I like buying CD's from Amazon too, but not when the CD contains one song out of thirteen that I want to hear and I'm expected to pay for all of them. This is where Apple's store excels; you buy exactly what you want. Sound quality is good enough; if you're listening through those lousy iPod earbuds or average desktop speakers, 128 bit AAC files are fine. If you're an audiophile, only 30ips reel-to-reel analog tapes are good enough for you, so what are you doing here anyway?:)
True, there will always be truly specialist tasks that never become mainstream (animation and rendering work, phsically simulation and similar number crunching), but there is stuff now that could most certainly benefit from more CPU power (whether it be from single- or multi-cored machines) that would become more mainstream when that power became affordable.
Animation isn't going to be a specialist task forever either. The porn applications of it are obvious. One example: remember how Celebrity Deathmatch was popular on TV? Imagine Celebrity Sexmatch, rendered right on your home PC. You choose the celebs, locale, camera angles and sex acts performed and it is rendered with ILM quality in a few hours.
In general, rendering realistic 3D locales has interior design uses. Imagine if your designer could show you exactly what the inside of your house would look like instead of the dinky models they use now. The designer could put you inside the model with good VR so you could see if the lighting made you look bad or if the sun blazing though the windows at certain times of the year would diminish or enhance the enjoyment of your favorite room.
3D graphics is now the lynch pin to Longhorn's success.
You're all going to laugh when you realize all they're going to use it for is to do that spinning cube thing that the Mac does when you switch users.:)
At the very least, it should be obvious that the photos were taken in a near-vacuum. They're simply TOO clear to have been taken in an atmosphere. No distortion, no dust, no diffusion. Just a large light source shining down on some of the clearest images ever seen by man.
(chuckle) If they wanted us to trust these images they should have released them thirty years ago instead of now, when every image is suspect because of a little application called Photoshop. Heck, you can get rid of atmospheric haze just by using the right lens filters. ILM could create photos like this using just the spare cycles from their rendering farms. Etc, etc.
The freezer sounds like a bad idea. When you take the camera out of the freezer you're going to get heavy condensation on the lens as well as any place inside the camera that moist air can find its way into. This could be very bad for your camera.
With Perl being dropped from FreeBSD, what are they actually replacing it with? (I know very little about the FreeBSD project and it shows =).
Leaving aside CPAN, Perl is a nice integration of sh, sed, grep and awk. sh, sed, grep and awk are still there, so you probably don't have to replace Perl with anything.
My biggest question then is, why does he enforce these patents?
Fiduciary responsibility. If Amazon can make a significant amount of money from licensing a patent and doesn't do it, then the shareholders have grounds for a lawsuit.
The GPL was created by FSF for the GNU project which is about Free Software. Open Source DIDN'T EXIST when the GPL was created. Open Source is a relatively new marketing term for Free Software without the talk about freedom.
Open source existed well before the GPL. Version 1 of the GPL is dated February 1989. Open source software was being posted to USENET in the newsgroups net.sources and mod.sources years before then and (I think) to ARPANET mailing lists before that. I personally remember using the dot-sources newsgroups in 1985, but you don't have to take my world for it--- Google has newsgroup archives that go back to that period.
No, it will be "bootleg crappier". The bootlegger leaves the camera turned on but tucked under his armpit, perhaps fortuitously aimed at the screen, perhaps not. (Camcorders are very small these days.) The sound is certainly going to suck while these shenanigans are going on, but the finished product was going to be a suckfest by any reasonable standard anyway.
They need the night vision goggles because they don't want to wait for their eyes to adjust to the semidarkness, by which time the bootlegger (whose eyes are already adjusted) will have seen the usher and hidden the camera.
It's hard to believe the movie industry is getting so excited over wretchedly poor quality bootlegs. This strikes me as being more of a propaganda war than anything else. Every time an arrest is made some movie exec gets to come out and use the words "steal" and "movie" in the same sentence, as if making copies is at all the same thing as theft. They can jump up and down and say it's theft as many times as they want but that doesn't make it so.
Suppose mathematics does not merely describe the universe but is in fact a consequence of the structure of the universe. That's what I was getting at with the "GR implies RH" business. It's not my idea; Carl Sagan used it in the novel Contact twenty years ago. I found the idea fascinating.
