The other day I was fiddling with a laptop that had dual 2GHz processors or something like that. Ehh? I mean, it's great that they can cram all that into a "moderately" small package, but still, you need Nomex pants to use it in your lap.
That's not a laptop; that's a portable workstation.
EGM: Your attempts to compensate victims of alleged game-related deaths have been unsuccessful so far. Why do you think this is?
JT: Lawyers tend to be to the left of normal people, and judges tend to be the left of the lawyers. Federal judges tend to be the left of them. So you have a bunch of First Amendment absolutists who block these kinds of lawsuits. State courts, however, are far more responsive to parents. I suppose federal judges by and large don't have a problem with mental molestation of children with murder simulators.
Playing the Left/Right game? Give me a fuckin' break. This guy is probably just saying these things to try to make money, but in the process he is really trying my restraint. I suppose he might throw in extra insult by trying to say that such a feeling demonstrates his point.
Intel started the whole hardware DRM thing. Microsoft only took over the leadership role.
But your point about the market is still valid. Real capitalism only happens with successful information flow end-to-end, and there are several points where it is disrupted.
they're playing games with semantics
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Also, I think everybody should look at this roadmap. If you look at the chips for the upcoming socket M2, and also the X2 processors that will be shipping in the coming weeks, they are all supposed to have the Presidio "security technology." Isn't that a euphamism for the same thing we're accusing Intel of putting in their chips? I would like it if somebody would get to the bottom of this.
Some schools have a co-op program where you take classes one semester and work the next.
But, if you believe higher education really isn't in your best interest: I would say to get a day job as the others say (not too much, unless you have the kind of parents who will make you support yourself...), and to develop in some of your free time. If you are as skilled as you say you are, surely there is something that you can work on, some underdeveloped FOSS project somewhere that you can be of use on, or if you dare, start your own.
Now, here's the important part: document what you do. Again, if you say you can handle it, you should keep a list of features you implement, keep your patches, generally be able to demonstrate to an employer that you have a substantial understanding of what needs to be done to design and carry out a project.
(Disclaimer: I am taking the completely opposite road for myself. It is possible I am speaking out of my ass.)
there are actually a few good things made in flash
All of these "Flash R evil!!!1!" types forget this. Flash is by far the best way to create and publish animation on the Internet. And just as with any other medium, 95% of the stuff out there is crap, so I wouldn't consider it any lesser of an art form. Hell, Homestar Runner has thoroughly left its mark on Internet culture, and I don't think it would have had the same opportunity without a medium with the same properties as Flash.
Of course, the sooner we can move this creativity to a Free medium, the better.
Hey, it's information, right? Information is now trivially copyable once in digital form, and nothing is going to change that. The traditional paradigms accompanying the transfer of information solely on physical media are becoming increasingly invalid without placing artifical constraints.
Society influences technology; is it not time for technology to influence society?
You don't have to actually produce an implementation of the idea in a patent IIRC (obviously, IANAL). You just have to show that you are taking steps towards an implementation, not that you actually produce one. So, if Duke Nukem Forever contained patented software components, it could be argued that they are making an attempt to bring an implementation to market, hence the patents on those ideas would still be valid.
I wish I could have done it this way from the beginning. I have always wanted to do what I felt needed to be done. And yet, my high school, as a matter of policy, piled on homework, that had to be done; and it was my impression that they took it personally when I didn't. I think I cracked about sophomore year, and I am still trying to recover, three semesters into college.
- Textbooks and other reading material, even if interesting, seem ancillary and unnecessary (they are not).
- Homework (especially mathematical homework) is painful (it shouldn't be).
- Writing papers is physically excruciating (as in, I feel terrible while floundering around trying to write them---make the pain stop).
Oh well, such is the way of private education (trust me on this one, you don't want to go to public school where I'm from).
how much are we tempting Nature to change the formula
Cancer is an anomaly of mitosis; it is not an organism and therefore does not evolve. The body regularly squashes cells which go into a sort-of mitotic infinite loop, and that's the end of that. It's the ones that the immune system does not recognize that grow into tumors.
The mean value theorem guarantees that if your average rate of speed on some stretch of road is over the speed limit (assuming the stretch of road has a uniform speed limit), there exists at least one point such that your instantaneous speed at that moment was the same as the average speed for your entire journey, which was over the limit. Logically, there exists probable cause that you travelled over the limit.
Where is the money going to come from? Are we to donate it all? Can we collect enough to compile a significant number? Or should this be done individually, by separate projects and people? Should all patents be assigned to the FSF?
Basically, such a project requires an enormous fiscal paradigm shift for the community.
Question: Are you implying that such visual media is intrinsically brain-wasting, or that simply the majority of the current content has that property?
Surely television can be viewed from a critical point of view and in an active manner, can it not?
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The other day I was fiddling with a laptop that had dual 2GHz processors or something like that. Ehh? I mean, it's great that they can cram all that into a "moderately" small package, but still, you need Nomex pants to use it in your lap.
That's not a laptop; that's a portable workstation.
