You're right, I wouldn't, because I would have realized that a protocol and the data it carries are separate and interchangeable, and making a new combination from an element of each category is not innovation. And I doubt I would have come up with this idea in the first place, because there are already far better platforms for data requiring large amounts of storage or real-time delivery.
DNS is just a pervasive and well-organized caching broadcast protocol, isn't it? Right now, all it's been used to transmit is mappings of ASCII strings to IP addresses, and ancillary data related to that. Why is using it to transmit anything else particularly innovative? We didn't see this much enthusiasm when someone figured out how to send Knoppix over HTTP or Usenet.
The great thing about the Daily Show is that it's an actual news show: They cover real-world events, they report the actual facts, and only then do they start joking around. At least, they are no more or less accurate than any other TV news program. And since it's a comedy, and on cable, they can get away with more BS-calling and inconsistency-lampooning than most, and that's why it's so attractive to the younger generation.
If your iBook is not actually experiencing any problems, what's there to be sad about? Since the entire line is several months old now, you should be well into the safe area of the bathtub curve.
For the final attempt, the craft must carry enough ballast and extra life support equipment to simulate the presence of 3 people (so that 3 lives aren't risked). Also, this is still a test flight- an X-Prize winner must be shown to be reliable and reusable as well as simply reaching the target altitude. And I expect the X-prize board would want to supervise the official attempt directly.
What you're ignoring is that a) Microsoft can afford to keep this up pretty much indefinitely unless there's a major change in the computer world and b) Microsoft knew this would happen from the start and planned around it. Whatever else you can accuse MS of, they aren't morons.
That specific problem is solvable, though- there are tons of console games with huge levels. Also, a trick which is common on the console but rare on the PC is to stream content off disk in the background (and this can be done because the characteristics of the RAM and DVD drive are identical on all consoles). Prince of Persia had maybe 3 load points throughout the entire 12-hour game.
Don't forget a more relevant but opposite example: The Playstation 1 beat the Nintendo 64 to release, and Sony ended up stealing Nintendo's lion's share of the market. This is probably what the Xbox execs have in mind.
So, what do you want them to do (aside from not using copy protection, obviously)? Include a multi-page pamphlet explaining all the reasons not to buy the CD? Have the salesman deliver a lecture with Q&A session on the exact implications of the sticker to every customer who picks it up? Give them a written exam to make sure they know how the Redbook spec and fair use laws work so they can be given permission to buy it? At some point the customer has to make decision to buy the CD or not of his own free will, and slashbots attempting to dissuade him from doing so by any means necessary or declaring unilaterally that no one in their right mind would buy the CD is no more correct or helpful than the RIAA hoping he doesn't notice the sticker.
You'd think he'd notice that the natural, nonhierarchical primitive evolved naturally towards the top-down system of society in the end. It's also worth noting that Bittorrent, the program most commonly cited as the best P2P design out there, requires a central server to operate, while something like Freenet, which is truly decentralized, is a bear to use and has significantly disdvantages such as being unsearchable.
It's all troop management and zero resource gathering. It's fairly old by now, but there are third party patches available to make it compatible with OS X or Windows XP.
Don't forget the point someone has to bring up in every single ITMS story so far: Apple's primary source of income is not selling music, it's selling hardware and it's doing pretty well at it [sarcastic "beleagured" jokes go here]. The other stores seem to be barely profitable, if at all. If some global trend causes a slight downturn in the online music market, Apple (and Sony) will be able to keep going indefinitely thanks to their hardware business, and all the others will die off.
The vast majority of the audience seems to be quite willing to have commercial schlock crammed down its throats, so that's a good business plan. Remember that Apple is trying to make money here, not join the Slashdot anti-RIAA crusade. Maybe as the store grows ever more popular, whatever reason the independents have for not signing up will be worked around.
So, if you take those 10,000 blogs and start looking around, you have a 0.4% chance of finding something good? Somehow it still doesn't seem worth the effort.
I don't think it's that simple- there are RTS games coming out that will have thousands of 3D animating figures on the field at a time. Rendering buildings can't be far behind.
A guy brings his dog into a bar and claims that it can talk. The bartender orders him to prove it. The guy asks the dog, "What do you call the top of a house?" and the dog says "Woof!" The guy asks the dog, "What does sandpaper feel like?" and the dog says "Ruff!" The guy asks the dog "Who was the greatest baseball player in history?" and the dog says "Woof!" The bartender has had enough at this point and has the guy and the dog thrown out. Then the dog turns to the guy and says "How was I supposed to know he liked DiMaggio"?
Anyway, nobody ever promised this would make tanks absolutely invulnerable to RPGs. If it significantly reduces damage (and casualties) and gives the tank a better chance to return fire, it's a success.
Not exactly the same thing. What the parent suggested was writing a program in C that precisely duplicates the operations of the Perl interpreter processing a particular program, which should perform identically to the real Perl interpreter loading the program, parsing it, and then interpreting it. The BASIC assembler would produce identical output to the C assembler, which would execute by itself at the same speed, but that wouldn't prove anything as there would be no BASIC code involved when you executed the generated binary.
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You're right, I wouldn't, because I would have realized that a protocol and the data it carries are separate and interchangeable, and making a new combination from an element of each category is not innovation. And I doubt I would have come up with this idea in the first place, because there are already far better platforms for data requiring large amounts of storage or real-time delivery.
