Puh-leese. Basically they patented the use of energy based cataylsts. That's a pretty broad and all-encompassing patent. Sure when it was filed 40 years ago it was pretty novel. But I would really have to question why they haven't been enforcing these sweeping patents since they were granted in the 80's? Why now, Why did they wait so long, are the coffers running low? What better way to get more, than to sue someone else with a ridiculous patent that blankets a large area.
I'm seriously all for patents expiring in shorter periods of time, same thing with copyrights. I'm an artist, and I think it's great that I'll be able to benefit from my works during my life time, but do my grandchildren really need to have control of that work. Furthermore, do I really want them, the work will most likely be irrelavent, and I would rather someone else be able to use it for free..
Under your description, I would be ADD as well which is quite plausible. I find it very difficult if not annoying to try and focus on one thing. I need to multitask. Sure my performance on each task drops slightly as more tasks are added, but at the same time, I'm able to do all of them for a longer period of time, as opposed to doing them individually.
Furthermore, I believe what the parent post says about gifted children is very VERY true. And that most of the ADD people I know are gifted in some respect. And instead of popping pills, they need to learn not only more effective personal learning skills that are more suitable to themselves but also they need to learn how they think. How one learns is a subject that is rarely covered in school. I think that if people better understood how and at what speed they learn, a lot of people wouldn't need meds. The same goes for the workplace. Some people need to do multiple things simultaneosly, and if they cannot they get bored with everything and do something that amuses them. Sounds a bit like ADD doesn't it.
Overall drugs are an easy way out, instead of understanding their personal situation, doctors would rather cover up difficulties with drugs, and be done with it. Whereas courses teaching 'problem' people how to use thier brain could be far better..
I was just thinking, at the sizes they are proposing ie. 65nm wouldn't it be a task just keeping the metal gates solid? If the temperature inside the chip got too high wouldn't the very small pieces of metal melt really easy? As smaller things melt much easier than big things, and these gates are mighty small. But then again what do I know, I'm art student..
How can it be the death of bluetooth. I think they will have completely different uses. Headphones, and remote controls don't really need IP's as someone else pointed out.
Furthermore, I see 802.11g(lite) as more useful for things like an iPod, albiet it will have slower transfer rates, but there's no wires!
I wouldn't consider bluetooth dead by a longshot, unless the low power.11g has a cooler name.
Ummm if black and white aren't "colours" then the world you live in is a VERY vivid place, blindingly so. Most any colour contains various amounts of grey and black, they're called shadows, And you can't have shadows, pale colours or muted colours with out black and white. So unles you're one of the few inhabitants of crayola land. Black and white are integral to depth perception, as only flat colours make it hard to see depth.
So I would have to say that you're exclusion of black as a colour is pretty silly.
I wouldn't say that they've caved into the Mhz myth, so much as the G4 processors have pretty much hit the top of their lifespan quite some time ago. This is just a natural progression, they needed a new processor, and Moto's offerings are pants, so they went with the 970, which is a darn good processor.
Furthermore, if they were really caving, they would have gone with a processor with a few more RPM.. 1.8Ghz? That's pretty weedy in the world of x86.. That's actually pathetic as far as "new" machinew would be concerned..
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Well there are many ways to slaughter animals, but not too many of them are feasible at the scale at which chickens are usually done.
You can gas the animals, It's not overly painful but then you need to keep a ton of poisonous gas around, and run the risk of accidentally gassing your co-workers, not good. Furthermore, I don't know much about chemistry but I can guess that eating gassed meat isn't too good for you.
You can lethally inject the birds but then you'd need more syringes than an army of heroin junkies, and the cost is insane. And who would adminster the injections? a squad of specially trained monkeys I think not. However, injections are not too painful, but at the same time they can make the mean poisonous..
You can Chop all their heads off, while they're still running around. But that's really messy, and painful to boot, espescially if it's not done right because they keep running around. Not good.
You could shoot them all, painful as hell, and uses a lot of ammo, and you'd need you own team of snipers for a bigger abatoir. Plus gun shot wounds are hard to explain at the grocery store.
You could drop them off something high. But that would bruise them, amongst other wounds, and that's not good for the bottom line..
So I can't really think of anyother way to kill large amounts of small creatures. Sure electrocution is not the best way to do it, but I guess we just have to hope that some creative person can think of a way. Until that time, I think that the most cost/humanity ratio would have to be electrocution.
yeah because he's oh so limber, and flexible.. Christopher Walken is a great actor, but would be the worst Gollum ever, imagine, a 6ft tall gollum that's not so bendy, and more wraith like..
