporting those gases, by having a resizeable gas volume, which is periodically expanding and shrinking in order to suck in and blow out the gas mixture, and having the liquid flow along membranes to that gas volume, where the membrane allwos diffusion of those gases into or out of the liquid.
2. Claim 1, where the gas mixture is air.
3. Claim 1, where the exchanged gases are oxygen and carbon dioxide.
4. Claim 1, where the liquid is blood.
5. Claim 1, where the resizeable gas volume is the human lung.
And now imagine a higher power which could simply destroy all the weapons (both yours and those of all other countries) and make it impossible to build new ones. Wouldn't the world be a better place if it did? Now, in the case of patents, there's indeed such a higher power: The government. If the government one day declared that no patents are allowed, patents would simply stop to exist.
Since it's smaller than their error margin, not claiming it to be a tiny amount would mean to admit that there were large measurement errors. But in any case, being smaller than the error margin means that comparing the numbers is completely meaningless; in reality it might not have had any effect, or it might even have been a loss instead of a gain.
How do you value damages on something you give away for free ?
It is only given away for free under the conditions of the GPL. The copyright owner might have been willing to give a non-GPL license in return of some money, thus usage of the code in violation of the GPL may have given the author as much damage as the developer would have charged for a commercial license.
But even if the copyright owner would not have been willing (or able, if he used third-party GPL code himself) to do that, it doesn't mean the author doesn't have monetary damage. You don't distribute modified GPLed code for free: You have to pay for the distribution rights in the form of source code of your modifications. Therefore IMHO the monetary damage is in the value of the source code you did not get, but would have gotten if the distributor had complied with the license.
It would be hard with a speaker, but a gram or so of gunpowder will do the trick. Mix it with bits of flint or sand, wrap it in a tissue, and throw. It won't do any damage other than a small burn mark where you hit, but it will make a big bang.
I didn't know that it is so easy to create a new universe...
I don't think those people who might buy that would have payed the money to the OLPC project otherwise. Instead they probably would have spent it e.g. to grow their Rolls Royce car park or something like that.
But if you have physical access to the keyboard, you could in principle make it send something different from Ctrl-Alt-Delete when you press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and then your fake login program can interpret that different sequence to look like what Windows would show if it had received the Ctrl-Alt-Delete you pressed.
Simple: Step 1: Add commands creating those files at the beginning of the boot sequence (directly after mounting the file systems, before starting anything else). Step 2: Reboot. Step 3: Remove the commands from the boot sequence. SCNR:-)
How does the creature multiply ?:) Maybe it uses a pocket calculator. But probably it just does the multiplication in its head. BTW, it's hard to do any calculation while having sex, so I guess having no sex helps it to multiply.
(Note to moderators: Yes, I know about that other meaning of "multiply"...)
Moreover, when Microsoft sold Xenix to the original SCO, it entered into a business arrangement never to enter the UNIX market again. Once SCO is out of the way...
But doesn't Microsoft do just that with the MS/Novell deal? Given that SCO still exists, I guess it would have a real case here.
Wine/cedega/crossover are application-level implementations. They allow you to run Windows applications. Reactos actually uses Wine code as well for this. Reactos however aims not only for app compatibility, but also for driver compatibility. That is, you can use the Windows drivers your hardware supplier gives you. In other words, if they achieve their goal, any hardware supported under Windows will automatically also be supported under Reactos, through the vendor-provided drivers. That's something you currently simply don't get with Linux.
VMWare is a virtual machine. It's completely useless without an operating system to run on. That is, if you want to run Windows programs with VMWare, you need some OS to run Windows prorams on. That is, VMWare doesn't help you with this problem at all (nor does Xen, QEMU, Bochs, VirtualBox,...).
And 2007 of course doesn't help you even the least in running Windows programs without using Windows.:-)
That *is* the thing you pay for when you get a piece of software on a CD with a license key. The fact that Adobe gives you that license for no money doesn't mean it's somehow a different beast than those licenses you pay money for.
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Well, I'm much more modest than you:
Ram : infinite
I'll be satisfied with more RAM than I'll ever need. Which may be large, but still infinitely smaller than infinite.
Speed : infinite
I'd be completely satisfied if it solved any problem I give to it in a time too short to notice.
Bus speed : infinite
Same as above.
Power source : infinite
Since my dream computer would not need any power, it also wouldn't need any power source. Indeed, I'd hate to think about my power bill, if the computer drawed infinite power:-)
Video power : infinite
Well, for me it would be completely satisfying if the video power matched the video power of my eyes. Indeed, ideally it would send the high-def image directly into my eyes, so I don't need to use a big screen taking away space.
and oh yes....back up systems infinite.
