"The suit claims that Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs personally called Joel Martin, manager of Eight Mile Style, and asked Martin and Eminem to "rethink their position" about using the Grammy-winning song.
Eminem responded by ending discussions with Apple, according to the suit."
Emphasis is mine, I hope that clears things up? Had it been the record label making decisions, the line would have said "Eight Mile Style responded..."
From TFA, "Mr Gehorsam said the world being created will not be a game but instead will be a "massively multi-user persistent environment" that will model real world physics as closely as possible.
A sample of life in There's game world The emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware."
So we're basing 'human interaction' on an MMO game? How exactly does someone model "h4h4h4h4h4!! r0x00r3D ur @$$!!!" into -human- behaviour?
Thats an excellent point. What happens if someone writes a virus whose code is near-impossible to reverse engineer? Obviously, it'd take more than a script kiddie to pull it off, especially since the technique is patent-pending, but the possibility is interesting.
Nah; just slightly-less-bad guys. Warn, then sue. Besides, this'll qualify as an attempt to mitigate damages, and will reduce the average person's sympathy. Ignorance won't be an excuse.
"You are simply citing the differences between OS and any company."
Yes, that rather was my point. That, and the assertion that it's the very differences between the two products that gives MS the edge in the desktop market. A windows box is a windows box is a windows box. If I need to change a setting, or install a program, the process is virtuall identical, even across windows versions.
The same cannot be said for Linux, and therin lies its failure in the desktop market. The big problem is that the majority of people in the world don't like to learn. They want to know as little as possible to get by in the world. Needing to learn 6 distros of Linux doesn't appeal to a lot of people. With Windows, you learn one version, and the rest don't change.
Don't get me wrong, I love what Open Source is; I just don't think it's capable of pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I think a lack of standardization/uniformity is what's hurting the Open Source movement. You can't get that many people together, and have them agree on -one- way to do things. Everyone is out to push their own little twist. The result is a bit chaotic to anyone looking from the outside. (And to some from the inside as well, I'm sure.)
Hate 'em as much as I do, the one thing MS has done well is ensure compatability. Obviously there's problems; but the basic principles of windows applications are near uniform. I don't think you can say the same for a lot of OSS. Chalk it up to people being sheep, if you want, but until there's one clear leading force, Linux (sadly) won't succeed on the desktop.
I'd guess a cascade of the initial creation. Black holes have massive gravity; if the local gravity produced by one of the created holes exceeded our ability to stop more matter from entering it, the hole would grow in mass roughly exponentially. IANAPhysicist, of course, but that's what comes to mind.
On a side note, what happens when a black hole has no further matter to pull in?
isn't going to be the deciding factor in which OS or office suite is going to be used. MS is quite capable of making substantial enough campaign contributions to influence the choices being made. You probably get more bang for the buck contributing in countries with lower standards of living, too.
Open Source, I think, will win in the end though; eventually, the number of people using *nix, etc, will reach a critical mass, and it'll become more profitable to develop for open source than it will for Windows. At that point, either Windows will become open source, and have to compete on its merits (and contrary to popular belief, I think it could do well), or it'll be doomed to failure.
I agree, there are very few people who are even willing to -look- outside of their own little rut, let alone try to -get- out of it. My point, though, is that a people tend to see their particular rut as unique; different from all the other ruts. Sure, there may be a lot of parts that they know are similar, but everyone tries to find at least one distinguishing characteristic.
You second statement has a good point, but the very concept that these people were identified and ostracized because of their differences argues that it's not the similarities that people look at.
Your argument amuses me. Because you have a different opinion, you ask me if I'm from a -different- planet. Obviously not meant literally, but it still illustrates my point.
Not nearly as well as your second statement, however. "People who are different are isolated or even kicked out of the society." That tells me that it's the differences that define the society; not the similarities. Your entire comment does the same thing; you state a -difference- of opinion.
People don't see the basic similarities in other people anymore; we've become inured. It's only when we see a difference that we take notice.
Human sacrafice isn't high up on my list of Incan or Mayan cultural contributions. To start, the practice is by no means limited to those cultures. Also, they both had staggeringly beautiful architecture, and remarkable religions, as well.
What, by the way, is an achievement, but a difference that makes us stand out from humanity?