Not only do some people not play games, but also GPU's do what they do so well because they are specialized. I think that if they were made to do general functions as well their efficiency would decrease. Also the comment from the nvidia guy about the graphics card doing most of the work. In a game there are still physics and AI, and overhead calculations that all need to be done. Not many or none of these are covered by the GPU.
I agree completely that offloading tasks from the CPU is good, look at the Amiga, that was an amazing machine for its time. And the a huge part of its power can be accredited to it's multiple, separate and specialized processors. I think in the future we will see a shift towards that again, as transistor increases become no longer feasible.
there have been a number of studies (I have none at hand right now) in which it has been proven that THC is non-habit forming and that you can't form a Chemical dependancy on it. However, you can become psychologically aclimated to being high, but that is completely different.
Furthermore, I completely agree that pot causes cancer, however I don't know many pot heads that smoke 40 joints (1.5 packs of smokes)a day. A typical hardcore pothead, smokes maybe 4 or 5 a day. So the intake of carcinogens isn't comparable even if pot is 4 times more potent than tobacco.
lastly, I'd rather be inhaling pot particles than tar, and ammonia, as I wouldn't smoke asphalt, and those ingredients seem to be common, but that's just me.
Why give more funding to police. There's no real need for it in Canada. Half the freaking country is basically uninhabited. And even the large cities like toronto suffer from very low crime rates as far as big cities go.
If there is no real reason to police either because no one's breaking laws or the laws that are being broken are stupid and small, then why not give that funding to something useful like healthcare and education. Things people can actually use.
You seem to be forgetting one of the major elements as to why Canada isn't hated by many countries. We have no 'real' military. We've never really started any major wars, nor have we trained terrorists or sold them boatloads of weapons/supplies. Canada also never 'elected' any governments for any other countries. Which really gives them no reason to bomb us. We haven't really done any wrong to them, except allow them into the country as refugees.
It goes in realtime.. So 30 min takes 30 min to upload. The highspeed upload restriction is mainly in place to prevent bootlegging of both albums and concerts. Also I forgot to mention that RealONE, although a horrible media app in many circumstances, is actually quite nice for uploading to MD, as it has fewer restrictions than openMG and is not a pain in the butt to get running.
mini disc isn't that heavily guarded. Sure the OpenMG uploading BS is a drag but there are several ways around it that have been around since netMD premiered. Check minidisc t-station for details on how that workaround is done.
Furthermore, all parts of minidisc copy protection are easily avoided. With the exception of high speed uploading to PC
Still The hulk retains the same basic structure and figure of a human, and should behave accordingly. I have no problem with exaggeration, but there is a threshold, at which a creature either needs to show blatent stylization, or it become unbelievable.
Another reason that people complain about realism, is that the treatment of the hulk seems inconsistent with the rest of the surroundings. If your going to stylize one element (the hulk) then all things need the same treatment, or the single element is going to be funny or wrong looking based on it's inconsistency with everything else in the movie. The same goes for our judgment of his movements. If he looks like he should be human, then he should move like one.
I find that the LED traffic lights are far easier to see in both the daylight and the night. They don't seem to be effected by sunglare nearly as harshly as the coloured glass sodium bulbs do. Which is nice because it can be a bitch to try and figure out what colour the light is sometimes. (It's not super hard,just much harder than it should be). Whereas the LED's are always readable. At least that's my experience with them.
Not at all I would think.. Because Apple computers wouldn't directly be entering the music industry, Universal records would be. Vivendi labels nothing as coming from them.. Apple could easily do the same.
And after a few years, if they can squish all this technology into a tablet PC, that would be interesting. No need for external speakers or scanner, or camera. Just point your computer at something and take a picture of it.
I don't think the controller is really an issue anymore.. there is nothing stopping a developer from asking for a keyboard/mouse for a game. Both the PS2 and the Xbox have USB support, (although the xbox has a goofy connector, and the PS2 has a normal one) The hardware support is there, and even now there are a number of games that offer optional keyboard/mouse support released, I think halflife for PS2 is one such game, as is silent scope.