My dream computer would be 100% reliable with an infinite lifetime, therefore I'd not need the slightest backup.
Now..into more specifics.
Quantum processors, Tachyon bus units, black hole power systems, white hole transmitters, biotech backup systems.
Huh, with infinite memory and infinite speed, what do you need quantum processors? You can emulate quantum computers with classical ones; it just takes exponential memory and time. With infinite memory and speed, both are not a problem.
Indeed, even with my infinitely lower system requirements, a classical CPU would be more than sufficient. I'd however want it to have quantum communication ports for secure communication.
Dna storage/retrievel, scanner using quantum rays, printer using dark matter. Optics is too slow.
I don't knowe what you need that DMA storage retrieval for (do you want to do bio-hacking?), but scanners using quantum rays should not be a problem: Laser scanners already exist, and what is a Laser if not a quantum ray?
I'd not like my printer to use dark matter. I prefer if I can see the printout.
Lets use 300 x light speed subroutines.
Huh? What are "300x Light speed subroutines?" Light speed is measured in meters per second, while subroutine speed is measured in operations per second. They are completely different things.
To protect the system, a multi-dimensional shielding system with complete time
stop fields in place, as well as extreme time dilation fields to destroy the ones that get caught in them.
Of course that complete time stop field means that you also won't get the results out (or even your programs in). In other words, your supercomputer would be as useful as a rock.
My dream computer would simply be immune against any physical damage and would have AI routines which could reliably filter out any malicious data.
Video can be xd [ x is 0 to infinity ] , so 3d , 4d, 5d, etc....not a problem.
Well, since my brain cannot handle anything above 3D, I don't see any advantage to anything higher.
Multi-system backup, no waiting times. Self-repair diagnostics, average IQ of each quauntum processor equal to an iq of
1 billion.
As I said, I'd prefer a 100% reliable computer which doesn't need backup. OTOH, why are you suddenly so modest w
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I guess the quality problems come from the analog part of the graphics hardware. I think the processor-integrated graphics would only cover the digital parts (i.e. doing 3D calculations etc.) while the analog parts (creating the actual VGA or TV signals) would still be handled by separate hardware.
This "analog problem hypothesis" should be quite simple to test: Does onboard graphics image quality also suck when using a digital connector (e.g. DVI-D)? If I'm right, then it shouldn't, because in this case all the analog hardware is in the screen, not on the mainboard.
Or breathing, ehm, I mean: a method to increase the oxygen level of blood while reducing its carbon dioxide level by periodically sucking air into the lungs and then blowing it out again.
Ok, maybe I should make it more general:
Claims:
1. A method of exchange of gases between a gas mixture containing such gases and a liquid transporting those gases, by having a resizeable gas volume, which is periodically expanding and shrinking in order to suck in and blow out the gas mixture, and having the liquid flow along membranes to that gas volume, where the membrane allwos diffusion of those gases into or out of the liquid.
2. Claim 1, where the gas mixture is air.
3. Claim 1, where the exchanged gases are oxygen and carbon dioxide.
4. Claim 1, where the liquid is blood.
5. Claim 1, where the resizeable gas volume is the human lung.
And now imagine a higher power which could simply destroy all the weapons (both yours and those of all other countries) and make it impossible to build new ones. Wouldn't the world be a better place if it did? Now, in the case of patents, there's indeed such a higher power: The government. If the government one day declared that no patents are allowed, patents would simply stop to exist.
Since it's smaller than their error margin, not claiming it to be a tiny amount would mean to admit that there were large measurement errors. But in any case, being smaller than the error margin means that comparing the numbers is completely meaningless; in reality it might not have had any effect, or it might even have been a loss instead of a gain.
It is only given away for free under the conditions of the GPL. The copyright owner might have been willing to give a non-GPL license in return of some money, thus usage of the code in violation of the GPL may have given the author as much damage as the developer would have charged for a commercial license.
But even if the copyright owner would not have been willing (or able, if he used third-party GPL code himself) to do that, it doesn't mean the author doesn't have monetary damage. You don't distribute modified GPLed code for free: You have to pay for the distribution rights in the form of source code of your modifications. Therefore IMHO the monetary damage is in the value of the source code you did not get, but would have gotten if the distributor had complied with the license.
However IANAL, nor do I play one on TV.
