We're not all the USA. All other countries have socialised healthcare where this sort of thing will be "free"
Ha-ha. You think socialist healthcare will give old farts operations costing tens of thousands of dollars for free.
One of the main reasons why the NHS (for example) is cheaper than US healthcare is that it routinely refuses treatment for old farts. If I remember correctly, something like 50% of lifetime healthcare spending for the average American happens in the last couple of months of their life, when socialist healthcare would just let them die earlier.
Nonsense. Like the MAFIAA the GPL wants all the power to be in the hands of the _CREATOR_ of the copyrighted work. The _CREATOR_ not the user decides what the user can and can't do in terms of distribution.
If I am a user and I want to modify GPL software and make a product, I can't without being forced by the creator to release my new source code, even if I only took 10% of the GPL code and added 90% of my own. It is most definitely anti-user.
Uh, the _USER_ doesn't have to do anything. It's the people who want to take others work and make money off it without giving anything back who have to hand out their source code to the _USER_ so the _USER_ then has full control over what they do with their software. It's intensely pro-_USER_, just anti people like you who want to lock up other people's work for their own profit.
If I can continue to make lots of money by protecting the entrenched system, then the appropriate response is to put the brakes on change.
That's the socialist way; 'we won't allow you to sell a car because it will put the buggy-whip workers out of a job'.
In a free market, there will be a bazillion people trying to create new products that compete with yours, and some will be successful. 'Patents, copyrights, tariffs, and protectionism' are all government-created restrictions on trade, and would not exist in a free market.
More like I haven't spent enough time to think of one.
A lot depends on whether the address has to be human-readable. For example, you could have an alternate system where sites are addressed by a public key hash, and you could ask numerous independent name-servers for any IP address signed by a key with that hash. But typing in 64-character hex strings to connect to Google or your bank would be troublesome, to say the least.
Indeed. The whole idea of a centralised DNS system is the problem because it introduces a single point of stupidity into the Internet, but I'm not sure what the solution is.
I'm pretty much convinced (but his is my opinion) that the bombs were dropped because the Americans had them and they had an excuse to do the ultimate experiment, and to do a repeat experiment to see if their improvements worked.
Your tin-foil hat is coming off. While I agree that the Japanese would soon have surrendered without the bombs, the US military was ready to drop a new one on another city every week or two after the initial attacks, but the President said 'no more'. If there had been some grand conspiracy to test new bomb designs, they'd have kept dropping them for as long as possible.
This may be true before 1980s. Have you heard any amateur with any remotely important findings in medicine since then?
Given the regulations imposed on medical research over the last few decades, that's not really surprising. Joe Home-Researcher can't just cut up dead bodies or feed people random chemicals and see what happens any more.
So when they came and found nothing illegal, what happened?
He had to clean up the mess where they'd smashed in the doors and windows and thrown everything out of the drawers and cupboards, then explain to his neighbors and work colleagues that, no, he wasn't actually a drug dealer?
Film doesn't do 60FPS. You can only get rates like that using video, which is not the same thing as film.
If I remember correctly the record for film frame rate is in the millions of frames per second, in special cameras designed for nuclear explosion analysis and similar high-speed events.
And even fairly cheap movie cameras can hit around 100fps; I believe the Aaton we used a few years back topped out at 120fps. How do you think movies have shot slow-motion footage for the last century?
The "stuttering" effect you are accustomed to seeing when you watch movies at home is an effect of the movies frame rate not being accurately reproduced by your TV.
NTSC makes it worse, but the fundamental problem is that a film camera shutter is typically only open half the time, so you only see half of what's going on in front of the camera. If an object is moving moderately quickly then it will be a blur in one frame and a blur some distance away in the next, so it appears to jump between the two frames.
I just want to see whether they get past the damn spider that killed me dozens of times right at the end of the Spectrum version before I finally managed to get home...
Uh, 24fps movies are usually shot with a 1/48 shutter speed. Since this was, I believe, shot on Red digital cameras, they presumably shot 48fps at 1/48 so dropping half the frames will give you the horrid stuttering film look you're used to.
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We're not all the USA. All other countries have socialised healthcare where this sort of thing will be "free"
Ha-ha. You think socialist healthcare will give old farts operations costing tens of thousands of dollars for free.
One of the main reasons why the NHS (for example) is cheaper than US healthcare is that it routinely refuses treatment for old farts. If I remember correctly, something like 50% of lifetime healthcare spending for the average American happens in the last couple of months of their life, when socialist healthcare would just let them die earlier.
Now I can buy a Windows Phone to warm my hands on in the winter.
Nonsense. Like the MAFIAA the GPL wants all the power to be in the hands of the _CREATOR_ of the copyrighted work. The _CREATOR_ not the user decides what the user can and can't do in terms of distribution.
If I am a user and I want to modify GPL software and make a product, I can't without being forced by the creator to release my new source code, even if I only took 10% of the GPL code and added 90% of my own. It is most definitely anti-user.
