If you think you can find enough Asimov to read it forever, I encourage you to do so. I always thought they were good scifi, but then I took a social science class and realized that the Foundation and the Robot series were presenting sociological theories that directly respond to and explain at least Emile Durkheim's writings. (Am I recommending Emile Durkheim's Division of Labor? I dunno. Maybe. Certainly isn't scifi though.) I found that to be pretty cool. Also, anything by David Zindell is pretty awesome. See my Slashdot review of The Broken God by Zindell.
Uhhh...xmms is gpl'ed. I think that means the current code will forever be free. Maybe new stuff could conceivably be charged for, but in their little irc conference, the xmms people said 1.0 would definitely be free. I have no intention of debating what they meant by "free", but I imagine they meant "GPL". Also, the file plugins.h or whatever the plugin api is based on is no longer GPL, so anyone can write their own for profit module. I consider this a Good Thing, but I bet someone will disagree with me.
The new plugin they just announced costs $10, but I just tried the demo version, and it's definitely worth it. Also, some of the proceeds go to xmms development, and I think that's not too bad.
If you click on the images box at the top of the application, you can see the images referenced in the application. Among them is a diagram of what this invention does. The same applies to Transmeta's other 3 patents. I have no idea what I'm looking at, but hopefully someone else will be able to say something inteligent about the pictures.
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If you think you can find enough Asimov to read it forever, I encourage you to do so. I always thought they were good scifi, but then I took a social science class and realized that the Foundation and the Robot series were presenting sociological theories that directly respond to and explain at least Emile Durkheim's writings. (Am I recommending Emile Durkheim's Division of Labor? I dunno. Maybe. Certainly isn't scifi though.) I found that to be pretty cool. Also, anything by David Zindell is pretty awesome. See my Slashdot review of The Broken God by Zindell.
Uhhh...xmms is gpl'ed. I think that means the current code will forever be free. Maybe new stuff could conceivably be charged for, but in their little irc conference, the xmms people said 1.0 would definitely be free. I have no intention of debating what they meant by "free", but I imagine they meant "GPL". Also, the file plugins.h or whatever the plugin api is based on is no longer GPL, so anyone can write their own for profit module. I consider this a Good Thing, but I bet someone will disagree with me.
The new plugin they just announced costs $10, but I just tried the demo version, and it's definitely worth it. Also, some of the proceeds go to xmms development, and I think that's not too bad.
If you click on the images box at the top of the application, you can see the images referenced in the application. Among them is a diagram of what this invention does. The same applies to Transmeta's other 3 patents. I have no idea what I'm looking at, but hopefully someone else will be able to say something inteligent about the pictures.