I sort of hoped it would be some sort of write once, read many like CDR's are. It lends permanence to data that's comforting--sort of like how you know the books on your shelf will never change.
Try looking at words instead of numerals. Twelve is not "onety two" or something like that. "Twelve" is not decimal in any shape or form. Hmm..."virst", "telve"--is the truth making you go crazy?
That story on sensors that hook up directly to your brain seems appropriate. It would work now to control games, but it's not a mass-market thing. Sure, it may be a $99.99 "control cap" years from now, but a superior customized setup should be doable now if you've got the cash.
Why would I tip when I'm paying an idiotic "marketing pricing" x.99 for information? Will tipping make the information freely sharable? Why should I tip anyone who is far too cynical to ask for tips? The donator should not be the one to go out of the way.
Suppose there was a competitor that didn't give us the garbage x.99 cent "marketing price". In fact, the fee paid was variable! So the extra amount is equivalent to a tip. Some might say that tips make sense with digital goods, where the marginal cost is near zero. Cynics (plentiful and uncreative) at this point just walk out of the room after delivering a few loads of regurgitated garbage. So, the option is $5 to $18. Do you think $5 is the choice taken most? Look here.
We've already seen the disastrous consequences of using two different systems with metric/English leading to the downing of the Mars surveyor. All our computers work with binary, so why not standardize on hexadecimal? SI can work with any radix, after all (use base units, and the kilogram).
Time is based on prime factors 2, 3, and 5. Decimal has 2 and 5. You cannot represent time fractions in decimal (just like we have so much problem representing decimal fractions in binary). Decimal time systems work and have been tried (see Napoleon), but inertia makes it hard to change.
Especially when there is a patent-free option (ogg) available. MP3 is Evil. It is based on the same system that killed many due to "patent protection" on AIDS drugs. Do not use or support an evil system, especially when alternatives are available.
You'll got really confused stares if you start claiming ten hours in a day. We already use a varity of radices. Even hexadecimal, if you consider measurements like pounds.
Hexadecimal conversions are much easier to the computer than decimal. I'm doing a binary floating point math library, and hexadecimal conversions are trivial. Using hexadecimal literals will improve complie time, and %X will improve time required to output numbers.
So then you could distribute your emulator. It may still be infected with decimal literals, or decimal spread out through number outputs and documentation. But abolishment of copyright would be a good step.
They offer variable payment for downloads (essentially tipping), and allow downloads to be shared. Plus there's no marketing-price (x.99 cents). iTunes music service is in the end still Evil.
This could be modelled after some of the creative commons licenses. I think though if you argue for anti-plagarism laws, you're not truly against copyright. Remember, nobody can create information.
From your other writings, I take it you are a libertarian. The problem with the GPL is it forces you to make source available (by way of copyright). This is limiting, just like not being able to copy is limiting.
Check this out http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88892&cid=7690 302 . That makes three of us! How to effect the change. For one, a huge meteor or disaster does it automatically--copyrights and patents were not an issue for a very long time. Other than that, release stuff into the public domain. Donate to xiph.org.
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You do know geeks hate decimal, right?
I sort of hoped it would be some sort of write once, read many like CDR's are. It lends permanence to data that's comforting--sort of like how you know the books on your shelf will never change.
frodian typo?
Capacities should be given in hexadecimal bytes. Decimal has no place in computing--unless you want to work with bowling scores.
Hey, has Go been brought up in this article on Chess yet?
Try looking at words instead of numerals. Twelve is not "onety two" or something like that. "Twelve" is not decimal in any shape or form. Hmm..."virst", "telve"--is the truth making you go crazy?
The very first thing you hear is essentially base sixteen floating point. As in--eight pounds, twelve ounces, being 8.C pounds.
What's that in hexadecimal kilograms?
That story on sensors that hook up directly to your brain seems appropriate. It would work now to control games, but it's not a mass-market thing. Sure, it may be a $99.99 "control cap" years from now, but a superior customized setup should be doable now if you've got the cash.
Why would I tip when I'm paying an idiotic "marketing pricing" x.99 for information? Will tipping make the information freely sharable? Why should I tip anyone who is far too cynical to ask for tips? The donator should not be the one to go out of the way.
It's not my site, but I would just force you to make the price selection (make the default blank). Now I'd put the price list from highest to lowest.
Suppose there was a competitor that didn't give us the garbage x.99 cent "marketing price". In fact, the fee paid was variable! So the extra amount is equivalent to a tip. Some might say that tips make sense with digital goods, where the marginal cost is near zero. Cynics (plentiful and uncreative) at this point just walk out of the room after delivering a few loads of regurgitated garbage. So, the option is $5 to $18. Do you think $5 is the choice taken most? Look here.
We've already seen the disastrous consequences of using two different systems with metric/English leading to the downing of the Mars surveyor. All our computers work with binary, so why not standardize on hexadecimal? SI can work with any radix, after all (use base units, and the kilogram).
Time is based on prime factors 2, 3, and 5. Decimal has 2 and 5. You cannot represent time fractions in decimal (just like we have so much problem representing decimal fractions in binary). Decimal time systems work and have been tried (see Napoleon), but inertia makes it hard to change.
Especially when there is a patent-free option (ogg) available. MP3 is Evil. It is based on the same system that killed many due to "patent protection" on AIDS drugs. Do not use or support an evil system, especially when alternatives are available.
You'll got really confused stares if you start claiming ten hours in a day. We already use a varity of radices. Even hexadecimal, if you consider measurements like pounds. Hexadecimal conversions are much easier to the computer than decimal. I'm doing a binary floating point math library, and hexadecimal conversions are trivial. Using hexadecimal literals will improve complie time, and %X will improve time required to output numbers.
Any games that have hexadecimal input/output?
How much has decimal limited advances in science and technology? Using hexadecimal SI, couldn't the edges be brought back much further, sooner?
So then you could distribute your emulator. It may still be infected with decimal literals, or decimal spread out through number outputs and documentation. But abolishment of copyright would be a good step.
That is, vorbis or FLAC? Are the video formats patent-encumbered? There's no need to use Evil formats when Good ones are out.
They offer variable payment for downloads (essentially tipping), and allow downloads to be shared. Plus there's no marketing-price (x.99 cents). iTunes music service is in the end still Evil.
This could be modelled after some of the creative commons licenses. I think though if you argue for anti-plagarism laws, you're not truly against copyright. Remember, nobody can create information.
From your other writings, I take it you are a libertarian. The problem with the GPL is it forces you to make source available (by way of copyright). This is limiting, just like not being able to copy is limiting.
If you're against patents, it makes you number 4. Yay.
Check this out http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88892&cid=7690 302 . That makes three of us! How to effect the change. For one, a huge meteor or disaster does it automatically--copyrights and patents were not an issue for a very long time. Other than that, release stuff into the public domain. Donate to xiph.org.