I'd be the same. If, say, a group of scientists from New Zealand cured a life-dehabilitating desease I had then I'd quite graciously say "Thanks, Mate. May all your girlfriends bear fine wool".
(ahem, sorry for any easily offended new zealanders out there)
*sigh* you're american so I suppose I can forgive you for ignorance.
</joke>
For pretty much everyone who speaks English (as opposed to American) until perhaps very recently it goes like this:
10^3: Thousand
10^6: Million
10^9: Millard (not commonly used)
10^12: Billion
10^15: Billard (not commonly used)
10^18: Trillian
and so on.
According to their meanings, Million means one set of 6 zeros. Billion means two sets of 6 zeros. Trillion means three, and then there's quadrillion, quintillion etc.
Officially in science the newer "short scale" (which is the scale you are mentioning) is used. I'm pretty sure it's now officially the scale of Britain and Australia. However, especially when the audience of a specific paper is international, saying "one thousand million" or "one million million" or, much better, "10^9", avoids confusion, since it is not official in all countries. However looking back at the comment I just made, saying "1000 billion" avoids no confusion, since it could read "10^12" or "10^15", perhaps it means "10^15" since he didn't say "trillion". I don't know, I haven't read the article.
Yes they are. The European antitrust commission said they have to allow competitors access to their documentation because they are using their proprietary formats to block out third party competitors, and this most definitely stifles and even halts innovation. Microsoft are just arguing about "at what cost?".
In addition, the GPL is only under distribution. You can use the software in whatever way you like, but if you distribute it then you have to agree to the terms under the GPL.
However the Microsoft agreement is not similar to the GPL in any way since you are just licensing the documentation of the format under the terms that you pay Microsoft money, you don't distribute it and you don't use it in any open source projects. You also have to give Microsoft privelages to your software including auditing, create your own implimentation, and agree to put all the proposed "features" in your software (i.e. DRM and palladium) and add new features if Microsoft decides to impliment them. To even read or use the documentation you have to agree to their license.
I know you're a troll, but you got +5 insightful so I'll respond. Graphics in a game like FreeCiv is representation of real-world terrain or weapons. Pictures of mountains, even if they aren't very good, even if they are just pointy triangles, would be perfectly acceptable in a game like FreeCiv because you look at them and think "ah there's mountains". And so they act and behave like mountains. That's all they have to do. FreeCiv models the real world, maybe not accurately but it still tries. The most important thing about a unit being a howitzer isn't its stats but the fact that it's supposed to be, and act like, a howitzer. It is obviously not identical gameplay or functionality if it doesn't model the real world.
Your point is both stupid and null anyway because they weren't arguing about functionality at all. Your parent wasn't saying anything that would make the game have a steeper learning curve, or change gameplay whatsoever, and his parent was only wanting prettier pictures of exactly the same symbolic representation.
It wasn't even designed to kill unix. It was designed to run on a 386, that's all. People like the developers of Apache have adapted it into a Unix-killer, and people like the developers of KDE and Gnome have now adapted it into a Windows-killer. Though I think Windows won't go down without a fight, if at all. I don't actually see how Windows is winning. Linux has been *very* slowly but quite steadily gaining market share, and these things happen exponentially as word-of-mouth advertising increases. Nothings for sure, but the pendulum is currently only swinging one way.
ha! I'm sorry mate for not having mod points but that was exactly the thing I was thinking when reading it - "This just doesn't make sense. Surely it's randomly generated because no human with any sort of common sense wrote this!"
in my opinion the newest version of kpdf is just as good (if not better) than acrobat reader, however that is for my purposes - I rather an unbloated piece of software that does exactly what I want without all this other crap that tends to get in the way.
However I haven't found a kpdf firefox plugin so I'm using acrobat reader.
I thought it would be rather interesting to create a program the randomly creates musical works. In fact, I would like it to create millions or billions of these works and to submit them for copyright:)
I think it would be possible to create every possible permutation of a 4 bar, or heck up to 16 bar melody, rhythm and harmony.
Then I could sue any new release by any record company 8D
But then songwriters will find that some permutations infringe on their copyright and you'd be sued for billions.
A simple search for moores law on google will give you this page which includes the original paper. Though the original paper is "dumbized" so it doesn't include all the nitty gritty details so . . .