I didn't know that it is so easy to create a new universe
I don't think those people who might buy that would have payed the money to the OLPC project otherwise. Instead they probably would have spent it e.g. to grow their Rolls Royce car park or something like that.
Maybe he's an astrophysicist. Astrophysicists often refer to all elements except hydrogen and helium as metals.
And when your battery fails, all your data goes away at once. And not even an expensive data recovery service can help you.
...
But what about FRAM? I guess the price shouldn't be a problem in this case
That should be: 640 carat ought to be enough for anybody.
But then, I think there is a world market of maybe five million-dollar laptops.
But if you have physical access to the keyboard, you could in principle make it send something different from Ctrl-Alt-Delete when you press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and then your fake login program can interpret that different sequence to look like what Windows would show if it had received the Ctrl-Alt-Delete you pressed.
Well, a supernova does not explode. The supernova is the explosion.
What the scientists did was to explode a virtual white dwarf.
I think you don't have to be a developer to safely say that
Simple: :-)
Step 1: Add commands creating those files at the beginning of the boot sequence (directly after mounting the file systems, before starting anything else).
Step 2: Reboot.
Step 3: Remove the commands from the boot sequence.
SCNR
Well, I'd expect the kernel's read system call to read files, and the kernel's write system call to write them.
BTW, it's hard to do any calculation while having sex, so I guess having no sex helps it to multiply.
(Note to moderators: Yes, I know about that other meaning of "multiply"
Well, since a virus reproduces by inserting its genetic material into a cell, one could say a virus reproduces through sex with a different species.
But doesn't Microsoft do just that with the MS/Novell deal? Given that SCO still exists, I guess it would have a real case here.
Wine/cedega/crossover are application-level implementations. They allow you to run Windows applications. Reactos actually uses Wine code as well for this. Reactos however aims not only for app compatibility, but also for driver compatibility. That is, you can use the Windows drivers your hardware supplier gives you. In other words, if they achieve their goal, any hardware supported under Windows will automatically also be supported under Reactos, through the vendor-provided drivers. That's something you currently simply don't get with Linux.
...).
:-)
VMWare is a virtual machine. It's completely useless without an operating system to run on. That is, if you want to run Windows programs with VMWare, you need some OS to run Windows prorams on. That is, VMWare doesn't help you with this problem at all (nor does Xen, QEMU, Bochs, VirtualBox,
And 2007 of course doesn't help you even the least in running Windows programs without using Windows.
You could buy the rocks? In my days, we had to make our rocks ourselfs!
That *is* the thing you pay for when you get a piece of software on a CD with a license key. The fact that Adobe gives you that license for no money doesn't mean it's somehow a different beast than those licenses you pay money for.
Decode the structure of E8?
Well, I'm much more modest than you:
I'll be satisfied with more RAM than I'll ever need. Which may be large, but still infinitely smaller than infinite.
I'd be completely satisfied if it solved any problem I give to it in a time too short to notice.
Same as above.
Since my dream computer would not need any power, it also wouldn't need any power source. Indeed, I'd hate to think about my power bill, if the computer drawed infinite power :-)
Well, for me it would be completely satisfying if the video power matched the video power of my eyes. Indeed, ideally it would send the high-def image directly into my eyes, so I don't need to use a big screen taking away space.
My dream computer would be 100% reliable with an infinite lifetime, therefore I'd not need the slightest backup.
Huh, with infinite memory and infinite speed, what do you need quantum processors? You can emulate quantum computers with classical ones; it just takes exponential memory and time. With infinite memory and speed, both are not a problem.
Indeed, even with my infinitely lower system requirements, a classical CPU would be more than sufficient. I'd however want it to have quantum communication ports for secure communication.
I don't knowe what you need that DMA storage retrieval for (do you want to do bio-hacking?), but scanners using quantum rays should not be a problem: Laser scanners already exist, and what is a Laser if not a quantum ray?
I'd not like my printer to use dark matter. I prefer if I can see the printout.
Huh? What are "300x Light speed subroutines?" Light speed is measured in meters per second, while subroutine speed is measured in operations per second. They are completely different things.
Of course that complete time stop field means that you also won't get the results out (or even your programs in). In other words, your supercomputer would be as useful as a rock.
My dream computer would simply be immune against any physical damage and would have AI routines which could reliably filter out any malicious data.
Well, since my brain cannot handle anything above 3D, I don't see any advantage to anything higher.
As I said, I'd prefer a 100% reliable computer which doesn't need backup. OTOH, why are you suddenly so modest w