> I never confronted my opponent with the
> question, "Am I playing Bobby
> Fischer?" I did ask him, however, who was the
> strongest blitz chess-player
> he had ever played. His response was, "If I am
> who you think I am, I would
> answer Mikhail Tal."
New definition of intelligence: can you convince Nigel Short you are Bobby Fischer.
>You should get better gas mileage when your
>turbochargers are running.
That is ridiculous. You obviously do not have any idea how an ECU works.
>The rotary engine is far more efficient because
>you never have to stop the pistons- 50% of the
>horsepower that comes out of a standard engine
>is wasted on reversing the direction of the
>pistons.
"The advantages to a rotary engine are a complete balancing of masses, a compact design, and no need of a complex valvetrain. The disadvantages are unfavorable combustion chamber shapes, higher emissions, and higher fuel consumption."
See also just about every FAQ ever written on the RX-7.
For the record, they are not more fuel effecient. Its a well known shortcomming of rotary engines. My RX7 sucks gas like a school bus (especially when that second turbo kicks in:-).
>If so, do they also own every number that can be
>derived mathematically from them?
>
>If not, can we legally store any copyrighted
>files with say 1 subtracted from the number?
By subtracting one and then telling a person you have to add one to the number, you haven't changed the information content of the message. This is the case for any such transformation, be it gzip or PGP. Clearly the message is under the same copyright.
Anything can be encoded as a number, including the ASCII string 'McDonalds'.
Where is the FSF, EFF, SPI, LPF, and a couple of other TLAs I probably missed? I mean, RMS spends all his days writing and lecturing on this stuff, and then doesn't send a sumbission to LOC? What's up?
I was just over at the developer site, and it looks like Monty has been discouraging optimization until recently in the name of getting things stable (beating off with stick were his words). I'd expect we'll see much better CPU usage in the near future.
The company I work for signed on to NEXTSTEP in a big way in 1993. A lot of people don't realize, but after NeXT stopped selling hardware, it was ported it to Intel, HPPA, and Solaris. Actually is was rebranded as OPENSTEP by the time it was ported to Solaris but that is splitting hairs.
Apple bought NeXT a long time ago now (1996?). Our company switched over to the dark side of the force at the same time. Our sales staff just could not sell NEXTSTEP no matter how great the application software was, and if you think about the timeframe, selling Apple was out of the question as well.
I miss programming on NEXTSTEP, especially the Display Postscript.
The move to Linux, IMHO, was never really intended. By proving that they could switch to Linux and save money, the OEMs demonstrated to MS that they had to stop charging for WinCE, which they announced what, a week or two ago?
Does anyone have a link to a press release on this? I went to the MS site but couldn't find any reference. There have been lots of rumors of them opening the source, but no word I have seen on giving it away.
Looks to me like the author of the television show has exclusive right to authorize broadcast, except in special cases explicitly authorized by legislation.
Exactly. Canada explicitly excepts real-time transmission of broadcast as long as the advertising remains intact, because they believe this does not reasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author. Ken
I wonder how long it will take before convergence actually happens. If the networks had behaved like this 50 years ago, TV as we know it would have never happened.
What were the vote results? Its all fine and nice to know Linus won the best open source advocate, but we want to know how RMS, ESR, and all the other TLAs did.
I run a small ISP. I called our upstream, and asked. "Mbone isn't available."
"What if I really want it? What if my customers demand it?"
"You'll have to pay for all engineering expenses involved, as well as agree that we have no liability if it doesn't work."
That's easy. Change your upstream provider.
Look; if enough end users demand multicast, then ISPs will provide it because the end users will change their ISP to someone that does. And if enough ISPs want to provide multicast to their end users, then upstream providers will have to provide it to keep their ISPs.
Things like iCraveTV might just be the killer app that multicast needs to take off. If I go over to some neighbor that has ADSL and flawless TV because of multicast, what do you think I am going to do as a consumer?
The CRTC has taken a pretty bold position by keeping their hands off the Net. It might be that Fox and the NFL win this round (and its not clear to me that they will), this is a short term problem.
As Net bandwidth increases, they will just move these sites to another country -- Russia, Mexico, Taiwan, wherever. That's already the case with online Casinos.
Also, the networks (even Fox) will eventually have to join the Net anyway. Say they win this case. CITY TV and CBC give iCrave permission to rebroadcast anyway. Since the CBC is paid for by Canadian taxpayers, I can hardly see them not giving iCrave permission to rebroadcast to Canadians. Now CITY/CBC get all the Net viewers and Fox looses out. I can't see how that helps Fox's bottom line.
Does anyone know what the intrinsic cost to manufacture these things is? In the last 15 years we have seen "consumer" monitor size increase from around 10" to 15" (call it 14" to 19" if you prefer). Will it take another 15 years to see another 5 inch increase? Monitors just don't seem to follow Moore's Law.
Having grown up watching Cosmos and reading his books, I can't but idolize the man.
This story reminds me though of when he sued Apple for naming a project after him. The people on the development team them renamed the project to BHA, and he sued again.
Perhaps Carl should have taken another toke and lightened up a little.
There just isn't enough bandwidth for video. I used to watch the Jenni show on The Sync, but I can rarely get video lately -- just choppy audio, and I have a 1/4 T1 in a major metro area. If this stuff starts to really take off, someone has to get serious about multicasting/mbone.
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> I never confronted my opponent with the
> question, "Am I playing Bobby
> Fischer?" I did ask him, however, who was the
> strongest blitz chess-player
> he had ever played. His response was, "If I am
> who you think I am, I would
> answer Mikhail Tal."