But yeah, the idea is just fiction, at least so far.
Not only do the wealthy fund the programs with their taxes, they also use the least government services.
Er, no. Government is what keeps society civil. Who has the most to lose if civilization breaks down, the guy living hand-to-mouth, owning little other than the clothes on his back and other depreciating assets, or the guy whose has land, stocks and intellectual property, assets that are worth little to nothing without government's ability to defend his ownership of them?
Government might be keeping the poor guy alive but it is keeping the rich guy alive and rich.
As the price of processing power keeps dropping these clusters are getting closer to the magical 100Tflop mark, which is what Ray Kurzweil and others speculate is required to run a human-level AI . Maybe we should start worrying about the computing projects that military isn't announcing.
There was a way to auto-install handlers for file types when CDs were auto-mounted on a Mac running OS X. But this hole was closed with Apple's last security update. So there should be no way for this new DRM thing to be run under Mac OS X unless you consent to it when the dialog box pops up.
Without pressure the oxygen in the air will not diffuse into your blood stream. This is worse than simply holding your breath because oxygen uptake stops immediately; when you hold your breath there is still pressure and air in your lungs. The air pressure on Mars is so close to zero that for the purposes of human respiration it does not matter. You are essentially in vacuum and you'll have about 10 seconds to git right with Gawd before you black out.
The toughest bit would be getting Mars to have a magnetic field around it again, to keep the solar wind from peeling away the atmosphere (again) and to keep out most of the ionizing radiation. Without that protective field, all terraforming efforts are a waste of time.
If cars worked like exploits and patches, then every time a safer car came out, your car would suddenly become less safe than it had been yesterday- and it would become incumbent upon you to get it fixed. Cars, being physical objects, do not behave this way.
Yes, they do. Safer cars did come out: honking big SUVs. When these things proliferated smaller cars were less safe because odds increased that you'd be facing a much more massive vehicle in a collision.
I don't it is THAT big a deal. Remember, no there are no knwon practical applications for this proof. It's like proving Fermat's Last Conjecture--- cool but ultimately unimportant. Now if someone came along and proved that Riemann's Hypothesis was a corollary of General Relativity then THAT would be earthshaking. Sort of like finding a jpeg of a circle embedded in the digits of pi.
It is interesting that a mathematical proof such as this, which is an exercise in logic, can't yet be verified by typing it into a computer program to verify that all the steps make sense.
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... their mail server is behind a 2400 baud modem.
I like buying CD's from Amazon too, but not when the CD contains one song out of thirteen that I want to hear and I'm expected to pay for all of them. This is where Apple's store excels; you buy exactly what you want. Sound quality is good enough; if you're listening through those lousy iPod earbuds or average desktop speakers, 128 bit AAC files are fine. If you're an audiophile, only 30ips reel-to-reel analog tapes are good enough for you, so what are you doing here anyway? :)
Ticket sales to this Olympics are dismal. You don't HAVE to submit to the surveillance. You can stay home, like lots of other people.
Animation isn't going to be a specialist task forever either. The porn applications of it are obvious. One example: remember how Celebrity Deathmatch was popular on TV? Imagine Celebrity Sexmatch, rendered right on your home PC. You choose the celebs, locale, camera angles and sex acts performed and it is rendered with ILM quality in a few hours.
In general, rendering realistic 3D locales has interior design uses. Imagine if your designer could show you exactly what the inside of your house would look like instead of the dinky models they use now. The designer could put you inside the model with good VR so you could see if the lighting made you look bad or if the sun blazing though the windows at certain times of the year would diminish or enhance the enjoyment of your favorite room.
You're all going to laugh when you realize all they're going to use it for is to do that spinning cube thing that the Mac does when you switch users. :)
(chuckle) If they wanted us to trust these images they should have released them thirty years ago instead of now, when every image is suspect because of a little application called Photoshop. Heck, you can get rid of atmospheric haze just by using the right lens filters. ILM could create photos like this using just the spare cycles from their rendering farms. Etc, etc.
Oh and if it isn't obvious... :-)
The freezer sounds like a bad idea. When you take the camera out of the freezer you're going to get heavy condensation on the lens as well as any place inside the camera that moist air can find its way into. This could be very bad for your camera.