Any loss of cultural diversity is a bad thing. Humans define themselves by our differences. Language is probably the foremost non-physical distinguishing characteristic a person has. Taken to an extreme, the continued loss of language could have us all speaking either mandarin or spanish (which, iirc, are the most commonly spoken languages today). Obviously, this kind of thing isn't going to happen any time in the near future, but I'd argue that the loss is still important, regardless of the magnitude.
Oh, and just to be nit-picky (sorry, it's in my nature) Things are affected, the effects are observed.
"..the hologram is recorded as a sub-micron concave-convex pattern in each waveguide layer of the media."
What they've got, is a stacked set of holograms, each in a certain wavelength of light. Shatter the media, and you'd probably end up with the same phenomenon as you mention in the glass hologram. Refocus your scanner, get some good error correction technology, and you might be able to get some recovery.
I don't know if this'll help you, but I taked to the wonderful people at my local post office (contradictory as that might sound to some people), and haven't received a piece of junk mail since. Generally speaking, if it isn't addressed specifically, it hits the trash can. It's been great.
I can relate to a good portion of that; I still remember doing my first word processing on an Apple II; in all it's monochrome glory. VT-100 terminal emulation, playing Tradewars, LORD, and BRE on the local bbs. Getting freenet internet access; completely text based. Telnet chat programs. Good times.
I'm willing to bet there are a good number of/. readers that are younger than GEOS (I'm not one of 'em). It's an interesting reminder of just how far computers have come.
I'd have absolutely no objections to a site like that; how many profs do you think even know the names of the majority of their students? Especially for introductory courses, with upwards of a hundred people per class. A few stand out, of course, but they're usually the ones who take the time to go for help.
Only once in four years of university did I have a prof memorize the names of that many people. He was new though, so the rampaging hordes of apathetic students hadn't quite caught up with him. It did impress the hell out of me, though; even if our first assignment was to hand in some home-made photo ID.
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Quoth TFA in-context:
"The suit claims that Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs personally called Joel Martin, manager of Eight Mile Style, and asked Martin and Eminem to "rethink their position" about using the Grammy-winning song.
Eminem responded by ending discussions with Apple, according to the suit."
Emphasis is mine, I hope that clears things up? Had it been the record label making decisions, the line would have said "Eight Mile Style responded..."
Quoth the FA:
Eminem responded by ending discussions with Apple, according to the suit.
Cheers.
From TFA, "Mr Gehorsam said the world being created will not be a game but instead will be a "massively multi-user persistent environment" that will model real world physics as closely as possible.
A sample of life in There's game world
The emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware."
So we're basing 'human interaction' on an MMO game? How exactly does someone model "h4h4h4h4h4!! r0x00r3D ur @$$!!!" into -human- behaviour?
Thats an excellent point. What happens if someone writes a virus whose code is near-impossible to reverse engineer? Obviously, it'd take more than a script kiddie to pull it off, especially since the technique is patent-pending, but the possibility is interesting.
On that topic:
This is rather amusing if want a bit of reading.
Nah; just slightly-less-bad guys. Warn, then sue. Besides, this'll qualify as an attempt to mitigate damages, and will reduce the average person's sympathy. Ignorance won't be an excuse.
"You are simply citing the differences between OS and any company."
Yes, that rather was my point. That, and the assertion that it's the very differences between the two products that gives MS the edge in the desktop market. A windows box is a windows box is a windows box. If I need to change a setting, or install a program, the process is virtuall identical, even across windows versions.
The same cannot be said for Linux, and therin lies its failure in the desktop market. The big problem is that the majority of people in the world don't like to learn. They want to know as little as possible to get by in the world. Needing to learn 6 distros of Linux doesn't appeal to a lot of people. With Windows, you learn one version, and the rest don't change.
Don't get me wrong, I love what Open Source is; I just don't think it's capable of pandering to the lowest common denominator.
I think a lack of standardization/uniformity is what's hurting the Open Source movement. You can't get that many people together, and have them agree on -one- way to do things. Everyone is out to push their own little twist. The result is a bit chaotic to anyone looking from the outside. (And to some from the inside as well, I'm sure.)
Hate 'em as much as I do, the one thing MS has done well is ensure compatability. Obviously there's problems; but the basic principles of windows applications are near uniform. I don't think you can say the same for a lot of OSS. Chalk it up to people being sheep, if you want, but until there's one clear leading force, Linux (sadly) won't succeed on the desktop.
