It doesn't seem like nerds are the target audience for this movie. I doubt many 8-year-olds are going to download it, so their major market still will see it in the theaters.
Also, it has been noted it was released in the UK already. Any movie that's been released anywhere might as well have been released everywhere... it's pointless to try and regulate stuff based on regions these days (like at the failure of the DVD region codes).
I wasn't really arguing that we have "real" freedom in the United States. I was merely arguing that there are various levels to freedom. I agree that we think we have much more freedom of speech than we do (just look at the med school students in Florida, they were accused, not even proven, to have said something about terrorism...). However, we are nowhere near as oppressive as many other countries. I mean, at least we can argue about whether we have freedom of speech without fear of punishment, right?:)
Freedom -does- come in variable quantities... for instance, you can have true freedom of speech, where nothing is regulated and you can say whatever you want... including posting pornography in Time Square for kids to see and [enter other thngs like that here]. Or you could have complete restriction of speech as in Communist Russia before the collapse of the USSR. We obviously don't have either total freedom or total restriction of speech here in the good 'ole U.S. of A.; therefore, freedom does come in variable quantities.
Or perhaps have a "deductible" of like $10k (I don't really know what a good number would be) that the plaintiff would pay towards the defendant's legal costs in the case the defentand won. This prevents somebody from having a few million of legal costs, but still protect the small guys from frivolous law suits.
The United States should learn frolm Britian and if a civil case if found in favor of the defendant, the plaintiff pays the legal fees of the defendant. At least, I think that's how it works over there:) Either way, it sounded like a good idea to me... it'd prevent a lot of frivilous lawsuits and would allow companies to fight cases where they're right, but it'll cost more to fight than settle.
actually, ~$600 was stolen. Or approximately 75% of AbiWord's fund. Open source projects aren't excactly "rollin' in the dough", and $600 is a big loss for AbiWord. Not sure who's dumb enough, but they're definately pretty dumb. They should be able to find where he lives from the shipping address. If there are some open-source nerds within a few miles, maybe he'll be getting a visit from some of them =)
The most obvious example is the Mars orbiter. Gotta get those metric/imperial conversions down. Less common, but quite important are things like radian/degree (if doing 3d stuff), various units of time, currency (Office Space, anybody?). Math stuff in general is easy to mess up without proper testing. In addation, be sure you'll never get something that's out of the domain of what you're working with. If your program starts turning up areas of -14 square kilo-ounces or something, you may have problems;)
Of course, if you only use one unit for something, you never have to worry about conversions:)
heh, IANAM (I Am Not A Master), but white has the advantage of moving first. The means white can generally set the course for the game by choosing it's opening. This means if you know a perticular opponent is bad at a perticular opening, you can play it to your advantage.
At the level I play (my USCF rating is ~1000... but I haven't played in a while) it doesn't matter much. Pretty much the same person that wins as white will win as black. But at the Grandmaster level, it makes a big difference. In fact, there is a saying among players of that caliber: win when white, draw when black.
Yes, Linux was originally created because Minix wasn't good enough. But in the last 5 years or so, much of it's popularity and publicity has come from Windows not being able to do it's job. Linux would still be relegated to a few college students and would be YAUC (Yet Another UNIX Clone) were it not for the suckiness of Windows.
I remember an article in US News in '97 or '98 talking about how Red Hat was going to overthrow MicroSoft... this of course didn't happen (yet), but the point is Linux got to be where it is today not because it was better than Minix, but because it is better than Windows (or is at least a competitor).
even if all P2P stopped, it wouldn't hurt those of us with a semblence of a social life. A good number of friends and I swap mp3s all the time, it's how I got most of my collection. It's kind of a tradition; have a LAN Party, get another 10 CDs of music. We also have some leech servers running, or in some cases a webserver with all our mp3s. In fact, you can download all my mp3s from a nice hidden directory on my webserver, heh... shouldn't be too hard to guess either:)
Anyway... I'm going to do a tail -f on the access log and watch people try and leech off me... but just remember, no matter what happens to P2P, a good social network of people with FTP servers is the best way to get good quality mp3s with little risk of legal action.
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if you can't sustain 200Kb/s you're getting ripped, if you can sustain 200KB/s you're defying math:)
Not to mention the A-hole. Of course, I mean the analog hole. At some point it'll be turned into an analog signal (until we get little chips implanted in our brains...), then we can always just loop it back in and record it. There won't be much loss-of-quality, and it'll take a little longer, but I still see no way to stop this...
The Universe is ~15 billion years old, not 10, the Sun is closer to 5 billion than 6, and the Earth is 4.6 billion years old.
Other than that - I agree completely with you. Anybody interested in this should check out the Scientific American from September 2002, it deals a lot with time and what it is. A was simply overjoyed when it came in the mail.
