All he's done is get a bunch of "virtual monkeys" to recreate many 9-character works of Shakespeare. Putting them in order wasn't done randomly... and it's the *order* of the words (or characters or bits or whatever arbitrary length of data you decide to use) that makes it a Shakespearian work!
I'll bet he chose "9" because it was the biggest he could make it without it "taking too long."
I have a design for a "ride" that involves a long, slow climb up a large staircase, followed by a massive fall and one strategically placed sidewalk. I think it's the future of euthanasia!
Yeah. It's not like it's even a war or anything useful.
It's fucking awesome in the way that the invention of the telescope was. Or in the way that getting eye surgery and being able to see better than you have for the past 20 years is. Or in the way that being able to discover something new is.
Sorry, but nothing microsoft does is a "good thing". Even if they do something that seems good or even is short-term kinda nice, as soon as they can use it to strangle competition, they will. If you get into bed with microsoft just because they have a van that says "candy" on it, you're going to wake up with a sore ass. You can call me unfair, but I've seen it happen too many times to care, and I just can't listen to "I'll change baby! Promise!" any more.
A university is free to find funding elsewhere and still file patents.
Just not if they accept any Intel money. In a sense they're selling a bit of their freedom (like you might working for someone who says you can't also work for anyone else. And like that example, it's probably well worth it to do, for most).
I've figured out where my confusion comes from. The root of this for me is a loss of freedom required by Intel, which has me asking "How is that good?" And yet I realize that this move IS good for everybody. Everyone benefits, except maybe it's a step back for "large corporations making a killing on patents for things they didn't invent", which is also a good thing. But another root of the story is that Intel is funding universities, which is also good. My confusion is in missing that, and thinking that the story is about how a corporation acting "less evil than others" is treated as Mother Teresa.
Because for me, this would only have anything to do with reducing patent misuse, if Intel was making a commitment to doing some of the same that they're requiring of the universities.
I don't understand. "You can't patent things. We're going to keep patenting things." How is that not anti-competitive?
Or yes... Intel is NOT acting anticompetitive when it comes to dictating what others should do (ensuring that others avoid making everything worse for everybody else), just not when it comes to what they do themselves. Wow... how noble.
Did I miss something that a little RTFA might clear up?
In the future, the hardware will be free. The software will be free. You won't be able to use any of it though, because the patent portfolios will not be free, and they will not be cheap. We'll have to purchase separate patent license agreements from each of whatever handful of companies survives this apocalypse.
A: "Cool, what's that?" B: "It's the iPhone 9." A: "But... it's got color icons!" B: "Oh, yeah... I downloaded the Samsung 'folio from the patent store." A: "Doesn't that cost six trillion US yuan???" B: "Nah I have a jailbroken patent manager!" A: "Coooool. Color icons."
I RTFA and I looked up the raspberry pi on wikipedia, but I must be dum cuz I still don't know if it has any special hardware for rendering. Is it cpu only?
Wikipedia mentions only OpenGL ES 2.0 in the pi's specs. Does OpenGL ES imply any hardware acceleration or specific chips?
So to charge my phone I just need to take a picture of something black and display it for an hour? =)
If you turn the brightness up to max, you can do it in 50 minutes. Just remember to turn it back down when you're finished charging, so that you don't wear down the battery too fast.
What sets the value of not financially supporting Microsoft and their monopolistic machine, which (as you've shown) artificially inflates the cost of not using Windows? Who do I pay the money to, to extract this value? And, how much of what I would pay would go directly to Microsoft?
"Microsoft has a scheme, Barnes & Noble asserts, to dominate Android and make it undesirable to device manufacturers and customers by demanding "exorbitant license fees and absurd licensing restrictions" -- a license fee that it says is more than Microsoft charges for its entire operating system for mobile devices, Windows 7."
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Yes. It's stupid and he should be embarrassed.
All he's done is get a bunch of "virtual monkeys" to recreate many 9-character works of Shakespeare.
Putting them in order wasn't done randomly... and it's the *order* of the words (or characters or bits or whatever arbitrary length of data you decide to use) that makes it a Shakespearian work!
I'll bet he chose "9" because it was the biggest he could make it without it "taking too long."
I have a design for a "ride" that involves a long, slow climb up a large staircase, followed by a massive fall and one strategically placed sidewalk. I think it's the future of euthanasia!
Yeah. It's not like it's even a war or anything useful.
It's fucking awesome in the way that the invention of the telescope was. Or in the way that getting eye surgery and being able to see better than you have for the past 20 years is. Or in the way that being able to discover something new is.
But yeah, it's no war. It's no bailout of huge companies. It's not as cool as any of these things: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/09/examples-of-government-waste But still... it's pretty cool.
glad that your shit sandwich now has a different kind of bread.
