Try telling that to the officer when you get a speeding ticket. "Well, I was going as fast as everyone else."
Bad analogy... I'm not sure if it's totally legal, but (at least here in the US) if the traffic on the highway is all doing 70mph, then no cop will pull you over for doing 70.
OTOH, if the overall traffic flow is going at 55 mph, then you have no excuse to be over 55 mph.
It would start as a DVD-RW with the movie on it, and then with the magic chemical on top. After 48 hours, rather than making it unreadable, it triggers a reaction that erased the DVD.
Then it could be used in a vanilla DVD burner for anything.
That gets rid of all the environmental problems: When you're done watching it, reuse it!
> In the interview, Gates said it's up to other companies to ensure interoperability. > > "I don't know what's going to be capable there. I don't do the software on those systems," he > said. "I don't hold the keys. If they do the implementation, then it's like saying they have > the same features as every other thing we do in Windows. It's up to them."
Weeelll... If Bill _lets_ people implement it, and doesn't sue them into oblivion for doing so, then I don't see any problem.
OTOH, he says that implementing it would be "like saying they have the same peatures as every other thing we do in Windows"... so then he might pick up the Cursed +3 Hammer of DMCA...
Well, that's the thing. Some of those images took on the order of 90 hours (yes, three-and-three-quarters days) to render, although that's at high resolution.
Assuming Moore's Law holds true, that's ~25 years until we can get them at 30fps.
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Try telling that to the officer when you get a speeding ticket. "Well, I was going as fast as everyone else."
Bad analogy... I'm not sure if it's totally legal, but (at least here in the US) if the traffic on the highway is all doing 70mph, then no cop will pull you over for doing 70.
OTOH, if the overall traffic flow is going at 55 mph, then you have no excuse to be over 55 mph.
You volunteering? :-)
I have to disagree. The music for the first movie was awesome. The second wasn't nearly as noticable.
You fool!
93% of all statistics are made up!
Well, the obvious answer is...
Duh!
Ah, but how do they define "functionally important" DNA? Wouldn't that actually be "DNA that we think is important"?
Keep in mind that we don't know what the majority of the human genome does.
Why not have it decay into a regular DVD-RW?
It would start as a DVD-RW with the movie on it, and then with the magic chemical on top. After 48 hours, rather than making it unreadable, it triggers a reaction that erased the DVD.
Then it could be used in a vanilla DVD burner for anything.
That gets rid of all the environmental problems: When you're done watching it, reuse it!
Actually, you're wrong. _Replies_ to FPs are much, much lamer. ... But what does that make this post?
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> In the interview, Gates said it's up to other companies to ensure interoperability.
>
> "I don't know what's going to be capable there. I don't do the software on those systems," he
> said. "I don't hold the keys. If they do the implementation, then it's like saying they have
> the same features as every other thing we do in Windows. It's up to them."
Weeelll... If Bill _lets_ people implement it, and doesn't sue them into oblivion for doing so, then I don't see any problem.
OTOH, he says that implementing it would be "like saying they have the same peatures as every other thing we do in Windows"... so then he might pick up the Cursed +3 Hammer of DMCA...
Assuming Moore's Law holds true, that's ~25 years until we can get them at 30fps.
Well, in a few places, we have. Check out the Internet Ray Tracing Competition - some of those images certainly could have fooled me.
No, no, not Jefferson - Patrick Henry. See the cartoon by rms.
That means that there's pollution on your computer.
You're dual-booting with Windows XP, aren't you?
WTF?