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I don't see why people hate legacy kit so much either. It works.. I have a 8 year old keyboard that has an AT connection with a PS/2 adaptor tacked on. It works perfecly, why the heck should I change it to a new USB keyboard? So I can blow $30(can) and get the same funtionality that I had before with the addition of some nifty access keys? Same thing goes for mice. Is there any real reason to upgrade a mouse that works. Sure you may need to clean a ball mouse, and it may not be the pinnacle of |33+ness but the newer models really offer no huge advantage over the older one. It's still just a keyboard or just a mouse.
I'm not disputing that USB/firewire, are far faster/better interfaces for perpherials, however, I see no reason to switch kit just becuase there is a new interface standard
Also in our constant quest for the latest and greatest, we should really consider how much waste is being created by the thousands of functioning units of hardware that are tossed solely because they are old hat. It's huge mass of waste, created solely because this equipment is "old" and not "attractive" even though it's completely servicable.
The article seems to think that if we change our keyboards, mice, and soundcards to the newest standards the world will be a better place. Meanwhile there are a few hundred tons of waste, created for no real reason. And the average user doesn't need super fast SATA drives or PCI express. So there's no need to change. When there is a need the general public will switch. Switching hardware just because it's new doesn't make economical or environmental sense..
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yep, reverse engineering is a big no no in the DMCA. Because that means you most likely had to break some sort of protection. Which means you're a big fat criminal!
I'm not saying that you are an idiot for being happy with the sound that is output with a G4 internal speaker, or even with a 128kpbs MP3. At least you know there is a difference. A lot of people don't, and I think that is upsetting, because they really don't know what they're missing.
My current setup isn't the greatest either, but it works. I don't have the money for a good set of separates, so an old reciever and speakers I got from my grandfather are going to have to do. I just have a problem with people spending a ton of money on crap-ier gear, when they could get the good stuff for marginally more money. Whether they've been brainwashed by advertising I don't really know, but it bothers me when companies make junk and profit, because of uneducated users.
I think the only people who will think that their monitor can also function as a sweet speaker, are the same people who cannot differentiate between a C.D and a 128kbps MP3, and sadly they still do exist. As with most things. The more functions a device tries to do simultaneously the greater the suckage of all operations performed.
For example, an integrated DVD/Tuner/Amp. They all blow in comparison to the separates. Of course there is a major difference in price, however that difference in price is there for a reason. I think that these speakers will end up being sub-par and make tons of little jitters and ripples on the display. I can just see heavy electronica making the entire screen ripple with every bass hit.
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Puh-leese. Basically they patented the use of energy based cataylsts. That's a pretty broad and all-encompassing patent. Sure when it was filed 40 years ago it was pretty novel. But I would really have to question why they haven't been enforcing these sweeping patents since they were granted in the 80's? Why now, Why did they wait so long, are the coffers running low? What better way to get more, than to sue someone else with a ridiculous patent that blankets a large area.
I'm seriously all for patents expiring in shorter periods of time, same thing with copyrights. I'm an artist, and I think it's great that I'll be able to benefit from my works during my life time, but do my grandchildren really need to have control of that work. Furthermore, do I really want them, the work will most likely be irrelavent, and I would rather someone else be able to use it for free..
Under your description, I would be ADD as well which is quite plausible. I find it very difficult if not annoying to try and focus on one thing. I need to multitask. Sure my performance on each task drops slightly as more tasks are added, but at the same time, I'm able to do all of them for a longer period of time, as opposed to doing them individually. Furthermore, I believe what the parent post says about gifted children is very VERY true. And that most of the ADD people I know are gifted in some respect. And instead of popping pills, they need to learn not only more effective personal learning skills that are more suitable to themselves but also they need to learn how they think. How one learns is a subject that is rarely covered in school. I think that if people better understood how and at what speed they learn, a lot of people wouldn't need meds. The same goes for the workplace. Some people need to do multiple things simultaneosly, and if they cannot they get bored with everything and do something that amuses them. Sounds a bit like ADD doesn't it. Overall drugs are an easy way out, instead of understanding their personal situation, doctors would rather cover up difficulties with drugs, and be done with it. Whereas courses teaching 'problem' people how to use thier brain could be far better..
I was just thinking, at the sizes they are proposing ie. 65nm wouldn't it be a task just keeping the metal gates solid? If the temperature inside the chip got too high wouldn't the very small pieces of metal melt really easy? As smaller things melt much easier than big things, and these gates are mighty small. But then again what do I know, I'm art student..
