MIT has an entire office full of patent attorneys, called the Technology Licensing Office- where I worked for a bit. They measure revenue in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Every research school has an office like that. I go to UW Madison and we have WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which handles all the patents the school owns. A friend of mine recently got a check from them for her work on something that the university patented.
A lot of research going on is a good thing. It gives grad students something to do other than be TAs, it gives undergrads who want to be involved in some real research that chance, but they do have to seek it out. It also provides an income for the school.
Thermodynamics says you can't get something for nothing. Right now the only thing people have to overcome when using their mouse is friction. If you add a generator into the mix (assuming you can figure out how to generate electricity from random motion) the mouse suddenly requires more strength to push around.
That energy isn't free. It's coming right from you.
That's hilarious, even though I like minimalism. And very little minimalism is actually like that.
I like it because it's so anti-Wagner, anti-Beethoven, anti-Mahler... basically anti-Romantic. I don't think romantic music is bad, but I do find it overplayed and overrated.
The computer doesn't replicate thought processes, it replicates the technical things that the player is doing. It would be impossible to replicate the player's thought processes because no one on the planet could know exactly what was going through someone's head.
By the way - what do I give a shit about "starving artists"? It's hard to make a living as a lot of fun things. You know what? That's the sacrifice you make. If you're so concerned with popularity and money, go get a REAL job like everyone else. You think everyone LOVES their jobs? Hell no. But they make a living - or better - at it. If it was simply to make a good living playing with clay, crayons, pastels, watercolor or writing books, everyone would be doing it.
I sounds like you're jealous of the people who have followed their dreams.
Also, not everyone would go into an artistic field if they could choose anything. A lot of people have a passion for engineering, computer science, contracting, and plenty of other 'real jobs'. To assume everyone wanted to be an artist but fell back on something else is naive at best.
Also, not everyone who makes webcomics is passionate about it. For some it really is just a hobby to take a break from what they are passionate about. It's attitudes like yours that make me glad that I'm going into a field where almost everyone really loves what they're doing.
Why the hell should it have to be removed at all. Any computer worth its cookies should have the kind of security model that doesn't allow websites to install shit.
The biggest trick Microsoft ever pulled was convincing people that having a secure computer was hard, and that the occasional virus was normal. We need to have a culture shift; insecurity and major design flaws shouldn't be tolerated by users. I don't understand why people put up with fighting with their software, working around bugs to do basic tasks.
You all know the specifics, there's no need for me to even go into them.
We've all heard it. What most have failed to consider is the fact that Intel doesn't just make CPUs. They also make NICs, motherboard chip-sets, and many other 'chips'.
I think Apple is talking with Intel to get some NICs or maybe to make their wireless hardware. They're definitely not going over to x86, and if they were, they definitely wouldn't go with Intel. AMD is smashing them so hard it's not even funny.
First of all, the only DRMed AACs are from the iTunes Music Store. The ones you rip yourself are as DRM free as MP3s.
Secondly, Apple wants people to use AACs because they sound better. People are going to rip their music as AACs (the default in iTunes) and it's going to sound better than music from P2P (almost all MP3s) and their non-iTunes-using friends. This is going to make them think "wow, maybe this Apple stuff really is better; I should tell all my friends" even if it's subconsciously, and then Apple wins.
I hate to say this, but maybe it's time to re-encode. Apple's Lossless codec is a good replacement for FLAC and AAC/m4a (dame thing, different extension) I think sounds better than OGG, but that's on my computer using my speakers with my music.
I don't know what to say about your existing collection, other than, since it's in those rather unpopular formats, you are likely to have ripped it yourself, so it can be ripped again.
This would also enable you t put these things on an iPod.
Also, I object to your insinuation that not being able to play OGG/FLAC makes a computer unusable.
But to take advantage of something like that would be dishonest unless Sony wanted to replace everyone's 60min battery.
Has it occurred to you that if people didn't try and exploit loopholes that policy filling them wouldn't exist and therefor wouldn't get in the way of legitimate problems.
This is just ridiculous. Why do they even care who uses the computers at the library. Around here they don't ask you for anything. You just sit down and go.