New definition of intelligence: can you convince Nigel Short you are Bobby Fischer.
Ken
>You should get better gas mileage when your
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>turbochargers are running.
That is ridiculous. You obviously do not have any idea how an ECU works.
>The rotary engine is far more efficient because
>you never have to stop the pistons- 50% of the
>horsepower that comes out of a standard engine
>is wasted on reversing the direction of the
>pistons.
68.9 percent of all statistics are made up.
See:
http://www.edmunds.com/news/innovations/article
"The advantages to a rotary engine are a complete balancing of masses, a compact design, and no need of a complex valvetrain. The disadvantages are unfavorable combustion chamber shapes, higher emissions, and higher fuel consumption."
See also just about every FAQ ever written on the RX-7.
Ken
For the record, they are not more fuel effecient. Its a well known shortcomming of rotary engines. My RX7 sucks gas like a school bus (especially when that second turbo kicks in :-).
Ken
If I take your car, then only I have your car.
If I take your idea, then we both have your idea.
See the difference?
Ken
Funny you should use this example. Reform of pharmaceutical patents is needed at least as bad as software patents.
Ken
>If so, do they also own every number that can be
>derived mathematically from them?
>
>If not, can we legally store any copyrighted
>files with say 1 subtracted from the number?
By subtracting one and then telling a person you have to add one to the number, you haven't changed the information content of the message. This is the case for any such transformation, be it gzip or PGP. Clearly the message is under the same copyright.
Anything can be encoded as a number, including the ASCII string 'McDonalds'.
Ken
Check out the date on the press release -- March 15, 2000. This is not news.
Ken
Where is the FSF, EFF, SPI, LPF, and a couple of other TLAs I probably missed? I mean, RMS spends all his days writing and lecturing on this stuff, and then doesn't send a sumbission to LOC? What's up?
Ken
I was just over at the developer site, and it looks like Monty has been discouraging optimization until recently in the name of getting things stable (beating off with stick were his words). I'd expect we'll see much better CPU usage in the near future.
Ken
The company I work for signed on to NEXTSTEP in a big way in 1993. A lot of people don't realize, but after NeXT stopped selling hardware, it was ported it to Intel, HPPA, and Solaris. Actually is was rebranded as OPENSTEP by the time it was ported to Solaris but that is splitting hairs.
Apple bought NeXT a long time ago now (1996?). Our company switched over to the dark side of the force at the same time. Our sales staff just could not sell NEXTSTEP no matter how great the application software was, and if you think about the timeframe, selling Apple was out of the question as well.
I miss programming on NEXTSTEP, especially the Display Postscript.
Ken
Does anyone have a link to a press release on this? I went to the MS site but couldn't find any reference. There have been lots of rumors of them opening the source, but no word I have seen on giving it away.
Ken
That is not true. Check out this.
I have a 1994 RX-7 twin turbo.
Ken
Exactly. Canada explicitly excepts real-time transmission of broadcast as long as the advertising remains intact, because they believe this does not reasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author. Ken
Re-read your copy of the Berne Convention. You don't know what you are talking about.
Ken
I wonder how long it will take before convergence actually happens. If the networks had behaved like this 50 years ago, TV as we know it would have never happened.
Ken
Welcome to Moore's Law. Ain't exponential growth great?
Ken
What were the vote results? Its all fine and nice to know Linus won the best open source advocate, but we want to know how RMS, ESR, and all the other TLAs did.
Ken
I run a small ISP. I called our upstream,
and asked. "Mbone isn't available."
"What if I really want it? What
if my customers demand it?"
"You'll have to pay for all engineering
expenses involved, as well as agree that
we have no liability if it doesn't work."
That's easy. Change your upstream provider.
Look; if enough end users demand multicast, then ISPs will provide it because the end users will change their ISP to someone that does. And if enough ISPs want to provide multicast to their end users, then upstream providers will have to provide it to keep their ISPs.
Things like iCraveTV might just be the killer app that multicast needs to take off. If I go over to some neighbor that has ADSL and flawless TV because of multicast, what do you think I am going to do as a consumer?
Ken
The CRTC has taken a pretty bold position by keeping their hands off the Net. It might be that Fox and the NFL win this round (and its not clear to me that they will), this is a short term problem.
As Net bandwidth increases, they will just move these sites to another country -- Russia, Mexico, Taiwan, wherever. That's already the case with online Casinos.
Also, the networks (even Fox) will eventually have to join the Net anyway. Say they win this case. CITY TV and CBC give iCrave permission to rebroadcast anyway. Since the CBC is paid for by Canadian taxpayers, I can hardly see them not giving iCrave permission to rebroadcast to Canadians. Now CITY/CBC get all the Net viewers and Fox looses out. I can't see how that helps Fox's bottom line.
Ken
Does anyone know what the intrinsic cost to manufacture these things is? In the last 15 years we have seen "consumer" monitor size increase from around 10" to 15" (call it 14" to 19" if you prefer). Will it take another 15 years to see another 5 inch increase? Monitors just don't seem to follow Moore's Law.
Ken
Having grown up watching Cosmos and reading his books, I can't but idolize the man.
This story reminds me though of when he sued Apple for naming a project after him. The people on the development team them renamed the project to BHA, and he sued again.
Perhaps Carl should have taken another toke and lightened up a little.
Ken
There just isn't enough bandwidth for video. I used to watch the Jenni show on The Sync, but I can rarely get video lately -- just choppy audio, and I have a 1/4 T1 in a major metro area. If this stuff starts to really take off, someone has to get serious about multicasting/mbone.
Ken