How can it be the death of bluetooth. I think they will have completely different uses. Headphones, and remote controls don't really need IP's as someone else pointed out.
.11g has a cooler name.
Furthermore, I see 802.11g(lite) as more useful for things like an iPod, albiet it will have slower transfer rates, but there's no wires!
I wouldn't consider bluetooth dead by a longshot, unless the low power
They'll develop special "thumby" guns that the trigger backwards along with the pistol grip, so they can shoot it like a cell phone.
Of course that completly stops people from blastin' caps like a gangsta but that's not a bad thing either.
Ummm if black and white aren't "colours" then the world you live in is a VERY vivid place, blindingly so. Most any colour contains various amounts of grey and black, they're called shadows, And you can't have shadows, pale colours or muted colours with out black and white. So unles you're one of the few inhabitants of crayola land. Black and white are integral to depth perception, as only flat colours make it hard to see depth. So I would have to say that you're exclusion of black as a colour is pretty silly.
I wouldn't say that they've caved into the Mhz myth, so much as the G4 processors have pretty much hit the top of their lifespan quite some time ago. This is just a natural progression, they needed a new processor, and Moto's offerings are pants, so they went with the 970, which is a darn good processor.
Furthermore, if they were really caving, they would have gone with a processor with a few more RPM.. 1.8Ghz? That's pretty weedy in the world of x86.. That's actually pathetic as far as "new" machinew would be concerned..
Well there are many ways to slaughter animals, but not too many of them are feasible at the scale at which chickens are usually done. You can gas the animals, It's not overly painful but then you need to keep a ton of poisonous gas around, and run the risk of accidentally gassing your co-workers, not good. Furthermore, I don't know much about chemistry but I can guess that eating gassed meat isn't too good for you. You can lethally inject the birds but then you'd need more syringes than an army of heroin junkies, and the cost is insane. And who would adminster the injections? a squad of specially trained monkeys I think not. However, injections are not too painful, but at the same time they can make the mean poisonous.. You can Chop all their heads off, while they're still running around. But that's really messy, and painful to boot, espescially if it's not done right because they keep running around. Not good. You could shoot them all, painful as hell, and uses a lot of ammo, and you'd need you own team of snipers for a bigger abatoir. Plus gun shot wounds are hard to explain at the grocery store. You could drop them off something high. But that would bruise them, amongst other wounds, and that's not good for the bottom line.. So I can't really think of anyother way to kill large amounts of small creatures. Sure electrocution is not the best way to do it, but I guess we just have to hope that some creative person can think of a way. Until that time, I think that the most cost/humanity ratio would have to be electrocution.
yeah because he's oh so limber, and flexible.. Christopher Walken is a great actor, but would be the worst Gollum ever, imagine, a 6ft tall gollum that's not so bendy, and more wraith like..
Not only do some people not play games, but also GPU's do what they do so well because they are specialized. I think that if they were made to do general functions as well their efficiency would decrease. Also the comment from the nvidia guy about the graphics card doing most of the work. In a game there are still physics and AI, and overhead calculations that all need to be done. Not many or none of these are covered by the GPU.
I agree completely that offloading tasks from the CPU is good, look at the Amiga, that was an amazing machine for its time. And the a huge part of its power can be accredited to it's multiple, separate and specialized processors. I think in the future we will see a shift towards that again, as transistor increases become no longer feasible.
But then what do I know..
Furthermore, I completely agree that pot causes cancer, however I don't know many pot heads that smoke 40 joints (1.5 packs of smokes)a day. A typical hardcore pothead, smokes maybe 4 or 5 a day. So the intake of carcinogens isn't comparable even if pot is 4 times more potent than tobacco.
lastly, I'd rather be inhaling pot particles than tar, and ammonia, as I wouldn't smoke asphalt, and those ingredients seem to be common, but that's just me.
Why give more funding to police. There's no real need for it in Canada. Half the freaking country is basically uninhabited. And even the large cities like toronto suffer from very low crime rates as far as big cities go.
If there is no real reason to police either because no one's breaking laws or the laws that are being broken are stupid and small, then why not give that funding to something useful like healthcare and education. Things people can actually use.
You seem to be forgetting one of the major elements as to why Canada isn't hated by many countries. We have no 'real' military. We've never really started any major wars, nor have we trained terrorists or sold them boatloads of weapons/supplies. Canada also never 'elected' any governments for any other countries. Which really gives them no reason to bomb us. We haven't really done any wrong to them, except allow them into the country as refugees.