Uh, the _USER_ doesn't have to do anything. It's the people who want to take others work and make money off it without giving anything back who have to hand out their source code to the _USER_ so the _USER_ then has full control over what they do with their software. It's intensely pro-_USER_, just anti people like you who want to lock up other people's work for their own profit.
Ah yes, Obama the man of peace. You know the one that decided to start another war in Libya...
He is the Peace Prize President.
If you can build a car with a 3D printer you can also build a gun or a bomb, so they'll be banned.
If I can continue to make lots of money by protecting the entrenched system, then the appropriate response is to put the brakes on change.
That's the socialist way; 'we won't allow you to sell a car because it will put the buggy-whip workers out of a job'.
In a free market, there will be a bazillion people trying to create new products that compete with yours, and some will be successful. 'Patents, copyrights, tariffs, and protectionism' are all government-created restrictions on trade, and would not exist in a free market.
It's no coincidence that those who only think they are smart people tend to be more liberal.
FTFY
No. Psychopaths are often smart and like 'liberal' politics because it lets them tell others what to do.
Therefore no other solution.
More like I haven't spent enough time to think of one.
A lot depends on whether the address has to be human-readable. For example, you could have an alternate system where sites are addressed by a public key hash, and you could ask numerous independent name-servers for any IP address signed by a key with that hash. But typing in 64-character hex strings to connect to Google or your bank would be troublesome, to say the least.
Doesn't map so well with massive multinational corp traffic to .com
And now we have the joy of 'the cloud', where that .co.uk site may be running on a server in Kazhakstan today and Canada tomorrow.
I don't even know where my own web site is. Last traceroute I tried it was somewhere in Europe even though I pay a US company for hosting.
Indeed. The whole idea of a centralised DNS system is the problem because it introduces a single point of stupidity into the Internet, but I'm not sure what the solution is.
Rather I have a problem with them agreeing to a treaty and then slyly defying it behind everyone's backs.
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Obama said yes to it anyway for the same reasons as Bush did, so please NYT, stop making this political.
But Obama is the Peace Prize President. Of course his actions should be held to a different standard than Bush.
Sadly, the left seem to think that things which were evil when Bush did them are wonderful when Obama does them.
I'm pretty much convinced (but his is my opinion) that the bombs were dropped because the Americans had them and they had an excuse to do the ultimate experiment, and to do a repeat experiment to see if their improvements worked.
Your tin-foil hat is coming off. While I agree that the Japanese would soon have surrendered without the bombs, the US military was ready to drop a new one on another city every week or two after the initial attacks, but the President said 'no more'. If there had been some grand conspiracy to test new bomb designs, they'd have kept dropping them for as long as possible.
AFAIR, Larrabee was a ton of cut-down x86 cores on a graphics chip. So it could be far more useful for massively parallel computing.
This may be true before 1980s. Have you heard any amateur with any remotely important findings in medicine since then?
Given the regulations imposed on medical research over the last few decades, that's not really surprising. Joe Home-Researcher can't just cut up dead bodies or feed people random chemicals and see what happens any more.
Millions of years of evolution ain't free, y'know!
Heathen! God created ebola, HIV and influenza one Sunday afternoon when he was bored.
I suspect IBM said the same about those amateurs thinking they could build computers in their garage.
So when they came and found nothing illegal, what happened?
He had to clean up the mess where they'd smashed in the doors and windows and thrown everything out of the drawers and cupboards, then explain to his neighbors and work colleagues that, no, he wasn't actually a drug dealer?
Film doesn't do 60FPS. You can only get rates like that using video, which is not the same thing as film.
If I remember correctly the record for film frame rate is in the millions of frames per second, in special cameras designed for nuclear explosion analysis and similar high-speed events.
And even fairly cheap movie cameras can hit around 100fps; I believe the Aaton we used a few years back topped out at 120fps. How do you think movies have shot slow-motion footage for the last century?
I'm expecting them to have shot at around 1/96.
According to the first Google hit for 'hobbit shutter speed' they shot it at 1/64. So it would be extra-stuttery but probably OK.
The "stuttering" effect you are accustomed to seeing when you watch movies at home is an effect of the movies frame rate not being accurately reproduced by your TV.
NTSC makes it worse, but the fundamental problem is that a film camera shutter is typically only open half the time, so you only see half of what's going on in front of the camera. If an object is moving moderately quickly then it will be a blur in one frame and a blur some distance away in the next, so it appears to jump between the two frames.
I just want to see whether they get past the damn spider that killed me dozens of times right at the end of the Spectrum version before I finally managed to get home...
Uh, 24fps movies are usually shot with a 1/48 shutter speed. Since this was, I believe, shot on Red digital cameras, they presumably shot 48fps at 1/48 so dropping half the frames will give you the horrid stuttering film look you're used to.
The UN is a club for tired Marxist dictators who still dream of world domination.
It's well past time Americans threw it out of New York and sent it to a more appropriate location, like Zimbabwe.
Don't forget replacing TCP/IP with ATM and X.25.