There is a web site that I went to for a more detailed description than he actually put in his paper, but I don't know the URL anymore.
Though of course your post is a joke, the answer is no. Moores law itself wasn't just a number that he pulled out of his arse, but a serious study of transistors and statistics. But back then approaching the size of the atom with a transistor must have seemed a *very* remote idea. As the summary says holding for forty years is an achievement in itself.
That said CPU power isn't just a measure of transistor density anymore (it was at least in Intel propoganda for a while), as you can see with the dual core and 64 bit developments. There's still plenty of juice left to be squeazed out of the current design before it's squeazed out.
I don't know, but there's something a bit chilling about automatic updates when it doesn't say explicitly what you're downloading before you download it (and when I say that I don't mean "patch 123A314"), even if I'm already trusting Microsoft by using their operating system. I just plain don't like it when I'm downloading and installing new stuff but I don't know what I'm downloading, whoever it's from. Perhaps I'm just too used to the symantics of apt-get and synaptic.
why on earth would they put a pirate version of Windows on there? These aren't computer scientists or even geeks, these are poor people who know almost nothing about computers. Given a year they couldn't tell the difference between KDE and Windows XP.
No if the government gives them linux then they'll use linux simply because they wouldn't even know any alternatives exist!
not so much in Australia. Though ISPs will forward emails sent from RIAA and MIAA etc there is no action taken, and the identity of the IP addresses aren't disclosed.
They should know that noone will listen to them, because they make most of their money out of noone listening to the linux and mac zealots telling people about (arguably) better operating systems than Windows.
The Brazillian people will use what the Brazillian government give them, and couldn't give a fuck what operating system they use. Perhaps if their plan is a success (and I can't see it not being a success) other second/third world countries will follow suit and heavily promote linux.
So what you're saying is that you've never seen a windows machine crash when it has an AMD chip in there? From my personal experience the "bad driver, bad CPU" cases happen just as often on the Intel side as the AMD side, and it seems that it's just pure bad luck if it happens.
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Probably (arigatoo gozaimasu).
I'd be the same. If, say, a group of scientists from New Zealand cured a life-dehabilitating desease I had then I'd quite graciously say "Thanks, Mate. May all your girlfriends bear fine wool".
(ahem, sorry for any easily offended new zealanders out there)
Well I'm feeling awfully sharp today, I don't know about you.
*sigh* you're american so I suppose I can forgive you for ignorance.
</joke>
For pretty much everyone who speaks English (as opposed to American) until perhaps very recently it goes like this:
10^3: Thousand
10^6: Million
10^9: Millard (not commonly used)
10^12: Billion
10^15: Billard (not commonly used)
10^18: Trillian
and so on.
According to their meanings, Million means one set of 6 zeros. Billion means two sets of 6 zeros. Trillion means three, and then there's quadrillion, quintillion etc.
Officially in science the newer "short scale" (which is the scale you are mentioning) is used. I'm pretty sure it's now officially the scale of Britain and Australia. However, especially when the audience of a specific paper is international, saying "one thousand million" or "one million million" or, much better, "10^9", avoids confusion, since it is not official in all countries. However looking back at the comment I just made, saying "1000 billion" avoids no confusion, since it could read "10^12" or "10^15", perhaps it means "10^15" since he didn't say "trillion". I don't know, I haven't read the article.
So. . . umm . . . when's BeaKle coming out?
Try creating a table in word > 2 pages long. Try importing said document into another version of word. Now tell me again word is not flawed :-)
Yes they are. The European antitrust commission said they have to allow competitors access to their documentation because they are using their proprietary formats to block out third party competitors, and this most definitely stifles and even halts innovation. Microsoft are just arguing about "at what cost?".
In addition, the GPL is only under distribution. You can use the software in whatever way you like, but if you distribute it then you have to agree to the terms under the GPL.
However the Microsoft agreement is not similar to the GPL in any way since you are just licensing the documentation of the format under the terms that you pay Microsoft money, you don't distribute it and you don't use it in any open source projects. You also have to give Microsoft privelages to your software including auditing, create your own implimentation, and agree to put all the proposed "features" in your software (i.e. DRM and palladium) and add new features if Microsoft decides to impliment them. To even read or use the documentation you have to agree to their license.
