Do you realize just how many gigabytes of...
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Rendering Shrek@Home?
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...data, nay terabytes of data, can go into a single frame in a movie? You might be able to farm out stuff like some fragments of procedurally rendered smoke that rely on computing noise functions repeatedly, rather than accessing a scene database, but in general this is completely impractical. If visual effects houses wish to share data the easiest thing to do is FedEx a bunch of hard drives. So unless Shrek@Home includes some kind of hard drive exchange program it ain't gonna work!
We do know why property rights are granted. Because it is in the interest of governments, and the people they represent, to encourage innovations in the creation of music, literature, software and so on. In theory, by restricting the right of people to make copies, we actually make most people better off. (Well, some people think they are absolute God given rights - I have nothing to say to such people.) It seems to me that the implementation of property rights should always be with that end in sight.
What I'd really like to see is some evidence that piracy, by individuals at home sharing music or whatever, is reducing that innovation. And if there is a loss of innovation, we have to decide, as a society, whether or not it is enough to justify some of the draconian measures media companies are being allowed to take.
Joe Self-Righteous who feels that he can make a copy of anything...
Because, as we can all see, the corporations that mass produce the works of Britney Spears and the like are barely managing to stay alive due to the piracy that is going on.
Nice troll, but I hope you don't con too many people into giving you karma.
I'm asking for resources that can help fill in the holes in my knowledge
Every time a hole comes up you can post your question to askslashdot. Hordes of geeks, eager to demonstrate their manhood, will answer your question for you. Best of all: it's free, yet you're the one who gets paid for your job.
I have a Tungsten T|3. I have PalmReader 2.4.3 which is a recent version. It is impossible to do command-slash 'i' on it. The moment I do the downstroke on the 'i' it's interpreted as an 'l' and I'm taken to the repeat find window. Worse, when I do the dot for the 'i' the find window received backspace (which it ignores) followed by 'i' so my 'i' does eventually appear - but in the text field for the repeat find window.
How do you write your 'i'? This problem isn't just something I'm having, it's documented in Palm's own documents.
You can't do Book->Info using keystrokes in Palm's own app, PalmReader, even though Command-Slash 'i' is right there on the menu. I agree with you Graffiti 2 sucks anyway. But it also breaks apps. Any app that accepts keystrokes one by one can be broken by Graffiti 2 as well.
...here is how bad Graffiti 2 is. Why you write 't' the first stroke is an 'i'. When you make the horizontal stroke it sends a 'backspace' followed by a 't' to correct the incorrect 'i'. You can imagine how many applications are messed up by this. But it's worse: 'i' followed by a space (a horizontal stroke) is a 't'. So you have to wait between the 'i' and 'space' to make sure it doesn't come out as 't'. Please, please, pretty please, Palm bring back Graffiti 1. Graffiti 2 is like phoning people by rolling dice and pressing a button every time a digit you want comes up.
So if I have a Linux/BSD guru friend I should see them. But I should only follow your advice if I haven't. So I shouldn't get advice from a friend and instead I should get advice form/. But the advice on/. is that if I have a Linux/BSD guru friend...
So Canadian patents are monopolies but American ones aren't. I think I have to agree with Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (one of the few supreme court justices to sport a working brain) when he says that the law is basically whatever the judge feels like saying it is and any kind of explanation of a legal decision is basically a kind of constrained bullshit that's made up after the fact.
...I was under the impression you had to actually use an invention for what it was invented for to violate a patent. For example if you use a laser pointer to excite your cat then you're violating a patent. But using a laser point for other purposes is fine. But it seems to me that everything I've ever been told by an IP lawyer is bullshit anyway so maybe I shouldn't have believed that.
...and sequence it and do a bit of cladistics to show that we really are seeing DNA from a new family of organisms - then I'll believe it. I don't think that's a lot to ask for either if they're managing to actually see these things reproduce.
Amen to that! It takes idiocy to believe they appeared years ago by random chance. Fortunately few people believe that. I, for one, believe they are there as a result of evolution.
Apple stopped selling the Apple ][ years ago so it's not like there's a current Apple product, in a similar performance bracket, that this thing competes with.
...we can expect to see the ailing European software industry rise from the ashes like a phoenix and produce software that will rival that of the US where software patents have resulted in the best software in the world.