I'd guess a cascade of the initial creation. Black holes have massive gravity; if the local gravity produced by one of the created holes exceeded our ability to stop more matter from entering it, the hole would grow in mass roughly exponentially. IANAPhysicist, of course, but that's what comes to mind.
On a side note, what happens when a black hole has no further matter to pull in?
isn't going to be the deciding factor in which OS or office suite is going to be used. MS is quite capable of making substantial enough campaign contributions to influence the choices being made. You probably get more bang for the buck contributing in countries with lower standards of living, too.
Open Source, I think, will win in the end though; eventually, the number of people using *nix, etc, will reach a critical mass, and it'll become more profitable to develop for open source than it will for Windows. At that point, either Windows will become open source, and have to compete on its merits (and contrary to popular belief, I think it could do well), or it'll be doomed to failure.
Let's hope they don't have any older pentium machines kicking around, either.
Market Saturation.
I agree, there are very few people who are even willing to -look- outside of their own little rut, let alone try to -get- out of it. My point, though, is that a people tend to see their particular rut as unique; different from all the other ruts. Sure, there may be a lot of parts that they know are similar, but everyone tries to find at least one distinguishing characteristic.
You second statement has a good point, but the very concept that these people were identified and ostracized because of their differences argues that it's not the similarities that people look at.
Your argument amuses me. Because you have a different opinion, you ask me if I'm from a -different- planet. Obviously not meant literally, but it still illustrates my point.
Not nearly as well as your second statement, however. "People who are different are isolated or even kicked out of the society." That tells me that it's the differences that define the society; not the similarities. Your entire comment does the same thing; you state a -difference- of opinion.
People don't see the basic similarities in other people anymore; we've become inured. It's only when we see a difference that we take notice.
Human sacrafice isn't high up on my list of Incan or Mayan cultural contributions. To start, the practice is by no means limited to those cultures. Also, they both had staggeringly beautiful architecture, and remarkable religions, as well.
What, by the way, is an achievement, but a difference that makes us stand out from humanity?
Au contraire; that was funny as all hell.
Sorry; it would seem that some humour is too subtle for /.
I know, I know, I must be new here.
Any loss of cultural diversity is a bad thing. Humans define themselves by our differences. Language is probably the foremost non-physical distinguishing characteristic a person has. Taken to an extreme, the continued loss of language could have us all speaking either mandarin or spanish (which, iirc, are the most commonly spoken languages today). Obviously, this kind of thing isn't going to happen any time in the near future, but I'd argue that the loss is still important, regardless of the magnitude.
Oh, and just to be nit-picky (sorry, it's in my nature) Things are affected, the effects are observed.
On the contrary; the article says:
"..the hologram is recorded as a sub-micron concave-convex pattern in each waveguide layer of the media."
What they've got, is a stacked set of holograms, each in a certain wavelength of light. Shatter the media, and you'd probably end up with the same phenomenon as you mention in the glass hologram. Refocus your scanner, get some good error correction technology, and you might be able to get some recovery.
Somehow, I have trouble applying the concept of 'left' to an elliptical orbit.
I don't know if this'll help you, but I taked to the wonderful people at my local post office (contradictory as that might sound to some people), and haven't received a piece of junk mail since. Generally speaking, if it isn't addressed specifically, it hits the trash can. It's been great.
"Anyone else getting really tired of reading about *IAA?"
That's only part of the problem; there's the MPAA too. I think '??AA' ought to cover it pretty well. Cheers.
I can relate to a good portion of that; I still remember doing my first word processing on an Apple II; in all it's monochrome glory. VT-100 terminal emulation, playing Tradewars, LORD, and BRE on the local bbs. Getting freenet internet access; completely text based. Telnet chat programs. Good times.
I'm willing to bet there are a good number of /. readers that are younger than GEOS (I'm not one of 'em). It's an interesting reminder of just how far computers have come.
I'd have absolutely no objections to a site like that; how many profs do you think even know the names of the majority of their students? Especially for introductory courses, with upwards of a hundred people per class. A few stand out, of course, but they're usually the ones who take the time to go for help.
Only once in four years of university did I have a prof memorize the names of that many people. He was new though, so the rampaging hordes of apathetic students hadn't quite caught up with him. It did impress the hell out of me, though; even if our first assignment was to hand in some home-made photo ID.