But, basically... you're right, what's the difference between a Universe created yesterday as if it had been here for 15 billion years, and the Universe that -has- actually been here for 15 billion years? supposing the creator didn't mess up (which I assume a God wouldn't), there would be no difference as far as we are concerned.
But say they focused their advertising in America, spending N million dollars, and some guy from England buys a copy and has it shipped to him. The producers still get their money, just as if an American were buying the DVD and they can still reinvest this into marketing in the UK later.
Basically, even if they adopted a region by region advertising system, it doesn't hurt them if somebody in a region not-yet-advertisted-in buys the DVD. They get the money just the same, so your point still stands as to why they might spend their time marketing a DVD in various regions, but not why they would need a whole system to keep you from buying and playing DVDs from another region.
RPM spits out a list of packages that you need - if you see you have all of them, then great, do a --force. If not, install the ones you don't have and then use --force.
I was debating a creationist friend of mine a while back, and she pulled out the old "speed-of-light-decreasing" thing to explain how we can see things millions of year away. I then went on to explain to her that there's no evidence of that and to make up something just so your theory would work was horribly bad science. Man... I hope to never debate that topic with her again:)
IANAP, but, as objects gained potential energy, getting further away from other objects, they should lose kinetic energy (through it's speed decreasing). So there's no net change in the amount of energy, only where it's kept.
uncompressed, 1024x768x256 (8 bit) = ~6.3 MB/frame. Assuming our idea of "decent framerate" is persistance of vision (i.e. making all the motion seem constant, not a bunch of little jumps), we can start with around 15 fps. So, uncompressed, yes... you have a valid point of transferring ~94.4MB/sec.
However, are you planning on sending the images uncompressed? That would be insane... the avreage screen is largely a bunch of boxes of a single color - perfect for compression.
This doesn't even mention you really don't need to send a whole new frame when something moves, all you need to do is update that one part of the frame. I know VNC and M$ Terminal Services don't work for what we're looking for here, but they definately demonstrate bandwidth is -not- an issue.
IIRC, they said they would make any more video's with -them- in the video. They've made some animation video's that kiss most other video's @$$, though, IMHO. Check out "Do The Evolution" for a great example.
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It doesn't seem like nerds are the target audience for this movie. I doubt many 8-year-olds are going to download it, so their major market still will see it in the theaters.
Also, it has been noted it was released in the UK already. Any movie that's been released anywhere might as well have been released everywhere... it's pointless to try and regulate stuff based on regions these days (like at the failure of the DVD region codes).
heh, I guess they spent too much time checking for grammar in old texts ;)
er, why are they OCRing the bible? That's already online in many places.
I wasn't really arguing that we have "real" freedom in the United States. I was merely arguing that there are various levels to freedom. I agree that we think we have much more freedom of speech than we do (just look at the med school students in Florida, they were accused, not even proven, to have said something about terrorism...). However, we are nowhere near as oppressive as many other countries. I mean, at least we can argue about whether we have freedom of speech without fear of punishment, right? :)
Freedom -does- come in variable quantities... for instance, you can have true freedom of speech, where nothing is regulated and you can say whatever you want... including posting pornography in Time Square for kids to see and [enter other thngs like that here]. Or you could have complete restriction of speech as in Communist Russia before the collapse of the USSR. We obviously don't have either total freedom or total restriction of speech here in the good 'ole U.S. of A.; therefore, freedom does come in variable quantities.
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Or perhaps have a "deductible" of like $10k (I don't really know what a good number would be) that the plaintiff would pay towards the defendant's legal costs in the case the defentand won. This prevents somebody from having a few million of legal costs, but still protect the small guys from frivolous law suits.
The United States should learn frolm Britian and if a civil case if found in favor of the defendant, the plaintiff pays the legal fees of the defendant. At least, I think that's how it works over there :) Either way, it sounded like a good idea to me... it'd prevent a lot of frivilous lawsuits and would allow companies to fight cases where they're right, but it'll cost more to fight than settle.
actually, ~$600 was stolen. Or approximately 75% of AbiWord's fund. Open source projects aren't excactly "rollin' in the dough", and $600 is a big loss for AbiWord. Not sure who's dumb enough, but they're definately pretty dumb. They should be able to find where he lives from the shipping address. If there are some open-source nerds within a few miles, maybe he'll be getting a visit from some of them =)
The most obvious example is the Mars orbiter. Gotta get those metric/imperial conversions down. Less common, but quite important are things like radian/degree (if doing 3d stuff), various units of time, currency (Office Space, anybody?). Math stuff in general is easy to mess up without proper testing. In addation, be sure you'll never get something that's out of the domain of what you're working with. If your program starts turning up areas of -14 square kilo-ounces or something, you may have problems ;)
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Of course, if you only use one unit for something, you never have to worry about conversions
heh, IANAM (I Am Not A Master), but white has the advantage of moving first. The means white can generally set the course for the game by choosing it's opening. This means if you know a perticular opponent is bad at a perticular opening, you can play it to your advantage.
