It's interesting to note that in each of the 3 cases, you also spelled "they're" differently, none of which being correct. One of those read between the lines kind of joke?;-)
I know that some program such as Alcohol 120% allows you to make images and then use them as virtual CD ROM drives. Can you make an image of consisting of the tunes and then ripping them without actually doing it???
From personal experience, the French ARE arrogant. Just look at your last statement! They think they're the best and the world revolves around Paris. Anything different from the way they do things is up for critcism.
One of my good friends is French and he can't stop complaining about everything. He complains about our road signs, our interstate system, our love for cars, etc. He even bitched when I asked what kind of wine everyone wanted when we were at Red Lobster! As if knowing white goes with seafood is something everyone should know. Sorry, Americans don't have wine with our meals every day. We usually drink wine to get drunk so it doesn't really matter what the color is anyways. Hell, he even look down on other Frenchmen who lives outside of Paris. God forbid that a Frenchman be "provincial" as he puts it.
My trick to beating the price is to stay 1 year behind everyone else's upgrade cycle. By the time I upgrade, I can get a decent system for about $500 and play the best games from 1 year ago... which you would probably find the bargin bin with all the bugs worked out. Once you've exhausted the games, repeat.
I think it fits under the category of "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and "Hey, let's see if we can do it..." or just a hack. It's all part of the "hacker" desire to create something just to see if you can do it. It's the same reason, I think, many of us starting programming when we were younger. While other kids followed the book, some of us went off on our own just to see if we can create something or to try something new. The article is probably not useful to most of us but at the very least it is amusing.
Having taken a system architecture and currently taking a compiler course, I found out that the x86's low number of register is such a drag. When will this end??? People bitched at MS for building Windows on DOS, maybe we should bitch at chip companies for building new chips on old architecture?
That's the OTHER Yang, who died in prison the same day and was cremated on the spot. This one is an upright, moral, 100% Hans Chinese, educated at Qinghua University, indocrinated with Communist ideology, but with an eye towards advancement and growth. It's all in his records...;-)
Think they'll get an invitation to help on the ISS? I mean it is developing slower than expect and China has the resources. Maybe there's some issue with sharing space station technology with China but I don't see how that could be a national security issue.
I hope those two countries put aside their difference and become friends. Can you imagine the R&D power if India and China joined up???
New Asian hegemony!:-)
I've always justified it by thinking that perhaps between now and then, China and India annihilate each other in some nuclear holocaust, which most of the non-Asians (especially the Europeans) survive intact.
I get the feeling that Asians make up most of the world population. If you look at the most populous conuntries in the world, most of them are Asian. Indonesia is pretty big, as well as Japan.
Then again, you have to think, how did Paris end up the capital of the Federation...
"Welcome to the 60's", etc. comments are simply pointless. First, I hate to break this to some of you, but our rockets haven't advanced all that much since Saturn V. The shuttle is still decades old and we have yet to start on a replacement. China doesn't have to catch up to the 21st century to level with us, all they have to do is get up to the 80's technology, which with their immense pool of college graduates, this won't actually take 20 years.
Next, keep making those comments if it makes you feel better, but what are other nations supposed to do? Throw their hands up into the air and just simply accept the American lead and say "The Americans and Russians already beat us to it, what's the point of even trying?" God forbid the underdog from daring to dream big... How about doing something more useful like trying to advance our own technology? Maybe it's time to replace the shuttle with some 21st century technology and puts some gap between us and the Chinese?
Lastly, who really cares where the technology and the help came from? Does China care now that they know how to do it? Let's face it, technology has always been built on top of the works of others. Let's not forget who were the first people to use gun powder and create rockets. China is going to built on top of the new knowledge and keep advancing.
While I agree with what you've said, I doubt it will make any progress in the minds of most people. GNU, etc., isn't the concern of most people. How many people even know the names Kerrighan, Ritchie, Stallman, etc. I'm sure I don't know the names of most of the pioneers and major players.
Perhaps it's the mentality that we're so used to from using proprietary software. The contributors to proprietary software are never recognized. Windows is Microsoft or Bill Gates. However, that's fair because those people got paid to do it. Most people are still in the corporate mentality where individuals don't really matter. Anyone really know who wrote the Windows 2000 kernel?
The one-size-fits-all approach to these things are pointless. I really do not care about how fast Quake runs because I don't play it. I couldn't care less about Premier either. I use my PC to browse the web, SSH into remote servers to code, and compile code. Except for the last one, any difference between processsors would be minute. Performing a few tests and then claiming one processor is better than another is just silly.
"China invented gunpowder and legend holds that a Ming dynasty (1368-1644) official named Wan Hu attempted the world's first space launch. He strapped himself to a chair with kites in each hand as 47 servants lit 47 gunpowder-packed bamboo tubes tied to the seat.
When the smoke had cleared, Wan was found to have been obliterated. But the dream was not." -Reuter
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For half that price, you could probably get a 100 person nuclear sub outfitted with complemantary torpedoes at a friendly Russia garage sale.
You could try contacting them and see if you can get a discounted price for academia and research.
It's interesting to note that in each of the 3 cases, you also spelled "they're" differently, none of which being correct. One of those read between the lines kind of joke? ;-)
I know that some program such as Alcohol 120% allows you to make images and then use them as virtual CD ROM drives. Can you make an image of consisting of the tunes and then ripping them without actually doing it???