I know you're a troll, but you got +5 insightful so I'll respond. Graphics in a game like FreeCiv is representation of real-world terrain or weapons. Pictures of mountains, even if they aren't very good, even if they are just pointy triangles, would be perfectly acceptable in a game like FreeCiv because you look at them and think "ah there's mountains". And so they act and behave like mountains. That's all they have to do. FreeCiv models the real world, maybe not accurately but it still tries. The most important thing about a unit being a howitzer isn't its stats but the fact that it's supposed to be, and act like, a howitzer. It is obviously not identical gameplay or functionality if it doesn't model the real world.
Your point is both stupid and null anyway because they weren't arguing about functionality at all. Your parent wasn't saying anything that would make the game have a steeper learning curve, or change gameplay whatsoever, and his parent was only wanting prettier pictures of exactly the same symbolic representation.
You should be able to run under FreeDos, DosBox, Wine, or Cedega, depending on what version of Settlers you want.
cool. Thanks so much!
You obviously have to give the source code (the original email) along with the encrypted binary.
No it doesn't. He means a burn-on-the-fly feature where if you paste a file to that folder it immediately starts burning.
I have but it's embedding xpdf (which I detest) by default.
It wasn't even designed to kill unix. It was designed to run on a 386, that's all. People like the developers of Apache have adapted it into a Unix-killer, and people like the developers of KDE and Gnome have now adapted it into a Windows-killer. Though I think Windows won't go down without a fight, if at all. I don't actually see how Windows is winning. Linux has been *very* slowly but quite steadily gaining market share, and these things happen exponentially as word-of-mouth advertising increases. Nothings for sure, but the pendulum is currently only swinging one way.
ha! I'm sorry mate for not having mod points but that was exactly the thing I was thinking when reading it - "This just doesn't make sense. Surely it's randomly generated because no human with any sort of common sense wrote this!"
in my opinion the newest version of kpdf is just as good (if not better) than acrobat reader, however that is for my purposes - I rather an unbloated piece of software that does exactly what I want without all this other crap that tends to get in the way.
However I haven't found a kpdf firefox plugin so I'm using acrobat reader.
A simple search for moores law on google will give you this page which includes the original paper. Though the original paper is "dumbized" so it doesn't include all the nitty gritty details so . . .
There is a web site that I went to for a more detailed description than he actually put in his paper, but I don't know the URL anymore.
Though of course your post is a joke, the answer is no. Moores law itself wasn't just a number that he pulled out of his arse, but a serious study of transistors and statistics. But back then approaching the size of the atom with a transistor must have seemed a *very* remote idea. As the summary says holding for forty years is an achievement in itself.
That said CPU power isn't just a measure of transistor density anymore (it was at least in Intel propoganda for a while), as you can see with the dual core and 64 bit developments. There's still plenty of juice left to be squeazed out of the current design before it's squeazed out.
I don't know, but there's something a bit chilling about automatic updates when it doesn't say explicitly what you're downloading before you download it (and when I say that I don't mean "patch 123A314"), even if I'm already trusting Microsoft by using their operating system. I just plain don't like it when I'm downloading and installing new stuff but I don't know what I'm downloading, whoever it's from. Perhaps I'm just too used to the symantics of apt-get and synaptic.
why on earth would they put a pirate version of Windows on there? These aren't computer scientists or even geeks, these are poor people who know almost nothing about computers. Given a year they couldn't tell the difference between KDE and Windows XP.
No if the government gives them linux then they'll use linux simply because they wouldn't even know any alternatives exist!
not so much in Australia. Though ISPs will forward emails sent from RIAA and MIAA etc there is no action taken, and the identity of the IP addresses aren't disclosed.
They should know that noone will listen to them, because they make most of their money out of noone listening to the linux and mac zealots telling people about (arguably) better operating systems than Windows.
The Brazillian people will use what the Brazillian government give them, and couldn't give a fuck what operating system they use. Perhaps if their plan is a success (and I can't see it not being a success) other second/third world countries will follow suit and heavily promote linux.
So what you're saying is that you've never seen a windows machine crash when it has an AMD chip in there? From my personal experience the "bad driver, bad CPU" cases happen just as often on the Intel side as the AMD side, and it seems that it's just pure bad luck if it happens.
Anything that has breasts in it is fine with me...