It goes in realtime.. So 30 min takes 30 min to upload. The highspeed upload restriction is mainly in place to prevent bootlegging of both albums and concerts. Also I forgot to mention that RealONE, although a horrible media app in many circumstances, is actually quite nice for uploading to MD, as it has fewer restrictions than openMG and is not a pain in the butt to get running.
Furthermore, all parts of minidisc copy protection are easily avoided. With the exception of high speed uploading to PC
Still The hulk retains the same basic structure and figure of a human, and should behave accordingly. I have no problem with exaggeration, but there is a threshold, at which a creature either needs to show blatent stylization, or it become unbelievable. Another reason that people complain about realism, is that the treatment of the hulk seems inconsistent with the rest of the surroundings. If your going to stylize one element (the hulk) then all things need the same treatment, or the single element is going to be funny or wrong looking based on it's inconsistency with everything else in the movie. The same goes for our judgment of his movements. If he looks like he should be human, then he should move like one.
I find that the LED traffic lights are far easier to see in both the daylight and the night. They don't seem to be effected by sunglare nearly as harshly as the coloured glass sodium bulbs do. Which is nice because it can be a bitch to try and figure out what colour the light is sometimes. (It's not super hard,just much harder than it should be). Whereas the LED's are always readable. At least that's my experience with them.
Not at all I would think.. Because Apple computers wouldn't directly be entering the music industry, Universal records would be. Vivendi labels nothing as coming from them.. Apple could easily do the same.
And after a few years, if they can squish all this technology into a tablet PC, that would be interesting. No need for external speakers or scanner, or camera. Just point your computer at something and take a picture of it.
This has great applications for two way interactive pr0n, until the screen gets all sticky, and gross that is..
I don't think the controller is really an issue anymore.. there is nothing stopping a developer from asking for a keyboard/mouse for a game. Both the PS2 and the Xbox have USB support, (although the xbox has a goofy connector, and the PS2 has a normal one) The hardware support is there, and even now there are a number of games that offer optional keyboard/mouse support released, I think halflife for PS2 is one such game, as is silent scope.
I don't see why people hate legacy kit so much either. It works.. I have a 8 year old keyboard that has an AT connection with a PS/2 adaptor tacked on. It works perfecly, why the heck should I change it to a new USB keyboard? So I can blow $30(can) and get the same funtionality that I had before with the addition of some nifty access keys? Same thing goes for mice. Is there any real reason to upgrade a mouse that works. Sure you may need to clean a ball mouse, and it may not be the pinnacle of |33+ness but the newer models really offer no huge advantage over the older one. It's still just a keyboard or just a mouse.
I'm not disputing that USB/firewire, are far faster/better interfaces for perpherials, however, I see no reason to switch kit just becuase there is a new interface standard
Also in our constant quest for the latest and greatest, we should really consider how much waste is being created by the thousands of functioning units of hardware that are tossed solely because they are old hat. It's huge mass of waste, created solely because this equipment is "old" and not "attractive" even though it's completely servicable.
The article seems to think that if we change our keyboards, mice, and soundcards to the newest standards the world will be a better place. Meanwhile there are a few hundred tons of waste, created for no real reason. And the average user doesn't need super fast SATA drives or PCI express. So there's no need to change. When there is a need the general public will switch. Switching hardware just because it's new doesn't make economical or environmental sense..
yep, reverse engineering is a big no no in the DMCA. Because that means you most likely had to break some sort of protection. Which means you're a big fat criminal!
My current setup isn't the greatest either, but it works. I don't have the money for a good set of separates, so an old reciever and speakers I got from my grandfather are going to have to do. I just have a problem with people spending a ton of money on crap-ier gear, when they could get the good stuff for marginally more money. Whether they've been brainwashed by advertising I don't really know, but it bothers me when companies make junk and profit, because of uneducated users.
I think the only people who will think that their monitor can also function as a sweet speaker, are the same people who cannot differentiate between a C.D and a 128kbps MP3, and sadly they still do exist. As with most things. The more functions a device tries to do simultaneously the greater the suckage of all operations performed.
For example, an integrated DVD/Tuner/Amp. They all blow in comparison to the separates. Of course there is a major difference in price, however that difference in price is there for a reason. I think that these speakers will end up being sub-par and make tons of little jitters and ripples on the display. I can just see heavy electronica making the entire screen ripple with every bass hit.