My doctor figures if it isn't gonna kill me, he's not going to prescribe anything. If it's gonna incapacitate me and cause 2 weeks off work and I ask for it, he'll give me something to help - and then he'll tell me to "take them all, don't stop just because you feel better".
So is it like: The law says you have the right to use the unlicenced spectrum? Or is it that ONLY the FCC can regulate the spectrum? How does this compare to Non-disclosure agreements restricting your first amendment rights? Or any other contract that allows one to voluntarily restrict your rights? I bet the school can disallow guns on campus as a condition of attending. You mean the FCC has more power than the constitution? I'm confused - not taking sides, just confused.
"would effectively be able to leverage their OS monopoly into practically owning an entirely new industry for them -- the music industry.
The RIAA knows that MS is after their industry. If you must pay MS to copy protect your content then MS effectively controls your industry and you will become irrelevant. RIAA is in the distribution business. The cost of distribution has effectively gone to zero, so now RIAA is trying to stay relevant by "protecting" content - handing over the "content protection" business to MS would keep RIAA around how?
Unfortunately large Holograms are expensive, Generally not available in color, and not able to capture the depth required for an outdoor scene. All this could change in the next years if people work on it. For some state of the art:
http://www.laserreflections.com
They do have a large (4 panel) window arrangement in there somewhere. Oh, and not animated.
Why is the password there at all? Can't they just have the user provide the AES key to save/read data? Why does there need to be a password stored in the device at all?
I don't really care if they can make it 1000 times more efficient. My PC can do speech recognition "fast enough" but it needs more accuracy. Can 100 to 1000 times the computation actually improve the accuracy of todays algorithms? If so, this is great. If not, I would say the goal is simply to monitor 1000 phone calls at once with a single chip with todays accuracy.
So is it like chess where faster translates to better?
Sure it's a small market, but any good game will get bought by a large percentage of that market due to the lack of titles. There is far less competition, and if you develop with portability in mind it shouldn't be a big deal to dominate that 5 percent of the gaming market. People using the new Doom engine should really consider this.
Try it, I just did....
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I finally decided to try Python about a week ago. My goal was to scrape some information from a web page for easy/compact display. Pulling the raw HTML from a given URL is simple with the urllib. Python string handling makes parsing text fun and easy. The interactive mode actually allows you to define functions on the fly and try them without editing/saving/compiling files. And lastly, the thing I feared most... The "indentation matters" concept is fantastic.
Using Tkinter for a GUI is not as simple as I had hoped, but that's because the Python documentation doesn't cover much TK and I'm new to it - hence I need to learn that too.
I overheard a "sales person" at Besy Buy a few days ago. He was pitching a PC to some 20-ish student who also wanted office applications for school. The Best Buy guy said he should buy Works (or something like it) and said it has Powerpoint, Word, Excel, all that stuff for $150. I was just going to walk over and suggest he download OpenOffice.org for Free when the Best Buy guy said - "and if you have a couple buddies to split it, it's only $50". So I guess this BB guy promotes piracy of MS products:-) Or perhaps he meant they could share the computer...
I've heard of that. The lesson plan dictates that the 'report' must contain x number of pieces of clipart and utilize xyz features of word... Never mind the content, it's about learning the tool. This is one reason computers should be kept OUT of schools - they're just another irrelevant thing to get in the way of learning.
The MPAA and RIAA want to educate children about copyright, but I bet they'd be upset if schools started teaching the origin and history of copyright law...
Dude, you need a better contract. If it's not clear enough who gets what, don't sign. Oh right, then you couldn't work because the RIAA is a cartel and none of them offer better terms... So why doesn't the AFM go to court to put a stop to this? Stop taking it up the 4$$ dude, the RIAA is your problem more than anyones. If AFM isn't doing anything, you need a new organization that doesn't pander to RIAA instead of you.
Ya, remember 3 years ago when the projections showed the bubble continuing through 2010 and Bush gave everyone a tax cut? Hmmm, we see no reason for this trend to stop - never mind that we don't know what's causing it in the first place... Projections my arse.
So there you have it. Continual shrinkage will no longer mean faster chips. You can still cram more components on there, but since you're putting more stuff in the same space at the same per-transistor power you'll be increasing power density. The limit for power density sounds like it's at 65nm or 45nm.
"Entanglement seems to allow things far away from each other, that used to be close to each other, to react to each other like they are still close to each other."
I still don't believe in this. The at-a-distance collapse of a wave function is BS. Since you can't tell the difference between a particle whose wave function has collapsed and one that hasn't, it's not fair to say anything has happened. If you could tell the difference, then there is instant action at a distance. Not only that, no one can agree on what constitutes/causes/happens-during "collapse".