They do politely ask you to limit yourself to ten minutes if there's a line.
There is absolutely no good reason for this and it's a clear step toward a totalitarian state.
iTunes uses QuickTime to decode the music, so you need to make QuickTime recognize OGG and FLAC. I don't know how to do this on windows, but on a mac all you have to do is drag a decoder into/Library/QuickTime or ~/Library/QuickTime.
So quit yer whinin'.
Also, m4a kicks OGGs ass as far as audio quality goes. Lossless also trumps FLAC.
What Viagra does is thin your blood, just like anti-inflamatories (such as aspirin) and medicines marketed to help the heart. Since your blood is thinner it doesn't clot as easily. This is great if you're in danger of having a heart attack because a clot is what fills in a cholesterol coated artery.
I'm not entirely certain about this; it's all from HS anatomy.
When you jump off the ground you don't start accelerating back toward earth when you stop moving upward. You start accelerating toward earth as soon as you leave it. Your velocity is the thing that changes as you move through time.
For the most part, linux is too bloated for the minimalistic speed required of an MP3 player. A lot of cutting would have to be done, and it's probably easier for people to write from the ground up.
Linux is great in a lot of situations, but not all of them.
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MIT has an entire office full of patent attorneys, called the Technology Licensing Office- where I worked for a bit. They measure revenue in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Every research school has an office like that. I go to UW Madison and we have WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which handles all the patents the school owns. A friend of mine recently got a check from them for her work on something that the university patented.
A lot of research going on is a good thing. It gives grad students something to do other than be TAs, it gives undergrads who want to be involved in some real research that chance, but they do have to seek it out. It also provides an income for the school.
Thermodynamics says you can't get something for nothing. Right now the only thing people have to overcome when using their mouse is friction. If you add a generator into the mix (assuming you can figure out how to generate electricity from random motion) the mouse suddenly requires more strength to push around.
That energy isn't free. It's coming right from you.
Wow, two absolutely hilarious posts on the same thread. Makes sense, we just sent some heating technicians down to hell.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
good one...
I hope at least someone modded you funny.
To those that modded Interesting: you clearly need some sort of sarcasm detector.
The sour grapes phrase comes from the story of the fox who couldn't reach these grapes on a branch, so he says 'those grapes were sour anyway.'
'Sour grapes' is used when someone is convincing themselves that they wouldn't even want something they couldn't have.
I hope that clears things up. Otherwise, you made valid points.
That's hilarious, even though I like minimalism. And very little minimalism is actually like that. I like it because it's so anti-Wagner, anti-Beethoven, anti-Mahler... basically anti-Romantic. I don't think romantic music is bad, but I do find it overplayed and overrated.
The computer doesn't replicate thought processes, it replicates the technical things that the player is doing. It would be impossible to replicate the player's thought processes because no one on the planet could know exactly what was going through someone's head.
By the way - what do I give a shit about "starving artists"? It's hard to make a living as a lot of fun things. You know what? That's the sacrifice you make. If you're so concerned with popularity and money, go get a REAL job like everyone else. You think everyone LOVES their jobs? Hell no. But they make a living - or better - at it. If it was simply to make a good living playing with clay, crayons, pastels, watercolor or writing books, everyone would be doing it.
I sounds like you're jealous of the people who have followed their dreams.
Also, not everyone would go into an artistic field if they could choose anything. A lot of people have a passion for engineering, computer science, contracting, and plenty of other 'real jobs'. To assume everyone wanted to be an artist but fell back on something else is naive at best.
Also, not everyone who makes webcomics is passionate about it. For some it really is just a hobby to take a break from what they are passionate about. It's attitudes like yours that make me glad that I'm going into a field where almost everyone really loves what they're doing.
Whoa there, sport. Flying jumbo jet into a building is the natural evolution of flying a single-man fighter into a battleship.
Tom Clancy (sexist, racist, homophobic pig and mediocre author) had nothing to do with it.
Why the hell should it have to be removed at all. Any computer worth its cookies should have the kind of security model that doesn't allow websites to install shit.