Playing the Left/Right game? Give me a fuckin' break. This guy is probably just saying these things to try to make money, but in the process he is really trying my restraint. I suppose he might throw in extra insult by trying to say that such a feeling demonstrates his point.
Intel started the whole hardware DRM thing. Microsoft only took over the leadership role.
But your point about the market is still valid. Real capitalism only happens with successful information flow end-to-end, and there are several points where it is disrupted.
Also, I think everybody should look at this roadmap. If you look at the chips for the upcoming socket M2, and also the X2 processors that will be shipping in the coming weeks, they are all supposed to have the Presidio "security technology." Isn't that a euphamism for the same thing we're accusing Intel of putting in their chips? I would like it if somebody would get to the bottom of this.
Nope, not at all.
Read the comments. The author of the article says Linux/PPC is his next piece.
The source story of that article is from Feb. 2004. Is there anything more recent?
Unlike the Tamagotchi, I believe you can actually turn this one off.
Note to self: don't skim next time.
Some schools have a co-op program where you take classes one semester and work the next.
But, if you believe higher education really isn't in your best interest: I would say to get a day job as the others say (not too much, unless you have the kind of parents who will make you support yourself...), and to develop in some of your free time. If you are as skilled as you say you are, surely there is something that you can work on, some underdeveloped FOSS project somewhere that you can be of use on, or if you dare, start your own.
Now, here's the important part: document what you do. Again, if you say you can handle it, you should keep a list of features you implement, keep your patches, generally be able to demonstrate to an employer that you have a substantial understanding of what needs to be done to design and carry out a project.
(Disclaimer: I am taking the completely opposite road for myself. It is possible I am speaking out of my ass.)
there are actually a few good things made in flash
All of these "Flash R evil!!!1!" types forget this. Flash is by far the best way to create and publish animation on the Internet. And just as with any other medium, 95% of the stuff out there is crap, so I wouldn't consider it any lesser of an art form. Hell, Homestar Runner has thoroughly left its mark on Internet culture, and I don't think it would have had the same opportunity without a medium with the same properties as Flash.
Of course, the sooner we can move this creativity to a Free medium, the better.
It can with the appropriate scripting.
The only problem would be whether Javascript is up to the task of making it a full Flash equivalent.
And if it is, then someone would also have to start making an appropriate GUI tool to help generate content.
And just because it's illegal doesn't necessarily make it wrong, if you even believe there is a universal wrong in the first place.
Hey, it's information, right? Information is now trivially copyable once in digital form, and nothing is going to change that. The traditional paradigms accompanying the transfer of information solely on physical media are becoming increasingly invalid without placing artifical constraints.
Society influences technology; is it not time for technology to influence society?
You don't have to actually produce an implementation of the idea in a patent IIRC (obviously, IANAL). You just have to show that you are taking steps towards an implementation, not that you actually produce one. So, if Duke Nukem Forever contained patented software components, it could be argued that they are making an attempt to bring an implementation to market, hence the patents on those ideas would still be valid.
And I went to Newman, which is about as un-public school as you can get.
I wish I could have done it this way from the beginning. I have always wanted to do what I felt needed to be done. And yet, my high school, as a matter of policy, piled on homework, that had to be done; and it was my impression that they took it personally when I didn't. I think I cracked about sophomore year, and I am still trying to recover, three semesters into college.
- Textbooks and other reading material, even if interesting, seem ancillary and unnecessary (they are not).
- Homework (especially mathematical homework) is painful (it shouldn't be).
- Writing papers is physically excruciating (as in, I feel terrible while floundering around trying to write them---make the pain stop).
Oh well, such is the way of private education (trust me on this one, you don't want to go to public school where I'm from).
how much are we tempting Nature to change the formula
Cancer is an anomaly of mitosis; it is not an organism and therefore does not evolve. The body regularly squashes cells which go into a sort-of mitotic infinite loop, and that's the end of that. It's the ones that the immune system does not recognize that grow into tumors.
It's not "fiendish"; it's basic calculus.
The mean value theorem guarantees that if your average rate of speed on some stretch of road is over the speed limit (assuming the stretch of road has a uniform speed limit), there exists at least one point such that your instantaneous speed at that moment was the same as the average speed for your entire journey, which was over the limit. Logically, there exists probable cause that you travelled over the limit.
I've personally thought about this for a while.
Where is the money going to come from? Are we to donate it all? Can we collect enough to compile a significant number? Or should this be done individually, by separate projects and people? Should all patents be assigned to the FSF?
Basically, such a project requires an enormous fiscal paradigm shift for the community.
Well, that example still doesn't explain this.
I love English!
The lure was not telling them in the first place. Even the greasiest marketing "genius" couldn't put a good spin on this.
They are a member of TCPA. They have not announced anything yet, however.
Question: Are you implying that such visual media is intrinsically brain-wasting, or that simply the majority of the current content has that property?
Surely television can be viewed from a critical point of view and in an active manner, can it not?
Indeed...
Damn you ambiguous English pronunciation!