You bring up a good point, but the article was referring specifically to office automation (word processing, spreadsheet, email and web). For something like airport simulation, of course you need local execution. This article wasn't about that!
Simple, our universe is derived from a quantum uncertainty fluctuation. Remember,
delta E * delta t h
Given that the net energy of the universe is damn close to zero (gravitational energy is negative), the delta t for the quantum fluctuation that is the universe could be VERRRRRRY long.
Occam's Razor. Entities shall not be multiplied without reason.
The Earth really is billions of years old,
or
The Earth is a few thousand years old, and some supernatural being laid down the fossil record, and created radioactive isotopes in the right proportions just to fool us.
Isn't this just an ad-hominem argument, applied to products?
Quite possibly, but... On all the IP/Copyright debates, people keep saying that "Don't support the RIAA by buying CDs from them". I'm just trying to figure out how this is different.
Oh, and sorry about the unclosed HREF... I hit submit by accident instead of Preview.
Why, does everyone here want to spend their money on PS2s?
When you buy a PS2, you give money to Sony, who is both a member of the MPAA and the RIAA.
MPAA:
Sony Pictures Entertainment
RIAA:
Sony Broadway
Sony Class./Sony Music Soundtrax
Sony Classical
Sony Direct
Sony Discos
Sony Masterworks
Sony Music Special Products
Sony Music US (Latin)
Sony Portrait
Sony Wonder
"The e-book is a ridiculous idea," said Vonnegut, who hasn't read his work on a computer and never intends to. "The printed book is so satisfactory, so responsive to our fingertips. So much of this new stuff is utterly unneeded."
Because Boucher is involved, there may be some hope, but the RIAA will buy enough congresscritters to make this bill take away what few fair use rights we have left.
BZZZZT! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
DOS 1.0 introduced FAT-12 floppies.
DOS 2.0 introduced FAT-12 hard disks (remember the XT?).
DOS 3.0 was introduced with the AT, and brought FAT-16 for those big 30-meg drives on some AT's.
DOS 4.0 introduced the BIGDOS partitions.
OS/2 introduced HPFS (don't remember whether it was 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2).
NT 3.1 introduced NTFS.
Win 95B introduced FAT-32.
Win2K introduced some variant on NTFS (compression or encryption, I forget which) which was not backwards compatible with anything earlier than NT4SP6.
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\i{For instance, I had a P233 that ran WinNT just fine.}
You're a wimp. I ran NT4 server on a P-120.
You bring up a good point, but the article was referring specifically to office automation (word processing, spreadsheet, email and web). For something like airport simulation, of course you need local execution. This article wasn't about that!
That's my sig!
Then you should be polite. Check out the current User Friendly for details.
And patents last 17 years. Please, do not post patently false information like the above.
Can I put it up 17 years from now?
The Music and Movie industries tell their customers, "You Are All Criminals"(tm), and the average customer agrees with them????
Don't know how much help this is, but here are the numbers that someone found for PacBell/ASI/PBIS.
But will they travel at LUDICROUS SPEED?
Or, do you really want to support one of the seven major members of the MPAA?
It worked for Office(tm).. and IE... and Media Player...
This is standard MS tactics. The only difference is that MS doesn't hold a monopoly here, so it's legal this time.
No, I'm referring to U238 and Thorium (isotope number escapes me) decay.
How did "matter appear out of nowhere"?
Simple, our universe is derived from a quantum uncertainty fluctuation. Remember,
delta E * delta t h
Given that the net energy of the universe is damn close to zero (gravitational energy is negative), the delta t for the quantum fluctuation that is the universe could be VERRRRRRY long.
Pascual Jordan proposed this to Einstein.
The Earth really is billions of years old,
or
The Earth is a few thousand years old, and some supernatural being laid down the fossil record, and created radioactive isotopes in the right proportions just to fool us.
Which one requires the additional entities?
N = 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 +
2N = 2 + 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 +
or
2N = 2 + N => N = 2
Simple proof of convergence.
The assurance that someone will hear me scream
In space, no one can hear you scream.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The Day The NeXT Cube Died...
Isn't this just an ad-hominem argument, applied to products?
Quite possibly, but... On all the IP/Copyright debates, people keep saying that "Don't support the RIAA by buying CDs from them". I'm just trying to figure out how this is different.
Oh, and sorry about the unclosed HREF... I hit submit by accident instead of Preview.
Why, does everyone here want to spend their money on PS2s?
When you buy a PS2, you give money to Sony, who is both a member of the MPAA and the RIAA.
MPAA:
Sony Pictures Entertainment
RIAA:
Sony Broadway
Sony Class./Sony Music Soundtrax
Sony Classical
Sony Direct
Sony Discos
Sony Masterworks
Sony Music Special Products
Sony Music US (Latin)
Sony Portrait
Sony Wonder
The exact same article ran in the August 6 LA Times.
I've referenced it a couple times here already.
The Vonnegut comment at the end is great!
The great thing is this quote by Kurt Vonnegut
From the Los Angeles Times article on Ebooks.
The article says that this could jump start e-books???? How?
Let's see... I pay $1. I get 10 hours of an ebook. I go to the Brick&Mortar library for free, I get a book for 3 weeks...
ONE BILLION DOLLARS (pinky to mouth) is nothing to MS. They have over $30B cash on hand.
Stoll made the same point many years ago in The Cuckoo's Egg, when discussing the Morris Internet Worm.
Because Boucher is involved, there may be some hope, but the RIAA will buy enough congresscritters to make this bill take away what few fair use rights we have left.
d00d, 4.0 introduced FAT16.
BZZZZT! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
DOS 1.0 introduced FAT-12 floppies.
DOS 2.0 introduced FAT-12 hard disks (remember the XT?).
DOS 3.0 was introduced with the AT, and brought FAT-16 for those big 30-meg drives on some AT's.
DOS 4.0 introduced the BIGDOS partitions.
OS/2 introduced HPFS (don't remember whether it was 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2).
NT 3.1 introduced NTFS.
Win 95B introduced FAT-32.
Win2K introduced some variant on NTFS (compression or encryption, I forget which) which was not backwards compatible with anything earlier than NT4SP6.