BTW, the only problem I've seen that is supposed to get a big speed boost from QC is factoring which is not proven to be a hard problem (or an easy one).
He's a guy who went to SIGGRAPH and sat in a room with all the deveopers from the studios. He's got a feel for what's about to happen. Don't look to upper management for this type of insight, they'll talk about it after it happens.
Cinepaint was a mistake IMHO. Hollywood forked the Gimp to get better color depth and now they don't have the resources to keep up with mainline Gimp development. It's an example of trying to take control rather than cooperate. Now that they learned how to do it (and how not to) it's time to do 32 bit (or 64bit fp) color depth in the GIMP.
"I'd be willing to bet that half the US population has never even seen the galactic clouds of the Milky Way"
I'd bet it's more than half the population. An amazing site it is. My brother is an amature astronomer, so he took me out of town a few times to see the good stuff. I had no idea you can see the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. Spectacular the night sky is - when you can actually see it...
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Apparently this is highly unusual.
Any lawyers in the house?
The RIAA knows that MS is after their industry. If you must pay MS to copy protect your content then MS effectively controls your industry and you will become irrelevant. RIAA is in the distribution business. The cost of distribution has effectively gone to zero, so now RIAA is trying to stay relevant by "protecting" content - handing over the "content protection" business to MS would keep RIAA around how?
http://www.laserreflections.com
They do have a large (4 panel) window arrangement in there somewhere. Oh, and not animated.
Why is the password there at all? Can't they just have the user provide the AES key to save/read data? Why does there need to be a password stored in the device at all?
So is it like chess where faster translates to better?
Too bad they didn't have cameras installed at the airport when that happened. OTOH, it did get plenty of publicity.
Now I'll RTFA to determine which it really is....
Sure it's a small market, but any good game will get bought by a large percentage of that market due to the lack of titles. There is far less competition, and if you develop with portability in mind it shouldn't be a big deal to dominate that 5 percent of the gaming market. People using the new Doom engine should really consider this.
Using Tkinter for a GUI is not as simple as I had hoped, but that's because the Python documentation doesn't cover much TK and I'm new to it - hence I need to learn that too.
I overheard a "sales person" at Besy Buy a few days ago. He was pitching a PC to some 20-ish student who also wanted office applications for school. The Best Buy guy said he should buy Works (or something like it) and said it has Powerpoint, Word, Excel, all that stuff for $150. I was just going to walk over and suggest he download OpenOffice.org for Free when the Best Buy guy said - "and if you have a couple buddies to split it, it's only $50". So I guess this BB guy promotes piracy of MS products :-) Or perhaps he meant they could share the computer...
The MPAA and RIAA want to educate children about copyright, but I bet they'd be upset if schools started teaching the origin and history of copyright law...
Dude, you need a better contract. If it's not clear enough who gets what, don't sign. Oh right, then you couldn't work because the RIAA is a cartel and none of them offer better terms... So why doesn't the AFM go to court to put a stop to this? Stop taking it up the 4$$ dude, the RIAA is your problem more than anyones. If AFM isn't doing anything, you need a new organization that doesn't pander to RIAA instead of you.
Ya, remember 3 years ago when the projections showed the bubble continuing through 2010 and Bush gave everyone a tax cut? Hmmm, we see no reason for this trend to stop - never mind that we don't know what's causing it in the first place... Projections my arse.
So now can we get back to efficient designs?
I still don't believe in this. The at-a-distance collapse of a wave function is BS. Since you can't tell the difference between a particle whose wave function has collapsed and one that hasn't, it's not fair to say anything has happened. If you could tell the difference, then there is instant action at a distance. Not only that, no one can agree on what constitutes/causes/happens-during "collapse".
BTW, the only problem I've seen that is supposed to get a big speed boost from QC is factoring which is not proven to be a hard problem (or an easy one).
Your direct translation link is broken.
X needs to remain low level to stay relevant.
What would it be if you decompressed the songs? Figure another 100x. It's not what they had, but it is a way to inflate the figure.
FYI The GPL is not a contract, it is a license. There is a difference which has been written about by the FSF as well as Groklaw.
The site must use a lot of Java code.
Cinepaint was a mistake IMHO. Hollywood forked the Gimp to get better color depth and now they don't have the resources to keep up with mainline Gimp development. It's an example of trying to take control rather than cooperate. Now that they learned how to do it (and how not to) it's time to do 32 bit (or 64bit fp) color depth in the GIMP.
I'd bet it's more than half the population. An amazing site it is. My brother is an amature astronomer, so he took me out of town a few times to see the good stuff. I had no idea you can see the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. Spectacular the night sky is - when you can actually see it...
They didn't let him on the plane because he was a suspected terrorist, but there's no indication that they tried to detain or arrest him either. WTF?
How do you count to 7 in crow?