DNS is just a pervasive and well-organized caching broadcast protocol, isn't it? Right now, all it's been used to transmit is mappings of ASCII strings to IP addresses, and ancillary data related to that. Why is using it to transmit anything else particularly innovative? We didn't see this much enthusiasm when someone figured out how to send Knoppix over HTTP or Usenet.
We ARE getting Farscape back.
Possibly because the intellectuals come up with terms like "Joe Sixpack/Beergut" for everyone else?
The great thing about the Daily Show is that it's an actual news show: They cover real-world events, they report the actual facts, and only then do they start joking around. At least, they are no more or less accurate than any other TV news program. And since it's a comedy, and on cable, they can get away with more BS-calling and inconsistency-lampooning than most, and that's why it's so attractive to the younger generation.
If your iBook is not actually experiencing any problems, what's there to be sad about? Since the entire line is several months old now, you should be well into the safe area of the bathtub curve.
No, he's the inventor/discoverer of the geosynchronous orbit.
This has almost certainly been fixed in the second-generation G5s.
For the final attempt, the craft must carry enough ballast and extra life support equipment to simulate the presence of 3 people (so that 3 lives aren't risked). Also, this is still a test flight- an X-Prize winner must be shown to be reliable and reusable as well as simply reaching the target altitude. And I expect the X-prize board would want to supervise the official attempt directly.
What you're ignoring is that a) Microsoft can afford to keep this up pretty much indefinitely unless there's a major change in the computer world and b) Microsoft knew this would happen from the start and planned around it. Whatever else you can accuse MS of, they aren't morons.
That specific problem is solvable, though- there are tons of console games with huge levels. Also, a trick which is common on the console but rare on the PC is to stream content off disk in the background (and this can be done because the characteristics of the RAM and DVD drive are identical on all consoles). Prince of Persia had maybe 3 load points throughout the entire 12-hour game.
Don't forget a more relevant but opposite example: The Playstation 1 beat the Nintendo 64 to release, and Sony ended up stealing Nintendo's lion's share of the market. This is probably what the Xbox execs have in mind.
So, what do you want them to do (aside from not using copy protection, obviously)? Include a multi-page pamphlet explaining all the reasons not to buy the CD? Have the salesman deliver a lecture with Q&A session on the exact implications of the sticker to every customer who picks it up? Give them a written exam to make sure they know how the Redbook spec and fair use laws work so they can be given permission to buy it? At some point the customer has to make decision to buy the CD or not of his own free will, and slashbots attempting to dissuade him from doing so by any means necessary or declaring unilaterally that no one in their right mind would buy the CD is no more correct or helpful than the RIAA hoping he doesn't notice the sticker.
You'd think he'd notice that the natural, nonhierarchical primitive evolved naturally towards the top-down system of society in the end. It's also worth noting that Bittorrent, the program most commonly cited as the best P2P design out there, requires a central server to operate, while something like Freenet, which is truly decentralized, is a bear to use and has significantly disdvantages such as being unsearchable.
It's all troop management and zero resource gathering. It's fairly old by now, but there are third party patches available to make it compatible with OS X or Windows XP.
Looking through the video store, it seems the industry is way ahead of you.
Don't forget the point someone has to bring up in every single ITMS story so far: Apple's primary source of income is not selling music, it's selling hardware and it's doing pretty well at it [sarcastic "beleagured" jokes go here]. The other stores seem to be barely profitable, if at all. If some global trend causes a slight downturn in the online music market, Apple (and Sony) will be able to keep going indefinitely thanks to their hardware business, and all the others will die off.
The vast majority of the audience seems to be quite willing to have commercial schlock crammed down its throats, so that's a good business plan. Remember that Apple is trying to make money here, not join the Slashdot anti-RIAA crusade. Maybe as the store grows ever more popular, whatever reason the independents have for not signing up will be worked around.
So, if you take those 10,000 blogs and start looking around, you have a 0.4% chance of finding something good? Somehow it still doesn't seem worth the effort.
I don't think it's that simple- there are RTS games coming out that will have thousands of 3D animating figures on the field at a time. Rendering buildings can't be far behind.
A guy brings his dog into a bar and claims that it can talk. The bartender orders him to prove it. The guy asks the dog, "What do you call the top of a house?" and the dog says "Woof!" The guy asks the dog, "What does sandpaper feel like?" and the dog says "Ruff!" The guy asks the dog "Who was the greatest baseball player in history?" and the dog says "Woof!" The bartender has had enough at this point and has the guy and the dog thrown out. Then the dog turns to the guy and says "How was I supposed to know he liked DiMaggio"?
Maybe, but what do you do when some moron uses a LAM to break the 5 tri-hull weld points?
Anyway, nobody ever promised this would make tanks absolutely invulnerable to RPGs. If it significantly reduces damage (and casualties) and gives the tank a better chance to return fire, it's a success.
I would be very, very surprised if the Man Show were the first ones to make this joke.
Not exactly the same thing. What the parent suggested was writing a program in C that precisely duplicates the operations of the Perl interpreter processing a particular program, which should perform identically to the real Perl interpreter loading the program, parsing it, and then interpreting it. The BASIC assembler would produce identical output to the C assembler, which would execute by itself at the same speed, but that wouldn't prove anything as there would be no BASIC code involved when you executed the generated binary.