Well, extra hard drive space would be fine since it wouldn't really affect performance. I remember the N64 had a 4meg expansion pack that would give nicer textures in some games. If I recall correctly it didn't do well. Maybe they would have the games choose its own display setting based on amount of ram installed. Seems a bit silly.
It has some material that is theoretically useful for fusion. I think it was an isotope of hydrogen, but I can't remember exactly. It is on the moon, but not on earth.
A hundred years ago was roughly the end of the Victorian era, so yes they would think it was lightning fast, but that is only because Victorian novels were the slowest novels ever written, and will probably hold that honor for some time to come.
Yes, I realize that many great composers and artists existed before copyrights. Find their graves. You probably can't find most of their graves because most of the greats died poor and were buried in paupers graves. Some of them were basically slaves for their patrons.
profsesors in said creative writing classes who put out novels they know will never sell an appreciable amount...talented people will in fact write because they enjoy it
Doesn't sound to talented to me. "Those who can do. Those who can't teach." By the way, Creative writing is what people take when they need to fill three credit-hours.
They create quality work in their spare time with the expectation that there will be a payoff. Yeah, someone can suffer for a year, and create a novel in their spare time, forsaking all else, but how often will they do that without a payoff or an expectation of one?
I look at the number of people who write stories in their spare time
Have you read the stuff amateur writers put out? 99.99% of it isn't worth the time it takes to read it, and probably of the stuff worth reading most wouldn't be worth paying for. There are professionals because to do something well you have to dedicate more time than a few hours on the weekend to it, and people have to eat.
It would also be the end of professional artists, writers and musicians. Don't give me the whole "it works for software" line because first of all it only works for software popular enough to have strong open source support, and secondly software is typically a means to an end, while art, writing and music is typically an end in itself.
Shouldn't PR campaigns and efforts typically make your RELATIONSHIP with the PUBLIC better?
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...there's always a vague feeling of creepiness from the fact that every post that isn't from a European is from some nerd sitting in his underwear.
European nerds don't even wear underwear? Ewww....
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"How many people keep their computer on 24 hours a day simply because they can't stand to sit around for four or five minutes waiting for it to boot up?" he asked. "I don't think anyone has researched that particular issue, but I'll bet there are a lot of them.
Most people will just grab a beverage or something during the minute (or less) it takes most PCs to startup. I would think most of the people who keep their PCs on 24/7 do it for P2P or [Seti|Folding]@home or possibly to prevent wear and tear on the hard drive (spinning up the hard drive wears it down faster than anything).
On a project the size of the space shuttle thousands of safety concerns will be brought up. Not everyone of them can be fully investigated. They have to pick and choose based on what is most urgent. Yes, there will be accidents, but otherwise the shuttle would never get off the ground. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, and you can say they should have investigated further all you want, but the fact is that there were many other concerns that seemed just as urgent, and some that seemed even moreso.
He got off easy. The maximum allowable sentence for admiring microsoft is being made to run Windows ME on an Intel 486 with 8 megs of ram and a 2 gig hard drive (going to need that swap space).
We had a small earthquake a while ago, and about a minute before it happened my miniature pinscher jumped on my back and woke me up. If a single minpin can predict an earthquake a minute before it happens then a beowulf cluster of 1024 minpins could give people several hours notice.
Woops... Will ya lookit that! I guess you are right. I don't have to worry about being sued for libel anymore! I can publish anything about anyone regardless of its truth! You, sir, have opened my eyes.
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Oh no, we need to get these violent people off the streets before they e-mail again!
For all those 1337 RPG fans who like to play dress up!
Well, extra hard drive space would be fine since it wouldn't really affect performance. I remember the N64 had a 4meg expansion pack that would give nicer textures in some games. If I recall correctly it didn't do well. Maybe they would have the games choose its own display setting based on amount of ram installed. Seems a bit silly.
It has some material that is theoretically useful for fusion. I think it was an isotope of hydrogen, but I can't remember exactly. It is on the moon, but not on earth.
Is rhetoric easier than actually thinking, or is it just more fun?
A hundred years ago was roughly the end of the Victorian era, so yes they would think it was lightning fast, but that is only because Victorian novels were the slowest novels ever written, and will probably hold that honor for some time to come.
Yes, I realize that many great composers and artists existed before copyrights. Find their graves. You probably can't find most of their graves because most of the greats died poor and were buried in paupers graves. Some of them were basically slaves for their patrons.
Doesn't sound to talented to me. "Those who can do. Those who can't teach." By the way, Creative writing is what people take when they need to fill three credit-hours.
They create quality work in their spare time with the expectation that there will be a payoff. Yeah, someone can suffer for a year, and create a novel in their spare time, forsaking all else, but how often will they do that without a payoff or an expectation of one?
Maybe you should stop beating up the ever-present "All professional music is Britney Spears/Backstreet Boys" strawman.
Have you read the stuff amateur writers put out? 99.99% of it isn't worth the time it takes to read it, and probably of the stuff worth reading most wouldn't be worth paying for. There are professionals because to do something well you have to dedicate more time than a few hours on the weekend to it, and people have to eat.
It would also be the end of professional artists, writers and musicians. Don't give me the whole "it works for software" line because first of all it only works for software popular enough to have strong open source support, and secondly software is typically a means to an end, while art, writing and music is typically an end in itself.
Shouldn't PR campaigns and efforts typically make your RELATIONSHIP with the PUBLIC better?
European nerds don't even wear underwear? Ewww....
Most people will just grab a beverage or something during the minute (or less) it takes most PCs to startup. I would think most of the people who keep their PCs on 24/7 do it for P2P or [Seti|Folding]@home or possibly to prevent wear and tear on the hard drive (spinning up the hard drive wears it down faster than anything).
Finally an intelligent wireless access point that can move itself around the house!
It has 39% false negatives, not false positives!
On a project the size of the space shuttle thousands of safety concerns will be brought up. Not everyone of them can be fully investigated. They have to pick and choose based on what is most urgent. Yes, there will be accidents, but otherwise the shuttle would never get off the ground. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, and you can say they should have investigated further all you want, but the fact is that there were many other concerns that seemed just as urgent, and some that seemed even moreso.
So will this new compiler speed up the process of porting Duke Nukem Forever to the Mac?
He got off easy. The maximum allowable sentence for admiring microsoft is being made to run Windows ME on an Intel 486 with 8 megs of ram and a 2 gig hard drive (going to need that swap space).
Don't be upset that slashdotters may have taken your article out of context. That is just what we do.
We had a small earthquake a while ago, and about a minute before it happened my miniature pinscher jumped on my back and woke me up. If a single minpin can predict an earthquake a minute before it happens then a beowulf cluster of 1024 minpins could give people several hours notice.
He was able to defend a patent for how a normal sale works. I guess in the context of an auction it could be novel, but it still seems odd.
Woops... Will ya lookit that! I guess you are right. I don't have to worry about being sued for libel anymore! I can publish anything about anyone regardless of its truth! You, sir, have opened my eyes.
That's funny. Slander, libel and several other things including obscenity are not protected.