Even if oil starts running out there's no problem. Prices will go up. People will start considering more efficient cars. Prices will keep going up. People will be more willing to invest money in other forms of transport. Vehicle manufacturers will investigate other forms of energy. As the prices go up they'll work harder and harder. Eventually the price of other technologies will match gas. Those technologies will become more popular. The price of those technologies will drop as they are mass produced. Everyone will be happy.
But 1728 pops up in the definition of the modular function j which is the coolest function in the universe, besides being implicated in the properties of my username.
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...data, nay terabytes of data, can go into a single frame in a movie? You might be able to farm out stuff like some fragments of procedurally rendered smoke that rely on computing noise functions repeatedly, rather than accessing a scene database, but in general this is completely impractical. If visual effects houses wish to share data the easiest thing to do is FedEx a bunch of hard drives. So unless Shrek@Home includes some kind of hard drive exchange program it ain't gonna work!
In fact, that's what I originally types and was surprised to find the tags ignored.
You need to do better than just a copy-and-paste from google. By 1023 I presume you mean 10 to the power of 23. Otherwise I'm distinctly unimpressed.
What I'd really like to see is some evidence that piracy, by individuals at home sharing music or whatever, is reducing that innovation. And if there is a loss of innovation, we have to decide, as a society, whether or not it is enough to justify some of the draconian measures media companies are being allowed to take.
Nice troll, but I hope you don't con too many people into giving you karma.
How do you write your 'i'? This problem isn't just something I'm having, it's documented in Palm's own documents.
You can't do Book->Info using keystrokes in Palm's own app, PalmReader, even though Command-Slash 'i' is right there on the menu. I agree with you Graffiti 2 sucks anyway. But it also breaks apps. Any app that accepts keystrokes one by one can be broken by Graffiti 2 as well.
...here is how bad Graffiti 2 is. Why you write 't' the first stroke is an 'i'. When you make the horizontal stroke it sends a 'backspace' followed by a 't' to correct the incorrect 'i'. You can imagine how many applications are messed up by this. But it's worse: 'i' followed by a space (a horizontal stroke) is a 't'. So you have to wait between the 'i' and 'space' to make sure it doesn't come out as 't'. Please, please, pretty please, Palm bring back Graffiti 1. Graffiti 2 is like phoning people by rolling dice and pressing a button every time a digit you want comes up.
But then what would we all talk about?
Ow! My head hurts!
So Canadian patents are monopolies but American ones aren't. I think I have to agree with Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (one of the few supreme court justices to sport a working brain) when he says that the law is basically whatever the judge feels like saying it is and any kind of explanation of a legal decision is basically a kind of constrained bullshit that's made up after the fact.
...I was under the impression you had to actually use an invention for what it was invented for to violate a patent. For example if you use a laser pointer to excite your cat then you're violating a patent. But using a laser point for other purposes is fine. But it seems to me that everything I've ever been told by an IP lawyer is bullshit anyway so maybe I shouldn't have believed that.
Maybe at the weekend he relaxes flipping burgers at McD's for fun.
...and sequence it and do a bit of cladistics to show that we really are seeing DNA from a new family of organisms - then I'll believe it. I don't think that's a lot to ask for either if they're managing to actually see these things reproduce.
I was worried about it falling down.
Amen to that! It takes idiocy to believe they appeared years ago by random chance. Fortunately few people believe that. I, for one, believe they are there as a result of evolution.
Apple stopped selling the Apple ][ years ago so it's not like there's a current Apple product, in a similar performance bracket, that this thing competes with.
But it's not a real computer using the software. I mean, nobody things that my spaceship in defender is a real spaceship do they?
Er...have you tried the keyboard and mouse sections in CompUSA or Fry's?
Er...wait...what am I saying?
Even if oil starts running out there's no problem. Prices will go up. People will start considering more efficient cars. Prices will keep going up. People will be more willing to invest money in other forms of transport. Vehicle manufacturers will investigate other forms of energy. As the prices go up they'll work harder and harder. Eventually the price of other technologies will match gas. Those technologies will become more popular. The price of those technologies will drop as they are mass produced. Everyone will be happy.
But 1728 pops up in the definition of the modular function j which is the coolest function in the universe, besides being implicated in the properties of my username.
Really, that should be a 1728 in your username, not 2718.
You need more digits.