From personal experience, the French ARE arrogant. Just look at your last statement! They think they're the best and the world revolves around Paris. Anything different from the way they do things is up for critcism.
One of my good friends is French and he can't stop complaining about everything. He complains about our road signs, our interstate system, our love for cars, etc. He even bitched when I asked what kind of wine everyone wanted when we were at Red Lobster! As if knowing white goes with seafood is something everyone should know. Sorry, Americans don't have wine with our meals every day. We usually drink wine to get drunk so it doesn't really matter what the color is anyways. Hell, he even look down on other Frenchmen who lives outside of Paris. God forbid that a Frenchman be "provincial" as he puts it.
My trick to beating the price is to stay 1 year behind everyone else's upgrade cycle. By the time I upgrade, I can get a decent system for about $500 and play the best games from 1 year ago... which you would probably find the bargin bin with all the bugs worked out. Once you've exhausted the games, repeat.
If economists were prophets (pun intended), we wouldn't have depressions.
I think it fits under the category of "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and "Hey, let's see if we can do it..." or just a hack. It's all part of the "hacker" desire to create something just to see if you can do it. It's the same reason, I think, many of us starting programming when we were younger. While other kids followed the book, some of us went off on our own just to see if we can create something or to try something new. The article is probably not useful to most of us but at the very least it is amusing.
Slowly losing the ability to read... :p
Oh. I was hoping that sentence was literal... Maybe some Afghan style justice is the magic bullet for our spam problems.
What level of court was this case tried at? I'm afraid the spammers could appeal to a higher court.
Having taken a system architecture and currently taking a compiler course, I found out that the x86's low number of register is such a drag. When will this end??? People bitched at MS for building Windows on DOS, maybe we should bitch at chip companies for building new chips on old architecture?
I guess MS coming out with patches is a good thing. Is this part of a new MS initative to seriously make Windows secure?
And other news, SCO is filing to make negative press an intangible asset...
That's the OTHER Yang, who died in prison the same day and was cremated on the spot. This one is an upright, moral, 100% Hans Chinese, educated at Qinghua University, indocrinated with Communist ideology, but with an eye towards advancement and growth. It's all in his records... ;-)
Think they'll get an invitation to help on the ISS? I mean it is developing slower than expect and China has the resources. Maybe there's some issue with sharing space station technology with China but I don't see how that could be a national security issue.
I hope those two countries put aside their difference and become friends. Can you imagine the R&D power if India and China joined up??? New Asian hegemony! :-)
I've always justified it by thinking that perhaps between now and then, China and India annihilate each other in some nuclear holocaust, which most of the non-Asians (especially the Europeans) survive intact. I get the feeling that Asians make up most of the world population. If you look at the most populous conuntries in the world, most of them are Asian. Indonesia is pretty big, as well as Japan. Then again, you have to think, how did Paris end up the capital of the Federation...
Why??? He'll be paraded like a hero and used for propaganda and, given China's capitalistic drive today, to endorse products. :-)
"Welcome to the 60's", etc. comments are simply pointless. First, I hate to break this to some of you, but our rockets haven't advanced all that much since Saturn V. The shuttle is still decades old and we have yet to start on a replacement. China doesn't have to catch up to the 21st century to level with us, all they have to do is get up to the 80's technology, which with their immense pool of college graduates, this won't actually take 20 years.
Next, keep making those comments if it makes you feel better, but what are other nations supposed to do? Throw their hands up into the air and just simply accept the American lead and say "The Americans and Russians already beat us to it, what's the point of even trying?" God forbid the underdog from daring to dream big... How about doing something more useful like trying to advance our own technology? Maybe it's time to replace the shuttle with some 21st century technology and puts some gap between us and the Chinese?
Lastly, who really cares where the technology and the help came from? Does China care now that they know how to do it? Let's face it, technology has always been built on top of the works of others. Let's not forget who were the first people to use gun powder and create rockets. China is going to built on top of the new knowledge and keep advancing.
While I agree with what you've said, I doubt it will make any progress in the minds of most people. GNU, etc., isn't the concern of most people. How many people even know the names Kerrighan, Ritchie, Stallman, etc. I'm sure I don't know the names of most of the pioneers and major players. Perhaps it's the mentality that we're so used to from using proprietary software. The contributors to proprietary software are never recognized. Windows is Microsoft or Bill Gates. However, that's fair because those people got paid to do it. Most people are still in the corporate mentality where individuals don't really matter. Anyone really know who wrote the Windows 2000 kernel?
The one-size-fits-all approach to these things are pointless. I really do not care about how fast Quake runs because I don't play it. I couldn't care less about Premier either. I use my PC to browse the web, SSH into remote servers to code, and compile code. Except for the last one, any difference between processsors would be minute. Performing a few tests and then claiming one processor is better than another is just silly.
Funny how you ask us to not bring Intel into the conversation but then goes on to do it yourself.
"China invented gunpowder and legend holds that a Ming dynasty (1368-1644) official named Wan Hu attempted the world's first space launch. He strapped himself to a chair with kites in each hand as 47 servants lit 47 gunpowder-packed bamboo tubes tied to the seat.
When the smoke had cleared, Wan was found to have been obliterated. But the dream was not."
-Reuter
But they will argue to the judge that it was necessary for future flight and the good of the industry.