That's hardly fair. GP's shit sandwich has a whole new flavour of shit!
Sorry, but nothing microsoft does is a "good thing".
Even if they do something that seems good or even is short-term kinda nice, as soon as they can use it to strangle competition, they will.
If you get into bed with microsoft just because they have a van that says "candy" on it, you're going to wake up with a sore ass.
You can call me unfair, but I've seen it happen too many times to care, and I just can't listen to "I'll change baby! Promise!" any more.
A university is free to find funding elsewhere and still file patents.
Just not if they accept any Intel money. In a sense they're selling a bit of their freedom (like you might working for someone who says you can't also work for anyone else. And like that example, it's probably well worth it to do, for most).
I've figured out where my confusion comes from. The root of this for me is a loss of freedom required by Intel, which has me asking "How is that good?" And yet I realize that this move IS good for everybody. Everyone benefits, except maybe it's a step back for "large corporations making a killing on patents for things they didn't invent", which is also a good thing. But another root of the story is that Intel is funding universities, which is also good. My confusion is in missing that, and thinking that the story is about how a corporation acting "less evil than others" is treated as Mother Teresa.
Because for me, this would only have anything to do with reducing patent misuse, if Intel was making a commitment to doing some of the same that they're requiring of the universities.
I don't understand.
"You can't patent things. We're going to keep patenting things."
How is that not anti-competitive?
Or yes... Intel is NOT acting anticompetitive when it comes to dictating what others should do (ensuring that others avoid making everything worse for everybody else), just not when it comes to what they do themselves. Wow... how noble.
Did I miss something that a little RTFA might clear up?
In the future, the hardware will be free. The software will be free. You won't be able to use any of it though, because the patent portfolios will not be free, and they will not be cheap. We'll have to purchase separate patent license agreements from each of whatever handful of companies survives this apocalypse.
A: "Cool, what's that?"
B: "It's the iPhone 9."
A: "But... it's got color icons!"
B: "Oh, yeah... I downloaded the Samsung 'folio from the patent store."
A: "Doesn't that cost six trillion US yuan???"
B: "Nah I have a jailbroken patent manager!"
A: "Coooool. Color icons."
Maybe they can hire Steve Jobs. I hear he was the CEO of a pretty large company who left recently.
Oh damnit now I can't remember the name of that company! If only they were in the news more I'd remember them.
Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple. He left for health reasons, so I don't think they have a good chance of hiring him.
Most of the managers I know tend to think that all the good ideas come from managers.
I RTFA and I looked up the raspberry pi on wikipedia, but I must be dum cuz I still don't know if it has any special hardware for rendering. Is it cpu only?
Wikipedia mentions only OpenGL ES 2.0 in the pi's specs.
Does OpenGL ES imply any hardware acceleration or specific chips?
yesterday
in this version: the blue screen of death will now be a somber black screen
If the BSOD is completely black, how can you tell when windows is working as designed vs. the computer is off???
"Privacy advocates in DC will be cheering as soon as they climb out from under their desks!"
in DC... under their desks...
WHY would you rile privacy advocates by going and posting their locations?
I suppose that "experience developing for failed OSes" is the key skill-set MS is after.
So to charge my phone I just need to take a picture of something black and display it for an hour? =)
If you turn the brightness up to max, you can do it in 50 minutes.
Just remember to turn it back down when you're finished charging, so that you don't wear down the battery too fast.
Somehow, I don't think the Bethesda lawyers are going to be okay with a trial by combat, unless they can somehow extract an extra fee out of it.
They shot down a comet?! With what, lasers or nukes? (I didn't bother to RTFS)
Didn't they arrest people who criticized Bush, outside of free-speech zones?
http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ is currently still showing 10 people in space.
Maybe they should register www.howmanypeoplewereinspaceyesterdayorwhenever.com
From reading the article it seems like everyone involved with this is a pretentious twit.
From reading the article
Talk about being a pretentious twit!
Just rename it the Ronald Reagan Space Telescope and poof the House of Reps will support it
"We don't like the word 'telescope'. Too elitist. Can we go with the Ronald Reagan Space War Freedomer?"
They're friendly like a date-rapist.
What sets the value of not financially supporting Microsoft and their monopolistic machine, which (as you've shown) artificially inflates the cost of not using Windows?
Who do I pay the money to, to extract this value?
And, how much of what I would pay would go directly to Microsoft?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110427052238659
"Microsoft has a scheme, Barnes & Noble asserts, to dominate Android and make it undesirable to device manufacturers and customers by demanding "exorbitant license fees and absurd licensing restrictions" -- a license fee that it says is more than Microsoft charges for its entire operating system for mobile devices, Windows 7."