Leaving aside CPAN, Perl is a nice integration of sh, sed, grep and awk. sh, sed, grep and awk are still there, so you probably don't have to replace Perl with anything.
Better late than never. VM has had virtual folders for 13 years.
Fiduciary responsibility. If Amazon can make a significant amount of money from licensing a patent and doesn't do it, then the shareholders have grounds for a lawsuit.
Open source existed well before the GPL. Version 1 of the GPL is dated February 1989. Open source software was being posted to USENET in the newsgroups net.sources and mod.sources years before then and (I think) to ARPANET mailing lists before that. I personally remember using the dot-sources newsgroups in 1985, but you don't have to take my world for it--- Google has newsgroup archives that go back to that period.
No, it will be "bootleg crappier". The bootlegger leaves the camera turned on but tucked under his armpit, perhaps fortuitously aimed at the screen, perhaps not. (Camcorders are very small these days.) The sound is certainly going to suck while these shenanigans are going on, but the finished product was going to be a suckfest by any reasonable standard anyway.
They need the night vision goggles because they don't want to wait for their eyes to adjust to the semidarkness, by which time the bootlegger (whose eyes are already adjusted) will have seen the usher and hidden the camera.
And if they're smart they slip out the fire exit with your $500 video camera.
It's hard to believe the movie industry is getting so excited over wretchedly poor quality bootlegs. This strikes me as being more of a propaganda war than anything else. Every time an arrest is made some movie exec gets to come out and use the words "steal" and "movie" in the same sentence, as if making copies is at all the same thing as theft. They can jump up and down and say it's theft as many times as they want but that doesn't make it so.
Suppose mathematics does not merely describe the universe but is in fact a consequence of the structure of the universe. That's what I was getting at with the "GR implies RH" business. It's not my idea; Carl Sagan used it in the novel Contact twenty years ago. I found the idea fascinating. But yeah, the idea is just fiction, at least so far.
Er, no. Government is what keeps society civil. Who has the most to lose if civilization breaks down, the guy living hand-to-mouth, owning little other than the clothes on his back and other depreciating assets, or the guy whose has land, stocks and intellectual property, assets that are worth little to nothing without government's ability to defend his ownership of them? Government might be keeping the poor guy alive but it is keeping the rich guy alive and rich.
As the price of processing power keeps dropping these clusters are getting closer to the magical 100Tflop mark, which is what Ray Kurzweil and others speculate is required to run a human-level AI . Maybe we should start worrying about the computing projects that military isn't announcing.
There was a way to auto-install handlers for file types when CDs were auto-mounted on a Mac running OS X. But this hole was closed with Apple's last security update. So there should be no way for this new DRM thing to be run under Mac OS X unless you consent to it when the dialog box pops up.
Without pressure the oxygen in the air will not diffuse into your blood stream. This is worse than simply holding your breath because oxygen uptake stops immediately; when you hold your breath there is still pressure and air in your lungs. The air pressure on Mars is so close to zero that for the purposes of human respiration it does not matter. You are essentially in vacuum and you'll have about 10 seconds to git right with Gawd before you black out.
The toughest bit would be getting Mars to have a magnetic field around it again, to keep the solar wind from peeling away the atmosphere (again) and to keep out most of the ionizing radiation. Without that protective field, all terraforming efforts are a waste of time.
If you do it, you will be sorry. sed will mangle binaries.
$ md5 < song.m4p
e7e226f8bb2bd10ea4543abf879fc525
$ sed < song.m4p | md5
ec6849772458b78180fd8f8a434a2889
Yes, they do. Safer cars did come out: honking big SUVs. When these things proliferated smaller cars were less safe because odds increased that you'd be facing a much more massive vehicle in a collision.
I don't it is THAT big a deal. Remember, no there are no knwon practical applications for this proof. It's like proving Fermat's Last Conjecture--- cool but ultimately unimportant. Now if someone came along and proved that Riemann's Hypothesis was a corollary of General Relativity then THAT would be earthshaking. Sort of like finding a jpeg of a circle embedded in the digits of pi.
It is interesting that a mathematical proof such as this, which is an exercise in logic, can't yet be verified by typing it into a computer program to verify that all the steps make sense.