At the level I play (my USCF rating is ~1000... but I haven't played in a while) it doesn't matter much. Pretty much the same person that wins as white will win as black. But at the Grandmaster level, it makes a big difference. In fact, there is a saying among players of that caliber: win when white, draw when black.
Yes, Linux was originally created because Minix wasn't good enough. But in the last 5 years or so, much of it's popularity and publicity has come from Windows not being able to do it's job. Linux would still be relegated to a few college students and would be YAUC (Yet Another UNIX Clone) were it not for the suckiness of Windows.
I remember an article in US News in '97 or '98 talking about how Red Hat was going to overthrow MicroSoft... this of course didn't happen (yet), but the point is Linux got to be where it is today not because it was better than Minix, but because it is better than Windows (or is at least a competitor).
Oh great... now we'll get -real- pop-up banner ads :)
aah, so this explains why red-heads are a minority. It's natural selection from all the male red-heads cutting off their balls :)
even if all P2P stopped, it wouldn't hurt those of us with a semblence of a social life. A good number of friends and I swap mp3s all the time, it's how I got most of my collection. It's kind of a tradition; have a LAN Party, get another 10 CDs of music. We also have some leech servers running, or in some cases a webserver with all our mp3s. In fact, you can download all my mp3s from a nice hidden directory on my webserver, heh... shouldn't be too hard to guess either :)
Anyway... I'm going to do a tail -f on the access log and watch people try and leech off me... but just remember, no matter what happens to P2P, a good social network of people with FTP servers is the best way to get good quality mp3s with little risk of legal action.
if you can't sustain 200Kb/s you're getting ripped, if you can sustain 200KB/s you're defying math :)
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A T1 should do ~192KB/s or 1.544Mb/s.
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Not to mention the A-hole. Of course, I mean the analog hole. At some point it'll be turned into an analog signal (until we get little chips implanted in our brains...), then we can always just loop it back in and record it. There won't be much loss-of-quality, and it'll take a little longer, but I still see no way to stop this...
heh, I mean we might as well give the best approximations we have... I've heard between like 12 and 17, so who knows. But we know it's more than 10 ;)
Actually, I was thinking about the H2G2 when I wrote the post.
Not to nitpick or anything, but:
The Universe is ~15 billion years old, not 10,
the Sun is closer to 5 billion than 6, and
the Earth is 4.6 billion years old.
Other than that - I agree completely with you. Anybody interested in this should check out the Scientific American from September 2002, it deals a lot with time and what it is. A was simply overjoyed when it came in the mail.
But, basically... you're right, what's the difference between a Universe created yesterday as if it had been here for 15 billion years, and the Universe that -has- actually been here for 15 billion years? supposing the creator didn't mess up (which I assume a God wouldn't), there would be no difference as far as we are concerned.
But say they focused their advertising in America, spending N million dollars, and some guy from England buys a copy and has it shipped to him. The producers still get their money, just as if an American were buying the DVD and they can still reinvest this into marketing in the UK later.
Basically, even if they adopted a region by region advertising system, it doesn't hurt them if somebody in a region not-yet-advertisted-in buys the DVD. They get the money just the same, so your point still stands as to why they might spend their time marketing a DVD in various regions, but not why they would need a whole system to keep you from buying and playing DVDs from another region.
RPM spits out a list of packages that you need - if you see you have all of them, then great, do a --force. If not, install the ones you don't have and then use --force.
light has no mass...
I was debating a creationist friend of mine a while back, and she pulled out the old "speed-of-light-decreasing" thing to explain how we can see things millions of year away. I then went on to explain to her that there's no evidence of that and to make up something just so your theory would work was horribly bad science. Man... I hope to never debate that topic with her again :)
IANAP, but, as objects gained potential energy, getting further away from other objects, they should lose kinetic energy (through it's speed decreasing). So there's no net change in the amount of energy, only where it's kept.
uncompressed, 1024x768x256 (8 bit) = ~6.3 MB/frame. Assuming our idea of "decent framerate" is persistance of vision (i.e. making all the motion seem constant, not a bunch of little jumps), we can start with around 15 fps. So, uncompressed, yes... you have a valid point of transferring ~94.4MB/sec.
However, are you planning on sending the images uncompressed? That would be insane... the avreage screen is largely a bunch of boxes of a single color - perfect for compression.
This doesn't even mention you really don't need to send a whole new frame when something moves, all you need to do is update that one part of the frame. I know VNC and M$ Terminal Services don't work for what we're looking for here, but they definately demonstrate bandwidth is -not- an issue.
IIRC, they said they would make any more video's with -them- in the video. They've made some animation video's that kiss most other video's @$$, though, IMHO. Check out "Do The Evolution" for a great example.