When we're talking about Napster or Kazaa a miniscule percentage of legal use is sufficient to argue that the entire network should be preserved, but when we're talking about spam blocks we're just supposed to ignore the legal use and go on with the jihad? You can't have it both ways.
Like to many nice principles, this breaks down in the real world, primarily because there is no way to block the telemarketer without leaving dinner, picking up the phone, and putting it down again. That is what this list is designed to rectify.
So it's virtually a PC. I don't want to play games on something I can do that much with.
Um... All the consoles could be used for virtually any purpose if you put sufficient effort into it. For that matter, that statement probably applies to every console ever made. It's not like the CPUs don't use a Turing-complete language, or that it will refuse to execute code that isn't a game.
Sure it is... It's not a magic psychic UT like the one on Star Trek that allows you to instantly converse with an unknown species, but it's "universal" in that it has no internal dependencies on specific languages and could be used to go between any two.
This is not necessarily the case. Any self respecting 'universal assembler' will be able to make a copy of itself.
It's likely that nanotech assembly will have to be performed in a vacuum, so an assembler will need to contain an evacuated chamber in which to do its work. It will therefore only be able to create objects that can fit inside the chamber, and would not be able to build an object the size of itself (unless you want to run it in high orbit, which might not actually be a bad idea...)
A decade? Even if the Hubble had a relatively wide-angle lens, it would have to go at least a light-year or two out of the ecliptic to even get Centauri and Sol in the same picture, let alone a significant part of the galaxy. That would take centuries with current technology.
That said, I'm not sure how long all of this free content will last. Given my choice of browser, I don't view any ads. How long can the "system" support this leeching of content?
It could last a bit longer if you'd view the ads instead of contributing to the problem. Let the ad banners load, like I do; they're not *that* bad considering they're what lets sites keep free access for that much longer. (I have no objection to blocking pop-ups, of course.)
Also remember that programming is only about 50 years old, and all the professions/engineering disciplines to which it is compared in this thread (like building houses) have been around for 100 times as long. I bet lots of houses fell down during the first 50 years of bricklaying too.
The idea that Apple somehow remotely deleted his songs is utter bullshit. Read the article. He reinstalled his system, thus erasing at the very least Apple's authorization token. He attempted to re-authorize his computer using a Canadian credit card, which Apple does not permit and has been very open about not permitting. This is like moving to the UK, breaking your old R1 DVD player, buying a new one at the store down the block, and complaining that its PAL signal won't work with the rest of your legacy equipment.
Not really... It's a common misconception that since OS X is "a Unix", all OS X programs resemble all Unix programs. OS X still has some proprietary libraries, most importantly Carbon, which is almost certainly what was used here to port the Mac OS 9 version of X-Plane. So, no, an OS9-OSX port does not really make a Linux port easier.
IIRC, the Cube sold about 28,000 units during its entire run. That's pretty bad considering that they sold about 127,000 desktops during the last quarter alone, when everyone was waiting for the G5s to be announced.
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I thought the primary complaint against spam was that it uses too much bandwidth. Wouldn't this proposal waste even MORE bandwidth per spam?
Hey, at least they're not located in Latveria.
I have no problems playing the season 1 discs on my Xbox. Maybe the Xbox has different DVD driver revs too?
This doesn't sound much better than armchair speculation either... Where are the real-world throughput benchmarks performed with actual equipment?
It is nature's harmonic simultaneous four-day GAME CUBE!
When we're talking about Napster or Kazaa a miniscule percentage of legal use is sufficient to argue that the entire network should be preserved, but when we're talking about spam blocks we're just supposed to ignore the legal use and go on with the jihad? You can't have it both ways.
I only ordered them for the articles...
That's a ferret, not a weasel.
"Don't look at me. We're talking about dragons. So you take Thom out to the set while I burn and verify these... the dragons."
Please explain the grounds for the inalienable right to suppressed cartoons.
Did your pickup lines involve magazine subscriptions and aluminum siding?
Like to many nice principles, this breaks down in the real world, primarily because there is no way to block the telemarketer without leaving dinner, picking up the phone, and putting it down again. That is what this list is designed to rectify.
If that happened in a street, yes. But since about 2 years ago, if it happened on an airplane, the crowd would rush.
Sure it is... It's not a magic psychic UT like the one on Star Trek that allows you to instantly converse with an unknown species, but it's "universal" in that it has no internal dependencies on specific languages and could be used to go between any two.
You can't take a ratio of infinities.
You don't need the USB card. It ran fine on my beige without one.
A decade? Even if the Hubble had a relatively wide-angle lens, it would have to go at least a light-year or two out of the ecliptic to even get Centauri and Sol in the same picture, let alone a significant part of the galaxy. That would take centuries with current technology.
Also remember that programming is only about 50 years old, and all the professions/engineering disciplines to which it is compared in this thread (like building houses) have been around for 100 times as long. I bet lots of houses fell down during the first 50 years of bricklaying too.
Read my example more carefully. I was comparing it to PAL and NTSC equipment.
The idea that Apple somehow remotely deleted his songs is utter bullshit. Read the article. He reinstalled his system, thus erasing at the very least Apple's authorization token. He attempted to re-authorize his computer using a Canadian credit card, which Apple does not permit and has been very open about not permitting. This is like moving to the UK, breaking your old R1 DVD player, buying a new one at the store down the block, and complaining that its PAL signal won't work with the rest of your legacy equipment.
Not really... It's a common misconception that since OS X is "a Unix", all OS X programs resemble all Unix programs. OS X still has some proprietary libraries, most importantly Carbon, which is almost certainly what was used here to port the Mac OS 9 version of X-Plane. So, no, an OS9-OSX port does not really make a Linux port easier.
IIRC, the Cube sold about 28,000 units during its entire run. That's pretty bad considering that they sold about 127,000 desktops during the last quarter alone, when everyone was waiting for the G5s to be announced.