The biggest trick Microsoft ever pulled was convincing people that having a secure computer was hard, and that the occasional virus was normal. We need to have a culture shift; insecurity and major design flaws shouldn't be tolerated by users. I don't understand why people put up with fighting with their software, working around bugs to do basic tasks.
You all know the specifics, there's no need for me to even go into them.
Apple was talking to Intel...
We've all heard it. What most have failed to consider is the fact that Intel doesn't just make CPUs. They also make NICs, motherboard chip-sets, and many other 'chips'.
I think Apple is talking with Intel to get some NICs or maybe to make their wireless hardware. They're definitely not going over to x86, and if they were, they definitely wouldn't go with Intel. AMD is smashing them so hard it's not even funny.
I have no problems with it either, and this is on a 600mhz G3, a wimpy computer by any of today's standards.
I don't know what's up with these guys... maybe they have a million little files on their computer.
First of all, the only DRMed AACs are from the iTunes Music Store. The ones you rip yourself are as DRM free as MP3s.
Secondly, Apple wants people to use AACs because they sound better. People are going to rip their music as AACs (the default in iTunes) and it's going to sound better than music from P2P (almost all MP3s) and their non-iTunes-using friends. This is going to make them think "wow, maybe this Apple stuff really is better; I should tell all my friends" even if it's subconsciously, and then Apple wins.
Finally, what's so great about OGG anyway?
I hate to say this, but maybe it's time to re-encode. Apple's Lossless codec is a good replacement for FLAC and AAC/m4a (dame thing, different extension) I think sounds better than OGG, but that's on my computer using my speakers with my music.
I don't know what to say about your existing collection, other than, since it's in those rather unpopular formats, you are likely to have ripped it yourself, so it can be ripped again.
This would also enable you t put these things on an iPod.
Also, I object to your insinuation that not being able to play OGG/FLAC makes a computer unusable.
I would give most anything for a working media player for OS X that plays oggs, flacs, and maybe shns.
Just install the QuckTime OGG and FLAC components and iTunes will be able to play them fine.
http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/
http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/
Good Luck!
But to take advantage of something like that would be dishonest unless Sony wanted to replace everyone's 60min battery. Has it occurred to you that if people didn't try and exploit loopholes that policy filling them wouldn't exist and therefor wouldn't get in the way of legitimate problems.
This is just ridiculous. Why do they even care who uses the computers at the library. Around here they don't ask you for anything. You just sit down and go.
They do politely ask you to limit yourself to ten minutes if there's a line.
There is absolutely no good reason for this and it's a clear step toward a totalitarian state.
iTunes uses QuickTime to decode the music, so you need to make QuickTime recognize OGG and FLAC. I don't know how to do this on windows, but on a mac all you have to do is drag a decoder into /Library/QuickTime or ~/Library/QuickTime.
So quit yer whinin'.
Also, m4a kicks OGGs ass as far as audio quality goes. Lossless also trumps FLAC.
What Viagra does is thin your blood, just like anti-inflamatories (such as aspirin) and medicines marketed to help the heart. Since your blood is thinner it doesn't clot as easily. This is great if you're in danger of having a heart attack because a clot is what fills in a cholesterol coated artery.
I'm not entirely certain about this; it's all from HS anatomy.
Just to pick a nit,
When you jump off the ground you don't start accelerating back toward earth when you stop moving upward. You start accelerating toward earth as soon as you leave it. Your velocity is the thing that changes as you move through time.
For the most part, linux is too bloated for the minimalistic speed required of an MP3 player. A lot of cutting would have to be done, and it's probably easier for people to write from the ground up. Linux is great in a lot of situations, but not all of them.
That's the point. These photos DON'T include that, for the most part.
It's not about living vicariously, it's about validation.
'These people on this reality show are total incompetent assholes, I guess I'm not such a horrible person after all.'
'This guy eats take-out a lot, I guess it can't be all bad.'
'Look, this person isn't perfect, I guess it's ok not to be.'
The healthiness of these vary.
It's too bad that there isn't some sort of online database of acronyms.
Perhaps we could call it Acronym Search.
Or perhaps some sort of search engine.
What pun? (this means no)